You can't tell the difference between them and incandescents, but they last forever, use minimal power, and look _really_ cool (but don't look at them when they're on—they're _bright_!).
Last forever eh? Forever is a long time. Are you sure about that? I remember they said CFLs lasted forever. Yea, right, I have a bunch of them in the basement and a container full of old burned out ones. I don't throw them away. The county has a way to properly dispose of them. At least that is what they tell us.
The question you are ignoring is, is the death penalty a deterrent against murder? If it's not a deterrent, then you've made your point. If it is a deterrent, then by refusing to execute, how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
The answer is yes. I know some people who have looked into this in detail. For Baltimore MD, there is Baltimore the city and Baltimore the county. The City has no DP, the county does. It's amazing how the crime seems to follow that political line on the land. There is no other theory as to why that would be. Not even (a BS argument like) the race card can explain it.
The way they do it today isn't right, however. Reserve it for people that there is no doubt they are guilty. I mean there just is no way. Have a public execution like they used to. A public hanging. Drives this home to people. Our whole society would be way better off.
Anti-DP == pro stupid. Lots of stupid people out there.
Jeff Dahmers last will: Gut him, cut up about 50 lbs of carrots, potatoes, onions, add about 20 gallons of water. Bake at 350 for 12 hours. Serve with red wine.
By the description it sounds like that camera got me about a week before it was burned down. Robbed by the Police on my way to get a new motorcycle tire. As I recall it's a two lane highway, with a 30 MPH speed limit. Seems to me I was doing 43. Should be 50 along there. However if they did that, they wouldn't be issuing any tickets. So they use the fact that there is a school nearby, lower the speed limit to put up this camera. I didn't even know it was there until I got the ticket. Lucky it wasn't on my daily drive. I think that was $40.
Need to stop the maddness. Ban those cameras. They don't increase safety, they compromise it. I've seen people lock tires up through an intersection - obviously a victim of a red light camera in the past. Others have lost control trying to stop in the rain. All so the government can collect another illegal highway use tax. Maybe some smart lawyer out there can do a class action suit against governments and get the government officials locked up.
That happens anytime you raise the speed limit. from 55 to 65. from 45 to 55. from 10 to 20....
Not so. Get "Beating the radar rap" They go into detail how the speed limit should be the speed limit, not an arbitrary number like 55 for a highway. When it's 55 and the highway is capable of handling 85, people blow off driving. They'll speed anyway, eat a burger, do nails, nowadays - text, etc.. If the speed limit is what it should be, they don't do those things and DRIVE THE CAR. That's why the 55 speed limit actually cost us many hundreds of thousands of lives, possibly more over the years.
The book also goes into detail on how to beat a radar ticket. Didn't work the first time. I haven't lost a radar based case since the early 1990s.
Any doctor performing this in a hospital absent of a protected religious right should be put in jail, labelled a sex offender and charged with 1-3 above. There is no proof it actually does any good any more than cutting the same amount of skin off of a girl - which can be done by the way. It's about 15 square inches of highly sensitive erotic skin. We wonder why we have homosexuals. They aren't being stimulated enough in my humble opinion. Do this to a girl and it's lambasted as a cardinal sin to which you should be executed. It's like saying because girls can't keep clean we should do this. What sexist hogwash. Most males in the world are not circumsized and they do just fine thank you.
BTW, if this has been done to you and you are not 21 yet, get a lawyer and sue the crap out of the doctor and hospital. Lawsuits will make it stop. It's way to late for me. I was sold this BS when my Son was born. That was in the 1980s before stuff was available on the Internet, though I did have internet access back then. So I had him done and I'm beside myself because of it. Don't you do it too!
At the end of the day Evolution is just a theory as creationalism is. No one has ever, EVER been able to PROVE evolution. They just assume it is and we know how that can turn out - To be WRONG. My personal theory is we mutate though cosmic rays, not selection. Hey, before you pick up the poison pen, it's a theory just like the others. The difference is I'm probably right. I have a feeling I'm a lot smarter than Darwin was.
Phone rings. You answer to hear the phone ringing. Dude in a bull pen picks up. "His servers show that my machine has a serious error." Suspicious I asked which one, I have many. "The windows machine." Uh huh. I abused him for a bit and made sure I wasted some of his time. He clearly had no clue what I had. Beware of Greeks... er Geeks calling offering free services. They are probably not your friend.
I happen to know that a Federal Government Agency in the early 2000s paid $75 grand for a sucky logo. It looked like a kid with a Mac "designed it", in two colors and about 10 minutes. That agency has an art department that I'm sure could have done a better job. It has since been replaced. No telling what a company like Microsoft paid for theirs.
Can we finally get rid of the turds at Microsoft? First to go - Steve Ballmer! Great guy, can't run a company. Drill down, a lot of the parts of Microsoft feel obligated to trip up their own people and call it sport! Never worked for Microsoft so this is all second hand from people I know from there. It can be great again. Major changes need to be made though. Opening coming up with Apple about to do the same thing.
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I'm thinking maybe the metric being invoked here is inadequate to describe the two companies relative importance and thus their ultimate value.
I know, it's psycho. There is absolutely no rational reason for it to be where it is other than gambling. The questions is, how high will it go before it comes crashing down! Could be tomorrow after people realize Apple isn't bigger than Exxon Mobile and the price is insanity. Especially with the new leadership, if you can call it that. I'm disappointed and I own mac books, phones, etc.. I'm hoping they don't turn into a turd like Microsoft did. Some major suck going on there. Windows 8 had better be something or they could be done.
I remember flying in the 1970s. Very cool. One time I flew with a celebrity. Today I fly by my own private plane. No stinkin' security line, no asshole next to you. No crazyness getting off the plane when you're there. When I fly in the car is waiting for me, often driven right up to the plane. Luggage is transfered, I check in and I'm on my way. Sometimes I meet celebrities who are flying in with their own airplane. Once you're up around 12,000' it's magical. The USA looks so nice. Somtimes I realize that I'm looking at probably a dozen counties. It's peaceful up there, usually. I fly when it's nice. There are conditions that I'd much rather be on the ground of course.
Not cheap. My 1950s era Beechcraft Bonanza costs me around $6,000 a year before I even fly it. That's for the hanger, insurance, annual, etc.. Age generally doesn't matter, as long as it's airworthy and kept in good condition. How much have things changed? There's a picture of my plane in an early 1950s Beechcraft Plane-O-Rama. One million dollars worth of aircraft. There must be two dozen or so aircraft from singles to twins to a small airliner. Today 1 million would cover probably 1.25 of a new single engine Beechcraft. That's how much the USD has gone down.
Australia has great amount of resources, has a fiscally conservative government and they are poised to make big bucks in the next 20-30 years. Other than that, China is looking good. Know Manderin? Down side is they aren't nearly as well armed. Easily the best place would be Australia or New Zealand. Don't go there if you think Obama is great. The shock of reality may kill you.
Any updates or changes should be tried on an exact duplicate here. Screw up and it's no big deal, it's here. Reminds me of a dumbass that wanted to update a machine across the US. I told him to do the one in the next room, configured exactly the same. But NOOOOO! We made him go out there and fix it. Closest airport was over 100 miles away.
For those unaware, an assault rifle is a firearm capable of firing in a fully automatic mode, as opposed to semi-automatic or single-action. Furthermore, the most common round used in assault rifles is a pittance, it is a.22 caliber bullet (granted with a lot more power and better aerodynamics than the.22 LR you shoot in Boy Scouts). But even with all that it is considered pitiful, not much more than a varmint round.
Here in Pennsylvania it is illegal to hunt dear with a.223 caliber because it is not considered powerful enough to ensure a clean kill. In fact, those evil high caliber rounds are often half the size of a hunting cartridge.
So where does the term "high power" stem from? Not the cartridge itself. But the capacity of the firearm. Essentially, you had a 45 caliber semi-automatic designed by the Revered John Moses Browning. This held about 8 rounds. They're big short fat stubby rounds. 8 rounds of firepower was two more than the average revolver. The Revered than creating the Browning Hi-Power using a much smaller 9mm round. The result was a capacity of 15-19 rounds. Hence hi-power simply mean greater capacity, often related to small, weaker, less powerful bullets.
In fact, the current.223 round used in M16/M4/AR15 (semi-automatic version) is essentially considered the smallest, weakest, bare minimum rifle round that can ensure a reasonable expectation of success. Compared to what gramps used in WWII or worse, WWI, it's laughable - unless you're shot by one of course.
I don't think you don't know what you are talking about. High power in the pistol that it seems clear you are talking about is the difference between the 45 caliber black power cartridge and the at the time new smokeless powder - which was considered high power. It was and is high power and is what makes a firearm a firearm today. I.e. I can still buy a black powder gun through the mail. You can't buy a firearm through the mail. Smokeless powerder used in the old black power guns can destroy them. I had an instructor that had one of those browning pistols, still in the box with the high power label on it. Should have bought it when I had the chance, about 30 years ago.
High power in rifles is totally different. I shot high power rifle for years. A 223 isn't considered high power unless they've changed the rules. Never the less, the 223 isn't to be laughed at. It is a very effective load and does a good job for what it was designed for. In fact, I own a M1 Rifle and I'm thinking of getting rid of it. It just isn't practical side of the other rifles I own. My shoulder will like getting rid of it too.
Well, you can pick any arbitrary start point. I don't really care much, I just picked 1950 out of thin air.
The advantage to the approach I suggested is that it would filter out any problems with start/end date cherry picking, because it essentially picks all possible combinations of start/end dates. It would be over 3000 regression lines, so if the vast majority of them agreed, you'd know that was the "real" regression line.
Don't worry, I just threw it out there. The fact is, the Italians in Venice were trying to keep out the Adriatic in the 14th century. Not hard to find. Then we had the mini ice age, which we are coming out of now. Certain people built a business depending on nature to be nature and make humans feel guilty, which is easy to do. So many accept normal things as a proof. Yet in the late 19th century, Hog island just off NYC was wiped out by a hurricane. If that happened today - whoa nelly! Surely that would somehow be "proof"!
What if we put 1950-2012 on the top and left side of a grid, and then each entry in the grid was the trendline with endpoints determined by the column and row? And then finally average all trendlines that had a span greater than 10 years? Could this help show that 1998 was an outlier?
Why 1950? Let's go back to 1930. Don't worry, they won't. Their theories fall apart if they do.
This is a situation where I say better than devil we know than the devil we don't.
It's better than that. Right now the Department of Commerce is running it. They are afraid of screwing it up. Not many people are actually involved. Move it to the UN, you get hundreds more people with input. Sure recipe for disaster. Too many assholes with an opinion. To be sure, some will be a tyrant. It isn't broken, let's not fix it.
All started when HP didn't get rid of the Compaq managers. They invaded HP and killed what the company was. Very very sad day for such a great company. I've watched them throw industries that they owned away - like hospital equipment (Virtually any emergency room in the country had nothing but HP equipment, now it's Seimens), all the way down to frequency counters ( they actually took the company machines from their employees).
Dammit, 9 in the evening and the bloody ISP is doing it's usual thing of dropping connections every few minutes....Sorry - we've just decided which house to buy, and the wife keeps distracting me with questions. Got to go.
Sounds like you're going through worse than I did. About 5 years ago the PM tried her best to kill me. I really believe that. She killed the guy I had worked with side by side for 9 years. Every day for 9 years. Gone! Died at his desk, literally. I managed to surivive by laughter. Find something funny, anything. Lot of hurting out there with the way the country is right now. I sure hope things work out for you! Best Wishes Rock Doctor.
Is it common in the Third World? India and the Philipenes in particular?
Briefly, say you have someone that has done all the work on their own. They have the knowledge. It isn't as if a University or college has the knowledge locked in a vault after all. Why should that person be required to go through all the baby steps again (believe me, that is how it seems)? I work with people like that. They are probably people whom you've never met from what you've written. I've only met probably fewer than 100 in my life so far and I'm over middle aged. They suck information up like a sponge and often on their own (they truly know how to learn). Major complement when you are told you are one of those people. Bad part is most people have no clue what you're saying, sometimes even with simple concepts. Simple concepts to me at least.
Universities for undergraduate degrees often say - if you can show us, we won't require you to take the course. That's a test out. You have proven to them that you have mastered that material. In my case for the graduate degree they wouldn't accept that small fee to show I knew the material. They wanted the big bucks. Fine, the degree was only for me anyhow as it wouldn't help me make any more money.
I think it is worth mentioning that going through the course work does not mean a whole lot. Nor do grades unless they are consistenly bad. I've had all kinds over the years that I've hired. Some had the paper, others didn't. Some of my best people had just an accademic degree (they graduated from High School). I've had PhD whose ability clearly weren't worth the paper they were printed on. Indeed, some of them were the most gullible people I've ever met. Not a lick of common sense.
India, someone from India - as long as you are in the States or Europe, you probaby have a find. That's because if they weren't very bright, they'd still be in India. No idea about Philipene people. American born Indian people are often very bright too, though I've met plenty that were dumb as a box of rocks.
Since you seem to be interested in hiring, you should be able to tell if the guy across the table is worth it or not in the first 5 minutes. Resume tells a lot. Be sure to call some of the places they worked and see if they would hire them back or not. If not, that could be a bad thing. Maybe they were laid off. Start out easy, ask some tough questions but something they should know, even in their sleep. You mentioned economics (above), all I'd have to do is ask a few questions like who worked out Germany's repayment after WW I. How did this lead to the National Socialist Party (and of course ultimately - Hitler)? How is this impacting global economics today? I happened to have studied econonics some. Some things I'd have to decline to decide. I don't know enough to know if someone is qualified or not.
I think you're on pretty thin ice with that sort of argument. The classes were available to you ; whether or not you chose to attend is your choice.
Look at a counter example : a slack student attends a course with 1000 hours of lectures, tutorials and labs in total. Those are timetabled through the year and carried out. Mr Slack Student doesn't attend more than the minimum of required lectures/ tutorials or labs (when I was a college, lectures weren't monitored, but tutorials were all "pass round the sheet, sign with date and time" and labs had signing-in/ signing-out books because chemicals or valuable equipment were involved). "since Mr Slack Student didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered."
Actually, that now sounds so nonsensical... did you actually write what you meant to say? In any sane situation, what matters if if they go to the extent of timetabling the lectures, booking the theatres, building and supply the laboratories ; whether you attend or not, they've provided the service ; your fault for non-attendance, not theirs.
Sounds like I lost you. I felt they should have offered a much more reasonable plan. Say $100 to test out of each exam. Something like that. Keep in mind the courses weren't available to me as I wanted to just test out. It was a cost/return problem. At the time I wanted to do this, it was 1996. I was already making way more than someone with a grad degree and more than most people with a masters. It was only for myself, it wouldn't help me. I commented because this fellow seems to be in the same situation. They don't like it because he made it out early. I bet they still charge if you take more than the 4 years. They are trying to rip him off when they should be congratulating him. Perhaps he'll donate money to them in the future. My contention is it should be more like RedHat education. If you know the material you can test out of that course (for a fee of course). If you don't, they'll teach you and if you are bright enough to get it, you'll pass the exam (for much more than the testing fee). Should be the same thing at a college. Pay for services rendered.
Their graduate level was what we did as undergraduates at Maryland.
Who does accreditation auditing in Maryland. Or GW? It sounds as if someone has (had) got something seriously wrong, and one course is (was) badly mis-described. Both courses should be undergraduate, or post-graduate ; but not one of each. That's one of the things that external examiners are required to check up on when you do your viva.
You know, I thought that too. So I asked to look at the syllabus and materials. Nope, it was the same stuff I had already passed with a B, not quite an A average. Maryland's CS course was in the top 10 in the country, I think it is still in the top 20 today. I also graduated debt free having worked at the same time to put myself through. The 400 level courses were the beginning level for grads. We would regularly see people from other schools come to Maryland and flunk out. I didn't think most of them could pass the simple 101 course we had, yet they had that piece of paper. I hope things are better now. More like mathematics (nothing new there since statistics), which I feel I should have been able to claim a minor in. They made us take a bunch of those courses.
I suppose someone had to say it. The question is, does the board have the balls to throw his ass out finally? Thanks for the beer Steve, here's the door. Parking pass - check, Office key - check, building pass - check. See ya! Maybe they can hire Leo Apotheker, the same guy that ran HP off a cliff.
The next guy has his work cut out for him, clearly. They need to ditch that turd of an OS and really move us to a new microprocessor architecture. Ditch the sucky X386 stuff. Iron is hot right now to do it.
I could have easily tought the graduate program at GW in Washington DC. Their graduate level was what we did as undergraduates at Maryland. They said fine - that will be $30,000 please - and that was almost 20 years ago!
Never the less, you can claim that they never performed their services since you didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered. Hope you win.
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You can't tell the difference between them and incandescents, but they last forever, use minimal power, and look _really_ cool (but don't look at them when they're on—they're _bright_!).
Last forever eh? Forever is a long time. Are you sure about that? I remember they said CFLs lasted forever. Yea, right, I have a bunch of them in the basement and a container full of old burned out ones. I don't throw them away. The county has a way to properly dispose of them. At least that is what they tell us.
The question you are ignoring is, is the death penalty a deterrent against murder? If it's not a deterrent, then you've made your point. If it is a deterrent, then by refusing to execute, how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
The answer is yes. I know some people who have looked into this in detail. For Baltimore MD, there is Baltimore the city and Baltimore the county. The City has no DP, the county does. It's amazing how the crime seems to follow that political line on the land. There is no other theory as to why that would be. Not even (a BS argument like) the race card can explain it.
The way they do it today isn't right, however. Reserve it for people that there is no doubt they are guilty. I mean there just is no way. Have a public execution like they used to. A public hanging. Drives this home to people. Our whole society would be way better off.
Anti-DP == pro stupid. Lots of stupid people out there.
Jeff Dahmers last will: Gut him, cut up about 50 lbs of carrots, potatoes, onions, add about 20 gallons of water. Bake at 350 for 12 hours. Serve with red wine.
By the description it sounds like that camera got me about a week before it was burned down. Robbed by the Police on my way to get a new motorcycle tire. As I recall it's a two lane highway, with a 30 MPH speed limit. Seems to me I was doing 43. Should be 50 along there. However if they did that, they wouldn't be issuing any tickets. So they use the fact that there is a school nearby, lower the speed limit to put up this camera. I didn't even know it was there until I got the ticket. Lucky it wasn't on my daily drive. I think that was $40.
Need to stop the maddness. Ban those cameras. They don't increase safety, they compromise it. I've seen people lock tires up through an intersection - obviously a victim of a red light camera in the past. Others have lost control trying to stop in the rain. All so the government can collect another illegal highway use tax. Maybe some smart lawyer out there can do a class action suit against governments and get the government officials locked up.
That happens anytime you raise the speed limit. from 55 to 65. from 45 to 55. from 10 to 20....
Not so. Get "Beating the radar rap" They go into detail how the speed limit should be the speed limit, not an arbitrary number like 55 for a highway. When it's 55 and the highway is capable of handling 85, people blow off driving. They'll speed anyway, eat a burger, do nails, nowadays - text, etc.. If the speed limit is what it should be, they don't do those things and DRIVE THE CAR. That's why the 55 speed limit actually cost us many hundreds of thousands of lives, possibly more over the years.
The book also goes into detail on how to beat a radar ticket. Didn't work the first time. I haven't lost a radar based case since the early 1990s.
1) Child abuse
2) Genital mutilation
3) Child molestation.
Any doctor performing this in a hospital absent of a protected religious right should be put in jail, labelled a sex offender and charged with 1-3 above. There is no proof it actually does any good any more than cutting the same amount of skin off of a girl - which can be done by the way. It's about 15 square inches of highly sensitive erotic skin. We wonder why we have homosexuals. They aren't being stimulated enough in my humble opinion. Do this to a girl and it's lambasted as a cardinal sin to which you should be executed. It's like saying because girls can't keep clean we should do this. What sexist hogwash. Most males in the world are not circumsized and they do just fine thank you.
BTW, if this has been done to you and you are not 21 yet, get a lawyer and sue the crap out of the doctor and hospital. Lawsuits will make it stop. It's way to late for me. I was sold this BS when my Son was born. That was in the 1980s before stuff was available on the Internet, though I did have internet access back then. So I had him done and I'm beside myself because of it. Don't you do it too!
At the end of the day Evolution is just a theory as creationalism is. No one has ever, EVER been able to PROVE evolution. They just assume it is and we know how that can turn out - To be WRONG. My personal theory is we mutate though cosmic rays, not selection. Hey, before you pick up the poison pen, it's a theory just like the others. The difference is I'm probably right. I have a feeling I'm a lot smarter than Darwin was.
Phone rings. You answer to hear the phone ringing. Dude in a bull pen picks up. "His servers show that my machine has a serious error." Suspicious I asked which one, I have many. "The windows machine." Uh huh. I abused him for a bit and made sure I wasted some of his time. He clearly had no clue what I had. Beware of Greeks... er Geeks calling offering free services. They are probably not your friend.
I happen to know that a Federal Government Agency in the early 2000s paid $75 grand for a sucky logo. It looked like a kid with a Mac "designed it", in two colors and about 10 minutes. That agency has an art department that I'm sure could have done a better job. It has since been replaced. No telling what a company like Microsoft paid for theirs.
Can we finally get rid of the turds at Microsoft? First to go - Steve Ballmer! Great guy, can't run a company. Drill down, a lot of the parts of Microsoft feel obligated to trip up their own people and call it sport! Never worked for Microsoft so this is all second hand from people I know from there. It can be great again. Major changes need to be made though. Opening coming up with Apple about to do the same thing.
Let's compare meaningful value.
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I'm thinking maybe the metric being invoked here is inadequate to describe the two companies relative importance and thus their ultimate value.
I know, it's psycho. There is absolutely no rational reason for it to be where it is other than gambling. The questions is, how high will it go before it comes crashing down! Could be tomorrow after people realize Apple isn't bigger than Exxon Mobile and the price is insanity. Especially with the new leadership, if you can call it that. I'm disappointed and I own mac books, phones, etc.. I'm hoping they don't turn into a turd like Microsoft did. Some major suck going on there. Windows 8 had better be something or they could be done.
I remember flying in the 1970s. Very cool. One time I flew with a celebrity. Today I fly by my own private plane. No stinkin' security line, no asshole next to you. No crazyness getting off the plane when you're there. When I fly in the car is waiting for me, often driven right up to the plane. Luggage is transfered, I check in and I'm on my way. Sometimes I meet celebrities who are flying in with their own airplane. Once you're up around 12,000' it's magical. The USA looks so nice. Somtimes I realize that I'm looking at probably a dozen counties. It's peaceful up there, usually. I fly when it's nice. There are conditions that I'd much rather be on the ground of course.
Not cheap. My 1950s era Beechcraft Bonanza costs me around $6,000 a year before I even fly it. That's for the hanger, insurance, annual, etc.. Age generally doesn't matter, as long as it's airworthy and kept in good condition. How much have things changed? There's a picture of my plane in an early 1950s Beechcraft Plane-O-Rama. One million dollars worth of aircraft. There must be two dozen or so aircraft from singles to twins to a small airliner. Today 1 million would cover probably 1.25 of a new single engine Beechcraft. That's how much the USD has gone down.
Australia has great amount of resources, has a fiscally conservative government and they are poised to make big bucks in the next 20-30 years. Other than that, China is looking good. Know Manderin? Down side is they aren't nearly as well armed. Easily the best place would be Australia or New Zealand. Don't go there if you think Obama is great. The shock of reality may kill you.
Any updates or changes should be tried on an exact duplicate here. Screw up and it's no big deal, it's here. Reminds me of a dumbass that wanted to update a machine across the US. I told him to do the one in the next room, configured exactly the same. But NOOOOO! We made him go out there and fix it. Closest airport was over 100 miles away.
For those unaware, an assault rifle is a firearm capable of firing in a fully automatic mode, as opposed to semi-automatic or single-action. Furthermore, the most common round used in assault rifles is a pittance, it is a .22 caliber bullet (granted with a lot more power and better aerodynamics than the .22 LR you shoot in Boy Scouts). But even with all that it is considered pitiful, not much more than a varmint round.
Here in Pennsylvania it is illegal to hunt dear with a .223 caliber because it is not considered powerful enough to ensure a clean kill. In fact, those evil high caliber rounds are often half the size of a hunting cartridge.
So where does the term "high power" stem from? Not the cartridge itself. But the capacity of the firearm. Essentially, you had a 45 caliber semi-automatic designed by the Revered John Moses Browning. This held about 8 rounds. They're big short fat stubby rounds. 8 rounds of firepower was two more than the average revolver. The Revered than creating the Browning Hi-Power using a much smaller 9mm round. The result was a capacity of 15-19 rounds. Hence hi-power simply mean greater capacity, often related to small, weaker, less powerful bullets.
In fact, the current .223 round used in M16/M4/AR15 (semi-automatic version) is essentially considered the smallest, weakest, bare minimum rifle round that can ensure a reasonable expectation of success. Compared to what gramps used in WWII or worse, WWI, it's laughable - unless you're shot by one of course.
I don't think you don't know what you are talking about. High power in the pistol that it seems clear you are talking about is the difference between the 45 caliber black power cartridge and the at the time new smokeless powder - which was considered high power. It was and is high power and is what makes a firearm a firearm today. I.e. I can still buy a black powder gun through the mail. You can't buy a firearm through the mail. Smokeless powerder used in the old black power guns can destroy them. I had an instructor that had one of those browning pistols, still in the box with the high power label on it. Should have bought it when I had the chance, about 30 years ago.
High power in rifles is totally different. I shot high power rifle for years. A 223 isn't considered high power unless they've changed the rules. Never the less, the 223 isn't to be laughed at. It is a very effective load and does a good job for what it was designed for. In fact, I own a M1 Rifle and I'm thinking of getting rid of it. It just isn't practical side of the other rifles I own. My shoulder will like getting rid of it too.
Well, you can pick any arbitrary start point. I don't really care much, I just picked 1950 out of thin air.
The advantage to the approach I suggested is that it would filter out any problems with start/end date cherry picking, because it essentially picks all possible combinations of start/end dates. It would be over 3000 regression lines, so if the vast majority of them agreed, you'd know that was the "real" regression line.
Don't worry, I just threw it out there. The fact is, the Italians in Venice were trying to keep out the Adriatic in the 14th century. Not hard to find. Then we had the mini ice age, which we are coming out of now. Certain people built a business depending on nature to be nature and make humans feel guilty, which is easy to do. So many accept normal things as a proof. Yet in the late 19th century, Hog island just off NYC was wiped out by a hurricane. If that happened today - whoa nelly! Surely that would somehow be "proof"!
What if we put 1950-2012 on the top and left side of a grid, and then each entry in the grid was the trendline with endpoints determined by the column and row? And then finally average all trendlines that had a span greater than 10 years? Could this help show that 1998 was an outlier?
Why 1950? Let's go back to 1930. Don't worry, they won't. Their theories fall apart if they do.
This is a situation where I say better than devil we know than the devil we don't.
It's better than that. Right now the Department of Commerce is running it. They are afraid of screwing it up. Not many people are actually involved. Move it to the UN, you get hundreds more people with input. Sure recipe for disaster. Too many assholes with an opinion. To be sure, some will be a tyrant. It isn't broken, let's not fix it.
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"Don't grammar matter no more"
Fixed.
Knock that off, or I'll stab you with an exclamation point!
He didn't fix it though
"Doesn't grammer matter anymore?" (Answer is yes by the way)
Now just to add a pisser -
DOESN'T GRAMMER MATTER ANYMORE? (NO IT DON'T.. as long as it's in all caps)
Heh. My English teacher would slap me if she could I bet.
All started when HP didn't get rid of the Compaq managers. They invaded HP and killed what the company was. Very very sad day for such a great company. I've watched them throw industries that they owned away - like hospital equipment (Virtually any emergency room in the country had nothing but HP equipment, now it's Seimens), all the way down to frequency counters ( they actually took the company machines from their employees).
Wonder how many people even know what ROT-13 is.
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Dammit, 9 in the evening and the bloody ISP is doing it's usual thing of dropping connections every few minutes. ...Sorry - we've just decided which house to buy, and the wife keeps distracting me with questions. Got to go.
Sounds like you're going through worse than I did. About 5 years ago the PM tried her best to kill me. I really believe that. She killed the guy I had worked with side by side for 9 years. Every day for 9 years. Gone! Died at his desk, literally. I managed to surivive by laughter. Find something funny, anything. Lot of hurting out there with the way the country is right now. I sure hope things work out for you! Best Wishes Rock Doctor.
I don't think so, though I@m not at all clear on this "test out" concept that you're hanging on....I can see there are certain circumstances where "testing out" might be useful. Thanks for bringing the idea to my attention - I'll watch out for it on people's CVs in future ("resumés" in American?). I've met some people who are so utterly incompetent at the practical aspects of their claimed degrees, that I'd consider "testing out" as an alternative to what I'd suspected previously (a purchased degree).
Is it common in the Third World? India and the Philipenes in particular?
Briefly, say you have someone that has done all the work on their own. They have the knowledge. It isn't as if a University or college has the knowledge locked in a vault after all. Why should that person be required to go through all the baby steps again (believe me, that is how it seems)? I work with people like that. They are probably people whom you've never met from what you've written. I've only met probably fewer than 100 in my life so far and I'm over middle aged. They suck information up like a sponge and often on their own (they truly know how to learn). Major complement when you are told you are one of those people. Bad part is most people have no clue what you're saying, sometimes even with simple concepts. Simple concepts to me at least.
Universities for undergraduate degrees often say - if you can show us, we won't require you to take the course. That's a test out. You have proven to them that you have mastered that material. In my case for the graduate degree they wouldn't accept that small fee to show I knew the material. They wanted the big bucks. Fine, the degree was only for me anyhow as it wouldn't help me make any more money.
I think it is worth mentioning that going through the course work does not mean a whole lot. Nor do grades unless they are consistenly bad. I've had all kinds over the years that I've hired. Some had the paper, others didn't. Some of my best people had just an accademic degree (they graduated from High School). I've had PhD whose ability clearly weren't worth the paper they were printed on. Indeed, some of them were the most gullible people I've ever met. Not a lick of common sense.
India, someone from India - as long as you are in the States or Europe, you probaby have a find. That's because if they weren't very bright, they'd still be in India. No idea about Philipene people. American born Indian people are often very bright too, though I've met plenty that were dumb as a box of rocks.
Since you seem to be interested in hiring, you should be able to tell if the guy across the table is worth it or not in the first 5 minutes. Resume tells a lot. Be sure to call some of the places they worked and see if they would hire them back or not. If not, that could be a bad thing. Maybe they were laid off. Start out easy, ask some tough questions but something they should know, even in their sleep. You mentioned economics (above), all I'd have to do is ask a few questions like who worked out Germany's repayment after WW I. How did this lead to the National Socialist Party (and of course ultimately - Hitler)? How is this impacting global economics today? I happened to have studied econonics some. Some things I'd have to decline to decide. I don't know enough to know if someone is qualified or not.
I think you're on pretty thin ice with that sort of argument. The classes were available to you ; whether or not you chose to attend is your choice.
Look at a counter example : a slack student attends a course with 1000 hours of lectures, tutorials and labs in total. Those are timetabled through the year and carried out. Mr Slack Student doesn't attend more than the minimum of required lectures/ tutorials or labs (when I was a college, lectures weren't monitored, but tutorials were all "pass round the sheet, sign with date and time" and labs had signing-in/ signing-out books because chemicals or valuable equipment were involved). "since Mr Slack Student didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered."
Actually, that now sounds so nonsensical ... did you actually write what you meant to say? In any sane situation, what matters if if they go to the extent of timetabling the lectures, booking the theatres, building and supply the laboratories ; whether you attend or not, they've provided the service ; your fault for non-attendance, not theirs.
Sounds like I lost you. I felt they should have offered a much more reasonable plan. Say $100 to test out of each exam. Something like that. Keep in mind the courses weren't available to me as I wanted to just test out. It was a cost/return problem. At the time I wanted to do this, it was 1996. I was already making way more than someone with a grad degree and more than most people with a masters. It was only for myself, it wouldn't help me.
I commented because this fellow seems to be in the same situation. They don't like it because he made it out early. I bet they still charge if you take more than the 4 years. They are trying to rip him off when they should be congratulating him. Perhaps he'll donate money to them in the future. My contention is it should be more like RedHat education. If you know the material you can test out of that course (for a fee of course). If you don't, they'll teach you and if you are bright enough to get it, you'll pass the exam (for much more than the testing fee). Should be the same thing at a college. Pay for services rendered.
Who does accreditation auditing in Maryland. Or GW? It sounds as if someone has (had) got something seriously wrong, and one course is (was) badly mis-described. Both courses should be undergraduate, or post-graduate ; but not one of each. That's one of the things that external examiners are required to check up on when you do your viva.
You know, I thought that too. So I asked to look at the syllabus and materials. Nope, it was the same stuff I had already passed with a B, not quite an A average. Maryland's CS course was in the top 10 in the country, I think it is still in the top 20 today. I also graduated debt free having worked at the same time to put myself through. The 400 level courses were the beginning level for grads. We would regularly see people from other schools come to Maryland and flunk out. I didn't think most of them could pass the simple 101 course we had, yet they had that piece of paper. I hope things are better now. More like mathematics (nothing new there since statistics), which I feel I should have been able to claim a minor in. They made us take a bunch of those courses.
I suppose someone had to say it. The question is, does the board have the balls to throw his ass out finally? Thanks for the beer Steve, here's the door. Parking pass - check, Office key - check, building pass - check. See ya! Maybe they can hire Leo Apotheker, the same guy that ran HP off a cliff.
The next guy has his work cut out for him, clearly. They need to ditch that turd of an OS and really move us to a new microprocessor architecture. Ditch the sucky X386 stuff. Iron is hot right now to do it.
I could have easily tought the graduate program at GW in Washington DC. Their graduate level was what we did as undergraduates at Maryland. They said fine - that will be $30,000 please - and that was almost 20 years ago!
Never the less, you can claim that they never performed their services since you didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered. Hope you win.