I'd say this line must be held, except the line has already been left far in the dust. The line needs to be rolled back. Do not accept any "concessions" by "industry." They are being made to get you to accept the current position of the line. It's a very old trick.
Expanding copyright protection to a term equal to two lifetimes means that now even some of the good stuff is being lost because it is not allowed to preserve it.
If preservation is outlawed, only outlaws will be preservationists.
I believe Ray Bradbury had something to say on this subject.
A lot of evolutionary theory revolves around evolution not by choice. ..
If by "a lot," you mean "all." Oooooooooh, don't go getting your panties in a twist. I know what you were trying to say.
But this almost suggests that the decision to take to the trees is in and of itself a factor in evolution.
Well duh. Do something stupid and you don't pass on your genes. Do the effective thing and you do. We understand that already. See the Darwin Awards. There's nothing freakier here than the moths thing. The darker moths survived. The better climbers are surviving.
So it appears that there is evolution by way of behavior in addition to random mutations. I guess what I'm saying is that a lot of people consider evolution to be purely random . ..
And these people are wrong and have always been wrong. Mutation is random, evolution is not. Evolution is the process applying an active filter to the mutations. The concept is so fundamental; and yet so misunderstood, that this book uses the very first few chapters to drive home the point.
So long as I follow the object with one eye, still trivial, although I admit it became rather trivial with both eyes closed after only about a dozen passes. Sight is not the only source of information on the path of the object.
Human stereoscopic vision is optimized for the handling things we have in our hands. They are adjuncts to our opposable thumbs more than anything else. Fine control, close up. For tying the head on the spear shaft, not for throwing the spear.
How many eyes does the sniper hold to his scope?
The power of our sterescopic vision fades dramtically after only a few feet and peters out all together at about 30.
I'm looking at a talking head on 2D TV right now. I could accurately model this head in 3D clay (at least to the extent that I'm capable of the raw act) from that 2D image - because most our depth perception does not come from out stereoscopic vision.
I think that what Bussard is proposing is not ethanol from fermentation, but direct synthesis from CO2 and H2O or similar.
Is that what he's on about (I couldn't play the video and didn't see anything like that in the text I hunted up)?
Interesting. Yeah, it can be done. Yeah, it's very energy intensive. One of the places the energy needs to go is into the production of the appropriate catalysts. That's a place where oil is likely to rule the roost until it is effectively gone.
We're also likely to need to buy the raw materials/elements.
Oil independence is not the same thing as energy independence. If we can give up buying oil from Mexico and Saudi Arabia, what have we really gained if that is replaced with buying boron and platinum from Turkey and Russia?
Look below the surface hype. Where Big Oil is likely to take a loss someone else is likely to make a gain. Just because they're not oil doesn't mean they aren't manipulating image for their own benefit. They may well be planning on making their savior's halo with gold coins filched from your own pocket.
Some of them are even likely to be Big Oil wearing a false mustache.
Before we go fucking around with the Earth as a whole it might be a good idea if we first figured out how to make a biodome work worth a damn, a much simpler undertaking.
There might also be something of an instructive parable in the lives of people like Emperor Ch'in and Howard Huges, who died of their attempts to remain alive.
And one of the keys to good story telling is preserving your audience's suspension of disbelief for the Big Lie by not pissing it away on simple facts.
The TARDIS is perfectly believable; so long as The Doctor doesn't saying something utterly stupid.
. ..our government is too closely involved with business's desire to get the maximum benefit with the minimum investment.
You just don't understand. The Huns are a burden on society, but if we put them to good use guarding the gates of The City our native legions will be free to roam afield expanding the Empire.
We started with werewolves, moved on to vampires and on to a black hole that's "impossible to orbit" because "even gravity can't escape" (while its gravity is sucking in the universe) which is somehow balanced by even more gravity.
Is it just me, or does season two really kinda suck?
I am thinking of them. I'm thinking of poking them with a stick until they deflect from their course. I really like the idea of lots of little pokes, but if that doesn't do the trick I'm perfectly willing to blow 'em up, real good.
His plant can produce heat for the ditillation process. There are a number of other steps that need to be taken care of before that.
The people who peform those steps are all big clients of Big Oil; who is already in complete control of the distribution chain for liquid fuels, whatever they are. They're not only not likely to go anywhere soon, they're likely to get bigger.
While there still are some few extremely poor indiginous communities who lack even electricity, I doubt they would have any use for a laptop - even as a source of light.
I have lived under conditions that were so poor that water had to be obtained by hauling it a quarter mile up a cliff face to my mud hut, whose "toilet" was a hole in the ground behind the hut.
Oddly enough, however, I have never had to live so poor that I was forced to go without a source of light.
John Hancock: Come on guys, we have to get this thing signed by five o'clock. Franklin thinks he's so clever and all discovering electricity, but has he invented the electric light yet? Noooooooooo! When it gets dark out we're still helpless, helpless I say.
What could I have used to improve my lot in life under those conditions? Well, a crankable laptop stuffed with ebooks would have been a good first step.
Won't effect their markets dramatically (you won't be putting one of these in your car; you won't be getting an electric car either if gas prices remain reasonable; you won't be using it as stock for plastics; etc.).
They'll suddenly appear on the scene as Big Boron anyway.
And it's a nice little side effect of 'pacifying' Turkey. Yes, that's right, more than half of the world's reserves are in the Middle East. If we could only find a way to run a turbine off of corporate hot air we could lead the world in power production.
Slashdot Mirror
There is no such thing as a "pact" with the Devil.
KFG
For the moment fair use still allows this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
I'd say this line must be held, except the line has already been left far in the dust. The line needs to be rolled back. Do not accept any "concessions" by "industry." They are being made to get you to accept the current position of the line. It's a very old trick.
KFG
Go to the library while you still can and memorize it. Buy camping gear.
KFG
Expanding copyright protection to a term equal to two lifetimes means that now even some of the good stuff is being lost because it is not allowed to preserve it.
If preservation is outlawed, only outlaws will be preservationists.
I believe Ray Bradbury had something to say on this subject.
KFG
But don't you think the folks at FreeGeek doing sort of a disservice to those they give computers to?
No.
KFG
A lot of evolutionary theory revolves around evolution not by choice. . .
.
If by "a lot," you mean "all." Oooooooooh, don't go getting your panties in a twist. I know what you were trying to say.
But this almost suggests that the decision to take to the trees is in and of itself a factor in evolution.
Well duh. Do something stupid and you don't pass on your genes. Do the effective thing and you do. We understand that already. See the Darwin Awards. There's nothing freakier here than the moths thing. The darker moths survived. The better climbers are surviving.
So it appears that there is evolution by way of behavior in addition to random mutations. I guess what I'm saying is that a lot of people consider evolution to be purely random . .
And these people are wrong and have always been wrong. Mutation is random, evolution is not. Evolution is the process applying an active filter to the mutations. The concept is so fundamental; and yet so misunderstood, that this book uses the very first few chapters to drive home the point.
So long as I follow the object with one eye, still trivial, although I admit it became rather trivial with both eyes closed after only about a dozen passes. Sight is not the only source of information on the path of the object.
Human stereoscopic vision is optimized for the handling things we have in our hands. They are adjuncts to our opposable thumbs more than anything else. Fine control, close up. For tying the head on the spear shaft, not for throwing the spear.
How many eyes does the sniper hold to his scope?
The power of our sterescopic vision fades dramtically after only a few feet and peters out all together at about 30.
I'm looking at a talking head on 2D TV right now. I could accurately model this head in 3D clay (at least to the extent that I'm capable of the raw act) from that 2D image - because most our depth perception does not come from out stereoscopic vision.
KFG
I think that what Bussard is proposing is not ethanol from fermentation, but direct synthesis from CO2 and H2O or similar.
Is that what he's on about (I couldn't play the video and didn't see anything like that in the text I hunted up)?
Interesting. Yeah, it can be done. Yeah, it's very energy intensive. One of the places the energy needs to go is into the production of the appropriate catalysts. That's a place where oil is likely to rule the roost until it is effectively gone.
We're also likely to need to buy the raw materials/elements.
Oil independence is not the same thing as energy independence. If we can give up buying oil from Mexico and Saudi Arabia, what have we really gained if that is replaced with buying boron and platinum from Turkey and Russia?
Look below the surface hype. Where Big Oil is likely to take a loss someone else is likely to make a gain. Just because they're not oil doesn't mean they aren't manipulating image for their own benefit. They may well be planning on making their savior's halo with gold coins filched from your own pocket.
Some of them are even likely to be Big Oil wearing a false mustache.
Things are not as they appear.
KFG
I'm mildly surprised it's news at all to a science-minded website such as this one.
This website tends to derive its science mind by watching anime and playing Final Fantasy.
KFG
Before we go fucking around with the Earth as a whole it might be a good idea if we first figured out how to make a biodome work worth a damn, a much simpler undertaking.
There might also be something of an instructive parable in the lives of people like Emperor Ch'in and Howard Huges, who died of their attempts to remain alive.
KFG
And one of the keys to good story telling is preserving your audience's suspension of disbelief for the Big Lie by not pissing it away on simple facts.
The TARDIS is perfectly believable; so long as The Doctor doesn't saying something utterly stupid.
KFG
Does anyone know what kind of switches it uses?
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http://static.flickr.com/51/151575397_47393fd3e6_
KFG
. . .our government is too closely involved with business's desire to get the maximum benefit with the minimum investment.
You just don't understand. The Huns are a burden on society, but if we put them to good use guarding the gates of The City our native legions will be free to roam afield expanding the Empire.
KFG
We started with werewolves, moved on to vampires and on to a black hole that's "impossible to orbit" because "even gravity can't escape" (while its gravity is sucking in the universe) which is somehow balanced by even more gravity.
Is it just me, or does season two really kinda suck?
KFG
. . .it'll probably take months before I have the time to spend a half-day having a blast with this little feature.
Prioritize, Dude. Prioritize!
KFG
Thank God I have invested my life savings into real goods that shall always increase in value. That's right I put everything I have into tulips.
KFG
Who the fuck came up with Web 2.0?
.founder of the first web site to be supported by advertising.
2 005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Dale Dougherty. Cofounder of O'Reilly, founder of Make Magazine and . .
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/
KFG
Think of the ASTROLOGISTS!!!!!
I am thinking of them. I'm thinking of poking them with a stick until they deflect from their course. I really like the idea of lots of little pokes, but if that doesn't do the trick I'm perfectly willing to blow 'em up, real good.
If you are harboring any ideas about making time with Lauren I strongly suspect that you will be assinged the role of the bitch.
http://www.vortex.com/lauren1.jpg
And it's gas, grass or ass, baby, nobody rides for free.
KFG
His plant can produce heat for the ditillation process. There are a number of other steps that need to be taken care of before that.
The people who peform those steps are all big clients of Big Oil; who is already in complete control of the distribution chain for liquid fuels, whatever they are. They're not only not likely to go anywhere soon, they're likely to get bigger.
KFG
While there still are some few extremely poor indiginous communities who lack even electricity, I doubt they would have any use for a laptop - even as a source of light.
I have lived under conditions that were so poor that water had to be obtained by hauling it a quarter mile up a cliff face to my mud hut, whose "toilet" was a hole in the ground behind the hut.
Oddly enough, however, I have never had to live so poor that I was forced to go without a source of light.
John Hancock: Come on guys, we have to get this thing signed by five o'clock. Franklin thinks he's so clever and all discovering electricity, but has he invented the electric light yet? Noooooooooo! When it gets dark out we're still helpless, helpless I say.
What could I have used to improve my lot in life under those conditions? Well, a crankable laptop stuffed with ebooks would have been a good first step.
KFG
But Florida is the state that makes the US a man.
KFG
We won't lose Detroit and Newark?
KFG
Won't effect their markets dramatically (you won't be putting one of these in your car; you won't be getting an electric car either if gas prices remain reasonable; you won't be using it as stock for plastics; etc.).
They'll suddenly appear on the scene as Big Boron anyway.
And it's a nice little side effect of 'pacifying' Turkey. Yes, that's right, more than half of the world's reserves are in the Middle East. If we could only find a way to run a turbine off of corporate hot air we could lead the world in power production.
KFG
Click it and if you are we lose Detroit.
KFG