Yeah, that's about right. Last time I worked the numbers we'd need to cover 1/4 of New Mexico to do it right. More if you assume less than 100% coverage to allow for service aisles, and out-of-order allowances.
The trouble is, that's the largest engineering project humanity has ever undertaken. And there's no water in New Mexico to store the energy. Up north we have the water, but not enough sunlight.
We have plenty of war now, and that's with endless stories of civilian casualties.
I'm of the opinion that things like the photos in Vietnam of children with their faces melted off by napalm and videos like WikiLeaks released impede the ability of politicians to wage optional wars.
We're going to have the technology pretty soon to send robotic soldiers to fight fairly selective wars with fewer collateral casualties. So many of the civilian killings by soldiers result from scared soldiers acting inappropriately. I suspect this technological evolution will only increase the population's tolerance for war (fewer body bags flying home, less media sensation) and let the politicians wage war with further impunity. This opportunity will be unprecedented, so it's speculation as to how it will actually play out, but the nature of the beast seems to be that they will fight until they risk losing their elected offices.
It's almost certain that you haven't read the law, since drivers licenses are specifically listed as being documents that prove you aren't here unlawfully.
So this law ensures that you've spent at least $125. Excuse me while I pack up to go open a laminating machine business in Phoenix.
drive down to your local non-Federal police station and threaten to kill Barack Obama
Knock, knock, Neo.
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"We had a lot of sympathy for him," said juror Jason Chilton, who is a network engineer. "He was put in a position he should not have been put in.
Then they should have nullified the law - that's why we have juries. Juries have two jobs: one is to judge the crime, the other is to judge the law. Last time I sat on Jury Duty they showed an industrial training video that said pretty much the opposite. Only because I've read the US Supreme Court decisions specifically on the topic did I know better. I told the judge that I could not follow his orders if they ran contrary to natural rights and was dismissed. Others think it's better to lie and get on the jury and they have some points.
Did nobody hand out FIJA literature to these jurors?
Back in the day, the idea of the church actively supporting astronomy is kind of like the christian fundamentalists of today actively supporting evolutionary biology.
Why is it exactly that those fundamentalists think God is a moron? They assert that he can't design a system that's self-running. So, either he's not omniscient, not omnipotent, or just not as smart as the fundamentalists (given the first two they must agree that he doesn't want to make a self-running system, so they know better).
You guys are all gonna be crying a river when the FCC mandates all packets get cryptographically labelled with an asserted certificate before transit is allowed.
Most all of the real problems with Internet companies that can hurt users are already covered under fraud laws - no new powers are required. So, ask yourself why it is they want these new powers.
And NPR told me the other day the US Navy is lugging some Somali pirates back to the US for trial after the pirates attempted to board and loot not one, but two, US destroyers. These may not be the smartest pirates in the Red Sea. But they did apparently manage to get into close proximity to the ships.
They should make a 'lite' version of the system for dealing with the Somali pirate fastboats.
Watch Iron Man again. Then watch Dark Knight again. Tell me Iron Man is in the same class.
I think Iron Man is the best comic-book hero movie ever made. It's at the top of its genre, from a long line of comic-book heroes.
The Dark Knight is a fantastic drama, that just happens to be about Gotham's favorite hero. It's left the genre baggage behind and opened up a new kind of storytelling.
Which moral responsibility outweighs the other: that of saving the lives of police officers, or that of those who would be intimidated or injured through an unjustified tasing?
Or killed, that happens too. The idea of the taser is that it's to be used only when a pistol would have previously been used. That rule is out the window, they're pain devices now. Don't bet against human nature.
But as to moral principles, which of the two, the cop or the citizen is voluntarily putting himself at risk of bodily harm? Take this case for example, of a pregnant woman who was repeatedly tased for being flustered.
The "ends justifies the means" arguments are utilitarian, not respective of the natural rights of human beings as individuals.
Similarly, wouldn't creating weapons which cause less collateral damage, or less likely to cause unintended death, be a moral imperative as it would reduce the number of deaths?
Again, it's a utilitarian argument and ignores human nature - politicians with weapons that cause less PR backlash will make more war. If you're invading are the defenders combatants or collateral damage? I guess it depends who writes the history books - those are usually the people who had the best weapons and thus conquered.
Do you know what the number one killer was this last century? Governments. They shot, gassed, macheteed, or hung 110 million of their own citizens from 1910 to 2010.
Isn't heart disease or cancer just a wee bit higher on the list? It would be very effective to properly rank it, though (say it comes in at #9, a bit above breast cancer, or something like that).
The cell phone was left unattended at a bar, and while the engineer who left it unattended may be incompetent, that does not mean that the person who retrieved it is guilty of thievery.
In many jurisdictions, the requirement is to turn the property in to police, and after n days (30-90, usually) the property becomes the finder's. Until then it's presumed to belong to he who misplaced it. What's the law in Redwood Shores, CA?
This sounds like another case of Apple bullying journalists who obtain information about upcoming product releases to me
Yup. My business ran on Macs before the Think Secret case.
Everyone now wishes that somebody killed Hitler when he was a baby. It would have prevented great suffering
Ah, there's your problem - the 'sterilizer' scenario you paint is a utilitarian or "ends justify the means" argument.
Human societies progress when they discard such primitive notions and people behave based on scalable moral rules instead of egoistic designs on completely understanding chaotic systems.
How can two or more objects become linked to form a quantum entangled state and then retain that link over an infinite distance? There are some theories but we don't actually know why or how.
Which doesn't make sense but is demonstrably true - a good illustration of your point. My suspicion is that they're not separated, but appear that way from Flatland. But if that's true we barely know anything at all.
For the first season of Voyager, Kate Mulgrew seemed to think she was Katherine Hepburn. Some time after that, I presume someone gently reminded her that she wasn't.
Heh, I remember shouting at the screen, "speak up, we can't hear you if you're whispering!" God, why I did I even watch that show?
And, of course, you can run Linux on it via iSCSI or NFS. I even have a machine tha runs Xen, a CentOS 5 Dom0, a Nexenta DomU which gets physical disks for ZFS, and shares them to Fedora DomU's, all on one piece of physical hardware.
Really the only weak link is CentOS's iSCSI tools, which go out to lunch on occasion.
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It's my fault. I had to replace a few ink cartridges in my printer. That, alone, probably paid for Palm.
$79 Pre with proprietary $50 batteries that only last 6 months?
and 300 km^2 of them
Yeah, that's about right. Last time I worked the numbers we'd need to cover 1/4 of New Mexico to do it right. More if you assume less than 100% coverage to allow for service aisles, and out-of-order allowances.
The trouble is, that's the largest engineering project humanity has ever undertaken. And there's no water in New Mexico to store the energy. Up north we have the water, but not enough sunlight.
We have plenty of war now, and that's with endless stories of civilian casualties.
I'm of the opinion that things like the photos in Vietnam of children with their faces melted off by napalm and videos like WikiLeaks released impede the ability of politicians to wage optional wars.
We're going to have the technology pretty soon to send robotic soldiers to fight fairly selective wars with fewer collateral casualties. So many of the civilian killings by soldiers result from scared soldiers acting inappropriately. I suspect this technological evolution will only increase the population's tolerance for war (fewer body bags flying home, less media sensation) and let the politicians wage war with further impunity. This opportunity will be unprecedented, so it's speculation as to how it will actually play out, but the nature of the beast seems to be that they will fight until they risk losing their elected offices.
$2 words???!!! I thought you were supposed to watch Voyager because of 7 of 9...
So, give him partial credit for getting '2' right, then.
It's almost certain that you haven't read the law, since drivers licenses are specifically listed as being documents that prove you aren't here unlawfully.
So this law ensures that you've spent at least $125. Excuse me while I pack up to go open a laminating machine business in Phoenix.
drive down to your local non-Federal police station and threaten to kill Barack Obama
Knock, knock, Neo.
Then they should have nullified the law - that's why we have juries. Juries have two jobs: one is to judge the crime, the other is to judge the law. Last time I sat on Jury Duty they showed an industrial training video that said pretty much the opposite. Only because I've read the US Supreme Court decisions specifically on the topic did I know better. I told the judge that I could not follow his orders if they ran contrary to natural rights and was dismissed. Others think it's better to lie and get on the jury and they have some points.
Did nobody hand out FIJA literature to these jurors?
Back in the day, the idea of the church actively supporting astronomy is kind of like the christian fundamentalists of today actively supporting evolutionary biology.
Why is it exactly that those fundamentalists think God is a moron? They assert that he can't design a system that's self-running. So, either he's not omniscient, not omnipotent, or just not as smart as the fundamentalists (given the first two they must agree that he doesn't want to make a self-running system, so they know better).
Why do fundamentalists hate God?
You guys are all gonna be crying a river when the FCC mandates all packets get cryptographically labelled with an asserted certificate before transit is allowed.
Most all of the real problems with Internet companies that can hurt users are already covered under fraud laws - no new powers are required. So, ask yourself why it is they want these new powers.
And NPR told me the other day the US Navy is lugging some Somali pirates back to the US for trial after the pirates attempted to board and loot not one, but two, US destroyers. These may not be the smartest pirates in the Red Sea. But they did apparently manage to get into close proximity to the ships.
They should make a 'lite' version of the system for dealing with the Somali pirate fastboats.
Watch Iron Man again. Then watch Dark Knight again. Tell me Iron Man is in the same class.
I think Iron Man is the best comic-book hero movie ever made. It's at the top of its genre, from a long line of comic-book heroes.
The Dark Knight is a fantastic drama, that just happens to be about Gotham's favorite hero. It's left the genre baggage behind and opened up a new kind of storytelling.
.6: Polymer extrusion and blown film line test in low gravity for polymer chain linkage testing.
Nanotubes too. We need to figure out about lowering the tether from space.
Oh, I thought he saw it as an opportunity to not have to wait tables for a while.
Which moral responsibility outweighs the other: that of saving the lives of police officers, or that of those who would be intimidated or injured through an unjustified tasing?
Or killed, that happens too. The idea of the taser is that it's to be used only when a pistol would have previously been used. That rule is out the window, they're pain devices now. Don't bet against human nature.
But as to moral principles, which of the two, the cop or the citizen is voluntarily putting himself at risk of bodily harm? Take this case for example, of a pregnant woman who was repeatedly tased for being flustered.
The "ends justifies the means" arguments are utilitarian, not respective of the natural rights of human beings as individuals.
Similarly, wouldn't creating weapons which cause less collateral damage, or less likely to cause unintended death, be a moral imperative as it would reduce the number of deaths?
Again, it's a utilitarian argument and ignores human nature - politicians with weapons that cause less PR backlash will make more war. If you're invading are the defenders combatants or collateral damage? I guess it depends who writes the history books - those are usually the people who had the best weapons and thus conquered.
No zaphod's anytime soon.
Froody.
$8,500 is not a lot of money. $8,500 multiplied by the number of anonymous posts on services run by Google is enough to bankrupt the company.
Right. And if Orkut (Google) pulls out of Brazil to protect itself from the government, that might just start a small revolution.
Do you know what the number one killer was this last century? Governments. They shot, gassed, macheteed, or hung 110 million of their own citizens from 1910 to 2010.
Isn't heart disease or cancer just a wee bit higher on the list? It would be very effective to properly rank it, though (say it comes in at #9, a bit above breast cancer, or something like that).
The cell phone was left unattended at a bar, and while the engineer who left it unattended may be incompetent, that does not mean that the person who retrieved it is guilty of thievery.
In many jurisdictions, the requirement is to turn the property in to police, and after n days (30-90, usually) the property becomes the finder's. Until then it's presumed to belong to he who misplaced it. What's the law in Redwood Shores, CA?
This sounds like another case of Apple bullying journalists who obtain information about upcoming product releases to me
Yup. My business ran on Macs before the Think Secret case.
Everyone now wishes that somebody killed Hitler when he was a baby. It would have prevented great suffering
Ah, there's your problem - the 'sterilizer' scenario you paint is a utilitarian or "ends justify the means" argument.
Human societies progress when they discard such primitive notions and people behave based on scalable moral rules instead of egoistic designs on completely understanding chaotic systems.
How can two or more objects become linked to form a quantum entangled state and then retain that link over an infinite distance? There are some theories but we don't actually know why or how.
Which doesn't make sense but is demonstrably true - a good illustration of your point. My suspicion is that they're not separated, but appear that way from Flatland. But if that's true we barely know anything at all.
Well, they may have done so, but, overall, the movie was a step back in science fiction.
You're confused, we were talking about Star Trek.
If I ever manage to see a sunrise in Giza, no doubt I'll be subconsciously expecting the Nimoy voiceover.
FWIW, I was raised to fear. My kids wouldn't react the same way.
For the first season of Voyager, Kate Mulgrew seemed to think she was Katherine Hepburn. Some time after that, I presume someone gently reminded her that she wasn't.
Heh, I remember shouting at the screen, "speak up, we can't hear you if you're whispering!" God, why I did I even watch that show?
Not Linux per se, but the same idea is implemented nicely on ZFS through its L2ARC: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test [sun.com]
And, of course, you can run Linux on it via iSCSI or NFS. I even have a machine tha runs Xen, a CentOS 5 Dom0, a Nexenta DomU which gets physical disks for ZFS, and shares them to Fedora DomU's, all on one piece of physical hardware.
Really the only weak link is CentOS's iSCSI tools, which go out to lunch on occasion.
Weird priorities.
government priorities.