None of the links is correct. Perhaps the submitter thought he was perpetrating a really cool hack. Anyway, it shows yet again that the editors aren't editing.
Of course. GW did say that these powers should stay in effect "as long as we are in danger." I've got news for you. Terrorism has been around a long time, and it's not going away any time soon. As long as there are terrorists in the world (an ever broadening group, due to the changes in how we define "terrorist"), there will be a reason to keep these laws around.
The current government has no plan to EVER give up the these powers.
For an excellent essay on Bush's and the White House's take on terrorism see "The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power" at Bruce Schneier's always outstanding blog.
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It's not illegal if you consent to it. The only place that has any sort of right to do this is Costco, since the membership agreement you sign explicitly allows examination.
Dunno... Solaris was good, really good, but Tarkovsky's Stalker was better, IMHo, and the Strugatsky's book Roadside Picnic is better than Lem's book too...
That's right. So, in quantum chemistry for example, you can run more accurate calculations with a faster computer, and thereby, it is hoped that more accurate, or at least applicable results will be obtained. Therefore, the "time to solution" is reduced. The same applies to CFD, bioinformatics, whatever. There will always be classes of problems where more compute power will give you more data, and possibly insights. Ergo, a faster machine, in the absence of any other factor, will be better for some classes of research.
When the Play button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's music-appreciation buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the hearing centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered three minutes of sound that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Britney Spears.
Editors at popular geek site slashdot.org have created an algorithm which predicts the success of any potential duplicate story on the web site, and are using it to make usch posts with increasing regularity. The software determines whether the original story contains any letters from a to z (case-insensitive), and of it finds them, the post is deemed to be dupe-worthy. This program has been in operation now for more years than anybody care to frickin' remember...
Bender: "Hey! You put a one and two zeros in front of that or we pass! Deal!" Leela: "Bender! That's great! How much did you get me?" Bender: "One hundred dollars."
"The head librarian of the Valparaiso Community Library in Florida was suspended after investigators found that users had viewed adult content on public computers. While the library has a policy against viewing adult material on library computers, the librarian is facing possible dismissal."Well, all I can say is that the VPC are making a mistake. When you are dealing with hearts and minds, don't fuck with librarians. They are networked, have public support, are articulate, are respected and are unafraid. Librarians deserve everybody's respect as public guardians who actually deal with the public (cf. university professors).
Librarians are amongst the most valuable people in society...
So people should be allowed to indiscriminately spam all government-funded organisations, like the armed forces, the White House, public schools, the courts, &c., &c.?
Looks like somebody's being "too stupid or too lazy" to take time to learn and understand the facts.
Infrared energy is not absorbed by the carbon/oxygen double bonds, which are active in the UV region, but by the transition between rotational energy levels in CO2 (I assume you are indirectly referring to CO2 being a greenhouse gas - if not, please correct).
If a carbon/oxygen double bond - or even a double bond of any type - were required for greenhouse activity, then methane would not be one of the most potent greenhouse gases around. However, as methane had Td symmetry, it is is indeed a powerful greenhouse gas.
Just because some people may not understand the "big words", does not mean that thay are meaningless per se. Assuming that is philistinism of a very high order, and seems to me not to be too different from a lot of the behaviours exhibited by many politicians with an agenda to discredit scientists who are presenting information they find uncomfortable.
The practice of questioning the validity of information that one doesn't understand merely on the basis that one doesn't understand it is a sign of insecurity and feelings of exclusion and inferiority.
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None of the links is correct. Perhaps the submitter thought he was perpetrating a really cool hack. Anyway, it shows yet again that the editors aren't editing.
Waste of time...
Of course. GW did say that these powers should stay in effect "as long as we are in danger." I've got news for you. Terrorism has been around a long time, and it's not going away any time soon. As long as there are terrorists in the world (an ever broadening group, due to the changes in how we define "terrorist"), there will be a reason to keep these laws around.
The current government has no plan to EVER give up the these powers.
For an excellent essay on Bush's and the White House's take on terrorism see "The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power" at Bruce Schneier's always outstanding blog.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50 009562&f=77909585&m=2550903662
Perhaps he meant the CamAAAAAAAAAA?
A. They always win the face-off!
(I did try to put "(ice-)" before "hockey" in the title, but the damn' character limit got me...)
It's not illegal if you consent to it. The only place that has any sort of right to do this is Costco, since the membership agreement you sign explicitly allows examination.
Dunno... Solaris was good, really good, but Tarkovsky's Stalker was better, IMHo, and the Strugatsky's book Roadside Picnic is better than Lem's book too...
any parrots named after him any time soon...
That's right. So, in quantum chemistry for example, you can run more accurate calculations with a faster computer, and thereby, it is hoped that more accurate, or at least applicable results will be obtained. Therefore, the "time to solution" is reduced. The same applies to CFD, bioinformatics, whatever. There will always be classes of problems where more compute power will give you more data, and possibly insights. Ergo, a faster machine, in the absence of any other factor, will be better for some classes of research.
...would somebody post a link to a site with the news that the site had been shut down...
When the Play button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's music-appreciation buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the hearing centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered three minutes of sound that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Britney Spears.
Editors at popular geek site slashdot.org have created an algorithm which predicts the success of any potential duplicate story on the web site, and are using it to make usch posts with increasing regularity. The software determines whether the original story contains any letters from a to z (case-insensitive), and of it finds them, the post is deemed to be dupe-worthy. This program has been in operation now for more years than anybody care to frickin' remember...
Look up "internment without trial" "long kesh" and "Diplock courts" on Google...
Bender: "Hey! You put a one and two zeros in front of that or we pass! Deal!"
Leela: "Bender! That's great! How much did you get me?"
Bender: "One hundred dollars."
Many major organisations run a form of Unix for POS applications: McDonald, for example, runs SCO Unix IIRC...
Everyone talks about "virus this, virus that."
Rev. Timothy Lovejoy: "Everyone is saying Gabbo this and Gabbo
that. But no one is saying worship this and Jericho that."
Right, and I keep all my old piss in Klein bottles...
That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx.
Carol Marx? I think you mean Karl Marx.
Never heard of The Heathen Chinee?
"The head librarian of the Valparaiso Community Library in Florida was suspended after investigators found that users had viewed adult content on public computers. While the library has a policy against viewing adult material on library computers, the librarian is facing possible dismissal."Well, all I can say is that the VPC are making a mistake. When you are dealing with hearts and minds, don't fuck with librarians. They are networked, have public support, are articulate, are respected and are unafraid. Librarians deserve everybody's respect as public guardians who actually deal with the public (cf. university professors).
Librarians are amongst the most valuable people in society...
No: think George W. Bush
Meta-whining: coming soon to a Slashlog near you...
So people should be allowed to indiscriminately spam all government-funded organisations, like the armed forces, the White House, public schools, the courts, &c., &c.?
And in what way is spamming free speech anyhow?
Carbon and Oxygen double bonds absorb IR
Looks like somebody's being "too stupid or too lazy" to take time to learn and understand the facts.
Infrared energy is not absorbed by the carbon/oxygen double bonds, which are active in the UV region, but by the transition between rotational energy levels in CO2 (I assume you are indirectly referring to CO2 being a greenhouse gas - if not, please correct).
If a carbon/oxygen double bond - or even a double bond of any type - were required for greenhouse activity, then methane would not be one of the most potent greenhouse gases around. However, as methane had Td symmetry, it is is indeed a powerful greenhouse gas.
Just because some people may not understand the "big words", does not mean that thay are meaningless per se. Assuming that is philistinism of a very high order, and seems to me not to be too different from a lot of the behaviours exhibited by many politicians with an agenda to discredit scientists who are presenting information they find uncomfortable.
The practice of questioning the validity of information that one doesn't understand merely on the basis that one doesn't understand it is a sign of insecurity and feelings of exclusion and inferiority.