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Finally! Some evidence that Dark Energy = entropySo in an expanding universe there is a loss of information -- and by Landauer's principle this loss of information should release dissipated energy -- and Gough claims that this dissipated energy accounts for the dark energy component of the current standard model of universe.
There are rational objections to this proposal. Landauer's principle is really an expression of entropy in information systems -- which can be mathematically modeled as though they were thermodynamic systems. It's a bold claim to say this has a physical reality and a loss of information actually does release energy -- and since Landauer's principle expresses this as heat energy, wouldn't it then be detectable (i.e. not dark)?
Well, so much for *that* objection.
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Re:And the National Institutes of Health Gets ...
NIH is the first funding agency to require publications coming from its work to be put in open-access or publicly-accessible journals.
I'm pretty sure this is not true
Here's the link proving it to be true, straight from the NIH.
NIH-funded researches still publish in Nature or Elsevier journals all the time
Which is still allowed. I can't force you to read the requirements if you chose not to.
The requirement is actually that they deposit the manuscript in PubMed Central within either 6 months or a year (I forget which) after publication, regardless of what other arrangement may have been made with the journal.
So you did read the requirement, then. Where is your grievance?
So everything funded by the NIH should, in theory, become open-access eventually
Which does not counter what I said...
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Re:*Sigh* There's no drama.
but Prof. Andrew Ng says in his video for the machine learning class "If you successfully complete this class you also get from me a signed statement of accomplishment stating how you did on the class that you can put on your resume." that's got to mean something to some people given his reputation in the field. Especially those who are trying to scoop up as many machine learners as possible in this whole Big Data rush.
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Re:Unity
But now we see the strategy of Canonical and why the (at the time) weird decisions were being made
Um duh, it was made for Instant-On web devices, it just so happens that tablets fall into that category nicely.
But let's look at each point individually because not everything you stated relates to Canonical's desire to go to Tablet's, it's more along the lines of, "it just happens to also help them out towards tablets."
1) The nasty split, isn't any more nasty than other things in the Linux world. Canonical wants Canonical stuff in Canonical's distro. GNOME 3 is still used in Unity, but just differently. It's hard for me to explain because I suck at summing things up, but trust me, Unity is GNOME 3 at the core and Unity runs more with how people predicted GNOME3 to be used more as a platform and less like a standard desktop. The main facet is that it removes a lot of upstream push from the GNOME community. Canonical wants their desktop to look the way they want it to look, not what GNOME developers want it to look like. You'll see this type of mentality in a lot of Ubuntu. Also, let's face it GNOME developers are difficult to work with at best. It's very easy to paint the main developers as being the pearly towers (metaphor for someone who dictates how things should happen, but have little to zero real-world experience to back up exactly why that's right.)
2) The choice to use Wayland over X boils down to the same debate that was had on xgl versus aiglx. Mark thinks running direct to the video card is a better method than the way X provides. This has been a common thing that comes up ooo, I'd say every five to six years. Someone comes up with a better way to run direct to the card and someone jumps on the band wagon. Usually there is just too much inertia to make the jump from X to the something else happen and we all go back to using X happily. There's a lot of misconception that Xorg (specifically) and X11 (in general) are bloated, slow, won't run well on older machines. X11 is a pretty hefty "standard," but not everything in it is in every implementation. There are multiple of X11 implementations (I'm given too, Google can help you see more) that target embedded systems that run quite well. Xorg implements a lot of stuff to keep backwards compatibility with older machines. Wayland doesn't. However, don't confuse that because just because it is implemented does not mean that it gets loaded if it is not needed. You aren't going to be using XRender when your video card offers the ability to use OpenGL pixmap to texture. The biggest problem with X is drivers (and that shouldn't surprise anyone) and the low quality those drivers exist in. That problem will not go away with Wayland. The idea is, and to me it's a bad bet, if we make the model more simple (remember the X11 "spec" is a pretty big tome) then vendors will be more incline to write better drivers since the model for those drivers is more simplistic. However, as bets go, that's immaterial to why Canonical wants to go Wayland. It really boils down to the fact that they want to do Window Decorations the way they want to do Window Decora -
I want . . .
NPR had a fascinating story a couple of years ago about a spider silk tapestry that had been woven. NPR.org Fabric as soft as silk but stronger than steel, the possibilities are fascinating even if I have to wait a while to have a "that guy" suit made out of the stuff.
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This sounds a familiar
Think all the autocomplete addons for unix shells.
Or even just a bit of work on top of powershell, I don't know if something Something like posh ( http://http//poshconsole.codeplex.com/ ) implements autocompletes like that, but it wouldn't be hard to do in powershell since a well written cmdlet will expose strongly typed inputs which would allow you to use a fancy widget for input without any issues.
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Some Numbers
Canada is the third worst CO2 emitter per capita in the world behind the US and Australia. (Surprise! China is actually quite low per capita, lower than than any EU country.) At 40M tons of CO2 per year the tar sands oil production is the single largest emitter of CO2 in the world, but even if the oil sands shut down completely, Canada would still be #3 ahead of Saudi Arabia. The sad part is that only 10% of the tar sands can be made into marketable oil by current means, the other 90% requires more energy to process, which means emitting even more CO2 per barrel. Already the process requires half the energy the oil can release to process it. Even if it reaches 100% they'll still do it if it makes money. They're going to need several nuclear power plants to keep up with production targets.
Granted, any country with long cold winters has a serious disadvantage. Air conditioning usually has to make a 15-30F difference to beat the heat, but in Canadian winters the furnace is called upon to make a 50-70F difference compared to outside temperatures. Up here, air conditioning is optional, heating is not. Many European countries employ district heating systems to provide more fuel-efficient heat, but the lack of population density makes it less feasible in Canada to the extent seen in Scandinavia for example.
Here's a nifty gadget to check the CO2 emissions of any country. I found Sweden to be interesting, they have roughly the same climate as Southern Ontario, the most populated area of Canada.
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Re:Leaking Secret documents... not OK
Did anyone else read the Manning/Lamo chat logs? After reading them you get a very different picture of Manning (and Lamo). In my view, Manning was revealed to be a troubled and hurt kid with really strong gender identity issues. He even expressed worry to Lamo that if he was caught, he'd be referred to as "He" instead of "Her". He had anger problems stemming from his confusion and a fight he had that ended in him being demoted (he punched a co-worker). He was definitely not stable and I just don't believe he released this stuff out any desire to serve the "common good". He simply made a grab for as many files as he could get, never actually reviewing them himself.
Lamo came across as a selfish user, begging Manning to sponsor him so he can have a .mil account, even during the times when Manning was trying to share his worries with him. Clearly Lamo just egged him on, and he probably knew he was going to turn this all over in the end. If you haven't read them, you might find them informative.
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I think this is going to hurt....
Have a look at http://http//usdebtclock.org/
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Re:It's change for the sake of change
Have you considered Wicd? If you're somehow averse to even having gtk as a dependency, you can use the curses interface. If that's too dependent for you, maybe you really do need to be using iwconfig/ifconfig/wpa_supplicant manually.
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Re:I ca see why
Damn, you're lazy, try http://http//opennebula.org/support:contracted took me all of 30 seconds to find. Your argument is old and tired, most serious OSS solutions have options for commercial support.
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Re:Craigslist?
Actually, the Corps should take the fall. Do your research or support your claims. Thanks
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Re:It can't possibly be that hard to avoid...
Remember - information about individuals is worthless. It's the large-scale aggregate data that has value.
Another false assumption.
Remember 'Total Information Awareness"?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
Officially, that died on October 1, 2003, when President Bush signed the defense budget in which Congress axed the program after its existence caused a public uproar. Read through the various programs under that umbrella, including "Scalable Social Network Analysis". Zuckerberg released his first "social network" project (Facemash) on October 28, 2003, only 27 days after TIA was officially put down and split up between different agencies. For some reason, Harvard saw fit to drop their proceedings against Zuckerberg to have him expelled for hacking into the student ID databases to obtain the photographs he initially used to populate his site. He was then able to rapidly expand his project and get venture capital funding. Given that this all occurred well after the dot-com bubble burst, it seems that selling the associated data to advertisers would be a weak financial foundation to rapidly build such a project on, particularly when the principal leader of the project is a college undergrad, and its membership was limited to colleges at the time. I think the underlying idea may really have been to privatize parts of TIA all along. In particular, while the US government is bound by the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act amendments, later amendments weakened the original acts in favor of protecting corporations, so the government is not required to reveal information that is considered a "trade secret" of a third party. See the article from a few days ago ( http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/1938241/facebook-the-law-says-you-cant-have-your-data ), where Facebook is claiming this exact protection.
One related point is that the FOIA gives you standing to find out what records the government is keeping about you, to challenge the accuracy of it, and to sue the government for abusing it; the Privacy Act limits how they can share it, even between agencies. Data held outside the government is exempt from all that, at least in the U.S.
Viewed in that light, the individual information is the *most* valuable and unique; not worthless at all. Now, pair the social network information with all of the photographs that are pumped into FB and tagged by individual... Take a look at cheap software such as http://http//www.facegen.com/ (even has a free version) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsFj1-fvbkA&noredirect=1 (first couple of relevant Google links I could find, I sure the three-letter agencies have access to better). Even if you aren't on FB, you are probably tagged somewhere in a photo, unless you are a total hermit. If the authorities were looking for you and had access to parametric data about your facial and body structures from this database, as well as access to the National Facial Recognition Network discussed recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2342240/fbi-plans-nationwide-face-recognition-trials-in-2012 ), they have a solution that would make the Stasi drool. You have everyone snitching on everyone else, documenting their comings and goings, providing up-to-date photographs, etc., and it is all there in one place, already tagged and organized.
The advertising revenue may just be the gravy on top of the government contracts.
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Re:Currently...
A natural life? For women, its 25, for men its 35; on average.
That's a common misconception consequent to including infant mortality in the overall average. Lifespans into the 70's and 80's -- or even older -- were not uncommon for both sexes (and women lived longer than men) as far back as the 1600s (I have extensive genealogical data to support this, btw.) However, as soon as you include infant mortality in the overall picture, and death by misadventure (which definitely includes mothers who die in childbirth) the averages drop, just as you would expect any average to drop if you include a bunch of near-zero and unrelated low values. An average is a very poor measure of the concept of "expected lifespan" for reasons obvious to anyone with a little bit of intuition in the math area.
On top of that, age-related death is really quite a different matter than death by incompetence or misadventure, which is a class almost all deaths of the mother at childbirth fall directly into - pretty much exactly the same thing as having a tractor run over your head. Didn't have anything to do with your body's "clocks", etc., or your nutrition, or resistance to diseases/degradations that crop up later in life. More about mundane things like sanitary practices, availability of quality episiotomy, not drinking when you run your tractor or drive your team of horses, not pissing off the ruling class, etc.
Actual increase in lifespan -- meaning, how long you can live if accident or incompetence doesn't befall you -- has been extremely recent, and it hasn't been nearly as profound as the pundits like to paint it.
I will say that quality of life has increased for some of those who live more years, though.
--fyngyrz
Posting anon due to modpoints and slashdot's idiot policy of anonymous moderation
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Re:No money no development
Mozilla is a competitor. Google does effectively sell browsers, it sells ads, but Mozilla is merely a channel.
FTFY. Chrome nukes that supposition that you just made. Combine that with Chromebook and there's nothing at all accurate in your claims.
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Re:Is street-legal: All Roads are Open.
Even though the only goal of my post was to trick you visiting NSFW link, and indeed he appears to drive on streets, I don't agree with you.
Not every car can be legally driven on streets due to risks to others involved.
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Re:The US did this in the 1970's
You don't get my point at all.
I take a 1.5MW capacity turbine and average its production over a year. Even if you assume 6MW turbines which require a larger spacing, you get average production in a good siting of 20-25% of capacity over the year.
If you have a 5MW wind turbine you don't divide it by 5MW to get its "real yield". Yo leave it at 5MW and ofc place it at a point where you get those 5MW. If you are lucky you get far more, up to 3 or 4 times its net yield. If you have bad luck you have a few days without wind. The idea you get only 20%-25% over a year is completely bollocks.
Anyway, there are enough papers findable on the internet that show that the USA only needs to cover like three coastlines: a bit of Texas, a bit of Florida and a bit of Oregon e.g. to get all the power it needs. Not only a fraction but 100%.
German is strictly speaking not buying power from France right now. There where some claims that we did buy power in April, but I did not verify it. Most power that comes from the outside into german is only on transit through our grids
... mostly to Austria and Italy and partly Switzerland and Spain.Right now we still have more than 15% production surplus (with 7 or 8 nuclear plants shut off - I believe it is 21% but I'm not sure, it might contain the switched off plants), the remaining 10 or so plants only produce a little bit more than that extra 15% we have.
Also keep in mind: it is not "Germany" that buys power from France. It is some random customer that specifically bought exactly that power from France, and that customer likely has ordered it already a few months ago.
Germany does only in very rare cases (a german power company in this case) buy balance energy from France.A nice page regarding wind power (note the small flag to switch it to english) is this: http://http//www.offshore-wind.de/
Regarding France, they certainly will start switching away from Nuclear power as well sooner or later, actually all other ways of creating power is cheaper.
The claims about increasing power need over the next decades are only partly correct. Much of westerns civilization is stagnating or cutting down power usage due to increased efficiency. I would assume the USA will join us in that sooner or later.
Ofc electric cars need a bit power from power plants, but the amount often is greatly exaggerated.
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Broken link
Since when was http://http//www.digitaldueprocess.org/ a valid link?
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Re:Before everyone freaks
Hm,
I failed to link the pdf I mentioned
... new attempt: http://http//www.inere.de/dateien/Emissionen_Mannheim_mitanhang.pdfSeems to work now.
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Re:Damn!
And the Earth's rotation isn't constant anyways. http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/earth_rot.html The second is (as posted by others) constant.
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Re:I Can't Wait!
I can't wait to be a homeless person so I can start hanging out in that library!
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Different channel, eh?
SyFy (*puke*) is a whole different channel. The Science Channel is part of the Discovery channel ecosystem (not perfect, I know, but still better than SyFy...)
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Re:I would say sun is done
From what I can tell, neither Dell nor HP boxes have usable serial consoles. Your hardware is all at a staffed location where you can have someone 24x7 plug in a keyboard and monitor?
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Re:Bloody Hell
The difference is you watch a truckload of commercials in the hopes that maybe, just maybe you will buy Pirelli tires, Gerber baby food, a few cases of Bud, some Pepsi, Doritos, throw some Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, vote for LOCAL_POLITICIAN, replace the windows in your house, drink Florida orange juice, pick up the phone and call Binder & Binder, enroll in classes at Phoenix, get a couple Sham Wows for your friends, tune in for the BIG_STORY at 6 o'clock, stay at the HI Express tonight,
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Re:Think Positron Engine Drive
Now how does this fit into all that?
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it's a bit dated...
but chris taylors' thesis is something i give to unix neophytes who might be interested in learning more about unix and vi.
it either scares them away, or draws them in, but that's up to them to figure that out, evangelism will eventually just wear you out.
IMHO taylors' writing style is amusing and might keep a reader engaged. even though it is unix agnostic i think the ability to speak to the uninitiated and offer them a quick stepping stone document without being overly cryptic or aloof is more helpful then sudden immersion into uber geekdom.you want to scare a neophyte away, try encouraging them to read unix koans of master foo
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Re:The Elephant In the Room
It's no small wonder that an asshole like yourself with such terrible reading abilities to boot has such an extensive freaks list. Are you an asshole professionally, or is it just a hobby of yours? I haven't known anyone who can make money doing it, but you do have that talent honed.
But hell, you didn't want to actually discuss anything with me anyways. We both know that from the first reply you wrote to me. -
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Re:STD?
About as bad as trying to talk cars with health professionals.
"I really want an http://http//www.subaru.com/vehicles/impreza-wrx/index.html"
"You want a WHAT?"
WTF did they change the names anyway? It's really confusing for anyone who took health class ten years ago and then stopped worrying about them when he got married.
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Re:There's not much point to addressing Anonymousholy fuck.. do you not click the link the the chat room where it's all being planned?
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Re:Lets be fair then,
Your analogy would be meaningful if I subscribed
...Rather, my analogy would be meaningful if you expected from others that which you were not willing to accept.
Now you quote this as justification, but its simply not true...
"IMO, knowledge is knowledge, whatever the source, and the beliefs of the people who originate the knowledge are completely irrelevant. Creationists quite explicitly reject this view;"
For e.g., I am a creationist and I believe knowledge is knowledge.
Biblical YECs place the highest value on truth - as do all Christians.Can you have a look at the people and literature available here?
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about a movie where he portrays a Nordic-Irish (Scotch)'American that fights the invading Jews foretold by David Ike in a box-office thriller titled "They Live" (and we just watch)...VaticanAssassins.org
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Re:Jobs isn't betting his platform on it...
I love you 5 digit UID guys. I really do. I know this may be hard to accept, but we are not all programmers on
/. Since I make my money doing 3D for tv, film, and game companies, it's windows or nothing. No no, please don't try to show me blender and photoshop clones, the bottom line is if you want to do 3D and you aren't tied to just maya, then you use windows. To be honest, I'll surf the web on a TI-95 if it's an option, my computer is a tool not a way of life.That being said it may just be my OS, but according to this thread, flash doesn't have 64 bit support. So if it works that's great, if it doesn't they aren't going to fix it. It's not like I miss it.
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Re:Canonical's code contributionhttp://www.ubuntu.com/ - no mention of linux
http://www.opensuse.com/ : redirects to http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page : 1st sentence "Project: The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere
http://www.redat.com/ iGATE Powers Its Mission-Critical ManageMe Application on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (close call on that one
...)http://www.mandriva.com/ 1st para : More than 3 million people in the world enjoy our Mandriva Linux platform on their computer.
http://http//fedoraproject.org/: Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.
http:/// linuxmint.com/ : it's in their url, title, ect: Linux Mint 9 KDE Linux Mint 9 KDE is out!
http://www.debian.org/: Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
pclinuxos, puppy linux, etc
...It's funny how Canonical wants to be seen as the "canonical linux distro", but it's all just marketing fluff and FUGLY color schemes.
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Re:Holy crap!Microsoft Research does many innovative things.
Maybe if you call making an obvious incremental improvement of a competitor's existing product innovative.
It's not like there aren't other better implemented alternatives out there either. And those are real and working, not some recorded and edited demo with near infinite resources to make it look quick for the video...
This whole article is a Microsoft Marketing puff-piece. Even the (near identical) comments in most of the discussion forums have been orchestrated.
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Re:Conditions Apply
Hi, my name is Yucca Mountain. I'd like to disagree with you about the costs of nuclear energy.
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No, not really...
They've all been viable solutions so far with what was thought to be a real chance of success. Ultimately most of the solutions were impossible to test beforehand.
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Re:OSI is getting exactly what they pushed
Why? Are you trying to imply they just use the code but don't contribute back?
http://http//opensource.apple.com/ begs to differ.
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Re:It costs five times that much
I play Smash Bros. but want to switch to PC gaming. What platform fighting game should I try? (SFIV != platform.)
Of course, your question is a lot like asking:
"I play Starcraft, but want to switch to console gaming. What RTS should I try?"...sure, there are some mediocre answers and pathetic attempts, but trying to find an alternative to one of the best games of a genre on a platform that generally doesn't cater to that genre means you will be disappointed. -
Re:More like a flaw in statistics
Well! There is somebody who believes the basic assumptions of an outdated economic dogma can be applied to all areas of life. Here are a few ideas to ponder over....
1. Do people and companies react in a sane rational way, especially when it comes to healthcare?
2. Are you aware that large free markets have been proven to be disconnected from what is called "the fundamentals"?
3. Is a person or company acting in what is in their best interest always acting in the interests of the whole community?
4. Have you ever heard of game theory or the prisoner's dilemma?
5. Can we expect everybody patients have access to all information, allowing them to act rationally, or will they be making decisions on incomplete information?
And for some more direct questions:
1. Would it not be in a hospital's best interest to only admit "nice and easy" cases, and turn away 'hard cases', to help their statistics look good?
2. Why do the foreign quacks selling Cancer treatments and fake stem cell therapies not go out of business?
3. Homeopathy still attracts dollars, even when it doesn't actually work. Why?
You need to read more advanced economic theory...
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Re:Way to make me feel tiny Hubble
FYI, the HubbleSite says it's 2.4 arcminutes. Whatever an arcminute is.
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Re:Contact the BSA AFTER you secure
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If you're actually interested in buying these...
I'd recommend going straight to the company Cranberry is licensing from, Millenniata. It looks like you can purchase identical products for about 1/3 the price. Cranberry's got one heck of a mark-up.
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Re:Laws
Because our laws are written by corporate interests, not the people.
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Re:Sigh
I've not heard a valid example of the US violating it.
Do you consider general Taguba, who conducted investigation of Abu Ghraib valid source? According to him prisoner were raped among other things. Is it good enough example of violation for you? I also remember (not link this time, but should not be hard to find) of hooded prisoner attached to multiple wires. The whole scene looked like something from Frankenstein.
Remember, the Geneva conventions are primarily concerned with the treatment of uniformed members of national military forces (and includes definitions of such).
Whole 4th convention is about civilians. Most relevant here is article 5, talking about spies and saboteurs (or in American newspeak "illegal enemy combatants").
Direct quote: "In each case, such persons shall nevertheless be treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed by the present Convention. They shall also be granted the full rights and privileges of a protected person under the present Convention at the earliest date consistent with the security of the State or Occupying Power, as the case may be." Seems pretty clear, doesn't it?It also is only in force when engaged in war with another state that is also bound by the convention.
Like Iraq which ratified it in 1956? Ah, I forgot: you just need to slap 'liberation' sticker on your invasion and it is ok.
Legally, at least; morally/politically is a different game, of course.
What is the problem? You just need to redefine 'morality', like 'torture' and 'war' got redefined.
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Re:Why didn't this happen sooner?
Apparently, even as recent as his final hearing (in which the judge decided he was to be released) the imprisoned (who is himself an attorney) indicated he would not sign a power of attorney to allow the plaintiff (ex-wife) to confirm the money does not exist.
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Patenting fart free cows
Chances are this was a joke, however if it wasn't there has been many studies related to the topic. One interesting note is that "cow farts" or bovine flatulence constitutes only 1/6th of greenhouse gasses and that cow burping constitutes 5/6th. So while I can applaud Mr. Gates for patenting bovine Beano(TM), it would be wiser for him to focus on the gas causing sugars in the feed or the bacteria that create the gasses inside the stomach. Some info http://http//www.fart-sounds.net/educated_fart_analysis.htm/
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Like a few others I say Kettlebell
I'm doing a program right now, 4 days a week. It's called Enter the Kettlebell. Art Of Strength http://http//www.artofstrength.com has a good work book to do the exercises. The site has a lot of good stuff on it, like how to pick the right size bell, etc.
As for the workbook workout, 2 days the work out lasts 22 minutes, the other 2, 15 minutes. You get worked hard in that time though. it's not easy. I'd using 24kg to do the work. That's the first 4 weeks. I haven't been able to make it to the second set yet (8 weeks).
You can also get the AOS follow along DVDs, which take between 45 minutes to an hour to do.
It's not hard to stay in shape. You just have to be willing to work hard, and eat clean.
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Re:Surprised
I have to share if I want to torrent. I'm not a communist, so I don't share.
So, you are a greedy selfish fuck who gladly benefits from other peoples bandwith without givin anything in return, so that you won't have to pay money to greedy selfish corporations. You are not a capitalist as you probably like to call yourself (just like I do, but rightfully so) but a parasite.
Actually you do not have to share when using BT although it is considered good practice and manners , but I am sure as hell am to tell you how not to share on BT, leech!. Another definition of leech.
I suppose that your mates can not expect a beer in return another day if they treat you to one in the bar tonight.