I call B.S. Taleyarkhan is being railroaded. They are trying to discredit him on the basis of mis-representative claims of reproduction and authorship, rather then refuting his work experimentally, as is proper science.
This whole thing has the bad smell. Why is Congress so involved in this... writing letters pressuring Purdue to discredit Taleyarkhan? How can two other schools be involved and not share any of the blame? See...
http://www.physorg.com/news10336.html
If there's any chance this type of fusion might work, there should be plenty of people and $ involved in research. That kind of research will discredit or accredit Taleyarkhan. Anything else is politics. And I for one and sick of it.
The whole domain name market has gotten out of control. Most unused domain names are now being used as nothing more than garbage linklists to generate ad revenue, while they sit at auction sites for $1,000 or more. It amazes me to think these garbage sites can generate more revenue than it costs to register the name. And then to sit on these names waiting for thousand dollar payoffs is outrageous. If ICANN intends domain names to be like real-estate then they need to provide permanent ownership. Otherwise they need to raise their own registration fees to prevent this kind of domain abuse. I for one tire of Google searches that return a list of b.s. sites.
If genetic predisposition is predictive enough to kill health insurance, it would be fantastic. I;ve been trying to tell people for years that the problem with the health care system IS the insurance companies. You can follow the history quite clearly, as health insurance has become more am more prevalent, prices have risen. Unfortunately Big Insurance has a strong hold over government and media, and has everyone dancing to the same piper --i.e. mandate insurance and prices will drop. But it's a LIE! And they know it. The reason is b/c health insurance isn't insurance. Insurance is only effective for rare/emergency events. But health insurance covers every actively of health care and therefore is just payment scheme.
The only GOOD SOLUTION is to outlaw private health insurance, have the government provide life-and-limb coverage to all, and have charities shore up preventive care for the poor. This would remove the middle man and provide the best care per dollar spent.
I have a bad feeling about the future of domain name registration. I fear greed will ultimately win out, and shady practices like lockdowns, and worse, mass squatting like sedo.com will take over completely.
If they added audible cues eg. music tones corresponding to the stroke frequencies that would be a pretty good way to get feedback to help avoid mistakes. They could also provide a text reproduction of those tones if you needed to tell someone your password.
There is a simple solution to email spam. It's called a white list.
A while back I worte an email to a fellow programmer whom I never before emailed. His email system automatically replied asking that I confirm my message was from a person by answering a bran dead simple question. By replying appropriately I was white listed and he got my original message.
Ultimately of course AI's might circumvent any such system, but those days are still ways off, so I don't know why email engineers haven't made this a standard option.
I can't believe what I am reading. First of all. This was a setup from the get go. There never was any intention by Bush to put a base on the moon. This was a rouge to divert funding from NASA. The same tactic has been used before. So this isn't really news, it's been in the cards all along. After awhile they'll cut the Astroid missions back too.
Now that fact that so many posters think this is a good idea, is terribly disheartening. If these posts are for real (and not more b.s. from the propaganda machines that now dominate our media), then it means America has lost it's Spirit. We no longer have a can-do attitude. We no longer care about going beyond ourself and pushing frontiers. We no longer see our ourselves as capable of achieving great things. In short we no longer Dream. And that...more than anything else will be our doom.
In time, if you are not too old, you will learn first-hand what is called the "slippery slope". For the day will come, in the not to distant future, when driving from state to state will require passing through a check-point and presenting your "id".
We used to joke about the common Soviet refrain, "where are your papers". Now we are the ones that require "papers".
It would be another matter if our government were completely trust worthy. But if our Forefather's taught us anything, it is that governments should never wield so much power precisely b/c they are corruptive.
But the real id is moot. In ~20 years DNA tests will be a 2 second mobile process. If we don't find a way to make our government trustworthy by then, we can simply hang up our Freedom Hats.
Are they counting the GDP in the same way as they used to? (No.)
What does the GDP consist of these days versus back then? (More financial services and less product manufacturing.)
Who owns the debt? (We're well over 40% foreign investment now.)
You can't just compare one time to another without considering the differences. And don't forget that we were paid back a good sum from WWII nations for our war efforts (In fact, the final payment was just two years ago or so).
Oh you poor beguiled Floridians. You've just been taken for the old bait and switch. If you had paid attention to the debacle of the last presidential election you would know that it was the optical scanners that were compromised, not the touch screens! An in-depth statistical analysis was undertaken by a mathematics professor of the exit polls compared to the "counted" tally. A vast number of anomalies showed up in Ohio in districts with optical scanners. Calculating the odds of those discrepancies show that it was less likely for Bush to have won that election than for him to have been hit by lighting and win the lottery on the same day (paraphrasing of course).
The biggest literary disappointment of my life was that the 3rd book in this series was never finished. I hope there is a Heaven just so I can ask Mr. Adams for a copy.
Your tease is more right then you may realize. Is there really any good reason for putting a limit on ownership? I mean, how would you feel if all property had a time limit? -- That family photo album of yours? Forget it. 14 years and you have to give it to Good Will! Obviously no one would put it with that, so why should it be any different for intellectual property? We make things far more complicated than they need to be when we over categorize.
There really is a simple and elegant optimal solution that would be a huge boon for innovation, yet still serve the public interest: 1) Allow copyrights to be forever. 2) Allow copyright owners the option of putting a work in public domain (via an open license). 3) Require that all property must have a "reasonable" selling point.
The last point is key. It might seem a bit "loose", but it is like many other laws (for example, "probable cause") What it means is there would be a price at which one must be obliged to sell a copyright if someone is willing to buy it. That price may be quite high of course, if something were profitable or sentimental, etc. but by law it could not be astronomical. That way there is still the opportunity for individuals, charities, businesses and even the government itself to buy a work and put it in the public domain as a matter of good will, which, of course, could be tax deductible too.
1) Outlaw private health insurance. 2) Provide "Life and Limb" coverage to all residents. 3) Fund charities and charitable clinics, to help the
extreme poor get additional services. 4) Rejoice! B/c now I have the best damn medical system in the world!
So you refuse to own a car because you can't find a value added reason to have one? Or are you doing in simply out of spite?
That's a false dichotomy. The reason should be clear enough: Use of a gas-powered vehicle generates tons of pollutants every year. Every time you drive your car, you are contributing to the poisoning of me, yourself and everyone else --not to mention the benefit to the strong arms of the petroleum vendors and the devastation of resource wars. It is within my power to do without such a vehicle, and so I have made the choice to do so.
Really? Because according to his bio at ExxonMobile's site, Rex W. Tillerson (the Chairman of ExxonMobile) doesn't sit on the boards of any automobile manufacturers. He does sit on a number of non-profit and NGO boards, though.
First of all, one person does not a board make. Secondly, "sitting on each others boards" does not require a direct connect. Director's from either company may sit on a third-board in common. As stated by your link he has plenty of opportunity to do so: Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, a director of the United Negro College Fund, and Vice-Chairman of the Ford's Theatre Society, a member of the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Moreover, what makes you think there are not remaining memberships yet unlisted by ExonMobile's website?
You should also be aware of how non-profits and NGO's often serve the the elite. On the surface it looks altruistic. In reality, the groups frequently serve as means of constituent pressure or direct agenda promotion, all wrapped up in a nice tax-deduction.
"Don't complain that ExxonMobil is satisfying a demand that it has not created."
That's completely false. ExxonMobil and the other Gas/Oil companies are directly in league with the automobile companies. Their chairmen serve on each other boards. They cooperate in the "buying-up" of alternative energy tech, and soaking up federal tax dollars via grant monies and tax breaks. Ie. They do everything they can to perpetuate demand for their product.
Your rational on the use of illicit drugs is also mis-oriented. All of the crime and much of the suffering comes not from the drugs, but from unconscionable laws. These laws hike prices, which empower suppliers, crowd prisons, encourage youth, corrupt law agencies and severely depress accessibility to rehabilitation.
BTW, I don't own a car --refuse to own a petrol powered car, and don't live in a city.
I am afraid you are the one that is fooled. While organic and natural food are not perfect (is anything?) they are a far cry better for you than almost all highly processed foods. This isn't opinion. Study after study confirms it.
This reminds of a funny story. I was eating breakfast with my cousin one morning and I had organic orange juice. He looked at it and said to me "err.. what does it taste like?":)
And by the way, Aspertame can cause headaches. It does for me as well. And have you ever tasted a diet soda? OMG. Why would anyone WANT to drink that crap? Could it be that it's addictive?
You should do more research yourself. Besides, the best kind of evidence is first hand.
I would be happy to agree that the XBox rocks, but I have one glaring problem: I hate the controller. I have never liked the XBox controller and it's not for the lack of trying. But it just feels clumsy compared to the PlayStation's. I know that others will not understand this and probably think it silly if they don't have the same problem, but really the controller is the interface to everything. And if one doesn't feel comfortable with it, then everything else is moot. I think game machine designers should take note of that and consider offering a variety of controllers types.
In Florida, the same thing happened. The citizens voted "YES" to have a commuter train system built (twice). We even voted for the higher taxes to do it! But Governor Jeb Bush decided, "NO" all on his own. And so there is no train.
Democracy is all but dead in the States. Recently China passed laws to secure private property rights to it's citizens, while here in the U.S. emanate domain laws were watered down to allow seizures for commercial interests. Who's more communist now?
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I call B.S. Taleyarkhan is being railroaded. They are trying to discredit him on the basis of mis-representative claims of reproduction and authorship, rather then refuting his work experimentally, as is proper science.
This whole thing has the bad smell. Why is Congress so involved in this... writing letters pressuring Purdue to discredit Taleyarkhan? How can two other schools be involved and not share any of the blame? See...
http://www.physorg.com/news10336.html
If there's any chance this type of fusion might work, there should be plenty of people and $ involved in research. That kind of research will discredit or accredit Taleyarkhan. Anything else is politics. And I for one and sick of it.
1&1 has better prices.
The whole domain name market has gotten out of control. Most unused domain names are now being used as nothing more than garbage linklists to generate ad revenue, while they sit at auction sites for $1,000 or more. It amazes me to think these garbage sites can generate more revenue than it costs to register the name. And then to sit on these names waiting for thousand dollar payoffs is outrageous. If ICANN intends domain names to be like real-estate then they need to provide permanent ownership. Otherwise they need to raise their own registration fees to prevent this kind of domain abuse. I for one tire of Google searches that return a list of b.s. sites.
If genetic predisposition is predictive enough to kill health insurance, it would be fantastic. I;ve been trying to tell people for years that the problem with the health care system IS the insurance companies. You can follow the history quite clearly, as health insurance has become more am more prevalent, prices have risen. Unfortunately Big Insurance has a strong hold over government and media, and has everyone dancing to the same piper --i.e. mandate insurance and prices will drop. But it's a LIE! And they know it. The reason is b/c health insurance isn't insurance. Insurance is only effective for rare/emergency events. But health insurance covers every actively of health care and therefore is just payment scheme.
The only GOOD SOLUTION is to outlaw private health insurance, have the government provide life-and-limb coverage to all, and have charities shore up preventive care for the poor. This would remove the middle man and provide the best care per dollar spent.
I have a bad feeling about the future of domain name registration. I fear greed will ultimately win out, and shady practices like lockdowns, and worse, mass squatting like sedo.com will take over completely.
What can we do about it?
If they added audible cues eg. music tones corresponding to the stroke frequencies that would be a pretty good way to get feedback to help avoid mistakes. They could also provide a text reproduction of those tones if you needed to tell someone your password.
Just a thought.
There is a simple solution to email spam. It's called a white list.
A while back I worte an email to a fellow programmer whom I never before emailed. His email system automatically replied asking that I confirm my message was from a person by answering a bran dead simple question. By replying appropriately I was white listed and he got my original message.
Ultimately of course AI's might circumvent any such system, but those days are still ways off, so I don't know why email engineers haven't made this a standard option.
I can't believe what I am reading. First of all. This was a setup from the get go. There never was any intention by Bush to put a base on the moon. This was a rouge to divert funding from NASA. The same tactic has been used before. So this isn't really news, it's been in the cards all along. After awhile they'll cut the Astroid missions back too.
Now that fact that so many posters think this is a good idea, is terribly disheartening. If these posts are for real (and not more b.s. from the propaganda machines that now dominate our media), then it means America has lost it's Spirit. We no longer have a can-do attitude. We no longer care about going beyond ourself and pushing frontiers. We no longer see our ourselves as capable of achieving great things. In short we no longer Dream. And that...more than anything else will be our doom.
Hmmm... maybe this?
http://stampact.blogspot.com/2008/01/obamapaul-ticket.html
In time, if you are not too old, you will learn first-hand what is called the "slippery slope". For the day will come, in the not to distant future, when driving from state to state will require passing through a check-point and presenting your "id".
We used to joke about the common Soviet refrain, "where are your papers". Now we are the ones that require "papers".
It would be another matter if our government were completely trust worthy. But if our Forefather's taught us anything, it is that governments should never wield so much power precisely b/c they are corruptive.
But the real id is moot. In ~20 years DNA tests will be a 2 second mobile process. If we don't find a way to make our government trustworthy by then, we can simply hang up our Freedom Hats.
Check out http://meraki.com/ !
Good. Now lets put it on the Moon and get another 10x out her.
Isn't it about time? Or have we become so inept we can't even imagine such things any more?
You can't just compare one time to another without considering the differences. And don't forget that we were paid back a good sum from WWII nations for our war efforts (In fact, the final payment was just two years ago or so).
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Oh you poor beguiled Floridians. You've just been taken for the old bait and switch. If you had paid attention to the debacle of the last presidential election you would know that it was the optical scanners that were compromised, not the touch screens! An in-depth statistical analysis was undertaken by a mathematics professor of the exit polls compared to the "counted" tally. A vast number of anomalies showed up in Ohio in districts with optical scanners. Calculating the odds of those discrepancies show that it was less likely for Bush to have won that election than for him to have been hit by lighting and win the lottery on the same day (paraphrasing of course).
The biggest literary disappointment of my life was that the 3rd book in this series was never finished. I hope there is a Heaven just so I can ask Mr. Adams for a copy.
9 metric tons of CO2 is quite quantifiable.
But you list other excellent benefits as well.
Your tease is more right then you may realize. Is there really any good reason for putting a limit on ownership? I mean, how would you feel if all property had a time limit? -- That family photo album of yours? Forget it. 14 years and you have to give it to Good Will! Obviously no one would put it with that, so why should it be any different for intellectual property? We make things far more complicated than they need to be when we over categorize.
There really is a simple and elegant optimal solution that would be a huge boon for innovation, yet still serve the public interest: 1) Allow copyrights to be forever. 2) Allow copyright owners the option of putting a work in public domain (via an open license). 3) Require that all property must have a "reasonable" selling point.
The last point is key. It might seem a bit "loose", but it is like many other laws (for example, "probable cause") What it means is there would be a price at which one must be obliged to sell a copyright if someone is willing to buy it. That price may be quite high of course, if something were profitable or sentimental, etc. but by law it could not be astronomical. That way there is still the opportunity for individuals, charities, businesses and even the government itself to buy a work and put it in the public domain as a matter of good will, which, of course, could be tax deductible too.
I would...
1) Outlaw private health insurance.
2) Provide "Life and Limb" coverage to all residents.
3) Fund charities and charitable clinics, to help the
extreme poor get additional services.
4) Rejoice! B/c now I have the best damn medical system in the world!
That's a false dichotomy. The reason should be clear enough: Use of a gas-powered vehicle generates tons of pollutants every year. Every time you drive your car, you are contributing to the poisoning of me, yourself and everyone else --not to mention the benefit to the strong arms of the petroleum vendors and the devastation of resource wars. It is within my power to do without such a vehicle, and so I have made the choice to do so.
First of all, one person does not a board make. Secondly, "sitting on each others boards" does not require a direct connect. Director's from either company may sit on a third-board in common. As stated by your link he has plenty of opportunity to do so: Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, a director of the United Negro College Fund, and Vice-Chairman of the Ford's Theatre Society, a member of the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Moreover, what makes you think there are not remaining memberships yet unlisted by ExonMobile's website?
You should also be aware of how non-profits and NGO's often serve the the elite. On the surface it looks altruistic. In reality, the groups frequently serve as means of constituent pressure or direct agenda promotion, all wrapped up in a nice tax-deduction.
"Don't complain that ExxonMobil is satisfying a demand that it has not created."
That's completely false. ExxonMobil and the other Gas/Oil companies are directly in league with the automobile companies. Their chairmen serve on each other boards. They cooperate in the "buying-up" of alternative energy tech, and soaking up federal tax dollars via grant monies and tax breaks. Ie. They do everything they can to perpetuate demand for their product.
Your rational on the use of illicit drugs is also mis-oriented. All of the crime and much of the suffering comes not from the drugs, but from unconscionable laws. These laws hike prices, which empower suppliers, crowd prisons, encourage youth, corrupt law agencies and severely depress accessibility to rehabilitation.
BTW, I don't own a car --refuse to own a petrol powered car, and don't live in a city.
I am afraid you are the one that is fooled. While organic and natural food are not perfect (is anything?) they are a far cry better for you than almost all highly processed foods. This isn't opinion. Study after study confirms it.
:)
This reminds of a funny story. I was eating breakfast with my cousin one morning and I had organic orange juice. He looked at it and said to me "err.. what does it taste like?"
And by the way, Aspertame can cause headaches. It does for me as well. And have you ever tasted a diet soda? OMG. Why would anyone WANT to drink that crap? Could it be that it's addictive?
You should do more research yourself. Besides, the best kind of evidence is first hand.
How about a mole in a spacesuit? :)
But seriously, it seems odd that would would want a digging robot. Wouldn't one of those ditch-digger devices suffice? They are more like drills.
I would be happy to agree that the XBox rocks, but I have one glaring problem: I hate the controller. I have never liked the XBox controller and it's not for the lack of trying. But it just feels clumsy compared to the PlayStation's. I know that others will not understand this and probably think it silly if they don't have the same problem, but really the controller is the interface to everything. And if one doesn't feel comfortable with it, then everything else is moot. I think game machine designers should take note of that and consider offering a variety of controllers types.
In Florida, the same thing happened. The citizens voted "YES" to have a commuter train system built (twice). We even voted for the higher taxes to do it! But Governor Jeb Bush decided, "NO" all on his own. And so there is no train.
Democracy is all but dead in the States. Recently China passed laws to secure private property rights to it's citizens, while here in the U.S. emanate domain laws were watered down to allow seizures for commercial interests. Who's more communist now?