and of course the poorest are the hardest hit by tax increases
Depends on how the tax is structured. If you just put a flat tax on gasoline, yes that is unfair. But if you tax by efficiency of the vehicle, and set a zero tax level at something reasonable like a 1.5L engine, then the impact should be small,
Senator Joe McCarthy was a lout, generally speaking. But he was on the right side of history and, in a broad sense, of morality as well.
Ridiculous on the face of it. McCarthy did reveal some spies in government - but purely by accident. In his paranoid world all of the American people were guilty until proven innocent, and association was enough to prove treason. His net was so wide that it would have been impossible to not catch a fish or two.
The problem is the many innocent people his 'investigations' destroyed. In our society this sort of collateral damage is unacceptable. McCarthy was not on a moral high ground - rather he was in the gutter, using the lowest of human emotions and principles to further a reign of terror.
If the errors of the early stages of the Cold War are not acknowledged now, they will be repeated. The history of the 1950s is a must-read today. The first lesson is clear: within America, freedom must be defended vigorously for there will always be people looking to erode it in the name of security.
The most secure society is one where there are no personal freedoms and everthing not compulsory is forbidden.
The idea that anonymous library cards is a threat to our nation or protects terrorists is absurd on the face of it. The far greater danger comes from laws like the Patriot Act that implicitly hand victory to the same terrorists.
Most of the only time knowing what the bad guys did at a library is only helpful after the fact, but that can help a lot.
All of this is based on the theory that government is honest, never makes mistakes and always lives up to the principles laid out in the Constitution by our founding fathers.
The truth falls well short of this - during my lifetime there have been multple large scale abuses of power by the federal govenerment - and I think history will show the Patriot Act to fall into that category.
And pray, tell me WHY reading a book, no matter how inflamartory should make one bit of difference in a criminal context? This is surely only a back door towards eroding some of our most basic freedoms - of speech and the press.
What next, are we going to record how individuals voted in the elections? Surely, if you vote for a Muslim candidate that must mean you have terrorist leanings, right? And don't laugh - people lost everything during the McCarthy era simply because they associated with somebody who belonged to the wrong political party. Look at the case of Robert Oppenhiemer.
We live in an era where there have been many proposals by agents of the goverment to establish centralized databases full of data characterizing the actions and behaviors of citizens without any restraint on who gets cataloged. There is a bill before Congress right now that would mandate a national id card.
Can you imagine how data of that nature would have been misused by the likes of McCarthy and Nixon?
No, rather than this incessant data gathering and spying that seems to be the idea of moment (and in reality it signals victory by the terrorists who want to destroy our way of life) we should be working to STRENGTHEN the erosions of privacy that are occurring in the digital age.
All we need is to plug some humans into the power collection systems that were used on the Matrix. One guy for your trunk, another for the basement etc.
With the wages they get in China it would be very cost-effective.
Or why didn't they just make two standards; 720p and 720i or 1080p and 1080i making the construction of HDTVs much simpler?
Most people feel that the 720i/p modes are just transitional until 1080i/p costs get down to consumer levels. In a few years DVD's, cable and all new sets will be 1080.
Regardless of what language you choose you need to cover the concepts of design patterns, antipatterns and try to instill some architectural sensitivty - maintanability, data hiding, modularity, testability, flexibility etc. into your students. I have seen Way WAY W*A*Y too many php hacks obviously written by inexperienced self-taught web programmers that are just flatout nightmarish.
Be sure to emphasize the truth of the matter - most programming is maintaining existing code, and if you don't lay a decent foundation you are doomed to endless torment in spaghetti code hell.
As I understand it, catalytic converters don't deal with soot.
Well, what is coming is what is called catalytic diesel particulate traps. These are traps that catalytically oxidize the particulates. By 2007 most countries will require them. It also requires use of low sulfur fuel so that catalyst is not poisoned, which is also part of the 2007 conversion.
I imagine that biodeisel is low sulfer, so these catalytic filters could be used on biodiesel.
hey, even Einstein had an early marrige and children way before he was famous..
Fame and when you actually do the great work totally independent. For example JW Gibbs Jr was not at all understood in his lifetime - now he is being honored on a US stamp along with von Nuemann, Feynmann and McClintoch.
In the case of Einstien, most of his great work was done when he was quite young. Some of his early ideas about relativity trace to concepts that he was thinkig about as early as age 16.
BTW, 2005 is the 100th anniversary of Einstien's golden year, his most productive time - at age 26.
Most famous people are screw-ups that somehow accomplish something brilliant..
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but one thing for sure is that you have to make a lot of mistakes on the path to a great idea. People who aren't making mistakes are generally those who are do-nothings.
By taking the time to learn and memorize these modern 'innovations' aren't they grounding their thoughts into the same kind of mentality they are trying to break free of in the first place?
The problem is that you are equating the idea of hidebound mentality with the tools necessary to do basic scientific work. If you have good teachers you can obtain the latter without getting caught up in the former. If not, well, you are probably likely to get the former without the latter.
Or the Nobel commision just take 60-80 years to get around to honouring the scientists
Well, when I was getting my PhD I worked with John Fenn. He was awarded a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry when in his 80's. The interesting thing is that the work that merited this award (ion spray mass chromatography - allowed characterization of large biological molecules and led directly to the development of protease inhibitors) was done by John when he was in his late 70's.
John had a lot of trouble with the administration at Yale at the time because they were trying to force him into retirement. Now of course they are embarresed by the who episode because of Fenn's great accomplishement at the time they were trying to put him out to pasture.
John was a great person to work with too - genuinely cared about his students and an enthsuiastic teacher who did a great job both presenting difficult material as well as acting as a mentor.
I feel greatly priviledged to have known such a man. He is a credit to the human race.
Since these people are not getting paid, then it would have to be something that these people are interested in solving.
That's the flaw in your argument. There are plenty of F/OSS projects that have a commercial component, thus paid developers. Look at the Linux kernel for example - many of the key developers are paid for what they are doing.
Eye-for-eye. If an organization loses security on CC#, SSN, etc. of customers they must publicly post the SSN#s and CC#s of all their excecutives on the default page of a special web site run by the FTC for that purpose.
The problem with low response time LCD's is that they generally compromise on image quality. While the 25 ms 213T does ghost when playing games it is also one of the few LCD monitors that has image fidelity that is good enough for my eyes.
In the quest for the marketability of low response time, LCD manufacurers have been moving to lcd panel designs that just don't deliver image quality.
Water is way more awesome than most people realize - because of hydrogen bonding -
It is a key component in life; it's solvency and structure are what makes biochemistry work.
It has about the widest range of temperature as a liquid of any simple material - making life possible over the face of the earth.
It is the closest thing to a universal sovent we will ever see.
Since it expands on freezing ice floats - just think what a mess the oceans would be if they were made of something that shrank when it froze, and the ice sank. The planet would have much wider extremes in temperature just because of that small fact.
Wate has an immense heat capacity compared to other liquids... moderating our weather
The beat goes on; it's unique chemistry and physics are whe we live off of every day.
Just because economics is not zero-sum does not mean it's infinite-sum, either.
Right - but my theory is that the current sum is so small that what we will have in the future is likely to be indistinguisable from infinity by comparison.
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and of course the poorest are the hardest hit by tax increases
Depends on how the tax is structured. If you just put a flat tax on gasoline, yes that is unfair. But if you tax by efficiency of the vehicle, and set a zero tax level at something reasonable like a 1.5L engine, then the impact should be small,
Are factories in China that much less efficient than their Japanese counterparts?
Yes. The low cost of labor makes it economically unattractive to invest in capital equipment.
Senator Joe McCarthy was a lout, generally speaking. But he was on the right side of history and, in a broad sense, of morality as well.
Ridiculous on the face of it. McCarthy did reveal some spies in government - but purely by accident. In his paranoid world all of the American people were guilty until proven innocent, and association was enough to prove treason. His net was so wide that it would have been impossible to not catch a fish or two.
The problem is the many innocent people his 'investigations' destroyed. In our society this sort of collateral damage is unacceptable. McCarthy was not on a moral high ground - rather he was in the gutter, using the lowest of human emotions and principles to further a reign of terror.
If the errors of the early stages of the Cold War are not acknowledged now, they will be repeated. The history of the 1950s is a must-read today. The first lesson is clear: within America, freedom must be defended vigorously for there will always be people looking to erode it in the name of security.
The most secure society is one where there are no personal freedoms and everthing not compulsory is forbidden.
The idea that anonymous library cards is a threat to our nation or protects terrorists is absurd on the face of it. The far greater danger comes from laws like the Patriot Act that implicitly hand victory to the same terrorists.
Most of the only time knowing what the bad guys did at a library is only helpful after the fact, but that can help a lot.
All of this is based on the theory that government is honest, never makes mistakes and always lives up to the principles laid out in the Constitution by our founding fathers.
The truth falls well short of this - during my lifetime there have been multple large scale abuses of power by the federal govenerment - and I think history will show the Patriot Act to fall into that category.
And pray, tell me WHY reading a book, no matter how inflamartory should make one bit of difference in a criminal context? This is surely only a back door towards eroding some of our most basic freedoms - of speech and the press.
What next, are we going to record how individuals voted in the elections? Surely, if you vote for a Muslim candidate that must mean you have terrorist leanings, right? And don't laugh - people lost everything during the McCarthy era simply because they associated with somebody who belonged to the wrong political party. Look at the case of Robert Oppenhiemer.
We live in an era where there have been many proposals by agents of the goverment to establish centralized databases full of data characterizing the actions and behaviors of citizens without any restraint on who gets cataloged. There is a bill before Congress right now that would mandate a national id card.
Can you imagine how data of that nature would have been misused by the likes of McCarthy and Nixon?
No, rather than this incessant data gathering and spying that seems to be the idea of moment (and in reality it signals victory by the terrorists who want to destroy our way of life) we should be working to STRENGTHEN the erosions of privacy that are occurring in the digital age.
Anonymous library cards are a WONDERFUL idea.
All we need is to plug some humans into the power collection systems that were used on the Matrix. One guy for your trunk, another for the basement etc.
With the wages they get in China it would be very cost-effective.
Or why didn't they just make two standards; 720p and 720i or 1080p and 1080i making the construction of HDTVs much simpler?
Most people feel that the 720i/p modes are just transitional until 1080i/p costs get down to consumer levels. In a few years DVD's, cable and all new sets will be 1080.
Isn't interlacing an artifact of CRT technology that died in the 90's in computer monitors?
The concept of interlacing is useful in the digital HD world for the same reason it is in the analog world - it saves bandwidth.
Regardless of what language you choose you need to cover the concepts of design patterns, antipatterns and try to instill some architectural sensitivty - maintanability, data hiding, modularity, testability, flexibility etc. into your students. I have seen Way WAY W*A*Y too many php hacks obviously written by inexperienced self-taught web programmers that are just flatout nightmarish.
Be sure to emphasize the truth of the matter - most programming is maintaining existing code, and if you don't lay a decent foundation you are doomed to endless torment in spaghetti code hell.
As I understand it, catalytic converters don't deal with soot.
Well, what is coming is what is called catalytic diesel particulate traps. These are traps that catalytically oxidize the particulates. By 2007 most countries will require them. It also requires use of low sulfur fuel so that catalyst is not poisoned, which is also part of the 2007 conversion.
I imagine that biodeisel is low sulfer, so these catalytic filters could be used on biodiesel.
hey, even Einstein had an early marrige and children way before he was famous..
Fame and when you actually do the great work totally independent. For example JW Gibbs Jr was not at all understood in his lifetime - now he is being honored on a US stamp along with von Nuemann, Feynmann and McClintoch.
In the case of Einstien, most of his great work was done when he was quite young. Some of his early ideas about relativity trace to concepts that he was thinkig about as early as age 16.
BTW, 2005 is the 100th anniversary of Einstien's golden year, his most productive time - at age 26.
Most famous people are screw-ups that somehow accomplish something brilliant..
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but one thing for sure is that you have to make a lot of mistakes on the path to a great idea. People who aren't making mistakes are generally those who are do-nothings.
By taking the time to learn and memorize these modern 'innovations' aren't they grounding their thoughts into the same kind of mentality they are trying to break free of in the first place?
The problem is that you are equating the idea of hidebound mentality with the tools necessary to do basic scientific work. If you have good teachers you can obtain the latter without getting caught up in the former. If not, well, you are probably likely to get the former without the latter.
Or the Nobel commision just take 60-80 years to get around to honouring the scientists
Well, when I was getting my PhD I worked with John Fenn. He was awarded a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry when in his 80's. The interesting thing is that the work that merited this award (ion spray mass chromatography - allowed characterization of large biological molecules and led directly to the development of protease inhibitors) was done by John when he was in his late 70's.
John had a lot of trouble with the administration at Yale at the time because they were trying to force him into retirement. Now of course they are embarresed by the who episode because of Fenn's great accomplishement at the time they were trying to put him out to pasture.
John was a great person to work with too - genuinely cared about his students and an enthsuiastic teacher who did a great job both presenting difficult material as well as acting as a mentor.
I feel greatly priviledged to have known such a man. He is a credit to the human race.
Naaww. My favorite to register on misc. sites is the e-mail address of "Bill.Gates@microsoft.com".
My favorite on annoyingsite.com is to use sales@annoyingsite.com
Since these people are not getting paid, then it would have to be something that these people are interested in solving.
That's the flaw in your argument. There are plenty of F/OSS projects that have a commercial component, thus paid developers. Look at the Linux kernel for example - many of the key developers are paid for what they are doing.
Why does this sound like Visual Basic?
Maybe because that is my model for The Worst Language.
What, like Perl?
Yeah, I hear you. My disgust with Perl is leading me to use Python for scripting.
revoke the copyright from any film or TV show that has not been shown on broadcast TV within two years
That probably would be considered a bill of attainder, which is unconstitutional.
Rexx automatically allocates them when you first refer to them.
Well, thanks for the heads up. I imagine that they are variant types too.
And why the replicator in Star Trek is the truly disruptive technology.
The big step is when you start replicating replicators.
I am using MAM-A (Mitsui) Gold archival quality CD's, and I make 2 copies. They are supposed to be good for at least 100 years.
Every time there is a study on CD-R storage stability these test way better than all the others.
MAM-A
Eye-for-eye. If an organization loses security on CC#, SSN, etc. of customers they must publicly post the SSN#s and CC#s of all their excecutives on the default page of a special web site run by the FTC for that purpose.
The problem with low response time LCD's is that they generally compromise on image quality. While the 25 ms 213T does ghost when playing games it is also one of the few LCD monitors that has image fidelity that is good enough for my eyes.
In the quest for the marketability of low response time, LCD manufacurers have been moving to lcd panel designs that just don't deliver image quality.
Water is way more awesome than most people realize - because of hydrogen bonding -
It is a key component in life; it's solvency and structure are what makes biochemistry work.
It has about the widest range of temperature as a liquid of any simple material - making life possible over the face of the earth.
It is the closest thing to a universal sovent we will ever see.
Since it expands on freezing ice floats - just think what a mess the oceans would be if they were made of something that shrank when it froze, and the ice sank. The planet would have much wider extremes in temperature just because of that small fact.
Wate has an immense heat capacity compared to other liquids... moderating our weather
The beat goes on; it's unique chemistry and physics are whe we live off of every day.
UID that's far lower than yours.
LOL.
Just because economics is not zero-sum does not mean it's infinite-sum, either.
Right - but my theory is that the current sum is so small that what we will have in the future is likely to be indistinguisable from infinity by comparison.
and the rest of us will be starving in mud huts.
That is zero-sum thinking.