See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis
Current theory is that nothing stable beyond lithium was formed from the big bang itself. The unstable stuff quickly decayed into hydrogen, helium, or lithium.
According to F=ma, an object with negative mass would accelerate in the opposite direction of an applied net force. It's hard to visualize what that would mean... you try to throw the negative mass baseball and it goes the opposite direction you expect? How would it do that without going through the back of your hand?
Beyond arguments about when a jury *should* be allowed to find someone not guilty, there is the practical matter that they *can* do so without having to defend their decision to anyone. For better or worse, a jury can acquit for any reason. In the USA, once the acquittal is read aloud and the judge bangs the gavel, as far as I know, the defendant is protected from double jeopardy, even if the jury acted on a whim. The debate about the limits of a not-guilty verdict therefore carry no legal weight; only possible persuasive weight for future jurors.
I wish the percentage were smaller. If you make your voting decisions based solely on TV commercials, please stay home on election day. Let those who pay attention make the grown-up decisions.
... If that practice is going out the window then my business just went out the window for them as well, and I'm certain I'm not alone.
I certainly understand your sentiment. I wonder where you will go as an alternative? Even if a competing service "refuses to back down", how can you be certain that your messages are not being intercepted? In this day and age, I think we all have to assume that anything we didn't encrypt ourselves is being read by somebody.
Electron volts are a unit of energy, not temperature. Those two are different physical quantities. For example, a test tube of liquid and a bathtub of liquid can both be the same temperature, but the bathtub holds more heat energy just because its mass is larger.
The state's business is whatever the voters say it is. If you don't like what they're regulating, go vote for someone else.
This is known as "tyranny of the majority", and is terrifying to people who care about the rights of minorities and individuals. The "state's business" needs to be limited by a constitutional framework so that do-gooders and ignorant masses are kept from crushing any random eccentricity that rankles their sensibilities.
Not that regulating TV commercial loudness is an example, but I had to respond to this odious assertion.
I have never liked the idea that the US federal government can regulate content of public airwaves. By the same theory, it could regulate speech in newspapers that are delivered on public roads. Oh, but there's that pesky First Amendment that explicitly forbids that. Too bad the founders didn't know about electromagnetic waves.
Try building one of *these*: simpler, much smaller, works very well for me:
http://tvantennaplans.com/
Tip: mine works fine without the reflectors: it is just the board and coat hanger wires.
I ran a coax from the TV up into my attic, where I have the antenna hanging by a nail.
Does using such an auto-correcting keyboard make it harder to type correctly when you move to a "normal" keyboard? Something bothers me about devices that train me to make more unaware mistakes.
Rush Limbaugh does sound like a doofus when he tries to talk about science, but he is no racist. He consistently agrees with Dr King's ideal of judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Rush agrees with and supports people who agree with his political viewpoint regardless of skin color, and opposes those who disagree in like kind. A man who had a problem with black people would not let Dr Walter Williams guest host his show so often, would not interview Justice Clarence Thomas on his program, etc. It saddens me that politics has become so polarized that it is considered normal for people who never listen to Rush Limbaugh to "know" that he is a racist, plus get modded funny based on that smear.
Actually, in the second amendment, the "militia" is what is regulated (kept under control), to promote the security of a free state. The "people" are recognized to have a right to keep and bear arms, so that the "militia" (the armed forces controlled by the government) don't get out of control.
How about this paraphrase: Can you prove anyone other than yourself is conscious, or are you guessing based on observed similarity of behavior? If a computer were conscious, how would you know?
It's not slavery to be "forced to participate"? Not involuntary servitude? What on earth is the difference?
Congratulations on choosing to serve your community. But think you might feel a little different if I showed up and *forced* you to participate in *my* idea of what you should be doing with your time.
We do not belong to the government; it belongs to us.
Two simple reasons:
1. Most people believe what they want to believe, not the unpleasant consequence of logic.
2. Most people don't really understand what energy is, or that it is conserved. I had a software engineer friend recently ask me why we couldn't make cars more efficient by putting a forward-facing windmill on the hood. I started laughing at his joke. But he wasn't joking.
[citation needed] on the 20 year figure. I have heard various figures, from 7 to 10.
About the 1% figure, Obama objects not only to ANWR drilling, but to offshore drilling as well. His "just inflate your tires" energy policy might as well be "let them eat cake". This is a serious problem, and we need to start now working on all possibilities, including drilling, oil shale, nuclear fission and fusion, solar, etc. Saying it will take a long time, so why start, is a loser's attitude. Why go to med school if you won't get a paycheck in 8 years?
I am in the same position, especially because I like developing web content using Firebug. I have no idea if Firebug will still work with FF3, so I was hoping to keep FF2 around long enough to find out.
When I do this, I get
2.62917969668370112624346100389708671301902878544426248026...
not
e = 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995957496...
I independently transcribed the same as you, so I confirm the same digits. Also, assuming the first blob is ternary (I=0, II=1, III=2), the second is hex, and the last is binary, I get the following numbers in decimal:
ternary = 720113244210716512990341782103795379056660114385796527
hexadecimal = 74506518313470710988407084006
binary = 4785997412726154595979555835418260996622867313584208882680343839351760783444564
Of course, this assumes also that these are supposed to be read left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and that the most significant digits come first.
Can anyone else confirm these values?
At the risk of sounding like an outsider American (which I am), I believe it all started with confiscating firearms in the UK. After that, the ruling elites can gradually follow the natural human inclination to complete subjugation of the serfs.
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See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis Current theory is that nothing stable beyond lithium was formed from the big bang itself. The unstable stuff quickly decayed into hydrogen, helium, or lithium.
According to F=ma, an object with negative mass would accelerate in the opposite direction of an applied net force. It's hard to visualize what that would mean... you try to throw the negative mass baseball and it goes the opposite direction you expect? How would it do that without going through the back of your hand?
Beyond arguments about when a jury *should* be allowed to find someone not guilty, there is the practical matter that they *can* do so without having to defend their decision to anyone. For better or worse, a jury can acquit for any reason. In the USA, once the acquittal is read aloud and the judge bangs the gavel, as far as I know, the defendant is protected from double jeopardy, even if the jury acted on a whim. The debate about the limits of a not-guilty verdict therefore carry no legal weight; only possible persuasive weight for future jurors.
I wish the percentage were smaller. If you make your voting decisions based solely on TV commercials, please stay home on election day. Let those who pay attention make the grown-up decisions.
... If that practice is going out the window then my business just went out the window for them as well, and I'm certain I'm not alone.
I certainly understand your sentiment. I wonder where you will go as an alternative? Even if a competing service "refuses to back down", how can you be certain that your messages are not being intercepted? In this day and age, I think we all have to assume that anything we didn't encrypt ourselves is being read by somebody.
Electron volts are a unit of energy, not temperature. Those two are different physical quantities. For example, a test tube of liquid and a bathtub of liquid can both be the same temperature, but the bathtub holds more heat energy just because its mass is larger.
The state's business is whatever the voters say it is. If you don't like what they're regulating, go vote for someone else.
This is known as "tyranny of the majority", and is terrifying to people who care about the rights of minorities and individuals. The "state's business" needs to be limited by a constitutional framework so that do-gooders and ignorant masses are kept from crushing any random eccentricity that rankles their sensibilities. Not that regulating TV commercial loudness is an example, but I had to respond to this odious assertion.
I'm sure the constant threat of their government funding being cut would NEVER affect their critical coverage of said government.
I have never liked the idea that the US federal government can regulate content of public airwaves. By the same theory, it could regulate speech in newspapers that are delivered on public roads. Oh, but there's that pesky First Amendment that explicitly forbids that. Too bad the founders didn't know about electromagnetic waves.
Try building one of *these*: simpler, much smaller, works very well for me: http://tvantennaplans.com/ Tip: mine works fine without the reflectors: it is just the board and coat hanger wires. I ran a coax from the TV up into my attic, where I have the antenna hanging by a nail.
Does using such an auto-correcting keyboard make it harder to type correctly when you move to a "normal" keyboard? Something bothers me about devices that train me to make more unaware mistakes.
Rush Limbaugh does sound like a doofus when he tries to talk about science, but he is no racist. He consistently agrees with Dr King's ideal of judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Rush agrees with and supports people who agree with his political viewpoint regardless of skin color, and opposes those who disagree in like kind. A man who had a problem with black people would not let Dr Walter Williams guest host his show so often, would not interview Justice Clarence Thomas on his program, etc. It saddens me that politics has become so polarized that it is considered normal for people who never listen to Rush Limbaugh to "know" that he is a racist, plus get modded funny based on that smear.
Actually, in the second amendment, the "militia" is what is regulated (kept under control), to promote the security of a free state. The "people" are recognized to have a right to keep and bear arms, so that the "militia" (the armed forces controlled by the government) don't get out of control.
How about this paraphrase: Can you prove anyone other than yourself is conscious, or are you guessing based on observed similarity of behavior? If a computer were conscious, how would you know?
It's not slavery to be "forced to participate"? Not involuntary servitude? What on earth is the difference? Congratulations on choosing to serve your community. But think you might feel a little different if I showed up and *forced* you to participate in *my* idea of what you should be doing with your time. We do not belong to the government; it belongs to us.
Two simple reasons: 1. Most people believe what they want to believe, not the unpleasant consequence of logic. 2. Most people don't really understand what energy is, or that it is conserved. I had a software engineer friend recently ask me why we couldn't make cars more efficient by putting a forward-facing windmill on the hood. I started laughing at his joke. But he wasn't joking.
[citation needed] on the 20 year figure. I have heard various figures, from 7 to 10. About the 1% figure, Obama objects not only to ANWR drilling, but to offshore drilling as well. His "just inflate your tires" energy policy might as well be "let them eat cake". This is a serious problem, and we need to start now working on all possibilities, including drilling, oil shale, nuclear fission and fusion, solar, etc. Saying it will take a long time, so why start, is a loser's attitude. Why go to med school if you won't get a paycheck in 8 years?
It's not necessarily an infinite loop. When I ran this algorithm, my machine got a BSOD on the parenthetical part of step 2.
I am in the same position, especially because I like developing web content using Firebug. I have no idea if Firebug will still work with FF3, so I was hoping to keep FF2 around long enough to find out.
When I do this, I get
2.62917969668370112624346100389708671301902878544426248026...
not
e = 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995957496...
I independently transcribed the same as you, so I confirm the same digits. Also, assuming the first blob is ternary (I=0, II=1, III=2), the second is hex, and the last is binary, I get the following numbers in decimal:
ternary = 720113244210716512990341782103795379056660114385796527
hexadecimal = 74506518313470710988407084006
binary = 4785997412726154595979555835418260996622867313584208882680343839351760783444564
Of course, this assumes also that these are supposed to be read left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and that the most significant digits come first. Can anyone else confirm these values?
There will be even more than twice as much food for the survivors, because of... Soylent Green!
At the risk of sounding like an outsider American (which I am), I believe it all started with confiscating firearms in the UK. After that, the ruling elites can gradually follow the natural human inclination to complete subjugation of the serfs.