Not exactly. Print ad delivery is subsidized by the first class mail and used by the postal service to feed their bloated government entity. I wouldn't care about that if the post office was a private company designed to make money, but as a government agency, it's not right that they create a market for themselves.
Nope.
Fees for one form of delivery are not used to "subsidize" another unless you pervert the word to mean the buildings, trucks, employees, etc. are shared between classes of delivery.
The USPS is not funded through taxation. It is entirely within the chartering documents and intent of the Post Office that they make a profit. Without profit, there is no way to grow and expand.
Whoever modded your comment to 5 probably didn't realize how inaccurate your foudnational statements are.
How many of you have seen kudzu? Yeah, there's an example of what happens when you take living creatures from their environment without thinking the whole thing through.
Just WHO is going to pay to purchase all the land and create the entire environment which is native for these animals? What happens when they get hit with a "native" organism for which they have no defense? Cough, cough, dutch elm disease, cough, cough, asian bugs from shipping crates (yeah, that was brilliant, "save" money by using wodden shipping crates on cheap products from China then spend billions trying to wipe out the bugs they sneak over...)
All it takes is watching one shoe on Animal Planet about large predators to see just how much land is necessary for each of them and all the other animals, bugs, plants, weather and soil composition must support them.
This is a stupid idea unless the goal is really to get money from people with big hearts and small brains.
That comment about environmental destruction was really funny. I almost spit up my lunch from laughing.
The shuttle doesn't have the ability to monitor ground effects the way satellites do and the woman is the pilot. They're orbiting the earth every couple of hours or so.
Her comment wasn't scientific in any way, it was political and based on junk science.
If it were scientific, she would have commented on land reclamation, creation from various dredging operations and erosion control. Did she truly explain the comment in a quantifiable manner? Uh....no. So this pilot...FELT...the world is being damaged. OK, maybe she used a Ouija board and channeled the earth's spirit to tell her about the damage. Maybe she has a "mystic power crystal" from the Franklin Mint which vibrated to tell her the earth was "sick." Pffff...
This thread is also ridiculous. All these comments about how a space launch supposedly screws up the environment. You people remind me of the folks who claimed rockets woudl punch holes int he atmosphere. The overwhelmingly vast majority of major structural "damage" to the earth comes from political issues like African dictators killing off the farmers or stealing their land so irrigation and fertilization stop.
All you folks who are running down this path haven't first asked yourself wether her statemetn is valid and to what degree of validity. It's like the Stephen Covey example of the huge lumbering operation where everyone is so excited about how efficiently they're working yet they don't realize they're in the wrong forest. She sure wagged you guys.
miniDV EP is the same quality as SP. The only difference is the tape speed. The data packets are the same.
Dropouts? I've been using miniDV for years in an industrial environment and I never have dropouts. Your camera is gummed up as you've already explained.
Always use fresh tapes for important events and record them, completely, with the lens cap on then rewind to retension and create a proper timecode on the entire tape. Don't reuse tapes, keep your camcorder clean and stick to one tape manufacturer.
Pause for 15 minutes while recording? Huh?!?! Most camcorders shut themselves off. There's no good reason to be on pause for 15 minutes. Turn it off then back on.
You don't need a HD. What you need is attention to detail and, it seems, a second camcorder and tripod. Record overlapping segments and do post-editing.
Yes. What are spies? They're just information carriers, aren't they? The same principle applies. Shutting down communicaiton channels means a slight disruption until new channels are established.
I started to type a few more things but why state the obvious to the "bad guys." Think about how websites work.
To echo a previous post, a lot more can be gained by allowing the sites to stay up and watching them than by chasing the people to another location.
To illustrate, when I was in the Air Force, as an ICBM Launch Officer, I had a partner who was in training to move to the OSI, the AF's "special" cops. One day we were talking about the Russian spies which were living near the base. (No surprise there, that base was the largest nuclear weapons site in the world...) I asked why we didn't scoop those people up. He said that would mean we'd have to start all over again. It was considered better to let them watch and watch them than to have an unknown situation.
Having said that, there are vigilantes who shut down al Qaeda and other terrorist web sites. The board at http://haganah.org.il/ is one meeting place for these folks.
That British article goes on to praise the terrorists and say they're so clever that they'll always be one step ahead of law engorcement. It also claims to know the success rate of electronic surveillance including Echelon. Since when is that open knowledge. Uh...yeah...riiiight.
This isn't newsworthy. An idiot writes an article which is stupid. Slow news day at Slashdot, huh?
George W. Bush most certainly DOES support stem cell research, even embryonic stem cell research. His plan is the first federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Couching your FUD with a hollow "I'm a Republican" is a hollow sham.
There is absolutely no proof, whatsoever, that embryonic stem cells have any potential to reverse or prevent Alzheimer's.
Yeah, I saw that, too. The key phrase is "some motor control" and there really hasn't been much said after that. "Some" could mean "almost none" and one case doesn't really prove causation. Mind you, I'm not trying to dampen the enthusiasm at all, I'm trying to be rational about this. There's a long, long, long way to go before we can heal spinal cords. We can't even make skin regrow after a burn or abrasion without it looking like a mess. Imagine how much more complex the spinal column is than skin...
Well, let's see, there IS the question of when life begins. You can't have seen any discussion of embryonic stem cell research without encountered that aspect.
There's also a very valid concern about preventing trafficking in human tissue. Just as there are lots and lots of controls on organ harvesting and donations, there needs to be a way to prevent pregnancies simply for the sake of harvesting embryos to gain such tissue.
There are also a lot of concerns about ensuring this is actually a path with true possibility of results rather than a ghoulish battleground over the value of life and a macabe sideshow. Think of how the Nazi and Imperial Japanese performed experiments on living people. Where is the line drawn? It's a very serious issue.
Monstrously irresponsible snake-oil statements like that made by John Whatshisname (yeah, he was even "my" senator, shows how much he did for NC) that if John Kerry was elected President quadraplegics woudl stand up out of their wheelchairs and walk again are...shall we say...far less than responsible.
On the other hand, if the comments Senator Frist made are true that it is now evident that stem cells are not capable of endless regeneration and there are far fewer than the original 78 strains of stem cells available for federally funded research, perhaps allowing collection of stem cells from those which are left over from invitreo is a good idea.
Your post shows you don't really know much about this.
There is no restriction on private investment into stem cell research.
There are sources of human stem cells other than killing human embryos. Given the current belief that human embyonic stem cells cannot replicate indefinately, they are actually a poor source of the genetic material.
(Sidebar: there are very, very, very few human cells which can replicate endlessly. I don't remember the anem of the woman from whom one strain was harvested and is used for bio research. Virtually all cells have a limit to the number of tiems they can split.)
Prior to President Bush's plan of 4 years ago, there was no Federal funding for this research at all. A lot of what you would be seeing in the common media is not scientific, it's political.
There's far more involved than just regenerating some relatively simple structures like a rat spinal column when the goal is human spinal injury.
I've had a lamenectomy. It's a procedure where tissue has to be removed from between discs in the spine. In my case, I herniated the tissue during heavy squats (word to the wise from a lifetime power lifter, don't do squats, they're too dangerous.) In my case, the tissue was pushed through the fibrous outer sheath that holds the spinal column together. The only possible way to "heal" this would have been to somehow take all the pressure off that part of the body (prevent all muscle movement and stretch the body on a rack), push the tissue back inside then seal the fibrous outer sheath.
Would I pay for such an option? Yes. Is it possible? No. Would some form of simple application of stem cells allow my body to rebuild the missing tissue? Probably not. Not only is a human spinal column far more complex than that of a rat, so are human brains. The human body also lives far longer and the human body is more articulate.
This is nice news but it's just the start of what would have to be a long, long, long process. There's no way to have perfect regeneration of plant tissue yet. Thinking human tissue would be able to regenerate any time soon is silly.
Try opening PowerPoint-created HTML with Firefox. Images don't get scaled properly and embedded video doesn't work. All kinds of spacing is screwed up.
What to do? Switch to OpenOffice? Oh, gee, it doesn't support video. How...1980s. How...grade school.
If it won't work with PowerPoint, it's a toy, not a tool in the real world of business.
Human nature is to wait. If the computer is dead, it's dead, period.
Have you ever tried to connect a US laptop to a non-North American phone system? Will M$ foot the bill for an international phone call from the other side of the world because they've locked your computer up? How do you do this from an airplane?
The point is their activation control makes use of any non-corporate verison of XP useless for any kind of critical use. It's only suited for a game machine or hobbies with that crap.
Wisdom and intuition come from experience. Knowledge accumulation takes time.
Only people without wisdom or experience think most breakthroughs come from people in their 20s. When a technology is new (think: early part of the CS boom) younger people have a lot of energy and do make breakthroughs but those are almost always procedural, not conceptual.
There's a lot of truth to the saying that old age and treachery beats youth and energy. I'd exchange the word "wisdom" for "treachery", however.
The young bull says, "Let's run down there and f@%# that young hefer!" The old bull says, "Let's walk down there and f@%# them all."
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Not exactly. Print ad delivery is subsidized by the first class mail and used by the postal service to feed their bloated government entity. I wouldn't care about that if the post office was a private company designed to make money, but as a government agency, it's not right that they create a market for themselves.
Nope.
Fees for one form of delivery are not used to "subsidize" another unless you pervert the word to mean the buildings, trucks, employees, etc. are shared between classes of delivery.
The USPS is not funded through taxation. It is entirely within the chartering documents and intent of the Post Office that they make a profit. Without profit, there is no way to grow and expand.
Whoever modded your comment to 5 probably didn't realize how inaccurate your foudnational statements are.
Nope, these guys didn't "create" a cell any more than a potter creates clay. They took existing material and manipulated it.
How many of you have seen kudzu? Yeah, there's an example of what happens when you take living creatures from their environment without thinking the whole thing through.
Just WHO is going to pay to purchase all the land and create the entire environment which is native for these animals? What happens when they get hit with a "native" organism for which they have no defense? Cough, cough, dutch elm disease, cough, cough, asian bugs from shipping crates (yeah, that was brilliant, "save" money by using wodden shipping crates on cheap products from China then spend billions trying to wipe out the bugs they sneak over...)
All it takes is watching one shoe on Animal Planet about large predators to see just how much land is necessary for each of them and all the other animals, bugs, plants, weather and soil composition must support them.
This is a stupid idea unless the goal is really to get money from people with big hearts and small brains.
Ants, you need ants. No picnic is complete without them.
Don't forget cockroaches. They make a great hors doeurve with a delicate crack-squish consistency. You can even keep them as pets. Just ask Joe.
This is common to other M$ Office applications.
Try loading PowerPoint-created HTML into something other than Internet Explorer and see what happens.
I've got a short sample with IE and Firefox screenshots here: http://home.mindspring.com/~fredthompson/
OpenOffice doesn't properly load all M$ Office files, especially those with fine formatting control or embedded video.
Have you ever used WinFax to send a Word document? You'll notice the margins change.
PDF seems to be the only way to keep the formatting but then you don't have the raw text content.
Supposedly, the upcoming major release of M$ Office won't use proprietary formats. Yeah, well, we've heard that before so maybe yes, maybe no.
"thus making cellphones more affordable in developing economies"
should read:
"thus reducing the cost to manufacture cell phones"
The term "affordable" is objective, not subjective.
Theoretically, this should allow reduction in price in ALL markets.
That comment about environmental destruction was really funny. I almost spit up my lunch from laughing.
The shuttle doesn't have the ability to monitor ground effects the way satellites do and the woman is the pilot. They're orbiting the earth every couple of hours or so.
Her comment wasn't scientific in any way, it was political and based on junk science.
If it were scientific, she would have commented on land reclamation, creation from various dredging operations and erosion control. Did she truly explain the comment in a quantifiable manner? Uh....no. So this pilot...FELT...the world is being damaged. OK, maybe she used a Ouija board and channeled the earth's spirit to tell her about the damage. Maybe she has a "mystic power crystal" from the Franklin Mint which vibrated to tell her the earth was "sick." Pffff...
This thread is also ridiculous. All these comments about how a space launch supposedly screws up the environment. You people remind me of the folks who claimed rockets woudl punch holes int he atmosphere. The overwhelmingly vast majority of major structural "damage" to the earth comes from political issues like African dictators killing off the farmers or stealing their land so irrigation and fertilization stop.
All you folks who are running down this path haven't first asked yourself wether her statemetn is valid and to what degree of validity. It's like the Stephen Covey example of the huge lumbering operation where everyone is so excited about how efficiently they're working yet they don't realize they're in the wrong forest. She sure wagged you guys.
And all those UN deadlines to demonstrate destruction of WMD?
Oh, yeah, drat, there goes your house of cards.
miniDV EP is the same quality as SP. The only difference is the tape speed. The data packets are the same.
Dropouts? I've been using miniDV for years in an industrial environment and I never have dropouts. Your camera is gummed up as you've already explained.
Always use fresh tapes for important events and record them, completely, with the lens cap on then rewind to retension and create a proper timecode on the entire tape. Don't reuse tapes, keep your camcorder clean and stick to one tape manufacturer.
Pause for 15 minutes while recording? Huh?!?! Most camcorders shut themselves off. There's no good reason to be on pause for 15 minutes. Turn it off then back on.
You don't need a HD. What you need is attention to detail and, it seems, a second camcorder and tripod. Record overlapping segments and do post-editing.
You can eat your cry of bullshit because you're 100% wrong. Creating your strawman won't save you from the truth.
Just exactly WHAT US Federal funding went into stem cell research prior to George W. Bush's plan? Not one penny.
Clinton sat on it for about 2 years.
http://www.mullings.com/dr_08-01-05.htm
Yes. What are spies? They're just information carriers, aren't they? The same principle applies. Shutting down communicaiton channels means a slight disruption until new channels are established.
I started to type a few more things but why state the obvious to the "bad guys." Think about how websites work.
To echo a previous post, a lot more can be gained by allowing the sites to stay up and watching them than by chasing the people to another location.
To illustrate, when I was in the Air Force, as an ICBM Launch Officer, I had a partner who was in training to move to the OSI, the AF's "special" cops. One day we were talking about the Russian spies which were living near the base. (No surprise there, that base was the largest nuclear weapons site in the world...) I asked why we didn't scoop those people up. He said that would mean we'd have to start all over again. It was considered better to let them watch and watch them than to have an unknown situation.
Having said that, there are vigilantes who shut down al Qaeda and other terrorist web sites. The board at http://haganah.org.il/ is one meeting place for these folks.
That British article goes on to praise the terrorists and say they're so clever that they'll always be one step ahead of law engorcement. It also claims to know the success rate of electronic surveillance including Echelon. Since when is that open knowledge. Uh...yeah...riiiight.
This isn't newsworthy. An idiot writes an article which is stupid. Slow news day at Slashdot, huh?
I wish...you knew what you were talking about.
George W. Bush most certainly DOES support stem cell research, even embryonic stem cell research. His plan is the first federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Couching your FUD with a hollow "I'm a Republican" is a hollow sham.
There is absolutely no proof, whatsoever, that embryonic stem cells have any potential to reverse or prevent Alzheimer's.
Try to use your intellect, not your hatred.
Yeah, I saw that, too. The key phrase is "some motor control" and there really hasn't been much said after that. "Some" could mean "almost none" and one case doesn't really prove causation. Mind you, I'm not trying to dampen the enthusiasm at all, I'm trying to be rational about this. There's a long, long, long way to go before we can heal spinal cords. We can't even make skin regrow after a burn or abrasion without it looking like a mess. Imagine how much more complex the spinal column is than skin...
Well, let's see, there IS the question of when life begins. You can't have seen any discussion of embryonic stem cell research without encountered that aspect.
There's also a very valid concern about preventing trafficking in human tissue. Just as there are lots and lots of controls on organ harvesting and donations, there needs to be a way to prevent pregnancies simply for the sake of harvesting embryos to gain such tissue.
There are also a lot of concerns about ensuring this is actually a path with true possibility of results rather than a ghoulish battleground over the value of life and a macabe sideshow. Think of how the Nazi and Imperial Japanese performed experiments on living people. Where is the line drawn? It's a very serious issue.
Monstrously irresponsible snake-oil statements like that made by John Whatshisname (yeah, he was even "my" senator, shows how much he did for NC) that if John Kerry was elected President quadraplegics woudl stand up out of their wheelchairs and walk again are...shall we say...far less than responsible.
On the other hand, if the comments Senator Frist made are true that it is now evident that stem cells are not capable of endless regeneration and there are far fewer than the original 78 strains of stem cells available for federally funded research, perhaps allowing collection of stem cells from those which are left over from invitreo is a good idea.
Your post shows you don't really know much about this.
There is no restriction on private investment into stem cell research.
There are sources of human stem cells other than killing human embryos. Given the current belief that human embyonic stem cells cannot replicate indefinately, they are actually a poor source of the genetic material.
(Sidebar: there are very, very, very few human cells which can replicate endlessly. I don't remember the anem of the woman from whom one strain was harvested and is used for bio research. Virtually all cells have a limit to the number of tiems they can split.)
Prior to President Bush's plan of 4 years ago, there was no Federal funding for this research at all. A lot of what you would be seeing in the common media is not scientific, it's political.
There's far more involved than just regenerating some relatively simple structures like a rat spinal column when the goal is human spinal injury.
I've had a lamenectomy. It's a procedure where tissue has to be removed from between discs in the spine. In my case, I herniated the tissue during heavy squats (word to the wise from a lifetime power lifter, don't do squats, they're too dangerous.) In my case, the tissue was pushed through the fibrous outer sheath that holds the spinal column together. The only possible way to "heal" this would have been to somehow take all the pressure off that part of the body (prevent all muscle movement and stretch the body on a rack), push the tissue back inside then seal the fibrous outer sheath.
Would I pay for such an option? Yes. Is it possible? No. Would some form of simple application of stem cells allow my body to rebuild the missing tissue? Probably not. Not only is a human spinal column far more complex than that of a rat, so are human brains. The human body also lives far longer and the human body is more articulate.
This is nice news but it's just the start of what would have to be a long, long, long process. There's no way to have perfect regeneration of plant tissue yet. Thinking human tissue would be able to regenerate any time soon is silly.
Try opening PowerPoint-created HTML with Firefox. Images don't get scaled properly and embedded video doesn't work. All kinds of spacing is screwed up.
What to do? Switch to OpenOffice? Oh, gee, it doesn't support video. How...1980s. How...grade school.
If it won't work with PowerPoint, it's a toy, not a tool in the real world of business.
...I drive a Red Barchetta.
I save DV as 4:2:2 MPEG2 created with TMPGEnc Plus with 2 passes. It's almost indistinbuishable from the original and one hour will fit on a DVDR.
If you're only getting 11G/hr on your miniDV, something's bad wrong. miniDV is 13G/hr.
Maybe people aren't interested because it's not that great an idea.
http://www.mirrordot.org/
Human nature is to wait. If the computer is dead, it's dead, period.
Have you ever tried to connect a US laptop to a non-North American phone system? Will M$ foot the bill for an international phone call from the other side of the world because they've locked your computer up? How do you do this from an airplane?
The point is their activation control makes use of any non-corporate verison of XP useless for any kind of critical use. It's only suited for a game machine or hobbies with that crap.
"oh boo hoo" wrt activiation:
This just shows you don't do anything important on your computer and you never travel.
"My Windows XP won't boot" is the equivalent of, "The dog ate my homework." except you get fired/lose the sale/your machines break/etc.
"oh boo hoo" indeed!!
Oh, really?!?!
How about the lists on the M$ site which document current major programs which XP SP2 breaks?
How about a buggy firewall?
How about networking problems?
Tabbed IE variants have existed for more than 4 years.
w ser.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/misctools/fwbro
Wisdom and intuition come from experience. Knowledge accumulation takes time.
Only people without wisdom or experience think most breakthroughs come from people in their 20s. When a technology is new (think: early part of the CS boom) younger people have a lot of energy and do make breakthroughs but those are almost always procedural, not conceptual.
There's a lot of truth to the saying that old age and treachery beats youth and energy. I'd exchange the word "wisdom" for "treachery", however.
The young bull says, "Let's run down there and f@%# that young hefer!" The old bull says, "Let's walk down there and f@%# them all."