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The pHD vote for democrats because they have lost touch with reality. Having compassion for their fellow man is a crock. If they truly had compassion they would do less for the common man.
If you never let a child do anything, will he ever do anything?
Compassion is great, but you have to do it so that the person receiving it doesn't actually know it is happening.
Pop quiz buddy. You are about to die. You need blood. You have a choice. DIE, or take the blood of a person who might, maybe, possibly, if 7,000,000,000 things went just right have a stray prion in his system, which might just might transfer to you and then 25 years from now cause you to die of nvCJD.
What do you choose. Death today, or death 25 years from now.
The policy is stupid. It kills people. The blood supply is severely strained as a result.
The definition of a rare blood type is not AB-, it is the type of blood you need when you need it and it is not there.
Less than 200 people have died of nvCJD in the world in the last 30 years.
Anyone worried about catching it and dying may as well shoot themselves right now, cause they are also worried to death about getting every other disease on the planet except for the ones that might actually kill them (like the flu).
Amazing how making someone stay up all night, stand naked in front of women, have panties on their heads, dogs barking at them is considered torture.
One gentleman had a gun fired near him. Scared him enough to divulge the information that then saved the lives of our compatriots.
I don't support poking needles in eyes, stretching people on the rack, cutting their testicles off, or wiring them (testicles) to telephones and turning the crank. I have no problem making think that I will. If I can humiliate them into giving me information, I will do it in a heartbeat.
Dignity is nice, but it doesn't keep you alive.
There were no false pretenses. Just people refusing to accept that a decision had to be made.
Things are getting a lot better as a result of those decisions. Amazing how treating foreign nations like children actually works.
The US is acting like a parent to the world, not because she desires domination, but because no one else will act like a grown up. Ignoring the unruly children doesn't turn them into good children. The US has made mistakes, but so has every other parent on this planet.
Typing really quickly is not an issue for most people. Unless you pre-write your code on a scratch pad then type them in, you aren't going to be typing at anything > 70-80 wpm. The only people who need to do this are those in the steno pool, but they aren't necessary anymore because everyone does their own typing.
Maybe some of you can write 10,000 lines of code in a day and have it run perfectly, but most of us can't. Of course, the whole point of the tools that we create is to make it possible to not write 100 lines of code that will do the same thing as the 10,000.
People who write directly into the computer typically can't input too quickly. An average typist like me (50wpm) can easily start getting ahead of their thoughts.
This just in: "A new bill being lobby for in congress will make it illegal for you to leave your television off." Providers of entertainment, in desperate need of more money intend to enable police officers to detain you for not watching television.
Currently, CO2 represents less than.04% of the earths atmosphere. Water vapor is 10 to 20 times that. Water vapor retains heat(that you are worried about) 2 - 3X better than CO2. While you analysis isn't bad, it is fundamentally flawed by the fact that you ignore the rest of the GHG's. If we were to triple the CO2 content of the atmosphere, we would still be overwhelmed by water vapor. If we cut all CO2 production today, nature would make up for our lack of production. (Human produced CO2 makes up about 4% of the total CO2 produced in the environment.)
Calculations like yours just get people excited over nothing. I will continue to laugh at those who propose Wind over Nuclear, or anything else over Nuclear. At least at those who are worried about Carbon Dioxide.
Bush would never see the end of such a push. If we magically said that today we can start building Power plants, it would take at least 10 to 20 years before the first one was complete. NIMBY problems abound.
There was a time when unions were quite necessary. They are not nearly as necessary now. As an "exempt" employee, I have rarely seen "overtime", when I have it has always been straight time. There have been very few occasions though, and all were under contract (ie the company I was working for didn't pay the overtime, someone else did).
There is no such thing as a living wage. Never has been and never will be. If we raise the minimum wage to any level, the prices of goods will also rise an equal amount. It has been argued correctly that minimum wages actually result in less employment and less people actually managing to make a Living wage.
My skills as an Engineer are not easily acquired. Because of that my value is greater than an individual who can only drive a vehicle or serve a meal. The scarcity of the skill and the demand for the skill will determine the wage I receive.
Wake up and smell the coffee folks. If you are an engineer/programmer/analyst your wage is based on what you contribute to the company. If you want to get paid more, make sure what you do makes the company more money.
This does not mean that there are greedy managers out there who desperately want to abuse you. It does mean that you are responsible for your own actions. It means that you get to decide where you go and how much you make. Don't be surprised however if an indian is willing to do it for 1/10 the price you will.
My next door neighbor bought a dell laptop for his wife's boss. It had a 14" screen, but it also had a default resolution that was greater than 2000 horizontal. I have yet to see such a resolution on an lcd since.
The image quality was amazing.
Has anyone else seen this. My neighbor was amazed since he hadn't ordered the high end screen.
So were we dreaming, or has anyone else seen this?
The obvious extension of this study is that PV cells are also bad. If they weren't made out of the remains of the chip industry, they would truly be unenvironmental.
If organic farming is so much cheaper than conventional farming, why is it that they charge so much more for the produce? I don't buy organic for the simple reason that I don't taste much difference, and I don't like spending that much extra money.
There are very good reasons that we use pesticides and fertilizer and they have nothing to do with "conspiracies." It all comes down to growing crops cheaper so you can make money in a competitive system.
If organic was actually cheaper, I guarantee you the farmers would have found out a long time ago.
A supplier of x-box parts recently told me that Micosoft has shut off their orders for the time being. Apparently they have too much inventory right now.
The trojan number (see Numberwatch for definition) 1.1 Million begs several questions:
1. How many people died?
There were 1.1 Million people in the study, but in order to determine the increased morbidity, someone had to die.
2. How were the sleep habits of 1.1 million people evaluated?
I am fairly confident that they weren't watched every night be researchers. Most likely the sleep habits were self reported. As other sleep studies have shown in the past, self reporting of sleep habits are far from accurate. People who think they get no sleep often get the most, while those that think they get lots of sleep sometimes get the least.
3. Did they actually interview 1.1 Million people?
That is a lot of people or did they data dredge these people out of multiple studies.
15 percent means a correlation of 1.15.
Unless the increased risk exceeds 100%, you needn't worry. Fact is until it gets to 200% the correlation is pretty suspect. Even then chance is still likely to be the cause.
At 15% the researchers should be shot for reporting a connection.
I made this comment to the guys on Tech Talk (now defunct?) a coupl of years ago. They clarified the agreement a little.
Microsoft gives the vendor twooptions. 1. They can sell Microsoft only and pay X dollars / copy or 2. They can install any operating system and pay Y/copy. Y was more than 2X.
This makes it the vendors choice. They can install whatever OS they want, they just have to pay twice as much on Z thousand copies.
I wonder how many companies say, hey Linux/BeOS/FreeBSD/Solaris/etc are really going to sell machines and make up the difference.... NOT!
Or they could recognize that the paradigm has to change.
The biggest thing bothering these companies is that they are losing control over their consumers. If they didn't charge through the nose for their products, more people might be inclined to buy. The box is open, it can't be closed again.
Here is how technology can really help. If we combine current e-book technology with high density storage like C-3D we can create a device that can store lots of books in a small space.
Make millions of them. Get every text possible stored onto the media. Drop them all over the middle east, but most importantly Pakistan and Afghanistan. It would probably be useful to dump them all over the "stan's".
There are a few logistical problems (like how to power them consistently), but a small device can be easily hidden. Libraries are more difficult to hide. An e-book and its media could be stuffed under a brick, behind a stove, in the rafters easily.
Saturate them with knowledge. Send the good with the bad.
Hey, if we are clever, we can even make the e-books play video. Then we can send really subversive stuff, like episodes of "Friends!," "Soap," "All in the Family," "Days of Our Lives," "The OJ Trial."
Bringing the perpetrators of this crime to justice is important, but educating the world is more important. In the long run, enabling education will help us more than destroying infrastructure.
Not only is the Deuterium and Tritium radioactive, but the process of fusion emits Neutrons. High energy neutrons, which activate particles in and around the building containing the reactor.
I believe it is the neutrons that are more worrisome than the deuterium and tritium.
Price gouging is not immoral. It is not unethical. They are just responding to supply and demand. They were running out of gas, they wanted the gas to last longer, so they raised the price. Their supplies were running out because of the MORONS who suddenly rushed the gas stations thinking the world had ended.
If anything these people who raised their prices were the ones who were MORE ethical MORE moral than those who let the IDIOTS just buy them out of their product.
Maybe next time, the people will evaluate the threat before they rush willy nilly into the streets proclaiming that the sky is falling. (It is by the way here in wisconsin. We call it rain.)
I thought this also until some right wing gun nut pointed me back to the constitution and the bill of rights. I went home and read it again. It is remarkably simple.
Jefferson made sure that we could own weapons, not so we could protect each other from ourselves, but so we could protect ourselves from the government.
You are the head of a Nation. Your populace has weapons. Happily, one of your predecessors managed to get the people to submit to registering all firearms. Look, it is a list. I wonder what you could do with it if you decided that the people might revolt against you.
This may be a simplistic answer, but the genie is out. They might be able to pass legislation to put back doors in, but it will do nothing to hinder the terrorists passing information. The Techniques in crypto can be a little obscure, but not so obscure that a moderately intelligent person can't figure them out and implement them. To even attempt to limit them we will have to commit the ultimate sin and take books off the shelves.
Censorship is bad. Bad. Bad. The books are already out there anyway. Let's not be stupid.
If they want to read terrorists mail, come up with a way to make the codes transparent. Quantum Computing... But even then it is a chancy thing. Review the history of crypto to see why....
It would be nice if the real time weather analysis could predict where the clouds were going to head in the next 30 minutes. They do a pretty reasonable job, but the weather still comes back and bites them on a regular basis.
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The pHD vote for democrats because they have lost touch with reality. Having compassion for their fellow man is a crock. If they truly had compassion they would do less for the common man.
If you never let a child do anything, will he ever do anything?
Compassion is great, but you have to do it so that the person receiving it doesn't actually know it is happening.
Sorry, you fail.
Pop quiz buddy. You are about to die. You need blood. You have a choice. DIE, or take the blood of a person who might, maybe, possibly, if 7,000,000,000 things went just right have a stray prion in his system, which might just might transfer to you and then 25 years from now cause you to die of nvCJD.
What do you choose. Death today, or death 25 years from now.
The policy is stupid. It kills people. The blood supply is severely strained as a result.
The definition of a rare blood type is not AB-, it is the type of blood you need when you need it and it is not there.
Less than 200 people have died of nvCJD in the world in the last 30 years.
Anyone worried about catching it and dying may as well shoot themselves right now, cause they are also worried to death about getting every other disease on the planet except for the ones that might actually kill them (like the flu).
GRRRR
This sounds oddly like Ring World Engineers.
Electric current to the pleasure center of the brain....
Let the addictions begin.
Amazing how making someone stay up all night, stand naked in front of women, have panties on their heads, dogs barking at them is considered torture.
One gentleman had a gun fired near him. Scared him enough to divulge the information that then saved the lives of our compatriots.
I don't support poking needles in eyes, stretching people on the rack, cutting their testicles off, or wiring them (testicles) to telephones and turning the crank. I have no problem making think that I will. If I can humiliate them into giving me information, I will do it in a heartbeat.
Dignity is nice, but it doesn't keep you alive.
There were no false pretenses. Just people refusing to accept that a decision had to be made.
Things are getting a lot better as a result of those decisions. Amazing how treating foreign nations like children actually works.
The US is acting like a parent to the world, not because she desires domination, but because no one else will act like a grown up. Ignoring the unruly children doesn't turn them into good children. The US has made mistakes, but so has every other parent on this planet.
Cheers.
brad
Typing really quickly is not an issue for most people. Unless you pre-write your code on a scratch pad then type them in, you aren't going to be typing at anything > 70-80 wpm. The only people who need to do this are those in the steno pool, but they aren't necessary anymore because everyone does their own typing.
Maybe some of you can write 10,000 lines of code in a day and have it run perfectly, but most of us can't. Of course, the whole point of the tools that we create is to make it possible to not write 100 lines of code that will do the same thing as the 10,000.
People who write directly into the computer typically can't input too quickly. An average typist like me (50wpm) can easily start getting ahead of their thoughts.
This just in: "A new bill being lobby for in congress will make it illegal for you to leave your television off." Providers of entertainment, in desperate need of more money intend to enable police officers to detain you for not watching television.
Currently, CO2 represents less than .04% of the earths atmosphere. Water vapor is 10 to 20 times that. Water vapor retains heat(that you are worried about) 2 - 3X better than CO2. While you analysis isn't bad, it is fundamentally flawed by the fact that you ignore the rest of the GHG's. If we were to triple the CO2 content of the atmosphere, we would still be overwhelmed by water vapor. If we cut all CO2 production today, nature would make up for our lack of production. (Human produced CO2 makes up about 4% of the total CO2 produced in the environment.)
Calculations like yours just get people excited over nothing. I will continue to laugh at those who propose Wind over Nuclear, or anything else over Nuclear. At least at those who are worried about Carbon Dioxide.
Bush would never see the end of such a push. If we magically said that today we can start building Power plants, it would take at least 10 to 20 years before the first one was complete. NIMBY problems abound.
HEY! I made a headline.
Tittle: An insignificant speck as in the dot above an i.
There was a time when unions were quite necessary. They are not nearly as necessary now. As an "exempt" employee, I have rarely seen "overtime", when I have it has always been straight time. There have been very few occasions though, and all were under contract (ie the company I was working for didn't pay the overtime, someone else did).
There is no such thing as a living wage. Never has been and never will be. If we raise the minimum wage to any level, the prices of goods will also rise an equal amount. It has been argued correctly that minimum wages actually result in less employment and less people actually managing to make a Living wage.
My skills as an Engineer are not easily acquired. Because of that my value is greater than an individual who can only drive a vehicle or serve a meal. The scarcity of the skill and the demand for the skill will determine the wage I receive.
Wake up and smell the coffee folks. If you are an engineer/programmer/analyst your wage is based on what you contribute to the company. If you want to get paid more, make sure what you do makes the company more money.
This does not mean that there are greedy managers out there who desperately want to abuse you. It does mean that you are responsible for your own actions. It means that you get to decide where you go and how much you make. Don't be surprised however if an indian is willing to do it for 1/10 the price you will.
brad
My next door neighbor bought a dell laptop for his wife's boss. It had a 14" screen, but it also had a default resolution that was greater than 2000 horizontal. I have yet to see such a resolution on an lcd since.
The image quality was amazing.
Has anyone else seen this. My neighbor was amazed since he hadn't ordered the high end screen.
So were we dreaming, or has anyone else seen this?
brad
The obvious extension of this study is that PV cells are also bad. If they weren't made out of the remains of the chip industry, they would truly be unenvironmental.
If organic farming is so much cheaper than conventional farming, why is it that they charge so much more for the produce? I don't buy organic for the simple reason that I don't taste much difference, and I don't like spending that much extra money.
There are very good reasons that we use pesticides and fertilizer and they have nothing to do with "conspiracies." It all comes down to growing crops cheaper so you can make money in a competitive system.
If organic was actually cheaper, I guarantee you the farmers would have found out a long time ago.
brad
A supplier of x-box parts recently told me that Micosoft has shut off their orders for the time being. Apparently they have too much inventory right now.
You forget, it actually started out as 6,000 years old....
The trojan number (see Numberwatch for definition) 1.1 Million begs several questions:
1. How many people died?
There were 1.1 Million people in the study, but in order to determine the increased morbidity, someone had to die.
2. How were the sleep habits of 1.1 million people evaluated?
I am fairly confident that they weren't watched every night be researchers. Most likely the sleep habits were self reported. As other sleep studies have shown in the past, self reporting of sleep habits are far from accurate. People who think they get no sleep often get the most, while those that think they get lots of sleep sometimes get the least.
3. Did they actually interview 1.1 Million people?
That is a lot of people or did they data dredge these people out of multiple studies.
15 percent means a correlation of 1.15.
Unless the increased risk exceeds 100%, you needn't worry. Fact is until it gets to 200% the correlation is pretty suspect. Even then chance is still likely to be the cause.
At 15% the researchers should be shot for reporting a connection.
tnt
brad
I made this comment to the guys on Tech Talk (now defunct?) a coupl of years ago. They clarified the agreement a little.
Microsoft gives the vendor twooptions. 1. They can sell Microsoft only and pay X dollars / copy or 2. They can install any operating system and pay Y/copy. Y was more than 2X.
This makes it the vendors choice. They can install whatever OS they want, they just have to pay twice as much on Z thousand copies.
I wonder how many companies say, hey Linux/BeOS/FreeBSD/Solaris/etc are really going to sell machines and make up the difference.... NOT!
brad
Or they could recognize that the paradigm has to change.
The biggest thing bothering these companies is that they are losing control over their consumers. If they didn't charge through the nose for their products, more people might be inclined to buy. The box is open, it can't be closed again.
Recognize this, change, and move on.
TNT
Brad
Starship Troopers is exactly the book we should be reading.
ST is about understanding morals. Fighting spirit is also a theme, but fundamentally it is about why we fight, and understanding why we should fight.
Morals are about survival.
Brad
Here is how technology can really help. If we combine current e-book technology with high density storage like C-3D we can create a device that can store lots of books in a small space.
Make millions of them. Get every text possible stored onto the media. Drop them all over the middle east, but most importantly Pakistan and Afghanistan. It would probably be useful to dump them all over the "stan's".
There are a few logistical problems (like how to power them consistently), but a small device can be easily hidden. Libraries are more difficult to hide. An e-book and its media could be stuffed under a brick, behind a stove, in the rafters easily.
Saturate them with knowledge. Send the good with the bad.
Hey, if we are clever, we can even make the e-books play video. Then we can send really subversive stuff, like episodes of "Friends!," "Soap," "All in the Family," "Days of Our Lives," "The OJ Trial."
Bringing the perpetrators of this crime to justice is important, but educating the world is more important. In the long run, enabling education will help us more than destroying infrastructure.
TNT
Brad Tittle
Not only is the Deuterium and Tritium radioactive, but the process of fusion emits Neutrons. High energy neutrons, which activate particles in and around the building containing the reactor.
I believe it is the neutrons that are more worrisome than the deuterium and tritium.
Price gouging is not immoral. It is not unethical. They are just responding to supply and demand. They were running out of gas, they wanted the gas to last longer, so they raised the price. Their supplies were running out because of the MORONS who suddenly rushed the gas stations thinking the world had ended.
If anything these people who raised their prices were the ones who were MORE ethical MORE moral than those who let the IDIOTS just buy them out of their product.
Maybe next time, the people will evaluate the threat before they rush willy nilly into the streets proclaiming that the sky is falling. (It is by the way here in wisconsin. We call it rain.)
Have a nice Day
Brad
I thought this also until some right wing gun nut pointed me back to the constitution and the bill of rights. I went home and read it again. It is remarkably simple.
Jefferson made sure that we could own weapons, not so we could protect each other from ourselves, but so we could protect ourselves from the government.
You are the head of a Nation. Your populace has weapons. Happily, one of your predecessors managed to get the people to submit to registering all firearms. Look, it is a list. I wonder what you could do with it if you decided that the people might revolt against you.
This may be a simplistic answer, but the genie is out. They might be able to pass legislation to put back doors in, but it will do nothing to hinder the terrorists passing information. The Techniques in crypto can be a little obscure, but not so obscure that a moderately intelligent person can't figure them out and implement them. To even attempt to limit them we will have to commit the ultimate sin and take books off the shelves.
Censorship is bad. Bad. Bad. The books are already out there anyway. Let's not be stupid.
If they want to read terrorists mail, come up with a way to make the codes transparent. Quantum Computing... But even then it is a chancy thing. Review the history of crypto to see why....
Brad
It would be nice if the real time weather analysis could predict where the clouds were going to head in the next 30 minutes. They do a pretty reasonable job, but the weather still comes back and bites them on a regular basis.
Is it the butterfly? I don't know.
TNT
Brad