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Search for the Missing Universe
Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that one of the greatest discoveries of our time could be made under the Yorkshire moors. Deep in a Yorkshire mine, scientists are toiling to solve a cosmic puzzle that has baffled astronomers for 70 years: about 90 per cent of the universe is missing. Analyse the movements of stars and you can work out how much matter is making them swirl round in galactic islands and how much makes galaxies cluster together as they do - in other words, you can work out how much mass makes the universe look the way it does. But measurements suggest that the universe is not what it appears."
FIRST!
You are a faulure!!!
but then found it in the back pocket of his pajamas!
HOT GRITS
Is it me, or is this story a dupe? Perhaps it is actually a triple. Let's see...story posted by michael, check. Slashdot editors aggressively disinterested in their own site, check. Refusal to acknowledge comments are important or even relevant, check.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Here lie experiments to detect wimps
so they can detect michael?
I saw another write up on this on the front page of tubgirl tech archive
RELEASE THE 5DWM GODDAMNIT!
WE'RE SICK OF WAITING MONTHS FOR SOMETHING YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE!
BETA MY ASS, FREE TEH 5DWM!
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
found to consist mostly of pens, keys and wallets
I will never moderate you up because I find your signature to be offensive.
And non existant god willing you will never be a mod for that reason.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
... considering that I live in Lithuania, are the MP3 software patents valid in my country?
I'd love to install LAME and compress some songs down to MP3s. But I can't find out whether LAME would be legal here. I even tried writing to Thomson, to find out either if LAME was infringing or if there was another program I *could* use, but didn't get an answer.
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Anyhow, on the front of software patents and IP, I tend to divide rights into those that are inherent, and those that are granted. Inherent rights are those that cannot be taken away: the right to travel, the right to work, the right to property, the right to learn, the right to think or believe as you choose. Granted rights are those that can be taken away just by not giving them: the right to a free education, for example.
The problem is that granted rights require the government to convince someone else to give up one of their inherent rights, at least in part. Sometimes this works -- but if the government tries to take away too many inherent rights, then it falls easily [note Afghanistan for an extreme example, USSR for a lesser example].
Why have granted rights? Well, a country with inherent rights and much charity doesn't need granted rights -- but I have yet to see that happen. A country with just inherent rights, on the other hand, is prone to violence, because unsuccessful people do not willingly just lie down and die. So we do give up some of our inherent rights for granted rights and less violence. But that is not to say that granted rights are good, or good for the economy. They're not. They're outright harmful to economies, because they encourage undesirable behavior, and discourage desirable behavior.
Now, opening up the borders to trade and the movement of labor is an excellent example of restoring inherent rights [travel, working, trade] by removing granted rights [right to have no competition, right to nationalism.] However, that doesn't mean that everything is good.
Software patents, as far as I can tell, are a granted right that takes away from the inherent right of working, that is productive labor.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
This is nothing more than a TROLL and it's been more than 1 minute since I last posted--stupid /.
That's not funny, that's pathetic. You are a sorry piece of shit.
I'm sorry so its offensive now to be against the president. Well at least you admit it. But come on people isn't that EXACTLY like not being aloud to speak out against Saddam. Sure Bush is not openly killing people yet but this is how it starts. It is a social tabu now but before you know it you will be reporting me to the FBI for my sig and I will be veporized just like in 1984.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein