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> We've chosen a democratic process, which means that we've chosen in aggregate to be governed by whoever shows up.

I'm curious how you justify this claim. In what meaningful way has anyone chosen a democratic process? I certainly never chose it, and I've never been asked if I approve. I am occasionally given the "opportunity" to vote for one of a few candidates for various political offices, and there are sometimes even referenda, but I have no choice in the fact that this is how our government operates. If this were a dictatorship (as in, a single ruler has all government authority), would you also say that "we've chosen a dictatorship"?

You say that the democratic process is horrifying, and I agree, but I disagree that the people being governed have any role in choosing to be governed by this style of government even if we make the contentious assumption that they actually have a voice in the specific decisions the government makes. The "democratic government" that rules us (here, I'm referring specifically to the United States, but I suspect it holds for all Western democracies) maintains its power through systematic and unapologetic violence against anyone who challenges it, just like any other type of government. Of course, that last sentence is somewhat unnecessary, because that's built into the definition of "government."

I also completely disagree with your claim that flawed governments (and indeed governments at all) are a necessary cost of civilization, but that's a longer story that I may type when I have something other than an iPad. Suffice it to say that I agree that we should try to fix it, but I'm convinced that the only way to do so is from the outside. Because governments are by definition organizations which claim to be the sole legitimate purveyors of violence in a region, and claim to be self-policing, I do not believe it makes any sense to attempt to use the political process itself to change or fix them from the inside.
I doubt he actually intended to steal the laptops. Had he attempted to return them they would have caught on to his plan. It's unlikely that he would have taken them with him to Hong Kong as they would phone home.

They are probably sitting at his home just waiting for the NSA to pick them up.
First DNSimple and now Zerigo. I wonder if this is coordinated or if it's separate groups. In any case I'm glad I switched to Route53 a few weeks ago.
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It takes resources to create an illusion of knowing the future in front of someone who think he knows better.
This article doesn't describe what actually ended up happening. They didn't get any money as part of the auto bailout. They did get a loan the next year under a separate program that funded high-efficiency vehicles under DOE, but unlike the auto bailout they had to demonstrate financial solvency to be eligible, and Musk (granted, not a neutral observer) has said they didn't need the money to keep the doors open; it just allowed them to accelerate production of the model S. For what it's worth, they've already paid it all back, ahead of schedule.

In any event, given that they were neither the only green company to get loans under this program, nor the only car company to get loans of any kind in light of the bailout, this hardly strikes me as a "special deal from the government." The grant program existed, they applied for it, they got an award.
But they didn't? Google doesnt answer it remotely close to what I find by searching deeper with each.

It's so ambiguous at the google search engine can't answer it.
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Argh...I was just wondering what was going on. Route53 switch coming soon too!
Correct -- although louisiana is awesome for counterexamples to all sorts of legal assertions about the USA. I also pretty much stick to the 9th circuit states :)
I would like to volunteer to serve on his jury.
That's a non-sequitur to the debate about whether car companies should be forced to sell through third-party dealerships. Tesla already has dozens of showrooms across the country, and yes, they are Apple-Store-esque.
You trying to oversell something that already being stackoverflowed.
I still suggest you to get ISBN for that and publish it on Amazon and get rich by presenting yourself as a cloud computing expert.
No money to speak of could be made by selling tech ebook on AMZN services.
There is a difference between full protection (not being allowed to be fired) and not being convicted for 25-life under espionage act.

It would be insane to retain Snowden in his former role. He is an untrustworthy SCIF sysadmin. He might be worthwhile in the IG office or some public facing role, but I am fine if he is fired, clearance revoked, etc pre trial, even if his disclosures ultimately are positive and lead to legal changes and he isn't convicted.
Not to mention random pumps that you can never get to pump at full speed because they seem to fail to detect that the nozzle is in your tank's hole, or that click and stop every 3 seconds because the gas backs up because it doesn't flow down the tube fast enough.
I am still upset over the whole situation, more so now that the US has formally charged Snowden with espionage.

I have not personally talked to any of my friends about this but judging from my Facebook/Twitter stream, about 2-3 friends are actively posting about the NSA activities.
Red Cross lifesaving taught me a similar technique: approach the drowner from behind and underwater. You go under the water and feel your way up from his legs to the back of his thorax staying in contact. When you get to the surface you cross an arm over one shoulder and under the other and pull the drowner backward into a prone position face up. Surprisingly, once you've got a hold on someone in the water its easy to stay behind them no matter how they move.

I never gave much thought to the effect this might have in open water if the drowner did not see you approaching - suddenly something underwater is grabbing him and controlling his movement - Jaws!8-))
Because of the extreme difficulty in amending the Constitution like that, you might as well say that oppressed people in a totalitarian dictatorship could simply overthrow the dictator, and that therefore their government is also a choice. There are a lot more violent regime changes than there are amendments to the US Constitution.
The amazing part is that people without a Tesla think that the battery swap stuff is anymore than just window dressing. You charge the car at night and it is full every morning. The times you would use this are vanishingly few. Even on those occasions, unless I am in a huge, huge hurry, I would still take the supercharger over this option.
If the NSA is saying that all encrypted communication is automatically suspicious, then everyone should use encryption for all data they send over the internet.

Starting today, I am writing email encryption software that, when you send an email to someone else with the software installed, will automatically encrypt it on the way out, and automatically decrypt any encrypted messages on the way in. (A "zero user interface" once installed).

The intention is that this will allow people to encrypt their messages with zero effort on their part.

Initially it will encrypt email and will run on unixlike machines (Linux and Mac). Later it will run on all major platforms (Windows, iOS, Android) and have functionality for VoIP and social networking (the intention is to replace Skype and Facebook with secure alternatives).
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It would be very hard to terraform Mercury which makes it a bad candidate for the long run. It would be very hard, but Mars would be the best planet to terraform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
A high school student came up with just this idea which could to save airlines millions of dollars annually in tire repairs.

http://tires.about.com/b/2013/05/20/spin-doctor.htm
So we should just be happy and accept it, in other words?
I was upset to hear that the spying was actually taking place, and was not just a tinfoil-hat-based conspiracy.

One of my close friends has never used facebook, and grudgingly uses gmail for business but not personal email. He now feels justified in his choices. Another close friend has been calling me paranoid for years, and he's disinterested with the whole NSA mess except for partisan mudslinging.
The ambiguity is what makes it relevant to search.

What does a user mean if they enter [how many cars sold in a year?]

The ambiguity shows that the specific answer is less interesting than showing your working; having the discussion about how to get an answer.
Mr Aldrin is selling a book, so of course he has to say something ostentatious to draw attention to it.
Ex-Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling's sentence cut to 14 years
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So now is the time to identify the federal prosecutors who filed this and petition the government to have them fired.

For what, doing their jobs? Protest by all means, but demanding that prosecutors be fired for executing the law is just ridiculous.
False. The NSA already has 7 billion targets.
People just don't care - Facebook's changing privacy policies but continued popularity proves that. Taking someone's communications metadata doesn't appear to have any affect on their lives at all.

There's some vague tut-tutting, but most people know it was going on for years.

I live in Cheltenham, so I know many people who work for GCHQ, but they don't talk about it at all. I have no idea if they were aware of the scale and depth of intercepts.
Either indifferently, or else they blame it entirely on liberal corruption.

You can't really blame the public for putting it past them, as for the vast majority of people this is just another scandal playing out on television, not a sudden shock that impinges on the cycle of their lives.
This May was as warm as it was 15 years ago.

FTFY
I don't think terraforming is necessarily the best way to prioritize initial colonization. Access to food, energy, and other resources are what should be initially prioritized. This still means that Mars is an excellent candidate for colonization, because of proximity to the asteroids.
When we can pay for it in rainy day cash and aren't borrowing $20 a day for every taxpayer like we are now, dooming the kids, then I'll gladly support it.
At the tail end of the war, those Luftwaffe pilots were flying some pretty damn advanced planes, with some pretty awful inherent problems. But the follow on designs (Mig-15 et al) were in service for quite some time after the war. The rate of advance of German industry despite massive aerial assault and savage ground wars is fascinating. I recommend reading Gitta Sereny's biography of Albert Speer. Among other rather less impressive acts (extent debated, but likely involvement in genocide, definitely involved in slave labour organisation etc) he rearranged German industry such the production increases were occurring right up until the very final stages of the war. The major industrial output declined started about early '45 or late '44 from memory, which given the volume of allied bombs dropped speaks to German organisation, allied bomb accuracy, or both!
I'm assuming that the chartered yet ($240,000, yikes!) is necessary because there are no direct flights between Hong Kong and Iceland?

I mean, he still has to pass through Hong Kong passport control and everything on the way out, if he's doing this "legally" -- if they're publicly announcing something like this, then I assume the plan is not to smuggle him out.
Sure, if you are willing to do all of the computation on the client, and only use the server as a place to store an encrypted bag of bits.

If you have a sufficiently fast network connection (or enough local disk cache and the ability to predict what you will need before you drop off your high speed network access), that can work. But there will be a lot of things that you may have gotten accustomed to if you operate in such a paradigm.
The article says a 4% savings per year, after accounting for the additional weight of the motors. So yes, already thought out.
Well, if they do that, then we'll just have to start another petition. Or organize a protest. We'll have to do something to indicate that we won't stand for it. At the end of the day, they are employed by us.
It may be a matter of experience and perspective. I only discovered AWS about 9 months ago or so and Amazon Affiliate program two months ago. I figured how to do elastic servers by hacking around, but the other services are still beyond me, especially which ones I need and how to connect them to each other. I've read lots of stack exchange posts on how to do various subtasks like installing an SVN server, but I wouldn't mind paying to read a coherent presentation introducing the most relevant AWS services for my needs.

If you know of a thorough introduction to the use, caveats and good practices on AWS through stackexchange, please let this author know. So far I have only found thousands of Q & A, which is like eating ice cream with tweezers.

As far as OP goes, try to find folks like me who are starting small/home office businesses in niche markets and make your book part of a larger bundle of educational material on things like mailchimp, Quickbooks, etc. Also, typical marketing for products like this is to give away the first chapter for free.

Also, find blogs of people whose readers could use your ebook and write them each a personalized email saying quite simply, "I made this book. I think your readers might like it" and let them decide if they feel like writing about it. You'd be surprised how many influential people you can reach in 4-12 hours of searching for blogs and writing. Good luck! Also,

I see you link to menutail in your Profile. Get a link to your gumroad up there, pronto! Get it in your sig and in your email, too.

Also, start a blog in which you handle a new topic from the book in introductory depth each week. Venkatesh Rao did a good job promoting _Tempo_ this way and it can add value to the original material long after the publishing.
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It would be cool if it had batteries or APU on the cart to power the plane, too (AC, IFE, etc)
We got bit by the DNSimple outage so we switched to Zerigo. Glad I left DNSimple running as a backup!
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He's been calling for Mars colonization for, what, 40 years?
That could happen, but the scary thing to me is that you don't even have to be making disapproved speeches. You could be just living your life, and the wrong bureaucrat notices you doing the wrong thing, and your life is ruined. So I'm not really disagreeing, I'm saying that any one of us, speeches or not, could be hit by a legal lightning bolt.
I first read this article right around the time my son was born. I soon realized this is a really good mindset for supervising young children as well. If your kid is playing out of sight and you don't hear them for a while, go find them and see what they are doing.

"Listening for silence" is a really good skill to learn.
Maybe one day they can forget about landing gear and have airport based landing drones which fly up and attach under the plane. Less to go wrong on the plans and if airports have them, them certainly spares to cover situations. Though a long way from now still.

Would help too isolate a important system in a fuel effecient way with redundancy added in for landing. But when they put low priority entertainment systems in a position that worst case can effect critical systems does highlight the added risk of being able to watch a movie on the chair infront of you.
Clearly you are inexperienced in database design. There are plenty of explanations which if you had a clue would spring to mind.
Legal loopholes that allow GCHQ (UK) to spy on the world
Programming skill, knowledge, and working memory
I doubt your instructors would be happy to know they are helping you build something that you will get paid for. Sounds like a conflict of interest.
The guy was the "smartest guy" in the room. He's able to pay a fine of $40 million. He was an offshore accounts juggling inventor, he mentored ethics and craft to Wall Street and investment banking, who gave us 2008. What else available wealth does he have out there? How much does $40m "timed served" buy, and who did the selling?
Clojure on the front end
The first language is 90% of the effort, it's not super unusual to be proficient in a new language in six months (for a given value of proficient). While obviously there are new concepts (static typing, functional programming), the first language is definitely the hardest.
Most people don't care about anything if it doesn't immediately affect them. The fact some people smoke or have a terrible diet is proof of this. Objectively they know it's bad, but there aren't any real noticeable effects in the short term, so they don't bother trying to change anything. Everyone is susceptible to this, but I think it's worth the effort to avoid such a mindset.
>There are a lot of innate differences. But sometimes we observe a difference (say, gender distribution in graduate math) and we don't know why we observe

Do you have proof for this assertion?
Steam games launch as expensive as the retail counterparts because big chain stores like Gamestop Target and Walmart refuse to stock it if its launched digitally for less money. Also, there is no reason not to launch a digital product at an extremely high price point, because if you can get someone to buy it at $100 that is just $99.9 in profit.

If you are selling the game in stores, you have to pay for polycarbonate disks, the plastic packaging, shipping, stocking, store fees, you have to play international politics wherever you are selling it, you have to put up some advertising on site for the game, and that all does cost an actual sizable amount of money per copy compared to just having an FTP server grid pushing out copies of the game to people that clicked a button.

If the console market went pure digital, their per-unit costs would go to $0, so they could sell their games at whatever price they'd want, and fluctuate the price however they want. The shelf price can't change much besides slow discounts over a stock time and most games go off the shelves before they'd see any real discount. Online, a publisher can flick a switch across all distribution channels on what to sell the game for (assuming steam / gog / etc lets them) and have a new price overnight.

No, you can't assume a publisher would ever cut the cost of the game, but these people are in the business to make money and surely someone in each of these companies understands that to profit maximize they sell early for a lot and drop the price over time to get the most money out of the most people.

The only curveball in digital distribution to contend with is that you are always competing with free, because thanks to bittorrent someone else is always willing to send you the huge multi-gigabyte number of the game and pay the electric bill to transmit it. That naturally drives prices to $0, or in Steams case around $2 - $3 even for huge titles from 5 years ago.
It seems that all of the "major" marches, gatherings, etc. in history have all been events that took place in one location.

One that comes to mind is the Million Man March[0] on the National Mall in 1995. I'm not sure it would have had the same effects it did if it were 2,000 men here, 4,000 men here, and so on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March
Jefferson would have had each state be its own absolute arbiter of the Constitution, and free to ignore the Constitution if the state felt like doing so.

Ron Paul arguably holds the same views now (with his various attempts to make state actions immune from federal judicial review).

For both of them, history furnishes examples of why -- even if we hold that the Supreme Court and federal judicial review was a bad idea -- this is also a bad idea.
Airbus 320 pilot here. This is something I've wondered myself for a long time. This same idea of a electric motor on the wheels powered by the APU(auxiliar small turbine for electricity and air presure, is the loud noise you hear when boarding the plane), is what some other pilots and myself have talked about for a long time.
Just taking in to account that it makes you autonomous when pushing back and taxing, the long times you spend waiting for take of at the runway, it makes a lot of sense for this kind of planes that spend a lot of the daily time taxing on congested airports.
I don't know exactly the reason why it hasn't been done before, I don't think is a weight or technology reason. It surely has seated on a TODO list for a long time, just take into account that in aviation we are way behind in aplication of the latest technology. For example we are still using single chanel radio for comunications with control( this is terribly frustrating and ineficient, it's pretty common to have comunication jams due to excess of traffics on the same frequency).
Airplane computers even in new models are still 90s models (very slow but i suppose that stability is worth the boredom). There are a lot of other vintage technologies in aviation, after all every single release to production must be tested and approved by the FAA and EASA. It's the same for all major changes in systems and procedures. That makes all changes and improvements very slow and expensive.
The features of Qedit that I liked had more to do with editing functions and keybindings than suspending any processes, and running concurrent applications is sort of a non issue in BSD/Linux.

The default Qedit settings made columnar editing as easy as linear editing... You could copy/paste in a vertical manner, as well as the more normally seen horizontal method.
This facilitates ease of copying/pasting/deleting blocks of code without picking up, or affecting, other portions of code, whereas horizontal oriented block editing does not allow multi-line editing within set columns.
You get every column within a set of copied lines even though you only want a smaller block of text.

Perhaps emacs can do column based edits, or some other editor?
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You know what's terrifying to me about colonization? The chance of failure. It just seems...more probable. In the Americas there were numerous failed colonies. The Virginia company's Jamestown had half the colonist die in the first year, and 400 replacements came but by 1610 there were only 65 or so left alive. On Mars, there isn't a blade of grass, a gasp of air, and perhaps not many drinks of water waiting for us.

It'd be agonizing to read or watch daily reports (if we're allowed to see them) about colonists dying of starvation, thirst or asphyxiation (or something else!), one by one until the transmissions simply stopped. I know these are the risks but that doesn't lessen the dread when it happens.

One thing that reminds me is The Lady Be Good, a WW2 plane crashed in the Libyan desert. A few of the crew members wandered off. The co-pilot's last diary entry is kind of chilling (http://ladybegood.net/diaries/index.htm): " No help yet, very (unreadable) cold nite."
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"Installation instructions:

- No download necessary

- Create a file called GO.COM

- Done!"
There is a middle-ground. Something like MS Office's 'Ribbon UI' where they set out to minimize the interface while exposing features that were usually hidden deeply enough that users couldn't find them.
What he revealed is clearly unconstitutional. To say otherwise suggests that you lack basic reading comprehension or never had American history taught in 5th grade or middle school.

(...Or that our teachers taught us lies on purpose, I guess... rolls eyes)
Ahh, this is just a simple bug in the command-not-found package that makes those recommendations when you type in a missing binary, not an underlying problem with the entire philosophy of splitting pacakges!