Don't make this about conservatism or Christianity.
Why not, where do you think this is coming from? Read this:
The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum's campaign websiteâ"his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography. Santorum avers that "America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography." He pledges to use the resources of the Department of Justice to fight that "pandemic," by bringing obscenity prosecutions against pornographers... His statement references going after pornography that is distributed not just on the Internet, but also "on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV."
Mind you, I have nothing against abstaining from pornography or preaching against it, but this is something else. And don't say Santorum speaks only for himself, the point here is how many votes he is getting.
I'm glad to see "book burning" is alive and well in America. I guess that's what the conservatives mean by restoring America.
It is. Here's what a Pastor said while introducing Rick Santorum two days ago:
"This nation was founded as a Christian nation...there's only one God and his name is Jesus. I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words. [...] If you don't love America and you don't like the way we do things, I've got one thing to say -- Get out! We don't worship Buddha. I said we don't worship Buddha. We don't worship Mohammed. We don't worship Allah. We worship God. We worship God's son Jesus Christ."
So there you have it. Santorum didn't object at the time, either.
And we have the whole SNL sketch series "Debbie Downer," which is you.
I hate the idea of being humorless, but increasingly I feel like "I've heard this one before." Some old person who maintained your sense of humor, please tell me how you did it.
Why should I pay visa 2-5% of every transaction for the privilege of selling my spending habits to others. Of which I see no profit.
That is a fair question - since electronic transfer is so efficient, why are card fees stubbornly stuck at 2-5%? I think it's because that money isn't really for the transfer itself. It's for fraud detection/prevention and covering losses. For example, would you use cash to settle a purchase on ebay? As efficient as we can make the technical aspects of trade, there is always the friction of theft/fraud. You can cover it by paying a few percent, or by being defrauded entirely on occasion. The market seems to prefer the small constant losses of transaction fees.
I don't think the simple explanation - that VISA and Mastercard are greedy near-monopolies - really covers it. Otherwise something different than PayPal would have arisen from the Internet. One of the predecessors to BitCoin would have caught on 10 years ago.
I don't know about "usually." It's like anything, too little is bad, and too much is bad. N. Korea and Somalia both suck hard. So there's no general answer, you just have to look at each issue on its merits.
Yes this type of reaction is inevitable. We have the whole TV series Portlandia which is that same joke. We feel funny about trying to use our influence as consumers for moral ends, and doubt it will make any difference. Yes it can get absurd, the focus on Apple isn't fair, yadda yadda...
BEIJING - The announcement Saturday that Foxconn Technology - one of the worldâ(TM)s largest electronics manufacturers - will sharply raise salaries and reduce overtime at its Chinese factories signals that pressure from workers, international markets and concerns among Western consumers about working conditions is driving a fundamental shift that could accelerate an already rapidly changing Chinese economy.
Consumer revolts and general blogger whining do work sometimes!
Yes, mechanical engineers and physicists might assume computer scientists are totally oblivious to control theory, but the example in this article is identical to problems posed in route selection for IP packets in networking courses, just at a higher level in the protocol stack. That's not to dismiss the issue, but it's solvable.
Now, the researcher might say, "well, yes, that was just one trivial example of a much deeper, bigger issue." But my experience is that something that seems deep yet always seems to elude good specific examples usually turns out not to be so interesting after all. I hate to say it but complex adaptive systems as a discipline might be a good example of this - it seems like there might be some useful underlying generalizations about all things "complex," but useful new theories don't seem to be forthcoming.
"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
Well, that's wrong, whether or not he believes it. Examples of massive datastores that are changing the world (for better or worse) are individualized advertising and government big brother systems. The Large Hadron Collider also has over 60 petabytes of disk storage.
There are some medium-long term downsides to this, should Apple fall hard in the long term
I suppose that's a downside for the job security of Apple employees. But really, a company shouldn't have a safety net THAT big. If you've lost money for, say, 7 years in a row, whatever you once were doesn't mean anything anymore and your chances of coming back are little better than an upstart with the same venture capital, and maybe less. I think it's a pity that a fad company, like Crocs (those 1-piece moulded shoes) can't just have a few great years, then distribute their windfall back to investors and call it a day. Instead companies cling to "life" as long as possible, until they've burned through all the profit they ever accumulated and then go into debt. What's the point of that?
No matter what. There will always One Percent that has more than the other Ninety Nine Percent. Deal with it.
You are simply wrong. There are vast differences among societies in how unequal they are, and it's ever-evolving, even within any-given nation. Wealth distribution is not physical law, it's political will. It can and does change, constantly.
You're just getting sidetracked by the human interest angle, which is basically irrelevant.
Science is all about looking more closely at something than others have done. This often results in seeing something new and thus gaining new understanding. In this case it's about understanding the dynamics of how the body is constantly regulating gene expression, the immune system, and many other things to ward off deterioration and constant threats from the environment. It sounds like a promising avenue of research to me.
Those stories are a great reason to buy insurance. It's a shitty way to explain why "Insurance company, here's $10, now give me a $million 'cuz my house is already on fire" is a good way to manage risk.
I'm not sure what you mean? No exclusions for pre-existing conditions is exactly the reason for the individual mandate to carry coverage under the new law. It's so you can't just wait until you need expensive treatment to start buying "insurance."
PS, on that previous slashdot story somebody had favorably mentioned ting. Now that I look at it, it looks pretty good, the minimum charge per month (if you make no calls) is $6/mo, which is comparable to tracfone and less than other so-called pay-as-you-go plans (t-mobile is min. $15/mo and there's no data available on that plan). On the other hand they don't have a good selection of cheap phones like tracfone, so you're looking at $190 or more per phone before paying for the first month of service, ouch.
So it worked? I had found this thread that suggested that approach, but it sounded like a crapshoot because the cellco can tell you actually have a smarphone. On the previous slashdot story on this I could have sworn some guy said he worked for a carrier and they periodically "upgraded" everybody with a smartphone to a data plan (and sent them a bill), although I couldn't seem to find that post just now.
theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.
Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends", certainly some [mild, reversible, painless] swelling of skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known.
You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly. Loss of consciousness occurs only after the body has depleted the supply of oxygen in the blood.
It's a good stunt, but science? If anybody really wanted the data they'd just drop the suit without the man in it. If there's still any concern about un-identified paramaters necessary to support life (which I doubt) they could always go the monkey/dog route again. (Granted, Kittinger himself says otherwise in the article, but I still don't see it).
I don't understand the references to hand-swelling and blood-boiling? At most the difference in pressure throughout the fall will be 1 atmosphere. In scuba diving that really isn't much at all (33 feet down). The world record for freediving (no tanks, i.e. quick up and down) is almost 900 feet.
I won an iPod Nano once at a trade show from dropping a business card in a jar. (This was a few years ago when they were the big thing.) I think I got some ads from them for a while, but not too long.
I really do miss PDA's. If I could just buy a pay-as-you-go smartphone I would, but there's really no such thing. (By "smartphone" I really mean "android", since tracfone's so-called smartphones have no apps and can't even sync with Outlook from what I can tell. Sheesh, my old Palm PDA's had tons of apps that I liked a lot).
That explanation would make a lot more sense if she were going to a big defense contractor. Google might make a little on govt. contracts (I don't know), but by far, the vast majority is on selling ads. For that matter, google's current profit margin is far higher than what is possible from govt. contracts. Google makes around 4 times the profit of Lockheed Martin even though LM's revenues are 50% greater.
I feel you have it completely backwards. Like the submitter, you're assuming the point of this is for the other staff to understand how the network is designed, or how much traffic it carries. DON'T DO THIS.
To your users, your computing and network infrastructure "is" what it does. Focus on the services you offer. Let them know if you can set up internal wikis (or sharepoints), automate backups, or generate reports that people might be generating by hand. Conversely, too many people are coming to you for something they could easily be doing, show them how easy it is.
Please don't make yourself look bad by trying to make it an intro to network design course.
Don't get me wrong, the U.S. government has shown it's willing to co-op private technology for its own ends.
Legally, the US government isn't bound by US patents (at least not in the normal sense of having to pay whatever is demanded or go without). Basically it's the intellectual property version of eminent domain.
IMHO stagflation is a descriptive term rather than explanatory. Personally I think globalization is the main cause - it is winding down the relative advantage we enjoyed after the rest of the developed world destroyed itself last century. That created a labor shortage in the US that was wonderful for median incomes here.
Now instead of 60 warnings inside the bow we'll have 329 ? Sounds pretty futile to me. Nobody's going to read that.
Surely you jest? That's like asking why somebody would bother to write a phonebook when nobody will read the whole thing. The big table of drug interactions is easily remembered by a computer. You enter a set of medications and it tells you what conflicts exist (and with what probability, hopefully) in that set.
Unless median real wages are going down VERY fast, each individual's real wages are still rising even as the population median falls; the point is they're not rising as fast or as high as your parents experienced - on average, of course.
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Why not, where do you think this is coming from? Read this:
Mind you, I have nothing against abstaining from pornography or preaching against it, but this is something else. And don't say Santorum speaks only for himself, the point here is how many votes he is getting.
It is. Here's what a Pastor said while introducing Rick Santorum two days ago:
So there you have it. Santorum didn't object at the time, either.
I hate the idea of being humorless, but increasingly I feel like "I've heard this one before." Some old person who maintained your sense of humor, please tell me how you did it.
That is a fair question - since electronic transfer is so efficient, why are card fees stubbornly stuck at 2-5%? I think it's because that money isn't really for the transfer itself. It's for fraud detection/prevention and covering losses. For example, would you use cash to settle a purchase on ebay? As efficient as we can make the technical aspects of trade, there is always the friction of theft/fraud. You can cover it by paying a few percent, or by being defrauded entirely on occasion. The market seems to prefer the small constant losses of transaction fees.
I don't think the simple explanation - that VISA and Mastercard are greedy near-monopolies - really covers it. Otherwise something different than PayPal would have arisen from the Internet. One of the predecessors to BitCoin would have caught on 10 years ago.
I don't know about "usually." It's like anything, too little is bad, and too much is bad. N. Korea and Somalia both suck hard. So there's no general answer, you just have to look at each issue on its merits.
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Nevertheless, results speak loudly:
Consumer revolts and general blogger whining do work sometimes!
Now, the researcher might say, "well, yes, that was just one trivial example of a much deeper, bigger issue." But my experience is that something that seems deep yet always seems to elude good specific examples usually turns out not to be so interesting after all. I hate to say it but complex adaptive systems as a discipline might be a good example of this - it seems like there might be some useful underlying generalizations about all things "complex," but useful new theories don't seem to be forthcoming.
Well, that's wrong, whether or not he believes it. Examples of massive datastores that are changing the world (for better or worse) are individualized advertising and government big brother systems. The Large Hadron Collider also has over 60 petabytes of disk storage.
I suppose that's a downside for the job security of Apple employees. But really, a company shouldn't have a safety net THAT big. If you've lost money for, say, 7 years in a row, whatever you once were doesn't mean anything anymore and your chances of coming back are little better than an upstart with the same venture capital, and maybe less. I think it's a pity that a fad company, like Crocs (those 1-piece moulded shoes) can't just have a few great years, then distribute their windfall back to investors and call it a day. Instead companies cling to "life" as long as possible, until they've burned through all the profit they ever accumulated and then go into debt. What's the point of that?
You are simply wrong. There are vast differences among societies in how unequal they are, and it's ever-evolving, even within any-given nation. Wealth distribution is not physical law, it's political will. It can and does change, constantly.
Science is all about looking more closely at something than others have done. This often results in seeing something new and thus gaining new understanding. In this case it's about understanding the dynamics of how the body is constantly regulating gene expression, the immune system, and many other things to ward off deterioration and constant threats from the environment. It sounds like a promising avenue of research to me.
I'm not sure what you mean? No exclusions for pre-existing conditions is exactly the reason for the individual mandate to carry coverage under the new law. It's so you can't just wait until you need expensive treatment to start buying "insurance."
PS, on that previous slashdot story somebody had favorably mentioned ting. Now that I look at it, it looks pretty good, the minimum charge per month (if you make no calls) is $6/mo, which is comparable to tracfone and less than other so-called pay-as-you-go plans (t-mobile is min. $15/mo and there's no data available on that plan). On the other hand they don't have a good selection of cheap phones like tracfone, so you're looking at $190 or more per phone before paying for the first month of service, ouch.
I think I might go for it though.
It's a good stunt, but science? If anybody really wanted the data they'd just drop the suit without the man in it. If there's still any concern about un-identified paramaters necessary to support life (which I doubt) they could always go the monkey/dog route again. (Granted, Kittinger himself says otherwise in the article, but I still don't see it).
I don't understand the references to hand-swelling and blood-boiling? At most the difference in pressure throughout the fall will be 1 atmosphere. In scuba diving that really isn't much at all (33 feet down). The world record for freediving (no tanks, i.e. quick up and down) is almost 900 feet.
I won an iPod Nano once at a trade show from dropping a business card in a jar. (This was a few years ago when they were the big thing.) I think I got some ads from them for a while, but not too long.
I really do miss PDA's. If I could just buy a pay-as-you-go smartphone I would, but there's really no such thing. (By "smartphone" I really mean "android", since tracfone's so-called smartphones have no apps and can't even sync with Outlook from what I can tell. Sheesh, my old Palm PDA's had tons of apps that I liked a lot).
That explanation would make a lot more sense if she were going to a big defense contractor. Google might make a little on govt. contracts (I don't know), but by far, the vast majority is on selling ads. For that matter, google's current profit margin is far higher than what is possible from govt. contracts. Google makes around 4 times the profit of Lockheed Martin even though LM's revenues are 50% greater.
To your users, your computing and network infrastructure "is" what it does. Focus on the services you offer. Let them know if you can set up internal wikis (or sharepoints), automate backups, or generate reports that people might be generating by hand. Conversely, too many people are coming to you for something they could easily be doing, show them how easy it is.
Please don't make yourself look bad by trying to make it an intro to network design course.
Legally, the US government isn't bound by US patents (at least not in the normal sense of having to pay whatever is demanded or go without). Basically it's the intellectual property version of eminent domain.
IMHO stagflation is a descriptive term rather than explanatory. Personally I think globalization is the main cause - it is winding down the relative advantage we enjoyed after the rest of the developed world destroyed itself last century. That created a labor shortage in the US that was wonderful for median incomes here.
Surely you jest? That's like asking why somebody would bother to write a phonebook when nobody will read the whole thing. The big table of drug interactions is easily remembered by a computer. You enter a set of medications and it tells you what conflicts exist (and with what probability, hopefully) in that set.
Unless median real wages are going down VERY fast, each individual's real wages are still rising even as the population median falls; the point is they're not rising as fast or as high as your parents experienced - on average, of course.