Clearly it is not suspicious at all for the government to mandate installation of some arbitrary piece of software.
Me being a socialist Swedish person (we're not really socialists but you yanks like to call us that so why not roll with it) would not trust any governement that came with the mandate that people must use arbitrary software $foo which has low level access enough to be a backdoor.
Sounds paranoid of me right? It's not like several governments have discussed the ability to let there be backdoors in computers before. Right?
Damn, that explains Alzheimer's and cancer and diabetes and stuff over a hundred years ago; it was all the Big Macs and pizza slices and sodas... Oh, WAIT. They didn't have that stuff a hundred years ago. Wow, maybe the Government needs to fund a study on what caused say, Alzheimer's, one hundred years ago if it wasn't a Big Mac.
That a implies b doesn't mean that c cannot imply b.
I now hope to never hear this flawed argument again.
While I'll give you that the area of the united states is alot larger, how often do you work in texas while living in new york (or any other similar situation).
Sure, from time to time you might need to travel from one part of the country to another part, but that happens so rarely it's not something you *need* a car for.
Covering 1% of the earths surface with 5% efficient solar cells would give us 40 terrawatts of energy, which is a little less than three times as much energy as the current worldwide energy consumption.
80 petawatts[1] of energy worldwide * 1% surface area * 5% efficiency = 40 terrawatts of energy
current usage is 15 terrawatts[2] of energy, next time you're trying to be a smart ass do your maths correctly
if you don't beleive my numbers you can read wikipedia:
As a swedish person I can attest to that simply not being true. Sure it's true in the northern cities with very low population numbers but in Stockholm or any other major city, that would be outright false.
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you know, there is an inifidecimal non-zero risk that the earth might quantum tunnel into the sun if you post on slashdot. Yet you still do it, why?
Because there is no actual risk, it's just some nutters that think it might happen.
You actually need both things... Because all of it has an impact.
That bicycle? It produced as much or more pollution as the car burning the gasoline to produce it unless you're making it entirely out of wood. The same goes for most of the other ones you brought up.
By themselves, they don't accomplish much of anything- and actually in some cases are worse than the "fixes" we've done in the past (Something else you mentioned...).
You've got to take in an even bigger picture than you're doing- otherwise you're no better than the people you're tarring with that brush of yours.
Uhm no?
Making a bike produces a negligible amount of CO2 compared to driving a car, your statement is downright false.
That's ridicoulus.
You have no proof that this isn't just a couple of random bits forming a post arguing against you, yet you consider that to be false even though logically it should be possible it isn't.
As a matter of fact nothing may be true,gravity might just be a fluke, maybee we've been falling in random direction changing every day that just happened to have been towards where one would expect it whenever we tried to observe it.
Yet you don't see scientists going around saying maybee to gravity do you? Just because there are several explanations doesn't mean they're all equally valid, it's called occams razor. Deal with it.
It's easy to test, startup Photoshop (or Gimp or in my case Paint.NET) make a gradient from one color extreme to another (for example: #00ffff->#ffffff) over an area that is alot bigger than 256 pixels wide (something in the area of 768+ wide) at 100% zoom.
If you can see stripes in the gradient then you can see more than 24 bit colors (or you could have a display with less than 24 bit colors). Personally I can see barely make them out, but then again I'm young.
Point at anything on the periodic table and it'll exist in a landfill at concentrations far higher than what exists in ore deposits we're mining today;
I'm pretty sure that most computers from that era boots alot faster than modern computers. In a related note, windows boot time is pretty fast (especially xp boot time).
But then again if you trully beleive your 1987 machine to be faster than your 2007 machine why aren't you using it? Oh that's right, becouse it isn't.
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You do realize that even if everyone were to magically become a billion times smarter the scale would be exactly the same.
IQ is defined as normally distributed.
Because firefox totally did pass Acid2 last year?
Bullshit, there is no way shouting would produce the required amount of power to operate a phone, theese things are very powerhungry.
Red flag linux licence says nothing about using only RFL (I assume). However nothing prevents chinese law from requiring the use of only licensed RFL.
Clearly it is not suspicious at all for the government to mandate installation of some arbitrary piece of software.
Me being a socialist Swedish person (we're not really socialists but you yanks like to call us that so why not roll with it) would not trust any governement that came with the mandate that people must use arbitrary software $foo which has low level access enough to be a backdoor.
Sounds paranoid of me right? It's not like several governments have discussed the ability to let there be backdoors in computers before. Right?
Damn, that explains Alzheimer's and cancer and diabetes and stuff over a hundred years ago; it was all the Big Macs and pizza slices and sodas... Oh, WAIT. They didn't have that stuff a hundred years ago. Wow, maybe the Government needs to fund a study on what caused say, Alzheimer's, one hundred years ago if it wasn't a Big Mac.
That a implies b doesn't mean that c cannot imply b.
I now hope to never hear this flawed argument again.
I had windows 95 on my 486
Yes because I'm sure Ballmer just can't think of anything more than ways to get slashdots attention.
Remind me again, does one spell delusional with one or two l:s?
Densely-populated? *chuckles*
I suggest you look up that fact again.
While I'll give you that the area of the united states is alot larger, how often do you work in texas while living in new york (or any other similar situation).
Sure, from time to time you might need to travel from one part of the country to another part, but that happens so rarely it's not something you *need* a car for.
You know, 1000$ wouldn't replace my computer, let alone if I had a good camera system aswell.
Not to mention the emotional value of all the data on my computer, that's just priceless.
Covering 1% of the earths surface with 5% efficient solar cells would give us 40 terrawatts of energy, which is a little less than three times as much energy as the current worldwide energy consumption.
80 petawatts[1] of energy worldwide * 1% surface area * 5% efficiency = 40 terrawatts of energy
current usage is 15 terrawatts[2] of energy, next time you're trying to be a smart ass do your maths correctly
if you don't beleive my numbers you can read wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy#Energy_from_the_Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_consumption#Consumption
As a swedish person I can attest to that simply not being true. Sure it's true in the northern cities with very low population numbers but in Stockholm or any other major city, that would be outright false.
Because there is no actual risk, it's just some nutters that think it might happen.
Except there is no law against stealing ideas.
Defining "higher lifeforms" would likely be much more complicated than defining life would be ;).
I'd mod you up but you're already at +5.
If they just included personal signing in windows all my single gripe about UAC would vanish.
Consider it my wishlist for Win7
No, we left the limitations of C 20 years ago.
Try to keep up with the times.
You actually need both things... Because all of it has an impact.
That bicycle? It produced as much or more pollution as the car burning the gasoline to produce it unless you're making it entirely out of wood. The same goes for most of the other ones you brought up.
By themselves, they don't accomplish much of anything- and actually in some cases are worse than the "fixes" we've done in the past (Something else you mentioned...).
You've got to take in an even bigger picture than you're doing- otherwise you're no better than the people you're tarring with that brush of yours.
Uhm no?
Making a bike produces a negligible amount of CO2 compared to driving a car, your statement is downright false.
That's ridicoulus. You have no proof that this isn't just a couple of random bits forming a post arguing against you, yet you consider that to be false even though logically it should be possible it isn't.
As a matter of fact nothing may be true,gravity might just be a fluke, maybee we've been falling in random direction changing every day that just happened to have been towards where one would expect it whenever we tried to observe it.
Yet you don't see scientists going around saying maybee to gravity do you? Just because there are several explanations doesn't mean they're all equally valid, it's called occams razor. Deal with it.
The only way to achieve true equality between genders is to treat them the same.
It's wrong to force a choice upon others and I thought that was one of the main points about 'free'-software?
Water movement wouldn't happen without the nuclear reactions of the sun and geothermal energy comes from nuclear reactions in the earths core.
If you can see stripes in the gradient then you can see more than 24 bit colors (or you could have a display with less than 24 bit colors). Personally I can see barely make them out, but then again I'm young.
Point at anything on the periodic table and it'll exist in a landfill at concentrations far higher than what exists in ore deposits we're mining today;
You do realize that's impossible right? ;)
But then again if you trully beleive your 1987 machine to be faster than your 2007 machine why aren't you using it? Oh that's right, becouse it isn't.