You think a Billion is a lot?

The top 100 corpos could spend 1% of their total profits and spend 6 times that on a single candidate to make sure they win.

That is what this change in law does to us, fucks you and me in the ass.

You cant just "stop" working a company because its parent company goes against you in its policies, you almost couldnt work anymore considering everyone is owned by everyone now.

I took both discrete structures and vector calculus classes.

I have used the discrete structures, graphs, algorithms far more than I ever use calculus. The only time I would have had a need to use 3d space mapped to a map (IE doing a map) there were plenty of examples for the specific task on the internet.

That isnt, in of itself, an excuse but for the rarity of the need it was useful.

I avoided video game programming because I realized that it is not a lot of "fun" it is mostly managing vectors and such, which is nice for those that want to do it, and I passed the classes required for it, but it simply was not for me.

meat prices will stay static but leather prices will go up to compensate.

I can't wait till we get some slig action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slig_(Dune)#Sligs

Calorie counting does work.

though I havent read the book, I read a study myself that said all weight loss is is calories in vs calories out.

I was told by my doctor that I would die by my mid 40's or have to be on maintenance drugs for the rest of my life, I was 303, and this was on August 31 2009.

Now, as of today I am 270 lbs, well on my way downward in weight.

I didnt eat any fancy foods, healthy foods, whole grain, or any of that. I tried that once and so hated my life I failed over and over to lose weight.

Instead I simply ate less of what I like, and made sure to calculate calories as well as I can and I started doing a little bit of exercise, about 300 calories a day (easy to do, just some small amount of walking).

I dont even need the exercise, I lost nearly 15 lbs without exercise. It is all calories in and calories out.

What I also hate is these advertisements where they argue "lose 20 lbs in a month!"

The first 20lbs is easy, just put the fork down and don't eat so much.

Its the next 20 thats hard.

playing ON the same computer that is hosting is a terrible, terrible idea.

It gives the host a massive advantage

Note, all of those mechs were hacked into the game by mektek.net, because of this work and their work on the models they were added this way.

at 26 mpg (what i get) at 18.5 cents a gallon it means that you spend 71.115 cents per 100 miles.

If its a 1 cent a mile then you spend 1 dollar per mile (100 cents)

If its 2 cent a mile you spend 2 dollars per mile.

Which means that for a car at 26 MPG the current system is almost 42% more tax burden at 1 cent tax and 280 % at 2 cents?

Why, other than the privacy concerns, would America want this if it was completely benign (and they never used it to watch you).

I don't know the scientific community was pretty adamant in its consensus against the Bush administration on this.

This guy sounds like a holdover from individuals hired by the previous administration to refute the rest of the scientific community.

Is the law they are crafting that they will call the "RetroActive Pirating Extended Digital Unity" Act. (The RAPEU Act) that will allow copyright holders to get logs of all users who have downloaded music without DRM and force them to pay a media shifting licensing fee of 10 dollars (so that they can have the right to convert the music to CD, MP3 Player etc..) per song.

Actually the NSA did a warrentless search, and has as of yet to ask for a FISA warrant, as they were unable to find a link between the Clinton Administration and Al Quaeda before the Bush administration ended.

I think they should at least think of calling the satellite a "Death Star" and it can be contracted out to corporate entities to help... disinfect certain areas of their domain with high power beams of energy.

I have not found this to be true. It sounds good in theory, but a view cannot be optimized in some cases and depending on the architecture can also have conversion problems that simply do not exist otherwise.

If you are working at the problem strictly from the point of view of an application, oftentimes your perspective is correct, but if your looking at raw performance issues, and outright bugs, sometimes views can have a significance performance issue. Also, views often only grab subsets of data, and when you are doing heavy data manipulation you may end up joining the view against a table that is in the view itself causing slow downs.