That's easy. Lift a crew in on military CH-47 and CH-53 helicopters, including Skycrane variants
Are those *in* the contingency plan? Do they have the copters on contract so that they're guaranteed to be available when needed? Are they *hoping* the military has some nearby that will be available for their use?
It all seems like corner-cutting and cost-shifting to me.
It would be in the West's as well as America's and the nuke industry
Your plan has a fatal flaw: it would not be in the best interests of the politicians who are using global warming as an excuse to grab money and power.
We have a political problem regarding energy, not a technical one.
You're railing against 1950's light water reactor designs. Modern nuclear power is much less expensive and much more safe. Talk to the DoE who prevents the plants from being built (and the politicians who see to that to advance their agendas).
I suppose one could make other immune cells (NK cells?) that target just the B-cell-targetting Tcells.
It would be better to insert genes that would trigger apoptosis in the programmed T-cells. Better to require therapeutic doses of T-cells for the treatment period than to require maintenance therapies for life.
, with the bonus of a persistent immune response that continually suppresses any survivors. The downside is that the patient is left with no B-Cells to produce antibodies, and thus relies on periodic infusions of IVIG
Is there some thought that the patient's marrow is going to continue to produce cancerous B-cells? It seems that way because otherwise they'd produce a killer-T-cell with a terminator gene, right?
The major trading indicies are OK with this, because they are paid on a per-transaction basis, and happily collect their fraction of a cent from each of these high-speed traders.
That, and that the regulatory environment has locked in the incumbents to a cartel position so that it's impossible for a new market (say a fair market where orders can't be cancelled for 15 minutes) to compete. NASDAQ couldn't be started today.
if you're telling me that that part of North America is going to get more arid?
There are some models that say that. However, the geological history shows that warm periods tend to be wet periods. 5% of the world's water is locked up in police ice caps. We could use some of that back in the atmosphere - humans did very well in the period when the Middle East was lush and the Sahara wasn't desertifying. Of course that doesn't mean that everybody "benefits" individually. Lake Chad used to be 300x larger and 100 feet deeper than it is now. I'm sure lots of property is currently owned in that area. But North Africa was fertile instead of desert, and agriculture flourished, along with civilization. (Interestingly, more people now live in the desert North Africa than lived in the fertile North Africa - quality of life is a separate topic).
There is a real risk that the thermohaline cycle near Greenland will change and deflect the Gulf Stream to somewhere other than Northern Europe, which is kept artificially warm by it. It may be that Northern Europe was settled by humans at the time that it was because a global cooling trend caused local warming for Northern Europe. This is all that really matters to the UN/IPCC and "First World" governments since so much of their wealth is concentrated there. That it proposes means for the bankers and government people to grab more money and power "to stop it" is icing on the cake.
So, the models put out by people who are funded by these interests will largely be based on certain assumptions that fit the desired outcomes, and the models will show the outcomes that are generated by those assumptions. It would be silly to expect anything else from them.
The only thing that's certain right now is that every existing model is deficient in several ways. The interest of science would be best served by everybody who's model building being as up front and specific as possible about all the assumptions their models make and all the data sets that were used to build it. Assuming it's possible to build a good model through scientific collaboration with human-scale machines, this falls into the category of "when alchemists stopped keeping secrets they became chemists".
I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want....
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that "our ideas" isn't a valid expression. Truly unique ideas are extremely rare. You can find them in the pure sciences, and what people do then is to publish a paper. For every idea Apple has brought to market (they are quite good at *execution*) there are a dozen people who have thought of it first but lacked the resources to bring it to market.
A pure nuanced capitalist would've licensed the thousands of patents at a realistic price and made lots of money for himself and his shareholders.
A pure capitalist doesn't rely on State-created mechanisms like Imaginary Property. But he certainly can make some money in helping others execute ideas that he's already executed. I believe, rather, that Jobs intended to use the State to establish a monopoly on portable tablet devices (with and without phones).
But Jobs wasn't a capitalist, he was a self-confessed copycat
true! Stealing artists are only great when they're Jobs, right?
an anarchist
Not a chance - he loved him some State. He loved IP and he loved dining with Obama.
Yep, that's the conclusion I came to as well, for this few-weeks-old laptop I'm typing on at the moment (Fedora 17). Intel video, Intel Wireless, Intel chipset. I'll just copy & paste what I wrote on the Dell/Ubuntu thread (specifically addressing the poor video resolution then, but the rest holds):
Agreed. I just needed to buy a new laptop (1.5 yr old MSI just flat died) and I wound up with a Lenovo e430, with all the Intel options (Centrino Wireless, Intel 3000 graphics, etc. - i.e. working drivers). I got a 14" matte screen, a slot for an SSD (128GB Mushkin), and the lowest-power i5 that can still do AES-NI (for LUKS). I got it for $550 from Antonline via Amazon. It was completely non-fussy about inheriting the 4GB DDR3 DIMM from the previous machine and the BIOS lets me put the ctrl-key back where it belongs.:)
It is not the world's finest laptop, but it's quite nice and a decent developer's machine, especially with root on SSD and flashcache in front of/home. But, more importantly, that's the most I was willing to spend for a low-resolution screen. If they had one of the 1900x1200 screens from, what, 2002?, available, I would have spent more. Seeing as all the phones are going higher density now, I'm hoping that technology trickles up (down?) to laptops in a year or two, so I didn't want to spend my 3-year laptop budget at this time. I've spent $3K on a laptop before, but there's just nothing out there at the moment that's worth it.
To be fair, I have spent a non-trivial amount of time tuning it (e.g. Synaptiks for KDE is in an OpenSUSE repo but not any Fedora repos...yet) and still haven't spent the time to get Intel Rapid Start (wake from SSD without BIOS init... but LUKS...) working yet. Dell might have already worked that all out - but on the other hand I am contributing my tweaks upstream as I go, and expect others to do so as well.
the language/compiler/interpreter/processor/operating system should handle errors for me
Which they can't, unless they know what your intents are. Perhaps there's a way of declaring intents, I'm not sure.
A subset of this might be something like invariant conditions / code contracts which makes sure that you don't have as many unexpected errors to handle. Static typing is another (and more rigid) approach.
The author isn't wrong in the narrow sense that the programmer's tools should allow him to focus his error checking on the flow of his code logic, not the constraints placed on him by his language and runtime. Aspects/cross-cutting could help a bit here too. But there's also the point that programmers are lazy or under the gun - if you see a java programmer always only catching (Exception e) then he's not doing the kinds of error checking that the authors of the class he's using knew could occur. I can see where a development manager might want the option to turn off this shortcut capability for his developers for certain types of code. Automatic code grading could potentially address this for organizations (who might very well choose to accept "D+" code because that's there's budget for, but they'd do it knowingly).
Going by $720M / day, that's less than 200 days of the war in Iraq.
Yes, but the Iraq war benefits the bankers, globalists, and components of the military-industrial-media complex. Nationwide gigabit fiber would chiefly benefit the citizenry and small businesses. So, the Legislators simply can't vote for such a thing!
I realize it's only speculation, but that's all we get with Google products. One minute it's a product, the next it's EOL. Or perhaps App Engine stays but the Python support gets phased out in favor of Java. Google products do sometimes lose features over time - the thread on why Google Docs took away table cell merging is a funny read if you get software freedom.
We have Rove and others absolutely convinced they were going to win the election, because they refused to read the polls.
Exactly this. I read the polls in Summer 2011, saw that only one candidate in the Republican field could beat Obama in any polling match up, so I worked for that candidate (as a County Chair, even though I'm a registered Democrat) and we did OK (he got 2nd place in my State, in both parties' primaries).
But he did not fit the mold of what the Party Bosses were looking for, so their media lapdogs did as they were instructed, and pretty soon it was clear that Romney was the anointed candidate (by March at the latest). Not once since then did I not say that Obama was guaranteed re-election.
And it turns out in retrospect that all the quality polls were:dead on:. The Republicans could have had the Whitehouse if the fake "Republican values" really represented the ideas of the party (vs. being Corporatist puppets in reality).
Funny thing is, my candidate would agree with this report almost in its entirety. If there's a silver lining it's that Khanna's generation will be in charge in 30 years.
some idiot bought a million shares right before an earnings release, the stock went south a bit, and he tried to claim he entered an extra zero wrongly... he's going to jail for about 20 years now.
Wait, what?
Since when are people imprisoned (I hope he's not awaiting trial for 20 years) for executing stupid trades?
Government has a vital role to play in keeping the economy moving. This is done through tax incentives, loans, stimulus programs and grants.
That's their claim, but it's hogwash. Every dollar 'given' as stimulus has been taken from other people, either directly through taxes, or by devaluation of capital through inflation.
That capital is thus no longer available to its original (proper) owners, and so cannot be invested by them. The only remaining question is whether the government is more careful with how it invests other people's money than they are themselves.
To illustrate the point, may I present: A123 Systems.
If the precedent of rights and protection is established for even the slimeballs, then the rest of us should be good.
The rights of the majority don't need protection from the majority. Popular speech isn't censored.
Then again, perhaps the premise that a majority has the moral ability to take away the rights of the minority (in any number of instances) is the more fundamental problem.
You would be surprised how much of a country is run by underlings thinking they are doing the best thing and what their masters want and then the masters find out and go "you did WHAT!?!"
True, but the responsibility goes with the delegation of authority. Just like when people delegate authority to their drunk selves and then wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and say, "you did WHAT!?!" - they're still responsible.
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That's easy. Lift a crew in on military CH-47 and CH-53 helicopters, including Skycrane variants
Are those *in* the contingency plan? Do they have the copters on contract so that they're guaranteed to be available when needed? Are they *hoping* the military has some nearby that will be available for their use?
It all seems like corner-cutting and cost-shifting to me.
It would be in the West's as well as America's and the nuke industry
Your plan has a fatal flaw: it would not be in the best interests of the politicians who are using global warming as an excuse to grab money and power.
We have a political problem regarding energy, not a technical one.
You're railing against 1950's light water reactor designs. Modern nuclear power is much less expensive and much more safe. Talk to the DoE who prevents the plants from being built (and the politicians who see to that to advance their agendas).
I suppose one could make other immune cells (NK cells?) that target just the B-cell-targetting Tcells.
It would be better to insert genes that would trigger apoptosis in the programmed T-cells. Better to require therapeutic doses of T-cells for the treatment period than to require maintenance therapies for life.
, with the bonus of a persistent immune response that continually suppresses any survivors. The downside is that the patient is left with no B-Cells to produce antibodies, and thus relies on periodic infusions of IVIG
Is there some thought that the patient's marrow is going to continue to produce cancerous B-cells? It seems that way because otherwise they'd produce a killer-T-cell with a terminator gene, right?
The major trading indicies are OK with this, because they are paid on a per-transaction basis, and happily collect their fraction of a cent from each of these high-speed traders.
That, and that the regulatory environment has locked in the incumbents to a cartel position so that it's impossible for a new market (say a fair market where orders can't be cancelled for 15 minutes) to compete. NASDAQ couldn't be started today.
"Now that we've established what you are, ma'am, it's simply a matter of negotiating the price."
if you're telling me that that part of North America is going to get more arid?
There are some models that say that. However, the geological history shows that warm periods tend to be wet periods. 5% of the world's water is locked up in police ice caps. We could use some of that back in the atmosphere - humans did very well in the period when the Middle East was lush and the Sahara wasn't desertifying. Of course that doesn't mean that everybody "benefits" individually. Lake Chad used to be 300x larger and 100 feet deeper than it is now. I'm sure lots of property is currently owned in that area. But North Africa was fertile instead of desert, and agriculture flourished, along with civilization. (Interestingly, more people now live in the desert North Africa than lived in the fertile North Africa - quality of life is a separate topic).
There is a real risk that the thermohaline cycle near Greenland will change and deflect the Gulf Stream to somewhere other than Northern Europe, which is kept artificially warm by it. It may be that Northern Europe was settled by humans at the time that it was because a global cooling trend caused local warming for Northern Europe. This is all that really matters to the UN/IPCC and "First World" governments since so much of their wealth is concentrated there. That it proposes means for the bankers and government people to grab more money and power "to stop it" is icing on the cake.
So, the models put out by people who are funded by these interests will largely be based on certain assumptions that fit the desired outcomes, and the models will show the outcomes that are generated by those assumptions. It would be silly to expect anything else from them.
The only thing that's certain right now is that every existing model is deficient in several ways. The interest of science would be best served by everybody who's model building being as up front and specific as possible about all the assumptions their models make and all the data sets that were used to build it. Assuming it's possible to build a good model through scientific collaboration with human-scale machines, this falls into the category of "when alchemists stopped keeping secrets they became chemists".
There's no bad way to spend $140 B (or more).
Blowing up children in Yemen would stand out as a bad way to spend that kind of money. vs. being put to productive use in the US economy.
As economic stimulus goes, I think I'd rather have bridges that don't fall down and railways that work than 1 Gbps to my home.
If the USG weren't trying to take defacto control of the majority of the Middle East, you could have both.
The best I have experienced was Zimbra, but it really prefers to be run on a standalone machine and is pretty resource intensive.
Give Roundcubemail a try - it's pretty good. I still need to get back to Thunderbird with Nostalgy to actually file the messages, though.
I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want....
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that "our ideas" isn't a valid expression. Truly unique ideas are extremely rare. You can find them in the pure sciences, and what people do then is to publish a paper. For every idea Apple has brought to market (they are quite good at *execution*) there are a dozen people who have thought of it first but lacked the resources to bring it to market.
A pure nuanced capitalist would've licensed the thousands of patents at a realistic price and made lots of money for himself and his shareholders.
A pure capitalist doesn't rely on State-created mechanisms like Imaginary Property. But he certainly can make some money in helping others execute ideas that he's already executed. I believe, rather, that Jobs intended to use the State to establish a monopoly on portable tablet devices (with and without phones).
But Jobs wasn't a capitalist, he was a self-confessed copycat
true! Stealing artists are only great when they're Jobs, right?
an anarchist
Not a chance - he loved him some State. He loved IP and he loved dining with Obama.
nihilist and narcissist rolled into one
No arguments there!
Yep, that's the conclusion I came to as well, for this few-weeks-old laptop I'm typing on at the moment (Fedora 17). Intel video, Intel Wireless, Intel chipset. I'll just copy & paste what I wrote on the Dell/Ubuntu thread (specifically addressing the poor video resolution then, but the rest holds):
the language/compiler/interpreter/processor/operating system should handle errors for me
Which they can't, unless they know what your intents are. Perhaps there's a way of declaring intents, I'm not sure.
A subset of this might be something like invariant conditions / code contracts which makes sure that you don't have as many unexpected errors to handle. Static typing is another (and more rigid) approach.
The author isn't wrong in the narrow sense that the programmer's tools should allow him to focus his error checking on the flow of his code logic, not the constraints placed on him by his language and runtime. Aspects/cross-cutting could help a bit here too. But there's also the point that programmers are lazy or under the gun - if you see a java programmer always only catching (Exception e) then he's not doing the kinds of error checking that the authors of the class he's using knew could occur. I can see where a development manager might want the option to turn off this shortcut capability for his developers for certain types of code. Automatic code grading could potentially address this for organizations (who might very well choose to accept "D+" code because that's there's budget for, but they'd do it knowingly).
Going by $720M / day, that's less than 200 days of the war in Iraq.
Yes, but the Iraq war benefits the bankers, globalists, and components of the military-industrial-media complex. Nationwide gigabit fiber would chiefly benefit the citizenry and small businesses. So, the Legislators simply can't vote for such a thing!
I realize it's only speculation, but that's all we get with Google products. One minute it's a product, the next it's EOL. Or perhaps App Engine stays but the Python support gets phased out in favor of Java. Google products do sometimes lose features over time - the thread on why Google Docs took away table cell merging is a funny read if you get software freedom.
so which choice is the average wage slave going to make?
And there's the problem, well isolated. The employee culture itself is the societal sickness.
But people don't want to take responsibility for their own livelihoods.
diesel fuel needs to be atomized
You haven't started a burn pile with diesel, eh?
If you really think it is a sin go find a company that wants a 5 ton satellite launched for free, with the possibility of loosing it.
If the insurance cost is lower than the launch cost, this is an easy one (unless the payload is very time critical).
We have Rove and others absolutely convinced they were going to win the election, because they refused to read the polls.
Exactly this. I read the polls in Summer 2011, saw that only one candidate in the Republican field could beat Obama in any polling match up, so I worked for that candidate (as a County Chair, even though I'm a registered Democrat) and we did OK (he got 2nd place in my State, in both parties' primaries).
But he did not fit the mold of what the Party Bosses were looking for, so their media lapdogs did as they were instructed, and pretty soon it was clear that Romney was the anointed candidate (by March at the latest). Not once since then did I not say that Obama was guaranteed re-election.
And it turns out in retrospect that all the quality polls were :dead on:. The Republicans could have had the Whitehouse if the fake "Republican values" really represented the ideas of the party (vs. being Corporatist puppets in reality).
Funny thing is, my candidate would agree with this report almost in its entirety. If there's a silver lining it's that Khanna's generation will be in charge in 30 years.
some idiot bought a million shares right before an earnings release, the stock went south a bit, and he tried to claim he entered an extra zero wrongly... he's going to jail for about 20 years now.
Wait, what?
Since when are people imprisoned (I hope he's not awaiting trial for 20 years) for executing stupid trades?
Government has a vital role to play in keeping the economy moving. This is done through tax incentives, loans, stimulus programs and grants.
That's their claim, but it's hogwash. Every dollar 'given' as stimulus has been taken from other people, either directly through taxes, or by devaluation of capital through inflation.
That capital is thus no longer available to its original (proper) owners, and so cannot be invested by them. The only remaining question is whether the government is more careful with how it invests other people's money than they are themselves.
To illustrate the point, may I present: A123 Systems.
AC: your daily affirmations are meant to be kept private.
If the precedent of rights and protection is established for even the slimeballs, then the rest of us should be good.
The rights of the majority don't need protection from the majority. Popular speech isn't censored.
Then again, perhaps the premise that a majority has the moral ability to take away the rights of the minority (in any number of instances) is the more fundamental problem.
oh, nm, I forgot all the money is made these days in selling analytics.
You would be surprised how much of a country is run by underlings thinking they are doing the best thing and what their masters want and then the masters find out and go "you did WHAT!?!"
True, but the responsibility goes with the delegation of authority. Just like when people delegate authority to their drunk selves and then wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and say, "you did WHAT!?!" - they're still responsible.