Almost no idea is entirely original. Spielberg is a master at coupling many ideas to excite your emotional centers to open a conduit for the intellectual ideas to enter.
Or is it the other way around, he's a master at exploiting the intellectual ideas to create a condiut of credulity so that you will admit the emotional ideas to get a little excitement to justify the money you paid him because he advertised the availability of a cheap thrill...
Ah, whatever. Let's just say he's a master of the mental spork.
Most people wouldn't have heard of the concept without the movie, so no. Spielberg did more than 85% of the work and gets full credit. Your addition of the origin of the meme is noted and will be included in the audio commentary, if the second A.D. brings it up.
Want to bet many had good job performance reviews?
No, but I'd be only too ready to take the opposite bet.
Workplace shootings are usually the result of impending workplace doom, usually preceded by bad workplace reviews and exacerbated by bad workplace sociology. Often preceded by firing and outright interpersonal conflict.
People who do well at work usually kill their families, not their coworkers.
The individuals in the organization have privacy rights. The organization does not.
If you want your organization to be able to do things individuals can not, not least protect the individuals from losses, or from prosecution for negligence and lawbreaking by the organization, you have to expect that there will be compensating features of public oversight.
The ability of companies to act in arbitrary secrecy is only a hair less dangerous to the public than the ability of the government to act in arbitrary secrecy.
Owning a share of common stock does not entitle you to anything the prospectus doesn't say you're entitled to. And the prospectus can say just about anything.
The FCC wouldn't have to buy a controlling interest if it can get on the board, since the board generally has access to everything in the company. But the only sure way to get on the board is to buy a controlling interest. Though if the board decides they don't want you, it will have to be a hostile takeover. That's provided there is a board.
Currently, you're only required to disclose the location of your headquarters (not your plant; i.e., a mail-drop, not your body), and certain elements of your financial state and activity (which are so loosely defined that you can report losses to be gains and gains to be losses in order to manipulate your stock price without fear of being accused of manipulation)...
When it's not a "limited liability" and cash-pump for the people who really own it.
When the public (including common shareholders) have full access to the corporate IP and proprietary info and material information so that they can make the same investing decision an insider can make.
When corporations don't get subsidies from the government treasury.
When a corporation doesn't amplify the political influence of its owners to be greater than the votes of the public.
The largest contributor to piracy, by far, is the United States providing 4,054 or about 70% of all pirated installations...'
1. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with my tax dollars being used for this.
2. The U.S., being one of your larger, more technologically-saturated nations, and a developer and early adopter of Android, is likely to have more of anything androidal. This shouldn't be used to camouflage the fact that the U.S., being a nation steeped in outlaw culture, is full of people who would pirate their own grandmother's apple-pie recipe, if the exploit used to get it was script-kiddie ready and ran on a smartphone.
Okay, first, that link you link is a journalist's opinion rhetorically questioning Obama's sincerity. Cry me a fishpond. Second, it's dated in 2008, before Obama was the nominee, much less the President.
I asked for evidence that Obama is illegally wiretapping people, not evidence that people will call him a liar. Try again.
Java needs a permanent and legal separate existence from Oracle.
Won't happen, for reasons Gosling pointed out: it's too big and too widely deployed to be maintained without huge test expense for even the smallest code changes.
Which is kind of interesting, because all along I've kind of had the supposition that one of the things Sun had done with Java is to streamline that so that the propagation of the effects of changes was no longer unpredictable. I guess they didn't. In fact it sounds like the opposite happened and it's just another unmanageable bowl of spaghetti.
Time to sell it to someone who thinks it's a cash-cow and start over on the thing that will obsolete it.
I believe the Bush administration did not use the FISA court to get warrants and expected to win if challenged.
I believe the Obama administration is using the FISA court. Meanwhile his justice department is also acting as defendant in the challenge to the Bush administration's abuse of wiretaps.
If you believe anything different, produce evidence. Otherwise, your paranoia is unfounded.
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure it's actually because the 4th amendment makes what the government has been doing illegal.
Actually it's because the courts read the word "reasonable" very narrowly, and insists on deciding it before the fact, otherwise what the government had done (but is not now doing) would have been legal.
Or maybe we should recognize that our government is the good guys and can help us change the Iranian government, because tapping people's phones is probably one of the least egregious things Ahmadinejad and Khameini are doing.
I think if you can devise a few variation methods that work at all, you could make a good guess at which lead to the smallest code.
What you need are thousands of methods of varying the code, and millions of iterations looking for working results, and then a cost function (in this case merely size) to choose the optimal result.
I was thinking the same, but some calculations and googling turns up the fact that 20 MT is about 2e17 joules, which is reportedly what you get from a Mag 8 or 9 earthquake.
Although I don't think a circular splash of an object falling in the water organizes the subsurface motion in the way a tsunami-producing earthquake or landslide does.
So I wouldn't say there's no chance of a tsunami, but I won't say there's going to be a big one.
Better would be to keep watching it every few months with the new detector. Then they'll get solid ephemerides without years' worth of perturbations that start from greater instrumentation error.
And your statement that "the odds of an Earth impact will go down[...]It's happened before" is fallacious. The odds may go up as we get more information. What will go down is the size of the error in our prediction of its course.
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"Interestingly, this may also boost the life-giving qualities of the exoplanet, creating stable temperatures in its atmosphere."
I don't get why that boosts life-giving qualities.
Having unstable temperatures in our atmosphere doesn't seem to have impeded life.
In fact stable temperatures may be a bad thing.
It takes instability to produce the mixing of organic molecules that result in biomass. Lightning. Tidal flow. Wind.
But there's no indication this new planet lacks those. Except the tidal part. Unless it has a big moon. And water.
According to theory, we will need the survival capabilities of the cockroach to remain on this planet.
Trick about that one is, it's probably true.
I bet most russkies were made because of vodka.
Almost no idea is entirely original. Spielberg is a master at coupling many ideas to excite your emotional centers to open a conduit for the intellectual ideas to enter.
Or is it the other way around, he's a master at exploiting the intellectual ideas to create a condiut of credulity so that you will admit the emotional ideas to get a little excitement to justify the money you paid him because he advertised the availability of a cheap thrill...
Ah, whatever. Let's just say he's a master of the mental spork.
Most people wouldn't have heard of the concept without the movie, so no. Spielberg did more than 85% of the work and gets full credit. Your addition of the origin of the meme is noted and will be included in the audio commentary, if the second A.D. brings it up.
Want to bet many had good job performance reviews?
No, but I'd be only too ready to take the opposite bet.
Workplace shootings are usually the result of impending workplace doom, usually preceded by bad workplace reviews and exacerbated by bad workplace sociology. Often preceded by firing and outright interpersonal conflict.
People who do well at work usually kill their families, not their coworkers.
The individuals in the organization have privacy rights. The organization does not.
If you want your organization to be able to do things individuals can not, not least protect the individuals from losses, or from prosecution for negligence and lawbreaking by the organization, you have to expect that there will be compensating features of public oversight.
The ability of companies to act in arbitrary secrecy is only a hair less dangerous to the public than the ability of the government to act in arbitrary secrecy.
They can request a copy of the prospectus.
That's it.
Owning a share of common stock does not entitle you to anything the prospectus doesn't say you're entitled to. And the prospectus can say just about anything.
The FCC wouldn't have to buy a controlling interest if it can get on the board, since the board generally has access to everything in the company. But the only sure way to get on the board is to buy a controlling interest. Though if the board decides they don't want you, it will have to be a hostile takeover. That's provided there is a board.
Currently, you're only required to disclose the location of your headquarters (not your plant; i.e., a mail-drop, not your body), and certain elements of your financial state and activity (which are so loosely defined that you can report losses to be gains and gains to be losses in order to manipulate your stock price without fear of being accused of manipulation)...
When it's not a "limited liability" and cash-pump for the people who really own it.
When the public (including common shareholders) have full access to the corporate IP and proprietary info and material information so that they can make the same investing decision an insider can make.
When corporations don't get subsidies from the government treasury.
When a corporation doesn't amplify the political influence of its owners to be greater than the votes of the public.
But I already bought the T-shirt, you insensitive clod.
The largest contributor to piracy, by far, is the United States providing 4,054 or about 70% of all pirated installations...'
1. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with my tax dollars being used for this.
2. The U.S., being one of your larger, more technologically-saturated nations, and a developer and early adopter of Android, is likely to have more of anything androidal. This shouldn't be used to camouflage the fact that the U.S., being a nation steeped in outlaw culture, is full of people who would pirate their own grandmother's apple-pie recipe, if the exploit used to get it was script-kiddie ready and ran on a smartphone.
but they were required to know enough to not hand engineers a raft of shit for kicking back their unbuildable designs.
i made that better for you.
Okay, first, that link you link is a journalist's opinion rhetorically questioning Obama's sincerity. Cry me a fishpond. Second, it's dated in 2008, before Obama was the nominee, much less the President.
I asked for evidence that Obama is illegally wiretapping people, not evidence that people will call him a liar. Try again.
Java needs a permanent and legal separate existence from Oracle.
Won't happen, for reasons Gosling pointed out: it's too big and too widely deployed to be maintained without huge test expense for even the smallest code changes.
Which is kind of interesting, because all along I've kind of had the supposition that one of the things Sun had done with Java is to streamline that so that the propagation of the effects of changes was no longer unpredictable. I guess they didn't. In fact it sounds like the opposite happened and it's just another unmanageable bowl of spaghetti.
Time to sell it to someone who thinks it's a cash-cow and start over on the thing that will obsolete it.
I can't believe that's an hour of audio.
Or you get picked up by companies whose CEOs also think Larry Ellison is a dick.
Meaning Gosling just reduced his range employment choices by 1.
I believe the Bush administration did not use the FISA court to get warrants and expected to win if challenged.
I believe the Obama administration is using the FISA court. Meanwhile his justice department is also acting as defendant in the challenge to the Bush administration's abuse of wiretaps.
If you believe anything different, produce evidence. Otherwise, your paranoia is unfounded.
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure it's actually because the 4th amendment makes what the government has been doing illegal.
Actually it's because the courts read the word "reasonable" very narrowly, and insists on deciding it before the fact, otherwise what the government had done (but is not now doing) would have been legal.
Or maybe we should recognize that our government is the good guys and can help us change the Iranian government, because tapping people's phones is probably one of the least egregious things Ahmadinejad and Khameini are doing.
MSO is the exception, then.
I think if you can devise a few variation methods that work at all, you could make a good guess at which lead to the smallest code.
What you need are thousands of methods of varying the code, and millions of iterations looking for working results, and then a cost function (in this case merely size) to choose the optimal result.
I was thinking the same, but some calculations and googling turns up the fact that 20 MT is about 2e17 joules, which is reportedly what you get from a Mag 8 or 9 earthquake.
Although I don't think a circular splash of an object falling in the water organizes the subsurface motion in the way a tsunami-producing earthquake or landslide does.
So I wouldn't say there's no chance of a tsunami, but I won't say there's going to be a big one.
Uh, no.
Better would be to keep watching it every few months with the new detector. Then they'll get solid ephemerides without years' worth of perturbations that start from greater instrumentation error.
And your statement that "the odds of an Earth impact will go down[...]It's happened before" is fallacious. The odds may go up as we get more information. What will go down is the size of the error in our prediction of its course.
And his first lady, Lindsay Lohan Clone-B.