Maybe the only proper way to run these alert levels is to take a clue from the efficiency experts. This is from memory since I can't find a good link but the story is something like this: a. A factory wanted to determine the effect of lighting on productivity b. They increased lighting and productivity increased. Yay! c. Just to be sure, though, they decreased the lighting level and were surprised when productivity increased. Qua? d. Conclusion sometime people change their behavior just because something changed.
If actually know there's a potential threat raise the threat level and announce "The threat level was raised to orange". If the threat continues then lower the threat level for a day or so and then raise it again. Etc. etc. Once the threat has passed revert to a baseline threat level and leave it there.
When you linked to OS-9 I thought you were referring to Plan 9 from Bell Labs; another "I'm not dead yet" OS. I remember reading a glowing Wired (?) article about this in the 90's as the new, big thing...
They have them in Baltimore. There is usually 2 per block positioned so you don't have to walk more than 1/4 of a block (assuming they're not busted which happens occasionally but not frequently). There are no sensors in the parking spaces. A valid receipt on your dash is all you need and I've seen people offer their receipt to others when they are about to leave to "use up" the time.
They're not a perfect solution, but I'm much more likely to have a credit card on me than a bunch of quarters so they can be convenient. So long as parking is way too cheap they're not too bad.
You're right. (Thank you, BTW). To stimulate the economy during the worst recession in 70 years, Obama is only spending in less than one year the debt that took Bush 2.5 years of relative prosperity -- when we shouldn't have been running a deficit at all -- to rack up. I guess the problem will be the next 8 years since those numbers are before universal health care and cap and trade bills are figured in.
Looks like you were having some trouble so I fixed that for you. But, you deserve a serious response to what I think was your point: if, after 8 years, Obama racks up as much debt as Bush and only manages to accomplish two wars then I will also be angry and feel like I have been betrayed. I'm 37 so my instinct -- which comes from comparing the surpluses of Clinton to the huge debts of Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II -- is that the Democrats take financial issues much more seriously than Republicans so I'll be disappointed if Obama lets me down.
One final note. When it comes to financial responsibility, I just wish you libertarians had been as vigilant in monitoring the proven failure of the last 8 years as you appear to be in monitoring the alleged failures of the last 8 months. Where were you? Did your politics blind you to the failures of Bush?
As a public service, I have to reiterate: sumdumass is wrong. Bush increased the debt by about $7 trillion dollars in his 8 years. Obama, in the middle of a recession, has budgeted an additional $1.7T of deficit spending in his first year.
Are you serious? Obama's placing the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on budget is some sort of devious conspiracy while NOT placing the war on the budget was some sort of principled stand by Bush? I thought Bush didn't put the cost of the wars on the budget because Rumsfeld convinced him that we'd pay for it all with Iraqi oil revenue.
Debt after Clinton's last budget: 5.7T. Debt after Bush's last budget 12.8T. Debt after Obama's first budget 14.4T (estimated). In other words, $7.1T > $1.6T. U.S. Public Debt
So you are empirically wrong. Please apologize to the Slashdot readers that you attempted to mislead.
WTF? I don't think China is the capitalist wonderland you think it is.
According to the report, the China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) are considering a proposal to cut the 10 percent tax paid by car buyers to 2 percent for engine sizes of up to 1 litre. Tax for engine sizes of between 1 and 1.5 litres would be 4 percent; engines of 1.5 and 2 litres would be taxed at 6 percent; 2 to 2.5 litres engines at 7 percent; 2.5 to 3 litres at 8 percent, while 3 to 4 litres at 9 percent, and engines greater than 4 litres would stay at 10 percent. Huliq
So that 6.1L Dodge Challenger still at a 10% tax rate. You get a discount of only a 2% tax rate for that 1L engine? The Ford Focus has 2L engine and, thus, a 6% tax rate.
The difference, of course, is that police have a special status; both officially and unofficially. If a computer programmer is murdered it's fairly unlikely that the suspect will be beaten to death before trial. If I get caught speeding, I can't flash a copy of my CS degree to get out of the ticket.
In other words, because of their power police, like politicians, are both more protected and more public than other citizens. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? We do.
As a citizen of "crime ridden" city I'll admit that I'm far more afraid of police dressing up in the black commando gear and playing urban ninja than I am of the scary gang flavor of the month. Long after MS-13 (or the Bloods or the Crips or the those darn Irish gangs [starring Leo DiCaprio]) is gone we'll still have para-military police kicking in the wrong door and shooting citizens and their pets.
Seriously? A +5 mod for a misquoted line in an article? Did you actually read this article?
The basic point [of the "double-dip" fearing economists such as Steven Roach] is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.
Judging by Mr. Greenspan's remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he [Greenspan] still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman's crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.
Reading those two paragraphs, you've interpreted it as Krugman calling for a housing bubble? Perhaps as some sort of Keynesian conspiracy to cause an economic downturn? Is English a second language for you?
Asking an economist to predict the stock market is like asking your channel 7 weather man to model global climate change.
Nevertheless, if you've been following Krugman he's certainly not been an optimist about a lot of the aspects of economy leading up to the meltdown. Here's a pretty pessimistic article about housing prices from 8/2005: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08krugman.html?_r=1 Of course, at the time people accused him of being a pessimist.
A. Drive slower, particularly in deer rutting season and in areas known for suicidal deer.
B. If you're not a fault you shouldn't get the fine. In your case, assuming you were driving safely, the deer would be assessed the fee. Being a woodland creature, it would probably not be able to pay the full fee up front and would have to have its wages garnished.
C. Quit frankly I find your comment insightful and invigorating and I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
I've always wanted a law that billed people who cause accidents on major freeways (or their estates, as the case may be) the average hourly wage for that state multiplied by the number of total hours lost due to their actions. For example, if some asshole gets into a fender bender on 95 because he was fucking with his goddammed cell phone and 10,000 people are delayed for an hour and the average wage in Maryland is $17/hour then he (or his estate) owes $170,000 which can then be used to fund hypertension treatment facilities and meditation centers in the state.
Just about everything that is built using finite resources. A U.S. penny is more complex now than it was in 1809 (copper-clad zinc vs. copper) but it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Wikipedia
At one point both the US cents before 1982 and all US nickels had a metal content at market worth more than face value of the coins. Now as of 20 June 2009, the US nickel has $0.037090 in metal content. The intrinsic value of pre-1982 US cents, weighing 3.11 grams, are worth $0.014865, 48.65% above face value in metal content at market prices. However, post-1982 US cents, which weigh 2.5 grams, are 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper (coated over the zinc) by weight. These have a metallurgical value of $0.004044 as of 20 June 2009, or 40.44% of the face value.
Well, the question is, does the increased fuel efficiency actually pay for itself?
IMHO, it pays for itself with every US soldier not killed by an oil-money purchased bullet or IED. Without a dependence on oil the Middle East is just a backwards, theocratic sandbox that no one cares about.
See what I mean? If you are unwilling to spend infinite resources on military hardware then you are putting "pilots, airmen, soldiers, and civilian lives" at risk. That's why the DoD is the new third rail. Eisenhower warned us about this.
Let me repeat: The Pentagon Doesn't Want Any More! This isn't hippies putting daisies in rifle barrels, this is Pentagon brass saying that money spent on the F-22 would be better spent elsewhere.
True. But in the real world the military industrial complex has replaced social security. Look at the F-22. It's basically a nation-wide welfare and jobs program. It's never been flown in combat, the pentagon doesn't want any more, each one costs the equivalent of 11,000 family health insurance policies, and, apparently, it can't survive rain. But, fiscal conservatives are falling over each other trying to keep the program running.
Agreed. I like being able to check my email from my laptop around the city -- sitting outside at the park or at a cafe that doesn't offer wifi -- and I like to return the favor. Leaving wifi open (within reason) is just being a good neighbor.
I wonder why they included a link to IE 8 in the banner? Why not Opera or Safari instead? If nothing else, they probably could have gotten a call (or a thrown chair) from Steve.
I think we've (i.e the public has) associated sides in a scientific debate with our team (tribe, clan, etc.), so for these people to deny anthropogenic climate change is to support your team. Science and methodology doesn't factor into it.
To ask the deniers to look at the evidence for anthropogenic climate change with an open mind is about the same as asking a Red Sox fan to give a fair minded analysis of the Yankees.
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It looks like there might be an organization of "skeptics with mod points" who reject anthropogenic climate change.
Maybe the only proper way to run these alert levels is to take a clue from the efficiency experts. This is from memory since I can't find a good link but the story is something like this:
a. A factory wanted to determine the effect of lighting on productivity
b. They increased lighting and productivity increased. Yay!
c. Just to be sure, though, they decreased the lighting level and were surprised when productivity increased. Qua?
d. Conclusion sometime people change their behavior just because something changed.
If actually know there's a potential threat raise the threat level and announce "The threat level was raised to orange". If the threat continues then lower the threat level for a day or so and then raise it again. Etc. etc. Once the threat has passed revert to a baseline threat level and leave it there.
When you linked to OS-9 I thought you were referring to Plan 9 from Bell Labs; another "I'm not dead yet" OS. I remember reading a glowing Wired (?) article about this in the 90's as the new, big thing...
Oh, so that's where they're hiding...
They have them in Baltimore. There is usually 2 per block positioned so you don't have to walk more than 1/4 of a block (assuming they're not busted which happens occasionally but not frequently). There are no sensors in the parking spaces. A valid receipt on your dash is all you need and I've seen people offer their receipt to others when they are about to leave to "use up" the time.
They're not a perfect solution, but I'm much more likely to have a credit card on me than a bunch of quarters so they can be convenient. So long as parking is way too cheap they're not too bad.
Looks like you were having some trouble so I fixed that for you. But, you deserve a serious response to what I think was your point: if, after 8 years, Obama racks up as much debt as Bush and only manages to accomplish two wars then I will also be angry and feel like I have been betrayed. I'm 37 so my instinct -- which comes from comparing the surpluses of Clinton to the huge debts of Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II -- is that the Democrats take financial issues much more seriously than Republicans so I'll be disappointed if Obama lets me down.
One final note. When it comes to financial responsibility, I just wish you libertarians had been as vigilant in monitoring the proven failure of the last 8 years as you appear to be in monitoring the alleged failures of the last 8 months. Where were you? Did your politics blind you to the failures of Bush?
As a public service, I have to reiterate: sumdumass is wrong. Bush increased the debt by about $7 trillion dollars in his 8 years. Obama, in the middle of a recession, has budgeted an additional $1.7T of deficit spending in his first year.
Are you serious? Obama's placing the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on budget is some sort of devious conspiracy while NOT placing the war on the budget was some sort of principled stand by Bush? I thought Bush didn't put the cost of the wars on the budget because Rumsfeld convinced him that we'd pay for it all with Iraqi oil revenue.
Sorry sumdumass you are incorrect.
Debt after Clinton's last budget: 5.7T. Debt after Bush's last budget 12.8T. Debt after Obama's first budget 14.4T (estimated). In other words, $7.1T > $1.6T. U.S. Public Debt
So you are empirically wrong. Please apologize to the Slashdot readers that you attempted to mislead.
WTF? I don't think China is the capitalist wonderland you think it is.
So that 6.1L Dodge Challenger still at a 10% tax rate. You get a discount of only a 2% tax rate for that 1L engine? The Ford Focus has 2L engine and, thus, a 6% tax rate.
I am glad that there's an 80% chance my old CueCat is being put to good use in a third word country somewhere.
The difference, of course, is that police have a special status; both officially and unofficially. If a computer programmer is murdered it's fairly unlikely that the suspect will be beaten to death before trial. If I get caught speeding, I can't flash a copy of my CS degree to get out of the ticket.
In other words, because of their power police, like politicians, are both more protected and more public than other citizens. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? We do.
As a citizen of "crime ridden" city I'll admit that I'm far more afraid of police dressing up in the black commando gear and playing urban ninja than I am of the scary gang flavor of the month. Long after MS-13 (or the Bloods or the Crips or the those darn Irish gangs [starring Leo DiCaprio]) is gone we'll still have para-military police kicking in the wrong door and shooting citizens and their pets.
I think you are confusing Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil and, of course, PC's that are under the effect of a powerful curse.
Seriously? A +5 mod for a misquoted line in an article? Did you actually read this article?
Reading those two paragraphs, you've interpreted it as Krugman calling for a housing bubble? Perhaps as some sort of Keynesian conspiracy to cause an economic downturn? Is English a second language for you?
Asking an economist to predict the stock market is like asking your channel 7 weather man to model global climate change.
Nevertheless, if you've been following Krugman he's certainly not been an optimist about a lot of the aspects of economy leading up to the meltdown. Here's a pretty pessimistic article about housing prices from 8/2005: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08krugman.html?_r=1 Of course, at the time people accused him of being a pessimist.
A. Drive slower, particularly in deer rutting season and in areas known for suicidal deer.
B. If you're not a fault you shouldn't get the fine. In your case, assuming you were driving safely, the deer would be assessed the fee. Being a woodland creature, it would probably not be able to pay the full fee up front and would have to have its wages garnished.
C. Quit frankly I find your comment insightful and invigorating and I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
I've always wanted a law that billed people who cause accidents on major freeways (or their estates, as the case may be) the average hourly wage for that state multiplied by the number of total hours lost due to their actions. For example, if some asshole gets into a fender bender on 95 because he was fucking with his goddammed cell phone and 10,000 people are delayed for an hour and the average wage in Maryland is $17/hour then he (or his estate) owes $170,000 which can then be used to fund hypertension treatment facilities and meditation centers in the state.
Just about everything that is built using finite resources. A U.S. penny is more complex now than it was in 1809 (copper-clad zinc vs. copper) but it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Wikipedia
IMHO, it pays for itself with every US soldier not killed by an oil-money purchased bullet or IED. Without a dependence on oil the Middle East is just a backwards, theocratic sandbox that no one cares about.
See what I mean? If you are unwilling to spend infinite resources on military hardware then you are putting "pilots, airmen, soldiers, and civilian lives" at risk. That's why the DoD is the new third rail. Eisenhower warned us about this.
Let me repeat: The Pentagon Doesn't Want Any More! This isn't hippies putting daisies in rifle barrels, this is Pentagon brass saying that money spent on the F-22 would be better spent elsewhere.
True. But in the real world the military industrial complex has replaced social security. Look at the F-22. It's basically a nation-wide welfare and jobs program. It's never been flown in combat, the pentagon doesn't want any more, each one costs the equivalent of 11,000 family health insurance policies, and, apparently, it can't survive rain. But, fiscal conservatives are falling over each other trying to keep the program running.
Agreed. I like being able to check my email from my laptop around the city -- sitting outside at the park or at a cafe that doesn't offer wifi -- and I like to return the favor. Leaving wifi open (within reason) is just being a good neighbor.
I wonder why they included a link to IE 8 in the banner? Why not Opera or Safari instead? If nothing else, they probably could have gotten a call (or a thrown chair) from Steve.
I think we've (i.e the public has) associated sides in a scientific debate with our team (tribe, clan, etc.), so for these people to deny anthropogenic climate change is to support your team. Science and methodology doesn't factor into it.
To ask the deniers to look at the evidence for anthropogenic climate change with an open mind is about the same as asking a Red Sox fan to give a fair minded analysis of the Yankees.