Geez, with all the evidence pointed to in the above links, I'm not joking this time. How can so many special interests screw the rest of us so completely and get away with it?
It's a clear violation of the social contract. And the special interests should not be components of the government we've contracted with to look after our interests, because they most clearly do not.
Oh, and one further thought - it would seem that if the tax is still on the books, one way to decriminalise it in one stroke would be to repeal that tax. That would take enforcement out of the hands of the feds altogether. Certainly some states might write their own laws to control the subject, but I could imagine there would be some resistance in others.
Alan Ginsberg wrote a reasonably scholarly treatise a few decades ago called "The Marijuana Papers" detailing the campaign of Harry J. Ainslinger to portray marijuana smokers as some deranged combination of heroin and speed addict. Nobody knew any differently, and the media channel was rather narrow in the late 30's when Ainslinger used the weed as a plank in his senatorial campaign. We would somehow need to unravel and counter that in order to repeal the damage. I'd suggest you're right, that some form of education campaign is in order here.
And marijuana wasn't actually rendered illegal in subsequent legislation, it was simply given an egregiously high federal tax per ounce on its sale. By avoiding the tax, traffickers were able to be pursued by federal rather than state authorities, thus its entrenchment in federal pursuit.
It was postulated that since the perception was that only blacks smoked hemp, the idea of this "social disease" being transmitted cross-culturally implied a form of sanction for racism, and thus appealed to the fearful white anglo-saxon protestant (WASP) that made up most of Ainslinger's voter demographic in 1938.
Anyway, if you can find a copy it makes very interesting reading.
Easier to just lock the PC itself inside a cabinet so the end user doesn't have access to the box itself, just the keyboard, mouse, monitor.
These are available -- rack mounted PC blades with each desk holding a small dock connecting keyboard, video and mouse. The racks of client PC's are centrally managed. I believe the economics were originally for max uptime at the desktop by not requiring a technician visit in case of ordinary PC failure -- they just switch which blade in the rack goes to that desk via some sort of uber-KVM switch.
Sorry I can't be more technical, but it was some time ago and I only saw the sales literature. If I were at work I'd offer a name or a link;)
Bullets would bounce off his chest, but a punch knocks him down?
Hmmm... (looks perplexed at his old Physics texts)...That's actually kind of feasible. It depends on how much energy is absorbed by the armour. If a bullet ricocheted off a highly elastic but hard substance such as steel or Unobtanium(tm) and retained much of its original speed in reflection (thus carrying away much of the original energy of the bullet) the remainder of the impact energy absorbed by the armour could be said to be distributed across the entire surface, and thus the CC would be able to survive the bullet impact. OTOH, the same amount of energy distributed by a heavy dead-blow hammer wielded by a lunatic could probably put him in the hospital. It's a matter of energy density over the cross section of impact and the ability of the armour surface to reflect a blow at one impact profile vs. another, against which it might not be sufficiently optimised to cope.
Of course, I could be full of compost here, but there's a good reason dead-blow hammers (generally a heavy soft-face hammer with a hollow section containing lead shot) are in every body & fender man's toolkit.
A great spin off of the "Tron" theme (although a bit obscure) was the Canadian computer animated series "Reboot" set inside a computer metaphor, with each of the characters modeling some aspect of computing as it was known at the time. It dealt with lifelike (well, "ish") characters involved in protecting the Game Grid from evil virii "Megabyte" and "Hexadecimal", the latter notable for always wearing a mask. Or that blow in from the internet, surfer dude Ray Tracer. The 3D graphics quality was pretty advanced for the day, and the themes and jokes were true to the technology, complete with the need to get Slow Food from disk storage to save Dot (from Dot's Diner). I loved those cartoons. As soon as I find a set (on pretty much any media) I will buy them.
Mmmmm... venison. So, which bike is best for hunting? I'd say the V-max is up there, but personally I'd put my money behind a Triumph Rocket 3. Lots of power, narrow profile, footboards for clearing off the messy bits.
Also has the best sales video ever. YouTube, look it up;)
That does figure high in my list of potential causes, but generally I clear the dll and prefetch cache and reboot before I start worrying about hardware. Especially if you've been running a diverse series of programs on it.
...why don't we just go with YOUR interpretation of what the constitution means...
I'm happy if the Constitution is given the respect it's due ("I will re-instate Habeas Corpus" - BHO). I'm happy to let the Supreme Court be the interpreters of the document, as is enshrined in law (they're not perfect, but it's a quality process and better than everybody shouting at once). I'm absolutely gob-smacked, deliriously over-the-moon ecstatic over the fact that the next round of SC judicial appointments will not come from, not be influenced by a Bush - Cheney, McCain - Palin world.
I want to live in a garden and have the universe as my toy, spinning at my whim and containing all my dreams, pets and machines. I want green, sunlit gardens and waterfalls with Waldos stepping through the murk and smoke of sunless moons, digging my wealth. I want iced tea, fast machines, flying cars and friendship that never dies. And I want another planet to study. Yes, another planet.
But the doctor says I can't have iced tea. He said nothing about the rest.
If he was serious about finding the difference in download speeds, he would run both operating systems as virtual machines on the same piece of hardware.
Temporal resolution of even one femoparc is more than enough for casual imaging, even of receptotarsers. Given a perfectly still specimen (held in place, or even dead!) surwidth can be kept to a minimum which leads to amazing detail, far more than that possible with conventional electoclarosis or similar methods. The only problem is the cost, from what I understand.
Not to mention that with DC you can run a single wire over long distances along the coastline, and run the return circuit through the ocean. I think GE did that in California some time ago.
Opportunity for some power supply manufacturer here.
Some time ago I was tasked with solving the brick proliferation problem for a national retailer. The cheap little wall-plug PSU's that were proliferating under the POS lanes were considered dangerous.
My response was to talk to a power supply manufacturer and get them to design a single wall-mount PSU with multiple DC leads using a variety of connectors to fit the various POS peripherals (fortunately they all used a standard DC voltage).
The output leads were separate wires with plug-in connectors at each end so as to offer choice of length and to match the connector requirements of the periphs. If you're going after a couple hundred units or so, these firms will be glad to design and produce a unit for you, with your choice of leads & all. If you have multiple bricks with the same output voltage, this could be your solution. But some retailer would have to step forward I'd think, to order the minimum quantity.
I will not give you a team leadership, senior developer or similar position out of school, it is that simple.
40 years ago I would have been depressed by that.
What I meant was "do the work you want to do" not leap directly into the sky. Get a job as a programmer if you want to be a programmer, not a job in testing which may some day lead to a job as a programmer. Azimuth rather than right ascension, if you will.
Look up that little ditty -- about a love story between two atoms. "...Sodium cried, 'What a gas - be my bride! And I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride..." One of the greats.
The problem is MS Exchange. Proper mail servers will only save ONE copy of a message and attachment sent to any number of users. That is what separates the men from the boys. Unfortunately, Exchange is one of the boys.
um... Exchange has had per-site single-instance message store for dl's since test release 1.
If you "take whatever you can get" now, you will artificially hurt your earnings potential
I agree, Pavera. The effect of not going straight for what you want will be playing pinball in the job market until you do. Not all experience is useful, or particularly pleasant.
Model/profile what your prospective boss really wants. Be that person. See that person in the mirror. Find out everything about the exact tool set desired and learn that tool set and the business context surrounding it. That's important whether you want to design embedded systems for commercial aircraft or drive a metro bus.
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Geez, with all the evidence pointed to in the above links, I'm not joking this time. How can so many special interests screw the rest of us so completely and get away with it?
It's a clear violation of the social contract. And the special interests should not be components of the government we've contracted with to look after our interests, because they most clearly do not.
Oh, and one further thought - it would seem that if the tax is still on the books, one way to decriminalise it in one stroke would be to repeal that tax. That would take enforcement out of the hands of the feds altogether. Certainly some states might write their own laws to control the subject, but I could imagine there would be some resistance in others.
Alan Ginsberg wrote a reasonably scholarly treatise a few decades ago called "The Marijuana Papers" detailing the campaign of Harry J. Ainslinger to portray marijuana smokers as some deranged combination of heroin and speed addict. Nobody knew any differently, and the media channel was rather narrow in the late 30's when Ainslinger used the weed as a plank in his senatorial campaign. We would somehow need to unravel and counter that in order to repeal the damage. I'd suggest you're right, that some form of education campaign is in order here.
And marijuana wasn't actually rendered illegal in subsequent legislation, it was simply given an egregiously high federal tax per ounce on its sale. By avoiding the tax, traffickers were able to be pursued by federal rather than state authorities, thus its entrenchment in federal pursuit.
It was postulated that since the perception was that only blacks smoked hemp, the idea of this "social disease" being transmitted cross-culturally implied a form of sanction for racism, and thus appealed to the fearful white anglo-saxon protestant (WASP) that made up most of Ainslinger's voter demographic in 1938.
Anyway, if you can find a copy it makes very interesting reading.
Easier to just lock the PC itself inside a cabinet so the end user doesn't have access to the box itself, just the keyboard, mouse, monitor.
These are available -- rack mounted PC blades with each desk holding a small dock connecting keyboard, video and mouse. The racks of client PC's are centrally managed. I believe the economics were originally for max uptime at the desktop by not requiring a technician visit in case of ordinary PC failure -- they just switch which blade in the rack goes to that desk via some sort of uber-KVM switch.
Sorry I can't be more technical, but it was some time ago and I only saw the sales literature. If I were at work I'd offer a name or a link ;)
Bullets would bounce off his chest, but a punch knocks him down?
Hmmm... (looks perplexed at his old Physics texts)...That's actually kind of feasible. It depends on how much energy is absorbed by the armour. If a bullet ricocheted off a highly elastic but hard substance such as steel or Unobtanium(tm) and retained much of its original speed in reflection (thus carrying away much of the original energy of the bullet) the remainder of the impact energy absorbed by the armour could be said to be distributed across the entire surface, and thus the CC would be able to survive the bullet impact. OTOH, the same amount of energy distributed by a heavy dead-blow hammer wielded by a lunatic could probably put him in the hospital. It's a matter of energy density over the cross section of impact and the ability of the armour surface to reflect a blow at one impact profile vs. another, against which it might not be sufficiently optimised to cope.
Of course, I could be full of compost here, but there's a good reason dead-blow hammers (generally a heavy soft-face hammer with a hollow section containing lead shot) are in every body & fender man's toolkit.
A great spin off of the "Tron" theme (although a bit obscure) was the Canadian computer animated series "Reboot" set inside a computer metaphor, with each of the characters modeling some aspect of computing as it was known at the time. It dealt with lifelike (well, "ish") characters involved in protecting the Game Grid from evil virii "Megabyte" and "Hexadecimal", the latter notable for always wearing a mask. Or that blow in from the internet, surfer dude Ray Tracer. The 3D graphics quality was pretty advanced for the day, and the themes and jokes were true to the technology, complete with the need to get Slow Food from disk storage to save Dot (from Dot's Diner). I loved those cartoons. As soon as I find a set (on pretty much any media) I will buy them.
Also has the best sales video ever. YouTube, look it up ;)
That does figure high in my list of potential causes, but generally I clear the dll and prefetch cache and reboot before I start worrying about hardware. Especially if you've been running a diverse series of programs on it.
...why don't we just go with YOUR interpretation of what the constitution means...
I'm happy if the Constitution is given the respect it's due ("I will re-instate Habeas Corpus" - BHO). I'm happy to let the Supreme Court be the interpreters of the document, as is enshrined in law (they're not perfect, but it's a quality process and better than everybody shouting at once). I'm absolutely gob-smacked, deliriously over-the-moon ecstatic over the fact that the next round of SC judicial appointments will not come from, not be influenced by a Bush - Cheney, McCain - Palin world.
Yes, what you say. Until he can release all zig for Great Justice, he can not set up us the bomb.
But the doctor says I can't have iced tea. He said nothing about the rest.
Space is what keeps everything from happening to you.
(what's the opposite of coffee?)
Alcohol
If he was serious about finding the difference in download speeds, he would run both operating systems as virtual machines on the same piece of hardware.
Temporal resolution of even one femoparc is more than enough for casual imaging, even of receptotarsers. Given a perfectly still specimen (held in place, or even dead!) surwidth can be kept to a minimum which leads to amazing detail, far more than that possible with conventional electoclarosis or similar methods. The only problem is the cost, from what I understand.
Agree, that's known to be perfectly cromulent.
If you were sent to Hell for more almost 350 years just for telling the truth you'd be a little pissed off, too!
I'd think Hell would have the better libraries.
Not to mention that with DC you can run a single wire over long distances along the coastline, and run the return circuit through the ocean. I think GE did that in California some time ago.
Opportunity for some power supply manufacturer here.
Some time ago I was tasked with solving the brick proliferation problem for a national retailer. The cheap little wall-plug PSU's that were proliferating under the POS lanes were considered dangerous.
My response was to talk to a power supply manufacturer and get them to design a single wall-mount PSU with multiple DC leads using a variety of connectors to fit the various POS peripherals (fortunately they all used a standard DC voltage).
The output leads were separate wires with plug-in connectors at each end so as to offer choice of length and to match the connector requirements of the periphs. If you're going after a couple hundred units or so, these firms will be glad to design and produce a unit for you, with your choice of leads & all. If you have multiple bricks with the same output voltage, this could be your solution. But some retailer would have to step forward I'd think, to order the minimum quantity.
Remember, politics is show business for ugly people.
I will not give you a team leadership, senior developer or similar position out of school, it is that simple.
40 years ago I would have been depressed by that.
What I meant was "do the work you want to do" not leap directly into the sky. Get a job as a programmer if you want to be a programmer, not a job in testing which may some day lead to a job as a programmer. Azimuth rather than right ascension, if you will.
Look up that little ditty -- about a love story between two atoms. "...Sodium cried, 'What a gas - be my bride! And I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride..." One of the greats.
It's clear these studies do generate a lot of hot air. How much, well, that's a little hard to quantify.
So, what are the risks that I'll end up powering my retina
Apparently pretty low. They're using wavelengths that the eye is opaque to.
Switch to masers, not IR.
Now, about that warm glow you feel about solving that problem...
The problem is MS Exchange. Proper mail servers will only save ONE copy of a message and attachment sent to any number of users. That is what separates the men from the boys. Unfortunately, Exchange is one of the boys.
um... Exchange has had per-site single-instance message store for dl's since test release 1.
If you "take whatever you can get" now, you will artificially hurt your earnings potential
I agree, Pavera. The effect of not going straight for what you want will be playing pinball in the job market until you do. Not all experience is useful, or particularly pleasant.
Model/profile what your prospective boss really wants. Be that person. See that person in the mirror. Find out everything about the exact tool set desired and learn that tool set and the business context surrounding it. That's important whether you want to design embedded systems for commercial aircraft or drive a metro bus.