The tidal forces may have a significant effect on "stirring" the near-molten Earth, though I'm not sure how much effect. The forces leading to agitation and mixing would be related to relative differences in density (I think) between differing packets of material. With all of the material being in the 200kg/m^3 range between 2600kg/m^3 and 2800kg/m^3 (half-educated guesses), then the mixing effects are going to be lower than the difference between an ice and very saline water (200kg/m^3, but around 1000kg/m^3). So I have a gut suspicion that the mixing forces wouldn't be that drastic.
More importantly... there is some evidence that the Earth's mantle (and by implication, the early Earth) isn't well mixed. IIRC, you have to look quite closely at rare-earth element isotope ratios, and it's far too late tonight for me to hunt the papers out. Something to do with the composition and ages of grains which were incorporated into growing diamond crystals. But it's definitely too late tonight to go hunting!
Errr, one whose job specification read (approximately) "create a system that guarantees registered dealers a continuous profit stream".
What made you think that you were the important one in this relationship? The set up is all about extracting money from your pockets into the various companies pockets.
I believe it's something called "capitalism", and you're the victim.
Guns bother me much less than dangerous fuckwits with guns and ammunition. without the ammunition, a gun is just an inefficient club.
the solution is simple: Don't come to America. *I* certainly have no wish to visit Britain.
Now what the fuck would make you think I'd want to visit that shithole of a country again?
By the way, don't think you'd be welcome if you did learn how to sign your name, had someone read you the passport application form, and tried to find your way out of your back yard.
When we're working at high latitudes and distant locations (which applies to both poles, though we don't go to that high latitudes. Yet.), we run our local time the same as the port that our major supply ships are dispatched from. It's purely arbitrary, but very useful.
2) He suggests that the above could also apply to convicts about to be executed, again with consent and without introducing additional suffering
This causes me concern-- I think the slippery slope of "how long will consent be mandatory" might apply here.
The possibility of an action being at the top of a slippery slope does not affect the inherent ethical quality of that action. The slippery slope is a detail of the way you go about implementing the ethical choice that you've already made.
I happen to share your suspicions - someone, somewhere would start by being a bit lax on the consent - "There is a possibility that this may hurt" instead of "this sure as fuck is going to hurt - you". And before long you have officers of a state that purports to support freedom and human rights half-drowning sleep-deprived alleged criminals because they (the state officers) think they will recover something from the torture victim other than what the victim thinks will stop the torture.
It's what happens when government grows too big and powerful. It's happened every single time throughout the history of national governments whenever they grow too big.
So, what you're saying is that EVERY (your word, not mine) single government which has been "bigger" (your word, not mine ; I note that you don't define your terms, so I have to guess at what you mean) than yours (and presumably those that are "as big", but you need to define your terms) suffers the problem of redneck idiots running around in uniforms with guns and little sense of public service?
Speaking from a country which almost certainly has "bigger" government than yours (again, define your terms), we don't have this problem to any significant degree, because we haven't bred-up a society that is so wedded to the gun that public servants feel the need to carry a gun themselves.
You have a small degree of sympathy for being caught in an arms race between your government and the police. But continuing to do the same thing isn't being a successful solution to the problem. And the main problem is not the morality and intelligence of your police forces (they're always going to be kept relatively cheap because of tax-cutting pressure, which means that they're always going to be on average thick because brighter people will fuck off and get better-paid jobs), the problem is that they, and society in general have lots of lethal force available.
The police in Britain can, and occasionally do, beat people to death with their "night-sticks" (we call them truncheons ; whatever) ; but it is much much rarer than for the small number of armed officers to kill someone accidentally or without justification. Actually, just as a for-instance, only a week or so ago a coroner's court jury threw a case back at the public prosecutors where a police officer hit a man with truncheon, who subsequently died ; the prosecutors didn't want to prosecute him, but the jurors threw the case back in terms that the prosecutors now have the very unwelcome (to them) prospect of being forced to charge the officer with murder.
Guessing that the "we" refers to "Sun Employees", I can add that the only company that I've met who used Solaris throughout their systems (RT acquisition systems, with administrative side-functions) also used Applixware. I was examining the product myself when I discovered StarOffice (as it was then).
Yep. Had his balls cut off by his son Cronus, who then took over. But in Roman mythology, Cronus goes by the name of Saturn. Cronus/ Saturn in turn was overthrown by his son, Zeus/ Jupiter.
Bode (of the Law) suggested the name for the planet in explicit reference to the mythology. Unfortunately, he didn't anticipate some tricky beggar putting another new planet further out there, let alone thousands of the buggers (I take the self-spherising definition, unlike the IAU).
pulling energy from Uranus' gas would be a good way to go. Or rather from each gas giant.
The point about Uranus specifically is that it's in the shallowest gravity well of the four. (checks : 14.536 M//e vs 17.147 M//e) So the presumed primordial concentration of He3 should be most accessible there with lowest energy costs to get it up into interplanetary space. I suspect that that 18% difference would be a sufficient factor even if Uranus and Neptune were to swap places.
Oh, you'll be telling the doctor about them, sure enough. You'll be telling doctors in the next county about them too. Without artificial amplification or transmission technologies.
Remember the thug on the football team who threatened to make you sing soprano (again)... damn, it turns out there isn't a conventional range above soprano.
At 40,000-odd times the Earth's magnetic field, I wouldn't be surprised if the water in your blood was significantly affected.
I think the lone pairs of non-bonding electrons are what gives iron it's magnetic effects, but I'll confess to having forgotten the chemistry and physics involved. I only have to worry about hydrogen these days, and then only every couple of years.
These are strong magnets. Strong to beyond the level of "fun". Still potentially entertaining though, in the same way that skydiving or cave diving are beyond "fun."
And when one of them says, "So what app can I use to video call you from my iPhone?", do you reply, "You shouldn't have got an iPhone!"?
Which part of
"Look, after this date, if you still want to call me, either pick up the phone or use XMPP."
did your iPhone-user misunderstand? Was it the prepositions, the XMPP bit, or the "pick up the phone" bit? Oh, I see - iPhone users expect to put DOWN their phone to fiddle with the icons to make a call? (Never picked one up, but it's a Mac-a-like, isn't it?)
Oh, sorry, "video call". OK, fair point. I've made a whole 2 video calls in my life, both using Skype to a POTS on the Belarus-Russia border. It wasn't worth the effort.
If I could use a rival client to communicate with people on the skype network I would drop skype in a heartbeat, especially when I am using Linux as their Linux client it dire.
I've heard of it ; I've never seen - AFAIR - a client's computer with IE7 on it. (My clients are oil companies ; generally not small businesses.) IE6 is still very, very common though ; I still see clients, some of the biggest companies in the game, running dedicated-build Win2k, dedicated-build Vista (work-a-like for the Win2k), and only now considering a transition to Win8. In a couple of years. So we're expecting to lose several development and support staff over that,just like we did over the (sidelined) Vista transition.
I've just noticed the headline - shouldn't it be "Praise Eris, full of mischief"?
I certainly wouldn't hold Sony to a promise that was extorted from them.
In the general case I'd agree with you (and the law agrees with you, at least in this country). However, in this specific case, if I had a queue of limousines parked up the road, senior Sony management debunking and making their way to my front door to beg my forgiveness for their actions and promising to commit seppuku in my front garden if I didn't forgive them... I'd put several besides the trees and a few more by the berry-bushes, which could do with a blood meal. Then I'd have to check on the local waste disposal arrangements. Perhaps I could redirect them to throw themselves directly into the cramtorium (Freudian spelling mistake there!) furnace?
Eventually there would have to be a stop. But since all the people who die (culling from the top down) would largely be Golgafrincham B-Ark designates anyway, it can't hurt to go a long way.
Wait... what's less expensive than a Sony CD Walkman? [SNIP] A year's subscription to PSN?
Not if their swill-bucket-stick-rattlers (an Orwellian neologism for "advertising people") have been doing their job properly. Even a pretty minimal service - â10/month or $10 or £10 ; Money Unit * 10 - would bring in â120/year to the SonyMegaCorp coffers. Which is a lot more than the price of a broken CD player.
So, sack Sony's swill-bucket-stick-rattlers. They'll probably thank you for it, because they'll be suffering badly at the moment. You might as well sack the rest of the staff too, though some of them are innocent. The brand is hopelessly damaged now (as it has been for the best part of a decade). The innocent, competent ones will probably be able to get employment elsewhere. Sweeping up shit in public cess pits, being test invaginations at the condom factory, whatever.
They literally required you to buy an O'Reilly (or similar) book on SLIP from them in order to sign up for the service.
... thus ensuring that they could downsize the tech support hotline to an answerphone playing a loop of "Open your manual at page one, read to the back cover, then set up your connection. Thank you and goodbye."
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More importantly ... there is some evidence that the Earth's mantle (and by implication, the early Earth) isn't well mixed. IIRC, you have to look quite closely at rare-earth element isotope ratios, and it's far too late tonight for me to hunt the papers out. Something to do with the composition and ages of grains which were incorporated into growing diamond crystals. But it's definitely too late tonight to go hunting!
Errr, one whose job specification read (approximately) "create a system that guarantees registered dealers a continuous profit stream".
What made you think that you were the important one in this relationship? The set up is all about extracting money from your pockets into the various companies pockets.
I believe it's something called "capitalism", and you're the victim.
Guns bother me much less than dangerous fuckwits with guns and ammunition. without the ammunition, a gun is just an inefficient club.
Now what the fuck would make you think I'd want to visit that shithole of a country again?
By the way, don't think you'd be welcome if you did learn how to sign your name, had someone read you the passport application form, and tried to find your way out of your back yard.
Fucking septics. Think they own the world.
Nope, not in my 40+ years of learning British English in different parts of the country. "Skelp", I have heard, and several others, but not "skype".
s/site/planet/
FTFY
When we're working at high latitudes and distant locations (which applies to both poles, though we don't go to that high latitudes. Yet.), we run our local time the same as the port that our major supply ships are dispatched from. It's purely arbitrary, but very useful.
The possibility of an action being at the top of a slippery slope does not affect the inherent ethical quality of that action. The slippery slope is a detail of the way you go about implementing the ethical choice that you've already made.
I happen to share your suspicions - someone, somewhere would start by being a bit lax on the consent - "There is a possibility that this may hurt" instead of "this sure as fuck is going to hurt - you". And before long you have officers of a state that purports to support freedom and human rights half-drowning sleep-deprived alleged criminals because they (the state officers) think they will recover something from the torture victim other than what the victim thinks will stop the torture.
Where am I going to get a copy of Windows from? Without stealing it? And without funding Bill Gate's ego.
So, what you're saying is that EVERY (your word, not mine) single government which has been "bigger" (your word, not mine ; I note that you don't define your terms, so I have to guess at what you mean) than yours (and presumably those that are "as big", but you need to define your terms) suffers the problem of redneck idiots running around in uniforms with guns and little sense of public service?
Speaking from a country which almost certainly has "bigger" government than yours (again, define your terms), we don't have this problem to any significant degree, because we haven't bred-up a society that is so wedded to the gun that public servants feel the need to carry a gun themselves.
You have a small degree of sympathy for being caught in an arms race between your government and the police. But continuing to do the same thing isn't being a successful solution to the problem. And the main problem is not the morality and intelligence of your police forces (they're always going to be kept relatively cheap because of tax-cutting pressure, which means that they're always going to be on average thick because brighter people will fuck off and get better-paid jobs), the problem is that they, and society in general have lots of lethal force available.
The police in Britain can, and occasionally do, beat people to death with their "night-sticks" (we call them truncheons ; whatever) ; but it is much much rarer than for the small number of armed officers to kill someone accidentally or without justification. Actually, just as a for-instance, only a week or so ago a coroner's court jury threw a case back at the public prosecutors where a police officer hit a man with truncheon, who subsequently died ; the prosecutors didn't want to prosecute him, but the jurors threw the case back in terms that the prosecutors now have the very unwelcome (to them) prospect of being forced to charge the officer with murder.
Eh? Oh, yesterday's news.
Well, I went to the pub yesterday, so I'd better get torrenting.
1997? Maybe 1998.
Ah, someone has varnished the cache server?
Bode (of the Law) suggested the name for the planet in explicit reference to the mythology. Unfortunately, he didn't anticipate some tricky beggar putting another new planet further out there, let alone thousands of the buggers (I take the self-spherising definition, unlike the IAU).
No, the children of the human species need to grow up.
Quick check - do you know what the actual origin of the name was, without looking it up?
The point about Uranus specifically is that it's in the shallowest gravity well of the four. (checks : 14.536 M//e vs 17.147 M//e) So the presumed primordial concentration of He3 should be most accessible there with lowest energy costs to get it up into interplanetary space. I suspect that that 18% difference would be a sufficient factor even if Uranus and Neptune were to swap places.
That's what the strait-jackets and gags are for. They're designed for people who want to fight back, and the designers were intelligent and effective.
Remember the thug on the football team who threatened to make you sing soprano (again) ... damn, it turns out there isn't a conventional range above soprano.
Squeek, mouse!
I think the lone pairs of non-bonding electrons are what gives iron it's magnetic effects, but I'll confess to having forgotten the chemistry and physics involved. I only have to worry about hydrogen these days, and then only every couple of years.
These are strong magnets. Strong to beyond the level of "fun". Still potentially entertaining though, in the same way that skydiving or cave diving are beyond "fun."
Very trepunning.
Which part of
did your iPhone-user misunderstand? Was it the prepositions, the XMPP bit, or the "pick up the phone" bit? Oh, I see - iPhone users expect to put DOWN their phone to fiddle with the icons to make a call? (Never picked one up, but it's a Mac-a-like, isn't it?) Oh, sorry, "video call". OK, fair point. I've made a whole 2 video calls in my life, both using Skype to a POTS on the Belarus-Russia border. It wasn't worth the effort.
Thanks for reminding me to re-start my client.
No, I don't trust it to restart when I log on.
I've just noticed the headline - shouldn't it be "Praise Eris, full of mischief"?
In the general case I'd agree with you (and the law agrees with you, at least in this country). However, in this specific case, if I had a queue of limousines parked up the road, senior Sony management debunking and making their way to my front door to beg my forgiveness for their actions and promising to commit seppuku in my front garden if I didn't forgive them ... I'd put several besides the trees and a few more by the berry-bushes, which could do with a blood meal. Then I'd have to check on the local waste disposal arrangements. Perhaps I could redirect them to throw themselves directly into the cramtorium (Freudian spelling mistake there!) furnace?
Eventually there would have to be a stop. But since all the people who die (culling from the top down) would largely be Golgafrincham B-Ark designates anyway, it can't hurt to go a long way.
Not if their swill-bucket-stick-rattlers (an Orwellian neologism for "advertising people") have been doing their job properly. Even a pretty minimal service - â10/month or $10 or £10 ; Money Unit * 10 - would bring in â120/year to the SonyMegaCorp coffers. Which is a lot more than the price of a broken CD player.
So, sack Sony's swill-bucket-stick-rattlers. They'll probably thank you for it, because they'll be suffering badly at the moment. You might as well sack the rest of the staff too, though some of them are innocent. The brand is hopelessly damaged now (as it has been for the best part of a decade). The innocent, competent ones will probably be able to get employment elsewhere. Sweeping up shit in public cess pits, being test invaginations at the condom factory, whatever.
... thus ensuring that they could downsize the tech support hotline to an answerphone playing a loop of "Open your manual at page one, read to the back cover, then set up your connection. Thank you and goodbye."
Sweet. We should try this at work.
and raise you a (darn, I've forgotten) ...
... still forgotten ...
Oh, got it. Compaq "Portable" - my first portable.
OK, Work's first portable, which I had to repair after the technical department fucked it up on the rig.
(And I've got a 40MB MFM hard drive on an RLL controller, giving 60MB. Top that [GRIN]!)