Meh. The law was not written for such minor issues. You're right that it's plagiarism, and even a scientific mistake. And in all fairness, the opponents should have picked up on this during her PhD defense. But that's utopia. In the real world, there are hundreds of PhD defenses every day in Germany, and I'm sure that in the stress to finish the PhD, almost all of them make minor mistakes like this... and none of the opponents ever read the entire booklet anyway. And unless you become a minister in Germany, all these PhD booklets disappear into a drawer, or become a support for a computer monitor.
The source was mentioned, so it is not theft or real plagiarism. It's just a mistake. This has nothing to do with plagiarism, and everything with politics. As soon as someone becomes a politician, we expect them to be perfect. Well, if this is the worst someone has ever done, then I'm fine with the idea that that person becomes a minister...
Nonsense. You don't need to give the reference twice, if you place two quotes. Just make sure it's clear that it is a quote, by using italics or whatever. All that matters is that a reader can figure out that it is a quote, and where it came from. You should place the reference again only if you refer to a different source in between your two quotes.
Anyway, on a brighter note, this will teach those politicians that it is important to protect your online data. Most of them are still in the "I have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear category".
It wouldn't make it any cheaper, but a 1 kW solar panel nowadays only costs only about $4,000 - $8,000, depending where you buy it, and who installs it (and of course how much the sun shines). So, compared to $500,000 for the plane, it isn't gonna make it a lot more expensive either.
And yes, I know that typical airplane engine will use far more than 1 kW (a typical Cessna has 145 hp, or about 110 kW), so it's a marginal amount of energy. Remember that it wasn't my idea to put a solar panel on a plane. I'm just responding.
Yes, that may be so... but ordinary offices, shops and bars do not have the funds to buy X-ray body scanners. All they can afford is a reject police officer to stand at the door and chase petty criminals. Real security measures would only lose them customers and ruin profits. So, in order to keep the shops and bars, but also the security industry itself alive, terrorism has to focus on high profile places. And they apparently oblige, because the FBI encourage them to attack high profile places.
So who says the FBI isn't doing everybody a favor?
Because the question is not if legal problems will be hacked, but when, it is better to just get it over with. This way, with the results out in the open, the law can be improved.
And hopefully, this also gives lawmakers a chance to form their own opinions rather than being fed opinions from big business lobbyists... although I am not too optimistic about that.
If your boss sends you to the USA, then you go to the USA (or risk losing your job). If you are self-employed, and you can earn money in the USA, then you go to the USA (or risk going bankrupt).
Freedom and work are two differrent things. When you're at work, your ass belongs to your boss.
However, you should at all times make your company pay for the flight (which is a good idea in general), and have them put as little personal info in the booking as possible. Contact should be your work phone and work email.
You need to drive to your nearest highway entrance too, and then follow the highway, take exits where they are built... you can't accelerate to 100 km/h from your driveway and go to your destination in a straight line either. What's the problem driving to your airport, take off, fly to the next airport, land, and drive the last bit? It would be practically identical to the current highway system.
Also, this PAL-V seems quite capable of VTOL (vertical take off and landing), as it has no wings and therefore should not require any particular velocity to get lift.
If you can make robotic legs, arms, eyes, hands, etc., why not put all that together and send the drones to do the fighting? Then you have no more veterans to fix up when they come back missing a limb.
1. When barrels of crude oil get cheaper, that just boosts the profits of the oil companies. Since all you fools buy the gasoline anyway at $3.50 or $4.00, why would they lower the prices?? You don't have any other choice anyway.
2. As long as US oil consumption is larger than the domestic production, the US cannot expect lower prices for crude oil.
The world oil market has shortages, and increasing production costs. That means foreign oil is expensive.
The US may have some domestic production, but domestic oil companies aren't gonna sell their oil far below the actual world market price... not if all the oil is sold at the same marketplace.
Look at Venezuela, Iran, and a couple of other countries that have a surplus of production. As a result, they import no oil at all, and domestically, they are able to keep the prices low. Also, those same countries don't play the capitalist game that the US likes to play.
Is anyone else just a little bit sad about this news?
No, why? It's not like the company went bust, or the information was lost. They just don't print it on paper anymore... a decision which can be reversed in a matter of minutes, if they want.
1. There is still parliament in between the people and a law. 2. I bet you need more than just a simple 50,000 supporters to change the constitution. You probably need 2/3rd (like in many countries) of all votes.
But you are correct: stupidity and democracy aren't a good combination. Luckily, education is quite good in Finland, so if any country has a chance of pulling it off, Finland is certainly on of them.
I agree with you. Nobody would want to be in an ordinary elevator for a week. I don't think anyone can be crammed into an ordinary elevator with 10 people in 2 m2, without food, drinks, seats/beds, for a week. Also, the lack of toilets in an ordinary elevator would be rather disturbing after a few hours.
So, this machine will hopefully be a little different than a regular elevator. Also, I hope it has a panorama window.
I notice one example of a bad apple... and then a question about the whole bunch at the end. Without more examples, it's hard to say anything about the bunch.
What's wrong with rich people giving money to an already privatised school system? The US is the most capitalistic (large) economy in the world. You guys chose to have this system. You chose to have privatised schools. You chose to have a relatively small group of people who are relatively wealthy. Given all those democratic choices, if I were you, I'd be happy that some money still goes into schools through corporate charity.
If all that money went to dividend (money to shareholders), then nobody would be surprised. I'd say this is better.
Your government probably gives you the impression that a human life must be saved at all cost, but they do that only to push through a hidden agenda. In reality, your life is not worth much (and neither is mine, or most others'). Sorry.
If human lives were worth something, we'd be fighting cancer and obesity, rather than terrorism.
Life itself is so ruthlessly contageous, that any earth ship that lands will start a biological war that will either completely take over another planet, or will die very very quickly to a superior life on that other planet, or unfavorable conditions. Even when species are introduced on another continent on earth, this happens. It is as unstoppable as the world's biggest army. Whether we like it or not, we carry thousands of other species with us wherever we go. Add a few additional ones to complete the mix, and the invasion is complete. You only need a small drone for that. There is no need to make a planet uninhabitable. Just terraform it, and there is a big change that all existing life goes extinct soon enough (either that, or we lose, and declare it uninhabitable, and move on).
As for the space warfare - I think it's just a matter of how much "fi" you want to put in the sci-fi. With current technology, we would probably just run out of juice before any real fighting starts. It wouldn't be space warfare... it would be orbital warfare, and space debris is the primary weapon there.
And did you scan them, run them through OCR, and then make some money off of "sharing" them with millions of your closest personal friends? No?
I read them, and I "paid" by giving some books to my friends in return. So yeah, it's actually quite an organization we've set up here. And it's decentralized p2p too.:-)
But if you imagine that millions of people are all doing this, you can get an idea of the huge damage to the industry. I'm only a small player. There are people who own and read way more books than I do.
So, your point is that you have no sense of what the discussion is actually about, right? Right.
Don't mock my comment. I know what I am talking about. We're talking about billions of euros/dollars... stolen from the industry by book-sharing people. And they've been at it for centuries!
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What our Anonymous Coward means is that huge amounts of people would vote for Cowboy Neal, if he'd ever come out with a fashion line.
That kind of abuse.
Meh. The law was not written for such minor issues. You're right that it's plagiarism, and even a scientific mistake. And in all fairness, the opponents should have picked up on this during her PhD defense. But that's utopia. In the real world, there are hundreds of PhD defenses every day in Germany, and I'm sure that in the stress to finish the PhD, almost all of them make minor mistakes like this... and none of the opponents ever read the entire booklet anyway. And unless you become a minister in Germany, all these PhD booklets disappear into a drawer, or become a support for a computer monitor.
The source was mentioned, so it is not theft or real plagiarism. It's just a mistake. This has nothing to do with plagiarism, and everything with politics. As soon as someone becomes a politician, we expect them to be perfect. Well, if this is the worst someone has ever done, then I'm fine with the idea that that person becomes a minister...
Nonsense. You don't need to give the reference twice, if you place two quotes. Just make sure it's clear that it is a quote, by using italics or whatever.
All that matters is that a reader can figure out that it is a quote, and where it came from. You should place the reference again only if you refer to a different source in between your two quotes.
Anyway, on a brighter note, this will teach those politicians that it is important to protect your online data. Most of them are still in the "I have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear category".
It wouldn't make it any cheaper, but a 1 kW solar panel nowadays only costs only about $4,000 - $8,000, depending where you buy it, and who installs it (and of course how much the sun shines). So, compared to $500,000 for the plane, it isn't gonna make it a lot more expensive either.
And yes, I know that typical airplane engine will use far more than 1 kW (a typical Cessna has 145 hp, or about 110 kW), so it's a marginal amount of energy. Remember that it wasn't my idea to put a solar panel on a plane. I'm just responding.
Yes, that may be so... but ordinary offices, shops and bars do not have the funds to buy X-ray body scanners. All they can afford is a reject police officer to stand at the door and chase petty criminals. Real security measures would only lose them customers and ruin profits. So, in order to keep the shops and bars, but also the security industry itself alive, terrorism has to focus on high profile places. And they apparently oblige, because the FBI encourage them to attack high profile places.
So who says the FBI isn't doing everybody a favor?
Because the question is not if legal problems will be hacked, but when, it is better to just get it over with. This way, with the results out in the open, the law can be improved.
And hopefully, this also gives lawmakers a chance to form their own opinions rather than being fed opinions from big business lobbyists... although I am not too optimistic about that.
If your boss sends you to the USA, then you go to the USA (or risk losing your job).
If you are self-employed, and you can earn money in the USA, then you go to the USA (or risk going bankrupt).
Freedom and work are two differrent things. When you're at work, your ass belongs to your boss.
However, you should at all times make your company pay for the flight (which is a good idea in general), and have them put as little personal info in the booking as possible. Contact should be your work phone and work email.
One that if there is an error in coding could easily ram it?
Define easily. Even Low Earth Orbit is pretty big.
The European Arianespace is commercial since 1980. They launch their Ariane rockets on a regular basis. You want competition? You got it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace
You need to drive to your nearest highway entrance too, and then follow the highway, take exits where they are built... you can't accelerate to 100 km/h from your driveway and go to your destination in a straight line either.
What's the problem driving to your airport, take off, fly to the next airport, land, and drive the last bit? It would be practically identical to the current highway system.
Also, this PAL-V seems quite capable of VTOL (vertical take off and landing), as it has no wings and therefore should not require any particular velocity to get lift.
If you can make robotic legs, arms, eyes, hands, etc., why not put all that together and send the drones to do the fighting? Then you have no more veterans to fix up when they come back missing a limb.
Two reasons:
1. When barrels of crude oil get cheaper, that just boosts the profits of the oil companies. Since all you fools buy the gasoline anyway at $3.50 or $4.00, why would they lower the prices?? You don't have any other choice anyway.
2. As long as US oil consumption is larger than the domestic production, the US cannot expect lower prices for crude oil.
The world oil market has shortages, and increasing production costs. That means foreign oil is expensive.
The US may have some domestic production, but domestic oil companies aren't gonna sell their oil far below the actual world market price... not if all the oil is sold at the same marketplace.
Look at Venezuela, Iran, and a couple of other countries that have a surplus of production. As a result, they import no oil at all, and domestically, they are able to keep the prices low. Also, those same countries don't play the capitalist game that the US likes to play.
Even if they are completely refitted and tuned, an oldtimer will always be an expensive and slow car. Still, people buy it.
And they sometimes have a blu-ray installed in it.
Is anyone else just a little bit sad about this news?
No, why?
It's not like the company went bust, or the information was lost. They just don't print it on paper anymore... a decision which can be reversed in a matter of minutes, if they want.
On such a planet, silicate IS perhaps the gas (in a similar way that our atmosphere consists partially of water vapor)?
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You have a point, but:
1. There is still parliament in between the people and a law.
2. I bet you need more than just a simple 50,000 supporters to change the constitution. You probably need 2/3rd (like in many countries) of all votes.
But you are correct: stupidity and democracy aren't a good combination. Luckily, education is quite good in Finland, so if any country has a chance of pulling it off, Finland is certainly on of them.
I also expect a cable manufacturer is likely to be getting a strongly worded email in the near future.
They probably received it alreacy before the scientists found the faulty cable. It's Italy, so there are probably also some faulty internet cables.
I agree with you. Nobody would want to be in an ordinary elevator for a week. I don't think anyone can be crammed into an ordinary elevator with 10 people in 2 m2, without food, drinks, seats/beds, for a week. Also, the lack of toilets in an ordinary elevator would be rather disturbing after a few hours.
So, this machine will hopefully be a little different than a regular elevator. Also, I hope it has a panorama window.
Thanks for the clarification. Still, there are privatised schools, so the point stands.
I notice one example of a bad apple... and then a question about the whole bunch at the end. Without more examples, it's hard to say anything about the bunch.
What's wrong with rich people giving money to an already privatised school system? The US is the most capitalistic (large) economy in the world. You guys chose to have this system. You chose to have privatised schools. You chose to have a relatively small group of people who are relatively wealthy. Given all those democratic choices, if I were you, I'd be happy that some money still goes into schools through corporate charity.
If all that money went to dividend (money to shareholders), then nobody would be surprised. I'd say this is better.
If it's all automated, writers don't need to learn new ways to express themselves. Software can do that for them!
[...]so as not to sacrifice human lives. [...]
You must think that humans are expensive?
Your government probably gives you the impression that a human life must be saved at all cost, but they do that only to push through a hidden agenda. In reality, your life is not worth much (and neither is mine, or most others'). Sorry.
If human lives were worth something, we'd be fighting cancer and obesity, rather than terrorism.
Humans are very expendable.
Life itself is so ruthlessly contageous, that any earth ship that lands will start a biological war that will either completely take over another planet, or will die very very quickly to a superior life on that other planet, or unfavorable conditions. Even when species are introduced on another continent on earth, this happens. It is as unstoppable as the world's biggest army. Whether we like it or not, we carry thousands of other species with us wherever we go. Add a few additional ones to complete the mix, and the invasion is complete. You only need a small drone for that. There is no need to make a planet uninhabitable. Just terraform it, and there is a big change that all existing life goes extinct soon enough (either that, or we lose, and declare it uninhabitable, and move on).
As for the space warfare - I think it's just a matter of how much "fi" you want to put in the sci-fi. With current technology, we would probably just run out of juice before any real fighting starts. It wouldn't be space warfare... it would be orbital warfare, and space debris is the primary weapon there.
And did you scan them, run them through OCR, and then make some money off of "sharing" them with millions of your closest personal friends? No?
I read them, and I "paid" by giving some books to my friends in return. So yeah, it's actually quite an organization we've set up here. And it's decentralized p2p too. :-)
But if you imagine that millions of people are all doing this, you can get an idea of the huge damage to the industry. I'm only a small player. There are people who own and read way more books than I do.
So, your point is that you have no sense of what the discussion is actually about, right? Right.
Don't mock my comment. I know what I am talking about. We're talking about billions of euros/dollars... stolen from the industry by book-sharing people. And they've been at it for centuries!