We learn to bend over at the airport and it makes it easier to do it at the checkpoint, the federal building, the state border, or while jogging in a neighborhood in which they think you don't belong. Or while driving in a neighborhood in which they think you don't belong.
Starting on Saturday, officers will check drivers' identification and ask whether they have a "legitimate purpose" to be in the Trinidad area... The checkpoint will stop vehicles approaching the 1400 block of Montello Avenue NE, a section of the Trinidad neighborhood that has been plagued with homicides and other violence. Police will search cars if they suspect the presence of guns or drugs, and will arrest people who do not cooperate, under a charge of failure to obey a police officer, officials said.
Colonel Sandurz: You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now! Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now! Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Cool discovery, but I think the bit about using this for lie detection is a bit of a stretch. This sounds like a polygraph that does not require physical contact. But, polygraphs are not believed to be all that accurate.
Why not just make the "illegals" US citizens? Honestly, the only problem that I have with illegal immigration is the fact that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes. If they became US citizens, they would be registered with the IRS and forced to pay taxes just like everyone else. This would solve two issues:
1. Illegal immigrants use public services without paying for them (through taxes).
2. Illegal immigrants are willing to take jobs at lower wages (as mentioned in the parent post). This is because, without paying taxes, they can afford it more easily than a US citizen who does have to pay taxes.
And this applies to anyone who wants to move to the US. I don't understand the desire to let only a small group of people into the country each year. What ever happened to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?
If I had my way we could vote either for or against all of the candidates. Each one's "no" votes would be subtracted from their "yes" votes, and they'd be ranked accordingly...
There is a voting system that would allow just this. It is called Range Voting. Each voter ranks all or a subset of all candidates with a score within a given range (ex. 0-5 or 0-99). So if you have no desire whatsoever for one candidate to be elected, you could mark them with the minimum score. If you only agree with some of one candidate's posistions, you could mark them with a score somewhere in between the min and max.
All that tension, stress, and road rage, not to mention the speed traps. It is so dangerous and inefficient.
That tension and stress will be much higher when these new flying commuters start falling through ceilings all around your neighborhood. Imagine going to work every day wondering, "Will there be a roof on my house when I get home?" Or imagine what would happen if every single person you saw on the road today had a pilot's license and could fly around just as dangerously as they were driving their cars.
Was able to find this. It's a little old, written in May 1995. And the numbers that the author uses were fairly old even then: 1978 through 1986. Haven't been able to find anything more recent.
Proponents estimates of the rate of return from NASA spending range from $7 in return from every $1 of NASA spending (Lyttle, David, "Is Space Our Destiny?" Astronomy, February 1991, page 6) to $23 in return for every $1 of NASA spending (Chase Econometric Associates, "The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending," prepared under NASA contract NASW-2741, April 1976).
Although, the author disagrees with these estimates.
So rather than being an unusually good investment paying 7:1 or 22:1 for each dollar invested, NASA has an astoundingly bad 1:10 payoff -- about a factor of 100 worse than the commercial economy as a whole.
I don't really agree with the author's logic here though. To arrive at this 1:10 (10%) return, he cites a study in which it was found that the $54B to $55B spent on NASA contributed to $21B in "sales and savings benefits", but only $5B of the $21B would have been impossible without NASA's contributions. NASA only partially contributed to the remaining $16B. To get this 10% return, he drops the entire $16B. However, I think $16B * (the percentage that NASA technology contributed) should have been included. Even if NASA technology only contributed 50% to that $16B, this would be about a 25% return altogether, which is better than the 20% "typical rate of return currently required on commercial investments".
I bet it's a hell of a lot more than the war in Iraq. I wonder what we could have accomplished by now if all of the money spent on the war had been spent on science instead...
Reminds me of the game Syndicate. For those who haven't played it, you play as the head of a corporation in a future in which corporations battle each other for world domination using cyborg agents. One of the objects of the game is to research more advanced body parts for your agents. One possible upgrade is a new, more advanced heart. I remember this being a really fun game when it was released, wish I could find the CD...
Yes, an internship is key. It's beneficial for both sides. Students like internships because you get your foot in the door and you get a preview of what you will be doing once you graduate. This will give you a much better idea of what you will need to do during your remaining time at school to prepare for your first job. Companies like internships because interns are cheap labor and it gives management a chance to hire an employee for a trial period.
What if your parents caught you doing something illegal? Should they not punish you? Should they instead go straight to the police and turn you in? What kind of Gestapo bullcrap is that? Do you really want to live in a police state where you can't even confide in your own parents?
School staff are (usually) not the kids' parents, so these questions are irrelevant.
The school may or may not be dishing out appropriate punishment and that needs to be figured out.
The alleged illegal behavior occured outside school hours and property. The school should have no authority in this matter. And if you think that going to the police to report possible illegal activities is the wrong course of action then law enforcement and the legal system is what needs to be fixed.
To me I would say, "Congratulations, you have found some deviation from equal frequency for all balls. But this would happen in any instance of drawing these balls."
If they discuss Paris Hilton's latest cunt flash at the dinner table, the kids are not going to learn that science and math are important. They can be exposed to good books/movies/shows, but they just won't care.
That is complete nonsense. There are many people whose interests vary greatly from those of their parents. And those are the very people who need/want this kind of exposure.
I took interest in computers and electronics fairly early on. However, my parents did not share this interest at all. My parents supported my interests by buying a computer and various electronic gadgets for me, but they did not teach me how to use them. My only sources of information were books, friends, and school. In fact, it was my seventh grade science teacher who originally sparked my interest in computers. During science class she mentioned that she taught an elective class on BASIC. I decided to give it a try. I found it so interesting that I continued to learn more and more about computers and software. I eventually went for a degree in computer science and a career as a software engineer.
You never know what someone will find interesting until they've tried it. Kids need as much exposure to as wide a variety of subjects as possible.
If you wrote 40GB worth of data to it every single day (with the circuitry inside a drive to spread writes out over cells evenly), then you would average 1 write per day across each cell. Flash memory can be written to a minimum of 10,000 times before dying, most is even more reliably by an order of magnitude (100,000 writes). Assuming we have crappy 10,000 write limits, we could write 40GB to the drive every day for 10,000 days, or 27 years, before failing is an issue.
Will this circuitry be present in all flash drives? These calculations work if this circuitry exists, but actual results could be very different if it does not. Will it be possible to write to the same cell every time that the drive is written to? Say you store 1 byte on the drive and immediately delete it afterward. Then repeat it 10,000 times. That would happen pretty quickly and without the circuitry that you mentioned it could wear out a single cell.
Also, what kind of error checking will these drives have? If it writes to a bad cell, will it catch this and try to write to another cell?
Over the weekend I tried installing Ubuntu on my old desktop. First I tried Ubuntu 7.04. It died trying to boot from the CD and gave an error about not being able to read from the CD. So I figured it was a bad CD. Burned the ISO on a different burner and tried again, same error. Burned it again at the slowest speed, same error. So I gave up and went for the older version, Ubuntu 6.06. Installed OK, but the desktop was stuck at 640x480 resolution. Took a few hours of scrolling through various how-tos and trying a few things like: Plugging the monitor directly into the desktop (not through the KVM switch) and then reconfiguring xorg.conf; updating nVidia drivers; changing various settings in xorg.conf; etc. Finally, after a few hours of messing with it, it turned out I needed to add HorizSync and VertRefresh settings to the monitor section of xorg.conf. Then I was free to select any resolution for the desktop. So now when I open a window, I get to see the whole window!
Now what did it take to get the same functionality in Windows on the same desktop? Put in Windows CD 1 and select a few settings. Play Xbox. Put in CD 2. Play more Xbox. Done.
What does all this mean? Nothing. It's just an anecdote.
Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. In the future, everything will be an ad. The clothes you wear are covered in ads, the things you buy are shaped like company logos, and TV shows are a small section of the screen surrounded by ads.
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Colonel Sandurz: You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Cool discovery, but I think the bit about using this for lie detection is a bit of a stretch. This sounds like a polygraph that does not require physical contact. But, polygraphs are not believed to be all that accurate.
Interesting language. The classes are verbs and the methods are nouns. What is it called?
Why not just make the "illegals" US citizens? Honestly, the only problem that I have with illegal immigration is the fact that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes. If they became US citizens, they would be registered with the IRS and forced to pay taxes just like everyone else. This would solve two issues:
1. Illegal immigrants use public services without paying for them (through taxes).
2. Illegal immigrants are willing to take jobs at lower wages (as mentioned in the parent post). This is because, without paying taxes, they can afford it more easily than a US citizen who does have to pay taxes.
And this applies to anyone who wants to move to the US. I don't understand the desire to let only a small group of people into the country each year. What ever happened to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?
Was able to find this. It's a little old, written in May 1995. And the numbers that the author uses were fairly old even then: 1978 through 1986. Haven't been able to find anything more recent.
Proponents estimates of the rate of return from NASA spending range from $7 in return from every $1 of NASA spending (Lyttle, David, "Is Space Our Destiny?" Astronomy, February 1991, page 6) to $23 in return for every $1 of NASA spending (Chase Econometric Associates, "The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending," prepared under NASA contract NASW-2741, April 1976).Although, the author disagrees with these estimates.
So rather than being an unusually good investment paying 7:1 or 22:1 for each dollar invested, NASA has an astoundingly bad 1:10 payoff -- about a factor of 100 worse than the commercial economy as a whole.I don't really agree with the author's logic here though. To arrive at this 1:10 (10%) return, he cites a study in which it was found that the $54B to $55B spent on NASA contributed to $21B in "sales and savings benefits", but only $5B of the $21B would have been impossible without NASA's contributions. NASA only partially contributed to the remaining $16B. To get this 10% return, he drops the entire $16B. However, I think $16B * (the percentage that NASA technology contributed) should have been included. Even if NASA technology only contributed 50% to that $16B, this would be about a 25% return altogether, which is better than the 20% "typical rate of return currently required on commercial investments".
Wow, that was really helpful. Thanks....
Ditto. I'm really curious to see where those numbers came from as well.
I bet it's a hell of a lot more than the war in Iraq. I wonder what we could have accomplished by now if all of the money spent on the war had been spent on science instead...
Marklar.
Reminds me of the game Syndicate. For those who haven't played it, you play as the head of a corporation in a future in which corporations battle each other for world domination using cyborg agents. One of the objects of the game is to research more advanced body parts for your agents. One possible upgrade is a new, more advanced heart. I remember this being a really fun game when it was released, wish I could find the CD...
Yes, an internship is key. It's beneficial for both sides. Students like internships because you get your foot in the door and you get a preview of what you will be doing once you graduate. This will give you a much better idea of what you will need to do during your remaining time at school to prepare for your first job. Companies like internships because interns are cheap labor and it gives management a chance to hire an employee for a trial period.
Kurt Cobain was the lead singer for Nirvana
Do you often talk to yourself about balls?
I kid, I kid!
My thoughts exactly. He explains all of this on his show.
But don't take my word for it, see for yourself.
I agree. This is one of those rare posts that deserves more than a +5. Great explanation! Thanks!
That is complete nonsense. There are many people whose interests vary greatly from those of their parents. And those are the very people who need/want this kind of exposure.
I took interest in computers and electronics fairly early on. However, my parents did not share this interest at all. My parents supported my interests by buying a computer and various electronic gadgets for me, but they did not teach me how to use them. My only sources of information were books, friends, and school. In fact, it was my seventh grade science teacher who originally sparked my interest in computers. During science class she mentioned that she taught an elective class on BASIC. I decided to give it a try. I found it so interesting that I continued to learn more and more about computers and software. I eventually went for a degree in computer science and a career as a software engineer.
You never know what someone will find interesting until they've tried it. Kids need as much exposure to as wide a variety of subjects as possible.
Will this circuitry be present in all flash drives? These calculations work if this circuitry exists, but actual results could be very different if it does not. Will it be possible to write to the same cell every time that the drive is written to? Say you store 1 byte on the drive and immediately delete it afterward. Then repeat it 10,000 times. That would happen pretty quickly and without the circuitry that you mentioned it could wear out a single cell.
Also, what kind of error checking will these drives have? If it writes to a bad cell, will it catch this and try to write to another cell?
While we're throwing out anecdotes, here's mine:
Over the weekend I tried installing Ubuntu on my old desktop. First I tried Ubuntu 7.04. It died trying to boot from the CD and gave an error about not being able to read from the CD. So I figured it was a bad CD. Burned the ISO on a different burner and tried again, same error. Burned it again at the slowest speed, same error. So I gave up and went for the older version, Ubuntu 6.06. Installed OK, but the desktop was stuck at 640x480 resolution. Took a few hours of scrolling through various how-tos and trying a few things like: Plugging the monitor directly into the desktop (not through the KVM switch) and then reconfiguring xorg.conf; updating nVidia drivers; changing various settings in xorg.conf; etc. Finally, after a few hours of messing with it, it turned out I needed to add HorizSync and VertRefresh settings to the monitor section of xorg.conf. Then I was free to select any resolution for the desktop. So now when I open a window, I get to see the whole window!
Now what did it take to get the same functionality in Windows on the same desktop? Put in Windows CD 1 and select a few settings. Play Xbox. Put in CD 2. Play more Xbox. Done.
What does all this mean? Nothing. It's just an anecdote.
Same here. Although I tend to get into trouble for thinking with that noodle from time to time...
I beg to differ.
Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. In the future, everything will be an ad. The clothes you wear are covered in ads, the things you buy are shaped like company logos, and TV shows are a small section of the screen surrounded by ads.