Preach it brother, preach it. But it's not just animals.
You know - I used to eat fruits, vegetables and the likes. Then one day I saw how people treat these living things. Cutting into them with knives, killing their offspring right next to them, eating their offspring before the plants themselves have even let go of them. Some would even abuse them sexually, I kid you not.
So now I'm on day 17 of my refusal to not only eat anything from an animal, but also anything from a plant. So far it's going okay. I've lost a lot of weight, but that's obviously because of all the excess calories I got from eating animals and plants. Kinda feeling tired most of the time too, but I think that's becuse the animals and plants I ate made my body addicted to something. I just have to be strong and let it pass. Cold turkey! (No offence to the bird, of course)
Well, just be glad you don't say things like "boy, it sure could be interesting to fire a shot at George Walker Bush, president of the United States". Cause that right there is a thought crime.
I don't know about how many we have, but you do them every once in a while when driving around in the country.
I suppose that's a matter of personal preferences and such. Personally, I've driven around Denmark quite a lot, and I've never EVER done a windmill. I've seen them - they're all over the place, but I've never done one!
That being said, in 2004 there were 5,400 windmills in Denmark. This is down fom 6,450 in 2001 - replacing 1,300 windmills with a capacity of about 100 MW with 300 new ones with a capacity of about 300 MW.
I can't quote US case law, because I'm not from the US. However, even though "idiot" hasn't been used as a medical term for a long while, there was a case in Denmark a few years back, where a celebrity was found to have slandered someone (also a "famous" person, but that's because he killed someone) by calling him an idiot.
And I actually did read my quote. Just because it's not used like that any more, doesn't make it any less potent. Least not in Denmark.
A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
This can probalby be proven to be incorrect in the case of George Bush (I'm pretty sure you mean the current US president), and thus it'll be libel.
You just don't use the L1 or L2 codes for anything more than about a meters accuracy. What you do do, is do phase measurements. Using the phase on both L1 and L2, and the position from the code as a base, you can achieve about 2 mm precision in static measurements and non-real-time calculations. Kinematic and you can get down to about 5 mm non-real-time. Static realtime is 2.5 cms (depending on the power of the processor) and kinematic realtime is 15 cms (again depending on the power of the processor).
During my course in GPS in college, we did about 2mm static non-real-time. Static over 15 minutes, I was able to hit 50 cm with differential GPS (which only uses the codes, so no fancy phase measurements) in flat open landscapes.
Well, one thing I've often wondered about with the very short names, like "du" is what about typos?
du => su Probably not bad em => rm rn => rm
Could be bad - just not sure if those are commands.
Course, you need commands with similar syntax for it to be a problem, but still. With the ton of commands available, I wouldn't be too surprised if many of them would readily accept the syntax for other commands, nor if they can be typoed into something else.
That may be the script, but in the movie we go from Mal picking up River to the agents ship, where he's watching the security feed. Mal's ID'ed by the computer and his info is shown to us, but that doesn't mention his ship.
Ah, yes. Peer review of patens. Brilliant idea - I can just see how it'll be peer reviewed in big coorporations:
Step 1: Any patent application which has ideas that we could use ourselves are to be stamped "obvious". Step 2: Make sure non of our ideas are submitted for patenting.
I'm currently in the process of finishing up the business plan for a start-up company, so we can get the funding needed from VCs. While looking through possible patents, I decided it'd be obvious to start with the biggest competitor on the market - and lo and behold, they have patents on their stuff. Rather obvious they'd have that.
However, some of the things they've patented are things that I came up with, on my own, in less than five minutes of thinking about the problem. Considering that these are problems way outside my domain of expertise (mechanical engineering vs software), I would argue that the patents aren't non-obvious. IOW, if I was peer reviewing these patents, many of them would be marked as obvious and not patentable.
BUT - I also have a clear interest in having these patents voided, because they cover methods that I consider to be ideal for the job. I have a financial interest in their dismissal. Personally I'm the kind of person who likes to reward where reward is due, so I'm not likely to dismiss a patent on personal grounds, but people like me are very rare indeed.
Obviously you wouldn't have software developers peer review patents on mechanical things, but chances are that if Company A works in Field X, they have the expertise needed to peer review Field X, but also a vested interest in everything in Field X. Developer B would be hard pressed to get his Patent P through peer review in Field X, when Company A wants to get as many breaks as they can.
Egentligt er det nemt nok at skifte mellem sprog. It's not very difficult. When I was flydende i Deutch könte Ich auch switch mid sentence. Not easy to do, because the three languages (Danish, English and German) have different sentence structures. But it's entirely possible.
No, I think part of the problem comes from "OMG HE TOUCHED THE CHILD!!! CHILD MOLESTER!!!" type reactions from certain people. It's so bad in some places, that men can't even take the boys to the bathroom of fear of the repercussions.
Let's see... you want the locationbar? Press F8 (or change it to ctrl+L in the settings, but that's a bad idea for text fields though).
If you just want to go somewhere, you can use F2 to pop up an address dialog.
As for google as your homepage? Uhm.. you've used Opera, right? I mean like... ever? It's not very difficult. Go to preferences and *gasp* enter google.com in the field called, off all things, Home Page.
What next? Need someone to wipe you when you're done on the toilet?
You're looking at it from the wrong direction. What good can come from it is of little consequence. After all - if EVEYRONE were forced to wear $surveilancethingie, allowing $government to see where they are, who they talk to and about what, we wouldn't have much to fear from terrorists would we? After all - they talk, we know about it.
What you need to do instead is look at the opposite situation - what bad can come from it? Why stop at just the ones you talk to directly? Maybe you're talking through secrect codes on mailing lists, so we need to up the net to the ones you've talked to AND the ones that the ones you've talked to have talked to. Two degrees of seperation. Then we'll be getting somewhere. And we can then get a much clearer picture.
Of course, the terrorists know this, so they'll be very elaborate and set up systems with three degrees of seperation. Might even get brilliant and go to four.
Then what? Even with two degrees of seperation, just how many people do you think will come under suspicion (which of late seems to equate with guilty until proven innocent - but we won't give you that chance)? Me, I have maybe 50 people I talk to directly in any given month. Two degrees of seperation that's at LEAST 2,500 people suspected of whatever I am. Go to three, and it's 125,000.
You'll be throwing out nets so far, you'll drown in useless data. So now you have information you can't use AND you've incriminated 125,000 people because you suspect one guy. They're now on your watch list - just in case.
Me - I'd rather we said "fuck the best case scenario" and concentrate on the worst case scenario. And by that I don't mean me barely surviving being near $explosion. I mean me getting assraped by $government_agency for no aparent reason and no way of redeeming myself - after all, I wouldn't be on their list if I hadn't done something bad, would I?
It's like torture. Sure, the upside is "suppose we know for a fact, 100% irrefutable, that $person knows what we need to do to prevent $bad_thing" - do we torture him to get the information? That's not an interesting question - the interesting question is - "we are fairly confident that YOU (yes, you, Syberghost) know what we need to do to prevent $bad_thing. You refuse to tell us (because you are innocent), but we are even more confident that we can break your spirit and make you tell us what we want to know - how to stop $bad_thing from happening." Do we torture you?
THAT is the question you need to ask. Best case scenarios are like dreaming of getting blowjobs from beautiful women while being served great food prepared by the best chefs in the world - not very useful.
Can't say that I'm a believer (I'm baptised, but I didn't have much of a choice then), but...
If you're a christian church and focusing more on the old testament than the new - and especially the loving and forgiving christ (Jesus), isn't it a fair case to call you a jew instead of a christian?
As I understand it, christianity builds on the old testament, sure - but it weighs in much more heavily on forgiveness (obviously forgotten during the crusades and inquisition) and love than on "smiting your enemies". Pretty sure you'd be shit out of luck if you tried portraying Jesus as wanting you to "smite and even kill or enslave your enemies".
Sure... but let's have a look at the complexity of the system in Denmark - one of the bigger areas in Denmark (around the capitol) has 270 bus-lines, 15 local train lines plus a bunch of reginol train lines that I don't really know the number of. And this is an area that covers maybe 1/6th of Denmark (but about 1/3rd of the population).
Sure, you may have more people, but I'm pretty sure that the public transportation system in Denmark, with its measly 5 million people, is bigger and more complex than the ones you have in any of the metropolises in the US - or even Mexico City. Population density isn't the key factor - the number of routes you have is.
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Preach it brother, preach it. But it's not just animals.
You know - I used to eat fruits, vegetables and the likes. Then one day I saw how people treat these living things. Cutting into them with knives, killing their offspring right next to them, eating their offspring before the plants themselves have even let go of them. Some would even abuse them sexually, I kid you not.
So now I'm on day 17 of my refusal to not only eat anything from an animal, but also anything from a plant. So far it's going okay. I've lost a lot of weight, but that's obviously because of all the excess calories I got from eating animals and plants. Kinda feeling tired most of the time too, but I think that's becuse the animals and plants I ate made my body addicted to something. I just have to be strong and let it pass. Cold turkey! (No offence to the bird, of course)
Sure, but what about the poor Austrian fishermen? Why aren't you taking them into consideration with your "facts"?
Well, just be glad you don't say things like "boy, it sure could be interesting to fire a shot at George Walker Bush, president of the United States". Cause that right there is a thought crime.
Don't call it straight. It's right up there with gay, lesbian and the likes.
That being said, in 2004 there were 5,400 windmills in Denmark. This is down fom 6,450 in 2001 - replacing 1,300 windmills with a capacity of about 100 MW with 300 new ones with a capacity of about 300 MW.
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I can't quote US case law, because I'm not from the US. However, even though "idiot" hasn't been used as a medical term for a long while, there was a case in Denmark a few years back, where a celebrity was found to have slandered someone (also a "famous" person, but that's because he killed someone) by calling him an idiot.
And I actually did read my quote. Just because it's not used like that any more, doesn't make it any less potent. Least not in Denmark.
That just proves that the bar is set too low for early humanoids.
Actually - no.
You just don't use the L1 or L2 codes for anything more than about a meters accuracy. What you do do, is do phase measurements. Using the phase on both L1 and L2, and the position from the code as a base, you can achieve about 2 mm precision in static measurements and non-real-time calculations. Kinematic and you can get down to about 5 mm non-real-time. Static realtime is 2.5 cms (depending on the power of the processor) and kinematic realtime is 15 cms (again depending on the power of the processor).
During my course in GPS in college, we did about 2mm static non-real-time. Static over 15 minutes, I was able to hit 50 cm with differential GPS (which only uses the codes, so no fancy phase measurements) in flat open landscapes.
Well, one thing I've often wondered about with the very short names, like "du" is what about typos?
du => su
Probably not bad
em => rm
rn => rm
Could be bad - just not sure if those are commands.
Course, you need commands with similar syntax for it to be a problem, but still. With the ton of commands available, I wouldn't be too surprised if many of them would readily accept the syntax for other commands, nor if they can be typoed into something else.
Of course human genetics are made up of spaghetti code! We were all created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Yes, those light versions are handicapable.
That may be the script, but in the movie we go from Mal picking up River to the agents ship, where he's watching the security feed. Mal's ID'ed by the computer and his info is shown to us, but that doesn't mention his ship.
Ah, yes. Peer review of patens. Brilliant idea - I can just see how it'll be peer reviewed in big coorporations:
Step 1:
Any patent application which has ideas that we could use ourselves are to be stamped "obvious".
Step 2:
Make sure non of our ideas are submitted for patenting.
I'm currently in the process of finishing up the business plan for a start-up company, so we can get the funding needed from VCs. While looking through possible patents, I decided it'd be obvious to start with the biggest competitor on the market - and lo and behold, they have patents on their stuff. Rather obvious they'd have that.
However, some of the things they've patented are things that I came up with, on my own, in less than five minutes of thinking about the problem. Considering that these are problems way outside my domain of expertise (mechanical engineering vs software), I would argue that the patents aren't non-obvious. IOW, if I was peer reviewing these patents, many of them would be marked as obvious and not patentable.
BUT - I also have a clear interest in having these patents voided, because they cover methods that I consider to be ideal for the job. I have a financial interest in their dismissal. Personally I'm the kind of person who likes to reward where reward is due, so I'm not likely to dismiss a patent on personal grounds, but people like me are very rare indeed.
Obviously you wouldn't have software developers peer review patents on mechanical things, but chances are that if Company A works in Field X, they have the expertise needed to peer review Field X, but also a vested interest in everything in Field X. Developer B would be hard pressed to get his Patent P through peer review in Field X, when Company A wants to get as many breaks as they can.
Well, that was written about 1,400 years before the NEW world was discovered by Columbus ... new world.
My sister was bitten by a møøse once.
Egentligt er det nemt nok at skifte mellem sprog. It's not very difficult. When I was flydende i Deutch könte Ich auch switch mid sentence. Not easy to do, because the three languages (Danish, English and German) have different sentence structures. But it's entirely possible.
No, I think part of the problem comes from "OMG HE TOUCHED THE CHILD!!! CHILD MOLESTER!!!" type reactions from certain people. It's so bad in some places, that men can't even take the boys to the bathroom of fear of the repercussions.
Not the lyrics. But - right now your comment is the only one rated 3+, and the quote of the day/hour thing at the bottom of slashdot?Not sure if it's random, or if the server has come alive.
Let's see ... you want the locationbar? Press F8 (or change it to ctrl+L in the settings, but that's a bad idea for text fields though).
.. you've used Opera, right? I mean like ... ever? It's not very difficult. Go to preferences and *gasp* enter google.com in the field called, off all things, Home Page.
If you just want to go somewhere, you can use F2 to pop up an address dialog.
As for google as your homepage? Uhm
What next? Need someone to wipe you when you're done on the toilet?
You're looking at it from the wrong direction. What good can come from it is of little consequence. After all - if EVEYRONE were forced to wear $surveilancethingie, allowing $government to see where they are, who they talk to and about what, we wouldn't have much to fear from terrorists would we? After all - they talk, we know about it.
What you need to do instead is look at the opposite situation - what bad can come from it? Why stop at just the ones you talk to directly? Maybe you're talking through secrect codes on mailing lists, so we need to up the net to the ones you've talked to AND the ones that the ones you've talked to have talked to. Two degrees of seperation. Then we'll be getting somewhere. And we can then get a much clearer picture.
Of course, the terrorists know this, so they'll be very elaborate and set up systems with three degrees of seperation. Might even get brilliant and go to four.
Then what? Even with two degrees of seperation, just how many people do you think will come under suspicion (which of late seems to equate with guilty until proven innocent - but we won't give you that chance)? Me, I have maybe 50 people I talk to directly in any given month. Two degrees of seperation that's at LEAST 2,500 people suspected of whatever I am. Go to three, and it's 125,000.
You'll be throwing out nets so far, you'll drown in useless data. So now you have information you can't use AND you've incriminated 125,000 people because you suspect one guy. They're now on your watch list - just in case.
Me - I'd rather we said "fuck the best case scenario" and concentrate on the worst case scenario. And by that I don't mean me barely surviving being near $explosion. I mean me getting assraped by $government_agency for no aparent reason and no way of redeeming myself - after all, I wouldn't be on their list if I hadn't done something bad, would I?
It's like torture. Sure, the upside is "suppose we know for a fact, 100% irrefutable, that $person knows what we need to do to prevent $bad_thing" - do we torture him to get the information? That's not an interesting question - the interesting question is - "we are fairly confident that YOU (yes, you, Syberghost) know what we need to do to prevent $bad_thing. You refuse to tell us (because you are innocent), but we are even more confident that we can break your spirit and make you tell us what we want to know - how to stop $bad_thing from happening." Do we torture you?
THAT is the question you need to ask. Best case scenarios are like dreaming of getting blowjobs from beautiful women while being served great food prepared by the best chefs in the world - not very useful.
Can't say that I'm a believer (I'm baptised, but I didn't have much of a choice then), but ...
If you're a christian church and focusing more on the old testament than the new - and especially the loving and forgiving christ (Jesus), isn't it a fair case to call you a jew instead of a christian?
As I understand it, christianity builds on the old testament, sure - but it weighs in much more heavily on forgiveness (obviously forgotten during the crusades and inquisition) and love than on "smiting your enemies". Pretty sure you'd be shit out of luck if you tried portraying Jesus as wanting you to "smite and even kill or enslave your enemies".
Or did I not get the memo?
Sure ... but let's have a look at the complexity of the system in Denmark - one of the bigger areas in Denmark (around the capitol) has 270 bus-lines, 15 local train lines plus a bunch of reginol train lines that I don't really know the number of. And this is an area that covers maybe 1/6th of Denmark (but about 1/3rd of the population).
Sure, you may have more people, but I'm pretty sure that the public transportation system in Denmark, with its measly 5 million people, is bigger and more complex than the ones you have in any of the metropolises in the US - or even Mexico City. Population density isn't the key factor - the number of routes you have is.