Mention this idea idea to your nearest *IAA lawyer/lobbyist... It'll happen in no time, just don't expect the fee to go to the other stadium visitors who had to actually suffer through the pain of listening to it all!
I'm not sure competition in the GM food production arena will actually help. The real danger with GM foods is the economic coercion that it entails. If you buy seed for one roundup ready crop (A monsanto feature I believe, but not 100% sure; either way, works for illustrative purposes), that pretty much precludes you from putting seed from any other company (i.e. not roundup ready) as the Roundup insecticide your using kills off competitors crops too. In other sectors of the economy this is usually called antitrust isn't it? Even with more competition in the field, the cost of losing a field for a year because of changing over to a different seed producer is probably going to be prohibitive.
Mod parent up, if you want an open market you have to deal with the 'capitalist entrepreneurs'. A better way to control scalping would be to simply not sell tickets in bulk except via 'authorised channels', i.e. legit dealers like ticket master. Course then scalpers will just crowd source...
There's something that I think has been overlooked. I'm sure there are hundreds of projects out there which are single developer zones. I know I have four of those at the moment, two of which are on the back burner. The problem with getting involved in these is that there are generally no mailing lists or forums. If you're lucky they are up on sourceforge/freshmeat or similar, but there'll be no public communication cause the dev is flying solo. In this case you might want to search sourceforge for projects with low numbers of developers but high activity (not sure if you can construct a search like that tbh). You can start by looking at these two;)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/backtofront/
http://pysundials.sourceforge.net/
The advantage of joining a project like this is that you can get it on the ground floor with the exciting coding, rather than the maintenance and bug-fixing stuff, assuming that's what you want to do. I think these projects are far more likely to hand out 'commit privileges' quite early, if not immediately.
Being able to explain scientific concepts to non-scientists is not "lying" or "marketing", it's fucking called "teaching".
Precisely! And understanding the explanation requires *learning*, something many many people are woefully unwilling to do. I make this argument about 'user friendliness' all the time to. Some things are inherently complex, quantum physics, advanced statistics, physical biochemistry, relational databases, take your pick. Some things you simply can't dumb down.
You can give a user a flashy drag 'n drop user interface to design a database query, but if they don't understand and haven't taken the time to learn how relational databases work, they'll never achieve anything more complex than a single table query.
You need to understand basic chemistry and energy minimization to get just the most basic handle the concept of protein folding. In this case high school chemistry might be enough, but it requires at least under-graduate level maths (local minima vs global minima and how chaperons affect one is chosen). Problem is, most people don't remember their high school chemistry.
I think the fundamental issue scientists fail to 'grok' is that non-scientists simply don't share their curiosity. Scientists (and I don't mean only qualified/educated people, I mean it more as a state of mind) appreciate details, complexity, technicalities. Scientists *want* to understand, at all levels. Non-scientists don't share this desire, they don't care about the complexities and the technicalities, they want simple answers: Are humans causing global warming, yes or no. Scientists could very easily cater to the desires of the public for simple answers, except for two things: lawyers and other scientists.
I did a post graduate course on communicating with the media, run by two journos, one a print journo and the other a TV producer for a local tech magazine programme. After three days of back and forth debate it came down to:
Science is boring, you (scientists) must make it sexy for the media
Sexy means simple and wow, no caveates
If you won't give us sexy, we (the media) will just go to your competitors/detractors/rivals and get their side of the story
Depressing, but unless scientists own their own broadcast media distribution networks (and blogs only the technically literate don't count) they're
communications will always suffer the broken telephone effect.
Actually, no the people who hired here are not still in power, same political party maybe, but very different faction, in fact the guys who stabbed her former boss in the back are in power. Not saying the current lot are any better than the last lot, but they certainly are different with respect to their attitudes regarding HIV/Aids
Actually mice are chosen because they have immune systems remarkably similar to humans, more so than many apes in some cases. And yes, the skin is considered part of the immune system.
IANAL but I am a South African, it's more likely we have more important things to put in front of our judges! there's enough of a backlog in the court system as it is, and we actually do prioritize our court time AFAIK
I appreciated his fairly tough statements, but, frankly, I would have preferred that he be slightly less merciful and go ahead and fire some of the bureaucrats whose incompetence and malfeasance put Americans in jeopardy. That would have been a much clearer message that we have plenty of tools to find and halt terrorist plots now...and that the only thing that will truly deal with the problem is better intelligence gathering, analysis, and, examinations of why it is that so much of the world is pissed enough with America's policies that even well educated members of society are willing to blow them selves up to attempt to strike at us.
In answer to your question as to why the world gets pissed off at Americans, consider the concept that there were probably some non-Americans on that flight. but clearly it doesn't matter if they were in danger, because Americans were in danger and that's way more important. The Christmas bomber attempted to commit a deplorable crime and put the lives of many PEOPLE in danger. Their nationality makes very little difference to their survival rate I'm sure, but then I am not a statistician.
To answer the grand-parent, your health insurance companies would LOVE to get their hands on your scans, especially without your knowledge. Here is a full body scan taken of you that you yourself do not get to see. I honestly don't know whether the images we see online are mock ups of what would be seen or actual images from the machines, but it seems the machines can not only see through clothes but into the body as well, certainly some of these images show skeletal structure. Are they high enough in resolution to detect large tumors? Small ones? We, the public, don't have enough details for us to make an informed decision. I for one am against any body scan where I don't have control over the results, including the right to review and destroy.
Try disabling adblock on a torrent site or other 'place of badness' on 'The Internet'... then after you have, clean your disk of all the malware, in fact wipe your hard drive and install a fresh system, in fact: just nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure
In agreement with the parent, there are plenty of examples of governments making laws to sanction immoral actions; consider the apartheid regime in South Africa, where as the government 'needed' to do something illegal, e.g. force mass evictions based on race to provide new land for development of suburbs for whites, new laws sprang into place. A more recent example example would be the US and the patriot act. Granted, the introduction of laws that curtail civil liberties or are immoral had to be sneaked in, often on unrelated bills, but it is another case of a government making laws to suit it's own purpose.
Which brings me to my actual point. It's not only developed countries that have a proper separation of powers. Many developing countries have the same legal principles enshrined in their constitutions. It's just that those principles are often ignored (including in developed countries) by the corrupt. Corruption is a part of human nature, not a part of just 3rd world human nature.
Seems to depend very much on distro. Ubuntu karmic allows local only connection by username/database name only... gentoo allows full trust to all local connection to all databases. Don't know offhand what the compiled from source outside of package management scenario is, but a quick visit to pg_hba.conf and the comment in the file explain it all. edit, restart and go
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You commit a driving offence on a privately run toll road. The toll road owners are now responsible for any damages you cause, no that you might cause
considering some dorm rooms, I'm not so sure that 'keep it from getting too stinky' is really a requirement
Mention this idea idea to your nearest *IAA lawyer/lobbyist... It'll happen in no time, just don't expect the fee to go to the other stadium visitors who had to actually suffer through the pain of listening to it all!
I'm not sure competition in the GM food production arena will actually help. The real danger with GM foods is the economic coercion that it entails. If you buy seed for one roundup ready crop (A monsanto feature I believe, but not 100% sure; either way, works for illustrative purposes), that pretty much precludes you from putting seed from any other company (i.e. not roundup ready) as the Roundup insecticide your using kills off competitors crops too. In other sectors of the economy this is usually called antitrust isn't it? Even with more competition in the field, the cost of losing a field for a year because of changing over to a different seed producer is probably going to be prohibitive.
We all bought lifetime subs when it came out and we will be there when the last whir of the server fans die in the datacenter.
Funny, and I always though a lifetime sub meant my lifetime, not some heap 'o junk server's
Mod parent up, if you want an open market you have to deal with the 'capitalist entrepreneurs'. A better way to control scalping would be to simply not sell tickets in bulk except via 'authorised channels', i.e. legit dealers like ticket master. Course then scalpers will just crowd source...
There's something that I think has been overlooked. I'm sure there are hundreds of projects out there which are single developer zones. I know I have four of those at the moment, two of which are on the back burner. The problem with getting involved in these is that there are generally no mailing lists or forums. If you're lucky they are up on sourceforge/freshmeat or similar, but there'll be no public communication cause the dev is flying solo. In this case you might want to search sourceforge for projects with low numbers of developers but high activity (not sure if you can construct a search like that tbh). You can start by looking at these two ;)
The advantage of joining a project like this is that you can get it on the ground floor with the exciting coding, rather than the maintenance and bug-fixing stuff, assuming that's what you want to do. I think these projects are far more likely to hand out 'commit privileges' quite early, if not immediately.
Being able to explain scientific concepts to non-scientists is not "lying" or "marketing", it's fucking called "teaching".
Precisely! And understanding the explanation requires *learning*, something many many people are woefully unwilling to do. I make this argument about 'user friendliness' all the time to. Some things are inherently complex, quantum physics, advanced statistics, physical biochemistry, relational databases, take your pick. Some things you simply can't dumb down.
You can give a user a flashy drag 'n drop user interface to design a database query, but if they don't understand and haven't taken the time to learn how relational databases work, they'll never achieve anything more complex than a single table query.
You need to understand basic chemistry and energy minimization to get just the most basic handle the concept of protein folding. In this case high school chemistry might be enough, but it requires at least under-graduate level maths (local minima vs global minima and how chaperons affect one is chosen). Problem is, most people don't remember their high school chemistry.
I think the fundamental issue scientists fail to 'grok' is that non-scientists simply don't share their curiosity. Scientists (and I don't mean only qualified/educated people, I mean it more as a state of mind) appreciate details, complexity, technicalities. Scientists *want* to understand, at all levels. Non-scientists don't share this desire, they don't care about the complexities and the technicalities, they want simple answers: Are humans causing global warming, yes or no. Scientists could very easily cater to the desires of the public for simple answers, except for two things: lawyers and other scientists.
I did a post graduate course on communicating with the media, run by two journos, one a print journo and the other a TV producer for a local tech magazine programme. After three days of back and forth debate it came down to:
Depressing, but unless scientists own their own broadcast media distribution networks (and blogs only the technically literate don't count) they're communications will always suffer the broken telephone effect.
hired *her*, there fixed that for me
Actually, no the people who hired here are not still in power, same political party maybe, but very different faction, in fact the guys who stabbed her former boss in the back are in power. Not saying the current lot are any better than the last lot, but they certainly are different with respect to their attitudes regarding HIV/Aids
Actually mice are chosen because they have immune systems remarkably similar to humans, more so than many apes in some cases. And yes, the skin is considered part of the immune system.
IANAL but I am a South African, it's more likely we have more important things to put in front of our judges! there's enough of a backlog in the court system as it is, and we actually do prioritize our court time AFAIK
I appreciated his fairly tough statements, but, frankly, I would have preferred that he be slightly less merciful and go ahead and fire some of the bureaucrats whose incompetence and malfeasance put Americans in jeopardy. That would have been a much clearer message that we have plenty of tools to find and halt terrorist plots now...and that the only thing that will truly deal with the problem is better intelligence gathering, analysis, and, examinations of why it is that so much of the world is pissed enough with America's policies that even well educated members of society are willing to blow them selves up to attempt to strike at us.
In answer to your question as to why the world gets pissed off at Americans, consider the concept that there were probably some non-Americans on that flight. but clearly it doesn't matter if they were in danger, because Americans were in danger and that's way more important. The Christmas bomber attempted to commit a deplorable crime and put the lives of many PEOPLE in danger. Their nationality makes very little difference to their survival rate I'm sure, but then I am not a statistician.
To answer the grand-parent, your health insurance companies would LOVE to get their hands on your scans, especially without your knowledge. Here is a full body scan taken of you that you yourself do not get to see. I honestly don't know whether the images we see online are mock ups of what would be seen or actual images from the machines, but it seems the machines can not only see through clothes but into the body as well, certainly some of these images show skeletal structure. Are they high enough in resolution to detect large tumors? Small ones? We, the public, don't have enough details for us to make an informed decision. I for one am against any body scan where I don't have control over the results, including the right to review and destroy.
Ah, someone else who uses adblock :-)
Try disabling adblock on a torrent site or other 'place of badness' on 'The Internet'... then after you have, clean your disk of all the malware, in fact wipe your hard drive and install a fresh system, in fact: just nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure
In agreement with the parent, there are plenty of examples of governments making laws to sanction immoral actions; consider the apartheid regime in South Africa, where as the government 'needed' to do something illegal, e.g. force mass evictions based on race to provide new land for development of suburbs for whites, new laws sprang into place. A more recent example example would be the US and the patriot act. Granted, the introduction of laws that curtail civil liberties or are immoral had to be sneaked in, often on unrelated bills, but it is another case of a government making laws to suit it's own purpose.
Which brings me to my actual point. It's not only developed countries that have a proper separation of powers. Many developing countries have the same legal principles enshrined in their constitutions. It's just that those principles are often ignored (including in developed countries) by the corrupt. Corruption is a part of human nature, not a part of just 3rd world human nature.
and I seem to have completely lost the ability to form the plural of the word 'connection' in English... I love my painkillers :)
Seems to depend very much on distro. Ubuntu karmic allows local only connection by username/database name only... gentoo allows full trust to all local connection to all databases. Don't know offhand what the compiled from source outside of package management scenario is, but a quick visit to pg_hba.conf and the comment in the file explain it all. edit, restart and go