Jon Stewart äger Dick Cheney (fantastiskt)
Jag har alltid gillat Jon Stewart,och han gör ett fantastiskt jobb här med ämnet Dick Cheney, och dennes manövrar vad gäller hemlighetsmakeri
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?ml_video=89061
Jag har alltid gillat Jon Stewart,och han gör ett fantastiskt jobb här med ämnet Dick Cheney, och dennes manövrar vad gäller hemlighetsmakeri
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?ml_video=89061
Visits: hmmm, 13,000 stores, how many customers per hour, per day, per week go into those stores? How many repeat visits? How many minutes per visit? I'm not going to do that math. I don't think Starbucks can hold up to Facebook or MySpace, but they get a lot of visits. * Email * Print * Comment Conversions: Wow! On the Web we look for conversions as percentages of one percent, but the Starbucks conversion rate has to be 80-90% or more, right? What percent of the visitors to Starbucks actually spend money?
According to Syrian sources, passengers flying out of Damascus airport from last Tuesday to Thursday were sent home by authorities because of an alleged general breakdown. The cancellation of all the flights was rather due to the fact that a massive airlift between Tehran and Damascus was under way and needed to proceed with the utmost discretion. Six planes flew round the clock between the two capitals to bring in weapons and Revolutionary Guards to the Syrian capital. These men and weapons are going to be sent to Lebanon to help Hezbollah prepare for another war.
Such an all-out satellite war would render space useless for decades to come. "There'd be so much debris up there," Clark says, "that it wouldn't be safe to put anything up in space." The United States and Russia, the two countries with proven ASAT capabilities, have long steered clear of satellites as military targets. Even during the Cold War spy sats were hands-off; the consequences of destroying them were greater than those of unwelcome surveillance. "The consensus," Clark says, "was that anybody could look at anybody else."
Key to GRC’s process is a machine that uses 1200 different frequencies within the microwave range, which act on specific hydrocarbon materials. As the material is zapped at the appropriate wavelength, part of the hydrocarbons that make up the plastic and rubber in the material are broken down into diesel oil and combustible gas.
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At this time, I cannot recommend purchase of any machines based on the Intel Core 2 until these issues are dealt with (which I suspect will take more than a year). Intel must be come more transparent.
Och dessutom:Some of these bugs are along the lines of "buffer overflow"; where
a write-protect or non-execute bit for a page table entry is ignored.
Others are floating point instruction non-coherencies, or memory
corruptions -- outside of the range of permitted writing for the
process -- running common instruction sequences.
- All of this is just unbelievable to many of us.
As I said before, hiding in this list are 20-30 bugs that cannot be
worked around by operating systems, and will be potentially
exploitable. I would bet a lot of money that at least 2-3 of them
are.
Succeeding in the Global Economy: A New Policy Agenda for the American Worker, a study commissioned by the Financial Services Forum, illustrates the tremendous economic gains that free trade and globalization have generated for the United States and the world while offering a compelling new agenda of policy ideas to help ensure that Americans share more equitably in the benefits of globalization.
Click here for a fact sheet outlining the highlights of the report(.pdf)
Click here for the full report (.pdf)
Click here to listen to a recording of the press conference with Forum CEO Donald L. Evans and the report's authors
The extent of the funding is quite eye-opening: the article reports that the average payment to each psychiatrist in Vermont last year was over $45,000 dollars.
In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software -- which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Ten days later, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) He also demos Dollar Street, a program that lets you peer in the windows of typical families worldwide living at different income levels. Be sure to watch straight through to the (literally) jaw-dropping finale.
For starters, evo-devo researchers are finding that the evolution of complex new forms, rather than requiring many new mutations or many new genes as had long been thought, can instead be accomplished by a much simpler process requiring no more than tweaks to already existing genes and developmental plans. Stranger still, researchers are finding that the genes that can be tweaked to create new shapes and body parts are surprisingly few.
Gheorghe and Vamanu have carried out an analysis of just how easy it could be to knock out strategic satellites, their findings suggest that dozens of systems on which military and civilian activities depend make near-space a vulnerable environment. The team used a so-called "mathematical game" and textbook physics equations for ballistics to help them build a computer model to demonstrate that anti-satellite weaponry is a real possibility.
President George W. Bush's top advisers are considering a recommendation to speed up the process of closing the American detention unit for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to administration officials familiar with the deliberations.
Harvard’s Pinker figures that we can simultaneously believe in a fully caused human being and an ethical system that holds people responsible for their actions by imagining ethics as a “game” that it is useful for us to play for social purposes. In How the Mind Works, he writes that “the ethics game treats people as equivalent, sentient, rational, free-willed agents, and its rules are the calculus that assigns moral value to behavior through the behavior’s inherent nature or its consequences. Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics game playable.” The results of that game, he concludes, “can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events.”Och det är väl ett rimligt sätt att se det på, om man skulle nå fram till att förstå hjärnan så grundligt. Fast jag tror inte man når dit.
Läs mer: Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers
As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season.
“In growth regressions that include only robust control variables, IQ is statistically significant in 99.8% of these 1330 regressions, and the IQ coefficient is always positive. A strong relationship persists even when OECD countries are excluded from the sample. A 1 point increase in a nation’s average IQ is associated with a persistent 0.11% annual increase in GDP per capita.”
J. William Leonard, director of the oversight office, has argued in a series of letters to Addington that the vice president's office is indeed such an entity. He noted that previous vice presidents had complied with the request for data on documents classified and declassified, and that Cheney did so in 2001 and 2002. But starting in 2003, the vice president's office began refusing to supply the information. In 2004, it blocked an on-site inspection by Leonard's office that was routinely carried out across the government to check whether documents were being properly labeled and safely stored.
TA-CD, the cocaine vaccine, works through a series of injections over a three-month period. Study participants began to respond favorably to the vaccine after about a month. TA-CD has one more large scale human study scheduled before it is ready for the FDA approval process. “The vaccine slowly decreases the amount of cocaine that reaches the brain,” Kosten said. “It’s a slow process, and patients do not go through any significant withdrawal symptoms.”
Det här kan bara gå åt helvete. Snubbarna bakom piratebay har gjort en tjänst, bayimg, där vem som helst kan ladda upp vilka bilder som helst. Där finns material från t ex himmelska fridens torg.
Men, den här kommer ju också att användas till annat. Det kommer att hagla förtalsmål, osv mot dem. De tar bara emot bilder som är lagliga, skriver de, men det kommer att krävas omöjliga resurser för att hålla efter det.
Fast det är klart, de kanske försöker hitta en nisch (nisch och nisch) som dem som visar allt som är lagligt. Många andra sajter har ju extra krav.
Det är väl bara att ta fram popcornen, luta sig tillbaka och bevittna fyrverkeriet.
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The competition clause had been mentioned in the European treaties since the very first founding document was signed in 1957. Officials and experts now fear its loss could weaken the commission's role as an antitrust watchdog and a controller of "national champions."Det här är inte inte inte bra.