Who says the US will do this first? Let alone roll it out first. The US hasn't done a large-scale infrastructure project since the 1950s - we don't really believe in public infrastructure any more.
"'The power law form gives you a very simple extrapolation rule for statistically connecting the two,' he says"..as long as all terrorists are perfectly spherical and act in a complete vacuum.
Seriously. Getting an email from someone with a facebook.com address is going to be about the same as getting an email from someone with an aol.com address - it'll be a convenient shorthand for "I'm a clueless idiot". And I say this as someone who uses facebook daily.
I juggle multiple projects, grants, articles in progress, conference presentations, you name it. For the ones that have any kind of paper attached to them (receipts, notes, annotated printouts, whatever) I put all the paper in a single large ziploc bag. At the very front goes a single sheet with the name of the project and the last date I changed the contents.
Throw all the ziplocs in a box. When you need to work on project x, rummage through the box and grab that ziploc & it's all there.. If the project generates too much paper for a single ziploc, then it's probably big and complicated enough to need a file drawer, and you're unlikely to forget that it's in progress..
Once a month or so have a complete rummage through the box - stuff you've abandoned can be pulled out and tossed or archived in some way, and you'll be reminded about other things you have in progress that have been off your mind for a while..
We, like a few million other Americans, used the switch as an excuse to dump our bulky plastic box full of lead and other problematic chemicals on the neighbor's lawn and 'upgrade' to an almost-equally chemical-stuffed flatscreen. Fortunately various impoverished nations are willing to receive shiploads of that shit and poison their poorest citizens scraping a few of the more expensive metals out of the mess of abandoned first world electronic gee-gaws.
Hah, fooled you. We lived in an inner-city area. No lawns.
Well, I stand thoroughly corrected as to the use of "to'ebah" to describe the various prohibitions in Mosaic law. My 'source', such as it is, is research I did on this topic nearly 20 years ago - I've clearly done some mental mix & matching in the intervening period.
I stand by my main point - that the Old Testament prohibits many things; that those contemporary Christians who dismiss or ignore the the prohibitions in Leviticus which apply to things they do but get hysterical about those which apply to other people who they already hate seems deeply hypocritical to those of us who are not religious (or at least are not actively practicing Jews or Christians).
Thanks for your detailed response though. Nuance is always an improvement on accidental misrepresentation.
Well, the bible does say that a man sleeping with a man as with a woman is "To'ebah", usually translated as 'an abomination before God' (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13) - right after it says that shaving or getting a haircut are To'ebah (Leviticus 19:27), eating fruit from a young tree is To'ebah (Leviticus 19:23), and having sex with a woman when she's having her period is To'ebah (Leviticus 18:19). The Mosaic code also requires children who curse their parents to be killed (Leviticus 20:9), anyone who commits adultery to be killed (Leviticus 20:10), and the daughter of a priest who engages in prostitution to be burned alive (21:9).
Funnily enough, self-proclaimed Christians who rant on about how the Bible condemns homosexuality are usually clean shaven. Theologically, that's actually fine, since multiple passages in the New Testament say that Mosaic Law (the long list of dos and don'ts in Leviticus) doesn't apply to Christians (Romans 6:14; 7:1-14; Galatians. 3:10-13, 24-25; 4:21; 5:1, 13; 2 Corinthians. 3:7-18). Which is great and all, but nowhere in any of those passages in the New Testament does it say "except for that stuff about men sleeping with men - that's still a no-no".
So pick one - either the Mosaic condemnation of men sleeping with men was tossed out with the condemnation of shaving and the condemnation of eating fruit from a young tree and the requirement to kill your children when they curse you - or all of those things still apply and you're probably committing just as many abominations before God as the average male homosexual.
Well you're mixing privacy and security there, but to really answer your question I personally don't care if google or anyone else knows what pages I look at - that was the parent poster's concern. I set up my proxy & tunnel system as a simpler alternative to a vpn for accessing academic journals from home that my workplace is subscribed to where access rights are handled by IP address. It just happens to solve the parent poster's unrelated problem too, at least if she/he uses a privacy-oriented browser.
I see it at LAX every time I go there - about 4 or 5 times in the last 12 months. And on Amtrak between LA and San Diego pretty much every week. Maybe it's a Southern California Stupid thing?
Why three clicks? Click 1 on the icon in my application bar that runs a bash script to create an ssh tunnel from 3128 on the proxy server to 8080 on localhost. Click 2 to toggle proxy switchy in chrome (or any of the several equivalents in firefox) from unproxied to localhost:8080. Done. Encrypted connection to your proxy server machine for all subsequent surfing.
"Deciding to live over 35 miles from your workplace is a pretty fucking stupid decision to have made."
Not to mention some of us are adults with careers and are partnered with other adults with careers and it's hardly uncommon for the two of you to end up with excellent jobs in the same city but quite some distance away from each other. Which means there's going to be some commuting involved.
You don't want to disable 911 or its international equivalents period. If the guy who mugged me is calling 911 on my stolen phone, chances are someone someone's life is at risk. I certainly wouldn't want to find out that some child hit by a car died because I'd installed some stupid app and the mugger saw it and was *trying* to do the right thing and call 911..
"No, the real problem is with having a voluntary fee for a collective, necessary service. Don't blame the firefighters. Blame the government that set up a no-win situation."
I think you mean "Blame the voters who are so anti-tax that they refuse to provide the necessary funds to even cover collective, necessary services."
Amen. I dropped out of comp. sci. in 1989 because a side business I had modifying and making electronics for the handicapped started taking up enough of my time that I couldn't do both. Two years later, I was still barely scraping by, so I wound up the business and went back to university. 20 years later (ouch), I consider that two year stint running my own business to have been a crucial and valuable part of my education (even though I went on to get a PhD and now do completely unrelated research). If I'd burned my bridges in any way when I 'dropped out' of school, I would have been screwed. If you feel your business/idea are good enough, go for it, but always make a plan for what happens when the business doesn't pan out - statistically most first businesses don't.
Add a motion detector, use the skype api to link the motion detector to 'call [skype account]' at each end, and the thing will connect whenever anyone walks into the kitchen at either end..?
The contract between USPS and the APWU doesn't say they can "never decrease their workforce" at all.
You may be thinking of the part of the contract which says that employees hired before September 15, 1978 have "lifetime protection against layoff" (Article 6(1)), and that employees who have more than six years service have a more limited set of protections against layoff (Article 6(2)). Everyone else gets sixty days notice (Article 6(B) and 6(C)).
The Joint Contract Interpretation Manual is here, and took me a whole five seconds to find via google.
I did a project a few years ago in San Francisco where we were trying to map where old bus stops had been - we knew the blocks but not the precise locations. Turned out to be surprisingly easy - look for the sudden increase in black smears of decades old gum on the sidewalk where there's currently no bus stop or other obvious reason for bunches of people to be hanging out. That's where the bus stop used to be, about 80% of the time. We're talking bus stops that got moved or removed in the early 70s, and nearly 40 years later it's still clear as day. The only thing that really threw us is where the sidewalk had been jackhammered out for some reason since the bus stop existed.
Part of the point being that Delfina's pizza is a little side-store to Delfina's, the high-end, beloved of serious foodies restaurant, and the pizza is similarly well regarded - yelp reviewers giving it poor reviews were essentially demonstrating that they were idiots.
No-one gets a 200% increase in premiums, in fact for anyone with a low enough income to "barely afford it", the maximum premium you will pay will be capped by law, and you'll get tax credits to make up any difference as well as receiving subsidies to help with deductibles and co-pays.
The only way I can see your premiums rising by 200% next year is your employer has decided to reduce their contribution to your insurance (passing the cost directly to you) and is using the passage of this legislation as an excuse to do so, and is assuming you won't do the research to find out that the legislation has nothing to do with it. However, between now and when the relevant parts of the legislation actually take effect (much of the bill doesn't kick in until 2014) there's nothing to stop them screwing you over like this.
And that, my friend, is why the NIH's constant push to produce more 'physician-researchers' continues to drive me nuts. Because they rarely insist K awards and other early-career training mechanisms require physicians intending to do research in areas where stats are important actually get any stats training..
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Well obviously. The past tense would be "bung". As in "I Bunged myself". It's too bad 'bung' is a synonym for anus in Australian English though.
Keep making predictions, then bet against them.
Who says the US will do this first? Let alone roll it out first. The US hasn't done a large-scale infrastructure project since the 1950s - we don't really believe in public infrastructure any more.
Hah! Yeah, that version is better.
"'The power law form gives you a very simple extrapolation rule for statistically connecting the two,' he says" ..as long as all terrorists are perfectly spherical and act in a complete vacuum.
Seriously. Getting an email from someone with a facebook.com address is going to be about the same as getting an email from someone with an aol.com address - it'll be a convenient shorthand for "I'm a clueless idiot". And I say this as someone who uses facebook daily.
I juggle multiple projects, grants, articles in progress, conference presentations, you name it. For the ones that have any kind of paper attached to them (receipts, notes, annotated printouts, whatever) I put all the paper in a single large ziploc bag. At the very front goes a single sheet with the name of the project and the last date I changed the contents.
Throw all the ziplocs in a box. When you need to work on project x, rummage through the box and grab that ziploc & it's all there.. If the project generates too much paper for a single ziploc, then it's probably big and complicated enough to need a file drawer, and you're unlikely to forget that it's in progress..
Once a month or so have a complete rummage through the box - stuff you've abandoned can be pulled out and tossed or archived in some way, and you'll be reminded about other things you have in progress that have been off your mind for a while..
We, like a few million other Americans, used the switch as an excuse to dump our bulky plastic box full of lead and other problematic chemicals on the neighbor's lawn and 'upgrade' to an almost-equally chemical-stuffed flatscreen. Fortunately various impoverished nations are willing to receive shiploads of that shit and poison their poorest citizens scraping a few of the more expensive metals out of the mess of abandoned first world electronic gee-gaws.
Hah, fooled you. We lived in an inner-city area. No lawns.
Well, I stand thoroughly corrected as to the use of "to'ebah" to describe the various prohibitions in Mosaic law. My 'source', such as it is, is research I did on this topic nearly 20 years ago - I've clearly done some mental mix & matching in the intervening period.
I stand by my main point - that the Old Testament prohibits many things; that those contemporary Christians who dismiss or ignore the the prohibitions in Leviticus which apply to things they do but get hysterical about those which apply to other people who they already hate seems deeply hypocritical to those of us who are not religious (or at least are not actively practicing Jews or Christians).
Thanks for your detailed response though. Nuance is always an improvement on accidental misrepresentation.
"While it is true that homosexuality is wrong.."
Well, the bible does say that a man sleeping with a man as with a woman is "To'ebah", usually translated as 'an abomination before God' (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13) - right after it says that shaving or getting a haircut are To'ebah (Leviticus 19:27), eating fruit from a young tree is To'ebah (Leviticus 19:23), and having sex with a woman when she's having her period is To'ebah (Leviticus 18:19). The Mosaic code also requires children who curse their parents to be killed (Leviticus 20:9), anyone who commits adultery to be killed (Leviticus 20:10), and the daughter of a priest who engages in prostitution to be burned alive (21:9).
Funnily enough, self-proclaimed Christians who rant on about how the Bible condemns homosexuality are usually clean shaven. Theologically, that's actually fine, since multiple passages in the New Testament say that Mosaic Law (the long list of dos and don'ts in Leviticus) doesn't apply to Christians (Romans 6:14; 7:1-14; Galatians. 3:10-13, 24-25; 4:21; 5:1, 13; 2 Corinthians. 3:7-18). Which is great and all, but nowhere in any of those passages in the New Testament does it say "except for that stuff about men sleeping with men - that's still a no-no".
So pick one - either the Mosaic condemnation of men sleeping with men was tossed out with the condemnation of shaving and the condemnation of eating fruit from a young tree and the requirement to kill your children when they curse you - or all of those things still apply and you're probably committing just as many abominations before God as the average male homosexual.
Well you're mixing privacy and security there, but to really answer your question I personally don't care if google or anyone else knows what pages I look at - that was the parent poster's concern. I set up my proxy & tunnel system as a simpler alternative to a vpn for accessing academic journals from home that my workplace is subscribed to where access rights are handled by IP address. It just happens to solve the parent poster's unrelated problem too, at least if she/he uses a privacy-oriented browser.
I see it at LAX every time I go there - about 4 or 5 times in the last 12 months. And on Amtrak between LA and San Diego pretty much every week. Maybe it's a Southern California Stupid thing?
Why three clicks? Click 1 on the icon in my application bar that runs a bash script to create an ssh tunnel from 3128 on the proxy server to 8080 on localhost. Click 2 to toggle proxy switchy in chrome (or any of the several equivalents in firefox) from unproxied to localhost:8080. Done. Encrypted connection to your proxy server machine for all subsequent surfing.
The bash script, for the curious, is:
#!/bin/bash
PRPORT="8080:"
if [[ `ps axO command | grep $PRPORT | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` ]]
then
kill -9 `ps axO command | grep $PRPORT | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
ssh -f -N -L 8080:127.0.0.1:3128 [yourusername]@[proxyserverIP]
else
ssh -f -N -L 8080:127.0.0.1:3128 [yourusername]@[proxyserverIP]
fi
Needless to say, you need to have set up passwordless ssh with the proxy server.
"Deciding to live over 35 miles from your workplace is a pretty fucking stupid decision to have made."
Not to mention some of us are adults with careers and are partnered with other adults with careers and it's hardly uncommon for the two of you to end up with excellent jobs in the same city but quite some distance away from each other. Which means there's going to be some commuting involved.
You don't want to disable 911 or its international equivalents period. If the guy who mugged me is calling 911 on my stolen phone, chances are someone someone's life is at risk. I certainly wouldn't want to find out that some child hit by a car died because I'd installed some stupid app and the mugger saw it and was *trying* to do the right thing and call 911..
"No, the real problem is with having a voluntary fee for a collective, necessary service. Don't blame the firefighters. Blame the government that set up a no-win situation."
I think you mean "Blame the voters who are so anti-tax that they refuse to provide the necessary funds to even cover collective, necessary services."
Amen. I dropped out of comp. sci. in 1989 because a side business I had modifying and making electronics for the handicapped started taking up enough of my time that I couldn't do both. Two years later, I was still barely scraping by, so I wound up the business and went back to university. 20 years later (ouch), I consider that two year stint running my own business to have been a crucial and valuable part of my education (even though I went on to get a PhD and now do completely unrelated research). If I'd burned my bridges in any way when I 'dropped out' of school, I would have been screwed. If you feel your business/idea are good enough, go for it, but always make a plan for what happens when the business doesn't pan out - statistically most first businesses don't.
I wonder how many of the attendees had an iphone in their back pocket..
Add a motion detector, use the skype api to link the motion detector to 'call [skype account]' at each end, and the thing will connect whenever anyone walks into the kitchen at either end..?
The contract between USPS and the APWU doesn't say they can "never decrease their workforce" at all.
You may be thinking of the part of the contract which says that employees hired before September 15, 1978 have "lifetime protection against layoff" (Article 6(1)), and that employees who have more than six years service have a more limited set of protections against layoff (Article 6(2)). Everyone else gets sixty days notice (Article 6(B) and 6(C)).
The Joint Contract Interpretation Manual is here, and took me a whole five seconds to find via google.
I did a project a few years ago in San Francisco where we were trying to map where old bus stops had been - we knew the blocks but not the precise locations. Turned out to be surprisingly easy - look for the sudden increase in black smears of decades old gum on the sidewalk where there's currently no bus stop or other obvious reason for bunches of people to be hanging out. That's where the bus stop used to be, about 80% of the time. We're talking bus stops that got moved or removed in the early 70s, and nearly 40 years later it's still clear as day. The only thing that really threw us is where the sidewalk had been jackhammered out for some reason since the bus stop existed.
It was Delfina's Pizza in San Francisco. And they weren't merely satirical, they actually used the most negative reviews they could find on yelp about their pizzeria. http://www.7x7.com/blogs/bits-bites/yelp-tee-almost-more-brilliant-pizzeria-delfinas-pizza
Part of the point being that Delfina's pizza is a little side-store to Delfina's, the high-end, beloved of serious foodies restaurant, and the pizza is similarly well regarded - yelp reviewers giving it poor reviews were essentially demonstrating that they were idiots.
Here's a tool from the Washington Post which lets you put your current income & family situation in and get back exactly what impact the legislation will have on you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-health-bill-means-for-you/
No-one gets a 200% increase in premiums, in fact for anyone with a low enough income to "barely afford it", the maximum premium you will pay will be capped by law, and you'll get tax credits to make up any difference as well as receiving subsidies to help with deductibles and co-pays.
The only way I can see your premiums rising by 200% next year is your employer has decided to reduce their contribution to your insurance (passing the cost directly to you) and is using the passage of this legislation as an excuse to do so, and is assuming you won't do the research to find out that the legislation has nothing to do with it. However, between now and when the relevant parts of the legislation actually take effect (much of the bill doesn't kick in until 2014) there's nothing to stop them screwing you over like this.
And that, my friend, is why the NIH's constant push to produce more 'physician-researchers' continues to drive me nuts. Because they rarely insist K awards and other early-career training mechanisms require physicians intending to do research in areas where stats are important actually get any stats training..