True conservatives are not for big government.. A strong military, yes. But limited size and power of government is part of the base conservative philosophy. As is low taxes across the board, etc. The difference is that may people equate Republican with Conservative. While it's true that most Conservatives do join the Republican party, not all Republicans are true conservatives.
Personally, I like Walter E. Williams' name of "constitutionalist" rather than "conservative". It's more descriptive.
Yeah, why not just point the hubble at it and find out what the hell it is??? If it's space junk, the hubble could see the markings on it and we could figure out who put it there.
I also would recommend Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein (available on amazon for $7). Not nearly as head-spinning as I had expected it to be, and it is easier to understand (in my opinion) Hawking if you first read where the basis came from.
I'm not claiming that every time things get rocky I pray and everything becomes ok again. I'm talking about when everything in my life has on the absolute verge of collapse. When I had nowhere to turn for help, and nobody to lean on. When I felt as if I couldn't go on anymore and where everything I did seemed to make it worse. This has happened a handful of times in my life (3-4), and things may have worked out eventually, but I honestly feel that they may not have.
You can believe that this was just coincidence or natural fluctuations. Or you may think that it was just my own belief that calmed me enough to make the right choices... I personally believe that there is more to the universe than happenstance. I can't prove it, that's why it's called faith...
For the record (and I know you didn't claim otherwise), I do believe in science, evolution, quantum physics, the laws of nature, and such.. These are not in conflict with my religious beliefs at all though. I think that God set everything in motion and set the laws of the universe. I also think he could change them or tweak them (as Larry said, flipping a bit here or there). I don't believe everything the bible says (and I've never read a lot of it for that reason) because it was written by men. I think it's a collection of metaphorical stories meant to convey the moral principles that God would like us to live by, but not the actual literal word of God.
I was raised catholic, but have moved away from it or any other formal religious practice. I don't go to a church, don't read the bible, and never push my beliefs on others (you can take or leave what I'm writing here). I don't think that a church that is run by men can put me more in touch with God than I can by myself.
Men are falible, and I'd rather speak directly to God than to a priest or minister. If God does exist, I don't think he'd need proxy servers for us to communicate with him.
I never expect God to actually speak to me or to fix things. All I've ever asked for is guidance and the strength to keep going. I always know when my prayers are answered because a get a sort of contentment and the feeling like I can handle whatever happens. Things don't always work out the way I WANT them to, but in the end everything is all right. It usually comes down to realizing what's really important in my life and making sure I protect that.
Being a logical thinker, I've often thought about the role God has played in my life. I like the way you describe it here, but I think you leave one thing out.
Every time my life has gotten really confused and difficult enough for me to ask God for help I have received it. This isn't to say I ask for money and He gives it to me... But when I've prayed for guidance, strength, or simply for help out of a very difficult situation, things have always worked out soon thereafter.
Now you could say this is just coincidence, or that I answered my own plea for help.. But I believe that God does hear our prayers and that he will help in small (but meaningful) ways.
Think of it as going to your father to ask for help with a problem you're having. He will likely give you advice but won't solve the problem for you. If you take his advice you may solve it yourself however. I think God will help us to make the right choice if we ask for help, but he won't make the choice for us.
Hmmm.. Their pricing for the 4GB rocketdrive is $4000... A bit steep! BUT, you could just buy the 512MB version($799), and their 512MB-4GB upgrade ($500), and get the same thing (plus some extra SDRAM) for $1300..
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Indeed, my T1 (non-shared classic circuit with a dedicated channel on the DS3 directly to the tier 1 ISP) averages about 180-185KB/s when downloading from most big sites.
Just overclock the FSB.. I don't have any special cooling in my system (just several variable-speed case fans), but run my 2.4GHz P4(b) at 2.53, with the RAM running at 1120MHz (1066 RDRAM).. The Gigabyte 8iHXP allows you to change the FSB base speed. Mine is running at 140.
OOooh. Even better: Rotating 45 degree mirror redirecting the light to the individual CCDs. You could have a lot of them this way, and have only one lens.:)
This was the first thing I thought of too, so I tried to think of a way around it. For a truly high-speed camera you'd probably need multiple sensors for each pixel that would be cycled through.
This way while one CCD sensor is in use, the other ones are discharging to 0.
The hurdle becomes finding a way to either block the CCDs that are discharging (if the pixels are grouped), or to mechanically re-direct the light to the CCDs if they're completely separate devices (perhaps a spinning prism?).
What I find funniest about that image is the fact that the asteroids in those articles were all less than about 2 miles in diameter. However, the one in the picture has got to be at least 800-1000 miles in diameter based on the visible curvature of the earth, and the apparent thickness of the atmosphere.. That size asteroid wouldn't wipe out a country or just make life extinct, it would rip right down to the planet's core, and maybe even create a new (small) moon..:)
Is it necessary to have a business-zoned point of presence for your central CO, or can the trunk lines be run to a residential address and the equipment put in the basement?
What makes me scratch my head is that his kid is turning 13.. That means he was conceived when Wil was only 17. So he conceived a kid when he was still Wesley???
The FCC is simply trying to make the transition smoother. What's the alternative? Would you rather that they simply revoked the licenses for the analog frequencies in 2007, and then suddenly 90% of the country would need to buy new TV sets or converters all at once?
You're misunderstanding this decision (or I am)... They're not saying you can't also have an analog receiver. Just that the TVs need to include a digital receiver.
It's not like they're going to go into everyone's house and remove their old TV sets.
:knock, knock: This is the FCC search squad. We're here to confiscate your old analog televisions. Please step aside and nobody will be harmed!
I for one am not against this decision... As I see it we have a chicken/egg syndrome here: Broadcasters don't want to put out more digital (and HDTV) content until there is a good sized viewer-base for it. Viewers don't want to buy the (expensive) equipment to receive digital TV until there's more content.
Mandating that the TV makers put a digital tuner into their new sets will help increase the customer base which will in turn give the incentive to the broadcasters. And it is NOT going to cost anywhere near $250/set to do this.. They could probably do it for $2.50/set to cover the cost of the additional components, maybe a few dollars more..
I have a very large widescreen HDTV, but didn't bother buying the $1500 digital receiver for it because it's just not worth it to receive 3-4 channels of some-times HDTV content. I hope that as the customer-base that is digital (and HD) capable increases, the amount of content out there will increase substantially. What I really want is a high definition PVR (tivo preferably) that can receive satellite content in HD quality.
Just need to scale it up a bit.. Make it say, 60 feet tall or so, with each foot the size of a tank. Then it could move much faster and would not have much trouble with mines.
Oh, and put the operator in the "head" instead of on top, and make the head movable.. And put a couple laser cannons in the nose of the head. And you could use the body for carrying troops and other equipment.
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I'll have to see if I can dig it up.. It was more of a non-warranty statement, and was from an actual company. It basically gave you the right to do whatever you wanted with the software but copy it and re-sell it, but gave no warranties whatsoever. A computer science teacher (68K assembly language class) gave us copies of this..
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
Amendment 1.A Congress may make a law that requiring the licensing of free-speech, to ensure that the work was not originally created by another; and the method of this protection may not be circumvented; and must be paid for.
Amendment 1.B Congress may make a law determining when free speech is permitted, or who may pay for it.
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Personally, I like Walter E. Williams' name of "constitutionalist" rather than "conservative". It's more descriptive.
Yeah, why not just point the hubble at it and find out what the hell it is??? If it's space junk, the hubble could see the markings on it and we could figure out who put it there.
I also would recommend Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein (available on amazon for $7). Not nearly as head-spinning as I had expected it to be, and it is easier to understand (in my opinion) Hawking if you first read where the basis came from.
You can believe that this was just coincidence or natural fluctuations. Or you may think that it was just my own belief that calmed me enough to make the right choices... I personally believe that there is more to the universe than happenstance. I can't prove it, that's why it's called faith...
For the record (and I know you didn't claim otherwise), I do believe in science, evolution, quantum physics, the laws of nature, and such.. These are not in conflict with my religious beliefs at all though. I think that God set everything in motion and set the laws of the universe. I also think he could change them or tweak them (as Larry said, flipping a bit here or there). I don't believe everything the bible says (and I've never read a lot of it for that reason) because it was written by men. I think it's a collection of metaphorical stories meant to convey the moral principles that God would like us to live by, but not the actual literal word of God.
I was raised catholic, but have moved away from it or any other formal religious practice. I don't go to a church, don't read the bible, and never push my beliefs on others (you can take or leave what I'm writing here). I don't think that a church that is run by men can put me more in touch with God than I can by myself.
Men are falible, and I'd rather speak directly to God than to a priest or minister. If God does exist, I don't think he'd need proxy servers for us to communicate with him.
I never expect God to actually speak to me or to fix things. All I've ever asked for is guidance and the strength to keep going. I always know when my prayers are answered because a get a sort of contentment and the feeling like I can handle whatever happens. Things don't always work out the way I WANT them to, but in the end everything is all right. It usually comes down to realizing what's really important in my life and making sure I protect that.
Every time my life has gotten really confused and difficult enough for me to ask God for help I have received it. This isn't to say I ask for money and He gives it to me... But when I've prayed for guidance, strength, or simply for help out of a very difficult situation, things have always worked out soon thereafter.
Now you could say this is just coincidence, or that I answered my own plea for help.. But I believe that God does hear our prayers and that he will help in small (but meaningful) ways.
Think of it as going to your father to ask for help with a problem you're having. He will likely give you advice but won't solve the problem for you. If you take his advice you may solve it yourself however. I think God will help us to make the right choice if we ask for help, but he won't make the choice for us.
Hmmm.. Their pricing for the 4GB rocketdrive is $4000... A bit steep! BUT, you could just buy the 512MB version($799), and their 512MB-4GB upgrade ($500), and get the same thing (plus some extra SDRAM) for $1300..
Indeed, my T1 (non-shared classic circuit with a dedicated channel on the DS3 directly to the tier 1 ISP) averages about 180-185KB/s when downloading from most big sites.
Just overclock the FSB.. I don't have any special cooling in my system (just several variable-speed case fans), but run my 2.4GHz P4(b) at 2.53, with the RAM running at 1120MHz (1066 RDRAM).. The Gigabyte 8iHXP allows you to change the FSB base speed. Mine is running at 140.
OOooh. Even better: Rotating 45 degree mirror redirecting the light to the individual CCDs. You could have a lot of them this way, and have only one lens. :)
This way while one CCD sensor is in use, the other ones are discharging to 0.
The hurdle becomes finding a way to either block the CCDs that are discharging (if the pixels are grouped), or to mechanically re-direct the light to the CCDs if they're completely separate devices (perhaps a spinning prism?).
What I find funniest about that image is the fact that the asteroids in those articles were all less than about 2 miles in diameter. However, the one in the picture has got to be at least 800-1000 miles in diameter based on the visible curvature of the earth, and the apparent thickness of the atmosphere.. That size asteroid wouldn't wipe out a country or just make life extinct, it would rip right down to the planet's core, and maybe even create a new (small) moon.. :)
The "*" wildcard is for any number and type of character.. If you want to be more specific you'd use '??AA' or even '(MP|RI)AA'...
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Is it necessary to have a business-zoned point of presence for your central CO, or can the trunk lines be run to a residential address and the equipment put in the basement?
What makes me scratch my head is that his kid is turning 13.. That means he was conceived when Wil was only 17. So he conceived a kid when he was still Wesley???
You're misunderstanding this decision (or I am)... They're not saying you can't also have an analog receiver. Just that the TVs need to include a digital receiver.
It's not like they're going to go into everyone's house and remove their old TV sets.
I somehow don't see this happening...
Mandating that the TV makers put a digital tuner into their new sets will help increase the customer base which will in turn give the incentive to the broadcasters. And it is NOT going to cost anywhere near $250/set to do this.. They could probably do it for $2.50/set to cover the cost of the additional components, maybe a few dollars more..
I have a very large widescreen HDTV, but didn't bother buying the $1500 digital receiver for it because it's just not worth it to receive 3-4 channels of some-times HDTV content. I hope that as the customer-base that is digital (and HD) capable increases, the amount of content out there will increase substantially. What I really want is a high definition PVR (tivo preferably) that can receive satellite content in HD quality.
Oh, and put the operator in the "head" instead of on top, and make the head movable.. And put a couple laser cannons in the nose of the head. And you could use the body for carrying troops and other equipment.
I guess the editors don't like me..
It wasn't the fact that it didn't warrant the software, it was the way it did it. It read like a stand-up comic routine.
I'll have to see if I can dig it up.. It was more of a non-warranty statement, and was from an actual company. It basically gave you the right to do whatever you wanted with the software but copy it and re-sell it, but gave no warranties whatsoever. A computer science teacher (68K assembly language class) gave us copies of this..
Congress may make a law that requiring the licensing of free-speech, to ensure that the work was not originally created by another; and the method of this protection may not be circumvented; and must be paid for.
Amendment 1.B
Congress may make a law determining when free speech is permitted, or who may pay for it.