The short story "Invasion from Aldebaran" by Stanislaw Lem pictures a very advanced race with lots of means to hide their presence or to seamlessly adapt to the environment they are landing in.
The invasion starts in a forest near a small polish village, and the aliens transform into local people they just saw passing by, thus totally hiding their alien presence. But then they meet a drunkard, who bears a grudge against one of the people they have turned into anyway. Their biogenic attack weapons (a swarm of insect-like stitching and poisoning robots) turn back because they can't get through the ethylalcohol cloud surrounding the prospective victim, and the drunkard gets agitated because they aliens don't really react when he yells at them. Their weapon detecting device doesn't warn about the knag lying wayside, and the drunkard takes it and hits them on the head, while they still try to get their translation device to decipher the messages he was mumbling at them - thus killing the aliens and fighting off the alien invasion.
Actually, it would make sense to charge smokers less than the non-smokers for health insurance.
Sure, smokers die early. But the typical reasons for a smoker to die are quite cheap for health insurance. Yes, lung cancer is nasty, but you are dead after half a year. A healthy non-smoker with just a tad high blood pressure gets fifteen years of treatment until he dies.
Not the nicotine itself, but the amide of nicotinic acid, namely nicotinamide a.k.a. Vitamin B3.
But that's the general problem with many toxins: They are often toxic because they are so similar to a very important compound that's quite necessary for us, and they poison us, because they are nearly, but not completely right.
That's because many people listen to those who talk about the "viral GPL" (the copyright law itself is viral as it requires each derivative work to be licensed, thus any license that deals with copyright has to be "viral". GPL is no exception), and how it complicates the licensing process. I have to deal with proprietary licenses every day, and I can tell you that any other license model I have encountered is more complicated and more burdensome than the GPL. I estimate that about 10 percent of my work time is spend on ironing out licensing issues.
If you don't get your information from the actual institution that invented and maintains the GPL, but from secondary sources, you are prone to run into misconceptions and misleading ideas. But generally, hearsay is a bad advisor.
The other issue is companies that don't distribute software. Google's modified Linux that runs their datacentres, for example, is never distributed and so they never had to share their changes. I've worked with companies that use GPL'd software in this way but won't admit to it publicly for fear of liability (even though they're completely compliant with the license, as far as I can tell), and so who won't send patches upstream. Meanwhile, the same teams will happily send bug fixes for BSDL'd libraries that they use, because there's no chance that they're infringing the license and so they're happy to admit to using it.
People are not used to the GPL, don't know how it works, and then don't use the GPL. This is at first a problem of the people not educate themselves about the GPL. The license itself is clear: Yes, you distribute the original code or your derivative work upstream, as long as the people you distribute to can enjoy the same freedoms you had when you got the original code. It's quite simple.
And this is the real difference between BSD and GPL: as long as the people you distribute to can enjoy the same freedoms. BSD doesn't have a provision like this. BSD allows you to take away freedoms you enjoyed. Some people argue this would somehow be more free.
The whole amount of money that all governments of the world spend on climate research and weather prediction per year is about 5 billion dollars. Yes, that's a huge amount. But just for comparisation: the fracking industry in the U.S. alone has invested about 1400 billion dollars. So if you are looking for a wellpaid research job, don't become a climate scientist. There is no money in it.
Greece is actually an example of the "low taxes for rich people" approach, not for collectivism. In Greece, allowing rich people and property owners to avoid taxes brought the whole state in financial disarray while at the same time "trickle down" economics just didn't work.
From a taxation point of view, Greece is a libertarian heaven. Your point being?
You don't get me, right? People eat rice, because this is the cheapest food available. Some people can afford only rice and nothing else. Those people thus have a quite unbalanced diet, and Vitamine A is one (but not the only) nutritient that is underrepresented.
To solve this problem by adding Vitamine A to the rice is misguided. The diet is still unbalanced, and just adding more and more nutritients to rice will just make the crop yield less in general, being thus more expensive, and people will still be poor and not able to afford anything but rice - and in general more of the old fashioned white rice as this one will still be cheaper.
It would make more sense to empower those people to earn more money to pay for a much more balanced food.
Golden rice solves just the wrong problem. Yes, there are people who don't get enough Vitamine A, but to solve it by increasing the price of the only food they can afford does not exactly solve this problem. There are cheaper rice crops with higher yield than Golden rice.
Actually, Saturn also has a moon that is larger than Earth's Moon, Titan. Albeit the largest moon of Neptune, Triton, misses the size of Earth's Moon by about 200 km of radius.
The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus. In Uranus' case, the north pole is nearly in the Ecliptic itself, tilted at 98. All the other planets have their rotation axis (axial tilt) either nearly vertical to their orbit plane (e.g. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter), or tilted at about 20-30 (Earth, Mars, Saturn, Neptune).
The human as a species is not stabile in any biological sense. To the contrary, it seems as if the genetic drift within the human genome has sped up considerably in the last 5,000 years.
Lets put it thus: The parents can choose to not vaccinate their children, but if one child who is often in contact with the non-vaccinated children gets an infection the vaccination protects against, the parents are liable for grievous bodily harm.
HOW DOES SENDING EMAIL OVER ENCRYPTED CHANNELS "PREVENT" EMAIL ADDRESS TYPOS?
It does insofar as the public keys of the intended receiver and the actual receiver don't match, and thus the actual receiver gets nothing but encrypted gibberish, thus no data is leaked.
The first research in food energy (and thus the formula of calories in - calories out) are much older and date back to the end of the 19th century, and much research was done already 60 years ago, for instance in [Wishnofsky, M. Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (1958).]
... which means that the Raspberry Pi would have to be 15-30% more expensive. Yes, $5 does not look much in absolute terms, but compared to a $35 base price, it's a huge amount. If an educational society orders 1000 pts of them, $5000 makes a big dent in a tight budget.
The Raspberry Pi has the hardware to be very cheap while still being able to connect to a general lab setup and powerful enough for a lot of nice little projects.
That's not what quotation marks were invented for. And yes, his middle name is Hussein. So what? The first name of the world best track and field runner is Usain, which is Hussein with a different spelling. Do you also write him "Usain" Bolt?
You are argueing as if it was either existing ISPs or a government-run (municipal) ISP. Why can't they coexist? That's what happens here around. I can get the Internet connection from the local utility (which is basicly a municipal ISP), I can get it from the former telco monopolist, or I can get it from numerous other privately owned ISPs, of which some are just resellers of lines of others.
What we have is only the governmental mandate that an ISP with a local monopoly of lines has to offer capacity on the last mile to other ISPs in a non-discriminatory manner. That's all. Thus about every ISP is potentially able to offer his product everywhere. If he is not present with its own lines, they can be rented from the local monopolist or quasi-monopolist. Problem solved.
If you get hold of a list of robocallers, you could put something similar up yourself with Asterisk or any other of the free phone switch software packages.
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The invasion starts in a forest near a small polish village, and the aliens transform into local people they just saw passing by, thus totally hiding their alien presence. But then they meet a drunkard, who bears a grudge against one of the people they have turned into anyway. Their biogenic attack weapons (a swarm of insect-like stitching and poisoning robots) turn back because they can't get through the ethylalcohol cloud surrounding the prospective victim, and the drunkard gets agitated because they aliens don't really react when he yells at them. Their weapon detecting device doesn't warn about the knag lying wayside, and the drunkard takes it and hits them on the head, while they still try to get their translation device to decipher the messages he was mumbling at them - thus killing the aliens and fighting off the alien invasion.
Sure, smokers die early. But the typical reasons for a smoker to die are quite cheap for health insurance. Yes, lung cancer is nasty, but you are dead after half a year. A healthy non-smoker with just a tad high blood pressure gets fifteen years of treatment until he dies.
But that's the general problem with many toxins: They are often toxic because they are so similar to a very important compound that's quite necessary for us, and they poison us, because they are nearly, but not completely right.
If you don't get your information from the actual institution that invented and maintains the GPL, but from secondary sources, you are prone to run into misconceptions and misleading ideas. But generally, hearsay is a bad advisor.
The other issue is companies that don't distribute software. Google's modified Linux that runs their datacentres, for example, is never distributed and so they never had to share their changes. I've worked with companies that use GPL'd software in this way but won't admit to it publicly for fear of liability (even though they're completely compliant with the license, as far as I can tell), and so who won't send patches upstream. Meanwhile, the same teams will happily send bug fixes for BSDL'd libraries that they use, because there's no chance that they're infringing the license and so they're happy to admit to using it.
People are not used to the GPL, don't know how it works, and then don't use the GPL. This is at first a problem of the people not educate themselves about the GPL. The license itself is clear: Yes, you distribute the original code or your derivative work upstream, as long as the people you distribute to can enjoy the same freedoms you had when you got the original code. It's quite simple.
And this is the real difference between BSD and GPL: as long as the people you distribute to can enjoy the same freedoms. BSD doesn't have a provision like this. BSD allows you to take away freedoms you enjoyed. Some people argue this would somehow be more free.
The whole amount of money that all governments of the world spend on climate research and weather prediction per year is about 5 billion dollars. Yes, that's a huge amount. But just for comparisation: the fracking industry in the U.S. alone has invested about 1400 billion dollars. So if you are looking for a wellpaid research job, don't become a climate scientist. There is no money in it.
From a taxation point of view, Greece is a libertarian heaven. Your point being?
To solve this problem by adding Vitamine A to the rice is misguided. The diet is still unbalanced, and just adding more and more nutritients to rice will just make the crop yield less in general, being thus more expensive, and people will still be poor and not able to afford anything but rice - and in general more of the old fashioned white rice as this one will still be cheaper.
It would make more sense to empower those people to earn more money to pay for a much more balanced food.
Golden rice solves just the wrong problem. Yes, there are people who don't get enough Vitamine A, but to solve it by increasing the price of the only food they can afford does not exactly solve this problem. There are cheaper rice crops with higher yield than Golden rice.
I consider most people in Gamer Gate as trolls, and I am no feminist.
Actually, Saturn also has a moon that is larger than Earth's Moon, Titan. Albeit the largest moon of Neptune, Triton, misses the size of Earth's Moon by about 200 km of radius.
It is not as it doesn't dominate its orbit around the Sun (this orbit is dominated by Earth).
Oh, Slashdot ate my degree sign.
The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus. In Uranus' case, the north pole is nearly in the Ecliptic itself, tilted at 98. All the other planets have their rotation axis (axial tilt) either nearly vertical to their orbit plane (e.g. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter), or tilted at about 20-30 (Earth, Mars, Saturn, Neptune).
The company I work for is considering to outsource their service division to IBM...
The human as a species is not stabile in any biological sense. To the contrary, it seems as if the genetic drift within the human genome has sped up considerably in the last 5,000 years.
The parents are still responsible for their own child, and thus still liable for grievous bodily harm - this time against their own child.
Lets put it thus: The parents can choose to not vaccinate their children, but if one child who is often in contact with the non-vaccinated children gets an infection the vaccination protects against, the parents are liable for grievous bodily harm.
HOW DOES SENDING EMAIL OVER ENCRYPTED CHANNELS "PREVENT" EMAIL ADDRESS TYPOS?
It does insofar as the public keys of the intended receiver and the actual receiver don't match, and thus the actual receiver gets nothing but encrypted gibberish, thus no data is leaked.
The first research in food energy (and thus the formula of calories in - calories out) are much older and date back to the end of the 19th century, and much research was done already 60 years ago, for instance in [Wishnofsky, M. Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (1958).]
The Raspberry Pi has the hardware to be very cheap while still being able to connect to a general lab setup and powerful enough for a lot of nice little projects.
That's not what quotation marks were invented for. And yes, his middle name is Hussein. So what? The first name of the world best track and field runner is Usain, which is Hussein with a different spelling. Do you also write him "Usain" Bolt?
What we have is only the governmental mandate that an ISP with a local monopoly of lines has to offer capacity on the last mile to other ISPs in a non-discriminatory manner. That's all. Thus about every ISP is potentially able to offer his product everywhere. If he is not present with its own lines, they can be rented from the local monopolist or quasi-monopolist. Problem solved.
If you get hold of a list of robocallers, you could put something similar up yourself with Asterisk or any other of the free phone switch software packages.
This test track is the Autobahn A9, one of the most used Autobahns in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich, largest and third largest german city.