I'm sorry, but "things like immigration reform, gay rights, abortion" aren't "distractions" to the 11 million undocumented workers living in this country, the millions of gay and lesbian citizens living without the full protection of the law, or the women in states that either require invasive, unnecessary medical procedures to get a safe and legal abortion (or those living in states that don't have an abortion provider at all).
The fact that you consider these things distractions indicates that you are already largely protected by our legal system without the need to worry about persecution for things less trivial than what you do with your cell phone. That's a good thing. We should all enjoy these protections (including the legal freedom do whatever we want with our personal electronics). I just ask that you please stop and think before you dismiss the issues confronting our country as distractions for "the masses."
I'm surprised at the lack of outrage. BART is a governmental agency, with devolved powers from the State of California, its own police force, and a charter. If a city or county cut off wireless communication to prevent a protest, it would fly in the face of our incorporated first amendment rights to speech and assembly. From a legal standpoint, BART is held to the same standard.
There are a lot of fantastical views about the role of the Supreme Court and ones personal interpretation of the Constitution, but as it stands, the SCOTUS is a purely reactive branch. It's not their job to make policy, nor should it be.
Even with the recent Affordable Care Act oral arguments, you heard Supreme Court justices voicing their reluctance to wade through the bill to figure out where to sever the individual mandate. The court was not consulted on the constitutionality of the PATRIOT act or the most recent NDAA before they were passed. Someone has to actively sue (and have standing to sue, under federal law,) to even bring it to their attention. This might not be ideal, since it would be very difficult sue the federal government over indefinite detention while having the standing to do so, but it's how our government works.
On this issue, it makes sense. The SCOTUS is merely asking the other branches of government "hey, there's a problem with your law. How would you solve it?" before writing a precedent-setting decision.
Also, I take issue with this meme that 25% of all those incarcerated are locked up ONLY for non-violent drug charges. For that to be true, it would require that ON AVERAGE one in for convicts behind bars was guilty of either using or selling drugs, without any associated crimes, like robbery, assault, possession of a gun, etc., and that is simply unbelievable.
Drug users poison themselves, and I find very few possession charges of "individual use" quantities of drugs that carry mandatory prison time...
Up until a few weeks ago, possession of crack cocaine (but not powder) carried a minimum five-year sentence.
Not only was the minimum sentence a ridiculous circumvention of our judicial system, having it only apply to crack cocaine possession unduly targets low income users/addicts (who statistically tend to be underrepresented minorities).
Let the citizens choose what their public land is used for. If an ISP wants to use that land to lay cable, they should be accountable to the citizens because their land is being used.
People tend to forget that the citizens are the government. It's not "you vs. them." If you don't like something "the government" (aka "the people we elected") is doing, get involved and fix it. Whining about "tyrrany" and mailing teabags doesn't count.
When I moved to Taiwan, I found that there are trash cans next to every toilet, for that specific reason. Apparently a while ago their plumbing just couldn't handle toilet paper and the older generations still have the habit of trashing it.
It's really gross, but you don't need to leave this planet to find that.
The satellites' orbits (which you calculate your position from) are calculated from the ranges to a network of ground stations with really expensive receivers mounted to bedrock. I heard through the grapevine that a couple sites in Chile slipped a few meters and that made the orbit products that geodesists use really crappy unless they took those sites out (because they assumed the old positions). The real-time orbits (less precise) that are broadcast from the satellites are produced by the Department of Defense, and their sites are usually on US military bases. Their orbits (and therefore any of the military equipment that depends on the real-time orbits) probably weren't affected by the quake.
We have satellites doing centimeter-level laser altimetry with millimeter-level orbit determination flying around the globe every few hours measuring ocean height. When the data from those no longer correlates with the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, I will stop concerning myself with AGW. Same goes for the glacier ice levels.
Until then, you can talk about how much snow or the local temperature until you get bored. AGW doesn't try to predict any of those. It predicts that the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere will increase the temperatures of the global climate (over decades). All the other anecdotes are secondary.
Actually GLONASS is so different (uses a different reference ellipsoid, for starters), that only recently has anyone been able to add GLONASS measurements to GPS and not made the resulting solution worse. But hopefully that will change. With GLONASS modernization, they're supposed to make it all more GPS-like (use WGS-84, switch from FDMA to CDMA, etc)
Youtube is nice because it's accessible from a lot of places that other flash videos aren't (iPhones and AppleTVs come to mind, for me at least)
i wish my local weather video podcast used youtube instead of its own proprietary flash video player, so i could watch it on my iphone instead of having to use a computer.
also, during the campaign, the obama camp released an iphone app that had youtube links to all of their latest ads and video press releases. it was actually really useful for me when i was running around canvassing for them.
I had a pager long ago (possibly was a drug dealer...), but my favorite thing about it was that it took a standard AAA battery. If it ran out, I could just pop in a new one without having to find a charger.
while it seems like a waste cause the rocket fuel was used to cancel out a previous boost maneuver, keep in mind that the ISS needs to be within a certain altitude band to be reachable by the soyuz/shuttle. also, the humans on board necessitate resupply missions more often than boost manuevers are required anyway.
I know it's expensive, but they have decent data rates, low latency (relatively... LEO instead of GEO) and their coverage up north (at both poles, actually) is actually really good, as all of their orbital planes intersect and you have more satellites overhead.
and you can avoid voip cause it's a voice network too.
As far as I know, what most people call "internet2" is actually the Abilene network, which is a university/corporate cooperation to build a large backbone network between all of the universities for use with data transfer. this gives the added benefit to students at those universities, because they can transfer data over the abilene network at the same high speeds. it's a standard internet backbone using IP. the reason why people get internet2 and abilene confused is due to the file sharing that students were doing (RIAA got involved, shit met fan).
national lambdarail is slightly different. it's an ethernet network connecting all of the universities. and by ethernet, i mean OSI layer 1/2 are defined, the rest is up in the air. this means it CAN be used as an IP backbone, but its main purpose is to experiment in large scale networks (researching replacements for IP, for example, or experimenting with WDM over fiber).
now, internet2 and national lambdarail are kind of intertwined, which is why this merger is rather unexciting. internet2 (the creators of the abilene network) are a part of the national lambdarail project. not only that, national lambdarail and abilene intersect at regional university interconnects such as the front range gigapop (where the university of colorado and UCAR link in) and CENIC/CalREN (where places like stanford, berkeley, and cal-tech link in).
so really, to joe sixpack, who thinks internet2 is some kind of secret research network, and has never heard of national lambdarail, this seems like some kind of mysterious and intellectual coup on the intertubes, when in truth it's barely newsworthy.
Actually, there's plenty of locally-produced cocaine. You know that coca-cola stuff you drink on your 36-hour coding binges? The cocaine was extracted from the coca leaves before the leaves were used to make that. Under the watchful eye of the FDA, of course.
Cocaine is illegal because it is ridiculously addictive and can immediately cause heart attacks (much worse than nicotine, which is ridiculously addictive but mildly cancer-causing). There's no grand conspiracy to keep you addicted to "local" drugs but not "foreign" ones.
Personally I believe that you should be able to do whatever you want in your own home, but the FDA thinks otherwise.
"Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the solution will be to create a sixth way of installing software"...
that's the problem with the current approach. the mentality in the linux community is to create a "way" of installing software. to standardize it. deb packages and RPMs are an attempt to standardize the software installation process (and make it easier, but that doesn't seem like the original goal.)
when I double click a "setup.exe" in windows, do i care if it's an MSI? how about installshield? no? oh. it's a nullsoft installer.
watch me not care.
that's why it's so easy to install software in windows. now granted, there are consequences, like each installer's different method of handling DLLs, leaving junk when the software is uninstalled, etc, but it's still easier than trying to install software on linux. granted, there were issues back in windows 95 with dll conflicts, but they've mostly been ironed out, and.NET is helping with that (in theory, though there are two versions of that now, too).
normal users don't care if there are leftover dlls (or in linux's case, dependencies) on their computer when they uninstall software. they don't WANT to know if the software they're trying to install depends on a different version of the dependency. they just want to click a button and have it work, and it has to work with EVERYTHING, not just what's in your repository. not just the versions that have been hand-picked by redhat enterprise support for the EXACT version/build installed on your system.
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My Macbook doesn't have any USB ports!
I'm sorry, but "things like immigration reform, gay rights, abortion" aren't "distractions" to the 11 million undocumented workers living in this country, the millions of gay and lesbian citizens living without the full protection of the law, or the women in states that either require invasive, unnecessary medical procedures to get a safe and legal abortion (or those living in states that don't have an abortion provider at all).
The fact that you consider these things distractions indicates that you are already largely protected by our legal system without the need to worry about persecution for things less trivial than what you do with your cell phone. That's a good thing. We should all enjoy these protections (including the legal freedom do whatever we want with our personal electronics). I just ask that you please stop and think before you dismiss the issues confronting our country as distractions for "the masses."
I'm surprised at the lack of outrage. BART is a governmental agency, with devolved powers from the State of California, its own police force, and a charter. If a city or county cut off wireless communication to prevent a protest, it would fly in the face of our incorporated first amendment rights to speech and assembly. From a legal standpoint, BART is held to the same standard.
There are a lot of fantastical views about the role of the Supreme Court and ones personal interpretation of the Constitution, but as it stands, the SCOTUS is a purely reactive branch. It's not their job to make policy, nor should it be.
Even with the recent Affordable Care Act oral arguments, you heard Supreme Court justices voicing their reluctance to wade through the bill to figure out where to sever the individual mandate. The court was not consulted on the constitutionality of the PATRIOT act or the most recent NDAA before they were passed. Someone has to actively sue (and have standing to sue, under federal law,) to even bring it to their attention. This might not be ideal, since it would be very difficult sue the federal government over indefinite detention while having the standing to do so, but it's how our government works.
On this issue, it makes sense. The SCOTUS is merely asking the other branches of government "hey, there's a problem with your law. How would you solve it?" before writing a precedent-setting decision.
Looks like Justin Bieber wins against Wikileaks:
http://www.tomscott.com/stupidfight/#wikileaks-vs-justinbieber
Also, I take issue with this meme that 25% of all those incarcerated are locked up ONLY for non-violent drug charges. For that to be true, it would require that ON AVERAGE one in for convicts behind bars was guilty of either using or selling drugs, without any associated crimes, like robbery, assault, possession of a gun, etc., and that is simply unbelievable.
Drug users poison themselves, and I find very few possession charges of "individual use" quantities of drugs that carry mandatory prison time...
Up until a few weeks ago, possession of crack cocaine (but not powder) carried a minimum five-year sentence.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S.1789:@@@D&summ2=m&
Not only was the minimum sentence a ridiculous circumvention of our judicial system, having it only apply to crack cocaine possession unduly targets low income users/addicts (who statistically tend to be underrepresented minorities).
Let's hope there aren't any murders near the Coca-cola bottling plant!
Let the citizens choose what their public land is used for. If an ISP wants to use that land to lay cable, they should be accountable to the citizens because their land is being used.
People tend to forget that the citizens are the government. It's not "you vs. them." If you don't like something "the government" (aka "the people we elected") is doing, get involved and fix it. Whining about "tyrrany" and mailing teabags doesn't count.
When I moved to Taiwan, I found that there are trash cans next to every toilet, for that specific reason. Apparently a while ago their plumbing just couldn't handle toilet paper and the older generations still have the habit of trashing it.
It's really gross, but you don't need to leave this planet to find that.
The satellites' orbits (which you calculate your position from) are calculated from the ranges to a network of ground stations with really expensive receivers mounted to bedrock. I heard through the grapevine that a couple sites in Chile slipped a few meters and that made the orbit products that geodesists use really crappy unless they took those sites out (because they assumed the old positions). The real-time orbits (less precise) that are broadcast from the satellites are produced by the Department of Defense, and their sites are usually on US military bases. Their orbits (and therefore any of the military equipment that depends on the real-time orbits) probably weren't affected by the quake.
We have satellites doing centimeter-level laser altimetry with millimeter-level orbit determination flying around the globe every few hours measuring ocean height. When the data from those no longer correlates with the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, I will stop concerning myself with AGW. Same goes for the glacier ice levels.
Until then, you can talk about how much snow or the local temperature until you get bored. AGW doesn't try to predict any of those. It predicts that the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere will increase the temperatures of the global climate (over decades). All the other anecdotes are secondary.
Actually GLONASS is so different (uses a different reference ellipsoid, for starters), that only recently has anyone been able to add GLONASS measurements to GPS and not made the resulting solution worse. But hopefully that will change. With GLONASS modernization, they're supposed to make it all more GPS-like (use WGS-84, switch from FDMA to CDMA, etc)
An engineering grad student is a machine that converts booze into code.
Youtube is nice because it's accessible from a lot of places that other flash videos aren't (iPhones and AppleTVs come to mind, for me at least)
i wish my local weather video podcast used youtube instead of its own proprietary flash video player, so i could watch it on my iphone instead of having to use a computer.
also, during the campaign, the obama camp released an iphone app that had youtube links to all of their latest ads and video press releases. it was actually really useful for me when i was running around canvassing for them.
Won't this be sealed with their record when they turn 18? Isn't that the point of sealing the record?
I had a pager long ago (possibly was a drug dealer...), but my favorite thing about it was that it took a standard AAA battery. If it ran out, I could just pop in a new one without having to find a charger.
lower numbers of digits in the UID would me a lot more if they were displayed in binary.
while it seems like a waste cause the rocket fuel was used to cancel out a previous boost maneuver, keep in mind that the ISS needs to be within a certain altitude band to be reachable by the soyuz/shuttle. also, the humans on board necessitate resupply missions more often than boost manuevers are required anyway.
Have you tried the iridium network?
I know it's expensive, but they have decent data rates, low latency (relatively... LEO instead of GEO) and their coverage up north (at both poles, actually) is actually really good, as all of their orbital planes intersect and you have more satellites overhead.
and you can avoid voip cause it's a voice network too.
As far as I know, what most people call "internet2" is actually the Abilene network, which is a university/corporate cooperation to build a large backbone network between all of the universities for use with data transfer. this gives the added benefit to students at those universities, because they can transfer data over the abilene network at the same high speeds. it's a standard internet backbone using IP. the reason why people get internet2 and abilene confused is due to the file sharing that students were doing (RIAA got involved, shit met fan).
national lambdarail is slightly different. it's an ethernet network connecting all of the universities. and by ethernet, i mean OSI layer 1/2 are defined, the rest is up in the air. this means it CAN be used as an IP backbone, but its main purpose is to experiment in large scale networks (researching replacements for IP, for example, or experimenting with WDM over fiber).
now, internet2 and national lambdarail are kind of intertwined, which is why this merger is rather unexciting. internet2 (the creators of the abilene network) are a part of the national lambdarail project. not only that, national lambdarail and abilene intersect at regional university interconnects such as the front range gigapop (where the university of colorado and UCAR link in) and CENIC/CalREN (where places like stanford, berkeley, and cal-tech link in).
so really, to joe sixpack, who thinks internet2 is some kind of secret research network, and has never heard of national lambdarail, this seems like some kind of mysterious and intellectual coup on the intertubes, when in truth it's barely newsworthy.
Actually, there's plenty of locally-produced cocaine. You know that coca-cola stuff you drink on your 36-hour coding binges? The cocaine was extracted from the coca leaves before the leaves were used to make that. Under the watchful eye of the FDA, of course.
Cocaine is illegal because it is ridiculously addictive and can immediately cause heart attacks (much worse than nicotine, which is ridiculously addictive but mildly cancer-causing). There's no grand conspiracy to keep you addicted to "local" drugs but not "foreign" ones.
Personally I believe that you should be able to do whatever you want in your own home, but the FDA thinks otherwise.
"Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the solution will be to create a sixth way of installing software"...
.NET is helping with that (in theory, though there are two versions of that now, too).
that's the problem with the current approach. the mentality in the linux community is to create a "way" of installing software. to standardize it. deb packages and RPMs are an attempt to standardize the software installation process (and make it easier, but that doesn't seem like the original goal.)
when I double click a "setup.exe" in windows, do i care if it's an MSI? how about installshield? no? oh. it's a nullsoft installer.
watch me not care.
that's why it's so easy to install software in windows. now granted, there are consequences, like each installer's different method of handling DLLs, leaving junk when the software is uninstalled, etc, but it's still easier than trying to install software on linux. granted, there were issues back in windows 95 with dll conflicts, but they've mostly been ironed out, and
normal users don't care if there are leftover dlls (or in linux's case, dependencies) on their computer when they uninstall software. they don't WANT to know if the software they're trying to install depends on a different version of the dependency. they just want to click a button and have it work, and it has to work with EVERYTHING, not just what's in your repository. not just the versions that have been hand-picked by redhat enterprise support for the EXACT version/build installed on your system.
worry not, us californians will use our progressive politics and homosexual agenda to evolve gills.
or, you forgot the part where the sighted companion steers the blind person towards a human being, or someone's car.
who's fault is it if you tell a blind person to kill someone?
The thing is, obesity isn't contagious. If it were, i think people would be a lot more worried about it.