a song coming! To all you Canadians I proudly sing your national anthem!
Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree
What!? Huh? That's not right?
We did this to a fellow graduate student who happened to be Canadian. He was a good about this and would just say,... well it wasn't hoser but something that rhyme with duck cough. Must be a canuck thing.
This was many years ago. When the USA won the gold medal in ice hockey in 1980 he caught a lot of good natured grief. He also got really drunk when every American bought him a drink when the Canadians smuggled out escapees from the American embassy in Iran in the early phases of the hostage crisis. Canada hid the Americans, then left Iran (the Americans suddenly became Canadians), then said duck cough.
It should have not taken so long for Canada to get a iTunes Music Store. As someone that has worked with Canadians in the past (including conditions of ice storms, sleet, snow, and white out) all I can say that it is a boot time!
Tax bills (raising revenue) come from the House of Representatives (Finance Committee), spending comes from both parts of Congress. You alluded to spending bills in your original post.
To be more specific, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have Committees on Appropriations. These committees hold the purse strings as they are groups that put forth the actions that actually approve the allocation of money to be spent. Other bills (from other committees) can specify what should be spent, but the actual money is still not appropriated.
Byron Dorgan from North Dakota is on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The drinking age was lowered to 18 years old in the sixties in response to the Vietnam war; old enough to die, old enough to drink. This was not a federal mandate, but was done on a state by state basis. The return to 21 years of age took place in the eighties and was spurred on by the Federal government. If you don't raise the minimum age, you will not receive federal transporation money.
I can say this. I would not trade off being able to legally drink at 18 with the real threat of actually being drafted when there is a serious war going on.
Finally think about this. Young people are involved in a statistically greater number of alcohol related traffic fatalities when the drinking age is 18 rather than 21. Alcohol, inexperience (e.g., maturity), and recklessness do not mix. The last two factors are why we send (and are able to send) young people off to die in war.
Federal spending bills come from the House and the Senate. Usually they do not match and a compromise needs to reached. The President then signs or vetoes the single compromised spending bill from Congress.
If you are from North Dakota then you have two Senators that can push pork back to your state. You have the same number of Senators as California, a state that generates an enormous amount of revenue that the smaller states siphon off.
While General Greene was not present, his subordinate General Morgan overwhelmingly won the battle of Cowpens. Morgan then retreated on his own towards Virginia and was pursued by Cornwallis; this pursuit was futile.
Greene did "lose" at Guilford, however, the British suffered sufficient casualties to force them to return to their safer coastal areas.
British brutality towards those favorable to the rebels (who they considered traitors) probably did gain them many new friends in the South. Indeed, they did briefly carry out a reign of terror killing many of these "traitors." OTOH, the British did attempt to recruit tories to their cause. This was somewhat successful, except that these forces were somewhat unreliable. Finally, part of Greene's campaign in the south was to try to prevent the recruitment of these tories.
TOS was sci-fi, but it was also another ground breaking type of show in that it often dealt with formerly taboo social issues (e.g., race). Remember that this was when racial issues was starting to dominate American society.
Conversely, the treatment of women in TOS was in keeping with women's rights at that time. This became a more defined cause several years later, and in some sense TNG better showcased the heightened sensitivity to women's rights.
BTW, Lost in Space was not sci-fi, it was a glorified kiddie show. It got canned after facing stiff direct competition from another kiddie show, Batman.
and cell-phones tell the story. A heavy turnout means that younger people are voting, and they favor Kerry. It was means that there are also many first-time voters; this also favors Kerry.
A lot of young people never get contacted in the National polls as the pollsters usually do not call cell phone numbers.
My memory is clouded but I believe that it was in 1986 that I was root and working on my first UNIX computer. Dual boot UNIX system on an Apollo. Or was this on an IBM RT? 1986 was the year of Buckner.
Most of this started in 1978 (the year of Bucky).
WTF cares! Red Sox win!!!!! WOOT!!!!!
Low user id who doesn't care about being moderated down to zilch by newbies!
A scaled mockup of the Alvin used to be on display in the Smithsonian National History Museum. IIRC, this exhibit featured the exotic life found at the undersea hydrothermal vent fields.
The human genome has major importance when one wants to identify your parents. A common phrase is "Who's your daddy?" Well? Who? Is? Your? Daddy? Now?
Red Sox kick butt! Yankees choke! Sorry, that is too harsh. The Yankees played good. My hat is off to the Yankees on a fine season. To be the best, one must beat the best. I may be gloating, but to gloat one must respect, in some degree, your opponent.
I took a big karma hit when the NE Patriots won the Super Bowl. Wait, the Pats won two Super Bowl! I really lost a bunch of Karma.
Slight correction. In the earlier phases of the American Civil Warr, it was common strategy to employ massed formations against massed formations (e.g., massed frontal assaults). However, the use of rifled muskets changed all of that. Unfortunately, many generals did not change tactics but continued to used those from the Napoleanic era.
Rifled muskets increased the effective killing range to about 1/4 mile. A massed formation attempting to attack an entrenched defense would be severely decimated before they could get close.
Methane gas hydrates, the solid form of methane that is stable under certain pressures and temperatures. There is a lot of this in the seafloor and in some tundra areas. The seafloor regions are generally areas of high sedimentation rate (e.g., close to land-masses).
There is considerable amount of research being conducted on this right now.
The more viscous the magma, the more difficult it is for trapped gasses (e.g., CO2) to diffuse out as the magma rises from depth. These gasses are over-pressurize when they reach the near-surface and are the reason for the explosive eruptions.
Basalt has a lower silica content and is less viscous. Less viscosity allows for trapped gasses to diffuse out resulting in less explosive eruptions.
Rhyolite, dacite, and basalt are defined by their chemical composition (silica and other lesser elements) and on their mineral grain size (as oppose to coarser grained granite and gabbro).
"would exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) unclassified, commercial satellite pictures bought up by the government, as well as "any... other product that is derived from such data."
Oh no, here we go again! Not derivative products! I sure hope Orrin Hatch is not sponsoring this legislation. He might have picked up a few pointers from his nephew.:-)
This a letter sent from Daimler Chrysler to SCO (Broderick) on April 6, 2004 after the lawsuit was filed. It is part of DCC's April 15 filings with the court.
Dear Mr. Broderick:
-----snip-----
The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") believes that:
1. SCO "owns" certain rights under the Software Agreement referenced about ("SA") and, 2. SCO's referenced letter was a proper request for a certified statement under Section 2.05 of the SA.
SCO is not a party to the SA, and Daimler Chrysler has no knowledge of any assignment of the right of the Licensor under the SA to SCO. According to our records, the SA was assigned from AT&T Information Systems, Inc. to UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. on or about November 1, 1990. Notwithstanding these facts, SCO has filed its suit against Daimler Chrysler. SCO's suit appears to be based on an uninformeed and inaccurate assessment of Daimler Chrysler's conduct. As a result, and without waiving any of its rights under the SA or under applicable law, including without limitation its right to assert that SCO has no rights under the SA, that SCO has no right to seek the certified statement under the SA, and that SCO has intentionally filed a meritless lawsuit for purposes of restraining competition, Daimler Chrysler provides the attached information to SCO.
---- attachment ----
The attachment is a letter sent to USL certifying compliance (i.e., no designated CPU's.
Your move SCO. Doesn't this letter tell you what DCC's is thinking? That's right, you're screwed.
The judge set up a trap for poor old SCO by not ruling on the issue of not complying within 30 days. By dismissing all the other charges, she essentially cut off any meaningful avenues in discovery that SCO would have likely pursued. This is not going to be a fishing expedition for SCO.
OTOH, the 30 day compliance issue actually keeps open several key discovery paths that DCC might want to take. For instance, why wasn't DCC contacted after the letter was sent and before the lawsuit was filed? DCC could easy state who the hell is SCO? What happended to AT&T/USL? When did SCO get the rights? Hey, okay, we knew about that Novell deal, but SCO?
Additionally, why wasn't DCC contacted prior to the lawsuit when a simple phone call would be have cleared things up (I know that SCO addresses this issue in their complaint)? The judge could point out that SCO is wasting court resources by filing lawsuits without making any attempt to resolve the dispute outside of the courts, which in itself sends a message about launching surprise lawsuits.
1) envy (seeing a better product at another company) 2) lust (they really want that product) 3) gluttony (gobbling up that company) 4) wrath (and if that company says no...) 5) pride (ever hear Balmer give a speech?) 6) sloth (actually, they do work hard I think) 7) avarice (duh)
Computers are not that historical. You might think that they are (no, not you trash80), but they are not.
I've been to the computer museum up in Boston (I think it is now part of the Museum of Science) and the Smithsonian American National Museum. In the latter case, the computers are part of a bigger exhibit that hightlights the Information Age. In this case think things like, telegraph, radio, televison, computers, etc...
At the end there is an interactive exhibit that kids can play with. The same held true for the one up in Boston, but I went there many years ago.
I think that many people were staring at me and my brother when we were bowing down to a lifesize picture/cutup of Seymour Cray (next to a bunch of CDC's). I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!
Finally, I saw my first Craw 1 at the Smithsoniam Air and Space Museum. This was great as I was tired and I could sit down (check out a picture of the Cray 1 and you will understand what I'm saying). They also had a display of real magnetic core memory. Most of you don't know what a true core dump really means!
To expand on some of points that you make and to clarify others. In *general*, journals produced by scientific societies are cheaper to subscribe to if you are a member and are more expensive to publish in. These journals are more prestigious, have better peer review and have higher standards (i.e., more difficult to publish in).
The authors are willing to pay to publish because of the prestige factor. Otherwise, why would they pay when free publications/journals are out there?
I should point out that published research by a US Federal government employee in the course of performing his/her official business is not copyrighted. The rationale is that the tax payers have already paid for the research, why should they have to pay again to gain access to the data or the results.
There was a bill (Public Access to Science Act) proposed last year to extend this double taxation principle to all federally funded research.
Germany was doomed from the start because of their alliance with Italy.
In the summer of 1939 von Ribbentrop told Winston Churchill, "If there's war, the Italians will fight on Germany's side." After a pause Churchill replied, "That's fair; we had them last time."
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a song coming! To all you Canadians I proudly sing your national anthem!
Oh Christmas Tree
Oh Christmas Tree
What!? Huh? That's not right?
We did this to a fellow graduate student who happened to be Canadian. He was a good about this and would just say,... well it wasn't hoser but something that rhyme with duck cough. Must be a canuck thing.
This was many years ago. When the USA won the gold medal in ice hockey in 1980 he caught a lot of good natured grief. He also got really drunk when every American bought him a drink when the Canadians smuggled out escapees from the American embassy in Iran in the early phases of the hostage crisis. Canada hid the Americans, then left Iran (the Americans suddenly became Canadians), then said duck cough.
It should have not taken so long for Canada to get a iTunes Music Store. As someone that has worked with Canadians in the past (including conditions of ice storms, sleet, snow, and white out) all I can say that it is a boot time!
Hate to point this out, but Dorgan is a Democrat at this time.
Tax bills (raising revenue) come from the House of Representatives (Finance Committee), spending comes from both parts of Congress. You alluded to spending bills in your original post.
To be more specific, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have Committees on Appropriations. These committees hold the purse strings as they are groups that put forth the actions that actually approve the allocation of money to be spent. Other bills (from other committees) can specify what should be spent, but the actual money is still not appropriated.
Byron Dorgan from North Dakota is on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The drinking age was lowered to 18 years old in the sixties in response to the Vietnam war; old enough to die, old enough to drink. This was not a federal mandate, but was done on a state by state basis. The return to 21 years of age took place in the eighties and was spurred on by the Federal government. If you don't raise the minimum age, you will not receive federal transporation money.
I can say this. I would not trade off being able to legally drink at 18 with the real threat of actually being drafted when there is a serious war going on.
Finally think about this. Young people are involved in a statistically greater number of alcohol related traffic fatalities when the drinking age is 18 rather than 21. Alcohol, inexperience (e.g., maturity), and recklessness do not mix. The last two factors are why we send (and are able to send) young people off to die in war.
Federal spending bills come from the House and the Senate. Usually they do not match and a compromise needs to reached. The President then signs or vetoes the single compromised spending bill from Congress.
If you are from North Dakota then you have two Senators that can push pork back to your state. You have the same number of Senators as California, a state that generates an enormous amount of revenue that the smaller states siphon off.
While General Greene was not present, his subordinate General Morgan overwhelmingly won the battle of Cowpens. Morgan then retreated on his own towards Virginia and was pursued by Cornwallis; this pursuit was futile.
Greene did "lose" at Guilford, however, the British suffered sufficient casualties to force them to return to their safer coastal areas.
British brutality towards those favorable to the rebels (who they considered traitors) probably did gain them many new friends in the South. Indeed, they did briefly carry out a reign of terror killing many of these "traitors." OTOH, the British did attempt to recruit tories to their cause. This was somewhat successful, except that these forces were somewhat unreliable. Finally, part of Greene's campaign in the south was to try to prevent the recruitment of these tories.
TOS was sci-fi, but it was also another ground breaking type of show in that it often dealt with formerly taboo social issues (e.g., race). Remember that this was when racial issues was starting to dominate American society.
Conversely, the treatment of women in TOS was in keeping with women's rights at that time. This became a more defined cause several years later, and in some sense TNG better showcased the heightened sensitivity to women's rights.
BTW, Lost in Space was not sci-fi, it was a glorified kiddie show. It got canned after facing stiff direct competition from another kiddie show, Batman.
and cell-phones tell the story. A heavy turnout means that younger people are voting, and they favor Kerry. It was means that there are also many first-time voters; this also favors Kerry.
A lot of young people never get contacted in the National polls as the pollsters usually do not call cell phone numbers.
Who the...cares
Red Sox win! Once again karma be damn!
My memory is clouded but I believe that it was in 1986 that I was root and working on my first UNIX computer. Dual boot UNIX system on an Apollo. Or was this on an IBM RT? 1986 was the year of Buckner.
Most of this started in 1978 (the year of Bucky).
WTF cares! Red Sox win!!!!! WOOT!!!!!
Low user id who doesn't care about being moderated down to zilch by newbies!
Curse is reversed!
A scaled mockup of the Alvin used to be on display in the Smithsonian National History Museum. IIRC, this exhibit featured the exotic life found at the undersea hydrothermal vent fields.
There is *no* curse! It died last night.
Who's your daddy?
The human genome has major importance when one wants to identify your parents. A common phrase is "Who's your daddy?" Well? Who? Is? Your? Daddy? Now?
Red Sox kick butt! Yankees choke! Sorry, that is too harsh. The Yankees played good. My hat is off to the Yankees on a fine season. To be the best, one must beat the best. I may be gloating, but to gloat one must respect, in some degree, your opponent.
I took a big karma hit when the NE Patriots won the Super Bowl. Wait, the Pats won two Super Bowl! I really lost a bunch of Karma.
Oh well, gunga gallunga.
Go Sox!
Slight correction. In the earlier phases of the American Civil Warr, it was common strategy to employ massed formations against massed formations (e.g., massed frontal assaults). However, the use of rifled muskets changed all of that. Unfortunately, many generals did not change tactics but continued to used those from the Napoleanic era.
Rifled muskets increased the effective killing range to about 1/4 mile. A massed formation attempting to attack an entrenched defense would be severely decimated before they could get close.
Quentin Tarantino signs on to help make changes to the original.
Obi Wan's last words, "That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword."
A better, more up-to-date version would be for Leia to ask Luke, "Aren't you a little, ahem, um, short for a storm trooper?"
While gazing at his crotch.
Methane gas hydrates, the solid form of methane that is stable under certain pressures and temperatures. There is a lot of this in the seafloor and in some tundra areas. The seafloor regions are generally areas of high sedimentation rate (e.g., close to land-masses).
There is considerable amount of research being conducted on this right now.
The more viscous the magma, the more difficult it is for trapped gasses (e.g., CO2) to diffuse out as the magma rises from depth. These gasses are over-pressurize when they reach the near-surface and are the reason for the explosive eruptions.
Basalt has a lower silica content and is less viscous. Less viscosity allows for trapped gasses to diffuse out resulting in less explosive eruptions.
Rhyolite, dacite, and basalt are defined by their chemical composition (silica and other lesser elements) and on their mineral grain size (as oppose to coarser grained granite and gabbro).
Yu know, this ting is just wong and a bunch of lai's. Hu ever did this has sank to a new lo.
And it's Craw, not Craw!
From the article.
"would exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) unclassified, commercial satellite pictures bought up by the government, as well as "any... other product that is derived from such data."
Oh no, here we go again! Not derivative products! I sure hope Orrin Hatch is not sponsoring this legislation. He might have picked up a few pointers from his nephew.:-)
This a letter sent from Daimler Chrysler to SCO (Broderick) on April 6, 2004 after the lawsuit was filed. It is part of DCC's April 15 filings with the court.
Dear Mr. Broderick:
-----snip-----
The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") believes that:
1. SCO "owns" certain rights under the Software Agreement referenced about ("SA") and,
2. SCO's referenced letter was a proper request for a certified statement under Section 2.05 of the SA.
SCO is not a party to the SA, and Daimler Chrysler has no knowledge of any assignment of the right of the Licensor under the SA to SCO. According to our records, the SA was assigned from AT&T Information Systems, Inc. to UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. on or about November 1, 1990. Notwithstanding these facts, SCO has filed its suit against Daimler Chrysler. SCO's suit appears to be based on an uninformeed and inaccurate assessment of Daimler Chrysler's conduct. As a result, and without waiving any of its rights under the SA or under applicable law, including without limitation its right to assert that SCO has no rights under the SA, that SCO has no right to seek the certified statement under the SA, and that SCO has intentionally filed a meritless lawsuit for purposes of restraining competition, Daimler Chrysler provides the attached information to SCO.
---- attachment ----
The attachment is a letter sent to USL certifying compliance (i.e., no designated CPU's.
Your move SCO. Doesn't this letter tell you what DCC's is thinking? That's right, you're screwed.
The judge set up a trap for poor old SCO by not ruling on the issue of not complying within 30 days. By dismissing all the other charges, she essentially cut off any meaningful avenues in discovery that SCO would have likely pursued. This is not going to be a fishing expedition for SCO.
OTOH, the 30 day compliance issue actually keeps open several key discovery paths that DCC might want to take. For instance, why wasn't DCC contacted after the letter was sent and before the lawsuit was filed? DCC could easy state who the hell is SCO? What happended to AT&T/USL? When did SCO get the rights? Hey, okay, we knew about that Novell deal, but SCO?
Additionally, why wasn't DCC contacted prior to the lawsuit when a simple phone call would be have cleared things up (I know that SCO addresses this issue in their complaint)? The judge could point out that SCO is wasting court resources by filing lawsuits without making any attempt to resolve the dispute outside of the courts, which in itself sends a message about launching surprise lawsuits.
Well let's count them:
1) envy (seeing a better product at another company)
2) lust (they really want that product)
3) gluttony (gobbling up that company)
4) wrath (and if that company says no...)
5) pride (ever hear Balmer give a speech?)
6) sloth (actually, they do work hard I think)
7) avarice (duh)
So I only count six businesses.
Computers are not that historical. You might think that they are (no, not you trash80), but they are not.
I've been to the computer museum up in Boston (I think it is now part of the Museum of Science) and the Smithsonian American National Museum. In the latter case, the computers are part of a bigger exhibit that hightlights the Information Age. In this case think things like, telegraph, radio, televison, computers, etc...
At the end there is an interactive exhibit that kids can play with. The same held true for the one up in Boston, but I went there many years ago.
I think that many people were staring at me and my brother when we were bowing down to a lifesize picture/cutup of Seymour Cray (next to a bunch of CDC's). I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!
Finally, I saw my first Craw 1 at the Smithsoniam Air and Space Museum. This was great as I was tired and I could sit down (check out a picture of the Cray 1 and you will understand what I'm saying). They also had a display of real magnetic core memory. Most of you don't know what a true core dump really means!
To expand on some of points that you make and to clarify others. In *general*, journals produced by scientific societies are cheaper to subscribe to if you are a member and are more expensive to publish in. These journals are more prestigious, have better peer review and have higher standards (i.e., more difficult to publish in).
The authors are willing to pay to publish because of the prestige factor. Otherwise, why would they pay when free publications/journals are out there?
I should point out that published research by a US Federal government employee in the course of performing his/her official business is not copyrighted. The rationale is that the tax payers have already paid for the research, why should they have to pay again to gain access to the data or the results.
There was a bill (Public Access to Science Act) proposed last year to extend this double taxation principle to all federally funded research.
Germany was doomed from the start because of their alliance with Italy.
In the summer of 1939 von Ribbentrop told Winston Churchill, "If there's war, the Italians will fight on Germany's side." After a pause Churchill replied, "That's fair; we had them last time."
*snicker*