Part of the problem, as I see it, is that so many people think that government is something that other people do, based on the whims of some other people.
At best that is an ineffecient system begging to have it's middlemen cut out, at worst it is an abdication of the responsibilites of free people.
If you are a Citizen of these United States, step up! Show up for jury duty and take it seriously! Vote your convictions! Remind your representatives (all of them) what their job really is!
(By the way, their job is almost certainly to uphold the Republic and act responsibly, even if popular [or merely vocal] opinion disagrees)
Bah. Stupid other people's computers that don't have all my cookies... Having to try six different passwords until I find the one that works isn't so great either.
Everyone was pissed back when analog cell phones were spewing information in the clear, and they all bitched about the government trying to strap privacy on with legislation.
Now, the same people are crying to the government to protect us from people snooping on our faces?
Privacy laws weren't the answer then, and they aren't now. If the information spewing from your face in the clear bothers you, take measures to hide it.
I believe you are referring to breeder reactors, which have nothing in particular to do with recycling.
Breeders can produce radioisotopes which are isotopes that weren't fissible to begin with, but can be promoted to fissibility by beta bombardment, and can also transmute some regular isotopes. This is a very different concept from conventional fuel recycling, although breeder reactors may be used for parts of the postprocessing.
In conventional fuel recycling, "spent" fuel rods are removed from the reactors, cooled, and sent to recycling plants. The recycling plant then removes a few grams of undesirable material (fission byproducts) and replenishes the rod to bring it back to it's optimal ratio, that rod is sent back to the plant to be used again, and the cycle continues.
The few grams of waste from the recycling plant are the only real waste, and some of that is used for medical (pacemaker batteries), educational (nuclear physics classes) and industrial (smoke alarms) applications.
I can't be sure, but I suspect that the data you mentioned probably failed to include Chineese (with roughly a billion speakers) and whatever they speak in India (my apologies, too late to look it up) (with probably a few million more).
The evidence seems to indicate that English is the most useful and extensible language around, so you can expect to see enormous surges in that column. Can you imagine anyone finishing school in western Europe and not knowing English any more? I can't.
Side note about sentence structure. Thanks to prepositions and other glue, English is quickly becoming a purely positional language, which means that almost any noun or verb can be converted to a verb or noun with only little modifications, if any. "benchmark" comes to mind here... Also, almost no English speakers have trouble understanding this Yodaism: "Parse this sentence well, do I."
Call it the placebo effect, or whatever, but I like records. I'm not under any illusions about them offering superior sound, but I like them. I don't listen to them often, I don't buy them often, I don't spend much on them when I do buy them, but I like them.
Maybe I just like having an excuse to fire up my B&O 4004...
Speaking of which, I think I'll throw Hotel California on...
I just can't see how having signed keys for SSH would help anyone. Unlike SSL, you don't just connect to an arbitrary host with SSH. Someone set up an account for you, and sent you a password. Didn't they also send you the fingerprint? If they didn't, then security isn't that important to them.
I know quite a few people that don't bother to lock their cars. They don't care about security. Are cars broken because they don't care?
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Strange. Up here, if you wanted privacy, you grabbed a trapezoidal envelope, open on the short end, and stuffed your ballot in that, leaving just the header exposed. You then stuffed the header into the machine, which would yank the ballot out of the envelope. If the machine spit it back out, they sent you back to the table to trade it for a new one.
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It is possible that I've spoken too soon, but...
1) CNN seems to have taken considerable care not to say that any of those 19,000 mispunched ballots resulted in that person's vote being lost, nor have I seen anyone else make that claim.
2) I've asked almost literally everyone I know, and none have ever seen a voting maching that didn't instantly give an indication of a misvote. In particular where I voted, the machine spit invalid ballots out if you try to insert a bad one.
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We've already got such a system. It's called "double checking". After I marked my ballot, but before I fed it to the counter, I checked all my marks again, just to make sure I had marked them right.
I get 174 when I add up the electoral votes of CA, NY, TX, FL, OH and PA. Since 270 are needed, the two states you can't remember are probably Ilinois and the Loisiana Territory (almost everything west of the Mississipi river).:)
You must be on crack. He did no such thing. He stammered for a bit and said the first two things that popped into his mind.
Plus, I'd rather the politicians try regulating the internet (which can't possibly work), than try regulating firearms (which also can't work).
Irrelevant actually. CSS isn't a protection measure, no matter how much they claim it is. If we are going to allow them to claim whatever they want as protection, they could write "Do not copy" on the disc with a pencil, call it protection, and thereby render criminal all those who traffic in or distribute pencil erasers.
If the watermark is in the audio you will either hear it, or your MP3 encoder will strip it out. That's how MP3 encoders work, they strip out the stuff that you wouldn't hear anyway.
The property interest a tenant has comes from a contract, hence "contractual". Contractual interests are sometimes property interests, but neither are property. Note that some contracts allow the contract itself to be property...
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: property
Pronunciation: 'prä-p&r-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural-ties
Etymology: Middle English proprete, from Middle French propreté, from Latin proprietat-, proprietas, from proprius own
Date: 14th century 1 a: a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing b: an effect that an object has on another object or on the senses c: VIRTUE 3 d: an attribute common to all members of a class 2 a: something owned or possessed; specifically: a piece of real estate b: the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing : OWNERSHIPc: something to which a person or business has a legal title d: one (as a performer) under contract whose work is especially valuable 3: an article or object used in a play or motion picture except painted scenery and costumes synonym see QUALITY - propertyless/-l&s/ adjective - propertylessness/-n&s/ noun
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and if they don't, you can keep going back, saying, "crap, this one is broken too."
Part of the problem, as I see it, is that so many people think that government is something that other people do, based on the whims of some other people.
At best that is an ineffecient system begging to have it's middlemen cut out, at worst it is an abdication of the responsibilites of free people.
If you are a Citizen of these United States, step up! Show up for jury duty and take it seriously! Vote your convictions! Remind your representatives (all of them) what their job really is!
(By the way, their job is almost certainly to uphold the Republic and act responsibly, even if popular [or merely vocal] opinion disagrees)
The speed of light is broken all the time. It causes Cherenkov Radiation...
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http://rd11.web.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/PH14pp/node26.ht
And yes, I know people usually mean the speed of light in a vacuum
Highly Conductive paths to ground usually tend to prevent lightning by bleeding the potential out of the air before it builds to the point of arcing.
Bah. Stupid other people's computers that don't have all my cookies... Having to try six different passwords until I find the one that works isn't so great either.
I still like 2001-08-12 08:12:01.
Everyone was pissed back when analog cell phones were spewing information in the clear, and they all bitched about the government trying to strap privacy on with legislation.
Now, the same people are crying to the government to protect us from people snooping on our faces?
Privacy laws weren't the answer then, and they aren't now. If the information spewing from your face in the clear bothers you, take measures to hide it.
I believe you are referring to breeder reactors, which have nothing in particular to do with recycling.
Breeders can produce radioisotopes which are isotopes that weren't fissible to begin with, but can be promoted to fissibility by beta bombardment, and can also transmute some regular isotopes. This is a very different concept from conventional fuel recycling, although breeder reactors may be used for parts of the postprocessing.
In conventional fuel recycling, "spent" fuel rods are removed from the reactors, cooled, and sent to recycling plants. The recycling plant then removes a few grams of undesirable material (fission byproducts) and replenishes the rod to bring it back to it's optimal ratio, that rod is sent back to the plant to be used again, and the cycle continues.
The few grams of waste from the recycling plant are the only real waste, and some of that is used for medical (pacemaker batteries), educational (nuclear physics classes) and industrial (smoke alarms) applications.
I can't be sure, but I suspect that the data you mentioned probably failed to include Chineese (with roughly a billion speakers) and whatever they speak in India (my apologies, too late to look it up) (with probably a few million more).
The evidence seems to indicate that English is the most useful and extensible language around, so you can expect to see enormous surges in that column. Can you imagine anyone finishing school in western Europe and not knowing English any more? I can't.
Side note about sentence structure. Thanks to prepositions and other glue, English is quickly becoming a purely positional language, which means that almost any noun or verb can be converted to a verb or noun with only little modifications, if any. "benchmark" comes to mind here... Also, almost no English speakers have trouble understanding this Yodaism: "Parse this sentence well, do I."
Anyone who has read Orbital Decay by Allen Steele should be familiar with this emergency system.
How else would Hooker have gotten to earth?
Call it the placebo effect, or whatever, but I like records. I'm not under any illusions about them offering superior sound, but I like them. I don't listen to them often, I don't buy them often, I don't spend much on them when I do buy them, but I like them.
Maybe I just like having an excuse to fire up my B&O 4004...
Speaking of which, I think I'll throw Hotel California on...
The points he lists are all technically correct, but this is hardly new. These debates have been raging for decades now.
I've got a computer in my van. This would rule for mobile IP connectivity, if not for the cost.
Not to mention the problem of tracking a satellite from a moving platform using equipment not intended for such use...
I just can't see how having signed keys for SSH would help anyone. Unlike SSL, you don't just connect to an arbitrary host with SSH. Someone set up an account for you, and sent you a password. Didn't they also send you the fingerprint? If they didn't, then security isn't that important to them.
I know quite a few people that don't bother to lock their cars. They don't care about security. Are cars broken because they don't care?
Strange. Up here, if you wanted privacy, you grabbed a trapezoidal envelope, open on the short end, and stuffed your ballot in that, leaving just the header exposed. You then stuffed the header into the machine, which would yank the ballot out of the envelope. If the machine spit it back out, they sent you back to the table to trade it for a new one.
It is possible that I've spoken too soon, but...
1) CNN seems to have taken considerable care not to say that any of those 19,000 mispunched ballots resulted in that person's vote being lost, nor have I seen anyone else make that claim.
2) I've asked almost literally everyone I know, and none have ever seen a voting maching that didn't instantly give an indication of a misvote. In particular where I voted, the machine spit invalid ballots out if you try to insert a bad one.
We've already got such a system. It's called "double checking". After I marked my ballot, but before I fed it to the counter, I checked all my marks again, just to make sure I had marked them right.
changes more than you'd think. You must live down south. :)
But seriously, do you still drive on cobblestones?
I get 174 when I add up the electoral votes of CA, NY, TX, FL, OH and PA. Since 270 are needed, the two states you can't remember are probably Ilinois and the Loisiana Territory (almost everything west of the Mississipi river). :)
I'm going to vote for the one candidate running that doesn't care a whit for me, or anyone else. Harry Brown.
Libertarian Party
You must be on crack. He did no such thing. He stammered for a bit and said the first two things that popped into his mind.
Plus, I'd rather the politicians try regulating the internet (which can't possibly work), than try regulating firearms (which also can't work).
This story has the potential to draw the most comments ever. I'm doing my part, have you?
Irrelevant actually. CSS isn't a protection measure, no matter how much they claim it is. If we are going to allow them to claim whatever they want as protection, they could write "Do not copy" on the disc with a pencil, call it protection, and thereby render criminal all those who traffic in or distribute pencil erasers.
If the watermark is in the audio you will either hear it, or your MP3 encoder will strip it out. That's how MP3 encoders work, they strip out the stuff that you wouldn't hear anyway.
You may have missed the Pigeon Tunnel as shown in RFC 2549.
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The property interest a tenant has comes from a contract, hence "contractual". Contractual interests are sometimes property interests, but neither are property. Note that some contracts allow the contract itself to be property...
: a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing b : an effect that an object has on another object or on the senses c : VIRTUE 3 d : an attribute common to all members of a class : something owned or possessed; specifically : a piece of real estate b : the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing : OWNERSHIP c : something to which a person or business has a legal title d : one (as a performer) under contract whose work is especially valuable : an article or object used in a play or motion picture except painted scenery and costumes /-l&s/ adjective /-n&s/ noun
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: property
Pronunciation: 'prä-p&r-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English proprete, from Middle French propreté, from Latin proprietat-, proprietas, from proprius own
Date: 14th century
1 a
2 a
3
synonym see QUALITY
- propertyless
- propertylessness