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The O'Reilly Factor (also often known as The Factor or The No-Spin Zone) is a Fox News television show hosted by conservative political commentator Bill O'Reilly. This show as of August 2011 is the highest-rated show in cable news. The show features O'Reilly (or a guest host, usually Laura Ingraham or Juan Williams) and guests discussing major issues of that day.
The show has many segments, which some have been discontinued.
- Talking Points Memo- A daily segment where O'Reilly discusses a key issue in current events with his words appearing as a side note on the screen.
- Top Story- Usually, O'Reilly has guests discuss the issue brought up in the previous Talking Points Memo section
- Personal Story- O'Reilly invites someone who wrote a bestselling book, or has made the news in some way, or who has interviewed a newsmaker
- Miller Time- A Wednesday segment where O'Reilly invites regular guest comedian Dennis Miller on the show. The discussion is generally a lighthearted one on several issues, accompanied with visual gags and movie clips.
- Barack and a Hard Place- Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes discuss issues related to Barack Obama with O'Reilly
- Watter's World- Jesse Waters goes out every other Monday and interviews younger people on a current issue
- Pinheads and Patriots- Daily segment at the end of the program where people in the news are decided if they had done something good (patriot) or bad (pinhead).
- Factor Viewer Mail-O'Reilly reads bits of emails at the end of the program, often ones that have contrasting viewpoints on the last show
- Word of the Day- At the last minute of the program, O'Reilly picks an obscure word to challenge the viewer to know or look up


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Magellan Debuts eXplorist Angler and Pro Angler Special Editions to Give Fisherman a Total Fishing Solution
SANTA CLARA, CA – Magellan, a leader of innovative GPS devices for vehicles, fitness, outdoor and mobile navigation, today announced its new Magellan® eXplorist® 310 Angler and eXplorist 510 Pro Angler Editions to provide fishing enthusiasts a total fishing solution with top-quality U.S. lakes data and other valuable fishing content plus Magellan eXplorist Outdoor GPS receivers.
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Both Magellan eXplorist Special Editions offer a complete fishing solution including select models of Magellan's rugged, waterproof, handheld eXplorist GPS receivers with sunlight-readable screens, and Fishing Hot Spots' extensively-researched U.S. lakes maps and fishing information. To help anglers get the most from their fishing trips, Fishing Hot Spots' content includes detailed lake profiles with shoreline characteristics, size, depth, contours, and submerged cover/vegetation. Additionally, lake-specific tips and techniques help the angler identify the fish species, seasonal fishing patterns and the best baits and lures to use for the greatest success. Fishing points-of-interest and other interesting fishery data are also included to inform anglers about where particular fish are typically found, primary species and average sizes, tackle techniques and stocking practices.
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Jackie Cook scored 21 points Thursday as the Old Dominion women earned a split of the season series with William and Mary, beating the Tribe 75-64 at Constant Center to avenge a surprising defeat in Williamsburg earlier this year.
Shae Kelley had 17 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and three steals for the Lady Monarchs (18-9, 9-6 Colonial Athletic Association). Emily Correal led the Tribe (6-19, 4-10) with 26 points, eight rebounds and four steals. But Kelley's layup with 10:49 left gave ODU the lead for good at 52-50.
More CAA women
James Madison (18-8, 12-2) remained alone in second place to Delaware, overwhelming Towson 79-45 in Harrisonburg as redshirt freshman Jazmon Gwathmey shot 8-for-8 from the field and scored 17 points. ...
Hollie Mershon scored 26 as Drexel (18-7, 11-3) beat George Mason 57-46 in Philadelphia. Bethel High alumna Amber Easter had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for the Patriots (8-17, 3-11), who couldn't overcome their 19-point first half.
ACC women
Virginia (15-11, 7-8) squandered an 11-point lead and lost 64-62 at Clemson (8-18, 4-11). The Cavaliers were playing without Kelsey Wolfe, who will miss the rest of the season with an injured anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, which she suffered Sunday against Maryland.
All-CIAA women
Chowan senior and Hampton High alum Talaya Lynch was named to the All-Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association team. Lynch is averaging a team-high 14.7 points per game.
ODAC women
No. 3 seed Virginia Wesleyan sank 12 3-pointers as it beat No. 6 Shenandoah 60-47 in the day's last quarterfinal of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament at Salem Civic Center.
Kelly Jones scored 18 points for the Marlins (18-8), who advanced to play No. 2 Guilford on Saturday. The Quakers beat No. 7 Randolph-Macon 76-48 behind Gabby Oglesby totaled 14 points and 11 rebounds, giving them their 14th victory in 15 games.
No. 1 seed Eastern Mennonite and No. 5 Lynchburg won in the day's first session and will face each other Saturday.
Keyla Baltimore scored 16 points as EMU (19-5) beat No. 8 Washington and Lee 68-58. W&L's Katy Wilson had 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Shannon Allan had 15 points and 12 rebounds as Lynchburg ousted No. 4 Bridgewater 51-47, giving the Hornets their first semifinal berth since 1990.
More women
Marshall (9-16, 3-9 Conference USA) beat East Carolina 72-60 in Huntington, W.Va., capitalizing on the Pirates' 34-percent shooting. Celeste Stewart had 13 points for the Pirates (18-7, 8-4). ...
Liberty (21-6, 13-2 Big South) earned its 10th consecutive road victory, dominating UNC Asheville 75-43 behind Tolu Omotola's 14 points and Devon Brown's 13.
The Flames haven't lost a road game since No. 1 Baylor beat them Nov. 23. ...
Dequesha McClanahan scored 28 points to help Winthrop beat Longwood 78-46 in Rock Hill, S.C., despite Crystal Smith's 16 points for the Lancers (9-17, 6-9 Big South).
Devon Saddler scored 31 points as Delaware (15-13, 10-5) enhanced its tenuous hold on second place in the CAA with a 73-71 double-overtime home win over Drexel (11-16, 7-8).
Dragons coach Bruiser Flint wildly protested the lack of a foul call on Drexel's final missed shot. ...
Mathiang Muo shot 7-of-7 from 3-point range and scored 23 points as host Charleston Southern (16-9, 11-3 Big South) cruised past VMI 92-69. The Keydets, despite 16 points from Norfolk Academy grad D.J. Covington, fell to 11-15, 6-8.


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Letter of the Day
'The system is wrong'
I am sick at heart upon hearing of the death of Horsley Shorter Jr., the manager of a Family Dollar Store in Tampa. The accused killer, Demetrius Parks, has an extensive criminal record. According to your newspaper, he is only 23 and has a record of 37 felonies and 25 misdemeanor charges! He was released from prison on March 31 and had been arrested four times since then. One of the charges was being a felon in possession of a firearm. Why had he been allowed to walk free? Why wasn't he at least on probation? This man is a career criminal. He should never be allowed to walk free again. The system is wrong. It should not be the "criminal justice" system. They have broken laws and should be punished.My heartfelt sympathy to Mr. Shorter's family. I hope they get justice, but at what cost? Carol Willey Lake Placid
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Grand Junction, Colo. (KKCO) - How much plastic do you use in your everyday life?
It's something we don't often think about, but it was on the forefront of everyone's mind at a screening of "Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic?" at Colorado Mesa University Tuesday night.
The award-winning documentary begins with a single plastic bag from the grocery and evolves into a film about how much plastic is in our world and how little we think about the impact of this "all too disposable product."
Organizers say the goal of the film is to inspire people to find better ways to use the product.
They are encouraging people to use plastics that are recyclable.
One big environmental issue is that there are tons of plastic products, wraps, bags, etc. being produced everyday in the United States.
"These are all products of a one time use only plastic cup, or plastic bottle that is designed to be used one time, and ends up staying in our eco-system for a millennium," said Tom Acker, a Peace & Justice board member.
The showing was free. After the film ended, the floor was open for a discussion on the topic.


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New York Lizards at Hamilton Nationals
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Ron Joyce Stadium, Hamilton, ON
7:00 p.m. EST
TV: YouTube (Exclusive)
Hamilton's strong offensive output against Boston in their season debut last weekend led them to a 1-0 record, while the New York Lizards currently sit at 1-1 following a loss to the defending champion Chesapeake Bayhawks last week. Both teams look to be strong contenders for a title this year, and to this point have both been playing with under-manned rosters, so it's safe to say that fireworks may be inescapable in this contest.
New York Game Notes
When They Last Met
August 11, 2012: Long Island – 8, Hamilton – 18 (Three Lizards, including Stephen Peyser, tallied three points; Rhys Duch and Cody Jamieson had 7 and 5 points, respectively, for Hamilton)
New York Lizards
After making a number of moves in the offseason that made them one of the best MLL squads (at least on paper), the Lizards are sitting at .500 to start their season. New York's offensive line-up has been completely different in both contests this season, which head coach Joe Spallina attributes to their shakiness thus far. Against Hamilton, the Lizards will look to give MLL Fans what they've come to expect given their status as top contenders.
· "I think you're going to see more of what people would have expected from us. Maybe not completely top to bottom, but there's a good chance you're going to see a couple different attackmen, there's a good chance you're going to see a couple different midfielders" Spallina said.
· Those pieces of that will be joining the squad this week will be NLL Rookie of the Year Mark Matthews and the returning Stephen Peyser, plus a couple of other dynamic pieces to the Lizards puzzle. Despite their performance last week, which put a blemish on their record, Spallina isn't worried.
· "I'm pretty sure in the history of the league no one's ever gone undefeated," said Spallina. It's noting that last year's champions, the Bayhawks, did not even have the best regular season record; that distinction went to the Denver Outlaws.
Hamilton Nationals
Following a successful 2013 debut for the Hamilton Nationals, preparation for the match-up against New York began. Their game plan, however, may have to include an approach that doesn't include some of their top stars still playing indoors. In carrying over the positives from their win over the Boston Cannons, Hamilton will also have to make sure they don't over-exert themselves against a tough Lizards team that are hard to score against.
· "Hopefully we can carry some of the good things we did in the Boston game into New York. They've always been a tough team for us to play against, and we still have a lot of things to work on. So hopefully we clean a few things up this week and play a little better, and hopefully if we play a little better each week that usually works out well" head coach Dave Huntley said on Wednesday.
· Against imposing figures like Drew Adams in goal and Greg Gurenlian on the face-offs, Hamilton faces a tall task in mounting any sort of offense against New York. Their intent on winning may not be based on staying offensive, but rather as a defensive unit.
· "We want to play team defense, and we don't really want to have guys feel like if they get beat it's their fault. We really do want to defend at seven, and we want to play offense at six. That's what our guys told me they wanted to do when I reached out to them when I got hired; they wanted to be a team and not 19 individuals or 25 individuals, depending on which way you look at it. So that's the approach: to support each other" Huntley said.


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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
| Some dare call it
|What THEY don't want
you to know!
|Sheeple wakers
| Fiction over fact
|How it didn't happen
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a faked booklet written by Mathieu Golovinski, a French-Russian Okhrana operative. It purports to detail the agenda for a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, including how to control the media, the banks, and the government. The Protocols have been the basis for innumerable anti-Semitic tracts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, most notably Henry Ford's The International Jew and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. The Nazis heavily promoted the booklet to justify oppression of the Jews and the Holocaust.
Despite being shown to be a hoax as far back as 1921,[1] it is still distributed and believed by people who swallow whatever fiction fits with their racist views.[2] In addition to its exposure as a forgery (by journalist Philip Perceval Graves of The Times) in 1921, a pamphlet containing three essays by Lucien Wolf called The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs debunking the Protocols was released in the same year.[3] A Swiss judge ruled the pamphlet to be a forgery in a 1935 decision in a case known as the Berne trial.[4]
The origin of the Protocols can possibly be traced back to the time of the French Revolution; in 1797, a French Jesuit, Abbe Barruel, published a treatise blaming the Revolution on a Masonic conspiracy. He was influenced in this by an anti-Masonic mathematician. Barruel did not himself blame the Jews. However, in 1806, Barruel circulated a forged letter, probably sent to him by anti-Semitic members of the state police, claiming a Jewish role in the supposed conspiracy.[5]
The main text of the Protocols was created by Golovinski in 1897, at the request of Piotr Rakhkovsky, head of the Okhrana's French section. Rakhkovsky, jealous of Sergei Witte, a (relatively) liberal policy-maker who had the Czar's ear, wanted to gain his attention by somehow proving that liberalism and modernism were Jewish plots. After hitting on the idea of writing a fake "transcript" of the events at the First Zionist Congress at Basel, he contacted Golovinski, then living in exile in Paris, and asked him to write this "transcript".
The document was shown to the Czar by Sergius Nilius, a Rasputin-type "mystic" (self-proclaimed). The document formed of a section of his magnum opus, a fantastically insane work titled The Great Within the Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer. The Czar swallowed the manuscript, Witte fell out of favour, and the rest is history.
N.B: Much of the material for the Protocols was lifted from Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a French satirical pamphlet, written by Maurice Joly, in 1864. This work was intended as a satire and protest of Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon) and his regime, and had no racial or religious theme. Dialogue itself may have plagiarized an even earlier work attacking the Jesuits. The plagiarism, as well as historical background on the Protocols and its influence, is described in detail in Will Eisner's graphic novel The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Current use[edit]
Anti-Semitic groups have been pushing the book, and it is still in print, even promoted by such conspiracy-minded folks like Texe Marrs,[6] and (until his imprisonment) Kent Hovind.[7]
On his album Extremist Won, Carl Klang, self-described as "America's #1 Patriotic Singer", recorded the song "The News Behind the News" which deals with the Protocols, calling them "the blueprint to the downfall of our nation".[8]
David "Thelizardsdidit" Icke (described as a "fucking loon" by Cracked)[9] "declared that the Protocols of Zion is evidence not of a Jewish plot, but of a reptilian plot of Illuminati lizards", according to Jon Ronson, writing in The Grauniad.[10]
The Protocols are also regularly used as evidence of a Jewish conspiracy in the Islamic world: Hamas, for example, cites the text in its charter.[11]
It has three-and-a-half out of five stars on Amazon.[12]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Translation of the Protocols by Victor Marsden
- Dialogue in Hell online text (English)
- Protocols Project page at UC Santa Barbara
- Cohn, Norman. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish world-conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. London: Serif, 1996.
- ↑ in The Times of London; this is a transcript
- ↑ a Google search of this title brings up, in second place, a site that accepts the Protocols as true.
- ↑ Lucien Wolf. The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs (or, The Truth About the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion). New York: McMillan, 1921. (Public domain.)
- ↑ Papers regarding the Bern trial, further commentary by Leslie Fry and Larry Ray.
- ↑ The Nizkor Project
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ If you really want to read the lyrics, they're here: http://web.archive.org/web/20050208055300/http://www.klang.com/lyrics/thenews.htm . You can also hear the song here, if you're truly curious: http://youtu.be/hR6WcjwH6ok .
- ↑ 5 Pathetic Groups That People Think Rule The World, Cracked
- ↑ John Ronson. Beset by Lizards, The Guardian. Published 17 March 2001.
- ↑ http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Protocols-Elders-Zion-Sergei-Nilus/dp/1512383252/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468858131&sr=1-3&keywords=protocols+of+the+elders+of+zion


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In religious mythology, a physical or spiritual realm where people exist after they die if they have followed the instructions of their belief system. For example, certain sects of Christianity believe that the only requirement to enter heaven is accepting Jesus as your savior, while others believe that keeping the Ten Commandments, doing good works, confessing sins, and/or a number of other requirements must also be met.
The concepts of heaven and hell are the basis for Pascal's Wager.
Heaven and Hell are frequently used to reconcile the inability for humanity to mete out justice during corporeal life. The idea is that even if one can get away with violating human laws, a divine witness/victim/judge/jury/executioner will ensure that no one can avoid perfect justice.
Christian Heaven
Christians believe that if one confesses their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their savior, then they will be saved and they will enter heaven when they die. They also believe that once they die on earth, their bodies will be transformed and they will enter heaven with "glorified bodies". This idea comes from a number of biblical passages including Philippians 3:20-21, "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body" (1). Theologian N.T. Wright further explains, "Paul speaks of "the redemption of our bodies" (Rom. 8:23)…he means: God's people are promised a new type of bodily existence…The rest of the early Christian writings, where they address the subject, are completely in tune with this" (2). Once they receive their glorified bodies and enter heaven, they will live in harmony with the Lord for eternity (3).
1. Philippians 3:20-21. The Holy Bible. New International Version.
2. Wright, N.T. "Heaven Is Not Our Home." Christianity Today. 52, no. 4, April 2008, 36-39.
3. John 11:25-26. The Holy Bible. New International Version.


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And since when does "consensus" mean anything in science?
Well, outside of subjects where it's heresy to even attempt to falsify any claims, anyway...
Consensus is something the vast majority (of experts in a field, in this case) agree on. For instance, there is consensus among biologists that the organisms of today evolved from organisms that existed in the past.
Falsifying claims is the worst thing a scientist can do. Once they're caught their career is over. That's why it's news when it happens but you never see a politician or CEO caught lying making the news since it happens all the time
This is a non-news article. Of course the top x% of anything are
Some economists at Harvard got busted publishing fake crap that support hokey rightwing anti-tax ideology and nothing happened, they just said "oops, gosh, we just made a mistake using Excel" and it blew over. The lamest part is it was published in a supposedly peer reviewed journal yet their fraud was only exposed by an undergrad a public university. I have a lot of respect for physical sciences but these "human sciences" like economics and psychology are full of shit.
... attempt to falsify any claims...
Falsifying claims is the worst thing a scientist can do. Once they're caught their career is over.
This a misunderstanding of the the term "falsify". Unfortunately, there are two well-understood meanings [oxforddictionaries.com] for the word:
In the sciences, we use the second meaning of the word a lot. It is considered a good thing. We propose an idea, or make a claim, then find ways to test the idea/claim. A useful idea in science is
.... "In many disciplines, doctoral students may be enrolled in high numbers, offering a cheap workforce,"
Well, yeah.
College is expensive. You need experience.
And in the US, I wonder how many are foreign who are stuck in those positions.
And a cheap workforce flies in the face of there being a shortage of scientists.
Junior guys in [field] aren't as well known as senior guys and do most of the grunt work.
Film at 11.
Or equivalently "Graduate students are being exploited."
That sound you heard is my point going over your head. (Hint: Being the lowest level grunt in a field is not "being exploited".)
There's a concept in your post that doesn't quite come across as clearly as it should:
People who are very successful academic scientists are only publishing for a few years, because they're able to go get significantly better jobs outside of academia.
The 1% of folks who are publishing for 16 years strait are very good at getting grants and publishing papers, but have failed during that 16 years to do anything sufficiently interesting or important to distract them from the academic grind for even one year.
I'm surprised the "dominating group" is that large. There aren't a ton of _senior_ scientist out there (i.e. professors or researchers with the funding for graduate students and postdocs), and those are the people whose names appear most frequently. A senior scientist will probably have been doing research for years, have lots of projects going on at once, have many students and postdocs, have a number of collaborators, and the senior scientist's name will go on every paper produced by that group (even if it's as a middle author -- which means next to nothing). New guys will often want to collaborate with the big names, which means the big names get on even more papers. If you're working on your own (i.e. you don't have the funding to hire others), then you won't publish as frequently.
What did you expect? Why is this an issue?
A graduate student who has been working on a project for two years (and who should be working on a paper)
Probably every student will have the name of their professor on their paper. And almost every researcher will have the name of their manager or even the name of the director of their research institute on their paper. At least this is how it was while I was working at a research institute. The bosses will almost every time end up getting named as co-authors on every publication.
On the other hand, the bosses will have to study and approve so many research papers that they will be short on time to write their
Probably every student will have the name of their professor on their paper. And almost every researcher will have the name of their manager or even the name of the director of their research institute on their paper. At least this is how it was while I was working at a research institute. The bosses will almost every time end up getting named as co-authors on every publication.
On the other hand, the bosses will have to study and approve so many research papers that they will be short on time to write their own papers. Getting named as co-author will be their consolation in return.
This may still happen, but I think it's gotten much rarer, and I've seen little or none of it. Most of the better journals frown heavily on it and some even require that you list who did what. For university research, the professor leading the project is usually last author. The student or post-doc who did all the work is first. Second (if not alphabetical) might go to someone who did a similar amount of work to #1, but didn't write the paper (or you might even see a footnote that "author 1 and author 2
I do not see it as a problem at all. I find it is rather a positive sign and one should focus less on the names on a paper, but more on the content of it. When the bosses are listed as co-authors then because there was a cooperation that benefited all. If bosses are being reduced to "admin" then this can be a sign of too little or no involvement into the research that is going on. So it is rather good to see it happening.
You get this kind of problem with many social networks. If this is a network of scienti
Knowing that you could be putting in 70-80 hours a week, and potentially stumble across some major discovery (imagine: cure a kind of cancer discovery). That discovery would be published by your boss, who, adding to his life's work, would cumulatively take most of the public credit for the work. Meanwhile, it doesn't matter if you had some amazing insight or designed the actual experiment to solve the problem.
Look at Nobel laureates and their age and their contributions. How many nameless people enabled them to win that award?
All you can hope for is that you publish a couple papers in top journals that will enable to you to get a solid job in industry, or jump onto the tenure track treadmill, so that one day you can be in a position of exploiting others' work and creativity, potentially in a field completely unrelated to your PhD.
The young have no power to change, and the old have no reason to give up their advantageous position.
Good thing then that the old retire & die, and the young get old then, right?
That old geezer has been successful enough at writing the grant aplications,, hobnobbing an developing his or her reputation, thus securing the $ that pays for the lab and equipment you're using, etc. Might as well bitch about the univerity or organization you're working at taking a commercial interest in any patentable/commercializable ideas you may come up with from "your" hard work and research too.
Wow, no sense of history there.
No, the senior guys today did not have it as hard as the junior ones do now. Not even close. Most of the senior researchers today got their jobs during the education boom in the 80s-90s, back when it was normal for every PhD to end up with a job in academia. Now it's more like 1 in 10, and that's after a longer PhD, several postdocs and more pressure during the tenure track.
The old geezers do almost nothing to help research. They eat up grant money, stick their names on everyt
Who gave you the idea to work on? Who gave you advice and guidance on approach to work an experiments? Who commented on your write up? If this is all worthless, why go to grad school? Or are you just trying to collect a certificate to get a job?
99% of review committees for conferences and editorial boards on journals are made up of that 1% of elite scientists. So the guys who decide which papers get published and which get crumpled and tossed into the bin are from the one who, by the way, do most of the publishing.
Having been in research for 15+ years, everyone knows that it's one big collusion of people promoting each other and excluding the rest. *Everyone* knows this. If a researcher pretends not to understand this or dismisses it then he's bullshitting you. Yes. It is depressing. Oh, and while I was actively publishing I was in the 1%...
Having been in research for 15+ years, everyone knows that it's one big collusion of people promoting each other and excluding the rest. *Everyone* knows this. If a researcher pretends not to understand this or dismisses it then he's bullshitting you.
Totally. That's why that Einstein guy never got to publish. Goddamn Newtonians had it out for him, and I don't have to tell you the kind of grip they have on the community!
Yes. It is depressing. Oh, and while I was actively publishing I was in the 1%...
Oh, wow, me too! I mostly wrote about Heisenberg flux matrix compensators. Weren't you the guy who kept publishing about the time cube?
Totally... BS. You're using a counterexample that is a complete outlier in every way. It's like saying dropping out of college is a good thing, look at Bill Gates, Steve Jobs...
Academic publishing would be a much fairer process of reviews would be truly double blind, and if there were a severe penalty for breaking the rules. In the absence of that, people win Nobel prizes and will continue to do so. But that's because those people are outliers, not because the system is sane.
Academic publishing would be a much fairer process of reviews would be truly double blind, and if there were a severe penalty for breaking the rules. In the absence of that, people win Nobel prizes and will continue to do so. But that's because those people are outliers, not because the system is sane.
Outstanding papers for the most part will continue to be published. That's not the issue. The problem is that the overwhelming portion of submitted papers are not seminal papers, and it's these papers that are subjected to the defects in the review process, including the following:
(1) Not all reviewers are equally competent for their assigned papers.
(2) Not all reviewers are equally committed to spending the minimum amount of time needed for a thorough review. I have seen reviews submitted by well-known
Option 6: Submitted papers really aren't that good.
Especially in subjects with a lot of politicisation in the popular press, it is a common tactic for third-rate or worse researchers to go crying about the establishment suppressing their papers; a closer look often turns out that these papers are in fact very shoddy work.
It might not always be as bad as you might think (and the way gwstuff put it does leave some open to the imagination). I do not get the feeling that I am being actively discriminated against because of my name (although, having peer reviewers that I've personally met and clicked with would of course help). What I have noticed though, is that scientists react very strongly to criticism of their work, and I've had people try to suppress my publications essentially on the basis that we showed previous work to
Goddamn Newtonians had it out for him,
Interesting that you should mention Newton. Depending who you believe, Robert Hooke wanted credit for Newton's work on gravitation. But then after Hooke died Newton became President of the Royal Society and got some revenge (on Hooke's reputation).
Elite scientists? In that 1% group we will find heads of labs that sign the papers of any of their underlying. They also file patents and have stocks in statups. This kind of "elite" is the parasite kind.
Now I find no way to find in publication data who are the really exceptional scientists. We would have to look at paper quality to tell that.
I had a conversation about this with a guy at work 2 days before this article was posted. With the professor I had this was not the case, however some of the other professors at my school had this kind of attitude. Most professors\scientists write grants and spend most of their time doing that and the students do most of the work, as long as the students get credit on the paper for it and get paid (cash or stipend), it doesn't matter. If your a student and not getting paid, find something else to do. I have
Most of these 'researchers' who get their names on every paper are actually the managers who don't have a clue about the actual research. Their name is only there because they force the real researchers to include it in the papers. Been there, done that, quit the job.
Grant money is given preferably to teams that already publish a lot. Even "starting grants" in the EU require a single principal investigator (PI) with a lot of well-cited publication under their belt. This can only be achieved if the PI has done their initial research in a well-heeled lab, with a well-known head of the lab who is well-connected, and so on. This encourages a pyramidal structure with a lot of grunt students at the bottom, supervised by post-docs, supervised by assistant professors, and so on. Success encourages visibility, which encourages grants, which ensures money, which ensures good grunt students can be hired, and so on.
This is not the only possible successful structure, but one of the most common. A single researcher, however brilliant, cannot usually keep up with the outpouring of landmark papers the pyramidal structure can achieve. On the other hand, if everybody does their job, meritocracy in the pyramidal structure ensures that the best grunt students get promoted to post docs, and so on, usually in a different pyramidal structure.
The big drawback of the pyramidal structure is that the prof at the top usually doesn't know exactly what is going on at the bottom, even though they put their name on most of the papers that the structure produces.
Disclaimer: I'm a tenured prof. I do have a reasonable number of students, but I work with them directly. All my students are co-supervised with at least one other prof. Occasionally I do have a few post-docs but the structure is always collaborative. This is not the standard but this works well enough also as long as there isn't any ego-driven fights in the lab. This means choosing your collaborators well. I've made a few mistakes, but so far so good.
This is "news" only to people who don't have a clue how research works - and usually the ones setting the publication criteria - like "you have to publish 2 journal papers per year" for an assistant professor (fresh post-doc or a PhD student), along with all the teaching load, of course. I was teaching 10 different courses (!) one semester and was still expected to actually do research half of my time and to publish those 2 journal papers.
Never mind that shepherding a journal paper through the review process and publication takes a year or two on average alone, plus you have to actually have something to publish to begin with. Even conference papers can take 6 months to publish and you must attend them as well (but nobody wants to pay for that!).
The prolific "publishers" are mostly professors that are heads of labs. They are not actually doing any of the work themselves. It is the young PhD students and post-docs who are slaving away in the lab, writing the papers and then put the name of the prof on the paper as a coauthor. It is a very common practice, basically giving a nod to the prof for paying their salary and letting them graduate. If you have a large lab with 20 PhDs who write 1-2 papers a year, that's alone 40 papers for the prof's CV annually. Then you get invited to contribute to various book chapters (again PhD students write that), you get invited lectures and what not - all that counts as publications.
The young researchers have absolutely no chance to break through in such competition where the number of publications is a criteria. You can have two very good papers but when you apply for an academic job, you have no chance against a guy with 40+ (no matter that most of them are the same thing publishes under different names or it isn't really their work). Unfortunately, that often leads to BS publications - like doing few minor changes and publishing the same work several times in different venues, publishing obvious, non-interesting "results" in minor, often in-house workshops or conferences, in the worse cases even scientific fraud and various misconduct - all for the sake of getting that number of publications up. It is only your job and chance for tenure that is at stake.
I have left university pretty much because of this - with no/not enough publications no chance to get a permanent position, but no chance to get those papers published if all you are doing is teaching teaching and more teaching (even though I love teaching). And when not teaching you are doing paperwork and trying to justify your own existence to various clueless bureaucrats every few months so that they don't cut your funding again. That's not exactly a situation where you can do research.
So, I wonder how much information is shared between scientists, peer reviewed, and never submitted to a journal? If you know the ipython notebook that is a way to do what people used to do, correspond via mail. now via web-page or e-mail. You can distribute results along with the data that were used and the programs that processed it, how your data got reduced, how the images were drafted. You guys know about this. Is the paper journal and the publishing paywalls a thing of the past?
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I wasn't puttin' you down man.. hope you didn't get that impression... I was just making a case and having a little fun ... I respect your opinion on the matter...Originally Posted by Casey_21
I wasn't puttin' you down man.. hope you didn't get that impression... I was just making a case and having a little fun ... I respect your opinion on the matter...Originally Posted by Casey_21
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Sure, make me out to look like the misanthrope.Originally Posted by savafan
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Who was the guy they added in a late spring trade from Montreal a few years back that was supposed to be a "defensive stopper" of an outfielder? I think he had 2-3 errors in his first couple of games and was sent down/released.
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Jose Hernandez?Originally Posted by ochre
Juan Castro - - would have been fine if he only got 100 at bats in a year (in other words, a utility player, used solely for defense) but the more Boone and Miley played him the more I loathed him.
Hmmmm, there is another signing I loathe.....
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I was thinking Hernandez was the last name, so that's probably it. I didn't like that guyOriginally Posted by Steve4192
I didnt much like Tony Fernandez either. He was a nutcase
Jimmy Haynes!
I really wanted to hate Kevin Mitchell, just because I thought he had unlimited potential and p*ssed it away by partying and generally not taking his job seriously. However, the big galoot was just so darn loveable I couldn't bring myself to hate him.
Here are some of my favorite Mitchell highlights:
+ In 1990, he was four days late to spring training because he got injured eating a microwaved donut
+ Injured himself while eating a cupcake - though this is heavily documented, details are scant. It may be an offshoot of the oh-so-true donut injury.
+ Missed a game after straining his eyelids while vomiting
+ Became the first player in Cleveland Indians franchise history who was unable to complete an 850-yard training run.
+ Landed on the DL because he strained his ribcage while vomiting
+ As a member of the Western League's Sonoma County Crushers, Mitchell was suspended for 9 games after punching the opposing team's owner in the mouth.
+ In 2002, as manager of the Sonoma County Crushers, Mitchell was suspended for 7 games after punching an opposing team's 3rd base coach. The coach was apparently stealing signs...
How could I possibly hate that guy?
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I thought Chris Brown was the eye strainer?Originally Posted by Steve4192
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Wargaming Picks Up Day 1 Studios for Unannounced Console Project
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Wargaming, the famous free-to-play MMO developers and publishers, has been pretty successful in the PC market with World of Tanks. The company announced its acquisition of Chicago-based Day 1 Studios for USD 20 million. Following the acquisition, the newly formed studio will focus exclusively on the development of an unannounced console title.
The acquisition sets a key landmark in Wargaming's strategy of delivering compelling and console-focused gaming experiences, and further reinforces the company's steps toward multiplatform game development. Wargaming previously announced the acquisition of Australia-based Big World Pty Ltd, which provided the company with streamlined development and server middleware tools.
"The move into console game development is a huge step for Wargaming, as we begin to expand our presence into new platforms," said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. "We are looking forward to sharing the fruits of our labor soon."
"Wargaming is a clear leader in the free-to-play space and helps set the standard on which all other games in the genre strive for," said Denny Thorley, new Head of Wargaming's Chicago-based studio. "Our team is extremely excited to start the first console project for Wargaming."
In the wake of today's announcement, the newly opened studio welcomes skilled professionals from around the globe to join its development ranks.
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Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market. Founded as a privately held company in 1998, Wargaming has shipped more than 15 titles and employs over 1300 people across such key regions as North America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Australia.
Currently, Wargaming is focused on its team-based MMO war series dedicated to mid-20th century warfare that will include the company's flagship armored MMO World of Tanks, launched in April 2011 and currently boasting 45 million players worldwide, the flight combat World of Warplanes, named one of the most anticipated MMOs, and the naval World of Warships, both scheduled for release in 2013..
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No one is ever quite prepared for what may come out of Katt Williams mouth. In an interview in his hometown of Cincinnati, he told interviewers at 101.1 The Wiz, that what he missed most about Cincinnati is "the white people". He went on further to say that "we don't realize the kind of white people we're blessed with here until we go somewhere else". He said that white people in Cincinnati made black people feel like they were "their neighbors". Interesting. I'm just happy he didn't go on any racial rants this time that he would have to later come back and apologize for. READ MORE
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Jane Seymour was Henry VIII's third wife. Jane married him just eleven days after Anne Boleyn was executed. The marriage between Jane Seymour and Henry was on May 30th 1536.
Jane was born between 1507 and 1509. The Seymour's were a well-respected and old noble family. Jane had been a maid of honour at the court of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. As one of Anne's maids of honour, Jane had been caught by Anne sitting on the knee of the king. The heavily pregnant Anne was so angry, that she miscarried.
Jane was considered to be a modest and gentle person – the opposite to the sharp tempered and sharp-tongued Anne. However, she refused to be the mistress of the king. With one divorce behind him, Henry could not risk another without alienating the English public. Hence his plan to have Anne arrested for treason and her execution. Once Anne was executed, he was free to marry again.
Jane proved to be a submissive wife. She challenged the king just once in public. When she realised how angry Henry was as a result of this, Jane resolved never to do it again.
In October 1537, Jane gave birth to the son Henry desperately wanted. He was called Edward and would be the future Edward VI. However, just 12 days after the birth of Edward, Jane died of septicemia. Henry was distraught. It would be three years before he married again. Such was his love for Jane, that Henry ordered that he should be buried next to her when he died.


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Sanders and his estranged wife, Pilar, agreed Tuesday to share custody of their three children for the summer.
A judge in McKinney ordered the ex-Dallas Cowboy to pay $3,500 a month for a house where his estranged wife now lives and where their children will sometimes stay. Sanders, who's an NFL Network analyst, also must pay $275,000 in his spouse's recent legal fees.
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Maybe I'm answering to a flamebait, but theres nothing wrong with web applications. Many people want to have their email in webmail instead of using a client. Many people write to forums, news sites and sites like slashdot instead of newsgroups (as you seem to do too). Many people are perfectly fine using twitter and facebook for communicating (facebook even has that IM "client"). And because bandwidth is considerably cheap now a days (well in some countries at least, and it's getting there everywhere too), it becomes easier for people to upload a video file to a web service to convert it to another format than to download all the required codecs and find a software that can do it. Remember that majority of people aren't geeks.
That doesn't mean there's no desktop application alternatives and that you couldn't use them. I do for email, IM and many more things because it suits me better. But it doesn't mean other people couldn't do otherwise.
If you do not like those web applications developed by "modern hipster web devs", just don't use them and let people who like them use.
(and 1mbps is the minimum guaranteed speed in the news)
You've confused efficiency with convenience.
A good developer will attend to function first and form second. Part of function is efficiency.
A bad developer barely even understands the concept of efficiency and function is frequently their last priority - just barely enough of a requirement to justify the site in the first place.
Look at slashdot for fuck's sake - you can't even metamod without javascript.
Like we need fucking javascript to click a fucking radio button for good/bad/no-rating?
a good web developer focuses on form _and_ function. In web development space, at least, they are equally important. things have to look as good as well as they perform. why is it that people always think it has to be one or the other.
maybe at slashdot at least, people here generally prefer the function part.
In our day, we dint av any of these fancy bloody web applications.
We had to make do with everythin in 24 point Times New Roman Marquee, in black, white, cyan or magenta mind you. And for graphics we ad ASCII art. And none of this bloody Javascript nonsense either. If you wanted to submit a form, you filled it in bloody right the first time, and then submitted it
Now git off my lawn.
We had to make do with everythin in 24 point Times New Roman Marquee
And yet, somehow, we were able to read those sites, unlike many websites today that make your eyes spin like pinwheels.
things have to look as good as well as they perform. why is it that people always think it has to be one or the other.
Because "both" requires smart web developers, and they're a scarce resource.
And part of efficiency/functionality is form.
Are you sure?
A good developer will attend to function first and form second.
A function that is not exposed in a form users can understand might as well not exist at all.
Yesterday I heard people saying it's okay for President Obama to block FOX's access to the white house press pool. They said "FOX has a right to freedom of the press. They don't have the right to access." Couldn't the same argument be made about internet? You have the right to buy any product you want, but that doesn't mean you have a right to broadband access. Everyone already had dialup access. Thoughts? Objections?
(No this is not a troll. This is the Socratic method (asking questions; making people think).)
And it's not really the same at all, not even close, Fox News doesn't further the discourse in this country.
Hint: The First Amendment isn't limited to those who "further discourse in this country". Keeping FOX out of the White House is teetering right on the edge of violating the First Amendment.
And I expect that a Supreme Court challenge would come down on FOX's side, not the President's, if FOX bothered to make one.
Of course it's okay for Obama to block Fox', or anybody else's, access to the White House press pool. The First Amendment doesn't guarantee access, it just allows people to say and print what they've got. This isn't a matter of an inherent right to be in the press pool or my underwear drawer or wherever.
Similarly, Spain's decision isn't a matter of inherent rights. They're creating a legal right to broadband access, just like in most civilized places people have a legal right to electrical and phone s
It's a right to get at least a 1mbps internet connection at reasonable price. It is still a right.
I only have 0.7 Mbit/sec. I don't consider my rights to have been violated. High-speed access is a *luxury* not a right, same as having an Honda Acura instead of a cheap Honda econocar is a luxury not a right.
I only have 0.7 Mbit/sec. I don't consider my rights to have been violated. High-speed access is a *luxury* not a right, same as having an Honda Acura instead of a cheap Honda econocar is a luxury not a right.
That is your opinion. However, in Spain and in Finland They The People have chosen otherwise.
However, that concept stems from the idea that rights are a human concept which people decide everyone is entitled to, not something which all men have because another man interpreting a possible non-existant m
If you were in Spain once the legislation is passed, the slowest connection you would have is 1 mb
Then, all the spanish constitution is wrong.
It says things like "you have the right of a worthy house"
(meaning that the government will try that everybody should be able to buy a acceptable house)
(Sorry for my horrible english).
Yep the Spanish constitution is wrong. So too is the U.S. constitution when it discusses copy "rights".
These are not inalienable, instinctive, natural rights. They are temporary government-granted privileges of monopoly, typically at the expense of your neighbors who are footing the bill (either directly or indirectly).
If I had a "right" to electricity, nobody could legally shut it off.
I don't know about the situation in your country, but here in the Netherlands your water supply is not free, but you also cannot be cut off, because every citizen has the right to running water in their house. The same thing goes with gas during winter, because you cannot deny people the ability to warm their homes, even if they don't pay for it.
Education is another example. It's not only a right, it's even mandatory for children under 16, even though there is a fee to have your kid in a school.
Having the right to something doesn't mean you get it for free.
No it's not a right. It's a guarantee. "If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
If it were a right, then you would have a right to these people (the contractors) work, that's called slavery.
It's the same thing with this so-called right to healthcare here in the states. You might have a right not to be denied service because of your skin color or country of birth but you do not have a "right" to the efforts of other individuals.
Even if the taxes were raised to 100%? You're still not a slave? (Just something to think about.)
What about the concept of partial slavery? The typical American pays ~40% in total taxes. So in essence you're a slave the first ~40% of the year (upto May 10) and don't achieve total freedom from taxation until after.
I guess I should explain this better. Let's say you have a $100,000/year salary. The first ~$40,000 is not yours. It belongs to the government and while you are earning that first $40K you are a slave to Uncle Sam.
The first ~$40,000 is not yours. It belongs to the government and while you are earning that first $40K you are a slave to Uncle Sam.
You can quit your $100,000-a-year job if you choose, and the government can do nothing to stop you. This is not true of a slave. In fact, if you quit after earning only $30,000, you will owe (using the average rate blah blah blah) $12,000.
Taxes are neither slavery nor corvee labor. They are a sliding-scale fee for access to the services which government provides.
Describing taxation as even partial slavery makes about as much sense as saying that if you make $10,000 a year and pay $200 to take you
There was a famous Danish author (I forget her name) who raised a protest once because she was taxed over 100% of her income that year.
There was also an Italian prime minister who once admitted that if the government collected all the taxes on the books, people would be paying 110% of their income.
When you're not allowed to work and earn income without someone else's permission (and giving them their cut, which may be the whole thing), it certainly is slavery.
Slavery is being forced to work. Nobody is forced to work - just that if you do, part of the condition is that you have to pay a tax, and can't claim any arbitrary amount of money that I like as a salary.
>>>Nobody is forced to work - just that if you do, part of the condition is that you have to pay a tax
This argument presumes the government existed first, the people later, and that government "gives" us our jobs, and ~40% is the fee for that privilege.
I have a differing view - the people were first, converting our body's labor to property is a natural right, and the government's officials should be thanking us for *allowing* them to have jobs, rather than fire the whole lot of them.
All physical property depends on material resources which preexisted your birth, or any other human being's birth.
Therefore it's not a "natural right" to claim exclusivityover any material object - to call any material object your property.
Property is a legal right which people through their governments uphold, because it's a very *useful* legal right (as it incentivizes work and wealth-production, and defends us from each other's parasitism). But claiming it a "natural right" is merely a form of superstiti
"Nobody is forced to work"
If you don't work you die. I mean that in the most fundamental way possible. Assume you and your family are stranded on a desert island. How do you survive ? By our nature we are given life but we must engage in certain actions in order to sustain it. That action is productive labour, or "work."
If you don't work, but you are able to sustain your life, it can only be through the productive efforts of others. Someone has to produce your food, your clothing, your shelter etc. So while
If you don't want to pay taxes, you have several options: leave or a fiscal paradise, or produce your own sustenance in the middle of nowhere.
If you live in an organized society taxes ensure that everybody gets a wide package of services that ensure you can attain civilized living.
"If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
But he doesn't have to pay. And it's not called slavery, it's the conditions if you to agree if you want to provide that service, but no one forces you to enter that business. It's no more slavery than an EULA.
No it's not a right. It's a guarantee. "If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
The right we're talking about here is not the fact you will get service from a contracter when you pay him for it. The right is there will be a contractor available for you if you desire the service. That right is totally free, even though the service is not.
Having the right to something doesn't mean you get it for free.
Yes it does.
If you have to pay for it, it's not a right, it's just a commodity.
Wrong, actually. Just because you have a right to free speech does not mean your nanny state has to bus you wherever you want to go to vent your spleen, build you a platform, buy you a bullhorn, and dragoon a bunch of losers into listening to you stammer, ramble, and make an ass of yourself.
Or, what if your declaration of independence asserts that you have a right to life. That doesn't mean your nanny state has to give you an armored car so nobody shoots you, a chauffeur so you don't hit a tree while you're texting, and a bulletproof vest for when you are shopping or watching the opera. They don't have to stop traffic so nobody can collide with you. They don't have to clothe and feed you so you don't die of exposure or starve to death. They don't have to wipe your ass so flies don't gather and give you a disease. They don't have to watch you 24x7 and come and put you on life support every time you overdose on some self indulgence, let alone stop you doing it in the first place.
The right to broadband mentioned in the article says that no matter where you live, somebody has to OFFER to sell you broadband at a reasonable price. That's a DAMN sight more than you get in the U.S. on this subject.
So are there any negative repercussions for people who refuse to pay for these things?
If I had a "right" to electricity, nobody could legally shut it off.
A "right" doesn't imply at all that it can't be taken away under some circumstances (as a matter of fact, I've heard US has the biggest population of such people, at least among developed countries)
Well that explains the existence of the China Firewall. The right of free speech & access to information is revocable "under some circumstances"
I on the other hand think a right is never revocable. You might as well be talking about revoking my right to have a penis. It makes no logical sense to say that an innate quality of the human body can be removed.
It makes no logical sense to say that an innate quality of the human body can be removed.
This is the fundamental fallacy of the doctrine of innate rights.
Any actual part of the human body can be removed. People can be born without them, they can become defective and degrade over time. None of those properties apply to rights (as you're conceiving them), which means they're non-corporeal. In fact, there's no objective way to demonstrate that they exist at all. If I make the claim that every man has a Y chromosome, there is objective proof, with some edge cases that don't apply. If I make the claim that every man has the right of free speech & access to information, there can be no objective proof.
There is no reliable basis upon which to determine that a "natural right" exists as an objective property of nature. As a demonstration, try to disprove the existence of a right you do not believe in, such as the right of every man to have three wives if he wishes.
The only way "natural rights" make sense is if we understand the term "natural right" to mean "a legal right to which I think every person should be entitled." There is no way to remove the subjectivity from that statement, and that's okay. At the end of the day, we make our decisions based on what rights we, subjectively, think people should have. It's just better not to give them grand airs as some universal property of nature, rather than reflecting part our system of preferences (which we're ready to defend by force of arms).
So I take it that you support complete abolition of prisons? (or any kind of punishment that limits "human rights" for that matter)
We routinelly grant "human rights" only conditionally.
This is not a "right" to anything. These people need to look up the definition and history of what a "right" is.
It entirely depends on what sort of philosophy you happen to believe in. Religious people can claim that they have rights, and that they are derived from the existence of their god(s). Others have attempted to create systems of rights that are entirely objective, independent of any deity or supernatural forces. Debates on this have been raging for millenia between all sorts of greater and lesser philosophers. Immanuel Kant, for example, claimed to derive natural rights from reason alone. Legalistic individuals could also say our rights are exactly what the laws say they are.
Even legalistic individuals recognize that rights exist without law. This was the basis for the Nuremberg and Japanese War Crime trials - even though the Jews and Chinese had no legally-protected rights inside Germany, Japan, or the occupied territories, they still had the right to life simply by being human.
Rights are like instincts. They are innate
This is not a "right" to anything. These people need to look up the definition and history of what a "right" is.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you... wait, that's a lie. I love to tell people this: There is no such thing as an inherent human right. The government claims you have a right to life but reserves (for itself, no less) the right to kill you. That's hypocrisy of the highest order. In fact, if we REALLY believed in a right to life, we would make saving and extending lives our number one priority. Once you accept that there is really no inherent right to life, it's easy to see that there is real
Here in the US they often (no, more like "usually") misname laws. The PATRIOT act is the most unpatriotic law ever passed. The CAN SPAM act is one that is sneakily well named, as it essentially says you can spam.
With the coming of age of the Internet, it will soon be as important as phone service. With the Internet, you can get legal information about registering your vehicle, and about smog-check stations, about filing a complaint with the relevant state agency. You can get information about universities. You can check whether your jury group is required to appear in court on a particular day.
10 years ago, the Internet was an exciting fad. Now, the Internet is an indispensable tool for living in modern society.
Of course, the best use of the Internet is to read articles on Slashdot.
With the coming of age of the Internet, it will soon replace phone service.
Fixed that for you.
Last year, Spain granted human rights to apes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/opinion/14mon4.html [nytimes.com]
Does this mean apes also have the right to broadband? And please, no jokes about Nigerian scammers.
In my part of rural Spain, the only phone connection is either a Telefonica supplied "wireless" phone, or a mobile. The only sources of internet are by using a 3G dongle (at extortionate rates - not that broadband in Spain is even close to a reasonable price). Some places have WiMax service - but the speed is low, the monthly cap is lower and frankly, the reliability sucks - and the price is high.
I would expect the implementation to be either one of
I think the state government, jointly subsidized by the fed, should provide fiber to all public schools as a part of the national infrastructure. The school districts should then be allowed to sell bandwidth to providers or directly to the surrounding neighborhoods from those points. The amount of taxes for home owners, paid to school districts, should then be removed or drastically cut. The government gets to have the infrastructure needed for national security. Schools get the tools needed for modern
Only if they're not allowed to quit.
Maybe you're beginning to see the huge flaw in your understanding
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein


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The five-car, self-propelled work train, known as VakTrak, is equipped with a high-powered vacuum cleaning system designed to remove trash and steel dust from type-two (concrete-ballasted) subway track.
NYCT received the first of its custom built VakTraks, VT #1, in 1997 and added a second to the system in 2000, VT #2. The trains were purchased for close to $15 million each and automated worked previously done by hand. Both trains are 8-feet, 9-inch wide, the same as the numbered lines, which have the smallest cars on the system, so the trains can work and travel throughout NYCT's system.
Spare parts for NYCT's two trains have long been exhausted and there are no more replacement parts to be had. However, the Division of Car Equipment has a long history of creating specialized equipment to meet the needs of New York's subway system.
"We are replacing the old components with new, more reliable ones," said Joseph Ragusa, general superintendent, Division of Car Equipment-Work Equipment. "These trains were not what we would call maintenance-friendly equipment. We are taking this opportunity to make changes and improvements and we will take what we have learned as we design the next generation of vacuum trains."
VT #2 is currently going through several system upgrades and NYCT says several shortcomings in the train's original design are being addressed. These changes will increase the train's reliability and improve performance. One of the items being improved is the air brake compressor, which is being changed over from belt to hydraulic drive to keep the RPMs constant at 1800, which provides for more dependable build-up of air. It will also solve the problem of broken belts, which had to be swapped out often.
Another area in need of improvement was the actual cleaning performance. The vacuum operation was being adversely affected by damage to the upper suction hood assembly, which is a sheet of metal below the roof that connects the ducts to the bins.
"We noticed that with everything else working properly, we weren't getting the suction we should have been getting," said Maintenance Supervisor Wendel Charlton. "An examination showed several holes in the upper hood assembly, which compromised the unit's effectiveness."
A new upper hood is currently being fabricated of stainless steel, a material far more resistant to corrosion. A similar change to the earlier vacuum train has been successful and increased use of stainless steel will be specified for the next vacuum trains, particularly for areas within the train affected by the build-up of debris and moisture.
The control cabin is being upgraded with modern equipment, including a new "Slip/Slide Feature." The exhaust system on the diesel propulsion units is being upgraded to a cleaner system that will employ a catalyst to help lower emissions. The vacuum trains are incredibly complex and one of the goals is to simplify that operation.
The vacuum trains are a major part of NYCT's efforts to keep the system free of trash. The current work allows NYCT to make upgrades to existing equipment and even more importantly, utilize many of the lessons learned to further improve the operation of new equipment.


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The North Memphis plant that began by manufacturing automobile parts and eventually produced the bodies and wings for B-25 bombers, celebrated a milestone Wednesday, May 22, with the $300 million expansion of the Kruger Inc. facility near Mud Island in Downtown.
Company representatives joined Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. at the Kruger Inc. plant opening.
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Under a tent to protect guests from the finicky Memphis weather, attendees – including Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr., Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and Kruger owner, chairman and CEO Joseph Kruger – gathered to laud the massive investment and expansion of the plant in the heart of the city.
"Kruger's expansion is in a part of Memphis that needs investment and good jobs," Wharton said.
Wednesday's event marked the end of an eight-year, $316 million journey to upgrade the plant at 400 Mahannah Ave., just north of Second Street Downtown. Kruger bought the then-idle mill on Mahannah Avenue in 2002 and officials with Kruger, a Canadian company, said they were thrilled by the company's expansion in Memphis.
The expansion virtually doubled the local footprint for Kruger, which produces White Cloud bathroom and facial tissue.
It is a massive operation. Creating paper means learning how to manage water, and at the Kruger plant, enough water to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools is recycled every hour.
–A C Wharton Jr. Memphis mayor
"We are very proud to contribute to the economic vitality of the Memphis community while pursuing our growth objectives," said Mario Gosselin, CEO of Kruger Products.
Last year Kruger, which is Canada's leading tissue manufacturer, announced plans for major growth here – including another building, a new tissue machine and conversion of other equipment, allowing the company to double its manufacturing capacity.
Kruger chose the old Kimberly-Clark site in Memphis over several locales in the U.S. and one in Quebec, Canada. The move preserved 294 local jobs and is expected to create 100 more long-term jobs, as well as 500 direct and indirect jobs during construction, the company said last year.
In 2011, the Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board granted Kruger a 15-year tax break that would save the company $45 million.
"Corporations like Kruger are choosing Memphis because of our low cost of doing business, our central location and the great business environment," said Greater Memphis Chamber President John Moore.


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"Then You Saw It…Now You Don't" will be the subject of the Lansdale Historical Society's Jan. 8 Community Program.
The show is the sixth annual edition of this video series that matches vintage photographs and postcards with an updated view of the same location captured from the same angle whenever possible.
"Then and Now" is produced by the society's vice president and video archivist Steve Moyer.
More than 500 photographs of local scenes have been included in the first five editions of this series.
The program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Lansdale Parks and Recreation Building, Seventh Street and Lansdale Avenue.
There is no admission charge but donations are appreciated.
For more information, call 215-855-1872.


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Don't miss out on your chance to see the Leonids meteor shower, tonight and early tomorrow morning. It won't be as strong as the yearly December Geminids or August Perseid meteor showers. However, the Leonids meteor shower could produce as many as 500 meteorites in an hour during its peak, which will be in Tuesday's early predawn hours.
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The Leonids will be less frequent and appear weaker this year than at the turn of the century. This is because from 1999 to 2002, the Earth was moving through a clump of debris left by comet Tempel-Tuttle. In those years the Leonids were strong enough to be considered a storm (over 1,000 meteorites per hour).
Now Tempel-Tuttle has receded from the Sun, taking its main debris clumps with it. Therefore, the Leonid showers aren't as dramatic anymore, typically averaging only about one every few minutes. The 2009 Leonids are expected to be stronger than usual, but not nearly as good as at the beginning of the decade. Although they may be few in number, many Leonid meteors are quite bright.
The meteors will seem to radiate from the constellation Leo, which will be high in the east (hence the name of the shower). You'll see approximately one meteor every 2 or 3 minutes, or fewer if clouds or city lights are present.


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By Nelson Hernandez and K.I. Ibrahim
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, April 22, 2006
BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Jawad al-Maliki, an experienced political operator and advocate for Iraq's Shiite Muslims, won the approval of Shiite party leaders for the post of prime minister on Friday, a day after the parties' original nominee bowed out under political pressure.
The move could end the political paralysis that has gripped Iraq since national elections were held on Dec. 15. Maliki, a senior member of the coalition of Shiite parties that holds the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliament, is now on course to lead Iraq's first long-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein. If ultimately chosen, the former exile would inherit grave challenges, among them an economy in tatters, an insurgent movement that continues to attack Iraq's government and its U.S. backers, and ethnic and sectarian tensions that threaten to tear the country apart.
Leaders of the Shiite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, said Friday night that Maliki's nomination by the alliance's political committee would face a vote by the full membership on Saturday morning. If approved, his name would be formally presented to Iraq's parliament, along with a list of nominees for other top posts, that afternoon.
But events rarely proceed so smoothly in the Iraqi political process, which has been held up for months by the debate over who would be prime minister. The incumbent, Ibrahim al-Jafari, won the alliance's nomination in February, only to be opposed by Sunni Arab and Kurdish political parties. Jafari, who like Maliki is a leader of the Dawa party, gave in to weeks of heavy pressure and surrendered his nomination on Thursday.
On Friday night, leaders of the Shiite alliance said they had gained support for Maliki from the leaders of the Sunni Arab and Kurdish political blocs. The Associated Press quoted Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the main Sunni Arab coalition in parliament, as saying: "If anyone is nominated except al-Jafari, we won't put any obstacles in his way. He will receive our support."
The Shiite leaders also said they had reached an understanding with other factions over who would hold other top posts in the next government, including those of the president and two deputy presidents, who hold the formal power to nominate a prime minister. An aide to Jafari, Adnan Ali al-Kadhimi, said the Shiites had agreed to yield the presidential post to the incumbent, Jalal Talabani, a Kurd. His two deputies, they said, would be Tariq al-Hashimi, a leader of the Sunni Arab coalition, and Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite economist who had been a rival to Jafari.
Maliki appears to hold a stronger mandate within the Shiite alliance than did Jafari, who was chosen over Abdul Mahdi in February by a single vote. Maliki's only remaining opponent among the Shiite parties is Nadim al-Jabiri, a candidate of the Fadhila Party, whose representative abstained from the political committee's vote on Maliki.
Party officials said Maliki won the support of the other six members of the alliance's political committee, including representatives of the alliance's most powerful factions -- the Dawa party; the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which had supported Abdul Mahdi; and the group led by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had backed Jafari.
Maliki was "chosen for his acceptability both by groups inside the alliance and outside it," Ridha Jawad Taqi, a spokesman for the Supreme Council, said at a news conference broadcast on Iraqi television. "We want to have a government of national unity and partnership, a government that includes all components of Iraqi society, one that will be accepted by any ethnicity or group."
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the choice of Maliki was "a good step in the right direction. He's an Iraqi patriot. He's a strong leader."
Yet Maliki, born in 1950 near the Shiite holy city of Karbala, possesses credentials that may not endear him to Sunni Arabs or U.S. officials wary of foreign influence. He joined the Shiite-dominated Dawa party in 1968, soon falling foul of Iraq's Baath Party government. He fled Iraq in 1980, a year after Hussein rose to the presidency, and spent his years in exile in Iran and Syria. He was sentenced to death in absentia, returning to Iraq only after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Hussein in 2003.
Although he was a strident opponent of Hussein, he also opposed the invasion that ultimately forced the ruler from power.
"The danger to Iraq lies in the possibility of the U.S. administration making mistakes in its supervision of this crisis," he said in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar in December 2002 that was translated by the U.S. government's Open Source Center. "Those who will rule Iraq after Saddam Hussein cannot be envied. Don't fight for ruling an Iraq full of widows and orphans and burdened with heavy debt."
After Hussein fell, Maliki and the Dawa party quickly claimed a powerful role in Iraqi politics. Like many Shiites, Maliki supported the removal of Baathists from the government. In 2004, he served as a mediator in talks between U.S. representatives and Sadr, a popular leader who led a Shiite uprising.
Maliki also served as deputy chairman of the committee that wrote the Iraqi constitution. He has argued against splitting Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines -- a stance that could lead to conflict not only with the Kurds in the north, who have governed their own region for years, but with Shiite parties that favor establishing their own mini-state in the south.
Maliki will also have to deal with a shaken society in which the fear of violence has almost become routine. A U.S. Marine was killed in combat west of Baghdad on Friday, military authorities reported, and more than a dozen Iraqis were killed in bombings and shootings, according to police officials and news reports.
If Maliki is approved, he will have a month to form his cabinet. The interior, defense and oil ministries, responsible for the police, the army and the economy respectively, are likely to require the same painstaking negotiations that the choice of prime minister required.
"Of course there will be some difficult issues to deal with in the coming weeks, particularly the security ministers," Khalilzad said in a telephone interview. "But we had to have this. It's been a good day."
Special correspondents Saad al-Izzi, Naseer Nouri and Bassam Sebti in Baghdad and Saad Sarhan in Najaf contributed to this report.
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