I beleive you are missing something here. Momentum systems and energy systems are related closely. Take billiards as an example of the conservation of momentum. The balls hit each other and go off at different calculable angles and speeds, right? And the theory says the balls should bounce off each other forever, right? I think not. The energy is lost in the sound of the balls colliding, a little heat energy, and most of all friction. Momentum systems can and do lose energy, some people call it entropy.
I checked and double checked.. I never said "lost" and I said the energy would be transformed, so then we agree? I dont know, stupid text speech and it's lacking physical asthetics...
And don't knock the theoretical part science... I bet you wouldn't bad mouth sub-atomic physics like that.
The ocean's sloshing action has no more effect on the Earth's rotation or the moon's orbit than water sloshing in a glass on a train affects the speed or direction of said train.
Extracting energy from the tides will no more affect the earth's spinning than putting up windmills to extract energy from the wind does.
It just depends on how much energy you subtract from the system. You can make a effect apparent, but I will admit that it may not be likely. Since the oceans do effect the rotation of the earth:
then subtracting energy from the oceans *may* have an noticable effect *if* the energy is great enough. Even if it is not enough energy there will still be an effect (just not detectable by our instruments)
It might not slow down the Earth and here's why... the oceans slow down the Earth by about 1/1000th of a second every year. If the energy is being taken from the ocean the tidal force *might* be reduced because the energy will be rerouted to my laptop. If the ocean has less energy then the force applied againts the earth should be less and it might speed up. Then we'll have to change the saying to 23:59/7
If good and evil are truly relative, them murdering your family can be completely justified.
You only have to justify it to yourself, and if/when other don't agree with your actions then the concept of evil becomes relative. You can completly justify murdering your family... at least to yourself and maybe to a few others in the world. The others won't agree with you though and hence good and evil are not absolute
Good and evil are relative and to say otherwise is to say that your perception of them is absolute.
Good and Evil do not exist in nature... we percieve it, it is an invention of our minds, the concept wouldn't exist if we didn't exist, and consequently our perception of it is relative.
Some say stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family is evil, while others say it is evil to let a family go hungry.
In this situation most of us can agree that the tragedy was evil, but that does not preclude it from being relative.
This line train of thought makes sense especially when you are trying to defend tools. If good and evil are measurable and absolute then you could measure the evil in a tool. How evil is an object? How do you measure good or evil? You can't since the concept exists only in our minds and that means a tool cannot be good or evil... just what we percieve it to be.
here is their contact info, lets let them know that greedy actions like this will cost them our business... that is if we use windows in the first place heh heh;)
Toll-Free Number
800-833-6687
U.S. and Canadian customers can get recorded information about how to order products, determine the status of an order, or contact a customer service representative.
San Jose Corporate Headquarters
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, California 95110-2704
USA
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000
I am glad that that patent is closer to getting busted up but really... who cares about there patent? Hasn't anyone noticed that there patent isn't on "one click shopping" but rather "one action shopping"? That means if we can incorporate another action like a mouse over into the purchasing method then we have "one click and one mouse over" shopping wich is distinct and different than amazons "one action purchase over a network" patent!!
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:) all in good fun! That sounds like an intersing book. Galileo is a hero of science.
I beleive you are missing something here. Momentum systems and energy systems are related closely. Take
billiards as an example of the conservation of momentum. The balls hit each other and go off at different calculable angles and speeds, right? And the theory says the balls should bounce off each other forever, right? I think not. The energy is lost in the sound of the balls colliding, a little heat energy, and most of all friction. Momentum systems can and do lose energy, some people call it entropy.
I checked and double checked.. I never said "lost" and I said the energy would be transformed, so then we agree? I dont know, stupid text speech and it's lacking physical asthetics...
And don't knock the theoretical part science... I bet you wouldn't bad mouth sub-atomic physics like that.
The ocean's sloshing action has no more effect on the Earth's rotation or the moon's orbit than water sloshing in a glass on a train affects the speed or direction of said train.
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Extracting energy from the tides will no more affect the earth's spinning than putting up windmills to extract energy from the wind does.
It just depends on how much energy you subtract from the system. You can make a effect apparent, but I will admit that it may not be likely. Since the oceans do effect the rotation of the earth:
http://www.iit.edu/~johnsonp/smart00/lesson4.ht
http://www.itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/
then subtracting energy from the oceans *may* have an noticable effect *if* the energy is great enough. Even if it is not enough energy there will still be an effect (just not detectable by our instruments)
It might not slow down the Earth and here's why... the oceans slow down the Earth by about 1/1000th of a second every year. If the energy is being taken from the ocean the tidal force *might* be reduced because the energy will be rerouted to my laptop. If the ocean has less energy then the force applied againts the earth should be less and it might speed up. Then we'll have to change the saying to 23:59/7
a zombie process ate my memory
I can't remember the exact story but I remember it ended with:
"... and then the Sys Admin emailed the client an the email read 'We've traced the packets and the pings are coming from inside the house! Get Out!'"
If good and evil are truly relative, them murdering your family can be completely justified.
You only have to justify it to yourself, and if/when other don't agree with your actions then the concept of evil becomes relative. You can completly justify murdering your family... at least to yourself and maybe to a few others in the world. The others won't agree with you though and hence good and evil are not absolute
Good and evil are relative and to say otherwise is to say that your perception of them is absolute.
Good and Evil do not exist in nature... we percieve it, it is an invention of our minds, the concept wouldn't exist if we didn't exist, and consequently our perception of it is relative.
Some say stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family is evil, while others say it is evil to let a family go hungry.
In this situation most of us can agree that the tragedy was evil, but that does not preclude it from being relative.
This line train of thought makes sense especially when you are trying to defend tools. If good and evil are measurable and absolute then you could measure the evil in a tool. How evil is an object? How do you measure good or evil? You can't since the concept exists only in our minds and that means a tool cannot be good or evil... just what we percieve it to be.
here is their contact info, lets let them know that greedy actions like this will cost them our business... that is if we use windows in the first place heh heh ;)
Toll-Free Number
800-833-6687
U.S. and Canadian customers can get recorded information about how to order products, determine the status of an order, or contact a customer service representative.
San Jose Corporate Headquarters
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, California 95110-2704
USA
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000
I am glad that that patent is closer to getting busted up but really... who cares about there patent? Hasn't anyone noticed that there patent isn't on "one click shopping" but rather "one action shopping"? That means if we can incorporate another action like a mouse over into the purchasing method then we have "one click and one mouse over" shopping wich is distinct and different than amazons "one action purchase over a network" patent!!