One useful thing about being a proefessional scientist is that it gives you an appreciation for orders of magnitude. What it means is that if one thing (eg death from driving) is more than ten times more likely than another (eg death from mad cow disease/cellphones), then the second can be safely ignored!
The likelihood of being killed by or in a car, or dying of heart disease from too many burgers is so large as to make all of these modern scares meaningless. In fact the only form of electromagnetic radiation in any way likely to kill you is lightning.
So if you're really concerned about extending your lifespan, give up smoking, stay away from all mechanised vehicles and live on a diet of bread, cabbage and potatoes (and possibly the odd fish). Otherwise stop complaining about irrelevant risks!
And by the way, don't play golf in a thunderstorm.
Why do you keep your thesis in CVS? How many people are working on it at the same time? Smacks of 'any excuse to avoid having to actually sit down and write the thing'!
This will have precisely one effect on me. My mailbox will no longer be filled up with stupid gimmick Windows programs that I can't run anyway since I use Unix. Bye bye frog blender, cute furry animals, dancing christmas trees, annoying jingles... This is undoubtedly the greatest design choice Microsoft have ever made. Think how it will reduce traffic on the Internet, save space on mail servers, improve efficiency at work, etc etc. Now all they have to do is disable macros in Word and I'll personally take back any bad thing I ever said about them!
Good reply, you obviously know what you're talking about. However the main reason you use a ground based telescope is that you require a detector the size of a football pitch to see enough gamma rays of this energy to say anything useful. Thus it's impractical to launch one into space. Instead you use the atmosphere as your detector. Space based telescopes exist already which see lower energy gamma radiation from blazars, such as CGRO . I should also mention the experiment which discovered very high energy gamma rays from blazars, using the Cerenkov technique: The Whipple experiment (a blatant plug for my own PhD experiment!).
I agree strongly with the view that 'Christian moral ethics', as you define them, are not universal, and other countries have widely different views on what defines morality. Sadly, though, you fall into your the usual American trap of defining the world's views based on your own. All of those liberal, free thinking European countries you describe are themselves Christian, and the vast majority of people here see themselves as trying to live by basically Christian moral values also. It's just that the we often have little time for the American version of religiosity that you condemn. This does not mean that we see ourselves as any less Christian, but in fact more so!
Which major western power promotes state sponsored revenge murder?
Everyone seems to be concentrating on how THEY (MS, Mindcraft) are out to get US (Linux). This isn't about them and us, no matter how much Microsoft tries to make it that way. We all know Linux is a damn good operating system, but every time some fool puts words like Mindcrap and Microsloth into their comments, they make us all out to be a bunch of infantile teenagers with an inferiority complex about our latest toy.
Linux is not a toy, but it suits Microsoft to make it look that way, and the more we moan about how this isn't fair, or that isn't fair, the more we play into their hands.
What we're missing here is that Microsoft is throwing us a huge opportunity to demonstrate how Open Source really works. Let them come up with the most disadvantageous set of circumstances for the test, the configuration that makes Linux looks the worst that it possibly can. We then say 'thank you very much, you've contributed hugely to the open source effort by testing our code for us!' The great strength of Linux is not that it is the best, but that it is agile enough to be able to get pretty damn close in any set of circumstances. It's designed to get the job done, not to look good and sell well. That's Microsoft's territory.
That's what I love about you crazy Yanks, you've no sense of irony! I think the 'holier than thou', 'Linux rules', 'Microsoft is evil', 'we must slay the naysayers' attitude is just another manifestation of what makes America great, your complete lack of a sense of humour! PS:;-)
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The likelihood of being killed by or in a car, or dying of heart disease from too many burgers is so large as to make all of these modern scares meaningless. In fact the only form of electromagnetic radiation in any way likely to kill you is lightning.
So if you're really concerned about extending your lifespan, give up smoking, stay away from all mechanised vehicles and live on a diet of bread, cabbage and potatoes (and possibly the odd fish). Otherwise stop complaining about irrelevant risks!
And by the way, don't play golf in a thunderstorm.
Why do you keep your thesis in CVS? How many people are working on it at the same time? Smacks of 'any excuse to avoid having to actually sit down and write the thing'!
The G7 are the seven richest countries in the world: US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada + Russia makes 8
This will have precisely one effect on me. My mailbox will no longer be filled up with stupid gimmick Windows programs that I can't run anyway since I use Unix. Bye bye frog blender, cute furry animals, dancing christmas trees, annoying jingles ... This is undoubtedly the greatest design choice Microsoft have ever made. Think how it will reduce traffic on the Internet, save space on mail servers, improve efficiency at work, etc etc. Now all they have to do is disable macros in Word and I'll personally take back any bad thing I ever said about them!
Good reply, you obviously know what you're talking about. However the main reason you use a ground based telescope is that you require a detector the size of a football pitch to see enough gamma rays of this energy to say anything useful. Thus it's impractical to launch one into space. Instead you use the atmosphere as your detector. Space based telescopes exist already which see lower energy gamma radiation from blazars, such as CGRO . I should also mention the experiment which discovered very high energy gamma rays from blazars, using the Cerenkov technique: The Whipple experiment (a blatant plug for my own PhD experiment!).
Which major western power promotes state sponsored revenge murder?
Linux is not a toy, but it suits Microsoft to make it look that way, and the more we moan about how this isn't fair, or that isn't fair, the more we play into their hands.
What we're missing here is that Microsoft is throwing us a huge opportunity to demonstrate how Open Source really works. Let them come up with the most disadvantageous set of circumstances for the test, the configuration that makes Linux looks the worst that it possibly can. We then say 'thank you very much, you've contributed hugely to the open source effort by testing our code for us!' The great strength of Linux is not that it is the best, but that it is agile enough to be able to get pretty damn close in any set of circumstances. It's designed to get the job done, not to look good and sell well. That's Microsoft's territory.
That's what I love about you crazy Yanks, you've no sense of irony! I think the 'holier than thou', 'Linux rules', 'Microsoft is evil', 'we must slay the naysayers' attitude is just another manifestation of what makes America great, your complete lack of a sense of humour! PS: ;-)