Let me echo this sentiment. I did my PhD in a esoteric corner of Number Theory. In my first position after graduate school, I submitted a number of papers. Waited a minimum of one year for rejections or impossible demands for revision. The handful of others in my area refused to collaborate with me. I left academia.
Seven years later, a student of one of these people who refused to collaborate submits a paper, and somehow I get to be referee. I turned it around reasonably quick, rejected because it overlooked many earlier works.
Later that year, I get a request from the student about the same paper, maybe revised, I didn't look too closely. (He doesn't know I was referee for the previous time around.) It has been conditionally accepted at another journal.
Funny, his papers get refereed in 3-6 months and mine took over a year, and only then after pestering editors.
The condition? He has cited my multiply rejected preprint and the editors insist that it must be put somewhere more stable than my personal website. So I put it on arXiv. Probably I should have demanded that they publish it.
Thus was demonstrated to me partiality in the peer-review process. It's more petty personal politics than big issue party politics.
An alternative to federalized health care: States may enter a compact (equivalent of a treaty, between States of the United States) regarding health care.
By organizing a multistate compact, an individual state with a generous policy avoids becoming a magnet. We uphold our federal system, what's left of it, which delegates limited powers to the federal government. We devolve power arrogated to the federal goverment to the States.
Nothing says "have my cake and eat it too" like an equity interest in an overseas concern.
Own shares in a mutual fund which holds Yahoo!? Then you own a piece of this load of stink.
If we try to legislate divestment, then corporations set up offshore straw firms to hold the equity in the bad country -- just like US persons doing business in Cuba through Mexican intermediaries.
Google | Yahoo | Slashdot |... customers are its advertizers.
and, to repeat myself from long ago, your eyeballs are the product.
As long as the customers are satisfied, the money keeps flowing. Customer satisfaction correlate with consumer satisfaction, yet the coefficient of correlation might not be 1. (Ponder if it is higher.)
Although, John Sweeney received the first SSN account, his was not the lowest number ever issued. That distinction fell to New Hampshire resident, Grace Dorothy Owen. Ms. Owen received number 001-01-0001.
'In early 2007, the Court ordered an expungement (pdf). The order states: ".. the defendant, for all purposes of the law, shall be deemed not to have been previously convicted or arrested." The order seals the court records and eliminates some lingering effects of the conviction.'
The pdf is available at the above mentioned site, it's short, and it's in plain English. Conviction goes poof. Anyone trying to sue Schwartz for claiming he was never convicted loses. In US civil society, the final review of any dispute is by a US court, which will support Schwartz's claim he was never convicted. Period. That covers job applications, security clearances, and all the civil rights stripped from convicts.
Regarding pardons: it is not a requirement in general to admit guilt to receive a pardon. The US federal pardon authority is vested in the president by the constitution and is absolute and unreviewable. Ford pardoned Nixon.
As a younger person, living in a cheap locale commits me to living on that economic scale for the rest of my life.
My "money scale" is roughly proportional to my income.
If my salary in Central New Jersey is double that in Cortland, NY, then my company contribution of 5% of my salary or so to retirement is, well, double in NJ.
Ditto with the cost of a lot of things. The slosh in my budget is larger, too. (Unfortunately, real estate purchase is more than double.)
Once I've saved my war chest, at least the bulk of what I'll submit to the angels of compound return, then I could move to a lower cost of living area and be ahead of the game. But the reverse direction is not affordable.
The names of my classmates who are VP at a popular (former) web browser outfit, C?O at a popular not evil web search place, VP at a possibly evil trading firm are not printed on my degree; however, they may be written on some duplicate bridge score sheets somewhere.
My present position owes to a good word put in my undergraduate thesis advisor, years after I finished my bachelor's degree. I wasn't even particularly searching for a job at that moment.
These are some of social and economic benefits of Meatspace U., yes, a selective one.
A cousin of mine went to a less famous college and is now running a business with some of his college classmates. He also benefits from his network, and probably makes a bundle more presidents than I.
One prisoner is the counter, the rest noncounters. The counter's count starts at 0.
If a noncounter sees the up side down chalice, and that noncounter has not righted the chalice 2k+1 times already, then that noncounter will right the chalice.
If the counter sees the right side up chalice, the counter will turn it up side down, and increment the count.
The king, with his k royal flips, can augment the count by up to k, or cancel up to k indications for the counter to count.
If one noncounter has never been in the room, the maximum value of the count is (n-2)(2k+1) + k = 2nk + n - 3k - 2.
If every counter has been in the room k+1 times, which happens inevitably according to the problem, the minimum value of the count is (n-1)(2k+1) - k = 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
The counter asserts yes when the count reaches 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
If we further assume that the king refills the chalice with an intoxicating liquor whenever it is right side up...
Belief in evolution is not science. Belief in intelligent design is not science.
Science is a process for organizing observations into statements about the real world which have predictive value.
So I don't believe in evolution, except in so far as it is a framework for interpreting observations and making accurate predictions about more observations. That makes evolution a useful hypothesis -- which in the press is often rendered as "fact".
Intelligent design does not make predictions, and the theory has a gaping hole (the prime intelligence) which is a Deus ex Machina (!) to avoid being shown false.
If we teach the scientific method effectively, then the urgency to inculcate the dogma of evolution diminishes.
Why not write yourself (or have "your lawyer" write)
a boilerplate NDA to use when rendering
information to any service provider.
Introducing small errors into the information
can help trace its provenance.
Imagine a shrink wrap license for the common man.
Wooden blocks, cut from different kinds of
hardwoods with nontoxic natural finish.
Blocks are fun to build with and nice to just
handle. They stay crisp and crunchy in milk,
too, and stand up to attempted eating.
One can also get more exotic shapes than
rectangular parallelopipeds.
Blocks are very safe, except when
I used to play with them. I made a T,
with a long narrow block standing on its
small face, and then built a structure
atop the crosspiece. Then I waited for
nature to take its course.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me echo this sentiment. I did my PhD in a esoteric corner of Number Theory. In my first position after graduate school, I submitted a number of papers. Waited a minimum of one year for rejections or impossible demands for revision. The handful of others in my area refused to collaborate with me. I left academia.
Seven years later, a student of one of these people who refused to collaborate submits a paper,
and somehow I get to be referee. I turned it around reasonably quick, rejected because it overlooked many earlier works.
Later that year, I get a request from the student about the same paper, maybe revised, I didn't look too closely. (He doesn't know I was referee for the previous time around.) It has been conditionally accepted at another journal.
Funny, his papers get refereed in 3-6 months and mine took over a year, and only then after pestering editors.
The condition? He has cited my multiply rejected preprint and the editors insist that it must
be put somewhere more stable than my personal website. So I put it on arXiv. Probably I should
have demanded that they publish it.
Thus was demonstrated to me partiality in the peer-review process. It's more petty personal politics than big issue party politics.
An alternative to federalized health care: States
may enter a compact (equivalent of a treaty, between
States of the United States) regarding health care.
By organizing a multistate compact, an individual
state with a generous policy avoids becoming a
magnet. We uphold our federal system, what's
left of it, which delegates limited powers to the
federal government. We devolve power arrogated to
the federal goverment to the States.
Remarks?
15 minutes -- "Chat session ended" -- zero search results
on qalqashandi sub al-a'sha manuscript location
Cairo, Egypt would be a good start.
(If you know what library, please reply; thanks!)
on a ChaCha query ... 5 minutes so far ...
qalqashandi sub al-a'sha manuscript location
I, for one, welcome our new heat seeking overlords.
Nothing says "have my cake and eat it too" like an
equity interest in an overseas concern.
Own shares in a mutual fund which holds Yahoo!?
Then you own a piece of this load of stink.
If we try to legislate divestment, then corporations
set up offshore straw firms to hold the equity in
the bad country -- just like US persons doing business
in Cuba through Mexican intermediaries.
Google | Yahoo | Slashdot | ...
customers are its advertizers.
and, to repeat myself from long ago,
your eyeballs are the product.
As long as the customers are satisfied,
the money keeps flowing. Customer satisfaction
correlate with consumer satisfaction, yet the
coefficient of correlation might not be 1.
(Ponder if it is higher.)
from http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html
Although, John Sweeney received the first SSN account, his was not the lowest number ever issued. That distinction fell to New Hampshire resident, Grace Dorothy Owen. Ms. Owen received number 001-01-0001.
From
http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/
'In early 2007, the Court ordered an expungement (pdf). The order states: ".. the defendant, for all purposes of the law, shall be deemed not to have been previously convicted or arrested." The order seals the court records and eliminates some lingering effects of the conviction.'
The pdf is available at the above mentioned site, it's short, and it's in plain English.
Conviction goes poof. Anyone trying to sue Schwartz for claiming he was never convicted
loses. In US civil society, the final review of any dispute is by a US court, which will
support Schwartz's claim he was never convicted. Period. That covers job applications,
security clearances, and all the civil rights stripped from convicts.
Regarding pardons: it is not a requirement in general to admit guilt to receive a
pardon. The US federal pardon authority is vested in the president by the constitution
and is absolute and unreviewable. Ford pardoned Nixon.
The tricolore still flies... Vive la france!
google: french military victories
is a higher gasoline tax in the US.
We might still need standards for evaluating gas
mileage, but there would be no more need for
fudging things like CAFE.
The increase should come along with an offsetting
tax cut, e.g. lower the lowest marginal income tax
rate. And it should be phased in gradually.
There is an externality in the gasoline economy.
Let's close it.
Google's customers are its advertisers.
Parent wrote:
Webmasters are not their customers, individuals who are searching are.
No more are the readers of the free papers customers of the free papers,
or the watchers of TV the broadcaster's customers.
These searchers', readers', watchers' eyeballs are the product delivered to the
customers.
At 33, I am in the earlier part of my career.
As a younger person, living in a cheap locale
commits me to living on that economic scale for
the rest of my life.
My "money scale" is roughly proportional to my income.
If my salary in Central New Jersey is double that in
Cortland, NY, then my company contribution of 5% of my
salary or so to retirement is, well, double in NJ.
Ditto with the cost of a lot of things. The slosh in
my budget is larger, too. (Unfortunately, real estate
purchase is more than double.)
Once I've saved my war chest, at least the bulk of
what I'll submit to the angels of compound return,
then I could move to a lower cost of living area
and be ahead of the game. But the reverse direction
is not affordable.
as in, you can't get (meaningful) quantities of hydrogen
h ydrogen_answers.htmlt oryid=581
out of the ground.
See also for example:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081803_
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&s
among many other reports of why the heralded hydrogen economy
has a place in the pantheon of the FSM and his noodly appendage.
The FFC Cambridge Process was invented in 1996.s
Read about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFC_Cambridge_Proces
and there are actual references to scientific
journals at the end of the article, for those
who don't take Wikipedia on faith...
The names of my classmates who are
VP at a popular (former) web browser outfit,
C?O at a popular not evil web search place,
VP at a possibly evil trading firm
are not printed on my degree; however,
they may be written on some duplicate
bridge score sheets somewhere.
My present position owes to a good word
put in my undergraduate thesis advisor,
years after I finished my bachelor's degree.
I wasn't even particularly searching for a
job at that moment.
These are some of social and economic
benefits of Meatspace U., yes, a
selective one.
A cousin of mine went to a less famous
college and is now running a business
with some of his college classmates.
He also benefits from his network,
and probably makes a bundle more
presidents than I.
* spoiler *
Accounting for the k flips the king gets to make:
The value k is known to all the prisoners.
One prisoner is the counter, the rest noncounters.
The counter's count starts at 0.
If a noncounter sees the up side down chalice, and
that noncounter has not righted the chalice 2k+1 times
already, then that noncounter will right the chalice.
If the counter sees the right side up chalice, the
counter will turn it up side down, and increment the
count.
The king, with his k royal flips, can augment the
count by up to k, or cancel up to k indications for
the counter to count.
If one noncounter has never been in the room, the maximum
value of the count is (n-2)(2k+1) + k = 2nk + n - 3k - 2.
If every counter has been in the room k+1 times,
which happens inevitably according to the problem,
the minimum value of the count is (n-1)(2k+1) - k = 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
The counter asserts yes when the count reaches 2nk + n - 3k - 1.
If we further assume that the king refills the chalice
with an intoxicating liquor whenever it is right side up...
Belief in evolution is not science.
Belief in intelligent design is not science.
Science is a process for organizing
observations into statements about
the real world which have predictive
value.
So I don't believe in evolution, except
in so far as it is a framework for
interpreting observations and making
accurate predictions about more
observations. That makes evolution a
useful hypothesis -- which in the press
is often rendered as "fact".
Intelligent design does not make predictions,
and the theory has a gaping hole (the prime
intelligence) which is a Deus ex Machina (!)
to avoid being shown false.
If we teach the scientific method effectively,
then the urgency to inculcate the dogma of
evolution diminishes.
Why not write yourself (or have "your lawyer" write) a boilerplate NDA to use when rendering information to any service provider. Introducing small errors into the information can help trace its provenance. Imagine a shrink wrap license for the common man.
Wooden blocks, cut from different kinds of hardwoods with nontoxic natural finish. Blocks are fun to build with and nice to just handle. They stay crisp and crunchy in milk, too, and stand up to attempted eating. One can also get more exotic shapes than rectangular parallelopipeds. Blocks are very safe, except when I used to play with them. I made a T, with a long narrow block standing on its small face, and then built a structure atop the crosspiece. Then I waited for nature to take its course.