Reznor originally made comments about the high price of Year Zero in Australia during an interview several months ago. It was during a concert (the clip you linked to) that he followed up with fans to see if the price had come down at all.
Exactly. As stated in the OP. (edited?)
I have better things to worry about regarding politicians than what their personal beliefs are except to the degree that they have been shown to influence their decision making...
What kind of person makes decisions that are not influenced by their personal beliefs?!? I would hope that any politician I vote for has strong personal beliefs, based on fact and direct observation as much as possible, and makes every decision based on those beliefs.
Don't kid yourself that humans are the pinnacle of evolution, bacteria always were and always will be.
Actually, you could say that animal life (including us) is the pinnacle of bacterial evolution, at least on this planet. The life of almost every cell in our bodies depends utterly on one particular, very specialized bacteria: the mitochondria. Mitochondria has its own DNA, which is not passed in sperm cells -- the mitochondrial DNA is only passed down from mother to child from the mitochondria contained in the egg cell. It's an endosymbiont. We may be the product of a bizarre interspecies love affair between a bacteria and an amoeba.
Do you think the MS developers that are spending so much time and effort (read: blood, sweat, and tears - as the developers here are well aware) to work on making Silverlight work with Mono will really want to stop making their project as good as it can be?
That would be great if it weren't based on a standard that has little to do with health. According to the BMI calculator (see below), I'm obese. I'm 5'10", and weigh around 210-215. I eat a lot of lean meats and vegetables. I lift weights three days a week, and run about 9 miles a week. I take a vitamin and mineral supplement packet every morning. Funny how you can be a borderline health nut and still might end up paying a higher premium because some people think BMI is a reasonable indicator of health. I have about 16% body fat, as measured with the 7-point caliper test, last time I checked. That's out of the 'obese' range, past the 'normal' range, and into the 'fit' range. Not exactly GQ model single-digit body fat percentage, but a long shot from obesity.
Only after the Linux threat lessens might Microsoft have the luxury of tightening up piracy protections, as it is now doing in the West. Microsoft can afford to be patient.
Right, 'cause if Microsoft would just sit patiently and wait, this whole "Linux" fad will just blow over. Hee hee hee.
No, the Catholics do too...
I'm calling the pope Darth Benedict from now on.
"Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Jedi." or how about "To cheat death, is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret."
now all one has to do is wait for the Novell to integrate new GPL3 licensed code, which they have said they will do, show your shiny voucher, smile, pick up you shiny new novell cds/dvd and load the distro onto bittorrent, then laugh evilly as all of microsoft's carefully calculated effort goes up in smoke. This has essentially undone a decade of patent hoarding and scheming to put linux and all gpl code into microsoft's pocket. If it were not true then you wouldn't hear microsoft screaming so loudly that it isn't.
No. Microsoft's patent portfolio doesn't magically pass into the public domain because the GPL's terms have changed. Basically Microsoft is saying their vouchers are no good for GPLv3 software. Which means their "patent protection" isn't good anymore, and no longer makes SLES any better than any other distro. Novell could accuse Microsoft of breach of contract (and very well might do so), but Microsoft's patent portfolio is still all their own, and will remain so until they knowingly, officially distribute software under GPLv3 terms.
Not to mention this guy has admitted to killing 8 people. I don't know how much reasonable doubt one would need to get acquitted.
Yeah, if this guy wasn't "Hans' best friend," it might create reasonable doubt. But seeing as how Hans apparently thought this killer was just the coolest guy ever up until recently, that says a few things about Hans too. If I was on this jury, I'd be basing my decision almost entirely on the physical evidence.
So for 2000 years, who was ahead of the game, the ones tied to the limits of their scientific knowledge, or the practitioner?
Scientific method: a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning, the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
You might say that a real scientist is always a practitioner. What you think you know based on what you heard from someone else (even someone with a reputation as a "scientist") is in some part based on faith. As you put it, "tied to the limits of their scientific knowledge." Faith in science, yes, but still faith, until you have verified it yourself.
The proper scientific attitude is "I don't know, let's check this out for ourselves, what happens when we do this?" which is, coincidentally (?) also the proper attitude recommended by Buddhist teachers. In the Kalama sutra, the Buddha said:
Do not accept anything on mere hearsay (ie, thinking that thus have we heard it for a long time).
Do not accept anything by mere tradition (ie, thinking that it has been handed down thus through many generations).
Do not accept anything on account of rumours (ie, by believing what others say without any investigation).
Do not accept anything just because it accords with your scriptures.
Do not accept anything by mere supposition.
Do not accept anything by mere inference.
Do not accept anything by merely considering the appearances.
Do not accept anything merely because it agrees with your preconceived notions.
Do not accept anything merely because it seems acceptable (ie, should be accepted).
Do not accept anything thinking that the teacher is respected by us (and that therefore it is right to accept his word.)
But when you know for yourselves - these things are immoral, these things are blameworthy, these things are censured by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to ruin and sorrow - then reject them.
When you know for yourselves - these things are moral, these things are blameless, these things are praised by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to well-being and happiness - then live and act accordingly."
I always thought it was really interesting to see a 2600 year old tradition which teaches, "don't accept something just because it's in the scriptures -- check it out for yourself!"
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But the biggest factor is energy consumption. Is it cheaper to spend the energy to move crops from 100% natural light into the city or is it cheaper to spend the energy on artificial light and grow the crops inside the city?
Exactly. Running hundreds of 1000W bulbs adds up fast. Few city folks realize just how much light crops need. In winter months, that extra light will cost Big Buck$. And let's factor in the cost of the real estate... lemme see, urban hi-rise real estate vs. a mudpatch in podunk... Urban real estate itself is expensive enough without factoring in the cost of building the high rise itself. It's hard enough to make farming a podunk mudpatch profitable.
All produce would be organic as there would be no exposure to wild parasites and bugs
That's hilarious. I wonder how much extra money they budgeted in for the 100% sterile cleanroom and access facilities and HEPA air filtration systems for the entire building. All it takes is one little pregnant bug getting in. Not all agricultural pests are bugs anyway; fungal spores in regular air are counted in millions per cubic inch. 'Course they need a warm, moist environment like a greenhouse to thrive, oh wait...
I suspect this proposal was dreamed up by some guys while they were sitting around smoking the product of their own urban greenhouse.
Anyway, they're solving a problem that doesn't really exist. We're growing far, far more food now than we actually eat if you look at corn and soybean production. Most of it goes into energy inefficient processes like industrial meat production. If we weren't artificially keeping the price of meat low through corn & soybean subsidies, feeding corn to cattle (which is very unhealthy for them, but marbles the beef nicely), and industrial cattle processing, people would be eating a lot less meat because it would be very expensive, like it used to be.
If cows were eating grass again and farmers were growing other crops besides corn and soybeans again, we would get a lot more people-food from the farmland we have. Less meat, but far more vegetables. Kind of like what's recommended by nutritional experts... might fix that obesity problem too.
Oh come on now, Apple never said it was going to be a smart phone.
Please take note of the subject of your post. Apple's own PR chart compares the iPhone with four smart phones, in a very biased way, pointing out the advantages the iPhone has over the others. I think it's fair game to point out a few of the ways each of those phones kick the iPhone's ass...
So you're saying that around 2015, we won't see gasoline go over $5/gallon, or high fuel price volatility? Well, you're entitled to your opinion. I honestly hope you're right, because it will be an economic disaster for the US if it does happen. But I'll be surprised if it doesn't. China's petroleum demand is currently increasing faster than 10% per year, and they're not the only ones.
Yes, there's plenty of bitumen and coal. Lots and lots and lots. And like you said, the middle east still has a whole lot of oil. But we can't get it out of the ground fast enough, and refine it fast enough, to meet demand. China's demand is going through the roof, and they will pass the US as the biggest consumer of petroleum in the next year or so. Their rate of demand increase is more than double ours, and they aren't the only country that's having an industrial boom right now.
The only countries in the world that HAVEN'T seen increasing demand over the past two decades are the ones that artificially limited their own markets with really high taxes, i.e. Europe.
Invest in Europe, and buy urban real estate. Commuting is about to get a lot more expensive.
What's currently running out is cheap light natural sweet crude. That's all. The era of $1/gal gasoline is over. Welcome to the era of $2-4/gal gasoline.
I think you're being unreasonably optimistic about our capacity for refine lower quality petroleum products. Over the next ten years we will certainly see $5-$10 per gallon and ridiculous price volatility as demand will far outpace the speed at which we can refine tar sands, etc into useful products.
8 hours * $400/hour = $3200 for just the deposition, figure that again for prep time for the deposition. That's just the lawyers fees.
You can get a good lawyer for $250/hour. Still not exactly pocket change.
Yes extreme body-builders and TV fake wrestlers may have BMIs that naïvely label them as obese, but I doubt you have a body like that.
It's a lot more common than you think. I'm not obese, I have about 15% body fat. I'm not a bodybuilder. But I have a muscular body type, maybe husky is a good word. I do strength training in the gym, but so do lots of people. The BMI height to weight ratio is stupid, and makes no differentiation between adipose tissue and muscle.
One problem with that theory: Climatologists are suggesting more grant money be made available for carbon neutral energy research. The climatologists aren't going to see any of that.
http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptic_arguments/fu nding.html
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I read the headline as, "Congress Pleasures DoJ With PRIVATE Part II."
Thought I was on the wrong website for a second.
Reznor originally made comments about the high price of Year Zero in Australia during an interview several months ago. It was during a concert (the clip you linked to) that he followed up with fans to see if the price had come down at all. Exactly. As stated in the OP. (edited?)
I have better things to worry about regarding politicians than what their personal beliefs are except to the degree that they have been shown to influence their decision making...
What kind of person makes decisions that are not influenced by their personal beliefs?!? I would hope that any politician I vote for has strong personal beliefs, based on fact and direct observation as much as possible, and makes every decision based on those beliefs.
Don't kid yourself that humans are the pinnacle of evolution, bacteria always were and always will be.
Actually, you could say that animal life (including us) is the pinnacle of bacterial evolution, at least on this planet. The life of almost every cell in our bodies depends utterly on one particular, very specialized bacteria: the mitochondria. Mitochondria has its own DNA, which is not passed in sperm cells -- the mitochondrial DNA is only passed down from mother to child from the mitochondria contained in the egg cell. It's an endosymbiont. We may be the product of a bizarre interspecies love affair between a bacteria and an amoeba.
Do you think the MS developers that are spending so much time and effort (read: blood, sweat, and tears - as the developers here are well aware) to work on making Silverlight work with Mono will really want to stop making their project as good as it can be?
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That would be great if it weren't based on a standard that has little to do with health. According to the BMI calculator (see below), I'm obese. I'm 5'10", and weigh around 210-215. I eat a lot of lean meats and vegetables. I lift weights three days a week, and run about 9 miles a week. I take a vitamin and mineral supplement packet every morning. Funny how you can be a borderline health nut and still might end up paying a higher premium because some people think BMI is a reasonable indicator of health. I have about 16% body fat, as measured with the 7-point caliper test, last time I checked. That's out of the 'obese' range, past the 'normal' range, and into the 'fit' range. Not exactly GQ model single-digit body fat percentage, but a long shot from obesity.
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
BMI Categories:
* Underweight = 18.5
* Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
* Overweight = 25-29.9
* Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater
It would make a lot more sense to give people higher premiums by default, and give discounts to people who pass a voluntary aerobic fitness test.
You would only lose heat via radiation, a much slower process.
I expect evaporative cooling would be a significant problem in a vacuum. Frostbitten eyes... eeeew.
Because Microsoft would certainly charge the consumer less if only their per-unit costs weren't so high.
Only after the Linux threat lessens might Microsoft have the luxury of tightening up piracy protections, as it is now doing in the West. Microsoft can afford to be patient.
Right, 'cause if Microsoft would just sit patiently and wait, this whole "Linux" fad will just blow over. Hee hee hee.
...because only a sith deals in absolutes!
No, the Catholics do too...
I'm calling the pope Darth Benedict from now on.
"Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Jedi."
or how about
"To cheat death, is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret."
now all one has to do is wait for the Novell to integrate new GPL3 licensed code, which they have said they will do, show your shiny voucher, smile, pick up you shiny new novell cds/dvd and load the distro onto bittorrent, then laugh evilly as all of microsoft's carefully calculated effort goes up in smoke. This has essentially undone a decade of patent hoarding and scheming to put linux and all gpl code into microsoft's pocket. If it were not true then you wouldn't hear microsoft screaming so loudly that it isn't.
No. Microsoft's patent portfolio doesn't magically pass into the public domain because the GPL's terms have changed. Basically Microsoft is saying their vouchers are no good for GPLv3 software. Which means their "patent protection" isn't good anymore, and no longer makes SLES any better than any other distro. Novell could accuse Microsoft of breach of contract (and very well might do so), but Microsoft's patent portfolio is still all their own, and will remain so until they knowingly, officially distribute software under GPLv3 terms.
Not to mention this guy has admitted to killing 8 people. I don't know how much reasonable doubt one would need to get acquitted.
Yeah, if this guy wasn't "Hans' best friend," it might create reasonable doubt. But seeing as how Hans apparently thought this killer was just the coolest guy ever up until recently, that says a few things about Hans too. If I was on this jury, I'd be basing my decision almost entirely on the physical evidence.
Isn't evolution *also* pretty much just a theory at this point, like Intelligent Design?
Don't forget about the theory of gravity.
Scientific method: a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning, the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
You might say that a real scientist is always a practitioner. What you think you know based on what you heard from someone else (even someone with a reputation as a "scientist") is in some part based on faith. As you put it, "tied to the limits of their scientific knowledge." Faith in science, yes, but still faith, until you have verified it yourself.
The proper scientific attitude is "I don't know, let's check this out for ourselves, what happens when we do this?" which is, coincidentally (?) also the proper attitude recommended by Buddhist teachers. In the Kalama sutra, the Buddha said:
I always thought it was really interesting to see a 2600 year old tradition which teaches, "don't accept something just because it's in the scriptures -- check it out for yourself!"
But the biggest factor is energy consumption. Is it cheaper to spend the energy to move crops from 100% natural light into the city or is it cheaper to spend the energy on artificial light and grow the crops inside the city?
Exactly. Running hundreds of 1000W bulbs adds up fast. Few city folks realize just how much light crops need. In winter months, that extra light will cost Big Buck$. And let's factor in the cost of the real estate... lemme see, urban hi-rise real estate vs. a mudpatch in podunk... Urban real estate itself is expensive enough without factoring in the cost of building the high rise itself. It's hard enough to make farming a podunk mudpatch profitable. All produce would be organic as there would be no exposure to wild parasites and bugs
That's hilarious. I wonder how much extra money they budgeted in for the 100% sterile cleanroom and access facilities and HEPA air filtration systems for the entire building. All it takes is one little pregnant bug getting in. Not all agricultural pests are bugs anyway; fungal spores in regular air are counted in millions per cubic inch. 'Course they need a warm, moist environment like a greenhouse to thrive, oh wait...
I suspect this proposal was dreamed up by some guys while they were sitting around smoking the product of their own urban greenhouse.
Anyway, they're solving a problem that doesn't really exist. We're growing far, far more food now than we actually eat if you look at corn and soybean production. Most of it goes into energy inefficient processes like industrial meat production. If we weren't artificially keeping the price of meat low through corn & soybean subsidies, feeding corn to cattle (which is very unhealthy for them, but marbles the beef nicely), and industrial cattle processing, people would be eating a lot less meat because it would be very expensive, like it used to be.
If cows were eating grass again and farmers were growing other crops besides corn and soybeans again, we would get a lot more people-food from the farmland we have. Less meat, but far more vegetables. Kind of like what's recommended by nutritional experts... might fix that obesity problem too.
Oh come on now, Apple never said it was going to be a smart phone.
Please take note of the subject of your post. Apple's own PR chart compares the iPhone with four smart phones, in a very biased way, pointing out the advantages the iPhone has over the others. I think it's fair game to point out a few of the ways each of those phones kick the iPhone's ass...
Funny, I was expecting them to hire ex-FEMA director Michael Brown for this position.
So you're saying that around 2015, we won't see gasoline go over $5/gallon, or high fuel price volatility? Well, you're entitled to your opinion. I honestly hope you're right, because it will be an economic disaster for the US if it does happen. But I'll be surprised if it doesn't. China's petroleum demand is currently increasing faster than 10% per year, and they're not the only ones.
Yes, there's plenty of bitumen and coal. Lots and lots and lots. And like you said, the middle east still has a whole lot of oil. But we can't get it out of the ground fast enough, and refine it fast enough, to meet demand. China's demand is going through the roof, and they will pass the US as the biggest consumer of petroleum in the next year or so. Their rate of demand increase is more than double ours, and they aren't the only country that's having an industrial boom right now. The only countries in the world that HAVEN'T seen increasing demand over the past two decades are the ones that artificially limited their own markets with really high taxes, i.e. Europe. Invest in Europe, and buy urban real estate. Commuting is about to get a lot more expensive.
What's currently running out is cheap light natural sweet crude. That's all. The era of $1/gal gasoline is over. Welcome to the era of $2-4/gal gasoline. I think you're being unreasonably optimistic about our capacity for refine lower quality petroleum products. Over the next ten years we will certainly see $5-$10 per gallon and ridiculous price volatility as demand will far outpace the speed at which we can refine tar sands, etc into useful products.
Interesting that Google's the focus of this investigation, almost immediately after Microsoft paid twice as much money for one of DoubleClick's main competitors, aQuantive.
8 hours * $400/hour = $3200 for just the deposition, figure that again for prep time for the deposition. That's just the lawyers fees. You can get a good lawyer for $250/hour. Still not exactly pocket change.
Yes extreme body-builders and TV fake wrestlers may have BMIs that naïvely label them as obese, but I doubt you have a body like that. It's a lot more common than you think. I'm not obese, I have about 15% body fat. I'm not a bodybuilder. But I have a muscular body type, maybe husky is a good word. I do strength training in the gym, but so do lots of people. The BMI height to weight ratio is stupid, and makes no differentiation between adipose tissue and muscle.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the US has no extradition treaty with Dubai.
One problem with that theory: Climatologists are suggesting more grant money be made available for carbon neutral energy research. The climatologists aren't going to see any of that. http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptic_arguments/fu nding.html