And even with all this subsidization, driving a car is a huge overhead cost that people should not have to pay for in order to participate in the economy.
Between car payment (on a very cheap car), gas, mandatory full coverage insurance and repairs, oil changes and maintenance, I spend more on transportation than I do on either food or housing, and not by a little.
The lack of a decent public transportation system in most areas of this country is a significant barrier to entry for people to participate in the economy. Getting "bootstrapped" at 18 with outrageous car insurance rates and no credit or education is nearly impossible when you can't get to a job without a car, and you can't get a job that pays more than minimum wage.
Once you're bootstrapped, it's still a huge, constant expense. Driving is expensive and dangerous, not to mention what it does to the environment. How much crime is car related?
On a side note, in Illinois, instead of building out our public transit infrastructure, we blow money on commercials threatening jail time for DUI offenders. How about a reasonable alternative for people to get home from the bars? Yes, people should have a DD, but in reality, many people find it difficult to have a good time in a bar without drinking. Spending the money from those commercials on public transit would likely save far more lives, I think.
Public transportation, for the love of God. I know we're a car culture, but we need to get over it. Reducing our consumption is going to require centralizing transportation infrastructure, period (IHMO:) ).
From Wikipedia's Big Book of Things That Might Not Be True (by the Internet):
There has been some concern that EV certificates, despite their improved authentication and higher cost, will not prevent phishing attacks[9]. In 2006, researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft conducted a usability study[10] of the EV display in Internet Explorer 7. The study measured users' ability to distinguish real sites from fraudulent sites when presented with various kinds of phishing attacks, and found that there was no significant difference between users who saw extended validation indicators and those who did not. Users who received training with the Internet Explorer 7 help file were more likely to judge all sites legitimate, regardless of whether they were fraudulent.
The results, so far, have been controversial: the majority of epidemiological studies have not found any clear indication of short and medium term health hazards. On the other hand there is extensive literature (see "The Stewart Report" for a survey) on so-called non-thermal effects of weak microwave radiation on biological tissue in animal models or in-vitro, including affecting the growth of certain tumors, cell death, increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, DNA damage and others, which suggest the possibility of adverse health effects in humans.
The article goes on to discuss damage to corneas, acoustic neuroma (a type of brain tumor), and other issues, both thermal and non.
By the way, I have an aunt who used one of the old analog cell phones constantly for a years. She's undergoing radiation and chemotherapy right now and has had a few different tumors removed over the past 10 years. The cancer started as a pea-sized tumor above her right ear, exactly where she held the phone. Hopefully for her daughter and husband she survives, but she is absolutely miserable now.
I use a corded headset whenever possible with my cell now.
The thing is that there aren't enough teachers to be able to spend enough time with each student. A properly programmed computer (this is key) could provide very helpful stimulation while the teacher moves from student to student. Also, this could encourage a lot of exploration and curiosity versus simply learning what is currently being taught in school.
This is not to say, of course, that simply throwing computers at children makes them learn to do anything better (besides dodge:-P).
How much would I get for it with the original discs but without the original box and manual? Would I get more than it costs to ship?
I never use eBay, but I've heard from many that the buyer pays shipping. This makes sense, as it gives the buyer the option of how much to pay and how fast they want it.
You could even order the books by ascending ISBN; that way, you have a globally unique ID for every book, without having to mark the books with another number. Also, this would remove the need for an extra primary key column. The only hitch is that now you need to store the number of copies of each book in each record (if you want to store that sort of thing).
If you know Python, TurboGears is a natural candidate for implementing something like this- it provides a nice framework, templating, and transparent DB access without writing a single line of SQL (through SQLObject). You can develop with a sqlite database (flat file or in-memory), then switch to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or a number of others later with little/no modification of code (the only thing I've been bitten by is naming things after MySQL reserved words while developing on sqlite).
I've set up a system kind of like this with code snippets; it uses tags to organize the snippets, then allows you to specify any combination of tags to require. So all Python snippets are tagged "python", everything that deals with SSL is tagged "ssl", and all my C code is tagged "c". If I want code that involves working with C and Python together, I search for "c python". If I want Python SSL code, I search for "python ssl". Couple that with versioning (and a colored diff output when you change something!) as well as a description field, and it's a pretty usable repository. It's nowhere near clean enough to release, but maybe it will see the light of day some time.
I don't know if I understand this completely, but the article says that an object moving at a certain fraction of c emits an antigravity beam. It didn't say it doesn't emit the beam when nothing is in the line of site. The energy is already being lost, regardless of whether or not it pushes.
I'd be curious as to whether or not anti-gravitons (or whatever they call them) are emitted by low-speed objects. It's a quantum universe; generally, if it exists at a higher speed, it exists at a lower speed, just at a fantastically reduced rate. Look at Einstein's relativity equations; there's no "if" statement creating a threshold of where mass starts increasing and time starts dilating. When I drive down the freeway at 8.20140712 × 10^-8 of c (55 mph), time still dilates, and my car still gains mass, although infinitesimally.
Ever seen WarGames? If you could bomb far-away targets in less than a second, that would make tactical nuclear strikes plausible again. It's called Mutually assured destruction.
Another possible use for this in weaponry might involve the new Chinese space program.
Several content providers (most often, but not exclusively, AOL) have been sued for content posted to their system. However, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects content distributors from being held liable for the content of postings made by users. It makes no mention of money; indeed, AOL charges its subscribers for access and has won numerous court cases on the basis of section 230.
I feel so dirty... I just defended AOL and the CDA in a single post. Oh well...:)
I'm not exactly an expert on graphics cards, but don't most modern graphics cards provide acceleration for 2D as well, for things like scrolling and panning and such? Also, even if it doesn't, couldn't one write code that uses the 3D accelerator to render a single plane, emulating 2D much the same way as a sheet of paper emulates a 2D space in 3D space?
Sort of reminds me of a friend's house I was at. An electrician laid out his networking for him... ran all the cables and whatnot back to the wireless router... inside a metal box.
This is what I think is one of the more interesting aspects of open source: the cross-pollenation that occurs, with a feature moving one place, mutating, then moving back into the original source. The whole thing smacks of memetics.
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Wow.
Do people actually think this is what the US is like?
I'm not so much saying guns should (or should not) be carried by police as saying they don't shoot you for jaywalking.
Oh, now, I wouldn't say that. ;)
It's easy to make a Python interpreter in Python! It even has the exact same performance as the native interpretation.
exec(file(sys.argv[0]).read())
Or even
execfile(sys.argv[0])
Seriously, though... dogfooding isn't an appropriate comparison for interpreted languages.
Instead of using you and Vinny, what if I rigged up a shotgun (with a hair trigger, of course), through a pulley, to the cat's collar?
I think what you're looking for is a fur trigger, not a hair trigger...
(Had to get one in.)
And even with all this subsidization, driving a car is a huge overhead cost that people should not have to pay for in order to participate in the economy.
Between car payment (on a very cheap car), gas, mandatory full coverage insurance and repairs, oil changes and maintenance, I spend more on transportation than I do on either food or housing, and not by a little.
The lack of a decent public transportation system in most areas of this country is a significant barrier to entry for people to participate in the economy. Getting "bootstrapped" at 18 with outrageous car insurance rates and no credit or education is nearly impossible when you can't get to a job without a car, and you can't get a job that pays more than minimum wage.
Once you're bootstrapped, it's still a huge, constant expense. Driving is expensive and dangerous, not to mention what it does to the environment. How much crime is car related?
On a side note, in Illinois, instead of building out our public transit infrastructure, we blow money on commercials threatening jail time for DUI offenders. How about a reasonable alternative for people to get home from the bars? Yes, people should have a DD, but in reality, many people find it difficult to have a good time in a bar without drinking. Spending the money from those commercials on public transit would likely save far more lives, I think.
Public transportation, for the love of God. I know we're a car culture, but we need to get over it. Reducing our consumption is going to require centralizing transportation infrastructure, period (IHMO :) ).
This got modded insightful? Lot of funny bones broken today...
From Wikipedia's Big Book of Things That Might Not Be True (by the Internet):
There has been some concern that EV certificates, despite their improved authentication and higher cost, will not prevent phishing attacks[9].
In 2006, researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft conducted a usability study[10] of the EV display in Internet Explorer 7. The study measured users' ability to distinguish real sites from fraudulent sites when presented with various kinds of phishing attacks, and found that there was no significant difference between users who saw extended validation indicators and those who did not. Users who received training with the Internet Explorer 7 help file were more likely to judge all sites legitimate, regardless of whether they were fraudulent.
9 = http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/microsoft_antip.html
10 = http://www.usablesecurity.org/papers/jackson.pdf
It's what the LOC craves...
You should read your own links. From the page you posted from Wikipedia:
The results, so far, have been controversial: the majority of epidemiological studies have not found any clear indication of short and medium term health hazards. On the other hand there is extensive literature (see "The Stewart Report" for a survey) on so-called non-thermal effects of weak microwave radiation on biological tissue in animal models or in-vitro, including affecting the growth of certain tumors, cell death, increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, DNA damage and others, which suggest the possibility of adverse health effects in humans.
The article goes on to discuss damage to corneas, acoustic neuroma (a type of brain tumor), and other issues, both thermal and non.
By the way, I have an aunt who used one of the old analog cell phones constantly for a years. She's undergoing radiation and chemotherapy right now and has had a few different tumors removed over the past 10 years. The cancer started as a pea-sized tumor above her right ear, exactly where she held the phone. Hopefully for her daughter and husband she survives, but she is absolutely miserable now.
I use a corded headset whenever possible with my cell now.
The thing is that there aren't enough teachers to be able to spend enough time with each student. A properly programmed computer (this is key) could provide very helpful stimulation while the teacher moves from student to student. Also, this could encourage a lot of exploration and curiosity versus simply learning what is currently being taught in school.
:-P).
This is not to say, of course, that simply throwing computers at children makes them learn to do anything better (besides dodge
How much would I get for it with the original discs but without the original box and manual? Would I get more than it costs to ship?
I never use eBay, but I've heard from many that the buyer pays shipping. This makes sense, as it gives the buyer the option of how much to pay and how fast they want it.
You could even order the books by ascending ISBN; that way, you have a globally unique ID for every book, without having to mark the books with another number. Also, this would remove the need for an extra primary key column. The only hitch is that now you need to store the number of copies of each book in each record (if you want to store that sort of thing).
If you know Python, TurboGears is a natural candidate for implementing something like this- it provides a nice framework, templating, and transparent DB access without writing a single line of SQL (through SQLObject). You can develop with a sqlite database (flat file or in-memory), then switch to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or a number of others later with little/no modification of code (the only thing I've been bitten by is naming things after MySQL reserved words while developing on sqlite).
I've set up a system kind of like this with code snippets; it uses tags to organize the snippets, then allows you to specify any combination of tags to require. So all Python snippets are tagged "python", everything that deals with SSL is tagged "ssl", and all my C code is tagged "c". If I want code that involves working with C and Python together, I search for "c python". If I want Python SSL code, I search for "python ssl". Couple that with versioning (and a colored diff output when you change something!) as well as a description field, and it's a pretty usable repository. It's nowhere near clean enough to release, but maybe it will see the light of day some time.
Eh... didn't Einstein work at the patent office?
I don't know if I understand this completely, but the article says that an object moving at a certain fraction of c emits an antigravity beam. It didn't say it doesn't emit the beam when nothing is in the line of site. The energy is already being lost, regardless of whether or not it pushes.
I'd be curious as to whether or not anti-gravitons (or whatever they call them) are emitted by low-speed objects. It's a quantum universe; generally, if it exists at a higher speed, it exists at a lower speed, just at a fantastically reduced rate. Look at Einstein's relativity equations; there's no "if" statement creating a threshold of where mass starts increasing and time starts dilating. When I drive down the freeway at 8.20140712 × 10^-8 of c (55 mph), time still dilates, and my car still gains mass, although infinitesimally.
Sure thing, here it is.
Ever seen WarGames? If you could bomb far-away targets in less than a second, that would make tactical nuclear strikes plausible again. It's called Mutually assured destruction.
Another possible use for this in weaponry might involve the new Chinese space program.
Several content providers (most often, but not exclusively, AOL) have been sued for content posted to their system. However, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects content distributors from being held liable for the content of postings made by users. It makes no mention of money; indeed, AOL charges its subscribers for access and has won numerous court cases on the basis of section 230.
:)
I feel so dirty... I just defended AOL and the CDA in a single post. Oh well...
I'm not exactly an expert on graphics cards, but don't most modern graphics cards provide acceleration for 2D as well, for things like scrolling and panning and such? Also, even if it doesn't, couldn't one write code that uses the 3D accelerator to render a single plane, emulating 2D much the same way as a sheet of paper emulates a 2D space in 3D space?
Sign seen today at Portillo's:
"Our studies indicate that you like fries and a drink with your meal.
Isn't research amazing?"
As far as desktop penetration, I'd have to concur. But Apache has eaten IIS for breakfast in the server market.
It's all good. All we need is a little nuclear winter to balance things out...
Sort of reminds me of a friend's house I was at. An electrician laid out his networking for him... ran all the cables and whatnot back to the wireless router... inside a metal box.
*slaps forehead*
This is what I think is one of the more interesting aspects of open source: the cross-pollenation that occurs, with a feature moving one place, mutating, then moving back into the original source. The whole thing smacks of memetics.
Plus de choses changent, plus qu'ils restent la même chose.
In case anyone was wondering, it means "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
Maybe they disabled everything except IE for security reasons...
*ducks*
Beanie babies and razors were definate fads though.
Am I the only one who got some really interesting mental imagery the first time reading this?