"Lawn Darts Are Banned and Should Be Destroyed". U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1997-05-15. Retrieved 2011-01-25. "Pointed lawn darts, intended for use in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of three children. The most recent injury occurred last week in Elkhart, Ind., when a 7-year-old boy suffered a brain injury after a lawn dart pierced his skull."
The adoption of the 10th amendment included a debate about the inclusion of the word 'expressly'.
The Founders, specifically Jame Madison decided they didn't want to be that limiting feeling that it would make the Constitution obsolete very quickly and full of minutia. Thus we have had implied powers since the very beginning of this nation.
Citation:
House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution
18, 21 Aug. 1789 Annals 1:761, 767--68
I don't know WHY people keep putting forth the idea that power are limited unless explicitly given. The idea in NOT written in the law, nor is it present in the history of the intent of the Framers.
Scala is interesting and has some good paradigms built in to the language for the things Twitter needs to do. Not sure if it is really fundamentally better than Java though - after all it runs on the same JVM.
Anyway if I was starting something like this out and I already knew Java I would go with Java. There are enough large sites running it, and there are a lot of people out there who know it so I would feel some confidence that I could do what I needed to do.
I want a generic revolution in smart phones. Android goes part way there, but not far enough.
I don't want anything to come from the carrier except packets and monthly bill. Like my ISP. Phone branding by the carrier should just go away. Spectrum should not belong to anyone. Carrier should just be licensed to use the National Allocated Spectrum by the FCC.
Phones should be modular. Want to upgrade the phone battery? Or radio? Add a keyboard? Not a problem. Root access should be expected, not something that has to be obtained by hacking.
Bob Crandall was suis generis. You can't extrapolate from a singularity.
GE did massive damage to itself by becoming a financial institution. HP has had atrocious corporate governance (terrible board of directors) since the founders left and IBM is one of the most successful companies there is.
Employee stock that can't be sold is what I have right now. It has no influence on me in any way because it has no value to me.
Back in the 1980's I did belong to a sort of ESOP - everyone in the company got options. That was more interesting because the performance of the company over the option cycle (2 years) directly affected my compensation.
The problem was that my performance had no significant impact in the company. This was a Dow 30 company with 40,000 employees. The only people who had real impact were the senior execs and the CEO. And the CEO was a horse's ass.
So perhaps a stock option plan for a small company is a useful idea. But I think a really a good compensation plan is a better idea.
CISPA in it's original form was astoundingly horrific. This is merely horrible. The part that I despise is the retention of the information to use in other criminal cases such as child pornography or in cases of national security.
This and the liability provisions are over the top,
Fuel is likely to be of organic origin. Dead dinosaurs and all that.
Not to mention that a chemist's definition of organic is a compound that contains carbon.
From Dictionary.com:
Organic
1. noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
So your perception of 'organic' is relatively archaic.
I am sure this is a valuable piece of work, as it is claimed as the first of it's type and will be very useful as a benchmark. Analytic chemistry has progressed tremendously over the 40 years I was a practicing chemist, to the point where concentrations of particularly dangerous materials are possible to measure at femtograms per liter. At those concentrations you are detecting a very small number of molecules in a sample,
But since it's the first it really doesn't say much in terms of the progression of the state of affairs in these ecologies. It will be very interesting to see what the results are in a decade or two; whether the measures we are taking now to reduce the presence of these various very bad actors in the environment are being effected by environmental controls or not.
People greatly underestimate the versatility of Nature as a chemist. Some of the worst chemicals found in these studies are formed not only by man, but by Nature as well. For example DDT like chemicals have been found to exist in every evolutionary epoch.
I do not believe the statute requires being in a formal state of war. Several previous spies have been convicted of treason in peacetime. Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, John Walker are examples.
I also think if you had asked Osama Bin Laden he would have admitted to being an enemy of the the US. Most Americans would likewise hold him as an enemy.
I think the case here may hinge more on the 'adhering to the enemy' clause in the Constitution. It may be difficult to prove Bradley did that.
Thankfully the Founders made this a difficult crime to prove.
US external debt is quite a bit smaller than it's GDP. Perhaps about 25% of GDP. Total gross government debt is 107% of GDP but a lot if that is debt from one part of the government to another.
Also nobody really knows what the Chinese government debt is because their statistics are completely unreliable. I've seen claims that local government debt is several times what the published government debt is.
The yen is being intentionally devalued by the Japanese central bank through MASSIVE MASSIVE purchase of assets. While the currency swing is large, it is being done as a part of a very interesting and controversial economic experiment.
This very much NOT the norm.
Hyperinflation seems unlikely to me. The basic problem in Japan has been deflation for the past two decades.
Of course I could be wrong and this could get out of hand. Whatever happens though will inspire many PhD dissertations.
Meanwhile the Japanese stock market is booming and I've been buying some currency hedged Japanese ETFs.
The Senate Judiciary Committee had passed a bill that would require a warrant for any email interception. However it seems this didn't make it through congress in the lame-duck session.
It is very upsetting that the Netflix video data sharing bill did.
It's only legal for a service provider employee to read your email if he is doing so as part of the technical requirements for providing the service. Otherwise it's a criminal offense.
If he does read it, it is illegal for him to disclose the content to others.
Slashdot Mirror
We gots ALL the porn.
Your iPhone also has a SIM does it not? And how about carrier profiles? Hmmmm.....
Actually you got your wish. Jarts are banned.
"Lawn Darts Are Banned and Should Be Destroyed". U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1997-05-15. Retrieved 2011-01-25. "Pointed lawn darts, intended for use in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of three children. The most recent injury occurred last week in Elkhart, Ind., when a 7-year-old boy suffered a brain injury after a lawn dart pierced his skull."
The adoption of the 10th amendment included a debate about the inclusion of the word 'expressly'.
The Founders, specifically Jame Madison decided they didn't want to be that limiting feeling that it would make the Constitution obsolete very quickly and full of minutia. Thus we have had implied powers since the very beginning of this nation.
Citation:
House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution
18, 21 Aug. 1789
Annals 1:761, 767--68
I don't know WHY people keep putting forth the idea that power are limited unless explicitly given. The idea in NOT written in the law, nor is it present in the history of the intent of the Framers.
Many sites with very very large userbases use Java extensively in their stack. Including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Google.
Millions of page views a day is a small to medium e-commerce site. I was doing a million with Perl back in 2002 on a two CPU 1U machine.
Tumblr gets something close to a billion, as does anyone in the top 100.
It wasn't the website, it was the backend that had problems.
I remember they had started with Ruby on Rails which is notorious for being able to get you up fast and then failing to scale.
They then offloaded parts of the infrastructure to Scala of all things.
http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/05/how_and_why_twitter_uses_scala.html
Scala is interesting and has some good paradigms built in to the language for the things Twitter needs to do. Not sure if it is really fundamentally better than Java though - after all it runs on the same JVM.
Anyway if I was starting something like this out and I already knew Java I would go with Java. There are enough large sites running it, and there are a lot of people out there who know it so I would feel some confidence that I could do what I needed to do.
Plus I like static typing.
I want a generic revolution in smart phones. Android goes part way there, but not far enough.
I don't want anything to come from the carrier except packets and monthly bill. Like my ISP. Phone branding by the carrier should just go away. Spectrum should not belong to anyone. Carrier should just be licensed to use the National Allocated Spectrum by the FCC.
Phones should be modular. Want to upgrade the phone battery? Or radio? Add a keyboard? Not a problem. Root access should be expected, not something that has to be obtained by hacking.
Laevo was forced by polarized light from the stars.
Orig Life Evol Biosph. 1991;21(2):59-111.
Google isn't a content provider unless they start producing content.
So far I haven't seen anything about Google Studios.
In talks.
The other aspect of this is that game performance is mostly graphics card performance.
If you have a decent PC all you need to play almost any game at a really good level is a graphics card upgrade.
Bob Crandall was suis generis. You can't extrapolate from a singularity.
GE did massive damage to itself by becoming a financial institution. HP has had atrocious corporate governance (terrible board of directors) since the founders left and IBM is one of the most successful companies there is.
Employee stock that can't be sold is what I have right now. It has no influence on me in any way because it has no value to me.
Back in the 1980's I did belong to a sort of ESOP - everyone in the company got options. That was more interesting because the performance of the company over the option cycle (2 years) directly affected my compensation.
The problem was that my performance had no significant impact in the company. This was a Dow 30 company with 40,000 employees. The only people who had real impact were the senior execs and the CEO. And the CEO was a horse's ass.
So perhaps a stock option plan for a small company is a useful idea. But I think a really a good compensation plan is a better idea.
Actually this is an urban myth. The bald eagle was not impacted by DDT, in either its decline or recovery.
http://junkscience.com/2012/01/02/bald-eagles-still-not-saved-by-ddt-ban/
CISPA in it's original form was astoundingly horrific. This is merely horrible. The part that I despise is the retention of the information to use in other criminal cases such as child pornography or in cases of national security.
This and the liability provisions are over the top,
Fuel is likely to be of organic origin. Dead dinosaurs and all that.
Not to mention that a chemist's definition of organic is a compound that contains carbon.
From Dictionary.com:
Organic
1. noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
So your perception of 'organic' is relatively archaic.
I am sure this is a valuable piece of work, as it is claimed as the first of it's type and will be very useful as a benchmark. Analytic chemistry has progressed tremendously over the 40 years I was a practicing chemist, to the point where concentrations of particularly dangerous materials are possible to measure at femtograms per liter. At those concentrations you are detecting a very small number of molecules in a sample,
But since it's the first it really doesn't say much in terms of the progression of the state of affairs in these ecologies. It will be very interesting to see what the results are in a decade or two; whether the measures we are taking now to reduce the presence of these various very bad actors in the environment are being effected by environmental controls or not.
People greatly underestimate the versatility of Nature as a chemist. Some of the worst chemicals found in these studies are formed not only by man, but by Nature as well. For example DDT like chemicals have been found to exist in every evolutionary epoch.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Naturally_Occurring_Organohalogen_Compou.html?id=u45Z-kh61ngC
http://books.google.com/books?id=S2fvZsZwgQ4C&pg=PA185&dq=naturally+produced+ddt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p0FoUe69C6nD4APzwoGYBA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=naturally%20produced%20ddt&f=false
The last wave of H1Bs drove enrollment in CS down to nothing. The people who would be doing the educating are now working in other fields.
I do not believe the statute requires being in a formal state of war. Several previous spies have been convicted of treason in peacetime. Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, John Walker are examples.
I also think if you had asked Osama Bin Laden he would have admitted to being an enemy of the the US. Most Americans would likewise hold him as an enemy.
I think the case here may hinge more on the 'adhering to the enemy' clause in the Constitution. It may be difficult to prove Bradley did that.
Thankfully the Founders made this a difficult crime to prove.
Well, it's more that the executives in publicly traded companies have to report quarterly results. If they aren't good the heat comes.
Look at Ron Johnson.
US external debt is quite a bit smaller than it's GDP. Perhaps about 25% of GDP. Total gross government debt is 107% of GDP but a lot if that is debt from one part of the government to another.
Also nobody really knows what the Chinese government debt is because their statistics are completely unreliable. I've seen claims that local government debt is several times what the published government debt is.
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/1392108/comment-china-s-public-debt-a-damocles-sword
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/business/global/06iht-yuan06.html?_r=0
The yen is being intentionally devalued by the Japanese central bank through MASSIVE MASSIVE purchase of assets. While the currency swing is large, it is being done as a part of a very interesting and controversial economic experiment.
This very much NOT the norm.
Hyperinflation seems unlikely to me. The basic problem in Japan has been deflation for the past two decades.
Of course I could be wrong and this could get out of hand. Whatever happens though will inspire many PhD dissertations.
Meanwhile the Japanese stock market is booming and I've been buying some currency hedged Japanese ETFs.
Same thing when you want to manipulate stocks. You don't pick a widely traded major issue. You pick something narrowly traded.
The Senate Judiciary Committee had passed a bill that would require a warrant for any email interception. However it seems this didn't make it through congress in the lame-duck session.
It is very upsetting that the Netflix video data sharing bill did.
http://www.techspot.com/news/51175-congress-cuts-amendment-banning-warrantless-email-snooping.html
I gave my Congressman a raft of shit over this.
It's only legal for a service provider employee to read your email if he is doing so as part of the technical requirements for providing the service. Otherwise it's a criminal offense.
If he does read it, it is illegal for him to disclose the content to others.
Close relation to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Bunch of macaroons.