And so was born the "honor killing" where your basic knuckle-dragging religious pinhead somehow believes what his daughter or sister does reflect upon his manhood. A pox on multi-culti beliefs that somehow moral and ethical outlooks on "ancient" practices are somehow misplaced. They aren't, and many ancient cultural practices should be damned.
"The explanation is the reality distortion field, not the inferiority of the competition.", No, the explanation is iTunes. With that, it became a consumer device rather than something a geek would load from his computer and sniff with that self-satisfied superior air that makes regular folks want to go for his throat.
The problem, I think, is that the market is too small for such a calculator. I'd love to see one but given the size of the consumer market and the low profit on any of these devices (as long as you aren't Apple), it would be quite a gamble for any company. That RPN style that HP pushed in their calculators from way back is almost impossible to get out of my brain. I have a desktop calc app that implements it. The old TI infix style makes my brain seize up.
The Greeks and Spaniards are to a large extent the cause of Europe's woes. They overspent for years, and collectively, the people thought nothing wrong with that....until the rest of Europe decided against further funding their largess. Now they are acting like spoiled brats demanding that Europe give them more candy.
In the not too distant future, Ballmer is standing in front of the MS faithful. In a fit of unconstrained euphoria, he rips the mask off his face and reveals....Stephen Elop. Said the Elopster before dancing off the stage, "I just knew I could fry a bigger fish than Nokia...bwahahahahaha!!"
I'm not so sanguine about the religious cranks taking over. I think they are doing it in spite of themselves, mostly as a side effect of deficit control. The biggest item on the chopping block is discretionary expenditures which include the budgets for U.S. government science agencies. Let's forget you cannot balance the budget that way, the Conservatives have gotten it into their heads that rules and regulations are strangling American and those are controlled through the discretionary expenditures. So rather than have a thoughtful go at it, they'd just like to whack the whole thing and let the chips fall where they may.
The result is that NSF, NIH, etc. get whacked. Once that happens, there will be less science, less science careers, and hence less need to teach science in the grade and high schools. The Liberals won't defend science because it doesn't get them votes with any of their newly ginned up victim classes.
I used to think that the Conservatives would at least spare the military which rather quite likes science. Then I heard Grover Norquist. The man has no sense of geopolitics. I got the general sense it was too complicated for him. He balances everything against giving the taxpayers more tax breaks which make him utterly incapable of making any moral decisions.
I think the problem is that there is no constituency for R&D in the U.S. The Liberals and Conservatives don't give a rat's ass about R&D because it doesn't help them get re-elected. Middle-of-the-Roaders congress-peoples used to be convinced that R&D paid benefits to society and that one needed a long term perspective. Now that Congress is polarized, each group is only thinking of the next election. You can get anyone of them to parrot the right R&D two-step spiel, but when it comes down to actual votes for appropriations, the Conservatives think of it as Big Government and claim Industry can do it all the R&D necessary and wouldn't it be really neat to buy the next election with a tax cut. The Liberals start crying the blues for the blue haired and their social programs and wouldn't it be neat to buy the next election by using it to "save" the social programs from those naughty conservatives.
It didn't help that those morons from Texas steamrolled the SSC in Texas past the sane choice at Fermilab in Illinois. Finally, Congress got fed up and put a stop to it. That wasn't so bad but it left a bad taste in everyone's mouth for Physics and Big Science which spilled over into Little Science such as NIH and NSF.
Now, the current newest crop of alleged legislators has no history with science and technology. Paul Ryan was an Econ and Poly Sci graduate. Romney is a business tycoon, Obama is still a small-town organizer, and Biden...well, Biden is old guard and should know better but he's currently spending his time telling non-white voters that Romney will put their chains back on (yep, he said it Mississippi or Alabama recently).
Where will the drive to succeed in S&T come from? Will it take China whipping our ass so that we get shamed into it? That's no way to run a country.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere will cause the atmosphere to heat up (example: Venus). You seem to be arguing that if you cannot prove it, then it isn't occurring. It all comes down to: should we risk this dirtball planet on your theory that the CO2 increase won't cause GW?
Revisionism isn't helpful. In Iraq, the U.S. removed a dictator who prevented the majority Shi'ites from living in a democracy. They may not have one yet but at least now they have a chance. And Saddam was another war waiting to happen, the only reason it didn't from he or his sons is because the U.S. spent 10 years and a lot of money making sure he couldn't rearm enough to start one. When it became clear, he or his sons were going to be a perpetual threat, the U.S. took him out.
The IRA was only brought to the bargaining table after it was rammed into their thick heads they couldn't win. That took a lot head-bashing to get them to that point. And if they had succeeded, they'd have started in on Ireland because the IRA was a bunch of socialists on a mission to unify the island under their direct control.
Britain and the U.S. fought it out, then reconciled, Japan and S. Korea are not reconciled, they simply have decided not to fight it out...yet. Japan recently claimed some islands that S. Korea thinks are theirs, and S.Korea halted progress on a defense pact over the issue. France and Germany only reconciled after Germany was defeated and France had nothing left with which to continue the fight. The U.S. made them reconcile by liberating France and defeating Germany.
Putin's Russia will never reconcile with the West simply because he wants to create another Stalinist state, but one he thinks can be run efficiently. The whole problem with the U.S. and Russia over Syria is because if the West succeeds in forcing the government there out, then Putin is worried he'll look like the petty dictator he really is and the West might attempt to force him out as well. His methods for keeping power are not all that dissimilar to Assad's and he'll be calling out the military should there ever be a popular groundswell of opposition to him. You can take the man out of the KGB but you cannot take the KGB out of the man.
Islam will never reconcile with the West either either. The West believes in democracy where power comes from the people. Islam believes that power comes from Allah. You can see it starting to reassert it's political basis in Turkey. Erdogan cannot stop himself from attempting the slow Islamization of Turkey's political landscape. Give it another 10 years and there won't be any democracy left in Turkey.
China is busy expanding into anything they think they can grab. There's no accommodating them unless by that you mean acquiescing to whatever their demands are this year. A single party system has no bounds stopping it from becoming a major headache.
Bullshit, Stalin's Soviet Union was destined to be an antagonist against the West regardless of WWII. Had Nazi Germany not invaded its eastern neighbors and somehow failed to attract the attention of the U.S., the Cold War would have still happened. You forget how paranoid Stalin was.
All myths have some basis in fact; I'd like to see that fact with respect to the Easter Bunny. I'm with you on the eggs, false advertising and where has he been stealing them from, eh? No one ever asks that question.
Thanks to Dick Nixon. The U.S. still has a military treaty for defense of Taiwan in case the potentates in the PRC's Communist Party attempt to make themselves look like a bigger group of f-ckups by attacking Taiwan. Sooner or later, I think they will make the attempt but only after it is sufficiently clear the U.S. cannot stop them. Taiwan's democracy makes China look bad, so it will have to go.
Being a drummer, I was never impressed with Ringo. But Ringo had a certain philosophy towards drumming that pretty much matched the Beatles, i.e., don't over do it. Somewhat like the drummer for AC/DC.
There are a load of good drummers nowadays, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, etc. Many were inspired by Buddy Rich. If you want to hear a rockified Buddy Rich, get Roar of '74, the first 4-5 tracks have rhythms most rock drummers will never be able to do and they are all very, very fast. Live at Ronnie Scott's (the double CD) is also really good. Buddy was an animal drummer before the Muppet's Animal. Another good drummer/percussionists/you-name-it was Sammy Davis Jr. There's a youtube of him playing drums, then get gets off that starts playing vibes. He could tap dance on stairs. The things he could do in dance when he was younger seem impossible. He was break-dancing long before the hip-hop crowd decided mono-culture, mono-beat, mono-everything was somehow good. Lionel Hampton was a good drummer and vibes player also.
I think you are talking about Death Metal. The musicians aren't bad and if they would just shut the f-ck up, they'd have some decent instrumentals there. The uni-note alleged singers are pretty awful. Even Rob Halford from Judas Priest has started singing that way now that his voice no longer has the range it once did. It is kind of funny watching the Death Metal musicians "sing" about violence when they'd get their asses kicked were they ever in a street fight.
Math relates in no way to the outside world? Are you insane? Have you never taken a physics or chem class? How about building a bridge, think you might use calculus? Where do you think the search for new particles starts; physicists just sit around over pints and dream these things up? How about the Higgs boson, recently in the news, it was theorized to exist at a specific energy level, that energy level was predicted by...yep, math.
Spoken like a true Flower Child or Philistine. What happened, you never got the memo on the Enlightenment? Forbid the thought that you might learn something that might be useful in a future you cannot predict, or that learning makes you a more rounded person, or that reading something like Philosophy (which, incidentally is not "used" in business) even though the modern world was built on what were at one time philosophical ideas. Modern algebra was developed by Decartes, maybe you've heard of him....1600's era intellectual, originator of analytic geometry which underlies calculus, that hobgobblin of modern education unless you need to build a bridge.
Hell, why not go all the way, let corporations educate the little bastards to know just what is needed for "business", after all, there will never be a new idea that comes at a 90 degree angle from what has been done before.
Most of the money in the TARP has already been repaid. They were loans, not free money. So far, the total cost to the taxpayer has been $32 billion. It helps to read and understand the news instead of merely believing what you wish were true.
Never saw a Linux OS gui that worked well, associated software is a pile of inconsistent pieces, and integration means I get to spend hours integrating it myself and having to put up with Linux snobs on forums attempting to get simple answers. Linux cesspool is the priceless part.
I think the situation was more opportunistic than that. Nokia was on the ropes from Apple and Androidists in the sense that they were losing their markets. Nokia's board decides they need someone from more consumer electronics background and decide on Elop because he worked for the 95% desktop producer hoping he had the magic wand. MS, realizing they had one of their own at Nokia, decides to make him a deal, i.e., take a beeelllion and promise to use our alleged phone software. Elop, not really having a clue about how to fix a company like Nokia, figures he's just been tossed a lifeline by his former employer. MS knew the right things to say because Elop was already drunk on the kool-aid from his time at MS. Nokia's board would have looked stupid if they countered Elop because they were the ones who were busing mismanaging Nokia and had put their "professional opinion" on the line by hiring Elop.
I think that is all there is too is. Any speculation about deals is probably wrong, MS was upfront about their deal, take the Beeeellion and use our alleged software.
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And so was born the "honor killing" where your basic knuckle-dragging religious pinhead somehow believes what his daughter or sister does reflect upon his manhood. A pox on multi-culti beliefs that somehow moral and ethical outlooks on "ancient" practices are somehow misplaced. They aren't, and many ancient cultural practices should be damned.
"The explanation is the reality distortion field, not the inferiority of the competition.", No, the explanation is iTunes. With that, it became a consumer device rather than something a geek would load from his computer and sniff with that self-satisfied superior air that makes regular folks want to go for his throat.
The problem, I think, is that the market is too small for such a calculator. I'd love to see one but given the size of the consumer market and the low profit on any of these devices (as long as you aren't Apple), it would be quite a gamble for any company. That RPN style that HP pushed in their calculators from way back is almost impossible to get out of my brain. I have a desktop calc app that implements it. The old TI infix style makes my brain seize up.
The Greeks and Spaniards are to a large extent the cause of Europe's woes. They overspent for years, and collectively, the people thought nothing wrong with that....until the rest of Europe decided against further funding their largess. Now they are acting like spoiled brats demanding that Europe give them more candy.
In the not too distant future, Ballmer is standing in front of the MS faithful. In a fit of unconstrained euphoria, he rips the mask off his face and reveals....Stephen Elop. Said the Elopster before dancing off the stage, "I just knew I could fry a bigger fish than Nokia...bwahahahahaha!!"
Errr... you mean like Serbia and Bosnia?
I'm not so sanguine about the religious cranks taking over. I think they are doing it in spite of themselves, mostly as a side effect of deficit control. The biggest item on the chopping block is discretionary expenditures which include the budgets for U.S. government science agencies. Let's forget you cannot balance the budget that way, the Conservatives have gotten it into their heads that rules and regulations are strangling American and those are controlled through the discretionary expenditures. So rather than have a thoughtful go at it, they'd just like to whack the whole thing and let the chips fall where they may.
The result is that NSF, NIH, etc. get whacked. Once that happens, there will be less science, less science careers, and hence less need to teach science in the grade and high schools. The Liberals won't defend science because it doesn't get them votes with any of their newly ginned up victim classes.
I used to think that the Conservatives would at least spare the military which rather quite likes science. Then I heard Grover Norquist. The man has no sense of geopolitics. I got the general sense it was too complicated for him. He balances everything against giving the taxpayers more tax breaks which make him utterly incapable of making any moral decisions.
I think the problem is that there is no constituency for R&D in the U.S. The Liberals and Conservatives don't give a rat's ass about R&D because it doesn't help them get re-elected. Middle-of-the-Roaders congress-peoples used to be convinced that R&D paid benefits to society and that one needed a long term perspective. Now that Congress is polarized, each group is only thinking of the next election. You can get anyone of them to parrot the right R&D two-step spiel, but when it comes down to actual votes for appropriations, the Conservatives think of it as Big Government and claim Industry can do it all the R&D necessary and wouldn't it be really neat to buy the next election with a tax cut. The Liberals start crying the blues for the blue haired and their social programs and wouldn't it be neat to buy the next election by using it to "save" the social programs from those naughty conservatives.
It didn't help that those morons from Texas steamrolled the SSC in Texas past the sane choice at Fermilab in Illinois. Finally, Congress got fed up and put a stop to it. That wasn't so bad but it left a bad taste in everyone's mouth for Physics and Big Science which spilled over into Little Science such as NIH and NSF.
Now, the current newest crop of alleged legislators has no history with science and technology. Paul Ryan was an Econ and Poly Sci graduate. Romney is a business tycoon, Obama is still a small-town organizer, and Biden...well, Biden is old guard and should know better but he's currently spending his time telling non-white voters that Romney will put their chains back on (yep, he said it Mississippi or Alabama recently).
Where will the drive to succeed in S&T come from? Will it take China whipping our ass so that we get shamed into it? That's no way to run a country.
The Taliban have SAMs now? Maybe your wet dream of a government conspiracy for everything is misplaced?
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Increasing its concentration in the atmosphere will cause the atmosphere to heat up (example: Venus). You seem to be arguing that if you cannot prove it, then it isn't occurring. It all comes down to: should we risk this dirtball planet on your theory that the CO2 increase won't cause GW?
No, but more like waiting for Godot.
Revisionism isn't helpful. In Iraq, the U.S. removed a dictator who prevented the majority Shi'ites from living in a democracy. They may not have one yet but at least now they have a chance. And Saddam was another war waiting to happen, the only reason it didn't from he or his sons is because the U.S. spent 10 years and a lot of money making sure he couldn't rearm enough to start one. When it became clear, he or his sons were going to be a perpetual threat, the U.S. took him out.
The IRA was only brought to the bargaining table after it was rammed into their thick heads they couldn't win. That took a lot head-bashing to get them to that point. And if they had succeeded, they'd have started in on Ireland because the IRA was a bunch of socialists on a mission to unify the island under their direct control.
Britain and the U.S. fought it out, then reconciled, Japan and S. Korea are not reconciled, they simply have decided not to fight it out...yet. Japan recently claimed some islands that S. Korea thinks are theirs, and S.Korea halted progress on a defense pact over the issue. France and Germany only reconciled after Germany was defeated and France had nothing left with which to continue the fight. The U.S. made them reconcile by liberating France and defeating Germany.
Putin's Russia will never reconcile with the West simply because he wants to create another Stalinist state, but one he thinks can be run efficiently. The whole problem with the U.S. and Russia over Syria is because if the West succeeds in forcing the government there out, then Putin is worried he'll look like the petty dictator he really is and the West might attempt to force him out as well. His methods for keeping power are not all that dissimilar to Assad's and he'll be calling out the military should there ever be a popular groundswell of opposition to him. You can take the man out of the KGB but you cannot take the KGB out of the man.
Islam will never reconcile with the West either either. The West believes in democracy where power comes from the people. Islam believes that power comes from Allah. You can see it starting to reassert it's political basis in Turkey. Erdogan cannot stop himself from attempting the slow Islamization of Turkey's political landscape. Give it another 10 years and there won't be any democracy left in Turkey.
China is busy expanding into anything they think they can grab. There's no accommodating them unless by that you mean acquiescing to whatever their demands are this year. A single party system has no bounds stopping it from becoming a major headache.
Bullshit, Stalin's Soviet Union was destined to be an antagonist against the West regardless of WWII. Had Nazi Germany not invaded its eastern neighbors and somehow failed to attract the attention of the U.S., the Cold War would have still happened. You forget how paranoid Stalin was.
All myths have some basis in fact; I'd like to see that fact with respect to the Easter Bunny. I'm with you on the eggs, false advertising and where has he been stealing them from, eh? No one ever asks that question.
Meds not working like they used to any longer? I know how you feel, try the little blue ones.
Thanks to Dick Nixon. The U.S. still has a military treaty for defense of Taiwan in case the potentates in the PRC's Communist Party attempt to make themselves look like a bigger group of f-ckups by attacking Taiwan. Sooner or later, I think they will make the attempt but only after it is sufficiently clear the U.S. cannot stop them. Taiwan's democracy makes China look bad, so it will have to go.
Being a drummer, I was never impressed with Ringo. But Ringo had a certain philosophy towards drumming that pretty much matched the Beatles, i.e., don't over do it. Somewhat like the drummer for AC/DC.
There are a load of good drummers nowadays, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, etc. Many were inspired by Buddy Rich. If you want to hear a rockified Buddy Rich, get Roar of '74, the first 4-5 tracks have rhythms most rock drummers will never be able to do and they are all very, very fast. Live at Ronnie Scott's (the double CD) is also really good. Buddy was an animal drummer before the Muppet's Animal. Another good drummer/percussionists/you-name-it was Sammy Davis Jr. There's a youtube of him playing drums, then get gets off that starts playing vibes. He could tap dance on stairs. The things he could do in dance when he was younger seem impossible. He was break-dancing long before the hip-hop crowd decided mono-culture, mono-beat, mono-everything was somehow good. Lionel Hampton was a good drummer and vibes player also.
I think you are talking about Death Metal. The musicians aren't bad and if they would just shut the f-ck up, they'd have some decent instrumentals there. The uni-note alleged singers are pretty awful. Even Rob Halford from Judas Priest has started singing that way now that his voice no longer has the range it once did. It is kind of funny watching the Death Metal musicians "sing" about violence when they'd get their asses kicked were they ever in a street fight.
Math relates in no way to the outside world? Are you insane? Have you never taken a physics or chem class? How about building a bridge, think you might use calculus? Where do you think the search for new particles starts; physicists just sit around over pints and dream these things up? How about the Higgs boson, recently in the news, it was theorized to exist at a specific energy level, that energy level was predicted by...yep, math.
Spoken like a true Flower Child or Philistine. What happened, you never got the memo on the Enlightenment? Forbid the thought that you might learn something that might be useful in a future you cannot predict, or that learning makes you a more rounded person, or that reading something like Philosophy (which, incidentally is not "used" in business) even though the modern world was built on what were at one time philosophical ideas. Modern algebra was developed by Decartes, maybe you've heard of him....1600's era intellectual, originator of analytic geometry which underlies calculus, that hobgobblin of modern education unless you need to build a bridge.
Hell, why not go all the way, let corporations educate the little bastards to know just what is needed for "business", after all, there will never be a new idea that comes at a 90 degree angle from what has been done before.
Most of the money in the TARP has already been repaid. They were loans, not free money. So far, the total cost to the taxpayer has been $32 billion. It helps to read and understand the news instead of merely believing what you wish were true.
You are comparing one tiny island to the entire Atlantic seaboard? It is generally wise to have a sense of proportion.
Never saw a Linux OS gui that worked well, associated software is a pile of inconsistent pieces, and integration means I get to spend hours integrating it myself and having to put up with Linux snobs on forums attempting to get simple answers. Linux cesspool is the priceless part.
I think the situation was more opportunistic than that. Nokia was on the ropes from Apple and Androidists in the sense that they were losing their markets. Nokia's board decides they need someone from more consumer electronics background and decide on Elop because he worked for the 95% desktop producer hoping he had the magic wand. MS, realizing they had one of their own at Nokia, decides to make him a deal, i.e., take a beeelllion and promise to use our alleged phone software. Elop, not really having a clue about how to fix a company like Nokia, figures he's just been tossed a lifeline by his former employer. MS knew the right things to say because Elop was already drunk on the kool-aid from his time at MS. Nokia's board would have looked stupid if they countered Elop because they were the ones who were busing mismanaging Nokia and had put their "professional opinion" on the line by hiring Elop.
I think that is all there is too is. Any speculation about deals is probably wrong, MS was upfront about their deal, take the Beeeellion and use our alleged software.
Yes, because a decent OS gui, associated software, and integration is priceless.