Offtopic, but you should know that you are repeating a common misconception concerning how the government calculates the unemployment rate. It really is how many people are out of work.
If the goal is to increase the kids awareness of security and prevention of things like identity theft, they should just be taught good internet safety practices and the use of a firewall and anti-virus software.
So if I'm guilty of fraud, I shouldn't go to jail? With that logic, you couldn't assign prison sentences to anything that didn't involve taking a life. I think a 6 month prison sentence for someone who shoplifts an expensive stereo is reasonable. Does that mean that I think my life is worth 100 stereos?
The article does not claim a 10% response rate. It says that 10% of people have ever ordered from any spam e-mail, as opposed to.00001% who respond to a particular spam.
You don't need it, it just checks for updates. Quicktime videos can still be played. To kill this pest and save yourself 2 MB RAM, go to Control Panel, select QuickTime, select browser plug-in from the drop-down list, and deselect the Quicktime in system tray option.
But it is not outlawing internet porn! Read the summary again, it says that ISP must provide filtering AT THE CUSTOMERS Request. It's still bad to force every ISP to offer an OPTIONAL service, but this is not banning porn!
Computers cost quite a lot of money. Furthermore, in the US, the federal program that provides low income schools with computers is notoriously inefficient and corrupt. Such money can be spent on other things.
I know of an inner city high school that had a crumbling building but was equipped with an ultramodern computer lab (we all know that it takes a 3 Ghz Pentium 4 with 1024 MB ram to do high school research) and a $100,000 3D printer. It's just sad how beauracracy manages to waste our money.
ever heard of the Iran-Iraq war? That's at least a million dead in a war infused with religious rhetoric. If you include governments in your argument, the death toll numbers don't stack favorably to your side.
You say that GWB murdered 120,000 people for a few oilfields. While the word "murdered" and the number "120000" are for another thread that would be far offtopic, if Iraq was all about oil, what does religious fundamentalism have to do with it? The pope opposed the war in Iraq, as did quite a few religious people, so by your own argument, the civilian deaths in Iraq have nothing to do with religious fundamentalism. Which is it? Is Bush a bible-thumping hick, or is he a master schemer serving exclusively a global oil elite?
You won't find a (reasonable) Christian minister who cheers at the sight of gruesome civilian deaths, but it's not hard to find an imam outside of the US who does cheer when a child blows up a pizzarea. People who believe that the earth is 6000 years old are simply deluding themselves, but at least they don't cheer when innocents die.
You are right that wacko fundamentalism is dangerous no matter what the variety. Perhaps I should have made this clearer in my original post, now modded Flamebait. There is a huge difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. Only a small minority of Muslims are violent, and the rest are decent people.
First, my comment pertains to modern times, not historical times. In the middle ages, the Islamic world was far more advanced than the Christian world.
Secondly, just to correct you in a I-have-to-go-to-bed-and-can't-post-anymore kind of way, The Dark Ages actually refers to the early Middle ages, from the weakening and collapse of the Roman Empire to perhaps 900. The immediate cause of the Dark ages was the collapse of the Roman Empire, not religious fundamentalism, and life was miserable because of barbarian hordes and no centralized power, not religious fundamentalism.
Just so you know, the original Hebrew text of the bible should NOT be translated as "Thou shalt not kill" but rather "Thou shalt not murder". In biblical times, when people believed in witchcraft and that it killed and hurt other people, killing a witch would not be considered murder.
I consider myself religious in that I believe and pray to a higher power, but I am not a fundamentalist by any stretch of the imagination. People get nowhere by denying simple scientific fact, and I pity those who believe that the earth is 6000 years old.
couldn't agree more. There is a difference between Christian and Islamic fundamentalism. There are definitely Christian wackos out there, but they are nothing compared to Islamic wackos.
It's also different from Khomeini since it has not been made illegal to show scientifically correct films. This is not a government action, just a private corporation responding to the pressure of a particular group.
There is actually very little mathematics that is not applied. Group theory is very useful for quantum mechanics, and the Lebesgue measure is useful for crystallography. You admit that PDEs may be somewhat of an exception, but even that somehwat is wrong. Most complex models in engineering, physics, economics, and even sociology involve PDEs. But that's not all. Finding exact (which rarely exist) and numerical solutions to PDEs requires not only applied math, but concepts like Sobolev spaces, operator theory, and so much more. Lax's achievement in PDEs is the concept of Lax pairs, which are extremely abstract and require function theory to understand.
In short, all mathematics is useful. Applied math is useful because it gives us insights into the material world, and abstract math gives us insights into both applied math and sometimes even the material world.
Ahem.... MS Office is slow and bloated? I'm only a casual user, so I can't comment about how many of the amazing amount of features of MS Office are actually useful, but I take issue with your comment that MS Office is slow. I'd estimate load times of MS office to be around 1-2 seconds. Even with Quickstart enabled, OO takes 15-20 seconds to load.
One of the things OO outshines MSO is... opening its own corrupt documents!
My experience is exactly the opposite. I've had OO crash on me many times while trying to open perfectly good MSO documents. Combining that with the obscenely large startup time, even on a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM, and I can say that the only great thing about this program is that it's free (Which may indeed outweigh paying out hundreds of dollars for a much better program, MSO).
And mods, I'm posting this with Firefox, so I'm by no means a critic of Open Source software in general, just this particular program, OO.
What does the fact that I wonder if I should post this anonymously say?
It says that you are more paranoid than you should be. Look at all the comments on/. Many if them are anti-Bush and/or anti-American. Many of these people do post under their own handles. Yet we see them again and again on this forum.
Make no mistake, NSA can and will perform its missions consistent with the fourth amendment and all applicable laws.
There is some concern at least. This would mean nothing if it were a public statement, but it's a bit reassuring that they think this even in documents not meant for public consumption
The internet is a mature medium. The restaurant was warned about it, and they failed to do anything. It's an open and shut case of false advertising. Would you tolerate your brokerage firm listing out of date brokerage fees? Or your bank listing out of date interest rates?
Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the Internet-related sections. But because they couldn't get the three Democrats to go along with them, what Smith describes as a "bizarre" regulatory process now is under way.
And just so you know, Bush and many conservatives were opposed to McCain-Feingold. Not everything is a neo-conservative plot.
While I am an opponent of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, I think that we need to consider the actual effect of this ruling. Already, the 527 organizations (like MoveOn.org) are allowed to support or oppose a candidate and certainly are allowed to run as many TV spots as they want. Why should independent bloggers be any different?
The right of ex-felons to vote is incredibly important to the Democrats, as 70% of ex-felons vote Democratic because groups that skew towards the Dems (poor people, black people) are disproportionately represented in the felon population.
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Offtopic, but you should know that you are repeating a common misconception concerning how the government calculates the unemployment rate. It really is how many people are out of work.
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http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/unemploy.ht
If the goal is to increase the kids awareness of security and prevention of things like identity theft, they should just be taught good internet safety practices and the use of a firewall and anti-virus software.
Why should we teach them how to hack?
Many infinite series have error bounds to prevent just this sort of thing.
So if I'm guilty of fraud, I shouldn't go to jail? With that logic, you couldn't assign prison sentences to anything that didn't involve taking a life. I think a 6 month prison sentence for someone who shoplifts an expensive stereo is reasonable. Does that mean that I think my life is worth 100 stereos?
The article does not claim a 10% response rate. It says that 10% of people have ever ordered from any spam e-mail, as opposed to .00001% who respond to a particular spam.
You don't need it, it just checks for updates. Quicktime videos can still be played. To kill this pest and save yourself 2 MB RAM, go to Control Panel, select QuickTime, select browser plug-in from the drop-down list, and deselect the Quicktime in system tray option.
This works on my machine with QT 6
But it is not outlawing internet porn! Read the summary again, it says that ISP must provide filtering AT THE CUSTOMERS Request. It's still bad to force every ISP to offer an OPTIONAL service, but this is not banning porn!
You know there are better ways to deal with spam than shotguns... like a tank!
Computers cost quite a lot of money. Furthermore, in the US, the federal program that provides low income schools with computers is notoriously inefficient and corrupt. Such money can be spent on other things.
I know of an inner city high school that had a crumbling building but was equipped with an ultramodern computer lab (we all know that it takes a 3 Ghz Pentium 4 with 1024 MB ram to do high school research) and a $100,000 3D printer. It's just sad how beauracracy manages to waste our money.
Because it's done already. The Jewish bible has it right, with the Hebrew alongside the translation so one knows it's accurate.
ever heard of the Iran-Iraq war? That's at least a million dead in a war infused with religious rhetoric. If you include governments in your argument, the death toll numbers don't stack favorably to your side.
You say that GWB murdered 120,000 people for a few oilfields. While the word "murdered" and the number "120000" are for another thread that would be far offtopic, if Iraq was all about oil, what does religious fundamentalism have to do with it? The pope opposed the war in Iraq, as did quite a few religious people, so by your own argument, the civilian deaths in Iraq have nothing to do with religious fundamentalism. Which is it? Is Bush a bible-thumping hick, or is he a master schemer serving exclusively a global oil elite?
You won't find a (reasonable) Christian minister who cheers at the sight of gruesome civilian deaths, but it's not hard to find an imam outside of the US who does cheer when a child blows up a pizzarea. People who believe that the earth is 6000 years old are simply deluding themselves, but at least they don't cheer when innocents die.
You are right that wacko fundamentalism is dangerous no matter what the variety. Perhaps I should have made this clearer in my original post, now modded Flamebait. There is a huge difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. Only a small minority of Muslims are violent, and the rest are decent people.
First, my comment pertains to modern times, not historical times. In the middle ages, the Islamic world was far more advanced than the Christian world.
Secondly, just to correct you in a I-have-to-go-to-bed-and-can't-post-anymore kind of way, The Dark Ages actually refers to the early Middle ages, from the weakening and collapse of the Roman Empire to perhaps 900. The immediate cause of the Dark ages was the collapse of the Roman Empire, not religious fundamentalism, and life was miserable because of barbarian hordes and no centralized power, not religious fundamentalism.
Just so you know, the original Hebrew text of the bible should NOT be translated as "Thou shalt not kill" but rather "Thou shalt not murder". In biblical times, when people believed in witchcraft and that it killed and hurt other people, killing a witch would not be considered murder.
I consider myself religious in that I believe and pray to a higher power, but I am not a fundamentalist by any stretch of the imagination. People get nowhere by denying simple scientific fact, and I pity those who believe that the earth is 6000 years old.
couldn't agree more. There is a difference between Christian and Islamic fundamentalism. There are definitely Christian wackos out there, but they are nothing compared to Islamic wackos.
It's also different from Khomeini since it has not been made illegal to show scientifically correct films. This is not a government action, just a private corporation responding to the pressure of a particular group.
Probably a troll, but I'll bite.
There is actually very little mathematics that is not applied. Group theory is very useful for quantum mechanics, and the Lebesgue measure is useful for crystallography. You admit that PDEs may be somewhat of an exception, but even that somehwat is wrong. Most complex models in engineering, physics, economics, and even sociology involve PDEs. But that's not all. Finding exact (which rarely exist) and numerical solutions to PDEs requires not only applied math, but concepts like Sobolev spaces, operator theory, and so much more. Lax's achievement in PDEs is the concept of Lax pairs, which are extremely abstract and require function theory to understand.
In short, all mathematics is useful. Applied math is useful because it gives us insights into the material world, and abstract math gives us insights into both applied math and sometimes even the material world.
Ahem.... MS Office is slow and bloated? I'm only a casual user, so I can't comment about how many of the amazing amount of features of MS Office are actually useful, but I take issue with your comment that MS Office is slow. I'd estimate load times of MS office to be around 1-2 seconds. Even with Quickstart enabled, OO takes 15-20 seconds to load.
My experience is exactly the opposite. I've had OO crash on me many times while trying to open perfectly good MSO documents. Combining that with the obscenely large startup time, even on a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM, and I can say that the only great thing about this program is that it's free (Which may indeed outweigh paying out hundreds of dollars for a much better program, MSO).
And mods, I'm posting this with Firefox, so I'm by no means a critic of Open Source software in general, just this particular program, OO.
Just an interesting tidbit, it has not rained in the Atacama desert for 100s of years.
http://www.extremescience.com/DriestPlace.htm
It says that you are more paranoid than you should be. Look at all the comments on /. Many if them are anti-Bush and/or anti-American. Many of these people do post under their own handles. Yet we see them again and again on this forum.
from page 32 (38 in PDF viewer of nsa25.pdf)
Make no mistake, NSA can and will perform its missions consistent with the fourth amendment and all applicable laws.
There is some concern at least. This would mean nothing if it were a public statement, but it's a bit reassuring that they think this even in documents not meant for public consumption
The internet is a mature medium. The restaurant was warned about it, and they failed to do anything. It's an open and shut case of false advertising. Would you tolerate your brokerage firm listing out of date brokerage fees? Or your bank listing out of date interest rates?
Amazing, if I don't use I firewall, I'm vulnerable. Who would have thought?
RTFA:
Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the Internet-related sections. But because they couldn't get the three Democrats to go along with them, what Smith describes as a "bizarre" regulatory process now is under way.
And just so you know, Bush and many conservatives were opposed to McCain-Feingold. Not everything is a neo-conservative plot.
While I am an opponent of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, I think that we need to consider the actual effect of this ruling. Already, the 527 organizations (like MoveOn.org) are allowed to support or oppose a candidate and certainly are allowed to run as many TV spots as they want. Why should independent bloggers be any different?
The right of ex-felons to vote is incredibly important to the Democrats, as 70% of ex-felons vote Democratic because groups that skew towards the Dems (poor people, black people) are disproportionately represented in the felon population.