You seem to have a rather interesting misapprehension of how campaign finance ACTUALLY works.
Where exactly does all the money go? Congressmen are apparently campaigning all the time. Even better, they "hire" family members and closely related business entities and "purchase" services from them.
Its all complete bullshit. Our congressmen are being legally bribed all the time right in front of our faces. The faster people start realizing that fact, the faster we can outlaw all "donations" to any elected official.
I know in the days before Sam Adams, your statement about US beer was the truth.
Today, the US is easily the beer brewing capitol of the world. And its not even close. There are thousands of microbreweries putting out amazing beers. The sad fact is they don't really cost all that much more than the crap flooding all of our supermarkets.
Seriously, go out and find some beers by Stone, Dogfish Head, Great Divide, etc.
I think its because there has been a fundamental difference in managing automobile exhaust between Europe and the US.
US policy historically has been to eliminate all non-CO2 emissions, miles per gallon (mph) be damned. MPH has only recently begun to become an popular issue to address.
EU policy has been to maximize miles per gallon, and trying to minimize pollutants after the fact.
I would rather deal with excess CO2 instead of poisons. California in the 70's was horrible. The air is much, much cleaner there today due to the emphasis on eliminating N0x, S0x, etc. Even though there an many more cars on the road today than the 70's.
I think the US got it right. We have better technology today to start addressing the MPH performance of cars, starting with a clean burning baseline.
I didn't know credit card companies started accepting fake names. Credit card companies (and several government entities) tend to frown upon that sort of thing.
Maybe because trying to keep track of security holes for every browser under the sun takes time and money?
Firefox has suffered from plenty of 0-day vulnerabilities. I would also say it is no more safer than IE 8.
Firefox and other browsers are probably even less safe than IE, because Microsoft has tools to implement enterprise wide security policies. Mozilla provides no such tools.
Linear algebra is how every single difficult problem is ultimately solved on a computer.
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Vector graphics manipulations, etc. are always reduced to a system of linear equations to produce an approximate solution.
Learn linear algebra first, how to program its solutions, then move on from there.
...about 600,000 consoles would have been permanently disabled from doing anything. And people would be applauding their action.
I think Microsoft took the best course of action in this situation. Ban the modded consoles from the protected Xbox Live network (to stop possible cheating) but still allow almost full functionality of the modded console. AKA, you bought the hardware, do want you want with it.
I am going to go out a limb here and state that creating the cable is several orders of magnitudes harder than creating a machine to climb it.
Maybe even an order of magnitude more orders of magnitude.
All these little contests do is try to generate support and interest in the space elevator concept. I don't think anything revolutionary will come out of them.
Yes, police officers are public servants. They are answerable for their actions after the fact.
If an officer is systematically abusing his power, he will be fired and charged will any civil rights violations he is guilty of after the fact.
If a police officer comes up to you on the street and arrests you out of nowhere and you resist, you will be charged will resisting arrest. Even if there was some mistake in identifying you as a potential suspect.
You sort out if the officer is justifyed in anything they do after the fact. Not before, not during, but after the fact.
That is your constitutionally acknowledged right. The right to due process. The process is do what the fuck the officer tells you to do during you interactions will him. Then a court of law determines if they were justified. Period.
You seemed to have missed my point about us not having the right to argue and debate with a police officer. We don't have that right.
And as for your picture taking example, public disagreements between a police officer and an average person can devolve very quickly into a bad situation. Other people get themselves involved and before you know it, the officer is out manned and can easily loose control of the situation.
We don't have the right to setup our own little court in public and debate whether or not we are to be arrested or cited.
Police officers are armed. Any time they engage in a physical confrontation, there is a chance their firearm will be taken and used against them.
Police officers are not he men. People they arrest can be high, holding a concealed weapon, or can flat out over power the officer.
You have a beef with a ticket? Being arrested? Have your day in court. Sue afterward for unlawful prosecution. Knock yourself out.
No where in the constitution does it give you the right impede the police officers duty. If he is wrong, it will be found out in a court of law.
Any time a suspect does not comply with the officers direction, it is a life or death situation. Period. For most officers who are killed in the line of duty, it is usually during routine traffic stops.
1.) Data collected is purely my from my interaction with the game only. IE, you don't get to data mine my harddrive, my browser history, etc.
2.) I am not forced to watch ads to play the game. Showing some ads during loading periods is borderline, prolonging the load screen time to force me to watch ads is not acceptable. Need for Speed lends itself very well to in game advertising that does not get in the way of actual game play (billboards, decals, etc.)
3.) Any collection is done only by the game, in the game. No root kits, background processes, etc.
But in reality, they probably want to:
1.) Rootkit your computer to watch any activity you do on your computer at all times.
2.) Place an unhidable screen overlay that bombards you with ads all the time. And this overlay would be needed anytime the game was installed as part of the EULA.
3.) Attach a GPS tracking device to your leg to monitor which stores you shop at, movies you watch, etc. to enhance you experience during the game.
You know, the usual stuff. It will be all in the EULA. No worries...
Yeah, it does. An infinitely large radiator protected from the sun and from the surface would cool to around 2.7 degrees kelvin, pretty chilly.
Actually, the vacuum of space doesn't heat or cool anything. Its a very, very good insulator in that you don't have any external conduction or convection to heat or cool your object.
However, you still will have heating or cooling through infrared radiation. If your surface is exposed to sunlight, you heat up very, very quickly (no air to absorb incoming energy). If your surface is not exposed to sunlight, it will radiate its heat out. And keep radiating it out till your 2.7 kelvin mark. I believe at that point, the vibrating molecules no longer can emit infrared radiation and thereby can not get any colder just by sitting there.
But that is for objects that aren't generating additional heat on their own. A nuclear reactor is generating energy, so the radiator isn't acting as a cold sink, its acting as a piece of metal not being heated by the sun, so it can lose energy faster than energy is being put in from internal conduction (e.g. solid copper heat pipes) or convection/conduction (ammonia coolant loops).
Its semantics I know, but a vacuum isn't "cold". Temperature is meaningless in a vacuum.
For work I am provided with a Dell Latitude D630. I have to say its pretty bomb proof.
I have lugged this thing all over the county, thru airports, hotels, 4x4s and even hiking in the middle of the desert. And I am completely serious about the desert thing.
I write Visual C# apps for cruching data. I run Matlab for crunching data. I run lots of lots of perl scripts on gigabytes of data. All on XP Pro.
My Dell is very quiet. Good size to weight ratio (could stand to be lighter, but what laptop couldn't?).
Apple laptops would not stand for the abuse I have put my D630 thru. And I have the regular D630, not the ATG version.
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You seem to have a rather interesting misapprehension of how campaign finance ACTUALLY works.
Where exactly does all the money go? Congressmen are apparently campaigning all the time. Even better, they "hire" family members and closely related business entities and "purchase" services from them.
Its all complete bullshit. Our congressmen are being legally bribed all the time right in front of our faces. The faster people start realizing that fact, the faster we can outlaw all "donations" to any elected official.
I know in the days before Sam Adams, your statement about US beer was the truth.
Today, the US is easily the beer brewing capitol of the world. And its not even close. There are thousands of microbreweries putting out amazing beers. The sad fact is they don't really cost all that much more than the crap flooding all of our supermarkets.
Seriously, go out and find some beers by Stone, Dogfish Head, Great Divide, etc.
I think its because there has been a fundamental difference in managing automobile exhaust between Europe and the US.
US policy historically has been to eliminate all non-CO2 emissions, miles per gallon (mph) be damned. MPH has only recently begun to become an popular issue to address.
EU policy has been to maximize miles per gallon, and trying to minimize pollutants after the fact.
I would rather deal with excess CO2 instead of poisons. California in the 70's was horrible. The air is much, much cleaner there today due to the emphasis on eliminating N0x, S0x, etc. Even though there an many more cars on the road today than the 70's.
I think the US got it right. We have better technology today to start addressing the MPH performance of cars, starting with a clean burning baseline.
I didn't know credit card companies started accepting fake names. Credit card companies (and several government entities) tend to frown upon that sort of thing.
So should we let drunk drivers who kill people off the hook as well? Because they feel really bad about what they did?
Maybe because trying to keep track of security holes for every browser under the sun takes time and money?
Firefox has suffered from plenty of 0-day vulnerabilities. I would also say it is no more safer than IE 8.
Firefox and other browsers are probably even less safe than IE, because Microsoft has tools to implement enterprise wide security policies. Mozilla provides no such tools.
We could save ourselves some time and just ask the sea creatures at the bottom of the ocean how they do it.
Seriously. If we can shoot down mosquitos with optically guided lasers for $50, surely we can shoot down drones?
...as if millions of iSheep gizzed their pants when Steve Jobs showed them they could see a whole webpage at once!!!
aka Propane. You know, the stuff used for grilling food in on your back porch that comes in 25lb canisters.
Well, canisters that are capable of holding 25lbs, but are not filled to capacity anymore. But that is another story.
Linear algebra is how every single difficult problem is ultimately solved on a computer.
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Vector graphics manipulations, etc. are always reduced to a system of linear equations to produce an approximate solution.
Learn linear algebra first, how to program its solutions, then move on from there.
I think Microsoft took the best course of action in this situation. Ban the modded consoles from the protected Xbox Live network (to stop possible cheating) but still allow almost full functionality of the modded console. AKA, you bought the hardware, do want you want with it.
I am going to go out a limb here and state that creating the cable is several orders of magnitudes harder than creating a machine to climb it. Maybe even an order of magnitude more orders of magnitude.
All these little contests do is try to generate support and interest in the space elevator concept. I don't think anything revolutionary will come out of them.
Its all about the cable.
Two words.
Apple Apologist.
That is all.
More like incinerate like Darth Vader's appendages.
Yes, police officers are public servants. They are answerable for their actions after the fact .
If an officer is systematically abusing his power, he will be fired and charged will any civil rights violations he is guilty of after the fact .
If a police officer comes up to you on the street and arrests you out of nowhere and you resist, you will be charged will resisting arrest. Even if there was some mistake in identifying you as a potential suspect.
You sort out if the officer is justifyed in anything they do after the fact . Not before, not during, but after the fact .
That is your constitutionally acknowledged right. The right to due process. The process is do what the fuck the officer tells you to do during you interactions will him. Then a court of law determines if they were justified. Period.
You seemed to have missed my point about us not having the right to argue and debate with a police officer. We don't have that right.
And as for your picture taking example, public disagreements between a police officer and an average person can devolve very quickly into a bad situation. Other people get themselves involved and before you know it, the officer is out manned and can easily loose control of the situation.
We don't have the right to setup our own little court in public and debate whether or not we are to be arrested or cited.
Police officers are armed. Any time they engage in a physical confrontation, there is a chance their firearm will be taken and used against them.
Police officers are not he men. People they arrest can be high, holding a concealed weapon, or can flat out over power the officer.
You have a beef with a ticket? Being arrested? Have your day in court. Sue afterward for unlawful prosecution. Knock yourself out.
No where in the constitution does it give you the right impede the police officers duty. If he is wrong, it will be found out in a court of law.
Any time a suspect does not comply with the officers direction, it is a life or death situation. Period. For most officers who are killed in the line of duty, it is usually during routine traffic stops.
1.) Data collected is purely my from my interaction with the game only. IE, you don't get to data mine my harddrive, my browser history, etc.
2.) I am not forced to watch ads to play the game. Showing some ads during loading periods is borderline, prolonging the load screen time to force me to watch ads is not acceptable. Need for Speed lends itself very well to in game advertising that does not get in the way of actual game play (billboards, decals, etc.)
3.) Any collection is done only by the game, in the game. No root kits, background processes, etc.
But in reality, they probably want to:
1.) Rootkit your computer to watch any activity you do on your computer at all times.
2.) Place an unhidable screen overlay that bombards you with ads all the time. And this overlay would be needed anytime the game was installed as part of the EULA.
3.) Attach a GPS tracking device to your leg to monitor which stores you shop at, movies you watch, etc. to enhance you experience during the game.
You know, the usual stuff. It will be all in the EULA. No worries...
Get yourself one of these and you will be set.
Yeah, it does. An infinitely large radiator protected from the sun and from the surface would cool to around 2.7 degrees kelvin, pretty chilly.
Actually, the vacuum of space doesn't heat or cool anything. Its a very, very good insulator in that you don't have any external conduction or convection to heat or cool your object.
However, you still will have heating or cooling through infrared radiation. If your surface is exposed to sunlight, you heat up very, very quickly (no air to absorb incoming energy). If your surface is not exposed to sunlight, it will radiate its heat out. And keep radiating it out till your 2.7 kelvin mark. I believe at that point, the vibrating molecules no longer can emit infrared radiation and thereby can not get any colder just by sitting there.
But that is for objects that aren't generating additional heat on their own. A nuclear reactor is generating energy, so the radiator isn't acting as a cold sink, its acting as a piece of metal not being heated by the sun, so it can lose energy faster than energy is being put in from internal conduction (e.g. solid copper heat pipes) or convection/conduction (ammonia coolant loops).
Its semantics I know, but a vacuum isn't "cold". Temperature is meaningless in a vacuum.
For work I am provided with a Dell Latitude D630. I have to say its pretty bomb proof.
I have lugged this thing all over the county, thru airports, hotels, 4x4s and even hiking in the middle of the desert. And I am completely serious about the desert thing.
I write Visual C# apps for cruching data. I run Matlab for crunching data. I run lots of lots of perl scripts on gigabytes of data. All on XP Pro.
My Dell is very quiet. Good size to weight ratio (could stand to be lighter, but what laptop couldn't?).
Apple laptops would not stand for the abuse I have put my D630 thru. And I have the regular D630, not the ATG version.
That's Adobe's problem, not Ubuntu's. Videos in every player other than Flash will work fine.
And that is what is wrong with Linux.
Last time I checked, if you want to surf the web and watch videos, most of those videos are going to be in Flash format (Youtube, etc.).
So why would I want to run Ubuntu on a netbook when you can't watch videos on arguably the most popular website for online videos?
There is a reason why game publishers are pushing really hard for digital distribution. It will effective kill the used game market.
...she was convicted of the wrong charges.
She should have been charged with cyberstalking, stalking, harassment, something. Not for violating a website's terms of service.
That being said, this is one of those cases where I hope the family of the victim sues her for everything she has.