Multiplying rough numbers from different sources accumulates a high amount of error quickly.
Agreed. It is a rough estimate, but I still think that it shows that the amount of federal money that actually makes it to NPR is low.
If NPR doesn't need any goverment money they shouldn't take any of it. It would shut up their detractors and the much-talked-about liberal private radio station would be born.
Two points: agreed... if they don't need the cash, they shouldn't take it... but I do think they need it, and I highly doubt you would find them saying otherwise, too... but when we are spending a 4 billion a month (a little over a 1000 dollars a second) on the war in Iraq, it kinda puts that small sum of money that NPR gets into perspective, doesn't it?
As for equating the theoretical fall of NPR with a theoretical rise of liberal radio, you're just attacking.
If you take the 2% of NPR 200 million dollar budget you get 4 mil. Take and divided by three (they mention it takes 3 groups to build up that 2%), then you have 1.33 million from CPB (estimate). CPB's total budget is $386 mil. So take the 12 million they get from the feds and you end up with 3.11% of CPB's budget is from the feds... take that 3.11% times the $1.33 they give to NPR, and you get $96,000. That's the rought amount of money from congress that actually makes it to NPR. Not a whole lot for a 200 million dollar budget. While I don't think they'd like it, I'm sure you could yank CPB's funding and it wouldn't matter much to NPR's ultimate survival.
NPR's annual revenues come primarily from member station dues and programming fees, contributions from private foundations, and corporate underwriting. A long-standing board policy prohibits NPR from soliciting listeners directly: on-air fund raising, direct mail, and telephone solicitations remain a prerogative of member stations.
The only direct government funding NPR receives is through competitive grants from government agencies for specific projects. Such grants are awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, and typically represent only 2% of total revenues.
There is no 'budget line' for NPR in the fedral budget.
Ok, having watched the video and listen to the audio, the interference sounds like a bunch of clicks... does this corresponde to the data transfer occuring over the powerlines being a type of packet-burst communication?
Hmm, let me think... would I rather have one constant light or a light that blinks on and off everytime something in a normallized nature filled area moves.
I'm with you hesiod... and a bunch of the people I know who live in the somewhat isolated country just shut their yard light all together when they go to bed... they don't need them for security, that's what the dog(s) is(are) for =).
What I curious about is this: how exactly does one move away from the GPL? It's a non-physcial idea rendered many times in text... yeah, I'm gonna move 5 feet to north... that'll move me away from that idea! whew, that was close!
And here where I live in the midwest America, there are still towns with all white lighting. I hate the bland desynthazing effect of high power sodium lighting, but that seems to be the norm these days.
I remember being a kid and driving through the country side at night... we're talking 1 yard light every 2-3 squares miles here, and the slow change when those lights started to go from white to yellow. I'd say the ratio is up to 9 sodium to every 1 white lights these days.
I have friends that bought a few acres in the country, and the first thing they did was replace the sodium bulb in their yard light back to a white one.
Sodium orange lighting sucks.
To keep things on topic... what color are the street lights in your area of Russia? Do you have white or sodium?
Fidelity Investments has had plenty of SCOX shares available for shorting for the past couple weeks. Before that I was unable to get my orders to short sell to fill.
Fidelity's margin requirements for SCOX stock are pretty high which may have explained the difficulty in shorting until recently... maybe they review those requirements periodically or maybe a stock has to meet a list of criteria for a certain period of time (X days above price Y?) before it becomes marginable and hence shortable.
I finally found out why there are no shares of SCOX to short. As most everyone knows, shorting is the process where you sell a stock with the intent to buy it back later at a cheaper price. In other words, it is the opposite of buying a stock. Therefore, if the stock goes up in price, you are losing money; if it goes down you are making money... many/.'ers figure that SCOX will fall due to a variety of opinions.
In order to short a stock, there has to be some supply of the stock somewhere somewhere that can be sold... this supply of stock normally comes from stock used as collateral on a margin... somewhere, someone is borrowing money to buy more stock than they have money for, and using stock as collateral.
The problem being is that SCOX stock has climbed too quickly too fast and was once very recently a penny stock... thus brokers are unwilling to take SCOX as collateral... bingo, no SCOX stock available to short!
"To gain credibility back, they... have to do a line-by-line audit to make sure that their intellectual property is still sound," said Stutzman.
Who the hell calls code -intellectual property-??? WTF?
I can just see a memo sent out by some PHB...
From this moment forward in order to enhance share holder value and increase synenergy all software and code shall be referred to strictly as intellectual property.
So now the already over used misnomer of IP, which already includes copyright, patent, trade secrets, and four hundred other unrelated laws, rights, misc, shall also include any form of software, be it in binary or code form, including code that is open source, public domain, or proprietery.
I'm going to start calling my bowel movements intellectual property, just to be safe.
It is like they are just ramping up for a lawsuit.
Then substract those that don't use an Office/VBA solution, or simply a Microsoft platform (and from my experience those are the majority).
This makes me wonder, kinda in an OT way... how many open source project are there that are based on VBA / Office / VB / other MS technologies? Granted, it would take money to buy the base (office or such software), but then a person could use the solution for free.
My two questions:
Is anyone making a GPL solution based on MS software?
Is this allowed (i.e., a clause in the EULA)?
Please, someone, anyone, respond with any experience you have.
Mandatoring spanking, forced pray, and tatoos of the ten commandments on students forearms isn't enough!
If teachers had guns they could really force students to learn by holding a gun to their head or shooting the bad kids in the knee caps! Think of the discipline and quiet that would ensue after the paramedics had taken' the screaming wounded kid away!
They could even create a database of those who had witnessed a teacher / student shooting and ensure that within every given time period, every student would witness some form of conformance training!
VIOLENCE IS THE ANSWER! FEAR GOD! FEAR YOUR TEACHER! TATOO BARCODES AND RFIDS FOR EVERY STUDENT!
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There, is that extreme enough? Laugh, it is a joke, ya' know =)
All of these systems are very easy-to-use from a customer standpoint, they are fast, and they lower the cost of doing business and should therefore
lead to lower prices. All of that is good, so these automated systems will proliferate rapidly.
Emphasis mine. I disagree with this point, in that I think that these savings won't be passed onto comsumers, they will be used to have higher profit margins. These are cooperations we're talking about.
The other thing... I don't think any level of machine automation will replace the experience of going to a sit down restruant and having a really good waiter/waitress. I can see this automation working for fast food, but it will not eliminate servers in general.
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Agreed. It is a rough estimate, but I still think that it shows that the amount of federal money that actually makes it to NPR is low.
If NPR doesn't need any goverment money they shouldn't take any of it. It would shut up their detractors and the much-talked-about liberal private radio station would be born.Two points: agreed... if they don't need the cash, they shouldn't take it... but I do think they need it, and I highly doubt you would find them saying otherwise, too... but when we are spending a 4 billion a month (a little over a 1000 dollars a second) on the war in Iraq, it kinda puts that small sum of money that NPR gets into perspective, doesn't it?
As for equating the theoretical fall of NPR with a theoretical rise of liberal radio, you're just attacking.
If you take the 2% of NPR 200 million dollar budget you get 4 mil. Take and divided by three (they mention it takes 3 groups to build up that 2%), then you have 1.33 million from CPB (estimate). CPB's total budget is $386 mil. So take the 12 million they get from the feds and you end up with 3.11% of CPB's budget is from the feds... take that 3.11% times the $1.33 they give to NPR, and you get $96,000. That's the rought amount of money from congress that actually makes it to NPR. Not a whole lot for a 200 million dollar budget. While I don't think they'd like it, I'm sure you could yank CPB's funding and it wouldn't matter much to NPR's ultimate survival.
For an interesting break down of what CPB actually funds, go to: http://www.cpb.org/programs/pr.php?prn=332
You're a dipshit spreading FUD.
From http://www.npr.org/about/place/corpsupport/financi als.html
There is no 'budget line' for NPR in the fedral budget.
Ok, having watched the video and listen to the audio, the interference sounds like a bunch of clicks... does this corresponde to the data transfer occuring over the powerlines being a type of packet-burst communication?
Hmm, let me think... would I rather have one constant light or a light that blinks on and off everytime something in a normallized nature filled area moves.
I'm with you hesiod... and a bunch of the people I know who live in the somewhat isolated country just shut their yard light all together when they go to bed... they don't need them for security, that's what the dog(s) is(are) for =).
Excellent sig yourself.
What I curious about is this: how exactly does one move away from the GPL? It's a non-physcial idea rendered many times in text... yeah, I'm gonna move 5 feet to north... that'll move me away from that idea! whew, that was close!
And here where I live in the midwest America, there are still towns with all white lighting. I hate the bland desynthazing effect of high power sodium lighting, but that seems to be the norm these days.
I remember being a kid and driving through the country side at night... we're talking 1 yard light every 2-3 squares miles here, and the slow change when those lights started to go from white to yellow. I'd say the ratio is up to 9 sodium to every 1 white lights these days.
I have friends that bought a few acres in the country, and the first thing they did was replace the sodium bulb in their yard light back to a white one.
Sodium orange lighting sucks.
To keep things on topic... what color are the street lights in your area of Russia? Do you have white or sodium?
Makes sense to me.
True... but that doesn't mean she doesn't suck.
This is not investment advice.
I finally found out why there are no shares of SCOX to short. As most everyone knows, shorting is the process where you sell a stock with the intent to buy it back later at a cheaper price. In other words, it is the opposite of buying a stock. Therefore, if the stock goes up in price, you are losing money; if it goes down you are making money... many /.'ers figure that SCOX will fall due to a variety of opinions.
In order to short a stock, there has to be some supply of the stock somewhere somewhere that can be sold... this supply of stock normally comes from stock used as collateral on a margin... somewhere, someone is borrowing money to buy more stock than they have money for, and using stock as collateral.
The problem being is that SCOX stock has climbed too quickly too fast and was once very recently a penny stock... thus brokers are unwilling to take SCOX as collateral... bingo, no SCOX stock available to short!
Just thought /.'ers would find that interesting.
Remember, this is not investment advice.
Ack! Who the hell modded me down! Crack smoking mods... this is valid stuff... I'm being serious.
You know what kills me from the wired article:
Who the hell calls code -intellectual property-??? WTF?I can just see a memo sent out by some PHB...
From this moment forward in order to enhance share holder value and increase synenergy all software and code shall be referred to strictly as intellectual property.
So now the already over used misnomer of IP, which already includes copyright, patent, trade secrets, and four hundred other unrelated laws, rights, misc, shall also include any form of software, be it in binary or code form, including code that is open source, public domain, or proprietery.
I'm going to start calling my bowel movements intellectual property, just to be safe.
It is like they are just ramping up for a lawsuit.
Interesting, thanks for responding. Do you have some links to some of your projects?
This makes me wonder, kinda in an OT way... how many open source project are there that are based on VBA / Office / VB / other MS technologies? Granted, it would take money to buy the base (office or such software), but then a person could use the solution for free.
My two questions:
Please, someone, anyone, respond with any experience you have.
Your name is Sober Cranapple Object, too???! Sweet!
Mandatoring spanking, forced pray, and tatoos of the ten commandments on students forearms isn't enough!
If teachers had guns they could really force students to learn by holding a gun to their head or shooting the bad kids in the knee caps! Think of the discipline and quiet that would ensue after the paramedics had taken' the screaming wounded kid away!
They could even create a database of those who had witnessed a teacher / student shooting and ensure that within every given time period, every student would witness some form of conformance training!
VIOLENCE IS THE ANSWER! FEAR GOD! FEAR YOUR TEACHER! TATOO BARCODES AND RFIDS FOR EVERY STUDENT!
---------
There, is that extreme enough? Laugh, it is a joke, ya' know =)
Two comments and slashdotted.
Any mirrors or text???
"My engineering buddy here says that you can make 20 minute phone call for only one duck!"
Hey Eric!
Not just the law school... think about the CSC department and a bunch of others. LOTS of classrooms have hookups.
From the article:
Emphasis mine. I disagree with this point, in that I think that these savings won't be passed onto comsumers, they will be used to have higher profit margins. These are cooperations we're talking about.
The other thing... I don't think any level of machine automation will replace the experience of going to a sit down restruant and having a really good waiter/waitress. I can see this automation working for fast food, but it will not eliminate servers in general.
PDF forms dynamically filled with data using FOP from the Apache project!
The really cool thing was the seamless conversion of the fonts involved into glyphs in the SVG file. DAMN! They did good. Check 'em out. Disclaimer: I am in no way involved with them other than being a user of their great free service.
So duplicate/multiple posts are like multiple orgasisms?
I think they forgot one: www.bynari.net. Their blurb from the front page:
and...Anyone using this?