Claims friday romping with 'GF' for 30 minutes. Sorry. I was wrong. I should have mentioned wife.
And FYI, i do get it about 4 times a week, much more than the average slashdotter. I'd like four Fridays a week too!
If you dropped a pop bottle onto Earth from a great height, say a million miles, it would splat (air resistance excluded) at about 25,000 MPH. Seven miles per second.
Analogously, if you wanted to reverse the course of the pop bottle, you'd have to launch it from the Earth's surface at a similar speed. Not quite true. Because the bottle continues to propel itself throughout its path, it will not need to have an initial velocity of 25,000 MPH.
"The FDIC has to "insure" deposits because of the fraudulent fractional reserve banking system. What we need is full reserve banking, with private regulatory audits, and greater knowledge that the money you put in isn't loaned 8X more than the bank has on your deposit record." You realize, of course, that if you have a full reserve system, your savings account will no longer earn interest from the bank, but rather will pay interest to the bank (in order to have your money kept safely). The reason you get paid interest on a bank account is because the bank can take part of your money and invest it/loan it out, earning more money.
Depends on the robots. What about the people who build and maintain the robots? They can mutiny. Also I'd bet you need some sort of networking to coordinate the robots. Probably wireless. Sure you can set the right failure modes for jamming, but what about signal intrusion? You could make the robots mutiny for you. But I don't think you really want that, because if the maintenance people can make the robots mutiny, how would you prevent your opponent from making them mutiny? Even if it requires very specialised knowledge, all it takes to get the secret is one converted/planted maintenance person.
... and create a universal OPEN electronic payment system that has ZERO cost. Because it costs the bank something to set up/maintain the electronic payment system, it is not possible to have a zero cost system. (see TANSTAAFL principle) However, a standardized system with standardized (reasonable) payments would certainly go a long way in the direction the parent poster intends.
I'd have said that during the dark ages a whole load of stuff got moved back from the science basket to the god basket what with the decline of Roman civilisation and the rise of a dogmatic overbearing (and at the time) global religion.
You might also argue that during the more enlightened era of the Islamic caliphate there was a whole load of stuff in the science basket which subsequently went back to the God basket. I'm curious. Was the global religion you refer to Islam or Christianity?
Public education *should* include the limitation of science
True, but it has absolutely no relevance to cult beliefs. The solution to limited scientific knowledge is better science, not to give up and invent a god of the gaps.
Whether it's the astronomical amount of knowledge out there (which seems only to grow as we learn more) or the imperfect instruments we use, scientific knowledge will always be limited.
The solution is neither to try to make scientific knowledge larger, nor a god of the gaps, but an understanding of science that accepts its inherent limitations.
I applaud the authors of this book.
The first Sid Meier game a played was Colonization. It has always been my favorite, probably due to that fact. I would love to see an updated version of it. Sure it was easy as hell, but damn some of those concepts were fantastic. And I'll be damned if the Civilopedia (the name was different in Colonization but I can't remember what it was) didn't teach me a lot about the time period for a 2nd grader. There is an open-source clone of Colonization (with updated graphics) at www.freecol.org. It seems to be fairly actively developed.
2.) Link to somebody else's city linking to a particular aspect like industry, which if enough people click will screw the balance of their city, e.g. high industry increases crime. This lowers the rank of their city. Not trying to give us any ideas, are you?
And just because you aren't keeping score, does that mean the kids aren't?
In younger days, I played in a basketball league where the scoreboard was reset each quarter, so no one would be keeping track of who won the game. I know I and many other kids would have our parents sum the quarter scores so we knew who "really" won.
They'll give you a cookie that tells them you have opted out. Then another firm will track which things you weren't tracked in because you opted out of it. That's so great!
I don't see how this could be reasonably implemented. You can't put your IP address on the do-not-track list, because it could change day-to-day. You'd need a cookie in your browser saying you opted out. But that's as much information as if you hadn't opted out in the first place, they'd just have to toss the info after they got it.
User: "Hi, I don't want you to track the places I've visted."
Marketer: "Ok."
User: "Remember, I don't want you to track me, and I have just visted XYZ site."
Marketer: "Ok, I'll forget."
IMarv I think this could easily be overcome by everyone using the same cookie (e.g. "doNotTrack=true"). While they will be able to track the cookie, if hundreds of thousands of people are using that same cookie, the data is not going to mean much.
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Not opposition, clarification with a bit of sarcasm for good measure.
Selected the wrong option. Stupid AJAX.
Is that related to the Space Shuttle?
Actually, if you were to RTFA, you would find that Microsoft is planning on giving you the DRM module. Isn't that nice of them?
And FYI, i do get it about 4 times a week, much more than the average slashdotter. I'd like four Fridays a week too!
If I'm seeing it correctly, it's the uncapitalized 't' in "to" that seems to be the point.
He'd like to use inductive logic.
See wikipedia
I'm interested to know what sort of calculation method gives you an error for 0 divided by 3.2. Everything I've tried just gives me zero.
You realize, of course, that if you have a full reserve system, your savings account will no longer earn interest from the bank, but rather will pay interest to the bank (in order to have your money kept safely). The reason you get paid interest on a bank account is because the bank can take part of your money and invest it/loan it out, earning more money.
>You can only store so much energy in a package that is liftable by a human being.
Show me in your physics book where it says there is an upper bound on the amount of energy you can put into a system.
E = mc^2
... and create a universal OPEN electronic payment system that has ZERO cost.Because it costs the bank something to set up/maintain the electronic payment system, it is not possible to have a zero cost system. (see TANSTAAFL principle) However, a standardized system with standardized (reasonable) payments would certainly go a long way in the direction the parent poster intends.
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True, but it has absolutely no relevance to cult beliefs. The solution to limited scientific knowledge is better science, not to give up and invent a god of the gaps.
Whether it's the astronomical amount of knowledge out there (which seems only to grow as we learn more) or the imperfect instruments we use, scientific knowledge will always be limited.The solution is neither to try to make scientific knowledge larger, nor a god of the gaps, but an understanding of science that accepts its inherent limitations.
I applaud the authors of this book.
Don't we already have that?
I'm sure you've heard the truism that 84.6% of statistics are made up on the spot.
And just because you aren't keeping score, does that mean the kids aren't?
In younger days, I played in a basketball league where the scoreboard was reset each quarter, so no one would be keeping track of who won the game. I know I and many other kids would have our parents sum the quarter scores so we knew who "really" won.
I find that with NoScript blocking the JavaScript in the page, I can see the answers as well. Probably related to showing up in Google cache.
After all, if we didn't have a drinking age, we wouldn't have underage drinking!
I don't see how this could be reasonably implemented. You can't put your IP address on the do-not-track list, because it could change day-to-day. You'd need a cookie in your browser saying you opted out. But that's as much information as if you hadn't opted out in the first place, they'd just have to toss the info after they got it.
User: "Hi, I don't want you to track the places I've visted."
Marketer: "Ok."
User: "Remember, I don't want you to track me, and I have just visted XYZ site."
Marketer: "Ok, I'll forget."
IMarv I think this could easily be overcome by everyone using the same cookie (e.g. "doNotTrack=true"). While they will be able to track the cookie, if hundreds of thousands of people are using that same cookie, the data is not going to mean much.