I live in Contra Costa and given the tax base here, the whole idea that the school district needs charity instead of a state or federal supervisor and some honest auditing is just ludicrous.
What I don't get is how Loni Hancock and Don Perata come into play. The last time I checked, both Berkeley and Oakland are part of Alameda County, not Contra Costa. Now if anyone wants to argue that downtown Oakland and Richmond schools are ripe for charitable donations, I'd be all for it.
But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
Some senators were skeptical, especially Ted Stevens of Alaska
Creating a new pipe would nullify his "clogged tubes" argument against net neutrality! That's bull. Senator Stevens' very valid objection was that you can't build a pipe out of thin air. I mean any pipe has to be run underground or at least be connected to it.
Way before you run into any relativistic effects--or even the speed of sound inside the pole--basic 17 century Newtonian physics will make the process less than instantaneous.
Also, thanks to Newton's Third Law, space is like Soviet Russia: In space, the pole pushes you.
This might be a naive question, but how do all these problems and reports that the "insurgents" rely on cellular networks and the internet to coordinate their attacks go together? If some terrorist's Nokia works in Baghdad, why wouldn't a contractor's? There are obvious differences between military and civilian applications, for example, you don't want your coms go down when you hit an ambush, but Iraq seems to have some semblance of a basically/occasionally working cell phone system.
Normally, I would point out that the murder rates and the number of idiots gunning down entire classrooms are much lower than in the US in any other developed country. But since even the most right wing, conservative, god fearing school in the country disagrees with you, I think I can spare the effort.
More than 15 years ago, quite a few of the students at the physics lab I was teaching had their oscillating circuits reach 483 terahertz and more pretty easily. For a short amount of time that is.
I wonder how much the administration realized the unintended consequences of including a "laundry list" of reasons why they should not regulate emissions. Now they have a sentence like this in a SCOTUS decision:
"While the president had broad authority in foreign affairs, that authority does not extend to the refusal to execute domestic laws."
This might so come back to haunt them as precedent.
300 liters of 200 bar air has an energy content of about 35MJ or just about the same as 1 liter of gasoline. Even giving some credit for higher (perfect?) efficiency and some energy recovery through environmental heating, it seems to be a stretch to suggest that any reasonable useful car could run 2-300 miles on this. Actually, the energy content is probably a bit lower since they'll need some overpressure to run the engine (maybe 50 bar or so?).
And I don't really want to be sitting in the car when they fill it. The heat generated by filling the tank is pretty much equivalent to burning a quart of gas in the trunk. [humor]Yes, I am kidding, there are ways to alleviate the heat generation like compressing outside, slow filling,...[/humor]
First of all, I assume the OP is not American. Outside of the US, backpacking means traveling cheaply and staying in hostels. Humping a backpack through the woods is called trekking, tramping, walking,... depending whether you are in Europe, New Zealand, Australia....
I most countries it's probably easier to walk into an internet cafe every few days than carrying around a laptop. If you are in deep South East Asia or similarly off the beaten path, you won't get any reliable internet connection anyway.
I rarely take a cell phone, but then I mostly communicate every few days via email and upload pictures or burn them on CD at an internet cafe.
Take a small AA battery mapping GPS. I bought a Venture Cx and it's been invaluable. If you purchase a Garmin, get one without additional memory and USB cable. A standard 1GB micro SD and mini-USB work and Garmin is overcharging at least 200% for theirs.
Everyone who doesn't believe that the US Navy solved this problem a few decades ago raise their hands! Like in '78 when they launched the satellites, or '79 when the Trident missile entered service....
May I ask in what capacity you work in public education? Based on your command of grammar and orthography, as well as your vocabulary and general writing skills, I sincerely hope it is not in any educational or supervisory position.
If you are, then we have established one of the root causes of the education malaise in the United States.
"The defense contractors operate on very low profit margins in exchange for a guarantee of income. It's not quite that simple but not far from the actuality."
How do they make a $729 million annual profit off "low profit margins"? This must be some really great Kool-Aid that you're drinking. If you are unfamiliar with how to milk cost plus contracts, there are thousands of people at LM, Boeing, Bechtel, General Dynamics and GE's Electric Boat Company who can show you.
Disclaimer: I used to sell to all of them in my last job.
The actual case is actually not half as interesting as Microsoft's and the Justice Department's arguments that source code isn't patentable.
"I think the reason that's not relevant here is that the patented invention in this case is not software," [Assistant Solicitor General Daryl ] Joseffer said. "It's computer that has software loaded into it. And the components of a patented invention do not themselves have to be patented."
Justice Alito's next question indicated his astonishment. "If these computers are built abroad and are sold with Windows installed, the component is the electrons on the hard drive? That's your position?"
Joseffer responded yes, that's the US' position, but no, that's not AT&T's position. "It's the physical embodiment of the software which in some instances is manifested by -- by those electrons," said Joseffer, perhaps broaching for the first time in history the topic of whether electrons are patentable. "Now AT&T's contrary view is that the abstract code in the abstract is the component. The reason that can't be, is that object code in the abstract is just a series of 1's and 0's. In theory I could memorize in my head or write down on a piece of paper. But that's not going to combine with other, with other parts to make a patented invention."
They increased the mass of the electrons by 1.65064935 × 10-27 hundredweight in 0.00032808399 football fields. Sorry, I don't know how much that is in SUVs.
Seriously, though, this is a neat trick. (Yes, IAAP)
Use tax laws are actually pretty common in the US. For example, Illinois has a similar law that requires you to pay sales tax for all purchases made out of state. Strictly speaking, anytime someone from Chicago buys anything in Indianapolis or New York, they would be required to keep the receipt until April 15 of the next year, then fill out a ST44 tax form for all these purchases, and file it with all your receipts. Even if you fill up your car in Gary 20 miles from Chicago, you would strickly speaking have to file a tax return.
This is of course patently insane and absolutely unenforceable. But politics and politicians being what they are, this law never seems to be repealed. On the other hand, it also never gets enforced. Just 4700 Illinois tax returns in 2006 included the use tax for a total of $4 million.--That amounts to 30 cents per citizen. California takes the insanity a bit further by having people moving to the state pay sales tax on the cars they bring to the state. Unfortunately, that's pretty enforceable.
25 vs 11 releases in one month? Could anyone remind me how many DVD titles are currently out there? 100,000? 500,000? Any decent porn studio releases 36 DVDs in a week.
I liked their products for a long time, but Sony has officially jumped the shark, first on product development, then on reliability, then on screwing their own customer, and now on being in the same universe as the other 8 billion humans.
I know it's the WAR AGAINST TERROR, but isn't anyone concerned that the US Military gave the Iraqi police which has been implicated in numerous atrocities and is not going to be under direct control of the US for the infinite future a means to fingerprint every man woman and child? That will be really useful if they have to hunt down non-Shiites/non-Sunnites/non-Kurds in the upcoming ethnic cleansing.
Since the Brits and the US military have to go out and dismantle police units that freelance as death squads on a regular basis, this will probably show up at a local "drag out the Sunnies and shoot them" rouge checkpoint very soon.
I'll be looking forward to the outcry on/. when this technology will trickle down to your local police department. No drivers license? Let me fingerprint you. Out in a public place? Let me fingerprint you. Smoking in public? Hey, lemme get that wireless fingerprinterthingy.
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Where "parallel" is spelled "paralell".
I live in Contra Costa and given the tax base here, the whole idea that the school district needs charity instead of a state or federal supervisor and some honest auditing is just ludicrous.
What I don't get is how Loni Hancock and Don Perata come into play. The last time I checked, both Berkeley and Oakland are part of Alameda County, not Contra Costa. Now if anyone wants to argue that downtown Oakland and Richmond schools are ripe for charitable donations, I'd be all for it.
But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
Ronald Reagan
Farewell Address to the Nation
Oval Office
January 11, 1989
Amazing how far the Republican Party has moved in 18 years.
Creating a new pipe would nullify his "clogged tubes" argument against net neutrality! That's bull. Senator Stevens' very valid objection was that you can't build a pipe out of thin air. I mean any pipe has to be run underground or at least be connected to it.
Way before you run into any relativistic effects--or even the speed of sound inside the pole--basic 17 century Newtonian physics will make the process less than instantaneous.
Also, thanks to Newton's Third Law, space is like Soviet Russia: In space, the pole pushes you.
But Mcirosoft uses ROT26. It's twice as secure.
This might be a naive question, but how do all these problems and reports that the "insurgents" rely on cellular networks and the internet to coordinate their attacks go together? If some terrorist's Nokia works in Baghdad, why wouldn't a contractor's?
There are obvious differences between military and civilian applications, for example, you don't want your coms go down when you hit an ambush, but Iraq seems to have some semblance of a basically/occasionally working cell phone system.
I think I saw a single street vendor on Qianmen Lu sell about 200 genuine Vista DVDs in less than an hour.
Normally, I would point out that the murder rates and the number of idiots gunning down entire classrooms are much lower than in the US in any other developed country. But since even the most right wing, conservative, god fearing school in the country disagrees with you, I think I can spare the effort.
More than 15 years ago, quite a few of the students at the physics lab I was teaching had their oscillating circuits reach 483 terahertz and more pretty easily. For a short amount of time that is.
> Total cost to fill all ipods = 500 000 000 000 dollars
Total songs sold through the iTunes store = 2 500 000 000
Dollar amount the RIAA is trying to extort = 497 525 000 000 dollars
I wonder how much the administration realized the unintended consequences of including a "laundry list" of reasons why they should not regulate emissions. Now they have a sentence like this in a SCOTUS decision:
"While the president had broad authority in foreign affairs, that authority does not extend to the refusal to execute domestic laws."
This might so come back to haunt them as precedent.
300 liters of 200 bar air has an energy content of about 35MJ or just about the same as 1 liter of gasoline. Even giving some credit for higher (perfect?) efficiency and some energy recovery through environmental heating, it seems to be a stretch to suggest that any reasonable useful car could run 2-300 miles on this. Actually, the energy content is probably a bit lower since they'll need some overpressure to run the engine (maybe 50 bar or so?). And I don't really want to be sitting in the car when they fill it. The heat generated by filling the tank is pretty much equivalent to burning a quart of gas in the trunk.
[humor]Yes, I am kidding, there are ways to alleviate the heat generation like compressing outside, slow filling,...[/humor]
First of all, I assume the OP is not American. Outside of the US, backpacking means traveling cheaply and staying in hostels. Humping a backpack through the woods is called trekking, tramping, walking, ... depending whether you are in Europe, New Zealand, Australia....
I most countries it's probably easier to walk into an internet cafe every few days than carrying around a laptop. If you are in deep South East Asia or similarly off the beaten path, you won't get any reliable internet connection anyway.
I rarely take a cell phone, but then I mostly communicate every few days via email and upload pictures or burn them on CD at an internet cafe.
Take a small AA battery mapping GPS. I bought a Venture Cx and it's been invaluable. If you purchase a Garmin, get one without additional memory and USB cable. A standard 1GB micro SD and mini-USB work and Garmin is overcharging at least 200% for theirs.
Everyone who doesn't believe that the US Navy solved this problem a few decades ago raise their hands! Like in '78 when they launched the satellites, or '79 when the Trident missile entered service....
Really? I think he sounds just like Basil Fawlty....
This D-Wave quantum computer seems to be neither here not there.
May I ask in what capacity you work in public education? Based on your command of grammar and orthography, as well as your vocabulary and general writing skills, I sincerely hope it is not in any educational or supervisory position.
If you are, then we have established one of the root causes of the education malaise in the United States.
"The defense contractors operate on very low profit margins in exchange for a guarantee of income. It's not quite that simple but not far from the actuality."
How do they make a $729 million annual profit off "low profit margins"? This must be some really great Kool-Aid that you're drinking. If you are unfamiliar with how to milk cost plus contracts, there are thousands of people at LM, Boeing, Bechtel, General Dynamics and GE's Electric Boat Company who can show you.
Disclaimer: I used to sell to all of them in my last job.
The actual case is actually not half as interesting as Microsoft's and the Justice Department's arguments that source code isn't patentable. "I think the reason that's not relevant here is that the patented invention in this case is not software," [Assistant Solicitor General Daryl ] Joseffer said. "It's computer that has software loaded into it. And the components of a patented invention do not themselves have to be patented." Justice Alito's next question indicated his astonishment. "If these computers are built abroad and are sold with Windows installed, the component is the electrons on the hard drive? That's your position?" Joseffer responded yes, that's the US' position, but no, that's not AT&T's position. "It's the physical embodiment of the software which in some instances is manifested by -- by those electrons," said Joseffer, perhaps broaching for the first time in history the topic of whether electrons are patentable. "Now AT&T's contrary view is that the abstract code in the abstract is the component. The reason that can't be, is that object code in the abstract is just a series of 1's and 0's. In theory I could memorize in my head or write down on a piece of paper. But that's not going to combine with other, with other parts to make a patented invention."
Well, Vista will probably do even better with more RAM, but people with 32bit versions will probably see some diminishing returns above 4GB.
Seriously, though, what is the maximum addressable memory on 32bit Vista? I think it was something like 3GB in Beta 2.
They increased the mass of the electrons by 1.65064935 × 10-27 hundredweight in 0.00032808399 football fields. Sorry, I don't know how much that is in SUVs.
Seriously, though, this is a neat trick. (Yes, IAAP)
Use tax laws are actually pretty common in the US. For example, Illinois has a similar law that requires you to pay sales tax for all purchases made out of state. Strictly speaking, anytime someone from Chicago buys anything in Indianapolis or New York, they would be required to keep the receipt until April 15 of the next year, then fill out a ST44 tax form for all these purchases, and file it with all your receipts. Even if you fill up your car in Gary 20 miles from Chicago, you would strickly speaking have to file a tax return.
This is of course patently insane and absolutely unenforceable. But politics and politicians being what they are, this law never seems to be repealed. On the other hand, it also never gets enforced. Just 4700 Illinois tax returns in 2006 included the use tax for a total of $4 million.--That amounts to 30 cents per citizen. California takes the insanity a bit further by having people moving to the state pay sales tax on the cars they bring to the state. Unfortunately, that's pretty enforceable.
25 vs 11 releases in one month? Could anyone remind me how many DVD titles are currently out there? 100,000? 500,000? Any decent porn studio releases 36 DVDs in a week.
I liked their products for a long time, but Sony has officially jumped the shark, first on product development, then on reliability, then on screwing their own customer, and now on being in the same universe as the other 8 billion humans.
I know it's the WAR AGAINST TERROR, but isn't anyone concerned that the US Military gave the Iraqi police which has been implicated in numerous atrocities and is not going to be under direct control of the US for the infinite future a means to fingerprint every man woman and child? That will be really useful if they have to hunt down non-Shiites/non-Sunnites/non-Kurds in the upcoming ethnic cleansing.
/. when this technology will trickle down to your local police department. No drivers license? Let me fingerprint you. Out in a public place? Let me fingerprint you. Smoking in public? Hey, lemme get that wireless fingerprinterthingy.
Since the Brits and the US military have to go out and dismantle police units that freelance as death squads on a regular basis, this will probably show up at a local "drag out the Sunnies and shoot them" rouge checkpoint very soon.
I'll be looking forward to the outcry on