I don't think Romney would have worried too much about his promises. His personality strikes me as very much like Clinton. Then again, Romney gave away 30% of his income, which is very UNLIKE Clinton and suggests he may be a man of character.
Bush II said what he meant even when it was stupid, though. I don't remember his campaign promises well enough to say whether he stood by them. Bush I was boring enough that I don't remember much of him.
In 232 years, the US racked up $10 trillion in debt. (balance as of September 2008).
In his first four years, Obama put us another $6 trillion in the hole. By the time he leaves office, his debt is expected to be $9T-$10T, roughly equal to ALL other presidents COMBINED. That's not okay. It wasn't okay when Bush overspent by $xxx billion, and it's damn sure not okay for Obama to bury us by trillions.
It is impossible to separate completely. One thing is clear though. To "blame it all on Bush", you have to claim that so many mistakes were made in Bush's final six months that Obama, in five years, can't improve anything. They then have to explain how those policies could be THAT bad when they worked fine for seven years.
The numbers were okay (not awesome) for 80% of Bush's presidency and started to fall in his final year. Therefore his policies clearly weren't that bad, not in the measurable ways at least. Obama said that if things weren't a lot better by the end of 2010, American's should think twice about re-electing him. He was right.
You are mistaken. For example, I very publicly called out my Congressman for failing to support the amendment to end this shit. That's a Republican congressman whom I voted for. Then, I made sure that for two weeks his Facebook page featured me blasting his excuses for not doing something about this.
On this very page, I've called Bush, who I voted for based on his success as governor, "one of the worst presidents in history".
There are two ways you can support your "team". You can either support them in becoming the best, doing the best, or you can mindlessly pretend whatever they do is best. If my football team has a crappy quarterback, I say it. I say "let's figure out what we need in a replacement QB". Pretending that your QB is awesome as he fumbles every snap doesn't get you anywhere. All it does is make youlook stupid and your team continue to lose. The Democrats made a bad draft pick. The sooner they admit that the sooner they can improve.
You're point is that Obama isn't the only one on the list of "five worst presidents in US history"?
Bush sucked in his second term. For example, he ran a huge budget deficit, over-spending by billions. Obama then over-spent by trillions. That makes Obama somehow okay, because he only sucks twice as bad as some other guy? (By most objective measures, Bush is in the worst 25%, his second term is in the worst 15%, and Obama's "bad" numbers are double Bush's. Obama's debt is roughly equal to ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED.
So yeah, politicians suck. By the numbers, the current president does as much suckage as the sum total of every other president's suckage combined.
United States MINIMUM wage, what high school students earn, is far higher than average adult income in the rest of the world.
If you make $200 per week , you are richer than 86% of people. So yes, given that US welfare recipents have more than most workers, Americans are rich -virtually all of us. Not as rich as we were in the 80s and early 90s, but much better off than most.
If you're a nerd on Slashdot, your total gross income including benefits is probably over $31K. Is so, congratulations - you're a 1%er.
Far, huh? What's the distance, as in what exists between bankrupt (Kodak) and dead? Their income is down 70% over the last five years. Sure, the last five years have sucked for everyone, but a 70% drop is perilously close to 100%.
That said, it WAS a huge company 20 years ago, so even after shutting down most of the company they still had half a billion in revenue for 2012.
For rich people, such as 90% of Americans, it costs a few thousand per year. For the uber-rich, it doesn't matter much - they just need to invest in fake solar companies rather than energy companies. It's the very poor who are deeply, even fatally affected
Take ethanol fuel, for example, which has tripled the cost of corn. Before, $10 could buy corn for three people. Now that same $10 can only feed one person. That's a big deal if you're poor, or if you're average income by global standards.
It ripples through food prices generally, of course. Most processed food that used to have corn starch is now made with wheat flour, increasing the cost of wheat. An extra $500 / year on food isn't a big deal if you're rich, making $40,000. It's a very big deal if you make $2,000 / year.
It's the same with any non-optimal production. When stuff is more costly to make, less is made, and people have less. Hardest hit are those who can't get by with any less. Any food you burn in your gas tank is food that could have fed a starving person, so in the end the cost is in lives.
Obviously that doesn't mean you shouldn't think about environmental costs. It does mean you better carefully balance them against other costs. You dont want to engage in policies which have as their primary benefit making you feel good because you're "green", at the cost of having people starve to death. Irresponsible use of CFLs are a good example of this. A CFL is great in the bathroom. For the attic or hall closet, it makes far more sense to use a 50 cent non-toxic standard bulb and give the $10 you save to United Way. You'll keep mercury and other toxins out of the environment and help someone who needs the help.
Yes, this scenario is criminal trespass in all states.
Some states define criminal trespass as entering after having received due notice that you are not welcome. They acknowledge they were so notified. Other states define criminal trespass as entering with the intent to perform an unlawful act. Again, they entered the system with the intent to commit an unlawful act, to wit copyright infringement, unfair competition, etc.
So yeah, it's a plain and ordinary case of criminal trespass. The only thing slightly interesting is that they had been notified they were not welcome to enter a web property as opposed to a brick and mortar store or other place.
I agree with your post. This case is plain old criminal trespass.
I have to comment on your subject line. Some slopes are known to be slippery, so it's valid to be concerned that "if you authorize the NSA to do X, they may well stretch the limits to Y".
> that one might follow a link to material on a website without being aware of its being on that website, and then be held accountable for
You think they weren't aware that their business model was scraping craigslist? They were most certainly aware of which site they were scraping. When they signed for the certified C&D letter, they were well aware that they were doing so over the objections of the owner.
To me, this is exactly like criminal trespass. The fact that they set up proxies in attempt to hide their actions is further evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong.
You're right. MS decided to put a phone UI on their desktop, a desktop UI on their tablet, and and offered/. $35,000 per article about Surface. It seems they didn't quite think things through for any of those decisions.
Indeed. I work closely with Open University as we extend the software they use (Moodle) to work for our students at the Texas A&M System. Until this year, people would travel from all over the world to attend our firefighter school for twelve weeks. Now, all of the classroom part is online, so they can either come to Texas for just six weeks, or they can do our online classroom and then do field exercises in their home area.
We're rapidly expanding the capabilities of the software system it all runs on and trying to change the mindset from "correspondence" or "online book" to instead be a rich interactive experience. The students interact with the course content, with each other, and with an active instructor.
I've been there and done that. The start-up almost surely won't last forever. Even if it does, you won't want to work 55 hours a week while your baby is waking you up at 3AM. At some point, you'll probably want a nice 8-5 with good insurance and time off. When that time comes, you need letters behind your name.
I had all of the other credentials. I have seventeen years of full professional experience. I'm an Apache contributor. At one interview, the interviewer asked me if I had experience with Debian, as that was their preferred distro. I asked if he'd seen that morning's Debian security update. He seen it and applied the update. My name was on that Debian alert, I discovered the security issue all Debian users were alerted to that morning. I didn't get the job. Put letters at the end of your name while you can.
Yes, you can still turn a profit if you're using the appropriate technology and managing power cost. No, it's not a profit if the revenue is less than expenses.
However, there are other ways to make a profit that are sustainable, useful, and fulfilling. With bitcoin, you need to buy new equipment every year or so. With carpentry, for example, your equipment lasts a decade or more. With carpentry, programming or most any other business activity, you end up producing something that's actually useful and often beautiful. With bitcoin, you end up producing a number, nothing useful and certainly nothing expressive.
While many people with different beliefs may take any label, the atheists I've spoken to are more like "people who religiously deny the possibility that anything like a postal service could exist.". I think the term "agnostic" better describes those who simply aren't interested in the topic, as well as those who are open-minded about it.
Do you have a reference for what you said about deists? My understanding is that deism says two things. First, whatever higher power there may be ought to be studied using logic and reason based on direct existence, not faith in old teachings. In this regard, they talk a lot about using your brain. Second, that "God" designed the HUMAN MIND to be able to reason and made other design decisions, then He/it pretty much leaves us alone, to live within the designed framework.
I haven't seen anything where deists suggested that reasoning is not a function of the brain. Do you happen to have relevant reference handy?
> The most common format, the HID Wigand standard cards, use a 125 kHz RF field to power the card, which may function from as much as five meters away.
Pulling out our handy calculator, we find that the wavelength way down there at 125 Khz is 2400 meters. That means the near field at such a low frequency is dominant to about 2400 meters away. It means a quarter wave radio antenna would be 600 meters long. Do you think you have a 60 meter antenna in that PROXIMITY card, to pick up RADIATED signals, or o you think it's called a PROXIMITY card because it uses PROXIMITY effects.
The near field is divided into two parts itself. The reactive (purely inductive, magnetic) near field and the radiative near field (radiated, non-wave DC magnetism). The purely inductive portion is within wavelength / 2pi, or 0.159 * wavelength. At broadcast FM frequencies, that purely inductive portion is millimeters. At 125 Khz, it's 0.159 * 2400 = 381.6 meters.
Sorry, at such a low frequency you're not picking up any radio waves at five meters. At 381 meters, you'd start to see a mix of an odd combination of radiated non-wave magnetism along with the familiar inductive, magnetic effect.
At about 2400 meters the true radio part starts, the far field. That's radio wave part, wth the wave being produced by the alternating voltage applied to the antenna. At smaller distances, less than one wavelength, the magnetism is based the DC current, it functions as an electromagnet, so there's no wave.
> Are you trying to suggest that every ships parts were purchased with investor money?
Ship's parts? Are you playing dumb, or are you not playing? I'm suggesting that most ships are purchased with investor money. If a company isn't one of the ~ 10 largest in the world, they don't buy a $700 million ship, factory, or national fiber network from revenue. They get investors to invest money which is used for capital purchases. Sometimes they sell bonds, such as you see used daily for toll road construction, sometimes it's an IPO, and sometimes they use an intermediary bank to borrow investor money. In all of those cases, they are using investor money to buy that $700 million ship.
> Didn't I say "The ship making company is able to make more ships buy selling them for a profit."?
Only if someone(s) has $700 million they aren't using at the moment. Now who has $700 million that they won't need for 20-50 years? Hint - the initials are TRS.
They compared people taking notes (with a pencil) to people taking notes WHILE surfing the web, as instructed.
To see how taking notes on a laptop compares to taking notes with a pencil as per TFS, they should have compared either:
only taking notes (with a pencil) vs. only taking notes (with a laptop) and / or taking notes (with a pencil) while surfing the web vs. taking notes (with a laptop) while surfing the web
What they actually compared was "taking notes" vs. "surfing the web and taking notes". They just assumed that anyone with a laptop has to surf the web in class, thereby learning something amazing - multitasking reduces performance. That's an amazing new discovery!
> If you buy a share of ship making company X from me at an exchange, how do you think that money benefits company X?
You ignored the question - all three actually. How do you think that ship is paid for? Hint - the money comes from investors. Another hint - the shipped is owned by the group stockholders known Ship Buyer Inc.
> Even your bond idea was wrong - you can trade bonds with third parties too.
Too, as in first an investor must buy them from the company, directly handling cash to the company? The fact that you can sell a bond to a third party is a primary reason people buy bonds from the company in the first place. If you couldn't sell them, people wouldn't nearly as many. So when you buy from a third party, you are motivating that third party to use your cash to go buy more bonds directly from companies, in order to later sell them and repeat the process.
As I mentioned, near field predominates up to about one wavelength, and basically goes away at around four X wavelength. For reference, commercial AM radio in the US is about 1/2 meter wave, commercial FM is about 1/2 centimeter.
So if your key used a wavelength similar to AM radio, the near field would be detectable up to about two meters. In your experiment , you found that it's detectable up to about that distance. It may use a frequency slightly lower than AM radio, meaning a slightly longer wavelength.
You mentioned your key card works to a couple of inches -precisely the limit we'd expect around FM radio frequencies.
"Literally a coil of wire wrapped around the key". There's a name for a coil of wire. A coil of wire is commonly called an "inductor". They are often used for power, and to filter OUT radio interference. You may have noticed radio antennas are normally straight, even when that's inconvenient such ad on a walkie-talkie.
"It's most definitely RF". (Radio Frequency). Yes, as are IDE cables and cable TV. Neither of which use radio waves.
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GP here. Yeah I guess you didn't see my reply. The first little bit of my post doesn't belong in this sub-thread.
What he said is NOT factually incorrect. It's true, people pretend their guy can do no wrong.
I don't think Romney would have worried too much about his promises. His personality strikes me as very much like Clinton. Then again, Romney gave away 30% of his income, which is very UNLIKE Clinton and suggests he may be a man of character.
Bush II said what he meant even when it was stupid, though. I don't remember his campaign promises well enough to say whether he stood by them. Bush I was boring enough that I don't remember much of him.
In 232 years, the US racked up $10 trillion in debt. (balance as of September 2008).
In his first four years, Obama put us another $6 trillion in the hole. By the time he leaves office, his debt is expected to be $9T-$10T, roughly equal to ALL other presidents COMBINED. That's not okay. It wasn't okay when Bush overspent by $xxx billion, and it's damn sure not okay for Obama to bury us by trillions.
It is impossible to separate completely. One thing is clear though. To "blame it all on Bush", you have to claim that so many mistakes were made in Bush's final six months that Obama, in five years, can't improve anything. They then have to explain how those policies could be THAT bad when they worked fine for seven years.
The numbers were okay (not awesome) for 80% of Bush's presidency and started to fall in his final year. Therefore his policies clearly weren't that bad, not in the measurable ways at least. Obama said that if things weren't a lot better by the end of 2010, American's should think twice about re-electing him. He was right.
Of course that's true. My post (GP) didn't come out right.
You are mistaken. For example, I very publicly called out my Congressman for failing to support the amendment to end this shit. That's a Republican congressman whom I voted for. Then, I made sure that for two weeks his Facebook page featured me blasting his excuses for not doing something about this.
On this very page, I've called Bush, who I voted for based on his success as governor, "one of the worst presidents in history".
There are two ways you can support your "team". You can either support them in becoming the best, doing the best, or you can mindlessly pretend whatever they do is best. If my football team has a crappy quarterback, I say it. I say "let's figure out what we need in a replacement QB". Pretending that your QB is awesome as he fumbles every snap doesn't get you anywhere. All it does is make youlook stupid and your team continue to lose. The Democrats made a bad draft pick. The sooner they admit that the sooner they can improve.
You're point is that Obama isn't the only one on the list of "five worst presidents in US history"?
Bush sucked in his second term. For example, he ran a huge budget deficit, over-spending by billions. Obama then over-spent by trillions. That makes Obama somehow okay, because he only sucks twice as bad as some other guy? (By most objective measures, Bush is in the worst 25%, his second term is in the worst 15%, and Obama's "bad" numbers are double Bush's. Obama's debt is roughly equal to ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED.
So yeah, politicians suck. By the numbers, the current president does as much suckage as the sum total of every other president's suckage combined.
United States MINIMUM wage, what high school students earn, is far higher than average adult income in the rest of the world.
If you make $200 per week , you are richer than 86% of people. So yes, given that US welfare recipents have more than most workers, Americans are rich -virtually all of us. Not as rich as we were in the 80s and early 90s, but much better off than most.
If you're a nerd on Slashdot, your total gross income including benefits is probably over $31K. Is so, congratulations - you're a 1%er.
"Chapter 11 is far from dead. "
Far, huh? What's the distance, as in what exists between bankrupt (Kodak) and dead?
Their income is down 70% over the last five years. Sure, the last five years have sucked for everyone, but a 70% drop is perilously close to 100%.
That said, it WAS a huge company 20 years ago, so even after shutting down most of the company they still had half a billion in revenue for 2012.
For rich people, such as 90% of Americans, it costs a few thousand per year. For the uber-rich, it doesn't matter much - they just need to invest in fake solar companies rather than energy companies. It's the very poor who are deeply, even fatally affected
Take ethanol fuel, for example, which has tripled the cost of corn. Before, $10 could buy corn for three people. Now that same $10 can only feed one person. That's a big deal if you're poor, or if you're average income by global standards.
It ripples through food prices generally, of course. Most processed food that used to have corn starch is now made with wheat flour, increasing the cost of wheat. An extra $500 / year on food isn't a big deal if you're rich, making $40,000. It's a very big deal if you make $2,000 / year.
It's the same with any non-optimal production. When stuff is more costly to make, less is made, and people have less. Hardest hit are those who can't get by with any less. Any food you burn in your gas tank is food that could have fed a starving person, so in the end the cost is in lives.
Obviously that doesn't mean you shouldn't think about environmental costs. It does mean you better carefully balance them against other costs. You dont want to engage in policies which have as their primary benefit making you feel good because you're "green", at the cost of having people starve to death. Irresponsible use of CFLs are a good example of this. A CFL is great in the bathroom. For the attic or hall closet, it makes far more sense to use a 50 cent non-toxic standard bulb and give the $10 you save to United Way. You'll keep mercury and other toxins out of the environment and help someone who needs the help.
Yes, this scenario is criminal trespass in all states.
Some states define criminal trespass as entering after having received due notice that you are not welcome. They acknowledge they were so notified.
Other states define criminal trespass as entering with the intent to perform an unlawful act. Again, they entered the system with the intent to commit an unlawful act, to wit copyright infringement, unfair competition, etc.
So yeah, it's a plain and ordinary case of criminal trespass. The only thing slightly interesting is that they had been notified they were not welcome to enter a web property as opposed to a brick and mortar store or other place.
I agree with your post. This case is plain old criminal trespass.
I have to comment on your subject line. Some slopes are known to be slippery, so it's valid to be concerned that "if you authorize the NSA to do X, they may well stretch the limits to Y".
Fyi, the phrase is "over zealous". Carry on.
> that one might follow a link to material on a website without being aware of its being on that website, and then be held accountable for
You think they weren't aware that their business model was scraping craigslist? They were most certainly aware of which site they were scraping. When they signed for the certified C&D letter, they were well aware that they were doing so over the objections of the owner.
To me, this is exactly like criminal trespass. The fact that they set up proxies in attempt to hide their actions is further evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong.
You're right. MS decided to put a phone UI on their desktop, a desktop UI on their tablet, and and offered /. $35,000 per article about Surface. It seems they didn't quite think things through for any of those decisions.
Indeed. I work closely with Open University as we extend the software they use (Moodle) to work for our students at the Texas A&M System. Until this year, people would travel from all over the world to attend our firefighter school for twelve weeks. Now, all of the classroom part is online, so they can either come to Texas for just six weeks, or they can do our online classroom and then do field exercises in their home area.
We're rapidly expanding the capabilities of the software system it all runs on and trying to change the mindset from "correspondence" or "online book" to instead be a rich interactive experience. The students interact with the course content, with each other, and with an active instructor.
I've been there and done that. The start-up almost surely won't last forever. Even if it does, you won't want to work 55 hours a week while your baby is waking you up at 3AM. At some point, you'll probably want a nice 8-5 with good insurance and time off. When that time comes, you need letters behind your name.
I had all of the other credentials. I have seventeen years of full professional experience. I'm an Apache contributor. At one interview, the interviewer asked me if I had experience with Debian, as that was their preferred distro. I asked if he'd seen that morning's Debian security update. He seen it and applied the update. My name was on that Debian alert, I discovered the security issue all Debian users were alerted to that morning. I didn't get the job. Put letters at the end of your name while you can.
Yes, you can still turn a profit if you're using the appropriate technology and managing power cost. No, it's not a profit if the revenue is less than expenses.
However, there are other ways to make a profit that are sustainable, useful, and fulfilling. With bitcoin, you need to buy new equipment every year or so. With carpentry, for example, your equipment lasts a decade or more. With carpentry, programming or most any other business activity, you end up producing something that's actually useful and often beautiful. With bitcoin, you end up producing a number, nothing useful and certainly nothing expressive.
While many people with different beliefs may take any label, the atheists I've spoken to are more like "people who religiously deny the possibility that anything like a postal service could exist.". I think the term "agnostic" better describes those who simply aren't interested in the topic, as well as those who are open-minded about it.
Do you have a reference for what you said about deists? My understanding is that deism says two things. First, whatever higher power there may be ought to be studied using logic and reason based on direct existence, not faith in old teachings. In this regard, they talk a lot about using your brain. Second, that "God" designed the HUMAN MIND to be able to reason and made other design decisions, then He/it pretty much leaves us alone, to live within the designed framework.
I haven't seen anything where deists suggested that reasoning is not a function of the brain. Do you happen to have relevant reference handy?
> The most common format, the HID Wigand standard cards, use a 125 kHz RF field to power the card, which may function from as much as five meters away.
Pulling out our handy calculator, we find that the wavelength way down there at 125 Khz is 2400 meters.
That means the near field at such a low frequency is dominant to about 2400 meters away. It means a quarter wave radio antenna would be 600 meters long.
Do you think you have a 60 meter antenna in that PROXIMITY card, to pick up RADIATED signals, or o you think it's called a PROXIMITY card
because it uses PROXIMITY effects.
The near field is divided into two parts itself. The reactive (purely inductive, magnetic) near field and the radiative near field (radiated, non-wave DC magnetism).
The purely inductive portion is within wavelength / 2pi, or 0.159 * wavelength. At broadcast FM frequencies, that purely inductive portion is millimeters.
At 125 Khz, it's 0.159 * 2400 = 381.6 meters.
Sorry, at such a low frequency you're not picking up any radio waves at five meters. At 381 meters, you'd start to see a mix of an odd combination
of radiated non-wave magnetism along with the familiar inductive, magnetic effect.
At about 2400 meters the true radio part starts, the far field. That's radio wave part, wth the wave being produced by the alternating voltage applied to the antenna.
At smaller distances, less than one wavelength, the magnetism is based the DC current, it functions as an electromagnet, so there's no wave.
> Are you trying to suggest that every ships parts were purchased with investor money?
Ship's parts? Are you playing dumb, or are you not playing? I'm suggesting that most ships are purchased with investor money.
If a company isn't one of the ~ 10 largest in the world, they don't buy a $700 million ship, factory, or national fiber network from revenue.
They get investors to invest money which is used for capital purchases. Sometimes they sell bonds, such as you see used daily
for toll road construction, sometimes it's an IPO, and sometimes they use an intermediary bank to borrow investor money.
In all of those cases, they are using investor money to buy that $700 million ship.
> Didn't I say "The ship making company is able to make more ships buy selling them for a profit."?
Only if someone(s) has $700 million they aren't using at the moment. Now who has $700 million that they won't need for 20-50 years?
Hint - the initials are TRS.
They compared people taking notes (with a pencil) to people taking notes WHILE surfing the web, as instructed.
To see how taking notes on a laptop compares to taking notes with a pencil as per TFS, they should have compared either:
only taking notes (with a pencil) vs. only taking notes (with a laptop)
and / or
taking notes (with a pencil) while surfing the web vs. taking notes (with a laptop) while surfing the web
What they actually compared was "taking notes" vs. "surfing the web and taking notes".
They just assumed that anyone with a laptop has to surf the web in class, thereby learning something amazing - multitasking reduces performance.
That's an amazing new discovery!
> If you buy a share of ship making company X from me at an exchange, how do you think that money benefits company X?
You ignored the question - all three actually. How do you think that ship is paid for? Hint - the money comes from investors.
Another hint - the shipped is owned by the group stockholders known Ship Buyer Inc.
> Even your bond idea was wrong - you can trade bonds with third parties too.
Too, as in first an investor must buy them from the company, directly handling cash to the company?
The fact that you can sell a bond to a third party is a primary reason people buy bonds from the company in the first place.
If you couldn't sell them, people wouldn't nearly as many. So when you buy from a third party, you are motivating that
third party to use your cash to go buy more bonds directly from companies, in order to later sell them and repeat the process.
As I mentioned, near field predominates up to about one wavelength, and basically goes away at around four X wavelength. For reference, commercial AM radio in the US is about 1/2 meter wave, commercial FM is about 1/2 centimeter.
So if your key used a wavelength similar to AM radio, the near field would be detectable up to about two meters. In your experiment , you found that it's detectable up to about that distance. It may use a frequency slightly lower than AM radio, meaning a slightly longer wavelength.
You mentioned your key card works to a couple of inches -precisely the limit we'd expect around FM radio frequencies.
"Literally a coil of wire wrapped around the key". There's a name for a coil of wire. A coil of wire is commonly called an "inductor". They are often used for power, and to filter OUT radio interference. You may have noticed radio antennas are normally straight, even when that's inconvenient such ad on a walkie-talkie.
"It's most definitely RF". (Radio Frequency). Yes, as are IDE cables and cable TV. Neither of which use radio waves.