It is difficult to answer a whole bunch of posts accusing you of saying what you did not and implying what you did not but I shall try. The parent here of this gets the point well. He begins to see the donations for what they are, simply means to move control power and influence into Bills hands even further. I am not a "tin foil hat" guy. I don't see anything but what is going on and report it. I left the readers to go look for the facts themselves and I disdain in an opinion forum the continual demand for "Proof" from those who would reject any presented facts no matter what they were anyway. I figured knowlegable people could figure out what was going on and the parent to this post pointed this out in an area I didn't know about. I am absolutely sure that there are many other such examples because I know that these people think strategically and their motivations (Gates etc) are never altruistic. There isn't a mench in the bunch. They are merely pirates moving their operations into other areas.
Those who do not know the history of these people that believe that Bill Gates is this self made guy who developed from innovation etc. It just isn't so. He arose from the premier banking and financial family of the Seattle Washington area. They arose a generation previously as they converted their Lumber Empire into Banking. (Those who know the "Robber Barons" of that era know just what this family is!) This is not the rags to riches story of the kid genius but a story of power and influence to the max for the heir of the local pseudo royalty. This is a family just like any line of monarchy.(See Thomas Paine in "Common Sense" for the details) They have only seen that they need to morph into another incarnation to adapt to the times and retain their power.
The unique thing here is that it is starting to be known who they are and their "Devine Right" is wearing off.
A pirate is still a pirate when he gives money to charity. Bill Gates is worth so much because he defrauded his stockholders in not paying proper returns on investment early on. Bill Gates is a thief because he stole the intellectual property of others. Bill Gates is a Brigand because he used his power to crush those who dared compete in his market. The fact that he gives to charity now is mostly to avoid the taxes on the remainder he claims for himself. Those who know US Tax Code know well what he is doing. He is laying his hands on a fortune and actually preventing the US Government from getting the taxes due on it.
I know that the Microsoft Defenders will some how accuse or mod this down. But the facts will remain. Bill Gates has practically destroyed the Software Engineering Business. His practices have locked so many doors to any development that programmers were forced to declare war on him by using Linux etc., just to keep the industry running.
I love the claims about Microsoft and Innovation. Had I not owned Compel software and others I might not know that Power Point was stolen etc. If I had not known about Java being stolen or HTML and XML being captured and the Public License abused by having the processes built in violation of the standards to make them proprietary etc I might have other view. For Bill Gates who was sharing software others wrote to come up and then accuse them from startup of stealing his work etc to now be contributing to Charity and seeing this being excuse to avoid looking at him for who and what he is... Is horrid!
But if you look at what the foundation is giving and what it is doing the results are even more awful. His contrabutions are definitely strategically made and for purposes which I think if someone reads the list will be all to obvious. I don't need to say it here. Look it up and follow the footprints. Just don't be fooled by the open stated purposes. Remember that there are powerful people and political purposes behind the money.
I will up the ante a bit more and mods get a life if you disagree!
To be a bit more scientific, if there was a creature on the planet more able to adapt to changing conditions than mankind is I dare anyone to find it. His diet is the most widely variable of any creature. He is able to live in the widest range of climates. He is able to adapt rapidly his food supplies including breeding them to match conditions. He is even able to generate his own sunlight (Nuclear Power)
Extinction of mankind isn't likely from global warming unless he accomplishes by his own success to extinguish the very means of his survival. It's possible but knowing human adaptability the situation isn't likely to happen. Mankind could take the surface of the moon and make it habitable if need be.
Besides the lunar orbital excentricity data says that we are about to enter a global cool down. I would say that saving the heat with CO2 etc may be just in time if that happens.
Not being a fan of pooping the nest etc I really do side with keeping things clean. I have my doubts about the global warming crowd considering the state of Boston as I write. (2+ feet of snow and record cold...) Like the Conn. Yankee reported in the book once or twice... "The facts may have altered the report a bit." Global warming may just be like the report of the death of the author of that book being premature.
1. If you somehow conflict with the currently accepted evolutionary theory in favor you are "Flame Bait" in moderation.
2. If you happen to notice the economic motivations of the theory generation and support mechanisms you are "Flame Bait" No matter how obvious they are!
3. If you even joke about the political bias of any theory you are "Flame Bait."
4. Finally if you dare suggest that there might be anything Americans are doing right even in a humorous way you are "Flame Bait."
I guess this about sums up the arrogant anti free speach attitude of the moderation the parent of this post got. If some moderator is decent he will rescue this guy by moderating him appropriately like funny or insightful or such but not "Flame Bait."
I have been where persons who were in contact with this sort of project told me generally what was going on. After some fairly in depth knowlege including making proposals for the company on such stuff I will let you know what is motivating this behavior and what is actually going on.
First has this stopped. Hell No! It is still going on and I sincerely doubt that if it were made illegal that it would stop! This is a autonomic behavior of the bureaucracy and its minions. The only way you could stop it is to KILL the idiots who keep persuinging it.
The motives here are something imbedded into the psyche of those who came out of the cold war. Essentially the want to spy. They also believe that they have to do it to survive. In addition they adopted a type of thinking that actually believes that by such measures you can know anything. In reality they have avoided knowing anything. In the Spy biz they know a way to know stuff really called HUMINT unfortuantely that means hiring loyal Americans and risking their lives etc. These people have a perdisposition to avoid sharing the wealth and power with their fellow Americans so they avoid hiring them. They also want James Bond because he is cool and don't really want the geek in the library who actually studies because they never trusted him anyway. Unfortunately he is the one who knows!
I never understood until I read the CIA internal documentation on this but the process has become so tilted that the system cannot do the job people imagine it is to do. The Military guys have so long been counting rockets and tanks that they don't even know how to listen to people who many times are nearly shouting their intent at the top of their lungs. You see, tanks and rockets do not tell intent.
The worst of this is not that the WMD hunt is done in Iraq we know how well they could count stuff. The projects are humiliated but the problem remains. The idiots in policy making simply must do something so rather than take a risk they keep going back to the well where they got the poisoned water. It is rather like the Senator complimenting Mr. Zoellick as being great on trade 1-18-2005 while not seeing that Mr. Zoellick's policies and trade efforts have sacked 60% of us industrial production and given us 5 times the trade deficit while collapsing the US Dollar. But you see only Mr. Zoellick is qualified for the job... Same for spying stuff. Nobody outside has a chance.
A few years ago I had occasion to be talking with the leaders of some of the US Electronics Assembly industry locally. I began to ask about the differentials in employment for women in that industry as they totally dominate the assembly lines. The response I got was one which I have looked into in depth since that time and found that these men were correct.
They reported to me substantial differentials in women and men regards work situations. They included that only about 10% of men had the color discrimination capacity of women. Women on average could descriminate well over 10 times the number of colors that men could and this was not related to color blindness. Women had on average 10 times the discrimination for fine detail and these two factors were the reason men were discriminated agianst in electronics assembly. This was also the dominant reason for export of the processes to China etc because it was illegal in the USA to discriminate so.
I am a Registered Nurse. I have learned professionally that a great deal of very concrete scientific data exists on differences between men and women. These include sensory and environmental and developmental differences. The data supporting the math claims is quite beyond any question. Women have as a average a mathematical capacity differential that is in the order of 10:1 on performance testing different. This is biological and has long been known to be so. Tell the MODS I am talking science and not policy and am not being troll this is just facts.
Being aware of Adm. Grace Hopper USN and Ada and other exceptional females (including a daughter of mine) I could hardly apply an average to anyone. But being ignorant of what is going on or politically correct in this matter is just stupid. We have allowed our political motives to get out of line with our science here.
Hillary Clinton (Ex Prez Wife and US Senator) was willing to accept and actually testified and got policy changed in medical research over this very issue. Prior to her efforts medicines as a whole were never tested on women to determine if they had differential effects to men. They are now and the results are most intersting. I am no supporter ot many of the Clinton policies but this was a very correct action. In medicine it is saving lives.
In our world many problems develop because we are politically motivated and not science moderated. How on earth can it be that we can see that women and men have differences in strength, temperment and even have as a whole different ratios of muscle to fat in their bodies and cannot see that they behave differently? How can we be so arrogant as to breed animals for temper and abilities and be unwilling to see that various humans have differences? This accusing those who discuss overwhelming scientific evidence as if they were bigots has got to stop.
Mod the parent of this one up. He gets it! The Physics types are (generally, but for a few, as in no remarks about not all or exceptions please) the most arrogant and frankly ignorant types I have ever met. Many act like they have died and ascended to God status.
What we don't know about the universe would..., fill the universe! What we know about it including what we think we know about it is pretty slim. Having been close to some of the highest phyics research and having actually been the one who laid out for NASA how lightning works, (current theory) I might be willing to hazard a few guesses about what is going on. I lack the arrogance to tell for sure what is going on.
This isn't news. The idea of a peelable paint has been in use by industry for a very long time. I suppose the idea of coloring this product and using it for a while for play type uses is a bit new but nothing new in the product. It has been used for decades to coat the inside of spray booths etc to peel off the junk that accumulates.
Whoever suggested this article must not have known that this is a long standard industral tool for cleaning up messes that might otherwise be quite hard to deal with.
I suppose a geeky type might not know this. Having a bit of industrial experience behind me, I have handled the stuff and seen it used.
I really appreciate a poster who does what the parent of this post does. He is trying to get to the facts.
Now as to one curious set of facts... planet formation. Mars and Earth being slightly different in size illustrate a curious reality. Bodies significantly smaller than earth in our solar system are actually evaporating into space. That is they are by the gas laws (which also apply to liquids and solids) are losing mass into space. Bodies the sized of earth or larger are acquiring mass from space.
If we are to logically follow the accreation of a planetoid into a planet it never makes it because the planetoid evaporates. This also applies to stars and more profoundly so. If a star acquires gas from the region around it to the point where the nuclear fire erupts, it blows itself out as fast as it lights.
These paradoxes have not been answered to by modern science types. Obviously there are processes at work which are not explained. The planet question says that in many cases the planets were formed as whole bodies at one time and ejected from stellar explosion as shrapnel. This also conforms to the warm core issues as well because a small planetoid forming by accreation would not generate a hot core or it would evaporate.
I just point out the paradoxes. Anyone with reasonable suggestions is invited to chime right in.
I love this myth that "Assualt rifles" were specifically to kill human beings. The Geneva Conventions actually have made them be developed for entirely a different purpose and it is most definitely and amazingly not to kill human beings. Assault rifles were built to WOUND people.
You see in combat if you wound a soldier it takes out of action 2 or 3 buddies as well. Killing him usually just gets his buddies mad! It is much more effective to wound. This is also why land mines are most often calculated to blow off a leg or a foot.
Acutally the nice 30.06 rifle of the earlier times of US Combat was a most effective Killing weapon. That is why the USA Hunters tend to prefer it or variants of it such as the accelerator versions at lower dimensions. I suppose this might hurt the feelings of those wanting to regulate guns but it illustrates how arguments get smashed out of reality in such topics.
To apply this to P2P networks is a pretty good example. The arguments are just plain wierd. P2P is nothing but what the name says. Communication between two parties without the moderation of a third party. Of course this private communication lets in people who do illegal things. Of course it is nothing more nor less than communications. There is nothing really wrong about it.
I remember in the early days of Cell Phones and Pagers, many facilities assumed that children with these devices were trading drugs. (It started out that way too!) Rapidly other uses developed and most if not all kids using cell phones and pagers is now legitimate. I assume P2P is going to do about the same. Outlawing it serves no purpose.
Common misunderstanding. Just because the exterior or the interior walls look the same does not mean that the houses are in any way the same. US Houses are actually quite different by locality. This adaptation to different areas is quite profound.
Where I live it is quite legal to build a building without foundation straps tied to the roof but in the southern part of my state is is not. My climate is quite different. In my area the house must have insulation. In the southern part of my state this is essentially optional. The houses look very similar on the exterior. The houses where I live must have substantial HVAC systems. In the southern part of my state many houses exist with minimal heating and use AC only as a central device.
Having worked in the construction business the similarity is cosmetic. Homes in the far north of the USA may look similar but the functional systems may be quite different.
At the 1982 wood working machinery show (VERY BIG SHOW) I met the guys who make Verticell Cardboard. I told them that I thought their product would make great houses cheap and fast. They indicated that they were already doing so OUTSIDE the USA and that their product was able to be very strong (nearly hurricane proof) and very cheap. (about 20% of current costs) It was then that I learned that Buidling Codes were the problem with high priced homes in the USA.
The reason nobody wants cheaper homes is that if one actually made a cheaper house say 20% of the cost of current ones that serviced the need, it would collapse the mortgage market for the existing homes etc. As such local codes are kept in place mostly to protect existing mortgage holders. Just thought someone might like to know what was going on in our "Free Enterprise" "Capitalist" economy.
I will skip a lot of details and just say that people in Huntsville, Alabama are PARANOID about the weather for good reason. (I know that is an oxymoron but it will have to do) They forced the NOAA (US Weather Service) to put up a lot of facilities that they did not want because of this. The facilities include weather research etc.
For those who think that they lack for scientists who really study the weather see the UAH News Reports etc. In their study of "Global Warming" they found little or no data to support this claimed occurance and have reported so. They do not lack for the best data Science can provide as they are associated with NASA in Huntsville as well.
I learned a lot from these people including insights that are pretty deep. If you will remember the "Acid Rain" threat a few years ago that has disappeared from discussion. Well that was pointed out to me to be the product mostly of TREES going terminal (forrest life cycle issue). There was some industrial and man affect which was very local. I saw the acidity maps! On Global Warming there are several points that render any claim of man's efforts here to be suspect. The scientists at UAH are not agreed with the Global Warming claims.
It would appear though that the claim that all Climate Scientists agree with the Global Warming ideas is just not so. There are a lot who think otherwise.
First technology has changed in time so what may have taken a short time recently may have taken a lot longer some time back. So test time may have more to do with when than what.
Secondly even if this is a "legend" it is typical that people under stress may confess to things that they have not done. This is why the US Constitution prohibits the requirement of persons being required to testify against themselves and why other evidence is required. I believe that this prohibition on self incrimination and right to be secure in person place and effects would negate such processes for Criminal Cases.
In the story the party may well have murdered (assuming it is true) and confessed or may have done so under emotional stress and been lying. The rest of the bog might have had something to say about that. Who knows? Evidence is a problem.
Police rarely look for exculpatory evidence. They tend to drive quite forcefully towards conviction. As such they tend to ignore some tests/evidence that might well lead to more innocent conclusions. In England the rules for evidence are different than in the USA and the testing requirements are different as well. Plus police departments often make stupid mistakes.
Is the story a lie or the truth who knows. The point appears valid none the less, that Lie Detection based upon Mental Stress or activity would have some rather gaping holes in the process. More likely than not a truely convinced liar (False memories or Just loose mental habits etc) would not be caught by such a method. Worse yet the process is likely to produce false positives for lie detection in parties under stress or otherwise distracted. A police department trying to convict might well flip a pretty picture or play some music timed well at the time of a question or kick the defendant... Convicted!
franky the parent post should be modded off topic but since it came up... Why not ratify Kyoto for India? They are exept from its limits!
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I guess it doesn't matter much but My father worked on the Apollo Launch Guidance computer that sat in the 1st to 2nd Stage ring as one of those programmers doing so much with so little. He also worked on some others.
What I find fascinating was how they actually made sure that if a computer failed others would back up operations. I also found quite astounding that this process was never applied to modern control systems such as driving vehicles etc. If somebody wants to know how! I DO! I was raised by the inventor
I wonder with all of the money we Americans are spending on this fine research,... ($Megabucks$ for really good research!) where will they build the planes/rockets etc that actually use this stuff? Could it be China? India? etc...
Does this mean Americans get the bill for the research and others get the profits? If so WHY would we spend for the research for others to get the "jobs of the future?" If this is the case, it would seem to be a bad investment. But really cool science!
Cool Invention doesn't pay the bills. Cool business does!
Isn't if funny how school adminstrators want to do anything they can to avoid actually having to know their students and to actually watch what is going on in their schools?
Let me propose another very important thing or two
The assumption that the CO2 levels measured at the ML observatory are representative of the "Cleanest air" or most un affected by local emissions is flawed. Air travel and in particular air freight which was insignificant only a few years ago has become dominant and Hi is a definitely affected and decending planes going into the airports in the islands would affect the sensors significantly. This is a matter of distrobution. It makes the entire supposition questionable.
I have not been of any doubt that global warming was occuring. I have been severely in doubt of why. There is a lot of data to indicate that the issue is more "Asphault effect" and the location of sensors than acutual warming. link to info
There are a lot of things going on. We would be wise not to be so fast as to think that everything is mankind's fault. I do think that pollution is a serious problem. I sincerely suspect that we should look somewhere else besides the USA for most of those problems though. The KYOTO process was screwed up because it left India/China et al out of the restriction and was essentially an anti USA document. If you want to reduce pollution everyone should be subject to the rules.
The United States Constitution under the full faith and credit clause obligates every state to honor the warrants and court proceedings of the other states.
US Constitution: "Article IV
Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. "
Process served under the orders of any court in the USA must be honored by the other 49 states. Yes process service must be honored! If it is not honored a FEDERAL case may be brought against the state refusing to honor it.
The Fair Tax is NOT A DEMOCRAT OR A LIBERAL proposal. Frankly it is generally opposed by only two classes of people. Those who somehow don't understand it or those who are DEMOCRAT and LIBERAL. If there was any one thing the Fair Tax does is it ends the social manipulation that is going on through the Income Tax at this time.
The Fair Tax is essential because the current system produces a DE FACTO TRADE WAR against the American people. In short you as an American Citizen must markup your goods and services about 150% in order to pay the US and vairous State Taxes as of now. Your Foreign Competition under NAFTA / GATT etc doesn't have to add this markup. EU memembers get it subtracted out as a VAT Rebate on export to the USA! The US Tax System has debased the US Economy under the current situation. Its broke people! Time has come to fix it!
Since I wrote the "great day for American innovation" comment I might have a thing or two to say more but I had really thought it spoke for itself. It wasn't a nationalistic comment. It was just a statement of fact and celebration.
There is however a reason why some 2% more or less of the world's population keeps coming up with about 80% or so of its innovations. That is a note worthy thing.
It has to do with the founding fathers (as Americans) and the fact that they decided to build a new world and have done with the corruption and terrible conditions of the old world. It isn't a matter of wealth or intelligence. It isn't something that couldn't happen anywhere. Frankly I would love living in a world where it happened everywhere! (The American Dream is a world dream!) If you are somewhere else and want to have your nation win a few, I think it is a great goal. Go get it. But you will find that the barriers against your success are higher outside the USA.
It is a deep topic I am skimming lightly. If you start fixing the problems I wish you luck and migh suggest you read up deeply on they establishment of the American Constitutional Federal Republic. Should you copy our model? It was a taylored coat. It fits the USA. You need to fit to your area. But the general pattern is well laid out.
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It is difficult to answer a whole bunch of posts accusing you of saying what you did not and implying what you did not but I shall try. The parent here of this gets the point well. He begins to see the donations for what they are, simply means to move control power and influence into Bills hands even further. I am not a "tin foil hat" guy. I don't see anything but what is going on and report it. I left the readers to go look for the facts themselves and I disdain in an opinion forum the continual demand for "Proof" from those who would reject any presented facts no matter what they were anyway. I figured knowlegable people could figure out what was going on and the parent to this post pointed this out in an area I didn't know about. I am absolutely sure that there are many other such examples because I know that these people think strategically and their motivations (Gates etc) are never altruistic. There isn't a mench in the bunch. They are merely pirates moving their operations into other areas.
Those who do not know the history of these people that believe that Bill Gates is this self made guy who developed from innovation etc. It just isn't so. He arose from the premier banking and financial family of the Seattle Washington area. They arose a generation previously as they converted their Lumber Empire into Banking. (Those who know the "Robber Barons" of that era know just what this family is!) This is not the rags to riches story of the kid genius but a story of power and influence to the max for the heir of the local pseudo royalty. This is a family just like any line of monarchy.(See Thomas Paine in "Common Sense" for the details) They have only seen that they need to morph into another incarnation to adapt to the times and retain their power.
The unique thing here is that it is starting to be known who they are and their "Devine Right" is wearing off.
A pirate is still a pirate when he gives money to charity. Bill Gates is worth so much because he defrauded his stockholders in not paying proper returns on investment early on. Bill Gates is a thief because he stole the intellectual property of others. Bill Gates is a Brigand because he used his power to crush those who dared compete in his market. The fact that he gives to charity now is mostly to avoid the taxes on the remainder he claims for himself. Those who know US Tax Code know well what he is doing. He is laying his hands on a fortune and actually preventing the US Government from getting the taxes due on it.
I know that the Microsoft Defenders will some how accuse or mod this down. But the facts will remain. Bill Gates has practically destroyed the Software Engineering Business. His practices have locked so many doors to any development that programmers were forced to declare war on him by using Linux etc., just to keep the industry running.
I love the claims about Microsoft and Innovation. Had I not owned Compel software and others I might not know that Power Point was stolen etc. If I had not known about Java being stolen or HTML and XML being captured and the Public License abused by having the processes built in violation of the standards to make them proprietary etc I might have other view. For Bill Gates who was sharing software others wrote to come up and then accuse them from startup of stealing his work etc to now be contributing to Charity and seeing this being excuse to avoid looking at him for who and what he is ... Is horrid!
But if you look at what the foundation is giving and what it is doing the results are even more awful. His contrabutions are definitely strategically made and for purposes which I think if someone reads the list will be all to obvious. I don't need to say it here. Look it up and follow the footprints. Just don't be fooled by the open stated purposes. Remember that there are powerful people and political purposes behind the money.
I will up the ante a bit more and mods get a life if you disagree!
To be a bit more scientific, if there was a creature on the planet more able to adapt to changing conditions than mankind is I dare anyone to find it. His diet is the most widely variable of any creature. He is able to live in the widest range of climates. He is able to adapt rapidly his food supplies including breeding them to match conditions. He is even able to generate his own sunlight (Nuclear Power)
Extinction of mankind isn't likely from global warming unless he accomplishes by his own success to extinguish the very means of his survival. It's possible but knowing human adaptability the situation isn't likely to happen. Mankind could take the surface of the moon and make it habitable if need be.
Besides the lunar orbital excentricity data says that we are about to enter a global cool down. I would say that saving the heat with CO2 etc may be just in time if that happens.
Not being a fan of pooping the nest etc I really do side with keeping things clean. I have my doubts about the global warming crowd considering the state of Boston as I write. (2+ feet of snow and record cold...) Like the Conn. Yankee reported in the book once or twice... "The facts may have altered the report a bit." Global warming may just be like the report of the death of the author of that book being premature.
Let me see if I get the rules streight here.
1. If you somehow conflict with the currently accepted evolutionary theory in favor you are "Flame Bait" in moderation.
2. If you happen to notice the economic motivations of the theory generation and support mechanisms you are "Flame Bait" No matter how obvious they are!
3. If you even joke about the political bias of any theory you are "Flame Bait."
4. Finally if you dare suggest that there might be anything Americans are doing right even in a humorous way you are "Flame Bait."
I guess this about sums up the arrogant anti free speach attitude of the moderation the parent of this post got. If some moderator is decent he will rescue this guy by moderating him appropriately like funny or insightful or such but not "Flame Bait."
I have been where persons who were in contact with this sort of project told me generally what was going on. After some fairly in depth knowlege including making proposals for the company on such stuff I will let you know what is motivating this behavior and what is actually going on.
First has this stopped. Hell No! It is still going on and I sincerely doubt that if it were made illegal that it would stop! This is a autonomic behavior of the bureaucracy and its minions. The only way you could stop it is to KILL the idiots who keep persuinging it.
The motives here are something imbedded into the psyche of those who came out of the cold war. Essentially the want to spy. They also believe that they have to do it to survive. In addition they adopted a type of thinking that actually believes that by such measures you can know anything. In reality they have avoided knowing anything. In the Spy biz they know a way to know stuff really called HUMINT unfortuantely that means hiring loyal Americans and risking their lives etc. These people have a perdisposition to avoid sharing the wealth and power with their fellow Americans so they avoid hiring them. They also want James Bond because he is cool and don't really want the geek in the library who actually studies because they never trusted him anyway. Unfortunately he is the one who knows!
I never understood until I read the CIA internal documentation on this but the process has become so tilted that the system cannot do the job people imagine it is to do. The Military guys have so long been counting rockets and tanks that they don't even know how to listen to people who many times are nearly shouting their intent at the top of their lungs. You see, tanks and rockets do not tell intent.
The worst of this is not that the WMD hunt is done in Iraq we know how well they could count stuff. The projects are humiliated but the problem remains. The idiots in policy making simply must do something so rather than take a risk they keep going back to the well where they got the poisoned water. It is rather like the Senator complimenting Mr. Zoellick as being great on trade 1-18-2005 while not seeing that Mr. Zoellick's policies and trade efforts have sacked 60% of us industrial production and given us 5 times the trade deficit while collapsing the US Dollar. But you see only Mr. Zoellick is qualified for the job... Same for spying stuff. Nobody outside has a chance.
A few years ago I had occasion to be talking with the leaders of some of the US Electronics Assembly industry locally. I began to ask about the differentials in employment for women in that industry as they totally dominate the assembly lines. The response I got was one which I have looked into in depth since that time and found that these men were correct.
They reported to me substantial differentials in women and men regards work situations. They included that only about 10% of men had the color discrimination capacity of women. Women on average could descriminate well over 10 times the number of colors that men could and this was not related to color blindness. Women had on average 10 times the discrimination for fine detail and these two factors were the reason men were discriminated agianst in electronics assembly. This was also the dominant reason for export of the processes to China etc because it was illegal in the USA to discriminate so.
I am a Registered Nurse. I have learned professionally that a great deal of very concrete scientific data exists on differences between men and women. These include sensory and environmental and developmental differences. The data supporting the math claims is quite beyond any question. Women have as a average a mathematical capacity differential that is in the order of 10:1 on performance testing different. This is biological and has long been known to be so. Tell the MODS I am talking science and not policy and am not being troll this is just facts.
Being aware of Adm. Grace Hopper USN and Ada and other exceptional females (including a daughter of mine) I could hardly apply an average to anyone. But being ignorant of what is going on or politically correct in this matter is just stupid. We have allowed our political motives to get out of line with our science here.
Hillary Clinton (Ex Prez Wife and US Senator) was willing to accept and actually testified and got policy changed in medical research over this very issue. Prior to her efforts medicines as a whole were never tested on women to determine if they had differential effects to men. They are now and the results are most intersting. I am no supporter ot many of the Clinton policies but this was a very correct action. In medicine it is saving lives.
In our world many problems develop because we are politically motivated and not science moderated. How on earth can it be that we can see that women and men have differences in strength, temperment and even have as a whole different ratios of muscle to fat in their bodies and cannot see that they behave differently? How can we be so arrogant as to breed animals for temper and abilities and be unwilling to see that various humans have differences? This accusing those who discuss overwhelming scientific evidence as if they were bigots has got to stop.
Those who talk about Greenland Ice raising sea levels don't consider that the Continents are floating....
But that would ruin their whole theory etc wouldn't it? Well it certainly throws a monkey wrench into it anyway.
Mod the parent of this one up. He gets it! The Physics types are (generally, but for a few, as in no remarks about not all or exceptions please) the most arrogant and frankly ignorant types I have ever met. Many act like they have died and ascended to God status.
What we don't know about the universe would ..., fill the universe! What we know about it including what we think we know about it is pretty slim. Having been close to some of the highest phyics research and having actually been the one who laid out for NASA how lightning works, (current theory) I might be willing to hazard a few guesses about what is going on. I lack the arrogance to tell for sure what is going on.
This isn't news. The idea of a peelable paint has been in use by industry for a very long time. I suppose the idea of coloring this product and using it for a while for play type uses is a bit new but nothing new in the product. It has been used for decades to coat the inside of spray booths etc to peel off the junk that accumulates.
Whoever suggested this article must not have known that this is a long standard industral tool for cleaning up messes that might otherwise be quite hard to deal with.
I suppose a geeky type might not know this. Having a bit of industrial experience behind me, I have handled the stuff and seen it used.
I really appreciate a poster who does what the parent of this post does. He is trying to get to the facts.
Now as to one curious set of facts... planet formation. Mars and Earth being slightly different in size illustrate a curious reality. Bodies significantly smaller than earth in our solar system are actually evaporating into space. That is they are by the gas laws (which also apply to liquids and solids) are losing mass into space. Bodies the sized of earth or larger are acquiring mass from space.
If we are to logically follow the accreation of a planetoid into a planet it never makes it because the planetoid evaporates. This also applies to stars and more profoundly so. If a star acquires gas from the region around it to the point where the nuclear fire erupts, it blows itself out as fast as it lights.
These paradoxes have not been answered to by modern science types. Obviously there are processes at work which are not explained. The planet question says that in many cases the planets were formed as whole bodies at one time and ejected from stellar explosion as shrapnel. This also conforms to the warm core issues as well because a small planetoid forming by accreation would not generate a hot core or it would evaporate.
I just point out the paradoxes. Anyone with reasonable suggestions is invited to chime right in.
I love this myth that "Assualt rifles" were specifically to kill human beings. The Geneva Conventions actually have made them be developed for entirely a different purpose and it is most definitely and amazingly not to kill human beings. Assault rifles were built to WOUND people.
You see in combat if you wound a soldier it takes out of action 2 or 3 buddies as well. Killing him usually just gets his buddies mad! It is much more effective to wound. This is also why land mines are most often calculated to blow off a leg or a foot.
Acutally the nice 30.06 rifle of the earlier times of US Combat was a most effective Killing weapon. That is why the USA Hunters tend to prefer it or variants of it such as the accelerator versions at lower dimensions. I suppose this might hurt the feelings of those wanting to regulate guns but it illustrates how arguments get smashed out of reality in such topics.
To apply this to P2P networks is a pretty good example. The arguments are just plain wierd. P2P is nothing but what the name says. Communication between two parties without the moderation of a third party. Of course this private communication lets in people who do illegal things. Of course it is nothing more nor less than communications. There is nothing really wrong about it.
I remember in the early days of Cell Phones and Pagers, many facilities assumed that children with these devices were trading drugs. (It started out that way too!) Rapidly other uses developed and most if not all kids using cell phones and pagers is now legitimate. I assume P2P is going to do about the same. Outlawing it serves no purpose.
Common misunderstanding. Just because the exterior or the interior walls look the same does not mean that the houses are in any way the same. US Houses are actually quite different by locality. This adaptation to different areas is quite profound.
Where I live it is quite legal to build a building without foundation straps tied to the roof but in the southern part of my state is is not. My climate is quite different. In my area the house must have insulation. In the southern part of my state this is essentially optional. The houses look very similar on the exterior. The houses where I live must have substantial HVAC systems. In the southern part of my state many houses exist with minimal heating and use AC only as a central device.
Having worked in the construction business the similarity is cosmetic. Homes in the far north of the USA may look similar but the functional systems may be quite different.
At the 1982 wood working machinery show (VERY BIG SHOW) I met the guys who make Verticell Cardboard. I told them that I thought their product would make great houses cheap and fast. They indicated that they were already doing so OUTSIDE the USA and that their product was able to be very strong (nearly hurricane proof) and very cheap. (about 20% of current costs) It was then that I learned that Buidling Codes were the problem with high priced homes in the USA.
The reason nobody wants cheaper homes is that if one actually made a cheaper house say 20% of the cost of current ones that serviced the need, it would collapse the mortgage market for the existing homes etc. As such local codes are kept in place mostly to protect existing mortgage holders. Just thought someone might like to know what was going on in our "Free Enterprise" "Capitalist" economy.
I will skip a lot of details and just say that people in Huntsville, Alabama are PARANOID about the weather for good reason. (I know that is an oxymoron but it will have to do) They forced the NOAA (US Weather Service) to put up a lot of facilities that they did not want because of this. The facilities include weather research etc.
For those who think that they lack for scientists who really study the weather see the UAH News Reports etc. In their study of "Global Warming" they found little or no data to support this claimed occurance and have reported so. They do not lack for the best data Science can provide as they are associated with NASA in Huntsville as well.
I learned a lot from these people including insights that are pretty deep. If you will remember the "Acid Rain" threat a few years ago that has disappeared from discussion. Well that was pointed out to me to be the product mostly of TREES going terminal (forrest life cycle issue). There was some industrial and man affect which was very local. I saw the acidity maps! On Global Warming there are several points that render any claim of man's efforts here to be suspect. The scientists at UAH are not agreed with the Global Warming claims.
It would appear though that the claim that all Climate Scientists agree with the Global Warming ideas is just not so. There are a lot who think otherwise.
First technology has changed in time so what may have taken a short time recently may have taken a lot longer some time back. So test time may have more to do with when than what.
Secondly even if this is a "legend" it is typical that people under stress may confess to things that they have not done. This is why the US Constitution prohibits the requirement of persons being required to testify against themselves and why other evidence is required. I believe that this prohibition on self incrimination and right to be secure in person place and effects would negate such processes for Criminal Cases.
In the story the party may well have murdered (assuming it is true) and confessed or may have done so under emotional stress and been lying. The rest of the bog might have had something to say about that. Who knows? Evidence is a problem.
Police rarely look for exculpatory evidence. They tend to drive quite forcefully towards conviction. As such they tend to ignore some tests/evidence that might well lead to more innocent conclusions. In England the rules for evidence are different than in the USA and the testing requirements are different as well. Plus police departments often make stupid mistakes.
Is the story a lie or the truth who knows. The point appears valid none the less, that Lie Detection based upon Mental Stress or activity would have some rather gaping holes in the process. More likely than not a truely convinced liar (False memories or Just loose mental habits etc) would not be caught by such a method. Worse yet the process is likely to produce false positives for lie detection in parties under stress or otherwise distracted. A police department trying to convict might well flip a pretty picture or play some music timed well at the time of a question or kick the defendant ... Convicted!
franky the parent post should be modded off topic but since it came up... Why not ratify Kyoto for India? They are exept from its limits!
I guess it doesn't matter much but My father worked on the Apollo Launch Guidance computer that sat in the 1st to 2nd Stage ring as one of those programmers doing so much with so little. He also worked on some others.
What I find fascinating was how they actually made sure that if a computer failed others would back up operations. I also found quite astounding that this process was never applied to modern control systems such as driving vehicles etc. If somebody wants to know how! I DO! I was raised by the inventor
Ahhh! Somebody who understands!
I wonder with all of the money we Americans are spending on this fine research, ... ($Megabucks$ for really good research!) where will they build the planes/rockets etc that actually use this stuff? Could it be China? India? etc...
Does this mean Americans get the bill for the research and others get the profits? If so WHY would we spend for the research for others to get the "jobs of the future?" If this is the case, it would seem to be a bad investment. But really cool science!
Cool Invention doesn't pay the bills. Cool business does!
Isn't if funny how school adminstrators want to do anything they can to avoid actually having to know their students and to actually watch what is going on in their schools?
Let me propose another very important thing or two
The assumption that the CO2 levels measured at the ML observatory are representative of the "Cleanest air" or most un affected by local emissions is flawed. Air travel and in particular air freight which was insignificant only a few years ago has become dominant and Hi is a definitely affected and decending planes going into the airports in the islands would affect the sensors significantly. This is a matter of distrobution. It makes the entire supposition questionable.
I have not been of any doubt that global warming was occuring. I have been severely in doubt of why. There is a lot of data to indicate that the issue is more "Asphault effect" and the location of sensors than acutual warming. link to info
There are a lot of things going on. We would be wise not to be so fast as to think that everything is mankind's fault. I do think that pollution is a serious problem. I sincerely suspect that we should look somewhere else besides the USA for most of those problems though. The KYOTO process was screwed up because it left India/China et al out of the restriction and was essentially an anti USA document. If you want to reduce pollution everyone should be subject to the rules.
The United States Constitution under the full faith and credit clause obligates every state to honor the warrants and court proceedings of the other states.
US Constitution: "Article IV Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. "
Process served under the orders of any court in the USA must be honored by the other 49 states. Yes process service must be honored! If it is not honored a FEDERAL case may be brought against the state refusing to honor it.
The Fair Tax is NOT A DEMOCRAT OR A LIBERAL proposal. Frankly it is generally opposed by only two classes of people. Those who somehow don't understand it or those who are DEMOCRAT and LIBERAL. If there was any one thing the Fair Tax does is it ends the social manipulation that is going on through the Income Tax at this time.
The Fair Tax is essential because the current system produces a DE FACTO TRADE WAR against the American people. In short you as an American Citizen must markup your goods and services about 150% in order to pay the US and vairous State Taxes as of now. Your Foreign Competition under NAFTA / GATT etc doesn't have to add this markup. EU memembers get it subtracted out as a VAT Rebate on export to the USA! The US Tax System has debased the US Economy under the current situation. Its broke people! Time has come to fix it!
Since I wrote the "great day for American innovation" comment I might have a thing or two to say more but I had really thought it spoke for itself. It wasn't a nationalistic comment. It was just a statement of fact and celebration.
There is however a reason why some 2% more or less of the world's population keeps coming up with about 80% or so of its innovations. That is a note worthy thing.
It has to do with the founding fathers (as Americans) and the fact that they decided to build a new world and have done with the corruption and terrible conditions of the old world. It isn't a matter of wealth or intelligence. It isn't something that couldn't happen anywhere. Frankly I would love living in a world where it happened everywhere! (The American Dream is a world dream!) If you are somewhere else and want to have your nation win a few, I think it is a great goal. Go get it. But you will find that the barriers against your success are higher outside the USA.
It is a deep topic I am skimming lightly. If you start fixing the problems I wish you luck and migh suggest you read up deeply on they establishment of the American Constitutional Federal Republic. Should you copy our model? It was a taylored coat. It fits the USA. You need to fit to your area. But the general pattern is well laid out.
I didn't compare to a vagina! Read into it what ever you will but I didn't make that comparison.