The Nazis claimed that they had a right to create an empire, rule all "inferior" races, and exterminate any people they chose to.
Which is not that different from America. All you have to do is replace the word "exterminate" with "bomb". Ok, then we agree. America is a milder form of Nazi Germany.
Of course they did. Hitler genuinely believed the Jews to be a source of evil in the world, and he thought ridding mankind of them was a good deed. Just like the USA believed incinerating a couple of hundred thousand Japs was a good deed.
I am not the one with batshit insane opinions, you are. If you want anyone to take you seriously, then you need to back them up with something more than "we bombed the Japanese because we wanted to save their lives".
Currently, Israel is destabilizing the world. Rationally, you would have wished that the Holocaust would have succeeded in exterminating the Jewish people.
We're sorry that your ancestors were so totally fucking crazy that the only way to get them to admit they'd lost was to kill millions of people
This sounds like a justification for the Holocaust. Why don't you just fucking apologize man? You are seriously trying to justify dropping nuclear bombs on cities?
So if several hundred physicists all conclude that the atomic weight of helium is 4.1 (it is actually 4.0026 as far as we can tell), we accept that, right?
I don't see that there is a difference in mathematics. The test of whether a proof is correct or not is to get a number of reputable mathematicians to say that it is.
The difference is that the physicist can automate his "checking", by setting up an experiment, while the mathematician cannot, relying on intuition etc. To me, this makes mathematics much less rigorous than experimental physics. It makes mathematics very similar to theology, where the only requirement of acceptance into the current body of knowledge is that several reputable priests have to agree on something. In physics you actually have to construct something that works in the real world.
Except that JFS is journaled, while ext2 isn't. I'm not that dependent on speed, but given that ext3 didn't really maintain compatibility as promised, perhaps JFS should be the way to go.
Remember folks, Microsoft's war chest is so great that it actually economically litigated the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE into the ground, forcing the Feds and multiple individual States to "settle" for a bag of peanut shells and a waggling finger.
That's not what happened though. The DOJ won the case, but then the government changed, and with that the DOJ, into a Republican government. So then the DOJ essentially dropped the case.
Federal law says anyone who "utters any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
So I think you're wrong.
Besides, I don't see the difference. You sound like an ostrich to me, i.e. instead of admitting there is a problem and doing something about it, you delude yourself there is no problem.
All that, and yet you got your ass kicked by puny Vietnam. Hm, a pattern seems to emerge. When the UK helps the US, then the wars go ok. When the US is alone, then it loses. Could it be because USians are absolute morons? Just throwing out a possibility. UKians at least seem to have some kind of thought capacity, albeit limited.
Nanotechnology is the science of manufacturing microscopic machines.
Ok, this shows why "nanotechnology" is such a confusing subject. The whole point of nanotechnology is that it's about manufacturing things that are much smaller than the microscopic level, i.e. nanoscopic, and that at this level, you have to deal with individual atoms. One atom is on the order 0.1 nanometers, so to build a "machine" 1 nanometer wide, it could only be about 10 atoms wide. So it's not that it's "teensy eensy" that makes it interesting, it's that it's at the atomic level.
Not that I'm an expert, but it's intuitive that it's much harder to push atoms around than it is to drill, mill or etch things. This is also why, as you say, you're not really talking about solid mechanics anymore, but more chemistry or biology.
The compression is not used to determine the redundancy in a single message, but to determine how similar the message is to a large body of known spam or ham messages.
So if the message compresses very well together with spam, then it's similar to spam, and if it doesn't, then it's not similar to spam.
If you want to use it for anything, pay for it. The non-free license doesn't contain this restriction.
That's quite irrelevant though. The issue here is that Bitmover is using use-restrictions in its EULA, not the specifics of those use-restrictions. The non-free license may not contain this restriction now, but there is nothing which says it won't tomorrow. Bitmover could arbitrarily and retroactively restrict anyone from using Bitkeeper with this mechanism. They could suddenly restrict muslims from using it if they got a patriotic urge.
Around every tool such as this there is an investment in infrastructure around it. It's just like Microsoft Word. People learn the tool and the format and certain features become entrenched. To make a change away from it requires a significant investment in time (learning, testing, establishing protocols) for each individual.
If Linus enforces this new standard in the kernel development process, it has to be a long-term standard. What Bitmover has shown is that it cannot be trusted to be a long-term supplier of reliable and open tools. This means that the investment that everyone made in Bitkeeper has been wasted. No one likes people who waste their time.
It's MPEG-4. Microsoft refused to play along with the standards body and did their MPEG-4 version with ASF as the container. DivX was a hack to be able to use AVI as the container. The standards body decided on Quicktime as the container though. So that's the official MPEG-4.
It's happened before, so I don't see why people
are making a joke out of this. Today, the largest
morning newspaper in Sweden is running a story
about a Sweden-related biology scientist working for the CIA in the 50s. He was assassinated by the CIA in 1953, supposedly for having figured out that the US used biological weapons in the Korea war.
When his family made inquiries in 1975, Congress paid $750,000 in damages to the family. What was really weird was that during this time, a letter was sent between Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who were working for Gerald Ford at the time, saying that if there was a trial, it could be "necessary to disclose top secret information concerning national security".
These guys are at the top today, and since assassination and cover-ups (even specifically regarding biological warfare) clearly are not foreign to them, I don't see why the default theory should be an extremely improbable coincidence.
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Granted,
my ssh-based vpn example is probably pretty uncommon for nntp, but
modems sure aren't.
The problem is that you've never actually tried
what you're proposing.
I don't know if broadband modems support compression,
mine certainly doesn't, or the compression sucks tremendously.
I made a simple test. I created a file with random data and uuencoded it. I then transfered these two files through my ADSL modem and measured the transfer times. The uuencoded file is 38% bigger, and surprise, surprise, takes 38% longer to transfer.
Maybe it would be a good idea to actually try using the things you talk about in the future.
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Reaction time, increased crash mortality etc. If everyone went at 500km/h, hundreds of people would die if there was a crash.
How is Iraq less of a dictatorship today than it was under Saddam Hussein?
Which is not that different from America. All you have to do is replace the word "exterminate" with "bomb". Ok, then we agree. America is a milder form of Nazi Germany.
I am not the one with batshit insane opinions, you are. If you want anyone to take you seriously, then you need to back them up with something more than "we bombed the Japanese because we wanted to save their lives".
Currently, Israel is destabilizing the world. Rationally, you would have wished that the Holocaust would have succeeded in exterminating the Jewish people.
I don't see that there is a difference in mathematics. The test of whether a proof is correct or not is to get a number of reputable mathematicians to say that it is.
The difference is that the physicist can automate his "checking", by setting up an experiment, while the mathematician cannot, relying on intuition etc. To me, this makes mathematics much less rigorous than experimental physics. It makes mathematics very similar to theology, where the only requirement of acceptance into the current body of knowledge is that several reputable priests have to agree on something. In physics you actually have to construct something that works in the real world.
Or: "tallefjant" == squirrel.
Except that JFS is journaled, while ext2 isn't. I'm not that dependent on speed, but given that ext3 didn't really maintain compatibility as promised, perhaps JFS should be the way to go.
That's not what happened though. The DOJ won the case, but then the government changed, and with that the DOJ, into a Republican government. So then the DOJ essentially dropped the case.
Interesting with a poll. I'm not much wiser after reading it though, the answers are very ambiguous. Maybe that's the way it is there though.
I would like some proof of this, i.e. a reasonable poll. From what I've seen, most Iraqis want the US to get the hell out of Iraq.
Besides, I don't see the difference. You sound like an ostrich to me, i.e. instead of admitting there is a problem and doing something about it, you delude yourself there is no problem.
See this Wired article for example.
All that, and yet you got your ass kicked by puny Vietnam. Hm, a pattern seems to emerge. When the UK helps the US, then the wars go ok. When the US is alone, then it loses. Could it be because USians are absolute morons? Just throwing out a possibility. UKians at least seem to have some kind of thought capacity, albeit limited.
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, fucking liars and warhawks. Go become a US state instead, oh wait, you already are.
So it's accurate.
Not that I'm an expert, but it's intuitive that it's much harder to push atoms around than it is to drill, mill or etch things. This is also why, as you say, you're not really talking about solid mechanics anymore, but more chemistry or biology.
So if the message compresses very well together with spam, then it's similar to spam, and if it doesn't, then it's not similar to spam.
The electric one costs $799.
"I'm not allowed to murder my neighbor, I'm not free!". Bla bla bla.
Around every tool such as this there is an investment in infrastructure around it. It's just like Microsoft Word. People learn the tool and the format and certain features become entrenched. To make a change away from it requires a significant investment in time (learning, testing, establishing protocols) for each individual.
If Linus enforces this new standard in the kernel development process, it has to be a long-term standard. What Bitmover has shown is that it cannot be trusted to be a long-term supplier of reliable and open tools. This means that the investment that everyone made in Bitkeeper has been wasted. No one likes people who waste their time.
It's MPEG-4. Microsoft refused to play along with the standards body and did their MPEG-4 version with ASF as the container. DivX was a hack to be able to use AVI as the container. The standards body decided on Quicktime as the container though. So that's the official MPEG-4.
When his family made inquiries in 1975, Congress paid $750,000 in damages to the family. What was really weird was that during this time, a letter was sent between Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who were working for Gerald Ford at the time, saying that if there was a trial, it could be "necessary to disclose top secret information concerning national security".
These guys are at the top today, and since assassination and cover-ups (even specifically regarding biological warfare) clearly are not foreign to them, I don't see why the default theory should be an extremely improbable coincidence.
The problem is that you've never actually tried what you're proposing.
I don't know if broadband modems support compression, mine certainly doesn't, or the compression sucks tremendously.
I made a simple test. I created a file with random data and uuencoded it. I then transfered these two files through my ADSL modem and measured the transfer times. The uuencoded file is 38% bigger, and surprise, surprise, takes 38% longer to transfer.
Maybe it would be a good idea to actually try using the things you talk about in the future.