That's why I mentioned that there's a difference between said teenager and our intelligence community. Although I'd argue that it's an issue that he's a teenager and that governments like to keep secrets. (Cynicism usually increases with age.) My point was simply that I find it quite believable that people in our government (Democrats and Republicans alike) who were inclined to believe that Saddam had chemical and/or biological weapons would find it easy to believe that. Although sad, this is not the same thing as lying.
I had to bring out that tired old saw. However, in all fairness, there are other explanations for that 33% figure than to blame it on Fox News. Out of politeness (to Fox News viewers), I won't go into what those explanations are...;)
There was a recent podcast from This American Life (hardly the bastion of conservative thought) where a (former) teenager whose job it was to spread propaganda from Saddam's government said he was afraid about what would happen when the war started because he wasn't sure whether or not his government had chemical weapons, etc. Yes, there's a difference between some teenager (even if he and his father worked for the government) and our intelligence community. Yes, fundamental flaws exist/existed in our intelligence community, partly no doubt due to our administration's tendencies to promote "yes men". Yes, there's a difference between thinking they're there and declaring that you know exactly where they are. However, I'm still going with Hanlon's razor on this one.
And it's absolutely hilarious to imagine whoever is responsible for the court order paying a lawyer to sift through those boring messages.
Not just hilarious, but possibly helpful (if you actually have done something wrong). If the signal/noise ratio is too low, it increases the chance they'll miss something. OTOH, they'd presumably use some search criteria to narrow it down a bit...
Especially, as the wiki page shows, since the food "C"alorie is also often just called a calorie. Anyways, my point was just that I wasn't sure whether he included the original factor of 1,000 in his calculations, as that can change things by 3 orders of magnitude (or 10 if you're in CS).:)
At least in the scientific (i.e., non-food) sense, 1 gram of carbs contains 4 thousand calories. I've always heard that you need to burn 3500 kcal to lose 1 pound of fat. Since, 1 kg = 2.2 pounds, that would seem to work out to 7700 kcal. I like your number better, though.:D
Just remember that a food calorie is actuall a kilocalorie. Assuming you made that mistake (maybe you didn't), that means you need 1/4000th of a gram of sugar. Excellent weight-loss program indeed! (OTOH, one could imagine a whole fleet of these in your system. It'd still have to be a pretty big fleet for it to matter too much.)
We could then do away with any unnecessary salary documentation and investigation.
Part of the purpose of the salary documentation is to prevent the immigrants from being taken advantage of. Without the salary documentation, they would practically be guaranteed a lower salary than their co-workers. Not good for company morale, and not fair to the immigrants. I don't have a fundamental problem with the idea of a visa auction, but as an addition to the salary matching, not a replacement. (This would, presumably, result in lower prices from the visa auction.)
I happened to stumble on to the recent list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Most of them seem to be from the US. This is not meant to come off as bragging about our country, just to point out that maybe we're not doing that bad.
The best I can find is "bumper sticker wisdom", but I suspect it predates bumper stickers. I suspect, although I'm loathe to attribute anything good to him, that it might have been originated by that poster "Anonymous Coward". (I have yet to actually figure him out. Sometimes he seems like a bleeding-heart liberal, and yet at other times he comes off as a cold-hearted conservative.)
(any argument that says (someone is stupid and shouldn't be listened to) is stupid and shouldn't be listened to)
That said, I do disagree with this statement, as it suggests that every time the "boy cries wolf", you should go check to see if there's actually a wolf. There are certain sites (e.g., junkscience.com) that I no longer bother trying to understand articles from because every time I have, it's turned out to be a waste of my time.
Just to elaborate (for those not in the know), the objective of phase III of SBIR grants is "for the small business concern to pursue with non-SBIR/STTR funds the commercialization objectives resulting from the Phase I/II R/R&D activities." (emphasis mine)
You are right on the verge of realising we are ALL part of the monkeysphere and that there are as many "alternate realities" as there are people on the planet, many more if you consider other species.
<soapbox>My relatively new pet peeve is when people use the word "monkey" to mean "ape". That link you provide keeps talking about monkeys while showing pictures of apes (e.g., chimpanzees and orangutans). They even call us monkeys. We're apes, not monkeys. Both apes and monkeys (as well as lemurs) are primates, but apes are not monkeys any more than humans are orangutans.
Next on my list: to get them to call it the "Scopes Ape Trial".:)</soapbox>
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I have to admit that l33t sp33k hurts my spelling skillz. ;)
That's why I mentioned that there's a difference between said teenager and our intelligence community. Although I'd argue that it's an issue that he's a teenager and that governments like to keep secrets. (Cynicism usually increases with age.) My point was simply that I find it quite believable that people in our government (Democrats and Republicans alike) who were inclined to believe that Saddam had chemical and/or biological weapons would find it easy to believe that. Although sad, this is not the same thing as lying.
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But, you misspelled "h31l". Just sayin'... ;)
I had to bring out that tired old saw. However, in all fairness, there are other explanations for that 33% figure than to blame it on Fox News. Out of politeness (to Fox News viewers), I won't go into what those explanations are... ;)
There was a recent podcast from This American Life (hardly the bastion of conservative thought) where a (former) teenager whose job it was to spread propaganda from Saddam's government said he was afraid about what would happen when the war started because he wasn't sure whether or not his government had chemical weapons, etc. Yes, there's a difference between some teenager (even if he and his father worked for the government) and our intelligence community. Yes, fundamental flaws exist/existed in our intelligence community, partly no doubt due to our administration's tendencies to promote "yes men". Yes, there's a difference between thinking they're there and declaring that you know exactly where they are. However, I'm still going with Hanlon's razor on this one.
Since these squirrels no doubt came from Asia, this clearly should be called a Redundant Array of Independent Dremomys.
(Yes, I spent too much time researching what became a very lame joke. :P)
Perhaps a Beowulf cluster of them?
Especially, as the wiki page shows, since the food "C"alorie is also often just called a calorie. Anyways, my point was just that I wasn't sure whether he included the original factor of 1,000 in his calculations, as that can change things by 3 orders of magnitude (or 10 if you're in CS). :)
At least in the scientific (i.e., non-food) sense, 1 gram of carbs contains 4 thousand calories. I've always heard that you need to burn 3500 kcal to lose 1 pound of fat. Since, 1 kg = 2.2 pounds, that would seem to work out to 7700 kcal. I like your number better, though. :D
Just remember that a food calorie is actuall a kilocalorie. Assuming you made that mistake (maybe you didn't), that means you need 1/4000th of a gram of sugar. Excellent weight-loss program indeed! (OTOH, one could imagine a whole fleet of these in your system. It'd still have to be a pretty big fleet for it to matter too much.)
I think you're thinking of that guy who got nailed to the cross (Jesus). Noah was born about 5,000 years ago.
What you might not realize, however, is that it's also enough to power a 70-watt bulb for ten hours!
Oh, wait... ;)
I happened to stumble on to the recent list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Most of them seem to be from the US. This is not meant to come off as bragging about our country, just to point out that maybe we're not doing that bad.
AFAIK, H1B visas have to be paid the same as other employees, and extensive documentation is required to show that this criteria is met.
The best I can find is "bumper sticker wisdom", but I suspect it predates bumper stickers. I suspect, although I'm loathe to attribute anything good to him, that it might have been originated by that poster "Anonymous Coward". (I have yet to actually figure him out. Sometimes he seems like a bleeding-heart liberal, and yet at other times he comes off as a cold-hearted conservative.)
(any argument that says (someone is stupid and shouldn't be listened to) is stupid and shouldn't be listened to)
That said, I do disagree with this statement, as it suggests that every time the "boy cries wolf", you should go check to see if there's actually a wolf. There are certain sites (e.g., junkscience.com) that I no longer bother trying to understand articles from because every time I have, it's turned out to be a waste of my time.
Just to elaborate (for those not in the know), the objective of phase III of SBIR grants is "for the small business concern to pursue with non-SBIR/STTR funds the commercialization objectives resulting from the Phase I/II R/R&D activities." (emphasis mine)
<soapbox>My relatively new pet peeve is when people use the word "monkey" to mean "ape". That link you provide keeps talking about monkeys while showing pictures of apes (e.g., chimpanzees and orangutans). They even call us monkeys. We're apes, not monkeys. Both apes and monkeys (as well as lemurs) are primates, but apes are not monkeys any more than humans are orangutans.
Next on my list: to get them to call it the "Scopes Ape Trial". :)</soapbox>