It wasn't a settled matter. In fact, James Clerk Maxwell's equations from 1879 were already pointing towards a constant speed of light, and the Michelson-Morley-experiment in 1881 already questioned the ether theory, so Hendrik Antoon Lorentz with the help of Henri Poincaré had some equations ready which postulated a morphed timespace in 1892.
Albert Einstein's Special Relativity from 1905 thus wasn't so much about "shaking up the dogma of Newtonian physics" as more about "lets finally tackle those strange contradictions we get if we want to describe electromagnetism and astrophysics in the same physical environment".
And they are against GM food, because it's patent creep - doodle around in a little corner of the genome and patent the whole plant afterwards, thus gaining power over all people doing business with similar plants and destroying traditonal seed circulation.
As a typical non-listener to music, I don't speculate about the motivations of people downloading music. It would like being blind and philosophing about colors.
No. When Napster shut down, the decrease got only stronger. At the end of Napster in Jan 01, it was still about US$ 14 billions, then it sunk down pretty fast to $12 billions 2003, where it stayed for the next three years till 2006. Then the free exchange via KaZaA was shut down, and sales are going down very fast since then - 10.5 billions in 2007, 8.5 billions in 2008 and 6.3 in 2009.
So whenever a big exchange network gets shut down, sales break down, and whenever an alternative exchange network grows large enough and stays relatively unharmed, the sales remain stable.
But for instance the Berne Convention says, that every creative work is protected, until the author declares it free to use for others. Works well also - you just can't leech someone else's work, if you want a background image, either do one yourself or go around shopping. Just download it somewhere without asking is like just plucking someone else's apples without asking.
No. Writing complex mythological stories happening in invented worlds was one of the main themes in the early 19th century. There was the re-discovery of the local oral history, and then the fascination with the "national epic", and then the invention of "alternate national epics".
I don't know about the UK and the NHS, but at least in Germany, he would be considered Pflegestufe III (support level III, more than 300 mins per day necessary, including necessary support between 10pm and 6am), and it would be fully covered by the (mandantory) support insurance.
No, that's the exact point of a hybrid: Gaining the energy back you had to put into accelerating the car. If you brake in a hybrid, you don't convert energy into heat with the actual brakes, instead you convert it into electical energy and load your batteries. Those batteries then help you to accelerate the car again. Electrical locomotives do this since the mid-1960ies, but in cars it got feasible only in the last 15 years.
So yes, a hybrid gets better mileage in town than on the highway, because the average speed and thus friction and air resistance is lower than on the highway, and they don't waste too much energy by braking.
I don't see Windows Servers much in use exept for some additional application servers. The company I work for has all their main products running on Linux for the server, most of the larger clients, and sometimes VXworks for small clients. Windows Server is mostly used for products the customer is supposed to use directly as a local administrator, or for reporting and statistics. (And it's not a small company, we have about 1 mio enterprise customers in 160 countries).
Mercantilism is much later than the Middle Age, it started at the end of the Renaissance and grow to full power in the Baroque. When mercantilism started, the Middle Age was over for more than 100 years already.
No, I am fantasizing about a "truly free market" world pretty similar to the Middle Age Europe, with lots of little chiefdoms and large kingdoms, palatinates and prince-bishops, with a completely splittered landscape of coin systems and units, contracts and rivalry, agreements, cross-marriages, alliances and feuds, big Reichstags where all participants declare their common interests, while already bringing their troups into position for the next war.
Actually, Russia had an industry before. The Putilov Company in St. Peterburg was founded in 1789, and it was one of the largest canon foundries and machine construction plants of the pre-WWI world.
The public building gives you room to advertise your religion - you are leeching an opportunity the state gives to all citizens to interact with the state to propagate your beliefs. If you would start to put up advertisements for your business in a governmental building, you also would be complimented out of the door. How is the religion you adhere to any different?
Laicism at its core is intolerance for religion; as long as its not state sponsored, and its not inconveniencing anyone, me displaying symbols of my religion (or lack thereof -- are atheist bumper stickers illegal in France?) shouldn't be any of the state's business.
That's exactly wrong. Laicism is about the state not sponsoring any religion. So the "as long as it is not state sponsored" itself is contradicting Laicism, because the state is explicitely forbidden to sponsor religion.
And that means that showing religious symbols in state operated buildings is considered advertisement of religion and this is frowned upon there (not in the public itself, just on governmental premises).
The case is differently with the burqa, because hiding your face in public is considering wearing a mask, and this runs afoul the ban on concealment. The same is valid for ski masks, or motorcycle helmets or whatever. The burqa is not any different from a legal viewpoint.
I wonder if the newly won land on Antartica can even offset the flooded land along the coats of the earth, if the ice on Antarctica is completely molten.
If every farmer can built his own wind turbine on his own land, it gets complicated if you want to built power lines and power plants in synch. And currently power line construction and power plant construction are out of synch even in Germany, which is pretty advanced in terms of use of renewable energies.
Actually, RoundUp is a herbicide (weed killer), not an insecticide (worm killer). The article is not about RoundUp, but about the toxins from Bacillus thuringensis (Bt).
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It wasn't a settled matter. In fact, James Clerk Maxwell's equations from 1879 were already pointing towards a constant speed of light, and the Michelson-Morley-experiment in 1881 already questioned the ether theory, so Hendrik Antoon Lorentz with the help of Henri Poincaré had some equations ready which postulated a morphed timespace in 1892.
Albert Einstein's Special Relativity from 1905 thus wasn't so much about "shaking up the dogma of Newtonian physics" as more about "lets finally tackle those strange contradictions we get if we want to describe electromagnetism and astrophysics in the same physical environment".
And they are against GM food, because it's patent creep - doodle around in a little corner of the genome and patent the whole plant afterwards, thus gaining power over all people doing business with similar plants and destroying traditonal seed circulation.
No. Just because you know a swearword, it does not fit in every situation.
According to your definition, Spain at the time of Charles V was socialist.
As a typical non-listener to music, I don't speculate about the motivations of people downloading music. It would like being blind and philosophing about colors.
No. When Napster shut down, the decrease got only stronger. At the end of Napster in Jan 01, it was still about US$ 14 billions, then it sunk down pretty fast to $12 billions 2003, where it stayed for the next three years till 2006. Then the free exchange via KaZaA was shut down, and sales are going down very fast since then - 10.5 billions in 2007, 8.5 billions in 2008 and 6.3 in 2009.
So whenever a big exchange network gets shut down, sales break down, and whenever an alternative exchange network grows large enough and stays relatively unharmed, the sales remain stable.
But for instance the Berne Convention says, that every creative work is protected, until the author declares it free to use for others. Works well also - you just can't leech someone else's work, if you want a background image, either do one yourself or go around shopping. Just download it somewhere without asking is like just plucking someone else's apples without asking.
And they put them all on the same ballot. Why?
Why not have a ballot for each election?
And if you are not registered for all elections happening in this voting office, you don't get all ballots, only those you are registered for.
Problem solved.
You don't need the parties to send in trusted locals.
Why not have everyone watch who is interested? It works fine here around.
No. Writing complex mythological stories happening in invented worlds was one of the main themes in the early 19th century. There was the re-discovery of the local oral history, and then the fascination with the "national epic", and then the invention of "alternate national epics".
I don't know about the UK and the NHS, but at least in Germany, he would be considered Pflegestufe III (support level III, more than 300 mins per day necessary, including necessary support between 10pm and 6am), and it would be fully covered by the (mandantory) support insurance.
No, that's the exact point of a hybrid: Gaining the energy back you had to put into accelerating the car. If you brake in a hybrid, you don't convert energy into heat with the actual brakes, instead you convert it into electical energy and load your batteries. Those batteries then help you to accelerate the car again.
Electrical locomotives do this since the mid-1960ies, but in cars it got feasible only in the last 15 years.
So yes, a hybrid gets better mileage in town than on the highway, because the average speed and thus friction and air resistance is lower than on the highway, and they don't waste too much energy by braking.
I don't see Windows Servers much in use exept for some additional application servers. The company I work for has all their main products running on Linux for the server, most of the larger clients, and sometimes VXworks for small clients. Windows Server is mostly used for products the customer is supposed to use directly as a local administrator, or for reporting and statistics. (And it's not a small company, we have about 1 mio enterprise customers in 160 countries).
Mercantilism is much later than the Middle Age, it started at the end of the Renaissance and grow to full power in the Baroque. When mercantilism started, the Middle Age was over for more than 100 years already.
No, because the French State never vowed to be completely neutral to business.
No, I am fantasizing about a "truly free market" world pretty similar to the Middle Age Europe, with lots of little chiefdoms and large kingdoms, palatinates and prince-bishops, with a completely splittered landscape of coin systems and units, contracts and rivalry, agreements, cross-marriages, alliances and feuds, big Reichstags where all participants declare their common interests, while already bringing their troups into position for the next war.
Actually, Russia had an industry before. The Putilov Company in St. Peterburg was founded in 1789, and it was one of the largest canon foundries and machine construction plants of the pre-WWI world.
... said the man who has no clue what the communist ideology is.
Barack Obama is as communist as Rush Limbaugh is a faithful and honest christian.
And who tells you then that the third party isn't a fraud either?
So in a truly free market, the one makes the rules who is able to hire the most and the evilst thugs?
The public building gives you room to advertise your religion - you are leeching an opportunity the state gives to all citizens to interact with the state to propagate your beliefs. If you would start to put up advertisements for your business in a governmental building, you also would be complimented out of the door. How is the religion you adhere to any different?
Laicism at its core is intolerance for religion; as long as its not state sponsored, and its not inconveniencing anyone, me displaying symbols of my religion (or lack thereof -- are atheist bumper stickers illegal in France?) shouldn't be any of the state's business.
That's exactly wrong. Laicism is about the state not sponsoring any religion. So the "as long as it is not state sponsored" itself is contradicting Laicism, because the state is explicitely forbidden to sponsor religion.
And that means that showing religious symbols in state operated buildings is considered advertisement of religion and this is frowned upon there (not in the public itself, just on governmental premises).
The case is differently with the burqa, because hiding your face in public is considering wearing a mask, and this runs afoul the ban on concealment. The same is valid for ski masks, or motorcycle helmets or whatever. The burqa is not any different from a legal viewpoint.
I wonder if the newly won land on Antartica can even offset the flooded land along the coats of the earth, if the ice on Antarctica is completely molten.
If every farmer can built his own wind turbine on his own land, it gets complicated if you want to built power lines and power plants in synch. And currently power line construction and power plant construction are out of synch even in Germany, which is pretty advanced in terms of use of renewable energies.
RoundUp ist pretty old, and there are much more interesting resistance stories around RoundUp than this one.
My favorite is the RoundUp resistant strain of the coca plant that gets grown in Columbia: Boliviana negra.
Actually, RoundUp is a herbicide (weed killer), not an insecticide (worm killer). The article is not about RoundUp, but about the toxins from Bacillus thuringensis (Bt).