Can you please file a trouble ticket with corporate or something saying that the crippled bluetooth is just plain stupid and whoever decided on it should be demoted?
Thanks. I thought for sure you were making that up. I'm suprised, and will be looking into this more carefully. One question which springs to mind is the proportion of those with prior military experience. I know there have been at least 5,000 Individual Ready Reserve re-activations, but I can't believe those would be counted as an "enlistment". On the other hand, "Recruiting Command offers bonuses to individuals with prior military service (Sept. 20,2004).
I also see they have the college payment cap up to $70K, a $7K bonus for bilingual ("translator aides"), and have the other elistment bonuses up to $8K from $2K back in 2000. My daughter will be paying that off.
So, if a terrorist targets a skyscraper, and takes out a few hundred CIA employees along with a few thousand "collateral damaged" civilians, then how is that different from carpet bombing urban areas?
You are refering to the egalitarian draft bill which attempted (unsucessfully) to treat men and women, rich and poor, equally. If Bush is re-elected, the Selective Service System will be re-activated under existing, non-egalitarian law, unless a more egalitarian bill is re-introduced. The bill that was recently voted down would have allowed the administration discretion in assigning the affluent to the uniformed Public Health Service, NOAA, and Coast Guard.
The US military attempts as much as possible to avoid civilian casualties. They are not perfect, but that is their goal. Terrorists attempt to maxamize civilian casualties to inflict fear on a population.
That wasn't even true in Bosnia under Clinton, when just like in Iraq, the early stages of the conflict saw U.S. cluster antipersonnel bombs dropped from high, indiscriminate altitudes ("carpet bombing.")
As a fellow American, I also wish that there was "a clear moral distinction between the US military and terrorists," but I do not allow my emotions to cloud my logic in order to help me believe that my wish is granted.
"Shock" and "awe" are both synonyms for "terror."
Furthermore, the U.S. military doesn't even care about its own troops. Why have there been no Gulf War Syndrome studies of uranyl nitrates, which is what our soldiers and civilians end up breathing whenever depleted uranium shells or slugs burn in a nitrogen atmosphere, which dust scraped from them does spontaniously? Gulf War II syndrome is going to make agent orange look lik Sunny Delight.
Stop-loss orders have been in place for a year and a half, now. Recruitment is way down. Reenlistment is way down. The Selective Service System reports that they need to be reactivated: see for yourself.
Oh, they could do that for the same that audio modem costs, and libraries would snap them up (not schools, unless they run the Monocul^H^H^H^H^H^Hicrosoft OS.)
At the risk of commenting without having read the RFCs, it sound's like they're proposing a redundant form of error-correcting coding in which a certain number of dropped packets could be tolerated. The advantage of not having to have a constant two-way conversation going is pretty substantial for many applications.
I say, thumbs up! Let some apps try it out with the UDP layer, and if they work really well, then I'd welcome an http version.
I think Tcl/Tk is a far better cross-platform solution than Java or Python. I'm not knocking any of them, I just think a complex program in Tcl/Tk which has to interface to C is much easier than trying to call ANSI C from Java or Python or anything else. And it gives you all the essential advantages of Python and none of the heavy typing load of Java.
GDP cycles are usually limited to half a year. When was the last recession that lasted longer than a year? If you examine the articles linked from my sig, you will find that lagging the statistics one year gives the Democrats an additional advantage.
Usually, when the government announces a policy, the markets react to it often on the same day and usually within a week. See any financial news sources' articles on daily market performance.
As somone whose sig deals entirely with economics, I feel that the Republicans are only pretending to debate in order to continue their merciless subjegation of the lower class.
My Slashdot journal contains many additional details, including a recent letter from 160+ business professionals and academics.
The facts are clear: Democrats get a four percent GDP bonus. Therefore Kerry is more likely to be able to balance the budget than either of them, even if they were saying the exact same things.
Back when I went to law school, which admittedly was for a very brief period, contracts required a "meeting of the minds" in order to be enforcable. How could a software program that reads EULAs ever result in a meeting of the agreement parties' minds?
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All these emotions are yours, sayeth the LORD, except Vengance; attempt no landings there. (Apologies to A. C. Clarke)
What? Bin Laden reminds me of why I'm not voting for Bush.
Can you please file a trouble ticket with corporate or something saying that the crippled bluetooth is just plain stupid and whoever decided on it should be demoted?
It's a good thing our economy is so bleak, or nobody would be signing up. Ah, oligarchy!
I also see they have the college payment cap up to $70K, a $7K bonus for bilingual ("translator aides"), and have the other elistment bonuses up to $8K from $2K back in 2000. My daughter will be paying that off.
So, if a terrorist targets a skyscraper, and takes out a few hundred CIA employees along with a few thousand "collateral damaged" civilians, then how is that different from carpet bombing urban areas?
You are refering to the egalitarian draft bill which attempted (unsucessfully) to treat men and women, rich and poor, equally. If Bush is re-elected, the Selective Service System will be re-activated under existing, non-egalitarian law, unless a more egalitarian bill is re-introduced. The bill that was recently voted down would have allowed the administration discretion in assigning the affluent to the uniformed Public Health Service, NOAA, and Coast Guard.
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As a fellow American, I also wish that there was "a clear moral distinction between the US military and terrorists," but I do not allow my emotions to cloud my logic in order to help me believe that my wish is granted.
"Shock" and "awe" are both synonyms for "terror."
Furthermore, the U.S. military doesn't even care about its own troops. Why have there been no Gulf War Syndrome studies of uranyl nitrates, which is what our soldiers and civilians end up breathing whenever depleted uranium shells or slugs burn in a nitrogen atmosphere, which dust scraped from them does spontaniously? Gulf War II syndrome is going to make agent orange look lik Sunny Delight.
Wake up and smell the oligarchy.
Stop-loss orders have been in place for a year and a half, now. Recruitment is way down. Reenlistment is way down. The Selective Service System reports that they need to be reactivated: see for yourself.
Oh, they could do that for the same that audio modem costs, and libraries would snap them up (not schools, unless they run the Monocul^H^H^H^H^H^Hicrosoft OS.)
I did a journal entry on this topic yesterday. Please see also the updated page from my sig.
At the risk of commenting without having read the RFCs, it sound's like they're proposing a redundant form of error-correcting coding in which a certain number of dropped packets could be tolerated. The advantage of not having to have a constant two-way conversation going is pretty substantial for many applications.
I say, thumbs up! Let some apps try it out with the UDP layer, and if they work really well, then I'd welcome an http version.
I'm going.
Will they arrange a $50K-300K low interest loan if I promise not to patent my products?
I think Tcl/Tk is a far better cross-platform solution than Java or Python. I'm not knocking any of them, I just think a complex program in Tcl/Tk which has to interface to C is much easier than trying to call ANSI C from Java or Python or anything else. And it gives you all the essential advantages of Python and none of the heavy typing load of Java.
The modern programmer would serve themself well by learning Tcl/Tk, a much more highly evolved form of programming.
Thank you for holding Pudge to account. I have emailed him a copy of Krugman's column on the topic.
GDP cycles are usually limited to half a year. When was the last recession that lasted longer than a year? If you examine the articles linked from my sig, you will find that lagging the statistics one year gives the Democrats an additional advantage.
Do you have any sources to the contrary?
My Slashdot journal contains many additional details, including a recent letter from 160+ business professionals and academics.
The facts are clear: Democrats get a four percent GDP bonus. Therefore Kerry is more likely to be able to balance the budget than either of them, even if they were saying the exact same things.
I wish lawyers would strive for accuracy instead of precision.
Back when I went to law school, which admittedly was for a very brief period, contracts required a "meeting of the minds" in order to be enforcable. How could a software program that reads EULAs ever result in a meeting of the agreement parties' minds?
What model, what spectrum of a buzz?