My wife says it's boring because it wasn't done by three guys in Hamtramck who bolted a V8 onto a Harley and made a fairing out of oil drums.
I find it interesting because it is about engineering. "IndyCars", on the other hand, are boring. All the cars are identical so it's just about the drivers. Who cares about the drivers?
> Competition in the ADSL market will be totally eliminated, and Canadians will > have only two choices for wired Internet access: the local Cableco or the > local Telco.
Surely you don't want competition. That means a market, and all the evils of capitalism! You want good, old-fashioned regulated monopolies! Or better yet, just nationalize the telcos and cablecoms and everything will be just fine.
> People really need to think about the compromise that they are making when > they make their FB profiles and info visible to anyone but their immediate > friends.
People really need to think about the compromise that they are making when they make their FB profiles and info visible to anyone.
Or better, people really need to think about the compromise that they are making when they make their FB profiles.
> We are entitled to free speech in the USA, which includes Texas...
But Austin, Texas, despite being the capital of Texas, is actually in California. Just ask any Texan. And in California you can go to jail for criticizing Scientology.
These craters are at Luna's South pole. Their interiors are shadowed both from the sun and from the Earth. Think about it. If Earthshine could reach them so could sunlight.
> I'd still argue that works of the state belong to the people and aren't > subject to copyright restrictions.
That's a moral argument, not a legal one. In the USA works of the Federal goverment are not protected by copyright but the state governments can enforce copyright on their works under some circumstances if their own laws permit it. There is some case law that indicates that actual legislation may not be protected by copyright but this is a book about the law, not the law itself.
> I assume this professor is a state employee of Oregon as an employee of the > University of Oregon... I wonder if he puts his job in danger by opposing his > employer like that.
Google "tenure" and "academic freedom". If they were to try to fire him over this they'd get both a lawsuit and a strike and lose both.
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My wife says it's boring because it wasn't done by three guys in Hamtramck who bolted a V8 onto a Harley and made a fairing out of oil drums.
I find it interesting because it is about engineering. "IndyCars", on the other hand, are boring. All the cars are identical so it's just about the drivers. Who cares about the drivers?
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> Competition in the ADSL market will be totally eliminated, and Canadians will
> have only two choices for wired Internet access: the local Cableco or the
> local Telco.
Surely you don't want competition. That means a market, and all the evils of capitalism! You want good, old-fashioned regulated monopolies! Or better yet, just nationalize the telcos and cablecoms and everything will be just fine.
> There's a reasonably probability that the half with the "real" vaccine will > have less car accidents...
Statistical significance.
...why don't you just do so?
> I won't be surprised if this is not repealed soon.
It would have to be enacted first.
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> ...the physical keyboard will fade into oblivion.
Followed closely by the "touch interface" once voice recognition becomes mature. Then illiteracy will reign supreme.
> ...allowing us to communicate through sheer willpower.
Until the vendor catches you thinking wrong thoughts and shuts down your mind.
> Oh, did I mention illicit drug use? I guess that makes the Lisp part
> redundant.
No. The Lisp programming makes the illicit drug use redundant.
> People really need to think about the compromise that they are making when
> they make their FB profiles and info visible to anyone but their immediate
> friends.
People really need to think about the compromise that they are making when they make their FB profiles and info visible to anyone.
Or better, people really need to think about the compromise that they are making when they make their FB profiles.
No. I said and meant L1.
> Sorry, you lost me as to what the Lagrange Points have to do with it.
An object at Earth-Sun L1 tidally locked to the Earth would see Earthshine only.
> I was thinking, if the Moon were tidally locked to the Sun instead of Earth
> (I know, not possible), or had one pole always tilted toward the Sun.
There are all sorts of theoretical possibilities.
> We are entitled to free speech in the USA, which includes Texas...
But Austin, Texas, despite being the capital of Texas, is actually in California. Just ask any Texan. And in California you can go to jail for criticizing Scientology.
> However, you are wrong about shaded by from the Sun necessarily implying
> shaded from Earth...
Not for the general case: consider the Earth-Sun L1 point. For the Moon specifically.
Next month we'll find out. LCROSS
These craters are at Luna's South pole. Their interiors are shadowed both from the sun and from the Earth. Think about it. If Earthshine could reach them so could sunlight.
I think you may have slept through a few decades. The ITU says 4.1 billion cellphone subscriptions by the end of 2008.
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Well over 4 billion have electricity.
The world literacy rate is about 82%: about 5 billion. link
> But does this have any practical use?
Yes. Mining water.
> that says it all.
Only about works of the the Federal government. It does not apply to the states.
> I'd still argue that works of the state belong to the people and aren't
> subject to copyright restrictions.
That's a moral argument, not a legal one. In the USA works of the Federal goverment are not protected by copyright but the state governments can enforce copyright on their works under some circumstances if their own laws permit it. There is some case law that indicates that actual legislation may not be protected by copyright but this is a book about the law, not the law itself.
> I assume this professor is a state employee of Oregon as an employee of the
> University of Oregon... I wonder if he puts his job in danger by opposing his
> employer like that.
Google "tenure" and "academic freedom". If they were to try to fire him over this they'd get both a lawsuit and a strike and lose both.
Read up on stem cells.
> So, stop me if I'm way off base, but might it be impossible to detect gravity
> waves?
Proving that they cannot be detected would be exactly the same as proving that they do not exist.