On the other hand, aren't there many, MANY more students than there are prisoners? Even with the excessive growth of the US prison population in the past few decades.
Hence a lottery (or other solutions), which is reasonably fair.
What's fair about taking anyone but those you want the most? We're not talking about a political asylum lottery. We'll still extradite a motherfucker.
The problem is that the people selected by the non-lottery process are maybe the people who uou want the most, but they're not necessarily the people you need the most.
For the nth time. Free Software predates Open Source. Stallman couldn't have talked about "Open Source" when he started the Free Software movement because "Open Source" didn't exist.
Open Source only exists because it was invented for politcal reasons by people who disagreed with Stallman about who the freedom was for,
Proprietary software allows freedom for the developer and users. Users are free to run the software and developers are free to charge without having to give the source away. This is the best possible balance of freedom.
Go back and read why Stallman started the Free Software movement.
Stallman is for a long list of restrictions on open source,
Once again you show your ignorance. Stallman has nothing to do with "open source", his movement (which pre-dates "open source") is about "free software". The freedom is for the users of the software. The restrictions are necessary to stop people taking away the freedom that the author has given.
...and get it published in a peer reviewed journal.
Yes. After all, we all know that the AGW crowd would never, under any circumstances manipulate the peer review process to prevent contrarian articles from being accepted.
Yes we do.
Or are you trying to be sarcastic here? Making a silly reference to some stolen e-mail?
In fact they used that tree ring data without caveat for most of the chart, then silently omitted it near the end of the sequence, substituting data from the other set only for those years where the data from the first set didnt fit their hypothesis. Then they labeled the chart so it looked like a single, reliable data set produced the whole sequence, and presented it to the world as such.
Which chart would that be? Where was it published?
You're basically right, but you're reading the numbers wrong. Those aren't birth rate numbers you linked: it's a ratio of births to deaths. Hence why the USA at 0.97 is considered falling. But the 2.15 figure means over twice as many births as deaths.
You're both wrong. The figure is the percentage increase in population due to excess of births over deaths or excess of imigration over emigration. A positive number means a growing population, a negative one means a falling population. All the places cited except Germany have growing populations.
Africa is growing by around 2% a year (2 extra people per 100 people in the current population), the US is growing by about 1% a year (1 more person per 100 people in the current population).
Iran has stepped up efforts at helping [...] the Taliban and is now releasing all of its Al Qaeda terrorists back into the wilds of the Middle East
Yes, and Ian Paisley is the pope.
Iran owns the Afghani government, why would they help the Taliban who want to overthrow it and consider Iran heretics?
Iran owns the Iraqi government, why would they help Al Quaida who would overthrow it and consider Iran heretics?
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Seems to be about 11 students per prisoner. (Wikipedia gives 7 million odd prisoners and http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html gives around 77 million students).
Nope, precedent preceeds your constituition.
Hence a lottery (or other solutions), which is reasonably fair.
What's fair about taking anyone but those you want the most? We're not talking about a political asylum lottery. We'll still extradite a motherfucker.
The problem is that the people selected by the non-lottery process are maybe the people who uou want the most, but they're not necessarily the people you need the most.
So now you know the difference between a copyleft style license and a BSD style license.
Free Software is an inaccurate political term. Open source is more accurate and has been around before the GPL was created.
You are simply wrong.
... a scientific basis ...
And insane.
For the nth time. Free Software predates Open Source. Stallman couldn't have talked about "Open Source" when he started the Free Software movement because "Open Source" didn't exist.
Open Source only exists because it was invented for politcal reasons by people who disagreed with Stallman about who the freedom was for,
Go back and read why Stallman started the Free Software movement.
depends on the license.
Once again you show your ignorance. Stallman has nothing to do with "open source", his movement (which pre-dates "open source") is about "free software". The freedom is for the users of the software. The restrictions are necessary to stop people taking away the freedom that the author has given.
He just drapes his open source goals in "freedom" rhetoric to make it sound more important.
Could you be more ignorant if you tried?
RMS doesn't have "open source" goals. He has "free software" goals. It's not rhetoric, it's the real deal.
What paper were they talking about in the "redefine peer review" e-mail?
What happened to that paper - oh, it was published.
Why were they annoyed that it was going to be published? Because it was utter crap.
So their "manipulation" of the peer review process was to critisize the publication of a crap paper. Wow, some conspiracy.
Yes. After all, we all know that the AGW crowd would never, under any circumstances manipulate the peer review process to prevent contrarian articles from being accepted.
Yes we do.
Or are you trying to be sarcastic here? Making a silly reference to some stolen e-mail?
Which was about a paper that was published?.
Even though the paper was utter crap?
Which chart would that be? Where was it published?
You're basically right, but you're reading the numbers wrong. Those aren't birth rate numbers you linked: it's a ratio of births to deaths. Hence why the USA at 0.97 is considered falling. But the 2.15 figure means over twice as many births as deaths.
You're both wrong. The figure is the percentage increase in population due to excess of births over deaths or excess of imigration over emigration. A positive number means a growing population, a negative one means a falling population. All the places cited except Germany have growing populations.
Africa is growing by around 2% a year (2 extra people per 100 people in the current population), the US is growing by about 1% a year (1 more person per 100 people in the current population).
I can find a lot of dodgy crap on the old intertubes, but nothing recent or reliable.
Not for nuclear weapons. The whole point of nukes is to let other people know you have them; no-one wants to have to actually use the things.
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
Yes, and Ian Paisley is the pope. Iran owns the Afghani government, why would they help the Taliban who want to overthrow it and consider Iran heretics? Iran owns the Iraqi government, why would they help Al Quaida who would overthrow it and consider Iran heretics?
The story is that the City University of Newcastle on Tyne got as far as printing the letterhead before they decided that they needed a name change.
In my intranet I want each node to have a hostname so that I can reach it to access services.
This is reasonable.
For this to work I need to give each node a static IP address. So how can I do that without private addresses?
That does not follow.
Why do you need static addresses? Use dynamic DNS.
Seriously? You think we should read crazy shit writtem by one of the nuttiest of the Birchers? You are fucked in the head.
I'd be prepared to bet that once the women found that all the men other than you were gay they'd decide to be lesbians.
How does being homosexual prevent someone from reproducing?
Thanks for that helpful interjection Mr Turing.
Want an apple?
And you don't find the Cylons implausible?
Which group would that be? The Somalis? The Libertarian part? What?
And artificial gravity.
If you like Singapore you'll love China.
Seriously, to the question is "waah waaah the US and UK are becoming un-free, where should I move to" you reply Singapore?
"The People's Action Party (PAP) dominates the political process and has won control of Parliament in every election since self-government in 1959."
Some freedom.