and I have for a long time thought about it - there is no reason at all why the NFL can't release the video (for a price of course) the day after the game. There is nothing "proprietary" about it once the game is over as every team has access to this footage, only the fans do not. As the original poster notes, a lot can be missed when just using the zoomed in sideline cameras and rarely does a broadcast use one of the high up cams.
You would think the NFL (and NHL as well) would wake up and try to take advantage of this. The cost to do so is minimal.
Having been there around 2000 perhaps things have changed a little bit but... a) coming from the central/eastern part of the state, do not assume there are no coppers on that road. There are as my friend found out b) VLA is self guided. c) If you plan a bit better than we did you might be able to check out that lighting farm thing. d) there is only one place to stay in Quemado but there is/was a bar with a pool table. I think Grant AZ is the nearest "big" place and its a bit of a hike. We actually pulled off road and crashed a while in our lawn chairs - it was late night and you probably won't find many darker places to check out the stars. There are also a number of lava flows and what not on the way to AZ.
And if you are going to be in NM, there is also White Sands and I think the solar observatory is still open but slated to be moved elsewhere. Check on that.
Great comment and my semi-learned mind says you are likely to be proven correct. One other thing to point out - eventhough this is reported as 3.5sigma, that does not mean that additional statistics will push it to 5 and in fact, many 3 sigma-ish 'discoveries' end up being background or explained by other parameters/variables.
How many times are you going to miss the point? This is *not* a federal issue. Any action should be taken by the local authorities on their own as is appropriate to the laws of that state and municipality, The FBI and DHS should not be involved. Period.
Well, first off, the FBI and DHS were bound to get involved, the moment the OWS movement decided, or spontaneously morphed into, the occupation of more than 1 location. A national event, elicits a national response, from federal agencies, to some degree.
I guess you missed the late 60's and early 70s? I thought we established then that FBI or [insert federal agency here] involvement in political speech was a no-no? That there are protests, rallies or whatever you want to call them in the 50 states is none of the business of Washington DC and the Federal government. Guess you won't be happy until there is an urban version of Kent State using Federal forces.
As the original submitter I'd just like to add the one line that was truncated from my submission:
Nixon must be smiling!
For me, the issue isn't if the local coppers break up the protest (for instance, in NYC it is on private property not owned by the protesters) but that the DHS and FBI are helping coordinate the effort. I take a dim view of the Feds being involved in this in any manner unless it is happening in Washington DC.
Ha! put the crack pipe down and get a dose of reality ok? What did the government do with the money they took in the 50's? DId they run a giganormous surplus? Or did they just spend the whole fucking wad? What did they do in the 60s? They spent it. How about the 70s? Yep, they spent it then too. Government will spend every last nickel you allow them to take from you. Period. As a bonus question: go look up per capita education spending in 1960 vs 2010 and compare test score results during the same. Hint: look here to start.
More dough for edukation? Gee that's worked all so well the past 40 years. How deep is that pit now? Yeah lets just take some more money out of the taxpayer pocket - going to do wonders for property values when property taxes go up even more.. isn't 60% of the take enough?
Same goes for research. There are so many pigs at the trough because it is so heavily sponsored/subsidized by the government. Why are the feds subsidizing cosmologists? Is something practical actually going to come of it? Will the people get a return on their investment? Cut it. Completely. That is a perfect example of research which should be funded purely philanthropically .
Manufacturing? WTF? It is up to business to decide where and how to make their products. If that is China or Mexico or where ever else, so be it. If the products are sold in the US market that means consumers are paying less.
I've been on nightlies since... 6? I've had very few crashes.. maybe one every two weeks or so. I do not run with many extensions any more.. pretty much just adblock noscript and ghostery.
While I do maintain a FreeBSD server and do dual boot for some devel work on another machine, lets be honest about things - there is a program for just about anything available on windows and when they are installed, they 'just work' without additional fucking around. IMHO the quality of programs available on Win* are better as well. Thats not to say their aren't some unique applications that have a better *nix version or that iSteve hasn't put one out for his cult, but when you look at the whole shebang, neither osx nor linux/bsd can compete. And while others have already mentioned drivers, that is really secondary if you don't have access to applications you want. And I've never found running in a VM to be quite the same either.
If your needs are just routine email, web, 'office' and development the *nixes are fine. Go beyond that and your satisfaction curve will begin to decline.
And XP was too complicated for the approximately 1/2 billion people using legal copies? I must have missed the world coming to a crashing end becasue people couldn't figure out how to do work on their pc because XP was too complicated! I'm sure win8 will address that so that the eekonomy will roar to life once again.
And there is a reason why Obama can't step away from the GPS device? Can't find AG Holders phone number? Or maybe he just doesn't answer the phone because of Fast and Furious? By the way.. its Clinton's fault.
I managed to get Xmonad working on an ancient nvidia car on two monitors without too much trouble. The initial config took minutes. I did not like the out of the box way the virtual screens would switch between the monitors and that did take some research but I would say hours, not days. Ultimately I could have lived with the default but it was nice to get it work exactly as I wanted it. While TFA was really just about bsd on a server (and I have one of those too) it is just as functional on the desktop as linux, at least for my needs. And I do agree that the small amount of time one spends getting the config down as you want it is worth it over the long run.
I was a long time user of Slackware before switching to FreeBSD about three years back. One of the reasons why I used Slack for....mmm.. 15 years.. was that Slackware put most things where they should be unlike what I saw happening with the various RedHats, Debians, etc. These guys would do better to clean up their own act before trying to hose everyone else because they think putting everything in the kitchen sink is "simpler".
There was a town in Euroland, German to be precise, a few years back which suffereed some very serious damage after beginning to use geothermal power. Some how that seems to be a pretty negative side effect.
People get all teary eyed talking about Jobs but they fail to distinguish the Apple of the 70s and 80s vs the Second Coming of iSteve. The Latter Day Apple is nothing but sheer evil and was driven to this by the iSteve. Crap like this patent (ignoring for a moment the stupidity of the US patent office) is a perfect example. This was obvious. It existed before. And just because you used it too does that mean you should seek a patent on it? Is Apple that insecure? That much of a whore? Will your whole business model come crashing down if you don't patent the obvious?
Did you miss the earlier reply where it was suggested to privatize? After all, no company could possibly afford to launch a satellite or have the necessary engineers, etc to handle the service. DirecTV is government owned, right?
DOE is not just about the weapons labs and programs. And those functions which are necessary and appropriate to continue would end up in a more appropriate agency like DoD.
Really? Congress could not pass a law with the same effect? Do people drive without a license? And is that regulated at the federal or state level? Perhaps you should do more research on RP and his positions - he is against the federal government doing things it should not be involved in. He is for individual states and municipalities doing things they see fit to do so long as they do not violate the constitution.
You are making the assumption that after eliminating these offices, Mr. Paul would then turn around and and lower the tax rate to allow US citizens to keep that money that is no longer needed. But if taxes stay the same, then I would still be paying the same amount, but be getting less service in return. Like Netflix.
On October 31, 2011 US debt will equal 100% of GDP. While he does address some elements of the tax system (which is totally fubar to begin with) the fact remains that this country is in hock and those debts must be paid or defaulted on. So yes, there is a chance (in this case remote) that you might have to personally pay for a service which may have previously been provided by the government. By continuing to pay taxes at the current rate you are, by analogy, being asked to pay off the credit card bill for that plasma tv you bought 5 years ago but could not afford, eventhough it just died.
As other posters have pointed out, there are other companies who have very large reasearch operations (basic and applied). While I am certainly concerned about the military/industrial complex end of things, I do not have an issue per se if a company provides a product or service to a government agency.
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and I have for a long time thought about it - there is no reason at all why the NFL can't release the video (for a price of course) the day after the game. There is nothing "proprietary" about it once the game is over as every team has access to this footage, only the fans do not. As the original poster notes, a lot can be missed when just using the zoomed in sideline cameras and rarely does a broadcast use one of the high up cams.
You would think the NFL (and NHL as well) would wake up and try to take advantage of this. The cost to do so is minimal.
Having been there around 2000 perhaps things have changed a little bit but... a) coming from the central/eastern part of the state, do not assume there are no coppers on that road. There are as my friend found out b) VLA is self guided. c) If you plan a bit better than we did you might be able to check out that lighting farm thing. d) there is only one place to stay in Quemado but there is/was a bar with a pool table. I think Grant AZ is the nearest "big" place and its a bit of a hike. We actually pulled off road and crashed a while in our lawn chairs - it was late night and you probably won't find many darker places to check out the stars. There are also a number of lava flows and what not on the way to AZ.
And if you are going to be in NM, there is also White Sands and I think the solar observatory is still open but slated to be moved elsewhere. Check on that.
I noted in a reply further up that 3sigma events many times end up going away as more statistics are taken. Google "3 sigma bump" for examples.
Great comment and my semi-learned mind says you are likely to be proven correct. One other thing to point out - eventhough this is reported as 3.5sigma, that does not mean that additional statistics will push it to 5 and in fact, many 3 sigma-ish 'discoveries' end up being background or explained by other parameters/variables.
How many times are you going to miss the point? This is *not* a federal issue. Any action should be taken by the local authorities on their own as is appropriate to the laws of that state and municipality, The FBI and DHS should not be involved. Period.
Well, first off, the FBI and DHS were bound to get involved, the moment the OWS movement decided, or spontaneously morphed into, the occupation of more than 1 location. A national event, elicits a national response, from federal agencies, to some degree.
I guess you missed the late 60's and early 70s? I thought we established then that FBI or [insert federal agency here] involvement in political speech was a no-no? That there are protests, rallies or whatever you want to call them in the 50 states is none of the business of Washington DC and the Federal government. Guess you won't be happy until there is an urban version of Kent State using Federal forces.
wait.... are they in Philadelphia too? Good thing WIlson Goode ain't in charge anymore... certainly some similarities!
As the original submitter I'd just like to add the one line that was truncated from my submission:
Nixon must be smiling!
For me, the issue isn't if the local coppers break up the protest (for instance, in NYC it is on private property not owned by the protesters) but that the DHS and FBI are helping coordinate the effort. I take a dim view of the Feds being involved in this in any manner unless it is happening in Washington DC.
Ha! put the crack pipe down and get a dose of reality ok? What did the government do with the money they took in the 50's? DId they run a giganormous surplus? Or did they just spend the whole fucking wad? What did they do in the 60s? They spent it. How about the 70s? Yep, they spent it then too. Government will spend every last nickel you allow them to take from you. Period. As a bonus question: go look up per capita education spending in 1960 vs 2010 and compare test score results during the same. Hint: look here to start.
More dough for edukation? Gee that's worked all so well the past 40 years. How deep is that pit now? Yeah lets just take some more money out of the taxpayer pocket - going to do wonders for property values when property taxes go up even more.. isn't 60% of the take enough?
Same goes for research. There are so many pigs at the trough because it is so heavily sponsored/subsidized by the government. Why are the feds subsidizing cosmologists? Is something practical actually going to come of it? Will the people get a return on their investment? Cut it. Completely. That is a perfect example of research which should be funded purely philanthropically .
Manufacturing? WTF? It is up to business to decide where and how to make their products. If that is China or Mexico or where ever else, so be it. If the products are sold in the US market that means consumers are paying less.
I've been on nightlies since... 6? I've had very few crashes.. maybe one every two weeks or so. I do not run with many extensions any more.. pretty much just adblock noscript and ghostery.
well maybe not.. but us bleeding edger's are on 11 boys and girls.
While I do maintain a FreeBSD server and do dual boot for some devel work on another machine, lets be honest about things - there is a program for just about anything available on windows and when they are installed, they 'just work' without additional fucking around. IMHO the quality of programs available on Win* are better as well. Thats not to say their aren't some unique applications that have a better *nix version or that iSteve hasn't put one out for his cult, but when you look at the whole shebang, neither osx nor linux/bsd can compete. And while others have already mentioned drivers, that is really secondary if you don't have access to applications you want. And I've never found running in a VM to be quite the same either.
If your needs are just routine email, web, 'office' and development the *nixes are fine. Go beyond that and your satisfaction curve will begin to decline.
And XP was too complicated for the approximately 1/2 billion people using legal copies? I must have missed the world coming to a crashing end becasue people couldn't figure out how to do work on their pc because XP was too complicated! I'm sure win8 will address that so that the eekonomy will roar to life once again.
And there is a reason why Obama can't step away from the GPS device? Can't find AG Holders phone number? Or maybe he just doesn't answer the phone because of Fast and Furious? By the way.. its Clinton's fault.
I managed to get Xmonad working on an ancient nvidia car on two monitors without too much trouble. The initial config took minutes. I did not like the out of the box way the virtual screens would switch between the monitors and that did take some research but I would say hours, not days. Ultimately I could have lived with the default but it was nice to get it work exactly as I wanted it. While TFA was really just about bsd on a server (and I have one of those too) it is just as functional on the desktop as linux, at least for my needs. And I do agree that the small amount of time one spends getting the config down as you want it is worth it over the long run.
I was a long time user of Slackware before switching to FreeBSD about three years back. One of the reasons why I used Slack for ....mmm.. 15 years.. was that Slackware put most things where they should be unlike what I saw happening with the various RedHats, Debians, etc. These guys would do better to clean up their own act before trying to hose everyone else because they think putting everything in the kitchen sink is "simpler".
There was a town in Euroland, German to be precise, a few years back which suffereed some very serious damage after beginning to use geothermal power. Some how that seems to be a pretty negative side effect.
People get all teary eyed talking about Jobs but they fail to distinguish the Apple of the 70s and 80s vs the Second Coming of iSteve. The Latter Day Apple is nothing but sheer evil and was driven to this by the iSteve. Crap like this patent (ignoring for a moment the stupidity of the US patent office) is a perfect example. This was obvious. It existed before. And just because you used it too does that mean you should seek a patent on it? Is Apple that insecure? That much of a whore? Will your whole business model come crashing down if you don't patent the obvious?
Did you miss the earlier reply where it was suggested to privatize? After all, no company could possibly afford to launch a satellite or have the necessary engineers, etc to handle the service. DirecTV is government owned, right?
DOE is not just about the weapons labs and programs. And those functions which are necessary and appropriate to continue would end up in a more appropriate agency like DoD.
Really? Congress could not pass a law with the same effect? Do people drive without a license? And is that regulated at the federal or state level? Perhaps you should do more research on RP and his positions - he is against the federal government doing things it should not be involved in. He is for individual states and municipalities doing things they see fit to do so long as they do not violate the constitution.
I forgot Taiwan long ago as it is not my concern.
You are making the assumption that after eliminating these offices, Mr. Paul would then turn around and and lower the tax rate to allow US citizens to keep that money that is no longer needed. But if taxes stay the same, then I would still be paying the same amount, but be getting less service in return. Like Netflix.
On October 31, 2011 US debt will equal 100% of GDP. While he does address some elements of the tax system (which is totally fubar to begin with) the fact remains that this country is in hock and those debts must be paid or defaulted on. So yes, there is a chance (in this case remote) that you might have to personally pay for a service which may have previously been provided by the government. By continuing to pay taxes at the current rate you are, by analogy, being asked to pay off the credit card bill for that plasma tv you bought 5 years ago but could not afford, eventhough it just died.
As other posters have pointed out, there are other companies who have very large reasearch operations (basic and applied). While I am certainly concerned about the military/industrial complex end of things, I do not have an issue per se if a company provides a product or service to a government agency.