In all due fairness to ourselves, the evidence strongly suggests that we didn't elect Bush either time. But we did elect Reagan. But don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
True, you get total agreement from me. What I meant was that these bodies are an attempt at a better process than just allowing the peasants with pitchforks to have their way.
A significant number of the religious fundies would say that a half human monster thing cannot have a soul, so you get a big win over the pure human when you kill it (note that most fundies are not vegetarians, for example, and are perfectly ok with killing animals for research).
The only reason for these bodies to exist is to make sure the peasants don't care enough to pick up their pitchforks. If the peasants don't care, the research proceeds. If the peasants are pissed off, public education campaigns occur first.
No, I recently read that they were having difficulty. It was an off the record interview with a vice-president in software development. Unfortunately, I can't find the source at the moment. So you can believe or not, as you'd like.
There was some better source, unfortunately I can't find it at the moment. Basically, it sounded like Oracles efforts to find commonality in all of their platforms were turning into a mess. Not working there myself I can't confirm or deny.
Buying a company is usually about buying their loyal customers, not about buying their product. Then you declare that the official upgrade path for their software is onto your own product's software track in the next version. Very few of the customers will revolt, thanks to limited marketplace options.
i was just reading
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Oracle Buys BEA
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About how Oracle is floundering, and quite close to melting down from its attempts at integrating all the middleware platforms it has picked up in the last four purchases it made. Obviously, when you're having serious trouble getting all your different software platforms integrated, the best solution is to buy another one. Good move Oracle.
The bottom line seems to be that the government response to 9/11 was substantially larger (to compensate the victim's families, who were very high earners, and which was essentially necessary to rescue the airline insurance industry from lawsuits). Whereas the public outpouring of donations to victims was quite a bit larger for the tsunami.
There aren't vast numbers of 50 year loans like there are 30 year loans. It's likely that the volume of 50 year loans, handled on systems with this problem, and with software which is vulnerable to some sort of wrap error, is small enough that they've been handled manually.
There are truly huge numbers of 30 year loans out there. Tens of millions, on thousands of different systems. This is much more likely to be a sufficiently common problem to really hit the public notice, and should have some reasonable chance of actually requiring some programming intervention to correct.
I would say the odds are pretty favorable that if you take up smoking now, the cure will be available for you in time. Still, you may not want to take this risk, and also, you'll smell bad.
Energy independence (via any green energy) seems like the obvious candidate big project for our generation. Massive benefits: better productivity, more reliable transportation, reduced air quality health hazards, decentralization, etc, and that really is just the short list of the biggest benefits. Not even universal health care is likely to confer as many tangible benefits to the next generation (not that there's any legit reason we can't afford to do both). Personally, I plan to do my part as soon as I can afford it, with or without the government helping.
Well, i'd take out half of defense, and 10% off Social security, even if that meant I don't get reelected, because honestly, it would be hard to do much better for the long term good of the country. Universal healthcare done right could knock medicaid/schip down to 400 b or less. No more global war on terror saves 70b. Cutting down other mandator, it looks like we could reach for about 450b of spending reduction fairly easily.
Yes, but it's somewhere right around that level for the size of tv that most people have a large enough wall for. If you want to watch a ~60inch tv from the minimum field of view distance (something like 4ish feet), then you need about this number of pixels @120hz to pretty much max out human perception.
Nearly every sport has a doping and non-doping league already. The problem is, people will only pay to see the non-doping leagues at the moment. Which means all the money is in the non-doping league. Which means all the dopers try to cheat and compete in the non-doping league. This problem seems unlikely to ever go away.
When you replace oil with ethanol, you stop using carbon that was fixed a long time in the past (and thus did not contribute to present levels of co2), and instead use carbon that was fixed in the last growing cycle. The net co2 added to the atmosphere in a year is zero, because the corn/switchgrass has to fix the co2 before you can later release it in the burn cycle.
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In all due fairness to ourselves, the evidence strongly suggests that we didn't elect Bush either time. But we did elect Reagan.
But don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
True, you get total agreement from me. What I meant was that these bodies are an attempt at a better process than just allowing the peasants with pitchforks to have their way.
A significant number of the religious fundies would say that a half human monster thing cannot have a soul, so you get a big win over the pure human when you kill it (note that most fundies are not vegetarians, for example, and are perfectly ok with killing animals for research).
The only reason for these bodies to exist is to make sure the peasants don't care enough to pick up their pitchforks. If the peasants don't care, the research proceeds. If the peasants are pissed off, public education campaigns occur first.
Sure they did. They rooted for the fly.
Are you suggesting you've never noticed how odd Republicans are, and wondered?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23060778-13762,00.html
No, I recently read that they were having difficulty. It was an off the record interview with a vice-president in software development. Unfortunately, I can't find the source at the moment. So you can believe or not, as you'd like.
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/12/technology/oracle_analysis/
http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/14/oracle-consolidation-openworld-tech-cx_wt_1115techoracle.html
There was some better source, unfortunately I can't find it at the moment.
Basically, it sounded like Oracles efforts to find commonality in all of their platforms were turning into a mess. Not working there myself I can't confirm or deny.
Buying a company is usually about buying their loyal customers, not about buying their product. Then you declare that the official upgrade path for their software is onto your own product's software track in the next version. Very few of the customers will revolt, thanks to limited marketplace options.
About how Oracle is floundering, and quite close to melting down from its attempts at integrating all the middleware platforms it has picked up in the last four purchases it made. Obviously, when you're having serious trouble getting all your different software platforms integrated, the best solution is to buy another one. Good move Oracle.
Some links for the interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response_to_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_assistance_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks
The bottom line seems to be that the government response to 9/11 was substantially larger (to compensate the victim's families, who were very high earners, and which was essentially necessary to rescue the airline insurance industry from lawsuits). Whereas the public outpouring of donations to victims was quite a bit larger for the tsunami.
There aren't vast numbers of 50 year loans like there are 30 year loans. It's likely that the volume of 50 year loans, handled on systems with this problem, and with software which is vulnerable to some sort of wrap error, is small enough that they've been handled manually.
There are truly huge numbers of 30 year loans out there. Tens of millions, on thousands of different systems. This is much more likely to be a sufficiently common problem to really hit the public notice, and should have some reasonable chance of actually requiring some programming intervention to correct.
Resolution too low. I wouldn't buy a computer under 900 lines of resolution.
I would say the odds are pretty favorable that if you take up smoking now, the cure will be available for you in time. Still, you may not want to take this risk, and also, you'll smell bad.
You're just jealous because you're ignorant of Nature's Harmonic 4 Day Time Cube Creation, you dumb American.
Energy independence (via any green energy) seems like the obvious candidate big project for our generation. Massive benefits: better productivity, more reliable transportation, reduced air quality health hazards, decentralization, etc, and that really is just the short list of the biggest benefits. Not even universal health care is likely to confer as many tangible benefits to the next generation (not that there's any legit reason we can't afford to do both). Personally, I plan to do my part as soon as I can afford it, with or without the government helping.
Well, i'd take out half of defense, and 10% off Social security, even if that meant I don't get reelected, because honestly, it would be hard to do much better for the long term good of the country. Universal healthcare done right could knock medicaid/schip down to 400 b or less. No more global war on terror saves 70b. Cutting down other mandator, it looks like we could reach for about 450b of spending reduction fairly easily.
I believe what you're searching for with #7 is Condorcet voting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
Yes, but it's somewhere right around that level for the size of tv that most people have a large enough wall for. If you want to watch a ~60inch tv from the minimum field of view distance (something like 4ish feet), then you need about this number of pixels @120hz to pretty much max out human perception.
Nearly every sport has a doping and non-doping league already. The problem is, people will only pay to see the non-doping leagues at the moment. Which means all the money is in the non-doping league. Which means all the dopers try to cheat and compete in the non-doping league. This problem seems unlikely to ever go away.
I'm pretty sure they're making the exact same chemical, but more of it, or more efficiently.
Please, please let it be sugar cane. Real candy is so much better than corn syrup candy.
When you replace oil with ethanol, you stop using carbon that was fixed a long time in the past (and thus did not contribute to present levels of co2), and instead use carbon that was fixed in the last growing cycle. The net co2 added to the atmosphere in a year is zero, because the corn/switchgrass has to fix the co2 before you can later release it in the burn cycle.