Your example is not entirely congruent. Using your scenario, your imaginary guy would highlight that he has a M.S. in Comp Sci as a basis of authority during a discussion about how to implement a feature or bug fix.
I'm not disputing that pr0n is speech that has been limited based on societal norms. My point is once you start the ball rolling with gTLD's partitioning forms of speech, I am concerned about other forms of speech that might be targeted on the Internet. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
I think having a.XXX sets a bad precedent for segregating "speech." It doesn't take a great leap for legislation to be enacted in country Y that requires all porn to be located in.XXX. Consider the current events involving net gambling in the United States and how net gambling has been impacted. Imagine legislation that prohibits a porn business from operating in any other TLD.
I fear that once we start going down that path, then other forms of partitioning will become more palatable. One can construct an argument that political speech should be in a seperate TLD so that domain registrants can register as potential lobbyists. To make it more attractive you make the domain registration free for "non-lobbyists" (however that gets defined) and a sliding fee scale for "lobbyists."
I think the whole expansion of the DNS TLD's was a bad idea.
* Ok it isn't the worst idea ever, but it is up there--the only way to get it to work is to implement censorship. I find it amazing that anybody who is a free speech advocate would criticize opposition to this domain. The pressure that the Bush Administration brought against this TLD was one of best free speech actions in 2006. Heck, even Markos Moulitsas Zúniga should be giving praise for stopping the.XXX TLD.
Actually, one can decouple the shot, which would reduce the seismic signature from the nuclear test. Decoupling factors in the range of 10 to 70 are possible. I'm not saying that the NK decoupled their shot, just pointing out that it is possible.
Some of the largest reductions in the number of weapons in the active stockpile will be achieved under the Treaty of Moscow, which was signed by President Bush v2.0. We shouldn't forget about the START I treaty, which was proposed during the Reagan administration and signed during the Bush administration in 1991.
The interesting thing about the Treaty of Moscow is that there is no monitoring provision, which is an interesting decision. The rationale is that the number of warheads is based on a determination on the numbers needed independent of the number that the other side has. Basically, the US conclusion was that even if the Russians cheat and double or triple the number of deployed warheads, there would be no need to match.
Actually they have been tested on people involved with the project who volunteered. They even solicted volunteers in the military who were not involved in the project.
There is more than enough "proper" seismic equipment out there generating copious amounts of quality seismic data. In fact, the data from the CTBTO will be used for tsunami warning. The problem is not data--the problem is in the analysis of the data and the dissemination of the warning. I am quite skeptical that the data from this technique will not be suitable for tsunami warnings.
I hope it gets even more inconvenient and restrictive. The current security process is hopelessly inadequate and has not fundamentally evolved since the mid 70's. There are new technologies that can radically improve the probability of detection and yet they do not get implemented because of a dogmatic belief in the current system and the cost, which would not be that great.
The only thing that will change the calculus and bring in much needed new technology is the pressure from the public on the inconvenience of air travel.
First, your interpreted language has to use "native code." Second, in applications that are CPU bound, like scientific computing, the overhead of an interpreted language is not acceptable. Third, the largest computer market, embedded processors, will, in all likelihood, always compile to native code.
Laser Isotope Seperation (LIS) has been around for years--over ten years in fact. The project did not fail either:
In a 200-hour test in September, the AVLIS separator operated around the clock for 6 days, processing 3 metric tons of uranium.
The problem with LIS is that (at the time) it did not compare favorably with gaseous centrifuge technology. With the current advances in laser technology, the economic basis of LIS may be more favorable. I don't know about the "handsome royalty stream" for Australia since LIS is not their exclusive idea.
Incidentally, there are more than two methods for enriching uranium--the author of the article should have read Chapter 14 of Benedict, Pigford, & Levi.
I guess you have never heard of a small-cap business. According to investopedia
The big-cap stocks get most of Wall Street's attention because that is where the lucrative investment banking business is. These, however, represent a very small minority of publicly traded stocks. The majority of stocks are found in the smaller classifications, and this is where the values are. To prove this we examined Baseline's database of 10,721 stocks and found that 88% of the stocks were in the smaller classifications.
The breakout by category (same source)
Mega Cap: 10 0.1% (over $200 billion)
Big Cap: 374 3.5%
Mid Cap: 794 7.4%
Small Cap: 1888 17.6%
Micro Cap: 2015 18.8%
Nano Cap: 1699 15.8%
Big Cap - Market cap of $10 billion and greater
Mid Cap - $2 billion to $10 billion
Small Cap - $300 million to $2 billion
Micro Cap - $50 million to $300 million
Nano Cap - Under $50 million
Actually, it wasn't just the US that had national security concerns.
The Thales deal, designed to answer French government concerns over sensitive military technologies, hit a snag when European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. intervened -- with the reported backing of French President Jacques Chirac -- to demand that its own Astrium satellite unit be included in the operation.
Last I checked, Ericsson was a Swedish company (which, according to the article was the provider of the equipment). Also, one of the phones that was tapped was a US Embassy phone. Maybe the Swedes were spying on the Greeks--we should not forget that Sweden was an aspiring nuclear power (or read this). Maybe they want to become a superpower...
While the beginning was not very strong, I thought the show had some promise (very few series have a good first season). It quickly became a very bad interpretation of current/recent events with some bizarro religous crap.
I decided to stop watching the show when I started cheering for the Cylons to finish the job by exterminating all the humans.
The DOD pays big dollars to get a corporate license for both McAfee and Norton, which includes permission for users to use on their home computers. Considering the numer of DOD computers that got infected by the Sony DRM application, I think the people who oversee those contracts would be negligent if they did not "seek consideration" for the failure to perform.
You are not throwing away electricity--the load on the alternator requires energy from the engine. While it is true the alternator is always turning, the work being performed is not constant. To keep a constant load on the alternator would be wasteful.
This was more an exercise of some countries wanting to exercise content control rather than just technical control. Many people point to the.xxx domain as an example of US interference. I would like to point out that it was a good idea that the.xxx domain got nixed since the very idea promotes censorship. If governments can partition content that it finds objectionable into subdomains, that action aids censorship.
Conservation of energy and thermodynamics tells us that this system has to operate with a net loss in efficiency for the *same* operating conditions. Perhaps the enhanced combustion improves the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine enough to offset energy required to produce the hydrogen and yield a 10% reduction in fuel consumption.
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Your example is not entirely congruent. Using your scenario, your imaginary guy would highlight that he has a M.S. in Comp Sci as a basis of authority during a discussion about how to implement a feature or bug fix.
I'm not disputing that pr0n is speech that has been limited based on societal norms. My point is once you start the ball rolling with gTLD's partitioning forms of speech, I am concerned about other forms of speech that might be targeted on the Internet. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
I fear that once we start going down that path, then other forms of partitioning will become more palatable. One can construct an argument that political speech should be in a seperate TLD so that domain registrants can register as potential lobbyists. To make it more attractive you make the domain registration free for "non-lobbyists" (however that gets defined) and a sliding fee scale for "lobbyists."
I think the whole expansion of the DNS TLD's was a bad idea.
* Ok it isn't the worst idea ever, but it is up there--the only way to get it to work is to implement censorship. I find it amazing that anybody who is a free speech advocate would criticize opposition to this domain. The pressure that the Bush Administration brought against this TLD was one of best free speech actions in 2006. Heck, even Markos Moulitsas Zúniga should be giving praise for stopping the .XXX TLD.
That said, having taken a polygraph, I think the true value lies in the "good-cop/bad-cop" environment that it creates.
Actually, one can decouple the shot, which would reduce the seismic signature from the nuclear test. Decoupling factors in the range of 10 to 70 are possible. I'm not saying that the NK decoupled their shot, just pointing out that it is possible.
The interesting thing about the Treaty of Moscow is that there is no monitoring provision, which is an interesting decision. The rationale is that the number of warheads is based on a determination on the numbers needed independent of the number that the other side has. Basically, the US conclusion was that even if the Russians cheat and double or triple the number of deployed warheads, there would be no need to match.
Actually they have been tested on people involved with the project who volunteered. They even solicted volunteers in the military who were not involved in the project.
is to use the counterscript (assuming I don't hang up).
Hey, I think I know that organization...were you a 99?
argh...I meant to say I am skeptical whether the data from this technique will be suitable for tsunami warnings.
There is more than enough "proper" seismic equipment out there generating copious amounts of quality seismic data. In fact, the data from the CTBTO will be used for tsunami warning. The problem is not data--the problem is in the analysis of the data and the dissemination of the warning. I am quite skeptical that the data from this technique will not be suitable for tsunami warnings.
Since they are excellent UV emitters, they are not a good choice for a person who has lupus.
The only thing that will change the calculus and bring in much needed new technology is the pressure from the public on the inconvenience of air travel.
First, your interpreted language has to use "native code." Second, in applications that are CPU bound, like scientific computing, the overhead of an interpreted language is not acceptable. Third, the largest computer market, embedded processors, will, in all likelihood, always compile to native code.
Incidentally, there are more than two methods for enriching uranium--the author of the article should have read Chapter 14 of Benedict, Pigford, & Levi.
Phantom (nee Infinium) meet LiftPort
Mid Cap - $2 billion to $10 billion
Small Cap - $300 million to $2 billion
Micro Cap - $50 million to $300 million
Nano Cap - Under $50 million
Last I checked, Ericsson was a Swedish company (which, according to the article was the provider of the equipment). Also, one of the phones that was tapped was a US Embassy phone. Maybe the Swedes were spying on the Greeks--we should not forget that Sweden was an aspiring nuclear power (or read this). Maybe they want to become a superpower...
I decided to stop watching the show when I started cheering for the Cylons to finish the job by exterminating all the humans.
The DOD pays big dollars to get a corporate license for both McAfee and Norton, which includes permission for users to use on their home computers. Considering the numer of DOD computers that got infected by the Sony DRM application, I think the people who oversee those contracts would be negligent if they did not "seek consideration" for the failure to perform.
You are not throwing away electricity--the load on the alternator requires energy from the engine. While it is true the alternator is always turning, the work being performed is not constant. To keep a constant load on the alternator would be wasteful.
This was more an exercise of some countries wanting to exercise content control rather than just technical control. Many people point to the .xxx domain as an example of US interference. I would like to point out that it was a good idea that the .xxx domain got nixed since the very idea promotes censorship. If governments can partition content that it finds objectionable into subdomains, that action aids censorship.
Conservation of energy and thermodynamics tells us that this system has to operate with a net loss in efficiency for the *same* operating conditions. Perhaps the enhanced combustion improves the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine enough to offset energy required to produce the hydrogen and yield a 10% reduction in fuel consumption.