The SETI Institute does solicit private funding. There also is nothing preventing private projects from popping up to monitor radio signals. Please inform yourself, rather than spewing inaccurate ideology.
By refusing him the privilege to set on American soil, his business opportunities will be diminished. Now maybe Saverin doesn't care, since he has taken enough money out of the economy that he doesn't have to worry about working ever again.
Plenty of countries were interested in censorship while regulating the RF spectrum, particularly things like internationl broadcast bands. Yet even short range transmissions can be an issue. Remember the iron curtain? Often times the only thing separating the laws of one country was a line on a map.
Part of the reason to take this to an international body is to hash things out in a way that is acceptable to member nations. Note, acceptable doesn't mean it mirrors the interests of those nations. It simply means that it is something they can live with.
The Internet is an international medium that needs international agreements in order to operate. Just because there are international agreements in place doesn't mean that it will be reduced to the lowest common denominator either. Radio and telephone systems are prime examples of this. (The governance isn't perfect, but it works.)
There seems to be this mentality that advertising is equally valuable regardless of how much is slammed in the face of consumers. Since more ads mean more money, we've ended up with a situation where consumers are saturated by advertising. Sometimes they tune out mentally, but sometimes they cut it out literally. I'm sorry TV networks, but you created the environment where this happens so it is your fault. Don't blame other people for your problems.
Different wavelengths of IR have different properties. Indeed the BBC article notes: "as terahertz waves penetrate many materials as effectively as X-rays".
At least Apple didn't replace the response with an endorsement for their own product, which is what I'd expect from any vendor (including Apple). Questions like this, after all, have a definite conflict of interest.
Goto http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ and it tells you what 4G means. While I cannot speak for the content of that page and the iPad WiFi+4G prior to the ruling, it is possible to pull up the page with archive.org for the previous model. In that case, they were telling you what the 3G meant in the iPad WiFi+3G.
The problem is two-fold. One is that consumers have become very sloppy when it comes down to research, and will often take marketing claims at face value while neglecting to ask questions about things that they aren't told about. The second is that they were buying a product based upon a pure marketing term, which can vary from vendor to vendor and from region to region.
Just because a device has a certain feature, doesn't mean you can use it. That is especially true if it relies upon external services that may not be available in a particular region. It should be the consumer's responsibility to ensure that they meet the requirements to use those features.
But consumers like to play dumb and, at the rate that things are going, we are going to have some absurd situations. I mean, just imagine the day when printer manufacturers have to stop advertising their printers as colour. After all, colour isn't visible when you are looking at a printout in a darkened room.
I don't know whether to support or refute your arguments because I have both more faith and less faith in human intelligence than you imply.
In some senses I have less faith since our emotions tend to override any attempts of rational thought. In those cases, neither annotations nor persuasive rebuttals will accomplish much.
In other senses, I have more faith. Those who are willing to look beyond their immediate emotional responses are more likely to interpret the primary sources in an appropriate context without annotations. Adding annotations simply reduces the amount of footwork that they have to do.
And, FWIW, I wouldn't call Neo-Nazis "hardcore". The label "extremist" seems much more appropriate since they are taking mostly verifiable observations and intepreting them in a way that does not accept alternative explanations.
At this point in history, it is bound to be more enlightening than dangerous.
My high school education in the subject of Nazi Germany was likely more intellectual than most because I had a teacher who was brave enough to stand up and claim that the holocaust wasn't the most important feature of the 20th century. Instead, that teacher claimed, the genocides that came afterwards should play a stronger role in history courses because they are both more contemporary (thus more relevant) and demonstrate how society needs to make a much more concerted effort to learn from the mistakes of our past.
The publication of Mein Kampf in Germany at this stage of history is important for a couple of reasons. One is that access to primary sources will allow the general population to more directly learn what the mistakesh of Nazi Germany were. But this will only work out because we have had a handful of generations to sort out why such policies represent an unforgivable evil. Both reasons are essential, because we need both information and a temporal/emotional distance to evaluate things rationally.
Publishing this work in this day in age isn't an apology to the Nazis. It does not represent a forgiveness due to social relativism, nor any other extremist ideology. It simply acknowledges that the only way to learn from the past is to understand the past from their perspective.
This is IKEA furniture we're talking about. Which means that it's both inexpensive and the quality is reasonable for the price.
They're furniture certainly isn't something that you pass down through the generations, but it will probably last a few years. Which is unlike the cheap chipboard furniture you find in many department stores. It fits the budgets of many people. You can't say that for quality furniture, which will probably cost as much to move as many IKEA pieces cost to buy. And the designs are sufficiently spartan that it will never go out of (or into) style. Yes mom, I'm complaining about that hideous Persian style sofa you bought a few decades back and could never find anyone to take off your hands.
Revolution is only an option when democratic and legal institutions do not exist, or there is concrete evidence that they have failed. If you seek revolution when those institutions exist, you are basically saying that your opinions are more important than those of the majority and that the courts have failed to protect minority rights.
Any such arguments for the UK, US, Canada, etc. are dubious at best. Yes, our institutions have problems but fixing those problems involves reform rather than revolution.
... but they should be locked up until they figure out how to press for change by democratic means.
This is a relatively small group of people, few of whom are UK citizens, that are using force to impose their ideology. They assume that their radical perspectives are supported by the majority, but are unwilling to test that by legally participating in the legislative process.
In other words, these are a bunch of hot heads that want to ram their ideas down everyone else's throats. In that sense they aren't terribly different from other religious or political ideologues.
(For what it's worth, I do support privacy. Yet I believe that the rule of law and democracy are far more important.)
Just to be safe: I've cancelled my library card and accounts on any website where there is a high probability of discussing, erm, literary devices. I have also destroyed all of the ereading devices and software in my home, and will be burning paper literary devices in the wood stove when things cool down tonight.
I also notice that they have the number 32665 trademarked. I have stopped doing any form of mathematics to avoid being sued. Does the trademark cover binary representations as well? If so, does anyone know of any computers that cannot use this number. (Cripes, even 8 bit computers have 16 bit addresses.)
It may be a social nicety, but people seem to be happy to get my business card and I find that people are more likely to follow up. I suspect that the latter is because they are less likely to lose contact information when it comes in a physical form.
Of course there will be some naysayers. There always have been. But I suspect that those people never really followed up on initial meeting anyway.
We shouln't settle for landing a man on the Moon. We should be trying to land a man on the Moon and doing it better. This is because a new approach will advance science and engineering. Those advances will have applications on Earth. Those applications may create a new economic boom that may feed back on itself by providing real career opportunities for scientists and engineers, for both space/aerospace and terrestial industries. Recreating Apollo era technology to do science on the Moon and achieve political objectives will create a short boom/bust cycle. And maybe it will give Russia the boost that it needs over the next few years, but they (and China and India and us) should be looking towards a longerterm terrestial payoff - not just Moon rocks and nationalist pretige.
It probably reflects the spirit of Landauer's claims. Claims such as this depend upon an understanding of physics, which was much more common in computing back in the days when innovation depended upon an understanding of physics in order to develop new hardware. You also have to consider that a variety of different techniques were used to make computer memories back then, so his claims had to be based upon the underlying physics rather than a particular memory technology. So it is fair game to apply different physical models to prove his claims.
Most kids simply don't know what programming is. All that they know is that software is made, yet they have had no exposure to how it is made. Once you show a child what programming is, and in a child friendly manner, they are much more likely to want to program for programming's sake.
One of the challenges with space exploration beyond the Moon is that everything moves relative to the Sun. This means that you have to plan the timing of missions according to launch windows that come every few years. Contrast that to expeditions to remote parts of the Earth, where opportunities come at least once a year and usually last for several months.
Another challenge is transporting the resources. There is no meaningful comparison a "base camp" while sending a mission to Mars. There is also no such thing as acquiring necessary resources along the way. This makes planning much more intensive.
In order to sustain space exploration, society needs to cultivate a long-term imagination where collecting rocks in one decade is regarded as a huge leap to the more ambitious goals.
Both the Los Alfaques disaster and Nazi Germany are events that occurred several decades ago, so interested parties should have a right to complain about the ranking of search results based upon a simple search like "Los Alfaques" or "Germany". And Google should take the initiative to improve the ranking of the results.
Note, I am not saying that Google should sanitize the results. Searches for "Los Alfaques disaster" and "Nazi Germany" (or anything of that ilk) should definitely present the relevant results first. The generic searches should also present information about the disaster and the war, and even do so on the first page. Google should also work to present independent information as the top results, rather than marketing information from a tourism bureau. It is simply insanely morbid place the disaster/war results at the very top because, let's face it, it affects living people in a detrimental way because of something that happened well over a generation ago.
As teachers, we are also expected to protect the confidentiality of those report cards as well as any other information about the students. In other words, those evaluations are for personal use and management's use, but are not intended to be public documents.
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The SETI Institute does solicit private funding. There also is nothing preventing private projects from popping up to monitor radio signals. Please inform yourself, rather than spewing inaccurate ideology.
By refusing him the privilege to set on American soil, his business opportunities will be diminished. Now maybe Saverin doesn't care, since he has taken enough money out of the economy that he doesn't have to worry about working ever again.
Plenty of countries were interested in censorship while regulating the RF spectrum, particularly things like internationl broadcast bands. Yet even short range transmissions can be an issue. Remember the iron curtain? Often times the only thing separating the laws of one country was a line on a map.
Part of the reason to take this to an international body is to hash things out in a way that is acceptable to member nations. Note, acceptable doesn't mean it mirrors the interests of those nations. It simply means that it is something they can live with.
The Internet is an international medium that needs international agreements in order to operate. Just because there are international agreements in place doesn't mean that it will be reduced to the lowest common denominator either. Radio and telephone systems are prime examples of this. (The governance isn't perfect, but it works.)
There seems to be this mentality that advertising is equally valuable regardless of how much is slammed in the face of consumers. Since more ads mean more money, we've ended up with a situation where consumers are saturated by advertising. Sometimes they tune out mentally, but sometimes they cut it out literally. I'm sorry TV networks, but you created the environment where this happens so it is your fault. Don't blame other people for your problems.
Different wavelengths of IR have different properties. Indeed the BBC article notes: "as terahertz waves penetrate many materials as effectively as X-rays".
At least Apple didn't replace the response with an endorsement for their own product, which is what I'd expect from any vendor (including Apple). Questions like this, after all, have a definite conflict of interest.
Goto http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ and it tells you what 4G means. While I cannot speak for the content of that page and the iPad WiFi+4G prior to the ruling, it is possible to pull up the page with archive.org for the previous model. In that case, they were telling you what the 3G meant in the iPad WiFi+3G.
The problem is two-fold. One is that consumers have become very sloppy when it comes down to research, and will often take marketing claims at face value while neglecting to ask questions about things that they aren't told about. The second is that they were buying a product based upon a pure marketing term, which can vary from vendor to vendor and from region to region.
Just because a device has a certain feature, doesn't mean you can use it. That is especially true if it relies upon external services that may not be available in a particular region. It should be the consumer's responsibility to ensure that they meet the requirements to use those features.
But consumers like to play dumb and, at the rate that things are going, we are going to have some absurd situations. I mean, just imagine the day when printer manufacturers have to stop advertising their printers as colour. After all, colour isn't visible when you are looking at a printout in a darkened room.
I don't know whether to support or refute your arguments because I have both more faith and less faith in human intelligence than you imply.
In some senses I have less faith since our emotions tend to override any attempts of rational thought. In those cases, neither annotations nor persuasive rebuttals will accomplish much.
In other senses, I have more faith. Those who are willing to look beyond their immediate emotional responses are more likely to interpret the primary sources in an appropriate context without annotations. Adding annotations simply reduces the amount of footwork that they have to do.
And, FWIW, I wouldn't call Neo-Nazis "hardcore". The label "extremist" seems much more appropriate since they are taking mostly verifiable observations and intepreting them in a way that does not accept alternative explanations.
At this point in history, it is bound to be more enlightening than dangerous.
My high school education in the subject of Nazi Germany was likely more intellectual than most because I had a teacher who was brave enough to stand up and claim that the holocaust wasn't the most important feature of the 20th century. Instead, that teacher claimed, the genocides that came afterwards should play a stronger role in history courses because they are both more contemporary (thus more relevant) and demonstrate how society needs to make a much more concerted effort to learn from the mistakes of our past.
The publication of Mein Kampf in Germany at this stage of history is important for a couple of reasons. One is that access to primary sources will allow the general population to more directly learn what the mistakesh of Nazi Germany were. But this will only work out because we have had a handful of generations to sort out why such policies represent an unforgivable evil. Both reasons are essential, because we need both information and a temporal/emotional distance to evaluate things rationally.
Publishing this work in this day in age isn't an apology to the Nazis. It does not represent a forgiveness due to social relativism, nor any other extremist ideology. It simply acknowledges that the only way to learn from the past is to understand the past from their perspective.
This is IKEA furniture we're talking about. Which means that it's both inexpensive and the quality is reasonable for the price.
They're furniture certainly isn't something that you pass down through the generations, but it will probably last a few years. Which is unlike the cheap chipboard furniture you find in many department stores. It fits the budgets of many people. You can't say that for quality furniture, which will probably cost as much to move as many IKEA pieces cost to buy. And the designs are sufficiently spartan that it will never go out of (or into) style. Yes mom, I'm complaining about that hideous Persian style sofa you bought a few decades back and could never find anyone to take off your hands.
Revolution is only an option when democratic and legal institutions do not exist, or there is concrete evidence that they have failed. If you seek revolution when those institutions exist, you are basically saying that your opinions are more important than those of the majority and that the courts have failed to protect minority rights.
Any such arguments for the UK, US, Canada, etc. are dubious at best. Yes, our institutions have problems but fixing those problems involves reform rather than revolution.
... but they should be locked up until they figure out how to press for change by democratic means.
This is a relatively small group of people, few of whom are UK citizens, that are using force to impose their ideology. They assume that their radical perspectives are supported by the majority, but are unwilling to test that by legally participating in the legislative process.
In other words, these are a bunch of hot heads that want to ram their ideas down everyone else's throats. In that sense they aren't terribly different from other religious or political ideologues.
(For what it's worth, I do support privacy. Yet I believe that the rule of law and democracy are far more important.)
Just to be safe: I've cancelled my library card and accounts on any website where there is a high probability of discussing, erm, literary devices. I have also destroyed all of the ereading devices and software in my home, and will be burning paper literary devices in the wood stove when things cool down tonight.
I also notice that they have the number 32665 trademarked. I have stopped doing any form of mathematics to avoid being sued. Does the trademark cover binary representations as well? If so, does anyone know of any computers that cannot use this number. (Cripes, even 8 bit computers have 16 bit addresses.)
In a panic!
It may be a social nicety, but people seem to be happy to get my business card and I find that people are more likely to follow up. I suspect that the latter is because they are less likely to lose contact information when it comes in a physical form.
Of course there will be some naysayers. There always have been. But I suspect that those people never really followed up on initial meeting anyway.
Most contracts can be reduced to four single-syllable words that a six year old would understand:
"You have no rights."
Lawyers could also reduce all legal correspondence to:
"You are screwed."
Please make these changes. It would save everyone a considerable amount of time and make everyone significantly happier.
You don't get it. Pushing the off button is equivalent to skipping all of the advertising, so you will have to pay even more.
We shouln't settle for landing a man on the Moon. We should be trying to land a man on the Moon and doing it better. This is because a new approach will advance science and engineering. Those advances will have applications on Earth. Those applications may create a new economic boom that may feed back on itself by providing real career opportunities for scientists and engineers, for both space/aerospace and terrestial industries. Recreating Apollo era technology to do science on the Moon and achieve political objectives will create a short boom/bust cycle. And maybe it will give Russia the boost that it needs over the next few years, but they (and China and India and us) should be looking towards a longerterm terrestial payoff - not just Moon rocks and nationalist pretige.
There's cynicism, and then there's paranoid delusions. I'll let you figure out what impression your comment gives.
It probably reflects the spirit of Landauer's claims. Claims such as this depend upon an understanding of physics, which was much more common in computing back in the days when innovation depended upon an understanding of physics in order to develop new hardware. You also have to consider that a variety of different techniques were used to make computer memories back then, so his claims had to be based upon the underlying physics rather than a particular memory technology. So it is fair game to apply different physical models to prove his claims.
Most kids simply don't know what programming is. All that they know is that software is made, yet they have had no exposure to how it is made. Once you show a child what programming is, and in a child friendly manner, they are much more likely to want to program for programming's sake.
One of the challenges with space exploration beyond the Moon is that everything moves relative to the Sun. This means that you have to plan the timing of missions according to launch windows that come every few years. Contrast that to expeditions to remote parts of the Earth, where opportunities come at least once a year and usually last for several months.
Another challenge is transporting the resources. There is no meaningful comparison a "base camp" while sending a mission to Mars. There is also no such thing as acquiring necessary resources along the way. This makes planning much more intensive.
In order to sustain space exploration, society needs to cultivate a long-term imagination where collecting rocks in one decade is regarded as a huge leap to the more ambitious goals.
Both the Los Alfaques disaster and Nazi Germany are events that occurred several decades ago, so interested parties should have a right to complain about the ranking of search results based upon a simple search like "Los Alfaques" or "Germany". And Google should take the initiative to improve the ranking of the results.
Note, I am not saying that Google should sanitize the results. Searches for "Los Alfaques disaster" and "Nazi Germany" (or anything of that ilk) should definitely present the relevant results first. The generic searches should also present information about the disaster and the war, and even do so on the first page. Google should also work to present independent information as the top results, rather than marketing information from a tourism bureau. It is simply insanely morbid place the disaster/war results at the very top because, let's face it, it affects living people in a detrimental way because of something that happened well over a generation ago.
As teachers, we are also expected to protect the confidentiality of those report cards as well as any other information about the students. In other words, those evaluations are for personal use and management's use, but are not intended to be public documents.