No, not quite your average surfer dude, combining and multiplying various algebras against each oth... wait, what's that smell? Totally started catching a whiff of pot smoke, just after arriving at the Wikipedia page.. I guess you'd have to be smoking a little something to acquire any level of E8. Probably the most mind-blowing thing I've (attempted to) read, since General Relativity.
To deliberately fly low over a ski resort, intentionally hot-dogging it *between* the slopes, the lift cables, and the lift cable towers?
Imagine, if you will, that you're standing on that slope, on your skis or snowboard, and a military jet flies 200 feet over your head, at 350+ mph. Answer me this, after you recover your balance (and maybe your hearing) - does that strike you as a sensible thing to do? Is that a safe way to pilot an expensive piece of military hardware, through a civilian zone, risking the craft as well as civilians on the ground?
Try this on - you're driving down the local highway in your Ferarri. You decide to have some fun by straddling the double yellow line, separating opposite lanes of traffic, with your hot-rod. A school bus comes towards you, and seeing that you're occupying half their lane, swerves to avoid a direct head-on collision. In the process of doing so, the bus flips onto its side, and half the kids onboard die.
launching Tomahawks or Harpoons into the Yellow Sea/Taiwan Strait (take your pick) is verboten in the standing Rules of Engagement UNLESS clear, unequivocal PROOF of China's involvement can be found.
Okay, let's play through this leg of the game:
OPERATOR: Sir? I have President Clinton on line one.
PREMIER WEN: Wha? Hrm, uh, okay. You, off my lap. Leave. Now.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Premier Wen? It's Hillary.
WEN: Oh, hi. Did you get the acupuncture balls I sent?
HILLARY: Oh yes, thank you very much. By the by, we have footage of one of your attack subs firing missiles at several of my Navy ships...
WEN: Oh, yeah? I had nothing to do with that.
HILLARY: (rustles some papers, opens a folder marked "From: CINCPACFLT") Says here, "Type 039A Wuhan, hull number 294." Got some neat pictures of it. Did about $250 million in damage. Killed thirty-seven of my sailors.
WEN: (sweating now) Oh, well, we sold one of our submarines to somebody awhile back. It was probably them.
HILLARY: "Them?" Who's "them?" Surely you don't Thailand?
WEN: Nope. Don't know, wouldn't tell us his name. Paid well, in advance. Middle-eastern accent.
HILLARY: You're telling me you sold a military submarine to someone, and you don't know who signed the check?
WEN: Listen, I have to go now.
HILLARY: Wen, to return the favor, and just so you know it was me, I'm sending you a thank-you present for the acupuncture balls. No return address.
There is no plausible deniability when it comes to something like this. Meesh.
Ah yes, the infamous Blackwater Flight 61. Pilot got caught in a box canyon at 4600m in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. He only realized that screwing around on a flight, in high mountain valleys, could get someone hurt when there was no longer room left to climb.
"Look, there is an expression in aviation, that you plan your flight, and you fly your plan. That didn't happen here. Instead of flying a recognized route to the west, the crew went sightseeing in the mountains to the north of Bagram. They got into a box canyon. The plane they were flying could not climb above the 16,000-foot peak. They were in a canyon where they could not turn around, and tragically all six souls on board died." (Robert Spohrer)
One of the soldiers actually survived the flight, and lived long enough to smoke some cigs, before he died of exposure.
It's not only Blackwater who allows goofballs to pilot their planes. February 3, 1998, Mt. Cermis, Italy: A low-flying U.S. Marine surveillance jet on a training flight, whose joy-riding pilot must've been high or something, was deliberately flying *below* the mountain's ski lift cables. He "accidentally" clipped one of the cable-car lines, which freed the gondola to the effects of gravity, and caused all 20 people aboard to fall some 260 ft to their deaths.
any rogue/stateless assailants wanting to damage or merely startle a CVBG (which may or may not end up in the press), this might be something we see more of -- by state-funded, stateless actors.
state-funded, stateless actors
Let's say Osama bin Laden buys a Chinese sub. He drives it into the middle of a battle group, "pops up," says hi to the closest ships with a full complement of surface-to-surface missiles, and scores some decent hit points.
Meanwhile, US reconnaisance, within the group, in the sky and in orbit, are busy snapping hires photos of a Chinese sub. Doesn't matter who was driving it, it all points back to Beijing.
In a matter of minutes, the US is in total retaliation mode - against China.
Submarines aren't in any way comparable RPGs or dusty Soviet-era rockets sold through arms merchants. To keep an expensive, complex piece of hardware like an attack sub running, you *must* have parts, a fully-trained crew, ad naseum. That means a steady supply large coin going to the seller, with supply lines, technical support, and giving the crew access to military nav sat so they can actually navigate. That makes China a de-facto partner in the operation.
What are you smoking? You sound much like a wild-eyed neocon who fully expects the brown-skinned, foreign-sounding guy at the checkout counter to pull an AK-47 and smoke some Americans.
PopeRatzo, consider also that business is deeply intertwined with government in the USA. A sizeable chunk the people running policy at the appointed level, in the federal government, are fresh through the revolving door from the business side.
Are they in government to make policy that benefits the people, or the businesses? Look to where they go after stepping through the revolving door the second time to answer that question.
I believe that's what drives government to make statements and decisions that impact citizen privacy. Kerr, however, is a career spook. Spookland's interest in thwarting privacy is ostensibly about [preventing] terrorism, but when you consider the massive agglomerated databases of personal and financial history that government is buying/renting from private business, their objectives are not so clear. Let's see where Kerr ends up when his government tenure is over.
This did not come from cpan.org, I misremembered, though the authors ought to post it there. Came from here: http://www.corion.net/perl-dev/.
That said, depending on what you're doing w/JS, CPAN's worth a look. There are a ton of new JS projects up there in the last six months, including what looks like a javascript interpreter! (Take that, Rhino!) Suggest searching CPAN, there are a lot of exciting new JS projects.
Hmm, okay, acknowledged. That was pretty much a reactionary post. =)
Well, let's see look at some of the main reasons given to outlaw marriage between gays (that I'm aware of, anyway.) We can go religious, that the judeo-christian-islamic scrolls prohibit it. Hmm, what if you choose not to believe in those ancient texts? And, isn't religious belief personal, and prohibited from mixing with governmental direction?
We can go biologic, that letting these people unite goes against biology. What about all the married straights who aren't reproducing, or even boinking?! Yeah, let's yank their marriage licenses!! They're not fulfilling their biological imperative!
Finally, there's tradition. Marriage is traditionally between a man and a woman. Huh, that's a tough one... but do traditions ever change? Women in the USA didn't have the vote for, still, the majority of this country's existence. And letting women vote or hold gov't office was definitely not traditional. (Heck, they didn't even wear pants until the last century! Now that they do, nobody's complaining, especially not me!) The five-day, forty-hour work week was unheard of, yet we have that now.
Far as I can tell, there's an emotional reaction to gays being "out", gay lifestyle, gay sex, and gays wanting public recognition of their relationships via state-sanctioned marriage contracts... it just makes some straight people feel uncomfortable. Understandable. Some of the gay folk I've been acquainted with have said they're uncomfortable thinking about straight sex! Cuts both ways.
Far as I can tell, the arguments against gay marriage don't have much footing, beyond the emotions of people who feel "yecch! i don't want my government sanctioning that!" Okay, sure, everyone's entitled to their feelings and opinions. But, I've been waiting for a *logical*, non-emotional argument against gay marriage - something beyond majority vs. minority. Go ahead, I'll listen...
This is typically conservative false rhetoric -- comparing gay marriage to bigamy, bestiality, pedophilia and any number of other acts that are outlawed for good reason. There is no reason to outlaw the *only* other union btw two people.
Read the ECMA script spec sometime. The portion on this issue is horrible.
No doubt. I printed a copy so I could read it on the train... schlepped it to work/to home for two weeks... what a waste.
Then I found something far better... a CPAN project that implements a Javascript parser, using a YACC-like, Javascript 1.5 compliant syntax definition. Sweeet!!
Heheh. Let's see you pedal 50 lbs of groceries ten miles, drop Grandma off at the doctor, and run by the bank to deposit a check to cover the mortgage, all in an hour. Then we'll talk about skateboards replacing motorized transport.
Whut we lookin' at it? There an editor that inserts semicolons automatically?
One good reason to use semicolons in Javascript: your code will more likely be parseable by documentation generators and other Javascript-consuming utilities that don't fully implement Javascript's grammar. Most of them don't know about JS's;? nature.
JQuery and related functions (document.getElementByTagName() etc.) are built around the need for a relational view of the hierarchical DOM document. They let you choose "rows" of DOM objects, based on criteria such as className, tagName, and DOM ID.
Realize first that the DOM is essentially a tree structure, with pockets of collections or arrays of same/similar objects. You can indeed treat it like a relational database, but keep in mind that just about all objects are children, and many are parents.
Those relational interfaces are handy for retrieving (reading) the DOM, but the write to it, you have to use DOM methods, pretty much.
Because dirt contains relatively little neon and argon, the current Science study wasn't affected too much by contamination and the the team remains hopeful that they will be able to get results on oxygen and nitrogen isotopes from the mission.
...Because, of course, air contains relatively little solar oxygen and nitrogen isotopes, right?
Is deep linking still legal? That seems to be what this site's based on.
Another, similar site, bought out and operated by a major American service provider (AOL): singingfish.com. Now gone, last of one of the more comprehensive MP3 search engines.
But only gone because AOL took it down and now redirects the domain to video.aol.com.
On some NYC-area highways, the onramps are either T'd into the main road, some with stop signs! You sit there, at a right-angle to the flow of traffic, wait for a huge break in traffic, then floor it and hope for the best. Nutso...
I've found a number of helpful math lessons on youtube recently. Some are actually pretty good. Just search for algebra or whatever you're looking to learn. Last week I got refreshed on statistics.
Obviously there's a signal-to-noise ratio problem, just skip over the noise.
Remember Whitewater? Six or seven years of fruitless investigation against the Clintons? Found nothing on them? As soon as they found *something*, albeit completely unrelated to the original investigation, they went after President Clinton with a vengeance.
There are many kinds of math, hence maths. The field is known as "mathematics," not "mathematic." Growing up in the U.S., as a person who enjoys math (what I call it), I noticed a strong aversion to math among my peers: being smart was not cool. Hence, the tendency to lump all studies of mathematics into one simple term, "math." That's my theory, and I'm sticking with it.
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Nice. Then, how to cast Capitalism in those terms? "Take your money, while slowly killing you."
"Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it is just the reverse." - John Kenneth Galbraith
No, not quite your average surfer dude, combining and multiplying various algebras against each oth... wait, what's that smell? Totally started catching a whiff of pot smoke, just after arriving at the Wikipedia page.. I guess you'd have to be smoking a little something to acquire any level of E8. Probably the most mind-blowing thing I've (attempted to) read, since General Relativity.
"All your brain are belong to us."
See The World Bank and IMF for why that ain't necessarily so.
To deliberately fly low over a ski resort, intentionally hot-dogging it *between* the slopes, the lift cables, and the lift cable towers?
Imagine, if you will, that you're standing on that slope, on your skis or snowboard, and a military jet flies 200 feet over your head, at 350+ mph. Answer me this, after you recover your balance (and maybe your hearing) - does that strike you as a sensible thing to do? Is that a safe way to pilot an expensive piece of military hardware, through a civilian zone, risking the craft as well as civilians on the ground?
Try this on - you're driving down the local highway in your Ferarri. You decide to have some fun by straddling the double yellow line, separating opposite lanes of traffic, with your hot-rod. A school bus comes towards you, and seeing that you're occupying half their lane, swerves to avoid a direct head-on collision. In the process of doing so, the bus flips onto its side, and half the kids onboard die.
At the very least, it's negligent homicide.
Read the GP post...
Okay, let's play through this leg of the game:
There is no plausible deniability when it comes to something like this. Meesh.
Ah yes, the infamous Blackwater Flight 61. Pilot got caught in a box canyon at 4600m in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. He only realized that screwing around on a flight, in high mountain valleys, could get someone hurt when there was no longer room left to climb.
The following is from a TV and radio interview with the attorneys for the families of the three Army soldiers killed on that flight:
One of the soldiers actually survived the flight, and lived long enough to smoke some cigs, before he died of exposure.
It's not only Blackwater who allows goofballs to pilot their planes. February 3, 1998, Mt. Cermis, Italy: A low-flying U.S. Marine surveillance jet on a training flight, whose joy-riding pilot must've been high or something, was deliberately flying *below* the mountain's ski lift cables. He "accidentally" clipped one of the cable-car lines, which freed the gondola to the effects of gravity, and caused all 20 people aboard to fall some 260 ft to their deaths.
A jet ain't a hot-rod. Drive with care.
Let's say Osama bin Laden buys a Chinese sub. He drives it into the middle of a battle group, "pops up," says hi to the closest ships with a full complement of surface-to-surface missiles, and scores some decent hit points.
Meanwhile, US reconnaisance, within the group, in the sky and in orbit, are busy snapping hires photos of a Chinese sub. Doesn't matter who was driving it, it all points back to Beijing.
In a matter of minutes, the US is in total retaliation mode - against China.
Submarines aren't in any way comparable RPGs or dusty Soviet-era rockets sold through arms merchants. To keep an expensive, complex piece of hardware like an attack sub running, you *must* have parts, a fully-trained crew, ad naseum. That means a steady supply large coin going to the seller, with supply lines, technical support, and giving the crew access to military nav sat so they can actually navigate. That makes China a de-facto partner in the operation.
What are you smoking? You sound much like a wild-eyed neocon who fully expects the brown-skinned, foreign-sounding guy at the checkout counter to pull an AK-47 and smoke some Americans.
'Nuff said.
PopeRatzo, consider also that business is deeply intertwined with government in the USA. A sizeable chunk the people running policy at the appointed level, in the federal government, are fresh through the revolving door from the business side.
Are they in government to make policy that benefits the people, or the businesses? Look to where they go after stepping through the revolving door the second time to answer that question.
I believe that's what drives government to make statements and decisions that impact citizen privacy. Kerr, however, is a career spook. Spookland's interest in thwarting privacy is ostensibly about [preventing] terrorism, but when you consider the massive agglomerated databases of personal and financial history that government is buying/renting from private business, their objectives are not so clear. Let's see where Kerr ends up when his government tenure is over.
Sure: http://www.corion.net/perl-dev/Javascript-PurePerl-0.09.tar.gz
This did not come from cpan.org, I misremembered, though the authors ought to post it there. Came from here: http://www.corion.net/perl-dev/.
That said, depending on what you're doing w/JS, CPAN's worth a look. There are a ton of new JS projects up there in the last six months, including what looks like a javascript interpreter! (Take that, Rhino!) Suggest searching CPAN, there are a lot of exciting new JS projects.
cheers...
Hmm, okay, acknowledged. That was pretty much a reactionary post. =)
Well, let's see look at some of the main reasons given to outlaw marriage between gays (that I'm aware of, anyway.) We can go religious, that the judeo-christian-islamic scrolls prohibit it. Hmm, what if you choose not to believe in those ancient texts? And, isn't religious belief personal, and prohibited from mixing with governmental direction?
We can go biologic, that letting these people unite goes against biology. What about all the married straights who aren't reproducing, or even boinking?! Yeah, let's yank their marriage licenses!! They're not fulfilling their biological imperative!
Finally, there's tradition. Marriage is traditionally between a man and a woman. Huh, that's a tough one ... but do traditions ever change? Women in the USA didn't have the vote for, still, the majority of this country's existence. And letting women vote or hold gov't office was definitely not traditional. (Heck, they didn't even wear pants until the last century! Now that they do, nobody's complaining, especially not me!) The five-day, forty-hour work week was unheard of, yet we have that now.
Far as I can tell, there's an emotional reaction to gays being "out", gay lifestyle, gay sex, and gays wanting public recognition of their relationships via state-sanctioned marriage contracts ... it just makes some straight people feel uncomfortable. Understandable. Some of the gay folk I've been acquainted with have said they're uncomfortable thinking about straight sex! Cuts both ways.
Far as I can tell, the arguments against gay marriage don't have much footing, beyond the emotions of people who feel "yecch! i don't want my government sanctioning that!" Okay, sure, everyone's entitled to their feelings and opinions. But, I've been waiting for a *logical*, non-emotional argument against gay marriage - something beyond majority vs. minority. Go ahead, I'll listen...
This is typically conservative false rhetoric -- comparing gay marriage to bigamy, bestiality, pedophilia and any number of other acts that are outlawed for good reason. There is no reason to outlaw the *only* other union btw two people.
No doubt. I printed a copy so I could read it on the train... schlepped it to work/to home for two weeks... what a waste.
Then I found something far better... a CPAN project that implements a Javascript parser, using a YACC-like, Javascript 1.5 compliant syntax definition. Sweeet!!
Heheh. Let's see you pedal 50 lbs of groceries ten miles, drop Grandma off at the doctor, and run by the bank to deposit a check to cover the mortgage, all in an hour. Then we'll talk about skateboards replacing motorized transport.
Whut we lookin' at it? There an editor that inserts semicolons automatically?
;? nature.
One good reason to use semicolons in Javascript: your code will more likely be parseable by documentation generators and other Javascript-consuming utilities that don't fully implement Javascript's grammar. Most of them don't know about JS's
JQuery and related functions (document.getElementByTagName() etc.) are built around the need for a relational view of the hierarchical DOM document. They let you choose "rows" of DOM objects, based on criteria such as className, tagName, and DOM ID.
Realize first that the DOM is essentially a tree structure, with pockets of collections or arrays of same/similar objects. You can indeed treat it like a relational database, but keep in mind that just about all objects are children, and many are parents.
Those relational interfaces are handy for retrieving (reading) the DOM, but the write to it, you have to use DOM methods, pretty much.
Not sure how else you'd do it - got any ideas?
There, fixed that for you.
Thanks for the klew, gbg13! Coool.... I hadn't noticed it was still there...
Is deep linking still legal? That seems to be what this site's based on.
Another, similar site, bought out and operated by a major American service provider (AOL): singingfish.com. Now gone, last of one of the more comprehensive MP3 search engines.
But only gone because AOL took it down and now redirects the domain to video.aol.com.
On some NYC-area highways, the onramps are either T'd into the main road, some with stop signs! You sit there, at a right-angle to the flow of traffic, wait for a huge break in traffic, then floor it and hope for the best. Nutso...
I've found a number of helpful math lessons on youtube recently. Some are actually pretty good. Just search for algebra or whatever you're looking to learn. Last week I got refreshed on statistics.
Obviously there's a signal-to-noise ratio problem, just skip over the noise.
Remember Whitewater? Six or seven years of fruitless investigation against the Clintons? Found nothing on them? As soon as they found *something*, albeit completely unrelated to the original investigation, they went after President Clinton with a vengeance.
This modus operandi is called "win at any cost."
There are many kinds of math, hence maths. The field is known as "mathematics," not "mathematic." Growing up in the U.S., as a person who enjoys math (what I call it), I noticed a strong aversion to math among my peers: being smart was not cool. Hence, the tendency to lump all studies of mathematics into one simple term, "math." That's my theory, and I'm sticking with it.