Personally, I'm in favour of a nice, simple system where if a politician makes a promise before an election and then breaks it, a court can remove him or her from office.
That's nice in theory, but what if the guy promisses tax-cuts and after the election the economy has drastically overheated? Or if he promises to pull troops from [Iraq/country X] because it's safe to do so without the country collapsing/being taken over by a New Strong Guy, and the situation suddenly changes?
As I see it, you vote on a candidate based on prior actions and current promises, and then give some slack if (s)he has to go back on them after getting elected if the situation changes (quickly/drastically). Your proposal does not have that flexibility.
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No, I assume that they originate from a planet similar to ours. Of course we shouldn't restrict ourselves and not keep our eyes open for other possibilities, but the only hard evidence of (intelligent) life we have found in this solar system is made of meat.
You're quite right, but having a planet similar to ours is only part of the equation of getting in touch with E.T. You'll also have the probability of (sufficiently) intelligent life arising - and creating technology. On top of this you'll have to factor in the distances, if we ever want to visit each other: the less the probability of a technological advanced civilization arising, the larger the probability of the distance to them being large.
I'm heartbroken that policies explicitly cover "business information" without mentioning personal financial information,
I'm not gonna defend these actions, but I have to say that if you were A Bad Guy, your personal finances would be an obvious thing to look at when searching for evidence - so it's not really that surprising/strange/illogical I would say. (aside from the fact that your whole company could be Evil but wouldn't get investigated!)
Well, if you compare him to his farther I'd say he looks more white than black. In any case, he was raised by a white mother among predominately white people, so I refraise my question: are you always black if you're not completely white? (no chinaman-jokes please)
Well, if you want something that uses low power while playing 1080p you can always use something like DViCO or similar instead of Apple TV. And if you really feel like protesting (and breaking the copyright law in most countries!!), getitonthe pirate bay without DRM.
Follow Mr. Jefferson's advice: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." "Hurry up Mr. Jefferson! To the blood bank - that tree needs refreshing, stat!"
Actually they can't get away with the "fake torrent" stuff either [...] Since they were working with the blessing of the **AA, what that means is that anyone downloading from one of those torrents isn't guilty of copyright infringement, since the download was made available with the knowledge and consent of the **AA. You forget that downloaders are also uploaders, so if **AA connect with another client that doesn't have the file(s), the other downloaders will start uploading to that one.
And I don't think it matters who you upload to - even the copyright holder. You don't have permission to distribute, period. (and here someone will provide a link to the court case where they argue it's not infringing to upload to an authorized agent of the copyright holder)
I know I'm slightly off topic here, but since I'm considering making a quit, low power PC for HD (720p and maybe also 1080p) media playing, I'd like to know what other hardware you have in that PC, and if it's a home-built or a brand-name. Could you please elaborate?
Capital punishment comes to mind. They are the killing people while they complain about us downloading a few movies. It's lunacy. Now, now. It's perfectly okay for the state to kill its citizens in most civilized contries, such as China, Iran, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Syria, and the US of A.
Most proton therapy machines are cyclotron based, making them cheaper than synchrotron based accelerators. However, they cannot produce beams of different energies (corresponding to different penetration depths), and one has to use energy degraders to obtain lower energies, which unfortunately also degrades the beam quality (increases its emittance).
Being a physicist and not a medical doctor this is not my area of expertise, but as I see it carbon is increasingly interesting and believed more effective than protons because the mean free path for carbon is around the distance between the two DNA spirals increasing the likelihood of a double-strand break - almost certainly killing the cancer cell.
This is the kind of reason why most of the real Free World does not have the death penalty. Uhm, it could also be because we believe that it is wrong to kill a human, period.
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Personally, I'm in favour of a nice, simple system where if a politician makes a promise before an election and then breaks it, a court can remove him or her from office.
That's nice in theory, but what if the guy promisses tax-cuts and after the election the economy has drastically overheated? Or if he promises to pull troops from [Iraq/country X] because it's safe to do so without the country collapsing/being taken over by a New Strong Guy, and the situation suddenly changes?
As I see it, you vote on a candidate based on prior actions and current promises, and then give some slack if (s)he has to go back on them after getting elected if the situation changes (quickly/drastically). Your proposal does not have that flexibility.
Therefor saying that he expressed digust over Obama is pushing it a bit. [...] Perhaps he just had wind, who knows.
If that really was the case he would have had a look of relief on his face (possibly followed by a look of disgust a few seconds later).
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No, I assume that they originate from a planet similar to ours. Of course we shouldn't restrict ourselves and not keep our eyes open for other possibilities, but the only hard evidence of (intelligent) life we have found in this solar system is made of meat.
You're quite right, but having a planet similar to ours is only part of the equation of getting in touch with E.T. You'll also have the probability of (sufficiently) intelligent life arising - and creating technology. On top of this you'll have to factor in the distances, if we ever want to visit each other: the less the probability of a technological advanced civilization arising, the larger the probability of the distance to them being large.
I'm heartbroken that policies explicitly cover "business information" without mentioning personal financial information,
I'm not gonna defend these actions, but I have to say that if you were A Bad Guy, your personal finances would be an obvious thing to look at when searching for evidence - so it's not really that surprising/strange/illogical I would say. (aside from the fact that your whole company could be Evil but wouldn't get investigated!)
your definition is fucked then. The camcorder version is most definitely piracy. [...]
Look I am a huge downloader of music and movies but I am not gonna lie to myself and say I have done nothing wrong. Honestly I just don't care.
Illegal != wrong
Indeed we do.
The odds against it happening elsewhere are ... well ... astronomical.
The universe contains a very large number of elsewhere.
Yes, but what are the chances they are close by? I wanna know the probability density.
Well, if you compare him to his farther I'd say he looks more white than black. In any case, he was raised by a white mother among predominately white people, so I refraise my question: are you always black if you're not completely white? (no chinaman-jokes please)
His dad was black, his mom's white, so how does that make him more black than white?
Well, if you want something that uses low power while playing 1080p you can always use something like DViCO or similar instead of Apple TV. And if you really feel like protesting (and breaking the copyright law in most countries!!), get it on the pirate bay without DRM.
And I don't think it matters who you upload to - even the copyright holder. You don't have permission to distribute, period. (and here someone will provide a link to the court case where they argue it's not infringing to upload to an authorized agent of the copyright holder)
I know I'm slightly off topic here, but since I'm considering making a quit, low power PC for HD (720p and maybe also 1080p) media playing, I'd like to know what other hardware you have in that PC, and if it's a home-built or a brand-name. Could you please elaborate?
If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Exactly! We have many rights, but the right to not be offended is not one of them.
Fight words with words, using logic and facts.
Yes.
Oh - and those licenses, we don't need them: you copyrights are void.
The New York Times (I know, not a video, but if they had one they'd leak it for sure)
It's just a DNS thing, so using something like OpenDNS circumvents it easily.
This subject is actually quite up my alley. Siemens Medical Solutions are offering a combined proton and carbon therapy facility. They use a synchrotron based accelerator that can accelerate protons and carbon (and also oxygen). The accelerator part is made by the Danish company Danfysik - where I'm employed as an accelerator physicist - based on a heavily modified version of the Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapie (HIT) facility.
Most proton therapy machines are cyclotron based, making them cheaper than synchrotron based accelerators. However, they cannot produce beams of different energies (corresponding to different penetration depths), and one has to use energy degraders to obtain lower energies, which unfortunately also degrades the beam quality (increases its emittance).
Being a physicist and not a medical doctor this is not my area of expertise, but as I see it carbon is increasingly interesting and believed more effective than protons because the mean free path for carbon is around the distance between the two DNA spirals increasing the likelihood of a double-strand break - almost certainly killing the cancer cell.
You gotta love the Finnish courts: breaking CSS okay