Where did you get the idea that the government requries all satelites to be launched on the shuttle? Indeed, where do you get many of your ideas? Some or your arguments seems persuasive, but then we stumble across gems like the above, and you start to look like a loon.
Wow, send a letter to NASA, they obviously haven't thought this through. If even an uneducated arm-chair space-exploration critic like yourself can point out the many flaws in their mission after having thought about it for scant minutes and knowing very little about anything, then the mission is clearly deeply flawed. Thank you sir, your efforts could very well save those NASA scoundrels from wasting another $73million! Don't be surprised if you get called up to provide your valuable insights on all future NASA missions!
Because the survey apparently took place near major metropolitan areas, it seems reasonable that the 4 mW figure is the ceiling worth looking at. 4 mW * 1E8 = 400,000 kW.
It may seem reasonable to you, but that doesn't mean it is. You're not really convincing me that your arm-chair physics and web-surfing is a proper refutation of this study.
Is it really compensated by the difference in power output, ie. did you do the calcs?
If the cell phone is 5cm from your head, and the tv transmitter is.5 clicks away, then to have an equal power at your head, the tv transmitter would need to be 100million times stronger or so. Maybe they are, I don't know. Course, the frequencies may have different interactions. And people with cell-phones regularly have them pressed against their noodle, whereas being as close as 500 meters to a tv tower is rare for most people.
In short, I object to your hand-waiving arguments and the rest of the posters on slashdot who dismiss studies without knowing shit.
My Gentoo system is less cluttered with packages than any RedHat-type system will ever be, and less cluttered than most Debian-type systems with a similar amount of software
Congratulations - who fucking cares? Do you get some special value out of your computer when it is "uncluttered"? "Oh my god, my box is so lean - no aspell". Wow, one less thing that won't keep you up at night stressing. Do you have a lack of disk space or something? Even "cluttered" distros like RHEL/Fedora are only going to use 5 or 10 gigs of space if you select just about every package available. For $40 you can get a 100 gig drive these days. Of all the things that make a distribution good (e.g. control, upgrading, maintenance, support, package availablility, security, etc) - cluttered or not doesn't even show up on the list except for some very niche uses.
I'm no expert on the matter, but I was under the impression that the Josephus collaboration was at least in-part discredited by biblical and historical scholars. At minimum, there seems to be some dispute whether the single, short passage in all of the guy's work referencing Jesus is authentic. Pretty shaky ground.
Yeah, but you're a Christian apologist, not a Historical Scholar (tm), so forgive me if I take your take on the historical authenticity of the new testament with the (jewish?) proverbial grain of salt.
Does all it take for a document to be considered a X-history if for the writers to be X-citizens living in X at the time of the describe events? Seems like a pretty low bar.
Put another way, are there better roman histories than the new-testment? You know, more topical, more verification/validation, more collaboration with other documents, fewer "miracles", etc - the kind of stuff we usually associate with Histories and not with religous texts.
And 2 hours after you cry like a little bitch about the moderation and the big-bad-slashdot conspiracy, you're OP is modded at +5 insigtful. How does that fit into your little pity party?
I don't know why you're trying to convince me not to violate copyright law or of value of brands. I mean really, do you think somehow I need convincing on these points? What makes you think that? You imply that I feel entitled to Stevie's wonder music without paying, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The original post said that music prices were not artificial implying that the price of music was therefore set by the "natural" laws of free market economics. Free market economics do not imply intirely to music and other things where artificial supply controls like copyright are in place. IOW, music isn't fungible.
That is all. Nothing more. You may now return to your regularly scheduled crusade for the RIAA.
I agree that WoW was uninspiring. However, I disagree with the notion that directors and screenwriters should follow a story absolutely when making a movie from a book or a remake. There is much great art that is made in an interpretive way, and many good movies have taken small to quite large liberties with original source work.
If you want to judge movies by top 20 in ticket sales, what do you need an award ceremony for? Not that I pay much mind to the oscars, sometimes they do ok, sometimes they award crap. The oscars are only marginally about movies anyway, they're really just there to satiate a public obsessed with celebrity.
Exactly, because if sony won't sell me the latest Stevie Wonder song for a fair price, then a good free market businesman down the street will grow the song on his pop-hit tree and sell it for a lower price. Obviously, the free market will produce the optimal price point for a given copyrighted song based on supply of songs (sometimes there are only a few copies), and demand, which is perfectly elastic. Oh wait, copyright == monopoly != free market. Dang it.
I'm a fan of latex, but latex2html is pretty rudimentary. Don't expect support for very many latex packages you use. The hack is admirable, but it's not much of a solution.
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6) Convince me that the money wouldn't be better spent on cocaine and prostitutes for all.
Where did you get the idea that the government requries all satelites to be launched on the shuttle? Indeed, where do you get many of your ideas? Some or your arguments seems persuasive, but then we stumble across gems like the above, and you start to look like a loon.
Why does the planet need to be in the ecliptic, for that matter?
Wow, send a letter to NASA, they obviously haven't thought this through. If even an uneducated arm-chair space-exploration critic like yourself can point out the many flaws in their mission after having thought about it for scant minutes and knowing very little about anything, then the mission is clearly deeply flawed. Thank you sir, your efforts could very well save those NASA scoundrels from wasting another $73million! Don't be surprised if you get called up to provide your valuable insights on all future NASA missions!
It may seem reasonable to you, but that doesn't mean it is. You're not really convincing me that your arm-chair physics and web-surfing is a proper refutation of this study.
Remainder of hand-waiving ignored.
If the cell phone is 5cm from your head, and the tv transmitter is .5 clicks away, then to have an equal power at your head, the tv transmitter would need to be 100million times stronger or so. Maybe they are, I don't know. Course, the frequencies may have different interactions. And people with cell-phones regularly have them pressed against their noodle, whereas being as close as 500 meters to a tv tower is rare for most people.
In short, I object to your hand-waiving arguments and the rest of the posters on slashdot who dismiss studies without knowing shit.
Heterosexual marriage isn't a guaranteed freedom in the Constitution, either.
Congratulations - who fucking cares? Do you get some special value out of your computer when it is "uncluttered"? "Oh my god, my box is so lean - no aspell". Wow, one less thing that won't keep you up at night stressing. Do you have a lack of disk space or something? Even "cluttered" distros like RHEL/Fedora are only going to use 5 or 10 gigs of space if you select just about every package available. For $40 you can get a 100 gig drive these days. Of all the things that make a distribution good (e.g. control, upgrading, maintenance, support, package availablility, security, etc) - cluttered or not doesn't even show up on the list except for some very niche uses.
I'm no expert on the matter, but I was under the impression that the Josephus collaboration was at least in-part discredited by biblical and historical scholars. At minimum, there seems to be some dispute whether the single, short passage in all of the guy's work referencing Jesus is authentic. Pretty shaky ground.
Does all it take for a document to be considered a X-history if for the writers to be X-citizens living in X at the time of the describe events? Seems like a pretty low bar.
Put another way, are there better roman histories than the new-testment? You know, more topical, more verification/validation, more collaboration with other documents, fewer "miracles", etc - the kind of stuff we usually associate with Histories and not with religous texts.
The new testement is Roman History?
So the answer is ....? Oh I get it, he's a bit like schrodinger's cat.
God I love snopes / AFU.
So which is jesus, mortal or immortal? My head is spinning here.
And 2 hours after you cry like a little bitch about the moderation and the big-bad-slashdot conspiracy, you're OP is modded at +5 insigtful. How does that fit into your little pity party?
The original post said that music prices were not artificial implying that the price of music was therefore set by the "natural" laws of free market economics. Free market economics do not imply intirely to music and other things where artificial supply controls like copyright are in place. IOW, music isn't fungible.
That is all. Nothing more. You may now return to your regularly scheduled crusade for the RIAA.
If you write it, I'll read it. Or they will come. Or something.
Yeah, and if you include paying the prostitute for a threesome after the flick, then a movie costs over $500 canadian!!!! Can you believe it!!!
I agree that WoW was uninspiring. However, I disagree with the notion that directors and screenwriters should follow a story absolutely when making a movie from a book or a remake. There is much great art that is made in an interpretive way, and many good movies have taken small to quite large liberties with original source work.
If you want to judge movies by top 20 in ticket sales, what do you need an award ceremony for? Not that I pay much mind to the oscars, sometimes they do ok, sometimes they award crap. The oscars are only marginally about movies anyway, they're really just there to satiate a public obsessed with celebrity.
Right, I think you've got it!
Exactly, because if sony won't sell me the latest Stevie Wonder song for a fair price, then a good free market businesman down the street will grow the song on his pop-hit tree and sell it for a lower price. Obviously, the free market will produce the optimal price point for a given copyrighted song based on supply of songs (sometimes there are only a few copies), and demand, which is perfectly elastic. Oh wait, copyright == monopoly != free market. Dang it.
The graveyards are also full of dispensible people. I'm sure you're friend had a point, but I can't think of what it might be.
Thank you sir, that is a much more accurate way to describe my problem with AC/DC.