Well, gee. What if it's incredibly virulent, but kills only 5% of its hosts? What, that's only five million of every 100 million victims... who cares, right?
You're not teaching the target anything by killing them. But that's not the point; you're teaching those around the target.:)
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Here's the word on human vacuum exposure from NASA themselves. You can likely survive two minutes or so of hard vacuum exposure without serious injury; after that, you start getting busy with that whole dying thing.
You're making the (common, and easy to make) error of confusing 'heat' and 'temperature'. The temperature in Earth orbit is on the order of a million Kelvins, but you'll notice that satellites and spacewalking astronauts don't flash into vapour instantly. That's because, while the temperature is high, there isn't much heat. Temperature is the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample, whereas heat is the total amount of thermal energy contained in a sample. If you have a near vacuum, the particles can be moving insanely fast (high temperature), but they're so rarefied that the heat content is very low.
At least, I think that's generally how it goes. Anyone feel like correcting me if I've got it wrong?:)
As it stands Coca-Cola's recipe is a trade secret and the same is probably quite true for Pepsi, RC and Dr. Pepper. This means that a "perfect" copy of these drinks is never going to be possible because so long as they protect their trade secret, anyone making a exact clone would be breaking the law in "stealing a trade secret."
Actually, no, they wouldn't be breaking the law. The only real protection a trade secret has is being secret. Once it's out of the bag, the originator of the trade secret has no legal recourse against anyone using it. If the trade secret got out via corporate espionage or someone in the company violating an NDA, they can go after that person/group, but that's it. The secret's out, they're screwed.
And there's no such thing as an 'Evolutionist'. The term is a crass attempt by believers of Creationism to put the theory of evolution 'on the same ground' as their silly ideas.
Well, if you folks would simply stop overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing them with psychotic tin-pot dictators for your own economic advantage, you wouldn't need to keep going back and overthrowing them every few years, now would you?
Yes yes, survival of the fittest. Ever notice how it's always the bully that espouses this philosophy?
Actually, the primary active substance in bee venom is mellitin, a highly basic cytotoxic peptid. Wasp venom is similiar in composition, it also contains mellitin. So both are probably basic, not acidic.
The MGIS program was not "online for free" by any means. In fact, its tragic that you applaud government for giving away something paid for by taxpayers when there are numerous companies out there providing a similar product (at a very reasonable price).
So... the residents of Mass. ought to fund the MGIS program via tax dollars, and then be required to pay again to get the results of what their tax dollars paid for?
Bigger means it's gathering more light from the (hopefully to be detected) planets, increasing sensitivity, no? At least, from how I understand it works...
That's why, unlike US, they and Canada set up broadcasting as a government monopoly. Our belief that it's better to let dissent have a free voice is foreign to them.
Uh... since when is broadcasting a government monopoly here in Canada? We have the CBC, certainly, but there are plenty of private broadcasters as well.
I basically disagree with almost everything you said, by the way, and yet still agree with your hope that the US ignores this silliness. I can't stand the US administration, but Teh Intarweb seems to be working just fine with ICANN running things as they do. No need to break what doesn't need fixing... er... something like that.
It doesn't have as much to do with them threatening to stop broadcasting if they don't get their way, as it does with them threatening to cut off their payola to their purchased politicians if they don't get their way.
They've actually developed a thin plastic(?) film based off of the texture of sharkskin that they can now apply to the hulls of ships. The peculiar texture prevents bacteria and sea-flora from adhering to the hull, removing the need for toxic paints. Neat stuff.:)
Analogy Error: By taking the car, you have deprived its owner of its use, regardless of whether or not they intended to use it during the period you took it. Copyright violation does not deprive the owner of the work from its use at any time.
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Uh... because there's no money in doing so?
I'd rather point to Section 9, and have a group of elite paramilitary cyborgs 'disappear' annoying politicians... ah, one can wish...
Who would you rather have? The Bigotry Party of Canada?
Surely you dont (value) money over human lives?
Corporations do.
Well, gee. What if it's incredibly virulent, but kills only 5% of its hosts? What, that's only five million of every 100 million victims... who cares, right?
Er... wait, I thought you guys were like the 3rd Territory?
You're not teaching the target anything by killing them. But that's not the point; you're teaching those around the target. :)
Here's the word on human vacuum exposure from NASA themselves. You can likely survive two minutes or so of hard vacuum exposure without serious injury; after that, you start getting busy with that whole dying thing.
Without government force, everyone would live with these contracts.
Who enforces the contracts, though?
You're making the (common, and easy to make) error of confusing 'heat' and 'temperature'. The temperature in Earth orbit is on the order of a million Kelvins, but you'll notice that satellites and spacewalking astronauts don't flash into vapour instantly. That's because, while the temperature is high, there isn't much heat. Temperature is the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample, whereas heat is the total amount of thermal energy contained in a sample. If you have a near vacuum, the particles can be moving insanely fast (high temperature), but they're so rarefied that the heat content is very low.
:)
At least, I think that's generally how it goes. Anyone feel like correcting me if I've got it wrong?
As it stands Coca-Cola's recipe is a trade secret and the same is probably quite true for Pepsi, RC and Dr. Pepper. This means that a "perfect" copy of these drinks is never going to be possible because so long as they protect their trade secret, anyone making a exact clone would be breaking the law in "stealing a trade secret."
:)
Actually, no, they wouldn't be breaking the law. The only real protection a trade secret has is being secret. Once it's out of the bag, the originator of the trade secret has no legal recourse against anyone using it. If the trade secret got out via corporate espionage or someone in the company violating an NDA, they can go after that person/group, but that's it. The secret's out, they're screwed.
IANAL, of course.
What, you think they'll actually use real data in those Powerpoint presentations to the shareholders? What a strange fantasy world you live in. ;)
It indescriminately hides any file beginning with "$sys$". Not just its own files. Any file. Now tell me this isn't a rootkit.
Nonono, it's 'Intelligent Design moron whackos'.
And there's no such thing as an 'Evolutionist'. The term is a crass attempt by believers of Creationism to put the theory of evolution 'on the same ground' as their silly ideas.
Well, if you folks would simply stop overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing them with psychotic tin-pot dictators for your own economic advantage, you wouldn't need to keep going back and overthrowing them every few years, now would you?
Yes yes, survival of the fittest. Ever notice how it's always the bully that espouses this philosophy?
Actually, the primary active substance in bee venom is mellitin, a highly basic cytotoxic peptid. Wasp venom is similiar in composition, it also contains mellitin. So both are probably basic, not acidic.
So what you're saying is... you have no idea what the theory of evolution is actually about, right?
Evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life. That's the theory of abiogenesis.
The MGIS program was not "online for free" by any means. In fact, its tragic that you applaud government for giving away something paid for by taxpayers when there are numerous companies out there providing a similar product (at a very reasonable price).
So... the residents of Mass. ought to fund the MGIS program via tax dollars, and then be required to pay again to get the results of what their tax dollars paid for?
Bigger means it's gathering more light from the (hopefully to be detected) planets, increasing sensitivity, no? At least, from how I understand it works...
That's why, unlike US, they and Canada set up broadcasting as a government monopoly. Our belief that it's better to let dissent have a free voice is foreign to them.
Uh... since when is broadcasting a government monopoly here in Canada? We have the CBC, certainly, but there are plenty of private broadcasters as well.
I basically disagree with almost everything you said, by the way, and yet still agree with your hope that the US ignores this silliness. I can't stand the US administration, but Teh Intarweb seems to be working just fine with ICANN running things as they do. No need to break what doesn't need fixing... er... something like that.
It doesn't have as much to do with them threatening to stop broadcasting if they don't get their way, as it does with them threatening to cut off their payola to their purchased politicians if they don't get their way.
They've actually developed a thin plastic(?) film based off of the texture of sharkskin that they can now apply to the hulls of ships. The peculiar texture prevents bacteria and sea-flora from adhering to the hull, removing the need for toxic paints. Neat stuff. :)
Because excess complexity is usually wrong anyway?
Analogy Error: By taking the car, you have deprived its owner of its use, regardless of whether or not they intended to use it during the period you took it. Copyright violation does not deprive the owner of the work from its use at any time.
You're mistaking 'kink' for 'fetish'. Stop it.