We need to stop the degradation of the primary schools, but we never will. No child left behind has basically ensured that all future generations of Americans will be too stupid to find their a**hole with both hands.
How do you figure No Child Left Behind is responsible?
It's energy storage. Energy storage is the ultimate limiting factor on human civilization. Anyone that can crack the energy storage problem will be very, very wealthy.
The DOJ criminal division hasn't done a thing to prosecute any of the heads of Wall Street firms that have destroyed the lives of millions by engaging in fraud but is willing to destroy the life of a promising young men for a victimless crime.
Thankfully, Lanny Breuer resigned after this documentary came out but it seems like the DOJ is rotten to the core. Eric Holder needs to go next. Obama should get someone in there to clean out the stables.
11% would be a decent tax, especially on a guy making millions. Romney's, like mine, was actually closer to 14%; which means about $7,000 for me, millions and millions for him. What's your moral justification for making either one of us pay a higher percentage than the other? Don't envy his stuff, man. Don't vote based on envy, which is simply self-justified greed.
You are focused too much on the absolute value of the dollars. The moral justification is that beyond a certain number those millions of dollars have less value than your $50,000. In other words basic necessities take up a far larger percentage of your income than Romney's. The additional tax revenue from people like Romney helps pay for the social costs of company's like his that force other companies to pay their workers substandard wages and benefits and thus turn to the government for help in order to increase profit margins to give people like Romney even more money. Do you see how this cycle works? If companies paid their employees a more reasonable wage, a so-called living wage, I could see the case for lowering taxes.
As for the rest of your post, competing on taxes is a downward spiral that leaves governments unable to take care of their people in order to export wealth out of the country. A certain amount of tax competition help keep things lean but it's better to compete on things like education and infrastructure that hard to replicate. The reason tax competition is so popular is that it just takes some paper shuffling rather than real investments in a country's future.
governor's race now. If she had any hope of running for governor, as many claim that she does, this kind of PR should put an end to it. Bullying a 26 y/o until he commits suicide isn't going to play well even if the average person doesn't understand the case. And if what has been said so far about the case (i.e. ambitious prosecutor trying to make a name for herself over-zealously pursues disproportionate punishment for a victimless crime when she probably doesn't even understand how a network operates or what JSTOR is), then she is even more screwed. It's a small consolation but at least it's something.
reinforcing. People take every fact that it is consistent with their view and add it to their collection. They ignore the ones that are not consistent. People do it all the time to preserve their sense of identity. There need be no other motive (economic or otherwise). Karl Popper ridicules this kind of thinking in scientists. If scientists do it, it must be far more common for the rest of us to do it.
they had an OS that would work with a touchscreen on a laptop. OS X isn't really a touch OS. As OS X and iOS merge look for the story to change to: "We've cracked the interface problem with touchscreen laptops! Now go buy our latest laptops with touchscreens!" I am not knocking Apple but that's the historical pattern.
That's actually the best advice I've read on this topic. Nice.
Not how you'd expect (i.e. not likely a prodigy)
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Believe it or not there are thousands of people we'd call prodigies... and not many of them ever become geniuses. And conversely not every genius is a prodigy. As the article says it's a combination of determination and above average intellect. Obviously that doesn't have the sizzle and flash of a Good Will Hunting but seems to be accurate. I think the article is a little over the top in emphasizing the eccentric aspects though. Everyone wants to ascribe a little madness to genius but I think it's more a matter of communication being difficult due to a vast gap between the way they see the world and the way everyone else does. The real geniuses are able to bridge that gap.
It's really unlikely that we'd find artifacts of our own simulations in our simulated universe since the simulators likely would have encountered the same artifacts and accounted for them in our simulated universe. Far more likely is that the fundamental constants of our universe are likely an artifact of their simulations.
The world of Constitutional Law was rocked today by an anonymous posting on the well known geek website, Slashdot. In a few eloquent lines, an anonymous coward swept away centuries of misguided thought and ushered in a new era in constitutional thought. "I'm blown away," said Chief Justice Roberts. "My life has been wasted." Other members of the court could not be reached for comment.
It's not like the oil just "goes away". It gets transformed into other materials. Are those hazardous? Is the Gulf now a giant cesspool of bacterial waste?
This will require essentially the same software infrastructure as normal suspend to RAM.
The system still has to go through the steps: Check to see if any critical tasks are running - if so, pause suspend, and ask user. Same with any communications tasks that may be interrupted. Stop tasks. Save state from all hardware to RAM. Suspend to RAM.
Just capturing an image of the running system does not result in a system that will resume.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts.
Is it possibly interesting - sure. But in real life, it may have very little advantage over a seperate flash device, for main memory.
Now, as a super-fast SSD - truly awesome.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable. This is not an invention worthy of patent. It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement. 'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
The only "freedom" this policy position guarantees is the freedom of corporations to screw consumers. Net neutrality (even in its current pathetic and anemic form) will be eliminated faster than you can blink. Oh, yeah, and I guess "freedom" doesn't apply to gambling and porn. The people smart enough to care about these issues are smart enough to see through this non-sense. From what I can see it looks like a straight-up quid-pro-quo for corporations. If corporations agree to enforce the Republican, draconian morality on everyone, Republicans will make net neutrality go away for corporations. It's a lose-lose situation for the American people. Shameless. How do Republicans live with themselves?
I wasn't going to respond since I have mod points and figured I'd mod up a good response instead. Too bad it's all been cheerleading for believers and deniers. Anyhow, this result isn't evidence for or against climate change. It's another data point. The fact that people think it is evidence for one side or the other shows most people still don't understand climate change. I know statistics and thermodynamics are hard as are non-linear systems. Blah, blah, blah.
Here's the deal. Global warming refers to *average* temperature increase. In order for the average temperature to increase we should expect a higher frequency of warmer events or events driven by increasing warmth. We're not in a pot on a stove over a fire that constantly increases in temperature (actually don't pick at that analogy too much because at a microscopic level it is somewhat similar). As global average temperature increases we should see more warm days but not necessarily the hottest days ever recorded. So, in this case, if we see more frequent unusual events like this one or not, then we might have some evidence one way or the other, but by itself it tells us nothing.
The guy clearly sounds delusional. If he had gone off and killed a general, everyone would be crucifying the FBI or other Law Enforcement for not paying attention to his clearly delusional rantings. In this case the FBI stepped in and potentially prevented harm, but people are bitching about invasion of privacy and thought crime when there is no real evidence that either were at play. People, you can't have it both ways. Admittedly there are some concerns and it makes sense to make sure that nothing improper was done by the FBI but assuming not (remember, innocent until proven guilty?) it looks like the FBI did what many people have been crying out for them to do. If you were one of those crying out and don't like the result, you've just learned a lesson in being careful what you ask for...
Google needs to delist ALL German websites Let's see the German internet economy collapse overnight.
I'm thinking that their government is made up of idiots and morons that have no clue how anything really works.
Although we do have a senator that thinks women secrete something when they get raped to prevent pregnancy, so we have our share of complete idiots as well.
It'd be a good opportunity for another search engine provider to step in and fill the gap but it's not clear that the business model works when the search engine has to pay to display a link.
Seriously though, I think those countries are just about last on my list of countries that should have any say at all over how the internet is run. I'm sure France would love it too since they want to "civilize" the internet. NFW!
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We need to stop the degradation of the primary schools, but we never will. No child left behind has basically ensured that all future generations of Americans will be too stupid to find their a**hole with both hands.
How do you figure No Child Left Behind is responsible?
It's energy storage. Energy storage is the ultimate limiting factor on human civilization. Anyone that can crack the energy storage problem will be very, very wealthy.
The DOJ criminal division hasn't done a thing to prosecute any of the heads of Wall Street firms that have destroyed the lives of millions by engaging in fraud but is willing to destroy the life of a promising young men for a victimless crime.
See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
Thankfully, Lanny Breuer resigned after this documentary came out but it seems like the DOJ is rotten to the core. Eric Holder needs to go next. Obama should get someone in there to clean out the stables.
11% would be a decent tax, especially on a guy making millions. Romney's, like mine, was actually closer to 14%; which means about $7,000 for me, millions and millions for him. What's your moral justification for making either one of us pay a higher percentage than the other? Don't envy his stuff, man. Don't vote based on envy, which is simply self-justified greed.
You are focused too much on the absolute value of the dollars. The moral justification is that beyond a certain number those millions of dollars have less value than your $50,000. In other words basic necessities take up a far larger percentage of your income than Romney's. The additional tax revenue from people like Romney helps pay for the social costs of company's like his that force other companies to pay their workers substandard wages and benefits and thus turn to the government for help in order to increase profit margins to give people like Romney even more money. Do you see how this cycle works? If companies paid their employees a more reasonable wage, a so-called living wage, I could see the case for lowering taxes.
As for the rest of your post, competing on taxes is a downward spiral that leaves governments unable to take care of their people in order to export wealth out of the country. A certain amount of tax competition help keep things lean but it's better to compete on things like education and infrastructure that hard to replicate. The reason tax competition is so popular is that it just takes some paper shuffling rather than real investments in a country's future.
governor's race now. If she had any hope of running for governor, as many claim that she does, this kind of PR should put an end to it. Bullying a 26 y/o until he commits suicide isn't going to play well even if the average person doesn't understand the case. And if what has been said so far about the case (i.e. ambitious prosecutor trying to make a name for herself over-zealously pursues disproportionate punishment for a victimless crime when she probably doesn't even understand how a network operates or what JSTOR is), then she is even more screwed. It's a small consolation but at least it's something.
it's a hybrid OS that makes enough compromises on both sides to make both mediocre.
reinforcing. People take every fact that it is consistent with their view and add it to their collection. They ignore the ones that are not consistent. People do it all the time to preserve their sense of identity. There need be no other motive (economic or otherwise). Karl Popper ridicules this kind of thinking in scientists. If scientists do it, it must be far more common for the rest of us to do it.
they had an OS that would work with a touchscreen on a laptop. OS X isn't really a touch OS. As OS X and iOS merge look for the story to change to: "We've cracked the interface problem with touchscreen laptops! Now go buy our latest laptops with touchscreens!" I am not knocking Apple but that's the historical pattern.
That's actually the best advice I've read on this topic. Nice.
Believe it or not there are thousands of people we'd call prodigies... and not many of them ever become geniuses. And conversely not every genius is a prodigy. As the article says it's a combination of determination and above average intellect. Obviously that doesn't have the sizzle and flash of a Good Will Hunting but seems to be accurate. I think the article is a little over the top in emphasizing the eccentric aspects though. Everyone wants to ascribe a little madness to genius but I think it's more a matter of communication being difficult due to a vast gap between the way they see the world and the way everyone else does. The real geniuses are able to bridge that gap.
It's really unlikely that we'd find artifacts of our own simulations in our simulated universe since the simulators likely would have encountered the same artifacts and accounted for them in our simulated universe. Far more likely is that the fundamental constants of our universe are likely an artifact of their simulations.
One of the very few variants on "Me too" that's actually less interesting, useful, or original than "This."
Congratulations!
(Proptip: If you've nothing useful to say... Don't say it!)
You assume I was talking to you. I suggest you follow your own advice.
The world of Constitutional Law was rocked today by an anonymous posting on the well known geek website, Slashdot. In a few eloquent lines, an anonymous coward swept away centuries of misguided thought and ushered in a new era in constitutional thought. "I'm blown away," said Chief Justice Roberts. "My life has been wasted." Other members of the court could not be reached for comment.
LMAO
provides little details on how it was done. I suspect an incremental but important improvement being hyped as revolutionary.
kernel. Linux could be running by default on every Mac sold over the last decade.
I hope not but it seems like every time someone becomes a poster boy for something it turns out to be a fraud.
It's not like the oil just "goes away". It gets transformed into other materials. Are those hazardous? Is the Gulf now a giant cesspool of bacterial waste?
This will require essentially the same software infrastructure as normal suspend to RAM.
The system still has to go through the steps:
Check to see if any critical tasks are running - if so, pause suspend, and ask user.
Same with any communications tasks that may be interrupted.
Stop tasks.
Save state from all hardware to RAM.
Suspend to RAM.
Just capturing an image of the running system does not result in a system that will resume.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts.
Is it possibly interesting - sure.
But in real life, it may have very little advantage over a seperate flash device, for main memory.
Now, as a super-fast SSD - truly awesome.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable.
This is not an invention worthy of patent.
It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement.
'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
RAM Disk.
We're gonna shit our pants once we hear him reaching the brown note.
Damn. I wish I still had mod points.
The only "freedom" this policy position guarantees is the freedom of corporations to screw consumers. Net neutrality (even in its current pathetic and anemic form) will be eliminated faster than you can blink. Oh, yeah, and I guess "freedom" doesn't apply to gambling and porn. The people smart enough to care about these issues are smart enough to see through this non-sense. From what I can see it looks like a straight-up quid-pro-quo for corporations. If corporations agree to enforce the Republican, draconian morality on everyone, Republicans will make net neutrality go away for corporations. It's a lose-lose situation for the American people. Shameless. How do Republicans live with themselves?
I wasn't going to respond since I have mod points and figured I'd mod up a good response instead. Too bad it's all been cheerleading for believers and deniers. Anyhow, this result isn't evidence for or against climate change. It's another data point. The fact that people think it is evidence for one side or the other shows most people still don't understand climate change. I know statistics and thermodynamics are hard as are non-linear systems. Blah, blah, blah.
Here's the deal. Global warming refers to *average* temperature increase. In order for the average temperature to increase we should expect a higher frequency of warmer events or events driven by increasing warmth. We're not in a pot on a stove over a fire that constantly increases in temperature (actually don't pick at that analogy too much because at a microscopic level it is somewhat similar). As global average temperature increases we should see more warm days but not necessarily the hottest days ever recorded. So, in this case, if we see more frequent unusual events like this one or not, then we might have some evidence one way or the other, but by itself it tells us nothing.
The guy clearly sounds delusional. If he had gone off and killed a general, everyone would be crucifying the FBI or other Law Enforcement for not paying attention to his clearly delusional rantings. In this case the FBI stepped in and potentially prevented harm, but people are bitching about invasion of privacy and thought crime when there is no real evidence that either were at play. People, you can't have it both ways. Admittedly there are some concerns and it makes sense to make sure that nothing improper was done by the FBI but assuming not (remember, innocent until proven guilty?) it looks like the FBI did what many people have been crying out for them to do. If you were one of those crying out and don't like the result, you've just learned a lesson in being careful what you ask for...
Google needs to delist ALL German websites Let's see the German internet economy collapse overnight.
I'm thinking that their government is made up of idiots and morons that have no clue how anything really works.
Although we do have a senator that thinks women secrete something when they get raped to prevent pregnancy, so we have our share of complete idiots as well.
It'd be a good opportunity for another search engine provider to step in and fill the gap but it's not clear that the business model works when the search engine has to pay to display a link.
We will find a way to continue to produce food efficiently, mostly for the reason that it is very profitable to do so.
Seriously though, I think those countries are just about last on my list of countries that should have any say at all over how the internet is run. I'm sure France would love it too since they want to "civilize" the internet. NFW!