There's this thing called an ocean, with lots of hydrogen in it. Quite a bit of deuterium oxide can be extracted from it. In fact, back in the 1940s the Norwegians were extracting heavy water via a hydroelectric plant at Vemork.
Discovering more deuterium than we have in the oceans might be interesting but doesn't seem very necessary in the near term.
THIS is a case the EFF should take, if only to insulate her from the bulk of the legal fees, and to stick it to the *AA with a reasonably friendly judge. This looks like a great prospect actually.
After watching several people send their lives up their nose, I have to call bullshit on the mortality numbers regarding cocaine. Smoking a cigarette will never make you drop dead on the first drag, but it is quite possible to die the first time you try cocaine through a number of causes. It may not be as physically addicting as nicotine but it is certainly psychologically addictive. Doing it long term is pretty much asking for cardiovascular problems, at the very least, if not even the Jerry Garcia teflon nose inserts.
Reminds me the old canard about the US SSA doing a study showing that the early death of smokers results in reduced health care and transfer payment costs and therefore is a good deal for them.
We were talking about narcotics and specific controlled substances like cocaine, not something like weed. Marijuana and it's derivate hashish are delicious gifts to mankind.
There is some belief in some quarters that if you take a hit of weed you suddenly want to take other drugs. I don't understand this. This is the only reason I can come up with to explain why the government isn't allowing people to roll up joints as they please.
They are suing customers because they want to pressure Congress into passing laws criminalizing file sharing beyond the extent which it is right now. They figure the people sued will complain to government. Their lobbyists will deflect the complaints by saying they'll stop if they get what they want legislatively. Otherwise, they'll whine, they will be put out of business eventually.
The politicians cave and we lose more rights. It's really rather masterful if you think about it. In a really evil way.
It's a good question as to whether these policies are in the long run good.
Having let ourselves in for the pandora's box of socialized medicine: whether US style where everyone is paid for one way or another, or in the explicit grant of an entitlement as in Europe or Canada...it was sort of inevitable that we would reach the point where everyone was forced to be healthy "for the greater good".
Are we more free this way, or less free? The answer is fairly obvious. By the time the general public realizes this, it'll be too late to change, though.
Sometimes people ask for what they don't really want.
Whether the medical system is financed through a single-payer government-run plan or shared risk private insurance pools, it doesn't matter. I don't want to pay for your care when you decide to make yourself into a vegetable, and I don't want to support you while you are wasted on drugs. You cost us all money by raising the contribution rates and abusing the system. The system assumes good will on the part of the participants, that they are interested in living for the maximum amount of time as contributing members of society. In effect, you lower everyone's standard of living.
There's your answer. It's ultimately about money. If humankind could find it within itself to deny you emergency care and long term life support/monentary support due to your decision to be a drain on society, then things would be different, but we all know that this isn't going to happen. At least anywhere civilized. That's why there are draconian drug laws. You basically forfeit your membership in society by being a druggie, and that's not even effective to curb the practice entirely.
If you could get laws passed that would be a sort of 'scarlet A' for drug addicts that would permit them, after signing a release, access on a paying basis to restricted narcotics in exchange for no medical care or government support, and a more liberal gunfire policy for police to combat the rampant crime (to feed their drug habits) that would result, then i'd be all for it.
"For Official Use Only" - things which don't contain classified data, but contain information that should be kept within the government. Someone made a decision to mark this document as FOUO.
"Sensitive" - a more generic type of document which contains information which is probably not suitable for public release, but is not determined as such. This may be marked FOUO at some future point.
The big problem with the standard information classification guidelines is what you need to do if you classify the document. First, people can't attach them to the normal email system, or in fact even have it on an unclassified computer system. Second, if you print it out you have to print it on a classified-only printer, lock it in a safe and sign for it, sealing the room from those who have no clearance before taking a look. Google AR 25-2 and read the pdf (public distribution) for more specific information on how such documents are handled.
This provides a lot of impetus to keep data that is not truly secret from being classified as such. So many documents are FOUO or considered "sensitive". It doesn't mean the data in the hands of an enemy couldn't be damaging, particularly in the aggregate.
Mainly because the two operating systems' APIs were designed with a HLL in mind, Pascal in the case of the Mac toolbox and C in the case of the Windows API. The BIOS and DOS were designed so that they would be easy to call from assembly, and they are. Load up some registers and int whatever.
Setting up the stack correctly in assembly for a Windows API call is a pain in the butt, but quite possible, as demonstrated by the masochists who have written windows applications in assembly in the past. I never learned 68x00 assembly so I have no idea, but I expect the situation was much the same there with making toolbox calls.
The Macintosh gave a far larger address space than any kind of DOS, and a flat one to boot. Working with 64k segments was a pain, or did you forget that trauma? Ever mistake a far pointer for a near one, or overflow a stack? Yecch. I have a lot of nostalgia for DOS but none for the awful hardware limitations of real mode.
Arriving at Ironforge is intensely slow, based upon player load. This occurs in other places, particularly when picking stuff up from corpses or using a collection profession such as mining or herbalism.
This hints at a structural scalability issue since the poor performance and bugs related to same are consistent through all patches. An example is the infamous empty mining vein/herb that leaves you crouched down until you either successfully find and open another vein/herb or relog. This bug has been there since the beginning, I believe.
Based on what I know of the architecture of the individual server clusters, it is likely there is some kind of backend database involved with WoW. I might be reaching, but I suggest that it is probably a SQL database. I also surmise a query is occurring each time we come into Ironforge (or any other zone) or open up a corpse/vein/herb/chest/etc.
The bottom line is that there appears to be a hard limit to how many users each server cluster can comfortably handle. This limit appears to be exceeded on many high-traffic servers. What can be done to correct this? What is being done? I see very limited voluntary server moves being approved but the incidence of lag and server load related bugs appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
In the federal system, the Bureau of Prisons turns over the corpse to the family for interrment according to their wishes. Upon death their responsibility to incarcerate you ends. Same deal in the state systems, but different mechanics.
Still, find me a government anywhere that doesn't have a racial *and* financial bias associated with it. Xenophobia is universal. Wealth goes to the favored class, always. Even the Soviet Union had (well, more like ethnic) bias and a clear class structure. And their whole government was premised against such a thing, to the point of writing it in their constitution.
So perhaps you should just say "you don't like people killing other people" rather than the red herring of bias. That will always exist.
Often times, with the proper OS rev the client worked fine. It's just if you patched/upgraded, or added additional 'functionality' that Microsoft provided, that the issues arose.
The successive breakage of Novell Netware client packages on Win 3.1/95 systems also comes to mind. Microsoft got you to use their client package basically by keeping it stable while breaking successive revisions of Novell's client software.
Considering the Novell software was in general superior in terms of performance and features, this was a gross detriment to the users, beside the anticompetitive nature of the acts.
I just spent a month over in Australia. The Extra Dry is the best stuff.
To be honest, tho, beer in general is better in Australia. Is it because it's hot there? Well, maybe. Or maybe the brewer's yeast that survived the trip was superior in quality. Whatever the case, the girls are pretty and the beer is good in Australia.
Well, what the government did was enter a consent decree with Microsoft. It's the same technique that was used with IBM in the past, and AT&T. The consent decree is basically a contractual agreement to abide by certain conditions, with the understanding that further antitrust action will occur if the decree is breached by the corporation.
The consent decree is similar to a plea bargain inasmuch as it's an easy win for the antitrust regulators, but gives them less leverage than a clear cut win in court would. MS' attorneys obviously recommended accepting such a decree as an alternative to being broken up and the aforementioned felony conviction possibilities.
The problem here is that the antitrust regulators act as if we are back to square one, whereas Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior continues to this day. So therefore getting new action on Microsoft will be difficult and take many years.
Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $10,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $350,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
Google for your favorite copy of the act. There's more in there.
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There's this thing called an ocean, with lots of hydrogen in it. Quite a bit of deuterium oxide can be extracted from it. In fact, back in the 1940s the Norwegians were extracting heavy water via a hydroelectric plant at Vemork.
Discovering more deuterium than we have in the oceans might be interesting but doesn't seem very necessary in the near term.
He has police, fire departments, etc. Sanitation workers.
Under the terms of a mandatory evacuation, seize the buses and screw the legalities until the people are safe. No judge would interfere with that.
Of course, that would require a true leader with balls.
Rudy, perhaps.
My mage was Mordenkainen.
You are unfortunately right.
THIS is a case the EFF should take, if only to insulate her from the bulk of the legal fees, and to stick it to the *AA with a reasonably friendly judge. This looks like a great prospect actually.
You're on the right track.
This is a story, nothing more.
After watching several people send their lives up their nose, I have to call bullshit on the mortality numbers regarding cocaine. Smoking a cigarette will never make you drop dead on the first drag, but it is quite possible to die the first time you try cocaine through a number of causes. It may not be as physically addicting as nicotine but it is certainly psychologically addictive. Doing it long term is pretty much asking for cardiovascular problems, at the very least, if not even the Jerry Garcia teflon nose inserts.
:b
In regards smoking, Smoking is a net positive for the Czech government, at least
Reminds me the old canard about the US SSA doing a study showing that the early death of smokers results in reduced health care and transfer payment costs and therefore is a good deal for them.
Marijuana is another matter entirely.
We were talking about narcotics and specific controlled substances like cocaine, not something like weed. Marijuana and it's derivate hashish are delicious gifts to mankind.
There is some belief in some quarters that if you take a hit of weed you suddenly want to take other drugs. I don't understand this. This is the only reason I can come up with to explain why the government isn't allowing people to roll up joints as they please.
They are suing customers because they want to pressure Congress into passing laws criminalizing file sharing beyond the extent which it is right now. They figure the people sued will complain to government. Their lobbyists will deflect the complaints by saying they'll stop if they get what they want legislatively. Otherwise, they'll whine, they will be put out of business eventually.
The politicians cave and we lose more rights. It's really rather masterful if you think about it. In a really evil way.
It's a good question as to whether these policies are in the long run good.
Having let ourselves in for the pandora's box of socialized medicine: whether US style where everyone is paid for one way or another, or in the explicit grant of an entitlement as in Europe or Canada...it was sort of inevitable that we would reach the point where everyone was forced to be healthy "for the greater good".
Are we more free this way, or less free? The answer is fairly obvious. By the time the general public realizes this, it'll be too late to change, though.
Sometimes people ask for what they don't really want.
Whether the medical system is financed through a single-payer government-run plan or shared risk private insurance pools, it doesn't matter. I don't want to pay for your care when you decide to make yourself into a vegetable, and I don't want to support you while you are wasted on drugs. You cost us all money by raising the contribution rates and abusing the system. The system assumes good will on the part of the participants, that they are interested in living for the maximum amount of time as contributing members of society. In effect, you lower everyone's standard of living.
There's your answer. It's ultimately about money. If humankind could find it within itself to deny you emergency care and long term life support/monentary support due to your decision to be a drain on society, then things would be different, but we all know that this isn't going to happen. At least anywhere civilized. That's why there are draconian drug laws. You basically forfeit your membership in society by being a druggie, and that's not even effective to curb the practice entirely.
If you could get laws passed that would be a sort of 'scarlet A' for drug addicts that would permit them, after signing a release, access on a paying basis to restricted narcotics in exchange for no medical care or government support, and a more liberal gunfire policy for police to combat the rampant crime (to feed their drug habits) that would result, then i'd be all for it.
Under the heading "unclassified documents":
"For Official Use Only" - things which don't contain classified data, but contain information that should be kept within the government. Someone made a decision to mark this document as FOUO.
"Sensitive" - a more generic type of document which contains information which is probably not suitable for public release, but is not determined as such. This may be marked FOUO at some future point.
The big problem with the standard information classification guidelines is what you need to do if you classify the document. First, people can't attach them to the normal email system, or in fact even have it on an unclassified computer system. Second, if you print it out you have to print it on a classified-only printer, lock it in a safe and sign for it, sealing the room from those who have no clearance before taking a look. Google AR 25-2 and read the pdf (public distribution) for more specific information on how such documents are handled.
This provides a lot of impetus to keep data that is not truly secret from being classified as such. So many documents are FOUO or considered "sensitive". It doesn't mean the data in the hands of an enemy couldn't be damaging, particularly in the aggregate.
Mainly because the two operating systems' APIs were designed with a HLL in mind, Pascal in the case of the Mac toolbox and C in the case of the Windows API. The BIOS and DOS were designed so that they would be easy to call from assembly, and they are. Load up some registers and int whatever.
Setting up the stack correctly in assembly for a Windows API call is a pain in the butt, but quite possible, as demonstrated by the masochists who have written windows applications in assembly in the past. I never learned 68x00 assembly so I have no idea, but I expect the situation was much the same there with making toolbox calls.
The Macintosh gave a far larger address space than any kind of DOS, and a flat one to boot. Working with 64k segments was a pain, or did you forget that trauma? Ever mistake a far pointer for a near one, or overflow a stack? Yecch. I have a lot of nostalgia for DOS but none for the awful hardware limitations of real mode.
From the programmer's perspective, it was better than Windows.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
Arriving at Ironforge is intensely slow, based upon player load. This occurs in other places, particularly when picking stuff up from corpses or using a collection profession such as mining or herbalism.
This hints at a structural scalability issue since the poor performance and bugs related to same are consistent through all patches. An example is the infamous empty mining vein/herb that leaves you crouched down until you either successfully find and open another vein/herb or relog. This bug has been there since the beginning, I believe.
Based on what I know of the architecture of the individual server clusters, it is likely there is some kind of backend database involved with WoW. I might be reaching, but I suggest that it is probably a SQL database. I also surmise a query is occurring each time we come into Ironforge (or any other zone) or open up a corpse/vein/herb/chest/etc.
The bottom line is that there appears to be a hard limit to how many users each server cluster can comfortably handle. This limit appears to be exceeded on many high-traffic servers. What can be done to correct this? What is being done? I see very limited voluntary server moves being approved but the incidence of lag and server load related bugs appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
In the federal system, the Bureau of Prisons turns over the corpse to the family for interrment according to their wishes. Upon death their responsibility to incarcerate you ends. Same deal in the state systems, but different mechanics.
Interesting, certainly.
That was very honest of you re: pro-lifers.
Still, find me a government anywhere that doesn't have a racial *and* financial bias associated with it. Xenophobia is universal. Wealth goes to the favored class, always. Even the Soviet Union had (well, more like ethnic) bias and a clear class structure. And their whole government was premised against such a thing, to the point of writing it in their constitution.
So perhaps you should just say "you don't like people killing other people" rather than the red herring of bias. That will always exist.
Often times, with the proper OS rev the client worked fine. It's just if you patched/upgraded, or added additional 'functionality' that Microsoft provided, that the issues arose.
The successive breakage of Novell Netware client packages on Win 3.1/95 systems also comes to mind. Microsoft got you to use their client package basically by keeping it stable while breaking successive revisions of Novell's client software.
Considering the Novell software was in general superior in terms of performance and features, this was a gross detriment to the users, beside the anticompetitive nature of the acts.
I just spent a month over in Australia. The Extra Dry is the best stuff.
:b
To be honest, tho, beer in general is better in Australia. Is it because it's hot there? Well, maybe. Or maybe the brewer's yeast that survived the trip was superior in quality. Whatever the case, the girls are pretty and the beer is good in Australia.
Would that some of both were exported to the US
listening to AC/DC and tippling Toohey's New* to bother with civil wars.
More power to them.
*I personally liked the dry version a lot better but it's less available.
There were enough emails floating around in that case to make a solid case for intent.
Well, what the government did was enter a consent decree with Microsoft. It's the same technique that was used with IBM in the past, and AT&T. The consent decree is basically a contractual agreement to abide by certain conditions, with the understanding that further antitrust action will occur if the decree is breached by the corporation.
The consent decree is similar to a plea bargain inasmuch as it's an easy win for the antitrust regulators, but gives them less leverage than a clear cut win in court would. MS' attorneys obviously recommended accepting such a decree as an alternative to being broken up and the aforementioned felony conviction possibilities.
The problem here is that the antitrust regulators act as if we are back to square one, whereas Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior continues to this day. So therefore getting new action on Microsoft will be difficult and take many years.
Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890:
Section 2. Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty
Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $10,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $350,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
Google for your favorite copy of the act. There's more in there.