And what if they let the water vapour, that is lighter than air, rise, and cool off by rising, to the point where it would condense again? And if the rising force of the water vapour was used to drive some fans or turbines?
Or they could just release enough water vapour, letting it rise, so that there would be more precipitation downwind of the site. All of these would generate power, and more fresh water, as well.
Actually, the Declaration of Independence states: "... certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Unalienable rights means that they cannot be given up, by a contract of indentured servitude for example, either for yourself, and certainly not for your descendants. So there are certain contracts that are "not allowed, for principled reasons", because people are not free to give up certain of their rights.
Other sorts of contracts that are not allowed, for good reasons, are selling your house to somebody under the condition that they promise never to sell it to anyone "not of the white race" or jewish, and that they must apply this condition upon anyone that they sell it to. This is sort of like a racist, viral, GPL, and it was common in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century.
The field of Christian Apologetics is the study of arguments and methods of argument that support Christian theology, and ways of responding to the arguments of critics and doubters. However, it does not require original thought - it can be as bad as simply learning the standard arguments, and memorizing the standard responses to common criticisms of Christian belief. These students are just like first-line technical support workers - following a script, with no variation. This is not a class in dialogue, trying to discuss an issue with someone with different beliefs, where each learns from each other. It is just an exercise in propaganda, using the most effective arguments to change people's beliefs, treating them as objects to be manipulated, in the most effective way. The difference between this and science is that science does not need to hold special classes in "How to convince non-believers that science works, and respond to their criticisms of science, in a canned way, without listening to them." If a set of beliefs is so weird that you need special training in how to hold them, and how to respond to people who point out inconsistencies in them, that sounds to me like evidence against the consistency and explanatory power of that system of beliefs.
He should not be considered responsible for the cost of checking those systems for damage due to unauthorized access, because those costs would be incurred whether he logged in or not. Even if a system administrator for these systems discovered the security hole, they would have to do the same amount of work, since they could not know if someone had logged in without permission or not. They would have to assume the worst. So all of the charges of "damage" against him make no sense. Just because they know that there is a security hole, and that he exploited it, it doesn't make their system any more damaged than if they just knew there was a security hole. And it is less broken than when they didn't know it had a flaw.
I think the application code is in read-only or copy-on-write pages that are shared between processes. Most OS program loaders will load and link a static executable once, no matter how many processes it is loaded in. Even the different flags will just appear in program arguments (argv), usually on the stack, beneath the first stack frame, and will not affect the shared executable. That is why you need to look at the memory stats for processes with a skeptical eye, and why Chrome's memory reports in its task manager show both total and shared memory for the separate processes. Whether an OS loads a program twice, or forks a process, it will not duplicate memory pages until they need to contain different contents.
Perhaps women who are good at logical reasoning and details go into better paying fields than mathematics and the sciences, such as law and management. That was the theory put forward by a blog post I read, which suggested that some of the discrepancy that reappears at the PhD level in mathematics, computing, and the sciences may be because men are foolishly seduced into spending years getting a PhD and working in academia by the ideas of the prestige, status, excitement, and importance of this research. A woman with the same skills and general interests might be more realistic, and make the much better paying choice of a successful law or business career. I tried to find the blog that made this point, but could not. It seemed quite likely to me though. The same skills that make someone a good mathematician or programmer, would make them an outstanding lawyer or manager, as long as they have reasonable people skills. Perhaps a study of the careers of skilled undergraduate math majors, of both genders, would indicate if people are just making more (women) or less (men) rational choices about their future paths after a math B.S.
A large drop in mileage at -30C is due to the increase in air density. The density of a gas is proportional to the temperature in Kelvin, so there is 280/250 - 1 = 12% more air being pushed out of the way at -30C than at 0C. Your tires may also be underinflated at those low temperatures, if you don't put more air in them to compensate.
Trademark law provides exactly the kinds of remedies and rules which can prevent this confusion. This is exactly the sort of case in which ICANN can seize a domain name, like OpenOffice.com, from the people who are using it deceptively, and give it to the owners of the OpenOffice trademark.
The hitch is that the OpenOffice trademark is owned in the Netherlands by a third party. Therefore, OpenOffice.org are not using OpenOffice as a trademark, and are instead calling their product OpenOffice.org.
But the third party that owns OpenOffice should be defending its trademark, and should not let it be used in OpenOffice.com for these purposes. If they don't defend their trademark, it becomes invalid, and if they support this use of it, they are infringing on OpenOffice.org's trademark by encouraging confusion with it, and offering downloads of Openoffice.org software through sites labeled by the OpenOffice name.
So either the owners of OpenOffice should shut down Openoffice.com, or else OpenOffice.org should try and invalidate OpenOffice as a trademark, since it is not defended, or is being used for infringement purposes.
Clearly, download-new.com is using the OpenOffice trademark, and is damaging the reputation of Openoffice.org, by encouraging confusion of the two trademarks, and by implying (by charging a large fee) that OpenOffice.org software is not freely downloadable without charge from almost every other place on the Internet. OpenOffice.com is diluting the OpenOffice trademark, and the OpenOffice.org trademark, by just acting as a parking place for search results. So OpenOffice.org has remedies against the offending sites and/or the owner of the OpenOffice trademark.
The problems with earlier 3D projection systems have mainly been solved by the system now used in movie theaters. This uses circular polarization to separate the left and right images, so that the polarized glasses worn by the audience still work if they tilt their head.
Pretty soon, all animated and action movies will be in 3D. Already, next year, Disney has announced that it will release all its animated films in 3D. This also means that theaters will have to get digital projection in order to show 3D movies. So no more scratches or bright blips in film, and a noise-free soundtrack, will be coming to more and more movie theaters. I can't wait.
Wouldn't you rather not see a movie at all, if you can't see it in digital projection? It is time to boycott analog theaters. Make your choice - choose digital. That is my endorsement on election day 2008. You can vote for president too, if you are a U.S. citizen and not a convicted felon. Those people who still watch analog movies are ruining our country - don't let them. Vote them out of the movie theaters, and return them to their couches in front of the TV. They are probably Sony users too. The Dutch are behind this attempt to make our movie-viewing experience fall behind that of the Asian tigers like Singapore and Hong Kong. Check out the true facts of this on Wikipedia - search for "Hidden pumpkin"!
The strength of the electric and magnetic fields from a linear conductor decrease only as 1/d, not 1/d-squared. So the electric field from a 110 KV transmission line at 400 feet is the same as a 110 V line at 5 inches.
Though it does not say this in the article, it is not the distance between the two cameras on the satellite that produces 3D imagery. The cameras will be pointed in slightly different directions, so that the image taken by one camera at time t will be paired with the image taken by the second camera at time t+x, where the satellite has traveled probably tens of miles in time x. The second camera is pointed slightly "backwards", so that it takes pictures of the same area that the first camera was shooting x seconds ago.
This is just supposition, based on the fact that two cameras on a satellite would not be far enough apart to generate parallax.
It seems to me that many more Americans know about KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets after a misprogrammed autopilot led it into Soviet airspace, than know about Iran Air 655, a passenger jet on a regularly scheduled flight from Iran to Dubai, shot down by the USS Vincennes. Both of these are clearly mistakes made by faulty military procedures, and by not following correct procedures.
I hope this won't happen again, and that no passenger airliner will be shot down by any country's military by (predictable) accident in the future. Hold people accountable!
Starbuck's prices in Canada are lower than its prices in the United States. They are even lower numerically, before taking into account the $1 CAN = $0.75 US exchange rate.
This is an example of market segmentation, or of the dominance of Starbucks in the US - thay can afford to charge more than $3 for a large coffee here, because people will pay it. In Canada, they will just go across the street to a Second Cup or a Tim Hortons.
John Edwards, who just halted his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, is a civil claims lawyer. His recent book,
Four Trials is all about four cases he won during his 2 decades as a trial lawyer. This includes the largest medical injury award ever in North Carolina, and he shows why that claim was justified.
A great movie that shows a personal injury lawyer in a bad light is The Sweet Hereafter, about a school bus accident in a small town, and the lawsuits that follow, and much more. This is a Canadian film by Atom Egoyan.
Am I stealing? Yes, yes I am.
Do I feel badly about it? No, no I don't.
No, you are not stealing, or breaking copyright law. Borrowing CDs from the library and making copies for personal use is perfectly legal.
Libraries have been given the right to lend CDs and videos in court cases. Copyright law only covers the distribution of copyrighted material. There is an explicit statement in copyright law that "This law does not apply to individuals using home consumer audio recording equipment to make copies for private use".
"Now, you can go down to the college bookstore and buy a t-shirt that has the code on it for bypassing
the encryption technology on the DVD. You don't have to do anything unlawful in order to get a hold of
that information. Just go buy a t-shirt down at the college bookstore. But, if you use that information, in
order to conduct a lawful act, or let's say, a harmless act, and that is, bypassing this technology, so that
your DVD will play on your Linux operating system, you have committed a crime. You have
circumvented a technological protection measure that guards access to copyrighted work. "
is wrong. Implementing circumvention for your own use is legal. Distributing circumvention is illegal. I think the T-shirts might be illegal, but writing and running code on your own computer is not illegal under any law I know.
There have been major advances in predicting meteor storms within showers in the past two years. Last year, the storms were predicted within 10 minutes of their actual time. These new announcements are based on this new, very accurate, method of predicting storms. The time of the North American storm should be 5 am EST (10:00 UTC) on Sunday morning Now 18th.
Do you see more of a need for privacy protection for the individual citizen, or for openness and more access to information about government and private business organizations? Since corporations have the same rights as individuals, it seems that these two social goods are in conflict. Which do you find to be more important in your work as a lobbyist? Would you trade off one for another? It seems now as if we are going to get neither of these.
Unless employers are required to make reasonable
accomodations for disabled employees, they will
preferentially hire those with no disability.
But many people with a minor disability can still
be much more productive in their chosen profession
than they would be doing some other work which
their disability does not impact. By the
government guaranteeing a level playing field
(by prohibiting taking the disability into
account, not by prohibiting choosing the person
who is most qualified in all other regards,
ignoring the disability), we allow people not
to be blacklisted from their careers because of
a disability that could be reasonably accomodated.
Those who claim the free market will resolve this
would say that the employee, who is less
productive than employees without a disability,
should be willing to work for less, but still
earn more than they would outside their
profession. But most large organizations
have standard salary scales, and could not
make special deals with everyone based on
their perceived productivity. So the free
market does not work in this case.
People who liken the inability to type due
to RSI to the inability to type due to laziness
or stupidity are bad people. And the stupid
should not be discriminated against either.
Some people may have misunderstood the article -
the employer provided some minimal accomodation
(chairs, etc - these are just paying lip service
to the need to prevent RSI), but refused to
provide speech-to-text capability, saying it
was an unreasonable accomodation. Or even worse,
they claimed that the disability didn't fall under
the ADA, and therefore they didn't even have to
make reasonable accomodations.
Regarding the MP3 encoding included with Windows, I was just looking at Windows ME media player, and it will record into "MP3". However, any MP3 it creates will have a licence key in it, and will not play on any other computer than the one it was created on. Or perhaps it isn't even MP3 - perhaps it is in Windows Media format. So Windows currently makes it easy to save tracks from CDs, but only in a non-portable format.
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And what if they let the water vapour, that is lighter than air, rise, and cool off by rising, to the point where it would condense again?
And if the rising force of the water vapour was used to drive some fans or turbines?
Or they could just release enough water vapour, letting it rise, so that there would be more precipitation downwind of the site. All of these would
generate power, and more fresh water, as well.
Actually, the Declaration of Independence states: "... certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Unalienable rights means that they cannot be given up, by a contract of indentured servitude for example, either for yourself, and certainly not for your descendants. So there are certain contracts that are "not allowed, for principled reasons", because people are not free to give up certain of their rights.
Other sorts of contracts that are not allowed, for good reasons, are selling your house to somebody under the condition that they promise never to sell it to anyone "not of the white race" or jewish, and that they must apply this condition upon anyone that they sell it to. This is sort of like a racist, viral, GPL, and it was common in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century.
The field of Christian Apologetics is the study of arguments and methods of argument that support Christian theology, and ways of responding to the arguments of critics and doubters. However, it does not require original thought - it can be as bad as simply learning the standard arguments, and memorizing the standard responses to common criticisms of Christian belief. These students are just like first-line technical support workers - following a script, with no variation. This is not a class in dialogue, trying to discuss an issue with someone with different beliefs, where each learns from each other. It is just an exercise in propaganda, using the most effective arguments to change people's beliefs, treating them as objects to be manipulated, in the most effective way.
The difference between this and science is that science does not need to hold special classes in "How to convince non-believers that science works, and respond to their criticisms of science, in a canned way, without listening to them." If a set of beliefs is so weird that you need special training in how to hold them, and how to respond to people who point out inconsistencies in them, that sounds to me like evidence against the consistency and explanatory power of that system of beliefs.
He should not be considered responsible for the cost of checking those systems for damage due to unauthorized access, because those costs would be incurred whether he logged in or not. Even if a system administrator for these systems discovered the security hole, they would have to do the same amount of work, since they could not know if someone had logged in without permission or not. They would have to assume the worst. So all of the charges of "damage" against him make no sense. Just because they know that there is a security hole, and that he exploited it, it doesn't make their system any more damaged than if they just knew there was a security hole. And it is less broken than when they didn't know it had a flaw.
I think the application code is in read-only or copy-on-write pages that are shared between processes. Most OS program loaders will load and link a static executable once, no matter how many processes it is loaded in. Even the different flags will just appear in program arguments (argv), usually on the stack, beneath the first stack frame, and will not affect the shared executable. That is why you need to look at the memory stats for processes with a skeptical eye, and why Chrome's memory reports in its task manager show both total and shared memory for the separate processes. Whether an OS loads a program twice, or forks a process, it will not duplicate memory pages until they need to contain different contents.
Perhaps women who are good at logical reasoning and details go into better paying fields than mathematics and the sciences, such as law and management. That was the theory put forward by a blog post I read, which suggested that some of the discrepancy that reappears at the PhD level in mathematics, computing, and the sciences may be because men are foolishly seduced into spending years getting a PhD and working in academia by the ideas of the prestige, status, excitement, and importance of this research. A woman with the same skills and general interests might be more realistic, and make the much better paying choice of a successful law or business career. I tried to find the blog that made this point, but could not. It seemed quite likely to me though. The same skills that make someone a good mathematician or programmer, would make them an outstanding lawyer or manager, as long as they have reasonable people skills. Perhaps a study of the careers of skilled undergraduate math majors, of both genders, would indicate if people are just making more (women) or less (men) rational choices about their future paths after a math B.S.
A large drop in mileage at -30C is due to the increase in air density. The density of a gas is proportional to the temperature in Kelvin, so there is 280/250 - 1 = 12% more air being pushed out of the way at -30C than at 0C. Your tires may also be underinflated at those low temperatures, if you don't put more air in them to compensate.
Trademark law provides exactly the kinds of remedies and rules which can prevent this confusion.
This is exactly the sort of case in which ICANN can seize a domain name, like OpenOffice.com, from the people who are using it deceptively, and give it to the owners of the OpenOffice trademark.
The hitch is that the OpenOffice trademark is owned in the Netherlands by a third party. Therefore, OpenOffice.org are not using OpenOffice as a trademark, and are instead calling their product OpenOffice.org.
But the third party that owns OpenOffice should be defending its trademark, and should not let it be used in OpenOffice.com for these purposes. If they don't defend their trademark, it becomes invalid, and if they support this use of it, they are infringing on OpenOffice.org's trademark by encouraging confusion with it, and offering downloads of Openoffice.org software through sites labeled by the OpenOffice name.
So either the owners of OpenOffice should shut down Openoffice.com, or else OpenOffice.org should try and invalidate OpenOffice as a trademark, since it is not defended, or is being used for infringement purposes.
Clearly, download-new.com is using the OpenOffice trademark, and is damaging the reputation of Openoffice.org, by encouraging confusion of the two trademarks, and by implying (by charging a large fee) that OpenOffice.org software is not freely downloadable without charge from almost every other place on the Internet. OpenOffice.com is diluting the OpenOffice trademark, and the OpenOffice.org trademark, by just acting as a parking place for search results. So OpenOffice.org has remedies against the offending sites and/or the owner of the OpenOffice trademark.
The problems with earlier 3D projection systems have mainly been solved by the system now used in movie theaters. This uses circular polarization to separate the left and right images, so that the polarized glasses worn by the audience still work if they tilt their head.
Pretty soon, all animated and action movies will be in 3D. Already, next year, Disney has announced that it will release all its animated films in 3D. This also means that theaters will have to get digital projection in order to show 3D movies. So no more scratches or bright blips in film, and a noise-free soundtrack, will be coming to more and more movie theaters. I can't wait.
Wouldn't you rather not see a movie at all, if you can't see it in digital projection? It is time to boycott analog theaters. Make your choice - choose digital. That is my endorsement on election day 2008. You can vote for president too, if you are a U.S. citizen and not a convicted felon. Those people who still watch analog movies are ruining our country - don't let them. Vote them out of the movie theaters, and return them to their couches in front of the TV. They are probably Sony users too. The Dutch are behind this attempt to make our movie-viewing experience fall behind that of the Asian tigers like Singapore and Hong Kong. Check out the true facts of this on Wikipedia - search for "Hidden pumpkin"!
The strength of the electric and magnetic fields from a linear conductor decrease only as 1/d, not 1/d-squared. So the
electric field from a 110 KV transmission line at 400 feet is the same as a 110 V line at 5 inches.
This is just supposition, based on the fact that two cameras on a satellite would not be far enough apart to generate parallax.
It seems to me that many more Americans know about KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets after a misprogrammed autopilot led it into Soviet airspace, than know about Iran Air 655, a passenger jet on a regularly scheduled flight from Iran to Dubai, shot down by the USS Vincennes. Both of these are clearly mistakes made by faulty military procedures, and by not following correct procedures.
I hope this won't happen again, and that no passenger airliner will be shot down by any country's military by (predictable) accident in the future. Hold people accountable!
Starbuck's prices in Canada are lower than its prices in the United States. They are even lower numerically, before taking into account the $1 CAN = $0.75 US exchange rate.
This is an example of market segmentation, or of the dominance of Starbucks in the US - thay can afford to charge more than $3 for a large coffee here, because people will pay it. In Canada, they will just go across the street to a Second Cup or a Tim Hortons.
A great movie that shows a personal injury lawyer in a bad light is The Sweet Hereafter, about a school bus accident in a small town, and the lawsuits that follow, and much more. This is a Canadian film by Atom Egoyan.
No, you are not stealing, or breaking copyright law. Borrowing CDs from the library and making copies for personal use is perfectly legal.
Libraries have been given the right to lend CDs and videos in court cases. Copyright law only covers the distribution of copyrighted material. There is an explicit statement in copyright law that "This law does not apply to individuals using home consumer audio recording equipment to make copies for private use".
There have been major advances in predicting meteor storms within showers in the past two years. Last year, the storms were predicted within 10 minutes of their actual time. These new announcements are based on this new, very accurate, method of predicting storms. The time of the North American storm should be 5 am EST (10:00 UTC) on Sunday morning Now 18th.
Do you see more of a need for privacy protection for the individual citizen, or for openness and more access to information about government and private business organizations? Since corporations have the same rights as individuals, it seems that these two social goods are in conflict. Which do you find to be more important in your work as a lobbyist? Would you trade off one for another? It seems now as if we are going to get neither of these.
Unless employers are required to make reasonable accomodations for disabled employees, they will preferentially hire those with no disability. But many people with a minor disability can still be much more productive in their chosen profession than they would be doing some other work which their disability does not impact. By the government guaranteeing a level playing field (by prohibiting taking the disability into account, not by prohibiting choosing the person who is most qualified in all other regards, ignoring the disability), we allow people not to be blacklisted from their careers because of a disability that could be reasonably accomodated. Those who claim the free market will resolve this would say that the employee, who is less productive than employees without a disability, should be willing to work for less, but still earn more than they would outside their profession. But most large organizations have standard salary scales, and could not make special deals with everyone based on their perceived productivity. So the free market does not work in this case. People who liken the inability to type due to RSI to the inability to type due to laziness or stupidity are bad people. And the stupid should not be discriminated against either. Some people may have misunderstood the article - the employer provided some minimal accomodation (chairs, etc - these are just paying lip service to the need to prevent RSI), but refused to provide speech-to-text capability, saying it was an unreasonable accomodation. Or even worse, they claimed that the disability didn't fall under the ADA, and therefore they didn't even have to make reasonable accomodations.
Regarding the MP3 encoding included with Windows, I was just looking at Windows ME media player, and it will record into "MP3". However, any MP3 it creates will have a licence key in it, and will not play on any other computer than the one it was created on. Or perhaps it isn't even MP3 - perhaps it is in Windows Media format. So Windows currently makes it easy to save tracks from CDs, but only in a non-portable format. .