Impeachment can be initiated by a single state in Congress. It doesn't require the entire House, a majority, a full committee, or even a team of Congressmembers. Of course, after impeachment is initiated, a majority of the House must vote to impeach - and the Senate must try and convict.
But that means you can work on state politicians, not just Congressmembers, to initiate the process.
Initiating impeachment is much easier than practically everyone thinks. And it should be much more common. Can you imagine how lawless the general population would be if it were so difficult and rare to initiate indictment for misdemeanors and felonies? Because impeachment is the equivalent for elected officials who are usually above the lawby law, to protect the political process from political abuse of the criminal process. It should not surprise anyone that the political population is so criminal when impeachment is so extremely rarely initiated, let alone completed.
But the only barrier to political justice is public ignorance. Get educated, and educate someone else, for a better America.
He's a hypocrite for cherrypicking his morality, while expecting the government to force it on others who don't share it.
If you're actually interested in his actual hypocricy, not just the morality of his gambling vice, the reason it's more than just an ad hominem criticism of that powerful politician is very clear.
It's what we thought we could do with the FPGA/DSP fabric we'd invented for our "prepress" digital camera back in 1990, when we realized it was smarter than us.
We had tried all kinds of rules-based and curve/data-fitting algorithms to calibrate the camera's colorspaces between input targets and output devices. Then we just made it feedback between the targets and devices, storing de/convolution kernels when the data converged stably. We talked about calibrating to all kinds of sensors/media, but we moved on to wrap the platform in apps instead.
I'd still love to get back into a lab like that, upgraded with a decade and a half of neural network techniques and the vastly higher cheap integration.
The real damage being done here is that the apparent capacity of the audience for consuming many titles is increasing. The bottleneck of watching the movie is removed. So now Hollywood can stuff even more worthless crap through the pipeline.
It will get harder to distinguish the worthwhile titles from the crap, and the good movies will fill with product placements, because they're more likely to actually get watched.
NIST certification fluctuating unintelligibly is a security nightmare. NIST's certification process needs to be reliable, or the uncertainty will create not only risk of using broken or incompatible security, but also spikes in attacks as crackers get the news that some product might be broken. The products might not be broken, just NIST's decertification process, but who needs the extra waves of attacks?
I'm not surprised that this procurement certification is broken. Bush's top procurement official got busted for being badly broken. Spending $3 TRILLION a year on stuff while lining your pockets has got to leave some holes in the system.
No, living in NYC has taught me that it's good to slap down an aggressive fool when they first show up, before they make real trouble, or inspire others.
Well those nerves have always had the capacity to heal. We're only now working with adding capacities by meddling with inhibition mechanisms. But the conventional wisdom used to be that nerves don't regenerate. Even through my premed physio classes in the 1980s they taught us that principle. Now the CW is a lot less humbug.
I watch medicine's continuing developments in letting the body heal itself while playing a champion support role. Ben Franklin said "god does the healing, the doctor collects the reward". I'm looking forward to seeing that principle become more and more true, worshiping my god at the temple of my body.
You know, I remember when that summary would have said "nerves, unlike other cells, don't regrow when damaged". Now it's just brain/spinal nerves, not growing fibers, which an enzyme can fix.
How long before I can backup my mind in a spare brain, and go back to partying like when I was a kid? When nerves didn't regenerate, and I was too dumb to care?
Why is it that when I see that the replier to a comment is an Anonymous Coward, I'm pretty certain that I'll have to come up with a new way to respond to a stupid, obnoxious post with sufficient strength to shut them up?
Because so many people who think being against war like a sane person is a style decision like "treehugging" or "saving the Earth" - because they're too gutless and evil to understand any of them. Which naturally has them posting as AC.
More clues for you: I live in NYC, where we ride the subway to work. So we know that when an aggressive moron actually comes up to us shooting off their fool mouth, we'd best bust it off and hand it back before they try something even stupider.
Now go back to your cave and try to figure out how to rewind your propeller.
The "direct compensation only" analysis is useless. Smarter execs will take less cash out of operations they're spending to improve company profit. And take more in equity or even perks that the corporation has to deliver anyway as part of its core business. Like free rent at a hotel chain.
Ignoring the complete package is just another way for business analysts to look like they've got "unique vision" when finding a counterintuitive economic, especially at tech companies that few people believe they can understand, anyway.
Large number of microprocessors? Why not a box stuffed with hundreds of millions of FPGA gates, configured into lots of multiply-accumulators (or embed lots of hardwired DSPs), interconnected across and between layers? That is how the brain actually works. Hook it up to cameras, mics and some rubber/piezo tentacles with pressure/heat sensors, leave it in the lab for a few months, and start asking it questions.
I like these Backslashes better than nothing. They give Slashdot's editors a way to get some articulated grip on the stories Slashdot covers and Slashdotters' response to them. Which helps develop an editorial consciousness through which new stories are filtered before they're published.
But I wish it were less centralized. Slashdot is better than newspapers because it's mainly "letters to the editor", sparked by editors' published stories. Because those LoE's are letters to each other. Maybe the top 5% by moderated points, weighted by metamoderation and negative comments (also metamoderated), of posters to each day's top story or two (by comment count), could be autoinvited to a Backslash discussion among themselves, summarizing and highlighting comments. That competition might also encourage better comments.
I already pointed out how Microsoft's abuse of its W3C membership and the W3C's structure makes the Web worse and weakens the W3C. Regardless of whether Höhrmann complained about them specifically, it's true. But that's just a response to your defense of MS after I mentioned how their membership behind the closed door signaled today's inevitable mess to us a decade ago.
MS was our tipoff. They are not unique. They are just one of the corporate paymasters creating conflicts and system games from which the W3C cannot escape with its closed-door membership. Which is the general description that Höhrmann did mention.
You're not a member the way Microsoft is a member. That's the problem. MS didn't create the problem, but it has used it to its advantage.
Tell me about DHTML and IE compatibility. Or general MS compliance. They certainly do help shepherd the W3C along standards directions that they prefer to beat with proprietary versions. That's what "embrace and extend" means, which has been MS's strategy since they publicly reprioritized the Internet and joined the new W3C.
I don't know how you could be part of the W3C and not see that. But those kind of scope blinders are part of the MS advantage in the way they use the W3C to game the system they've mastered.
This problem is exactly what people predicted back in the mid 1990s, when W3C was formed. I was on the IETF HTTP-WG, and even those of us on various corporate payrolls knew Microsoft's membership in a closed-door W3C membership meant Web standards would go this way.
It's a testament to the basic strength, openness and simplicity of the WWW that the W3C could continue its model for so long without collapsing itself or the Web.
Ah, well that's a reasonable point. On that point, higher up the supply chain, I wonder if SGI could survive selling services or IP to graphics chipmakers. If it didn't all walk out the door to nVidia and ATI in 1999 with a reasonable "GPU only" strategy.
Or, to flip it around, maybe SGI is positioned well to reboot into a "GPGPU" house. Overloading the OpenGL API for scalable supercomputing. It's hard to believe that SGI survived the last 5 years without anything going for it, given their once opportunity-rich vantage point.
It turns out that SGI's "graphics card" staff did go to ATI and nVidia. But the industry didn't develop quite like that: ATI was founded in 1985, nVidia in 1993.
Commodity PC HW didn't kill S3/Matrox/Trident. Leadtek/nvidia/ATI run on commodity PCs. Commodity PCs are in fact the place for highend specialists to reach a big market. Only the PC makers themselves are getting killed by commoditization of PCs, and they're not getting very killed anymore.
The graphics coprocessor biz is very competitive and volatile. But it's based more on performance than marketing than is the mass workstation ("PC") market. That's why nVidia is now champ, but a relatively recent entrant. Next year a new king wearing a new crown could rule the roost. That could be SGI.
Most people watch movies to talk about them with friends or at work. Mostly just to chime in "I saw that", so they'll fit in. They stopped reading books to "wait for the movie" instead. Now NetFlix means they can still claim "oh, I rented that", without wasting time watching.
Most movies are so bad, that everyone's better off.
Why doesn't SGI just admit they're no longer needed to make computers, and just make graphics cards? Make the best OpenGL "accelerator" chips, give away lower-performance OpenGL libraries for free to keep the API popular and capture a new generation of developers. Sell some overpriced complete systems from mostly commodity HW to the high-end film and TV studios that need them. And release all the fancy extra tech accumulated over the years as plugins to apps actually successfully marketing them under other brands.
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Impeachment can be initiated by a single state in Congress. It doesn't require the entire House, a majority, a full committee, or even a team of Congressmembers. Of course, after impeachment is initiated, a majority of the House must vote to impeach - and the Senate must try and convict.
But that means you can work on state politicians, not just Congressmembers, to initiate the process.
Initiating impeachment is much easier than practically everyone thinks. And it should be much more common. Can you imagine how lawless the general population would be if it were so difficult and rare to initiate indictment for misdemeanors and felonies? Because impeachment is the equivalent for elected officials who are usually above the law by law, to protect the political process from political abuse of the criminal process. It should not surprise anyone that the political population is so criminal when impeachment is so extremely rarely initiated, let alone completed.
But the only barrier to political justice is public ignorance. Get educated, and educate someone else, for a better America.
He's a hypocrite for cherrypicking his morality, while expecting the government to force it on others who don't share it.
If you're actually interested in his actual hypocricy, not just the morality of his gambling vice, the reason it's more than just an ad hominem criticism of that powerful politician is very clear.
It's what we thought we could do with the FPGA/DSP fabric we'd invented for our "prepress" digital camera back in 1990, when we realized it was smarter than us.
We had tried all kinds of rules-based and curve/data-fitting algorithms to calibrate the camera's colorspaces between input targets and output devices. Then we just made it feedback between the targets and devices, storing de/convolution kernels when the data converged stably. We talked about calibrating to all kinds of sensors/media, but we moved on to wrap the platform in apps instead.
I'd still love to get back into a lab like that, upgraded with a decade and a half of neural network techniques and the vastly higher cheap integration.
The real damage being done here is that the apparent capacity of the audience for consuming many titles is increasing. The bottleneck of watching the movie is removed. So now Hollywood can stuff even more worthless crap through the pipeline.
It will get harder to distinguish the worthwhile titles from the crap, and the good movies will fill with product placements, because they're more likely to actually get watched.
NIST certification fluctuating unintelligibly is a security nightmare. NIST's certification process needs to be reliable, or the uncertainty will create not only risk of using broken or incompatible security, but also spikes in attacks as crackers get the news that some product might be broken. The products might not be broken, just NIST's decertification process, but who needs the extra waves of attacks?
I'm not surprised that this procurement certification is broken. Bush's top procurement official got busted for being badly broken. Spending $3 TRILLION a year on stuff while lining your pockets has got to leave some holes in the system.
No, living in NYC has taught me that it's good to slap down an aggressive fool when they first show up, before they make real trouble, or inspire others.
I think posting as AC has made you kinda obtuse.
Well those nerves have always had the capacity to heal. We're only now working with adding capacities by meddling with inhibition mechanisms. But the conventional wisdom used to be that nerves don't regenerate. Even through my premed physio classes in the 1980s they taught us that principle. Now the CW is a lot less humbug.
I watch medicine's continuing developments in letting the body heal itself while playing a champion support role. Ben Franklin said "god does the healing, the doctor collects the reward". I'm looking forward to seeing that principle become more and more true, worshiping my god at the temple of my body.
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Maybe I'm giving the TrollMod brain too much credit.
You Anonymous idiot Cowards are all the same. Predictable, boring, but easy to call out as stupid. A nice little break from work, but pathetic.
You know, I remember when that summary would have said "nerves, unlike other cells, don't regrow when damaged". Now it's just brain/spinal nerves, not growing fibers, which an enzyme can fix.
How long before I can backup my mind in a spare brain, and go back to partying like when I was a kid? When nerves didn't regenerate, and I was too dumb to care?
Sure you're a different AC.
Why is it that when I see that the replier to a comment is an Anonymous Coward, I'm pretty certain that I'll have to come up with a new way to respond to a stupid, obnoxious post with sufficient strength to shut them up?
Because so many people who think being against war like a sane person is a style decision like "treehugging" or "saving the Earth" - because they're too gutless and evil to understand any of them. Which naturally has them posting as AC.
More clues for you: I live in NYC, where we ride the subway to work. So we know that when an aggressive moron actually comes up to us shooting off their fool mouth, we'd best bust it off and hand it back before they try something even stupider.
Now go back to your cave and try to figure out how to rewind your propeller.
Fuck you, Anonymous idiot Coward. Your brain could be replaced by a rubberband and a propeller.
The "direct compensation only" analysis is useless. Smarter execs will take less cash out of operations they're spending to improve company profit. And take more in equity or even perks that the corporation has to deliver anyway as part of its core business. Like free rent at a hotel chain.
Ignoring the complete package is just another way for business analysts to look like they've got "unique vision" when finding a counterintuitive economic, especially at tech companies that few people believe they can understand, anyway.
Large number of microprocessors? Why not a box stuffed with hundreds of millions of FPGA gates, configured into lots of multiply-accumulators (or embed lots of hardwired DSPs), interconnected across and between layers? That is how the brain actually works. Hook it up to cameras, mics and some rubber/piezo tentacles with pressure/heat sensors, leave it in the lab for a few months, and start asking it questions.
I like these Backslashes better than nothing. They give Slashdot's editors a way to get some articulated grip on the stories Slashdot covers and Slashdotters' response to them. Which helps develop an editorial consciousness through which new stories are filtered before they're published.
But I wish it were less centralized. Slashdot is better than newspapers because it's mainly "letters to the editor", sparked by editors' published stories. Because those LoE's are letters to each other. Maybe the top 5% by moderated points, weighted by metamoderation and negative comments (also metamoderated), of posters to each day's top story or two (by comment count), could be autoinvited to a Backslash discussion among themselves, summarizing and highlighting comments. That competition might also encourage better comments.
I already pointed out how Microsoft's abuse of its W3C membership and the W3C's structure makes the Web worse and weakens the W3C. Regardless of whether Höhrmann complained about them specifically, it's true. But that's just a response to your defense of MS after I mentioned how their membership behind the closed door signaled today's inevitable mess to us a decade ago.
MS was our tipoff. They are not unique. They are just one of the corporate paymasters creating conflicts and system games from which the W3C cannot escape with its closed-door membership. Which is the general description that Höhrmann did mention.
You're not a member the way Microsoft is a member. That's the problem. MS didn't create the problem, but it has used it to its advantage.
Tell me about DHTML and IE compatibility. Or general MS compliance. They certainly do help shepherd the W3C along standards directions that they prefer to beat with proprietary versions. That's what "embrace and extend" means, which has been MS's strategy since they publicly reprioritized the Internet and joined the new W3C.
I don't know how you could be part of the W3C and not see that. But those kind of scope blinders are part of the MS advantage in the way they use the W3C to game the system they've mastered.
Which parts of "corporate paymasters" and "closed-door membership" don't you understand?
This problem is exactly what people predicted back in the mid 1990s, when W3C was formed. I was on the IETF HTTP-WG, and even those of us on various corporate payrolls knew Microsoft's membership in a closed-door W3C membership meant Web standards would go this way.
It's a testament to the basic strength, openness and simplicity of the WWW that the W3C could continue its model for so long without collapsing itself or the Web.
Ah, well that's a reasonable point. On that point, higher up the supply chain, I wonder if SGI could survive selling services or IP to graphics chipmakers. If it didn't all walk out the door to nVidia and ATI in 1999 with a reasonable "GPU only" strategy.
Or, to flip it around, maybe SGI is positioned well to reboot into a "GPGPU" house. Overloading the OpenGL API for scalable supercomputing. It's hard to believe that SGI survived the last 5 years without anything going for it, given their once opportunity-rich vantage point.
It turns out that SGI's "graphics card" staff did go to ATI and nVidia. But the industry didn't develop quite like that: ATI was founded in 1985, nVidia in 1993.
Commodity PC HW didn't kill S3/Matrox/Trident. Leadtek/nvidia/ATI run on commodity PCs. Commodity PCs are in fact the place for highend specialists to reach a big market. Only the PC makers themselves are getting killed by commoditization of PCs, and they're not getting very killed anymore.
OpenGL, the SGI (invention) specialty, as I said.
The graphics coprocessor biz is very competitive and volatile. But it's based more on performance than marketing than is the mass workstation ("PC") market. That's why nVidia is now champ, but a relatively recent entrant. Next year a new king wearing a new crown could rule the roost. That could be SGI.
Most people watch movies to talk about them with friends or at work. Mostly just to chime in "I saw that", so they'll fit in. They stopped reading books to "wait for the movie" instead. Now NetFlix means they can still claim "oh, I rented that", without wasting time watching.
Most movies are so bad, that everyone's better off.
Why doesn't SGI just admit they're no longer needed to make computers, and just make graphics cards? Make the best OpenGL "accelerator" chips, give away lower-performance OpenGL libraries for free to keep the API popular and capture a new generation of developers. Sell some overpriced complete systems from mostly commodity HW to the high-end film and TV studios that need them. And release all the fancy extra tech accumulated over the years as plugins to apps actually successfully marketing them under other brands.