If you go to the site, they're not saying we should cut ALL of the NSF funding. They're asking people to suggest specific grants that are not good uses of tax dollars. The OP is essentially saying that there can't possibly be waste anywhere in the NSF budget at that anyone who would even suggest such a thing must necessarily be anti-science.
In the US, our view is skewed because our well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels was not headed by such.
To a large extent that's because our revolution wasn't actually revolutionary, in that the goal for the most part wasn't really to remake society, but to actually stop the status quo from being changed by England.
Likewise, I'm apparently being put upon since I only get 3mbps, even though that's all I'm paying for and am pleased with my service. Of course, I could get 20+ Mbps if I wanted, but I don't see that being worth the additional expense. Perhaps it would be better to find out what percentage of people have the maximum possible bandwidth available in their area and desire more rather than comparing them to some arbitrarily defined standard that doesn't reflect what many people actually need or want.
I don't trust Kaspersky AV. Back in the 80's, Eugene Kaspersky was a major in the KGB. Trusting your computer security to a former Russian intelligence officer is just asking for trouble.
I can't believe you're going making me defend Sarah Palin, but the OP is misquoting her.
What she actually said was, "Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders? [emphasis added]". She then goes on to say "Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen". It's clear she's advocating a legal response, not a military one.
Actually, the FTC 's Do Not Call list made things much worse for me. I never got calls even before because I was on the Direct Mail Association's do not call list. Ever since the FTC Do Not Call low was passed, I've been getting calls from politicians, pollsters, charities, etc. Namely all the groups that were exempted from the law and just use it as a Please Call Me Repeatedly list.
Have you considered that the workers in question would actually be proud of their work and watch the launch with the joy of seeing the results of a job well done?
For most of the workers, this is probably true. But it only takes one or two who have 'clocked out early' to ruin something like this.
And look at the evidence. If nothing had happened yet, you might have an argument that I'm just being overly cynical. But this thing is is leaking all over the place. After the THIRD launch scrub due to the ET leaking, is it still out of bounds to suggest their may be some workmanship issues with it?
This was the last external tank made at Michoud. As it rolled down the assembly line, everyone who worked on it did their particular task and then was laid off as soon as they were done.
And people are shocked it's not particularly well made? Frankly, I think the astronauts taking this tank into orbit have to be nuts.
Is your state a no recourse state? If it's not, they can still sue you for the difference between what you owe and what they got for the house in foreclosure.
As opposed to the union paymasters who donate just as much purely out of feelings of patriotism? The Democrats actually spent $270 million more on this election than the Republicans did:
And of course, the real story is how little campaign spending actually appears to impact the outcomes of elections. The Democrats spent less on the Senate and held it. The Republicans spent less on the house and cleaned up:
The real purpose of the manned space program is to create large numbers of highly paid jobs in various key congressional districts, thereby assuring the reelection of politicans. Everything beyond that is purely coincidental.
My online privacy would be helped far more by an end to warrantless wiretapping and data collection by the government. If I don't like Facebook's privacy protections I can just not use it. There's no opt-out for the NSA.
ISP's in favor of preferential access all seem to think they'll be able to charge providers big fees to allow their content to flow to the ISP's customers. For reasons this story should make clear, they're far more likely to end up making payments TO the content providers. There's a reason that every other medium in existance works that way.
Even if he was on commercial transport, he'd have been fine in the United States. You can put as many weapons as you like in your checked baggage, you're just not allow to have them in your carry on.
You're even allowed to have unloaded guns in your checked baggage (e.g. http://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/baggage/firearms.jsp), although in that case you do have to declare them when you check in the bags.
I don't actually agree with Holmes (indeed, if I did I wouldn't have remembered this quote). I was just reminded of the exchange by the conversation I thought I'd mention it.
[Sherlock Holme's] ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."
"To forget it!"
"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
"But the Solar System!" I protested.
"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
What the F is "search neutrality"? Search rankings, by their very nature, are going to rank pages as better or worse for a particular topic. Just because you had your heart set on being the number one website for X doesn't mean you're getting screwed if you're not. It probably reflects the reality that most people don't infact want your site when they go looking for X.
If anything, Google is far too neutral. When I'm going shopping for something on the internet, I don't want pages of screwy mom and pop sites I've never heard of any of unknown reliability.
Slashdot Mirror
Since A = B, dividing (A + B)(A - B) and A (A - B) by (A - B) is undefined.
1. Find lawyer.
2. Sue Peter Thiel for age discrimination
3. Profit
If you go to the site, they're not saying we should cut ALL of the NSF funding. They're asking people to suggest specific grants that are not good uses of tax dollars. The OP is essentially saying that there can't possibly be waste anywhere in the NSF budget at that anyone who would even suggest such a thing must necessarily be anti-science.
To a large extent that's because our revolution wasn't actually revolutionary, in that the goal for the most part wasn't really to remake society, but to actually stop the status quo from being changed by England.
Likewise, I'm apparently being put upon since I only get 3mbps, even though that's all I'm paying for and am pleased with my service. Of course, I could get 20+ Mbps if I wanted, but I don't see that being worth the additional expense. Perhaps it would be better to find out what percentage of people have the maximum possible bandwidth available in their area and desire more rather than comparing them to some arbitrarily defined standard that doesn't reflect what many people actually need or want.
I don't trust Kaspersky AV. Back in the 80's, Eugene Kaspersky was a major in the KGB. Trusting your computer security to a former Russian intelligence officer is just asking for trouble.
I can't believe you're going making me defend Sarah Palin, but the OP is misquoting her.
What she actually said was, "Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders? [emphasis added]". She then goes on to say "Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen". It's clear she's advocating a legal response, not a military one.
Actually, the FTC 's Do Not Call list made things much worse for me. I never got calls even before because I was on the Direct Mail Association's do not call list. Ever since the FTC Do Not Call low was passed, I've been getting calls from politicians, pollsters, charities, etc. Namely all the groups that were exempted from the law and just use it as a Please Call Me Repeatedly list.
I hope this goes better than her last forray into new media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloIoGj5Mj0
How about a child who breaks bones on three seperate occasions in a period of two weeks?
For most of the workers, this is probably true. But it only takes one or two who have 'clocked out early' to ruin something like this.
And look at the evidence. If nothing had happened yet, you might have an argument that I'm just being overly cynical. But this thing is is leaking all over the place. After the THIRD launch scrub due to the ET leaking, is it still out of bounds to suggest their may be some workmanship issues with it?
This was the last external tank made at Michoud. As it rolled down the assembly line, everyone who worked on it did their particular task and then was laid off as soon as they were done.
And people are shocked it's not particularly well made? Frankly, I think the astronauts taking this tank into orbit have to be nuts.
Is your state a no recourse state? If it's not, they can still sue you for the difference between what you owe and what they got for the house in foreclosure.
Did your house lose $100K in value or did you just overpay $100K?
As opposed to the union paymasters who donate just as much purely out of feelings of patriotism? The Democrats actually spent $270 million more on this election than the Republicans did:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44216.html
And of course, the real story is how little campaign spending actually appears to impact the outcomes of elections. The Democrats spent less on the Senate and held it. The Republicans spent less on the house and cleaned up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/us/politics/02donate.html
Brown spent a third of what Whitman did and still won as Governor:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-03/brown-beats-whitman-for-california-governor-while-outspent-3-1.html
Fiorina and McMahon spent tens of millions of their own money and lost big for the Senate. etc. etc. etc.
The real purpose of the manned space program is to create large numbers of highly paid jobs in various key congressional districts, thereby assuring the reelection of politicans. Everything beyond that is purely coincidental.
My online privacy would be helped far more by an end to warrantless wiretapping and data collection by the government. If I don't like Facebook's privacy protections I can just not use it. There's no opt-out for the NSA.
ISP's in favor of preferential access all seem to think they'll be able to charge providers big fees to allow their content to flow to the ISP's customers. For reasons this story should make clear, they're far more likely to end up making payments TO the content providers. There's a reason that every other medium in existance works that way.
There's no such thing as 0.999999...8; you can't have an 8 after an infinite number of 9's
Even if he was on commercial transport, he'd have been fine in the United States. You can put as many weapons as you like in your checked baggage, you're just not allow to have them in your carry on. You're even allowed to have unloaded guns in your checked baggage (e.g. http://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/baggage/firearms.jsp), although in that case you do have to declare them when you check in the bags.
I don't actually agree with Holmes (indeed, if I did I wouldn't have remembered this quote). I was just reminded of the exchange by the conversation I thought I'd mention it.
--- A. C. Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
By mobile do they mean 'intended for notebooks' or 'generate enough heat that the explosions will propel them over great distances'?
What the F is "search neutrality"? Search rankings, by their very nature, are going to rank pages as better or worse for a particular topic. Just because you had your heart set on being the number one website for X doesn't mean you're getting screwed if you're not. It probably reflects the reality that most people don't infact want your site when they go looking for X. If anything, Google is far too neutral. When I'm going shopping for something on the internet, I don't want pages of screwy mom and pop sites I've never heard of any of unknown reliability.
I find the UN makes far more sense if you think of it as the Trade Association for the Beuracracy Industry.