We're duplicating efforts which are already handled from the (current) federal level all the way down to the very local level at your town's city hall.
Could the county government handle their own section of a federal highway? They may already be (I have seen survey markers from the state and USGS in the same general area). Can county parks personnel handle national parks? Maybe, maybe not.
However, what we do know is that duplication of effort is expensive and wasteful. We live in a time when we cannot afford waste and increased spending--something which always seems to happen regardless of what belt-tightening we do.
Maybe the best way to deal with it is to start axing groups outright. We're definitely in need of a change to how things operate and these changes will hurt--bad. We've been living on borrowed time and we need to cut spending, raise revenues (taxes), and pay off the debts we've incurred due to stupid policy.
I participated in a contest where we were given wings made with a very hot bhut jolokia sauce (included habaneros and dried jolokias as well as other stuff). I had eaten 10 of the wings before in one sitting and while I had mild discomfort (and slightly more the next day) I had no serious side internal/external effects.
However, when I ate 20 in one sitting (in 10 minutes) I went home and hours later found myself writhing in pain, having severe abdominal discomfort and thought about heading to the ER on more than on occasion.
I am a seasoned spice eater and love to do it. However I think everyone has their limits. Mine was probably through a combination of too much food, too fast and the heat.
Yes, people are stupid and should be more careful when they eat too much, too hot, and too fast.
Don't we already classify students, making it obvious when they do not perform well by putting them in cohorts which take lower division coursework together?
There are a ton of nerds here. Most of us probably took AP coursework throughout HS and some of us may have been honors students in undergrad. We then went on to graduate programs afterward. I want to know how this will be viewed any differently than knowing that you were absolutely terrible in Gym and History classes and were relegated to the far reaches of the building for those while others excelled and were taking AP and/or climbing the rope to the top of the ceiling and parachuting down to the floor to cheers of the crowd.
Kids know those who perform poorly/well already. This is doing nothing to add or detract from that. While I see it having absolutely no effect short of what the current education system does already, I don't think people should be all up in a huff about it either.
Getting access to the data might mean paying for it, or keeping the company happy by not performing certain types of studies.'"
Even if you're using data from public institutions you still may have to pay for it (to cover staff time to procure the data--especially if you're asking for something they don't normally provide, which is quite often). While there won't be any limitations on what you can do with the data once you have it, because of lack of knowledge of their own data/bases the provider may simply provide you with incomplete or likely inaccurate data anyway.
So yeah, welcome to the world of using data. Move along, nothing to see here.
Clearwire is probably underutilized because people don't want the towers which provide the service in their backyards.
We've had a discussion about this in the past which I posted on (I'm too lazy to find it) where I said people in my area shot down a proposed tower because it would go up on a watertower in the park in their backyard.
With so much citizen hatred for "screwing up their home values" perhaps that's the biggest problem facing this "underutilized" spectrum rather than the companies themselves.
500,000 to 600,000 isn't that hot. In fact, it's basically at the low end of what I have come to expect when people put something on a menu that's called "stupid hot". In fact a couple habaneros and some other stuff isn't hot, it's a normal day for me.
Just because it does nothing for you does not make it stupid. There are many subtle and wonderful tastes and effects when you eat peppers which are hotter than habaneros and these include the lovely endorphin rush which you apparently experienced when your face went numb.
I love ghost peppers (for the flavor just as much as the heat) and they are way tastier than habaneros especially when dried or smoked. I haven't yet tried the new top hot peppers but when I do I'm sure I'll be able to give you a better review of them as far as flavor to heat.
I enjoy eating hot stuff as much as I enjoy all other foods. Just because it's not enjoyable for you doesn't mean it's not worth it. That would be like you telling me that a marathoner shouldn't train to run one because I get shinsplints.
Call up your carrier and have them disable SMS. If they refuse or can't do it (they can) then call them up every time you receive a SMS and tell them to remove it from your bill.
AT&T has effectively disabled my ability to receive SMS messages (I refuse to pay for GSM SMS when it's sent with every fucking packet anyway) and they have also set me up with free SMS anyway because one phone number which keeps sending me texts was getting through anyway (they don't know why).
Is it an inconvenience? Sure. I had to call 8x to get them to fix it properly. But do they need to learn not to charge people for SMS when it's effectively free? Yes.
It has nothing to do with me being against TV for children. It has to do with us choosing more traditional routes to interact with our child than TV time.
Yes, you can watch and interact with the TV as a family but I'd much rather be outside doing something or playing with a hands on toy than watching the new Sesame Street.
But hey, raise your child as you wish, it's a free country. Just please don't plop him in front of the latest Fox adult-tailored cartoon and call it good.
We don't watch much TV (I watch one NFL game a week and we do some Netflix streaming) and our son definitely doesn't (and probably won't watch much more than football even after he reaches the suggested age of two). However, after observing the TV watching habits of those with children we know, especially one who proudly placed a photo online of their child watching Futurama, I'm going to guess that STEM education via PBS isn't as going to do as much as they may hope.
Your thesis is essentially "automagically" copyrighted the date that you write it (at least in the US). You may gain additional protections by asserting your copyright (via a simple notice asserting copyright), or registering the copyright (with the government). At a minimum, usually people incluse a copyright to clarify ownership. Typically, you own the copyright to your thesis (unless for some reason it can considered a work-for-hire say about some work sponsored by some company like if they paid your tuition or gave you money for research).
And it's basically meaningless if anyone steals your work, republishes it, and you don't have the money to fight them in court when you want to sue them.
However, if you register your copyright (which costs money), then you are provided with the ability to be awarded legal fees if you win your case in a court of law.
IOW, automatic copyright is useless especially in today's world of theft first, apologize later/never.
We're one step closer now with this... Oh looky, we have the perfect way to stop this from happening. A totally secure DRM'd BIOS. Just use our product and the secure Internet won't have any spyware/malware/etc.
Oh, and in order to do online banking, pay the electric bill, connect to webmail from Google, etc will all require you to have a DRM-enabled BIOS.
IPs may not point to an individual computer but the DRM'd BIOS sure will.
Because they don't like Google and its policies? Android is great but that's because it has an app store that goes along with it. People want apps, lots of them but companies don't want Google to come along with the deal.
By rolling their own version of Android it's unlikely they'll be in with the Android app store and it would be just as useless as having WebOS (or any other OS "worth little or nothing").
It's like this for everything. We had a baby 1.5 years ago. He wouldn't breastfeed so my wife rented a hospital grade pump to do the hard work.
Our insurance didn't cover it 100% because it wasn't "medically necessary" (they'd rather you use formula) and it would have been around $125/month out of pocket for us.
We told the medical equipment company we didn't have insurance and suddenly the price was just under $60/month. What does that mean? They overcharge the insurance companies by at least 3x what their actual costs are because they can.
Our insurance companies aren't exactly the problem. It's the companies that the insurance companies pay. They're robbing us all blind.
While I don't think we should end species extinction, regardless of our possible involvement in it occurring, I don't see why the attempts cannot be made to better understand how stem cells can be used for other uses.
Consider it testing on animals while keeping the anti-testing radicals at bay.
Oh noes, you're offended by reality. Get over it. Just like everyone else. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia of FACTS. Fact is, war, famine, sex, drugs, and vulgarity are part of the life we live in. Should we start adding censors to articles on "Intelligent Design" because it's offensive to the people who know it's not factual?
Slippery slope and one that we do not need to go down.
I live in a major metropolitan area (MSP) and I have business class from Charter. I am usually at 125 to 150% of my downstream and 100% of my upstream.
Sorry it sucks for you. I've been there with many different carriers over the years (Verizon DSL, RR, ATTBI, Frontier DSL to name a few) and Charter is the most solid, fastest, and definitely has the best customer response (I only contact them via Twitter) that I have ever had before.
Granted I have business class and that may make a difference so YMMV.
Whichever ones run from Nicollet across the river to NE Mpls for free.
They weren't joking. The rest of the people back there were nodding with them.
I have a child. I curse in front of him like my parents did in front of me. I am a well rounded and intelligent adult who isn't scared to go outside because someone said "fuck".
The 10 bus, which smells like urine, and 94 bus are both foul (language is of no concern to me and shouldn't be to any adult) but when two people are talking about who they are going to rob when the state shutdown and they lose their public assistance funding, well, that scares me.
As for the rest, we're never going to agree. Carry on.
1. My opinion is that their projected ridership numbers were very, very low. It's easy to meet those projections when you purposefully low ball them.
2. Ah, you're a MT fan. I'm an opt-out fan. The service level provided by the opt-outs are far and away superior in every. single. way. to MT for the majority needs of the public at this point.
Ride an MVTA or SWT bus and then a MT bus and tell me if it's not faster, more comfortable and more friendly customer service than the MT. Personally I prefer my silent, low cost, express transit without being scowled at, fearing for my safety, and wondering if I won't get run over as the bus tries to make its next stop.
3. I am a transit fan but I don't want BRT and I really wished more could have been done by the current reps to avoid funding it. I think it's a bad idea and it will not do what they think it will in the least.
If they had put in LRT it would have been successful as people think rail is shiny while buses still provide the impression that it's slow, outdated, and crude (like MT provides to this day).
They've already scaled back BRT stations because of funding and negative growth. The next thing they're going to do, once it's up and running, is notice that people continue the Express routes and not the BRT so they'll slowly eliminate express service and force BRT adoption to make it worthwhile.
I don't live in Portland but where I do live (MSP) that wouldn't work at all. Why? Because of the way the metro area has developed and how the natural landscape exists, it would be costly and ineffective.
1. Not everyone works downtown and a good many people work in suburbs which ring the entire city. Because we encouraged urban sprawl for so many years it would take twice as many years (due to the economy and long running and currently very high anti-tax sentiment) to make rail happen even to the general area of these suburbs which house so much business.
This isn't to say I am not a fan of rail, I am. In fact I believe it's a much better fit than BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) which they are pushing in my county to "replace rail". All of their clever marketing and expensive and beautiful transit stations are not going to change the fact that our area is not meant for BRT (such as Las Vegas) and will not grow the way they pretend it will because the service is available.
2. Here a significant number of people live on the other side of the Minnesota river. Because the bridge that already spans this river cannot physically support rail they would need to build another bridge to handle the train.
While I don't live in other areas of the metro, I'm guessing there are also significant hurdles there as well. We just recently added commuter rail service but it's not performing well as it is very expensive ($14+/day) compared to a car, and you can drive just as fast while having flexibility of the road system.
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So while rail instead of road sounds great, it's just not viable in many areas. What we need to do is encourage more growth in city centers through urban revitalization ("reverse white-flight" as it has been called in some circles) and consider ways to push jobs to these centers instead of the suburbian rings so that people are easily shuttled in.
NYC would not be the transit genius it is if it weren't so densely populated. Spread NYC out into an area like TX (such as Houston) and you'll see the same problems existing there as Houston or MSP or anywhere else has.
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We're duplicating efforts which are already handled from the (current) federal level all the way down to the very local level at your town's city hall.
Could the county government handle their own section of a federal highway? They may already be (I have seen survey markers from the state and USGS in the same general area). Can county parks personnel handle national parks? Maybe, maybe not.
However, what we do know is that duplication of effort is expensive and wasteful. We live in a time when we cannot afford waste and increased spending--something which always seems to happen regardless of what belt-tightening we do.
Maybe the best way to deal with it is to start axing groups outright. We're definitely in need of a change to how things operate and these changes will hurt--bad. We've been living on borrowed time and we need to cut spending, raise revenues (taxes), and pay off the debts we've incurred due to stupid policy.
Let's face the facts and fix the fucking problem.
I participated in a contest where we were given wings made with a very hot bhut jolokia sauce (included habaneros and dried jolokias as well as other stuff). I had eaten 10 of the wings before in one sitting and while I had mild discomfort (and slightly more the next day) I had no serious side internal/external effects.
However, when I ate 20 in one sitting (in 10 minutes) I went home and hours later found myself writhing in pain, having severe abdominal discomfort and thought about heading to the ER on more than on occasion.
I am a seasoned spice eater and love to do it. However I think everyone has their limits. Mine was probably through a combination of too much food, too fast and the heat.
Yes, people are stupid and should be more careful when they eat too much, too hot, and too fast.
Genderizing datasets isn't a difficult thing to do. Just ask anyone using DataFlux.
Sorry, no car analogy this time ;-)
Don't we already classify students, making it obvious when they do not perform well by putting them in cohorts which take lower division coursework together?
There are a ton of nerds here. Most of us probably took AP coursework throughout HS and some of us may have been honors students in undergrad. We then went on to graduate programs afterward. I want to know how this will be viewed any differently than knowing that you were absolutely terrible in Gym and History classes and were relegated to the far reaches of the building for those while others excelled and were taking AP and/or climbing the rope to the top of the ceiling and parachuting down to the floor to cheers of the crowd.
Kids know those who perform poorly/well already. This is doing nothing to add or detract from that. While I see it having absolutely no effect short of what the current education system does already, I don't think people should be all up in a huff about it either.
From the blurb:
Even if you're using data from public institutions you still may have to pay for it (to cover staff time to procure the data--especially if you're asking for something they don't normally provide, which is quite often). While there won't be any limitations on what you can do with the data once you have it, because of lack of knowledge of their own data/bases the provider may simply provide you with incomplete or likely inaccurate data anyway.
So yeah, welcome to the world of using data. Move along, nothing to see here.
Clearwire is probably underutilized because people don't want the towers which provide the service in their backyards.
We've had a discussion about this in the past which I posted on (I'm too lazy to find it) where I said people in my area shot down a proposed tower because it would go up on a watertower in the park in their backyard.
With so much citizen hatred for "screwing up their home values" perhaps that's the biggest problem facing this "underutilized" spectrum rather than the companies themselves.
500,000 to 600,000 isn't that hot. In fact, it's basically at the low end of what I have come to expect when people put something on a menu that's called "stupid hot". In fact a couple habaneros and some other stuff isn't hot, it's a normal day for me.
Just because it does nothing for you does not make it stupid. There are many subtle and wonderful tastes and effects when you eat peppers which are hotter than habaneros and these include the lovely endorphin rush which you apparently experienced when your face went numb.
I love ghost peppers (for the flavor just as much as the heat) and they are way tastier than habaneros especially when dried or smoked. I haven't yet tried the new top hot peppers but when I do I'm sure I'll be able to give you a better review of them as far as flavor to heat.
I enjoy eating hot stuff as much as I enjoy all other foods. Just because it's not enjoyable for you doesn't mean it's not worth it. That would be like you telling me that a marathoner shouldn't train to run one because I get shinsplints.
Call up your carrier and have them disable SMS. If they refuse or can't do it (they can) then call them up every time you receive a SMS and tell them to remove it from your bill.
AT&T has effectively disabled my ability to receive SMS messages (I refuse to pay for GSM SMS when it's sent with every fucking packet anyway) and they have also set me up with free SMS anyway because one phone number which keeps sending me texts was getting through anyway (they don't know why).
Is it an inconvenience? Sure. I had to call 8x to get them to fix it properly. But do they need to learn not to charge people for SMS when it's effectively free? Yes.
It has nothing to do with me being against TV for children. It has to do with us choosing more traditional routes to interact with our child than TV time.
Yes, you can watch and interact with the TV as a family but I'd much rather be outside doing something or playing with a hands on toy than watching the new Sesame Street.
But hey, raise your child as you wish, it's a free country. Just please don't plop him in front of the latest Fox adult-tailored cartoon and call it good.
We don't watch much TV (I watch one NFL game a week and we do some Netflix streaming) and our son definitely doesn't (and probably won't watch much more than football even after he reaches the suggested age of two). However, after observing the TV watching habits of those with children we know, especially one who proudly placed a photo online of their child watching Futurama, I'm going to guess that STEM education via PBS isn't as going to do as much as they may hope.
And it's basically meaningless if anyone steals your work, republishes it, and you don't have the money to fight them in court when you want to sue them.
However, if you register your copyright (which costs money), then you are provided with the ability to be awarded legal fees if you win your case in a court of law.
IOW, automatic copyright is useless especially in today's world of theft first, apologize later/never.
All I can keep thinking when I see that name is 'Quixtar'.
Beginning back in 2003 I talked about the future of computing which will include DRM in the BIOS. I have posted numerous times about it and even once noted DRM'd BIOSs will eventually be required to connect to the "safe" Internet.
We're one step closer now with this... Oh looky, we have the perfect way to stop this from happening. A totally secure DRM'd BIOS. Just use our product and the secure Internet won't have any spyware/malware/etc.
Oh, and in order to do online banking, pay the electric bill, connect to webmail from Google, etc will all require you to have a DRM-enabled BIOS.
IPs may not point to an individual computer but the DRM'd BIOS sure will.
Because they don't like Google and its policies? Android is great but that's because it has an app store that goes along with it. People want apps, lots of them but companies don't want Google to come along with the deal.
By rolling their own version of Android it's unlikely they'll be in with the Android app store and it would be just as useless as having WebOS (or any other OS "worth little or nothing").
It's like this for everything. We had a baby 1.5 years ago. He wouldn't breastfeed so my wife rented a hospital grade pump to do the hard work.
Our insurance didn't cover it 100% because it wasn't "medically necessary" (they'd rather you use formula) and it would have been around $125/month out of pocket for us.
We told the medical equipment company we didn't have insurance and suddenly the price was just under $60/month. What does that mean? They overcharge the insurance companies by at least 3x what their actual costs are because they can.
Our insurance companies aren't exactly the problem. It's the companies that the insurance companies pay. They're robbing us all blind.
While I don't think we should end species extinction, regardless of our possible involvement in it occurring, I don't see why the attempts cannot be made to better understand how stem cells can be used for other uses.
Consider it testing on animals while keeping the anti-testing radicals at bay.
You're not holding a drink. You're not kidding most of the people on this website dude. ;-)
Use Instantwatcher. It tells you exactly how many days are left before "good titles disappear from instant streaming."
1997 or so till today. I'm just glad he didn't do this on April 1st or I would have been a day behind.
Thanks for everything guys, it's been one helluva ride.
Oh noes, you're offended by reality. Get over it. Just like everyone else. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia of FACTS. Fact is, war, famine, sex, drugs, and vulgarity are part of the life we live in. Should we start adding censors to articles on "Intelligent Design" because it's offensive to the people who know it's not factual?
Slippery slope and one that we do not need to go down.
I live in a major metropolitan area (MSP) and I have business class from Charter. I am usually at 125 to 150% of my downstream and 100% of my upstream.
Sorry it sucks for you. I've been there with many different carriers over the years (Verizon DSL, RR, ATTBI, Frontier DSL to name a few) and Charter is the most solid, fastest, and definitely has the best customer response (I only contact them via Twitter) that I have ever had before.
Granted I have business class and that may make a difference so YMMV.
Whichever ones run from Nicollet across the river to NE Mpls for free.
They weren't joking. The rest of the people back there were nodding with them.
I have a child. I curse in front of him like my parents did in front of me. I am a well rounded and intelligent adult who isn't scared to go outside because someone said "fuck".
The 10 bus, which smells like urine, and 94 bus are both foul (language is of no concern to me and shouldn't be to any adult) but when two people are talking about who they are going to rob when the state shutdown and they lose their public assistance funding, well, that scares me.
As for the rest, we're never going to agree. Carry on.
1. My opinion is that their projected ridership numbers were very, very low. It's easy to meet those projections when you purposefully low ball them.
2. Ah, you're a MT fan. I'm an opt-out fan. The service level provided by the opt-outs are far and away superior in every. single. way. to MT for the majority needs of the public at this point.
Ride an MVTA or SWT bus and then a MT bus and tell me if it's not faster, more comfortable and more friendly customer service than the MT. Personally I prefer my silent, low cost, express transit without being scowled at, fearing for my safety, and wondering if I won't get run over as the bus tries to make its next stop.
3. I am a transit fan but I don't want BRT and I really wished more could have been done by the current reps to avoid funding it. I think it's a bad idea and it will not do what they think it will in the least.
If they had put in LRT it would have been successful as people think rail is shiny while buses still provide the impression that it's slow, outdated, and crude (like MT provides to this day).
They've already scaled back BRT stations because of funding and negative growth. The next thing they're going to do, once it's up and running, is notice that people continue the Express routes and not the BRT so they'll slowly eliminate express service and force BRT adoption to make it worthwhile.
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Nice response though, thanks.
I don't live in Portland but where I do live (MSP) that wouldn't work at all. Why? Because of the way the metro area has developed and how the natural landscape exists, it would be costly and ineffective.
1. Not everyone works downtown and a good many people work in suburbs which ring the entire city. Because we encouraged urban sprawl for so many years it would take twice as many years (due to the economy and long running and currently very high anti-tax sentiment) to make rail happen even to the general area of these suburbs which house so much business.
This isn't to say I am not a fan of rail, I am. In fact I believe it's a much better fit than BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) which they are pushing in my county to "replace rail". All of their clever marketing and expensive and beautiful transit stations are not going to change the fact that our area is not meant for BRT (such as Las Vegas) and will not grow the way they pretend it will because the service is available.
2. Here a significant number of people live on the other side of the Minnesota river. Because the bridge that already spans this river cannot physically support rail they would need to build another bridge to handle the train.
While I don't live in other areas of the metro, I'm guessing there are also significant hurdles there as well. We just recently added commuter rail service but it's not performing well as it is very expensive ($14+/day) compared to a car, and you can drive just as fast while having flexibility of the road system.
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So while rail instead of road sounds great, it's just not viable in many areas. What we need to do is encourage more growth in city centers through urban revitalization ("reverse white-flight" as it has been called in some circles) and consider ways to push jobs to these centers instead of the suburbian rings so that people are easily shuttled in.
NYC would not be the transit genius it is if it weren't so densely populated. Spread NYC out into an area like TX (such as Houston) and you'll see the same problems existing there as Houston or MSP or anywhere else has.