Well, of course I don't know exactly how fucking magnets work, but ordinary magnets are a side effect of the Theory of Relativity (notice the capitals).
I see, the capitals are an important aspect of the incantation.
When electrical charges move, the charge is changed by the same proportion as masses are changed by the Lorentz contraction.
I have a magnet, and I have a piece of iron, I have no electricity. What does this charge you speak of come from? And How is it moving?
It's quite weird in fact, relativistic effects on mass are barely perceptible until you reach a significant speed compared to the speed of light, but that's because mass (as far as we know) is always positive.
Hang about just a minute. Exactly what does the speed of light have to do with anything here? If relativistic effects are barely perceptible until you get near the speed of light, why bring up the topic in relation to stationary (or very nearly so) magnets?
Electric charges are balanced between positive and negative, a very, very, VERY small change in them will disrupt the delicate balance and a force will appear: the magnetic force.
I've already told you I have no electricity here with my magnet and my iron. So a force appears out of a change in some mysterious electric charges that have no source? It must be magic!
If I were feeling particularly uncharitable, I might suggest that if you have problems parsing that title, you have little credibility posting on matters literary.
Or now know to change shoes after committing a crime. Just switch in a crowded place and dump them in the trash at same crowded public place. Like stolen cars used for crime, remember to switch crime-shoes early and often.
And leave your DNA in shoes that match tracks at the crime scene? Might as well write a signed confession.
What amazes me is that so many of them can manage to not be dicks at the same time! It's almost like they have a choice to act in a douche-ey manner or not - you know, kind of like free will.
Comedic construction, m'dear chap. But I suspect you would not know comedy unless it were accompanied by a laugh track, thus my point will be rather lost on you.
I don't know which failure is more offensive. Your failure to recognize a troll when you see one, or your failure to ignore said troll (even to the point of feeding it). Anyway, thanks for being part of the problem.
Only attendance is compulsory, you don't actually have to cast a valid ballot.
You don't even have to cast a ballot at all. I have refused to even take the ballot papers on more than one occasion. When the ballot papers are offered, I simply inform the scutineers that I have fulfilled my obligation merely by having my name crossed off the electoral roll - and walk out. They don't like it, but there's nothing they can do about it.
and what should be said is not only no but HELL NO in fact both BP and the drilling company should be banned from US waters. (currently online rigs should be forfeited as part of the fines BP will be paying for the next hundred years)
Why's that? So that the next Big Oil Co. that suffers a major leak just walks away from their disaster without even trying to fix it or clean up?
I can imagine the sentiment in the board meeting going something a little like this: How can we justify spending any money on assets that we know will be confiscated? And what incentive do we have to clean up the resulting spill if we are no longer permitted to operate the well? We know it is spewing toxic muck into the sea, but if they're going to seize our wells in the end, they can have the lot now.
Problem is it's not his personal policy, he's just driving ALP policy. Boot him out and the party just grows another arsehole to take his place and enact their policy.
Sure, they live on the ocean floor and oil floats, but what do you reckon the chances are that there is a significant amount of water-soluble toxins leaching from that leak? Pretty good chance would be my guess. Oh, and what do these batfish feed on? That's right - the remains of critters poisoned by the oilslick above them.
No. One. Cares. Core tools are easily replaced. An operating system is not.
At the risk of feeding the trolls...
Yes, core tools are easily replaced, but usually they are NOT replaced - and when they are replaced, they are usually replaced with GNU tools, rather than vice versa. Writing a kernel is hard, but it would have been nigh on impossible without the GNU toolchain. And it WAS Stallman's GNU Public License that Linus chose as the license covering his then experimental OS kernel. So yes, RMS probably does deserve a little more credit than he gets for Linux. But then, so do hundreds, nay thousands, of other individuals who contributed.
But do not expect me to call it "Guh-Noo slash Linux" and keep a straight face!
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Your piece of iron has lots of easily movable electrons. All they need to become an electric current is a force pushing them.
Shenanigans!
Isn't it the movement that gives rise to the force? (that creates the movement (that gives rise to the STACK OVERFLOW))
Well, of course I don't know exactly how fucking magnets work, but ordinary magnets are a side effect of the Theory of Relativity (notice the capitals).
I see, the capitals are an important aspect of the incantation.
When electrical charges move, the charge is changed by the same proportion as masses are changed by the Lorentz contraction.
I have a magnet, and I have a piece of iron, I have no electricity. What does this charge you speak of come from? And How is it moving?
It's quite weird in fact, relativistic effects on mass are barely perceptible until you reach a significant speed compared to the speed of light, but that's because mass (as far as we know) is always positive.
Hang about just a minute. Exactly what does the speed of light have to do with anything here? If relativistic effects are barely perceptible until you get near the speed of light, why bring up the topic in relation to stationary (or very nearly so) magnets?
Electric charges are balanced between positive and negative, a very, very, VERY small change in them will disrupt the delicate balance and a force will appear: the magnetic force.
I've already told you I have no electricity here with my magnet and my iron. So a force appears out of a change in some mysterious electric charges that have no source? It must be magic!
Even slashdot isn't that sloppy. Don't be an idiot.
You must be new here, Mr. Coward.
Gesundheit!
If I were feeling particularly uncharitable, I might suggest that if you have problems parsing that title, you have little credibility posting on matters literary.
Or now know to change shoes after committing a crime. Just switch in a crowded place and dump them in the trash at same crowded public place. Like stolen cars used for crime, remember to switch crime-shoes early and often.
And leave your DNA in shoes that match tracks at the crime scene? Might as well write a signed confession.
Imagine a Beowulf ... oh wait ...
It's called a Harem!
What amazes me is that so many of them can manage to not be dicks at the same time! It's almost like they have a choice to act in a douche-ey manner or not - you know, kind of like free will.
No, "pissed off means extremely angry. The term "pissed" by itself means drunk.
(If you won't consider the possibility of local variation, neither will I!)
Comedic construction, m'dear chap. But I suspect you would not know comedy unless it were accompanied by a laugh track, thus my point will be rather lost on you.
For what it's worth, you can have a copy of my entire Metallica collection right now - it's right there in my .sig!
I don't know which failure is more offensive. Your failure to recognize a troll when you see one, or your failure to ignore said troll (even to the point of feeding it). Anyway, thanks for being part of the problem.
Great Glayven in a Glad Bag! Now I'm in the Navy!
Array? Array?
He's Chinese, not Elmer fucking Fudd!
Ignolant plick!
Quoth the doctor, "Take 32 tablets and sue me in the morning."
You've confounded /dev/null and /dev/random. The latter is where all the really exciting stuff is (it includes all of pi!)
Maybe so, but /dev/null has greater capacity - you can only get one copy of pi into /dev/random.
you two
Only attendance is compulsory, you don't actually have to cast a valid ballot.
You don't even have to cast a ballot at all. I have refused to even take the ballot papers on more than one occasion. When the ballot papers are offered, I simply inform the scutineers that I have fulfilled my obligation merely by having my name crossed off the electoral roll - and walk out. They don't like it, but there's nothing they can do about it.
... makes me remember why I am a human being...
Wait, what? You have a choice?
and what should be said is not only no but HELL NO in fact both BP and the drilling company should be banned from US waters. (currently online rigs should be forfeited as part of the fines BP will be paying for the next hundred years)
Why's that? So that the next Big Oil Co. that suffers a major leak just walks away from their disaster without even trying to fix it or clean up?
I can imagine the sentiment in the board meeting going something a little like this:
How can we justify spending any money on assets that we know will be confiscated? And what incentive do we have to clean up the resulting spill if we are no longer permitted to operate the well? We know it is spewing toxic muck into the sea, but if they're going to seize our wells in the end, they can have the lot now.
Problem is it's not his personal policy, he's just driving ALP policy. Boot him out and the party just grows another arsehole to take his place and enact their policy.
Sure, they live on the ocean floor and oil floats, but what do you reckon the chances are that there is a significant amount of water-soluble toxins leaching from that leak? Pretty good chance would be my guess. Oh, and what do these batfish feed on? That's right - the remains of critters poisoned by the oilslick above them.
What's that?
10^27 is WICKED HUGE!
True, but we can't really appreciate the magnitude of 10^27 until we see it translated into more familiar units.
Now, anyone up for a Libraries of Congress conversion?
No. One. Cares. Core tools are easily replaced. An operating system is not.
At the risk of feeding the trolls...
Yes, core tools are easily replaced, but usually they are NOT replaced - and when they are replaced, they are usually replaced with GNU tools, rather than vice versa. Writing a kernel is hard, but it would have been nigh on impossible without the GNU toolchain. And it WAS Stallman's GNU Public License that Linus chose as the license covering his then experimental OS kernel. So yes, RMS probably does deserve a little more credit than he gets for Linux. But then, so do hundreds, nay thousands, of other individuals who contributed.
But do not expect me to call it "Guh-Noo slash Linux" and keep a straight face!