How old is LiveJournal? How many of these self-hurting teens have grown up and gone for interviews at corporations only to find the ubiquitous google search on their name leads to a big flashing warning sign? More amusing, how many of these enjoy-cutting-themselves princesses are the daughters of elected officials?
And here I was thinking that people blogged for their own amusement.
Maybe I'm just not hip enough, but I think some people might be a bit too cynical and think there must be some profit motive behind every act of the online citizen.
The idea being that democracy works better when voting is disproportionate based on the amount of self sacrifice that has been offered by the individual. For example, someone who works for a company and uses 90% of their salary to buy stock in the company has more say in the running of that company than someone who chooses to invest nothing in the company.
Yeah sure, but if we can't adapt to it.. like, say, if the temperature triples, then obviously we have the choice of living underground like we would on a foreign planet or fixing our planet so we can continue our current way of life. It is the human condition to change our environment to match our comforts.
You're right that it's a political issue. The limits to growth people have latched onto global warming as an excellent reason for us to regress. What I fail to understand is how self respecting scientists can actually think that stopping CO2 production (or any passive solution) will halt global warming. If global warming really is a problem we need to actively reverse the process. If industrial activity is to blame for global warming, no amount of reduced industrial activity will put the genie back in the bottle.
On a serious note, there's currently no valid suggestions as to what we can do about global warming. People are still arguing about whether or not it exists instead of thinking about what we can actually do about it. So far a grand total of one proposal has been made as to what we can do about global warming. It involves building spacecraft to hover at a stable point between the sun and the earth to divert sunlight off into space. Sound crazy? Ok, what the hell else can we do? Regress to living in the trees and hope it sorts itself out?
Yes, you can, on both counts. The only difference between the Cedega license and the GPL is that you can't profit from the work. That right is reserved for Transgaming. So, for example, you can't sell CDs with Cedega on it.
That is my understanding yes. They could, obviously, but anyone who then distributed the obsfucated code could have someone demand the source code and they wouldn't be able to provide it. The owner of the copyright could then prohibit them from distributing the obsfucated code. Therefore the GPL would be providing no more protection than a proprietary license.
the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.
What fossil evidence? What molecular biology? Did the school board even review this or did they just take it as given?
ID is not science because it's not disprovable. There's a difference. For a theory to be considered science it must be possible to develop an experiment that can show that the theory is not true. If that experiment fails then you look for another experiment. If lots of experiments fail to disprove the theory then you can be fairly sure that the theory is sound and can go on to use that theory to do engineering with.
Yeah? That's the point. Representative governments are run by the most vocal members of society. That is, the religious freaks or the political/economic philosophy freaks.
What sucks is that you can only buy "5 more votes" or something like that. If I want to pay them $20,000 to get my favourite game voted to the top of the TODO list they should bloody well take it. But then again, I don't actually want to spend that much money, so they probably would:)
But the real tragedy is that even with the source code I was unable to get my favourite game working under Cedega. There was nowhere I could go to talk with other developers and get help. It was like using a proprietary product.
I signed up for Transgaming earlier this year. Like many others I gave them my money so I could vote for my favourite games. Unfortunately, like in just about any democracy, my vote wasn't worth anything, so my favourite games never made it to the top of the TODO list. That said, I still think Cedega is a good product and if Transgaming focused more on building a developer community than paying developers they'd get a lot more games working.
The shuttle couldn't make it, you'd have to build new spacecraft, preferably in orbit at some kind of space station. If you just accept the initial flight as a loss you can quickly come up with a business case for the Moon as everything on it is free. That initial flight might cost you 100 billion dollars but you can process and ship back precious metals essentially forever once you have in-situ resource utilization.. so eventually it will be paid off.
You said that S word again. Fuck Science. Stop this space-flight-is-for-science-only bullshit. You want space science? Go fuckin' live there. Oh, you can't, that's the fuckin' problem. That's what we should be fixing.
Fuck Science. Let's stop talking about "science" as the holy grail of the space program. You want science, go look at the cute little rovers and the probe cruisin' around Saturn at the moment. Lots of science. Yah. The purpose of manned space flight should be colonization of the solar system. Go back to the Moon. Go on to Mars. Live there and trade with Earth.
Fuck science. Seriously. The point of Space Station Freedom, before it morphed into the freakin' ISS was to serve as a staging point to build really big spacecraft. Ya know how NASA's new Exploration Systems Architecture Study (aka Apollo On Steroids) is suggesting that we launch people and cargo seperately? Well guess what, that's not a new concept. NASA's recognition of this classical idea has been done with a typical failure of imagination. Here's a crazy idea. Instead of launching one rocket with people on it and one rocket with cargo on it and doing a dock before you send it off to the Moon, how about we send fifty rockets with cargo on em and five rockets with people on em, and have them meet up with some kind of space station, integrate them together and then send them off to the Moon to do something fuckin' useful like colonize the place.
I can think of a few uses, but they all involve something you science geeks don't seem to be interested in: colonization. The purpose of the space station is to stage fuel and components so you can do missions that require mass that won't fit on top of a single launch vehicle. Without a place to stage fuel and components you can't possibly justify the creation of reusable launch vehicles and you end up with infrastructures like "Apollo On Steroids". All the research that has been happening on the ISS (or should we say, not happening) has been in the pointless persuit of "science" when what the research really should be focusing on is storing fuel in LEO and assembling spacecraft from modules launched into LEO seperately. If you don't do that you can't possibly build a spacecraft that can take 100 people to the Moon. All you can build is fuckin' Apollo On Steriods.
Yeah right, you'd have even less chance of being able to trade with Earth if you did that. And without trade with Earth you have no hope of sustaining a society on the Moon.. you need the technology.
What happens when you try to sell bits of that land back on Earth? i.e., what happens when you try to mine your land and sell the materials? All of a sudden your claim to ownership doesn't mean a heck of a lot, as other people won't recognise it. But that's what governments are for aint they? To get in a man's way.
Unfortunately, unlike random-rock-in-the-pacific, if you try to export materials from the Moon to Earth you're likely get some busy body government official telling you that you don't have the legal right to sell those materials.
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How old is LiveJournal? How many of these self-hurting teens have grown up and gone for interviews at corporations only to find the ubiquitous google search on their name leads to a big flashing warning sign? More amusing, how many of these enjoy-cutting-themselves princesses are the daughters of elected officials?
And here I was thinking that people blogged for their own amusement.
Maybe I'm just not hip enough, but I think some people might be a bit too cynical and think there must be some profit motive behind every act of the online citizen.
I don't think "Friends" is art.
The idea being that democracy works better when voting is disproportionate based on the amount of self sacrifice that has been offered by the individual. For example, someone who works for a company and uses 90% of their salary to buy stock in the company has more say in the running of that company than someone who chooses to invest nothing in the company.
Yeah sure, but if we can't adapt to it.. like, say, if the temperature triples, then obviously we have the choice of living underground like we would on a foreign planet or fixing our planet so we can continue our current way of life. It is the human condition to change our environment to match our comforts.
You're right that it's a political issue. The limits to growth people have latched onto global warming as an excellent reason for us to regress. What I fail to understand is how self respecting scientists can actually think that stopping CO2 production (or any passive solution) will halt global warming. If global warming really is a problem we need to actively reverse the process. If industrial activity is to blame for global warming, no amount of reduced industrial activity will put the genie back in the bottle.
On a serious note, there's currently no valid suggestions as to what we can do about global warming. People are still arguing about whether or not it exists instead of thinking about what we can actually do about it. So far a grand total of one proposal has been made as to what we can do about global warming. It involves building spacecraft to hover at a stable point between the sun and the earth to divert sunlight off into space. Sound crazy? Ok, what the hell else can we do? Regress to living in the trees and hope it sorts itself out?
Yes, you can, on both counts. The only difference between the Cedega license and the GPL is that you can't profit from the work. That right is reserved for Transgaming. So, for example, you can't sell CDs with Cedega on it.
That is my understanding yes. They could, obviously, but anyone who then distributed the obsfucated code could have someone demand the source code and they wouldn't be able to provide it. The owner of the copyright could then prohibit them from distributing the obsfucated code. Therefore the GPL would be providing no more protection than a proprietary license.
the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.
What fossil evidence? What molecular biology? Did the school board even review this or did they just take it as given?
ID is not science because it's not disprovable. There's a difference. For a theory to be considered science it must be possible to develop an experiment that can show that the theory is not true. If that experiment fails then you look for another experiment. If lots of experiments fail to disprove the theory then you can be fairly sure that the theory is sound and can go on to use that theory to do engineering with.
Yeah? That's the point. Representative governments are run by the most vocal members of society. That is, the religious freaks or the political/economic philosophy freaks.
It's not source code. It's just code. "Source code" is defined as the prefered form of the program for making modifications. Obviously this aint it.
What sucks is that you can only buy "5 more votes" or something like that. If I want to pay them $20,000 to get my favourite game voted to the top of the TODO list they should bloody well take it. But then again, I don't actually want to spend that much money, so they probably would :)
But the real tragedy is that even with the source code I was unable to get my favourite game working under Cedega. There was nowhere I could go to talk with other developers and get help. It was like using a proprietary product.
I signed up for Transgaming earlier this year. Like many others I gave them my money so I could vote for my favourite games. Unfortunately, like in just about any democracy, my vote wasn't worth anything, so my favourite games never made it to the top of the TODO list. That said, I still think Cedega is a good product and if Transgaming focused more on building a developer community than paying developers they'd get a lot more games working.
Games tend to run faster and smoother in Cedega. Especially if your comparison is to Windows XP.
The shuttle couldn't make it, you'd have to build new spacecraft, preferably in orbit at some kind of space station. If you just accept the initial flight as a loss you can quickly come up with a business case for the Moon as everything on it is free. That initial flight might cost you 100 billion dollars but you can process and ship back precious metals essentially forever once you have in-situ resource utilization.. so eventually it will be paid off.
it's called the Three Dolphins Club. If you're gunna make a smutty joke, at least do your homework.
You said that S word again. Fuck Science. Stop this space-flight-is-for-science-only bullshit. You want space science? Go fuckin' live there. Oh, you can't, that's the fuckin' problem. That's what we should be fixing.
Fuck Science. Let's stop talking about "science" as the holy grail of the space program. You want science, go look at the cute little rovers and the probe cruisin' around Saturn at the moment. Lots of science. Yah. The purpose of manned space flight should be colonization of the solar system. Go back to the Moon. Go on to Mars. Live there and trade with Earth.
Fuck science. Seriously. The point of Space Station Freedom, before it morphed into the freakin' ISS was to serve as a staging point to build really big spacecraft. Ya know how NASA's new Exploration Systems Architecture Study (aka Apollo On Steroids) is suggesting that we launch people and cargo seperately? Well guess what, that's not a new concept. NASA's recognition of this classical idea has been done with a typical failure of imagination. Here's a crazy idea. Instead of launching one rocket with people on it and one rocket with cargo on it and doing a dock before you send it off to the Moon, how about we send fifty rockets with cargo on em and five rockets with people on em, and have them meet up with some kind of space station, integrate them together and then send them off to the Moon to do something fuckin' useful like colonize the place.
I can think of a few uses, but they all involve something you science geeks don't seem to be interested in: colonization. The purpose of the space station is to stage fuel and components so you can do missions that require mass that won't fit on top of a single launch vehicle. Without a place to stage fuel and components you can't possibly justify the creation of reusable launch vehicles and you end up with infrastructures like "Apollo On Steroids". All the research that has been happening on the ISS (or should we say, not happening) has been in the pointless persuit of "science" when what the research really should be focusing on is storing fuel in LEO and assembling spacecraft from modules launched into LEO seperately. If you don't do that you can't possibly build a spacecraft that can take 100 people to the Moon. All you can build is fuckin' Apollo On Steriods.
Yeah right, you'd have even less chance of being able to trade with Earth if you did that. And without trade with Earth you have no hope of sustaining a society on the Moon.. you need the technology.
What happens when you try to sell bits of that land back on Earth? i.e., what happens when you try to mine your land and sell the materials? All of a sudden your claim to ownership doesn't mean a heck of a lot, as other people won't recognise it. But that's what governments are for aint they? To get in a man's way.
Unfortunately, unlike random-rock-in-the-pacific, if you try to export materials from the Moon to Earth you're likely get some busy body government official telling you that you don't have the legal right to sell those materials.