LOL, I'm willing to bet that you aren't on the side of gun control each time we've got a school shooting. So hyperbole aside -- those shootings are happening at schools regardless of them being Charter or not. I'm willing to bet a nice zip code with well paid parents means LESS school shootings (without doing a demographic study). So this is a "poor people" problem.
Instead of looking at some charts and graphs of "average" salaries and median values for shootings, or results, we are left with anecdotes of "kids getting killed" + "Unions" = $80K overpaid lazy Union teacher. We need real data and knowing what happens MOST OFTEN and that requires real boring data and statistics that sometimes don't support Charter schools as anything but; "outsourcing to for profit" and then pretending anything was solved because pundits no longer complain.
And lets not forget, this entire issue would not exist if it weren't for the complete and total iron grip the teachers unions have on our schools
I've been hearing "it's the teacher's unions" for a few decades now. In fact - - ANY TIME there is a union, within stones throw distance of any problem, it is to blame.
Now I won't say they might NOT be the problem -- but there are a lot of problems in schools, not the least of which is overworked or poor parents.
We've been here before. NO problem in America -- according to our media and pundits is not solved by leaving workers without any protection. We negotiate down wages and company still outsources jobs. Since people working in fast food, education and moving boxes on the docks cannot be outsourced (yet), the solution, regardless of problem is to pay people less and take away any protection.
"you end up having teachers with Doctorates in English teaching kids how to read huckleberry fin and complaining that their $80k a year salary is not commensurate with their education level." SOLUTION: instead of finding the one teacher with a good salary and bitching about that -- we force all workers to have a "living wage" and quit worrying about the last person with a living wage not being ground to dust under the mill stone of industry.
I used to make $80K for a job I was qualified to do - and I didn't feel rich. I feel very poor now and I'm not doing a job I'm qualified for, but I work harder. I also am not part of a Union but I'm not going to wine about someone who has a decent life. I just want in on that.
So of this Sabu character had no skills, but had cooperated, they'd be a free man right now. Good thing he can't spin straw into gold; this sentence; His sentencing has been adjourned numerous times for unknown reasons, and if the FBI have any more use for him, then we could see it delayed again. Kind of is the evidence of "carrot and stick".
When law enforcement continuously puts people in jeopardy and withholds rights or selectively prosecutes -- that is not justice. And when Prosecutors load up charges in order to scare someone into plea bargaining because they might get 120 years for some crime that may have caused no harm but we've made "hacking something evil" -- well that's a miscarriage of justice.
I'm not TRYING to lose all respect for our judicial system, but it appears more and more just to be an enforcement arm of corporate interests. Not long before people will "work off their sentences." It will be completely legal because people CHOOSE to either do 120 years for downloading a song file, or repair garments for 10 years with little compensation.
I'm not sure if that is worse or better than a debtors prison, but it's sad that someone gets more time because they are more useful.
It's quite simple, really: a) If somebody is in "Metro" mode they stay there until they deliberately switch to "desktop". b) If somebody is in "desktop" mode, they stay on the desktop until they deliberately switch to "Metro".
Switching between the two should be an easy gesture, maybe even a special new key on machines with a proper mouse/screen/keyboard.
(And maybe the "scroll lock" key could work for us Model M diehards - is that really too much to ask? It even means we get a "Metro" warning light on the keyboard as a bonus feature).
How hard can that be?
Your solution could only be improved by; 1) Click on the "Start Metro" button. >> Nothing happens. 2) Click on Metro button a 2nd time. >> Prompt returns with "Are you sure you want to start Metro?" 3) User clicks "YES" >> Prompt returns with "To be even more clear -- because this might have been a mistake; R U watin' the crazy touch screen?" 4) User clicks "OK"
this drops them back to the desktop interface, only it nows says "Metro -- it's COOL!" in the background. This should resolve 99% of the demand for the Metro interface.
100% guaranteed they continue in the metro vein and continue to obscure/drop features/settings and continue to be "dumbfounded" as to why no one wants to buy it.
I 100% guarantee they will both DO THAT, and have a "LEGACY MODE" and allow users and OEMs to switch to LEGACY INTERFACE. This will be the actual interface that everyone uses while Microsoft will sell 7.3 as 8.2 pretending to be 9.1 and not be forced to admit to upper management that marketing is clueless in application development and they need to be made to sit in a corner until someone tells them that the time out is over. 2024 should be sufficient.
Windows 9 will be a clever way to retreat from the horribly touch-screen interface in 8 that makes things disappear and the user is left saying; "what just happened and where am I now?" They will move around a few deck chairs so they don't have to tell anyone they are retreating. However, 9.0 will actually be 8.2. So they'll have to resolve the actual new features that depend on the touch screen nature of Windows 8.
Windows 10 will be renamed X by savvy marketing, and will be the actual update to Windows 8 as they fix everything that was wrong with 9 but would not admit.
This will be the last Microsoft OS, as they will move to a permanent subscription model, you will be instructed at the DOS prompt to go to www.microsoft.com/bigmoney and everything you need to do will be supplied by an AI paperclip.
Even if they make the Z-Depth a factor of 10 smaller than the X-Y coordinates, any model will have to be at least 3 TIMES bigger for them to really see how big the universe is.
Sounds like you already have your mind set. You've got a very negative hypothetical here.
Then I'd also like to know how you derive the COST of Nuclear and Coal versus Solar and Wind. Keep in mind that "what we pay" isn't the full cost and WHERE we pay it is sometimes more important than HOW MUCH. Also - the cost of putting a solar panel at my house -- huge. But if a large company is using collectors to boil some water -- it's a much different cost per kilowatt.
For instance, a nuclear plant sucks in a lot of fresh water. It's imported Uranium from Russia which hurts our deficit and doesn't help with jobs. Much less the environmental impact of Coal and Uranium only seems to look at the end product -- not on what happens when you dig this stuff up. Uranium is better on the back end than coal -- but it's also for the most part an import.
If you make the Solar and Wind equipment in the USA and don't need to import rare earth elements from Afghanistan -- well, then it's JOBS JOBS JOBS. So I'm not so worried about the economics if you push a "Buy American" provision. Efficiency and global competitiveness is a factor for multinationals who are only concerned with gaming everyone down to the lowest price and charging the most for the end product.
Solar collects energy when a utility is most likely going to experience peak demand -- well, at least in the summer.
And then you mention private companies doing this -- as if we didn't socialize the hell out of Nuclear power. No private company insures a nuclear power plant. So where you get your data and all the factors involved in assessing cost is an important part of the debate. The biggest SAVINGS from Solar and Wind right now, would be in reducing peak output for Nuclear power plants. The cost of electricity for a Nuke plant is the same weather they are running at peak or not (well, maybe less pumping when not at peak for the water) -- so if you don't have a huge spike, the Nuke plant can be smaller and run near peak most of the time. In that scenario, even though the alternatives cost more, they reduce overall costs.
So in that regard, the batteries are a "buffer" and not intended to store a weeks worth of energy -- perhaps more like charge during the day and output during the night. Which makes sense when you are heating using solar, or the wind is not consistent.
They are likely wandering stars from another galaxy. Wasn't it estimated that we already had one galaxy pass through the Milky Way and sometime in the future we may pass through Andromeda?
So perhaps there are three mechanisms for high speed stars; 1) ejected by a super massive black hole. 2) remnant of non-colliding stars from Galactic collisions (and actually, most stars don't hit each other in these situations). 3) L3 advanced civilization finding that solar tourism is more fun if you can take all your stuff with you.
But why is the background radiation ALREADY Doppler shifted? In other words; our solar system and galaxy are moving at a high rate of speed already -- so there should already be a Doppler effect.
So is there a "relativistic lens" of the space we are in that normalizes the shift we see?
I get that we see a Doppler shift if we quickly moving in a given vector -- I'm just curious why we don't see more effects from the vectors we are already moving in. It suggests that space is a "thing" and in many cases, it is moving us -- as though it has a current.
I'm sure there have been some tests, but has anyone conclusively found a "vector" to space? Currently, we use Universal Background Radiation -- allegedly this is the noise left over from the poorly named "Big Bang".
The problem of Relativity is that either their is a universal time or all time is local -- and each object has a relative time displacement to each other. In the simple model of relativity, you have an observer, or someone leaves a planet at high speed and comes back and their clocks have accounted for less time than people who "stayed behind." But we don't really know if there is a "vector to space" in that the planet they leave may be traveling faster or "against" the motion of space, and the rocket is actually moving slower by traveling in a direction opposite to this.
So a test for this would be to have perhaps 6 rockets move at the same rate of speed (as best as can be determined), in the absence of a gravity field (as best as can be found), and if they move at relativistic speeds and make a return to the same location -- there is either a vector that required more energy because they were moving in opposition to the background motion of space, or they have relatively the same time displacement and energy output.
The results would not be trivial.
I predict that while there is no real condition for an "outside observer" -- that space itself can have a vector -- that means it's not just a blank emptiness but actually a thing. Like Dark Matter -- but not. Dark Matter I think is a manifestation of "turbulence" in Space itself and suggests that gravity and mass have a frequency and indirect impact on space that we have yet to discern. To make this clearer -- if all the spacecraft are moving "in a block" of space time -- then they will not have a difference in relative energy output and time - acceleration alone accounts for "relativity". However, the are in a Solar System, Galaxy and Galactic Cluster that all move at the same time in different directions.
The current theory of relativity SHOULD support different displacements for each rocket -- and thus a "zero motion" state can be deduced by factoring in the relativistic effects. However, I feel like Classic Relativity kind of breaks down in different vectors and each object has it's own "time". The oversight seems to be that many people are only using a few simple vectors when they think of relativity. But I imagine particles in a star bouncing around at nearly light speed -- they are moving from an object both at nearly light speed, and then hitting other objects at nearly light speed -- so relativity in that situation is spaghetti. Depending on the direction particles are both speeding up and slowing down relative to other particles. Space/Time is both stretched and compressed at the same location.
The point is that even relativity is relative, and it has to mean we've got quite a few more dimensions involved in this 4 dimensional world we think we inhabit. Objects have to be moving in other vectors in other dimensions to resolve "normality" as far as we are concerned.
Of course since they are all "prone to put self (and re-election) before country" they would never dare to challenge the party line. Robert Gates included.
Other than civility and "skill" at his job as regards procedure -- I'm not sure that Robert Gates ever stood out as anyone putting country before self. He likely concluded the country needed him more than some impetuous idealist.
When you look at Robert Gates and then look at someone like Eric Snowden, and then look back at Robert Gates. You realize we need a lot more idealistic fools than we need composed and self-interested adults. But we certainly can't expect that if many of us don't as well. It's easy to identify with the hero in a movie -- but it's hard when you consider being jobless and feeding kids. However, I figure a man like Gates has enough to fall back on so it's not a matter of survival but of comfort.
were nothing compared with the pain of dealing with Congress.... I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.
Has Gates considered blogger moderation and karma whoring to mitigate the dysfunction? I'm sure Ralph Reed might do something for extending unemployment benefits if we gave him a cookie.
Free market finds a way. Where gov't erects legal barriers, free market becomes black market.
You are right, but if the 'free market' were an argument for making something legal, then we should make assassinations and corporations that dump poison into rivers legal, because they are going to anyway.
The only tiny flaw in this argument is that demand "from the people" is not part of the calculation. The people are not clamoring to assassinate and pollute.
I'm pretty sure they do demographic research to try and split the vote 50/50.
However as the country gets dumber, they have to get the crazy rhetoric on a CERTAIN SIDE of this 50/50 split slightly crazier. I'll leave it as homework to figure out which one.
... - they'd be at war with each other if they hadn't found a common enemy in the liberals.
Yes, because STUPID isn't apparently anything they are having a conflict with.
Did the morality laws make people better or less sinful? No. Does the war on drugs make economic sense? No. Do liberals generally think we shouldn't be criminalizing drugs and that treatment is more economical, human and ends up with fewer addicts? Yes.
Sounds like a group that defines itself by NOT agreeing with Liberals more than a common cause or any practicality. Seriously, other than not being Liberal, why would a fiscal conservative object to Democrats who are to the right of Nixon on anything economic?
Well at least it's not just because the President is from Hawaii anymore.
I feel more confident in a Doctor having more information than a for-profit insurance company -- which already KNOWS MORE than the doctor in many cases.
So, essentially, Dr. Haider Javed Warraichis is suggesting patients to lie, because doctors are more prone to misdiagnose if they have more information?
See what I read is that the Doctor was sharing a mistake they made with a snap judgement, based on getting MORE INFORMATION -- but out of context. I think our take-away could be; "If you are going to use this internet-based information, take it with a grain of salt and find some context." There's nothing about lying, that I'm reading.
It's a good thing he didn't ask her if her parents were embarrassed about her drunken sexy behavior on spring break.
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To me, the only legitimate reason to search for a patient’s online footprint is if there is a safety issue. If, for example, a patient appears to be manic or psychotic, it might be useful to investigate whether certain claims the patient makes are true. Or, if a doctor suspects a pediatric patient is being abused, it might make sense to look for evidence online.
That to me means; "limit your searches to investigate psychosis or abuse, and double-check conclusions."
The fact of the matter, people, is that any standing army which doesn't have an external "enemy" to wage war upon will inevitably turn against (or be used against) its own citizenry.
Hence why we shouldn't have a "standing army." Of course -- because today the world is more complicated, you can't just train citizenry to learn to be "part time" warriors. The days of just teaching someone a fire arm are as gone as are the days where a simple tax need only pay for the occasional cobblestone replacement and horse hitch. To compare today's military and infrastructure to the "founding fathers" era is of course ridiculous -- as is winning an argument based on psychic readings of some long-dead person's "intent" when we can't even figure out what a current politician intends when they are talking right to us.
We need a better way. We've got to take the profit out of war and security just like health care. Profit should only occur when you want MORE of something. If you want more sick people paying dearly for hospital beads, or you want 750 military bases and perhaps a dozen concurrent wars LIKE WE DO TODAY, well, keep profit in the equation for Sick Care and Military Offense, LIKE WE DO TODAY.
And even suicide attacks are self-moderating. But a drone can "strap on" some ordinance and you don't even need someone to volunteer or believe enough in the cause. There is no sacrifice or backlash -- just continual asymmetric warfare.
How does someone on the receiving end of such a drone policy react? They aren't ALL bond villains, are they? They had a gripe and were in our way and someone they know got attacked by a faceless drone. I'm thinking the futility and anger would be greater because the "who did this" is more removed. This makes it more likely that innocent people are retaliated against in the future -- not less.
It's quite possible that if the scientists quibbling about the rubber sheet used latex, they'd get 20% more accurate astronomical projections.
We are all pregnant with anticipation of the different substances we can use to dress up General Relativity analogies! Ooh -- black holes can use spandex to model and quasars maybe a riding crop. Sure, I know, it's a stretching a metaphor, but work with me here...
The Declaration of Independence is a manifesto. It's terms that could not be met if England wanted to keep Americans under their thumb. The "consent of the governed" is not on the table anymore.
It has always been thus that the comfortable have to balance their profits versus the willingness of the disenfranchised to give their lives for autonomy -- and right now it seems to be low risk versus high reward for them. I expect they laugh a lot at our antics and complaints.
They took TARP money because the Federal Reserve (their primary regulator) told them they had to.
You have to wonder who is really in charge of whom when money is forcibly stuffed in their pockets.
Of course later the Feds fined them massive amounts of money for bad things that Bear Stearns and WaMu did, but that's another story.
"massive" fines don't even equate to a weeks profits at some of these firms, though Stearns was road kill and likely not "on the gravy train" with the others. There were five firms that pushed huge sums in Naked Shorts to undervalue their stock and send the over-leveraged company into bankruptcy. Of course, at that time -- they were ALL over leveraged.
I think the FBI needs to start wearing these NASCAR jackets. We'd like to see "Goldman Sacks" on the front of your hoodie, and maybe a bit of "Chase" right were the tramp stamp goes -- just to ease our minds about "security of the nation" when some trial inexplicably seems to find nobody did anything wrong but billions of dollars went "poof!"
Al Kaida isn't going to come for me, it will be "Al's towing service" to get my car. Poverty kills more people than the competition.
I'd say if you can sneak in that back door -- you are going to have a good talent for preventing back doors.
Only, with ethics like this -- I don't have any sympathy for anyone procuring the services of this company if they find they've got a backdoor engineered into their system.
Providing and protecting from the same threats is a profitable business model; just ask the weapons industry.
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"Kids are getting SHOT in public schools"
LOL, I'm willing to bet that you aren't on the side of gun control each time we've got a school shooting. So hyperbole aside -- those shootings are happening at schools regardless of them being Charter or not. I'm willing to bet a nice zip code with well paid parents means LESS school shootings (without doing a demographic study). So this is a "poor people" problem.
Instead of looking at some charts and graphs of "average" salaries and median values for shootings, or results, we are left with anecdotes of "kids getting killed" + "Unions" = $80K overpaid lazy Union teacher. We need real data and knowing what happens MOST OFTEN and that requires real boring data and statistics that sometimes don't support Charter schools as anything but; "outsourcing to for profit" and then pretending anything was solved because pundits no longer complain.
And lets not forget, this entire issue would not exist if it weren't for the complete and total iron grip the teachers unions have on our schools
I've been hearing "it's the teacher's unions" for a few decades now. In fact - - ANY TIME there is a union, within stones throw distance of any problem, it is to blame.
Now I won't say they might NOT be the problem -- but there are a lot of problems in schools, not the least of which is overworked or poor parents.
We've been here before. NO problem in America -- according to our media and pundits is not solved by leaving workers without any protection. We negotiate down wages and company still outsources jobs. Since people working in fast food, education and moving boxes on the docks cannot be outsourced (yet), the solution, regardless of problem is to pay people less and take away any protection.
"you end up having teachers with Doctorates in English teaching kids how to read huckleberry fin and complaining that their $80k a year salary is not commensurate with their education level."
SOLUTION: instead of finding the one teacher with a good salary and bitching about that -- we force all workers to have a "living wage" and quit worrying about the last person with a living wage not being ground to dust under the mill stone of industry.
I used to make $80K for a job I was qualified to do - and I didn't feel rich. I feel very poor now and I'm not doing a job I'm qualified for, but I work harder. I also am not part of a Union but I'm not going to wine about someone who has a decent life. I just want in on that.
So of this Sabu character had no skills, but had cooperated, they'd be a free man right now. Good thing he can't spin straw into gold;
this sentence; His sentencing has been adjourned numerous times for unknown reasons, and if the FBI have any more use for him, then we could see it delayed again. Kind of is the evidence of "carrot and stick".
When law enforcement continuously puts people in jeopardy and withholds rights or selectively prosecutes -- that is not justice. And when Prosecutors load up charges in order to scare someone into plea bargaining because they might get 120 years for some crime that may have caused no harm but we've made "hacking something evil" -- well that's a miscarriage of justice.
I'm not TRYING to lose all respect for our judicial system, but it appears more and more just to be an enforcement arm of corporate interests. Not long before people will "work off their sentences." It will be completely legal because people CHOOSE to either do 120 years for downloading a song file, or repair garments for 10 years with little compensation.
I'm not sure if that is worse or better than a debtors prison, but it's sad that someone gets more time because they are more useful.
They should hire me to fix it...
It's quite simple, really:
a) If somebody is in "Metro" mode they stay there until they deliberately switch to "desktop".
b) If somebody is in "desktop" mode, they stay on the desktop until they deliberately switch to "Metro".
Switching between the two should be an easy gesture, maybe even a special new key on machines with a proper mouse/screen/keyboard.
(And maybe the "scroll lock" key could work for us Model M diehards - is that really too much to ask? It even means we get a "Metro" warning light on the keyboard as a bonus feature).
How hard can that be?
Your solution could only be improved by;
1) Click on the "Start Metro" button.
>> Nothing happens.
2) Click on Metro button a 2nd time.
>> Prompt returns with "Are you sure you want to start Metro?"
3) User clicks "YES"
>> Prompt returns with "To be even more clear -- because this might have been a mistake; R U watin' the crazy touch screen?"
4) User clicks "OK"
this drops them back to the desktop interface, only it nows says "Metro -- it's COOL!" in the background. This should resolve 99% of the demand for the Metro interface.
100% guaranteed they continue in the metro vein and continue to obscure/drop features/settings and continue to be "dumbfounded" as to why no one wants to buy it.
I 100% guarantee they will both DO THAT, and have a "LEGACY MODE" and allow users and OEMs to switch to LEGACY INTERFACE. This will be the actual interface that everyone uses while Microsoft will sell 7.3 as 8.2 pretending to be 9.1 and not be forced to admit to upper management that marketing is clueless in application development and they need to be made to sit in a corner until someone tells them that the time out is over. 2024 should be sufficient.
Are you kidding? I'm waiting for Windows X.1
Windows 9 will be a clever way to retreat from the horribly touch-screen interface in 8 that makes things disappear and the user is left saying; "what just happened and where am I now?" They will move around a few deck chairs so they don't have to tell anyone they are retreating. However, 9.0 will actually be 8.2. So they'll have to resolve the actual new features that depend on the touch screen nature of Windows 8.
Windows 10 will be renamed X by savvy marketing, and will be the actual update to Windows 8 as they fix everything that was wrong with 9 but would not admit.
This will be the last Microsoft OS, as they will move to a permanent subscription model, you will be instructed at the DOS prompt to go to www.microsoft.com/bigmoney and everything you need to do will be supplied by an AI paperclip.
Even if they make the Z-Depth a factor of 10 smaller than the X-Y coordinates, any model will have to be at least 3 TIMES bigger for them to really see how big the universe is.
Sounds like you already have your mind set. You've got a very negative hypothetical here.
Then I'd also like to know how you derive the COST of Nuclear and Coal versus Solar and Wind. Keep in mind that "what we pay" isn't the full cost and WHERE we pay it is sometimes more important than HOW MUCH. Also - the cost of putting a solar panel at my house -- huge. But if a large company is using collectors to boil some water -- it's a much different cost per kilowatt.
For instance, a nuclear plant sucks in a lot of fresh water. It's imported Uranium from Russia which hurts our deficit and doesn't help with jobs. Much less the environmental impact of Coal and Uranium only seems to look at the end product -- not on what happens when you dig this stuff up. Uranium is better on the back end than coal -- but it's also for the most part an import.
If you make the Solar and Wind equipment in the USA and don't need to import rare earth elements from Afghanistan -- well, then it's JOBS JOBS JOBS. So I'm not so worried about the economics if you push a "Buy American" provision. Efficiency and global competitiveness is a factor for multinationals who are only concerned with gaming everyone down to the lowest price and charging the most for the end product.
Solar collects energy when a utility is most likely going to experience peak demand -- well, at least in the summer.
And then you mention private companies doing this -- as if we didn't socialize the hell out of Nuclear power. No private company insures a nuclear power plant. So where you get your data and all the factors involved in assessing cost is an important part of the debate. The biggest SAVINGS from Solar and Wind right now, would be in reducing peak output for Nuclear power plants. The cost of electricity for a Nuke plant is the same weather they are running at peak or not (well, maybe less pumping when not at peak for the water) -- so if you don't have a huge spike, the Nuke plant can be smaller and run near peak most of the time. In that scenario, even though the alternatives cost more, they reduce overall costs.
So in that regard, the batteries are a "buffer" and not intended to store a weeks worth of energy -- perhaps more like charge during the day and output during the night. Which makes sense when you are heating using solar, or the wind is not consistent.
They are likely wandering stars from another galaxy. Wasn't it estimated that we already had one galaxy pass through the Milky Way and sometime in the future we may pass through Andromeda?
So perhaps there are three mechanisms for high speed stars;
1) ejected by a super massive black hole.
2) remnant of non-colliding stars from Galactic collisions (and actually, most stars don't hit each other in these situations).
3) L3 advanced civilization finding that solar tourism is more fun if you can take all your stuff with you.
But why is the background radiation ALREADY Doppler shifted? In other words; our solar system and galaxy are moving at a high rate of speed already -- so there should already be a Doppler effect.
So is there a "relativistic lens" of the space we are in that normalizes the shift we see?
I get that we see a Doppler shift if we quickly moving in a given vector -- I'm just curious why we don't see more effects from the vectors we are already moving in. It suggests that space is a "thing" and in many cases, it is moving us -- as though it has a current.
I'm sure there have been some tests, but has anyone conclusively found a "vector" to space? Currently, we use Universal Background Radiation -- allegedly this is the noise left over from the poorly named "Big Bang".
The problem of Relativity is that either their is a universal time or all time is local -- and each object has a relative time displacement to each other. In the simple model of relativity, you have an observer, or someone leaves a planet at high speed and comes back and their clocks have accounted for less time than people who "stayed behind." But we don't really know if there is a "vector to space" in that the planet they leave may be traveling faster or "against" the motion of space, and the rocket is actually moving slower by traveling in a direction opposite to this.
So a test for this would be to have perhaps 6 rockets move at the same rate of speed (as best as can be determined), in the absence of a gravity field (as best as can be found), and if they move at relativistic speeds and make a return to the same location -- there is either a vector that required more energy because they were moving in opposition to the background motion of space, or they have relatively the same time displacement and energy output.
The results would not be trivial.
I predict that while there is no real condition for an "outside observer" -- that space itself can have a vector -- that means it's not just a blank emptiness but actually a thing. Like Dark Matter -- but not. Dark Matter I think is a manifestation of "turbulence" in Space itself and suggests that gravity and mass have a frequency and indirect impact on space that we have yet to discern. To make this clearer -- if all the spacecraft are moving "in a block" of space time -- then they will not have a difference in relative energy output and time - acceleration alone accounts for "relativity". However, the are in a Solar System, Galaxy and Galactic Cluster that all move at the same time in different directions.
The current theory of relativity SHOULD support different displacements for each rocket -- and thus a "zero motion" state can be deduced by factoring in the relativistic effects. However, I feel like Classic Relativity kind of breaks down in different vectors and each object has it's own "time". The oversight seems to be that many people are only using a few simple vectors when they think of relativity. But I imagine particles in a star bouncing around at nearly light speed -- they are moving from an object both at nearly light speed, and then hitting other objects at nearly light speed -- so relativity in that situation is spaghetti. Depending on the direction particles are both speeding up and slowing down relative to other particles. Space/Time is both stretched and compressed at the same location.
The point is that even relativity is relative, and it has to mean we've got quite a few more dimensions involved in this 4 dimensional world we think we inhabit. Objects have to be moving in other vectors in other dimensions to resolve "normality" as far as we are concerned.
Of course since they are all "prone to put self (and re-election) before country" they would never dare to challenge the party line. Robert Gates included.
Other than civility and "skill" at his job as regards procedure -- I'm not sure that Robert Gates ever stood out as anyone putting country before self. He likely concluded the country needed him more than some impetuous idealist.
When you look at Robert Gates and then look at someone like Eric Snowden, and then look back at Robert Gates. You realize we need a lot more idealistic fools than we need composed and self-interested adults. But we certainly can't expect that if many of us don't as well. It's easy to identify with the hero in a movie -- but it's hard when you consider being jobless and feeding kids. However, I figure a man like Gates has enough to fall back on so it's not a matter of survival but of comfort.
Congress really DOES represent the people!
were nothing compared with the pain of dealing with Congress. ... I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.
Has Gates considered blogger moderation and karma whoring to mitigate the dysfunction? I'm sure Ralph Reed might do something for extending unemployment benefits if we gave him a cookie.
Free market finds a way. Where gov't erects legal barriers, free market becomes black market.
You are right, but if the 'free market' were an argument for making something legal, then we should make assassinations and corporations that dump poison into rivers legal, because they are going to anyway.
The only tiny flaw in this argument is that demand "from the people" is not part of the calculation. The people are not clamoring to assassinate and pollute.
I'm pretty sure they do demographic research to try and split the vote 50/50.
However as the country gets dumber, they have to get the crazy rhetoric on a CERTAIN SIDE of this 50/50 split slightly crazier. I'll leave it as homework to figure out which one.
... - they'd be at war with each other if they hadn't found a common enemy in the liberals.
Yes, because STUPID isn't apparently anything they are having a conflict with.
Did the morality laws make people better or less sinful? No.
Does the war on drugs make economic sense? No.
Do liberals generally think we shouldn't be criminalizing drugs and that treatment is more economical, human and ends up with fewer addicts? Yes.
Sounds like a group that defines itself by NOT agreeing with Liberals more than a common cause or any practicality. Seriously, other than not being Liberal, why would a fiscal conservative object to Democrats who are to the right of Nixon on anything economic?
Well at least it's not just because the President is from Hawaii anymore.
I feel more confident in a Doctor having more information than a for-profit insurance company -- which already KNOWS MORE than the doctor in many cases.
So, essentially, Dr. Haider Javed Warraichis is suggesting patients to lie, because doctors are more prone to misdiagnose if they have more information?
See what I read is that the Doctor was sharing a mistake they made with a snap judgement, based on getting MORE INFORMATION -- but out of context. I think our take-away could be; "If you are going to use this internet-based information, take it with a grain of salt and find some context." There's nothing about lying, that I'm reading.
It's a good thing he didn't ask her if her parents were embarrassed about her drunken sexy behavior on spring break.
FTA;
To me, the only legitimate reason to search for a patient’s online footprint is if there is a safety issue. If, for example, a patient appears to be manic or psychotic, it might be useful to investigate whether certain claims the patient makes are true. Or, if a doctor suspects a pediatric patient is being abused, it might make sense to look for evidence online.
That to me means; "limit your searches to investigate psychosis or abuse, and double-check conclusions."
The fact of the matter, people, is that any standing army which doesn't have an external "enemy" to wage war upon will inevitably turn against (or be used against) its own citizenry.
Hence why we shouldn't have a "standing army." Of course -- because today the world is more complicated, you can't just train citizenry to learn to be "part time" warriors. The days of just teaching someone a fire arm are as gone as are the days where a simple tax need only pay for the occasional cobblestone replacement and horse hitch. To compare today's military and infrastructure to the "founding fathers" era is of course ridiculous -- as is winning an argument based on psychic readings of some long-dead person's "intent" when we can't even figure out what a current politician intends when they are talking right to us.
We need a better way. We've got to take the profit out of war and security just like health care. Profit should only occur when you want MORE of something. If you want more sick people paying dearly for hospital beads, or you want 750 military bases and perhaps a dozen concurrent wars LIKE WE DO TODAY, well, keep profit in the equation for Sick Care and Military Offense, LIKE WE DO TODAY.
Yeah, drones make war too easy.
And even suicide attacks are self-moderating. But a drone can "strap on" some ordinance and you don't even need someone to volunteer or believe enough in the cause. There is no sacrifice or backlash -- just continual asymmetric warfare.
How does someone on the receiving end of such a drone policy react? They aren't ALL bond villains, are they? They had a gripe and were in our way and someone they know got attacked by a faceless drone. I'm thinking the futility and anger would be greater because the "who did this" is more removed. This makes it more likely that innocent people are retaliated against in the future -- not less.
It's quite possible that if the scientists quibbling about the rubber sheet used latex, they'd get 20% more accurate astronomical projections.
We are all pregnant with anticipation of the different substances we can use to dress up General Relativity analogies! Ooh -- black holes can use spandex to model and quasars maybe a riding crop. Sure, I know, it's a stretching a metaphor, but work with me here...
The Declaration of Independence is a manifesto. It's terms that could not be met if England wanted to keep Americans under their thumb. The "consent of the governed" is not on the table anymore.
It has always been thus that the comfortable have to balance their profits versus the willingness of the disenfranchised to give their lives for autonomy -- and right now it seems to be low risk versus high reward for them. I expect they laugh a lot at our antics and complaints.
They took TARP money because the Federal Reserve (their primary regulator) told them they had to.
You have to wonder who is really in charge of whom when money is forcibly stuffed in their pockets.
Of course later the Feds fined them massive amounts of money for bad things that Bear Stearns and WaMu did, but that's another story.
"massive" fines don't even equate to a weeks profits at some of these firms, though Stearns was road kill and likely not "on the gravy train" with the others. There were five firms that pushed huge sums in Naked Shorts to undervalue their stock and send the over-leveraged company into bankruptcy. Of course, at that time -- they were ALL over leveraged.
I think the FBI needs to start wearing these NASCAR jackets. We'd like to see "Goldman Sacks" on the front of your hoodie, and maybe a bit of "Chase" right were the tramp stamp goes -- just to ease our minds about "security of the nation" when some trial inexplicably seems to find nobody did anything wrong but billions of dollars went "poof!"
Al Kaida isn't going to come for me, it will be "Al's towing service" to get my car. Poverty kills more people than the competition.
I'd say if you can sneak in that back door -- you are going to have a good talent for preventing back doors.
Only, with ethics like this -- I don't have any sympathy for anyone procuring the services of this company if they find they've got a backdoor engineered into their system.
Providing and protecting from the same threats is a profitable business model; just ask the weapons industry.