Well, we have plenty of civilizations on this planet that show very obvious signs of having technically but not ethically advanced. The fact that you posted in English gives you a decent chance of living in one.
Had I posted in Hebrew it would have turned into a flame war on that very subject! We have probably the most ethical army in the world, but those who hate the idea of a Jewish state paint everything associated with it, especially the defence forces, as evil. I do agree with you, though, that technical advancement is in no way related to ethical advancement. Up until 400 years ago, the Arabs were the most technologically advanced civilization on Earth, and they were relatively ethical for that time as well. Unfortunately, as their ethics evolved their technology did not keep pace.
The above argument is analogous to the argument "A civilization that has at its ready disposal technology to cross the worlds oceans would not invade a foreign country for no reason and slaughter its civilians". Homework: debate said argument with the people of Iraq. Especially those mowed down from the air by gunships with hooting hick pilots.
I once had a customer with leaking fuel injectors in a 280ZX, after replacing them several times I expected the Bosch dealer to refund the purchase price and be done with him. Not so, instead they sent four sets of four leaky injectors to a lab, and in three weeks I had four injectors to reinstall. No more leaks. I don't know what the problem was, but they seem to have spend quite a bit to help the guy. Though I do suppose that they learned something in the process.
They may be neither militarily advanced nor ethically advanced. They may simply be looking for more resources to exploit. Why assume that they either have a concept of ethics, that their ethics might apply to us, or that taking resources would be unethical in their view?
But it might buy us the time to develop technology to defend ourselves. Having them nuke us from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) would not be so good for humanity.
Being a high-tech field and competitive field, musicians are always in the need of the cutting edge. Quite a few musicians have either directly or indirectly contributed to kernel or application code, either through paying for development or getting right down and coding it themselves. The Meatloaf code may or may not have been actually coded by him, though that is how people like to say it.
The other high-tech artist's field is movie production, and they contribute code as well.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
I suppose that you missed this quote from the very article that you link to: "The US Treasury Department is testing polymer bank notes, but there are concerns that the American public will reject a plastic Greenback."
Will rain fade make so you can speed in the rain and not get a ticket?
Only in a real heavy downpour, and you need to be flying (at least 120 KPH). Be careful not to slow down for "obstacles" such as turns and bumps, or they'll read your plate. Let us know how it works out.
Can your filters respond to an avalanche of spam from an increasing number of throw-away email accounts when it is relayed by legitimate email servers? Can your filters handle spam email that changes body, subject, header, relay, and source address? How much time are you putting into these filtering configurations to do that?
Mine can. I give every contact a different @myDomain.com address. One gets compromised, I disable that address and give the contact a new one.
Bonus: I know who compromised my address to the spammers.
I have also talked with people at Johnson Space Center about this and they use programs like Matlab to determine the orbit maneuvers and another program I can't recall offhand for visualizing it.
There is another reason, too. The shuttle was designed as a _military_ craft. They don't want it being an easy target on reentry, so it comes in fast and over the continental US. If it were to come in slow, or over the ocean, it would be a target.
Sure, I'll weigh in. This is what I get when I go to the MSE website: """ Not available in your country or region
You appear to be in a country or region where Microsoft Security Essentials is not available. Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Security Essentials. """
It was translated into 26 languages, none of which are one of the two official languages of my country. Note that I did check only from Kubuntu, I don't actually have a Windows machine.
this is the worst kind of bullshit law suit and it's a big part of what wrong with the world today.
The world? These lawsuits only come out of one independent nation, which goes to great lengths to isolate itself from the rest of the world. The world _is_ fucked up, but not because of this.
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Unless we're tasty.
Well, we have plenty of civilizations on this planet that show very obvious signs of having technically but not ethically advanced. The fact that you posted in English gives you a decent chance of living in one.
Had I posted in Hebrew it would have turned into a flame war on that very subject! We have probably the most ethical army in the world, but those who hate the idea of a Jewish state paint everything associated with it, especially the defence forces, as evil. I do agree with you, though, that technical advancement is in no way related to ethical advancement. Up until 400 years ago, the Arabs were the most technologically advanced civilization on Earth, and they were relatively ethical for that time as well. Unfortunately, as their ethics evolved their technology did not keep pace.
The above argument is analogous to the argument "A civilization that has at its ready disposal technology to cross the worlds oceans would not invade a foreign country for no reason and slaughter its civilians". Homework: debate said argument with the people of Iraq. Especially those mowed down from the air by gunships with hooting hick pilots.
I know exactly what you mean.
Are there many generous companies, too?
Yes, there are. HP. Bosch. Canonical.
I once had a customer with leaking fuel injectors in a 280ZX, after replacing them several times I expected the Bosch dealer to refund the purchase price and be done with him. Not so, instead they sent four sets of four leaky injectors to a lab, and in three weeks I had four injectors to reinstall. No more leaks. I don't know what the problem was, but they seem to have spend quite a bit to help the guy. Though I do suppose that they learned something in the process.
They may be neither militarily advanced nor ethically advanced. They may simply be looking for more resources to exploit. Why assume that they either have a concept of ethics, that their ethics might apply to us, or that taking resources would be unethical in their view?
Hiding will never work :)
But it might buy us the time to develop technology to defend ourselves. Having them nuke us from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) would not be so good for humanity.
Being a high-tech field and competitive field, musicians are always in the need of the cutting edge. Quite a few musicians have either directly or indirectly contributed to kernel or application code, either through paying for development or getting right down and coding it themselves. The Meatloaf code may or may not have been actually coded by him, though that is how people like to say it.
The other high-tech artist's field is movie production, and they contribute code as well.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
Actually, the paper and other materials do come from Australia, but the notes are printed locally in some cases.
pffft. put out a press release when you join the 20th century...
http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/plastic_banknotes.html
I suppose that you missed this quote from the very article that you link to:
"The US Treasury Department is testing polymer bank notes, but there are concerns that the American public will reject a plastic Greenback."
This isn't the only video problem in the Lucid Lynx betas.
Here's another one: laptop users don't have video out to VGA:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/537640
It has missed the deadline for being fixed, apparently no Ubuntu users connect their laptops to external monitors.
Will rain fade make so you can speed in the rain and not get a ticket?
Only in a real heavy downpour, and you need to be flying (at least 120 KPH). Be careful not to slow down for "obstacles" such as turns and bumps, or they'll read your plate. Let us know how it works out.
Can your filters respond to an avalanche of spam from an increasing number of throw-away email accounts when it is relayed by legitimate email servers? Can your filters handle spam email that changes body, subject, header, relay, and source address? How much time are you putting into these filtering configurations to do that?
Mine can. I give every contact a different @myDomain.com address. One gets compromised, I disable that address and give the contact a new one.
Bonus: I know who compromised my address to the spammers.
I have also talked with people at Johnson Space Center about this and they use programs like Matlab to determine the orbit maneuvers and another program I can't recall offhand for visualizing it.
MS Paint?
Not for Cassini, but Linux Journal did a report on the UI that the Mars rover drivers use:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7570
That is the usual path. This one is special because it is coming from the Northwest, not the West.
There is another reason, too. The shuttle was designed as a _military_ craft. They don't want it being an easy target on reentry, so it comes in fast and over the continental US. If it were to come in slow, or over the ocean, it would be a target.
Anybody else want to weigh in here?
Sure, I'll weigh in. This is what I get when I go to the MSE website:
"""
Not available in your country or region
You appear to be in a country or region where Microsoft Security Essentials is not available. Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Security Essentials.
"""
It was translated into 26 languages, none of which are one of the two official languages of my country. Note that I did check only from Kubuntu, I don't actually have a Windows machine.
..which is why your cat will get high as a kite on catnip but you won't.
You're using it wrong.
this is the worst kind of bullshit law suit and it's a big part of what wrong with the world today.
The world? These lawsuits only come out of one independent nation, which goes to great lengths to isolate itself from the rest of the world. The world _is_ fucked up, but not because of this.
...and looking for POV on XXNX.com
Cruel? To whom? PETR?
Literally every year since the 1970s I've had to endure one of you guys saying, "E-ink will be available next year!"
The E-ink guys are just waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. Don't worry, though, that's next year!
All we'll get is a shitty iPad.
You mean a bloody iPad. Toilet paper gets shitty, pads get bloody.
There are still people.. lots of them.. who will print out emails to read them. No technology will fix this.
The technology to prevent this _does_ exist. It's called the print cartridge. Take it out.
blind optimism is more valued than knowledgeable pessimism.
The truest quote I've ever heard. I am going to use that, what's your real name so that I can properly attribute it?
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/terminology.png