The evidence has accumulated that we live in a universe that's much stranger than we'd believed. I think that's cool. And what about that rules out MOND?
What she SHOULD do is start her own marathon -- the 2007 Space Marathon! She'll win because she'll be the only one in it. Oh those Kenyans will find a way to win, somehow.
Let's see, so your primary complaints about CA are that they forced you to have a cleaner running car and next they may cause CT to use secure and well verified voting machines. Did I get that right?
Read the FAQ dude. It's an American company run by American's. Obviously it's available to the world since everything on the internet is. Everyone is welcome to participate, but just because you wish it wasn't an American site doesn't make it so.
I'm the one who said IP. I didn't say it by mistake, but from the context it should have been obvious I talking about media companies IP and not pharmaceutical companies IP. That's an unrelated and much more complex issue.
LoL. I guess the real answer is directly related to how many people weren't saved because the IP cost too much for the patient to afford the relevant medical procedure or medicine that used the IP.
Umm, the GP was talking about the DMCA and the RIAA/MPAA. Your comment is related to that... how?
By your argument, the enjoyment that comes from reading a book is the same as the pleasure that comes from drugs, is that right?
It may not be exactly the same as it is a different feeling. But as a motivator yes, I would say they are no different. People do things that make them feel good on some level. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just the way we work.
I already knew that your government wasn't listening to me, because I'm not a US citizen.
You mean you know that the US government is listening to you because you're not a US citizen. They supposedly can't listen to their own citizens, they use British intelligence for that.
Lots of people on/. aren't, you know
We know but it's irrelevant./. is unabashedly a US based and US-centric site.
Again, only at the most basic level. If you really believe that this is all we are, then you really are one of the moist robots Scott Adams likes to go on about. For most people, there are more profound motivators than perceived pleasure.
Interesting, so what motivates you?
Money maybe? But you don't enjoy that? Family, perhaps? But you don't enjoy them? Making the world a better place? But you don't enjoy that? Creative expression? But you don't enjoy that? Educational achievement? But you don't enjoy that? Building a legacy to be remembered by future generations? But you don't enjoy that?
So what is your great motivator that you gain no pleasure from, I'm curious.
I would say yes to alcohol, however we've tried that before and things didn't go so well.
And we tried it again with other drugs, and it's going just as poorly. Apparently we don't learn from our mistakes.
The problem is that once you decide to take something away, you have to be willing to do whatever it takes to then enforce the law. Most of the time, "whatever it takes" means taking even more away from the people.
You are exactly right about that, and not just in theory. The War on Drugs has been every bit as useful as the War on Terror for justifying more and more government and police powers. It started with banning substance the government had no right banning and now due to the ban they can confiscate the cars, computers, and houses of people just because those substances are found inside.
Somehow I get the feeling that's not what the founding fathers meant by "government for the people"
They even go on to say how great it would be for everyone because then the government will be able to collect taxes in the same manner they do with tobacco. Last time I checked, not very many people grow tobacco in their backyards and make cigarettes in their basements.
Last time I checked, not very many people distill whiskey in their backyards either. Not anymore at least, but they used to back during alcohol prohibition.
Why does anyone think dealers give the government a cut of their lucrative business?
Because it's cheaper and easier to make drugs following the law then it is do it illegal. What happened to all the bootleggers and speakeasies? When alcohol prohibition ended the illegal booze trade was no longer profitable.
With that in mind it doesn't take a huge leap of logic to figure out how we can end the massive drug cartels which cause so much damage and corruption south of the border that Tijuana police can't even be trusted to carry guns anymore; and how to end the gang violence that causes so many deaths in American cities each year; and solve the major prison overcrowding issues that states like California are wrestling with.
Logic has no place in pro-drug arguments, because there is nothing logical about (ab)using these drugs in the first place
Are you kidding? There is nothing more logical than changing a policy that is a spectacular failure in every imaginable way. It's widely reported that it is easier for school kids to get illegal drugs than it is for them to get beer. Tell me, is that the end result the War on Drugs was going for? Then why are we spending all this money just to turn otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals and draining resources from truly important areas of law enforcement? To answer that one only has to follow the money.
Logic has no place in anti-drug arguments, because there is nothing logical about prohibiting a fucking plant put on this earth by God himself for our enjoyment.
I think the big achievement here is having created an algorithm that can simulate the supernova, not so much the CPU power needed to run the simulation.
If you say 'cat file1 > file2', with the Unix model this is the same as copying a file, but it would lose streams.
cat works exactly as it should in that example. If you are using "cat" to copy files then you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't duplicate the file exactly because that's not what it's for. It would be a mistake to make cat dump file attributes to STDOUT since that would break most correct usages of the command.
That said, I suppose it might be a neat idea if there was something like STDATT in addition to STDOUT and STDERR. That could be a useful way to do what you want.
The problem with hurricane's is actually that they are still very unpredictable. Sure days out you are warned that there is a X% chance of being hit by a Cat Y storm, but because the course and the strength of the storm's are so erratic it's not until the last minute that you truly know what the effect will be on your region.
Note that I used the phrase "[he] shows a very good understanding of the religion of his critics." I specifically referred to Hawkins religious critics because I know that they don't you, me, or most of the people of the world.
I am also a strong agnostic and your beliefs appear to be pretty much the same as mine. I however slightly disagree with your labeling of what you call "second-level religion". I suppose technically it's religion in the same sense that Theravada Buddhism is considered a religion, but realistically it's something quite different.
Interesting perspective. I know it's pretty much a matter of semantics, but Christians believe God is a spiritual being. Even though the spiritual world is immaterial and can't be detected or measured by us, Christian's would hardly call it nothing.
If that's not the case, then atheists and Christian's both believe God is nothing. That's quite a bit more common ground then either side seems to be aware of.
...while Hawking appears to suggest that nothing made it happen
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I agree the diesel restriction is outdated, but IIRC California is supposed to be losing the outdated Diesel restrictions soon. Is that wrong?
Or better yet, stop bitching since it's a good idea using CA emission guidelines.
Let's see, so your primary complaints about CA are that they forced you to have a cleaner running car and next they may cause CT to use secure and well verified voting machines. Did I get that right?
Wow, what a bunch of kooks. How dare they!
It's almost accurate though if you only count translations as movement. I know, it's a stretch...
Read the FAQ dude. It's an American company run by American's. Obviously it's available to the world since everything on the internet is. Everyone is welcome to participate, but just because you wish it wasn't an American site doesn't make it so.
I'm the one who said IP. I didn't say it by mistake, but from the context it should have been obvious I talking about media companies IP and not pharmaceutical companies IP. That's an unrelated and much more complex issue.
Umm, the GP was talking about the DMCA and the RIAA/MPAA. Your comment is related to that... how?
By your argument, the enjoyment that comes from reading a book is the same as the pleasure that comes from drugs, is that right?
It may not be exactly the same as it is a different feeling. But as a motivator yes, I would say they are no different. People do things that make them feel good on some level. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just the way we work.
I already knew that your government wasn't listening to me, because I'm not a US citizen.
/. aren't, you know
/. is unabashedly a US based and US-centric site.
You mean you know that the US government is listening to you because you're not a US citizen. They supposedly can't listen to their own citizens, they use British intelligence for that.
Lots of people on
We know but it's irrelevant.
Money maybe? But you don't enjoy that?
Family, perhaps? But you don't enjoy them?
Making the world a better place? But you don't enjoy that?
Creative expression? But you don't enjoy that?
Educational achievement? But you don't enjoy that?
Building a legacy to be remembered by future generations? But you don't enjoy that?
So what is your great motivator that you gain no pleasure from, I'm curious.
Somehow I get the feeling that's not what the founding fathers meant by "government for the people"
With that in mind it doesn't take a huge leap of logic to figure out how we can end the massive drug cartels which cause so much damage and corruption south of the border that Tijuana police can't even be trusted to carry guns anymore; and how to end the gang violence that causes so many deaths in American cities each year; and solve the major prison overcrowding issues that states like California are wrestling with.Are you kidding? There is nothing more logical than changing a policy that is a spectacular failure in every imaginable way. It's widely reported that it is easier for school kids to get illegal drugs than it is for them to get beer. Tell me, is that the end result the War on Drugs was going for? Then why are we spending all this money just to turn otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals and draining resources from truly important areas of law enforcement? To answer that one only has to follow the money.
Logic has no place in anti-drug arguments, because there is nothing logical about prohibiting a fucking plant put on this earth by God himself for our enjoyment.
I think the big achievement here is having created an algorithm that can simulate the supernova, not so much the CPU power needed to run the simulation.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm guessing people born disabled never acquired the impulses needed to move their limbs.
If you say 'cat file1 > file2', with the Unix model this is the same as copying a file, but it would lose streams.
cat works exactly as it should in that example. If you are using "cat" to copy files then you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't duplicate the file exactly because that's not what it's for. It would be a mistake to make cat dump file attributes to STDOUT since that would break most correct usages of the command.
That said, I suppose it might be a neat idea if there was something like STDATT in addition to STDOUT and STDERR. That could be a useful way to do what you want.
The problem with hurricane's is actually that they are still very unpredictable. Sure days out you are warned that there is a X% chance of being hit by a Cat Y storm, but because the course and the strength of the storm's are so erratic it's not until the last minute that you truly know what the effect will be on your region.
Enlightening? I'd be very hesitant to call anyone proposing that a supercollider will create an earth destroying black hole as enlightening.
Oh sure, that's brilliant. Kill yourself then you end up in Google News where the whole world can keep tabs on you.
Note that I used the phrase "[he] shows a very good understanding of the religion of his critics." I specifically referred to Hawkins religious critics because I know that they don't you, me, or most of the people of the world.
I am also a strong agnostic and your beliefs appear to be pretty much the same as mine. I however slightly disagree with your labeling of what you call "second-level religion". I suppose technically it's religion in the same sense that Theravada Buddhism is considered a religion, but realistically it's something quite different.
If that's not the case, then atheists and Christian's both believe God is nothing. That's quite a bit more common ground then either side seems to be aware of.
But if God is nothing...
If you ask Physicist (Quantum mechanics), he/she would say, universe is "nothing" (it is just a perception created by our consciousness).
Have you actually tried this? I'm having a hard time believing that is the standard answer you'd get from a physicist.