The question is how does it take for terraforming a planet? We can surely find planet that can support life, but our life? We need to do some work first. You cannot expect millions or billions of humans to living on a planet that does not have the proper atmosphere. For Earth to contain 20% of O2, it took 2 billion years. So, where will we stay while terraforming other planets?
They seem to have one fact: beautiful women have more children, and the also tend to have more daughters. Then they predict that it could make women more and more beautiful. But they do not seem to have the fact that they are more and more beautiful. Actually, it seems quite hard to imagine an experiment that does not involve time travel. We would take two groups of people randomly selected. Make one go step by step in the past, and another step by step in the future. And we do not tell which direction. Then they show at each step we show a random selection of women who have no attribute that shows the epoch they are (nothing like clothes, haircut, cosmetics, dirt, etc.).
Unicode needs at least 18 bits, which does not fit into 16. UTF-16 is pretty useless. Maybe UTF-32 is more logical so you never have escape sequences. But to save space, in general UTF-8 is a lot better.
This is the best that could have happened to Iran. You see, if Mousavi won, he would have not been able to reform. There has been already a reformist as president. And nothing changed. There are few things to change Iran into a democracy. Or at least what we think of democracy in the western world, which is the best, but still far from being perfect. The things to change are mainly the control who can be candidate for elections. If more liberal candidate can be elected as expert, including non-clerics, then the guardians also will change, then there might be an opening for other reforms to get into a real democracy. But as long as the guardians control the candidates, nothing will change.
Let's see, if Mousavi was elected, would he change that? No the president does not have this power.
Now, what can make the things to change?
First, you wait for many years for the guardians and experts to be more liberal. But this is not sure to happen. Specially on the fact that Iran suffer of paranoia and McCarthyism on zionism (I hat zionism, but what I mean, is that any opponant is called zionist there). This gives a stable and safe position to the actual leaders.
Or the people stop fearing the government and push progressively for more freedom. If there is a dynamic, the government will not be able to control the population. The more they will protest, the more the will be able to protest.
I believe in the latter point. And this is what is happening. There might be no more censorship than usual on Internet or SMS, and it would be due to just congestions. There might have been no fraud in the election... But Iranians are understanding they do not have to obey all the time the authority. And it has been like the even the days before the elections.
Despotism is when the people fear the government. Democracy is when the government fears the people.
I agree. I do not think people who raise goats in a mountain are that scary. But you do not need to be smart to resolve a Rubik's, all you need is a screwdriver. That was the same with the WTC. They did not run a computer simulation to know if it would collapse. But still they did it.
My comment was originally sarcastic. I hoped you would understand.
I would say that in the US, you are more likely to be killed by a Christian fanatic than a Muslim fanatic. Good thing I do not live there.
We already contacted with their competitors and they didn't show interest in buying their data -probably because the mails got to the wrong people- so now we are offering them for the highest bidder.
Does not it sound just like a scam? What about sending them one of these 419eater funny guys?
B) His beliefs actually do strongly differ with the company's
No, it differs from the director's.
Now the question is under French law can he sue?
This is obviously illegal.
If he can, the next question is will it make him less employable suing an ex-employer?
No, I suppose most of employers actually hate TF1, so he would look like a hero. And specially if he works for IT, lots employers are certainly against the 3-strikes law.
That was not the same president. Chirac was just stealing money, it had few to do with freedom. If Sarkozy was president at that time, France would have been engaged in war.
But I will stop paying if it is so. The reason is that Last.fm is interesting mostly for the social networking (and specially the system of events). If people of my country stop using it, then it will uninteresting.
Well, I am sorry, you were the one asking for this really simple proof that any junior high pupil can do. Or it was not what you asked for? Tell me. Because you do not seem clear.
I see the contraposition of this predicate much more interesting. If we are able to show that the particles do not have free will... then it means we do not have neither. Which is what I really expect.
It is just Fox News who qualify them of "hippies". I think there are lots of people who are scared of technologies. And "being hippie" has never been to do with being against new technologies. Anyway, everybody is against technology when it does not profit them. You need to make people make money from it. Install a nuclear power plant that will employ everybody in this village, the project will better welcome than a wifi network.
I like the text of the petition though, it sounds so much like monoxide dihydrogen. They did not get much from being talked about in the news. 72 signatures?
Static resolution of methods combined with other optimizations. Plus the template meta-programming. There sould be lots of other examples. C++ can use in a way that makes the compiler to know a lot to do good optimization, which is certainly what AS3 cannot. Of course, not that many people know how to write C++ like that.
I added it, and I will see then next time... unfortunately, I stopped drinking. But who knows what will happen?
But I really do not think it would work. The hardest levels are still doable quickly. And as Randall Munroe (the guy of XKCD) showed during a presentation at Google actually, to resolve a rubix cube (for example) drunk, it takes just 15% more of time. Take your time at the last level and add 15% more, it is still fitting. I think one may pass out before not being able to solve the problems in time.
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To get something stable? We cannot even control the temperature of Earth.
The question is how does it take for terraforming a planet? We can surely find planet that can support life, but our life? We need to do some work first. You cannot expect millions or billions of humans to living on a planet that does not have the proper atmosphere. For Earth to contain 20% of O2, it took 2 billion years. So, where will we stay while terraforming other planets?
The book of Revelation.
They seem to have one fact: beautiful women have more children, and the also tend to have more daughters. Then they predict that it could make women more and more beautiful. But they do not seem to have the fact that they are more and more beautiful. Actually, it seems quite hard to imagine an experiment that does not involve time travel. We would take two groups of people randomly selected. Make one go step by step in the past, and another step by step in the future. And we do not tell which direction. Then they show at each step we show a random selection of women who have no attribute that shows the epoch they are (nothing like clothes, haircut, cosmetics, dirt, etc.).
Unicode needs at least 18 bits, which does not fit into 16. UTF-16 is pretty useless. Maybe UTF-32 is more logical so you never have escape sequences. But to save space, in general UTF-8 is a lot better.
I met most of my friends when I was drunk.
This is the best that could have happened to Iran. You see, if Mousavi won, he would have not been able to reform. There has been already a reformist as president. And nothing changed. There are few things to change Iran into a democracy. Or at least what we think of democracy in the western world, which is the best, but still far from being perfect. The things to change are mainly the control who can be candidate for elections. If more liberal candidate can be elected as expert, including non-clerics, then the guardians also will change, then there might be an opening for other reforms to get into a real democracy. But as long as the guardians control the candidates, nothing will change.
Let's see, if Mousavi was elected, would he change that? No the president does not have this power.
Now, what can make the things to change?
I believe in the latter point. And this is what is happening. There might be no more censorship than usual on Internet or SMS, and it would be due to just congestions. There might have been no fraud in the election... But Iranians are understanding they do not have to obey all the time the authority. And it has been like the even the days before the elections.
Despotism is when the people fear the government. Democracy is when the government fears the people.
What democracy? Have you ever looked at the Iranian constitution?
I agree. I do not think people who raise goats in a mountain are that scary. But you do not need to be smart to resolve a Rubik's, all you need is a screwdriver. That was the same with the WTC. They did not run a computer simulation to know if it would collapse. But still they did it.
My comment was originally sarcastic. I hoped you would understand.
I would say that in the US, you are more likely to be killed by a Christian fanatic than a Muslim fanatic. Good thing I do not live there.
Remember, the guys from Al-Qaeda are very creative. They will find a way.
We already contacted with their competitors and they didn't show interest in buying their data -probably because the mails got to the wrong people- so now we are offering them for the highest bidder.
Does not it sound just like a scam? What about sending them one of these 419eater funny guys?
It's been done that way before.
Citation needed!
B) His beliefs actually do strongly differ with the company's
No, it differs from the director's.
Now the question is under French law can he sue?
This is obviously illegal.
If he can, the next question is will it make him less employable suing an ex-employer?
No, I suppose most of employers actually hate TF1, so he would look like a hero. And specially if he works for IT, lots employers are certainly against the 3-strikes law.
That was not the same president. Chirac was just stealing money, it had few to do with freedom. If Sarkozy was president at that time, France would have been engaged in war.
Zero Cool painted his laptop in military camouflage.
... that the people in countries who wanted this resolution like to criticize other religions, specially Judaism.
It is nice to know that now, in these countries they will not be able to have anything against the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
But I will stop paying if it is so. The reason is that Last.fm is interesting mostly for the social networking (and specially the system of events). If people of my country stop using it, then it will uninteresting.
Well, I am sorry, you were the one asking for this really simple proof that any junior high pupil can do. Or it was not what you asked for? Tell me. Because you do not seem clear.
P=particles have free will
Q=we have free will
We know Q=>P
Q=>P
not(Q) or P
P or not(Q)
not(not(P)) or not(Q)
not(P) => not(Q)
How do you feel now?
So I would prefer this title: "If electrons do not have free will, then neither do we."
I see the contraposition of this predicate much more interesting. If we are able to show that the particles do not have free will... then it means we do not have neither. Which is what I really expect.
... will make the AI look like a creationist, of course!
It is just Fox News who qualify them of "hippies". I think there are lots of people who are scared of technologies. And "being hippie" has never been to do with being against new technologies. Anyway, everybody is against technology when it does not profit them. You need to make people make money from it. Install a nuclear power plant that will employ everybody in this village, the project will better welcome than a wifi network.
I like the text of the petition though, it sounds so much like monoxide dihydrogen. They did not get much from being talked about in the news. 72 signatures?
Static resolution of methods combined with other optimizations. Plus the template meta-programming. There sould be lots of other examples. C++ can use in a way that makes the compiler to know a lot to do good optimization, which is certainly what AS3 cannot. Of course, not that many people know how to write C++ like that.
I added it, and I will see then next time... unfortunately, I stopped drinking. But who knows what will happen?
But I really do not think it would work. The hardest levels are still doable quickly. And as Randall Munroe (the guy of XKCD) showed during a presentation at Google actually, to resolve a rubix cube (for example) drunk, it takes just 15% more of time. Take your time at the last level and add 15% more, it is still fitting. I think one may pass out before not being able to solve the problems in time.