No mention is made as to whether Microsoft will claim to own the digital rights to the content of your life, or what license fees you will have to pay to access your own memories.
Wow, sounds a lot like the XXAA -- implant memories into individuals and create common experiences in society -- then charge for each access to recall those memories and experiences.
To emphasize previous comments with a picture, Rick Jore lost in a 2004 race for the Montana House due to seven contested ballots. I personally prefer paper & pen, but it must be conceded that one advantage of electronic ballots is unambiguous interpretation of voter choice.
While waiting for informed responses to trickle in here, I found this on Google Groups (UseNet):
When the incident first happened I commented that we would never know if the Chinese boat was detected and being tracked, which would provide far more intel than flushing it when first detected.
Considering they were in international waters and responses were limited. My comment was that the telling factor would be determined by how many, if any heads rolled. The USN does not forgive such
lapses without someone being sacrificed. As far as I can tell, no one has been punished. That would indicate to me that they had a solution on the Chinese boat and were gaining intel.
We do not know why the Chinese Sub surfaced when they did. What happens below the water is rarely shared with the general public. It's entirely possible that once the Chinese got within a certain distance the American boat 'encouraged' them to surface. Just as when
a fighter plane can signal it's non-hostile intents by lowering its gear, a Sub surfaces.
If the Chinese were truly undetected they could have gained far more
by staying undetected than the minor political points garnered by
surfacing.
Aircraft carriers, the pride and joy of U.S. "force projection", are
now obsolete. Russian supersonic sea-skimming missiles can take one
out, and they've been selling them to China, Iran, etc.
The threat's been building for over a decade, but now it's built up to a head where there is now a moratorium on construction of aircraft carriers.
So here's the scenario: the U.S. and/or Israel is belligerent with Iran and/or outright attacks it. Iran fires a Sizzler missile at an aircraft carrier -- perhaps an old one like Enterprise that the U.S. sticks out in the Gulf and wants to get rid of anyway. The U.S. retaliates by nuking Iran. World War III begins.
To paraphrase a line from The Hunt for Red October, I actually met him once at a University of Maryland talk during the height of the dot-com era -- have you ever met Douglas Engelbart?
As far as I'm aware, his NLS didn't feature windows, drop-down menus, icons, and a desktop representation of a file system -- while arguably less important than the networked hypertext that NLS did have, they were the defining features of the Xerox Star and Mac.
Did this one make anyone else think of Star Trek VI? No? Anyway, it's just another example of how science fiction can't keep up with reality. The idea of a 2001 prequel to a 1960's science fiction series is what doomed Enterprise from the start -- society and science in 2001 had surpassed many aspects of TOS (transporter and FTL excepted, of course).
Some brief web surfing turned up Chem C3000 as being the best available. The glassware to chemical ratio is much higher than the sets of yore with racks and racks of little bottles of chemicals. I remember chemistry sets used to be advertised by the number of chemicals -- now it seems to be the number of "experiments".
I think you know everything I'm going to say, and after reading your post I think your dislike of Ron Paul stems from his pro-life stance, and as you know the issue of when life and civil rights begin is intensely held differently by different people, but here goes anyway:
Taxes
The option to tax is not the requirement to tax. The income tax was temporary on the wealthiest 5% to pay for WWI, the entry into which by the U.S. has parallels to the unethical invasion of Iraq. Repealing the income tax would just put the U.S. back to between the founding of the Constitution and WWI.
Congress taking abortion out of the Supreme Court
Ron Paul explains the Constitutional basis directly in the bill:
(3) Article III, section 2 of the Constitution of the United States gives Congress the power to make "such exceptions, and under such regulations" as Congress finds necessary to Supreme Court jurisdiction.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The balance of power between the Legislative and Judicial branches has been debated since the founding of the country, but according to the wording of the Constitution too much power has been afforded to the Supreme Court for most of the country's existence.
Health Care
There is no need for this to be handled at the federal level -- states can handle it just fine.
Global warming
I personally would stretch the commerce clause to cover the environment since air and water do not know state boundaries, but I can go with Ron Paul's approach of first having the federal government "do no harm", such as by eliminating corporate welfare to big oil. Boulder is suing the federal government over global warming due to its OPIC and Imp-Ex agencies, which do things like pay for oil pipelines in third world countries under the premise of providing economic development to the countries. Ron Paul has long stated he would like to eliminate OPIC and ImpEx.
Income disparity
Going on a gold standard, as Ron Paul advocates, would eliminate the hidden tax of inflation. As I've mentioned here before, I make 4x now as a seasoned professional than I did 20 years ago when I just graduated. Yet when using CPI computed according to pre-Greenspan formulas, it's 8% per year and I make less now than I did 20 years ago. Under a gold standard, wages would not automatically fall every year, and things like the minimum wage (which BTW should be at the state and local level, not the federal level) would not lag behind real prices.
In short
Ron Paul is for personal liberty, including the Iraqis and the pre-born. He does not believe liberty should be extended to illegal immigrants, but would like to expand legal immigration somewhat once the incentives for illegal immigration are removed: welfare, education, healthcare, and birthright citizenship.
Life. The same cause as a lot of other blogs dying off.
At the same time, the world's need for my site has lessened. You see, at the time (back in 2002, and before that e-mail only back to 2000), the primary site for such information was rense.com, which was ladened with UFO stories, and only about half the non-UFO stories were verifiable. Since that time, informative, well-researched sites such as prisonplanet.com, 321gold.com, youtube.com, rawstory.com, and lewrockwell.com have come to the fore (some preexist my site, but have in recent years improved quality and quantity).
Plus the whole Ron Paul campaign. People on the edge who think Ron Paul is mostly wacky, check him out, and in the process discover all the true, verifiable conspiracies (people confess this happening to them on the Ron Paul forums).
I do need to put my site back up (it would take me about six hours), just to serve as a reference on topics (I'm certainly paying a boatload for bandwidth I'm not using). I'd like to also fill in some information on Wikipedia.
But life just keeps on happening to me. Plus I have a meatspace endeavor I'm embarking on imminently.
Ron Paul's professed voting strategy during his 10 terms in Congress is to evaluate the bill against the Constitution, and to my knowledge he has not veered from this.
What parts of the Constitution do you think he ignores?
Perhaps I'm misinformed, but I thought that's what we pay taxes for.
Sadly, yes that's generally what taxes are for. User fees are better at keeping taxes down than just paying for everything out of a general fund. The credit reporting agencies get special protection by the Fair Credit Reporting Act from lawsuits by consumers over false information, and they should pay for the privilege.
We don't need more laws, just enforcement. Identity theft almost always crosses state lines, which means the FBI has to be involved, and they don't care about cases less than $25,000 or so.
If there is to be a new law, it should be that the credit reporting agencies should pony up into a fund for the FBI so that they can enforce existing laws. It's the credit reporting agencies that are slandering us consumers based on false information, but they get off scot-free due to laws protecting them.
Looks at the facts: very high power, portable, limited firing time, unlimited range. All you'd need is a big spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space.
Fortune 500 companies are finally wising up to JBoss as an alternative to WebLogic. BEA better not wait too long waiting for a suitor lest it find itself an old maid.
"Google's agenda is to disaggregate carriers," said Dan Olschwang, the chief executive of JumpTap, a start-up that provides search and advertising services to several mobile phone operators.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Regarding the Model T, for every Henry Ford we need a thousand assembly line workers. We would need a fundamental change in society to accommodate everyone being a Henry Ford. It would be good if we could change society in that way, and my point was that unless Olin is also teaching ways to transform society -- or at least interface with our dysfunctional society -- it is setting up its students for failure, or at least greater frustration than the rest of us.
Slashdot Mirror
To emphasize previous comments with a picture, Rick Jore lost in a 2004 race for the Montana House due to seven contested ballots. I personally prefer paper & pen, but it must be conceded that one advantage of electronic ballots is unambiguous interpretation of voter choice.
The threat's been building for over a decade, but now it's built up to a head where there is now a moratorium on construction of aircraft carriers.
So here's the scenario: the U.S. and/or Israel is belligerent with Iran and/or outright attacks it. Iran fires a Sizzler missile at an aircraft carrier -- perhaps an old one like Enterprise that the U.S. sticks out in the Gulf and wants to get rid of anyway. The U.S. retaliates by nuking Iran. World War III begins.
So now they've invented tightbeam communications?
As far as I'm aware, his NLS didn't feature windows, drop-down menus, icons, and a desktop representation of a file system -- while arguably less important than the networked hypertext that NLS did have, they were the defining features of the Xerox Star and Mac.
Did this one make anyone else think of Star Trek VI? No? Anyway, it's just another example of how science fiction can't keep up with reality. The idea of a 2001 prequel to a 1960's science fiction series is what doomed Enterprise from the start -- society and science in 2001 had surpassed many aspects of TOS (transporter and FTL excepted, of course).
What type of reprogramming are we talking about here?
Ultracapacitor? What happened to the supercapacitor? Was "supercapacitor" not marketing-speak enough?
First Netflix May Already Be Killing Blockbuster? and now this? What year is it now, 2003?
Some brief web surfing turned up Chem C3000 as being the best available. The glassware to chemical ratio is much higher than the sets of yore with racks and racks of little bottles of chemicals. I remember chemistry sets used to be advertised by the number of chemicals -- now it seems to be the number of "experiments".
Taxes
The option to tax is not the requirement to tax. The income tax was temporary on the wealthiest 5% to pay for WWI, the entry into which by the U.S. has parallels to the unethical invasion of Iraq. Repealing the income tax would just put the U.S. back to between the founding of the Constitution and WWI.
Congress taking abortion out of the Supreme Court
Ron Paul explains the Constitutional basis directly in the bill:
where the Constitution says:The balance of power between the Legislative and Judicial branches has been debated since the founding of the country, but according to the wording of the Constitution too much power has been afforded to the Supreme Court for most of the country's existence.Health Care
There is no need for this to be handled at the federal level -- states can handle it just fine.
Global warming
I personally would stretch the commerce clause to cover the environment since air and water do not know state boundaries, but I can go with Ron Paul's approach of first having the federal government "do no harm", such as by eliminating corporate welfare to big oil. Boulder is suing the federal government over global warming due to its OPIC and Imp-Ex agencies, which do things like pay for oil pipelines in third world countries under the premise of providing economic development to the countries. Ron Paul has long stated he would like to eliminate OPIC and ImpEx.
Income disparity
Going on a gold standard, as Ron Paul advocates, would eliminate the hidden tax of inflation. As I've mentioned here before, I make 4x now as a seasoned professional than I did 20 years ago when I just graduated. Yet when using CPI computed according to pre-Greenspan formulas, it's 8% per year and I make less now than I did 20 years ago. Under a gold standard, wages would not automatically fall every year, and things like the minimum wage (which BTW should be at the state and local level, not the federal level) would not lag behind real prices.
In short
Ron Paul is for personal liberty, including the Iraqis and the pre-born. He does not believe liberty should be extended to illegal immigrants, but would like to expand legal immigration somewhat once the incentives for illegal immigration are removed: welfare, education, healthcare, and birthright citizenship.
At the same time, the world's need for my site has lessened. You see, at the time (back in 2002, and before that e-mail only back to 2000), the primary site for such information was rense.com, which was ladened with UFO stories, and only about half the non-UFO stories were verifiable. Since that time, informative, well-researched sites such as prisonplanet.com, 321gold.com, youtube.com, rawstory.com, and lewrockwell.com have come to the fore (some preexist my site, but have in recent years improved quality and quantity).
Plus the whole Ron Paul campaign. People on the edge who think Ron Paul is mostly wacky, check him out, and in the process discover all the true, verifiable conspiracies (people confess this happening to them on the Ron Paul forums).
I do need to put my site back up (it would take me about six hours), just to serve as a reference on topics (I'm certainly paying a boatload for bandwidth I'm not using). I'd like to also fill in some information on Wikipedia.
But life just keeps on happening to me. Plus I have a meatspace endeavor I'm embarking on imminently.
Thanks for asking, though.
Ron Paul's professed voting strategy during his 10 terms in Congress is to evaluate the bill against the Constitution, and to my knowledge he has not veered from this.
What parts of the Constitution do you think he ignores?
Sadly, only one candidate knows anything about the subject.
If there is to be a new law, it should be that the credit reporting agencies should pony up into a fund for the FBI so that they can enforce existing laws. It's the credit reporting agencies that are slandering us consumers based on false information, but they get off scot-free due to laws protecting them.
Looks at the facts: very high power, portable, limited firing time, unlimited range. All you'd need is a big spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space.
Fortune 500 companies are finally wising up to JBoss as an alternative to WebLogic. BEA better not wait too long waiting for a suitor lest it find itself an old maid.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Slightly more seriously, what's the point of an "Ask Rob Malda" article? He answers all the questions (or at least mine) he gets via e-mail anyway.
The best way to learn something is to try to teach it. Seminar-style classes should start before graduate school.
Regarding the Model T, for every Henry Ford we need a thousand assembly line workers. We would need a fundamental change in society to accommodate everyone being a Henry Ford. It would be good if we could change society in that way, and my point was that unless Olin is also teaching ways to transform society -- or at least interface with our dysfunctional society -- it is setting up its students for failure, or at least greater frustration than the rest of us.