According to the bad astronomer, most likely due to silicates in the atmosphere. The silicates also rain down. Yes. Rain made out of rocks. Take that, hail!
Don't think they thought it through? The foundation is theoretically unable to comply, so they have no way to avoid being closed and the executives put in jail. What part of that seems not thought through?
It seems that America have always had a problem with accepting civil rights when the country feels threatened, and that this feeling lasts 10-20 years after the last (perceived) major threat. If we assume that was 2001, it seems about time that it started to clear up, but these things are notoriously hard to predict.
D-Wave will turn out to be whatever it is, but it's hard to find another company that's closer to commercializing quantum computing.
Given that, at best, it is only sort of a quantum computer, and definitely not what is normally meant with the phrase, and at worst in no way a quantum computer, I would say that there is a good chance that Bobs Banana Import is as close to commercializing quantum computing as this company is. It might still be true that nobody is closer than them, in the same sense as it is true that no company has a bigger presence on Jupiter than them.
Doesn't mean it is not money well spent by Lockheed et al., it just means that calling it a quantum computer perhaps wasn't completely true.
Transistors directly use quantum effects to work, yet we don't call desktop computers "quantum computers".
The transistors in the CPU in your desktop computer are IGFETs (insulated gate field effect transistors). The principle of operation of this device is that moving charge on the gate can enhance or deplete the number of mobile electrons in the source to drain channel under the gate and cause it to turn on or off using an electric field effect which is not considered a quantum effect.
I think the point is that a transistor does this through a quantum effects. It works due to the energy levels of the semiconductor, which are definitely a quantum mechanical in nature. You could do the same with a vacuum tube, so there is nothing inherent in the effect of a transistor that is quantum mechanical, but the the level that flash memory is quantum mechanical (the effect can be obtained differently, but in this case it isn't), so is a transistor.
Plea bargains can help those who are 100% guilty of the offense but are being given a chance for a lighter sentence. This can lighten the caseload of the prosecutors office which in turn also saves the court money. If the person is innocent then by all means plead your case in front of a jury.
So... plea bargains only help the guilty, and those who are convicted in a court deserve more jail time than those who accept plea bargains?
You forgot: And that last part in no way affects your right to a trial. Apparantly, disincentivizing using a right does not affect the right.
And who could blame you, when they start the article with a sort-of lie and an outright lie
In the crop department, Monsanto is well on their way to dictating what consumers will eat, what farmers will grow, and how much Monsanto will get paid for seeds. In some cases those seeds are designed not to reproduce sowable offspring. In others, a flock of lawyers stand ready to swoop down on farmers who illegally, or even unknowingly, end up with Monsanto's private property growing in their fields.
No, Monsanto is not developing terminator genes, they bought a company that had developed it for its other IP, and no, the Schmeiser case was about as long as you can get from "a farmer unknowingly [ending] up" with anything.
Really, if there are that many other sources, than why link to the one that does maximal damage to your credibility?
My desire to see, feel and smell the food I buy is overruled by my desire to not have a million other people having felt my food, and my desire to not waste time in a store with said million other people.
It could just go drive around for a while. In places with parking meters, this could be cheaper than actually paying for parking.
The car takes up more space when driving than when parked, as the distance between cars must be included, so this is a horrible idea. How we are going to make sure it doesn't happen, I have no idea. I would imagine road pricing being part of the equation, as it is much easier to collect it when there already is a computer on board that knows where it is.
Look at engineering in an abstract way: by now we could have been rid of all those pesky unmotivating jobs.
No, we couldn't. Getting machines to orientate themselves in a non-controlled environment is non-trivial, to say the least. If there were engineering solutions to that, a lot of these jobs would have disappeared from other Western countries (the US seems to be an outlier with an inexhaustible supply of very cheap labor).
That puts my anecdote nicely into context. People used to doing vinyl would be used to this, and adjust their primary master (?) accordingly. The CD doesn't have this step, so what gets on the disc is the primary master, which didn't sound as good, until people learned how to compensate (or to not compensate for the remastering inherent in cutting vinyl). Thank you:-).
I could see some situations where state laws should overide local laws (local councils are more prone to pressure from small to medium-sized industry, and might not care much about the influence on neighbouring communities), and some situations where it shouldn't (local communities know more about the local conditions), so without more detail, it is really hard to determine whether this is reasonable or not. I suppose that distinction is also very much a matter of oppinion, so I guess it will always be up to discussion whether a particular instance of state law overriding local law is called for.
Wikipedia mentions jukeboxes as an important factor. I would imagine radio stations being better equipped to adjust the loudness, but I see no reason why they should bother, so you might be right about the radio.
They would have done the same with vinyl, and did, to a certain extend, but there is a limit to how loud a vinyl can be. It really isn't a matter of choosing where to put the best mix, but a matter of one of the limitations of vinyl ending up making the product better.
On a side note, "the best mix" isn't constant, but depends on the medium used. I have been told that one of the original problems with CDs was that they used the vinyl mix on early CDs, which isn't ideal (I am sure there is some explanation with the frequency response of the different media).
They move there, right? Doesn't that make them local? And how do they take away the locals' ability to form a government of their choosing any more than more than, say, the republicans in Texas are taking away the ability of Texan democrats to form a government of their choosing?
Libertarianism sounds like a nice idea, on paper. Until you get sick from the unregulated chemicals in your Libertarian Utopian job
Pollution of other peoples property would be considered "harming others".
, discover that your Libertarian Health Care determines this to be a pre-existing condition and drops your coverage,
You really should have read those papers before you signed them.
your at will employer fires you
Why didn't you include severance pay in the contract? It doesn't sound very libertarian to forbid those kinds of contracts.
from your non-union job (remember, you have freedom but don't even think about forming a Union, Liberty!)
I suppose that depends on the strain of libertarian you get hold of, but some of them seem to dislike monopolies, yes. Do you like monopolies? Or do you only like them when you get to be the monopolist?
and all your savings are wiped out in yet another unregulated stock market collapse.
As opposed to a good old regulated stock market collapse. I really fail to see the difference. And quite a lot of stocks is doing fine, so stock market collapses is a limited problem for your savings if you have properly diversified your portfolio.
Are you a Poe? The only other option that makes sense is if you are trying to portray people disliking the libertarian ideology as crazies. You can't actually believe that you are convincing anybody with that much froth at the mouth.
They have been flat, if you define "flat" as "rising to the level of the warmest year measured to date, even without the El Niño event that helped that year become the warmest".
If the "solar activity->global warming" hypothesis is true, then why does the temperature keep being at the level it rose to due to exceptional solar activity when that activity has disappeared?
Ah, the integers are nothing. You should have seen the real interval I had on the hook last week. I tried bring it onboard using a sieve I borrowed from Eratosthenes,
but the sieve was not nearly large enough. I'm telling you, the boat nearly keeled over!
As for safest, it's debatable. Is it really safe if people have to vacate largish areas of land to avoid getting ill and dying??? Because that's what's happened at both Chernobyl and Fukushima; and it was largely luck that that didn't happen like that at 3 mile island.
The claim was "safest", not safe. How safe is hydroelectric when the dam breaks? How often does that happen, compared to the same electric capacity of nuclear plants? Just the first on this list have more deaths than nuclear power has to date, with, apparently, comparable worldwide installed capacity.
I know this post comes off as defensive, especially given the context of the discussion, but I really want to know which is the safest, if that question even makes sense.
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According to the bad astronomer, it is probably due to silicates.
According to the bad astronomer, most likely due to silicates in the atmosphere. The silicates also rain down. Yes. Rain made out of rocks. Take that, hail!
Why would that be? I thought you were allowed to sell GPL software, as long as you do not restrict the buyers redistribution?
Forever!
Don't think they thought it through? The foundation is theoretically unable to comply, so they have no way to avoid being closed and the executives put in jail. What part of that seems not thought through?
America is no longer the country that put people in prison for daring to "obstruct recruiting"? The country that imprisoned its own citizens for having the wrong ethnicity ? The country that imposed a berufsverbot on people for having the wrong opinions?
It seems that America have always had a problem with accepting civil rights when the country feels threatened, and that this feeling lasts 10-20 years after the last (perceived) major threat. If we assume that was 2001, it seems about time that it started to clear up, but these things are notoriously hard to predict.
D-Wave will turn out to be whatever it is, but it's hard to find another company that's closer to commercializing quantum computing.
Given that, at best, it is only sort of a quantum computer, and definitely not what is normally meant with the phrase, and at worst in no way a quantum computer, I would say that there is a good chance that Bobs Banana Import is as close to commercializing quantum computing as this company is. It might still be true that nobody is closer than them, in the same sense as it is true that no company has a bigger presence on Jupiter than them.
Doesn't mean it is not money well spent by Lockheed et al., it just means that calling it a quantum computer perhaps wasn't completely true.
Transistors directly use quantum effects to work, yet we don't call desktop computers "quantum computers".
The transistors in the CPU in your desktop computer are IGFETs (insulated gate field effect transistors). The principle of operation of this device is that moving charge on the gate can enhance or deplete the number of mobile electrons in the source to drain channel under the gate and cause it to turn on or off using an electric field effect which is not considered a quantum effect.
I think the point is that a transistor does this through a quantum effects. It works due to the energy levels of the semiconductor, which are definitely a quantum mechanical in nature. You could do the same with a vacuum tube, so there is nothing inherent in the effect of a transistor that is quantum mechanical, but the the level that flash memory is quantum mechanical (the effect can be obtained differently, but in this case it isn't), so is a transistor.
Plea bargains can help those who are 100% guilty of the offense but are being given a chance for a lighter sentence. This can lighten the caseload of the prosecutors office which in turn also saves the court money. If the person is innocent then by all means plead your case in front of a jury.
So... plea bargains only help the guilty, and those who are convicted in a court deserve more jail time than those who accept plea bargains?
You forgot: And that last part in no way affects your right to a trial. Apparantly, disincentivizing using a right does not affect the right.
If maybe you don't trust Greenpeace,
And who could blame you, when they start the article with a sort-of lie and an outright lie
In the crop department, Monsanto is well on their way to dictating what consumers will eat, what farmers will grow, and how much Monsanto will get paid for seeds. In some cases those seeds are designed not to reproduce sowable offspring. In others, a flock of lawyers stand ready to swoop down on farmers who illegally, or even unknowingly, end up with Monsanto's private property growing in their fields.
No, Monsanto is not developing terminator genes, they bought a company that had developed it for its other IP, and no, the Schmeiser case was about as long as you can get from "a farmer unknowingly [ending] up" with anything.
Really, if there are that many other sources, than why link to the one that does maximal damage to your credibility?
Just a minor nit, damage to the road increases approximately with the fourth power of axle load, not exponentially with vehicle weight.
My desire to see, feel and smell the food I buy is overruled by my desire to not have a million other people having felt my food, and my desire to not waste time in a store with said million other people.
It could just go drive around for a while. In places with parking meters, this could be cheaper than actually paying for parking.
The car takes up more space when driving than when parked, as the distance between cars must be included, so this is a horrible idea. How we are going to make sure it doesn't happen, I have no idea. I would imagine road pricing being part of the equation, as it is much easier to collect it when there already is a computer on board that knows where it is.
Look at engineering in an abstract way: by now we could have been rid of all those pesky unmotivating jobs.
No, we couldn't. Getting machines to orientate themselves in a non-controlled environment is non-trivial, to say the least. If there were engineering solutions to that, a lot of these jobs would have disappeared from other Western countries (the US seems to be an outlier with an inexhaustible supply of very cheap labor).
Skeptoid covered this: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108
He usually does a good job at covering the evidence and aht it means for the different theories.
That puts my anecdote nicely into context. People used to doing vinyl would be used to this, and adjust their primary master (?) accordingly. The CD doesn't have this step, so what gets on the disc is the primary master, which didn't sound as good, until people learned how to compensate (or to not compensate for the remastering inherent in cutting vinyl). Thank you :-).
I could see some situations where state laws should overide local laws (local councils are more prone to pressure from small to medium-sized industry, and might not care much about the influence on neighbouring communities), and some situations where it shouldn't (local communities know more about the local conditions), so without more detail, it is really hard to determine whether this is reasonable or not. I suppose that distinction is also very much a matter of oppinion, so I guess it will always be up to discussion whether a particular instance of state law overriding local law is called for.
Wikipedia mentions jukeboxes as an important factor. I would imagine radio stations being better equipped to adjust the loudness, but I see no reason why they should bother, so you might be right about the radio.
They would have done the same with vinyl, and did, to a certain extend, but there is a limit to how loud a vinyl can be. It really isn't a matter of choosing where to put the best mix, but a matter of one of the limitations of vinyl ending up making the product better.
On a side note, "the best mix" isn't constant, but depends on the medium used. I have been told that one of the original problems with CDs was that they used the vinyl mix on early CDs, which isn't ideal (I am sure there is some explanation with the frequency response of the different media).
They move there, right? Doesn't that make them local? And how do they take away the locals' ability to form a government of their choosing any more than more than, say, the republicans in Texas are taking away the ability of Texan democrats to form a government of their choosing?
Libertarianism sounds like a nice idea, on paper. Until you get sick from the unregulated chemicals in your Libertarian Utopian job
Pollution of other peoples property would be considered "harming others".
, discover that your Libertarian Health Care determines this to be a pre-existing condition and drops your coverage,
You really should have read those papers before you signed them.
your at will employer fires you
Why didn't you include severance pay in the contract? It doesn't sound very libertarian to forbid those kinds of contracts.
from your non-union job (remember, you have freedom but don't even think about forming a Union, Liberty!)
I suppose that depends on the strain of libertarian you get hold of, but some of them seem to dislike monopolies, yes. Do you like monopolies? Or do you only like them when you get to be the monopolist?
and all your savings are wiped out in yet another unregulated stock market collapse.
As opposed to a good old regulated stock market collapse. I really fail to see the difference. And quite a lot of stocks is doing fine, so stock market collapses is a limited problem for your savings if you have properly diversified your portfolio.
Are you a Poe? The only other option that makes sense is if you are trying to portray people disliking the libertarian ideology as crazies. You can't actually believe that you are convincing anybody with that much froth at the mouth.
They have been flat, if you define "flat" as "rising to the level of the warmest year measured to date, even without the El Niño event that helped that year become the warmest".
If the "solar activity->global warming" hypothesis is true, then why does the temperature keep being at the level it rose to due to exceptional solar activity when that activity has disappeared?
Ah, the integers are nothing. You should have seen the real interval I had on the hook last week. I tried bring it onboard using a sieve I borrowed from Eratosthenes, but the sieve was not nearly large enough. I'm telling you, the boat nearly keeled over!
As for safest, it's debatable. Is it really safe if people have to vacate largish areas of land to avoid getting ill and dying??? Because that's what's happened at both Chernobyl and Fukushima; and it was largely luck that that didn't happen like that at 3 mile island.
The claim was "safest", not safe. How safe is hydroelectric when the dam breaks? How often does that happen, compared to the same electric capacity of nuclear plants? Just the first on this list have more deaths than nuclear power has to date, with, apparently, comparable worldwide installed capacity.
I know this post comes off as defensive, especially given the context of the discussion, but I really want to know which is the safest, if that question even makes sense.
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