Its fascinating how history repeats itself. I mean 40 years after the Wright Brother's first flight, the US government was still trying to recreate the feat.
I'm not sure exactly when it got written, but I know that the lunar lander program written for the CDC Cyber 6600 console was at least contemporaneous with the 2D lunar lander referenced in the article -- and the Cyber version was 3D. It was really hard to land that LEM without running out of fuel.
TFA says 6000 gallons/acre/year of ethanol which translates to around $6000/acre/year assuming 0 costs. OK, so how are they going to amortize an acre of photobioreactor on $6000/year?
This obviously wouldn't have happened if the Programmer's Guild had supporting lifting the H-1b cap so there wasn't such a shortage of good programmers.
There can be no genetic predispositions that vary by race because if that were the case reality itself would be racist and the only way to be realistic would be to be a racist.
Thank God reality isn't racist! God hates racists. Racism is a sin. Racism is worse than sodomy. Racism is worse than child molestation. Racism is of Hitler, er, I mean Satan himself!
The Jew suffered and died on the death camp for our racism.
Racists should be raped by ethnic gangs in prison and die of AIDS. This is not cruel and unusual punishment. It is God's Will.
If they can't figure out how to economically control the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability that Denis Bonnelle has been so worried about, they can give me a call.
The video shows sand droplets forming but some of the smaller droplets are falling more slowly than the larger droplets. This indicates the drop column has air in it.
The launch costs (Falcon 9 $2500/kg) of satellite solar panels (30W/kg with 15 year lifetime) and basically 0% interest rate (straight line depreciation over 15 years) yields a little over 60 cents per kWh at the satellite. Account for transmission losses and you're talking over $1/kWh at the grid.
They must have some big economies somewhere they aren't talking about to make this profitable.
Heisenberg gets a hair up his ass about some mystical application of quantum mechanics of gold from Jewish teeth (he' been talking to the Nazi archaeologists tracking down the Ark) and demands that the underground factory for the stealth plane be retooled so the Jewish slaves can inlay gold, gathered from the crematorium floors of the death camps, rather than carbon in the wings. He then, laughing maniacally, while (for good luck as was his habit) chomping on the foot of a Jewish baby he cut from the belly of its still living mother, climbs into the satanic monstrosity, loaded with his atom bomb, to turn Big Ben into high velocity plasma. As he lifts off, however, the British radar activates the Jewish tooth gold and the plane starts to take on an unearthly green glow as Heisenberg, suddenly realizing too late evil error of his ways -- but too late -- starts melting in his seat as his face drains silences his screaming mouth just before his head explodes.
That's all I have at the moment and the phone is already ringing off the hook...
A couple of pieces of history relevant to the transistor of which you are ignorant:
On 17 November 1947 John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, at AT&T Bell Labs, observed that when electrical contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, the output power was larger than the input. William Shockley saw the potential in this and worked over the next few months greatly expanding the knowledge of semiconductors and could be described as the father of the transistor.
However John Bardeen was at the University of Illinois when I was there working on the PLATO system with Ray Ozzie, and in his lecture given at that time in Altgeld Hall, he disclosed that he and Walter Brattain were told to stop work on the transistor by William Shockley. Brattainand Bardeen were, for a time, reduced to hiding their work from Shockley on a what Bardeen called their "rolly cart" which they hid in a closet during the day and rolled out at night when Shockley wasn't around. There was a rumor that Bardeen gave this lecture because he was suffering from ill health and thought it important to disclose much that had previously gone undisclosed.
Now, I'm not here picking on Shockley as "one of those darn immigrants" because he did eventually come around. He then took credit. The same can probably be said for many immigrant managers of US inventors over the last several decades.
But there really is a big difference between the immigrants that came to the United States under the 1924 law as compared to those that have come under the 1965 law.
I recall talking to Congressman Brian Baird about this problem of US businesses over-utilizing immigrants. He had the standard reply, "But they tell me if they don't get the visas, they'll have to outsource business to India!" My reply wasn't standard: "They shouldn't just outsource to India, they should MOVE to India! The US created these industries without massive immigration. The problem with the US isn't a lack of immigrants."
What I learned is that Adam Smith's invisible hand is broken -- although technosocialism like the Shuttle program is even worse.
So fix the invisible hand by reforming government to attend to its real business: Paying out citizens dividends under the social contract that brings us together to protect property rights that would not exist in the absence of that social contract. As with any dividend stream, there is an optimum for the shareholders that does not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Feynman's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" drew specific distinctions between chemistry and nanotechnology. The embarrassing lack of advancement in nanotechnology has been filled in by redefining it to include chemistry.
With the 13th Amendment people were free to vote with their feet and migrate to States that agreed with them. The 14th's entire purpose was to invert the sovereignty of the US so that the Federal government, via the Judicial interpretation of the vague wording of the 14th Amendment, could socially engineer States rather than allowing them to operate as a free scientific laboratory.
A second possible etymology traces the word back to theion "divine things" instead of thea, reflecting the concept of contemplating the divine organisation (Cosmos) of the nature.
In your case, your state religion holds faith in the belief that there are no substantial negative social externalities to defining "marriage" in a way that is relatively untested in human history.
That's fine, as long as you allow people who do not share your religious beliefs to have their own human ecologies protected from the potential degradation of their environment they fear.
Likewise, you should be happy to exclude such sinful "homophobes" from your human ecology due to their hurtful environmental degradation.
Neither of you should impose your treatments on the other through any sort of legal sophistry. Consent is the prerequisite for civility.
Wilmott suffers from the same thing that plagues all social scientists: They can't run controlled experiments to extract causation, yet they influence public policy as though they could.
In another time, this would have been called what it is: theocracy, rule by theory.
Oh sure, they can try to be inductive, but there is always that old "correlation doesn't imply causation" gotcha isn't there?
The real solution to this problem with the social sciences was almost addressed by the Protestant culture that founded the US -- the Laboratory of the States -- but the incorporation of the slave states in the 1700s, with the resulting Amendment from Hell, the 14th, in the 1800s killed off that option entirely when "social science" sunk its fangs into the body politc in the 1900s.
"The Union" means everyone is a slave to the theocrats posing as theoreticians.
So now we're running uncontrolled experiments on nonconsenting human subjects in the guise of "public policy" of "liberal democracy" -- tyranny of the majority limited only by a vague laundry list of selectively enforced human rights.
By a colleague who is addressing popular arguments regarding racial differences:
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:04:32 -0000
More important genetic information:
As regards the "more variation within, rather than between groups" argument,
Kaessman et al. (Science 286, 1159-1162, 1999) note that there is more genetic
variation between some subspecies of Chimpanzee than between some Chimp subspecies
compared to Bonobo chimps, a separate species. Thus, this "argument" is worthless,
and one can find, in nonhuman animals, more variation within a species than
between species, without abrogating the idea of species and species differences.
That there can be more individual variation than racial variation also does
not invalidate race.
The 99.9% = we are all the same argument suffers from the following
According to some studies, for example Sibley and Ahlquist (J. Hum.
Evol. 20, 2-15, 1984), humans differ from chimps by 1.9%, bonobos by 1.8%,
gorillas by 2.4%., and orangutans by 3.6%. Thus, the human racial difference
is a full 5.3% of the human/chimp differential, 5.6% of the human/bonobo,
4.2% of the human/gorilla, and 2.8% of the human/ orangutan. In addition,
data from Jared Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee" book can be interpretated
in making the human/chimp similarity as high as 99.1%, a mere 0.9% difference,
which would make human racial variation more than 10% of this (11.1%).
According to Prof. Hrdy in her book, Mother Nature: A History of Mothers,
Infants, and Natural Selection, the current evidence suggests that the
human/chimp difference in cognitive skills is the result in differences
in only about 50 genes (out of tens of thousands), with differences in
regulatory genes being important. Again, the relevance to human racial
differences should be obvious.
A post by A. Hu in the "Upstream" site discussion makes the follwing
point. Microsatellite genetic analysis of dog breeds (Zajc et al., Mamm.
Genome 8, 182-185, 1997) points to a difference between Greyhounds, German
Shepherds, and Labrador Retreivers having an index in the 0.028-0.054
range. This compares to a similar study in humans (Kimmel et al., Genetic
143, 549-555, 1996) which shows that Japanese and Chinese have an index
of difference of 0.029. Also stated in the post is that larger racial
differences are in the range of 0.087 - 0.363. Therefore, genetic differences
between dog breeds, which result in large phenotypic consequences, are
about equal to intra-racial ethnic differences, and smaller than human
inter-racial differences.
bfrpsw writes: Nothing since 2003 on the front page.
True enough but my money ran out in 2002 and I've been dumpster diving ever since.
bfrpsw continues: I set up my own access to US Economic data from US government sources: http://www.macrospect.com./
Excellent!
One of the things I've been thinking of promoting is a compression prize, similar to the Hutter Prize, but where the corpus is economic data instead of textual knowledge.
Of course, this would separate the men from the boys in economics so it won't happen, but its interesting to think about what would happen if economics turned into a legitimate intellectual endeavor.
Try laboratoryofthestates.com which I set up after the Feds decided to turn the national IT infrastructure over to India and send guys the guys who built the information industry to go eat out of dumpsters.
I did it on no money and it has more data than data.gov.
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Its fascinating how history repeats itself. I mean 40 years after the Wright Brother's first flight, the US government was still trying to recreate the feat.
I'm not sure exactly when it got written, but I know that the lunar lander program written for the CDC Cyber 6600 console was at least contemporaneous with the 2D lunar lander referenced in the article -- and the Cyber version was 3D. It was really hard to land that LEM without running out of fuel.
TFA says 6000 gallons/acre/year of ethanol which translates to around $6000/acre/year assuming 0 costs. OK, so how are they going to amortize an acre of photobioreactor on $6000/year?
This obviously wouldn't have happened if the Programmer's Guild had supporting lifting the H-1b cap so there wasn't such a shortage of good programmers.
Thank God reality isn't racist! God hates racists. Racism is a sin. Racism is worse than sodomy. Racism is worse than child molestation. Racism is of Hitler, er, I mean Satan himself!
The Jew suffered and died on the death camp for our racism.
Racists should be raped by ethnic gangs in prison and die of AIDS. This is not cruel and unusual punishment. It is God's Will.
If they can't figure out how to economically control the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability that Denis Bonnelle has been so worried about, they can give me a call.
Evacuate and try it again...
They must have some big economies somewhere they aren't talking about to make this profitable.
Damn mosquitoes.
This kid is obviously the love child of Jon Katz and Natalie Portman.
This can't be true because the president is a mulatto.
That's all I have at the moment and the phone is already ringing off the hook...
However John Bardeen was at the University of Illinois when I was there working on the PLATO system with Ray Ozzie, and in his lecture given at that time in Altgeld Hall, he disclosed that he and Walter Brattain were told to stop work on the transistor by William Shockley. Brattainand Bardeen were, for a time, reduced to hiding their work from Shockley on a what Bardeen called their "rolly cart" which they hid in a closet during the day and rolled out at night when Shockley wasn't around. There was a rumor that Bardeen gave this lecture because he was suffering from ill health and thought it important to disclose much that had previously gone undisclosed.
Now, I'm not here picking on Shockley as "one of those darn immigrants" because he did eventually come around. He then took credit. The same can probably be said for many immigrant managers of US inventors over the last several decades.
But there really is a big difference between the immigrants that came to the United States under the 1924 law as compared to those that have come under the 1965 law.
I recall talking to Congressman Brian Baird about this problem of US businesses over-utilizing immigrants. He had the standard reply, "But they tell me if they don't get the visas, they'll have to outsource business to India!" My reply wasn't standard: "They shouldn't just outsource to India, they should MOVE to India! The US created these industries without massive immigration. The problem with the US isn't a lack of immigrants."
What I learned is that Adam Smith's invisible hand is broken -- although technosocialism like the Shuttle program is even worse.
So fix the invisible hand by reforming government to attend to its real business: Paying out citizens dividends under the social contract that brings us together to protect property rights that would not exist in the absence of that social contract. As with any dividend stream, there is an optimum for the shareholders that does not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Feynman's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" drew specific distinctions between chemistry and nanotechnology. The embarrassing lack of advancement in nanotechnology has been filled in by redefining it to include chemistry.
Please, Steve, seriously consider it...
With the 13th Amendment people were free to vote with their feet and migrate to States that agreed with them. The 14th's entire purpose was to invert the sovereignty of the US so that the Federal government, via the Judicial interpretation of the vague wording of the 14th Amendment, could socially engineer States rather than allowing them to operate as a free scientific laboratory.
Yeah that Haber Bosch process just won't work without those beams directly from the full moon.
Most social science studies....
That's precisely why you need secession for the social sciences to tease apart cause and effect.
In your case, your state religion holds faith in the belief that there are no substantial negative social externalities to defining "marriage" in a way that is relatively untested in human history.
That's fine, as long as you allow people who do not share your religious beliefs to have their own human ecologies protected from the potential degradation of their environment they fear.
Likewise, you should be happy to exclude such sinful "homophobes" from your human ecology due to their hurtful environmental degradation.
Neither of you should impose your treatments on the other through any sort of legal sophistry. Consent is the prerequisite for civility.
In another time, this would have been called what it is: theocracy, rule by theory.
Oh sure, they can try to be inductive, but there is always that old "correlation doesn't imply causation" gotcha isn't there?
The real solution to this problem with the social sciences was almost addressed by the Protestant culture that founded the US -- the Laboratory of the States -- but the incorporation of the slave states in the 1700s, with the resulting Amendment from Hell, the 14th, in the 1800s killed off that option entirely when "social science" sunk its fangs into the body politc in the 1900s.
"The Union" means everyone is a slave to the theocrats posing as theoreticians.
So now we're running uncontrolled experiments on nonconsenting human subjects in the guise of "public policy" of "liberal democracy" -- tyranny of the majority limited only by a vague laundry list of selectively enforced human rights.
By a colleague who is addressing popular arguments regarding racial differences:
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:04:32 -0000
More important genetic information:
True enough but my money ran out in 2002 and I've been dumpster diving ever since.
bfrpsw continues: I set up my own access to US Economic data from US government sources: http://www.macrospect.com./
Excellent!
One of the things I've been thinking of promoting is a compression prize, similar to the Hutter Prize, but where the corpus is economic data instead of textual knowledge.
Of course, this would separate the men from the boys in economics so it won't happen, but its interesting to think about what would happen if economics turned into a legitimate intellectual endeavor.
I did it on no money and it has more data than data.gov.