It's applied mathematics how much more abstract and removed do you want it to be ?

What this is about is getting particular groups of people interested in the subject. That may be good or bad, but the problem is not with the material.

No surprise from ATT, I doubt anyone expected anything from them except obstructionism. Cheers to the City Council for taking action that is obviously in their constituents best interest.

Indeed.

Your kidding right ?

Look around you, we have a near endless universe and we haven't even noticeably begun to exploit it. We can either man up to the challenges ahead use the resources at our disposal and move forward to a better future, or we can stick our heads in the sand a plant a kick me sign on our collective asses.

What does it do roam the roads by night draining the life out of Priuses ?

Just under what legal theory before the FDA was poisoning people a legitimate business ?

And just what stops people from selling something similar as a nutritional supplement ?

If you don't recall

http://www.nemsn.org/Articles/summary_tryptophan%20Fagan.htm

So the party that currently is in control of the executive branch would be to blame here.

And correctly done at that. This would be better fodder for it's own Ask Slashdot.

The world exists at the whim of the developers, or rather the marketing people. It makes it very difficult to justify putting in the kind of effort needed to do well, when you know, it will be pulled out from under you. Esp, when developers actively seem to dislike people doing well in the games.

TSW is very problematical.

While the writing is very good, the coding is not. It could reasonably be renamed the The secret world of bugs.

If you need a blood test the doctor/hospital will likely take the blood perform test and charge accordingly leaving the patient out of the loop entirely. If this test does actually force a lower reimbursement rate, they will specify checking for conditions not covered by the test so a more expensive one has to be done

"That specific line was actually written by the editor, not by me. I would not agree that the US and Japan (mostly the US, though) will have trouble shaping the document the way they want. In fact, the US has shaped the document to its preferences to a large degree already."

Well then, that changes this from how very smart people can overlook the big things because they become wrapped up in minutiae, to how news organs pick and manipulate what is news to promote agendas.

Really I laughed my ass off at this.

Think about the conclusion "The U.S. and Japan are relatively isolated and will have trouble shaping the document the way they want"

Of the countries mentioned which have the largest economies, and the greatest leverage on trade issues ? I'll give you a hint, it's not NZ.

What this poli-sci person did is looked at a convocation of sheep and found out they don't like the wolves policies.

And slushfunds ?

It's the only motivator I can think of for congress to do this

I am much much more worried about what companies know about me than I ever will be about the government.