You said something somebody didn't have couldn't be taken away, no antecedent explicitly stated. In the context of natural rights, that's debatable, in the context of legal rihgts, it's a mistake or a lie.
Indeed. A specific instance of that general case would be saying that someone born in slavery to slave parents can't have their freedom taken away because they were never free to begin with. Most citizens of developed nations would vehemently disagree with that latter statement, which means that they disagree with the general form as well.
The problem is that these days, too many of the people in charge don't care about the long haul as long as they keep the company afloat long enough to cash out on bonus incentives.
The average life span in the US is likely to actually start dropping soon because obesity has been steadily increasing and there are many obesity-related or obesity-aggravated diseases (heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) that will work to kill off people early. Life expectancy is climbing partly based on health improvements due to lower smoking rates. Fewer unwanted babies due to legalization of abortion is probably also a factor (they would be more likely to be poorly cared for, often leading to earlier deaths that significantly affect the statistics). However, at some point in the not too distant future, those improvements are going to plateau and the effects of obesity are going to take over.
Diabetes is going to become very expensive for all those private insurers. First they'll try to dodge the costs but eventually they're going to be forced to pick up the tab and employers and employees won't be able to pay when they try to pass the costs on. At that point, faced with a shrinking market and losses (and probably a renewed push for public healthcare) it's going to be their lobbyists against the corn/agribusiness lobbies fighting it out in congress to get healthier prepared foods available for consumers (less high fructose corn syrup for starters). If they were smart, the health insurers would see the writing on the wall and start pushing for that hard now, however odds are they won't actually want to start spending money on this issue until it starts seriously hitting them in the pocket book. It'll probably be too late for about 2 generations of US citizens by the time the insurers start wising up. As for US congressmen doing the right thing by themselves, dead men don't vote or make political contributions. Certainly don't go holding your breath for the Republicans in the cornbelt to do anything.
Eh, I won't hold people responsible for the acts of their relatives. I don't think Billy Carter's ethics and behaviour were an indication of Jimmy Carter's, and there's many more examples like that in history. Segolene made plenty enough gaffes by herself to disqualify herself in my eyes. I don't just mean allegations in the Sarkozy-friendly press, I mean massive blunders on the campaign trail for the job of President, in front of television cameras.
I thought Sarkozy looked like a G. W. Buisson because of his media ties, but I was hoping he would do less damage than Royal would. Overall I still think that's true. Royal would have made France a global laughingstock within the first year if she'd continued at the same hopping pace (one foot in mouth, remember) she had during the campaign.
I would have much preferred de Villepin and still hope that may be an option in for the next presidential election. I'd even be satisfied if the socialists could come up with a competent candidate.
Look, for relatively centrist parties, we had a choice between Sarkozy and Segolene Royal. Segolene spent a good portion of the campaign repeatedly putting her foot in her mouth and showing complete lack of preparedness for the job. I didn't like Sarkozy but he looked like the marginally better choice. Think of it as having to choose between Richard Nixon and James Buchanan.
Repeatedly. French people can be somewhat parochial, and some have racist tendencies. So it's not that different from the US except that the French attitude towards sex vs. violence in media is healthier.
They might respond skillfully, but not as skillfully as the guy who's BS'ing the essay. In other words, the applicant who responds more skillfully may actually be the person who won't succeed as a student...
Except for the technical tests, also submitted during the application, that actually measure technical aptitude and which others with your attitude are claiming should be sole arbiter? The guy who is BSing seems to be more creative, and therefore might actually be more successful as a researcher. However if you admit him, you'll also have to be more vigilant that he isn't getting his papers and test answers from the Internet.
MIT wants to be recognized as one of the top schools in the nation. They don't want their graduates only to be calculating the force on a bearing or the radiation dose from an irradiated zinc sample. They want their graduates to be teaching others how to do those things, researching new ways of doing those kinds of things, and eventually writing grant proposals for new research. At least two of those require good communications skills in addition to strong mathematical ability. A 500 word essay is not a bad way of filtering out those who don't have both abilities.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the current US climate towards immigration and foreigner visitors is resulting in a change in the pool of English-speaking foreign applicants. It could be that MIT just can't be as picky as they used to be. If so, that should be a major warning flag to anybody paying attention because it's more likely that that talent is going elsewhere rather than that the world as a whole suddenly got dumber.
Homonym confusion is a common sign of dyslexia. Of course sometimes people are just sloppy, but if that's the only mistake someone makes in composition (or the other mistakes are also consistent with dyslexia), there's a good chance that's the problem. It can be treated, but most people don't realize that it's a neurological condition and have your type of response instead of recommending treatment.
Yep, could be that too. I don't seem to get it from deli ham or turkey slices. I would think there would be nitrates in that as well as a result of the curing process, though not as much and there is the post from someone lower down on how added fats can increase the problem.
It could very well be things in your diet. For instance I find that I break out if I eat salami and some other deli meats; I'm guessing that it might be the nitrates. For some others, it can be milk products. The best way to find out is to go on a hypo-allergenic diet, and slowly re-introduce your regular foods. Re-introduce one major item group per week since there can be more of a delay for acne breakout than for regular allergies.
Or is it ATI and nVidia still going with binary-only drivers [t]hat hurts Linux on the desktop?
Yes, let's see if we can blame it on someone else rather than try to fix it.
Someone is fixing it. For ATI hardware anyways, since they're the ones who have published hardware specs without NDA. Maybe if this works out NVidia will be convinced to follow suit. I'll probably try switching back to the OSS drivers soon since the fglrx drivers don't seem to play nice with KVM server kernels on my Ubuntu-based setup. I'm not getting a lot of benefit out of the fglrx drivers right now anyways - the 16bit display emulation overlay necessary for their 32-bit only drivers keeps crashing when I try it - so pretty soon I'll have more of the functionality I want from the OSS radeon drivers than from fglrx. It's why I bought an ATI card nearly 2 years ago, so I'm glad to see it's finally paying off, for me and for them.
Hopefully this will be successful enough to also convince them to release the still outstanding specs for the video-acceleration pipeline portion of their GPUs.
If you sell "screwdrivers" and design the handle so that they're efficient for use as hammers because that's how most of the customers use them, you're going to wind up making and selling crappy screwdrivers. They also still probably won't be great for use as hammers, either.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to take the high end part of your market by selling proper screwdrivers and hammers, no matter how well established your brand is.
The second funny thing is that the majority of Excel users are not advanced or even intermediate, but rather Customer Service Reps and the like who use it almost solely for keeping lists and such.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft based a UI on the "needs" of people who don't even realize they're using the wrong tool for the job? That's only funny if you're a sadist.
I think that people who remembered their high school science classes on anthropology assumed he was comparing the focus group to neanderthals or "lesser" primates.
Depends. It could be some of the applications running on those databases are unmaintainable custom jobs that break with SQL Server 2005 and 2008, even when using compatibility mode. It could be that the admin has asked for those applications to be updated/rewritten for the last 4 years but it was such a botch job when they were first acquired (outsourcing maybe?) that management doesn't want to admit that or risk repeating the experience and have been stalling that upgrade. I mean, if they were running COTS apps, why haven't those been upgraded to newer versions that requires at least SQL Server 2005? It could be that an outsource account manager recommended the upgrade because they figure that they'll get a lot of high margin work on urgent bug fixes when the applications starts breaking down after the SQL Server upgrade.
It is possible the admin just doesn't want to bother upgrading his certifications; there was a lot of new stuff to learn for SQL Server 2005 and 2008. It's also possible they've got an idea of how huge the migration job is, they're two years away from retirement (or from the economy recovering enough to find a different job), and just don't want to wind up doing a lot of overtime that they know will be required due to unrealistic estimates and demands by management.
Alternatively, the admin may not know what they are doing. However there's a lot of possible reasons for wanting to keep databases on SQL Server 2000, even with only SP3. That said, I hope that server is nicely firewalled away from everything except the app servers and the admin's machine.
It used to be that the more you used of something the cheaper it got, but now for many commodities is just the other way around.
It used to be that the overhead of keeping stock and labour to handle those transactions (like purchase order processing) was a significant portion of the manufacturer/distributor/retailer cost. So by dealing in larger volumes, that portion of the variable costs would be decreased and volume purchases reflected that. However with computerized banking transactions, Just In Time stocking, and flatter distribution chains, businesses have decreased those variable costs substantially and don't gain as much from large purchases.
That said, those issues are generally not as much of a problem for government. First the gradation tax complexities are mostly externalized and don't affect them directly, although they do have economic consequences. Second they apply across the board and therefore don't provide a competitive disadvantage between companies, although they may wind up causing a long term competitive disadvantage with other countries. Taxes on citizens, as opposed to corporations, don't have the same repercussions since citizens aren't as easily mobile between countries as corporations are. So the private citizens get the shaft when it comes to taxes.
However, what historically happened is that low energy costs were a commons that were exploited and which encouraged poor efficiencies. By increasing certain costs through taxation (and sometimes thereby better reflecting hidden costs), the end result is better efficiencies (from better ROI on efforts to avoid those costs) that benefit everyone. Because some people are driving their gas guzzlers less or swapping them in for smaller vehicles as a result of gas price increases, gas prices dropped as demand decreased. Of course a big part of that price drop was that banks and other speculators didn't have the money to drive up the price of crude too and a herd mentality as all the speculators got out of that market - the recession and drop in consumption couldn't explain that big a drop or the price bounce back long before signs of economic recovery, but out of control speculation does. But while I would most prefer to see better regulation of commodities markets to decrease speculation and avoid artificial inflation of prices rather a repeat of what happened in the last few years, I also would prefer (slightly less) to see the monetary surplus in transactions go to a government program that provides benefits to the country rather than go into some speculator or manipulator's pocket.
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You just confirmed GGP Electric Turtle`s post.
Indeed. A specific instance of that general case would be saying that someone born in slavery to slave parents can't have their freedom taken away because they were never free to begin with. Most citizens of developed nations would vehemently disagree with that latter statement, which means that they disagree with the general form as well.
The problem is that these days, too many of the people in charge don't care about the long haul as long as they keep the company afloat long enough to cash out on bonus incentives.
The average life span in the US is likely to actually start dropping soon because obesity has been steadily increasing and there are many obesity-related or obesity-aggravated diseases (heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) that will work to kill off people early. Life expectancy is climbing partly based on health improvements due to lower smoking rates. Fewer unwanted babies due to legalization of abortion is probably also a factor (they would be more likely to be poorly cared for, often leading to earlier deaths that significantly affect the statistics). However, at some point in the not too distant future, those improvements are going to plateau and the effects of obesity are going to take over.
Diabetes is going to become very expensive for all those private insurers. First they'll try to dodge the costs but eventually they're going to be forced to pick up the tab and employers and employees won't be able to pay when they try to pass the costs on. At that point, faced with a shrinking market and losses (and probably a renewed push for public healthcare) it's going to be their lobbyists against the corn/agribusiness lobbies fighting it out in congress to get healthier prepared foods available for consumers (less high fructose corn syrup for starters). If they were smart, the health insurers would see the writing on the wall and start pushing for that hard now, however odds are they won't actually want to start spending money on this issue until it starts seriously hitting them in the pocket book. It'll probably be too late for about 2 generations of US citizens by the time the insurers start wising up. As for US congressmen doing the right thing by themselves, dead men don't vote or make political contributions. Certainly don't go holding your breath for the Republicans in the cornbelt to do anything.
Newsweek also had an article last week on the higher level and political implications of the change in the US Air Force's mission.
You probably know varicella as chickenpox.
Or you could swap in a known-good PSU.
Eh, I won't hold people responsible for the acts of their relatives. I don't think Billy Carter's ethics and behaviour were an indication of Jimmy Carter's, and there's many more examples like that in history. Segolene made plenty enough gaffes by herself to disqualify herself in my eyes. I don't just mean allegations in the Sarkozy-friendly press, I mean massive blunders on the campaign trail for the job of President, in front of television cameras.
I thought Sarkozy looked like a G. W. Buisson because of his media ties, but I was hoping he would do less damage than Royal would. Overall I still think that's true. Royal would have made France a global laughingstock within the first year if she'd continued at the same hopping pace (one foot in mouth, remember) she had during the campaign.
I would have much preferred de Villepin and still hope that may be an option in for the next presidential election. I'd even be satisfied if the socialists could come up with a competent candidate.
Look, for relatively centrist parties, we had a choice between Sarkozy and Segolene Royal. Segolene spent a good portion of the campaign repeatedly putting her foot in her mouth and showing complete lack of preparedness for the job. I didn't like Sarkozy but he looked like the marginally better choice. Think of it as having to choose between Richard Nixon and James Buchanan.
Repeatedly. French people can be somewhat parochial, and some have racist tendencies. So it's not that different from the US except that the French attitude towards sex vs. violence in media is healthier.
Heh. I've know some engineering students for whom a 500-word essay is well-nigh impossible. How much more difficult do you want it to be?
They might respond skillfully, but not as skillfully as the guy who's BS'ing the essay. In other words, the applicant who responds more skillfully may actually be the person who won't succeed as a student...
Except for the technical tests, also submitted during the application, that actually measure technical aptitude and which others with your attitude are claiming should be sole arbiter? The guy who is BSing seems to be more creative, and therefore might actually be more successful as a researcher. However if you admit him, you'll also have to be more vigilant that he isn't getting his papers and test answers from the Internet.
MIT wants to be recognized as one of the top schools in the nation. They don't want their graduates only to be calculating the force on a bearing or the radiation dose from an irradiated zinc sample. They want their graduates to be teaching others how to do those things, researching new ways of doing those kinds of things, and eventually writing grant proposals for new research. At least two of those require good communications skills in addition to strong mathematical ability. A 500 word essay is not a bad way of filtering out those who don't have both abilities.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the current US climate towards immigration and foreigner visitors is resulting in a change in the pool of English-speaking foreign applicants. It could be that MIT just can't be as picky as they used to be. If so, that should be a major warning flag to anybody paying attention because it's more likely that that talent is going elsewhere rather than that the world as a whole suddenly got dumber.
Our Canadian Conservatives - trying to add blue to the red and white. I never thought I would look back on the Mulroney years as the good old days.
Homonym confusion is a common sign of dyslexia. Of course sometimes people are just sloppy, but if that's the only mistake someone makes in composition (or the other mistakes are also consistent with dyslexia), there's a good chance that's the problem. It can be treated, but most people don't realize that it's a neurological condition and have your type of response instead of recommending treatment.
Yep, could be that too. I don't seem to get it from deli ham or turkey slices. I would think there would be nitrates in that as well as a result of the curing process, though not as much and there is the post from someone lower down on how added fats can increase the problem.
It could very well be things in your diet. For instance I find that I break out if I eat salami and some other deli meats; I'm guessing that it might be the nitrates. For some others, it can be milk products. The best way to find out is to go on a hypo-allergenic diet, and slowly re-introduce your regular foods. Re-introduce one major item group per week since there can be more of a delay for acne breakout than for regular allergies.
Same thing with hockey, where size is also a big advantage.
Someone is fixing it. For ATI hardware anyways, since they're the ones who have published hardware specs without NDA. Maybe if this works out NVidia will be convinced to follow suit. I'll probably try switching back to the OSS drivers soon since the fglrx drivers don't seem to play nice with KVM server kernels on my Ubuntu-based setup. I'm not getting a lot of benefit out of the fglrx drivers right now anyways - the 16bit display emulation overlay necessary for their 32-bit only drivers keeps crashing when I try it - so pretty soon I'll have more of the functionality I want from the OSS radeon drivers than from fglrx. It's why I bought an ATI card nearly 2 years ago, so I'm glad to see it's finally paying off, for me and for them.
Hopefully this will be successful enough to also convince them to release the still outstanding specs for the video-acceleration pipeline portion of their GPUs.
Tomato, tomahto.
If you sell "screwdrivers" and design the handle so that they're efficient for use as hammers because that's how most of the customers use them, you're going to wind up making and selling crappy screwdrivers. They also still probably won't be great for use as hammers, either.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to take the high end part of your market by selling proper screwdrivers and hammers, no matter how well established your brand is.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft based a UI on the "needs" of people who don't even realize they're using the wrong tool for the job? That's only funny if you're a sadist.
I think that people who remembered their high school science classes on anthropology assumed he was comparing the focus group to neanderthals or "lesser" primates.
Ah, well then maybe the admin is concerned that the Database Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2005 would make his job redundant. :-)
Depends. It could be some of the applications running on those databases are unmaintainable custom jobs that break with SQL Server 2005 and 2008, even when using compatibility mode. It could be that the admin has asked for those applications to be updated/rewritten for the last 4 years but it was such a botch job when they were first acquired (outsourcing maybe?) that management doesn't want to admit that or risk repeating the experience and have been stalling that upgrade. I mean, if they were running COTS apps, why haven't those been upgraded to newer versions that requires at least SQL Server 2005? It could be that an outsource account manager recommended the upgrade because they figure that they'll get a lot of high margin work on urgent bug fixes when the applications starts breaking down after the SQL Server upgrade.
It is possible the admin just doesn't want to bother upgrading his certifications; there was a lot of new stuff to learn for SQL Server 2005 and 2008. It's also possible they've got an idea of how huge the migration job is, they're two years away from retirement (or from the economy recovering enough to find a different job), and just don't want to wind up doing a lot of overtime that they know will be required due to unrealistic estimates and demands by management.
Alternatively, the admin may not know what they are doing. However there's a lot of possible reasons for wanting to keep databases on SQL Server 2000, even with only SP3. That said, I hope that server is nicely firewalled away from everything except the app servers and the admin's machine.
It used to be that the overhead of keeping stock and labour to handle those transactions (like purchase order processing) was a significant portion of the manufacturer/distributor/retailer cost. So by dealing in larger volumes, that portion of the variable costs would be decreased and volume purchases reflected that. However with computerized banking transactions, Just In Time stocking, and flatter distribution chains, businesses have decreased those variable costs substantially and don't gain as much from large purchases.
That said, those issues are generally not as much of a problem for government. First the gradation tax complexities are mostly externalized and don't affect them directly, although they do have economic consequences. Second they apply across the board and therefore don't provide a competitive disadvantage between companies, although they may wind up causing a long term competitive disadvantage with other countries. Taxes on citizens, as opposed to corporations, don't have the same repercussions since citizens aren't as easily mobile between countries as corporations are. So the private citizens get the shaft when it comes to taxes.
However, what historically happened is that low energy costs were a commons that were exploited and which encouraged poor efficiencies. By increasing certain costs through taxation (and sometimes thereby better reflecting hidden costs), the end result is better efficiencies (from better ROI on efforts to avoid those costs) that benefit everyone. Because some people are driving their gas guzzlers less or swapping them in for smaller vehicles as a result of gas price increases, gas prices dropped as demand decreased. Of course a big part of that price drop was that banks and other speculators didn't have the money to drive up the price of crude too and a herd mentality as all the speculators got out of that market - the recession and drop in consumption couldn't explain that big a drop or the price bounce back long before signs of economic recovery, but out of control speculation does. But while I would most prefer to see better regulation of commodities markets to decrease speculation and avoid artificial inflation of prices rather a repeat of what happened in the last few years, I also would prefer (slightly less) to see the monetary surplus in transactions go to a government program that provides benefits to the country rather than go into some speculator or manipulator's pocket.