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Contractors can expect uncertain, difficult times ahead, expert says
Tuesday - 2/5/2013, 11:24am EST
Michael Tinsley, CEO, NeoSystems Corp.
Federal employees may face furloughs and who-knows-what-else under the across-the-board budget cuts scheduled for March. Federal contractors are preparing for reduced revenues under sequestration too.
"The good news is that we haven't yet seen widespread cancellation of contracts," said Michael Tinsely, CEO of technology firm NeoSystems Corp. "Of course, that's what we fear, but at least it hasn't reached that level yet."
But what some vendors are seeing are delays in getting contract awards, Tinsley said. A vendor may have been notified that its won a contract, but the award has not actually started.
"There have been delays in starting different phases of the work, so that's causing the delay and the slow down in the work for the contractor," Tinsley told the The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp Tuesday morning.
Michael Tinsley, CEO, NeoSystems Corp.
These delays cost revenue, a situation that exacerbates the worries of contractors who are already afraid they my end up losing contracts due to sequestration.
"The contractors, in order to perform the service that they've been contracted to perform, of course they have to have the resources on hand to do that work," Tinsley said. "But when the assignments are slowed down or the work is slowed down, then those resources just have to stay on the bench and that in turn creates indirect labor and overhead costs for the contractor. It increases their operating expenses."
Some companies have reacted by reducing their workforce, while others choose to stay the course.
"They need to be able to react anytime the customer asks them to. For that reason, they try to maintain the workforce as best they can. So they're basically trying to weather the storm and see what happens as we go down stream," Tinsley said.
Government remains mum about its plans
One of the real problems contractors now face is that their buyers have been less than forthcoming about their plans for the next three to six months.
Tinsley doesn't see this lack of communication as a case of the contractors being hesitant to ask the buyers for information; rather, it's the government that is being hesitant in sharing information with its contractors.
"They themselves don't really know how this is going to play out, because it's dependent on what Congress does or doesn't do," he said. "So, some of the contingency plans that they may have identified, they're hoping themselves that they don't have to put those plans into play. For that reason, I think they're tending to keep whatever contingency plans that they have close to the vest."
While some contractors may try to convince an agency that a particular project is crucial or that its funding tracks back to an earlier budget, Tinsley said that there's very little a contractor can do to influence their buyer.
"The agency is going to make that determination themselves," he said. "But what the contractor can do is just make sure they're performing at their absolute best. Because certainly if they're presenting the government with some sort of performance problem, then common sense would say they're going to be first on the list if cuts have to be made."
Tinsley added that it's impossible for a contractor to underestimate the value of maintaining a good relationship with its customer, especially in uncertain times.
"That's first built on delivering your services as well as you can, but it also goes beyond that in having a conversation and type of relationship with your customer so that you can sort of garner information from them and make sure that they are aware of the work that you're doing and the importance that it carries," he said.
As if looming sequestration and possible furloughs aren't enough of a concern, delays in the passbacks for the 2014 budget have hampered the ability of contractors to influence the next budget cycle.
"Everything seems to be out of cycle, first of all, because of the fact of the continuing resolutions and the fact that we don't have a budget passed," Tinsley said. "So it's difficult to have those conversations with the appropriate people and to drive your case and do what you can to help shape their thinking, because, in fact, their internal processes are off cycle. So, it's just a difficult situation to navigate, and it's difficult to know what you should or shouldn't be doing."
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Why not just work on wayland...?
Why not just work on wayland...?
we need moar buzz wooooords!!!the slated objectives of mir is well-defined functionality, efficiency, test-driven, versatile & flexible, security, and toolkit integration and legacy x application support.
Before mindlessly bashing, I recommend reading the MirSpec page.
One thing Michael did not mention is:
"However, Wayland support could be added either by providing a Wayland-specific frontend implementation for our display server or by providing a client-side implementation of libwayland that ultimately talks to Mir."
Sounds good to be honest, X is an old thing developed by beardy guys (no offense), most of Canonical's devs don't have beards.
I hope the NVIDIA drivers will be ported though (seems likely).
I'm skeptical.
Thanks for the write-up, Michael.
It will be interesting to see if they can pull this off. Big thing I see is getting Nvidia and AMD on the bandwagon. I'm not going to hold my breath though. With xrdp not working with Unity currently, I'm not sure they can pull the whole thing off. Maybe they get the tablets and phones working, and call it quits there. Seems to be the market they want to play in anyway.
It totally makes sense to me... They are using one framework(Qt) for Desktop/Tablet/Smartphone.
But damn sh!t... Why are they dropping Gtk?
I kinda fell in love with Vala. Now C++ is the language of choice.
This sounds amazing. Canonical is going their own way, maybe they are ditching GNOME completely soon. Good, because if the free software community did not have Canonical, we would still be using Debian and openSUSE with bloated, shit-looking desktop environments, hidious fonts and no big-player support whatsoever. Ubuntu is *the* desktop Linux for most people now and rightly so, even though hardcore geeks and trolls might disagree.


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I love the holding. He's delicious and warm and comfortable and so soft and bendy. He's like one of those buckwheat pillows, or memory foam. I love how babies mold right to your shape. He'll fold up over my shoulder or fill the crook of my arm or arc across my thighs, anywhere where he can feel some heartbeat and some mama warmth. So I hold him. I hold him because it's what he wants and I hold him because it's what I want and I hold him to remember this smallness before he's hitting baseballs from the backyard through the kitchen window or asking for the car keys, again, and my body folds right over his smallness and we co-exist, two separated forms that were once one shape.
But my mind, my mind is not used to the nothingness. My mind jumps. I wanted to carry that book upstairs or I could be getting that laundry folded or I wanted to write this, read that, call her, tell someone this. Tell anyone this. G listens but he only answers in little grunts. They're cute little grunts, of course, but they're not so useful for feedback.
I'm going back to work in a few months, and then I'll probably work forever, except for a vacation week here or there, until long after they're all out of college. I've had this opportunity twice before to sit, and this is my last time of nothing. In my regular life mode, I'm so goal-oriented and task-oriented and I can't quiet those impulses now, even though they have no translation. So I have the instinct to spend this nothing time the best I can.
I want to excel at the art of nothing.
Those words don't even belong together, but I can't quiet the impulse.
So I hold him and I snuggle him and I kiss him and I wipe him and don't misunderstand, I'm happy doing these things for him. These aren't words of sadness or depression, just words of feeling like a wanderer on someone else's planet. I look around and muse. I adopt the customs of the locals. It's the trip of a lifetime. I know I won't be back here. So I drink it in, the nothing. I want to miss nothing of the nothing. I want to immerse in this nothing, our nothing.
But he grows and I know how soon he'll be big enough to join his sisters in daycare, how soon I'll be returning to work. I'll do this nothing the best I can, for him and for me. But I can feel how this is a vacation destination, a tasting. And my brain, don't judge me for this, my brain is relieved about that. My brain prefers the busyness and demands of many, many somethings.
And I know I'll be back there soon enough. Right now, though, the boy is beginning to stir. I have some very important nothing ahead of me. I'm going to watch his waking-up stretches.


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On a roll, Red Sox out to help Peavy earn elusive win
Happ gets nod for Blue Jays, who look to even set at Rogers Centre
The Red Sox started a crucial stretch of their season the right way with a dominant win over the Blue Jays on Monday. Now, after scoring a season-high 14 runs, the offense just needs to keep it going.
Monday marked the first of 13 consecutive games Boston will play against divisional opponents. On Tuesday, the Blue Jays and Sox -- who have won five in a row -- play the second of a four-game set at Rogers Centre, with Jake Peavy and J.A. Happ sharing the rubber.
Peavy has been at the center of trade rumors over the last few weeks, and he's no stranger to these circumstances. He's been moved twice at the Trade Deadline in the last five years, once to Boston in 2013.
Peavy had a rough stretch from mid-May to early June, when he posted a 6.69 ERA and .331/.352/.503 slash line against in six outings. Since, he's been better, but not great: a 4.21 ERA and .264/.331/.464 slash line against in six starts.
As little as wins can mean to a pitcher's actual performance, Peavy (1-8) has struggled to find the "W" column through 19 starts. His only victory came against Toronto back in late April, when he pitched seven innings with seven strikeouts while allowing one run.
"You kind of put that aside. He's worked deep into games. He's pitched low-run games. A number of days he's pitched on the wrong day, and days we haven't supported him with a lot of offense," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "But more importantly, he's done a very good job of separating some tough luck situations ... and not letting it affect his performance."
Happ's last appearance came in relief July 12, when he allowed two runs on three hits over two-thirds of an inning. He has a 4.75 ERA, 1.50 WHIP and 2.11 K/BB ratio in 13 starts. He's made four appearances from the 'pen.
Happ hasn't started since July 7, though. He was scratched from his final scheduled start before the break so R.A. Dickey could pitch on normal rest.
Blue Jays: Santos DFA'd, Rasmussen recalled
• The Blue Jays designated Sergio Santos for assignment Monday and recalled lefty Rob Rasmussen from Triple-A Buffalo for his third Major League stint.
Rasmussen allowed just a hit over 2 1/3 innings Monday, slowing a Red Sox offense that had already broken out for 14 runs when he entered the game in the fifth.
Santos, 31, appeared in 24 games for the Blue Jays this season, going 0-2 with five saves and a 7.78 ERA. Over three seasons with Toronto, he made 59 relief appearances and went 1-4 with a 4.83 ERA and eight saves. He served as the team's closer to start the year with Casey Janssen on the disabled list.
Rasmussen has appeared in seven games for the Blue Jays this year, allowing four earned runs in six innings while striking out seven. The 24-year-old has a 2.61 ERA in 25 games with Triple-A Buffalo.
His return to the big league club gives Toronto four left-handed relievers.
"I know, ideally, you have so many righties and so many lefties, [we're] just looking for guys who can get outs," general manager Alex Anthopoulos said.
"Sometimes people get so caught up in left-right, if you're a righty that gets left-handers out, who cares? We don't look at it that way, we're looking for guys who can get outs for us. Right, left, submarine, whatever it is, if you can get three outs, it's fine."
Red Sox: Victorino sits in opener
• Shane Victorino was not in the lineup for the series opener after playing a pair of games over the weekend for the first time since late May.
The right fielder went on the 15-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain May 24 and suffered a back injury while on rehab. He returned to action for the final two contests of the Red Sox three-game series against the Royals, going 3-for-7 with a double while playing right field.
Farrell said a four-game series on the turf at Rogers Centre means the club will monitor the 33-year-old a little closer than usual.
"He's come out of the last four days feeling very good and if needed, he could play today," Farrell said. "But we want to be cautious, and we have to manage it as best we can."
Worth noting
• David Ortiz tied Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski for 36th on the all-time list home run list with No. 452, a two-run shot to center in the fourth Monday. In the fifth, he hit another two-run homer to pass the Red Sox legend.
• Ortiz has 35 homers at Rogers Centre, his most at any park besides Fenway. Alex Rodriguez, with 36, has hit the most long balls of any visitor to Toronto's home stadium.
• Melky Cabrera is 6-for-14 lifetime against Peavy.
Steven Petrella is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Workers Comp Corner: Scared by things that go bump on the jobOctober 21,2013
Its that time of year.
Ghosts seem to appear around every corner. Witches on broomsticks fly thought the night sky. Haunted houses and hayrides fill the countryside. Its time for all of those things that make Halloween in Vermont, a fun fright-fest every year.
During Halloween people expect to be surprised, spooked or scared. However, in everyday business, people dont like surprises. Business owners dont like to be spooked. Yet, there is one aspect of workers compensation that frightens employers no matter what time of year it is.
The companies receives a call from its insurance broker. When the call is done, the business owner is white as a ghost. This was the call where the company is told that workers compensation premiums have gone up. That is never a good call, especially when the cost is much more than anticipated. The business wonders why this has happened and struggles to determine how to make up the difference in the annual budget projections.
There are a number of steps an employer can take to avoid this situation.
A company must be proactive and look ahead. All businesses should know the date of the insurance renewal. Once they know that date the company can work backwards from that point and put a plan in place.
The business should create a plan with the information potential insurance carriers will review before setting the premium. This will include some basic information on the business.
The company must know the total payroll for the business. That is a key figure for the calculation of premium. The company should also do their best to forecast whether it is expected that there will be an increase or decrease in workers over the coming year. An increase in workers will mean a larger payroll and therefore a higher premium. A lower payroll will mean a decrease in premium dollars.
The business should know what the classification is that is used for the employees. This is another important piece of information as every classification has a different rate. That rate corresponds with the actuarial determination of how likely it is for a person in that class of workers to get hurt and how severe injuries are likely to be. For instance, the premium for a clerical workers workers compensation insurance may be 30 cents on every $100 of payroll, while a landscaper premium may be $4.56 for every $100 of payroll. The companys insurance agent can assist in determining both the classification of the employees at the company and the current rate for the classification code.
The business must also, well in advance of the renewal date, work collaboratively with its insurance agent to determine how the insurance companies will view the claims experience of the company. This usually involves an analysis of the number of workers compensation claims a company has incurred over the past three years and a review of the severity of those claims. If a company has an average experience, that is expressed as with a number one. If a company has more claims than average, then the number will be higher than the number one. If a company has more severe claims than the average company in its classification, then the number will also be great than the number one. If a company has fewer claims, or less severe claims, the number will be less than one. A company that has a higher claims experience pays more for their insurance then a company that has a lesser claims experience. This is arguably the only time that a business owner wants to strive to be below average.
A company that works collaboratively with its broker has the information at hand to avoid being spooked or scared when the bill shows up, whether the invoice is delivered by a ghostly ghoul, or a witch on a broomstick.
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Contract, Uncertainty and InnovationRonald J. GilsonStanford Law School; Columbia Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Charles F. SabelColumbia University - Law School Robert E. ScottColumbia University - Law School November 18, 2010 Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 385 Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 403 Abstract: Contract today increasingly links entrepreneurial innovations to the efforts and finance necessary to transform ideas into value. In this Chapter, we describe the match between a form of contract that "braids" formal and informal contractual elements in novel ways and the process by which innovation is pursued. It is hardly surprising that these innovative forms of contract have emerged first in markets, and that the common law, and the theory of contract, then play catch-up. Between the time contracting practice adapts to the demands of innovation and the time contract doctrine adapts to the demands of practice, law acts as a friction on the innovation process rather than a lubricant to it. Our goal here is to reduce that lag by providing a theory that can guide courts in developing case law that addresses current forms of innovation This chapter provides an overview of our ongoing work. The starting point is the Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty. In our view, traditional contracting techniques and traditional contract law address problems of risk. Braiding, or contracting for innovation, addresses conditions of uncertainty. We illustrate the relevance of this distinction by describing the shift in the organizational location of innovation - in particular a fundamental shift from vertical integration to contract as the organizing mechanism for cutting-edge innovation. We then describe the braiding of formal and informal contracting that has developed to organize collaboration across organizational boundaries where the desired outcome can, at best, be anticipated only very approximately. Next, we re-examine the interaction between formal and informal contracting to understand why braiding was not envisaged as a theoretical possibility before it became a salient reality, and to make theoretical sense of braiding now that it has. Finally, we look to recent case law, especially that considering preliminary agreements, to argue that the domain of braiding now includes contexts where uncertainty is not generated by technological development, and we examine the failure of courts to recognize the difference between and consequences of low-powered and high-powered enforcement in addressing braided contracts. Number of Pages in PDF File: 35 Keywords: contract, innovation, informal contracting, contract theory, uncertainty, preliminary agreements, letters of intent JEL Classification: D80, K12, L14, L22, D23 Date posted: November 20, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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The library provides a layer on top of DPH unlifted arrays to support multi-dimensional arrays, and shape polymorphic operations for fast sequential and parallel execution. The interface for delayed arrays is similar, but in contrast to operations on the former, any operation on a delayed array is not evaluated. To force evaluation, the programmer has to explicitly convert them to a strict array.
The current implementation of the library exposes some implementation details the user of the library shouldn't have to worry about. Once the design of the library is finalised, most of these will be hidden by distinguishing between internal types and representation types.
Strict Arrays, Delayed Array and Shape Data Type
Both strict and delayed arrays are parametrised with their shape - that is, their dimensionality and size of each dimension. The shape type class has the following interface:
DArrays are collections of values of `primitive' type, which are member of the class Data.Parallel.Array.Unlifted.Elt, which includes all basic types like Float, Double, Bool, Char, Integer, and pairs constructed with Data.Parallel.Array.Unlifted.(:*:), including ().
The Shape class
Values of class Shape serve two purposes: they can describe the dimensionality and size of an array (in which case we refer to them as 'shape'), and they can also refer to the position of a particular element in the array (in which case we refer to them as an 'index'). It provides the following methods:
class (Show sh, U.Elt sh, Eq sh, Rebox sh) => Shape sh where dim :: sh -> Int -- ^number of dimensions (>= 0) size :: sh -> Int -- ^for a *shape* yield the total number of elements in that array toIndex :: sh -> sh -> Int -- ^corresponding index into a linear representation of -- the array (first argument is the shape) fromIndex:: sh -> Int -> sh -- ^given index into linear row major representation, calculates -- index into array range :: sh -> U.Array sh -- ^all the valid indices in a shape. The following equality should hold: -- map (toIndex sh) (range sh) = [:0..(size sh)-1:] inRange :: sh -> sh -> Bool -- ^Checks if a given index is in the range of an array shape. I.e., -- inRange sh ind == elem ind (range sh) zeroDim :: sh -- ^shape of an array of size zero of the particular dimensionality intersectDim :: sh -> sh -> sh -- ^shape of an array of size zero of the particular dimensionality next:: sh -> sh -> Maybe sh -- ^shape of an array of size zero of the particular dimensionality
Note that a Shape has to be in the type class Elt imported from Data.Parallel.Array.Unboxed so that it can be an element of Data.Parallel.Array.Unboxed.Array.
The following instances are defined
instance Shape () instance Shape sh => Shape (sh :*: Int)
so we have inductively defined n-tuples of Int values to represent shapes. This somewhat unusual representation is necessary to be able to inductively define operations on Shape. It should, however, be hidden from the library user in favour of the common tuple representation.
The multiparameter type class Subshape sh sh' contains all pairs of shapes sh and sh', for which the dimensionality of sh' is less than that of sh.
class (Shape sh, Shape sh') => Subshape sh sh' where addDim :: sh -> sh' -> sh modDim :: sh -> sh' -> sh inject :: sh -> sh' -> sh
The method addDim adds the sizes of two shapes (or positions of two indices). If sh' is a strict subshape of sh, the fields of sh are copied when no corresponding fields of sh' exist, accordingly for modDim
Representation, Order of Elements, and Lifted Values
As mentioned when introducing the functions toIndex and range, the following relationship should hold:
map (toIndex sh) (range sh) = [:0..(size sh)-1:]
this means that, for example
range (() :*: 2 :*: 3) = [() :*: 0 :*: 0, () :*: 0 :*: 1, .....
A scalar value cis isomorphic to a zero-dimensional array
DArray () (\_ -> c)
Lifting a scalar value over a shape `dim':
Shape dim => DArray dim (\_ -> c)
Operations on Arrays and Delayed Arrays
Array Creation and Conversion
Strict arrays are simply defined as record containing a flat data array and shape information:
data Array dim e where Array:: { arrayShape :: dim -- ^extend of dimensions , arrayData :: U.Array e -- flat parallel array } -> Array dim e deriving Show toArray :: (U.Elt e, Shape dim) => dim -> U.Array e -> Array dim e fromArray:: (U.Elt e, Shape dim) => Array dim e -> U.Array e
Delayed arrays, in contrast, in addition to the shape, only contain a function which, given an index, yields the corresponding element.
data DArray dim e where DArray :: {dArrayShape::dim -> dArrayFn:: (dim -> e)} -> DArray dim e
Delayed arrays can be converted to and from strict arrays:
toDArray:: (U.Elt e, Array.Shape dim) => Array.Array dim e -> DArray dim e fromDArray:: (U.Elt e, Array.Shape dim) => DArray dim e -> Array dim e
the result of toDArray is a DArray which contains an indexing function into an array. In general, the function dArrayFn can be much more complex. The function forceDArray (should this be called normalizeDArray?) forces the evaluation dArrayFn on every index of the range, and replaces dArrayFn by a simple indexing function into an array of the result values.
forceDArray:: (U.Elt e, A.Shape dim) => DArray dim e -> DArray dim e
Singular (zero-dimensional) arrays are isomorphic to scalar values and can be converted to one using the following function:
toScalar:: U.Elt e => DArray () e -> DArray () e
Note that in contrast to all the previous operations, toScalar requires the array to be of a particular dimensionality.
Collection Oriented Operations
Elementwise Application of Functions
The map operation takes a function over element types and applies it to every data element of the DArray, which can have arbitrary dimensionality.
map:: (U.Elt a, U.Elt b, A.Shape dim) => (a -> b) -> DArray dim a -> DArray dim b
Similarily, zip and zipWith apply to every data element in the array as well. Both arguments have to have the same dimensionality (which is enforced by the type system). If they have a different shape, the result will have the intersection of both shapes. For example, zipping an array of shape (() :*: 4 :*: 6) and (() :*: 2 :*: 8) results in an array of shape (() :*: 2 :*: 6).
zipWith:: (U.Elt a, U.Elt b, U.Elt c, A.Shape dim) => (a -> b -> c) -> DArray dim a -> DArray dim b-> DArray dim c zip:: (U.Elt a, U.Elt b, A.Shape dim) => DArray dim a -> DArray dim b-> DArray dim (a :*: b)
The function fold collapses the values of the innermost rows of an array of at least dimensionality 1.
fold :: (U.Elt e, A.Shape dim) => (e -> e-> e) -> e -> DArray (dim :*: Int) e -> DArray dim e
Again, it's not possible to use fold directly to collapse an array along any other axis, but, as we will see shortly, this can be easily done using other functions in combination with fold.
Support for Parallel Execution
Since the implementation of DArrays builds on the DPH library, all the array operations can be executed in parallel. That is, we compiling a DArray program, the compiler generates a sequential as well as a parallel executable. All collective operations, like map, fold, and so on are executed in parallel.
Shape Polymorphic Computations on Arrays
The library provides a range of operation where the dimensionality of the result depends on the dimensionality of the argument in a non-trivial manner, which we want to be reflected in the type system. Examples of such functions are generalised selection, which allows for extraction of subarrays of arbitrary dimension, and generalised replicate, which allows replication of an array in any dimension (or dimensions). For example, given a three dimensional matrix, we can use select to extract scalar element values, rows, columns, as well as two dimensional matrices along any of the three axes.
For selection, we can informally state the relationship between dimensionality of the argument, the selector, and the result as follows:
select:: Array dim e -> <select dim' of dim array> -> Array dim' e
Another example for such a generalised function would be a generalised map, which can apply a function to all elements, all rows, all columns, or submatrices of different orientation of a multidimensional array.
For the former example, we need a way to express the relationship between the shape of the argument and the shape and orientation of the result, as well as the numerical position of the structure (i.e., first, second, third element). In case of the generalised map, we don't need the numerical information, since the operation will be applied to all elements, rows, columns etc.
To express this dependency between input and output shape and orientation, as well as possibly a concrete position, the library provides the Index GADT, which expresses a relationship between the source and the projected dimension. It is defined as follows:
data Index a initialDim projectedDim where IndexNil :: Index a initialDim initialDim IndexAll :: (Shape init, Shape proj) => Index a init proj -> Index a (init :*: Int) (proj :*: Int) IndexFixed :: (Shape init, Shape proj) => a -> Index a init proj -> Index a (init :*: Int) proj
To refer to a specific element, the type parameter a is instantiated with the type Int, otherwise with the unit type:
type SelectIndex = Index Int type MapIndex = Index ()
Given this definition, the type of select now becomes
select:: (U.Elt e, Shape dim, Shape dim') => Array dim e -> SelectIndex dim dim' -> Array dim' e
arr:: Array (() :*: Int :*: Int :*: Int) Double arr' :: () :*: Int :*: Int arr' = select arr (IndexFixed 3 (IndexAll (IndexAll IndexNil)))
We could generalise this further, to extract from any array arr which is at least one dimensional the third element:
arr:: Shape dim => Array (dim :*: Int) Double arr' :: Array dim Double arr' = select arr (IndexFixed 3 IndexNil)
The index type is also used to express the type of generalised replicate
replicate:: Array dim' e -> SelectIndex dim dim' -> Array dim e
which, given an array, can be used to expand it along any dimension. For example,
simpleReplicate:: (U.Elt e, Shape dim) => Array dim e -> Int -> Array (dim :*: Int) e simpleReplicate arr n = replicate arr (IndexFixed n IndexNil)
replicates the argument array (which can of any dimensionality) n times and behaves thus similarly to list replicate, whereas
elementwiseReplicate:: (U.Elt e, Shape dim) => Array (dim :*: Int) e -> Int -> Array (dim :*: Int :*: Int) e elementwiseReplicate arr n = replicate arr (IndexAll (IndexFixed n IndexNil))
replicates each element of an array n times (similarly to map (replicate n) on lists).
Even though the index type is well suited to express the relationship between the selector/multiplicator and the dimensionality of the argument and the result array, it is inconvenient to use, as the examples demonstrate. We therefore do need to add another layer to improve the usability of the library.
Note that the library provides no way to statically check the pre- and postconditions on the actual size of arguments and results. This has to be done at run time using assertions.
`Nesting' Array Functions
We already introduced the map function, which applies a given function to all data elements of an array:
map:: (U.Elt a, U.Elt b, A.Shape dim) => (a -> b) -> DArray dim a -> DArray dim b
We can't use this function, however, to apply a function to all columns, rows, or other sub-arrays of a multidimensional array, and generalising map to be able to handle this wouldn't make sense in this framework. Consider, for example, a function filter, which takes a one-dimensional array and creates a new array containing only the even elements of the argument array. If we mapped this function over all the rows of a two-dimensional array, the resulting structure would, in general, not be a two dimensional array anymore, since each row might potentially have a different length. Therefore, we restrict the class of functions that can be mapped over sub-arrays to functions where the shape of the argument determines the shape of the result. All mappable (for the lack of a better term) functions can be implemented such that they abstract over the exact dimensionality of their argument, and have the type
f::(A.Shape dim, U.Elt e, U.Elt e') => DArray (dim :*: Int ..... :*: Int) e -> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: .... :*: Int) e'
and those functions can be trivially mapped since
map f = f
The function fold, which we introduced earlier, is an example of a mappable library function. Applied to a matrix, fold (+) 0 will calculate the sum of all rows. If run in parallel, fold itself is run in parallel, and all the rows are processed in parallel.
fold :: (U.Elt e, A.Shape dim) => (e -> e-> e) -> e -> DArray (dim :*: Int) e -> DArray dim e
So, for example, we can write a mappable function which takes an array and selects every data element with an even index:
selectEvenInd:: (A.Shape dim, U.Elt e) => DArray (dim :*: Int) e -> DArray (dim :*: Int) e selectEvenInd (DArray (sh :*: n ) f = DArray (sh :*: n `div` 2) (\(sh :*: n) -> f (sh :*: 2*n)
In this case dim could simply be unit, if and selectEven extracts all elements with an even index, or it could be any other shape, and thus
map selectEvenInd = selectEvenInd
where selectEvenInd on the left and right-hand side of the equation are two different instances of the function. Now, lets try and write function selectEvenElems, which selects all even elements from an array. To determine the shape of the result, it is not sufficient to look at the shape of the argument. Instead, we have to calculate the new size by counting the even elements in the array using fold. The function fold is mappable, and returns an array. If the argument is a one-dimensional array, the result is a singular array, which then can be converted to a scalar using toScalar. The necessary application of toScalar, however, also restricts sh, which can now only be unit, and therefore the whole operation selectEvenElems is restricted to one-dimensional arrays, and not mappable.
selectEvenElems (DArray (sh :*: n) f) = DArray (sh :*: newSize) <......> where newSize = toScalar $ fold (+) 0 $ map (\x -> if (even x) then 1 else 0) arr
Example 1: Matrix multiplication
As a simple example, consider matrix-matrix multiplication. We can either implement it by directly manipulating the array function, or use the operations provided by the DArray library. Let as start with the former, which is more fairly similar to what we would write using loops over array indices:
mmMult1:: DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double mmMult1 arr1@(DArray (() :*: m1 :*: n1) _) arr2@(DArray (() :*: m2 :*: n2) _) = fold (+) 0 arrDP where arrDP = DArray (():*: m1 :*: n2 :*:n1) (\(() :*: i :*: j :*: k) -> (index arr1 (() :*: i :*: k)) * (index arr2 (() :*: k :*: j)))
In the first step, we create the intermediate three dimensional array which contains the products of all sums and rows, and in the second step, we collapse each of the rows to it's sum, to obtain the two dimensional result matrix. It is important to note that the elements of arrDP are never all in memory (otherwise, the memory consumption would be cubic), but each value is consumed immediately by mapfold.
This implementation suffers from the same problem a corresponding C implementation would - since we access one array row-major, the other column major, the locality is poor. Therefore, first transposing arr2 and adjusting the access will actually improve the performance significantly:
mmMult1:: DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double mmMult1 arr1@(DArray (() :*: m1 :*: n1) _) arr2@(DArray (() :*: m2 :*: n2) _) = fold (+) 0 arrDP where arr2T = forceDArray $ transpose arr2 arrDP = DArray (():*: m1 :*: n2 :*:n1) (\(() :*: i :*: j :*: k) -> (index arr1 (() :*: i :*: k)) * (index arr2T (() :*: j:*: k))) transpose:: DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (() :*: Int :*: Int) Double transpose (DArray (() :*: m :*: n) f) = DArray (() :*: n :*: m) (\(() :*: i :*: j) -> f (() :*: j :*: i))
However, we do need to force the actual creation of the transposed array, otherwise, the change would have no effect at all. We therefore use forceDArray, which converts it into an array whose array function is a simple indexing operation (see description of forceDArray above). This means that the second version requires more memory, but this is offset by improving the locality for each of the multiplications.
As it is, mmMult can only take two-dimensional arrays as arguments, and is not mappable. If we look at the implementation closely, we can see that the restriction to two-dimensional arrays is unnecessary. All we have to do to generalise it is to adjust the type signatures and replace () with an arbitrary shape variable:
mmMult1:: Shape dim => DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double-> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double-> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double mmMult1 arr1@(DArray (sh :*: m1 :*: n1) _) arr2@(DArray (sh' :*: m2 :*: n2) _) = fold (+) 0 arrDP where arr2T = forceDArray $ transpose arr2 arrDP = DArray (sh:*: m1 :*: n2 :*:n1) (\(sh :*: i :*: j :*: k) -> (index arr1 (sh :*: i :*: k)) * (index arr2T (sh :*: j:*: k))) transpose:: Shape dim => DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double transpose (DArray (sh:*: m :*: n) f) = DArray (sh :*: n :*: m) (\(sh :*: i :*: j) -> f (sh :*: j :*: i))
An alternative way to define matrix-matrix multiplication is in terms of the collective library functions provided. First, we expand both arrays and, in case of arr2 transpose it such that the elements which have to be multiplied match up. Then, we calculate the products using zipWith, and then use fold to compute the sums:
mmMult2:: (Array.RepFun dim, Array.InitShape dim, Array.Shape dim) => DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double -> DArray (dim :*: Int :*: Int) Double mmMult2 arr1@(DArray (sh :*: m1 :*: n1) fn1) arr2@(DArray (sh' :*: m2 :*: n2) fn2) = fold (+) 0 (arr1Ext * arr2Ext) where arr2T = forceDArray $ transpose arr2 arr1Ext = replicate arr1 (Array.IndexAll (Array.IndexFixed m2 (Array.IndexAll Array.IndexNil))) arr2Ext = replicate arr2T (Array.IndexAll (Array.IndexAll (Array.IndexFixed n1 Array.IndexNil)))
In this implementation, transpose is necessary to place the elements at the right position for zipWith, and we call forceDArray for the same reason as in the previous implementation, to improve locality. Also, mmMult2' outperforms mmMult1, as the use of replicate` exposes the structure of the communication, whereas the general index calculations in mmMult1 hide this structure, and thus are less efficient.
Performance of Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
---------------------------------------------------------------------- size | 256 | 512 | 1024 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mmMult1 | 675 | 5323 | 42674 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mmMult2 | 345 | 2683 | 21442 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mmMult2 (without forceDArray) | 974 | 8376 | 73368 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C (hand written) | 34 | 514 | 7143 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C (MacOS Accelerated Vector ops) | 33 | 510 | 6949 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Yeah, not the first time its happened to me. Its a pain in the nuts. Because when you come out of dead eye when its like that, the screen stays sepia and the world still moves slow. Does it suddenly catch up really fast? Things behave dramatically? I'm sure this has happened to me as well. -------------------- "BAKING A LASAGNA IN YOUR PUNANI MIKE PARADINAS IN YOUR PUNANI INTELLVISION BASKETBALL IN YOUR PUNANI HE-MAN AND SKELETOR IN YOUR PUNANI UNDERGOING PLASTIC SURGERY IN YOUR PUNANI WEARING LEATHER JACKETS IN YOUR PUNANI DRIVING MY CAR IN YOUR PUNANI WELFARE WEDNESDAY IN YOUR PUNANI I WANT TO PUT ORANGE JUICE IN YOUR PUNANI EGG SALAD SANDWICHES IN YOUR PUNANI HOT-DOGS AND FRENCH FRIES IN YOUR PUNANI CHEF BOYARDEE IN YOUR PUNANI"
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Heh, this one was kind of amusing.......I was in the Armadillo Saloon, walking around, and then walked up to the piano guy.....and he was ready to sit down and play a number....well he sits down in the air and the chair's on top of him I had the same glitch. He had his feet up on the table but he was floating as his chair was above his head. I noticed in a lot of cutscenes, people riding horses in the background seem to jitter and like slide back and forth on their mounts... I replayed John's final mission today to try and get a gold medal on it, and i got to the bit where Jack rides of with his mum, and she was stood up on the back of the horse in a stiff idle position. When I ran the horse around in circles, she'd sway side to side like she was a bowling pin on the horses back . -------------------- |
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I have been playing the game since it's been out, and I must say, RockStar really did a excellent job.
I have experienced a glitch to force my charatcer back to Level 1 / Prestige 0. I use to be a Level 30 / Prestige 2. I went to log on and I got a message saying "Multiplayer is damaged and is unable to load". "Would you like to Retry (prees A) Would you like to Continue (pressB) I tryed both, first retry then continue. When i continued and loaded into the game I was now Level 1. The game would not save after I would leave the game so every time I would log in, my character would be level 1. I have wrote rockstar support on twitter and have received very little response. I have had this issue for almost 2 weeks now and finally I had to go into my hard drive and delete my saved file so I could play the game. I will not be starting over again as Grinding out gang hide outs until my eyes bleed have done me in . This post has been edited by FireCat4: Jun 13 2010, 11:41 AM |
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I have had this issue for almost 2 weeks now and finally I had to go into my hard drive and delete my saved file so I could play the game. I will not be starting over again as Grinding out gang hide outs until my eyes bleed have done me in . I had the same sort of problem, but it was because I stupidly turned the console off while saving, I was reset back to level 1, so I immediately started working my way through the ranks again until I got to 27, then the next day upon starting I was reset back to level 1 again. In the end I had to actually delete the multiplayer save file as it was corrupted and the new data was being saved to that slot. Now everything's back to normal and i'm back up to rank 44... I'm bloody glad I got that ranking up done before they lowered the XP rewards for gang hideouts or i'd still be on rank 15. Another annoying bug is the floating weapons one, while doing gang hideouts when you kill an enemy their weapon will float in the air, and with every time you play the hideout another appears when you kill them, leading to masses of guns floating at the spots where enemies spawn. It actually affects gameplay as they are physical objects and bullets will hit them, rather than the enemy standing behind them. -------------------- |
Jun 29 2010, 08:42 AM
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Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I haven't got time to read all 3 pages whilst at work!
After doing a plant collecting challenge I went off to rescue someone being hanged. After, I went back in the direction of the plant gatherer and found him crouched on the floor where his camp had been. His tent, fire etc was gone but he was warming his hands on and stoking an invisible fire - when he stoked it, sparks flew up from nothing! Also, not so much a bug but an odd occurance, when I first unlocked the northern part of the map the first thing I did was go for an exlore. Ended up at the cave towards the top of the mountain and whilst looking around over the edge with my sniper rifle I see a dude at the bottom running up the path. So I wait for a while and it turns out he's one of the guys that tries to steal your horse. Running halway up a mountain to steal my horse? That's what I call dedication! |
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During a Ricketts cutscene, a random ped decided to sit in Landon's seat with Landon still there.
And during a cutscene with Prof MacDougal a random person was starting to come through a wall. Just their head and an arm kept coming through and back out. |
Jul 15 2010, 08:49 AM
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For those times when the poker players are sitting a few feet from the table, punch them and you can get glitched high in the air outside, falling to your death. At Rathskeller Fork it actually put me outside the map, falling through the landscape into blue hell, and magically back to ground level in town.
near-ending spoiler... During the cutscene where Jack and Abigail are told to run from the barn right before John gets pumped full of lead, the game had two Jacks. One character was getting on the horse for the cutscene while the other (same character model but glitched into the scene) was just standing there next to the open door. So there were two of the same people. By the time I realized it, there were no more camera shots of both of them. -------------------- |
Jul 15 2010, 09:14 AM
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During a Ricketts cutscene, a random ped decided to sit in Landon's seat with Landon still there. Lol, Landon's secret gay lover sitting on his lap. -------------------- |
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Dec 1 2010, 10:03 AM
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Here is a funny one on Undead Nightmare where a zombie is stuck in the horse :
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Jan 3 2011, 08:24 AM
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Try this one. Today I was at mine I had one this easy enough. Decided instead of riding my horse off into the sunset I would drive the stage couch. One guy got inside and decided I would drive him around. I turned it around and headed off the cliff nearby. Only problem is I did not die. I just laid there on the ground almost floating. my body was moving across the trail but I could not get up. I decided to restart which pissed me off but oh well. I tried it a 2nd time same results. The other guy tried to blow me up, burn me, shot me then what looks liked he tried to T-Bag me with his horse and then he T-Bag me. LOL
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During a Ricketts cutscene, a random ped decided to sit in Landon's seat with Landon still there. [IMAGE] same thing happened to me and it was the same person too, except without a hat This post has been edited by ENVi3: Jan 30 2011, 06:44 PM -------------------- |
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Glitch I had a few hours ago where Mother Superior was invisible:
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We shared two weeks ago that Plymouth would not be making its way to Ubuntu with the next 9.10 release as was once planned. Instead Canonical is putting their focus on improving the boot time so that there is less rationale for spending time on making a fashionable boot experience...
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How much of it was Canonical deciding not to switch and how much of it was Debian deciding not to switch?
Offcourse ubuntu isn´t directly controlled by canonical, but they can say they will pull the plug if their wish isn´t granted, so they still have a lot of influence. Also, aren´t a lot of ubuntu developers in fact being hired by canonical to work on ubuntu?
Anyway, what does Debian have to do with this? Ubuntu could just switch to plymouth, even if debian didn´t. This is also made clear by the fact that plymouth was planned for inclusion in ubuntu 9.10 in the original plans, and I don´t think debian will have already made a new release by then.
Anyway, I rather have a 10 second bootup without a long startup process then a nice boot-up screen which I unfortunately am forced to stare at while my pc starts up, so I hope they can make this goal a reality
I don't get it. Clearly Intel has already done this work in Moblin, so why can Ubuntu developer not simply copy the methodology of Moblin?
It is just a linux distribution after all, there is no shame in copying, and it certainly is not illegal?
If two-second boot times are possible _now_ other distro's should just figure out how it is done, and copy that. Not outright copy the code, but adapt the upstart code to match what moblin does.
Linux could be so much greater if not everyone keeps inventing the wheel over and over.
I must be missing something...
Well moblin takes much longer to boot when you test it from usb. Also moblin is extra stripped down, when you remove functionality from boot, it is of course faster. Like when you disable fsck, bluetooth, nfs-common or other services which are needed in case you want to automount nfs or to use bt mouse/keyboard then you can save certainly a few seconds. It is just the question if stripping down functionality should be done by default or as special purpose optimization. All other tricks like upstart could in theory improve boot time, practically a default kanotix install using sysvinit boots faster than ubuntu with upstart. You always have to compare features vs. speed. Sometimes you optimize so much for speed that you remove good features...
They should concentrate on the boot speed of gnome/kde not grub->gdm. Since jaunty grub->gdm is really good, but all these efforts are wasted if gnome needs at more time than grub->gdm.
I'm hoping that they'll drop the SysV compability mode and go all out with Upstart.
...but how often the average user reboots his computer
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im pretty sure not everyone who isnt a christian is doing it for images purposes
im pretty sure not everyone who isnt a christian is doing it for images purposes
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
Not everyone, but a lot.
rightChristianity is "old". o:
Christianity is based on primitive beliefs and primitive morals. The modern church grasps on to these age old traditions with little to no understanding ofthe chaning world around them. When this happens, the Church remains intolerant and uneducated about many things, be if lifestyle wise or other.
Like it or not, Christianity is an ignorant faith.
I hate debating.
The most strict literal interpretations are often ignorant. That is not the only interpretation. To make a blanket statement as if it is is even more ignorant in fact.Like it or not, Christianity is an ignorant faith.
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As true as that is, it still must be noted that a lot of harm has been done based on various interpretations of the Bible. Countless lives have been lost due to the Church in some way or another. It's ignorance plain and simple.
Am I saying all Christians are ignorant and violent people? No. It just alarms me that through the course of history a majority of them have been.
In other words: Stereotypes.
Okay, first, anyone that puts Christians and catholics together is an idiot. Catholics believe you can pray to saints as well as Christ and get to heaven. Christians believe that Jesus is "the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one get to heaven except through him. Second, tell me how Christians are ignorant. I am a Christian but I'm not ignorant. I am intelligent enough to listen and be open minded. Ask me anything and I can answer it with a passage from the bible, but wether or not you believe it is your choice.
Why do we exist?
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We exsist because we were created to have fellowship with God, He wanted companionship so he created humans in his image.
Because, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, sin entered the human race, God, being just, cannot have sin in his presence, therefore, we have to confess our sins and believe that his son came to save us from our sins in order to get to heaven.
why does god exist?
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Because he is eternal. He was never born and can never die.
I really doubt that it'd be much different with a modern religion like Atheism were in the position Christianity was at the time.
Religion in general should not have specific rules on lifestyle, only a set of beliefs that ones life should be built around, regardless of the times.
In a perfect world that would be the case, but unfortunatly we don't live in a utopian society.
At this point in time we can only try to educate the population on a more "live and let live" code. It saddens me that even in these modern times people clash with one another based on their disagreements. What's best is that we learn to appreciate one another, and agree to disagree.
It doesn't require a Utopian society to be able to live your life around what you believe. Just because many people lack the conviction to - you know - actually operate based on what they believe in doesn't mean it takes miracles to do it on your own. Besides, why would how society works have any impact on spirituality?
In all honesty spirituality shouldn't be dictated by anyone but yourself anyway.
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We exsist because we were created to have fellowship with God, He wanted companionship so he created humans in his image.
1) Why didn't he just make himself a girlfriend then? Really, by that logic the best we are to the force behind all creation is an ant farm. Before I get carried away by that train of thought though, I'll admit there's a possibility for your interpretation of God's motive in our creation. I dunno why God created us but I have faith in it because, really who am I to question is judgement?
2) As far as the whole "in his image" thing goes, am I to believe that the omniscient, omnipresent maker of all existence is a biped with 28 teeth and an arm sPan equal to his height? Does he use his two eyes to see all that is was and ever shall be? Or use those eight fingers and two nifty thumbs to make everything tangeable? If God can be at all insulted by our trivial ideas, I think that would sicken him.
Because, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, sin entered the human race, God, being just, cannot have sin in his presence, therefore, we have to confess our sins and believe that his son came to save us from our sins in order to get to heaven.
Honestly, what kinda convoluted crap is that? Assuming I believed in the biblical Adam and Eve, in all his unfathomable mercy, God couldn't have just said, "It's ok just don't do it again." instead of waiting 2000 years before sending his kid to Earth to give us some awfully sPecific guidelines to not automatically burn in hell forever on account of the sins of our most distant ancestors?
People crave structure, and therefore there are always going to be extremists who take the "set of beliefs" and make them into a strict code. It doesn't matter what religion we're talking about, or even religion at all. People do it with everything, like veganism.
Although I'm outspokenly critical of religion, I don't necessarily think it should be abolished. A lot of people need something to believe in, after all, and I guess God is the thing they're going to believe in. I find religion to be fascinating in a strictly academic way, and I've tried my hand at reading religious texts like the Koran.
I think it is sad, though, when some people complain that religion isn't taught in schools, but then flip out when the schools teach about any other religion but their religion. I think if we're going to teach religion in public schools, it should be all of the religions, instead of focusing on just one. (Yes, Christians and Muslims, I'm looking at you.)
Ah, but you see, according to Christians, God is a perfect being who also, somehow, someway, is a creator. Both of those properties are in contradiction with one another. If one is perfect they are complete, full, accomplished, lacking nothing and therefore would have no need for companionship or the desire to create. So either God didn't create us since a perfect creator can't exist, or he's imperfect, and thus not a God.
And as for the whole 'created in his image' concept, it really, really does not make sense to me. A God would have absolutely no need for arms, legs, eyes, a mouth, hands with opposable thumbs or any other human qualities at all. If a God is supposed to be intangible and undetectable (which Christians contend quite often), then that concludes they transcend the physical universe as we know it and exist as non-corporeal entities with no true form at all - nothing physical to interact with, so no need for limbs or a body in general. So therefore humans could not have been created in God's image since God in fact would not have an image.... so he created humans in his image.
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I think that human qualities are actually godly qualities. Although i think christian beleif is a bunch of bull I still think that if god does exist we were created not to be able to grasp a concept of how exactly he came to be and how powerful he is becuase of our lack of faith and our literal qualities that were gained from eating the evil apples which fused our kind with evil. They have even found a gigantic eye in a different galaxy that just happens to blink occasionally and constantly looks into our galaxy, ironically they call it the eye of god and science cannot explain it becuase its not meant to explain religious things, it was meant to explain things around the world in a way that we feel we can understand, proof of the eye of god has not been published to the public yet becuase it might send an uproar but i just happened to hack into a file that had it.
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H.R.2454 - American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. view all titles (12)
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- Official: To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. as introduced.
- Short: American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 as introduced.
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(Sec. 203) Authorizes states to provide to the owner of a manufactured home constructed prior to 1976 a rebate to use toward the purchase of a new Energy Star qualified manufactured home that is used on a year-round basis as a primary residence. Requires the rebate to be given only if the manufactured home constructed prior to 1976 will be rendered unusable for human habitation and will be replaced, in the same general location, with an Energy Star qualified manufactured home. Directs federal support for the program to be provided through the emission allowances allocated to the states' SEED accounts. Caps rebates at $7,500 per manufactured home.
Progressives are going to destroy America and this Cap & Tax bill is yet another example of how it is being done:
Do you own a Home? Worth looking into! Something every home owner should be made aware of!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is one that NEEDS to be passed on. Some wise democrat said that Obama and Pelosi are destroying our country from within. Don't want to be bothered with "Political stuff?" You'd better read this one. It will come as a huge shock to you if you aren't informed as to what Obama is up to, and apparently it has already passed one hurdle. It will take very little now to put it into actual law!! YOU'D BETTER WAKE UP AMERICA !!!! So you think you live in a free country, boy have you got a surprise coming.-
Homeowners BEWARE!!! Do NOT be fooled by this bill! If you own an older home, you are going to be socked big time by a huge bill to "upgrade" your home and "get your license." Free country?? Right, now you're going to have to "license" your home and pay HUGE to do it! ALL HOMEOWNERS NEED TO READ THIS!!
Well Chickorie… What claudida66 says will happen if the bill passes as is.
I'm sick of you liberal "sheeple" (those you follow like sheep to the slaughter). If liberal leaders were guiding folks like you into gas chambers, would you follow anyway because it's "cool" and PC?
Stop sounding like a Chickie-Poo!
DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!! Two of the biggest Con-Artists on climate change:
Cap & Trade: Obama and his progressives are BS'ing America and here is why:http://windfarms.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/al-groe-and-maurice-strong-con-artists-extordinaire/
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I tend to agree. One suggestion I had is simply don't allow anybody to ban eco-friendly business practices. Just like cap and trade would artificially lower the cost of alternative energy compared to traditional sources of energy, a ban or restrictions on solar panels for example will artificially increase the cost of solar panels relative to fossil fuels.
There will come a day when solar or wind power is a legitimate financial decision for businesses and homeowners (without artificial incentives) and when that day comes I hope local governments and home owners associations don't ban solar panels because they think it's an eyesore.
I would like to see this in the legislation. Allow people to start moving forward on their own without a mandate if they want.
Did you not hear President Obama say over, and over that our utilities will SKYROCKET? First of all, this is a scam. Our climate is not getting warmer. In fact it has stayed the same for many years now. Last year in July, NY had the coldest month EVER! If President Obama was so concerned about the climate, why does he fly all over campaining, and pollute it? He should be sitting at his desk trying to find a way to create JOBS!!!! Same with Al Gore, who in my opinion should be arrested for fraud, just like Madoff! He flies all over in his big JET!
Cap & Tax is about Raw government POWER. The POWER to Tax, control the economy, our lives & our freedom.
Not only Government POWER to tax. But Government POWER to enter your home to "check for compliance."
Just take a look at Spain — the Cap-and-Taxers' "shining" example of an eco-socialist paradise.
There, unemployment is approaching 20% and rising.
And what about all those new "green" jobs Cap and Tax apologists are claiming will be generated?
In Spain, for every new "green" job created (at a taxpayer cost of $800,000, EACH mind you), 2.2 economically-productive jobs are destroyed!
The fact is, passage of Cap and Tax could send our economy nose-diving off a cliff!
Everyone should check out who is support of this bill! A huge range of organizations are in support of this many of which represent large industrial activity and energy production: United Auto Workers, Ford, Exelon, General Electric, Dow Chemical Company, Siemens, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, DuPont and many others
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090515/hr2454_support.pdfThe "environmental movement," once the bastion of peace loving hippies and Earth mothers, is potentially the booming business of the 21st century. Billions of dollars currently change hands each year in the name of the environment and, by all accounts, the surface is only scratched.
To date the missing piece of the puzzle has been a government mandate, something cap-and-trade legislation will remedy. Those already in the game stand to reap a fortune on the backs of average Americans who will see their energy bills "necessarily skyrocket," as President Obama explained, as businesses pass along the new cost of doing what they do in a "green America."
It's interesting to note that without the specter of a government mandate, the Chicago Climate Exchange would hold no value. Likewise Fannie Mae's patented trading system and Emerald Cities' prospects for "a new vital economic sector" would be nothing more than fool's gold.Equally troubling is the blatant acknowledgement by those involved in this high stakes green rush that power & profit are the only real benefits to be had. The words of Joel Rogers: "I hope you all realized that you could eliminate every power plant in America today and you can stop every car in America. Take out the entire power generation sector and you still would not be anywhere near 80 percent below 1990 levels, and this is with bringing the economy to a complete halt… basically."
Carbon credits are literally nothing. There is absolutely no value to them, nor do they solve any problem. They create nothing, except great wealth for those who seek to traffic in them. Global warming is a proven hoax.
However, just for fun, lets pretend that global warming is real. How would buying carbon credits from one person, and then selling them to another, make any difference whatsoever? The short answer is, it wouldn't. You would still have the same amounts of carbon in the air.Here's how this scam will work. Everyone will be assigned "carbon credits" based on whatever the government decides. This of course, is a worldwide scheme. People who actually produce things will not have enough credits to function.
Non-productive entities that have extra "credits" can sell to entities who actually contribute to society. This is where Obama & cohorts come in. Obama was key in setting up the Chicago Climate Exchange as the mechanism for selling these bogus carbon credits.
The way Obama &d his crime syndicate will get rich is simple. When a non-producing entity wants to sell a "credit" they will have to do that on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Along the same lines, when a productive member of society needs a "credit" in order to remain a productive member of society, they will have to purchase this "credit" through the Chicago Climate Exchange. Of course, Obama and Crime Inc. will make commissions from both the seller and the buyer. It's a beautiful scam! I live in a house that is part of a home owners association. One rule of this HOA prohibits the installation of solar panels on the roof of MY HOUSE.
I think that any common sense energy/climate bill should prevent HOAs and local governments from enacting rules restricting installation or use of solar panels on private homes and businesses.
In other words, I don't want home owners associations making rules against people installing solar panels on their own homes.
Whether you believe the scientific consensus on global warming or not, oil is a finite resource and it is vital to our national security that we take a leading role in exploring renewable sources of energy.
We can't act like we are serious about renewable energy then turn around and allow entire neighborhoods or local governments to ban or block solar panels on private property because one neighbor thinks it's an eyesore.
I am not a lawyer, but I would start with California's Solar Rights Act for guidance in this area.
valcanos emitt more co2 than humans and cars. tax them too
Welcome to Surfdom. Another way to use the masses to start a ponzi scheme..But remember the government(s) need to keep the planet safe so we can raise more surfs to tax and take..
This is a great idea,MenloPeet but unfortunately it makes too much sense, and doesn't funnel enough of your tax dollars to D.C.
The Big Green ponzie scheme is finally dead. Does anyone know anybody with a "green" job? Define "green job"….anyone? …anyone? Big Green was the new way Washington D.C. was going to open up your wallet for you in the name of "Saving the planet". I'm glad it's been exposed for the tax scam that it truly is. There is a generations of incompetents coming up, most of the them are 20-something policy makers in TWH or they're entitlement graduates who can't read their diplomas. All of these zonks have been brainwashed by old school hippie "professors" to hate America. H.R.2454 steals money from taxpaying Americans.
How is it that some people think that the US Federal Government has no place in commerce? Not only are we the people the biggest commercial entity in the country, we are also responsible for the interstate system, which America would most certainly not be half the country it is today without it. We are the richest country in the world because we the people, when faced with difficult choices, did the right things. We are called on again to make some tough decisions. Decisions that could have some negative consequences in the short term, but inevitably will lead to long term growth, stability, sustainability and be a blessing to future generations. Once again our Robber Barrens are using every trick possible to confuse and subvert the conversation in an attempt to bend us to their will. I posit that almost everyone on this forum and most Americans in general know that we must change our energy policies. This bill is a start, we still have a long way to go.
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