Sounds like you believe that the world is strictly binary. It isn't. What you think is unconstitutional may well be viewed by most others as perfectly acceptable. The Constitution is pretty flexible and leaves a lot of wiggle room for interpretation in many cases. Show me, for a simple example, where in the Constitution it is OK to forbid yelling fire in a crowded theater? And yet it has been found OK by the courts to do exactly that even though the Constitution explicitly says Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech... But how did Congress know it was constitutional until it had been tested in the courts?
From TFA: Both projects had decided to take a hard line and removing the code from glibc and portmap was going to be a real headache, especially for the stability of glibc.
The code is question is the RPC code. Why is glibc's stability dependent on RPC code?
Methinks you are young, that you've never lived outside the US, and have a rather exaggerated view of our both our faults and the pace of historical change. Most of the things you list will eventually be corrected. Once upon a time we passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Sedition Act of 1918. We put whole ethnic groups in detention camps 70 years ago and booted people out of their jobs in the 1950s for having had radical politics in their youth. And if you think the blue laws are bad now, our ancestors were hanging witches and branding adulterers. Gadzooks, this country allowed slavery a bare 150 years ago. There will come a time when the Patriot Act is regarded as a historical embarrassment.
Our system usually manages to right itself even if often slowly and sometimes at great cost. Iran's? No empirical evidence of that same tendency so far.
What no one seems to have mentioned is that there is a symbiotic political relationship between farm/rural representatives and urban representatives in Congress. Urban, mostly liberal, reps want food subsidy programs for the poor. They need rural votes to get those subsidies. The price is expensive crop subsidy programs demanded by rural, mostly conservative, reps. Thus without farm subsidies, we would not have food stamp programs.
Nutrition Programs. The largest subsidy in the farm bill is the outlay for subsidized nutrition programs, including food stamps, and school lunches and breakfasts. Subsidized food programs--with an outlay of some $60 billion in 2008--account for about three-fifths of total USDA spending.
The original purpose of these programs, when begun in the 1930s, was to facilitate the operation of price-support programs for farm commodities. The U.S. government had acquired large stocks of butter, cheese, and other products in operating price supports for farm products, and these products initially were used in food distribution programs to low-income consumers. The subsidized food programs provided a politically acceptable way to dispose of costly surpluses.
It should not be surprising that the major constituency for subsidized food programs is no longer commercial agriculture. Instead, it is urban interests benefiting from and advocating "poverty programs." In congressional negotiations on the 2008 farm bill, legislators from farm districts were able to maintain conventional farm-commodity programs and related subsidies in the face of record-high farm product prices by forming an alliance with legislators from urban districts who sought and obtained increased food subsidies.
Source. The article has a good breakdown of what kinds of ag subsidies the US has today (e.g. water and other inputs, ethanol, export, etc.).
Keysianism is not the mainstream doctrine. It is not even taught in many US grad econ programs any more. Rational Expectations which more or less is just a mathematical restatement of Say's Law is, unfortunately, far more mainstream these days.
Limit orders are converted to market orders when the price hits. You can lose a lot of money by assuming that your order will be executed AT your limit instead of well below it when the Mr. Market is in free fall.
Remember, too, that the people being paid $150K in NYC are the people who are programming the algorithms. They are not necessarily the same group as the people who are designing the algorithms. The former group takes direction from the latter who are generally PhDs in econ, finance, math, physics, etc. These guys make a lot more than the programmers who work for them because they know a lot more.
Also, the programming jobs are mostly not in NYC. GS tried to recruit me for this kind of job recently, but I didn't want to move to Salt Lake City, Theocracy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Utah.
My sister ran into a motorcycle cop while making a left turn where the normal left lane was blocked off - that's where the cop was driving. She was ticketed. But she went to court armed with a state law book that showed that what the cop did (driving in the blocked off lane) meant that he had forfeited the right-of-way. Judge tossed the ticket. You can beat them, but it takes work.
Perhaps a new open social network site, hosted and linked across many ISP's, with open source code with clear locked into client agreements with pre-defined and limited revenue methods can be created.
Ohio State Univ, for example, has over 63,000 students, more than 1,700 acres and 457 buildings. That is a fair sized town. OSU is a public university that belongs to the State of Ohio. Thus the state government is responsible for police and security rather than the city of Columbus where OSU is located. This isn't much different from, say, the U.S. government having jurisdiction over the facilities which it owns, rather than the local police where the facilities are located.
Richard Rhodes' _Making of the Atomic Bomb_ mentions that it was Fermi who offered tongue-in-cheek to take wagers from other scientists on whether the bomb would ignite the atmosphere and if this would destroy just New Mexico or the whole world, annoying Groves in the process. Oppenheimer asked Teller to look into this along with other similar far-fetched possibilities.
No one went to the press. No one was kicked off the project over this. That's the truth, though it makes a much less sensational headline.
We all mourned, yes. But many of us, both at the time and today, regarded the shuttles as a hopeless waste of money that would have been better spent on far cheaper robotic planetary science missions.
There is quite a big difference between a thriving small business which is taken over by organized crime and a large company that has gone broke and is legally taken over by a government under the auspices of a bankruptcy court. The moral is don't invest in Russia and don't invest in failing companies.
Rio Tinto is an iron ore miner that sells the ore to Chinese and Japanese steel producers. They don't make the steel themselves. An article in today's Financial Times claims that the big iron ore producers have frozen China out of talks on iron ore prices and are negotiating pretty much with the Japanese and then will make the Chinese steel producers a "take it or leave it" offer based on those prices.
The decision to sideline Beijing is remarkable as China is the largest iron ore importer, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the seaborne market.
The miners have so far held no substantive negotiations with the Chinese side, led by Baosteel, the big state-owned steel mill, according to people familiar with the talks.
They added that there were no plans to travel to China for talks, meeting instead in Singapore.
One executive said: "As far as I am concerned, they [the Chinese negotiators] could come over to Australia if they want to talk."
There are some allegations making the rounds that Obama was played by the Chinese in Copenhagen. The mining case plus Google's actions makes me wonder if the West has decided that China has gotten too big for its britches and is being reminded that they are not a superpower yet and that they need to learn to be a little more cooperative with the rest of the world.
India, O.K. Eastern Europe? Stay out of Russia. Guy I know had his business taken over by the Russian Mob. There is no Rule of Law in either Russia or China.
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What issues of actual substance has Glen Beck ever raised?
All laws passed by Congress are in the gray area until the courts say otherwise. That was the point of the GP.
Sounds like you believe that the world is strictly binary. It isn't. What you think is unconstitutional may well be viewed by most others as perfectly acceptable. The Constitution is pretty flexible and leaves a lot of wiggle room for interpretation in many cases. Show me, for a simple example, where in the Constitution it is OK to forbid yelling fire in a crowded theater? And yet it has been found OK by the courts to do exactly that even though the Constitution explicitly says Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ... But how did Congress know it was constitutional until it had been tested in the courts?
From TFA: Both projects had decided to take a hard line and removing the code from glibc and portmap was going to be a real headache, especially for the stability of glibc.
The code is question is the RPC code. Why is glibc's stability dependent on RPC code?
So we'll send Mathias Rust to check it out.
Methinks you are young, that you've never lived outside the US, and have a rather exaggerated view of our both our faults and the pace of historical change. Most of the things you list will eventually be corrected. Once upon a time we passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Sedition Act of 1918. We put whole ethnic groups in detention camps 70 years ago and booted people out of their jobs in the 1950s for having had radical politics in their youth. And if you think the blue laws are bad now, our ancestors were hanging witches and branding adulterers. Gadzooks, this country allowed slavery a bare 150 years ago. There will come a time when the Patriot Act is regarded as a historical embarrassment.
Our system usually manages to right itself even if often slowly and sometimes at great cost. Iran's? No empirical evidence of that same tendency so far.
Nutrition Programs. The largest subsidy in the farm bill is the outlay for subsidized nutrition programs, including food stamps, and school lunches and breakfasts. Subsidized food programs--with an outlay of some $60 billion in 2008--account for about three-fifths of total USDA spending.
The original purpose of these programs, when begun in the 1930s, was to facilitate the operation of price-support programs for farm commodities. The U.S. government had acquired large stocks of butter, cheese, and other products in operating price supports for farm products, and these products initially were used in food distribution programs to low-income consumers. The subsidized food programs provided a politically acceptable way to dispose of costly surpluses.
It should not be surprising that the major constituency for subsidized food programs is no longer commercial agriculture. Instead, it is urban interests benefiting from and advocating "poverty programs." In congressional negotiations on the 2008 farm bill, legislators from farm districts were able to maintain conventional farm-commodity programs and related subsidies in the face of record-high farm product prices by forming an alliance with legislators from urban districts who sought and obtained increased food subsidies.
Source. The article has a good breakdown of what kinds of ag subsidies the US has today (e.g. water and other inputs, ethanol, export, etc.).
Keysianism is not the mainstream doctrine. It is not even taught in many US grad econ programs any more. Rational Expectations which more or less is just a mathematical restatement of Say's Law is, unfortunately, far more mainstream these days.
Thanks, your usual +5 rational argument is appreciated.
Limit orders are converted to market orders when the price hits. You can lose a lot of money by assuming that your order will be executed AT your limit instead of well below it when the Mr. Market is in free fall.
I still have a working one of these on my garage workbench.
Remember, too, that the people being paid $150K in NYC are the people who are programming the algorithms. They are not necessarily the same group as the people who are designing the algorithms. The former group takes direction from the latter who are generally PhDs in econ, finance, math, physics, etc. These guys make a lot more than the programmers who work for them because they know a lot more.
Also, the programming jobs are mostly not in NYC. GS tried to recruit me for this kind of job recently, but I didn't want to move to Salt Lake City, Theocracy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Utah.
My sister ran into a motorcycle cop while making a left turn where the normal left lane was blocked off - that's where the cop was driving. She was ticketed. But she went to court armed with a state law book that showed that what the cop did (driving in the blocked off lane) meant that he had forfeited the right-of-way. Judge tossed the ticket. You can beat them, but it takes work.
Perhaps a new open social network site, hosted and linked across many ISP's, with open source code with clear locked into client agreements with pre-defined and limited revenue methods can be created.
That was last year's model.
Ohio State Univ, for example, has over 63,000 students, more than 1,700 acres and 457 buildings. That is a fair sized town. OSU is a public university that belongs to the State of Ohio. Thus the state government is responsible for police and security rather than the city of Columbus where OSU is located. This isn't much different from, say, the U.S. government having jurisdiction over the facilities which it owns, rather than the local police where the facilities are located.
You may not be able to look this up online if you live in the US, because of your country's censorship filters.
You've never been outside of native Yemeni village, have ya?
Source, please.
Richard Rhodes' _Making of the Atomic Bomb_ mentions that it was Fermi who offered tongue-in-cheek to take wagers from other scientists on whether the bomb would ignite the atmosphere and if this would destroy just New Mexico or the whole world, annoying Groves in the process. Oppenheimer asked Teller to look into this along with other similar far-fetched possibilities.
No one went to the press. No one was kicked off the project over this. That's the truth, though it makes a much less sensational headline.
No, you'd be stoned, not lynched.
We all mourned, yes. But many of us, both at the time and today, regarded the shuttles as a hopeless waste of money that would have been better spent on far cheaper robotic planetary science missions.
Lets fix it.
... that government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations, shall not perish from the earth.
Corporations speak with a giant middle finger.
A. Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address
There is quite a big difference between a thriving small business which is taken over by organized crime and a large company that has gone broke and is legally taken over by a government under the auspices of a bankruptcy court. The moral is don't invest in Russia and don't invest in failing companies.
The decision to sideline Beijing is remarkable as China is the largest iron ore importer, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the seaborne market.
The miners have so far held no substantive negotiations with the Chinese side, led by Baosteel, the big state-owned steel mill, according to people familiar with the talks.
They added that there were no plans to travel to China for talks, meeting instead in Singapore.
One executive said: "As far as I am concerned, they [the Chinese negotiators] could come over to Australia if they want to talk."
There are some allegations making the rounds that Obama was played by the Chinese in Copenhagen. The mining case plus Google's actions makes me wonder if the West has decided that China has gotten too big for its britches and is being reminded that they are not a superpower yet and that they need to learn to be a little more cooperative with the rest of the world.
India, O.K. Eastern Europe? Stay out of Russia. Guy I know had his business taken over by the Russian Mob. There is no Rule of Law in either Russia or China.
My first CS course in my freshman year (1977) was "Structured Programming in PL/I. The only thing I really remember was that the following was legal:
IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE; ELSE ELSE = IF;
The NRDC is pulling guesses out of their asses.
And the Heritage Foundation isn't?
From your article^H^H^H^H^H^H^H editorial:
The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change.
There's actually nine rootkits out there for Linux?
Yes, they are supposed to be pretty scary, too. But what is worse, is that there is a ring 0 rootkit that rules them all.