The banksters and wall street hedge fund managers have taken all the money from the poor, and corrupted the government and have taken all the powers. They have devalued labor to nearly zero compared to the value of the capital, rent and carting. The only thing poor still have left in them to sell to the rich are their organs. They are going to go after that too. They have created enough shills for themselves by giving them Nobel prizes and installing them in Booth School of Economics in the University of Chicago.
The worst mistake that we can make is believe that we humans do know it all. We observe, we learn, we draw conclusions...repeat. We need to teach critical thinking and allow our youth to draw their own conclusions and learn to challenge everything they are taught.
If you teach critical thinking correctly, they might grow up to disagree with you. Most of the Christian schools want to brainwash their children and indoctrinate them. They are quite unabashed about it. They keep harping "critical thinking" because they think that is a rock solid argument and all science supporters must agree once you invoke critical thinking. But science supporters immediately see through their hypocrisy.
The 600$ value is the difference between two large contracts. If any one of the counterparty to those large contracts go kaput, someone will be left holding the bag for 13K. Your trade gets into the long chain of transactions, not unlike a bit coin validation block. If any party in any trade along the way breaks, the entire option block all the contracts that cancel each other leaving behind a small value will be in question. That is how the financial crisis of 2008 happened. It won't go away till 2015 because, most of these contracts are for 7 years. All the people in the block should play the "Shroidinger's Cat", not open or examine anything they hold, they should not try to find the true market value of any security they hold, and simply hope they all will expire uncollected by all counter parties.
It is very common. In fact you don't even have to go abroad. Government of India paid me full pay and benefits of a gazetted [*] officer for my Masters in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. With the stipulation I work of the Ministry of Defense for three years after completing the degree. If I quit earlier I had to pay back the salary received during the study period. That is all.
[*] Gazetted officers are the civilian equivalent of the commissioned officers. Induction to the service by the President published in The Gazette of the Government of India. I had the right to sign government documents and files in green ink. My batch mates are under secretaries and joint secretaries of the government now. I am a lowly slashdotter with 31 achievements.
The amazing thing is all the remaining missions that were successful. Challenger disaster was particularly harrowing because, people have gotten accustomed to launch after launch going of (seemingly) flawlessly. To get a magnitude of the engineering, quality control and the process control behind NASA programs, one just has to take a look at the Saturn V rocket engines displayed in Houston. Those things get as hot as the surface of our Sun, the heat shield works by vaporizing ceramics,...
That it all worked so well was really amazing. It is tragic we lost two shuttles and their crew, but while we mourn the loss, and learn from the mistakes, let us not lose sight of the fact, the more amazing success of the remaining flights. We should define ourselves by the successes.
Six hydraulic jack system has more degrees of freedom, range of translation and range of rotation than the gimbal system. Three points on the platform, each supported by two hydraulic jacks. They connect to three points on the floor to maximize the range of motion. They are incredibly agile, they can simulate up to 8 G pulls and turns. They take advantage of the threshold of sensitivity of human bodies, especially the viscosity of the fluids in the inner ear tubes (I don't know its name in English, it is called arai vatta kungiliangaL in Tamil). Thus they jerk up 8 G and withdraw the acceleration below the threshold of humans. Thus the platform does not undergo sustained 8G but human pilot feels sustained 8G acceleration. Compared to the six jack system, the gimbal is primitive. If the six jack system is a 2013 Tesla, gimbals are 1937 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.
Works out to some 42000 Kg. But the picture shows the platform was getting its three degrees of freedom by very heavy gimbals. Though the whole apparatus is very heavy but the payload is not likely to more than any modern aircraft simulation platforms. Modern designs would use six hydraulic jacks and electronics to get not just three rotational degrees of freedom, but also limited degrees of freedom in translation. So wondering why someone would go through the trouble of rescuing that relic. The inertia of the gimbals is so high compared to the payload, upgrading the motors and electronics is going to be so expensive, it is probably cheaper to build a platform of similar capability using modern technology.
I think almost all the serious scientific work in the academia is done by the graduate students working at below minimum wage (once you factor in all the working hours). I was one of the PIGS, and am proud of it.
Cool down buddy. I did not ask for a ban on Haj. But if some leading organizers and promoters of international events were actively discouraging the participants from getting vaccinations, yes, I would ask for the ban/boycott/protest of such events. Because of the historical nature of Haj, I would be more lenient on Haj, but not on other international events, including the Olympics.
The problem might be confined to a few clerics. They could very well be the minority. But when it comes to deadly diseases caused by pathogens, all it takes is one carrier to reintroduce it and reestablish it in a distant, unsuspecting, vulnerable part of the world.
Yes, CIA is to be blamed and condemned for using polio vaccinations as the ruse. We, the liberals of the West, will find a way to rein in our bad actors, the NSA, the CIA, the Haliburtons, the oil companies, Senator "bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-iran" McCains and Cheneys. If we don't our culture and our way of life will perish in the coming decades. By exactly the same token, if the Muslims do not find a way to restrain their bad actors, that religion will crumble in the coming decades.
You act the part, and blame people for believing ?
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Well, you act as though you understand, look at them and nod intelligently. You act the part. Then people take you at the face value. Is that your complaint? What do you expect? Everyone to quiz everyone and test their knowledge and understanding? Do you realize how insulted you would have felt if someone asked you, "hey, do you understand what I am talking about? or you are just standing there nodding like a dimwitted sheriff from Mayberry?".
Evolution happens without any intentional action by the participants. The proto-eagle did not decide, "it is getting too crowded in this niche, let me fly higher, evolve keener eye-sight, may be a second foeva, the current one is not good for distance over 1 mile, and become an eagle". Many million proto-eagles made many ad-hoc decisions, and the ones that happened to hit on the right strategy, over many thousand generations became eagle. What you learn from evolution is statistical result of millions of experiments done by millions of organisms over time. Not following well known refined optimal strategy is part of evolution too. If organisms optimized their strategy and stuck to the most optimal strategy, they would become extinct as circumstances change. Being less than optimal to varying degrees is essential to allow the organisms to evolve when the environment changes.
Further, transitivity assumes there is no hysterisis. Every decision is made in vacuum or from a pristine starting state. That is definitely not the case of organisms. Especially recent memory being more dominant than distant memory. So when the relative advantage of A over B, B over C, A over C etc are not significant, the organism would choose based on recent experience.
Of course they have the right under freedom of speech to inform companies that their might have been violated.
And by the same token, every American citizen has the right to call them and tell them they are scumbags. I am not suggesting some slashdotter to find and post the telephone numbers of the company. I am not suggesting all slashdotters call them at all hours of the day to express their opinion on various matters of the world from the scorpion farming in China to speciation chicliad fishes in the lake Victoria. Just saying I have the freedom of speech to say such things and the slashdotters also would be well within their rights to call them and tell them.
What the hell are you talking about? Every news outlet panned the roll out obamacare, Obama had a couple of press conferences, there are constant stories about obamacare all the time. Actually I wish they will talk more about Obamacare, because now the site has turned around, and actual beneficiaries are there to talk to. Some 10 million of them. 3 million age less than 26 sticking on to parents plans, 2.2 million private enrolees and some 4.2 million medicaid expansion. Imagine where it would be if it got bit of cooperation from the Republicans.
Unemployment is a constant news story. It keeps coming up, most recently in the disappointing job numbers for Dec 2013.
Moribund economy is another constant news item.
NSA surveillance is a constant news item. Foreign policy, Syria, Israel, Egypt constantly in the news.
Just come out of the echo chamber to realize how much Democrats have been trashed by the press.
Remember the brouhaha about the Indian diplomat lady who was arrested and (allegedly) strip searched by NYPD for underpaying the maid?. The maid claimed she was offered a salary of 4500$ a month and got paid less than 1/3 of that.
So 50K is good money for an Indian. Indian maid that is!
Turns out Government of India pays the diplomats at that level about 4500$ a month. The maid misunderstood the line in the visa application where the employer is saying, "my salary is 4500$ a month" to prove her ability to pay the contracted wage to be the wage the maid is going to be paid. She complained she was getting only 1/3 of that money. But 1500$ a month was the contracted wage. Surprised that US Attorney who had successfully prosecuted billionaire hedge fund managers tripped up on that. 54K salary for a maid? Should have rung alarm bells.
Well, she has been allowed to go home. India sent another diplomat back in retaliation.
We all know how bad GOTO statement is and why that is the root of all evil.
Reactive programming is based on the totally opposite concept of COME FROM statement. Waiting for a future Dijkstra to write a paper on how evil COME FROM is.
... they can always sell a spare kidney or rent their wombs out. But how big is the market for such things? That would up end the terms of "maker" and "taker" would it not?
Haj pilgrims gather from all distant parts of the world. There are a few clerics in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia who do not believe in polio vaccines and believe it is some kind of dangerous thing promoted by America and the West. CIA had used polio vaccination as a pretext to collect DNA samples to locate/confirm Osama Bin Laden hiding in Abadabad. Haj pilgrims from these parts who could be carrying the polio virus have a chance to transmit it to others in Arabia and spread to very distant parts of the world.
The risk is less, Haj pilgrims are devout Muslims who would follow the rules of "wadu" strictly and practice very high standards of hygiene. But still there is some risk there because of the overwhelming number of pilgrims. The infrastructure is strained, and all it takes is one sick patient to transmit the virus.
Google has a better revenue model than facebook. It is using that cash flow to out live competition like facebook. Facebook, despite is billion user base, is not creating any steady revenue. Google expects facebook to eventually fold and google+ will step in to fill the void because it would be the only thing with enough resources to fill the gap. It is not unlike Microsoft using its Office/Windows cash cow to outlive its competition. But unlike Microsoft, the switching costs are not very high for gmail users.
All those slashdotter bemoaning google becoming evil or waxing eloquent about privacy issues or concerned about the victims of stalkers do not form a significant enough chunk of the population to matter. If they were year 2000 would have been the year of Desktop Linux.
I mean I am still alive and polio is (almost) dead!
I contracted polio in rural India when I was about 5, 10 years after Salk's vaccine was deployed all over the USA. I had switched schools about six times in k-12, (civil servant dad posted to all the distant corners of the realm). In almost every class, in every school I had another victim as classmate. That is anecdotal evidence with the survivor bias too. How many had died? How many did not even attend school?
Well, I am glad the scourge has been eliminated in India. Hope the fundie clerics do not stand in the way of complete eradication. It is very disheartening the fundie clerics and the Haj pilgrimage is re-introducing it again in far flung regions of the world. If polio found an able adversary in science, it has found a reliable ally in the form of Muslim fundamentalists.
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The banksters and wall street hedge fund managers have taken all the money from the poor, and corrupted the government and have taken all the powers. They have devalued labor to nearly zero compared to the value of the capital, rent and carting. The only thing poor still have left in them to sell to the rich are their organs. They are going to go after that too. They have created enough shills for themselves by giving them Nobel prizes and installing them in Booth School of Economics in the University of Chicago.
I remember the diagram from high school, the tamil term seems to be a literal translation. Thanks for the info,
The worst mistake that we can make is believe that we humans do know it all. We observe, we learn, we draw conclusions...repeat. We need to teach critical thinking and allow our youth to draw their own conclusions and learn to challenge everything they are taught.
If you teach critical thinking correctly, they might grow up to disagree with you. Most of the Christian schools want to brainwash their children and indoctrinate them. They are quite unabashed about it. They keep harping "critical thinking" because they think that is a rock solid argument and all science supporters must agree once you invoke critical thinking. But science supporters immediately see through their hypocrisy.
The 600$ value is the difference between two large contracts. If any one of the counterparty to those large contracts go kaput, someone will be left holding the bag for 13K. Your trade gets into the long chain of transactions, not unlike a bit coin validation block. If any party in any trade along the way breaks, the entire option block all the contracts that cancel each other leaving behind a small value will be in question. That is how the financial crisis of 2008 happened. It won't go away till 2015 because, most of these contracts are for 7 years. All the people in the block should play the "Shroidinger's Cat", not open or examine anything they hold, they should not try to find the true market value of any security they hold, and simply hope they all will expire uncollected by all counter parties.
[*] Gazetted officers are the civilian equivalent of the commissioned officers. Induction to the service by the President published in The Gazette of the Government of India. I had the right to sign government documents and files in green ink. My batch mates are under secretaries and joint secretaries of the government now. I am a lowly slashdotter with 31 achievements.
I was groggy collecting milk from the milkman at about 6 AM IST, having picked the newspaper Indian Express, Bangalore edition, from the front steps.
That it all worked so well was really amazing. It is tragic we lost two shuttles and their crew, but while we mourn the loss, and learn from the mistakes, let us not lose sight of the fact, the more amazing success of the remaining flights. We should define ourselves by the successes.
Six hydraulic jack system has more degrees of freedom, range of translation and range of rotation than the gimbal system. Three points on the platform, each supported by two hydraulic jacks. They connect to three points on the floor to maximize the range of motion. They are incredibly agile, they can simulate up to 8 G pulls and turns. They take advantage of the threshold of sensitivity of human bodies, especially the viscosity of the fluids in the inner ear tubes (I don't know its name in English, it is called arai vatta kungiliangaL in Tamil). Thus they jerk up 8 G and withdraw the acceleration below the threshold of humans. Thus the platform does not undergo sustained 8G but human pilot feels sustained 8G acceleration. Compared to the six jack system, the gimbal is primitive. If the six jack system is a 2013 Tesla, gimbals are 1937 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.
Works out to some 42000 Kg. But the picture shows the platform was getting its three degrees of freedom by very heavy gimbals. Though the whole apparatus is very heavy but the payload is not likely to more than any modern aircraft simulation platforms. Modern designs would use six hydraulic jacks and electronics to get not just three rotational degrees of freedom, but also limited degrees of freedom in translation. So wondering why someone would go through the trouble of rescuing that relic. The inertia of the gimbals is so high compared to the payload, upgrading the motors and electronics is going to be so expensive, it is probably cheaper to build a platform of similar capability using modern technology.
For rough calculations, 1 lb = 0.5 Kg. For Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 30 and divide by 2.
PIGS = Poor Indian Graduate Students.
The problem might be confined to a few clerics. They could very well be the minority. But when it comes to deadly diseases caused by pathogens, all it takes is one carrier to reintroduce it and reestablish it in a distant, unsuspecting, vulnerable part of the world.
Yes, CIA is to be blamed and condemned for using polio vaccinations as the ruse. We, the liberals of the West, will find a way to rein in our bad actors, the NSA, the CIA, the Haliburtons, the oil companies, Senator "bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-iran" McCains and Cheneys. If we don't our culture and our way of life will perish in the coming decades. By exactly the same token, if the Muslims do not find a way to restrain their bad actors, that religion will crumble in the coming decades.
The Gurkhas are legendary. Thanks for the link.
Well, you act as though you understand, look at them and nod intelligently. You act the part. Then people take you at the face value. Is that your complaint? What do you expect? Everyone to quiz everyone and test their knowledge and understanding? Do you realize how insulted you would have felt if someone asked you, "hey, do you understand what I am talking about? or you are just standing there nodding like a dimwitted sheriff from Mayberry?".
Further, transitivity assumes there is no hysterisis. Every decision is made in vacuum or from a pristine starting state. That is definitely not the case of organisms. Especially recent memory being more dominant than distant memory. So when the relative advantage of A over B, B over C, A over C etc are not significant, the organism would choose based on recent experience.
And by the same token, every American citizen has the right to call them and tell them they are scumbags. I am not suggesting some slashdotter to find and post the telephone numbers of the company. I am not suggesting all slashdotters call them at all hours of the day to express their opinion on various matters of the world from the scorpion farming in China to speciation chicliad fishes in the lake Victoria. Just saying I have the freedom of speech to say such things and the slashdotters also would be well within their rights to call them and tell them.
Unemployment is a constant news story. It keeps coming up, most recently in the disappointing job numbers for Dec 2013. Moribund economy is another constant news item. NSA surveillance is a constant news item. Foreign policy, Syria, Israel, Egypt constantly in the news.
Just come out of the echo chamber to realize how much Democrats have been trashed by the press.
So no retaliation by Democrats for a decade I assume. If there was any, you would have surely posted that instead of that 11 year old news report.
So 50K is good money for an Indian. Indian maid that is!
Turns out Government of India pays the diplomats at that level about 4500$ a month. The maid misunderstood the line in the visa application where the employer is saying, "my salary is 4500$ a month" to prove her ability to pay the contracted wage to be the wage the maid is going to be paid. She complained she was getting only 1/3 of that money. But 1500$ a month was the contracted wage. Surprised that US Attorney who had successfully prosecuted billionaire hedge fund managers tripped up on that. 54K salary for a maid? Should have rung alarm bells.
Well, she has been allowed to go home. India sent another diplomat back in retaliation.
Reactive programming is based on the totally opposite concept of COME FROM statement. Waiting for a future Dijkstra to write a paper on how evil COME FROM is.
... they can always sell a spare kidney or rent their wombs out. But how big is the market for such things? That would up end the terms of "maker" and "taker" would it not?
The risk is less, Haj pilgrims are devout Muslims who would follow the rules of "wadu" strictly and practice very high standards of hygiene. But still there is some risk there because of the overwhelming number of pilgrims. The infrastructure is strained, and all it takes is one sick patient to transmit the virus.
All those slashdotter bemoaning google becoming evil or waxing eloquent about privacy issues or concerned about the victims of stalkers do not form a significant enough chunk of the population to matter. If they were year 2000 would have been the year of Desktop Linux.
I contracted polio in rural India when I was about 5, 10 years after Salk's vaccine was deployed all over the USA. I had switched schools about six times in k-12, (civil servant dad posted to all the distant corners of the realm). In almost every class, in every school I had another victim as classmate. That is anecdotal evidence with the survivor bias too. How many had died? How many did not even attend school?
Well, I am glad the scourge has been eliminated in India. Hope the fundie clerics do not stand in the way of complete eradication. It is very disheartening the fundie clerics and the Haj pilgrimage is re-introducing it again in far flung regions of the world. If polio found an able adversary in science, it has found a reliable ally in the form of Muslim fundamentalists.
(I don't need to tell you that women make up about half.)
Actually girls graduate at a higher rate than boys both in college and in high school. So they make up more than half the graduates.