That begs a question. If a defendant were to refuse, entirely and utterly, unlocking such a device what would the legal ramifications be?* At some point the 'cost' (whatever prison time) underweights the benefits (the punishment for the greater crime).
*Say, by inputting a passcode that destructs all data on the HD - rendering it useless.
Yeah, unfortunately the 5th Amendment only says that if the courts agree. Knowing our courts, they'll side with whatever works best for business (ala Citizen's United).
Shade will only take you so far. At temperatures above 105-110F, wind convection 'cooks' you where ever you may be.
A fine mist of water will cool you much more (in a desert - I don't know if it'd be effective in a humid climate). The finer you can make the mist the less 'annoying' it will be (and more cooling). If you can combine the two, mist and shade, you might even be comfortable.
Anyway, I've learned some other DIY tricks for cooling myself in the desert. I always carry a metallic (no insulation) water canteen with me.* Hold the canteen close against the underside of your wrists or against the nape of your neck. Your blood pulls the heat from your body into the canteen and decreases your average temperature slightly. Be patient, though, this trick takes a couple minutes to start working.
*The canteen maintains coolness in heat for quite a while. Putting some ice in the canteen makes this trick all the more effective and longer lived. Virtually anything that's cool should work.
A simple theory to properly frame comparisons between income and growth of nations is the Solow growth model. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogenous_growth_model I'm not going to outline this, but keep it in mind.)
There are 1.3-1.5 (I forget) billion people in China and about.3 billion people in the US. No prediction is 100% accurate, but contrasting some numbers always helps an argument. GDP per capita is about $4.5k and $45k in China and the US, respectively. Over time (decades to centuries of time) and with 'free markets' differences in GDP per capita (per capita being the key) should equalize. Some people take this to mean that "in X years, China's GDP (not per capita) will be Y times the size of the US' GDP," where X is somewhere between 20-100 years and Y > 1 (say, Y=10 under the Solow growth model).
That theory suggests at least one of the BRIC countries will eventually grow to be larger than the US (just replace China with Brazil, Russia, or India - as well as the appropriate numbers). Evidence is the 'bubble' that you refer to.* China is currently not developing the 'optimal' amount of output (GDP) that it could, given it's (developing) labor, capitol, and technological capabilities. Solow's model predicts drastic growth rates for nations in China's position.
If I had numerical evidence for all this I would be writing somewhere other than a slashdot post;)
*A little on the term "bubble": Popular media outlets love to throw around the term "bubble", but they never define what it means. Judging by the popular media, a bubble occurs whenever some 'irrationality' enters a market and prices on goods no longer reflect what those prices 'should be'. Popular media never report what prices 'should be' - let alone believable figures.
A commuter car doesn't need to be much bigger than a motorcycle. I'm not talking categorical imperatives, a randomly selected car on the road, in the US, is much bigger and heavier than a smart car. I wont care about my carbon footprint, nor yours, if I'm dead.
For a daily commuter, it looks a little small. The average size of a 'randomly selected' US commuter car is considerably bigger than this car. I love the concept, but it looks about as 'safe' as commuting via motorcycle.
Heck, at this point I'd consider a smaller car 'enclosed' in a bigger, 'safety' shell.
No. Even if the material hasn't been moved in 50 years and inventory taken yesterday, they've still got to recheck everything before a fire 'blows through'.
It takes one slack-jawed yokel making the assumption "safe yesterday, safe today" for a serious disaster to turn worse, much worse.
Yeah, I thought the same thing! By threatening anyone with a contrary opinion as theirs they're acting as censors - and apparently/supposedly that's what they were against the whole time.
I can't be sure (I'm pretty sure, though) that they're not depicting the average income of the total population with each major. There's always a group of workers working outside the area of their background. I don't know how prevalent such "unmatched employment" (related to underemployment) is in the population, but it doesn't help things. It's related to the economy being 'sour', but frictional unemployment contributes to bias in the data.
Well, I have exactly that mentality. I would gladly support FreeBSD monetarily if I weren't an unemployed grad-student. I'd love to pay for a FreeBSD disc that included good to "par" desktop functionality. Truth be told, I fully plan on making a donation once I've got funds headed my way. For now, I just try to contribute positively on their forums.
That kind of begs the question of what I do with my desktop, though. Lately, that's mostly chat, browsing, and the occasional FPS. BTW: My FPS of choice *is* free (as in beer). So, theoretically, most everything I do could be done in a BSD environment (except the Microsoft Word/Excel stuff). Oh, and my desktop and laptop have pretty interfaces. Don't laugh, pretty interfaces go a long way on a desktop. The fonts don't hurt to look at and are consistent across the interface. I've had problems with that on my BSD box. (The caveat being I don't use X11 on my BSD box much and I'm fully aware there are ways to make it pretty.)
You've got an interesting point calling it more like Farscape. It's sort of like farscape, but less silly. I think the half crazy nature of John Criton (sp?) really brought that show home. Oh, and they had truly alien, aliens (minus the sebatians).
I'm old fashioned..I watched it on syfy's cable channel. I watch most of my tv off of cable. Why? Because I don't have to shirk moral responsibility and sitting infront of a 'self programming' tv is much more mindless than cueing up a torrent.
SGU was annoying at times but I would have gladly watched 5 seasons of it over 1 hour of WWE:Lame.
Surely not too far after the NSF would be government regulation agencies. Without an NSF to fund medical research and an effective regulation agency, we would soon have medical companies hawking "cancer cures" that only treat the symptoms of cancer.
You're all correct - this is the classical definition of obscene.
Now...why is it people think what's good for individuals is good for society at large? Oh right, because the NSF and public education in the general *are* underfunded.
If it's a netbook, then my 7 year old 12" G4 Powerbook is a netbook as well. In that case, it's time to start crediting (at least) Apple with creating the netbook. But wait, Toshiba had the Libretto back in the pentium (~200 mhz) days. Guess Toshiba created the netbook back in the 90s?
My source is a book I read (portions of) on the request of one of my professors. Search for, I think, "chinese international trade" on amazon and you're likely to find plenty of source material. I can give it a look later if it's that big a deal.
We have companies suing the pants off of people for illegally downloading music, and you're saying the USA doesn't respect IP?
"The mighty US publishing industry was built on infringing (or stealing, or whatever) the copyrights of European authors for so many decades it may be close to a century or two"
What's your reference on this point? Give me a source. Keep in mind that international law was not the same thing then as it is now. In a sense, it took two world wars, the invent of the nuclear bomb, and the advent of modern transportation to make the economy as global as it is. (To say nothing of the birth of the internet.)
"Then, the markets grew and Hollywood developed a solid relationship with Washington during WWII doing propaganda shit. The studios and the publishing companies started making money off American productions."
What? When, exactly, do you think Hollywood was born? Further, what ever point you're trying to make is not obvious.
"And suddenly - lo and behold - the US government changed its mind on the matter, joined the various copyright conventions and went on to become the world champion of copyright and related rights."
Your source, please.
"You're seeing China doing exactly the same thing, only 80 years later, using (and perhaps abusing) the very framework US put in place."
The 1930s were a miserable time to live in the US. The economy of the 1930s US started with the Great Crash of 1929. It took rewriting the social contract itself with the New Deal programs and a world war to get the economy back on its feet - over a period of time longer than a decade. (My source is John K Galbraith's "1929: The Great Crash". Where my recount falters I blame honest lapse of memory - not Galbraith's work. "The Great Crash" is perhaps the best recount of the Great Depression.)
I'd like to add that China has also pegged its currency at a rate below equilibrium for quite a while now. The US balance of payments with China suffers greatly because of the disequilibrium. The idea to do that is a recent 'innovation'. I'm pretty sure the US has never had the chance to abuse international trade in much the ways China has.
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That begs a question. If a defendant were to refuse, entirely and utterly, unlocking such a device what would the legal ramifications be?* At some point the 'cost' (whatever prison time) underweights the benefits (the punishment for the greater crime).
*Say, by inputting a passcode that destructs all data on the HD - rendering it useless.
Yeah, unfortunately the 5th Amendment only says that if the courts agree. Knowing our courts, they'll side with whatever works best for business (ala Citizen's United).
Shade will only take you so far. At temperatures above 105-110F, wind convection 'cooks' you where ever you may be.
A fine mist of water will cool you much more (in a desert - I don't know if it'd be effective in a humid climate). The finer you can make the mist the less 'annoying' it will be (and more cooling). If you can combine the two, mist and shade, you might even be comfortable.
Anyway, I've learned some other DIY tricks for cooling myself in the desert. I always carry a metallic (no insulation) water canteen with me.* Hold the canteen close against the underside of your wrists or against the nape of your neck. Your blood pulls the heat from your body into the canteen and decreases your average temperature slightly. Be patient, though, this trick takes a couple minutes to start working.
*The canteen maintains coolness in heat for quite a while. Putting some ice in the canteen makes this trick all the more effective and longer lived. Virtually anything that's cool should work.
A simple theory to properly frame comparisons between income and growth of nations is the Solow growth model. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogenous_growth_model I'm not going to outline this, but keep it in mind.)
There are 1.3-1.5 (I forget) billion people in China and about .3 billion people in the US. No prediction is 100% accurate, but contrasting some numbers always helps an argument. GDP per capita is about $4.5k and $45k in China and the US, respectively. Over time (decades to centuries of time) and with 'free markets' differences in GDP per capita (per capita being the key) should equalize. Some people take this to mean that "in X years, China's GDP (not per capita) will be Y times the size of the US' GDP," where X is somewhere between 20-100 years and Y > 1 (say, Y=10 under the Solow growth model).
That theory suggests at least one of the BRIC countries will eventually grow to be larger than the US (just replace China with Brazil, Russia, or India - as well as the appropriate numbers). Evidence is the 'bubble' that you refer to.* China is currently not developing the 'optimal' amount of output (GDP) that it could, given it's (developing) labor, capitol, and technological capabilities. Solow's model predicts drastic growth rates for nations in China's position.
If I had numerical evidence for all this I would be writing somewhere other than a slashdot post ;)
*A little on the term "bubble": Popular media outlets love to throw around the term "bubble", but they never define what it means. Judging by the popular media, a bubble occurs whenever some 'irrationality' enters a market and prices on goods no longer reflect what those prices 'should be'. Popular media never report what prices 'should be' - let alone believable figures.
A commuter car doesn't need to be much bigger than a motorcycle. I'm not talking categorical imperatives, a randomly selected car on the road, in the US, is much bigger and heavier than a smart car. I wont care about my carbon footprint, nor yours, if I'm dead.
For a daily commuter, it looks a little small. The average size of a 'randomly selected' US commuter car is considerably bigger than this car. I love the concept, but it looks about as 'safe' as commuting via motorcycle.
Heck, at this point I'd consider a smaller car 'enclosed' in a bigger, 'safety' shell.
No. Even if the material hasn't been moved in 50 years and inventory taken yesterday, they've still got to recheck everything before a fire 'blows through'.
It takes one slack-jawed yokel making the assumption "safe yesterday, safe today" for a serious disaster to turn worse, much worse.
I've lived in Los Alamos (and many other parts of NM). I hope Los Alamos makes it through this okay, but it's looking worse and worse.
As a guy who endured a poor GPA all through college because of his morals, I'm glad their "tutors" caught on and put the cheaters in their place.
Yeah, I thought the same thing! By threatening anyone with a contrary opinion as theirs they're acting as censors - and apparently/supposedly that's what they were against the whole time.
I can't be sure (I'm pretty sure, though) that they're not depicting the average income of the total population with each major. There's always a group of workers working outside the area of their background. I don't know how prevalent such "unmatched employment" (related to underemployment) is in the population, but it doesn't help things. It's related to the economy being 'sour', but frictional unemployment contributes to bias in the data.
I agree, it's very full of 'meh'.
So a big name school with plenty of funding is going to get a bigger, more funded name.
He would have been better off donating his company to a more needy university/college (or several).
Not that everyone needs to learn C/C++ (fortran, really?) to do good programming work.
You could have achieved the same message without inviting a language-war. Aside from that, I agree with you.
How about an idiot governor tax?
For all the idiot governors out there. Can't tax their IQ, so we'll have to find something better to tax.
Well, I have exactly that mentality. I would gladly support FreeBSD monetarily if I weren't an unemployed grad-student. I'd love to pay for a FreeBSD disc that included good to "par" desktop functionality. Truth be told, I fully plan on making a donation once I've got funds headed my way. For now, I just try to contribute positively on their forums.
That kind of begs the question of what I do with my desktop, though. Lately, that's mostly chat, browsing, and the occasional FPS. BTW: My FPS of choice *is* free (as in beer). So, theoretically, most everything I do could be done in a BSD environment (except the Microsoft Word/Excel stuff). Oh, and my desktop and laptop have pretty interfaces. Don't laugh, pretty interfaces go a long way on a desktop. The fonts don't hurt to look at and are consistent across the interface. I've had problems with that on my BSD box. (The caveat being I don't use X11 on my BSD box much and I'm fully aware there are ways to make it pretty.)
I don't care if you did confound something or not - Thanks for the heads up on the NIF! I hadn't heard of the project before.
I posted a request for a non-fox news source and was marked a troll. What's happened to /.?
Anyone have a link to an article covering this but not written by propagandists?
What languages do you find yourself programming in now? C++, C#, or ?
You've got an interesting point calling it more like Farscape. It's sort of like farscape, but less silly. I think the half crazy nature of John Criton (sp?) really brought that show home. Oh, and they had truly alien, aliens (minus the sebatians).
I'm old fashioned..I watched it on syfy's cable channel. I watch most of my tv off of cable. Why? Because I don't have to shirk moral responsibility and sitting infront of a 'self programming' tv is much more mindless than cueing up a torrent.
SGU was annoying at times but I would have gladly watched 5 seasons of it over 1 hour of WWE:Lame.
Surely not too far after the NSF would be government regulation agencies. Without an NSF to fund medical research and an effective regulation agency, we would soon have medical companies hawking "cancer cures" that only treat the symptoms of cancer.
You're all correct - this is the classical definition of obscene.
Now...why is it people think what's good for individuals is good for society at large? Oh right, because the NSF and public education in the general *are* underfunded.
Sounds like the premise for a very bad science fiction, Borg rip-off.
I still really like the idea of making it self reproducing.
If it's a netbook, then my 7 year old 12" G4 Powerbook is a netbook as well. In that case, it's time to start crediting (at least) Apple with creating the netbook. But wait, Toshiba had the Libretto back in the pentium (~200 mhz) days. Guess Toshiba created the netbook back in the 90s?
My source is a book I read (portions of) on the request of one of my professors. Search for, I think, "chinese international trade" on amazon and you're likely to find plenty of source material. I can give it a look later if it's that big a deal.
We have companies suing the pants off of people for illegally downloading music, and you're saying the USA doesn't respect IP?
"The mighty US publishing industry was built on infringing (or stealing, or whatever) the copyrights of European authors for so many decades it may be close to a century or two"
What's your reference on this point? Give me a source. Keep in mind that international law was not the same thing then as it is now. In a sense, it took two world wars, the invent of the nuclear bomb, and the advent of modern transportation to make the economy as global as it is. (To say nothing of the birth of the internet.)
"Then, the markets grew and Hollywood developed a solid relationship with Washington during WWII doing propaganda shit. The studios and the publishing companies started making money off American productions."
What? When, exactly, do you think Hollywood was born? Further, what ever point you're trying to make is not obvious.
"And suddenly - lo and behold - the US government changed its mind on the matter, joined the various copyright conventions and went on to become the world champion of copyright and related rights."
Your source, please.
"You're seeing China doing exactly the same thing, only 80 years later, using (and perhaps abusing) the very framework US put in place."
The 1930s were a miserable time to live in the US. The economy of the 1930s US started with the Great Crash of 1929. It took rewriting the social contract itself with the New Deal programs and a world war to get the economy back on its feet - over a period of time longer than a decade. (My source is John K Galbraith's "1929: The Great Crash". Where my recount falters I blame honest lapse of memory - not Galbraith's work. "The Great Crash" is perhaps the best recount of the Great Depression.)
I'd like to add that China has also pegged its currency at a rate below equilibrium for quite a while now. The US balance of payments with China suffers greatly because of the disequilibrium. The idea to do that is a recent 'innovation'. I'm pretty sure the US has never had the chance to abuse international trade in much the ways China has.