One major difference: the box experiment was not actual communication. The person in the box never sent out messages of his own devising for the people on the other end, nor was there any attempt to send meaning to the person in the box.
Communication attempts among humans that speak different languages involves negotiated transmission of meaning. If dolphins have a language, and we can get the dolphins to attach these whistles to the same referrents as we do, the prerequisites for such a negotiation are met. Whether such negotiation will be successful is certainly open to question, but cannot be determined until we actually try.
Actually, Sweeden is very much a capitalist country. It's #29 of 155 on the Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom Index, putting it in the uppermost quintile of countries, and outranking Italy (32), Portugal (32), Spain (35), Norway (38), France (39), and Greece (48).
Sorry, guys, but you're absolutely capitalist by international standards.
No, there are easy answers as to how Third World nations can develop quickly.
South Korea in 1950 was a Third World state with no industry in the middle of a war. In 1980, it was one of the most developed nations on Earth, its people wealthier than those of the long-industrialized German Democratic Republic.
The easy answer is, "Look at what South Korea and Taiwan did, and adapt it to your country."
Well, the difference is that OPEC was charging 1/3 of what it charges now, and the federal excise taxes and state sales taxes on gasoline are percentages instead of fixed cents-per-gallon. That right there adds up to a minimum increase of 40 cents per gallon.
And plenty of people in OPEC countries were and are starving. Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Algeria, and Nigeria are all rather poor countries, despite the money they make selling oil.
The English and creative writing courses in America are taught by the kind of people who honor James Joyce. Which is like learning biology from a creationist, astronomy from a Ptolemaic, or chemistry from a man researching the Philosopher's Stone.
A reader over at Plastic expressed concern that humans should perhaps not be buying upgrades for their own bodies.
What the hell does he think glasses and contacts are? Or clothing and kitchen knives?
And if he specifically objects to integrated devices, how about pacemakers, hip replacement surgery, bone pins...
There is no logically defensible line between defect/illness correction and capability enhancement; so there is no way in reason to reject the latter without rejecting the former.
The only-go-down situation is why I've moved on to a new account, both when my 98-karma account was capped and when my replacement hit 50. It's not that I karma whore, it's that it's just nice to have a tangible indicator that people appreciate your posts. When you're an aspiring writer who heats your apartment by burning rejection notices, you take encouragement where you can get it.
Moderation-wise, I do it because I want to encourage good posters. I don't really give a damn if it makes it easier on readers, or if metamoderators like my choices, or if it improves/.; I just want to give good posters their due. I don't go to too much effort to hunt for deserving posts, though; I figure anybody who consistently produces good stuff will be noticed by someone.
IMO, your reading would be correct if it said "No one other than Apple has the right to issue subsequent licenses that provide different terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License", or something similar.
However, No one other than Apple has the right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License is not limited by the previous clauses. Apple can issue the statement that "Pursuiant to our right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code under the APSL 1.2, further distribution of code under the APSL 1.2 is prohibited."
In that scenario, Apple didn't issue a new or revised license with different terms and a different version number; they merely exercised discretion (implicitly) granted in 1.2.
Anyway, on a hobbyist level, I wouldn't worry about it. But if a company whose stock I own used code under the APSL 1.2 for a major project, I'd sell immediately.
Actually, it is theoretically possible that the closest common ancestor of two species was identical to one of the two. An isolated population can theoretically become a distinct species while the main branch remains unchanged.
Actually, that's not necessarily true. A subpopulation of a species that is isolated can evolve into a new species while the main species remains (basically) the same.
Please spend a few minutes researching before posting.
For that to happen, he'd have to spend a few seconds thinking before posting. And there isn't time for thinking, we've got to attack the megacorps NOW!
Oh, it's a frustrating pile of shit; the writers took a brilliant concept and managed to mangle it.
First, the rift was supposedly caused by three Enterprises sending a specific beam at a specific spot. But only two Enterprises sent the beam -- the third was the Pasteur.
Second, when the Pasteur arrived at the scene, there was no rift. And the rift supposedly gets bigger as it goes back in time, not the other way around. So, when the Enterprise arrives later, there shouldn't be any rift -- but there should have been one on sensors as the Pasteur approached.
Therefore, the rift must be Q fantasy, not a real threat to humanity. And Picard's "leap", a conclusion on which he killed three crews and for which Q praised him, was actually a conclusion inconsistent with the facts displayed in the episode.
Yes, there's some case law out there about Prodigy being held responsible because it used prior review to censor specific posts on its old proprietary message boards. How that precedent applies to Usenet cases is pretty debatable, due to the many unique features of the Prodigy boards and review method.
As far as the French bit -- France doesn't have physical jurisdiction over Yahoo servers in other countries. Yahoo could have discontinued all operations physically in France and continued its services uncensored, since France would not have jurisdiction. France could then have tried a China-style nationwide filtering if it so wished, which wouldn't have affected anyone not in France any more than the Chinese filtering affects anyone outside of China.
So Yahoo is only being censored in the U.S. because Yahoo has chosen to continue physical operations in a country whose political traditions are Robspierre and Napoleon instead of Jefferson and Washington, or even Locke and Cromwell.
Actually, all this case says is that if you're hosting illegal content on your own servers, and you have been informed of this, and you take no steps to correct it, you will be held responsible for h
hosting illegal content on your servers.
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One major difference: the box experiment was not actual communication. The person in the box never sent out messages of his own devising for the people on the other end, nor was there any attempt to send meaning to the person in the box.
Communication attempts among humans that speak different languages involves negotiated transmission of meaning. If dolphins have a language, and we can get the dolphins to attach these whistles to the same referrents as we do, the prerequisites for such a negotiation are met. Whether such negotiation will be successful is certainly open to question, but cannot be determined until we actually try.
Actually, Sweeden is very much a capitalist country. It's #29 of 155 on the Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom Index, putting it in the uppermost quintile of countries, and outranking Italy (32), Portugal (32), Spain (35), Norway (38), France (39), and Greece (48).
Sorry, guys, but you're absolutely capitalist by international standards.
He isn't trying to be part of a rational discussion. He's a troll. Don not feed the trolls.
SubtleNuance is a troll; his handle itself is an ironic statement on his posting style.
No, there are easy answers as to how Third World nations can develop quickly.
South Korea in 1950 was a Third World state with no industry in the middle of a war. In 1980, it was one of the most developed nations on Earth, its people wealthier than those of the long-industrialized German Democratic Republic.
The easy answer is, "Look at what South Korea and Taiwan did, and adapt it to your country."
Well, the difference is that OPEC was charging 1/3 of what it charges now, and the federal excise taxes and state sales taxes on gasoline are percentages instead of fixed cents-per-gallon. That right there adds up to a minimum increase of 40 cents per gallon.
And plenty of people in OPEC countries were and are starving. Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Algeria, and Nigeria are all rather poor countries, despite the money they make selling oil.
The English and creative writing courses in America are taught by the kind of people who honor James Joyce. Which is like learning biology from a creationist, astronomy from a Ptolemaic, or chemistry from a man researching the Philosopher's Stone.
A reader over at Plastic expressed concern that humans should perhaps not be buying upgrades for their own bodies.
What the hell does he think glasses and contacts are? Or clothing and kitchen knives?
And if he specifically objects to integrated devices, how about pacemakers, hip replacement surgery, bone pins...
There is no logically defensible line between defect/illness correction and capability enhancement; so there is no way in reason to reject the latter without rejecting the former.
The only-go-down situation is why I've moved on to a new account, both when my 98-karma account was capped and when my replacement hit 50. It's not that I karma whore, it's that it's just nice to have a tangible indicator that people appreciate your posts. When you're an aspiring writer who heats your apartment by burning rejection notices, you take encouragement where you can get it.
/.; I just want to give good posters their due. I don't go to too much effort to hunt for deserving posts, though; I figure anybody who consistently produces good stuff will be noticed by someone.
Moderation-wise, I do it because I want to encourage good posters. I don't really give a damn if it makes it easier on readers, or if metamoderators like my choices, or if it improves
We are not orbiting an average star. While the Sun is in the middle of the Main Sequence, it is brighter than 96% of the stars in the galaxy.
That doesn't mean that there aren't lots of stars like the Sun; it just means we don't orbit an average one.
If you release code without a license (and without specifically stating it's in the public domain), it's copyrighted. Nobody else can legally use it.
(I am not a lawyer)
IMO, your reading would be correct if it said "No one other than Apple has the right to issue subsequent licenses that provide different terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License", or something similar.
However, No one other than Apple has the right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License is not limited by the previous clauses. Apple can issue the statement that "Pursuiant to our right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code under the APSL 1.2, further distribution of code under the APSL 1.2 is prohibited."
In that scenario, Apple didn't issue a new or revised license with different terms and a different version number; they merely exercised discretion (implicitly) granted in 1.2.
Anyway, on a hobbyist level, I wouldn't worry about it. But if a company whose stock I own used code under the APSL 1.2 for a major project, I'd sell immediately.
Actually, it is theoretically possible that the closest common ancestor of two species was identical to one of the two. An isolated population can theoretically become a distinct species while the main branch remains unchanged.
Actually, that's not necessarily true. A subpopulation of a species that is isolated can evolve into a new species while the main species remains (basically) the same.
Please spend a few minutes researching before posting.
For that to happen, he'd have to spend a few seconds thinking before posting. And there isn't time for thinking, we've got to attack the megacorps NOW!
And if I am? If God wants to stop me, he knows where my aorta is.
Yes, but all the nitrogen-coolables are ceramics; this is the highest-temp metallic.
Actually, eMachines sells fairly well. 1999 market percentages for home PC sales:
COMPAQ : 19.0%
HP : 16.1%
Gateway : 15.3%
eMachines : 11.0%
Packard Bell NEC : 7.3%
All Others : 31.3%
(Dell shows up as #1 in the buisness and educational markets, where eMachines doesn't rank in the top 5).
Oh, please. DS9 kicked TNG's ass. The proper order is DS9, TOS, TNG, VOY.
R2D2 was the only other being aboard the fighter with Anakin when Anakin blew up the Trade Federation ship.
After all, if somebody tries to cross a picket line, it's only right to try to flip his car over with him in it.
Actually, it's an FTL particle or class of particles that may really exist; its supposed characteristics don't contradict current physics.
Oh, it's a frustrating pile of shit; the writers took a brilliant concept and managed to mangle it.
First, the rift was supposedly caused by three Enterprises sending a specific beam at a specific spot. But only two Enterprises sent the beam -- the third was the Pasteur.
Second, when the Pasteur arrived at the scene, there was no rift. And the rift supposedly gets bigger as it goes back in time, not the other way around. So, when the Enterprise arrives later, there shouldn't be any rift -- but there should have been one on sensors as the Pasteur approached.
Therefore, the rift must be Q fantasy, not a real threat to humanity. And Picard's "leap", a conclusion on which he killed three crews and for which Q praised him, was actually a conclusion inconsistent with the facts displayed in the episode.
OTOH, it was less crappy than Star Trek 5.
Yes, there's some case law out there about Prodigy being held responsible because it used prior review to censor specific posts on its old proprietary message boards. How that precedent applies to Usenet cases is pretty debatable, due to the many unique features of the Prodigy boards and review method.
As far as the French bit -- France doesn't have physical jurisdiction over Yahoo servers in other countries. Yahoo could have discontinued all operations physically in France and continued its services uncensored, since France would not have jurisdiction. France could then have tried a China-style nationwide filtering if it so wished, which wouldn't have affected anyone not in France any more than the Chinese filtering affects anyone outside of China.
So Yahoo is only being censored in the U.S. because Yahoo has chosen to continue physical operations in a country whose political traditions are Robspierre and Napoleon instead of Jefferson and Washington, or even Locke and Cromwell.
Actually, all this case says is that if you're hosting illegal content on your own servers, and you have been informed of this, and you take no steps to correct it, you will be held responsible for h
hosting illegal content on your servers.