Obviously just fanboi-rationalizing here, but I prefer to think that it was taking the fastest route. Going through metal sheets is perhaps faster than going through a bunch of corridors. However, whizzing around a building might be faster than going through thick chunks of concrete or granite.
Here's what they should do. Sell off the XBox division for a pretty good price. Then, after a few years, arrange for a former Microsoft Executive to be put in charge of the new company. He would then drive that company into the ground and arrange for Microsoft to re-buy the company for pennies on the dollar.
However, I'm a big fan of the XMOS chips, which also provide multiple cores and logical cores that provide guaranteed timing. Really great performance. They've recently made two announcements that are worth mentioning to slashdotters that have read this far into the thread:
Racist? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
So, because the association that they were both in chose to use the term "Black", does that mean it can't be pointed out that they had this connection? That seems quite ridiculous.
It turns out that there are other connections, though. They were also both members of the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) and the Third World Center (TWC).
In light of the fact that CGI got a no-bid contract on an enormously important development effort, these connections appear to be relevant. Perhaps you have a good explanation as to why CGI got this no-bid contract?
Correct. It was a no-bid contract. Interestingly, Toni Townes-Whitley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, is a Princeton classmate of Michelle Obama. In addition to being college classmates, both Obama and Townes-Whitley are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
Right. So, the Heritage Foundation wrote 1000 pages of law and 11,000 pages of Federal guidelines? Why do liberals keep hiding behind the Heritage Foundation?
So, what we have is that a conservative think-tank floated an idea that Republicans (congressmen and voters, both) absolutely wouldn't support, but the Democrats were willing to go to any lengths to get passed, in the process making it far worse. A terrible system, that liberals will unwaveringly support, until they are so embarrassed by its deep and numerous flaws that it then becomes the the fault of Republicans and a conservative think-tank. But, under no circumstances can we abolish it, because it's "settled law".
First Lady Michelle Obama and her Princeton classmate whose company received the no-bid government contract to build the HealthCare.gov Obamacare website were both members of a black student organization that caused a tense scene on campus by inviting a PLO leader who advocated for terrorism.
Michelle Obama ’85 and her classmate Toni Townes-Whitley ’85, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, were both students at the university when their groups the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) and the Third World Center (TWC) engaged in a confrontation with Jewish students on campus.
This article http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/opinion/03isbell.html?pagewanted=print seems to have a bit more justification and answers some of the questions from the comments above. In short, primates that evolved in regions with venomous snakes have distinctly better vision than those that evolved elsewhere.
But you didn't attack her analysis, you simply dismissed her because of her biases. With your approach, Paul Krugman's credentials are to be completely ignored because of his "biases". Your "after-the-fact" identification of his credentials throws your original argument back in your face.
Besides, the interesting parts of Michelle's piece were the facts that she illuminates. You, of course, don't address those, because they are simple facts and are independent of her biases and credentials.
So, if I'd mentioned some article by Paul Krugman, you would have objected "Yeah, Krugman. I'm sure he's unbiased"? And obviously the feds (the ones in charge of this debacle) shouldn't have developed the website. Because, if they couldn't even oversee its implementation and kick-off any better than this, then what hope did they have of producing every line of code?
Michelle Malkin has an interesting take on this same story:
'Why does the White House need a private-sector "tech surge" to repair its wretched Obamacare website failures? Weren't all of the president's myriad IT czars and their underlings supposed to ensure that taxpayers got the most effective, innovative, cutting-edge and secure technology for their money? '
Posted by Guy Benson at townhall.com: "Triumphant President Takes Victory Lap Over Huge Obamacare Success"
He goes on to write "Yes, really. As you read this morning, I was expecting a some perfunctory contrition and token acceptance of responsibility from President Bystander during his Obamacare remarks in the Rose Garden today. I was wrong. The appearance was more of a pep rally, replete with upbeat promises and applauding supporters. Aides might as well have hung a large "mission accomplished" banner over Obama's head."
"The fact that the Obamacare websites -- a core element of the law functioning -- are in total shambles and won't be fixed for many weeks or even months were all but shrugged off as an afterthought. Be sure to stick with this clip through the very end, when one of Obama's human props actually faints right behind him. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. In short, I thought I had gotten past being shocked by this president's arrogance and dishonesty. Wrong again."
In 1995, Republicans were almost able to pass a Balanced-Budget Amendment (which would have needed ratification by the states). After passing in the House, it fell one vote short of the two-thirds needed. Senate Republicans voted for it 52-1. Democrats voted against it 33-14. Of course.
I was saying that it felt like this work (until the GP explained otherwise) would have allowed one to provide a FTL single-shot notification. No round trip would be needed.
Thank you! I was wondering about this, because it seemed that knowing whether a non-local collapse had occurred, or not, would allow for FTL information exchange.
Well, apparently this is important to you, but you seem to be in quite the minority. So, I suggest that you make a proposal and get working on that. It still has no bearing on who was elected in 2012.
It was a vote that followed the lawful and legitimate election process. It's the rule-of-law and it applies when people try to act like Obama was the only one elected. It's a stupid argument.
Unfortunately, It comes from the frequent recitations of lineage (and ages) in the Bible. Starting from Jesus, you can walk backwards (with some assumptions, I believe) back to Adam. Filling in maximum ages (upper bound is Methuselah at 969) when they are not provided, gives a Biblically-derived age of the Earth of something around 6000 years. If you believe in a completely literal reading of the Bible, in contrast to the physical evidence, then that is what you might espouse.
For example:
(21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and Enoch begat sons and daughters: (23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. (25) And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: (26) And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: (27) And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. (KJV)
>To paraphrase "1984," some shareholders are more equal than others.
Right author, wrong book: Animal Farm.
Right. That would be Orson Wells. The original poster was probably confusing the shareholders with Morlocks, from one of his other books - The Time Machine (as in the movie, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme).
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Obviously just fanboi-rationalizing here, but I prefer to think that it was taking the fastest route. Going through metal sheets is perhaps faster than going through a bunch of corridors. However, whizzing around a building might be faster than going through thick chunks of concrete or granite.
Here's what they should do. Sell off the XBox division for a pretty good price. Then, after a few years, arrange for a former Microsoft Executive to be put in charge of the new company. He would then drive that company into the ground and arrange for Microsoft to re-buy the company for pennies on the dollar.
Somehow, I just know that would work.
The Parallax Propeller looks very cool.
However, I'm a big fan of the XMOS chips, which also provide multiple cores and logical cores that provide guaranteed timing. Really great performance. They've recently made two announcements that are worth mentioning to slashdotters that have read this far into the thread:
A $15 development board (startKIT) that has a Raspberry PI interface built in (or can be used standalone), and
A new SOC (xCORE-XA) that marries an ARM processor to an XMOS processor.
In both of these products, you would have a high-level component controlling the very slick, very powerful, I/O processing of the XMOS chips.
I am not associated with XMOS (despite sounding like a shill). I just use their chips in several research projects.
Racist? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
So, because the association that they were both in chose to use the term "Black", does that mean it can't be pointed out that they had this connection? That seems quite ridiculous.
It turns out that there are other connections, though. They were also both members of the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) and the Third World Center (TWC).
In light of the fact that CGI got a no-bid contract on an enormously important development effort, these connections appear to be relevant. Perhaps you have a good explanation as to why CGI got this no-bid contract?
Correct. It was a no-bid contract. Interestingly, Toni Townes-Whitley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, is a Princeton classmate of Michelle Obama. In addition to being college classmates, both Obama and Townes-Whitley are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
Right. So, the Heritage Foundation wrote 1000 pages of law and 11,000 pages of Federal guidelines? Why do liberals keep hiding behind the Heritage Foundation?
So, what we have is that a conservative think-tank floated an idea that Republicans (congressmen and voters, both) absolutely wouldn't support, but the Democrats were willing to go to any lengths to get passed, in the process making it far worse. A terrible system, that liberals will unwaveringly support, until they are so embarrassed by its deep and numerous flaws that it then becomes the the fault of Republicans and a conservative think-tank. But, under no circumstances can we abolish it, because it's "settled law".
Man, that is so unbelievably delusional.
Nice idea. I have a N900 and that form-factor looks more appealing, to me.
First Lady Michelle Obama and her Princeton classmate whose company received the no-bid government contract to build the HealthCare.gov Obamacare website were both members of a black student organization that caused a tense scene on campus by inviting a PLO leader who advocated for terrorism.
Michelle Obama ’85 and her classmate Toni Townes-Whitley ’85, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, were both students at the university when their groups the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) and the Third World Center (TWC) engaged in a confrontation with Jewish students on campus.
Source Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/28/michelle-obama-and-cgi-federal-executive-belonged-to-student-group-at-princeton-that-hosted-pro-terrorist-speaker/#ixzz2jM3P01QH
This article http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/opinion/03isbell.html?pagewanted=print seems to have a bit more justification and answers some of the questions from the comments above. In short, primates that evolved in regions with venomous snakes have distinctly better vision than those that evolved elsewhere.
Besides, the interesting parts of Michelle's piece were the facts that she illuminates. You, of course, don't address those, because they are simple facts and are independent of her biases and credentials.
So, if I'd mentioned some article by Paul Krugman, you would have objected "Yeah, Krugman. I'm sure he's unbiased"? And obviously the feds (the ones in charge of this debacle) shouldn't have developed the website. Because, if they couldn't even oversee its implementation and kick-off any better than this, then what hope did they have of producing every line of code?
'Why does the White House need a private-sector "tech surge" to repair its wretched Obamacare website failures? Weren't all of the president's myriad IT czars and their underlings supposed to ensure that taxpayers got the most effective, innovative, cutting-edge and secure technology for their money? '
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/10/25/what-happened-to-all-of-obamas-technology-czars-n1731775/page/full
He goes on to write
"Yes, really. As you read this morning, I was expecting a some perfunctory contrition and token acceptance of responsibility from President Bystander during his Obamacare remarks in the Rose Garden today. I was wrong. The appearance was more of a pep rally, replete with upbeat promises and applauding supporters. Aides might as well have hung a large "mission accomplished" banner over Obama's head."
"The fact that the Obamacare websites -- a core element of the law functioning -- are in total shambles and won't be fixed for many weeks or even months were all but shrugged off as an afterthought. Be sure to stick with this clip through the very end, when one of Obama's human props actually faints right behind him. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. In short, I thought I had gotten past being shocked by this president's arrogance and dishonesty. Wrong again."
In 1995, Republicans were almost able to pass a Balanced-Budget Amendment (which would have needed ratification by the states). After passing in the House, it fell one vote short of the two-thirds needed. Senate Republicans voted for it 52-1. Democrats voted against it 33-14. Of course.
I was saying that it felt like this work (until the GP explained otherwise) would have allowed one to provide a FTL single-shot notification. No round trip would be needed.
Thank you! I was wondering about this, because it seemed that knowing whether a non-local collapse had occurred, or not, would allow for FTL information exchange.
Well, apparently this is important to you, but you seem to be in quite the minority. So, I suggest that you make a proposal and get working on that. It still has no bearing on who was elected in 2012.
Was it legal? Yes. It counts.
It was a vote that followed the lawful and legitimate election process. It's the rule-of-law and it applies when people try to act like Obama was the only one elected. It's a stupid argument.
The best reverse comparison that you could come up with is the "abolishion" of the second amendment? Seriously?
Thank you! I was trying to figure out what was really meant.
These are all outrageous suggestions! Praise be to the IRS and the Democrats for attempting to slow down the formation of such "crazy" groups.
For example:
(21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and Enoch begat sons and daughters: (23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. (25) And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: (26) And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: (27) And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. (KJV)
How dare you! I've never heard of a class-action libel suit; but, buddy, you're in for one now!
>To paraphrase "1984," some shareholders are more equal than others.
Right author, wrong book: Animal Farm.
Right. That would be Orson Wells. The original poster was probably confusing the shareholders with Morlocks, from one of his other books - The Time Machine (as in the movie, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme).