Exactly. 9 out of 10 marxists I've known came from privileged, intellectual households - often parents of professors, as you say. Doctorow's wikipedia entry says that he dropped out of four universities without receiving a degree. I suppose that he regards this as a badge of honour, maybe enjoying the implication that he's too intelligent or too special for a conventional education. How contemptible: most people are happy to just get into university, and regardless of the deficiencies of the educational system, work hard so that they can get decent jobs and have some kind of social mobility.That he got a high-level job at the EFF apparently without much of a resume suggests more benefits of a privileged background. People like this of course rarely acknowledge their privilege - they like to identify as working class, even though they've never experienced the real danger of being poor and not having well-to-do parents to bail you out, or not having an education that you can always fall back on. I read Doctorow's wikipedia entry and find him quite contemptible.
"'We don't feel like we've made any mistakes,' said George Harrison, senior vice president for marketing at Nintendo of America. He added mournfully, "I don't know how someone controlled you. They bought and sold you." And then Eric Clapton launched into a guitar solo.
My normal routine is French press for coffee in the morning, and a shot from my Bialetti Brikka when I need a boost in the afternoon.
I get organic beans from Just Coffee, which is a cooperative in Mexico. It costs the same as coffee I'd buy locally ($8/lb plus shipping), except all of the profits go directly to the farmers, because they're vertically integrated: they grow, roast, and sell the beans themselves. This is even better for the farmers than fair trade which, last time I checked, still only pays the farmers on the order of $1.50 or so a pound.
Hi Scott,
I'm curious about the logistics of finding important discoveries within a setting such as a working coal mine. Given the significance of this find, does the ISGS have any authority at all to ask the company to slow or stop work in sections of the mine while research is done? How accommodating is the company to your requests for access?
Thanks for showing up on Slashdot! This is great. I majored in geolgoy at UBC.
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm too young, but there was probably a time in history when people thought of politicians as being good public servants, rather than the power-hungry, self-serving narcissists they are today. I think Spitzer definitely belongs in the former category.
My dream is for Spitzer and Patrick Fitzgerald to run for office together, on the Spitz and Fitz ticket.:)
Wrong. Ghettos happened because of white flight. In other words, suburbs caused (or exacerbated) ghettos. They are not an intrinsic property of cities, nor is the development of ghettos an inevitable evolution of a city beyond a certain age. You don't need to take my word for it, just look to other very healthy big cities around the world for examples. If white people weren't so afraid of black people, it's very likely that you would have more New York and Chicago sized cities in the US.
while the choking stench of the stale, lifeless air the concrete artifical desert feeds them chokes and stifles, and the brilliantly bright, starless, vacant sky stretching just out of reach like a ceiling hangs over everyone like the claustrophobic bars of a prison cell
Wow, what cities have you visited? Sounds like you're talking about 19th century London. The scene you describe doesn't sound like any city I've ever lived in. The big cities I've lived in have plenty of green space, and the air is perfectly breathable, thank you. The only time I've ever encountered a "choking stench" is behind the exhaust of a big rig, something you're much more likely to encounter on the highway as you drive around your sub/exurbs.
I pity anyone trapped in such a place. It's not how a human should live.
Funny, that's exactly how I feel about the sub/exurbs, where the only means of transportation is to get into a two ton steel cockpit and fly down a highway, sealed off from your fellow citizens who are also driving their own two ton steel cockpits. Humans are mammals, and mammals are social creatures, and I think it's much more natural and socially healthy to live in a place with public transportation and sidewalks. I think it's more natural for humans to walk to places you need to go, where you can see and interact with other humans. It would kill me to give that up to live outside the city - but then what do I know? I'm just a dumb mammal.
Does NASA even have a rocket capable of intercepting an asteroid with something as heavy as a gravity tractor? They have some spare Saturn V rockets sitting around?
I would characterize myself as a right of center Republican with Libertarian sympathies and I disagree. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, misguided and ill timed though they may be, were most certainly about justice and freedom and, to a lesser extent, WMD and the president
Don't be ridiculous. If the goal really was altrustic as you say, the US wouldn't be going to war in Iraq. What's so special about Iraq? Why all the effort to bring democracy there? There's a lot of other countries under a dictatorship or engaged in conflicts that are killing civilians, including Somalia, Darfu, and the Central African Republic. I mean, really - if the goal was to help people in need, the billions of dollars spent so far in Iraq would have saved a lot of lives if spent on say, AIDS drugs for Africa, or fighting poverty. Instead of saving people, the war has KILLED hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
The war on Iraq is an imperialistic invasion, pure and simple.
Unbelieveably, Diebold actually has an ecommerce site where you can buy all their electronic voting machine products online, including memory cards, security tape, and access keys. I'm really hoping they verify that you're an elections official before they actually ship the stuff to you:
do keep in mind that decisions such as these are often not made by developers but by bosses and marketing departments. in my company, i've had many fruitless arguments with my boss about the merits of fixed vs. floating width designs. in the end, i've found that it's not worth the personal headache to fight my boss's stubbornness, and just design our site to the way he views it - which is with windows xp, running ie 6, with the google toolbar, at 1024x768 with the browser window maximized. he specifically demands that i design for this exact configuration. it's insane, i know. but i suspect that this attitude is common, and even though developers know better we are often not the final decision makers.
all this critique from bloggers is more than a little hypocritical. who do bloggers always cite as their primary source of information? why, the very mainstream journalists they decry. the notion that hobbyist bloggers can ever replace professional journalists is absurb -- at least, until bloggers start doing their own primary research. that is, doing the things that journalists do. calling up sources -- haranguing sources, often, when they don't want to talk -- doing background research and, last but not least, finding out what's going on in the world and should be reported on without relying on the media to tell you. i'd like to see all these try to figure out what's going on in the world without having the easy benefit of being able to surf to cnn, nytimes, etc. go out there and pound the pavement. see how easy it is.
If you want to be insufferably hip, I recommended getting a pen/pencil and a Moleskine notebook. It's "the legendary notebook of Van Gogh, Chatwin, Hemingway, Matisse and Céline." Despite the pretentiousness of carrying one, I can attest that they are very good notebooks -- very nice cover feel; the binding lets you easily write to the margins; it has a built-in bookmark, elastic, and pockets; plus you can feel like Hemingway when you're jotting down your grocery list. Expensive for a pad of paper, but cheaper (and nicer feel) than a PDA.
The vast majority of Wikinews articles are merely culled and rewritten from mainstream sources. Because of this, I don't see how Wikinews can pretend to be a credible, factual, and bias-free alternative to the mainstream media. If Wikinews made a policy of accepting only original writing, then perhaps it would evolve into something more resembling Indymedia. In the meantime, it's little better than a manually-written version of Google news.
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Exactly. 9 out of 10 marxists I've known came from privileged, intellectual households - often parents of professors, as you say. Doctorow's wikipedia entry says that he dropped out of four universities without receiving a degree. I suppose that he regards this as a badge of honour, maybe enjoying the implication that he's too intelligent or too special for a conventional education. How contemptible: most people are happy to just get into university, and regardless of the deficiencies of the educational system, work hard so that they can get decent jobs and have some kind of social mobility.That he got a high-level job at the EFF apparently without much of a resume suggests more benefits of a privileged background. People like this of course rarely acknowledge their privilege - they like to identify as working class, even though they've never experienced the real danger of being poor and not having well-to-do parents to bail you out, or not having an education that you can always fall back on. I read Doctorow's wikipedia entry and find him quite contemptible.
3rd cave on the eastern side,
Mountain that looks like a sitting goat,
Kandahar, Afghanistan
"'We don't feel like we've made any mistakes,' said George Harrison, senior vice president for marketing at Nintendo of America. He added mournfully, "I don't know how someone controlled you. They bought and sold you." And then Eric Clapton launched into a guitar solo.
I guess we'll expect to see Team Tehran moving up in the seti@home rankings.
It's called Gopher.
Does that mean it comes with fuzzy logic?
You reap what you sow.
My normal routine is French press for coffee in the morning, and a shot from my Bialetti Brikka when I need a boost in the afternoon.
I get organic beans from Just Coffee, which is a cooperative in Mexico. It costs the same as coffee I'd buy locally ($8/lb plus shipping), except all of the profits go directly to the farmers, because they're vertically integrated: they grow, roast, and sell the beans themselves. This is even better for the farmers than fair trade which, last time I checked, still only pays the farmers on the order of $1.50 or so a pound.
The Nigerian yellowcake was actually just... yellow cake. Angel food cake, to be exact.
Hi Scott, I'm curious about the logistics of finding important discoveries within a setting such as a working coal mine. Given the significance of this find, does the ISGS have any authority at all to ask the company to slow or stop work in sections of the mine while research is done? How accommodating is the company to your requests for access? Thanks for showing up on Slashdot! This is great. I majored in geolgoy at UBC.
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm too young, but there was probably a time in history when people thought of politicians as being good public servants, rather than the power-hungry, self-serving narcissists they are today. I think Spitzer definitely belongs in the former category. My dream is for Spitzer and Patrick Fitzgerald to run for office together, on the Spitz and Fitz ticket. :)
Wrong. Ghettos happened because of white flight. In other words, suburbs caused (or exacerbated) ghettos. They are not an intrinsic property of cities, nor is the development of ghettos an inevitable evolution of a city beyond a certain age. You don't need to take my word for it, just look to other very healthy big cities around the world for examples. If white people weren't so afraid of black people, it's very likely that you would have more New York and Chicago sized cities in the US.
Wow, what cities have you visited? Sounds like you're talking about 19th century London. The scene you describe doesn't sound like any city I've ever lived in. The big cities I've lived in have plenty of green space, and the air is perfectly breathable, thank you. The only time I've ever encountered a "choking stench" is behind the exhaust of a big rig, something you're much more likely to encounter on the highway as you drive around your sub/exurbs.
I pity anyone trapped in such a place. It's not how a human should live.Funny, that's exactly how I feel about the sub/exurbs, where the only means of transportation is to get into a two ton steel cockpit and fly down a highway, sealed off from your fellow citizens who are also driving their own two ton steel cockpits. Humans are mammals, and mammals are social creatures, and I think it's much more natural and socially healthy to live in a place with public transportation and sidewalks. I think it's more natural for humans to walk to places you need to go, where you can see and interact with other humans. It would kill me to give that up to live outside the city - but then what do I know? I'm just a dumb mammal.
Here's the press release from UBC, and a SCIAM article.
here
Does NASA even have a rocket capable of intercepting an asteroid with something as heavy as a gravity tractor? They have some spare Saturn V rockets sitting around?
Don't be ridiculous. If the goal really was altrustic as you say, the US wouldn't be going to war in Iraq. What's so special about Iraq? Why all the effort to bring democracy there? There's a lot of other countries under a dictatorship or engaged in conflicts that are killing civilians, including Somalia, Darfu, and the Central African Republic. I mean, really - if the goal was to help people in need, the billions of dollars spent so far in Iraq would have saved a lot of lives if spent on say, AIDS drugs for Africa, or fighting poverty. Instead of saving people, the war has KILLED hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
The war on Iraq is an imperialistic invasion, pure and simple.
remove the extraneous space to get them to work:
Catalog
access keys
Unbelieveably, Diebold actually has an ecommerce site where you can buy all their electronic voting machine products online, including memory cards, security tape, and access keys. I'm really hoping they verify that you're an elections official before they actually ship the stuff to you:
http://www.diebold.com/nasadmk/cgi-bin/desi_cata log.pl?section=9
Here you go - buy a dozen keys, for you and your friends:
http://www.diebold.com/nasadmk/cgi-bin/desi_cata log.pl?section=9&id=163
On a funny/sad note, the front page of their election products site as a glaring coding error (%=rs("newsdate")%):
http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/
This is completely retarded. What about regional accents? If I say toe-MAY-toe, and you say toe-MAH-toe, what's the phonetic spelling of the word?
do keep in mind that decisions such as these are often not made by developers but by bosses and marketing departments. in my company, i've had many fruitless arguments with my boss about the merits of fixed vs. floating width designs. in the end, i've found that it's not worth the personal headache to fight my boss's stubbornness, and just design our site to the way he views it - which is with windows xp, running ie 6, with the google toolbar, at 1024x768 with the browser window maximized. he specifically demands that i design for this exact configuration. it's insane, i know. but i suspect that this attitude is common, and even though developers know better we are often not the final decision makers.
all this critique from bloggers is more than a little hypocritical. who do bloggers always cite as their primary source of information? why, the very mainstream journalists they decry. the notion that hobbyist bloggers can ever replace professional journalists is absurb -- at least, until bloggers start doing their own primary research. that is, doing the things that journalists do. calling up sources -- haranguing sources, often, when they don't want to talk -- doing background research and, last but not least, finding out what's going on in the world and should be reported on without relying on the media to tell you. i'd like to see all these try to figure out what's going on in the world without having the easy benefit of being able to surf to cnn, nytimes, etc. go out there and pound the pavement. see how easy it is.
she stopped moving because she'd broken her leg her leg twice: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/mar tin_stlucie/epaper/2004/08/18/s1a_mcbody_0818.html
If you want to be insufferably hip, I recommended getting a pen/pencil and a Moleskine notebook. It's "the legendary notebook of Van Gogh, Chatwin, Hemingway, Matisse and Céline." Despite the pretentiousness of carrying one, I can attest that they are very good notebooks -- very nice cover feel; the binding lets you easily write to the margins; it has a built-in bookmark, elastic, and pockets; plus you can feel like Hemingway when you're jotting down your grocery list. Expensive for a pad of paper, but cheaper (and nicer feel) than a PDA.
The vast majority of Wikinews articles are merely culled and rewritten from mainstream sources. Because of this, I don't see how Wikinews can pretend to be a credible, factual, and bias-free alternative to the mainstream media. If Wikinews made a policy of accepting only original writing, then perhaps it would evolve into something more resembling Indymedia. In the meantime, it's little better than a manually-written version of Google news.