We can change this law if we can convince legislators of a better alternative. That alternative will gain even more traction if it has the backing of a multitude of citizens.
The problem: 19 men with stolen ID and box-cutters successfully killed 3000 people and cost our economy over $1B.
The current solution:
- open judicial loopholes previously available exclusively to the ATF to the FBI investigating terrorists.
- reduce the ability of foreign nationals to enter the country with fraudulent ID.
I hear a lot of complaining, but not a lot of solutioning.
An interesting test -- which I don't think we can perform -- would be to somehow repeat this test for multiple recent politically polarizing political figures, using variants of the their name. I suspect the results will be the same for candidates with similar party popularity ratings. For example, I suspect Mr. Clinton might not suffer from this skew, but Al Gore would.
Possible Searches
Former President Clinton as:
Clinton
Mr. Clinton
Bill Clinton
President Clinton
Bubba
Senator Hillary Clinton
Senator Clinton
The First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Former Vice President Al Gore:
Vice President Al Gore
Mr. Gore
Gore
Algore
President George W. Bush:
President George W. Bush
President Bush
Mr. Bush
Bush
Dubya
The debate would be which name is most biased. Some are obvious, others aren't so clear.
While in high-school, I worked for an Edwards Super-Food store (which became Finast, which is now a Shaws.) Every few weeks HQ would send a long-play continuous-loop tape of easy-listening current pop, mixed with our current commericals.
Microwaves are used medically for simultaneous cautery and coagulation during surgery. (See http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/171/ 2/449, or google "microwave coagulation")
Medical microwave scalpels have 50-100W of output power, and are directed at specific tissues. Your 1200W GE Profile version is a bit "hotter" and a lot more random.
And random coagulation is bad (google thrombosis).
Wrong. Jewish law and the teachings of Christ, which are strong rules to many, both consider marriage to be unifying (see Matthew 19:3-12 3, search for Old Testament references.)
There's also valor in staying engaged - but it's better to get married if you can't stay chaste.
For those of us who are Christian, you made a oath in front of God that you loved each other. But that part doesn't matter much these days...
Just as cookies have useful applications, so will location-based messaging. Location-based traffic reports immediately come to mind.
I'd love to get an SMS when I-684/I-95 are jammed, and I'd love it even more if the service was free, paid for by an ad for the local Dunkin Donuts.:-)
I know when we're desinging apps from scratch we can take time to follow a methodology and test appropriately, but not everyone does, and if you've ever inherited a large codebase that you *MUST* fix and was neither well designed, tested, or even documented, some tools would be invaluable:
- Memory leak detection. After 100K hits, Java and FastCGI's can both be a victim of this, and few tools detect it well. (And it's not as hard to write as you think!)
- Flow navigation. Having once inherited 200K lines of broken, undocumented servlet spaghetti, I needed tools which would not only breakpoint, but graphically illustrate surrounding logic, active threads and active heap. There are static tools which do this, but none integrate directly into debuggers.
- Model integration. If the app is small enough that you can add couts/printfs/printlns, this is overkill. If the app is 500K lines and has ~1000 classes, its very handy to see the design pattern of the classes containing the bug.
- JVM/WAS/Apache/IIS integration, so modules may be monitored in-situ.
I believe you're missing the problem many of us see with Kyoto: it's not proven to do anything at all except cost money. We simply don't have the models yet to irrefutably determine this.
Will we? Certainly. I give us 10-20 years.
Would you spend $10K extra on a hyper-efficient car, if you didn't know if it would do anything at all? I make a modest income, and I wouldn't.
What about forcing 250 million other people to do so?
It's always easier when it's someone else's money.
Furthermore, Money Talks (especially for this guy.) We're all well paid I/T experts. Tell him you, and each member of your development team, are each sending $500 campaign contributions to his opponent.
That'll get this attention. And if you're really serious about the way you feel, DO IT.
This country wasn't built by people sitting on their ass.
So, as an astronomer, do you prefer Matlab, or Mathematica for your calculations.... or do you write them yourself? (Begging the question: Perl or Python...)
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We can change this law if we can convince legislators of a better alternative. That alternative will gain even more traction if it has the backing of a multitude of citizens.
The problem: 19 men with stolen ID and box-cutters successfully killed 3000 people and cost our economy over $1B.
The current solution:
- open judicial loopholes previously available exclusively to the ATF to the FBI investigating terrorists.
- reduce the ability of foreign nationals to enter the country with fraudulent ID.
I hear a lot of complaining, but not a lot of solutioning.
An interesting test -- which I don't think we can perform -- would be to somehow repeat this test for multiple recent politically polarizing political figures, using variants of the their name. I suspect the results will be the same for candidates with similar party popularity ratings. For example, I suspect Mr. Clinton might not suffer from this skew, but Al Gore would.
Possible Searches
Former President Clinton as:
Clinton
Mr. Clinton
Bill Clinton
President Clinton
Bubba
Senator Hillary Clinton
Senator Clinton
The First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Former Vice President Al Gore:
Vice President Al Gore
Mr. Gore
Gore
Algore
President George W. Bush:
President George W. Bush
President Bush
Mr. Bush
Bush
Dubya
The debate would be which name is most biased. Some are obvious, others aren't so clear.
...will only get you onto the raised floor naked once. Save it for the last day.
While in high-school, I worked for an Edwards Super-Food store (which became Finast, which is now a Shaws.) Every few weeks HQ would send a long-play continuous-loop tape of easy-listening current pop, mixed with our current commericals.
INCORRECT -- heating is far from the worst.
/ 2/449, or google "microwave coagulation")
Microwaves are used medically for simultaneous cautery and coagulation during surgery.
(See http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/171
Medical microwave scalpels have 50-100W of output power, and are directed at specific tissues. Your 1200W GE Profile version is a bit "hotter" and a lot more random.
And random coagulation is bad (google thrombosis).
Wrong. Jewish law and the teachings of Christ, which are strong rules to many, both consider marriage to be unifying (see Matthew 19:3-12 3, search for Old Testament references.)
There's also valor in staying engaged - but it's better to get married if you can't stay chaste.
For those of us who are Christian, you made a oath in front of God that you loved each other. But that part doesn't matter much these days...
Just as cookies have useful applications, so will location-based messaging. Location-based traffic reports immediately come to mind.
:-)
I'd love to get an SMS when I-684/I-95 are jammed, and I'd love it even more if the service was free, paid for by an ad for the local Dunkin Donuts.
Job security by proximity doesn't quite hold up, because companies can hire foreign employees and then move them to the US for 6-12 months.
My office has many Indian subcons who sit in the US for extended periods (>12 months) but are paid foreign wages.
And yes, they interact with my customers just like I do.
I see the writing on the wall.
Let me be certain I see this clearly: Post the leftist view and +5 your karma. Post something conservative, and get modded down.
Yup, perfectly clear.
I know when we're desinging apps from scratch we can take time to follow a methodology and test appropriately, but not everyone does, and if you've ever inherited a large codebase that you *MUST* fix and was neither well designed, tested, or even documented, some tools would be invaluable:
- Memory leak detection. After 100K hits, Java and FastCGI's can both be a victim of this, and few tools detect it well. (And it's not as hard to write as you think!)
- Flow navigation. Having once inherited 200K lines of broken, undocumented servlet spaghetti, I needed tools which would not only breakpoint, but graphically illustrate surrounding logic, active threads and active heap.
There are static tools which do this, but none integrate directly into debuggers.
- Model integration. If the app is small enough that you can add couts/printfs/printlns, this is overkill. If the app is 500K lines and has ~1000 classes, its very handy to see the design pattern of the classes containing the bug.
- JVM/WAS/Apache/IIS integration, so modules may be monitored in-situ.
Despite the plots - we don't know for certain by spending trillions now, we'll have even alter things 1 degree next year.
You'll have to prove that the CO2 "poison" is the problem first. Which is the whole problem with Kyoto....
I believe you're missing the problem many of us see with Kyoto: it's not proven to do anything at all except cost money. We simply don't have the models yet to irrefutably determine this.
Will we? Certainly. I give us 10-20 years.
Would you spend $10K extra on a hyper-efficient car, if you didn't know if it would do anything at all? I make a modest income, and I wouldn't.
What about forcing 250 million other people to do so?
It's always easier when it's someone else's money.
Frontpage generates IE-centric spaghetti anyways...
So Use Dreamweaver!
Furthermore, Money Talks (especially for this guy.) We're all well paid I/T experts. Tell him you, and each member of your development team, are each sending $500 campaign contributions to his opponent. That'll get this attention. And if you're really serious about the way you feel, DO IT. This country wasn't built by people sitting on their ass.
Really? I'm going to call my Congressman next time a Physics teacher talks about gravitons, or the Higgs boson, or the "Big Bang."
It's a good thing there's scientific evidence about anal sex -- I'd have to call about that too!
So, as an astronomer, do you prefer Matlab, or Mathematica for your calculations.... or do you write them yourself? (Begging the question: Perl or Python...)