You know, I've learned about fruit flies and their prominent history in study of genetics _at_ _school_. They are one of the most studied model organisms for genetic research - that's a well-known fact.
Palin doesn't know this. That's fine, I don't know much about Alaska, for example. However, she was giving a PREPARED SPEECH, she should have at least checked the facts about what she was talking about. Or more reasonably, she should have advisors checking her speeches for such gaffes. But apparently that'll be too elitist.
Oh, and 76 Nobel Prize winners endorse Obama (http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/10/29/nobel/). Guess how many Nobel Prize winners endorse McCain?
Russia granted a de-facto independence to Chechnya in 1996 after a disastrous and stupid war. As a result in 1999 Chechen terrorists tried to invade Dagestan.
Government was forced to answer, but the second Chechen war had been handled much better.
Stupid positions on foreign affairs? Like maybe the willingness to sit down with tin-pot dictators who would get populace support from demonizing the US and then forcing the our leaders to negotiate with them?
Ok. What else do you propose? Kill these poor people to save them from suffering? You'll HAVE to talk to them.
Look, I'm from Russia. We had our problem with Chechen terrorists, it is now mostly solved. But only after Putin made peace with a former Chechen terrorist and supported him in rebuilding destroyed Chechnya.
No, I don't think I can overlook that one either. Pandering to the extreme religious right? You mean instead of pandering to the extreme religious left? Yeah. I'll probably let that one slip by in a "don't care" conditional.
How about not pandering to religion at all? Or _at_ _least_ pander to religious moderates.
Oh well, I'm already diversifying my business. I guess I won't have much clients from the US after another 4 years of Republican administration.
Are you ready to overlook other issues like horrifying anti-science of McCain/Palin, his stupid position on foreign affairs, blatant pandering to anti-vaccinists and extreme religious right just because in the other case Democrats will get the control of both houses?
Frankly, if it's true then I don't see a good future for America.
Let's start from the most recent history: 1) Helped Lehman Brothers to evade the bankruptcy. 2) Persuaded the Congress and Senate to pass a 'care package' earlier this year before the panic. 3) More aggressive interest rate cuts earlier last year. 4) Force more regulation in banking. 5) Fire Greenspan. After all, it worked with 8 US attorneys....
Roosevelt knew almost nothing about nuclear physics, but it hadn't stopped him from initiating the Manhattan Project. Because he had good advisors who understood physics and explained to him why it was necessary.
There were plenty of warning signs back in 2003-2004 and lots of economists warned about the impending crisis. But he and Greenspan choose to ignore them.
Well, and if Bush failed to find good advisors - then he failed his job.
Well, "GmbH", "LLC", "Inc.", "Ltd." are very well known. Also, GmbH is written in Latin alphabet.
In Russia a practice of adding company type to its name is also widely used (like "OOO Stepanov" - "Stepanoff, LLC").
But they are usually translated, not transliterated in international documents. In fact, I even remember that the official US visa application guide for Russians even had a table of company type translations.
At about 5nm. Other effects should limit our current tech to about 10nm.
If "10 times smaller" is about chip area, then it might be possible - square root of 10 is about 3 and our current best lithography processes are about 30nm.
There are two main problems: 1) BIOS. 2) Unoptimized boot sequence.
Right now my computer spends about 15 seconds during BIOS initialization. Which is completely useless since Linux and Windows reinitialize devices themselves. For example, bootloader on my MIPS board loads Linux kernel in under one second (so it's about 3 seconds from power-on to BusyBox shell).
Unoptimized boot sequence in Linux itself can be optimized and fixed. Recently Arjan van den Ven optimized it to 5 seconds (!!) on eeepc.
Exactly. Guns are useless without commitment. They are also mostly useless even if you have commitment (unless you want to start a civil war).
I'm not a citizen of the USA, but I lived in the US long enough and I read a lot about its history. And as far as I can tell, all modern human right developments in USA were (fairly) peaceful.
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Well, it worked for them?
A standard curriculum which guarantees minimum necessary education level, schools can customize this curriculum by adding more classes.
Or even better: a set of several curricula for different kinds of schools.
Also: government-sponsored inter-schools competitions with prizes for best schools. More scholarships for gifted but poor students.
And so on.
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Not quite true. A lot of companies still design microprocessors from scratch.
For example, look at Chinese Longsoon CPUs, nanochip, OpenCores, and so on. I also know that several CPUs are designed from scratch in Russia.
But you don't have a choice NOW. You can't resurrect Saddam Hussein and un-invade Iraq.
So you'll have to do something with Iraq.
Is Texas is occupied by the evil US?
Chechnya was a part of Russia since early 1700-s, so Chechnya is not "occupied".
However Russia granted Chechnya a de-facto independence in 1996. It ended when Chechens invaded Dagestan in 1999.
Right now, Chechnya is fairly peaceful and there's no federal Russian armed forces there.
First you'll need to install a stable and strong government. Make sure it can contain sectarian fighting.
It can be done, at least in principle. Look at Chechnya in Russia for a 'success story'.
Because if you do leave now, then Iraq is going to become a bloodbath in a sectarian war. Again.
You know, I've learned about fruit flies and their prominent history in study of genetics _at_ _school_. They are one of the most studied model organisms for genetic research - that's a well-known fact.
Palin doesn't know this. That's fine, I don't know much about Alaska, for example. However, she was giving a PREPARED SPEECH, she should have at least checked the facts about what she was talking about. Or more reasonably, she should have advisors checking her speeches for such gaffes. But apparently that'll be too elitist.
Oh, and 76 Nobel Prize winners endorse Obama (http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/10/29/nobel/). Guess how many Nobel Prize winners endorse McCain?
It's much more complex.
Russia granted a de-facto independence to Chechnya in 1996 after a disastrous and stupid war. As a result in 1999 Chechen terrorists tried to invade Dagestan.
Government was forced to answer, but the second Chechen war had been handled much better.
You mean like the idea of giving $1000 to people unwilling to work will improve our economy?
No. I mean this: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/ and http://chicago.about.com/od/neighborhoodshistory/a/AdlerDebateStmt.htm (which he mentioned TWICE in debates), http://www.factcheck.org/outrageous_exaggerations.html (hint: DNA study), etc.
Or something like this: http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008/03/04/mccain-perpetuates-vaccine-autism-myth/
Stupid positions on foreign affairs? Like maybe the willingness to sit down with tin-pot dictators who would get populace support from demonizing the US and then forcing the our leaders to negotiate with them?
Ok. What else do you propose? Kill these poor people to save them from suffering? You'll HAVE to talk to them.
Look, I'm from Russia. We had our problem with Chechen terrorists, it is now mostly solved. But only after Putin made peace with a former Chechen terrorist and supported him in rebuilding destroyed Chechnya.
No, I don't think I can overlook that one either. Pandering to the extreme religious right? You mean instead of pandering to the extreme religious left? Yeah. I'll probably let that one slip by in a "don't care" conditional.
How about not pandering to religion at all? Or _at_ _least_ pander to religious moderates.
Oh well, I'm already diversifying my business. I guess I won't have much clients from the US after another 4 years of Republican administration.
Just curious.
Are you ready to overlook other issues like horrifying anti-science of McCain/Palin, his stupid position on foreign affairs, blatant pandering to anti-vaccinists and extreme religious right just because in the other case Democrats will get the control of both houses?
Frankly, if it's true then I don't see a good future for America.
But much cheaper.
I'm actually not even a US citizen :)
Let's start from the most recent history: ...
1) Helped Lehman Brothers to evade the bankruptcy.
2) Persuaded the Congress and Senate to pass a 'care package' earlier this year before the panic.
3) More aggressive interest rate cuts earlier last year.
4) Force more regulation in banking.
5) Fire Greenspan. After all, it worked with 8 US attorneys.
Wrong again.
Roosevelt knew almost nothing about nuclear physics, but it hadn't stopped him from initiating the Manhattan Project. Because he had good advisors who understood physics and explained to him why it was necessary.
There were plenty of warning signs back in 2003-2004 and lots of economists warned about the impending crisis. But he and Greenspan choose to ignore them.
Well, and if Bush failed to find good advisors - then he failed his job.
Can monkey passenger fix rocket? Probably no.
Could Bush fix these problems? Yes he could.
Ergo, your analogy is flawed. And it's not about cars, so it's doubly flawed.
Bush had 8 years to prevent this mess if he wanted to do it. He even had Republican Congress and Senate most of the time!
So he shares the blame.
Well, "GmbH", "LLC", "Inc.", "Ltd." are very well known. Also, GmbH is written in Latin alphabet.
In Russia a practice of adding company type to its name is also widely used (like "OOO Stepanov" - "Stepanoff, LLC").
But they are usually translated, not transliterated in international documents. In fact, I even remember that the official US visa application guide for Russians even had a table of company type translations.
Please, translate correctly. It's "Begun Inc."
ZAO means "Zakrytoye Aktsionernoye Obschestvo" (Privatly Held Corporation) in Russian, it's not a part of the name.
At about 5nm. Other effects should limit our current tech to about 10nm.
If "10 times smaller" is about chip area, then it might be possible - square root of 10 is about 3 and our current best lithography processes are about 30nm.
There are two main problems:
1) BIOS.
2) Unoptimized boot sequence.
Right now my computer spends about 15 seconds during BIOS initialization. Which is completely useless since Linux and Windows reinitialize devices themselves. For example, bootloader on my MIPS board loads Linux kernel in under one second (so it's about 3 seconds from power-on to BusyBox shell).
Unoptimized boot sequence in Linux itself can be optimized and fixed. Recently Arjan van den Ven optimized it to 5 seconds (!!) on eeepc.
Yes.
That's not true. Rule-based programming is widely used in practice. The canonical example is automated credit rating scoring.
Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_rule_system
And incremental rule-based processing can be done very efficiently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm
Of course, current rule-based systems are NOWHERE complicated enough to understand concepts like 'harm'.
Exactly. Guns are useless without commitment. They are also mostly useless even if you have commitment (unless you want to start a civil war).
I'm not a citizen of the USA, but I lived in the US long enough and I read a lot about its history. And as far as I can tell, all modern human right developments in USA were (fairly) peaceful.