You're forgetting Fort Collins, which lies between Denver and Cheyenne. A huge amount of daily commuting happens between Denver and Fort Collins along I-25, and some between Cheyenne and Fort Collins. One of the reasons I left my previous job recently was because they were closing the office I worked out of and were going to force me to make that daily commute. Had there been a high-speed train that could take me there, I might be still working at that company.
Actually, overuse of neurons can cause them to inflame and die. That's one of the major causes of Alzheimer's.
Um... no, it's not.
Scientists are still trying to find the exact cause, but nothing has linked it to "overuse" of neurons. If anything, there is some evidence that mental stimulation could hold off or slow the progress of the disease.
Recently Oracle, announced the procurement of the Sun God Ra, after he defeated Osiris and left Isis searching the river for his missing uh... firmware.
I know this concept might be foreign to you, but Isis is female.
"His" = "Osiris"
I know this concept might be foreign you, but maybe you should bone up on Egyptian mythology before making snarky comments like this (though it was Set that defeated Osiris, not Ra).
because we're worried Obama wants to derail our gravy train.
What the hell does Obama have to do with it? SETI is privately funded. Get your facts straight before you use the topic for a political jab that makes no sense.
Flying pasta monsters aside, how is SETI different from ID? ID does not assert any preconception regarding the nature of the designer, so you can't pull the natural, super-natural distinction. In fact, ID has the advantage of a signal to inspect, that of DNA. SETI has no signal to apply "intelligence" detection algorithms to.
Because the basic hypothesis of SETI is provable, thus making SETI a real science, while ID can produce no proof whatsoever, thus making it faith-based or pseudo-science at best.
Or to put it simply: If SETI detects a signal of intelligent origin tomorrow, that will prove its hypothesis that intelligent life exists elsewhere. ID can offer no such tangible, verifiable evidence.
So the gist of the article is that the NSF inspector general has enough resources to either investigate science grant fraud OR "abuse" of its internal network.
Personally, I feel that grant fraud is a far more serious issue than whether or not the employees are looking at naked boobies on company time.
He gets a pass because he's one of the original characters. Plus, if they do it like the original games where he tags along with you, you get to have fun watching him blunder into things, get himself "killed", and then helicopter back onscreen by spinning his two tails.
I don't use drugs because they are illegal. My employer could terminate my employment, I could be jailed, etc.
If drugs were legalized, then there would be no barrier (however artificial) for me to start using drugs. Maybe I enjoy it and starts affecting my productivity, my way of life, I become addicted, etc.
So while this might be in the minority, there are a number of citizens who are not using drugs for the sole reason that they are NOT legal. Legalizing them would remove this barrier and actually cause more drug use. I am not saying that is horrible, but it is a side-effect that is seldom brought up.
So, in effect, you're asking the government to be responsible for what you see is a weakness in YOURSELF.
Sometimes all it takes is being a little aggressive with them on the phone and asserting your rights. I had this problem years ago when I first moved into an apartment in NJ. A few months afterward I got calls from a debt collector asking for someone I never heard of. After it happened three times, I decided to be nice and ask the neighbors if they heard the name. Turns out it was the previous tenant. So when the debt collector called again, I was nice about it and explained that I had just moved in and that they wanted the previous tenant.
I was promptly accused of covering for him, and was threatened with ridiculous legal action. That's when I made it clear that I knew exactly what my rights were and that if I received another call again I would refer the matter to my attorney (I didn't actually have one, but sometimes mentioning it is enough). I never got another call again.
Creating thousands of splinter civilizations with no emotional investment in the species homeworld is a recipe for galactic war if I've ever heard one.
What would be the point?
Consider two "rival" worlds separated by a modest distance of 50 light years. Now assume that the top speed that ships can go remains 1/10 light speed as mentioned in the article. That's 500 years for your fleet to get to the other world. The time dilation at that speed would be small enough to be insignificant. Multi-generational warships anyone?
So let's instead consider that we push the speed envelope. We're still limited in how fast we could go. Say we push it to 80% or maybe 90% lightspeed. You're still talking about taking over 50 years universe time to get there. The expenditure is not worth it. By the time they got there, people will have forgotten what they were fighting about, or would have moved on to more important matters.
It is weapons training day at military camp. The instructor is running through some of the kit trainees will be using. "OK, moving on. The next weapon I am showing you here can be used to devastating effect --- in the correct hands and under the right circumstances. We call it vmsplice_to_user()..."
Cisco Router: ~$700
Server to run it on: ~$2000
Beta testing Microsofts new server 2008 in a production environment: Priceless
I know you meant your post as a joke, but isn't this a GOOD thing that MS is running their site on their next server edition? It's called "eating your own dog food."
Well, that's it then. This bill renounces the motivations behind the Revolutionary War.
No nation is going to codify into its laws explicit permission to take up arms against the government. That's just insane. Some may argue that the Second Amendment tacitly provides for such a thing, though it talks more about the "security of a free state" (which I suppose could be read either way).
This is in no way meant to indicate I favor this bill, just that your statement seems to imply that the government ought to "allow" the people to rise up against it.
Would you really expect anything less from CmdrTaco?
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Really, that's who I expected to see as the Slashdot mod that posted this. I actually expect a bit more from CmdrTaco. Usually my only beef with CmdrTaco is his propensity to post dupes, and the firehose mechanism has curbed this somewhat.
It's rare that I comment on mods' choice of stories, but really, this is a bit over the top in terms of pure sensationalism.
That's most likely why it was reverted.
The summary of a novel or movie should be at most one or two paragraphs. That is the definition of SUMMARY. I have seen too many Wikipedia articles on novels or books that read like a book report someone did for their high school English Lit course. A summary should simply underscore some of the major themes of the work, give a high-level description of the plot in a few sentences, and THAT'S IT. That means it should NOT include spoilers.
I will concede that perhaps rather than reverting it, it should have been marked with a tag stating that the summary was too long and needed to be cleaned up. I am sure there was information from your original work that could be salvaged and placed in a much tighter summary.
Yes, there is no personal privacy for junk on corporate computers. The more interesting issue is when IT accesses machines that are limited-access. For example, take the Personnel Dept (I refuse to use the insulting term HR) and its database of employees' salaries, home addresses, background checks, etc. That info clearly is not for view by IT members, regardless of their root privs. The difference here is that an employee gives info to Personnel with the understanding that it is not for general dissemination, as opposed to the company's right to look at anything that is on the employee's desktop machine.
While this is generally true, if that same department is belly-up because their main personnel application is crashing because of some bug that is being triggered by something in the data, the developer is most likely going to have to be looking at that data in order to find the problem (something similar happened to a coworker at a previous job). So, yes, the developer will be looking at confidential data, but he's going to be so focused on fixing the bug and getting the application running again that the contents of the data will just slide off his brain. I've had to peek at production data lots of times to diagnose issues and I don't recall a single byte of what I read. It's not important to me fixing the problem, so I don't remember it.
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You're forgetting Fort Collins, which lies between Denver and Cheyenne. A huge amount of daily commuting happens between Denver and Fort Collins along I-25, and some between Cheyenne and Fort Collins. One of the reasons I left my previous job recently was because they were closing the office I worked out of and were going to force me to make that daily commute. Had there been a high-speed train that could take me there, I might be still working at that company.
And nothing of value was lost.
but if you can lower the inertial mass of your spaceship can't you accelerate at ridiculous rates?
That would certainly be the first step. The next technological leap would be to advance to ludicrous speed.
Actually, overuse of neurons can cause them to inflame and die. That's one of the major causes of Alzheimer's.
Um ... no, it's not.
Scientists are still trying to find the exact cause, but nothing has linked it to "overuse" of neurons. If anything, there is some evidence that mental stimulation could hold off or slow the progress of the disease.
Recently Oracle, announced the procurement of the Sun God Ra, after he defeated Osiris and left Isis searching the river for his missing uh... firmware.
I know this concept might be foreign to you, but Isis is female.
"His" = "Osiris"
I know this concept might be foreign you, but maybe you should bone up on Egyptian mythology before making snarky comments like this (though it was Set that defeated Osiris, not Ra).
because we're worried Obama wants to derail our gravy train.
What the hell does Obama have to do with it? SETI is privately funded. Get your facts straight before you use the topic for a political jab that makes no sense.
In the year 1,502,000....
War was beginning
As long as the list is publicy managed, this shouldn't be a problem. Obviously, no way it can happen in the real world.
So instead of censorship imposed by the government, you'd have a censorship imposed by a tyrrany of the majority.
Flying pasta monsters aside, how is SETI different from ID? ID does not assert any preconception regarding the nature of the designer, so you can't pull the natural, super-natural distinction. In fact, ID has the advantage of a signal to inspect, that of DNA. SETI has no signal to apply "intelligence" detection algorithms to.
Because the basic hypothesis of SETI is provable, thus making SETI a real science, while ID can produce no proof whatsoever, thus making it faith-based or pseudo-science at best.
Or to put it simply: If SETI detects a signal of intelligent origin tomorrow, that will prove its hypothesis that intelligent life exists elsewhere. ID can offer no such tangible, verifiable evidence.
Or better yet, taser underwear.
Stunderwear!
(this post unlikely to be modded up as getting the reference requires playing a thoroughly unrealistic game)
Unfortunately for your argument, that part of the sixth amendment does not seem to have been incorporated against the states, so Texas could theoretically never tell you why you were being held, even if a federal prosecutor would have to tell you under the sixth amendment.
Please take a moment to read the whole article about incorporation.
From the Wikipedia article you linked to:
Right to notice of accusations
* This right has been incorporated against the states. See In re Oliver, 333 U.S. 257 (1948).
Perhaps you're the one that needs to read more carefully.
So the gist of the article is that the NSF inspector general has enough resources to either investigate science grant fraud OR "abuse" of its internal network.
Personally, I feel that grant fraud is a far more serious issue than whether or not the employees are looking at naked boobies on company time.
Doesn't Tails qualify as a furry?
He gets a pass because he's one of the original characters. Plus, if they do it like the original games where he tags along with you, you get to have fun watching him blunder into things, get himself "killed", and then helicopter back onscreen by spinning his two tails.
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Ah, the simple pleasures of yesteryear
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I don't use drugs because they are illegal. My employer could terminate my employment, I could be jailed, etc. If drugs were legalized, then there would be no barrier (however artificial) for me to start using drugs. Maybe I enjoy it and starts affecting my productivity, my way of life, I become addicted, etc. So while this might be in the minority, there are a number of citizens who are not using drugs for the sole reason that they are NOT legal. Legalizing them would remove this barrier and actually cause more drug use. I am not saying that is horrible, but it is a side-effect that is seldom brought up.
So, in effect, you're asking the government to be responsible for what you see is a weakness in YOURSELF.
Sometimes all it takes is being a little aggressive with them on the phone and asserting your rights. I had this problem years ago when I first moved into an apartment in NJ. A few months afterward I got calls from a debt collector asking for someone I never heard of. After it happened three times, I decided to be nice and ask the neighbors if they heard the name. Turns out it was the previous tenant. So when the debt collector called again, I was nice about it and explained that I had just moved in and that they wanted the previous tenant.
I was promptly accused of covering for him, and was threatened with ridiculous legal action. That's when I made it clear that I knew exactly what my rights were and that if I received another call again I would refer the matter to my attorney (I didn't actually have one, but sometimes mentioning it is enough). I never got another call again.
Creating thousands of splinter civilizations with no emotional investment in the species homeworld is a recipe for galactic war if I've ever heard one.
What would be the point?
Consider two "rival" worlds separated by a modest distance of 50 light years. Now assume that the top speed that ships can go remains 1/10 light speed as mentioned in the article. That's 500 years for your fleet to get to the other world. The time dilation at that speed would be small enough to be insignificant. Multi-generational warships anyone?
So let's instead consider that we push the speed envelope. We're still limited in how fast we could go. Say we push it to 80% or maybe 90% lightspeed. You're still talking about taking over 50 years universe time to get there. The expenditure is not worth it. By the time they got there, people will have forgotten what they were fighting about, or would have moved on to more important matters.
Not sure who the bigger fool is, the guy that embezzled all the in-game money or the schmuck that paid $5000 of real money for it.
This is in no way meant to indicate I favor this bill, just that your statement seems to imply that the government ought to "allow" the people to rise up against it.
Really, that's who I expected to see as the Slashdot mod that posted this. I actually expect a bit more from CmdrTaco. Usually my only beef with CmdrTaco is his propensity to post dupes, and the firehose mechanism has curbed this somewhat.
It's rare that I comment on mods' choice of stories, but really, this is a bit over the top in terms of pure sensationalism.