I used to have to drive by the smoking hole in the ground and the impromptu memorials that friends and relatives of victims set up at the site that was the WTC.
I will never forget it. It was an absolutely stunning sight.
After this the idea of keeping people of questionable background out of reach of American air space makes a lot of sense. What is questionable about this is the accuracy of the no-fly list. Oh well. Nobody is perfect.
The economic rebuilding of East Germany is still an ongoing process, far from complete and there is a great backlash over the continuing costs. However the social rebuilding has been a big success story.
As far as the US goes, no nation is without issues. What pisses me off though are people from other places that make derogatory comments without considering the history of what they are holding up as a superior example. It wasn't that long ago that Germany let lose one of the greatest horrors in human history.
The acknowledged beginning of 20th century popular fantasy. The roots of the popular genre go much further back. Tolkien himself was a well known academic in the field.
For example I have his 1925 middle English edition of Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight in my library.
Far fewer than 40-50% of people avoid paying Federal taxes. For example when you purchase an alcoholic beverage, gasoline, cigarettes, or have any kind of paying job you are paying some form of Federal tax.
The value of the public aid card belongs to the recipient after he receives it. When he uses the card some of the value of the card goes to pay the taxes on the services he purchases.
Warrantless, causeless border searches of closed containers by customs agents have been permissible since the beginning of the Republic under an act passed by the First Congress on July 31, 1787, merely 4 weeks after the ratification.
What makes this act constitutional is the power granted to Congress under the Constitution to regulate commerce between nations and enforce immigration laws.
It is VERY unlikely that the Supreme Court will touch this principle that has been in force for 230 years.
Germany has some problems the US doesn't have that you have somehow forgotten to mention. Like demographics - like an ageing and shrinking population. That distorts the labor figures you mentioned, and very dramatically. Ultimately this makes the future look pretty grim for Germany.
Thanks for identifying yourself with nutter tags like "Peter Schiff" and "Freedom of Contract".
The US actually has a much more liberal set of business conditions w.r.t. firing and hiring than most developed countries. It's jackasses like you that are reason for the regulations that we now have.
> Look at the 50 years 1912-1962. Science produced the theory for radio, tubes, transistors, large scale electric systems, plastics, worldwide communications systems, radar, jet aircraft, antibiotics, computers, and nuclear power. Then look at the next 50 years, 1962-2012. It's all improvements on that stuff.
Nonsense. The long term impact of genetic sequencing and engineering, which was developed post 1962 will be greater than all previous science combined.
US 7518615 is NOT prior art. It is a different patent based on the same original application as this patent. It's common to split patent applications into multiple patents during the application process to accelerate issuance of parts of the original application.
Yes, it should be, however that is not what the patent claimed.
Claim 1:
A rendering circuit comprising: a geometry processor; a rasterizer coupled to the geometry processor, the rasterizer comprising a scan converter having an input and an output, the scan converter being configured to scan convert data received at the input, at least a portion of the data received at the input being in floating point format, the scan converter being configured to output data from the output, at least a portion of the data from the output being floating point data; and a frame buffer coupled to the rasterizer for storing a plurality of color values in floating point format.
In other words this patent covers a very specific hardware architecture that happens to support floating point data. It ISN'T a generic patent on use of floating point in graphics processing like many commenters seem to be assuming.
The fact is that the most important and fragile part of the ocean biosphere is the surface and the tidal marshes. It s where most of the life is, and the most important, complex, slow to recover and fragile life at that. Regardless of what you think the motivation was, dispersing oil through the water column vs letting it all rise to the surface was the right thing to do to minimize the damage.
While I believe every sovereign power does that sort of stuff, citing an article about a cold war era technology like Echelon really doesn't add anything to your case.
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I used to have to drive by the smoking hole in the ground and the impromptu memorials that friends and relatives of victims set up at the site that was the WTC.
I will never forget it. It was an absolutely stunning sight.
After this the idea of keeping people of questionable background out of reach of American air space makes a lot of sense. What is questionable about this is the accuracy of the no-fly list. Oh well. Nobody is perfect.
Sorry you are incorrect in every aspect of what you are saying.
1. Tidal marshes are the most productive and some of the important ecosystems on earth. These are obviously extremely vulnerable to surface oil.
2. Plantkon are very much surface based.
3. The deep seas have a very low life density compared to the first few hundred feet. The nutrient density is just too low to support much.
The biological productivity of oceans is driven by photosynthesis which obviously decreases as you go deeper.
This is simple high school biology. I am amazed people don't realize this.
Here's a primer for you:
http://www.morning-earth.org/graphic-e/biosphere/Bios-PL-OceanLifeZones.html#mesopelagic
Non profit GSEs don't have a good track record.
The economic rebuilding of East Germany is still an ongoing process, far from complete and there is a great backlash over the continuing costs. However the social rebuilding has been a big success story.
As far as the US goes, no nation is without issues. What pisses me off though are people from other places that make derogatory comments without considering the history of what they are holding up as a superior example. It wasn't that long ago that Germany let lose one of the greatest horrors in human history.
Better research that one first.
The acknowledged beginning of 20th century popular fantasy. The roots of the popular genre go much further back. Tolkien himself was a well known academic in the field.
For example I have his 1925 middle English edition of Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight in my library.
Which would be a violation of the FIRST Amendment, not the FOURTH, which is what we were discussing.
Politicians aren't a thing.
And the thing you get from Amazon? Do you think that no portion of the price of this goes to pay for taxes, even indirectly?
Far fewer than 40-50% of people avoid paying Federal taxes. For example when you purchase an alcoholic beverage, gasoline, cigarettes, or have any kind of paying job you are paying some form of Federal tax.
The value of the public aid card belongs to the recipient after he receives it. When he uses the card some of the value of the card goes to pay the taxes on the services he purchases.
He's paying taxes.
Warrantless, causeless border searches of closed containers by customs agents have been permissible since the beginning of the Republic under an act passed by the First Congress on July 31, 1787, merely 4 weeks after the ratification.
What makes this act constitutional is the power granted to Congress under the Constitution to regulate commerce between nations and enforce immigration laws.
It is VERY unlikely that the Supreme Court will touch this principle that has been in force for 230 years.
Germany has some problems the US doesn't have that you have somehow forgotten to mention. Like demographics - like an ageing and shrinking population. That distorts the labor figures you mentioned, and very dramatically. Ultimately this makes the future look pretty grim for Germany.
Thanks for identifying yourself with nutter tags like "Peter Schiff" and "Freedom of Contract".
The US actually has a much more liberal set of business conditions w.r.t. firing and hiring than most developed countries. It's jackasses like you that are reason for the regulations that we now have.
It isn't possible to buy anything without paying taxes.
> Look at the 50 years 1912-1962. Science produced the theory for radio, tubes, transistors, large scale electric systems, plastics, worldwide communications systems, radar, jet aircraft, antibiotics, computers, and nuclear power. Then look at the next 50 years, 1962-2012. It's all improvements on that stuff.
Nonsense. The long term impact of genetic sequencing and engineering, which was developed post 1962 will be greater than all previous science combined.
Oh bullshit. Echelon is an extremely outmoded and limited technology that has essentially no current relevance.
As far as the EP report, take a look at the news of the time:
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-07/tech/echelon.report.idg_1_echelon-european-parliament-report-claims?_s=PM:TECH
US 7518615 is NOT prior art. It is a different patent based on the same original application as this patent. It's common to split patent applications into multiple patents during the application process to accelerate issuance of parts of the original application.
Software floating point emulation is not prior art to this patent. The text of the patent explains why.
Look at the priority clause in the patent. It goes back to 1998. That is where you need to start looking for prior art.
Think again, the priority date is 1998.
Yes, it should be, however that is not what the patent claimed.
Claim 1:
A rendering circuit comprising: a geometry processor; a rasterizer coupled to the geometry processor, the rasterizer comprising a scan converter having an input and an output, the scan converter being configured to scan convert data received at the input, at least a portion of the data received at the input being in floating point format, the scan converter being configured to output data from the output, at least a portion of the data from the output being floating point data; and a frame buffer coupled to the rasterizer for storing a plurality of color values in floating point format.
In other words this patent covers a very specific hardware architecture that happens to support floating point data. It ISN'T a generic patent on use of floating point in graphics processing like many commenters seem to be assuming.
The fact is that the most important and fragile part of the ocean biosphere is the surface and the tidal marshes. It s where most of the life is, and the most important, complex, slow to recover and fragile life at that. Regardless of what you think the motivation was, dispersing oil through the water column vs letting it all rise to the surface was the right thing to do to minimize the damage.
You could google it. There have been plenty of studies on the topic.
While I believe every sovereign power does that sort of stuff, citing an article about a cold war era technology like Echelon really doesn't add anything to your case.