IMO there is no difference in the privacy of who you voted for, and the privacy of if you even voted. It is your right to vote or not to vote. I mean - imagine a week after the election, your local busybody comes by your house and asks why you didn't vote. WTF? Whose business is that?
You aren't being righteous; you are just being lazy. Haul your ass down to the polls and submit a blank ballot if you feel that strongly about it. Make the same effort that every other participant in the electoral process does, and I'll care about the privacy of your vote. Then again, if you did that, you wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
It's like the difference between a conscientious objector and a draft dodger. One deserves respect. The other does not.
It would take nearly forever for you to cool off that much
Convection and conduction will be negligible. Net loss by radiation in outer space will be on the order of 400-500W. That will drop the average body temperature about 5 C / hr. Your skin will be in bad shape pretty quickly, but it will take a day or so to turn you into a popsicle all the way through.
The joker here is evaporative cooling. Depending on the moisture on/in your skin/mouth/lungs, the human body cooling rates can sustain 10-20KW in a total vacuum. This is fatal within minutes.
The secret to staying warmer when you find yourself naked in space is to keep calm. You don't want to be sweating.
Every Engineering Department I've worked with would have designed a user-replaceable battery and called it a "common sense" feature.
It's a good thing you don't design pacemakers. It would really suck to fall over and break off the little plastic battery cover.
Wristwatches have forgone user-replaceable batteries for ages. Why does a phone need one? I think your "common sense" is better phrased as "lack of imagination".
People don't see that I'm argueing a logistical/technical impossiblility with them
That's your fault, not theirs. If there is a communications breakdown, it's your job to fix it...you are the one in the supporting role, and they are your customers. No matter how wrong they may seem, they are still right. If you can't communicate with your customers in their own language, you don't belong there.
Eliminate the word 'No' from your vocabulary. All it does is make you sound like a two year-old. If they want the impossible, then give them the estimate and let them know it will be billed to their budget. That's the only reality check necessary.
It's not uncommon in the IT world to prefer dealing with computers than people. In the professional world, that often translates into a smoking hole in the skill set. Go get a job as a car salesman for a few months. You probably won't be very good at it, but you'll learn one hell of a lot about what skills you lack and how to improve them. It will definitely make you a better IT employee.
Inflation also steals from the poor, who don't have enough money to save to invest.
You are absolutely incorrect.
Inflation helps the poor because it pays off debt. The bottom quintile of wealth in the US has on average $30K of unsecured debt per capita. Just as inflation will make $1 able to purchase less in the future, it also makes $1 worth of debt able to be paid off in the future with a smaller sacrifice of purchasing power.
In a slow deflation market, the poor are helped the most -- they can actually save
No, they can't. Deflation will increase their existing debts in real terms.
The rest of your post is also way out in left field. Get a refund on your mail-order economics degree.
nearly everyone I ever met from New York City was an asshole
"Nearly everyone" you met from New York seemed to be rude to you, eh? Perhaps you were the asshole by showing up with your prejudiced concepts of how 10 million people can act and think in lockstep because they happen to currently reside in the same area.
...people who can sit outside a baseball stadium or concert from some vantage point and watch the game/performance for free are also commiting a felony.
That analogy holds right up to the point you send your first packet to their network. After that, you are no longer a passive spectator...you are playing in a completely different ballgame, with completely different rules.
When you ask yourself "am I allowed to use this network?", "I don't know" does not equal "yes". The onus is upon you to verify that you are not trespassing before proceeding. In this particular case, it doesn't initially appear that any malice was involved. $400+40hrs sounds a little steep, but not in the realm of the unreasonable.
It's also blatantly unfair to those who decided to come here legally. A Canadian friend of mine has been waiting to come here for months. She has going through a paperwork nightmare from hell to get her green card. This is in spite of the fact that she has a masters degree and speaks three languages. We make her wait even though she is well educated, has family and a job waiting for her but we are willing to give amnesty to those that break our laws?
The essence of your argument is revenge, not the betterment of society.
The belief of "I had to go through this ordeal so it's only fair that they have to endure it" is nothing more than juvenile hazing. Your friend's "paperwork nightmare from hell" only supports the claim that current immigration laws are ill-conceived, ill-purposed, and ineffective. You only wish to inflict bad laws on others because they were previously inflicted upon someone you know.
What kind of message does that send?
The message it sends is that you don't understand what true justice is.
I'm sure all Native Americans would agree that European settlement in the US was always done by the book, right?
I cannot condemn a person for breaking a law that I, in their position, would break myself. This country was founded by those who believed that unjust law was no law at all. "It's the law" is a empty position if you cannot justify the law itself.
Presumably this scientist was on phase 3; attempting to test his hypothesis. When they testing indicated that the hypothesis was false, he altered it to conform to the newer observations.
Unfortunately life is not Star Trek. The pragmatic method is:
1. Hypothesise.
2. Beg.
3. "Prove".
4. Publish.
Science costs money. Money comes from benefactors. Benefactors don't like surprises. You publish the results you were paid to discover, or you don't get more money. Welcome to the real world. Wear a helmet.
I already know that everybody with something to advertise wants to know absolutely everything about my potential consumption habits. That's just life. The fact that the NYT is willing to speak plainly about their data mining goals and methods is something I admire in a company...especially in a newspaper.
It does? Like the wonders of rolling blackouts, higher prices and less service? I guess it does.
East Coast Reactionary: "Hey! Who turned the lights out?" *turns them back on*
West Coast Revolutionary: "Hey! Who turned the lights out?" "Hey! Who turned the lights out?" "Hey! Who turned the lights out?" "Hey! Who turned the lights out?"
Man, this game is great! Wow!... Ok, it's delayed. Ok, another delay. Hm, ok, that preview doesn't look as impressive as it once did. Man, this game isn't really all that good.
If a game can stop being "all that good" with the passage of time, then it was never great to begin with.
Because your genes are more likely to propogate if you can recognize, react to, and avoid damage.
In the case of robot designs, they are more likely to propogate if the robot can complete its missions and/or operate at the highest performance/price ratio. The ability for a robot to "feel pain" is only useful if adds to the primary metrics of success.
What's to say that this isn't water? Are teaching students supposed to swear off all liquids? Even assuming it is 120 proof grain alcohol, does that school have a rule against adult students drinking?
It's not the actual drinking that's the problem...that's nobody else's business. It's the teacher publicizing her personal life without discretion. That's the unprofessional behavior here.
If the teacher had printed out flyers with photos of herself getting drunk and dropped them off in the school computer lab, most people would think that would be pretty inappropriate. What is so different about a MySpace page that does the same thing?
Regardless of the picture, the School District or college have no right to amend her graduation qualifications, based on a single party photograph.
They do, however, need to consider her serious lack of judgement and forethought in handling the photo. The fact that she got drunk and someone snapped a photo is no big deal. The fact that she thought it would be a good idea to publish that photo to the entire world is a completely different matter.
Teachers, like many others, must maintain separation between their personal and professional lives. How is this any different from her standing in front of a classroom talking about how hammered she got the night before? It's just not even remotely appropriate for her to publicize her nightlife, especially in places where students will find it.
Unfortunately this will actually wind up to be a DRM like solution: It will annoy those who follow the rules, and those who don't want to follow the rules will circumvent it easily enough. If you (as a soldier) wanted to release information to the public and/or the enemy, this rule will not stop you.
This is an area where stopping the casual, incidental leaks is important. 10 innocuous blog posts from 10 different soldiers may individually give you zero useful information, but if you add them up, you have lost security.
Loose lips do sink ships...and it doesn't take malice.
I think it will be interesting to see if the next city that gets f*cked by mother nature, gets the same sub-par treatment from the govt as NOLA did. 2 years past and the neighborhoods that were decimated, not by a hurricane, but, by the US govt.'s levee system's failure due to poor worksmanship, poor engineering and it appears now, downright criminal negligance.....they still look like a bomb went off, and we hear daily the the Corps of Engineers is still cutting corners and fscking up the rebuild of the pumps and levees.
What about the Louisiana Corp of Engineers? What about the New Orleans Corp of Engineers? Doesn't a city get to a point where they realize after decades of inattention to those levees from the Feds, they have to step up to bat and deal with local problems on a local scale? Every big city has unique problems, and sitting and waiting for the cavalry to arrive after the fact isn't the most efficient way of actually getting things accomplished....end rant
Wouldn't it be better just to ensure that emergency cell towers were put in place? It seems like more responders have access to cell technology rather than amateur radio, and cutting out the middleman of having to relay messages through an operator would help things out.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it:
Design an emergency cell tower that will survive a hurricane/tornado/tsunami/etc and will get approved by the zoning board, city beautification commission, and the historical society.
Stuff breaks. When stuff is breaking on a large scale, you usually need emergency communications. Cell towers are not reliable.
None of these say what dangerous levels are. When you start talking about tons of mercury I will stand up and take note but light bulbs are a tiny fraction of the solid waste generated in the US and a drop in the bucket when compared to real sources for mercury. It's like regulating the "acceptable" levels of radiation inside a nuclear power plant to below what the average person get's when walking outside.
The biggest human source of atmospheric mercury is coal-fired power plants, which dump around 0.09mg of Hg per kg of coal burned. This is orders of magnitude more than these CFL issues. The decision, from a mercury perspective, is to risk breaking a CFL in your own house, or to run incandescents that end up releasing much more mercury further away...out of sight and out of mind.
* Engaging in a phishing attack against AOL staffers through which he gained access to more than 60 accounts from AOL employees and subcontractors
Unfortunately, this kid's command of the English language was no better than that of "Bob", who sits three cubicles down. To "Jim", the two were indistinguishable. It's no wonder "Jim" got phished.
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IMO there is no difference in the privacy of who you voted for, and the privacy of if you even voted. It is your right to vote or not to vote. I mean - imagine a week after the election, your local busybody comes by your house and asks why you didn't vote. WTF? Whose business is that?
You aren't being righteous; you are just being lazy. Haul your ass down to the polls and submit a blank ballot if you feel that strongly about it. Make the same effort that every other participant in the electoral process does, and I'll care about the privacy of your vote. Then again, if you did that, you wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
It's like the difference between a conscientious objector and a draft dodger. One deserves respect. The other does not.
It would take nearly forever for you to cool off that much
Convection and conduction will be negligible. Net loss by radiation in outer space will be on the order of 400-500W. That will drop the average body temperature about 5 C / hr. Your skin will be in bad shape pretty quickly, but it will take a day or so to turn you into a popsicle all the way through.
The joker here is evaporative cooling. Depending on the moisture on/in your skin/mouth/lungs, the human body cooling rates can sustain 10-20KW in a total vacuum. This is fatal within minutes.
The secret to staying warmer when you find yourself naked in space is to keep calm. You don't want to be sweating.
Every Engineering Department I've worked with would have designed a user-replaceable battery and called it a "common sense" feature.
It's a good thing you don't design pacemakers. It would really suck to fall over and break off the little plastic battery cover.
Wristwatches have forgone user-replaceable batteries for ages. Why does a phone need one? I think your "common sense" is better phrased as "lack of imagination".
The scanner can read 900 license plates an hour traveling at highway speeds
That's 54,000 plate-miles per square hour!
In terms of real power, don't worry. It only comes out to ~6.67 plate-watts per newton-second.
People don't see that I'm argueing a logistical/technical impossiblility with them
That's your fault, not theirs. If there is a communications breakdown, it's your job to fix it...you are the one in the supporting role, and they are your customers. No matter how wrong they may seem, they are still right. If you can't communicate with your customers in their own language, you don't belong there.
Eliminate the word 'No' from your vocabulary. All it does is make you sound like a two year-old. If they want the impossible, then give them the estimate and let them know it will be billed to their budget. That's the only reality check necessary.
It's not uncommon in the IT world to prefer dealing with computers than people. In the professional world, that often translates into a smoking hole in the skill set. Go get a job as a car salesman for a few months. You probably won't be very good at it, but you'll learn one hell of a lot about what skills you lack and how to improve them. It will definitely make you a better IT employee.
Inflation also steals from the poor, who don't have enough money to save to invest.
You are absolutely incorrect.
Inflation helps the poor because it pays off debt. The bottom quintile of wealth in the US has on average $30K of unsecured debt per capita. Just as inflation will make $1 able to purchase less in the future, it also makes $1 worth of debt able to be paid off in the future with a smaller sacrifice of purchasing power.
In a slow deflation market, the poor are helped the most -- they can actually save
No, they can't. Deflation will increase their existing debts in real terms.
The rest of your post is also way out in left field. Get a refund on your mail-order economics degree.
nearly everyone I ever met from New York City was an asshole
"Nearly everyone" you met from New York seemed to be rude to you, eh? Perhaps you were the asshole by showing up with your prejudiced concepts of how 10 million people can act and think in lockstep because they happen to currently reside in the same area.
No interface control is intuitive by itself.
The nipple. All other interfaces are learned.
...people who can sit outside a baseball stadium or concert from some vantage point and watch the game/performance for free are also commiting a felony.
That analogy holds right up to the point you send your first packet to their network. After that, you are no longer a passive spectator...you are playing in a completely different ballgame, with completely different rules.
When you ask yourself "am I allowed to use this network?", "I don't know" does not equal "yes". The onus is upon you to verify that you are not trespassing before proceeding. In this particular case, it doesn't initially appear that any malice was involved. $400+40hrs sounds a little steep, but not in the realm of the unreasonable.
It's also blatantly unfair to those who decided to come here legally. A Canadian friend of mine has been waiting to come here for months. She has going through a paperwork nightmare from hell to get her green card. This is in spite of the fact that she has a masters degree and speaks three languages. We make her wait even though she is well educated, has family and a job waiting for her but we are willing to give amnesty to those that break our laws?
The essence of your argument is revenge, not the betterment of society.
The belief of "I had to go through this ordeal so it's only fair that they have to endure it" is nothing more than juvenile hazing. Your friend's "paperwork nightmare from hell" only supports the claim that current immigration laws are ill-conceived, ill-purposed, and ineffective. You only wish to inflict bad laws on others because they were previously inflicted upon someone you know.
What kind of message does that send?
The message it sends is that you don't understand what true justice is.
My ancestors came here via Ellis Island, legally.
I'm sure all Native Americans would agree that European settlement in the US was always done by the book, right?
I cannot condemn a person for breaking a law that I, in their position, would break myself. This country was founded by those who believed that unjust law was no law at all. "It's the law" is a empty position if you cannot justify the law itself.
he scientific method is:
1. Observe.
2. Hypothesise.
3. Test.
4. Repeat.
Presumably this scientist was on phase 3; attempting to test his hypothesis. When they testing indicated that the hypothesis was false, he altered it to conform to the newer observations.
Unfortunately life is not Star Trek. The pragmatic method is:
1. Hypothesise.
2. Beg.
3. "Prove".
4. Publish.
Science costs money. Money comes from benefactors. Benefactors don't like surprises. You publish the results you were paid to discover, or you don't get more money. Welcome to the real world. Wear a helmet.
You catch more flies with honey...
That's also true here for a different reason:
I already know that everybody with something to advertise wants to know absolutely everything about my potential consumption habits. That's just life. The fact that the NYT is willing to speak plainly about their data mining goals and methods is something I admire in a company...especially in a newspaper.
I'd become a fireman.
Yeah, they deal with fewer fires.
It does? Like the wonders of rolling blackouts, higher prices and less service? I guess it does.
East Coast Reactionary:
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?" *turns them back on*
West Coast Revolutionary:
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?"
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?"
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?"
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?"
It's a cultural thing...
Man, this game is great! Wow! ... Ok, it's delayed. Ok, another delay. Hm, ok, that preview doesn't look as impressive as it once did. Man, this game isn't really all that good.
If a game can stop being "all that good" with the passage of time, then it was never great to begin with.
Obligatory "Why was I built to feel pain?"
Because your genes are more likely to propogate if you can recognize, react to, and avoid damage.
In the case of robot designs, they are more likely to propogate if the robot can complete its missions and/or operate at the highest performance/price ratio. The ability for a robot to "feel pain" is only useful if adds to the primary metrics of success.
What's to say that this isn't water? Are teaching students supposed to swear off all liquids? Even assuming it is 120 proof grain alcohol, does that school have a rule against adult students drinking?
It's not the actual drinking that's the problem...that's nobody else's business. It's the teacher publicizing her personal life without discretion. That's the unprofessional behavior here.
If the teacher had printed out flyers with photos of herself getting drunk and dropped them off in the school computer lab, most people would think that would be pretty inappropriate. What is so different about a MySpace page that does the same thing?
Regardless of the picture, the School District or college have no right to amend her graduation qualifications, based on a single party photograph.
They do, however, need to consider her serious lack of judgement and forethought in handling the photo. The fact that she got drunk and someone snapped a photo is no big deal. The fact that she thought it would be a good idea to publish that photo to the entire world is a completely different matter.
Teachers, like many others, must maintain separation between their personal and professional lives. How is this any different from her standing in front of a classroom talking about how hammered she got the night before? It's just not even remotely appropriate for her to publicize her nightlife, especially in places where students will find it.
OTH, the Indian companies are hiring American, but at lower pay. They treat the employees like cattle (presumably like they do in India)
I doubt you could have chosen a worse way to phrase your uninformed prattle. You are aware of how Indians treat cattle, aren't you?
Unfortunately this will actually wind up to be a DRM like solution: It will annoy those who follow the rules, and those who don't want to follow the rules will circumvent it easily enough. If you (as a soldier) wanted to release information to the public and/or the enemy, this rule will not stop you.
This is an area where stopping the casual, incidental leaks is important. 10 innocuous blog posts from 10 different soldiers may individually give you zero useful information, but if you add them up, you have lost security.
Loose lips do sink ships...and it doesn't take malice.
I think it will be interesting to see if the next city that gets f*cked by mother nature, gets the same sub-par treatment from the govt as NOLA did. 2 years past and the neighborhoods that were decimated, not by a hurricane, but, by the US govt.'s levee system's failure due to poor worksmanship, poor engineering and it appears now, downright criminal negligance.....they still look like a bomb went off, and we hear daily the the Corps of Engineers is still cutting corners and fscking up the rebuild of the pumps and levees.
...end rant
What about the Louisiana Corp of Engineers? What about the New Orleans Corp of Engineers? Doesn't a city get to a point where they realize after decades of inattention to those levees from the Feds, they have to step up to bat and deal with local problems on a local scale? Every big city has unique problems, and sitting and waiting for the cavalry to arrive after the fact isn't the most efficient way of actually getting things accomplished.
Wouldn't it be better just to ensure that emergency cell towers were put in place? It seems like more responders have access to cell technology rather than amateur radio, and cutting out the middleman of having to relay messages through an operator would help things out.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it:
Design an emergency cell tower that will survive a hurricane/tornado/tsunami/etc and will get approved by the zoning board, city beautification commission, and the historical society.
Stuff breaks. When stuff is breaking on a large scale, you usually need emergency communications. Cell towers are not reliable.
None of these say what dangerous levels are. When you start talking about tons of mercury I will stand up and take note but light bulbs are a tiny fraction of the solid waste generated in the US and a drop in the bucket when compared to real sources for mercury. It's like regulating the "acceptable" levels of radiation inside a nuclear power plant to below what the average person get's when walking outside.
The biggest human source of atmospheric mercury is coal-fired power plants, which dump around 0.09mg of Hg per kg of coal burned. This is orders of magnitude more than these CFL issues. The decision, from a mercury perspective, is to risk breaking a CFL in your own house, or to run incandescents that end up releasing much more mercury further away...out of sight and out of mind.
It's the NIMBY game...again.
* Engaging in a phishing attack against AOL staffers through which he gained access to more than 60 accounts from AOL employees and subcontractors
Unfortunately, this kid's command of the English language was no better than that of "Bob", who sits three cubicles down. To "Jim", the two were indistinguishable. It's no wonder "Jim" got phished.
Ah, the joys of going multinational.