1. And Elvis said unto Jacob, 'Where's your coat of many colours, then?' 2. And Jacob replied saying, 'You mean Joseph, he's the one with the coat, I'm the guy with the labber' 3. And Elvis shugged and asked, 'Then who's the guy over there in the denim?' 4. And Jacob answered, 'That's my son, Levi' 5. And Elvis did smite Jacob upon the chin and go his way from him.
Robert Rankin. The suburban book of the dead. Yes, that Elvis, it all has to do with a time travelling brussels sprout lodged in Elvis' head.
Walking around claiming to be the son of god, get you lynched, and quite rightly so. Oh god why has thou forsaken me, is the key message from the story. The growth of christianity afterwards is a lession in memetics and politic.
Sorry xians i'm in a cyncial mode today. Jesus obvious had plenty of valid points in his philosophy otherwise the meme would just have died with him.
Capitalism works because human progress is unlimited. ....Can you supply some proof that capitalism works?
Its about time someone started looking at social systems from asmiovian pyschohistory background instead of just basing there views on faith and politics. There's probably a million different ways of organising a society apart from capitialism and communism. And it would be highly unlikely for humanity we've landed in the best possible world by change. I've studied a little bit of ecomonic theory, and i know this classical capitialism in no way finds optimal (not even pareto optimal) solutions. The questions are:
1. Can another system do better?
2. What would you measure to decide whats better?
2 is tricky. Optimise for happiness? justice? creativity? stablity? longevity? (of the induvidual or the system itself, or off the human race (but whats human?)
Of course the usually rule still applies thoses in power optimise for there own benefit and the benefit of those they think of as peers.
Men don't force woman to dress sexy, in fact when were dating them we often prefer then to dress down in public. Woman dress sexily because they are competiting with other woman for men attention, often male attention they don't want.
What the american black (no not african american) budget running at this year? I seem to remember a figure like 10 billion a little while ago. You can do a lot with 10 bill, then again seeing as its usage is hidden and not publicly auditted a lot of it is probably ripped off. Apart from the hidden black budget, the rest of the your tax dollars are fully accountable and released under the freedom of information act, aren't they?
I british, and envy america's freedom of information act, the UK govs documents are only released after 30 years (sometime 60 or 90), even if they aren't classified.
ah, the terminology being developed for quantum computation and comminication can be a bitconfusing. Photons are quantum object yes. But recieving photons and counting them is still a classical channel. If you recieve a photon entangled with another photon, that is a quantum channel, which is a classical channel plus entanglement.
No, entanglement is strange. Entanglement is non-local, that is it isn't a property of a single particle, its a property of a collection of particles. You can't use entanglement to send information faster than light, because you can't use entanglement to send information at all. What you can do is use entanglement to had extra information to a classical communication channel. If you add to a channel transmitting n-bits of information, n entanglement pairs of particles one part of each pair at the reciever and one at the transmitter, then you can send 2^n bits of information which is fanastic. But without the classical channel you can't send anything at all, so dispite being non-local, entanglement evades brakeing the rule that you can't communicate faster than light.
"One day we may perfect a machine that reads people's mind, and at such a time a hypothesis as this may enter the realm of (dis)provability."
No, even if the author didn't have a deeper meaning in mind, that doesn't mean that, when read, the story won't bring a deeper meaning in to the mind of a reader. In fact there might be a best matching 'deeper meaning' to a story, that comes to be believed about a story, if even the author never throught of it. An old story with no particular meaning, might become a deep apt one in a different society at a later date.
Well first these aren't colonies, these are research station for exploration. The deserts and oceans and antarica are already explored. In fact thanks to the ICE CUBE program theses going to quite a large team in antaritca.
There is a point in colonising mars though and its nothing to do with there not being enough space for humanity. Its because we don't want to put all of our eggs and sperm in one basket. At the moment one small accident (on the solar system scale) like and astoriod hiting the earth and whole human race as gone.
>>Uranium is less radioactive than it's ore >>Refining ore makes the product less >>radioactive ???
>> maybe if I melt my 10 karat gold ring with a >>pound of lead, I'll end up with a 24 karat gold >>bar. That's just non-sense
Nope it true, Uranium Ore contain all Uraniums daughter products which must more radio active than uranium itself. Give refined uranium a few tens of millions of year and it will be in equilibrium with its daughter products and be more radio-active again, but fresh from processing its much less radio-active.
Christopher Lee, said it himself, on todays, this morning program on the UK's ITV. He must have been a bit angry, because he said he wouldn't attend the premier because "whats the point".
If your wondering how i'm sad enough to be watching day time tv, i'm a mature student and its a reading week.
America isn't exactly free of Cronyism either, just look at how the contracts for rebuilding Iraq have gone out to Bush's buddies. I don't think corruption has anything to do with Socialism, corruption is just corruption.
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stop complaining about garbage collection stalls, thats been fixed on the Server Side since 1.4, (provided you've got a SMP machine).
invoke with:
java -XX:UseParallelGC
And garbage collection runs in the background.
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Agree %100 percent, if i had mod points, i'd mod the above up.
But theres one more reason he missed not to use C#, and that is of course. That using C# means trusting microsoft, and i trust microsoft about as far as i could comfutably split out a rat.
Thought this would a good thread to post some other recent physics news...
1. The've just found a pentaquark state.
The rule in quark theory and QCD (the theory of the 'color' force that binds quarks), is that quarks always come in triplets or quark anti-quark pairs. Haven't never seen a free quark, theres always been a little nagging doubt that quark are real. So that fact that they have found a suprisingly (for QCD resonances) long lived state that can only be make of 5 quarks, the Z+ at 1540Mev, which made of two up quarks, two down quarks and an anti-strange quark. It was previously predicted by QCD, and is a classic example of the exception proving the rule.
Dark Matter, after 10 years of searching theres finally for faint experiment signals that dark matter exists. This was been found because two experiments looking for collisions between WIMPs and cold crystals have found significantly more signal when at time of the year then the earth is moving against the motion of the galaxies spiral arm, than when its moving towards it.
So archilles passes the tortois after 2 seconds just as he should. Of course poor zeno who never learned to sum series or break out of loops is stuck counting ever smaller freese frames in an infinite regression, like the famous oozalum bird. But that doesn't bother our athlete or his slow foe, or nature one iota.
Quantum mechanical spin (but not isospin) is in fact genune spin as in angular momentum, true it behaves a little differently to classical spin, but its the same stuff.
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True, but government deserves some of the blaim not being able to negiotate a business contract if
their lives depended on it.
No it worked for him, because the British have
moral character and a sense of right and wrong.
1. And Elvis said unto Jacob, 'Where's your
coat of many colours, then?'
2. And Jacob replied saying, 'You mean Joseph,
he's the one with the coat, I'm the guy with
the labber'
3. And Elvis shugged and asked, 'Then who's the
guy over there in the denim?'
4. And Jacob answered, 'That's my son, Levi'
5. And Elvis did smite Jacob upon the chin and
go his way from him.
Robert Rankin. The suburban book of the dead.
Yes, that Elvis, it all has to do with a time
travelling brussels sprout lodged in Elvis' head.
The story of jesus is an object lesson on hubris.
Walking around claiming to be the son of god,
get you lynched, and quite rightly so. Oh god
why has thou forsaken me, is the key message from
the story. The growth of christianity afterwards
is a lession in memetics and politic.
Sorry xians i'm in a cyncial mode today. Jesus obvious had plenty of valid points in his philosophy otherwise the meme would just have died with him.
Capitalism works because human progress is unlimited.
....Can you supply some proof that capitalism works?
Its about time someone started looking at
social systems from asmiovian pyschohistory
background instead of just basing there views
on faith and politics. There's probably a million
different ways of organising a society apart
from capitialism and communism. And it would be
highly unlikely for humanity we've landed in the
best possible world by change. I've studied
a little bit of ecomonic theory, and i know this
classical capitialism in no way finds optimal
(not even pareto optimal) solutions. The questions
are:
1. Can another system do better?
2. What would you measure to decide whats better?
2 is tricky. Optimise for happiness? justice? creativity? stablity? longevity? (of the induvidual or the system itself, or off the human race (but whats human?)
Of course the usually rule still applies thoses
in power optimise for there own benefit and the
benefit of those they think of as peers.
A bloodtest will do that,
oxytoxcin vs adrenaline and endophrine.
Mind you one without the other is pretty empty
either way.
Men don't force woman to dress sexy, in fact
when were dating them we often prefer then
to dress down in public. Woman dress
sexily because they are competiting with other
woman for men attention, often male attention they
don't want.
Hello, Melt Down. its a "Gaseous Core Reactor"
it can't melt its already gas.
What the american black (no not african american) budget running at this year? I seem to remember a
figure like 10 billion a little while ago. You
can do a lot with 10 bill, then again seeing as
its usage is hidden and not publicly auditted a lot of it is probably ripped off. Apart from the
hidden black budget, the rest of the your tax dollars are fully accountable and released under
the freedom of information act, aren't they?
I british, and envy america's freedom of information act, the UK govs documents are only released after 30 years (sometime 60 or 90), even if they aren't classified.
ah, the terminology being developed for quantum computation and comminication can be a bitconfusing.
Photons are quantum object yes.
But recieving photons and counting them is still a classical channel.
If you recieve a photon entangled with another photon, that is a quantum channel, which is a classical channel plus entanglement.
No, entanglement is strange. Entanglement is
non-local, that is it isn't a property of a
single particle, its a property of a collection
of particles. You can't use entanglement to
send information faster than light, because you
can't use entanglement to send information at all.
What you can do is use entanglement to had extra
information to a classical communication channel.
If you add to a channel transmitting n-bits of
information, n entanglement pairs of particles one
part of each pair at the reciever and one at the
transmitter, then you can send 2^n bits of information which is fanastic. But without the
classical channel you can't send anything at all,
so dispite being non-local, entanglement evades
brakeing the rule that you can't communicate faster than light.
"One day we may perfect a machine that reads people's mind, and at such a time a hypothesis as this may enter the realm of (dis)provability."
No, even if the author didn't have a deeper meaning in mind, that doesn't mean that, when read, the story won't bring a deeper meaning in to the mind of a reader. In fact there might be a best matching 'deeper meaning' to a story, that comes to be believed about a story, if even the author never throught of it. An old story with no particular meaning, might become a deep apt one
in a different society at a later date.
Well first these aren't colonies, these are
research station for exploration. The deserts
and oceans and antarica are already explored.
In fact thanks to the ICE CUBE program theses
going to quite a large team in antaritca.
There is a point in colonising mars though and
its nothing to do with there not being enough
space for humanity. Its because we don't want
to put all of our eggs and sperm in one basket.
At the moment one small accident (on the solar
system scale) like and astoriod hiting the
earth and whole human race as gone.
"Or perhaps shorting the stock"
If only. This it what one line brokerages say
when you try and short SCO:
"Sorry. You are unable to sell short, because
we do not have enough shares available"
Thats right so many people have sold SCOX short
that there aren't enough left for anyone else
to.
>>Uranium is less radioactive than it's ore
>>Refining ore makes the product less >>radioactive ???
>> maybe if I melt my 10 karat gold ring with a >>pound of lead, I'll end up with a 24 karat gold >>bar. That's just non-sense
Nope it true, Uranium Ore contain all Uraniums
daughter products which must more radio active
than uranium itself. Give refined uranium a few
tens of millions of year and it will be in
equilibrium with its daughter products and be
more radio-active again, but fresh from processing
its much less radio-active.
Christopher Lee, said it himself, on todays,
this morning program on the UK's ITV. He must have
been a bit angry, because he said he wouldn't
attend the premier because "whats the point".
If your wondering how i'm sad enough to be
watching day time tv, i'm a mature student and
its a reading week.
America isn't exactly free of Cronyism either, just look at how the contracts for rebuilding
Iraq have gone out to Bush's buddies. I don't think corruption has anything to do with Socialism, corruption is just corruption.
stop complaining about garbage collection stalls,
thats been fixed on the Server Side since 1.4,
(provided you've got a SMP machine).
invoke with:
java -XX:UseParallelGC
And garbage collection runs in the background.
Agree %100 percent, if i had mod
points, i'd mod the above up.
But theres one more reason he missed
not to use C#, and that is of course.
That using C# means trusting microsoft,
and i trust microsoft about as far as
i could comfutably split out a rat.
Yep right movie. The bird is supposed to fly round and round ever faster until it disappears
up its own arsehole.
Thought this would a good thread to post some
x xx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0307345
other recent physics news...
1. The've just found a pentaquark state.
The rule in quark theory and QCD (the theory of
the 'color' force that binds quarks), is that
quarks always come in triplets or quark anti-quark pairs. Haven't never seen a free quark, theres always been a little nagging doubt that
quark are real. So that fact that they have found
a suprisingly (for QCD resonances) long lived state that can only be make of 5 quarks, the Z+ at 1540Mev, which made of two up quarks, two down quarks and an anti-strange
quark. It was previously predicted by QCD, and is a classic example of the exception proving the rule.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ex/0307088
http://
Dark Matter, after 10 years of searching theres
finally for faint experiment signals that dark
matter exists. This was been found because two experiments looking for collisions between WIMPs
and cold crystals have found significantly more
signal when at time of the year then the earth
is moving against the motion of the galaxies
spiral arm, than when its moving towards it.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0307403
That hasn't been a paradox in years, not since
people learned how to sum an infinity series.
Say the archilles is running at 1meter per second
and is 1 meter behind the tortoise who is moving at 1/2 a meter per second, then
v = D/T for that total, and for any given length
of time,
D_total = D_1 + D_2 + D_3 + D_4...
T_total = T_1 + T_2 + T_3 + T_4...
D = 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8... = 2
T = 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8... = 2
So archilles passes the tortois after 2 seconds
just as he should. Of course poor zeno who never
learned to sum series or break out of loops is stuck counting ever smaller freese frames in
an infinite regression, like the famous oozalum bird. But that doesn't bother our athlete or his
slow foe, or nature one iota.
So does loop quantum gravity, in fact LGC describes a simple geometrical structure that is
has maximum curvature.
String theory however is still based on having
strings moving on a flat space background, so it doesn't really describe a singularity at all.
Thats becauses she in love of course. Watch out
for the Matrix 3, where Neo and Trinity will
be wearing matching cardigians.
Quantum mechanical spin (but not isospin) is in fact genune spin as in angular momentum, true it
behaves a little differently to classical spin,
but its the same stuff.