The sanctions they talk about in this link are those that were decided in the decade, but most are over (like in Rwanda). And what the US and UK have been doing in Iraq in the last few years is not UN-sanctioned. If those bombings had been put to vote during the last few months, before Tuesday, both China and Russia would have vetoed it, and France would have thought about vetoing it, too.
"The invincible russian army"? When it comes to conventional warfare, the Russian army of the 80's (like that of the 90's) was nowhere close to be invincible. Morale was rather low, and the Russian usual fondness for vodka even higher than usual.
Read your history books. War hasn't been happening "over there" since the dawn of time (An earlier dawn of time than for the rest of the world. Those places are where the first villages and the first cities were founded). It was essentially at peace during the whole Middle Age, when Europe was war torn. That was the only time the Muslims were more or less left to themselves.... after that the Crusaders and the Turks attacked them.
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It should be noted that Iraq is not an islamic country. The government there (i.e. Saddam Hussein) does not apply the sharia or anything like it, which means no public beheading at all.
This argument is interesting, however, characteristics of proteins makes for that very high number of possibilities :
In an enzyme, only a few of the amino acids are active, and most of the others only serve as a superstructure, being somewhat interchangeable.
Our proteins have higher variations than what was previously thought, and in a single species may be found in dozens of similar yet diferrent forms.
Some hypothesis are that self-reproducing RNA could have been the beginning of life, not proteins and DNA.
Lastly, many enzymes are just versions of older proteins, that have evolved into having a completely different role, and yet come from the same basics. This also reduces the amounts of different amino acids combinations needed before life was possible.
I have not read the book, so I don't know the ending, but have you considered that what he means is that the cloud is trying to block the sun out, and that the humans are hoping to prevent this to happen? ever heard of subjonctive?
Actually America routinely doesn't share this date with its allies... Many of the American bombings in Kosovo and Serbia where not disclosed to the European countries until they had happened.
This link , in French, basically states that the IPO was successful thanks to the Linux Community buying the stocks, and not the traditional investors... So it means that those users have control, people able to understand why Mandrake might not make a profit soon...
Of course, the fact that more than half of the "freeing the whole country" was made by non-americans (British, Canadians, Australian, and even a few french), and that it is actually the Soviet Union that won the war (most of German soldiers were on the East Front), never seems to enter your mind. And the help in WWI was paid for.
This is not so sure. ind, philosophically, we do not no know yet (and probably won't for some time) wether intelligence can exist without the impressions of our senses, which can very well include having to maintain ourselves alive...
Well, Go to Chile 15 years ago and try to exerce your free speech. Or go to Russia right now. Or to Iran, or Irak.
There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator once it gets out of a very small segment of the world (say, making a single piece of software such as the linux kernel)
The idea that benevolent dictatorship is good has been proved wrong for the past 3000 years... And your lack of political culture is no excuse.
And, yes, I believe that applies to all common goods (such as DNS adresses). putting them in the hand of a single man, even if he seems a good man at the beginning, is very dangerous.
Young kids are quite fast, you know. when I was 8-10, I was going to a computer club where we would use logo and some computer-controlled lego. It was maybe one hour a week, but still we learned quite a few things
Yes, that's why it has'nt got many letters, like Arabic.
And english kids complaining about homework... I even heard people say english is a hard language... Have they ever seen any other language?!?
WHY exactly should research be protected?
I'm not talking about innovation but research.
Patents are here to protect finished goods, not maths. Many people indeed, and most of the research, is not done for patents, nor wealth, but usually because the researcher likes researching.
There is even even an ongoing debate among epistemologist on wether math is actually discovered or invented ; does it preexists the demonstrator? So, can you patent something you haven't invented?
Another point is, why should research be left to private companies? much research is done by the government, and it is done rather efficiently. That meant Turing didn't have to patent his "machine" to survive, so computers were in the end possible. I believe people-sponsored research is often much more efficient that that driven privately-held companies, which do not care about science but about money.
Latin (still in use as a nationwide language, though only in the Vatican:)) has less letters than english, is only upper caps, and ancient versions use no ponctuation. Classical arabic (without diacriticals) has even less letters. Of course it is unreadable... I guess Hebrew is low on the amount of letters, too.
Saying that accents complicate a writing system is not so true either : you indeed get a more powerful writing system with less signs to write it. indeed, the use of doubled vowels, or particular succession of consonants, to mark particular pronunciation, is complicated too.
this specific problem is quite diferent, since indeed, Canadians are Americans, as well as Mexicans, Brazilians, and so on... Though it seems than the inhabitants of the USA consider themselves to be the only ones of any worth living on the continent.
Like you I was annoyed by that remark of the "great future teller".
Somehow though there's another thing i'd like to point out : how come computers are supposed to be unbiased, whereas humans are? The bias found in a software might usually be smaller than the average human bias, but the errors implanted into a computer will usually be unchangable - the software is always right, you see... No computer should be able to make a decision not overviewed by some human, as meteorologist will tell you. And I believe humaniour is more, not less, chaotic than that of clouds and winds.
Another typical thing of this paper is that it implies the guy is right in is prediction because the guy is rich ; and also that the effect of computers will be a better world where "every one will have more wealth". When will Americans stop equating happiness and success with money?
A very good way to avoid Carpal Syndrom, and following your point, is to take on smoking. As I began studying CS, I started smoking, and thanks to it, I am not even able to spend more than two hours in a row in front of a computer, without spending a few minutes smoking a cigaret.
Especially good, since smoking involves moving the wrist of the hand that holds the cigaret!
Save your Health! Avoid Carpal Syndrom! Take on Smoking!:)
IANAL, but in France this wouldn't happen : there is a independant agency whose job is to rule all computer-based people databases. All databases of this kind must get approved by this agency (the CNIL), and must comply to the laws about it, such as if you want to, you can ALWAYS opt out.
This works also for governments databases BTW.
On the other hand this might be a bit too intrusive, since it makes it harder to make databases about people. Yet I personnally prefer this to the american free-for-all : imagine the guy who owns Amazon and other big companies, say AOL too, gets elected president (something equivalent has recently happened in Italy), and turns out to be some kind of extremist, who will be happy to condamn people based on their opinions or anything like that. I wouldn't want to be in his files...
The big difference between ceramic superconductors and this new one is that MgB2 can be produced (and is already produced) at cheap price, and won't get used too fast. And liquid Nitrogen is not that hard to make, so it's the first time large superconductors are available.
The funny thing is that mgB2 had been first discovered in the 50's, but had never been tested for superconductivity...
Didn't the term "Caucasian" started when Northern-American Non-Native people started to search for some politically correct way to say "white"? Because the people currently living in caucasus -which form the border of Russia, Georgia and Azerbaidjan- are usually of a darker shade than most europeans. And the whitest people in the world, the albinos, can be found throughout the world, including africa.
We know so little about this subject to date that speculative revisions can be made almost yearly such is the rate of discovery. Indeed...IANAnthropologist, but I think your facts are not up to date with the most recent science.
There has been Homo Sapiens in africa, India and even China I believe, for at least 100 000 years;
whereas Europe at the same times was peopled with Homo Neandertalesis, cousins of the former. Those too were intelligent (i.e. buried people...). 30 000 years ago, Sapiens from africa came over, and Neandertals somehow diseappeared.
There is a genetic figure of 7 womens who supposedly have been the mothers of all europeans ; this is based on mitochondrial DNA, but there too science changes. the calculations for 7 women were made on the supposition that Mitochondrial DNA comes only from the mother, but cases of transmission from the father too have been witnessed, so this figure might be wrong.
Civilisation didn't appear in Egypt first, but in Mesopotamia, what is now Iraq, and was at the time very fertile land ; there the first non-temporary large settlement of man known to us was found. domestication of animals and farming appeared there at about the same time
Why should we need reusable ships anyway? I'd bet it is both cheaper and easier to simply put a station in space and go up and down using non-reusable material, like the Russians do... On their low budget they have been able to maintain MIR for quite some time in space, haven't they?
I'm talking about governement subsidised research, not university based. If government starts behaving like a private company, it won't help
and, as it seems nobody ever heard about that, patenting is not a way of hiding anythings. Indeed, patents are public, but legally yu can't copy. However it is a way not to loose stuff whenever it falls in the Public Domain, whereas secrets can be forgotten.. as an example, the Coca Cola recipe isn't patented.
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The sanctions they talk about in this link are those that were decided in the decade, but most are over (like in Rwanda). And what the US and UK have been doing in Iraq in the last few years is not UN-sanctioned. If those bombings had been put to vote during the last few months, before Tuesday, both China and Russia would have vetoed it, and France would have thought about vetoing it, too.
"The invincible russian army"? When it comes to conventional warfare, the Russian army of the 80's (like that of the 90's) was nowhere close to be invincible. Morale was rather low, and the Russian usual fondness for vodka even higher than usual.
Read your history books. War hasn't been happening "over there" since the dawn of time (An earlier dawn of time than for the rest of the world. Those places are where the first villages and the first cities were founded). It was essentially at peace during the whole Middle Age, when Europe was war torn. That was the only time the Muslims were more or less left to themselves.... after that the Crusaders and the Turks attacked them.
It should be noted that Iraq is not an islamic country. The government there (i.e. Saddam Hussein) does not apply the sharia or anything like it, which means no public beheading at all.
This argument is interesting, however, characteristics of proteins makes for that very high number of possibilities :
In an enzyme, only a few of the amino acids are active, and most of the others only serve as a superstructure, being somewhat interchangeable.
Our proteins have higher variations than what was previously thought, and in a single species may be found in dozens of similar yet diferrent forms.
Some hypothesis are that self-reproducing RNA could have been the beginning of life, not proteins and DNA.
Lastly, many enzymes are just versions of older proteins, that have evolved into having a completely different role, and yet come from the same basics. This also reduces the amounts of different amino acids combinations needed before life was possible.
I have not read the book, so I don't know the ending, but have you considered that what he means is that the cloud is trying to block the sun out, and that the humans are hoping to prevent this to happen? ever heard of subjonctive?
Actually America routinely doesn't share this date with its allies... Many of the American bombings in Kosovo and Serbia where not disclosed to the European countries until they had happened.
This link , in French, basically states that the IPO was successful thanks to the Linux Community buying the stocks, and not the traditional investors... So it means that those users have control, people able to understand why Mandrake might not make a profit soon...
Of course, the fact that more than half of the "freeing the whole country" was made by non-americans (British, Canadians, Australian, and even a few french), and that it is actually the Soviet Union that won the war (most of German soldiers were on the East Front), never seems to enter your mind. And the help in WWI was paid for.
This is not so sure. ind, philosophically, we do not no know yet (and probably won't for some time) wether intelligence can exist without the impressions of our senses, which can very well include having to maintain ourselves alive...
Well, Go to Chile 15 years ago and try to exerce your free speech. Or go to Russia right now. Or to Iran, or Irak. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator once it gets out of a very small segment of the world (say, making a single piece of software such as the linux kernel) The idea that benevolent dictatorship is good has been proved wrong for the past 3000 years... And your lack of political culture is no excuse. And, yes, I believe that applies to all common goods (such as DNS adresses). putting them in the hand of a single man, even if he seems a good man at the beginning, is very dangerous.
Young kids are quite fast, you know. when I was 8-10, I was going to a computer club where we would use logo and some computer-controlled lego. It was maybe one hour a week, but still we learned quite a few things
Yes, that's why it has'nt got many letters, like Arabic. And english kids complaining about homework... I even heard people say english is a hard language... Have they ever seen any other language?!?
WHY exactly should research be protected? I'm not talking about innovation but research. Patents are here to protect finished goods, not maths. Many people indeed, and most of the research, is not done for patents, nor wealth, but usually because the researcher likes researching. There is even even an ongoing debate among epistemologist on wether math is actually discovered or invented ; does it preexists the demonstrator? So, can you patent something you haven't invented? Another point is, why should research be left to private companies? much research is done by the government, and it is done rather efficiently. That meant Turing didn't have to patent his "machine" to survive, so computers were in the end possible. I believe people-sponsored research is often much more efficient that that driven privately-held companies, which do not care about science but about money.
It depends on what you call "simple"
Latin (still in use as a nationwide language, though only in the Vatican :)) has less letters than english, is only upper caps, and ancient versions use no ponctuation. Classical arabic (without diacriticals) has even less letters. Of course it is unreadable... I guess Hebrew is low on the amount of letters, too.
Saying that accents complicate a writing system is not so true either : you indeed get a more powerful writing system with less signs to write it. indeed, the use of doubled vowels, or particular succession of consonants, to mark particular pronunciation, is complicated too.
this specific problem is quite diferent, since indeed, Canadians are Americans, as well as Mexicans, Brazilians, and so on... Though it seems than the inhabitants of the USA consider themselves to be the only ones of any worth living on the continent.
Like you I was annoyed by that remark of the "great future teller".
Somehow though there's another thing i'd like to point out : how come computers are supposed to be unbiased, whereas humans are? The bias found in a software might usually be smaller than the average human bias, but the errors implanted into a computer will usually be unchangable - the software is always right, you see... No computer should be able to make a decision not overviewed by some human, as meteorologist will tell you. And I believe humaniour is more, not less, chaotic than that of clouds and winds.
Another typical thing of this paper is that it implies the guy is right in is prediction because the guy is rich ; and also that the effect of computers will be a better world where "every one will have more wealth". When will Americans stop equating happiness and success with money?
A very good way to avoid Carpal Syndrom, and following your point, is to take on smoking. As I began studying CS, I started smoking, and thanks to it, I am not even able to spend more than two hours in a row in front of a computer, without spending a few minutes smoking a cigaret.
Especially good, since smoking involves moving the wrist of the hand that holds the cigaret!
Save your Health! Avoid Carpal Syndrom! Take on Smoking!IANAL, but in France this wouldn't happen : there is a independant agency whose job is to rule all computer-based people databases. All databases of this kind must get approved by this agency (the CNIL), and must comply to the laws about it, such as if you want to, you can ALWAYS opt out.
This works also for governments databases BTW. On the other hand this might be a bit too intrusive, since it makes it harder to make databases about people. Yet I personnally prefer this to the american free-for-all : imagine the guy who owns Amazon and other big companies, say AOL too, gets elected president (something equivalent has recently happened in Italy), and turns out to be some kind of extremist, who will be happy to condamn people based on their opinions or anything like that. I wouldn't want to be in his files...
The big difference between ceramic superconductors and this new one is that MgB2 can be produced (and is already produced) at cheap price, and won't get used too fast. And liquid Nitrogen is not that hard to make, so it's the first time large superconductors are available.
The funny thing is that mgB2 had been first discovered in the 50's, but had never been tested for superconductivity...
Didn't the term "Caucasian" started when Northern-American Non-Native people started to search for some politically correct way to say "white"? Because the people currently living in caucasus -which form the border of Russia, Georgia and Azerbaidjan- are usually of a darker shade than most europeans. And the whitest people in the world, the albinos, can be found throughout the world, including africa.
We know so little about this subject to date that speculative revisions can be made almost yearly such is the rate of discovery. Indeed...IANAnthropologist, but I think your facts are not up to date with the most recent science.
There has been Homo Sapiens in africa, India and even China I believe, for at least 100 000 years; whereas Europe at the same times was peopled with Homo Neandertalesis, cousins of the former. Those too were intelligent (i.e. buried people...). 30 000 years ago, Sapiens from africa came over, and Neandertals somehow diseappeared.
There is a genetic figure of 7 womens who supposedly have been the mothers of all europeans ; this is based on mitochondrial DNA, but there too science changes. the calculations for 7 women were made on the supposition that Mitochondrial DNA comes only from the mother, but cases of transmission from the father too have been witnessed, so this figure might be wrong.
Civilisation didn't appear in Egypt first, but in Mesopotamia, what is now Iraq, and was at the time very fertile land ; there the first non-temporary large settlement of man known to us was found. domestication of animals and farming appeared there at about the same time
Of course. In Europe, where gun control is the usual situation, crime rates are way lower than in the U.S.A.
Why should we need reusable ships anyway? I'd bet it is both cheaper and easier to simply put a station in space and go up and down using non-reusable material, like the Russians do... On their low budget they have been able to maintain MIR for quite some time in space, haven't they?
I'm talking about governement subsidised research, not university based. If government starts behaving like a private company, it won't help
and, as it seems nobody ever heard about that, patenting is not a way of hiding anythings. Indeed, patents are public, but legally yu can't copy. However it is a way not to loose stuff whenever it falls in the Public Domain, whereas secrets can be forgotten.. as an example, the Coca Cola recipe isn't patented.