My memory is a bit hazy, but I seem to recall that US astronauts originally did not carry passports. NASA (and probably the Department of State) considered their space suits to be the equivalent should they land in not-so-friendly territory. However, a science fiction writer (Ben Bova, I think) wrote a novel about just this scenario and since then American astronauts carry their passports with them on space flights.
Of course, this could be faulty memory or even an urban legend. I really don't know.
The National Security Council, a group of appointed senior officials, assists the President in formulating foreign policy and intelligence priorities. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) directs and coordinates the diverse activities of all the U.S. intelligence organizations. The IC has representation from many intelligence agencies, including intelligence functions in the DoD, Departments of Justice, Treasury, Energy, and State, and the CIA. While not a military organization, NSA is one of several elements of the IC administered by the DoD.
"Then came the Holy One, blessed be He,
and slew the angel of death,
that killed the shohet that slaughtered the ox
that drank the water that quenched the fire
that burned the stick that beat the dog
that bit the cat that ate the goat
my father bought for two zuzim."
I've asked the USPS about this some years back. The junk mailers do not have to pay when their business reply cards and envelopes are used for any other purpose than what they intended.
Domestic Mail Manual -- S922 Business Reply Mail
1.6 Intentions of the Permit Holder
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even when postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.
Instead we get the tyranny of the MINORITY. Democrats received the majority of votes for the House of Representatives, the majority of votes for the Senate in the past two elections and the plurality of votes for Presidentcy. Yet the Republicans will control all three come January 20.
No conspiracy here. This ballot was designed by the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, not by the Governor's office. County Supervisor of Elections is an elected position and the current officeholder is a Democrat.
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be just as easily explained by stupidity.
"Shouldn't it be up to Microsoft to prove that illegal copies are being used? Innocent until proven guilty, isn't that in our Bill of Rights?"
Not really. "Innocent until proven guilty" descends from British Common Law and applies only to criminal cases. The Microsoft action falls under civil law and the standard of truth required to win in civil court is "preponderence of the evidence." He who piles it highest and deepest usually wins.
"I for one sure as *hell* don't want open-source air traffic control software. How are you going to test it? Not at *my* airport!!!"
Air traffic controller software probably IS open source. I know for a fact that the algorithms for TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) developed by MITRE are open source, although the implementations by the manufacturers of the cockpit devices may be proprietary.
Not only does lending create money, now that money is not based on precious metals, it is how virtually all money is created today. For example, if banks loan out 80% of their deposits, the total money supply increase by a factor of 5.
The Federal Reserve Banks do the same thing on a grander scale. Federal Reserve Notes are what they loan out. The same is true for currencies around the world
"Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet..." -- Newt Gingrich on C-SPAN at American Political Science Association colloquium
Of course it's a troll. Al Gore never said he invented the internet.
In any case, open source is old, much older than most slashdot readers. It used to be S.O.P. for computer manufacturers to supply source code for their operating systems. The users (well, systems programmers, called sysadmins today) were encouraged to tweak it, modify it, fix bugs, add extensions, etc., and share their efforts with the rest of the user community for the cost of copying.
Al Gore never said he "Invented the Internet"
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"But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
From the standpoint of congressional action which led from Arpanet to Internet, his statement is essentially true, although he may have somewhat exaggerated his role.
If you really want your Congressional mail to be effective, handwrite it. Handwritten letters carry much more weight than typed or printed ones.
(If your handwriting is basically illegible, you can attach a typed/printed transcript.)
>Atheism is the LACK of belief in any deity. It >is *NOT* (repeat **NOT**) the belief that the >deity does not exist.
Your definition contradicts all of the four dictionaries I checked, each defining it as, "The doctrine that there is no God or gods," or equivalent.
You sound like Humpty Dumpty:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."
BTW the proof was of the proposition that, "There is no valid proof of God's non-existence." It is valid, as such.
It's probably my monitor/video card but I see no difference between xxyy00, xxyy33, and xxyy66 (for any position of xx,yy,nn).
Monitor Mag MX-21F
Video card ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro PCI
Atheism is as much an irrational belief system as any other. After all, it is impossible to prove the non-existence of God. Proof: If God exists it would be in His power to alter your senses and thoughts to make you believe that you possess a valid proof of His non-existence.
from http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_97/journa l/vol4/spb3
2.1 Heating up over lost information A great deal of time has been spent on investigating whether quantum theory places any fundamental limits on computing machines. As a result, it is now believed that physics does not place any absolute limits on the speed, reliability or memory capacity of computing machines. One consideration that needs to be made however, concerns the information that may be 'lost' in a computation [23]. In order for a computer to run arbitrarily fast, its operation must be reversible (i.e. it's inputs must be entirely deducible from its outputs). This is because irreversible computations involve a 'loss' of information which can be equated to a loss in heat, and thus the restricted ability of the system to dissipate heat will in turn limit the performance of the computer. An example of information being lost can be seen in an ordinary AND gate. An AND gate has two inputs and only one output, which means that in the process of moving from the input to the output of the gate, we loose one bit of information.
In 1976, Charles Bennett proved that it is possible to build a universal computer entirely from reversible gates, and that expressing a program in terms of primitive reversible operations does not significantly slow it down. A suitable universal and reversible gate with which we could build a computer is the Toffoli gate.
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My memory is a bit hazy, but I seem to recall that US astronauts originally did not carry passports. NASA (and probably the Department of State) considered their space suits to be the equivalent should they land in not-so-friendly territory. However, a science fiction writer (Ben Bova, I think) wrote a novel about just this scenario and since then American astronauts carry their passports with them on space flights.
Of course, this could be faulty memory or even an urban legend. I really don't know.
From the NSA web site:
The National Security Council, a group of appointed senior officials, assists the President in formulating foreign policy and intelligence priorities. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) directs and coordinates the diverse activities of all the U.S. intelligence organizations. The IC has representation from many intelligence agencies, including intelligence functions in the DoD, Departments of Justice, Treasury, Energy, and State, and the CIA. While not a military organization, NSA is one of several elements of the IC administered by the DoD."Then came the Holy One, blessed be He, and slew the angel of death, that killed the shohet that slaughtered the ox that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the goat my father bought for two zuzim."
A Religion is a "religion" which has achieved some degree of respectability, deservedly or not.
Have you considered calling an outcall (escort) service?
Calling Democrats socialists has precisely the same semantic content as calling Republicans fascists.
This is the Department of Defense we are talking about here. They have a lot more money, guns, and lawyers then you do. They win.
I've asked the USPS about this some years back. The junk mailers do not have to pay when their business reply cards and envelopes are used for any other purpose than what they intended.
Domestic Mail Manual -- S922 Business Reply Mail
1.6 Intentions of the Permit Holder
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even when postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.
I never gave any suggestions. I was just stating the facts of the situation. It was your comment that was imbecilic.
Instead we get the tyranny of the MINORITY. Democrats received the majority of votes for the House of Representatives, the majority of votes for the Senate in the past two elections and the plurality of votes for Presidentcy. Yet the Republicans will control all three come January 20.
No conspiracy here. This ballot was designed by the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, not by the Governor's office. County Supervisor of Elections is an elected position and the current officeholder is a Democrat.
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be just as easily explained by stupidity.
"Shouldn't it be up to Microsoft to prove that illegal copies are being used? Innocent until proven guilty, isn't that in our Bill of Rights?"
Not really. "Innocent until proven guilty" descends from British Common Law and applies only to criminal cases. The Microsoft action falls under civil law and the standard of truth required to win in civil court is "preponderence of the evidence." He who piles it highest and deepest usually wins.
Air traffic controller software probably IS open source. I know for a fact that the algorithms for TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) developed by MITRE are open source, although the implementations by the manufacturers of the cockpit devices may be proprietary.
Actually, it corresponds to the economic boom.
Ben Franklin invented the lightning rod
Not only does lending create money, now that money is not based on precious metals, it is how virtually all money is created today. For example, if banks loan out 80% of their deposits, the total money supply increase by a factor of 5. The Federal Reserve Banks do the same thing on a grander scale. Federal Reserve Notes are what they loan out. The same is true for currencies around the world
"Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet..." -- Newt Gingrich on C-SPAN at American Political Science Association colloquium
Of course it's a troll. Al Gore never said he invented the internet.
In any case, open source is old, much older than most slashdot readers. It used to be S.O.P. for computer manufacturers to supply source code for their operating systems. The users (well, systems programmers, called sysadmins today) were encouraged to tweak it, modify it, fix bugs, add extensions, etc., and share their efforts with the rest of the user community for the cost of copying.
From the standpoint of congressional action which led from Arpanet to Internet, his statement is essentially true, although he may have somewhat exaggerated his role.
If you really want your Congressional mail to be effective, handwrite it. Handwritten letters carry much more weight than typed or printed ones. (If your handwriting is basically illegible, you can attach a typed/printed transcript.)
Does it hurt when you push your tounge that far into your cheek?
>Atheism is the LACK of belief in any deity. It >is *NOT* (repeat **NOT**) the belief that the >deity does not exist.
Your definition contradicts all of the four dictionaries I checked, each defining it as, "The doctrine that there is no God or gods," or equivalent.
You sound like Humpty Dumpty:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."
BTW the proof was of the proposition that, "There is no valid proof of God's non-existence." It is valid, as such.
It's probably my monitor/video card but I see no difference between xxyy00, xxyy33, and xxyy66 (for any position of xx,yy,nn). Monitor Mag MX-21F Video card ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro PCI
Atheism is as much an irrational belief system as any other. After all, it is impossible to prove the non-existence of God. Proof: If God exists it would be in His power to alter your senses and thoughts to make you believe that you possess a valid proof of His non-existence.
Second greatest trick. Greatest trick was God making the world think that He does exist.
from http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_97/journa l/vol4/spb3
2.1 Heating up over lost information
A great deal of time has been spent on investigating whether quantum theory places any fundamental limits on computing machines. As a result, it is now believed that physics does not place any absolute limits on the speed, reliability or memory capacity of computing machines. One consideration that needs to be made however, concerns the information that may be 'lost' in a computation [23]. In order for a computer to run arbitrarily fast, its operation must be reversible (i.e. it's inputs must be entirely deducible from its outputs). This is because irreversible computations involve a 'loss' of information which can be equated to a loss in heat, and thus the restricted ability of the system to dissipate heat will in turn limit the performance of the computer. An example of information being lost can be seen in an ordinary AND gate. An AND gate has two inputs and only one output, which means that in the process of moving from the input to the output of the gate, we loose one bit of information.
In 1976, Charles Bennett proved that it is possible to build a universal computer entirely from reversible gates, and that expressing a program in terms of primitive reversible operations does not significantly slow it down. A suitable universal and reversible gate with which we could build a computer is the Toffoli gate.