We lose as many if not more soldiers in training accidents during peace time as we've lost in our two current wars, and people are freaked out about it.
Do you have any evidence for that statement? DoD statistics at http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/castop.htm would seem to refute your claim but perhaps you have some other source of information on training casualties.
Objects don't just "change mass". They can get mass from somewhere else or lose mass to somewhere else.
Sure they can: e=mc2. There is just the pesky problem of converting the energy back to matter, but we will work that out after the GP figures out how to convert himself to energy.
If you almost die in an auto wreck, you are going to wear your safety belt.
What happened with 9-11 is more like getting a bad concussion in an auto wreck and then never driving or riding in a car again, and blowing up the dealership that sold you the car.
Don't forget blowing up a nearby dealership that had nothing to do with your car wreck, but had dealings with your daddy.
This is exactly why the Bill of Rights faced heavy opposition, as it turned the whole idea of things on its head and set a precedent that the Constitution had to forbid the federal government from doing something.
Then again, it's far better than the precedent some have tried to set by using an amendment to prevent people from having certain rights.
Except the part of the Bill of Rights that specifically states the federal government only has the powers delegated by the constitution (10th amendment)
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The founders were very careful not to set such a precedent.
Your back of the napkin solar plant doesn't pass the economic test either. Toronto averages about 4.1 peak sun hours per day. So your hypothetical 3.8 GW array would produce about 15.6 GWH per day. Meanwhile, Darlington A produces 3.5 GW 24 hours a day, producing 84 GWH every day (much more useful power as well, since it is predictable it can be used as base-load power). Your solar array would need to be at least 5 times larger than your plan in order to produce as much power as Darlington A, which cost 14.4B. The cost estimate for your proposed array was 10B, for an array large enough to replace the nuclear plant it would be 50B. Not to mention other obvious flaws in the plan (like how to deploy 5 million m2 of solar panels on 5 million m2 of ground) but compared to solar, Darlington A sounds like a bargain!
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So if by "rubber" you mean "made from the sap of a rubber tree or a similar hydrocarbon synthetic designed primarily for flexibility and resilience", then no, it doesn't burn rubber. The fuel is designed primarily for high specific impulse, with the rubbery characteristics design in secondarily.
"To cut down on both cost and risk, SpaceShipOne is propelled by a mixture of hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene (tire rubber) and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). The rubber acts as the fuel and the laughing gas as the oxidizer."
Just because it has a name doesn't mean it is a real malady. Some quotes from the page you linked:
"The majority of provocation trials to date have found that sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to distinguish between the exposure to real and sham electromagnetic fields."
"Sufferers and their support groups are convinced of a causal relationship with electromagnetic fields, but presently the scientific literature does not support such a link"
"several more double-blind experiments have been published, each of which has suggested that people who report electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to detect the presence of electromagnetic fields and are as likely to report ill health following a sham exposure, as they are following exposure to genuine electromagnetic fields."
"in 2005 the World Health Organization concluded that there is no known scientific basis for the belief that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields."
It would be nice if the dates given where actually correct...
The Moa was believed to have gone extinct around the time of the first English landing in New Zealand (1769), with isolated groups surviving in the south island till the 1850's. So we are looking at a few hundred years, which is nothing in evolutionary time lines.
Quoting wiki, where no citation is given is just incompetence.
Speaking of citations, where are yours? This paper examines the claims that moa were still alive during the European era and concludes there is little or no evidence of the moa surviving past the 1500s.
As for your citation, shells of live snails have been tested using carbon dating and tested to thousands of year old even though scientist have watched them grow and they were still alive today. As you are able to type a reply, I assume your google finger is not broken and you can find your own citations.
In your earlier post, you did not give enough information to use my "google finger". What google terms do you derive from "In science, a 2 year old can be dated 14 million years old."? You said nothing about snails. It has been known for some time that radiocarbon dating of snails is unreliable because they ingest limestone and incorporate it into their shells. Tamers (1970) citing a 1963 study observed "The use of terrestrial shells for radiocarbon dating is generally regarded as giving unreliable results". Of course, your original assertion that "a 2 year old [snail] can be dated to 14 million years" is false, I notice you amended that to "thousands of year (sic) old" in your later post, which is in the right order of magnitude.
As for the other citation you need, you should easily be able to find articles on that too with your google finger. I'm not sure if your being intellectually lazy or just attempting to waist my time. http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/dating/dating.htm [genesispark.com] is one dealing with the stratification anomalies, there are plenty of pay articles you can select from. I was under the assumption that this knowledge was widely known and supported by the science community so I'm currious given your stand to why you need citations.
The link you provided mentions nothing about your original assertions. It is a collection of quotes on the methods used for fossil dating. I know your time is very valuable (for example, it takes an immense amount of time to learn the difference between waist and waste) but would it really take that long to back up your statements? You make outlandish claims, then when asked for evidence say "you are in charge of proving my claims" and "It's a widely believed fact!".
First, lets be clear, I'm not arguing against science, I'm pointing out the similarities between science and religion as it's expresses around here. Whether people want to admit it or not, the science isn't complete and there are a lot of gaps that require a certain level of faith.
Great strawman. I have never met a scientist that claimed "science is complete". Science, by nature, is always incomplete. Even if you come up with a theory that can explain and predict some aspect of physical reality (say, universal gravitation) someone can still come along and prove you wrong with their own theory (like relativity). The very basis of science is experimentation and reproducibility - the very antithesis of faith.
In science, a 2 year old can be dated 14 million years old.
[citation needed]
We have witnessed natural events that place the stratification dating process into question and found fossils as well as man made object in layers of sediment thought to of been way to old for it to be possible. We even have fossils that transfer between age groupings of the layers in which we are supposed to believe that exposed tissue survived hundreds and possibly thousands of years in order to get covered and fossilized.
[citation needed]
But back to the bible, It's clear that the bible's account with Adam and Even was with a specific set of people and not the entire world. It's sort of ridiculous to place an age of the world around the age of the participants of the bible because it doesn't count the people outside which were brought into the stories as they associated with the main characters of the bible.
Is it your position that Adam and Eve were not the only people on the earth at the time of the Garden of Eden? Because the bible specifically states that they were. If one believes all the other myths in the bible why not believe in that one as well?
Your above post was the first time the word "conviction" was used in this thread. You replied to a post that used the term "locked up", which Mr. Skylarov most certainly was.
He was given bond, he couldn't pay it.
So, I'll ask you again, has there been a single person convicted of a DMCA charge? Anyone? If not, why would you bet your business on it happening?
I called you an idiot because you're clearly too dumb to follow a simple argument.
You say you'll ask me again, when were you going to ask the first time? Just to humor you, here is a DMCA conviction: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025-5080807.html Also, there have been thousands of DMCA takedown orders sent to content providers, the circumvention clause is not the only part of the DMCA.
Your argument is not valid but you think if you somehow insult me it will make it so. Your personal attacks, moving of the goalposts and rejection of evidence make it obvious that you are just a troll and not interested in reasonable discourse, so this will be my last post on the matter.
The charges against Sklyarov were later dropped [..] He was allowed to return to Russia on December 13, 2001.
Way to fail to even read the article you linked to.
Idiot.
The charges were dropped in exchange for his testimony against his company. He was still jailed. Exchanging cooperation for freedom is a common practice. It doesn't change the fact that he was jailed and charged.
You asked for a single person that had been jailed in violation of the DMCA, I provided one, then you start the ad hominem attacks. Who is the idiot?
.In my case, I have a free (tax paid, no memberships) public library 15 *walking* minutes from my house that lets me take the book home for one week....Libraries clearly win in this case.
Unless you are the guy that has to drive 20 miles to get to the library, to find out that you've taken out the book that they wanted, for a week....
So... libraries don't win, overall. In your example, they only win for you.
What library doesn't have their card catalog online these days? If you're driving 20 miles without checking to see if they have your book first then you lose. Maybe libraries don't win, but you still lose.
Great, can you name a single person who has? No? Then why would you bet millions of dollars on it as a deterrent?
Do you mean someone who has been locked up for violating the DMCA? How about Dimitri Skylarov? You don't need to lock up thousands for the law to have a chilling effect on innovation.
Seriously, use it for telephone service when the wireless companies inevitably try to jack you, either with service cuts, signal loss, price gouging, sneaky tactics to overcharge you, etc.
Great idea, because everybody knows only the cell companies try to rip you off, the local telcos are angels that would never try anything underhanded.
Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency [ideascale.com] -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one
Serious? Really? Like the clause that states:
"Legislate a requirement that, in any war, the military aged children and grandchildren of the president, the vice president, all cabinet officials, and all Congress members serve on the front lines in the most dangerous combat positions -- no exceptions, no exemptions."
So we should make a law that adults are forced into the most dangerous military service possible because of the political positions of their relatives? A possible death sentence because a relative was elected to public office? Such a proposal seems like a non-starter.
Like many Americans I believe the bounds of executive power have been pushed too far and need to be reined back to reasonable limits. However, if your proposal for doing so includes idiocy like the above quote it won't get far. Something needs to be reasonable before it is doable.
I could just as easily say, "This cluster of neurons is the smart cluster, and does a better job of processing information than this other cluster."
Isn't that the case? Some areas of the brain do much more processing than other areas. Areas that process vision and speech do much more processing than areas that control autonomic functions. To extend your analogy, perhaps some of the members of society aren't neurons at all - they are Glial cells and they exist to support the neurons.
How was such a charge approved? After the first charge, your account balance should have been too low to get approval for the second charge. I don't know how the system works in Australia but in my neck of the woods if a debit card does not have the funds available the charge does not get approved.
For most people, sound in Linux works, but it doesn't work well for anyone. By "work well", I mean MIDI and sound stream control. Windows, MacOS X and even (and especially) BeOS have the sound sewn down and are viable platforms for music creation. Linux definitely isn't and ALSA has inherent flaws that guarantee it never will.
Windows has the sound "sewn down"? Why were there so many complaints about the sound system in Vista (their current OS)? They hosed sound so badly that articles were written about it in mainstream publications. A cursory google searchshows thousands of users with audio issues under Vista. I would hardly call the current state of windows audio bug-free.
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At least there are the dozens of instances of "casino's" in the thread to balance out Mr. smarty-pants.
Do you have any evidence for that statement? DoD statistics at http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/castop.htm would seem to refute your claim but perhaps you have some other source of information on training casualties.
Objects don't just "change mass". They can get mass from somewhere else or lose mass to somewhere else.
Sure they can: e=mc2. There is just the pesky problem of converting the energy back to matter, but we will work that out after the GP figures out how to convert himself to energy.
If you almost die in an auto wreck, you are going to wear your safety belt.
What happened with 9-11 is more like getting a bad concussion in an auto wreck and then never driving or riding in a car again, and blowing up the dealership that sold you the car.
Don't forget blowing up a nearby dealership that had nothing to do with your car wreck, but had dealings with your daddy.
This is exactly why the Bill of Rights faced heavy opposition, as it turned the whole idea of things on its head and set a precedent that the Constitution had to forbid the federal government from doing something.
Then again, it's far better than the precedent some have tried to set by using an amendment to prevent people from having certain rights.
Except the part of the Bill of Rights that specifically states the federal government only has the powers delegated by the constitution (10th amendment)
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The founders were very careful not to set such a precedent.
Your back of the napkin solar plant doesn't pass the economic test either. Toronto averages about 4.1 peak sun hours per day. So your hypothetical 3.8 GW array would produce about 15.6 GWH per day. Meanwhile, Darlington A produces 3.5 GW 24 hours a day, producing 84 GWH every day (much more useful power as well, since it is predictable it can be used as base-load power). Your solar array would need to be at least 5 times larger than your plan in order to produce as much power as Darlington A, which cost 14.4B. The cost estimate for your proposed array was 10B, for an array large enough to replace the nuclear plant it would be 50B. Not to mention other obvious flaws in the plan (like how to deploy 5 million m2 of solar panels on 5 million m2 of ground) but compared to solar, Darlington A sounds like a bargain!
So if by "rubber" you mean "made from the sap of a rubber tree or a similar hydrocarbon synthetic designed primarily for flexibility and resilience", then no, it doesn't burn rubber. The fuel is designed primarily for high specific impulse, with the rubbery characteristics design in secondarily.
You are wrong, the engine burns rubber (at least synthetic rubber). From http://science.howstuffworks.com/spaceshipone5.htm
"To cut down on both cost and risk, SpaceShipOne is propelled by a mixture of hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene (tire rubber) and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). The rubber acts as the fuel and the laughing gas as the oxidizer."
Just because it has a name doesn't mean it is a real malady. Some quotes from the page you linked:
"The majority of provocation trials to date have found that sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to distinguish between the exposure to real and sham electromagnetic fields."
"Sufferers and their support groups are convinced of a causal relationship with electromagnetic fields, but presently the scientific literature does not support such a link"
"several more double-blind experiments have been published, each of which has suggested that people who report electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to detect the presence of electromagnetic fields and are as likely to report ill health following a sham exposure, as they are following exposure to genuine electromagnetic fields."
"in 2005 the World Health Organization concluded that there is no known scientific basis for the belief that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields."
It would be nice if the dates given where actually correct...
The Moa was believed to have gone extinct around the time of the first English landing in New Zealand (1769), with isolated groups surviving in the south island till the 1850's. So we are looking at a few hundred years, which is nothing in evolutionary time lines.
Quoting wiki, where no citation is given is just incompetence.
Speaking of citations, where are yours? This paper examines the claims that moa were still alive during the European era and concludes there is little or no evidence of the moa surviving past the 1500s.
Evolution didn't stop on the Galapagos once Darwin visited, it is still happening. Here is one example:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060714-evolution.html
2. if you can't even spell "vette", I don't hold out much hope for your execution skills.
Man, I really hope this is a joke and I just got whoooshed.
As for your citation, shells of live snails have been tested using carbon dating and tested to thousands of year old even though scientist have watched them grow and they were still alive today. As you are able to type a reply, I assume your google finger is not broken and you can find your own citations.
In your earlier post, you did not give enough information to use my "google finger". What google terms do you derive from "In science, a 2 year old can be dated 14 million years old."? You said nothing about snails. It has been known for some time that radiocarbon dating of snails is unreliable because they ingest limestone and incorporate it into their shells. Tamers (1970) citing a 1963 study observed "The use of terrestrial shells for radiocarbon dating is generally regarded as giving unreliable results". Of course, your original assertion that "a 2 year old [snail] can be dated to 14 million years" is false, I notice you amended that to "thousands of year (sic) old" in your later post, which is in the right order of magnitude.
As for the other citation you need, you should easily be able to find articles on that too with your google finger. I'm not sure if your being intellectually lazy or just attempting to waist my time. http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/dating/dating.htm [genesispark.com] is one dealing with the stratification anomalies, there are plenty of pay articles you can select from. I was under the assumption that this knowledge was widely known and supported by the science community so I'm currious given your stand to why you need citations.
The link you provided mentions nothing about your original assertions. It is a collection of quotes on the methods used for fossil dating. I know your time is very valuable (for example, it takes an immense amount of time to learn the difference between waist and waste) but would it really take that long to back up your statements? You make outlandish claims, then when asked for evidence say "you are in charge of proving my claims" and "It's a widely believed fact!".
First, lets be clear, I'm not arguing against science, I'm pointing out the similarities between science and religion as it's expresses around here. Whether people want to admit it or not, the science isn't complete and there are a lot of gaps that require a certain level of faith.
Great strawman. I have never met a scientist that claimed "science is complete". Science, by nature, is always incomplete. Even if you come up with a theory that can explain and predict some aspect of physical reality (say, universal gravitation) someone can still come along and prove you wrong with their own theory (like relativity). The very basis of science is experimentation and reproducibility - the very antithesis of faith.
In science, a 2 year old can be dated 14 million years old.
[citation needed]
We have witnessed natural events that place the stratification dating process into question and found fossils as well as man made object in layers of sediment thought to of been way to old for it to be possible. We even have fossils that transfer between age groupings of the layers in which we are supposed to believe that exposed tissue survived hundreds and possibly thousands of years in order to get covered and fossilized.
[citation needed]
But back to the bible, It's clear that the bible's account with Adam and Even was with a specific set of people and not the entire world. It's sort of ridiculous to place an age of the world around the age of the participants of the bible because it doesn't count the people outside which were brought into the stories as they associated with the main characters of the bible.
Is it your position that Adam and Eve were not the only people on the earth at the time of the Garden of Eden? Because the bible specifically states that they were. If one believes all the other myths in the bible why not believe in that one as well?
Spoken like a true anonymous coward. ^_^ Go ahead. Mod away. You only have five points.
I don't know about everyone else, but when I get mod point nowadays I get fifteen - not five.
Conviction. Do you know the word or what?
Your above post was the first time the word "conviction" was used in this thread. You replied to a post that used the term "locked up", which Mr. Skylarov most certainly was.
He was given bond, he couldn't pay it.
So, I'll ask you again, has there been a single person convicted of a DMCA charge? Anyone? If not, why would you bet your business on it happening?
I called you an idiot because you're clearly too dumb to follow a simple argument.
You say you'll ask me again, when were you going to ask the first time? Just to humor you, here is a DMCA conviction:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025-5080807.html
Also, there have been thousands of DMCA takedown orders sent to content providers, the circumvention clause is not the only part of the DMCA.
Your argument is not valid but you think if you somehow insult me it will make it so. Your personal attacks, moving of the goalposts and rejection of evidence make it obvious that you are just a troll and not interested in reasonable discourse, so this will be my last post on the matter.
The charges against Sklyarov were later dropped [..] He was allowed to return to Russia on December 13, 2001.
Way to fail to even read the article you linked to.
Idiot.
The charges were dropped in exchange for his testimony against his company. He was still jailed. Exchanging cooperation for freedom is a common practice. It doesn't change the fact that he was jailed and charged.
You asked for a single person that had been jailed in violation of the DMCA, I provided one, then you start the ad hominem attacks. Who is the idiot?
Unless you are the guy that has to drive 20 miles to get to the library, to find out that you've taken out the book that they wanted, for a week....
So... libraries don't win, overall. In your example, they only win for you.
What library doesn't have their card catalog online these days? If you're driving 20 miles without checking to see if they have your book first then you lose. Maybe libraries don't win, but you still lose.
Great, can you name a single person who has? No? Then why would you bet millions of dollars on it as a deterrent?
Do you mean someone who has been locked up for violating the DMCA? How about Dimitri Skylarov? You don't need to lock up thousands for the law to have a chilling effect on innovation.
So go ahead and call me a grammar Nazi. At least I'm not the illiterate clot.
Screw the grammar, how about the spelling in the article?
"What we've discovered is that the insurance industry is not going to let electric cars run extension chords all over the place"
"all of the Lithium is located in countries that are hostel towards the U.S."
Seriously, use it for telephone service when the wireless companies inevitably try to jack you, either with service cuts, signal loss, price gouging, sneaky tactics to overcharge you, etc.
Great idea, because everybody knows only the cell companies try to rip you off, the local telcos are angels that would never try anything underhanded.
Also, I'd like to point out that #1 is End Imperial Presidency [ideascale.com] -- with 755 votes against #2's 351 --, heavily criticizing Bush's presidency and calling out what happened in Iraq as war crimes, as they should be called. That is a serious one
Serious? Really? Like the clause that states:
"Legislate a requirement that, in any war, the military aged children and grandchildren of the president, the vice president, all cabinet officials, and all Congress members serve on the front lines in the most dangerous combat positions -- no exceptions, no exemptions."
So we should make a law that adults are forced into the most dangerous military service possible because of the political positions of their relatives? A possible death sentence because a relative was elected to public office? Such a proposal seems like a non-starter.
Like many Americans I believe the bounds of executive power have been pushed too far and need to be reined back to reasonable limits. However, if your proposal for doing so includes idiocy like the above quote it won't get far. Something needs to be reasonable before it is doable.
I could just as easily say, "This cluster of neurons is the smart cluster, and does a better job of processing information than this other cluster."
Isn't that the case? Some areas of the brain do much more processing than other areas. Areas that process vision and speech do much more processing than areas that control autonomic functions. To extend your analogy, perhaps some of the members of society aren't neurons at all - they are Glial cells and they exist to support the neurons.
Lucy and the Piltdown man were allegedly impossible to fake as well...
I'm sorry, are you claiming that Lucy is a fake? Is the American Museum of Natural History displaying a hoax? Do you have a reference for that?
How was such a charge approved? After the first charge, your account balance should have been too low to get approval for the second charge. I don't know how the system works in Australia but in my neck of the woods if a debit card does not have the funds available the charge does not get approved.
For most people, sound in Linux works, but it doesn't work well for anyone. By "work well", I mean MIDI and sound stream control. Windows, MacOS X and even (and especially) BeOS have the sound sewn down and are viable platforms for music creation. Linux definitely isn't and ALSA has inherent flaws that guarantee it never will.
Windows has the sound "sewn down"? Why were there so many complaints about the sound system in Vista (their current OS)? They hosed sound so badly that articles were written about it in mainstream publications. A cursory google searchshows thousands of users with audio issues under Vista. I would hardly call the current state of windows audio bug-free.