there's a spot in there for filling out sexual orientation, you suddenly are surprised that you're getting highly directed ads? OTOH, you're using facebook, and you're surprised that you're getting highly directed ads?
I think there's a maximum length after which a galaxy cannot exist; diminishing element returns from supernovae. Unfortunately I'm not sure how long it is, but it's much longer than 13 billion years; individual red dwarves can last for hundreds of billions of years. As for merger with other galaxies or destruction by a supermassive black hole though, its anyone's guess.
but isn't there a practical light/distance limit after which we can only see the glow of the big bang? I'm thinking 13B light years, exciting that we're approaching it
Iceland maybe? English is pretty common, one of the highest standards of living in the world, excellent tech industry, small government (400k pop, pretty much a requirement), no censorship (I mean at all, none whatsoever) and excellent internet service seeing as how (AFAIK) most European ISPs are routed through Iceland.
I don't know much about UK political parties, but the 'won't ever get elected' reason for not voting for a certain party is usually a vicious cycle. E.g. 'Why should I vote for a third party? They might stand for everything I believe in, but they'll never get elected!'. So those that would otherwise be, say, pirate voters vote for one of the corrupted major parties (lesser of two evils), and the cycle repeats.
How do you stand living in the present, with armed police keeping you under constant surveillance and ready to shoot you if you do something they don't like the look of?
Fixed that for you.
As for lacking a bill of rights, I'm thinking most countries do actually. But in the states, the politicians are shitting all over the bill of rights anyway, nothing's going to change until the revolution comes.
the trick to that is that someone could easily have a piece of encryption software that decrypts important data set A as data set A when one password is given, while the same data decrypts to something trivial when another password is given. Its not pointless, but its close.
I've got AT&T service since it's the only choice besides cable internet (which is too expensive by far) in my area. I suppose one of the few reasons they're respecting net neutrality is because they actually have competition; albeit nothing like the level of competition I'd like. The main problem I have with it is that its about as reliable as their cellular service if you get my meaning. Goes out at least 3 times a day, without fail.
I'm going to get modded to hell, but here goes: The tea party is not anti-science; it is a group composed of people who hold a wide variety of beliefs. True, plenty of people in it are those religious nut-job types, but the only factor connecting the entire group is discontent with the government and its actions of late, plus religious nuts are everywhere anyway. I'm sure almost everyone living in the united states is dissatisfied with the government, but the tea party is at present the only group getting really proactive in dealing with it, thus it is the largest group.
if a way is discovered to make current OSes boot 1000 times faster, you can guarantee Microsoft will find a way to have windows take 2000 times longer to boot.
You may actually want to preform that experiment yourself. Necessary and proper clause: "The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause). That said, I despise the health care bill, and all it stands for; compelling people by law to buy a service is just wrong; a point I can argue to the most vicious proponent of the bill. I just dislike uninformed comment(er)s.
as long as I can install whatever OS I want on my computer, and its well supported by my hardware, the masses can use whatever POS operating system they want.
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there's a spot in there for filling out sexual orientation, you suddenly are surprised that you're getting highly directed ads? OTOH, you're using facebook, and you're surprised that you're getting highly directed ads?
by five months.
I'm thinking the last point is what allows them to do this...
moon treaty. In theory, all of space is preserved for research. In practice, who knows?
why not? We need some sort of initiative to get off this rock, as you put it.
Sarcasm. Woosh.
also, a bit off topic, but based on current math, a red dwarf with a tenth of a solar mass can last 10 trillion years.
http://xkcd.com/54/
it's amazing to think it was launched almost 20 years ago.
I think there's a maximum length after which a galaxy cannot exist; diminishing element returns from supernovae. Unfortunately I'm not sure how long it is, but it's much longer than 13 billion years; individual red dwarves can last for hundreds of billions of years. As for merger with other galaxies or destruction by a supermassive black hole though, its anyone's guess.
but isn't there a practical light/distance limit after which we can only see the glow of the big bang? I'm thinking 13B light years, exciting that we're approaching it
Iceland maybe? English is pretty common, one of the highest standards of living in the world, excellent tech industry, small government (400k pop, pretty much a requirement), no censorship (I mean at all, none whatsoever) and excellent internet service seeing as how (AFAIK) most European ISPs are routed through Iceland.
I don't know much about UK political parties, but the 'won't ever get elected' reason for not voting for a certain party is usually a vicious cycle. E.g. 'Why should I vote for a third party? They might stand for everything I believe in, but they'll never get elected!'. So those that would otherwise be, say, pirate voters vote for one of the corrupted major parties (lesser of two evils), and the cycle repeats.
How do you stand living in the present, with armed police keeping you under constant surveillance and ready to shoot you if you do something they don't like the look of?
Fixed that for you.
As for lacking a bill of rights, I'm thinking most countries do actually. But in the states, the politicians are shitting all over the bill of rights anyway, nothing's going to change until the revolution comes.
Are you kidding? The upper class would never reduce its standards of living just to control the populace, they aren't nearly that smart.
the trick to that is that someone could easily have a piece of encryption software that decrypts important data set A as data set A when one password is given, while the same data decrypts to something trivial when another password is given. Its not pointless, but its close.
doubleplusgood duckspeak.
eh, what? Crawl out from under that rock, sir, PDF is an open format and has been for 2 years.
I've got AT&T service since it's the only choice besides cable internet (which is too expensive by far) in my area. I suppose one of the few reasons they're respecting net neutrality is because they actually have competition; albeit nothing like the level of competition I'd like. The main problem I have with it is that its about as reliable as their cellular service if you get my meaning. Goes out at least 3 times a day, without fail.
3TB of storage.... in space!
I'm going to get modded to hell, but here goes: The tea party is not anti-science; it is a group composed of people who hold a wide variety of beliefs. True, plenty of people in it are those religious nut-job types, but the only factor connecting the entire group is discontent with the government and its actions of late, plus religious nuts are everywhere anyway. I'm sure almost everyone living in the united states is dissatisfied with the government, but the tea party is at present the only group getting really proactive in dealing with it, thus it is the largest group.
if a way is discovered to make current OSes boot 1000 times faster, you can guarantee Microsoft will find a way to have windows take 2000 times longer to boot.
You may actually want to preform that experiment yourself. Necessary and proper clause: "The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause). That said, I despise the health care bill, and all it stands for; compelling people by law to buy a service is just wrong; a point I can argue to the most vicious proponent of the bill. I just dislike uninformed comment(er)s.
as long as I can install whatever OS I want on my computer, and its well supported by my hardware, the masses can use whatever POS operating system they want.
Burn the heretic!