In the beginning of this year I read that the
chief astronomer of the Vatican's Observatory said,
that it would be stupid to say, that there is no
alien life.
My personal point of view as a Roman Catholic:
We do not know whether there is extraterrestrial life, and we need neither the existence nor the absence of it for our believe system, so we should
leave it open. Especially this keeps us away from
those ugly things that happened to Bruno and Galilei. But we admitted (although 500 years to late) that they were right.
Games like Civilisation, Homeworld, Starcraft, C&C engage in a wholesale slaughter of entire nations.
Genocide.
Somehow these are considered OK.Running around with a shottie blowing away badies is considered 'violent'.
Anyone else see a problem with that?
Not really, there is a difference between both kinds of games: In these games you only command your
armies/units/... to kill, you do not "kill" by yourself.
But I have a problem with the movies for the secret projects at Alpha Centauri. Some of them
are definitely nothing for children. And some
texts are a bit subversive, but that I liked;-)
Datenschutzbeauftragter der Landesmedienanstalten would then be a DataProtectionOrderedTo of the StateMediaAgencies...
You are more or less right. A Datenschutzbeauftragter is somebody who has to take care of the privacy of the informations his
organization has collected.
BTW, I am german, but I don't think that a longer word
means that someone is more important. For example at the Bundeswehr (the german military)
there are ranks called Unteroffizier, that
is less than an Offizier since Unter means sub,
so the longer name has the lower rank.
In a plague epidemic you kill the rats, to kill the fleas, which means that good old Yersina Pestis ends up dying too.
This is often tried, but fails, because the fleas go to a new host. This new host is Man.
So the fleas carry the plague to more humans.
Better idea to kill the rats before a plague epidemic, but how do you know?
Differences in punctuation will vanish, if you
speak the text. And even different spelling might
vanish, if there were only some misprints.
Different choice of words on the other hand might
still be trackable.
The funny thing is that we say that the Latin writing system (or the Arabic, Hebrew, or
any other letter or syllable system) with letters is "superior" to the Chinese system with "pictures". And now on Computers we "go back" to the (as we were told) "worse" system with icons.
So the new privileged class will consist of those
that can decipher these signs??? That wouldn't be
good.
One advantage of these icons is, that you
donot have to use the menus, so for me they
are similar to shortcuts (but sometimes they
are not shortcuts, because they are the only
possibility to do something)
For bacteria we have already antibiotics, and
they are much cheaper than programming these things, but for surgery it would be interessting,
get a sample of the cancer that is currently "eating" your brain, and then let these things go
on their way.
The wheel was incvented hundreds of years ago. It has never been improved on by someone taking it to
pieces. Only by creating new ones. Scientists should be encouraged to make new codes, and not reimplement
existing ones. What would be the point of that?
But there are many improvements in reimplementation:
The old massive wood wheel
The wheel with spokes
The wheel with spokes and an iron band around it
The wheel with massive hard rubber around it
The wheel with airfilled rubber around it
etc.
And all these were reimplementations (with new
methods!) of the same old concept.
I think, that they have to use an egg-cell.
As far as i know, they take an unfertilized egg-cell, remove the nucleus and insert the nucleus of a cell of the "original". (They have
to use several tricks, to accomplish this, but these are the main steps.)
So you still need egg-cells and a voluntary to
donate them in the same messy procedure.
A better solution would be to get an ovary of a
voluntary (you have two!, or sometimes it might
be necessary to remove one because of an illness)
and to cultivate it. But whether this is possible
i don't know.
Re:Umm.. am i missing something? Yes!
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Yes, you are. Take for example a number like this:
1.21122111222111122221111122222.... (similar to
a number noted somewhere else in the comments, it
gave me the idea). This number will have infinite
many digits, but there are only 1s and 2s in it.
So you could never find the sequence 12345 in it.
Or take an other example: There are infinite many
natural numbers (1,2,3, etc., sometimes starting
with zero, depends on which is more convenient).
But not every number you can imagine is natural.
In 1986 we (my father) got our first computer, it was an
Atari STF 1040.
There was a nice game called Avalun. You were the ruler of a state, you had to
buy wheat and distribute it to the population,
you could by mills and markets, and if you had
enough people and money you could become promoted
to "Kaiser".
Two friends of mine liked it very much, but one had an old Schneider PC with tapes,
the other had an PC with 5 1/4 inch diskettes, we
had the 3 1/2 inch type. Since this game was written in ATARI BASIC (by some called the worst
language ever existing) i printed the source code
and the two others typed it in their computers.
Naturally they had to do some porting. And the
block with the music was missing. The whole game
was textbased.
There are other sides to this though. Eventually, as time and technology progresses, it will become a lot cheaper than it is today to produce anti-matter in quantities sufficient to fuel huge numbers of missions to Mars, Jupiter and beyond. Such technology shouldn't be ditched because of expense when it's potential is so huge.
But how would you produce anti-matter? You always have to put in at least the energy you get back later. (Ok, thats the same with liquid hydrogen
as fuel.) The best thing would be, that we find
a "mine" of antimatter. But how should we "mine" that, we should never touch it, and couldn't use
tools of matter. But perhaps we find a method.
And how do we get to this mine? It should be very
far away from us.
Sounds silly, but how many of us carry our wallet in our back pockets? Move the wallet to a front pocket. It doesn't matter how nice of a chair you have if you are sitting on it crooked because of your wallet.
Thats not so silly. I experience sometimes a pain
on one side of my lower spine, usually it gets
better, when i take it out of the back pocket. I
think it is trying to turn my hips, so that i get
deformed.
Re:We're already there - idea in a story
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There was a SciFi book (The Sea and Summer) by the australian writer George Turner, it is about the
greenhouse effect, overpopulation, the splitting
of the citizens in two classes (working class---people with jobs, living in normal houses and non-working class---people without jobs, living in big towerlike houses, fed by social care), and as a means to end overpopulation there
is a virus in chewing-gum which makes men infertile. The heros manage to stop the spreading
of this chewing gum. But in the end there is a
sickness among women who could still bear children.
This is one of the unintended consequences of a combination of factors, including the WTO and
the elderly lobby in the USA. The USA does not regulate drug prices (yet), so consumers in the
US wind up subsidizing research and development of drugs which then wind up being available
much cheaper in places like France and Canada. Medicines are so much cheaper in Canada
(due to price controls) that people cross the border to order their prescriptions. The money lost
comes straight off the drug companies' bottom line. (They spend a heck of a lot on promotion
as well, but given that most of their trials come up duds they have to make it up on the few
successes they have.)
I'm not sure that the money is really lost. I think the prices in the US are so high in order to compensate for the lower prices in other countries. So the best solution (for all) would be that the prices in all countries are the same. Why would you pay a company a too high price so that it can sell the same stuff to your neighbour for a lower price?
That being agreed upon, why wouldn't accupuncture practioners setup even a rudimentary scientific study?
One problem with accupuncture studies is the problem with double-blind studies. Both the patient and the practitioner know whether he prickeg the needle in a certain point. How would you like to make something like "placebo-pricks"?
With other medicine it's simple: Take the pills
without the "real" substance, so give them sugar.
But in this case it's really difficult.
As i understand, they slow it by putting it in a
denser medium. So to speed it up, they would need
something wich is thinner than vacuum. How would
you do this?
Slashdot Mirror
In the beginning of this year I read that the chief astronomer of the Vatican's Observatory said, that it would be stupid to say, that there is no alien life.
Doing a Google-search on this, I found this.
My personal point of view as a Roman Catholic: We do not know whether there is extraterrestrial life, and we need neither the existence nor the absence of it for our believe system, so we should leave it open. Especially this keeps us away from those ugly things that happened to Bruno and Galilei. But we admitted (although 500 years to late) that they were right.
and that's why our bridges don't collaps so often ;-)
Keine Ahnung, ich habe es immer so geschrieben. Muss ich wohl aendern. Danke! Judith
You are more or less right. A Datenschutzbeauftragter is somebody who has to take care of the privacy of the informations his organization has collected.
BTW, I am german, but I don't think that a longer word means that someone is more important. For example at the Bundeswehr (the german military) there are ranks called Unteroffizier, that is less than an Offizier since Unter means sub, so the longer name has the lower rank.
This is often tried, but fails, because the fleas go to a new host. This new host is Man. So the fleas carry the plague to more humans. Better idea to kill the rats before a plague epidemic, but how do you know?
Differences in punctuation will vanish, if you speak the text. And even different spelling might vanish, if there were only some misprints. Different choice of words on the other hand might still be trackable.
So the new privileged class will consist of those that can decipher these signs??? That wouldn't be good.
One advantage of these icons is, that you donot have to use the menus, so for me they are similar to shortcuts (but sometimes they are not shortcuts, because they are the only possibility to do something)
Why should they do that? He marries in the end of the book. I never even had this idea!
For bacteria we have already antibiotics, and they are much cheaper than programming these things, but for surgery it would be interessting, get a sample of the cancer that is currently "eating" your brain, and then let these things go on their way.
- The old massive wood wheel
- The wheel with spokes
- The wheel with spokes and an iron band around it
- The wheel with massive hard rubber around it
- The wheel with airfilled rubber around it
- etc.
And all these were reimplementations (with new methods!) of the same old concept.A better solution would be to get an ovary of a voluntary (you have two!, or sometimes it might be necessary to remove one because of an illness) and to cultivate it. But whether this is possible i don't know.
Or take an other example: There are infinite many natural numbers (1,2,3, etc., sometimes starting with zero, depends on which is more convenient). But not every number you can imagine is natural.
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There was a nice game called Avalun. You were the ruler of a state, you had to buy wheat and distribute it to the population, you could by mills and markets, and if you had enough people and money you could become promoted to "Kaiser".
Two friends of mine liked it very much, but one had an old Schneider PC with tapes, the other had an PC with 5 1/4 inch diskettes, we had the 3 1/2 inch type. Since this game was written in ATARI BASIC (by some called the worst language ever existing) i printed the source code and the two others typed it in their computers. Naturally they had to do some porting. And the block with the music was missing. The whole game was textbased.
There was a SciFi book (The Sea and Summer) by the australian writer George Turner, it is about the greenhouse effect, overpopulation, the splitting of the citizens in two classes (working class---people with jobs, living in normal houses and non-working class---people without jobs, living in big towerlike houses, fed by social care), and as a means to end overpopulation there is a virus in chewing-gum which makes men infertile. The heros manage to stop the spreading of this chewing gum. But in the end there is a sickness among women who could still bear children.
As i understand, they slow it by putting it in a denser medium. So to speed it up, they would need something wich is thinner than vacuum. How would you do this?