Microsoft code will be left utterly exposed to an army of cranks open source zealots and their deliberately time-wasting requests. Who would want to be a scientist Microsoft Programmer in such conditions? This is a recipe for scaring the brightest minds away from the most important of problems developing Windows.
Transparency is important, but opening the hen house to the weasels isn't prudent.
The only way I can see to be critical of him and "the use of force" is if one is a pacifist. He IS critical of the abuse of force by coalition troops when it happens. He got kicked out of a British embed because he was telling the ugly truth of the fight to the people back home. That wasn't what they wanted. He DOES give good criticism. He won't report things that endanger US/Coalition forces, but he doesn't hold back for political correctness of to make it look like things are going better than they are. He has told things that have been politically damaging to both Bush and Obama. He just does good real reporting. No-one else seems to be up to it.
"The pussies who call themselves reporters don't go out of the green zone anymore, and it's hard to get anyone to care about a grainy video or far away sounding reports from foreign news sources."
By and large this is true. But there is at least one reporter that does go out and get it done. He doesn't work for a big media company. He's more of the open source model of reporting, supported by tips from his readers. I suggest you read his stuff if you want to know what is happening. Check him out here Michael Yon
Being escorted out by security generally speaks more about the employer than the employee in the US. Generally professional positions in the US are "Right To Work". This means that either side(employee or employer) can end the work relationship as a matter of rights at any time. California is pretty good about technical workers right to earn a living. Any non-compete is unenforceable if they are let go. More than likely they gave Kotick an ultimatum about what work they wanted/were willing to do and he called their bluff. Likely outcome is that some lawyers will be able to afford the new Audi's they're lusting after; Kotick gets nothing but satisfaction of causing them a headache in court, and they go on and make another fortune.
Your tax rate isn't just income tax rate. By the time you add VAT, property taxes(either directly paid, or indirectly via rent), automobile registration fees, etc. I'm sure that 40% is closer to 60%.
The number of deaths due to this problem is about the same as the Ford Pinto "bursting into flames" issue from the late 1970's.
Toyota is hitting a perfect storm of screwed over this. If this had been 4 years ago coming out(and it could have if Toyota weren't so damn arrogant), then there wouldn't have been the political pressure from the UAW to screw Toyota. Historically the UAW has spent their political capital pushing the regulators to go after the companies they work for; they would use that as another lever in their bargaining. Now that they own a couple car companies, they're using that muscle against their competition. Toyota used to get away with not recalling cars over issues, because the regulators weren't being pushed to go after them. GM/Ford/Chrysler had no such luck. Sucks for Toyota that the playing field level has shifted against them now instead of for them.
Yeah; but Salt Lake City only managed that because their committee ended up being run by that "Rethuglican" Mitt Romney.
Before he took over they were so far behind schedule it looked like they wouldn't even make it happen at all.
The company may make their part numbers however they like. These references are part of the part number for the scopes. They have used these for years. This was posted on message boards 5 years ago. And the part numbers have been since the inception of those models. The company makes tritium illuminated sights. And all the bible references in the part numbers contain references to "light". The only story here is that ABC news doesn't have a clue about religion.
Yes they will and its easily testable. What is the 0-60mph acceleration time of the car? what is the 60-0 declaration time of the car?
EVERY car can decelerate faster than it can accelerate. Therefore it has more breaking power than engine power. QED.
I am sure that Apple's license to the copyright that allows them to sell the songs covers this. Ascap is demanding money for a right that Apple has already paid for. I would love to see them sue Apple and lose and Pay several million in legal fees as the loser of a copyright claim.
The problem with PvP is that developers haven't come up with a non-exploitable positive sum game for it. When it is a zero sum game people get very annoyed with the winner and the game and want to leave; therefore PvP tends to be a negative sum game. You can't have an economy based on a negative sum game.
Proof:
If I get more than you lose when I beat you in PvP then we take turns beating each other rapidly and both advance quickly.
If every time I lose to one of the better PvPers he gets all of my loss thats angering. Its to much like theft and not like a game OR there is no real loss or gain and so where is the thrill?
If the game is only or mainly PvP and every time someone loses they lose more than the winner gains, the net assets in the game economy rapidly decrease.
Someone comes up with a positive sum game of PvP on an MMO that isn't exploitable and they'll be bigger than WoW.
The real problem is the restrictions on photography that are placed by these museums to protect the value of their own digitized images and book sales. There is no need to pay people to come and digitize their gallery. They have to pay people so that they can control the output. I am sure that there are enough volunteers that would be willing to go and digitize the works on display at the galleries and submit them to wikipedia if the galleries/museums didn't prohibit that.
The reason I suggested the chemistry teacher is that one of the methods I have seen in the past included sulfer doping a metel. Doing some research later you can do this with a razor blade, a safety pin, some wire, a toilet paper role tube, and an old style wooden pencil. This is also a very simple design the pencil graphite to razor blade junction acts like a diode.
That is going to be well less than a dollar for the parts. You can then have them build a low power audio amplifier so that they can hear better what they recieve. Then build a simple am reciever circuit and replace the trench radio with it. Nice progression.
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio.
Then build a crystal radio.
Then an audio amplifier circuit.
Or build the crysal radio then the audio amplifier then the foxhole radio. But actually building a radio with parts they've made and not bought, making the diode, will teach them a lot.
This so reminds me of something Orrin Boyle would do in Atlas Shrugged. Spending all that money because it was the socially right thing to do, but with no real plan to make it productive; because he has never cared about profit.
I find it funny that those that religiously believe in anthropomorphic global climate change, and use scientist opinions to back it, don't differentiate the science fields of those that agree with them. So just what is Al Gore's scientific degree again? Then again if you read the whole wiki article I posted you would find many scientists that totally disagree with anthropomorphic effects for global warming/climate change. Now argueing that many of these scientits believe in global warming due to natural causes,therefore we should take steps to limit human effects is illogical.
Greenpeace is upset that the program is a tax with government largesse going to the politically connected. They don't care about the economy; but they know that this bill does nothing for the environment. It still damages the economy though. So we have a bill that will damage the economy, due to a large increase in regulation if nothing else, and doesn't help the economy. BTW how is your reading of the bill going? its over 1200 pages now? I'm still only 1/6th the way through.
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Microsoft code will be left utterly exposed to an army of cranks open source zealots and their deliberately time-wasting requests. Who would want to be a scientist Microsoft Programmer in such conditions? This is a recipe for scaring the brightest minds away from the most important of problems developing Windows.
Transparency is important, but opening the hen house to the weasels isn't prudent.
The only way I can see to be critical of him and "the use of force" is if one is a pacifist. He IS critical of the abuse of force by coalition troops when it happens. He got kicked out of a British embed because he was telling the ugly truth of the fight to the people back home. That wasn't what they wanted. He DOES give good criticism. He won't report things that endanger US/Coalition forces, but he doesn't hold back for political correctness of to make it look like things are going better than they are. He has told things that have been politically damaging to both Bush and Obama. He just does good real reporting. No-one else seems to be up to it.
"The pussies who call themselves reporters don't go out of the green zone anymore, and it's hard to get anyone to care about a grainy video or far away sounding reports from foreign news sources."
By and large this is true. But there is at least one reporter that does go out and get it done. He doesn't work for a big media company. He's more of the open source model of reporting, supported by tips from his readers. I suggest you read his stuff if you want to know what is happening. Check him out here Michael Yon
Defense spending went down from 1970-1975 and from 1988-2001. Where is my Duke Nuke'em Forever?
Defense spending chart from wikipedia Defense spending as percent of federal budget
Being escorted out by security generally speaks more about the employer than the employee in the US. Generally professional positions in the US are "Right To Work". This means that either side(employee or employer) can end the work relationship as a matter of rights at any time. California is pretty good about technical workers right to earn a living. Any non-compete is unenforceable if they are let go. More than likely they gave Kotick an ultimatum about what work they wanted/were willing to do and he called their bluff. Likely outcome is that some lawyers will be able to afford the new Audi's they're lusting after; Kotick gets nothing but satisfaction of causing them a headache in court, and they go on and make another fortune.
Your tax rate isn't just income tax rate. By the time you add VAT, property taxes(either directly paid, or indirectly via rent), automobile registration fees, etc. I'm sure that 40% is closer to 60%.
The number of deaths due to this problem is about the same as the Ford Pinto "bursting into flames" issue from the late 1970's. Toyota is hitting a perfect storm of screwed over this. If this had been 4 years ago coming out(and it could have if Toyota weren't so damn arrogant), then there wouldn't have been the political pressure from the UAW to screw Toyota. Historically the UAW has spent their political capital pushing the regulators to go after the companies they work for; they would use that as another lever in their bargaining. Now that they own a couple car companies, they're using that muscle against their competition. Toyota used to get away with not recalling cars over issues, because the regulators weren't being pushed to go after them. GM/Ford/Chrysler had no such luck. Sucks for Toyota that the playing field level has shifted against them now instead of for them.
Yeah; but Salt Lake City only managed that because their committee ended up being run by that "Rethuglican" Mitt Romney. Before he took over they were so far behind schedule it looked like they wouldn't even make it happen at all.
The company may make their part numbers however they like. These references are part of the part number for the scopes. They have used these for years. This was posted on message boards 5 years ago. And the part numbers have been since the inception of those models. The company makes tritium illuminated sights. And all the bible references in the part numbers contain references to "light". The only story here is that ABC news doesn't have a clue about religion.
Here is someone else describing EVE-Online.
Which politician?
Senator John Kerry for one. I am sure there are others in his party as well.
Yes they will and its easily testable. What is the 0-60mph acceleration time of the car? what is the 60-0 declaration time of the car? EVERY car can decelerate faster than it can accelerate. Therefore it has more breaking power than engine power. QED.
They seem to like to vote on things that no-one has read.
I am sure that Apple's license to the copyright that allows them to sell the songs covers this. Ascap is demanding money for a right that Apple has already paid for. I would love to see them sue Apple and lose and Pay several million in legal fees as the loser of a copyright claim.
"we're whalers on the moon, we carry our harpoons...."
The problem with PvP is that developers haven't come up with a non-exploitable positive sum game for it. When it is a zero sum game people get very annoyed with the winner and the game and want to leave; therefore PvP tends to be a negative sum game. You can't have an economy based on a negative sum game.
Proof: If I get more than you lose when I beat you in PvP then we take turns beating each other rapidly and both advance quickly.
If every time I lose to one of the better PvPers he gets all of my loss thats angering. Its to much like theft and not like a game OR there is no real loss or gain and so where is the thrill?
If the game is only or mainly PvP and every time someone loses they lose more than the winner gains, the net assets in the game economy rapidly decrease.
Someone comes up with a positive sum game of PvP on an MMO that isn't exploitable and they'll be bigger than WoW.
The real problem is the restrictions on photography that are placed by these museums to protect the value of their own digitized images and book sales. There is no need to pay people to come and digitize their gallery. They have to pay people so that they can control the output. I am sure that there are enough volunteers that would be willing to go and digitize the works on display at the galleries and submit them to wikipedia if the galleries/museums didn't prohibit that.
The reason I suggested the chemistry teacher is that one of the methods I have seen in the past included sulfer doping a metel. Doing some research later you can do this with a razor blade, a safety pin, some wire, a toilet paper role tube, and an old style wooden pencil. This is also a very simple design the pencil graphite to razor blade junction acts like a diode.
That is going to be well less than a dollar for the parts. You can then have them build a low power audio amplifier so that they can hear better what they recieve. Then build a simple am reciever circuit and replace the trench radio with it. Nice progression.
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio. Then build a crystal radio. Then an audio amplifier circuit. Or build the crysal radio then the audio amplifier then the foxhole radio. But actually building a radio with parts they've made and not bought, making the diode, will teach them a lot.
So now the interest charges for the month based on average daily balance will be quit a lot.
This so reminds me of something Orrin Boyle would do in Atlas Shrugged. Spending all that money because it was the socially right thing to do, but with no real plan to make it productive; because he has never cared about profit.
I find it funny that those that religiously believe in anthropomorphic global climate change, and use scientist opinions to back it, don't differentiate the science fields of those that agree with them. So just what is Al Gore's scientific degree again? Then again if you read the whole wiki article I posted you would find many scientists that totally disagree with anthropomorphic effects for global warming/climate change. Now argueing that many of these scientits believe in global warming due to natural causes,therefore we should take steps to limit human effects is illogical.
Well there are these scientists to start with.
Greenpeace is upset that the program is a tax with government largesse going to the politically connected. They don't care about the economy; but they know that this bill does nothing for the environment. It still damages the economy though. So we have a bill that will damage the economy, due to a large increase in regulation if nothing else, and doesn't help the economy. BTW how is your reading of the bill going? its over 1200 pages now? I'm still only 1/6th the way through.
Would be bad to have a crash penetrate the membrane in a rainstorm. Would make quite a vigorous reaction to be sure.