It may be rebublican/deomcrat/green/libertarian/occupy party doctrine that all Federal workers will get backpay, I think the point is, that history has been that they have gotten backpay.
There have been 18 government shutdowns since 1976, if you include this one.
What insane notion has you believing that this one is going to be like the other 17, and pay back pay.
The Japanese government is coming close to lifting the evacuation order; the radiation is declining quickly. Here are the cumulative numbers from 3/23/2011 to 5/2/2011:
They intend to allow unrestricted repopulation of the area in early 2017. To get the 20 mSev level for 40 days, they had to pick the days right after the disaster.
The radiation levels are actually not that high these days, since most of the continuing leakages is from the poorly isolated holding pond, which they have failed to repair, into the the ocean, as opposed to into the air, which is what happened initially.
I think at this point, the argument is whether or not the U.S. citizens without jobs are "qualified enough".
If you got a job as a cubicle warmer during the.bomb era by being pulled out of college before you learned very much, then it really doesn't matter if you can claim some experience in a titled position at a failed startup where you served as a cubicle warmer; unless you went back and finished off your degree after the cubicle warming position went away, you're probably not as highly qualified as someone with a Masters from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology or IIT. You just aren't.
Yes, the Provinces decide how, but the parameters are not all that wide, and because the system is in considerable aspects Federally proscribed, you don't see that much variance between Provinces. And, in fact, the Feds have on occasion flexed their muscle and have sent warning shots to provinces who have traveled too far off the line.
Here's the facts. I am a resident of British Columbia. I pay about $127 per month in Medical Services Premiums. For that I won't be given a bill at any hospital or any doctor if I have a medical issue. If I need a scan or some other diagnostic test, I will not be billed. Furthermore, if I end up needing healthcare in Prince Edward Island, I will still be protected.
Obamacare gives us exactly this. Plus another 5X costs for variant billing, deductibles, and other overhead for still having insurance companies involved, rather than going single payer.
I think you're partially right and partially wrong. Terrorism can be effective, but only when it creates fear in a populace (that's a tautology, actually). What creates fear is not hurting and killing people, it's hurting and killing people with impunity. If someone punches you in the face, and then you fight back and beat them to a bloody pulp, you're not going to be afraid of them. If someone punches you in the face and easily defends against your attempts to retaliate, then the fear starts.
Personally, I still don't understand how terrorist acts accomplish their political, social, or economic goals. So far, no one has made that connection for me. I can understand the "well, we're based in Somalia, Kenya is relatively closer than the other countries with significant presence in the U.N. peacekeeping force that's driving us out of our toeholds, we can retaliate against them". But I'm not seeing what's getting accomplished, other than to get Kenya to get real pissed, and have their peacekeepers in the U.N. forces be a little less likely to take prisoners.
so if you are measuring per hour, Germany wins, but if you are measuring per work week, the U.S. has a 14% advantage due to amount of time worked, and the U.S. wins.
You missed the part of my comment that stated "get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA."
So, no, U.S. didn't win.
I also:
o Left out the vacation time & vacation time take discrepancies, which drop up to 2 and a half months off of German productivity per year.
o Didn't request you to cite your source, as you requested of the poster to which you were replying, despite your reply having established a source citation criteria.
And U.S. workers average ~40 work hours per week (42 for men, 38.5 for women), whereas German workers average 35 hours per week, so if you are measuring per hour, Germany wins, but if you are measuring per work week, the U.S. has a 14% advantage due to amount of time worked, and the U.S. wins.
The fallout isn't from the revelation, it's from the spying.
Without the revelations, would there have been any fallout from the spying? Perhaps "the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the spying revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden" would have been a clearer statement of what was intended.
Yes. That is a much, much better way of saying it.
I think you are not comprehending what was intended. This summary isn't blaming Snowden, it is crediting him with revealing what was going on.
The fallout isn't from the revelation, it's from the spying. It seems like an attempt to blame Snowden for the problems the NSA is having, rather than the activities of the NSA.
To put this in terms which more people might understand: "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!".
The taxes pay for SOME of what's needed, but the schools are under funded. That means they are NOT being funded by taxes, they're being *partially* funded by taxation.
So if it's part taxes, why is it that part of the curriculum being set by commercial interests and private industry a diatribe against paying taxes for it? If you don't like the propaganda from private industry PAY MORE FOR YOUR SCHOOLS.
I'd be happy to pay more for schools. Let's take the funding out of the money that''s going to systemic corruption and non-cash-balance public pensions, rather than being some evil organizations bitch.
If they are going to be teaching propaganda instead of teaching them what they're supposed to be teaching them, I think I'd rather have them teaching creationism.
Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, outed himself as a transexual. It actually appears he did what he did deliberately to get imprisoned so the federal government would have to pay for his expensive hormone replacement/gender reassignment "therapy".
Except the federal government doesn't do that, even if a few right wing nutjobs want to pretend it does.
Exactly. The 8th amendment decisions that apply to state and federal prisons, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, do NOT apply to military prisons, which are under the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice), rather than the U.S. Constitution. So this was not the reason.
Did he leak info that uncovered government wrong doing? No. Did he leak info that showed corruption? No. Did he leak info to protect innocent victims from harm? No. Those would all be excellent and justifiable reasons to break his oath and provide information to outside sources. He was just being a moron.
Not everyone who leaks information deserves protection or is a whistle blower.
Why did Bradley Manning get outed as a transexual, and Donald Sachtleben get outed as a trafficker in child pornography? Bradley Manning got first pick.
Makes you wonder what Edward Snowden will have retroactively done to offend the religious right and justify a long prison sentence. You know, after he's extradited by the U.S. from a country with which the U.S. has no extradition treaty.
Thanks; read the paper; it presents three methods, 2 of which are unsuitable for parallel decomposition to an arbitrary number of CPUs (the Mersenne Twistor is not suitable to thread level decomp.), and one of which where you have to really carefully define you m(i). Changing algorithms isn't really an option, unless you are willing to rerun all of your historical computations, since unles you use the same PRNG, there is no guarantee of precise reproducibility, which is one of the issues here.
I think it'd be easier, with today's storage capabilities, to just pre-generate them, but that doesn't get around the dependent matrix operations problems which make it a linear computation after that.
The ISS lacks the required shielding to be usable anywhere other than it's current orbit so moving it's is a total waste of time and money and it would be a giant hunk of raw materials for any new missions to L4/L5 points
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Good point.
It may be rebublican/deomcrat/green/libertarian/occupy party doctrine that all Federal workers will get backpay, I think the point is, that history has been that they have gotten backpay.
There have been 18 government shutdowns since 1976, if you include this one.
What insane notion has you believing that this one is going to be like the other 17, and pay back pay.
Oh, wait. Never mind.
Radiation levels & evacuation
The Japanese government is coming close to lifting the evacuation order; the radiation is declining quickly. Here are the cumulative numbers from 3/23/2011 to 5/2/2011:
5/2/2011: 24.14 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 5/1); +2.99 milli-sieverts from previous week)
4/25/2011: 21.15 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 4/24; +3.17 milli-sieverts from previous week)
4/18/2011: 17.98 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 4/17; +3.5 milli-sieverts from previous week)
4/11/2011: 14.48 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 4/10; +4.14 milli-sieverts from previoius week)
4/4/2011: 10.34 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 4/3; +5.527 milli-sieverts from previous week)
3/28/2011: 4.813 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 3/27; +3.276 milli-sieverts in 3 days)
3/25/2011: 1.537 milli-sieverts (3/23 - 3/24)
Source: http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/saigaijohou/syousai/1304002.htm
They intend to allow unrestricted repopulation of the area in early 2017. To get the 20 mSev level for 40 days, they had to pick the days right after the disaster.
The radiation levels are actually not that high these days, since most of the continuing leakages is from the poorly isolated holding pond, which they have failed to repair, into the the ocean, as opposed to into the air, which is what happened initially.
Are they actually supervolcanoes?
Or ar they just cosplaying?
The U.S. pays 20% of the U.N. funding, and refuses to fund certain operations against the interests of the U.S..
It's really questionable why the U.S. is paying more than a proportional assessment in any case.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/the-history-of-the-bloated-un-budget-how-the-us-can-rein-it-in
The kind that takes 14 years to deliver. You know, like when your kid is old enough to legally enter into a contract with a cell phone provider.
I think at this point, the argument is whether or not the U.S. citizens without jobs are "qualified enough".
If you got a job as a cubicle warmer during the .bomb era by being pulled out of college before you learned very much, then it really doesn't matter if you can claim some experience in a titled position at a failed startup where you served as a cubicle warmer; unless you went back and finished off your degree after the cubicle warming position went away, you're probably not as highly qualified as someone with a Masters from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology or IIT. You just aren't.
Yes, the Provinces decide how, but the parameters are not all that wide, and because the system is in considerable aspects Federally proscribed, you don't see that much variance between Provinces. And, in fact, the Feds have on occasion flexed their muscle and have sent warning shots to provinces who have traveled too far off the line.
Here's the facts. I am a resident of British Columbia. I pay about $127 per month in Medical Services Premiums. For that I won't be given a bill at any hospital or any doctor if I have a medical issue. If I need a scan or some other diagnostic test, I will not be billed. Furthermore, if I end up needing healthcare in Prince Edward Island, I will still be protected.
Obamacare gives us exactly this. Plus another 5X costs for variant billing, deductibles, and other overhead for still having insurance companies involved, rather than going single payer.
Linux is just as much of a Unix kernel as he intended to build.
But really, for any reasonable definition of the term, Linux is essentially a Unix kernel.
"any reasonable definition" - you mean like passing the VSX, VSC, VRTS test suites with no errors so that they could legally used the UNIX trademark?
I think you're partially right and partially wrong. Terrorism can be effective, but only when it creates fear in a populace (that's a tautology, actually). What creates fear is not hurting and killing people, it's hurting and killing people with impunity. If someone punches you in the face, and then you fight back and beat them to a bloody pulp, you're not going to be afraid of them. If someone punches you in the face and easily defends against your attempts to retaliate, then the fear starts.
Personally, I still don't understand how terrorist acts accomplish their political, social, or economic goals. So far, no one has made that connection for me. I can understand the "well, we're based in Somalia, Kenya is relatively closer than the other countries with significant presence in the U.N. peacekeeping force that's driving us out of our toeholds, we can retaliate against them". But I'm not seeing what's getting accomplished, other than to get Kenya to get real pissed, and have their peacekeepers in the U.N. forces be a little less likely to take prisoners.
You missed the part of my comment that stated "get more work done than other countries that have longer working hours, such as the USA."
So, no, U.S. didn't win.
I also:
o Left out the vacation time & vacation time take discrepancies, which drop up to 2 and a half months off of German productivity per year.
o Didn't request you to cite your source, as you requested of the poster to which you were replying, despite your reply having established a source citation criteria.
o Cited my source on work hours.
Ball is in your court now...
And U.S. workers average ~40 work hours per week (42 for men, 38.5 for women), whereas German workers average 35 hours per week, so if you are measuring per hour, Germany wins, but if you are measuring per work week, the U.S. has a 14% advantage due to amount of time worked, and the U.S. wins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#European_Union
Child abuse is machine recognizable; piracy is not.
Pretty easy to understand, numb-nuts.
The fallout isn't from the revelation, it's from the spying.
Without the revelations, would there have been any fallout from the spying? Perhaps "the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the spying revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden" would have been a clearer statement of what was intended.
Yes. That is a much, much better way of saying it.
I think you are not comprehending what was intended. This summary isn't blaming Snowden, it is crediting him with revealing what was going on.
The fallout isn't from the revelation, it's from the spying. It seems like an attempt to blame Snowden for the problems the NSA is having, rather than the activities of the NSA.
To put this in terms which more people might understand: "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!".
Diplomatic fallout?!?
"the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden"
Seriously? The problem is that Snowden revealed the spying, rather than the fact the NSA was spying via a dragnet in the first place?
Isn't this kind of like blaming the person who outs the pedophile for all the outrage against the pedophile?
The taxes pay for SOME of what's needed, but the schools are under funded. That means they are NOT being funded by taxes, they're being *partially* funded by taxation.
So if it's part taxes, why is it that part of the curriculum being set by commercial interests and private industry a diatribe against paying taxes for it? If you don't like the propaganda from private industry PAY MORE FOR YOUR SCHOOLS.
I'd be happy to pay more for schools. Let's take the funding out of the money that''s going to systemic corruption and non-cash-balance public pensions, rather than being some evil organizations bitch.
Remind me again why schools are funded by taxes?
If they are going to be teaching propaganda instead of teaching them what they're supposed to be teaching them, I think I'd rather have them teaching creationism.
Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, outed himself as a transexual. It actually appears he did what he did deliberately to get imprisoned so the federal government would have to pay for his expensive hormone replacement/gender reassignment "therapy".
Except the federal government doesn't do that, even if a few right wing nutjobs want to pretend it does.
Exactly. The 8th amendment decisions that apply to state and federal prisons, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, do NOT apply to military prisons, which are under the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice), rather than the U.S. Constitution. So this was not the reason.
Did he leak info that uncovered government wrong doing? No. Did he leak info that showed corruption? No. Did he leak info to protect innocent victims from harm? No. Those would all be excellent and justifiable reasons to break his oath and provide information to outside sources. He was just being a moron.
Not everyone who leaks information deserves protection or is a whistle blower.
Why did Bradley Manning get outed as a transexual, and Donald Sachtleben get outed as a trafficker in child pornography? Bradley Manning got first pick.
Makes you wonder what Edward Snowden will have retroactively done to offend the religious right and justify a long prison sentence. You know, after he's extradited by the U.S. from a country with which the U.S. has no extradition treaty.
Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Rocky: Again?
Bullwinkle: Presto!
Lion: ROAR!!!
Bullwinkle: Oops, wrong hat.
"We have the glitch fixed!"
"Outstanding! Resume ramming speed!"
they don't need 4000 people to support BBM??
It must not be that popular, then. If a billion people were using it, like iOS, they'd likely need more than 4,000 people to support it.
If BBM is so popular... why are they laying off 4,000 people?
See here for a parallel way to deal with your random number generation problem:
http://www.stat.osu.edu/~herbei/GPU/RNG.pdf
Thanks; read the paper; it presents three methods, 2 of which are unsuitable for parallel decomposition to an arbitrary number of CPUs (the Mersenne Twistor is not suitable to thread level decomp.), and one of which where you have to really carefully define you m(i). Changing algorithms isn't really an option, unless you are willing to rerun all of your historical computations, since unles you use the same PRNG, there is no guarantee of precise reproducibility, which is one of the issues here.
I think it'd be easier, with today's storage capabilities, to just pre-generate them, but that doesn't get around the dependent matrix operations problems which make it a linear computation after that.
The ISS lacks the required shielding to be usable anywhere other than it's current orbit so moving it's is a total waste of time and money and it would be a giant hunk of raw materials for any new missions to L4/L5 points
Fixed that for you...