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^You liberals with your socialist propaganda. Get a job, hippie.

Unfortunately, the position of ditch digger has already been taken. I'm going to go back to school in the hopes of qualifying for the position of ditch fill-back-up-er.

Like Potter Stewart on Pornography, I know it when I see it.

Unfortunately 'privacy' is a very general term. It seems to me that if Obama takes an action that erodes some aspect of rights we believe are contained in the term 'privacy', and his actions are ruled to be legal, then this newly defined (and more limited) definition of 'privacy' is indeed the level of privacy we were guaranteed by the constitution. While I have no desire to give up any rights I've been exercising, whether guaranteed or not, it seems unreasonable to fault him for playing by the rules.

While Bush & now Obama have gotten away with the legal wiggle room, there's little doubt in my mind that the wide-scale surveillance and privacy violations of American citizen's by our gov't in the name of security lies against the principles of the constitution and bill of rights as determined by various courts. I am not, however, a lawyer.

Ok. I understand how privacy is being eroded. I guess I was thrown by your statement that he is abusing the bill of rights. As long as what he is doing is legal I don't see how he could be viewed as eroding our rights under the constitution.

Amendment 4, 9 & 14, section 1 have been interpreted as a general right to privacy from State and (due to 9) federal governments.

huda - without telling me what distance metric you're using I can't really answer/ find an answer to your question. It's beyond me why you won't be explicit about it.

I thought the volatility in energy costs and their general progression upward had something to do with the supply side of the economic equation. If anything cheaper energy would be a boon to businesses, who have to build their entire models around the cost of energy towards production.

Agreed, but look at what the gov't has been doing to promote alternative energy: basically subsidizing inefficient corn-based ethanol production. That and subsidizing traditional oil companies - well I don't really think the gov't is good at this game. Gov't subsidized energy doesn't necessarily mean cheaper energy or economic growth.

There's another factor in the equation - all the people who are unemployed are devaluing just as readily as unmaintained foreclosed homes. There is a definite cost to ignoring the already broken window when it's leaking heat like a sieve.

Yes, but the point of the fallacy is not to break them in the first place. Further subsidies or gov't-fueled growth of the energy sector is not necessarily the best place to keep employees busy is my point.

Sounds like math will be very important, especially for security jobs. If you can pull your grades up, I wouldn't be too concerned. Most employers are more interested that you have a degree than in your transcript.

alpha - you have not yet explained what you are trying to do. A quick google search indicates that a socket error could result from a bad connection to whatever server you're using.

Some ideas:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a346/

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/ramen/ramen2.html

I feel he probably abused rights when he had a US citizen killed without due process. Will you please expand a bit on his other abuses of citizen rights?

Extending the Patriot act, using surveillance drones on citizens, signing the National Defense Authorization Act, spying on citizens using the NSA's data processing center and using private firms to avoid warrants, prosecuting gov't whistleblowers (wikileaks cases), blocking freedom of information requests.

More here: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/obamas_dismal_civil_liberties_record/

His continued abuse of the bill of rights/ american privacy citizens to wage a war against terror outweighs any potential benefits, IMO. More of the same, more of the same.

There are many reasons why our economy is suffering. Unemployment, huge and rapidly growing federal deficits, trade deficits due to energy importation, and so on. If as I suggested the federal government put forth an aggressive program to increase electric power generation through federal entities like the BOR, BPA, and TVA they would create large amounts of domestic employment, create large amounts of affordable electric power, and that electric power would help us grow the economy reducing our federal debt as a percentage of GDP.

 

Why do you think this is a bad idea?

 

Are you against growing the economy?

Unforuntately the broken window parable is a fallacy. According to the parable, the gov't could just just pay people to break windows - window fixing industry would boom & float the rest of the economy. However, this ignores opportunity costs to the non-window fixing economy and the fact you're not really creating any net value.

Not to say that there's no value in electricity generation, but the fact that there isn't any electricity shortage in this country results in the same idea as just breaking windows or digging ditches and filling them up. The fact that GDP calculation includes gov't expenditures doesn't necessarily mean that the economy will improve as G increases. [math] GDP = C + I + G + (X - M) [/math]

alpha2cen: http://www.statisticalanalysisconsulting.com/how-to-ask-a-statistics-question/ This applies equally well to computational questions as well.

What jobs are you applying for <= important

To add to what DJBruce said, as I understand it, the degrees of freedom is just that: the number of entries in the residuals vector that are 'allowed' to vary:

since the residuals, [math] (x_1 - \overline{x} ... x_n - \overline{x}) [/math], must sum to zero, the entire vector is determined fully by the first N-1 entries.

Phi - I just don't think its accurate to frame a tax cut as welfare. But, we've had this discussion before.

BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING ENTRAPMENT IN REFRIGERATORS

Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators was studied in order to develop standards for inside releasing devices, in accordance with Public Law 930 of the 84th Congress.

 

Using a specially designed enclosure, 201 children 2 to 5 years of age took part in tests in which six devices were used, including two developed in the course of this experiment as the result of observation of behavior.

 

Success in escaping was dependent on the device, a child's age and size and his behavior. It was also influenced by the educational level of the parents, a higher rate of success being associated with fewer years of education attained by mother and father combined. Three major types of behavior were observed: (1) inaction, with no effort or only slight effort to get out (24%); (2) purposeful effort to escape (39%); (3) violent action both directed toward escape and undirected (37%).

I love this kind of stuff.

source: Journal of Pediatrics

Ok, I stand corrected. The poster made it sound like the politician didn't have to disclose the name of the organization that gave them money. But the truth is closer to something like organizations don't have to disclose the identity of members who've donated money.

No, I do not mean the max scor is zero, but mean if I have to fill diagonal with elements it must be the max score that result from comparison the elment with itself.

 

Now, u mean similarity is 1-distance , this is why be 1. Please, if u have any reference about what you said indicate for it.

 

 

 

thanks

Think about distance in Euclidean space. What is the distance from a point to itself? Obviously zero, since its the same point. So, if you're looking at a distance matrix, there should be zeros on the diameter.

Now the rest depends on what metric you're using, but if you have zeros on the diameter I suspect you're using a distance metric and not a similarity matrix - which is perfectly fine for clustering applications, but it helps to be clear about what you're doing.

does it work if you try to run the code from a regular console?

Work hard and get that GPA up. Find a professor that will let you work in a lab. You'll be ok.

A private interest group is any group or individuals that can invest money into a politician without anyone knowing where the money came from. Look it up.

The more common term is, I believe, special interest group. Still, I don't believe that any donation to a political campaign can be kept from public knowledge. for example: http://www.opensecrets.org/

The New Yorker does tend towards a specific voicing as well which sometimes drags, but it has a good blend of non-fiction/ fiction to keep things interesting. The New York event pages are useful to me as well.

In this case, since the extension of the tax cuts was sold to us as allowing "job-creators" to create jobs, it was an example of tax cuts subsidizing businesses to create jobs. In addition, this was obviously a flat out lie, or at the least a scam that allowed the biggest companies to spend money the tax payers gave them to expand their businesses overseas. Do you really think the vast majority of tax payers would have approved the extension if they knew that only one out of four of the jobs created would go to a US tax payer? Do you think the justification that it would make iPhones a little cheaper would have been enough?

The fact that I focused on iphones was a bit facetious.. iphone manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the US. Our factory labor can't work cheaply enough and low level-production engineers aren't educated enough.

If anyone thought the goal of tax cuts was to increase hiring in manufacturing, I've got a bridge to sell you. From that perspective, I agree with you, that if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire and the money used to education, investment in science, tech & engineering skills, then we would have been far better off and able to cope with the inevitable fact that manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. Hell, I even support social programs that tide people over to deal with the transition that is Pareto optimality.

I'm thinking about either renewing my subscription to the New Yorker or giving the Economist a try. I'd only really have time for 1 magazine. What do you all read, if any.