I'm genuinely curious - what benefit do you see in letting people who can't pass a basic safety test own a gun?
Well, I guess you could consider it population control. I mean, it's not really eugenics if people are accidentally shooting each other, is it? But I'm guessing you'd have to permit full auto and car-mounts before you'd make any significant dent in the population, so just waiving gun safety tests won't be sufficient.
In my state, I don't have to pass any safety courses to get a permit or a hunting license because I'm too old. Explain that one for me without invoking the population control argument.
If you actually read the website, what it's about is allowing the use of existing low temperature differentials by obviating the need for a power-robbing recirculating feedpump (as in the Rankine cycle). It's not a stirling engine, and it's not a mini gas turbine, although you can theoretically combine either of those in various ways with the Matteran system.
It's all about getting rid of the pump that makes low temperature differentials impractical to use for doing work. AC is just one sample application among many - you can drive any load you want, within the limitations of your available environment.
The flash animation is pretty straightforward, if you can stomach flash.
I couldn't find OSS staples of Java development: Tomcat, Hibernate, Rhino, Spring, Xerces, Xalan, JSON, Jakarta Commons, etc. I wonder by what criteria projects were initially included.
It's worse than that, they don't even list samba...
On topic, funny, informative... you rock, Anonymous Coward! I'm going to flag your name as +6 in my "friends" list. I bet all the rest of your posts are just as good!
Whenever I hear something like this, I immediately think "What are they trying to distract me from now?"
Did Bush's daughters invade Namibia or something?
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Like every market where money is to be made, it condenses down to a few global players.
We used to have a socio-political system intended to prevent that. It was believed that many players in every market would be good for the social and economic health of the nation. It was also believed that taxpaying, gainfully employed citizens in such a system would be better able to weather the inevitable fluctuations of supply, demand, and technology. Of course, that sort of belief is considered outmoded and hopelessly idealistic today.
Nowadays I guess we should consider ourselves happy as long as federal stooges don't break down our doors and carry our children off to Gitmo.
I had a problem with my youngest telling people his password. After exhausting every other option, I changed it to "iamadumbbell" and he stopped telling. I suppopse there will be a therapy bill for that in twenty years or so.
Your post was very interesting. It's the first time I've ever heard a self-labeled Libertarian say there might be some use for taxation.
Libertarianism would have a fantastic appeal to the average joe if you could just resolve the protection of the commons issue; look how many former libertarians have defected to the Green party!
Taxation on pollution of commons (air and water at the very least) is an extremely reasonable way to fund government, which supposedly exists "for the common good" after all. It's a hell of a lot better than taxing wages anyway.
Did you miss the part where I said if you have the tech chops use a WSUS server? I guess so.
Everybody else (including Windows apologists, Mac religious freaks, and *nix dweebs) should just unplug the comm wires during installs. This isn't exactly rocket science, my 70-year-old mother-in-law figured it out by herself and she's never taken a computer class in her life.
The first and foremost thing MS should do to make Windows more secure is to disable the call home when installing WinXP. From the moment it logs in, it is prone to attack and the user is left defenseless upto the moment installation is completed and a zillion trojans have had ample time to install. Atleast make it so the call home is performed AFTER I had the chance to install a virusscanner and firewall.
You're doing installs with the hardware hooked up to a public network? I don't think the problem is with Microsoft's plan here.
Install with the net and phone wires unplugged. Or, if you have the tech chops, install with the network wire plugged into a private secure network containing only a WSUS server and pull your updates right away.
I hate the whole concept of software that automatically "calls the mothership" anyway, but that's a different rant...
I don't have a subscription to read the original article, but the glossy schtick pointed to in the original post was pretty weak: "we mutilated ants and they couldn't find their way home, and if I buy fish it won't rain on monday, so therefore they have a pedometer hidden inside their gasters!". Hopefully the original has more actual science.
Silver ants (they look more like they are chrome-plated than silver) also live in the Sahara. They come out at the hottest time of day, when all predators are hiding, and they are extremely reflective. They have a special gait that allows them to keep half their feet off the sand in the shadow of their bodies, and they keep switching off so their feet don't cook. They move about in a fairly normal search pattern, but when they find something they run directly back to the nest without retracing their original route! Although they are believed to have good vision, their environment contains almost no visual cues - one sand dune's pretty much like another - and they will pass through territory they haven't seen on the way back to the nest.
Silver ants are also very hive-oriented or "altruistic". Individual foragers will go past their survival distance looking for food, but they turn around and come back so that their dead bodies are within the survival distance and can be recovered by other foragers. That way, if there is a food/water source that is further out than an ant could travel without such resources, they will still find it and use it.
All this is from memory and the wiki article is lame. If anybody has some good links for silver ants please post!
Let's put it this way: You will always see some curve in a cavalry saber - it's what defines the form - but you won't always see that cocked hilt. My US Model 1840 doesn't have it. There are distinct advantages to the curve that you notice immediately when riding at the pell, and you can learn how to compensate for it when thrusting or fighting on foot - the limitations are manageable. The angled grip, though, puts extra stress on the wrist in any situation other than the classic cav chop-n-disengage sweep, and doesn't really help (in my opinion - others differ) much on the thrust.
Decades ago, we used to laugh at the mainframers and their automated hierarchical storage systems because they'd make exactly these kinds of statements.
Frequency of use DOES denotes importance, at the very least STATISTICALLY.
No. Absent other data, it only denotes frequency of use, period. Playboy.com gets more hits than the general ledger webapp if you unblock your company firewall, but the general ledger is more important to the company.
Just because you want "that special little something" once a year; does not mean you can degrade the speed of information which is instantly needed.
There is actually very little correlation between what the average user wants and what s/he needs, as is empirically obvious. If the image from the "fly-fishing.com" website that they've set to come up as their background image every morning fails to load, they can still work, but if the once-a-year corporate audit checklist gets put on slow, old storage and then gets lost in a hardware failure, the company stock price may flutter and certainly heads will roll in the corporate IS department.
This is an obvious fact
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
you found my message unsupportable - yet I assume you found his completely justified?
Nice - fallacy of the undistributed middle, right after saying I'd done it to you.
Which do you want more? To be proven right or to be correct, even if that means admitting you are wrong?
I'll certainly be suprised if either one will be "proven" in my lifetime. I'm old enough that it's unlikely I'll be alive to see empirical results. I'm also old enough to have admitted being wrong hundreds if not thousands of times - and while I don't like finding out I've made a mistake, it certainly doesn't bother me at all to tell other people about it when I do find out. If you don't leap at the chance to redress any errors you have created or disseminated, people stop considering you a worthwhile source of information, which limits what you can do in cooperation with others.
What disconfirming evidence have you looked at, and why did you discount it?
All the dozens of claims to "disconfirming evidence" that I have investigated turned out to be nothing of the sort; when I consulted the actual data (such as the Mauna Loa Co2 readings and the the Greenland ice core data) and, in some cases, spoke to scientists involved in the data gathering, I found scientifically rigorous proceedings run by non-political academics, but when I attempted to find the supposedly "scientific" dissenters I found gross misrepresentations of fact pushed by political hacks without field qualifications.
I'm not going to address the rest of your propaganda, except to mention that equating corporations with scientists is novel. I haven't noticed a lot of corporations funding cross-correlation of historical documents with carbon logging, dendrochronology, or coral reef data.
Your time would be better spent learning how to analyze data than arguing with me.
Not one of the "global warming" scientists are dispassionate, aloof observers - they are activists. The miniscule but well funded dissent is also backed by the ecco-terrorism lobyists and people who think their paychecks depend on perpetuating this terror campaign so long as it keeps the money coming in.
Welcome to the paranoid fantasy that has sadly come to dominate the right-wing worldview.
Do you know any of the people you are slandering? I do. I once met the guy who discovered "global warming" (stupid name - he agrees).
"Eco-terrorist lobbyists" and "terror campaign". Pfft. Aren't you tired of pushing that button yet? It won't work forever.
You, promoting a political agenda in a public forum, calling a bunch of scientists who are almost entirely apolitical but simply happen to have found data that contradicts your propaganda, saying they are "activists". What a farce.
I know lots of disreputable PhDs, and Nikola Tesla's doctorates were all honorary, granted after he made his reputation.
Anyone can be a scientist by practicing the scientific method, and scientists gain reputation from the value of their results and not from sheepskins or licenses.
If you don't understand how we can know the carbon content of the atmosphere for the last 65,000 years, or you believe that you can't easily find real, verifiable, well-documented climate science with full cites and independent skeptical verification, you are woefully misinformed. And may I say that anybody who would bring the phrase "leftist banter" to a conversation about science has already been infected with anti-science memes.
Go read the report this discussion is about. See if you can evaluate it without even thinking about Wicca, Gore, Limbaugh, Nick Berg, or "media spin". Political memes will only impede your understanding; liberals happen to have the science on their side this time around, but that's NOT why you should believe it.
You might also visit realclimate.org, if you really believe what you wrote about wanting to see real science from PhDs.
If your cruise missle is targetted at me, couldn't that be construed as "distributing" the binary. In that case, wouldn't you have to provide me with the source code as well?
That's why we provide an URL and passcode painted on the nosecone of every missile, and include a printed copy of the GPL inside every warhead.
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In my state, I don't have to pass any safety courses to get a permit or a hunting license because I'm too old. Explain that one for me without invoking the population control argument.
If you actually read the website, what it's about is allowing the use of existing low temperature differentials by obviating the need for a power-robbing recirculating feedpump (as in the Rankine cycle). It's not a stirling engine, and it's not a mini gas turbine, although you can theoretically combine either of those in various ways with the Matteran system.
It's all about getting rid of the pump that makes low temperature differentials impractical to use for doing work. AC is just one sample application among many - you can drive any load you want, within the limitations of your available environment.
The flash animation is pretty straightforward, if you can stomach flash.
I wonder if it comes in a can, like Plastic Wood.
On topic, funny, informative... you rock, Anonymous Coward! I'm going to flag your name as +6 in my "friends" list. I bet all the rest of your posts are just as good!
Whenever I hear something like this, I immediately think "What are they trying to distract me from now?"
Did Bush's daughters invade Namibia or something?
Nowadays I guess we should consider ourselves happy as long as federal stooges don't break down our doors and carry our children off to Gitmo.
I had a problem with my youngest telling people his password. After exhausting every other option, I changed it to "iamadumbbell" and he stopped telling. I suppopse there will be a therapy bill for that in twenty years or so.
Your post was very interesting. It's the first time I've ever heard a self-labeled Libertarian say there might be some use for taxation.
Libertarianism would have a fantastic appeal to the average joe if you could just resolve the protection of the commons issue; look how many former libertarians have defected to the Green party!
Taxation on pollution of commons (air and water at the very least) is an extremely reasonable way to fund government, which supposedly exists "for the common good" after all. It's a hell of a lot better than taxing wages anyway.
Did you miss the part where I said if you have the tech chops use a WSUS server? I guess so.
Everybody else (including Windows apologists, Mac religious freaks, and *nix dweebs) should just unplug the comm wires during installs. This isn't exactly rocket science, my 70-year-old mother-in-law figured it out by herself and she's never taken a computer class in her life.
Install with the net and phone wires unplugged. Or, if you have the tech chops, install with the network wire plugged into a private secure network containing only a WSUS server and pull your updates right away.
I hate the whole concept of software that automatically "calls the mothership" anyway, but that's a different rant...
I don't have a subscription to read the original article, but the glossy schtick pointed to in the original post was pretty weak: "we mutilated ants and they couldn't find their way home, and if I buy fish it won't rain on monday, so therefore they have a pedometer hidden inside their gasters!". Hopefully the original has more actual science.
Silver ants (they look more like they are chrome-plated than silver) also live in the Sahara. They come out at the hottest time of day, when all predators are hiding, and they are extremely reflective. They have a special gait that allows them to keep half their feet off the sand in the shadow of their bodies, and they keep switching off so their feet don't cook. They move about in a fairly normal search pattern, but when they find something they run directly back to the nest without retracing their original route! Although they are believed to have good vision, their environment contains almost no visual cues - one sand dune's pretty much like another - and they will pass through territory they haven't seen on the way back to the nest.
Silver ants are also very hive-oriented or "altruistic". Individual foragers will go past their survival distance looking for food, but they turn around and come back so that their dead bodies are within the survival distance and can be recovered by other foragers. That way, if there is a food/water source that is further out than an ant could travel without such resources, they will still find it and use it.
All this is from memory and the wiki article is lame. If anybody has some good links for silver ants please post!
When the Patent Office stopped requiring models in 1880, that's when the system jumped the shark.
Software patents? Hah! Can't built a working 12 x 12 physical model, so you'll have to settle for a copyright. Business methods? It is to laugh.
Do you think eBay's not watching IPs? I bet they'll spot his pattern before too long.
He should use a separate IP address for his chicanery.
But I guess people don't choose a life of deceit due to excessive intelligence, eh?
Let's put it this way: You will always see some curve in a cavalry saber - it's what defines the form - but you won't always see that cocked hilt. My US Model 1840 doesn't have it. There are distinct advantages to the curve that you notice immediately when riding at the pell, and you can learn how to compensate for it when thrusting or fighting on foot - the limitations are manageable. The angled grip, though, puts extra stress on the wrist in any situation other than the classic cav chop-n-disengage sweep, and doesn't really help (in my opinion - others differ) much on the thrust.
No. Absent other data, it only denotes frequency of use, period. Playboy.com gets more hits than the general ledger webapp if you unblock your company firewall, but the general ledger is more important to the company.
There is actually very little correlation between what the average user wants and what s/he needs, as is empirically obvious. If the image from the "fly-fishing.com" website that they've set to come up as their background image every morning fails to load, they can still work, but if the once-a-year corporate audit checklist gets put on slow, old storage and then gets lost in a hardware failure, the company stock price may flutter and certainly heads will roll in the corporate IS department.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
IBM mainframes that literally pumped water were doing this decades ago.
What, you say water cooling is coming back too?
Well, it's slashdotted now, but judging by the little image on the H prize page she'd be something of a wrist-breaker.
Not much call for cavalry sabers these days, anyway.
I'll certainly be suprised if either one will be "proven" in my lifetime. I'm old enough that it's unlikely I'll be alive to see empirical results. I'm also old enough to have admitted being wrong hundreds if not thousands of times - and while I don't like finding out I've made a mistake, it certainly doesn't bother me at all to tell other people about it when I do find out. If you don't leap at the chance to redress any errors you have created or disseminated, people stop considering you a worthwhile source of information, which limits what you can do in cooperation with others.
All the dozens of claims to "disconfirming evidence" that I have investigated turned out to be nothing of the sort; when I consulted the actual data (such as the Mauna Loa Co2 readings and the the Greenland ice core data) and, in some cases, spoke to scientists involved in the data gathering, I found scientifically rigorous proceedings run by non-political academics, but when I attempted to find the supposedly "scientific" dissenters I found gross misrepresentations of fact pushed by political hacks without field qualifications.
I'm not going to address the rest of your propaganda, except to mention that equating corporations with scientists is novel. I haven't noticed a lot of corporations funding cross-correlation of historical documents with carbon logging, dendrochronology, or coral reef data.
Your time would be better spent learning how to analyze data than arguing with me.
Do you know any of the people you are slandering? I do. I once met the guy who discovered "global warming" (stupid name - he agrees).
"Eco-terrorist lobbyists" and "terror campaign". Pfft. Aren't you tired of pushing that button yet? It won't work forever.
You, promoting a political agenda in a public forum, calling a bunch of scientists who are almost entirely apolitical but simply happen to have found data that contradicts your propaganda, saying they are "activists". What a farce.
I know lots of disreputable PhDs, and Nikola Tesla's doctorates were all honorary, granted after he made his reputation.
Anyone can be a scientist by practicing the scientific method, and scientists gain reputation from the value of their results and not from sheepskins or licenses.
If you don't understand how we can know the carbon content of the atmosphere for the last 65,000 years, or you believe that you can't easily find real, verifiable, well-documented climate science with full cites and independent skeptical verification, you are woefully misinformed. And may I say that anybody who would bring the phrase "leftist banter" to a conversation about science has already been infected with anti-science memes.
Go read the report this discussion is about. See if you can evaluate it without even thinking about Wicca, Gore, Limbaugh, Nick Berg, or "media spin". Political memes will only impede your understanding; liberals happen to have the science on their side this time around, but that's NOT why you should believe it.
You might also visit realclimate.org, if you really believe what you wrote about wanting to see real science from PhDs.
All part of the job, m'am.