It's easy to get these guys, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mixed up with with these guys, The American Association for the Advancement of Science. They're not the same. The latter are the ones that publish Science, the prestigious scientific journal. The former, I'm not sure who those guys are.
Aren't they the people who award the Oscars or something...?
I wonder how many of them have embellished their accomplishments, too? Seems pretty common in academia these days.
Citation needed...
Except that the US population is not spread out evenly over the entire country. Instead there are very high concentrations of people (of course!) in urban area. However, even the densely populated areas such as, Los Angeles, mid-Atlantic Washington/Baltimore/Philadelphia/New York/Boston have connection speeds that are mediocre by international standards. It's really a red herring to talk about the national population density as we're not really worried about connection speeds in, for example, rural Iowa.
An Israeli style system will NEVER be implemented in the US because it runs totally contrary to the politically-correct postmodernist identity politics narrative that drives our current political monologue (no, not dialogue).
Except that the "TSA Pre" system is approaching this in some ways. People who have been pre-screened and/or selected by other criteria (e.g. extremely
frequent fliers) have a somewhat reduced (and currently much faster) security screening procedure.
It's not exactly the same, but it does have some commonality.
I agree that we in the US have long ago since stopped being the land of the free,.
Just wondering when the US was supposed to be the "land of the free"?
Even after the era of forcefully removing the previous population from their land coming to an end, and slavery ending, there has still been apartheid
(including anti-miscegenation laws) and anti-communist drives until rather recently.
Despite the multitude of current problems, it may well be that the US is the most free it has ever been.
The "nothing we could do" refers to our inability to help the unfortunate child the amber alert went out for.
My girlfriend has Sprint which enabled these alerts previously.
Several months ago we were woken at 5am by a loud alert
at about 5am.
This was an Amber alert. While it's a great shame, we certainly didn't want to woken for this,
and there was nothing we could do.
Although the alert can be turned off, the default was for it to be on, which I believe is not the proper way this
should have been enabled.
So you're really telling me that we've put up a sometimes ridiciolously strict security system that you simply can skip (at least in parts) by SIGNING UP TO A WEBSITE??
Global entry membership requires background check and brief interview. (And membership fee.)
However, TSA Pre is also accessible to e.g. very frequent fliers.
It appears to follow the rationale advocated by some people around here that it's the person who should be considered by security, not the
items that they are carrying.
With "TSA-Pre" (which you can get e.g. by signing up for global entry) you can avoid many of
these inconveniences. e.g. you can keep shoes on, keep computer inside bag, keep liquids in bag.
Global entry has other major advantages for international travelers (avoid immigration lines).
http://www.globalentry.gov/
Same as with candy bar machines.
They frequently fail to give you your candy bar, but they almost never accidentally give you 2 candy bars.
They're obviously engineered to "fail" in a way that benefits the "house"....
Dwyer hopes his sensor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, will provide more data."
The "sensor" referred to in the article appears to be the main instrument on board the Fermi spacecraft: the not very imaginatively named Large Area Telescope,
or LAT. This was developed by a very large international team, including NASA and the DoE in the US. However, Dwyer, as far as I know, was not
a member of this large team. (And I don't think the article or Dwyer actually claim this.)
The data obtained from the LAT are made public as soon as possible, usually within much less than 24 hours,
after being obtained. Anyone in the world is free to download and analyze these data.
http://www-glast.stanford.edu/
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/
The Fermi satellite also carries the GBM - gamma-ray burst monitor, which has provided the majority of the results on gamma-rays
from lightning. The data from this instrument are also immediately public.
http://gammaray.msfc.nasa.gov/gbm/
Are you saying "head down the road apiece until you git to where the old Johnson place used to be, then stay on that road until you git to the oak tree- no wait, they cut that down- tell you what, you just go for about 10 minutes until you see a guy on a thresher and ask him," isn't good information?
It would be if I could get even that. But everyone was just totally clueless, not even any map. When I worked in a petrol station in the UK (when I was a student) we had a local map pinned to the wall because we had so many people stopping and asking for directions.
These days like everyone else I just rely on my phone for navigation, of course.
up with inordinately complex solutions to everyday problems... it's like guys who insist on not stopping for directions... they'll drive in circles for hours when all it would have taken was to walk into a gas station and ask where to go.
Off topic but: When I lived in the UK I used to ask for directions at petrol stations very often and always got good information. But, when I moved to the US I tried asking for directions at gas stations and never got any useful help at all. So, asking for directions at gas stations is not useful, based on my research...
Many phones can work with T-mobile's service over wifi. For me that's at least as good as having a local cell extender.
http://t-mobile-coverage.t-mobile.com/4g-wireless-broadband-service
However, it appears the iPhone may not be able to use this initially.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/t-mobile-iphone-no-wifi-calling-feature-enabled/
Perhaps a great day for democracy, but not liberal democracy.
(USAians may need to look up the definition of that.)
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
