no, I won't forget about it and I won't push it aside as some historical footnote. The U.S. Presidential election of 2000 was not as simple as pushing the election decision to a handful of U.S. Supreme Court judges.
Well put. Thats what I see from all the companies I consult with. Don't hold your breath. The cost/benefit just isn't there, and won't be for the forseeable fututre, i.e., years.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Sweden funds education such that literacy after elementary schooling is very high, almost everyone who wants a college education can get one, unlike here in the U.S. where we are presently laying off tens of thousands of teachers.
I like Noam to a degree, but beyond that, he reads more like a tinfoil-hat nut job. People like him criticize everything the U.S. government has done but never look at the brighter side of the results. When pressed, Noam will say something dismissive like, "oh sure, the USA has done lots of good things and there's no place I would rather live, but that's not my bailiwick."
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. If you believe, as you appear to, that critical dissent is essential for securing corrections and improvements to government failings, then why waste time with back-slapping and jingoism?
Do you have some psychological need to see dissent tempered with praise? You don't need to tell a politician when he's done something good -- he will see to it that you and all the other voters are pummeled with that information come re-election time.
I think the people who have the hardest time with dissent are often those who are the least confident in their positions.
Make *him* your president if you want to suffer.
Yeah, elect Chomsky and before you know it our taxes could double. Like Sweden, where Volvo, Ericson, and Ikea all grew (in revenue and jobs) over the past three years under such a crushing burden. What suffering!?!
Plus, a non-executable stack, while rendering a system impervious to buffer overflows (far and away the most prevalently exploited holes), means that a handfull of fairly useful gdb functionality gets disabled.
Based on the exemplar embodiments, the whole thing is little more than a formalism for intraprocess thread communication for binding services and similar simple databases, up to and including abstract filesystem-like things.
Based on the claims, I don't think it's very general, either. To the extent that it is general in ways that would lead to modern-day infringement, it is clearly going to be vulerable to prior art. Network-based bindery formalisms haven't changed since the 80s.
Not cool enough to sign up to get spammed by their voyage diary, though. I'll let the NSF give that to the school kids, and read the results when they make it back to shore and through peer review.
this same military industrial complex that gave rise to so many of the technologies that we use today, such as e-mail.
Oh, bullshit. Commercial email can be traced back to TWX/Telex, which was around in the 1950s well before any internet installations. The military was not responsible for TWX, finance companies (i.e., commodities traders) drove its widespread acceptance in the business community.
Don't confuse conspicious use with "giving rise" to tech. When it comes to computers, the census had more to do with the origination of the technology than any military endeavor, although the great demand of ballistics tables and cryptology did, granted, speed things up in the 40s.
Most operating systems development has been driven by word processing demand (e.g., Unix was written to prepare patent applications with roff for Bell Labs.) Most graphics development has been driven by games, which have since 1977 been ahead of anything the military was using for training simulations. Most programming language development has been driven by the demands of the business community (what fraction of market share does Ada -- the only DoD-approved systems languag -- have?)
People need to stop worshiping the military, and that goes double for the companies who tout their military sales out of a misguided sense of patriotism, giving rise to this kind of misunderstanding.
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McCarthy wanted to use nukes in North Korea when the Chinese got involved
You mean Douglas MacArthur, who had requested and was denied, the discressionary use of atomic bombs on December 9th, 1950. The Chinese had entered the conflict on November 25th.
MacArthur was dismissed from command in April, 1951 because of his public advocacy of attacking the Chinese staging area across the border in contradiction to President Truman's policy of containment.
I am continually astounded when I frequently read Canadian newspaper articles refer to U.S.A. people as "Americans." The CBC does this too, without a trace of irony.
This is certainly a side-effect of the cultural imperialism, superpower status, and now our abject military dominance.
Technically, America comprises two continents. I wouldn't be suprised if every other American country calls U.S.A. "America" and people here "Americans." That's just the way it is.
...their study is correlative and cannot be directly linked, therefore, to causation.
No, the causation is well established.
The correlation in question has been known since the early 1960s and confirmed repeatedly in the medical literature. Because of this, lead was removed from the ingredients of paint and gasoline in the 1970s. The causation has been confirmed since at least the publication of this 1994 meta-analysis:
... Lead interferes with GABAergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission. It has been shown to bind to the NMDA receptor and inhibit long-term potentiation in the hippocampal region of the brain. Moreover, experimental studies have demonstrated that blood levels of 10 micrograms/dl interfere with a broad range of cognitive function in primates. Given this support,
these associations in humans should be considered causal.
The important results from the new research cited in the article is that the threshold of activity is much lower than had previously been understood.
Good grief; yes, I hit preview. A lot of good it did me...
What I meant to write, before pasting it over with the wrong buffer on edit, was:
in other words, even if someone figures out how to inject spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor (real unlikely, IMHO), then they aren't going to be stable without being dunked in a tank of liquid nitrogen.
Or, in other words, even if someone figures out how to inject spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor (real unlikely, IMHO), then they aren't going to be stable without being spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor.
Lexis-Nexis is a company that successfully created an advanced database system
... and charged, back then, an arm and a leg for commercial access to it. The details are complicated, but suffice to say that a decade ago Mead Data (Lexis-Nexis) was terrified of "the internet" (or at least what was then the WAIS part of it) as an encroachment on their profits. If they had known then what things like Google would come to pass, they certainly would have lobbied even harder against public internet access.
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Physical fitness does not imply mental fitness, but lack of physical fitness shows at least motivational problems.
I believe you are mistaken, although YMMV IANAL ETC.
Why do you listen to guys that don't keep themselves fit?
Rush has been a paid political propagandist for the oligarch wing of the Republican party. His advocacy of military buildup has caused the largest budget deficit ever, placing his economics firmly against motherhood. His anti-progressive economics have hurt the working poor, and helped few other than the top 1%.
Rush Limbaugh has failed as a human being.
The USSR used parachutes, homing beacons, and xenon strobes for the moon samples they collected, iirc.
This year's one day seminar on Integrating Speech Technology in Language Learning has been cancelled. The InSTIL seminar was all that had been left of what was once a funded U.S. research program to use speech recognition to help people learn to read. However, over the past few years the budget of the Interagency Educational Research Initiative has been slashed and the Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership program has been ZEROED. The IERI and LAAP programs were created to deal with DARPA funding deficencies, but DARPA has not taken up the slack for speech recognition in language instruction. Fewer U.S. polyglots will have a far greater impact on intelligence-gathering efforts than bandaids like Project Babylon or any of the DARPA advanced speech recognition programs can possibly provide. Please join me in asking John Poindexter and his advisory board and NIST to help get this vital funding back in the budget.
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Hear, hear!
Future generations. Governments invest such fines in Certificates of Deposit due to mature over a term greater than any constituent lifespans.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi
And try this one if you can view raw postscript.
Not totally, as both kinds of tape can fit into the same cabnet.
Well put. Thats what I see from all the companies I consult with. Don't hold your breath. The cost/benefit just isn't there, and won't be for the forseeable fututre, i.e., years.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Sweden funds education such that literacy after elementary schooling is very high, almost everyone who wants a college education can get one, unlike here in the U.S. where we are presently laying off tens of thousands of teachers.
Well, since you're tracing causality, what country does the U.S. have to thank most for its freedom? France.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. If you believe, as you appear to, that critical dissent is essential for securing corrections and improvements to government failings, then why waste time with back-slapping and jingoism?
Do you have some psychological need to see dissent tempered with praise? You don't need to tell a politician when he's done something good -- he will see to it that you and all the other voters are pummeled with that information come re-election time.
I think the people who have the hardest time with dissent are often those who are the least confident in their positions.
Yeah, elect Chomsky and before you know it our taxes could double. Like Sweden, where Volvo, Ericson, and Ikea all grew (in revenue and jobs) over the past three years under such a crushing burden. What suffering!?!
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Plus, a non-executable stack, while rendering a system impervious to buffer overflows (far and away the most prevalently exploited holes), means that a handfull of fairly useful gdb functionality gets disabled.
Based on the claims, I don't think it's very general, either. To the extent that it is general in ways that would lead to modern-day infringement, it is clearly going to be vulerable to prior art. Network-based bindery formalisms haven't changed since the 80s.
Not cool enough to sign up to get spammed by their voyage diary, though. I'll let the NSF give that to the school kids, and read the results when they make it back to shore and through peer review.
Oh, bullshit. Commercial email can be traced back to TWX/Telex, which was around in the 1950s well before any internet installations. The military was not responsible for TWX, finance companies (i.e., commodities traders) drove its widespread acceptance in the business community.
Don't confuse conspicious use with "giving rise" to tech. When it comes to computers, the census had more to do with the origination of the technology than any military endeavor, although the great demand of ballistics tables and cryptology did, granted, speed things up in the 40s.
Most operating systems development has been driven by word processing demand (e.g., Unix was written to prepare patent applications with roff for Bell Labs.) Most graphics development has been driven by games, which have since 1977 been ahead of anything the military was using for training simulations. Most programming language development has been driven by the demands of the business community (what fraction of market share does Ada -- the only DoD-approved systems languag -- have?)
People need to stop worshiping the military, and that goes double for the companies who tout their military sales out of a misguided sense of patriotism, giving rise to this kind of misunderstanding.
You mean Douglas MacArthur, who had requested and was denied, the discressionary use of atomic bombs on December 9th, 1950. The Chinese had entered the conflict on November 25th.
MacArthur was dismissed from command in April, 1951 because of his public advocacy of attacking the Chinese staging area across the border in contradiction to President Truman's policy of containment.
This is certainly a side-effect of the cultural imperialism, superpower status, and now our abject military dominance.
Technically, America comprises two continents. I wouldn't be suprised if every other American country calls U.S.A. "America" and people here "Americans." That's just the way it is.
No, the causation is well established.
The correlation in question has been known since the early 1960s and confirmed repeatedly in the medical literature. Because of this, lead was removed from the ingredients of paint and gasoline in the 1970s. The causation has been confirmed since at least the publication of this 1994 meta-analysis:
The important results from the new research cited in the article is that the threshold of activity is much lower than had previously been understood.
What I meant to write, before pasting it over with the wrong buffer on edit, was:
in other words, even if someone figures out how to inject spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor (real unlikely, IMHO), then they aren't going to be stable without being dunked in a tank of liquid nitrogen.
Time for a new set of edit key bindings I guess.
Or, in other words, even if someone figures out how to inject spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor (real unlikely, IMHO), then they aren't going to be stable without being spin currents from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor.
The more things change....