The World Trade Center towers took 7 years to finish. The Apollo Project took roughly 8 years (from 1961 to 1969) to get someone on the moon. The Hoover Dam took 6 years to finish construction. Each of these (for all their majesty) were either constrained to a relative small geographic space, and a small amount of material.
Broadband has been available to the public since about 1997, and to be complete, requires running cable to every household in the USA. The only hard number I could find comparable for that was Miles of High Voltage Transmission Wire in USA, approx 160,000 miles for bulk transmission. On google, some renewable energy sites indicate that the US has over a million miles of wire for distribution networks (last mile connects). That's a lot of material to run.
The US Interstate system, designed in 1956, will be complete to the original spec in 2006, and that's only 46,000 miles.
I agree with your argument that we should never rest on our laurels, and strive to be the world leader, but let me just throw in that we can be the world leader in this field too, just give the industry a little time to get us there...
City of Heroes Paragon Times newspaper, containing recent events in game, interviews of participating players commentary...
Sure, it's a game feature run by the creators, but the intent is there... right now, its being used as a means to move the plot along, to keep players informed of what new enemy groups are forming and what may be coming down the pipe in expansions, all done from the perspective of being inside the game.
I heard on the radio that the early exit polls were first obtained in (1) urban areas, and (2) mainly women. Both of these are indicators for strong Kerry support. The media advisors were telling them not to release it because of the faulty sampling, but once Drudge ran with it, it was out and everyone had to post the stories.
The exit polls were correct, for the areas that were sampled. However, the result of the small sample was incorrectly applied towards the nation as a whole. When the proper sampling distribution was obtained, it showed a distribution with a Bush win.
On the topic of gerrymandering, I totally agree... all it does is reinforce the respective party's holds of certain voting blocks. For example, here's the Pennsylvania districts... I happen to live in the suburbs of Philly, and it is totally piecemeal, even before the 2000 adjustment (which made this side of the state more democrat, due to the large #s of people fleeing the city)
In the old days, cities were where the factories were located. In order to find work, most people came to cities like Philadelphia to find jobs, whether in manufacturing, shipping, ports, etc. When the socialist movement swept through a century ago to improve the working conditions of those workers, they were the strongest supporters, and that was handed down the generations to today's citizens.
Fast foward to today, where most of the nation's industrial work has fled the higher taxes (and tigher environmental laws) of the cities to the rural areas. The cities are now home to many social programs, such as welfare, that are harder to manage in the urban areas (economy of scale, not as efficient if population is distributed).
Modern conservatives hold the belief of independence from the state, that they want to control their own destinies and not be told what to do by the government. Over time, many conservatives have left the establishments to start their own communities farther away from those that would oppress them (with things like high taxes, underrepresentation, etc)
Education levels would be roughly equal. It is a myth that liberals are higher educated, given that they are much more socially divided than conservatives are.. you have the rich highly-educated liberals along side the poor under-educated liberals who live off of social programs. Conservatives have a more equal average education level without this social divide.
Church percentages is again harder to estimate, though I would say slightly higher in the rural areas. Massachusetts has a very strong Christian Democrat estabishment, esp around Boston & the east (see Kennedys). Also, many of the urban minority democrats in the cities also happen to be strong Baptists, they are just more willing to put aside their religious convictions for (perceived) political gain.
If the margin of victory is > than the uncounted votes then victory is assured, because any other result is mathematically eliminated. At that point, it is safe to concede.
Ohio: 100% of Precincts Reporting Bush: 51% @ 2,794,346 votes Kerry: 48% @ 2,658,125 votes Margin: 136,221 votes Provisional Votes: approx. 175,000 Provisional % for Kerry to win: approx. 78% Req. Increase over Statewide % for Kerry to win: 30% Odds of that happening: slim to none
All factual evidence at this time is pointing that Kerry has lost Ohio.
Incidentally, National Margin for John F Kennedy's 1960 election: 303,768 votes National Margin for George Bush's 2004 election: 3,535,203 votes
Is it just me, or is this guy (who's supposed to be this networking guru) is a little too careless with interchanging the words "attack" with "under heavy load"...
Look, your site just got posted twice to Slashdot, not to mention Fark a few times, and is trumpeting itself as one of the best statistical predictors. Who knows how many other people have it hotlinked (since it had been promoting a Kerry win for a while), and are just clicking Refresh to see what you've changed... That doesn't correllate with a malicious attempt to block usage of your website by hogging network resources in a denial of service style "attack"... besides, it's not like the information you're presenting is all that unique, it's just your opinion after all, an opinion shared by 48% of the voting public. And at the end of the day, he's seeing network load because he just doesn't have the monetary resources that a CNN or Yahoo does to throw another server or 6 up when under heavy usage...
But it doesn't matter anyways, since the content of the site isn't updating today with what we're learning of the polls... New Jersey for Kerry (as he predicted), Florida has gone Bush (which he didn't), which puts Bush as the winnner. His site still reads Kerry, which I'm not surprised, as he freely admits he's a Kerry supporter. We'll probably have it all sorted out in a few hours.
"After congressional investigations in 1985 into complaints about early broadcast calls discouraging voters on the West Coast, network executives promised not to broadcast exit poll numbers on any state until the polls in that state (California) closed.""
ICQ was really big back in 1994, because well, it was free, AIM was still undocumented, and people were still learning about this thing called the Internet. These days, I recommend the free client for Trillian, which simultaneously supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, and Yahoo messaging. One application, keeps a running.txt history for every chat mode (my pet peeve is accidentally hitting escape in AIM and missing what was sent to me), you can Skin it, no advertisements loading in the corners... very nice.
Because i just clicked on Show All (after visiting Atari's page linked in the article), and Civilization IV is no longer in the list. Perhaps someone noticed, and retracted the listings.
Yes it is... unless you are told to do what you love to do. And in this book people can do exactely what they like.
Part of the point of Brave New World is that future humans were altered to not have individualistic desires; BNW reintroduced the ideas of the Morlocks of "The Time Machine", a caste of underperformers who had a "role for society"... except in BNW, the servants didn't have the intellect to realize they could have been something else. Even the "common" people were mass-produced from forced divisions of the fertilized egg, so that everyone could be equal... Perfect equality among the masses, with governmental control of who would be allowed to live to their own potential. I believe that is what was on the mind of the grandparent post...
""Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.
...
"But in Epsilons," said Mr. Foster very justly, "we don't need human intelligence.""
Russia wants to join Kyoto because the very essense of the Kyoto Treaty creates a "pollution credit" as a form of tradable currency. Credits were calculated based on 1990 production output. Russia has since entered an industrial decline, and thus under the Kyoto calculations would have a incredible excess of "allowed pollution" amounts. Under the treaty, they could trade away these credits for cold hard cash, possibly as high as $3 billion a year income stream...
China loves Kyoto because they managed to get themselves exempted from it under some "third world status" clause, despite the fact that they have since grown to become the world's second largest consumer of petroleum resources.
So in this case, the U.S.'s policy of doing nothing is, in fact, the best political action for them to take. "Yeah, I want to sign myself into an agreement that will cost my country billions in retrofitting factories, while exempting my philosophical rival nations from any responsibility. Oh yeah, and we're going to allow them to compete commercially with us on the open markets, such that their goods will always be the lower cost (since they don't have to follow the environmental regulations) which will only hurt my future gross domestic product." Brilliant!
In college (1994), we would get a lot of homework. Since every teacher seemed to believe that their class was the only one you were taking during the week, they just piled the assignments on. At some point you would attempt to gauge how much you had to do...
Having just finished our calculus work, we were postulating on how much stuff you could possibly have as your workload approached infinity. Being geeks, we understood that given an infinite range of numbers, we as humans like to put names on our numbers (million, billion, etc), so at some point when you associated a name with that ungodly large number, that name would be "fuck". That worked well, since we were fond of saying we had a fucking lot of work to do.
Since we had to carry all this crap around with us every day, the weight of all this work was a fuckton.
On the rough days, you'd say you'd have a metric fuckton of work, since everything is always slightly bigger in metric.
Hey if the government can do it to the scientists, why can't the scientists do it to the government?
It just reminds us that everyone has an agenda. Science used to be unbiased, but thanks to the "crying wolf" over the environment, we can't trust that anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
The World Trade Center towers took 7 years to finish. The Apollo Project took roughly 8 years (from 1961 to 1969) to get someone on the moon. The Hoover Dam took 6 years to finish construction. Each of these (for all their majesty) were either constrained to a relative small geographic space, and a small amount of material.
Broadband has been available to the public since about 1997, and to be complete, requires running cable to every household in the USA. The only hard number I could find comparable for that was Miles of High Voltage Transmission Wire in USA, approx 160,000 miles for bulk transmission. On google, some renewable energy sites indicate that the US has over a million miles of wire for distribution networks (last mile connects). That's a lot of material to run.
The US Interstate system, designed in 1956, will be complete to the original spec in 2006, and that's only 46,000 miles.
I agree with your argument that we should never rest on our laurels, and strive to be the world leader, but let me just throw in that we can be the world leader in this field too, just give the industry a little time to get us there...
City of Heroes Paragon Times newspaper, containing recent events in game, interviews of participating players commentary...
Sure, it's a game feature run by the creators, but the intent is there... right now, its being used as a means to move the plot along, to keep players informed of what new enemy groups are forming and what may be coming down the pipe in expansions, all done from the perspective of being inside the game.
Wait a second, you're telling me that the one thing that John Kerry has to his name in congress is that he helped write the PATRIOT act?
Why wasn't this brought up by the national media before the election?
Oh, that's right, as many democrats wouldn't have voted for him if they knew that...
Tin Futures are available on the London Metal Exchange (LME), here.
I heard on the radio that the early exit polls were first obtained in (1) urban areas, and (2) mainly women. Both of these are indicators for strong Kerry support. The media advisors were telling them not to release it because of the faulty sampling, but once Drudge ran with it, it was out and everyone had to post the stories.
The exit polls were correct, for the areas that were sampled. However, the result of the small sample was incorrectly applied towards the nation as a whole. When the proper sampling distribution was obtained, it showed a distribution with a Bush win.
On the topic of gerrymandering, I totally agree... all it does is reinforce the respective party's holds of certain voting blocks. For example, here's the Pennsylvania districts... I happen to live in the suburbs of Philly, and it is totally piecemeal, even before the 2000 adjustment (which made this side of the state more democrat, due to the large #s of people fleeing the city)
In the old days, cities were where the factories were located. In order to find work, most people came to cities like Philadelphia to find jobs, whether in manufacturing, shipping, ports, etc. When the socialist movement swept through a century ago to improve the working conditions of those workers, they were the strongest supporters, and that was handed down the generations to today's citizens.
Fast foward to today, where most of the nation's industrial work has fled the higher taxes (and tigher environmental laws) of the cities to the rural areas. The cities are now home to many social programs, such as welfare, that are harder to manage in the urban areas (economy of scale, not as efficient if population is distributed).
Modern conservatives hold the belief of independence from the state, that they want to control their own destinies and not be told what to do by the government. Over time, many conservatives have left the establishments to start their own communities farther away from those that would oppress them (with things like high taxes, underrepresentation, etc)
Education levels would be roughly equal. It is a myth that liberals are higher educated, given that they are much more socially divided than conservatives are.. you have the rich highly-educated liberals along side the poor under-educated liberals who live off of social programs. Conservatives have a more equal average education level without this social divide.
Church percentages is again harder to estimate, though I would say slightly higher in the rural areas. Massachusetts has a very strong Christian Democrat estabishment, esp around Boston & the east (see Kennedys). Also, many of the urban minority democrats in the cities also happen to be strong Baptists, they are just more willing to put aside their religious convictions for (perceived) political gain.
International Production tables.
Net Generation by Fuel Type by Country, 2001 in GWHrs
Global Production by Fuel Source, Historical in 10^15 BTUs
If the margin of victory is > than the uncounted votes then victory is assured, because any other result is mathematically eliminated. At that point, it is safe to concede.
Ohio: 100% of Precincts Reporting
Bush: 51% @ 2,794,346 votes
Kerry: 48% @ 2,658,125 votes
Margin: 136,221 votes
Provisional Votes: approx. 175,000
Provisional % for Kerry to win: approx. 78%
Req. Increase over Statewide % for Kerry to win: 30%
Odds of that happening: slim to none
All factual evidence at this time is pointing that Kerry has lost Ohio.
Incidentally,
National Margin for John F Kennedy's 1960 election: 303,768 votes
National Margin for George Bush's 2004 election: 3,535,203 votes
Is it just me, or is this guy (who's supposed to be this networking guru) is a little too careless with interchanging the words "attack" with "under heavy load"...
Look, your site just got posted twice to Slashdot, not to mention Fark a few times, and is trumpeting itself as one of the best statistical predictors. Who knows how many other people have it hotlinked (since it had been promoting a Kerry win for a while), and are just clicking Refresh to see what you've changed... That doesn't correllate with a malicious attempt to block usage of your website by hogging network resources in a denial of service style "attack"... besides, it's not like the information you're presenting is all that unique, it's just your opinion after all, an opinion shared by 48% of the voting public. And at the end of the day, he's seeing network load because he just doesn't have the monetary resources that a CNN or Yahoo does to throw another server or 6 up when under heavy usage...
But it doesn't matter anyways, since the content of the site isn't updating today with what we're learning of the polls... New Jersey for Kerry (as he predicted), Florida has gone Bush (which he didn't), which puts Bush as the winnner. His site still reads Kerry, which I'm not surprised, as he freely admits he's a Kerry supporter. We'll probably have it all sorted out in a few hours.
It's Diebold, not Dibold.. your attempt to spread your F.U.D. about electronic voting is only making your cause look childish ...
I just read this in an article online:
"After congressional investigations in 1985 into complaints about early broadcast calls discouraging voters on the West Coast, network executives promised not to broadcast exit poll numbers on any state until the polls in that state (California) closed.""
But it's not as if the US and EU are going to war any time soon.
What? I thought we've always been at war with Eurasia...
n/t
ICQ was really big back in 1994, because well, it was free, AIM was still undocumented, and people were still learning about this thing called the Internet. These days, I recommend the free client for Trillian, which simultaneously supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, and Yahoo messaging. One application, keeps a running .txt history for every chat mode (my pet peeve is accidentally hitting escape in AIM and missing what was sent to me), you can Skin it, no advertisements loading in the corners... very nice.
Is that what we're calling it these days?
If so.. then Lovely Spiiimmm, Wonderful.. ah never mind.
Because i just clicked on Show All (after visiting Atari's page linked in the article), and Civilization IV is no longer in the list. Perhaps someone noticed, and retracted the listings.
The internet, it is fleeting...
African, or European?
Part of the point of Brave New World is that future humans were altered to not have individualistic desires; BNW reintroduced the ideas of the Morlocks of "The Time Machine", a caste of underperformers who had a "role for society"... except in BNW, the servants didn't have the intellect to realize they could have been something else. Even the "common" people were mass-produced from forced divisions of the fertilized egg, so that everyone could be equal... Perfect equality among the masses, with governmental control of who would be allowed to live to their own potential. I believe that is what was on the mind of the grandparent post...
""Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.
...
"But in Epsilons," said Mr. Foster very justly, "we don't need human intelligence.""
What you are insinuating will occur between the mixed-sex crewmates is hardly high morals ... however, the morale of the crew would be quite high.
But in this case, it's a Democrat making fun of a Republican, so it's ok.
Russia wants to join Kyoto because the very essense of the Kyoto Treaty creates a "pollution credit" as a form of tradable currency. Credits were calculated based on 1990 production output. Russia has since entered an industrial decline, and thus under the Kyoto calculations would have a incredible excess of "allowed pollution" amounts. Under the treaty, they could trade away these credits for cold hard cash, possibly as high as $3 billion a year income stream...
China loves Kyoto because they managed to get themselves exempted from it under some "third world status" clause, despite the fact that they have since grown to become the world's second largest consumer of petroleum resources.
So in this case, the U.S.'s policy of doing nothing is, in fact, the best political action for them to take. "Yeah, I want to sign myself into an agreement that will cost my country billions in retrofitting factories, while exempting my philosophical rival nations from any responsibility. Oh yeah, and we're going to allow them to compete commercially with us on the open markets, such that their goods will always be the lower cost (since they don't have to follow the environmental regulations) which will only hurt my future gross domestic product." Brilliant!
In college (1994), we would get a lot of homework. Since every teacher seemed to believe that their class was the only one you were taking during the week, they just piled the assignments on. At some point you would attempt to gauge how much you had to do...
Having just finished our calculus work, we were postulating on how much stuff you could possibly have as your workload approached infinity. Being geeks, we understood that given an infinite range of numbers, we as humans like to put names on our numbers (million, billion, etc), so at some point when you associated a name with that ungodly large number, that name would be "fuck". That worked well, since we were fond of saying we had a fucking lot of work to do.
Since we had to carry all this crap around with us every day, the weight of all this work was a fuckton.
On the rough days, you'd say you'd have a metric fuckton of work, since everything is always slightly bigger in metric.
Hey if the government can do it to the scientists, why can't the scientists do it to the government?
It just reminds us that everyone has an agenda. Science used to be unbiased, but thanks to the "crying wolf" over the environment, we can't trust that anymore.
Err, if the hole shrinks in multiple years, that's called a trend, not an abnormality.
Woo hoo... looked unplanned there...