How do you think a wiretap works? Did you ever believe there was a time when a wiretap was nearly impossible? So yes. The telecommunications industry is in bed with the government. Since 172 years at least.
PS: For some telecommunications equipment I actually know how the intercept interface works. Because I administer them.
No. It will be expanded to normal pressure before it is inhaled. For the actual breathing the pressure of the oxygen thus is irrelevant. It got compressed to store more of it within the same volume.
There are safe GM foods that have been feeding people for hundreds of years, but it only takes one to go wrong that will cause even the safe GM foods to banned.
No, those foods are not genetically modified, they are at most allelically modified. That is, they have the same genes than their wild ancestors, just the allel combination expressed by those genes is not found in the wild. Some of those domesticied crops also have a different number of chromosome sets, many domesticied crops are polyploid, which causes them to produce more proteins, but of the same kind that can also be found in the wild types. And then there is hybridization, the cross breeding of species from the same genus (e.g. most citrus fruits are hybrids).
The main difference with genetic modification is that a GM living has genes which come from different species and from different groups of livings. There are animal genes in plants or bacterial genes in an animal. This can also happen in nature (for instance after an infection with a retro virus), but those livings, if they breed at all, often separate and form a new species. And this is not part of the traditional breeding technologies.
To use a programming analogy (because cars are so dangerous to the climate): Breeding changes the parameters hard coded into a program, but genetical modification changes the program logic.
It can. Because most of the things it asserts trademark rights on are created as Work for Hire for the government (e.g. the rulers of the tribes/chiefdoms/kingdoms/empires of the time). Most countries I know of have special laws governing the usage of the cultural heritage. Just because the U.S. for a long was not really interested in anything created on U.S. soil that predates Copyright law and thus didn't fall under its protection does not mean that other countries might not see things differently.
It is pretty easy to weigh the Moon. Put it on the surface of a known mass(*) and measure the gravitational force between the two masses. The force is called "weight".
(*) You can also put a known mass on the surface of the Moon. Makes no difference for the measurement.
A religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
The main reason I put communism in the religious space is that communism states that the universe has a purpose, and that it evolves towards a specific goal (a classless society).
I am always fascinated by the dichotomy between the idea that this goal will be reached anyway out of historical necessity and on the other hand the idea that you have to submit yourself to the cause of reaching this goal.
The 10 digit dialling as it is in use in the U.S. causes major headaches for non-U.S. people who try to use telco equipment developed for the U.S.. Often it starts with some simple differences like the fact that the local phone system doesn't have an area code at all or the area code can have an arbitrary number of digits (two to six in Germany, one to four(*) in Austria...). (*) In Austria you can get your own area code, I've customers with their own five and six digit area codes.
Basicly it says: The Bible is blasphemic (anti-phoenicean). Luther's writings are blasphemic (anti-catholic), the Pope is blasphemic (anti-protestant), the whole U.S. is blasphemic (anti-communist) etc.pp.
Argh! Signal-to-noise ratio. Note to self: You shouldn't use those terms when you just pause from investigating a problem where a technical silence starts to create considerable noise because the null signal gets recoded from one codec to another one!:)
Free speech exists in a vacuum. A social net does not.
No. Free speech does not exist in a vacuum. No one will ever take your right away to babble nonsense in a vacuum. But that's not free speech. Free speech gets an issue if the things you say can influence other people, when the free speech actually gets heard by someone, and when there is a considerable silence-to-noise ratio to it. Free speech is inherently social. Without a society to talk in and to talk about there is no free speech. There is only noise.
Not if you travel a single road to a certain village - if the first sign claims 10 km, the next one 5 km, than one 6 km, than again 6 km, than 2 km and then the village limits, you get a little bit confused.
When I was bicycling Poland several times about 20 years ago (1988 and 1989), we coined the term "polish kilometer", because the distance to the next town was more a rough estimate than everything else.
It could happen that the distance shown on the road signs was varying 2-3 km, and that the last "(Next Village) 2 km" sign was just in sight of the actual village limit sign.
All the netbooks I ever bought were Linux based ones, even though none of them runs the original Xandros anymore. But with Ubuntu Netbook Remix they are going strong. Why you can't get hold of a Linux based netbook is beyond me. It wasn't hard for me. I just entered "linux netbook" in the search field of the online store of my choice, and there they were.
No. In fact men and women have the same number of sexual partners with even about the same bell curve. It depends on the type of questions you ask, and in which sequence. If you ask for instance the sex upfront, self declared women put much lower numbers than men. If you ask for the sex after the questionaire, the numbers women give is higher. And if you don't ask for the sex at all (and state so explicitely), the numbers given for both sexes match those men give on average.
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Nice car analogy by the way.
How do you think a wiretap works?
Did you ever believe there was a time when a wiretap was nearly impossible?
So yes. The telecommunications industry is in bed with the government. Since 172 years at least.
PS: For some telecommunications equipment I actually know how the intercept interface works. Because I administer them.
No. It will be expanded to normal pressure before it is inhaled. For the actual breathing the pressure of the oxygen thus is irrelevant. It got compressed to store more of it within the same volume.
There are safe GM foods that have been feeding people for hundreds of years, but it only takes one to go wrong that will cause even the safe GM foods to banned.
No, those foods are not genetically modified, they are at most allelically modified. That is, they have the same genes than their wild ancestors, just the allel combination expressed by those genes is not found in the wild. Some of those domesticied crops also have a different number of chromosome sets, many domesticied crops are polyploid, which causes them to produce more proteins, but of the same kind that can also be found in the wild types. And then there is hybridization, the cross breeding of species from the same genus (e.g. most citrus fruits are hybrids).
The main difference with genetic modification is that a GM living has genes which come from different species and from different groups of livings. There are animal genes in plants or bacterial genes in an animal. This can also happen in nature (for instance after an infection with a retro virus), but those livings, if they breed at all, often separate and form a new species. And this is not part of the traditional breeding technologies.
To use a programming analogy (because cars are so dangerous to the climate): Breeding changes the parameters hard coded into a program, but genetical modification changes the program logic.
It can. Because most of the things it asserts trademark rights on are created as Work for Hire for the government (e.g. the rulers of the tribes/chiefdoms/kingdoms/empires of the time). Most countries I know of have special laws governing the usage of the cultural heritage. Just because the U.S. for a long was not really interested in anything created on U.S. soil that predates Copyright law and thus didn't fall under its protection does not mean that other countries might not see things differently.
Which are made from denim ("de Nîmes" = from Nîmes in southern France) and cut according to genuese fashion (thus "Jeans" = "Genuans").
Just some nitpicking: German für "as a british" is "Als Brite".
If you want to calculate the mass from the measurement, then yes. If you just want to know the weight, then no.
It is pretty easy to weigh the Moon. Put it on the surface of a known mass(*) and measure the gravitational force between the two masses. The force is called "weight".
(*) You can also put a known mass on the surface of the Moon. Makes no difference for the measurement.
PS: There are other nontheist religions out there: Confucianism for instance.
A religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
The main reason I put communism in the religious space is that communism states that the universe has a purpose, and that it evolves towards a specific goal (a classless society).
I am always fascinated by the dichotomy between the idea that this goal will be reached anyway out of historical necessity and on the other hand the idea that you have to submit yourself to the cause of reaching this goal.
The 10 digit dialling as it is in use in the U.S. causes major headaches for non-U.S. people who try to use telco equipment developed for the U.S.. Often it starts with some simple differences like the fact that the local phone system doesn't have an area code at all or the area code can have an arbitrary number of digits (two to six in Germany, one to four(*) in Austria...).
(*) In Austria you can get your own area code, I've customers with their own five and six digit area codes.
Communism is a religion, albeit a nontheist one.
Actually it's Constable Dorfl talking in Capital Letters here.
Basicly it says: The Bible is blasphemic (anti-phoenicean). Luther's writings are blasphemic (anti-catholic), the Pope is blasphemic (anti-protestant), the whole U.S. is blasphemic (anti-communist) etc.pp.
And some of the rodents (though not all of them, guinea pigs are an counterexample).
And there was me thinking that attempting to break something deliberately is part of the playing :)
Are the brakes on a Dodge RAM really that bad?
silence-to-noise ratio
Argh! Signal-to-noise ratio. Note to self: You shouldn't use those terms when you just pause from investigating a problem where a technical silence starts to create considerable noise because the null signal gets recoded from one codec to another one! :)
Free speech exists in a vacuum. A social net does not.
No. Free speech does not exist in a vacuum. No one will ever take your right away to babble nonsense in a vacuum. But that's not free speech. Free speech gets an issue if the things you say can influence other people, when the free speech actually gets heard by someone, and when there is a considerable silence-to-noise ratio to it.
Free speech is inherently social. Without a society to talk in and to talk about there is no free speech. There is only noise.
Not if you travel a single road to a certain village - if the first sign claims 10 km, the next one 5 km, than one 6 km, than again 6 km, than 2 km and then the village limits, you get a little bit confused.
When I was bicycling Poland several times about 20 years ago (1988 and 1989), we coined the term "polish kilometer", because the distance to the next town was more a rough estimate than everything else.
It could happen that the distance shown on the road signs was varying 2-3 km, and that the last "(Next Village) 2 km" sign was just in sight of the actual village limit sign.
Here we go: iView 700 NB.
All the netbooks I ever bought were Linux based ones, even though none of them runs the original Xandros anymore. But with Ubuntu Netbook Remix they are going strong.
Why you can't get hold of a Linux based netbook is beyond me. It wasn't hard for me. I just entered "linux netbook" in the search field of the online store of my choice, and there they were.
No. In fact men and women have the same number of sexual partners with even about the same bell curve. It depends on the type of questions you ask, and in which sequence. If you ask for instance the sex upfront, self declared women put much lower numbers than men. If you ask for the sex after the questionaire, the numbers women give is higher. And if you don't ask for the sex at all (and state so explicitely), the numbers given for both sexes match those men give on average.
Strange result, huh?