You are talking about the process against Foscarini, which was about his book "Lettera sopra l'Opinione de'Pittagorici, e del Copernico della Mobilità della Terra, e Stabilità del Sole, e del Nuove Pittagorica Systema del Mondo", which indeed was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1616. In this process, Galileo Galilei was merely a bystander, and exactly here he got the letter from Robert Bellarmin, the inquisitor in the process, to continue his studies - provided he declared his works a mere hypothesis, as I wrote before.
Banned in this process was Foscarini's book, a book of Johannes Kepler and some other works about the Copernician stellar system, but not "De revolutionibus" by Copernicus itself, which got suspended instead. That means that within the reach of the Roman Inquisition, it could only be published with a comment that explained that this was just a mathematical model. No book by Galileo Galilei was affected. But his old supporter, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, became the new pope Urbanus VIII in 1623. Thus, while his work Saggiatore was anonymously accused of Atomism, a report by Padre Giovanni Guevaras exonerated Galileo Galilei.
Also, the original accusation in the process of 1633 were Atomism again and herecy with regard to the Last Supper, but papal iudicaries changed it into teaching Coperincanism and disobedience, quite a difference. What we have here is not a confrontation of the Catholic Church vs. Galileo Galilei, but a church-internal feud between different theological groups about the interpretation of the Holy Bible and its relation to recent astronomical discoveries, where Galileo Galilei was more or less a prominent figure, who one side wanted to exemplarily convicted and the other side wanted him protected.
I agree that none of this is scientific behaviour, but given the situation of Michael Mann, who one side of the climate debate wants to convicted of fraud and the other side wants him protected, we aren't any better.
Actually, Galileo Galilei had the explicit permission from the Pope to explore and to research a heliocentric view of the sky, provided he didn't call his own results the absolute truth and any other view false. Also, Galileo Galileis works were never listed in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, thus the Catholic church never viewed his worldview as heretical. On the other hand, they had to be published with a comment regarding their validity, basicly a disclaimer that this book contains the view of the author, which is not necessarily the accepted doctrine of the Catholic church.
In the 17th century, the Catholic church was very interested in new astronomic research and results, because this was the Age of Discovery, and astronomy was important for the explorers to navigate and to cartograph the world. Everything that improved upon the results of the Ptolemaic view of the solar system was welcome. Recalculating of the Equinoxe lead to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582 in all Catholic states. The results of Copernicus, of Kepler and Tycho Brahe were considered pretty interesting, provided they allowed for a better way to calculate the stellar and planetary positions. When Ole Rømer in 1676 was able to show and calculate, that light has an finite speed using the Galilean Moons, he didn't get any ban from the Catholic church - this was three decades after Galilei's conviction.
As I said: My parents didn't have a 100% availability rate, but a POTS outage of several days. Also I had already some POTS outages, but only for hours. Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, there still is some kind of near-100%-access to emergencies, about the same level as the POTS. And if there is a large scale outage of the phone system, it is handled as an emergency anyway.
Full disclosure: I work with POTS and VoIP systems as a living, and I know how reliable they are. I also do some servicing for an emergency central. POTS lines die all the time. At a construction site, a power shovel cuts the wires, avalanches knock out the cable, flooding kills the central switches, a work troup removes the wrong wires, even a hosed software update that knocks out a whole region: shit happens all the time. Here around, many providers don't even give you a real POTS line, they install S-DSL to your site, and then put in a modem that converts the VoIP back to an analog signal or a T1 (we notice that if the billing signal does not work correctly, because standard SIP or H.323 don't send billing information).
What irks me is the lack of town planning for cars in European cities then the incompetent authorities act like it is all the citizens fault.
First, those towns were planned when there were no cars at all. Second, some towns tried to restructure itself into a more car friendly town, and the result was a less human friendly town. For some reasons, the most searched for towns are those with a horrible parking situation. So blame who you want, towns with a not adequate parking situation fare better in general, because they seem to get the general idea how to operate a town, and one aspect seems to not concentrate on cars too much.
I've had POTS service for going on 60 years with precisely 0 failures, ever.
Then you are either very, very lucky, or you just never noticed the outages because you weren't calling or expecting a call during outages. Since my parents moved to their new home 15 years ago, they had a reliability of 99,85% on their landline. Why is that? Because there was a big flooding in their region, knocking out the local switch their landline was hooked up to. Shit happens also to POTS.
Of course this requires switching to IPv6 as well.
No, it doesn't. If we take SIP for instance, each provider has one or more internal private networks with the subscribers, and to the outside, they are known as <userid>@provider, or they have an ENUM which then maps to <userid>@provider. There is no need for IPv6, as you could easily fit 65000 calls on a single Session Border Controler with one public IP.
You can overwrite the drive 50 times and you can not be certain that the data is unrecoverable.
Actually, this is an old myth, which had some truth to it when hard disk weren't operating at the known physical limits. Then you could actually read some erased information by using a more sensitive magnetic head, which was able to tell the difference between a former one overwritten by zero and a former zero overwritten by zero. But this is no longer so. Any reserves that might have been in the magnetic surface of disk are now used to increase information density. The most sensitive reading heads available are those already built into the hard disks. Overwrite a section of the disk with zeros (or ones, whatever you like), and you can be sure that the information formerly there is safely overwritten.
Kansas legislators will tell you that this law is actually about not regulating the market -- by locking out municipalities from supporting or providing broadband, they let the market decide, and the market decides that there is no necessity to ever have more than one broadband provider, and in some cases, even no broadband provider is sufficient.
As you can play with anything (including the Earth or even the Universe - think "solving astronomic quizzes"), everything is a toy. Whoa!
I smell some problems with the definition you gave. An item is a toy just in the moment you play with it. And if it has no other uses as being played with, it is a toy all the time. But a tyre is not. Just because some children play with a tyre on a playground, your car is not rolling on toys.
No. Polygraph testing gets you a certain chance of passing (independent of your real intentions), and he just increased the chance of passing (still independent of your real intentions). So the intentions of the people who wanted to be taught passing the polygraph detector shouldn't play any role -- and if it was just so the own career is not spoiled by the results of a completely botched test. And in general: People who want to successfully work undercover have to have the ability to withstand an attempt to blow their cover -- including a completely erratic test like the polygraph detector. So I would call police officers trying to get educated how to keep calm in such a testing situation more fit for the undercover job than the others, which I guess might be somewhat too naive.
It's not that easy. Organic food has less pesticides. Pesticides are everywhere, they are in the soil, they are in the ground water. You don't find a spot in the whole U.S. where no pesticides can be detected. Thus there are limits of how much of which pesticide can be in organic food to be still called organic. And different labels require different limits and use different testing methods, so you actually can be bullshitted.
Actually, it's not toys the teachers gave them. Toys are objects specially designed to be played with. None of the items they gave to the kids was specially designed to be played with. A tree is not a toy. An old tyre is not a toy. A hose is not a toy. And thus there was no direction for the kids if and how they had to play with the items. And that's what kept the children occupied, that's what kept them motivated and busy.
And that's what also reduced the bullying. If there are much more exciting things to do than bullying someone, why even bother with it?
Actually, it can be quite revealing to make studies about the obvious. Obvious means that we can easily come up with a good narrative about what we see and what we should expect, but that narrative does not necessarily connect somehow to what really happens. The often cited example is that of Newton's apple, where it is obvious that it's the Earth pulling down the apple, but it's not what really happens.
So yes: Study the obvious thoroughly, and you pretty soon lose any idea about "obviousness".
Metro is already taken in most of Europe by Metro AG. (Yes, the new GUI on Windows 8.x is not called Metro in Europe). And I am pretty sure you will find a Vista Drive in some scenic neighborhood in the U.S. (Especially Vista Drive, Cupertino CA).
This is quite some achievement:) I wondered if it is possible, given that one gets hold of a piece of pure silicon, to dot it p or n and to actually create something resembling an integrated circuit. But this proof of concept is just a marvel!
A big advantage of the "old" technologies is that you can get them running with household items. It's impossible to built an integrated circuit at home, but it's quite feasible to build a steam engine. I learned a lot about technology by servicing my bicycle. I had a very old typewriter which was build on a completely different principle than the usual querty keys, it had a pointer which mechanically connected to a cylinder with the letters and only one key which caused the cylinder to hammer down on the carbon ribbon and the paper. Just to see that there are many different solutions to a given problem greatly increases your understanding of technology. So yes, I think you missed out greatly. All you had was magical black boxes which somehow did what you wanted them to do.
If it is against your interest or your self-image, you will always find a reason why someone is not a whistle-blower. He still may be the hero of all the people you bully around.
Actually, it's not an allergic reaction on the virus. Allergic is a reaction if the target would be harmless to the body. But a virus is not, and the reaction is actually necessary. Suppressing the reaction thus means the virus is not attacked at all, or at least it is attacked with a reduced intensity. So while you might feel better with Benadryl, in fact you are in the same camp like the people who suppress the fever -- being sick longer, being contagious longer, and thus prolonging the flu waves.
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Banned in this process was Foscarini's book, a book of Johannes Kepler and some other works about the Copernician stellar system, but not "De revolutionibus" by Copernicus itself, which got suspended instead. That means that within the reach of the Roman Inquisition, it could only be published with a comment that explained that this was just a mathematical model. No book by Galileo Galilei was affected. But his old supporter, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, became the new pope Urbanus VIII in 1623. Thus, while his work Saggiatore was anonymously accused of Atomism, a report by Padre Giovanni Guevaras exonerated Galileo Galilei.
Also, the original accusation in the process of 1633 were Atomism again and herecy with regard to the Last Supper, but papal iudicaries changed it into teaching Coperincanism and disobedience, quite a difference. What we have here is not a confrontation of the Catholic Church vs. Galileo Galilei, but a church-internal feud between different theological groups about the interpretation of the Holy Bible and its relation to recent astronomical discoveries, where Galileo Galilei was more or less a prominent figure, who one side wanted to exemplarily convicted and the other side wanted him protected.
I agree that none of this is scientific behaviour, but given the situation of Michael Mann, who one side of the climate debate wants to convicted of fraud and the other side wants him protected, we aren't any better.
Actually no. Past uses have to be paid for, and new uses have to be contracted for.
In the 17th century, the Catholic church was very interested in new astronomic research and results, because this was the Age of Discovery, and astronomy was important for the explorers to navigate and to cartograph the world. Everything that improved upon the results of the Ptolemaic view of the solar system was welcome. Recalculating of the Equinoxe lead to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582 in all Catholic states. The results of Copernicus, of Kepler and Tycho Brahe were considered pretty interesting, provided they allowed for a better way to calculate the stellar and planetary positions. When Ole Rømer in 1676 was able to show and calculate, that light has an finite speed using the Galilean Moons, he didn't get any ban from the Catholic church - this was three decades after Galilei's conviction.
Full disclosure: I work with POTS and VoIP systems as a living, and I know how reliable they are. I also do some servicing for an emergency central. POTS lines die all the time. At a construction site, a power shovel cuts the wires, avalanches knock out the cable, flooding kills the central switches, a work troup removes the wrong wires, even a hosed software update that knocks out a whole region: shit happens all the time. Here around, many providers don't even give you a real POTS line, they install S-DSL to your site, and then put in a modem that converts the VoIP back to an analog signal or a T1 (we notice that if the billing signal does not work correctly, because standard SIP or H.323 don't send billing information).
What irks me is the lack of town planning for cars in European cities then the incompetent authorities act like it is all the citizens fault.
First, those towns were planned when there were no cars at all. Second, some towns tried to restructure itself into a more car friendly town, and the result was a less human friendly town. For some reasons, the most searched for towns are those with a horrible parking situation. So blame who you want, towns with a not adequate parking situation fare better in general, because they seem to get the general idea how to operate a town, and one aspect seems to not concentrate on cars too much.
I've had POTS service for going on 60 years with precisely 0 failures, ever.
Then you are either very, very lucky, or you just never noticed the outages because you weren't calling or expecting a call during outages. Since my parents moved to their new home 15 years ago, they had a reliability of 99,85% on their landline. Why is that? Because there was a big flooding in their region, knocking out the local switch their landline was hooked up to. Shit happens also to POTS.
Of course this requires switching to IPv6 as well.
No, it doesn't. If we take SIP for instance, each provider has one or more internal private networks with the subscribers, and to the outside, they are known as <userid>@provider, or they have an ENUM which then maps to <userid>@provider. There is no need for IPv6, as you could easily fit 65000 calls on a single Session Border Controler with one public IP.
You can overwrite the drive 50 times and you can not be certain that the data is unrecoverable.
Actually, this is an old myth, which had some truth to it when hard disk weren't operating at the known physical limits. Then you could actually read some erased information by using a more sensitive magnetic head, which was able to tell the difference between a former one overwritten by zero and a former zero overwritten by zero. But this is no longer so. Any reserves that might have been in the magnetic surface of disk are now used to increase information density. The most sensitive reading heads available are those already built into the hard disks. Overwrite a section of the disk with zeros (or ones, whatever you like), and you can be sure that the information formerly there is safely overwritten.
Kansas legislators will tell you that this law is actually about not regulating the market -- by locking out municipalities from supporting or providing broadband, they let the market decide, and the market decides that there is no necessity to ever have more than one broadband provider, and in some cases, even no broadband provider is sufficient.
Rosa Luxemburg is missing the -o- in -bourg. Thus it's the Grand Duchy.
I smell some problems with the definition you gave. An item is a toy just in the moment you play with it. And if it has no other uses as being played with, it is a toy all the time. But a tyre is not. Just because some children play with a tyre on a playground, your car is not rolling on toys.
No. Polygraph testing gets you a certain chance of passing (independent of your real intentions), and he just increased the chance of passing (still independent of your real intentions). So the intentions of the people who wanted to be taught passing the polygraph detector shouldn't play any role -- and if it was just so the own career is not spoiled by the results of a completely botched test. And in general: People who want to successfully work undercover have to have the ability to withstand an attempt to blow their cover -- including a completely erratic test like the polygraph detector. So I would call police officers trying to get educated how to keep calm in such a testing situation more fit for the undercover job than the others, which I guess might be somewhat too naive.
It's not that easy. Organic food has less pesticides. Pesticides are everywhere, they are in the soil, they are in the ground water. You don't find a spot in the whole U.S. where no pesticides can be detected. Thus there are limits of how much of which pesticide can be in organic food to be still called organic. And different labels require different limits and use different testing methods, so you actually can be bullshitted.
And that's what also reduced the bullying. If there are much more exciting things to do than bullying someone, why even bother with it?
So yes: Study the obvious thoroughly, and you pretty soon lose any idea about "obviousness".
Hm... I wouldn't call DOS a "real operating system", because all it operated was the disk drive. Everything else had to be done in the program itself.
Metro is already taken in most of Europe by Metro AG. (Yes, the new GUI on Windows 8.x is not called Metro in Europe). And I am pretty sure you will find a Vista Drive in some scenic neighborhood in the U.S. (Especially Vista Drive, Cupertino CA).
This is quite some achievement :) I wondered if it is possible, given that one gets hold of a piece of pure silicon, to dot it p or n and to actually create something resembling an integrated circuit. But this proof of concept is just a marvel!
A big advantage of the "old" technologies is that you can get them running with household items. It's impossible to built an integrated circuit at home, but it's quite feasible to build a steam engine. I learned a lot about technology by servicing my bicycle. I had a very old typewriter which was build on a completely different principle than the usual querty keys, it had a pointer which mechanically connected to a cylinder with the letters and only one key which caused the cylinder to hammer down on the carbon ribbon and the paper. Just to see that there are many different solutions to a given problem greatly increases your understanding of technology. So yes, I think you missed out greatly. All you had was magical black boxes which somehow did what you wanted them to do.
Yes, because it's a dark conspiracy!
If it is against your interest or your self-image, you will always find a reason why someone is not a whistle-blower. He still may be the hero of all the people you bully around.
Or to put it in Lord Vetinari's own words: "If there absolutely must be crime, at least it should be organized."
We don't have many successful end-of-world-predictions to draw conclusions from.
Actually, it's not an allergic reaction on the virus. Allergic is a reaction if the target would be harmless to the body. But a virus is not, and the reaction is actually necessary. Suppressing the reaction thus means the virus is not attacked at all, or at least it is attacked with a reduced intensity. So while you might feel better with Benadryl, in fact you are in the same camp like the people who suppress the fever -- being sick longer, being contagious longer, and thus prolonging the flu waves.