My wife works with international HIV/AIDS programs, and they call PEPFAR Bush's only success. It has terrible things in it, like the abstinence-only education you mention, but it provides a significant amount of money for infrastructure, health workers, etc., and represents a serious increase in commitment by the United States. It has obvious faults, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If the next president were to just cut aid because it's impossible to pass it without throwing bones to our fundamentalists, we'd be worse off.
In case the city-slicker slashdot readers don't know, it's a standard practice to give all your cows a magnet in a kind of pill form. It helps collect all the random bits of metal that they eat.
The only posters modded up are snarky jokers or negative nay-sayers, but I say GO TO IT MAN! Just ignore the grid, because there's no way around the expensive safety stuff. Power your equipment from batteries - it's not very expensive, and not as limiting as you'd think. You're not going to run your heating system on it, but you can easily chip away at small things, like external lights or things used infrequently like kitchen appliances.
For example, this guy has step-by-step instructions for a hobbyist-size windmill charging batteries. His entire rig was about 150 bucks. If you skimp and buy some stuff that he made from scratch, you're still looking at a few hundred bucks tops.
http://www.mdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/index.html
Upcoming Savage 2 will be downloads, not retail. Coming out this summer. It's a team-based fps where each team has a commander who's playing a rts; commander researches weapons, starts buildings which the fps-style players build, etc. First one came out maybe 3 years ago, and people are still playing and modding. I can't stop playing because of the melee system, which makes it way different from a bunnyhop orgy like cs, and the team-oriented goals, where it actually pays off to use teamwork.
-Skavj "sounds like astroturf, but I swear, I'm a real person! with feelings!" Binsk
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>... the school system has been seriously degraded
>... Gifted students are being dragged down to the level of everyone else
>... normal classes are slowed down to accomodate for slower learners
Oh, stop it, now I'm getting all nostalgic! Yep, sounds like everything's EXACTLY THE SAME.
Click "schedule" on the left for slides. There was actually a presentation re: ECoG on April 24 and the slides should be up soon.
Also, a note about EEG. Poor resolution isn't the only problem - the muscles of the scalp and face actually can blow the brain signals out of the water quite easily. Some of the whiz-bang factor of EEG interfaces (remember the Mind Mouse? Good times. ) work because people train their eyebrows and scalp to flex, producing a much more pronounced reading.
Before Wednesday's test, the Missile Defense Agency had conducted eight tests with interceptor vehicles, scoring hits in five under carefully controlled conditions. Some critics of the agency, which has spent more than $80 billion since 1985, say the entire test program is unrealistic and that the tests have been scripted.
The entire NASA program got 16 billion for next year.
You have NO right to turn off TV's that don't belong to you. Don't believe me? Come over to my house and try to turn off the TV and I'll beat your ass with a baseball bat, all the while laughing like a pirate at your incredible lack of hubris and blatant stupdity.
Dear NitroWolf,
I'm hereby forcing my will upon you by telling you that you are misusing the word "hubris." I also feel it's my duty to inform you that it's generally best to use words you know, so you don't seem like a fool while typing words in all caps and threatening people over the internet. Please don't beat me up with your baseball bat, you big tough internet pirate!
The roman/carthaginian war is an appropriate example. Motivated by greed for resource-rich sicily, the punic wars lasted about 150 years. This war (or perhaps it was a preemptive defensive conflict) drained the treasuries of both powers, and was fought by the politically and economically disenfranchised underclasses.
Rome's empire-expanding aggression produced short-term economic benefit, but contributed heavily to its long-term decline by producing an economy built on territorial expansion and human suffering. Fingers are pointed at climate change and massive trade deficits, but equally at the burden of maintaining the enormous army required to inflict empire-prolonging violence upon the conquered territories.
Furthermore, it's a false analogy because the current hatred is not between superpowers but between us and individuals whose extremism is motivated in part by our inhumane policies abroad. "Pulling the trigger" against enemies like this simply polarizes every moderate who knew them.
Violence doesn't solve anything, it just delays the problem.
why not just pop in some of those 99 cent hand warmers you can get at places like Costco?... They're cheap, disposable, and widely available.
*because*, they're cheap and disposable! We've already had a century (150 of 'em?) of destructive, disposable technology; bring on the clever stuff!
All these people posting that the best way to keep extremities warm is to heat the core (like with those heat packs) must have never had the lovely experience of having simutaneously freezing fingers and a sweating hot core. This happens to me every time I go skiing and wear one of those big fluffy "ski jackets."
This is exactly the sort of uninformed opinion that produces hellpits like Houston, TX. where I had the misfortune of living for 6 years.
A wider highway simply makes a wider traffic jam. The problem is *not* the width of the roads, but the chaos the human drivers produce attempting to merge. Each year several new studies indicate that building more roadspace is totally useless.
In 1999, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) analyzed data obtained from the Texas Transportation Institute and concluded, "building new and wider roads has had little long-term impact on road congestion." The highway building craze creates 'induced travel' - on average, half of new highway capacity is filled with driving that would not have occurred if the road space had not been added.
Take 30 seconds and search for "urban mobility" and you'll find countless studies like this A&M study that back up this concept.
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My wife works with international HIV/AIDS programs, and they call PEPFAR Bush's only success. It has terrible things in it, like the abstinence-only education you mention, but it provides a significant amount of money for infrastructure, health workers, etc., and represents a serious increase in commitment by the United States. It has obvious faults, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If the next president were to just cut aid because it's impossible to pass it without throwing bones to our fundamentalists, we'd be worse off.
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
In case the city-slicker slashdot readers don't know, it's a standard practice to give all your cows a magnet in a kind of pill form. It helps collect all the random bits of metal that they eat.
http://www.magnetsource.com/Solutions_Pages/cowmags.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_magnet
They're sold at any rural hardware or ranch supply store.
The only posters modded up are snarky jokers or negative nay-sayers, but I say GO TO IT MAN! Just ignore the grid, because there's no way around the expensive safety stuff. Power your equipment from batteries - it's not very expensive, and not as limiting as you'd think. You're not going to run your heating system on it, but you can easily chip away at small things, like external lights or things used infrequently like kitchen appliances. For example, this guy has step-by-step instructions for a hobbyist-size windmill charging batteries. His entire rig was about 150 bucks. If you skimp and buy some stuff that he made from scratch, you're still looking at a few hundred bucks tops. http://www.mdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/index.html
Troll food. Yum! DNFTT!
Upcoming Savage 2 will be downloads, not retail. Coming out this summer. It's a team-based fps where each team has a commander who's playing a rts; commander researches weapons, starts buildings which the fps-style players build, etc. First one came out maybe 3 years ago, and people are still playing and modding. I can't stop playing because of the melee system, which makes it way different from a bunnyhop orgy like cs, and the team-oriented goals, where it actually pays off to use teamwork.
-Skavj "sounds like astroturf, but I swear, I'm a real person! with feelings!" Binsk
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Anonymous Coward ... check.
Teh Most Tedious Person EVAR!
>... Gifted students are being dragged down to the level of everyone else
>... normal classes are slowed down to accomodate for slower learners
Oh, stop it, now I'm getting all nostalgic! Yep, sounds like everything's EXACTLY THE SAME.
*sniff* *sniff*
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse 599e/CurrentQtr/
Click "schedule" on the left for slides. There was actually a presentation re: ECoG on April 24 and the slides should be up soon.
Also, a note about EEG. Poor resolution isn't the only problem - the muscles of the scalp and face actually can blow the brain signals out of the water quite easily. Some of the whiz-bang factor of EEG interfaces (remember the Mind Mouse? Good times. ) work because people train their eyebrows and scalp to flex, producing a much more pronounced reading.
http://cnx.rice.edu/
There's already some open content there, and pretty decent tools for creating more. It's all creative commons.
Somebody better tell those "astronomer" fellows about your revolutionary "Doppler" concept, QUICK!
You don't excite them much either, you fleshy meatbag!
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/politics/16missi le.html
Before Wednesday's test, the Missile Defense Agency had conducted eight tests with interceptor vehicles, scoring hits in five under carefully controlled conditions. Some critics of the agency, which has spent more than $80 billion since 1985, say the entire test program is unrealistic and that the tests have been scripted.
The entire NASA program got 16 billion for next year.
On the plus side, at least it's a fast way OUT OF OKLAHOMA. Might be worth it.
Dear NitroWolf,
I'm hereby forcing my will upon you by telling you that you are misusing the word "hubris." I also feel it's my duty to inform you that it's generally best to use words you know, so you don't seem like a fool while typing words in all caps and threatening people over the internet. Please don't beat me up with your baseball bat, you big tough internet pirate!
Love, Skavj
Pssh. You just haven't found the good cheat codes.
http://www.emusic.com/browse/all.html
like, duh. lazy civil engineers.
Kent State Massacre
Stop it! Your driving me crazy with the all the grammar joke's!
I think what you really want is "if genre = = rock"
Rome's empire-expanding aggression produced short-term economic benefit, but contributed heavily to its long-term decline by producing an economy built on territorial expansion and human suffering. Fingers are pointed at climate change and massive trade deficits, but equally at the burden of maintaining the enormous army required to inflict empire-prolonging violence upon the conquered territories.
Furthermore, it's a false analogy because the current hatred is not between superpowers but between us and individuals whose extremism is motivated in part by our inhumane policies abroad. "Pulling the trigger" against enemies like this simply polarizes every moderate who knew them.
Violence doesn't solve anything, it just delays the problem.
*because*, they're cheap and disposable! We've already had a century (150 of 'em?) of destructive, disposable technology; bring on the clever stuff!
All these people posting that the best way to keep extremities warm is to heat the core (like with those heat packs) must have never had the lovely experience of having simutaneously freezing fingers and a sweating hot core. This happens to me every time I go skiing and wear one of those big fluffy "ski jackets."
Maybe Iraq could get a leg up on reconstruction by contesting that claim in an X-TREME CRADLE-OF-CIVILAZATION *SMACKDOWN*.
Wow, in the process of locating enemies we CAUSE human life? Hubba hubba! Ten-HUT!
A wider highway simply makes a wider traffic jam. The problem is *not* the width of the roads, but the chaos the human drivers produce attempting to merge. Each year several new studies indicate that building more roadspace is totally useless.
Quoting GHASP:
In 1999, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) analyzed data obtained from the Texas Transportation Institute and concluded, "building new and wider roads has had little long-term impact on road congestion." The highway building craze creates 'induced travel' - on average, half of new highway capacity is filled with driving that would not have occurred if the road space had not been added.
Take 30 seconds and search for "urban mobility" and you'll find countless studies like this A&M study that back up this concept.