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Over eleven years ago (1998), the UN reported that "illegal trade in narcotics has a captive market of about 190 million addicts and users worldwide, and is estimated to be worth more than 400 billion dollars a year". (source)
"No way" by one or two orders of magnitude, I'd say.
What a loss. I love everything Chet Atkins and Les Paul did together. I loved hearing Chet and Les banter back and forth before doing a song. Their music was so technical but because of their great skill it ended up sounding effortless (the trademark of truly great musicians).
Most people will obviously associate Les Paul with a particular guitar, and although that particular piece of hardware will be his legacy, his musical skills will be greatly missed. His style was so unique and is almost impossible to emulate.
Thank you for all your wonderful contributions to the musical world, Les. You will be greatly missed.
Very nicely said. Too many people seem to only know him for the guitar that bears his name and few have any knowledge of his music.
I remember in my teen years, absorbing the culture of rock music, and when I came across the knowledge that Les Paul was the name of a guitarist, I had asked my musician friends if any of them had heard any of Les Paul's music. Invariably, I would be told that he was some "old-time" guy, some kind of country music that nobody listened to in that time and place. A few years later, I met a guy (my best friend to this day) who was actually into Les and had a bunch of his records, and even though I had little stylistic appreciation of his music at that time, I was floored by the beauty and tonal brilliance of both his playing and his recording innovations, even moreso as some of these recordings dated from the early '50s. The Chester and Lester stuff was also my introduction to Chet Atkins, another genius overlooked by many of my 'rock-n-roll generation' peers.
My biggest regret today is that I never took the opportunity to see one of his Monday night gigs in all the time I lived close to NYC. I guess it seemed like he would always be there.
And btw before someone mentions something like Azureus as a counterexample, I've seen Firefox still eat up more RAM than that program if they are running for the same period of time and that's with about 10 or so torrents running in it.
And just as pointlessly, I've seen Photoshop eat up far more memory than my Java "Hello World" program. Seriously, pitting a modern web browser to a BitTorrent client to compare the languages used to code them is beyond absurd.
As someone else noted below, compare Azureus's memory footprint (as well as speed and responsiveness) to uTorrent, which has virtually identical functionality to Azureus but is written in C++.
Seems he's a bit of a low life and he robs the store, killing the clerk.
I was about to call it a serious understatement that such behavior only qualifies as "a bit of a low life", then remembered that Robert McNamara died yesterday and realized that a single robbery and homicide really is only just "a bit" compared to a *real* criminal low life.
Wait, Michael and Janet were actually two different people?? So does that mean Janet is still alive (well, except her career)? Does that mean Diana Ross is a separate entity also?? (Beside the fact that the Jacksons all share her nose) I am so confused...
If you have a degree in Mathematics, then I'd think you'd be familiar with long and short scales. The US has always used short scale, but in long scale, which was used in the UK until 1974, the term billion means 10^12 (a trillion in short scale), and the the term milliard meant 10^9 (a billion in short scale).
Because of this, it is rather common for older Brits or people raised in non-English speaking cultures to say "one thousand million" instead of "billion".
I think that a large part of the problem with creating usable IT performance metrics begins with a basic problem with human nature: namely that we tend to notice flaws far more than we notice the absence of flaws. Things that run smoothly tend to get taken for granted and thus get forgotten, while the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
I see this in the quality of most of the big money "enterprise solutions" that I have to support and integrate on my job. When a software vendor relies on long term support contracts for their revenue, as most enterprise solutions do, there is a disincentive for such a vendor to ensure their software is either easy to use, deploy, or administrate, since such ease erodes the need for support. Likewise, in my experience, it is difficult to convince corporate IT customers to pay a premium for higher quality solutions, which is what forces the vendors into the support model in the first place.
Until the day that there are good, widely-used metrics for assessing the value of when things *don't* go wrong, I suspect the flawed metrics like the submitter's are going to prevail.
MThe article then goes on to cite another study in Italy where the highest concentration of cocaine found was 100 pg/m3 -- whereas in the Spanish study, the maximum found was 850 pg/m3. That's almost an order of magnitude difference between Spain and Italy. While there are many, many reasons this might be true, certainly it would appear that Madrid and Barcelona have much higher concentrations of drugs in the air than other cities.
Well, here's one hypothesis. Woody Allen made a recent film in Barcelona, and perhaps he had a repeat of this incident.
But LSD is psychoactive at such low doses, I wonder if it actually does affect people.
If you RTFA carefully (yeah yeah, I know), they didn't actually find LSD but lysergic acid which is a "precursor for a wide range of ergoline alkaloids that are produced by the ergot fungus and some plants".
I'm not a chemist, but the two possibilities I see is that (a) it is naturally occurring; or (b) someone in the area is running an acid lab (probably more likely). Either way, plain lysergic acid will not have any hallucinogenic/entheogenic effects at those minute concentrations.
With the usual IANAL disclaimer, while it may theoretically be possible for the SCOTUS to overrule a decision that is grounded in a *state* constitution, my guess is that the major improbability would be that there would be little grounds for them to even be in a position to consider hearing the case. Even should the prosecution appeal to Federal court (if that's possible), I can't imagine a situation where they would consider the constitutionality of a state court declaring that warrantless GPS tracking is *not* permissible. IOW, I don't think there's any conceivable basis in the US Constitution that would *require* a state to permit such a thing, and as such they would never agree to hear it.
Again, I'm just guessing, so maybe someone with a better legal background could clarify the specifics. Perhaps it's possible that the NY State Supreme Court could hear a final appeal from the prosecution, but I don't know.
If I wanted to see ads... I wouldn't block them. This feature seems redundant.
There's another reason this is redundant. It is already possible to detect from the web server that ads are being blocked, and therefore to present a message on the page or a pop-up to make the plea to allow ads on the page. And as noted elsewhere, AB+ already make it very easy to whitelist a page.
So why would AB+ need to create a specific mechanism to do what can already be easily done without it?
There's no way TPB's lawyers were in the dark about this.
This was my thinking as well; that this was a defense strategy.
However, I also think there is also no way that the prosecution didn't know about this before the fact, either. That they would allow such a conflict of interest knowing it could be grounds for appeal is the real epic fail, IMHO.
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization (such as a lawyer, insurance adjuster, politician, engineer, executive, director of a corporation, medical research scientist, physician, writer, editor, or an individual or organization cited as a source) has an interest that might compromise their reliability. A conflict of interest exists even if no improper act results from it, and can create an appearance of impropriety that can undermine confidence in the conflicted individual or organization.
Actual bias does not need to be demonstrated for there to be a conflict of interest.
There is certainly enough potential for bias here that the judge should have never been allowed to hear the case, period. In fact, even though I suspect the defendants may have known about this and waited until after the trial for strategic reasons, I think the prosecution were the ones who should have objected initially, as they will now be the ones with the egg on their faces.
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Your BS meter appears to be functioning correctly.
Over eleven years ago (1998), the UN reported that "illegal trade in narcotics has a captive market of about 190 million addicts and users worldwide, and is estimated to be worth more than 400 billion dollars a year". (source)
"No way" by one or two orders of magnitude, I'd say.
Next person to make a bad guitar pun gets thrown off a bridge.
What a loss. I love everything Chet Atkins and Les Paul did together. I loved hearing Chet and Les banter back and forth before doing a song. Their music was so technical but because of their great skill it ended up sounding effortless (the trademark of truly great musicians).
Most people will obviously associate Les Paul with a particular guitar, and although that particular piece of hardware will be his legacy, his musical skills will be greatly missed. His style was so unique and is almost impossible to emulate.
Thank you for all your wonderful contributions to the musical world, Les. You will be greatly missed.
Very nicely said. Too many people seem to only know him for the guitar that bears his name and few have any knowledge of his music.
I remember in my teen years, absorbing the culture of rock music, and when I came across the knowledge that Les Paul was the name of a guitarist, I had asked my musician friends if any of them had heard any of Les Paul's music. Invariably, I would be told that he was some "old-time" guy, some kind of country music that nobody listened to in that time and place. A few years later, I met a guy (my best friend to this day) who was actually into Les and had a bunch of his records, and even though I had little stylistic appreciation of his music at that time, I was floored by the beauty and tonal brilliance of both his playing and his recording innovations, even moreso as some of these recordings dated from the early '50s. The Chester and Lester stuff was also my introduction to Chet Atkins, another genius overlooked by many of my 'rock-n-roll generation' peers.
My biggest regret today is that I never took the opportunity to see one of his Monday night gigs in all the time I lived close to NYC. I guess it seemed like he would always be there.
And btw before someone mentions something like Azureus as a counterexample, I've seen Firefox still eat up more RAM than that program if they are running for the same period of time and that's with about 10 or so torrents running in it.
And just as pointlessly, I've seen Photoshop eat up far more memory than my Java "Hello World" program. Seriously, pitting a modern web browser to a BitTorrent client to compare the languages used to code them is beyond absurd.
As someone else noted below, compare Azureus's memory footprint (as well as speed and responsiveness) to uTorrent, which has virtually identical functionality to Azureus but is written in C++.
Blue Oyster Cult: Burning for You
Talking Heads: Burning Down the House
..or does Minoru look like the mutant love-child of Number 5 from Short Circuit and Stewie from Family Guy?
Seems he's a bit of a low life and he robs the store, killing the clerk.
I was about to call it a serious understatement that such behavior only qualifies as "a bit of a low life", then remembered that Robert McNamara died yesterday and realized that a single robbery and homicide really is only just "a bit" compared to a *real* criminal low life.
Wait, Michael and Janet were actually two different people?? So does that mean Janet is still alive (well, except her career)? Does that mean Diana Ross is a separate entity also?? (Beside the fact that the Jacksons all share her nose) I am so confused...
You take the monkey, I'll take the llama,
We'll have a party: get me a Pepsi --
Michael is Janet, Janet is Michael --
I'm so confused now --
Who is Diana?
He's oxygenated
His nose is deflated
And he thinks he looks good to you
And he thinks he looks good to you
-- Frank Zappa - "Why Don't You Like Me?"
If you have a degree in Mathematics, then I'd think you'd be familiar with long and short scales. The US has always used short scale, but in long scale, which was used in the UK until 1974, the term billion means 10^12 (a trillion in short scale), and the the term milliard meant 10^9 (a billion in short scale).
Because of this, it is rather common for older Brits or people raised in non-English speaking cultures to say "one thousand million" instead of "billion".
Maybe she already has. As I was repeatedly told in my youth, smoking stunts your growth.
Do they make Halal Pringles?
Evidently, yes.
I think that a large part of the problem with creating usable IT performance metrics begins with a basic problem with human nature: namely that we tend to notice flaws far more than we notice the absence of flaws. Things that run smoothly tend to get taken for granted and thus get forgotten, while the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
I see this in the quality of most of the big money "enterprise solutions" that I have to support and integrate on my job. When a software vendor relies on long term support contracts for their revenue, as most enterprise solutions do, there is a disincentive for such a vendor to ensure their software is either easy to use, deploy, or administrate, since such ease erodes the need for support. Likewise, in my experience, it is difficult to convince corporate IT customers to pay a premium for higher quality solutions, which is what forces the vendors into the support model in the first place.
Until the day that there are good, widely-used metrics for assessing the value of when things *don't* go wrong, I suspect the flawed metrics like the submitter's are going to prevail.
U2 cut that out!!
MThe article then goes on to cite another study in Italy where the highest concentration of cocaine found was 100 pg/m3 -- whereas in the Spanish study, the maximum found was 850 pg/m3. That's almost an order of magnitude difference between Spain and Italy. While there are many, many reasons this might be true, certainly it would appear that Madrid and Barcelona have much higher concentrations of drugs in the air than other cities.
Well, here's one hypothesis. Woody Allen made a recent film in Barcelona, and perhaps he had a repeat of this incident.
But LSD is psychoactive at such low doses, I wonder if it actually does affect people.
If you RTFA carefully (yeah yeah, I know), they didn't actually find LSD but lysergic acid which is a "precursor for a wide range of ergoline alkaloids that are produced by the ergot fungus and some plants".
I'm not a chemist, but the two possibilities I see is that (a) it is naturally occurring; or (b) someone in the area is running an acid lab (probably more likely). Either way, plain lysergic acid will not have any hallucinogenic/entheogenic effects at those minute concentrations.
Or to give the same answer in the form of a question: "Why do dogs lick their balls?"
With the usual IANAL disclaimer, while it may theoretically be possible for the SCOTUS to overrule a decision that is grounded in a *state* constitution, my guess is that the major improbability would be that there would be little grounds for them to even be in a position to consider hearing the case. Even should the prosecution appeal to Federal court (if that's possible), I can't imagine a situation where they would consider the constitutionality of a state court declaring that warrantless GPS tracking is *not* permissible. IOW, I don't think there's any conceivable basis in the US Constitution that would *require* a state to permit such a thing, and as such they would never agree to hear it.
Again, I'm just guessing, so maybe someone with a better legal background could clarify the specifics. Perhaps it's possible that the NY State Supreme Court could hear a final appeal from the prosecution, but I don't know.
If I wanted to see ads... I wouldn't block them. This feature seems redundant.
There's another reason this is redundant. It is already possible to detect from the web server that ads are being blocked, and therefore to present a message on the page or a pop-up to make the plea to allow ads on the page. And as noted elsewhere, AB+ already make it very easy to whitelist a page.
So why would AB+ need to create a specific mechanism to do what can already be easily done without it?
As you well know, however, potential does not equate actual presence.
Agreed. However, there does not need to be any evidence of actual bias for conflict of interest to be grounds for appeal.
As long as the conflict of interest is declared, it's still possible to carry on without replacing the players.
And clearly in TPB case, the conflict of interest was not declared, so that point is essentially moot.
There's no way TPB's lawyers were in the dark about this.
This was my thinking as well; that this was a defense strategy.
However, I also think there is also no way that the prosecution didn't know about this before the fact, either. That they would allow such a conflict of interest knowing it could be grounds for appeal is the real epic fail, IMHO.
Conflict of Interest
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization (such as a lawyer, insurance adjuster, politician, engineer, executive, director of a corporation, medical research scientist, physician, writer, editor, or an individual or organization cited as a source) has an interest that might compromise their reliability. A conflict of interest exists even if no improper act results from it, and can create an appearance of impropriety that can undermine confidence in the conflicted individual or organization.
Actual bias does not need to be demonstrated for there to be a conflict of interest.
There is certainly enough potential for bias here that the judge should have never been allowed to hear the case, period. In fact, even though I suspect the defendants may have known about this and waited until after the trial for strategic reasons, I think the prosecution were the ones who should have objected initially, as they will now be the ones with the egg on their faces.
What about those of us who don't update because we're too lazy?
Then there's those of us who don't update because we've been burnt by updates breaking things way too many times in the past.
Being that the Reinheitsgebot doesn't even mention yeast (as its existence and role in fermentation were unknown in 1516), I'd have to say "yes".
African or European?
If by "eating" her you are actually consuming her, then you're either doing it wrong or a cannibal.
Also, "blow" is just a figure of speech. (I'd guess that one applies to equally to cannibals, unless they practice death by inflation.)