Engineers have been an integral part of war campaigns for thousands of years, why wouldn't they be of value to any war effort? It wasn't really until after WW2 that Civil engineering really came into its own (before that they were generally employed by the Govt. when they made the transition to independent companies they got the term Civil). I'd even hold the British/American Engineers won WW2 (certainly the hard work at Los Alamos wasn't just engineers, but they certainly solved some difficult engineering problems) what with Radar and Nuclear weapons. Why would be surprised that they are viewed as high value resources to people who want to blow stuff up?
The thing these guys don't seem to get is that cost of entry into the music distribution business has fundamentally changed in a way that increasingly leaves guys in suits out of the loop. The cost associated with producing a record has gone from very large (time in a studio, printing LP's, marketing, distribution) to not so large at all anymore (for instance the Black Eyed Peas record, edit and produce their records with just a mac, and some mic's). Increasingly marketing can be done through other channels, and with the internet, distribution is free and easy (radiohead, Trent Reznor). The money to get a band off the ground isn't what it used to be, all that's left for the big four is Big Box Retail Distribution. Which is certainly still around as a distribution channel but with iTunes the #1 retailer, it seems most people don't look to their local Walmart/best buy to get records.
I don't think they ever bought them. Nah, didn't buy em, just dropped 1/2 a Billion into development it would appear.
From the Article -
In 2006, the Census Bureau awarded a $595 million contract to Harris Corp. to develop more than 525,000 handheld computers that enumerators would use to collect data from Americans who did not send in their census forms.
Does this mean that they stopped funding terrorism with my pot money? It was never pot, but Afghanistan has returned as the #1 producer of Heroin (there was a brief period right after we invaded when i guess the poppy's took a vacation or something). So now instead of funding terrorism with that black tar, you can fund the American Reconstruction effort? Oh my, I've confused myself.
It really is quite shameful, I've seen software pirates. They are the dudes on the side streets of Shanghai selling "Genuine Windows Vista" DVD's for a dollar (about 7 RMB). They most certainly are not terrorists.
And to answer your question, next the government will claim terrorists are raising funds through an elaborate cheese laundering operation. First stealing US Gov. Cheese, then selling it on the black market at fantastic profit margins. Everyone, please turn in your local Dairy Farmer (he's undoubtedly in on the operation)!
I think you missed what is most certainly the most influential - Parents. Democrat parents raise democrat kids, republican parents raise republican kids. Just like with religious beliefs , you gotta get em early. Liberals generally place a higher value on going to a liberal arts college and the whole higher-ed process, so their kids will want to please their parents by going to said liberal arts college. On another note completely - about professors, there are generally two refuges for conservatives in higher education, Engineering and Business. As an engineering student I only experienced 1 prof with a liberal bias (this was primarily because he got his paycheck from NREL the national renewable energy lab) which gets cut by every republican president, and hasn't hardly gotten a budget increase since its inception under Carter. As for my business school classes. they would have made Ayn Rand blush for the most part.
what with the perception of conservatives being less educated and all. Well, unfortunately its a fact that the more education you have received, the more likely you are to be "Liberal" or register as a democrat. The statistical correlation is undeniable. I will leave the causation for speculation, since I'm not entirely certain there is any specific cause out there we could attribute this to.
It seems that the news media has become increasingly segmented, and indeed this provides a way for people to get only the news they want to see. But my issue stems not from Left or Right, but from a more general perspective. An increasing bulk of the news out there is increasingly aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator. I can see that there is a place for tabloids, and their stories, just like there is a place for soap operas. However, it seems that the tabloid mentality has infiltrated all facets of corporate news media. Instead of raising debate about policy, the dialog in most mainstream news outlets has become more along the lines of "OMG, Hillary is 2 points down! And she doesn't have as many myspace friends as Obama! And McCain is super hot!". I propose that what we need is not a "Left vs. Right" filter, but a "Pointless drivel I wouldn't read if it was printed on Lindsay Lohan's ass and I was doin her from behind vs. Actual News Content which I might find of Value". I gave your site a quick look, there were 3 stories on the front page which might have entailed some sort of policy issue, or problem facing the electorate. A) UK considering "Health Vouchers" for NHS patients.(marked conservative) B)Study: only 1/2 of students graduate high school in US Cities (marked liberal) C)'Silent' Famine sweeps globe (marked liberal) Everything else was the "high school lunchroom" type of discussion, who's up, who's down, why they might be up if they are up, why they shouldn't give up and "rah rah sis boom bah for My Favorite Candidate". My question is this, how can we elevate actual issues to the discussion? How can we start a dialog based on the problems we face, and the policy which the candidates propose to fix these problems? Food shortages, Education, and Health care are real issues. The day to day of campaigning is interesting for sure, but how can we keep it from dominating the news landscape as it does now?
the binary would/wouldn't-do option is only necessary as a personal marker; it could be implied by the other numbers Not necessarily, I've had 313 situations, inducing significant consumption of beverages, and leading to very frightening mornings!
Radioactive decay is a pretty well understood phenomenon. The strong force (and weak too) in the nucleus of radioactive elements isn't quite strong enough to contain all the protons and neutrons in there, causing alpha and beta particles to come flying out from time to time (causing decay to another element in the case of a proton, and another isotope in the case of a neutron). By measuring the ratio of isotopes, we can figure out when a rock was formed. And, it all fits quite neatly in our standard model. So you are left with a choice, believe that the standard model is pretty much right, and thus the Earth must be ~ 4.5 billion years old, or deny the standard model. However, if you choose to deny the standard model, I would most sincerely enjoy your recaboobeling of quantum mechanics to explain this discrepancy.
Wouldn't this require a sample coming back here? It looks like they needed a Scanning Electron Microscope to see the cellulose fibers. It seems to me they would have to return a sample of the salts in order to see anything. Are there any plans for a sample return mission to mars anytime soon?
Of course something like a space elevator is not an easy accomplishment. Does that mean we shouldn't try? I think we should and probably will at least give it a shot. Also, as you note, there are a LOT of complications. Complications I look forward to seeing innovative and cool solutions to. First and foremost though, we gotta get the material engineering issue solved, until we have a material which can withstand the forces involved, were stuck with regular elevators. Nanotubes look promising, and this gives us an excuse to invest in the research.
Scientology's senior leadership replied saying: "Bears use outhouses just like all the other woodland creatures" "The Pope was on vacation to Bermuda during the youth in question" "And whats with those Apple enthusiasts, damn, like seriously, there more devoted than Xenu!"
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Engineers have been an integral part of war campaigns for thousands of years, why wouldn't they be of value to any war effort? It wasn't really until after WW2 that Civil engineering really came into its own (before that they were generally employed by the Govt. when they made the transition to independent companies they got the term Civil). I'd even hold the British/American Engineers won WW2 (certainly the hard work at Los Alamos wasn't just engineers, but they certainly solved some difficult engineering problems) what with Radar and Nuclear weapons. Why would be surprised that they are viewed as high value resources to people who want to blow stuff up?
The thing these guys don't seem to get is that cost of entry into the music distribution business has fundamentally changed in a way that increasingly leaves guys in suits out of the loop. The cost associated with producing a record has gone from very large (time in a studio, printing LP's, marketing, distribution) to not so large at all anymore (for instance the Black Eyed Peas record, edit and produce their records with just a mac, and some mic's). Increasingly marketing can be done through other channels, and with the internet, distribution is free and easy (radiohead, Trent Reznor). The money to get a band off the ground isn't what it used to be, all that's left for the big four is Big Box Retail Distribution. Which is certainly still around as a distribution channel but with iTunes the #1 retailer, it seems most people don't look to their local Walmart/best buy to get records.
Wow, the music industry decides fighting the inevitable isn't a viable business strategy, and only a decade too late!
From the Article - In 2006, the Census Bureau awarded a $595 million contract to Harris Corp. to develop more than 525,000 handheld computers that enumerators would use to collect data from Americans who did not send in their census forms.
It really is quite shameful, I've seen software pirates. They are the dudes on the side streets of Shanghai selling "Genuine Windows Vista" DVD's for a dollar (about 7 RMB). They most certainly are not terrorists.
And to answer your question, next the government will claim terrorists are raising funds through an elaborate cheese laundering operation. First stealing US Gov. Cheese, then selling it on the black market at fantastic profit margins. Everyone, please turn in your local Dairy Farmer (he's undoubtedly in on the operation)!
I always thought phishing was a recreation, why wouldn't it be part of MWR?
I think you missed what is most certainly the most influential - Parents. Democrat parents raise democrat kids, republican parents raise republican kids. Just like with religious beliefs , you gotta get em early. Liberals generally place a higher value on going to a liberal arts college and the whole higher-ed process, so their kids will want to please their parents by going to said liberal arts college.
On another note completely - about professors, there are generally two refuges for conservatives in higher education, Engineering and Business. As an engineering student I only experienced 1 prof with a liberal bias (this was primarily because he got his paycheck from NREL the national renewable energy lab) which gets cut by every republican president, and hasn't hardly gotten a budget increase since its inception under Carter. As for my business school classes. they would have made Ayn Rand blush for the most part.
It seems that the news media has become increasingly segmented, and indeed this provides a way for people to get only the news they want to see. But my issue stems not from Left or Right, but from a more general perspective. An increasing bulk of the news out there is increasingly aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator. I can see that there is a place for tabloids, and their stories, just like there is a place for soap operas. However, it seems that the tabloid mentality has infiltrated all facets of corporate news media. Instead of raising debate about policy, the dialog in most mainstream news outlets has become more along the lines of "OMG, Hillary is 2 points down! And she doesn't have as many myspace friends as Obama! And McCain is super hot!". I propose that what we need is not a "Left vs. Right" filter, but a "Pointless drivel I wouldn't read if it was printed on Lindsay Lohan's ass and I was doin her from behind vs. Actual News Content which I might find of Value".
I gave your site a quick look, there were 3 stories on the front page which might have entailed some sort of policy issue, or problem facing the electorate.
A) UK considering "Health Vouchers" for NHS patients.(marked conservative)
B)Study: only 1/2 of students graduate high school in US Cities (marked liberal)
C)'Silent' Famine sweeps globe (marked liberal)
Everything else was the "high school lunchroom" type of discussion, who's up, who's down, why they might be up if they are up, why they shouldn't give up and "rah rah sis boom bah for My Favorite Candidate". My question is this, how can we elevate actual issues to the discussion? How can we start a dialog based on the problems we face, and the policy which the candidates propose to fix these problems? Food shortages, Education, and Health care are real issues. The day to day of campaigning is interesting for sure, but how can we keep it from dominating the news landscape as it does now?
I for one would propose the area code system of ranking... I'll explain
1st number (1-10 scale) facial beauty.
2nd number (binary choice) 1 (would hit that) 0 (wouldn't hit that)
3rd number (1-10 scale) body.
Here's to the 919's out there!
Radioactive decay is a pretty well understood phenomenon. The strong force (and weak too) in the nucleus of radioactive elements isn't quite strong enough to contain all the protons and neutrons in there, causing alpha and beta particles to come flying out from time to time (causing decay to another element in the case of a proton, and another isotope in the case of a neutron). By measuring the ratio of isotopes, we can figure out when a rock was formed. And, it all fits quite neatly in our standard model.
So you are left with a choice, believe that the standard model is pretty much right, and thus the Earth must be ~ 4.5 billion years old, or deny the standard model. However, if you choose to deny the standard model, I would most sincerely enjoy your recaboobeling of quantum mechanics to explain this discrepancy.
Wouldn't this require a sample coming back here? It looks like they needed a Scanning Electron Microscope to see the cellulose fibers. It seems to me they would have to return a sample of the salts in order to see anything. Are there any plans for a sample return mission to mars anytime soon?
Netcraft confirms it
NEVER SHAKE A BABY!
Troll? I think you misunderstood the concept of karma whoring.
True, but its ripe for karma whoring! Mod me up!
Scientology's senior leadership replied saying: "Bears use outhouses just like all the other woodland creatures"
"The Pope was on vacation to Bermuda during the youth in question"
"And whats with those Apple enthusiasts, damn, like seriously, there more devoted than Xenu!"
Matthews' comments would have been covered on Fox, until of course it was decided that Chris' nether-regions were neither fair nor balanced.