A year or two ago, someone got royally pissed at me when I mentioned I had seen The Maltese Falcon on TCM and in the insuing conversation gave away the ending. This is a movie filmed more than half a century ago.
So, on one hand, the Treasury Department is spending billions of dollars to keep massive corporations from breaking up and, on the other hand, the Justice Department will be spending billions of dollars to make sure they do.
The part that should really concern people is that the President's proposal reverses the burden of proof on charges of tax evasion. If you're accused of hiding money in a tax haven, you have to prove that you're complying with the tax code rather than the government having to prove you broke the law.
Don't forget that Toomey won a congressional seat three times in a majority-Democrat district that contains the Pennsylvania's third largest urban area. While it's comforting to stick to the old "All Republicans are ultra right wing nutjobs" script, Toomey has show in the past he knows how to get Democrat votes. That could prove challenging, especially in an election where liberal activist groups are likely to be rather lukewarm in their support of Specter.
You know if, after considering all of the numerous problems plaguing human civilization, you decide that web page font selection is the one problem that really gets your panties in a bunch, your life has been WAY too easy.
They may so many changes to the talent trees that all of your character and pet talents have been undone and the points returned to you. Any abilities you or your pet had been granted by talents are thus gone until you go back in and select a new talen spec again.
ALICE (Exasperated, pointing after RICH) While you talk, he's gone!
MORE And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
ROPER So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
MORE Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
ROPER I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
MORE (Roused and excited) Oh? (Advances on ROPER) And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? (He leaves him) This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
What about people who don't become authors until after the opt-out deadline? Suppose five years from now, I decide to write a first book. Will I be forced abide by Google's terms if I don't opt-out now? How about authors thirty years from now who haven't even been born yet?
I think what irks me most about this settlement is the arrogance of the Author's Guild in presuming to represent all authors that ever have or ever will exist.
For some reason my bank is refusing to grant me admin priveleges to their account databse, which is thwarting my efforts to write an open source 'Click this button to add $1,000 to your checking account' application.
Clearly the bank needs to be forced to open their non-free database server.
Unless they've figured out away to avoid conservation of matter (which really would be big news), it's a bit misleading to say they're PRODUCING hydrogen.
I once had to set up a new network where the only existing computer was a Linux machine named Tux. The other machines were a mix of Solaris an SGI boxes, but I decided to continue the 'existing' naming scheme by naming them all after cartoon penguins. I thought it was going to be hard, but it turned out pretty easy: Pogo, ChillyWilly, Feathers, Tennesse, etc.
Since that 'my health is perfectly fine' letter is increasingly looking like BS, he better hope he doesn't get sued for making a material misrepresentation to the shareholders.
You're forgeting there's two physical laws covering the relationships between charge and current (dq = i dt) and flux and voltage (dphi = v dt). The reasons memristors are not LTI is because (unlike the other three) they don't involve either of the time invariant quanties of current or voltage.
Of course, one wouldn't expect them to be entirely like the other three. If they were, you could just make a memristor from resistors, capacitor, inductors and it wouldn't be a fundamental component. To put it another way: the fact R's, C's, and L's are LTI and M's aren't is precisely why you need M's--not all electrical circuits are LTI either.
There are four basic quantities that are of concern in an electrical circuit: charge(q), current(i), voltage(v), and magnetic flux(phi). Those four quantities can be matched into pairs 6 different ways. Two of those pairs are time constrained by basic physical law: dq = i dt and dphi = v dt. Three of the remaining are determined by the properties of resistance(R), capacitance(C), and inductance(I): dv = R di, dq = C dv, and dphi = L di. Resistors, capacitors, and inductors are ultimately just devices that have a lot of one of those three properites and nearly none of the others.
It was speculated in the early 70's that there must be a fourth property, called memristance(M), that describes the 'missing' relationship: dphi = M dq. The memristor, then, is the corresponding device that has a lot of memristance but none of the other three properties. While memristance has been previously measured in complex systems, no one figured out how to build an feasible isolated memristor until just recently.
The four are considered fundamental in that none of the four can be built from a combination of the other three (e.g. you can't make a resistor from some combination of capacitors, inductors, and memristors) but any device can be built from some combination of the four (e.g. you CAN make a diode from L's, C', R's, and M's).
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A year or two ago, someone got royally pissed at me when I mentioned I had seen The Maltese Falcon on TCM and in the insuing conversation gave away the ending. This is a movie filmed more than half a century ago.
Of course, due to their age the original cast will be returning as the ghosts instead of as the busters.
But the Mac guy on the TV ads told me only PC's ever have security flaws!
So, on one hand, the Treasury Department is spending billions of dollars to keep massive corporations from breaking up and, on the other hand, the Justice Department will be spending billions of dollars to make sure they do.
The part that should really concern people is that the President's proposal reverses the burden of proof on charges of tax evasion. If you're accused of hiding money in a tax haven, you have to prove that you're complying with the tax code rather than the government having to prove you broke the law.
Don't forget that Toomey won a congressional seat three times in a majority-Democrat district that contains the Pennsylvania's third largest urban area. While it's comforting to stick to the old "All Republicans are ultra right wing nutjobs" script, Toomey has show in the past he knows how to get Democrat votes. That could prove challenging, especially in an election where liberal activist groups are likely to be rather lukewarm in their support of Specter.
You know if, after considering all of the numerous problems plaguing human civilization, you decide that web page font selection is the one problem that really gets your panties in a bunch, your life has been WAY too easy.
They may so many changes to the talent trees that all of your character and pet talents have been undone and the points returned to you. Any abilities you or your pet had been granted by talents are thus gone until you go back in and select a new talen spec again.
ALICE (Exasperated, pointing after RICH) While you talk, he's gone! MORE And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law! ROPER So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law! MORE Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ROPER I'd cut down every law in England to do that! MORE (Roused and excited) Oh? (Advances on ROPER) And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? (He leaves him) This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The Satellite's Communication: SEND US MORE MONEY NOW!
One thing I don't get:
What about people who don't become authors until after the opt-out deadline? Suppose five years from now, I decide to write a first book. Will I be forced abide by Google's terms if I don't opt-out now? How about authors thirty years from now who haven't even been born yet?
I think what irks me most about this settlement is the arrogance of the Author's Guild in presuming to represent all authors that ever have or ever will exist.
I told you saving the whales was a bad idea!
For some reason my bank is refusing to grant me admin priveleges to their account databse, which is thwarting my efforts to write an open source 'Click this button to add $1,000 to your checking account' application.
Clearly the bank needs to be forced to open their non-free database server.
No, it's basic geographic information.
Unless they've figured out away to avoid conservation of matter (which really would be big news), it's a bit misleading to say they're PRODUCING hydrogen.
WORST... RAID BOSS... EVER...
I once had to set up a new network where the only existing computer was a Linux machine named Tux. The other machines were a mix of Solaris an SGI boxes, but I decided to continue the 'existing' naming scheme by naming them all after cartoon penguins. I thought it was going to be hard, but it turned out pretty easy: Pogo, ChillyWilly, Feathers, Tennesse, etc.
Going forward, taxes will now be referred to as a Yearly Government Subscription Fee.
Where do you think that money comes from? The magical money tree in the Whitehouse Rose Garden?
Since that 'my health is perfectly fine' letter is increasingly looking like BS, he better hope he doesn't get sued for making a material misrepresentation to the shareholders.
Russell Johnson better get his affairs in order; this hasn't been a good week for people who live on fictional TV islands.
Calculate the probability that holding down the shift key and hitting random numbers will produce a valid PERL program.
You're forgeting there's two physical laws covering the relationships between charge and current (dq = i dt) and flux and voltage (dphi = v dt). The reasons memristors are not LTI is because (unlike the other three) they don't involve either of the time invariant quanties of current or voltage. Of course, one wouldn't expect them to be entirely like the other three. If they were, you could just make a memristor from resistors, capacitor, inductors and it wouldn't be a fundamental component. To put it another way: the fact R's, C's, and L's are LTI and M's aren't is precisely why you need M's--not all electrical circuits are LTI either.
There are four basic quantities that are of concern in an electrical circuit: charge(q), current(i), voltage(v), and magnetic flux(phi). Those four quantities can be matched into pairs 6 different ways. Two of those pairs are time constrained by basic physical law: dq = i dt and dphi = v dt. Three of the remaining are determined by the properties of resistance(R), capacitance(C), and inductance(I): dv = R di, dq = C dv, and dphi = L di. Resistors, capacitors, and inductors are ultimately just devices that have a lot of one of those three properites and nearly none of the others.
It was speculated in the early 70's that there must be a fourth property, called memristance(M), that describes the 'missing' relationship: dphi = M dq. The memristor, then, is the corresponding device that has a lot of memristance but none of the other three properties. While memristance has been previously measured in complex systems, no one figured out how to build an feasible isolated memristor until just recently.
The four are considered fundamental in that none of the four can be built from a combination of the other three (e.g. you can't make a resistor from some combination of capacitors, inductors, and memristors) but any device can be built from some combination of the four (e.g. you CAN make a diode from L's, C', R's, and M's).
...anyone who's played GTA knows you can't drive through a utility pole. That's why you're supposed to drive on the sidewalk.