It is a decent constitution, not perfect, but decent. However, the ruling party has enough of a majority to change that. The big issue is they are running scared because various unpopular policies are fast eroding voter support. Africa still hasn't got the hang of democracy quite yet, and they think that controlling the media will perhaps allow them to control votes.
With regards to censorship, this will likely land in the constitutional court and be struck down. Other things have. Either that or you won't see me on/. again until I get myself a nice anonymizing proxy. Good thing I don't use my real name here.:P
One thing you must remember, is there is a lot of social injustice in South Africa. It will no doubt haunt the country for a long time to come. I am looking forward to seeing the movie, actually.
You are correct, but you may have missed something:
Practically, solar power will help the individual, not industry. Industry is what requires the most power(on a individual basis) bar sugar cane factories and so forth which produce power and already sell it back in this end of the world. Solar power is not practical for an induction furnace (for example). It does not have a reliable enough output.
The utility will survive on things like steel mills that run induction furnaces 24/7 and can't realistically use solar power. In fact they may make a profit selling your excess solar to industry. Base load generation is never going away though. It may become nuclear or remain coal, but it isn't going anywhere.
Certainly I agree with you, there is a lot we don't know. The trouble is, at the moment, in order to speculate on this, we are leaving science and entering philosophy. Science does not have an answer for us here, and maybe never will. We have some math, but nothing that really means anything to us.
I would say that these questions cannot be objectively answered - there is no way to measure what happened 'before' since there is no frame of reference that would be meaningful to us and allow us to understand what 'happens' outside our little bubble of physics and space/time. How do we measure outside of space and time? What are we measuring for that matter? What does 'before', or 'cause' or 'effect' mean in such a reality?
As a self professed religious person, I believe there are subjective and unprovable answers. Others disagree and are happier with the questions. In either case it seems wise to not give up on looking.
Among other such devices... You would be surprised how many modern devices still come with RS232. In the case of Micro-Ohm resistance bridges, that would be all of them(that I have seen).
I have been down a 2km mineshaft(the shaft is deeper, but they only go down in +/-2km sections) in a 'cage'. There is no counterweight, but the AC winder that drops (yes, 'drops' is the right word) you and hauls you back out is pretty powerful. They account for cable weight and extension because there are rails in the cages and they need precision to match them up. They get about +/- 1cm. Operator skill is important..
Yes. It is possible even with old style cables, but to get anywhere in a reasonable time, you have to go bloody fast, and it is honestly really scary. It took us about 5 minutes to reach the bottom most of that time was slowing down. I don't recommend it for the the general public. Many shorter elevators are a far better idea. Can you imagine stopping at every floor for 1km?
At work I have a little AMD (1.6GHz I think) freebsd system with 2Gb of RAM that saturates gigabit easily. I have actually been quite impressed by the performance of ZFS. Perhaps I am easily impressed though. The last system we had was an off-the-shelf seagate home level NAS that ran some form of embedded linux and failed horribly.
It keeps complaining it wants another 2gb of RAM to enable prefetch or something, but I can't be bothered because it is really better than it needs to be, and it does provide me some minor redundancy.
Pretty much. Just bear in mind supernatural does not imply omniscient or omnipotent. Any being that can modify/break the rules of our universe would be supernatural(i.e. above our 'natural' laws.).
"Suppose we discovered that our universe was created by a non-supernatural being that lives in a "parent" universe."
Such a being would be "super-natural" to us, as in above and beyond the laws of our universe. As to the questions, it depends on the character of this being.
Jason above doesn't appear to be very Christian. I would hope he is not representative, and merely loud.
His reaction appears to be that of one fighting a losing battle, since deep down he doesn't believe the literal account in Genesis. Ironically that unnecessary tension within him will likely ultimately result in the loss of his faith. Leave him be, unless he learns better, it will eventually and sadly run it's course from uninformed christian to uninformed atheist. I am not entirely sure which is worse.
A DC drive is generally variable voltage/current and switched through a scr. At full power, they would be smoother. At low power, the switching frequency will cause severe ripple. 3 phase is better for simple rectifiers and is indeed smoother.
That is how I read it too. Basically google is trying to use Youtube to leverage it's way into the audio streaming market. This in itself isn't evil, but the means they're using (brute force) is a bit shitty and the contracts they offer are also (allegedly - I haven't read one) shitty. That would be evil, or at least not good.
I don't actually think this is about tolerance. Sure AC is a rude bastard, but he isn't entirely wrong. It is... shall we say unwise... to jump upon every minor discovery as supporting a particular world view without considering it carefully first.
Personally, I don't buy a literal interpretation of Genesis, and I have found people who do tend to grasp desperately at anything that seems to support their argument, which often leaves them with egg on the face, as it were. Almost as if they don't really believe, but are trying desperately to convince themselves. It's a position that seems to me to be a bit antithetical to Christianity, and perhaps is ill-advised. I don't doubt that there are literalists who aren't quite like that, but it seems to be a trend of sorts. Perhaps because the television evangelists realised that a good conspiracy sells very well and have been pushing it for years to try and trap people in order to part them with their money.
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It is a decent constitution, not perfect, but decent. However, the ruling party has enough of a majority to change that. The big issue is they are running scared because various unpopular policies are fast eroding voter support. Africa still hasn't got the hang of democracy quite yet, and they think that controlling the media will perhaps allow them to control votes.
With regards to censorship, this will likely land in the constitutional court and be struck down. Other things have. Either that or you won't see me on /. again until I get myself a nice anonymizing proxy. Good thing I don't use my real name here. :P
Chappies is a brand of bubble-gum here.
One thing you must remember, is there is a lot of social injustice in South Africa. It will no doubt haunt the country for a long time to come. I am looking forward to seeing the movie, actually.
You are correct, but you may have missed something:
Practically, solar power will help the individual, not industry. Industry is what requires the most power(on a individual basis) bar sugar cane factories and so forth which produce power and already sell it back in this end of the world. Solar power is not practical for an induction furnace (for example). It does not have a reliable enough output.
The utility will survive on things like steel mills that run induction furnaces 24/7 and can't realistically use solar power. In fact they may make a profit selling your excess solar to industry. Base load generation is never going away though. It may become nuclear or remain coal, but it isn't going anywhere.
http://xkcd.com/1343/
I am not entirely sure I would call making BASIC popular doing something for programming. It took me years to unlearn some of that rubbish...
The reason I don't run Gentoo is I would *want* to compile... *everything*... I have a problem...
Certainly I agree with you, there is a lot we don't know. The trouble is, at the moment, in order to speculate on this, we are leaving science and entering philosophy. Science does not have an answer for us here, and maybe never will. We have some math, but nothing that really means anything to us.
I would say that these questions cannot be objectively answered - there is no way to measure what happened 'before' since there is no frame of reference that would be meaningful to us and allow us to understand what 'happens' outside our little bubble of physics and space/time. How do we measure outside of space and time? What are we measuring for that matter? What does 'before', or 'cause' or 'effect' mean in such a reality?
As a self professed religious person, I believe there are subjective and unprovable answers. Others disagree and are happier with the questions. In either case it seems wise to not give up on looking.
We use these(industrial use). Virtually unbreakable, and quite neat. Not cheap though.
http://www.telegaertner.com/en...
There are plenty of manufacturers that do similar, they just worked out easiest to get for us.
Well, if there was no time 'before' the big bang, what does 'before' mean?
http://www.moxa.com/product/nport_5110.htm
Among other such devices... You would be surprised how many modern devices still come with RS232. In the case of Micro-Ohm resistance bridges, that would be all of them(that I have seen).
I have, on a fairly simple .NET app. Worked fine. But I can't claim exhaustive testing...
I have been down a 2km mineshaft(the shaft is deeper, but they only go down in +/-2km sections) in a 'cage'. There is no counterweight, but the AC winder that drops (yes, 'drops' is the right word) you and hauls you back out is pretty powerful. They account for cable weight and extension because there are rails in the cages and they need precision to match them up. They get about +/- 1cm. Operator skill is important..
Yes. It is possible even with old style cables, but to get anywhere in a reasonable time, you have to go bloody fast, and it is honestly really scary. It took us about 5 minutes to reach the bottom most of that time was slowing down. I don't recommend it for the the general public. Many shorter elevators are a far better idea. Can you imagine stopping at every floor for 1km?
At work I have a little AMD (1.6GHz I think) freebsd system with 2Gb of RAM that saturates gigabit easily. I have actually been quite impressed by the performance of ZFS. Perhaps I am easily impressed though. The last system we had was an off-the-shelf seagate home level NAS that ran some form of embedded linux and failed horribly.
It keeps complaining it wants another 2gb of RAM to enable prefetch or something, but I can't be bothered because it is really better than it needs to be, and it does provide me some minor redundancy.
unfortunately, I am no longer infected.
oh. mjwx beat me to it. Well played...
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Pretty much. Just bear in mind supernatural does not imply omniscient or omnipotent. Any being that can modify/break the rules of our universe would be supernatural(i.e. above our 'natural' laws.).
"Suppose we discovered that our universe was created by a non-supernatural being that lives in a "parent" universe."
Such a being would be "super-natural" to us, as in above and beyond the laws of our universe. As to the questions, it depends on the character of this being.
Jason above doesn't appear to be very Christian. I would hope he is not representative, and merely loud.
His reaction appears to be that of one fighting a losing battle, since deep down he doesn't believe the literal account in Genesis. Ironically that unnecessary tension within him will likely ultimately result in the loss of his faith. Leave him be, unless he learns better, it will eventually and sadly run it's course from uninformed christian to uninformed atheist. I am not entirely sure which is worse.
A DC drive is generally variable voltage/current and switched through a scr. At full power, they would be smoother. At low power, the switching frequency will cause severe ripple. 3 phase is better for simple rectifiers and is indeed smoother.
He lost me at 'Agile'.
That is how I read it too. Basically google is trying to use Youtube to leverage it's way into the audio streaming market. This in itself isn't evil, but the means they're using (brute force) is a bit shitty and the contracts they offer are also (allegedly - I haven't read one) shitty. That would be evil, or at least not good.
I thought everyone knew about Elvis!
I don't actually think this is about tolerance. Sure AC is a rude bastard, but he isn't entirely wrong. It is ... shall we say unwise... to jump upon every minor discovery as supporting a particular world view without considering it carefully first.
Personally, I don't buy a literal interpretation of Genesis, and I have found people who do tend to grasp desperately at anything that seems to support their argument, which often leaves them with egg on the face, as it were. Almost as if they don't really believe, but are trying desperately to convince themselves. It's a position that seems to me to be a bit antithetical to Christianity, and perhaps is ill-advised. I don't doubt that there are literalists who aren't quite like that, but it seems to be a trend of sorts. Perhaps because the television evangelists realised that a good conspiracy sells very well and have been pushing it for years to try and trap people in order to part them with their money.