Ethanol is made from... food. So...let the rest of the world starve to death (corn is the staple food source for a lot of the world and there's only so much which can be grown) so you can burn ethanol in your automobile?
Never mind that it takes almost as much energy to make ethanol as you'd get from burning it, you have to burn more of it than gasoline to get the same energy return and it destroys your designed-for-gasoline engine all of which means more pollution and higher cost than burning gasoline.
Yeah, you've really thought about this, haven't you?
There still isn't proper support for video in presentations. That's been in PowerPoint for years. OpenOffice still looks like a "prettified" PFS:Office to me.
32 bits would be great for processing but it's impractical for human eyes. Sure would be nice for the math routines, though, similar to the way audio mastering is done to reduce artifacts before downsampling.
It is rather odd that such a thing isn't deep in the Linux world given Cinelerra has been around for years for video.
Some of the samples specifically state artificial noise. That's what I meant. Those examples are pretty worthless.
Look at the top of the ridge in the inner ear and the wrinkles in the fabric. The near-blacks also look like they've been darkened a bit and flattened (lines between the baby's fingers.) It's still a little too posterized. With natural subjects there's a point at which it's very hard to remove noise without destroying detail. These samples are all overly smoothed. They're not horrible, they're just done too harshly. A lot of the time this happens because the process assumes the original source is pure RGB. The vast majority of digital source isn't. It's interpolated color and needs to be treated as such.
"The demo images are more than a little impressive."
I disagree. They are overly smoothed and detail is destroyed. They look like the type of thing a noob makes upon discovering video filters. For example, look at the delicate features in the jellyfish or the pig's hair. This samples look more like demonstrations of soften or posterization filters. They should also use real, not artificial, noise.
"Even if the root cause to global warming is sun cycles, we need to both adapt to the change and make efforts to stop or slow it down. Since we can not clean the sun's spots we will have to make the changes we can."
That's beyond stupid.
Why is there a "NEED" to "stop or slow...down" global warming caused by sun cycles? What empowers you to decide all of humanity "will have to make the changes we can."?
What gives YOU the authority to decide how the Sun and Earth must interact?
How do you suppose puny human beings, even if they somehow turn into a borg, to change the effect of the sun upon a planet?!?!
Actually, I'm not sure if your post is more stupid or more arrogant. It's certainly overwhelming in its ability to meet both adjectives.
Yes, Italy most certainly is a very socialist, left-wing country.
They have a crushingly burdomesome social welfare system which rewards people to STOP working. They also have a very active Communist party. Yup, Commie, hammer and sickle on a red flag. Take a look at who holds the highest political offices in Italy. Income and business taxes in Italy are about twice that of the United States.
I've been in Italy for 3-4 months every year for the past 10 years, seen this with my own eyes. Every manufacturer I represent from Italy is trying to move to the U.S. because Europe is so stagnant and the welfare systems crush all incentives. Never mind their fears of the Muslim invasion (8x the birth rate of the "native" population) and the EU regulating virtually everything. Great Britain isn't that much better, actually.
Sorry, bud, those most certainly ARE very socialist, left-wing, countries who have crippled their economies. Granted, they're not all as bad as the French who decided it's illegal to fire unproductive workers or the Germans who have all but destroyed their industry with welfare programs and now farm out huge amounts of manufacturing to Czech and Polish factories. They've chosen to be socialist and destroy incentive to produce.
Do those countries have jack-booted secret police in the Stalinist model? No.
How your post got modded to 5 is beyond me, unless whoever modded you up has as little familiarity with economics as you do.
This reads like a shill piece. There's no data mentioned, only "statements" about the claimed state of software firewalls. My BS meter is starting to twitch...
I stand, or rather, sit, corrected:P I didn't read the full text and should have done so before shooting off.
Yes, I understand the difference between substance and procedure. My experience has been with UCMJ which is different from civilian law.
Still, transposed address numbers can be pretty darn important, can't it? What happens when the cops break into the wrong house? They can't just say, oops, procedural error.
No, your concept involves selectively applying morality and you're making a huge assumption, aren't you?
"Officer of the court" has a specific legal definition. The Oyez summary didn't use that phrase, it said "employee." An "employee" could be any paper pusher who works in the office.
There is no moral responsibility for any person in the prosecution to inform the defense of problems with the prosecution's case. That is the responsibility of the defense. Additionally, there is the legal responsibility not to disclose information. This guy screwed up. He followed the proper channels but then decided he would decide what was "proper", the law be damned.
Conceptually, an improper application could have had transposed numbers in a street address or an extra letter in a person's name.
Garcetti v. Ceballos Docket Number: 04-473 Abstract
Argued:
October 12, 2005 Facts of the Case
Richard Ceballos, an employee of the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, found that a sheriff misrepresented facts in a search warrant affidavit. Ceballos notified the attorneys prosecuting the case stemming from that arrest and all agreed that the affidavit was questionable, but the D.A.'s office refused to dismiss the case. Ceballos then told the defense he believed the affidavit contained false statements, and defense counsel subpoenaed him to testify. Seeking damages in federal district court, Ceballos alleged that D.A.s in the office retaliated against him for his cooperation with the defense, which he argued was protected by the First Amendment. The district court ruled that the district attorneys were protected by qualified immunity, but the Ninth Circuit reversed and ruled for Ceballos, holding that qualified immunity was not available to the defendants because Ceballos had been engaged in speech that addressed matters of public concern and was thus protected by the First Amendment. Question Presented
1. Should a public employee's purely job-related speech, expressed strictly pursuant to the duties of employment, be protected by the First Amendment simply because it touched on a matter of public concern, or must the speech also be engaged in "as a citizen?" 2. Was immediate review by the Supreme Court necessary to address the growing inter-circuit conflict on the question of whether a public employee's purely job-related speech is constitutionally protected, especially where the lack of uniformity dramatically impacted the ability of all public employers to effectively manage their respective agencies?
It sure seems like this guy was reprimanded for crossing the line between responsibility and advocacy. It is very common that a "situation" looks different at one level than another. This person was an employee of the DA's office and actively subverted that office. It's not his role or perogative to take this type of action. Had he quit his job and then pursued support of the defense, it would have been legal.
This guy's action would be very similar to tipping off drug dealers about impending raids if the guy thought hte drug in question should be legal.
There's no surprise here and the SFGate article is monstrously misleading.
There is no such thing as First Amendment protection for government employees on their job or related to knowledge they've gained on the job. There never has been. Ask anyone who has been in the military.
"Whistleblower" is a very specific case of protected speech. This guy wasn't a whistleblower. He didn't follow the proper channels and actively helped the opposition of the office where he was employeed.
I do a lot of business with Italians. They have to get a special paper Visa attachment to their passport before they leave. When they leave, the paper attachment is collected. Those papers are only available in Rome and Milan. No special visa attachment, no entry to the airplane.
The U.S. is a soverign nation, not part of the EU. Travel into the U.S. is at the discretion of the U.S.
All this means is increased screening of people travelling from the E.U. and increased cost to them.
It doesn't matter at all what the EU says, they don't control entry to the U.S.
EU: We demand our laws be upheld US: That's fine, your laws apply to your land, not ours. Give us the details we want to allow entry. EU: No US: OK, no entry. Next.
A very common misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment is that a "reporter" or "publisher" cannot be held liable for aiding and abetting crime, conspiracy, impeding an investigation, etc.
The 1st Amendment does not, in any way, shape or form, create a self-proclaimed class of people who are above the law.
The 2st Amendment concerns freedom of speech, it does not grant freedom from responsibility or prosecution, regardless of the self-appointed press' claim to be more equal than everyone else.
Imagine, a Republican administration using laws created by Bill Clinton's Democrat administration to monitor international phone calls of known terrorists.
This article is pure bogus garbage. Anyone who's been to Washington D.C., Brussels, Rome, London, or any other world capital will clearly see evidence of human/chimp interbreeding. Curiously, the results of such breeding most commonly resemeble the posterior of an equine. Film at 11.
Are they tax exempt and do they receive federal monies from taxation?
Yes, they do.
So...they want to run their business (selling degrees) without being taxed like other businesses and, somehow, being more equal than anyone else with regard to the law.
They can't have it both ways. That's all there is to it.
They won't stand a chance in this "debate" which is a repeat from a few months ago. Did the laws change or did the schools give up their tax exempt status? No? Well, nothing's new then, is it?
They are behaving like spoiled brats who are being held to accountability. I have to work, pay taxes and submit to the laws in order to eat. Why should they be any different? Why should I have to work to support them? Are their thoughts somehow more "pure" than mine because they are "academic"?
The OP says the cost is twice that of a gasoline powered car. OK, that means $17,500 of "added" cost.
$17,500 divided by $3 = 5,833.33 gallons of gasoline x 25 mpg = 145,833.33 miles traveled.
If you were to buy one of these with the OP assumptions of price, you'd have to drive almost 150,000 miles before you made a return on the purchase. However, you also have to pay for the electricity to power the thing.
Maybe this would work in a European city where the roads are thousands of years old so you must have a little bitty car and gas costs $12/gallon. It's not going to work in North America where there are much longer distances to drive.
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Who's the pot and who's the kettle here?
... food. So...let the rest of the world starve to death (corn is the staple food source for a lot of the world and there's only so much which can be grown) so you can burn ethanol in your automobile?
Ethanol is made from
Never mind that it takes almost as much energy to make ethanol as you'd get from burning it, you have to burn more of it than gasoline to get the same energy return and it destroys your designed-for-gasoline engine all of which means more pollution and higher cost than burning gasoline.
Yeah, you've really thought about this, haven't you?
Hey, Station, how did you do in English class?
..." is a prepositional phrase.
Your [sic] is incorrect. The subject is "none" which is singular. "of the
There still isn't proper support for video in presentations. That's been in PowerPoint for years. OpenOffice still looks like a "prettified" PFS:Office to me.
Instead of a black line across the guy's face it should be one of those balls in the mouth with elastic straps around his head...
32 bits would be great for processing but it's impractical for human eyes. Sure would be nice for the math routines, though, similar to the way audio mastering is done to reduce artifacts before downsampling.
It is rather odd that such a thing isn't deep in the Linux world given Cinelerra has been around for years for video.
Some of the samples specifically state artificial noise. That's what I meant. Those examples are pretty worthless.
Look at the top of the ridge in the inner ear and the wrinkles in the fabric. The near-blacks also look like they've been darkened a bit and flattened (lines between the baby's fingers.) It's still a little too posterized. With natural subjects there's a point at which it's very hard to remove noise without destroying detail. These samples are all overly smoothed. They're not horrible, they're just done too harshly. A lot of the time this happens because the process assumes the original source is pure RGB. The vast majority of digital source isn't. It's interpolated color and needs to be treated as such.
"The demo images are more than a little impressive."
I disagree. They are overly smoothed and detail is destroyed. They look like the type of thing a noob makes upon discovering video filters. For example, look at the delicate features in the jellyfish or the pig's hair. This samples look more like demonstrations of soften or posterization filters. They should also use real, not artificial, noise.
"Even if the root cause to global warming is sun cycles, we need to both adapt to the change and make efforts to stop or slow it down. Since we can not clean the sun's spots we will have to make the changes we can."
That's beyond stupid.
Why is there a "NEED" to "stop or slow...down" global warming caused by sun cycles? What empowers you to decide all of humanity "will have to make the changes we can."?
What gives YOU the authority to decide how the Sun and Earth must interact?
How do you suppose puny human beings, even if they somehow turn into a borg, to change the effect of the sun upon a planet?!?!
Actually, I'm not sure if your post is more stupid or more arrogant. It's certainly overwhelming in its ability to meet both adjectives.
No, blame Canada!
badump, tssshh!
Thank you very much. I'll be here until Thursday. Be sure to tip your wait staff.
Yes, Italy most certainly is a very socialist, left-wing country.
They have a crushingly burdomesome social welfare system which rewards people to STOP working. They also have a very active Communist party. Yup, Commie, hammer and sickle on a red flag. Take a look at who holds the highest political offices in Italy. Income and business taxes in Italy are about twice that of the United States.
I've been in Italy for 3-4 months every year for the past 10 years, seen this with my own eyes. Every manufacturer I represent from Italy is trying to move to the U.S. because Europe is so stagnant and the welfare systems crush all incentives. Never mind their fears of the Muslim invasion (8x the birth rate of the "native" population) and the EU regulating virtually everything. Great Britain isn't that much better, actually.
Sorry, bud, those most certainly ARE very socialist, left-wing, countries who have crippled their economies. Granted, they're not all as bad as the French who decided it's illegal to fire unproductive workers or the Germans who have all but destroyed their industry with welfare programs and now farm out huge amounts of manufacturing to Czech and Polish factories. They've chosen to be socialist and destroy incentive to produce.
Do those countries have jack-booted secret police in the Stalinist model? No.
How your post got modded to 5 is beyond me, unless whoever modded you up has as little familiarity with economics as you do.
This is why people with Napster use Dietmar's Output Stacker for WinAmp: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dietmar's+out put+stacker&btnG=Google+Search
This reads like a shill piece. There's no data mentioned, only "statements" about the claimed state of software firewalls. My BS meter is starting to twitch...
That only works with "clean" content. You can't serve frames if you can't decrypt them.
I stand, or rather, sit, corrected :P I didn't read the full text and should have done so before shooting off.
Yes, I understand the difference between substance and procedure. My experience has been with UCMJ which is different from civilian law.
Still, transposed address numbers can be pretty darn important, can't it? What happens when the cops break into the wrong house? They can't just say, oops, procedural error.
No, your concept involves selectively applying morality and you're making a huge assumption, aren't you?
"Officer of the court" has a specific legal definition. The Oyez summary didn't use that phrase, it said "employee." An "employee" could be any paper pusher who works in the office.
There is no moral responsibility for any person in the prosecution to inform the defense of problems with the prosecution's case. That is the responsibility of the defense. Additionally, there is the legal responsibility not to disclose information. This guy screwed up. He followed the proper channels but then decided he would decide what was "proper", the law be damned.
Conceptually, an improper application could have had transposed numbers in a street address or an extra letter in a person's name.
It sure seems like this guy was reprimanded for crossing the line between responsibility and advocacy. It is very common that a "situation" looks different at one level than another. This person was an employee of the DA's office and actively subverted that office. It's not his role or perogative to take this type of action. Had he quit his job and then pursued support of the defense, it would have been legal.
This guy's action would be very similar to tipping off drug dealers about impending raids if the guy thought hte drug in question should be legal.
There's no surprise here and the SFGate article is monstrously misleading.
There is no such thing as First Amendment protection for government employees on their job or related to knowledge they've gained on the job. There never has been. Ask anyone who has been in the military.
"Whistleblower" is a very specific case of protected speech. This guy wasn't a whistleblower. He didn't follow the proper channels and actively helped the opposition of the office where he was employeed.
I do a lot of business with Italians. They have to get a special paper Visa attachment to their passport before they leave. When they leave, the paper attachment is collected. Those papers are only available in Rome and Milan. No special visa attachment, no entry to the airplane.
Are you sure your information is current?
Most of this thread has missed the point.
The U.S. is a soverign nation, not part of the EU. Travel into the U.S. is at the discretion of the U.S.
All this means is increased screening of people travelling from the E.U. and increased cost to them.
It doesn't matter at all what the EU says, they don't control entry to the U.S.
EU: We demand our laws be upheld
US: That's fine, your laws apply to your land, not ours. Give us the details we want to allow entry.
EU: No
US: OK, no entry. Next.
A very common misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment is that a "reporter" or "publisher" cannot be held liable for aiding and abetting crime, conspiracy, impeding an investigation, etc.
The 1st Amendment does not, in any way, shape or form, create a self-proclaimed class of people who are above the law.
The 2st Amendment concerns freedom of speech, it does not grant freedom from responsibility or prosecution, regardless of the self-appointed press' claim to be more equal than everyone else.
Imagine, a Republican administration using laws created by Bill Clinton's Democrat administration to monitor international phone calls of known terrorists.
Incredibly suspicious.
This article is pure bogus garbage. Anyone who's been to Washington D.C., Brussels, Rome, London, or any other world capital will clearly see evidence of human/chimp interbreeding. Curiously, the results of such breeding most commonly resemeble the posterior of an equine. Film at 11.
Are they tax exempt and do they receive federal monies from taxation?
Yes, they do.
So...they want to run their business (selling degrees) without being taxed like other businesses and, somehow, being more equal than anyone else with regard to the law.
They can't have it both ways. That's all there is to it.
They won't stand a chance in this "debate" which is a repeat from a few months ago. Did the laws change or did the schools give up their tax exempt status? No? Well, nothing's new then, is it?
They are behaving like spoiled brats who are being held to accountability. I have to work, pay taxes and submit to the laws in order to eat. Why should they be any different? Why should I have to work to support them? Are their thoughts somehow more "pure" than mine because they are "academic"?
Pfff!!
SkyNet a la The Terminator would most definately fit the bill.
If you look closely at the code that scrolls through Ahnold's head you'll see it's Atari 8-bit DOS.
Pretty cool, considering when the movie was released.
The OP says the cost is twice that of a gasoline powered car. OK, that means $17,500 of "added" cost.
$17,500 divided by $3 = 5,833.33 gallons of gasoline x 25 mpg = 145,833.33 miles traveled.
If you were to buy one of these with the OP assumptions of price, you'd have to drive almost 150,000 miles before you made a return on the purchase. However, you also have to pay for the electricity to power the thing.
Maybe this would work in a European city where the roads are thousands of years old so you must have a little bitty car and gas costs $12/gallon. It's not going to work in North America where there are much longer distances to drive.
Uh...yeah...well...this is nothing new. An air burst nuke does it...