You're basically right, partisan isn't an automatic disqualification for a source, but it is a red flag. Partisan sites are often more interested in pushing their agenda than in providing information, so suspicion is a good starting point.
As an example, let's try... you. Obviously you have an opinion (not in itself a problem), and you are trying to get that opinion across. But, in the 14 posts you have made in this story, not one of them mentions 'credit default swaps', 'insurance reserving', 'netting', 'commercial paper', 'hedge funds' or any of the other various ways that the one trillion dollar sub-prime crisis became the 60-trillion dollar financial crisis.
Any analysis that doesn't contain this information isn't an analysis - it's a screed.
So, you are apparently too partisan to be a credible source. Either that, or you are just ignorant - in which case, you owe it to yourself to find the truth in the matter.
NYPD Blue was the first prime time show to incorporate hand held in a major way (IIRC).
Nope. Hill Street Blues usually gets that title. Of course, it's still Steven Bochco, just twelve years earlier.
Per IMDB, the original plan was to do the entire thing in hand-held (and black-and-white). I imagine Bochco lost a few rounds with the network, and thus we got the partially hand-held, completely color version. By the time he did NYPD Blue, he had so much clout he could've had it done in pig latin...
> that the center of gravity for our orbit is well off from the center of the earth.
Cool - another point to debate. What is the transition point from 'planet-moon' to 'bi-planetary' ?
Basing it on the center of gravity seems like a good idea, but 'well off from the center' is a little bit fuzzy. We could pick a number - say, 50% of the larger planet's radius - in which case the Earth-Moon system meets the criterion, since the center point is about 75% of the Earth's radius away from the Earth's center (some references).
But now we've done the same thing the original article was complaining about - we picked an arbitrary value, just, well, because.
It's seems like a physical point would work a bit better - say, the surface of the larger planet. Then the definition becomes a bit easier: if the center of gravity is in space, it is a dual-planet system. Otherwise, it's a planet-moon.
How you categorize a center of gravity within an atmosphere is left as an exercise...
Umm, many fire engines can deliver over a thousand gallons per minute, so at 40 to 60 gpm, those fire fighters are going to be complaining about the garden hose you've handed them.
Ferrara offers these pumpers, rated from 500 to 3,500 gpm. This one has a 2,250 gpm pump, and an incredibly cool paint job (flames !! - wait for the animated gif).
There used to be a large model in Austin - the guy used the dome of the Texas capitol to represent the Sun, and a basketball was used for Earth.
Brief mention here, although the scale they mention seems a bit off.
Probably not the exact story you trying to find, but this recent article in the NY Times does address some recent abusive police actions.
At the same time, the article in your original post is still a good one - it's not some 'I heard/he said' diatribe, it is a reasoned, detailed, first-person account of police going too far.
And L. A. Law fans will remember him as the guy who worked at an amusement park, wearing a Homer Simpson costume. He was fired from his job when he got sick and took off the costume head. Of course he was suing, this was L. A. Law after all.
The best parts were when he would put on the costume and talk in his Homer voice, and the jury of Homer Simpsons was a nice touch, too. imdb says it was an episode in 1992.
pure speculation: the wheel well was heating up more than usual, if the orbiter was already tumbling and disintegrating. This of course would have heated the air in the tire, and changed the pressure.
What's disturbing is that we're here reading about his mistake _17_ years later. I doubt
anyone thought of their musings as permanent
back then.
BTW, I took a class from Dr. Nather (the
aforementioned astronomer) back around
the time this post was made. He probably
didn't have room for the exact leap year
algorithm since he had so many other facts
filling his brain....
...cars aren't always going to be damaging to the environment. Eventually they'll be electric.
Others have pointed out that electric cars will still create air pollution, but not all of the environmental damage comes out of the tailpipe. That concrete and asphalt is replacing trees and habitat, and urban sprawl causes immense environmental damage.
Add to that all of the social problems associated with a society structured around the automobile - even a pollution-free car wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.
Well, if it's the same folks that did Enemy Mine, we'll be better off if it doesn't make it to a movie. Enemy Mine was a horrible adaptation of the original story, with critical plot elements (like the human reciting the other's lineage to his family) given short shrift, and way too much attention was given to Louis Gosset's makeup.
Now, that may not all have been Wolfgang Petersen's fault, apparently he was brought in at the last minute to clean up somebody else's mess.
I've used Intuit's online version of TurboTax for the past few years, and it's been great - it's the perfect online application, for several reasons. It's something you only use occasionally, so you don't want to go through the _required_ annual update process. I'm going to be filing electronically, so I'm going to need to connect anyway, and Intuit is going to have all of the data anyway. Also, there are a few laws about keeping tax data private.
However, I'd be hesitant about using an online version of Quicken. One of the biggies: I would feel like I no longer would have control of _my_ laboriously entered data. Add in shifting privacy statements, server availability, advertising overload, and simply different usage patterns for a personal finance package, and you get a less appealing online product.
I guess there is a reason one is free and the other is $20.00 a year.
On the other hand, if I had a business, and wanted to provide access to several people, an online accounting package might look attractive...
Advertising will only help a movie on opening weekend.
And opening weekend seems to be the only thing that matters anymore. If a movie fails to score in the opening-weekend sweepstakes, it falls off everyone's radar. The emphasis on glitzy blockbusters is only going to get worse.
Katz fell in to this trap in the article, claiming that Spiderman is somehow superior because of a successful opening weekend. That's really only a measure of the success of the promotional campaign.
Your note on the Gershwin heirs points out another constitutional argument:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Note that it doesn't say Inventor's heirs, just Inventors. It seems that a very strict constructionist should simply throw out the '+70' part of the 'life + 70' clauses of the current law - there is no constitutional power for that (of course, how this would apply to corporations is a bit of a conundrum).
There's no mention of this in the article, nor apparently in Eldred v. Ashcroft... I wonder if they are pursuing this angle.
This targeted advertising can be a bit spooky - I was reading your post, trying to think of a way I could set this up for myself. Then I noticed an ad for this service at the top of the page. It looks promising...
I cannot even imagine Brad Pitt trying to fit these shoes.
Hey, sillier things have happened to old Harrison Ford roles - like Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan. Suitability for a part matters little - name recognition is much more significant. Nobody in Hollywood is going to bet a blockbuster-sized budget on an actor who is described as 'the guy who played...' (that was Hugh Jackman, BTW).
The marketing dept. wants one
on
The Eyes Have It
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· Score: 2, Interesting
In Interface, by Stephen Bury (aka Neal Stephenson and his uncle), an inventor's small, portable polygraph is put to a truly noble use: Marketing.
Stephenson's got the right idea about how something like this would be used - marketing droids would flip over getting 80% honest responses in their focus groups - it beats anything they see currently. Somebody's probably making plans for the mall kiosk right now.
As has been mentioned on Slashdot ad nauseum, Word is painfully proprietary, but PDF is a relatively open standard - Adobe owns the spec, but makes it freely availble, so anyone can create a PDF reader (or writer).
That puts it at about the same level of openness as Java, but even more important, there are no alternatives that even have a smidge of mindshare - your only real alternative is plain old text...
"There are two ways to attack a data centre... kill the power, and... attack the air conditioning."
They at least got that right - I'm reminded of the old SAGE systems, massive tube-based computers that were part of the nuclear missile system. These monsters were in huge buildings, with 4-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls that could withstand almost anything... but the cooling system was outside the building. One blast there and the system would melt itself into oblivion.
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As Bruce Schneier recently pointed out, MITM attacks are now much more common, and likely to become widespread.
Now, if they used that cell phone message to authenticate the exact transaction you are performing, you'll be much more secure.
Of course, if it's too easy to update the cell phone number, all bets are off.
Where's the 'delusional' mod when you need it?
How about this lie? : http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/16/Armey_Cheney_misled_me_on_Iraq/UPI-53871221586641/
Hey sumdum -
You're basically right, partisan isn't an automatic disqualification for a source, but it is a red flag. Partisan sites are often more interested in pushing their agenda than in providing information, so suspicion is a good starting point.
As an example, let's try ... you. Obviously you have an opinion (not in itself a problem), and you are trying to get that opinion across. But, in the 14 posts you have made in this story, not one of them mentions 'credit default swaps', 'insurance reserving', 'netting', 'commercial paper', 'hedge funds' or any of the other various ways that the one trillion dollar sub-prime crisis became the 60-trillion dollar financial crisis.
Any analysis that doesn't contain this information isn't an analysis - it's a screed.
So, you are apparently too partisan to be a credible source. Either that, or you are just ignorant - in which case, you owe it to yourself to find the truth in the matter.
Nope. Hill Street Blues usually gets that title. Of course, it's still Steven Bochco, just twelve years earlier.
Per IMDB, the original plan was to do the entire thing in hand-held (and black-and-white). I imagine Bochco lost a few rounds with the network, and thus we got the partially hand-held, completely color version. By the time he did NYPD Blue, he had so much clout he could've had it done in pig latin ...
Cool - another point to debate. What is the transition point from 'planet-moon' to 'bi-planetary' ?
Basing it on the center of gravity seems like a good idea, but 'well off from the center' is a little bit fuzzy. We could pick a number - say, 50% of the larger planet's radius - in which case the Earth-Moon system meets the criterion, since the center point is about 75% of the Earth's radius away from the Earth's center (some references).
But now we've done the same thing the original article was complaining about - we picked an arbitrary value, just, well, because.
It's seems like a physical point would work a bit better - say, the surface of the larger planet. Then the definition becomes a bit easier: if the center of gravity is in space, it is a dual-planet system. Otherwise, it's a planet-moon.
How you categorize a center of gravity within an atmosphere is left as an exercise ...
Gotta love it ....
Ferrara offers these pumpers, rated from 500 to 3,500 gpm. This one has a 2,250 gpm pump, and an incredibly cool paint job (flames !! - wait for the animated gif).
There used to be a large model in Austin - the guy used the dome of the Texas capitol to represent the Sun, and a basketball was used for Earth.
Brief mention here, although the scale they mention seems a bit off.
At the same time, the article in your original post is still a good one - it's not some 'I heard/he said' diatribe, it is a reasoned, detailed, first-person account of police going too far.
And L. A. Law fans will remember him as the guy who worked at an amusement park, wearing a Homer Simpson costume. He was fired from his job when he got sick and took off the costume head. Of course he was suing, this was L. A. Law after all.
The best parts were when he would put on the costume and talk in his Homer voice, and the jury of Homer Simpsons was a nice touch, too.
imdb says it was an episode in 1992.
pure speculation: the wheel well was heating up more than usual, if the orbiter was already tumbling and disintegrating. This of course would have heated the air in the tire, and changed the pressure.
BTW, I took a class from Dr. Nather (the aforementioned astronomer) back around the time this post was made. He probably didn't have room for the exact leap year algorithm since he had so many other facts filling his brain ....
"Hey, my SOL quit working !"
"Well, I guess you're just S.O.L."
From a page in the how-to:
I bet he sees a lot of glasses as half-full.
Others have pointed out that electric cars will still create air pollution, but not all of the environmental damage comes out of the tailpipe. That concrete and asphalt is replacing trees and habitat, and urban sprawl causes immense environmental damage.
Add to that all of the social problems associated with a society structured around the automobile - even a pollution-free car wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.
Now, that may not all have been Wolfgang Petersen's fault, apparently he was brought in at the last minute to clean up somebody else's mess.
However, I'd be hesitant about using an online version of Quicken. One of the biggies: I would feel like I no longer would have control of _my_ laboriously entered data. Add in shifting privacy statements, server availability, advertising overload, and simply different usage patterns for a personal finance package, and you get a less appealing online product.
I guess there is a reason one is free and the other is $20.00 a year.
On the other hand, if I had a business, and wanted to provide access to several people, an online accounting package might look attractive ...
And opening weekend seems to be the only thing that matters anymore. If a movie fails to score in the opening-weekend sweepstakes, it falls off everyone's radar. The emphasis on glitzy blockbusters is only going to get worse.
Katz fell in to this trap in the article, claiming that Spiderman is somehow superior because of a successful opening weekend. That's really only a measure of the success of the promotional campaign.
There's no mention of this in the article, nor apparently in Eldred v. Ashcroft ... I wonder if they are pursuing this angle.
This targeted advertising can be a bit spooky - I was reading your post, trying to think of a way I could set this up for myself. Then I noticed an ad for this service at the top of the page. It looks promising ...
Hey, sillier things have happened to old Harrison Ford roles - like Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan. Suitability for a part matters little - name recognition is much more significant. Nobody in Hollywood is going to bet a blockbuster-sized budget on an actor who is described as 'the guy who played ...' (that was Hugh Jackman, BTW).
Stephenson's got the right idea about how something like this would be used - marketing droids would flip over getting 80% honest responses in their focus groups - it beats anything they see currently. Somebody's probably making plans for the mall kiosk right now.
That puts it at about the same level of openness as Java, but even more important, there are no alternatives that even have a smidge of mindshare - your only real alternative is plain old text...
They at least got that right - I'm reminded of the old SAGE systems, massive tube-based computers that were part of the nuclear missile system. These monsters were in huge buildings, with 4-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls that could withstand almost anything ... but the cooling system was outside the building. One blast there and the system would melt itself into oblivion.
Looks like about 30.