Sir, I point you to the relevant portion of the fourteenth amendment, specifically:
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
This is at times highly relevant to the purposes of interstate commerce law. Also, very important to tax law if you have earned income in more than one state in the course of a year. This is also often a touchy point for college students when the subject of in-state and out-of-state tuition comes up. So, all in all, it is a very important issue, and not just to tax protesters.
They're not very right about it either. I wouldn't use a computer or OS that was designed for single button usage. I have 5 fingers and I can use them independantly. I refuse to use a device that doesn't let me use at least half of them. Apple could have the greatest computer in the world in all other respects (and really, they do make a very nice one) but I refuse to subscribe to this dumb down mentality that is so easily championed in a one button mouse.
Close but not quite. Social Security should be a Social Insurance program, not a pension or retirement system. It ought to provide just enough to get by. It also ought to have a fixed ratio of people paying in to people taking out. You adjust the retirement age to maintain that ratio. People live longer, they ought to work longer. Nothing's wrong with that. That way, if you tie benifits to changes in income, the tax is essentially constant. Lastly, if you increase the worker:retirement ratio a little bit (like up to 4:1 or 5:1) the retirement age goes up slightly, but the tax drops a fair amount (Ta da!) leaving you more to invest in private accounts at your discretion. And if you invest well, you can more than make up for the gap in retierment ages. It's just that simple.
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Reminds me of an episode of The West Wing where the number of impoverished Americans rose by 3.1 million because they changed the way the poverty level was calculated.
You make a good point. Somalia is a fair analagy for what a west African mega tsunami would do across the atlantic. A lot of the energy would be dissapated both by the ridge and the distance. Somalia is reporting only about 150 deaths and 150 injuries. Pretty small for a country with a large coastline, given the size of the natural disaster. Thus my point. A trans-atlantic tidal wave would likely only kill hundreads at best, not millions.
No good. The real mass to be worried about is several square miles of ocean floor shifting. Secondly, this is only a highly speculative event. The Atlantic has very low tectonic activity. Thirdly, the Atlantic has a feature which stunts the formation of trans-oceanic tsunami. Specificly, the mid-atlantic ridge. If you look at the physics of a tsunami, it's about a vertical volume of water moving laterally. It gets big as it gets shallow. The mid-atlantic ridge will cause a good portion of the wave to rise up and crash out in the middle of nowhere dissapating much of the energy. It's really no coincidance that the eastern US has never seen a major tidal wave.
I concur. Fundamental element of copyright law: Copyright only gives you an exclusive right to make copies of the item. Furthermore, a purchaser has the right to make backups of a purchase and to copy the software to a harddrive if that is necessary for use. Unless there is an explicit license agreement in place, when you buy software, you have all the rights stated above. A click through agreement is not the least bit binding unless a digital signature is affixed somehow. An unsigned piece of paper in the bottom of a box is not a contract.
The problem really is that accountants and accounting in general are retarded. A stock option is basically a liability. When exercised, it then becomes an expense. It should be trivial for a company to put 2 lines on the quarterly report: Value of outstanding stock options and cost of recently exercised options. They could even put together a couple of little charts showing the distribution of outstanding option values. But that might actually be informative and make sense, so it'll never happen. This is why I invest my money in things like pizza.
on a side note: the electoral collage, since it has obviously failed in it's purpose: due to never being implemented properly due to vaugness in it's constitutional description, should be eliminated: direct popular vote, no more 'ballot dilution'
No, the problem is that we've lost all sense of why we have a federal government. The federal government fundamentally exists to fill a few select roles. Principly these are national defense, foreign relations, and to resolve disputes among the states. Also included are establishing a postal network and a system of copyrights and patents. And that's it. The majority of the absurd bills the congress passes are under the auspices of the interstate commerce clause (Article 1, Section 8, clause 3: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes") The 10th amendment explicityly states that rights not granted to the feds are reserved to the states. The federal government is meant to represent the states, and as such, the electoral collage is fundamentally necessary. How the states appoint their electors and how they are required to vote is entirely left to the states themselves.
As the law is written, it is essentially your responsibility to verify that you have permission to use the signal. How are YOU supposed to know if the access point owner does not want you to use the signal where it is technically available? Ask before using it. I don't lock the front door to my house, but that doesn't grant you permission to walk in and watch my television. Likewise with an access point. If I have an unsecured access point, it's not necessarily open for public use. Using it without permission can be a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances.
I had a most delightful experiance burning out the LEDs on my keybaord. I'd written an assembly program to make them cycle 18.2 times a second (off of the clock interrupt). Unfortunately, it ran continuously burning out all 3 leds on the board. In all other respects, the board continued to operate normally. I never got the program working right because I couldn't afford to buy another replacement keyboard to test it on.
It's perfectly reasonable that the judge is not a network engineer. Here he is reading a complaint from someone asking to keep their IP address space. There's dozens of pages (or more) of contracts detailing rights and responsibilities. He gets an expert opinion, "Is this technichally possible". Practicality and good policy don't enter in at this stage of the judicial process. Next he evaluates the harm that would come to either party if the TRO is granted. Lastly, and probably to a lesser extent, he examines the probability of succeeding on the merits. Thus a TRO is granted. Later, upon more extensive review of contracts, case law and the actual logistics of this, the order will almost certainly be reversed. That's how the system is designed to work.
Meanwhile, the plaintiff in this case, knowing they're not likely to win, finishes migrating their network and drops the case. The sky is not falling. In any event, as IP6 is put into place, this will be irrelevant as adderss portability will not be possible, and most everyone will be allocating address space dynamically.
Not really that dumb of a question. Just that the market for underclocking is so small, it's just not a very important question. Especially when you can go out and buy a C3 or a Pentium-M or other low power chip. But in any event, yes, I'm quite sure this affects underclocking as well. However, since Asus and Gigabyte appearantly have workarounds, who cares?
And here's the definitions:
RAID 0: This is a striped set, there is no redundancy. One drive goes, everything's gone. Useable space = 100%
RAID 1: This is a mirrored set. Typically this involves 2 drives. One drive is an exact copy of the second. If a drive fails, you replace it and rebuild the set. Life goes on. Useable space = 50%. Most IDE raid cards only support RAID 0 AND 1.
RAID 5: This is a striped set with parity. You get the performance associated with a striped set. Particularly on reads. If you have 4 drives, there are 4 stripes. 3 of those stripes are data stripes, the 4th is parity. Lose 1 drive and the parity information is used to rebuild the set. Useable space = (n-1)/n. To do this in hardware is typically fairly expensive.
There's a lot of hardware solutions out there. It can also be done in software. Windows supports creating disk sets in software. Other options include the purchase of a Snap! server, or other brand of NAS. If you've got a little $ to throw around, NAS is the way to go. Plug it into your network, minimal setup, and your off and running. Not very upgradeable, and somewhat problematic if your drive does actually die, but I use them at the office for a zero maintenence file server.
You can't decide "Hey, this weekend let's meet at pub XYZ"
Oh, how wrong you are. There's thousands of little regional BBS type sites out on the internet. They largely spread by word of mouth. They stay regional by virtue of the fact that the core users all get together regularly at pub XYZ. There's no shortage of software for running these sorts of things either. Putting it on the internet just increases availability. I can go and chat with my friends while I'm at work. Likewise if I live a little outside of the wireless range for the network, it's not an issue either.
My point is simply (and obviously) that I find the theory fairly plausible. Really, though, it was some PBS (Nova?) show I watched that sold me on the idea. One of the things I find most interesting is the similarity between Egypt's Stepped Pyramid and early Myan pyramids.
I for one am a believer that Atlantis was really South America. There was a massive thriving culture in South America 3000 years ago and plenty of evidence to suggest that trade was occuring between South America and Egypt around that time. Google has several sites which endorse this theory.
I disagree. I see lawsuits as no more likely. Furthermore, any process where you're subjectively evaluting something there has to be quality controls and an appeals process. My wife once held a part time job grading essay questions on a high school exit exam. Every few hours of grading exams, she would have to take and pass a "calibration battery" of 10 exams. Quality control is fundamental to the process.
What I see as being problematic is kids learning to beat the system. Typically these systems are predicated on gramatical analysis (use of punctuation and sentence compeleteness) and evidence of citing the text the question is based off. I'd bet its a real easy system to beat.
On the other hand, porn spam typically constitutes 40% of what hits my email address. Of 70 messages filtered so far today, I estimate around 28 of them were for pornography. About half of those were text only, and may or may not be subject to regulation (FTC site seems slashdotted). 2 were labled "Sexually Explicit". So I estimate an early compliance of about 14%. While far from perfect, even a little bit of compliance helps ease the burden and reduces false positives/negatives for me.
The real problem is that Lucas doesn't understand a single thing about why Star Wars was successful. It has nothing to do with "Myth" or special effects. They are the backdrop for the real stories: The homoerotic relationships of R2D2/C3PO and Han Solo/Chewbacca as well as the incesutuous Greek love triangle of Luke, Leia and Han. Then there's the drama aspect. While Episode 1 ought to have been Machiavellian art akin to The Godfather, it more closely resembled Days of our Lives.
Then, there's the cowboy test: If you replace the ships with horses and the blasters with six-shooters and find that you have a good western, then you've made a good piece of Sci-Fi. I don't think I can repeat this enough: Science Fiction is merely a setting, not a story unto itself.
Lastly, a decent editor could vastly improve Lucas' work. I cite as proof The Phantom Edit which dramatically improves the watchability of Episode 1 by cutting out a lot of the crap. Episode 3 can be saved, but not by Lucas. Like so many aging rock bands, he's lost touch with his audience, lacks the creativeness of his youth, and is too stubborn to admit its time for him to move on.
This takes me back to the heyday of Magic: the Gathering. Comic book and gaming store owners discovered they could make more money on cards by opening the booster packs and selling the cards individually. The less scrupulous owners would put the less desireable rares back in the packs and reseal them. However, eventually, supply caught up with demand and only out of print cards (Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall) were still selling at a premium. And while kids still play, the market for cards is not nearly what it once was.
My point in telling this little parable is that the economics of online gamming are very dependant on the sustained interest level in the game. A small drop in people playing the game could cause staggering changes in exchange rates between Everquest and Real Life. As well as the fact that in order to maintain the economy as it stands, Sony has to either force users to purchase large amounts of consumables or create ever more powerful and expensive items for people to invest in. Stay tuned for my next segment where I discuss the pros and cons of Guns vs. Butter.
Wow, first time I've had a post moderated down.:) A mile is 5280 feet. 6 cups = 3 pints = 1.5 quarts =.375 gallons. 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon. 16 tablespoons = 1 cup. Ok, it's goofy, but I like it. Really, my objection to the Metric system is that it's base 10. I really do believe the world should switch to a system predicated either on a base 2 or 6 system. Note that for base 2 system you more likely use base 4 or 8 as binary tends to be awkward to read. I'm partial to base 6 myself. Once you get used to operating in a different base, it's amazing how much faster and easier basic math is.
But back to the science, where the Imperail system has its failings. Metric is brilliant for chemistry, but this has nothing to do with being base 10. It has to do with the fact that volume (and hence distance) is related to mass by the density of water. Most chemistry is all about water so being able to tie mass and volume together is invaluable. This is not as much the case for physics. In any case, the other advantage of metric is only when one needs to change units. Particularly useful when dealing with basic constants - gravity, gas constant, whatever.
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I had this problem as a child playing too much Nintendo. But I gave my thumbs a rest and I got over it.
Sir, I point you to the relevant portion of the fourteenth amendment, specifically:
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
This is at times highly relevant to the purposes of interstate commerce law. Also, very important to tax law if you have earned income in more than one state in the course of a year. This is also often a touchy point for college students when the subject of in-state and out-of-state tuition comes up. So, all in all, it is a very important issue, and not just to tax protesters.
Probably System 7 or thereabouts. Apple alienated me a long time ago.
They're not very right about it either. I wouldn't use a computer or OS that was designed for single button usage. I have 5 fingers and I can use them independantly. I refuse to use a device that doesn't let me use at least half of them. Apple could have the greatest computer in the world in all other respects (and really, they do make a very nice one) but I refuse to subscribe to this dumb down mentality that is so easily championed in a one button mouse.
Close but not quite. Social Security should be a Social Insurance program, not a pension or retirement system. It ought to provide just enough to get by. It also ought to have a fixed ratio of people paying in to people taking out. You adjust the retirement age to maintain that ratio. People live longer, they ought to work longer. Nothing's wrong with that. That way, if you tie benifits to changes in income, the tax is essentially constant. Lastly, if you increase the worker:retirement ratio a little bit (like up to 4:1 or 5:1) the retirement age goes up slightly, but the tax drops a fair amount (Ta da!) leaving you more to invest in private accounts at your discretion. And if you invest well, you can more than make up for the gap in retierment ages. It's just that simple.
Reminds me of an episode of The West Wing where the number of impoverished Americans rose by 3.1 million because they changed the way the poverty level was calculated.
You make a good point. Somalia is a fair analagy for what a west African mega tsunami would do across the atlantic. A lot of the energy would be dissapated both by the ridge and the distance. Somalia is reporting only about 150 deaths and 150 injuries. Pretty small for a country with a large coastline, given the size of the natural disaster. Thus my point. A trans-atlantic tidal wave would likely only kill hundreads at best, not millions.
No good. The real mass to be worried about is several square miles of ocean floor shifting. Secondly, this is only a highly speculative event. The Atlantic has very low tectonic activity. Thirdly, the Atlantic has a feature which stunts the formation of trans-oceanic tsunami. Specificly, the mid-atlantic ridge. If you look at the physics of a tsunami, it's about a vertical volume of water moving laterally. It gets big as it gets shallow. The mid-atlantic ridge will cause a good portion of the wave to rise up and crash out in the middle of nowhere dissapating much of the energy. It's really no coincidance that the eastern US has never seen a major tidal wave.
I concur. Fundamental element of copyright law: Copyright only gives you an exclusive right to make copies of the item. Furthermore, a purchaser has the right to make backups of a purchase and to copy the software to a harddrive if that is necessary for use. Unless there is an explicit license agreement in place, when you buy software, you have all the rights stated above. A click through agreement is not the least bit binding unless a digital signature is affixed somehow. An unsigned piece of paper in the bottom of a box is not a contract.
The problem really is that accountants and accounting in general are retarded. A stock option is basically a liability. When exercised, it then becomes an expense. It should be trivial for a company to put 2 lines on the quarterly report: Value of outstanding stock options and cost of recently exercised options. They could even put together a couple of little charts showing the distribution of outstanding option values. But that might actually be informative and make sense, so it'll never happen. This is why I invest my money in things like pizza.
on a side note: the electoral collage, since it has obviously failed in it's purpose: due to never being implemented properly due to vaugness in it's constitutional description, should be eliminated: direct popular vote, no more 'ballot dilution'
No, the problem is that we've lost all sense of why we have a federal government. The federal government fundamentally exists to fill a few select roles. Principly these are national defense, foreign relations, and to resolve disputes among the states. Also included are establishing a postal network and a system of copyrights and patents. And that's it. The majority of the absurd bills the congress passes are under the auspices of the interstate commerce clause (Article 1, Section 8, clause 3: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes") The 10th amendment explicityly states that rights not granted to the feds are reserved to the states. The federal government is meant to represent the states, and as such, the electoral collage is fundamentally necessary. How the states appoint their electors and how they are required to vote is entirely left to the states themselves.
As the law is written, it is essentially your responsibility to verify that you have permission to use the signal. How are YOU supposed to know if the access point owner does not want you to use the signal where it is technically available? Ask before using it. I don't lock the front door to my house, but that doesn't grant you permission to walk in and watch my television. Likewise with an access point. If I have an unsecured access point, it's not necessarily open for public use. Using it without permission can be a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances.
I had a most delightful experiance burning out the LEDs on my keybaord. I'd written an assembly program to make them cycle 18.2 times a second (off of the clock interrupt). Unfortunately, it ran continuously burning out all 3 leds on the board. In all other respects, the board continued to operate normally. I never got the program working right because I couldn't afford to buy another replacement keyboard to test it on.
It's perfectly reasonable that the judge is not a network engineer. Here he is reading a complaint from someone asking to keep their IP address space. There's dozens of pages (or more) of contracts detailing rights and responsibilities. He gets an expert opinion, "Is this technichally possible". Practicality and good policy don't enter in at this stage of the judicial process. Next he evaluates the harm that would come to either party if the TRO is granted. Lastly, and probably to a lesser extent, he examines the probability of succeeding on the merits. Thus a TRO is granted. Later, upon more extensive review of contracts, case law and the actual logistics of this, the order will almost certainly be reversed. That's how the system is designed to work.
Meanwhile, the plaintiff in this case, knowing they're not likely to win, finishes migrating their network and drops the case. The sky is not falling. In any event, as IP6 is put into place, this will be irrelevant as adderss portability will not be possible, and most everyone will be allocating address space dynamically.
Not really that dumb of a question. Just that the market for underclocking is so small, it's just not a very important question. Especially when you can go out and buy a C3 or a Pentium-M or other low power chip. But in any event, yes, I'm quite sure this affects underclocking as well. However, since Asus and Gigabyte appearantly have workarounds, who cares?
And here's the definitions:
RAID 0: This is a striped set, there is no redundancy. One drive goes, everything's gone. Useable space = 100%
RAID 1: This is a mirrored set. Typically this involves 2 drives. One drive is an exact copy of the second. If a drive fails, you replace it and rebuild the set. Life goes on. Useable space = 50%. Most IDE raid cards only support RAID 0 AND 1.
RAID 5: This is a striped set with parity. You get the performance associated with a striped set. Particularly on reads. If you have 4 drives, there are 4 stripes. 3 of those stripes are data stripes, the 4th is parity. Lose 1 drive and the parity information is used to rebuild the set. Useable space = (n-1)/n. To do this in hardware is typically fairly expensive.
There's a lot of hardware solutions out there. It can also be done in software. Windows supports creating disk sets in software. Other options include the purchase of a Snap! server, or other brand of NAS. If you've got a little $ to throw around, NAS is the way to go. Plug it into your network, minimal setup, and your off and running. Not very upgradeable, and somewhat problematic if your drive does actually die, but I use them at the office for a zero maintenence file server.
Without web access, I have nothing to do but work.
You can't decide "Hey, this weekend let's meet at pub XYZ"
Oh, how wrong you are. There's thousands of little regional BBS type sites out on the internet. They largely spread by word of mouth. They stay regional by virtue of the fact that the core users all get together regularly at pub XYZ. There's no shortage of software for running these sorts of things either. Putting it on the internet just increases availability. I can go and chat with my friends while I'm at work. Likewise if I live a little outside of the wireless range for the network, it's not an issue either.
My point is simply (and obviously) that I find the theory fairly plausible. Really, though, it was some PBS (Nova?) show I watched that sold me on the idea. One of the things I find most interesting is the similarity between Egypt's Stepped Pyramid and early Myan pyramids.
I for one am a believer that Atlantis was really South America. There was a massive thriving culture in South America 3000 years ago and plenty of evidence to suggest that trade was occuring between South America and Egypt around that time. Google has several sites which endorse this theory.
I disagree. I see lawsuits as no more likely. Furthermore, any process where you're subjectively evaluting something there has to be quality controls and an appeals process. My wife once held a part time job grading essay questions on a high school exit exam. Every few hours of grading exams, she would have to take and pass a "calibration battery" of 10 exams. Quality control is fundamental to the process.
What I see as being problematic is kids learning to beat the system. Typically these systems are predicated on gramatical analysis (use of punctuation and sentence compeleteness) and evidence of citing the text the question is based off. I'd bet its a real easy system to beat.
On the other hand, porn spam typically constitutes 40% of what hits my email address. Of 70 messages filtered so far today, I estimate around 28 of them were for pornography. About half of those were text only, and may or may not be subject to regulation (FTC site seems slashdotted). 2 were labled "Sexually Explicit". So I estimate an early compliance of about 14%. While far from perfect, even a little bit of compliance helps ease the burden and reduces false positives/negatives for me.
The real problem is that Lucas doesn't understand a single thing about why Star Wars was successful. It has nothing to do with "Myth" or special effects. They are the backdrop for the real stories: The homoerotic relationships of R2D2/C3PO and Han Solo/Chewbacca as well as the incesutuous Greek love triangle of Luke, Leia and Han. Then there's the drama aspect. While Episode 1 ought to have been Machiavellian art akin to The Godfather, it more closely resembled Days of our Lives.
Then, there's the cowboy test: If you replace the ships with horses and the blasters with six-shooters and find that you have a good western, then you've made a good piece of Sci-Fi. I don't think I can repeat this enough: Science Fiction is merely a setting, not a story unto itself.
Lastly, a decent editor could vastly improve Lucas' work. I cite as proof The Phantom Edit which dramatically improves the watchability of Episode 1 by cutting out a lot of the crap. Episode 3 can be saved, but not by Lucas. Like so many aging rock bands, he's lost touch with his audience, lacks the creativeness of his youth, and is too stubborn to admit its time for him to move on.
This takes me back to the heyday of Magic: the Gathering. Comic book and gaming store owners discovered they could make more money on cards by opening the booster packs and selling the cards individually. The less scrupulous owners would put the less desireable rares back in the packs and reseal them. However, eventually, supply caught up with demand and only out of print cards (Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall) were still selling at a premium. And while kids still play, the market for cards is not nearly what it once was.
My point in telling this little parable is that the economics of online gamming are very dependant on the sustained interest level in the game. A small drop in people playing the game could cause staggering changes in exchange rates between Everquest and Real Life. As well as the fact that in order to maintain the economy as it stands, Sony has to either force users to purchase large amounts of consumables or create ever more powerful and expensive items for people to invest in. Stay tuned for my next segment where I discuss the pros and cons of Guns vs. Butter.
Wow, first time I've had a post moderated down. :) A mile is 5280 feet. 6 cups = 3 pints = 1.5 quarts = .375 gallons. 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon. 16 tablespoons = 1 cup. Ok, it's goofy, but I like it. Really, my objection to the Metric system is that it's base 10. I really do believe the world should switch to a system predicated either on a base 2 or 6 system. Note that for base 2 system you more likely use base 4 or 8 as binary tends to be awkward to read. I'm partial to base 6 myself. Once you get used to operating in a different base, it's amazing how much faster and easier basic math is.
But back to the science, where the Imperail system has its failings. Metric is brilliant for chemistry, but this has nothing to do with being base 10. It has to do with the fact that volume (and hence distance) is related to mass by the density of water. Most chemistry is all about water so being able to tie mass and volume together is invaluable. This is not as much the case for physics. In any case, the other advantage of metric is only when one needs to change units. Particularly useful when dealing with basic constants - gravity, gas constant, whatever.