Yes.. you cannot accellerate past light speed, or even to it. It is asymptotic.
However.. if you look on the same graph, something travelling just a bit faster than light would be going backwards in time.
Of course, we would still percieve it as a normal object... so...
I've seen those spontaneous electron/positron pairs described this way...
One particle, with the positron being the same electron going 'backwards'. hence the opposite properties).
One *strong* motivator for you to turn in your Canadian license is for tax reasons...
If you are not a resident of Canada, you do not have to pay the taxman in Canada.
Conversley...
If you are deemed a resident of Canada, even though you live abroad, you CAN be taxed on your income.
Now.. some tax treaty may add some simplification to this (like, if the US considers you a resident, then you are automatically not a candian resident).
IF you, say, kept an apartment, car, provincial medical coverage paid up, and still have your bank accounts and driver's license in Canada, yet were working in the US, the CCRA most likely can still call you a resident, and tax you accordingly.
You know.. I find that really dumb.
Even in Canada, I find it dumb.
WHy can't I hold a license to drive in 2 provinces at once?
I mean.. I can hold a fishing license in BC, and one in Ontario at the same time.. same for a hunting license...
Why can't I be licensed to drive in 2 places? What's the big deal?
I have the same thing.. I'm a Canadian living in Costa Rica.. except, when I get my Costa Rican license, I don't have to turn in my Alberta license.
The current BEST ratio for compressing truly random data is 1:1
In other words, you can't do it.
If you TRY, some compressions software will end up making it bigger.
These guys are claiming 100:1 lossless on truly random data. This is difficult to believe on both fronts.
First, 100:1 lossless on any real-life data is unlikely. Add in the 'truly random' part...
So.. either they've violated the laws of the universe, or they are about to bring about one of the biggest mathematical discoveries in the world, or they are full of crap.
The speed of light (c) is a very real limitation in the universe, and is *directly* relational to T
Travelling faster than the speed of light away from a given event, yes, would seem to lead you to a place in space where that event had not yet taken place. You are outside the space-time cone of the event.
However.. travelling faster than c WOULD mean you were travelling backwards in time.. at least as far as the math goes.. I'm not sure where you learned that it wouldn't be so. That being said:
You *CANT* travel faster than the speed of light away from the event. It's not just a speed; it's an absolute. c is NOT just 'the speed of light 'particles' in vacuum'. It's the fastest any effect can propagate through the universe; it's *directly* related to Time.
It's *not* the same as the sound barrier. Yes, you may hear an event later, but as with the case of a sniper rifle bullet, you may be dead before the sound reaches you.
You seem to be describing light as an aboslute speed in a newtownian universe. This is not the case.
Space and Time (and hence, speed) are completely intertwined.
It's still a disability. It's just not a disability as defined by the ADA. The woman was not suing her employer under some employment disability clause, she was saying they violated the ADA.
If it WAS, many other things would have to be done.. like, doorhandles changed on every public buildling so someone with CTS could open it, etc.
But it wasn't a reasonable assumption. If you speak in public, you should expect that it's not 'private' communications.
As to that.. a prospective employer who is going to come down on you for something you said when you were 14.. well, you probably don't want to work for.
Basically, yes, employers don't durn a blind eye to online badmouthing anymore.
Hello!!! If you make shit up and start making wild accusations at your former employer, especially if you do it in hundreds of forums and via spamming people... of COURSE they are going to do something. It amounts to you launching a negative PR campaign against them.
If you can back up everything you say, you have nothing to worry about.
Uhh... they were *fantasy* characters.. how do you peg that they were all Christians?
Christian groups endorse the film simply because it has a very distinct good -vs- evil mentality.. basically everything relating to magic is evil (not quite, but almost), Aragorn is a good messianic figure, etc, etc...
Non-white? IT's *FANTASY*.
Elves, dwarves, goblins, hobbits, humans, orcs, orukai, and a cave troll.. that's a pretty good racial background I believe...
As for suckage.. the movie is intended to bring the book to life on screen. If you haven't read the book, it's no wonder it sucks. If you had, you would have loved it.
I've heard what you said from a number of people.. and I can't dispute it. Those who haven't read the books don't seem to like it much. Those who did usually love it.
I have read the books, probably twice over the years.. so for me, the movie was an unbelievable experience.. They brought the book to life (parts of it, anyway). It's by far the most enjoyable movie I've seen in my life. It was 3 hours of magic.
The real attraction for me was watching a good book come to life on screen.. and in an amazing way. They didn't butcher it. Sure, they could have done more character development, they could also have put in all the songs, and they could have not left out whole scenes from the book... and they could also have ended up with a 9 hour movie. What you say about the Potter movies being edited 'right' for the bigscreen is exactly what I thought of LOTR.
As for what you've 'heard' about the characters in the book... I disagree. Gandalf was not a 'manipulative SOB'. He was pretty much exactly what you see in the film. Now.. of course, if you want to really know, please, read the books for yourself.
Also.. comparing Harry Potter to LOTR as literary works is apples and oranges.
Harry Potter is great, I loved the books.. but it's absolutely not in the same league as LOTR. LOTR is a literary masterpiece. Harry Potter is just a popular book that's light and interesting.
BTW.. Did you konw they renamed it for US distribution? To the rest of the world it's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone". They also changed many British words in the book to something more American, "Trunk" instead of "Boot" etc..
Firstly, if they knew about it 6 years ago, but said nothing, I believe that will limit what they can claim as damages in court.. but it's not that black and white.
Also, they in no way have to show that HP 'took' the idea from them, that's not how patents work. It doesn't matter if HP came up with it independently.. if Cornell has the patent, that is absolute.
As for 100 million in damages, 'damages'is a loose term. HP should not have used patented technology without paying royalties to Cornell.. which is what cornell is really seeking.
What you describe is actually a worm, or at least, that's what we used to call it.
Virii generall spread by either
a) staying in memory and infecting files by some mechanism
b) doing an infection/action run each time an infected file (or subsystem) is invoked.
Most 'viruses' today do not infect other files at all; they infect systems, making them worms. They are software in and of their own right, running on the host system like a parasite.
And I think 'spirit' is the point. The rationale behind allowing them to collect a royalty in the first place is to compensate them from copying they are now trying to make illegal.
IT wasn't to compensate them for pirating.
It was to compensate them for the lost revenue when someone makes a copy of a CD for their car, or to take to the office, or makes their own mix instead of buying it from the record company.
"You should have the freedom and the right to take it out without Big Brother intervention."
But that's just it. The whole point of your constitution is that, no matter how much people whine and complain, you CANNOT make laws to prevent stuff like this.
Without big brother intervention? You don't NEED big brother intervention. By getting together and passing a bylaw, YOU become big brother, don't you see that?
The arcade owner is fully free to not carry games he does not approve of morally, as are all the shop owners free to not carry games they don't like, etcetera.
ANd if the mall owner doesn't like the shop owner, he's free not to rent to him again when is lease is up, etcetera.
WHat? Not everyone hates these games? Then why should a vocal minority be able to ban it?
The DMCA does NOT say it's illegal to reverse engineer the AOL client.
It says it's illegal to reverse enginner a copyright protction mechanism.
This is clearly not that; to apply tthe DMCA as meaning 'you may not reverse engineer any software, ever' is grossly wrong.
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The fact is, the reason companies behave this way is because that's just plain how they work. The costs associated with any action are what counts. Moral implications only indirectly affect things, depending on how their public image affects their bottom line.
I recal a Suzuki lecture years ago where he pointed out, and it still makes good sense, that we will never have companies (or people, for that matter) that are truly environmentally responsible until we have environmental costs that truly reflect the damage to the environment. And the problem, of course, is that we barely know anything, in the grand scheme of htings, about the long-term affects of our actions on the environment.
I'm no tree-hugger; I'm not a terribly environmentally friendly person. But I recognize that society will NEVER be that harmonious with the planet until things change drastically, and that's just not likely to happen.
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b) A nation that has such a political order.
A republic is a type of political order, or a nation using such an order. Eire certainly fits this description. If you think otherwise.. what kind of nation is Eire? Empire? Kingdom? Territory? Nope, it's a Republic.
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Ireland is not part of the British isles...
And what are these 'special priviles' in the UK granted to Irish citizens? I'm just curious.
To say that Ireland is 'dominated' by the UK , well, thems fighting words.
You seem to speak of Ireland like it's no different than the North, or Wales, or Scotland, or whatnot... but that's just not the case. Or if it is, everyone I met in Ireland forgot to tell me (which is quite possible I guess)
But I think that's largely cosmetic. I traveled around europe... exchanging currency wasn't what I'd call a hassle.. it was just something you had to do (along with finding a hotel, finding food, finding a party, etc..).
Of course.. I guess I'm not an American tourist.. so maybe my standards of convenience are different.
I have coworkers from venezuela.. where, up until recently, there were no coins (or nobody used them). THe smallest denomination bill was worth something like a penny or two. Consequently, you tended to have huge piles of cash around.
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Yes.. you cannot accellerate past light speed, or even to it. It is asymptotic.
...
However.. if you look on the same graph, something travelling just a bit faster than light would be going backwards in time.
Of course, we would still percieve it as a normal object... so...
I've seen those spontaneous electron/positron pairs described this way
One particle, with the positron being the same electron going 'backwards'. hence the opposite properties).
One *strong* motivator for you to turn in your Canadian license is for tax reasons...
If you are not a resident of Canada, you do not have to pay the taxman in Canada.
Conversley...
If you are deemed a resident of Canada, even though you live abroad, you CAN be taxed on your income.
Now.. some tax treaty may add some simplification to this (like, if the US considers you a resident, then you are automatically not a candian resident).
IF you, say, kept an apartment, car, provincial medical coverage paid up, and still have your bank accounts and driver's license in Canada, yet were working in the US, the CCRA most likely can still call you a resident, and tax you accordingly.
You know.. I find that really dumb.
Even in Canada, I find it dumb.
WHy can't I hold a license to drive in 2 provinces at once?
I mean.. I can hold a fishing license in BC, and one in Ontario at the same time.. same for a hunting license...
Why can't I be licensed to drive in 2 places? What's the big deal?
I have the same thing.. I'm a Canadian living in Costa Rica.. except, when I get my Costa Rican license, I don't have to turn in my Alberta license.
You can't compress every set of 1000 bits of data into 10 bits of data.
10 bits of data only allows for 1024 combinations.
1000 bits allows for a lot more.. so it's simply not possible.
The current BEST ratio for compressing truly random data is 1:1
In other words, you can't do it.
If you TRY, some compressions software will end up making it bigger.
These guys are claiming 100:1 lossless on truly random data. This is difficult to believe on both fronts.
First, 100:1 lossless on any real-life data is unlikely. Add in the 'truly random' part...
So.. either they've violated the laws of the universe, or they are about to bring about one of the biggest mathematical discoveries in the world, or they are full of crap.
Contrary to your contradiction, you are wrong.
The speed of light (c) is a very real limitation in the universe, and is *directly* relational to T
Travelling faster than the speed of light away from a given event, yes, would seem to lead you to a place in space where that event had not yet taken place. You are outside the space-time cone of the event.
However.. travelling faster than c WOULD mean you were travelling backwards in time.. at least as far as the math goes.. I'm not sure where you learned that it wouldn't be so. That being said:
You *CANT* travel faster than the speed of light away from the event. It's not just a speed; it's an absolute. c is NOT just 'the speed of light 'particles' in vacuum'. It's the fastest any effect can propagate through the universe; it's *directly* related to Time.
It's *not* the same as the sound barrier. Yes, you may hear an event later, but as with the case of a sniper rifle bullet, you may be dead before the sound reaches you.
You seem to be describing light as an aboslute speed in a newtownian universe. This is not the case.
Space and Time (and hence, speed) are completely intertwined.
Stopped? How about 'contained within the crystal substance'.. bouncing around inside.
It's still a disability. It's just not a disability as defined by the ADA. The woman was not suing her employer under some employment disability clause, she was saying they violated the ADA.
If it WAS, many other things would have to be done.. like, doorhandles changed on every public buildling so someone with CTS could open it, etc.
But it wasn't a reasonable assumption. If you speak in public, you should expect that it's not 'private' communications.
As to that.. a prospective employer who is going to come down on you for something you said when you were 14.. well, you probably don't want to work for.
and has very little content.
Basically, yes, employers don't durn a blind eye to online badmouthing anymore.
Hello!!! If you make shit up and start making wild accusations at your former employer, especially if you do it in hundreds of forums and via spamming people... of COURSE they are going to do something. It amounts to you launching a negative PR campaign against them.
If you can back up everything you say, you have nothing to worry about.
Uhh... they were *fantasy* characters.. how do you peg that they were all Christians?
Christian groups endorse the film simply because it has a very distinct good -vs- evil mentality.. basically everything relating to magic is evil (not quite, but almost), Aragorn is a good messianic figure, etc, etc...
Non-white? IT's *FANTASY*.
Elves, dwarves, goblins, hobbits, humans, orcs, orukai, and a cave troll.. that's a pretty good racial background I believe...
As for suckage.. the movie is intended to bring the book to life on screen. If you haven't read the book, it's no wonder it sucks. If you had, you would have loved it.
I've heard what you said from a number of people.. and I can't dispute it. Those who haven't read the books don't seem to like it much. Those who did usually love it.
I have read the books, probably twice over the years.. so for me, the movie was an unbelievable experience.. They brought the book to life (parts of it, anyway). It's by far the most enjoyable movie I've seen in my life. It was 3 hours of magic.
The real attraction for me was watching a good book come to life on screen.. and in an amazing way. They didn't butcher it. Sure, they could have done more character development, they could also have put in all the songs, and they could have not left out whole scenes from the book... and they could also have ended up with a 9 hour movie. What you say about the Potter movies being edited 'right' for the bigscreen is exactly what I thought of LOTR.
As for what you've 'heard' about the characters in the book... I disagree. Gandalf was not a 'manipulative SOB'. He was pretty much exactly what you see in the film. Now.. of course, if you want to really know, please, read the books for yourself.
Also.. comparing Harry Potter to LOTR as literary works is apples and oranges.
Harry Potter is great, I loved the books.. but it's absolutely not in the same league as LOTR. LOTR is a literary masterpiece. Harry Potter is just a popular book that's light and interesting.
BTW.. Did you konw they renamed it for US distribution? To the rest of the world it's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone". They also changed many British words in the book to something more American, "Trunk" instead of "Boot" etc..
Firstly, if they knew about it 6 years ago, but said nothing, I believe that will limit what they can claim as damages in court.. but it's not that black and white.
Also, they in no way have to show that HP 'took' the idea from them, that's not how patents work. It doesn't matter if HP came up with it independently.. if Cornell has the patent, that is absolute.
As for 100 million in damages, 'damages'is a loose term. HP should not have used patented technology without paying royalties to Cornell.. which is what cornell is really seeking.
What you describe is actually a worm, or at least, that's what we used to call it.
Virii generall spread by either
a) staying in memory and infecting files by some mechanism
b) doing an infection/action run each time an infected file (or subsystem) is invoked.
Most 'viruses' today do not infect other files at all; they infect systems, making them worms. They are software in and of their own right, running on the host system like a parasite.
And I think 'spirit' is the point. The rationale behind allowing them to collect a royalty in the first place is to compensate them from copying they are now trying to make illegal.
IT wasn't to compensate them for pirating.
It was to compensate them for the lost revenue when someone makes a copy of a CD for their car, or to take to the office, or makes their own mix instead of buying it from the record company.
"You should have the freedom and the right to take it out without Big Brother intervention."
But that's just it. The whole point of your constitution is that, no matter how much people whine and complain, you CANNOT make laws to prevent stuff like this.
Without big brother intervention? You don't NEED big brother intervention. By getting together and passing a bylaw, YOU become big brother, don't you see that?
The arcade owner is fully free to not carry games he does not approve of morally, as are all the shop owners free to not carry games they don't like, etcetera.
ANd if the mall owner doesn't like the shop owner, he's free not to rent to him again when is lease is up, etcetera.
WHat? Not everyone hates these games? Then why should a vocal minority be able to ban it?
Please, go travel for a while, get your head on straight.
The US has neither the highest per-capita income int he world, nor the highest standard of living.
As for 'lower salaries'.. salary means absolutely nothing until compared to the cost of living. Seriously.
The DMCA does NOT say it's illegal to reverse engineer the AOL client.
It says it's illegal to reverse enginner a copyright protction mechanism.
This is clearly not that; to apply tthe DMCA as meaning 'you may not reverse engineer any software, ever' is grossly wrong.
The fact is, the reason companies behave this way is because that's just plain how they work. The costs associated with any action are what counts. Moral implications only indirectly affect things, depending on how their public image affects their bottom line.
I recal a Suzuki lecture years ago where he pointed out, and it still makes good sense, that we will never have companies (or people, for that matter) that are truly environmentally responsible until we have environmental costs that truly reflect the damage to the environment. And the problem, of course, is that we barely know anything, in the grand scheme of htings, about the long-term affects of our actions on the environment.
I'm no tree-hugger; I'm not a terribly environmentally friendly person. But I recognize that society will NEVER be that harmonious with the planet until things change drastically, and that's just not likely to happen.
republic (r-pblk)
n.
a) A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
b) A nation that has such a political order.
A republic is a type of political order, or a nation using such an order. Eire certainly fits this description. If you think otherwise.. what kind of nation is Eire? Empire? Kingdom? Territory? Nope, it's a Republic.
Ireland is not part of the British isles...
And what are these 'special priviles' in the UK granted to Irish citizens? I'm just curious.
To say that Ireland is 'dominated' by the UK , well, thems fighting words.
You seem to speak of Ireland like it's no different than the North, or Wales, or Scotland, or whatnot... but that's just not the case. Or if it is, everyone I met in Ireland forgot to tell me (which is quite possible I guess)
Actually, Northern Ireland is part of the UK, and uses the British Pound Sterling.
Ireland uses the Euro (formerly the Irish Pound, or 'Punt')
But I think that's largely cosmetic. I traveled around europe... exchanging currency wasn't what I'd call a hassle.. it was just something you had to do (along with finding a hotel, finding food, finding a party, etc..).
Of course.. I guess I'm not an American tourist.. so maybe my standards of convenience are different.
I found the different currencies part of the fun.
Exactly.
It's just money, whatever form it's in.
I will say.. I do miss paper money..
I have coworkers from venezuela.. where, up until recently, there were no coins (or nobody used them). THe smallest denomination bill was worth something like a penny or two. Consequently, you tended to have huge piles of cash around.