Historically entrenched Mysticism has reacted poorly to the thoughts of Scientific minds.
Do you think there might be better ways to approach this communication that would improve the rate of Scientific progress and do you think that this interaction might be amenable to Scientific study?
Do you also feel that this debate that rages between those that would manipulate mysticism to gain power over others and Science can ever be won or is it a battle that must be fought for every succeeding generation?
This whole point is facetious and I'm sure you cannot be unaware of it.
Since Andrew Carnegie invested a spectacular amount of wealth in creating them a great many of us have access to a library.
This however does not equate to all the education you could ever want or need.
Unless all the education you desire is large print Mills and Boon romances.
As to the nonsense about warlords, how does that negate the point that the vast majority does not have access to free, lifelong education opportunities?
I might go so far as to say that many of these other travails might easily be directly attributed to such a lack of educational opportunity.
It is my recollection that OU courses were always way way more than I could afford to invest in re-training. Until the SNP government in Scotland began offering full subsidy to students with household incomes less than approx. £18000 in their first term in government.
Even then it is a very limited option compared to our societies need for the labour force to learn how to do something useful instead of something that has been outmoded by the inexorable march of progress.
It would be nice to know how strong it is in compression as well as under tension.
Those figures for Carbon fibre are bollocks BTW. Elastic Modulus varies from a third to five times that depending on how it's made. My gut tells me Elastic Modulus ought to be in MPa rather than GPa. Could be wrong but Wikipedia will know the truth of it....
I cannot provide links but will dig out the relevant textbooks when I get home.
In the UK this absolutely is the case. Only 15% of a companies shareholders are able to drag a company to court and compel them to behave in a manner which is more profitable for them.
In practice this means that you need to control 86% of the stock to be able to compel a Company Limited by Shares to behave altruistically. As a Public Limited Company must trade a minimum of 20% of its stock on a recognised exchange it is impossible to retain total control of how your company behaves once it has been floated.
I'm also fairly certain that a board of directors could be compelled to perform any profitable activity that has not been clearly established as illegal by a court of law by only 15% of shareholders.
It might go even further than that but I am unsure to what extent the Proceeds of Crime Act applies to corporate entities.
If, for example, The Times could make £10M by reneging on a contract worth £1M Rupert Murdoch would be well within his rights to insist that they do so and, if it came to it, a Court would compel them to obey.
This is why I dislike Insurance Companies and no longer work for them. They literally exist to screw their customers as much as they possibly can without driving them to their equally corrupt competition.
Nouveau has never caused me anything but problems.
It is particularly galling that Nouveau has become the default driver for rendering the console. This means that when Nouveau doesn't work, which it never has with my 5900XT, you are royally f**ked.
It has been my experience that Nouveau is worse than useless with legacy hardware and the common perception that it is mature enough for production work is a problem.
When I try to install Ubuntu on a system built from legacy parts, that I know damn well work just fine in linux and have done since they were running Mandrake 7.2, it had bloody better not be impossible because an immature driver like Nouveau is being foisted on everybody.
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That's not to say that I disagree with Linus, I completely agree with him, just that I've always had the best performance out of NVidia's binary blob and I can't stand by and watch someone claim Nouveau is a Panacea when I know it isn't.
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Is it just me or has Linus started pronouncing Linux differently over the years?
Mandrake's sound configuration 'drake' used to have a little clip of him explaining how he pronounced it (lee nux). Weird to hear him saying it the 'wrong' way....
One of the first things Parliament does when we get involved in any war is suspend Habeus Corpus.
It's not written into our Constitution as we don't really have one, it is merely another statute and can be suspended or even repealed by a simple majority in Parliament.
I was surprised to learn this week that it was possible to suspend the US version at all. That suspension does also appear to be a Constitutional matter however and subject to a raft of restrictions.
dl'ing TV is, like DeCSS, an artefact of monopoly abuse.
I watched the latest ep of SG1 on the telly last night and thousands of Americans dl'd it for free, illegally today.
And yet on Friday(?) they'll all be watching the latest ep of Atlantis that I will have to dl if I want to watch it this year.
That would be fine if this was 1984 but there no longer is any sort of real technological barrier to simulcasting shows globally.
The only reason for witholding a show from a market is to create demand. If no market gets all the shows first then every market is paying a scarcity premium.
Most of the world is being denied the opportunity to fairly purchase a product that is available but that the distributors are witholding to force us to pay more.
That sort of price fixing/manipulation is the reason for anti-competition legislation.
If I dl the latest ep's of Atlantis, which will air on Sky in January, I will be viewing material I have already paid the distributor to watch.
To my mind that is just time-shifting. True, in the opposite direction than is usual, but so what?
Technically illegal but then so is the monopolistic behaviour that makes it necessary.
Not only is it the best Sci-Fi anyone has seen in years but you can only see it if you live in the UK.
ha ha.
There has already been talk on the UK BG forums about the show getting cut but I think that is bollocks. Any studio exec looking at the Bittorrent figures for BG ought to know instantly that it is going to be a huge hit in the states.
It is not uncommon for there to be five or six thousand leechers on a single torrent when it first goes up which is five to ten times the figures you see for stuff like Atlantis or Enterprise.
BTW Season 4 of Enterprise has been pretty darn good so far...
I recently heard a fascinating theory that voting is equivalent to signing a contract agreeing that the electoral system is fair and that you will abide by the result.
Thus everyone who votes needs to shut up and those that don't are entitled to complain endlessly that the system sucks.
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So am I.
They can send me as many unsolicited messages as they like if I get paid 50c for every one.
That's only fair, I think.
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/
Enough numbers there to make your eyes bleed. Tomi is a pretty reputable source apparently. I've certainly yet to see any evidence to the contrary.
How are Apple going to sell 500 million iPhones in the next year?
Surely 50 million is a far more likely number.
Samsung is number 1 by a very large margin above number 2.
Surely.
Historically entrenched Mysticism has reacted poorly to the thoughts of Scientific minds.
Do you think there might be better ways to approach this communication that would improve the rate of Scientific progress and do you think that this interaction might be amenable to Scientific study?
Do you also feel that this debate that rages between those that would manipulate mysticism to gain power over others and Science can ever be won or is it a battle that must be fought for every succeeding generation?
And? So? What?
If the total number of minds receiving the knowledge increases what's the problem?
This whole point is facetious and I'm sure you cannot be unaware of it.
Since Andrew Carnegie invested a spectacular amount of wealth in creating them a great many of us have access to a library.
This however does not equate to all the education you could ever want or need.
Unless all the education you desire is large print Mills and Boon romances.
As to the nonsense about warlords, how does that negate the point that the vast majority does not have access to free, lifelong education opportunities?
I might go so far as to say that many of these other travails might easily be directly attributed to such a lack of educational opportunity.
So, is not now and never has been free?
It is my recollection that OU courses were always way way more than I could afford to invest in re-training. Until the SNP government in Scotland began offering full subsidy to students with household incomes less than approx. £18000 in their first term in government.
Even then it is a very limited option compared to our societies need for the labour force to learn how to do something useful instead of something that has been outmoded by the inexorable march of progress.
So you agree that massive numbers of people are interested in education?
As opposed to getting drunk and wildly copulating as often as they possibly can.
I was under the impression that all OU courses cost money and there is no government funding whatsoever except in Scotland.
I think if nothing else the popularity of MOOC's demonstrates just how desperate people are for education.
The vast majority of humanity has no access to the training they want. Either it just isn't available or it is beyond their means.
Perhaps it is time we gave everyone that wants it free access to whatever education they desire throughout their entire lives.
It is the lack of skill-agility within the workforce that is really putting the brakes on economic growth and technological progress.
This would appear to have bugger all to do with Samsung.
All devices with 'location based services' required regulatory permission. It appears that Blackberries and Google Maps were also banned at the time.
I've seen this claim before.
Citation?
" Nevermind that the iPhone was banned for two years in Korea."
Holy shit, really?
Citation?
I'll correct myself then.
Tensile strength should be in MPa. Those figures are all correctly adjusted but the Carbon Fibre ones are again wrong.
Typical figures are from as low as 0.25 GPa all the way up to 7.1 GPa.
It would be nice to know how strong it is in compression as well as under tension.
Those figures for Carbon fibre are bollocks BTW. Elastic Modulus varies from a third to five times that depending on how it's made. My gut tells me Elastic Modulus ought to be in MPa rather than GPa. Could be wrong but Wikipedia will know the truth of it....
I cannot provide links but will dig out the relevant textbooks when I get home.
In the UK this absolutely is the case. Only 15% of a companies shareholders are able to drag a company to court and compel them to behave in a manner which is more profitable for them.
In practice this means that you need to control 86% of the stock to be able to compel a Company Limited by Shares to behave altruistically. As a Public Limited Company must trade a minimum of 20% of its stock on a recognised exchange it is impossible to retain total control of how your company behaves once it has been floated.
I'm also fairly certain that a board of directors could be compelled to perform any profitable activity that has not been clearly established as illegal by a court of law by only 15% of shareholders.
It might go even further than that but I am unsure to what extent the Proceeds of Crime Act applies to corporate entities.
If, for example, The Times could make £10M by reneging on a contract worth £1M Rupert Murdoch would be well within his rights to insist that they do so and, if it came to it, a Court would compel them to obey.
This is why I dislike Insurance Companies and no longer work for them. They literally exist to screw their customers as much as they possibly can without driving them to their equally corrupt competition.
£ = Sterling btw, dunno what's going on there...
Nouveau has never caused me anything but problems.
It is particularly galling that Nouveau has become the default driver for rendering the console. This means that when Nouveau doesn't work, which it never has with my 5900XT, you are royally f**ked.
It has been my experience that Nouveau is worse than useless with legacy hardware and the common perception that it is mature enough for production work is a problem.
When I try to install Ubuntu on a system built from legacy parts, that I know damn well work just fine in linux and have done since they were running Mandrake 7.2, it had bloody better not be impossible because an immature driver like Nouveau is being foisted on everybody.
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That's not to say that I disagree with Linus, I completely agree with him, just that I've always had the best performance out of NVidia's binary blob and I can't stand by and watch someone claim Nouveau is a Panacea when I know it isn't.
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Is it just me or has Linus started pronouncing Linux differently over the years?
Mandrake's sound configuration 'drake' used to have a little clip of him explaining how he pronounced it (lee nux). Weird to hear him saying it the 'wrong' way....
I wouldn't count on that.
One of the first things Parliament does when we get involved in any war is suspend Habeus Corpus.
It's not written into our Constitution as we don't really have one, it is merely another statute and can be suspended or even repealed by a simple majority in Parliament.
I was surprised to learn this week that it was possible to suspend the US version at all. That suspension does also appear to be a Constitutional matter however and subject to a raft of restrictions.
If I were the Dealership or even Ferrari itself I would immediately acquire the wand.
I would have recognised it as a method of slashing my manufacture and distribution overheads and therefore a way of increasing profits.
Just as the RI/MPAA have manifestly failed to.
dl'ing TV is, like DeCSS, an artefact of monopoly abuse.
I watched the latest ep of SG1 on the telly last night and thousands of Americans dl'd it for free, illegally today.
And yet on Friday(?) they'll all be watching the latest ep of Atlantis that I will have to dl if I want to watch it this year.
That would be fine if this was 1984 but there no longer is any sort of real technological barrier to simulcasting shows globally.
The only reason for witholding a show from a market is to create demand. If no market gets all the shows first then every market is paying a scarcity premium.
Most of the world is being denied the opportunity to fairly purchase a product that is available but that the distributors are witholding to force us to pay more.
That sort of price fixing/manipulation is the reason for anti-competition legislation.
If I dl the latest ep's of Atlantis, which will air on Sky in January, I will be viewing material I have already paid the distributor to watch.
To my mind that is just time-shifting. True, in the opposite direction than is usual, but so what?
Technically illegal but then so is the monopolistic behaviour that makes it necessary.
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Not only is it the best Sci-Fi anyone has seen in years but you can only see it if you live in the UK.
ha ha.
There has already been talk on the UK BG forums about the show getting cut but I think that is bollocks. Any studio exec looking at the Bittorrent figures for BG ought to know instantly that it is going to be a huge hit in the states.
It is not uncommon for there to be five or six thousand leechers on a single torrent when it first goes up which is five to ten times the figures you see for stuff like Atlantis or Enterprise.
BTW Season 4 of Enterprise has been pretty darn good so far...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't pressing 'p' before planning such things not make your life significantly easier?
Particularly with planning a hotel...
I recently heard a fascinating theory that voting is equivalent to signing a contract agreeing that the electoral system is fair and that you will abide by the result.
Thus everyone who votes needs to shut up and those that don't are entitled to complain endlessly that the system sucks.
Just a theory of course...