Being as Gary Johnson is the candidate that Ron Paul wants his followers to vote for
This is a lie. Ron Paul has not endorsed Gary Johnson.
Ron Paul is not actually anti-war.
Here is Ron Paul's statements on war...
"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."
"We as commander in chief aren't making the decision to go to war. You know, the old-fashioned way, the Constitution, you go to the Congress and find out if our national security is threatened. And I'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on against Iraq. They didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And it was orchestrated and it was, to me, a tragedy of what's happened these last ten years, the death and destruction, $4 trillion in debt. So no, it's not worthwhile going to war. If you do, you get a declaration of war and you fight it and you win it and get it over with."
"It should be harder to promote war, especially when there are so many regrets in the end. In the last 60 years, the American people have had little to say over decisions to wage war. We have allowed a succession of presidents and the U.N. to decide when and if we go to war, without an express congressional declaration as the Constitution mandates. Since 1945, our country has been involved in over 70 active or covert foreign engagements. On numerous occasions we have provided weapons and funds to both sides in a conflict. It is not unusual for our so-called allies to turn on us and use these weapons against American troops. In recent decades we have been both allies and enemies of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and the Islamists in Iran. And where has it gotten us?
The endless costs resulting from our foolish policies, in human lives, injuries, tax dollars, inflation, and deficits, will burden generations to come. For civilization to advance, we must reduce the number of wars fought."
"For civilization to advance, we must reduce the number of wars fought. Two conditions must be met if we hope to achieve this. First, all military (and covert paramilitary) personnel worldwide must refuse to initiate offensive wars beyond their borders This must become a matter of personal honor for every individual.
Second, the true nature of war must be laid bare, and the glorification must end. Instead of promoting war heroes with parades and medals for wars not fought in the true defense of our country, we should more honestly contemplate the real results of war: death, destruction, horrible wounds, civilian casualties, economic costs, and the loss of liberty at home.
The neoconservative belief that war is inherently patriotic, beneficial, manly, and necessary for human progress must be debunked. These war promoters never send themselves or their own children off to fight. Their hero, Machiavelli, must be buried once and for all."
The bottom line is even if they are super sincere if they got elected (if you subscribed to a multiverse theory they get elected in some universe) they would be ineffective, because you have to b eable to get the congress and the senate to agree to anything you watn to do as president for the most part.
As Commander-in-Chief, the President can order and end to a useless wars, like Afghanistan.
As the boss of the executive branch, the President can do what Obama promised to do but went back on - end federal prosecution against medical marijuana dispensaries.
10 Gbps is usually delivered on OC-192 / STM-64 / 10G SONET.
8K UHDTV (4320p) has been defined by SMPTE as a resolution of 7680x4320 (33.2 megapixels).
JPEG 2000 for 2K Digital Cinema Packages are 250 Mbps, a rate determined to be adequate by the industry. This group used 2 Gbps for 8K, which is reasonable considering it is ~16 times the resolution of 2K.
The judge later said this was a horrible mishandling of justice, but that automatic sentencing leaves him no alternatives
This is the biggest BS thing I've ever heard. If a judge feels that finding someone guilty will lead to a miscarriage of justice, the judge should find for innocence. Jury nullification has a rich history, nothing wrong with judges doing it as well.
The "First Nations" thing is bogus anyway as there were probably several waves of Asian immigration to the Americas. Most likely what pre-Columbian societies exist today were "Second" or "Third" Nations.
What is so cool is that he really goes into the basics of what makes chemistry work, including the history of how chemists figured out there were atoms, what bonds were and how they held atoms together, what kind of atoms and how many of them where in materials, back before computers, x-ray diffraction, and scanning tunneling electron microscopes.
A 1995 Census Bureau survey asked indigenous Americans and found that 49% preferred the term "Indian", 37% "Native American", and 3.6% "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.
Moreover, a large number of Indians actually strongly object to the term Native American for political reasons. In his 1998 essay "I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!", Russell Means, a Lakota activist and a founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), stated unequivocally, "I abhor the term 'Native American...At an international conference of Indians from the Americas held in Geneva, Switzerland, at the United Nations in 1977 we unanimously decided we would go under the term American Indian. We were enslaved as American Indians, we were colonized as American Indians, and we will gain our freedom as American Indians and then we can call ourselves anything we damn please."
western people tend not to notice that the eastern concept of "respect" is quite different from western one
We should remember just how recent a development this is.
In 1804, former US Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, dueled at Weehawken, New Jersey. Burr shot and fatally wounded Hamilton in a duel over critical political comments Hamilton made at a dinner party about Burr.
In 1856, US Congressional Democratic Representative from South Carolina Preston Brooks beat Republican Senator Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane on the Senate floor in response to a speech where Sumner denounced admitting Kansas as a slave state. Sumner nearly died from his injuries, but was able to return to the Senate several years later.
teach that their prophet cannot be "injured" by the actions of non-Muslims.
I don't think that is the issue. The point is that Mohammed had people killed for mocking him, and you are supposed to live your life like the prophet. This is not some weird viewpoint, it is a central viewpoint in Islam.
Some western Muslims have decided to ignore that, as most Jews and Christians have made it past executing witches ("You should not let a sorceress live." , Exodus 22:17).
The credit is split between cheap, fracked natural gas replacing coal and herbicide-resistant GM crops needing less plowing (and thus lower tractor fuel use).
US CO2 emissions per capita are now lower than they have been since at least 1973.
The prize covers a range of work by groups lead by Wineland and Haroche including: sideband cooling of an ion in a trap, transfer of a quantum superposition of electronic states to a quantum superposition of vibrational modes of a trap, measuring the number of photons in the cavity in a quantum non-demolition measurement, and creation of a superposition of microwave field states and monitoring their evolution to decoherence.
In the late 80's, I had an AP Computer Science class in high school.
I'd been programming on a Commodore PET and later an Atari 800 in BASIC and assembly language since 5th grade, so I thought there wasn't anything else for me to learn about CS:)
But my HS teacher actually taught us structured programming, data structures, recursion, etc. in Pascal on Apple IIs. So I actually did learn a lot!
The teacher previously taught shop and electronics, and I was kind of surprised he was able to present such a quality CS course.
(Before 9/11) I went on a tour of the University of Maryland TRIGA training reactor (picture looking into core), and yes you could see the Cherenkov radiation at the bottom of the pool when the reactor was running.
So I crashed on a bike with a helmet (in an urban environment in a commuting situation) and there was a big crushed area in front of my forehead. I suspect my forehead itself would have been crushed in if I did not wear a helmet (I managed to break my arm in that crash as well).
I cringe at the people in Amsterdam smoking and using their cellphone while biking with their kids in the basket and no one has a helmet! But maybe they know something I don't.
By the way, I've fell off of a bike in Amsterdam without a helmet, but at very low speed and took most of the crash on my arms and legs without serious injury. But I think I got lucky!
There has been talk recently of the FCC investigating the cap thresholds, but that is just going to lead to a court battle in my opinion (at least in the past it has)
So last week I asked some people who really should know what the cause of the cable caps were - too much traffic on each broadcast segment (100 to 2000 homes depending on architecture), too much traffic inside the provider distribution network, or too much Internet traffic.
They told me the problem was too much traffic contention on the last-mile segment.
I know it's cheaper here to get Italian tomato sauce than local, which makes absolutely no sense. The only way for that to be possible, given wage disparity and shipping costs, is for the Italians to be selling their sauce for below cost.
Unlikely. More likely is that the Italian tomato sauce is experiencing tremendous economies of scale, rather than local farmers who are only making small batches of the stuff instead of ten-thousand gallons of sauce at a time, automated jarring lines rather than hand-jarring, transporting them in cargo containers on efficient ships and 18-wheelers rather than someone's pick-up truck, more efficiently marketing and distributing it, etc. It is also possible that labor costs are slightly lower in Italy, and that they may have better environmental situation (sun/soil/etc.) for more efficiently producing more tomatoes.
With 7.2% 5-year compound annual growth, Mozambique is actually doing OK for sub-saharan Africa, but is starting from a low level (~$1000 per capita GDP).
Mozambique held its first democratic elections in 1994 and since then has been a model for development and post-war recovery. President Armando Guebuza was re-elected in 2009. Economic growth has been generally strong since the mid-1990s, but the country remains poor and burdened by state-sanctioned monopolies and inefficient public services.
Property rights are not strongly respected, and law enforcement is inefficient and uneven. The judicial system is not fully independent and remains vulnerable to political influence and corruption. In the absence of an efficient legal framework, court rulings can be arbitrary and inconsistent.
The trade weighted average tariff rate is 4.5 percent, with complex non-tariff barriers further restricting freedom to trade. Despite some progress in enhancing the investment framework, layers of bureaucratic procedures continue to hamper more vibrant growth in new investment. The financial sector is growing but remains hindered by weak infrastructure and state controls. Most citizens still lack adequate access to financial services.
Although progress has been gradual, Mozambique has been implementing much-needed reforms in its regulatory and investment frameworks. Private-sector economic activity has increased, but privatization of state-owned enterprises has slowed. Foreign and domestic capital are treated similarly in most cases, and trade liberalization has progressed despite the persistence of non-tariff barriers.
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You mean they directly address the ISSUES instead of having a sophist Superbowl against each other like the Demopublican debates?
This is a lie. Ron Paul has not endorsed Gary Johnson.
Here is Ron Paul's statements on war...
"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."
"We as commander in chief aren't making the decision to go to war. You know, the old-fashioned way, the Constitution, you go to the Congress and find out if our national security is threatened. And I'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on against Iraq. They didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And it was orchestrated and it was, to me, a tragedy of what's happened these last ten years, the death and destruction, $4 trillion in debt. So no, it's not worthwhile going to war. If you do, you get a declaration of war and you fight it and you win it and get it over with."
"It should be harder to promote war, especially when there are so many regrets in the end. In the last 60 years, the American people have had little to say over decisions to wage war. We have allowed a succession of presidents and the U.N. to decide when and if we go to war, without an express congressional declaration as the Constitution mandates.
Since 1945, our country has been involved in over 70 active or covert foreign engagements. On numerous occasions we have provided weapons and funds to both sides in a conflict. It is not unusual for our so-called allies to turn on us and use these weapons against American troops. In recent decades we have been both allies and enemies of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and the Islamists in Iran. And where has it gotten us?
The endless costs resulting from our foolish policies, in human lives, injuries, tax dollars, inflation, and deficits, will burden generations to come. For civilization to advance, we must reduce the number of wars fought."
"For civilization to advance, we must reduce the number of wars fought. Two conditions must be met if we hope to achieve this.
First, all military (and covert paramilitary) personnel worldwide must refuse to initiate offensive wars beyond their borders This must become a matter of personal honor for every individual.
Second, the true nature of war must be laid bare, and the glorification must end. Instead of promoting war heroes with parades and medals for wars not fought in the true defense of our country, we should more honestly contemplate the real results of war: death, destruction, horrible wounds, civilian casualties, economic costs, and the loss of liberty at home.
The neoconservative belief that war is inherently patriotic, beneficial, manly, and necessary for human progress must be debunked. These war promoters never send themselves or their own children off to fight. Their hero, Machiavelli, must be buried once and for all."
As Commander-in-Chief, the President can order and end to a useless wars, like Afghanistan.
As the boss of the executive branch, the President can do what Obama promised to do but went back on - end federal prosecution against medical marijuana dispensaries.
Note that this experiment was specifically not on commodity Internet, but on the Global Lambda Integrated Facility.
10 Gbps is usually delivered on OC-192 / STM-64 / 10G SONET.
8K UHDTV (4320p) has been defined by SMPTE as a resolution of 7680x4320 (33.2 megapixels).
JPEG 2000 for 2K Digital Cinema Packages are 250 Mbps, a rate determined to be adequate by the industry. This group used 2 Gbps for 8K, which is reasonable considering it is ~16 times the resolution of 2K.
I suspect this was JPEG 2000, not just "MJPEG". CESNET has previously done 4K IP streaming with JPEG 2000.
JPEG 2000 is the standard for digital cinema, and has the advantage of having limited loss in multi-generations of decode/recode.
Many TV networks use JPEG 2000 at 100-150 Mbps for IP transmission contribution to the network centers from major sports stadiums.
Cisco has a device to do up to 12 channels of HD video over IP as uncompressed (1.5 Gbps) or JPEG 2000.
Judges can be impeached, but typically only for serious crimes (perjury in a criminal case, corruption, etc.).
Judges can also be recalled by election in some states, but that is a different matter.
This is the biggest BS thing I've ever heard. If a judge feels that finding someone guilty will lead to a miscarriage of justice, the judge should find for innocence. Jury nullification has a rich history, nothing wrong with judges doing it as well.
Wel water from Fukushima on Ebay helps area recover!
Doesn't anyone Google these days?
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CPS SUPPLEMENT ON RACE AND ETHNIC ORIGIN
The "First Nations" thing is bogus anyway as there were probably several waves of Asian immigration to the Americas. Most likely what pre-Columbian societies exist today were "Second" or "Third" Nations.
If you want a real awesome chemistry class, check out Prof. McBride's Yale CHEM125 freshman organic chemistry.
What is so cool is that he really goes into the basics of what makes chemistry work, including the history of how chemists figured out there were atoms, what bonds were and how they held atoms together, what kind of atoms and how many of them where in materials, back before computers, x-ray diffraction, and scanning tunneling electron microscopes.
A 1995 Census Bureau survey asked indigenous Americans and found that 49% preferred the term "Indian", 37% "Native American", and 3.6% "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.
Moreover, a large number of Indians actually strongly object to the term Native American for political reasons. In his 1998 essay "I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!", Russell Means, a Lakota activist and a founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), stated unequivocally, "I abhor the term 'Native American...At an international conference of Indians from the Americas held in Geneva, Switzerland, at the United Nations in 1977 we unanimously decided we would go under the term American Indian. We were enslaved as American Indians, we were colonized as American Indians, and we will gain our freedom as American Indians and then we can call ourselves anything we damn please."
We should remember just how recent a development this is.
In 1804, former US Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, dueled at Weehawken, New Jersey. Burr shot and fatally wounded Hamilton in a duel over critical political comments Hamilton made at a dinner party about Burr.
In 1856, US Congressional Democratic Representative from South Carolina Preston Brooks beat Republican Senator Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane on the Senate floor in response to a speech where Sumner denounced admitting Kansas as a slave state. Sumner nearly died from his injuries, but was able to return to the Senate several years later.
teach that their prophet cannot be "injured" by the actions of non-Muslims.
I don't think that is the issue. The point is that Mohammed had people killed for mocking him, and you are supposed to live your life like the prophet. This is not some weird viewpoint, it is a central viewpoint in Islam.
Some western Muslims have decided to ignore that, as most Jews and Christians have made it past executing witches ("You should not let a sorceress live." , Exodus 22:17).
However our "ally" Saudi Arabia still executes witches and sorcerers.
Inflation Calculator says "What cost $1666 in 1960 would cost $12476.90 in 2011."
In other news, US energy-related CO2 emissions are now at a 20 year low.
The credit is split between cheap, fracked natural gas replacing coal and herbicide-resistant GM crops needing less plowing (and thus lower tractor fuel use).
US CO2 emissions per capita are now lower than they have been since at least 1973.
The full details are here: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/advanced-physicsprize2012.pdf
The prize covers a range of work by groups lead by Wineland and Haroche including: sideband cooling of an ion in a trap, transfer of a quantum superposition of electronic states to a quantum superposition of vibrational modes of a trap, measuring the number of photons in the cavity in a quantum non-demolition measurement, and creation of a superposition of microwave field states and monitoring their evolution to decoherence.
In the late 80's, I had an AP Computer Science class in high school.
I'd been programming on a Commodore PET and later an Atari 800 in BASIC and assembly language since 5th grade, so I thought there wasn't anything else for me to learn about CS :)
But my HS teacher actually taught us structured programming, data structures, recursion, etc. in Pascal on Apple IIs. So I actually did learn a lot!
The teacher previously taught shop and electronics, and I was kind of surprised he was able to present such a quality CS course.
So I don't see ANY evidence in the article that Huawei equipment has been responsible for intentional security breaches.
(Before 9/11) I went on a tour of the University of Maryland TRIGA training reactor (picture looking into core), and yes you could see the Cherenkov radiation at the bottom of the pool when the reactor was running.
So I crashed on a bike with a helmet (in an urban environment in a commuting situation) and there was a big crushed area in front of my forehead. I suspect my forehead itself would have been crushed in if I did not wear a helmet (I managed to break my arm in that crash as well).
I cringe at the people in Amsterdam smoking and using their cellphone while biking with their kids in the basket and no one has a helmet! But maybe they know something I don't.
By the way, I've fell off of a bike in Amsterdam without a helmet, but at very low speed and took most of the crash on my arms and legs without serious injury. But I think I got lucky!
So last week I asked some people who really should know what the cause of the cable caps were - too much traffic on each broadcast segment (100 to 2000 homes depending on architecture), too much traffic inside the provider distribution network, or too much Internet traffic.
They told me the problem was too much traffic contention on the last-mile segment.
I know it's cheaper here to get Italian tomato sauce than local, which makes absolutely no sense. The only way for that to be possible, given wage disparity and shipping costs, is for the Italians to be selling their sauce for below cost.
Unlikely. More likely is that the Italian tomato sauce is experiencing tremendous economies of scale, rather than local farmers who are only making small batches of the stuff instead of ten-thousand gallons of sauce at a time, automated jarring lines rather than hand-jarring, transporting them in cargo containers on efficient ships and 18-wheelers rather than someone's pick-up truck, more efficiently marketing and distributing it, etc. It is also possible that labor costs are slightly lower in Italy, and that they may have better environmental situation (sun/soil/etc.) for more efficiently producing more tomatoes.
With 7.2% 5-year compound annual growth, Mozambique is actually doing OK for sub-saharan Africa, but is starting from a low level (~$1000 per capita GDP).
Here is what the Index of Economic Freedom says about Mozambique:
Mozambique held its first democratic elections in 1994 and since then has been a model for development and post-war recovery. President Armando Guebuza was re-elected in 2009. Economic growth has been generally strong since the mid-1990s, but the country remains poor and burdened by state-sanctioned monopolies and inefficient public services.
Property rights are not strongly respected, and law enforcement is inefficient and uneven. The judicial system is not fully independent and remains vulnerable to political influence and corruption. In the absence of an efficient legal framework, court rulings can be arbitrary and inconsistent.
The trade weighted average tariff rate is 4.5 percent, with complex non-tariff barriers further restricting freedom to trade. Despite some progress in enhancing the investment framework, layers of bureaucratic procedures continue to hamper more vibrant growth in new investment. The financial sector is growing but remains hindered by weak infrastructure and state controls. Most citizens still lack adequate access to financial services.
Although progress has been gradual, Mozambique has been implementing much-needed reforms in its regulatory and investment frameworks. Private-sector economic activity has increased, but privatization of state-owned enterprises has slowed. Foreign and domestic capital are treated similarly in most cases, and trade liberalization has progressed despite the persistence of non-tariff barriers.
Social Security's expenditures exceeded non-interest income in 2010 and 2011 The deficit of non-interest income relative to expenditures was about $49 billion in 2010 and $45 billion in 2011, and the Trustees project that it will average about $66 billion between 2012 and 2018 before rising steeply.
If you define 'good' as maximal help for a limited class of human beings at the expense of large swaths of the population and the planet.
Actually global poverty has recently been falling rapidly, mostly due to the adoption of capitalism in China.
The poor countries that display the greatest success today in poverty reduction are those that engage the most with the global capitalist economy.