Have you ever seen a 25 way join or a 30 way UNION? I've seen queries that go past a given RDBMS's 32k query size limitation. Even worse, I've seen the code that GENERATES these horrendous queries. It's like seeing your parents having sex; it changes your life forever.
Please, please, there must be a sane way to query data from a highly normalized database.
>Actually, all you need to have a chance of winning is to be on enough ballots to potentially win 270 electoral votes.
Technically, it is not necessary to be on the ballot in any state in order to win. We've always had the "write-in" option. I guess it depends on what you define as "a chance" but if Arnold can be the Governator, anything is possible.:)
That said, you do have a point. It's rather un-democratic to only invite the Democrats and the Republicans to the debates. However, being that the CPD is COMPOSED of two interests... the Democrats and Republicans, there's little chance they will every invite a third party, high polling or not. What is really needed is an independent organization such as the League of Women Voters (that ran the debates until the CPD was formed) to run the debates again. An independant organization could select candidates based on voter interest. The CPD was formed to wrest the debates from the LWV with the express intention of eliminating third party competition after Perot was seen as throwing a wrench into the two party duopoly.
We can make up any rules about inviting people to the debates we want, but it's all irrelevant until an independant organization takes over the debates once again.
>Maybe. The point is we don't know so until we determine there value to us they should be preserved.
I agree that humans have come out on top of the food chain, and do have the power to alter our environment, and it's not necissarily amoral to do so. However, I do take issue with your assertion that we should stop worrying about preserving every species.
The fact is that species come and go over the course of our planet's evolution. It's also a fact that as humans assert themselves as the master species, they have been causing species to become extinct at a much larger rate than new species arise. This results in less bio-diversity on the planet as a whole. I would argue that the bio-diversity itself is a huge value, because it makes the global ecosystem more resilient. We cannot survive outside of our ecosystem (on a large scale), and WHEN a cataclysmic failure of our ecosystem occurs , we would likely not be able to fix it. In such a scenario, we would become extinct.
Bio-diversity is beneficial because it reduces the odds that a cataclysmic failure will occur, and increases the odds that the ecosystem will recover. Therefore we must preserve other species in order to preserve ourselves. QED.
>What would happen if just one of these 96,000 (! over 40 years) trucks got in an accident. What if it were hit by a terrorist?
1) The containers are designed to survive traffic accidents.
2) The vast majority of the waste we're talking about here is not plutonium dust, it's gloves and other "contaminated" items. This stuff would not be hard to clean up. It certainly could not be used as a "dirty bomb" by a terrorist.
>Yeah how sad he should have run around raving mad screaming the sky is falling or he could have called in air strikes against asprin factories
Or he could have left the room calmly, asked for the intelligence on the situation, assessed whether the situation was being handled appropriately, made the necessary adjustments, made preparations for future attacks, and began planning an investigation. I expect absolutely no less from our Commander in Chief.
>The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
You ought to give "Young Frankenstien" a try. Sure, it contains a bit of low-brow humor, and some of it is over the top, but overall it is a very incisive parody of a monster movie.
Of course, It might not be that way if Gene Wilder didn't have his hand in it, but that's beside the point.
Maybe THAT's the reason he's going back and F*&#ing up Star Wars. He doesn't want his current movies to be compared to such a high standard, so he's lowering the standard. It has a twisted genius about it.
>Um, there's a whole Libertarian wing of the Republican party..
I'd consider that if it didn't mean I have to vote for Dubya. As it stands, my personal fiscally conservative, socially liberal, world-aware agenda fits much better with Kerry than with Dubya. Perhaps if the Republicans put forth a candidate that was less of a radical on the international front, wasn't trying to write discrimination into the constitution, was making an effort to keep the deficit under control AND made every right to uphold civil liberties at home, they could attract a lot of folks like me. As it stands, however, I'm voting for Kerry, mostly because as a different person, he can put in a different administration,and start cleaning up the mess left by this one. If that makes me a Democrat, I'll be one for this election. After that, we'll see.
>I have the right to think he's a money grabbing talentless jerk who got lucky once and is desperately trying to prove that it wasn't a fluke (and failing.)
My take on this is that George Lucas is a money-grabbing talentless jerk that really had an amazing gift for film at one time, then lost it somewhere along the way. He had it in 1972 with "American Grafitti". He had a series of hits... the Star Wars Trilogy, the Indiana Jones saga. His brain slowly began leaking out in 1983 when work began on Return of the Jedi, and was nearly complete in 1986 with the release of "Howard the Duck"... but he still managed to squeak out "The Last Crusade" with his few remaining brain cells. Now, it's all over for George Lucas. He simply doesn't have the gift for filmmaking he once had. He should find an apprentice that has the gift and bequeath the Star Wars franchise to him/her.
First you have it, then you lose it. Then it's gone forever. - Irvine Welsh
>And finally, the ability to work on them without the need for 3 different diagnostic machines that cost 10 grand each!
What incentive would the car manufacturers have to do this? Part of the reason diagnostic equipment is so expensive is to raise the bar to entry of the repair market. Do you think dealers want some schmuck in his garage competing for repair dollars? What car manufacturers really want is extremely expensive (and non-repairable) parts that can only be installed by "certified" mechanics, so they can lock up the aftermarket.
>Welcome to the world of 'dumb terminals' again. Thanks for playing this long!
Quite right. The move in business IT from centrally managed mainframes to networked PCs was a huge step backwards in terms of cost and availability of line-of-business applications.
The average user, once they learned how to use a particular application, never had to worry about IT, because it "just worked". Contrast this to downloading patches every other day, running weekly virus scans, keeping your PC current in the corporate security database, and holding back from drop kicking it when it crashes.
I'll say it... Life in the corporate world was much better before the PC.
Why would a forger go through the hassle of making an MS word document look like it was typed (through photoshop or whatever) instead of just USING A TYPEWRITER? It's not like a typewriter is hard to find.
It just doesn't make sense to me. If I wanted to forge a memo dated at 1973, wouldn't I use the tools available at the time to do it? Using MS-Word to do this is a bit like using an inkjet printer to produce the shroud of Turin.
That leaves three possibilities.
1)The document is genuine 2)The document was forged by an idiot. 3)The document was crafted this way so it would be exposed as a forgery.
>To some extent, the only reason to release the really original release (which would still need a great deal of digital restoration as the film stock has aged) would be as an illustration of film history.
The reason I want the originals is not because of history. The originals were better films, period. They were less redundant, had better character development and better pacing. The effects, though cheesy by today's standards, were at least consistent.
>This is a matter of the school superceding the FCC's mandate and trying to create new law and new rules. No-one owns the unlicensed spectrum, but this school wants to. Someone should explain that by attempting to assert exclusive rights over airwaves they do not own license to, they are currently commiting a civil crime.
So the right answer is for the campus to discontinue providing wireless access? I don't know but it seems rather un-democatic to allow a few people to screw up network access for the majority. Does eminent domain apply to the EM spectrum? I doubt it:)
Perhaps the FCC is at fault... maybe there needs to be a set of "licensed" frequencies inside a larger 802.11ish standard that would allow universities and corporations to set up access without worrying about consumer access points interfering, while still allowing compatibility with consumer cards. They have not done so, and this is what causes these conflicts.
802.11b/g will soon be dead due to over-use, so the FCC will have to open up new areas of the spectrum. Hopefully they'll do it differently this time.
Correction: 1000 U.S. citizens have died. The number of Iraqi civillians is over 11,000 by LOW estimates. If you add in Iraqi soldiers, and you've got a total body count around 17,000, again, by low estimates.
>Unfortunately Three Mile Island and Chernobyl proved they were right. They are risky. They are extremely complex and very fallible.
Not the new pebble bed reactors. The old designs would melt down if you didn't actively control the reaction. The new designs just stop producing energy.
Also, I hate to break it to you, but burning coal produces much more environmental radiation than nuclear power.
Nuclear really is safer and more environmentally friendly than coal.
>Anyways, I think you're thinking of one of the later greatest hits compilation versions, because I can guarantee the version I had didn't have any built-in hints...
Nope. It was the 5&1/4 floppy version sold by itself. Release 31. Copyright 1984. It's possible it may not have been the FIRST version sold, but it definately was not part of a compilation.
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Have you ever seen a 25 way join or a 30 way UNION? I've seen queries that go past a given RDBMS's 32k query size limitation. Even worse, I've seen the code that GENERATES these horrendous queries. It's like seeing your parents having sex; it changes your life forever.
Please, please, there must be a sane way to query data from a highly normalized database.
>Actually, all you need to have a chance of winning is to be on enough ballots to potentially win 270 electoral votes.
:)
Technically, it is not necessary to be on the ballot in any state in order to win. We've always had the "write-in" option. I guess it depends on what you define as "a chance" but if Arnold can be the Governator, anything is possible.
That said, you do have a point. It's rather un-democratic to only invite the Democrats and the Republicans to the debates. However, being that the CPD is COMPOSED of two interests... the Democrats and Republicans, there's little chance they will every invite a third party, high polling or not. What is really needed is an independent organization such as the League of Women Voters (that ran the debates until the CPD was formed) to run the debates again. An independant organization could select candidates based on voter interest. The CPD was formed to wrest the debates from the LWV with the express intention of eliminating third party competition after Perot was seen as throwing a wrench into the two party duopoly.
We can make up any rules about inviting people to the debates we want, but it's all irrelevant until an independant organization takes over the debates once again.
>Maybe. The point is we don't know so until we determine there value to us they should be preserved.
I agree that humans have come out on top of the food chain, and do have the power to alter our environment, and it's not necissarily amoral to do so. However, I do take issue with your assertion that we should stop worrying about preserving every species.
The fact is that species come and go over the course of our planet's evolution. It's also a fact that as humans assert themselves as the master species, they have been causing species to become extinct at a much larger rate than new species arise. This results in less bio-diversity on the planet as a whole. I would argue that the bio-diversity itself is a huge value, because it makes the global ecosystem more resilient. We cannot survive outside of our ecosystem (on a large scale), and WHEN a cataclysmic failure of our ecosystem occurs , we would likely not be able to fix it. In such a scenario, we would become extinct.
Bio-diversity is beneficial because it reduces the odds that a cataclysmic failure will occur, and increases the odds that the ecosystem will recover. Therefore we must preserve other species in order to preserve ourselves. QED.
>You can look at HAL stock price from just before 2001 till now, it has lost value.
Yes, but do you imagine the strike date of those options is 2001? I would think it would be much earlier.
>You do know how much money Cheney has made from Halliburton while he's been VP, don't you?
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I'm not going to claim that Dick Cheney started the war for money, but he certainly did make some coin from it.
Over the last 4 years, he's made anywhere from 2 to 8 million in deffered compensation.
He also holds 433,000 stock options. The Iraq war has been very kind to HAL stock.
Assuming a strike price of $18 (1995, when cheney became CEO), and a current market price of 34.40 they're now worth $7,101,200 upon exercising.
Dick Cheney basically gets the equivalent of the Publisher's Clearing house sweepstakes.
Look here for proof
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/polit
>What would happen if just one of these 96,000 (! over 40 years) trucks got in an accident. What if it were hit by a terrorist?
1) The containers are designed to survive traffic accidents.
2) The vast majority of the waste we're talking about here is not plutonium dust, it's gloves and other "contaminated" items. This stuff would not be hard to clean up. It certainly could not be used as a "dirty bomb" by a terrorist.
>Of course! Set up a mobile command base in the school!
It's called a cell phone.
> (If you counted the Great Lakes as coastline, it'd be even more lopsided)
Absolutely. Anybody who's been to Duluth in mid-winter knows why the beachfront property there is so expensive.
>Yeah how sad he should have run around raving mad screaming the sky is falling or he could have called in air strikes against asprin factories
Or he could have left the room calmly, asked for the intelligence on the situation, assessed whether the situation was being handled appropriately, made the necessary adjustments, made preparations for future attacks, and began planning an investigation. I expect absolutely no less from our Commander in Chief.
>The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
You ought to give "Young Frankenstien" a try. Sure, it contains a bit of low-brow humor, and some of it is over the top, but overall it is a very incisive parody of a monster movie.
Of course, It might not be that way if Gene Wilder didn't have his hand in it, but that's beside the point.
>If only Lucas had that excuse.
Maybe THAT's the reason he's going back and F*&#ing up Star Wars. He doesn't want his current movies to be compared to such a high standard, so he's lowering the standard. It has a twisted genius about it.
>Um, there's a whole Libertarian wing of the Republican party..
I'd consider that if it didn't mean I have to vote for Dubya. As it stands, my personal fiscally conservative, socially liberal, world-aware agenda fits much better with Kerry than with Dubya. Perhaps if the Republicans put forth a candidate that was less of a radical on the international front, wasn't trying to write discrimination into the constitution, was making an effort to keep the deficit under control AND made every right to uphold civil liberties at home, they could attract a lot of folks like me. As it stands, however, I'm voting for Kerry, mostly because as a different person, he can put in a different administration,and start cleaning up the mess left by this one. If that makes me a Democrat, I'll be one for this election. After that, we'll see.
>I have the right to think he's a money grabbing talentless jerk who got lucky once and is desperately trying to prove that it wasn't a fluke (and failing.)
My take on this is that George Lucas is a money-grabbing talentless jerk that really had an amazing gift for film at one time, then lost it somewhere along the way. He had it in 1972 with "American Grafitti". He had a series of hits... the Star Wars Trilogy, the Indiana Jones saga. His brain slowly began leaking out in 1983 when work began on Return of the Jedi, and was nearly complete in 1986 with the release of "Howard the Duck"... but he still managed to squeak out "The Last Crusade" with his few remaining brain cells. Now, it's all over for George Lucas. He simply doesn't have the gift for filmmaking he once had. He should find an apprentice that has the gift and bequeath the Star Wars franchise to him/her.
First you have it, then you lose it. Then it's gone forever. - Irvine Welsh
Nice wish list.
>And finally, the ability to work on them without the need for 3 different diagnostic machines that cost 10 grand each!
What incentive would the car manufacturers have to do this? Part of the reason diagnostic equipment is so expensive is to raise the bar to entry of the repair market. Do you think dealers want some schmuck in his garage competing for repair dollars? What car manufacturers really want is extremely expensive (and non-repairable) parts that can only be installed by "certified" mechanics, so they can lock up the aftermarket.
>what's to say that he didn't have a picture of him from way back when?
That picture wasn't in the movie, was it? From a viewer's perspective, Luke has no picture. Putting this in is just bad direction.
>Welcome to the world of 'dumb terminals' again. Thanks for playing this long!
Quite right. The move in business IT from centrally managed mainframes to networked PCs was a huge step backwards in terms of cost and availability of line-of-business applications.
The average user, once they learned how to use a particular application, never had to worry about IT, because it "just worked". Contrast this to downloading patches every other day, running weekly virus scans, keeping your PC current in the corporate security database, and holding back from drop kicking it when it crashes.
I'll say it... Life in the corporate world was much better before the PC.
>Sure we have another choice. We can blow them to hell
Yes, General Ripper. That will ensure the purity and essence of your precious fluids.
Why would a forger go through the hassle of making an MS word document look like it was typed (through photoshop or whatever) instead of just USING A TYPEWRITER? It's not like a typewriter is hard to find.
It just doesn't make sense to me. If I wanted to forge a memo dated at 1973, wouldn't I use the tools available at the time to do it? Using MS-Word to do this is a bit like using an inkjet printer to produce the shroud of Turin.
That leaves three possibilities.
1)The document is genuine
2)The document was forged by an idiot.
3)The document was crafted this way so it would be exposed as a forgery.
I'm not sure which is more likely.
>To some extent, the only reason to release the really original release (which would still need a great deal of digital restoration as the film stock has aged) would be as an illustration of film history.
The reason I want the originals is not because of history. The originals were better films, period. They were less redundant, had better character development and better pacing. The effects, though cheesy by today's standards, were at least consistent.
>This is a matter of the school superceding the FCC's mandate and trying to create new law and new rules. No-one owns the unlicensed spectrum, but this school wants to. Someone should explain that by attempting to assert exclusive rights over airwaves they do not own license to, they are currently commiting a civil crime.
:)
So the right answer is for the campus to discontinue providing wireless access? I don't know but it seems rather un-democatic to allow a few people to screw up network access for the majority. Does eminent domain apply to the EM spectrum? I doubt it
Perhaps the FCC is at fault... maybe there needs to be a set of "licensed" frequencies inside a larger 802.11ish standard that would allow universities and corporations to set up access without worrying about consumer access points interfering, while still allowing compatibility with consumer cards. They have not done so, and this is what causes these conflicts.
802.11b/g will soon be dead due to over-use, so the FCC will have to open up new areas of the spectrum. Hopefully they'll do it differently this time.
>plus 1000 dead war
Correction: 1000 U.S. citizens have died. The number of Iraqi civillians is over 11,000 by LOW estimates. If you add in Iraqi soldiers, and you've got a total body count around 17,000, again, by low estimates.
>Star Trek died the moment they decided that T&A were more important (i.e. Seven of Nine) than quality stories and characters with depth.....
No, that's how Star Trek started. Did you miss every episode of the original series?
It was all about making out with hot alien babes, from the very beginning.
>If you tried to write a word processor for the GeForce
./ is sick enough to do that. Anyone?
I bet someone out there on
>Unfortunately Three Mile Island and Chernobyl proved they were right. They are risky. They are extremely complex and very fallible.
Not the new pebble bed reactors. The old designs would melt down if you didn't actively control the reaction. The new designs just stop producing energy.
Also, I hate to break it to you, but burning coal produces much more environmental radiation than nuclear power.
Nuclear really is safer and more environmentally friendly than coal.
>Anyways, I think you're thinking of one of the later greatest hits compilation versions, because I can guarantee the version I had didn't have any built-in hints...
Nope. It was the 5&1/4 floppy version sold by itself. Release 31. Copyright 1984. It's possible it may not have been the FIRST version sold, but it definately was not part of a compilation.