Personally, I go one step further and set my recycler space to 0 so that all files are permanently deleted first time. There is a window that pops up and says "are you sure you wish to delete this file" When I click Yes it is because the answer is Yes. If I am not sure then the answer is no. I don't understand how anyone can go from being sure about something to doubting it later. This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the word 'sure'.
Kind of like Chavez. How many people will he have to kill and torture until the figure it out?
When I read the above I thought "Oh wow I must have missed something important in the news recently", and I jumped on google and searched. Google said that no, I hadn't missed anything recently. This leads me to believe that Chavez must have killed and tortured people longer ago, and rather than read all the news since he came to power, I thought I would just let sycodon himself illuminate me as to this gem of information. I don't doubt the claim, to quote Bill Hicks: all governments are liars and murderers. On the other hand I don't want to bring this up in polite conversation about the state of politics in the world without the facts to back it up. So please, illuminate me, with links. I like evidence.
If possible, it would be good if you could show a large number of killings as well, as governments can usually justify killing just a couple of people. As a rule of thumb lets say that if a national government kills more people than the state of Texas each year, then we can be justified in calling them a murderous regime. You can do that per capita if you think its fairer.
Using the word piracy for data sharing is like using the word faggot for homosexuality. It is innacurate and only designed to stir up emotions. Note how if you replace each instance of "piracy" and "take" in the parent with the word "sharing" suddenly no one cares anymore? "If people didn't share, things wouldn't be like this" "people won't take responsibility for them sharing something for free". Now go and look up the words. Sharing fits better. You could also go in the other direction and simply call it "child rape", it might take a while for the term to catch on but it will make the data sharers look really bad after it does.
I never took anything that wasn't mine. I arranged some magnetic bits on my hard disk in a certain way, but I didn't steal the hard disk, and the magnetic bits are mine to arrange in any way I see fit. The best way to check if something has been stolen is to see if something is missing. Well is anyone missing any music/games/movies/tv shows? Nope it looks like the studios still have their hard drives and removable media. All the bits are still arranged in the way that they have chosen to arrange them. Good, case closed, nothing stolen.
Oh damn, it sucks to write a huge reply and then realise that you are replying to an anonymous coward who probably doesn't even care about the issue and just wanted to cause someone to waste their time replying. Score 1 for troll, score 0 for internetuser1248.
It is also worth noting that one major difference between the US federal reserve system and some others around the world, is that in some countries, notably many european countries and New Zealand (This is the only one I am sure of but wikipedia has the details), the central bank is owned by the government and all profits go to the state coffers. In the US all profits of the fed go to a group of anonymous private shareholders.
Given that a significant percentage(canadian statistics) of children who are the victims of violent crimes committed by their own family, there is something decidedly sinister about this. I am not sure what the percentage of violent crimes commit against children by people they met online is but I imagine it pales in comparison to the 30-40% committed by family members. It seems to me that the only real purpose of a keymapper would be to know if your kids ever tell anyone "daddy hits me sometimes". Conversely, the better method that was suggested by posters above: that parents simply educate their children about the internet, will result in the children being aware how easy it is to report such things to an authority who will act on the information.
As is so often the case, the claimed purpose of security is the opposite of the actual effect.
I am a little disappointed to be honest. I was expecting the next generation of telescopes to be multiple components in formation, an array of smaller mirrors covering an area of several kilometers, all reflecting towards a central light collector. The idea of a telescope with a > 1km baseline is very exciting as the resolution it enables would be staggering. A big enough baseline should enable us to resolve individual planets in nearby solar systems.
Because nothing that we have observed so far is infinite, so its very hard to come to the conclusion that something is infinite without a base reference of what infinity really is.
The fact that it is logically impossible to observe anything that is infinite tends to dispute that as an argument. It is similar to a blind person not believing in colour, sure it is understandable, but it can not be claimed as a logically strong position. It is a tautology that we have only observed finite things, as observation is finite. Another example might be to say that in the 1800s colours didn't exist because no photographic records of the time show any colour. It is however a valid point to say that we don't have a reference for what infinity really is. It is a difficult subject as without a knowledge of infinite, we also don't have a real base reference for what "not infinite" means. Perhaps the whole question should be left to philosophers and theologians and the scientists should stick to evaluating evidence and claim no opinion where there is none.
I think the best solution is to introduce perjury laws to politics. Any campaign speeches or official announcements made by candidates should be legally considered to be under oath, and saying anything that turns out to be untrue would leave them open to criminal perjury charges. No I am not so naive that I believe this would change how politicians behave once in office, but it should make them think a bit more carefully about what they say on the campaign trail.
Oh and what that guy earlier said about having more than just two identical political parties, that would help too.
yet another case of "oh no, my business model is obsolete and inferior to someone else's, I had better sue them". Doesn't the US have frivolous lawsuit statutes for this kind of case?
I suspect it will be a muslim-based one. in which case, we are now WORSE off.
We will be worse off? I am sorry to burst your bubble but it is not about us, it is about the Egyptians. We (I assume you are from the US) were doing fine before this all happened, Egyptians were getting tortured and murdered by the police on a routine basis, not to mention living in poverty for the most part. I don't think they care what it means for us, and I don't blame them for not caring. It was the US that supported the current government so they will probably be glad that the end of torture and murder for them means a small difference in the pockets of the richest westerners.
I also don't see what religion has to do with it, it is a muslim country, the current government is predominantly muslim, the population is predominantly muslim. The fact that you would even imagine the possibility of a non muslim government betrays embarrassing ignorance on your part. Perhaps you would prefer they all convert to catholicism and pledge allegiance to the pope. I suppose you think that would result in a wonderful new peace loving democracy and profits for all patriotic Americans. Sometimes I am ashamed for even reading this website.
Also coal plants are cleaner than the average ICE car and no one burns crude for electricity. Please educate yourself on this topic before shooting off at the mouth.
Citation needed. Coal plants run at 5-10% higher thermal efficiency than a petrol ICE this is true, but if you include losses in transmission and distribution (~10%), and in spinning reserve (~25%) you end up about equal to petrol (transport and distribution for petrol is around 20%). That is without adding in the cost of making the car and batteries (most electric cars are aluminium and carbon fibre, requiring many times more energy than their steel counterparts) and the admittedly small efficiency losses at the vehicle (10-20%). You usually find that unless your state/country is running an almost exclusively wind/hydrothermal/solar electricity grid electric cars end up producing more CO2, and using more total energy.
Also while you are correct that no one uses crude for electricity, they do use fuel oil, which is a very broad fraction of crude similar to diesel. The difference is small.
Please educate yourself on this topic before shooting off at the mouth.
This raises questions about the safety of such an operation. A bystander being accidentally hit by the package has a small chance of being knocked down and hitting their head on a rock. This could bring the worldwide death toll of this killer drug from 0 to 1, a massive increase, making the drug almost 1/10,000th as dangerous as aspirin. This is an unacceptable risk. We need to make this drug legal so it can be transported more safely, mitigating these risks.
Where I come from, New Zealand, They write this on cigarette packets. I think that smokers have a 0.5% higher chance of developing cataracts when they get old or something. My point was exactly that, warning labels often describe things that are not a real danger at all, and in doing so dilute the impact of the ones that are actually valid like stroke/lung cancer etc.
Well if tobacco warnings are anything to go on, I would also expect to see "Warning: Video games can make you blind" and "Warning: Video games can make you impotent"
I would also like to see warning labels on politicians. I can prove direct links between a number of politicians and real world violence. In fact the number of people killed by crazy video gamers is insignificant next to the number of people killed by the actions and policies of political leaders in the US, UK, China, Russia, and much of Asia and Africa. Don't even get me started on cars, alcohol, consumer food products (dioxin anyone?) etc. If video games is the standard for how dangerous something has to be to get a label, then we need to label everything.
WARNING: REPEATEDLY SMASHING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THIS BRICK WALL CAN CAUSE HEADACHES, BRAIN HAEMORRHAGE'S AND DEATH.
It bad enough on a PC with a keyboard typing in a 30 character alphanumeric sequence. I am going to love seeing 13 year old playstation users trying to get it right with a controller.
The Dalai Lama is actively evil? Perhaps I am not up with recent news but I never heard that opinion before. Perhaps you could furnish us with some links (preferably not originating from the Chinese government)
Well there were scientific studies done, these are repeatable and falsifiable. Rather than everyone presenting their own skeptical opinion as though it were indisputable truth how about we get a few volunteers to repeat the experiments and actually find out the answer.
Seems like a lot of people here know exactly how the mechanism of speciation works. Care to enlighten the rest of us? Maybe you should write to a science journal.
Of course as with Randi's challenge, the challenge would have to be limited to a specific set of disciplines. Let's say ESP, dowsing, telepathic communication, telekinesis for an example list. It is also not sufficient to do as you suggest and simply prove the lack of ability in a single person. If you could prove that my skills in brain surgery are insufficient to cure any illness that would not be evidence that the field of brain surgery is invalid. I am not a brain surgeon, even if I claim to be. So how would you go about disproving any of these things? Claiming that a failure to disprove these things for a million dollar prize is evidence of their veracity is logically equivalent to claiming that failure to prove them for a million dollars is evidence that they are invalid. I am by no means arguing that any of these disciplines are real science, merely disputing that a million dollar televised prize is real science.
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Personally, I go one step further and set my recycler space to 0 so that all files are permanently deleted first time. There is a window that pops up and says "are you sure you wish to delete this file" When I click Yes it is because the answer is Yes. If I am not sure then the answer is no. I don't understand how anyone can go from being sure about something to doubting it later. This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the word 'sure'.
Kind of like Chavez. How many people will he have to kill and torture until the figure it out?
When I read the above I thought "Oh wow I must have missed something important in the news recently", and I jumped on google and searched. Google said that no, I hadn't missed anything recently. This leads me to believe that Chavez must have killed and tortured people longer ago, and rather than read all the news since he came to power, I thought I would just let sycodon himself illuminate me as to this gem of information. I don't doubt the claim, to quote Bill Hicks: all governments are liars and murderers. On the other hand I don't want to bring this up in polite conversation about the state of politics in the world without the facts to back it up. So please, illuminate me, with links. I like evidence.
If possible, it would be good if you could show a large number of killings as well, as governments can usually justify killing just a couple of people. As a rule of thumb lets say that if a national government kills more people than the state of Texas each year, then we can be justified in calling them a murderous regime. You can do that per capita if you think its fairer.
Using the word piracy for data sharing is like using the word faggot for homosexuality. It is innacurate and only designed to stir up emotions. Note how if you replace each instance of "piracy" and "take" in the parent with the word "sharing" suddenly no one cares anymore? "If people didn't share, things wouldn't be like this" "people won't take responsibility for them sharing something for free". Now go and look up the words. Sharing fits better. You could also go in the other direction and simply call it "child rape", it might take a while for the term to catch on but it will make the data sharers look really bad after it does.
I never took anything that wasn't mine. I arranged some magnetic bits on my hard disk in a certain way, but I didn't steal the hard disk, and the magnetic bits are mine to arrange in any way I see fit. The best way to check if something has been stolen is to see if something is missing. Well is anyone missing any music/games/movies/tv shows? Nope it looks like the studios still have their hard drives and removable media. All the bits are still arranged in the way that they have chosen to arrange them. Good, case closed, nothing stolen.
Oh damn, it sucks to write a huge reply and then realise that you are replying to an anonymous coward who probably doesn't even care about the issue and just wanted to cause someone to waste their time replying. Score 1 for troll, score 0 for internetuser1248.
It is also worth noting that one major difference between the US federal reserve system and some others around the world, is that in some countries, notably many european countries and New Zealand (This is the only one I am sure of but wikipedia has the details), the central bank is owned by the government and all profits go to the state coffers. In the US all profits of the fed go to a group of anonymous private shareholders.
the upcoming Clinton, Palin and Beck administrations.
You must be the most pessimistic person I ever encountered
which is why we have to start now. Saying that something takes a long time is not a good reason to put off starting it.
Given that a significant percentage(canadian statistics) of children who are the victims of violent crimes committed by their own family, there is something decidedly sinister about this. I am not sure what the percentage of violent crimes commit against children by people they met online is but I imagine it pales in comparison to the 30-40% committed by family members. It seems to me that the only real purpose of a keymapper would be to know if your kids ever tell anyone "daddy hits me sometimes". Conversely, the better method that was suggested by posters above: that parents simply educate their children about the internet, will result in the children being aware how easy it is to report such things to an authority who will act on the information.
As is so often the case, the claimed purpose of security is the opposite of the actual effect.
I am a little disappointed to be honest. I was expecting the next generation of telescopes to be multiple components in formation, an array of smaller mirrors covering an area of several kilometers, all reflecting towards a central light collector. The idea of a telescope with a > 1km baseline is very exciting as the resolution it enables would be staggering. A big enough baseline should enable us to resolve individual planets in nearby solar systems.
Oh well, maybe the next generation.
Because nothing that we have observed so far is infinite, so its very hard to come to the conclusion that something is infinite without a base reference of what infinity really is.
The fact that it is logically impossible to observe anything that is infinite tends to dispute that as an argument. It is similar to a blind person not believing in colour, sure it is understandable, but it can not be claimed as a logically strong position. It is a tautology that we have only observed finite things, as observation is finite. Another example might be to say that in the 1800s colours didn't exist because no photographic records of the time show any colour. It is however a valid point to say that we don't have a reference for what infinity really is. It is a difficult subject as without a knowledge of infinite, we also don't have a real base reference for what "not infinite" means. Perhaps the whole question should be left to philosophers and theologians and the scientists should stick to evaluating evidence and claim no opinion where there is none.
I think there might be remnants of mine left too, do I have to move to Algeria or do i just need to talk smack about them online?
I think the best solution is to introduce perjury laws to politics. Any campaign speeches or official announcements made by candidates should be legally considered to be under oath, and saying anything that turns out to be untrue would leave them open to criminal perjury charges. No I am not so naive that I believe this would change how politicians behave once in office, but it should make them think a bit more carefully about what they say on the campaign trail.
Oh and what that guy earlier said about having more than just two identical political parties, that would help too.
yet another case of "oh no, my business model is obsolete and inferior to someone else's, I had better sue them". Doesn't the US have frivolous lawsuit statutes for this kind of case?
I suspect it will be a muslim-based one. in which case, we are now WORSE off.
We will be worse off? I am sorry to burst your bubble but it is not about us, it is about the Egyptians. We (I assume you are from the US) were doing fine before this all happened, Egyptians were getting tortured and murdered by the police on a routine basis, not to mention living in poverty for the most part. I don't think they care what it means for us, and I don't blame them for not caring. It was the US that supported the current government so they will probably be glad that the end of torture and murder for them means a small difference in the pockets of the richest westerners.
I also don't see what religion has to do with it, it is a muslim country, the current government is predominantly muslim, the population is predominantly muslim. The fact that you would even imagine the possibility of a non muslim government betrays embarrassing ignorance on your part. Perhaps you would prefer they all convert to catholicism and pledge allegiance to the pope. I suppose you think that would result in a wonderful new peace loving democracy and profits for all patriotic Americans. Sometimes I am ashamed for even reading this website.
Also coal plants are cleaner than the average ICE car and no one burns crude for electricity. Please educate yourself on this topic before shooting off at the mouth.
Citation needed. Coal plants run at 5-10% higher thermal efficiency than a petrol ICE this is true, but if you include losses in transmission and distribution (~10%), and in spinning reserve (~25%) you end up about equal to petrol (transport and distribution for petrol is around 20%). That is without adding in the cost of making the car and batteries (most electric cars are aluminium and carbon fibre, requiring many times more energy than their steel counterparts) and the admittedly small efficiency losses at the vehicle (10-20%). You usually find that unless your state/country is running an almost exclusively wind/hydrothermal/solar electricity grid electric cars end up producing more CO2, and using more total energy.
Also while you are correct that no one uses crude for electricity, they do use fuel oil, which is a very broad fraction of crude similar to diesel. The difference is small. Please educate yourself on this topic before shooting off at the mouth.
You might want to revise that to "even in the UK". I live in Germany and we buy it by the gram. Germans don't even know what an ounce is.
This raises questions about the safety of such an operation. A bystander being accidentally hit by the package has a small chance of being knocked down and hitting their head on a rock. This could bring the worldwide death toll of this killer drug from 0 to 1, a massive increase, making the drug almost 1/10,000th as dangerous as aspirin. This is an unacceptable risk. We need to make this drug legal so it can be transported more safely, mitigating these risks.
Where I come from, New Zealand, They write this on cigarette packets. I think that smokers have a 0.5% higher chance of developing cataracts when they get old or something. My point was exactly that, warning labels often describe things that are not a real danger at all, and in doing so dilute the impact of the ones that are actually valid like stroke/lung cancer etc.
Well if tobacco warnings are anything to go on, I would also expect to see "Warning: Video games can make you blind" and "Warning: Video games can make you impotent"
I would also like to see warning labels on politicians. I can prove direct links between a number of politicians and real world violence. In fact the number of people killed by crazy video gamers is insignificant next to the number of people killed by the actions and policies of political leaders in the US, UK, China, Russia, and much of Asia and Africa. Don't even get me started on cars, alcohol, consumer food products (dioxin anyone?) etc. If video games is the standard for how dangerous something has to be to get a label, then we need to label everything.
WARNING: REPEATEDLY SMASHING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THIS BRICK WALL CAN CAUSE HEADACHES, BRAIN HAEMORRHAGE'S AND DEATH.
It bad enough on a PC with a keyboard typing in a 30 character alphanumeric sequence. I am going to love seeing 13 year old playstation users trying to get it right with a controller.
IT technicians support transubstantiation.
The Dalai Lama is actively evil? Perhaps I am not up with recent news but I never heard that opinion before. Perhaps you could furnish us with some links (preferably not originating from the Chinese government)
not to mention that there is little opportunity to examine someones greencard or passport at 500 meters
Well there were scientific studies done, these are repeatable and falsifiable. Rather than everyone presenting their own skeptical opinion as though it were indisputable truth how about we get a few volunteers to repeat the experiments and actually find out the answer.
Seems like a lot of people here know exactly how the mechanism of speciation works. Care to enlighten the rest of us? Maybe you should write to a science journal.
Of course as with Randi's challenge, the challenge would have to be limited to a specific set of disciplines. Let's say ESP, dowsing, telepathic communication, telekinesis for an example list. It is also not sufficient to do as you suggest and simply prove the lack of ability in a single person. If you could prove that my skills in brain surgery are insufficient to cure any illness that would not be evidence that the field of brain surgery is invalid. I am not a brain surgeon, even if I claim to be. So how would you go about disproving any of these things? Claiming that a failure to disprove these things for a million dollar prize is evidence of their veracity is logically equivalent to claiming that failure to prove them for a million dollars is evidence that they are invalid. I am by no means arguing that any of these disciplines are real science, merely disputing that a million dollar televised prize is real science.