What do I have to hide? The details of my private life. Period. Whether or not I'm doing anything illegal, I don't want a camera in my living room, nor my bedroom, nor my bathroom.
Once collected, this information tends to leak out to anyone willing to pay for it - your business competitors, your employer, your wife, etc.
There is the quote: "Information wants to be free"
Wow, now that is a serious new conspiracy theory: The terrs had inside help, from as high as the White House itself.
Hmmm, I am a little bit more of a realist than that - don't think so - infinitely improbable - but a nice conspiracy theory, worthy of the super market tabloids...
It's pretty clear that the NeoCons were hoping for some kind of incident that would give them public support for their "New American Century" plan. Warnings about potential threats were ignored or suppressed. They probably didn't anticipate anything of the magnitude of 9/11, but once it happened, they took the ball and ran.
Really ??? You can't think of laws in the U.S. or other "Western Countries" (if i were asian or middle eastern I think would be horribly offended) that apply only to non citizens ? Really Really Really nothing comes to mind. No right, no restrictions on action, nothing comes to mind. Hmmm you did actually make an effort to look before you posted right ??
I have lived in the US as a foreign student. AFAIK I had the same rights as US citizens as long as I had legal residency status. Please give examples of US laws that apply only to non-citizens (legally resident). e.g. is there a law that says the police can search my house without a warrent if I am not a citizen? Did you make an effort to find such laws before you posted?
The only difference in rights is that non-citizens can have their residency status revoked and be deported. There are no separate US laws for non citizens.
I don't know about places like Saudi Arabia or Israel.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government. That is it. That is all it would do.
That is how the existing 3 branches were supposed to work - checks and balances. The problem is, who would appoint your 4th branch? Even if directly elected, it would soon become dominated by corporate financed partisans.
Further the right of the people extends to the citizens of the united states, not citizens of other nations or foreign agents operating on U.S. soil.
You say that non-citizens such as people with immigrant status, foreign students or workers or tourists do not have these rights? Please give us the benefit of your Judicial wisdom. I don't think that the US or most Western countries have a separate body of law for legally resident non-citizens.
People have argued about the legality of wiretapping, but it seems that the info may be available to vast numbers of bureaucrats, some of whom may be corrupt or have political agendas. They have the power to put their enemies on secret "no-fly" lists and who knows what other secret restrictions.
So if you need to fly on airplanes or your livelihood depends in any way on Federal contracts or funding, you better not say anything against the Bush-Neocon-Republican-Democat line.
I'm not familiar with plastics technology, but "Process for forming plastic articles" seems to be what I would call a genuine discovery or invention which was not obvious or anticipated.
I have not read Pavel's patent but from your description it seems to be of the "claim staking" variety.
What I should have asked is, what portion of patents are genuine discoveries vs. claim staking.
When the idea of geostationary communications satellites was first proposed it was non-obvious (if only because very few people were thinking about such things). This perhaps could have been patented. It would be an extreme example of a claim staking patent, since it depends on a lot of others work to implement, much of which was not even "anticipated". (The patent would have expired before the first one was launched.)
Arguably it should be Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq for demanding free elections at a time when the Americans were planning to impose their "Proconsulate" indefinitely.
Re: Hubble finds mass of white dwarf (Science/nature website) "The mass calculations are based on how the star's light is distorted by its neighbour's intense gravitational field."
This is incorrect. They measured the gravitational red shift due to the dwarf's own gravity.
The Universe Today and New Scientist websites got it right.
I wrote my moon lander program in BASIC, then ported it to C and then to Java. Now I have to port it to "LAMP", whatever that is. I'm getting too old for this.
The Wikipedia already enjoys hundreds of very dedicated editors. Added authority for these people won't add any value. Besides, the Wikipedia already has "editors with authority". They're called admins. And they lock-down disputed articles all the freakin' time.
The "admins" often have one-sided opinions on disputed subjects and use their admin powers to suppress other viewpoints.
I had one of those (P100) for a while, but I figured it was burning $50/year of electricity and it was noisy. I also had a lan hub which used a few more watts. I was thinking of going to a 486 (no cpu fan and less power consumption) but then I found a wireless router on sale for $18.
Dr. Frankenstien also breathed life into old hardware using lots of electricity.
Hey, it's not like "paper" encyclopedias don't have problems. Just open up encyclopedias printed in the 60's-70's in the US and in USSR and read a few chapters on socialism and communism.:-)
I gave my 60's Britannica to a thrift store during my last move. They told me that craftsey people liked to cut out the middle of the volumes and make boxes of them. Traditionally these would store a "micky" (booze). Maybe I should have kept the Britannica, but I don't really need 30 mickys.
The "Israli-Palestinian conflict" article does not mention the issue of confiscation of Palestinian property, which is the core of the conflict and the heart and soul of "Israel".
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What do I have to hide? The details of my private life. Period. Whether or not I'm doing anything illegal, I don't want a camera in my living room, nor my bedroom, nor my bathroom.
Once collected, this information tends to leak out to anyone willing to pay for it - your business competitors, your employer, your wife, etc.
There is the quote: "Information wants to be free"
but "Information can always be bought".
Wow, now that is a serious new conspiracy theory: The terrs had inside help, from as high as the White House itself.
Hmmm, I am a little bit more of a realist than that - don't think so - infinitely improbable - but a nice conspiracy theory, worthy of the super market tabloids...
It's pretty clear that the NeoCons were hoping for some kind of incident that would give them public support for their "New American Century" plan. Warnings about potential threats were ignored or suppressed. They probably didn't anticipate anything of the magnitude of 9/11, but once it happened, they took the ball and ran.
Really ??? You can't think of laws in the U.S. or other "Western Countries" (if i were asian or middle eastern I think would be horribly offended) that apply only to non citizens ? Really Really Really nothing comes to mind. No right, no restrictions on action, nothing comes to mind. Hmmm you did actually make an effort to look before you posted right ??
I have lived in the US as a foreign student. AFAIK I had the same rights as US citizens as long as I had legal residency status. Please give examples of US laws that apply only to non-citizens (legally resident). e.g. is there a law that says the police can search my house without a warrent if I am not a citizen? Did you make an effort to find such laws before you posted?
The only difference in rights is that non-citizens can have their residency status revoked and be deported. There are no separate US laws for non citizens.
I don't know about places like Saudi Arabia or Israel.
My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial - that has all the necessary powers, clearances, means and protections to investigate corruption at absolutely any level in every branch of Government. That is it. That is all it would do.
That is how the existing 3 branches were supposed to work - checks and balances. The problem is, who would appoint your 4th branch? Even if directly elected, it would soon become dominated by corporate financed partisans.
Further the right of the people extends to the citizens of the united states, not citizens of other nations or foreign agents operating on U.S. soil.
You say that non-citizens such as people with immigrant status, foreign students or workers or tourists do not have these rights? Please give us the benefit of your Judicial wisdom. I don't think that the US or most Western countries have a separate body of law for legally resident non-citizens.
This seems to refer to a ring centred on the Sun lying in the Earth's orbit.
People have argued about the legality of wiretapping, but it seems that the info may be available to vast numbers of bureaucrats, some of whom may be corrupt or have political agendas. They have the power to put their enemies on secret "no-fly" lists and who knows what other secret restrictions.
So if you need to fly on airplanes or your livelihood depends in any way on Federal contracts or funding, you better not say anything against the Bush-Neocon-Republican-Democat line.
I'm not familiar with plastics technology, but "Process for forming plastic articles" seems to be what I would call a genuine discovery or invention which was not obvious or anticipated.
I have not read Pavel's patent but from your description it seems to be of the "claim staking" variety.
What I should have asked is, what portion of patents are genuine discoveries vs. claim staking.
When the idea of geostationary communications satellites was first proposed it was non-obvious (if only because very few people were thinking about such things). This perhaps could have been patented. It would be an extreme example of a claim staking patent, since it depends on a lot of others work to implement, much of which was not even "anticipated". (The patent would have expired before the first one was launched.)
Arguably it should be Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq for demanding free elections at a time when the Americans were planning to impose their "Proconsulate" indefinitely.
Perhaps this guy truly thinks he invented something but in reality all he did was see the obvious progression of technology.
Can you give examples of inventions that were not so? Preferably in recent times where we are familiar with "the obvious progression of technology".
What if the bad guys start using White Phosphorous or Depleted Uranium?
I wrote my moon lander program in BASIC, then ported it to C and then to Java. Now I have to port it to "LAMP", whatever that is. I'm getting too old for this.
The Wikipedia already enjoys hundreds of very dedicated editors. Added authority for these people won't add any value. Besides, the Wikipedia already has "editors with authority". They're called admins. And they lock-down disputed articles all the freakin' time.
The "admins" often have one-sided opinions on disputed subjects and use their admin powers to suppress other viewpoints.
What is the circle at the bottom of the image?
Maybe he meant to say: "A lifetime of immorality".
I've actually written a program to generate the Dutch solutions to the 5x5 puzzle
How does the time needed to find all NxN solutions grow with N?
Personally, I am curious why we don't look for more grand scale technological solutions to environmental problems.
How about this:
Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming
Just to give you a quantitative perspective, the amount of sulfur he is proposing to burn is abou half of this little stockpile:
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/kmcclary/sulfur/
I had one of those (P100) for a while, but I figured it was burning $50/year of electricity and it was noisy. I also had a lan hub which used a few more watts. I was thinking of going to a 486 (no cpu fan and less power consumption) but then I found a wireless router on sale for $18.
Dr. Frankenstien also breathed life into old hardware using lots of electricity.
i had one in a standard el-cheapo power supply. impressive bang, cloud of white smoke, box full of cap shreds.
But sometimes there are communications you want to stay secret for years or decades. e.g. spies, double agents, activities of "special forces", etc.
I think the upper end of the blind-zealotry scale is:
9.0 - Scientologist
8.0 - Jihadist
7.8 - SCO lawyer
7.0 - Wikipedia twidler
6.5 - Mac evangelist
Where would "Zionist" fit on your scale?
Hey, it's not like "paper" encyclopedias don't have problems. Just open up encyclopedias printed in the 60's-70's in the US and in USSR and read a few chapters on socialism and communism. :-)
I gave my 60's Britannica to a thrift store during my last move. They told me that craftsey people liked to cut out the middle of the volumes and make boxes of them. Traditionally these would store a "micky" (booze). Maybe I should have kept the Britannica, but I don't really need 30 mickys.
The "Israli-Palestinian conflict" article does not mention the issue of confiscation of Palestinian property, which is the core of the conflict and the heart and soul of "Israel".