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arbcombo -- Air Resources Board Public Hearing for February 24, 2011

The Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board will
conduct a public hearing to consider amendments to the Carbon
Intensity Lookup Tables in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
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This item will be considered at a hearing on February 24, 2011,
commencing in the afternoon around 2:00 p.m. The hearing will be
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============================================================================================================================ *And how do we assume good faith when images known to cause offense are being defended, especially when its not as if they can't be found on any one of a 1000 websites. Reposting them serves no value other than give the poster and its defenders a warm fuzzy "we're don't censored" feeling. Except that you do.* Reposting serves historical value, as i already pointed out. Would you argue that the adding the depictions of gods, prophets and other religious figures throughout the centuries serves no encyclopedic purpose? Why is the external availability of those image's on 1000's of other sites a reason against including them? Man could equally argue that their broad availability means that another site containing them doesn't generate a problem. Equally i would again point out that we are building an encyclopedia, which is an unbiased compendium of knowledge. If we start pre-filtering topics and content on a WP:ITBOTHERSME< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ITBOTHERSME > basis we will soon have gaps everywhere because people tend to take offense from many things. What offenses are valid enough to warrant removal? Where is the borderline between "Acceptable" and "Non Acceptable"? And again i politely ask that you cease with these personal attacks as they serve no purpose whatsoever. What do you wish to achieve? Do you intend for me to take you and your opinion serious while considering their implications, or do you prefer that i cast them aside as personal attacks? But if you are truly arguing that you deem the inclusion of these images personal attacks without any value, then i think there is little we can discuss - if you don't even believe that they might have historic value, there is no way to compromise. *The goatse images was removed for stated reasons that could equally be applied to almost any of the controversial images. That those reasons aren't applied to the other images smacks of hypocrisy.* Then what stops you from nominating these images under the same criteria? If those images classify for the same reasons the same actions should be taken - simple as that. My own views on censoring are identical for any topic - be it goatse, Muhammed, Christians, Atheists, and so on and on. If i would change alter them for certain topics it would be a clearly biased action after all. * And the defenders of these images aren't doing just that? Scrap the muslim connection just explain to this Atheist why it is imperative to display the "Piss Christ" image, when "photograph of plastic christ on cross in jar of urine " describes exactly why the work was found offensive. Just explain why the actual image is necessary and whilst you are about it explain why it is so much larger than the normal use of an image to illustrate an article?* My intention here is to have a friendly, sensible argument that may or may not reach some form of agreement (Its a mailing list, so consensus cannot really be formed here). It is natural that one defends his own stance, but trough friendly conversation at least some compromise should be reachable. As for the image on "Piss Christ": I would argue that if something sparks controversy, we should be detailing what the controversy is about. The inclusion of the image gives the reader an impression as to whether something was deemed offensive. Also, keep in mind that we are not filtering content simply because it is deemed offensive - after all, who defines what is offensive? Offensiveness inherently relies upon a judgment, and judgments are inherently PoV. As i said again and again - we should thread lightly with such images, and make sure that they are *only* in article's where a reader should expect such an illustration. If Muhammed would be on the Islam page the image should be removed. If Piss-Christ would be on a christianity article, it should be removed. As for the image size - i didn't exactly decide it should be that large, but i agree there is no reason at all to size it up. I believe that it might origionally have been upsized for layout reasons, so that the "reception" section would be entirely next to it. Since it is preferable to allow the selection of thumbnail sizes trough "My preferences" i simply shrunk the image to its preferred size. But tell me - why didn't you simply do this yourself when you made that observation? Thumb's are certainly preferable, so i don't think that changing it would count as controversial. ~Excirial On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, < wiki ... @phizz.demon.co.uk > wrote: Excirial wrote: *Do you have some special browser button that enables blocking of selected images before visiting a page? Or are you advocating the global blocking of all images?* See the FAQ section on Talk:Muhammad< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Muhammad >, which contains an easy method to hide the images trough CSS, which is a permanent setting that works for all browsers. Since we are discussing that exact page, i thought you would have seen it on the talk page as it is quite prominent. Apologies for not mentioning it earlier. That only works for people with accounts that have already been offended, that speak English, that have managed to find the FAQ, and that are computer literate. IOW out of the billion or so target audience for offense, about zero. *So why isn't goatse.cx embedded on the shock site page. Gerrard says that its because there might be copyright issues but that hasn't been a problem in cases of the Mohammed images that the ace group are complaining about:* I already linked the relevant discussion above, and i have equally commented on it. To quote myself: "See this discussion< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2010_March_29#File:Goatse.fr_homepage.png , though it may be easier to read the summary that is available on the article talk page < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Goatse.cx >. In essence the image was removed under WP:NFCC, with a sidenote that we could not reliably determine who the person being displayed on the photo was, which caused privacy concerns (As in displaying pornographic content of someone who hasn't given clear endorsement for doing so)". In other words, the image more or less suffers from a BLP issue - and you might also note that it wasn't removed because it was deemed offensive. What a complete load of twaddle. NFCC has not stopped the use of Piss Christ, nor has it stopped the use of any of the controversial Mohammed images. In all those cases a textural description of the image would suffice. The person in the goatse image is unidentifiable, and the image has been on the web for 10 years. Where are the privacy concerns? So I'm still calling bullshit, as it looks that thin justification was simply found to remove that image. *So I think I'm going to call you on being totally hypocritical on the issue of "the knowledge needs of the larger group outweigh the issues of the smaller group", because it is quite simply untrue.* If you believe that such statements will strengthen the argument you make, please do go ahead think of me like that. Personally i would argue that such comments aren't helpful at all because they only serve to create enmity between other parties, and because they scream "AGF" And how do we assume good faith when images known to cause offense are being defended, especially when its not as if they can't be found on any one of a 1000 websites. Reposting them serves no value other than give the poster and its defenders a warm fuzzy "we're don't censored" feeling. Except that you do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2010_March_29#File:Goatse.fr_homepage.png Besides this you might actually want to read the deletion discussion on the Goatse.sx images, so you can see the reason of the verdict for yourself - and you might actually see a reason why i am not exactly being hypocritical. The goatse images was removed for stated reasons that could equally be applied to almost any of the controversial images. That those reasons aren't applied to the other images smacks of hypocrisy. Regardless of whether or not this convinces you, i would ask that you keep it friendly. Comments such as the one you just made, along with the previous one further up (*Unless there is evidence to the contrary I'm inclined to believe that *you* have taken a knee jerk islamaphobic stance climbed up a flag p[ole and are currently waving your knickers in the air. I'm interested to see just how you are going to get yourself back down with a modicum of dignity.*) simply aren't productive. Besides, if we start labeling each other it will simply result in less sensible discussion, and more "Digging one's heels in the soil". And the defenders of these images aren't doing just that? Scrap the muslim connection just explain to this Atheist why it is imperative to display the "Piss Christ" image, when "photograph of plastic christ on cross in jar of urine " describes exactly why the work was found offensive. Just explain why the actual image is necessary and whilst you are about it explain why it is so much larger than the normal use of an image to illustrate an article? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foun ... @lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foun ... @lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Hi Gopalakrishnan, The email is pretty good. On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:08:48PM +0530, Gopalakrishnan Subramani wrote: Whatever technology you are using or mastered, you should know at least one nice scripting language like Python or Ruby to solve your own problems. You Python is a general purpose programming language. People have some reduced view of any language which is termed as scripting language, which is sad and gives on oblique view of the language. 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============================================================================================================== On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, chen jia wrote: Hi there, I run two regressions: y = a1 + b1 * x + e1 y = a2 + b2 * z + e2 I want to test against the null hypothesis: b1 = b2. How do I design the test? You are testing a non-nested hypothesis, which requires special handling. The classical test is due to Hotelling, but see the references (and R code snippets) in this posting: http://markmail.org/message/egnowmdzpzjtahy7 (it is the merest coincidence that the above thread was initiated by Mark Leeds and that the URL is 'markmail' :-) ) HTH, Chuck I think I can add two equations together and divide both sides by 2: y = 0.5*(a1+a2) + 0.5*b1 * x + 0.5*b2 * z + e3, where e3 = 0.5*(e1 + e2). or just y = a3 + 0.5*b1 * x + 0.5*b2 * z + e3 If I run this new regression, I can test against the null b1 = b2 in this regression. Is it an equivalent test as the original one? If yes, how do I do that in R? Alternatively, I think I can just test against the null: correlation(y, x) = correlation(y, z), where correlation(. , .) is the correlation between two random variables. Is this equivalent too? If yes, how do I do it in R? Thanks. Best, Jia -- Ohio State University - Finance 248 Fisher Hall 2100 Neil Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43210 Telephone: 614-292-2830 http://www.fisher.osu.edu/~chen_1002/ ______________________________________________ R-h ... @r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto: cbe ... @tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 ______________________________________________ R-h ... @r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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============================================================================================================================ I've just done the first release of wyvern [1], a small program to play moves for you on the Dragon Go Server [2], along with point releases for two supporting libraries. On DGS, people play many games of go simultaneously, making only one move per day in each game (about). A commonly requested feature is the ability to specify several moves in advance, and have them be played automatically whenever the opponent logs in. Wyvern provides this capability, as well as the ability to program in advance several "branches" -- conditional on the opponent's move. Along with wyvern , I've been developing two supplementary libraries. The "dgs" library [3] is a very small wrapper around DGS' handy robot interface. The "sgf" library [4] is a parser for the SGF file format (used to store games of go) that strives to balance using the type system to enforce the construction of correct SGF trees against conveniently manipulating said trees. It was also something of an experiment for me in documentation writing -- I may have gone a little overboard. =) If, like me, you love to mix Haskell and go, I invite you to check out one or more of these and let me know what you think. ~d [1] http://dmwit.com/wyvern [2] http://www.dragongoserver.net/ [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dgs [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sgf _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Hask ... @haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire by Nina Totenberg http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103694193 NPR.org, April 30, 2009 · NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term. The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction. At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court. In fact, he is in the younger half of the court's age range, with five justices older and just three younger. So far as anyone knows, he is in good health. But he has made clear to friends for some time that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire. Now, according to reliable sources, he has decided to take the plunge and has informed the White House of his decision. Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President Obama, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court's more liberal bloc over the past two decades. In addition, Souter was apparently satisfied that neither the court's oldest member, 89-year-old John Paul Stevens, nor its lone woman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery over the winter, wanted to retire at the end of this term. Not wanting to cause a second vacancy, Souter apparently had waited to learn his colleagues' plans before deciding his own. Given his first appointment to the high court, most observers expect Obama will appoint a woman, since the court currently has only one female justice and Obama was elected with strong support from women. But an Obama pick would be unlikely to change the ideological makeup of the court. Souter was a Republican appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, largely on the recommendation of New Hampshire's former Gov. John Sununu, who had become the first President Bush's chief of staff. But Souter surprised Bush and other Republicans by joining the court's more liberal wing. He generally votes with Stevens and the two justices who were appointed by President Bill Clinton — making up the bloc of four more liberal members of the court, a group that has usually been in the minority throughout Souter 's tenure. Possible nominees who have been mentioned as being on a theoretical short list include Elena Kagan, the current solicitor general who represents the government before the Supreme Court; Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Diane Wood, a federal judge in Chicago who taught at the University of Chicago at the same time future President Barack Obama was teaching constitutional law there. President Obama's choice has an excellent chance of being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, where Democrats now have an advantage of 59 seats to the Republicans' 40. By the time a vote on a successor is taken, the Senate is anticipated to have a 60th Democrat, as the Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to approve the recount that elected Democrat Al Franken over incumbent Republican Norm Coleman in that state. _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list Info ... @attrition.org https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior

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================================================================================================================================== I understand the issue with SDK's. Honestly this get worse as the bat file have arguments to get 32 bit and 64 bit builds then there is a mix of issues that get added when you add the DDK, or you add framework libraries. (then add the Intel compiler to the mix we have a need to read many bat files in some order) I am of a neutral opinion on how well the bat file will work over all. I agree that the current logic is bloated in the MSVC tool chain. I think even with the registry the current official scripts could be done better. Not that I know what is best. But here are some thoughts to consider. Given the bat files we have to do more than one run on the bat files to get the correct environment. My experience that bat file work OK most of the time, but not all the time. The bat file doesn't necessary match the default environment used by the IDE. You can use different compiler with different SDK's. The main issue is if you use the ATL/MFC. Here the C++ ABI will often have issue. Raw win32 will normally work without issue (nice C API). If you look at some variable that seem to support currently in Scones MSVS tool chain Select usage of MFC/ATL paths Select version of compiler Using a clean "bat like path"( ideally portable) or use the settings in the IDE ( that might have been modified by the user, so it has increased risk of being non-portable) Controlling what the emitter will add or not add, such as manifest files, libs, and def files. ( You have my tweak for automatic calling of MT for manifest embedding with 2005 and above) It might be useful to spec out functional abilities this rewrite should support, so expectations are clear in the design. Going back to SDK's the SDK are often drops that add something, this can be a New API library (such as media library), or headers fixes for the windows API, or tweaks to an existing library such as MFC/ATL. From what I can tell, they are linear normally, but the names are not always clear (marketing). For example you asked about "Windows 2003 SP2 sdk and Windows sdk" (I think you mean platform sdk). This depend on which version of windows sdk. The latest SDK is newer than 2003 SP2. Given if you have a older drop saved ( like I have ) the difference could be as simple as new API in win32 for 2003 server sp2 update. ( I recall the release notes say there was another change from the previous drop) Given the latest drop of the Platform SDK all the fixes in windows 2003 sp2 SDK would be included, plus new corrections. In general, today MS seems to ship the new platform SDK's with the new compiler versions they make. I should have some time in the next few days to look over and test with vc6 to 2008 (or so I hope). I will try to update you with anything I find. If I have something wrong or incomplete hopefully someone will correct. Jason -----Original Message----- From: David Cournapeau [mailto: dav ... @ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp ] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:37 AM To: de ... @scons.tigris.org Subject: Re: [scons-dev] Updates on vs_revamp Kenny, Jason L wrote: That is not an issue for me.. I can read python and I know how to tweak anything that is broken. I was planning to review and suggest improvements by making fixes and sending the group some diff. with t I think the pure compiler part is pretty solid now (except I did not find a way to make it fail when the user requests one particular version which is not available), at least while staying on win32 with 32 bits compilers. I have a pretty hard time with the SDK, though. Part of it is that I don't anything about windows .bat programming, part is that it is quite convoluted, and part of it is the scons model for environments, since the .bat files seem to depend on many variables correctly set; the sheer amount of sdk and co really confuses me, too. Am I right that you can't use the Windows SDK with several compilers at the same time (the version seems to be harcoded in the sdk) ? What are the differences between Windows 2003 SP2 sdk and Windows sdk; in particular, are they independant of the compilers, or should you use 2003 sdk with VS 2005 and Windows SDk 2008 with VS 2008 ? cheers, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev- ... @scons.tigris.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev- ... @scons.tigris.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev- ... @scons.tigris.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev- ... @scons.tigris.org