Personally I would have just backed the data up and carried the hard drives with me if I were moving continents. Computer hardware isn't that expensive to replace.
If you're intent on doing it that way though, it might help to package the stuff in its original boxes, I know many people do keep them. They're suitable for shipping.
OSM is nice but it's quality and accuracy are nowhere near Nokia's data. I've used their stuff for a long time now and it's never had a glitch, the OSM maps have. Note: I'm all for open / crowd-sourced, etc, but in this case OSM doesn't match Nokia for reliability.
It may be... Likely that people only use the sites they're familiar with, i.e. Facebook or whatever, they're unlikely to go looking for something new. Those magazines would likely be something that they wouldn't necessarily go looking for. Just my 2c...
No, not brainwashed. Just don't care much. They can try to track me if they want to, but embedding a GPS in a chocolate bar is going to be quite ineffective for the reasons that I've mentioned.
If some hypothetical paranoid person REALLY doesn't want to be tracked but REALLY wants a chocolate, then the metal box would be more than adequate to foil the tracking attempts...
Anyone who's ever used a GPS, especially not a dedicated device e.g. a smartphone, knows that it's a bit of a mission to get the thing to actually lock on to sattelites. If one was really paranoid one could just carry one's chocolate in a metal box until one gets home, then the GPS will never lock on anyway. So I doubt there are any real privacy implications here...
Offtopic a bit maybe? I don't disagree with anything you are saying but my question was, how much of an influence does man really have?
Again, don't get me wrong, I do my best to minimise my own impact on the environment, but is man's impact really large enough to melt all the arctic ice?
I'm not a global warming naysayer, but are humans solely to blame for this? How much of it would have happened anyway? (I'm thinking of the sun's 11-year cycle and the recent larger-than-normal volcano activity)
Couldn't it also be that those who were promiscuous just happened to have stronger immune systems? Perhaps they were both affected by some other undocumented factor. Or maybe a documented one! Like the fact that they compared two different species of mice?
From TFA: "Results from the study found that the lifestyles of the two species of mice made a direct impact on the bacterial communities that living within the female reproductive tract, as well as the diversity of genes related to immunity against bacterial disease."
Sounds to me as though the two are related, not that one impacts the other. Perhaps I'm mistaken though, mouse-sexuality research isn't exactly my field, but I know a little bit about research methodology and statistics.
South Africa. I'm almost certain there are no laws against it, and if there are, there are no authorities capable of (or intelligent enough to) enforcing them.
Mind you, just because it's illegal, doesn't stop you from doing it. I'd do it even if I was in the US, because that law is morally reprehensible to me. Bleargh.
I see nothing wrong with de-DRM-ing stuff which I pay for. I understand that that may be illegal in some places, but it's not where I am, AFAIK. So whenever I buy a kindle ebook for example, I de-DRM it and back it up in a couple of places, in a few different formats as well. It's a bit tedious but it lets me use what I've paid for in whatever manner I want to...
DRM bypassing isn't all that hard if you know where to look. I haven't come across a system yet which isn't cracked within a reasonably short time. I would have suggested making things like bypassing DRM illegal (I believe it's the DMCA which prevents this?) but making DRM illegal will work even better, I think. Good suggestion.
I should probably have added the disclaimer that I haven't used Slackware since the KDE3 days, I've been on Mint for the last four years or so, so I have no idea of the stability thereof... but that was my priority for using Slackware then anyway. These days I have the family to think of, Mint is a bit easier to use for them, and it's stable enough.
You make a good point . Slackware continued with KDE3 for quite a while after 4 started shipping, and Mint forked Gnome2 as MATE and they're still shipping it. They also made Cinnamon which uses some pieces of Gnome3 but with most of the features you loved from 2, I'm using that at the moment and personally I think it's brilliant. So the distros do have a choice.
Haha, that may be argued... but at the same time, evolution can't really intelligently say, oh well there's a choking risk here so maybe I should put an epiglottis which prevents that from happening (in most cases...) You can call God a bad engineer if you want, I'm sure the Christians would justify it by saying that his thoughts are higher than ours. In the end, evolution by itself doesn't disprove the existence of a God.
As has been argued elsewhere in this thread, accepting evolution doesn't mean that you can't believe in some sort of faith. But I hear your point, the emotional investment is a large one.
Doesn't this depend pretty strongly on pretending non- judeochristian religions don't exist?
One hidden assumption is that the only opposing viewpoint to scientific evolution is creationism, and another hidden assumption is creationism is fundamentalist christian.
I'm actually not too sure what you mean here... to be honest... maybe I'm a bit dim but could you restate this?
I agree with you. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that evolution was the mechanism by which our world developed, but by itself it isn't an engineer which can make design decisions. Whether you believe in a God is a personal matter but evidence for evolution isn't evidence against a God.
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Personally I would have just backed the data up and carried the hard drives with me if I were moving continents. Computer hardware isn't that expensive to replace.
If you're intent on doing it that way though, it might help to package the stuff in its original boxes, I know many people do keep them. They're suitable for shipping.
OSM is nice but it's quality and accuracy are nowhere near Nokia's data. I've used their stuff for a long time now and it's never had a glitch, the OSM maps have. Note: I'm all for open / crowd-sourced, etc, but in this case OSM doesn't match Nokia for reliability.
I also thought so, it's just that I happened to be going through a local dealer's price list the other day. Have a look here: http://www.intel.co.za/content/www/us/en/processors/celeron/celeron-processor.html
In fairness, i3 isn't Intel's lowest end offering, there's still Pentium and Celeron which are lower than that. It's kind of mid-range...
It may be... Likely that people only use the sites they're familiar with, i.e. Facebook or whatever, they're unlikely to go looking for something new. Those magazines would likely be something that they wouldn't necessarily go looking for. Just my 2c...
"Tire Failure is Imminent"
FTFY. Eminent tyre failure isn't really what we want here ;-)
I don't live in the UK anymore but as I recall, most of their confectionery comes in plastic wrappers...
No, not brainwashed. Just don't care much. They can try to track me if they want to, but embedding a GPS in a chocolate bar is going to be quite ineffective for the reasons that I've mentioned.
If some hypothetical paranoid person REALLY doesn't want to be tracked but REALLY wants a chocolate, then the metal box would be more than adequate to foil the tracking attempts...
Anyone who's ever used a GPS, especially not a dedicated device e.g. a smartphone, knows that it's a bit of a mission to get the thing to actually lock on to sattelites. If one was really paranoid one could just carry one's chocolate in a metal box until one gets home, then the GPS will never lock on anyway. So I doubt there are any real privacy implications here...
Seriously? Increased carbon emissions increase volcanoes? This I've never heard before.
Offtopic a bit maybe? I don't disagree with anything you are saying but my question was, how much of an influence does man really have?
Again, don't get me wrong, I do my best to minimise my own impact on the environment, but is man's impact really large enough to melt all the arctic ice?
I'm not a global warming naysayer, but are humans solely to blame for this? How much of it would have happened anyway? (I'm thinking of the sun's 11-year cycle and the recent larger-than-normal volcano activity)
Depends how you define stimulus.
Couldn't it also be that those who were promiscuous just happened to have stronger immune systems? Perhaps they were both affected by some other undocumented factor. Or maybe a documented one! Like the fact that they compared two different species of mice?
From TFA: "Results from the study found that the lifestyles of the two species of mice made a direct impact on the bacterial communities that living within the female reproductive tract, as well as the diversity of genes related to immunity against bacterial disease."
Sounds to me as though the two are related, not that one impacts the other. Perhaps I'm mistaken though, mouse-sexuality research isn't exactly my field, but I know a little bit about research methodology and statistics.
Agreed... but while it doesn't go away there are ways around it.
South Africa. I'm almost certain there are no laws against it, and if there are, there are no authorities capable of (or intelligent enough to) enforcing them.
Mind you, just because it's illegal, doesn't stop you from doing it. I'd do it even if I was in the US, because that law is morally reprehensible to me. Bleargh.
I see nothing wrong with de-DRM-ing stuff which I pay for. I understand that that may be illegal in some places, but it's not where I am, AFAIK. So whenever I buy a kindle ebook for example, I de-DRM it and back it up in a couple of places, in a few different formats as well. It's a bit tedious but it lets me use what I've paid for in whatever manner I want to...
DRM bypassing isn't all that hard if you know where to look. I haven't come across a system yet which isn't cracked within a reasonably short time. I would have suggested making things like bypassing DRM illegal (I believe it's the DMCA which prevents this?) but making DRM illegal will work even better, I think. Good suggestion.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't having a case coated in magnesium (a metal last time I checked) mess up things like wifi reception?
I should probably have added the disclaimer that I haven't used Slackware since the KDE3 days, I've been on Mint for the last four years or so, so I have no idea of the stability thereof... but that was my priority for using Slackware then anyway. These days I have the family to think of, Mint is a bit easier to use for them, and it's stable enough.
The point of the ads is to encourage you to shell out a dollar or two for the premium version of the app... in my experience anyway.
You make a good point . Slackware continued with KDE3 for quite a while after 4 started shipping, and Mint forked Gnome2 as MATE and they're still shipping it. They also made Cinnamon which uses some pieces of Gnome3 but with most of the features you loved from 2, I'm using that at the moment and personally I think it's brilliant. So the distros do have a choice.
Haha, that may be argued... but at the same time, evolution can't really intelligently say, oh well there's a choking risk here so maybe I should put an epiglottis which prevents that from happening (in most cases...) You can call God a bad engineer if you want, I'm sure the Christians would justify it by saying that his thoughts are higher than ours. In the end, evolution by itself doesn't disprove the existence of a God.
As has been argued elsewhere in this thread, accepting evolution doesn't mean that you can't believe in some sort of faith. But I hear your point, the emotional investment is a large one.
Doesn't this depend pretty strongly on pretending non- judeochristian religions don't exist?
One hidden assumption is that the only opposing viewpoint to scientific evolution is creationism, and another hidden assumption is creationism is fundamentalist christian.
I'm actually not too sure what you mean here... to be honest... maybe I'm a bit dim but could you restate this?
I agree with you. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that evolution was the mechanism by which our world developed, but by itself it isn't an engineer which can make design decisions. Whether you believe in a God is a personal matter but evidence for evolution isn't evidence against a God.