If the application for extradition is granted, I'd be quite disappointed. I really thought that the Australian government was tougher than this.
As far as US foreign policy goes, they will do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo. If that means backing foreign leaders or inciting border wars, so be it.
Here's one example from the '70's: http://www.selfdetermine.org/crisiswatch/0 112timor.html
Actually, I wouldn't count on a decrease in health problems. While marijuana is usually smoked less frequently than cigarettes, the length of time it's typically held in the lungs can contribute to severe respiratory ailments and even, lung cancer.
There's already a precedent here: the fact that he's being required to attend court, not simply for having committing a crime in another country -which he hasn't, but for doing something in his home country that is legal there but illegal elsewhere. The precedent would be the Dmitri Skylarov case.
The United States has grown far too big for its britches.
Hey Animats, I haven't seen one of your posts for a long time. I was hoping that someone knowledgeable would step up and give an intelligent criticism of the article as, whatever his bias, the author does get quite low-level.
Can you provide some links to back this up? I'm genuinely interested in ecological contamination by corporations ( or anyone, for that matter). I'd also be interested in data on chip fab compliance with environmental regulations. To be quite frank, I'm routinely disappointed with the level of enforcement of environmental standards in North America. How do other countries with large chip fabs, notably Ireland and Germany, compare?
We're not talking about doing the dishes here - the manufacture of microprocessors require huge amounts of water to wash the residue off of the wafers during the photolithography process.
Like darkroom photography, this involves the use of potentially noxious chemicals. Now, the report is quite sketchy on what all that water is used for and that is, IMO, a glaring omission.
But, suffice to say that the water leaving a chip fab probably won't be classed as safe drinking water.
Here are some links:
http://www.svtc.org/media/articles/2003/benzene_ny t_1117.htm
http://home.aigonline.com/AIGEnvironmental/ind_pro file/read_profile/1,1990,NDUtL0FJR0Vudmlyb25tZW50Y WwvSW5kdXN0cnlfSXNzdWVzLUluZHVzdHJpZXMgd2l0aCBFbnZ pcm9ubWVudGFsIElzc3Vlcw==,00.html
Take your own advice. "Centerfugal" is a variant spelling of "centrifugal" - which means "center-fleeing". The force that you're referring to is CENTRIPETAL or "center-seeking".
I was very disappointed with the ( lack of) recognition of the Fellowship of the King at the Academy Awards. And, truth be told, I wasn't blown away by the Two Towers. But, to see the Return of the King make a FULL SWEEP of the categories for which it was nominated is heartwarming indeed. Now, all that's needed is for someone to bring the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever to the screen ( though I suspect it may be better served as a maxiseries on television).
So, what? It's neat but hardly revolutionary and certainly not deserving of a patent. It's scarcely as big an enhancement over what the Enlightenment pager was several years ago ( as compared to others at the time).
I know of one large ISP that migrated from Solaris Sparc + Sendmail to FreeBSD + Postfix and wonder why they didn't do it sooner. These guys are all hardcore 'nix admins and developers but were probably held up by conservative upper management. In any case, their 150,000 users are doing much better.
Most delivery trucks as well as tractor-trailers, school- and city buses are diesel engines. While the average North American diesel engine is even filthier than a gasoline vehicle, they can run on either straight biodiesel or percentage blends ( anywhere from 20-50 %, typically) that produce REMARKABLY less pollution than gas or petro-diesel.
One major drawback is potentially HIGHER ( ~10%) NOx emissions with bio-diesel but,apparently, this depends on the type used and how it's processed and, even then, can be lowered by adjusting engine timing.
Add the incredible jump in fuel economy and the ballsy low-rev range torque of your average diesel
and you have the explanation for the mass adoption of diesel cars in Europe over the last decade.
Apparently, while diesel engines in new cars account of about 2% in North America, it's in excess of 20% in Europe and reaches 40% in Germany and France.
You're absolutely right. Mathematics is an ATTEMPT to describe the laws of the universe - and it's quite useful but, as others have pointed out, it's far from complete. Any sentient species would have to have a similar framework and, in fact, would be hindered by the correctness or completeness of that framework. Without something resembling mathematics, without so much as a concept of number, what progress could ever be made? Messenger to General "Sir, we are losing the battle, we need more men" General "Uh, what is 'more'?" Once you have a concept of number, voila, there's MATH in your eye.
Trouble is, can we wait for to be completely certain? Those who are trying to show that mankind's
activity does have an impact on global climate face an uphill battle.
Their detractors continually shout them down with cries of "Where is the proof?" and "It's been like this before!!"
That latter part is patently false: Most of the major impact that man has had on Mother Earth has been in the last few centuries.
While I'm sure that the global ecosystem can tolerate a number of gross insults, can it simply absorb the impact, in a relatively short period, of mass clear-cutting and burning of forests, acid rain, ocean and groundwater pollution, CFCs in the atmosphere, etc.
As a system administrator, one of the rules that I
live by in my career is, when making changes to a working system, MAKE only ONE or, at worst, a FEW changes at a time and OBSERVE the result.
I feel that it's long past the time we adopted a similar stance on activities that would impact, not just climate change, but our air, water, and soil.
If the changes happen quickly, I think we'll see a lot of fights over "Lebensraum" . I don't think that these disputes will be settled peaceably. Catastrophic climate changes that affect the major powers may well precipitate another World War
I'd like to see how Linux 2.6 stacks up against Windows Server 2003 now. This time, let's have Microsoft and Redhat or some other Linux gurus go head to head.
One of the good things of benchmarking at an early stage is that it may expose some hard to find weaknesses, much like the first Mindcraft tests exposed a kernel limitation which hampered Apache's performance.
I think the real problem here is Dell. I've never had a problem mixing and matching Standard SDRAM when the RAM speed was higher than the system bus speed.
I have a dual-cpu MSI board with a 66MHZ bus that currently has both PC100 and PC133 DIMMs installed.
On the other hand, I was given a Dell Optiplex GX-150 which, although it only has a Celeron with a 100 MHZ bus, will not accept anything other than PC133 memory.
The P3 versions of this desktop have 133 MHz buses and use the same memory. So, as I see it, this is a deliberate limitation by Dell - and I don't see any performance advantage over OEM mainboards.
Well, that raises a problem. It's widely known that most of the software in the Third World is pirated and, in some countries, resold on CD for a few dollars.
So, what is the worth of it to them? And, who gets to decide its worth? The people or Microsoft?
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It's unclear whether any of the persons extradited were US citizens. And, the third person was extradited for war crimes during World War 2.
If the application for extradition is granted, I'd be quite disappointed. I really thought that the Australian government was tougher than this.
0 112timor .html
As far as US foreign policy goes, they will do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo. If that means backing foreign leaders or inciting border wars, so be it.
Here's one example from the '70's:
http://www.selfdetermine.org/crisiswatch/
Actually, I wouldn't count on a decrease in health problems. While marijuana is usually smoked less frequently than cigarettes, the length of time it's typically held in the lungs can contribute to severe respiratory ailments and even, lung cancer.
There's already a precedent here: the fact that he's being required to attend court, not simply for having committing a crime in another country -which he hasn't, but for doing something in his home country that is legal there but illegal elsewhere.
The precedent would be the Dmitri Skylarov case.
The United States has grown far too big for its britches.
If I had a mod point, you'd get it.
Hey Animats, I haven't seen one of your posts for a long time. I was hoping that someone knowledgeable would step up and give an intelligent criticism of the article as, whatever his bias, the author does get quite low-level.
Can you provide some links to back this up?
I'm genuinely interested in ecological contamination by corporations ( or anyone, for that matter). I'd also be interested in data on chip fab compliance with environmental regulations.
To be quite frank, I'm routinely disappointed with
the level of enforcement of environmental standards in North America. How do other countries with large chip fabs, notably Ireland and Germany, compare?
You made my point for me before I could. Too bad you posted as an AC
We're not talking about doing the dishes here - the manufacture of microprocessors require huge amounts of water to wash the residue off of the wafers during the photolithography process.y t_1117.htmo file/read_profile/1,1990,NDUtL0FJR0Vudmlyb25tZW50Y WwvSW5kdXN0cnlfSXNzdWVzLUluZHVzdHJpZXMgd2l0aCBFbnZ pcm9ubWVudGFsIElzc3Vlcw==,00.html
Like darkroom photography, this involves the use of potentially noxious chemicals.
Now, the report is quite sketchy on what all that water is used for and that is, IMO, a glaring omission. But, suffice to say that the water leaving a chip fab probably won't be classed as safe drinking water.
Here are some links:
http://www.svtc.org/media/articles/2003/benzene_n
http://home.aigonline.com/AIGEnvironmental/ind_pr
Why is this modded as Funny?
Take your own advice. "Centerfugal" is a variant spelling of "centrifugal" - which means "center-fleeing". The force that you're referring to is CENTRIPETAL or "center-seeking".
I was very disappointed with the ( lack of) recognition of the Fellowship of the King at the Academy Awards. And, truth be told, I wasn't blown away by the Two Towers.
But, to see the Return of the King make a FULL SWEEP
of the categories for which it was nominated is heartwarming indeed.
Now, all that's needed is for someone to bring the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever to the screen ( though I suspect it may be better served as a maxiseries on television).
So, what? It's neat but hardly revolutionary and certainly not deserving of a patent. It's scarcely as big an enhancement over what the Enlightenment pager was several years ago ( as compared to others at the time).
You would think that a company that's so good at marketing would know better than to automatically eliminate 10% of the population in one fell swoop.
I know of one large ISP that migrated from Solaris Sparc + Sendmail to FreeBSD + Postfix and wonder why
they didn't do it sooner.
These guys are all hardcore 'nix admins and developers but were probably held up by conservative
upper management.
In any case, their 150,000 users are doing much better.
Don't worry, they're working on it. Partial support is available. See the link below
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
Have you seen the price tag for the Yucca Mountain project? What sort of reasoning is that?
You're absolutely right. Mathematics is an ATTEMPT to describe the laws of the universe - and it's quite useful but, as others have pointed out, it's far from complete.
Any sentient species would have to have a similar framework and, in fact, would be hindered by the correctness or completeness of that framework.
Without something resembling mathematics, without so much as a concept of number, what progress could ever be made?
Messenger to General "Sir, we are losing the battle, we need more men"
General "Uh, what is 'more'?"
Once you have a concept of number, voila, there's MATH in your eye.
If the changes happen quickly, I think we'll see a lot of fights over "Lebensraum" . I don't think that
these disputes will be settled peaceably. Catastrophic climate changes that affect the major powers may well precipitate another World War
That's why I proposed this in a thread on osnews.com
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Read the comment by my ( as Birdie.P) here:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=5868&