Julian Assange is not charged with rape, but rather some kind of sexual "misconduct".
Actually, the word "rape" is in fact on the paperwork that Sweden used to start the extradition process, BUT Assange is not charged with anything: He's wanted for "questioning".
He still gets a lot of use. Assholes worship him, comedians speculate about what they would do to him if they had a time machine... he still gets mileage.
Well, each one of these superpositioned states effectively corresponds to a separate universe, since they a) don't normally interact with one another, and b) there is no way to single out one superpositioned state as more "real" than the others, so all the other states should be as real as ours.
Which is why Occams' razor brings us to the Copenhagen interpretation where there is just a unique universe. A multiverse of infinite mass... come on.
Why doesn't shit like this get moderated +5 Interesting?
I was replying to a +5 that displayed this kind of logic: "to accuse Greene of being "a cheerleader" for multiverse theory, a stance that puts him in the same camp, it says, as other notable physics propagandists.... such as Stephen Hawking. Whoah, hanging out in some bad company there."
He was denying that the widely distributed idea was propaganda by using the fallacy of authority... clearly we're dealing with a crowd that enjoys a good fallacy.
those who hold to the Copenhagen understanding are willing to say that a wave function involves the various probabilities that a given event will proceed to certain different outcomes. But when one or another of those more- or less-likely outcomes becomes manifest the other probabilities cease to have any function in the real world. So if an electron passes through a double slit apparatus there are various probabilities for where on the detection screen that individual electron will hit. But once it has hit, there is no longer any probability whatsoever that it will hit somewhere else. Many-worlds interpretations say that an electron hits wherever there is a possibility that it might hit, and that each of these hits occurs in a separate universe.
Instead of modifying them for shorter lifespans, wouldn't it make more sense to modify them so that they, you know, don't carry dengue fever? Or failing that, modify them so that the females quickly die after first exposure to dengue? I'm not really sure that creating a mosquito that lives fast, dies young, and leaves a beautiful corpse really helps with the "not spreading disease" goal...
Current gene modification technology basically works by breaking things and looking and what that did. They got a fully functional mosquito that dies faster than the time it takes to infect people on average... they reproduce it in captivity and flood the area with these guys hoping that this will make a significant dent in the rate of infection.
Your idea would require technology beyond what people are currently capable of. It would be awesome, but so would jetpacks that suck in mosquitoes for fuel .
mobile phones as detonators. The bomber's handler, who is usually watching his charge, sends the bomber a text message to set off the explosive belt at the moment when it is thought they can inflict maximum casualties
I think this is the kind of terrorism we can all get behind - where the terrorist blows himself up without harming other people.
Why assume the delivery boy knows what he's delivering?
By this time, The Times’s relationship with our source had gone from wary to hostile. I talked to Assange by phone a few times and heard out his complaints. He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets.
The Times is claiming that "it turned out" that Wikileaks made people targets to the Taliban? But the Pentagon dropped that pretense back in summer 2010! What the hell, The Times?
Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
The "civilians" were armed insurgents, apparently associated with running firefights and rocket attacks through the night. They were also probably in violation of curfew, which would once again make them targets. (You noticed how empty the streets were, right?)
The children should have been left behind by the insurgents attempting to rescue their comrades.
No: Innocent bystanders and journalists. You don't get to just label anyone "insurgent" to justify shooting them.
That car was there because he was bringing the children home from school, he saw people who were injured and stopped to help them, and he and the children were shot. By cowards hiding faraway, shooting armor-piercing explosive shells.
Yeah, those are forbidden to use against people, making this a clear war crime.
the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year" in spite of the fact that Julian Assange had 10 times the number of votes.
massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video)
Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
In this context, spam means web sites that don't actually contain any real content, just junk text, lists of keywords, etc., together with paid links or banner ads and the like. They won't answer any question you may have, unless you are asking to see more spam. There is more and more of this crap, and it dominates some web search queries.
I think that according to google, these days, Spam is defined as advertising not profiting google itself:(
The metric doesn't always capture the things that the users care about.
Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness.
I hate how searches with a word that has recently been in the news get flooded with crap from the newscycle. I wish I knew a way to tell google's filters that stale results are fine and/or better than fresh ones.
Slashdot Mirror
So Anonymous is kind of like Earth First folks.
Have you ever seen them in the same room? Maybe they're the same person!
If you kill/imprison the people calling themselves Anonymous the attacks stop either way regardless if they're one group or many groups.
I am Spartacus!
I'm not saying we're perfect, but we're closer to it than all these other countries.
And you will keep believing the truthyness of it no matter what the facts are.
Julian Assange is not charged with rape, but rather some kind of sexual "misconduct".
Actually, the word "rape" is in fact on the paperwork that Sweden used to start the extradition process, BUT Assange is not charged with anything: He's wanted for "questioning".
If they know how you learned what you know then they'll know what else you could have learned and what you couldn't have learned that way.
Jesus Christ! Is that a sentence, or a one-time pad?
Sorry about dropping that word... Try reading it in Rumselfd's voice: If they know how you learned what you know
I can't see why they wouldn't declassify it too
If they how you learned what you know then they'll know what else you could have learned and what you couldn't have learned that way.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Entomopter
No one single thing sank the titanic
Hubris sank the Titanic.
The guy in the three thousand dollar suit is gonna let the popular viewpoint be challenged? COME ON!
Does anyone actually use Stonehenge for its intended purposes?
A gathering spot?
Hitler Died, He was a tool.
He still gets a lot of use. Assholes worship him, comedians speculate about what they would do to him if they had a time machine... he still gets mileage.
Well, each one of these superpositioned states effectively corresponds to a separate universe, since they a) don't normally interact with one another, and b) there is no way to single out one superpositioned state as more "real" than the others, so all the other states should be as real as ours.
Which is why Occams' razor brings us to the Copenhagen interpretation where there is just a unique universe. A multiverse of infinite mass... come on.
Why doesn't shit like this get moderated +5 Interesting?
I was replying to a +5 that displayed this kind of logic: "to accuse Greene of being "a cheerleader" for multiverse theory, a stance that puts him in the same camp, it says, as other notable physics propagandists.... such as Stephen Hawking. Whoah, hanging out in some bad company there."
He was denying that the widely distributed idea was propaganda by using the fallacy of authority... clearly we're dealing with a crowd that enjoys a good fallacy.
Why all the negative spin in the summary?
those who hold to the Copenhagen understanding are willing to say that a wave function involves the various probabilities that a given event will proceed to certain different outcomes. But when one or another of those more- or less-likely outcomes becomes manifest the other probabilities cease to have any function in the real world. So if an electron passes through a double slit apparatus there are various probabilities for where on the detection screen that individual electron will hit. But once it has hit, there is no longer any probability whatsoever that it will hit somewhere else. Many-worlds interpretations say that an electron hits wherever there is a possibility that it might hit, and that each of these hits occurs in a separate universe.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
The manyworlds thing is a boon for sci-fi, but it would be nice to hear about less fantastic interpretations. For a change.
Instead of modifying them for shorter lifespans, wouldn't it make more sense to modify them so that they, you know, don't carry dengue fever? Or failing that, modify them so that the females quickly die after first exposure to dengue? I'm not really sure that creating a mosquito that lives fast, dies young, and leaves a beautiful corpse really helps with the "not spreading disease" goal...
Current gene modification technology basically works by breaking things and looking and what that did. They got a fully functional mosquito that dies faster than the time it takes to infect people on average... they reproduce it in captivity and flood the area with these guys hoping that this will make a significant dent in the rate of infection.
Your idea would require technology beyond what people are currently capable of. It would be awesome, but so would jetpacks that suck in mosquitoes for fuel .
mobile phones as detonators. The bomber's handler, who is usually watching his charge, sends the bomber a text message to set off the explosive belt at the moment when it is thought they can inflict maximum casualties
I think this is the kind of terrorism we can all get behind - where the terrorist blows himself up without harming other people.
Why assume the delivery boy knows what he's delivering?
By this time, The Times’s relationship with our source had gone from wary to hostile. I talked to Assange by phone a few times and heard out his complaints. He was angry that we declined to link our online coverage of the War Logs to the WikiLeaks Web site, a decision we made because we feared — rightly, as it turned out — that its trove would contain the names of low-level informants and make them Taliban targets.
The Times is claiming that "it turned out" that Wikileaks made people targets to the Taliban?
But the Pentagon dropped that pretense back in summer 2010! What the hell, The Times?
Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
Let me guess.... "collateral murder"?
The "civilians" were armed insurgents, apparently associated with running firefights and rocket attacks through the night. They were also probably in violation of curfew, which would once again make them targets. (You noticed how empty the streets were, right?)
The children should have been left behind by the insurgents attempting to rescue their comrades.
No: Innocent bystanders and journalists. You don't get to just label anyone "insurgent" to justify shooting them.
That car was there because he was bringing the children home from school, he saw people who were injured and stopped to help them, and he and the children were shot. By cowards hiding faraway, shooting armor-piercing explosive shells.
Yeah, those are forbidden to use against people, making this a clear war crime.
We already knew that fact. This is just more proof for the giant pile.
This isn't proof of anything you dumb sheep! HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, you idiot.
the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year" in spite of the fact that Julian Assange had 10 times the number of votes.
Meh, *I* was person of the year before that.
If his ego gets any bigger
A producer made a deal with a writer, you parse that as "the subject the author chose has a big ego".
Damn, people suck.
massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video)
Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
Sheeple.
I've switched to other search engines;
Which, and why? Seriously, aside from Bing (the greater evil), what's our options?
In this context, spam means web sites that don't actually contain any real content, just junk text, lists of keywords, etc., together with paid links or banner ads and the like. They won't answer any question you may have, unless you are asking to see more spam. There is more and more of this crap, and it dominates some web search queries.
I think that according to google, these days, Spam is defined as advertising not profiting google itself :(
The metric doesn't always capture the things that the users care about.
Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness.
I hate how searches with a word that has recently been in the news get flooded with crap from the newscycle. I wish I knew a way to tell google's filters that stale results are fine and/or better than fresh ones.