Lincoln introduced indiscriminate total war onto this continent and presided over the murder of more than 600,000 people. His personal chicken did not come home to roost soon enough. When one starts a war, one cannot expect that counterattacks will always come at a time and place and manner of one's own choosing.
I thought that patents were required to be innovative. If the Government wants only innovative patents to count, they have an easy solution: only patent innovative ideas.
If it's three million that won't be spent on bridges to nowhere, 700-dollar hammers, hosting smallpox bacillus at a university lab, tobacco price supports, bigger and better beaurocratic offices, poisoning fish, land mines, subsidizing deforestation in the national forests, or rounding up wild horses and killing them, then we are all better off for the government not getting hold of it.
Hyponatremia is actually more common than is dehydration among people rescued from Grand Canyon hikes. If you google Carol Tufts you'll see an account of one woman who drank 10 glasses of water per day and almost died. The conventional wisdom of 8 glasses per day is dangerous nonsense.
I saw Dr. Bussard's talk and it certainly looked worth funding. 200 million is less than it cost to produce Lord of the Rings trilogy; it's less than a buck per person. Surely if someone with his credentials, beginning with the Los Alamos project and continuing on from there, says that it's possible, it's worth a few bucks to find out.
I think you're exactly wrong, government types love to find new problems that only more government can solve.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (H. L. Mencken)
Having built a code generator for the X86 FPU I can attest to the difficulty. It's just about impossible to keep stuff on the stack around loops, plus common subexpressions cause problems.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights was never intended to be an exhaustive list. The whole purpose of the 9th ant 10th amendments is to notify Congress that they are constrained to a set of enumerated powers. Rights are not granted by the Constitution.
Dead people vote all the time in Chicago. Also, once people have the technology to analyze you down to the molecular level and rebuild you, what's to stop them from simply reading the GPS coords out of your image dump and then throwing away the image dump without re-instantiating it?
"And certainly as much currently processed copper, platinum and zinc should be conserved as possible; the world needs it."
Whenever you see a statement containing the words "as possible" you can tell for sure that the author isn't thinking too clearly. "As much as possible" means that copper conservation takes precedence over everything else. IE surgeons should forego doing heart surgery if it would save copper.
Big wind power turbines farms reduce wind velocities which will tend to increase air temperature gradients, making cold places colder and hot places hotter.
The author of my PhD dissertation, "Automatic generation of fast optimizing code generators", as well as my dissertation advisor and thousands of Programming Language Design and Implementation conference attendees would probably disagree with you. As would the authors of "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the Dragon book) where Chapter 9 is entitled "Code Generation". What you have described is traditionally called an "application generator".
The problem of hijacking terms already used by others is that it will tend to confuse people and to confound indexing and keyword based searching. CF the term "hacker".
Could also depend on how much SBC pays itself, as the phone co's advertising will obviously get priority over everything else. When I started my ISP, US West didn't have an "Internet Service Provider" business category for their yellow pages. Three years later, US West's ISP ad ran in front of mine and all the other pioneers, on special card stock.
Actually standard Java Coding Styles break two of these rules by decree -- capitalization varis (color versus getColor) and use of vague over-generalized words like "object", "entity", etc. Then again, using the words "Java" and "style" in the same sentence constitutes a sin in and of itself.
Using technology to protect copyright is one thing, however Sony's software installed itself without asking, did not uninstall cleanly, and violated copyrights itself. Unauthorized access to a computer is a violation of US federal statutes, as is copyright violation. And if Sony knew that the rootkit broke Microsoft's pitiful security model, or if they failed to exercise due diligence in this matter, they could be civilly liable under implied warantees of merchantibility. An example of an implied warantee would be if you bought gasoline from a station that ruined your car engine.
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I believe that Lincoln instituted the first US Income Tax, see for
example: http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010212.htm, well in advance of
the constitutional amendment that made it legal for him to do so.
Lincoln had very little regard for civil rights -- his main concern
was preserving the empirexxxxxunion.
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Adding unsigned operators would burn a whole lot of opcode space and there are only 256 potential opcodes. You'd need unsigned comparisons, unsigned flavors of all the arithmetic operators for each data width and so forth. Probably have to introduce a one-byte "unsigned" prefix, and you might have to deal with the combination of the "unsigned" prefix and the "far" prefix for conditional jumps. This would slow down, complexify, and expand the size of the interpreter, which already takes 8 Meg to print "Hello World". It was much simpler to just pre-define the signedness of each data type rather than allow signedness to vary independently.
There's also the issue that, taking the Government's position, a broadcaster is doing work in many states at the same time, so when Willard Scott broadcasts national weather, he should be liable for state taxes in every state his broadcast reaches. NBC has affiliates and business presence in most every state, right?
The mutation that confers immunity is almost non-existant in Africa which is likely why Africa has been hit so hard. I think that one copy of the gene probably confers some resistance.
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Lincoln introduced indiscriminate total war onto this continent and presided over
the murder of more than 600,000 people. His personal chicken did not come home
to roost soon enough. When one starts a war, one cannot expect that counterattacks
will always come at a time and place and manner of one's own choosing.
I thought that patents were required to be innovative. If the Government wants only
innovative patents to count, they have an easy solution: only patent innovative ideas.
If it's three million that won't be spent on bridges to nowhere,
700-dollar hammers, hosting smallpox bacillus at a university lab,
tobacco price supports, bigger and better beaurocratic offices,
poisoning fish, land mines, subsidizing deforestation in the national
forests, or rounding up wild horses and killing them, then we are all
better off for the government not getting hold of it.
The FDA wants to control the flow of information to us, because we
cannot be trusted to make decisions for ourselves.
Hyponatremia is actually more common than is dehydration among people rescued from Grand Canyon hikes. If you google Carol Tufts you'll see an account of one woman who drank 10 glasses of water per day and almost died. The conventional wisdom of 8 glasses per day is dangerous nonsense.
I saw Dr. Bussard's talk and it certainly looked worth funding. 200 million is less
than it cost to produce Lord of the Rings trilogy; it's less than a buck per person.
Surely if someone with his credentials, beginning with the Los Alamos project and continuing
on from there, says that it's possible, it's worth a few bucks to find out.
Governments should encourage people to use lots of paper towels and disposable diapers, then all that carbon would be locked away in landfills...
I think you're exactly wrong, government types love to find new problems that only more government can solve.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (H. L. Mencken)
So when is the Attorney General of California going to indict George Bush for illegal wiretaps?
Having built a code generator for the X86 FPU I can attest to the difficulty.
It's just about impossible to keep stuff on the stack around loops, plus
common subexpressions cause problems.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights was never intended
h e_United_States_Constitution
to be an exhaustive list. The whole purpose of the 9th ant 10th amendments is to notify Congress that they are constrained to a set of enumerated powers.
Rights are not granted by the Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_t
Let's ask Gary Kildall what he thinks about Bill's altruism.
Dead people vote all the time in Chicago. Also, once people have the technology to analyze you down to the molecular level and rebuild you, what's to stop them from simply reading the GPS coords out of your image dump and then throwing away the image dump without re-instantiating it?
"And certainly as much currently processed copper, platinum and zinc should be conserved as possible; the world needs it."
Whenever you see a statement containing the words "as possible" you can
tell for sure that the author isn't thinking too clearly. "As much as
possible" means that copper conservation takes precedence over everything
else. IE surgeons should forego doing heart surgery if it would save copper.
Big wind power turbines farms reduce wind velocities which will tend to increase air temperature gradients, making cold places colder and hot places hotter.
Maybe cooling off the surface water will compensate for global warming and reduce the number of hurricanes :)
The author of my PhD dissertation, "Automatic generation of fast optimizing code generators", as well as my dissertation advisor and thousands of Programming Language Design and Implementation conference attendees would probably disagree with you. As would the authors of "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the Dragon book) where Chapter 9 is entitled "Code Generation". What you have described is traditionally called an "application generator". The problem of hijacking terms already used by others is that it will tend to confuse people and to confound indexing and keyword based searching. CF the term "hacker".
Could also depend on how much SBC pays itself, as the phone co's advertising
will obviously get priority over everything else. When I started my ISP, US West
didn't have an "Internet Service Provider" business category for their yellow pages. Three years later, US West's ISP ad ran in front of mine and all the other pioneers,
on special card stock.
Actually standard Java Coding Styles break two of these rules by decree -- capitalization varis (color versus getColor) and use of vague over-generalized
words like "object", "entity", etc. Then again, using the words "Java" and
"style" in the same sentence constitutes a sin in and of itself.
Using technology to protect copyright is one thing, however Sony's software installed itself without asking, did not uninstall cleanly, and violated copyrights itself. Unauthorized access to a computer is a violation of US federal statutes, as is copyright violation. And if Sony knew that the rootkit broke Microsoft's pitiful
security model, or if they failed to exercise due diligence in this matter, they could be civilly liable under implied warantees of merchantibility. An example of an implied warantee would be if you bought gasoline from a station that ruined your car engine.
I believe that Lincoln instituted the first US Income Tax, see for example: http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010212.htm, well in advance of the constitutional amendment that made it legal for him to do so. Lincoln had very little regard for civil rights -- his main concern was preserving the empirexxxxxunion.
Adding unsigned operators would burn a whole lot of opcode space and
there are only 256 potential opcodes. You'd need unsigned comparisons,
unsigned flavors of all the arithmetic operators for each data width and
so forth. Probably have to introduce a one-byte "unsigned" prefix, and you
might have to deal with the combination of the "unsigned" prefix and the
"far" prefix for conditional jumps. This would slow down, complexify, and
expand the size of the interpreter, which already takes 8 Meg to print
"Hello World". It was much simpler to just pre-define the signedness of
each data type rather than allow signedness to vary independently.
There's also the issue that, taking the Government's position, a broadcaster
is doing work in many states at the same time, so when Willard Scott broadcasts
national weather, he should be liable for state taxes in every state his
broadcast reaches. NBC has affiliates and business presence in most every state,
right?
What's next? My mom can't call me unless she pays a separate me-access charge?
The mutation that confers immunity is almost non-existant in
Africa which is likely why Africa has been hit so hard. I think
that one copy of the gene probably confers some resistance.