I know what SVG stands for. By why that clock all over the place. Go google for android screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Now KDE 4 screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Windows Vista / 7 screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Opera widgets. Analog SVG Clock.
Because those who use their scientific belief to attack religion seem to me more religious than those who call themselves religious. They are not upholding science in the name of science, they are upholding science to attack something else.
Then it would seem most obvious to a scientist that you're doing the Science wrong. The whole point of science is that it _doesn't_ require belief.
Everyday science, say the laws of physics as Newton presented them, have been shown to be simplifications of a much greater and more complicated nature/science. We can call that QED and / or relativity depending on which particular phenomenon you are examining at the moment. In turn, QED must rest upon something, and scientists / physicists do not yet know. They are ever looking for what is beneath the current turtle. Without an established base, all that science believes in, including the laws of Newton, are still based in the end upon faith.
I used to think that religion was a joke. I hated the religious (still do, really). But the more that I took an interest in QM and astrophysics, part as university courses and part as a personal interest, the more I see that all matter, all energy, had to originate from _somewhere_. I might not think that that somewhere is a sentient being, or may or may not speak to prophets, or may or may not let me walk away from an ambush unharmed, but it came from somewhere. The matter and energy that came from that somewhere coalesced into the sun and the moon, and into the birds and the fish, and into us.
Personally, I like to log into my Linux box from the middle of the woods to check on a build using the connectbot. A lot of people would consider that to be slightly more cool than an Analog clock as well.
Then why isn't there an SSH client shown in the screenshot instead of that persistent SGV clock?
Does every dashboard / plasmoid / widget set need to have an SVG clock as it's be all end all feature? From Opera's pansy user-scriptable language, to Plasma (KDE 4), to Windows 7, to that computer named after a fruit all I see is SVG clocks. And you know what I think of when I see a large, round object with two hands across it? Goatse.
That is not true. It is based on different axioms than science, but not on lack of evidence. I find that I need no less faith to believe in "science" than I do to believe in the Old Testament. And not only do I believe in them both, I see very few contradictions.
You both have a point. The question is, where do you draw the line at what is life? Rocks may not have DNA or intelligence, but they do form, change, multiply and there's a recognisable process for destroying them.
Rocks do not have gaseous exchange (breathing) nor reproduce (cracking a rock to make two is _not_ reprodction). However, there is no definition of life that fire cannot meet, which the mule can. In other words, any non-contrived definition of life that includes the mule must also include fire. Here is a very basic explanation: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Seismometers detect things like sonic booms and lightning strikes from quite large distances away.
So if it created a sonic boom coming down through the atmosphere it could have been detected as seismic activity.
Detect, yes, but in a different way. Your ears can detect both cars and hummingbirds, but you have no problem differentiating between the two. The seismometers also detect the sonic booms, but they know that it's not seismic activity.
Shhh, it's really the end times, earthquakes and fireballs in the sky and all that, but they don't want to alarm anybody. At least until the dead all rise and walk again by which point it should be obvious what's going on.
Actually, I wasn't jumping on the anti-US bandwagon with this one. I meant that some entities (*IAAs) from very far away (The last A in *IAA) are influencing Swedish legal proceedings. Had there not been that last A in *IAA then I would have left out the American part, or rephrased it.
Ouch. Our so-called 'sniper' enemies are really just using M16s or AK47 with an optical scope, often no more than x4. They are really, really good shots, though, and they get more range out of those weapons than you would believe. I'm surprised that the sniper in the video was shooting from only 75 meters but did not go for a head/neck shot.
This is 100% incorrect. Copyright law does not allow some to create a derivative work without the consent of the copyright owner. And when I say derivative, I mean modification. The author of the summary is confused because he or she does not understand that a modification is a derivative work (assuming modification uses the original aspects of the work that the original author created himself.) You are assuming that copyright protects only from redistribution. That is wrong. Here is what the statute says:
As you can see, derivative and distribution are two separate rights granted to the copyright holder.
So, how is it that I can bolt a 750 CFM Holley double pumper and an Edelbrock hirise manifold on my Chevy without GM's permission?
If I was in their position, I would do whatever it took to be acquitted. They run the risk of pissing the court off with this show, so I don't think it can help. We only have one life after all - it's not worth fighting for pirated content!
While I think that TPB operators are wrong in linking to illegal content, I do no see this trial as a trial of their wrongdoing. I see this trial as a trial of Sweden's sovereignty. These people did nothing illegal _in_Sweden_. Why should the the Swedes sacrifice their sovereignty, to appease American businessmen?
Well, consider how much refined materials cost in space, what is wrong with sending it to the moon or to Mars? Somebody might want a bolt or some wire one day, aboard whatever ideal craft they follow up with.
That's actually rather insightful. Make sure they put a bag of Cheetos onboard, too.
AFAIK, there have been problems with the ISS where the situation could have been far more serious had it been orbiting around the Moon, or worse Mars.
Just look at the recent broken toilet on the ISS. Imagine that you are in a zero-G environment without a working toilet! Earthlings have a hard time grasping the difficulties untethered interplanetary travel pose.
Moving it to mars... Now that's a bit of a stretch but it might be possible with a propulsion efficiency breakthrough that could be powered by existing solar arrays or a bolt-on reactor. Still though, I think the idea of using it to support lunar operations might be an interesting idea especially as an alternative to letting it die after such a slow and expensive build-up with gross under-use as a science platform since it's been manned due to problems with the shuttle program.
Please tell me what will protect the humans onboard from cosmic radiation once they leave the Van Allen belts. Or do you propose wrapping the whole thing in a meter of lead?
It's quite ironic that it looks like the only thing that will save US manned spaceflight & planetary exploration from becoming a sacrificial lamb on the altar of pork & payoffs by short-sighted, corrupt US politicians may well be a re-emerging, hostile, and aggressive Russia.
I don't find that strange at all. Competition breeds innovation.
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Thank you. You seem to grasp more than most.
I know what SVG stands for. By why that clock all over the place. Go google for android screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Now KDE 4 screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Windows Vista / 7 screenshots. Analog SVG Clock. Opera widgets. Analog SVG Clock.
Why on earth would you put quotes around science?
Because those who use their scientific belief to attack religion seem to me more religious than those who call themselves religious. They are not upholding science in the name of science, they are upholding science to attack something else.
Then it would seem most obvious to a scientist that you're doing the Science wrong. The whole point of science is that it _doesn't_ require belief.
Everyday science, say the laws of physics as Newton presented them, have been shown to be simplifications of a much greater and more complicated nature/science. We can call that QED and / or relativity depending on which particular phenomenon you are examining at the moment. In turn, QED must rest upon something, and scientists / physicists do not yet know. They are ever looking for what is beneath the current turtle. Without an established base, all that science believes in, including the laws of Newton, are still based in the end upon faith.
I used to think that religion was a joke. I hated the religious (still do, really). But the more that I took an interest in QM and astrophysics, part as university courses and part as a personal interest, the more I see that all matter, all energy, had to originate from _somewhere_. I might not think that that somewhere is a sentient being, or may or may not speak to prophets, or may or may not let me walk away from an ambush unharmed, but it came from somewhere. The matter and energy that came from that somewhere coalesced into the sun and the moon, and into the birds and the fish, and into us.
Personally, I like to log into my Linux box from the middle of the woods to check on a build using the connectbot. A lot of people would consider that to be slightly more cool than an Analog clock as well.
Then why isn't there an SSH client shown in the screenshot instead of that persistent SGV clock?
Michael Dell is so jealous of Apple that he tries to copy them every chance he gets. Unfortunately for him, he's stuck with Microsoft and Windows.
You do know that Michael Dell uses Ubuntu on three of his five personal computers, no? I don't know what he does with them, though.
How about testability and falsifiability?
Testability: The ability to predict is why I believe in science.
Falsifiability: Which you don't have for mathematical axioms either.
Does every dashboard / plasmoid / widget set need to have an SVG clock as it's be all end all feature? From Opera's pansy user-scriptable language, to Plasma (KDE 4), to Windows 7, to that computer named after a fruit all I see is SVG clocks. And you know what I think of when I see a large, round object with two hands across it? Goatse.
Can't you connect a bluetooth keyboard to an Android device?
Yea he probably wont have everything that superman has, especially the Hidden power to resolve a plot.
In Extremophile Russia, the plot has superman.
Since it is based on NOT having evidence?
That is not true. It is based on different axioms than science, but not on lack of evidence. I find that I need no less faith to believe in "science" than I do to believe in the Old Testament. And not only do I believe in them both, I see very few contradictions.
There are lots of things that defy a strict definition, especially when it comes to lifeforms
Is Pluto a planet? Planets, life, etc need to be _defined_ before one can decide if a borderline case "is" or "isn't".
You both have a point. The question is, where do you draw the line at what is life? Rocks may not have DNA or intelligence, but they do form, change, multiply and there's a recognisable process for destroying them.
Rocks do not have gaseous exchange (breathing) nor reproduce (cracking a rock to make two is _not_ reprodction). However, there is no definition of life that fire cannot meet, which the mule can. In other words, any non-contrived definition of life that includes the mule must also include fire. Here is a very basic explanation: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Seismometers detect things like sonic booms and lightning strikes from quite large distances away.
So if it created a sonic boom coming down through the atmosphere it could have been detected as seismic activity.
Detect, yes, but in a different way. Your ears can detect both cars and hummingbirds, but you have no problem differentiating between the two. The seismometers also detect the sonic booms, but they know that it's not seismic activity.
Shhh, it's really the end times, earthquakes and fireballs in the sky and all that, but they don't want to alarm anybody. At least until the dead all rise and walk again by which point it should be obvious what's going on.
Nobody steps on a church in my town!
I bought 4 IBM model M keyboards on Ebay 10 years ago, and fully intend to keep using them until I can get a neural implant.
Neural implants don't click. I went right back to the model M.
Actually, I wasn't jumping on the anti-US bandwagon with this one. I meant that some entities (*IAAs) from very far away (The last A in *IAA) are influencing Swedish legal proceedings. Had there not been that last A in *IAA then I would have left out the American part, or rephrased it.
Other than that, you make very valid points.
Some putz was putting mortars on us from way the Hell at the far end of the map with impunity.
Had that happen to me in Lebanon for a few days. Now I know how they did it!
Ouch. Our so-called 'sniper' enemies are really just using M16s or AK47 with an optical scope, often no more than x4. They are really, really good shots, though, and they get more range out of those weapons than you would believe. I'm surprised that the sniper in the video was shooting from only 75 meters but did not go for a head/neck shot.
Several products allowed you to examine the source code but do little else.
That product was Windows Vista.
This is 100% incorrect. Copyright law does not allow some to create a derivative work without the consent of the copyright owner. And when I say derivative, I mean modification. The author of the summary is confused because he or she does not understand that a modification is a derivative work (assuming modification uses the original aspects of the work that the original author created himself.) You are assuming that copyright protects only from redistribution. That is wrong. Here is what the statute says:
As you can see, derivative and distribution are two separate rights granted to the copyright holder.
So, how is it that I can bolt a 750 CFM Holley double pumper and an Edelbrock hirise manifold on my Chevy without GM's permission?
If I was in their position, I would do whatever it took to be acquitted. They run the risk of pissing the court off with this show, so I don't think it can help. We only have one life after all - it's not worth fighting for pirated content!
While I think that TPB operators are wrong in linking to illegal content, I do no see this trial as a trial of their wrongdoing. I see this trial as a trial of Sweden's sovereignty. These people did nothing illegal _in_Sweden_. Why should the the Swedes sacrifice their sovereignty, to appease American businessmen?
Well, consider how much refined materials cost in space, what is wrong with sending it to the moon or to Mars? Somebody might want a bolt or some wire one day, aboard whatever ideal craft they follow up with.
That's actually rather insightful. Make sure they put a bag of Cheetos onboard, too.
Moving it to mars... Now that's a bit of a stretch but it might be possible with a propulsion efficiency breakthrough that could be powered by existing solar arrays or a bolt-on reactor. Still though, I think the idea of using it to support lunar operations might be an interesting idea especially as an alternative to letting it die after such a slow and expensive build-up with gross under-use as a science platform since it's been manned due to problems with the shuttle program.
Please tell me what will protect the humans onboard from cosmic radiation once they leave the Van Allen belts. Or do you propose wrapping the whole thing in a meter of lead?
It's quite ironic that it looks like the only thing that will save US manned spaceflight & planetary exploration from becoming a sacrificial lamb on the altar of pork & payoffs by short-sighted, corrupt US politicians may well be a re-emerging, hostile, and aggressive Russia.
I don't find that strange at all. Competition breeds innovation.