Next to the sun and the wind, the Moon's gravitational pull on the earth is about the only other source of near infinite energy this planet has.
Well technically speaking, the earth rotation slows down with each tide, making the day longer for about one second every 50,000 years, so that earth and moon fill face the same side everytime in about a... quadrillion years.
I only know for sure about european law regarding this issue but here competitors can sue each other because of unfair competition and achieve an interim injunction if one company makes such an assertion without substance.
I'm pretty sure there is a similar law in the U.S.
Also there are various institutions that deal with ethics in advertisements, but their actions are limited to obscene or otherwise objectionable advertisements and they have no legal power.
Money is fluid, and interchangable. It doesn't matter if the oil countries want US Dollars, Euros, Suiss Francs, or Beanie Baby Futures, as long as it's freely exchangable, then it doesn't matter.
Oh and how it matters. Money is not interchangable by all means, if you buy too much of one currency you decrease the value of your own. The U.S. foreign trade deficit is so high that the only way oil (and other) imports can be made without causing the domestic finance system to go bankrupt is to make these transactions using the dollar as currency, so that the spendings are reinvested by the foreign exporters in the u.s. finance market. Otherwise u.s. importers would have to massiveley buy foreign currencies to pay the imports, which would lead to an enourmos decrease of the value of the greenback, resulting in higher inflation, less consumer spendings and thus to a decrease of the u.s. economic output over long.
It seems that I didn't make that clear enough. Of course you can say anything you want as long it is true. And if you tell a lie you will be held responsible for resulting damage.
The difference is made when someone expresses his opinion about the holocaust. Because if he denies is this would be counted as slander towards the victims. That's all. Maybe we shouldn't focus too much on terms.
I expect either Google did it themselves, to prevent attacks from the German government, or they were forced to do so by said government.
You may be right with the former, but we know it definitively only after google says they did so. But there are no laws which force search-engines to suppress specific search results. There are indeed laws which obligate ISP to block access to sites with indictable content, as for exemaple denying the holocaust. But this law is very new and controversial, and there was no case which was fought out up to the supreme court yet, which would be interesting.
Germany's approach to free speech seems to be "Say what you want. As long as it doesn't promote political views we don't like, question our official version of history..."
Believe me, it is not. As in the U.S. the free speech is limited to the extend that noone elses feelings are hurt or economical or reputational damage is made. As would be with slander, libel or hate speach. The bounds may be different but the principles are not.
And for the first amendment to the u.s. constitution, it is surely one of the most liberal instances of this legal principle but unfortunatley too much u.s. citizen and papers seem not wanting to make use of it in these days.
Is that what happens when a bunch of Ents get together to program?..Christ, I could imagine the design phase. Three weeks of flowcharts to decide on how best to print "Hello World"..
Well, this is german engineering. And you must admit, our "Hello World"s take corners like no other French or American wanna-be "Hello Worlds" ever can hope to do.:-)
As far as I know, most spam originates from a relatively small number of smtp servers which are open for posting without identifikation. Where there ever efforts of blacklisting these servers and denying to accept mail from them, and if yes, with which results?
Or alternatively blocking whole ip-ranges of ISPs which deny to cooperate on this issue?
Its actually hard to believe this interview is real. Actually is there any proof that it is? Gates sounded very unprofessional and not like himself in the interview, almost like he was attacking the FOCUS interviewer. Anyone else care to comment on this?
It is real. I myself read the article in the printed issue of the magazine.
So, can a super black material attract light just by being super black? I mean, if the light is not directly shined upon it, then does a super black material pull "indirect" light toward it?
No. Currently nothing is known to attract light in any way.
Not to mention black holes which bend the space-time into a singularity and thus catching light.
He then sends one piece of information (a page, one liscence, etc) at a time, every hour on the hour, to said lawyer, to cause their clients legal bills to explode.
So what, do you think a lawyer copes with every fax he receives imediately after reception? He much probably has a secretary who manages his correspondence.
1. Install fancy blinking lights in a building 2. Controll these lights to show various animations, attracting people to stare at them 3. Show animated ads in size of a whole building with this technology 4. Profit!!
Now if I only knew what to put in step 3... uh wait a second...
Unfortunately the most humorous alleged Einstein quote is in fact from George Bernard Shaw, who, asked by a strange lady: `You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' just replied `What if the child inherits my body and your brains?'
The "real" speed of this can only be estimated since currently there is no track long enough to give the train the chance to accelerate until the air drag is as high as the power of the impellent. It is estimated at about 600 km/h, AFAIK.
The train itself has batteries which have enough capacity to levitate it for about an hour. In case of a power-failure during travel the train would continue to float until it stops.
There is no magnetic field in the cabin, credit cards, etc are safe.
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Next to the sun and the wind, the Moon's gravitational pull on the earth is about the only other source of near infinite energy this planet has.
... quadrillion years.
Well technically speaking, the earth rotation slows down with each tide, making the day longer for about one second every 50,000 years, so that earth and moon fill face the same side everytime in about a
I only know for sure about european law regarding this issue but here competitors can sue each other because of unfair competition and achieve an interim injunction if one company makes such an assertion without substance.
I'm pretty sure there is a similar law in the U.S.
Also there are various institutions that deal with ethics in advertisements, but their actions are limited to obscene or otherwise objectionable advertisements and they have no legal power.
Money is fluid, and interchangable. It doesn't matter if the oil countries want US Dollars, Euros, Suiss Francs, or Beanie Baby Futures, as long as it's freely exchangable, then it doesn't matter.
Oh and how it matters. Money is not interchangable by all means, if you buy too much of one currency you decrease the value of your own. The U.S. foreign trade deficit is so high that the only way oil (and other) imports can be made without causing the domestic finance system to go bankrupt is to make these transactions using the dollar as currency, so that the spendings are reinvested by the foreign exporters in the u.s. finance market. Otherwise u.s. importers would have to massiveley buy foreign currencies to pay the imports, which would lead to an enourmos decrease of the value of the greenback, resulting in higher inflation, less consumer spendings and thus to a decrease of the u.s. economic output over long.
It seems that I didn't make that clear enough. Of course you can say anything you want as long it is true. And if you tell a lie you will be held responsible for resulting damage.
The difference is made when someone expresses his opinion about the holocaust. Because if he denies is this would be counted as slander towards the victims. That's all. Maybe we shouldn't focus too much on terms.
I expect either Google did it themselves, to prevent attacks from the German government, or they were forced to do so by said government.
You may be right with the former, but we know it definitively only after google says they did so. But there are no laws which force search-engines to suppress specific search results. There are indeed laws which obligate ISP to block access to sites with indictable content, as for exemaple denying the holocaust. But this law is very new and controversial, and there was no case which was fought out up to the supreme court yet, which would be interesting.
Germany's approach to free speech seems to be "Say what you want. As long as it doesn't promote political views we don't like, question our official version of history..."
Believe me, it is not. As in the U.S. the free speech is limited to the extend that noone elses feelings are hurt or economical or reputational damage is made. As would be with slander, libel or hate speach. The bounds may be different but the principles are not.
And for the first amendment to the u.s. constitution, it is surely one of the most liberal instances of this legal principle but unfortunatley too much u.s. citizen and papers seem not wanting to make use of it in these days.
ReUnited Linux!
I will misoutmatch that:
GNU/Linux: The Next Generation
Is that what happens when a bunch of Ents get together to program? ..Christ, I could imagine the design phase. Three weeks of flowcharts to decide on how best to print "Hello World"..
:-)
Well, this is german engineering. And you must admit, our "Hello World"s take corners like no other French or American wanna-be "Hello Worlds" ever can hope to do.
So what is Microsoft doing?
According to this table nothing..? Unless MS refers to x86-64 as Itanium technology.
Look at the stock listings after today's announcement...
They should have dropped in the noun 'synergy' in the announcement.
As far as I know, most spam originates from a relatively small number of smtp servers which are open for posting without identifikation. Where there ever efforts of blacklisting these servers and denying to accept mail from them, and if yes, with which results?
Or alternatively blocking whole ip-ranges of ISPs which deny to cooperate on this issue?
Its actually hard to believe this interview is real. Actually is there any proof that it is? Gates sounded very unprofessional and not like himself in the interview, almost like he was attacking the FOCUS interviewer. Anyone else care to comment on this?
It is real. I myself read the article in the printed issue of the magazine.
IMHO the Slate Magazine and Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index are definitely worth a look.
> But of course-- we speak of Kubrick's spiritual heir-- Stephen Spielberg.
*gasp*... please do me a favour and make use of the <ironic> tags.
Swap the Dollar symbol for the Euro symbol, like everyone else, surely! :)
But don't forget to swap the charset to 8859-15 or you will try to bribe with question marks.
He is chaplain in the small village of St. Josef in Oberhausen-Schmachtendorf.
So, can a super black material attract light just by being super black? I mean, if the light is not directly shined upon it, then does a super black material pull "indirect" light toward it?
No. Currently nothing is known to attract light in any way.
Not to mention black holes which bend the space-time into a singularity and thus catching light.
He then sends one piece of information (a page, one liscence, etc) at a time, every hour on the hour, to said lawyer, to cause their clients legal bills to explode.
So what, do you think a lawyer copes with every fax he receives imediately after reception? He much probably has a secretary who manages his correspondence.
Lots of ideas that we come to believe are "obviously right" are indeed highly "controversial" when they are first put forward.
No. "obviously right" means nothing else than "everybody agrees that this doesn't need a proof at all".
Next thing you know, they'll be an article about how 80's pop music is just now becoming popular in europe
Actualy...
see for yourself
1. Install fancy blinking lights in a building
2. Controll these lights to show various animations, attracting people to stare at them
3. Show animated ads in size of a whole building with this technology
4. Profit!!
Now if I only knew what to put in step 3... uh wait a second...
BAD: strcpy
GOOD: strncpy
BAD: char*
GOOD: std::string
Unfortunately the most humorous alleged Einstein quote is in fact from George Bernard Shaw, who, asked by a strange lady: `You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' just replied `What if the child inherits my body and your brains?'
Of course it still can stop, using a normal eddy current brake.
The "real" speed of this can only be estimated since currently there is no track long enough to give the train the chance to accelerate until the air drag is as high as the power of the impellent. It is estimated at about 600 km/h, AFAIK.
The train itself has batteries which have enough capacity to levitate it for about an hour. In case of a power-failure during travel the train would continue to float until it stops.
There is no magnetic field in the cabin, credit cards, etc are safe.