Power outlets?? God! You are a newbie! Do you really like those 50/60 Hz hums and their harmonics? Batteries or capacitors, man! That's the way to get clean power.
And what is objective moral truth in a theistic context?
The will of God(s) as communicated through the prophets. [...] I think religious opinion is pretty unified on that point.
If you use the broader definition of "theistic": Wrong. That's only true of religions that have prophets. With many others (esp. tribal ones), it is "this is what our ancestors have done". With some others religions (esp. the famous eastern ones), discussing what's morally "right" could be no different from how non-theists discuss what's morally "right" -- this is the best case scenario, and not what usually happens. In any case, there are no prophets who are assumed to have communicated the will/word of god.
If you use the narrower definition of "theistic", i.e. "God as personal, present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe": Wrong. Theistic opinion may still be unified on that point. Religious opinion is not.
The advantage of AC for distributing power over a distance is due to the ease of changing voltages using a transformer. Available power is the product of current × voltage at the load. For a given amount of power, a low voltage requires a higher current and a higher voltage requires a lower current. Since metal conducting wires have an almost fixed electrical resistance, some power will be wasted as heat in the wires. This power loss is given by Joule's laws and is proportional to the square of the current. Thus, if the overall transmitted power is the same, and given the constraints of practical conductor sizes, high-current, low-voltage transmissions will suffer a much greater power loss than low-current, high-voltage ones. This holds whether DC or AC is used.
Converting DC power from one voltage to another requires a large spinning rotary converter or motor-generator set, which was difficult, expensive, inefficient, and required maintenance, whereas with AC the voltage can be changed with simple and efficient transformers that have no moving parts and require very little maintenance. This was the key to the success of the AC system. Modern transmission grids regularly use AC voltages up to 765,000 volts.[11] Power electronic devices such as the mercury arc valve and thyristor made high-voltage direct current transmission practical by improving the reliability and efficiency of conversion between alternating and direct current.
Alternating-current transmission lines have losses that do not occur with direct current. Due to the skin effect, a conductor will have a higher resistance to alternating current than to direct current; the effect is measurable and of practical significance for large conductors carrying thousands of amperes. The increased resistance due to the skin effect can be offset by changing the shape of conductors from a solid core to a braid of many small wires. However, total losses in systems using high-voltage transmission and transformers to reduce the voltage are very much lower than DC transmission at working voltage.
No, what gets voted to power is likely to be something most people can live with.
I have never ever ever seen voting work this way! (If I have understood you correctly.) From what I have seen, what gets voted to power is what most people think will benefit them the most.
Equality for all has never been my ideal, and it does not even make sense to me. If you are better than me at work, it only makes sense that you get a higher pay, and/or get to make bigger decisions, etc. (and vice versa). Equality in the eyes of the legal system is something I do care about, and believe can be achieved.
It is clear to me that the government had no business sending the email to his employer. The government officials involved can and must be held accountable for this. I will not make assumptions about TF1.
What gets voted to power is a good indication of what is right? Stop this world...
"It's freedom for the few rich owners, and serfdom for everyone else"? No. Eventually, either everybody has liberty or nobody has liberty. (I have made my choice.) Anything else is unstable, and will eventually move towards no-liberty. I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Did I give the impression that I would fire just doctors for holding this opinion? I would fire janitors and administrative staff too if they give a bad service to patients or their families.
Bad business move? Coming back to the main issue: am I not at liberty to make what you think are bad business moves?
Though you may think that I picked a bad example (I don't) my main point remains: I recognize the liberty of everyone... not just of people who can get fired.
Umm... No! Corporations are a danger to liberty only if they control politicians and get laws changed against liberty. What happened in TF1 is just not an example of that!
"Also if this precedent is allowed to stand..." My god! What about the liberty of TF1? Do you think only low-level employees should have liberty? If I ran a hospital, I would certainly get rid of all my anti-abortion employees - as this belief would affect their performance in the job I expect them to do.
Tell that to the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2005/505_BiDil.html
I could give examples of tens of drugs more. I can talk about diseases that certain races are more prone to than others. But I think I have made my point.
I'll explain: I was agreeing to a valid point made by the parent poster - "all of whose posts supporting censorship have been modded up" and in his case, his counter-argument was modded as "troll". (IMO, wrongly - I do not see it as trolling). "self-hating Indians who pander to racists" are not getting mod points either. So they are NOT running/.
I do not see what statement of his was racist. I do not see what statement of mine indicates I am a self-hating Indian. But, even if I agree with these two premises of yours (which I don't), what I did could be called "pandering" only with dubious certainty.
(sumptuary laws are laws where Hindus were forced to wear yellow colored badges identifying them as "Hindus", you know, like Jews in Nazi Germany, the same Nazis you accuse Hindus of being. Ironic, isn't it? Your Hindu "Nazis" forced to wear badges). Ironic? Maybe... a bit;-). I'll now answer your sarcasm: Your logic is flawed. Just because some Hindus are oppressed in one part of the world does not mean that other Hindus cannot be oppressors in another part of the world.
Notice how the US condemned it before India did. If India doesn't care about Hindus then who will? If all the Indian government has to do is condemn something, well, the government should have. And just as quickly as it condemns other human rights violations in other parts of the world.
I see no particular reason why my tax money should go into "caring for Hindus" outside India. India should care for Indians - Hindus or not. I would prefer it if India gave away only its surplus of "caring" to Hindus (or others) who are not citizens of India.
Sure, like you said in another place, I disagree with money going into funding travels to Haj, etc. However, I see no reason why Hindus (among others) can claim tax exemptions for donating to religious institutions. Hindus in India just cannot claim that the government does not care for their religion. Moreover, it would take me days to enumerate the times when free-speech was silenced to please Hindu fanatics (and fanatics of other religions too) just because it hurt their religious sentiments. [Which brings us back to the topic that's being discussed in this/. article]
You keep labelling it "Communist Indian media" - quite frequently . Well, I would really like it if you could show me some evidence that it is. But please, no conspiracy theories - that would be a waste of my time.
... claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not)... I wonder how things would turn out if you, and others signing such contracts, start following the contracts to the letter. I wonder if such a thing is even possible. How do they define "idea"? The way you beat traffic today... is that an idea? Report it. You think a colleague of yours would look a lot prettier if she does her hair the way you have in mind... is that an idea? Report it. The dust bins in the office: you think they blue ones go better with the office decor than grey ones... is that an idea? Report it. This can so easily be taken to the extreme: once you pick up this habit, it is easy to keep coming up with random ideas, indefinitely. It is your legal duty to document (inform) all the stupid ideas you have... all day... and you can fully expect to be paid for the "job" you are doing.
What I wrote up there is driving me nuts now! What the bleep do they mean by "idea"? [A dictionary did not help much.] And what the bleep is "related to the company"? Is it "related to the company" if you have ideas about changing the brand of toilet paper at the office, because the current brand is kinda hard on the butt, and because the issue currently distracts you from work as you sit at your workstation?
If I were handed such a contract, maybe I would go back to them and and ask them to clarify this particular point. Surely, they don't expect me to sign an agreement when I fail to understand it!
Contrary to what I might appear to be from my previous comments, I am not a fan of "democracy", where something gets implemented just because a "majority" voted for something. That's how we have reservations, bizzare tax-laws, etc. I believe that all this "vote for anything you want" will get us nowhere. For example, would slavery be OK if a majority, of some sort, voted for it?
I could elaborate, but I'll be going horribly off-topic.
My point: it could be much better. Your point: it could be much worse.
It's safe for me to assume that you know of many more cases of repression - I won't attempt to enumerate them here.
India may not have a "secret police", it certainly has a "mobster police", as I said, and certainly not a "terrorist police" like that of Pakistan, as you said.
Looks like it makes India a somewhat-real democracy:-/. "by far the most democratic country in the developing world"? I do not know all the factors that would go into making such a statement, I'll not agree with it just because it "sounds nice". But, I agree with you in that it could be worse.
The reason I called it a pretend democracy is that (among other things) I see no attempts by the government to ensure that it does not exceed its limits. What if corporations like Google stuck to their guns, by doing what is "right"? I wonder if that would guide, in a manner of speaking, India along the right path. Or maybe that would push India over to "the other side", and thus trigger a revolutionary revolt!
thought India was atleast a pretend democracy? It is a pretend democracy! That's why such things happen.
Yay! I made an anti-India comment on Slashdot. Will someone kindly show this to Bombay's (another anti-Indian word) mobster-police, and get Slashdot censored off?
I would recommend volunteering for a GPLed project in a domain that you want to improve your skills in. The real-world issues you'll face will surely improve your skills in domains thet you are interested in. The books/material you would have to read will get driven by this project's needs.
Blogspot was NOT banned - not in its entirity! The ISPs were asked to ban just a few blogs on blogspot. Some ISPs misunderstood and blocked the whole of Blogspot.
Seems sort of silly to state that C++ doesn't have a good set of libraries when you can use any C library you wish.
I did not say C++ does not have a good set of libraries. I said "...lack of sensible libraries as part of the standard.":-) I know there are a ton of libraries for lots of things in C++, so, generally, it is not necessary to revert to C libraries.
When you are working with MFC, QT or Motif (C libraries) you can't get away with using std::string for all your strings. Each set of libraries come with its own implementation of string classes.
The cribs I had about C++ not having enough in the standard apply just as well to C too.
Of course, to prevent the standard from getting bloated, they could have different libraries included in the standard for different application/OS profile, somewhat like what POSIX has done for C.
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Power outlets?? God! You are a newbie! Do you really like those 50/60 Hz hums and their harmonics? Batteries or capacitors, man! That's the way to get clean power.
And what is objective moral truth in a theistic context?
The will of God(s) as communicated through the prophets. [...] I think religious opinion is pretty unified on that point.
If you use the broader definition of "theistic": Wrong. That's only true of religions that have prophets. With many others (esp. tribal ones), it is "this is what our ancestors have done". With some others religions (esp. the famous eastern ones), discussing what's morally "right" could be no different from how non-theists discuss what's morally "right" -- this is the best case scenario, and not what usually happens. In any case, there are no prophets who are assumed to have communicated the will/word of god.
If you use the narrower definition of "theistic", i.e. "God as personal, present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe": Wrong. Theistic opinion may still be unified on that point. Religious opinion is not.
I meant Beamer, of course. "Blender" was a slip.
It's a bit worse than that. The page for Till Tantau, a professor and the creator of TikZ and Blender got deleted because he is not "notable enough".
The advantage of AC for distributing power over a distance is due to the ease of changing voltages using a transformer. Available power is the product of current × voltage at the load. For a given amount of power, a low voltage requires a higher current and a higher voltage requires a lower current. Since metal conducting wires have an almost fixed electrical resistance, some power will be wasted as heat in the wires. This power loss is given by Joule's laws and is proportional to the square of the current. Thus, if the overall transmitted power is the same, and given the constraints of practical conductor sizes, high-current, low-voltage transmissions will suffer a much greater power loss than low-current, high-voltage ones. This holds whether DC or AC is used.
Converting DC power from one voltage to another requires a large spinning rotary converter or motor-generator set, which was difficult, expensive, inefficient, and required maintenance, whereas with AC the voltage can be changed with simple and efficient transformers that have no moving parts and require very little maintenance. This was the key to the success of the AC system. Modern transmission grids regularly use AC voltages up to 765,000 volts.[11] Power electronic devices such as the mercury arc valve and thyristor made high-voltage direct current transmission practical by improving the reliability and efficiency of conversion between alternating and direct current.
Alternating-current transmission lines have losses that do not occur with direct current. Due to the skin effect, a conductor will have a higher resistance to alternating current than to direct current; the effect is measurable and of practical significance for large conductors carrying thousands of amperes. The increased resistance due to the skin effect can be offset by changing the shape of conductors from a solid core to a braid of many small wires. However, total losses in systems using high-voltage transmission and transformers to reduce the voltage are very much lower than DC transmission at working voltage.
Some might call it "art". Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife
done: http://code.google.com/p/wardrive-android/ and data available at http://wardrivedb.appspot.com/
No, what gets voted to power is likely to be something most people can live with.
I have never ever ever seen voting work this way! (If I have understood you correctly.) From what I have seen, what gets voted to power is what most people think will benefit them the most.
:-)
Equality for all has never been my ideal, and it does not even make sense to me. If you are better than me at work, it only makes sense that you get a higher pay, and/or get to make bigger decisions, etc. (and vice versa). Equality in the eyes of the legal system is something I do care about, and believe can be achieved.
Other than that, thanks for the proof!
It is clear to me that the government had no business sending the email to his employer. The government officials involved can and must be held accountable for this. I will not make assumptions about TF1.
What gets voted to power is a good indication of what is right? Stop this world...
"It's freedom for the few rich owners, and serfdom for everyone else"? No. Eventually, either everybody has liberty or nobody has liberty. (I have made my choice.) Anything else is unstable, and will eventually move towards no-liberty. I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Did I give the impression that I would fire just doctors for holding this opinion? I would fire janitors and administrative staff too if they give a bad service to patients or their families.
Bad business move? Coming back to the main issue: am I not at liberty to make what you think are bad business moves?
Though you may think that I picked a bad example (I don't) my main point remains: I recognize the liberty of everyone... not just of people who can get fired.
Umm... No! Corporations are a danger to liberty only if they control politicians and get laws changed against liberty. What happened in TF1 is just not an example of that!
"Also if this precedent is allowed to stand..." My god! What about the liberty of TF1? Do you think only low-level employees should have liberty? If I ran a hospital, I would certainly get rid of all my anti-abortion employees - as this belief would affect their performance in the job I expect them to do.
Race is a fiction with no scientific basis.
Tell that to the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2005/505_BiDil.html I could give examples of tens of drugs more. I can talk about diseases that certain races are more prone to than others. But I think I have made my point.
There has to be!
divergence of B = 0
... to humans.
Umm... no.
/.
I'll explain: I was agreeing to a valid point made by the parent poster - "all of whose posts supporting censorship have been modded up" and in his case, his counter-argument was modded as "troll". (IMO, wrongly - I do not see it as trolling). "self-hating Indians who pander to racists" are not getting mod points either. So they are NOT running
I do not see what statement of his was racist. I do not see what statement of mine indicates I am a self-hating Indian. But, even if I agree with these two premises of yours (which I don't), what I did could be called "pandering" only with dubious certainty.
I see no particular reason why my tax money should go into "caring for Hindus" outside India. India should care for Indians - Hindus or not. I would prefer it if India gave away only its surplus of "caring" to Hindus (or others) who are not citizens of India.
Sure, like you said in another place, I disagree with money going into funding travels to Haj, etc. However, I see no reason why Hindus (among others) can claim tax exemptions for donating to religious institutions. Hindus in India just cannot claim that the government does not care for their religion. Moreover, it would take me days to enumerate the times when free-speech was silenced to please Hindu fanatics (and fanatics of other religions too) just because it hurt their religious sentiments. [Which brings us back to the topic that's being discussed in this
You keep labelling it "Communist Indian media" - quite frequently . Well, I would really like it if you could show me some evidence that it is. But please, no conspiracy theories - that would be a waste of my time.
Unfortunately, yes.
... claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not)... I wonder how things would turn out if you, and others signing such contracts, start following the contracts to the letter. I wonder if such a thing is even possible. How do they define "idea"? The way you beat traffic today... is that an idea? Report it. You think a colleague of yours would look a lot prettier if she does her hair the way you have in mind... is that an idea? Report it. The dust bins in the office: you think they blue ones go better with the office decor than grey ones... is that an idea? Report it. This can so easily be taken to the extreme: once you pick up this habit, it is easy to keep coming up with random ideas, indefinitely. It is your legal duty to document (inform) all the stupid ideas you have... all day... and you can fully expect to be paid for the "job" you are doing.What I wrote up there is driving me nuts now! What the bleep do they mean by "idea"? [A dictionary did not help much.] And what the bleep is "related to the company"? Is it "related to the company" if you have ideas about changing the brand of toilet paper at the office, because the current brand is kinda hard on the butt, and because the issue currently distracts you from work as you sit at your workstation?
If I were handed such a contract, maybe I would go back to them and and ask them to clarify this particular point. Surely, they don't expect me to sign an agreement when I fail to understand it!
Vote for one?? :-)
Contrary to what I might appear to be from my previous comments, I am not a fan of "democracy", where something gets implemented just because a "majority" voted for something. That's how we have reservations, bizzare tax-laws, etc. I believe that all this "vote for anything you want" will get us nowhere. For example, would slavery be OK if a majority, of some sort, voted for it?
I could elaborate, but I'll be going horribly off-topic.
My point: it could be much better.
:-/. "by far the most democratic country in the developing world"? I do not know all the factors that would go into making such a statement, I'll not agree with it just because it "sounds nice". But, I agree with you in that it could be worse.
Your point: it could be much worse.
It's safe for me to assume that you know of many more cases of repression - I won't attempt to enumerate them here.
India may not have a "secret police", it certainly has a "mobster police", as I said, and certainly not a "terrorist police" like that of Pakistan, as you said.
Looks like it makes India a somewhat-real democracy
The reason I called it a pretend democracy is that (among other things) I see no attempts by the government to ensure that it does not exceed its limits. What if corporations like Google stuck to their guns, by doing what is "right"? I wonder if that would guide, in a manner of speaking, India along the right path. Or maybe that would push India over to "the other side", and thus trigger a revolutionary revolt!
We live in interesting times!
Yay! I made an anti-India comment on Slashdot. Will someone kindly show this to Bombay's (another anti-Indian word) mobster-police, and get Slashdot censored off?
I would recommend volunteering for a GPLed project in a domain that you want to improve your skills in. The real-world issues you'll face will surely improve your skills in domains thet you are interested in. The books/material you would have to read will get driven by this project's needs.
FYI
Blogspot was NOT banned - not in its entirity! The ISPs were asked to ban just a few blogs on blogspot. Some ISPs misunderstood and blocked the whole of Blogspot.
Seems sort of silly to state that C++ doesn't have a good set of libraries when you can use any C library you wish.
:-) I know there are a ton of libraries for lots of things in C++, so, generally, it is not necessary to revert to C libraries.
I did not say C++ does not have a good set of libraries. I said "...lack of sensible libraries as part of the standard."
When you are working with MFC, QT or Motif (C libraries) you can't get away with using std::string for all your strings. Each set of libraries come with its own implementation of string classes.
The cribs I had about C++ not having enough in the standard apply just as well to C too.
Of course, to prevent the standard from getting bloated, they could have different libraries included in the standard for different application/OS profile, somewhat like what POSIX has done for C.