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I'm not sure the DOT, paid for through fuel taxes and registration fees paid *directly by the people that are using that infrastructure* can really be thrown into the socialist mould. Probably the same for municipal water/trash/sewer.
Maybe I'm being too critical, but my opinion boils down to this: If you work hard at something, you deserve to reap the benefits. If you do not work hard at something, you deserve nothing.
So because you've done something the hard way, others shouldn't be able to do it the easy way when that becomes possible? How about you start using this if/when it becomes available to normal people and stop working harder than you already are to get the same results?
One of the problems with wanting to lose weight is by the time you become a large tub, you no longer have enough muscle to move around and exercise
Or you could, you know, reduce calorie intake and do something less strenuous like walking for a half hour each day to keep your metabolism from crashing.
A morbidly obese individual can drop 100lbs of pure fat in 6 months doing that - I've done it.
If they made their tracking "services" an opt-in proposition, *that* would prove to me and probably all other Google skeptics that they truly were out to do no evil
As much as I like the I idea of "Don't Be Evil" as an unofficial motto, I can't buy into to idea of classifying every action that is not overtly good as Evil by default.
There are a lot of things that people, companies, groups, governments and others do that are pretty much guaranteed to piss someone off or run afoul of their moral code even if most other people consider it benign.
Opt-out search: Yes, that sucks. Yes, that's a pain in the ass. Yes, you have every right to get up on a soapbox and rally against it.
You might want to actually *read* the article you linked to:
The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties
I won't try and say that the residue left in those computers by cigarette smoke doesn't have carcinogens in it, but nicotine isn't one of them.
Of 2,900 students in the study who had had a drink in the past month, 39% of those who had mixed an energy drink with alcohol had ridden with a drunk driver, compared with 23% of those who had a plain alcoholic drink. More than 12% of students who had consumed an energy drink with alcohol had been hurt or injured, compared with 6% who had consumed a plain alcoholic drink.
They determined that Hydrogen Sulfide did not work in Pigs despite working in Mice. It seems doubtful that it will work in humans as pigs are a much closer analog to us.
I was disappointed with all the jokers saying they forgot what they were going to post but then I realized they could all actually be from the same person...
They probably wouldn't make a good representative sample, but you could take the source code of projects that were formerly closed and subsequently opened to see how many errors they averaged. The ID engines come immediately to mind.
Like I mentioned in the last sentence, it relies on the expectation that a gravity wave passing through an area would stretch one dimension of space while contracting another perpendicular to it.
If it causes all dimensions (including time) to expand and contract simultaneously, it can't work.
Of course, I have to defer my understanding of gravity waves to those who study this stuff for a living and have experimentally verified a large body of the predictions made by general relativity.
It's important to note that this is being pushed for in Oregon. There are a lot of people in Portland that drive miles in southern Washington state. If they go by the odometer alone, they'd have to tax for miles not driven on roads paid for by said taxes.
A gravity wave, as derived from the theory of relativity, doesn't specify that the gravitational constant would oscillate - simply that the shifting of large masses, like co-orbital black holes and such, will distort spacetime in wavelike manner. Those perturbations of spacetime would travel from their origin outward at the speed of light.
It's best to think of it in terms of the bowling-ball-on-a-rubber-sheet analogy of space-time. If you take a large mass like a bowling ball and set it in the middle of a large rubber sheet, it will depress deeply nearby and taper off the further away from it you go on that sheet. If that bowling ball magically disappeared, there would be a wave that travelled across that sheet as well as if you had 2 bowling balls spinning around each other.
The way we've been trying to detect gravity waves so far (LIGO) uses lasers set up at right angles so if space were to compress or stretch in one dimension, the beams the were previously in phase would shift apart. This can detect a stretching of spacetime equal to a fraction of the wavelength of light used in the lasers.
In actuality, it is the change in the behavior of spacetime that lets us measure in that manner, but if the wave were to stretch spacetime in all dimensions, LIGO couldn't work. Hope that explains it.
I seem to recall an experimental observation in the last few years involving Jupiter, through which they verified with about 90% certainty that the speed at which gravity propagates through space/time is equal to the speed of light.
It seems like it WOULD be better, especially because you could look at an entire page on the thing. Now with 21 inch monitors I can do that anyway, but what was it that caused our landscape monitors to become standardized like they are?
It probably had to do with the desirability of reading fewer but full lines of output instead of reading additional lines that were truncated, wrapped or created with a smaller character set. Once we got to GUIs running on bitmapped monitors where portrait orientation was a useful feature for page layout, they started to come back in a niche fashion. There was at least one CRT I've seen that could rotate 90 degrees on its stand and there are several LCDs available right now that do the same.
Better still, they could rule out known plain texts if the message was created on an enigma with a reflector rotor as a letter could never be encoded as itself.
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Wouldn't a rigid carbon nanotube be a very thin and low mass inanimate carbon rod?
Well played, sir... Well played
I'm not sure the DOT, paid for through fuel taxes and registration fees paid *directly by the people that are using that infrastructure* can really be thrown into the socialist mould. Probably the same for municipal water/trash/sewer.
You can certainly argue it. It's when it's passed off as a foregone conclusion that the teeth gnashing kicks in.
So because you've done something the hard way, others shouldn't be able to do it the easy way when that becomes possible? How about you start using this if/when it becomes available to normal people and stop working harder than you already are to get the same results?
Or you could, you know, reduce calorie intake and do something less strenuous like walking for a half hour each day to keep your metabolism from crashing.
A morbidly obese individual can drop 100lbs of pure fat in 6 months doing that - I've done it.
Can I live some place with Whole Foods, gun shops and no Yoga studios or Megachurches? Maybe with a computer store or two nearby?
'Segregation' and stratification can still be close to continuous in reality.
As much as I like the I idea of "Don't Be Evil" as an unofficial motto, I can't buy into to idea of classifying every action that is not overtly good as Evil by default.
There are a lot of things that people, companies, groups, governments and others do that are pretty much guaranteed to piss someone off or run afoul of their moral code even if most other people consider it benign.
Opt-out search: Yes, that sucks. Yes, that's a pain in the ass. Yes, you have every right to get up on a soapbox and rally against it.
Evil? Grow up.
"That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."
"Tell that to someone with Polio"
You might want to actually *read* the article you linked to:
I won't try and say that the residue left in those computers by cigarette smoke doesn't have carcinogens in it, but nicotine isn't one of them.
causality is overrated anyway
I don't think "society" is a requirement for that
I would think this would be better:
http://www.eternalimage.net/star_trek.php
They determined that Hydrogen Sulfide did not work in Pigs despite working in Mice. It seems doubtful that it will work in humans as pigs are a much closer analog to us.
I was disappointed with all the jokers saying they forgot what they were going to post but then I realized they could all actually be from the same person...
They probably wouldn't make a good representative sample, but you could take the source code of projects that were formerly closed and subsequently opened to see how many errors they averaged. The ID engines come immediately to mind.
Like I mentioned in the last sentence, it relies on the expectation that a gravity wave passing through an area would stretch one dimension of space while contracting another perpendicular to it.
If it causes all dimensions (including time) to expand and contract simultaneously, it can't work.
Of course, I have to defer my understanding of gravity waves to those who study this stuff for a living and have experimentally verified a large body of the predictions made by general relativity.
It's important to note that this is being pushed for in Oregon. There are a lot of people in Portland that drive miles in southern Washington state. If they go by the odometer alone, they'd have to tax for miles not driven on roads paid for by said taxes.
A gravity wave, as derived from the theory of relativity, doesn't specify that the gravitational constant would oscillate - simply that the shifting of large masses, like co-orbital black holes and such, will distort spacetime in wavelike manner. Those perturbations of spacetime would travel from their origin outward at the speed of light.
It's best to think of it in terms of the bowling-ball-on-a-rubber-sheet analogy of space-time. If you take a large mass like a bowling ball and set it in the middle of a large rubber sheet, it will depress deeply nearby and taper off the further away from it you go on that sheet. If that bowling ball magically disappeared, there would be a wave that travelled across that sheet as well as if you had 2 bowling balls spinning around each other.
The way we've been trying to detect gravity waves so far (LIGO) uses lasers set up at right angles so if space were to compress or stretch in one dimension, the beams the were previously in phase would shift apart. This can detect a stretching of spacetime equal to a fraction of the wavelength of light used in the lasers.
In actuality, it is the change in the behavior of spacetime that lets us measure in that manner, but if the wave were to stretch spacetime in all dimensions, LIGO couldn't work. Hope that explains it.
I seem to recall an experimental observation in the last few years involving Jupiter, through which they verified with about 90% certainty that the speed at which gravity propagates through space/time is equal to the speed of light.
A little googling turned this up:
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2003/gravity/index-p.shtml
Here's a youtube video of this material being demonstrated on a show in Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JceDaEMIHKE
It has about the consistency I imagined but the transition to solid happens much more completely than I would have thought.
Already on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAN-STARRS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope
It probably had to do with the desirability of reading fewer but full lines of output instead of reading additional lines that were truncated, wrapped or created with a smaller character set. Once we got to GUIs running on bitmapped monitors where portrait orientation was a useful feature for page layout, they started to come back in a niche fashion. There was at least one CRT I've seen that could rotate 90 degrees on its stand and there are several LCDs available right now that do the same.
Better still, they could rule out known plain texts if the message was created on an enigma with a reflector rotor as a letter could never be encoded as itself.