They are there, but not published as often due to the fact that it is not visually impressive. In fact, it is visually disappointing and the math (which uses estimates and large numbers) are the only impressive things about it.
When I was bullied, I really didn't care. Yeah, it was annoying, and physically painful at times, humiliating at others, and pissed me off, but I never let it bother me. Because the physical contest just holds no attraction to me. The moments spent in a locker or in pain (no lasting damage) never really had any bearing on my outcome later in life. Once I got into college, I wasn't bullied anymore and the sky has been the limit... So I think I am right.
Physical confrontation over anything outside of a survival or safety context just seems irrelevant.
But what's your take?
Later I found out my bully never amounted to anything. Karma.
And Pres Obama should require Microsoft to continue to update XP SP2 until a non-crititcal number of computers are running that SP, just like he did with BP.
Part of my problem, is I can't find a MS XP disc with SP3 on it. I'm not about to take someone else's slip-streamed SP3. You can't trust them.
I would be off XP SP2, if there was a ISO for it. *None* of the ISOs are MS. Even my MSDN subscription does not have an XP+SP3 ISO.
Absolutely true, but implementations of SHA > 1 are harder to find. MD5 and SHA-1 are everywhere, and there's just no excuse for not using SHA-1 these days.
And what's the deal with the green movement? We come up with these ideas like to move huge masses, and no one looks at how its powered? The human body is designed to be very efficient at moving, and it is. Anything else will produce far more GHGs.
The worms that are chosen for Helmintic therapy come in two varieties.
The both are tound worms - the major difference is life cycle and life span. The "cheap" ones you injecst capsules of ovum and they hatch and last for 2 weeks in your gut, then you pass them.
The more expensive ones are transdermally applied, that is they borough through your skin (as microscopic larva) and migrate to the lungs, then you cough them up and swallow them (instinctively) where they live in your gut for 5 years.
Both parasites cannot reproduce in the body - their eggs need to leave your body in order to be come viable, so there is no risk of them getting out of control nor is there any risk of infecting anyone. It takes time (days) outside the body for the ovum to become viable.
Both parasites attach to your small intestine and consume 0.1ml of blood a day. So as long as you are not anemic, you'll be fine. A typical dose of about 50 organisms, and 5ml of blood is well within acceptable limits.
I used to get allergies (hay fever) all the time. I worked at a scout camp where we slept in canvas tents, so we were outside 100% of the time. The first year I worked there I benadryl-ed myself up all the time until I ran out, and the trading post ran out. I had to suffer with only facial tissues... but after a day they went away. And didn't come back for 2 weeks. 2 weeks later, I had allergies, but this time did not medicate. Then I went another 2 weeks... so I just learned to suffer a day and have 2 weeks of unmedicated joy.
Fast forward to 20 years later... I still have allergies, but I bought a convertible. I like the air. Even on these 100degree days, it is top down. My hay fever has virtually been eliminated.. I *might(* get something in the spring, but this past spring I made it through without any problems.
I think that in the absence of stimulus, the body cranks up the sensitivity to the point that it goes crazy. This seems to be confirmed by Helminthic therapy, where you purposely infect yourself with parasites (of a specific species with low risk) and these buggers help manage your immune response. But this helminthic therapy advocates say it treats "diseases of civilization" like asthma, which is never found in the undeveloped world.
So spending time outdoors seems to be a help to reconsult the environment that the body functions best in.
Actually, you use of the words "deny", "denier", "denialists" shows your own bias of the issue. You are attempting to cast these people as people who refuse to see the truth in the face of scientific certainty. I am sure there are some, but the vast majority of people are skeptics, not denialists.
The skeptics reasoning is thus: CO2 has been higher Temperature has been higher Proxy data (Tree rings, in Mann's case) is not direct evidence Natural variability. Predictions are based on models, under ideal conditions.
Then there is the whole anthropogenic debate, of "Ok, so we have recent warming. Can you say it is us and not natural variability?" The response to this is usually "ice caps are melting, glaciers are melting, satellites say we're warmer", etc, however all that is true even if it is natural.
Al Gore did a fantastic slight of hand in his movie. He said "the relationship is complicated" (between CO2 and temperature) however there is plenty of data to suggest that CO2 rises in response to temperature, and it is very easy to nudge the lines forward or back a a year to make it look like CO2 leads. Consider for a moment the opposite: Earth warms, then peat bogs release more CO2. This would happen very quickly in geologic time, as to be indistinguishable.
I personally found it very interesting that this week two separate reports came to separate conclusions on global warming in relation to mega fauna. The first said killing off of mammoths caused global cooling. The other one said killing of mammoths caused global warming. Which is it? This kind of conflicting findings means that researchers don't understand the mechanisms of temperature variations.
What has also recently been discovered is that urban population growth can be reliably estimated by the Urban Heat Island effect, using only temperature logs of stations in and around the city.
Really, the biggest predictor of temperature it seems is the ocean surface temperatures, since water is a huge sink, and covers 75% of the surface. This would seem to dominate weather, as opposed to a trace gas - 0.036% - of the total atmosphere. The question then becomes what governs sea surface temps? - The sun, circulation and clouds.
I'm going to ignore the whole 16th amendment argument and go with the pragmatic approach of "we pay today".
It is because the thresholds were never changed yet inflation continued. So as time crept a long, the dollar fell, more and more people came above the threshold. Meanwhile the effetive tax rates increased. Even though the/rates/ during and immediately after the war were close to today, fewer people made money that was reported.
The in the 70s, the IRS required SSNs for dependent deductions. That brought the generation Xrs into the system from birth because their parents needed SSNs to get the deduction. So even more people got pulled in who would otherwise be outside the system.
When the income tax started in 1913 it was 1% over $250,000 (in today's dollars) now you can't make more than $600 without paying 15%.
According to tax historian John Witte, "In 1939 about 15% of the people paid income tax. That's all, period. At the end of the war, we had 80% of our families paying income tax." Along with Der Fuehrer's Face, another Donald Duck propaganda film The New Spirit was even nominated for an Academy Award in documentary short subjects in 1943!
So from 15% to 99% today. Also see the tax table on the page.
You forget ho tax deductions work. Out of that 15k, you only see about $5k to spend, assuming an effective tax rate of 33%
That $5k would go far in terms of affording vehicles, houses and homes. Regardless of what it is spent on, it raises the standard of living.
As tax collections since WWII have skyrocketed, our standard of living has plummeted. Less and less married couples are buying houses... and it is acceptable to be 25 and still living with their parents. And in 2010, more and more people in their 30s are living with mom & dad. mean while moms got part-time jobs, and now even more have full-time work, just to make the bills. The idea of the nuclear family - one bread winner, one home maker and kids is completely shattered. There is no way to afford it on the average $62,000 income per family. That income per family is both parents working, and any reported income from the kids.
On the surface, your assertion makes sense, but again, you miss the reality of the situation.
I bought my house in 2001. There were no government programs used or even offered to purchase it. It is a modest house by today's standards: 50 years old, no dishwasher, less than 1200sq ft. I had come from renting a small apartment (over 1200 sq ft, dishwasher). It was a about equal, but definitely a step down in lifestyle, but a step up in payments. The tax breaks I get - the mortgage interest deduction - gets soaked up by property taxes and insurance, and the fact that I am on the hook for all maintenance costs.
Contrast that to my former apartment complex, where I still payed property taxes and interest, yet they were socialized through the building management. Having high-density living makes the costs more affordable. If we followed your advice, everyone would just be renters, and only a few would own property. There would be no way to keep the rent hikes in check. You need home owners to keep the market balanced. And during the boom, thanks to cheap money, that's what we got. Cheap mortgages kept rent down.
"Buying more house than you can afford" did get us here, but the tax incentives don't matter to people who buy more house than they can afford anyway. A payment just isn't P&I, it is Principal&Interest&PMI*PropertyTaxes&Insurance, which adds $100s on top of the P&I. But everything other than P&I is variable, and invariably goes up.
If you want true liberty, you would follow the Buddhist teachings of detachment and owning nothing. But it is not a wise idea over the long run, particularly when you have a family.
To give the same benefits to everyone, straight couples AND SINGLES. What I mean by this is to have the legal staff at Google prepare and file a trust and estate, and optional powers of attorney, etc.
These legal documents usually cost about $2-5k total, depending on how complex they are. Google should be doing the same for all their employees. It could be part of the employee packet you get when you start work there, with some additional obligation for the legal staff to offer classes and additional help.
These instruments can benefit straight couples and singles just as much as GLBs.
Largely you are right, but you have to see the bigger picture. We have those deductions so we can afford houses, which serves to lock us in place, o make us predictable and lazy, and easy to govern. But we also have those deductions because people (or only the rich) could afford a house otherwise. The real problem here is the income tax rate, and that we need it to be lessened overall. If you reduced everyone's tax rate so that on average, you essentially gave everyone a deduction (of about 15k a year) then you'd really be on to something far greater than just tax sense. We'd pay car loans off sooner, houses too. We'd really have a more prosperous society.
But don't kid yourself, that's not going to change anytime soon. We've still got people pushing the a public option and government run everything. Everyone wants a government job too, because of the great pension and benefits. We're f'd.
The United States Constitution is the charter for the federal government. It creates an entity known as the "United States". In numerous statutes, the "United States" is confined to federal possessions: D.C. and its territories. There is also no such thing as federal "common law". The Constitution governs itself, interstate commerce (see "commerce clause") international trade, wars, etc, state's limitations. It does NOT create a parent government. It creates a government that only operates under certain conditions, namely interstate commerce (The FDA, FCC, FTC, SEC, etc, all are created under the commerce clause) Additionally and originally, the bill of rights was used to supply rights to citizens fo the federal government. But after the civil war, the 10th and 14th amendments brought everyone under the protection of the constitution. That was validated yesterday in the McDonald case...
Here, Detroit is saying that intrAstate commerce (the state franchise is illegal) because of federal law. That is preposterous, The federal government does not have jurisdiction. If you claim it does, then that is an educated reading of Article IV Section 2. "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. "
What they fail to mention is the 10th Amendment. The Detroit interpretation is ignoring the fact that unless there is an enabling statute, the federal law is void. It would make the 10th amendment at odds with the article, and void both provisions. It would be impossible to reserve any power to the states if federal law trumps state law. We've avoided this so far by having the federal only govern international and interstate commerce.
95/98/ME are one. 2000/XP are another one Vista/7 are another one.
Oh, and you forgot NT, which is the precursor to the win2000 line, but I'll put it in its own category, since it looked like Win3.1, but went on to be the win2000 kernel.
The software center in the latest Ubuntu is a joy to use. If I only marked certain apps as "best of breed", it would be perfect. And the price on all those apps, $0. Seriously. If my mic volume worked, I'd never boot windows again. (My Mic works, but it is too low, even when cranked to 100%.)
I never understood this either, until I fell in love with XPath.
It seems there are 2 types of developers. 1. Developers who want to hand code wedb content and just hope it looks ok 2. Developers who want to have software generate code, that can be queried, transformed and made usable by something other than eyeballs.
Before I became the latter, I never cared. Now that I make the occasional "screen scraper" I see the complete value in having a structured document that will validate. We need XHTML to be the standard because it allows us to interconnect sites and data without requiring the data provider to provide and maintain API. With X[*]ML the XPath/XQuery/XSLT and http are the API.
That's splitting hairs. Without revealing plot spoilers, the differences between the two are minuscule Once the big revelation is made... what is left? Does it matter if you go in direction A or B?
I think people who saw Clonus thought it was a lovely adaptation of LR.
Slashdot Mirror
They are there, but not published as often due to the fact that it is not visually impressive. In fact, it is visually disappointing and the math (which uses estimates and large numbers) are the only impressive things about it.
When I was bullied, I really didn't care. Yeah, it was annoying, and physically painful at times, humiliating at others, and pissed me off, but I never let it bother me. Because the physical contest just holds no attraction to me. The moments spent in a locker or in pain (no lasting damage) never really had any bearing on my outcome later in life. Once I got into college, I wasn't bullied anymore and the sky has been the limit... So I think I am right.
Physical confrontation over anything outside of a survival or safety context just seems irrelevant.
But what's your take?
Later I found out my bully never amounted to anything. Karma.
And Pres Obama should require Microsoft to continue to update XP SP2 until a non-crititcal number of computers are running that SP, just like he did with BP.
Part of my problem, is I can't find a MS XP disc with SP3 on it. I'm not about to take someone else's slip-streamed SP3. You can't trust them.
I would be off XP SP2, if there was a ISO for it. *None* of the ISOs are MS. Even my MSDN subscription does not have an XP+SP3 ISO.
But she's nothing compared yo your mom!
Absolutely true, but implementations of SHA > 1 are harder to find. MD5 and SHA-1 are everywhere, and there's just no excuse for not using SHA-1 these days.
Don't they know MD5 is deprecated. They should be using SHA-1. Off to a disappointing start already...
And like on Futurama.
And what's the deal with the green movement? We come up with these ideas like to move huge masses, and no one looks at how its powered? The human body is designed to be very efficient at moving, and it is. Anything else will produce far more GHGs.
While it describes the algorithm, does anyone know of a reference implementation that I can play with? The results are quite compelling!
The worms that are chosen for Helmintic therapy come in two varieties.
The both are tound worms - the major difference is life cycle and life span. The "cheap" ones you injecst capsules of ovum and they hatch and last for 2 weeks in your gut, then you pass them.
The more expensive ones are transdermally applied, that is they borough through your skin (as microscopic larva) and migrate to the lungs, then you cough them up and swallow them (instinctively) where they live in your gut for 5 years.
Both parasites cannot reproduce in the body - their eggs need to leave your body in order to be come viable, so there is no risk of them getting out of control nor is there any risk of infecting anyone. It takes time (days) outside the body for the ovum to become viable.
Both parasites attach to your small intestine and consume 0.1ml of blood a day. So as long as you are not anemic, you'll be fine. A typical dose of about 50 organisms, and 5ml of blood is well within acceptable limits.
I used to get allergies (hay fever) all the time. I worked at a scout camp where we slept in canvas tents, so we were outside 100% of the time. The first year I worked there I benadryl-ed myself up all the time until I ran out, and the trading post ran out. I had to suffer with only facial tissues... but after a day they went away. And didn't come back for 2 weeks. 2 weeks later, I had allergies, but this time did not medicate. Then I went another 2 weeks... so I just learned to suffer a day and have 2 weeks of unmedicated joy.
Fast forward to 20 years later... I still have allergies, but I bought a convertible. I like the air. Even on these 100degree days, it is top down. My hay fever has virtually been eliminated.. I *might(* get something in the spring, but this past spring I made it through without any problems.
I think that in the absence of stimulus, the body cranks up the sensitivity to the point that it goes crazy. This seems to be confirmed by Helminthic therapy, where you purposely infect yourself with parasites (of a specific species with low risk) and these buggers help manage your immune response. But this helminthic therapy advocates say it treats "diseases of civilization" like asthma, which is never found in the undeveloped world.
So spending time outdoors seems to be a help to reconsult the environment that the body functions best in.
So can the two character classes are boring lab assistant or a whaler?
Actually, you use of the words "deny", "denier", "denialists" shows your own bias of the issue. You are attempting to cast these people as people who refuse to see the truth in the face of scientific certainty. I am sure there are some, but the vast majority of people are skeptics, not denialists.
The skeptics reasoning is thus:
CO2 has been higher
Temperature has been higher
Proxy data (Tree rings, in Mann's case) is not direct evidence
Natural variability.
Predictions are based on models, under ideal conditions.
Then there is the whole anthropogenic debate, of "Ok, so we have recent warming. Can you say it is us and not natural variability?" The response to this is usually "ice caps are melting, glaciers are melting, satellites say we're warmer", etc, however all that is true even if it is natural.
Al Gore did a fantastic slight of hand in his movie. He said "the relationship is complicated" (between CO2 and temperature) however there is plenty of data to suggest that CO2 rises in response to temperature, and it is very easy to nudge the lines forward or back a a year to make it look like CO2 leads. Consider for a moment the opposite: Earth warms, then peat bogs release more CO2. This would happen very quickly in geologic time, as to be indistinguishable.
I personally found it very interesting that this week two separate reports came to separate conclusions on global warming in relation to mega fauna.
The first said killing off of mammoths caused global cooling.
The other one said killing of mammoths caused global warming.
Which is it? This kind of conflicting findings means that researchers don't understand the mechanisms of temperature variations.
What has also recently been discovered is that urban population growth can be reliably estimated by the Urban Heat Island effect, using only temperature logs of stations in and around the city.
Really, the biggest predictor of temperature it seems is the ocean surface temperatures, since water is a huge sink, and covers 75% of the surface. This would seem to dominate weather, as opposed to a trace gas - 0.036% - of the total atmosphere. The question then becomes what governs sea surface temps? - The sun, circulation and clouds.
I'm going to ignore the whole 16th amendment argument and go with the pragmatic approach of "we pay today".
It is because the thresholds were never changed yet inflation continued. So as time crept a long, the dollar fell, more and more people came above the threshold. Meanwhile the effetive tax rates increased. Even though the /rates/ during and immediately after the war were close to today, fewer people made money that was reported.
The in the 70s, the IRS required SSNs for dependent deductions. That brought the generation Xrs into the system from birth because their parents needed SSNs to get the deduction. So even more people got pulled in who would otherwise be outside the system.
When the income tax started in 1913 it was 1% over $250,000 (in today's dollars) now you can't make more than $600 without paying 15%.
I advise you to read:
Donald Duck
According to tax historian John Witte, "In 1939 about 15% of the people paid income tax. That's all, period. At the end of the war, we had 80% of our families paying income tax." Along with Der Fuehrer's Face, another Donald Duck propaganda film The New Spirit was even nominated for an Academy Award in documentary short subjects in 1943!
So from 15% to 99% today. Also see the tax table on the page.
You forget ho tax deductions work. Out of that 15k, you only see about $5k to spend, assuming an effective tax rate of 33%
That $5k would go far in terms of affording vehicles, houses and homes. Regardless of what it is spent on, it raises the standard of living.
As tax collections since WWII have skyrocketed, our standard of living has plummeted. Less and less married couples are buying houses... and it is acceptable to be 25 and still living with their parents. And in 2010, more and more people in their 30s are living with mom & dad. mean while moms got part-time jobs, and now even more have full-time work, just to make the bills. The idea of the nuclear family - one bread winner, one home maker and kids is completely shattered. There is no way to afford it on the average $62,000 income per family. That income per family is both parents working, and any reported income from the kids.
On the surface, your assertion makes sense, but again, you miss the reality of the situation.
I bought my house in 2001. There were no government programs used or even offered to purchase it. It is a modest house by today's standards: 50 years old, no dishwasher, less than 1200sq ft. I had come from renting a small apartment (over 1200 sq ft, dishwasher). It was a about equal, but definitely a step down in lifestyle, but a step up in payments. The tax breaks I get - the mortgage interest deduction - gets soaked up by property taxes and insurance, and the fact that I am on the hook for all maintenance costs.
Contrast that to my former apartment complex, where I still payed property taxes and interest, yet they were socialized through the building management. Having high-density living makes the costs more affordable. If we followed your advice, everyone would just be renters, and only a few would own property. There would be no way to keep the rent hikes in check. You need home owners to keep the market balanced. And during the boom, thanks to cheap money, that's what we got. Cheap mortgages kept rent down.
"Buying more house than you can afford" did get us here, but the tax incentives don't matter to people who buy more house than they can afford anyway. A payment just isn't P&I, it is Principal&Interest&PMI*PropertyTaxes&Insurance, which adds $100s on top of the P&I. But everything other than P&I is variable, and invariably goes up.
If you want true liberty, you would follow the Buddhist teachings of detachment and owning nothing. But it is not a wise idea over the long run, particularly when you have a family.
Is to either cancel the instant action, or:
To give the same benefits to everyone, straight couples AND SINGLES. What I mean by this is to have the legal staff at Google prepare and file a trust and estate, and optional powers of attorney, etc.
These legal documents usually cost about $2-5k total, depending on how complex they are. Google should be doing the same for all their employees. It could be part of the employee packet you get when you start work there, with some additional obligation for the legal staff to offer classes and additional help.
These instruments can benefit straight couples and singles just as much as GLBs.
Largely you are right, but you have to see the bigger picture. We have those deductions so we can afford houses, which serves to lock us in place, o make us predictable and lazy, and easy to govern. But we also have those deductions because people (or only the rich) could afford a house otherwise. The real problem here is the income tax rate, and that we need it to be lessened overall. If you reduced everyone's tax rate so that on average, you essentially gave everyone a deduction (of about 15k a year) then you'd really be on to something far greater than just tax sense. We'd pay car loans off sooner, houses too. We'd really have a more prosperous society.
But don't kid yourself, that's not going to change anytime soon. We've still got people pushing the a public option and government run everything. Everyone wants a government job too, because of the great pension and benefits. We're f'd.
Jackass.
Knuth has downloaded and installed the latest Ubuntu and saw it was good.
The United States Constitution is the charter for the federal government. It creates an entity known as the "United States". In numerous statutes, the "United States" is confined to federal possessions: D.C. and its territories. There is also no such thing as federal "common law". The Constitution governs itself, interstate commerce (see "commerce clause") international trade, wars, etc, state's limitations. It does NOT create a parent government. It creates a government that only operates under certain conditions, namely interstate commerce (The FDA, FCC, FTC, SEC, etc, all are created under the commerce clause) Additionally and originally, the bill of rights was used to supply rights to citizens fo the federal government. But after the civil war, the 10th and 14th amendments brought everyone under the protection of the constitution. That was validated yesterday in the McDonald case...
Here, Detroit is saying that intrAstate commerce (the state franchise is illegal) because of federal law. That is preposterous, The federal government does not have jurisdiction. If you claim it does, then that is an educated reading of Article IV Section 2.
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. "
What they fail to mention is the 10th Amendment. The Detroit interpretation is ignoring the fact that unless there is an enabling statute, the federal law is void. It would make the 10th amendment at odds with the article, and void both provisions. It would be impossible to reserve any power to the states if federal law trumps state law. We've avoided this so far by having the federal only govern international and interstate commerce.
95/98/ME are one.
2000/XP are another one
Vista/7 are another one.
Oh, and you forgot NT, which is the precursor to the win2000 line, but I'll put it in its own category, since it looked like Win3.1, but went on to be the win2000 kernel.
The software center in the latest Ubuntu is a joy to use. If I only marked certain apps as "best of breed", it would be perfect. And the price on all those apps, $0. Seriously. If my mic volume worked, I'd never boot windows again. (My Mic works, but it is too low, even when cranked to 100%.)
I never understood this either, until I fell in love with XPath.
It seems there are 2 types of developers.
1. Developers who want to hand code wedb content and just hope it looks ok
2. Developers who want to have software generate code, that can be queried, transformed and made usable by something other than eyeballs.
Before I became the latter, I never cared. Now that I make the occasional "screen scraper" I see the complete value in having a structured document that will validate. We need XHTML to be the standard because it allows us to interconnect sites and data without requiring the data provider to provide and maintain API. With X[*]ML the XPath/XQuery/XSLT and http are the API.
That's splitting hairs. Without revealing plot spoilers, the differences between the two are minuscule Once the big revelation is made... what is left? Does it matter if you go in direction A or B?
I think people who saw Clonus thought it was a lovely adaptation of LR.