Nothing, if they stay down there. A lot, if they don't. However, coal is this nice solid, not-going-to-move-around-alot kind of stuff. CO2 is this pushy, likes-to-go-everywhere kind of stuff.
So, there is a chance that it's all going to come out into the atmosphere anyway, maybe, kind of. The hard part is figuring out what the probability of that happening is.
And there's the problem right there. The committees should be non-profits.
I, and apparently a number of other people, are pissed off at the Olympics (tm) because they have so perverted the original intent. The Olympics are supposed to be about athletic competition between individuals and, to a lesser degree, between countries. Now, it appears that it's entirely about making money, through advertisements, marketing, and endorsements. Athletics has never been pure but over my life I have seen it become more and more a money making and jingoistic political event.
So, fuck the USOC, they don't deserve their own name. They sure don't deserve someone elses domain.
And importantly, it's not a law until it either gets signed by the president or a veto gets overridden. Because of the current president, anything beyond the most basic of protections would get vetoed and the republicans in congress would prevent an override.
So, a law to keep the department from doing this would not happen. Sanchez is at least moving it in the right direction. I don't have a lot of hope of this getting enacted before the next president is sworn in though.
And those processes have been researched extensively and crosschecked, resulting in very nice correlations between C13/C12 dating with dendrochronology, varves, and ice cores. So, no, the summary is wrong.
Carbon dating is limited and not absolute, but at this point its pretty damn good.
Why on earth would you trust a pirate to not put their own code into the pirated version? I don't trust EA but they at least have some traceability. Just as Sony got their weiners smacked for putting in the rootkit, Spore is getting bad press for the DRM. It's a commercial company and there are people looking at it to figure out what it's doing and then bitching about it.
You have no reason to think that the hacked versions of Spore are not doing worse things to your system than DRM. If I was a foreign government, a criminal enterprise, or botnet developer, and I wanted to spread my malicious code around, I'd hack a popular game and insert my own code instead. And it would totally pwn your system. And if it turns out that there is bad code in there, who are you going to complain to?
Even with the source code, you have no control. See Ken Thompson in his paper called 'Reflections on Trusting Trust'. You can't trust anything that you didn't code yourself, including the compiler.
Hey, y'all, lookee this here computer game. It's got critters n' shit. Can't shoot'em though. But Rev'rend says it's a crock cuz of the evilooshun stuff though.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you wanted the hillbilly summary.
I have a different experience. My wife and I play WOW together. We always stick together, so we're always looking at pretty much the same thing (although from different angles).
Sort of a Diablo multiplayer experience in a different world.
That's in the EU. Off the top of my head I would say it's second (possibly first) in North America, and certainly first in South America.
I don't think so on the last one. Around 50% of the population of South America is in Brazil, and for them it's Portuguese (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_america). If you look at the statistics for internet users in South America, it's going to be Portuguese as well.
I don't think that Firefox should do this. I think that some third party should do this. I don't know what the rules currently are for security in terms of downloads / updates, but it would make sense for people to make bundles and provide them. I'd download the 'CryoFox' version, for example, because I'd know that your site provides the bundle that I want and it's less work for me to have to update all those things myself.
There is also the issue of compatibility / redundancy between extensions. Having a third party do the integration / testing work makes sense.
There's a really important difference between this and the exoskeleton from Alien (or the other exoskeleton from Raytheon (http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technology/rtn08_exoskeleton/). Those exoskeletons used the forces and movement of the limbs and then amplified them. This does not. This has to use other signals, in particular which button he pushes and his leaning, to determine what the movement is. This is a much harder problem.
Also, people who lose fingers or limbs undergo a re-mapping of the sensory input areas. Since there is not input going into the area, then they are taken over by other sensory inputs.
See, especially, the work by V. S. Ramachandran on phantom pain and his work on relieving people of that pain through training and further remapping.
Excellent list. Not a place that I'd like to live, but thanks for letting me know where you stand.
I think that the place that you are envisioning would be a horrible place. Without public schools, libraries, universities, almost no health system support, truly horrible government employees, it would be a nasty, darwinian existence. While I don't want to live in a purely socialist, coddled society, I don't want to live in the wild west either. Best of luck, but I'll move to someplace else if this ever came to pass.
I also pay huge amounts in taxes. I think that some of it is wasted, some of it is spent on things I disagree with. But, when I actually look at the budget (and I do) I just don't see the huge amounts that are being wasted or misspent, especially at the local and state level. When there is waste in my area, I raise hell, and so should you. But, where are the huge amounts being spent that you think are being unfairly spent? Can you name even 25% that you think are just plain wrong? Take a look at any state budget and tell me where to cut 25%.
If I could keep my tax money, my life would be worse, and I think that yours would be too. You would be richer, yes, we agree on that. That doesn't make your life better. The conditions of your life and your fellow citizens would be worse, and that makes life worse for everyone.
You are free to disagree. But, yes, you are outnumbered, and therefore outvoted, and so you lose. The way to win is to convince us that there are gobs of money being wasted. Where are they?
Gas taxes pay for the roads. They are not exempt from gas taxes. This "roads" nonsense is always brought up as something generic taxes pay for, but they don't. Roads are self-funded by their users' gas tax payments. We'd have them even if income and sales taxes were both zero.
You didn't look at the web sites that I referenced, did you? Where is the gas tax? It's part of the Transportation revenue, making up 13% of the nongeneral revenue which is itself 54.7%. So, at most 7% of revenue is gas tax, although much of that is other taxes (look at the link for an actual list). Transportation expenditures are 13 percent of the budget. So, you're just plain wrong (by 50%). Half of the "roads" is from general revenue; you can call it 'nonsense' if you want, but the rest of us can look at the web site.
they will eat the food inspected by the government
Servers don't eat. See "schools" above.
What are you talking about? In the GP, you talk about the "ordinary working people" and compare them to "people who consume government". Those are human beings, not servers or corporate entities. Those people are the ones that pay most of the taxes (look it up! individual income tax revenue is 20 times corporate) and they are the ones getting the services.
The state government (in this case anyway) is the not enemy. It's providing necessary services used by everyone and begrudging them the money to do so effectively is short-sighted and destructive.
Yes they are. And they have many, many times the amount of money they need to do the job they should do. The rest is used for handouts and make-work and inefficiency, injustice and meddling and interfering and corruption.
Ah...This is the crux of the matter. You and I think that the government should be doing different things. Take a look at the budget (for Virginia, or Iowa, or where ever) and tell me what parts they are getting 'many, many times' more money than they need to do their job? What would you get rid of to reduce the taxes by half? Be specific. Would you get rid of the entire education and transportation parts of the budget? Eliminate the state courts entirely? Just drop State Troopers? Or would you cut everything by 50%?
Most of the money is reasonably well spent, and there are plenty of people watching the government and how spends its money.
Not right now. It's 4 PM -- time for government workers to go home while the rest of us work until 5:30 or later.
No one is saying that every government dollar is wasted. Most government dollars are simply spent inefficiently or handed out to non-producers or used to pay for lavish government-worker benefits and above-average salaries.
That's just not my experience. If that's yours, then you need to elect different representatives, or run yourself. It's a democracy, you know. he benefits and salaries is particular is wrong. I don't work for the government, but I know people who do. They don't make more than me, and their benefits are decent, but not exorbitant.
Plus, if it's 4 pm and you are working until 5:30, what are you doing posting on/.? Slacker, get to work!
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Nothing, if they stay down there. A lot, if they don't. However, coal is this nice solid, not-going-to-move-around-alot kind of stuff. CO2 is this pushy, likes-to-go-everywhere kind of stuff.
So, there is a chance that it's all going to come out into the atmosphere anyway, maybe, kind of. The hard part is figuring out what the probability of that happening is.
And there's the problem right there. The committees should be non-profits.
I, and apparently a number of other people, are pissed off at the Olympics (tm) because they have so perverted the original intent. The Olympics are supposed to be about athletic competition between individuals and, to a lesser degree, between countries. Now, it appears that it's entirely about making money, through advertisements, marketing, and endorsements. Athletics has never been pure but over my life I have seen it become more and more a money making and jingoistic political event.
So, fuck the USOC, they don't deserve their own name. They sure don't deserve someone elses domain.
To generate reasonable amounts of power, you need to have a lot of wind.
See: http://www.enviromission.com.au/index.htm
Plus Nevada makes lots of money on the tickets that they write on people going over 65!
And importantly, it's not a law until it either gets signed by the president or a veto gets overridden. Because of the current president, anything beyond the most basic of protections would get vetoed and the republicans in congress would prevent an override.
So, a law to keep the department from doing this would not happen. Sanchez is at least moving it in the right direction. I don't have a lot of hope of this getting enacted before the next president is sworn in though.
Done: http://www.physorg.com/news127137136.html
Ooops, correction: C14/C12 is used for radiocarbon dating, and has been correlated. C13/C12 is different. I still think the title is misleading.
And those processes have been researched extensively and crosschecked, resulting in very nice correlations between C13/C12 dating with dendrochronology, varves, and ice cores. So, no, the summary is wrong.
Carbon dating is limited and not absolute, but at this point its pretty damn good.
Why on earth would you trust a pirate to not put their own code into the pirated version? I don't trust EA but they at least have some traceability. Just as Sony got their weiners smacked for putting in the rootkit, Spore is getting bad press for the DRM. It's a commercial company and there are people looking at it to figure out what it's doing and then bitching about it.
You have no reason to think that the hacked versions of Spore are not doing worse things to your system than DRM. If I was a foreign government, a criminal enterprise, or botnet developer, and I wanted to spread my malicious code around, I'd hack a popular game and insert my own code instead. And it would totally pwn your system. And if it turns out that there is bad code in there, who are you going to complain to?
Even with the source code, you have no control. See Ken Thompson in his paper called 'Reflections on Trusting Trust'. You can't trust anything that you didn't code yourself, including the compiler.
Hey, y'all, lookee this here computer game. It's got critters n' shit. Can't shoot'em though. But Rev'rend says it's a crock cuz of the evilooshun stuff though.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you wanted the hillbilly summary.
This is the first time that I have actually wanted to have an Xbox360.
Much as I like my games based on the PC, I have a feeling that the technology of the consoles is going to suck me in at some point.
Iceland is pretty much the perfect place then. Lots and lots of geothermal energy, and it's pretty cold most of the time.
And it's got Icelandic girls. And Bjork!
Stupid question: Does AdBlock (which I have and seems to have block 1 of 45 items on this page) stop the display or the download?
Absolutely. And I want to know where it's being measured from, and I want to be able to block incoming requests.
Read earlier in the thread about issues with unrequested incoming packets. If you get pounded at your IP address, does it get counted against you?
I have a different experience. My wife and I play WOW together. We always stick together, so we're always looking at pretty much the same thing (although from different angles).
Sort of a Diablo multiplayer experience in a different world.
That's in the EU. Off the top of my head I would say it's second (possibly first) in North America, and certainly first in South America.
I don't think so on the last one. Around 50% of the population of South America is in Brazil, and for them it's Portuguese (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_america). If you look at the statistics for internet users in South America, it's going to be Portuguese as well.
I don't think that Firefox should do this. I think that some third party should do this. I don't know what the rules currently are for security in terms of downloads / updates, but it would make sense for people to make bundles and provide them. I'd download the 'CryoFox' version, for example, because I'd know that your site provides the bundle that I want and it's less work for me to have to update all those things myself.
There is also the issue of compatibility / redundancy between extensions. Having a third party do the integration / testing work makes sense.
Doesn't look too bad, see: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/israeli-super-s.html at the 1 minute mark.
There's a really important difference between this and the exoskeleton from Alien (or the other exoskeleton from Raytheon (http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technology/rtn08_exoskeleton/). Those exoskeletons used the forces and movement of the limbs and then amplified them. This does not. This has to use other signals, in particular which button he pushes and his leaning, to determine what the movement is. This is a much harder problem.
Also, people who lose fingers or limbs undergo a re-mapping of the sensory input areas. Since there is not input going into the area, then they are taken over by other sensory inputs.
See, especially, the work by V. S. Ramachandran on phantom pain and his work on relieving people of that pain through training and further remapping.
Considering what goes on in second life in the adult areas, I cannot wait to see what happens in the adult-only areas with PS3 graphics.
Excellent list. Not a place that I'd like to live, but thanks for letting me know where you stand.
I think that the place that you are envisioning would be a horrible place. Without public schools, libraries, universities, almost no health system support, truly horrible government employees, it would be a nasty, darwinian existence. While I don't want to live in a purely socialist, coddled society, I don't want to live in the wild west either. Best of luck, but I'll move to someplace else if this ever came to pass.
I also pay huge amounts in taxes. I think that some of it is wasted, some of it is spent on things I disagree with. But, when I actually look at the budget (and I do) I just don't see the huge amounts that are being wasted or misspent, especially at the local and state level. When there is waste in my area, I raise hell, and so should you. But, where are the huge amounts being spent that you think are being unfairly spent? Can you name even 25% that you think are just plain wrong? Take a look at any state budget and tell me where to cut 25%.
If I could keep my tax money, my life would be worse, and I think that yours would be too. You would be richer, yes, we agree on that. That doesn't make your life better. The conditions of your life and your fellow citizens would be worse, and that makes life worse for everyone.
You are free to disagree. But, yes, you are outnumbered, and therefore outvoted, and so you lose. The way to win is to convince us that there are gobs of money being wasted. Where are they?
They will drive on the roads...
Gas taxes pay for the roads. They are not exempt from gas taxes. This "roads" nonsense is always brought up as something generic taxes pay for, but they don't. Roads are self-funded by their users' gas tax payments. We'd have them even if income and sales taxes were both zero.
You didn't look at the web sites that I referenced, did you? Where is the gas tax? It's part of the Transportation revenue, making up 13% of the nongeneral revenue which is itself 54.7%. So, at most 7% of revenue is gas tax, although much of that is other taxes (look at the link for an actual list). Transportation expenditures are 13 percent of the budget. So, you're just plain wrong (by 50%). Half of the "roads" is from general revenue; you can call it 'nonsense' if you want, but the rest of us can look at the web site.
they will eat the food inspected by the government
Servers don't eat. See "schools" above.
What are you talking about? In the GP, you talk about the "ordinary working people" and compare them to "people who consume government". Those are human beings, not servers or corporate entities. Those people are the ones that pay most of the taxes (look it up! individual income tax revenue is 20 times corporate) and they are the ones getting the services.
The state government (in this case anyway) is the not enemy. It's providing necessary services used by everyone and begrudging them the money to do so effectively is short-sighted and destructive.
Yes they are. And they have many, many times the amount of money they need to do the job they should do. The rest is used for handouts and make-work and inefficiency, injustice and meddling and interfering and corruption.
Ah...This is the crux of the matter. You and I think that the government should be doing different things. Take a look at the budget (for Virginia, or Iowa, or where ever) and tell me what parts they are getting 'many, many times' more money than they need to do their job? What would you get rid of to reduce the taxes by half? Be specific. Would you get rid of the entire education and transportation parts of the budget? Eliminate the state courts entirely? Just drop State Troopers? Or would you cut everything by 50%?
Most of the money is reasonably well spent, and there are plenty of people watching the government and how spends its money.
Not right now. It's 4 PM -- time for government workers to go home while the rest of us work until 5:30 or later.
No one is saying that every government dollar is wasted. Most government dollars are simply spent inefficiently or handed out to non-producers or used to pay for lavish government-worker benefits and above-average salaries.
That's just not my experience. If that's yours, then you need to elect different representatives, or run yourself. It's a democracy, you know. he benefits and salaries is particular is wrong. I don't work for the government, but I know people who do. They don't make more than me, and their benefits are decent, but not exorbitant.
Plus, if it's 4 pm and you are working until 5:30, what are you doing posting on /.? Slacker, get to work!