Wow, no offense intended but it is evident that you are a lawyer. I don't mean that in a bad way but the nature of what you do requires you to think in terms of reasonable fees. As they say, this might be what your used to but it is amazing what you can get used to.
The fact we are used to the justice system moving slowly does not mean we should be tolerant of senseless foot dragging. If these guys can improve the system, then God bless them for putting forth the effort.
I would say that if the fees are so trivial, they should be shared by the original plaintiffs and defendants. If they choose to file in an archaic format then they should have to pay for the burden that they impose on the justice system.
WE have forty year old tech that can take sensor reading to the edge of the solar system. It is just silly to think that a civilization with interstellar travel technology would not have equally impressive sensor tech.
Our puny sensors can see interstellar distances. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that a sensor platform in deep space, created by an interstellar civilization would be orders of magnitude more sophisticated. So, If your sensors can read a newspaper on earth from a light year away, you really don't have to go all the way to earth to determine if it is interesting enough to send a "manned" mission.
Therefore, if you only have to come within a light year of a planet to determine whether or not it is interesting and your version 1.0 probe is.10 LS capable then by sending out 1,000 probes, you can survey the entire galaxy in less than 1 million years assuming that you have no further advances in technology and your exploration goals do not change.
I don't know about anyone being an idiot, but I believe that the rise of streaming sites has little to do with how frequently music is downloaded. Personally, I have listened to Radio for years and even though I can hear all sorts of songs for free on the radio it has not stopped me from buying CD's or nowadays downloading music through iTunes.
In the end I think that there will always be a blend of solutions that people use depending on the situation.
Wow, I hope that you are kidding. The type of cables used only impact the speed with which data is transmitted. Fewer errors = faster transmission. For the images to be brightened by the type cable used they would have be altering the data in some way. This does not happen in digital applications. If the data file that comes through is not the same data that was sent then it is retransmitted or timed out.
If you have seen brighter images from better cable it could only happen in analog applications or be the result of the placebo effect.
Especially since most of the best wind areas are in international waters.
I guess that does beg the question though. why have there not been USS Cole style attacks on US owned oil platforms?
Just a thought.
This is indeed a historic moment since the bureauopoly tends to do what they want to do regardless of what the people want. I think it is really part of the cynicism of the situation. Most of these people felt safe in voting for Colbert because they knew that the bureaucrats would do what they wanted any way.
A great case in point happened a few years ago when the US Mint started the 50 State Quarters program. They helped the states to set up contests to "design" the quarters then immediately threw out all of the citizen submitted artwork no matter how good they were in favor of Mint redesigns that allowed the Mint artists to take credit. The "redesign" for the Connecticut quarter simply changed the figure of Ceasar Rodney from going left to right to going right to left. The Mint then took credit for the entire design.
The point being, its their contest. They get to make all the rules. They will do what they want. They probably knew from the beginning.
In that case, I think the answer is to have the Voting Stations print out a completed ballot which the voters can inspect with a control number on each ballot. The Ballots are then fed into a central reader that is NOT connected to the voting stations. At the end of the evening the electronic results from each voting station are tabulated and compared to the results at the central reader. The results are recorded and certified at each precinct then sent to the supervisor of elections.
A system like this gives you both a electronic error check and LEGIBLE paper backups.
The truth though is that NO system will be secure without complete transparencey and HARSH multi-year penalties for those found defrauding the system.
It depends on how the paper trail is generated. If the paper trail is on a continuous roll and generated like a receipt and verified by each voter, then it would be pretty much impossible to alter.
But I agree that the average Circle K seems to have more security for their register receipts than some Supervisors of Elections.
Will no one mod this flamebait? Me my father and my brother are all programmers and we have used Macs since they were invented. While they were not always a good programming platform, I think that the languages and environments available are great. I know all the linux heads out there love vi and emacs and pico etc. And I think they are ok for certain things but BBedit sure is a damn site better than anything I have used on a PC.
As they say in the military, there are no atheists in a fox hole. I would certainly not suggest that these people who "come to God" at the end of their lives are insincere, but when faced with the end, people will go to any length to extend their life.
I couldn't agree more and since banning people does not seem realistic we are probably going to have to figure something else out. It seems that every couple of years we identify a new scape goat for the decline in values. For me the culprit is our PC society that basically says that individuals are culpable for nothing and that nebulous groups or things are responsible for everything. That way no one has to be offended when they get called out for bad behavior.
Cheap shots at Bush are tired and old. The guy was a bad president. We get it.
The thing that you need to worry about is the God like persona that the media is painting Obama with.
He may wind up being a good or even a great president, but no one is going to be able to live up to the hype that is being heaped upon him.
Unless and until someone appears before us and convincingly shows us that he is the creator of the universe, we will never never know what really happened. Even finding the exact process by which the universe was born does not negate an intelligent creator because an intelligent creator could have set up all of the rules for creation.
If I were to set up a number of dominos and the wind were to come along and blow one down thereby starting the chain reaction that results in all of them falling down, that would not be evidence that I did or did not exist. It would only be evidence that gravity, wind and dominos exist. Until I decide to show myself, I am just one of the great unknowns of the universe.
Fair enough but what I meant by abilities is that if our technology provided us with all of the abilities that God is purported to have, the discovery of that the abilities exist would not in and of itself prove or disprove the existence of God. Nor would the discovery of that technology diminish the accomplishments of a God that should he/she/it be confirmed to exist.
In fact, just because we discover a viable mechanism for accomplishing all of the feats that any of the gods that are purported to exist have accomplished, does not mean that we have found the mechanism that those gods actually used.
My comment about the monkey simply means that having tools or abilities, knowing how to use them and knowing how to use them well are all unrelated concepts.
Even if we figure out and learn to use all of the abilities and resources of God. It does not prove or disprove God's existence. Giving a monkey a paint brush does not make him Da Vinci.
Ok, you can't have it both ways. Either these forums are critical to the professional development of these girls, or they are populated but pubescent trolls who are proffering lies. If the forums are critical, then the girls need to take the opportunity to call out the cowards who proffer them. If the forums are simply populated by trolls then everyone of consequence knows it.
As far as your flyer analogy goes, if you and I had a dispute I would pray that you sent anonymous flyers out. If I had a nickel for every time someone has tried that tactic with me only to have it blowup in their face. All that you have to do is come out confident and dismissive and you win. If you are ever questioned about the accusation, you ask where they came up with something that silly. Then the have to tell you that they heard it from the Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla.
I guess you are right. If I were weak and incompetent I probably would file a law suit in a case like that. But since I am not, I just refuse to give them the power to make me feel bad about myself. Maybe you should consider doing the same or you may never leave academia.
First of all, I just want to point out that these girls are applying to be LAWYERS. One of the qualities of a good lawyer would be to have the verbal and reasoning skills to fend off any blind accusations that you were a slut or had herpes or cooties or what ever. At the very least you should be able to point out that the person making the accusations is a coward with an axe to grind.
If they don't have at least the gumption to overcome petty accusations of being a Mrs. Poopypants, then they really aren't qualified to be an attorney no matter how pretty their padded little resumes are now are they?
We have to somehow manage to get away from the belief that we have a right to not have our feelings hurt. We are so overwhelmed by our compassion for the down trodden, that we make no distinction between the oppressed and the petty.
So the basis of this suit is that the girls were damaged by comments made by guys with names like "STANFORDtroll" AND "Ayatollah of rock and rollah"? Is it not more reasonable to believe that their inability to deflect schoolyard comments like doody face and cooty breath may be symptomatic of a more fundamental problem.
The fact is that these girls were applying for competitive positions and while it may be true that people said unpleasant things about them in a public forum, if they were half as talented as they purport to be, they should have been able to overcome the rantings of people named "STANFORDtroll" AND "Ayatollah of rock and rollah"
The fact that they even brought this action anonymously shows how incompetent they are. Just think about it. They brought the suits as Does 1 and 2. They alleged that "specific comments" made by these "specific people" harmed them. Since we know the exact user names and exact comments, then it should be very easy to identify the girls by name by simply reviewing the forums thereby exposing them to the same ridicule that they say ruined their chances to get these competitive positions.
Of course their is always the possibility that this is some gambit where they are trying to get a job by creating a legal controversy that they can be the center of. I mean really, what do they have to lose. They either wind up with jobs they would not have otherwise been considered for or no worse off than they are now and the only thing at risk is our civil rights.
I think that is the point of the criticism against the US. It just depends on which subset of data that you look at.
All I know is that when I looked around in Italy, the litter and the smog looked like it did in the US in the 70's. When I get to another part of Europe maybe I will get a different perspective. But it seems that there are a lot of countries out there demonizing to divert attention from themselves. Not that we don't have our own problems, but the world needs to spend a little more time cleaning up there own back yards.
Look I thought that it was weird to, but the Avis literature told me to put leaded gas in the tank and it was easy because that was all that was available. Even if it was not, you are talking about and additive that was banned in the US in the 70's and the high and mighty EU didn't get the memo until 2000?
Well I cannot speak to the scientific data produced by the EU or the US, but I can tell you that when I went to Italy last month, they were burning leaded gasoline and Just about everyday the smog was so bad that you could barely see from the hotel to the other side of town. This was particularly disappointing since I was staying in Sorrento which is 100 miles from Rome and you would think a little closer to clean country air.
I am not a world traveler. Other than this two week trip to Rome and the Sorrento Peninsula, I have not really traveled through Europe. I have to say though that Italy reminded me of the US in the 70's with the persistent smog and their tendency to leave trash and litter on the side of the road.
It was particularly galling to watch CNN and the BBC harp everyday on how the US is destroying the worlds environment while I struggled to find air that I could even see through.
Yes, of course, that is correct. If you broadcast video signals for free, eventually people will expect it for free and you will never get them to pay for it. Just look at how much trouble the cable companies are having making money with those evil broadcast networks just giving it away for free. Those naughty naughty boys.
Get real, all the media companies have to do is bring a better product and the world will clamor to pay them. In the 70's people said the cable companies were crazy if they thought that people would pay for a product that they could get for free over the air waves. Heck in the 80's I thought that people who said that bottled water would become an mainstream product were on crack. Now bottled water is a staple in construction workers ice chests.
Stop force feeding us the drivel that Hollywood has been pumping out, give us random access to the media products that we want and make it easy to manage and you will be surprised at how much people will pay.
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Wow, no offense intended but it is evident that you are a lawyer. I don't mean that in a bad way but the nature of what you do requires you to think in terms of reasonable fees. As they say, this might be what your used to but it is amazing what you can get used to.
The fact we are used to the justice system moving slowly does not mean we should be tolerant of senseless foot dragging. If these guys can improve the system, then God bless them for putting forth the effort.
I would say that if the fees are so trivial, they should be shared by the original plaintiffs and defendants. If they choose to file in an archaic format then they should have to pay for the burden that they impose on the justice system.
WE have forty year old tech that can take sensor reading to the edge of the solar system. It is just silly to think that a civilization with interstellar travel technology would not have equally impressive sensor tech. Our puny sensors can see interstellar distances. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that a sensor platform in deep space, created by an interstellar civilization would be orders of magnitude more sophisticated. So, If your sensors can read a newspaper on earth from a light year away, you really don't have to go all the way to earth to determine if it is interesting enough to send a "manned" mission. Therefore, if you only have to come within a light year of a planet to determine whether or not it is interesting and your version 1.0 probe is .10 LS capable then by sending out 1,000 probes, you can survey the entire galaxy in less than 1 million years assuming that you have no further advances in technology and your exploration goals do not change.
I don't know about anyone being an idiot, but I believe that the rise of streaming sites has little to do with how frequently music is downloaded. Personally, I have listened to Radio for years and even though I can hear all sorts of songs for free on the radio it has not stopped me from buying CD's or nowadays downloading music through iTunes.
In the end I think that there will always be a blend of solutions that people use depending on the situation.
That is pretty tough talk from someone who doesn't know the difference between analog and digital
Wow, I hope that you are kidding. The type of cables used only impact the speed with which data is transmitted. Fewer errors = faster transmission. For the images to be brightened by the type cable used they would have be altering the data in some way. This does not happen in digital applications. If the data file that comes through is not the same data that was sent then it is retransmitted or timed out. If you have seen brighter images from better cable it could only happen in analog applications or be the result of the placebo effect.
Especially since most of the best wind areas are in international waters. I guess that does beg the question though. why have there not been USS Cole style attacks on US owned oil platforms? Just a thought.
This is indeed a historic moment since the bureauopoly tends to do what they want to do regardless of what the people want. I think it is really part of the cynicism of the situation. Most of these people felt safe in voting for Colbert because they knew that the bureaucrats would do what they wanted any way. A great case in point happened a few years ago when the US Mint started the 50 State Quarters program. They helped the states to set up contests to "design" the quarters then immediately threw out all of the citizen submitted artwork no matter how good they were in favor of Mint redesigns that allowed the Mint artists to take credit. The "redesign" for the Connecticut quarter simply changed the figure of Ceasar Rodney from going left to right to going right to left. The Mint then took credit for the entire design. The point being, its their contest. They get to make all the rules. They will do what they want. They probably knew from the beginning.
In that case, I think the answer is to have the Voting Stations print out a completed ballot which the voters can inspect with a control number on each ballot. The Ballots are then fed into a central reader that is NOT connected to the voting stations. At the end of the evening the electronic results from each voting station are tabulated and compared to the results at the central reader. The results are recorded and certified at each precinct then sent to the supervisor of elections. A system like this gives you both a electronic error check and LEGIBLE paper backups. The truth though is that NO system will be secure without complete transparencey and HARSH multi-year penalties for those found defrauding the system.
It depends on how the paper trail is generated. If the paper trail is on a continuous roll and generated like a receipt and verified by each voter, then it would be pretty much impossible to alter. But I agree that the average Circle K seems to have more security for their register receipts than some Supervisors of Elections.
Will no one mod this flamebait? Me my father and my brother are all programmers and we have used Macs since they were invented. While they were not always a good programming platform, I think that the languages and environments available are great. I know all the linux heads out there love vi and emacs and pico etc. And I think they are ok for certain things but BBedit sure is a damn site better than anything I have used on a PC.
As they say in the military, there are no atheists in a fox hole. I would certainly not suggest that these people who "come to God" at the end of their lives are insincere, but when faced with the end, people will go to any length to extend their life.
I couldn't agree more and since banning people does not seem realistic we are probably going to have to figure something else out. It seems that every couple of years we identify a new scape goat for the decline in values. For me the culprit is our PC society that basically says that individuals are culpable for nothing and that nebulous groups or things are responsible for everything. That way no one has to be offended when they get called out for bad behavior.
Cheap shots at Bush are tired and old. The guy was a bad president. We get it. The thing that you need to worry about is the God like persona that the media is painting Obama with. He may wind up being a good or even a great president, but no one is going to be able to live up to the hype that is being heaped upon him.
Unless and until someone appears before us and convincingly shows us that he is the creator of the universe, we will never never know what really happened. Even finding the exact process by which the universe was born does not negate an intelligent creator because an intelligent creator could have set up all of the rules for creation. If I were to set up a number of dominos and the wind were to come along and blow one down thereby starting the chain reaction that results in all of them falling down, that would not be evidence that I did or did not exist. It would only be evidence that gravity, wind and dominos exist. Until I decide to show myself, I am just one of the great unknowns of the universe.
Fair enough but what I meant by abilities is that if our technology provided us with all of the abilities that God is purported to have, the discovery of that the abilities exist would not in and of itself prove or disprove the existence of God. Nor would the discovery of that technology diminish the accomplishments of a God that should he/she/it be confirmed to exist. In fact, just because we discover a viable mechanism for accomplishing all of the feats that any of the gods that are purported to exist have accomplished, does not mean that we have found the mechanism that those gods actually used. My comment about the monkey simply means that having tools or abilities, knowing how to use them and knowing how to use them well are all unrelated concepts.
Even if we figure out and learn to use all of the abilities and resources of God. It does not prove or disprove God's existence. Giving a monkey a paint brush does not make him Da Vinci.
I think that GM has prior art for sending US jobs to foreign shores.
Ok, you can't have it both ways. Either these forums are critical to the professional development of these girls, or they are populated but pubescent trolls who are proffering lies. If the forums are critical, then the girls need to take the opportunity to call out the cowards who proffer them. If the forums are simply populated by trolls then everyone of consequence knows it.
As far as your flyer analogy goes, if you and I had a dispute I would pray that you sent anonymous flyers out. If I had a nickel for every time someone has tried that tactic with me only to have it blowup in their face. All that you have to do is come out confident and dismissive and you win. If you are ever questioned about the accusation, you ask where they came up with something that silly. Then the have to tell you that they heard it from the Ayatolla of Rock and Rolla.
I guess you are right. If I were weak and incompetent I probably would file a law suit in a case like that. But since I am not, I just refuse to give them the power to make me feel bad about myself. Maybe you should consider doing the same or you may never leave academia.
First of all, I just want to point out that these girls are applying to be LAWYERS. One of the qualities of a good lawyer would be to have the verbal and reasoning skills to fend off any blind accusations that you were a slut or had herpes or cooties or what ever. At the very least you should be able to point out that the person making the accusations is a coward with an axe to grind.
If they don't have at least the gumption to overcome petty accusations of being a Mrs. Poopypants, then they really aren't qualified to be an attorney no matter how pretty their padded little resumes are now are they?
We have to somehow manage to get away from the belief that we have a right to not have our feelings hurt. We are so overwhelmed by our compassion for the down trodden, that we make no distinction between the oppressed and the petty.
So the basis of this suit is that the girls were damaged by comments made by guys with names like "STANFORDtroll" AND "Ayatollah of rock and rollah"? Is it not more reasonable to believe that their inability to deflect schoolyard comments like doody face and cooty breath may be symptomatic of a more fundamental problem.
The fact is that these girls were applying for competitive positions and while it may be true that people said unpleasant things about them in a public forum, if they were half as talented as they purport to be, they should have been able to overcome the rantings of people named "STANFORDtroll" AND "Ayatollah of rock and rollah"
The fact that they even brought this action anonymously shows how incompetent they are. Just think about it. They brought the suits as Does 1 and 2. They alleged that "specific comments" made by these "specific people" harmed them. Since we know the exact user names and exact comments, then it should be very easy to identify the girls by name by simply reviewing the forums thereby exposing them to the same ridicule that they say ruined their chances to get these competitive positions.
Of course their is always the possibility that this is some gambit where they are trying to get a job by creating a legal controversy that they can be the center of. I mean really, what do they have to lose. They either wind up with jobs they would not have otherwise been considered for or no worse off than they are now and the only thing at risk is our civil rights.
I think that is the point of the criticism against the US. It just depends on which subset of data that you look at.
All I know is that when I looked around in Italy, the litter and the smog looked like it did in the US in the 70's. When I get to another part of Europe maybe I will get a different perspective. But it seems that there are a lot of countries out there demonizing to divert attention from themselves. Not that we don't have our own problems, but the world needs to spend a little more time cleaning up there own back yards.
Look I thought that it was weird to, but the Avis literature told me to put leaded gas in the tank and it was easy because that was all that was available. Even if it was not, you are talking about and additive that was banned in the US in the 70's and the high and mighty EU didn't get the memo until 2000?
Well I cannot speak to the scientific data produced by the EU or the US, but I can tell you that when I went to Italy last month, they were burning leaded gasoline and Just about everyday the smog was so bad that you could barely see from the hotel to the other side of town. This was particularly disappointing since I was staying in Sorrento which is 100 miles from Rome and you would think a little closer to clean country air. I am not a world traveler. Other than this two week trip to Rome and the Sorrento Peninsula, I have not really traveled through Europe. I have to say though that Italy reminded me of the US in the 70's with the persistent smog and their tendency to leave trash and litter on the side of the road. It was particularly galling to watch CNN and the BBC harp everyday on how the US is destroying the worlds environment while I struggled to find air that I could even see through.
Not to pick nits but I saw this very same demo a year ago expect it was credited to Apple. Check out the link. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923 853181774
Yes, of course, that is correct. If you broadcast video signals for free, eventually people will expect it for free and you will never get them to pay for it. Just look at how much trouble the cable companies are having making money with those evil broadcast networks just giving it away for free. Those naughty naughty boys.
Get real, all the media companies have to do is bring a better product and the world will clamor to pay them. In the 70's people said the cable companies were crazy if they thought that people would pay for a product that they could get for free over the air waves. Heck in the 80's I thought that people who said that bottled water would become an mainstream product were on crack. Now bottled water is a staple in construction workers ice chests.
Stop force feeding us the drivel that Hollywood has been pumping out, give us random access to the media products that we want and make it easy to manage and you will be surprised at how much people will pay.