He represented Alaska--a state where many people are employed by the oil industry, and where every citizen receives a check from oil. It sounds to me like he represented Alaskans just fine there.
Oh, he represented Alaskan oil interests just fine. What he failed to do was his job as CHAIR of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. This Committee is responsible for, you guessed it, Communications. This particular senator was responsible for a lot of legislation governing? Communications.
I doubt any of us take issue with 80 year old senators having a weak understanding of modern technology. We do, however, take issue with utter incompetence from the most senior elected official responsible for legislation in this area.
If you can't cook, stay the hell out of the kitchen. Or, since this is slashdot, if you say you're an automotive mechanic you'd better know how to change an alternator.
For profit educational institutions are never worth the money. EVER.
Retarded point my friend.
Standford, Harvard, Columbia, etc.. All Private.
All the best schools are private ones. Granted there's some pretty crummy ones too, but that's extremely typical of the public institutions too, who stand little to lose if they "fail to meet their customers needs".
"Retarded point my friend"? Were you prefacing your comment with a warning that your point was retarded?
The GP said "For profit educational institutions"... you then went on to rant bout private, non-profit educational institutions. The difference is profound.
As far as I'm aware, all of the Ivy League schools are private and non-profit. For that matter, last I checked the top 200 or so universities in the US were non-profit (public or private).
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
The actual count for that ceremony is much smaller than the "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings" ritual, but they are much, much bigger animals being sacrificed.
I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Depends on where you buy your meat and where it was processed. I remember hearing that there could be meat from up to 1,000 different cows in a single McDonald's burger patty... I obviously don't know the actual numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't in the single digits.
However, in some cases, sticking your entire body in the hole might help, if the hole is deep enough, and the predator is sufficiently large and unable to reach into the hole.
Gasoline really isn't that flammable. You could toss a match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen
That makes me think of the Safety Kleen guy who would come & swap out the solvent at a shop I used to work at. Despite all the flammable liquid notices, he said that lots of the tanks he'd pick up had cigarette butts in them. People would just stub them out in the liquid. Would try it myself, with gas or Safety Kleen, but there you go.
Cigarettes != lit matches... I've put cigarettes out in gasoline plenty of times. IIRC, cigarettes don't burn hot enough to ignite gasoline vapor, let alone vaporize gasoline and have enough energy left to ignite the resulting vapors.
While analogies and metaphors are often useful, I find that most people really shouldn't be encouraged to use them. Remember when all the news organizations were trying to explain complex financial derivates via used car analogy? Their comparisons were far more convoluted than a concise description of what actually happened.
I think public speaking and communication textbooks have always instructed their readers to use metaphors and analogies for complex subjects.
The dollar, like the Euro, is a debt backed fiat currency. It has no value other then what these governments are willing to accept it as, when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
Gold is a form of currency. It has no value other than what people are willing to accept it as--when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
except Slashdot is commercial enterprise, so its more like going to a friend's restaurant and complaining about the food that you ordered and paid for.
I'd say it's far more like going to a Chinese restaurant and complaining that they don't serve korma and naan (Indian dishes).
I'm not trying to get involved on either side of the argument, but your argument is a bit off here.
The "populists" are arguing that coming from a family wealthy enough to have connections, access to schools like Harvard/Yale/Stanford, etc. enabled people like Bill Gates to become highly successful.
You're arguing that "most wealthy people say they made their own money'. This has no impact on the original thesis. The question you really need to answer is what were the income levels of the parents prior to their childrens' success.
No, I'm pointing out that your initial comment betrayed a stunning lack of logic. Illogical comments should be ignored, there's no point debating someone who has no grasp of how to do so. It is a complete waste of time, and is analogous to wrestling a pig in the mud.
And you accuse me of ad hominem.
It would have been ad hominem if I said, "idiots like you just don't see it on Fox News and that's why you don't know what you're talking about."
Instead, I offered a rather reasonable (and logical) case for why the left is still criticizing Bush for problems caused by Bush... and while I was at it I mentioned that you're woefully uninformed regarding the left's criticisms of Obama. The left criticizes him at least as much as the teabaggers do... you just clearly don't know about it.
JFC, how am I offtopic _this_ time? The summary posted an article about the Niger Delta.
I think Slashdot did something goofy here if you posted in an article about the Niger Delta. Your comment is now under "DoE Posts Raw Data from Oil Spill".
This actually happened to me once... I made an offhand comment in someone's journal entry, and the journal entry ended up as a frontpage story on slashdot. I had a VERY early first post and looked like a bit of an ass in my comment:(
The data they'll be a privy too, whilst 'creating' the system would be invaluable.
Just out of curiosity, what "data" will they be privy to that isn't already supposed to be available to everyone?
Analytics. There's probably a lot of potential intelligence to be gleaned since, according to the article, Google will actually be hosting the site.
I hope they steer clear of that, but if they collect too much data it could open up quite a few cans of worms. "Oh hey, Microsoft's legal department has been searching for ____ patents lately and keeps going back to these patent numbers."
Really to think that Google's getting anything out of this is kind of... well... funny. I mean, I think there are other private search sites like Thomsom West that charge you per hour to use their search engine to crawl their indexes of laws and court cases that should be public data in the first place. I wouldn't go complaining about Google making the patent process more transparent and searchable if I were you...
I'd rather see Google develop the code, database, application, whatever else needs to be done, and have it hosted on PTO servers. That said, I agree that I'd rather have Google doing this than any of the legal databases.
To be fair, Starcraft is ENTIRELY an anomaly in the entire history of video gaming. Blizzard have a pretty good idea that people are and will be interested in Starcraft... because the game is still selling.
Seriously, the game came out 11 years, 2 months, and 10 days ago. Literally a week ago, I was in a GameStop and saw a brand new, in box copy of the starcraft battlechest edition on the shelf, for sale.
I cannot think of any other game that is still being sold as new that's anywhere NEAR that old - discounting things like the Civ anniversary pack or the C&C: First Decade pack, and other re-releases. This game has real staying power.
And that's not even counting Korea, where you can watch tournaments being played LIVE with commentary on national TV.
The question is, when do you stop blaming Lincoln for Reconstruction?
The answer is: you never blame him in the first place because he wasn't in office then. Obama has fucked up royally on many occasions, but the left wants to blame Bush for those mistakes. It just isn't logical.
The answer is: you blame the person who caused it or paved the way for it to happen. The left has been blaming Obama for many things, you just don't hear about it on Fox News.
If the captain of the Titanic resigned and appointed a new captain one minute before hitting that iceberg, would the blame lie solely on the new captain? Of course not (sorry for the analogy, but it's better than cars..)
The state has a lot of momentum, especially in the bureaucracy. Bush spent years stacking the supreme court and federal agencies like the Minerals Management Service. The policies Bush enacted, and the people he appointed, directly led to many of the issues that we've experienced during the Obama administration. There's not a man alive who can stop something with that much momentum in such a short period of time. Obama inherited a mess that can't be entirely fixed.
Likewise, Bush was not responsible for the tech bubble. That all happened under conditions created by Clinton, and there is nothing Bush could have done to stop it.
The US has 5X the population of the UK and 15X the population of Australia. I don't find it at all surpising that the largest developed country in the world would also produce the bulk of the world's high quality academic research.
Not to mention the research infrastructure in the US. Granted we don't have CERN/LHC, but we do have absolutely massive investments in large research institutions. The US made massive outlays to build a very large network of researchers and institutions in the US, encouraging brain drain and building organizations. It's no surprise that the country with MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley (heck, the whole UC system), VA Tech, etc. produces a ton of good research.
As for the brain drain Chatterton mentioned, I'd be curious to see how many of the "59% of articles originating from the US" included foreign-born researchers. I know a lot of people who came to the US to do their doctoral or post-doc work here.
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profiteering from war is bad?
Except for all those nice upstanding defense contractors and other related service companys we give billions to....
Damm... now i'm confused.
But without profit they wouldn't have any incentive to do it, and that'd just be terrible!
What if they are gay? ;)
That's why his usernames are all something along the lines of "IAM_NOT_GAY"
It's a sort of psychosexual firewall. Only someone who can embrace being gay and not gay at once may pass.
Or Pat.
The Republican strategy makes sense now!
He represented Alaska--a state where many people are employed by the oil industry, and where every citizen receives a check from oil. It sounds to me like he represented Alaskans just fine there.
Oh, he represented Alaskan oil interests just fine. What he failed to do was his job as CHAIR of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. This Committee is responsible for, you guessed it, Communications. This particular senator was responsible for a lot of legislation governing? Communications.
I doubt any of us take issue with 80 year old senators having a weak understanding of modern technology. We do, however, take issue with utter incompetence from the most senior elected official responsible for legislation in this area.
If you can't cook, stay the hell out of the kitchen. Or, since this is slashdot, if you say you're an automotive mechanic you'd better know how to change an alternator.
Do you prefer AOL for IMAP over Google's IMAP? Or is there some other reason?
Actually, you need to hit Preview first.
I don't, and I didn't realize anyone else did either.
I do, and I've got "Excellent" Karma, so it can't be that... Are you somehow using the old posting system that's not 100% AJAX evilness?
For profit educational institutions are never worth the money. EVER.
Retarded point my friend.
Standford, Harvard, Columbia, etc.. All Private.
All the best schools are private ones. Granted there's some pretty crummy ones too, but that's extremely typical of the public institutions too, who stand little to lose if they "fail to meet their customers needs".
"Retarded point my friend"? Were you prefacing your comment with a warning that your point was retarded?
The GP said "For profit educational institutions"... you then went on to rant bout private, non-profit educational institutions. The difference is profound.
As far as I'm aware, all of the Ivy League schools are private and non-profit. For that matter, last I checked the top 200 or so universities in the US were non-profit (public or private).
Here's a list of for-profit colleges in the US.
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
The actual count for that ceremony is much smaller than the "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings" ritual, but they are much, much bigger animals being sacrificed.
I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Depends on where you buy your meat and where it was processed. I remember hearing that there could be meat from up to 1,000 different cows in a single McDonald's burger patty... I obviously don't know the actual numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't in the single digits.
If they're anywhere near coastal, I could see a big benefit from using the excess energy for desalination.
However, in some cases, sticking your entire body in the hole might help, if the hole is deep enough, and the predator is sufficiently large and unable to reach into the hole.
I tried that... she broke up with me :(
Gasoline really isn't that flammable. You could toss a match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen
That makes me think of the Safety Kleen guy who would come & swap out the solvent at a shop I used to work at. Despite all the flammable liquid notices, he said that lots of the tanks he'd pick up had cigarette butts in them. People would just stub them out in the liquid. Would try it myself, with gas or Safety Kleen, but there you go.
Cigarettes != lit matches... I've put cigarettes out in gasoline plenty of times. IIRC, cigarettes don't burn hot enough to ignite gasoline vapor, let alone vaporize gasoline and have enough energy left to ignite the resulting vapors.
Thanks a ton for the link. I can't believe it wasn't listed on the site or more publicly announced!
While analogies and metaphors are often useful, I find that most people really shouldn't be encouraged to use them. Remember when all the news organizations were trying to explain complex financial derivates via used car analogy? Their comparisons were far more convoluted than a concise description of what actually happened.
I think public speaking and communication textbooks have always instructed their readers to use metaphors and analogies for complex subjects.
The dollar, like the Euro, is a debt backed fiat currency. It has no value other then what these governments are willing to accept it as, when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
Gold is a form of currency. It has no value other than what people are willing to accept it as--when the population stops accepting it as a form of exchange, is when the real troubles will begin.
except Slashdot is commercial enterprise, so its more like going to a friend's restaurant and complaining about the food that you ordered and paid for.
I'd say it's far more like going to a Chinese restaurant and complaining that they don't serve korma and naan (Indian dishes).
I'm not trying to get involved on either side of the argument, but your argument is a bit off here.
The "populists" are arguing that coming from a family wealthy enough to have connections, access to schools like Harvard/Yale/Stanford, etc. enabled people like Bill Gates to become highly successful.
You're arguing that "most wealthy people say they made their own money'. This has no impact on the original thesis. The question you really need to answer is what were the income levels of the parents prior to their childrens' success.
No, I'm pointing out that your initial comment betrayed a stunning lack of logic. Illogical comments should be ignored, there's no point debating someone who has no grasp of how to do so. It is a complete waste of time, and is analogous to wrestling a pig in the mud.
And you accuse me of ad hominem.
It would have been ad hominem if I said, "idiots like you just don't see it on Fox News and that's why you don't know what you're talking about."
Instead, I offered a rather reasonable (and logical) case for why the left is still criticizing Bush for problems caused by Bush... and while I was at it I mentioned that you're woefully uninformed regarding the left's criticisms of Obama. The left criticizes him at least as much as the teabaggers do... you just clearly don't know about it.
JFC, how am I offtopic _this_ time? The summary posted an article about the Niger Delta.
I think Slashdot did something goofy here if you posted in an article about the Niger Delta. Your comment is now under "DoE Posts Raw Data from Oil Spill".
This actually happened to me once... I made an offhand comment in someone's journal entry, and the journal entry ended up as a frontpage story on slashdot. I had a VERY early first post and looked like a bit of an ass in my comment :(
The data they'll be a privy too, whilst 'creating' the system would be invaluable.
Just out of curiosity, what "data" will they be privy to that isn't already supposed to be available to everyone?
Analytics. There's probably a lot of potential intelligence to be gleaned since, according to the article, Google will actually be hosting the site.
I hope they steer clear of that, but if they collect too much data it could open up quite a few cans of worms. "Oh hey, Microsoft's legal department has been searching for ____ patents lately and keeps going back to these patent numbers."
Really to think that Google's getting anything out of this is kind of ... well ... funny. I mean, I think there are other private search sites like Thomsom West that charge you per hour to use their search engine to crawl their indexes of laws and court cases that should be public data in the first place. I wouldn't go complaining about Google making the patent process more transparent and searchable if I were you ...
I'd rather see Google develop the code, database, application, whatever else needs to be done, and have it hosted on PTO servers. That said, I agree that I'd rather have Google doing this than any of the legal databases.
To be fair, Starcraft is ENTIRELY an anomaly in the entire history of video gaming. Blizzard have a pretty good idea that people are and will be interested in Starcraft... because the game is still selling.
Seriously, the game came out 11 years, 2 months, and 10 days ago. Literally a week ago, I was in a GameStop and saw a brand new, in box copy of the starcraft battlechest edition on the shelf, for sale.
I cannot think of any other game that is still being sold as new that's anywhere NEAR that old - discounting things like the Civ anniversary pack or the C&C: First Decade pack, and other re-releases. This game has real staying power.
And that's not even counting Korea, where you can watch tournaments being played LIVE with commentary on national TV.
You're not really disproving my point by saying you don't need to read opposing viewpoints to be happy.
The question is, when do you stop blaming Lincoln for Reconstruction?
The answer is: you never blame him in the first place because he wasn't in office then. Obama has fucked up royally on many occasions, but the left wants to blame Bush for those mistakes. It just isn't logical.
The answer is: you blame the person who caused it or paved the way for it to happen. The left has been blaming Obama for many things, you just don't hear about it on Fox News.
If the captain of the Titanic resigned and appointed a new captain one minute before hitting that iceberg, would the blame lie solely on the new captain? Of course not (sorry for the analogy, but it's better than cars..)
The state has a lot of momentum, especially in the bureaucracy. Bush spent years stacking the supreme court and federal agencies like the Minerals Management Service. The policies Bush enacted, and the people he appointed, directly led to many of the issues that we've experienced during the Obama administration. There's not a man alive who can stop something with that much momentum in such a short period of time. Obama inherited a mess that can't be entirely fixed.
Likewise, Bush was not responsible for the tech bubble. That all happened under conditions created by Clinton, and there is nothing Bush could have done to stop it.
The US has 5X the population of the UK and 15X the population of Australia. I don't find it at all surpising that the largest developed country in the world would also produce the bulk of the world's high quality academic research.
Not to mention the research infrastructure in the US. Granted we don't have CERN/LHC, but we do have absolutely massive investments in large research institutions. The US made massive outlays to build a very large network of researchers and institutions in the US, encouraging brain drain and building organizations. It's no surprise that the country with MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley (heck, the whole UC system), VA Tech, etc. produces a ton of good research.
As for the brain drain Chatterton mentioned, I'd be curious to see how many of the "59% of articles originating from the US" included foreign-born researchers. I know a lot of people who came to the US to do their doctoral or post-doc work here.
Ok. You have my email address. It's public. What email addresses do I have whitelisted?
I see a lot of spamming that puts the "to" address in the "from" field. Apparently most people whitelist themselves?
Because we don't call our schools "University College"?
Mitchell314, meet University of Maryland University College.
Oh come on, we all know you come to slashdot to find 14 year old girls...