The power company owns the poles (and hates it when people call them telephone poles). Nothing is stopping a company from leasing pole space from the power company to run lines to compete with the phone and cable providers except the extreme cost.
I agree that "Republicans are contradicting themselves" is a stupid argument when there are so many better arguments to use in its place. But it's semantics. The idiotic argument is for the idiotic description "Pro-Life". It would seem that someone can't logically be "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Execution" at the same time. They should just call it what it is, "Anti-Abortion", and get on to the real arguments.
Republicans are very good at naming things for propaganda ("Pro-Life", "Death Tax") and is something the Democrats need to work on (not that I like it but it's how the game is played these days).
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize you were the OP because I'm not reading the full thread.
I said in another comment (which I don't feel like looking up at the moment) that perhaps a reason for incorporation is that Mozilla needs a corporate face for the corporate world. IT geeks are going to (generally) pick what works best for them and they'll have Linux and Apache chugging away somewhere. But Mozilla goes on the desktop. The thought might be that the PHB will look favorably on this software being installed on his desktop (or his secretary's, or the cube-monkeys') if he can be comforted by the thought that "it's made by a company so it's ok".
I didn't say it was a rational reason but when has the corporate world be rational?
So a theory would be worded like ""generalized theory of gravitation" (which was Einstein's attempt to unify gravitation with electromagnitism)? I think the problem here is that gravity was law (Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation). For general purposes (and weak gravitation fields) Newton's law holds. There are observed instances of Newtonian theory breaking down (such as the observed orbit of Mercury). Then came General Relativity where Einstein states that mass, momentum, and energy cause space-time to be curved and so gravity isn't exactly what Newton thought it was.
From the Wikipedia (because I don't have a general science textbook with me):
In the sciences, a theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework describing the behaviour of a certain natural or social phenomenon (thus either originating from observable facts or supported by observable facts). (In contrast, a hypothesis is a statement which has not been tested yet). Theories are formulated, developed and evaluated according to the scientific method.
In physics, the term theory generally is taken to mean a mathematical framework derived from a small set of basic principles capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems. An example would be "electromagnetic theory", which is usually taken to be synonymous with classical electromagnetism, the specific results of which can be derived from Maxwell's equations.
That describes exactly what we have with gravity, "logically self-consistent model or framework describing the behaviour of a certain natural or social phenomenon" and "a mathematical framework derived from a small set of basic principles capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems."
Not sure how your response fits in with our little corner of the discussion. The OP was saying that corporations only exist for profit for the shareholders. The AC reminded the OP that there is a difference in a private and public corporation and I agreed because I had no mod points and wanted to keep the statement from getting buried.
Then you came along and seemed to respond to something entirely different.
Hmm, I agree and disagree and I don't think your comment actually disagrees with what I meant.
I think that the majority of Christians are kind, decent, caring people who want a better world for their children.
Aren't most people (regardless of religious or other catergorization) kind, decent, caring people who want a better world? Now for the rest of your statement, I do think they want to force their definition of a "Better World" on you but I don't think their definition and your definition are different: a kinder, safer, more-educated world. There are those with a different definition who do want to force all that crap on you but I still hold that they are a minority.
Of course, all that could be BS and really I just want a kinder, safer, more-educated, free-as-in-free, freedom of and freedom from religion world and am sick of being lumped in with all the idiot Christians in the world who make me look bad because they happen to share (loosely, it seems) some beliefs with me.
Ok, I maybe I should have said 'law' when I said 'fact'. But gravity is still only theory. We can observe gravity, but we can't prove it. We don't know how it actually works. We know that matter attracts matter but we don't know why. That is the point I was trying to make. There are many problems when you get into the specifics of things we just assume to be true. Most models of the universe only hold up at either the macro or micro level, not both, and the ones that try to do both still have huge problems (like how many dimensions must exist for the String Theory equations to work out).
Teaching science to include the holes in theory is a good thing. Scientific scrutiny is how science progresses. BUT, it can not be limited to or focused on evolution. If you only teach the problems with science when you teach evolution then you introduce bias in the classroom.
The students need to know the difference between hypothesis, theory, and fact (something that creationists like to manipulate in the media). If the teacher says "evolution is a scientific theory that we have evidence of but can not prove enough to raise it to the level of scientific fact" then the teacher also needs to say "gravity is a scientific theory that we have evidence of but can not prove enough to raise it to the level of scientific fact".
So true. Or at least if the ones that are were more vocal. I think the people giving Christianity a bad name are in the minority among Christians but they are, unfortunately, a very vocal minority.
No, but someone took a picture of the chip and posted it to Slashdot. They didn't bother to blur out any serial numbers in the photo. Don't think Apple could trace that back to who broke the NDA?
They are also attached to launch at a specific location and need yanked out of florida!
There are a number of factors to consider when launching a rocket and Florida provides the best launch location for the US. Here are the factors to consider... - You have to launch east so you get the added help of the rotational velocity of the Earth. - You want to launch over unpopulated areas (the ocean is pretty unpopulated for a long way). The Russians use the giant desert in their southern regions for this but don't care as much about the people living under the launch path (have you seen the pictures of rocket debris in Russian villages?). The Europeans also use the ocean (from French Guiana) - You want to launch from the lowest possible latitute because you can only reach higher latitude orbits in one go (you can reach any orbit from the equator but you can't reach an equatorial orbit from the tropic of cancer without changing orbit in space) - The ideal US launch facility from a physics standpoint would be Hawaii but the cost of getting the vehicle to Hawaii would be insane so we opt for a higher latitude, continental launch facility).
The only shareholder for the corporation is the Mozilla Foundation. It is not a public corporation, but rather a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation so it has no responsibilities to anyone or anything but the Mozilla Foundation.
Ask someone else to look at your code. Every time they pause while scrolling, touch their chin, squint their eyes, furrow their brows, etc., it means you need a comment.
Furrow their brows to express the anger they are feeling? They just need a baby-T and a visor.
Unless I'm misreading your intent that's what they've been doing. Even numbers are stable (2.2, 2.4, 2.6) and odd numbers are development (2.3, 2.5, 2.7).
I just don't remember the vehicle Voltron. I guess I never watched it. Having watched (lion) Voltron as an adult I do realize that they used a basic formula for each episode but my childhood nostalgia kicks in and I stop caring about that. I was also a huge fan of Transformers (and MASK...which I think could make a cool movie). I just think that when the lions changed into Voltron it made more sense than a lot of the Transformers transformations. I refuse to choose between Tranformers, Voltron, MASK, and Thundercats because they're all equal in my inner-child's eyes.
I am a little worried about Hollywood doing justice to Evangelion. They'll have to leave out all the deep meaning of the series which will just leave a 2 hour battle of robots and angels without any of the substance that made EVA especially interesting to me.
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The power company owns the poles (and hates it when people call them telephone poles). Nothing is stopping a company from leasing pole space from the power company to run lines to compete with the phone and cable providers except the extreme cost.
I agree that "Republicans are contradicting themselves" is a stupid argument when there are so many better arguments to use in its place. But it's semantics. The idiotic argument is for the idiotic description "Pro-Life". It would seem that someone can't logically be "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Execution" at the same time. They should just call it what it is, "Anti-Abortion", and get on to the real arguments.
Republicans are very good at naming things for propaganda ("Pro-Life", "Death Tax") and is something the Democrats need to work on (not that I like it but it's how the game is played these days).
Yeah, I flubbed by vocab on that one. Said "fact", meant "law"...but probably could have done better than that, too. Oh well.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize you were the OP because I'm not reading the full thread.
I said in another comment (which I don't feel like looking up at the moment) that perhaps a reason for incorporation is that Mozilla needs a corporate face for the corporate world. IT geeks are going to (generally) pick what works best for them and they'll have Linux and Apache chugging away somewhere. But Mozilla goes on the desktop. The thought might be that the PHB will look favorably on this software being installed on his desktop (or his secretary's, or the cube-monkeys') if he can be comforted by the thought that "it's made by a company so it's ok".
I didn't say it was a rational reason but when has the corporate world be rational?
From the Wikipedia (because I don't have a general science textbook with me):
That describes exactly what we have with gravity, "logically self-consistent model or framework describing the behaviour of a certain natural or social phenomenon" and "a mathematical framework derived from a small set of basic principles capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems."
The saddest part is this is nothing new. At least we've gotten a little less violent about it.
"E pur si muove"
I used to find poll data like that entertaining until I realized that those people vote.
Not sure how your response fits in with our little corner of the discussion. The OP was saying that corporations only exist for profit for the shareholders. The AC reminded the OP that there is a difference in a private and public corporation and I agreed because I had no mod points and wanted to keep the statement from getting buried.
Then you came along and seemed to respond to something entirely different.
Hmm, I agree and disagree and I don't think your comment actually disagrees with what I meant.
I think that the majority of Christians are kind, decent, caring people who want a better world for their children.
Aren't most people (regardless of religious or other catergorization) kind, decent, caring people who want a better world? Now for the rest of your statement, I do think they want to force their definition of a "Better World" on you but I don't think their definition and your definition are different: a kinder, safer, more-educated world. There are those with a different definition who do want to force all that crap on you but I still hold that they are a minority.
Of course, all that could be BS and really I just want a kinder, safer, more-educated, free-as-in-free, freedom of and freedom from religion world and am sick of being lumped in with all the idiot Christians in the world who make me look bad because they happen to share (loosely, it seems) some beliefs with me.
Your data makes me sad.
Ok, I maybe I should have said 'law' when I said 'fact'. But gravity is still only theory. We can observe gravity, but we can't prove it. We don't know how it actually works. We know that matter attracts matter but we don't know why. That is the point I was trying to make. There are many problems when you get into the specifics of things we just assume to be true. Most models of the universe only hold up at either the macro or micro level, not both, and the ones that try to do both still have huge problems (like how many dimensions must exist for the String Theory equations to work out).
Teaching science to include the holes in theory is a good thing. Scientific scrutiny is how science progresses. BUT , it can not be limited to or focused on evolution. If you only teach the problems with science when you teach evolution then you introduce bias in the classroom.
The students need to know the difference between hypothesis, theory, and fact (something that creationists like to manipulate in the media). If the teacher says "evolution is a scientific theory that we have evidence of but can not prove enough to raise it to the level of scientific fact" then the teacher also needs to say "gravity is a scientific theory that we have evidence of but can not prove enough to raise it to the level of scientific fact".
So true. Or at least if the ones that are were more vocal. I think the people giving Christianity a bad name are in the minority among Christians but they are, unfortunately, a very vocal minority.
No, but someone took a picture of the chip and posted it to Slashdot. They didn't bother to blur out any serial numbers in the photo. Don't think Apple could trace that back to who broke the NDA?
I once rode a roller coaster in a light rain. At 93mph the little rain drops felt like little stinging rocks on your face.
They are also attached to launch at a specific location and need yanked out of florida!
There are a number of factors to consider when launching a rocket and Florida provides the best launch location for the US. Here are the factors to consider...
- You have to launch east so you get the added help of the rotational velocity of the Earth.
- You want to launch over unpopulated areas (the ocean is pretty unpopulated for a long way). The Russians use the giant desert in their southern regions for this but don't care as much about the people living under the launch path (have you seen the pictures of rocket debris in Russian villages?). The Europeans also use the ocean (from French Guiana)
- You want to launch from the lowest possible latitute because you can only reach higher latitude orbits in one go (you can reach any orbit from the equator but you can't reach an equatorial orbit from the tropic of cancer without changing orbit in space)
- The ideal US launch facility from a physics standpoint would be Hawaii but the cost of getting the vehicle to Hawaii would be insane so we opt for a higher latitude, continental launch facility).
Indeed. Putting a corporate face on the product will help its adoption by the corporate world.
There are never and mod points around when you need them.
The only shareholder for the corporation is the Mozilla Foundation. It is not a public corporation, but rather a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation so it has no responsibilities to anyone or anything but the Mozilla Foundation.
Exactly correct.
Ask someone else to look at your code. Every time they pause while scrolling, touch their chin, squint their eyes, furrow their brows, etc., it means you need a comment.
Furrow their brows to express the anger they are feeling? They just need a baby-T and a visor.
Read the article? Unheard of!
I just realized that there is no 2.7 where the heavy development should be. Weird.
Unless I'm misreading your intent that's what they've been doing. Even numbers are stable (2.2, 2.4, 2.6) and odd numbers are development (2.3, 2.5, 2.7).
You forgot the [stumbles] part. That was the best part...after the sweaty, scary, foaming at the mouth part.
While Maya comes with a renderer it can also just be used as a modeler and RenderMan can do the actual rendering.
I just don't remember the vehicle Voltron. I guess I never watched it. Having watched (lion) Voltron as an adult I do realize that they used a basic formula for each episode but my childhood nostalgia kicks in and I stop caring about that. I was also a huge fan of Transformers (and MASK...which I think could make a cool movie). I just think that when the lions changed into Voltron it made more sense than a lot of the Transformers transformations. I refuse to choose between Tranformers, Voltron, MASK, and Thundercats because they're all equal in my inner-child's eyes.
I am a little worried about Hollywood doing justice to Evangelion. They'll have to leave out all the deep meaning of the series which will just leave a 2 hour battle of robots and angels without any of the substance that made EVA especially interesting to me.
(Is the commercial jingle stuck in your mind yet? Bwuhahahahahhah....)
Yes.
You suck, dude.