You picked some issues to demonstrate how CNN, NYT and Democratic Party have a bias different from American popular opinion. Your own bias makes you think Americans have a different opinion from the Democrats, probably because your opinion is the less popular.
Abortion: Most Americans are against abortion bans like South Dakota's. And the counterpart to your "mugged liberal" poly sci is the reality that people oppose abortion until they need one, or someone they know needs one. Then they want a legal one.
Stem cell research: The 88% of Americans who have a stemcell opinion want research 2:1 over protecting the blastocysts (even when they're called "embryos").
Homosexual rights: 51%, not really a majority within the poll's MoE, oppose gay marriage, but down from its peak in 2/2004, from 2:1 to 1:1.
Health insurance: I don't know what the "Democratic Party line" is on health insurance, but it's a safe bet that Americans want more and better, despite the past 6-12 years of insurance companies getting anything they want from the "Conservative" government.
Gun violence and gun control: Gun rights/privileges/control is too complex to reduce to a single "party line", but most Americans favor more gun control than we have today, and Democrats seems to also favor more gun control. The entire issue is totally distorted within and beyond its boundaries, and no party or population has a consistent position that people will like, let alone probably work.
Religious conservatives: again, that's not an issue, and I don't know what the "Democratic Party line" is, but I think the American opinion is "nobody can tell me what to believe, or what to do merely because of their own unproveable faith".
I can tell what your bias probably is. Both because of the issues you chose (and your belief that the Democratic Party is "out of the mainstream" with America on them), and even because of your.sig. A cryptic comment about the definition of "human being" that includes fertilized eggs that "function", but could exclude, eg, humans with Downs' Syndrome, or even viral infections, is what I consider "sloppy thinking".
Rumor sites can be a serious Apple enemy. But they in no way match the power to damage Apple that's provided by... Apple. Including Apple's failure to battle rumor sites by releasing better info, rather than shutting down publishers.
The US needs a Privacy Amendment. That "clarifies" for our emerging police state at least the same privacy rights the government is required to protect as specified in the 4th Amendment. Which itself was a clarification of the omission of any government right to privacy invasion without probable cause and warrants, which protect our privacy.
I wish the future of Flash was a Java "Flash" class that runs Flash movies in a Java VM. ActionScript is supposedly ECMA-standard, so that class ought not depend on Macromedia, or Sun, to be developed.
FWIW, I'd love to see a Flash movie that runs Java bytecode, too. The more the merrier. Especially on mobile phones, where these two VMs are the only real option for interactive client applet development.
Er, the "Democratic Party" line on all those issues happens to be the popular American opinion on those topics (except perhaps "religious conservatives", which not an issue, but rather a Republican "frame" of reference). I expect the mass media to mainly reflect the "bias" of their audience, and not to introduce their own bias. Which is usually the corporate bias, represented by the Republican Party.
Stephen Colbert famously said "reality has a well-known liberal bias". I don't know about that, but corporate propaganda has demanded "balance" of fact with its fiction in the mass media for years.
I don't see any "Democratic Party" line in the C(IA)NN or NYTimes coverage. But people should research for themselves the liberal or corporate media bias we consume all day long.
The subject of this discussion is "holographic storage". They're talking about rotating a holographic disc. I'm talking about rotating the spindle instead, which will be more efficient with higher top RPM. All of which probably discards the stepper motor, and certainly its complex registration against a rotating irregular surface.
Great! So now I should be able to get a little lab on a chip that analyzes the air and water around me, wherever I go, for pollutants and toxins. Am I glad that we've got the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act that keep my personal environment clean.
Or maybe these little LabMans on every allergic person's mobile phones will force a change on all that. Will the government be able to lie to us about our pollution laws being "Clean" laws when our phones are chirping whenever we leave our oxygen tents?
The spindle laser interferes with the other laser, mounted around the circumference or on one of the faces. A photodiode picks up the light after it interferes.
Apparently, old Jeremiah was teaching Turing's mathematics to homeless Israelites when he told one
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
If one of the grad students working on this paper is an Ethiopian who's spent the year in a Taiwanese office rather than in the equatorial sun, we might have all the proof we need to test this ancient riddle.
"put an array of photodetectors below, say, a pyramid"
Sounds like you'll have to rely on some leftover alien tech in the pyramid's basement, either a detector or levitator, to pull that off easy. Or make a brighter muon source on one side, and a detector held up on the other side, which is more easily accessible than the space beneath the biggest, most precious ancient artifact on the planet.
Neutrinos are overkill for scales of subs on Earth. For Death Stars across galaxies, entanglement's SAAD avoids latency. Neutrinos are good for finding distant, old objects. I don't know if any astrarchaeologist could afford a detector in their mobile phone.
Ever since I read Larry Niven's Ringworld I've been waiting for some geek who also read it to invent deep radar.
Every time I see that someone has got a neutrino detector up, I think we've finally got a deep "radar" that can see through practically everything (AFAWCT) in the Universe, offering us a neutrino detector detector.
I won't be surprised when we fire it up and the Valley of the Kings lights up, along with various museums (and attics) in France, UK, US, Germany and Japan.
I live in NYC. I didn't vote for this Bush asshole either time he stole the election, nor did 75% of my neighbors. I take the subway and walk, and use less than 50% the energy the average American does, like most of my neighbors.
And though I plan to get one of these mobile plants through my military connections when they're ready, the government isn't providing them as resources for the citizens. The Bush government is providing less resources to citizens, while spending much more money, because it's providing needed services to Halliburton and the rest of its corporate buddies.
So YOU figure out who you're talking to before you shoot off your mouth. You're right about half of what you say, but not about me. Or about the needs of our nation, which don't include $4 gas or a billion Muslims so pissed at us that they want their kids blowing up in our faces.
As long as I'm paying the US military to destroy civilization as we know it, I'm glad that some of the investment is producing gear I can use to survive when their job is done.
I saw the smileys, but I get a lot of people smiling while they "whistle Dixie" these days. Your points were real, though sarcastic, but not explicit enough to preempt my own unironic description.
I guess if Americans who care about our country, but are honest about the truth, without getting too crazy about it, find it so hard to even understand each other, it's hard to solve the problems.
The idea here is that the spindle just has to rotate a modulating laser inside the center hole, and interfere with a static laser shined from any of the other angles. It's scanning is extremely simple, using mostly the same mechanics and addressing electronics/logic as current CD/DVD/HD drives. A rectangular media could work, though the addressable volume is probably just a contained oval or perhaps a circle.
I never promised the old guy that I wouldn't tell my story someday. So you'll have to do better than that, Howard. Besides, I know where your favorite secret surf spot is, if I have to go public to prove it.
Tell me how rotating a 0.1g 1mm metal spindle takes more energy than rotating a 5g 5" warped plastic disc, especially at high RPM.
It's a little more complicated, but not much (the laser has to be decoupled from the frame in which its rotating). Certainly worth the gains. Plus, stacking discs onto longer spindles with multiple read heads is possible, much less complicated than rotating a stack of discs.
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I can tell what your bias probably is. Both because of the issues you chose (and your belief that the Democratic Party is "out of the mainstream" with America on them), and even because of your
Rumor sites can be a serious Apple enemy. But they in no way match the power to damage Apple that's provided by... Apple. Including Apple's failure to battle rumor sites by releasing better info, rather than shutting down publishers.
The US needs a Privacy Amendment. That "clarifies" for our emerging police state at least the same privacy rights the government is required to protect as specified in the 4th Amendment. Which itself was a clarification of the omission of any government right to privacy invasion without probable cause and warrants, which protect our privacy.
I wish the future of Flash was a Java "Flash" class that runs Flash movies in a Java VM. ActionScript is supposedly ECMA-standard, so that class ought not depend on Macromedia, or Sun, to be developed.
FWIW, I'd love to see a Flash movie that runs Java bytecode, too. The more the merrier. Especially on mobile phones, where these two VMs are the only real option for interactive client applet development.
Why look to Iran? Most Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the US.
Er, the "Democratic Party" line on all those issues happens to be the popular American opinion on those topics (except perhaps "religious conservatives", which not an issue, but rather a Republican "frame" of reference). I expect the mass media to mainly reflect the "bias" of their audience, and not to introduce their own bias. Which is usually the corporate bias, represented by the Republican Party.
Stephen Colbert famously said "reality has a well-known liberal bias". I don't know about that, but corporate propaganda has demanded "balance" of fact with its fiction in the mass media for years.
I don't see any "Democratic Party" line in the C(IA)NN or NYTimes coverage. But people should research for themselves the liberal or corporate media bias we consume all day long.
Dude, you're a robot.
The subject of this discussion is "holographic storage". They're talking about rotating a holographic disc. I'm talking about rotating the spindle instead, which will be more efficient with higher top RPM. All of which probably discards the stepper motor, and certainly its complex registration against a rotating irregular surface.
Great! So now I should be able to get a little lab on a chip that analyzes the air and water around me, wherever I go, for pollutants and toxins. Am I glad that we've got the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act that keep my personal environment clean.
Wait, my old chips are telling me that those "clean" Acts are really "dirty". And since the police will arrest you when you photograph them, it's going to be tough on people getting the dirt on polluters.
Or maybe these little LabMans on every allergic person's mobile phones will force a change on all that. Will the government be able to lie to us about our pollution laws being "Clean" laws when our phones are chirping whenever we leave our oxygen tents?
The spindle laser interferes with the other laser, mounted around the circumference or on one of the faces. A photodiode picks up the light after it interferes.
Oops...
done.
Apparently, old Jeremiah was teaching Turing's mathematics to homeless Israelites when he told one
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
If one of the grad students working on this paper is an Ethiopian who's spent the year in a Taiwanese office rather than in the equatorial sun, we might have all the proof we need to test this ancient riddle.
"put an array of photodetectors below, say, a pyramid"
Sounds like you'll have to rely on some leftover alien tech in the pyramid's basement, either a detector or levitator, to pull that off easy. Or make a brighter muon source on one side, and a detector held up on the other side, which is more easily accessible than the space beneath the biggest, most precious ancient artifact on the planet.
Neutrinos are overkill for scales of subs on Earth. For Death Stars across galaxies, entanglement's SAAD avoids latency. Neutrinos are good for finding distant, old objects. I don't know if any astrarchaeologist could afford a detector in their mobile phone.
apocrpyhal: Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
(from apo/far + crypt/hidden)
Ever since I read Larry Niven's Ringworld I've been waiting for some geek who also read it to invent deep radar.
Every time I see that someone has got a neutrino detector up, I think we've finally got a deep "radar" that can see through practically everything (AFAWCT) in the Universe, offering us a neutrino detector detector.
I won't be surprised when we fire it up and the Valley of the Kings lights up, along with various museums (and attics) in France, UK, US, Germany and Japan.
You misspelled "this" as "that".
I won't be saving you, if that's what you mean.
I live in NYC. I didn't vote for this Bush asshole either time he stole the election, nor did 75% of my neighbors. I take the subway and walk, and use less than 50% the energy the average American does, like most of my neighbors.
And though I plan to get one of these mobile plants through my military connections when they're ready, the government isn't providing them as resources for the citizens. The Bush government is providing less resources to citizens, while spending much more money, because it's providing needed services to Halliburton and the rest of its corporate buddies.
So YOU figure out who you're talking to before you shoot off your mouth. You're right about half of what you say, but not about me. Or about the needs of our nation, which don't include $4 gas or a billion Muslims so pissed at us that they want their kids blowing up in our faces.
As long as I'm paying the US military to destroy civilization as we know it, I'm glad that some of the investment is producing gear I can use to survive when their job is done.
I saw the smileys, but I get a lot of people smiling while they "whistle Dixie" these days. Your points were real, though sarcastic, but not explicit enough to preempt my own unironic description.
I guess if Americans who care about our country, but are honest about the truth, without getting too crazy about it, find it so hard to even understand each other, it's hard to solve the problems.
The idea here is that the spindle just has to rotate a modulating laser inside the center hole, and interfere with a static laser shined from any of the other angles. It's scanning is extremely simple, using mostly the same mechanics and addressing electronics/logic as current CD/DVD/HD drives. A rectangular media could work, though the addressable volume is probably just a contained oval or perhaps a circle.
I never promised the old guy that I wouldn't tell my story someday. So you'll have to do better than that, Howard. Besides, I know where your favorite secret surf spot is, if I have to go public to prove it.
Tell me how rotating a 0.1g 1mm metal spindle takes more energy than rotating a 5g 5" warped plastic disc, especially at high RPM.
It's a little more complicated, but not much (the laser has to be decoupled from the frame in which its rotating). Certainly worth the gains. Plus, stacking discs onto longer spindles with multiple read heads is possible, much less complicated than rotating a stack of discs.