If it's an old memory card that you don't want anymore it's probably nearly worthless anyways. The best solution is probably to smash it with a hammer and throw it in the trash. Not only will it save you time, but it will also save you paying a commission to EBay and Paypal to boot.
More in-built functionality that I don't need. Like a phishing filter.
I completely disagree. If Firefox is only meant for the tech-savvy then you're right, we don't need it because most of us are careful. However, phishing wouldn't be a problem if there weren't loads of people getting tricked, and so if Firefox is intended for a larger audience then a phishing filter is an essential addition. And no, it shouldn't be an Add-on, because those who are not tech-savvy are unlikely to even know of the existence of Add-on's. In contrast, the spell-check is a useful but unnecessary feature that could perhaps be an Add-on.
And watch them with their reliable electric supply? A lot of these places, especially ones that have had recent wars like Gaza, Liberia, Congo, etc. have only minimal amounts of electricity. Which is not to say there aren't places where said TVs could work, assuming that they're packaged properly before shipping. However, I read somewhere that only around 25% of the "donated" electronics sent to 3rd world countries are actually in working order when they get there, so even if we consider these to be donations there is still an issue of what to do with all the non-working crap coming in.
I haven't read the paper, so I may be wrong in interpreting the abstract. However, it looks to me like the cocky people joking about this paper might think before writing. There is a 3% chance of someone committing a serious misconduct while in prison in said 24 month period. The method of the paper can guess about 50% of these. This is much better than flipping a coin, because if you flip a coin then yes you'll get half of the 3%, but the other 48.5% of people that you finger will be people who wouldn't have committed serious misconduct. The abstract doesn't tell the rate of false positives, but presumably it'll be much smaller than 48.5% of the prison population.
Assuming he had a student visa, then he can work 20 hours a week but needs to file with the Justice Department before starting the job. Don't know what this online work would count as. Actually, most foreign students in Japan work more than 20 hours a week, but I guess they aren't making a million dollars and so they are unlikely to get noticed like this guy did.
To elaborate on the other comment, the speed of an object (such as space debris) in low earth orbit will be significantly faster than the speed of an object attached to this cable, as the cable will go in one revolution of the earth in 24 hours whereas the space junk will be circling say every 90 minutes. So, while the space station is currently quite safe, given that the space junk is moving at the same speed as the station, if the station were attached to the elevator cable then it would act as a dustbin gathering up very high velocity garbage, much of which would probably not appreciate being instantaneously slowed down by say 10,000mph and would hence pass right on through said space station.
> Let's say there are 3 candidates - 2 conservative and one liberal. > Let's say that 30% of people voted for each conservative and the > remaining 40% voted for the liberal.
Sounds like you're talking about Nicaragua. Ortega, the ex-communist Sandinista leader, was just elected president with 38% of the vote, while his two conservative opponents won 29% and 26% respectively.
Then again, in Florida 2000 the Gore+Nader votes were significantly more than the Bush vote, not to mention that the Gore+Jewish Buchanan vote was also more than the Bush vote.
Ten years ago when I lived in Japan they had something like this. Whenever people left the country there was a place like immigration (emigration?) where you filled out a form about where you were going, then they checked your passport and let you through. I think they stopped doing that recently, but it was relatively painless.
I'm not sure your arguments about Aids are any different than what applies to overweight people. How many overweight people getting a super sized McDonald's meal think they're going to end up on insulin and/or dialysis?
I'd say a bigger difference between the two is that in Africa AIDS kills you in your 20s/30s and leaves your kids as orphans, whereas obesity usually won't kill you until your kids are grown up.
That 10,000 pieces of artillery figure showed up on a quick Google search. Seems a more reliable figure is "Five hundred 170mm Koksan guns and 200 multiple-launch rocket systems could hit Seoul with artillery shells and chemical weapons... 500 and 600 Scud missiles that could strike targets throughout South Korea with conventional warheads or chemical weapons. North Korea could hit Japan with its 100 No-dong missiles.... These units could fire up to 500,000 artillery rounds per hour against South Korean defenses for several hours. Finally, if North Korea does have one or two deliverable nuclear weapons, nuclear retaliation (or nuclear threats) would also be available to North Korea leaders." Hardly seems much better. And, oh, there are tens of thousands of sitting ducks (also known as American soldiers) sitting between Seoul and North Korea, so even if we didn't give a damn for South Koreans there'd still be massive American causalities.
> They know they no-one dares invade, for fear of wrecking complex international relationships
Umm, or perhaps because we don't want them to wipe Seoul and its 10,000,000 people off the face of the earth? Sure we could beat North Korea, but with 10,000 pieces of North Korean artillery in range of Seoul it'd be virtually impossible for even a pre-emptive strike to prevent them from destroying huge swathes of the city and killing hundred of thousands of people.
> of course I'd recruit heavily at those schools. You know that someone from a school like that is smart.
Perhaps a Stanford PhD is guaranteed to be smart, but a BA/BS/MBA is a different issue. Yale gave Mr. C-average (aka, G.W. Bush) a bachelor's degree, and Harvard gave him an MBA. He did become President, so they certainly picked a winner, but that doesn't mean he is smart rather that he is very well-connected.
>Clemson is a nationally recognized research university.
Hence a PhD from there should be a good researcher. However, Clemson is a public university with 12,000 undergrads and as such the quality of a BA/BS is going to be extremely varied (don't know if the Clemson poster had a BS, MS or PhD). Even Berkeley has sub-par students, and that is despite being the top public university in a state of over 30 million people (vs. only 4 million in South Carolina). I previously taught at Georgia Tech (another big public nationally recognized research university) and found that the top undergrads there were as good as anyone I taught while a grad student at Yale, but on average (although certainly not always) the Yale undergrads were better students.
The US is by far the largest market for almost everything, and if you want to sell here then you're going to have to follow our (ridiculous) patent laws. Hence there's little reason for our patent laws to push businesses overseas, unless said companies do not intend to sell in the US. In fact, I have the impression that juries hate "evil foreign companies" even more than they hate "evil American companies", so non-US companies might be hit even harder than American ones.
The forced abortion issue is in China, not India. If you cannot tell the difference between the two most populated countries in the world then maybe you shouldn't be inserting you BS into the discussion. (your comments on immigration are perhaps OK however)
I always thought the "boom" was because the sound wave built up to a crescendo when the plane was going the same speed as the sound it produced, but after your comments I checked and discovered that this is a common misconception. I figured fighter jets were so loud just because the engines were obnoxious (after all, they were designed for performance and not to be quiet). Anyways, learn something new every day.
A sonic boom is formed when it goes through the Mach 1 speed barrier. So I suppose a Mach 23 projectile would not make any particular sound until it had slowed to Mach 1 (which means never since presumably it needs to be going far over Mach 1 to stay in orbit).
Rural and small town phone networks are subsidized by a tax which is largely paid by city folks. Your rural phone bills don't even pay the full cost of service, so what's the whining about lining the pockets of executives? And by the way, I grew up on a country road 5 miles from a town of 1000, so I include myself in the 'rural' group.
Wasn't the practice of backdating options was a subtle admission that the stock prices in the 90's were meaningless? It's basically a statement that "today we grant you this option, but we know that our investors are too stupid to figure out the legitimate value of our company and so we'll give you whatever silly valuation this month is most favorable to you." After all, if the stock price is really determined by the value of the company then it is highly unlikely there will be significant changes over the course of a single month.
While I agree with your argument, there are now some TV commercials showing kids who were created with left-over embryos that were donated to other women. So, the religious groups are already attacking that justification.
not mince words about "honorable politicians serving the people's will" or similar nonsense.
Yes, that is nonsense. But 'new' Florida is also graft-ridden, and I don't think unions are particularly strong there. Likewise, the midwestern "blue" states are heavily dependent on federal handouts, whether through farm subsidies, ethanol requirements, food import tarifs or quotas (such as on ethanol and most anything else food-derived from Brazil), etc. In the 'blue' states the politicians feed the jobs to their supporters (unions), while in the 'red' states they feed the jobs to their supporters (big companies), but in the end they're both looking to get money for their election and have their friends give them some cushy well paying job when they retire. If anything, it's much more transparent that there's a conflict of interests when politicians do such idiotic things as appointing a coal lobbyist to head coal regulations (go white house!). We all have our problems, and definitely those here in Massachusetts need to be fixed, but there is a nationwide need for reform and not just a local need.
there's no need to continue to use 50 year old construction techiniques
That was the justification for building a single tunnel, rather than the "tried and true" tunnel within a tunnel construction. It seems this "newer and better" approach is part of why there are so many problems with leaks. Yes, the construction wasn't done right, but at least my impression from the papers is that the "old fashioned" way would have resulted in the leaks being comparitively minor problems (of course falling ceiling tiles are a different issue). Admittedly, I'm not an engineer and the newspapers often pretend to have a level of knowledge the reporters don't actually have, so everything I just wrote might be nonsense.
I have driven to Logan many times and never noticed any trouble with the capacity of that tunnel. Anyways, I'm not sure where you propose to build this new airport, as I haven't noticed any convenient chunks of unused land lieing around (maybe we can fill in Walden Pond?).
According to the papers here in Boston the epoxy was still in the concrete. The failure was the steel bolts pulling out of the epoxy, so I guess at the steel/epoxy level.
And yet somehow our politicians keep making the same mistakes. Look at them letting the accountants sell consulting to the companies they were auditing. Or even more bizarre, Katherine Harris being in charge of the Florida elections, while at the same time being in charge of the local Bush campaign. It's always baffled me why see has turned into a Republican celebrity -- if she followed the law properly then there is no reason for her to be a celebrity, but if she tried to bias the outcome of the election then she is a criminal. Anyways, point being that these conflicts of interest abound and yet out politicians don't seem to do anything about it (probably because they know where the campaign donations and future high-paying job for themself come from).
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If it's an old memory card that you don't want anymore it's probably nearly worthless anyways. The best solution is probably to smash it with a hammer and throw it in the trash. Not only will it save you time, but it will also save you paying a commission to EBay and Paypal to boot.
I completely disagree. If Firefox is only meant for the tech-savvy then you're right, we don't need it because most of us are careful. However, phishing wouldn't be a problem if there weren't loads of people getting tricked, and so if Firefox is intended for a larger audience then a phishing filter is an essential addition. And no, it shouldn't be an Add-on, because those who are not tech-savvy are unlikely to even know of the existence of Add-on's. In contrast, the spell-check is a useful but unnecessary feature that could perhaps be an Add-on.
And watch them with their reliable electric supply? A lot of these places, especially ones that have had recent wars like Gaza, Liberia, Congo, etc. have only minimal amounts of electricity. Which is not to say there aren't places where said TVs could work, assuming that they're packaged properly before shipping. However, I read somewhere that only around 25% of the "donated" electronics sent to 3rd world countries are actually in working order when they get there, so even if we consider these to be donations there is still an issue of what to do with all the non-working crap coming in.
I haven't read the paper, so I may be wrong in interpreting the abstract. However, it looks to me like the cocky people joking about this paper might think before writing. There is a 3% chance of someone committing a serious misconduct while in prison in said 24 month period. The method of the paper can guess about 50% of these. This is much better than flipping a coin, because if you flip a coin then yes you'll get half of the 3%, but the other 48.5% of people that you finger will be people who wouldn't have committed serious misconduct. The abstract doesn't tell the rate of false positives, but presumably it'll be much smaller than 48.5% of the prison population.
Assuming he had a student visa, then he can work 20 hours a week but needs to file with the Justice Department before starting the job. Don't know what this online work would count as. Actually, most foreign students in Japan work more than 20 hours a week, but I guess they aren't making a million dollars and so they are unlikely to get noticed like this guy did.
To elaborate on the other comment, the speed of an object (such as space debris) in low earth orbit will be significantly faster than the speed of an object attached to this cable, as the cable will go in one revolution of the earth in 24 hours whereas the space junk will be circling say every 90 minutes. So, while the space station is currently quite safe, given that the space junk is moving at the same speed as the station, if the station were attached to the elevator cable then it would act as a dustbin gathering up very high velocity garbage, much of which would probably not appreciate being instantaneously slowed down by say 10,000mph and would hence pass right on through said space station.
> Let's say there are 3 candidates - 2 conservative and one liberal.
> Let's say that 30% of people voted for each conservative and the
> remaining 40% voted for the liberal.
Sounds like you're talking about Nicaragua. Ortega, the ex-communist Sandinista leader, was just elected president with 38% of the vote, while his two conservative opponents won 29% and 26% respectively.
Then again, in Florida 2000 the Gore+Nader votes were significantly more than the Bush vote, not to mention that the Gore+Jewish Buchanan vote was also more than the Bush vote.
Ten years ago when I lived in Japan they had something like this. Whenever people left the country there was a place like immigration (emigration?) where you filled out a form about where you were going, then they checked your passport and let you through. I think they stopped doing that recently, but it was relatively painless.
I'm not sure your arguments about Aids are any different than what applies to overweight people. How many overweight people getting a super sized McDonald's meal think they're going to end up on insulin and/or dialysis?
I'd say a bigger difference between the two is that in Africa AIDS kills you in your 20s/30s and leaves your kids as orphans, whereas obesity usually won't kill you until your kids are grown up.
That 10,000 pieces of artillery figure showed up on a quick Google search. Seems a more reliable figure is "Five hundred 170mm Koksan guns and 200 multiple-launch rocket systems could hit Seoul with artillery shells and chemical weapons ... 500 and 600 Scud missiles that could strike targets throughout South Korea with conventional warheads or chemical weapons. North Korea could hit Japan with its 100 No-dong missiles. ... These units could fire up to 500,000 artillery rounds per hour against South Korean defenses for several hours. Finally, if North Korea does have one or two deliverable nuclear weapons, nuclear retaliation (or nuclear threats) would also be available to North Korea leaders." Hardly seems much better. And, oh, there are tens of thousands of sitting ducks (also known as American soldiers) sitting between Seoul and North Korea, so even if we didn't give a damn for South Koreans there'd still be massive American causalities.
Umm, or perhaps because we don't want them to wipe Seoul and its 10,000,000 people off the face of the earth? Sure we could beat North Korea, but with 10,000 pieces of North Korean artillery in range of Seoul it'd be virtually impossible for even a pre-emptive strike to prevent them from destroying huge swathes of the city and killing hundred of thousands of people.
Perhaps a Stanford PhD is guaranteed to be smart, but a BA/BS/MBA is a different issue. Yale gave Mr. C-average (aka, G.W. Bush) a bachelor's degree, and Harvard gave him an MBA. He did become President, so they certainly picked a winner, but that doesn't mean he is smart rather that he is very well-connected.
>Clemson is a nationally recognized research university.
Hence a PhD from there should be a good researcher. However, Clemson is a public university with 12,000 undergrads and as such the quality of a BA/BS is going to be extremely varied (don't know if the Clemson poster had a BS, MS or PhD). Even Berkeley has sub-par students, and that is despite being the top public university in a state of over 30 million people (vs. only 4 million in South Carolina). I previously taught at Georgia Tech (another big public nationally recognized research university) and found that the top undergrads there were as good as anyone I taught while a grad student at Yale, but on average (although certainly not always) the Yale undergrads were better students.
The US is by far the largest market for almost everything, and if you want to sell here then you're going to have to follow our (ridiculous) patent laws. Hence there's little reason for our patent laws to push businesses overseas, unless said companies do not intend to sell in the US. In fact, I have the impression that juries hate "evil foreign companies" even more than they hate "evil American companies", so non-US companies might be hit even harder than American ones.
The forced abortion issue is in China, not India. If you cannot tell the difference between the two most populated countries in the world then maybe you shouldn't be inserting you BS into the discussion. (your comments on immigration are perhaps OK however)
I always thought the "boom" was because the sound wave built up to a crescendo when the plane was going the same speed as the sound it produced, but after your comments I checked and discovered that this is a common misconception. I figured fighter jets were so loud just because the engines were obnoxious (after all, they were designed for performance and not to be quiet). Anyways, learn something new every day.
A sonic boom is formed when it goes through the Mach 1 speed barrier. So I suppose a Mach 23 projectile would not make any particular sound until it had slowed to Mach 1 (which means never since presumably it needs to be going far over Mach 1 to stay in orbit).
Rural and small town phone networks are subsidized by a tax which is largely paid by city folks. Your rural phone bills don't even pay the full cost of service, so what's the whining about lining the pockets of executives? And by the way, I grew up on a country road 5 miles from a town of 1000, so I include myself in the 'rural' group.
Wasn't the practice of backdating options was a subtle admission that the stock prices in the 90's were meaningless? It's basically a statement that "today we grant you this option, but we know that our investors are too stupid to figure out the legitimate value of our company and so we'll give you whatever silly valuation this month is most favorable to you." After all, if the stock price is really determined by the value of the company then it is highly unlikely there will be significant changes over the course of a single month.
While I agree with your argument, there are now some TV commercials showing kids who were created with left-over embryos that were donated to other women. So, the religious groups are already attacking that justification.
Mel Gibson is an Australian, not an American, as pointed out some posts back.
not mince words about "honorable politicians serving the people's will" or similar nonsense.
Yes, that is nonsense. But 'new' Florida is also graft-ridden, and I don't think unions are particularly strong there. Likewise, the midwestern "blue" states are heavily dependent on federal handouts, whether through farm subsidies, ethanol requirements, food import tarifs or quotas (such as on ethanol and most anything else food-derived from Brazil), etc. In the 'blue' states the politicians feed the jobs to their supporters (unions), while in the 'red' states they feed the jobs to their supporters (big companies), but in the end they're both looking to get money for their election and have their friends give them some cushy well paying job when they retire. If anything, it's much more transparent that there's a conflict of interests when politicians do such idiotic things as appointing a coal lobbyist to head coal regulations (go white house!). We all have our problems, and definitely those here in Massachusetts need to be fixed, but there is a nationwide need for reform and not just a local need.there's no need to continue to use 50 year old construction techiniques
That was the justification for building a single tunnel, rather than the "tried and true" tunnel within a tunnel construction. It seems this "newer and better" approach is part of why there are so many problems with leaks. Yes, the construction wasn't done right, but at least my impression from the papers is that the "old fashioned" way would have resulted in the leaks being comparitively minor problems (of course falling ceiling tiles are a different issue). Admittedly, I'm not an engineer and the newspapers often pretend to have a level of knowledge the reporters don't actually have, so everything I just wrote might be nonsense.I have driven to Logan many times and never noticed any trouble with the capacity of that tunnel. Anyways, I'm not sure where you propose to build this new airport, as I haven't noticed any convenient chunks of unused land lieing around (maybe we can fill in Walden Pond?).
According to the papers here in Boston the epoxy was still in the concrete. The failure was the steel bolts pulling out of the epoxy, so I guess at the steel/epoxy level.
And yet somehow our politicians keep making the same mistakes. Look at them letting the accountants sell consulting to the companies they were auditing. Or even more bizarre, Katherine Harris being in charge of the Florida elections, while at the same time being in charge of the local Bush campaign. It's always baffled me why see has turned into a Republican celebrity -- if she followed the law properly then there is no reason for her to be a celebrity, but if she tried to bias the outcome of the election then she is a criminal. Anyways, point being that these conflicts of interest abound and yet out politicians don't seem to do anything about it (probably because they know where the campaign donations and future high-paying job for themself come from).