The Dow Jones (Industrial Average) consists of stocks that, on average, pay more dividends than the general market. The index does not reflect accumulated interest payments. On the other hand, it doesn't include "inflation" (loss of purchasing power) either.
I agree that Harvard was acting unethically in this instance, and furthermore that the administrators responsible for this punishment should themselves be punished. The prospective students should be admitted. The fool who made the data accessible needs to take some classes at a competent school 2 miles south of Harvard.
crappy little operating systems like CP/M and DR-DOS.
I used 2 versions of DR-DOS. Each was substantially superior to the MS-DOS version available at the same time, in terms of features, speed, price, and mean time between crashes.
In the days of CPM on Z80, it was not uncommon for the BIOS to be available as source code. In fact, Digital Research provided a skeleton BIOS so that developers could copy their example onto new hardware. Of course, a BIOS that was only 2 kilobytes was not a big deal, but it shows that the principle can work. And there's no "magic" involved.
My understanding is that the insurance costs are what makes nuclear uneconomic. (That is partly a result of estimated cleanup costs, and partly estimated liability costs.) Since there haven't been any nuclear disasters in commercial US nuclear plants, it seems that the high insurance costs are bogus and having the federal government cover the costs of a nuclear disaster should not in fact be a real cost to the govt. Hence the claim that the govt is subsidizing the industry by covering these costs is dishonest.
"take with a grain of salt" means "be skeptical". The phrase with this meaning comes from ancient Latin, and as far as I can tell the cause of this meaning is unknown.
OK, here's one reason many people decide not to vote:
Time it takes to vote: 1/2 hour. Value of that half hour: $10.00. Chance that this vote will change the result of the election: 1/1000. Resultant cost of changing the result of the election: $10,000.00
Likely gain that a particular candidate will cause in my life: $500.00
This makes voting 20 times more costly than not voting.
Vote buying is fundamental corruption. In many places judges are elected. Joe buys a judgeship for his pal, murders a dozen people; the trial comes up before this judge who throws the case out. If you can't see a problem with this there's no hope for you.
A felony is a major offense and in many cases is an indication that the person in question is opposed to the best interests of the community. That he has "paid his debt to society" does not mean he should be able to vote. This is analogous to the reason that we have lists of sex offenders that persist even after jail time.
The purpose of voting to control government is to ensure that government does not act as a predator toward the populace. This purpose is not served by letting predators vote.
If you can verify that the voter has a valid registration, what does it matter when the voter was registered?
The validity of the registration probably cannot be determined in a matter of minutes. In order to prevent invalid registrations and thus invalid votes, the vote, the registration, and the person's identity would have to be tied together until the validity of the registration was determined. Goodby secret ballot, hello open invitation to fraud.
There is so much wrong with this bill it is hard to know where to begin. Taking determination of who is qualified to vote out of the hands of the states is quite bad; it is explicitly opening the door to felons voting and I presume the mentally incompetent will be allowed also. Registering to vote the day of the election is an open invitation to immense vote fraud on a scale never before experienced.
Voting should not be made easy. A person who will only vote if the effort involved is near-zero will not take the trouble to find out the nature of the issues and the quality of the candidates. To the extent that he does understand the issues he will vote to get things at no expense to himself: he will vote for a kleptocracy.
One of the comics sites already has an approach that could be tweaked to become unbeatable. Click on a link for the comic I want, and an ad page comes up. I have to click on a link in the ad page to get the comic I want.
According to Yahoo finance, TiVo's debt is 7.3 million and cash is 88 million. TiVo is losing money but living off a moderate pile of dollars (from its IPO?)
Jigsaw puzzles aren't too different from the hand crafting of integrated circuits from a schematic, except that the latter requires considerable additional knowledge. She may have a lucrative career ahead of her.
It's a standard excuse for anyone caught saying something really stupid to say, "I didn't mean it literally." Don't try that in a court of law.
Here's my eternal, inviolable truth. Oh, it's nasty, vicious and self-contradictory? Well, here's the revised version. Ignore the first part, I only really meant the second part.
In other words, you think you're a Christian, and since the Bible defines Christianity and you don't like part of the Bible, that part of the Bible must be invalid.
The word hypocritical consists of two parts: hypo=insufficiently, and critical.
The article also mentions viewing the ocean and stars. What are the windows going to be made of? Seems like a significant weakness to me. I'll take along a "spare tire in a can", thanks.
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If your post can be taken as evidence, the problem in the US is defective education. "INCOURGE", "DEPT": hah!
The Dow Jones (Industrial Average) consists of stocks that, on average, pay more dividends than the general market. The index does not reflect accumulated interest payments. On the other hand, it doesn't include "inflation" (loss of purchasing power) either.
I agree that Harvard was acting unethically in this instance, and furthermore that the administrators responsible for this punishment should themselves be punished. The prospective students should be admitted. The fool who made the data accessible needs to take some classes at a competent school 2 miles south of Harvard.
I used 2 versions of DR-DOS. Each was substantially superior to the MS-DOS version available at the same time, in terms of features, speed, price, and mean time between crashes.
They had difficulty taking off as it was. Could they have even gotten off the ground with full tanks?
In the days of CPM on Z80, it was not uncommon for the BIOS to be available as source code. In fact, Digital Research provided a skeleton BIOS so that developers could copy their example onto new hardware. Of course, a BIOS that was only 2 kilobytes was not a big deal, but it shows that the principle can work. And there's no "magic" involved.
My understanding is that the insurance costs are what makes nuclear uneconomic. (That is partly a result of estimated cleanup costs, and partly estimated liability costs.) Since there haven't been any nuclear disasters in commercial US nuclear plants, it seems that the high insurance costs are bogus and having the federal government cover the costs of a nuclear disaster should not in fact be a real cost to the govt. Hence the claim that the govt is subsidizing the industry by covering these costs is dishonest.
"take with a grain of salt" means "be skeptical". The phrase with this meaning comes from ancient Latin, and as far as I can tell the cause of this meaning is unknown.
Do you understand what the word federal means? How about ochlocracy?
Popular election of senators has already caused a lot of damage to the US. Popular election of the president would cause even more damage.
I've lived in 5 states, and New Hampshire residents take politics much more seriously than those in the other 4.
There is a class of negatives that can be proved: those with self-contradictory properties. There are no square circles.
Time it takes to vote: 1/2 hour. Value of that half hour: $10.00. Chance that this vote will change the result of the election: 1/1000. Resultant cost of changing the result of the election: $10,000.00
Likely gain that a particular candidate will cause in my life: $500.00
This makes voting 20 times more costly than not voting.
Vote buying is fundamental corruption. In many places judges are elected. Joe buys a judgeship for his pal, murders a dozen people; the trial comes up before this judge who throws the case out. If you can't see a problem with this there's no hope for you.
By your argument infants should also be allowed to vote.
The purpose of voting to control government is to ensure that government does not act as a predator toward the populace. This purpose is not served by letting predators vote.
The validity of the registration probably cannot be determined in a matter of minutes. In order to prevent invalid registrations and thus invalid votes, the vote, the registration, and the person's identity would have to be tied together until the validity of the registration was determined. Goodby secret ballot, hello open invitation to fraud.
Voting should not be made easy. A person who will only vote if the effort involved is near-zero will not take the trouble to find out the nature of the issues and the quality of the candidates. To the extent that he does understand the issues he will vote to get things at no expense to himself: he will vote for a kleptocracy.
One of the comics sites already has an approach that could be tweaked to become unbeatable. Click on a link for the comic I want, and an ad page comes up. I have to click on a link in the ad page to get the comic I want.
Pipelined applications also benefit from SMP. Each stage of the pipe can be assigned to a different processor.
According to Yahoo finance, TiVo's debt is 7.3 million and cash is 88 million. TiVo is losing money but living off a moderate pile of dollars (from its IPO?)
...but the broadcast flag requires that the recording be deleted after a proscribed interval.
Jigsaw puzzles aren't too different from the hand crafting of integrated circuits from a schematic, except that the latter requires considerable additional knowledge. She may have a lucrative career ahead of her.
Here's my eternal, inviolable truth. Oh, it's nasty, vicious and self-contradictory? Well, here's the revised version. Ignore the first part, I only really meant the second part.
The word hypocritical consists of two parts: hypo=insufficiently, and critical.
The article also mentions viewing the ocean and stars. What are the windows going to be made of? Seems like a significant weakness to me. I'll take along a "spare tire in a can", thanks.