The group does better when all of it's members are vaccinated. There might be individual cases where the vaccinations *might* be harmful to the individual.
It would be interesting to compare the rate at which individuals are being verifiably harmed by a vaccination versus the chance of catching the disease.
I have been vaccinating my kids but I'm trying to spread the shots out over time, making sure that there is no thimerosal being used and generally looking at alternative vaccination schedules (from places like Canada and Scandinavia).
It's one thing to engage in a behaviour that is self-destructive and yet another that can be group destructive.
The worst part of having about 50% of our grad students being international is that our immigration and labor laws make it very difficult for them to get jobs in the US.
I work for a major Midwestern university and I know lots of grad students. Of the international students, maybe half can get jobs in the US, but a lot more would like to work in the US.
This means about 25% of our best educated students, their knowledge and expertise are leaving this country.
That's huge.
We have a great university system but for how long? We keep kicking out the best we educate because they are foreigners and I don't know how we can keep the top schools here.
Yes, my "evidence" is anecdotal but the trends are clear.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. Robert Heinlein, _Life Line_ (1939)
2. Stop developing drugs for stupid shit. Yes, lots of people have Type2 diabetes. We already have a cure for that; a treadmill. Stop wasting money to develop a drug *just* to make money off a stupid disease.
Do you realize how hard it is to change your diet and habits? I've had to because mine led me to Type 2 Diabetes (and a genetic predisposition). I have been fortunate enough to have been able to hack my diet and such for the last few years then when I did get diagnosed I was able to hack it some more and really start myself down the path were I might be able to control it with just diet and exercise.
However, I do understand that the kind of introspection and acting on the introspection is rare among us humans. It is easy to criticize behavior but quite another to change your own.
I agree that we can do things to steer people away from bad choices but we can't make people "unstupid".
We all have vices, recognizing them and doing something about them are entirely different and difficult.
The point of "Good to Great" was that hiring a top level manager from outside the company was a very strong indicator for failure.
The generalization is that the leader doesn't understand the culture of the company so they do what they think is best instead of understanding what it is that the company does best.
I think a recent example is Fiorina and HP. She didn't understand the HP way so imposed what she that was the right way to run HP. I think Hurd won't be any better.
Money wasn't a factor for a company's success in Collins' books. At least not executive salary.
Continuing the car analogies Soyuz seems more like a semi-truck with a sleeper compartment and the Shuttle is more like an RV. Which would you use to haul cargo somewhere?
The main issue here is that programming isn't necessary anymore for kids - whatever any kid wants to do they can rush out and buy a bit of software for, or find a utility online. All the functionality they'd want is at their fingertips already, so programming is left to the tinkerers.
So where do these bits of software and utilities come from? I don't think there are enough "tinkerers" in the world to write all of the software and utilities needed.
The smaller case would fit in most backpacks just fine. The larger case is a problem because of the dimensions, 13"x18"x3". The Oakley backpack looks promising but the $150 price tag is a lot.
Then again, spending about $200 to protect and carry a $2,000 laptop is a good deal in my book.
Another article by Larry Johnson about how thin the Chicago Tribune article is.
Sure once you are told who might be a CIA agent you can find lots of information about them on the web. However, can you determine that a person is an agent from information on the web?
It is true that 95% of users don't use GPG, but I'd regard that as a flaw in and of itself. Mind you, most e-mail programs (including, IIRC, thunderbird) don't support GPG, although some do support a limited range of digital certificates.
I guess the Enigmail folks aren't really doing anything then? Not sure if poster deserves an "Informative" moderation.
I think most of the major email clients support encryption beyond a "limited range of digital certificates". There are GPG plugins for Outlook. I'm not sure about Eudora, however.
I will agree that a very large number of people don't use GPG in their email.
For technical courses there is a lot of equations and such that would need to be entered in a lecture. I'm assuming that a professor will have course notes available but there will be gaps that are filled in during lecture. Entering equations via a keyboards sucks, I haven't found anything that really works.
Having a tablet pc (like a Thinkpad X41 or X60) would be useful in this. A slate tablet pc is rather useless to a student. It needs to be a hybrid tablet.
As some else mentioned, these are only tools but I think in technical courses it would useful.
Of course, software and such might be an issue. However, if the school is smart they have plenty of iron in the back that students can connect to and run the software they need.
As powerful as laptops are getting they still are good enough to run resource hungry applications (CAD, FEA, rendering, etc.)
Desktops and servers are needed for such things. Even having a horde of iron in the backroom for them to use won't necessarily solve things. Most people seem to have problems understanding how to use servers. Then again most of my servers are unix/linux and most people get precious little training in that area.
As an IT person for a university I deal with this all day every day. I wouldn't dump everyone to laptops because they wouldn't be able to run everything they need to on them.
As someone wrote above, get out while you retain your sanity. Your president just made life a living hell and unless you are a bastard operator you better get out.
The "nuclear option" to remove the fillibuster would be a change in the Senate rules. In order to change the Senate rules a two thirds majority is needed. The Republicans would try to change the rule without that majority.
So, unless 11 Democrats or 10 Democrats and the lone Independent decide to have a brief moment of insanity the rule change can't occur. It's either a bunch of bluster or the Republicans will illegally change the Senate rules.
I think the biggest advantage Rutan has over NASA is that he doesn't have 535 Congress folks telling him how to allocate his budget.
NASA has very little flexibility in its budget. Too much of it is earmarked for specific spending thanks to somebody in Congress whose district somehow benefits from it.
If NASA was given larger control over its budget I think we see better things. Until we somehow get those 535 micromanagers off of NASA's back I don't see that happening any time soon.
The other items in your list aren't special to Rutan. NASA would still suffer some inefficiencies any large organization has but it's biggest problem is how Congress controls so mucy of what it does.
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The group does better when all of it's members are vaccinated. There might be individual cases where the vaccinations *might* be harmful to the individual.
It would be interesting to compare the rate at which individuals are being verifiably harmed by a vaccination versus the chance of catching the disease.
I have been vaccinating my kids but I'm trying to spread the shots out over time, making sure that there is no thimerosal being used and generally looking at alternative vaccination schedules (from places like Canada and Scandinavia).
It's one thing to engage in a behaviour that is self-destructive and yet another that can be group destructive.
The worst part of having about 50% of our grad students being international is that our immigration and labor laws make it very difficult for them to get jobs in the US.
I work for a major Midwestern university and I know lots of grad students. Of the international students, maybe half can get jobs in the US, but a lot more would like to work in the US.
This means about 25% of our best educated students, their knowledge and expertise are leaving this country.
That's huge.
We have a great university system but for how long? We keep kicking out the best we educate because they are foreigners and I don't know how we can keep the top schools here.
Yes, my "evidence" is anecdotal but the trends are clear.
All I could think of is that they found a nice security hole into Iraq.
Do you realize how hard it is to change your diet and habits? I've had to because mine led me to Type 2 Diabetes (and a genetic predisposition). I have been fortunate enough to have been able to hack my diet and such for the last few years then when I did get diagnosed I was able to hack it some more and really start myself down the path were I might be able to control it with just diet and exercise.
However, I do understand that the kind of introspection and acting on the introspection is rare among us humans. It is easy to criticize behavior but quite another to change your own.
I agree that we can do things to steer people away from bad choices but we can't make people "unstupid".
We all have vices, recognizing them and doing something about them are entirely different and difficult.
I know this is nitpicking but how can one have an article that uses superscripts for references but not links?
Do I fault the author or the publisher?
The point of "Good to Great" was that hiring a top level manager from outside the company was a very strong indicator for failure.
The generalization is that the leader doesn't understand the culture of the company so they do what they think is best instead of understanding what it is that the company does best.
I think a recent example is Fiorina and HP. She didn't understand the HP way so imposed what she that was the right way to run HP. I think Hurd won't be any better.
Money wasn't a factor for a company's success in Collins' books. At least not executive salary.
But you can use that entire volume in low g.
Imagine a 7x7 bed all to yourself.
Soyuz is transport not a living space.
Continuing the car analogies Soyuz seems more like a semi-truck with a sleeper compartment and the Shuttle is more like an RV. Which would you use to haul cargo somewhere?
While a web search on Google turns up a lot of hits, a Google News search is much more focused and probably relevant.
"gunshot to the face"
This turns up 5 hits from May 5 to May 29th. Four of them in the US and one in South Africa. Not one seems to mention a hitman or a gamer.
So where do these bits of software and utilities come from? I don't think there are enough "tinkerers" in the world to write all of the software and utilities needed.
Why spend a ton of cash on a Zero Halliburton. Vanguard has a bunch of cases you can typically find for around $40-$60.
I have a small case for my Vaio SR7K and a large case for my Thinkpad T43.
The smaller case would fit in most backpacks just fine. The larger case is a problem because of the dimensions, 13"x18"x3". The Oakley backpack looks promising but the $150 price tag is a lot.
Then again, spending about $200 to protect and carry a $2,000 laptop is a good deal in my book.
Another article by Larry Johnson about how thin the Chicago Tribune article is.
Sure once you are told who might be a CIA agent you can find lots of information about them on the web. However, can you determine that a person is an agent from information on the web?
That is really the question.
I guess the Enigmail folks aren't really doing anything then? Not sure if poster deserves an "Informative" moderation.
I think most of the major email clients support encryption beyond a "limited range of digital certificates". There are GPG plugins for Outlook. I'm not sure about Eudora, however.
I will agree that a very large number of people don't use GPG in their email.
For technical courses there is a lot of equations and such that would need to be entered in a lecture. I'm assuming that a professor will have course notes available but there will be gaps that are filled in during lecture. Entering equations via a keyboards sucks, I haven't found anything that really works.
Having a tablet pc (like a Thinkpad X41 or X60) would be useful in this. A slate tablet pc is rather useless to a student. It needs to be a hybrid tablet.
As some else mentioned, these are only tools but I think in technical courses it would useful.
Of course, software and such might be an issue. However, if the school is smart they have plenty of iron in the back that students can connect to and run the software they need.
As powerful as laptops are getting they still are good enough to run resource hungry applications (CAD, FEA, rendering, etc.)
Desktops and servers are needed for such things. Even having a horde of iron in the backroom for them to use won't necessarily solve things. Most people seem to have problems understanding how to use servers. Then again most of my servers are unix/linux and most people get precious little training in that area.
As an IT person for a university I deal with this all day every day. I wouldn't dump everyone to laptops because they wouldn't be able to run everything they need to on them.
As someone wrote above, get out while you retain your sanity. Your president just made life a living hell and unless you are a bastard operator you better get out.
With more and more oil producing countries moving to the Euro, I would say that the US dollar is slowly becoming funny money.
Between a creating a slipstream windows xp cd and something like unattended you should be good to go.
open-xchange is ok. It isn't Exchange but then again what is? I would really, really like to find a replacement for it.
There is a free version and a pay version.
I have setup Suse Linux Open-Exchange 4.1
It's not an Exchange killer. It is cool but not good enough.
Until the shared calendar of these products is as easy to use as Exchange then none will prevail.
I hate Exchange but the shared calendar stuff works.
Unless you're management that number is closer to 400 times your salary. At least it's the righr order of magnitude.
The "nuclear option" to remove the fillibuster would be a change in the Senate rules. In order to change the Senate rules a two thirds majority is needed. The Republicans would try to change the rule without that majority.
So, unless 11 Democrats or 10 Democrats and the lone Independent decide to have a brief moment of insanity the rule change can't occur. It's either a bunch of bluster or the Republicans will illegally change the Senate rules.
Wouldn't put it past them, they're politicians.
I think the biggest advantage Rutan has over NASA is that he doesn't have 535 Congress folks telling him how to allocate his budget.
NASA has very little flexibility in its budget. Too much of it is earmarked for specific spending thanks to somebody in Congress whose district somehow benefits from it.
If NASA was given larger control over its budget I think we see better things. Until we somehow get those 535 micromanagers off of NASA's back I don't see that happening any time soon.
The other items in your list aren't special to Rutan. NASA would still suffer some inefficiencies any large organization has but it's biggest problem is how Congress controls so mucy of what it does.
Or a more current version:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/
I would happily have linux workstations, but there wouldn't be Catia, Pro/E, or a lot of other applications on them that students use daily.
I suppose I could have more Solaris boxes but then I wouldn't have as many available for people to use.
As much as I don't like Windows, other software vendors are complicit in the MS monopoly as well.
Why not backup to tape or hard drive and ship it to a document warehouse?
Just be sure to encrypt the data just in case UPS decides to lose your package.