Your quoted section there makes me laugh. As if locating a nuclear waste storage facility "several hundred feet" from a fault line is completely safe.
Bob: "This looks like a good place, doesn't it Jim?" Jim, checks map: "No, it says there's a fault right through here." Bob, walks several hundred feet away, shouts: "How about here?" Jim: "Perfect!"
Civ IV has a great mp3 player integrated. I used to run winamp in the background while spent hours playing Civ II and it's great they integrated the music player into the game itself for Civ IV, pausing the track during cut scenes, etc.
Of course, you need to do something like that for a turn-based strategy game with long turns and long games. Otherwise any "score" would get old really really fast.
I don't understand. They're currently paying 2.3% on their earnings. You want us to drop our taxes to, say, 2.2% and we'll make more that way? Or do you think dropping taxes to 5% will get those companies currently paying 2.3% to want to participate?
I'm not sure what companies he's been to but the ones I've seen use the crap out of wired networking.
I mean, my god, how big of a mess would it be to manage a 500 person company with 300 wireless users? I hard enough tracking down wired network gremlins...
No, I think those companies that he's talking about exist in the fantasy world inside his head.
Newsweek just had an article on why killing pirates might be a bad idea. Basically, the pirates have a "code" that they live by which includes treating their hostages well. Their piracy is pretty much an economic transaction. Starting to shoot pirates might make them rethink how they treat their hostages.
Not that I agree with their assessment, but it's an interesting idea that escalating an economic situation to one of life or death might have adverse effects on the innocents involved.
Cadillac Desert is a great book on the history of water use in the western US. Water is so subsidized that people pay pennies on the dollar that it actually costs to deliver that water. Since the water is so cheap, people are wasteful. Strange things happen, like alfalfa fields (consumes a lot of water) in a desert.
I think people would be surprised if what they pay for water reflected the true cost.
It is amazing, isn't it, how our physical infrastructure just sits out in the open? Substations surrounded by chain link fences with those transformers just sitting there. Miles of transmission line in the middle of nowhere.
Network security is important, don't get me wrong. We don't want to make it too easy, but seriously, the physical infrastructure is sitting right there in front of everyone and it doesn't take much of an imagination to see the weaknesses.
I'd offer that the insane amount of sugar you were consuming probably did all sorts of screwy things with your blood sugar which could lead to those symptoms too.
Has anyone pointed out the irony of Obama's slogan "Change" yet?
I'm sure it would be funny and/or insightful if someone did.
"Obama breathes air. How's that CHANGE working out for you?" "Obama televises a speech. Is that CHANGE you can believe in?" "Obama speaks English. Old boss, same as the new boss."
I remember Arthur C Clarke saying that Sci Fi is something that could happen, while fantasy is something that could never happen.
Only if you use the word "could" to means "sometime in the future, but not with what we currently know." By that reasoning, fantasy could happen as well, assuming that we find some source of power that would grant people abilities indistinguishable from magic. Is that any crazier than assuming that at some point we'll be able to travel faster than the speed of light?
Do you really think all those Obama voters were truly expecting Change? I think most rational people realize that every single election has one party blabbering about "change". Change is a mostly empty word and I think more voters realize that than you give them credit for.
I think most Obama voters just wanted a change of attitude in the Oval Office. No more cowboy diplomacy, etc. As for any substantive change... well, I certainly wasn't expecting much.
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Otherwise known as Muphry's Law.
"Muphry's Law is an adage that states that 'if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written'."
Who cares if several appointments of his weren't honest about their taxes (oh, sorry, "forgot" about certain items. Admittedly, in some cases, it did look innocent; but sometimes, not so much, especially for someone that you'd think would know these sorts of things...), that his CIO worked in an IT department that had bribery sting deals going on, or whatever...
I took all those tax snafus to mean our tax code is so titanic and so flipping confusing that even people that should know better can't make heads or tails of it.
Well, it's obvious that only certain parts of the Bible are to be taken literally while the other parts are to be interpreted. Which parts are which depends on what point you're trying to make.
I really liked Liberum when I used it a couple of years ago. It's really simple, web based, and can use Windows integrated authentication which was really nice at that job. Might not be exactly what you're looking for but I thought I'd mention it since google doesn't find it very well.
If I recall correctly (and I'm at work and can't verify), I thought the producers of the film and Boyle were so thankful to their casting director for rocking their socks off with such talent that they gave her a co-director credit. It was purely symbolic since that goes against "the rules" of the director's guild or whatever. Maybe that's the co-director you're thinking of?
You make it sound like people are getting rich by doing science that reinforces climate change. I'm pretty sure any of these scientists could make a few bucks more if they tweaked their numbers to show climate change isn't a big deal.
The fact is, scientists get grants to research a certain area. They don't get grants for the results of that research. In fact, science is based on trying really really hard to disprove their findings. If the researcher can't disprove his own findings, he opens it up to the rest of the scientific community in hopes that they can find something wrong with it.
Science is open... which on one hand is awesome because it forces scientists to do things right but on the other hand sucks because every idiot can weigh in with their "expert" opinions.
Science isn't done "for you". Scientists aren't doing research while worried about what you think. Scientists are doing research to further understanding int heir area of expertise. This research gets presented tot he rest of the scientific community where everyone gets a chance to look at it and tear it apart. Then this little bit of research gets added to the broader base of knowledge and influences future discoveries and research.
Along the way, maybe the media gets a hold of it and does the normal awesome job that journalists do with a science story and writes a horrible article that misunderstands the whole thing and now the public becomes aware of it and every Say-It-Ain't-So-Joe thinks they now understand what's going on and are free to offer their expertise.
I'm sure the scientists of this study are completely shattered that you think their research is worthless. Actually, probably not. If their peers think they've done good work, I'm sure that's a nice feather in their cap.
Sorry, I was thinking from the casino's position. You are right, "winning by luck" is a better way of putting it. Basically the casinos want people that play for fun and entertainment while discouraging people that are trying to make money at it. And since they can refuse service to anyone they want...
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Your quoted section there makes me laugh. As if locating a nuclear waste storage facility "several hundred feet" from a fault line is completely safe.
Bob: "This looks like a good place, doesn't it Jim?"
Jim, checks map: "No, it says there's a fault right through here."
Bob, walks several hundred feet away, shouts: "How about here?"
Jim: "Perfect!"
Civ IV has a great mp3 player integrated. I used to run winamp in the background while spent hours playing Civ II and it's great they integrated the music player into the game itself for Civ IV, pausing the track during cut scenes, etc.
Of course, you need to do something like that for a turn-based strategy game with long turns and long games. Otherwise any "score" would get old really really fast.
I don't understand. They're currently paying 2.3% on their earnings. You want us to drop our taxes to, say, 2.2% and we'll make more that way? Or do you think dropping taxes to 5% will get those companies currently paying 2.3% to want to participate?
I'm not sure what companies he's been to but the ones I've seen use the crap out of wired networking.
I mean, my god, how big of a mess would it be to manage a 500 person company with 300 wireless users? I hard enough tracking down wired network gremlins...
No, I think those companies that he's talking about exist in the fantasy world inside his head.
Newsweek just had an article on why killing pirates might be a bad idea. Basically, the pirates have a "code" that they live by which includes treating their hostages well. Their piracy is pretty much an economic transaction. Starting to shoot pirates might make them rethink how they treat their hostages.
Not that I agree with their assessment, but it's an interesting idea that escalating an economic situation to one of life or death might have adverse effects on the innocents involved.
Cadillac Desert is a great book on the history of water use in the western US. Water is so subsidized that people pay pennies on the dollar that it actually costs to deliver that water. Since the water is so cheap, people are wasteful. Strange things happen, like alfalfa fields (consumes a lot of water) in a desert.
I think people would be surprised if what they pay for water reflected the true cost.
It is amazing, isn't it, how our physical infrastructure just sits out in the open? Substations surrounded by chain link fences with those transformers just sitting there. Miles of transmission line in the middle of nowhere.
Network security is important, don't get me wrong. We don't want to make it too easy, but seriously, the physical infrastructure is sitting right there in front of everyone and it doesn't take much of an imagination to see the weaknesses.
I'd offer that the insane amount of sugar you were consuming probably did all sorts of screwy things with your blood sugar which could lead to those symptoms too.
Has anyone pointed out the irony of Obama's slogan "Change" yet?
I'm sure it would be funny and/or insightful if someone did.
"Obama breathes air. How's that CHANGE working out for you?"
"Obama televises a speech. Is that CHANGE you can believe in?"
"Obama speaks English. Old boss, same as the new boss."
So killing innocents is reprehensible?
There's the blood of innocents on our hands too.
I remember Arthur C Clarke saying that Sci Fi is something that could happen, while fantasy is something that could never happen.
Only if you use the word "could" to means "sometime in the future, but not with what we currently know." By that reasoning, fantasy could happen as well, assuming that we find some source of power that would grant people abilities indistinguishable from magic. Is that any crazier than assuming that at some point we'll be able to travel faster than the speed of light?
Yes.
Do you really think all those Obama voters were truly expecting Change? I think most rational people realize that every single election has one party blabbering about "change". Change is a mostly empty word and I think more voters realize that than you give them credit for.
I think most Obama voters just wanted a change of attitude in the Oval Office. No more cowboy diplomacy, etc. As for any substantive change... well, I certainly wasn't expecting much.
Otherwise known as Muphry's Law.
"Muphry's Law is an adage that states that 'if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
You know, I never got the historical significance of shows like Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men.
TLC is horrible now.
I nearly wet myself to see Discovery replaying Planet Earth. I can't figure out why content like that isn't shown on Discovery 24x7.
Who cares if several appointments of his weren't honest about their taxes (oh, sorry, "forgot" about certain items. Admittedly, in some cases, it did look innocent; but sometimes, not so much, especially for someone that you'd think would know these sorts of things...), that his CIO worked in an IT department that had bribery sting deals going on, or whatever...
I took all those tax snafus to mean our tax code is so titanic and so flipping confusing that even people that should know better can't make heads or tails of it.
Well, it's obvious that only certain parts of the Bible are to be taken literally while the other parts are to be interpreted. Which parts are which depends on what point you're trying to make.
I heard iPhones get angry if you anthropomorphize them.
I really liked Liberum when I used it a couple of years ago. It's really simple, web based, and can use Windows integrated authentication which was really nice at that job. Might not be exactly what you're looking for but I thought I'd mention it since google doesn't find it very well.
http://liberum.org/Default.aspx
"They modified a parajet fan that can fly a man into a bigger fan."
I'd rather have a flying car that doesn't fly me into ANY sized fan, thankyouverymuch.
If I recall correctly (and I'm at work and can't verify), I thought the producers of the film and Boyle were so thankful to their casting director for rocking their socks off with such talent that they gave her a co-director credit. It was purely symbolic since that goes against "the rules" of the director's guild or whatever. Maybe that's the co-director you're thinking of?
Does Jack White have another side project?
Hahaha!! Oh man, I crack myself up....
You make it sound like people are getting rich by doing science that reinforces climate change. I'm pretty sure any of these scientists could make a few bucks more if they tweaked their numbers to show climate change isn't a big deal.
The fact is, scientists get grants to research a certain area. They don't get grants for the results of that research. In fact, science is based on trying really really hard to disprove their findings. If the researcher can't disprove his own findings, he opens it up to the rest of the scientific community in hopes that they can find something wrong with it.
Science is open... which on one hand is awesome because it forces scientists to do things right but on the other hand sucks because every idiot can weigh in with their "expert" opinions.
Science isn't done "for you". Scientists aren't doing research while worried about what you think. Scientists are doing research to further understanding int heir area of expertise. This research gets presented tot he rest of the scientific community where everyone gets a chance to look at it and tear it apart. Then this little bit of research gets added to the broader base of knowledge and influences future discoveries and research.
Along the way, maybe the media gets a hold of it and does the normal awesome job that journalists do with a science story and writes a horrible article that misunderstands the whole thing and now the public becomes aware of it and every Say-It-Ain't-So-Joe thinks they now understand what's going on and are free to offer their expertise.
I'm sure the scientists of this study are completely shattered that you think their research is worthless. Actually, probably not. If their peers think they've done good work, I'm sure that's a nice feather in their cap.
"She lures the cat onto the device, and the cat steps on it of its own free will."
Doesn't really seem to be free will then, does it? I mean, is the term "free will" even allowed in the same sentence with "lures"?
Sorry, I was thinking from the casino's position. You are right, "winning by luck" is a better way of putting it. Basically the casinos want people that play for fun and entertainment while discouraging people that are trying to make money at it. And since they can refuse service to anyone they want...