What happens if the magnet field flips, or drops completely for few millenia, as is speculated has happened before and will likely happen again?
Not too much, to the birds at least. IIRC the field changes quite slowly over the course of several bird lifetimes, spending a while near zero, so they will get a chance to adapt to this cue becoming less and less useful.
...and for once, Mr Titor is right. Anyone carrying out a premediatated act can trivially defend themselves against this thing. It's people who believe they're doing nothing wrong who are the intended victims.
the BSD license ensures that it is the *user* that remains free.
Free to do what ? The BSD licence doesn't even guarantee that the user has the right to read the code he's using !
the GPL that ensures that the *code* remains free, while the BSD license ensures that it is the *user* that remains free.
You have this exactly the wrong way round. If I'm using GPL code, I have the right to read, modify, and redistribute it. I, the user, have these freedoms. If, on the other hand, I'm using BSD code, I have no such rights. I have the right to do development with the same code of course, but that's just freedom of the code.
You have no proof it exists as in man causes it. If we were to examine the global warming factors, the amount of gases man itself is responsible for are a tiny, tiny fraction of the green house gases. It comes to less then.01 percent of the total gases. And not, that isn't.01 of the GH gases, it is.0001 of the total gases or less. The amounts purposed as needing to change is a tiny fraction of that too. So out of.0001 of the total green house gases, less then half of that reduced is supposed to fix the AGW problem. Do you really think those numbers ad up?
The battle for the internet's best made-up statistics is over, and you have won. Awesome, truly awesome.
I neither know nor care about third world debt, so someone else will have to discredit your assertions about that.
the Kyoto accord didn't actually reduce GHG emissions but set an unrealistic measurement and when countries couldn't meet them, they farmed the pollution out to third world countries to enrich them buy either foreign investments or by carbon credits.
A rather deceptive claim. Those countries which actually signed up to Kyoto did reduce their greenhouse emissions. So, not "unrealistic". As for the third world, they want to pollute, we want them not to pollute, there's no moral basis for forcing them to pollute less than us, so in order to make them do what we want, we have to pay them. Simple enough ?
look past the sensational headline of the week. You will probably see a lot of other things wrong
Did that. Looked all the way to the original science, in fact. Given all the blatherings of the AGW deniers, I was half-expecting it to be shaky and full of holes. Instead, it turned out to be perfectly normal science, with all assumptions questioned, all possibilities investigated, and with only the evidence being used to decide what was and wasn't true.
To me all the flaming and arguing, [...] means that the kernel developers are passionate about what they do.
They're passionate alright. Passionate about preventing anyone outside the inner clique from touching "their" kernel.
It means that, once the dust settles, we'll get a superior product.
...by making it clear that anyone who has a superior idea will be told to fuck off, and have their idea reimplemented badly by someone pretending it was theirs.
The point of the GNU projects was to make a good, Free operating system. The resemblance to Unix was just a compromise to get developer tools ready quickly, the end-goal of the project was not to make anything as remotely shoddy as Unix. Then someone who Didn't Get It destroyed the project by turning it into Just Another Fucking Unix. No wonder Stallman is bitter.
News flash #2: Glass is inert. So is chrysotile asbestos.
One suspected mechanism for asbestos-induced cancers is that the immune system repeatedly attacks the asbestos fibres (old ones tend to be completely covered in dead immune cells). The same may well be true of the implants, in which case the GP's claim that they're "inert" would be pretty stupid.
Cite ? I remember it as 18 out of 300 test subjects suffering inflammation, with none dying.
The worst I've been able to find is a 72 year only whose inflammation "probably hastened" her death. For a disease with 100% mortality untreated, that's not an unacceptable risk.
There's been a method for removing amyloid plaques from the brain since 2002. Elan Pharmaceuticals produced
a vaccine which stimulated the immune system to produce antibodies against amyloid. Unfortunately, it's a cure, and cures are bad for business, so Elan abandoned it.
Also, could someone reassure me about 34 ? I'm not suffering reading or comprehension difficulties am I ? A 10 km/s wave travelling 6370 km to the centre of the Earth, then back, should take 1274 seconds, right ?
Slashdot Mirror
Now that is odd. Do they really not have artificial lighting in Canada ?
And why the horizontal line across asia ?
The sixth Halo promotion on Slashdot this month ? I imagine it's worthy because little worth-carrying pieces of paper* changed hands.
* Or Dollars.
OMFG ! You dare us !
Well, just to show you I'm not scared, here's a description of where you find the magnetic sense in a pigeon. Up its nose.
This is quite unlikely, given that there are no such things as magnetic field lines.
Not too much, to the birds at least. IIRC the field changes quite slowly over the course of several bird lifetimes, spending a while near zero, so they will get a chance to adapt to this cue becoming less and less useful.
...and for once, Mr Titor is right. Anyone carrying out a premediatated act can trivially defend themselves against this thing. It's people who believe they're doing nothing wrong who are the intended victims.
Free to do what ? The BSD licence doesn't even guarantee that the user has the right to read the code he's using !
the GPL that ensures that the *code* remains free, while the BSD license ensures that it is the *user* that remains free.You have this exactly the wrong way round. If I'm using GPL code, I have the right to read, modify, and redistribute it. I, the user, have these freedoms. If, on the other hand, I'm using BSD code, I have no such rights. I have the right to do development with the same code of course, but that's just freedom of the code.
The battle for the internet's best made-up statistics is over, and you have won. Awesome, truly awesome.
Or perhaps you worry that they'll use the money to drive up the price of tinfoil ?
A rather deceptive claim. Those countries which actually signed up to Kyoto did reduce their greenhouse emissions. So, not "unrealistic". As for the third world, they want to pollute, we want them not to pollute, there's no moral basis for forcing them to pollute less than us, so in order to make them do what we want, we have to pay them. Simple enough ?
look past the sensational headline of the week. You will probably see a lot of other things wrongDid that. Looked all the way to the original science, in fact. Given all the blatherings of the AGW deniers, I was half-expecting it to be shaky and full of holes. Instead, it turned out to be perfectly normal science, with all assumptions questioned, all possibilities investigated, and with only the evidence being used to decide what was and wasn't true.
My God, man ! Didn't you get the memo ? This week is a "global warming is a left wing conspiracy to give all of our wealth the the Third World" week !
For anyone not intimately familiar with the geography of the Arctic, here's a map in roughly the same orientation as the article's picture.
They're passionate alright. Passionate about preventing anyone outside the inner clique from touching "their" kernel.
It means that, once the dust settles, we'll get a superior product. ...by making it clear that anyone who has a superior idea will be told to fuck off, and have their idea reimplemented badly by someone pretending it was theirs.
as Linus says 'May the best code win!'What staggering hypocricy.
Low standards.
The point of the GNU projects was to make a good, Free operating system. The resemblance to Unix was just a compromise to get developer tools ready quickly, the end-goal of the project was not to make anything as remotely shoddy as Unix. Then someone who Didn't Get It destroyed the project by turning it into Just Another Fucking Unix. No wonder Stallman is bitter.
I don't know if it's ever said "Death to the fleshy ones !", but you can tell it's thinking it.
This New Scientist article from centuries ago is slightly clearer.
New Scientist covered this a lifetime ago.
...and it was small enough to be lost in a sack.
Don't be rediculous - the Library of Troy burnt down in 1187 BC.
One suspected mechanism for asbestos-induced cancers is that the immune system repeatedly attacks the asbestos fibres (old ones tend to be completely covered in dead immune cells). The same may well be true of the implants, in which case the GP's claim that they're "inert" would be pretty stupid.
Put them on wikipedia with all the others.
Cite ? I remember it as 18 out of 300 test subjects suffering inflammation, with none dying. The worst I've been able to find is a 72 year only whose inflammation "probably hastened" her death. For a disease with 100% mortality untreated, that's not an unacceptable risk.
Which it doesn't. Or was that some kind of joke I didn't get ?
There's been a method for removing amyloid plaques from the brain since 2002. Elan Pharmaceuticals produced a vaccine which stimulated the immune system to produce antibodies against amyloid. Unfortunately, it's a cure, and cures are bad for business, so Elan abandoned it.
Also, could someone reassure me about 34 ? I'm not suffering reading or comprehension difficulties am I ? A 10 km/s wave travelling 6370 km to the centre of the Earth, then back, should take 1274 seconds, right ?