The fact that he used the police database to get revenge on his ex-wife, or the fact that he tried to mislead Congress about what he actually did?
Now he's saying his original statement that he asked someone else to do the search for him was wrong, that he actually did the searching himself, twice. Voters are getting tired of government officials who conveniently forget facts.
it's a little close to wearing a fast food uniform
Or someone thinks their Help Desk is the company's in house Geek Squad. But I agree, it kind of puts them in the same category as custodians and cafeteria workers.
What this really does is underscore management's view of the help desk as support staff, separate from and subservient to other departments which are "profit centers".
All excellent points. In my experience one of the really big ones you left out is "feature envy", especially when it comes from the sales staff (aka "Marketing"). If management/architects would be happy with seeing only the 80% of the functionality delivered in 1.0, more systems would make it out of development on time.
The Conquistadores were privateers who worked closely with their sovereigns, much like the British, e.g. Sir Walter Raleigh.
Avatar isn't quite as blatant in it's political message as some movies that claim to be documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Inconvenient Truth; it's more like the Disney anti-hunting movies (pick pretty much any one). Subliminal messages vs propaganda much like CNN vs. Fox News. I don't know which is worse.
Our "average lifespan" has been increasing because we're eliminating infant mortality, not because most people only lived to some ridiculously low age.
Life expectancy is always stated with a starting age, e.g. at birth, at age 5, at age 18, etc.
Life expectancy at birth obviously goes up rapidly with lower infant mortality. Life expectancy at age 5 just as obviously depends on other factors. Our current life expectancy at all age levels is the highest it's ever been. In other words, you just demonstrated that you suck at actuarial rates.
The perpetrator is claiming he received the explosives from Al-Qaeda in Jemen. He did visit Jemen before boarding this flight, so that is quite likely the source.
But don't ignore the "liar, liar, pants on fire" scenario.
Pretty much any game that involves animals pushes the Disney "animals good/people evil" and environmental activism themes (well, except the Deer Hunter series). There's also a fine line between racial or gender equality and reverse racism/sexism, similar to what we see coming out of Hollywood all the time, e.g. Avatar.
It would be even more wrong to try and stop the producers from pushing an agenda though. Just be aware that many are sending a message one way or the other. Like the news outlets, you can disagree with their bias but you can't shut them down
Obama's agenda has always been to funnel all available money into entitlement programs and short-term make-work projects. There's nothing left to invest in the future.
What they've found here is that they can map certain patterns of brainwaves to known facts when they are expecting one of a small set of patterns at a specific time. There are obvious applications for this with people who can't communicate any other way, but beyond that they fall into the same trap AI and speech recognition is already in. Picking out a letter, word, or thought from all the other noise inside a person's head has to be orders of magnitude more difficult that understanding spoken text.
Reminds me of an old joke:
Fortune Teller: No
Interviewer: Is it true that you can actually read a person's mind?
That's the real question. Whether it's 5, 10 , 100, or 1000, the only way to ensure you never imprison an innocent person is to refuse to imprison anyone.
Of course there's another threshold you need to consider. Is it better to let 10 innocent people be murdered than imprison one innocent person? Where do you draw the line? The families of those four policemen who were murdered by a paroled felon last month would like to hear your answer.
Restore the Glass–Steagall Act and separate commercial banking from investment banking.
Yes, several harmful changes to banking laws made during the nineties need to be rolled back, including the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as it was pushed through by Sens. Dodd and Schumer. Also the amendments passed in 1992 which mandated banks make high risk loans they wouldn't have made otherwise.
Excellent point. But it make me question his definition of an insurgency.
Apparently, an insurgency that's crushed quickly doesn't count as an insurgency. And an insurgency that grows into a civil war doesn't count as an insurgency.
Only if the counter-insurgency is somewhat effective in reducing but not eliminating the number of attacks does he include it in his data set. In conclusion (and most remarkably) the data in his data set show a strong correlation across "insurgencies".
observe fundamental chemical reactions occurring at the timescale of the femtosecond (one-millionth of a billionth of a second). The work "captured atoms and molecules in motion,"
It was a video, but it only lasted a femtosecond (and if this was Fark I'd say something about your mother here...).
I wouldn't have a problem if Chase had declared an organization ineligible, but that's not what they did. Instead they wimped out and hid the vote tallies, probably blocking votes to organizations that those running the contest don't support, without even saying who or why they were disqualified.
The tapes were all turned over to the National Archives, the existence of them has been known for over two years. It was just a matter of sorting through the sixty thousand or so to find the backups mentioned in the article. It doesn't appear any attempt was ever made to hide or destroy anything, just sloppy record-keeping.
Will be interesting to see if anything significant is found, but I predict the conspiracy theorists are going to be very disappointed.
No, it's the most fundamental law of economics at work, not at all specific to capitalism: Supply and Demand.
If you can influence Demand the price goes up. That's what marketing is all about. And surely you don't think that in a controlled economy there isn't marketing? The government controls that too, but it's definitely there. There's nothing unethical about marketing a product as long as it does what you day.
Of course broadband should be owned/operated by the government. And electricity, along with other sources of energy like oil and natural gas. Without question health care should be owned and run by the government. Food production too, we need to nationalize all farms and agribusiness companies immediately. Other natural resources like forests and minerals obviously belong to The People so the government should take them over. And you can't trust things as important as banking, insurance, journalism, or manufacturing to private industry. Did I forget anything? Oh yea, porn, the government also has to provide that according to our needs.
FTFP: "The technique determines a price to offer the product to individual potential buyers that considers both influence of the individual potential buyer..."
Microsoft wants to pay its customers to astroturf for it. Where I come from that's called a kickback, bribe, or politics as usual.
Dropping a few cruise missiles into an abandoned training camp in Afganistan was really effective wasn't it? And trying to ignore the "little war" in Kosovo until it turned into a genocide was great leadership.
But your bluster is just a feeble attempt to change the focus from Obama's failure to lead. His predecessors kept a sign on their desk in the Oval Office that read "The Buck Stops Here". I'm so tired of seeing him and Hillary and Emanuel and Gibbs pointing fingers. The theme of the current administration is "It's not my fault".
Yea, because Clinton's policy of ignoring problems worked out so well for the US, about the same as appeasement did throughout the last century. Obama has brought it to a new level with his "bend over" foreign policy.
Who specifically are you referring to when you say "those who used to be our friends"? Our relationship with China was better under Bush than it had ever been. Muslim countries? Never been great, but the moderates are still as friendly as can be expected. You blame Bush for Putin's policies in Russia? Pffft. I'm quite happy living in the US, if you want change you can go somewhere else.
The Obama administration still clings to the idea that the world is a friendly place full of pink unicorns and people who want to be all huggy-kissy with everyone else. There's no reason to develop technology more advanced than other countries'; we'll all play nice together like happy socialists are supposed to and not compete like evil capitalists.
'It's very encouraging to see the Obama Administration focus on ensuring public access to the results of taxpayer-funded research [reg. required] as a key way to maximize our collective investment in science,' says Heather Joseph
Ms. Joseph should thank the Bush administration for starting the ball rolling by opening up the NIH. Going forward, as long as the government applies the same peer review and quality standards to publishing the results that reputable journals do, the policy makes sense. But what happens if the researcher's peers don't like the quality of the work? Today it's quietly buried, will the government still publish it but with some kind of a caveat/stigma?
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The fact that he used the police database to get revenge on his ex-wife, or the fact that he tried to mislead Congress about what he actually did?
Now he's saying his original statement that he asked someone else to do the search for him was wrong, that he actually did the searching himself, twice. Voters are getting tired of government officials who conveniently forget facts.
it's a little close to wearing a fast food uniform
Or someone thinks their Help Desk is the company's in house Geek Squad. But I agree, it kind of puts them in the same category as custodians and cafeteria workers.
What this really does is underscore management's view of the help desk as support staff, separate from and subservient to other departments which are "profit centers".
All excellent points. In my experience one of the really big ones you left out is "feature envy", especially when it comes from the sales staff (aka "Marketing"). If management/architects would be happy with seeing only the 80% of the functionality delivered in 1.0, more systems would make it out of development on time.
The Conquistadores were privateers who worked closely with their sovereigns, much like the British, e.g. Sir Walter Raleigh.
Avatar isn't quite as blatant in it's political message as some movies that claim to be documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Inconvenient Truth; it's more like the Disney anti-hunting movies (pick pretty much any one). Subliminal messages vs propaganda much like CNN vs. Fox News. I don't know which is worse.
Our "average lifespan" has been increasing because we're eliminating infant mortality, not because most people only lived to some ridiculously low age.
Life expectancy is always stated with a starting age, e.g. at birth, at age 5, at age 18, etc.
Life expectancy at birth obviously goes up rapidly with lower infant mortality. Life expectancy at age 5 just as obviously depends on other factors. Our current life expectancy at all age levels is the highest it's ever been. In other words, you just demonstrated that you suck at actuarial rates.
The perpetrator is claiming he received the explosives from Al-Qaeda in Jemen. He did visit Jemen before boarding this flight, so that is quite likely the source.
But don't ignore the "liar, liar, pants on fire" scenario.
Pretty much any game that involves animals pushes the Disney "animals good/people evil" and environmental activism themes (well, except the Deer Hunter series). There's also a fine line between racial or gender equality and reverse racism/sexism, similar to what we see coming out of Hollywood all the time, e.g. Avatar.
It would be even more wrong to try and stop the producers from pushing an agenda though. Just be aware that many are sending a message one way or the other. Like the news outlets, you can disagree with their bias but you can't shut them down
Obama's agenda has always been to funnel all available money into entitlement programs and short-term make-work projects. There's nothing left to invest in the future.
What they've found here is that they can map certain patterns of brainwaves to known facts when they are expecting one of a small set of patterns at a specific time. There are obvious applications for this with people who can't communicate any other way, but beyond that they fall into the same trap AI and speech recognition is already in. Picking out a letter, word, or thought from all the other noise inside a person's head has to be orders of magnitude more difficult that understanding spoken text.
Reminds me of an old joke:
Fortune Teller: No
Interviewer: Is it true that you can actually read a person's mind?
Well then what is your threshhold?
That's the real question. Whether it's 5, 10 , 100, or 1000, the only way to ensure you never imprison an innocent person is to refuse to imprison anyone.
Of course there's another threshold you need to consider. Is it better to let 10 innocent people be murdered than imprison one innocent person? Where do you draw the line? The families of those four policemen who were murdered by a paroled felon last month would like to hear your answer.
Restore the Glass–Steagall Act and separate commercial banking from investment banking.
Yes, several harmful changes to banking laws made during the nineties need to be rolled back, including the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as it was pushed through by Sens. Dodd and Schumer. Also the amendments passed in 1992 which mandated banks make high risk loans they wouldn't have made otherwise.
Obviously all of the software for this mission would be written in R
Excellent point. But it make me question his definition of an insurgency.
Apparently, an insurgency that's crushed quickly doesn't count as an insurgency. And an insurgency that grows into a civil war doesn't count as an insurgency.
Only if the counter-insurgency is somewhat effective in reducing but not eliminating the number of attacks does he include it in his data set. In conclusion (and most remarkably) the data in his data set show a strong correlation across "insurgencies".
observe fundamental chemical reactions occurring at the timescale of the femtosecond (one-millionth of a billionth of a second). The work "captured atoms and molecules in motion,"
It was a video, but it only lasted a femtosecond (and if this was Fark I'd say something about your mother here...).
I wouldn't have a problem if Chase had declared an organization ineligible, but that's not what they did. Instead they wimped out and hid the vote tallies, probably blocking votes to organizations that those running the contest don't support, without even saying who or why they were disqualified.
I really hate to be so cynical, but this really looks like viral advertising to me.
The video is kind a clever splice-together of scenes he shot and scenes he copied, but I don't see anything especially original.
The tapes were all turned over to the National Archives, the existence of them has been known for over two years. It was just a matter of sorting through the sixty thousand or so to find the backups mentioned in the article. It doesn't appear any attempt was ever made to hide or destroy anything, just sloppy record-keeping. Will be interesting to see if anything significant is found, but I predict the conspiracy theorists are going to be very disappointed.
that's where the theory of capitalism fail...
No, it's the most fundamental law of economics at work, not at all specific to capitalism: Supply and Demand.
If you can influence Demand the price goes up. That's what marketing is all about. And surely you don't think that in a controlled economy there isn't marketing? The government controls that too, but it's definitely there. There's nothing unethical about marketing a product as long as it does what you day.
Of course broadband should be owned/operated by the government. And electricity, along with other sources of energy like oil and natural gas. Without question health care should be owned and run by the government. Food production too, we need to nationalize all farms and agribusiness companies immediately. Other natural resources like forests and minerals obviously belong to The People so the government should take them over. And you can't trust things as important as banking, insurance, journalism, or manufacturing to private industry. Did I forget anything? Oh yea, porn, the government also has to provide that according to our needs.
FTFP: "The technique determines a price to offer the product to individual potential buyers that considers both influence of the individual potential buyer..."
Microsoft wants to pay its customers to astroturf for it. Where I come from that's called a kickback, bribe, or politics as usual.
Dropping a few cruise missiles into an abandoned training camp in Afganistan was really effective wasn't it? And trying to ignore the "little war" in Kosovo until it turned into a genocide was great leadership.
But your bluster is just a feeble attempt to change the focus from Obama's failure to lead. His predecessors kept a sign on their desk in the Oval Office that read "The Buck Stops Here". I'm so tired of seeing him and Hillary and Emanuel and Gibbs pointing fingers. The theme of the current administration is "It's not my fault".
Yea, because Clinton's policy of ignoring problems worked out so well for the US, about the same as appeasement did throughout the last century. Obama has brought it to a new level with his "bend over" foreign policy.
Who specifically are you referring to when you say "those who used to be our friends"? Our relationship with China was better under Bush than it had ever been. Muslim countries? Never been great, but the moderates are still as friendly as can be expected. You blame Bush for Putin's policies in Russia? Pffft. I'm quite happy living in the US, if you want change you can go somewhere else.
The Obama administration still clings to the idea that the world is a friendly place full of pink unicorns and people who want to be all huggy-kissy with everyone else. There's no reason to develop technology more advanced than other countries'; we'll all play nice together like happy socialists are supposed to and not compete like evil capitalists.
The fact that they are in the UK is irrelevant; they should still have published their data and algorithms instead of fudging the data and hiding it.
'It's very encouraging to see the Obama Administration focus on ensuring public access to the results of taxpayer-funded research [reg. required] as a key way to maximize our collective investment in science,' says Heather Joseph
Ms. Joseph should thank the Bush administration for starting the ball rolling by opening up the NIH. Going forward, as long as the government applies the same peer review and quality standards to publishing the results that reputable journals do, the policy makes sense. But what happens if the researcher's peers don't like the quality of the work? Today it's quietly buried, will the government still publish it but with some kind of a caveat/stigma?