"I believe the Indian then to be in body and mind equal to the whiteman," Jefferson wrote to the Marquis de Chastellux.
Jefferson's issue with the Indians was the belief that they needed to be exposed to the ideas of the Enlightenment and assimilated into Colonial/American ways. That's ethnocentrism, not racism.
windu is obviously more powerful than the other clowns he was with.
Kit Fisto kicked serious butt in the Clone Wars cartoon series, his only significant appearance outside that scene. (My son liked him from the cartoons, and hated that he died so easily in Ep 3.) Wikipedia claims he was one of the strongest warriors in the galaxy, and says the other two who died quickly were pretty strong warriors. But each goes out "like some sucka". It was Obi, not Annakin, who got slammed in Ep *3* in the battle with Dooku.
(My theory regarding multiple Jedi is somewhat in jest; I realize that their skill level is actually determined by the needs of the plot.)
No one thinks that they should regroup and attack the Emporor in force?
Who's "they?" Obi-Wan and Yoda? Everyone else seems to love the Emperor. As for two Jedi attacking a Sith lord, Jedi just get in each other's way. Qui-Gonn & Obi take on Darth Maul, Qui-Gonn dies. Obi-Wan and Annakin vs. Dooku? Obi gets owned early. Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, and two other Jedi Council vs. Palpa? Everyone but Windu is toasted quickly. If Yoda can't take Palpatine by himself, adding more Jedi will just make it worse.
(In a strange way, there's even an explanation for this. Jedi apparently have a bit of future sense, allowing them to choose the best course of action in the next instant. Throw in more Jedi, and the future is more vague because the other Jedi are also sensing it and changing their actions in reaction to the initial perception.)
Microsoft is selling fingerprint scanners (rebadged from Digital Persona, I believe) for $40, $30 after rebate. So while it would cost, it might not be devastatingly more. It might be needed more for theft-proofing than for preventing the kid from selling it, although some would probably sell it for some other item that was more fun but less helpful for their future.
[The Federal Government] only forbids federal grants to researchers using cells from aborted fetuses. Why be so disingenuous?
No, the White House policy effectively prohibits using embryonic stem cells. The fetal stage of development is after the embryonic. Moreover, they don't abort these embryos, they are produced en masse in fertility clinics and most are not implanted (and thus not, by definition, aborted.)
So either you're being disingenuous, or merely wrong. Given your rhetorical language, I suspect the former.
(stfu! my mom happens to have very avant-garde taste in music. or something)
My kids (10 and 8) and I have a very large overlap in our music interest, mostly 80's and 90's rock. Okay, I don't care for a lot of rap, but I think it's getting harder and harder for parents and kids to clash on musical taste.
I found Google Earth was higher res in Boston, lower in Italy. However, when I started it up it remarked about a cache problem and the possible need to delete said cache. If you go to the town named in the story in Google Earth, can you see the ancient river bed?
Is there a reasonable cost, relatively low power RAID-5 setup for home networks? I'd love to set up a file server with gigabit ethernet and RAID-5 to serve as the home directories for my multiple machines. Things like the Buffalo LinkStation are a step in the right direction, but no RAID, etc. Is my only solution a Celeron or Pentium-M based PC? If so, is it possible to set up such a system to act as home directories for a combo of Windows, Mac, and/or Linux machines?
Google Earth isn't as hi-res as Google maps, at least as far as I can tell. Before seeing the map links, I tried exploring the town via Google Earth, but it's far less detailed.
An alternative that might make all parties happy is to have a third button on that dialog that comes up when you try to close a window with multiple tabs. Selecting that button would result in only the current tab being closed.
Presumably robots could get there faster -- ones have gone to Mars recently, after all -- and start setting up the place. Then when the humans arrive, they'll have the robotic prep work already done.
No. The Katrina rebuilding phase will bring about a fairly large economic boom.
So maybe we should just destroy a few more cities, so the economy can really fly! The economy is being affected, negatively, but our country is a big enough economic engine that even catastrophic damage to one city of ~500,000 isn't enough to dramatically affect it.
Seems to me it's already making a $1,000 or more deficit in my finances, at least based on current spending plans and my family's share of taxes paid.
As for Iraq, I don't see Vietnam, I see Haiti -- just on a larger scale.
All in all, the U.S. government is not about to run out on money any time soon...
Actually, it's trillions in debt, with only future taxes to pay them off.
By having the university be the license seller, it puts universities and researchers in competition with each other. Which means they don't want to share interim results, sue each other, act like corporations, etc.
If the *Feds* were the license sellers, the profits would (ok, could) go back into all universities' research. No competitions, suits, etc. But there's still an incentive for the pharmaceutical companies to develop the ideas that, it is claimed, would otherwise not get developed.
We want academic researchers to be working together, not against each other.
That's what we had before the Bayh-Dole Act: such inventions were owned by the federal government on behalf of the people. It didn't work out too well. No company could afford to step up to the plate, take the idea off of the shelf, and develop it into a successful product - not without the ability to prevent competitors from immediately copying it.
So perhaps we should modify the system so the development and licensing rights go to the highest bidder?
Agreed, you don't want to give the user more choice, too much choice can be paralyzing. Splitting Vista into all these versions is the best thing Microsoft could possibly do for Apple.
This is a classic example of regulators being in bed with the corporate goons and the consumer losing out, and is one reason why America's economy will retain an adaptive advantage the forseeable future.
Please tell me you're not claiming regulators and corporate goons aren't in bed with each other in the U.S...
Hong Kong has a lot to do with commerce in this country, but that doesn't mean my tax money should be used on flood protection there.
Look, in the system you advocate, they didn't get enough money to protect New Orleans. Why? Because the people doling out the money and the people who knew how much work the levees needed are distinct. What's the big advantage of having everyone pay the Feds and then having the Feds dole it out? Then you get the Lawrence Welk museum, Don Young way, and that new Alaskan bridge to nowhere -- and levees that are too week.
If, instead, Fed taxes were lower, and state and taxes were higher, Louisiana and New Orleans could make their own decisions about what was wise spending. I don't get together with my neighbors, pool our home improvement money, and then vote on what to spend it on; why should cities do it?
Don't pay for my quake protection, landslide protection, etc. If it's a national issue (keeping terrorists from entering the country, general national defense, etc.), then fine, national taxes should pay for it. But otherwise, it's stupid to set thing up so the Feds pay for everything. Why? Because they won't spend wisely; instead, they'll spend based on seniority. The folks in Washington don't know New Orleans' needs like Lousianans. You pay for your local needs, I'll pay for mine. And if it's too expensive, then you shouldn't live there.
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"I believe the Indian then to be in body and mind equal to the whiteman," Jefferson wrote to the Marquis de Chastellux.
Jefferson's issue with the Indians was the belief that they needed to be exposed to the ideas of the Enlightenment and assimilated into Colonial/American ways. That's ethnocentrism, not racism.
Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
Barring any force tricks, Yoda doesn't know who is and isn't still alive.
He was clearly shown taking pain with each death; he may have had a pretty good idea how complete the massacre was.
windu is obviously more powerful than the other clowns he was with.
Kit Fisto kicked serious butt in the Clone Wars cartoon series, his only significant appearance outside that scene. (My son liked him from the cartoons, and hated that he died so easily in Ep 3.) Wikipedia claims he was one of the strongest warriors in the galaxy, and says the other two who died quickly were pretty strong warriors. But each goes out "like some sucka". It was Obi, not Annakin, who got slammed in Ep *3* in the battle with Dooku.
(My theory regarding multiple Jedi is somewhat in jest; I realize that their skill level is actually determined by the needs of the plot.)
No one thinks that they should regroup and attack the Emporor in force?
Who's "they?" Obi-Wan and Yoda? Everyone else seems to love the Emperor. As for two Jedi attacking a Sith lord, Jedi just get in each other's way. Qui-Gonn & Obi take on Darth Maul, Qui-Gonn dies. Obi-Wan and Annakin vs. Dooku? Obi gets owned early. Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, and two other Jedi Council vs. Palpa? Everyone but Windu is toasted quickly. If Yoda can't take Palpatine by himself, adding more Jedi will just make it worse.
(In a strange way, there's even an explanation for this. Jedi apparently have a bit of future sense, allowing them to choose the best course of action in the next instant. Throw in more Jedi, and the future is more vague because the other Jedi are also sensing it and changing their actions in reaction to the initial perception.)
Microsoft is selling fingerprint scanners (rebadged from Digital Persona, I believe) for $40, $30 after rebate. So while it would cost, it might not be devastatingly more. It might be needed more for theft-proofing than for preventing the kid from selling it, although some would probably sell it for some other item that was more fun but less helpful for their future.
I need as much white noise as I can get.
Such racism on slashdot. How about getting some noise of color?
Tell you what, I'll call it merely discouraging embryonic stem cell research if you don't say the cells come from aborted fetuses.
[The Federal Government] only forbids federal grants to researchers using cells from aborted fetuses. Why be so disingenuous?
No, the White House policy effectively prohibits using embryonic stem cells. The fetal stage of development is after the embryonic. Moreover, they don't abort these embryos, they are produced en masse in fertility clinics and most are not implanted (and thus not, by definition, aborted.)
So either you're being disingenuous, or merely wrong. Given your rhetorical language, I suspect the former.
The team will understand if your not a big enough fan to get a ticket.
My neighbors finally got through the waiting list and are now Redskins season ticket holders.
They signed up when their daughter was two.
She's now in med school.
Nintendo devices are known to be virtually indestructable.
I wish. My son was fooling around with his on a counter at a UPS place. It hit the floor and the screen was no longer functional.
(stfu! my mom happens to have very avant-garde taste in music. or something)
My kids (10 and 8) and I have a very large overlap in our music interest, mostly 80's and 90's rock. Okay, I don't care for a lot of rap, but I think it's getting harder and harder for parents and kids to clash on musical taste.
draconian Pronunciation (dr-kn-n, dr-)
adj.
Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.
No limb removal required. Draco himself seems to have been more into the death penalty or slavery, rather than amputation.
I found Google Earth was higher res in Boston, lower in Italy. However, when I started it up it remarked about a cache problem and the possible need to delete said cache. If you go to the town named in the story in Google Earth, can you see the ancient river bed?
Is there a reasonable cost, relatively low power RAID-5 setup for home networks? I'd love to set up a file server with gigabit ethernet and RAID-5 to serve as the home directories for my multiple machines. Things like the Buffalo LinkStation are a step in the right direction, but no RAID, etc. Is my only solution a Celeron or Pentium-M based PC? If so, is it possible to set up such a system to act as home directories for a combo of Windows, Mac, and /or Linux machines?
Google Earth isn't as hi-res as Google maps, at least as far as I can tell. Before seeing the map links, I tried exploring the town via Google Earth, but it's far less detailed.
An alternative that might make all parties happy is to have a third button on that dialog that comes up when you try to close a window with multiple tabs. Selecting that button would result in only the current tab being closed.
So why not do both?
Presumably robots could get there faster -- ones have gone to Mars recently, after all -- and start setting up the place. Then when the humans arrive, they'll have the robotic prep work already done.
No. The Katrina rebuilding phase will bring about a fairly large economic boom.
So maybe we should just destroy a few more cities, so the economy can really fly! The economy is being affected, negatively, but our country is a big enough economic engine that even catastrophic damage to one city of ~500,000 isn't enough to dramatically affect it.
Seems to me it's already making a $1,000 or more deficit in my finances, at least based on current spending plans and my family's share of taxes paid.
As for Iraq, I don't see Vietnam, I see Haiti -- just on a larger scale.
All in all, the U.S. government is not about to run out on money any time soon...
Actually, it's trillions in debt, with only future taxes to pay them off.
In theory, that's exactly what happens.
No it isn't. The differences are quite dramatic.
By having the university be the license seller, it puts universities and researchers in competition with each other. Which means they don't want to share interim results, sue each other, act like corporations, etc.
If the *Feds* were the license sellers, the profits would (ok, could) go back into all universities' research. No competitions, suits, etc. But there's still an incentive for the pharmaceutical companies to develop the ideas that, it is claimed, would otherwise not get developed.
We want academic researchers to be working together, not against each other.
That's what we had before the Bayh-Dole Act: such inventions were owned by the federal government on behalf of the people. It didn't work out too well. No company could afford to step up to the plate, take the idea off of the shelf, and develop it into a successful product - not without the ability to prevent competitors from immediately copying it.
So perhaps we should modify the system so the development and licensing rights go to the highest bidder?
Agreed, you don't want to give the user more choice, too much choice can be paralyzing. Splitting Vista into all these versions is the best thing Microsoft could possibly do for Apple.
This is a classic example of regulators being in bed with the corporate goons and the consumer losing out, and is one reason why America's economy will retain an adaptive advantage the forseeable future.
Please tell me you're not claiming regulators and corporate goons aren't in bed with each other in the U.S...
Hong Kong has a lot to do with commerce in this country, but that doesn't mean my tax money should be used on flood protection there.
Look, in the system you advocate, they didn't get enough money to protect New Orleans. Why? Because the people doling out the money and the people who knew how much work the levees needed are distinct. What's the big advantage of having everyone pay the Feds and then having the Feds dole it out? Then you get the Lawrence Welk museum, Don Young way, and that new Alaskan bridge to nowhere -- and levees that are too week.
If, instead, Fed taxes were lower, and state and taxes were higher, Louisiana and New Orleans could make their own decisions about what was wise spending. I don't get together with my neighbors, pool our home improvement money, and then vote on what to spend it on; why should cities do it?
No, it's just dumb.
Don't pay for my quake protection, landslide protection, etc. If it's a national issue (keeping terrorists from entering the country, general national defense, etc.), then fine, national taxes should pay for it. But otherwise, it's stupid to set thing up so the Feds pay for everything. Why? Because they won't spend wisely; instead, they'll spend based on seniority. The folks in Washington don't know New Orleans' needs like Lousianans. You pay for your local needs, I'll pay for mine. And if it's too expensive, then you shouldn't live there.