Wind and solar have their own problems. For example thorium is a contaminant in the ores that contain rare earths used to build the generators used in solar plants.
And of course wind+solar is not something that gives you a stable grid. You need something to handle the base load.
Slashdotters WANT to manage their own computers. I'd bet a large percentage of slashdotters build their own machines from loose parts lying around in their basements. This is not the audience these remarks will get traction with.
IT managers with their budgets under severe pressure want a low cost to manage platform to deliver basic business applications to their users - sales, accounting, clerical, etc. using web apps, word processing, email, Excel, etc. This is where a platform like Sergy is talking about would gather interest.
It sounds to me like that is pretty reasonable compared to some of the other things we are getting hit with. For example many EPA and FDA regulations are aimed at reducing risks to levels of 1 in 100,000 or less.
So? It still makes Javascript a giant pain in the butt to use. I don't care who's fault the suckage is, what is important is how it affects my enjoyment of life. Up or down.
Well, if you opt out of tracking then how are you going to use an site without sending your access credentials across the net every time you load a page?
It may have some of these features, but they are a trap. People talk about it being object oriented and so on, and there are some features that make it look that way, it is a trap that leads you into programming hell.
Then the fact that every implementation of the language is some variant or another and you need browser specific code in real world Javascript.
All all of these libraries? They sound nice and all, but when you go to use them you quickly find yourself dropping to low level code to get teh speed.
The main problem with the Post Office is that it is a quasi-government operation, much like Freddie and Fanny were.
These never work.
In the case of the Post Office this manifests itself in vast overcapacity in inefficient operation. The management of the Post Office has a pretty good idea that what they need to do is cut down on branch offices and layoff people. But anytime they announce a branch office closing the people in the town that is served by the branch conduct a letter writing campaign to their Congresspeople who then pressure the Post Office to reverse their decision.
This is being played out all up and down the Federal Budget. One of two things will happen - they will fix it and the US won't go bankrupt, or it will go bankrupt.
The Italian Post Office? I've heard stories about that. Let's say as evidence of their ineptitude that there are a lot of sellers on EBay that refuse to ship to Italy. There was one story where a guy did a test shipment of 4 bricks in a package to Rome, and the bricks arrived completely smashed into powder.
Corporations are merely organizations formed by groups of people for commercial reasons. Under law they are a weird form of pseudo-person which is in my opinion a very bad thing because they interact with the political process way too much.
In order to ameliorate corporate personhood one of the things we should be doing is reducing the ways they interact with government. One of these is to eliminate taxation of corporations. To make up for this the flows of money leaving corporations into the hands of individuals should be taxed more heavily.
This would eliminate a lot of lobbyists and tax lawyers, immensely simplify tax code, and allow corporations to be more efficient economically because their decisions would be free of trying to figure out the tax implications of their actions.
Technological advances of this nature leverage human abilities allowing human productivity to increase.
It is in large measure how civilization advances. When the moldboard plow was invented humans were able to plant more land. This made more food available and hunger decreased. Yeah people probably became weaker as a result of having to do less grunt labor. But was the overall effect bad?
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking."
Not really, but if you are going to get sued for damages in a multi-billion dollar class action law suit one of the key points is going to be negligence. If this story is true, establishing negligence is going to be easy.
Stop it with the Packit book reviews. These books are uniformly bad and overpriced. I made the mistake of buying the one on Tapestry and it was full of incorrect information and didn't address any topics beyond the Hello World level.
The book actually hindered my efforts to get up to speed on this framework.
-1 Overrated on this book, review, the editor who posted it and the shill who reviewed it.
Yes, it was started by Hillary's campaign in the form of anonymous email chain letters containing a lot of rumors and scurrilous claims, however the first public challenge was made by Jim Geraghty of the conservative website National Review Online on June 9, 2008
Obama released the COLB June 12, 2008 on his web site End the Smears.
If you go back and read the source materials the founders were aware of both English Common law which was based on jus soli and European traditions that rely on jus sanguinis. The US Constitution derives from a large body of Enlightenment views and you cannot really state that one is preferred over another unless there is a real legal reason. Usually that boils down to using English Common Law as the default.
However this question was clearly settled by the 14th Amendment which made jus soli the unequivocal choice. This was cited in the Wong Kim Ark decision.
The Wong Kim Ark decision does include opinion that defines jus soli as sufficient for being a natural born citizen.
"It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established."
Does the fact of one of his parents being a British National confer British citizenship on him? Dual citizenship? Does it depend on the laws in effect at the time of his birth? How does that affect his eligibility?
If his mother became an Indonesian citizen, doesn't that mean he, as a minor, was also an Indonesian citizen? Doesn't he have to file a form during his 21st year asserting his birthright to American citizenship? (If he didn't, is he an illegal alien?) Did he attend Occidental College and Columbia as a foreign student? If so, how does that affect his eligibility?
At birth Obama was a British citizen and an American citizen, however when Kenya became independent in 1963 he became a Kenyan citizen and his British Citizenship lapsed. Since he was a dual citizen and Kenyan law forbids dual citizenship as an adult Obama's Kenyan citizenship lapsed at age 23 when he did not repudiate his US citizenship.
Obama became an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted in Indonesia. Under Indonesian law if you leave the country for 5 or more years and do not return to some period of time you automatically lose your Indonesian citizenship. So Obama is no longer an Indonesian citizen.
The question as to whether Obama's becoming an Indonesean citizen affects his US status is answered by US law as follows:
Loss of U.S. Nationality will occur when:
1. obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon the citizen's own application or upon an application filed by a duly authorized agent, after having attained the age of eighteen years; AND
2. taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof after having attained the age of eighteen years.
Since Obama was younger than 18 when this adoption occurred there was no status change.
Futhermore the question of having to file an application to claim US nationality is covered by Expatriation Law:
Closely related to need for voluntary action is the requirement that expatriation cannot be accomplished by a citizen who has not attained a specified age of maturity. This conforms with the common law maxim that an infant lacks legal capacity to undertake contractual obligations. Legal maturity generally considered to be the age of 21, unless a different age is specially stated. Paragraphs (1), (2), (4) of INA Â349(a) specifically fix the age of maturity at 18. In addition, INA Â351(b) fixes the age of maturity at 18 for paragraphs (3) and (5) of INA Â349(a). The text of INA Â351(b) is as follows:
A national who within six months after attaining the age of eighteen years asserts his claim to United States nationality, in such manner as the Secretary of State shall by regulation prescribe, shall not be deemed to have lost United States nationality by the commission, prior to his eighteenth birthday, of any of the acts specified in paragraph (3) and (5) of section 349 of this title.
These special provisions do not apply to acts of expatriation not specifically mentioned, and the age of maturity in relation to such other acts of expatriation generally continues to be the common-law standard of 21 years.
Paragraphs 3 and 5 cover enrolment in the armed forces of a foreign nation and making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state.
Since there is NO evidence that Obama took actions under sections 3 and 5, he has no need to file a claim.
Basically there is a truism here. Any claims by a birther that Obama is not a natural born US citizen in good standing and is a citizen of another natiion are complete bullcrap.
Slashdot Mirror
the consequences of accidents are unpredictable.
FTFY
Wind and solar have their own problems. For example thorium is a contaminant in the ores that contain rare earths used to build the generators used in solar plants.
And of course wind+solar is not something that gives you a stable grid. You need something to handle the base load.
I just patented a keyboard that types what you mean.
Slashdotters WANT to manage their own computers. I'd bet a large percentage of slashdotters build their own machines from loose parts lying around in their basements. This is not the audience these remarks will get traction with.
IT managers with their budgets under severe pressure want a low cost to manage platform to deliver basic business applications to their users - sales, accounting, clerical, etc. using web apps, word processing, email, Excel, etc. This is where a platform like Sergy is talking about would gather interest.
That requires establishing a linkage on the host between the public key and your identity. Zut alors! Your are now being tracked.
It sounds to me like that is pretty reasonable compared to some of the other things we are getting hit with. For example many EPA and FDA regulations are aimed at reducing risks to levels of 1 in 100,000 or less.
So? It still makes Javascript a giant pain in the butt to use. I don't care who's fault the suckage is, what is important is how it affects my enjoyment of life. Up or down.
And Javascript is a down.
Well, if you opt out of tracking then how are you going to use an site without sending your access credentials across the net every time you load a page?
That's not the problem of javascript - that's the problem of implementation.
The language and its implementation are not separable for practical purposes. If either one or the other is no good, the whole is no good.
Mod parent up some more.
It may have some of these features, but they are a trap. People talk about it being object oriented and so on, and there are some features that make it look that way, it is a trap that leads you into programming hell.
Then the fact that every implementation of the language is some variant or another and you need browser specific code in real world Javascript.
All all of these libraries? They sound nice and all, but when you go to use them you quickly find yourself dropping to low level code to get teh speed.
In other words I just don't like it.
The main problem with the Post Office is that it is a quasi-government operation, much like Freddie and Fanny were.
These never work.
In the case of the Post Office this manifests itself in vast overcapacity in inefficient operation. The management of the Post Office has a pretty good idea that what they need to do is cut down on branch offices and layoff people. But anytime they announce a branch office closing the people in the town that is served by the branch conduct a letter writing campaign to their Congresspeople who then pressure the Post Office to reverse their decision.
This is being played out all up and down the Federal Budget. One of two things will happen - they will fix it and the US won't go bankrupt, or it will go bankrupt.
I'm betting on the latter.
The Italian Post Office? I've heard stories about that. Let's say as evidence of their ineptitude that there are a lot of sellers on EBay that refuse to ship to Italy. There was one story where a guy did a test shipment of 4 bricks in a package to Rome, and the bricks arrived completely smashed into powder.
Atlas Shrugged is only part 1 and it's pretty crappy, so much so it's unlikely part 2 will be made.
So we are safe for a while.
Corporations are merely organizations formed by groups of people for commercial reasons. Under law they are a weird form of pseudo-person which is in my opinion a very bad thing because they interact with the political process way too much.
In order to ameliorate corporate personhood one of the things we should be doing is reducing the ways they interact with government. One of these is to eliminate taxation of corporations. To make up for this the flows of money leaving corporations into the hands of individuals should be taxed more heavily.
This would eliminate a lot of lobbyists and tax lawyers, immensely simplify tax code, and allow corporations to be more efficient economically because their decisions would be free of trying to figure out the tax implications of their actions.
The heavily laden semi probably has a much higher payload factor than the 32 mpg econobox with one passenger, and is thus a lot more efficient.
Any tax of this type should be implemented through a gas tax.
Technological advances of this nature leverage human abilities allowing human productivity to increase.
It is in large measure how civilization advances. When the moldboard plow was invented humans were able to plant more land. This made more food available and hunger decreased. Yeah people probably became weaker as a result of having to do less grunt labor. But was the overall effect bad?
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking."
--Alfred North Whitehead
Not really, but if you are going to get sued for damages in a multi-billion dollar class action law suit one of the key points is going to be negligence. If this story is true, establishing negligence is going to be easy.
Stop it with the Packit book reviews. These books are uniformly bad and overpriced. I made the mistake of buying the one on Tapestry and it was full of incorrect information and didn't address any topics beyond the Hello World level.
The book actually hindered my efforts to get up to speed on this framework.
-1 Overrated on this book, review, the editor who posted it and the shill who reviewed it.
Yes, it was started by Hillary's campaign in the form of anonymous email chain letters containing a lot of rumors and scurrilous claims, however the first public challenge was made by Jim Geraghty of the conservative website National Review Online on June 9, 2008
Obama released the COLB June 12, 2008 on his web site End the Smears.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/06/obama_launches_4.html
Obama responded to this as fast as could be expected.
If you go back and read the source materials the founders were aware of both English Common law which was based on jus soli and European traditions that rely on jus sanguinis. The US Constitution derives from a large body of Enlightenment views and you cannot really state that one is preferred over another unless there is a real legal reason. Usually that boils down to using English Common Law as the default.
However this question was clearly settled by the 14th Amendment which made jus soli the unequivocal choice. This was cited in the Wong Kim Ark decision.
The Wong Kim Ark decision does include opinion that defines jus soli as sufficient for being a natural born citizen.
"It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established."
The judges made reference to the COLB in the decision. Clearly they thought it was valid.
Nope.
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/11/indiana-appeals-court-defines-natural-born-citizen/
Wrong.
In 2009, the Indiana Court of Appeals applied Wong Kim Ark and upheld the lower court's dismissal of a challenge to President Obama's eligibility.
Does the fact of one of his parents being a British National confer British citizenship on him? Dual citizenship? Does it depend on the laws in effect at the time of his birth? How does that affect his eligibility?
If his mother became an Indonesian citizen, doesn't that mean he, as a minor, was also an Indonesian citizen? Doesn't he have to file a form during his 21st year asserting his birthright to American citizenship? (If he didn't, is he an illegal alien?) Did he attend Occidental College and Columbia as a foreign student? If so, how does that affect his eligibility?
At birth Obama was a British citizen and an American citizen, however when Kenya became independent in 1963 he became a Kenyan citizen and his British Citizenship lapsed. Since he was a dual citizen and Kenyan law forbids dual citizenship as an adult Obama's Kenyan citizenship lapsed at age 23 when he did not repudiate his US citizenship.
Obama became an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted in Indonesia. Under Indonesian law if you leave the country for 5 or more years and do not return to some period of time you automatically lose your Indonesian citizenship. So Obama is no longer an Indonesian citizen.
The question as to whether Obama's becoming an Indonesean citizen affects his US status is answered by US law as follows:
Loss of U.S. Nationality will occur when:
1. obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon the citizen's own application or upon an application filed by a duly authorized agent, after having attained the age of eighteen years; AND
2. taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof after having attained the age of eighteen years.
Since Obama was younger than 18 when this adoption occurred there was no status change.
Futhermore the question of having to file an application to claim US nationality is covered by Expatriation Law:
Closely related to need for voluntary action is the requirement that expatriation cannot be accomplished by a citizen who has not attained a specified age of maturity. This conforms with the common law maxim that an infant lacks legal capacity to undertake contractual obligations. Legal maturity generally considered to be the age of 21, unless a different age is specially stated. Paragraphs (1), (2), (4) of INA Â349(a) specifically fix the age of maturity at 18. In addition, INA Â351(b) fixes the age of maturity at 18 for paragraphs (3) and (5) of INA Â349(a). The text of INA Â351(b) is as follows:
A national who within six months after attaining the age of eighteen years asserts his claim to United States nationality, in such manner as the Secretary of State shall by regulation prescribe, shall not be deemed to have lost United States nationality by the commission, prior to his eighteenth birthday, of any of the acts specified in paragraph (3) and (5) of section 349 of this title.
These special provisions do not apply to acts of expatriation not specifically mentioned, and the age of maturity in relation to such other acts of expatriation generally continues to be the common-law standard of 21 years.
Paragraphs 3 and 5 cover enrolment in the armed forces of a foreign nation and making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state.
Since there is NO evidence that Obama took actions under sections 3 and 5, he has no need to file a claim.
Basically there is a truism here. Any claims by a birther that Obama is not a natural born US citizen in good standing and is a citizen of another natiion are complete bullcrap.
You are suffering from some sort of psychological disorder. See a doctor. Seriously.
Obama released his birth certificate prior to the elections. It was tested in court and passed. END OF STORY.