In the past, she has advocated a national ID card and a national medical card (all your info in one easily indexed number), I'm guessing she's blowing hot air without fully understanding how this contradicts with her other agendas.
Yes, all the 9/11 hijackers had valid IDs. So what? The ID requirement doesn't pretend to "prevent" issues; it's simply a place to start for investigators AFTER an incident, regardless of whether the IDs were real or fake...enabling investigators to get a list of names (again, real or not), issuing agencies for the IDs, and sometimes even pictures (which are many times real, even if the ID itself is fake). This information could be critical to an investigation when other lives may be at stake.
They don't photocopy the ID. They simply look at it to make sure that the person standing in front of them is the person on the ID and the person on the ticket. They might scan the magnetic barcode at some terminals, but they do not get any picture data from that. This will prevents amateur (or poorly prepared) attackers but any "real" terrorist will look like a normal citizen no matter what precautions you have in place.
It's not unreasonable to believe that it could have been a first strike. How many countries don't exactly like the US right now? How many have the budget to buy an old russian ICBM where it sits? Oh ya, quite a few. If they were to do such a thing, obviously Russia wouldn't be doing it, so we wouldn't (hopefully) return fire on Russia, but whoever the enemy is did just get a first strike in.
I'm glad we didn't nuke the planet over this. I have to wonder how many people were scrambling for their bunkers, while us civilians didn't hear anything about it until it made the news.
The rocket was a commercial launch that was announced and observed a few weeks ago. The booster stages are simply returning to earth. NORAD and amateur astronomers have been tracking this from the get-go. Just because _you_ weren't informed does not mean that it is reasonable to believe it was a first strike.
1. The Internet. You are using it now. It was originally created by ARPA, now DARPA, which is part of the DoD. You can thank the need for a interconnected, wired (and unwired) network for computer systems the military was using for the "Birth of the Internet."
It was DARPA when the Internet was being developed (in the 60's and 70's). Then came political correctness of the late 80's and 90's and so they dropped the "D" to appeal to neo-hippies who do not want to work for the military industrial complex. Then they came to their senses and put the "D" back in after they realized that the brand name of "DARPA" sounded cooler and wasn't an anagram of AARP.
If we make hydrogen from seawater, then burn the hydrogen, then we're making clean, desalinated water. That can be used for drinking water, irrigation, or whatever. If it's released into the atmosphere, it'll become clouds and rain -- at a faster rate than through natural evaporation.
100 years from now... - Legal action will be considered for the hydrogen cartels for not releasing the secret energy source used to split water for pennies per gallon, while selling it for dollars at the pump. - The world will be mired in the ecological disaster of global humidity, which results in excess clouds, reduced temperatures, and bad hair days. - The EPA will be considering if the massive amount of water vapor should be classified as a pollutant.
All the people have to do is show up for the meeting. Its not like people are just getting up and leaving in the middle of the meeting, or not showing up at all because they don't feel like it. You just look at your schedule when you wake up and see that you have a meeting a 2:30. Get into the office by then and things are fine. Communication with the group will result in the meetings being scheduled at the appropriate times, and people will make sure that their schedules are free during these times.
You just need self-motivated people working for you.
Piss off gamers with a problematic part and you might lose some "street cred".
Piss off IT managers with a problematic part and you will lose significant revenue for many quarters to come.
If I were going to test out a new product, a bunch of rich kid early adopters would be the market segment to target. They are always willing to try something new and their decisions do not significantly impact your bottom line.
Once the process kinks are worked out, incorporate the other features for your main line processors.
It is fine to have bad measurements, but they must be explained and not discarded. Proper equipment should not be making "random errors". It is in the process of explaining the outlier, that you find the cause of the "random error". Once known, you can take precautions to prevent it from happening again.
If they saw a data point that didn't support their theory, they just called it an outlier, and deleted it.
This is a fundamental failure in human thought and is pervasive at all levels of society. If something does not fit your preconceived notion of how things should be, make it fit!
Speech, assembly, etc... are no different. I'm sure the founding fathers never intended for the 1st Ammendment to include websites and Oprah being beamed around the world influencing people's minds with BS either.
Everyone is sure what the fonding fathers thought and would intend today. Keep the following in mind.
1) The average citizen could purchase any military technology, including artillery pieces, explosives and later, gatling guns and machine guns.
2) Medical science was non-existant. Simple flesh wounds would often lead to fatal infections. A musket or cannon from #1 could be classfied as a "weapon of mass destruction", but was still allowed on the market.
3) During the founding father's time, the US Army was often augmented by privateers and mercenaries. This was to keep the army from bloating and asserting its will on the people. These privateers were often self-equipped, and the only way that the founding fathers could count on them was to allow them to purchase what they needed to do their job. When the war was over, they kept their equipment and took it home.
4) People of all religious faiths were allowed, even polygamists, which was similiar in "shock" value as homosexuality is today. There was no imperitive to squash these "harmful" ideas. The founding fathers knew that the best way to fight harmful ideas is with good ideas. The population knows better than the government what it wants.
So many people claim to know what the founding fathers would do. Most people ignore the fact that the Founding Fathers established a system that was borderline anarchy. Just enough to keep a lid on things and let the people solve the problems themselves.
The concepts that the Founding Fathers practiced are considered revolutionary today. Their ideas would scare the hell out of most people, but yet people claim to speak on their behalf when it comes to bigger, more intrusive, and more restrictive government.
Please, read your history books before you go putting words in dead people's mouths.
I should have clarified. It was an image of the mirror which showed the contours of the mirror in false color. It was the pattern of that image. It was in either a Popular[Science or Mechanics] magazine, if I recall.
I remember seeing an article about the Hubble mirror before it launched. It went on and on about how perfect it was and it had an image showing the contours of the mirror. Instead of looking like a bunch of concentric circles, it looked more like a cat's eye, and my first thought was that it wouldn't focus light very well if that were the case. But I figured that the folks at NASA knew what they were doing.
Turns out that the mirror was perfectly flawed. Although the mirror was ground exactly to specification, the equation they used to make the spec produced the assymetry that caused the Hubble to have blurry vision.
So don't be too quick to assume that the folks at NASA have taken care of everything.
NetBSD runs on a number of different platforms (like around 50) without modifications to the source tree. All you do is select one of the targets when you run the build script. No patching or other hokey workarounds. Just a good cross-platform architecture. Building the whole system (kernel+basic userland) can be done with a few commands.
If you are only interested in running on PCs, then NetBSD is probably not what you are looking for. But for embedded develpers it is quite attractive.
The code should not accept known bad data. If data has known limits, then those limits need to be enforced. This is simple programming 101 stuff that people do not do because they are in a rush to complete more interesting or glamourous parts of the program.
I have kids and I would be on the phone immediately if they did something like this. My kids do the following "death activities"...
gymnastics baseball tree climbing swimming tag "buttball" (dodgeball derivative)
Yes they get hurt and bruised up. No big deal. They also learned what can cause injury and they have adapted to avoid it or deal with it. My kids can now fall off their bikes and brush themselves off. Even with a painful scrape, they know to come to me, tell what happened and take care of the problem. But they do not come crying and babbling incoherently to me.
As far as the feeding goes, if my kids do not eat what is on their plate at dinner time, they go to bed hungry. The kids do not get a special meal prepared just for them because they don't like what the rest of the family is eating. I learned how to eat food that didn't nessecarily like, and so can they. They can also learn to think about the consequences of their decisions. Sometimes they eat because they do not want to be hungry. Other times, they deal with the hunger. Either way, they learn a lesson.
"In short, the socio-economics of free markets kills of the smart people by voluntary extinction."
No, you just have 100 poor people for every rich person. After all, the rich person needs someone to do his work while he collects the money. Numbers alone do not equal success. The rich will occupy a niche environment.
Mr Burns: You laughed when I bought TicketMaster. "Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge." Smithers: Well, it's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.
Too bad we don't have a way of keeping the Earth in the same orbit/on the same axis of rotation.
Why are people so adverse to change? Everywhere you go people want a static environment and will go to great lengths to achieve it. They want to be told how things are and know that this will never change.
I would think that change is an opportunity to strengthen our position. The lessons learned in dealing with small changes will help us when the big one comes. But if we keep trying to force a static environment, all we will learn is that nature is much more powerful than we are.
You don't think maybe a manufacturer would push new technologies out the door to get new sales do you? "..the market demands.." my ass.
It is just an expression. It is a shorter way of saying "If a compelling product is not produced the market will preferentially buy a competitior and drive business down."
The market will buy dual-core if they think there is a benefit. Even if they have no need for the feature, if they think it will benefit them, they will buy it. Technically not a demand, but close enough from the point of view of the producer.
Most game developers simply develop content for use with 3rd party engines. It is these engines that need to be ported. Then all the games will follow.
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In the past, she has advocated a national ID card and a national medical card (all your info in one easily indexed number), I'm guessing she's blowing hot air without fully understanding how this contradicts with her other agendas.
Much of the sound that this thing is going to hear is the supersonic signature of the bullet, not the muzzle report.
I am wondering how it is going to filter out "friendly fire" when the friendlies (Iraqi army and police) are using the same weapons as the insurgents.
Yes, all the 9/11 hijackers had valid IDs. So what? The ID requirement doesn't pretend to "prevent" issues; it's simply a place to start for investigators AFTER an incident, regardless of whether the IDs were real or fake...enabling investigators to get a list of names (again, real or not), issuing agencies for the IDs, and sometimes even pictures (which are many times real, even if the ID itself is fake). This information could be critical to an investigation when other lives may be at stake.
They don't photocopy the ID. They simply look at it to make sure that the person standing in front of them is the person on the ID and the person on the ticket. They might scan the magnetic barcode at some terminals, but they do not get any picture data from that. This will prevents amateur (or poorly prepared) attackers but any "real" terrorist will look like a normal citizen no matter what precautions you have in place.
It's not unreasonable to believe that it could have been a first strike. How many countries don't exactly like the US right now? How many have the budget to buy an old russian ICBM where it sits? Oh ya, quite a few. If they were to do such a thing, obviously Russia wouldn't be doing it, so we wouldn't (hopefully) return fire on Russia, but whoever the enemy is did just get a first strike in.
I'm glad we didn't nuke the planet over this. I have to wonder how many people were scrambling for their bunkers, while us civilians didn't hear anything about it until it made the news.
The rocket was a commercial launch that was announced and observed a few weeks ago. The booster stages are simply returning to earth. NORAD and amateur astronomers have been tracking this from the get-go. Just because _you_ weren't informed does not mean that it is reasonable to believe it was a first strike.
1. The Internet. You are using it now. It was originally created by ARPA, now DARPA, which is part of the DoD. You can thank the need for a interconnected, wired (and unwired) network for computer systems the military was using for the "Birth of the Internet."
It was DARPA when the Internet was being developed (in the 60's and 70's). Then came political correctness of the late 80's and 90's and so they dropped the "D" to appeal to neo-hippies who do not want to work for the military industrial complex. Then they came to their senses and put the "D" back in after they realized that the brand name of "DARPA" sounded cooler and wasn't an anagram of AARP.
The items are not "stolen". Nobody is deprived of the song you downloaded.
This is simply Globalization hitting the music distributers and they don't like it.
But Dick Cheney shot a lawyer. Isn't that a good thing?
If they are aiming ahead of a running, sightless deer, is that the blind leading the blind?
Can blind people hunt at night?
If we make hydrogen from seawater, then burn the hydrogen, then we're making clean, desalinated water. That can be used for drinking water, irrigation, or whatever. If it's released into the atmosphere, it'll become clouds and rain -- at a faster rate than through natural evaporation.
100 years from now...
- Legal action will be considered for the hydrogen cartels for not releasing the secret energy source used to split water for pennies per gallon, while selling it for dollars at the pump.
- The world will be mired in the ecological disaster of global humidity, which results in excess clouds, reduced temperatures, and bad hair days.
- The EPA will be considering if the massive amount of water vapor should be classified as a pollutant.
All the people have to do is show up for the meeting. Its not like people are just getting up and leaving in the middle of the meeting, or not showing up at all because they don't feel like it. You just look at your schedule when you wake up and see that you have a meeting a 2:30. Get into the office by then and things are fine. Communication with the group will result in the meetings being scheduled at the appropriate times, and people will make sure that their schedules are free during these times.
You just need self-motivated people working for you.
Don't forget...
Piss off gamers with a problematic part and you might lose some "street cred".
Piss off IT managers with a problematic part and you will lose significant revenue for many quarters to come.
If I were going to test out a new product, a bunch of rich kid early adopters would be the market segment to target. They are always willing to try something new and their decisions do not significantly impact your bottom line.
Once the process kinks are worked out, incorporate the other features for your main line processors.
It is fine to have bad measurements, but they must be explained and not discarded. Proper equipment should not be making "random errors". It is in the process of explaining the outlier, that you find the cause of the "random error". Once known, you can take precautions to prevent it from happening again.
If they saw a data point that didn't support their theory, they just called it an outlier, and deleted it.
This is a fundamental failure in human thought and is pervasive at all levels of society. If something does not fit your preconceived notion of how things should be, make it fit!
Speech, assembly, etc... are no different. I'm sure the founding fathers never intended for the 1st Ammendment to include websites and Oprah being beamed around the world influencing people's minds with BS either.
Everyone is sure what the fonding fathers thought and would intend today. Keep the following in mind.
1) The average citizen could purchase any military technology, including artillery pieces, explosives and later, gatling guns and machine guns.
2) Medical science was non-existant. Simple flesh wounds would often lead to fatal infections. A musket or cannon from #1 could be classfied as a "weapon of mass destruction", but was still allowed on the market.
3) During the founding father's time, the US Army was often augmented by privateers and mercenaries. This was to keep the army from bloating and asserting its will on the people. These privateers were often self-equipped, and the only way that the founding fathers could count on them was to allow them to purchase what they needed to do their job. When the war was over, they kept their equipment and took it home.
4) People of all religious faiths were allowed, even polygamists, which was similiar in "shock" value as homosexuality is today. There was no imperitive to squash these "harmful" ideas. The founding fathers knew that the best way to fight harmful ideas is with good ideas. The population knows better than the government what it wants.
So many people claim to know what the founding fathers would do. Most people ignore the fact that the Founding Fathers established a system that was borderline anarchy. Just enough to keep a lid on things and let the people solve the problems themselves.
The concepts that the Founding Fathers practiced are considered revolutionary today. Their ideas would scare the hell out of most people, but yet people claim to speak on their behalf when it comes to bigger, more intrusive, and more restrictive government.
Please, read your history books before you go putting words in dead people's mouths.
I should have clarified. It was an image of the mirror which showed the contours of the mirror in false color. It was the pattern of that image. It was in either a Popular[Science or Mechanics] magazine, if I recall.
I remember seeing an article about the Hubble mirror before it launched. It went on and on about how perfect it was and it had an image showing the contours of the mirror. Instead of looking like a bunch of concentric circles, it looked more like a cat's eye, and my first thought was that it wouldn't focus light very well if that were the case. But I figured that the folks at NASA knew what they were doing.
Turns out that the mirror was perfectly flawed. Although the mirror was ground exactly to specification, the equation they used to make the spec produced the assymetry that caused the Hubble to have blurry vision.
So don't be too quick to assume that the folks at NASA have taken care of everything.
Maybe not a gas cloud, but there seems to be a "Dark Spot on Uranus".
Cosmic dingleberry.
(Uranus jokes will never get old. Insert renaming to Urectum joke here).
NetBSD runs on a number of different platforms (like around 50) without modifications to the source tree. All you do is select one of the targets when you run the build script. No patching or other hokey workarounds. Just a good cross-platform architecture. Building the whole system (kernel+basic userland) can be done with a few commands.
If you are only interested in running on PCs, then NetBSD is probably not what you are looking for. But for embedded develpers it is quite attractive.
I have used it before to provide an animated virtual front panel for remote equipment. It was like a cartoon of what the machine was doing.
I believe in people. Sometimes it is hard to, but for the most part I believe that people can be smart or become smart
Keep in mind that half of the people out there have a below-average IQ.
The code should not accept known bad data. If data has known limits, then those limits need to be enforced. This is simple programming 101 stuff that people do not do because they are in a rush to complete more interesting or glamourous parts of the program.
I have kids and I would be on the phone immediately if they did something like this. My kids do the following "death activities"...
gymnastics
baseball
tree climbing
swimming
tag
"buttball" (dodgeball derivative)
Yes they get hurt and bruised up. No big deal. They also learned what can cause injury and they have adapted to avoid it or deal with it. My kids can now fall off their bikes and brush themselves off. Even with a painful scrape, they know to come to me, tell what happened and take care of the problem. But they do not come crying and babbling incoherently to me.
As far as the feeding goes, if my kids do not eat what is on their plate at dinner time, they go to bed hungry. The kids do not get a special meal prepared just for them because they don't like what the rest of the family is eating. I learned how to eat food that didn't nessecarily like, and so can they. They can also learn to think about the consequences of their decisions. Sometimes they eat because they do not want to be hungry. Other times, they deal with the hunger. Either way, they learn a lesson.
Too much coddling going on.
"In short, the socio-economics of free markets kills of the smart people by voluntary extinction."
No, you just have 100 poor people for every rich person. After all, the rich person needs someone to do his work while he collects the money. Numbers alone do not equal success. The rich will occupy a niche environment.
Mr Burns: You laughed when I bought TicketMaster. "Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge."
Smithers: Well, it's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.
Too bad we don't have a way of keeping the Earth in the same orbit/on the same axis of rotation.
Why are people so adverse to change? Everywhere you go people want a static environment and will go to great lengths to achieve it. They want to be told how things are and know that this will never change.
I would think that change is an opportunity to strengthen our position. The lessons learned in dealing with small changes will help us when the big one comes. But if we keep trying to force a static environment, all we will learn is that nature is much more powerful than we are.
You don't think maybe a manufacturer would push new technologies out the door to get new sales do you? "..the market demands.." my ass.
It is just an expression. It is a shorter way of saying "If a compelling product is not produced the market will preferentially buy a competitior and drive business down."
The market will buy dual-core if they think there is a benefit. Even if they have no need for the feature, if they think it will benefit them, they will buy it. Technically not a demand, but close enough from the point of view of the producer.
Most game developers simply develop content for use with 3rd party engines. It is these engines that need to be ported. Then all the games will follow.