Brad Miller is a Democratic congressman, not a Republican as the article indicated. Instead read this as "Democratic Rep. Brad Miller, NC-13."
I'm just going to assume that the author of this article made a small typo instead of questioning whether they have the first clue about congress (the committee chair is a member of the majority party, currently the Democrats). But this article seems pretty far out of the mainstream press if they haven't caught this one yet.
The article - and possibly many of the referenced scientists as well - fail to address that we inherit far more than genetics.
Palpable examples include parent's commitment and knowledge passed between generations.
A less "noble" but extremely well documented example is money ($$$). Your offspring's viability will be influenced not only by their genes but also by the economic circumstances they inherit. This is something that is particularly well documented; many women admit that wealth is a factor in judging a male's attractiveness and there is evidence that even those who deny such motivation are rarely truly immune to it.
(I realize the asymmetry in my use of male/female. I in no way am asserting that the converse is false so it would be best to simply consider my choice of labels to be arbitrary rather than arguing political correctness over this point.)
And let's face it, I know of very few people who don't intuitively want to pass on wealth to their descendants. It is easy to note the hypocrisy behind somebody who wants their child to inherit billions but complains incessantly about "government hand-outs to people too lazy to get a job." But it certainly wouldn't surprise me if a desire to pass on wealth is as strong a force as the desire to have sex or procreate. (Is it realistic to believe that a steep estate tax would ever be accepted by the public while simultaneously declaring abstinence-only programs to be ineffective in practice? - I hope not!)
Ashkenazi Jews being limited to money lending and tax farming would create a situation where higher intelligence is an asset and therefore a potential adaptation. Of course an adaptation like that might be insignificant compared to other potential adaptations, say the creation of monopolies and attempts to keeping wealth within families (De Beers, anybody?).
My point? Don't for a minute assume that "adaptation" need only occur via genetic changes. I have no idea if their modeling takes this into account - if such a feat is even possible - but it seems to me that there are many non-genetic inheritable variables that are difficult to measure.
Every mutation need not be random or equally common. We've discovered that some genes produce multiple proteins while others consistently mutate between generations via a set of strange rules (this is a major factor in understanding telomeres). It is a fact that some genes cannot be mutated without causing fatalities - evidenced in part by the presence of said genes in nearly all organisms - so why wouldn't life (single-cell or larger) evolve safeguards for these, such as locating them on the part of a chromosome less prone to mutation?
There was an article some time ago on slashdot science noting that extreme temperatures can influence the rate of mutations in certain single-celled lifeforms. The ability to change the rate and target of mutations in response to changes in environment is an extremely useful adaptation, particularly for asexual creatures that might often be exposed to circumstances too difficult for their progeny to survive without some genomic change.
The adaptation of being able to trade genes - sexual reproduction - seems far less trivial than the adaptation of keeping some genes off limits while letting others mutate with a high degree of frequency. Life doesn't "choose to evolve" per se, but having a non-uniform degree of mutation across the entire genome is by itself an extremely functional adaptation .
My point? Each gene might have a different propensity for mutation and different mechanisms for propagating within a population.
And that could make it much harder to determine noise and margins of error (among other statistical issues).
Taking out power grids doesn't inflict damage? With more and more technology being "wired", something like this could do major damage, whether it is in the form of vital power failure or damaging susceptable and vital technology.
Mood disorders, such as bipolar 'disorder' and ADHD tend to dampen as people age. During my pre-teen years, I used to be the most wild person anyone knew. Come my teens, I simply outgrew it, had it almost overnight dry up. Still get hyper occasionally (something rather enjoyable, quite honestly), but it is relatively absent. This may happen at a later time for you, but expect it to happen over time.
Our school has an edition that any student can install for free. XP Pro, at no cost to us. I think it only cost the school some 10K. A lot for a school of our size, but for the larger universities? Then again, one of our professors sold his soul to microsoft in order to get good deals.
As sellers become employees of ebay, it means they lose some of their fluidity to take their business elsewhere. E-bay will now have the ability to strongly encourage "merchents" (ie employees) to support changes in policy, etc. Will E-bay be quite as open a marketplace in the near future?
This is precisely why they have been anti-emulation for so long. Now they stand to gain a profit by reselling these games to old fans desperate to play them.
However, I believe that the fact that these games have been carried over so long by emulators will make the GBA releases even more popular.
So, how does one port ones saved games over to the GBA? And will save states be available?
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At first they will likely assume that bandwidth will limit this sort of thing. However, the relationships between the music and movie industry will ensure that many of the coorperations will act quicker than you think. Yes, the genie caught the music industry unaware, but it was a new genie back then.
The shock wave will travel at the speed of sound, meaning that the monkey will not drop at the same time the bullet starts. The bullet will already have a faster downward velocity when the monkey drops down.
I am unsure that this cut is as universal as people think. First of all, the assertion has been made that it will drive all IT professionals away. In reality, it will only impact those who make over 60K. Some of these may be experienced and valuable, but I'm guessing that the company considers them older, overpaid, and to a certain extent obsolete. Why pay for those experienced in outdated systems? Yes, I know that there may be a few, or perhaps many, who are well worth their pay, but this may not be the company's perception. There are still a lot of IT professionals who are fresh out of college, proficient with recent technologies, and cheap.
Someone mentioned the state of their webpage and its incompatibility with other browsers. Yeah, it has its problems. Perhaps this company really does have a sick IT force and is looking to purge it.
Also consider that this may a bluff for those who are not expendable. Cases likely will be dealt with on an individual level, with those who are worth 60K+ and threaten to quit being offered the chance to stay with the same or higher income. Perhaps the company is trying to appear universal and fair in their cuts while at the same time getting a census of loyalty and removing extraneous employees.
Its not nice, but obviously the company thinks the benefits outweigh the costs, definitely in the short run and perhaps in the long run as well. Certainly you have worked with other IT professionals who you consider expendable, and management sees it the same way: Bad employees are expendable, and sometimes trimming the dead branches means injuring some of the living. As has been said, it wont be much a blow to the truly talented employees, as they can go and get new jobs.
The market is never nice, but the nice thing about it is that when someone shoots themselves in the foot, they generally feel the pain.
Just because it never happens to you does not mean it does not happen at all. I personaly think that there is a lot of exageration here concerning the flaws of Windows, but that does not change the fact that I get the Blue Screen of Death THREE times every time I boot up, and that my computer freezes up a few times a month.
Because there are no federally imposed sales taxes. That means that a place without sales tax would more or less be exempt from funding NASA. Also, I dont believe that the Federal Government can legally take money from a states tax. Yes, than can impose additional taxes, but this is not the same.
There is no one who utilizes all functions of the government. That's the idea. We all pay for everything, and then use these things disproportionately. If we broke the system down into things along the lines of "pay for what you use," we would have an administrative nightmare.
There is also a great deal of overlap within government projects. For example, much NASA research would be applied to a missile shield, but many science aficionados are strictly against such a project. If you operate under the idea that we should pay only for what we support, then I most certainly will not pay for a shield, which thus means not paying for NASA in the first place.
Mails main role is gradualy shifting towards e-mail being the primary medium of text, but with the movement of goods still a function of the post office. It's much easier to ship a bomb or a plague in a box, which in all likelihood is probably how this was spread.
As one who has had to piece through archives before, I find that the more information available, the more difficult it is to find something. What I am really curious about is how they will set up their search engine.
I have never been a fan of the fast food industry. But having tasted Jordinian pizza just a few weeks ago, my views of Pizza Hut were greatly altered. According to the Lonely Planet Guide to Jordan, Pizza Hut offered one of the best Pizzas in all of Petra, which is a strong testiment to the Jordinian exposure to Italian/New York style pizzas. Anyways, the storal of my moray (Capitol Steps) is that Pizza Hut could do some good by sending a message from the heavens down unto Pizzaless third world countries. Sad, but true.
It 'works like 5,000 humans sitting in a room doing Web searches'
My, this strikes me as something akin to the quote Given infinite time, a thousand monkeys could write the entire works of Shakespeare" Would it be forward of me to compare NetPD to a bunch of Monkeys? I personaly doubt it. After all, they certainly have the ego and logic of undeveloped primates. Perhaps they can evolve past their heirarchical system and develop resonable morals. ~Questioning "We are all Monkeys, although some of us are more so than others"
The real question remains, who has the right to control what? Lets say I buy a server in Africa, which to my knowledge does not have many internet policies. If I regester a domain name in the UK, which would not be that dificult, who would have the say as to whether or not my websites were accepable? The laws in Africa are still rather unstable these days (at least in a few places), which means that I could easily bribe my way out of any sort of trouble. But the UK might choose to view my webpage as illegal. So would they demand the domain be cut, demand that it not be accessable to UK viewers, or simply let it slip since the server is out of country? This also would effect many of China's laws, including the one that treats sites that link to illegal sites to be considered "accessories". Any ideas? ~Questioning __________________________________________________ Question the Paradox.
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"said Rep. Brad Miller, R-N.C."
Brad Miller is a Democratic congressman, not a Republican as the article indicated. Instead read this as "Democratic Rep. Brad Miller, NC-13."
I'm just going to assume that the author of this article made a small typo instead of questioning whether they have the first clue about congress (the committee chair is a member of the majority party, currently the Democrats). But this article seems pretty far out of the mainstream press if they haven't caught this one yet.
The article - and possibly many of the referenced scientists as well - fail to address that we inherit far more than genetics.
Palpable examples include parent's commitment and knowledge passed between generations.
A less "noble" but extremely well documented example is money ($$$). Your offspring's viability will be influenced not only by their genes but also by the economic circumstances they inherit. This is something that is particularly well documented; many women admit that wealth is a factor in judging a male's attractiveness and there is evidence that even those who deny such motivation are rarely truly immune to it.
(I realize the asymmetry in my use of male/female. I in no way am asserting that the converse is false so it would be best to simply consider my choice of labels to be arbitrary rather than arguing political correctness over this point.)
And let's face it, I know of very few people who don't intuitively want to pass on wealth to their descendants. It is easy to note the hypocrisy behind somebody who wants their child to inherit billions but complains incessantly about "government hand-outs to people too lazy to get a job." But it certainly wouldn't surprise me if a desire to pass on wealth is as strong a force as the desire to have sex or procreate. (Is it realistic to believe that a steep estate tax would ever be accepted by the public while simultaneously declaring abstinence-only programs to be ineffective in practice? - I hope not!)
Ashkenazi Jews being limited to money lending and tax farming would create a situation where higher intelligence is an asset and therefore a potential adaptation. Of course an adaptation like that might be insignificant compared to other potential adaptations, say the creation of monopolies and attempts to keeping wealth within families (De Beers, anybody?).
My point? Don't for a minute assume that "adaptation" need only occur via genetic changes. I have no idea if their modeling takes this into account - if such a feat is even possible - but it seems to me that there are many non-genetic inheritable variables that are difficult to measure.
Every mutation need not be random or equally common. We've discovered that some genes produce multiple proteins while others consistently mutate between generations via a set of strange rules (this is a major factor in understanding telomeres). It is a fact that some genes cannot be mutated without causing fatalities - evidenced in part by the presence of said genes in nearly all organisms - so why wouldn't life (single-cell or larger) evolve safeguards for these, such as locating them on the part of a chromosome less prone to mutation?
There was an article some time ago on slashdot science noting that extreme temperatures can influence the rate of mutations in certain single-celled lifeforms. The ability to change the rate and target of mutations in response to changes in environment is an extremely useful adaptation, particularly for asexual creatures that might often be exposed to circumstances too difficult for their progeny to survive without some genomic change.
The adaptation of being able to trade genes - sexual reproduction - seems far less trivial than the adaptation of keeping some genes off limits while letting others mutate with a high degree of frequency. Life doesn't "choose to evolve" per se, but having a non-uniform degree of mutation across the entire genome is by itself an extremely functional adaptation .
My point? Each gene might have a different propensity for mutation and different mechanisms for propagating within a population.
And that could make it much harder to determine noise and margins of error (among other statistical issues).
All Nations?
Last I recall, China was trying this shit.
Taking out power grids doesn't inflict damage? With more and more technology being "wired", something like this could do major damage, whether it is in the form of vital power failure or damaging susceptable and vital technology.
Mood disorders, such as bipolar 'disorder' and ADHD tend to dampen as people age. During my pre-teen years, I used to be the most wild person anyone knew. Come my teens, I simply outgrew it, had it almost overnight dry up. Still get hyper occasionally (something rather enjoyable, quite honestly), but it is relatively absent. This may happen at a later time for you, but expect it to happen over time.
Hey, guess they will decisively know something within the next ten billion years.
~Questioning
Our school has an edition that any student can install for free. XP Pro, at no cost to us. I think it only cost the school some 10K. A lot for a school of our size, but for the larger universities? Then again, one of our professors sold his soul to microsoft in order to get good deals.
Still, it is good to see a testiment to the strength of relationships that can form on the internet.
Palladium! "We regret to inform you that AIM is no longer in your interests. You will use MSN Messaging. Have a Nice Day"
"'The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws'-Tacitus"
FYI, logic dictates that a state can still have numerous laws and not be corrupt.
As sellers become employees of ebay, it means they lose some of their fluidity to take their business elsewhere. E-bay will now have the ability to strongly encourage "merchents" (ie employees) to support changes in policy, etc. Will E-bay be quite as open a marketplace in the near future?
This is precisely why they have been anti-emulation for so long. Now they stand to gain a profit by reselling these games to old fans desperate to play them.
However, I believe that the fact that these games have been carried over so long by emulators will make the GBA releases even more popular.
So, how does one port ones saved games over to the GBA? And will save states be available?
At first they will likely assume that bandwidth will limit this sort of thing. However, the relationships between the music and movie industry will ensure that many of the coorperations will act quicker than you think. Yes, the genie caught the music industry unaware, but it was a new genie back then.
The shock wave will travel at the speed of sound, meaning that the monkey will not drop at the same time the bullet starts. The bullet will already have a faster downward velocity when the monkey drops down.
I am unsure that this cut is as universal as people think. First of all, the assertion has been made that it will drive all IT professionals away. In reality, it will only impact those who make over 60K. Some of these may be experienced and valuable, but I'm guessing that the company considers them older, overpaid, and to a certain extent obsolete. Why pay for those experienced in outdated systems? Yes, I know that there may be a few, or perhaps many, who are well worth their pay, but this may not be the company's perception. There are still a lot of IT professionals who are fresh out of college, proficient with recent technologies, and cheap.
Someone mentioned the state of their webpage and its incompatibility with other browsers. Yeah, it has its problems. Perhaps this company really does have a sick IT force and is looking to purge it.
Also consider that this may a bluff for those who are not expendable. Cases likely will be dealt with on an individual level, with those who are worth 60K+ and threaten to quit being offered the chance to stay with the same or higher income. Perhaps the company is trying to appear universal and fair in their cuts while at the same time getting a census of loyalty and removing extraneous employees.
Its not nice, but obviously the company thinks the benefits outweigh the costs, definitely in the short run and perhaps in the long run as well. Certainly you have worked with other IT professionals who you consider expendable, and management sees it the same way: Bad employees are expendable, and sometimes trimming the dead branches means injuring some of the living. As has been said, it wont be much a blow to the truly talented employees, as they can go and get new jobs.
The market is never nice, but the nice thing about it is that when someone shoots themselves in the foot, they generally feel the pain.
~Kumomancer
Just because it never happens to you does not mean it does not happen at all. I personaly think that there is a lot of exageration here concerning the flaws of Windows, but that does not change the fact that I get the Blue Screen of Death THREE times every time I boot up, and that my computer freezes up a few times a month.
~Kumomancer
Because there are no federally imposed sales taxes. That means that a place without sales tax would more or less be exempt from funding NASA. Also, I dont believe that the Federal Government can legally take money from a states tax. Yes, than can impose additional taxes, but this is not the same.
~Kumomancer
There is no one who utilizes all functions of the government. That's the idea. We all pay for everything, and then use these things disproportionately. If we broke the system down into things along the lines of "pay for what you use," we would have an administrative nightmare.
There is also a great deal of overlap within government projects. For example, much NASA research would be applied to a missile shield, but many science aficionados are strictly against such a project. If you operate under the idea that we should pay only for what we support, then I most certainly will not pay for a shield, which thus means not paying for NASA in the first place.
~Kumomancer
Mails main role is gradualy shifting towards e-mail being the primary medium of text, but with the movement of goods still a function of the post office. It's much easier to ship a bomb or a plague in a box, which in all likelihood is probably how this was spread.
As one who has had to piece through archives before, I find that the more information available, the more difficult it is to find something. What I am really curious about is how they will set up their search engine.
I have never been a fan of the fast food industry. But having tasted Jordinian pizza just a few weeks ago, my views of Pizza Hut were greatly altered. According to the Lonely Planet Guide to Jordan, Pizza Hut offered one of the best Pizzas in all of Petra, which is a strong testiment to the Jordinian exposure to Italian/New York style pizzas. Anyways, the storal of my moray (Capitol Steps) is that Pizza Hut could do some good by sending a message from the heavens down unto Pizzaless third world countries. Sad, but true.
~Questioning
"Is this stuff CHEESE?!"
Actually, an article appeared on this topic a long time ago. Talk about a rip off...
My, this strikes me as something akin to the quote Given infinite time, a thousand monkeys could write the entire works of Shakespeare" Would it be forward of me to compare NetPD to a bunch of Monkeys? I personaly doubt it. After all, they certainly have the ego and logic of undeveloped primates. Perhaps they can evolve past their heirarchical system and develop resonable morals. ~Questioning "We are all Monkeys, although some of us are more so than others"
The real question remains, who has the right to control what? Lets say I buy a server in Africa, which to my knowledge does not have many internet policies. If I regester a domain name in the UK, which would not be that dificult, who would have the say as to whether or not my websites were accepable? The laws in Africa are still rather unstable these days (at least in a few places), which means that I could easily bribe my way out of any sort of trouble. But the UK might choose to view my webpage as illegal. So would they demand the domain be cut, demand that it not be accessable to UK viewers, or simply let it slip since the server is out of country? This also would effect many of China's laws, including the one that treats sites that link to illegal sites to be considered "accessories". Any ideas? ~Questioning __________________________________________________ Question the Paradox.