This is just a guess, but may be related to the myth they tested about avoiding gunfire by going underwater. They found that even.50 cal sniper rifle fire could not penetrate more than 3 feet of water. I'm hoping someone wrote in to see if this were scaled up - can water defeat bigger guns / artillery? Only way I can think firing a cannon at water makes any sense.
Huh? They shot a CANNON BALL through a minivan! There is no question of guilt (if by guilt you mean responsibility) - no one sane would hold a question in their minds for two seconds. It wasn't intentional, by any means, but that DOES NOT matter. Man up, immediately. Apologize and try to make it right, immediately. That is their only good option. Lawyering-up will only make it worse. The only reason anyone would have for suing is if you didn't try to make it right, immediately.
That was also my first, reflexive, response in regards to SSA being in trouble - knock out the cap and do not adjust benefits to match (keep those at the cap). First thing. I don't make that much (it seems, others may disagree) and I hit the cap every year. Just a little extra from me and the thousands like me may push out the 'crisis' by 5-10 years. I have absolutely ZERO idea why this hasn't been done already.
Good luck with the CS degree - good to hear about someone moving INTO the field instead of out of it. Experience will be a real problem for you - I would suggest looking at a bunch of open source projects, find one that looks interesting, and help out (as much as possible, in every way you can). That can go a long way to bridging the gap and having something really cool to talk about in an interview. Implementing a feature, fixing bugs, rewriting the users manual, fixing or adding things to the web site for it - whatever it is, that is GOLD in an interview. Shows you are motivated, like doing it, can jump in and solve problems - all great things smart people look for in employees. Be prepared to talk about it, explain why you did it the way you did, be able to defend your decision, and be able to accept valid criticism.
-99% of drivers have no idea how an ICE works (or what that stands for, or even that they have one in their car)
-95%+ of drivers don't now anything about oil (and many new cars now have an idiot light to tell you to get it changed)
-Only one of the nozzles at the gas pump (gas or diesel) will fit in your car. They needed that for a reason.
-95% of drivers have never changed a flat, or know how
- There is an idiot light "I need service" on the dash
So by your accounting 95%+ of drivers should not be driving. Yeah, that will happen.
There are likely regulations already in place about disclosing ALL drug trials to the FDA. And even if not, think about this. If the trials go bad, the Pharma will drop the drug, or the FDA will can it. If the trials go well, the Pharma wants them included. Only if the trials go bad, AND the FDA does not know about them can cherry-picking go on. And doing that would make for HUGE liability for the Pharma if a whiff of it ever got out. It just isn't worth the risk. The risk is just too high - they may lose the entire company.
Driving is a necessity - agree with you there. Is the Gov. supposed to license it, in order to 'keep us safe' from unqualified drivers? I'm not sure it does that now, to be frank. And, there is the argument, going all the way back to the Magna Carta, that all citizens must have freedom of movement - to use the roads and highways of the land without restriction. If you follow that view, then we really do not legally need a drivers license at all to drive on the roads.
Then I'm probably partly to blame. If you see a comment that just flat out WRONG, correct them. Post dammit!
When I moderate, I am not looking at whether the poster is correct or incorrect - if I agree with them or not - that is immaterial. The point is - does it add to or move forward the discussion? If so, I mod it up. I DO NOT use moderation as a way to impose any inkling of my views onto the subject.
That is what I believe the moderators are supposed to do, so that is what I do.
And in meta-moderating I give people the benefit of the doubt when I'm not sure. I really need to feel someones moderation is wrong to mark it so.
WTF are all you idiots arguing about slavery for? It has no bearing on Obama at all. Obama is not an african-american, he is an African American.
Let me explain - he does not have, in his family tree, anyone who, in generations past, was captured by slavers, transported across an ocean, and sold into slavery.
Instead, his father was an actual, born in Africa, African. He is an American, with one parent American and one African (by birth).
Get it? Slavery does not apply - why do so many people try bringing that up? Makes no sense what-so-ever!!
"Mostly, I just screwed around, but I did do a lot of programming projects on my own: video games, web apps, robots."
Duh. They accepted you because you already ARE a Comp Sci student. You are already doing it because you love it. Now all they have to do at CM is give you the right tools to do it better and get out of the way. No brainer.
Solar thermal is nice, and I think it should be pursued, but it is, at best 8/7, not 24/7 (with maybe another 4 of reduced input, even in a desert on the equator) - though you're typo of 356 instead of 365 is probably good - in a desert setting I'd put a max of 9 days of no output due to clouds on the availability. Overcoming that is the biggest obstacle - if you can make it stead state over 24/7 and 365, you'll have it made.
I'll take a shot at it. In essence, subsidies are an insurance policy so that we always have plenty of food. Without subsidies, farming would be subject to the ups and downs of the free market. Consider this - with subsidies, farms can, regardless of how much of what they produce, KNOW what they are going to have for income, more or less. The subsidies make sure the prices they get are STABLE. With that we can make sure we're always producing the right amount - i.e. too much for us here at home, so we sell the excess overseas - regardless of climate or droughts, since we'll always make sure we have excess capacity.
That works out really well. Without that, the market rules. If one year there is a drought, for instance, prices will jump as there will be shortages. The next year, all kinds of new people will try to get 'in' on the high prices and end up with a bumper crop, which will depress prices instead. Maybe to the point of bankrupting farmers, closing farms, etc. The next year after that, not enough of a crop is produced, and we have more shortages. Up and down, up and down. Not something we want happening to our food supply.
I'm probably not explaining it well enough, but that's the general idea - simple economics, lots of players looking for an edge - if we leave prices unsupported, we'll have chaos. And hunger. And if we end up hungry here, what about all the places depending on our exports?
Solar panels last pretty much.... forever, AFAICT. Most all the manufacturers give 15, 20, 25 year guarantees on the output power (90% - 80% of new). So they'll last much longer than that and have usable output, even if it is not like new. Basically, unless they get broken, they'll last a LONG time.
Well, that is correct - speculators generate liquidity in the market. They are the gamblers, always buying and selling shares to make a little on each transaction, following the trends, staying a little ahead of where everyone else is going, etc. If they were not around, and say you bought 100 shares in a company because you thought it would do well, you may not look at it for a month or two. That's investing. BUT, it does not keep the market liquid - it does not keep the volume of trades up. The gamblers do.
What I think the problem today is, the market has gotten so 'sophisticated' that actual shares are not bought and sold anymore - they do not change hands. So all you have left is, for want of a better term, gambling. If that was REQUIRED - that an actual physical (or electronic even) share was transferred by a sale - then a lot of the ridiculous speculation would go away. That would be a step in the right direction.
I second that - for the 'little guy' who invents something and wants to patent it - they should. Get the paperwork, fill it out as best you can, as thoroughly as you can, and file it. That puts your foot in the door. Then you can shop it around to companies and no one can jump your claim (as it were). You have quite a while to FIX your patent application as long as you HAVE one. All the new law should do is encourage people to file early instead of waiting until you worked out all the kinks.
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Somehow I doubt the military prowess of a people who
1) Had built an ocean-going fleet before anyone else had explored the world, then simply BURNED it on orders from the emperor and never built another
2) Got their butts kicked by a bunch of nomads, time and again, over the course of centuries.
3) Threw ungodly effort, and a thousand years, into building a wall to keep said nomads out, rather than building a military that could wipe them out.
4) Recently, got their butts kicked by the Japanese, almost to the point of losing their entire country, while the Japanese were also invading a bunch of other nations / colonies at the same time.
5) More recently, jumped in on the side of North Korea, pushed a massively outnumbered US force down most of the peninsula, then lost most of that force in a forced retreat when the US cut them off in turn.
6) Even today, China has close to zero ability to project power more than a couple of hundred miles from their borders, in any direction.
Take on Taiwan, outnumbering them hundreds to one? Maybe. Other than that? Meh. Militarily, the Chinese fail to impress.
Now hold on there. SS is not, and should never be thought of as, a handout. Grandma, or her husband, have been paying into SS for fifty years, involuntarily, and is now of an age that some of that money is flowing back to her. That's payback on a loan to SS, and is not any kind of a "gift".
That's what makes me ticked off about the talk of cutting off SS - I paid into it myself for 30+ years, and now you're just going to say "Oh, our bad - nothing left for you". I don't THINK so.
It may be correct English, but is something of a lie of omission. If a lawyer told you a cost was "more than 4" and it was really 100 you'd want to string that lawyer up on a lamppost. And I'd help. So "more than 4" is incorrect, even if technically correct.
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This is just a guess, but may be related to the myth they tested about avoiding gunfire by going underwater. They found that even .50 cal sniper rifle fire could not penetrate more than 3 feet of water. I'm hoping someone wrote in to see if this were scaled up - can water defeat bigger guns / artillery? Only way I can think firing a cannon at water makes any sense.
Huh? They shot a CANNON BALL through a minivan! There is no question of guilt (if by guilt you mean responsibility) - no one sane would hold a question in their minds for two seconds. It wasn't intentional, by any means, but that DOES NOT matter. Man up, immediately. Apologize and try to make it right, immediately. That is their only good option. Lawyering-up will only make it worse. The only reason anyone would have for suing is if you didn't try to make it right, immediately.
You mean, getting Keri pregnant so she can go apologize - as "no one can be mad at a pregnant woman"? Sounds like a plan.
That was also my first, reflexive, response in regards to SSA being in trouble - knock out the cap and do not adjust benefits to match (keep those at the cap). First thing. I don't make that much (it seems, others may disagree) and I hit the cap every year. Just a little extra from me and the thousands like me may push out the 'crisis' by 5-10 years. I have absolutely ZERO idea why this hasn't been done already.
Good luck with the CS degree - good to hear about someone moving INTO the field instead of out of it. Experience will be a real problem for you - I would suggest looking at a bunch of open source projects, find one that looks interesting, and help out (as much as possible, in every way you can). That can go a long way to bridging the gap and having something really cool to talk about in an interview. Implementing a feature, fixing bugs, rewriting the users manual, fixing or adding things to the web site for it - whatever it is, that is GOLD in an interview. Shows you are motivated, like doing it, can jump in and solve problems - all great things smart people look for in employees. Be prepared to talk about it, explain why you did it the way you did, be able to defend your decision, and be able to accept valid criticism.
-99% of drivers have no idea how an ICE works (or what that stands for, or even that they have one in their car) -95%+ of drivers don't now anything about oil (and many new cars now have an idiot light to tell you to get it changed) -Only one of the nozzles at the gas pump (gas or diesel) will fit in your car. They needed that for a reason. -95% of drivers have never changed a flat, or know how - There is an idiot light "I need service" on the dash
So by your accounting 95%+ of drivers should not be driving. Yeah, that will happen.
There are likely regulations already in place about disclosing ALL drug trials to the FDA. And even if not, think about this. If the trials go bad, the Pharma will drop the drug, or the FDA will can it. If the trials go well, the Pharma wants them included. Only if the trials go bad, AND the FDA does not know about them can cherry-picking go on. And doing that would make for HUGE liability for the Pharma if a whiff of it ever got out. It just isn't worth the risk. The risk is just too high - they may lose the entire company.
Yep, that's what they call themselves. Both of them.
Thank you. I'll be here all week! Try the veal.
Driving is a necessity - agree with you there. Is the Gov. supposed to license it, in order to 'keep us safe' from unqualified drivers? I'm not sure it does that now, to be frank. And, there is the argument, going all the way back to the Magna Carta, that all citizens must have freedom of movement - to use the roads and highways of the land without restriction. If you follow that view, then we really do not legally need a drivers license at all to drive on the roads.
Then I'm probably partly to blame. If you see a comment that just flat out WRONG, correct them. Post dammit!
When I moderate, I am not looking at whether the poster is correct or incorrect - if I agree with them or not - that is immaterial. The point is - does it add to or move forward the discussion? If so, I mod it up. I DO NOT use moderation as a way to impose any inkling of my views onto the subject.
That is what I believe the moderators are supposed to do, so that is what I do.
And in meta-moderating I give people the benefit of the doubt when I'm not sure. I really need to feel someones moderation is wrong to mark it so.
Let me explain - he does not have, in his family tree, anyone who, in generations past, was captured by slavers, transported across an ocean, and sold into slavery.
Instead, his father was an actual, born in Africa, African. He is an American, with one parent American and one African (by birth).
Get it? Slavery does not apply - why do so many people try bringing that up? Makes no sense what-so-ever!!
Duh. They accepted you because you already ARE a Comp Sci student. You are already doing it because you love it. Now all they have to do at CM is give you the right tools to do it better and get out of the way. No brainer.
Solar thermal is nice, and I think it should be pursued, but it is, at best 8/7, not 24/7 (with maybe another 4 of reduced input, even in a desert on the equator) - though you're typo of 356 instead of 365 is probably good - in a desert setting I'd put a max of 9 days of no output due to clouds on the availability. Overcoming that is the biggest obstacle - if you can make it stead state over 24/7 and 365, you'll have it made.
That works out really well. Without that, the market rules. If one year there is a drought, for instance, prices will jump as there will be shortages. The next year, all kinds of new people will try to get 'in' on the high prices and end up with a bumper crop, which will depress prices instead. Maybe to the point of bankrupting farmers, closing farms, etc. The next year after that, not enough of a crop is produced, and we have more shortages. Up and down, up and down. Not something we want happening to our food supply.
I'm probably not explaining it well enough, but that's the general idea - simple economics, lots of players looking for an edge - if we leave prices unsupported, we'll have chaos. And hunger. And if we end up hungry here, what about all the places depending on our exports?
Solar panels last pretty much.... forever, AFAICT. Most all the manufacturers give 15, 20, 25 year guarantees on the output power (90% - 80% of new). So they'll last much longer than that and have usable output, even if it is not like new. Basically, unless they get broken, they'll last a LONG time.
Well, that is correct - speculators generate liquidity in the market. They are the gamblers, always buying and selling shares to make a little on each transaction, following the trends, staying a little ahead of where everyone else is going, etc. If they were not around, and say you bought 100 shares in a company because you thought it would do well, you may not look at it for a month or two. That's investing. BUT, it does not keep the market liquid - it does not keep the volume of trades up. The gamblers do. What I think the problem today is, the market has gotten so 'sophisticated' that actual shares are not bought and sold anymore - they do not change hands. So all you have left is, for want of a better term, gambling. If that was REQUIRED - that an actual physical (or electronic even) share was transferred by a sale - then a lot of the ridiculous speculation would go away. That would be a step in the right direction.
I second that - for the 'little guy' who invents something and wants to patent it - they should. Get the paperwork, fill it out as best you can, as thoroughly as you can, and file it. That puts your foot in the door. Then you can shop it around to companies and no one can jump your claim (as it were). You have quite a while to FIX your patent application as long as you HAVE one. All the new law should do is encourage people to file early instead of waiting until you worked out all the kinks.
And you want to test the recovery process... how?
That's the best one I've seen in a long time. Cudos to you sir! You win the internet.
We already have that - it's called Craps.
1) Had built an ocean-going fleet before anyone else had explored the world, then simply BURNED it on orders from the emperor and never built another
2) Got their butts kicked by a bunch of nomads, time and again, over the course of centuries.
3) Threw ungodly effort, and a thousand years, into building a wall to keep said nomads out, rather than building a military that could wipe them out.
4) Recently, got their butts kicked by the Japanese, almost to the point of losing their entire country, while the Japanese were also invading a bunch of other nations / colonies at the same time.
5) More recently, jumped in on the side of North Korea, pushed a massively outnumbered US force down most of the peninsula, then lost most of that force in a forced retreat when the US cut them off in turn.
6) Even today, China has close to zero ability to project power more than a couple of hundred miles from their borders, in any direction.
Take on Taiwan, outnumbering them hundreds to one? Maybe. Other than that? Meh. Militarily, the Chinese fail to impress.
To pick the July out of July_2011 it needs access to the plaintext. A hashed dictionary won't do it.
No you are right. Burn Notice is the instructional video. 8-)
That's what makes me ticked off about the talk of cutting off SS - I paid into it myself for 30+ years, and now you're just going to say "Oh, our bad - nothing left for you". I don't THINK so.
I have spoken.