To be fair, he made that prediction in a 1979 book, so his prediction lasts 25 years. Not a bad predicition, but he should have qualified it. One never knows what is around the corner....
Yep, you are correct about Korea. However, the situtionations are not equivalent. Iraq was capitulation with a set of terms to be met by Iraq under pain of resumption of hostilites.
Korea there is no such peace terms. It is still a war and it is much more like a stalemate with no shooting.
Whoever breaks the ceasefire will be seen as the agressor in Korea.
PlePlease don't add analysis and opinion in the summary without declaring that it is yours and yours alone.
The word illegal does not appear in the article, nor has anyone shown that the wiretaps did not comply with the law. Democrat Senators that would *love* to pin this on the President came away from the full briefing subdued and dropped the matter. Continued pressure has come primarily from those senators who were NOT at the briefing and thus are talking into their hat.
A careful reading of the law shows that any communications terminating outside the US is subject to surveillance in the interests of national security. It is not a civil or criminal court (nor is it admissible in such courts) and does not fall under the same rules. Even the judges on the supposed panel that would issue such warrants have said it is not in their realm of control. They are there to protect the rights of US citizens and legal residents who are being investigated solely within the confines of the US. There are some notable exceptions to that, any communications to a foreign powers embassy here on US soil is not protected either, because the embassy is technically (and legally) on "foreign" soil.
Any US citizen that thinks communications exiting the US borders are subject to the same protections as domestic communications is a fool, and ignorant fools at that.
Well, you have understand history. See, back in ancient times, cirra 1991, we got a UN backed mandation to invade Iraq. That action was never finished, and has only been a cease fire until the terms of the surrender were met.
Those conditions were never met, thus the cease fire was canceled and active engagement occurred again.
Yeah. If it did not have that it would be a dead duck in any Supreme court, not just this one. Might as well write a law that lets congress pick judges or declare war.
Besides, quite a few of the sentors who went and got the breifing did not come back with "they are doing domestic wiretapping" they just wanted it under this law. Which, because it was international calls it is OK not to have a warrent.
Not to defend the telco's, they can do that themselves.
BUT, such service costs $55 where I live with 5 IP and no restrictions because it is a business account
I can get the same service with 1 IP for about the same price. I don't know if they would limit a webserver or mail. I have run both using DYNdns for several years and no one has complained to me.
You just don't know how to work the promo system so you, personally, pay more.
When they announce things like this I call up and politely ask to be given the same deal as a new customer. I get a 1 year price for a one year commitment. Just remember what Jesus says when dealing with them: "Don't be a dick."
My current rate is $21.99 for 1.5. I got about 4 or 5 months left and I can sign up with whatever the promo rate system.
Sprint has my business for the same reason. Every 2 years I get a new phone practically free and I get some kind of discount on monthly rates because I commit to 2 years service.
Then read it again. It is not the SK card, it is the T-Mobile remote respository that is tied to the account.
"Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything. "
So there, I read the article for and explained it you. Now delete your slashdot account, you got not cred as a technologist, and should'nt use anything more advanced than a crayon.
Tell you what, when they drop the number off offical excutions down from 5000, and the number of summary excutions (read: shot in head on the street) down to 0, we can all stop bashing them, M'kay?
That does not include just plain old fashioned jack boot thugs making people disappear in the middle of the night.
It certianly does not apply to anyone outside the US, such as OBL or the Chinese.
As I hear so much these days "Well, you have to respect the culture if you want to do business in X"
That cuts both ways, you should respect the IP laws of the country you do business in. Hey, if they want to sell bootlegs to India or themselves, so what?
But to reimport them to the country that you stole them from is disrespectful.
I tell you what, I got my first job because of one simple thing. I stuck it out in lobby while he kept me sitting around for 45 minutes.
That was all he really wanted to know, did I want the job enough to jump some simple hoops? or was I a QUITTER?
Pretty much the interview was for show, I had the job barring being a total moron in the short interview.
You don't have a work history, neither did I at the time, so what do they judge you on?
They judge you how much do you want the job. When you have provable value and skills you can complain about how they jerked you around. In the meantime, they saved themselves hiring a guy that gives up easy.
In other words, you have choosen poorly. Now learn from it.
Learning is not compulsory... niether is survival. -Deming
Ok, so you proved that when temperatures are high there is more CO2.
Now, prove that:
1. CO2 causes the rise in temperature. 2. Rise in temperature does not cause the rise in CO2. 3. Some third factor is driving the process.
Get the cause-effects straightend out you might have a theory, right now you have a corralation.
It is a well known scientific principal that increased temperature increases chemical reactions. Thus is it is also plausable that the increase temperature causes a spike in CO2 because the biological decay process and resperation process of cold blooded creatures accelerates. When the temperature drops the rotting slows down as well as the reptiles and the CO2 drops. This seems more resonable considering things such as water vapor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas%5D has 100% to 400% (depending on the numbers you use from the article) more impact on the surface tempature than CO2.
what are you on about? If you have a theory that says that room tempeture superconductors are possible, and then someone produces one, your theory is proven correct, QED.
What you CANT prove is that RTSC dont exist, say "no one has one, thus they dont exist" is not a proof. It just means one has not been made/discovered yet.
You CANNOT prove that life orginated on earth via autogensis unless you find direct evidence. You CAN prove exogenesis if you find a comet with earth identical DNA or actual critters that are older than earth itself.
You also CANT prove God does not exist, or prove God created life on earth, unless God decides to come down and say so in a convincing way.
On the other hand, if you prove Autogenesis IS possible, then it makes more sense than the ID or God theory just on the merits of which is a simplier theory, a known observable mechanism or a Mystical Being? Again, does'nt PROVE anything, just shows which is most likely. Understand yet?
Oh, and the sky HAS no color, it is just that the yellow light from the sun scatters in dust and appears to be blue.
What he might mean, but is lost in the poor attempt at humour is that you cannot prove something does not exist.
You can't prove that, say... room tempature superconductors do not exist, you can only prove that they do exist, presumably by examining/fabricating one.
Conversely, you may not be able to prove life arose on Earth by evolution and autogenesis, even if you produce a reliable method for doing so in the lab.
Why? Because other options exist:
1. Some other mechanism exists and was the actual method of autogenesis.
2. Life was seeded via cometary fragments reaching the earth. Thus, autogenesis happend elsewhere. (plausable and provable if we find a cometary fragment that has DNA that matches Earthly DNA)
3. Robot life might be inevitable, and they infected the planet in order to provide slaves when they are ready. (Less plausible, but I for one welcome our new unplausable robot overlords)
First off, TB is treatable and rarely kills anyone with an uncompromised immune system (infant, elderly, chemo patient, etc) and access to some form of antibiotics. AIDS approaches 100% lethality. Also, for an otherwise healthy person, it takes about 8hrs of continous contact with someone who has active TB to contract TB. Lastly, the antibiotics generally knock it out of the phase where they are contagious.
Second, by Typhoid Mary's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary ) I mean people who go about spreading the desease knowning they have this lethal disease. In the US they should be treated as a danger to society and have their movement restrained until such time as they are cured. Make it a nice club Med kinda place, not like they are criminals, they are just a lethal danger to other people through infection.
AIDS infected people who take the responsiblity not to infect others intentionally should have nothing done to them, they are no more dangerous than a cancer patient.
So? Scientists gave us Eugenics, Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, the saccharine scare as well. Sometimes the scientific community does what is called Consensus Science, as exampled here in your statement:
"Most scientists, on the evidence, think there's a very good chance humans are the major cause. "
It is a type of logical fallicy. They shut out debate about alternate theories, because "4 our 5 scientists agree!".
The alternate nut job theory is that greenies are preventing the vaccine from coming to market.
After all, it has accellerated the population balance in Africa and South East Asia by increasing the death rate.
AIDS is just Nature's way of say there are too many fucking humans...
OTH, this is one of the few communicable lifetime diseases that has NOT resulted in wholesale quarenteens and sanitariums like leprosy and tuberculosis. Instead, Typhoid Mary's are allowed to go about their lives, ending others lives with their actions.
Maybe because so many of them have all the authority of a programming patent? There is significant prior art to invalidate the claims of the article. Here are some examples:
20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.
18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.
1. Greek: It is commonly assumed that people from early antiquity generally believed the world was flat, but by the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) its spherical shape was generally acknowledged. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth)
The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation.
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To be fair, he made that prediction in a 1979 book, so his prediction lasts 25 years. Not a bad predicition, but he should have qualified it. One never knows what is around the corner....
Yep, you are correct about Korea. However, the situtionations are not equivalent. Iraq was capitulation with a set of terms to be met by Iraq under pain of resumption of hostilites.
Korea there is no such peace terms. It is still a war and it is much more like a stalemate with no shooting.
Whoever breaks the ceasefire will be seen as the agressor in Korea.
They are complaining that the Bush Adminsitration won't give them fishing poles.
PlePlease don't add analysis and opinion in the summary without declaring that it is yours and yours alone.
The word illegal does not appear in the article, nor has anyone shown that the wiretaps did not comply with the law. Democrat Senators that would *love* to pin this on the President came away from the full briefing subdued and dropped the matter. Continued pressure has come primarily from those senators who were NOT at the briefing and thus are talking into their hat.
A careful reading of the law shows that any communications terminating outside the US is subject to surveillance in the interests of national security. It is not a civil or criminal court (nor is it admissible in such courts) and does not fall under the same rules. Even the judges on the supposed panel that would issue such warrants have said it is not in their realm of control. They are there to protect the rights of US citizens and legal residents who are being investigated solely within the confines of the US. There are some notable exceptions to that, any communications to a foreign powers embassy here on US soil is not protected either, because the embassy is technically (and legally) on "foreign" soil.
Any US citizen that thinks communications exiting the US borders are subject to the same protections as domestic communications is a fool, and ignorant fools at that.
Well, you have understand history. See, back in ancient times, cirra 1991, we got a UN backed mandation to invade Iraq. That action was never finished, and has only been a cease fire until the terms of the surrender were met.
Those conditions were never met, thus the cease fire was canceled and active engagement occurred again.
Yeah. If it did not have that it would be a dead duck in any Supreme court, not just this one. Might as well write a law that lets congress pick judges or declare war.
Besides, quite a few of the sentors who went and got the breifing did not come back with "they are doing domestic wiretapping" they just wanted it under this law. Which, because it was international calls it is OK not to have a warrent.
Ask the New York Times, I am sure they can get someone to leak that info.
Not to defend the telco's, they can do that themselves.
BUT, such service costs $55 where I live with 5 IP and no restrictions because it is a business account
I can get the same service with 1 IP for about the same price. I don't know if they would limit a webserver or mail. I have run both using DYNdns for several years and no one has complained to me.
You just don't know how to work the promo system so you, personally, pay more.
When they announce things like this I call up and politely ask to be given the same deal as a new customer. I get a 1 year price for a one year commitment. Just remember what Jesus says when dealing with them: "Don't be a dick."
My current rate is $21.99 for 1.5. I got about 4 or 5 months left and I can sign up with whatever the promo rate system.
Sprint has my business for the same reason. Every 2 years I get a new phone practically free and I get some kind of discount on monthly rates because I commit to 2 years service.
Then read it again. It is not the SK card, it is the T-Mobile remote respository that is tied to the account.
"Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything. "
So there, I read the article for and explained it you. Now delete your slashdot account, you got not cred as a technologist, and should'nt use anything more advanced than a crayon.
You are missing something.
RTFA.
Tell you what, when they drop the number off offical excutions down from 5000, and the number of summary excutions (read: shot in head on the street) down to 0, we can all stop bashing them, M'kay?
That does not include just plain old fashioned jack boot thugs making people disappear in the middle of the night.
Check AI' site if you want to know more.
America citizens, and to some extent legal aliens
It certianly does not apply to anyone outside the US, such as OBL or the Chinese.
As I hear so much these days "Well, you have to respect the culture if you want to do business in X"
That cuts both ways, you should respect the IP laws of the country you do business in. Hey, if they want to sell bootlegs to India or themselves, so what?
But to reimport them to the country that you stole them from is disrespectful.
And the Discovery Team with Lance Armstrong...
I tell you what, I got my first job because of one simple thing. I stuck it out in lobby while he kept me sitting around for 45 minutes.
That was all he really wanted to know, did I want the job enough to jump some simple hoops? or was I a QUITTER?
Pretty much the interview was for show, I had the job barring being a total moron in the short interview.
You don't have a work history, neither did I at the time, so what do they judge you on?
They judge you how much do you want the job. When you have provable value and skills you can complain about how they jerked you around.
In the meantime, they saved themselves hiring a guy that gives up easy.
In other words, you have choosen poorly. Now learn from it.
Learning is not compulsory... niether is survival. -Deming
and it will get translated as "you are more popular than the bugs!"
Ok, so you proved that when temperatures are high there is more CO2.
Now, prove that:
1. CO2 causes the rise in temperature.
2. Rise in temperature does not cause the rise in CO2.
3. Some third factor is driving the process.
Get the cause-effects straightend out you might have a theory, right now you have a corralation.
It is a well known scientific principal that increased temperature increases chemical reactions. Thus is it is also plausable that the increase temperature causes a spike in CO2 because the biological decay process and resperation process of cold blooded creatures accelerates. When the temperature drops the rotting slows down as well as the reptiles and the CO2 drops.
This seems more resonable considering things such as water vapor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas%5D has 100% to 400% (depending on the numbers you use from the article) more impact on the surface tempature than CO2.
QED
what are you on about? If you have a theory that says that room tempeture superconductors are possible, and then someone produces one, your theory is proven correct, QED.
What you CANT prove is that RTSC dont exist, say "no one has one, thus they dont exist" is not a proof. It just means one has not been made/discovered yet.
You CANNOT prove that life orginated on earth via autogensis unless you find direct evidence. You CAN prove exogenesis if you find a comet with earth identical DNA or actual critters that are older than earth itself.
You also CANT prove God does not exist, or prove God created life on earth, unless God decides to come down and say so in a convincing way.
On the other hand, if you prove Autogenesis IS possible, then it makes more sense than the ID or God theory just on the merits of which is a simplier theory, a known observable mechanism or a Mystical Being?
Again, does'nt PROVE anything, just shows which is most likely.
Understand yet?
Oh, and the sky HAS no color, it is just that the yellow light from the sun scatters in dust and appears to be blue.
What he might mean, but is lost in the poor attempt at humour is that you cannot prove something does not exist.
You can't prove that, say... room tempature superconductors do not exist, you can only prove that they do exist, presumably by examining/fabricating one.
Conversely, you may not be able to prove life arose on Earth by evolution and autogenesis, even if you produce a reliable method for doing so in the lab.
Why?
Because other options exist:
1. Some other mechanism exists and was the actual method of autogenesis.
2. Life was seeded via cometary fragments reaching the earth. Thus, autogenesis happend elsewhere. (plausable and provable if we find a cometary fragment that has DNA that matches Earthly DNA)
3. Robot life might be inevitable, and they infected the planet in order to provide slaves when they are ready. (Less plausible, but I for one welcome our new unplausable robot overlords)
First off, TB is treatable and rarely kills anyone with an uncompromised immune system (infant, elderly, chemo patient, etc) and access to some form of antibiotics. AIDS approaches 100% lethality. Also, for an otherwise healthy person, it takes about 8hrs of continous contact with someone who has active TB to contract TB. Lastly, the antibiotics generally knock it out of the phase where they are contagious.
Second, by Typhoid Mary's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary ) I mean people who go about spreading the desease knowning they have this lethal disease. In the US they should be treated as a danger to society and have their movement restrained until such time as they are cured. Make it a nice club Med kinda place, not like they are criminals, they are just a lethal danger to other people through infection.
AIDS infected people who take the responsiblity not to infect others intentionally should have nothing done to them, they are no more dangerous than a cancer patient.
So? Scientists gave us Eugenics, Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, the saccharine scare as well. Sometimes the scientific community does what is called Consensus Science, as exampled here in your statement:
"Most scientists, on the evidence, think there's a very good chance humans are the major cause. "
It is a type of logical fallicy. They shut out debate about alternate theories, because "4 our 5 scientists agree!".
I have been one, it is in the manual.
Oh sure, pay for your , just shirk your responsibily to pay your debts!
see? works for anything.
The alternate nut job theory is that greenies are preventing the vaccine from coming to market.
After all, it has accellerated the population balance in Africa and South East Asia by increasing the death rate.
AIDS is just Nature's way of say there are too many fucking humans...
OTH, this is one of the few communicable lifetime diseases that has NOT resulted in wholesale quarenteens and sanitariums like leprosy and tuberculosis.
Instead, Typhoid Mary's are allowed to go about their lives, ending others lives with their actions.
And hijacking planes, invented by Yassir Arafat.
Maybe because so many of them have all the authority of a programming patent? There is significant prior art to invalidate the claims of the article. Here are some examples:
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o tes%202.htm. Al-Jazari's pump is a refinement by adding a waterwheel.
20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.
Prior art:
1. hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient world. Persians were Zorastarians, not Muslim, as it had not been invented yet.
2. japan: http://web-japan.org/factsheet/gardens/ancient.ht
3. egypt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gardens, 2500 BC.
18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.
1. Greek: It is commonly assumed that people from early antiquity generally believed the world was flat, but by the time of Pliny the Elder (1st century) its spherical shape was generally acknowledged. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth)
2. China: 200ad http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?showto
The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation.
1. China: 200 AD, mechanical clock, http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/early.html, peak 1088 CE
2. Egypt, 2nd century. http://www.history-science-technology.com/Notes/N
One inventions is not an invention at all, it is a refinement of earlier soaps. The addition of scents seems to be the "invention" here.
So, there you go, a solid historical look at some of the inventions listed here, which show there is some serious bunk there.
BTW, can you list a recent, like last 100 years, invention? The site is down, wonderin g if one is there.