Following the rule of law in France and Germany doesn't seem problematic to lots of people, just as following the laws of the US (not ignoring DMCA notices and so forth) seems reasonable. Those laws are the choice of the people (via their representatives). If a group of people formed a political party in any of those countries and proposed changing the relevant laws and the people elected them by a vast majority the law would change.
However, no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise the people of China don't have that option. They'll get squished by tanks or arrested. Providing assistance to the Chinese Government is thus by many people considered immoral. There's still an EU-US arms emnbargo on China, so clearly I'm not alone in this view.
Because France and Germany are democratic countries - hence those laws are the choice of the people, if they don't like them they can change them (in theory anyway). The Chinese people on the other hand have no say in those laws (well, there's always revolution but that would probably involve lots of death)
And if I had made a film exposing such things I'd include something to trigger the NC-17 rating just so it looks like the MPAA is trying to hush the film.
Claiming "five menstrual cycles a month" occur in women living near windmills has nothing to do with politics. Convincing people that such a claim is obviously ridiculous is a matter of right and wrong and education and again nothing to do with politics.
I'd go as far as to say that claiming such a claim is a political position is as ridiculously stupid as the claim itself.
It's not about saving your time. The cashiers lose their jobs which reduces the costs of running the grocery store, which (if there is a competitive market, which may not be true) causes the prices to drop. This is what we call productivity growth. The real incomes of everyone, other than the cashiers, just went up a little bit.
When the cashiers find other jobs they also benefit from cheaper groceries.
Once upon a time it took dozens of men many days of employment to dig a hole in the ground. Now it takes one man an afternoon with an excavator. This is generally considered a good thing, it's part of the reason the people living in, say, the US have a better standard of living than the people living in, say, Uganda.
From the web page: "The words on their own only took about 25ish hours, including programming..."
One minute of "programming" and 0.1s of CPU time gets you a list of 26811 such words, reasonably close to the 26182 claimed on the web page, but since his list is a huge HTML table which wget tells me will take 60 hours to download I don't know if he's got one wrong word, or if I missed one, or if my ENABLE list is different than his, or if wikipedia contains garbage data...
Note: "programming" means creating a regular expression, which was as simple as going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elements_by_s ymbol clicking edit above the list of current symbols, copying the text in the textarea and pasting it into a terinal running:
#!/usr/bin/perl my @s; while () {
push @s, lc $1 if/^\|([a-z]+)\s/i; } print "egrep '^(",join('|',@s),")+\$' ";
And then cutting and pasting the output and appending words.txt (everyone has ENABLE and TWL98 files handy, right...)
Law as in "rule of law", which seemed pretty clear from the context, but I guess if you didn't read the it was replying to it isn't.
The OP is clearly whining about laws passed based on scientific consensus - laws against painting the nursery with lead based paints, etc - because scientists often get things wrong... The point was supposed to be that no such law is permanent - they can all all the repealed, the only ones that might not be are going to be in theocracies and they aren't going to be based on science...
Do I believe the frothing at the mouth idiot slashdot poster.
Or do I belive the experts in the field who claim that it appears that the risk of cross polination between the GM plant the the wild relative plants (ie. the plants that were once upon a time breed for better characteristics via the old fashioned "keep the plants which are better" technique to give us the crop plant) is higher than was originally thought.
Of course the slashdot poster must be the better source. The fact that they found the GM gene expressed in the wild plants is just because evolution came up with the exact same gene in a couple of years of evolution. Strange that that didn't happen decades ago really...
Notice how the entire article is already loaded into the page but it's broken up into 3 column sections that shuffle to a new page of text when you click the 'next page' button (which is triggered by clicking anywhere on the first or third columns), without reloading the html page (and without reloading a bunch of ads and all the 'extras' including the useful tools).
It's great when you want to copy-n-paste some text from the magic click to go to the next page columns.
Why bother changing them? People can just use a GUI interface anyway and that way you don't break every shell script ever written.
Here are some of the command names that are were created in more modern times: firefox, netscape, oowriter, gnumeric - oh look they aren't two letters long.
This is such bad research that I can't wait until Bruce Schneier get ahold of this.
Was it worth the short wait?
And most importantly, is it secure?
Short answer: There hasn't been enough analysis. I certainly don't know enough electrical engineering to know whether there is any clever way to eavesdrop on Kish's scheme. And I'm sure Kish doesn't know enough security to know that, either. The physics and stochastic mathematics look good, but all sorts of security problems crop up when you try to actually build and operate something like this.
It's definitely an idea worth exploring, and it'll take people with expertise in both security and electrical engineering to fully vet the system. - Bruce Schneier on said system.
In other words Schneier says, on the surface seems to be good but the devil is in the details.
For all the reasons listed on the damn page linked in the damn summary... The idea is that they prefer biographies to autobiographies, since they are more likely to be neutral and less likely to wank-fests.
Low barriers to entry is one of the requirements of a free market, and sometimes that just isn't the case and hence a free market doesn't exist. In which case Government intervention can try and create a rfee market - with varying levels of success. Of course often enough Government intervention will make things worse, especially if the market was in fact reasonable to start with.
Producing and marketing a new style of skate board wheel is simple enough for the small guy to do. Creating the required infrastructure to compete with conEdison's steam supply in New York City is a whole different ball game. Some kid with a good idea isn't going to be able to enter the market at all.
Majoras said the DirecTV case accounted for 1.4 million complaints, the single biggest category of do-not-call violations the commission has ever received.
and
The investigation into the case took about two years, according to Majoras. Large numbers of complaints began rolling into the FTC in November 2003
and
And Majoras confirmed that as more phone numbers are added to the registry, the FTC receives more complaints, currently between 2,000 and 3,000 a day.
2*365*3000 = 1.46 million
Are they seriously saying that 96% of all complaints for a two year period were about DirecTV?!?
At least, they wont be too "human" and so, they will not destroy and kill other species only for fun. This right, we cannot give to any other animal, because we can easily lost our "superiority".
Woah, there! Easy now, fellah! We've already lost that one to Chimps, at the very least, who have been seen to actively seek out and kill Chimps that don't belong to their own group, going so far as, when finding a lone 'other,' to head back, round up a posse, and then go 'curb stomp' their 'ass.' Chimps will also kill babies of any female they meet that they have not had sex with. Hence Chimp promiscuity.
They aren't doing it for fun, they are doing it because it gives their genes an advantage (by elimenating some competition) and hence those that were wired to do so had an evolutionary advantage and so that wiring was passed on. Chimps in other groups also are still the same species.
The example that actually meets what was claimed is cats. Those things won't just kill a small animal for fun, they'll torment it for as long as the thing survives. Then the cat just leaves the dead animal alone, no eating involved... Torturing and killing other species just for fun.
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Following the rule of law in France and Germany doesn't seem problematic to lots of people, just as following the laws of the US (not ignoring DMCA notices and so forth) seems reasonable. Those laws are the choice of the people (via their representatives). If a group of people formed a political party in any of those countries and proposed changing the relevant laws and the people elected them by a vast majority the law would change.
However, no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise the people of China don't have that option. They'll get squished by tanks or arrested. Providing assistance to the Chinese Government is thus by many people considered immoral. There's still an EU-US arms emnbargo on China, so clearly I'm not alone in this view.
Because France and Germany are democratic countries - hence those laws are the choice of the people, if they don't like them they can change them (in theory anyway). The Chinese people on the other hand have no say in those laws (well, there's always revolution but that would probably involve lots of death)
And if I had made a film exposing such things I'd include something to trigger the NC-17 rating just so it looks like the MPAA is trying to hush the film.
You use an iterative query.
And you spending money on electricity and internet access helps these people how?
Claiming "five menstrual cycles a month" occur in women living near windmills has nothing to do with politics. Convincing people that such a claim is obviously ridiculous is a matter of right and wrong and education and again nothing to do with politics.
I'd go as far as to say that claiming such a claim is a political position is as ridiculously stupid as the claim itself.
It's not about saving your time. The cashiers lose their jobs which reduces the costs of running the grocery store, which (if there is a competitive market, which may not be true) causes the prices to drop. This is what we call productivity growth. The real incomes of everyone, other than the cashiers, just went up a little bit.
When the cashiers find other jobs they also benefit from cheaper groceries.
Once upon a time it took dozens of men many days of employment to dig a hole in the ground. Now it takes one man an afternoon with an excavator. This is generally considered a good thing, it's part of the reason the people living in, say, the US have a better standard of living than the people living in, say, Uganda.
"unreasonable searches" does, however.
But is that due to the lack of sleep? Or due to drinking large quantities of caffeinated sugary sodas in order to not fall asleep?
So you're slower than the average bear.
I doubt you can (well not efficiently), which is why I quoted the time for just the word list generation.
From the web page: "The words on their own only took about 25ish hours, including programming..."
s ymbol clicking edit above the list of current symbols, copying the text in the textarea and pasting it into a terinal running:
/^\|([a-z]+)\s/i;
One minute of "programming" and 0.1s of CPU time gets you a list of 26811 such words, reasonably close to the 26182 claimed on the web page, but since his list is a huge HTML table which wget tells me will take 60 hours to download I don't know if he's got one wrong word, or if I missed one, or if my ENABLE list is different than his, or if wikipedia contains garbage data...
Note: "programming" means creating a regular expression, which was as simple as going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elements_by_
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @s;
while () {
push @s, lc $1 if
}
print "egrep '^(",join('|',@s),")+\$' ";
And then cutting and pasting the output and appending words.txt (everyone has ENABLE and TWL98 files handy, right...)
I took it from the web site of the research group in question.
Law as in "rule of law", which seemed pretty clear from the context, but I guess if you didn't read the it was replying to it isn't.
The OP is clearly whining about laws passed based on scientific consensus - laws against painting the nursery with lead based paints, etc - because scientists often get things wrong... The point was supposed to be that no such law is permanent - they can all all the repealed, the only ones that might not be are going to be in theocracies and they aren't going to be based on science...
Please give an example of just one permanent law created due to what scientists have claimed.
What a hard decision...
Do I believe the frothing at the mouth idiot slashdot poster.
Or do I belive the experts in the field who claim that it appears that the risk of cross polination between the GM plant the the wild relative plants (ie. the plants that were once upon a time breed for better characteristics via the old fashioned "keep the plants which are better" technique to give us the crop plant) is higher than was originally thought.
Of course the slashdot poster must be the better source. The fact that they found the GM gene expressed in the wild plants is just because evolution came up with the exact same gene in a couple of years of evolution. Strange that that didn't happen decades ago really...
Notice how the entire article is already loaded into the page but it's broken up into 3 column sections that shuffle to a new page of text when you click the 'next page' button (which is triggered by clicking anywhere on the first or third columns), without reloading the html page (and without reloading a bunch of ads and all the 'extras' including the useful tools).
It's great when you want to copy-n-paste some text from the magic click to go to the next page columns.
It's not an excuse. It's the reason.
Why bother changing them? People can just use a GUI interface anyway and that way you don't break every shell script ever written.
Here are some of the command names that are were created in more modern times: firefox, netscape, oowriter, gnumeric - oh look they aren't two letters long.
No I don't.
This is such bad research that I can't wait until Bruce Schneier get ahold of this.
Was it worth the short wait?
And most importantly, is it secure?
Short answer: There hasn't been enough analysis. I certainly don't know enough electrical engineering to know whether there is any clever way to eavesdrop on Kish's scheme. And I'm sure Kish doesn't know enough security to know that, either. The physics and stochastic mathematics look good, but all sorts of security problems crop up when you try to actually build and operate something like this.
It's definitely an idea worth exploring, and it'll take people with expertise in both security and electrical engineering to fully vet the system. - Bruce Schneier on said system.
In other words Schneier says, on the surface seems to be good but the devil is in the details.
For all the reasons listed on the damn page linked in the damn summary... The idea is that they prefer biographies to autobiographies, since they are more likely to be neutral and less likely to wank-fests.
Low barriers to entry is one of the requirements of a free market, and sometimes that just isn't the case and hence a free market doesn't exist. In which case Government intervention can try and create a rfee market - with varying levels of success. Of course often enough Government intervention will make things worse, especially if the market was in fact reasonable to start with.
Producing and marketing a new style of skate board wheel is simple enough for the small guy to do. Creating the required infrastructure to compete with conEdison's steam supply in New York City is a whole different ball game. Some kid with a good idea isn't going to be able to enter the market at all.
So I made a typo. 2000 not 3000. (it's been increasing over time and we are talking about the past so we use the lower end of the daily range).
2*365*3000 = 1.46 million
Are they seriously saying that 96% of all complaints for a two year period were about DirecTV?!?
The example that actually meets what was claimed is cats. Those things won't just kill a small animal for fun, they'll torment it for as long as the thing survives. Then the cat just leaves the dead animal alone, no eating involved... Torturing and killing other species just for fun.