The problem isn't your speed, it's the difference between your speed and the speed of the people around you. If you're going 75 and so is everybody else, no problems. If you're going 75 and everybody else is going slower, the chance of an unwelcome interaction between you and them is increased.
Stricter driving tests won't work because they don't test how you can handle your car if something unexpected happens. Now if everybody had to take what used to be called defensive driving classes, then I'd agree. As for me, I'm sending my kid to race driving school - not because I want to have them learn how to drive fast, but because you learn situational awareness (something that I've *never* seen in any other driving class) and what to do when you exceed your car's capabilities.
It seems like it would be a question between their happiness and yours. If they're a "normal" person who just happens to not know you, then they can still theoretically still lead fulfilling lives during their final years.
Think of the feeling that you get when you can't remember where you put your keys and imagine what it would feel like when it's parts of your life. Not too many people that I know of would be happy knowing that they have a past but be able to remember none of it. Or, worse yet, to remember just flashes of it.
So Hillary showed a moment of (probably unscripted) humanity. So what? Does this make her any more qualified to be President? Is it better to have someone who is competent or charismatic? Not saying, of course, that any of the Democratic candidates is less competent than the others for the office, but two are definitely more charismatic than the other.
To me, the problem lies with how people project their own personalities onto the candidate rather than how the candidate actually is.
Hillary Clinton, who most people will agree is very smart, has problems because people just can't connect on a personal level with her. And because of this, people feel that she's being disingenuous with them.
Barak Obama does better because, along with being intelligent, he makes people feel that there is a commonality between them. People think that they see something of themselves in him and are able to see what they want or hear what they want. People want to hope for something new and he gives them a platform to place this hope upon. This in no way diminishes from his intelligence, it's just the way that people work.
I see a lot of parallels between his candidacy and the one of John Kennedy. Youthful, smart, well-spoken and someone that people connect with. In 1960, people wanted youth and energy. In 2008, people want hope. Funny thing is, didn't people want much the same thing in 1992 when a complete unknown named Bill Clinton was elected?
When I had my service brought up two years ago, there was a $50 installation charge and a $5 monthly charge for rental. That may have changed since then, but as I've never seen a rental charge, I wouldn't know.
Because, in my case at least, buying a modem ended up being significantly cheaper than renting one. Rental is about five dollars a month (before taxes, service charges, etc.) and I got a Motorola Surfboard from eBay for $30.
If an aircraft accidently happened to wander in to the path when I was showing somebody where M31 or Comet 17P/Holmes was, is it a crime? I don't think so.
We're not talking about the Blue Thunder here. Police helicopters are usually well lit and very noisy so it's not terribly hard to figure out where it's going. If it'll cross the path of your laser, your instructional session can wait.
You're right. Every mainframe that I've worked with was designed to assure uptime. Internal error correction, modular components that could be swapped out without powering down, diagnostics that current servers are only now coming close to approaching... They took up vast amounts of space, weren't incredibly flexible and required a small power plant to run, but they ran. And ran. And ran.
Funny thing, I was looking at some of the newer blade servers and remarked to the sales tech that I was talking to about how many of the features (diagnostics, redundant processors, etc.) looked an awful lot like the mainframes of old.
I've always thought that if I DoD wiped all my disks, obviously that would leave no evidence, but could you actually get in trouble for doing that? Do they send you documents telling you that kind of thing is illegal? What if I just took out my data drives, hid them in the attic and cleaned out my logs and MRU data with Adaware? Is it really that hard to react to these kinds of things for the average consumer or am I missing a great deal?
If you do this on a regular basis (especially if it's a documented business process) and haven't been told to retain information, you should be fine. If you're being sued and you do this in an obvious attempt to evade legal discovery, as was apparently done by TorrentSpy, you pretty much just screwed yourself.
Right. The 150,000 votes for three elected offices and eleven measures in the 2007 San Francisco Mayoral election, which were counted by hand, took almost a month to tally. Imagine how long it would have taken if all 450,000 registered voters had submitted a ballot.
Can anybody explain the commercial benefit to space travel?
Maybe not a commercial benefit, but one of the least mentioned byproducts of the space program was the creation of hundreds of thousand of well-paying jobs. National prestige is all well and good, but what will get you reelected in November is jobs.
The promise of new aerospace-related jobs and the secondary employment that followed it was the leverage that Lyndon Johnson used to get other Senators to vote for the space program in the first place.
Drivers still speed. Does that mean that speed limits are invalid?
Drivers continually run red lights and stop signs. Should localities take them all down?
I'm not equating these acts to using p2p services, but saying that a law is or should be invalid because people don't want to follow it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Fire resistant clothing will only help if the fire doesn't last very long or isn't very hot.
As a club racer, I am the proud owner (and somewhat poorer one) of a two-layer SFI 3.2A/5-rated Nomex fire suit. At eight hundred dollars, it is designed provide about 5 seconds of protection in a fire of 1800 to 2100 degrees - just long enough for me to activate the fire suppression and to escape the vehicle or for safety personnel to get me out of the safely away from the car. Airplane fires last a lot longer and are a whole lot hotter, so I can't see where it would help in a plane crash.
I'm sure that fashion industry would love it, though. The same folks that will sell you a swimsuit in the middle of winter at a higher price and call it "cruisewear" would have no problem coming up with a line of stylish, fire-resistant, airlinewear...
Different thing. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" has enough just enough content (not just words, but ideas) for a good short film or animated short, but as full-length movie, it would have been way too long. Just like the film Total Recall is a completely different story than "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
Wind power is the least environmentally damaging of all and takes up the least amount of space, but depending on your idea of beauty they could fuck up your view somewhat.
Wind power may not pollute, but is very damaging to birds.
Yes, you can do anything that you want with it. You have physical possession of it and it's yours. If you want to open the case, swap out the SIM card, use Jailbreak, or even braze legs onto it, you're perfectly free to do so. But if Apple says that any of these things voids the warranty, they are under no legal compulsion to fix your phone if you screw it up.
PBS's Wired Science magazine had a great segment (warning: video)on all of the things that someone has to do to launch a satellite - their example was a telecommunications satellite. It's a good watch if you want to know exactly why $10 million is not exactly a bad price....
Sorry for the long post, but this section of the NSF report has more information than the Times article.
Note that there is a report due in December on the cost of decommissioning the telescope and that Cornell is working with the Puerto Rican government to find ways to fill in the funding gap.
* National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC)/Arecibo - Cornell
acted quickly to implement the first of the Senior Review's
recommendations to reduce the base operating budget to $8M over the
next three years, by modifying the operating mode for astronomy
observations, increasing the fraction of time for survey work, and
limiting the number of receivers supported and the number of hours
for astronomy observations. They also eliminated 30 FTEs, or 25% of
their staff. Not all of these savings are realizable immediately,
since personnel termination costs must be covered and the
observatory requires basic maintenance to ensure safety of
operations. By FY 2010, the full $2.5 million savings identified by
the Senior Review will be recovered into the AST base budget and
available for other uses.
Cornell has said that it will cease operations of the planetary
radar in October 2007 to meet these budget reductions. We have
recently learned that, in fact, they are maintaining the capability
to operate the planetary radar, although on a less frequent
schedule. In conversations with NASA management, it has been made
clear that NASA has no intention of resuming support of the
planetary radar, which they terminated in FY 2006.
With NSF's encouragement and support, Cornell and Arecibo staff are
actively pursuing partnerships with the Puerto Rican government,
local businesses, and academic institutions to provide additional
operations support by 2011. We recently visited Puerto Rico, held a
town hall for the Arecibo community, and met with commonwealth
officials, business leaders, representatives from the universities
and concerned citizens. We clarified the Senior Review
recommendations and NSF's role in supporting the observatory and
helped foster discussions among the many parties interested in
maintaining the observatory as a viable operating facility for
scientific research, education, and public outreach. The meetings
were very positive with many expressions of a desire to work
together to identify creative solutions to obtaining additional
support. Many challenges face Cornell in preparing a plan for
sustained long-term support from non-AST sources. I am optimistic
that such a plan can be put together. NSF has informed Cornell that
a concrete plan for operations in 2011 and beyond must be in place
by spring of 2009. It is at that point that NSF must set the FY 2011
budget and so make a decision about the long-term future of Arecibo.
Nonetheless, in order to plan responsibly, and weigh the various
options, we have to understand the cost of closure to be weighed
against other options. As recommended by the Senior Review, NSF is
also engaging an engineering firm to carry out a study of the cost
of decommissioning the observatory facility. The study will explore
a variety of possible endpoints, ranging from complete
deconstruction and restoration of the site to its natural state to
securely 'mothballing' the facility. The results of this study will
be available in December 2007 and will serve as critical input to
our planning for the long-term future of the observatory. This is
part of responsible lifecycle costing, and should not be regarded as
indicating that any final decisions have been made.
But we've had autopilots on planes and ships for a long time now and people seem quite happy to put their lives in the computer's hands in these cases...
That's 'cause there's always been pilots in the cabin and on the bridge to take over if something comes up that the limited autopilot can't handle and because there aren't many planes or ships around them when the autopilots are on.
Autopilots in cars would have to navigate through much denser traffic. They'd also have to be much more reliable because the failure mode for an automated system would (hopefully) be manual mode. And the very last thing that you want on an automated freeway is a driver who is free to go where ever he wanted to.
Does the rest of the democratic world have ballots that can be up two 8.5x14 pages thick?
The November 2006 California Gubernatorial election had seven statewide offices and twelve ballot propositions (Californians can enact laws through ballot propositions). This was just the statewide offices - it doesn't count any local offices, initiatives or municipal boards. And this was a small one. The California Presidential primary election in February, 2008 has seven state-wide propositions, with thirty two more in circulation and thirty two more in the final stages of verification at the Attorney General's office. Most of these won't appear until the November general election (where there are more propositions because, as a rule, more people show up to vote), but it gives you an idea of the number of issues people are asked to vote on.
And that doesn't even cover ballots for the sight-impaired, ballots in multiple languages, provisional voting which doesn't get counted until the voter has been verified and mail-in ballots. This is why we use electronic balloting.
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Stricter driving tests won't work because they don't test how you can handle your car if something unexpected happens. Now if everybody had to take what used to be called defensive driving classes, then I'd agree. As for me, I'm sending my kid to race driving school - not because I want to have them learn how to drive fast, but because you learn situational awareness (something that I've *never* seen in any other driving class) and what to do when you exceed your car's capabilities.
Think of the feeling that you get when you can't remember where you put your keys and imagine what it would feel like when it's parts of your life. Not too many people that I know of would be happy knowing that they have a past but be able to remember none of it. Or, worse yet, to remember just flashes of it.
To me, the problem lies with how people project their own personalities onto the candidate rather than how the candidate actually is.
Hillary Clinton, who most people will agree is very smart, has problems because people just can't connect on a personal level with her. And because of this, people feel that she's being disingenuous with them.
Barak Obama does better because, along with being intelligent, he makes people feel that there is a commonality between them. People think that they see something of themselves in him and are able to see what they want or hear what they want. People want to hope for something new and he gives them a platform to place this hope upon. This in no way diminishes from his intelligence, it's just the way that people work.
I see a lot of parallels between his candidacy and the one of John Kennedy. Youthful, smart, well-spoken and someone that people connect with. In 1960, people wanted youth and energy. In 2008, people want hope. Funny thing is, didn't people want much the same thing in 1992 when a complete unknown named Bill Clinton was elected?
When I had my service brought up two years ago, there was a $50 installation charge and a $5 monthly charge for rental. That may have changed since then, but as I've never seen a rental charge, I wouldn't know.
Because, in my case at least, buying a modem ended up being significantly cheaper than renting one. Rental is about five dollars a month (before taxes, service charges, etc.) and I got a Motorola Surfboard from eBay for $30.
We're not talking about the Blue Thunder here. Police helicopters are usually well lit and very noisy so it's not terribly hard to figure out where it's going. If it'll cross the path of your laser, your instructional session can wait.
Funny thing, I was looking at some of the newer blade servers and remarked to the sales tech that I was talking to about how many of the features (diagnostics, redundant processors, etc.) looked an awful lot like the mainframes of old.
If you do this on a regular basis (especially if it's a documented business process) and haven't been told to retain information, you should be fine. If you're being sued and you do this in an obvious attempt to evade legal discovery, as was apparently done by TorrentSpy, you pretty much just screwed yourself.
It appears that vote counting is done at the polling stations and only the results are tabulated centrally. Is this true?
Right. The 150,000 votes for three elected offices and eleven measures in the 2007 San Francisco Mayoral election, which were counted by hand, took almost a month to tally. Imagine how long it would have taken if all 450,000 registered voters had submitted a ballot.
Maybe not a commercial benefit, but one of the least mentioned byproducts of the space program was the creation of hundreds of thousand of well-paying jobs. National prestige is all well and good, but what will get you reelected in November is jobs.
The promise of new aerospace-related jobs and the secondary employment that followed it was the leverage that Lyndon Johnson used to get other Senators to vote for the space program in the first place.
Drivers continually run red lights and stop signs. Should localities take them all down?
I'm not equating these acts to using p2p services, but saying that a law is or should be invalid because people don't want to follow it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Besides, "fire resistant" clothing generally means that it is resistant to burning itself rather than keeping you from getting burned...
As a club racer, I am the proud owner (and somewhat poorer one) of a two-layer SFI 3.2A/5-rated Nomex fire suit. At eight hundred dollars, it is designed provide about 5 seconds of protection in a fire of 1800 to 2100 degrees - just long enough for me to activate the fire suppression and to escape the vehicle or for safety personnel to get me out of the safely away from the car. Airplane fires last a lot longer and are a whole lot hotter, so I can't see where it would help in a plane crash.
I'm sure that fashion industry would love it, though. The same folks that will sell you a swimsuit in the middle of winter at a higher price and call it "cruisewear" would have no problem coming up with a line of stylish, fire-resistant, airlinewear...
The US isn't alone in this. It's a game that all countries play...
No, not really. The latest US Department of Agriculture forecast has a $15B net surplus for agricultural exports over imports for FY 2008.
Different thing. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" has enough just enough content (not just words, but ideas) for a good short film or animated short, but as full-length movie, it would have been way too long. Just like the film Total Recall is a completely different story than "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
Wind power may not pollute, but is very damaging to birds.
Yes, you can do anything that you want with it. You have physical possession of it and it's yours. If you want to open the case, swap out the SIM card, use Jailbreak, or even braze legs onto it, you're perfectly free to do so. But if Apple says that any of these things voids the warranty, they are under no legal compulsion to fix your phone if you screw it up.
PBS's Wired Science magazine had a great segment (warning: video)on all of the things that someone has to do to launch a satellite - their example was a telecommunications satellite. It's a good watch if you want to know exactly why $10 million is not exactly a bad price....
No problem. They'll just make them spark and short out like they did in Demolition Man when Wesley Snipes stuck the glow rod into police car.
Note that there is a report due in December on the cost of decommissioning the telescope and that Cornell is working with the Puerto Rican government to find ways to fill in the funding gap.
* National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC)/Arecibo - Cornell acted quickly to implement the first of the Senior Review's recommendations to reduce the base operating budget to $8M over the next three years, by modifying the operating mode for astronomy observations, increasing the fraction of time for survey work, and limiting the number of receivers supported and the number of hours for astronomy observations. They also eliminated 30 FTEs, or 25% of their staff. Not all of these savings are realizable immediately, since personnel termination costs must be covered and the observatory requires basic maintenance to ensure safety of operations. By FY 2010, the full $2.5 million savings identified by the Senior Review will be recovered into the AST base budget and available for other uses.
Cornell has said that it will cease operations of the planetary radar in October 2007 to meet these budget reductions. We have recently learned that, in fact, they are maintaining the capability to operate the planetary radar, although on a less frequent schedule. In conversations with NASA management, it has been made clear that NASA has no intention of resuming support of the planetary radar, which they terminated in FY 2006.
With NSF's encouragement and support, Cornell and Arecibo staff are actively pursuing partnerships with the Puerto Rican government, local businesses, and academic institutions to provide additional operations support by 2011. We recently visited Puerto Rico, held a town hall for the Arecibo community, and met with commonwealth officials, business leaders, representatives from the universities and concerned citizens. We clarified the Senior Review recommendations and NSF's role in supporting the observatory and helped foster discussions among the many parties interested in maintaining the observatory as a viable operating facility for scientific research, education, and public outreach. The meetings were very positive with many expressions of a desire to work together to identify creative solutions to obtaining additional support. Many challenges face Cornell in preparing a plan for sustained long-term support from non-AST sources. I am optimistic that such a plan can be put together. NSF has informed Cornell that a concrete plan for operations in 2011 and beyond must be in place by spring of 2009. It is at that point that NSF must set the FY 2011 budget and so make a decision about the long-term future of Arecibo.
Nonetheless, in order to plan responsibly, and weigh the various options, we have to understand the cost of closure to be weighed against other options. As recommended by the Senior Review, NSF is also engaging an engineering firm to carry out a study of the cost of decommissioning the observatory facility. The study will explore a variety of possible endpoints, ranging from complete deconstruction and restoration of the site to its natural state to securely 'mothballing' the facility. The results of this study will be available in December 2007 and will serve as critical input to our planning for the long-term future of the observatory. This is part of responsible lifecycle costing, and should not be regarded as indicating that any final decisions have been made.
That's 'cause there's always been pilots in the cabin and on the bridge to take over if something comes up that the limited autopilot can't handle and because there aren't many planes or ships around them when the autopilots are on.
Autopilots in cars would have to navigate through much denser traffic. They'd also have to be much more reliable because the failure mode for an automated system would (hopefully) be manual mode. And the very last thing that you want on an automated freeway is a driver who is free to go where ever he wanted to.
I second this. I have a Buffalo Terastation that I got for less than $500 at Fry's. Works great.
The November 2006 California Gubernatorial election had seven statewide offices and twelve ballot propositions (Californians can enact laws through ballot propositions). This was just the statewide offices - it doesn't count any local offices, initiatives or municipal boards. And this was a small one. The California Presidential primary election in February, 2008 has seven state-wide propositions, with thirty two more in circulation and thirty two more in the final stages of verification at the Attorney General's office. Most of these won't appear until the November general election (where there are more propositions because, as a rule, more people show up to vote), but it gives you an idea of the number of issues people are asked to vote on.
And that doesn't even cover ballots for the sight-impaired, ballots in multiple languages, provisional voting which doesn't get counted until the voter has been verified and mail-in ballots. This is why we use electronic balloting.