If you want to view the list of names financial institutions are required to reference, you can go ahead and peruse them here at the Office of Foreign Assets Control website, updated quite regularly. You'll find the list is dominated by Arabic (not necessarily Muslim) and Latin American names.
OFAC's mission as quoted on their website:
The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction.
Stevens is known to be very powerful in the Senate
If anyone remembers the "Bridge to No Where" contorversy you can thank Ted Stevens for trying to sneak it in. There's an interesting article titled Others respect Stevens' fury from the Anchorage Daily News that profiles him. It's lengthy but it helps explain why this guy is pretty powerful.
If you read the ADN article, they reference a meltdown that was featured in a memorable Jon Stewart piece on a coot off between Stevens and Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia. Brilliantly funny.
Wrong. Police are part of the Government, part of the executive branch. Unless some how NH has privatised there police force.
Depends on the department, I think. For example, the Chicago Police Department is under the jurisdiction of the mayor of Chicago. Whereas I believe the Illinois State Police is under the executive branch of the state of Illinois.
I've used it on trans-Pacific flights, and it was well worth the $25 or so I paid for it. It made the flight go by much so more quickly, and I was able to access the company VPN with no problem and get loads of work done throughout the entire flight.
The thing was a godsend, especially when you're trying to get stuff out of the way so that you can enjoy your vacation when you're actually at your destination.
Sure, latencies were occassionally high (and there was a 20-minute period of no access), but it was otherwise fine to use for basic web access, ssh access, and IM/IRC-ing.
I haven't done it quite yet, but I'm going to use a bona-fide Neural Network here in the next couple of weeks, for combining multiple fuzzy inputs and producing an output in the range [OK, Bad, Human Must Check Manually].
They're sometimes lumped in together with discussions on Neural Networks, and maybe you meant to refer to them, as well, but just in case you didn't, you might want to read up on Fuzzy Logic (lots of good links there).
But I certainly would be more worried about myself than about how I could arrange for my clients to keep making money. The only reason you want your clients to make money is so that they will then have to give some of that money to you in the form of your fees. Beyond that they can go fly a kite.
In November, 2004, an uncle of mine discovered he had lung cancer. Knowing him, it was no surprise that he, an engineer, continued working. Coming into 2005, he was still working but from home. It gave him a sense normalcy and kept his mind active (as well as kept him distracted). Even if it was for only a few hours a week, whenever he had the strength he'd spend time working. Through it all, he helped his colleagues in transferring as much of what he knew to them. And in May, he passed away.
His employers showed their appreciation by paying his salary as a fulltime employee till the time of his death. And they even sent his widow his annual bonus check at the end of the year. Many of them were there at his wake.
Why did he have to provide his "name, address, phone number and Social Security number"... to read a book?
I think it's required for the interlibrary loan. I know that's not the case at the U of Chicago, possibly because the library already has it on file, but it may be so at Dartmouth. Still, had they not required an SS#, he'd still have been paid a visit by the G-Men.
My mother's Powerbook G4 can barely be used near a window during the day, but my father's Thinkpad looks great in any light. Next to each other, the difference is night and day.
How old is the Powerbook? I bought mine in 2001 weeks after the original Rev. A Powerbooks were released. I remember the screen to be very bright and beautiful. But over the years it has degraded considerably. I still use it regularly, but it doesn't hold a candle to any of the powerbooks that have come out since then.
The IAEA has managed to miss every single covert nuclear weapons program.
I submit the following: Mohamed ElBaradei, in an AFP interview after receiving his Nobel Prize, listed some of IAEA's successes: "We managed to eliminate the Iraqi nuclear weapons program... between 1991 and 1997."
"We are in fact the ones who detected the North Korean (nuclear) program as early as 1992" and "we have now come to the complete elimination of Libya's weapons program."
"In the aftermath of Sept. 11, President Bush ordered his then top anti-terrorism adviser to look for a link between Iraq and the attacks, despite being told there didn't seem to be one.
"The charge comes from the adviser, Richard Clarke, in an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes." -- CBS News
If he wasn't lying, that's because he was already convinced that Iraq was responsible. The facts be damned.
Having said this, I'm not sure the savings works out as well as the above would suggest. DST means that people like me have to run our AC's an hour longer at the hottest part of the day, wasting more energy than we save. (Presumably, the other place I would spend that time is work, at that will have AC running whether I'm there or not).
This depends on where you live, of course. The new months on which DST will occur under the energy bill will be on the months in which I don't even use an A/C.
Are you talking about the ex-call-dude-turned-conservative-"reporter" or the guy who was paid by the Bush administration to support the No Child Left Behind act?
He may have been, but I think he also may have been talking about Karen Ryan.
She's interviewed in part 1 of the series which was aired on the 15th of September [clip length: 5' 42"]. Odd, though, that clip one is the middle link among the three.
You obviously don't have much imagination if you can't think of a use of more than two video cards/monitors.
...and on the business end, dual monitors are becoming more and more common. Especially in the financial trading industry. In fact quad cards are actually just as popular at the company I work, with the four flat screens hoisted up by arms.
In 1999, I was in a small town 15 or so kilometers from the nearest city in the province of Negros, Oriental, visiting relatives there. They had an iMac (probably the only on in the island) with a 56k modem. But the best connection speed I could get to a fledgling ISP in the city was around 4800 baud due to really bad phone phone lines.
I managed to load up slashdot, but I didn't have the patience to go beyond the homepage.
Five short years later, the same ISP now offers DSL (but still not to the small town I was visiting), and I'm fairly certain there're quite a few slashdot readers over there now.
IL is suffering from a serious budget crisis and needs new sources of revenue to offset the deficit. This does not excuse the governor from coming up with crappy ideas, but this does explain why he came up with this one.
I did that for my in-laws... We got them an iMac and the only questions I've had to answer are one's like "How do I burn a cd?" It's not bad... no more virii and they've gotten used to it. I did get Word because switching them to a Mac AND OO I think would have been a bit much.
Yeah, that's just about the kinds of questions I get these days. My mom's got a flat-panel iMac, and she's really gotten into iTunes and has only needed some help in setting up playlists. She figured out how to burn cd's on her own which she's really happy about..
My dad's got a Powerbook and is more confident navigating through OS X's interface than my mom. I rarely do any support for him since he can figure things out on his own.
I set them each them up with a.mac account for email. It's been really painless. Save yourself the time. Get them a Mac. My parents live in the other side of the world from me. It saves us a lot on phone calls.
You have to do what works for you. I did what worked for me. I have no interest in playing tit for tat games with someone who is attacking me.
Yell at me. Scream at me. Call me names. That's fine. You'll be looking at my back as I walk away. Attempt to harm me, and you will get everything that I can throw at you.
Milhouse: "Well, Bart. We've learned that war is not the answer." Bart: "Except to America's problems." Milhouse: "Amen."
It kinda seems 'half cooked', unless this is how "all" supercomputers start out.
Well, you can't ever expect a computer to come custom-built to your workflow straight out of the box, no matter how much pre-purchase research and preparation you do.
You'll still need to install the right apps, customize the user interface to however way you like it, get some automated scripts written once you figure out what part of your workflow can get streamlined, etc. It's only down the line that you are (relatively) happy with your setup.
Similarly, I would think that is what is entailed with these guys. There's a lot of tuning to be done.
Slashdot Mirror
If you want to view the list of names financial institutions are required to reference, you can go ahead and peruse them here at the Office of Foreign Assets Control website, updated quite regularly. You'll find the list is dominated by Arabic (not necessarily Muslim) and Latin American names.
OFAC's mission as quoted on their website:
The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction.
Stevens is known to be very powerful in the Senate
If anyone remembers the "Bridge to No Where" contorversy you can thank Ted Stevens for trying to sneak it in. There's an interesting article titled Others respect Stevens' fury from the Anchorage Daily News that profiles him. It's lengthy but it helps explain why this guy is pretty powerful.
If you read the ADN article, they reference a meltdown that was featured in a memorable Jon Stewart piece on a coot off between Stevens and Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia. Brilliantly funny.
I plead ignorance. I never took a civics class. :-)
(I was raised and educated in Japan.)
Wrong. Police are part of the Government, part of the executive branch. Unless some how NH has privatised there police force.
Depends on the department, I think. For example, the Chicago Police Department is under the jurisdiction of the mayor of Chicago. Whereas I believe the Illinois State Police is under the executive branch of the state of Illinois.
I've used it on trans-Pacific flights, and it was well worth the $25 or so I paid for it. It made the flight go by much so more quickly, and I was able to access the company VPN with no problem and get loads of work done throughout the entire flight.
The thing was a godsend, especially when you're trying to get stuff out of the way so that you can enjoy your vacation when you're actually at your destination.
Sure, latencies were occassionally high (and there was a 20-minute period of no access), but it was otherwise fine to use for basic web access, ssh access, and IM/IRC-ing.
I haven't done it quite yet, but I'm going to use a bona-fide Neural Network here in the next couple of weeks, for combining multiple fuzzy inputs and producing an output in the range [OK, Bad, Human Must Check Manually].
They're sometimes lumped in together with discussions on Neural Networks, and maybe you meant to refer to them, as well, but just in case you didn't, you might want to read up on Fuzzy Logic (lots of good links there).
But I certainly would be more worried about myself than about how I could arrange for my clients to keep making money. The only reason you want your clients to make money is so that they will then have to give some of that money to you in the form of your fees. Beyond that they can go fly a kite.
In November, 2004, an uncle of mine discovered he had lung cancer. Knowing him, it was no surprise that he, an engineer, continued working. Coming into 2005, he was still working but from home. It gave him a sense normalcy and kept his mind active (as well as kept him distracted). Even if it was for only a few hours a week, whenever he had the strength he'd spend time working. Through it all, he helped his colleagues in transferring as much of what he knew to them. And in May, he passed away.
His employers showed their appreciation by paying his salary as a fulltime employee till the time of his death. And they even sent his widow his annual bonus check at the end of the year. Many of them were there at his wake.
Sometimes, what goes around comes around.
As far as ruby on rails... who in the business world uses that? Can you name any website or application currently in production that does.
As far as ruby on rails is concerned, the easy answer can be found here:
http://rubyonrails.com/applications
Oooh. Isn't that a 30" Cinema Display featured in the picture of the two researchers?
Why did he have to provide his "name, address, phone number and Social Security number" ... to read a book?
I think it's required for the interlibrary loan. I know that's not the case at the U of Chicago, possibly because the library already has it on file, but it may be so at Dartmouth. Still, had they not required an SS#, he'd still have been paid a visit by the G-Men.
My mother's Powerbook G4 can barely be used near a window during the day, but my father's Thinkpad looks great in any light. Next to each other, the difference is night and day.
How old is the Powerbook? I bought mine in 2001 weeks after the original Rev. A Powerbooks were released. I remember the screen to be very bright and beautiful. But over the years it has degraded considerably. I still use it regularly, but it doesn't hold a candle to any of the powerbooks that have come out since then.
The IAEA has managed to miss every single covert nuclear weapons program.
... between 1991 and 1997."
I submit the following:
Mohamed ElBaradei, in an AFP interview after receiving his Nobel Prize, listed some of IAEA's successes:
"We managed to eliminate the Iraqi nuclear weapons program
"We are in fact the ones who detected the North Korean (nuclear) program as early as 1992" and "we have now come to the complete elimination of Libya's weapons program."
"In the aftermath of Sept. 11, President Bush ordered his then top anti-terrorism adviser to look for a link between Iraq and the attacks, despite being told there didn't seem to be one.
"The charge comes from the adviser, Richard Clarke, in an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes." -- CBS News
If he wasn't lying, that's because he was already convinced that Iraq was responsible. The facts be damned.
Having said this, I'm not sure the savings works out as well as the above would suggest. DST means that people like me have to run our AC's an hour longer at the hottest part of the day, wasting more energy than we save. (Presumably, the other place I would spend that time is work, at that will have AC running whether I'm there or not).
This depends on where you live, of course. The new months on which DST will occur under the energy bill will be on the months in which I don't even use an A/C.
Are you talking about the ex-call-dude-turned-conservative-"reporter" or the guy who was paid by the Bush administration to support the No Child Left Behind act?
He may have been, but I think he also may have been talking about Karen Ryan.
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814-
Many references to a 'she'.
She was mentioned in a 3-part piece on NPR's Morning Edition titled "Paying for Music in the Internet Age".
She's interviewed in part 1 of the series which was aired on the 15th of September [clip length: 5' 42"]. Odd, though, that clip one is the middle link among the three.
I will lead our nation toward a culture that values life
And yet as governor he allowed for 152 state executions to take place in his state. I don't get it.
You obviously don't have much imagination if you can't think of a use of more than two video cards/monitors.
In 1999, I was in a small town 15 or so kilometers from the nearest city in the province of Negros, Oriental, visiting relatives there. They had an iMac (probably the only on in the island) with a 56k modem. But the best connection speed I could get to a fledgling ISP in the city was around 4800 baud due to really bad phone phone lines.
I managed to load up slashdot, but I didn't have the patience to go beyond the homepage.
Five short years later, the same ISP now offers DSL (but still not to the small town I was visiting), and I'm fairly certain there're quite a few slashdot readers over there now.
I don't see the necessity for most of this stuff...
Now, I haven't been back in school several years, but would this partly be so that students can be involved in the Internet2 project?
Again, I don't know a whole lot about how students are allowed to be involved on a personal level, but Internet2 sounds like a plausible fit.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
IL is suffering from a serious budget crisis and needs new sources of revenue to offset the deficit. This does not excuse the governor from coming up with crappy ideas, but this does explain why he came up with this one.
I did that for my in-laws... We got them an iMac and the only questions I've had to answer are one's like "How do I burn a cd?" It's not bad... no more virii and they've gotten used to it. I did get Word because switching them to a Mac AND OO I think would have been a bit much.
.mac account for email. It's been really painless. Save yourself the time. Get them a Mac. My parents live in the other side of the world from me. It saves us a lot on phone calls.
Yeah, that's just about the kinds of questions I get these days. My mom's got a flat-panel iMac, and she's really gotten into iTunes and has only needed some help in setting up playlists. She figured out how to burn cd's on her own which she's really happy about..
My dad's got a Powerbook and is more confident navigating through OS X's interface than my mom. I rarely do any support for him since he can figure things out on his own.
I set them each them up with a
You have to do what works for you. I did what worked for me. I have no interest in playing tit for tat games with someone who is attacking me.
Yell at me. Scream at me. Call me names. That's fine. You'll be looking at my back as I walk away. Attempt to harm me, and you will get everything that I can throw at you.
Milhouse: "Well, Bart. We've learned that war is not the answer."
Bart: "Except to America's problems."
Milhouse: "Amen."
It kinda seems 'half cooked', unless this is how "all" supercomputers start out.
Well, you can't ever expect a computer to come custom-built to your workflow straight out of the box, no matter how much pre-purchase research and preparation you do.
You'll still need to install the right apps, customize the user interface to however way you like it, get some automated scripts written once you figure out what part of your workflow can get streamlined, etc. It's only down the line that you are (relatively) happy with your setup.
Similarly, I would think that is what is entailed with these guys. There's a lot of tuning to be done.