Treyvon was a young 6' 3" muscular basketball player. Zimmerman is 5'9", 250lbs, so unlikely to be able to run away.
Trayvon was 6'3" and 160 pounds. Far cry from "muscular", and unlikely to have been able to push a 250 pound man off of him.
Trayvon is recorded as 6' tall and 160 pounds in the police reports.
And it doesn't really matter how big the difference is between the two guys, when one ambushes the other.
I think Zimmerman was walking to the mailboxes to meet the police when Trayvon jumped him.
It's a sample of 609 users, on an ugly site playing a game only obsessive compulsive personalities bother to play and should probably be playing on a better site not run by a weirdo.
That's pretty much all you need to know to put this in the "Google fanatic FUD" category.
Unless you have in fact replicated the observation and worked through the rationale behind the hypothesis, you agreeing with a hypothesis or theory is literally you BELIEVING it to be true.
Poor guy got Dan Rathered. The one document might be fake but now he's risked his career on it.
And on reading the Atlantic article, I agree with most of the concern. No group would right up something like that even if they were truly evil, the one line really made me LOL hard:
"Basically, it reads like it was written from the secret villain lair in a Batman comic. By an intern."
I'm inclined to agree after reading the memo myself. Even better was another quote the article selected:
"The Charles G. Koch Foundation returned as a Heartland donor in 2011. We expect to ramp up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to the network of philanthropists they work with."
No villain ends a sentence with a preposition. We all know evil institutions out to destroy the work are filled with grammar nazis.
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Every generation grows up thinking it invented revolution, rebellion, drug-use, sex, and a new world.
Every generation becomes a teenager and picks something the government is doing, thinks it's wrong and protests.
But every generation grows up and eventually realizes they were really dumb when they were younger after they learn every generation before them did the same thing and it made no difference.
Anyway, as sample size decreases, the confidence interval increases and by power law the mean of a sample will increase as well typically inverse to the general trend.
Quite the contrary, since the actions are already legal, you should be asking for a law that puts all available actions, requirements, etc., under one Act so it's easier to follow.
Fighting Bills that intend to do this is really just making it harder for the public at large over the long run.
Meanwhile, median income in the US is higher than the countries listed. For comparison:
40% of Median Income - Median income (USD) ======================= 14.9% Mexico - 4,689 13.2% Israel - 14,055 11.3% United States - 31,011 11.2% Chile - 7,851 10.1% Japan - 19,432 10.0% Turkey - 5,940 ======================= 7.0% Canada - 25,363 5.9% UK - 25,168 4.9% Switzerland - 26,844 4.2% Germany - 21,241 3.4% France - 19,615
So, that 40% is a larger number than most of the rest. Then there's the drastic difference in population sizes that skews statistics (power law), but since this really isn't about an honest appraisal and just the typical America-bashing BS, I'll stop here.
And I don't mean the jerk in Ocean's customer service (he's wrong too).
But to post these private messages without permission and set a mob on the guy is completely unethical.
I love Penny Arcade's humor and they make good points in some of their blog articles, but this is pretty insidious and inappropriate to abuse their fan base to make personal attacks.
If this is where the Internet is headed, I'll go back to BBS, please.
I'd suggest getting to know more open source projects, starting with Drupal was a good idea.
Get to know Open Atrium, design some nice themes for it or make a module to solve a problem someone has, then post it all online someplace that allows people to post comments or a download count.
Having a list of achievements on the Internet, with people giving feedback or allowed to see your progress, can be a resume in itself.
Anyone who thought this committee would produce anything is completely out of touch with reality.
The United States government, world-wide banks and foreign governments all rely on our debt as a safe hedge against inflation in their own countries. Our debt is sold as inflation-protected treasury bonds that growing and stagnant economies alike buy to make sure catastrophes in their own economies/banks don't wipe out them out. And the need for the debt is increasing with increased world-wide trade, off-shore production and international humanitarian efforts (earthquakes, floods, etc.), hence why the treasury bond rates have declined by so much.
If the US government were to reduce the amount of debt it produces, treasury bond rates would increase not only increasing the cost of lending for consumers and banks, but also limiting the liquidity of money being moved around to hedge international risks which in turn would probably create another massive recession.
Unfortunately, the only way to fix things is to reduce the need for others to buy our debt. Either by helping to improve foreign economies (so they need less debt to hedge against their own inflation/deflation), improving the economy in our own country (so our people need less debt) by creating jobs or reducing taxes on those with the most debt (while giving incentives to reduce their debt), plug holes in tax code and banking regulations to stop rampant speculation on markets (that causes national and international instability as well as a massive amount of lending when investors buy things on margin), or reducing the over-accumulation of wealth into fewer hands (a few people with lots of money causes massive risks).
The first two needs require a massive amount of spending and the last two require a major overhaul of the tax code system, banking regulations and tax rates that give incentives for executives to leave money in the company and hire more people (like the income tax rates of the 1930s-50s and corporate tax rates aimed at median income targets). All are necessary, but it's very unlikely anymore than two will ever happen at once because of the two party political system in power.
Since one particular party doesn't want any increased spending and no tax increases at all, the economy is going to continue to suffer and if things aren't corrected the US' debt will become a worthless hedge for others that will lead to a run on the bank to turn it in, causing an economic collapse unlike the world has ever seen.
Agreed. MrSeb's homepage even has the ExtremeTech site listed and has him as the Lead Editor.
"ExtremeTech -- while it was once an incredibly popular site, and even a print magazine, ExtremeTech was shuttered in 2009. Now, under new management, and with me as the lead editor, Ziff Davis has relaunched ET. We will rise from the ashes and provide interesting and insightful news and features on all things technology."
Are you factoring in legal costs from your employees suing you for having personal information spread across the Internet?
Or possible damage to business revenue from your company's work falling into competitor's hands?
Or almost complete loss of business when the Internet goes out?
Me thinks an entire culture inside of certain IT Departments are not well versed in Risk Aversion, instead seeking to make their lives easier at the expensive of their employer.
Doesn't this depend on if code offered from outside the company was incorporated into the GPL version and copied to the closed-source?
In which case, I'd assume the outside contributor offered the revisions as GPL and if those revisions were added to the closed-source, the GPL agreement would flow upwards.
Only if the software is edited solely by the company do they retain the rights to GPL or not to GPL. Once they accept contributions from outside the company, it's out of their hands or at least requires input from those contributors.
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Nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- quite gets the mind racing to invent like contemplation of one's one mortality or enslavement.
Epic. You deserve a six.
Treyvon was a young 6' 3" muscular basketball player. Zimmerman is 5'9", 250lbs, so unlikely to be able to run away.
Trayvon was 6'3" and 160 pounds. Far cry from "muscular", and unlikely to have been able to push a 250 pound man off of him.
Trayvon is recorded as 6' tall and 160 pounds in the police reports. And it doesn't really matter how big the difference is between the two guys, when one ambushes the other. I think Zimmerman was walking to the mailboxes to meet the police when Trayvon jumped him.
No no no. They can't eat vegetables either, since that'll produce methane gas.
Remember, don't toot or you'll pollute!
It's a sample of 609 users, on an ugly site playing a game only obsessive compulsive personalities bother to play and should probably be playing on a better site not run by a weirdo. That's pretty much all you need to know to put this in the "Google fanatic FUD" category.
And doesn't Debian actually actively work for make sure the packages it distributes are GPL?
So, not only is he cherrypicking but he picked a project that strives to use Copyleft.
http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219
The actual study mentioned in the talk came out last month and was written up here.
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52838-gpl-use-in-debian-on-the-rise-study
John Sullivan even called picking only one distribution as "scientific". I'm not sure he knows what the word means.
He could have just added the user to the sudo group and been done.
But no, he had to go harping on everyone on bug lists and social media rants to put people down, even suggesting whoever made the system should die.
What an ass.
This is not about environmentalism or global warming, this is about miner's lungs.
So, please stop being a left-wing religious nut. You're making the rest of us look bad.
Thank you.
Unless you have in fact replicated the observation and worked through the rationale behind the hypothesis, you agreeing with a hypothesis or theory is literally you BELIEVING it to be true.
Stop making Science into a religion.
Poor guy got Dan Rathered. The one document might be fake but now he's risked his career on it. And on reading the Atlantic article, I agree with most of the concern. No group would right up something like that even if they were truly evil, the one line really made me LOL hard:
"Basically, it reads like it was written from the secret villain lair in a Batman comic. By an intern."
I'm inclined to agree after reading the memo myself. Even better was another quote the article selected:
"The Charles G. Koch Foundation returned as a Heartland donor in 2011. We expect to ramp up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to the network of philanthropists they work with."
No villain ends a sentence with a preposition. We all know evil institutions out to destroy the work are filled with grammar nazis.
Every generation grows up thinking it invented revolution, rebellion, drug-use, sex, and a new world.
Every generation becomes a teenager and picks something the government is doing, thinks it's wrong and protests.
But every generation grows up and eventually realizes they were really dumb when they were younger after they learn every generation before them did the same thing and it made no difference.
NOAA use to have a site showing a graphic similar to this one (of the decrease in weather stations, no comparison to observations):
http://www.americanthinker.com/DAleo_Station_Dropout.jpg
But they removed it and setup a FAQ explaining away the drop.
http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/weather_stations.html
Anyway, as sample size decreases, the confidence interval increases and by power law the mean of a sample will increase as well typically inverse to the general trend.
Or it's an illusion caused by the power law after the sample size of weather stations was reduced by 1/5th during the late 80s and early 90s.
Quite the contrary, since the actions are already legal, you should be asking for a law that puts all available actions, requirements, etc., under one Act so it's easier to follow.
Fighting Bills that intend to do this is really just making it harder for the public at large over the long run.
Nice cherry-picking statistics, there.
Meanwhile, median income in the US is higher than the countries listed. For comparison:
40% of Median Income - Median income (USD)
=======================
14.9% Mexico - 4,689
13.2% Israel - 14,055
11.3% United States - 31,011
11.2% Chile - 7,851
10.1% Japan - 19,432
10.0% Turkey - 5,940
=======================
7.0% Canada - 25,363
5.9% UK - 25,168
4.9% Switzerland - 26,844
4.2% Germany - 21,241
3.4% France - 19,615
So, that 40% is a larger number than most of the rest. Then there's the drastic difference in population sizes that skews statistics (power law), but since this really isn't about an honest appraisal and just the typical America-bashing BS, I'll stop here.
The ghost of Steve Job's called and left a message. It reads, and I quote:
I WILL DESTROY YOU!!
Galen Gruman is a shill for desktop virtualization companies, most likely Citrix.
The change log shows an update two months ago, how's that stagnant?
Because the original date on the post is from April 2010?
They modified a previous post to put all of the changes in one place, dufus.
And I don't mean the jerk in Ocean's customer service (he's wrong too).
But to post these private messages without permission and set a mob on the guy is completely unethical.
I love Penny Arcade's humor and they make good points in some of their blog articles, but this is pretty insidious and inappropriate to abuse their fan base to make personal attacks.
If this is where the Internet is headed, I'll go back to BBS, please.
I'd suggest getting to know more open source projects, starting with Drupal was a good idea.
Get to know Open Atrium, design some nice themes for it or make a module to solve a problem someone has, then post it all online someplace that allows people to post comments or a download count.
Having a list of achievements on the Internet, with people giving feedback or allowed to see your progress, can be a resume in itself.
Anyone who thought this committee would produce anything is completely out of touch with reality.
The United States government, world-wide banks and foreign governments all rely on our debt as a safe hedge against inflation in their own countries. Our debt is sold as inflation-protected treasury bonds that growing and stagnant economies alike buy to make sure catastrophes in their own economies/banks don't wipe out them out. And the need for the debt is increasing with increased world-wide trade, off-shore production and international humanitarian efforts (earthquakes, floods, etc.), hence why the treasury bond rates have declined by so much.
If the US government were to reduce the amount of debt it produces, treasury bond rates would increase not only increasing the cost of lending for consumers and banks, but also limiting the liquidity of money being moved around to hedge international risks which in turn would probably create another massive recession.
Unfortunately, the only way to fix things is to reduce the need for others to buy our debt. Either by helping to improve foreign economies (so they need less debt to hedge against their own inflation/deflation), improving the economy in our own country (so our people need less debt) by creating jobs or reducing taxes on those with the most debt (while giving incentives to reduce their debt), plug holes in tax code and banking regulations to stop rampant speculation on markets (that causes national and international instability as well as a massive amount of lending when investors buy things on margin), or reducing the over-accumulation of wealth into fewer hands (a few people with lots of money causes massive risks).
The first two needs require a massive amount of spending and the last two require a major overhaul of the tax code system, banking regulations and tax rates that give incentives for executives to leave money in the company and hire more people (like the income tax rates of the 1930s-50s and corporate tax rates aimed at median income targets). All are necessary, but it's very unlikely anymore than two will ever happen at once because of the two party political system in power.
Since one particular party doesn't want any increased spending and no tax increases at all, the economy is going to continue to suffer and if things aren't corrected the US' debt will become a worthless hedge for others that will lead to a run on the bank to turn it in, causing an economic collapse unlike the world has ever seen.
Agreed. MrSeb's homepage even has the ExtremeTech site listed and has him as the Lead Editor.
"ExtremeTech -- while it was once an incredibly popular site, and even a print magazine, ExtremeTech was shuttered in 2009. Now, under new management, and with me as the lead editor, Ziff Davis has relaunched ET. We will rise from the ashes and provide interesting and insightful news and features on all things technology."
So, yah. Blog spam.
Cheaper in the short run or long run?
Are you factoring in legal costs from your employees suing you for having personal information spread across the Internet?
Or possible damage to business revenue from your company's work falling into competitor's hands?
Or almost complete loss of business when the Internet goes out?
Me thinks an entire culture inside of certain IT Departments are not well versed in Risk Aversion, instead seeking to make their lives easier at the expensive of their employer.
Doesn't this depend on if code offered from outside the company was incorporated into the GPL version and copied to the closed-source?
In which case, I'd assume the outside contributor offered the revisions as GPL and if those revisions were added to the closed-source, the GPL agreement would flow upwards.
Only if the software is edited solely by the company do they retain the rights to GPL or not to GPL. Once they accept contributions from outside the company, it's out of their hands or at least requires input from those contributors.
System is broken. De-centralize website security NOW!
Two out of four ain't bad!
Right? RIGHT?!
*weeps*