Just look at the responses to your comment. Just look at the comments and moderation on this whole thread. Look at the number of Bush bashing links in the sigs of the people saying this is BS.
YouTube didn't exactly censor the video, they did however make it harder to see. They have however completely censored people like Malkin and other conservative pundits. Meanwhile assassination video's of the President are just fine and dandy.
This article points out facts, but they're not facts the liberals like, so of course they must be buried and attacked. Remember, presenting both sides of the story is considered to be a conservative trait and must be lambasted by liberals everywhere. (Note that FoxNews is called a 'conservative network' even though they're not, they just make an effort to show both sides - a crime to many liberals these days).
YouTube censors. They have the right to do it, but the fact remains that they do it. So does Google. They both censor conservative opinions rather heavily. Pretending otherwise just shows that you've either no touch with reality, or that you've become so partisan yourself that you can't admit the truth anymore. And why are so many web surfers liberal? Because who else has time to spend all day online? College students, who are constantly hearing only one side of any story in school these days. And who have learned from their professors that stifling debate is better than participating in it.
I like Spam (the product not the email). Have you ever tried it? It's actually not bad. The term 'spam' for email has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of the product and whether or not people like it, (and from the number of sales and length of time on the market it is apparent that many people do like SPAM).
It has to everything do with the Monty Python skit however. They're the ones (if anyone can be blamed) most responsible for the coining of the phrase. When I first heard the comment 'Spam Email' used, like pretty much all the other net geeks I associated it immediately with the skit, cause it was funny and all us net geeks watched Python.
That the phrase is still in use twenty years later is rather surprising. I don't think anyone knows who the first computer user was to use the term, it's just one of those things that happened. But it has nothing to do with people's like or dislike of the product.
Besides, has Hormel really actively protected their trademark ever since people started using the word "Spam" for unsolicited e-mail? I've only heard about them doing so for the last two, or perhaps three, years.
Actually yes, they started fighting this a while back when it came to their attention. I think their first efforts were back in the 90's. The problem then was who do you sue? Everybody who uses the word? (And please, no RIAA jokes!!)
I have to wonder how much of this Hormel really wants to do (going to court and all that) and how much they just think they're obligied to do by the law to protect their trademark in other areas. They had to know going in to this that they didn't have a chance of winning it.
So I have to suspect that they were only there out of fear of what might happen to their brand name in other legal area's if they didn't at least try.
Putting junk up in space is not a guarenteed method of destruction. You can build 'bumpers' on objects to protect from debris (rather easily too it turns out) or you can just maneuver your object out of the way of the debris.
Remember that the size of space is vast, so the amount of mass you'd have to put into orbit to guarentee a hit is huge. You're better off trying to hit the object with a direct intercept, like the kinetic kill vehicles that are currently being tested. Just trying to put up a passive cloud of debris isn't very effective.
People forget too that weapons and the like need periodic maintenance, I think that is a far bigger issue against putting weapons in space than any ability China might have to knock them out.
Do you think the Chinese would sit there and just allow us to bomb North Korea without doing anything?
You do know that economic embargos and other threats are what led the Japanese to attack us in WWII, right?
Please do not accuse me of being ignorant when you obviously know nothing of history, politics, the world situation, etc. Your policies would at the very least have us in a shooting war with China. You talk like a fairly deranged man (or child, I'm wondering just how old you are when you speak like you do), you are most definitely a fanatic.
As for diplomacy, if you can't even figure out how to reason with other people here on slashdot then it's abundantly clear that you're talking out your butt when you reccomend diplomacy for others, because you understand nothing about it.
Good points, however I would like to point out that this is the reason for the B2. While it is slower than an ICBM, it can bomb any target in China without anyone knowing it's there until the bomb detonates. This is actually far superior to the orbiting bomb, which can be seen, and you know when it gets launched.
Also I think a first strike against china would do more harm to the US than the Chinese, considering how all of our stuff is made there these days!:-)
Wow, you called him a Bush worshipping troll in one breath, and then gave out the most ridiculous and deranged screed in the next. Dude, take a few breaths, sit down, and relax already. You sound completely unhinged. The original Post was pretty apolitical and scientific. Your response here however is so over the top that you sound deranged.
Yes, we all know now that you hate Bush and you hate AKAImbatman. However you didn't make any points as to whether the original points under discussion were good ones or bad ones. You did impress on me however that you're not someone whose advice I'd ever listen too, so you completely lost me to any points you might have wanted to make. And not because you hate Bush, but because you simply spewed like a crazy man.
Really, how many Cam Whores are on MySpace? I joined years ago so a friend could share some pictures with me. Otherwise my account pretty much just languishes there. But a week doesn't go by where some 'OMG I"M NEW' girl doesn't try to friend me, and ask me to visit her 'NEW CAM PAGE WHERE I LOVE TO HANG OUT AND CHAT', blah blah blah.
The fact that most of these Cam whores are 'bots is pretty funny, the fact that when you go check out their 'friends' list you find ten thousand guys who are all completely clueless to what's going on is hysterical. But the porn industry thrives on MySpace and I'm rather surprised that the company doesn't do anything about it.
Makes my wonder if they cut some kind of a kickback for looking the other way.
String theory is at times one of the biggest con jobs in Physics, and at other times some of the most interesting speculation. It's also the 'Theory that will NOT die!' reminding me of so many late night C rate thrillers.
Why? Because everytime string theory gets disproven, they come out with a new theory and call it 'String Theory'. String Theory from the 70's really doesn't resemble current string theory much other than the name. It's strange that this is so, but there are a lot more politics involved than there is science at times. And the author is right, there are lots of articles being written, but not much going on that can be said to prove the theory, and little in the way of predictions (cause those could be tested). And so far, everytime someone does stand up and make predictions, it quickly gets disproven by actual tests. Which may be why no one is predicting much using it anymore.
At this point actually String Theory may very well be the most 'disproven' theory in physics. But that doesn't seem to stop people from trying. It will be curious to see what science has to say about all of this 50 years from now. To be honest I think many of us have gotten too close to the subject to be objective about it, and I think that is not helping the issue on either side.
Not 'in the top' at the top. Yau is a smart man, I've already said that, and winning the Fields Medal was a big event for him. But it wasn't enough. Fields Medal winners don't end up in the Math books really. Or the History books (except as side notes). People who solve things like Poincare however get proofs and other such things named after them that people will study and remember for centuries.
Do you see the difference? Yau is driven to be at the very top of the pyramid, he wants people to know who he was hundreds of years from now, he wants people studying Math to Know his name. And to be honest I applaud him for his drive, however this whole thing should be beneath him and that he did it does not speak well of him. I've seen this before, brilliant young minds become average older ones. I fear that Yau may have gone the same way and no longer be the bright man he once was, but merely an embittered hack. And that in its own way is a tragic story too. His trying to take credit for the Poincare solution was lame. This lawsuit is just pathetic.
Science and Math should not take place in courtrooms.
Even better, it could fund the construction of about four or five more clean, safe nuclear power plants so we can remove our dependence on power plants that produce more global warming, e.g. fossil fuel and hydroelectric power plants.
Except that California BANNED Nuclear power plants some time ago. For that matter they've all but banned new power plant construction with I think only one plant being built in like the last twenty years.
See California expects everyone else to provide them with power (and eventually water I suspect, but that's another story). Yes building a bunch of nuke plants here and getting rid of all the fossil fuel plants (and allowing people to switch their gasoline cars to clean burning natural gas) would be great. But don't expect to see that happen here, makes too much sense.
What's even more absurd is that the polution here is noticeably less that it was twenty years ago! But can't go talking about that, can they?
Guys who have more ego than brains, they're smart enough to be in the top ten percent, but they just can't make it to the very top. No one will say they're not smart or hard working, but they're just not Geniuses they're not Inspired as it were. So they become bitter and nasty and make their grad students lives a living hell (as well as that of anyone around them) because they can't accept being second best. Yau is a very smart man, yes, but he will never be what he wants to be and stealing credit for Poincare is really just pathetic. He hopes in a hundred years no one will remember that, but they will.
What's really sad is that this goes on all the time, I've heard stories of it from Physicists more than once. Science and Math are not without their politics and the infighting can be incredibly nasty.
Never been past 40? I went to 58 before I got tired of it. I maxed out in all my crafts as well and was selling dragon armor recepies in the auction because none of the leather was worthwhile for my hunter at those levels (and making a fortune at it).
so don't tell me I lose when you don't know the situation, or what you're talking about.
There are several problems with the crafting system, that I would have loved to have seen fixed (Disclaimer, I stopped playing 8 months ago). the first is that you max out in crafting and it becomes fairly worthless for you in the higher levels. The second is just that crafting maxes out so easily. The third is that you can always find better items than you can craft for your level (and rather easily at that).
Crafting's only real advantage was your ability to make things for lower level characters and sell it. Making things to use for yourself as you progressed when you could almost always find better hurt that system and I maxed out all my crafting skills in the 40-50 level range.
As a side note, the lack of a special 'hunter' armor in the leather skill chain was a minus, and the 'leveling bug' exposed a large hole in the system (as well as their customer service which was the main reason I closed my account). I think if they had added to and increased the crafting chains and the amount of stuff you could make at the higher levels, it would have added a lot to the game. On the whole I think FFXI's crafting system had some advantages in that aspect.
Well it is known that the CO2 in the bubbles will dissolve out of the bubbles and through the ice giving lower levels of CO2 in ice cores than actually existed at the time the ice was made. This is pretty common knowledge in the scientific community (though no one here seems to have brought it up), and why several leading experts in the field have been skeptical about the ice core results.
If you do a search on the subject (and filter out the alarmists and politicians to get down to the actual experts) you will find a lot of interesting data, especially on CO2 levels and the leading/trailing indicator debate.
No one is even sure yet that warming, if it is indeed occuring enough to have an effect, is a bad thing. The thought that we (human beings) can do anything about it is pretty egotistical, we're just not that powerful.
We have water meters here (CA), Umm, I live in the central valley (Sacramento) and we don't have water meters here at all. We can use as much as we want and many people do without any care because all the water ends up back in the river where it get's taken out again by farmers and used again.
I found I was wrong, there was a new release that came out on the Nokia site at the end of last month. I've loaded it and am trying it and hopefully it has the bugs fixed (it is labeled as the final release). So my apologies to all.
I went to the website last night and saw that Nokia did indeed release a new version of the OS at the end of last month. So I was wrong, there is a new release. Hopefully this will work better than the old one, I know it paired with my phone easily (I haven't checked the timezone thing yet). So my Apologies, I was wrong.
First off, an apology. I noticed on Nokia's website that there is a new release that came out at the end of the month. Mea Culpa.
As for the USA website? Well when I last used the main nokia website and the load ddn't work the people at NOKIA as well as the main Nokia forums and websites said that the European release was for those in Europe and of course it wouldn't work in America and to wait for the American release. Which was 2 weeks later and the exact same image, but still after that I stayed away from anything that Nokia itself did not put on its website.
When the new version of the OS came out on the Nokia site, I DL'd it. I got the timezone bug (Where my clock would only give me Finland time) and all support for my T-Mobile phone was gone. So I reflashed the previous version. Now unless Nokia recently put up a new image on the USA website, then no, Nokia hasn't released anything.
I don't care what is on any other site at the OS level, because that's NOT Nokia's official release, and Nokia will not support it, or be responsible if it ruins the device (according to Nokia's tech support on the phone).
I have gone to several of the sites mentioned above (though not since June) and asked if there were any new official releases by Nokia. No one said a word. Again, I really don't want to play with Alpha or Beta releases. I want a production release that works and works well that I don't have to install some fix for (that I was told I had to hack root to install) to make something like the clock work properly.
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Just look at the responses to your comment. Just look at the comments and moderation on this whole thread. Look at the number of Bush bashing links in the sigs of the people saying this is BS.
YouTube didn't exactly censor the video, they did however make it harder to see. They have however completely censored people like Malkin and other conservative pundits. Meanwhile assassination video's of the President are just fine and dandy.
This article points out facts, but they're not facts the liberals like, so of course they must be buried and attacked. Remember, presenting both sides of the story is considered to be a conservative trait and must be lambasted by liberals everywhere. (Note that FoxNews is called a 'conservative network' even though they're not, they just make an effort to show both sides - a crime to many liberals these days).
YouTube censors. They have the right to do it, but the fact remains that they do it. So does Google. They both censor conservative opinions rather heavily. Pretending otherwise just shows that you've either no touch with reality, or that you've become so partisan yourself that you can't admit the truth anymore. And why are so many web surfers liberal? Because who else has time to spend all day online? College students, who are constantly hearing only one side of any story in school these days. And who have learned from their professors that stifling debate is better than participating in it.
I like Spam (the product not the email). Have you ever tried it? It's actually not bad. The term 'spam' for email has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of the product and whether or not people like it, (and from the number of sales and length of time on the market it is apparent that many people do like SPAM).
It has to everything do with the Monty Python skit however. They're the ones (if anyone can be blamed) most responsible for the coining of the phrase. When I first heard the comment 'Spam Email' used, like pretty much all the other net geeks I associated it immediately with the skit, cause it was funny and all us net geeks watched Python.
That the phrase is still in use twenty years later is rather surprising. I don't think anyone knows who the first computer user was to use the term, it's just one of those things that happened. But it has nothing to do with people's like or dislike of the product.
Actually yes, they started fighting this a while back when it came to their attention. I think their first efforts were back in the 90's. The problem then was who do you sue? Everybody who uses the word? (And please, no RIAA jokes!!)
I have to wonder how much of this Hormel really wants to do (going to court and all that) and how much they just think they're obligied to do by the law to protect their trademark in other areas. They had to know going in to this that they didn't have a chance of winning it.
So I have to suspect that they were only there out of fear of what might happen to their brand name in other legal area's if they didn't at least try.
Putting junk up in space is not a guarenteed method of destruction. You can build 'bumpers' on objects to protect from debris (rather easily too it turns out) or you can just maneuver your object out of the way of the debris.
Remember that the size of space is vast, so the amount of mass you'd have to put into orbit to guarentee a hit is huge. You're better off trying to hit the object with a direct intercept, like the kinetic kill vehicles that are currently being tested. Just trying to put up a passive cloud of debris isn't very effective.
People forget too that weapons and the like need periodic maintenance, I think that is a far bigger issue against putting weapons in space than any ability China might have to knock them out.
Do you think the Chinese would sit there and just allow us to bomb North Korea without doing anything?
You do know that economic embargos and other threats are what led the Japanese to attack us in WWII, right?
Please do not accuse me of being ignorant when you obviously know nothing of history, politics, the world situation, etc. Your policies would at the very least have us in a shooting war with China. You talk like a fairly deranged man (or child, I'm wondering just how old you are when you speak like you do), you are most definitely a fanatic.
As for diplomacy, if you can't even figure out how to reason with other people here on slashdot then it's abundantly clear that you're talking out your butt when you reccomend diplomacy for others, because you understand nothing about it.
So, you'd start a war with North Korea, China, and threathen Japan with the same?
Woah, you're out there all right. And you accuse Bush of being evil and stupid?
This is pretty bizarre coming from someone who claims to be 'against war'.
Good points, however I would like to point out that this is the reason for the B2. While it is slower than an ICBM, it can bomb any target in China without anyone knowing it's there until the bomb detonates. This is actually far superior to the orbiting bomb, which can be seen, and you know when it gets launched.
:-)
Also I think a first strike against china would do more harm to the US than the Chinese, considering how all of our stuff is made there these days!
Wow, you called him a Bush worshipping troll in one breath, and then gave out the most ridiculous and deranged screed in the next. Dude, take a few breaths, sit down, and relax already. You sound completely unhinged. The original Post was pretty apolitical and scientific. Your response here however is so over the top that you sound deranged.
Yes, we all know now that you hate Bush and you hate AKAImbatman. However you didn't make any points as to whether the original points under discussion were good ones or bad ones. You did impress on me however that you're not someone whose advice I'd ever listen too, so you completely lost me to any points you might have wanted to make. And not because you hate Bush, but because you simply spewed like a crazy man.
Really, how many Cam Whores are on MySpace? I joined years ago so a friend could share some pictures with me. Otherwise my account pretty much just languishes there. But a week doesn't go by where some 'OMG I"M NEW' girl doesn't try to friend me, and ask me to visit her 'NEW CAM PAGE WHERE I LOVE TO HANG OUT AND CHAT', blah blah blah.
The fact that most of these Cam whores are 'bots is pretty funny, the fact that when you go check out their 'friends' list you find ten thousand guys who are all completely clueless to what's going on is hysterical. But the porn industry thrives on MySpace and I'm rather surprised that the company doesn't do anything about it.
Makes my wonder if they cut some kind of a kickback for looking the other way.
String theory is at times one of the biggest con jobs in Physics, and at other times some of the most interesting speculation. It's also the 'Theory that will NOT die!' reminding me of so many late night C rate thrillers.
Why? Because everytime string theory gets disproven, they come out with a new theory and call it 'String Theory'. String Theory from the 70's really doesn't resemble current string theory much other than the name. It's strange that this is so, but there are a lot more politics involved than there is science at times. And the author is right, there are lots of articles being written, but not much going on that can be said to prove the theory, and little in the way of predictions (cause those could be tested). And so far, everytime someone does stand up and make predictions, it quickly gets disproven by actual tests. Which may be why no one is predicting much using it anymore.
At this point actually String Theory may very well be the most 'disproven' theory in physics. But that doesn't seem to stop people from trying. It will be curious to see what science has to say about all of this 50 years from now. To be honest I think many of us have gotten too close to the subject to be objective about it, and I think that is not helping the issue on either side.
Not 'in the top' at the top. Yau is a smart man, I've already said that, and winning the Fields Medal was a big event for him. But it wasn't enough. Fields Medal winners don't end up in the Math books really. Or the History books (except as side notes). People who solve things like Poincare however get proofs and other such things named after them that people will study and remember for centuries.
Do you see the difference? Yau is driven to be at the very top of the pyramid, he wants people to know who he was hundreds of years from now, he wants people studying Math to Know his name. And to be honest I applaud him for his drive, however this whole thing should be beneath him and that he did it does not speak well of him. I've seen this before, brilliant young minds become average older ones. I fear that Yau may have gone the same way and no longer be the bright man he once was, but merely an embittered hack. And that in its own way is a tragic story too. His trying to take credit for the Poincare solution was lame. This lawsuit is just pathetic.
Science and Math should not take place in courtrooms.
If you live in California and run for office on that platform, you'll get my vote! Always thought the legislature here was damaging the planet! :-)
Except that California BANNED Nuclear power plants some time ago. For that matter they've all but banned new power plant construction with I think only one plant being built in like the last twenty years.
See California expects everyone else to provide them with power (and eventually water I suspect, but that's another story). Yes building a bunch of nuke plants here and getting rid of all the fossil fuel plants (and allowing people to switch their gasoline cars to clean burning natural gas) would be great. But don't expect to see that happen here, makes too much sense.
What's even more absurd is that the polution here is noticeably less that it was twenty years ago! But can't go talking about that, can they?
Guys who have more ego than brains, they're smart enough to be in the top ten percent, but they just can't make it to the very top. No one will say they're not smart or hard working, but they're just not Geniuses they're not Inspired as it were. So they become bitter and nasty and make their grad students lives a living hell (as well as that of anyone around them) because they can't accept being second best. Yau is a very smart man, yes, but he will never be what he wants to be and stealing credit for Poincare is really just pathetic. He hopes in a hundred years no one will remember that, but they will.
What's really sad is that this goes on all the time, I've heard stories of it from Physicists more than once. Science and Math are not without their politics and the infighting can be incredibly nasty.
Never been past 40? I went to 58 before I got tired of it. I maxed out in all my crafts as well and was selling dragon armor recepies in the auction because none of the leather was worthwhile for my hunter at those levels (and making a fortune at it).
so don't tell me I lose when you don't know the situation, or what you're talking about.
There are several problems with the crafting system, that I would have loved to have seen fixed (Disclaimer, I stopped playing 8 months ago). the first is that you max out in crafting and it becomes fairly worthless for you in the higher levels. The second is just that crafting maxes out so easily. The third is that you can always find better items than you can craft for your level (and rather easily at that).
Crafting's only real advantage was your ability to make things for lower level characters and sell it. Making things to use for yourself as you progressed when you could almost always find better hurt that system and I maxed out all my crafting skills in the 40-50 level range.
As a side note, the lack of a special 'hunter' armor in the leather skill chain was a minus, and the 'leveling bug' exposed a large hole in the system (as well as their customer service which was the main reason I closed my account). I think if they had added to and increased the crafting chains and the amount of stuff you could make at the higher levels, it would have added a lot to the game. On the whole I think FFXI's crafting system had some advantages in that aspect.
Well it is known that the CO2 in the bubbles will dissolve out of the bubbles and through the ice giving lower levels of CO2 in ice cores than actually existed at the time the ice was made. This is pretty common knowledge in the scientific community (though no one here seems to have brought it up), and why several leading experts in the field have been skeptical about the ice core results.
If you do a search on the subject (and filter out the alarmists and politicians to get down to the actual experts) you will find a lot of interesting data, especially on CO2 levels and the leading/trailing indicator debate.
No one is even sure yet that warming, if it is indeed occuring enough to have an effect, is a bad thing. The thought that we (human beings) can do anything about it is pretty egotistical, we're just not that powerful.
We have water meters here (CA),
Umm, I live in the central valley (Sacramento) and we don't have water meters here at all. We can use as much as we want and many people do without any care because all the water ends up back in the river where it get's taken out again by farmers and used again.
Good point. Hadn't thought about it that way.
I found I was wrong, there was a new release that came out on the Nokia site at the end of last month. I've loaded it and am trying it and hopefully it has the bugs fixed (it is labeled as the final release). So my apologies to all.
I went to the website last night and saw that Nokia did indeed release a new version of the OS at the end of last month. So I was wrong, there is a new release. Hopefully this will work better than the old one, I know it paired with my phone easily (I haven't checked the timezone thing yet). So my Apologies, I was wrong.
First off, an apology. I noticed on Nokia's website that there is a new release that came out at the end of the month. Mea Culpa.
As for the USA website? Well when I last used the main nokia website and the load ddn't work the people at NOKIA as well as the main Nokia forums and websites said that the European release was for those in Europe and of course it wouldn't work in America and to wait for the American release. Which was 2 weeks later and the exact same image, but still after that I stayed away from anything that Nokia itself did not put on its website.
I'm probably going to give it to an artist I know, they were interested in it and don't have a lot of cash.
When the new version of the OS came out on the Nokia site, I DL'd it. I got the timezone bug (Where my clock would only give me Finland time) and all support for my T-Mobile phone was gone. So I reflashed the previous version. Now unless Nokia recently put up a new image on the USA website, then no, Nokia hasn't released anything.
I don't care what is on any other site at the OS level, because that's NOT Nokia's official release, and Nokia will not support it, or be responsible if it ruins the device (according to Nokia's tech support on the phone).
I have gone to several of the sites mentioned above (though not since June) and asked if there were any new official releases by Nokia. No one said a word. Again, I really don't want to play with Alpha or Beta releases. I want a production release that works and works well that I don't have to install some fix for (that I was told I had to hack root to install) to make something like the clock work properly.