You're right. Google should just have refused until their servers were shut down then the people in china could search for nothing using google.cn. That would be much better.
You airport security freaks need to get over yourselves: perhaps making air travel needlessly complicated makes you feel warm and comfortable, but I, for one, am tired of being scrutinized as if I'm a criminal every time I walk into an airport.
You must be travelling through different airports than I am, because it's not that big of a deal. Little has changed since before 9/11 except you have to show your ID and take off your shoes, and you need a boarding pass to get to the gates. At least now security is more organized and the people working it are paying attention.
Dark matter is required by looking at galaxy rotation curves. Essentially, the rotation speed of galaxies is too fast given the mass that can be seen, so there must be some mass that doesn't emit light as conventional, baryonic matter does.
What you are basically stating is that when we observe galaxies they don't seet to follow the Newton's theory of gravity (or general relativity). So how to solve this contradiction? Well, according to cosmoligist, we just add an error correction term generally known as dark matter. That is all this dark matter is. An error correction term. Another solution is that our theory of gravity is wrong.
Not exactly. What he is saying is that the mass we can directly see, i.e. stars, does not equal the mass that we can imply by observing the effects of gravity. You are assuming that we have an accurate measure of the mass of a galaxy, but that's not true. We can estimate the mass from the stars that we can observe, but that only accounts for about 10% of the mass implied by gravity. Where's the other 90%? That's Dark Matter.
Perhaps the missing mass comes from an abundance of microscopic particles that are spread far enough apart to be essentially invisible. Or maybe there are large masses--large enough to have a significant gravitational impact--that are not luminescent, and so many that they far outnumber the stars. There's also the possibility that the implied mass from the gravitational effects is just an illusion, and the theory used to calculate them is flawed.
Turns out that scientists are looking into all these possibilities and more. There's no conspiracy.
That's pretty much what a black eye looks like. Here is another one I found on the web. And here is a page discussing bruise age versus color. So the students not seeing anything just six hours later (especially if he covered them up with makeup or something) isn't that unusual.
As for his actions lately... you may have a point there. It's always possible he had himself beaten to help with the story. Or maybe he fell down some steps.
Don't you also think it odd (or maybe "convenient") that he can't tell police where the alleged incident took place?
To quote the original article, "Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County." And then later on, "Douglas County Sheriff's Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn't say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation." So you're assertion here is apparently false.
What about the fact that this guy was never admitted to the hospital?
He wasn't admitted, but from the link you posted:
I contacted the Lawrence Memorial Hospital for more details on the nature of Mirecki's injuries. Citing HIPAA regulations, a hospital spokeswoman declined to provide any more information. She did state that Mirecki was not hospitalized, as many MSM reports have claimed, but came to the emergency room and was "treated and released."
So he went to the hospital, but they only treated and released him. I don't see the contradiction here.
And from the Michelle Malkin article you linked:
If a pickup truck was driving behind you in the early morning in a deserted rural area, and two men got out holding a large metal object, and you were still in your car, would you get out to go talk with them?... How did those in the pickup truck find him? Were they waiting at his house? In that case Dr. Mirecki should have noticed them right away. How would they just randomly find him in the middle of the country?
First, where was it stated that he saw them get out of the truck with a "large metal object"? The only reference I see to any metal object is that he was hit with one and it's size was not mentioned. So you have someone tailing you and when you pull over, so do they. They get out, do you get out or not? Tough call, but I guess it depends on what's going through your mind at the time. He even admitted that it was a mistake.
Perhaps they were waiting at his house. Why would he automatically notice them? I know I don't always look around for something unusual (if I could even see such a thing) especially early in the morning. It doesn't really say how far he was from his house when he pulled over. They could easily have followed him from a distance until they were a few miles away then pulled up close.
Malkin makes good points about how bloggers are blowing it out of proportion, but they do that with everything. That Mirecki doesn't want to talk about it anymore isn't surprising. In fact if it was made up, you would think that he would want to draw more attention to it. And the reports of the injuries aren't surprising, either. Being beat up doesn't necessarily lead to big black bruises all over your face right away. Sometimes it's just slight swelling with some redness.
All said the story seems plausible to me. The questions Malkin asks don't provide any insight, and are based on assumptions that aren't necessarily true. And neither of you have been able to point out any real contradictions in the story.
Anyone can choose whatever file format they think appropriate for them. But government has much more power than individuals. If government tax forms or driver license application forms are in Microsoft Word format, then individual consumers have no choice but to get Microsoft products.
My main point is that if Microsoft wants government protection, then don't label themselves as free market. Government dictation is not free market.
FYI: OpenDocument [sic] isn't a product, it's just a document format like PDF. Any company is free to implement it to compete for the government contracts. Wish that were the same for Word formats.
>> There appears to be an Apollo age escape tower on the crew capsule. This doubles as a docking port.
> No. That's part of the abort apparatus. it is jettisoned during the trip to orbit. It has nothing to do with docking.
Right. Same idea, different terms. Hey what's that thing where the "abort apparatus" used to be? Oh yeah that's a docking port...
>> The mission plan given is basically the same one used on Apollo.
> Wrong. There are significant differences with Apollo, including flight profile, length of stay, size of crew, and the ability to land anywhere on the Moon (Apollo was confined to equatorial regions).
Those differences aren't that significant. In the end it's still "basically the same one used on Apollo". Understated, but not wrong.
>> We use big booster to light up millions of tonnes of mass... Kind of pathetic,
> It is not pathetic. That's how rockets work. Almost all the mass in a rocket is propellant.
Way to quote him out of context so you can try to make him look stupid.
>> I'm surprised they didn't even consider the Big Gemini design...
> Probably because it is essentially the same design: a blunt conical object with a heatshield. We've seen more than 40 years worth of avionics and electronic advances since Gemini. There's no reason to resurrect the dead. Remember, too, the CEV is supposed to bulk up for the Mars trip. Gemini couldn't survive more than a few weeks. (It barely made it through the two-week endurance mission.)
He's talking about the capsule form, not digging up the old plans and building that. And is it quite a bit different than what they propose, moreso than, say, the differences between the new mission plan and the Apollo mission plan.
>> Anyone who thinks NASA is taking a step back (except for the capsule...
> The capsule is not a backward step. That's equivalent to lamenting the lack of innovation in aircraft design because they all have wings...
Except that there are newer, innovative capsule designs which did not get used. That's what he's lamenting, not the lack of innovation.
>> With this HLV booster, we could put a brand new space station whereever the hell we want it...
> Why?
Why not?
You could have added to this thread, but instead you've given us so much more...
I absolutely HATE when opening a new window in IE reloads the page that was loaded in the first window. For one, I don't want it to reload all that crap that most websites have in them these days. Beyond that, I'm opening the new window because I want to go somewhere different. Otherwise I wouldn't open a new window...
So you were just gonna run the PC without an OS? If you're willing to use something legally free, why didn't you just do that instead of pirating windows?
If I recall from college chemistry a few years ago, Microwave radiation was high up on the spectrum scale near Xrays and gamma rays and past UV rays which already can damage DNA.
It's all about the trade-off. If you're willing to do hard time to keep someone's hands off your precious bling bling, then pull the trigger. Of course different situations require different responses.
Nice essay. Too bad it's wrong. The theoretical model is continuously being revised to try and match it with what is observed. The term Dark Matter (and Dark Energy too) is just there to describe the discrepancies between the model and the observations. Some scientists are sure Dark Matter is real matter, but currently only detectable by its effects on other observable matter. Other scientists believe it is the physical model that is flawed and Dark Matter isn't matter at all. Both camps (and others) are trying to find evidence to support their case.
Of course the not-so-constant constant idea has come up, but so far there is no convincing evidence to support it.
The humorous part is how you made a bunch of assumptions about how science works, while chastising the scientists for making assumptions...
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How about s/he gain that knowledge the same way I did, through years of painfully prying it out of everyone else in the company. Or figuring it out myself.
The rich will have gained 400x the wealth, since the value of the dollar will decrease. Ferrari's will cost 100 dollars total. Think how many Ferrari's Bill Gates could own at $100 each.
How do you figure? If a Ferrari is worth $100,000 now, and the value of the dollar is decreased, why would the Ferrari be worth less? It's not the value of the Ferrari that is going down, it is the value of the dollar being used to purchase the Ferrari that is going down. So in this hypothetical future, wouldn't the Ferrari be worth $4,000,000?
Or will the value of property also be decreasing as the value of the dollar decreases? I'm confused.
So just because a burglar can break the window means that we shouldn't bother to lock the car door?
More like: Just because the alarm is enabled you can stop worrying over whether or not you locked the door.
It's nice having something like this to catch errors, but it could also lead to developers using it as a crutch and not bothering to make their code secure. In other words, it looks good on paper, but it's only marginally effective in practice and still doesn't fix the problem of poorly written code.
So when you hear a good joke or learn some humorous cliche, do you only share it with close friends or anyone who is willing to listen?
all your base are belong to us
imagine a beowulf cluster of those
how do you keep a blonde in suspense?
It's all someone's intellectual property. Recorded music is much more elaborate but still very much the same. Where is the line drawn? Does it become theft just because someone is asking for money?
i is always an integer with local scope, used as a counter in a loop and/or an index into an array or a similar collection. j, k and l are the same, if you need more than one variable that would qualify for being "i". This convention is perfectly clear and has been used for more than 40 years; calling "i" "index", "count" or "currentEmployeeIndex" does not carry any interesting surplus information. The same could be said for "n", which always is an integral number denoting the number of elements in some collection to operate on.
I suppose that would be true of your own code, but when you have to work on something written by others, you can just forget all those assumptions. I've seen k used as a global variable referenced in 20 different functions (this is C I'm talking about). And the horror of horrors:
extern int i;
And I've seen "temp" variables abused so much it's a useless moniker.
I do agree with what you are saying. The problem is people producing crap for code and no naming convention will cure that. But I still prefer to stay away from single character variable names.
Well, since the GUI is being discussed, and the mouse is usually the default device for manipulating things on a GUI (like selecting the text), perhaps it should be CTRL-mouse1. xterm seems to use that to bring up a menu, not sure about other terminals. So maybe that's not the best choice. But I imagine there's a CTRL or SHIFT or ALT and some mouse button combo that isn't being used for something specific already that can be used to request a copy operation. Makes more sense to me than overloading some keyboard combo. Perhaps SHIFT-middle button.
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You're right. Google should just have refused until their servers were shut down then the people in china could search for nothing using google.cn. That would be much better.
You airport security freaks need to get over yourselves: perhaps making air travel needlessly complicated makes you feel warm and comfortable, but I, for one, am tired of being scrutinized as if I'm a criminal every time I walk into an airport.
You must be travelling through different airports than I am, because it's not that big of a deal. Little has changed since before 9/11 except you have to show your ID and take off your shoes, and you need a boarding pass to get to the gates. At least now security is more organized and the people working it are paying attention.
What you are basically stating is that when we observe galaxies they don't seet to follow the Newton's theory of gravity (or general relativity). So how to solve this contradiction? Well, according to cosmoligist, we just add an error correction term generally known as dark matter. That is all this dark matter is. An error correction term. Another solution is that our theory of gravity is wrong.
Not exactly. What he is saying is that the mass we can directly see, i.e. stars, does not equal the mass that we can imply by observing the effects of gravity. You are assuming that we have an accurate measure of the mass of a galaxy, but that's not true. We can estimate the mass from the stars that we can observe, but that only accounts for about 10% of the mass implied by gravity. Where's the other 90%? That's Dark Matter.
Perhaps the missing mass comes from an abundance of microscopic particles that are spread far enough apart to be essentially invisible. Or maybe there are large masses--large enough to have a significant gravitational impact--that are not luminescent, and so many that they far outnumber the stars. There's also the possibility that the implied mass from the gravitational effects is just an illusion, and the theory used to calculate them is flawed.
Turns out that scientists are looking into all these possibilities and more. There's no conspiracy.
That's pretty much what a black eye looks like. Here is another one I found on the web. And here is a page discussing bruise age versus color. So the students not seeing anything just six hours later (especially if he covered them up with makeup or something) isn't that unusual.
As for his actions lately... you may have a point there. It's always possible he had himself beaten to help with the story. Or maybe he fell down some steps.
To quote the original article, "Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County." And then later on, "Douglas County Sheriff's Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn't say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation." So you're assertion here is apparently false.
What about the fact that this guy was never admitted to the hospital?
He wasn't admitted, but from the link you posted: So he went to the hospital, but they only treated and released him. I don't see the contradiction here.
And from the Michelle Malkin article you linked:
First, where was it stated that he saw them get out of the truck with a "large metal object"? The only reference I see to any metal object is that he was hit with one and it's size was not mentioned. So you have someone tailing you and when you pull over, so do they. They get out, do you get out or not? Tough call, but I guess it depends on what's going through your mind at the time. He even admitted that it was a mistake.
Perhaps they were waiting at his house. Why would he automatically notice them? I know I don't always look around for something unusual (if I could even see such a thing) especially early in the morning. It doesn't really say how far he was from his house when he pulled over. They could easily have followed him from a distance until they were a few miles away then pulled up close.
Malkin makes good points about how bloggers are blowing it out of proportion, but they do that with everything. That Mirecki doesn't want to talk about it anymore isn't surprising. In fact if it was made up, you would think that he would want to draw more attention to it. And the reports of the injuries aren't surprising, either. Being beat up doesn't necessarily lead to big black bruises all over your face right away. Sometimes it's just slight swelling with some redness.
All said the story seems plausible to me. The questions Malkin asks don't provide any insight, and are based on assumptions that aren't necessarily true. And neither of you have been able to point out any real contradictions in the story.
Anyone can choose whatever file format they think appropriate for them. But government has much more power than individuals. If government tax forms or driver license application forms are in Microsoft Word format, then individual consumers have no choice but to get Microsoft products.
My main point is that if Microsoft wants government protection, then don't label themselves as free market. Government dictation is not free market.
FYI: OpenDocument [sic] isn't a product, it's just a document format like PDF. Any company is free to implement it to compete for the government contracts. Wish that were the same for Word formats.
You'd have a real fighting chance against the US military
Why do you assume that it would be citizens vs the US military? US soldiers are citizens too...
>> There appears to be an Apollo age escape tower on the crew capsule. This doubles as a docking port.
> No. That's part of the abort apparatus. it is jettisoned during the trip to orbit. It has nothing to do with docking.
Right. Same idea, different terms. Hey what's that thing where the "abort apparatus" used to be? Oh yeah that's a docking port...
>> The mission plan given is basically the same one used on Apollo.
> Wrong. There are significant differences with Apollo, including flight profile, length of stay, size of crew, and the ability to land anywhere on the Moon (Apollo was confined to equatorial regions).
Those differences aren't that significant. In the end it's still "basically the same one used on Apollo". Understated, but not wrong.
>> We use big booster to light up millions of tonnes of mass... Kind of pathetic,
> It is not pathetic. That's how rockets work. Almost all the mass in a rocket is propellant.
Way to quote him out of context so you can try to make him look stupid.
>> I'm surprised they didn't even consider the Big Gemini design...
> Probably because it is essentially the same design: a blunt conical object with a heatshield. We've seen more than 40 years worth of avionics and electronic advances since Gemini. There's no reason to resurrect the dead. Remember, too, the CEV is supposed to bulk up for the Mars trip. Gemini couldn't survive more than a few weeks. (It barely made it through the two-week endurance mission.)
He's talking about the capsule form, not digging up the old plans and building that. And is it quite a bit different than what they propose, moreso than, say, the differences between the new mission plan and the Apollo mission plan.
>> Anyone who thinks NASA is taking a step back (except for the capsule...
> The capsule is not a backward step. That's equivalent to lamenting the lack of innovation in aircraft design because they all have wings...
Except that there are newer, innovative capsule designs which did not get used. That's what he's lamenting, not the lack of innovation.
>> With this HLV booster, we could put a brand new space station whereever the hell we want it...
> Why?
Why not?
You could have added to this thread, but instead you've given us so much more...
I absolutely HATE when opening a new window in IE reloads the page that was loaded in the first window. For one, I don't want it to reload all that crap that most websites have in them these days. Beyond that, I'm opening the new window because I want to go somewhere different. Otherwise I wouldn't open a new window...
Apparently nobody with mod points gets it...
Unfortunately I don't have any mod points, or I would have used them all on the parent.
I do, but you're is better.
So you were just gonna run the PC without an OS? If you're willing to use something legally free, why didn't you just do that instead of pirating windows?
If you're that much of an idiot to keep all that shit, but lose the key, then yes, you do deserve to pay again...
It is usually assumed that the earth's magnetic field is not harmful since we have evolved with it around us for millions of years.
People have been dying for millions of years. Maybe it's the earth's magnetic field.
Are you sure?
If I recall from college chemistry a few years ago, Microwave radiation was high up on the spectrum scale near Xrays and gamma rays and past UV rays which already can damage DNA.
I think you need to check your facts.
It is you who needs to check the facts.
It's all about the trade-off. If you're willing to do hard time to keep someone's hands off your precious bling bling, then pull the trigger. Of course different situations require different responses.
Nice essay. Too bad it's wrong. The theoretical model is continuously being revised to try and match it with what is observed. The term Dark Matter (and Dark Energy too) is just there to describe the discrepancies between the model and the observations. Some scientists are sure Dark Matter is real matter, but currently only detectable by its effects on other observable matter. Other scientists believe it is the physical model that is flawed and Dark Matter isn't matter at all. Both camps (and others) are trying to find evidence to support their case.
Of course the not-so-constant constant idea has come up, but so far there is no convincing evidence to support it.
The humorous part is how you made a bunch of assumptions about how science works, while chastising the scientists for making assumptions...
How about s/he gain that knowledge the same way I did, through years of painfully prying it out of everyone else in the company. Or figuring it out myself.
The rich will have gained 400x the wealth, since the value of the dollar will decrease. Ferrari's will cost 100 dollars total. Think how many Ferrari's Bill Gates could own at $100 each.
How do you figure? If a Ferrari is worth $100,000 now, and the value of the dollar is decreased, why would the Ferrari be worth less? It's not the value of the Ferrari that is going down, it is the value of the dollar being used to purchase the Ferrari that is going down. So in this hypothetical future, wouldn't the Ferrari be worth $4,000,000?
Or will the value of property also be decreasing as the value of the dollar decreases? I'm confused.
IANAEconomicsMajor and all that...
So just because a burglar can break the window means that we shouldn't bother to lock the car door?
More like: Just because the alarm is enabled you can stop worrying over whether or not you locked the door.
It's nice having something like this to catch errors, but it could also lead to developers using it as a crutch and not bothering to make their code secure. In other words, it looks good on paper, but it's only marginally effective in practice and still doesn't fix the problem of poorly written code.
So when you hear a good joke or learn some humorous cliche, do you only share it with close friends or anyone who is willing to listen?
all your base are belong to us
imagine a beowulf cluster of those
how do you keep a blonde in suspense?
It's all someone's intellectual property. Recorded music is much more elaborate but still very much the same. Where is the line drawn? Does it become theft just because someone is asking for money?
I'm not sure there's an easy answer...
i is always an integer with local scope, used as a counter in a loop and/or an index into an array or a similar collection. j, k and l are the same, if you need more than one variable that would qualify for being "i". This convention is perfectly clear and has been used for more than 40 years; calling "i" "index", "count" or "currentEmployeeIndex" does not carry any interesting surplus information. The same could be said for "n", which always is an integral number denoting the number of elements in some collection to operate on.
I suppose that would be true of your own code, but when you have to work on something written by others, you can just forget all those assumptions. I've seen k used as a global variable referenced in 20 different functions (this is C I'm talking about). And the horror of horrors:
extern int i;
And I've seen "temp" variables abused so much it's a useless moniker.
I do agree with what you are saying. The problem is people producing crap for code and no naming convention will cure that. But I still prefer to stay away from single character variable names.
...and the researcher was able to explain most effects that are otherwise explained by dark matter, by slightly changing the theory of gravity.
You are probably thinking of MOND.
Well, since the GUI is being discussed, and the mouse is usually the default device for manipulating things on a GUI (like selecting the text), perhaps it should be CTRL-mouse1. xterm seems to use that to bring up a menu, not sure about other terminals. So maybe that's not the best choice. But I imagine there's a CTRL or SHIFT or ALT and some mouse button combo that isn't being used for something specific already that can be used to request a copy operation. Makes more sense to me than overloading some keyboard combo. Perhaps SHIFT-middle button.
Just a thought...
"Not a bad way to meat college girls, either"
I like the way you think!