I take "Dark side of the moon" to be a colloquialism about the side of the moon facing away from the Earth, rather than literally being dark. It is used all the time in artistic works with exactly that meaning. I guess Sheldon Cooper would disagree vehemently, but everyone else knows what it means.
Nothing wrong with it at all. It's the only way you can do history. Very useful to have a few poems memorized for impressing the opposite sex. Very useful to have a few nursery rhymes memorized in order to impress and please your kids. Formulas, theorems, knowledge of your craft, all involve some degree of memorization. If you have to solve every problem from scratch, you're going to be an inefficient at everything.
And yes, everyone should have addition and multiplication tables memorized, because it's so damn useful.
You come off as someone jealous of the kid(s) that could memorize easily, and having to find a way (mentally) to make yourself out to be smarter, and well, better than they are.
$300 million failed IT project is tech news. That it is politically sensitive is a problem from the standpoint of trying to figure out why so we can do better next time. You'd think the hangout for a bunch of geeks might be exactly the place to discuss this with descending into the politics of the project, but... judging from the rest of the comments, we'll have to leave technical project management to political shills and robber baron types.
Wikipedia claims it is an old Russian proverb, and that Reagan was coached in its use by one of his speechwriters. Lenin apparently liked it as well, but not enough to verify what Stalin was doing. Or something...
Anyhow, Reagan and Lenin probably both ate carrots too.
The more serious issue is that the allied countries may host populations that are not friendly. Specifically, the Hamburg cell (Mohamed Atta's group) were operating out of, duh, Hamburg, Germany. Presumably, if you wanted to have a chance to intercept guys like this, you'd have to listen in on private German conversations. Also presumably, German authorities might not see plotting to do nefarious things in other countries as a problem they needed to be concerned about - see the Munich Olympics aftermath:
(from Wikipedia) An article in 2012 in a front-page story of the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that much of the information pertaining to the mishandling of the massacre was covered up by the German authorities for the past decades. For twenty years, Germany refused to release any information about the attack and did not accept responsibility for the results. The magazine reported that the government had been hiding 3,808 files, which contained tens of thousands of documents. Der Spiegel said it obtained secret reports by authorities, embassy cables, and minutes of cabinet meetings that demonstrate the lack of professionalism of the German officials in handling the massacre. The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told that Palestinians were planning an "incident" at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.
Relying on Germany to tell you that you are about to be attacked by people living in Germany seems to be a policy of questionable intelligence. Maybe every other country is better, but I doubt it.
If it makes you feel better, the US had a hard time tracking/suppressing IRA support back in the day. I would expect there were UK operatives in the US at the time, trying to do the work the US was unwilling/unable to do. So, yeah, "allies" will spy on each other to some degree. Being allies doesn't mean everyone that lives in your ally's country is friendly.
The nature of amendments is that the LAST one has most primacy. If it were not that way, you couldn't change the law. Say you passed an amendment banning alcohol. Then you passed another one making it legal. Which one should we follow?? The most recent, or highest numbered amendment.
So, ironically, the first amendment should logically be interpreted AFTER any other amendment. If tomorrow we pass an amendment banning talk about decreasing taxes, that would take precedence over the first amendment, and tax reduction talk would be illegal.
This site (http://www.solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/hate-crimes/blacks-more-likely-to-be-arrested-for-hate-crimes/) seems to suggest that this is not the case.
Further, that Florida preacher was arrested because he loaded his Korans into his trailer, then doused them fuel THEN drove to the site where he was going to actually torch them. This is a hazard, and he was properly stopped.
Would have been more interesting if he had transported the fuel in a safe fashion, and conducted his burn safely. I don't think they could have charged him.
all know about Finland being on the wrong side, due to no one else being willing/able to cross Russia. Most Western countries were pretty understanding, other than stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Volunteer_Battalion_of_the_Waffen-SS. Most Western allies had small contingents of Nazis or Nazi admirers themselves, albeit not full-blown military formations participating as part of the German war machine.
Not really in a courtroom, but Winston Moseley, killer of Kitty Genovese, rapist of another unnamed woman during an unsuccessful prison attempt had this to say about his sentence:
"For a victim outside, it's a one-time or one-hour or one-minute affair, but for the person who's caught, it's forever."
Under joint and several liability or all sums, a claimant may pursue an obligation against any one party as if they were jointly liable and it becomes the responsibility of the defendants to sort out their respective proportions of liability and payment. This means that if the claimant pursues one defendant and receives payment, that defendant must then pursue the other obligors for a contribution to their share of the liability.
Joint and several liability is most relevant in tort claims, whereby a plaintiff may recover all the damages from any of the defendants regardless of their individual share of the liability. The rule is often applied in negligence cases, though it is sometimes invoked in other areas of law.
That's the real problem. Per the abstract the measure was not really cognitive ability per say. The kids "demonstrated significantly stronger critical thinking skills when analyzing a new painting". So, a guided tour of an art museum gives/refreshes your knowledge of art terminology and the sense that art docents have of how art should be looked at.
They didn't demonstrate math, reading, writing or IQ improvement in this experiment.
Challenge: take a belief you have and prove it. You get to design the experiment, collect the data and publish your results.
Unless you try to fail, you won't, you'll "prove" exactly what you set out to prove. As noted above, can independent researchers reproduce the result. That is, people that are doubtful that art will magically fix kids.
So once again, Terminator shows us the way. Defeat the malware by stationing dogs near all computers to listen for the telltale hyper frequency comms emitted by the machines.
I did not mean to suggest that GE's business should be subsidized, just clarifying how this works. I think that I suggested that the loans would still happen without government assistance.
The general pattern is that governments want to give the appearance of aiding developing countries. If you just give another country money, they might buy from another country than yours. So, governments (including all developed countries) generally tie aid to purchases from the aiding country. An easy way to do this is to subsidize the loan. It winds up providing a competitive advantage for corporations that can talk their governments into doing it.
Whether it is good or bad depends on your beliefs about aid, corporate welfare, and the rules of international business competition. If everyone is doing it but you, you're going to lose business. I generally see all countries promising to not subsidize loans for purchases from their corporations as an improvement in the competitive environment. I also tend to see government aid as minimally or counter productive, so we're on the same side there.
You loan people X, they pay you back X plus interest. If the "plus interest" part is more than you could make putting your money to other uses (and the risk/reward calculus is acceptable), you make the loan. That it is international is a minor consideration - it gets factored in as an increase in the risk that you won't get paid back.
The government subsidizes loans to third world countries as a form of aid. Removal of the subsidy will not stop the loans. GE, for example, started as a manufacturer, but became a bank because they started loaning money to their customers to buy their products. The commercial loan business outgrew the manufacturing arm.
So, stopping the loans may hurt the US more than it helps, in strictly financial terms. We aren't building power plants at the rate the developing world is. If you want that business, you need to be prepared make deals that include financing.
I am a transplant patient. I have had a liver-kidney transplant as the culmination of a genetic condition. I have, obviously, had the condition my whole life. When I got out of college into a job with medical insurance, there were no "pre-existing condition" questions at all. As a salaried employee, I was immediately eligible for benefits on day 1. I was told this by an HR rep, and so it proved to be.
When I got the transplant (years later), I did get a letter from the insurance company - but they were checking to see if there was someone they could sue for the expense (there wasn't). A little seedy, but not refusing to pay.
The stories I've heard of insurance companies refusing to pay after years generally have 2 criteria: Not part of a group plan and failing to disclose a condition upon initial application. The deal is, if they give you a questionaire, the rates are dependent on your answers. So, if you say your perfectly healthy, you get a lower rate. If they then find out that you weren't perfectly healthy, and you knew that, then you're going to be in trouble. Group plans typically don't have the questionaire - I've only ever been asked if I smoke, for example. If I did smoke, and lied about it to get a lower rate, I should expect that to catch up to me when I get lung cancer.
As a motorcyclist - Rain and cold are doable (for ever so slightly more money, for cold weather gear). Snow is not, just not enough people with the equipment and skill to do it safely. Large deliveries are doable, with mild modifications to the bike. My bike has a luggage mount that could be fitted with a cage that could hold 8-12 pies or so. You could fit 15lbs or so of stuff on the tail, and use a tank bag for transaction material. Most bikes could reasonably handle 150lbs of cargo, which is way more than you need for pizza delivery. If Domino's provided the bikes, it wouldn't be a big deal to fit them with a rack specially designed for pizza.
It would take a change in mind set on the part of Domino's. Realistically they'd have to provide the motorcycles. That is never going to happen for an entirely separate reason - you couldn't insure the operation. The extra insurance money would eat the fuel savings many times over. Also finding riders would be harder than finding drivers - although with reasonable benefits I'd seriously consider changing careers. Riding around all day beats sitting in a cube, hands down.
In CA, you'd probably get faster delivery too, due to lane sharing.
Range is less of an issue for childless couples and single people. When you have a family and aren't wealthy, long car trips become the only affordable way to travel. But then, Elon isn't selling to that demographic.
Communes can work on a larger scale than 3, but there are serious issues when you get above about 150 or so. That corresponds with research about the number of people that one person can know. When you get a situation where everyone doesn't know everyone, you start to get a breakdown in the trust that is essential for a commune to function. Even with a strong government, it isn't socially/economically stable anymore. And it's always hard to get the next generation to agree to the social contract, if they have other options.
One example: http://www.hutterites.org/ They limit at about 15 families (they run to very large families) per commune.
I was in the ER in August. I pretty much went straight in - they had an IV in me within 10 minutes of hitting the door. Carson City, NV, USA.
In San Francisco, on the other hand, I was in closet on a gurney for 8 hours before they could find a bed. Go figure. I would guess local circumstances have more bearing than the country.
Similar problems, btw - dehydration, as a complication of other issues.
Means testing requires assessing income. People are motivated to hide income, which necessitates a large and expensive apparatus to determine (fairly!) what people's income/means actually is. Cheating becomes rampant, you wind up with Greece.
But maybe rich people in the UK are just way more honest than everywhere else.
If you compare everything vs placebo, you are comparing them to each other. If xxxxx reduces blood pressure 23% vs placebo, and yyyyy reduces blood pressure 29% vs placebo, then you know yyyyy is somewhat better at reducing blood pressure than xxxxx.
If only you could make yyyyy stop causing hair growth on the palms.
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I take "Dark side of the moon" to be a colloquialism about the side of the moon facing away from the Earth, rather than literally being dark. It is used all the time in artistic works with exactly that meaning. I guess Sheldon Cooper would disagree vehemently, but everyone else knows what it means.
Nothing wrong with it at all. It's the only way you can do history. Very useful to have a few poems memorized for impressing the opposite sex. Very useful to have a few nursery rhymes memorized in order to impress and please your kids. Formulas, theorems, knowledge of your craft, all involve some degree of memorization. If you have to solve every problem from scratch, you're going to be an inefficient at everything.
And yes, everyone should have addition and multiplication tables memorized, because it's so damn useful.
You come off as someone jealous of the kid(s) that could memorize easily, and having to find a way (mentally) to make yourself out to be smarter, and well, better than they are.
$300 million failed IT project is tech news. That it is politically sensitive is a problem from the standpoint of trying to figure out why so we can do better next time. You'd think the hangout for a bunch of geeks might be exactly the place to discuss this with descending into the politics of the project, but... judging from the rest of the comments, we'll have to leave technical project management to political shills and robber baron types.
Where they might, um, not put him in solitary.
Wikipedia claims it is an old Russian proverb, and that Reagan was coached in its use by one of his speechwriters. Lenin apparently liked it as well, but not enough to verify what Stalin was doing. Or something...
Anyhow, Reagan and Lenin probably both ate carrots too.
The more serious issue is that the allied countries may host populations that are not friendly. Specifically, the Hamburg cell (Mohamed Atta's group) were operating out of, duh, Hamburg, Germany. Presumably, if you wanted to have a chance to intercept guys like this, you'd have to listen in on private German conversations. Also presumably, German authorities might not see plotting to do nefarious things in other countries as a problem they needed to be concerned about - see the Munich Olympics aftermath:
(from Wikipedia)
An article in 2012 in a front-page story of the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that much of the information pertaining to the mishandling of the massacre was covered up by the German authorities for the past decades. For twenty years, Germany refused to release any information about the attack and did not accept responsibility for the results. The magazine reported that the government had been hiding 3,808 files, which contained tens of thousands of documents. Der Spiegel said it obtained secret reports by authorities, embassy cables, and minutes of cabinet meetings that demonstrate the lack of professionalism of the German officials in handling the massacre. The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told that Palestinians were planning an "incident" at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.
Relying on Germany to tell you that you are about to be attacked by people living in Germany seems to be a policy of questionable intelligence. Maybe every other country is better, but I doubt it.
If it makes you feel better, the US had a hard time tracking/suppressing IRA support back in the day. I would expect there were UK operatives in the US at the time, trying to do the work the US was unwilling/unable to do. So, yeah, "allies" will spy on each other to some degree. Being allies doesn't mean everyone that lives in your ally's country is friendly.
Agreed. I wouldn't mind seeing every amendment written to, as a secondary clause, reaffirm #1.
Doesn't work that way...
The nature of amendments is that the LAST one has most primacy. If it were not that way, you couldn't change the law. Say you passed an amendment banning alcohol. Then you passed another one making it legal. Which one should we follow?? The most recent, or highest numbered amendment.
So, ironically, the first amendment should logically be interpreted AFTER any other amendment. If tomorrow we pass an amendment banning talk about decreasing taxes, that would take precedence over the first amendment, and tax reduction talk would be illegal.
This site (http://www.solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/hate-crimes/blacks-more-likely-to-be-arrested-for-hate-crimes/) seems to suggest that this is not the case.
Further, that Florida preacher was arrested because he loaded his Korans into his trailer, then doused them fuel THEN drove to the site where he was going to actually torch them. This is a hazard, and he was properly stopped.
Would have been more interesting if he had transported the fuel in a safe fashion, and conducted his burn safely. I don't think they could have charged him.
all know about Finland being on the wrong side, due to no one else being willing/able to cross Russia. Most Western countries were pretty understanding, other than stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Volunteer_Battalion_of_the_Waffen-SS. Most Western allies had small contingents of Nazis or Nazi admirers themselves, albeit not full-blown military formations participating as part of the German war machine.
Not really in a courtroom, but Winston Moseley, killer of Kitty Genovese, rapist of another unnamed woman during an unsuccessful prison attempt had this to say about his sentence:
"For a victim outside, it's a one-time or one-hour or one-minute affair, but for the person who's caught, it's forever."
From Wikipedia:
Under joint and several liability or all sums, a claimant may pursue an obligation against any one party as if they were jointly liable and it becomes the responsibility of the defendants to sort out their respective proportions of liability and payment. This means that if the claimant pursues one defendant and receives payment, that defendant must then pursue the other obligors for a contribution to their share of the liability.
Joint and several liability is most relevant in tort claims, whereby a plaintiff may recover all the damages from any of the defendants regardless of their individual share of the liability. The rule is often applied in negligence cases, though it is sometimes invoked in other areas of law.
That's the real problem. Per the abstract the measure was not really cognitive ability per say. The kids "demonstrated significantly stronger critical thinking skills when analyzing a new painting". So, a guided tour of an art museum gives/refreshes your knowledge of art terminology and the sense that art docents have of how art should be looked at. They didn't demonstrate math, reading, writing or IQ improvement in this experiment.
Challenge: take a belief you have and prove it. You get to design the experiment, collect the data and publish your results.
Unless you try to fail, you won't, you'll "prove" exactly what you set out to prove. As noted above, can independent researchers reproduce the result. That is, people that are doubtful that art will magically fix kids.
Its so you can charge your perp with one more thing when you finally catch him.
http://fastestlaps.com/comparisons/ford_mustang_gt_420_hp-vs-tesla_model_s_performance_model.html
Not quite as fast as a ~$30,000 car even. And you might be able to find cheaper cars yet that could match it.
So once again, Terminator shows us the way. Defeat the malware by stationing dogs near all computers to listen for the telltale hyper frequency comms emitted by the machines.
I did not mean to suggest that GE's business should be subsidized, just clarifying how this works. I think that I suggested that the loans would still happen without government assistance.
The general pattern is that governments want to give the appearance of aiding developing countries. If you just give another country money, they might buy from another country than yours. So, governments (including all developed countries) generally tie aid to purchases from the aiding country. An easy way to do this is to subsidize the loan. It winds up providing a competitive advantage for corporations that can talk their governments into doing it.
Whether it is good or bad depends on your beliefs about aid, corporate welfare, and the rules of international business competition. If everyone is doing it but you, you're going to lose business. I generally see all countries promising to not subsidize loans for purchases from their corporations as an improvement in the competitive environment. I also tend to see government aid as minimally or counter productive, so we're on the same side there.
You loan people X, they pay you back X plus interest. If the "plus interest" part is more than you could make putting your money to other uses (and the risk/reward calculus is acceptable), you make the loan. That it is international is a minor consideration - it gets factored in as an increase in the risk that you won't get paid back.
The government subsidizes loans to third world countries as a form of aid. Removal of the subsidy will not stop the loans. GE, for example, started as a manufacturer, but became a bank because they started loaning money to their customers to buy their products. The commercial loan business outgrew the manufacturing arm.
So, stopping the loans may hurt the US more than it helps, in strictly financial terms. We aren't building power plants at the rate the developing world is. If you want that business, you need to be prepared make deals that include financing.
I am a transplant patient. I have had a liver-kidney transplant as the culmination of a genetic condition. I have, obviously, had the condition my whole life. When I got out of college into a job with medical insurance, there were no "pre-existing condition" questions at all. As a salaried employee, I was immediately eligible for benefits on day 1. I was told this by an HR rep, and so it proved to be.
When I got the transplant (years later), I did get a letter from the insurance company - but they were checking to see if there was someone they could sue for the expense (there wasn't). A little seedy, but not refusing to pay.
The stories I've heard of insurance companies refusing to pay after years generally have 2 criteria: Not part of a group plan and failing to disclose a condition upon initial application. The deal is, if they give you a questionaire, the rates are dependent on your answers. So, if you say your perfectly healthy, you get a lower rate. If they then find out that you weren't perfectly healthy, and you knew that, then you're going to be in trouble. Group plans typically don't have the questionaire - I've only ever been asked if I smoke, for example. If I did smoke, and lied about it to get a lower rate, I should expect that to catch up to me when I get lung cancer.
As a motorcyclist -
Rain and cold are doable (for ever so slightly more money, for cold weather gear).
Snow is not, just not enough people with the equipment and skill to do it safely.
Large deliveries are doable, with mild modifications to the bike. My bike has a luggage mount that could be fitted with a cage that could hold 8-12 pies or so. You could fit 15lbs or so of stuff on the tail, and use a tank bag for transaction material. Most bikes could reasonably handle 150lbs of cargo, which is way more than you need for pizza delivery. If Domino's provided the bikes, it wouldn't be a big deal to fit them with a rack specially designed for pizza.
It would take a change in mind set on the part of Domino's. Realistically they'd have to provide the motorcycles. That is never going to happen for an entirely separate reason - you couldn't insure the operation. The extra insurance money would eat the fuel savings many times over. Also finding riders would be harder than finding drivers - although with reasonable benefits I'd seriously consider changing careers. Riding around all day beats sitting in a cube, hands down.
In CA, you'd probably get faster delivery too, due to lane sharing.
Range is less of an issue for childless couples and single people. When you have a family and aren't wealthy, long car trips become the only affordable way to travel. But then, Elon isn't selling to that demographic.
Communes can work on a larger scale than 3, but there are serious issues when you get above about 150 or so. That corresponds with research about the number of people that one person can know. When you get a situation where everyone doesn't know everyone, you start to get a breakdown in the trust that is essential for a commune to function. Even with a strong government, it isn't socially/economically stable anymore. And it's always hard to get the next generation to agree to the social contract, if they have other options.
One example:
http://www.hutterites.org/
They limit at about 15 families (they run to very large families) per commune.
I was in the ER in August. I pretty much went straight in - they had an IV in me within 10 minutes of hitting the door. Carson City, NV, USA.
In San Francisco, on the other hand, I was in closet on a gurney for 8 hours before they could find a bed. Go figure. I would guess local circumstances have more bearing than the country.
Similar problems, btw - dehydration, as a complication of other issues.
Means testing requires assessing income. People are motivated to hide income, which necessitates a large and expensive apparatus to determine (fairly!) what people's income/means actually is. Cheating becomes rampant, you wind up with Greece.
But maybe rich people in the UK are just way more honest than everywhere else.
If you compare everything vs placebo, you are comparing them to each other. If xxxxx reduces blood pressure 23% vs placebo, and yyyyy reduces blood pressure 29% vs placebo, then you know yyyyy is somewhat better at reducing blood pressure than xxxxx.
If only you could make yyyyy stop causing hair growth on the palms.