No matter what the provenance is of the comments, Ajit Pai and The Donald will use them in their favor as political cover for whatever they want to do.
Newton's law of gravitation provides the gravitational force between two bodies as a function of the distance between them. Therefore, it is independent of the co-ordinate system in which the bodies are observed, because the distance doesn't change in those systems.
Newton's laws of motion are stated canonically for an inertial frame of reference. They can still work in non-inertial frames, provided one introduces pseudo-forces to account for the effects of such frames.
So, both the Copernican and Ptolemaic models can be shown to be compatible with Newton's laws of gravitation and motion. However... the Copernican model assumes the Sun is motionless. Since the Sun is a good approximation to the centre of mass of the Solar System, the Copernican model views the Solar System in a near-inertial frame, so the equations of motion expressed with Newton's laws are far simpler. The Ptolemaic model, on the other hand, requires the introduction of awkward-looking pseudo-forces in order to accommodate the non-inertial character of the Earth's reference frame.
India banned caste discrimination in its constitution when it left the British Commonwealth. Since then, the dismantling of the caste system has progressed, thanks to various laws, quotas, and education initiatives. Some vestiges of caste identity remain, but saying India now has a "caste system" is just plain wrong.
I realize that you're re-introducing the aether as a "fun theory" and that's fine. However, one of the overwhelming conclusions from the Michelson-Morley experiment is that the aether does not exist because if it did, we would be able to measure the earth's movement in relation to it. The need for "more complex math" to rescue the aether is a sign that we should set it aside because of Occam's Razor.
That's not to say that one theory is "right" and the other is "wrong" -- they're both "right" if they agree with observations. For example, the Copernican and Ptolemaic models of the solar system can both predict the future location of planets, so they're both "right". But we prefer Copernicus because it is simpler, i.e., it requires fewer presumptions.
As far as the existence of math that is more complex than GR, there most certainly is. Learning GR is challenging, but not outrageously so. Many physics students take their first GR courses in late undergrad or early grad school.
To him, liberal is just an insult, he has no idea what it actually means.
Not surprising. Here is what it actually means:
lib-er-al adjective 1. open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values; favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms; (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform; (Theology) regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change. 2. (of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
If you think Liberal == Radical Leftist, then you have your head up your ass.
Peoples' political views can fall across a wide spectrum. It's convenient to demonize your opponents by shoving them all to one extreme end of that spectrum. Convenient and wrong.
The United States is yanking more than half its diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Havana and warning Americans not to visit Cuba, saying it is for their own safety after a string of mysterious injuries harmed at least 21 Americans stationed there.
Second sentence of TFS:
"We have no reports that private U.S. citizens have been affected, but the attacks are known to have occurred in U.S. diplomatic residences and hotels frequented by U.S. citizens," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement.
PopeRatzo is right. Those sentences contradict each other. Why would the State Department warn private citizens if only government officials have been affected? There might be a case for avoiding hotels where US diplomats have stayed, but discouraging civilians from visiting Cuba altogether? That seems like fear-mongering.
I have to wonder whether your reading comprehension is up to snuff.
Stallman's strategy with Gnu has been pretty much what you described with windows: replace the ecosystem, piece by piece, from the outside in. Only in his case, the ecosystem he started with was a proprietary Unix system. He was working on the innermost part (Gnu Hurd) when Torvalds began developing the Linux kernel as an alternative.
The real long term power is in making pickup trucks.
Yup. And Elon is ready to unveil an electric one in a few weeks.
Can you imagine the cognitive dissonance of a Duck Dynasty fanboi riding around in one of those bad puppies, plastered with anti-global-warming and Trump 2020 bumper stickers?
Lots of manufacturing jobs have left the USA because it's more expensive to manufacture here. So why pick on solar? Are the foreign solar companies dumping, or are the foreign governments subsidizing, with the aim of driving US companies out of the market? If so, I see the argument for tariffs, but there's nothing about dumping or subsidies in the ruling as far as I can see.
Seriously, if you don't like it, go build your own. They built theirs, and they have every right to decide who gets to say what on it.
Cool. Can we deny selling houses to idiots like you? Same idea, after all.
No, it is not. What would be the same idea is you denying him entry into your house because you don't like him. You have every right to decide who can enter your house (aside from situations pertaining to law enforcement and search warrants.)
Well, okay, but it still makes more sense that the scriptwriter thought parsec was a unit of time because it has "sec" in it.
The actual dialog was:
You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?... It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
Note the preposition in. Typically it is associated with time, not distance. If you found a shortcut for your commute, you would not say "Hey honey, I made it home in less than twelve miles!" That just sounds awkward.
Or maybe parsec really is a unit of time in the Star Wars universe.
This is like me blaming a lock manufacturer for a theft that involved a bunch of Russian guys driving a truck up to my front door, picking the lock, and carrying off all my stuff over the course of 8 hours while I sat there getting drunk.
It's more like you blamed the lock manufacturer because they published patents showing how their lock works. Not that patents would make any difference to a lockpicker. They could find weaknesses in the design whether it was published or not.
Similarly, crackers can find exploits in software, whether the source is open or closed.
But really, we need a car analogy. This is slashdot after all.
According to this article, Equifax says the three execs did not know about the breach before they arranged the sale.
Insider trading is legal. Trading on insider information is not. Company officers like these three execs are required to announce their sales of shares well in advance. Normally, this is no big deal -- it's like cashing their paycheck. However, if they did in fact know about the breach when they arranged the sale, then they're looking at jail time.
If anyone, you should know that there may well be a reason to "cripple" hardware despite its possible ability to function at higher spec. CPUs and graphics card anyone? What happens when an i7 CPU doesn't quite pass the QA tests? Switch off the cores that didn't pass and sell it as an i3. How many here have "unlocked" cores of cheap CPUs to turn it into a more powerful one? Do you think Intel does that because they enjoy making CPUs then sell them cheaply with some cores switched off for... reasons? Or could it rather be that they switch off the cores because they fail inspection and can't be relied on, and it's still more interesting for Intel to sell it at a lower price than to throw it away?
Another situation that can occur is that they manufacture and release a certain volume of products at each performance-level, but run out of the lower-priced models. Then they repackage and sell the higher-performance models as the lower-performance models, so that they don't disturb whatever linear-programming market calculations they made in order to maximize profits.
Any manufacturer or supplier of a product can encounter an unexpected shortage of a particular quality-level. Ever received an upgrade for a plane ticket, rental car, or hotel room that you didn't ask for?
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No matter what the provenance is of the comments, Ajit Pai and The Donald will use them in their favor as political cover for whatever they want to do.
Newton's law of gravitation provides the gravitational force between two bodies as a function of the distance between them. Therefore, it is independent of the co-ordinate system in which the bodies are observed, because the distance doesn't change in those systems.
Newton's laws of motion are stated canonically for an inertial frame of reference. They can still work in non-inertial frames, provided one introduces pseudo-forces to account for the effects of such frames.
So, both the Copernican and Ptolemaic models can be shown to be compatible with Newton's laws of gravitation and motion. However... the Copernican model assumes the Sun is motionless. Since the Sun is a good approximation to the centre of mass of the Solar System, the Copernican model views the Solar System in a near-inertial frame, so the equations of motion expressed with Newton's laws are far simpler. The Ptolemaic model, on the other hand, requires the introduction of awkward-looking pseudo-forces in order to accommodate the non-inertial character of the Earth's reference frame.
India banned caste discrimination in its constitution when it left the British Commonwealth. Since then, the dismantling of the caste system has progressed, thanks to various laws, quotas, and education initiatives. Some vestiges of caste identity remain, but saying India now has a "caste system" is just plain wrong.
I realize that you're re-introducing the aether as a "fun theory" and that's fine. However, one of the overwhelming conclusions from the Michelson-Morley experiment is that the aether does not exist because if it did, we would be able to measure the earth's movement in relation to it. The need for "more complex math" to rescue the aether is a sign that we should set it aside because of Occam's Razor.
That's not to say that one theory is "right" and the other is "wrong" -- they're both "right" if they agree with observations. For example, the Copernican and Ptolemaic models of the solar system can both predict the future location of planets, so they're both "right". But we prefer Copernicus because it is simpler, i.e., it requires fewer presumptions.
As far as the existence of math that is more complex than GR, there most certainly is. Learning GR is challenging, but not outrageously so. Many physics students take their first GR courses in late undergrad or early grad school.
To him, liberal is just an insult, he has no idea what it actually means.
Not surprising. Here is what it actually means:
lib-er-al
adjective
1. open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values; favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms; (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform; (Theology) regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change.
2. (of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
Oooh, scary.
If you think Liberal == Radical Leftist, then you have your head up your ass.
Peoples' political views can fall across a wide spectrum. It's convenient to demonize your opponents by shoving them all to one extreme end of that spectrum. Convenient and wrong.
First sentence of TFS:
The United States is yanking more than half its diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Havana and warning Americans not to visit Cuba, saying it is for their own safety after a string of mysterious injuries harmed at least 21 Americans stationed there.
Second sentence of TFS:
"We have no reports that private U.S. citizens have been affected, but the attacks are known to have occurred in U.S. diplomatic residences and hotels frequented by U.S. citizens," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement.
PopeRatzo is right. Those sentences contradict each other. Why would the State Department warn private citizens if only government officials have been affected? There might be a case for avoiding hotels where US diplomats have stayed, but discouraging civilians from visiting Cuba altogether? That seems like fear-mongering.
I have to wonder whether your reading comprehension is up to snuff.
I bet the Russians did this. They're hacking our Alexas and using them for sonic DoS attacks.
Hmm. That might explain this story.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Citing your source is good form. Here, let me help you:
Je n'ai fait [cette lettre] plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal
Stallman's strategy with Gnu has been pretty much what you described with windows: replace the ecosystem, piece by piece, from the outside in. Only in his case, the ecosystem he started with was a proprietary Unix system. He was working on the innermost part (Gnu Hurd) when Torvalds began developing the Linux kernel as an alternative.
Oops, you're right. Thanks for the correction.
Elon may not make one yet, but electric pickups do exist:
http://www.viamotors.com/vehic...
http://workhorse.com/pickup/
The real long term power is in making pickup trucks.
Yup. And Elon is ready to unveil an electric one in a few weeks.
Can you imagine the cognitive dissonance of a Duck Dynasty fanboi riding around in one of those bad puppies, plastered with anti-global-warming and Trump 2020 bumper stickers?
No, I can't either.
Lots of manufacturing jobs have left the USA because it's more expensive to manufacture here. So why pick on solar? Are the foreign solar companies dumping, or are the foreign governments subsidizing, with the aim of driving US companies out of the market? If so, I see the argument for tariffs, but there's nothing about dumping or subsidies in the ruling as far as I can see.
TL;DR
IANAL
FTFY
The Model 3 LR for example recharges at 340 mph
It's a car, not an airplane. ;-p
Will it take AA batteries?
This car does.
Because the internet is for regular people now. Most clever trolls wouldn't even be noticed....
I'll just leave this right here.
Seriously, if you don't like it, go build your own. They built theirs, and they have every right to decide who gets to say what on it.
Cool. Can we deny selling houses to idiots like you? Same idea, after all.
No, it is not. What would be the same idea is you denying him entry into your house because you don't like him. You have every right to decide who can enter your house (aside from situations pertaining to law enforcement and search warrants.)
Well, okay, but it still makes more sense that the scriptwriter thought parsec was a unit of time because it has "sec" in it.
The actual dialog was:
You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? ... It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
Note the preposition in. Typically it is associated with time, not distance. If you found a shortcut for your commute, you would not say "Hey honey, I made it home in less than twelve miles!" That just sounds awkward.
Or maybe parsec really is a unit of time in the Star Wars universe.
Parsec was used by Solo as such a unit.
He used it (wrongly) as a unit of time. Or at least the scriptwriter did.
This is like me blaming a lock manufacturer for a theft that involved a bunch of Russian guys driving a truck up to my front door, picking the lock, and carrying off all my stuff over the course of 8 hours while I sat there getting drunk.
It's more like you blamed the lock manufacturer because they published patents showing how their lock works. Not that patents would make any difference to a lockpicker. They could find weaknesses in the design whether it was published or not.
Similarly, crackers can find exploits in software, whether the source is open or closed.
But really, we need a car analogy. This is slashdot after all.
This is only hear-say. It was never confirmed by Equifax or FireEye.
How long have you been here? Netcraft has to confirm it, or it never happend.
I'm just wanting to know if a lawsuit against these criminals is possible?
A class-action lawsuit is already in the works. You can find references to this in any one of many news stories.
According to this article, Equifax says the three execs did not know about the breach before they arranged the sale.
Insider trading is legal. Trading on insider information is not. Company officers like these three execs are required to announce their sales of shares well in advance. Normally, this is no big deal -- it's like cashing their paycheck. However, if they did in fact know about the breach when they arranged the sale, then they're looking at jail time.
If anyone, you should know that there may well be a reason to "cripple" hardware despite its possible ability to function at higher spec. CPUs and graphics card anyone? What happens when an i7 CPU doesn't quite pass the QA tests? Switch off the cores that didn't pass and sell it as an i3. How many here have "unlocked" cores of cheap CPUs to turn it into a more powerful one? Do you think Intel does that because they enjoy making CPUs then sell them cheaply with some cores switched off for ... reasons? Or could it rather be that they switch off the cores because they fail inspection and can't be relied on, and it's still more interesting for Intel to sell it at a lower price than to throw it away?
Another situation that can occur is that they manufacture and release a certain volume of products at each performance-level, but run out of the lower-priced models. Then they repackage and sell the higher-performance models as the lower-performance models, so that they don't disturb whatever linear-programming market calculations they made in order to maximize profits.
Any manufacturer or supplier of a product can encounter an unexpected shortage of a particular quality-level. Ever received an upgrade for a plane ticket, rental car, or hotel room that you didn't ask for?