I don't know how it was delivered. Morris was writing a popular book, making funny observations about people. His best known work was The Naked Ape. But funnier ones were "Man Watching", "Woman Watching", "Child Watching" etc which were basically written in the language of biologists describing animal behavior.
First off the term "explosion" is in geological time scale. 10 million years is a blink of an eye in that scale. But in reality it is TWO THOUSAND times the length of the recorded history, 50 times longer than the life of Homo sapiens...
Second lack of evidence is not the evidence of lack. Before the Cambrian "explosion" the organisms had not developed bones and shells that would fossilize. It is very hard for soft bodies to fossilize and for the indirect evidence to stick around. There are very few places where the original primordial earth crust still survives without change. Almost the entire seafloor is new. Constantly being melted into the magma in the subduction zones and being reformed in the expansion zones. No evidence of anything would survive that. So it is totally incorrect to say that earth was not teeming with life or that the competition was absent.
Today multi-trillion cell agglomerations are sitting on keyboard and typing follow up responses to pointless postings in slashdot. Many trillion cell colonies of micro organisms live symbiotically with these agglomerations which call themselves human. Trillions of these cells commit suicide promptly when the signal arrives, to be replaced by new copies. They know they are not in the gonad and they will never reproduce. Still they all tick along doing their stuff. The foundations for such a way of life for these cells were laid down before the Cambrian "explosion".
And we become time traveling mind readers and state confidently "Darwin was plagued by the mystery...". Darwin was constantly complaining of so many illnesses he was such a strain on Emma. He had lot more than a mystery plaguing him.
Data breach and identity theft etc would not be a serious issue if the lenders exercised due diligence before extending credit to make sure the borrower's credentials are correct. They make sure it is impossible for ordinary person to lock up the credit reports and credit to make sure no unauthorized accounts are opened unbeknownst to them.
If we make the lenders liable for all the damage caused by them. We don't even need any new laws for this. The lender has all the right to be very lax and extend credit to any Tom Dick or Harry. But if they are going to report to credit reporting agencies about default or missed payments, they have to prove that the credit was extended to the correct person. If they mistakenly report missed payments on the victim of identity thefts, the banks should be fully liable for all the damage caused to the innocent party.
The banks are the worst. They extend credit without checking. They destroyed the cheap Point-of-sale pin encoded debit/ATM transactions by conflating it with credit transactions. Merchants who used to pay a flat fees of 25 cents or so per transactions are being saddled with 2%.
The financial sector has gone from less than 5% of S&P500 index to 15% of the index. From all the economic activity going on in the country the banks rake in more than 50% of the profits. Companies that take the risk and actually make products make much less money than the the banks.
The banks have grown too big to fail, too big to jail.
All the talk about government must be small misses a crucial point. The moment the government becomes smaller than the most powerful person, that person would drown the government in a bath tub. The courts have ruled corporations are people. Now corporations are actively drowning the government in a bathtub. The banks are at the forefront. If we don't realize and and reign in the banks, we are doomed.
Wonder what would happen if some company like Groupon pisses off dedicated open source developers who had been passionately contributing to the Gnome project? Even if just a few of them decide to use their software skills against Groupon and its questionable business products, they would suffer greatly. Nothing illegal, a little google bombing, a little bit of SEO to make Groupon drop out of safe searches and first hits, they can cause a lot of damage to Groupon.
It is very common to send biological samples by mail. I remember reading a piece by the old dead biologist "zoo vet" Desmond Morris. His dog was quarantined on entry to England from some foreign country, for the fear of hydrophobia. When he got home he found in his mail a dog brain from the same foreign country. Some friend was worried about hydrophobia epidemic and had sent him the dog brain to his friend Dr Morris for analysis, by mail!! I assume it was surface mail. Even if it was air mail, it was from a foreign country that went through customs.
Most American schools are pretty good, even the ones constantly dissed by the media. Our kids go to US schools run by the municipalities. We know both sides of the equation. Most Americans see the Indian kids doing well in school. So they think India got another billion of them from where they come from. No, it is sample bias. It is the best educated and most hard working Indians make it to USA. After the dilution of standards due to the gaming the system by H1B shops like TCS, Accenture, Infosys etc you got the glimpse of just the next strata. And there are grads orders of magnitude worse than even the latest H1B back in India.
You over estimate the university degrees from India.
I am from India. I know what I'm talking about.
But for a few good schools like IIT, IIM, IISc, AIIMS, NITs etc rest of what passes for college education in India is nothing more than rote-memorization and regurgitation. Both the Physics Nobel laureates of Indian origin (Raman and Chandrasekhar) are alumna of the University of Madras. Today, that univ does not have a single math prof capable of correcting an answers in a Real Analysis examination. The syllabus specifically says, "Real Analysis, with theorems and proofs as stated in the book Real Analysis by Apostal". You deviate from the proof given in that book, the professors are incapable of checking whether it is right or wrong. It is a disgrace to call it a university.
If I remember it right, it was the desire to find the secret tracking device that made Anakin get into hardware, and then on to pod racing. Granted, it was a kind of dumb to build a protocol droid to find a tracker, but kids are kind of dumb that way.
But the point is, I see a whole generation of potential Sith Lords emerging, all getting their crack in hardware by building a scanner to find the tracker installed by the Jabba-the-Car-hut dealerships.
Of course there is no nationwide popular vote. But fact is more Americans voted for Democrats and they don't have the majority in the House. In a well designed system the House should match the vote. It does not.
The Republican rep who got 50% + 1 in a low turn out safe red district primary does not care about any Republican running for statewide office or the national offices. His/her biggest concern is the next primary fight, coming in two years. They alienate every voting bloc in the larger nation to get through the next primary.
The Republicans won the house after losing popular vote. Such a dichotomy has happened only once in the last 200 years. The current power of the Republican party stems from the gerrymandered districts. (For example: In PA Republicans lost the popular vote by 2 % and took 13 out of 18 districts).
Now democrats who won in Obama wave of 2008 are defending deep red districts and might lose them. In 2016 the Republican senators who won in the 2010 wave will be defending. This Republican senate majority will not last long.
The House majority will last longer. The gerrymandered districts and the hold on the state election system is making the Republican primary the real battle to win. That is creating very very hard right wing reps who take extreme positions. They alienate all the emerging vote blocs with impunity because they invulnerable. It is creating big trouble for Republicans running for Statewide offices.
I just saw in Costco a HP Chromebook, 13 inch full HD screen, 1 year of 4G service (I think capped to some ridiculous 200 MB per month. But still good enough for very occssional use), 10 sessions in domestic flights, etc. Priced at 300$. Paired with T-mobile. T-mobile has some great pay-as-you-go data plans too.
So HP is pushing a souped up Chromebook, and a bare bones PC, along with bare bones chromebook and the usual standard formfactor laptops. Looks like HP is throwing everything on the wall and is waiting to see what sticks. It might drop the bare bones chromebook price down too. Come Christmas I would not be surprised to see same spec chrome book at 99$ or 129$
Basic selling point of Chromebook is not just the low price, it is a low maintenance streaming device, with a full keyboard and better screen. HDMI out, bluetooth keyboard,... why would I even think of buying Roku or chromecast, or smart TV?
Microsoft announced that starting from 2015, there will be a grand fusion of ALL User Interfaces. All devices, from wearable watch like device, to 4 or 5 inch phones, to 7 or 10 inch tablets to 15 or 18 inch laptops to 23 to 36 inch desktops will all use the Microsoft Band UI as the default UI.
There will be a hidden hotspot at the lower left corner to bring up the phone UI, and it will have another hidden hot spot and the mid point of left edge of screen to bring up the tablet UI, and that will have a hidden hot spot at top right to bring up the laptop UI and there will be a hot spot on the top left to bring up the desktop UI.
So, in one fluid motion, you can hit all the four corners and move up and down the UI. National Association of Chiropracters and Carpel Tunnel Healers of America welcomed the new UI and gave 10$ off coupons to all Microsoft users.
The wearable device was to be called Microsoft Banned. Apparently the marketing mavens thought that name would be a bit hit among the Linux, Apple and Chrome aficionados. You know the growing segment of users. But as usual their Chinese maker misspelt the name in the production run.
Almost all the engineering and mathematics and physics papers would depend on Pythagoras theorem. Even if not in the usual a^2 + b^2 = c^2 form, it would be in sin^2(theta) + cos^2(theta) = 1 form. But to my knowledge there is only one paper (The Imperturbility of Elevator Operators, by S Candlestickmaker) cites Pythagoras and the gem about PI = 3 for large values of three.
So some of the most widely used scientific discoveries never get cited.
That explains why my work did not make it to the top of this flawed metric.
Here is another link that is more readable.
In a more easily readable form
Candlestickmaker, S., and Helpit, Canna E. 1955, Compositio Math., 237, 476.
Giftcourt. M. F. 1956, J. Symbolic Logic, 237, 476.
Nostradamus, M. 1955, Centuries (Lyons).
Pythagoras — 520, in: Euclid — 300, Elements, Book I, Prop. 47 (Athens).
Shopwalker, M., and Salesperson, F. 1955, Heredity, 237, 476.
The merchant is also a small player compared to the banks and credit card companies. It is the credit card companies and banks that rake in the usurious 25% and 30% interest. They are the ones who maintain the system. They are the ones that authorizes the transaction. It is them who should bear the cost.
But they don't. They have paid off the politicians and are legally looting from small players.
Credit cards have a 50$ limit for liability for fraudulent transaction for the account holders. It is not due to any magnanimity or kindness of the credit card companies or the banks. Nor are market forces and competition forcing them to offer this. There are just two big players and they would collude rather than compete. It is the federal law. It protects the consumers when credit is extended electronically. When there is no credit involved there is no protection. As consumers we should demand the liability against fraudulent transactions to be part of any better system we transition to.
We should demand similar protection against ALL electronic charges, whether or not credit was involved. Telephone slamming should be included too. Our bank accounts need protection too. The burden of proof should be on those who are responsible for the installing and maintaining the system. Not the little guys who are users of the system.
In the current system, the cost of fraudulent transaction is not borne by the credit card user. Some slashdotter posted saying, the protection stems from the loan being advanced, so the protection is available even if the credit cards not used, but if actual credit was extended. In the proposed CurrentC system there is no loan advanced. So there will be no protection.
These slime balls would offer the same liability protection "voluntarily" in the introduction period. Once it takes hold they will transition out of that, and leave the customers holding the bag for fraudulent transactions.
But I don't think customers are going to fall for this. Someone steals your hard earned money, and the CurrentC system gives you a run around, the bad publicity travels fast. So they may not be able to weasel out later. But still I would rather have the protection from a federal law rather than the kindness of a private money dealing company. Money changers were found to be unscrupulous by one Jesus, son of Joseph, Nazareth, Judea some 2000 odd years ago.
Right now the Republicans pose a much bigger threat to America.
If you think you're helping the country, then you'd be wrong. You're part of the problem. Partisanship is a cancer in any democratic government.
You are confusing the disease with the cure. Republican partisanship is the cancer. Democratic partisanship is the chemotherapy. America will recover from the second, not from the first.
Republicans do more boot stomping and do it much harder. Right now the Republicans pose a much bigger threat to America. They have completely sold out to the rich. Dems too, but Republicans have become more brazen and blatant about being shills for the rich. They whip up terror, anger and hatred among the only reliable base they have left, older, Christian, white folks.
When JFK cut capital gains taxes, corporate America invested the gains back in America. When Reagan cut taxes the rich betrayed us and invested the money in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in that order, out sourced our jobs, looted the value of our real estate, completely cornered all the economic growth. 95% of the Americans got no share of the economic growth since Reagan. Another 4% got some meager returns, barely above inflation. Only the top 1%, actually the top 0.1% got most of the benefit.
Republicans have been extremely inept in understanding the foreign enemies. They armed Afghan rebels and created al-queda in th 1980s. Taught them how to organize and recruit in foreign lands and fight modern weaponry. Kept tin pot dictators in power all over Africa and South America. Invaded Iraq in a fool hardy move. When it comes to stupidity, greed, short sightedness and plain betrayal of American free enterprise system based on competition, Republicans are far far more guilty than Democrats.
When the body mistakenly believes a substance to be a pathogen, it kicks its immune system in high gear and starts attacking it like Don Quixote charging the windmills. That over reaction harms the body more than what the substance could have caused.
America's overreaction to ISIS, al-queda etc fall into this category. We are doing a lot more damage by such over reactions than what these entities could do to us. We need a strong dose of anti-histamines. (Of course there will be people protesting the discrimination against the histamines)
... It was, likely, due to default behavior of old versions of Windows,.... there was that one Windows-running laptop that someone had that picked up on that SSID and kept broadcasting it...
No wonder they say future airliners will not have any windows....
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how it was delivered. Morris was writing a popular book, making funny observations about people. His best known work was The Naked Ape. But funnier ones were "Man Watching", "Woman Watching", "Child Watching" etc which were basically written in the language of biologists describing animal behavior.
Second lack of evidence is not the evidence of lack. Before the Cambrian "explosion" the organisms had not developed bones and shells that would fossilize. It is very hard for soft bodies to fossilize and for the indirect evidence to stick around. There are very few places where the original primordial earth crust still survives without change. Almost the entire seafloor is new. Constantly being melted into the magma in the subduction zones and being reformed in the expansion zones. No evidence of anything would survive that. So it is totally incorrect to say that earth was not teeming with life or that the competition was absent.
Today multi-trillion cell agglomerations are sitting on keyboard and typing follow up responses to pointless postings in slashdot. Many trillion cell colonies of micro organisms live symbiotically with these agglomerations which call themselves human. Trillions of these cells commit suicide promptly when the signal arrives, to be replaced by new copies. They know they are not in the gonad and they will never reproduce. Still they all tick along doing their stuff. The foundations for such a way of life for these cells were laid down before the Cambrian "explosion".
And we become time traveling mind readers and state confidently "Darwin was plagued by the mystery...". Darwin was constantly complaining of so many illnesses he was such a strain on Emma. He had lot more than a mystery plaguing him.
If we make the lenders liable for all the damage caused by them. We don't even need any new laws for this. The lender has all the right to be very lax and extend credit to any Tom Dick or Harry. But if they are going to report to credit reporting agencies about default or missed payments, they have to prove that the credit was extended to the correct person. If they mistakenly report missed payments on the victim of identity thefts, the banks should be fully liable for all the damage caused to the innocent party.
The banks are the worst. They extend credit without checking. They destroyed the cheap Point-of-sale pin encoded debit/ATM transactions by conflating it with credit transactions. Merchants who used to pay a flat fees of 25 cents or so per transactions are being saddled with 2%.
The financial sector has gone from less than 5% of S&P500 index to 15% of the index. From all the economic activity going on in the country the banks rake in more than 50% of the profits. Companies that take the risk and actually make products make much less money than the the banks.
The banks have grown too big to fail, too big to jail.
All the talk about government must be small misses a crucial point. The moment the government becomes smaller than the most powerful person, that person would drown the government in a bath tub. The courts have ruled corporations are people. Now corporations are actively drowning the government in a bathtub. The banks are at the forefront. If we don't realize and and reign in the banks, we are doomed.
Wonder what would happen if some company like Groupon pisses off dedicated open source developers who had been passionately contributing to the Gnome project? Even if just a few of them decide to use their software skills against Groupon and its questionable business products, they would suffer greatly. Nothing illegal, a little google bombing, a little bit of SEO to make Groupon drop out of safe searches and first hits, they can cause a lot of damage to Groupon.
It is very common to send biological samples by mail. I remember reading a piece by the old dead biologist "zoo vet" Desmond Morris. His dog was quarantined on entry to England from some foreign country, for the fear of hydrophobia. When he got home he found in his mail a dog brain from the same foreign country. Some friend was worried about hydrophobia epidemic and had sent him the dog brain to his friend Dr Morris for analysis, by mail!! I assume it was surface mail. Even if it was air mail, it was from a foreign country that went through customs.
Most American schools are pretty good, even the ones constantly dissed by the media. Our kids go to US schools run by the municipalities. We know both sides of the equation. Most Americans see the Indian kids doing well in school. So they think India got another billion of them from where they come from. No, it is sample bias. It is the best educated and most hard working Indians make it to USA. After the dilution of standards due to the gaming the system by H1B shops like TCS, Accenture, Infosys etc you got the glimpse of just the next strata. And there are grads orders of magnitude worse than even the latest H1B back in India.
I am from India. I know what I'm talking about. But for a few good schools like IIT, IIM, IISc, AIIMS, NITs etc rest of what passes for college education in India is nothing more than rote-memorization and regurgitation. Both the Physics Nobel laureates of Indian origin (Raman and Chandrasekhar) are alumna of the University of Madras. Today, that univ does not have a single math prof capable of correcting an answers in a Real Analysis examination. The syllabus specifically says, "Real Analysis, with theorems and proofs as stated in the book Real Analysis by Apostal". You deviate from the proof given in that book, the professors are incapable of checking whether it is right or wrong. It is a disgrace to call it a university.
But the point is, I see a whole generation of potential Sith Lords emerging, all getting their crack in hardware by building a scanner to find the tracker installed by the Jabba-the-Car-hut dealerships.
And the zombies. Never forget the zombies.
What was the 40k low end model?model E? That is the highly anticipated model. This one is a plaything for people with too much money.
Which the Sky Mall has been selling for ages and ages ...http://www.skymall.com/rfid-blocking-bill-fold---silver/SWD101.html#start=6
The Republican rep who got 50% + 1 in a low turn out safe red district primary does not care about any Republican running for statewide office or the national offices. His/her biggest concern is the next primary fight, coming in two years. They alienate every voting bloc in the larger nation to get through the next primary.
Now democrats who won in Obama wave of 2008 are defending deep red districts and might lose them. In 2016 the Republican senators who won in the 2010 wave will be defending. This Republican senate majority will not last long.
The House majority will last longer. The gerrymandered districts and the hold on the state election system is making the Republican primary the real battle to win. That is creating very very hard right wing reps who take extreme positions. They alienate all the emerging vote blocs with impunity because they invulnerable. It is creating big trouble for Republicans running for Statewide offices.
So HP is pushing a souped up Chromebook, and a bare bones PC, along with bare bones chromebook and the usual standard formfactor laptops. Looks like HP is throwing everything on the wall and is waiting to see what sticks. It might drop the bare bones chromebook price down too. Come Christmas I would not be surprised to see same spec chrome book at 99$ or 129$
Basic selling point of Chromebook is not just the low price, it is a low maintenance streaming device, with a full keyboard and better screen. HDMI out, bluetooth keyboard, ... why would I even think of buying Roku or chromecast, or smart TV?
There will be a hidden hotspot at the lower left corner to bring up the phone UI, and it will have another hidden hot spot and the mid point of left edge of screen to bring up the tablet UI, and that will have a hidden hot spot at top right to bring up the laptop UI and there will be a hot spot on the top left to bring up the desktop UI.
So, in one fluid motion, you can hit all the four corners and move up and down the UI. National Association of Chiropracters and Carpel Tunnel Healers of America welcomed the new UI and gave 10$ off coupons to all Microsoft users.
The wearable device was to be called Microsoft Banned. Apparently the marketing mavens thought that name would be a bit hit among the Linux, Apple and Chrome aficionados. You know the growing segment of users. But as usual their Chinese maker misspelt the name in the production run.
So some of the most widely used scientific discoveries never get cited.
That explains why my work did not make it to the top of this flawed metric.
Here is another link that is more readable. In a more easily readable form Candlestickmaker, S., and Helpit, Canna E. 1955, Compositio Math., 237, 476.
Giftcourt. M. F. 1956, J. Symbolic Logic, 237, 476.
Nostradamus, M. 1955, Centuries (Lyons).
Pythagoras — 520, in: Euclid — 300, Elements, Book I, Prop. 47 (Athens).
Shopwalker, M., and Salesperson, F. 1955, Heredity, 237, 476.
But they don't. They have paid off the politicians and are legally looting from small players.
We should demand similar protection against ALL electronic charges, whether or not credit was involved. Telephone slamming should be included too. Our bank accounts need protection too. The burden of proof should be on those who are responsible for the installing and maintaining the system. Not the little guys who are users of the system.
These slime balls would offer the same liability protection "voluntarily" in the introduction period. Once it takes hold they will transition out of that, and leave the customers holding the bag for fraudulent transactions.
But I don't think customers are going to fall for this. Someone steals your hard earned money, and the CurrentC system gives you a run around, the bad publicity travels fast. So they may not be able to weasel out later. But still I would rather have the protection from a federal law rather than the kindness of a private money dealing company. Money changers were found to be unscrupulous by one Jesus, son of Joseph, Nazareth, Judea some 2000 odd years ago.
Right now the Republicans pose a much bigger threat to America.
If you think you're helping the country, then you'd be wrong. You're part of the problem. Partisanship is a cancer in any democratic government.
You are confusing the disease with the cure. Republican partisanship is the cancer. Democratic partisanship is the chemotherapy. America will recover from the second, not from the first.
"I am a histamine, you insensitive clod" is the canonical response.
When JFK cut capital gains taxes, corporate America invested the gains back in America. When Reagan cut taxes the rich betrayed us and invested the money in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in that order, out sourced our jobs, looted the value of our real estate, completely cornered all the economic growth. 95% of the Americans got no share of the economic growth since Reagan. Another 4% got some meager returns, barely above inflation. Only the top 1%, actually the top 0.1% got most of the benefit.
Republicans have been extremely inept in understanding the foreign enemies. They armed Afghan rebels and created al-queda in th 1980s. Taught them how to organize and recruit in foreign lands and fight modern weaponry. Kept tin pot dictators in power all over Africa and South America. Invaded Iraq in a fool hardy move. When it comes to stupidity, greed, short sightedness and plain betrayal of American free enterprise system based on competition, Republicans are far far more guilty than Democrats.
America's overreaction to ISIS, al-queda etc fall into this category. We are doing a lot more damage by such over reactions than what these entities could do to us. We need a strong dose of anti-histamines. (Of course there will be people protesting the discrimination against the histamines)
... It was, likely, due to default behavior of old versions of Windows, .... there was that one Windows-running laptop that someone had that picked up on that SSID and kept broadcasting it...
No wonder they say future airliners will not have any windows....