Actually, the point of a jury (according to Jefferson's Constitution) _is_ to examine both the particular case and to examine if the law makes sense in this case. That is not supposed to be up to a judge in a democracy. It is part of the 'by the people' idea. It was thrown out during Prohibition by prosecutors and judges but it is still in the constitution and that states the rules juries are _supposed_ to follow.
Fuck the judge. Fuck the precedents. Having a king is a precedent.
If you already understand the essentials of data modeling, then all you need is the Data Model Resource Book by Silverston, Inmon and Graziano.It has the ERD models with explanations for all typical processes found in a company.
Geolocation info posted on Facebook is probably already old or completely useless to enemies. They aren't posting where they are RIGHT AT THIS VERY MINUTE (unless it's an airbase in which case the Taliban probably already knows the location).
Non-story that gets you kudos at Black Hat. That's the real story in this mishmash of data.
I suspect when movies first came out, some book critics said they could never be art. I also read where Aristotle said books (reading) would spell the death of civilization.
Ebert ought to play Grand Theft Auto IV all the way through and then sit through all 3 of the Godfather movies (which are considered examples of movie art) and then critique both. He might learn something.
P.S. Rap isn't really music according to musicians. Shoot. Realism wasn't even considered art when it first started. Neither was photography.
When Lovelock was first contracted by NASA to invent machines to search for life, he investigated all sorts of extremophiles--the kind of 'life' we might expect to find on Mars--and quickly concluded that life isn't a bacterium, it is a system of recycling various chemicals that works in conjunction with the sorts of organisms we think of as 'life.' That was his discovery of Gaia. Too many 'real' scientists didn't understand what he had discovered and bought into the greenie definition of Gaia as some sort of spiritual earth mother. They replaced the concept with Earth Systems Science but that is not the same concept.
Thinking of Gaia as a one-celled organism puts it into better perspective. A cell is not completely controlled by the nucleus nor does it cause physical processes like osmosis. Gaia does not create species; it does not have a controlling brain, and it 'makes use' (do not interpret that phrase anthropomorphically) of calcium carbonate subduction under continental plates. Organisms depend on free chemicals for respiration and physics tends to work against providing free, easy-to-connect-to chemicals.
Lovelock lost the contract because he said we can use spectrometers to investigate whether an atmosphere is 'alive' or not and not have to send expensive equipment. This was not the answer the NASA contracting officer was willing to accept.
That is also the fundamental problem with a large company standardising on a laptop or pc configuration. It is easy to buy the first 5,000. But what happens in 6 months or two years when new employees come on board? The vendor will sell you something in the same case if you demand it, but the chipset will be different.And 4 years after the lauded 'company-wide standardization' is implemented (to make support easier), you end up with lots of non-standard equipment and if the the outside box is identical but the inside is different, you've actually made support harder, not easier.
Same old same old. Expectation do not guarantee results.
If light takes 4 years to get here from the nearest star, then isn't all stellar astronomy forensic--looking into the past?
Seems like we're talking cultural forensics.
No one was going to buy music cassettes or CDs because of the 'stickiness' (installed base) of record-players.
Most of the folks who _have_ a zillion tunes don't listen to them anymore and essentially are carrying a warehouse of unused items around with them on their iPod. The relief that comes from starting over fresh, like throwing out most everything in a drawer, more than balances the stickiness of crap you bought years ago.
programming is an itch, like music or art, but if you want to try game programming or computer art using free downloadable stuff, Blender is a place to start. Before download, checkout Blender 3D Noob to Pro or something like that on free wikibooks. that let's you build kewl stuff without a lot of money.
I loved the analysis and the numbers but something didn't sit right with me. You hit the nail on the head, equating creativity with attainments of college degrees. 40% of the students with an IQ more than 140 are at risk of dropping out. They are intelligent but don't get degrees. They may or may not be creative, just like the automaton grad student who teaches and memorizes but does no thinking.
The problem with minimum wage laws is that they do not set the bottom wage, they merely remove possible wages below it.
If I could work for dollar increments, then I can work for $1/hr or $2/hr or $3/hr and so on and so forth.
When legislation demands a $7/hr minimum, then my options are this:
$0, then $7/hr then $8/hr and so on.
The bottom option of zero dollars never disappears, it just gets more common when min wage laws are enacted.
Contractors writing code for Federal Agencies is a costly problem.
Hiring government coders to work directly for Agencies that are trying to meet their missions is the correct solution--turn coders into subject matter specialists
Putting all coders into one central agency may make the sw more secure but it certainly won't make the coders more responsive to the individual Agencies and Programs.
PixelJunk sells its downloadable games for $10 on the PS3.
It seems to be a strategy that works.
I get 6 of their games for the price of one new EA game.
If I wait, then the price of a used disc drops to $30 or $40 but it seems as if the big game companies want to close that market off, too. They cut their own throat.
For simulation training in real-life, the military uses airsoft guns (soft BBs) so they soldiers actually shoot weapons at people instead of pretend shoot. It increases their reaction time in real life. They train in cityscapes to get used to not shooting civilians, too.
"Fake" training on 'gaming' simulators is probably just as good, a lot better than using real guns you can point but not fire.
Aristotle thought books--reading--would be the end of civilization. All civilized folks (like himself) memorized long poems instead.
Same old same old. Just recently, folks said the web was going to be the end of reading and writing even tho the 'billions of web pages" were all written by people and read by others. They don't spend any time thinking, they just likie to complain, kind of like a Tea Partier drinking the Mad Hatter's koolaid.
I read a lot of comments here and elsewhere trying to inject reason into this debate.
Silly kids, reason is for geeks and scientists and thinkers.
Reason is NOT how we choose public policy. In monarchies and dictatorships, one person gets to choose the policy. In democracies, we choose policy the same way we choose Top 40 music hits--by popularity.
This rant has nothing to do with global warming or climate change or science and everything to do with how humanity operates itself.
If Diebold makes them, what are the odds that they use the same sort of security on their much vaunted but completely unexamined vote-tallying machines?
Rome collapsed due to weather. Its collapse started around 100CE which is when the cold spell started. Europe recoved and repopulated itself when the weather warmed up about 700CE.
The Anasazi civilization in the US collapsed during a drought around 1200 CE. They of course had chiefs (kings) and tribes (nations) and fought wars amongst themselves like Europeans but because we have names and dates for Europe, we think the king is who caused the war and ignore the weather that caused a climate of migration and warfare across the whole continent.
The Maya civilization collapsed due to weather. Either 1) they had bad weather (drought empties water pipes) or 2) some other group 2a) had bad weather and migrated into the territory or 2b) good weather which increased their population and they migrated into the area.
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Unlike global warming, this is not a myth and the truth will not be denied. {/sarcasm}
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Actually, the point of a jury (according to Jefferson's Constitution) _is_ to examine both the particular case and to examine if the law makes sense in this case. That is not supposed to be up to a judge in a democracy. It is part of the 'by the people' idea. It was thrown out during Prohibition by prosecutors and judges but it is still in the constitution and that states the rules juries are _supposed_ to follow. Fuck the judge. Fuck the precedents. Having a king is a precedent.
If you already understand the essentials of data modeling, then all you need is the Data Model Resource Book by Silverston, Inmon and Graziano.It has the ERD models with explanations for all typical processes found in a company.
For basics, here is a page: http://moxcey.net/mike/pgm/dbs_design/01_intro.html
Geolocation info posted on Facebook is probably already old or completely useless to enemies. They aren't posting where they are RIGHT AT THIS VERY MINUTE (unless it's an airbase in which case the Taliban probably already knows the location). Non-story that gets you kudos at Black Hat. That's the real story in this mishmash of data.
I suspect when movies first came out, some book critics said they could never be art. I also read where Aristotle said books (reading) would spell the death of civilization.
Ebert ought to play Grand Theft Auto IV all the way through and then sit through all 3 of the Godfather movies (which are considered examples of movie art) and then critique both. He might learn something.
P.S. Rap isn't really music according to musicians. Shoot. Realism wasn't even considered art when it first started. Neither was photography.
Therefore, only 2/3rds of the internet is a compleat waste of time.
Diff bet. England and America. In England, a hundred miles is a long ways. In America, a hundred years is a long time.
When Lovelock was first contracted by NASA to invent machines to search for life, he investigated all sorts of extremophiles--the kind of 'life' we might expect to find on Mars--and quickly concluded that life isn't a bacterium, it is a system of recycling various chemicals that works in conjunction with the sorts of organisms we think of as 'life.' That was his discovery of Gaia. Too many 'real' scientists didn't understand what he had discovered and bought into the greenie definition of Gaia as some sort of spiritual earth mother. They replaced the concept with Earth Systems Science but that is not the same concept.
Thinking of Gaia as a one-celled organism puts it into better perspective. A cell is not completely controlled by the nucleus nor does it cause physical processes like osmosis. Gaia does not create species; it does not have a controlling brain, and it 'makes use' (do not interpret that phrase anthropomorphically) of calcium carbonate subduction under continental plates. Organisms depend on free chemicals for respiration and physics tends to work against providing free, easy-to-connect-to chemicals.
Lovelock lost the contract because he said we can use spectrometers to investigate whether an atmosphere is 'alive' or not and not have to send expensive equipment. This was not the answer the NASA contracting officer was willing to accept.
Ha, I forgot about Sol. It is so close it seems more like a mere celebrity than a true star.
That is also the fundamental problem with a large company standardising on a laptop or pc configuration. It is easy to buy the first 5,000. But what happens in 6 months or two years when new employees come on board? The vendor will sell you something in the same case if you demand it, but the chipset will be different.And 4 years after the lauded 'company-wide standardization' is implemented (to make support easier), you end up with lots of non-standard equipment and if the the outside box is identical but the inside is different, you've actually made support harder, not easier.
Same old same old. Expectation do not guarantee results.
If light takes 4 years to get here from the nearest star, then isn't all stellar astronomy forensic--looking into the past?
Seems like we're talking cultural forensics.
No one was going to buy music cassettes or CDs because of the 'stickiness' (installed base) of record-players.
Most of the folks who _have_ a zillion tunes don't listen to them anymore and essentially are carrying a warehouse of unused items around with them on their iPod. The relief that comes from starting over fresh, like throwing out most everything in a drawer, more than balances the stickiness of crap you bought years ago.
programming is an itch, like music or art, but if you want to try game programming or computer art using free downloadable stuff, Blender is a place to start. Before download, checkout Blender 3D Noob to Pro or something like that on free wikibooks. that let's you build kewl stuff without a lot of money.
I loved the analysis and the numbers but something didn't sit right with me. You hit the nail on the head, equating creativity with attainments of college degrees. 40% of the students with an IQ more than 140 are at risk of dropping out. They are intelligent but don't get degrees. They may or may not be creative, just like the automaton grad student who teaches and memorizes but does no thinking.
The problem with minimum wage laws is that they do not set the bottom wage, they merely remove possible wages below it.
If I could work for dollar increments, then I can work for $1/hr or $2/hr or $3/hr and so on and so forth.
When legislation demands a $7/hr minimum, then my options are this:
$0, then $7/hr then $8/hr and so on.
The bottom option of zero dollars never disappears, it just gets more common when min wage laws are enacted.
I've met people 20 years ago who moved away from Vancouver in 1980 because they were scared of the big earthquake that will come ANY DAY NOW!
There is probably more chance to get hit by a drunk driver when you are walking down the road where they moved to.
--jeffk++
The alternative is identical. They have drunk drivers in Vancouver, too. AND EARTHQUAKES. Trade things equally if you are attempting logic.
For all the slashdotters dreaming of cougar hookups, remembers, they are cougars. They are not desperate.
Contractors writing code for Federal Agencies is a costly problem.
Hiring government coders to work directly for Agencies that are trying to meet their missions is the correct solution--turn coders into subject matter specialists
Putting all coders into one central agency may make the sw more secure but it certainly won't make the coders more responsive to the individual Agencies and Programs.
PixelJunk sells its downloadable games for $10 on the PS3.
It seems to be a strategy that works.
I get 6 of their games for the price of one new EA game.
If I wait, then the price of a used disc drops to $30 or $40 but it seems as if the big game companies want to close that market off, too. They cut their own throat.
For simulation training in real-life, the military uses airsoft guns (soft BBs) so they soldiers actually shoot weapons at people instead of pretend shoot. It increases their reaction time in real life. They train in cityscapes to get used to not shooting civilians, too.
"Fake" training on 'gaming' simulators is probably just as good, a lot better than using real guns you can point but not fire.
Aristotle thought books--reading--would be the end of civilization. All civilized folks (like himself) memorized long poems instead.
Same old same old. Just recently, folks said the web was going to be the end of reading and writing even tho the 'billions of web pages" were all written by people and read by others. They don't spend any time thinking, they just likie to complain, kind of like a Tea Partier drinking the Mad Hatter's koolaid.
I read a lot of comments here and elsewhere trying to inject reason into this debate.
Silly kids, reason is for geeks and scientists and thinkers.
Reason is NOT how we choose public policy. In monarchies and dictatorships, one person gets to choose the policy. In democracies, we choose policy the same way we choose Top 40 music hits--by popularity.
This rant has nothing to do with global warming or climate change or science and everything to do with how humanity operates itself.
If Diebold makes them, what are the odds that they use the same sort of security on their much vaunted but completely unexamined vote-tallying machines?
Rome collapsed due to weather. Its collapse started around 100CE which is when the cold spell started. Europe recoved and repopulated itself when the weather warmed up about 700CE.
The Anasazi civilization in the US collapsed during a drought around 1200 CE. They of course had chiefs (kings) and tribes (nations) and fought wars amongst themselves like Europeans but because we have names and dates for Europe, we think the king is who caused the war and ignore the weather that caused a climate of migration and warfare across the whole continent.
The Maya civilization collapsed due to weather. Either 1) they had bad weather (drought empties water pipes) or 2) some other group 2a) had bad weather and migrated into the territory or 2b) good weather which increased their population and they migrated into the area.
It only takes one hand to vote. He was probably still able to do his job.