This hasn't stopped politicians so far. You can go on line and find video of damn near any one of them claiming to fully support an idea and then in a different campaign claiming that same idea will be the end of civilization as we know it and (s)he would never support such a thing.
Exactly. For instance, two days ago Mark Levin played audio of Mrs. Clinton recorded a few years back sounding exactly like the Donald re: illegal immigrants.
We don't have a taxing problem. Receipts to the government are at all time highs. If we went back to the spending levels under Clinton we would be running massive surpluses and retiring debt. I don't recall people dying in the streets back then. No, we have a massive spending problem, and the growth in spending is mainly social spending, which is not even constitutional. Time to end the gravy train.
Personally, I'm rooting for a Sanders/Warren ticket. It's farther left than might be safe, but I don't think anyone the republicans have are any good this cycle, so I think it could work out.
That ticket would get maybe 25% of the vote and would lose to Cruz/Trump.
I got a Chromecast for Christmas last year. Getting it set up was a major PITA. The WiFi radio was constantly loosing its mind. So in Feb. I unplugged it from the USB connector on the back of my Visio TV to re-set the radio and it killed the TV. I think it was an ESD event. I sent a message to their google groups explaining what happened. To make an extremely long story short, they asked me to send the unit back, which I did. After weeks of no response, I posted back and the comedy started when they asked me to log on to their site, pay full price for a new unit, then they would refund me when they got my failed unit back. The fact that they already had the failed unit was lost on them, and no kidding, at least 20 e-mails and half a dozen phone calls before I finally got someone not retarded on the phone. Around mid-April I tried the TV again and miraculously it turned on. They finally got a new (actually refurbed) unit back to me last week. They are in no way shape or form ready for dealing with tech support.
Your faulty premise is that the Supreme Court is the proper venue for these questions. They are not. Our elected representatives are in charge of many of these issues. The left hates democracy, and seeks to impose their will via the courts.
Christians are the least of my worries. When 5 unelected and unaccountable judges dictate law to 300 million, the vast majority of whom already made their wishes clear on actual ballots, we are all in deep trouble. The rule of law is being supplanted by the rule of man.
The only power the SCOTUS should have is to determine if a law violates the Constitution. If it does, it should be struck down, if it doesn't, it should stand.
so today the supreme court ruled that the 14th amendment is actually correct. what is your problem?
In all the debate surrounding the 14th amendment, you will find exactly zero references to the issue before the court. In fact, had this been brought up, language would have undoubtedly been added to explicitly prohibit such an interpretation.
Where the Constitution is silent, so should be the court. They have abdicated their responsibility to apply the Constitution, and now sit as philosopher-kings. This is tyranny, pure and simple. You might love this particular decision, but, as surely as the night follows the day, out of this tradition of activism will spring other decisions you will hate. Just sayin'.
Your faith in our legal system is admirable. After seeing the muddled garbage put out by SCOTUS yesterday, I don't share your POV. We are living in a post-Constitutional America.
There may be some truth to what you are saying, but the fact of the matter is that our society is filled with such symbols. How may things are named after Robert Byrd in W. VA? Everyone knows his racist past. Should all the things named after him be re-named? How about songs like Dixie? How about civil war memorabilia, Ken Burns documentaries, the Gettysburg battlefield memorial?
Who fought to just leave. What is the definition of oppression?
LOL, you're funny - no, they fought to retain slavery via whatever means necessary, including seceding. While YOU might support racism and slavery, this is not the 1800's, and most of the rest of us aren't such hateful bigots. Too bad. For you. Don't even have the guts to show your racism with your name attached, huh? Loser.
And had you lived at the time, assuming you are white, you would have been just as racist as everybody else was back then. You might have even been a slave owner. Makes you wonder what our great grandchildren will condemn us for.
I think the more pertinent question would be why would you pay full tuition for essentially non-interactive education. As Steven Wright famously said, "I read the dictionary. I figured all the other books were in there somewhere." Also, I would note that professors have been teaching students for thousands of years, much of it the same thing over and over, but applying the latest learning as well.
I took an EE circuits class back in 1983 where the professor, as far as we knew, existed only on some VHS tapes in the corner of the room. The teaching assistants, none of whom spoke English as far as a casual observer could determine, took turns popping the tapes in. I ended up having to go to my physics TA to figure out what was going on. I remember feeling ripped off and pretty much disgusted.
Maybe not, but we definitely need trucks. All that food in your grocery store doesn't come from a field behind the store. In fact, every segment of the food chain we depend on depends on trucks moving stuff around.
*Everybody* is self-interested. Philosophies that fail to understand this are all garbage. Natural law shows this to be the case, as the instinct for self-preservation is present in pretty much every animal on earth. Even Christ said as much when he commanded that we love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Nobody has proved that the rate at which energy leaves the system has decreased. In fact, everyone knows that objects hotter relative to their surroundings radiate more. See the Stefan-Boltsmann law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Examples of positive feedback loops in nature are exceedingly rare. You are a CO2 producing engine with every breath you take.
They'll have updated numbers out pretty soon so I'll wait for those.
Actually, a great improvement for this would be auto-update functionality so they could push out updates anytime. That way we will always have the most up to date historical data!
Updated numbers are meaningless without a model to explain them. All you can do with numbers is correlation. Correlation proves nothing.
. Climate is a LOT simpler than weather. Many, many orders of magnitude simpler. Why ? Because climate is an average.... Climate is an average of weather over long periods (30 years typically). That's a LOT simpler to predict than the individual weather points that make it up.
Climate is the *integral* of weather, which is not the same as an average. Averages don't work very well in complex systems. For example, if you could reliably predict the future by looking at the past, nobody would ever end up with a worthless share of stock.
Predicting the performance of children all taught the same thing all taking the same multiple choice test is easy. Predicting where they place letters in a handwritten test and the shape of those letters is much more difficult
Weather models are made up of non-linear partial differential equations. The best models are good for about 5 days, after which they fall apart, mainly because the initial conditions were not precise enough. Those same models when applied to climate (more than 5 days) are utterly worthless. If we had a data set of all the relevant factors for every point in the atmosphere and the surface of the earth, and if we had a model that completely captured interactions between each factor over time, and had the ability to forecast external factors like the sun, then we could precisely compute the conditions at any point at any future date. Everything else is handwaving. Anyone who has taken thermodynamics or studied non-linear partial differential equations and understood it knows this.
The other problem is that modern semiconductors are extremely sensitive to over voltage. We are building ASICs at 28 nm, which require a supply voltage of.9V. Anything over 3V and they are fried. It does not take much of a circuit to induce a few volts with the kind of flux a nuke can put out. Loops on the board, on the other side of ESD diodes, can easily be large enough.
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This hasn't stopped politicians so far. You can go on line and find video of damn near any one of them claiming to fully support an idea and then in a different campaign claiming that same idea will be the end of civilization as we know it and (s)he would never support such a thing.
Exactly. For instance, two days ago Mark Levin played audio of Mrs. Clinton recorded a few years back sounding exactly like the Donald re: illegal immigrants.
We don't have a taxing problem. Receipts to the government are at all time highs. If we went back to the spending levels under Clinton we would be running massive surpluses and retiring debt. I don't recall people dying in the streets back then. No, we have a massive spending problem, and the growth in spending is mainly social spending, which is not even constitutional. Time to end the gravy train.
Personally, I'm rooting for a Sanders/Warren ticket. It's farther left than might be safe, but I don't think anyone the republicans have are any good this cycle, so I think it could work out.
That ticket would get maybe 25% of the vote and would lose to Cruz/Trump.
And if you had been a successful farmer in the antebellum south, you probably would have owned slaves. Big deal. Gay /= Black.
I got a Chromecast for Christmas last year. Getting it set up was a major PITA. The WiFi radio was constantly loosing its mind. So in Feb. I unplugged it from the USB connector on the back of my Visio TV to re-set the radio and it killed the TV. I think it was an ESD event. I sent a message to their google groups explaining what happened. To make an extremely long story short, they asked me to send the unit back, which I did. After weeks of no response, I posted back and the comedy started when they asked me to log on to their site, pay full price for a new unit, then they would refund me when they got my failed unit back. The fact that they already had the failed unit was lost on them, and no kidding, at least 20 e-mails and half a dozen phone calls before I finally got someone not retarded on the phone. Around mid-April I tried the TV again and miraculously it turned on. They finally got a new (actually refurbed) unit back to me last week. They are in no way shape or form ready for dealing with tech support.
Your faulty premise is that the Supreme Court is the proper venue for these questions. They are not. Our elected representatives are in charge of many of these issues. The left hates democracy, and seeks to impose their will via the courts.
What kind of moron posts drivel like this?
Christians are the least of my worries. When 5 unelected and unaccountable judges dictate law to 300 million, the vast majority of whom already made their wishes clear on actual ballots, we are all in deep trouble. The rule of law is being supplanted by the rule of man.
Everybody had the opportunity to marry one, and only one, person of the opposite sex at a time. That was equal protection.
The only power the SCOTUS should have is to determine if a law violates the Constitution. If it does, it should be struck down, if it doesn't, it should stand.
so today the supreme court ruled that the 14th amendment is actually correct. what is your problem?
In all the debate surrounding the 14th amendment, you will find exactly zero references to the issue before the court. In fact, had this been brought up, language would have undoubtedly been added to explicitly prohibit such an interpretation.
Where the Constitution is silent, so should be the court. They have abdicated their responsibility to apply the Constitution, and now sit as philosopher-kings. This is tyranny, pure and simple. You might love this particular decision, but, as surely as the night follows the day, out of this tradition of activism will spring other decisions you will hate. Just sayin'.
Your faith in our legal system is admirable. After seeing the muddled garbage put out by SCOTUS yesterday, I don't share your POV. We are living in a post-Constitutional America.
There may be some truth to what you are saying, but the fact of the matter is that our society is filled with such symbols. How may things are named after Robert Byrd in W. VA? Everyone knows his racist past. Should all the things named after him be re-named? How about songs like Dixie? How about civil war memorabilia, Ken Burns documentaries, the Gettysburg battlefield memorial?
And even if the CF had been banned years ago, those people in Charleston would still be dead.
Who fought to just leave. What is the definition of oppression?
LOL, you're funny - no, they fought to retain slavery via whatever means necessary, including seceding. While YOU might support racism and slavery, this is not the 1800's, and most of the rest of us aren't such hateful bigots. Too bad. For you. Don't even have the guts to show your racism with your name attached, huh? Loser.
And had you lived at the time, assuming you are white, you would have been just as racist as everybody else was back then. You might have even been a slave owner. Makes you wonder what our great grandchildren will condemn us for.
I think the more pertinent question would be why would you pay full tuition for essentially non-interactive education. As Steven Wright famously said, "I read the dictionary. I figured all the other books were in there somewhere." Also, I would note that professors have been teaching students for thousands of years, much of it the same thing over and over, but applying the latest learning as well.
I took an EE circuits class back in 1983 where the professor, as far as we knew, existed only on some VHS tapes in the corner of the room. The teaching assistants, none of whom spoke English as far as a casual observer could determine, took turns popping the tapes in. I ended up having to go to my physics TA to figure out what was going on. I remember feeling ripped off and pretty much disgusted.
Maybe not, but we definitely need trucks. All that food in your grocery store doesn't come from a field behind the store. In fact, every segment of the food chain we depend on depends on trucks moving stuff around.
*Everybody* is self-interested. Philosophies that fail to understand this are all garbage. Natural law shows this to be the case, as the instinct for self-preservation is present in pretty much every animal on earth. Even Christ said as much when he commanded that we love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Of course it was ironic. Objectivism is a celebration of the individual. Rand absolutely detested all forms of collectivism.
Examples of positive feedback loops in nature are exceedingly rare. You are a CO2 producing engine with every breath you take.
They'll have updated numbers out pretty soon so I'll wait for those.
Actually, a great improvement for this would be auto-update functionality so they could push out updates anytime. That way we will always have the most up to date historical data!
Updated numbers are meaningless without a model to explain them. All you can do with numbers is correlation. Correlation proves nothing.
. Climate is a LOT simpler than weather. Many, many orders of magnitude simpler. Why ? Because climate is an average. ... Climate is an average of weather over long periods (30 years typically). That's a LOT simpler to predict than the individual weather points that make it up .
Climate is the *integral* of weather, which is not the same as an average. Averages don't work very well in complex systems. For example, if you could reliably predict the future by looking at the past, nobody would ever end up with a worthless share of stock.
Predicting the performance of children all taught the same thing all taking the same multiple choice test is easy. Predicting where they place letters in a handwritten test and the shape of those letters is much more difficult
Weather models are made up of non-linear partial differential equations. The best models are good for about 5 days, after which they fall apart, mainly because the initial conditions were not precise enough. Those same models when applied to climate (more than 5 days) are utterly worthless. If we had a data set of all the relevant factors for every point in the atmosphere and the surface of the earth, and if we had a model that completely captured interactions between each factor over time, and had the ability to forecast external factors like the sun, then we could precisely compute the conditions at any point at any future date. Everything else is handwaving. Anyone who has taken thermodynamics or studied non-linear partial differential equations and understood it knows this.
If AMD wanted to add an FPGA into their design, I am sure that Xilinx would sell them all the parts they wanted. No need to buy the company.
The other problem is that modern semiconductors are extremely sensitive to over voltage. We are building ASICs at 28 nm, which require a supply voltage of .9V. Anything over 3V and they are fried. It does not take much of a circuit to induce a few volts with the kind of flux a nuke can put out. Loops on the board, on the other side of ESD diodes, can easily be large enough.