1) There's already an entrepreneur green card category (I'm planning to use it).
2) This bill actually provides separate category of visas for investors. That's also doubleplusgood because of the way the current green card system works.
There's a "prevailing wage" crap - H1Bs can't be payed less than that. Except that there are tons of ways to game it and the "prevailing" wage is not that prevailing.
As a highly paid worker on H1B, I totally support this law. It fixes major problems with US immigration system (H1B lottery - seriously?) and institutes point-based system to sieve candidates based on real needs.
We ditched our Sun servers back at the time of T3. Their single-thread performance was abysmal and collective multi-thread performance was not that good as well. It turned out that it was cheaper to buy a couple of x86-based servers than to suffer the SPARC misery.
Modern Pascal dialects are hardly 'simple', they have all the OOP stuff and lots of somewhat clumsily implemented extensions (like closures). So Algol or Standard Pascal are in no way 'simpler' or 'reliable' - they are just so primitive that most of programs written in Pascal are little more advanced than a textbook exercises.
They ARE difficult to write in. Try creating a multimap in Pascal, with type safety or course.
Oh, no generic types in Pascal so it's impossible. Ok, try at least a polymorphic version - again not easy because of braindeadness of pointers in Pascal. BTW, there's no garbage collector in Standard Pascal.
Advocating braindead languages from 60-s is not even funny now.
Pascal, Ada and Algol are CRAP. They are in no way 'simple', they are 'verbose' and 'clumsy'. They are difficult to write code in and they don't really support anything that helps to find any non-trivial bugs. Functional programming, on the other hand, makes it much easier to use formal verification methods.
Just buy an off-the-shelf copy protection solution, like AsProtect or Armadillo ( http://www.siliconrealms.com/ ) - it's cheap enough and will provide some protection against amateur crackers. Just don't turn on remote activation crap. Should be good enough for a small utility.
Most species have very small mitochondrial DNA. For humans it's about 16k. Frog mito DNA is just about 23k. Besides, mitochondria are fairly self-contained.
No it doesn't. We have tons of examples. Only when ordinary people unite and claw back some of their earning back, we sometimes have something that approaches a decent society.
There were not as many poor people in tsar's Russia in 1900 as there were in 1930 in Soviet Union.
That's debatable. Also, your example of tsarist Russia is pretty fun - it was definitely NOT a free society. No freedom of press, no democratic government, official class society, etc.
Outlet-to-wheels efficiency of electric cars is about 90% and can fairly easy go to 95% or so. That's the real-world data from Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt.
Until the moment China decides: "no more _cheap_ solar panels for _you_". Then suddenly it makes all your enterprise to be at a disadvantage compared to native Chinese manufacturing. Oh, and also China would get an R&D infrastructure built and ready so you won't be able to overtake them.
"Yes, Obama speaks in public about compromise and balance and other poll-tested warm-and-fuzzy PR propaganda words... but he has steadfastly refused to put any actual cuts on paper with specificity. "
Bing! Wrong. Obama proposed specific cuts in "The Great Bargain" debacle 3 years ago. Do you remember about it? Republicans scuttled it.
This year Obama simply said: "You're Congress. It's your job. Do it." and asked them to prepare a plan.
You're thinking of potassium _chlorate_ (KClO3) that can decompose with at BOOM.
Potassium chloride is simply (KCl) and is not really reactive. It tastes _exactly_ like table salt - because you're tasting not the sodium/potassium ions but chloride ions.
BTW, hydrochloric acid (HCl) also has a salty taste (though you have to dilute it to such level that it's only a little bit salty).
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1) There's already an entrepreneur green card category (I'm planning to use it).
2) This bill actually provides separate category of visas for investors. That's also doubleplusgood because of the way the current green card system works.
There's a "prevailing wage" crap - H1Bs can't be payed less than that. Except that there are tons of ways to game it and the "prevailing" wage is not that prevailing.
As a highly paid worker on H1B, I totally support this law. It fixes major problems with US immigration system (H1B lottery - seriously?) and institutes point-based system to sieve candidates based on real needs.
So can I take a shotgun and shoot your car?
If you believe that liquids intrinsically have less explosive power then let me pour you a glass of nitroglycerine.
WTF? Where did you get that 2% amount? It's closer to 0.1%.
But at the same time you're perfectly happy to use the public road system sponsored by the government.
Paying by weight is not discrimination. And they will most likely exempt medical devices (like wheelchairs) from the weight quota.
Well, who says that life is fair?
Do you get height-related discounts in supermarkets? No? Then why should airlines be any different?
We ditched our Sun servers back at the time of T3. Their single-thread performance was abysmal and collective multi-thread performance was not that good as well. It turned out that it was cheaper to buy a couple of x86-based servers than to suffer the SPARC misery.
Why a fundamental data structure doesn't belong in safety-critical apps? It also can be completely deterministic, if required.
"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit )
Modern Pascal dialects are hardly 'simple', they have all the OOP stuff and lots of somewhat clumsily implemented extensions (like closures). So Algol or Standard Pascal are in no way 'simpler' or 'reliable' - they are just so primitive that most of programs written in Pascal are little more advanced than a textbook exercises.
They ARE difficult to write in. Try creating a multimap in Pascal, with type safety or course.
Oh, no generic types in Pascal so it's impossible. Ok, try at least a polymorphic version - again not easy because of braindeadness of pointers in Pascal. BTW, there's no garbage collector in Standard Pascal.
Advocating braindead languages from 60-s is not even funny now.
Pascal, Ada and Algol are CRAP. They are in no way 'simple', they are 'verbose' and 'clumsy'. They are difficult to write code in and they don't really support anything that helps to find any non-trivial bugs. Functional programming, on the other hand, makes it much easier to use formal verification methods.
Just buy an off-the-shelf copy protection solution, like AsProtect or Armadillo ( http://www.siliconrealms.com/ ) - it's cheap enough and will provide some protection against amateur crackers. Just don't turn on remote activation crap. Should be good enough for a small utility.
Most species have very small mitochondrial DNA. For humans it's about 16k. Frog mito DNA is just about 23k. Besides, mitochondria are fairly self-contained.
There were not as many poor people in tsar's Russia in 1900 as there were in 1930 in Soviet Union.
That's debatable. Also, your example of tsarist Russia is pretty fun - it was definitely NOT a free society. No freedom of press, no democratic government, official class society, etc.
I am for redistribution. So?
As for poor people - a 'free' society results only in exploitation. That's been true in all cases it's been tried.
Outlet-to-wheels efficiency of electric cars is about 90% and can fairly easy go to 95% or so. That's the real-world data from Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt.
Until the moment China decides: "no more _cheap_ solar panels for _you_". Then suddenly it makes all your enterprise to be at a disadvantage compared to native Chinese manufacturing. Oh, and also China would get an R&D infrastructure built and ready so you won't be able to overtake them.
"Yes, Obama speaks in public about compromise and balance and other poll-tested warm-and-fuzzy PR propaganda words... but he has steadfastly refused to put any actual cuts on paper with specificity. "
Bing! Wrong. Obama proposed specific cuts in "The Great Bargain" debacle 3 years ago. Do you remember about it? Republicans scuttled it.
This year Obama simply said: "You're Congress. It's your job. Do it." and asked them to prepare a plan.
"There is a reason that every government program ends up in a disaster. "
Yeah. Cut the chase and say that we should just hang poor people and force children to work on factories. That'll be a paradise!
You'll get them back once government sells its stake in the other companies funded under this program. 90% of which are still alive.
Pure KCl tastes like the table salt. Most likely, you were tasting impurities - pure mined rock salt also often has metal aftertaste.
You're thinking of potassium _chlorate_ (KClO3) that can decompose with at BOOM.
Potassium chloride is simply (KCl) and is not really reactive. It tastes _exactly_ like table salt - because you're tasting not the sodium/potassium ions but chloride ions.
BTW, hydrochloric acid (HCl) also has a salty taste (though you have to dilute it to such level that it's only a little bit salty).