The difference between the Israelis attacking Palestinean civilians and the Palestineans attacking Israeli citizens is that the Israelis have a representive governemnt.
Citizens of democracys are responsible for the acts of their governments. The Palestineans as a whole can not be held responsible for the acts of a suicide bomber (no government), but every Israeli of voting age is responsible for the acts of the Israeli military, and therefor a viable target.
I read your journal, and your past comments, I know you will not listen to me...
But I just can't see that and not comment on it...
Do you really think the palestinians would use suicide bomber if they had helicopters with rockets?
Desparite times call for desparate measures, we used tactics that were looked upon similarly at the time to gain our own independance (asuming you are USian). The redcoats wanted us to line up out in a field and fight like civilized men.
But we would have no part of that, we knew that if we did that we would get our asses kicked. We hid in the bushes, and took pot shots at officers (how terrible these colonists must be to employ the sniper, how terrible to prevent these gentleman officers from having a civilized battle).
If your people were being oppressed you would applaud the bombers who bring hardship to your opressors, I know I would.
All this said, Israel does have the right to exist, but the tactics used by the palistinians only get used because of deep feelings of hopelessness. I don't claim to have a solution, or know which side is in the right, but if the palestinians are in the wrong, it is not because of their tactics.
I grew up in Illinois, next door to your state, and we had more than our share of community colleges and "direction" schools as we called them. Tuition at all of our public schools was compairable, I went to U of I. because it was the best one I could get into. Are you telling me that USI is substantially cheaper than Purdue or Indiana University? Purdue in particular has excelent engineering programs.
Unfortunatly I agree with the parent, during my time at UIUC I saw the CS program (which I was not in, I minored in CS and majored in TAM) get a lot easier at the freshaman level, and now all the kids that were switching to business majors the year I took the intro CS class, were passing, and they are going to start taking advanced classes were they will severly slow the learning of those who deserved to be there, or have to switch majors in their 3rd or 4rth year...
Did you even read the replies to your post? The fact that the TANGENTIAL velocity doesn't have to be high (since they only intend to go to space, not orbit, stricktly up and back down, not around...) is what is saving them. Angle of attack shouldn't enter this discussion.
If the Shuttle carried enough rocket fuel to slow it's tangential velocity to near 0 before re-entry, it would need very little heat sheilding. But... that is a hell of a lot of fuel, so it is easier to use the atmosphere (with all the inhearant risk and needed shielding) to slow the tangential velocity to those of normal flight...
The whine of a fan is caused by the periodic interaction of wakes, and bow waves from rotating blades with stationary objects (you hear this frequency and it's higher harmonics), the only way to get rid of this whine would be to have the fan not rotating (at which point it is no longer technically a fan).
You are thinking of the whine from the bearings, which is almost silent when compaired to the rotor-stator interaction noise.
I used to work in the computational acoustics group at Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines...
Will my 5-year old VCR still allow me to record shows? I don't think it knows about the the broadcast flag. If so, I see a possible upswing in the VCR repair and upkeep business......
You shouldn't be forced to use antiquated equipment in order to exersize your fair use rights.
I love allrecipes, not only does it have a lot of good recipes, but reading the comments (often about variations and substitutions) has made me a better cook. And the rating system is very useful.
We had no-cut cross country and track at my school, and one thing I noticed was that distance running was the sport with the fewest dumb jocks, and the most brainy types, about 1/3 of our state championship quiz bowl team was on cross country as well.
Running is a great way to eliminate stress too, which can be a huge problem for many of us nerds...
Another good option is weight lifting. Almost everyone shows substantial progress within a couple weeks of starting, and that is a great confidance boost. Once you have been going to the gym at the same time for a while, people will start interacting with you in a totally non-acedemic way. People who, when in school, fear and resent your intelegence either don't know that you are smart, or, if they realize it, don't care because you are pumping iron, and you are one of them while you are there.
I don't think there's anything inherently BS or evil about wanting to be enormously wealthy
You are correct, but there is plenty evil about letting that desire corrupt you.
I challenge you to find one/.er who wants to do the same job they do now for LESS money... or even the exact same job a year from now, for the exact same salary.
I would like to point out that there are plenty of people (myself included) who are happy with small annual raises, and simply having enough money, rather than being enourmously wealthy. I make much closer to $28K than $100K, and I can afford a house, a car, I am saving for my retirement at a rate that (assuming a conservative 9% growth rate) I will be able to retire between age 55 and 60, and I have also started saving for the college education of my unborn children. You simply don't need to be "enourmously wealty" and if you make being such part of your metric for sucess odds are you will be unhappy.
Steam is most certainly compresable, ask anyone who has had an intro engineering thermodynamics class...
The term steam is oftem only used for a multiphase mixture of liquid water and gasous water. The liquid part is incompressable, but the gasous part is quite compressable, and one of the neato properties is that when the mixture is compressed the liquid phase mass fraction increases, but it is still quite compressable...
Many of us who either have or are obtaining the MBA do NOT seek power or money as an end. (Granted, some do, and those idiots have tarnished the reputation of the rest of us.) Rather, more than a few of us are interested in growing our careers in other ways than the technical track, and to learn more non-technical skills along the way. (Like, oh, the kind that keep the software engineers in a firm employed.)
Do you not see the contradiction in your own statement? Why are you seeking to advance your career? You could be one of the rare exceptions (and I really hope you are) who wants to get into the managerial track to increase their sphere of influence and make a bigger difference than they can from the tech positions, but, unfortunatly, everyone I have ever known outside of an academic setting and most of those in an academic setting who aspire to "climb the ladder" are out for prestige, which is just a different metric for the same BS power and money type of succes that most slashdotters view as evil and corrupting.
Every good manager (meening morally good and effective, not just effective) who I have known was a pleasure to work with, respected by his workers, hated by his superiours, and above all else, reluctantly in the position they were in (meaning that they were managing because they felt nobody else could do the job justice).
Even without talking about quantum computers... 3 state logic would be about 50% faster than our current 2 state logic(in theory), but nobody has been able to design hardware of any significant complexity that uses it.
the states are usually refered to as -1 0 and 1
If you have taken an intro computer Architecture class and have never even heard about this, you should demand your money back.
And the other side thinks that the murder of innocent humans is OK. HTF is that different?
Nope, it was the Bush administration that wanted to kill thousands of Iraqi citizens.
Oh, you were talking about abortions... For the record, there are several scientists who believe the theory of evolution, and appose the murder of the unborn.
Also, when most of the replies to a comment are about bad spelling, it just makes it look like those who dissagree with the comment can't find any logical or factualy way to refute the comment; it weakens your side's argument...
Technically, the shark with the frickin' laser on its head would be slightly more accurate...
When you have dozens of people crossing the line in any given second like you do in many large road races where they use these chips, it is much more accurate than you could get with a laser, because people will often cross the line before the previous finisher is completely over the line, making line of sight based techniques hard to use, it is also a very easy method of associating a number (and therefor a person) with each finisher, and the order they finished in.
You would never use one of these in a track event where hundreths of a second count and there are few enough compeditors that you can "just watch" for the order...
TamMan2000 - Marathoner, Triathlete, wearer of many championchips
I agree that what you propose is the only viable long term solution, but to get there, there must be some limits on exploitation (which I don't see to much of in IT, but is rampant in manufacturing).
All laws pertaining to the treatment of workers in the US should be followed for all goods and services imported to the US to avoid a tariff. EX: workers in sweatshops must be in conditions that OSHA would approve of and must be paid at least our minimum wage corrected to the local cost of living + overtime if applicable. Failing these conditions would cause a tariff to be placed on that good (or service) that is being imported.
This would both ensure that we are not exploiting foreign workers by askinng them to work in condiditons that we would not let our own work in, and allowing the market to determine how the work should be distributed, while improving the plight of the american worker.
I think that this is a great opportunity for members of the OSS comunity to "put their money where their mouth is" so to say...
I propose that the we work on a patch for this worm and get it out there ASAP, that way only tin foil hat wearing goofballs will believe we are behind this...
Our sales tax (you had the right word...) is determined by the states, there are some that have very low sales tax, and many that have no sales tax on non-luxury items, like clothing under $50 and food...
So you are right, but I still would not say that taxes in the US are very high...
Why would 99% of legitimate users ever need to scan a bill?
Money is a topic that is very important in our society, as such it is frequently discussed in our society. Some people like to add the use of visual aids to their discussion to boost it's pursuasive power. The subject of the discussion is often incorporated into the visual aid for greater effect.
So you tell me why some high schooler in an econ class shouldn't be able to use a scan of a $20 for bars in a chart.
By the time you get to 75 grand a year, you'll be paying half that in taxes every year, roughly 43% of your total income.
BULLSHIT
For 75K you are at the bottom end of the 30% tax bracket, you get taxed at 30% for each dollar over $63550 at 30%, your federal income tax (the largest hitter in most peoples taxes) will come to $17144 or almost 23%, even before Bushes tax cut it would have only been $17931, or just under 24%. That is before any deductions at all, even the standard deduction. Medicare and Social Security combined are only about 8% and you can live in one of the states that doesn't have income tax, like Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, or Wyoming.
You shouldn't even be paying 43% marginal until you are making well into the 6 figure range.
If you want low taxes that is fine, argue your point and try to get like minded politicians elected, but don't lie to make people think it is worse than it is... It doesn't help your case.
You seem to have a much better understanding of econ than most people. I am not an expert per se, but I took a hell of a lot of econ for an engineering major (easiest social science for me to fill requirements with).
An issue which compounds the effect you speak of is that the government spends all of it's tax revenue, where almost all consumers have a marginal propensity to save, meaning that most consumers save roughly the same percentage of their income (not meaning from person to person variations are not huge, meaning that a person who can't save money when making 30K will not be able to when making 100K).
High taxes and high spending coupled together force the money through the economy at a higher rate. Tax and spend is an excellent way to jump start a lagging economy (but deficit spending works well too, but I don't feel it is a responsible policy). Did wonders for FDR...
Different types of running shoes will treat you very differently...
There are three main categories: Cushioning Stability Motion Control
I am 205 lbs and about ready to do my 3rd marathon, I use the motion control shoes, they are the most durable and most supportive (very important for most big people). I use brand new running shoes exclusively for running until they have about 500 miles on them, then I wear them for every day use, and have little difficulty standing for hour at a time.
If you are going to be on your feet for hours at a time, I would stay away from the cushioning shoes unless you are a bean pole, the foam gives up all of it's cushion quickly by comparison to heavier stability and motion control shoes, and the support goes to hell.
The stability shoes are very, middle of the road...
My personal needs dictate that I wear Mizunos and Nikes (the Wave Renegade and Air Durham respectively), because I have narrow heals and a more normal width over the rest of the foot. But for people with different shapes, New Balance, Soucany, Reebok, and many others make good running shoes.
Most importantly try on the shoes, and walk around in them, any running store worth buying from will let you take the shoes around the block before you buy them. And remember, soft is not what is going to keep you comfortable for hours, you are looking for support.
The true problem U.S. faces is not with the gun, but with people getting "facts" from fictions like "Bowling for Columbine" insteading of doing the actual research.
Besides, doesn't Cananda have as much or even more guns than U.S. per capita?
Maybe you should try watching the damn thing before insulting it? He mentions the prevalance of guns in Canada several times, he just points out the difference in levels of gun violence...
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The difference between the Israelis attacking Palestinean civilians and the Palestineans attacking Israeli citizens is that the Israelis have a representive governemnt.
Citizens of democracys are responsible for the acts of their governments. The Palestineans as a whole can not be held responsible for the acts of a suicide bomber (no government), but every Israeli of voting age is responsible for the acts of the Israeli military, and therefor a viable target.
I read your journal, and your past comments, I know you will not listen to me...
But I just can't see that and not comment on it...
Do you really think the palestinians would use suicide bomber if they had helicopters with rockets?
Desparite times call for desparate measures, we used tactics that were looked upon similarly at the time to gain our own independance (asuming you are USian). The redcoats wanted us to line up out in a field and fight like civilized men.
But we would have no part of that, we knew that if we did that we would get our asses kicked. We hid in the bushes, and took pot shots at officers (how terrible these colonists must be to employ the sniper, how terrible to prevent these gentleman officers from having a civilized battle).
If your people were being oppressed you would applaud the bombers who bring hardship to your opressors, I know I would.
All this said, Israel does have the right to exist, but the tactics used by the palistinians only get used because of deep feelings of hopelessness. I don't claim to have a solution, or know which side is in the right, but if the palestinians are in the wrong, it is not because of their tactics.
I grew up in Illinois, next door to your state, and we had more than our share of community colleges and "direction" schools as we called them. Tuition at all of our public schools was compairable, I went to U of I. because it was the best one I could get into. Are you telling me that USI is substantially cheaper than Purdue or Indiana University? Purdue in particular has excelent engineering programs.
Unfortunatly I agree with the parent, during my time at UIUC I saw the CS program (which I was not in, I minored in CS and majored in TAM) get a lot easier at the freshaman level, and now all the kids that were switching to business majors the year I took the intro CS class, were passing, and they are going to start taking advanced classes were they will severly slow the learning of those who deserved to be there, or have to switch majors in their 3rd or 4rth year...
making the world a better place so we don't need nuclear weapons
How are you going to do this with all the humans that live here?
No matter how nice it gets, you can't make the world a nice enough place to keep groups of people from wanting to kill each other, it is our nature...
(I am not saying that we shouldn't try...)
Did you even read the replies to your post? The fact that the TANGENTIAL velocity doesn't have to be high (since they only intend to go to space, not orbit, stricktly up and back down, not around...) is what is saving them. Angle of attack shouldn't enter this discussion.
If the Shuttle carried enough rocket fuel to slow it's tangential velocity to near 0 before re-entry, it would need very little heat sheilding. But... that is a hell of a lot of fuel, so it is easier to use the atmosphere (with all the inhearant risk and needed shielding) to slow the tangential velocity to those of normal flight...
The whine of a fan is caused by the periodic interaction of wakes, and bow waves from rotating blades with stationary objects (you hear this frequency and it's higher harmonics), the only way to get rid of this whine would be to have the fan not rotating (at which point it is no longer technically a fan).
You are thinking of the whine from the bearings, which is almost silent when compaired to the rotor-stator interaction noise.
I used to work in the computational acoustics group at Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines...
Did anyone else see this on the bottom of the dhmo website?
I almost fell off my chair...
Will my 5-year old VCR still allow me to record shows? I don't think it knows about the the broadcast flag. If so, I see a possible upswing in the VCR repair and upkeep business......
You shouldn't be forced to use antiquated equipment in order to exersize your fair use rights.
this is my very own submission to Allrecipes...
It's a vegan mushroom pot pie.
I love allrecipes, not only does it have a lot of good recipes, but reading the comments (often about variations and substitutions) has made me a better cook. And the rating system is very useful.
We had no-cut cross country and track at my school, and one thing I noticed was that distance running was the sport with the fewest dumb jocks, and the most brainy types, about 1/3 of our state championship quiz bowl team was on cross country as well.
Running is a great way to eliminate stress too, which can be a huge problem for many of us nerds...
Another good option is weight lifting. Almost everyone shows substantial progress within a couple weeks of starting, and that is a great confidance boost. Once you have been going to the gym at the same time for a while, people will start interacting with you in a totally non-acedemic way. People who, when in school, fear and resent your intelegence either don't know that you are smart, or, if they realize it, don't care because you are pumping iron, and you are one of them while you are there.
I don't think there's anything inherently BS or evil about wanting to be enormously wealthy
/.er who wants to do the same job they do now for LESS money... or even the exact same job a year from now, for the exact same salary.
You are correct, but there is plenty evil about letting that desire corrupt you.
I challenge you to find one
I would like to point out that there are plenty of people (myself included) who are happy with small annual raises, and simply having enough money, rather than being enourmously wealthy. I make much closer to $28K than $100K, and I can afford a house, a car, I am saving for my retirement at a rate that (assuming a conservative 9% growth rate) I will be able to retire between age 55 and 60, and I have also started saving for the college education of my unborn children. You simply don't need to be "enourmously wealty" and if you make being such part of your metric for sucess odds are you will be unhappy.
Steam is most certainly compresable, ask anyone who has had an intro engineering thermodynamics class...
The term steam is oftem only used for a multiphase mixture of liquid water and gasous water. The liquid part is incompressable, but the gasous part is quite compressable, and one of the neato properties is that when the mixture is compressed the liquid phase mass fraction increases, but it is still quite compressable...
Many of us who either have or are obtaining the MBA do NOT seek power or money as an end. (Granted, some do, and those idiots have tarnished the reputation of the rest of us.) Rather, more than a few of us are interested in growing our careers in other ways than the technical track, and to learn more non-technical skills along the way. (Like, oh, the kind that keep the software engineers in a firm employed.)
Do you not see the contradiction in your own statement? Why are you seeking to advance your career? You could be one of the rare exceptions (and I really hope you are) who wants to get into the managerial track to increase their sphere of influence and make a bigger difference than they can from the tech positions, but, unfortunatly, everyone I have ever known outside of an academic setting and most of those in an academic setting who aspire to "climb the ladder" are out for prestige, which is just a different metric for the same BS power and money type of succes that most slashdotters view as evil and corrupting.
Every good manager (meening morally good and effective, not just effective) who I have known was a pleasure to work with, respected by his workers, hated by his superiours, and above all else, reluctantly in the position they were in (meaning that they were managing because they felt nobody else could do the job justice).
Water also freezes at a temperature well within the intended operating range of almost all cars.
Nothing like trying to force a solid through curvy hoses when you need to stop...
No, He was quite correct.
Even without talking about quantum computers... 3 state logic would be about 50% faster than our current 2 state logic(in theory), but nobody has been able to design hardware of any significant complexity that uses it.
the states are usually refered to as -1 0 and 1
If you have taken an intro computer Architecture class and have never even heard about this, you should demand your money back.
And the other side thinks that the murder of innocent humans is OK. HTF is that different?
Nope, it was the Bush administration that wanted to kill thousands of Iraqi citizens.
Oh, you were talking about abortions... For the record, there are several scientists who believe the theory of evolution, and appose the murder of the unborn.
Also, when most of the replies to a comment are about bad spelling, it just makes it look like those who dissagree with the comment can't find any logical or factualy way to refute the comment; it weakens your side's argument...
Technically, the shark with the frickin' laser on its head would be slightly more accurate...
When you have dozens of people crossing the line in any given second like you do in many large road races where they use these chips, it is much more accurate than you could get with a laser, because people will often cross the line before the previous finisher is completely over the line, making line of sight based techniques hard to use, it is also a very easy method of associating a number (and therefor a person) with each finisher, and the order they finished in.
You would never use one of these in a track event where hundreths of a second count and there are few enough compeditors that you can "just watch" for the order...
TamMan2000 - Marathoner, Triathlete, wearer of many championchips
I agree that what you propose is the only viable long term solution, but to get there, there must be some limits on exploitation (which I don't see to much of in IT, but is rampant in manufacturing).
All laws pertaining to the treatment of workers in the US should be followed for all goods and services imported to the US to avoid a tariff. EX: workers in sweatshops must be in conditions that OSHA would approve of and must be paid at least our minimum wage corrected to the local cost of living + overtime if applicable. Failing these conditions would cause a tariff to be placed on that good (or service) that is being imported.
This would both ensure that we are not exploiting foreign workers by askinng them to work in condiditons that we would not let our own work in, and allowing the market to determine how the work should be distributed, while improving the plight of the american worker.
I think that this is a great opportunity for members of the OSS comunity to "put their money where their mouth is" so to say...
I propose that the we work on a patch for this worm and get it out there ASAP, that way only tin foil hat wearing goofballs will believe we are behind this...
Our sales tax (you had the right word...) is determined by the states, there are some that have very low sales tax, and many that have no sales tax on non-luxury items, like clothing under $50 and food...
So you are right, but I still would not say that taxes in the US are very high...
Why would 99% of legitimate users ever need to scan a bill?
Money is a topic that is very important in our society, as such it is frequently discussed in our society. Some people like to add the use of visual aids to their discussion to boost it's pursuasive power. The subject of the discussion is often incorporated into the visual aid for greater effect.
So you tell me why some high schooler in an econ class shouldn't be able to use a scan of a $20 for bars in a chart.
By the time you get to 75 grand a year, you'll be paying half that in taxes every year, roughly 43% of your total income.
BULLSHIT
For 75K you are at the bottom end of the 30% tax bracket, you get taxed at 30% for each dollar over $63550 at 30%, your federal income tax (the largest hitter in most peoples taxes) will come to $17144 or almost 23%, even before Bushes tax cut it would have only been $17931, or just under 24%. That is before any deductions at all, even the standard deduction. Medicare and Social Security combined are only about 8% and you can live in one of the states that doesn't have income tax, like Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, or Wyoming.
You shouldn't even be paying 43% marginal until you are making well into the 6 figure range.
If you want low taxes that is fine, argue your point and try to get like minded politicians elected, but don't lie to make people think it is worse than it is... It doesn't help your case.
You seem to have a much better understanding of econ than most people. I am not an expert per se, but I took a hell of a lot of econ for an engineering major (easiest social science for me to fill requirements with).
An issue which compounds the effect you speak of is that the government spends all of it's tax revenue, where almost all consumers have a marginal propensity to save, meaning that most consumers save roughly the same percentage of their income (not meaning from person to person variations are not huge, meaning that a person who can't save money when making 30K will not be able to when making 100K).
High taxes and high spending coupled together force the money through the economy at a higher rate. Tax and spend is an excellent way to jump start a lagging economy (but deficit spending works well too, but I don't feel it is a responsible policy). Did wonders for FDR...
Different types of running shoes will treat you very differently...
There are three main categories:
Cushioning
Stability
Motion Control
I am 205 lbs and about ready to do my 3rd marathon, I use the motion control shoes, they are the most durable and most supportive (very important for most big people). I use brand new running shoes exclusively for running until they have about 500 miles on them, then I wear them for every day use, and have little difficulty standing for hour at a time.
If you are going to be on your feet for hours at a time, I would stay away from the cushioning shoes unless you are a bean pole, the foam gives up all of it's cushion quickly by comparison to heavier stability and motion control shoes, and the support goes to hell.
The stability shoes are very, middle of the road...
My personal needs dictate that I wear Mizunos and Nikes (the Wave Renegade and Air Durham respectively), because I have narrow heals and a more normal width over the rest of the foot. But for people with different shapes, New Balance, Soucany, Reebok, and many others make good running shoes.
Most importantly try on the shoes, and walk around in them, any running store worth buying from will let you take the shoes around the block before you buy them. And remember, soft is not what is going to keep you comfortable for hours, you are looking for support.
The true problem U.S. faces is not with the gun, but with people getting "facts" from fictions like "Bowling for Columbine" insteading of doing the actual research.
Besides, doesn't Cananda have as much or even more guns than U.S. per capita?
Maybe you should try watching the damn thing before insulting it? He mentions the prevalance of guns in Canada several times, he just points out the difference in levels of gun violence...