"some forms of IP crime are used to fund terrorism" is actually so loosely stated that it may well be true. Think about it for over a half-second. (Mind you saying that "some forms" *are* used that way would require proof.) Note that "some forms" includes running an illegal gambling operation...and the quesiton arises "illegal for who and in which country".
Being distrustful of the judicial system seems to me to be merely recognizing what is really going on. Are you asserting that making informed judgements about reality is not to anyone's benefit?
I will agree that the judicial system has always be a bit...eccentric...but recently it appears to have gotten much more corrupt. This may be an illusion due to better information being currently available, of course.
Sorry, but to me that seems a quite responsible way to shut down a project that they've decided not to continue. There have been many times in the past when they deserved criticism for how they handled shutting down a project, but this doesn't appear to be one of them.
Did you read the contract you signed to get access to the ISP? Mine said "up to x megabytes per minute", which could only be violated if they delivered too fast a service. (Since I knew I'd never want to complain about that, I didn't bother to remember the details.)
OTOH, I'm on a DSL line delivered by someone who isn't my ISP, so I probably wouldn't have standing to complain anyway. I would have moved over a decade ago, but my wife doesn't want to change her email address.
I think Jupiter is probably a better source of He3....or will be by the time we get around to having much use for it.
Of course, if we have fusion reactors we can probably breed it locally cheaper than importing it. From Wikipedia:
Helium-3 is naturally present in small quantities due to radioactive decay, but virtually all helium-3 used in industry is manufactured. Helium-3 is a product of tritium decay, and tritium can be produced through neutron bombardment of deuterium, lithium, boron, or nitrogen targets.
At a guess: Almost ALL of them start out believing fervently in US nationalism. They they spend a few decades in internal bureaucracy and become both cynical and disgusted. Some of them become more disgusted, and others become more cynical.
I don't know if it's still true, but several years ago I was told that there are rainbow tables that permit relatively easy login to Linux systems. To foil that you need to have a limited number of login attempts per day, probably implemented by an increasing time limit since the last bad login...and I've never seen that as an option on a Linux system. (I'm sure it is, because it's a dead-simple obvious approach. It might require you to unplug from the net to login while you were under attack, but that's a minor cost compared to letting intruders in.)
I'll keep an eye out for "energy imbalance" while reading the pdf(s?), but I *do* wonder how they measure that. Temperature I can understand, but energy imbalance seems like something that would either need to be estimated, or derived from a model.
Unfortunately there have been a lot of papers on global warming. If you mean http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessm... I've just downloaded it to study. If you *do* mean something else, a link would be best.
As I said, people are good at arguing about words.
The way I have always used the word it had to do with long term average weather phenomena. This is complicated because you need to also allow for seasons. That's also the way it was used in the books I used in school, when they bothered to define it. (Usually they didn't, but by context that was what they meant. And they didn't use terms like "long term average" because the ones that bothered to define climate were intended to high school sophomores.) But it's OK with me if you use the word to mean something different as long as you define it clearly.
Thank you for the second link. I'm downloading the report now. The first only lead to another insufficiently defined graphic.
OTOH, if you're just talking about the last decades worth of atmospheric warming, I think that's been adequately explained by "The ocean was warming instead" though it certainly would have been more convincing if they had predicted it in advance. Still, I often have to think a bit to figure out why programs that I write produce the results they do, even when the results are correct. (I'm only considering the cases where there aren't any bugs in the program.)
I haven't read Apple's EULA in decades, so I can't say much about that. I have previously stated that I switched off of Apple because of an EULA modification that they included in a security upgrade. That is still true, and I haven't gone back to look. I've seen the MS EULA many times, so I feel more secure abusing THEM over it. (Prior to Apple's attempt to sneak a modified EULA in as part of a security upgrade, I didn't really object to anything they said, as I didn't intend to copy any of their stuff anyway.)
I think the oceans will need to get considerably warmer before the next ice age happens, unless a chain of volcanos lets off (as the deccan trapps once did).
FWIW, as the temperature difference between the poles and the equator decreased the jet streams slowed. This makes it more likely of a weather patten to squat in one place and not move. This gives either hot and dry or cold and dry or hot and really wet or cold and icy...but a decrease in weather that rapidly changes from one variety to another...which means the percieved weather becomes more extreme. That paragraph was in the simple past because it's describing what has been happening in the last several years. Predictions are that this will continue and the jet stream will get even slower as the Arctic continues to warm faster than the equator. So global warming causes both increased hot spells and increased cold spells and increased flooding and increased drought...just not all in the same place. And only the average temperature increases, and that not enough to be quickly measureable.
You are making the assumption that the changes in ocean currents are unrelated to global warming. This is likely to be an incorrect assumption, as the ocean has become considerably warmer recently. Another factor is the weakening of the jet stream which is clearly tied to the Arctic warming faster than the equator. (The jet stream is driven by tempertature differences, much more than by their absolute value for any small change.)
OTOH, you're never going to prove that any one particular weather, or even seasonal, change is tied to climate. There's too much variation. Climate is basically a mean of several years weather, and there's not even an agreement over how many years should go into calculating the mean. (Of course that's arguing about words rather than about physical happenings, but people are good at that.)
It's an interesting graphic. But there's no clear attribution. Even for the couple of lines where there is explicit attribution, it's not clearly defined what the attribution means. Were it the part of a larger article in which the missing data were provided, and with links so it could be verified, it would be very interesting. (I'd still wonder exactly what it meant and, I admit, I might not follow up. But that graphic is so cryptic that it could mean many different things. And it's not clear that the predictions are even predicting the same thing (measured feature) as the measurements are measuring.)
I'm not sure whether MSWind currently has a technical reason for being more infested with scams, viruses, etc. It used to, but I've been told they've fixed those problems. (I'm not going to buy a copy and agree to the EULA to find out. In fact even if you gave me a copy gratis I wouldn't agree to the EULA to find out.)
OTOH, people who are willing to use MSWind, given the history of the company, are clearly more likely to fall for scams. This isn't a technical reason, but it's an actual one.
As for Macs, most Apple users would refuse to do a long involved series of steps. More of the ones that would are technically competent. So Apple users are also (slightly) less likely to fall for a scam.
So it's not ALL popularity, except in the sense that you can't have maximal popularity without being designed for idiots. (Smart people can use things designed for idiots, but idiots can't use things designed for smart people, so the market size of things designed for idiots is clearly larger.) N.B.: When I say "idiots" and "smart people" I'm not talking about IQ. And I'm certainly not talking about social aptness. But it has something to do with tecnical competence and something to do with recognizing vulnerability and honesty. None of the standard measures worked, so I just grabbed a couple of nearly related concepts. Don't think that a "smart person" would necessarily be near the top of his class, as it has nothing (directly) to do with academic competence.
Unfortunately I need something that will support ext3 for the transition cycle. (Or more accurately not being willing to disrupt my workflow while learning a new system means I need ext3 support.)
BASIC is reasonable for non-programmers who intend to stay non-programmers. Hypercard was actually a better initial language. I do agree that you can do simple things in BASIC, but it teaches horrible habits.
While you've got a point, I haven't bought a Sony product in over a decade. Everytime I get near to forgetting about them some other deed crosses the screen.
I can't really speak to Lenovo, since I've never bought anything from them, but I'd be really surprised if I ever do now. Previously it was just that I preferred to buy from someone else, now I additionally prefer not to buy from them. This is an additional barrier.
OTOH, I've got to agree that most people don't seem to even notice company quality, but in my experience paying attention to that is a move towards enlightened self-interest.
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"some forms of IP crime are used to fund terrorism" is actually so loosely stated that it may well be true. Think about it for over a half-second. (Mind you saying that "some forms" *are* used that way would require proof.) Note that "some forms" includes running an illegal gambling operation...and the quesiton arises "illegal for who and in which country".
Being distrustful of the judicial system seems to me to be merely recognizing what is really going on. Are you asserting that making informed judgements about reality is not to anyone's benefit?
I will agree that the judicial system has always be a bit...eccentric...but recently it appears to have gotten much more corrupt. This may be an illusion due to better information being currently available, of course.
Sorry, but to me that seems a quite responsible way to shut down a project that they've decided not to continue. There have been many times in the past when they deserved criticism for how they handled shutting down a project, but this doesn't appear to be one of them.
To be fair, it's not clear that there is deliberate sabotage. The more likely reason is that the hardware was only tested under MSWind.
Did you read the contract you signed to get access to the ISP? Mine said "up to x megabytes per minute", which could only be violated if they delivered too fast a service. (Since I knew I'd never want to complain about that, I didn't bother to remember the details.)
OTOH, I'm on a DSL line delivered by someone who isn't my ISP, so I probably wouldn't have standing to complain anyway. I would have moved over a decade ago, but my wife doesn't want to change her email address.
You referring to when they made ICANN officially an agent of the US govt.?
I thought that "Foundation and Empire" was originally two novellets.
OTOH, why did they leave out Triplanetary. That was an earlier "fixup" and any of the others they mentioned (and I don't think the idea was new then.)
I think Jupiter is probably a better source of He3....or will be by the time we get around to having much use for it.
Of course, if we have fusion reactors we can probably breed it locally cheaper than importing it.
From Wikipedia:
Helium-3 is naturally present in small quantities due to radioactive decay, but virtually all helium-3 used in industry is manufactured. Helium-3 is a product of tritium decay, and tritium can be produced through neutron bombardment of deuterium, lithium, boron, or nitrogen targets.
At a guess:
Almost ALL of them start out believing fervently in US nationalism. They they spend a few decades in internal bureaucracy and become both cynical and disgusted. Some of them become more disgusted, and others become more cynical.
I'd guess it as weak, but not really weak. Sort of "reasonable ground for suspicion", but clearly not "reasonable grounds for belief".
I don't know if it's still true, but several years ago I was told that there are rainbow tables that permit relatively easy login to Linux systems. To foil that you need to have a limited number of login attempts per day, probably implemented by an increasing time limit since the last bad login...and I've never seen that as an option on a Linux system. (I'm sure it is, because it's a dead-simple obvious approach. It might require you to unplug from the net to login while you were under attack, but that's a minor cost compared to letting intruders in.)
Ahh... with that definition it makes sense.
I'll keep an eye out for "energy imbalance" while reading the pdf(s?), but I *do* wonder how they measure that. Temperature I can understand, but energy imbalance seems like something that would either need to be estimated, or derived from a model.
Unfortunately there have been a lot of papers on global warming. If you mean http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessm... I've just downloaded it to study. If you *do* mean something else, a link would be best.
As I said, people are good at arguing about words.
The way I have always used the word it had to do with long term average weather phenomena. This is complicated because you need to also allow for seasons. That's also the way it was used in the books I used in school, when they bothered to define it. (Usually they didn't, but by context that was what they meant. And they didn't use terms like "long term average" because the ones that bothered to define climate were intended to high school sophomores.) But it's OK with me if you use the word to mean something different as long as you define it clearly.
Thank you for the second link. I'm downloading the report now. The first only lead to another insufficiently defined graphic.
OTOH, if you're just talking about the last decades worth of atmospheric warming, I think that's been adequately explained by "The ocean was warming instead" though it certainly would have been more convincing if they had predicted it in advance. Still, I often have to think a bit to figure out why programs that I write produce the results they do, even when the results are correct. (I'm only considering the cases where there aren't any bugs in the program.)
I haven't read Apple's EULA in decades, so I can't say much about that. I have previously stated that I switched off of Apple because of an EULA modification that they included in a security upgrade. That is still true, and I haven't gone back to look. I've seen the MS EULA many times, so I feel more secure abusing THEM over it. (Prior to Apple's attempt to sneak a modified EULA in as part of a security upgrade, I didn't really object to anything they said, as I didn't intend to copy any of their stuff anyway.)
I think the oceans will need to get considerably warmer before the next ice age happens, unless a chain of volcanos lets off (as the deccan trapps once did).
FWIW, as the temperature difference between the poles and the equator decreased the jet streams slowed. This makes it more likely of a weather patten to squat in one place and not move. This gives either hot and dry or cold and dry or hot and really wet or cold and icy...but a decrease in weather that rapidly changes from one variety to another...which means the percieved weather becomes more extreme.
That paragraph was in the simple past because it's describing what has been happening in the last several years. Predictions are that this will continue and the jet stream will get even slower as the Arctic continues to warm faster than the equator. So global warming causes both increased hot spells and increased cold spells and increased flooding and increased drought...just not all in the same place. And only the average temperature increases, and that not enough to be quickly measureable.
Sorry, complex systems defy simple analysis.
You are making the assumption that the changes in ocean currents are unrelated to global warming. This is likely to be an incorrect assumption, as the ocean has become considerably warmer recently. Another factor is the weakening of the jet stream which is clearly tied to the Arctic warming faster than the equator. (The jet stream is driven by tempertature differences, much more than by their absolute value for any small change.)
OTOH, you're never going to prove that any one particular weather, or even seasonal, change is tied to climate. There's too much variation. Climate is basically a mean of several years weather, and there's not even an agreement over how many years should go into calculating the mean. (Of course that's arguing about words rather than about physical happenings, but people are good at that.)
It's an interesting graphic. But there's no clear attribution. Even for the couple of lines where there is explicit attribution, it's not clearly defined what the attribution means. Were it the part of a larger article in which the missing data were provided, and with links so it could be verified, it would be very interesting. (I'd still wonder exactly what it meant and, I admit, I might not follow up. But that graphic is so cryptic that it could mean many different things. And it's not clear that the predictions are even predicting the same thing (measured feature) as the measurements are measuring.)
I'm not sure whether MSWind currently has a technical reason for being more infested with scams, viruses, etc. It used to, but I've been told they've fixed those problems. (I'm not going to buy a copy and agree to the EULA to find out. In fact even if you gave me a copy gratis I wouldn't agree to the EULA to find out.)
OTOH, people who are willing to use MSWind, given the history of the company, are clearly more likely to fall for scams. This isn't a technical reason, but it's an actual one.
As for Macs, most Apple users would refuse to do a long involved series of steps. More of the ones that would are technically competent. So Apple users are also (slightly) less likely to fall for a scam.
So it's not ALL popularity, except in the sense that you can't have maximal popularity without being designed for idiots. (Smart people can use things designed for idiots, but idiots can't use things designed for smart people, so the market size of things designed for idiots is clearly larger.)
N.B.: When I say "idiots" and "smart people" I'm not talking about IQ. And I'm certainly not talking about social aptness. But it has something to do with tecnical competence and something to do with recognizing vulnerability and honesty. None of the standard measures worked, so I just grabbed a couple of nearly related concepts. Don't think that a "smart person" would necessarily be near the top of his class, as it has nothing (directly) to do with academic competence.
Thank you.
Unfortunately I need something that will support ext3 for the transition cycle. (Or more accurately not being willing to disrupt my workflow while learning a new system means I need ext3 support.)
OK. But you can't demonstrate whether that is true or not, or at least I can't. It *is* a binary blob.
BASIC is reasonable for non-programmers who intend to stay non-programmers. Hypercard was actually a better initial language. I do agree that you can do simple things in BASIC, but it teaches horrible habits.
While you've got a point, I haven't bought a Sony product in over a decade. Everytime I get near to forgetting about them some other deed crosses the screen.
I can't really speak to Lenovo, since I've never bought anything from them, but I'd be really surprised if I ever do now. Previously it was just that I preferred to buy from someone else, now I additionally prefer not to buy from them. This is an additional barrier.
OTOH, I've got to agree that most people don't seem to even notice company quality, but in my experience paying attention to that is a move towards enlightened self-interest.