I do believe my opinion matters, I'm not sure where you got the idea that I don't. But it also matters to realize how the voting system actually works in order to make the best of your vote within the limitations of the system. If you don't acknowledge the problems with our system then you can't ever change anything. You are certainly free to try and voice your opinion by voting for an obscure third party candidate, or by yelling at the people working at the polls, but you should realize at least that in our current system neither of those things will accomplish what you hope they will.
How cute, look at the little idealist thinking that voting third party makes some sort of meaningful statement in Presidential elections.
Unfortunately some day you will realize that the problem isn't with the people voting D and R, but with the system that makes those the only options if you want your vote to count for anything.
Of course this only really matters if you live in a swing state. Most people don't, so odds are you can vote third party, or you can not vote at all, and it won't change a thing.
Your comment doesn't make sense. If hydrogen is the only fusion reaction that produces energy then stars would collapse after enough helium accumulates in the core. That they actually collapse when fusion of iron begins indicates that iron is the first element that requires more energy to fuse than it produces.
Sure, it's been used. But there are very limited situations where this is practical. Certainly almost none of the encryption on the internet could be done this way. The difficulty of distributing pads can't be hand-waved away.
What does affect me are large swings in usability that make a browser annoying to use - like the removal of the status bar, or whatever bug has been added to Webkit that causes the hyper annoying "no paste" in some slashdot comment boxes on Safari.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I have that "no paste" problem in Chrome too. Hate it.
Plenty of people think riding horses is fun too. You can have it. Personally I can think of plenty of things I rather be doing then holding onto a wheel and staring at a strip of asphalt while dodging other drivers.
The odds of you winning the lottery is not made 1 by concluding that if you didn't win the lottery, you wouldn't be thinking about winning the lottery.
No, but the odds of you thinking about what a miracle it is that you won the lottery is 0 if you don't actually win.
The properties of dark matter are basically a human construct, we can't directly observe the stuff but its existence is the best explanation we have so far for how galaxies are structured. There are flaws in our understanding of the universe, every scientist obviously understands this because they go to work each day to try and fix those flaws. I'm not sure why this is scary to you.
Collisions are interactions. If dark matter doesn't interact with anything, then it doesn't collide with anything.
Also, dark matter wouldn't magically start orbiting black holes, it would just start orbiting it like normal matter. However, when a lot of normal matter clusters around a black hole it starts interacting thus giving up energy and falling deeper into the gravitational well.
It's not a meaningless statement. Spider silk is stronger then steel... it's also remarkably thin. A spider web made of steel strands that were only 3 microns thick would also be easy to walk through. Strength is also different from toughness. Things like diamonds which can not withstand sharp impacts are not tough, but they can still be strong.
Liberals want anyone making more money than they need to have the rest taxed away.
That is not the liberal position at all. Liberals want fair and economically sustainable tax rates. Liberals don't like taxes more then anyone else, but they also don't try to pretend that the government can do the things we want it to do without them.
How are hardware buttons less discoverable then buttons on the screen? Seems to me hardware buttons are at least as discoverable as buttons on screen, if not more so.
That said, Android is moving away from hardware buttons too. They will be replaced with standard software buttons controlled by the system.
The only reason I made the distinction, is that having a hotspot is a lot more flexible than just tethering support...
Generally true, but I'm glad to have both as an option on my phone. If I'm not sharing the network with anyone else I generally use the USB tether since it uses way less power.
The stuff that's emitted isn't actually coming from the black hole, it comes from the accretion disk around the black hole. Do some reading on quasars for more information.
650 million years has nothing to do with anything, that's only the lights travel time. Ignore it. The quasar stopped 200,000 years ago from our frame of reference. The lights travel time to get to earth is irrelevant and seems to be only confusing you.
You're trying to be too clever, the lights travel time is irrelevant. When light from an event reaches us, that is when the event happened as far as we are concerned.
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I do believe my opinion matters, I'm not sure where you got the idea that I don't. But it also matters to realize how the voting system actually works in order to make the best of your vote within the limitations of the system. If you don't acknowledge the problems with our system then you can't ever change anything. You are certainly free to try and voice your opinion by voting for an obscure third party candidate, or by yelling at the people working at the polls, but you should realize at least that in our current system neither of those things will accomplish what you hope they will.
How cute, look at the little idealist thinking that voting third party makes some sort of meaningful statement in Presidential elections.
Unfortunately some day you will realize that the problem isn't with the people voting D and R, but with the system that makes those the only options if you want your vote to count for anything.
Of course this only really matters if you live in a swing state. Most people don't, so odds are you can vote third party, or you can not vote at all, and it won't change a thing.
Your comment doesn't make sense. If hydrogen is the only fusion reaction that produces energy then stars would collapse after enough helium accumulates in the core. That they actually collapse when fusion of iron begins indicates that iron is the first element that requires more energy to fuse than it produces.
Sure, it's been used. But there are very limited situations where this is practical. Certainly almost none of the encryption on the internet could be done this way. The difficulty of distributing pads can't be hand-waved away.
One-time pads will always be strong encryption, but they are impractical to the point of uselessness for the vast majority of our uses.
I did figure out that work around a few weeks ago, but that doesn't excuse the original problem.
Right, like that makes a difference.
What does affect me are large swings in usability that make a browser annoying to use - like the removal of the status bar, or whatever bug has been added to Webkit that causes the hyper annoying "no paste" in some slashdot comment boxes on Safari.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I have that "no paste" problem in Chrome too. Hate it.
Plenty of people think riding horses is fun too. You can have it. Personally I can think of plenty of things I rather be doing then holding onto a wheel and staring at a strip of asphalt while dodging other drivers.
The odds of you winning the lottery is not made 1 by concluding that if you didn't win the lottery, you wouldn't be thinking about winning the lottery.
No, but the odds of you thinking about what a miracle it is that you won the lottery is 0 if you don't actually win.
The properties of dark matter are basically a human construct, we can't directly observe the stuff but its existence is the best explanation we have so far for how galaxies are structured. There are flaws in our understanding of the universe, every scientist obviously understands this because they go to work each day to try and fix those flaws. I'm not sure why this is scary to you.
Collisions are interactions. If dark matter doesn't interact with anything, then it doesn't collide with anything.
Also, dark matter wouldn't magically start orbiting black holes, it would just start orbiting it like normal matter. However, when a lot of normal matter clusters around a black hole it starts interacting thus giving up energy and falling deeper into the gravitational well.
It's not a meaningless statement. Spider silk is stronger then steel... it's also remarkably thin. A spider web made of steel strands that were only 3 microns thick would also be easy to walk through. Strength is also different from toughness. Things like diamonds which can not withstand sharp impacts are not tough, but they can still be strong.
Yeah, keepassdroid is great, by far one of the most useful apps on my phone. They are working on 2.0 database support though, it's read only now.
Wow, I'm awestruck by your cleverness. You truly are as superior to everyone as you think.
I've no problem with awesomebar. It works fine for me.
Liberals want anyone making more money than they need to have the rest taxed away.
That is not the liberal position at all. Liberals want fair and economically sustainable tax rates. Liberals don't like taxes more then anyone else, but they also don't try to pretend that the government can do the things we want it to do without them.
The bacteria were dormant when discovered, think suspended animation. Being in that state prolonged existence is more likely then reproduction.
How are hardware buttons less discoverable then buttons on the screen? Seems to me hardware buttons are at least as discoverable as buttons on screen, if not more so.
That said, Android is moving away from hardware buttons too. They will be replaced with standard software buttons controlled by the system.
How is that? Isn't the flash plugin also an h.264 decoder which would be required to pay license fees?
Joe Biden's mansion? You might want to check your facts on that one.
The only reason I made the distinction, is that having a hotspot is a lot more flexible than just tethering support...
Generally true, but I'm glad to have both as an option on my phone. If I'm not sharing the network with anyone else I generally use the USB tether since it uses way less power.
The stuff that's emitted isn't actually coming from the black hole, it comes from the accretion disk around the black hole. Do some reading on quasars for more information.
650 million years has nothing to do with anything, that's only the lights travel time. Ignore it. The quasar stopped 200,000 years ago from our frame of reference. The lights travel time to get to earth is irrelevant and seems to be only confusing you.
You're trying to be too clever, the lights travel time is irrelevant. When light from an event reaches us, that is when the event happened as far as we are concerned.