Try *assassinate* underaged US citizens (born on US soil) because they could have been associated with (suspected) terrorists!
I am not talking about al-Awlaki the senior (I can see how people might be divided about him, though, I'd say, if proper Judiciary inquest into his doings were held in the open and conclude with "bring dead or alive", I would not mind much), but his 16 years old son!
Note: "Functions that cannot be abolished immediately will be transferred to other departments."
I hope that you would reconsider your stance (and yes, I've notices your interest in USGS in your recent posts, but not enough to make me think that you would sell your integrity and freedom of mind for having a certain title on your business card!;) ).
And I did like your recent petition, though both of us know that it will go nowhere whatsoever...
Just trying to win one heart at a time, and yours seems to be not all crusted,
Where he says that Earth is definitely 6000 years old, and Bible is to be taken literally?
He is definitely religious (and, by the way, I am personally not, though I have used "Taoist" on government forms to indicate my religious affiliation, just for the fun of it, and can argue that we live in a simulation or agree with Borges that for omnipotent Got if would mean nothing to embed a couple of fitting-together bones in the Earth to fool naive humans, on certain days!;) ) -- but, he definitely does not wear it on his sleeve, and would rather have matters like this to be left to individual human beings.
Besides, if you are an atheist, which of current/past/future US candidates could you sincere support? Not Obama, right?;-)
... but too many people do not, and in my rather short time living in this country (and actually studying its history on the side), I have seen the whole 3/5th thing attributed to too many "racist Southerners"/"Republicans" once too many times (never mind that the real racists were what was then called Democrats, and MLK was a Republican), so I have a bit of an issue when that is raised as an argument in serious discussion about what needs to be done *now*.
I am originally from the "Soviet Russia" (actually, Soviet Union), and I might have an issue about choosing "the lessER of two evils", from what I've heard, "Articles of Confederation" were not that bad either!;) And no, I do not care about living in a big "country" (and was supporting the notion of Soviet Union collapse back in the day, when all different peoples were just willing out of it, for all different reasons); I would prefer to live in a Republic with a clear set of laws limiting the Government, while having my ability to choose the particular set I want to adhere to/limit myself by simply moving across the state lines!
I knew it looked suspicious too, but then, I've learned from him a lot about actually connecting the dots. Why housing bubble started to inflate right after.com crash, and why.com started to inflate almost right after *previous* Savings and Loans housing bubble in 80s, etc.
And, he actually saw it coming back when gold window was closed in 70s, what made him go into politics in the first place.
But you already know this, most probably, and the person I was replying to likely did not (or preferred not to!).
... republicans in the Congress to overrule his veto?
Or did he go to great extents to sign its extension (via that fancy robotic arm).
I second the notion, I would love to see Obama defend his flip-flopping on, hey, almost anything. I would prefer him to debate my preferred guy (obvious from my signature) on live TV, would be great!;-)
That degrading (and, as others rightfully put it, since amended properly) provision was there at the insistence of the North, not South (who actually wanted to keep their slaves counted as "whole" humans for the purposes of having more representation in Congress).
I would say that predicting 2008 housing crash many years in advance would be a pretty good validation of his "theories" that allowing unlimited money creation guided by political reasons leads to rather unpleasant unintended consequences...
But your version of the reality must be different from mine. Does it also happen in your part of multiverse that Obama fulfilled any of his campaign promises, withdrew from Iraq and Afghanistan (which, as Commander in Chief, is about the only thing the President can do on his own, and I am sure RP would do it), and did not start a couple of (undeclared!) wars (err, conflicts) of his own?
Maybe you should research his "theories" a bit better.
Will the President's office really consider the top pleas, which include petitions to Legalize and Regulate Marijuana, Forgive Student Loan Debt, and Abolish the TSA?"
But I know of a contender in current race (with not too bad chances of winning it, IMHO), who already said that he would do first and third, and work to reign in the source of the mess which gave us second.
I wanted to mention that, and how in this article everyone on/. is suddenly libertarian, but of 1500 comments on Ron Paul article today, pro voices (like mine) seemed to be a minority, though consistently given +5 (go figure? Are people really afraid to post, but do not mind using a modpoint? Or, is Paul starting to catch up with casual sane people who just say "Yeah, sounds right", and Obama/Romney/Cain people have time to write lengthy rebuttals? Or what?).
And yes, 15% down with DOD budget, no war funding, and no TSA! (I was disappointed that it was not "no DHS" though...)
Still, why those jobs can not be performed by the military personnel, if they are crucial for the survival of this country? As I said, under Ron Paul's budget, DOD still has 500B out of 700B currently, while soldiers and officers are safely home. Total of NOAA, USGS and NIST (latter, admitted, is constitutional, in my view, but not explicitly military-related) is less than 1% of the old budget, and a bit more than 1% of the proposed one.
IMHO, Ron Paul was surprisingly non-radical in his proposal (as in, I would advocate cutting more, not less!), he morally knows that the promises made to individual people need to be kept despite the country being broke (SS/VA/Medicare/Medicade).
I am sorry you can not longer consider supporting him (whom would you support instead, then, if I may ask), but I definitely will!
I have to qualify my statement -- it was just my opinion, obviously, NOAA is not explicitly mentioned in Dr. Paul's proposal, though he said elsewhere something along the lines of "small but useful units will be transferred to other Departments".
He is *decreasing* DOD budget, by 15%. I would propose funding NOAA and USGS from *that* decreased budget, since they do have obvious military uses (but then, I suspect, military collects all that data anyway, but with alternative, and much better, "birds";) ).
And, since most libertarians agree that national defence is legitimate function of Federal government, and knowing weather and coast around your country has obvious military uses, I would see nothing wrong with NOAA and USGS being funded from DOD budget.
"Fix weights and measures" is explicitly constitutional, so, I'd guess, NIST would be also safe under Dr. Paul's watch.
Some people say that he coined the term "Quantum computer", others say that he popularized it, and it was originally due to David Deutsch. And of course it was influenced by Fredkin and Toffoli, and others asking about energy requirements for computation. And THAT goes back to von Neumann!
Now, von Neumann gave us not only classical computer view, currently bearing his name, but also showed the mathematical equivalence of Heisenberg's matrix and Schrödinger's wave formulations of quantum mechanics. I think that I've read it somewhere recently (do not remember where, up to/. crowd to crowdsource it:) ) that the really interesting question is not why quantum computers are taking so long to arrive, but why they were not conceived much, much earlier!
If all the questions that can be answered competently are already being answered competently, how are things going to change with some added computational power? Well, see P vs. NP (BQP in this case, YMMV) -- there are questions that we were trained not to be asking, knowing that we can not get the answer back before the heat death of the Universe!;) See Feynman link above, the real impact would be not in cracking RSA, but in simulating (and, thus, being able to engineer) quantum systems. Think better materials/batteries/"gadgets", but also think proteins, cells, your body, maybe your mind...
I tend to be more "in your face" type of guy, but can see your approach working better!;)
To stay on topic, "US books are open" -- which books? Certainly not Federal Reserve Bank books, or why would it take Bloomberg a lawsuit to see *some* of dirty little dealing which were going on, like "shadow TARP" (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62358.html), and why original version of H.R. 1207 was never passed, again?;)
For the record, if what prosecutors are alleging that poker company was doing is true, I fully support going after them for fraud -- but, I would still not call *them* running Ponzi scheme, unless they were letting new "investors" in and paying them with money siphoned from old "investors", or were operating some kind of "poker-playing coop" and promised "guaranteed" gains -- crazy idea, is not it?:) Otherwise, garden variety embezzlement...
But, knowing gov't attitude towards gambling sites, I would take what they are saying with a grain of salt, until proven otherwise.
I do not think that you get net energy savings (by using the same basic technology, e.g., CMOS at room temeprature or "cold"), if you take into account the fact that cooling things down also costs energy! For example, liquid helium refrigeration costs about 1 kW of wall outlet power to compensate for 1 W dissipated at 4.2 K.
Changing your basic technology to, e.g., some version of superconductor-based logic can help (a lot!), current state of the art (in my very biased opinion, since I am cheering for those guys, and have been involved in related research for years) is here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/superconductor-logic-goes-lowpower...
Yes, there is if you "erase" intermediate results -- look up 'von Neumann-Landauer limit', kT*ln(2) energy must be dissipated for non-reversible computation.
Reversible computation can theoretically approach zero energy dissipation.
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Try *assassinate* underaged US citizens (born on US soil) because they could have been associated with (suspected) terrorists!
I am not talking about al-Awlaki the senior (I can see how people might be divided about him, though, I'd say, if proper Judiciary inquest into his doings were held in the open and conclude with "bring dead or alive", I would not mind much), but his 16 years old son!
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/
http://www.dailypaul.com/181607/obamas-assassination-order-and-the-secret-memo
Fed up yet?
Paul B.
Instant Friendly Green Bubble, my friend! Why non of us have any points to up-mod the GP post???
Paul B.
... and have to admit, that they are lots of fun, especially when you are young! ;-)
When you are a bit older, as in, having to plan for more than one month ahead, they are less fun, but still can be educational to some people.
(Me? trying to be young in heart, honestly!)
Paul B.
About USGS, Weather Services, and such... Straight from Ron Paul's mouth: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/3/one-year-to-go/
Note: "Functions that cannot be abolished immediately will be transferred to other departments."
I hope that you would reconsider your stance (and yes, I've notices your interest in USGS in your recent posts, but not enough to make me think that you would sell your integrity and freedom of mind for having a certain title on your business card! ;) ).
And I did like your recent petition, though both of us know that it will go nowhere whatsoever...
Just trying to win one heart at a time, and yours seems to be not all crusted,
Paul B.
Where he says that Earth is definitely 6000 years old, and Bible is to be taken literally?
He is definitely religious (and, by the way, I am personally not, though I have used "Taoist" on government forms to indicate my religious affiliation, just for the fun of it, and can argue that we live in a simulation or agree with Borges that for omnipotent Got if would mean nothing to embed a couple of fitting-together bones in the Earth to fool naive humans, on certain days! ;) ) -- but, he definitely does not wear it on his sleeve, and would rather have matters like this to be left to individual human beings.
Besides, if you are an atheist, which of current/past/future US candidates could you sincere support? Not Obama, right? ;-)
Paul B.
... but too many people do not, and in my rather short time living in this country (and actually studying its history on the side), I have seen the whole 3/5th thing attributed to too many "racist Southerners"/"Republicans" once too many times (never mind that the real racists were what was then called Democrats, and MLK was a Republican), so I have a bit of an issue when that is raised as an argument in serious discussion about what needs to be done *now*.
I am originally from the "Soviet Russia" (actually, Soviet Union), and I might have an issue about choosing "the lessER of two evils", from what I've heard, "Articles of Confederation" were not that bad either! ;) And no, I do not care about living in a big "country" (and was supporting the notion of Soviet Union collapse back in the day, when all different peoples were just willing out of it, for all different reasons); I would prefer to live in a Republic with a clear set of laws limiting the Government, while having my ability to choose the particular set I want to adhere to/limit myself by simply moving across the state lines!
Paul B.
I knew it looked suspicious too, but then, I've learned from him a lot about actually connecting the dots. Why housing bubble started to inflate right after .com crash, and why .com started to inflate almost right after *previous* Savings and Loans housing bubble in 80s, etc.
And, he actually saw it coming back when gold window was closed in 70s, what made him go into politics in the first place.
But you already know this, most probably, and the person I was replying to likely did not (or preferred not to!).
Paul B.
Someone with mod points, please mod up!
Paul B.
... republicans in the Congress to overrule his veto?
Or did he go to great extents to sign its extension (via that fancy robotic arm).
I second the notion, I would love to see Obama defend his flip-flopping on, hey, almost anything. I would prefer him to debate my preferred guy (obvious from my signature) on live TV, would be great! ;-)
Paul B.
Which states pushed for three-fifth compromise?
That degrading (and, as others rightfully put it, since amended properly) provision was there at the insistence of the North, not South (who actually wanted to keep their slaves counted as "whole" humans for the purposes of having more representation in Congress).
Paul B.
mod+=2; ;-)
Proud supporter since 2007,
Paul B.
And I am sure his positions have not changed since then...
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/02/05/1511225/ron-paul-campaign-answers-slashdot-reader-questions
Paul B.
I would say that predicting 2008 housing crash many years in advance would be a pretty good validation of his "theories" that allowing unlimited money creation guided by political reasons leads to rather unpleasant unintended consequences...
But your version of the reality must be different from mine. Does it also happen in your part of multiverse that Obama fulfilled any of his campaign promises, withdrew from Iraq and Afghanistan (which, as Commander in Chief, is about the only thing the President can do on his own, and I am sure RP would do it), and did not start a couple of (undeclared!) wars (err, conflicts) of his own?
Maybe you should research his "theories" a bit better.
Proud supported since 2007,
Paul B.
No this one, no... He has been saying the same thing for 30+ years, pretty consistent, in not it, even before it was somewhat popular.
Research for yourself and judge yourself...
Paul B.
I really liked how Fjandr replied to my initial comment, here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2486114&cid=37782706
Paul B.
Will the President's office really consider the top pleas, which include petitions to Legalize and Regulate Marijuana, Forgive Student Loan Debt, and Abolish the TSA?"
But I know of a contender in current race (with not too bad chances of winning it, IMHO), who already said that he would do first and third, and work to reign in the source of the mess which gave us second.
Seriously!
I wanted to mention that, and how in this article everyone on /. is suddenly libertarian, but of 1500 comments on Ron Paul article today, pro voices (like mine) seemed to be a minority, though consistently given +5 (go figure? Are people really afraid to post, but do not mind using a modpoint? Or, is Paul starting to catch up with casual sane people who just say "Yeah, sounds right", and Obama/Romney/Cain people have time to write lengthy rebuttals? Or what?).
And yes, 15% down with DOD budget, no war funding, and no TSA! (I was disappointed that it was not "no DHS" though...)
Paul B.
And?
Still, why those jobs can not be performed by the military personnel, if they are crucial for the survival of this country? As I said, under Ron Paul's budget, DOD still has 500B out of 700B currently, while soldiers and officers are safely home. Total of NOAA, USGS and NIST (latter, admitted, is constitutional, in my view, but not explicitly military-related) is less than 1% of the old budget, and a bit more than 1% of the proposed one.
IMHO, Ron Paul was surprisingly non-radical in his proposal (as in, I would advocate cutting more, not less!), he morally knows that the promises made to individual people need to be kept despite the country being broke (SS/VA/Medicare/Medicade).
I am sorry you can not longer consider supporting him (whom would you support instead, then, if I may ask), but I definitely will!
Paul B.
I have to qualify my statement -- it was just my opinion, obviously, NOAA is not explicitly mentioned in Dr. Paul's proposal, though he said elsewhere something along the lines of "small but useful units will be transferred to other Departments".
He is *decreasing* DOD budget, by 15%. I would propose funding NOAA and USGS from *that* decreased budget, since they do have obvious military uses (but then, I suspect, military collects all that data anyway, but with alternative, and much better, "birds" ;) ).
Paul B.
15% slash (right there, top line on the second page here: http://ronpaul2012.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5fe6ba5e2c7e9376850ed45ac&id=bfc0992023&e=8c0ac983f9) AND defunding all (undeclared) wars, resulting in immediate pull-out from all, what is it now, 5,6,7 places?
And, since most libertarians agree that national defence is legitimate function of Federal government, and knowing weather and coast around your country has obvious military uses, I would see nothing wrong with NOAA and USGS being funded from DOD budget.
"Fix weights and measures" is explicitly constitutional, so, I'd guess, NIST would be also safe under Dr. Paul's watch.
Paul B.
I remember Feynman wrote some about quantum computing. -- Yeah, see, e.g., here: http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~sgowtham/PH4390/Week_02/IJTP_v21_p467_y1982.pdf
Some people say that he coined the term "Quantum computer", others say that he popularized it, and it was originally due to David Deutsch. And of course it was influenced by Fredkin and Toffoli, and others asking about energy requirements for computation. And THAT goes back to von Neumann!
Now, von Neumann gave us not only classical computer view, currently bearing his name, but also showed the mathematical equivalence of Heisenberg's matrix and Schrödinger's wave formulations of quantum mechanics. I think that I've read it somewhere recently (do not remember where, up to /. crowd to crowdsource it :) ) that the really interesting question is not why quantum computers are taking so long to arrive, but why they were not conceived much, much earlier!
If all the questions that can be answered competently are already being answered competently, how are things going to change with some added computational power? Well, see P vs. NP (BQP in this case, YMMV) -- there are questions that we were trained not to be asking, knowing that we can not get the answer back before the heat death of the Universe! ;) See Feynman link above, the real impact would be not in cracking RSA, but in simulating (and, thus, being able to engineer) quantum systems. Think better materials/batteries/"gadgets", but also think proteins, cells, your body, maybe your mind...
Paul B.
Back to cave man times parents had to teach their kids not to eat ... frogs -- I guess their lesson was lost on ancestors of French people! ;-)
Just had to, because I went through that sentence several times to parse it, in absence of punctuation it was not easy...
But you and GP are right! And I feel ambivalent as well, but they sure do taste good!
(Damn, did I actually make a grammar nazi comment? :( English is not even my first language, sorry, man!).
Paul B.
I tend to be more "in your face" type of guy, but can see your approach working better! ;)
To stay on topic, "US books are open" -- which books? Certainly not Federal Reserve Bank books, or why would it take Bloomberg a lawsuit to see *some* of dirty little dealing which were going on, like "shadow TARP" (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62358.html), and why original version of H.R. 1207 was never passed, again? ;)
For the record, if what prosecutors are alleging that poker company was doing is true, I fully support going after them for fraud -- but, I would still not call *them* running Ponzi scheme, unless they were letting new "investors" in and paying them with money siphoned from old "investors", or were operating some kind of "poker-playing coop" and promised "guaranteed" gains -- crazy idea, is not it? :) Otherwise, garden variety embezzlement...
But, knowing gov't attitude towards gambling sites, I would take what they are saying with a grain of salt, until proven otherwise.
Paul B.
I do not think that you get net energy savings (by using the same basic technology, e.g., CMOS at room temeprature or "cold"), if you take into account the fact that cooling things down also costs energy! For example, liquid helium refrigeration costs about 1 kW of wall outlet power to compensate for 1 W dissipated at 4.2 K.
Changing your basic technology to, e.g., some version of superconductor-based logic can help (a lot!), current state of the art (in my very biased opinion, since I am cheering for those guys, and have been involved in related research for years) is here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/superconductor-logic-goes-lowpower ...
Paul B.
Yes, there is if you "erase" intermediate results -- look up 'von Neumann-Landauer limit', kT*ln(2) energy must be dissipated for non-reversible computation.
Reversible computation can theoretically approach zero energy dissipation.
Wikipedia is your friend! :)
Paul B.