Evolution is getting close. I know, I know, it's definitely not there yet. Trust me, I know, I use it every day and still need to have a crappy laptop nearby whose sole purpose is to run Outlook. Nevertheless, over the past couple of years Evolution has gone from nearly unusable to a reasonable email client compared to Outlook's (albeit slow to update and no access to the address books). If only the Calendar was able to substitute for Outlook's and the address books worked as well, the laptop would be gone.
Using the trait in claim 2 for the purpose of making money.
Using the trait in claim 3 as a business weapon.
Using the trait in claim 4 to pursue litigation against entities with desirable assets.
Using the methods and techniques in claim 5 to transfer ownership of desirable assets from the prior owner to the new owner, the user of the trait in claim 4.
Using appropriate legal contracts and agreements to ensure that the prior owner in claim 6 cannot publically disclose the use of the methods and techniques in claim 5 or the successful results therefrom in claim 6.
For the record, 1) I don't think anyone or any organization should get tax cuts or rebates, and 2) the higher tax bracket referred to by the Obama campaign should have its rate rolled back from 36% to 39%. Evidently I was mistaken about the tax cut. The Bush tax cuts should be repealed or allowed to expire, whichever is pertinent. Economic stimulus should be through a wide range of domestic infrastructure and technology projects, including but by no means limited to WPA-like construction. Federal grants (NOT loans) to develop green technologies, robotics, widespread higher bandwidth broadband access, public urban micro-farming (coin the terms and invent the concepts if necessary), expand urban subway systems, and many other things should be considered. This will create jobs in the short term and lasting wealth in the long term.
I feel like I'm standing on a street corner, babbling to myself while people rush by with averted gazes. Oh well...
...promising the people who don't think they have enough that he will tax other people, and give it to them
You know full well that isn't rue. There is no promise to transfer money, just to restore a previous tax rate to a relatively high tax bracket without doing the same to lower ones. I'm at work and not inclined to a flame war, but frankly you are just repeating talking points.
As to who had the most uneducated base, that is perhaps up in the air. Certainly the tenor of Palin's gatherings would at least seem to tip the balance towards the GOP. I'll grant it may be mainly appearance. Sadly, everyone is in it for a handout, whether welfare, a tax break, a "bailout," a juicy military contract, artificially inflated petroleum prices, agricultural subsidies, tax rebates that add to the national debt, and so on. Regardless of who would have or could have won, those people will still pressure politicians and all too often will succeed. That problem has not been solved, and really not even adequately addressed.
People just aren't paying attention. I agree with Obama that a lot of work and sacrifice will be necessary. The yapping puppy dogs among our fellow citizens may not have grasped that quite yet. It will very likely and unfortunately get worse before it gets better, and yet we all have to work together and get through to the other side. Many, many people will not take this very well.
I don't think you understand the role of an executive. Presidents and CEOs don't do actual work in the sense of directly performing the organization's production of goods and services. Their role is to 1) make sure everything that is needed for production is available (both financial and material), 2) shielding the people doing the production from distractions and obstacles, 3) making sure the organization avoids liability and threats to its smooth functioning, and often most importantly 4) casting stars in the organization members' eyes to keep them inspired, motivated, focused, and productive.
I don't see anything lacking in Obama. The Bush years were divisive, destructive, and monumentally depressing. McCain was set to traverse that same road, rallying some of the least educated and thoughtful of our fellow citizens as did Bush before him. I for one am glad we avoided that this time.
What if the mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and the more opaque and exotic instruments had been open source? Would we still have gotten fucked this badly?
No no no! Can't you see? Spending more on the OS and applications promotes freedom! You know, Free to Choose! Open Source software poisons the marketplace and inhibits innovation! We need to make sure that when students become employees, they are ready to use market-leading best-of-breed commercial software to increase ROI and reduce training and maintenance costs. This way companies and organizations can streamline their purchasing and maintenance processes, and take advantage of industry-standard solutions.
When everything is free to obtain and upgrade, students learn it all in school, and interfaces don't arbitrarily change every 4 or 5 years, the whole system collapses. There won't even be any big companies to bail out, either.
From TFA: "The key to our CO2-to-Fuel approach lies in a proprietary multi-step biocatalytic process. Instead of using expensive inorganic catalysts . . . the Carbon Sciences process uses inexpensive, renewable biomolecules to catalyze certain chemical reactions required to transform CO2 into basic hydrocarbon building blocks."
I assume their "multi-step biocatalytic process" is more commonly known as a "tree," or more generally, a "plant."
Wake up, folks. If you get 10 energy units out of burning something, presumably with about 60% efficiency, that means you would need to put in at least 14 units to regenerate it. Add entropy and other inefficiencies, and you'll probably get up to a good 20 units.
Question: If it costs 20 units to regenerate the original 10 units, why not just use the 20 units and forget about regenerating the original 10? Surely they don't pretend to suspend the laws of thermodynamics? Do they know what a catalyst is, in terms of energy inputs and outputs? I'm sure they do.
Suckers everywhere, with pockets full of money. Who can resist?.
Hey! Wait a minute! When we do it it's good! We're fighting evil and tyranny, promoting democracy and free markets, blah, blah, blah. When anyone else does it, it's criminal.
This is more or less the way things have always been. Why the shock? The only news is that it is much easier and cheaper to gather orders of magnitude more data of a wider variety than back in the day (whenever you think that was).
Prudent individuals should assume that all of their actions, transactions, and speech are being monitored and recorded, either passively by devices that are coincidentally nearby, or actively by individuals and organizations that are collecting data for some particular purpose. They should also assume that the records will last forever, at least for practical purposes, and will likely become public at some point.
Written tonight to my senators and House representative:
I am not convinced that the "bailout" is necessary, nor that it will have the desired results. The evidence points to something too terrifying to believe, but too credible to be dismissed out of hand: our government is driven by criminal sociopaths whose sole aim is to enrich themselves without regard to our fellow citizens, our nation, or the world as a whole. The Executive and Legislative branches of our government appear to be driven and directed by the overwhelming financial influence of groups, both foreign and domestic, such as the Banking, Finance and Insurance sectors, the defense industry and its dependents (including firearms manufacturers), and the petrochemical and energy sectors, among numerous others.
What is a sociopath? In dictionary definitions we find that a sociopath is a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. They are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.
Tell me if this does not describe the long chain of presumably intelligent and highly educated people who built and operated the business model that has resulted in the crisis that motivates the bailout. How can we consider the supporters of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000) or the repealers of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act) as anything other than sociopaths? With their fanatical adherence to Free Market fundamentalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_friedman#Chile and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_fundamentalism) they have caused economic damage to our nation and the world comparable to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/badguys/061025/the_cost_since_911_1.htm), and very likely much more. Why have we allowed this? Where were our senators and congressmen? On whom are we supposed to rely when our own representatives pass suicidal legislation whose financial damage is comparable to the worst terrorist attack in human history? Far from stopping such calamities, we are being stirred into a panic in a reprehensible effort to force us to pay for the fraud and irresponsibility of sociopathic businessmen and politicians.
Fear and imminent large scale damage have been invoked yet again, just as they were in 2002-2003 when we were pushed into a completely unjustified (and unbelievably expensive: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&scp=21&sq=financial%20cost%20of%209/11&st=cse&oref=slogin) war against a third-rate dictator who represented absolutely no threat to us. Our deceitful politicians now claim they were the victims of "flawed intelligence," which apparently consisted of nothing more than the unsubstantiated claims of the notorious swindler and opportunist, Ahmed Chalabi and his self-interested cronies. Is history repeating itself? Are the same lying, cheating, thieving, murderous war criminals robbing us of the largest single disbursement of all time by filling our ears with lies and our hearts with unwarranted terror? Are financial institutions toppling due to their abysmal judgment and incompetence? If so, shouldn't the free market fanatics be cheering their demise? Shouldn't we all be pleased that "free markets correct themselves," and allow the corrupt and the foolish to go under?
No! We are told. Doing nothing is even worse than the colossally stupid act of sorting all existing loans in the nation and using taxpayer dollars to purchase several million of the absolute worst from the resulting list. Politicians and economists have even had the temerity to sugge
Is the earth made of concrete and rebar? Did someone have to carefully design a structure to support hundreds of thousands of people on scores of upper floors? etc., etc.
I've been modded down to troll for pointing out the sappy superstitions of my fellows. Oh well...
Since an arcology is self sufficient, these would be the greenest cities on earth.
That is an empty, unsubstantiated pipe dream. I challenge you to demonstrate that it is even remotely feasible with hard numbers for volumes of air, water, energy, and food inputs, and waste air, sewage, and garbage outputs. Where will they come from? Where will they go?
You hit it right on the nose. Forget about where air, food, water, and energy come from or where wastes go, or about trapping a million people or more in a building for generations on end, or what happens in the event of a major fire or other disaster, etc, etc.
Let's just shut our eyes and think happy, unquestioning thoughts!
The blurb is certainly buzzword compliant, but where are the specs and data? On the face of it, the project is utterly ludicrous, but sounds really cool.
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Evolution is getting close. I know, I know, it's definitely not there yet. Trust me, I know, I use it every day and still need to have a crappy laptop nearby whose sole purpose is to run Outlook. Nevertheless, over the past couple of years Evolution has gone from nearly unusable to a reasonable email client compared to Outlook's (albeit slow to update and no access to the address books). If only the Calendar was able to substitute for Outlook's and the address books worked as well, the laptop would be gone.
I feel like I'm standing on a street corner, babbling to myself while people rush by with averted gazes. Oh well...
You know full well that isn't rue. There is no promise to transfer money, just to restore a previous tax rate to a relatively high tax bracket without doing the same to lower ones. I'm at work and not inclined to a flame war, but frankly you are just repeating talking points.
As to who had the most uneducated base, that is perhaps up in the air. Certainly the tenor of Palin's gatherings would at least seem to tip the balance towards the GOP. I'll grant it may be mainly appearance. Sadly, everyone is in it for a handout, whether welfare, a tax break, a "bailout," a juicy military contract, artificially inflated petroleum prices, agricultural subsidies, tax rebates that add to the national debt, and so on. Regardless of who would have or could have won, those people will still pressure politicians and all too often will succeed. That problem has not been solved, and really not even adequately addressed.
No recount, no litigation, no riots, no foaming-at-the-mouth partisan drama queens threatening civil war if their candidate doesn't win.
People just aren't paying attention. I agree with Obama that a lot of work and sacrifice will be necessary. The yapping puppy dogs among our fellow citizens may not have grasped that quite yet. It will very likely and unfortunately get worse before it gets better, and yet we all have to work together and get through to the other side. Many, many people will not take this very well.
I don't see anything lacking in Obama. The Bush years were divisive, destructive, and monumentally depressing. McCain was set to traverse that same road, rallying some of the least educated and thoughtful of our fellow citizens as did Bush before him. I for one am glad we avoided that this time.
Hear, hear!
What changed? The neo-con mobsters are out. Don't act as if that won't have enormous favorable consequences.
Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!
Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!
Ronald Reagan was a nitwit politician!
The Global War on Terror is a crock!
Enough with the "maverick" bullshit!
The line has a sexual preference? Damn, I'm way behind the times.
What if the mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and the more opaque and exotic instruments had been open source? Would we still have gotten fucked this badly?
When everything is free to obtain and upgrade, students learn it all in school, and interfaces don't arbitrarily change every 4 or 5 years, the whole system collapses. There won't even be any big companies to bail out, either.
I assume their "multi-step biocatalytic process" is more commonly known as a "tree," or more generally, a "plant."
Wake up, folks. If you get 10 energy units out of burning something, presumably with about 60% efficiency, that means you would need to put in at least 14 units to regenerate it. Add entropy and other inefficiencies, and you'll probably get up to a good 20 units.
Question: If it costs 20 units to regenerate the original 10 units, why not just use the 20 units and forget about regenerating the original 10? Surely they don't pretend to suspend the laws of thermodynamics? Do they know what a catalyst is, in terms of energy inputs and outputs? I'm sure they do.
Suckers everywhere, with pockets full of money. Who can resist?.
Damn foreigners.
Prudent individuals should assume that all of their actions, transactions, and speech are being monitored and recorded, either passively by devices that are coincidentally nearby, or actively by individuals and organizations that are collecting data for some particular purpose. They should also assume that the records will last forever, at least for practical purposes, and will likely become public at some point.
Too paranoid for you? OK. Ignore me.
Har...
I am not convinced that the "bailout" is necessary, nor that it will have the desired results. The evidence points to something too terrifying to believe, but too credible to be dismissed out of hand: our government is driven by criminal sociopaths whose sole aim is to enrich themselves without regard to our fellow citizens, our nation, or the world as a whole. The Executive and Legislative branches of our government appear to be driven and directed by the overwhelming financial influence of groups, both foreign and domestic, such as the Banking, Finance and Insurance sectors, the defense industry and its dependents (including firearms manufacturers), and the petrochemical and energy sectors, among numerous others.
What is a sociopath? In dictionary definitions we find that a sociopath is a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. They are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.
Tell me if this does not describe the long chain of presumably intelligent and highly educated people who built and operated the business model that has resulted in the crisis that motivates the bailout. How can we consider the supporters of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000) or the repealers of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act) as anything other than sociopaths? With their fanatical adherence to Free Market fundamentalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_friedman#Chile and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_fundamentalism) they have caused economic damage to our nation and the world comparable to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/badguys/061025/the_cost_since_911_1.htm), and very likely much more. Why have we allowed this? Where were our senators and congressmen? On whom are we supposed to rely when our own representatives pass suicidal legislation whose financial damage is comparable to the worst terrorist attack in human history? Far from stopping such calamities, we are being stirred into a panic in a reprehensible effort to force us to pay for the fraud and irresponsibility of sociopathic businessmen and politicians.
Fear and imminent large scale damage have been invoked yet again, just as they were in 2002-2003 when we were pushed into a completely unjustified (and unbelievably expensive: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&scp=21&sq=financial%20cost%20of%209/11&st=cse&oref=slogin) war against a third-rate dictator who represented absolutely no threat to us. Our deceitful politicians now claim they were the victims of "flawed intelligence," which apparently consisted of nothing more than the unsubstantiated claims of the notorious swindler and opportunist, Ahmed Chalabi and his self-interested cronies. Is history repeating itself? Are the same lying, cheating, thieving, murderous war criminals robbing us of the largest single disbursement of all time by filling our ears with lies and our hearts with unwarranted terror? Are financial institutions toppling due to their abysmal judgment and incompetence? If so, shouldn't the free market fanatics be cheering their demise? Shouldn't we all be pleased that "free markets correct themselves," and allow the corrupt and the foolish to go under?
No! We are told. Doing nothing is even worse than the colossally stupid act of sorting all existing loans in the nation and using taxpayer dollars to purchase several million of the absolute worst from the resulting list. Politicians and economists have even had the temerity to sugge
There are good and bad aspects to both. Choose your poison.
Cheater.
I've been modded down to troll for pointing out the sappy superstitions of my fellows. Oh well...
That is an empty, unsubstantiated pipe dream. I challenge you to demonstrate that it is even remotely feasible with hard numbers for volumes of air, water, energy, and food inputs, and waste air, sewage, and garbage outputs. Where will they come from? Where will they go?
This is little more than a cute fairy tale.
You hit it right on the nose. Forget about where air, food, water, and energy come from or where wastes go, or about trapping a million people or more in a building for generations on end, or what happens in the event of a major fire or other disaster, etc, etc.
Let's just shut our eyes and think happy, unquestioning thoughts!
Who cares? Show us something real.