The reason that government employees should be prohibited from discussing political subjects while on the job is something like this:
"I think we must stop global warming, don't you, Mr. Taxpayer? You don't? Well, I'm going to have to examine your tax records because I think you deliberately underpaid. And my friend here, the policeman, is going to follow you everywhere you go, and even the slightest vehicle infraction is going to draw the maximum fine."
People able to legally use force of arms against individuals should not be allowed to enforce their whims, and being allowed to state their whims is the first step in enforcing them.
Back then, $1 million was about what a person could expect to earn in a lifetime. Such deliberate damage, with malice of forethought, should be treated the same as if he had murdered 50 people.
Sounds like you could save thousands of dollars a year by learning to do your own taxes. If your wife is earning under $8000 a year, she either has a lot of spare time she could spend learning, or she should find a better job.
If you like C, you can use just a few features of C++ when it's to your advantage. For instance, let's say you had to do a lot of math on 24 bit integers. In C, you'd have to do
c = add24(a,b);
In C++, you could write a 24 bit integer class, override the + operator, and get a much more readable
c = a + b;
Infrequent use of C++ features sometimes helps a great deal.
Her detractors have pointed out her egregiously illegal and immoral behavior, and her supporters have ignored it.
The is perfectly illustrated by her supporters accepting "at this point, what difference does it make?"; that any evil, no matter how disgusting, doesn't matter, because today is a new day.
Clinton is a psychopath, and her supporters are enablers.
It's well established that Clinton turned down urgent appeals to reinforce security at the embassy. That's "didn't turn up anything" only to the willfully blind.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was only slightly better than the leftist fool, Gray, that he replaced. Ca. has continued bobsledding into financial disaster, with Moonbeam now accelerating the process. The US has several financial disasters awaiting (runaway inflation and social security among them) and Schwarzenegger's bull-like ignorance won't help.
The different is Hillary Clinton is a very bright woman, at the top of her game, recognisable around the world; she knew what she was doing.
At the top of her game. Wow. In a just world, she would be awaiting execution for the murder of ambassador Stevens. Her history is one of scandals that the media have deflected, and if she's bright and at the top of her game, that means there are hundreds of scandals that have not been discovered yet..She is an evil, nasty person, far worse than her scumbucket husband. As a part of the rolling disaster that is the Obama tyranny, her incompetence fits right in with the others.
In reality, she is so arrogant that she sees no need to be careful and thorough when she's trying to be devious.
Making it possible for customers - the people who actually pay for the electricity and have to live with the power plant near their city - to get electricity at a decent price. If the government gets the money, it's an invitation to waste, a temptation to bribe voters, and a lure to those who would like to abuse political power.
The sort of freedom that used to exist in America is everyone's birthright, but all governments suppress it. It is not an elevated status, it is the natural status of man. Someone who enters the country illegally has earned a degraded status by breaking the law.
Saying "reform" the immigration system is meaningless, It sounds good to people who don't think, yet it could mean anything from "encourage freeloaders to come here" (which is Obama's official but hidden policy) to "shoot everyone who sneaks across the border."
Sneaking into the country is not a "minor infraction", it's a de facto invasion by an ununiformed enemy.
Well, you don't see it, but there's likely a 15 point IQ difference between the Soviet Jew and the wetback. Guess which one has more ability to do good.
Even if most immigrants are good, that does not mean that on balance the effect of illegal immigration is good. Its very easy for a single person to destroy more than 10 people can create in a lifetime, and that's just the sort of thing that a jihadist who sneaks through our porous borders wants.
Your personal experience is almost meaningless. Do you expect an enemy to tell you he's out to destroy the country?
Would you mind defining "social change"? Do you mean promoting the activities of murderous rioters? Providing free money and drugs for people who refuse to work? Free abortions for whores? Jailing CEOs when the Sarbanes-Oxley forms don't give correct results to the penny?
The word "social" at the beginning of any phrase means there's something bad being hidden.
When considering the cost of finding and deporting illegal aliens, it must be compared against the cost of failing to find and deport them. Some aspects of illegal aliens are: drunken unlicensed illegal drivers killing pedestrians (no, licensing them does not make it OK), new outbreaks of measles, mumps, and tuberculosis, and the World Trade Center. Still think it's too expensive to eliminate illegal aliens?
Sorry, it doesn't work that way. We're already well past the point where we can ignore channel leakage considerations, and their interaction with transistor thresholds, supply voltage, and other things. Gate leakage is becoming a problem. Power supply conductors can't be scaled due to migration, they now commonly take up a whole layer. At a guess, I'd say the asymptote for big silicon CPU clock rates is 10 GHz, more than a decade away.
Much of the speedup in the last 2 decades has come from SIMD and multithreading. Multithreading still isn't heavily implemented, so there's a big gain to be obtained there, and the hardware to take advantage of it is more cores, which scaling obviously helps.
More memory on-chip is good, but numerous tests have shown that we're already well into the area of diminishing returns for most applications.
In high speed silicon ICs, SiO2 is no longer "a great gate insulator" because the dielectric constant is too low. Channel resistance is roughly inversely proportional to the dielectric constant of the gate material. This was a big deal a decade ago, but now "high K" material use is routine and hence seldom mentioned.
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The reason that government employees should be prohibited from discussing political subjects while on the job is something like this:
"I think we must stop global warming, don't you, Mr. Taxpayer? You don't? Well, I'm going to have to examine your tax records because I think you deliberately underpaid. And my friend here, the policeman, is going to follow you everywhere you go, and even the slightest vehicle infraction is going to draw the maximum fine."
People able to legally use force of arms against individuals should not be allowed to enforce their whims, and being allowed to state their whims is the first step in enforcing them.
Warmer is worse. The air is thinner and the voltage from the cells is reduced.
Back then, $1 million was about what a person could expect to earn in a lifetime. Such deliberate damage, with malice of forethought, should be treated the same as if he had murdered 50 people.
Sounds like you could save thousands of dollars a year by learning to do your own taxes. If your wife is earning under $8000 a year, she either has a lot of spare time she could spend learning, or she should find a better job.
Caterpillar has only been in business since 1925.
If you like C, you can use just a few features of C++ when it's to your advantage. For instance, let's say you had to do a lot of math on 24 bit integers. In C, you'd have to do
c = add24(a,b);
In C++, you could write a 24 bit integer class, override the + operator, and get a much more readable
c = a + b;
Infrequent use of C++ features sometimes helps a great deal.
Her detractors have pointed out her egregiously illegal and immoral behavior, and her supporters have ignored it.
The is perfectly illustrated by her supporters accepting "at this point, what difference does it make?"; that any evil, no matter how disgusting, doesn't matter, because today is a new day.
Clinton is a psychopath, and her supporters are enablers.
It's well established that Clinton turned down urgent appeals to reinforce security at the embassy. That's "didn't turn up anything" only to the willfully blind.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was only slightly better than the leftist fool, Gray, that he replaced. Ca. has continued bobsledding into financial disaster, with Moonbeam now accelerating the process. The US has several financial disasters awaiting (runaway inflation and social security among them) and Schwarzenegger's bull-like ignorance won't help.
At the top of her game . Wow. In a just world, she would be awaiting execution for the murder of ambassador Stevens. Her history is one of scandals that the media have deflected, and if she's bright and at the top of her game, that means there are hundreds of scandals that have not been discovered yet..She is an evil, nasty person, far worse than her scumbucket husband. As a part of the rolling disaster that is the Obama tyranny, her incompetence fits right in with the others.
In reality, she is so arrogant that she sees no need to be careful and thorough when she's trying to be devious.
Solar is very predictable and very high availability if the panels are placed properly: synchronous orbit.
The number of people killed by being sucked into tidal gates, hydro-power inlets, etc. is not zero.
Your times are too long by a factor of two. Two high tides and two low tides in just over 24 hours.
You people who can't write English are so funny.
A mesh is the wrong choice. Parallel bars can be mechanically scraped easily, automatically, and often.
Making it possible for customers - the people who actually pay for the electricity and have to live with the power plant near their city - to get electricity at a decent price. If the government gets the money, it's an invitation to waste, a temptation to bribe voters, and a lure to those who would like to abuse political power.
The sort of freedom that used to exist in America is everyone's birthright, but all governments suppress it. It is not an elevated status, it is the natural status of man. Someone who enters the country illegally has earned a degraded status by breaking the law.
Saying "reform" the immigration system is meaningless, It sounds good to people who don't think, yet it could mean anything from "encourage freeloaders to come here" (which is Obama's official but hidden policy) to "shoot everyone who sneaks across the border."
Sneaking into the country is not a "minor infraction", it's a de facto invasion by an ununiformed enemy.
Well, you don't see it, but there's likely a 15 point IQ difference between the Soviet Jew and the wetback. Guess which one has more ability to do good.
Even if most immigrants are good, that does not mean that on balance the effect of illegal immigration is good. Its very easy for a single person to destroy more than 10 people can create in a lifetime, and that's just the sort of thing that a jihadist who sneaks through our porous borders wants.
Your personal experience is almost meaningless. Do you expect an enemy to tell you he's out to destroy the country?
Would you mind defining "social change"? Do you mean promoting the activities of murderous rioters? Providing free money and drugs for people who refuse to work? Free abortions for whores? Jailing CEOs when the Sarbanes-Oxley forms don't give correct results to the penny?
The word "social" at the beginning of any phrase means there's something bad being hidden.
When considering the cost of finding and deporting illegal aliens, it must be compared against the cost of failing to find and deport them. Some aspects of illegal aliens are: drunken unlicensed illegal drivers killing pedestrians (no, licensing them does not make it OK), new outbreaks of measles, mumps, and tuberculosis, and the World Trade Center. Still think it's too expensive to eliminate illegal aliens?
Sorry, it doesn't work that way. We're already well past the point where we can ignore channel leakage considerations, and their interaction with transistor thresholds, supply voltage, and other things. Gate leakage is becoming a problem. Power supply conductors can't be scaled due to migration, they now commonly take up a whole layer. At a guess, I'd say the asymptote for big silicon CPU clock rates is 10 GHz, more than a decade away.
Much of the speedup in the last 2 decades has come from SIMD and multithreading. Multithreading still isn't heavily implemented, so there's a big gain to be obtained there, and the hardware to take advantage of it is more cores, which scaling obviously helps.
More memory on-chip is good, but numerous tests have shown that we're already well into the area of diminishing returns for most applications.
You're confusing GaAs with germanium.
In high speed silicon ICs, SiO2 is no longer "a great gate insulator" because the dielectric constant is too low. Channel resistance is roughly inversely proportional to the dielectric constant of the gate material. This was a big deal a decade ago, but now "high K" material use is routine and hence seldom mentioned.