But on the other hand: Newton was very into Alchemy, and did some crazy experimenting which were already considered superstition at the time he did it.
Because passport data is supposed to be read by foreign authorities. Or would you vote for a big worldwide database containing all humans passport data, and accessible by every gouvernment of the world?
I don't know about Skype directly, but normally VoIP is no real bandwidth hog. A G.711 (uncompressed) encoded VoIP-stream has 64 kbit/sec, add the IP overhead, and you are at 80 kbit/sec. Even if you are talking VoIP 10 hrs a day, you are at 10.8 GByte after a month, not at 250 GByte.
Obviously, there's so much evidence behind evolution, so much correlation between other sciences; but we cannot actually demonstrate evolution in a lab environment. So, it will remain the "Evolutionary Theory."
It will stay "Evolutionary Theory" as long as there is no contadictionary evidence (then it will be the former Evolution Theory). "Theory" in Science means a set of rules and parameters we can use to predict the outcome of experiments. Some physical theories we traditionally call "laws", when in fact they are theories too (only very fundamental ones).
A scientific theory never will become a fact. Facts are a completely different beast. A certain amount of facts will give us an idea how a theory might look like that covers those facts. But this is then a hypothesis until it is pretty well tested against other facts. After that the hypothesis might be called a theory.
I don't see how legalizing these two things would bring more money into the country. Aside from marijuana and LSD, most drugs are smuggled into the country, and money leaves the country.
You are wrong here. The price of raw stuff is about a tenth of the street price, when it crosses the border of the U.S. 90% of the street prices goes to the dealer network inside the U.S..
If you legalize those drugs, the price at the border would still be about 10% of the current street price, but you don't need such a vast and secretive distribution network anymore for the legal distribution. Driving around with one big van through the suburb takes 1 person and 1 van, and not a hierarchical group of three feuding gangs with 20 members each to serve the same suburb. So the gouvernment could easily take 50% tax and still be cheaper than the illegal version.
Moscow was the russian capital during most of its history. It was just the spleen of the csars after Peter I not to reside there but have their own town somewhere away, preferredly at a harbour (where the court talked french and most of the executives talked german). But even through the 200 years of St.Peterburg as residence, Moscow was still the town where the administration was.
There is this thing called Phyrric victory. Spending U.S.$ 1.5 trillion to turn one of the most corrupt states of the world into one of the most corrupt states of the world, increasing at the same time the number of political motivated killings from an average of 10,000 per year to 25,000 per year, moving from a pretty secular and multi religious state into a very fundamentalistic islamic one... technically it was a victory, yes.
Moreso, to actually take down Hollywood content they had to actively assess and thus download and analyse everthing that is tracked on their servers, effectively reversing their own standing: That they are a plattform provider for trackers, nothing else.
I have a freebie phone, and it has a camera, it has a FM-radio and MP3 player, it has bluetooth connectivity and a lot of other features. I even know how to use most features I never use. I am using basic phone features, I am using the call log, I am using the phone book. I am getting tickets from my employer via SMS, and if someone is sending me an SM(S), I mostly call back, and only if that's not possible I answer via SMS. I don't use SMS initially. I don't even switch the ringtone or change the background picture.
I just don't need most of the features built into the phone, and I don't get a cheaper mobile plan by choosing a phone with less features. There are no offerings for less featured phones anyway, and mobile plans in Austria are pretty cheap, often cheaper than landlines, with calls costing 1 ct/min (0,01 â/min), and even prepaid plans having prices around 4 ct/min.
So what to do? I just ignore everything in the phone I don't need anyway. But I don't blame the phone interface for not using the features I ignore. But statisticans and market researcher will still cry how those features are wasted on me (which in fact they are).
The have existed until about 1995, when the weapons inspectors were looking for them and having destroyed all they could find. But as someone who has lived in a dictatorship I knew that the WMDs after that were purely fictional. Dictatorships also have those dellusional ideas that "doing as if it was real" will somehow materialize the reality out of nothing. One of the most important things in this play is to never ever clearly state that something you wish for in fact doesn't exist. That's why no one in the Iraqi junta ever told publically that the WMDs were all gone, even though the U.S. and the U.N. were pressing them to do so. Publicly admitting the non-existance of WMDs would have had a devastating effect on the junta's morale. Every colonel knew about the situation in his own unit. So his only hope was that some other military unit was better than their own. On the other hand he didn't want anyone to know that the own unit was weak, ill-equipped, badly trained, with low morale. So everyone had to boast about their own unit, and they heard from the other troups only the best. And the Super Secred Weapons Of Mass Destructions Not Even The Weapon Inspectors Were Knowing About were the hope everyone was clinging on, that a potential war wouldn't be as devastating as they had to expect from looking at their troups. And finally it was meant as some kind of deterrent against the neighboring states, a kind of ballooning yourself to look larger than you really were. I guess most people who have lived through a dictatorship knew those tricks, and so they might not have fallen to much for it. But for some strange reason this self-dellusion was also taking over the minds of the U.S. government. Because they never were exposed to an autocratic regime before, they took for bare coins what they were hearing from Iraq. And because they believed that no one would ever try to look more dangerous than he actually is, but rather play down his abilities to look nice and be not beaten by the big bully U.S., they exageraged the Iraqi boastings further, and were convinced Saddam Hussein had in fact more WMDs than he was hinting on, when in fact he had none. That's what you get when someone who can play with expectations and with false impressions as well as Karl Rove or Dick Cheney finds a likewise weasely counterpart.;)
And for a last bit of fun, there's no defender more stalwart of a piece of bullshit, than someone whose model already broke down once and was patched to that bullshit.
My father uses to say: "It's easy to turn someone around 180 degrees. But if he was in a balance before, he will be balanced again. If he was extreme before, he will be extreme again."
1. 1997 was 11 years ago 2. Everyone was preparing for Y2K 3. Those billions of lines of code were often replacing billions of lines of coded that were removed
If you ever encounter a SAP R/3 program, you will find COBOL mixed with SQL statements (the whole called ABAP). So COBOL is not dead, it just has mutated.
And still they have separate states with separate parliaments, with separate tax regulations and separate state subvention programs.
Hey, the nickname of the state Vorarlberg is actually "Canton Leftover", because they once (1923) wanted to join Switzerland, but Switzerland didn't want them. Vorarlberg's biggest town has 50,000 inhabitants, all other towns are smaller than 25,000 inhabitants.
Same with Tyrol. I live in the 10th largest community of the whole state of Tyrol. The village has 8330 inhabitants.
And the city of Vienna is not only the biggest city of Austria (Graz comes next, which has a quarter of the inhabitants), it is at the same time the biggest state of Austria.
So don't talk about small. Austria is small. But still... they are a federal republic. They don't need to be. But they are for historical reasons: Some of the states (like Carinthia) have more than 2000 years of history as separate entities. The predecessor of Carinthia, the kingdom of Noricum, basicly today's Carinthia, Styria and Slovenia, was founded ~200 B.C., and Carinthia itself around 600 A.C.. It became part of Austria in 1335.
I think as long as the rules stay the same during the whole process, and the general rules are the same for every candidate, every voting system works, especially if only 25 percent of all voters actually care.
If you have more than two candidates, the geometry is more than 1-dimensional, and you can't sort anything more than 1-dimensional while at the same time keeping important arithmetic properties. That's also valid for elections.
Basically, McDonalds is considered to have a "family" of marks; short of an actual Scottish name (and even, perhaps, then, if associated with fast food), putting "Mc-" in front of your business name is a good way to bring an army of red-shoed lawyers down on yourself. Doubly so if the "Mc-" is in front of food names.
It was the same with the european sweets factory Ferrero. They had a milk chocolate specially marketed to german children called "kinderSchokolade" (I guess since about 35 years now). Later one they sold more "kinder-" labelled chocolate products: "kinderUeberraschung" (kinder surprise), kinderPingui and what not. In several countries they got a trademark on "kinder-" in front of product names.
Then the dotcom boom came, and in Austria a marketing agency launched kinder.at. Ferrero sent the lawyers, argueing that this was domain squatting. They lost. They had all the trademark rights, they could prove they were defending kinder- in all variations. Nothing helped.
The judge wrote in his finding of fact: "Kinder sind nicht in erster Linie Lebensmittel" (children aren't food in the first place).
But also with range voting you can get a less popular candidate winning. If he has not many but loyal followers who give him a 9 and 0 to everyone else, and the other candidate has many more followers, but they will give him 7s and 8s, and 2s and 3s to the other, then in the end the candidate the majority disappoves still manages to win. The disparity can get worse if there are more than two candidates running.
Lets assume 30 voters for three candidates.
A gets 9 from his 10 supporters, who give 0 to all other candidates. B gets 7 from his 10 supporters, but they give 2 to all other candidates. C gets 7 from his 10 supporters, who give 4 to B and only 1 to A.
So A is heavily unpopular with everyone exept his own supports, and he gets 120 votes. B is popular with his own supporters, but also the fans of C will agree with him. He gehts 110 votes. C is definitely unpopular, but the supportes of B would rather have him than A.
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But on the other hand: Newton was very into Alchemy, and did some crazy experimenting which were already considered superstition at the time he did it.
Because passport data is supposed to be read by foreign authorities. Or would you vote for a big worldwide database containing all humans passport data, and accessible by every gouvernment of the world?
I don't know about Skype directly, but normally VoIP is no real bandwidth hog. A G.711 (uncompressed) encoded VoIP-stream has 64 kbit/sec, add the IP overhead, and you are at 80 kbit/sec. Even if you are talking VoIP 10 hrs a day, you are at 10.8 GByte after a month, not at 250 GByte.
Obviously, there's so much evidence behind evolution, so much correlation between other sciences; but we cannot actually demonstrate evolution in a lab environment. So, it will remain the "Evolutionary Theory."
It will stay "Evolutionary Theory" as long as there is no contadictionary evidence (then it will be the former Evolution Theory). "Theory" in Science means a set of rules and parameters we can use to predict the outcome of experiments. Some physical theories we traditionally call "laws", when in fact they are theories too (only very fundamental ones).
A scientific theory never will become a fact. Facts are a completely different beast. A certain amount of facts will give us an idea how a theory might look like that covers those facts. But this is then a hypothesis until it is pretty well tested against other facts. After that the hypothesis might be called a theory.
I don't see how legalizing these two things would bring more money into the country. Aside from marijuana and LSD, most drugs are smuggled into the country, and money leaves the country.
You are wrong here. The price of raw stuff is about a tenth of the street price, when it crosses the border of the U.S. 90% of the street prices goes to the dealer network inside the U.S..
If you legalize those drugs, the price at the border would still be about 10% of the current street price, but you don't need such a vast and secretive distribution network anymore for the legal distribution. Driving around with one big van through the suburb takes 1 person and 1 van, and not a hierarchical group of three feuding gangs with 20 members each to serve the same suburb. So the gouvernment could easily take 50% tax and still be cheaper than the illegal version.
Moscow was the russian capital during most of its history. It was just the spleen of the csars after Peter I not to reside there but have their own town somewhere away, preferredly at a harbour (where the court talked french and most of the executives talked german). But even through the 200 years of St.Peterburg as residence, Moscow was still the town where the administration was.
There is this thing called Phyrric victory. Spending U.S.$ 1.5 trillion to turn one of the most corrupt states of the world into one of the most corrupt states of the world, increasing at the same time the number of political motivated killings from an average of 10,000 per year to 25,000 per year, moving from a pretty secular and multi religious state into a very fundamentalistic islamic one... technically it was a victory, yes.
Moreso, to actually take down Hollywood content they had to actively assess and thus download and analyse everthing that is tracked on their servers, effectively reversing their own standing: That they are a plattform provider for trackers, nothing else.
I have a freebie phone, and it has a camera, it has a FM-radio and MP3 player, it has bluetooth connectivity and a lot of other features. I even know how to use most features I never use. I am using basic phone features, I am using the call log, I am using the phone book. I am getting tickets from my employer via SMS, and if someone is sending me an SM(S), I mostly call back, and only if that's not possible I answer via SMS. I don't use SMS initially. I don't even switch the ringtone or change the background picture.
I just don't need most of the features built into the phone, and I don't get a cheaper mobile plan by choosing a phone with less features. There are no offerings for less featured phones anyway, and mobile plans in Austria are pretty cheap, often cheaper than landlines, with calls costing 1 ct/min (0,01 â/min), and even prepaid plans having prices around 4 ct/min.
So what to do? I just ignore everything in the phone I don't need anyway. But I don't blame the phone interface for not using the features I ignore. But statisticans and market researcher will still cry how those features are wasted on me (which in fact they are).
The have existed until about 1995, when the weapons inspectors were looking for them and having destroyed all they could find. But as someone who has lived in a dictatorship I knew that the WMDs after that were purely fictional. Dictatorships also have those dellusional ideas that "doing as if it was real" will somehow materialize the reality out of nothing. ;)
One of the most important things in this play is to never ever clearly state that something you wish for in fact doesn't exist. That's why no one in the Iraqi junta ever told publically that the WMDs were all gone, even though the U.S. and the U.N. were pressing them to do so. Publicly admitting the non-existance of WMDs would have had a devastating effect on the junta's morale. Every colonel knew about the situation in his own unit. So his only hope was that some other military unit was better than their own. On the other hand he didn't want anyone to know that the own unit was weak, ill-equipped, badly trained, with low morale. So everyone had to boast about their own unit, and they heard from the other troups only the best. And the Super Secred Weapons Of Mass Destructions Not Even The Weapon Inspectors Were Knowing About were the hope everyone was clinging on, that a potential war wouldn't be as devastating as they had to expect from looking at their troups.
And finally it was meant as some kind of deterrent against the neighboring states, a kind of ballooning yourself to look larger than you really were. I guess most people who have lived through a dictatorship knew those tricks, and so they might not have fallen to much for it.
But for some strange reason this self-dellusion was also taking over the minds of the U.S. government. Because they never were exposed to an autocratic regime before, they took for bare coins what they were hearing from Iraq. And because they believed that no one would ever try to look more dangerous than he actually is, but rather play down his abilities to look nice and be not beaten by the big bully U.S., they exageraged the Iraqi boastings further, and were convinced Saddam Hussein had in fact more WMDs than he was hinting on, when in fact he had none.
That's what you get when someone who can play with expectations and with false impressions as well as Karl Rove or Dick Cheney finds a likewise weasely counterpart.
And for a last bit of fun, there's no defender more stalwart of a piece of bullshit, than someone whose model already broke down once and was patched to that bullshit.
My father uses to say: "It's easy to turn someone around 180 degrees. But if he was in a balance before, he will be balanced again. If he was extreme before, he will be extreme again."
Thanks for the hint! In general it works with Cygwin too, but you should definitely include all /cygdrive/c/Program Files/* into the $PATH.
I do if I really have to work ;) Running XP I fire up Cygwin though.
Ideally they'll strike a balance between the prettyness of vista and the functionality and performance of XP.
Call me oldfashioned, but I still use XP with the Win2000 interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.
So we are again at a Yogi Berra:
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they aren't.
A ce façon?
Comme ci, comme ca. (the c with an Cedille, but Slashdot doesn't know how to print that.)
It is innocent in that sense that there are no reported damages and victims.
Let's be realistic here.
1. 1997 was 11 years ago
2. Everyone was preparing for Y2K
3. Those billions of lines of code were often replacing billions of lines of coded that were removed
If you ever encounter a SAP R/3 program, you will find COBOL mixed with SQL statements (the whole called ABAP). So COBOL is not dead, it just has mutated.
Luckily CO2 tends to react with Calcium, Sodium and Potassium minerals, and gives us different types of chalk. ;)
And still they have separate states with separate parliaments, with separate tax regulations and separate state subvention programs.
Hey, the nickname of the state Vorarlberg is actually "Canton Leftover", because they once (1923) wanted to join Switzerland, but Switzerland didn't want them. Vorarlberg's biggest town has 50,000 inhabitants, all other towns are smaller than 25,000 inhabitants.
Same with Tyrol. I live in the 10th largest community of the whole state of Tyrol. The village has 8330 inhabitants.
And the city of Vienna is not only the biggest city of Austria (Graz comes next, which has a quarter of the inhabitants), it is at the same time the biggest state of Austria.
So don't talk about small. Austria is small. But still... they are a federal republic. They don't need to be. But they are for historical reasons: Some of the states (like Carinthia) have more than 2000 years of history as separate entities. The predecessor of Carinthia, the kingdom of Noricum, basicly today's Carinthia, Styria and Slovenia, was founded ~200 B.C., and Carinthia itself around 600 A.C.. It became part of Austria in 1335.
I think as long as the rules stay the same during the whole process, and the general rules are the same for every candidate, every voting system works, especially if only 25 percent of all voters actually care.
If you have more than two candidates, the geometry is more than 1-dimensional, and you can't sort anything more than 1-dimensional while at the same time keeping important arithmetic properties. That's also valid for elections.
Basically, McDonalds is considered to have a "family" of marks; short of an actual Scottish name (and even, perhaps, then, if associated with fast food), putting "Mc-" in front of your business name is a good way to bring an army of red-shoed lawyers down on yourself. Doubly so if the "Mc-" is in front of food names.
It was the same with the european sweets factory Ferrero. They had a milk chocolate specially marketed to german children called "kinderSchokolade" (I guess since about 35 years now). Later one they sold more "kinder-" labelled chocolate products: "kinderUeberraschung" (kinder surprise), kinderPingui and what not. In several countries they got a trademark on "kinder-" in front of product names.
Then the dotcom boom came, and in Austria a marketing agency launched kinder.at. Ferrero sent the lawyers, argueing that this was domain squatting. They lost. They had all the trademark rights, they could prove they were defending kinder- in all variations. Nothing helped.
The judge wrote in his finding of fact: "Kinder sind nicht in erster Linie Lebensmittel" (children aren't food in the first place).
But also with range voting you can get a less popular candidate winning. If he has not many but loyal followers who give him a 9 and 0 to everyone else, and the other candidate has many more followers, but they will give him 7s and 8s, and 2s and 3s to the other, then in the end the candidate the majority disappoves still manages to win. The disparity can get worse if there are more than two candidates running.
Lets assume 30 voters for three candidates.
A gets 9 from his 10 supporters, who give 0 to all other candidates.
B gets 7 from his 10 supporters, but they give 2 to all other candidates.
C gets 7 from his 10 supporters, who give 4 to B and only 1 to A.
So A is heavily unpopular with everyone exept his own supports, and he gets 120 votes. B is popular with his own supporters, but also the fans of C will agree with him. He gehts 110 votes. C is definitely unpopular, but the supportes of B would rather have him than A.
But still A wins.
All voting systems are mathematically flawed. It's a mathematical property and can't be avoided. (check Election Math as a reference).