Or how police sergeants can allocate traffic patrols that just happen to be on the south-bound side of Texas interstates before major holidays, and on the north-bound sides of interstates after major holidays.
The patrol officer in the field might not have any bias at all, but the effect of the system is to profile against those traveling to and from Mexico.
If on the other hand you make the presumption that an ancestor species had it, then you might wonder why we lost that ability. Sure, it might not affect survivability before age of reproduction either way. But then why did only those without the ability survive?
It's a reasonable question when looked at from that angle.
Or do you believe that the US army should be able to execute any American citizen who are not on US soil if the army feels like it?
The US Army can't wipe it's own ass without the permission of the Commander-in-Chief. The question is should the President be allowed to order the US Military to kill Americans who are serving with foreign enemies of this Republic?
I don't think the ACLU is even asking this question. All they want to know is HOW the president was allowed to order the US Military to kill Americans who are serving with foreign enemies of this Republic, via unmanned drones. They'd like to see the legal justification for that decision.
There's no reason the government should be able to keep the legal justification for that decision private. If it's legal, tell the world why and defend it.
If PF wanted it to be listened to as a whole, then make it one track. Or make it movements, like symphonies... etc.
On a record album, it was one track. The printing on the label had no fixed correlation to the music in the grooves, with the one exception of the point where you flip the thing over.
I wouldn't be surprised if EMI's contract allowed them to sell Money (as a single, because it was authorized as a single back then), or Dark Side of the Moon as a whole, or Dark Side of the Moon divided into chunks for side A and B where applicable. The question would then be if chunks were applicable in digital form.
Agreed, Roger Waters doing the complete Dark Side of the Moon during his tour a few years ago was spectacular.
On the radio, DJs will frequently take "Us and Them" and meld it in with Any Color you like, Brain Damage, Eclipse to make sense.
My only complaint is that I can't figure out how to make my iPod do this. I've tried using the group function, but still, it's a simple rule: treat all of these songs as one continuous entity in random playlists.
No, I don't want to merge them into one long MP3. They aren't In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Sometimes I'll even want to find and play one separately on purpose. But not in a randomized playlist.
There are some songs, like Have a Cigar and Wish You Were Here, that I like to hear as independent entities in some playlists, but as contiguous music in others. I'd be fine if they played separately when along in their respective playlists and played together if in the same playlist, though being able to specify a mix of both to my choosing would be best.
Snow covering it is sinking into the snow. Same effect. Snow covers it each year but never melts. The next year, more snow covers it.
Meanwhile, the entire glacier is slowly squirting out at all sides towards the sea. The net effect is a glacier that's not necessarily getting any thicker, but items sitting on top of it effectively "sink" in the additional snowfall as any given layer moves down and out to the sea.
The new station can be jacked up on hydraulics up to two stories "higher" than its current position. As the layer its supports are buried in sinks, the building can be kept level.
"I'm going to get bought out. It will cost $1,000,000 (seed money) and product a product (the company) which can be sold for $20,000,000 (fuzzy math). Selling this product 1 time will generate a gross profit of $19,000,000. Heck, even if I only sell half this product (IPO then sell off 49% of shares) I'll cover my costs."
Your mistakenly assuming that the product is something this company will design or build. The product is the company.
During the dot com bubble, such companies flourished. Most died a horrible death thereafter.
Yes, but of the people to which you refer, how many of them earn their living providing services to others? And how many of those others depend on the internet for their jobs?
The crew who repaired my roof or the guy who changed my oil might not depend directly on the internet, but he depends on my money, which does depend on the internet.
Have you taken the time to create a living will that says this? Your slashdot post doesn't count, and with nothing else your parents (or spouse or children) may end up making the decisions based on their emotions, not yours, if you are unable to communication your wishes.
Yeah, but language in health care legislation to encourage people to create living wills (when they are neither demented nor unconscious and can still make such rational decision on their own) was eliminated because people referred to such discussions as "death panels".
So, instead, more people have made no such indications until they have severe dementia or are in a coma, and then next of kin (spouse usually) have to make the choices, because otherwise the doctors would be making them on their own.
But that was before you tried to hack your system by setting the clock to February 29, 2010. Once that's been done, even once, your offline system is hosed until it can be validated by Sony DRM (tm).
That sounds funny, but I'm looking to exactly that this weekend to try and fix a problem with my iDrive. Except instead of a USB stick in a port, it's a special ISO I download from the internet, put on a CD, and stick in the CD drive. And the car's supposed to be on already.
I picked my car up from the dealer yesterday after a code update, and they broke the split screen navigation view. Quick reading from car driver forums show that a simple firmware downgrade/upgrade will restore the functionality, and it will save me the hassle of losing my car for 2-3 more days.
Worst case, they already broke it and I can drive the car (bricked entertainment system doesn't affect car operation) to the dealer to put it back.
1. Cash and credit are very likely the same price. 2. The gas price is (usually) set so the station can make profit despite having to pay the credit card transaction fee. 3. The credit card transaction fee is set to cover the expected loss (to the credit card company) due to fraud, and set to cover the costs of cash back or airline miles/hotel points programs.
Basically, by paying cash, you are still paying the costs associated with the fraud and cash back programs. And you pay more than I do, because I skim my cash back and hotel points off of cards that I pay off every month.
May I personally have a slightly higher risk of fraud? Yes.
May I have a slightly lower risk of losing money in the case my wallet is lifted? I think so.
Does the few thousand dollars in cash back and hotel points I've reaped more than pay for the hassle of one of my cards numbers being skimmed (given that I would not have to pay directly for any charges)? I think so too.
And next time there's a need for rolling blackouts in California, they can maybe instead call Google and ask them to turn on all their generators, saving all those taxpayers a huge inconvenience.
Subsidizing new technology so it can reach critical mass is an investment in California's future. It's not that much different than funding deep space exploration, which a lot of folks seem to think is a good use of funds.
It wouldn't apply on the job if we'd fixed it in elementary school, so they had all the same chances for a suburban-quality education back when suburban-quality educations were still good (but urban educations were not).
For that to be the case, though, their parents would have needed to have it applied on their jobs (so they could pay for a home in the suburbs and college for their kids), or would have needed it to be fixed when those parents were in elementary school, which means it would have needed to be fixed when their parents had jobs, or when their parents were in elemenary school. And it certainly wouldn't have been fixed then because segregation was the law back then.
Every. Single. Person. who one of my company's recruiters speaks to, or who speaks to one of the recruiters, is asked to fill out the blue self-identification form. It's a requirement since we're a government contractor. If they fill it out, as far as I know they can put whatever they want to on it and we take it.
It's their choice to fill it out; it's optional. If they don't, though, the recruiter is required to fill it out, making best guesses.
Google is also a government contractor and I'm quite certain has the same requirement.
I assume this is done (and hammered in at my office) so that we can show the racial diversity at the start of the recruiting process and the final diversity of the subsequent workforce, and then the government can look for patterns that indicate we're being biased in some way.
If they end up with an entire workforce full of white employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
Maybe it's because the parents of most non-whites weren't able to live in areas with good schools in the 1980s and 1990s, because they themselves didn't have good-paying jobs to buy a house in the suburbs? And of course they didn't have good jobs because their parents lived in bad parts of town, having grown up under segregation and having been unable to flee to the suburbs when all the white folks did?
Suburbs, as cities, and suburban school districts, by definition segregate taxes and funding. That hasn't changed. And while things are most certainly getting better, the end of segregation in the 1960s didn't mean that 50% whites moved back into cities to swap homes and jobs with 50% of blacks. It can, does, and will take generations for that sort itself out (even being helped along as it is).
Anyone know anything about Clear, the company trying to promote 4G WiMax for home internet and phone use? They seem to be advertising reasonable rates, and I would love to dump AT&T for my home phone and internet service as protest against their data sharing.
Who owns them? Anyone have experience with the quality of their service? How much do they tack on in other fees and such that don't appear until the first bill?
(Rates seem to be about the same for home use, but with Clear service would be faster, I could also buy service for my laptop to use anywhere in town with faster service and a rate better than AT&T Wireless or any other cell provider.)
How in hell does talking about non-falsifiable things introduce critical thinking, other than to say that they aren't falsifiable and therefore aren't science?
Aren't there other classes to talk about non-science things? I'm ok if art class fails to cover the scientific method; you're welcome to talk about non-science there. And literature classes, too - those can even cover religious texts from a critical standpoint.
Why can't we just have education books just present multiple popular theories along with the pros and cons of each?
Do you expect students to carry the new 10,000-page science volume entitled "Things That Aren't Science" home and back each night?
Because there are thousands of popular theories about thousands of things that Aren't Science. Bothering to mention any of them in a science class distracts from the limited time where students are able to learn about . . . science.
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Had to dig this out:
http://failblog.org/2010/02/24/parking-fail-13/
Or how police sergeants can allocate traffic patrols that just happen to be on the south-bound side of Texas interstates before major holidays, and on the north-bound sides of interstates after major holidays.
The patrol officer in the field might not have any bias at all, but the effect of the system is to profile against those traveling to and from Mexico.
Discrimination can be very very subtle.
If on the other hand you make the presumption that an ancestor species had it, then you might wonder why we lost that ability. Sure, it might not affect survivability before age of reproduction either way. But then why did only those without the ability survive?
It's a reasonable question when looked at from that angle.
Or do you believe that the US army should be able to execute any American citizen who are not on US soil if the army feels like it?
The US Army can't wipe it's own ass without the permission of the Commander-in-Chief. The question is should the President be allowed to order the US Military to kill Americans who are serving with foreign enemies of this Republic?
I don't think the ACLU is even asking this question. All they want to know is HOW the president was allowed to order the US Military to kill Americans who are serving with foreign enemies of this Republic, via unmanned drones. They'd like to see the legal justification for that decision.
There's no reason the government should be able to keep the legal justification for that decision private. If it's legal, tell the world why and defend it.
If PF wanted it to be listened to as a whole, then make it one track. Or make it movements, like symphonies... etc.
On a record album, it was one track. The printing on the label had no fixed correlation to the music in the grooves, with the one exception of the point where you flip the thing over.
I wouldn't be surprised if EMI's contract allowed them to sell Money (as a single, because it was authorized as a single back then), or Dark Side of the Moon as a whole, or Dark Side of the Moon divided into chunks for side A and B where applicable. The question would then be if chunks were applicable in digital form.
Agreed, Roger Waters doing the complete Dark Side of the Moon during his tour a few years ago was spectacular.
On the radio, DJs will frequently take "Us and Them" and meld it in with Any Color you like, Brain Damage, Eclipse to make sense.
My only complaint is that I can't figure out how to make my iPod do this. I've tried using the group function, but still, it's a simple rule: treat all of these songs as one continuous entity in random playlists.
No, I don't want to merge them into one long MP3. They aren't In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Sometimes I'll even want to find and play one separately on purpose. But not in a randomized playlist.
There are some songs, like Have a Cigar and Wish You Were Here, that I like to hear as independent entities in some playlists, but as contiguous music in others. I'd be fine if they played separately when along in their respective playlists and played together if in the same playlist, though being able to specify a mix of both to my choosing would be best.
Snow covering it is sinking into the snow. Same effect. Snow covers it each year but never melts. The next year, more snow covers it.
Meanwhile, the entire glacier is slowly squirting out at all sides towards the sea. The net effect is a glacier that's not necessarily getting any thicker, but items sitting on top of it effectively "sink" in the additional snowfall as any given layer moves down and out to the sea.
The new station can be jacked up on hydraulics up to two stories "higher" than its current position. As the layer its supports are buried in sinks, the building can be kept level.
X = "Get"
Y = "Bought"
Z = "Out"
"I'm going to get bought out. It will cost $1,000,000 (seed money) and product a product (the company) which can be sold for $20,000,000 (fuzzy math). Selling this product 1 time will generate a gross profit of $19,000,000. Heck, even if I only sell half this product (IPO then sell off 49% of shares) I'll cover my costs."
Your mistakenly assuming that the product is something this company will design or build. The product is the company.
During the dot com bubble, such companies flourished. Most died a horrible death thereafter.
Yes, but of the people to which you refer, how many of them earn their living providing services to others? And how many of those others depend on the internet for their jobs?
The crew who repaired my roof or the guy who changed my oil might not depend directly on the internet, but he depends on my money, which does depend on the internet.
Have you taken the time to create a living will that says this? Your slashdot post doesn't count, and with nothing else your parents (or spouse or children) may end up making the decisions based on their emotions, not yours, if you are unable to communication your wishes.
Yeah, but language in health care legislation to encourage people to create living wills (when they are neither demented nor unconscious and can still make such rational decision on their own) was eliminated because people referred to such discussions as "death panels".
So, instead, more people have made no such indications until they have severe dementia or are in a coma, and then next of kin (spouse usually) have to make the choices, because otherwise the doctors would be making them on their own.
http://www.aetv.com/steven-seagal-lawman/
Though I thought that Microsoft ninjas crept up silently, threw a chair with deadly accuracy, then faded into the night...
But that was before you tried to hack your system by setting the clock to February 29, 2010. Once that's been done, even once, your offline system is hosed until it can be validated by Sony DRM (tm).
That sounds funny, but I'm looking to exactly that this weekend to try and fix a problem with my iDrive. Except instead of a USB stick in a port, it's a special ISO I download from the internet, put on a CD, and stick in the CD drive. And the car's supposed to be on already.
I picked my car up from the dealer yesterday after a code update, and they broke the split screen navigation view. Quick reading from car driver forums show that a simple firmware downgrade/upgrade will restore the functionality, and it will save me the hassle of losing my car for 2-3 more days.
Worst case, they already broke it and I can drive the car (bricked entertainment system doesn't affect car operation) to the dealer to put it back.
It was almost 15 years back, and the show was Kindred the Embraced on Fox not Siffy.
Consider the following:
1. Cash and credit are very likely the same price.
2. The gas price is (usually) set so the station can make profit despite having to pay the credit card transaction fee.
3. The credit card transaction fee is set to cover the expected loss (to the credit card company) due to fraud, and set to cover the costs of cash back or airline miles/hotel points programs.
Basically, by paying cash, you are still paying the costs associated with the fraud and cash back programs. And you pay more than I do, because I skim my cash back and hotel points off of cards that I pay off every month.
May I personally have a slightly higher risk of fraud? Yes.
May I have a slightly lower risk of losing money in the case my wallet is lifted? I think so.
Does the few thousand dollars in cash back and hotel points I've reaped more than pay for the hassle of one of my cards numbers being skimmed (given that I would not have to pay directly for any charges)? I think so too.
And next time there's a need for rolling blackouts in California, they can maybe instead call Google and ask them to turn on all their generators, saving all those taxpayers a huge inconvenience.
Subsidizing new technology so it can reach critical mass is an investment in California's future. It's not that much different than funding deep space exploration, which a lot of folks seem to think is a good use of funds.
Oh, and what a profitable rebranding that was. It's like the opposite of Comcast becoming Xfinity.
Seriously, they rebranded it so they could put on store shelves and people would actually buy it.
It wouldn't apply on the job if we'd fixed it in elementary school, so they had all the same chances for a suburban-quality education back when suburban-quality educations were still good (but urban educations were not).
For that to be the case, though, their parents would have needed to have it applied on their jobs (so they could pay for a home in the suburbs and college for their kids), or would have needed it to be fixed when those parents were in elementary school, which means it would have needed to be fixed when their parents had jobs, or when their parents were in elemenary school. And it certainly wouldn't have been fixed then because segregation was the law back then.
Every. Single. Person. who one of my company's recruiters speaks to, or who speaks to one of the recruiters, is asked to fill out the blue self-identification form. It's a requirement since we're a government contractor. If they fill it out, as far as I know they can put whatever they want to on it and we take it.
It's their choice to fill it out; it's optional. If they don't, though, the recruiter is required to fill it out, making best guesses.
Google is also a government contractor and I'm quite certain has the same requirement.
I assume this is done (and hammered in at my office) so that we can show the racial diversity at the start of the recruiting process and the final diversity of the subsequent workforce, and then the government can look for patterns that indicate we're being biased in some way.
If they end up with an entire workforce full of white employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
Maybe it's because the parents of most non-whites weren't able to live in areas with good schools in the 1980s and 1990s, because they themselves didn't have good-paying jobs to buy a house in the suburbs? And of course they didn't have good jobs because their parents lived in bad parts of town, having grown up under segregation and having been unable to flee to the suburbs when all the white folks did?
Suburbs, as cities, and suburban school districts, by definition segregate taxes and funding. That hasn't changed. And while things are most certainly getting better, the end of segregation in the 1960s didn't mean that 50% whites moved back into cities to swap homes and jobs with 50% of blacks. It can, does, and will take generations for that sort itself out (even being helped along as it is).
Halfway off topic...
Anyone know anything about Clear, the company trying to promote 4G WiMax for home internet and phone use? They seem to be advertising reasonable rates, and I would love to dump AT&T for my home phone and internet service as protest against their data sharing.
Who owns them? Anyone have experience with the quality of their service? How much do they tack on in other fees and such that don't appear until the first bill?
(Rates seem to be about the same for home use, but with Clear service would be faster, I could also buy service for my laptop to use anywhere in town with faster service and a rate better than AT&T Wireless or any other cell provider.)
Facebook is a combo blog hosting site and, through their Android app, RSS reader.
How in hell does talking about non-falsifiable things introduce critical thinking, other than to say that they aren't falsifiable and therefore aren't science?
Aren't there other classes to talk about non-science things? I'm ok if art class fails to cover the scientific method; you're welcome to talk about non-science there. And literature classes, too - those can even cover religious texts from a critical standpoint.
Why can't we just have education books just present multiple popular theories along with the pros and cons of each?
Do you expect students to carry the new 10,000-page science volume entitled "Things That Aren't Science" home and back each night?
Because there are thousands of popular theories about thousands of things that Aren't Science. Bothering to mention any of them in a science class distracts from the limited time where students are able to learn about . . . science.