Other replies have discussed how this declaration purports to allow the authority to seize the assets of anyone who they think might "pose a significant risk of committing" such an act as they describe. This in its self, of course, is manifestly unconstitutional and thus illegal, but another element of this declaration just as sinister in a more subtle way.
It purports to exercise this same power on anyone found "to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order".
This means, in the extreme case, that after they've seized all assets of one person, pursuant to this order, leaving said person destitute and begging on the steet, the act declares complicit and culpable anyone who, without knowlege of the plight of the "at risk" person, passes by and gives said person a quarter or a sandwich or a blanket.
I agree with the comments about signal to noise ratio on these boards. It is hard sometimes to find what you want over all that noise; but if you have useful skills and a well-written resume, I think the boards are a good way to fish as see what comes to you.
I used these sites (monster and dice) in 2001 when I was thinking about leaving Razorfish as business development suddenly got difficult and we were shedding people by the hundreds. At this time I wanted to get out, but I was not in a rush, so I put my resume out there and searched on a fairly regular basis.
The searches were not terribly effective (signal to noise), but eventually some head hunters picked up on me and found a very good match based on my skill set. (The market was flooded with out of work Java programmers and perl jockeys; I was looking for some place to do plain old C programming).
Both the head hunter and my eventual employer remarked that my resume stood out because it was well-written and it looked like I wrote it myself rather than having been manhandled by a desperate head hunter.
Having also been on the hiring side for scores of hiring decisions throughout my career, I cannot over emphasize the importance of quality organization, writing, and formatting in your resume.
If you did not explore thyroid hormone deficiency (hypothyroidism), I would recommend taking your daughter to an endocrinologist and describing the behavioral symptoms. I would not be surpised if the endocrinologist suggested taking your daughter off her current medication and then testing her hormone levels once her system cleaned its self out.
I've known quite a few hypothyroid individuals very well (including my wife and a past girlfriend) both before and after diagnosis, medication, and recovery. The behavior that your daughter exhibited is a dead-ringer for the type of thinking / communication (or lack thereof) that someone who is hypothyroid has before they are diagnosed when they're operating at significantly deficient hormone levels.
The hormones produced by your thyroid gland regulate production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the chemical that provides "energy" to our cells. When you're hypothyroid your body is not producing enough of this important chemical, and every bodily system is affected as a result. With our large and complicated brains, mental function requires a lot of energy. A person with thryroid hormone deficiency (and consequently ATP deficency) has a hard time thinking. Reflexes work, but decisions and judgement are sometimes too hard, so they look for someone they trust to make these decisions and judgements. Emotions are affected as well. Inexplicable sadness and anger are common emotional side-effects.
You cannot make a bomb out of fuel-grade uranium. Uranium-based nuclear bombs are created with highly enriched material, meaning that it has an unnaturally high percentage of uranium 235 (the radioactive isotope of uranium -- 238 is the stable one). The worst you could do with stolen uranium reactor fuel is to put it in a big pile and make it generate lots of radiation and a big mess -- no bomb without a lot of U 238 and access to a very large and complicated refinery for isolating the U 235.
On the other hand, plutonium, also used as a reactor fuel is 100% fissionable. The reactor fuel is the same material used in bombs. Plutonium is also highly toxic. I believe the lethal dose for human consumption is something on the order of a microgram.
Good point, but consider that not everything on the planet is object oriented. Much of the code that I generate is SQL (stored procedures / triggers, etc.) -- tough to abstract in the same way that you describe. Sometimes that could be done, but it is likely to only be useful for things that are dynamic at runtime. Sometimes you just don't want to do that kind of work at runtime, and in the world of database applications, (pre-generated, long life) stored procedures offer advantages by allowing the db engine to analyze performance and use that information for further optimization.
Great, Lisp is cool, but generating more Lisp in Lisp is a very limited case.
I'd wager that most often you really don't want to be writing a code generator in the same language that you're generating.
Take my last code generator: imagine writing Sybase triggers using Sybase's stored procedure programming language. Trust me, python (or perl/awk/ruby/C) was much better suited to this task.
Further, as you write more code generators you'll start to develop your own suite of tools, and if written properly these will be highly reusable regardless of the target language.
Are you guys even old enough to shave?
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I ran XFree86 with acceptable performance using ctwm on my 20 MHz 386 with 4 MB RAM (installed from a teetering stack of slackware floppies).
I had a monochrome monitor that was supposed to support only 800x600 resolution, but I managed to get some more screen real estate...
Since the monitor had only one phosphor color (and thus a uniform phosphor surface) I was able to twiddle with my XFree86 configuration to get the monitor to sync on some crazy resolution like 900x732. The monitor buzzed a little bit at that setting, but it seemed none the worse for the wear...
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It seems that they've discovered the mother of all ABC gum.
Other replies have discussed how this declaration purports to allow the authority to seize the assets of anyone who they think might "pose a significant risk of committing" such an act as they describe. This in its self, of course, is manifestly unconstitutional and thus illegal, but another element of this declaration just as sinister in a more subtle way.
It purports to exercise this same power on anyone found "to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order".
This means, in the extreme case, that after they've seized all assets of one person, pursuant to this order, leaving said person destitute and begging on the steet, the act declares complicit and culpable anyone who, without knowlege of the plight of the "at risk" person, passes by and gives said person a quarter or a sandwich or a blanket.
...did anyone else reading the headline first think that the hand escaped and found its own way to the market?
...if you actually know English grammar and punctuation rules. Knowing these things makes the article genuinely painful to read.
...if MS ended up releasing a product that would only run properly with the right spyware programs installed.
I agree with the comments about signal to noise ratio on these boards. It is hard sometimes to find what you want over all that noise; but if you have useful skills and a well-written resume, I think the boards are a good way to fish as see what comes to you.
I used these sites (monster and dice) in 2001 when I was thinking about leaving Razorfish as business development suddenly got difficult and we were shedding people by the hundreds. At this time I wanted to get out, but I was not in a rush, so I put my resume out there and searched on a fairly regular basis.
The searches were not terribly effective (signal to noise), but eventually some head hunters picked up on me and found a very good match based on my skill set. (The market was flooded with out of work Java programmers and perl jockeys; I was looking for some place to do plain old C programming).
Both the head hunter and my eventual employer remarked that my resume stood out because it was well-written and it looked like I wrote it myself rather than having been manhandled by a desperate head hunter.
Having also been on the hiring side for scores of hiring decisions throughout my career, I cannot over emphasize the importance of quality organization, writing, and formatting in your resume.
If you did not explore thyroid hormone deficiency (hypothyroidism), I would recommend taking your daughter to an endocrinologist and describing the behavioral symptoms. I would not be surpised if the endocrinologist suggested taking your daughter off her current medication and then testing her hormone levels once her system cleaned its self out.
I've known quite a few hypothyroid individuals very well (including my wife and a past girlfriend) both before and after diagnosis, medication, and recovery. The behavior that your daughter exhibited is a dead-ringer for the type of thinking / communication (or lack thereof) that someone who is hypothyroid has before they are diagnosed when they're operating at significantly deficient hormone levels.
The hormones produced by your thyroid gland regulate production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the chemical that provides "energy" to our cells. When you're hypothyroid your body is not producing enough of this important chemical, and every bodily system is affected as a result. With our large and complicated brains, mental function requires a lot of energy. A person with thryroid hormone deficiency (and consequently ATP deficency) has a hard time thinking. Reflexes work, but decisions and judgement are sometimes too hard, so they look for someone they trust to make these decisions and judgements. Emotions are affected as well. Inexplicable sadness and anger are common emotional side-effects.
On the other hand, plutonium, also used as a reactor fuel is 100% fissionable. The reactor fuel is the same material used in bombs. Plutonium is also highly toxic. I believe the lethal dose for human consumption is something on the order of a microgram.
I thought you were going to say they would have to dig it out of somewhere a bit more personal...
Good point, but consider that not everything on the planet is object oriented. Much of the code that I generate is SQL (stored procedures / triggers, etc.) -- tough to abstract in the same way that you describe. Sometimes that could be done, but it is likely to only be useful for things that are dynamic at runtime. Sometimes you just don't want to do that kind of work at runtime, and in the world of database applications, (pre-generated, long life) stored procedures offer advantages by allowing the db engine to analyze performance and use that information for further optimization.
Great, Lisp is cool, but generating more Lisp in Lisp is a very limited case.
I'd wager that most often you really don't want to be writing a code generator in the same language that you're generating.
Take my last code generator: imagine writing Sybase triggers using Sybase's stored procedure programming language. Trust me, python (or perl/awk/ruby/C) was much better suited to this task.
Further, as you write more code generators you'll start to develop your own suite of tools, and if written properly these will be highly reusable regardless of the target language.
I ran XFree86 with acceptable performance using ctwm on my 20 MHz 386 with 4 MB RAM (installed from a teetering stack of slackware floppies).
I had a monochrome monitor that was supposed to support only 800x600 resolution, but I managed to get some more screen real estate...
Since the monitor had only one phosphor color (and thus a uniform phosphor surface) I was able to twiddle with my XFree86 configuration to get the monitor to sync on some crazy resolution like 900x732. The monitor buzzed a little bit at that setting, but it seemed none the worse for the wear...
Is the DOJ a bunch of morons?
Try this:
OS
User Software
Server Software
Services (hotmail, MSN, etc.)
Hardware
Consulting Services
Developer Tools is sort of a grey space... should probably go w/ the OS group.