Are you aware that if you were to replace the word "atheist" with, say, "Christian" you would have made a very cogent argument against the missionary practice?
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In the SUV case its a bit more complicated. The huge spike in SUV sales was due to a loophole in the fuel economy standards for "light trucks", that is they had to meet a much lower standard. This loophole gave SUVs an advantage over their car cousins.
The exemption was written into law to spare people that had to haul horse trailers and the like. And you will encounter intellectually dishonest people that will defend the SUV loophole for that reason, however, of course the vast majority of SUVs never haul anything.
And we all know who prevented the loophole from being closed and CAFE standards from being raised, the Big Three and the Republican Party. Well now the Big Three have lost a ton of market share and border on financially insolvent while anytime a Republican says "energy independence" people burst out laughing.
Diesel engines require no modification to run biodiesel. Some hose components and seals may need changing. Also, if you have an old engine you will probably need to clean the fuel filter after several thousand miles as the biodiesel will clean out the accumulated junk from regular diesel.
Europe already has a requirement to blend biodiesel into regular diesel sold at the pump.
... there was a company called ATT. The fairy godmother DARPA asked ATT to build it a redundant network that could survive links being severed in a nuclear war. Oh, DARPA also wanted the ability to plug any computer it wanted from ATT's competitors into the network. ATT told the fairy godmother to take a hike, so the fairy godmother asked the hippies at Berkeley and MIT to build it for her instead. And of course the hippies let anyone who wanted to connect to the network and opened the code and the Internet lived happily ever after.
Oops, or at least they lived happily until another company called ATT and its evil brothers and sisters Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner reared their ugly heads again and wanted to take unplug all those happy services which they don't have revenue sharing agreements with. They also want to lock you into crippled phone/computers so they can charge you $2 for a ringtone and $0.15 for a text message.
Even more impressive is the monetary savings he achieved. The 8 PS3's cost less than even one of the 200 nodes he was using. That's a 99.5 percent reduction in cost without even considering power, cooling and networking.
According to Ausra, one of the companies mentioned, 92 square miles, or less than one percent of US deserts would replace all US energy needs. This is also far less space than is being used for coal mining activity.
Of course always take numbers like that with a huge grain of salt.
Ausra is receiving startup money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who funded Google.
I agree with the bad rap on the tube thing, but I would fail him in Networking 101 for "an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially".
I agree. Networking people often refer to "pipes", so I have no problem with "tubes" and never really got why people made such a big deal about that part of his comments. The other parts of his comments are *much* more ridiculous ("an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday"), let alone his position on the net neutrality issue and, more generally, that he is a bought and paid for shill.
The Internet is a global collection of interconnected, independently operated data networks. Computers connected to different networks on the Internet communicate with each other through the use of Internet Protocol, which defines a common address space, and with the aid of the independent network operators agreeing to exchange their communications.
Aside from the issue of someone changing their mind, there's no way anyone should trust an anonymous assertion of a Creative Commons license. All the time on places like archive.org people contribute work that is not their own and assign it whatever license they happen to like. This happens both with copyrighted works being assigned licenses less restrictive than their author would want and with public domain works being placed under more restrictive licenses.
What is needed is a system to attach metadata containing CC licenses signed by the original author using public key crypto. That way you can irrefutably prove that a particular person licensed a particular file under a particular license. This does not solve the issue of trusting whether that person has the right to so license that work but one could imagine a reputation system (Bob has asserted that 10 Britney Spears songs are CC so no one trusts him anymore) or perhaps legal consequences for making a fraudulent representation.
Pretty poor policy if you ask me. Instead of deporting them how about handing them a 35 percent tax bill and a 10 percent penalty and asking them to stay in the country and continue to make (taxable) money.
Seems like a no brainer to ask anyone capable of making $1M to stay in the country.
There are many reasons the current healthcare system in the US is broken, the role of government is surely a highly significant one. However, it is difficult to take your comment seriously since you do not address the fact that most other advanced economies are able to provide overall better care for *all* of its citizens for vastly less cost per patient.
If, as you maintain, more government == more disaster wouldn't it stand to reason that these socialist model health systems would be doing worse than the US system?
To DIY, put a distribution like OpenWRT on something like a Linksys WRT54G, that will give you all the flexibility you need to setup bandwidth management.
For an off the shelf solution, the Asus 500gl has various bandwidth management features. Haven't used it myself but it seems worth a look.
Too bad most of the advice you've gotten here on/. is so poor. The best suggestion I've seen which has not been rated highly is to open a Roth IRA. With this type of account you can take your contributions out at any time with no penalty. Money that you put in you can invest in just about anything. You can take the earnings out at retirement or you can take them out early for certain qualified expenses, most notably buying a house. Unlike a traditional IRA you fund a Roth IRA with after tax money but you pay no tax when you take the money out.
A Roth IRA is a big win for you because:
- You pay very little or no taxes now, that will end when you graduate. Take as much advantage of tax free money as you can.
- When your loans are due you can take what you put in without penalty. You will be left with the interest which you won't pay taxes unlike if you kept it in a savings account.
- You can use that to start saving to buy a house (you did say you didn't want to be living in your parents' basement when you're 35). Assuming you are 21 or so, you will be years ahead of most of your peers in the compounding interest game.
Do note that annual Roth IRA contributions are limited to $4k. Also, you can only contribute as much as you earn, which may be a concern for you.
If I were you I'd be very conservative with what I chose to invest the money inside the Roth IRA. I'd go with the sure money so that you don't handicap yourself as you're starting out, stocks and bonds look pretty risky in the short term you have before you pay this back. So, put most of it in a money market account of some kind inside the Roth IRA and if you feel like experimenting with investing try out some relatively conservative mutual funds with a small portion of the money.
Since you're just starting out take it slow, use the time to get started and learn some. When you've accumlated some money a few years after graduation you'll be well positioned. Since you are starting early, compounding interest is your friend.
Fidelity offers a no fee IRA, I'd look at them. You can also apply for a rewards credit card that pays 1.5 percent of your purchases into the account, which is a pretty good deal. Vanguard generally has the lowest expenses on their funds. Both offer the full range of services that you would need.
Given that in the US the amount of gasoline used in one day is equal to the amount of vegetable oil consumed in one year, it is foolish to think that a meaningful amount of biofuels can be produced without large scale new planting.
I wonder why powerline networking hasn't been more popular. Every house has power outlets in every room, being able to just plug a laptop, Tivo, iPod, whatever in and be on the network seems like a no brainer for ease of use.
The WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) allows compulsory license of medicines for public health reasons. The Wikipedia entry gives a decent overview in the "access to essential medicines" section.
This is a hot topic in the international trade community for developing countries, especially in relation to AIDS drugs.
Show me a company you suspect of discriminating. Show me any evidence they are.
Then take a look at See No Bias from the Washington Post Magazine. They describe (amongst many other examples) an enormous effect when studying callback rates from recruiters. The researchers sent out resumes and varied the names to sound white or black, they found that for similarly qualified resumes black sounding names were 50 percent less likely to get called back.
Fuck where you come from, it's what you do that matters.
Would it surprise you then to learn that a person with a black sounding name and the same resume as you is 50 percent more likely to not receive a callback from a recruiter?
Race bias is real and has very real effects. If you want to learn more you might try checking out See No Bias from the Washington Post Magazine.
I've hired tons of people in my career working for a Fortune 100 company.
There are many studies that demonstrate race bias, perhaps those that are most dramatic are those having to do with hiring practices. In that situation its easy to setup a controlled experiment, just send recruiters resumes and measure who they callback while varying the names on the resumes. Is the same resume more likely to get a callback if it has the name "Greg" on it or the name "Tyrone"?
The results of this study were pretty dramatic, not only was there an enormous difference for similarly qualified resumes along racial lines but low skill resumes for white sounding names did better than high skill resumes for blacks.
While your views on personal initiative are comendable, I think study results such as this point to a need for change on the part of those hiring. You talk about doing the jobs that no one else wants to do in order to move up, but what are you going to do if you are 50 percent more likely to have your resume thrown in the trash before you even get a chance to get interviewed?
Anyway, if this interests you check out a Washington Post magazine article See No Bias.
I think there's less to fear from legislation than ISPs that also have an interest in content distribution. Verizon is rolling out fiber to the home so that they can sell TV, its cost tens of $billions. Its seems much more likely that they would turn to filtering out competitors to protect that investment.
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Are you aware that if you were to replace the word "atheist" with, say, "Christian" you would have made a very cogent argument against the missionary practice?
In the SUV case its a bit more complicated. The huge spike in SUV sales was due to a loophole in the fuel economy standards for "light trucks", that is they had to meet a much lower standard. This loophole gave SUVs an advantage over their car cousins.
The exemption was written into law to spare people that had to haul horse trailers and the like. And you will encounter intellectually dishonest people that will defend the SUV loophole for that reason, however, of course the vast majority of SUVs never haul anything.
And we all know who prevented the loophole from being closed and CAFE standards from being raised, the Big Three and the Republican Party. Well now the Big Three have lost a ton of market share and border on financially insolvent while anytime a Republican says "energy independence" people burst out laughing.
Diesel engines require no modification to run biodiesel. Some hose components and seals may need changing. Also, if you have an old engine you will probably need to clean the fuel filter after several thousand miles as the biodiesel will clean out the accumulated junk from regular diesel.
Europe already has a requirement to blend biodiesel into regular diesel sold at the pump.
... there was a company called ATT. The fairy godmother DARPA asked ATT to build it a redundant network that could survive links being severed in a nuclear war. Oh, DARPA also wanted the ability to plug any computer it wanted from ATT's competitors into the network. ATT told the fairy godmother to take a hike, so the fairy godmother asked the hippies at Berkeley and MIT to build it for her instead. And of course the hippies let anyone who wanted to connect to the network and opened the code and the Internet lived happily ever after.
Oops, or at least they lived happily until another company called ATT and its evil brothers and sisters Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner reared their ugly heads again and wanted to take unplug all those happy services which they don't have revenue sharing agreements with. They also want to lock you into crippled phone/computers so they can charge you $2 for a ringtone and $0.15 for a text message.
Even more impressive is the monetary savings he achieved. The 8 PS3's cost less than even one of the 200 nodes he was using. That's a 99.5 percent reduction in cost without even considering power, cooling and networking.
According to Ausra, one of the companies mentioned, 92 square miles, or less than one percent of US deserts would replace all US energy needs. This is also far less space than is being used for coal mining activity.
Of course always take numbers like that with a huge grain of salt.
Ausra is receiving startup money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who funded Google.
I agree with the bad rap on the tube thing, but I would fail him in Networking 101 for "an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially".
I agree. Networking people often refer to "pipes", so I have no problem with "tubes" and never really got why people made such a big deal about that part of his comments. The other parts of his comments are *much* more ridiculous ("an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday"), let alone his position on the net neutrality issue and, more generally, that he is a bought and paid for shill.
The Internet is a global collection of interconnected, independently operated data networks. Computers connected to different networks on the Internet communicate with each other through the use of Internet Protocol, which defines a common address space, and with the aid of the independent network operators agreeing to exchange their communications.
The site goes into a 302 redirect loop.
I would have thought a CC registry would be a good project for Bitzi.
Aside from the issue of someone changing their mind, there's no way anyone should trust an anonymous assertion of a Creative Commons license. All the time on places like archive.org people contribute work that is not their own and assign it whatever license they happen to like. This happens both with copyrighted works being assigned licenses less restrictive than their author would want and with public domain works being placed under more restrictive licenses.
What is needed is a system to attach metadata containing CC licenses signed by the original author using public key crypto. That way you can irrefutably prove that a particular person licensed a particular file under a particular license. This does not solve the issue of trusting whether that person has the right to so license that work but one could imagine a reputation system (Bob has asserted that 10 Britney Spears songs are CC so no one trusts him anymore) or perhaps legal consequences for making a fraudulent representation.
Pretty poor policy if you ask me. Instead of deporting them how about handing them a 35 percent tax bill and a 10 percent penalty and asking them to stay in the country and continue to make (taxable) money.
Seems like a no brainer to ask anyone capable of making $1M to stay in the country.
There are many reasons the current healthcare system in the US is broken, the role of government is surely a highly significant one. However, it is difficult to take your comment seriously since you do not address the fact that most other advanced economies are able to provide overall better care for *all* of its citizens for vastly less cost per patient.
If, as you maintain, more government == more disaster wouldn't it stand to reason that these socialist model health systems would be doing worse than the US system?
To DIY, put a distribution like OpenWRT on something like a Linksys WRT54G, that will give you all the flexibility you need to setup bandwidth management.
For an off the shelf solution, the Asus 500gl has various bandwidth management features. Haven't used it myself but it seems worth a look.
Too bad most of the advice you've gotten here on /. is so poor. The best suggestion I've seen which has not been rated highly is to open a Roth IRA. With this type of account you can take your contributions out at any time with no penalty. Money that you put in you can invest in just about anything. You can take the earnings out at retirement or you can take them out early for certain qualified expenses, most notably buying a house. Unlike a traditional IRA you fund a Roth IRA with after tax money but you pay no tax when you take the money out.
A Roth IRA is a big win for you because:
- You pay very little or no taxes now, that will end when you graduate. Take as much advantage of tax free money as you can.
- When your loans are due you can take what you put in without penalty. You will be left with the interest which you won't pay taxes unlike if you kept it in a savings account.
- You can use that to start saving to buy a house (you did say you didn't want to be living in your parents' basement when you're 35). Assuming you are 21 or so, you will be years ahead of most of your peers in the compounding interest game.
Do note that annual Roth IRA contributions are limited to $4k. Also, you can only contribute as much as you earn, which may be a concern for you.
If I were you I'd be very conservative with what I chose to invest the money inside the Roth IRA. I'd go with the sure money so that you don't handicap yourself as you're starting out, stocks and bonds look pretty risky in the short term you have before you pay this back. So, put most of it in a money market account of some kind inside the Roth IRA and if you feel like experimenting with investing try out some relatively conservative mutual funds with a small portion of the money.
Since you're just starting out take it slow, use the time to get started and learn some. When you've accumlated some money a few years after graduation you'll be well positioned. Since you are starting early, compounding interest is your friend.
Fidelity offers a no fee IRA, I'd look at them. You can also apply for a rewards credit card that pays 1.5 percent of your purchases into the account, which is a pretty good deal. Vanguard generally has the lowest expenses on their funds. Both offer the full range of services that you would need.
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Notice Al Gore was VP when this proposal was made.
I was referring to the home variety, which I believe ARRL has no beef with, as opposed to the long distance version which they do.
Given that in the US the amount of gasoline used in one day is equal to the amount of vegetable oil consumed in one year, it is foolish to think that a meaningful amount of biofuels can be produced without large scale new planting.
I wonder why powerline networking hasn't been more popular. Every house has power outlets in every room, being able to just plug a laptop, Tivo, iPod, whatever in and be on the network seems like a no brainer for ease of use.
The WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) allows compulsory license of medicines for public health reasons. The Wikipedia entry gives a decent overview in the "access to essential medicines" section.
This is a hot topic in the international trade community for developing countries, especially in relation to AIDS drugs.
Show me a company you suspect of discriminating. Show me any evidence they are.
Then take a look at See No Bias from the Washington Post Magazine. They describe (amongst many other examples) an enormous effect when studying callback rates from recruiters. The researchers sent out resumes and varied the names to sound white or black, they found that for similarly qualified resumes black sounding names were 50 percent less likely to get called back.
Fuck where you come from, it's what you do that matters.
Would it surprise you then to learn that a person with a black sounding name and the same resume as you is 50 percent more likely to not receive a callback from a recruiter?
Race bias is real and has very real effects. If you want to learn more you might try checking out See No Bias from the Washington Post Magazine.
I've hired tons of people in my career working for a Fortune 100 company.
There are many studies that demonstrate race bias, perhaps those that are most dramatic are those having to do with hiring practices. In that situation its easy to setup a controlled experiment, just send recruiters resumes and measure who they callback while varying the names on the resumes. Is the same resume more likely to get a callback if it has the name "Greg" on it or the name "Tyrone"?
The results of this study were pretty dramatic, not only was there an enormous difference for similarly qualified resumes along racial lines but low skill resumes for white sounding names did better than high skill resumes for blacks.
While your views on personal initiative are comendable, I think study results such as this point to a need for change on the part of those hiring. You talk about doing the jobs that no one else wants to do in order to move up, but what are you going to do if you are 50 percent more likely to have your resume thrown in the trash before you even get a chance to get interviewed?
Anyway, if this interests you check out a Washington Post magazine article See No Bias.
I think there's less to fear from legislation than ISPs that also have an interest in content distribution. Verizon is rolling out fiber to the home so that they can sell TV, its cost tens of $billions. Its seems much more likely that they would turn to filtering out competitors to protect that investment.
Wow, who would have thunk that an archive of history could be useful to anyone, let alone for rich companies to use to sue?
I think its widely recognized that the Internet Archive is general societal good, it should be funded as such.