But I cringe when someone suggests sending billions of dollars to damn near every planet or moon in the solar system just because it seems like it might have had life at some point.
Forein aide generally helps pave the way to good forein relations. It's been a policy of our nation for nearly a century.
We don't know that the gas giants even have solid rocky cores underneath...
Jupiter at least has Schumaker-Levi in there. We can't see through the atmospheres of the gas giants, but if they absorb asteroid and comet impacts, then it seems likely there are some solids or molten solids at their cores.
Personally I think just about any non-profit oriented "copyright violation" is moral.
Hmmm. If you're using something without having paid for it, are you not 'profiting' from it? I know that you meant 'generating income', but when you get something for nothing isn't it still a net gain?
Personally I'm a fan of public execution of sentence. Let's say you get caught DUI. Walking around town with a sign around your neck for 30 days saying "I was caught drinking and driving" is one sure fired way to solve part of the problem.
They already tried this. DWI offenders were required to do community service by picking up trash on the roadsides while wearing pink hats that showed them as DWI offenders. It was dropped because of complaints that the public humiliation was too cruel. The punnishment wasn't in use long enough to see if it had any effect. You still see people from the jails picking up road trash in their orange jumpsuits, but the pink hats designating the DWI offenders are gone.
Pete Domenici is a republican and so is Heather Wilson(House). About 80% of the _state_ legislature is Democrat, however. You are right that the relatively low per-capita income (a fair fraction of these people are already at or below the poverty level) in the rural areas are what keep property taxes comparitively low, although Santa Fe county is getting up there. They could raise taxes (and probably will to pay for Richardson's commuter rail) around Albuquerque since about 60% of the states population lives within 50 miles of the city.
I believe you're refering to the 'Morris Worm', released in November 1988. According to Wikkipedia, the GAO estimates the damages were between $10M and $100M US dollars.
There are similar laws here in New Mexico with regard to home repair/construction. For example: you can't do any electrical/plumbing work on your own home unless you are either a licensed contractor or have passed a state exam (the same one contractors must pass) demonstrating competency. I imagine this is, in part, to assure that the work meets building codes, although that should be the job of the building inspector.
I'd prefer the focus to be on the medical and scientific uses, especially dealing the quad- and paraplegics, ALS, Parkinson's, etc.
True. Imagine what this could do for someone like Stephen Hawking. His paralysis must make it excuciatingly and frustratingly slow to enter anything into his computer now. This could allow him to log, analyze and communicate his thoughts much quicker, even if it didn't give him much more mobility.
Agreed, but I'd bet that pin 940 is necessary for multi-cpu systems. Why else would they remove a single pin on the fx while keeping it on the opteron? Any hardware hackers out there have the low down?
Yup. And Harley-Davidson has trademarked the Harley-Davidson "sound" for its bikes. I'm not sure how this is done unless a sound spectrum is on file with the trademark office.
2. The vote recount was stopped by the Supreme Court. I just find that astonishing.
Actually, the SCOTUS ruled that the Florida state supreme court didn't have the authority to change the rules of election as established by the Florida state legislature. This would have been a constitutional violation.
Checks and balances doing exactly what they should.
I know you said you don't like k(anything), but have you tried kuickshow? No need to load a play list. Just load an image and scroll through all images in the current directory with the mouse wheel(or pgup/pgdn if you prefer). I find it a very useful viewer.
Really what needs to be outsourced are the top multimillion dollar positions.
This would have an undesireable backlash in the form of higher taxes for middle and lower income wage earners. People in the multimillion dollar earnings bracket bear in excess of 50% of the total income tax burden. If they go away, the burden has to be redistributed. This may or may not be a bad thing in the long run, but it should definitely be taken into consideration.
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From the article: "The missing radiation is in the region of visible light and infrared..."
The three biggest IR absorbers in our atmosphere are CO2, water vapor, and ozone. Not necessarily in that order. Two are reportedly increasing with one decreasing. Draw your own conclusions.
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I think he was refering to the 'billions' in profits they would potentially make by 'selling' you a replacement.
But I cringe when someone suggests sending billions of dollars to damn near every planet or moon in the solar system just because it seems like it might have had life at some point.
Forein aide generally helps pave the way to good forein relations. It's been a policy of our nation for nearly a century.
We don't know that the gas giants even have solid rocky cores underneath...
Jupiter at least has Schumaker-Levi in there. We can't see through the atmospheres of the gas giants, but if they absorb asteroid and comet impacts, then it seems likely there are some solids or molten solids at their cores.
Personally I think just about any non-profit oriented "copyright violation" is moral.
Hmmm. If you're using something without having paid for it, are you not 'profiting' from it? I know that you meant 'generating income', but when you get something for nothing isn't it still a net gain?
...then we take the women?
Dream on geek boy.
My first thought was that this was comp.os.linux.advocacy. sheesh, if they thought the flames from /. were bad.
Personally I'm a fan of public execution of sentence. Let's say you get caught DUI. Walking around town with a sign around your neck for 30 days saying "I was caught drinking and driving" is one sure fired way to solve part of the problem.
They already tried this. DWI offenders were required to do community service by picking up trash on the roadsides while wearing pink hats that showed them as DWI offenders. It was dropped because of complaints that the public humiliation was too cruel. The punnishment wasn't in use long enough to see if it had any effect. You still see people from the jails picking up road trash in their orange jumpsuits, but the pink hats designating the DWI offenders are gone.
Haven't spent much time in the northern mountains out here, have you? Below zero temps are not at all uncommon.
Pete Domenici is a republican and so is Heather Wilson(House). About 80% of the _state_ legislature is Democrat, however. You are right that the relatively low per-capita income (a fair fraction of these people are already at or below the poverty level) in the rural areas are what keep property taxes comparitively low, although Santa Fe county is getting up there. They could raise taxes (and probably will to pay for Richardson's commuter rail) around Albuquerque since about 60% of the states population lives within 50 miles of the city.
Whoops. I'm too bleary eyed this morning. He asked for a linux worm, and I read 'unix'. I think I'll have another cup of coffee.
Can you even name that worm, I wonder?
I believe you're refering to the 'Morris Worm', released in November 1988. According to Wikkipedia, the GAO estimates the damages were between $10M and $100M US dollars.
Not really. That's why Duct Tape was invented.
There are similar laws here in New Mexico with regard to home repair/construction. For example: you can't do any electrical/plumbing work on your own home unless you are either a licensed contractor or have passed a state exam (the same one contractors must pass) demonstrating competency. I imagine this is, in part, to assure that the work meets building codes, although that should be the job of the building inspector.
Fucking impossible to find, though.
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Not surprising, with a shitty sounding name like that.
I tended to prefer VB myself. I noticed that Tooeys seemed popular amongst the locals though.
I'd prefer the focus to be on the medical and scientific uses, especially dealing the quad- and paraplegics, ALS, Parkinson's, etc.
True. Imagine what this could do for someone like Stephen Hawking. His paralysis must make it excuciatingly and frustratingly slow to enter anything into his computer now. This could allow him to log, analyze and communicate his thoughts much quicker, even if it didn't give him much more mobility.
Then there was finally noticing the gas gangrene on my foot that one day...oy.
You don't by any chance have Hansens disease do you?
Agreed, but I'd bet that pin 940 is necessary for multi-cpu systems. Why else would they remove a single pin on the fx while keeping it on the opteron? Any hardware hackers out there have the low down?
Yup. And Harley-Davidson has trademarked the Harley-Davidson "sound" for its bikes. I'm not sure how this is done unless a sound spectrum is on file with the trademark office.
They wouldn't have the cash to pay refunds since their net worth would likely be in the negative within minutes of the decision.
2. The vote recount was stopped by the Supreme Court. I just find that astonishing.
Actually, the SCOTUS ruled that the Florida state supreme court didn't have the authority to change the rules of election as established by the Florida state legislature. This would have been a constitutional violation.
Checks and balances doing exactly what they should.
I guess they'll just have to ship the printer to their tech support dept. in India to get the toner cartridge replaced.
I know you said you don't like k(anything), but have you tried kuickshow? No need to load a play list. Just load an image and scroll through all images in the current directory with the mouse wheel(or pgup/pgdn if you prefer). I find it a very useful viewer.
Really what needs to be outsourced are the top multimillion dollar positions.
This would have an undesireable backlash in the form of higher taxes for middle and lower income wage earners. People in the multimillion dollar earnings bracket bear in excess of 50% of the total income tax burden. If they go away, the burden has to be redistributed. This may or may not be a bad thing in the long run, but it should definitely be taken into consideration.
From the article: "The missing radiation is in the region of visible light and infrared..."
The three biggest IR absorbers in our atmosphere are CO2, water vapor, and ozone. Not necessarily in that order. Two are reportedly increasing with one decreasing. Draw your own conclusions.