Please do not conflate racism with nationalism. There are very few people in the U.S. that think people with Chinese ancestry are inherently evil or dangerous. There are a substantial number of people, myself included, that consider the government of mainland China to be dangerous and relatively evil (though improving).
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I like the idea of using symbols instead of keywords more often, but ASCII is weak in the symbol department. In particular, good use could be made of arrows in at least four directions, and open and close roof and floor symbols. I'd also like to see a keyboard that included such symbols. And a nice font set. And a language that used the symbols. And....
In a sense, APL was a step in that direction, but overstriking to create symbols was a nuisance.
I suppose that it might be possible to tune brasses and woodwinds by providing a special mix of gasses to the instrument and the performer. You might, for instance, increase the helium flow to an instrument that's flat. Temperature is also relevant, but keeping an instrument chilled or heated would be inconvenient and might be uncomfortable for the performer.
Officious policemen are one of the biggest problems this country has. They need to be slapped down hard and repeatedly. If the ACLU takes a hand in this, they will be doing something good for a change.
Although the law may not agree with this reasoning, it is possible to act in a manner which would lead a reasonable person "A" to believe someone "B" was shoplifting when "B" wasn't. For instance, in plain view of "A", "B" sticks an expensive item in his pocket, ducks behind a counter, takes the item out of his pocket and puts it on a low shelf. "B" repeats this several times, then picks up a pack of gum, pays for it, and leaves.
This may not be legally recognized as evidence, but what is "A"'s reasonable conclusion and reasonable course of action?
Thanks. Voyager uses a 3.7 m dish and has a 23 W transmitter at about 8 GHz. Knowing the 20 m size of the receiving antenna, it's possible to calculate the power at the receiver; knowing the data rate and the temperature it's possible to calculate the ideal S/N ratio. I guess the effective temperature is the universal background, which is about 3 Kelvin.
Certain organizations by their very nature must be large. For a manufacturer of jumbo jets or mass-market automobiles to have less than 100 people almost all functions would have to be subcontracted, which would lead to confusion and inefficiencies, reduced safety and reliability, and higher prices. Can you imagine a single WalMart store with fewer than 100 employees? How about a single steel mill?
If you mean literally that only corporations would be restricted to 100 people, but privately held companies could have more, this would lead to very screwy results, i.e. less public and governmental oversight of large organizations.
Yes, there's corruption in companies. However, there's a feedback mechanism that tends toward efficiency and against corruption and silly management decisions. (Your example of the layoff and fair is illustrative. Don't you think both were symptoms of the same basic problem?) A company that misbehaves is more inefficient and is more likely to be surpassed by a company that is efficient. The efficient company (a modern Toyota or a 1930s General Motors) grows, the inefficient company (a modern General Motors) shrinks. This feedback occurs especially if the corruption isn't caught. In government and government-enforced monopolies, that feedback mechanism is absent, so corruption and inefficiency grow more easily.
When you say that something works, you must first identify what it is that is supposed to be accomplished. If your goal is government-based theft and the removal of incentive and responsibility, socialism is swell. If your goal is economic success and getting what you've earned, socialism is a failure. Socialism by its very nature requires a big government, which increases the probability of tyranny.
The claim that socialistic health care has been proven to be the best again depends upon your goals, but if your goal is health, the claim is a lie. Not a mistake, a lie.
The idea that the USA is "going towards a capitalistic extreme" demonstrates a profound ignorance of either the USA or capitalism. Income taxes, state-run schools, government-owned roads, are not characteristics of capitalism. Antitrust laws, drug laws, housing permits, "selective service" registration, legal protectin of extortion by unions, are not characteristics of capitalism.
You think Alzheimers is so wonderful? You could achieve similar results right now with a lobotomy. No? Not for you?
Also, consider the burden removed from family and caretakers if Alzheimer's is cured. One of the main reasons people are in nursing homes is brain degradation, Alzheimers or Parkinsons mostly. Fix the brain, and the body is better able to take care of itself: fewer people in nursing homes.
In addition to being inexcusably nasty, your post makes asumptions without basis in TFA. Once in mass production, the cure would consist of:
Harvesting some skin cells.
Genetically altering them so that they'll generate the plaque-disolving chemical.
Injecting the altered cells into the spinal or cerebral fluid.
So, 2 doctor visits plus occasional checkups to make sure nothing goes haywire. Some tricky lab work. Maybe $10,000.00, about what it costs to stay in a big-city nursing home for 1 month. In exchange, the patient probably gains 10 years of mentally healthy life, happiness for himself and those who would otherwise have to care for him.
FWIW, vim's bultin ":help" has had a good section on search-and-replace for at least 5 years. regex is well documented in many places, and applies to vim, sed, grep and other tools. In my opinion, no video needed here.
There are great gaping holes in documentation for gnome and kde tools and UI. There are places where videos might help, but who would want to provide them, especially for free?
Complete, accurate, current, non-ambiguous, hierarchical documentation, clearly written. With examples for difficult stuff. I've wasted hours creating simple bash shell scripts that would have been created in minutes if documentation were better. (Bash is a particularly difficult case. There are many diverse things going on, which makes the documentation file huge and hard to organize.) For complex stuff, man files are too hard to search for relevant data. Info files are hard to navigate, and (in my experience) searches aren't possible from one section to another. HTML or other similar formats have the capability for good documentation, including hyperlinks for table of contents and index.
Excellent suggestion. I find that cron jobs like updatedb and tripwire slow my system to a crawl, even when I renice all aspects of the cron jobs to +19 and lower the jobs I want running fast.
Iran's financial and political problems are inseparable from its "theological tensions". A rational government, if it could be free of Islamist intimidation, would do Iran immense good.
FWIW, about 40 years ago a very intelligent (and probably financially well off) US citizen bought all the parts for an ICBM (an Atlas, as I recall) from surplus dealers. This received coverage in major national papers and included a picture of him with the engine. He claimed it would take about 100 man-years to assemble the rocket from the parts he had. He was quoted as saying that the radioactives for a bomb were available from certain sources, which he was not willing to reveal.
I hope the US has tightened down this sort of thing; anecdotes such as New Zealand are encouraging. Nevertheless, technology marches onward, and the creation of weapons-ready transportation is becoming easier. An active imagination and a pile of money can help someone with evil intent do a whole lot of damage.
The whole concept of guerilla warfare is plausible deniability, which you have consumed hook, line, and sinker. "Oh no, we don't know about those military training camps, and we're not funding them." "We never sent those suicide bombers. They just happened to live here a few years ago. We don't know how they got those explosives."
Islam is by its nature violently opposed to non-Islamic civilization. Until Koran-based religion is wiped off the face of the earth we will continue having these problems. Christianity isn't much better.
If he can't talk to whoever he wants on the internet without fear of government agents kicking in his door while he sleeps, his freedom is already gone.
Nope, Mr. Arnold, no problem with distributing these plans of West Point. OK Mr. Rosenberg, we're fine with you publishing these atomic bomb plans.
There's a good reason that conspiring to commit murder is a crime.
"Yes, the republican party try to whip up hysteria about supposed foreign enemies to distract voters from their failures at home - it's something that right wing governments the world over have done since the time of the Romans at least." (Emphasis added)
Nice way to expose your bias. Obviously, no left wing government has ever acted in such a despicable manner.
make the ITAR list less inclusive, and only include things that have weaponry as a primary purpose
OK, let's assume that someone is developing a Santa Claus delivery system. This system is specifically designed to deliver multiple independently targeted 5 ton fuzzy teddy bears from the factory in China to little children in Washington, D.C.. No problem, right?
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Please do not conflate racism with nationalism. There are very few people in the U.S. that think people with Chinese ancestry are inherently evil or dangerous. There are a substantial number of people, myself included, that consider the government of mainland China to be dangerous and relatively evil (though improving).
In a sense, APL was a step in that direction, but overstriking to create symbols was a nuisance.
I suppose that it might be possible to tune brasses and woodwinds by providing a special mix of gasses to the instrument and the performer. You might, for instance, increase the helium flow to an instrument that's flat. Temperature is also relevant, but keeping an instrument chilled or heated would be inconvenient and might be uncomfortable for the performer.
Officious policemen are one of the biggest problems this country has. They need to be slapped down hard and repeatedly. If the ACLU takes a hand in this, they will be doing something good for a change.
This may not be legally recognized as evidence, but what is "A"'s reasonable conclusion and reasonable course of action?
What a way to troll for false arrest charges!
Thanks. Voyager uses a 3.7 m dish and has a 23 W transmitter at about 8 GHz. Knowing the 20 m size of the receiving antenna, it's possible to calculate the power at the receiver; knowing the data rate and the temperature it's possible to calculate the ideal S/N ratio. I guess the effective temperature is the universal background, which is about 3 Kelvin.
How on Earth can you call Arthur C. Clarke a "luddite bastard"? There are few more powerful proponents of advanced technology than this great man.
If you mean literally that only corporations would be restricted to 100 people, but privately held companies could have more, this would lead to very screwy results, i.e. less public and governmental oversight of large organizations.
Yes, there's corruption in companies. However, there's a feedback mechanism that tends toward efficiency and against corruption and silly management decisions. (Your example of the layoff and fair is illustrative. Don't you think both were symptoms of the same basic problem?) A company that misbehaves is more inefficient and is more likely to be surpassed by a company that is efficient. The efficient company (a modern Toyota or a 1930s General Motors) grows, the inefficient company (a modern General Motors) shrinks. This feedback occurs especially if the corruption isn't caught. In government and government-enforced monopolies, that feedback mechanism is absent, so corruption and inefficiency grow more easily.
It is quite revealing that you analogize society to a kindergarden [sic]. This elitism is characteristic of all authoritarians.
The claim that socialistic health care has been proven to be the best again depends upon your goals, but if your goal is health, the claim is a lie. Not a mistake, a lie.
The idea that the USA is "going towards a capitalistic extreme" demonstrates a profound ignorance of either the USA or capitalism. Income taxes, state-run schools, government-owned roads, are not characteristics of capitalism. Antitrust laws, drug laws, housing permits, "selective service" registration, legal protectin of extortion by unions, are not characteristics of capitalism.
Also, consider the burden removed from family and caretakers if Alzheimer's is cured. One of the main reasons people are in nursing homes is brain degradation, Alzheimers or Parkinsons mostly. Fix the brain, and the body is better able to take care of itself: fewer people in nursing homes.
- Harvesting some skin cells.
- Genetically altering them so that they'll generate the plaque-disolving chemical.
- Injecting the altered cells into the spinal or cerebral fluid.
So, 2 doctor visits plus occasional checkups to make sure nothing goes haywire. Some tricky lab work. Maybe $10,000.00, about what it costs to stay in a big-city nursing home for 1 month. In exchange, the patient probably gains 10 years of mentally healthy life, happiness for himself and those who would otherwise have to care for him.There are great gaping holes in documentation for gnome and kde tools and UI. There are places where videos might help, but who would want to provide them, especially for free?
Complete, accurate, current, non-ambiguous, hierarchical documentation, clearly written. With examples for difficult stuff. I've wasted hours creating simple bash shell scripts that would have been created in minutes if documentation were better. (Bash is a particularly difficult case. There are many diverse things going on, which makes the documentation file huge and hard to organize.) For complex stuff, man files are too hard to search for relevant data. Info files are hard to navigate, and (in my experience) searches aren't possible from one section to another. HTML or other similar formats have the capability for good documentation, including hyperlinks for table of contents and index.
Excellent suggestion. I find that cron jobs like updatedb and tripwire slow my system to a crawl, even when I renice all aspects of the cron jobs to +19 and lower the jobs I want running fast.
Iran's financial and political problems are inseparable from its "theological tensions". A rational government, if it could be free of Islamist intimidation, would do Iran immense good.
I hope the US has tightened down this sort of thing; anecdotes such as New Zealand are encouraging. Nevertheless, technology marches onward, and the creation of weapons-ready transportation is becoming easier. An active imagination and a pile of money can help someone with evil intent do a whole lot of damage.
Islam is by its nature violently opposed to non-Islamic civilization. Until Koran-based religion is wiped off the face of the earth we will continue having these problems. Christianity isn't much better.
Nope, Mr. Arnold, no problem with distributing these plans of West Point. OK Mr. Rosenberg, we're fine with you publishing these atomic bomb plans.
There's a good reason that conspiring to commit murder is a crime.
Nice way to expose your bias. Obviously, no left wing government has ever acted in such a despicable manner.
California allows write-ins. Vote for yourself if you want to.