Are these cosmic super-strings? They would act like information conveyors over large time scales between the interconnected galaxies and would have been primed since the early cosmos.
I wonder how much carbon is sequestered in the oil tar that they use for slagging asphalt onto the road surface. Could be a viable carbon credit business...
To the deniers: If we agree on nothing else can we at least agree on continuing to fund well planned scientific studies on the climate?
You mean like for years now people have been asking for more scientific consideration of solar activity as it relates to environmental issues because we have a ton of anecdotal evidence across all of history indicating patterns of sun activity and weather/agricultural events? No... we're told that's settled because someone did a calculation that proves it. Don't even mention solar cycles because it's like you are living on a flat earth.
To the people of hubris: How about you actually provide a working model of climate that can be used to make accurate, timely, and verifiable claims. You would go a long way in selling your truth if you actually provided some. Physics gives us equations that can calculate things from sub-atomic quantum waves to speculative activity outside our knowable universe. Climate science gives us a graph with a bunch of lines that don't ever meet reality.
Personally I think a big part is property distribution. Proudhon was very skeptical of limitless property rights and the ability to gate everything up. The Greeks had this same issue as I understand it. They had a system of perpetually slicing up land for heirs that eventually failed due to inefficiency.
To sustain life one must either go into nature and pluck from it or work the land until such a time can be made. Either action requires the land to do so. In today's world no one is capable of just going onto land to live. That means as a human being you are now required to perform completely unnatural actions to sustain basic functions. You must have some source of income which will probably be a job. This job is not directly related to your own fulfillment and ability to provide for yourself. It is an abstract that is a small cog of some much larger machine called "society".
Personally all I see with that set up are problems because it locks people into a system that they may not necessarily want to either participate in or are even capable of doing so. Now you bring out the social safety net but no one asked for that, really because it means more entanglement in a system that was never wanted in the first place.
Now imagine that if you lost your job you could go work some land without asking permission from anyone. That's a whole different proposition.
Because we are back in the cold war. Time for arms races, nuclear deterrence, and government funded pissing matches. Why did we go to the moon the first time? I've been told we don't know how to get back because we threw the rocket plans out. Some science.
We've had it here for a while. My apartment complex has notified us twice that they Amazon service not only refuses to deliver to the door like FedEx and UPS but the delivery person just dumps packages in the office without notifying anyone or getting a signature. When I first saw the white vans with the Amazon logo I couldn't help but noticed the "Enterprise" sticker on the back. I guess they rent locally instead of owning a fleet? Maybe that was just a trial. Absolutely crazy logistics.
I was speaking more in the sense of as to if these things should be regulated, or restricted in some way.
Don't buy it. You don't need someone else doing this for you and having a device like this in your home isn't a broad social concern. *You* have the power to regulate it by simply not participating in this activity.
And yet somehow when the good guy cops showed up with guns they were able to locate the shooter, shoot him, and end the situation. Completely asinine to assume that people with guns could ever take care of the problem. We need these new bio-engineered "police" and "military" people to do that for us.
I'm saying it was very effective. I just mentioned it because the concept isn't new and pointed to the Greeks as an implementer of the idea. They also put people to death like we do. Socrates was ordered to ingest hemlock by Athenian vote, if memory serves.
The thing is you don't have to be a citizen of any polis for this to be effective. Humans are tribal by nature because we can specialize to add benefit to the entire group. Ostracism is very effective because none of these specializations allow you to prosper as an individual. The burden of self-sufficiency is pretty extreme in nature. Even animals rely on pack behavior and interactions with other species as a survival mechanism.
Arguably it would have been easier to ostracize in ancient times due to lower populations and the idea that borders were basically infinite. I think it is still an interesting strategy. We basically ostracize by putting people into prison, but this is an internal ostracism that we must guard and thus expend resources on. Outward ostracism requires a border defense which you already have anyway.
I was thinking about this the other day. The Gates' foundation has a ton of money for things like mosquito nets and medicines but why aren't they just building clean infrastructure? We eliminated most of our pest disease problems (even plague) by just living cleaner.
If I had to guess, I think you'd find two problems: 1) industrialized people want a technological solution, and 2) the people affected may not be culturally aware or even care about disease vectors. Sometimes you get culture clash and no one likes being told that their centuries-old traditions are wrong or should be discarded. When the Ebola scare broke out, you had villagers kissing the bodies of dead victims as a religious right. I don't know how you deal with that.
Because we are supposed to have higher morals. Ostracism is regarded as the ultimate moral punishment since it deprives the ostracized of easy or community access to life resources while not condemning them to death outright. It also allows for the possibility of reconciliation over time. The Greek's called it "exile".
By executing people, you are saying outright that you are willing to use murder as a way of negotiating complex problems. Whether you consider this just or not, other's can and will use this same logic against you.
Are you saying Stallman is too retarded to install Libre Office?
I am saying you are too retarded to follow a conversation.
Someone asked what Stallman was talking about. I gave my best answer. If you really want to know Stallman's opinion on open/closed source, you can google the literally 30 years of non-stop drivel from him yourself. It doesn't matter what country you are from because we are talking about US companies regarding US laws.
The odd thing is that while we don't want state surveillance, we already have a camera in every store including parking lots and sidewalks. We are being watched but it's by ourselves because of ourselves. A weird effect of the social cost of some crimes, I guess.
It's far more complicated. You have a mobile device that can hop networks which means that connections have to be restarted. Meanwhile there is a drive to optimize network efficiency especially on slow, metered wireless networks. To avoid the overhead of connection hand-shaking apps try to use durable socket connections and aggressive client-side caches. When a networked device disconnects from the network, an error isn't always detected in the application leading to keep-alive protocols increasing bandwidth usage. Cache is an entire realm of disaster with no perfect solution due to the fact that you are wanting to atomically change data across multiple systems with no time delay. Simply not even possible.
All that being said we have techniques for getting around all of this. Many applications simply punt and either use an incomplete wrapper library or write their own incomplete connection/cache handling. I can't even tell you how many Java "Enterprise" applications make you configure connection pools for resources like databases that never restart making applications useless until a service restart. Firewall kills idle connections after an hour? Databases are gone and you can't get them back until a 30-minute Tomcat instance ritual is performed. Does the connection pool have an option for socket keep-alives in the pool config? No. Luckily you can cast a magic spell into some file somewhere where the Oracle can see it. Just my experience, anyway.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What gives the government the "right" to do anything? Our "rights" are supposed to be encoded in our flesh. Not in documents.
The gravity waves travel at the same speed as photons so they don't interact. What you record in the experiment is the change in the environment outside a constant stream of photons. Photons are emitted at timed intervals and will either bunch up or spread out at the detectors based on how the detector moved around in relation to the photons over time.
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Are these cosmic super-strings? They would act like information conveyors over large time scales between the interconnected galaxies and would have been primed since the early cosmos.
I wonder how much carbon is sequestered in the oil tar that they use for slagging asphalt onto the road surface. Could be a viable carbon credit business...
To the deniers: If we agree on nothing else can we at least agree on continuing to fund well planned scientific studies on the climate?
You mean like for years now people have been asking for more scientific consideration of solar activity as it relates to environmental issues because we have a ton of anecdotal evidence across all of history indicating patterns of sun activity and weather/agricultural events? No... we're told that's settled because someone did a calculation that proves it. Don't even mention solar cycles because it's like you are living on a flat earth.
To the people of hubris: How about you actually provide a working model of climate that can be used to make accurate, timely, and verifiable claims. You would go a long way in selling your truth if you actually provided some. Physics gives us equations that can calculate things from sub-atomic quantum waves to speculative activity outside our knowable universe. Climate science gives us a graph with a bunch of lines that don't ever meet reality.
Yes. Science. Real science.
Personally I think a big part is property distribution. Proudhon was very skeptical of limitless property rights and the ability to gate everything up. The Greeks had this same issue as I understand it. They had a system of perpetually slicing up land for heirs that eventually failed due to inefficiency.
To sustain life one must either go into nature and pluck from it or work the land until such a time can be made. Either action requires the land to do so. In today's world no one is capable of just going onto land to live. That means as a human being you are now required to perform completely unnatural actions to sustain basic functions. You must have some source of income which will probably be a job. This job is not directly related to your own fulfillment and ability to provide for yourself. It is an abstract that is a small cog of some much larger machine called "society".
Personally all I see with that set up are problems because it locks people into a system that they may not necessarily want to either participate in or are even capable of doing so. Now you bring out the social safety net but no one asked for that, really because it means more entanglement in a system that was never wanted in the first place.
Now imagine that if you lost your job you could go work some land without asking permission from anyone. That's a whole different proposition.
$you->can(not have('clear')) && read ABLE, $source, ~~ q[code]
unless $you->include('natural')('language');
I drove an '80s Caprice Classic when I was in college. Same problem.
Because we are back in the cold war. Time for arms races, nuclear deterrence, and government funded pissing matches. Why did we go to the moon the first time? I've been told we don't know how to get back because we threw the rocket plans out. Some science.
We've had it here for a while. My apartment complex has notified us twice that they Amazon service not only refuses to deliver to the door like FedEx and UPS but the delivery person just dumps packages in the office without notifying anyone or getting a signature. When I first saw the white vans with the Amazon logo I couldn't help but noticed the "Enterprise" sticker on the back. I guess they rent locally instead of owning a fleet? Maybe that was just a trial. Absolutely crazy logistics.
I was speaking more in the sense of as to if these things should be regulated, or restricted in some way.
Don't buy it. You don't need someone else doing this for you and having a device like this in your home isn't a broad social concern. *You* have the power to regulate it by simply not participating in this activity.
Ask the people at FN and every other US-based arms manufacturer. Global sales for decades going strong now...
The first one leaked out onto the internet.
It's in the rest mass.
And yet somehow when the good guy cops showed up with guns they were able to locate the shooter, shoot him, and end the situation. Completely asinine to assume that people with guns could ever take care of the problem. We need these new bio-engineered "police" and "military" people to do that for us.
I'm saying it was very effective. I just mentioned it because the concept isn't new and pointed to the Greeks as an implementer of the idea. They also put people to death like we do. Socrates was ordered to ingest hemlock by Athenian vote, if memory serves.
The thing is you don't have to be a citizen of any polis for this to be effective. Humans are tribal by nature because we can specialize to add benefit to the entire group. Ostracism is very effective because none of these specializations allow you to prosper as an individual. The burden of self-sufficiency is pretty extreme in nature. Even animals rely on pack behavior and interactions with other species as a survival mechanism.
Arguably it would have been easier to ostracize in ancient times due to lower populations and the idea that borders were basically infinite. I think it is still an interesting strategy. We basically ostracize by putting people into prison, but this is an internal ostracism that we must guard and thus expend resources on. Outward ostracism requires a border defense which you already have anyway.
Yes. The energy of a photon can interact with matter in multiple ways. One way is that its energy is absorbed by an atom via momentum.
I was thinking about this the other day. The Gates' foundation has a ton of money for things like mosquito nets and medicines but why aren't they just building clean infrastructure? We eliminated most of our pest disease problems (even plague) by just living cleaner.
If I had to guess, I think you'd find two problems: 1) industrialized people want a technological solution, and 2) the people affected may not be culturally aware or even care about disease vectors. Sometimes you get culture clash and no one likes being told that their centuries-old traditions are wrong or should be discarded. When the Ebola scare broke out, you had villagers kissing the bodies of dead victims as a religious right. I don't know how you deal with that.
Because we are supposed to have higher morals. Ostracism is regarded as the ultimate moral punishment since it deprives the ostracized of easy or community access to life resources while not condemning them to death outright. It also allows for the possibility of reconciliation over time. The Greek's called it "exile".
By executing people, you are saying outright that you are willing to use murder as a way of negotiating complex problems. Whether you consider this just or not, other's can and will use this same logic against you.
Some of us have been complaining loudly for years and have been told to "shut up" because we have roads, education, and everything's fine.
Did they actually commit a crime or cause harm? If no harm was caused, are you willing to inflict real harm to prevent potential harm?
They were only hired to fill contract positions for outsourced solutions. You are paying IBM to manage a labor pool remotely. With interest and fees.
Are you saying Stallman is too retarded to install Libre Office?
I am saying you are too retarded to follow a conversation.
Someone asked what Stallman was talking about. I gave my best answer. If you really want to know Stallman's opinion on open/closed source, you can google the literally 30 years of non-stop drivel from him yourself. It doesn't matter what country you are from because we are talking about US companies regarding US laws.
The odd thing is that while we don't want state surveillance, we already have a camera in every store including parking lots and sidewalks. We are being watched but it's by ourselves because of ourselves. A weird effect of the social cost of some crimes, I guess.
It's far more complicated. You have a mobile device that can hop networks which means that connections have to be restarted. Meanwhile there is a drive to optimize network efficiency especially on slow, metered wireless networks. To avoid the overhead of connection hand-shaking apps try to use durable socket connections and aggressive client-side caches. When a networked device disconnects from the network, an error isn't always detected in the application leading to keep-alive protocols increasing bandwidth usage. Cache is an entire realm of disaster with no perfect solution due to the fact that you are wanting to atomically change data across multiple systems with no time delay. Simply not even possible.
All that being said we have techniques for getting around all of this. Many applications simply punt and either use an incomplete wrapper library or write their own incomplete connection/cache handling. I can't even tell you how many Java "Enterprise" applications make you configure connection pools for resources like databases that never restart making applications useless until a service restart. Firewall kills idle connections after an hour? Databases are gone and you can't get them back until a 30-minute Tomcat instance ritual is performed. Does the connection pool have an option for socket keep-alives in the pool config? No. Luckily you can cast a magic spell into some file somewhere where the Oracle can see it. Just my experience, anyway.
The 10th amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What gives the government the "right" to do anything? Our "rights" are supposed to be encoded in our flesh. Not in documents.
The gravity waves travel at the same speed as photons so they don't interact. What you record in the experiment is the change in the environment outside a constant stream of photons. Photons are emitted at timed intervals and will either bunch up or spread out at the detectors based on how the detector moved around in relation to the photons over time.