I wish I were smart enough to claim this for my own, but...
I am a theoretical physicist. I am educated in Supersymmetry, Riemannian geometry, and the original Kaluza-Klein theory. I am educated in field theory in curved space time, but not Supergravity, nor do I care to be.
I have only one thing to say about all of this. Everytime I sit in a talk on strings or branes all I can think is one thing.
Extra dimensions are the epicycles of Modern Physics
That's all I have to say. If you understand this, it is profound.
And his point is the house isn't a tangible asset for you the mortgage holder until you have enough equity to ride out potential dips in the market. For the bank, yes, but not for you.
I'd normally fall back on to the liberal arts idea of developing a human mind with a broad variety of ideas and methods, and the idea of an undergraduate education not being simply a checklist of requirements to meet, but with a guy like this you just have to stand back and let him run. I'd be very sad to hear that at some point he'd burnt himself out and decided to retreat to a Hemp Farm/Spiritual Awakening retreat in Eugene. Fast burners like him just need to be managed as little as possible.
Maybe someday he'll decide to write a UNIX/MINIX clone...
Wall Street demands that corporations achieve obscene profits at all costs, over all other objectives. This is simply wrong.
It's not really so wrong imho as amoral. The real trouble is in seeking to minimize costs, real costs (say environmental damage) is pushed out away from the books as much as possible. When we can account for the real cost of some of the consequences of industry, then we can take an objective look at the real profitability of these industries and attempt to find the best solutions.
he knock on a lot of sports is that "they're more fun to play than they are to watch" (*cough* baseball *cough* *cough*)
Baseball is the same way. If you're involved in actively watching the sport, and you have an appreciation for the strategy involved, baseball's a great sport to watch. Hell it's even a great sport to listen to on the radio.
My suggestion to appeal to geek in us - Try keeping score It's a lot of fun and keeps you in the game. Give it a shot.
No. Japan bombed Pearl Harbour because US interference was causing serious problems for them (oil supply ones mainly, IIRC), and they wanted to weaken the US enough that it'd leave them alone to conqueor the area they were really interested in.
More specifically, Yamamoto subscribed to Mahan's (an American) naval philosophy that called for a decisive engagement of large fleets. American strategy called for the garrison in the Philipines to hold for six months until it could be relieved by sea. Yamamoto assumed that by decisively destroying the American fleet in a single battle, the Americans would sue for a settled peace that would allow to operate its Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The two most significant significant events that killed the Japanese strategy were first the failure to destroy American carriers at Pearl Harbor, and the breaking of the Japanese naval cypher, which allowed for the American victory during the actual Mahanian decisive battle at Midway.
What about the President's authority is secret? Is there some part of the constitution that you have to be TS/SCI to read? If the law exists that allows the President such powers, then let's take a look at it.
Playing devil's advocate, it isn't the authority that is secret, it's the particular exercise. The administration's position is that to put a secret program up for judicial dissection would expose the secret bits to people who aren't supposed to know about it and thus render it useless. Or worse, get the people involved killed.
The government admitted to tapping all phone calls that had an end-point in any foreign country.
This is turd polishing.
See saying that one party is outside of the united states gets you looking at this as out there, when by definition, the other party must be in the united states and thus clearly covered by the "U.S. Person" qualification in the FISA.
The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.
--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
and my favorite
Clarity I think what you'll find, I think what you'll find is, Whatever it is we do substantively, There will be near-perfect clarity As to what it is.
And it will be known, And it will be known to the Congress, And it will be known to you, Probably before we decide it, But it will be known.
I wonder what this process would do to the thermodynamic equation for the entire lifecycle of nuclear energy. I am not teh Smrt, so bear with me
Nuclear energy is roughly as follows: Ore is mined -> ore is refined -> Energy is extracted from fuel -> Spent fuel is prepared and kept in a single degree kelvin fridge for several years. -> Safe spent fuel is disposed
How many Joules does it take to keep the spent fuel at that low temperature for so long as compared to the energy extracted? Is there an orders-of-magnitude difference?
Most dictators are bad because of the way in which they come to power---by forcing out the previous person.
I'll differ with you slightly. A dictator who gains power by a coup as in your example is keenly aware that he too is vulnerable to that same kind of coup.
This is why the peaceable transition of power is the greatest hallmark of a legitimate government, and why George Washington's release of power, military and then political, makes him the hero that we see him.
This is funny, but wouldn't it make for a great bit of civil disobedience to have linux bootable on a portable flash, take it into the voting booth, and get arrested with some political message left on the screen.
Times that by a few hundred volunteers willing to be arrested and I think the message would be stark and dramatic.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature
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And his point is the house isn't a tangible asset for you the mortgage holder until you have enough equity to ride out potential dips in the market. For the bank, yes, but not for you.
...and to think they laughed at my suggestion of putting a Microwave power plant next to Jerry Falwell's headquarters.
I'd normally fall back on to the liberal arts idea of developing a human mind with a broad variety of ideas and methods, and the idea of an undergraduate education not being simply a checklist of requirements to meet, but with a guy like this you just have to stand back and let him run. I'd be very sad to hear that at some point he'd burnt himself out and decided to retreat to a Hemp Farm/Spiritual Awakening retreat in Eugene. Fast burners like him just need to be managed as little as possible.
Maybe someday he'll decide to write a UNIX/MINIX clone...
The part that says, "Buffering..."
Unless you're rich AND and a felon, in which case you're a candidate.
My chip goes to 11.
It's not really so wrong imho as amoral. The real trouble is in seeking to minimize costs, real costs (say environmental damage) is pushed out away from the books as much as possible. When we can account for the real cost of some of the consequences of industry, then we can take an objective look at the real profitability of these industries and attempt to find the best solutions.
Baseball is the same way. If you're involved in actively watching the sport, and you have an appreciation for the strategy involved, baseball's a great sport to watch. Hell it's even a great sport to listen to on the radio.
My suggestion to appeal to geek in us - Try keeping score It's a lot of fun and keeps you in the game. Give it a shot.
It has only itself to blame really. If it had only listened to God in the first place it wouldn't have been swallowed whole by that other chip.
More specifically, Yamamoto subscribed to Mahan's (an American) naval philosophy that called for a decisive engagement of large fleets. American strategy called for the garrison in the Philipines to hold for six months until it could be relieved by sea. Yamamoto assumed that by decisively destroying the American fleet in a single battle, the Americans would sue for a settled peace that would allow to operate its Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The two most significant significant events that killed the Japanese strategy were first the failure to destroy American carriers at Pearl Harbor, and the breaking of the Japanese naval cypher, which allowed for the American victory during the actual Mahanian decisive battle at Midway.
They weren't so much "invited" as 9 fell riders were dispatched from Redmond crying "Mountain View..." and "Goodger..."
What about the President's authority is secret? Is there some part of the constitution that you have to be TS/SCI to read? If the law exists that allows the President such powers, then let's take a look at it.
Playing devil's advocate, it isn't the authority that is secret, it's the particular exercise. The administration's position is that to put a secret program up for judicial dissection would expose the secret bits to people who aren't supposed to know about it and thus render it useless. Or worse, get the people involved killed.
This is turd polishing.
See saying that one party is outside of the united states gets you looking at this as out there, when by definition, the other party must be in the united states and thus clearly covered by the "U.S. Person" qualification in the FISA.
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
and my favorite
Clarity
I think what you'll find,
I think what you'll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.
And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.
--Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
Sadly, the same is not true for other materials also required, like say tantalum.
I wonder what this process would do to the thermodynamic equation for the entire lifecycle of nuclear energy. I am not teh Smrt, so bear with me
Nuclear energy is roughly as follows: Ore is mined -> ore is refined -> Energy is extracted from fuel -> Spent fuel is prepared and kept in a single degree kelvin fridge for several years. -> Safe spent fuel is disposed
How many Joules does it take to keep the spent fuel at that low temperature for so long as compared to the energy extracted? Is there an orders-of-magnitude difference?
I'll differ with you slightly. A dictator who gains power by a coup as in your example is keenly aware that he too is vulnerable to that same kind of coup.
This is why the peaceable transition of power is the greatest hallmark of a legitimate government, and why George Washington's release of power, military and then political, makes him the hero that we see him.
This is funny, but wouldn't it make for a great bit of civil disobedience to have linux bootable on a portable flash, take it into the voting booth, and get arrested with some political message left on the screen.
Times that by a few hundred volunteers willing to be arrested and I think the message would be stark and dramatic.
It's a BS marketing term that dances around race.
also, FTFA
Quartile maybe?
Wow. Not only should this comment be moderated insightful, this is the most insightful comment I've read in 8? years of reading /.
Hand over your geek card imposter! Real geeks know it's
3.14159mpg = 1337 kpl
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature
25 hours? The record to 60 as best as I know is 6 days
Even the power leveling places will take 2wks or so 1-60.
It's not impossible. Just look at me!
I started out as a goatse.cx troll and now my kharma is excellent and I post at 2!