The premise behind your question is the fallacy of the convertibility of human time and resources, as if we're all interchangeable and equally qualified to participate in any task. Let me put it this way: how much further would we get into understanding the Standard Model if the millions of people playing World of Warcraft would work on that instead?
Once you already have the world's theoretical physicists working on theoretical physics problems like like, what makes you think people in other fields would make a useful contribution?
Astronomers look for objects in the sky because they're astronomers. They aren't going to crack problems of theoretical high-energy physics, and they're not in the mood to play WoW 24/7...
p.s. i think the universe cannot be non deterministic unless you believe in flying spaghetti monsters of pink unicorns
The difference here being that unicorns are compatible with our understanding of the universe, and are thus a more reasonable thing to believe in based on the evidence than say, a flat earth, Biblical creation, or a deterministic universe. The latter three fly in the face of science, instead of simply being unsupported by evidence ala unicorns and spaghetti monsters.
If someone steals your car in the night, you find no car in your driveway in the morning. If someone steals your television, you have nothing to watch this evening. If someone steals anything, the stolen item is no longer in your possession: that's what stealing is.
In your example, the money was stolen. The data, however, was not.
Be a little cold, or risk every other malady known to man. Apparently... it's a defect in our DNA. We'll tolerate anything as long as it doesn't make us shiver, or obstruct the free flow of traffic...
I once said to a friend who had moved to Minnesota from Nigeria that the cold must be the worst thing about Minnesota. He claimed it was actually another of Minnesota's assets. He asserted, "it keeps the riff-raff out." So apparently even our perceived negatives are positives.
Once Bitcoin reaches some level of critical mass, it will attract the attention of the entrenched banking system and their lap dog regulators. If it takes outlawing the possession of graphics cards to stop mining, they'll get that law passed.
If your hard drive will serve as a bank or credit card, you are a serious threat to the banking industry.
Your suggestion is preposterous, but I'm not sure where your confusion lies. You either don't understand what a bank is/does, don't understand what a credit card is/does, or you think Bitcoin is something it definitely isn't.
"Next they'll be coming for your lawnmower" would seem a good followup along the same vein... equally nonsensical while still showing a good paranoid streak.
Right. Ceres is even smaller, but would be considered a planet if it weren't for all the other stuff in its orbit. In fact, it was considered a planet for a while, but got demoted after more and more stuff started showing up in what is now called the Asteroid Belt.
I mean, if Pluto is not allowed to be a planet, then why should such a small object be labelled as one?
Shhh... people might hear you and think you're making sense.
We can't have that.
One would hope not. It's annoying when ignorant drivel is modded "insightful" here. Just because "people hear you and think you're making sense" doesn't mean you actually are...
I have respect for people who think Pluto should still be considered a planet... assuming they also think Eris should be a planet, and long before Pluto was demoted, were upset about the fact that Ceres is not considered a planet. It's the knuckle-dragging morons who are upset about Pluto but never were bothered by Ceres not being a planet that need to get a freakin' clue. If you had no problem with Ceres not being considered a planet, you shouldn't have any problem with the fact that Pluto isn't, either.
First asteroid mining, and now this. Once NASA is completely out of the way the Space Age can actually begin.
NASA is not standing in anyone's way. Someday NASA will be surpassed and ultimately be made obsolete, but it is not in any way an impediment. Quite the contrary, it's NASA's shoulders that this and the other accomplishments are currently standing up upon.
Not anymore. Might not stand up in court if it isn't, but you'll be able to make a bunch of money patent trolling a lot of individuals and small companies before anyone actually challenges it in court. If you're carefully choosing your targets, you have a good chance of avoiding that even happening.
Different AC here, but I think they mean the President violating the constitution with extrajudicial murder, not that the mocking is a violation.
I assume so as well. It goes along well with the sentiments expressed in the top Amazon review (at the moment):
This goes well with the Maisto Extraordinary Rendition playset, by the way - which gives you all the tools you need to kidnap the family pet and take him for interrogation at a neighbor's house, where the rules of the Geneva Convention may not apply. Loads of fun!
I prefer to refer to this as "violating their rights" -- too many so-called "constitutionalists" forget that the writers of the Constitution they cherish were convinced that those rights were not rights granted by the Constitution, they were the rights of all men, everywhere, and the job of government was to protect those already existing natural rights, not to grant them through some legal fiction. If you're in favor of treating non-citizens any differently than citizens with regards to rights, you're opposed to the principles the Constitution was written to uphold.
Well, what "meteor" actually means (from Greek) is "suspended in the air". So no, technically, the moment it touches ground, it's no longer a meteor. Arguably, meteors and meteorites are meteoroids. That term is usually only used while it's still in space, but technically any such rock in the solar system is a meteoroid, and it's still in the solar system while it's burning through the atmosphere, or sitting on the ground on Earth. A meteorite ceases to be a meteor when it hits ground, but they're both really still meteoroids.
"Overdue"? That's not how it works. Meteor strikes aren't like earthquakes, where the longer the time between them, the more pressure builds up. They're just essentially random. Which means you're never "overdue" for one. They don't happen at regular intervals, and a thousand years without one doesn't make one one iota more likely next year...
A few years ago I would have said "only in America", but then Italy dragged geologists to court for not predicting an earthquake.
No one was ever taken to court for failing to predict an earthquake. People were taken to court for predicting there would be no earthquake. (Actually, neither of these oversimplifications is precisely true, but mine's quite a bit closer...)
For the same reasons, the Slashdot category of "your rights online" is equally stupid. Last I checked, "online" is not a nation or city state with its own legal code defining any actual rights.
The phrase does not in any way imply "online" is a state with its own legal code defining anything. Your inability to parse simple English properly in context does not make the phrase you're misinterpreting stupid. It is a fact that you have rights, and it is a fact that you are sometimes online, and thus those rights can be impacted by things that occur online.
I would also argue that rights are not defined by legal code. If you have a right, the only impact the legal code can have upon that is that it can be written to actively protect your right, it can simply ignore it, doing nothing to either protect or infringe upon it, or it can be written to actively infringe upon your right. But I was born in a country founded on the principle that rights are innate and the government doesn't grant them, it merely protects them. Depending on your philosophical beliefs, YMMV, but really, this is another discussion entirely...
We're a bunch of greedy, self-absorbed, small-minded apes...
...with a bad habit of glorifying the past and forgetting that there's never been a time where this was even one iota less true than it is today. "The pathetic culture we've devolved into today could never even accomplish today the great things our ancestors did, much less progress even further." This has been the common wisdom since... at least since we've been capable of writing it down. It was certainly the common sentiment among the Greeks (well before they actually accomplished the things we know them for today).
"... but this was largely a response to demographic reality rather than political pressure."
Since when did politicians respond to reality? Reality doesn't vote. You get elected by responding to what people believe. I guess this must be once of those rare cases of congruence between the two...
No. In the spirit of openness, hopefully this bullshit will get eaten by the anti-monopoly regulation.
Yes, sooner or later, Microsoft's behavior will become to egregious again that they will once again be forced to pay a small fine and give people coupons before being allowed to continue what they were doing...
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The premise behind your question is the fallacy of the convertibility of human time and resources, as if we're all interchangeable and equally qualified to participate in any task. Let me put it this way: how much further would we get into understanding the Standard Model if the millions of people playing World of Warcraft would work on that instead?
Once you already have the world's theoretical physicists working on theoretical physics problems like like, what makes you think people in other fields would make a useful contribution?
Astronomers look for objects in the sky because they're astronomers. They aren't going to crack problems of theoretical high-energy physics, and they're not in the mood to play WoW 24/7...
p.s. i think the universe cannot be non deterministic unless you believe in flying spaghetti monsters of pink unicorns
The difference here being that unicorns are compatible with our understanding of the universe, and are thus a more reasonable thing to believe in based on the evidence than say, a flat earth, Biblical creation, or a deterministic universe. The latter three fly in the face of science, instead of simply being unsupported by evidence ala unicorns and spaghetti monsters.
If someone steals your car in the night, you find no car in your driveway in the morning. If someone steals your television, you have nothing to watch this evening. If someone steals anything, the stolen item is no longer in your possession: that's what stealing is.
In your example, the money was stolen. The data, however, was not.
Be a little cold, or risk every other malady known to man. Apparently... it's a defect in our DNA. We'll tolerate anything as long as it doesn't make us shiver, or obstruct the free flow of traffic...
I once said to a friend who had moved to Minnesota from Nigeria that the cold must be the worst thing about Minnesota. He claimed it was actually another of Minnesota's assets. He asserted, "it keeps the riff-raff out." So apparently even our perceived negatives are positives.
10 million are registered.
There are plenty of registrations for the .us TLD as well, but how many of those do you actually see used?
Once Bitcoin reaches some level of critical mass, it will attract the attention of the entrenched banking system and their lap dog regulators. If it takes outlawing the possession of graphics cards to stop mining, they'll get that law passed.
If your hard drive will serve as a bank or credit card, you are a serious threat to the banking industry.
Your suggestion is preposterous, but I'm not sure where your confusion lies. You either don't understand what a bank is/does, don't understand what a credit card is/does, or you think Bitcoin is something it definitely isn't.
"Next they'll be coming for your lawnmower" would seem a good followup along the same vein... equally nonsensical while still showing a good paranoid streak.
You can't name moons after gods anyway, it's against the convention.
Then why are there already over a dozen moons named after gods? Or are you saying "god" when you mean "Olympian"?
Captcha's don't take all that long to solve if they are halfway readable.
This is correct, both for humans and computers. The last part is why many of the captchas I see these days aren't even halfway readable.
... All the time an inane, loud commercial played for something I would never buy.
And yet, people get upset about targeting ads, as if that was a bad thing rather than a blessing.
Right. Ceres is even smaller, but would be considered a planet if it weren't for all the other stuff in its orbit. In fact, it was considered a planet for a while, but got demoted after more and more stuff started showing up in what is now called the Asteroid Belt.
Shhh ... people might hear you and think you're making sense.
We can't have that.
One would hope not. It's annoying when ignorant drivel is modded "insightful" here. Just because "people hear you and think you're making sense" doesn't mean you actually are...
I have respect for people who think Pluto should still be considered a planet... assuming they also think Eris should be a planet, and long before Pluto was demoted, were upset about the fact that Ceres is not considered a planet. It's the knuckle-dragging morons who are upset about Pluto but never were bothered by Ceres not being a planet that need to get a freakin' clue. If you had no problem with Ceres not being considered a planet, you shouldn't have any problem with the fact that Pluto isn't, either.
First asteroid mining, and now this. Once NASA is completely out of the way the Space Age can actually begin.
NASA is not standing in anyone's way. Someday NASA will be surpassed and ultimately be made obsolete, but it is not in any way an impediment. Quite the contrary, it's NASA's shoulders that this and the other accomplishments are currently standing up upon.
Your use have to be novel and non-obvious...
Not anymore. Might not stand up in court if it isn't, but you'll be able to make a bunch of money patent trolling a lot of individuals and small companies before anyone actually challenges it in court. If you're carefully choosing your targets, you have a good chance of avoiding that even happening.
Different AC here, but I think they mean the President violating the constitution with extrajudicial murder, not that the mocking is a violation.
I assume so as well. It goes along well with the sentiments expressed in the top Amazon review (at the moment):
This goes well with the Maisto Extraordinary Rendition playset, by the way - which gives you all the tools you need to kidnap the family pet and take him for interrogation at a neighbor's house, where the rules of the Geneva Convention may not apply. Loads of fun!
I prefer to refer to this as "violating their rights" -- too many so-called "constitutionalists" forget that the writers of the Constitution they cherish were convinced that those rights were not rights granted by the Constitution, they were the rights of all men, everywhere, and the job of government was to protect those already existing natural rights, not to grant them through some legal fiction. If you're in favor of treating non-citizens any differently than citizens with regards to rights, you're opposed to the principles the Constitution was written to uphold.
It is an LLC, which doesn't really answer the question, but it does suggest it's on the smaller side.
You are correct that the 1908 event was most likely a comet. You are confused it you think that means it was therefore not a meteor...
Well, what "meteor" actually means (from Greek) is "suspended in the air". So no, technically, the moment it touches ground, it's no longer a meteor. Arguably, meteors and meteorites are meteoroids. That term is usually only used while it's still in space, but technically any such rock in the solar system is a meteoroid, and it's still in the solar system while it's burning through the atmosphere, or sitting on the ground on Earth. A meteorite ceases to be a meteor when it hits ground, but they're both really still meteoroids.
"Overdue"? That's not how it works. Meteor strikes aren't like earthquakes, where the longer the time between them, the more pressure builds up. They're just essentially random. Which means you're never "overdue" for one. They don't happen at regular intervals, and a thousand years without one doesn't make one one iota more likely next year...
A few years ago I would have said "only in America", but then Italy dragged geologists to court for not predicting an earthquake.
No one was ever taken to court for failing to predict an earthquake. People were taken to court for predicting there would be no earthquake. (Actually, neither of these oversimplifications is precisely true, but mine's quite a bit closer...)
For the same reasons, the Slashdot category of "your rights online" is equally stupid. Last I checked, "online" is not a nation or city state with its own legal code defining any actual rights.
The phrase does not in any way imply "online" is a state with its own legal code defining anything. Your inability to parse simple English properly in context does not make the phrase you're misinterpreting stupid. It is a fact that you have rights, and it is a fact that you are sometimes online, and thus those rights can be impacted by things that occur online.
I would also argue that rights are not defined by legal code. If you have a right, the only impact the legal code can have upon that is that it can be written to actively protect your right, it can simply ignore it, doing nothing to either protect or infringe upon it, or it can be written to actively infringe upon your right. But I was born in a country founded on the principle that rights are innate and the government doesn't grant them, it merely protects them. Depending on your philosophical beliefs, YMMV, but really, this is another discussion entirely...
We're a bunch of greedy, self-absorbed, small-minded apes...
...with a bad habit of glorifying the past and forgetting that there's never been a time where this was even one iota less true than it is today. "The pathetic culture we've devolved into today could never even accomplish today the great things our ancestors did, much less progress even further." This has been the common wisdom since... at least since we've been capable of writing it down. It was certainly the common sentiment among the Greeks (well before they actually accomplished the things we know them for today).
Add in the delays and 2033 looks possible! - Would you believe England used to rule 3/4 of the planet?
I hear there are still 22 countries on Earth that have never been invaded by the British...
Should Bastille day be a national holiday?
In countries that contain the Bastille, yes. Does the first new moon of the year fail to occur in some nation?
"... but this was largely a response to demographic reality rather than political pressure."
Since when did politicians respond to reality? Reality doesn't vote. You get elected by responding to what people believe. I guess this must be once of those rare cases of congruence between the two...
No. In the spirit of openness, hopefully this bullshit will get eaten by the anti-monopoly regulation.
Yes, sooner or later, Microsoft's behavior will become to egregious again that they will once again be forced to pay a small fine and give people coupons before being allowed to continue what they were doing...