I can tell you with pretty good certainty exactly how much further my car can go based on the gas guage. Clearly there isn't that same capability with this car and the battery. No shock tho... how many times do you see laptops that take hours to get to 50% and then 30 minutes the next 50?
This last election, the only reason the republicans retained the lower house was gerrymandering. They lost the presidency handily. They couldn't win the upper house. Hell, in my state, Montana, a very
I hope you realize that hte only reason most politicians stay in power is gerrymandering. Whenever either party has the opportunity to take advantage of it they absolutely run with it. The problem is that those times happen infrequently and people forget by then what the other party did when it was their turn. Heck I've seen districts changed to include areas 5 or more miles away across a body of water in order to help the current in-power party candidate (D at the time).
The only things which are certain are death and taxes. That he wants to diversify his holdings is pretty understandable given how much of his wealth is all in one basket. Single stocks can rise and fall dramatically on a whim (see the iPrecious). And as chairman he will not be their forever and it is certainly better to lighten the stake while still remaining at the company and holding a good share than after leaving it.
You mean as opoosed to the "left wing nutjobs" who ran in 2008 and in 2012? Certainly Paul would not have expanded and would have reversed, if only be executive order, as much as he could. I think Mr. 999 also would have been more careful, at least domestically. Romney? Who knows where he really stood. Might he have tried to do what Obama has? Sure. But keep in mind too that whatever R would have been elected would have faced an impossible hurdle in the Senate. Obama has had the advtanage of a still large neo-con contingent in the house and his cronies in the senate to pass whatever he wants... that he doesn't just do by EO.
Your argument on choice is wrong - there are always other choices, one of which was to vote for Romney because he would not be able to get what he wanted out of the senate and might ultimately motivate enough to vote D in the midterms to retake the house too. I guess the weakness in that argument is that Bush rolled the Dems even when they had both houses.
I would add that not all "R"'s are praising, even in private, what Obama has done. You may recall that while it took a while, R's did start to distance themself from Bush after 2005, not in mass but a fairly good minority, and not just on the economic front. Unfortunately, the most visible R's and the leadership (ie, those who get on TV a lot) are the worst of the neocons.
What is so utterly depressing is the way the Dems, in general, love to beat Bush and republicans on Iraq and Patriot Act but not their leaders who voted in mass for the same, multiple times now. Nor do they call out the current leadership on expanding the write of DHS, FBI and other agencies under P.A. and hidden executive orders.
Don't let reality get in the way of the eco-commies. Can and should better efforts be made at the well head and over pipelines to capture leaks? Sure. But in the end, its not a significant contributor. From 2006:
400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
Reall good huh! What suckers you all were to believe the "Obama is good on civil liberties!" line. The man has proven himself by word and deed to be even more evil than Bush and Cheney. Not only does he not reverse their policies, he expands and extends them. But not a peep out of his supporters because he's "their" guy.
Then I guess the really "cool" features you need are only supported under Windows 8? I honestly do not understand the implication behind many of these posts that the mfg. should provide drivers for every OS under the sun that you could put on the pc/laptop they designed to be used with just one os.
If people want/need that kind of support then buy components individually that meet your requirements and assemble yourself. But don't be crying or shocked that the mass marketer only wants to support the mass market.
Do you find it normal to whine about features that are no longer useful? Is your desktop really that barren of frequently used program icons that you must use the start menu functionality more than a handful of times a week? Are your most commonly changed settings that far away when clicking the charm menu vs start/control/subgroup/etc? Did you even try to find out if there might be other alternatives in place like... ctrl-x? Or just right clicking over the mini-start screen in the bottom left corner?
Its all there, some of it quicker to use, some of it perhaps a click further for less used items. Please, get on with your life and stop fixating on start menu.
(1) Because it is a government job with 24/7/365 demands. It is a cabinet position. If the head of DoD/Transportation/CIA was doing this you would be just as ok? "Well there's this war going on, but yeah I got some time to moonlight on stuff I used to do.... "
(2) Take a look at those scientists. I think you will find in man cases those in administrative roles are generally not the "elite" researchers/theorirsts. As I said, a background, either through schooling or work, may be helpful but should not be looked upon as making the person qualified to lead a large organization. And the scale of DOE and other top level agencies is enourmous. Of course, there are exceptions, one example might be Leon Lederman who managed research groups of increasing size up to heading Fermilab with good success, though even he failed to save the SSC which was a political victim to the ISS and "small" science.
The size and scope of many of the federal agencies, DOE included, make finding any competent adminstrator difficult. But the evaluation of scientific merits (if applicable) should occur long before anything crosses the desk of the secretary, who needs to make decisions based on resource constraints (money, time, staff, materials, etc) and politics (not in my district!).
Exaclty - I have used TMO prepaid with a smartphone for about three years as I only use wi-fi for data. There is no plan for them to opt me into and they have not complained about my use of prepaid minutes for regular calling. Given the taxes and other tithes on most monthly plans, unless you are a major league talk/texter, the prepaid plans w/no data work out to your advantage.
I split time between a large metro area and a pretty rural area. The rural area I get dumped onto ATT(an original Cingular net) and coverage is mostly ok. Rural areas you really have to look into not just the coverage map of your contract provider but also who they have roaming agreements with.
Chu was for all intents a failure at DOE with no major accomplishments other than tarnishing the image of the agency. Contrary to your belief, scientists, particularly nobel winners, do not make good administrators and DOE is about as large and diverse an entity as they come. That is not to say that having a general background in math and physics would not help but that does not translate to leader must be a "scientist". Further, whomever is appointed must realize this is his/her day AND night job and that moonlighting to cointinue their previous work is unacceptable.
Hello? What part of that did you not get? There were people who *made* money because of this too - people who's ARMs reset lower.. counterparties to swaps and other agreements who paid less. Nobody has gone through the impossible task of documenting (and proving) every time the rate was what it was not supposed to be and *then* determing the overall net effect.
as are all the other *BOR's. They are not based on actual trading. They are meant to be a self-estimate of where a bank can borrow funds from other banks. That the derivatives market, beginning in the 80s, latched onto LIBOR as a mechanism to settle vanilla interest rate and cross-currency swaps was unfortunate but could have been changed at any time if enough market participants felt compelled to do so. Bill rates, for example, might have been used.
Keep in mind too that in all this bellyaching and tear jerking over a fantasy rate being pushed a few basis points one way or another is that the parties most affected are the banks themselves. And please don't cry me a river about Joe Blow's ARM resetting as the rates were not uniformly moved higher and the movement was tiny, even in the worst case amounting to cups of coffee for the typical mortgage.
They may not "care" in the sense of being something they'll run around jabbering about but they will care in the sense of ease of use and familiarity across products which is not what we have today, ie, iOS != OSX Android !=linux/X11 and neither are like the microsoft world. The less people have to think and remember the happier they are when it comes to using technology.
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I can tell you with pretty good certainty exactly how much further my car can go based on the gas guage. Clearly there isn't that same capability with this car and the battery. No shock tho... how many times do you see laptops that take hours to get to 50% and then 30 minutes the next 50?
This last election, the only reason the republicans retained the lower house was gerrymandering. They lost the presidency handily. They couldn't win the upper house. Hell, in my state, Montana, a very
I hope you realize that hte only reason most politicians stay in power is gerrymandering. Whenever either party has the opportunity to take advantage of it they absolutely run with it. The problem is that those times happen infrequently and people forget by then what the other party did when it was their turn. Heck I've seen districts changed to include areas 5 or more miles away across a body of water in order to help the current in-power party candidate (D at the time).
The only things which are certain are death and taxes. That he wants to diversify his holdings is pretty understandable given how much of his wealth is all in one basket. Single stocks can rise and fall dramatically on a whim (see the iPrecious). And as chairman he will not be their forever and it is certainly better to lighten the stake while still remaining at the company and holding a good share than after leaving it.
By the way... there's a Red under your bed....
You mean as opoosed to the "left wing nutjobs" who ran in 2008 and in 2012? Certainly Paul would not have expanded and would have reversed, if only be executive order, as much as he could. I think Mr. 999 also would have been more careful, at least domestically. Romney? Who knows where he really stood. Might he have tried to do what Obama has? Sure. But keep in mind too that whatever R would have been elected would have faced an impossible hurdle in the Senate. Obama has had the advtanage of a still large neo-con contingent in the house and his cronies in the senate to pass whatever he wants... that he doesn't just do by EO.
Your argument on choice is wrong - there are always other choices, one of which was to vote for Romney because he would not be able to get what he wanted out of the senate and might ultimately motivate enough to vote D in the midterms to retake the house too. I guess the weakness in that argument is that Bush rolled the Dems even when they had both houses.
I would add that not all "R"'s are praising, even in private, what Obama has done. You may recall that while it took a while, R's did start to distance themself from Bush after 2005, not in mass but a fairly good minority, and not just on the economic front. Unfortunately, the most visible R's and the leadership (ie, those who get on TV a lot) are the worst of the neocons.
What is so utterly depressing is the way the Dems, in general, love to beat Bush and republicans on Iraq and Patriot Act but not their leaders who voted in mass for the same, multiple times now. Nor do they call out the current leadership on expanding the write of DHS, FBI and other agencies under P.A. and hidden executive orders.
Don't let reality get in the way of the eco-commies. Can and should better efforts be made at the well head and over pipelines to capture leaks? Sure. But in the end, its not a significant contributor. From 2006:
400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
Reall good huh! What suckers you all were to believe the "Obama is good on civil liberties!" line. The man has proven himself by word and deed to be even more evil than Bush and Cheney. Not only does he not reverse their policies, he expands and extends them. But not a peep out of his supporters because he's "their" guy.
not our fault that sunni and shia hate each other. wonder how the hazara are doing in afghanistan? everyone hates them.
Then I guess the really "cool" features you need are only supported under Windows 8? I honestly do not understand the implication behind many of these posts that the mfg. should provide drivers for every OS under the sun that you could put on the pc/laptop they designed to be used with just one os.
If people want/need that kind of support then buy components individually that meet your requirements and assemble yourself. But don't be crying or shocked that the mass marketer only wants to support the mass market.
Do you find it normal to whine about features that are no longer useful? Is your desktop really that barren of frequently used program icons that you must use the start menu functionality more than a handful of times a week? Are your most commonly changed settings that far away when clicking the charm menu vs start/control/subgroup/etc? Did you even try to find out if there might be other alternatives in place like... ctrl-x? Or just right clicking over the mini-start screen in the bottom left corner?
Its all there, some of it quicker to use, some of it perhaps a click further for less used items. Please, get on with your life and stop fixating on start menu.
I wonder what the energy use of this project has been? 17 years? How many megawatthours? And what would be the 'carbon footprint' ?
(1) Because it is a government job with 24/7/365 demands. It is a cabinet position. If the head of DoD/Transportation/CIA was doing this you would be just as ok? "Well there's this war going on, but yeah I got some time to moonlight on stuff I used to do.... "
(2) Take a look at those scientists. I think you will find in man cases those in administrative roles are generally not the "elite" researchers/theorirsts. As I said, a background, either through schooling or work, may be helpful but should not be looked upon as making the person qualified to lead a large organization. And the scale of DOE and other top level agencies is enourmous. Of course, there are exceptions, one example might be Leon Lederman who managed research groups of increasing size up to heading Fermilab with good success, though even he failed to save the SSC which was a political victim to the ISS and "small" science.
The size and scope of many of the federal agencies, DOE included, make finding any competent adminstrator difficult. But the evaluation of scientific merits (if applicable) should occur long before anything crosses the desk of the secretary, who needs to make decisions based on resource constraints (money, time, staff, materials, etc) and politics (not in my district!).
Exaclty - I have used TMO prepaid with a smartphone for about three years as I only use wi-fi for data. There is no plan for them to opt me into and they have not complained about my use of prepaid minutes for regular calling. Given the taxes and other tithes on most monthly plans, unless you are a major league talk/texter, the prepaid plans w/no data work out to your advantage.
I split time between a large metro area and a pretty rural area. The rural area I get dumped onto ATT(an original Cingular net) and coverage is mostly ok. Rural areas you really have to look into not just the coverage map of your contract provider but also who they have roaming agreements with.
Tmob in USA prepaid 1000 mins= $100 + sales tax (if any). texts are 10c each way
Chu was for all intents a failure at DOE with no major accomplishments other than tarnishing the image of the agency. Contrary to your belief, scientists, particularly nobel winners, do not make good administrators and DOE is about as large and diverse an entity as they come. That is not to say that having a general background in math and physics would not help but that does not translate to leader must be a "scientist". Further, whomever is appointed must realize this is his/her day AND night job and that moonlighting to cointinue their previous work is unacceptable.
Hello? What part of that did you not get? There were people who *made* money because of this too - people who's ARMs reset lower.. counterparties to swaps and other agreements who paid less. Nobody has gone through the impossible task of documenting (and proving) every time the rate was what it was not supposed to be and *then* determing the overall net effect.
Well.. Timothy wrote the headline... what makes you think he has ever used logic? But yes, the amount "lost" is probably a small fraction.
as are all the other *BOR's. They are not based on actual trading. They are meant to be a self-estimate of where a bank can borrow funds from other banks. That the derivatives market, beginning in the 80s, latched onto LIBOR as a mechanism to settle vanilla interest rate and cross-currency swaps was unfortunate but could have been changed at any time if enough market participants felt compelled to do so. Bill rates, for example, might have been used.
Keep in mind too that in all this bellyaching and tear jerking over a fantasy rate being pushed a few basis points one way or another is that the parties most affected are the banks themselves. And please don't cry me a river about Joe Blow's ARM resetting as the rates were not uniformly moved higher and the movement was tiny, even in the worst case amounting to cups of coffee for the typical mortgage.
Or use an abandoned city like Detroit
They may not "care" in the sense of being something they'll run around jabbering about but they will care in the sense of ease of use and familiarity across products which is not what we have today, ie, iOS != OSX Android !=linux/X11 and neither are like the microsoft world. The less people have to think and remember the happier they are when it comes to using technology.
Ha... I missed your post and mentioned TECO on its own further down... TECO really should be in the hall of fame.
And Algol.. I'm still a FORTRAN guy but one must respect Algol for granddaddying C and others.
memories... briefly used it on TOPS before finding out about TeX (which was only a few years old at the time).
TOPS-20 rocked.... until the batch job log spools filled up all the free disk..whoops!
but thats way way before most of your times....