If you are going to use that to justify social programs then Bush et all can think maybe providing for defense of its citizens through domestic wiretapping could fall under
the power to provide for the general welfare of the United States
Don't know that any of that matters very much. I imagine that if GW Bush feels he has to invade Iran to protect the American people he will do so. Probably thinking something on the order of it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. That he would spend the rest of his life in jail might be worth it in his mind. I'm willing to bet that if a democrat or pull everyone out republican gets elected Iran will be invaded in the two months left to him, unless Iran starts doing some serious cooperating with the IAEC etc. Their president telling the UN that he considers the matter closed just cemented that thought in my mind.
He could try and sell an invasion, and even possibly in this case be correct that it is the right thing to do, but he has zero credibility any more, and knows it.
The police called the paint on her sweatshirt "putty" and the simple breadboard attached to the outside of that sweatshirt a bomb.
RTFA -- the putty turned out to be playdough!! Come on how can you not think this looks suspicious as hell. If they didn't ask her about it and it turned out to be a bomb everyone would be going on about how worthless our security is. If she had answered and told them something, I still don't know that I'd believe her. How can this not look like a bomb??
I've never understood this philosophy -- I agree voting is a right, but if you don't require ID what prevents Joe Blow from going to vote in his precinct as himself, and then stopping by a few more on his way home to vote as other people. I should think that requiring ID or small enough precincts that the workers personally know every registered voter is the only way to prevent
Some SUV drivers go so far as to put bars on the front of the front grill to maximize the damage their vehicle will do to another vehicle or pedestrian in an accident.
I would like to think that most do it to MINIMIZE the damage to their vehicle rather than think that they are out there intentionally trying to do more damage to other people or their property.
oil is not a resource that is strictly required for survival
Maybe it wasn't for Saddam Hussein because he had enough of his own for self sufficiency, but tell me how long you think our country could survive without oil? Without the means to transport food people would start dying off quickly. Now should we be so reliant on other countries for something that is so essential to our survival? NO!! But that isn't something that we could switch off to alternatives quickly. (Personally I wish for a president that would do the JFK moon shot thing and really drive USA towards alternative energy but that isn't going to happen soon. )
Except if they wait too long the chinese, indians, any other developing nation thats not getting a piece of this windfall will decide they need to have a share. I don't think USA is the only country that would go to "war for oil."
I purchased an OEM laptop with VISTA installed. I asked about downgrading to XP, and was told that to do that I'd first have to upgrade vista from home premium to business or ultimate. Then I could downgrade for free and get a key for XP pro. Next I asked if I could purchase and use win XP pro upgrade -- and they said no. In order to move from Vista to XP without upgrading first to ulitmate or business is to buy a full blown license for XP. It sucks!!!!
There are a million things to research, yet many people choose to work on projects that have dubious implications for society.
I don't think that facial recognition is something must necessarily have a dubious impact on society. AFAIK this has long been one of the sought after abilities for robotic applications. That it has the drawback of possibly -- ok who am I kidding here certainly -- being used to draw us further into a surveilance society is not the fault of the researchers.
Maybe when you get down to your weaponizing anthrax end of the spectrum it becomes easier to say this is wrong, but... I'll bet that many if not most of the researchers that did that probably believed strongly in the cause they were doing it for.
I disagree -- I play MMORPG's more as a RPG. I solo most of the time the vast other world out there is there to have something to do with all the stuff that I can get, or to allow me to not have to find everything. But on the other side, there is quite a bit of story line in some MMORPG's. For example, WOW has a very complex story line -- if you go through and read several of the "books" that you can find in various dungeons etc there is quite a bit of story behind it that is kinda interesting to discover. I think the big difference between RPG and MMORPG is the ability to actually change the world around you, like the author pointed out.
I am a contractor and occasionally I get contracts doing Cobol work. I can think of at least two of the companies that I have worked that still actively use Cobol with no plans to move off it. Plus another of the companies that I worked for wanted to get rid of their Cobol application to escape the oppressive mainframe license fees, but after supporting a project to rewrite that application for 3 years and several million dollars they came to the conclusion that it was easier to get a mainframe emulator and host the Cobol app on a Unix box, and there it continues to run 3 yrs later.
I think until it becomes so difficult to find people to program Cobol application that it costs more to hire people than it does to rewrite the Cobol application those applications will remain. There are so many years of business processes built into the systems that rewriting them becomes more of a process of changing the business processes to match a new enterprise application than a program rewrite. And it is much more difficult to change the business process than it is to rewrite the application.
BTW -- I don't hate my job when working with Cobol. It's just another language. Sure its a lot easier to program the same thing in a more modern language, but working with Cobol applications is almost never writing from scratch.
That walkable streets link is disturbing. It seems like the author wants to force people into living in NYC like areas.
It believe what it says about people using less energy etc. but what the author proposes will never work, because people move to the suburbs exactly to get away from city conditions, not because they want to waste energy, but to escape from the wretched city.
The ideas listed that would make it more and more expensive to move out to the suburbs would basically reinstate an elite class, as only the super rich could afford to move out and would maintain large estates.
I think it is more likely that someone thinks they can get by with fewer officers while using the drones so cutting expenses, earning themselves a bonus. Therefore falling more in line with the stupidity thing than malice.
Well if you read the article that is a lot of what they are talking about. Spiegel is theorizing that the north shore of Germany will actually boom because Italy, Spain etc will be too hot for sunbathing etc. Their view of global warming bringing improvements is based strictly on a better for Germany viewpoint.
Aren't biofuels just another way of storing energy?
I think the problem with hydrogen is a combination of:
1) The energy density of hydrogen isn't as high as petroleum fuels.
2) The energy input required to form hydrogen is very large.
As someone who has never played or wanted to play EVE all this goes more than a little over my head but blaming any of this on the guy did the hacking smacks of trying to hide something.
If some reporter had hacked into the white house network and found chat logs proving that Carl Rove had maliciously outed Valarie Plame the majority of slashdot would be patting him on the back and congratulating him.
How is that different from what this hacker did? He exposed corruption and illegal(ok illegal in the game) behavior. Can you explain to me how he ruined the game by exposing the corruption that existed? It seems to me that CCP ruined the game by being corrupt. Or do I just totally not understand whats going on?
When Mt. St. Helens blew we had about 3 feet of ash over all our fields in Eastern WA. The problem was you couldn't really scrape it. It was too light and fluffy -- at least till the first rain fall then it was like concrete. In the end it was a combination of like he said scraping and plowing it under.
The big problem was what it did to engines -- that stuff is super corrosive well ok more correct would be super abrasive -- you have to have special filters on all your air intakes and they have to be cleaned frequently.
While not as easy as the GP makes it out to be -- farmers for the most part have the equipment to clear the fields and it can be done fairly quickly.
Nah -- but if you have 7 people on a team where you use google to quickly hash out a document and mark it up then export that out to the one person on the team that has a latex / MS word install who then turns your thoughts into a professional document. 90% of the MS word users don't need word -- they could get by with a slightly more advanced word pad which google apps fills nicely. If google can continue to achieve "good enough" operability with other document apps it doesn't need to produce professional documents.
True no one is forcing you to use a Microsoft product. What I was saying is that people who want to write products that work with microsoft products cant do so as well as microsoft can therefore they can't make a profit. That is what this is about interoperability.
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If you are going to use that to justify social programs then Bush et all can think maybe providing for defense of its citizens through domestic wiretapping could fall under
Don't know that any of that matters very much. I imagine that if GW Bush feels he has to invade Iran to protect the American people he will do so. Probably thinking something on the order of it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. That he would spend the rest of his life in jail might be worth it in his mind. I'm willing to bet that if a democrat or pull everyone out republican gets elected Iran will be invaded in the two months left to him, unless Iran starts doing some serious cooperating with the IAEC etc. Their president telling the UN that he considers the matter closed just cemented that thought in my mind.
He could try and sell an invasion, and even possibly in this case be correct that it is the right thing to do, but he has zero credibility any more, and knows it.
RTFA -- the putty turned out to be playdough!! Come on how can you not think this looks suspicious as hell. If they didn't ask her about it and it turned out to be a bomb everyone would be going on about how worthless our security is. If she had answered and told them something, I still don't know that I'd believe her. How can this not look like a bomb??
I've never understood this philosophy -- I agree voting is a right, but if you don't require ID what prevents Joe Blow from going to vote in his precinct as himself, and then stopping by a few more on his way home to vote as other people. I should think that requiring ID or small enough precincts that the workers personally know every registered voter is the only way to prevent
I would like to think that most do it to MINIMIZE the damage to their vehicle rather than think that they are out there intentionally trying to do more damage to other people or their property.
Maybe it wasn't for Saddam Hussein because he had enough of his own for self sufficiency, but tell me how long you think our country could survive without oil? Without the means to transport food people would start dying off quickly. Now should we be so reliant on other countries for something that is so essential to our survival? NO!! But that isn't something that we could switch off to alternatives quickly. (Personally I wish for a president that would do the JFK moon shot thing and really drive USA towards alternative energy but that isn't going to happen soon. )
Except if they wait too long the chinese, indians, any other developing nation thats not getting a piece of this windfall will decide they need to have a share. I don't think USA is the only country that would go to "war for oil."
I purchased an OEM laptop with VISTA installed. I asked about downgrading to XP, and was told that to do that I'd first have to upgrade vista from home premium to business or ultimate. Then I could downgrade for free and get a key for XP pro. Next I asked if I could purchase and use win XP pro upgrade -- and they said no. In order to move from Vista to XP without upgrading first to ulitmate or business is to buy a full blown license for XP. It sucks!!!!
Not only that but to "downgrade" from Vista to XP you have to reformat your drive. They have made it as user unfriendly as possible.
I don't think that facial recognition is something must necessarily have a dubious impact on society. AFAIK this has long been one of the sought after abilities for robotic applications. That it has the drawback of possibly -- ok who am I kidding here certainly -- being used to draw us further into a surveilance society is not the fault of the researchers.
Maybe when you get down to your weaponizing anthrax end of the spectrum it becomes easier to say this is wrong, but ... I'll bet that many if not most of the researchers that did that probably believed strongly in the cause they were doing it for.
I disagree -- I play MMORPG's more as a RPG. I solo most of the time the vast other world out there is there to have something to do with all the stuff that I can get, or to allow me to not have to find everything. But on the other side, there is quite a bit of story line in some MMORPG's. For example, WOW has a very complex story line -- if you go through and read several of the "books" that you can find in various dungeons etc there is quite a bit of story behind it that is kinda interesting to discover. I think the big difference between RPG and MMORPG is the ability to actually change the world around you, like the author pointed out.
I am a contractor and occasionally I get contracts doing Cobol work. I can think of at least two of the companies that I have worked that still actively use Cobol with no plans to move off it. Plus another of the companies that I worked for wanted to get rid of their Cobol application to escape the oppressive mainframe license fees, but after supporting a project to rewrite that application for 3 years and several million dollars they came to the conclusion that it was easier to get a mainframe emulator and host the Cobol app on a Unix box, and there it continues to run 3 yrs later.
I think until it becomes so difficult to find people to program Cobol application that it costs more to hire people than it does to rewrite the Cobol application those applications will remain. There are so many years of business processes built into the systems that rewriting them becomes more of a process of changing the business processes to match a new enterprise application than a program rewrite. And it is much more difficult to change the business process than it is to rewrite the application.
BTW -- I don't hate my job when working with Cobol. It's just another language. Sure its a lot easier to program the same thing in a more modern language, but working with Cobol applications is almost never writing from scratch.
That walkable streets link is disturbing. It seems like the author wants to force people into living in NYC like areas.
It believe what it says about people using less energy etc. but what the author proposes will never work, because people move to the suburbs exactly to get away from city conditions, not because they want to waste energy, but to escape from the wretched city.
The ideas listed that would make it more and more expensive to move out to the suburbs would basically reinstate an elite class, as only the super rich could afford to move out and would maintain large estates.
I think it is more likely that someone thinks they can get by with fewer officers while using the drones so cutting expenses, earning themselves a bonus. Therefore falling more in line with the stupidity thing than malice.
Thank goodness my addiction is undetectable by blood/pee/hair tests.
WOW is probably as destructive to my work life as other addictions but less detectable.
Well if you read the article that is a lot of what they are talking about. Spiegel is theorizing that the north shore of Germany will actually boom because Italy, Spain etc will be too hot for sunbathing etc. Their view of global warming bringing improvements is based strictly on a better for Germany viewpoint.
Aren't biofuels just another way of storing energy?
I think the problem with hydrogen is a combination of:
1) The energy density of hydrogen isn't as high as petroleum fuels.
2) The energy input required to form hydrogen is very large.
LOL don't forget US govnmt running out of SSN's
Isn't that some anchient chinese curse?
As someone who has never played or wanted to play EVE all this goes more than a little over my head but blaming any of this on the guy did the hacking smacks of trying to hide something.
If some reporter had hacked into the white house network and found chat logs proving that Carl Rove had maliciously outed Valarie Plame the majority of slashdot would be patting him on the back and congratulating him.
How is that different from what this hacker did? He exposed corruption and illegal(ok illegal in the game) behavior. Can you explain to me how he ruined the game by exposing the corruption that existed? It seems to me that CCP ruined the game by being corrupt. Or do I just totally not understand whats going on?
When Mt. St. Helens blew we had about 3 feet of ash over all our fields in Eastern WA. The problem was you couldn't really scrape it. It was too light and fluffy -- at least till the first rain fall then it was like concrete. In the end it was a combination of like he said scraping and plowing it under.
The big problem was what it did to engines -- that stuff is super corrosive well ok more correct would be super abrasive -- you have to have special filters on all your air intakes and they have to be cleaned frequently.
While not as easy as the GP makes it out to be -- farmers for the most part have the equipment to clear the fields and it can be done fairly quickly.
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Then it goes on to list all the seperate donations -- majority of which appear to go to RNC but there are substantial amounts to DNC also.
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=
umm I don't know how you searched but I got substantially different results
open secretsNah -- but if you have 7 people on a team where you use google to quickly hash out a document and mark it up then export that out to the one person on the team that has a latex / MS word install who then turns your thoughts into a professional document. 90% of the MS word users don't need word -- they could get by with a slightly more advanced word pad which google apps fills nicely. If google can continue to achieve "good enough" operability with other document apps it doesn't need to produce professional documents.
True no one is forcing you to use a Microsoft product. What I was saying is that people who want to write products that work with microsoft products cant do so as well as microsoft can therefore they can't make a profit. That is what this is about interoperability.