Speding fines are nothing more than a tax. If we realy cared about the safety of drivers on the road then speeding violations should be delt with using some kind of points system that will eventualy suspend your licence for a while. Instead we have a tax that encintivises harrassments of good citicens by cops. I have seen in many areas where city limits are extended for miles outside of any reasonable resemblence of a city just so the city can garner extra funds from speeding tickets. The use of financial punishment for these sorts of violations only leads to a more controling and harrassing atmosphere from those who reciave the funds (ie our local governments).
Interesting,
The right to bear arms has a lot less to do with hunting and personal defence, as it has to do with keeping an opressive government at bay. Of course, none of the weapons that we are allowed to have come close to what our modern millitary posesses. Even though, I do not want my neighbor to own a nuke, there should be a limit to the quantity of any certain type of weapon that the millitary can have, and after that quantity is reached then non millitary people should be allowed to purchase them. This would have the added benifit of giveing the millitary a natural incintive to limit the quantity of nukes and icbm's that they possess.
I seem to remember that there was something called Rome 2000 years ago. Muhammad was born @ 570ad. It was in the 7th century ad when militant Islam spread into the area that was before and is now known as Israel. The Dome on the Rock, built in the latter part of the 7th century, was arrogantly established on the Jewish temple mount. Though, I admit that the islamic palestinians have lived there for multiple generations, there is no need to exagerate their history in a lame attemp to make a point.
I do not know who modded this as interesting, but it is funny. Buy the way no self respecting bsd user would have tux on their desktop. I believe they prefer demons.
I had always thought that the energy level that the particle was found at represented the amount of energy that had to be added to the particle just to detect it. In other words the larger the energy level the smaller (less massive) the particle was before the acceleration process. Basicly, by using Einstine's E=mc2 they add energy in the form of acceleration (usually by radio waves), until the particle has enough mass to interact with their detector. Detecting really massive particles is easy, it is the small ones that are hard and require a lot of extra energy to find.
ha ha ha ha ha
I know you are being sarcastic, but two of the best motivated people in my lab have on degree. One has a HS diploma, the other a GED. The one w/ the diploma is a senior technician, worked up from the bottom over 12 years and outperforms the recent grad engineers at most of the work (similar job profiles between Sr. tech and Jr. engineer). The GED tech has been with the company for about a year and is starting the working from the bottom up. Both of these guys are way better at their jobs and motivated compared to the average BS degree holder.
Realistically this is a rare trait in people, but I'll take one of these guys any day over the average degreed person.
-nB
And let me guess, you pay one BS holder the same that the other two make, combined, after over a decade of working their way up. The only reason they stuck around is you're paying them more than the entry level salary they will have to settle for if they go elsewhere, lacking the degree.
Hard to do because a lot of companies are only worth their patents.
If the company has no assetts except their patents then their patents should have no value. We should only give value to patents based on the patent holders ability to use the patent in the making of products. As to "creditors/shareholders", if the worth of a patent is determined by the tangable products from the patent holder then we would see patent trolls become worthless, and noone would be willing to loan money to them or invest in them. The way I see it we can only have one three possible sinarios:
Patents are a tangible asset and patent trolls have a legimate business model. (this is our current situation)
Patents have no value, and businesses can copy whatever idea they want. Small businesses would never have a chance in the marketplace.
Patents value is tied to the value of the products made with the patent. Give a grace period of say two years to develope a product. This, grace period, would create a loop hole for patent trolls to exist in, so we make patents non-transferable. That is, we make it so that patents can only go from the original holder to the public domain.
All of that and make patents non transferable. if patents can still be tranfered then patent troll could start a new company every 18 months and sell all their assets to their new company. rince and repeat.
I am almost certain that my comments do not represent the majority of slashdotters. Even slashdot won't claim them:
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I find it interesting that it is always the Anonymous Cowards of slashdot that do all the yelling, and most of the insulting on slashdot. In all honesty, you should grow up, grow a pair, and put your name on your comments or stay out of the conversation.
As to energy being mass, perhaps you would like to explain massless particles such as the photon. Of course you could be saying that the photon has no energy. I hope that you are not asserting this, but then again the quality of Anonymous Cowards on slashdot has gone down a lot lately.
To answer your question as to what is "vibrating", in this line of thought there wouldn't be anything TO vibrate, per-se, no time for it to be vibrate in and no space in which the vibrations could take place. You'd simply have a multidimensional waveform where if you made some axis space and another one time, you could treat it as though something was vibrating. In practice, though, it would be a static n-dimensional waveform whose existence was logical rather than physical.
I know that this is inconsequential to whether or not you are actualy describing the true nature of reality, but if you are correct then what you have said would have tremendous implications for phylosophy. The whole concept of free will is dependent apon a future that can change. If your waveform is static through what we call time then the future is locked in stone. Yet there is actualy indication with the double slit experiment that our choices can change the outcome of things. That is to say, our choice to observe the particle colapses the waveform and removes the interferance pattern. If our choice (observe/not-observe) can change the outcome of events, then the future is not set in stone. If the future can be change then your description of the wavefunction as it relates to time is wrong, and the waveform is in flux. This would indicate that the wavefunction can change. If the wavefunction is not static through all dimentions then it would seem acurate to say that it is "vibrating". However, this brings me right back to my original question. What is the thing that is vibrating? "Nothing" doesn't seem to vibrate very well.
I can cut a string. I can not cut a fundamental wave/particle.
matter is in it's base form a vibration
What is the thing that is vibrating? The equation E=MC^2 seems to indicate that matter and energy are just two expressions of the same thing. I acknowledge that my confusion "might be" just my inability to imagine nothing vibrating. That doesn't sound right. I mean "nothing" vibrating. See there, I have done it again. No matter how I say it it only makes sense if something is vibrating. If it is a thing that is vibrating then the vibration is just a property of the thing and is not the thing itself. Ripples propagate in a pond, but sound does not carry in a vacuum. If matter is only a vibration then the real question is what is the medium that the vibration propagates through. It seems to me that we have gotten right back to needing the "ether" to explain reality.
It's that a computer is sold with all of its hardware functional in Linux
You should be careful. I used to assume that this was true; however, when I bought my dell mini10 with ubuntu preinstalled a couple years ago it had some propriatary video junk that still barely works, and lacks 3D hardware suport. Look up Intel poulsbo.
Defense attorneys for "terrorist", you need to get with the times. Them terrorist are guilty we just have to get on with the sentencing and inhanced interigation processes. We have no need for actualy having a trial that is only for those inocent people.
I can remember they use low level barium in hospitals for all kinds of scans. If even a low level already is unsafe, how many more have been affected by these low levels?
The risk, that are minimal, are considerably less than the risk that the physician might give a misdiagnosis if you don't have the procedure. I used to work administering the test that required the use of barium. I was a x-ray tech (I don't work in healthcare anymore), and I know for a fact that the overwelming majority of the barium that patients injest, or receives retrograde (if you don't know you don't want to find out), is passed out of the body after a couple of bowel movements. The actual x-ray itself exposes the patient to far more ionizing radiation than the barium ever will.
You forgot "apathy". I am not stupid, lazy, or ignorant. I simply do not care if I misspell a word or two on an internet message board. I am only throwing my 2 cents into a conversation. I am not writing a term paper.
I am really beginning to wonder if I Don't have cause to sue hooked on phonics, oh and tushay. What really bothers me though is that "touche" looks to me like a mispelling of touchy.
quote/ Evolution is not "order". It's differentiation
I never attempted to define what evolution is or is not but rather was refering to the apparent order found in biological systems and in the world around us. I am confussed by your aparent dislike of the word "order".
quote/ moron
Tushay, your stunning whit and eloquent use of the english language have certainly proved me to be in error.
quote/ The universe isn't fucking Pokemon where organisms are "more evolved" than others.
I see now were the problem is in our communications. Your familiarity with Pokemon indicates that you are either a couple generations younger than me (In which case, GET OFF MY LAWN) or that you never fully matured into adulthood and still have a likeing for mindless dribble.
I am almost persuaded that prayer does not work. I have been praying for you, Mr Anonymous Coward, for quite some time. Perhaps though, I haven't been getting your name right. I assumed based on your bad temper, poor gramer, and fondness for stupid things like pokemon that you were a Mr, but maybe you are a Mrs. It does not matter to me if you really are a girl, but I would like to be acurate in my prayers.
The earth may not be a closed system, but the universe is. Energy alone is not enough to increase order. If energy could overcome entropy then we should be living on the sun not on earth. I am confused about what is actually being claimed by evolutionist. Wouldn't cause and effect dictate that all the order that we see in the universe was present in the beginning.
On a side note, I personally think that all of this gives a nice, if not a little superficial, definition of life. That is that life is the organized resistance to entropy.
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Speding fines are nothing more than a tax. If we realy cared about the safety of drivers on the road then speeding violations should be delt with using some kind of points system that will eventualy suspend your licence for a while. Instead we have a tax that encintivises harrassments of good citicens by cops. I have seen in many areas where city limits are extended for miles outside of any reasonable resemblence of a city just so the city can garner extra funds from speeding tickets. The use of financial punishment for these sorts of violations only leads to a more controling and harrassing atmosphere from those who reciave the funds (ie our local governments).
Interesting,
The right to bear arms has a lot less to do with hunting and personal defence, as it has to do with keeping an opressive government at bay. Of course, none of the weapons that we are allowed to have come close to what our modern millitary posesses. Even though, I do not want my neighbor to own a nuke, there should be a limit to the quantity of any certain type of weapon that the millitary can have, and after that quantity is reached then non millitary people should be allowed to purchase them. This would have the added benifit of giveing the millitary a natural incintive to limit the quantity of nukes and icbm's that they possess.
Hey everyone, ;)
Anonymous Coward has officially left. Now we go back to discussing things that do matter.
2000 years. Are you certain?
I seem to remember that there was something called Rome 2000 years ago. Muhammad was born @ 570ad. It was in the 7th century ad when militant Islam spread into the area that was before and is now known as Israel. The Dome on the Rock, built in the latter part of the 7th century, was arrogantly established on the Jewish temple mount. Though, I admit that the islamic palestinians have lived there for multiple generations, there is no need to exagerate their history in a lame attemp to make a point.
I, too, am confounded by how difficult it is to open doors.
I do not know who modded this as interesting, but it is funny. Buy the way no self respecting bsd user would have tux on their desktop. I believe they prefer demons.
Are you thinking about the invisible man.
Well, I never try to fix anything. ;)
So, the republicans are right. Unions are evil. ;)
I had always thought that the energy level that the particle was found at represented the amount of energy that had to be added to the particle just to detect it. In other words the larger the energy level the smaller (less massive) the particle was before the acceleration process. Basicly, by using Einstine's E=mc2 they add energy in the form of acceleration (usually by radio waves), until the particle has enough mass to interact with their detector. Detecting really massive particles is easy, it is the small ones that are hard and require a lot of extra energy to find.
ha ha ha ha ha I know you are being sarcastic, but two of the best motivated people in my lab have on degree. One has a HS diploma, the other a GED. The one w/ the diploma is a senior technician, worked up from the bottom over 12 years and outperforms the recent grad engineers at most of the work (similar job profiles between Sr. tech and Jr. engineer). The GED tech has been with the company for about a year and is starting the working from the bottom up. Both of these guys are way better at their jobs and motivated compared to the average BS degree holder.
Realistically this is a rare trait in people, but I'll take one of these guys any day over the average degreed person. -nB
And let me guess, you pay one BS holder the same that the other two make, combined, after over a decade of working their way up. The only reason they stuck around is you're paying them more than the entry level salary they will have to settle for if they go elsewhere, lacking the degree.
Mod parent up!
If the company has no assetts except their patents then their patents should have no value. We should only give value to patents based on the patent holders ability to use the patent in the making of products. As to "creditors/shareholders", if the worth of a patent is determined by the tangable products from the patent holder then we would see patent trolls become worthless, and noone would be willing to loan money to them or invest in them. The way I see it we can only have one three possible sinarios:
All of that and make patents non transferable. if patents can still be tranfered then patent troll could start a new company every 18 months and sell all their assets to their new company. rince and repeat.
I am almost certain that my comments do not represent the majority of slashdotters. Even slashdot won't claim them:
I find it interesting that it is always the Anonymous Cowards of slashdot that do all the yelling, and most of the insulting on slashdot. In all honesty, you should grow up, grow a pair, and put your name on your comments or stay out of the conversation.
As to energy being mass, perhaps you would like to explain massless particles such as the photon. Of course you could be saying that the photon has no energy. I hope that you are not asserting this, but then again the quality of Anonymous Cowards on slashdot has gone down a lot lately.
I know that this is inconsequential to whether or not you are actualy describing the true nature of reality, but if you are correct then what you have said would have tremendous implications for phylosophy. The whole concept of free will is dependent apon a future that can change. If your waveform is static through what we call time then the future is locked in stone. Yet there is actualy indication with the double slit experiment that our choices can change the outcome of things. That is to say, our choice to observe the particle colapses the waveform and removes the interferance pattern. If our choice (observe/not-observe) can change the outcome of events, then the future is not set in stone. If the future can be change then your description of the wavefunction as it relates to time is wrong, and the waveform is in flux. This would indicate that the wavefunction can change. If the wavefunction is not static through all dimentions then it would seem acurate to say that it is "vibrating". However, this brings me right back to my original question. What is the thing that is vibrating? "Nothing" doesn't seem to vibrate very well.
What is the thing that is vibrating? The equation E=MC^2 seems to indicate that matter and energy are just two expressions of the same thing. I acknowledge that my confusion "might be" just my inability to imagine nothing vibrating. That doesn't sound right. I mean "nothing" vibrating. See there, I have done it again. No matter how I say it it only makes sense if something is vibrating. If it is a thing that is vibrating then the vibration is just a property of the thing and is not the thing itself. Ripples propagate in a pond, but sound does not carry in a vacuum. If matter is only a vibration then the real question is what is the medium that the vibration propagates through. It seems to me that we have gotten right back to needing the "ether" to explain reality.
Great, now the terrorists (I really hate that word) are going to start rigging their bombs to go off on loss of network signal.
You should be careful. I used to assume that this was true; however, when I bought my dell mini10 with ubuntu preinstalled a couple years ago it had some propriatary video junk that still barely works, and lacks 3D hardware suport. Look up Intel poulsbo.
yes.
Defense attorneys for "terrorist", you need to get with the times. Them terrorist are guilty we just have to get on with the sentencing and inhanced interigation processes. We have no need for actualy having a trial that is only for those inocent people.
I can remember they use low level barium in hospitals for all kinds of scans. If even a low level already is unsafe, how many more have been affected by these low levels?
The risk, that are minimal, are considerably less than the risk that the physician might give a misdiagnosis if you don't have the procedure. I used to work administering the test that required the use of barium. I was a x-ray tech (I don't work in healthcare anymore), and I know for a fact that the overwelming majority of the barium that patients injest, or receives retrograde (if you don't know you don't want to find out), is passed out of the body after a couple of bowel movements. The actual x-ray itself exposes the patient to far more ionizing radiation than the barium ever will.
You forgot "apathy". I am not stupid, lazy, or ignorant. I simply do not care if I misspell a word or two on an internet message board. I am only throwing my 2 cents into a conversation. I am not writing a term paper.
I am really beginning to wonder if I Don't have cause to sue hooked on phonics, oh and tushay. What really bothers me though is that "touche" looks to me like a mispelling of touchy.
quote/ Evolution is not "order". It's differentiation
I never attempted to define what evolution is or is not but rather was refering to the apparent order found in biological systems and in the world around us. I am confussed by your aparent dislike of the word "order".
quote/ moron
Tushay, your stunning whit and eloquent use of the english language have certainly proved me to be in error.
quote/ The universe isn't fucking Pokemon where organisms are "more evolved" than others.
I see now were the problem is in our communications. Your familiarity with Pokemon indicates that you are either a couple generations younger than me (In which case, GET OFF MY LAWN) or that you never fully matured into adulthood and still have a likeing for mindless dribble.
I am almost persuaded that prayer does not work. I have been praying for you, Mr Anonymous Coward, for quite some time. Perhaps though, I haven't been getting your name right. I assumed based on your bad temper, poor gramer, and fondness for stupid things like pokemon that you were a Mr, but maybe you are a Mrs. It does not matter to me if you really are a girl, but I would like to be acurate in my prayers.
The earth may not be a closed system, but the universe is. Energy alone is not enough to increase order. If energy could overcome entropy then we should be living on the sun not on earth. I am confused about what is actually being claimed by evolutionist. Wouldn't cause and effect dictate that all the order that we see in the universe was present in the beginning.
On a side note, I personally think that all of this gives a nice, if not a little superficial, definition of life. That is that life is the organized resistance to entropy.