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Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet
CrystalFalcon writes "The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously without being tracked or traced. 'There are many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet,' says Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party. 'If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check.'"
Well, to anyone with any basic physics knowledge that is not true, unless they were at point-blank range.
The number of events acting on the bullet are huge, and the chance that they would have a similar affect on the bullet going either way are almost impossbile. This is after assuming the guns are pointed at the same location? Ridiculous.
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I knew you were talking about the Sniper story. However, these unnamed forces of yours, which act in unnamed ways, on unnamed objects, in unnamed directions, preventing unnamed conclusion from possibly happening... remain elusive.
And, more importantly, the story (of Carlos Hathcock) remains true, whether you have any knowledge of physics or not.
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OK, I am not doubting that the story is true, I am doubting the conclusion that if the other sniper had fired first, a similar result would have ensued.
The unnamed forces I am talking about are wind, gravity, spin... a thousand other forces have small effects, that are significant depending on the distance between the two snipers. All these forces added together would mean that there is no way that both snipers bullets would end in each snipers gun barrel.
This conversation has gone on way too long. If you are still misunderstanding me, then too bad.
Leibniz had apparently had some news of Newton's thinking and IIRC seems to have read an unpublished paper by Newton that had some hints. On the other hand, Newton's mathematical formalism and clarity of thought regarding calculus were much inferior to Leibniz's. Newton had not published this most important discovery despite having many years to do so, and so had cut himself off from the community of scientific endeavor, despite his later use of the Royal Society and other scientific contacts to attack Leibniz.
Newton did a handful of big things - laws of motion and universal gravitation (although these were building on the work of others more than is generally seen); color and light (although his corpuscular theory was not really even half right - photons aren't anything like Newton's corpuscules), and the reflector telescope (which didn't really work very well at the time). That's pretty much it, aside from the politics and the alchemy.
Hooke and Leibniz each did far more than Newton, and were better men intellectually and personally - and perhaps because of that, Newton destroyed the work of one and did his best to destroy the reputation of the other.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
What about the nuclear waste, not very clean.
Only because the government wants it to be. Waste would be vastly reduced if only the government would allow it to be recycled in breeder reactors, but oh noes it might be used for teh bombz!!1!1
That the rich have made possible for you.
Ah of course, the rich did it all. How about the rich go to some distant island with their capital, and see what they can do? I suspect all they'll get from waving their wads of cash at the local monkeys is a coconut to the head. Until the rich realize they need to keep a working class, the world will continue to suck for the vast majority of its inhabitants.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.