Another thing for the girl scouts to pitch you on.
"OK, that will be 3 boxes of thin mints, one Do-si-do, and two Trefoils WITH graphene, for $ 30,000,006.00. Do you want to pay now or when the cookies are ready?"
So, Nintendo brought a knife to a gunfight (bad) except that they could sell these knives for a profit (good) because they were underpowered (underpowered knives ?), so they could print money (good), except that if a disheveled man emerged from a time machine (say what ?) he would be surprised that they weren't selling after all, or something. And then
A wild STEVE JOBS appears! STEVE JOBS uses DESTROY VALUE. It's super effective!
And they say you don't need editors on the Internet.
I don't think MRO has anything on it to detect methane. Maybe they could do it with CRISM (IR spectrometer), but there is nobody from CRISM on the panel.
Someone who is on the panel is Lisa Pratt who is "specializing on the fate of complex organic molecules on the surface of Mars.," and also Alfred McEwen, the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). This says to me that they found something interesting on the surface, maybe something looking like tar or oil, or maybe something changing with time.
No, certainly not. They post-date the Russian occupation. However, we did (under Reagan and Bush I) support extreme islamic guerillas preferentially over the democratic Afghan resistance, which I could not understand at the time at all.
Saying (as they did) that the ISI recommended this course of action does not excuse it to anyone who has the slightest familiarity with the ISI.
Most misleading summary EVAH
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Debt Deal Reached
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· Score: 5, Insightful
About the only thing right about the summary is the spelling.
The deal would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. However, most economists think this isn't enough and does not remove the threat that the nation's AAA credit rating could be downgraded.
This debt crisis is entirely manufactured and artificial, the reason the country's AAA rating could be downgraded is because idiots are playing political games with our credit worthiness, and most economists think that the economy needs stimulus, not immediate cuts in spending. (Oh, and since current Congresses can't bind future Congresses, the $ 2 trillion number is also meaningless.)
Looking at my cookies, I see a bunch from different sites which are all called ACOOKIE and all start "C8ctAD" and have other long string matches in the content.
While it is certainly true that the US Government has used contractors for a long time, this pernicious reliance on contractors (to the point where many US government agencies have basically no in-house expertise on mission-critical elements of their functioning) started with Ronald Reagan. Remember that he started out with a massive RIF (Reduction in Force), which was followed with (civil service) hiring freezes. If you can't hire permanent employees, and you are tasked with doing more, you have to engage contractors. It's just that simple. I was working for the Government at the time, and the increase in contractors (and the decrease in in-house expertise) was striking.
Of course, the ironic thing is that
- contractors are almost always much more expensive than doing the same thing in civil service and - contractors can lobby the Congress to get more money what they are doing
At the time, I thought this was a bug; now I am sure it was a feature.
Anyone who is inclined to give a lot of weight to this "alarmist" press release should first read this, on a previous paper from Roy Spencer. Note this
what he gets through peer-review is far less threatening to the mainstream picture of anthropogenic global warming than you’d think from the spin he puts on it in press releases, presentations and the blogosphere.
It is concluded that atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem, due primarily to the inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in satellite radiative budget observations.
Hmm, doesn't sound like the press release or the Forbes article much, does it ?
Use the above and your judgement to figure out just how much weight to give the above.
The authors (on a quick read of the original paper) are talking about a saddle point in the adoption of a new idea. This is basically the same as epidemiology, and their paper can be viewed as about a model of contagion in the case of infectious agents who can't be cured and don't die. So, in that sense this is like the classic result in epidemiology that an epidemic can't spread if the "basic reproduction number" is less than 50%. It's not magic, and it doesn't mean that if you get 10% + 1 acceptance is guaranteed, just where the tipping point is in this "modified epidemiology."
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30 years. Cool. That might be enough of a soak to get the bugs out.
Another thing for the girl scouts to pitch you on.
"OK, that will be 3 boxes of thin mints, one Do-si-do, and two Trefoils WITH graphene, for $ 30,000,006.00. Do you want to pay now or when the cookies are ready?"
So, Nintendo brought a knife to a gunfight (bad) except that they could sell these knives for a profit (good) because they were underpowered (underpowered knives ?), so they could print money (good), except that if a disheveled man emerged from a time machine (say what ?) he would be surprised that they weren't selling after all, or something. And then
A wild STEVE JOBS appears! STEVE JOBS uses DESTROY VALUE. It's super effective!
And they say you don't need editors on the Internet.
but this judge seems like an actual idiot.
It's not the police, it's the prosecutor. The police may have agitated for this, but the prosecutor is the person who should know better.
It's been UTC for 50 years now (since 1961). GMT is an anachronism.
I would assume everyone on slashdot knows that GMT has been replaced by UTC.
I don't think MRO has anything on it to detect methane. Maybe they could do it with CRISM (IR spectrometer), but there is nobody from CRISM on the panel.
Someone who is on the panel is Lisa Pratt who is "specializing on the fate of complex organic molecules on the surface of Mars.," and also Alfred McEwen, the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). This says to me that they found something interesting on the surface, maybe something looking like tar or oil, or maybe something changing with time.
"He is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group"
The people who brought you the useless and expensive X-ray backscatter peep shows at you local airport.
We never supported the Taliban.
No, certainly not. They post-date the Russian occupation. However, we did (under Reagan and Bush I) support extreme islamic guerillas preferentially over the democratic Afghan resistance, which I could not understand at the time at all.
Saying (as they did) that the ISI recommended this course of action does not excuse it to anyone who has the slightest familiarity with the ISI.
One of the architects of US foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Any person with that in their resume should be banned from any contact with public service or public policy whatsoever.
Relying on Slashdot for legal advice ? Not wise.
About the only thing right about the summary is the spelling.
The deal would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. However, most economists think this isn't enough and does not remove the threat that the nation's AAA credit rating could be downgraded.
This debt crisis is entirely manufactured and artificial, the reason the country's AAA rating could be downgraded is because idiots are playing political games with our credit worthiness, and most economists think that the economy needs stimulus, not immediate cuts in spending. (Oh, and since current Congresses can't bind future Congresses, the $ 2 trillion number is also meaningless.)
Looking at my cookies, I see a bunch from different sites which are all called ACOOKIE and all start "C8ctAD" and have other long string matches in the content.
I wonder if this is doing the same thing.
They are paid enough that they don't care if they appear as fools.
Better start lobbying Congress.
If the movie studios want it, and it is not directly related to the making of movies, oppose it. This will save lots of time in the end.
While it is certainly true that the US Government has used contractors for a long time, this pernicious reliance on contractors (to the point where many US government agencies have basically no in-house expertise on mission-critical elements of their functioning) started with Ronald Reagan. Remember that he started out with a massive RIF (Reduction in Force), which was followed with (civil service) hiring freezes. If you can't hire permanent employees, and you are tasked with doing more, you have to engage contractors. It's just that simple. I was working for the Government at the time, and the increase in contractors (and the decrease in in-house expertise) was striking.
Of course, the ironic thing is that
- contractors are almost always much more expensive than doing the same thing in civil service and
- contractors can lobby the Congress to get more money what they are doing
At the time, I thought this was a bug; now I am sure it was a feature.
Anyone who is inclined to give a lot of weight to this "alarmist" press release should first read this, on a previous paper from Roy Spencer. Note this
what he gets through peer-review is far less threatening to the mainstream picture of anthropogenic global warming than you’d think from the spin he puts on it in press releases, presentations and the blogosphere.
Now, also read the paper, and note this
It is concluded that atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem, due primarily to the inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in satellite radiative budget observations.
Hmm, doesn't sound like the press release or the Forbes article much, does it ?
Use the above and your judgement to figure out just how much weight to give the above.
...the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed.
Well for whom ? Bill Gates, sure. IBM wasn't very happy with it by the end. The rest of us...
Why, both systems work.
You have obviously never had to deal with slugs or poundals, which means you haven't done much spaceflight math with English Units.
The authors (on a quick read of the original paper) are talking about a saddle point in the adoption of a new idea. This is basically the same as epidemiology, and their paper can be viewed as about a model of contagion in the case of infectious agents who can't be cured and don't die. So, in that sense this is like the classic result in epidemiology that an epidemic can't spread if the "basic reproduction number" is less than 50%. It's not magic, and it doesn't mean that if you get 10% + 1 acceptance is guaranteed, just where the tipping point is in this "modified epidemiology."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3931
Didn't pay attention during your history classes, I see.
Just wait until some Governor starts blackmailing people with this information. This is Massachusetts, you know it will happen.