You bring up a very good point about how automatic damages might cut the wrong way in a lot of cases. What might be interesting is some sort of penalization for pulling out of a suit early, as happened in this particular instance. Had the suit been run to completion, it might have been more definately frivolous, thus falling under existing precedent. This type of policy would also make a strategy dependent on never losing (ie, dropping any case that might fail) less tenable.
What do military codes have to do with the acts of our elected officials? Consider the following example correspondence:
"Send the troops into Laos, authorization code XKSD230923"
The bit the people have the right to know is "Send the troops into Laos"; the whole transaction shouldn't be secret just because there happens to be some sort of secret authentication token in the same sentence.
If you have a sign on the side of your house proclaiming "Bathroom within!" and placards giving directions to where in your house I might piss, then most certainly I would expect that this behavior is allowed. If you don't want people on your access point, either secure it (ie lock the door), or don't broadcast an SSID (ie don't put a giant sign out offering a service).
Horses (or any biological transport) are inefficient for most users since they don't turn off. For comparison, consider if you had to park your car in the garage on rollers and leave the cruise set to 25mph. That's exactly what happens when you "park" the horse by putting in a field: it continues burning fuel even though you're not driving.
The other issue is that that's going to need to be some pretty impressive genetic engineering; at the moment a horse can develop life-threatening injuries from potholes so small that you wouldn't feel them in a car, and need replacement parts (shoes) with startling regularity.
I wonder this about all of our "used up" space modules. It's a fairly common near-future sci-fi theme to have fuel tanks and payload vehicles strapped together up in space as the nucleus of space stations; I wonder what the real-world problems are that keeps us from actually doing it.
There are already sections of the Massachusetts Turnpike where the breakdown lane is marked for travel. Breakdowns and traffic violations need to use turnouts spaced down the highway, as the guardrail is hard up against both sides of the road.
The part I find most bewildering about the statement "could be implemented" in a patent is that patents are supposed to be for a specific implementation. You aren't supposed to be able to patent the idea that one might remove the seeds from cotton, just a specific way of doing it, or at least that's how it's been explained to me in the past.
Ron Paul's libertarian stance DOES focus on the issues that really matter, to me at least. He wants to stop deficit spending, thus increasing the value of my money (or at least preventing its depreciation). He wants to drastically reduce the complexity and level of taxation, both reducing an annual headache and taking less of a bite out of my paycheck. He wants to cut off entire branches of the federal government, again saving me money, but also removing invasive forces in my life.
Collecting the water and running it through a mill only takes advantage of the drop from the roof to thr ground, where this device takes advantage of the larger drop from cloud level. That said, there's no reason that you can't line your collection pan with this stuff and still use waterwheels in downspouts. I'm also guessing that a waterwheel can do a better job of extracting energy than this plastic, so for taller buildings (closer to the cloud/farther from the ground) I can see turbines winning out.
What sort of energy supply *isn't* affected by a blizzard? Anything that uses fuel relies on transportation links, and everything else relies on geography. Blizzards take down the thousand-mile power lines that get wind and solar to cities just as easily as they take down a train. I would say that shipping coal across a country is actually probably *better* than shipping oil halfway around the world.
Your second article concludes that radioisotope data is incorrect because radioactive decay was significantly accelerated during the Genesis flood. The simple and more logical explanation is simply that the radioisotope data is as it is because the materials had more than 6000 years to decay.
That it also begins under the assumption that a radioisotope is only valid for dating over the period of one half-life also makes it a rather suspect batch of reasoning.
What does it mean for a state to have "face time"? It's not the 19th century where to hear the candidate's stump speeches you need them to come down and speak at the local Grange. The only consequence I see of staggered primaries is that you get presidential support of special interests. I bet if Michigan had Iowa's place, the taxpayer would annually cut a nice big check to GM rather than agribusiness.
This isn't actually an LCD panel; it's an array of DLP rear-projection screens. DLP devices can hit over 1kHz refresh rates, so I don't think that 50kHz response is out of the question. What vexes me is that it's only 900 lines tall; when is something 1080 or above going to be standard in the widescreen display market? Standard ratio monitors have been 1024 to 1200 lines for years.
If wiki is going to branch into search, they need to fix their built-in search feature first. I can't count the number of times that an article whose title is my search term is listed fifth or below in the results.
Since the $200K was an annual figure, I suppose you could get a new 400TB array each year. If some portion of that is allocated for parity, you're not going to lose enough drives in any given year to lose data.
Chernobyl was a disaster. People died and the plant was destroyed. Three Mile Island was a plant failure entirely mitigated by the plant's safety systems. No one died and the other reactor is still in commercial operation. To put the two in the same sentence is inaccurate at best.
The thing you need to understand about crimes committed by drunk people is, they're DRUNK. Of COURSE they do retarded things like drive while impared. No matter how stiff the penalty is, people are going to do it. The only thing that zero-tolerance or 1 strike systems do is provide a way for innocent people to be pushed under. Real criminals are going to commit their crimes over and over again, that's how you tell who they are.
I didn't say anything about "all foreign signals intelligence". The issue here is monitoring communications by individuals inside the United States. There should be some sort of process before you go recording phone calls from a particular address. If that address is the Chinese embassy, it shouldn't be that hard to make the case. If it's some random suburb in the midwest, I'd like to think that there's some process to ensure that the person is actually foreign, and doesn't just have dark skin and a beard.
If warrants are no longer necessary to wiretap, where exactly is the check to see if the people being wiretapped are foreign nationals? The whole point of a warrant is to make sure that a requested invasive measure is being applied properly.
Office 2007 doesn't overwrite your files with the new format when you edit them. There's even an option to default all NEW documents to the old format. I should mention that the 'old'.doc format is reverse compatible to Office 97. The blurb (not the article, mind) mentions only that Outlook mail files are incompatible between 2000 and 2003. Assuming that the same rift exists between 2003 and 2007 (and that 2007 doesn't include a 2003 export option (wouldn't know; I don't use Outlook)), it's certainly irritating but being that the article is about trial Office 2007 installs on new OEM computers, I'm not sure where the automatic mangling of mail is happening.
Slashdot Mirror
You bring up a very good point about how automatic damages might cut the wrong way in a lot of cases. What might be interesting is some sort of penalization for pulling out of a suit early, as happened in this particular instance. Had the suit been run to completion, it might have been more definately frivolous, thus falling under existing precedent. This type of policy would also make a strategy dependent on never losing (ie, dropping any case that might fail) less tenable.
What do military codes have to do with the acts of our elected officials? Consider the following example correspondence:
"Send the troops into Laos, authorization code XKSD230923"
The bit the people have the right to know is "Send the troops into Laos"; the whole transaction shouldn't be secret just because there happens to be some sort of secret authentication token in the same sentence.
If you have a sign on the side of your house proclaiming "Bathroom within!" and placards giving directions to where in your house I might piss, then most certainly I would expect that this behavior is allowed. If you don't want people on your access point, either secure it (ie lock the door), or don't broadcast an SSID (ie don't put a giant sign out offering a service).
My latest nVidia card (GF 7950GT) actually came with a passive cooler. I think they've got the whole "adequate stock cooler" thing down.
Horses (or any biological transport) are inefficient for most users since they don't turn off. For comparison, consider if you had to park your car in the garage on rollers and leave the cruise set to 25mph. That's exactly what happens when you "park" the horse by putting in a field: it continues burning fuel even though you're not driving.
The other issue is that that's going to need to be some pretty impressive genetic engineering; at the moment a horse can develop life-threatening injuries from potholes so small that you wouldn't feel them in a car, and need replacement parts (shoes) with startling regularity.
I wonder this about all of our "used up" space modules. It's a fairly common near-future sci-fi theme to have fuel tanks and payload vehicles strapped together up in space as the nucleus of space stations; I wonder what the real-world problems are that keeps us from actually doing it.
There are already sections of the Massachusetts Turnpike where the breakdown lane is marked for travel. Breakdowns and traffic violations need to use turnouts spaced down the highway, as the guardrail is hard up against both sides of the road.
The part I find most bewildering about the statement "could be implemented" in a patent is that patents are supposed to be for a specific implementation. You aren't supposed to be able to patent the idea that one might remove the seeds from cotton, just a specific way of doing it, or at least that's how it's been explained to me in the past.
since Medicare picks up the tab.
You're welcome.
Ron Paul's libertarian stance DOES focus on the issues that really matter, to me at least. He wants to stop deficit spending, thus increasing the value of my money (or at least preventing its depreciation). He wants to drastically reduce the complexity and level of taxation, both reducing an annual headache and taking less of a bite out of my paycheck. He wants to cut off entire branches of the federal government, again saving me money, but also removing invasive forces in my life.
Collecting the water and running it through a mill only takes advantage of the drop from the roof to thr ground, where this device takes advantage of the larger drop from cloud level. That said, there's no reason that you can't line your collection pan with this stuff and still use waterwheels in downspouts. I'm also guessing that a waterwheel can do a better job of extracting energy than this plastic, so for taller buildings (closer to the cloud/farther from the ground) I can see turbines winning out.
What sort of energy supply *isn't* affected by a blizzard? Anything that uses fuel relies on transportation links, and everything else relies on geography. Blizzards take down the thousand-mile power lines that get wind and solar to cities just as easily as they take down a train. I would say that shipping coal across a country is actually probably *better* than shipping oil halfway around the world.
Your second article concludes that radioisotope data is incorrect because radioactive decay was significantly accelerated during the Genesis flood. The simple and more logical explanation is simply that the radioisotope data is as it is because the materials had more than 6000 years to decay.
That it also begins under the assumption that a radioisotope is only valid for dating over the period of one half-life also makes it a rather suspect batch of reasoning.
What does it mean for a state to have "face time"? It's not the 19th century where to hear the candidate's stump speeches you need them to come down and speak at the local Grange. The only consequence I see of staggered primaries is that you get presidential support of special interests. I bet if Michigan had Iowa's place, the taxpayer would annually cut a nice big check to GM rather than agribusiness.
This isn't actually an LCD panel; it's an array of DLP rear-projection screens. DLP devices can hit over 1kHz refresh rates, so I don't think that 50kHz response is out of the question. What vexes me is that it's only 900 lines tall; when is something 1080 or above going to be standard in the widescreen display market? Standard ratio monitors have been 1024 to 1200 lines for years.
If wiki is going to branch into search, they need to fix their built-in search feature first. I can't count the number of times that an article whose title is my search term is listed fifth or below in the results.
Since the $200K was an annual figure, I suppose you could get a new 400TB array each year. If some portion of that is allocated for parity, you're not going to lose enough drives in any given year to lose data.
So, if someone hijacks your car, the government should just let you eat the loss, because you royally screwed up and got out of the car at gunpoint?
Chernobyl was a disaster. People died and the plant was destroyed. Three Mile Island was a plant failure entirely mitigated by the plant's safety systems. No one died and the other reactor is still in commercial operation. To put the two in the same sentence is inaccurate at best.
My source, the Liddel & Scott Greek Lexicon ...
Not knowing the relative authority of either source, the one about modern English trumps the one about ancient Greek in my book.
It looks like they've not got past the prototype stage, but have existed since 1986: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_locomotive
The thing you need to understand about crimes committed by drunk people is, they're DRUNK. Of COURSE they do retarded things like drive while impared. No matter how stiff the penalty is, people are going to do it. The only thing that zero-tolerance or 1 strike systems do is provide a way for innocent people to be pushed under. Real criminals are going to commit their crimes over and over again, that's how you tell who they are.
I didn't say anything about "all foreign signals intelligence". The issue here is monitoring communications by individuals inside the United States. There should be some sort of process before you go recording phone calls from a particular address. If that address is the Chinese embassy, it shouldn't be that hard to make the case. If it's some random suburb in the midwest, I'd like to think that there's some process to ensure that the person is actually foreign, and doesn't just have dark skin and a beard.
If warrants are no longer necessary to wiretap, where exactly is the check to see if the people being wiretapped are foreign nationals? The whole point of a warrant is to make sure that a requested invasive measure is being applied properly.
Office 2007 doesn't overwrite your files with the new format when you edit them. There's even an option to default all NEW documents to the old format. I should mention that the 'old' .doc format is reverse compatible to Office 97. The blurb (not the article, mind) mentions only that Outlook mail files are incompatible between 2000 and 2003. Assuming that the same rift exists between 2003 and 2007 (and that 2007 doesn't include a 2003 export option (wouldn't know; I don't use Outlook)), it's certainly irritating but being that the article is about trial Office 2007 installs on new OEM computers, I'm not sure where the automatic mangling of mail is happening.