I know a guy that owns the majority of the original artwork and what-not that the books were printed from. He'd routinely travel to ex-TSR employes homes to make purchases. Most of it's sitting in wal-mart quality bookshelves in his spare bedroom. The guy made millions trading books and game stuff like this on ebay and eventually his own business. he's a jerk though, half the books he started with he stole from my basement. But whatever... his money makes him completely in-tolerable. You show up at his house and hes all like "Lets ride around in my Mazzaradi and talk about me" Can't stand that.
Did I mention the most ironic part? He never really played D&D. The few times he did he played a chaotic evil mage and spent most of his time greifing the rest of us by "playing his alignment" I think he made it all the way through 2 modules before we stopped inviting him over. Life's funny.
They are the same evil. Your mentality IS the problem with this country. You are what keep this bullshit going. Just stop... get out of politics. Don't vote... please. If only the people that actually cared about this country, and the people having hellfire missles landing in their livingrooms got to vote, then maybe we'd get somewhere. We're involved militarily in more countries now, than when Bush was in office. How is that the lesser of 2 evils?
Often we hear about candidates that they are "Radical" or out of the "mainstream" If the normal mainstream is bombing nearly every country in the African continent, most countries in the middle east, ans southern Asia, then we definitely need a radical in office. The people do not need our "help" the help is usually worse than what they had before. Also, our country is on the fiscal decline. That's ok, we don't have to be the richest country on earth by several orders of magnitude. We can live comfortably... but we do not have all this extra money to be pretending to be the worlds police force. We have a crap ton of nukes, no ones going to invade us. So lets just scale back a "tad" Shit, if we spent the military budget on building bases on the moon we could just move there and let the world go to shit on it's own (just kidding, but really... the military budgets way too big.)
Oil is practically free. The price is only set artificially high because producers slow their pumping operations to create demand. In the US we also have problems with our refiners and the inability to build new ones due to environmentalist protests and such, but that's another topic. The point is, Gas pretty much just costs whatever it takes to deliver it... plus tax. It's very hard to compete with "free"
by then the united states will be bankrupt, China will be buying all the hardware and the US population, starving, with a loaf of bread costing $10k due to our currency being nearly worthless will be happy to take on the work. Every time I've been laid off I've been told by the bosses "Business is cyclical" and oh boy are they going to get to learn that first hand.
and right there was the failure of the Zune. Only apple customers are stupid enough to pay that kind of money for an MP3 player. Keep in mind that, at the time, you could pick up a dozen different off-brand MP3 players at walmart for under $100 and all of them operated in the same way: You plug them into your computer, a folder opens up, you drop in music. How we got to the point that the only way to upload to an apple device is with buggy proprietary software boggles my mind.
You just spent half an hour typing up a list of what we can't do. Now spend 5min typing up what we CAN do and you'll have your boat pointed in the right direction. I don't even think you believe half the shit you just wrote, you just wrote it to disagree with me. THAT's the problem. STOP IT. Find points in my argument you agree with and lets move forward. Politics does not have to be adversarial. Stop trying to force it into being so.
This is at least the 2nd time I've seen this guy show up on slashdot. While I'm all for people building stuff in their garage (I do it for sure) I see nothing impressive in this gentlemans designs. Nothing new or interesting. I built something very similar to his nailgun when I was in 7th grade and found a box of large nails at a construction site. His hobby is great, but he needs to come up with something far more insightful before I consider it news worthy. Why is this making it on slashdot?
No it's not. The fact that they have you tricked into believing that is proof as to how well the Duopoly is at keeping it's power. There are a LOT of problems, the majority in fact, that the country has no partisan disagreement about. But the political parties are not interested in those problems. They are only interested in problems that they can disagree on, and win political points on. Gun control, Abortion, Climate change, fracking. All this stuff is just to distract you from what they're not doing and focus you in on their arguments.
Kids are starving in this country. I know it's hard to believe, but children go hungry every night. Is there political disagreement on that? Are we going to have a political argument on sunday morning between a Democrat and Republican on weather a 5yr old should have FOOD? No? Then why the hell are kids still starving? We have troops in every country on earth practically. Would there be any disagreement on withdrawing troops from, lets say, Germany? I know the Keiser could rise from the dead any minuite... but how about we shut down just 2 or 3 bases and use that money to feed kids that are starving. Or for cancer research... or AIDs... or maybe, just maybe, we could just NOT speand the money so the country isn't bankrupt for the kids that don't manage to starve to death before their 20th birthday...
Yes, this country has some intractible, impossible to solve problems... fortunately it has far far more problems that are easy. Lets start focusing on easy to solve, high impact problems. And stop focusing on shit that gets the current office holders re-elected.
The lesson to be learned here is: If you're in college and someone threatens you with any sort of legal action, don't say a word, just walk out, and walk strait into a lawyers office. Immediately. While I was in college I got sued/fined/thrown out of different places so many times I've lost count. The college and college police think they are the law and use their power to manipulate and harass students they don't like.
I once had the police looking for me for 3 months to ticket me for lighting some firecrackers on newyears at 2am. It was a ridiculous cat and mouse game, and they refused to give up. Finally they "Caught" me and gave me a ticket. It went to trial for gods sake. The city paid for eye witnesses to testify and everything. It was a $100 fine and I won the case. It probably cost the city tens of thousands of dollars to screw with me for about 6 months. In the end, on the way out, I patted the DA on the shoulder and said "See ya next newyears!" and he laughed. What a joke.
Get a lawyer, and get one fast. Don't sign anything, don't talk to anymore. They will do anything to win. Including show up at parties, undercover, asking where you're at. Or sending you tickets via registered mail. Just get a lawyer and be done with it.
Most of you would probably call me a "Denier" and I don't argue either one of those things. I don't care if CO2 contributes to global warming, because I don't see that it matters.We are going to use up all of the fossil fuels on earth. Even if the west stops burning them now, do you think India, Africa and China are going to as well? It's just silly to think so. As we cut back on our oil consumption, the price of oil will fall, and then there will be a boom in 3rd world markets as they consume more and more fuel and their markets become more productive.
We should be focusing our efforts on what to do after the temperature rises, because, if CO2 emissions really are going to do what you think they are, there's no way to stop it short of a 3rd world war.
They have mirrors on the moon, that we routinely bounce lasers off of to measure distances and do Relativity experiments with. It's suddenly difficult to transmit information via laser? Why so slow? Why was this an accomplishment?
Ok, that's Discover magazine. Never quote discover magazine. They're the foxnews of science. I don't trust a god damned thing they say. I tried looking up the experiment and I just keep seeing the word "Study"... So I'm thinking this was all on paper. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't trust it. Actually entangling IONs would be big news and I should find it all over the net.
With both of these, see my post above. To me these are just parlor tricks with optics that maybe... or even are likely to be examples of Quantum teleportation. But they are not proof. It's neat that people are doing this, but it's not the "Real-deal" yet. It's kind of like that meteorite with the possible fossilized martian bacteria. Was there life on mars at one time? Most likely. Is the meteorite proof of that life? Maybe, maybe not... we need something better.
That's kind of a philosophical question isn't it? If they are 2 identical particals, are they the "Same" partical in any sense that matters? If they are, instead of teleporting and object don't you just have the object existing in 2 places at once? I think there's certainly a difference between classical teleportation and this, it just depends on your view of the universe. I think that there are plenty of 1950's SciFi novels that have addressed this conundrum without any successful resolution to the dilemma. As usual, once we figure out the science, it'll probably work itself out.
In regards to the crystal thing... that's what I'd consider a parlor trick.. we're they "really" entangled? Maybe... but this isn't really proof of anything. It's basically a lens and entangled photons again. Like I said before, it can be explained by classical physics. That doesn't mean there's not entanglement going on, it's just that we're not learning anything new here. They're just showing you something interesting we can do with optics.
Despite the authors attempt to make this sound like it has something to do with teleporting real world objects, it doesn't. Entanglement has to do with 2 particles sharing a state such as spin, and when that state changes in one entangled particle it also changes simultaneously regardless of distance or the speed of light in the other entangled particle. All of the laws of physics are observed. Information can not be passed faster than the speed of light. Matter can not move even at the speed of light, most of it no-where near the speed of light. You can not teleport an object from one place to another at all. There may be extended spacial dimensions that would allow us to do an end-run around distance, but keep in mind, if there are 4 or more spacial dimensions, we and all other matter already exist and are moving in those dimensions. There is very likely physical laws governing travel in them that would have the same effect that normal travel would. For example think if we were 2 dimensional creatures living on the surface of the earth and we suddenly discover the 3rd dimension and realize we could travel through the earth to reach china in half the time. While physically possible, there is that whole "Drilling through thousands of miles of solid rock" obstical that would make it a lot easier to just hop on a jet.
Also, keep in mind that, to my knowledge and I just did a quick check and found nothing, humanity has never entangled anything other than photons/light. Which are technically both a wave and particle, but it's a hell of a long way off from entangling actual normal matter. Let me know when they entangle a Neutron and it'll be a big deal. Don't get me wrong, I think it's not beyond the laws of physics but we are very very very far away from true real world applications. The entanglement of photons can be explained via classical physics/optics, and doesn't need quantum theory to explain the effect. That doesn't mean it's not real, it just means you should take it with a grain of salt.
This discovery makes experimentation easier. Teleporting yourself to work? Not so much.
The problem isn't what people, or business's do with this information. That's just annoying... The problem is what the government will do with it, and they will, of course, exempt themselves from any such laws.
I believe this is cure for AIDS #3 on slashdot. Cures for cancer are at about 14. Cures for aging in general, at least 4. I think solar panels are at about 1000% efficiency too if you add up all the stories.
You get a mutated AIDs/Cancer 50 petawatt laser cannon? Sounds awesome.
It's a cure for AIDs, not a cure for HIV. AIDS is a disease that involves an immune deficiency, the virus is just the precursor to that. If they prevent the virus from being able to destroy your immune system, then they have effectively cured you of AIDs, but not HIV. Since AIDs is what kills you, not HIV, this is a huge step forward if it pans out.
Slashdot Mirror
The fact that you give a fuck about interacting with celebrities is precisely why your opinion doesn't matter.
And in my case, we ARE the ISP... so who are we supposed to host with exactly? lol
I know a guy that owns the majority of the original artwork and what-not that the books were printed from. He'd routinely travel to ex-TSR employes homes to make purchases. Most of it's sitting in wal-mart quality bookshelves in his spare bedroom. The guy made millions trading books and game stuff like this on ebay and eventually his own business. he's a jerk though, half the books he started with he stole from my basement. But whatever... his money makes him completely in-tolerable. You show up at his house and hes all like "Lets ride around in my Mazzaradi and talk about me" Can't stand that.
Did I mention the most ironic part? He never really played D&D. The few times he did he played a chaotic evil mage and spent most of his time greifing the rest of us by "playing his alignment" I think he made it all the way through 2 modules before we stopped inviting him over. Life's funny.
They are the same evil. Your mentality IS the problem with this country. You are what keep this bullshit going. Just stop... get out of politics. Don't vote... please. If only the people that actually cared about this country, and the people having hellfire missles landing in their livingrooms got to vote, then maybe we'd get somewhere. We're involved militarily in more countries now, than when Bush was in office. How is that the lesser of 2 evils?
Often we hear about candidates that they are "Radical" or out of the "mainstream" If the normal mainstream is bombing nearly every country in the African continent, most countries in the middle east, ans southern Asia, then we definitely need a radical in office. The people do not need our "help" the help is usually worse than what they had before. Also, our country is on the fiscal decline. That's ok, we don't have to be the richest country on earth by several orders of magnitude. We can live comfortably... but we do not have all this extra money to be pretending to be the worlds police force. We have a crap ton of nukes, no ones going to invade us. So lets just scale back a "tad" Shit, if we spent the military budget on building bases on the moon we could just move there and let the world go to shit on it's own (just kidding, but really... the military budgets way too big.)
Oil is practically free. The price is only set artificially high because producers slow their pumping operations to create demand. In the US we also have problems with our refiners and the inability to build new ones due to environmentalist protests and such, but that's another topic. The point is, Gas pretty much just costs whatever it takes to deliver it... plus tax. It's very hard to compete with "free"
by then the united states will be bankrupt, China will be buying all the hardware and the US population, starving, with a loaf of bread costing $10k due to our currency being nearly worthless will be happy to take on the work. Every time I've been laid off I've been told by the bosses "Business is cyclical" and oh boy are they going to get to learn that first hand.
and right there was the failure of the Zune. Only apple customers are stupid enough to pay that kind of money for an MP3 player. Keep in mind that, at the time, you could pick up a dozen different off-brand MP3 players at walmart for under $100 and all of them operated in the same way: You plug them into your computer, a folder opens up, you drop in music. How we got to the point that the only way to upload to an apple device is with buggy proprietary software boggles my mind.
You just spent half an hour typing up a list of what we can't do. Now spend 5min typing up what we CAN do and you'll have your boat pointed in the right direction. I don't even think you believe half the shit you just wrote, you just wrote it to disagree with me. THAT's the problem. STOP IT. Find points in my argument you agree with and lets move forward. Politics does not have to be adversarial. Stop trying to force it into being so.
This is at least the 2nd time I've seen this guy show up on slashdot. While I'm all for people building stuff in their garage (I do it for sure) I see nothing impressive in this gentlemans designs. Nothing new or interesting. I built something very similar to his nailgun when I was in 7th grade and found a box of large nails at a construction site. His hobby is great, but he needs to come up with something far more insightful before I consider it news worthy. Why is this making it on slashdot?
Everything is more complex than everyone thinks.
No it's not. The fact that they have you tricked into believing that is proof as to how well the Duopoly is at keeping it's power. There are a LOT of problems, the majority in fact, that the country has no partisan disagreement about. But the political parties are not interested in those problems. They are only interested in problems that they can disagree on, and win political points on. Gun control, Abortion, Climate change, fracking. All this stuff is just to distract you from what they're not doing and focus you in on their arguments.
Kids are starving in this country. I know it's hard to believe, but children go hungry every night. Is there political disagreement on that? Are we going to have a political argument on sunday morning between a Democrat and Republican on weather a 5yr old should have FOOD? No? Then why the hell are kids still starving? We have troops in every country on earth practically. Would there be any disagreement on withdrawing troops from, lets say, Germany? I know the Keiser could rise from the dead any minuite... but how about we shut down just 2 or 3 bases and use that money to feed kids that are starving. Or for cancer research... or AIDs... or maybe, just maybe, we could just NOT speand the money so the country isn't bankrupt for the kids that don't manage to starve to death before their 20th birthday...
Yes, this country has some intractible, impossible to solve problems... fortunately it has far far more problems that are easy. Lets start focusing on easy to solve, high impact problems. And stop focusing on shit that gets the current office holders re-elected.
No, you're wrong. Never sign anything unless your lawyer looks it over and tells you what it really means. Even then I wouldn't sign it. Let them sue.
The lesson to be learned here is: If you're in college and someone threatens you with any sort of legal action, don't say a word, just walk out, and walk strait into a lawyers office. Immediately. While I was in college I got sued/fined/thrown out of different places so many times I've lost count. The college and college police think they are the law and use their power to manipulate and harass students they don't like.
I once had the police looking for me for 3 months to ticket me for lighting some firecrackers on newyears at 2am. It was a ridiculous cat and mouse game, and they refused to give up. Finally they "Caught" me and gave me a ticket. It went to trial for gods sake. The city paid for eye witnesses to testify and everything. It was a $100 fine and I won the case. It probably cost the city tens of thousands of dollars to screw with me for about 6 months. In the end, on the way out, I patted the DA on the shoulder and said "See ya next newyears!" and he laughed. What a joke.
Get a lawyer, and get one fast. Don't sign anything, don't talk to anymore. They will do anything to win. Including show up at parties, undercover, asking where you're at. Or sending you tickets via registered mail. Just get a lawyer and be done with it.
Is it illegal to "case a joint"?
Most of you would probably call me a "Denier" and I don't argue either one of those things. I don't care if CO2 contributes to global warming, because I don't see that it matters.We are going to use up all of the fossil fuels on earth. Even if the west stops burning them now, do you think India, Africa and China are going to as well? It's just silly to think so. As we cut back on our oil consumption, the price of oil will fall, and then there will be a boom in 3rd world markets as they consume more and more fuel and their markets become more productive.
We should be focusing our efforts on what to do after the temperature rises, because, if CO2 emissions really are going to do what you think they are, there's no way to stop it short of a 3rd world war.
By getting a new spouse.
They have mirrors on the moon, that we routinely bounce lasers off of to measure distances and do Relativity experiments with. It's suddenly difficult to transmit information via laser? Why so slow? Why was this an accomplishment?
The Biggest "Spooky" System Ever Seen: 4 Entangled Ions (Jun 2009)
Ok, that's Discover magazine. Never quote discover magazine. They're the foxnews of science. I don't trust a god damned thing they say. I tried looking up the experiment and I just keep seeing the word "Study"... So I'm thinking this was all on paper. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't trust it. Actually entangling IONs would be big news and I should find it all over the net.
and Entangled diamonds , big enough for the eye to see (Dec 2011). We haven't managed the information transportation part with anything other than photons though but we're doing well on distance; quantum key transmitted wirelessly 144km.
With both of these, see my post above. To me these are just parlor tricks with optics that maybe... or even are likely to be examples of Quantum teleportation. But they are not proof. It's neat that people are doing this, but it's not the "Real-deal" yet. It's kind of like that meteorite with the possible fossilized martian bacteria. Was there life on mars at one time? Most likely. Is the meteorite proof of that life? Maybe, maybe not... we need something better.
Bose and Home show mathematically that whenever one electron is detected in each path, they will be entangled.
No they didn't. They did some math.
That's kind of a philosophical question isn't it? If they are 2 identical particals, are they the "Same" partical in any sense that matters? If they are, instead of teleporting and object don't you just have the object existing in 2 places at once? I think there's certainly a difference between classical teleportation and this, it just depends on your view of the universe. I think that there are plenty of 1950's SciFi novels that have addressed this conundrum without any successful resolution to the dilemma. As usual, once we figure out the science, it'll probably work itself out.
In regards to the crystal thing... that's what I'd consider a parlor trick.. we're they "really" entangled? Maybe... but this isn't really proof of anything. It's basically a lens and entangled photons again. Like I said before, it can be explained by classical physics. That doesn't mean there's not entanglement going on, it's just that we're not learning anything new here. They're just showing you something interesting we can do with optics.
Despite the authors attempt to make this sound like it has something to do with teleporting real world objects, it doesn't. Entanglement has to do with 2 particles sharing a state such as spin, and when that state changes in one entangled particle it also changes simultaneously regardless of distance or the speed of light in the other entangled particle. All of the laws of physics are observed. Information can not be passed faster than the speed of light. Matter can not move even at the speed of light, most of it no-where near the speed of light. You can not teleport an object from one place to another at all. There may be extended spacial dimensions that would allow us to do an end-run around distance, but keep in mind, if there are 4 or more spacial dimensions, we and all other matter already exist and are moving in those dimensions. There is very likely physical laws governing travel in them that would have the same effect that normal travel would. For example think if we were 2 dimensional creatures living on the surface of the earth and we suddenly discover the 3rd dimension and realize we could travel through the earth to reach china in half the time. While physically possible, there is that whole "Drilling through thousands of miles of solid rock" obstical that would make it a lot easier to just hop on a jet.
Also, keep in mind that, to my knowledge and I just did a quick check and found nothing, humanity has never entangled anything other than photons/light. Which are technically both a wave and particle, but it's a hell of a long way off from entangling actual normal matter. Let me know when they entangle a Neutron and it'll be a big deal. Don't get me wrong, I think it's not beyond the laws of physics but we are very very very far away from true real world applications. The entanglement of photons can be explained via classical physics/optics, and doesn't need quantum theory to explain the effect. That doesn't mean it's not real, it just means you should take it with a grain of salt.
This discovery makes experimentation easier. Teleporting yourself to work? Not so much.
and if they do it in the future?
The problem isn't what people, or business's do with this information. That's just annoying... The problem is what the government will do with it, and they will, of course, exempt themselves from any such laws.
I believe this is cure for AIDS #3 on slashdot. Cures for cancer are at about 14. Cures for aging in general, at least 4. I think solar panels are at about 1000% efficiency too if you add up all the stories.
You get a mutated AIDs/Cancer 50 petawatt laser cannon? Sounds awesome.
It's a cure for AIDs, not a cure for HIV. AIDS is a disease that involves an immune deficiency, the virus is just the precursor to that. If they prevent the virus from being able to destroy your immune system, then they have effectively cured you of AIDs, but not HIV. Since AIDs is what kills you, not HIV, this is a huge step forward if it pans out.
Just to simplify your comment with not a list:
And none of these KILL you.
Thanks!