And even more important: Is it important that donations from rich billionaires be public or should they remain private?"
What part of that is yourbusiness? Donations from any person are their own business be they $1 or $1B anonymous or public or somwhere in between. I mean really.. this could only be important to someone from the upper west side or the peoples republic of berkeley. Spend more time volunteering and less thinking about what we should know about others donations.
As others have pointed out, they get at least 3 days to make an attempt at the paper work and FISA has rejected less than one hands worth of requests. There is also an appeal procedure.
What bothers me (and I suspect many others) is not so much what they want to do, but how they went about doing it. We all should want them to catch the bad guys in the planning stage. Just follow the damn procedures that are already in place, or if they are no longer adequate, get Congress to adjust the FISA law.
Dude.. its not free so get over that part of it. Even in conventional nukes the costs of the fuel (which takes a few years to go through) is not a large % of the cost.
As other poster noted, until electric cars offer the necessary distance, power, and quick recharge (compare to time spent re-filling a tank of gas) - they just aren't going to be a large part of life. Once you get into the suburbs or rural areas they just wont fly.
Finally - do not ignore the large consumption of product by industry for a wide range of goods including plastics. 1/3 of US consumption is non-transportation related.
"Well, Saddam couldn't get a nuke to the US, but he might could get one to Israel."
Had he not been an idiot and invaded Kuwait there is in fact a good chance he could have been able to get a nuke here. Don't assume they have to be sent on an ICBM or SCUD, and don't assume that China won't pass on the design for the W-88 they stole from the US (1.7m long, 0.5m diameter, ~350kg). Of concern now with DPRK is that they could use short range missile launchers on cargo boats to attack the US or Japan.
Personally I also think it too early to say the era of MAD with Russia is over. They are down, but not out and one can envision future tensions over increasingly scarce economic resources.
and when the apocolypse comes, how shall we rebuild? This raises two interesting questions - a) the survivability of the record of knowledge and b) the ability to recreate it. It seems now people are either extremely specialized (ie nano engrs.) or so general as not to matter (think service economy workers/facilitators). Could we really rebuild from a major calamity, or would much technology be lost? Luckily there is a lot of redundancy in the system but I've always wondered if the government doesn't keep books like 'how to make steel for dummies' locked in some vault in Cheyenne mountain.
Hmm.. I would say Einstein was more the critic than a founder. It is true he explained the photoelectic effect, which was an application and extension of Planks quantization idea. AFAIK he had little additional critical work in either the wave or matrix formulations of QM.
Also, many people omit Pasqual Jordan's name - he was also a significant player in the development of QM and early QED.
most users will not max their line even once a day as they just web surf and only
occaisionally download mp3's (not very big files) or a new program or update (moderate sized). Only a small % of users are downloading iso's or similar sized
data sets on a daily/hourly basis. So in that regard, no it doesn't matter. But
individuals dont care about the 'big picture' of the generally small time savings
they would get over a year using say 10Mbs down vs 1Mb. Most people want their
download to be as fast as possible when they need it.
As to browsing, the biggest delay I find now is the serving of ads not
content. So many pages refuse to load, or only display partially, while waiting
for these bs ad servers to send their stuff.
Do they? I had a 100Mb Toshiba MK something or other running 24/7 from 1991
when I bought it used until about 18 months ago. Similar with a Conner
540MB. I have had two drives in oh.. 16 years fail - an early 90s WD and a late
90s Maxtor, out of about 20 drives. The Maxtor fail left a bitter taste as the drive was only about 6m old; I switched back to Seagate and paid a little bit
more $. I guess my point is I look at drive failures as more of an aberation
though it seems now attention must be paid to early adopter reports as there
have been some definite stinkers in recent years (IBM comes to mind).
Dude.. nobody is gonna rip hundreds of cds in a row (well except maybe you). 10 or 15 an hour max, and not that many people will do this for hours on end. I did my collection (about 400) in about a month a few years ago. Grab 20 or 30 at a time, somedays less some more. This biggest problem is actually stopping what you are doing to switch cd's when they are done. Operator lag definitely slows the process! Personally I use CDEX but I'm sure there are many other good ones to use.
Using a service just seems like an incredible waste of money. If you have waited this long to digitize them whats a few days/weeks doing them while surfing or whatever else?
I see in the last Bloomstink update they do say they were all sold as you have said. I can only imagine another firm stepped in to buy a large number of the shares as it seems unlikely (to me) that there would be that many pre-existing orders in the system. Either way one wonders who they bought the shares back from? Obviously they naked shorted 607,000 shares (apparently allowed over there, at least for members?). Did they take the short back from the buyers? Or are there now still some larger % of 607,000 shares still naked short? The exchange really should be spanked over this.
Arg.. no. There are many things wrong with this report and I even question if the dollar amount of loss is correct. First off, there was no $3 billion notional. They did not sell the 610,000 shares. Assume their loss estimate is correct and assume all shares were sold at the low price ($4,767) and bought them back at the high ($6,433). $225 mio loss divided by $1,666 loss per share = 135,054 shares. Further, the actual float was under 15,000 shares. Even on an IPO day, I find it hard to believe they could find sufficient interest to buy 9 times the float before catching their error or having the exchange halt trading. It would also call into question limits on naked shorting by principals. I wont be at all surprised to see another zero drop off the final damages in the end.
perhaps work in the dark? or close the blinds and only use the same lighting in the room? You should also calibrate your monitor, though the most important thing would be to get the white and black levels and gamma response correct. Unless you have a really good reason to do so, playing with colors shouldn't be necessary. I've also found it best not to go too far with changes in contrast and brightness and similar, but thats just me. And have to remember you are altering what amounts to a slide, not a negative.
gee.. I wonder if this analyst has a vested interest in good news for Apple? So lets assume that ALL the increase was from people switching. Guess that rules out any increase from the existing user base upgrading to better performing machines? Nobody knows with any degree of certainty what % of sales are coming from first time windows -> mac users, and nobody knows if they are keeping their windoze machine too.
The bottom line is that just about *all* software that comes out these days is bloated. Perhaps someone who is an expert (or at least codes for a living instead of personal use) can comment better - is it just bad assumptions? Bad technique? Bloated libraries?
As an example, and not to pick on java, I use a standalone java application daily. The first version was released about four years ago had a working set about 8Mb and a virtual size of about 50Mb. The latest version comes in at about 60 and 250. Yes there have been enhancements, but the primary function remains the display of real time data and is little changed.
Further, my daily running desktop applications, which have been more or less the same for 7 years, now requires a commit charge under XP of 850MB and often near 1.2Gb (glad I have 2GB. Five years ago the same (under win2k) would have been 300-400Mb. I can't point to any great increase in features or usability to warrant this increase use of resources.
Good thing Elliot's on the job.. was there money involved too? Afterall we dont want his office to run out of money.. all those other settlements only went so far you know. No no.. I know what you are thinking. No. The settlement money doesn't go to those who were wronged - it goes to the attorney generals office so he can hire more staff to sue all those other terrible people.
ah.. how does the rest of the world building their own network force the US to follow? And how does it 'lock out' US business? If I recall, there used to be things like DECNET which used a gateway to interface with the "outside" tcp/ip based INTERNET. What is to prevent this from happening now? We keep our internet and our DNS system and the rest of the world can do wtf they want. Frankly, if the ROTW didn't like our idea of the internet and how it was managed they never should have hooked into it. The fact that they chose to do so, of their own will, gives them absolutely no right to now demand the US internationalize control of it. Don't like the way it works anymore? Leave.
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As others have pointed out, they get at least 3 days to make
an attempt at the paper work and FISA has rejected less than
one hands worth of requests. There is also an appeal procedure.
What bothers me (and I suspect many others) is not so much
what they want to do, but how they went about doing it. We
all should want them to catch the bad guys in the planning
stage. Just follow the damn procedures that are already in
place, or if they are no longer adequate, get Congress to
adjust the FISA law.
Dude.. its not free so get over that part of it. Even in
conventional nukes the costs of the fuel (which takes a
few years to go through) is not a large % of the cost.
As other poster noted, until electric cars offer the
necessary distance, power, and quick recharge (compare to
time spent re-filling a tank of gas) - they just aren't
going to be a large part of life. Once you get into the
suburbs or rural areas they just wont fly.
Finally - do not ignore the large consumption of product
by industry for a wide range of goods including plastics.
1/3 of US consumption is non-transportation related.
guess you dont watch southpark
"Well, Saddam couldn't get a nuke to the US, but he might could get one to Israel."
Had he not been an idiot and invaded Kuwait there is in fact a good chance he
could have been able to get a nuke here. Don't assume they have to be sent on
an ICBM or SCUD, and don't assume that China won't pass on the design for the W-88
they stole from the US (1.7m long, 0.5m diameter, ~350kg). Of concern now with
DPRK is that they could use short range missile launchers on cargo boats to
attack the US or Japan.
Personally I also think it too early to say the era of MAD with Russia is over.
They are down, but not out and one can envision future tensions over increasingly
scarce economic resources.
must be getting it on again!
and when the apocolypse comes, how shall we rebuild? This raises two interesting
questions - a) the survivability of the record of knowledge and b) the ability to
recreate it. It seems now people are either extremely specialized (ie nano engrs.)
or so general as not to matter (think service economy workers/facilitators). Could
we really rebuild from a major calamity, or would much technology be lost? Luckily
there is a lot of redundancy in the system but I've always wondered if the
government doesn't keep books like 'how to make steel for dummies' locked in
some vault in Cheyenne mountain.
I used to try to block all ads as well but that seemed to cause its own
issues as well..
Hmm.. I would say Einstein was more the critic than a founder. It is true he
explained the photoelectic effect, which was an application and extension of Planks
quantization idea. AFAIK he had little additional critical work in either the wave
or matrix formulations of QM.
Also, many people omit Pasqual Jordan's name - he was also a significant player in
the development of QM and early QED.
most users will not max their line even once a day as they just web surf and only occaisionally download mp3's (not very big files) or a new program or update (moderate sized). Only a small % of users are downloading iso's or similar sized data sets on a daily/hourly basis. So in that regard, no it doesn't matter. But individuals dont care about the 'big picture' of the generally small time savings they would get over a year using say 10Mbs down vs 1Mb. Most people want their download to be as fast as possible when they need it. As to browsing, the biggest delay I find now is the serving of ads not content. So many pages refuse to load, or only display partially, while waiting for these bs ad servers to send their stuff.
Do they? I had a 100Mb Toshiba MK something or other running 24/7 from 1991 when I bought it used until about 18 months ago. Similar with a Conner 540MB. I have had two drives in oh.. 16 years fail - an early 90s WD and a late 90s Maxtor, out of about 20 drives. The Maxtor fail left a bitter taste as the drive was only about 6m old; I switched back to Seagate and paid a little bit more $. I guess my point is I look at drive failures as more of an aberation though it seems now attention must be paid to early adopter reports as there have been some definite stinkers in recent years (IBM comes to mind).
Dude.. nobody is gonna rip hundreds of cds in a row (well except
maybe you). 10 or 15 an hour max, and not that many people will do
this for hours on end. I did my collection (about 400) in about a
month a few years ago. Grab 20 or 30 at a time, somedays less some
more. This biggest problem is actually stopping what you are doing to
switch cd's when they are done. Operator lag definitely slows the
process! Personally I use CDEX but I'm sure there are many other good
ones to use.
Using a service just seems like an incredible waste of money. If you
have waited this long to digitize them whats a few days/weeks doing
them while surfing or whatever else?
I see in the last Bloomstink update they do say they were all sold as you
have said. I can only imagine another firm stepped in to buy a large
number of the shares as it seems unlikely (to me) that there would
be that many pre-existing orders in the system. Either way one wonders
who they bought the shares back from? Obviously they naked shorted
607,000 shares (apparently allowed over there, at least for members?).
Did they take the short back from the buyers? Or are there now still some
larger % of 607,000 shares still naked short? The exchange really
should be spanked over this.
Arg.. no. There are many things wrong with this report and I even
question if the dollar amount of loss is correct. First off, there was
no $3 billion notional. They did not sell the 610,000 shares. Assume
their loss estimate is correct and assume all shares were sold at the
low price ($4,767) and bought them back at the high ($6,433). $225 mio
loss divided by $1,666 loss per share = 135,054 shares. Further, the
actual float was under 15,000 shares. Even on an IPO day, I find it hard
to believe they could find sufficient interest to buy 9 times the float
before catching their error or having the exchange halt trading. It would
also call into question limits on naked shorting by principals. I wont
be at all surprised to see another zero drop off the final damages in the
end.
maybe the author should keep out of the alt.sex.* groups? there are still many,
many useful usenet groups with reasonable signal and not much spam.
perhaps work in the dark? or close the blinds and only use the same lighting
in the room? You should also calibrate your monitor, though the most important
thing would be to get the white and black levels and gamma response correct.
Unless you have a really good reason to do so, playing with colors shouldn't
be necessary. I've also found it best not to go too far with changes in contrast and brightness and similar, but thats just me. And have to remember
you are altering what amounts to a slide, not a negative.
seeing as my blog is done with it :) Its from our
friends in the netherlands. Main page is here
gee.. I wonder if this analyst has a vested interest in good news for Apple? So lets assume that ALL the increase was from
people switching. Guess that rules out any increase from the existing user base upgrading to better performing machines? Nobody knows with any degree of certainty what % of sales are coming from first time windows -> mac users, and nobody
knows if they are keeping their windoze machine too.
The bottom line is that just about *all* software that comes out these days is
bloated. Perhaps someone who is an expert (or at least codes for a living instead
of personal use) can comment better - is it just bad assumptions? Bad technique? Bloated libraries?
As an example, and not to pick on java, I use a standalone java application
daily. The first version was released about four years ago had a working set
about 8Mb and a virtual size of about 50Mb. The latest version comes in at about 60
and 250. Yes there have been enhancements, but the primary function remains the
display of real time data and is little changed.
Further, my daily running desktop applications, which have been more or less the
same for 7 years, now requires a commit charge under XP of 850MB and often near 1.2Gb (glad I have 2GB. Five years ago the same (under win2k) would have been 300-400Mb. I can't point to any great increase in features or usability to warrant this increase use of resources.
FWIW, Slackware is probably the most 'bsd'ish of the linux distros
nothing like having a delivery show up as you are posting.. yes 3 pts apologies
1) To the original poster - are you incapable of writing your own summary? Nice cut
and paste
2) The Onion may be free, but it *is* commericial - it has a lead in ad as well
as ads on its pages.
3) The government does this all the time.. they are just glacially slow in doing anything about it.
Good thing Elliot's on the job.. was there money involved too?
Afterall we dont want his office to run out of money.. all those
other settlements only went so far you know. No no.. I know what
you are thinking. No. The settlement money doesn't go to those
who were wronged - it goes to the attorney generals office so he
can hire more staff to sue all those other terrible people.
ah.. how does the rest of the world building their own network force the US to
follow? And how does it 'lock out' US business? If I recall, there used to be
things like DECNET which used a gateway to interface with the "outside" tcp/ip
based INTERNET. What is to prevent this from happening now? We keep our internet
and our DNS system and the rest of the world can do wtf they want. Frankly,
if the ROTW didn't like our idea of the internet and how it was managed they
never should have hooked into it. The fact that they chose to do so, of their
own will, gives them absolutely no right to now demand the US internationalize
control of it. Don't like the way it works anymore? Leave.
And how about making it less of a memory pig? Wasn't that one of the
original intents of it? Faster and sleeker?