OK, I'll volunteer to set up the crash dummy, but then I'm leaping out of the way.
This rich guy has usurped a slice of the right of The People's Representatives to best serve The People by just handing that responsibility over to the ilk of Bill Gates. Bill Gates!
There's a big slice...
The problem with Social Security was much larger than that.
The problem was that the bonds were self-bonds. If the bonds were liabilities on some third party's books, then they would have been actual assets for the gov't Trust fund.
The flaw was that they were self-bonds; promises for the...
Right. But how do they control 'The' Economy?
THis is inherent in our complaint; if 'the' economy is not producing enough 'good' jobs, then the fault is with the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, which is falling down in its implied role of running our Centrally Planned Economy...
Skyhunter,
Maybe, maybe I am grasping. I admit that I am biased in my beliefs about the drivers of climate.
The Suns output is a direct driver; we can't obviously change that. The Earth's albedo is also a direct driver. Try as we might to change the Triple point of water, it is what it is...
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_untersteiner.html [Broken]
The uncertainites in the measurements exceed 1%, which is greater than the calculated effect. In otherwords, we are measuring differences in large quantities with a ruler marked off only in units of 'feet' and noting as significant...
http://www.nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
We know that our little top is precessing.
We know that we are spinning through our galaxy.
We know the Sun cycles.
We know the Earth's orbital parameters jiggle.
We know when we track satellites around our won earth, we are forever jacking with...
It's the same old dance around the volcano political leg lifting crap. "The Gods are angry, better do what we say."
1] We're absolutely sure that Global Warming is occurring, absolutely. All the scientists agree.
2] Late breaking news. This just in. We're absolutely sure that GLobal...
I don't get the message of the video. What does spraying tags/garbage on other people's property have to do with freedom of speech?
"Duuudddeee...man, it's all about the freedom...man..."
You're exactly right we work best when we work together. However, IMV a welfare state is not about working together, not all it. It is about the guns of government pointing at everybody and telling them, 'You must care about every living human being on the planet, sans judgement or choice or...
A yes, the great Society; something that is bigger than us all. Aka, the modern version of God. 'It is for the Good Of Society/God That I get to Drive your Skin..."
America is already at the point where the poorest of our poor live nothing like the average person in places like Bangladesh...
russ,
100% agreed.
We could complell our children to work hard in school. But..
Let's not do THAT. Instead, ...
Let's demonize business, capitalism, industry.
Let's support, tolerate a culture that calls kids who give a rats ass about their effort in school, 'nerds.'
Let's...
The steel industry--a great example. Literally, folks got paid tons of money to do absolutly nothing.
In order to support that immense gradient of 'steel' created at a steel plant, there must exist other massive gradients of steel consumption. But face it, an America that put its last star on...
In the context of this thread, it also indicates that we can 'fix' this issue by an increased reliance on foreign technologists, to wit, the ones that at least 'half' of those degrees 'produced' at American Universities have created.
Well d'uh; what do folks think we've been doing for the...
America, with 300 million people, hands out only 5% of its undergraduate degrees in science and engineering...and half of those go to foreign nationals.
China, with a billion or so, hands out over 72% of its undergraduate degrees in science and engieering.
So, 15 years from now, who the...
Indeed, I would have much preferred to have used Eagle; I have been messing around with it recently--building my own amplifier for fun, it's going to be huge. Unfortunatly, this was for a class and I had very little freedom.
Anyway, thanks for you help everyone, the PCB worked out fine.
mugsby,
Thanks, I just fixed those problems
And no offense taken, actually that is exactly what I wanted to hear. I'm really not too concerned with design etiquette, I'm sure I've followed none of it, I simply need it to work. Although, I think I will take you up on your advice, I would...
Doesn't look like it. I went through the menu and help. Considering the last update for this program was moving from DOS to Windows I don't think it has many functions at all.
It certainly wasn't my choice to use this program, from talking to other Engineers I've heard Eagle come up a few...
Alright, so I made my first PCB using CIRCAD '98. I went through it a couple times, found a couple overlapping traces, but I always miss something.
I was wondering if you guys wouldn't mind taking a look at it before I send it off to be printed.
PCB...
Ok what I mean is, it's always been loose, but even now, as we speak, the nation is clamboring to get rid of all the lip service 'red tape.'
What do we think is going to happen in this circumstance? The cronies and crooks and gladhanders are all of the sudden going to wax apologetic and turn...
I would give little credit to the government, and more the people of Florida who know from experience how to deal with hurricanes.
There are lots of places in the US where flooding is an annual event.
(Some will not dispute that)I grew up in one of them; an island in the middle of a river...
I don't expect much from the government, except to screw the pooch.
On the average, we're still ... average, not superhuman.
What we can expect is that our own expectations , on average, of what gov't can and should do for us will render what gov't actually can do for us forever and...
Typical Western thought; disconnected from reality, IMHO.
Before I start I will say that Bangladesh is not representative of the entire Islamic world. It is nothing like ... Kuwait, or Bahrain. It(former East Pakistan)is more like 'Pakistan', except even poorer(if that is possible)and wetter...
The Evidence that 300 million Americans were warned, publicly, aggressively, vehemently, at gov't expense
here
So, what was missing was GWB knocking on everyone's doors and saying, "the weather weeinies that we pay to figure this **** out at the NHC really mean it, folks, stop staring at...
Really? I've read some studies too, seemed mostly like junk to me.
Do you remember seeing statements of uncertainty with all these precise 'measurements' of global warming, cooling, whatever? Seldom, never.
It's one thing to attempt to integrate out space born satellite...
Maybe, but I doubt too many people in Georgia would advocate declaring a religious war on New York because of it.
Folks surely have the right to express their offense towards this cartoon, or any cartoon for that matter. I always though Ren&Stimpy was pretty vile. But if that expression is...
I think most are happy with the outcome, I don't think there could have been a better one.
I for one welcome the new Conservative MINORITY government.
I can live with a Harper led guv, as long as it's minority.
I disagree.
1] 'StartOffFrom': Merely potential members of the future generation have rights that the present generation claims it must consider/defend.
2] Proceed to: It is not possible to proceed from the subset 'potential member of future generation' to 'actual member of present...
I don't think that is what she was saying, I think she was speaking more of individual rights. American limited constitutional republican democracy is all about limiting the power of the mob, and is cornerstoned on an individual bill of rights.
America/Western Society is the first glimpse at...
I agree with the latter; I have my reasons why I don't feel abortion should be made illegal, but abortion is hardly some Holy freedom individual right. It is, at its base, simply the strong(ie. the mob) beating up on the weak(any one of us).
The key to trumping the temporal bias dilemma is to...
I didn't make any decision except to abort my youngest son, it was only the then failure of science that let him slip by.
Look, nobody 'wants' that for their kids. It's the most human of urges.
But, when it comes to natural selection and evolution and so on, we're very good about all that...
From what I understand, we're ****ed no matter what.
I think the most important thing is that a message is sent to Liberal party, by the people, that they can't get away with everything. The problem is that involves voting for someone else, and it just so happens that everyone else is a...
Nonsense. I was that person, looking to abort anything less than the best possible, to avoid a problem that could have been avoided, and it was only an accident of technology that let my youngest son slip through the gauntlet I had set in his way, and he showed up with his 1:20000 genetic...
We have decided that.
The big question is why?
If you believe, as I do, that we in fact must actually consider the rights of future generations, even as a trust, then why?
Why must we consider the rights of future unborn generations, even if we considere them only in the sense of...
Fair enough. But, the question is does potentual life have rights?
I mean, it's OK that we 'care' about future generations, and are concerned for them, and all of that, but when it comes to legislation and rights and judicial matters and so on, there is no basis for 'rights' that must...
Abortion is not an individual right, it is a mob right.
The Jungle's strongest of the strong--the mob/group/tribe, gets to run roughshod over the Jungle's weakest of the weak--any one of us. Eaons ago, for survival. Then...for the slightly more vaporous 'general welfare.' Then...for the even...
Our current military advantage is founded on about three things; a] our past advantage in tech, b] the yet remaining area under a fast fading historical curve, a happenstance of the residue of the last world war, and c] the world's willingness to finance our debt and let us spend at WWII levels...
And you think that is a problem?
Here is your life, and here is my life. Here are the reasons why you shoud abdicate some/any control over your life to be disposed of as I see fit. 'Voluntarily' has nothing at all to do with the concept of polite politics, because you/I don't even have to...
I recall reading that they were also carrying a home made explosive device, I think a pipe-bomb.
I do feel that one source of these actions is anger due to the mistreatement of those around them. But there is also the massive glorification of becoming a martyr that seems to exist within the...
Bilal,
I do my best to remain as unbiased as possible when it comes to the whole Palestinian-Israeli issue. But I am widely effected by what I read and hear and see.
I do know that what you claim is factually incorrect, and I know it just from memory. A few names come to mind, Husam Abdu...
In order to answer that we'll have to dance in front of the 'it's the health of the gov'ts books that drives the private sector' volcanoe once again.
Gov't needs to balance its books? Add revenue, cut spending. Of course, not even singularity driven Economics courses argue that 'companies'...
Then why was the coverup not trumped at full volume? What is the point of making a cover-up and then hiding it from everyone? Clearly the fact that he was set up is quite the burried piece of information by the IDF.
Maybe, you're right I just can't see the logic in it. I think its much more...
Black Sheep of Canadian Whiskey, born of cold, hoary nights, when men struggled to keep their fires lit and their cabins warm.
100 proof.
I'm not ashamed to admit all of that is from memory.
A little sweet, which explains why adding Rose's sweetened Lime juice to it to make a 'Snake...
There is no doubt that the modelers are simple, and there is no doubt that the models are simpler. I'm just not convinced that the reality is simpler.
Let's objectively look at one such model; the LTCM fiasco. What did these Nobel Prize winners do with all those even 'mildly' complicated...
I would have to vote for liberty.
When the questions, "Why are we here?" and "What should we do now?" are raised in any instance of a society holding power, which all mobs do by their nature, it is one thing when those questions are raised in the context of the local example of a society and...
Yes, my mistake. It was in the Gaza strip, but it was during the Days of Penitence operation which took place after rocket attacks were launched from Gaza into Sderot (two child fatalities, b.t.w.). I believe buffer zones were marked and set up in Gaza.
...I did?
I have no doubt that...
But charged with what? If we are not talking about his set-up, ie a bloodthirst baby killer who rammed 17 bullets into the body of a fleeing little girl, then his action of shooting the girl was following an unfortunatly necessary policy. There have been over 200* suicide bombing attempts...