I spent a summer working a register, and I can tell you that while at the start of the summer I could make change in my head fairly quickly and accurately, something about the mental state of using the register to figure change absolutely ruined that faculty. Took a couple of months for it to return in the fall.
Also, one of the first stories in the series involves the kids purchasing a WWII surplus miniature Japanese submarine, making it seaworthy in some way, and doing some kind of prank with it without particularly much in the way of adult supervision.
The number of government agencies, from municipal to federal, that would freak out completely at the first hint of such an activity in this day and age is amusing and sad to contemplate.
For further reading, Edward Abbey's "The Monkey-Wrench Gang" is like a sequel in which those kids grew up discovered women and dope, and joined Earth First.
3.1 wasn't an operating system. You booted DOS, then ran windows from the command line. Putting c:\windows\win.com in your autoexec.bat was a noob move.
Also, Win95 booted reasonably fast if you didn't run 9 tons of crap on top of it. Much like Windows 7 today.
For instance, how about a hybrid Wiki / Kickstarter specifically for corruption? Crowds can compile research - with citations - on the wrongdoings of corporations, politicians, CEOs and public notables. Each entry could have a fund, with people throwing in $50 or $100 to hire an attorney. When the fund fills up, you take them to court. You then return any damages awarded back to the users who invested in that specific fund, in whatever percentage they invested. Result: Crowd-based accountability to law. A new way to glean money for taking care of the rampant corruption. So instead of complaining about politicians, the public can finally do something about it. It wouldn't matter so much who got into office, provided they were accountable to the law and their sworn duties. And we could stop approaching elections like they were some giant slot machine, not to ineffectually telling each other to "Impeach [politician]" to no avail. With Drupal and BitCoin, it wouldn't take that much for a bunch of geeks to get started.
Well, it's specifically illegal in many places, for one thing, and in the places it is technically legal (like the US), it tends to piss judges off something fierce.
How would that even work? If the state had NO interest in recognizing a marriage, how would jointly-owned property be treated by the legal system? Joint debt? Who would settle disputes over property ownership in the event of divorce? Custody of children? Probate? Would spousal immunity from testifying in a criminal proceeding be done away with?
Sure, have your wedding and your marriage (and your family planning) free from state interference, but if you think there isn't a very real need for the legal system to be institutionally aware that some people are married, and by extension a need for some sort of mechanism for recognizing that fact, you haven't thought this through.
We don't base our values on a state of nature, though. We base them on principles that we develop through consensus over time. That's how we manage to refrain from fighting and fucking for long enough to develop and maintain a technological civilization.
The obesity is attributable to diet, but Europeans also walk a lot more than Americans do, because of the way the cities are organized, especially true the farther west you travel.
People who have unprotected sex generally don't plan to do it, so it makes perfect sense that people with more information don't make any better decisions.That wasn't true in the 1980s. Condoms weren't a de rigeur part of the plan until after years of AIDS education and activism. From the advent of antibiotics and hormonal birth control until a decade or so into the AIDS epidemic, contracting an STD wasn't considered a big deal among people who had casual sex.
Actually, it was both in the beginning, but the patent claims dropped out fairly early on.
Of course they didn't even have printouts in hand when they started - that was what the yearlong battle over giving them access to IBM's entire CVS repository for AIX was about.
Where? Nobody does film separations for offset printing anymore (it's all digital straight-to-plate); X-rays use digital plates now; a growing number of feature films are shot, mastered, and delivered to theaters digitally; and microfilm is dead.
The only photochemical process still in widespread use that I can think of is light-sensitive emulsion goo for making silkscreens, and you can't run a multinational corporation with small T-shirt shops as your customer base.
Professionals may have more resources/time to devote to the selection process. It's easier to take a long lunch and drive over to the school to fill out paperwork than it is to trade shifts with someone (giving up a day's pay) and take a bus across town.
I was always floored at how gawdawful ugly Photoshop's splash screen was. I mean, you've got Bert Monroy and David Biedny right there as your alpha/beta testers - let them have a crack.
My favorite splash screen is that of 3ds max - you can set it to whatever image you like. At one time (still?), you could even set the splash screen to an interactive flash movie - Autodesk used that feature to display random hotkey groups on startup, but you could put a little game in there. Not entirely coincidentally, 3ds max takes a very long time to load.
Then you boot from a windows repair DVD that you burned from an ISO downloaded from Microsoft, open a shell, and type either fixmbr \device\harddisk0 or bootrec/fixmbr to overwrite the boot sector with a good one. Then you can at least trust the boot sector.
First of all it's the CDC, not the WHO, so you're talking about deaths in a population of 0.3 billion Americans, not the 7 billion world population (never mind that in 1976 at the start of the study the world population was 4 billion and the US population was closer to 0.2 billion).
Second of all, those deaths are ALREADY per year, so you shouldn't be dividing any further:
CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
That's at a minimum one 9/11 attack per year, and at a maximum the depopulation of a small city. And that's regular, people-on-the-internet-can-mock-it flu, not pandemic flu.
The 1918 H1N1 epidemic killed 650,000 Americans out of a population of about 100 million (north of 0.5%!), with a 20% mortality rate for those infected.
It also killed more humans worldwide in 9 months (50-100 million) than the Black Death did in 20 years, being the deadliest epidemic in human history.
While commissioned by IBM, it was created by the office of Charles and Ray Eames. As in the chair.
An updated, shiner, IMAX version, narrated by Morgan Freeman, was recently created. While prettier, if you watch the two back-to-back on youtube, you can see the science content getting softer and more digestible (not that the original was a tremendously high bar). One exception - the area of the previous order of magnitude is displayed as a circle rather than as a square.
As Dan Savage has repeatedly clarified on his blog, spreadingsantorum.com is NOT about Rick's opposition to gay marriage. It's about his being in favor of criminalization of consensual gay sex (as well as the 'wrong' kind of straight sex). Specifically, it's a reaction to Rick's AP interview in which he made an equivalence between gay sex and "man-on-dog."
Santorum wants Lawrence v. Texas overturned, and sodomy laws back on the books. He's also in favor of outlawing contraception.
In other words, he's a significant threat to the liberty of anyone, gay, straight, or otherwise, who has non-procreative sex.
That's because 'willful' infringement of a patent carries a legal penalty of triple damages. This creates a perverse incentive for nobody to ever do a patent search with regard to software.
Got a link for more info? Not only have I never encountered a false positive from that tool, I've never seen it have any effect at all, even on obviously infected machines.
The PLO had a charity arm too - in the absence of a government able to provide basic services such as schools and hospitals (especially before the creation of the Palestinian Authority), charity organizations (funded not with Israeli money but foreign money funneled through foreign nationals) provide such things. In additon to directly benefitting the constituency, It's how hearts and minds are won with respect to this or that Palestinian organization among the people.
Hamas rose to power because Arafat publicly backed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, which pissed off the Saudis enough to cut the pursestrings of the PLO charities and start funding Hamas in earnest. Arafat joined the 1993 peace talks in large part because Fatah was rapidly weakening financially.
So no, Israel did not allow Hamas to register as a charity in order to funnel Israeli money to the Muslim Brotherhood; they registered them as a charity in the hope of weakening support for Arafat among the Palestinians and shrinking the PLO's funding.
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I spent a summer working a register, and I can tell you that while at the start of the summer I could make change in my head fairly quickly and accurately, something about the mental state of using the register to figure change absolutely ruined that faculty. Took a couple of months for it to return in the fall.
Also, one of the first stories in the series involves the kids purchasing a WWII surplus miniature Japanese submarine, making it seaworthy in some way, and doing some kind of prank with it without particularly much in the way of adult supervision.
The number of government agencies, from municipal to federal, that would freak out completely at the first hint of such an activity in this day and age is amusing and sad to contemplate.
For further reading, Edward Abbey's "The Monkey-Wrench Gang" is like a sequel in which those kids grew up discovered women and dope, and joined Earth First.
3.1 wasn't an operating system. You booted DOS, then ran windows from the command line. Putting c:\windows\win.com in your autoexec.bat was a noob move.
Also, Win95 booted reasonably fast if you didn't run 9 tons of crap on top of it. Much like Windows 7 today.
Well, it's specifically illegal in many places, for one thing, and in the places it is technically legal (like the US), it tends to piss judges off something fierce.
How would that even work? If the state had NO interest in recognizing a marriage, how would jointly-owned property be treated by the legal system? Joint debt? Who would settle disputes over property ownership in the event of divorce? Custody of children? Probate? Would spousal immunity from testifying in a criminal proceeding be done away with?
Sure, have your wedding and your marriage (and your family planning) free from state interference, but if you think there isn't a very real need for the legal system to be institutionally aware that some people are married, and by extension a need for some sort of mechanism for recognizing that fact, you haven't thought this through.
We don't base our values on a state of nature, though. We base them on principles that we develop through consensus over time. That's how we manage to refrain from fighting and fucking for long enough to develop and maintain a technological civilization.
Are you saying the other ones were formed by magic?
The obesity is attributable to diet, but Europeans also walk a lot more than Americans do, because of the way the cities are organized, especially true the farther west you travel.
People who have unprotected sex generally don't plan to do it, so it makes perfect sense that people with more information don't make any better decisions.That wasn't true in the 1980s. Condoms weren't a de rigeur part of the plan until after years of AIDS education and activism. From the advent of antibiotics and hormonal birth control until a decade or so into the AIDS epidemic, contracting an STD wasn't considered a big deal among people who had casual sex.
Actually, it was both in the beginning, but the patent claims dropped out fairly early on.
Of course they didn't even have printouts in hand when they started - that was what the yearlong battle over giving them access to IBM's entire CVS repository for AIX was about.
Where? Nobody does film separations for offset printing anymore (it's all digital straight-to-plate); X-rays use digital plates now; a growing number of feature films are shot, mastered, and delivered to theaters digitally; and microfilm is dead.
The only photochemical process still in widespread use that I can think of is light-sensitive emulsion goo for making silkscreens, and you can't run a multinational corporation with small T-shirt shops as your customer base.
I'm curious what you have in mind.
Professionals may have more resources/time to devote to the selection process. It's easier to take a long lunch and drive over to the school to fill out paperwork than it is to trade shifts with someone (giving up a day's pay) and take a bus across town.
You forgot to include the actual paper, although your comment also appears to state that you haven't actually read it. It's chock-full of bad puns.
I was always floored at how gawdawful ugly Photoshop's splash screen was. I mean, you've got Bert Monroy and David Biedny right there as your alpha/beta testers - let them have a crack.
My favorite splash screen is that of 3ds max - you can set it to whatever image you like. At one time (still?), you could even set the splash screen to an interactive flash movie - Autodesk used that feature to display random hotkey groups on startup, but you could put a little game in there. Not entirely coincidentally, 3ds max takes a very long time to load.
Then you boot from a windows repair DVD that you burned from an ISO downloaded from Microsoft, open a shell, and type either fixmbr \device\harddisk0 or bootrec /fixmbr to overwrite the boot sector with a good one. Then you can at least trust the boot sector.
OK, forget the flu vaccine. Just go back on your meds.
No.
First of all it's the CDC, not the WHO, so you're talking about deaths in a population of 0.3 billion Americans, not the 7 billion world population (never mind that in 1976 at the start of the study the world population was 4 billion and the US population was closer to 0.2 billion).
Second of all, those deaths are ALREADY per year, so you shouldn't be dividing any further:
That's at a minimum one 9/11 attack per year, and at a maximum the depopulation of a small city. And that's regular, people-on-the-internet-can-mock-it flu, not pandemic flu.
The 1918 H1N1 epidemic killed 650,000 Americans out of a population of about 100 million (north of 0.5%!), with a 20% mortality rate for those infected.
It also killed more humans worldwide in 9 months (50-100 million) than the Black Death did in 20 years, being the deadliest epidemic in human history.
Get your flu shot.
Two things about The Powers of Ten:
While commissioned by IBM, it was created by the office of Charles and Ray Eames. As in the chair.
An updated, shiner, IMAX version, narrated by Morgan Freeman, was recently created. While prettier, if you watch the two back-to-back on youtube, you can see the science content getting softer and more digestible (not that the original was a tremendously high bar). One exception - the area of the previous order of magnitude is displayed as a circle rather than as a square.
Retaliating with words, which is what Savage has done, is just fine, though.
The answer to speech you don't like is more speech, not censorship.
As Dan Savage has repeatedly clarified on his blog, spreadingsantorum.com is NOT about Rick's opposition to gay marriage. It's about his being in favor of criminalization of consensual gay sex (as well as the 'wrong' kind of straight sex). Specifically, it's a reaction to Rick's AP interview in which he made an equivalence between gay sex and "man-on-dog."
Santorum wants Lawrence v. Texas overturned, and sodomy laws back on the books. He's also in favor of outlawing contraception.
In other words, he's a significant threat to the liberty of anyone, gay, straight, or otherwise, who has non-procreative sex.
That's because 'willful' infringement of a patent carries a legal penalty of triple damages. This creates a perverse incentive for nobody to ever do a patent search with regard to software.
Got a link for more info? Not only have I never encountered a false positive from that tool, I've never seen it have any effect at all, even on obviously infected machines.
Stalin's purges and the Khmer Rouge genocide don't count in the atheist column? And Buddhism has already been addressed in the comments...
I can show you a reverse osmosis rig with a solar-powered pump and a manually-operated backup mode....
The PLO had a charity arm too - in the absence of a government able to provide basic services such as schools and hospitals (especially before the creation of the Palestinian Authority), charity organizations (funded not with Israeli money but foreign money funneled through foreign nationals) provide such things. In additon to directly benefitting the constituency, It's how hearts and minds are won with respect to this or that Palestinian organization among the people.
Hamas rose to power because Arafat publicly backed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, which pissed off the Saudis enough to cut the pursestrings of the PLO charities and start funding Hamas in earnest. Arafat joined the 1993 peace talks in large part because Fatah was rapidly weakening financially.
So no, Israel did not allow Hamas to register as a charity in order to funnel Israeli money to the Muslim Brotherhood; they registered them as a charity in the hope of weakening support for Arafat among the Palestinians and shrinking the PLO's funding.