there are exactly zero community colleges that have accredited astrophysics programs. they simply don't have the funding, equipment, or facilities to carry out the experiments and other "hands-on" curriculum.
what's really interesting about this post:
PHYSICS 001 Mechanics of Solids
PHYSICS 002 Mechanics of Fluids, Heat and Sound
PHYSICS 003 Electricity and Magnetism
PHYSICS 004 Optics and Modern Physics
PHYSICS 006 General Physics I
PHYSICS 007 General Physics II
PHYSICS 011 Introductory Physics
PHYSICS 021 General Physics I with Calculus
PHYSICS 022 General Physics II with Calculus
is that all the course numbers start with 0. This is usually a sign of either a) remedial courses or b) non-accredited programs.
I understand that graduating with any sort of college degree at the age of 11 is very impressive, but this is simply NOT a degree in astrophysics, and doesn't really even approach it. Another dead give away that this is a totally bogus degree is that it's an Associates Degree of Liberal Arts. Physics, in any form, is NOT a liberal art. Being that it's not, at the very least, an Associates Degree of Science (which is still pretty shady for "astrophysics" since it's VERY theoretical) raises a huge red flag. I would be very surprised to find that even half of the credits for the courses he took are accepted at any 4 year university offering a Bachelor's of Science in Physics.
just attach cameras to aquatic lifeforms and let us swim the depths of the oceans from our computers... no chance of being stabbed in the heart by a stingray, either!
Take the number of batteries in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
What's really going to suck is when all those ads start showing up in other sections of craigslist, cluttering it even futher. They actually made the problem worse. Whack-a-mole, yes, but in this case, after you whacked the mole, it just splattered all over the place and it's even more of a mess than it was before. At least with the "Erotic Services" section, the problem was condensed and confined to one single section, at least for the most part.
Seems like buying a SATA-USB bridge with a case and a 1TB hard drive (totaling less than $100)would be much more cost effective, not to mention durable, than buying a $50 disk.
I can see the merit in having a single disk being able to store 500GB as a technological advancement (perhaps towards large capacity microSD cards and their ilk), but I fail to see how this works on a practical level as-is.
Manufacturing costs, including parts and materials, direct labor, indirect labor, plant/equipment depreciation, and energy are ALWAYS approximately half of the retail cost, on average. The most common model estimates it to be 40% of the retail price. The other half comes from Engineering costs (15%), R&D (5%), Administration, Sales and Marketing (25%) and an assumed built-in profit margin of 15%. Of course, this varies by industry (die-casting has a razor thin profit margin, only about 2%).
...focus on value. That's why we run Mac or Linux. Microsoft sounds more like Dunder-Mifflin everyday. "Yeah, we're more expensive, but to us you FEEL like a valued customer, not just another number." In this economic climate, people don't have the luxury to care about how their feelings about the product they're buying, they want to not be broke. Also, Microsoft's customer service blows... even though you aren't a number to them. You're a product key, which makes you an alphanumeral.
How much energy do you think it would take to have any sort of meaningful effect on a hurricane we're actually worried about? I mean, how much energy would it take to reduce Katrina to Kat? I'm more concerned about the possible corruption of this technology... Real Genius^10. If this thing can really reduce the power level of a hurricane, what's to stop it from being used to vaporize human targets or entire CITIES from space. Missle defense system? Check. Giant energy beam defense system? I don't think we're there yet...
...and when the bartender asks him what he would like to drink, the guy says "I want what I always get, but I don't want you to actually pour the drink, just help me search behind the bar for the liquor I want, and the hand it to me without seeing what it actaully is, and charge me correctly without any knowledge of what it is you just helped me find."
My understanding (I'm not a lawyer) is that taxing interstate commerce is prohibited by the constitution (the root of all US law).
There are essentially two parts of the constitution that apply here:
Article I, section 8 (the enumerated powers of the legislative branch) states one of the powers of congress is "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" which indicates that legislation could be passed to specifically tax internet commerce as a form of regulation on trade between states. However, Article I, section 9 states that "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State".
Essentially, there are two conflicting sections of the constitution that are applicable to internet commerce. Of course, the "Necessary and Proper" clause ("The Congress shall have power... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.") of the Constitution allows congress to pass laws as needed to deal with specific situations the arise unforeseen by the founders.
So, basically, Congress can pass a bill taxing internet commerce, and barring a Presidential veto, it will enacted as a law. This will cause a flurry of lawsuits to be filed, and the case will end up in the Supreme Court, where it will be decided whether the law is actually constitutional. The debate will likely be a heated one, due to the two conflicting paragraphs (when applied to this situation) in adjacent sections of the Constitution.
Being a "guru" has historically meant you will get paid well for doing a job that isn't all that difficult.
I once heard a story (can't cite a source sorry) about a computer tech working in an office for a cable company. Another computer tech from a different office had shown up, and something prompted one of the ladies in the front of the office to reboot her computer. The computer tech from the other office told the lady he could help her reboot (read: windows 98 was the OS), at which point the lady almost had a panic attack and said that John (the computer tech from this office) was the only one that could reboot the computer. John is called on the intercom, comes to her workstation, fiddles with the underside of the keyboard, the back of the computer, and finally restarts it. When asked later why he did all of that just to hit Start->Shutdown->Restart, he replied "job security."
I totally agree. These guys represented the RIAA because they were paid to, not because they necessarily have some sort of moral conviction one way or the other in the argument. And the RIAA isn't exactly a poorhouse, so it can afford the best lawyers.
I mean, you wouldn't say Johnnie Cochran is pro-murder, would you?
1) Immunosuppressants not only lower your defenses but are also toxic (as with many drugs).
"many" is an understatement. Even ibuprofin is toxic to your liver, although in small enough quantities (ie, 100mg for a headache) probably insignificant in the long run.
Most steroids are immunosuppressants already, but can also prevent inflamation. This would be important when doing lung, kidney, liver, and heart transplants, as the inflamed tissue around the transplanted area would not put as much pressure on the newly transplanted organ, reducing recovery time, but if the steroid could be targeted at these specific T cells, then a higher percentage of transplants will (to used a statistics term) fail to be rejected.
Aren't the vast majority of traffic accidents that people get into very near their home?
Basically, police are around the police station more than they're far away from it. They start their shift there and end their shift there. It's the hub of activity for police. So of course the high crime areas are going to appear as if they're near the police station. "Low hanging fruit" is the term for this I think. Why drive miles away from "home base" to make arrests when there's stuff going on right in your front/back yard?
One of my very good friend's dad is a police officer. Now chief of police of a small town, but when he was younger he worked in Chicago. There was a public housing project there called Cabrini Green. It was so violent, crime-riddled, and gang-controlled that very few, if any, police officers dared enter. Obviously, on a crime tracking system like this, it would appear as if this was one of the most crime-free places in the city, because so few arrests were made there, when in actuality the crimes there were at a higher frequency and more brutal.
...will immediately cause you to download and install every spyware, malware, and adware removal program due to the enormous security holes caused by its "new nifty features"
you can dump perfume on a giant turd, put it in formalwear and call it "Ms. Arkansas" but it's still a giant turd.
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there are exactly zero community colleges that have accredited astrophysics programs. they simply don't have the funding, equipment, or facilities to carry out the experiments and other "hands-on" curriculum.
what's really interesting about this post:
PHYSICS 001 Mechanics of Solids
PHYSICS 002 Mechanics of Fluids, Heat and Sound
PHYSICS 003 Electricity and Magnetism
PHYSICS 004 Optics and Modern Physics
PHYSICS 006 General Physics I
PHYSICS 007 General Physics II
PHYSICS 011 Introductory Physics
PHYSICS 021 General Physics I with Calculus
PHYSICS 022 General Physics II with Calculus
is that all the course numbers start with 0. This is usually a sign of either a) remedial courses or b) non-accredited programs.
I understand that graduating with any sort of college degree at the age of 11 is very impressive, but this is simply NOT a degree in astrophysics, and doesn't really even approach it. Another dead give away that this is a totally bogus degree is that it's an Associates Degree of Liberal Arts. Physics, in any form, is NOT a liberal art. Being that it's not, at the very least, an Associates Degree of Science (which is still pretty shady for "astrophysics" since it's VERY theoretical) raises a huge red flag. I would be very surprised to find that even half of the credits for the courses he took are accepted at any 4 year university offering a Bachelor's of Science in Physics.
There are no parental controls or disclaimers" on personal ads in newspapers, and some of those are even less discreet than the "erotic services" ads.
gooba? scoogle? scooble?
just attach cameras to aquatic lifeforms and let us swim the depths of the oceans from our computers... no chance of being stabbed in the heart by a stingray, either!
Take the number of batteries in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
I guess X was large.
What's really going to suck is when all those ads start showing up in other sections of craigslist, cluttering it even futher. They actually made the problem worse. Whack-a-mole, yes, but in this case, after you whacked the mole, it just splattered all over the place and it's even more of a mess than it was before. At least with the "Erotic Services" section, the problem was condensed and confined to one single section, at least for the most part.
Seems like buying a SATA-USB bridge with a case and a 1TB hard drive (totaling less than $100)would be much more cost effective, not to mention durable, than buying a $50 disk.
I can see the merit in having a single disk being able to store 500GB as a technological advancement (perhaps towards large capacity microSD cards and their ilk), but I fail to see how this works on a practical level as-is.
...it's called a "locked room" with "security cameras". Deny physical access = deny vbookit 2.0. "Design problem" solved.
Manufacturing costs, including parts and materials, direct labor, indirect labor, plant/equipment depreciation, and energy are ALWAYS approximately half of the retail cost, on average. The most common model estimates it to be 40% of the retail price. The other half comes from Engineering costs (15%), R&D (5%), Administration, Sales and Marketing (25%) and an assumed built-in profit margin of 15%. Of course, this varies by industry (die-casting has a razor thin profit margin, only about 2%).
...focus on value. That's why we run Mac or Linux. Microsoft sounds more like Dunder-Mifflin everyday. "Yeah, we're more expensive, but to us you FEEL like a valued customer, not just another number." In this economic climate, people don't have the luxury to care about how their feelings about the product they're buying, they want to not be broke. Also, Microsoft's customer service blows... even though you aren't a number to them. You're a product key, which makes you an alphanumeral.
How much energy do you think it would take to have any sort of meaningful effect on a hurricane we're actually worried about? I mean, how much energy would it take to reduce Katrina to Kat? I'm more concerned about the possible corruption of this technology... Real Genius^10. If this thing can really reduce the power level of a hurricane, what's to stop it from being used to vaporize human targets or entire CITIES from space. Missle defense system? Check. Giant energy beam defense system? I don't think we're there yet...
...and when the bartender asks him what he would like to drink, the guy says "I want what I always get, but I don't want you to actually pour the drink, just help me search behind the bar for the liquor I want, and the hand it to me without seeing what it actaully is, and charge me correctly without any knowledge of what it is you just helped me find."
My understanding (I'm not a lawyer) is that taxing interstate commerce is prohibited by the constitution (the root of all US law).
There are essentially two parts of the constitution that apply here:
Article I, section 8 (the enumerated powers of the legislative branch) states one of the powers of congress is "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" which indicates that legislation could be passed to specifically tax internet commerce as a form of regulation on trade between states. However, Article I, section 9 states that "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State".
Essentially, there are two conflicting sections of the constitution that are applicable to internet commerce. Of course, the "Necessary and Proper" clause ("The Congress shall have power... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.") of the Constitution allows congress to pass laws as needed to deal with specific situations the arise unforeseen by the founders.
So, basically, Congress can pass a bill taxing internet commerce, and barring a Presidential veto, it will enacted as a law. This will cause a flurry of lawsuits to be filed, and the case will end up in the Supreme Court, where it will be decided whether the law is actually constitutional. The debate will likely be a heated one, due to the two conflicting paragraphs (when applied to this situation) in adjacent sections of the Constitution.
Apparently they used the "Jeb Bush" vote counting method.
Agree with the above.
Being a "guru" has historically meant you will get paid well for doing a job that isn't all that difficult.
I once heard a story (can't cite a source sorry) about a computer tech working in an office for a cable company. Another computer tech from a different office had shown up, and something prompted one of the ladies in the front of the office to reboot her computer. The computer tech from the other office told the lady he could help her reboot (read: windows 98 was the OS), at which point the lady almost had a panic attack and said that John (the computer tech from this office) was the only one that could reboot the computer. John is called on the intercom, comes to her workstation, fiddles with the underside of the keyboard, the back of the computer, and finally restarts it. When asked later why he did all of that just to hit Start->Shutdown->Restart, he replied "job security."
I totally agree. These guys represented the RIAA because they were paid to, not because they necessarily have some sort of moral conviction one way or the other in the argument. And the RIAA isn't exactly a poorhouse, so it can afford the best lawyers.
I mean, you wouldn't say Johnnie Cochran is pro-murder, would you?
1) Immunosuppressants not only lower your defenses but are also toxic (as with many drugs).
"many" is an understatement. Even ibuprofin is toxic to your liver, although in small enough quantities (ie, 100mg for a headache) probably insignificant in the long run.
Most steroids are immunosuppressants already, but can also prevent inflamation. This would be important when doing lung, kidney, liver, and heart transplants, as the inflamed tissue around the transplanted area would not put as much pressure on the newly transplanted organ, reducing recovery time, but if the steroid could be targeted at these specific T cells, then a higher percentage of transplants will (to used a statistics term) fail to be rejected.
is window shopping for the lazy. And you can shop for hookers without actually having to drive to that seedy part of town.
Aren't the vast majority of traffic accidents that people get into very near their home?
Basically, police are around the police station more than they're far away from it. They start their shift there and end their shift there. It's the hub of activity for police. So of course the high crime areas are going to appear as if they're near the police station. "Low hanging fruit" is the term for this I think. Why drive miles away from "home base" to make arrests when there's stuff going on right in your front/back yard?
One of my very good friend's dad is a police officer. Now chief of police of a small town, but when he was younger he worked in Chicago. There was a public housing project there called Cabrini Green. It was so violent, crime-riddled, and gang-controlled that very few, if any, police officers dared enter. Obviously, on a crime tracking system like this, it would appear as if this was one of the most crime-free places in the city, because so few arrests were made there, when in actuality the crimes there were at a higher frequency and more brutal.
Its removal will allow ice to move more freely between Charcot and Latady islands, into the open ocean.
This is cause for alarm if you're concerned about iceberg free shipping lanes, correct?
...will immediately cause you to download and install every spyware, malware, and adware removal program due to the enormous security holes caused by its "new nifty features" you can dump perfume on a giant turd, put it in formalwear and call it "Ms. Arkansas" but it's still a giant turd.