my point was that this has not yet happened, has it? and IIRC most colliders have taken some period of time to meet their initially designed luminosities.
I (and no other members) of the public are under NO OBLIGATION to pay for your sickness. There is no constitutional right to health care of any kind. That the people now pay (for some) of these incidents is thanks to legislation passed in the 60s and 70s, ie MEDICARE.
The only relation to auto insurance would be a requirement to pay damages for any communicable disease which you passed on to somebody else without their consent, similar to an auto accident. The reason you have auto insurance is because the potential costs to the injured party are very large and the ability of you to pay are very low - compounded by the fact that a significant portion of the population is exposed to that risk.
If a certain segment of the population feels that strongly about providing medical coverage to those they deem "needy" then they should do so by setting up a charitable trust to provide that care. Not by forcing those who do not need or want coverage to buy it.
What is lost on most people is that the luminosity will be relatively low and that while 7 TeV CM is impressive, its not all that matters. Fermilab is down, but not quite out yet!
The government may know some of the items you mentioned and some of those items may only be known by one or two agencies making it at least a hurdle of some sorts for someone to compile a complete run down on you.
Further - why are you conceeding this to the government? Do you think they should have access to credit card purchase records? EasyPass data? (Both supposedly private info but already abused).
This is not scare tactics. It is about fighting against further encroachment by a governement that HAS NO NEED TO KNOW.
because it may have become a distraction to other students in the class? Lectures are not always meant to be one way either - class participation can be an important part of the learning expereience. From my own personal experience I am far more likely to be ignorant of my surroundings while working on a laptop in a coffee shop or library than if I am just day dreaming out the window. I would also suggest that while you (or more likely your parents) are paying to attend this class or lecture, you are paying for the right to attend a lecture on a certain subject by a (hopefully) qualified professor who is hired to lecture/teach in the way he thinks best.. If it is his/her view that laptops are a distraction then you should find another section with different professor.
fyi - i only have OTA TV so no Faux News here. What makes you think I *want* let alone condone what SS cards are used for? Was that its original intent? to become a number to identify me in every database? And all the other things you list are at MY CHOICE.
As far as Jr. goes, this began under Clintholio and continue under Bush and is *just as bad* under commrade Obama - who if I recall promised an end to this crap.
hey why not add thier bank account data, IRS payment status, medical history, criminal record, fbi and other three letter agency file indices... I'm sure you could think of even more things that would make your life and the governements easier. Don't worry, next week the Senate takes up the 'lets wipe everyone's ass for them' bill.
and let in all the illegals than give those fucks in washington not only a national id card but one with biometric data. Worse than the Nazis and Soviets.
Clearly there is an axe to grind here, probably for more than what Tenet deserves. That said, what is left out of this critique is the failings of policy makers who in fact determine what the intelligence community focuses on. When policy makers (be they politicians or career employees) focus on short term intelligence needs the IC must reallocate resources to address those wants. Inevitably this is at the expense of longer term intelligence gathering and asset development. Then when something does go wrong or a situation blows up the IC is left scrabling to 'advise' the policy makers on subjects they really do not have sufficiently extensive information on. See Iran, UBL, Iraq. The author does, however, point out how policy decisions made by elected politicians and career govt employees, such as perceived unbalanced support of Israel, can create unfavorable outcomes. What the IC had to say about possible ramifications of those decisions is of course affected by what intelligence they have previously developed on the subject which may have glaring holes when it lacks strategic, long term focus.
I would not care if they simply appended the url without sending it to a central server first (though I do find it a bit annoying when cutting multiple small sections of text).
Equally as annoying is the NYT. I'm not sure when this change happened as I'm not a big user of their site but I can no longer highlight a word and google (or other) search via context menu on any page except their front page. Instead they want you to use their own reference search wish is decidely not the same thing.
as the greenies have recently stepped up efforts to shut the plant, the major source of energy in Vermont. There is nothing to replace it. Oh wait. Somebody wanted to put windmills on top of some of the Green mtns. Nope, sorry! Ruins the view and the naturalness of it all. Hmm.. Solar? Small problem with being a) north and b) only about 60 "sunny" days a year. Not aware of any natural gas pipelines in the state so guess that means coal baby! Heck we already use a ton of wood for heat.. oops! I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
After seeing "Carakan is our new JavaScript engine. It’s fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10 with Futhark on Windows (Mac optimization is not as far along)" on the opera labs page I just grabbed the download without reading further. I think best practices would be to put the disclaimer about older hardware sooner than later but thats just me.
What is interesting, however, is that firefox 3.7a spanks Opera on my non-SSE2 cpus. I'll look again when its beta to see if they have added SSE2 support and how it compares. But I do wonder if its just the firefox alpha being further along or something more fundamental.
To those whining about RTFA, theres the quote - I wasn't the one who trumpted Sunspider results, Opera did.
FIrefox 3.7a1pre20091222 (with extensions all enabled)
Total: 1928.0ms +/- 3.4%
and just for the heck of it
Opera 10.10
Total: 8887.6ms +/- 1.9%
is there some secret 'disable slow' preference in Opera I need to change?
Granted, this is on an old dual-cpu Athlon MP system so the absolute results are not comparable to anyone else but the relative results are - Opera Fails.
There are two time frames which require serious investigation. The first is the period Sept 10-Sept 17. What was said in these meetings? Who was there? It is not even entirely clear that AIG would have failed so spectacularly had they been allowed (as proposed by NYS) to tap into some of the excess liquidity of the subs. AIG, similar to Lehmans, was all about liquidity and the lack of access to short term lending facilities. The marks that the CDS portfolio was set to take that quarter were survivable. The cash crunch came from the securities lending side as well as some debatable collateral calls by the likes of Goldmans. The government then decided to effectively do eniment domain on AIG - taking it from its shareholders (80%, they would have done 100% if law permitted) and making it a conduit to funnel money into other institutions. There was never any serious consideration given to assisting AIG, either through relaxed regulation or temporary bridge financing (public or some mixture private/public) at rates similar to those given other institutions which were far, far less punative..
Second, the time period when Treasury decided to force AIG to pay par on the CDS held by many of the counterparts, even though they were not entitled to par as most, if not all, the underlying CDOs had not yet entered default. Even so, CDS held by other institutions *never* paid at par, even when underlying bonds/structures had legitimately defaulted. It was not uncommon to only receive 65 or 70c on the dollar. Yet AIG was forced to make whole a slew of counterparts who at the least should have taken a sizable haircut if not been made to go to court to enforce their agreements if AIG had violated any of the terms.
Instead, not only did the government via Paulson/Geitner/Bernanke pay off the likes of Goldmans and Deutche, they hosed the US tax payer as well as the shareholders of AIG. Some may object to the last but consider that all the above events, particularly those in early September, amounted to the pilfering of the AIG shareholders too. Yes, they may ultimately have lost everything but the way things went down was a sham.
Quite the contrary. People are entitled to their own opinion AND entitled to challenge what others claim as facts including but not limited to the quality and veracity of the raw data.
Its long been known that energy consumption is highly correlated with economic output/growth. And I don't see how it is provactive to claim that conserving energy results in more being used (in the long run). Are not virtually *all* of our modern day appliances far more efficient than they were 10, 20, 40 years ago? And lame as our cars may be, they are far more efficient than they were in 1980. So even though we have 'conserved' through large gains in efficiency we are still using energy at a record clip.
lets not forget to add slow to the mix too. I've got it installed on the pc and rarely if ever use it preferring my ancient paint shop pro 7 or one of the photoshop LEs (a bit more piggy but less than gimp).
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my point was that this has not yet happened, has it? and IIRC most colliders have taken some period of time to meet their initially designed luminosities.
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I (and no other members) of the public are under NO OBLIGATION to pay for your sickness. There is no constitutional right to health care of any kind. That the people now pay (for some) of these incidents is thanks to legislation passed in the 60s and 70s, ie MEDICARE.
The only relation to auto insurance would be a requirement to pay damages for any communicable disease which you passed on to somebody else without their consent, similar to an auto accident. The reason you have auto insurance is because the potential costs to the injured party are very large and the ability of you to pay are very low - compounded by the fact that a significant portion of the population is exposed to that risk.
If a certain segment of the population feels that strongly about providing medical coverage to those they deem "needy" then they should do so by setting up a charitable trust to provide that care. Not by forcing those who do not need or want coverage to buy it.
What is lost on most people is that the luminosity will be relatively low and that while 7 TeV CM is impressive, its not all that matters. Fermilab is down, but not quite out yet!
The government may know some of the items you mentioned and some of those items may only be known by one or two agencies making it at least a hurdle of some sorts for someone to compile a complete run down on you.
Further - why are you conceeding this to the government? Do you think they should have access to credit card purchase records? EasyPass data? (Both supposedly private info but already abused).
This is not scare tactics. It is about fighting against further encroachment by a governement that HAS NO NEED TO KNOW.
Was genocide the only downfall of the Nazis in your view? What of the Soviets?
And these proposals are far more intrusive than simply "hand me your papers" and come from what is claimed to be a "free" society.
because it may have become a distraction to other students in the class? Lectures are not always meant to be one way either - class participation can be an important part of the learning expereience. From my own personal experience I am far more likely to be ignorant of my surroundings while working on a laptop in a coffee shop or library than if I am just day dreaming out the window. I would also suggest that while you (or more likely your parents) are paying to attend this class or lecture, you are paying for the right to attend a lecture on a certain subject by a (hopefully) qualified professor who is hired to lecture/teach in the way he thinks best.. If it is his/her view that laptops are a distraction then you should find another section with different professor.
fyi - i only have OTA TV so no Faux News here. What makes you think I *want* let alone condone what SS cards are used for? Was that its original intent? to become a number to identify me in every database? And all the other things you list are at MY CHOICE.
As far as Jr. goes, this began under Clintholio and continue under Bush and is *just as bad* under commrade Obama - who if I recall promised an end to this crap.
hey why not add thier bank account data, IRS payment status, medical history, criminal record, fbi and other three letter agency file indices... I'm sure you could think of even more things that would make your life and the governements easier. Don't worry, next week the Senate takes up the 'lets wipe everyone's ass for them' bill.
and let in all the illegals than give those fucks in washington not only a national id card but one with biometric data. Worse than the Nazis and Soviets.
Clearly there is an axe to grind here, probably for more than what Tenet deserves. That said, what is left out of this critique is the failings of policy makers who in fact determine what the intelligence community focuses on. When policy makers (be they politicians or career employees) focus on short term intelligence needs the IC must reallocate resources to address those wants. Inevitably this is at the expense of longer term intelligence gathering and asset development. Then when something does go wrong or a situation blows up the IC is left scrabling to 'advise' the policy makers on subjects they really do not have sufficiently extensive information on. See Iran, UBL, Iraq. The author does, however, point out how policy decisions made by elected politicians and career govt employees, such as perceived unbalanced support of Israel, can create unfavorable outcomes. What the IC had to say about possible ramifications of those decisions is of course affected by what intelligence they have previously developed on the subject which may have glaring holes when it lacks strategic, long term focus.
When there is Obama et al?
I would not care if they simply appended the url without sending it to a central server first (though I do find it a bit annoying when cutting multiple small sections of text).
Equally as annoying is the NYT. I'm not sure when this change happened as I'm not a big user of their site but I can no longer highlight a word and google (or other) search via context menu on any page except their front page. Instead they want you to use their own reference search wish is decidely not the same thing.
Questionable, at best:
"The main criteria for accepting a manuscript for publication are originality, scientific importance and interest."
Nothing about scientific accuracy or legitimate conclusions.
as the greenies have recently stepped up efforts to shut the plant, the major source of energy in Vermont. There is nothing to replace it. Oh wait. Somebody wanted to put windmills on top of some of the Green mtns. Nope, sorry! Ruins the view and the naturalness of it all. Hmm.. Solar? Small problem with being a) north and b) only about 60 "sunny" days a year. Not aware of any natural gas pipelines in the state so guess that means coal baby! Heck we already use a ton of wood for heat.. oops! I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
Thanks for the info.
After seeing "Carakan is our new JavaScript engine. It’s fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10 with Futhark on Windows (Mac optimization is not as far along)" on the opera labs page I just grabbed the download without reading further. I think best practices would be to put the disclaimer about older hardware sooner than later but thats just me.
What is interesting, however, is that firefox 3.7a spanks Opera on my non-SSE2 cpus. I'll look again when its beta to see if they have added SSE2 support and how it compares. But I do wonder if its just the firefox alpha being further along or something more fundamental.
To those whining about RTFA, theres the quote - I wasn't the one who trumpted Sunspider results, Opera did.
Fast? Really? Not. The acclaimed SunSpider test:
Opera 10.5 A fresh install:
Total: 4790.0ms +/- 0.2%
FIrefox 3.7a1pre20091222 (with extensions all enabled)
Total: 1928.0ms +/- 3.4%
and just for the heck of it
Opera 10.10
Total: 8887.6ms +/- 1.9%
is there some secret 'disable slow' preference in Opera I need to change?
Granted, this is on an old dual-cpu Athlon MP system so the absolute results are not comparable to anyone else but the relative results are - Opera Fails.
There are two time frames which require serious investigation. The first is the period Sept 10-Sept 17. What was said in these meetings? Who was there? It is not even entirely clear that AIG would have failed so spectacularly had they been allowed (as proposed by NYS) to tap into some of the excess liquidity of the subs. AIG, similar to Lehmans, was all about liquidity and the lack of access to short term lending facilities. The marks that the CDS portfolio was set to take that quarter were survivable. The cash crunch came from the securities lending side as well as some debatable collateral calls by the likes of Goldmans. The government then decided to effectively do eniment domain on AIG - taking it from its shareholders (80%, they would have done 100% if law permitted) and making it a conduit to funnel money into other institutions. There was never any serious consideration given to assisting AIG, either through relaxed regulation or temporary bridge financing (public or some mixture private/public) at rates similar to those given other institutions which were far, far less punative..
Second, the time period when Treasury decided to force AIG to pay par on the CDS held by many of the counterparts, even though they were not entitled to par as most, if not all, the underlying CDOs had not yet entered default. Even so, CDS held by other institutions *never* paid at par, even when underlying bonds/structures had legitimately defaulted. It was not uncommon to only receive 65 or 70c on the dollar. Yet AIG was forced to make whole a slew of counterparts who at the least should have taken a sizable haircut if not been made to go to court to enforce their agreements if AIG had violated any of the terms.
Instead, not only did the government via Paulson/Geitner/Bernanke pay off the likes of Goldmans and Deutche, they hosed the US tax payer as well as the shareholders of AIG. Some may object to the last but consider that all the above events, particularly those in early September, amounted to the pilfering of the AIG shareholders too. Yes, they may ultimately have lost everything but the way things went down was a sham.
The world will be out of lithium soon enough
besides the obvous potential to fork mysql, there are other options out there such as postgresql.
It is also kind of meaningless when the Tevatron has still a much higher luminosity and thus total power.
probably politically incorrect but heck if they are going to those lengths to store the data about everyone just go with the barcode tat.
Quite the contrary. People are entitled to their own opinion AND entitled to challenge what others claim as facts including but not limited to the quality and veracity of the raw data.
Its long been known that energy consumption is highly correlated with economic output/growth. And I don't see how it is provactive to claim that conserving energy results in more being used (in the long run). Are not virtually *all* of our modern day appliances far more efficient than they were 10, 20, 40 years ago? And lame as our cars may be, they are far more efficient than they were in 1980. So even though we have 'conserved' through large gains in efficiency we are still using energy at a record clip.
Any mention of how they are going to continue to make that? Or at least make it safely?
lets not forget to add slow to the mix too. I've got it installed on the pc and rarely if ever use it preferring my ancient paint shop pro 7 or one of the photoshop LEs (a bit more piggy but less than gimp).