If GWB has really been setting up a post election bolthole, eg. Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway, then some of his friends (particularly those in the intelligence community) may be working to keep Paraguay at the appropriate level of corruption.
If somebody asks to be accompanied on an unknown song, most musicians will initially try the 4 chord progression known as Rhythm changes (named for Gershwin's "I've got Rhythm").
Often it works, and in listening to MS kludge it seems they likes their Rhythm changes.
I once flew around the Soviet Union a few years before the fall of the Berlin wall.
They had a very strictly enforced an order where people in the back of the jet got on last and got off first.
It seems that on at least some Aeroflot models, if you didn't have enough passengers in the front balancing the weight of those in the rear, the plane would tip backwards.
A few years ago I spent some time playing an online multiplayer flash game. The individual games were fairly short and involved 2 or 4 players. Those online could send personal messages to each other to setup games, etc.
I think there were a lot of young adults there because I would often get requests like "ASL" (age/sex/location) and "wanna cyber" (engage in sex talk).
All of which could be considered solicitations and could easily be ignored.
A lot of such traffic could be suppressed if there was a public campaign to tell young adults that that "18 year old virgin" is most often really a 13 year old boy or a 50 year old 300lb woman on medical disability.
So you haven't updated your browser even though when you run it eventually there pops up a window that says you really need to update it NOW and gives you a button to click on to do it?
Personally I don't know anybody who is still running "Mozilla". For just a browser they run "Firefox" and for integrated Web and Email they run "SeaMonkey".
"Clarke, C.M & R. Kruger 2006. Nepenthes tenax C.Clarke and R.Kruger (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Austrobaileya 7(2): 319-324.
Umm, the reason that no vertebrate has developed two parallel hearts is that evolution has found it much easier just to increase the size of one heart as needed.
In humans who live long enough to die from old-age problems, having 2 parallel hearts could be an advantage because if one failed there would be a backup.
However death by heart disease is only historically a recent major cause of mortality, and most victims are past the age that reproductive fitness could work out a dual-heart solution.
Often the biggest skill lacking in technical people is they cannot write very well.
I've seen some really bad reports written by fairly good technical people.
Spending several semesters taking writing courses is a much better investment than learning a new language (which you should be able to do on your own and which will happen during your career).
Being able to explain things clearly on paper will put you in an important position in any development group and will lead to the most career growth.
Yes you might be able to stay out of trouble by following some of your rules-of-thumb guides.
But the current Bush DOJ rules approach is to favor businesses over citizens, and to favor lenders over citizens.
Unless there is some political way to prevent this process, lenders will bleed most of Americans dry and then people will wake up to the fact that China is the largest American lender and essentially controls all lender activity in the US.
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In the earlier article, Caveat Emptor - Use of Credit Cards On-Line, 12 angry men recommend using a bank-tied-service (like Bank of America's ShopSafe)to go online to your bank to get a new credit card number for each transaction so as to prevent fraud.
Most of America is either Progressive and/or Populist (downside: Progressives tend toward elitism while Populists tend toward racism). But both are against letting corporations running unchecked.
However the Bush administration has been entirely on the side of freeing Capitalism from any bounds.
Thus there have been lots more business scams recently which it is against the Bush philosophy to investigate and prosecute. (just consider the mortgage scams).
While a service like ShopSafe might be useful in avoiding a situation where I have to spend a lot of time refuting charges and cleaning up my credit record, I really wish that Bush's DOJ was less concerned about politics and more about aggressively pursuing business crime.
The phone do-not-call list was a triumph of Progressives/Populists over business interests.
I would much rather have legislation and law enforcement that can quickly track down and identity theft and credit card scams than having to carry around electronics so that I can interact with my bank for every credit card usage.
The last time something like this was announced the Intelligent Design wakos went crazy. E.g. if "junk DNA" contains meaning then Evolution is wrong because that whole theory is based on protein encoding genes. If there is some overall all control mechanisms outside of the genes then that can only be evidence of some intelligently designed mechanism.
I may have understood some of the article but it seems to have been mainly an exercise in trotting out what somebody thinks are the most trendy buzzwords.
This seems to have been just added to normal Google maps.
Pittsburgh light rail (T, Trolley) stations now seem to have active schedules.
This link is near a station. Click on the station and it will show you when the next trains depart.
Clicking on "view more upcoming departures" does not seem to give any new info.
using BMI as a measure for obesity is plain stupid
BMI does not directly indicate "obesity" however it is measured. But BMI correlates very strongly with all more precise measures obesity in large studies and is valid as a proxy.
Yes extreme body-builders and TV fake wrestlers may have BMIs that naïvely label them as obese, but I doubt you have a body like that.
Those children who do sports at school do not burn more calories than those who don't.
There are many multiple-child families in which some children engage in strenuous sports while others do not. They can all tell you that the sporty children eat a whole lot more than the non-sporty ones.
Who came up with this HTML? I does not semantically group things together correctly.
'storylinks' should be inside 'article' (or there should be a wrapper around the two). Also 'briefarticles' is not a semantic class and should be removed as a wrapper.
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If GWB has really been setting up a post election bolthole, eg. Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway, then some of his friends (particularly those in the intelligence community) may be working to keep Paraguay at the appropriate level of corruption.
That level of skill may be hard to fight.
While it is not GPS, you can attach a Cat Cam to a cat to get a time lapse record of where the cat has been.
If somebody asks to be accompanied on an unknown song, most musicians will initially try the 4 chord progression known as Rhythm changes (named for Gershwin's "I've got Rhythm"). Often it works, and in listening to MS kludge it seems they likes their Rhythm changes.
I once flew around the Soviet Union a few years before the fall of the Berlin wall.
They had a very strictly enforced an order where people in the back of the jet got on last and got off first.
It seems that on at least some Aeroflot models, if you didn't have enough passengers in the front balancing the weight of those in the rear, the plane would tip backwards.
A few years ago I spent some time playing an online multiplayer flash game. The individual games were fairly short and involved 2 or 4 players. Those online could send personal messages to each other to setup games, etc.
I think there were a lot of young adults there because I would often get requests like "ASL" (age/sex/location) and "wanna cyber" (engage in sex talk).
All of which could be considered solicitations and could easily be ignored.
A lot of such traffic could be suppressed if there was a public campaign to tell young adults that that "18 year old virgin" is most often really a 13 year old boy or a 50 year old 300lb woman on medical disability.
However the co-author "R.Kruger" is Rod Kruger who runs Captive Exotics,The first author Charles Clark seems to have an interest in this business
picture here, and there is even a Wikipedia entry.
Umm, the reason that no vertebrate has developed two parallel hearts is that evolution has found it much easier just to increase the size of one heart as needed.
In humans who live long enough to die from old-age problems, having 2 parallel hearts could be an advantage because if one failed there would be a backup.
However death by heart disease is only historically a recent major cause of mortality, and most victims are past the age that reproductive fitness could work out a dual-heart solution.
If you can grow replacement hears, then you can grow more than one.
Think of the gains of installing 2 in parallel, or even 4.
Though it would probably be nice to get their beating synchronized.
so it is not relevant
Here is the old theoretical paperOne path to acoustic cloaking, New Journal of Physics, v. 9, 45, 2007. [pdf reprint] The Science Daily article is just a reprint of the Duke press release. Steven A. Cummer seems to provide PDF "reprints" of all his papers but the new one isn't in that list. Nor can it be found on David Smith' page, David Schurig's old Duke page, or his new NC State page, Sir John Pendry's page, or Anthony Starr's page.
Often the biggest skill lacking in technical people is they cannot write very well.
I've seen some really bad reports written by fairly good technical people.
Spending several semesters taking writing courses is a much better investment than learning a new language (which you should be able to do on your own and which will happen during your career).
Being able to explain things clearly on paper will put you in an important position in any development group and will lead to the most career growth.
Yes you might be able to stay out of trouble by following some of your rules-of-thumb guides.
But the current Bush DOJ rules approach is to favor businesses over citizens, and to favor lenders over citizens.
Unless there is some political way to prevent this process, lenders will bleed most of Americans dry and then people will wake up to the fact that China is the largest American lender and essentially controls all lender activity in the US. .
In the earlier article, Caveat Emptor - Use of Credit Cards On-Line, 12 angry men recommend using a bank-tied-service (like Bank of America's ShopSafe)to go online to your bank to get a new credit card number for each transaction so as to prevent fraud. Most of America is either Progressive and/or Populist (downside: Progressives tend toward elitism while Populists tend toward racism). But both are against letting corporations running unchecked. However the Bush administration has been entirely on the side of freeing Capitalism from any bounds. Thus there have been lots more business scams recently which it is against the Bush philosophy to investigate and prosecute. (just consider the mortgage scams). While a service like ShopSafe might be useful in avoiding a situation where I have to spend a lot of time refuting charges and cleaning up my credit record, I really wish that Bush's DOJ was less concerned about politics and more about aggressively pursuing business crime. The phone do-not-call list was a triumph of Progressives/Populists over business interests. I would much rather have legislation and law enforcement that can quickly track down and identity theft and credit card scams than having to carry around electronics so that I can interact with my bank for every credit card usage.
The last time something like this was announced the Intelligent Design wakos went crazy. E.g. if "junk DNA" contains meaning then Evolution is wrong because that whole theory is based on protein encoding genes. If there is some overall all control mechanisms outside of the genes then that can only be evidence of some intelligently designed mechanism.
I may have understood some of the article but it seems to have been mainly an exercise in trotting out what somebody thinks are the most trendy buzzwords.
This seems to have been just added to normal Google maps.
Pittsburgh light rail (T, Trolley) stations now seem to have active schedules.
This link is near a station. Click on the station and it will show you when the next trains depart. Clicking on "view more upcoming departures" does not seem to give any new info.
Yes extreme body-builders and TV fake wrestlers may have BMIs that naïvely label them as obese, but I doubt you have a body like that.
I used to think that if I visited sites with advertising then I shouldn't interfere with the ads. After all I didn't have to look at them.
Then fancier moving ads came out (maybe some with bugs) and I found some used up most of my CPU cycles in firefox.
Eventually I had to install AdBlock+ so I could be sure that I could have 40 tabs open without cripling the browser.
Sure a fancy ad may only add a little overhead, but when you multiply that by 40 it adds up.
Here is a PDF of one EXPO presentation.
That way I can be sure that I am corresponding with a virgin who just turned 18.