Dude, you are stooopid. Go away and masturbate on pictures of gold.
Rome experienced essentially no inflation in the modern sense. The collapse of small farmers was caused by the influx of cheap slave labor making large-scale slave farming more competitive and by tax policies favoring the very rich.
Actually, the current average salary for H1B workers in IT in NYC area is around $80k which is pretty decent. I'm a foreigner and I'm thinking about moving to the US (I'm a co-owner of a small US software company). I've attended several job interviews in the US just for fun and I was offered more than $120k for a position in Maryland, so not all H1B jobs are low-paying.
However, H1B system is literally swamped by hordes of Indian developers, many of them with very low qualification. We've tried to hire H1B Indian developers but it's extremely hard to find anybody qualified. There might not be a general IT skill shortage, but there certainly is a shortage of high-quality developers.
That's why the sleeper hold was banned - policemen kept accidentally killing people by strangling them. When it's applied correctly there is absolutely no pressure on larynx but it's easy to mess it up.
You won't feel anything from vacuum exposure. The first symptom will be unconsciousness when O2-depleted blood hits your brain in about 15 seconds - the brain doesn't have any significant energy reserves and shuts down almost immediately. And you can't compare it to holding your breath because being in vacuum actively sucks O2 and CO2 out of your blood so it acts much more rapidly.
Another close example: chokeholds (particularly the sleeper hold) in martial arts. They work by constricting blood supply to brain, NOT by constricting your air supply. I've been in a chokehold a couple of times during my training - you lose conciseness in several seconds.
No, I mean that producing papers was not a problem for me, so I chose the way of the least resistance.
And contrary to the popular beliefs, carrying papers and producing them at the first request of a policeman was NOT a requirement in the USSR. In fact, the citizens of the USSR could travel everywhere (including flying) within the country without showing any IDs.
I'm from Russia, and I was stopped at Arizona when I was there to see the Grand Canyon, I was originally on a business trip to California but had several free days. I'd been asked for papers when I was stopped by a police officer for riding a bicycle on sidewalk.
I didn't have my passport with me so a police officer offered to drive me to my hotel to fetch it or to drive me to the police station to check my identity there. I'd chosen to be driven to my hotel, I have a valid B1/B2 visa so it was not a problem for me.
Several nitpicks:
1) Cyanide compounds are not necessarily poisonous. Most organic compounds with bound CN group are totally harmless.
2) Your organism can tolerate fairly large amounts of CN ions just fine. In fact, it's produced as a by-product of several normal biochemical reactions.
No, lots of plants produce cyanide (in form of free CN ions) all the time. Its mostly poisonous because it shuts down a key enzyme in mitochondria, but plants have an alternative pathway that is not affected by it. So they can tolerate much higher levels of CN ions (they are still poisonous via other mechanisms, though).
What does it do? It doesn't administer number resources - IANA, ARIN, RIPE, and *NICs do that. ICANN doesn't administer root servers (various companies do that).
I really love English, it's compact and powerful. I love the ability to verb the nouns, it's an incredibly useful language feature. The system of grammar tenses is also very interesting and powerful (Russian doesn't have an analog of present perfect, for example), so a text in English is usually much more brief and concise than in Russian.
And I really love Russian. It has a very rich system of prefixes and suffixes that allows to add a lot of hard-to-translate-into-English nuances. Grammar cases, inflected participles and adjectives help to create beautiful and nuanced descriptions.
Udmurt language has its own strength - an extensive grammar case system. In English (and to much lesser extent in Russian) a meaning of a word in a sentence depends a lot on its context. For example, "We were fishing on a boat" is ambiguous. Were you fishing from an aquarium on the boat or were you using the boat as a means of transportation? In Udmurt language it won't be ambiguous - the word 'boat' will be in the instrumental case (in case you were using a boat to fish from it) or in the locative case if you were fishing from an aquarium somewhere on the boat.
You can compare languages like this for hours, each language is powerful in its own way. As for preference? That mostly depends on my mood:)
I also understand Ukrainian (a small feat, it's very close to Russian) and speak a little bit of German (it's incredibly easy to pick up if one knows Russian and English). Obviously, English, Russian and German are useful because of the large number of speakers.
Udmurt language by itself is not very useful. However, it's a language from a family that is very different from English, German or Russian so it gives yet another 'view' of the world. And that's very useful by itself. Oh, and it also helps me to study the Finnish language - its structure just 'feels' familiar.
Other than that? It's just interesting!
I find myself wondering why these particular languages are going extinct (I'd imagine the USSR had something to do with this one, but in general) and if they offer less utility. That is, perhaps they're just not as good (expressiveness, ability to represent complex ideas, etc.), and there's some Darwinian action here among human languages. Or maybe that's not even a primary criteria for why languages go away.
USSR actually was quite supportive of Udmurt language: Udmurt alphabet had been created, books were printed in Udmurt, etc.
I think, it's simply the result of the Metcalfe's law applied to languages - the utility of a language grows with the square of the number of its speakers. And there's simply not enough speakers to support small languages.
It has amazing sticking power:
The LHC-b sees where the antimatter's gone,
Alice looks at collisions of lead ions,
The CMS and Atlas are two of a kind,
They're looking for whatever particles they can find. ...
Hexen used flat display mode (the famous 13h mode). It's not a big change, actually.
The biggest advantage of planar mode was page flipping - Doom could compose image on backbuffer and then just flip it with the foreground buffer. In contrast, 13h mode doesn't support page flipping and Hexen had to do actual memcpy to copy image from the backbuffer. That required more powerful hardware.
This article was written by an idiot. You can't measure all the properties of a quantum particle. But so what?
You can't exploit it unless you have entangled particles. And it'll be a bit complicated to store your banknotes in total isolation from the environment.
So you don't get it as well.
Let me spell it: in modern economy there can be no widespread use of credit without fractional banking.
Simply because without fractional reserve banking your credit has to come from someone's bank deposit. And since there's negligible money creation (remember, no fiat money!) you won't be able to pay interest. So there won't be bank deposits and no credit.
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Dude, you are stooopid. Go away and masturbate on pictures of gold.
Rome experienced essentially no inflation in the modern sense. The collapse of small farmers was caused by the influx of cheap slave labor making large-scale slave farming more competitive and by tax policies favoring the very rich.
Actually, the current average salary for H1B workers in IT in NYC area is around $80k which is pretty decent. I'm a foreigner and I'm thinking about moving to the US (I'm a co-owner of a small US software company). I've attended several job interviews in the US just for fun and I was offered more than $120k for a position in Maryland, so not all H1B jobs are low-paying.
However, H1B system is literally swamped by hordes of Indian developers, many of them with very low qualification. We've tried to hire H1B Indian developers but it's extremely hard to find anybody qualified. There might not be a general IT skill shortage, but there certainly is a shortage of high-quality developers.
That's why the sleeper hold was banned - policemen kept accidentally killing people by strangling them. When it's applied correctly there is absolutely no pressure on larynx but it's easy to mess it up.
Also, sleeper hold works very fast. Result of a quick googling: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4603043818001526637
You won't feel anything from vacuum exposure. The first symptom will be unconsciousness when O2-depleted blood hits your brain in about 15 seconds - the brain doesn't have any significant energy reserves and shuts down almost immediately. And you can't compare it to holding your breath because being in vacuum actively sucks O2 and CO2 out of your blood so it acts much more rapidly.
And it's not at all theoretical, NASA did experiments on monkeys and had a technician accidentally exposed to vacuum during spacesuit testing: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html The same happens in any neutral atmosphere and is an industrial hazard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_asphyxiation#Accidental_deaths
Another close example: chokeholds (particularly the sleeper hold) in martial arts. They work by constricting blood supply to brain, NOT by constricting your air supply. I've been in a chokehold a couple of times during my training - you lose conciseness in several seconds.
No, I mean that producing papers was not a problem for me, so I chose the way of the least resistance.
And contrary to the popular beliefs, carrying papers and producing them at the first request of a policeman was NOT a requirement in the USSR. In fact, the citizens of the USSR could travel everywhere (including flying) within the country without showing any IDs.
Yes, it had happened in Tucson. I'd checked Google later - it's actually a matter of debate whether riding on a sidewalk is illegal in Arizona.
Anyway, I didn't get a ticket for it, only a verbal warning no to do it again.
I'm from Russia, and I was stopped at Arizona when I was there to see the Grand Canyon, I was originally on a business trip to California but had several free days. I'd been asked for papers when I was stopped by a police officer for riding a bicycle on sidewalk.
I didn't have my passport with me so a police officer offered to drive me to my hotel to fetch it or to drive me to the police station to check my identity there. I'd chosen to be driven to my hotel, I have a valid B1/B2 visa so it was not a problem for me.
Several nitpicks:
1) Cyanide compounds are not necessarily poisonous. Most organic compounds with bound CN group are totally harmless.
2) Your organism can tolerate fairly large amounts of CN ions just fine. In fact, it's produced as a by-product of several normal biochemical reactions.
No, lots of plants produce cyanide (in form of free CN ions) all the time. Its mostly poisonous because it shuts down a key enzyme in mitochondria, but plants have an alternative pathway that is not affected by it. So they can tolerate much higher levels of CN ions (they are still poisonous via other mechanisms, though).
The famous example: cassava roots.
Unless they happen to live in Pakistan.
What does it do? It doesn't administer number resources - IANA, ARIN, RIPE, and *NICs do that. ICANN doesn't administer root servers (various companies do that).
WTF is he doing?
I really love English, it's compact and powerful. I love the ability to verb the nouns, it's an incredibly useful language feature. The system of grammar tenses is also very interesting and powerful (Russian doesn't have an analog of present perfect, for example), so a text in English is usually much more brief and concise than in Russian.
:)
And I really love Russian. It has a very rich system of prefixes and suffixes that allows to add a lot of hard-to-translate-into-English nuances. Grammar cases, inflected participles and adjectives help to create beautiful and nuanced descriptions.
Udmurt language has its own strength - an extensive grammar case system. In English (and to much lesser extent in Russian) a meaning of a word in a sentence depends a lot on its context. For example, "We were fishing on a boat" is ambiguous. Were you fishing from an aquarium on the boat or were you using the boat as a means of transportation? In Udmurt language it won't be ambiguous - the word 'boat' will be in the instrumental case (in case you were using a boat to fish from it) or in the locative case if you were fishing from an aquarium somewhere on the boat.
You can compare languages like this for hours, each language is powerful in its own way. As for preference? That mostly depends on my mood
Udmurt language by itself is not very useful. However, it's a language from a family that is very different from English, German or Russian so it gives yet another 'view' of the world. And that's very useful by itself. Oh, and it also helps me to study the Finnish language - its structure just 'feels' familiar.
Other than that? It's just interesting!
I find myself wondering why these particular languages are going extinct (I'd imagine the USSR had something to do with this one, but in general) and if they offer less utility. That is, perhaps they're just not as good (expressiveness, ability to represent complex ideas, etc.), and there's some Darwinian action here among human languages. Or maybe that's not even a primary criteria for why languages go away.
USSR actually was quite supportive of Udmurt language: Udmurt alphabet had been created, books were printed in Udmurt, etc.
I think, it's simply the result of the Metcalfe's law applied to languages - the utility of a language grows with the square of the number of its speakers. And there's simply not enough speakers to support small languages.
Certainly not, I haven't spoken it for ages. I don't think there are many people out there who have Udmurt as a primary language.
The total number of speakers is probably around 100-200 thousands, and all of them know Russian as well.
One of the languages I know (Udmurt) is in the list :(
It'd be nice to preserve it, but even I don't see that much value in it.
Linux developers however most certainly ARE scarce. And NVidia does little to help.
I hate rap in general, but I've watched this video several times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
...
It has amazing sticking power:
The LHC-b sees where the antimatter's gone,
Alice looks at collisions of lead ions,
The CMS and Atlas are two of a kind,
They're looking for whatever particles they can find.
Hexen used flat display mode (the famous 13h mode). It's not a big change, actually.
The biggest advantage of planar mode was page flipping - Doom could compose image on backbuffer and then just flip it with the foreground buffer. In contrast, 13h mode doesn't support page flipping and Hexen had to do actual memcpy to copy image from the backbuffer. That required more powerful hardware.
Doom used planar display mode on x86, so it was NOT a problem. In fact, it allowed several important optimizations.
The first Doom-based game to use true 'flat' 13h mode was Hexen.
Basically, that's what US is doing with drone strikes. As a collateral damage they manage to hit a few terrorists.
You might notice that it was a suicide bomber. Blowing yourself is hardly a cowardly act.
This article was written by an idiot. You can't measure all the properties of a quantum particle. But so what? You can't exploit it unless you have entangled particles. And it'll be a bit complicated to store your banknotes in total isolation from the environment.
Actually, no.
Union membership correlates with better test results. Correlation does not mean causation, but still.
Yep, that'd be great advice. After we shoot all living PHP developers and go back in time to change PHP to be something decent.
ANYTHING is better than PHP. Anything. Even CGI scripts in Perl.
And Java is fine for web development. In particular, Wicket + JRebel + IDEA can allow one to write code waaaay faster than stupid PHP coders.
Also, I might recommend Scala and Typesafe stack: http://typesafe.com/stack - it's quite nice and powerful.
So you don't get it as well.
Let me spell it: in modern economy there can be no widespread use of credit without fractional banking.
Simply because without fractional reserve banking your credit has to come from someone's bank deposit. And since there's negligible money creation (remember, no fiat money!) you won't be able to pay interest. So there won't be bank deposits and no credit.