"Congressman Paul is also the highest-polling Republican presidential candidate in Alaska. In December's KTUU presidential preference poll, Ron Paul placed first with 29 percent of the vote. "
Rumor has it he basically won in Louisiana, so everyone else put their votes together and claimed first.
"The results are still unconfirmed but it looks like Ron Paul has scored at least 46 of 95 alternates selected.... The delegates and alternates chosen yesterday will pick 24 of the National Convention delegates are and are slated to pick 20 more delegates later.... The only way that can change is if some candidate gets a majority of the primary vote on Feb. 9th- an unlikely prospect at this point. It would seem that the Huck, Romney, Benito, McCain, and Thompson campaigns have pooled together to form the Pro-Life/Pro-Family ticket in order to defeat Ron Paul."
"The initial failure of the Louisiana GOP to properly determine who was and wasn't eligible to vote threw this entire process into disarray," said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. "However, voter eligibility was just one of many irregularities with the caucus process. We are filing this contest to ensure that we can challenge the results if it appears that delegates were improperly selected."
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This will work. This won't work.
As a demonstration project, and a tourist attraction, this will work beautifully. Your typically 100 miles or less organic veggie loving hippie will gleefully pay a rather outrageous price for organic tomatoes grown locally in New York city, and if you figure that you can get at least 5 school tours each school day ($5.00 a head), and have most of those kids eat a "healthy, local, organic vegitarian lunch", (another $5.00 a head), yes, you can keep the place completely busy.
As far as a replacement farm. No way. But tourism and edutainment are big markets for a single demonstration "vertical farm" in NY, LA, Hong Kong, etc.
I have a new Dell laptop with Windows Vista. I give it to my wife, and her first comment is that it's slow. (It has the new Pentium core duo!) And I find that I'm running into the IP connection limit all of the time in Vista home basic. However, there are just a few things for which I need Windows, and I can't emulate it because it doesn't like that (e.g. playing DVDs). I will soon attempt to dual boot Ubuntu Linux or Fedora Linux and Windows Vista, but I would really LOVE it if Dell would have installed it in dual boot mode for me. I would have paid up to $99 for it. I'm actually using my old laptop now, because I'm afraid of destroying the recovery partition and getting into warranty trouble.
How about one laptop per child instead? They're going to go on sale to consumers developed countries for $200.00 each, right? How about we get them for all Michigan children at 10% off? That would be $180.
What's an Ipod Nano today? The cheapest on amazon is $142.00.
Getting those at 10% off is still $127.80.
So we can give the kids laptops for only $52.20 more each? Isn't that more worth it?
C'mon, you're saying that NASA had NO PART in the policy decisions that created the International Space Station? I've seen all sorts of "news articles". NASA is engaged in am active and constant campaign to create positive feelings for itself with politicians and the public. Even the Wikipedia page to which you linked is riddled with NASA "contributions". ISS exists in part because NASA lobbied to kill the Superconducting Super Collider, because it represented a funding threat.
Like any other agent, NASA actively campaigns and seeks a more significant roll for itself. As an agency, NASA's core income is government funding for its manned space exploration program. I believe that NASA intentionally selects programs to fund that are part of its overall strategy of manned space exploration, and avoids unmanned space programs and ground based monitoring, which represent a threat to the justification that we need people in space.
So, if Congress wants NASA to monitor asteroids, it's going to have to force the issue by putting a special line item in the budget, and I bet that NASA will campaign against it, saying that it's taking money from the ISS.
Most states have laws against "Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor". If I were making a buck off a kid who I knew used my service to do something illegal, or even possibly if I knew that it was reasonable to believe that some kid using my service would eventually do, then this law would apply to me.
The original post used hyperbole, when I described how the stench of corporate influence made me gag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
I also used Irony, in the sense of a discordance between acts and results, as I described how I wanted to make apache less stable by pulling IBM's edits because I didn't like how they improved Apache, although I was using the improved version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
You may wish to consider this polite reply to your rude behavior a type of sarcasm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
As in I'm mocking you by pretending that I take you seriously.
I was just remarking the other day how I'd like to remove all of IBM's edits from apache so that it's less stable.
I've never used DotNetNuke, which is basically a Microsoft friendly rip off of PHP-Nuke, but the mere fact that it exists and that "Microsofties" are using that as free software to make their lives better just pisses me off.
And all of the "improvements" that Sun has made to OpenOffice.org? C'mon, we all know that it started as Star Office, and even though it's free and it does a great job, I just hate telling everyone about how it allows them to do everything that they need without buying Microsoft office. The stench of corporate influence makes me gag as I make great reports with awesome graphics. I wish that they'd just stop developing it.
NASA can fulfill its mission by expanding its existing COTS contract with SpaceX and expanding it to include manned launches using the dragon crew module.
The American people will still have a vibrant space agency, that can focus on exploration, rather than on space launch, which is rapidly becoming a normal, commercial business.
NASA's COTS contract also includes Rocketplane, which also includes demonstrations for ISS support.
The COTS contract was a polite way for Congress to buy some insurance in case Lockheed's Space Shuttle Replacement spins out of cost control in terms of either dollars or time.
Which I think is a great move as a taxpayer, having watched ISS cost much more than planned and delivering much less than expected.
We just need the safest, soonest, and cheapest way to get people and stuff into space. I don't care who does it, so Lockheed and those people at NASA in bed with Lockheed, watch out, you've got competition.
In Michigan, when a child is born, a government official comes in with a card including all identifying information and takes 5-6 samples of blood and places it on the card. Some are used to test for various rare genetic diseases (which could also be done at the hospital).
Then the card is placed on file at a "secret location" where security includes a "locked gate", and kept until they're 21 1/2, although I don't think the program has been active that long, so no actual destruction of records has taken place.
Luckily, when my child was born, I was able to get them to certify that they had destroyed the blood sample, but they really resisted it.
I tell people about this and they think I'm a nut, but I don't want my kid's DNA in a government warehouse for mass importation into some database.
Linux kernel does a string compare and sometimes won't load or take other actions if the module isn't GPLed. This is a form of DRM, as the kernel is imposing it's digital license requirements on extensions loaded into it. (i.e. they must be GPLed or it'll log it or refuse to load it depending on how it was built).
Basically some guy tried to get around this by making his license string "GPL\0Not really GPL" and he was caught. Linus then changed the code to check the entire string buf. There you have Linux kernel DRM, a hack around it, and a counter hack to stop the violation. That's a working and prior kernel module DRM application.
"The string comparison code used by the kernel at the time to determine whether the module was GPLed stopped when it reached a null character (\0), so it would be fooled into thinking that the module was declaring its licence to be just "GPL". The GPL directory referred to in the rest of the licence string was empty."
This bill defines "Minimum Corporate Standards for Online Freedom" (Section II) and provides both civil and criminal penalties for violating the law in section 206. That is follow through.
I realize that there are some thorny issues here of business and politics, but take a moment and read the statement of purpose from this bill:
"It shall be the policy of the United States... to promote as a fundamental component of United States foreign policy the right of everyone to freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers;"
The rest of the world can go and bash us for what we do wrong, and there's plenty there, I know, but this is something that we can and should do that is RIGHT.
Great. Now I'm going to have to watch a movie from behind some Canadian snow-back who slips over the border; his camcorder blocking half my view, and my only connection to the movie the flashes of the screen I get as his flopping head jib-jabbers "aboot" the militaristic nature of American culture.
Blame Canada! Blame Canada! It seems that everything's gone wrong, since Canada came along!
PS: Canada is my #1 favorite foreign country, I love to meet Canadians who come to the USA, and I always enjoy visiting Canada.
I estimate rather conservatively that my compact florescent (CF) bulbs will pay for themselves in less than 18 months, and double their investment in less than 36 months.
That's better than a 26% per year ROI. The 100 Watt equivalents are about than $2.70 each when purchased in 3 packs at Walmart. I replaced every bulb that didn't have an occlusion due to a light fixture (about 30) in my home for around $80.
It's a better investment than the stock market any day.
NASA is in the entertainment and education business by way of the science business. NASA must generate buzz and excitement regarding its missions amongst the voters so that those voters encourage Congress and the President to continue to support it. It must also generate interesting and possibly useful scientific information to maintain its credibility.
Like an aging actor, NASA needs makeovers. Like any corporate giant NASA likes to tell success stories. NASA has an apparent target demographic of kids, students and educators. However, their real target demographic is the parents and grandparents of school aged children and adult science geeks. NASA must convince them, the voting public, that they're doing useful science. This market is similar to that faced by most educational toys.
As a corporate entity, NASA must look to the future. NASA cannot focus on boundad, workable, and term-limited projects such as the IIS, there will rapidly become no NASA. Such projects aren't as fundamentally entertaining, even if they may be more scientifically useful. NASA must continue to make plans to enhance future revenue by continuing to entertain their apparent target demographic, and appear to educate them in the eyes of their true demographic. NASA may be able to complete the IIS, but the IIS story has played out. They need something new and exiting, and they know it.
This is not written to slight NASA in any way. Every entity has its own economics. It's just that when I read stupid statements like the one made in the essay, I feel as if the author doesn't understand the fundamental economic position of NASA. NASA's primary job isn't human spaceflight, or spaceflight. It's to entertain while it educates. That's what brings in the money.
At the lower end, 12% salary grows by 10 times in 12.6 years and 20 times in 16.4 years. At the higher end, 14% salary grows by 10 times in 6.8 years and 20 times in 8.9 years.
Given mostly stagnant salaries in the United States and other higher wage countries, India's salary growth is going to be rapidly constrained.
This will only hurt the poor. The rich will have the money necessary to setup "blinds" so that they can say, "I got this information from informant X, who I can only contact via e-mail. I'm legally entitled to have it, although I don't know how X got it or where in the world X is."
The macro implementation of linked lists in the Linux kernel supports multiple linked lists per structure. It probably goes back to the late 1990s.
See Linux Kernel Linked List Explained. Note on the page where it says "You can have multiple lists!". That was baked into the kernel by good, smart engineers.
NASA's planed return to the moon is 2018. A few bad schedule slips at NASA could see Americans following Indians back to the moon. Both sides get bonus points for an Indian American on either mission.
Complex Process: Nature of the Relationship Between Matter and Energy Conclusions: E=MC^2
Complex Process: Fundamental structure of our planet Conclusion: The Earth is Round
Complex Process: Abstract Geometry PI = 3.14159...
Complex Process: Chemistry Conclusion: All matter is composed of atoms
Complex Process: Origin and Differentiation of Biological Life Conclusion: Evolutionary Process
Complex Process: Human Biology. Specifically Nature of Blood Circulation Conclusion: Heart pumps blood
It's amazing how few people refer to these conclusions as a "best guess" or a "consensus", or how many people don't get up on a podium and say "if you disagree with me you are an idiot". Because IT'S OBVIOUS. They need not speak. The data speak clearly for them.
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Paul is leading in Alaska
... The delegates and alternates chosen yesterday will pick 24 of the National Convention delegates are and are slated to pick 20 more delegates later. ... The only way that can change is if some candidate gets a majority of the primary vote on Feb. 9th- an unlikely prospect at this point. It would seem that the Huck, Romney, Benito, McCain, and Thompson campaigns have pooled together to form the Pro-Life/Pro-Family ticket in order to defeat Ron Paul."
"Congressman Paul is also the highest-polling Republican presidential candidate in Alaska. In December's KTUU presidential preference poll, Ron Paul placed first with 29 percent of the vote. "
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080128006385&newsLang=en
Rumor has it he basically won in Louisiana, so everyone else put their votes together and claimed first.
"The results are still unconfirmed but it looks like Ron Paul has scored at least 46 of 95 alternates selected.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080126005008&newsLang=en
"The initial failure of the Louisiana GOP to properly determine who was and wasn't eligible to vote threw this entire process into disarray," said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. "However, voter eligibility was just one of many irregularities with the caucus process. We are filing this contest to ensure that we can challenge the results if it appears that delegates were improperly selected."
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080126005008&newsLang=en
and this is on top of being the #1 GOP fund raiser in the fourth quarter.
and winning just about every phone and online poll there is.
Clap Clap Applaud Applaud
Hurray!
This will work. This won't work.
As a demonstration project, and a tourist attraction, this will work beautifully. Your typically 100 miles or less organic veggie loving hippie will gleefully pay a rather outrageous price for organic tomatoes grown locally in New York city, and if you figure that you can get at least 5 school tours each school day ($5.00 a head), and have most of those kids eat a "healthy, local, organic vegitarian lunch", (another $5.00 a head), yes, you can keep the place completely busy.
As far as a replacement farm. No way. But tourism and edutainment are big markets for a single demonstration "vertical farm" in NY, LA, Hong Kong, etc.
I have a new Dell laptop with Windows Vista. I give it to my wife, and her first comment is that it's slow. (It has the new Pentium core duo!) And I find that I'm running into the IP connection limit all of the time in Vista home basic. However, there are just a few things for which I need Windows, and I can't emulate it because it doesn't like that (e.g. playing DVDs). I will soon attempt to dual boot Ubuntu Linux or Fedora Linux and Windows Vista, but I would really LOVE it if Dell would have installed it in dual boot mode for me. I would have paid up to $99 for it. I'm actually using my old laptop now, because I'm afraid of destroying the recovery partition and getting into warranty trouble.
What's an Ipod Nano today? The cheapest on amazon is $142.00. Getting those at 10% off is still $127.80.
So we can give the kids laptops for only $52.20 more each? Isn't that more worth it?
Like any other agent, NASA actively campaigns and seeks a more significant roll for itself. As an agency, NASA's core income is government funding for its manned space exploration program. I believe that NASA intentionally selects programs to fund that are part of its overall strategy of manned space exploration, and avoids unmanned space programs and ground based monitoring, which represent a threat to the justification that we need people in space.
So, if Congress wants NASA to monitor asteroids, it's going to have to force the issue by putting a special line item in the budget, and I bet that NASA will campaign against it, saying that it's taking money from the ISS.
Most states have laws against "Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor". If I were making a buck off a kid who I knew used my service to do something illegal, or even possibly if I knew that it was reasonable to believe that some kid using my service would eventually do, then this law would apply to me.
The original post used hyperbole, when I described how the stench of corporate influence made me gag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole I also used Irony, in the sense of a discordance between acts and results, as I described how I wanted to make apache less stable by pulling IBM's edits because I didn't like how they improved Apache, although I was using the improved version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony You may wish to consider this polite reply to your rude behavior a type of sarcasm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm As in I'm mocking you by pretending that I take you seriously.
I've never used DotNetNuke, which is basically a Microsoft friendly rip off of PHP-Nuke, but the mere fact that it exists and that "Microsofties" are using that as free software to make their lives better just pisses me off.
And all of the "improvements" that Sun has made to OpenOffice.org? C'mon, we all know that it started as Star Office, and even though it's free and it does a great job, I just hate telling everyone about how it allows them to do everything that they need without buying Microsoft office. The stench of corporate influence makes me gag as I make great reports with awesome graphics. I wish that they'd just stop developing it.
Gotta have the law first. :)
The American people will still have a vibrant space agency, that can focus on exploration, rather than on space launch, which is rapidly becoming a normal, commercial business.
NASA's COTS contract also includes Rocketplane, which also includes demonstrations for ISS support.
The COTS contract was a polite way for Congress to buy some insurance in case Lockheed's Space Shuttle Replacement spins out of cost control in terms of either dollars or time.
Which I think is a great move as a taxpayer, having watched ISS cost much more than planned and delivering much less than expected.
We just need the safest, soonest, and cheapest way to get people and stuff into space. I don't care who does it, so Lockheed and those people at NASA in bed with Lockheed, watch out, you've got competition.
In Michigan, when a child is born, a government official comes in with a card including all identifying information and takes 5-6 samples of blood and places it on the card. Some are used to test for various rare genetic diseases (which could also be done at the hospital).
Then the card is placed on file at a "secret location" where security includes a "locked gate", and kept until they're 21 1/2, although I don't think the program has been active that long, so no actual destruction of records has taken place.
Luckily, when my child was born, I was able to get them to certify that they had destroyed the blood sample, but they really resisted it.
I tell people about this and they think I'm a nut, but I don't want my kid's DNA in a government warehouse for mass importation into some database.
There is prior art all over this.
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Linux kernel does a string compare and sometimes won't load or take other actions if the module isn't GPLed. This is a form of DRM, as the kernel is imposing it's digital license requirements on extensions loaded into it. (i.e. they must be GPLed or it'll log it or refuse to load it depending on how it was built).
Basically some guy tried to get around this by making his license string "GPL\0Not really GPL" and he was caught. Linus then changed the code to check the entire string buf. There you have Linux kernel DRM, a hack around it, and a counter hack to stop the violation. That's a working and prior kernel module DRM application.
"The string comparison code used by the kernel at the time to determine whether the module was GPLed stopped when it reached a null character (\0), so it would be fooled into thinking that the module was declaring its licence to be just "GPL". The GPL directory referred to in the rest of the licence string was empty."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_Kernel_Modu
This bill defines "Minimum Corporate Standards for Online Freedom" (Section II) and provides both civil and criminal penalties for violating the law in section 206. That is follow through.
I realize that there are some thorny issues here of business and politics, but take a moment and read the statement of purpose from this bill: "It shall be the policy of the United States ... to promote as a fundamental component of United States foreign policy the right of everyone to freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers;"
The rest of the world can go and bash us for what we do wrong, and there's plenty there, I know, but this is something that we can and should do that is RIGHT.
Great. Now I'm going to have to watch a movie from behind some Canadian snow-back who slips over the border; his camcorder blocking half my view, and my only connection to the movie the flashes of the screen I get as his flopping head jib-jabbers "aboot" the militaristic nature of American culture.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong,
since Canada came along!
PS: Canada is my #1 favorite foreign country, I love to meet Canadians who come to the USA, and I always enjoy visiting Canada.
That's better than a 26% per year ROI. The 100 Watt equivalents are about than $2.70 each when purchased in 3 packs at Walmart. I replaced every bulb that didn't have an occlusion due to a light fixture (about 30) in my home for around $80.
It's a better investment than the stock market any day.
Like an aging actor, NASA needs makeovers. Like any corporate giant NASA likes to tell success stories. NASA has an apparent target demographic of kids, students and educators. However, their real target demographic is the parents and grandparents of school aged children and adult science geeks. NASA must convince them, the voting public, that they're doing useful science. This market is similar to that faced by most educational toys.
As a corporate entity, NASA must look to the future. NASA cannot focus on boundad, workable, and term-limited projects such as the IIS, there will rapidly become no NASA. Such projects aren't as fundamentally entertaining, even if they may be more scientifically useful. NASA must continue to make plans to enhance future revenue by continuing to entertain their apparent target demographic, and appear to educate them in the eyes of their true demographic. NASA may be able to complete the IIS, but the IIS story has played out. They need something new and exiting, and they know it.
This is not written to slight NASA in any way. Every entity has its own economics. It's just that when I read stupid statements like the one made in the essay, I feel as if the author doesn't understand the fundamental economic position of NASA. NASA's primary job isn't human spaceflight, or spaceflight. It's to entertain while it educates. That's what brings in the money.
Salary growth will have to slow in India.
At the lower end, 12% salary grows by 10 times in 12.6 years and 20 times in 16.4 years.
At the higher end, 14% salary grows by 10 times in 6.8 years and 20 times in 8.9 years.
Given mostly stagnant salaries in the United States and other higher wage countries, India's salary growth is going to be rapidly constrained.
This will only hurt the poor. The rich will have the money necessary to setup "blinds" so that they can say, "I got this information from informant X, who I can only contact via e-mail. I'm legally entitled to have it, although I don't know how X got it or where in the world X is."
See Linux Kernel Linked List Explained. Note on the page where it says "You can have multiple lists!". That was baked into the kernel by good, smart engineers.
Police Taser Anti-War Protesters in Pittsburgh She looked pretty harmless lying on the ground to me. Direct link to video. Jump to 6:42 or 7:02 - 7:13!
More video and coverage of Pittsburgh Taser-ing of protesters.
Coverage of protests against taser deaths in Ohio and California.
Third Taser Death in a Month in Florida.
All coverage of tasers by Democracy Now.
'a conspiracy to maintain the population in a perpetual state of self-righteous rage'
h n_murtari_receives_feeding_tube.html
I went through this.
Growing up, in a public school: Government works for our benefit
Then, as an adult I came to understand: Government works for its own benefit
I understand that we VOTE for the government: Government works.
Or as Churchill said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
This is not to say that there is no injustice.
Just because I want our government to:
Free John Murtari! In jail and on hunger strike Since July 31st, 2006!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/52668/jo
Doesn't mean that I don't love my country.
NASA's planed return to the moon is 2018. A few bad schedule slips at NASA could see Americans following Indians back to the moon. Both sides get bonus points for an Indian American on either mission.
Complex Process: Physics
Conclusion: F=MA
Complex Process: Nature of the Relationship Between Matter and Energy
Conclusions: E=MC^2
Complex Process: Fundamental structure of our planet
Conclusion: The Earth is Round
Complex Process: Abstract Geometry
PI = 3.14159...
Complex Process: Chemistry
Conclusion: All matter is composed of atoms
Complex Process: Origin and Differentiation of Biological Life
Conclusion: Evolutionary Process
Complex Process: Human Biology. Specifically Nature of Blood Circulation
Conclusion: Heart pumps blood
It's amazing how few people refer to these conclusions as a "best guess" or a "consensus", or how many people don't get up on a podium and say "if you disagree with me you are an idiot". Because IT'S OBVIOUS. They need not speak. The data speak clearly for them.