It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska's Blob. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our Blob.
Just broadcast your illegal movies and ugly photos toward a large, massive body so that the signals intersect with the earth again later after traveling along space-time geodesics. You can use Sagittarius A* (black hole at the center of the galaxy) for this, but you have to remember to be there to record your 50,000 year old backup once it arrives, because it's not like the hole is your bitch.
Kazaa was great. So many idiots set its upload directory to C:\ that you could find anything. Everyone was searching for MP3s, but you could search for the DOC files in "Documents and Settings".
I forget what I searched for but I got a listing of Word Documents that included "Penis Enlargement Instructions.DOC" or something like that. So naturally I clicked on that one and downloaded it. Figuring, it might be real, because a moron dumb enough to let Kazaa index his documents folder would be the sort of person who responds to spam and shells out money for penis enlargement instructions. And once he's paid for and gotten actual instructions that are obviously bullshit, even if he felt he'd been suckered, he'd at least hold onto the file. Maybe for psychological reasons, or to prove he'd been scammed, I don't know. So they might have to be just barely plausible. And hey, if they are, free penis enlargement instructions, right?
IIRC the dude gives his testimonial, it's so incredible, it will work for you too etc. and then he goes into this procedure where you basically yank on it repeatedly.
They perpetrate that myth because the only other country known for its government handing down a list of "forbidden" URLs to the public (whether or not it actually blocks them) is China. And the similarities do not end there. For example, China built a 4000 mile Great Wall. And Australia built a 2000 mile rabbit-proof fence. Can you blame us for being confused?
Your "precedent" from the UK is about 120 YEARS OLD. It predates all the changes that were made in contract law during the New Deal- which has changed a lot since the 19th century.
No judge is going to want to set a huge precedent in an ambiguous case like this. It would take real balls and would certainly be overturned on appeal.
That's why if you RTFA the author predicts the judge will toss the case. In fact, here's an offer for you:
IF THE JUDGE DOESN'T THROW THE CASE OUT, YOU GET A FREE PONY./sarcasm
It might have been a "contra-cat" but it wasn't a contract except under the terms of Slashdot law.
Take it from me- I've been making money this way for years, and I always have my attorney review televised dares before I go bolting across state lines.
When light shines through a diffraction grating and spreads out into beams going right and left, we don't need to talk about some strange new "force" that pushed the rightward beams to the right and the leftward beams to the left, since it's still a manifestation of electromagnetism. But specifically quantum electrodynamics, not classical electromagnetism which isn't good at handling this stuff.
In this case, the fundamental reality is, of course, that each photon splits up at the grating and its wave function takes all paths- interfering with itself everywhere in space. When the photon is discovered hitting a screen, it will strike in a place that reveals the least amount of information about the path it actually took, and there will be many such places, called "interference maxima". (It probably won't land in a place that makes it obvious how it got there- such places are interference minima.)
The Casimir force is another "force" like this. Underneath it's still quantum electrodynamics.
If you find this stuff interesting you should read Feynman's QED... basically Quantum Electrodynamics For Dummies. What you'll find is interesting:
Light can go faster than light or slower than light- but only briefly
Light really doesn't care about surfaces between air and water and glass or whatever
Light doesn't really go in straight lines, that's just sort of how things turn out
These guys are sending beams of IR photons down a channel that is 220nm x 220nm, smaller than their wavelength. So transverse wave motion isn't a consideration at all... the light can barely fit in there and its wavefunction inside has no longitudinal component. I think it can be totally described with two scalar functions along the waveguide. The photons have apparently been through a beamsplitter or something and are being recombined out of phase. It's too bad the article doesn't provide any further details on how the photons were polarized (circular, linear, what?) or how the quantum interference between the two photon states results in transverse forces on the waveguide.
But not any old TrueCrypted flash drive has a brushed aluminum case. This is the kind of drive Jack Bauer would swing through the air to bludgeon a terrorist.
You'll be saying wow every time you use this Car! It's like a corvette! It's like a Prius! It's like a sponge for liquid hydrogen! A regular car doesn't work wet - this makes water all the time. This is for the executive, the environmentalist, the pitchman, the john with a bitten tongue fleeing a crazy hooker! This car burns twenty times less hydrogen than gasoline. Look at this! It just extracts all the work that was put into the hydrogen before! Why do you want fossils and dinosaurs to work so hard to push you to work and back? It drips, but it doesn't make a mess. You cruise the highways, fill it at the hydrogen filling station. It is made in Europe, you know the Americans never make good green stuff. Olympic divers, they pick up chicks in these. We're gonna do this in real time! Look at this! Put in a gallon of hydrogen, turn the ignition! [gets in the car] You follow me, camera guy? Look at this[cut] and we're 1300 miles away! [camera pans around] See what I'm telling ya? You'll be saying wow every time!
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
It seems to be well within the capability of current measurement techniques to determine whether bovines are leaping over natural satellites, so we should be able to figure out if a rodent is sitting on one.
... or he would echolocate the dog, and nothing else. When she hears "ssh" noises, she starts barking defensively to scare off intruders. (The hissy reptilian character of "ssh" probably doesn't help in general.)
So if I had anything to add here, it would be: if it's possible at all that You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation, it's certainly not going to be possible within earshot of my stupid dog.
And every bottle of anything I've ever seen that has acetameniphen in it says "Do not take in combination with alcohol". Just because other people are stupid and don't read the label on their meds doesn't mean I should be penalized.
They're not all stupid; some are merely alcoholics.
People have "GIVE BIKES THE RIGHT" bumper stickers everywhere around here. You couldn't ask for a better public attitude toward bikes. But I would never take up a lane, even here.
I try to figure out bike routes that stay on residential streets. So I end up finding a lot of streets that turn out to be such convenient shortcuts for cars as well that they need to install traffic calming crap everywhere. People just tear through at 50 mph both ways down these little streets on their way from one major road to another- according to those big speedometers along the side of the road. On one street the traffic calming includes a bottleneck with only one tight lane admitting one car at a time (going either way). I was biking through this thing one morning when some guy showed up behind me and was amazed OMG he had to slow down to follow a bike that was blocking his lane. He started tailgating really closely and honking. Then after we escaped the bottleneck, I went into the bike lane. So did he- I had a stalker! He was cruising down the door zone right with me. And he kept up the honking and tailgating until we passed the speed bumps and then he FLOORED it to pass really close- the way people do when they're trying to make a point. There are just too many of these idiots to take advantage of California law.
You aren't really a man until you've slammed into a car at 20 mph anyway. I was coming down a hill once- occupying the middle of a lane in fact. But I was behind an old dude. The light turned yellow just as he reached the intersection, he slammed on his brakes, and I crashed into him. It was basically just a fender bender, only with no fender, just a bike, which makes it a totally different sort of experience. In that split second- with my bike twirling up and to the side, my tires spinning into the air, and my torso rolling up the trunk of an Oldsmobile- I became a man.
I had no broken bones or injuries; my bike just got an ugly scratch on the frame. (I'm not sure about the old dude and his car- he calmly took off as soon as the light turned green.) But there's just no two ways about it. Smashing into a car on a bike just looks totally not cool to anyone who is around to see. I had to slink away to avoid being recognized.
Anyone taking medicine should know they have to check for drug interactions and overdoses. The medical industry has been harping about it for years. If the product they offer is safe when following the directions, then it's not their problem if people do stupid things with it.
Childproof caps piss me off too. *I* have to push down when I turn them, just because YOU can't control your kid. Kids have gotten stupider since we've gotten childproof caps. The ones who don't read anything on the bottle like drug interactions / overdoses / cap removal instructions are still living long enough to reproduce.
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You should start an "ipod burn victims" group on facebook.
It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska's Blob. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our Blob.
Just broadcast your illegal movies and ugly photos toward a large, massive body so that the signals intersect with the earth again later after traveling along space-time geodesics. You can use Sagittarius A* (black hole at the center of the galaxy) for this, but you have to remember to be there to record your 50,000 year old backup once it arrives, because it's not like the hole is your bitch.
Kazaa was great. So many idiots set its upload directory to C:\ that you could find anything. Everyone was searching for MP3s, but you could search for the DOC files in "Documents and Settings".
I forget what I searched for but I got a listing of Word Documents that included "Penis Enlargement Instructions.DOC" or something like that. So naturally I clicked on that one and downloaded it. Figuring, it might be real, because a moron dumb enough to let Kazaa index his documents folder would be the sort of person who responds to spam and shells out money for penis enlargement instructions. And once he's paid for and gotten actual instructions that are obviously bullshit, even if he felt he'd been suckered, he'd at least hold onto the file. Maybe for psychological reasons, or to prove he'd been scammed, I don't know. So they might have to be just barely plausible. And hey, if they are, free penis enlargement instructions, right?
IIRC the dude gives his testimonial, it's so incredible, it will work for you too etc. and then he goes into this procedure where you basically yank on it repeatedly.
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They perpetrate that myth because the only other country known for its government handing down a list of "forbidden" URLs to the public (whether or not it actually blocks them) is China. And the similarities do not end there. For example, China built a 4000 mile Great Wall. And Australia built a 2000 mile rabbit-proof fence. Can you blame us for being confused?
If we could afford to completely imprison our entire public, we would do it, sure. But now with this recession it's only a dream.
The list of websites forbidden in Australia:
http://www.wikileaks.org/leak/acma-secret-blacklist-18-mar-2009.txt
I searched for "slashdot" but couldn't find it. So we'd better not badmouth Australians too much; there could be some here.
Your "precedent" from the UK is about 120 YEARS OLD. It predates all the changes that were made in contract law during the New Deal- which has changed a lot since the 19th century.
/sarcasm
No judge is going to want to set a huge precedent in an ambiguous case like this. It would take real balls and would certainly be overturned on appeal.
That's why if you RTFA the author predicts the judge will toss the case. In fact, here's an offer for you:
IF THE JUDGE DOESN'T THROW THE CASE OUT, YOU GET A FREE PONY.
It might have been a "contra-cat" but it wasn't a contract except under the terms of Slashdot law.
Take it from me- I've been making money this way for years, and I always have my attorney review televised dares before I go bolting across state lines.
OK, corrected sentence:
If the guy had made an offer in court, or as part of a contractual obligation, it would be a different story.
He can sue for false advertising. If the guy had made this offer in court, or as part of a contractual obligation, it would be a different story.
In this case, the fundamental reality is, of course, that each photon splits up at the grating and its wave function takes all paths- interfering with itself everywhere in space. When the photon is discovered hitting a screen, it will strike in a place that reveals the least amount of information about the path it actually took, and there will be many such places, called "interference maxima". (It probably won't land in a place that makes it obvious how it got there- such places are interference minima.)
The Casimir force is another "force" like this. Underneath it's still quantum electrodynamics.
If you find this stuff interesting you should read Feynman's QED... basically Quantum Electrodynamics For Dummies. What you'll find is interesting:
These guys are sending beams of IR photons down a channel that is 220nm x 220nm, smaller than their wavelength. So transverse wave motion isn't a consideration at all... the light can barely fit in there and its wavefunction inside has no longitudinal component. I think it can be totally described with two scalar functions along the waveguide. The photons have apparently been through a beamsplitter or something and are being recombined out of phase. It's too bad the article doesn't provide any further details on how the photons were polarized (circular, linear, what?) or how the quantum interference between the two photon states results in transverse forces on the waveguide.
But not any old TrueCrypted flash drive has a brushed aluminum case. This is the kind of drive Jack Bauer would swing through the air to bludgeon a terrorist.
You'll be saying wow every time you use this Car! It's like a corvette! It's like a Prius! It's like a sponge for liquid hydrogen! A regular car doesn't work wet - this makes water all the time. This is for the executive, the environmentalist, the pitchman, the john with a bitten tongue fleeing a crazy hooker! This car burns twenty times less hydrogen than gasoline. Look at this! It just extracts all the work that was put into the hydrogen before! Why do you want fossils and dinosaurs to work so hard to push you to work and back? It drips, but it doesn't make a mess. You cruise the highways, fill it at the hydrogen filling station. It is made in Europe, you know the Americans never make good green stuff. Olympic divers, they pick up chicks in these. We're gonna do this in real time! Look at this! Put in a gallon of hydrogen, turn the ignition! [gets in the car] You follow me, camera guy? Look at this[cut] and we're 1300 miles away! [camera pans around] See what I'm telling ya? You'll be saying wow every time!
That's correct- they define div.body i with display:block instead of display:inline. If you have Firefox with Firebug installed you can fix it.
Where did you get all that crap? I googled for it and couldn't find it.
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
It seems to be well within the capability of current measurement techniques to determine whether bovines are leaping over natural satellites, so we should be able to figure out if a rodent is sitting on one.
... or he would echolocate the dog, and nothing else. When she hears "ssh" noises, she starts barking defensively to scare off intruders. (The hissy reptilian character of "ssh" probably doesn't help in general.)
So if I had anything to add here, it would be: if it's possible at all that You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation, it's certainly not going to be possible within earshot of my stupid dog.
I didn't hear anything.
And every bottle of anything I've ever seen that has acetameniphen in it says "Do not take in combination with alcohol". Just because other people are stupid and don't read the label on their meds doesn't mean I should be penalized.
They're not all stupid; some are merely alcoholics.
People have "GIVE BIKES THE RIGHT" bumper stickers everywhere around here. You couldn't ask for a better public attitude toward bikes. But I would never take up a lane, even here.
I try to figure out bike routes that stay on residential streets. So I end up finding a lot of streets that turn out to be such convenient shortcuts for cars as well that they need to install traffic calming crap everywhere. People just tear through at 50 mph both ways down these little streets on their way from one major road to another- according to those big speedometers along the side of the road. On one street the traffic calming includes a bottleneck with only one tight lane admitting one car at a time (going either way). I was biking through this thing one morning when some guy showed up behind me and was amazed OMG he had to slow down to follow a bike that was blocking his lane. He started tailgating really closely and honking. Then after we escaped the bottleneck, I went into the bike lane. So did he- I had a stalker! He was cruising down the door zone right with me. And he kept up the honking and tailgating until we passed the speed bumps and then he FLOORED it to pass really close- the way people do when they're trying to make a point. There are just too many of these idiots to take advantage of California law.
You aren't really a man until you've slammed into a car at 20 mph anyway. I was coming down a hill once- occupying the middle of a lane in fact. But I was behind an old dude. The light turned yellow just as he reached the intersection, he slammed on his brakes, and I crashed into him. It was basically just a fender bender, only with no fender, just a bike, which makes it a totally different sort of experience. In that split second- with my bike twirling up and to the side, my tires spinning into the air, and my torso rolling up the trunk of an Oldsmobile- I became a man.
I had no broken bones or injuries; my bike just got an ugly scratch on the frame. (I'm not sure about the old dude and his car- he calmly took off as soon as the light turned green.) But there's just no two ways about it. Smashing into a car on a bike just looks totally not cool to anyone who is around to see. I had to slink away to avoid being recognized.
I think my sarcasm is getting far too subtle for this place. But I refuse to append those "/sarcasm" things; they're so goofy.
Anyone taking medicine should know they have to check for drug interactions and overdoses. The medical industry has been harping about it for years. If the product they offer is safe when following the directions, then it's not their problem if people do stupid things with it.
Childproof caps piss me off too. *I* have to push down when I turn them, just because YOU can't control your kid. Kids have gotten stupider since we've gotten childproof caps. The ones who don't read anything on the bottle like drug interactions / overdoses / cap removal instructions are still living long enough to reproduce.
Whoosh