For a religion to be "real," it appears it must be willing, or at least have been willing in the past, to persecute and terrorize non-believers and, especially, apostates and heretics. FSM adherents need to get with the program, I guess.
Only 15% of California's water supply is allocated to residential and industrial use. The remaining 85% is consumed by agriculture. Farmers pay nearly nothing for this taxpayer-subsidised water under long-term contracts (recently renewed for another 50 years), making it economically feasible to perform such stunts as growing rice in a desert (which they then use Federal subsidies to sell to the Japanese).
There is no shortage of water in California. There is an allocation issue.
Well its not 100% clear what is meant but I presume;
RV = TIBCO Rendezvous
JMS = Java Message Service
IIOP = Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (or var. Internet InterOperability Protocol)
ETX = Ethernet I presume? Or something else?
MQ = IBM MQ Series (messaging middleware)
UDB = DB2 UDB
Canada taxes based on residency, not citizenship. So if he is living and working entirely in the Caribbean, he owes no Canadian taxes. As far as I know, only the U.S. attempts to collect taxes based on citizenship.
Well the part about connecting text speech and machine translation is nonsense.
What's the difference between text translation and speech translation? You can look ahead in text, of course. You don't have to wait for the end of the sentence or thought, for example, you can move forward and back. The delay kills the usefulness of the machine translation for speech.
You simultaneous translators out there don't have to fear imminent job loss.
The inevitable consequence of the DMCA restrictions on fair use will be to drive media services like Napster and MP3.com offshore, like many of the gambling sites, beyond the effective reach of the DMCA. This will be good for globalization and drive the tendency of the Internet to obsolete national governments. The market always finds a way.
You should add that the RedTape scheme never actually dispatches any useful work; only the internal administrative processes are ever eligible and they are not allowed to complete.
People don't vote because they don't care about the outcome. They don't care about the outcome because they don't see any difference between the two parties that are built into the system or between the carefully coiffed career politicians.
Occasionally someone breaks through and excites interest (like Jesse Ventura), showing what might happen if there were a connection between government and the people.
A software emulator translates instructions from the emulated processor to an equivalent sequence of instructions that can be run on the target processor. However, the emulator must also generate instructions that check for conditions which would have resulted in exceptions on the emulated processor but may not cause exceptions on the target processor. These conditions would have been automatically checked by the hardware on the emulated processor. This checking can be a major performance bottleneck, both because of the additional instructions and because they may increase serialization. If you have a machine that allows multiple instructions to execute in parallel - for example a VLIW machine or one with multiple execution units - then it would be nice to run the exception checks in parallel with the instruction that does the actual work. Obviously, if you do this and detect an exception you don't want the results of the instruction doing the work to be stored. This patent covers a hardware feature to suppress these stores.
You are absolutely right. Today's admission by the FBI that they have lied for years about their actions in the Waco massacre of the Branch Davidians should serve as a wake-up call. The seizure and conversion of billions of dollars of citizens assets under the thinnest of rationales is feeding a monster that is not only out of control, but a "clear and present danger" to us all. Don't confuse Republicans with Libertarians. The Libertarian party is the party of principle and is committed to individual rights and freedoms (plug). Just check the home page http://www.lp.org/ to see the headline issues.
And these are the ones that should be cancelled. The Space Shuttle function should be left to private industry (plain old rockets do a perfectly good job of deploying satellites without having to take riders along) and the International Space Station is pure pork and politics, with no discernible science mission.
In fact I have read the Constitution and it is clear that the Federal Government has assumed a role way beyond that envisaged by the framers, who saw a limited government whose main responsibilities were the common defense and the regulation of interstate commerce. This expansion has happened because of exactly this sort of thing, where favors are dispensed to a group identified by some perceived common interest, or better, still, victim status. Because the cost of each increment is small, we creep on to bigger and bigger government.
The government absolutely does make up the divisions. They choose how to split people up. My point was that they tend to ignore statistical honesty and choose the factors that best suit their ends.
I don't ignore the fact you speak Spanish if it is relevant to our interaction. You chose to post in English, so I guess it is not. I will evaluate you as an individual based on the interaction, not on prejudice.
But in any event I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that speaking Spanish entitles you to any special favors from the government. That's the point. You are entitled to equal treatment, no more, no less. I speak Spanish, too, as a matter of fact. Not well, admittedly. I also speak French and German and a bitje of Dutch. So what?
The role of government should be what is defined in the Constitution. No more and no less. If you don't like it, get the votes to change the Constitution. It can be done, and has been done. As far as I can tell, what the Democrats believe in is bigger government and more "programs", regardless of the Constitution. They therefore foster the importance of racial divisions. You have evidently bought into this program, because you see emotional and practical advantages to doing so, like many others seeking special benefits at the expense of others, based on their situation. The Democrats buy the votes of these special interest groups with the favors dispensed by the government. The Republicans do pretty much the same thing by splitting people along religious lines.
I believe all people are equal before the law. I don't believe all people are the same.
The Commerce Department, like all governments, is concerned with justifying the need for increased government programs. This is generally done by fragmenting the population into groups and then creating programs that are alleged to benefit small groups while distributing the cost to other larger groups. The actual primary beneficiaries of these programs, where most of the money goes, are the government employees paid to administer them.
Because of the political sensitivity which means that racial issues are non-debatable, race is often used as a criterion by which to group the population on the assumption that it is an independent variable, when in fact it should not be so assumed.
An obvious question based on the report is whether or not the disparity between urban and rural households accounts for much of the "racial" differential. Since, according to the report, rural households are less likely to be connected, does this explain the racial disparity when the differences in population are taken into account?
Looking to race as an explanatory variable should occur only when all others have been eliminated. But government does not behave this way because it knows that apparent racial bias doesn't get rationally debated and so the "need" is accepted on emotional grounds.
We must make government legally color-blind so that it will stop using racial bias to continually expand government. Without government promoting division between the races, these divisions will eventually disappear.
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For a religion to be "real," it appears it must be willing, or at least have been willing in the past, to persecute and terrorize non-believers and, especially, apostates and heretics. FSM adherents need to get with the program, I guess.
And you don't get "visiting scholar" status at Stanford without a certain amount of credibility.
Fining the company helps the bureacrats pay themselves higher salaries. Who cares about the shareholders? Just another excuse for a grab.
Only 15% of California's water supply is allocated to residential and industrial use. The remaining 85% is consumed by agriculture. Farmers pay nearly nothing for this taxpayer-subsidised water under long-term contracts (recently renewed for another 50 years), making it economically feasible to perform such stunts as growing rice in a desert (which they then use Federal subsidies to sell to the Japanese).
There is no shortage of water in California. There is an allocation issue.
Thanks. But that just makes it worse :)
Well its not 100% clear what is meant but I presume;
RV = TIBCO Rendezvous
JMS = Java Message Service
IIOP = Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (or var. Internet InterOperability Protocol)
ETX = Ethernet I presume? Or something else?
MQ = IBM MQ Series (messaging middleware)
UDB = DB2 UDB
Canada taxes based on residency, not citizenship. So if he is living and working entirely in the Caribbean, he owes no Canadian taxes. As far as I know, only the U.S. attempts to collect taxes based on citizenship.
Well the part about connecting text speech and machine translation is nonsense.
What's the difference between text translation and speech translation? You can look ahead in text, of course. You don't have to wait for the end of the sentence or thought, for example, you can move forward and back. The delay kills the usefulness of the machine translation for speech.
You simultaneous translators out there don't have to fear imminent job loss.
The inevitable consequence of the DMCA restrictions on fair use will be to drive media services like Napster and MP3.com offshore, like many of the gambling sites, beyond the effective reach of the DMCA. This will be good for globalization and drive the tendency of the Internet to obsolete national governments. The market always finds a way.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds By Charles MacKay (1841)
http://www.litrix.com/madraven/madne001.htm
You should add that the RedTape scheme never actually dispatches any useful work; only the internal administrative processes are ever eligible and they are not allowed to complete.
People don't vote because they don't care about the outcome. They don't care about the outcome because they don't see any difference between the two parties that are built into the system or between the carefully coiffed career politicians.
Occasionally someone breaks through and excites interest (like Jesse Ventura), showing what might happen if there were a connection between government and the people.
The system is broken. The Internet won't fix it.
A software emulator translates instructions from the emulated processor to an equivalent sequence of instructions that can be run on the target processor. However, the emulator must also generate instructions that check for conditions which would have resulted in exceptions on the emulated processor but may not cause exceptions on the target processor. These conditions would have been automatically checked by the hardware on the emulated processor. This checking can be a major performance bottleneck, both because of the additional instructions and because they may increase serialization. If you have a machine that allows multiple instructions to execute in parallel - for example a VLIW machine or one with multiple execution units - then it would be nice to run the exception checks in parallel with the instruction that does the actual work. Obviously, if you do this and detect an exception you don't want the results of the instruction doing the work to be stored. This patent covers a hardware feature to suppress these stores.
You are absolutely right. Today's admission by the FBI that they have lied for years about their actions in the Waco massacre of the Branch Davidians should serve as a wake-up call. The seizure and conversion of billions of dollars of citizens assets under the thinnest of rationales is feeding a monster that is not only out of control, but a "clear and present danger" to us all. Don't confuse Republicans with Libertarians. The Libertarian party is the party of principle and is committed to individual rights and freedoms (plug). Just check the home page http://www.lp.org/ to see the headline issues.
And these are the ones that should be cancelled. The Space Shuttle function should be left to private industry (plain old rockets do a perfectly good job of deploying satellites without having to take riders along) and the International Space Station is pure pork and politics, with no discernible science mission.
In fact I have read the Constitution and it is clear that the Federal Government has assumed a role way beyond that envisaged by the framers, who saw a limited government whose main responsibilities were the common defense and the regulation of interstate commerce. This expansion has happened because of exactly this sort of thing, where favors are dispensed to a group identified by some perceived common interest, or better, still, victim status. Because the cost of each increment is small, we creep on to bigger and bigger government.
The government absolutely does make up the divisions. They choose how to split people up. My point was that they tend to ignore statistical honesty and choose the factors that best suit their ends.
I don't ignore the fact you speak Spanish if it is relevant to our interaction. You chose to post in English, so I guess it is not. I will evaluate you as an individual based on the interaction, not on prejudice.
But in any event I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that speaking Spanish entitles you to any special favors from the government. That's the point. You are entitled to equal treatment, no more, no less. I speak Spanish, too, as a matter of fact. Not well, admittedly. I also speak French and German and a bitje of Dutch. So what?
The role of government should be what is defined in the Constitution. No more and no less. If you don't like it, get the votes to change the Constitution. It can be done, and has been done. As far as I can tell, what the Democrats believe in is bigger government and more "programs", regardless of the Constitution. They therefore foster the importance of racial divisions. You have evidently bought into this program, because you see emotional and practical advantages to doing so, like many others seeking special benefits at the expense of others, based on their situation. The Democrats buy the votes of these special interest groups with the favors dispensed by the government. The Republicans do pretty much the same thing by splitting people along religious lines.
I believe all people are equal before the law. I don't believe all people are the same.
The Commerce Department, like all governments, is concerned with justifying the need for increased government programs. This is generally done by fragmenting the population into groups and then creating programs that are alleged to benefit small groups while distributing the cost to other larger groups. The actual primary beneficiaries of these programs, where most of the money goes, are the government employees paid to administer them.
Because of the political sensitivity which means that racial issues are non-debatable, race is often used as a criterion by which to group the population on the assumption that it is an independent variable, when in fact it should not be so assumed.
An obvious question based on the report is whether or not the disparity between urban and rural households accounts for much of the "racial" differential. Since, according to the report, rural households are less likely to be connected, does this explain the racial disparity when the differences in population are taken into account?
Looking to race as an explanatory variable should occur only when all others have been eliminated. But government does not behave this way because it knows that apparent racial bias doesn't get rationally debated and so the "need" is accepted on emotional grounds.
We must make government legally color-blind so that it will stop using racial bias to continually expand government. Without government promoting division between the races, these divisions will eventually disappear.