In 1772 a slave successfully used habeas corpus in England. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somersett's_Case ). Quite possibly the American slave holders looked at this decision with horror along with the increasing English dislike of slavery. How much this influenced the Revolution is hard to say but it may have.
HG Wells entire works are FREE. Shakespeare's works are completely FREE
Actually in a some parts of the world H.G. Wells works are not out of copyright yet, he died in 1946 so life plus 70 years equals 2016. And Shakespeare, think of all the people cheating his grandmothers sisters offspring out of their due to his works being freely available, I mean if your 50*great uncle was successful why should you have to work? (sarcasm)
What about the situation where Canadian law does not allow extradition and we have a government that follows our laws? FYI it is illegal in Canada to extradite someone to a situation where they may be put to death, tortured, or the likely sentence is way out of line with Canadian law.
Language changes, even reading a couple of hundred year old English work can lead to misunderstanding. For example if someone wrote that Jesus was a nice person, what did they mean? Today it would be a complement, some time ago it may have been an insult or complement and further back it definitely would have been an insult as nice has evolved from meaning silly to fussy to dainty to precise to kind. I'd guess that Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew have had similar changes with the added bonus with Hebrew that they leave out the vowels so sometimes it's hard to say what the word actually was. See the argument on Thou shall not kill or was that murder and even what the word that was translated to day in genesis actually meant. http://etymonline.com/?term=nice
This is the end game of capitalism. The most ruthless, greedy capitalists buy the government to make sure there is no competition. Pretending that human nature will lead anywhere else is as stupid as those that thought that communism could work on a large scale.
They (the *aa's) would just put content on the pirate bay or/and limewire etc. These authoritarian types have no problem with breaking the law, just a problem with you breaking the law, or rather their moral code.
Magnetic field of planets keeps their atmosphere in place, to some extent. Basically, it prevents ionized gases from escaping. Without a magnetic field, Earth would be like Mars, lifeless and almost without atmosphere. It is believed that Mars lost its atmosphere when its magnetic field disappeared.
Yes, what I don't know is how much ore has to be dug up and processed to power a nuclear reactor whereas coal is dug up needing almost no processing. Most of the Uranium in the States is extracted from sandstone so it is hard to believe that there is a very high percentage of uranium in a given amount of sandstone.
There are other differences between mining coal and uranium. Coal is usually mined pure so you dig it out and burn it. Uranium is diluted, I can't find any figures quickly looking besides seawater containing 3 ppb but American uranium deposits are considered very low grade with most of the current mining being removing uranium from sandstone. So really you need to compare mining uranium that is perhaps 1 part in 10,000 (number pulled out of my ass) to coal which is 1 part in 1 which could mean equal amounts of material are removed from the ground. Also processing the uranium ore is messy whereas coal needs very little processing. Both coal and uranium mining also have associated health risks with the pro-nuclear people often forgetting to factor in the health hazards of uranium mining. Overall I'd think that uranium mining is still better then coal mining but without actual studies we don't know. The studies are also hard to do as a lot of the health risks are quite delayed.
Interestingly, most injuries and deaths in the nuclear industry are from industrial accidents. None (in the US, at least) are from radiation exposure. When I took a tour of a research reactor, they told me that by far the most dangerous aspect of working in the reactor building was the crane. The radiation exposure is very low on the risk of hazards that a rad worker encounters (because shielding, monitoring, etc. are so rigorous).
There are probably more deaths involved in uranium mining then working in a reactor. This is one problem with the pro nuclear folks, cherry picking statistics even though in this case uranium mining is probably still far safer then coal mining it doesn't look good cherry picking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Health_risks_of_uranium_mining
AC below this had a good idea, start suing the movie studios for wasted bandwidth. While about it, start suing the ISPs for marketing the bandwidth as ideal for pirating when it turns out there is nothing worth pirating.
Actually it was Neptune that was discovered by observing Uranus's orbit. Interestingly Pluto was also found the same way, yet it turns out that Pluto is much too small to cause the observed orbital perturbations. There may yet be a large planet out there as a 150 years ago it seems that Uranus's orbit was more perturbed then now.
Grandma may very well not realize that the reason that her electric bill is so high is due to her over powered PC. The government can help by requiring PC makers to honestly state the power usage of their PCs, educate grandma that the 50 watt box works just as well for her uses and even give a sales tax break on the energy efficient box as my provincial government did for a while. Then grandma can make an informed decision and if she's like most of the older people I know who are barely getting by she may ditch the 700 watt PC or at least when it's time to replace it opt for the 50 watt one.
"Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime."
Teaching a man to fish, especially in a sustainable way, costs money. Making sure that the fishing hole is not polluted so the fish continues to thrive also costs money. Your example is good example of how throwing money has the potential to solve poverty. The other points I was going to make have been made very well by my sibling.
In my country, last time I went to vote, instead of the usual dozen or so candidates, there were only four. Seems the government has raised the cost and added other hurdles for running for election that only the established parties can field candidates now.
I hate to say it but citation needed. Remember, people have actually evolved being exposed to burning organic matter. IIRC Homo Erectus had fire. I have seen studies that show tobacco smokers who also smoke pot to have less of an incident of cancer then smokers who only smoke tobacco. The studies I've seen on pot smokers and cancer have been inconclusive though there was a trend to show that smoking pot was as bad as taking an airplane flight, very minimal and within the error bars.
Now a days OS/2 uses a port of Alsa for sound cards, works fine. Serenity Systems has the source code for Scitech now so hopefully the weak link, graphics support, will be fixed though I'm sure you'll still have to be careful of your hardware purchases. One nice thing is that IBM considers multi-core chips to be one CPU so your Warp V4 system is licensed for SMP as long as there is one physical chip. To run OS/2 in Virtual box you need at least V4.5 (V4 + all the free fixes) and unluckily even though Vbox was designed to run OS/2 it has drifted away so you need to pick the right version for it to work. As I'm still running OS/2 on real hardware I haven't kept track.
I have a daemon here, awget which monitors the clipboard (can also be a folder for drag'n'drop) and launches wget. So find file I want to download, hilite and copy, click yes on popup, and wget the file. Of course this is old technology so probably wouldn't work in anything designed in the 21st century. (OS/2 here) It's also trivial to encode a file as you mention from the GUI though you still have to enter the parameters into a popup.
It's bed time here so just a quick reply, I've obviously misremembered golds conductivity or remembering it at a different temperature point. Copper still has the problem of rapidly (ok, a few years) turning green and failing, at least around here in the rain forest of western North America. Combined with its ductile ability you can do things like apply power over a large surface area, useful for defrosting and mild heating. I also remember reading about the possibilities of using it as insulation. Gold wool? I also remember reading a paper on possibilities of gold in alloys. Once again it wasn't pursued to much do to the impracticability due to cost. Unluckily I can't find anything in a quick search so the paper may have been based on conjecture. Platinum wire is stable at high temperatures, whereas iron would really have a tendency to oxidize
Updated copyright laws including DMCA like provisions as written by America (Wikileaks leaked a document showing our glorious leader responding to the American ambassadors pressure to pass the law before the election as saying it would make them unelectable. This shows who they're representing). Tougher crime laws including 3 strike type laws and building more prisons even though the crime rate has been seriously dropping. Getting rid of most government scientists because they keep making business unfriendly reports. And of course the usual right wing practice of cutting taxes for the rich while increasing spending. I like tax cuts but only when we can afford them.
Remember, billionaires got that way because they're damn stingy and only give in order to get more. Wannabe billionaires are even more that way. Where they donate, it is purely for tax reasons.
Actually there is one other reason that billionaires give away money. To be remembered by. I could imagine some stingy asshole of a billionaire getting old, thinking about his mortality and putting most of his fortune into a trust to pursue space flight much like Carnegie put his money into libraries.
Gold is actually incredibly useful. It is one of the best conductors of electricity. Combined with its corrosion resistance it would be way superiour to copper for wiring. It is the most ductile metal, which give it many uses. It can form interesting alloys with a wide range of metals, and I'm sure the list goes on. The draw back to gold is simply price and rarity. Copper is much cheaper currently. Platinum is probably even more useful. It has very useful catalyst properties. It is very heat resistant, you want wires that stand up to 1000 degrees, platinum is pretty well your only choice. In combination with other metals it has fantastic magnetic properties, perhaps out performing rare earths when it comes to permanent magnets. Once again due to price and rarity it is hardly used. Given a large source of gold and platinum to bring their price down and you would see them used in a lot of places.
Greenland is called "Greenland" for the same reason that Iceland is called "Iceland". Public relations, Iceland was relatively nice, at least by Scandinavian standards and they didn't want to be over run and Greenland was a waste land that they were trying to attract people to.
However, the comment about single young is even more interesting - as whale sharks are even bearing very many (live) young. Maybe different again? (no expert here, just curious!)
I'm no expert either. Generally the smaller the litter, the less the mortality rate. In this case it possibly would point to the parent[s] looking after the young unlike sharks where the young are left to fend for themselves.
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In 1772 a slave successfully used habeas corpus in England. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somersett's_Case ). Quite possibly the American slave holders looked at this decision with horror along with the increasing English dislike of slavery. How much this influenced the Revolution is hard to say but it may have.
HG Wells entire works are FREE.
Shakespeare's works are completely FREE
Actually in a some parts of the world H.G. Wells works are not out of copyright yet, he died in 1946 so life plus 70 years equals 2016.
And Shakespeare, think of all the people cheating his grandmothers sisters offspring out of their due to his works being freely available, I mean if your 50*great uncle was successful why should you have to work? (sarcasm)
What about the situation where Canadian law does not allow extradition and we have a government that follows our laws?
FYI it is illegal in Canada to extradite someone to a situation where they may be put to death, tortured, or the likely sentence is way out of line with Canadian law.
Language changes, even reading a couple of hundred year old English work can lead to misunderstanding. For example if someone wrote that Jesus was a nice person, what did they mean?
Today it would be a complement, some time ago it may have been an insult or complement and further back it definitely would have been an insult as nice has evolved from meaning silly to fussy to dainty to precise to kind. I'd guess that Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew have had similar changes with the added bonus with Hebrew that they leave out the vowels so sometimes it's hard to say what the word actually was. See the argument on Thou shall not kill or was that murder and even what the word that was translated to day in genesis actually meant.
http://etymonline.com/?term=nice
This is the end game of capitalism. The most ruthless, greedy capitalists buy the government to make sure there is no competition. Pretending that human nature will lead anywhere else is as stupid as those that thought that communism could work on a large scale.
They (the *aa's) would just put content on the pirate bay or/and limewire etc. These authoritarian types have no problem with breaking the law, just a problem with you breaking the law, or rather their moral code.
Magnetic field of planets keeps their atmosphere in place, to some extent. Basically, it prevents ionized gases from escaping. Without a magnetic field, Earth would be like Mars, lifeless and almost without atmosphere. It is believed that Mars lost its atmosphere when its magnetic field disappeared.
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Yes, what I don't know is how much ore has to be dug up and processed to power a nuclear reactor whereas coal is dug up needing almost no processing.
Most of the Uranium in the States is extracted from sandstone so it is hard to believe that there is a very high percentage of uranium in a given amount of sandstone.
There are other differences between mining coal and uranium. Coal is usually mined pure so you dig it out and burn it.
Uranium is diluted, I can't find any figures quickly looking besides seawater containing 3 ppb but American uranium deposits are considered very low grade with most of the current mining being removing uranium from sandstone.
So really you need to compare mining uranium that is perhaps 1 part in 10,000 (number pulled out of my ass) to coal which is 1 part in 1 which could mean equal amounts of material are removed from the ground.
Also processing the uranium ore is messy whereas coal needs very little processing.
Both coal and uranium mining also have associated health risks with the pro-nuclear people often forgetting to factor in the health hazards of uranium mining.
Overall I'd think that uranium mining is still better then coal mining but without actual studies we don't know. The studies are also hard to do as a lot of the health risks are quite delayed.
Interestingly, most injuries and deaths in the nuclear industry are from industrial accidents. None (in the US, at least) are from radiation exposure. When I took a tour of a research reactor, they told me that by far the most dangerous aspect of working in the reactor building was the crane. The radiation exposure is very low on the risk of hazards that a rad worker encounters (because shielding, monitoring, etc. are so rigorous).
There are probably more deaths involved in uranium mining then working in a reactor. This is one problem with the pro nuclear folks, cherry picking statistics even though in this case uranium mining is probably still far safer then coal mining it doesn't look good cherry picking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Health_risks_of_uranium_mining
AC below this had a good idea, start suing the movie studios for wasted bandwidth. While about it, start suing the ISPs for marketing the bandwidth as ideal for pirating when it turns out there is nothing worth pirating.
Actually it was Neptune that was discovered by observing Uranus's orbit. Interestingly Pluto was also found the same way, yet it turns out that Pluto is much too small to cause the observed orbital perturbations.
There may yet be a large planet out there as a 150 years ago it seems that Uranus's orbit was more perturbed then now.
Grandma may very well not realize that the reason that her electric bill is so high is due to her over powered PC. The government can help by requiring PC makers to honestly state the power usage of their PCs, educate grandma that the 50 watt box works just as well for her uses and even give a sales tax break on the energy efficient box as my provincial government did for a while.
Then grandma can make an informed decision and if she's like most of the older people I know who are barely getting by she may ditch the 700 watt PC or at least when it's time to replace it opt for the 50 watt one.
"Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime."
Teaching a man to fish, especially in a sustainable way, costs money. Making sure that the fishing hole is not polluted so the fish continues to thrive also costs money.
Your example is good example of how throwing money has the potential to solve poverty.
The other points I was going to make have been made very well by my sibling.
This is why Harper is planning on appointing a bunch of new judges including supreme court.
In my country, last time I went to vote, instead of the usual dozen or so candidates, there were only four. Seems the government has raised the cost and added other hurdles for running for election that only the established parties can field candidates now.
I hate to say it but citation needed.
Remember, people have actually evolved being exposed to burning organic matter. IIRC Homo Erectus had fire.
I have seen studies that show tobacco smokers who also smoke pot to have less of an incident of cancer then smokers who only smoke tobacco.
The studies I've seen on pot smokers and cancer have been inconclusive though there was a trend to show that smoking pot was as bad as taking an airplane flight, very minimal and within the error bars.
Now a days OS/2 uses a port of Alsa for sound cards, works fine. Serenity Systems has the source code for Scitech now so hopefully the weak link, graphics support, will be fixed though I'm sure you'll still have to be careful of your hardware purchases. One nice thing is that IBM considers multi-core chips to be one CPU so your Warp V4 system is licensed for SMP as long as there is one physical chip.
To run OS/2 in Virtual box you need at least V4.5 (V4 + all the free fixes) and unluckily even though Vbox was designed to run OS/2 it has drifted away so you need to pick the right version for it to work. As I'm still running OS/2 on real hardware I haven't kept track.
I have a daemon here, awget which monitors the clipboard (can also be a folder for drag'n'drop) and launches wget. So find file I want to download, hilite and copy, click yes on popup, and wget the file.
Of course this is old technology so probably wouldn't work in anything designed in the 21st century. (OS/2 here)
It's also trivial to encode a file as you mention from the GUI though you still have to enter the parameters into a popup.
It's bed time here so just a quick reply,
I've obviously misremembered golds conductivity or remembering it at a different temperature point. Copper still has the problem of rapidly (ok, a few years) turning green and failing, at least around here in the rain forest of western North America.
Combined with its ductile ability you can do things like apply power over a large surface area, useful for defrosting and mild heating. I also remember reading about the possibilities of using it as insulation. Gold wool?
I also remember reading a paper on possibilities of gold in alloys. Once again it wasn't pursued to much do to the impracticability due to cost. Unluckily I can't find anything in a quick search so the paper may have been based on conjecture.
Platinum wire is stable at high temperatures, whereas iron would really have a tendency to oxidize
Updated copyright laws including DMCA like provisions as written by America (Wikileaks leaked a document showing our glorious leader responding to the American ambassadors pressure to pass the law before the election as saying it would make them unelectable. This shows who they're representing).
Tougher crime laws including 3 strike type laws and building more prisons even though the crime rate has been seriously dropping.
Getting rid of most government scientists because they keep making business unfriendly reports.
And of course the usual right wing practice of cutting taxes for the rich while increasing spending. I like tax cuts but only when we can afford them.
Remember, billionaires got that way because they're damn stingy and only give in order to get more. Wannabe billionaires are even more that way. Where they donate, it is purely for tax reasons.
Actually there is one other reason that billionaires give away money. To be remembered by. I could imagine some stingy asshole of a billionaire getting old, thinking about his mortality and putting most of his fortune into a trust to pursue space flight much like Carnegie put his money into libraries.
Gold is actually incredibly useful. It is one of the best conductors of electricity. Combined with its corrosion resistance it would be way superiour to copper for wiring. It is the most ductile metal, which give it many uses. It can form interesting alloys with a wide range of metals, and I'm sure the list goes on. The draw back to gold is simply price and rarity. Copper is much cheaper currently.
Platinum is probably even more useful. It has very useful catalyst properties. It is very heat resistant, you want wires that stand up to 1000 degrees, platinum is pretty well your only choice. In combination with other metals it has fantastic magnetic properties, perhaps out performing rare earths when it comes to permanent magnets. Once again due to price and rarity it is hardly used.
Given a large source of gold and platinum to bring their price down and you would see them used in a lot of places.
Greenland is called "Greenland" for the same reason that Iceland is called "Iceland". Public relations, Iceland was relatively nice, at least by Scandinavian standards and they didn't want to be over run and Greenland was a waste land that they were trying to attract people to.
However, the comment about single young is even more interesting - as whale sharks are even bearing very many (live) young. Maybe different again? (no expert here, just curious!)
I'm no expert either. Generally the smaller the litter, the less the mortality rate. In this case it possibly would point to the parent[s] looking after the young unlike sharks where the young are left to fend for themselves.