"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that...This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement."
"The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion."
"Woman in the home of the fighting family, whether she is a mother or a sister, plays the most important role in looking after the family, rearing the children and embuing them with moral values and thoughts derived from Islam. She has to teach them to perform the religious duties in preparation for the role of fighting awaiting them. That is why it is necessary to pay great attention to schools and the curriculum followed in educating Moslem girls, so that they would grow up to be good mothers, aware of their role in the battle of liberation.
She has to be of sufficient knowledge and understanding where the performance of housekeeping matters are concerned, because economy and avoidance of waste of the family budget, is one of the requirements for the ability to continue moving forward in the difficult conditions surrounding us. She should put before her eyes the fact that the money available to her is just like blood which should never flow except through the veins so that both children and grown-ups could continue to live."
"Art has regulations and measures by which it can be determined whether it is Islamic or pre-Islamic (Jahili) art...Man is a unique and wonderful creature, made out of a handful of clay and a breath from Allah. Islamic art addresses man on this basis, while pre-Islamic art addresses the body giving preference to the clay component in it."
We on the left have had no economic effect but a steady erosion of the social safety net
The truth is that Federal entitlement spending has been continuously increasing, however the entitlements are not just going to poor people as much any more. Over half of all entitlement spending flows to the elderly and around 40% is spent on health care. Around 10% of entitlement spending goes to the richest fifth of Americans, 60% to the middle three-fifths, and only 30% to the poorest fifth (source).
he supply-siders and teabaggers - have the dismantling or the New Deal, and the managed decline of the federal government as an explicit platform of their domestic policy
Then why did the GOP support the expansion of Medicare with the Medicare Prescription Drug program in 2003? Why has Federal spending gone up from 18% of GDP in 2000 to 24% of GDP this year? Can you name one New Deal program that has been canceled in the last decade?
You may be correct that GOP forces have been trying to sell Americans on a smaller government, but in truth they have not been delivering such a thing.
Under the Budget Control Act of 2011 there would be a year-over-year 0.25% reduction in Federal discretionary spending from 2012-2013 should the cliff happen. It is an actual reduction in overall spending.
"This "smart" ID card will transmit location information of students to electronic readers which are installed throughout the campus. This is so that we always know where the students are in the building. After all, parents, you expect school staff to always know where your children are during the school day."
"In addition, the "smart" student ID card will be used in the breakfast and lunch lines in the cafeteria and to check out books from the library. Because all students will be required to wear their "smart" ID, staff will be able to quickly identify Jones students inside the school. It will help us keep non-students out of Jones Middle School."
"One additional feature of the new "smart" ID card is that Jones attendance office staff will be able to manage attendance reporting more efficiently. By reporting increased attendance to the state, Jones Middle School will be eligible for additional funding."
I suspect the "eligible for additional funding" is the main driver...
"When the Navy conducted tests on another Thresher-class vessel, it found that the pressure drop across the component at high flow rates caused entrained moisture to accumulate on the strainers and form enough ice to block the air flow. Venturi cooling, as this phenomenon is called, was thought to be the reason that the Thresher's attempts to blow its main ballast tanks were ineffective." source.
"Thresher's inability to blow the ballast tanks had nothing to do with the reactor shutdown. It was a separate problem that unfortunately reared it's head at the wrong time. The blow system had plenty of capacity and it can be manually operated. That was not the problem. When the high pressure air that was used to blow the tanks left the storage banks, it passes through the control valves that keep it in the banks under pressure. Anytime a compressed gas expands, it cools rapidly. As the very cold air passed through the valves, frost began to form due to the presence of moisture in the air. It very quickly built up (a matter of a few seconds) and froze solid in the valves. The solid ice stopped the air just as effectively as shutting the valves, thus the Thresher was unable to blow her tanks. This problem was discovered in one of the Thresher's sister boats when a test was conducted alongside the pier. Everyone involved was shocked at what happened. This discovery resulted in an immediate redesign of the whole ballast tank blow system. The valves were redesigned and moisture traps were installed in the air lines. The new design was completely effective and it eliminated the problem. Unfortunately, it was far too late for the Thresher's crew." source.
The point is even with loss of power plant, Thresher should have been able to blow its tanks in order to surface (although that would be an emergency maneuver). Thresher was unable to blow its tanks due to icing.
What would happen if a diesel sub ran out of batteries at depth? It would not have been able to drive on power to the surface either. It would have to have blown its tanks, and would have run into the same problem as Thresher.
The icing problem with blowing tanks at depth was solved after Thresher by adding driers.
Now the question becomes: who gets to review the footage and for what reason./blockquote.
Google of course, who will index it using face recognition and license plate reading so it will show up in Google searches of your name under "Videos".
The Thresher went down because a brazed salt-water pipe burst, and the subsequent inability to blow the ballast tanks due to excessive moisture in the sub's high-pressure air flasks, which froze and plugged the flasks' flowpaths while passing through the valves.
The Thresher reactor scram (due to the leak shorting out electrical panels) was not the main cause of the sinking and loss of lives.
The real follow-up story is depressing, but typical of LAUSD:
Angelo Villavicencio took the reins of the program after their departure and taught the remaining 107 A.P. students in two classes for the next year. 67 of Villavicencio's students went on to take the A.P. exam and 47 passed. Villavicencio's request for a third class due to class size was denied and the following spring he followed Escalante and quit Garfield. The math program's decline at Garfield became apparent following the departure of Escalante and other teachers associated with its inception and development. In just a few years, the number of A.P. calculus students at Garfield who passed their exams dropped by more than 80 percent. In 1996, Villavicencio contacted Garfield's new principal, Tony Garcia, and offered to come back to help revive the dying calculus program. His offer was rejected.
If FB or any other entity with deep pockets comes throwing millions at you, especially at the age of 19, you take the money and pursue another venture, rinse and repeat.
Even if the "sell-out" is not for much money, being able to put on your resume that you started a firm that was acquired by Facebook is massive cred in the business world for future jobs or VC funding.
neuroscientist Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania and her colleagues recruited 64 children from a low income background and followed them from birth through to late adolescence....More than 10 years after the second home visit, the researchers used MRI to obtain detailed images of the participants' brains. They found that the level of mental stimulation a child receives in the home at age 4 predicted the thickness of two regions of the cortex in late adolescence, such that more stimulation was associated with a thinner cortex.
most of our consumer electronics are made in Asia. If they decide to play economic hardball, we're going to lose
If the US cuts off trade with China, we may have a tough time getting TV sets (we'd have to get them from South Korea). China will lose tens of millions of jobs.
Meanwhile the Bruce nuclear plant near Tiverton, Ontario will soon have an eighth operating reactor unit, and a total operating capacity of 6,300 megawatts and will be North America's largest nuclear plant.
how come resolution isn't still measured by vertical resolution?
Because back in the analog day, broadcast engineers cared about vertical lines of resolution. The horizontal resolution was just a factor of bandwidth.
So I'm a registered Libertarian, and do 6 hours per week of charity work for a cause I believe in.
However the truth is that I probably help out people a lot more through my day-to-day commerce. I spend a lot of money, and that provides jobs to several people and puts food on their family table.
Through mutually beneficial free market commerce, we help people far more than we can imagine, because the effects are often hidden from us through many levels of transactions (unless you have people working directly for you, when it suddenly becomes more obvious).
Free public education is another thing Rand was against.
Rand said:
The average [public school] graduate has no concept of knowledge. He has the cynicism of a decadent adult and the credulity of a child. His mind is in a state of whirling confusion. He finds himself in the midst of the brilliant complexity of an industrial, technological civilization which he cannot begin to understand.
The purpose of education is to teach a student how to live, by developing his mind. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e. conceptual. He has to be taught how to think, to integrate, to prove by his own effort. This is what the colleges renounced long ago. What they are teaching today has no relevance to anything.
A private school has the right to teach any ideas of its owners' choice, and to exclude all opposing ideas; but it has no power to force such exclusion on the rest of the country. The opponents have the right to teach a wider spectrum of viewpoints, if they so choose. The competition of the free marketplace of ideas does the rest, determining every school's success or failure - which, historically, was the course of the development of the great private universities. If you want to prove to yourself the power of ideas, the intellectual history of the Nineteenth Century would be a good example to study.
Note that Ayn Rand was OK with vouchers during the privatization of education:
Q: So you would support a voucher system? A: It would work not as a motor of freedom, but as a brake on total regimentation, a temporary measure in a grave national emergency. We are living in a disastrously mixed economy, which cannot be freed overnight. In today's context, the proposal would be a step in the right direction.
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Perhaps we should just stop paying everyone "protection money" and let them work out their own problems...
Or read the Hamas Covenant, for example:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that...This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement."
"The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion."
"Woman in the home of the fighting family, whether she is a mother or a sister, plays the most important role in looking after the family, rearing the children and embuing them with moral values and thoughts derived from Islam. She has to teach them to perform the religious duties in preparation for the role of fighting awaiting them. That is why it is necessary to pay great attention to schools and the curriculum followed in educating Moslem girls, so that they would grow up to be good mothers, aware of their role in the battle of liberation.
She has to be of sufficient knowledge and understanding where the performance of housekeeping matters are concerned, because economy and avoidance of waste of the family budget, is one of the requirements for the ability to continue moving forward in the difficult conditions surrounding us. She should put before her eyes the fact that the money available to her is just like blood which should never flow except through the veins so that both children and grown-ups could continue to live."
"Art has regulations and measures by which it can be determined whether it is Islamic or pre-Islamic (Jahili) art...Man is a unique and wonderful creature, made out of a handful of clay and a breath from Allah. Islamic art addresses man on this basis, while pre-Islamic art addresses the body giving preference to the clay component in it."
The truth is that Federal entitlement spending has been continuously increasing, however the entitlements are not just going to poor people as much any more. Over half of all entitlement spending flows to the elderly and around 40% is spent on health care. Around 10% of entitlement spending goes to the richest fifth of Americans, 60% to the middle three-fifths, and only 30% to the poorest fifth (source).
Then why did the GOP support the expansion of Medicare with the Medicare Prescription Drug program in 2003? Why has Federal spending gone up from 18% of GDP in 2000 to 24% of GDP this year? Can you name one New Deal program that has been canceled in the last decade?
You may be correct that GOP forces have been trying to sell Americans on a smaller government, but in truth they have not been delivering such a thing.
[Parent should be modded down]
Under the Budget Control Act of 2011 there would be a year-over-year 0.25% reduction in Federal discretionary spending from 2012-2013 should the cliff happen. It is an actual reduction in overall spending.
[By the way, I think that would be a fine idea]
what problems are they trying to solve?
From a letter to students:
"This "smart" ID card will transmit location information of students to electronic readers which are installed throughout the campus. This is so that we always know where the students are in the building. After all, parents, you expect school staff to always know where your children are during the school day."
"In addition, the "smart" student ID card will be used in the breakfast and lunch lines in the cafeteria and to check out books from the library. Because all students will be required to wear their "smart" ID, staff will be able to quickly identify Jones students inside the school. It will help us keep non-students out of Jones Middle School."
"One additional feature of the new "smart" ID card is that Jones attendance office staff will be able to manage attendance reporting more efficiently. By reporting increased attendance to the state, Jones Middle School will be eligible for additional funding."
I suspect the "eligible for additional funding" is the main driver...
"When the Navy conducted tests on another Thresher-class vessel, it found that the pressure drop across the component at high flow rates caused entrained moisture to accumulate on the strainers and form enough ice to block the air flow. Venturi cooling, as this phenomenon is called, was thought to be the reason that the Thresher's attempts to blow its main ballast tanks were ineffective." source.
"Thresher's inability to blow the ballast tanks had nothing to do with the reactor shutdown. It was a separate problem that unfortunately reared it's head at the wrong time. The blow system had plenty of capacity and it can be manually operated. That was not the problem. When the high pressure air that was used to blow the tanks left the storage banks, it passes through the control valves that keep it in the banks under pressure. Anytime a compressed gas expands, it cools rapidly. As the very cold air passed through the valves, frost began to form due to the presence of moisture in the air. It very quickly built up (a matter of a few seconds) and froze solid in the valves. The solid ice stopped the air just as effectively as shutting the valves, thus the Thresher was unable to blow her tanks. This problem was discovered in one of the Thresher's sister boats when a test was conducted alongside the pier. Everyone involved was shocked at what happened. This discovery resulted in an immediate redesign of the whole ballast tank blow system. The valves were redesigned and moisture traps were installed in the air lines. The new design was completely effective and it eliminated the problem. Unfortunately, it was far too late for the Thresher's crew." source.
The point is even with loss of power plant, Thresher should have been able to blow its tanks in order to surface (although that would be an emergency maneuver). Thresher was unable to blow its tanks due to icing.
What would happen if a diesel sub ran out of batteries at depth? It would not have been able to drive on power to the surface either. It would have to have blown its tanks, and would have run into the same problem as Thresher.
The icing problem with blowing tanks at depth was solved after Thresher by adding driers.
The Thresher went down because a brazed salt-water pipe burst, and the subsequent inability to blow the ballast tanks due to excessive moisture in the sub's high-pressure air flasks, which froze and plugged the flasks' flowpaths while passing through the valves.
The Thresher reactor scram (due to the leak shorting out electrical panels) was not the main cause of the sinking and loss of lives.
Spending can vary greatly by area. LAUSD spends $25,208 per student.
For CA Statewide K-12, "Total per-pupil expenditures from all sources are projected to be $10,610 in 2011-12 and $11,246 in 2012-13".
The real follow-up story is depressing, but typical of LAUSD:
Angelo Villavicencio took the reins of the program after their departure and taught the remaining 107 A.P. students in two classes for the next year. 67 of Villavicencio's students went on to take the A.P. exam and 47 passed. Villavicencio's request for a third class due to class size was denied and the following spring he followed Escalante and quit Garfield. The math program's decline at Garfield became apparent following the departure of Escalante and other teachers associated with its inception and development. In just a few years, the number of A.P. calculus students at Garfield who passed their exams dropped by more than 80 percent. In 1996, Villavicencio contacted Garfield's new principal, Tony Garcia, and offered to come back to help revive the dying calculus program. His offer was rejected.
The cause of that unemployment is employers being cheap and hiring one guy to do the work of five workers, as opposed to five workers.
The cause of unemployment is that the productive benefits of hiring someone is less than the cost of hiring them.
Are we really so bereft of a basic grasp of chemistry to think that the CO2 released from natural gas doesn't count?
The short-term point is that the US has reduced CO2 emissions due to a shift from coal to natural gas for electricity production.
In California, home to a lot of VC-funded companies, high state taxes make this considerably worse.
By the way, CA just raised the top state income tax rate to 13.3%. Even those making $250k of more will now pay 10.3%. Also CA sales tax is now 7.25%.
If FB or any other entity with deep pockets comes throwing millions at you, especially at the age of 19, you take the money and pursue another venture, rinse and repeat.
Even if the "sell-out" is not for much money, being able to put on your resume that you started a firm that was acquired by Facebook is massive cred in the business world for future jobs or VC funding.
Here is a Chevy Volt with a gun rack.
Light aircraft likely would not damage your house if they hit it.
Do you consider this to be damage?
On the other hand, a recent paper suggests that books trim the cortex.
neuroscientist Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania and her colleagues recruited 64 children from a low income background and followed them from birth through to late adolescence....More than 10 years after the second home visit, the researchers used MRI to obtain detailed images of the participants' brains. They found that the level of mental stimulation a child receives in the home at age 4 predicted the thickness of two regions of the cortex in late adolescence, such that more stimulation was associated with a thinner cortex.
most of our consumer electronics are made in Asia. If they decide to play economic hardball, we're going to lose
If the US cuts off trade with China, we may have a tough time getting TV sets (we'd have to get them from South Korea). China will lose tens of millions of jobs.
Breath over IP was done several years ago.
Meanwhile the Bruce nuclear plant near Tiverton, Ontario will soon have an eighth operating reactor unit, and a total operating capacity of 6,300 megawatts and will be North America's largest nuclear plant.
Because back in the analog day, broadcast engineers cared about vertical lines of resolution. The horizontal resolution was just a factor of bandwidth.
So I'm a registered Libertarian, and do 6 hours per week of charity work for a cause I believe in.
However the truth is that I probably help out people a lot more through my day-to-day commerce. I spend a lot of money, and that provides jobs to several people and puts food on their family table.
Through mutually beneficial free market commerce, we help people far more than we can imagine, because the effects are often hidden from us through many levels of transactions (unless you have people working directly for you, when it suddenly becomes more obvious).
Rand said:
The average [public school] graduate has no concept of knowledge. He has the cynicism of a decadent adult and the credulity of a child. His mind is in a state of whirling confusion. He finds himself in the midst of the brilliant complexity of an industrial, technological civilization which he cannot begin to understand.
The purpose of education is to teach a student how to live, by developing his mind. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e. conceptual. He has to be taught how to think, to integrate, to prove by his own effort. This is what the colleges renounced long ago. What they are teaching today has no relevance to anything.
A private school has the right to teach any ideas of its owners' choice, and to exclude all opposing ideas; but it has no power to force such exclusion on the rest of the country. The opponents have the right to teach a wider spectrum of viewpoints, if they so choose. The competition of the free marketplace of ideas does the rest, determining every school's success or failure - which, historically, was the course of the development of the great private universities. If you want to prove to yourself the power of ideas, the intellectual history of the Nineteenth Century would be a good example to study.
Note that Ayn Rand was OK with vouchers during the privatization of education:
Q: So you would support a voucher system?
A: It would work not as a motor of freedom, but as a brake on total regimentation, a temporary measure in a grave national emergency. We are living in a disastrously mixed economy, which cannot be freed overnight. In today's context, the proposal would be a step in the right direction.
[Note: I am not a religious follower of Ayn Rand]