tell me about how bad life is in the us when people are lining up for iphones and ipods every time a new one is released. or people paying 1200 a year for cable tv. or how about people leasing cars they could never afford to buy. yeah times are hard in the us. not. what is up in the us is whining.
bunch of anti-capitalists in the EU. Google is under no obligation to anyone to show any search results other than the ones Google wants to show. You don't like how their search works? Go use Bing. Go use any of the many other search providers. Vote with your feet. Stop trying to be nanny to everyone and assume they aren't capable of finding what they want in more than one way.
You are a fucking dolt you know that? I'm sure you have never, never ever, not even once in your life said out loud, in public or in front of freinds or family that "I'd like to kill xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " By your definition that is a terrorist threat.
This is nothing more than excessive nannyism and a failure to tolerate sarcasm in any way or form. If you want to be protected from every threat, real or imagined, please, please please go buy a nuclear bunker, seal the door and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
is it that difficult to figure it out? They will, in theory, offer you some anonymous cloak to protect you're real identity from others, except Google. Google can then provide that information any time any law enforcement or investigative body comes knocking. Nothing more than CYA.
Do you believe you can be sue by someone purchasing your applications? Do you believe you might be on the short end of litigation by another developer who claims you copied his trademark or patent?
The problem with incorporation is the paperwork nightmare that goes with it and if you draw a salary, the need to do more for soc. sec, medicare, unemplyment, etc.
If you can treat the income from the work as instead your savings you might avoid much of that by drawing no salary 'until such a time as revenues reach X' where X is some stupid large number. When you are through with developing you can do a return of capital to the shareholders and dissolve the corporation.
Of course, always check with one of your lawyer friends first.
Action by both the House and the Senate is required to override a presidential veto. A two-thirds majority vote of the Members present is required to override a presidential veto. If one house fails to override a veto, the other house does not attempt to override, even if the votes are present to succeed.
Will Obama veto it? Will the Senate (controlled by Dems) pass it?
Are you arguing that a Democrat, Mr. Obama, has not greatly extended the power of the FBI and others?
The real question is which room in the west wing he lets Dick Cheney use.
And the progressives, not to mention the rest of the dems just rolled over. Evil Bush! Evil Evil! We believe in civil liberties. Ha. What a joke. All you believe in is that your guy is in the white house. Not only has Obama and Dems (don't forget the house was Nancy's) failed to roll back anything of Bush/Cheney, they expanded the powers. And we won't even go down that war on drugs road....
In fact, history shows that all of the three letter agencies gather information which has no apparent value or use and were just fishing expeditions. We also have no idea what other sources of UDIDs they may have which could have additional information that can be cross referenced to BlueToad app users, which depending on the material published might be of great interest to the FBI.
You can't ensure a 100% rate even if you have one counter for each vote as there are multiple levels of tallying going on after viewing each ballot. Once individual counters are given multiple ballots to count there is most definitely a non-zero chance of error being made in the counting process.
There seems to be a notion that hand counting is 100% accurate. It is not and the real question should be what are the relative accuracy rates and the costs to produce them? If the margin of error of the counting method is well inside the margin of victory then there is no need to do a recount Some will say other systems are subject to fraud, but hand counting is also subject to collusion.
Personally, I still believe the best method are the mechanical pull lever machines. However, they are not modern ("sexy") and claims are always made of the cost to repair the machines to justify bringing in some form of electronic counting. Hard to believe that a low cost replacement could not be made in this day and age.
very succinctly put. If I had mod points I'd give them to you. It is not just that they are not valued though. It is that they are "too hard" and well Johnny needs a more well rounded education so lets teach him a lot of superfluous stuff instead.
to the teacher unions and the educational industry who have brought nothing but high property taxes, debt and excessive spending all the while not doing a bit to make little johnny any brighter than he was 10 years before (or 10 years before that or...)
People need to wake up to the fact that this is no different than the so called "military industrial" complex or the terrorism/security industry. They are constantly "fixing" something that is "wrong" to make Johnny smarter, yet no evidence is ever found to show that the changes were a success. Wash, rinse, repeat.
In fact, school days are longer now than at any point in history, especially when factoring in school associated after hours functions. But is Johnny any brighter? Can he do basic arithmetic? Can he read? Can he write (we'll skip what it looks like)? Can he do anything even at the same level as a child of the same age in 1950? Would he score better on a chemistry test? An English Lit. essay? A geometry proof? Sadly, the answer is no. Of course, Johnny today can play Xbox, surf the web and download music though I don't think I'd be going too far out on the limb to say the kid from the 1950s could have done so as well if exposed to that technology - after all, many of them could use a slide rule which requires not just memorization but comprehension to use properly.
We have had fifty years of trying to improve what was already working quite well. Instead, things have gone stagnant or backwards at great cost to every community. Stop the insanity now.
while LHC has higher energy. LHC will alays have to contend with bound free pair production which will limit its luminosity. RHIC can also do research with polarized proton collisions.
Of the three projects, the Mich St FRIB is most likely to be cut as both RHIC and CEBAF have upgrades underway or nearly complete and have significant backlogs, up to a decade, of users with experimental plans. FRIB is still on the drawing board and thus can wait until better times.
Look it is simple. You want to believe and trust that your government officials would never ever expand the reach of a program like this without telling you. The technology to do so is there now. You chose to ignore that. And just because the UK wasted X on inferior technology does not mean they won't turn right around and spend Y on the new technology they should have bought in the first place.
Too many times it has been brought to light that police and other govt agencies who say they only keep whatever the information they collect for just long enough to do X and then we find out years later that in fact, they've not only kept it all but merged it with other depts data.
Stop believing what they tell you because they will *not* ever tell you that bad parts.
Yes the more rational ones who said "the NSA would never collect your phone conversations (land or cell) or emails" They also said things like EasyPass would never ever be used by anyone other than the toll authority..because thats what they told us!
In fact the rational person knows by now not to believe anything a government official or contractor tells you.
PS: You think your beloved UK police and gov't officials don't have what the French do?
How does the system work?
The vehicle is speeding. As it passes by an automatic radar, speeding is detected and a digital picture of the vehicle is taken. The picture is crypted then sent to a national treatment center via internet networks (adsl connection). At the center the picture is uncrypted and the registration of the car is taken, as well as all the relevant data (time, speed, etc).
You shouldn't be using a mainframe if you are making these types of arguments. Mainframes were never meant to be the fastest at single tasks where a mips rating might be relevant. They are meant for processing enormous amounts of data/transactions with high throughput and reliability (including fault tolerance). People aren't spending this kind of dough on something they don't need or think they could get for cheaper/better elsewhere. Wasn't the mainframe declared dead in the 80s? 90s? 2000? Where are the competitive systems you seem to think are possible? Quit your job and go make some. Just don't collect unemployment when you fail.
How naive are you? You actually believe that hokum? "Yeah we only store the ones who have already broken the law" or "We only film the ones who actually are speeding." Yeah.. ok.
You can get a new low end e-reader for about $75 bucks, hardly a backbreaking expense when they say the budget is $300-400. They can also download thousands of free ebooks that are off copyright so it probably all washes out in the end.
You want this to read, not to fuck around surfing the web, playing games or using other apps. A tablet will be nothing more than a distraction to you. An e-reader will also be a fraction of the money of a tablet and you can use the difference to buy books for quite some time. If you like to listen to music in the background while you read you might consider one of the readers which can play mp3s off an sd card.
As Mr. Buffet likes to lecture the rest of us about 'paying our fair share of taxes' and his feeling that he does not, how about stepping up to the plate and providing the funding for these projects as you clearly don't bother cutting the government a check for the shortfall you wish they would take (and that you can in fact send to them at anytime if you were inclined).
While the above is meant to be some what tongue in cheek, the larger point is that there are lots of billionaires and multimillionares in the US who could easily set up the necessary philanthropic fund to assure the continued survival of those observatories which are still able to do good science.
T-Mobile lets you buy in smaller increments but does offer bonus minutes and the year extension for 'gold rewards' which means you need to buy $100 at least once to qualify (or so I interpret it)
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you are too late for the USSR, sorry.
tell me about how bad life is in the us when people are lining up for iphones and ipods every time a new one is released. or people paying 1200 a year for cable tv. or how about people leasing cars they could never afford to buy. yeah times are hard in the us. not. what is up in the us is whining.
OK, go use Bing. Or Blekko. Or Dogpile. Or Ask. Or is that too hard for you to do? You don't like the way Google works so don't keep using it.
bunch of anti-capitalists in the EU. Google is under no obligation to anyone to show any search results other than the ones Google wants to show. You don't like how their search works? Go use Bing. Go use any of the many other search providers. Vote with your feet. Stop trying to be nanny to everyone and assume they aren't capable of finding what they want in more than one way.
You are a fucking dolt you know that? I'm sure you have never, never ever, not even once in your life said out loud, in public or in front of freinds or family that "I'd like to kill xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " By your definition that is a terrorist threat.
This is nothing more than excessive nannyism and a failure to tolerate sarcasm in any way or form. If you want to be protected from every threat, real or imagined, please, please please go buy a nuclear bunker, seal the door and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
is it that difficult to figure it out? They will, in theory, offer you some anonymous cloak to protect you're real identity from others, except Google. Google can then provide that information any time any law enforcement or investigative body comes knocking. Nothing more than CYA.
Do you believe you can be sue by someone purchasing your applications? Do you believe you might be on the short end of litigation by another developer who claims you copied his trademark or patent?
The problem with incorporation is the paperwork nightmare that goes with it and if you draw a salary, the need to do more for soc. sec, medicare, unemplyment, etc.
If you can treat the income from the work as instead your savings you might avoid much of that by drawing no salary 'until such a time as revenues reach X' where X is some stupid large number. When you are through with developing you can do a return of capital to the shareholders and dissolve the corporation.
Of course, always check with one of your lawyer friends first.
Action by both the House and the Senate is required to override a presidential veto. A two-thirds majority vote of the Members present is required to override a presidential veto. If one house fails to override a veto, the other house does not attempt to override, even if the votes are present to succeed.
Will Obama veto it? Will the Senate (controlled by Dems) pass it?
Are you arguing that a Democrat, Mr. Obama, has not greatly extended the power of the FBI and others?
The real question is which room in the west wing he lets Dick Cheney use.
I would recommend Gary Johnson. At least you may have a clear conscience after. Bush=Obama=Mittens.
And the progressives, not to mention the rest of the dems just rolled over. Evil Bush! Evil Evil! We believe in civil liberties. Ha. What a joke. All you believe in is that your guy is in the white house. Not only has Obama and Dems (don't forget the house was Nancy's) failed to roll back anything of Bush/Cheney, they expanded the powers. And we won't even go down that war on drugs road....
Pathetic.
In fact, history shows that all of the three letter agencies gather information which has no apparent value or use and were just fishing expeditions. We also have no idea what other sources of UDIDs they may have which could have additional information that can be cross referenced to BlueToad app users, which depending on the material published might be of great interest to the FBI.
You can't ensure a 100% rate even if you have one counter for each vote as there are multiple levels of tallying going on after viewing each ballot. Once individual counters are given multiple ballots to count there is most definitely a non-zero chance of error being made in the counting process.
was given the data by an insider or hacked it themself first.
There seems to be a notion that hand counting is 100% accurate. It is not and the real question should be what are the relative accuracy rates and the costs to produce them? If the margin of error of the counting method is well inside the margin of victory then there is no need to do a recount Some will say other systems are subject to fraud, but hand counting is also subject to collusion.
Personally, I still believe the best method are the mechanical pull lever machines. However, they are not modern ("sexy") and claims are always made of the cost to repair the machines to justify bringing in some form of electronic counting. Hard to believe that a low cost replacement could not be made in this day and age.
very succinctly put. If I had mod points I'd give them to you. It is not just that they are not valued though. It is that they are "too hard" and well Johnny needs a more well rounded education so lets teach him a lot of superfluous stuff instead.
to the teacher unions and the educational industry who have brought nothing but high property taxes, debt and excessive spending all the while not doing a bit to make little johnny any brighter than he was 10 years before (or 10 years before that or...)
People need to wake up to the fact that this is no different than the so called "military industrial" complex or the terrorism/security industry. They are constantly "fixing" something that is "wrong" to make Johnny smarter, yet no evidence is ever found to show that the changes were a success. Wash, rinse, repeat.
In fact, school days are longer now than at any point in history, especially when factoring in school associated after hours functions. But is Johnny any brighter? Can he do basic arithmetic? Can he read? Can he write (we'll skip what it looks like)? Can he do anything even at the same level as a child of the same age in 1950? Would he score better on a chemistry test? An English Lit. essay? A geometry proof? Sadly, the answer is no. Of course, Johnny today can play Xbox, surf the web and download music though I don't think I'd be going too far out on the limb to say the kid from the 1950s could have done so as well if exposed to that technology - after all, many of them could use a slide rule which requires not just memorization but comprehension to use properly.
We have had fifty years of trying to improve what was already working quite well. Instead, things have gone stagnant or backwards at great cost to every community. Stop the insanity now.
while LHC has higher energy. LHC will alays have to contend with bound free pair production which will limit its luminosity. RHIC can also do research with polarized proton collisions.
Of the three projects, the Mich St FRIB is most likely to be cut as both RHIC and CEBAF have upgrades underway or nearly complete and have significant backlogs, up to a decade, of users with experimental plans. FRIB is still on the drawing board and thus can wait until better times.
Look it is simple. You want to believe and trust that your government officials would never ever expand the reach of a program like this without telling you. The technology to do so is there now. You chose to ignore that. And just because the UK wasted X on inferior technology does not mean they won't turn right around and spend Y on the new technology they should have bought in the first place.
Too many times it has been brought to light that police and other govt agencies who say they only keep whatever the information they collect for just long enough to do X and then we find out years later that in fact, they've not only kept it all but merged it with other depts data.
Stop believing what they tell you because they will *not* ever tell you that bad parts.
Yes the more rational ones who said "the NSA would never collect your phone conversations (land or cell) or emails" They also said things like EasyPass would never ever be used by anyone other than the toll authority..because thats what they told us!
In fact the rational person knows by now not to believe anything a government official or contractor tells you.
PS: You think your beloved UK police and gov't officials don't have what the French do?
How does the system work?
The vehicle is speeding. As it passes by an automatic radar, speeding is detected and a digital picture of the vehicle is taken. The picture is crypted then sent to a national treatment center via internet networks (adsl connection). At the center the picture is uncrypted and the registration of the car is taken, as well as all the relevant data (time, speed, etc).
You really, really are f*ng naive.
You shouldn't be using a mainframe if you are making these types of arguments. Mainframes were never meant to be the fastest at single tasks where a mips rating might be relevant. They are meant for processing enormous amounts of data/transactions with high throughput and reliability (including fault tolerance). People aren't spending this kind of dough on something they don't need or think they could get for cheaper/better elsewhere. Wasn't the mainframe declared dead in the 80s? 90s? 2000? Where are the competitive systems you seem to think are possible? Quit your job and go make some. Just don't collect unemployment when you fail.
How naive are you? You actually believe that hokum? "Yeah we only store the ones who have already broken the law" or "We only film the ones who actually are speeding." Yeah.. ok.
Look outside your front door. There are some men waiting for you. They'd like to bring you someplace for a chat.
You can get a new low end e-reader for about $75 bucks, hardly a backbreaking expense when they say the budget is $300-400. They can also download thousands of free ebooks that are off copyright so it probably all washes out in the end.
You want this to read, not to fuck around surfing the web, playing games or using other apps. A tablet will be nothing more than a distraction to you. An e-reader will also be a fraction of the money of a tablet and you can use the difference to buy books for quite some time. If you like to listen to music in the background while you read you might consider one of the readers which can play mp3s off an sd card.
As Mr. Buffet likes to lecture the rest of us about 'paying our fair share of taxes' and his feeling that he does not, how about stepping up to the plate and providing the funding for these projects as you clearly don't bother cutting the government a check for the shortfall you wish they would take (and that you can in fact send to them at anytime if you were inclined).
While the above is meant to be some what tongue in cheek, the larger point is that there are lots of billionaires and multimillionares in the US who could easily set up the necessary philanthropic fund to assure the continued survival of those observatories which are still able to do good science.
T-Mobile lets you buy in smaller increments but does offer bonus minutes and the year extension for 'gold rewards' which means you need to buy $100 at least once to qualify (or so I interpret it)