Well, tidal forces acting on the Moon would trigger selenologic activity, and could provide enough stress to keep he core molten, especially considering that the Sun would apply some gravitational stress, too. Tidal forces are believed to be the mechanism keeping Io volcanically active.
Whacko with a backpack starts pushing towards a Senator, yelling and making a scene and the Senator is the violent one? And it wasn't even the Senator who "wrestled him to the ground", it was a campaign aide. But that makes the Senator violent. You all probably won't want to see this since it doesn't show the "nonviolent, innocent" stalker in a good light.
Now, if it was a whacko yelling about "killing babies" while pushing towards Ted Kennedy carrying a backpack, would you call Kennedy "violent" if his staffers wrestled that nut to the ground? Of course not.
Yes, good point. There hasn't been such a consolidation of power in the U.S. government like this before in my lifetime and I hope it doesn't happen again.
Um, 1933 is calling, they want their hyperbole back.
I would say the thing that served me best in enhancing my programming skills was the insane variety of different programming assignments I had through the years. I started on a satellite positioning and monitoring system in VAX Fortran, then immediately became a Smalltalk programmer coding an expert system for computer maintenance, then jumped into network monitoring using Unix, X Window and C, then went to another company where I did Bayesian analysis of text messages in C on Mac OS, then document scanning and management workflow systems, then... well, let's just say I have no domain-specific skills, the only domain I have is pure software development. By working on so many wildly varying systems, I was able to learn the common attributes of good and bad software, how to quickly analyze software for problems and how to develop software more efficiently and correctly.
If you can't get a variety of different assignments where you are, change companies. If you work for a large defense company, the odds are good that there are many radically different types of software development going on, from business systems, to logistics, to embedded real-time systems. If you want to learn discipline, start at defense contractors. Business systems are far too loose and "get it out the door" to learn good software development discipline and skills. From what I've seen and worked with, I almost want to take all my money out of banks and brokerages and stuff it under my mattress!
Oh, and as far as learning from books, it just never worked for me. I always learned best from other people, and from existing code. Books are for reference, to look up details about languages, libraries, operating systems, and other tools.
I'll just reply here, arbitrarily, to thank all who replied.
This is the first I'd heard of a CD/DVD hybrid, which sounds like it could be the worst of both worlds (and has been for some people). Since they make dual-disk holders, you would think they would have just put in two disks, one DVD and one CD. I just bought a Japanese enka album that did that, and both work just fine.
Still not sure I'll buy this Weird Al CD/DVD thing, seeing the trouble people have had...
I saw this CD in the store, but it had a sticker saying it "doesn't conform to CD standards" and "may not play in some computer CD drives", so I passed. If this is a parody sticker, too, then I might reconsider, but if he's seriously into helping the record companies with this, I'll move on.
Yeah, he had "Don't download this song" but you never know...
It's a shame we can't get a tax credit for every bit of "stupid" that government generates, of course, if we did then the government wouldn't get any revenue.
Trouble with this law, US providers might see it and decide to start charging users for the light they "use".
I was bored one trip years ago (Cold War era) and I needed something to read so I started reading the fine print on my plane ticket. Several clauses into it the ticket stated that airports are not US territory, that they are "subject to international law". Basically you may be a US citizen with the protection of US law, but once you set foot in the airport, you're only afforded the protections that "international law" provides. Not necessarily the same thing, especially when it comes to "minor" rights like freedom of speech. Try saying "bomb" or greeting your friend with "Hi, Jack!" Once I found out about that, I treat all airports like I would if I was in an embassy building, or in a foreign country. The "natives" (workers) are not my people.
That's the point, it would change "the way the system works" since it really doesn't "work" now. If the system was radically changed, the people who would become lawmakers for a term would not only be listening to the lobbyists, but also their friends, family, and whoever else from back home. And given most people's reluctance to be arm-twisted by strangers, the lobbyists would not be in the best position to influence, unless they directly bribed the legislators, and that can be offset by public disclosure laws. There would be less direct influence of the "big money" that so many people decry and which has caused the creation of free speech restriction laws like McCain-Feingold. No more dynastic offices, no more huge re-election pots that people build up, no more permanent campaigning. The office holders would also better reflect the real country, instead of an exclusive country club for rich lawyers.
As opposed to the current system, where we end up with popular rich idiot lawyers in office. At least with a random draft, you're likely to get at least a few of each profession in office, the ones who would be directly affected by legislation. You would also have a legislature that "looks like America" in terms of race, sex, religion, whatever metric you want. You would also still have the Supreme Court to prevent any unconstitutional laws from standing.
Service in legislatures should be just like jury duty. Every adult over 21 in each district should be registered in a database indexed by SocSecNo, and every two and six years some random person in each district is selected and made to go serve as Representative or Senator. Once their term is up, they are removed from the database for 12 years and aren't subject to being picked again during that time. We'll get losers that way, but we'll also get some smart people, none of whom will be able to keep their seats long enough to get burned out. No more politicking, no more election ads, no more parties. Lobbying will still go on, but make it illegal for someone who has served to lobby for the term immediately after their term is over.
Before anyone says it, I'm 28, not 50 and I still recall the good old days of somewhat intelligent television.
Funny, I'm almost 50 and I don't remember any good old days of somewhat intelligent television...
I have to admit, as infotainment goes, "Mythbusters" does a pretty good job, not quite but almost as good as the old "Mr. Wizard" or "Bill Nye the Science Guy" shows.
"Perhaps most revealingly, transgenic mice with this gene incorporated into their genomes have been found to habitually scratch patterns on the floors of their cages that strongly resemble engineering blueprints for a flamethrower."
Are they named "Pinky" and sound like Orson Welles?
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Well, tidal forces acting on the Moon would trigger selenologic activity, and could provide enough stress to keep he core molten, especially considering that the Sun would apply some gravitational stress, too. Tidal forces are believed to be the mechanism keeping Io volcanically active.
"Selenologically" I would think. Or "Artemologically" perhaps.
It's all Greek to me, though...
I thought it was to distinguish them from criminals like Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wayne Gacy, John Allen Muhammed...
Um, wait, that didn't work right...
Whacko with a backpack starts pushing towards a Senator, yelling and making a scene and the Senator is the violent one? And it wasn't even the Senator who "wrestled him to the ground", it was a campaign aide. But that makes the Senator violent. You all probably won't want to see this since it doesn't show the "nonviolent, innocent" stalker in a good light.
Now, if it was a whacko yelling about "killing babies" while pushing towards Ted Kennedy carrying a backpack, would you call Kennedy "violent" if his staffers wrestled that nut to the ground? Of course not.
I submitted about this back in April and it was rejected, now the NyTimes writes about it and it's "news."
Feh.
Now, the President won't have to wait days for the local governments to declare natural disasters before sending in troops, as in New Orleans.
Oh, wait, that doesn't play into the paranoid fantasies. Sorry. Forget I said anything.
Yes, good point. There hasn't been such a consolidation of power in the U.S. government like this before in my lifetime and I hope it doesn't happen again.
Um, 1933 is calling, they want their hyperbole back.
I would say the thing that served me best in enhancing my programming skills was the insane variety of different programming assignments I had through the years. I started on a satellite positioning and monitoring system in VAX Fortran, then immediately became a Smalltalk programmer coding an expert system for computer maintenance, then jumped into network monitoring using Unix, X Window and C, then went to another company where I did Bayesian analysis of text messages in C on Mac OS, then document scanning and management workflow systems, then... well, let's just say I have no domain-specific skills, the only domain I have is pure software development. By working on so many wildly varying systems, I was able to learn the common attributes of good and bad software, how to quickly analyze software for problems and how to develop software more efficiently and correctly.
If you can't get a variety of different assignments where you are, change companies. If you work for a large defense company, the odds are good that there are many radically different types of software development going on, from business systems, to logistics, to embedded real-time systems. If you want to learn discipline, start at defense contractors. Business systems are far too loose and "get it out the door" to learn good software development discipline and skills. From what I've seen and worked with, I almost want to take all my money out of banks and brokerages and stuff it under my mattress!
Oh, and as far as learning from books, it just never worked for me. I always learned best from other people, and from existing code. Books are for reference, to look up details about languages, libraries, operating systems, and other tools.
> Look at me! I'm an epistomologist!
Really? How do we know that?
Ya gotta have faith, man!
I'll just reply here, arbitrarily, to thank all who replied.
This is the first I'd heard of a CD/DVD hybrid, which sounds like it could be the worst of both worlds (and has been for some people). Since they make dual-disk holders, you would think they would have just put in two disks, one DVD and one CD. I just bought a Japanese enka album that did that, and both work just fine.
Still not sure I'll buy this Weird Al CD/DVD thing, seeing the trouble people have had...
I saw this CD in the store, but it had a sticker saying it "doesn't conform to CD standards" and "may not play in some computer CD drives", so I passed. If this is a parody sticker, too, then I might reconsider, but if he's seriously into helping the record companies with this, I'll move on.
Yeah, he had "Don't download this song" but you never know...
It's a shame we can't get a tax credit for every bit of "stupid" that government generates, of course, if we did then the government wouldn't get any revenue.
Trouble with this law, US providers might see it and decide to start charging users for the light they "use".
Thank you! I haven't laughed at a Slashdot posting moderated "Funny" in a long, long time! You made my day, sir!
No, no, no!
We should use them in a reconstituted Orion project, where instead of lobbing a nuke out the back, let a battery off against the presser plate!
Hm, maybe that's why they kept the name!
(BTW, I hope no one thinks I'm being serious. If you do, you got problems...)
I was bored one trip years ago (Cold War era) and I needed something to read so I started reading the fine print on my plane ticket. Several clauses into it the ticket stated that airports are not US territory, that they are "subject to international law". Basically you may be a US citizen with the protection of US law, but once you set foot in the airport, you're only afforded the protections that "international law" provides. Not necessarily the same thing, especially when it comes to "minor" rights like freedom of speech. Try saying "bomb" or greeting your friend with "Hi, Jack!" Once I found out about that, I treat all airports like I would if I was in an embassy building, or in a foreign country. The "natives" (workers) are not my people.
I guess so. Funny, I thought it was once spelled "gymbal" but apparently not.
That's the point, it would change "the way the system works" since it really doesn't "work" now. If the system was radically changed, the people who would become lawmakers for a term would not only be listening to the lobbyists, but also their friends, family, and whoever else from back home. And given most people's reluctance to be arm-twisted by strangers, the lobbyists would not be in the best position to influence, unless they directly bribed the legislators, and that can be offset by public disclosure laws. There would be less direct influence of the "big money" that so many people decry and which has caused the creation of free speech restriction laws like McCain-Feingold. No more dynastic offices, no more huge re-election pots that people build up, no more permanent campaigning. The office holders would also better reflect the real country, instead of an exclusive country club for rich lawyers.
As opposed to the current system, where we end up with popular rich idiot lawyers in office. At least with a random draft, you're likely to get at least a few of each profession in office, the ones who would be directly affected by legislation. You would also have a legislature that "looks like America" in terms of race, sex, religion, whatever metric you want. You would also still have the Supreme Court to prevent any unconstitutional laws from standing.
Don't forget unregulated gambeling.
As long as it doesn't lead to uncontrolled gymballing.
Service in legislatures should be just like jury duty. Every adult over 21 in each district should be registered in a database indexed by SocSecNo, and every two and six years some random person in each district is selected and made to go serve as Representative or Senator. Once their term is up, they are removed from the database for 12 years and aren't subject to being picked again during that time. We'll get losers that way, but we'll also get some smart people, none of whom will be able to keep their seats long enough to get burned out. No more politicking, no more election ads, no more parties. Lobbying will still go on, but make it illegal for someone who has served to lobby for the term immediately after their term is over.
Before anyone says it, I'm 28, not 50 and I still recall the good old days of somewhat intelligent television.
Funny, I'm almost 50 and I don't remember any good old days of somewhat intelligent television...
I have to admit, as infotainment goes, "Mythbusters" does a pretty good job, not quite but almost as good as the old "Mr. Wizard" or "Bill Nye the Science Guy" shows.
I really whimmle them glogsnarp with that shnazpackle. Shivlepate the wonkpregark when it azgranks wooversmeeps!
Shmorkle!
*Sigh* Kids.
On the right is Gerald R. Ford, Nixon's VP after Agnew resigned, who became President when Nixon resigned.
It is. Wolf isn't allowing them to see the tape to review.