Excuse me? Can you support the fact that McCain supports torture with any facts?
What everyone seems to be referencing is his vote against the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill. Which McCain specifically explains his opposition in terms of two main facts. One: all agencies are already prohibited from engaging in "cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of any detainee held by any agency" ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/BABHVGO3L.DTL ) and two; requiring the CIA to follow the army's manual is a little silly (and counterproductive) considering the obvious differences between the two. He goes on to call for the administration to affirm what is already law and call torture(waterboarding) for what it is.
Would I be correct in understanding you to say that a vote against the aforementioned bill is a vote in support of terrorism?
Any thoughts on this statement by McCain in reasoning why he voted against applying an Army Manual to the CIA?
"It is unfortunate that the reluctance of officials to stand by this straightforward conclusion has produced in the Congress such frustration that we are today debating whether to apply a military field manual to non-military intelligence activities. It wold be far better, I believe, for the administration to state forthrightly what is clear in current law - that anyone who engages in waterboarding, on behalf of any U.S. government agency, puts himself at risk of criminal prosecution and civil liability." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/BABHVGO3L.DTL
Since I was interested I looked into this further: Here are some words from the candidates mouth
"This necessarily brings us to the question of waterboarding. Administration officials have stated in recent days that this technique is no longer in use, but they have declined to say that it is illegal under current law. I believe that it is clearly illegal and that we should publicly recognize this fact."
So he thinks waterboarding is illegal. (other good commentary in the article) So why did he vote against the bill. It looks like the bill was not simply "banning waterboarding" but rather limiting the military AND CIA to what is defined in the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. This was already the case from the army. McCain states in the sfgate article that he supports defining limits and guidelines for the CIA but that they should not arbitrarily apply a manual from a different branch of government.
Not stereolith. It uses a spool of plastic filament extruded through a smaller diameter nozzle.
Your manual bridgeport doesn't make all of its parts either, requiring a foundry, refined steel, and most importantly a skilled operator (with lots of time). Being argumentative you could say it only makes the easy parts also as refined steel is the hard part.
A reprap on the other hand does(will) require some off the shelf components. What it will save as it matures and refines itself is time, lots and lots of operator time.
What would take hours of careful work and measurement from a machinist will take hours of printing and computer time while said operator sleeps or works on something else. The brackets (or similar in function/accuracy Cartesian positioning systems) are non-trivial and very labor intensive to make as well as expensive. Commercial machines such as a stratesis have far higher cost ~20k afaik and a much higher material cost due to its proprietary nature.
Look at the potential rather than the limitations. It would be nice however as another poster suggested to have a percent attached to the "self replicating" qualifier.
Hm perhaps I should have looked around a bit first.
If you have nView (comes with some nvidia cards, mine is a quadro something) you can go to the nView desktop manager/user interface tab and enable gridlines. Holding down ALT while clicking a maximize button maximizes the selected window inside the current grid square. There are more options to play with as well. Now you can save all that time normally spend tiling your huge screen.
I wonder if there is a utility that allows virtual desktops (no not the normal kind) where two or more windows could be maximized in different areas of a single monitor. This would be great for those 30" displays.
"Dell has six factories around the world - in Limerick, Ireland; Xiamen, China; Eldorado do Sul, Brazil; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Texas; and Penang, Malaysia"
Interestingly enough there are actually 2 factories in the USA. The rest of the article has a very intersting look at what goes into a dell notebook.
The problem is when parents start looking at school as babysitting. Also when parents hold the teacher as the sole source of education in the childs life.
The teachers I know work hard and do their best. With larger class sizes they just do not have the time to be responsible for ensuring each and every child is challenged to their potential. Parents must be involved in the process by helping their children get the most out of homework, be motivated in their studies, and volunteer in class.
I think the grandparent post may have been on this track more than demeaning the work of teachers.
Article 1 of the Geneva Convention's Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons has laudable aims. It states, "It is prohibited to employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision."
But Article 3 opens the door to lasers that blind so long as that was not their aim. It states: "Blinding as an incidental or collateral effect of the legitimate military employment of laser systems, including laser systems used against optical equipment, is not covered by the prohibition of this Protocol".
Oh the joys of selected reading. Here is a better href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.bal lots/stories/main.html">link that actually seems to describe the study from a non-biased point of view. (link courtesy of another post in this article).
Summary.
Scenarios described: 1. SCOTUS does not intervene. Hand recount of all votes. 2. Hand recount in Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Volusia counties. Described as Al Gore's original request. 3. Palm Beach standard used for all counties. 4. Overvotes included. Marked a candidate but also wrote in the name. 5. Confusing ballot design (butterfly ballots,etc) where 2 candidates were voted for.
Scenarios 1 and 2 showed a slightly bigger Bush win and a slightly smaller Bush win respectively.
Scenario 3 showed Gore winning by 42 votes.
Scenario 4 showed Gore winning by 200 votes.
Scenario 5 is the most interesting as the the votes are described as invalid by any interpretation of the law but that Gore potentially lost thousands of votes in this manner.
The truely sad thing is failure of the 2004 election to put the election results and vote counting procedure beyond reproach.
We should thank these people that are willing to pay for the bleeding edge graphics performance. They enable us to pay bottom dollar for yesterdays technology that performs 90% as well.
You do not have to understand a performance enthusiast to benefit from their pocketbook.
One day a year, one freaking day a year, people not only get a chance to but are expected to leave seriousness behind and have a little fun.
Slashdot is being slashdot and reporting on funny April 1st news for nerds from all the usual suspects (Gentoo, Gaming, Geek toys, Google, etc).
Now Colonel Stickinthemud go tie someones shoelaces together, tell your boss your project is done on time and within budget, and maybe even have a little fun.
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Excuse me? Can you support the fact that McCain supports torture with any facts?
What everyone seems to be referencing is his vote against the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill. Which McCain specifically explains his opposition in terms of two main facts. One: all agencies are already prohibited from engaging in "cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of any detainee held by any agency" ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/BABHVGO3L.DTL ) and two; requiring the CIA to follow the army's manual is a little silly (and counterproductive) considering the obvious differences between the two. He goes on to call for the administration to affirm what is already law and call torture(waterboarding) for what it is.
Would I be correct in understanding you to say that a vote against the aforementioned bill is a vote in support of terrorism?
Any thoughts on this statement by McCain in reasoning why he voted against applying an Army Manual to the CIA?
"It is unfortunate that the reluctance of officials to stand by this straightforward conclusion has produced in the Congress such frustration that we are today debating whether to apply a military field manual to non-military intelligence activities. It wold be far better, I believe, for the administration to state forthrightly what is clear in current law - that anyone who engages in waterboarding, on behalf of any U.S. government agency, puts himself at risk of criminal prosecution and civil liability."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/BABHVGO3L.DTL
Since I was interested I looked into this further:
Here are some words from the candidates mouth
"This necessarily brings us to the question of waterboarding. Administration officials have stated in recent days that this technique is no longer in use, but they have declined to say that it is illegal under current law. I believe that it is clearly illegal and that we should publicly recognize this fact."
So he thinks waterboarding is illegal. (other good commentary in the article) So why did he vote against the bill. It looks like the bill was not simply "banning waterboarding" but rather limiting the military AND CIA to what is defined in the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. This was already the case from the army. McCain states in the sfgate article that he supports defining limits and guidelines for the CIA but that they should not arbitrarily apply a manual from a different branch of government.
Thoughts?
Not stereolith. It uses a spool of plastic filament extruded through a smaller diameter nozzle.
Your manual bridgeport doesn't make all of its parts either, requiring a foundry, refined steel, and most importantly a skilled operator (with lots of time). Being argumentative you could say it only makes the easy parts also as refined steel is the hard part.
A reprap on the other hand does(will) require some off the shelf components. What it will save as it matures and refines itself is time, lots and lots of operator time.
What would take hours of careful work and measurement from a machinist will take hours of printing and computer time while said operator sleeps or works on something else. The brackets (or similar in function/accuracy Cartesian positioning systems) are non-trivial and very labor intensive to make as well as expensive. Commercial machines such as a stratesis have far higher cost ~20k afaik and a much higher material cost due to its proprietary nature.
Look at the potential rather than the limitations. It would be nice however as another poster suggested to have a percent attached to the "self replicating" qualifier.
Try diatomaceous earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieselgur#Pest_control
http://www.dimensionprinting.com/printers/printing-faq.shtml
Says the dimension printer does not use stereolithography. It uses Fused Deposition Modeling which is similar to the fab at home approach and exactly what reprap is useing.
That said FDM is a valid and good approach. Stereolithography is another.
I do I do!
Hm perhaps I should have looked around a bit first.
If you have nView (comes with some nvidia cards, mine is a quadro something) you can go to the nView desktop manager/user interface tab and enable gridlines. Holding down ALT while clicking a maximize button maximizes the selected window inside the current grid square. There are more options to play with as well. Now you can save all that time normally spend tiling your huge screen.
I wonder if there is a utility that allows virtual desktops (no not the normal kind) where two or more windows could be maximized in different areas of a single monitor. This would be great for those 30" displays.
Does anyone know of such a thing?
Fab the shell with one or more drainage/injection holes for the solvent and fab plugs into the holes after the soluble material was washed away.
Insight into the build of a dell
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http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&fi
"Dell has six factories around the world - in Limerick, Ireland; Xiamen, China; Eldorado do Sul, Brazil; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Texas; and Penang, Malaysia"
Interestingly enough there are actually 2 factories in the USA. The rest of the article has a very intersting look at what goes into a dell notebook.
If by recycled oil rig you meant "self-propelled, semi-submersible drilling rig" then yes ;).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Odyssey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
since I was curious and all.
Specifically old laptops with bad screens or batteries that do not work anymore can be quite cheap.
For example here is an old IBM thinkpad with a battery that does not hold a charge for 150 euro.
http://paris.craigslist.org/sys/92369116.html
Adding a PCMCIA NIC should not be too expensive.
If you want a really cheap system I bet you can find an old pentium or pentium 2 system someone is discarding or recycling.
The problem is when parents start looking at school as babysitting. Also when parents hold the teacher as the sole source of education in the childs life.
The teachers I know work hard and do their best. With larger class sizes they just do not have the time to be responsible for ensuring each and every child is challenged to their potential. Parents must be involved in the process by helping their children get the most out of homework, be motivated in their studies, and volunteer in class.
I think the grandparent post may have been on this track more than demeaning the work of teachers.
source http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2585
Oh the joys of selected reading. Here is a better href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.bal lots/stories/main.html">link that actually seems to describe the study from a non-biased point of view. (link courtesy of another post in this article).
Summary.
Scenarios described:
1. SCOTUS does not intervene. Hand recount of all votes.
2. Hand recount in Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Volusia counties. Described as Al Gore's original request.
3. Palm Beach standard used for all counties.
4. Overvotes included. Marked a candidate but also wrote in the name.
5. Confusing ballot design (butterfly ballots,etc) where 2 candidates were voted for.
Scenarios 1 and 2 showed a slightly bigger Bush win and a slightly smaller Bush win respectively.
Scenario 3 showed Gore winning by 42 votes.
Scenario 4 showed Gore winning by 200 votes.
Scenario 5 is the most interesting as the the votes are described as invalid by any interpretation of the law but that Gore potentially lost thousands of votes in this manner.
The truely sad thing is failure of the 2004 election to put the election results and vote counting procedure beyond reproach.
Small correction:
Actel also offers Flash based FPGAs (ProASIC+ and ProASIC3) that are reprogrammable.
Shhhhh!
We should thank these people that are willing to pay for the bleeding edge graphics performance. They enable us to pay bottom dollar for yesterdays technology that performs 90% as well.
You do not have to understand a performance enthusiast to benefit from their pocketbook.
divide by 2 assuming you have each rover moving towards the other in an optimal manner.
;).
Then multiply by 2 for battery recharging
Then multiply by at least 10 for terrain navigation and other interference.
Still ain't gonna happen, at least until we have a mars base and somebody carries them both to the same museum
Oh yeah definitly they should stop innovating.
Everytime they add a new feature I have this vague and unsupported feeling they are falling down this slippery slope towards utter evilness.
Please google for the sake of the children stop comming up with cool stuff. If you have to add something make it useless and sucky.
One day a year, one freaking day a year, people not only get a chance to but are expected to leave seriousness behind and have a little fun.
Slashdot is being slashdot and reporting on funny April 1st news for nerds from all the usual suspects (Gentoo, Gaming, Geek toys, Google, etc).
Now Colonel Stickinthemud go tie someones shoelaces together, tell your boss your project is done on time and within budget, and maybe even have a little fun.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/bch20030 616020429.htm
Try this forum post. At the very least you have some good search terms for google ;)
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http://www.forumopolis.com/archive/index.php/t-
Yet another stupid unit of measure "almost faster than a speeding bullet."
s html
Also what the heck kind of slow lazy bullets are almost slower than 80mph.
because I was curious I checked out the speed of a bullet. referencing this link:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/MariaPereyra.
puts the lower end of bullet speed at about 750mph and the upper end at 6700mph.
At least "almost as fast as a carrier pigeon in a tornado" would have been more accurate.
that at about 1 foot per second, electrical propagation between chips
;).
1 foot per nanosecond perhaps? I know I don't see a 20 second delay when I hit the light switch