If you were working in a shop, and someone walked in, picked up a coke, and walked to the counter to buy it, you'd serve him, right? But you'd still have the right not to serve him, if he's being anti-social or smoking in your shop or something. Something *you* don't agree with.
Actually, this right has been stripped from us in most circumstances. If you choose not to serve someone, you're going to get sued for discrimination based on whatever...
Personally, I think anyone should be able to refuse service to anyone for any reason as long as the reasons are publicly posted. If you don't want to serve a black man, I'll call you an idiot but you should be able choose. If you don't want to serve a Christian, I'll call you an idiot but you should be able to choose.
I'm hoping that someday an active Klansman applies for a job with the NAACP. Can you imagine the fight? Which side would the ACLU take? Which side would the Press take?
so the country will be even more dependent on oil to fund his plans
As an interesting aside to this one, what's going to happen to the prices of corn and oil as more economies try to make the switch? We're already seeing (on a small scale) what happens when a food staple becomes fuel: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/worl d/16594512.htm
If more countries/industries make a significant switch, the price of oil - which is keeping Venezuela afloat - will drop while their food prices are skyrocketing... sounds like a *bad* time to be in charge.
Seriously though, Venezuela puts US democracy to shame. I don't agree with everything Chavez does, but when he -voluntarily- calls for referendums on government legitimacy,
Except for the fact that he recently rescinded his own term limits and got power to enact any law he wants because of "the emergency". Add to this the fact that Citgo (aka the state-run oil monopoly) is having to buy oil from Russia in order to meet its own contracts and it's a recipe for disaster. Give Chavez 5 more years... and then wait to see what happens.
Is there a Venezulan equivalent to the Sudatenland?
What about the entire concept of forming a hypothesis, testing it, and revising it given new facts?
Given the current state of affairs concerning "consensus building" in science, I'm more concerned that *ANY* legal body can "change the definition of science".
Perhaps if rights to food, clothing and shelter were garaunteed, government departments that had outlived their usefulness would be less resistant to being dissolved.
Let's see: "Life, Liberty... Congress shall make no law... reserved to the States respectively...". I don't see anything about any of those things being "rights" in the US Constitution. Could you tell me your source on that one?
It's not going to defeat the people who really want to distribute it, etc. But it is a *great* thing for the people who want to be honest but still want to move their purchases around. I think if it's successful, this could be a great win for all of us.
The most common example I've heard are parents who buy childrens' dvd's for their kids. Many try to rip them to vhs in an attempt to protect the dvd from dirt, grime, abuse, etc.
I was very excited to read that prices are dropping 7% per year however. That would imply the production cost would be roughly $50,000 in 6 years. $50,000 in six years is very unlikely to generate enough interest income to cover gasoline and electricity (my electric runs about $1800 a year and gas about $1200 a year).
Even at 25 years - the expected lifetime of the system - this brings the cost down to $2k/year. The article also says that the "average" US household spends about $1500 on electric/year. So it's getting close, but it's not quite there. Personally, I'm looking forward to buildings who have huge roofs (think Walmart, etc) install solar cells.... they're likely to be the first to do it just to cut costs.
Unfortunately, they're still going to get hammered by the Greens, because: 1) having a huge areas of dark material are going to increase the air temperature in the immediate area; and 2) once they're off the grid, the demand goes down, so the price goes down which slows people's motivation to convert or conserve.
You're right. I didn't realize that bouncing sound off of something and bouncing light off of something are two completely different fields of study and the math to go with each is completely unique. I *thought* that the invisible light spectrum and radio spectrum were one and the same... thank you for correcting my education.
Now how do we make sure this information gets to Northrop Grumman?
at a time when the Democrats should be consolidating their power and trying to show some unity.
Hmmm... that's what I want my government to do "consolidate their power".
Just remember that for every power a Democrat (or Republican) consolidates now, in a few years, a Republican (or Democrat) is going to use it against you. Whenever you grant new powers to "your side", you must understand that "the other side" will use them in similar or worse ways in no time at all. The only solution is to strip them of power.
Many radar systems filter based on the velocity of the object detected. Since a missile would be moving faster than the target - because missiles are built to "catch up" with their targets - it should be simple to tell other planes apart from missiles. Combine this with the fact that odds are this system would still have some sort of human-controlled firing mechanism and the odds of such a scenario are low.
If you poke around a bit, you can find accounts where US Navy radar systems have picked up "targets" moving at 100+ mph on the California coast. Turns out that they're drivers on the Pacific Coast Highway...
Actually, that's a bit off. Clear Channel was one of their biggest distributors (1/3 of their stations, IIRC) but even in markets such as San Francisco and New York - well known as "liberal enclaves" - they received miserable ratings. The market decided that talk radio from the Left just isn't what they want... now this is a feeble attempt to have the government force it down our throats. I seem to remember a quote... oh yeah!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Federal law controls on copyight matters, overiding both state law and whatever contract he was (forced to) sign.
Actually, if he signed something saying "all work done on company time and/or with company resources is owned by the company", he has effectively transferred the copyrights to the relevant code in advance. Unless a contract is demonstrated to be a) illegal or b) over-restrictive (common in non-competes), it holds until the lawyers figure it out. If I had to put money on it, I'd say that he's going to lose rights to significant portions of the system if not all of it.
He should have kept his code at home off of their systems.
Oh man, this is *yet another* example of why you should keep your "hobbies" distinct from your job. If he had turned around and sold copies of it to other stations, not a problem, but once he deployed a single version at work, he opened up a world of pain for himself.
In addition, even if he got permission from his supervisors to develop whatever, whenever and he would have right to it, doesn't mean this is the case. It is unlikely that his supervisors have authorization to give this permission and/or to make capital purchases. Those decisions would have been made at a higher level.
The DoD's standardization on Ada worked out beautifully! Sure, it took them 12 years to decide on it and then ended up granting exceptions anyway, but think of all the useful code they developed and could be shared with other Ada developers. Think of all the efficiencies!
"3) They want to stop the suffering humans with diseases that stem cell research promises to cure, and they don't know that stem cells can come from other sources."
I think this is where it gets pretty dirty... having Michael J Fox and John Edwards (referencing Christopher Reeve) that "cures" are on the way when - to the best of my knowledge and research - *adult* stem cells are the only ones which have actually demonstrated anything useful.
Other than sales taxes - which everyone pays when buying non-black market goods - what other taxes do they pay?
Income tax? No. Social Security? No. Property tax? No.
Oh wait, they might pay those if they're using someone else's Social Security Number... Mmm... identity theft.
*Legal* immigrants are what have made the US the leader in almost every field. *Illegal* immigration has made the US a leader in prison populations... at least according to the DoJ studies:
As a result of IAFIS technology, CBP Border Patrol agents have arrested: 138 homicide suspects; 67 kidnapping suspects; 226 sexual assault suspects; 431 robbery suspects; 2,342 suspects for assaults of other types; and 4,801 suspected traffickers of dangerous narcotics
This is the logical consequence of a "living document". When whoever is in charge is allowed to "define it in today's terms", you have to accept that some will define it as you like, but others will define it the opposite way.
Alternatively, you can support the idea that the meaning of the terms mean exactly what they did when they were written and nothing more and *therefore* to change what they mean, you have to amend (aka clarify) it.
Actually, I've built a number of WAP sites for major media companies and they're relatively clueless... the links go out to non-mobile friendly sites. Therefore, the sites look like crap and the advertisers look like schlubs.
Well, actually, here in Fairfax County, VA (just a few miles west of DC), for the past few years, we've had an "Open Carry" law with respect to firearms. And even according to the Washington Post, we're at a 20+ year low for violent crime:
"Crime is at 20-year lows in the county," Lt. Col. Charles K. Peters pointed out, even though the population is soaring. The county's homicide rate was the lowest in the nation last year among the 30 largest jurisdictions. "Hopefully no one feels the need to carry a gun, lawfully or unlawfully," Peters said. "But there's no question it is lawful to carry a gun on the street. So we've had to ensure that all of our officers are updated on the nuances of Virginia law that allow citizens to carry firearms in public places."
Actually, more and more employers are allowing you to opt out.
If you're really lucky, they may put it into an HSA for you. I had a job offer recently and told them that I wouldn't accept their insurance and that instead I wanted it in my HSA. It took additional discussion with HR, but they agreed to it. And now the precedent is set.;)
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If you were working in a shop, and someone walked in, picked up a coke, and walked to the counter to buy it, you'd serve him, right? But you'd still have the right not to serve him, if he's being anti-social or smoking in your shop or something. Something *you* don't agree with.
Actually, this right has been stripped from us in most circumstances. If you choose not to serve someone, you're going to get sued for discrimination based on whatever...
Personally, I think anyone should be able to refuse service to anyone for any reason as long as the reasons are publicly posted. If you don't want to serve a black man, I'll call you an idiot but you should be able choose. If you don't want to serve a Christian, I'll call you an idiot but you should be able to choose.
I'm hoping that someday an active Klansman applies for a job with the NAACP. Can you imagine the fight? Which side would the ACLU take? Which side would the Press take?
so the country will be even more dependent on oil to fund his plans
l d/16594512.htm
As an interesting aside to this one, what's going to happen to the prices of corn and oil as more economies try to make the switch? We're already seeing (on a small scale) what happens when a food staple becomes fuel: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/wor
If more countries/industries make a significant switch, the price of oil - which is keeping Venezuela afloat - will drop while their food prices are skyrocketing... sounds like a *bad* time to be in charge.
Seriously though, Venezuela puts US democracy to shame. I don't agree with everything Chavez does, but when he -voluntarily- calls for referendums on government legitimacy,
Except for the fact that he recently rescinded his own term limits and got power to enact any law he wants because of "the emergency". Add to this the fact that Citgo (aka the state-run oil monopoly) is having to buy oil from Russia in order to meet its own contracts and it's a recipe for disaster. Give Chavez 5 more years... and then wait to see what happens.
Is there a Venezulan equivalent to the Sudatenland?
I agree wholeheartedly... and said the same thing in 2005: http://caseysoftware.com/pmdapplied ;)
What about the entire concept of forming a hypothesis, testing it, and revising it given new facts?
Given the current state of affairs concerning "consensus building" in science, I'm more concerned that *ANY* legal body can "change the definition of science".
Perhaps if rights to food, clothing and shelter were garaunteed, government departments that had outlived their usefulness would be less resistant to being dissolved.
Let's see: "Life, Liberty... Congress shall make no law... reserved to the States respectively...". I don't see anything about any of those things being "rights" in the US Constitution. Could you tell me your source on that one?
A velociraptor could.
I bet they could have even played the original Nintendo. Not Xbox though... too many buttons.
Yes, but for American Idol, you can vote multiple times. In elections, you can only do that in Chicago.
It's not going to defeat the people who really want to distribute it, etc. But it is a *great* thing for the people who want to be honest but still want to move their purchases around. I think if it's successful, this could be a great win for all of us.
The most common example I've heard are parents who buy childrens' dvd's for their kids. Many try to rip them to vhs in an attempt to protect the dvd from dirt, grime, abuse, etc.
I was very excited to read that prices are dropping 7% per year however. That would imply the production cost would be roughly $50,000 in 6 years. $50,000 in six years is very unlikely to generate enough interest income to cover gasoline and electricity (my electric runs about $1800 a year and gas about $1200 a year).
Even at 25 years - the expected lifetime of the system - this brings the cost down to $2k/year. The article also says that the "average" US household spends about $1500 on electric/year. So it's getting close, but it's not quite there. Personally, I'm looking forward to buildings who have huge roofs (think Walmart, etc) install solar cells.... they're likely to be the first to do it just to cut costs.
Unfortunately, they're still going to get hammered by the Greens, because:
1) having a huge areas of dark material are going to increase the air temperature in the immediate area; and
2) once they're off the grid, the demand goes down, so the price goes down which slows people's motivation to convert or conserve.
True. What's that have to do with this system?
You're right. I didn't realize that bouncing sound off of something and bouncing light off of something are two completely different fields of study and the math to go with each is completely unique. I *thought* that the invisible light spectrum and radio spectrum were one and the same... thank you for correcting my education.
Now how do we make sure this information gets to Northrop Grumman?
at a time when the Democrats should be consolidating their power and trying to show some unity.
Hmmm... that's what I want my government to do "consolidate their power".
Just remember that for every power a Democrat (or Republican) consolidates now, in a few years, a Republican (or Democrat) is going to use it against you. Whenever you grant new powers to "your side", you must understand that "the other side" will use them in similar or worse ways in no time at all. The only solution is to strip them of power.
Many radar systems filter based on the velocity of the object detected. Since a missile would be moving faster than the target - because missiles are built to "catch up" with their targets - it should be simple to tell other planes apart from missiles. Combine this with the fact that odds are this system would still have some sort of human-controlled firing mechanism and the odds of such a scenario are low.
If you poke around a bit, you can find accounts where US Navy radar systems have picked up "targets" moving at 100+ mph on the California coast. Turns out that they're drivers on the Pacific Coast Highway...
Management of the frequency spectrum and management of the content are two *fundamentally* different things.
Actually, that's a bit off. Clear Channel was one of their biggest distributors (1/3 of their stations, IIRC) but even in markets such as San Francisco and New York - well known as "liberal enclaves" - they received miserable ratings. The market decided that talk radio from the Left just isn't what they want... now this is a feeble attempt to have the government force it down our throats. I seem to remember a quote... oh yeah!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Federal law controls on copyight matters, overiding both state law and whatever contract he was (forced to) sign.
Actually, if he signed something saying "all work done on company time and/or with company resources is owned by the company", he has effectively transferred the copyrights to the relevant code in advance. Unless a contract is demonstrated to be a) illegal or b) over-restrictive (common in non-competes), it holds until the lawyers figure it out. If I had to put money on it, I'd say that he's going to lose rights to significant portions of the system if not all of it.
He should have kept his code at home off of their systems.
Oh man, this is *yet another* example of why you should keep your "hobbies" distinct from your job. If he had turned around and sold copies of it to other stations, not a problem, but once he deployed a single version at work, he opened up a world of pain for himself.
In addition, even if he got permission from his supervisors to develop whatever, whenever and he would have right to it, doesn't mean this is the case. It is unlikely that his supervisors have authorization to give this permission and/or to make capital purchases. Those decisions would have been made at a higher level.
Oh come on!
The DoD's standardization on Ada worked out beautifully! Sure, it took them 12 years to decide on it and then ended up granting exceptions anyway, but think of all the useful code they developed and could be shared with other Ada developers. Think of all the efficiencies!
"3) They want to stop the suffering humans with diseases that stem cell research promises to cure, and they don't know that stem cells can come from other sources."
I think this is where it gets pretty dirty... having Michael J Fox and John Edwards (referencing Christopher Reeve) that "cures" are on the way when - to the best of my knowledge and research - *adult* stem cells are the only ones which have actually demonstrated anything useful.
Other than sales taxes - which everyone pays when buying non-black market goods - what other taxes do they pay?
e nt-iafis.htm and http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0003/resenp9.ht m
Income tax? No. Social Security? No. Property tax? No.
Oh wait, they might pay those if they're using someone else's Social Security Number... Mmm... identity theft.
*Legal* immigrants are what have made the US the leader in almost every field. *Illegal* immigration has made the US a leader in prison populations... at least according to the DoJ studies:
As a result of IAFIS technology, CBP Border Patrol agents have arrested: 138 homicide suspects; 67 kidnapping suspects; 226 sexual assault suspects; 431 robbery suspects; 2,342 suspects for assaults of other types; and 4,801 suspected traffickers of dangerous narcotics
Source: http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/id
This is the logical consequence of a "living document". When whoever is in charge is allowed to "define it in today's terms", you have to accept that some will define it as you like, but others will define it the opposite way.
Alternatively, you can support the idea that the meaning of the terms mean exactly what they did when they were written and nothing more and *therefore* to change what they mean, you have to amend (aka clarify) it.
Actually, I've built a number of WAP sites for major media companies and they're relatively clueless... the links go out to non-mobile friendly sites. Therefore, the sites look like crap and the advertisers look like schlubs.
Well, actually, here in Fairfax County, VA (just a few miles west of DC), for the past few years, we've had an "Open Carry" law with respect to firearms. And even according to the Washington Post, we're at a 20+ year low for violent crime:
4 16-2004Jul14.html
"Crime is at 20-year lows in the county," Lt. Col. Charles K. Peters pointed out, even though the population is soaring. The county's homicide rate was the lowest in the nation last year among the 30 largest jurisdictions. "Hopefully no one feels the need to carry a gun, lawfully or unlawfully," Peters said. "But there's no question it is lawful to carry a gun on the street. So we've had to ensure that all of our officers are updated on the nuances of Virginia law that allow citizens to carry firearms in public places."
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50
Causation, not necessarily... but definitely correlation.
It was passed as an attempt to keep people from killing each other...
And we all know that potential murders respect and follow gun laws.
Whew, you saved us all. Thanks!
Actually, more and more employers are allowing you to opt out.
;)
If you're really lucky, they may put it into an HSA for you. I had a job offer recently and told them that I wouldn't accept their insurance and that instead I wanted it in my HSA. It took additional discussion with HR, but they agreed to it. And now the precedent is set.