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Do Jewish people celebrate Christmas like Christians?
What do they do on Christmas?
Do Jewish people celebrate Christmas like Christians?
What do they do on Christmas?
First, it should be noted that you are asking a very broad question, as, unfortunately, there certainly are many Jews who celebrate it as a secular, cultural holiday, and many Christians who classify themselves as Jews.
Mainstream Judaism, however, rejects Jesus. Adamantly, decisively, and without qualification. We do not believe he was a prophet, a leader, or any sort of deity. In fact, the things that we do believe about him range from some rejecting the idea that he even existed (at least in the sense that Christians believe - one person with one message), to the idea that he was a bastard (in the biblical sense, a son of an illicit relationship), to his being a rabble-rouser (in a negative sense), to his being a false prophet, all the way to his being a practitioner of dark magic and a purely evil person.
So, depending how extreme you want to get, no, Jews do not celebrate Christmas for any or all of the reasons above.
Some things we do on Christmas (this list ranges from the serious to the silly, so forgive me):
No we do not. We do not consider him a deity and therefore we have nothing to celebrate on that day. Some [mainly Chassidim] have the custom to abstain from learning the Torah on that day so as not to give strength to the Evil forces that are around on that day. Read more here.


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My graphics skills are seriously lacking. I can see when something looks nice and when it doesn't but have a hard time coming up with anything myself given a blank slate. What should I do?
There are a number of sites out there for folks to get a sense of what's going on in the design arena. Here are some on my RSS feed:
Design Reviver - http://designreviver.com/
Their content varies, but they usually provide some nice showcases of a particular design or style and example sites.
Doing an Amazon book search for "website design" turns up a lot of promising results that are both inexpensive and highly-rated. The SitePoint books I've read are pragmatic and useful.
It's good that you know what you like when you see it. I'm no design expert, but I usually start by finding several Web sites that I really like, borrowing elements from each, and combining them into an original design. I don't mean stealing copyrighted content or images, but instead finding inspiration in what's already out there.
Being a good designer takes practice, and it helps to have some general artistic skill.
Design is much more than creating a beautiful interface. It should be functional, meaning that the user can get what they need, Easy to learn/use, and sufficiently attractive and professional enough to give users, especially new ones, confidence that what they can get from the site is worth having.
Once you have a much better idea of what the website needs to do and how it should work, it will be easier to dress it up a little with an appropriate design, since much of the underlying structural work has been done.
There are many excellent resources covering this, but my favorite is Boag World, the blog of Paul Boag. It covers all aspects of web design, including user experience, and does a very good job balancing all important aspects. They just stopped doing their weekly podcast, but the archives, which go back over 200 episodes, contain volumes of useful information.
I liked Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton. The whole book is available for reading online.
I'm in the same situation as you, so I don't really have the experience to critically evaluate books on design.
Even if you are decent with the tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, whatever), it's still way too easy to end up with a lousy design. I've found that sharpening my wireframing skills has had one of the largest overall impacts to my design quality. As such, I highly recommend the following:
Recorded MIX 2010 session: Lifecycle of a Wireframe
I just found Design Shack the other. Some great ideas and tips.
A great book on design in general: The non-designer's design book, by Robin Williams


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I have been working in web development for a fair amount of time. I am looking at developing in either Python (Django etc.) or PHP. I am new to security. Where do I begin looking? What are basic things I should have in mind? Basically, how do I get started with this? Apart from web related security, what do I go through?
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There are so many things to do and read that it's impossible to list them all all here. However, here is a collection of links to questions on this site to get you started:
Security is every where in this connected world. First of all, you should grab some security-related books to read, such as:
The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
You should constantly update your information against this vast field via forums, Twitter, LinkedIn groups, ...
Last but not least, I think you should keep your enthusiasm, your curiosity in every digital system: how it works, how people interacts with it, how to break security mechanism, ...
Good luck!
If you are going for PHP you might like this great book
It explains the acts that might expose your application and makes it vulnerable.
also you might like the "programing " chapter of this book
its a great start for beginners ,its divided into 4 parts: introduction,programing,networking ,cryptography
Well both of us are surely in the same boat.
I will simply list down a few things which have helped me a lot in my past few months ever since i ventured in the field of security.
http://www.securitytube.net - you will great videos which will help in understanding the theory you read elsewhere
http://www.happyhacker.org - Again a great site for good reading stuff.
Visiting security.stackexchange.com regularly and reading the previous posts has also helped me a lot. It is awesome!!
www.metasploit.com & www.backtrack-linux.org - Metasploit and BackTrack are definitely not things to play around with. But any 'beginner' must know of the best-in-business things
www.insecure.org - nmap i another great tool which you will find here and may want to look at. The site also offers other great reading stuff.
www.offensive-security.com - you can save this one when you feel you are crossing past the 'beginner' stage. They have a great post on Metaspolit, and they offer professional courses as well.
I did a blog post with a friend (@securityninja) on something similar - http://www.securityninja.co.uk/application-security/random-thoughts-on-education-learning-from-markofu/ - which you might find useful.
Additionally, Robin Wood has recently done some research on this topic. He presented it at BSides London recently and has posted his findings on his blog - http://www.digininja.org/projects/breaking_in_part_1.php.
There's a lot of information so I hope it's of help.
Start by looking around you. Security is about people dealing with technology. What are the challenges your friends, family, and peers are having with keeping their information secure? What are some solutions to their problems.
Information has value that we are trying to protect, but it's value is not the same to everyone and protection takes different forms: confidentiality, integrity, availability. Learn what type of information needs what type of protection. Sometimes the protection is legally required (personal, medical, financial, etc).
Read articles or books on security that interest you. Participate in discussions and forums. If you find an area of interest with like-minded people, you won't be able to stop.
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The effects of maritime piracy are felt all around the world. INTERPOL is one of many international and regional organizations working together on various projects to combat and break up the pirate networks and shut down their operations.
- Eurojust and Joint Investigation Team to Combat Maritime Piracy: INTERPOL is working with Eurojust and Europol to develop a global law enforcement and prosecution strategy to combat maritime piracy.
- Formal cooperation agreements with naval forces: INTERPOL and naval forces involved in maritime piracy, notably the Netherlands and Denmark, are exploring an information-sharing model that would give the navies access to the INTERPOL fingerprints database. This would allow for searches of fingerprints taken from pirates immediately after capture. INTERPOL has established this type of information-sharing platform with NATO and the EU Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR).
- Joint Somali and INTERPOL initiative: As part of an effort to identify Somali pirates captured by navies and prosecuted in foreign jurisdictions, the INTERPOL and Somali anti-piracy task forces are developing a plan to improve diplomatic relations between affected countries.
- The Somalia Maritime Security Bill of 2011: At the request of the Somalia Maritime Piracy Task Force, INTERPOL reviewed and provided comments to improve the legislation.
UN-supported projects:
- Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: This group facilitates discussion and coordination of action among states and organizations fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia. INTERPOL participates in working groups on operations, legal issues, private industry inclusion and piracy financing.
- UN Sub-Working Group on Maritime Piracy: Comprises 16 entities, including the International Maritime Organization, INTERPOL, UN Office of Drugs and Crime and the Monitoring Group on Somalia. The aim of the group is to share information, exchange ideas and ensure collaboration on the issue of counter-piracy.
- Shared Awareness and Deconfliction (SHADE) initiative: This group brings together INTERPOL, the European Union, NATO, Combined Maritime Forces and several countries to coordinate military efforts against piracy.
- Kampala Process: The group facilitates political dialogue and collaboration in the fight against piracy among international groups including INTERPOL, the UN and the EU.
- Djibouti Code of Conduct: An agreement among East African countries on how to coordinate their responses to maritime piracy.
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What are some online simulators for equipments like camera, lens, etc?
I have been asking this question a few times and searched about it and found a few things.
I present it in Q&A format so that others can add their answers as well. Put in the answers with appropriate links.
Comprehensively this might be helpful for beginners in understanding and learning.
What are some online simulators for equipments like camera, lens, etc?
Camera Simulator:
Camerasim - A simulator which allows you to experiment all modes and with different ligthing, focal length and subject distance by varying Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO.
Lens Simulator:
NIKKOR Lens Simulator - A simulator for lens that allows you to experiment various focal length lenses on Full frame and crop sensors.
Matching Simulation:
MicroFourThirds Matching Simulation - To simulate how the lenses look like on the different cameras.
Try this online Camera Simulator
This simulator shows the reciprocal relationship between aperture and exposure time, the light metre, ISO, depth of field, and motion blur using a realistic scene in an intuitive way. (I like it.)


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Is it possible to install Windows 7 as a second OS on a Macbook Air with no access to a superdrive? And if it is, how?
I created a bootable USB stick with my Windows Vista DVD. I followed the instructions on Install Win 7 on MacBook Air from a USB drive.
The most straight forward method to actually getting this done is to get your hands on an external DVD drive that connects via USB but is not the point of your question.
Yes it is possible; you'll need to get your copy of Windows 7 DVD put onto a USB thumb drive. (There are several guides available online - I've not done it myself so I can't recommend one)
Another alternative requires a lot of extra work and is really designed if you're planning to image or install on multiple MacBook Airs; it's possible to NetBoot your MacBook Air using the USB Ethernet adapter. (Source) This requires either a rigged out version of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server handy. With DeployStudio you can install a pre-made image of Windows 7 that way.
Even better way is to use VirtualBox to install windows or other OS on mac book. You can always delete it when you want. With a little loss in speed, you gain a lot.
See : http://www.virtualbox.org/
I had blogged on how to install ubantu Linux with VirtualBox. Installing windows is no different.


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If I want to add more RAM to my computer, how can I buy something compatible? What kinds are there? How do I determine which kind my computer will accept and how much I can add?
You can use a System Scanner from Crucial to analyse the memory that is present and recommend upgrades.
Although CPU-Z focuses on processors, it also provides detailed info about the RAM for the current computer.
Run it and note down the details in the "Memory" and "SPD" tabs and use that to determine what sort of RAM your system supports.
Note it is Windows only.
The CPU-Z "SPD" (Serial Presence Detect) tab shows you what RAM is currently installed in your computer. Most (all) motherboards support one DDR version only DDR DDR2 DDR3 etc, so you know you will need to buy RAM of the same DDR version.
Each Slot in the dropdown corresponds to a physical slot on the MB (may be empty).
You can normally install various sized RAM modules such as 256MB, 512MB 1024MB, 2048MB in each slot.
However total maximum RAM supported varies by Motherboard. Also, a 32Bit OS such as Windows XP will only be able to utilise up to 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much you install.
You can either look up your motherboard manual online or use a system information tool. Speccy from Priform and Aida32/64 which was previously Everest. These programs will tell you what size, speed/frequncy and specification of RAM you have.
Recent machines will typically have DDR2 or DDR3 RAM, and can come in various shapes, sizes and form factors (RAM for Laptops and micro machines is a smaller size of board). From Wikipedia: Top: DDR2 with heat spreader. Middle: DDR2 without heat spreader, Laptop DDR2, Bottom (OLD) Desktop DDR, Laptop PC-100
When buying RAM you need, as said, to look at Capacity (1, 2, 4, 8GB) number of modules in the kit (1, 2, etc) and the timings.
My motherboard in my desktop at home is an Asus M5A9 R2.0. The manual which came with it (plus the spec sheet on the site, and the box) showed the boards capabilties. It can support up to 32GB of RAM, consisting of 4x 8GB DDR3 RAM modules.
RAM has latency that you have to worry about as well. DDR3 comes in with DDR3-1066 DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600, DDR3-1800, DDR3-1866, DDR3-2000, DDR3-2133, DDR3-2200, DDR3-2250, DDR3-2333, DDR3-2400, DDR3-2600, DDR3-2666 and DDR3-2800, while DDR2 has DDR2-1066, DDR2-400, DDR2-533, DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. The higher the number, the faster the RAM is. Faster RAM tends to be more expensive too. In most cases, I woudln't worry about this too much, buy the same what you already have.
RAM for servers does pretty much the same, although it has a feature called ECC which is Error Checking Code which checks the data to ensure data integrity. Again, this is only used in servers and you woudln't need to buy ECC RAM for a desktop board.
It's important to note that you can't chuck in any mixture of RAM sizes and specs or slots. My aforementioned M5A9 has 4 slots, named 1, 2, 3, and 4 (just for explanation). Machines with dual-channel RAM slots (as mine is) need to be installed in pairs for better performance, so if I had one RAM module, it would go in slot 1. As I have two modules, it goes in 1 and 3 and if I had 4 modules the other two modules would go in 2 and 4. Dual-channel motherboard, with color indication of slots.
Regarding capacity, I don't really know if it's better to have 1x4GB or 2x2GB, or 2x8 or 4x4GB. I suspect it could be "more is better" enabling the RAM to work togteher.
One final thing, especially when you're building your own machine, make sure your RAM isn't too big. My RAM sits in slots 2 and 4 because the heat sinks on my Corsair RAM make it too bit to fit under my CPU heat sink, which means I'll have to buy smaller but identically specced modules if I wanted to buy any more.
PCPartPicker is very good for comparing RAM specs and prices.
CPU-Z is definitely a good bet. I also use SIW which is a bit more general and gives info about your whole system too:
Just my two cents as a Linux user:
You can run
As you can see, my laptop has a
(And btw I just bought another one that is also
If you just have the model number of the computer - especially useful when you're upgrading a friend's computer and you can't run a utility to work it out - Kingston's website has a great "Search by Manufacturer" tool that will tell you the exact bank layout of most recent computers and all the constraints (e.g. whether you have to pair the memory). You can then get standard RAM from anywhere that matches the specs; you don't need to get the expensive Kingston system-specific RAM.
Most modern PCs are pretty straightforward physically to put RAM into, except for some netbooks.
It should also be noted that Windows XP cannot* address more than 4GB of memory, so no matter how much you put in beyond that you can only use 4GB worth.
*Sometimes the following command seems to get past the limit;
This command will only work on XP and Vista, and is apparently disabled on Windows 7.
Many motherboard manuals can be found online, and the RAM specs should be contained within.
Go to kingston.com or apacer.com, they have huge database of computers manufactured and give you compatible module types and sizes for your computer.
Open the case, take out the ram sticks and identify them visually. This might help you get an idea what specs the RAM is (PC3-800 or something like that). It is not the most reliable method, though.


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Obama Campaign Machine May Be Turned Loose On Fiscal Cliff Climbing Congress
The 2012 general election may be slipping into the past, but elements of President Obama's successful campaign aren't likely to go away anytime soon.
Just as it did after the president's 2008 election, the Obama campaign appears very likely to keep alive parts of the grass-roots effort that contributed to victory. And, just like four years ago, the idea would be to use the corps of Obama organizers and volunteers to push for the president's second-term agenda.
At a Politico breakfast event Tuesday, Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager, said he could readily see some of the campaign's online and mobile tools being repurposed to put pressure on Congress to reach agreement on the fiscal cliff negotiations and other pieces of Obama's agenda.
"People just spent five years winning two presidential elections together," Messina said. "They're now not going to walk away and not help him become the change that they want to see."
Messina cited the Internet technology called Dashboard, an online organizing tool launched by the 2012 campaign:
"You could easily see people using Dashboard to say, OK, I want to talk about the choices ahead of us in the fiscal cliff [debate], and I want to start organizing my friends. Dashboard would be very easy to start a group. We did over 350,000 events on Dashboard the last couple months of the campaign. It would be very easy for supporters today to go to start asking people today to start calling members of Congress. That would be easy."
(Shortly after the election, NPR's Robert Siegel, co-host of All Things Considered, interviewed the Obama campaign's chief technology officer, Harper Reed, about the same technology.)
Messina was quick to say that the decision to use the campaign's technology or volunteers in this way wasn't a done deal. Rather, the campaign officials would want to hear from "our people" — that is, its supporters — to hear their suggestions for what to do next.
Obama's team did very much the same thing after the 2008 election. After Obama took office, some of the same technology and people used to help win the election were turned to the effort of getting the president's agenda passed, including Obamacare.
Meanwhile, The Huffington Post reports that Obama intends to travel the country, campaign-style, to push for a fiscal cliff agreement.
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This page provides general guidelines for the Tennessee WIC eligibility requirements*. Applicants for the Women Infants and Children program must meet categorical, residential, WIC income requirements and nutrition risk. Before you apply for Tennessee WIC benefits, you can use the pre-screening tool online at http://wic.fns.usda.gov/wps/pages/start.jsf.
The length of time you receive benefits can be determined by pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, an infant or child. In most cases, if you are eligible for this program you will receive benefits from 6 months to a year, at which time you will need to apply again.
Tennessee WIC Waiting List
When the Tennessee WIC agency does not have enough money for everyone who is applying, they keep a waiting list of applicants who want to apply and are likely to be eligible. When this happens they use what is called a Priority System to determine who will get Tennessee WIC first. This system ensures that services and benefits are provided first to participants with the most serious health conditions.
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Applicants must be a resident of Tennessee. If you are an applicant and live in an area where the Women Infants and Children program is administered by an Indian Tribal Organization, then you must meet residency requirements established by the ITO.
Applicants are not required to live in Tennessee or a local service area for a certain amount of time to meet the WIC eligibility requirements. At the option of the local state agency, an Tennessee WIC applicant may be required to live in a local service area and apply for benefits at a clinic near that area. If you need to find a clinic, find a WIC clinic near me.
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The earliest printed sources that mention the bans of Rabbeinu Gershom ben Yehuda, one of which is the ban on polygamy, appear to be the Machzor Vitry (§575) and two teshuvot of the Maharam of Rotenberg (§153 and §1022). A much easier source to find (and read) is the anonymously-authored Sefer Kol Bo, which was probably composed in the 14th century. There you will find a section entitled דין תקנת רבינו גרשום וגזרת קדמונים ז"ל (Sefer Kol Bo §116; in modern editions, Volume III:5). Within that section is the following ruling:
The sections in parentheses reflect what is found in the mss. My translation is as follows:
You mean his ban on polygamy?
I was told that we don't actually have its text today; hence so much debate as to its contents and limitations.
There is no "book" of the rulings of Rabbeinu Gershom. Many items are referenced by later Rishonim in Ashkenaz as takkanot (rulings) of Rabbeinu Gershom, but there is no authoritative list in any one place. There is also no English translation for most of the following, which may be why no one has quoted them:
The earliest attributions to Rabbeinu Gershom are found in the Sefer Ma'asei HaGeonim which you can find edited by Epstein. Sefer HaPardes also has many attributions. Not to be confused with the much later kabbalah book by Cordovero.
In the early law codes, Rabbeinu Gershom is cited in the Sefer Ra'avan, Sefer Ra'aviyah and the 'Or Zarua.
By the time you get to the Sefer Hasidim and the Roke'ach, the quotes are less reliable, and a little more mythological - that is to say "it was a takkanah of Rabbeinu Gershom" becomes a support for many things for which there is no other real support.
At the end of this period comes the Maharam of Rottenberg, and then from him into the Mordechai, the Rosh and on into Tur/Shulchan Arukh, etc., etc., etc.,
Until the Rosh leaves Rottenberg and arrives in Spain, and there meets widespread polygamy and concubinage in the sefardi halakhik community, this is a consistent Ashkenazi stream of tradition which accepts the "gezeira" of Rabbeinu Gershom, and prohibits polygamy.
The following is a source that I am aware of.
Be'er HaGola at the end of Yorah Deah 334
If you can't find the text in either of these books:
and this guy (note: i don't agree with this page) doesn't have it either, you are going to have to go by the Rishonym who quote the Cheirim/Gezeira.
Upon further thought, there probably was not a formal document. Probably there was a series of Responsa that together became known as the "Gezeira". I'm pretty sure that not being able to divorce a woman against her will was a psak halacha and not a gezeira per se.


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Hasan's attorneys asked Col. Tara Osborn almost two-dozen questions Tuesday about her background and possible ties to the case or opinions she may have formed about the case. She answered no to almost all of them. The defense wants to re-litigate these pretrial issues:
Hasan's attorneys asked Col. Tara Osborn almost two-dozen questions Tuesday about her background and possible ties to the case or opinions she may have formed about the case. She answered no to almost all of them. The defense wants to re-litigate these pretrial issues:
Request for a media consultant
Request for a victim outreach specialist
Request for a change of venue
Request to limit testimony from prosecution terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann
Request for pretrial hearing for admissibility and standard of proof for aggravation evidence
Equal protection motion
The defense wants Osborn to reconsider these pretrial motions:
AR15-6 rediscovery
Related issues on e-mails to White House
Constitutional voir dire.
Prosecutorial misconduct of after one of the members of the prosecution team got certain training materials
Panel members' ability to take notes
Requesting military judges ability to question the witnesses motion to compel that required in camera review
Defective referral
Motion for daily transcripts
Motion for legislative failure
Motion dealing with grand jury indictment
The defense also wants to submit another supplemental questionnaire to the possible jury panel members because there have been several major events across the nation that could affect the trial. They submitted one in March.Osborn asked both the defense and the prosecution to submit a proposed schedule by Dec. 28 to litigate the issues in January. (Rachel Cox)
FORT HOOD (December 18, 2012)--U.S. Army Col. Tara Osborn, who was named earlier this month to preside over the case of accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan, won't require Hasan to shave.
The issue was the final one that Osborn addressed during a pretrial hearing Tuesday.
"I see you are wearing a beard," she told Hasan.
"You understand that you are outside of the Army uniform regulations?" she asked.
"I'm not going to hold that against you, but some members of the (jury) panel may," she said.
Hasan indicated that he understood.
Hasan is awaiting court-martial in the November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center that left 13 dead and two-dozen injured.
On Dec. 4 Osborn was named to replace Col Gregory Gross, whom the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ousted on Dec. 3.
The court also tossed Gross' order that Hasan must shave or would be shaved forcibly before the court-martial begins.
The court ruled that the command, not the judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards and said Gross didn't appear to be impartial in his handling of the case.
"Thus, taken together, the, decision to remove Appellant from the courtroom, the contempt citations, and the decision to order Appellant's forcible shaving in the absence of any command action to do the same, could lead an objective observer to conclude that the military judge was not impartial towards Appellant," the ruling said.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is the highest-level appellate court for the U.S. military.
Hasan's court-martial was on hold for months because of the battle over the Army psychiatrist's beard.
The Dec. 3 decision came in Hasan's appeal of a ruling in October by the U.S. Army Court of Appeals that Hasan has no right to wear a beard in uniform during his court-martial.
The Army Court of Appeals upheld Gross' finding that Hasan failed to prove the beard is an expression of a sincerely held religious belief and said even if the beard were such an expression, "compelling government interests" also justified Gross' order that Hasan meet Army grooming standards.
The court also upheld previous contempt findings against Hasan in which he was fined $1,000 six times for appearing in court out of uniform because of his beard.
The defense filed appeals seeking a ruling on whether the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act allowed Hasan to keep the beard.
The first sought to overturn contempt findings against Hasan in previous hearings and to bar any future contempt proceedings over the beard.
The second sought a ruling on whether the act allows Hasan to have a beard while in military uniform during his court-martial.


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I am wondering is if there is still a single, canonical source of the hardware supported by the newest distribution of Ubuntu.
In specific, I want to get a 17-inch HP dv7t Quad edition laptop.
But more generally, it is just bothering me how little luck I'm having finding an up-to-date support listing.


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This question is related to one of my previous questions.
The answer to that question included a theorem: "The median on the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals one-half the hypotenuse".
When I wrote the answer out and showed it a friend of mine, he basically asked me how I knew that the theorem was true, and if the theorem had a name.
So, my question:
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-If not, what would be the best way to describe it during a math test? Or is it better to write out the full prove every time?


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February 12, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — The spiritual leader of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville said he was "surprised and stunned" Monday when he heard Pope Benedict XVI planned to resign effective Feb. 28....
We hope there is someone within the college of cardinals who could be a pope with integrity, who will start to take immediate actions to stop these crimes against humanity.
Children are safest when child predators and those who enable and conceal their crimes are held responsible.
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"I have seen great progress during the time of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI"??
Pope Benedict made several apologies to victims who were sexually abused by clerics, etc, within the Catholic church. Yet to this day, he has taken no decisive actions to punish any high ranking church official for enabling, empowering, and covering up sex crimes against innocent kids.
Many should have been fired. Just to name a few.. --Cardinal Law, who was given a plush job in the Vatican, is still in that high ranking position --Bishop Finn, who is a convicted criminal is still the bishop of the KC-St Joe diocese --Cardinal Mahony, horrific cover up of sex crimes per thousands of recently released LA archdiocese secret documents, he is still a cardinal and can now vote for a new pope.
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Nice info
by EricaF123 Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 08:06AM Report as inappropriate
That spoon trick sounds a bit crazy
by kimihavens Friday, November 2, 2012 at 04:30PM Report as inappropriate
I dont recommend doing the spoon with the eye trick if you've been drinking a few cocktails...
by Only1KimmieD Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 11:33AM Report as inappropriate
Carry alcohol pads and nail glue, all the time. Even if you don't wear fake nails or need first aid, there are a million uses for these!
by robyne00 Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 05:17PM Report as inappropriate
I saw some people using aspirin for pimples.
by lilas Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 06:02PM Report as inappropriate
Great advice
by milenaa87 Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 06:43AM Report as inappropriate
my roommate curls her lashes with a spoon and the first time i saw her doing it, i thought she was crazy! but after seeing her nicely curled lashes, i guess using a spoon really does work :D
by LeSucre Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 01:07AM Report as inappropriate
The toilet paper hint reminded me of this obnoxious person I worked with, you know the one that acts like she is smarter and prettier than everyone else around? She kept her toothbrush in a glass on the sink in the bathroom at work. I assumed she never read or heard that the water from the toilet could fly up to 30 feet at times. I always imagined that it was all over the toothbrush that she used.
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Wow, some great advise.
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I've heard of the spoon one before in an article about a celebrity. The others were mostly new though. Thanks!! I'm loving this site. So many helpful/interesting articles!!
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10 potential BYU draftees
PROVO — It's always a shaky prospect to assess any player's likelihood of being drafted, particularly at BYU. Who would have predicted in 2011 that Matt Reynolds would go undrafted while Ezekiel Ansah would be a top five pick, for example?
Yes, contrasting Ansah with Reynolds provides the most extreme of examples, but underscores the difficulty to accurately assess any particular player's pro prospects. Although there are good indicators regarding a player's pro prospects, those indicators are fluid.
BYU currently has several players on its squad who could be drafted in the near future nevertheless. Here's 10 players who could hear their names called out as NFL draft picks in the coming years.
- Oldest first
- Newest first
- Most recommended
Eli Herring was drafted but decided not to pursue an NFL career. Chris Hoke wasn't drafted but ended up with a long NFL career. Being drafted is not the ultimate goal of every college football player and unless you are drafted in the early rounds, it is sometimes better not to be drafted because you can control your own destiny with an equally strong chance to make a team in the NFL.
- 8:14 p.m. April 29, 2013
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Remind me how many kids the Y has had drafted in the past 3 years before claiming there are 10 prospects on the current roster. Van Noy is almost a sure thing and 2-3 others seem likely but at least a third of the list is a real stretch.
- 9:45 p.m. April 29, 2013
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Their's way more than 10 NFL guys on this team. Way more.
- 10:08 p.m. April 29, 2013
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We're as likely to hear the name of Howard S. called in a future NFL draft
as we are to hear the names of most on that list.
But... if it weren't for anticipated glory Cougar Nation would have no glory at all.
- 10:10 p.m. April 29, 2013
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Wow - With 10 potential draft choices on next years team they could (should)
roll over the opponents next year. Obviously this is a juggernaut in the making.
Mr. Gurney should you not have given credit to SammyG and Duckhunter for their contributions to this article?
P.S. Current odd-makers cite 2 as the over/under of this list in the next e years.
- 10:29 p.m. April 29, 2013
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KVN should've declared or if Bronco cared an ounce about him he
should've told him he'd cut him.
Look at Matt Barkley, a top 5 pick who fell to the second round and lost 10's of millions, or Star Lotulelei, who would've gone higher last year. What if Star's heart really WOULD have been bad? He'd be out millions. College will be there forever. The millions may not. Many people finish degrees while working full time, but don't get paid millions while doing so.
If Ryker Matthews starts three years and is projected in the top 2 rounds, he should go then. Any other advice is irresponsible.
- 11:44 p.m. April 29, 2013
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Im a die hard Cougar fan and even I will admit that some of the names on this list are a stretch. Hoffman and Van Noy are the only "locks." the rest either have no chance of getting drafted or have too many more years to prove themselves. But Ziggys success in the lime light will definitley bring more scouts looking to provo. Go Cougars!
- 1:12 a.m. April 30, 2013
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Nice picture of Jordan Johnson. There had to be a better picture of him.
- 6:50 a.m. April 30, 2013
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I knew this was a bad idea from the moment I read the headline. Interesting
reading between seasons for the BYU football fanatic, good evaluations of
POSSIBILITIES, not PROBABILITIES. Nope, this was an open invitation for the
mocking and scorn the DN theoretically despises.
Juggernaut? No, look how many players the Utes have had drafted, and yet there they are again, wondering if they can make a bowl game this next season, other than buying tickets...
- 6:59 a.m. April 30, 2013
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the trotting utes probly have at least 20 nfl guys on there team. they will mop up the pac 10 south.
- 7:01 a.m. April 30, 2013
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I'd give half the list a good shot - Van Noy and Hoffman will be selected and likely early. I wouldn't be too surprised if down the road Kaufusi, Williams, and Matthews were too. The rest are a stretch at least at this point.
- 8:17 a.m. April 30, 2013
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I was just about rolling around on the floor after reading this article. I
looked to see who wrote it and after seeing it was Gourney that wrote it...it
makes more sense. No one else could write an article that is more of a homer
than this.
He lost me at Taysom Hill. Man, if you are calling a kid who started a few games then got hurt and never came back as an NFL prospect, you may as well list the kicker too. Taysom is obviously a pretty good athlete but he didn't show anything in terms of quarterbacking skills last year that would even warrant a conversation about the NFL. He won by running. His passing was questionable, as was his accuracy. He might grow into that, but man it's pretty early to project NFL on this kid.
This article may have well been titled "those BYU players we hope may get drafted someday". I could have bought Hoffman and Van Noy. Let's be serious though...BYU has had 1 player drafted in 3 years.
- 9:19 a.m. April 30, 2013
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Wow, no mentioned about B. Kafusi on this comment section. Ok he will be drafted in NBA and Ziggy feeling the sting or lol! Can we think about 2013 BYU football season for now. NFL draft is another 11 1/2 month to go.
- 9:39 a.m. April 30, 2013
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Based on the ridiculousness of this article, BYU should be undefeated next year.
This article will come back to haunt BYU again.
Sounds like another T-shirt in the making.
Van Noy will be drafted. The tall receiver will get a look. The rest won't sniff an NFL locker room.
- 1:11 p.m. April 30, 2013
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Your hyperbole is as ludicrous as that which you mock in this article. Again, who would have projected Ziggy as a number 5 this time last year? He will get plenty of sniffs.
Granted, he was an almost totally unknown commodity, but any idiot can declare with pronounced arrogance what will or won't happen in the future. Nameless posters are not held to account for their predictions.
Also, no one here but you declared this to mean BYU would go undefeated. Nobody would be that arrogant. The year BYU beat Oklahoma, Oklahoma had 7 kids drafted. Didn't help them much. In fact, I think U had 7 kids drafted that year, and we beat U, too.
- 3:10 p.m. April 30, 2013
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I blame the sports editor for this one.
Actualy focusing on the top 2 or 3 BYU propsects for the 2014 draft and comparing them to the 2013 nfl draft class would have actually have made for a good article.
- 4:04 p.m. April 30, 2013
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Just because of his size (6-3, 210) and past performance (9 TDs as a freshman), I would put Ross Apo on this list ahead of the last 4 or 5 guys. If BYU gets decent QB play in the next 2 seasons, his stats should go up, and he'll get more attention from the pros.
- 2:58 p.m. May 1, 2013
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byu has had 14 players drafted since 2003.
One thing is for certain, when it comes down to pre-season accolades/NCs, byu has the rest of the nation beat, hands-down....Yet, during this current BCS Era, they're barely above .500 in their bowl games at 6-5....W/the typically bottom-feeder SOS they face, annually, one would think they could've gone undefeated/BCS Bowling at least once....Shoot, even Hawaii/NIU managed to accomplish this feat.
BTW, UTAH has also reached 11 bowl games during this same time-frame, but have gone 10-1, etc., etc.
Ansah coming out of nowhere spared byu from going the 3rd consecutive year without a player being drafted....Think about it.
- 7:25 p.m. May 1, 2013
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Why don't we all just wait for the draft and see what happens? That's a lot to ask, I know.
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There's a pretty big difference between what works in a cartoon and what works in real life. But military generals and weapons designers both have an inner child who still likes to draw super awesome weapons on the back of a notebook. And these are people who have the power to make those cartoonish ideas come to life, at taxpayer expense.
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#5. Weaponized Stink Bombs
The wacky enclave of American military scientists known as DARPA are a bottomless pool of content here at Cracked due to their being a kind of mashup between James Bond's gadget purveyors and the ACME company. Back in 2008, they brought the gold once again with a "nonlethal personal suppression projectile," or for the rest of us, a stink bomb specifically engineered to make enemy soldiers smell like ass on a semi-permanent basis.
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"Somebody wanna light a match?"
Stink bombs, or "malodorants," have actually been used by the military as far back as World War II. That's when American scientists developed a stink weapon nicknamed "Who Me" for use by the French resistance against Nazi soldiers. The idea was that French resistors could walk up to German soldiers and spray them with poop smell, thus embarrassing them, and, after an unknown second step, the Nazis would lose the war. As you didn't learn about this in history class, it's probably clear that this tactic didn't work.
Impractical Because:
As members of the French resistance discovered, if you try to spray a chemical mist at another person while standing close by, a lot of that shit is going to get on you. The sprayer ended up smelling just as bad as the person being sprayed, and it took about two weeks for everybody involved to realize that "Who Me" was a dismal failure.
High-ranking Nazis spent all day sweating in leather trench coats, rendering the spray redundant.
DARPA's XM1063 bomb resolved most of these issues, but another point that has raised eyebrows here is that you need to be ridiculously racist in order to get poop bombs to work, and not just the OK form of racism that involves French people. Diet, culture and lifestyle choices mean that different populations perceive many smells differently, and if you want to create a stink bomb, you need to profile members of the target population and then build a weapon specifically for them.
We're not going to tell you what a bad idea it is to develop racially profiled weapons, since we're assuming that you were all awake for at least five minutes during your high school history class. But this is pretty much why the perfect stink bomb has evaded the U.S. military all these years -- they're actually not racist enough to have figured out how to develop a weapon that's sufficiently effective. But for all the reasons why a war effort might fail, "lack of racism" is probably one of the most socially acceptable.
#4. Underwater Snorkel Tanks
Tanks are pretty awesome already, and we still kind of wish we owned one. But do you know what's even more badass? If you said "underwater tanks," then you're either a 15-year-old boy or a Nazi engineer.
Wehrmacht History
Of course, most Nazi engineers were 12-year-old boys.
During Operation Sea Lion, Germany's unsuccessful 1940 attempt to invade Britain, the Nazis faced the problem of getting all their tanks across the water and onto that island. Someone asked, "Can't we just drive there somehow?" So their solution was to look back at designs they'd scribbled down in fifth grade, and they came up with what they called the Tauchpanzer, but we prefer to call it the snorkeltank.
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"Soon, there will be swastikas over Atlantis!"
Basically, they waterproofed a bunch of Panzer tanks, retrofitted them with a modified hose-snorkel and drove them into the ocean. Had Operation Sea Lion not been cancelled at the last minute, 254 snorkeltanks would have been dropped into the English Channel to sneak into England under the veil of water like a bunch of tank ninjas.
Impractical Because:
As much as it pains us to admit it, the harsh reality is that snorkeltanks come with a variety of inherent problems, the most obvious being that the bottom of the ocean isn't the best terrain for driving. If the tanks had to stop for any reason, such as the myriad obstacles scattered across the sea floor, they had a tendency to sink into the mud.
Wehrmacht History
They should have tried sticking floaties on the end of the barrel.
Then there are the issues that arise from being locked inside a metal box under the sea. If there was any kind of problem down there, you couldn't just float to the surface like a submarine. The water pressure outside meant that you couldn't open the hatch, either, so your only hope was to flood the tank and hope that you could get yourself out in time to most likely drown anyway.
But, hey, you and your snorkeltank could probably still unleash a blitzkrieg upon your local kiddie pool.
#3. The 430-Foot-Long Vengeance Cannon
Alongside whatever else World War II was about (we forget), the whole affair was kind of one big dick-measuring contest. So it was in this spirit of overcompensation that the Nazis put together the 430-foot-long V-3 cannon -- the V, by the way, stands for "vengeance."
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The Nazis were a subtle people.
This thing was capable of firing more than 300 shells the size of schoolchildren an hour, over a range of up to 100 miles. This way, they could literally shoot somebody from the next country over, which they did on the one occasion they actually got to use the thing, to bombard Luxembourg from Germany in 1945.
Impractical Because:
As it turns out, shooting bullets at a target 100 miles away is kind of difficult, and was more so in the 1940s. As indisputably badass as the vengeance cannon was, the bombardment of Luxembourg killed an estimated 10 people -- hardly the most memorable battle of the war, considering the effort and expense that something like this took to build.
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You'd expect a rain of explosive dicks to do more damage.
On top of that, the sheer size meant that these things weren't exactly mobile, so any one that they actually managed to build was a sitting duck as soon as the enemy figured out where the bullets were coming from, which was simple enough for anyone who managed to pass grade school physics.
Even before they finished building them, the Nazis had a tough time keeping the V-3 cannons secret. When the Germans started building a bunch of them in France to aim at London, the British knew that something was up, and although they didn't know what the V-3 actually was, they nevertheless sent the air force in to bomb whatever it was into oblivion. And it's a good thing, too -- just imagine how many tens of people might have been killed.
Tens of tens, even.


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Secretary of State John Gale's office has expanded its system of business documents that can be filed online to include limited liability companies (LLCs).
The Corporate and Business Document eDelivery System can now accept filings for LLCs organized or authorized after Jan. 1, 2011. Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, the system will accept filings for LLCs regardless of when the LLC was organized or authorized.
Since December 2011, the system has accepted documents for corporations, including professional and nonprofit corporations.
There are dozens of documents that can be filed online using the system, which is available at https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-sos-edocs/.
"I'm pleased that LCCs are now included in the online filing system," said Gale, noting the popularity of LLCs in the business world.
"Filers will find the electronic filing to be user-friendly and convenient," he said. "This is part of my continuing commitment to make it easier to do business with the state through electronic government."
Total payments for online filing include amounts which go to cover the operating costs incurred by the service provider, the Nebraska.gov network manager, Nebraska Interactive, LLC.
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Guys, let's get real here.
What did we get?
- Unemployment extension for a year.
- A permanent tax cut for the middle class.
- A permanent tax raise on individuals making over 400k.
- Extension of the child tax credit.
- Extension of the college tuition credit.
- Capital gains rate raised to 20% (23.8% in effect with Obamacare).
What did Boehner get?
- People making between 250k-400k won't have their taxes raised.
And that's it. Are you really willing to play chicken with two million people's livelihoods just to get an extra 100 or 200 billion in revenue over 10 years by keeping the bracket at 250k? Really guys? You're going to stall unemployment checks to families just for some chump change? That's some Republican rigidity right there.
Take a second to realize that if this deal goes through, we'll have gotten Republicans to vote for raising taxes. Also realize that there was no way in a million years that Congress would have ever given the President control of the debt ceiling--that was always a pipe dream that no amount of leverage could have gotten. That is one of the few tools the Congress has to counteract the executive branch. If you want it, you're going to have to pry it from their cold, dead hands. This debt ceiling battle coming up is inevitable.
And we still have the Republicans by the balls by not addressing the spending cuts in the defense budget in a few months. Their sacred cow is still on the chopping block while we've gotten 90% of what we wanted off it.
But we don't even know for sure that the House will even go for all of this. "We could have gotten more" is going to look rather silly if House Republicans shoot this deal down.Originally Posted by LA Times
And it looks like the deal is falling apart in the House. Not enough spending cuts for the Republicans. Cantor openly defied Boehner in the conference committee. The vote on the Senate bill has been postponed indefinitely. They're going to try to attach an amendment with more spending cuts and then kick it back to the Senate. The Senate is already saying "fuck that."
"But we could have gotten more."
Any last comments were when everything was still in infancy so I'm not sure if/what anything had changed since then (of your "what we get points, I was only aware of #1 and #2 at the time) , but there were still plenty of issues last I saw.
It permanently extended the Bush tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000 (single) and $450,000 (joint) while extending refundable tax credits for the poor (child tax credit, enlarged EITC, and tuition tax credit) for only five years. Stuff like that seems inexcusable at this point.
But you're saying the deal did end up with a tax raise on 400k and up, so I'll have to go see what's up.
From my understanding it also only got about half the revenue the president's plan called for from the highest tax brackets.
But I've not done any paying attention since that morning so I'll spend some time catching up today.
Even if it's all for naught since it's a dead bird anyway.
Also why was the first $5 million exempt from estate tax and why is it still? That seems silly to me, off the cuff, anyway.
French Government Cuts Immigrant Welfare by 83%
Don't know how reputable the site is and Google only brings up similar sites that have a dubious reputation.
*EDIT* A person claiming to be from France is saying the cuts only effect immigrants who are citizens of the EU.
@Steven -- The deal was in place as of 1 PM Monday, so I don't know if I'd say that it was in its infancy at the time (but at this point, I'm just being nitpicky). The tax credits extended were never meant to be permanent, nor should they be in my opinion. I don't see why people should get a tax break for having children--if anything, I'm being taxed for being both single and childless since I'm not eligible for either of those credits. Also, those tax rates are "permanently" set in place, but not indefinitely. It's not like they'll never be raised again.
$5 million was exempted from the estate tax because it hurts a lot of small businesses and farmers. Capital assets, such as land and equipment, are counted in the value of an estate. This causes family farms to have to sell off some of the business just to give Uncle Sam his check.
@usedtabe -- Always glad to see Europeans embracing the stupider aspects of fascism while decrying the smarter ones. Not that I agree or disagree with the measure, but the enthusiasm for it just strikes me as humorous. I'm too much of a meritocrat to ever buy into that racial/cultural superiority bullshit.
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I suppose it would be more accurate to say I caught brief highlights right around when it was being finalized, then, rather than having caught anything in full. Was just keeping up on Twitter while making breakfast, or something.
I don't mind tax breaks for children because of the long term. Better than children being a more undue strain on parents. Sure, if you're going to have a kid should plan ahead etc. idealistic, but that's not going to happen. Better to try to make sure kids don't end up raised poor and terribly, even if it's a bit of a bandaid measure.
Cheers on the 5 mil info. Sensible, even if there's a part of me irritated by the idle rich not getting some of their funds cut into.
If there are families with children who need help, then they should be given help. But those tax write-offs are passed out like candy to a lot of families who don't need them (including the people up top that everybody despises). It's the same deal with the tuition credit as well. But at the same time, these were measures passed to help people during a turbulent time that we're still not quite out of, so I find their extension to be a good thing for the time being. I'd have extended them for 2 years as opposed to 5 though.
Either way, I'm still being punished for not being married and not having kids. There are two ways to look at the issue.
Al Jazeera Buys Current TV
I'm pretty excited for this. I liked Current TV in its original carnation with user-submitted videos and documentaries, but I'd rather have a straight-forward news channel over the liberal propaganda organ that Current has become lately.Al Jazeera will replace Current's programming with its own network.
I just want the news. Keep your opinions to yourself—I can form my own.
Where in the fuck is my Payroll tax Holiday Rev? Da fuck?
That's going to hurt a lot of families and impact my wasteful gaming funds.
It's also going to bankrupt Medicare and Social Security if it's left in place. The Payroll Tax Holiday was a backdoor way for Republicans to undermine the integrity of those programs.
I'd have extended it for another year, but I can see why it wasn't renewed.
Never knew about Current TV but I'm happy for more Al Jazeera.
^Secret Mooslim
I'm on to you, Joshual'aa.
Nah, just the old enemy of an enemy is a friend
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The Bush tax cuts have been extended 2 times (once under Bush, once under Obama) at least, for example.
Nothing unusual.
"I'm a little too formal, I know."
They still bombed those kids Rev
They deserved it.
I once saw Joe Biden chew a man's face clean off the skull. It's a little known fact that he actually has several rows of teeth, him being part shark and all.


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After reading several texts about meta-modeling I still do not really get the practical benefit. Sometimes I think it is only an interesting mind game but no useful tool. Sure it is wise to clarify your modeling vocabulary: some may say class where others say entity or concept, but this is just simple documentation your modeling terminology. Meta-modeling, as I understand it, is more complex, as it tries to formalize and abstract modeling. Some good examples are Keet's formal comparison of conceptual data modeling languages (UML, ERM and ORM) from academia and the Meta Object Facility (MOF) from industry. To me MOF looks as impractical as CORBA, which was also created by OMG. In theory you could use meta-modeling to transform and integrate models in different modeling languages, but is anyone actually doing this?
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I can give you an example of when meta-modeling was useful at my workplace. In the 1990s, the company where I worked grew quickly by acquisition. With each acquisition, new staff, systems, databases and data were added. By 2004, the IT department employed almost 5,000 people and had a yearly budget of 10^9 USD. Many of the smaller companies we merged with had their data in MS Access, MS Excel, Fox Pro. Many of the large companies had flat files on the mainframe, hierarchical databases, huge DB2 installations running on OS/2... and everything else under the sun. Other than the general ledger, no serious attempt was made to consolidate any of this data.
At some point in time, someone woke up and realized there little control of corporate data and that the lack of control represented a huge risk to the company. It was time to clean house! But where to begin? Even a simple idea like "customer" meant something different to every group. The "customer" entity used by the legal department had almost no overlap with the "customer" used by the sales office, and those "customers" had nothing to do with the "customer" used by finance. How do you sort out a mess like that?
The approach we took started with backing up a step. Rather than put 30 people in a room and watch them fight for their own definition of what "customer" meant, we started with meta-modeling. We tackled questions like "what is a semantic attribute?" or "what are entities and how should their names be formatted?".
It was easier to gain consensus about abstractions like "class" and "relationship" than about actual operational data. But once the stakeholders had consensus on fundamental terms, we could move down the latter of abstraction, gradually getting more and more concrete. Eventually we had a common framework for describing corporate data and were working toward a common data dictionary.
You have different layers of abstractions. MOF is the highest, then using a transformation you get UML or BPM models, then views. Modelers usually talks about M0,M1..M3 I think that with new technologies traditional barriers between metamodelling and modeling is disappearing. Let's consider EMF (eclipse modeling technology). Ecore is a kind of MOF then using EMF serialization you get an UML model, then using GMF you get graphical representations.