Look here, LIAR, you need to look honestly at Israel's history. It is surrounded by countries that want to destroy it, and have tried to do so many times. The gains in territory Israel has made were for strategic military advantage, and much of them have been given back.
Bush, like all major politicians, is a public person, and cannot be defamed in a legal sense.
Anyway, the case involved more than simple defamation. Salahi threatened third parties in an attempt to hurt Kaplan's ability to earn a living. Kaplan suffered actual financial damages as a result. The fact that Salahi used threats makes moot the usual defense of "My claims were true."
A reduction in tax dollars for education could be a good thing. It might force the educrats to stop wasting money on pseudoscience and "politically correct" history. They might stop wasting $100,000 a year on special teachers for students so mentally damaged that they will never make a positive net contribution to the economy. The teacher's union might be broken, which would be they best possible thing that could happen to this country.
What's so sad about repetitive hand labor like placing components on a PC board? I've done this sort of stuff, and it's some of the easiest, most absorbing and satisfying work possible. At the end of the day, I went home happy and energized, ready to tackle the real problems in my life, or play, or relax.
This is not physically strenuous work. It won't cause poisoning or RSI or heat stroke. There's no high likelihood of disease or injury. The main downside is that it doesn't pay well.
A taser or pepper spray to temporarily incapacitate the thief, handcuffs to hold her in place until the police arrive.
I wonder though, couldn't she have just run after her yelling "Thief! Thief!"? Sooner or later someone might have grabbed the villain and held her until help arrived.
You have a point that the name is poor, but your replacements don't make the grade either. We do need something to cover the whole range of problems that come under the name "identity theft".
First, having someone else's important private information isn't a problem if no use is made of it. The actual misdeed is fraudulent use of that information to obtain valuables at the expense of the victim, which can damage the victim's reputation and cause a cascade of consequential problems.
There's something similar here to the legal term "conversion", but that's too obscure for popular use and might not be accurate (IANAL). I think the terms "identity fraud" and "identity misrepresentation" are closer to correct, but I'm open to suggestions.
Although in simple analysis the death penalty is appropriate for an obviously unrepentent repeat offender (who is surely going to continue stealing) there are other good alternatives. Another poster suggested exile, which is an excellent possibility. One option not mentioned often is a prison term with hard labor, which makes possible restitution and also could displace some of the jobs available to illegal aliens.
The death penalty should be reserved for the most obvious and severe cases, although the nature of the woman in this case seems to indicate that she is beyond recovery. If our country were in desperate straits, such as on the verge of starvation in the midst of a defensive war, the death penalty for such human debris would be appropriate. We aren't in that bad shape now, so we can afford to be a bit more lenient.
Part of the problem of overcrowded prisons in California is due to the refusal of many communities to deport illegal aliens, so they end up in cells. This is a characteristic of liberals.
Another part is due to conservatives, who insist on imprisoning people for drugs.
Eliminate imprisoning people for brain-dead reasons and there'll be plenty of room for jailing people who are actively and purposefully harming others.
Liberals want to spend tax money by giving it away to everyone with his hand out. They want most criminals to be pampered, released early or not even jailed.
Right-wingers want money spent only on the proper functions of government, all of which involve protecting a person's rights. Part of protecting a person's rights is the judicial system, which includes prisons. Conservatives don't want to waste money on prisons, but they recognize the necessity to have adequate prisons.
The U.S. has a higher percentage of its populace incarcerated than most advanced nations, and a more capitalist political culture than most advanced nations. As in this case, California is where many of these criminals go free, and California has an increasingly crazy-left political culture.
Useually random noise sums as "root sum of squares". So the signal level would double, the noise would increase by about 1.4X. The net improvement would be 2/1.4 = 1.4. The more complicated electronics would reduce the S/N improvement a bit more, so the net improvement would probably be in the range of 1/3 to 1/2 stop (1.25 to 1.4), I guess.
FWIW, you can't pull much of a vacuum with your lungs, but you can achieve about a half atmosphere with just your mouth, which I find pretty impressive.
The closest I've seen recently is Discovery Science channel, but it's mostly "big science", "big engineering", and vehicles. Their "How it's Made" is closer to what Mr. Wizard provided. "This Old House" is reasonable. What's missing is teaching basic science and an understanding of what things are and how they work.
First, it's technically impossible to go back to the government-enforced monopoly of telecom service without throwing away many modern advances. Anyone who wants to opt out of the Telco could use VOIP, through satellites if necessary. Look for neighborhood PBXs to develop for those stuck with the monopoly.
Second, employment of technical advances would slow to a crawl again. One of the complaints of companies like ATT and ITT in the years before deregulation was that the local governments prevented installation of superior quality and features in order to keep costs down.
Third, in the current political climate, monopolies are vulnerable to unions, which drives up prices. A non-union company has competitive advantages which, other things being equal, lead to it driving union companies out of business.
Fourth, unions and monopolies, especially government-maintained monopolies, are an invitation to corruption. Government is too powerful and corrupt as it is.
If you examine the Fletcher-Munson curves carefully, you'll find that the dynamic range only becomes compressed at the low end, so the smile hypothesis is wrong. Many quality car audio systems dynamically boost the lows at low volume; they do no such thing with the high frequencies.
Most of the interstates are pretty well designed and do not encourage accidents. Twisty state and local roads without center dividers encourage accidents. Better roads, seat belts and other safety devices, legal and public pessure against drunk drivers, have resulted in a decline in traffic deaths over the last 50 years while the number of miles driven has more than doubled.
If we nuked the whole planet so that it is as bad as Chernoble was in the days after the explosion, humanity would be in for a hard time. If we nuked the whole planet so that it is like Chernoble is now, we'd likely be better off. The best available evidence today is that radiation levels are about 1/30th the level for optimum individual and first-generation health.
Radiation phobia and poorly thought-out disaster stories do not advance understanding.
As about 1/3 of offspring being malformed, this is far from bad for the wildlife.
This is observed malformation; there's no mention of internal examinations or spontaneous abortions or eggs that don't hatch. I live on the edge of a forest and I see about 100 birds a day; none of these is visibly malformed.
The article says radiation levels are 10 to 100 times normal background. This range is probably beneficial for humans and most other animals. Living there probably isn't bad from the standpoint of background radiation; but I wouldn't want to eat food grown there or live in a house without a dust filter.
Things are getting better there faster than predicted, and if careful study is done we'll have more data for the theory of hormesis with respect to radiation.
Gas turbines can be turned on fairly quickly. Diesel generators can be started quickly. Small hydropower installations can be brought online as fast as water can be made to run.
Two things come to mind. One is, AMD wants to make ultra-sure that there isn't some as-yet unnoticed mistake that will cause a product recall. The second is that there's a delay between the time somebody says "go" and packaged chips can be put into computers, most of which is the several weeks it takes to process wafers.
The only reason that AMD is still alive is that Intel made a series of blunders. Intel went exclusively with the expensive RAMBUS technology, kept the northbridge off-chip, chose clock speed over processing power. During the same period AMD integrated the memory controller, developed hypertransport, and emphasized processing power over clock speed. As a result, for several years AMD maintained a small performance advantage and slowly gained market share. Because Intel maintains a superior process technology, AMD's advantage was only a small one. Intel is much larger and can afford the huge expenses invloved in keeping the process advantage.
Now that Intel is mostly past its blunders, it still has the advantage of superior process and is likely to maintain that advantage. Unless AMD can pull more rabbits out of its hat, its goose is cooked. I want AMD to regain the performance lead, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Until a mechanism is known, we don't know if we're using surrogates. Furthermore, the surrogates serve as checks. If we have a known mechanism and results with surrogates contradict the known mechanism, it can be a clue that something else is affecting the results and may be worth searching for.
In the 1950s it was standard practice to rate horsepower with open headers and then add 10% for advertising. Cars were much heavier for a given internal size. Today, horsepower is measured in a pretty honest manner, with a full exhaust system. Computer-optimized design minimizes the use of resources in the car's construction, and lighter materials (aluminum and plastic) replace steel; this overwhelms the effect of added gadgets.
It's often the case that the description of variables is hundreds of lines away from the code that uses the variables. Size and signedness, initial values, scaling factors, etc. can easily be unclear where a variable is being used, and can make a world of difference in what a line of code does. A brief comment can clarify matters withhout having to search back for the definitions or open multiple windows. This is particularly true when unions, structures, bit fields, and shifting are involved.
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Look here, LIAR, you need to look honestly at Israel's history. It is surrounded by countries that want to destroy it, and have tried to do so many times. The gains in territory Israel has made were for strategic military advantage, and much of them have been given back.
Anyway, the case involved more than simple defamation. Salahi threatened third parties in an attempt to hurt Kaplan's ability to earn a living. Kaplan suffered actual financial damages as a result. The fact that Salahi used threats makes moot the usual defense of "My claims were true."
A reduction in tax dollars for education could be a good thing. It might force the educrats to stop wasting money on pseudoscience and "politically correct" history. They might stop wasting $100,000 a year on special teachers for students so mentally damaged that they will never make a positive net contribution to the economy. The teacher's union might be broken, which would be they best possible thing that could happen to this country.
Reality is racist. Deal with it.
This is not physically strenuous work. It won't cause poisoning or RSI or heat stroke. There's no high likelihood of disease or injury. The main downside is that it doesn't pay well.
I wonder though, couldn't she have just run after her yelling "Thief! Thief!"? Sooner or later someone might have grabbed the villain and held her until help arrived.
First, having someone else's important private information isn't a problem if no use is made of it. The actual misdeed is fraudulent use of that information to obtain valuables at the expense of the victim, which can damage the victim's reputation and cause a cascade of consequential problems.
There's something similar here to the legal term "conversion", but that's too obscure for popular use and might not be accurate (IANAL). I think the terms "identity fraud" and "identity misrepresentation" are closer to correct, but I'm open to suggestions.
The death penalty should be reserved for the most obvious and severe cases, although the nature of the woman in this case seems to indicate that she is beyond recovery. If our country were in desperate straits, such as on the verge of starvation in the midst of a defensive war, the death penalty for such human debris would be appropriate. We aren't in that bad shape now, so we can afford to be a bit more lenient.
Another part is due to conservatives, who insist on imprisoning people for drugs.
Eliminate imprisoning people for brain-dead reasons and there'll be plenty of room for jailing people who are actively and purposefully harming others.
Right-wingers want money spent only on the proper functions of government, all of which involve protecting a person's rights. Part of protecting a person's rights is the judicial system, which includes prisons. Conservatives don't want to waste money on prisons, but they recognize the necessity to have adequate prisons.
The U.S. has a higher percentage of its populace incarcerated than most advanced nations, and a more capitalist political culture than most advanced nations. As in this case, California is where many of these criminals go free, and California has an increasingly crazy-left political culture.
Useually random noise sums as "root sum of squares". So the signal level would double, the noise would increase by about 1.4X. The net improvement would be 2/1.4 = 1.4. The more complicated electronics would reduce the S/N improvement a bit more, so the net improvement would probably be in the range of 1/3 to 1/2 stop (1.25 to 1.4), I guess.
FWIW, you can't pull much of a vacuum with your lungs, but you can achieve about a half atmosphere with just your mouth, which I find pretty impressive.
The closest I've seen recently is Discovery Science channel, but it's mostly "big science", "big engineering", and vehicles. Their "How it's Made" is closer to what Mr. Wizard provided. "This Old House" is reasonable. What's missing is teaching basic science and an understanding of what things are and how they work.
Second, employment of technical advances would slow to a crawl again. One of the complaints of companies like ATT and ITT in the years before deregulation was that the local governments prevented installation of superior quality and features in order to keep costs down.
Third, in the current political climate, monopolies are vulnerable to unions, which drives up prices. A non-union company has competitive advantages which, other things being equal, lead to it driving union companies out of business.
Fourth, unions and monopolies, especially government-maintained monopolies, are an invitation to corruption. Government is too powerful and corrupt as it is.
If you examine the Fletcher-Munson curves carefully, you'll find that the dynamic range only becomes compressed at the low end, so the smile hypothesis is wrong. Many quality car audio systems dynamically boost the lows at low volume; they do no such thing with the high frequencies.
Most of the interstates are pretty well designed and do not encourage accidents. Twisty state and local roads without center dividers encourage accidents. Better roads, seat belts and other safety devices, legal and public pessure against drunk drivers, have resulted in a decline in traffic deaths over the last 50 years while the number of miles driven has more than doubled.
Radiation phobia and poorly thought-out disaster stories do not advance understanding.
The article says radiation levels are 10 to 100 times normal background. This range is probably beneficial for humans and most other animals. Living there probably isn't bad from the standpoint of background radiation; but I wouldn't want to eat food grown there or live in a house without a dust filter.
Things are getting better there faster than predicted, and if careful study is done we'll have more data for the theory of hormesis with respect to radiation.
Preinstall a durable string more than twice the length of the conduit inside each conduit, to ease fishing.
Gas turbines can be turned on fairly quickly. Diesel generators can be started quickly. Small hydropower installations can be brought online as fast as water can be made to run.
Two things come to mind. One is, AMD wants to make ultra-sure that there isn't some as-yet unnoticed mistake that will cause a product recall. The second is that there's a delay between the time somebody says "go" and packaged chips can be put into computers, most of which is the several weeks it takes to process wafers.
Now that Intel is mostly past its blunders, it still has the advantage of superior process and is likely to maintain that advantage. Unless AMD can pull more rabbits out of its hat, its goose is cooked. I want AMD to regain the performance lead, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Until a mechanism is known, we don't know if we're using surrogates. Furthermore, the surrogates serve as checks. If we have a known mechanism and results with surrogates contradict the known mechanism, it can be a clue that something else is affecting the results and may be worth searching for.
In the 1950s it was standard practice to rate horsepower with open headers and then add 10% for advertising. Cars were much heavier for a given internal size. Today, horsepower is measured in a pretty honest manner, with a full exhaust system. Computer-optimized design minimizes the use of resources in the car's construction, and lighter materials (aluminum and plastic) replace steel; this overwhelms the effect of added gadgets.
It's often the case that the description of variables is hundreds of lines away from the code that uses the variables. Size and signedness, initial values, scaling factors, etc. can easily be unclear where a variable is being used, and can make a world of difference in what a line of code does. A brief comment can clarify matters withhout having to search back for the definitions or open multiple windows. This is particularly true when unions, structures, bit fields, and shifting are involved.