It didn't stop at letter writing. The letter writing itself may not have been considered "terrorism" under present definitions, but the armed resistance certainly would have. The Zapatistas in Mexico also wrote letters to the Mexican state declaring their independence, after which they took up arms against the state. The Bush government has declared them to be "terrorists". Would you agree? If the Zapatistas are victorious, and obtain their autonomy, will they no longer be terrorists? Don't be ridiculous. I'm not American. But comparing the Founding Fathers to Zapatistas is pure non sense. See what our lovely terror groups on South America do after a practical independence, just look FARC controlled areas of Colombia. That's what a terrorist group do. See the US? That's what right people do.
Actually, they burn sugar cane before harvest to make it lose the "razor sharp" leaves. It's a very environmentally damaging process due to carbon particulates. If you're going to use protective gear, you're going to have a more lucrative plantation using modern harvest methods.
the main source of instability in africa is because they have no way to build sustainable economies to allow a stable government to keep corruption low. Are you sure of this? Africa has great natural resources and cheap labor. Oil, in some parts of it. Maybe there's not a simple answer to why there aren't stable governments in most parts. Some countries may achieve a stable political equilibrium on a corrupt government: why not?
There's no panacea for Africa. Actually, there's no panacea for any place.
it would be interesting to know just how expensive tree farming would be in africa, or south america, as opposed to the united states, canada, or europe. This is a recipe for an environmental disaster. Rain forest trees grow slowly, so it's not practical. Trees from higher latitudes ofter cause more problems than they solve. This is know in Brazilian Portuguese as "Deserto Verde" (Green Desert, in a literal translation). It's an old and well know problem.
The laptop receives tax breaks from government. The Windows OEM price can't be discounted, due to legal reasons and so on. It's an artificial price.
National minimum wage maybe 380 reals (about 190 dollars), but state minimums are usually more. Federal minimum wage is kept down due to expending with Social Security.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but if want to voice your opinion, please, understand first the topic you're talking about.
It's almost free for majority of users. It's free for most undergraduates out there, through MSDN Academic Alliance. It's almost a negligible cost for new machines. Upgrades are cheap too.
That doesn't make WGA less annoying or the software better. But it's not expensive, in any way.
Manual labor is common on northeastern plantations, where most of production goes to sugar making. On the São Paulo state (the "modern" Brazil), especially Ribeirão Preto county, you're going to find modern agricultural practices.
The smog from cane plantations is not from the ethanol making processes. It's from older sugar cane regions, ie. northeastern Brazil or NW Rio de Janeiro, where the can is burn before being harvested. This is, yes, a *big* producer of particulates. It's not common anymore in the more modern regions and is being phased out in Rio de Janeiro. It will probably last forever in the northeast if not made illegal, since they never cared about productivity and good practices, anyway.
Ok, now get out of Porto Alegre (a major Brazilian city, with a nice industrial and services sectors) and go, let's say, to Mato Grosso (well, think of it as Montana, or someplace like that). See? No 3G.
US is a big country. One should not expect a uniform quality of service over continental dimensions. It doesn't even make sense.
In this light, I don't know people keep this comparison with Japan or European countries because it doesn't even make sense. Compare England to California, it makes more sense. Japan, with a very high density population, being compared with the whole US is *fscking* ridiculous!
And doesn't even start with the e-voting non sense. Brazilians love it. They say "look, the Americans can't do what we've been doing for years!". Oh, come on, do you trust the closed source, Windows-based, e-voting machines you use? I hope you're not an IT professional. Go to Unisys site and see if you can look our audit the source code. You can't. Do you trust the Electoral Justice to audit it? Do you think they're really worth your blind trust? Do you think they have the human resources to do it in a fully secure way? I don't think so. It's not that simple.
And that's, one more time, why this comparisons between the US and smaller countries doesn't make sense. It's difficult to run a country so wide and with very and deep differences between it's member states. Compare a small country with a somewhat similar member state you're going to see US is *not* lacking behind.
In your model, Yahoo! current shareholders receives nothing. Actually, that's where most of 45 bi goes into. Another part goes for the banking system, lawyers, taxes and so on.
Maybe your users don't care, but most care, even if they are internal clients. I'm on the Qt side, since I code it for a living and I can say it's a really good framework to use. Besides the GUI toolkit, it's base library is very, very good. Can't talk for wxWidgets, since I never used it.
When the only thing you have is an army, all problems looks like wars.
Call me utopian, but if you - and the biggest player of our democracy game - keeps acting in a Machiavellian (or Bismarkian, as you say) our future has no space for peace. If you don't keep your ideals in sight, the only thing you're left is the (international) politics game.
Yes, I understand your pragmatism and having people like you is an asset at any negotiation. But, please, just remember that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is an unalienable rights of man, as your Declaration of Independence states, not a right of the americans, but of man. So, let the other countries do it too.
The only winning move is not to play. Not to play the Bismarkian game.
Welcome to existentialism. Existence precedes essence. I'm in this club too, along that funny guy, Nietzsche.
But there are other view points. All of them are outside of the science scope (and should be this way or we get those nasty stupid things like positivism). This is the point of GP and should not be ignored. God is not 'how' and this were ID people get lost. God is 'why'. I don't believe in it, but it's a gap that must (or not) be closed by philosophy, not science.
PS: I'm not a native speaker, so, corrections are welcome.
At first, I'm not a native english speaker, so, I'm sorry for any errors. Corrections and grammar nazis are actually welcome =)
I never got straight As or a nice GPA (it's real bad). I'm a full time C++/Qt Developer for one of the best companies in the region I live (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Maybe the market I'm in isn't as competitive as yours (well, it probably isn't), but maybe, you difficulty in getting goods jobs isn't only due your high achieving academic results: interview skills, teamwork capacity and other "human resources"-like skills are also needed too.
I understand your point and, if your academic history is like you said, a company or two may prefer other candidate because you're most likely to go to grad school and leave them. But for the average high tech company, it would be a nice hire. You may check up other things, besides the academics stuff, for getting better jobs.
And sorry for the bad english, it's really shitty today, I know.
Over-complex tile-based heat shield. Can you suggest other, please, in face of the mission requirements? You may say Buran had a better tile configuration but we don't have the data for that analysis. The shuttle heat shield design is the only possible with current technology in face of the challenge.
Actually, most of your list of "big mistakes" are a result of the engineering solution that comes from a flawed requirements list - the need for a fancy spacecraft instead of a reliable one and the merging with Air Force needs.
So, you'd better redo your mistakes list: it's not an engineering fault (especially the thermal engineering guys, who did a great work). It's the direct result of bad requirements design. The blame is, mostly, on upper management.
PS: I'm not a native English speaker. Sorry for grammar errors and other incorrections in my post.
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Can you please brief those methods?
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[I have a really strange feeling replying to such a low ID. It's like talking to grandpa again or something like that
Stop this non sense now.
I've heard it has been banned already in some states.
There's no panacea for Africa. Actually, there's no panacea for any place. it would be interesting to know just how expensive tree farming would be in africa, or south america, as opposed to the united states, canada, or europe. This is a recipe for an environmental disaster. Rain forest trees grow slowly, so it's not practical. Trees from higher latitudes ofter cause more problems than they solve. This is know in Brazilian Portuguese as "Deserto Verde" (Green Desert, in a literal translation). It's an old and well know problem.
The laptop receives tax breaks from government. The Windows OEM price can't be discounted, due to legal reasons and so on. It's an artificial price.
National minimum wage maybe 380 reals (about 190 dollars), but state minimums are usually more. Federal minimum wage is kept down due to expending with Social Security.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but if want to voice your opinion, please, understand first the topic you're talking about.
It's almost free for majority of users. It's free for most undergraduates out there, through MSDN Academic Alliance. It's almost a negligible cost for new machines. Upgrades are cheap too.
That doesn't make WGA less annoying or the software better. But it's not expensive, in any way.
Disclaimer: I'm Brazilian.
Manual labor is common on northeastern plantations, where most of production goes to sugar making. On the São Paulo state (the "modern" Brazil), especially Ribeirão Preto county, you're going to find modern agricultural practices.
The smog from cane plantations is not from the ethanol making processes. It's from older sugar cane regions, ie. northeastern Brazil or NW Rio de Janeiro, where the can is burn before being harvested. This is, yes, a *big* producer of particulates. It's not common anymore in the more modern regions and is being phased out in Rio de Janeiro. It will probably last forever in the northeast if not made illegal, since they never cared about productivity and good practices, anyway.
(I'm Brazilian too).
Ok, now get out of Porto Alegre (a major Brazilian city, with a nice industrial and services sectors) and go, let's say, to Mato Grosso (well, think of it as Montana, or someplace like that). See? No 3G.
US is a big country. One should not expect a uniform quality of service over continental dimensions. It doesn't even make sense.
In this light, I don't know people keep this comparison with Japan or European countries because it doesn't even make sense. Compare England to California, it makes more sense. Japan, with a very high density population, being compared with the whole US is *fscking* ridiculous!
And doesn't even start with the e-voting non sense. Brazilians love it. They say "look, the Americans can't do what we've been doing for years!". Oh, come on, do you trust the closed source, Windows-based, e-voting machines you use? I hope you're not an IT professional. Go to Unisys site and see if you can look our audit the source code. You can't. Do you trust the Electoral Justice to audit it? Do you think they're really worth your blind trust? Do you think they have the human resources to do it in a fully secure way? I don't think so. It's not that simple.
And that's, one more time, why this comparisons between the US and smaller countries doesn't make sense. It's difficult to run a country so wide and with very and deep differences between it's member states. Compare a small country with a somewhat similar member state you're going to see US is *not* lacking behind.
I think those 2.5 thick ones run real *hot*.
Enhancing Aircraft Conceptual Design using Multidisciplinary Optimization, by Dan Raymer.
[PDF] http://www.aircraftdesign.com/RaymerThesisFinalRevLowRes.pdf
Genetic algorithms are a pretty useful stuff, and already in use within aircraft design.
Fisherman in Portuguese is "Pescador". "Pescadero" sounds like Spanish, but I don't know for sure.
Your idea is nice. If you're still interested, email me about it.
In a related news, Starbucks to buy Sun?
In your model, Yahoo! current shareholders receives nothing. Actually, that's where most of 45 bi goes into. Another part goes for the banking system, lawyers, taxes and so on.
What should I say?
"The tampon! They do nothing!"?
Maybe your users don't care, but most care, even if they are internal clients. I'm on the Qt side, since I code it for a living and I can say it's a really good framework to use. Besides the GUI toolkit, it's base library is very, very good. Can't talk for wxWidgets, since I never used it.
When the only thing you have is an army, all problems looks like wars.
Call me utopian, but if you - and the biggest player of our democracy game - keeps acting in a Machiavellian (or Bismarkian, as you say) our future has no space for peace. If you don't keep your ideals in sight, the only thing you're left is the (international) politics game.
Yes, I understand your pragmatism and having people like you is an asset at any negotiation. But, please, just remember that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is an unalienable rights of man, as your Declaration of Independence states, not a right of the americans, but of man. So, let the other countries do it too.
The only winning move is not to play. Not to play the Bismarkian game.
Funny? Why is this moded funny?
I always thought Microsoft should use longs for line count. It's pretty common to exceed it, on really f*cking large projects.
I wasn't offensive, and, if I sounded that way, I'm sorry. English is not my first language and sometimes I can't express myself the way I intended.
Deeply sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
Thermal engineering 101.
uphill, both ways.
Welcome to existentialism. Existence precedes essence. I'm in this club too, along that funny guy, Nietzsche.
But there are other view points. All of them are outside of the science scope (and should be this way or we get those nasty stupid things like positivism). This is the point of GP and should not be ignored. God is not 'how' and this were ID people get lost. God is 'why'. I don't believe in it, but it's a gap that must (or not) be closed by philosophy, not science.
PS: I'm not a native speaker, so, corrections are welcome.
At first, I'm not a native english speaker, so, I'm sorry for any errors. Corrections and grammar nazis are actually welcome =)
I never got straight As or a nice GPA (it's real bad). I'm a full time C++/Qt Developer for one of the best companies in the region I live (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Maybe the market I'm in isn't as competitive as yours (well, it probably isn't), but maybe, you difficulty in getting goods jobs isn't only due your high achieving academic results: interview skills, teamwork capacity and other "human resources"-like skills are also needed too.
I understand your point and, if your academic history is like you said, a company or two may prefer other candidate because you're most likely to go to grad school and leave them. But for the average high tech company, it would be a nice hire. You may check up other things, besides the academics stuff, for getting better jobs.
And sorry for the bad english, it's really shitty today, I know.
Prediction #47: God issues a press release in 2050: higher 'c' for the masses aviable.
Actually, most of your list of "big mistakes" are a result of the engineering solution that comes from a flawed requirements list - the need for a fancy spacecraft instead of a reliable one and the merging with Air Force needs.
So, you'd better redo your mistakes list: it's not an engineering fault (especially the thermal engineering guys, who did a great work). It's the direct result of bad requirements design. The blame is, mostly, on upper management.
PS: I'm not a native English speaker. Sorry for grammar errors and other incorrections in my post.
Yes, because our understanding never changes...
Those damn kids never learn. Adult brains more flexible. Earth is a sphere. What a joke.