I am not an American, nor a lawyer, but I think it works like this: You pay the politician - it's a bribe. You pay the political party/election campaign of a politician, it is not.
Also, as good as the Creation Dogma is, it doesn't not help us predict the likely biological changes that we know are likely to happen, sooner or later.
This statement is typical of the problem. It is attempting to apply a spiritual tool to a physical problem. It flat doesn't work that way. It is as foolish as trying to measure ambition with a tape measure.
> >I'm not providing much scientific evidence here for creation, but, any critical person, should be able to see that the theory of evolution is only a THEORY.
You seem to imply that because it's a theory, that it's necessarily wrong. The theory of relativity is also considered a theory, but it has stood up to much experimentation. "Theory" means "not yet proven" but should not be extrapolated to mean incorrect. It's more appropriate to say that theories are incomplete.
Just an addendum, if I may.
In the scientific method, nothing is ever proven, things are disproved. A hypothesis is checked against existing evidence and if the hypothesis contradicts the evidence, it is discarded. The hypothesis that best fits the evidence is considered "right", but that has no bearing on whether nature really works like that or not.
One problem is that most "Evolutionists" spout off their theories as proven fact when they are merely good guesses that fit the evidence. When they do that they are walking on faith just as much as a "Creationist" does.
The "Creationists" are trying to use the bible as a science book. The bible is not a science book. It presents concepts to people in a framework that they would understand, much as we do today. We all know that the sun doen't rise and set, but we still use that terminology. To use it as a science book is to use it improperly.
True. However, the angular momentum that this junk contributes to the earth is not all in the same direction. Some will act to speed the earth up, some will act to slow it down. Some will act to tilt the axis. It is probably safe to assume that it averages out to zero.
Hmm... What would happen if all the Chinese started walking east?
Just give me a pipe big enough for one or two HDTV channels, a couple of two way audio channels, and a 100-1000Megabit/sec TCP/IP.
The way I see it, cable companies are doing things wrong. Instead of bundling an internet channel within their video channels, they should be sending video on demand channels over an internet pipe. One cable, or fibre into the home, into a box that splits out a number of phone lines, a number of video channels, and a number of ethernet lines.
The problem is that the infrastructure is not there. Of course this scheme would cause telco vs cable wars, ISP vs. telco wars, etc. Our bright shiny future gets pushed back a few more years.
Rejection is a non issue. You simply harvest the stem cells from the recipient, grow the organ and install the organ. Donor=Recipient therefore rejection=0.
Of course there's an excuse. By disclosing how you've done something, you may provide the missing piece of the puzzle to another research firm. Suddenly, they're the ones holding a patent for cloning human kidneys, and you're stuck with an endless supply of cow kidneys. All those untold millions of dollars from dialysis patients wanting new kidneys will wind up in someone else's pockets.
Perhaps the moderator didn't know that Ed Dillinger was the (real world) villain in Tron, and that he had a special terminal built into his desk whereby he could talk to the MCP.
The money flow in a broadcast scenario is You->manufacturer->advertiser->broadcaste r->content generator. (When a tv show or movie is made, the bulk of its revenue stream is from reruns and rentals, not from first run showings). When a show is dumped onto the net, the chain breaks at the manufacturer->advertiser link. Everyone downstream loses. Broadcasters could try buying glitzier content in order to keep the ad revenue up. Unfortunately, buying better shows merely puts content onto the web faster. The only way they can protect their revenue stream is to somehow prevent the content that they paid for from becoming freely available. The content providers, losing their valuable syndication/re-run revenue, would only be happy to cooperate.
In the rental/sale biz, the picture is relatively the same. The flow is You->rental store->content generators. Now if you were able to download the content from the net, for free, where would the rental store and content generators get their money? Again, the only way they could protect their revenue would be to encrypt the content, and encrypt it to the point of per view encryption.
The unexplored territory is the ad based download site, and/or embedding the ad directly into the show. ("Hey Chandler, pass me a cold, refreshing Miller Lite, would ya?", "Sure! Say, do you drink it because it's great tasting, or because it's less filling?", "No, I drink it because Tops was having a sale on Nabisco Shredded Wheat, and this was in the next aisle. Oh, and you wouldn't believe who I ran into there...")
I think information processing, communication, and smart weaponry are going to be bigger factors than load carrying.
Imagine, if you will, an image processing system that detects and highlights enemy positions. (Think of the scene in Terminator II, when Arnold scans the bar and the people in the bar are highlighted and identified.)
Stick a camera on a gun and suddenly you can shoot around a corner.
Imagine a tricorder-like device which could detect people through walls using thermal or radar technologies.
Imagine one soldier firing a guided rocket at a target that a fellow soldier can see.
In short, don't increase the load, make the load count.
Hmmm... The more I think about it, the more I lean towards increasing the deadliness of the soldier's weapons systems while keeping the entire package light. Small laser guided rockets, rifles that can be aimed by video camera and heads up display rather than eyeballing along the barrel. Light body armour. Stuff that's already in the works.
Still, there may be a place for a weapon similar to the steadicam mounted one used in the movie "Aliens". An exoskeletal leg unit with a hip level mounted support for, say, a 25mm cannon or gatling gun.
Well, I don't have access to the slashdot connection logs, so... Yes, the air I'm blowing may be a little warm. However, it is fairly well known that public newsgroups and bulletin board systems generally have a lot more readers than posters (I believe the term is "lurkers"). Besides, you don't think the notorious "slashdot effect" is caused by the 200-600 people who actually post to any given article, do you?
By far the largest majority of readers read at 0. Most people do not have an account and Slashdot defaults them to 0. For the longest time, I did not have an account. I read at the default 0 and posted at the default -1 granted to Anonymous Cowards. For the longest time, I could not even read my own posts. Even now that I have an account, I still read at 0 (again default).
Hmmm. My communication is through an ethernet card, not a modem. My serial port is going to be fairly active because every movement of my mouse sends a stream of data.
This piece of hardware is the equivalent of mounting a video camera in the room, and should only be installed under the same guidelines.
By design, only the driver's window on the port side of my vehicle can open. On the starboard side, the front passenger's window can open, and the rearmost window can be propped out about two inches. Other than that, all of the windows are permanently shut. This is the way the vehicle was designed.
I think that is one of the points of this scheme. The pictures are randomly placed.
It goes something like this. You choose, say, five pictures when setting up your password.
When entering the password, the computer displays a grid of pictures, randomly placed, one of which is the first of your five.
Once the first picture is selected, a new grid of pictures is displayed, one of which is the second of your five, again, randomly placed. The process repeats for all five pictures.
At each iteration, a cracker is faced with a 1/25 chance of getting the right picture (assuming a 5x5 grid). That's 9,756,625 different combinations. A cracker is also faced with an ever-changing input pattern. The pictures may be in a straight line this time, but odds are against it next time.
There are two other factors which make this system more secure. People are visually oriented, so remembering pictures is easy, especially compared to a mess of uppercase, lowercase and symbols. The other factor that makes this more secure, is that it is difficult to describe pictures to other people. If the system uses pictures of faces for example, it would be very easy to use similar photos (ie same model, different poses, or different models, same pose), and yet it would be difficult to describe to someone else.
Great! Send the Bazaar to the Cathedral. Not the way we want to go.
There are two things that will work:
Users donating money to programmers, or
Programmers charging money for their work.
Let's face it folks. We've had a good run so far thanks to the efforts of a great many good people. We all want this open source idea to work. We all want these good people to get compensated for their efforts. Prestige/recognition is fine. Doing it for kicks is fine. However, somewhere along the line these people are gonna want to put food on the table.
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I am not an American, nor a lawyer, but I think it works like this: You pay the politician - it's a bribe. You pay the political party/election campaign of a politician, it is not.
Now lets not forget the Minute Maids, the Nesteas, the Fruitopias, the Nescafes, the Shwepps and the 200+ other products they sell.
Hmmm... How much data can you cram onto a 60Hz wave? My guess: Not much.
This statement is typical of the problem. It is attempting to apply a spiritual tool to a physical problem. It flat doesn't work that way. It is as foolish as trying to measure ambition with a tape measure.
You seem to imply that because it's a theory, that it's necessarily wrong. The theory of relativity is also considered a theory, but it has stood up to much experimentation. "Theory" means "not yet proven" but should not be extrapolated to mean incorrect. It's more appropriate to say that theories are incomplete.
Just an addendum, if I may.
In the scientific method, nothing is ever proven, things are disproved. A hypothesis is checked against existing evidence and if the hypothesis contradicts the evidence, it is discarded. The hypothesis that best fits the evidence is considered "right", but that has no bearing on whether nature really works like that or not.
One problem is that most "Evolutionists" spout off their theories as proven fact when they are merely good guesses that fit the evidence. When they do that they are walking on faith just as much as a "Creationist" does.
The "Creationists" are trying to use the bible as a science book. The bible is not a science book. It presents concepts to people in a framework that they would understand, much as we do today. We all know that the sun doen't rise and set, but we still use that terminology. To use it as a science book is to use it improperly.
In other words, both camps are wrong.
Pron is a typo. The word "Porn" was intended. Bukkake is... well... It's best if you looked that one up yourself.
Hmm... What would happen if all the Chinese started walking east?
Re (Radius of Earth)=6378136 m
Ro (Radius 200km up)=6578136
Fe,Fo are force of gravity on earth, and 200km up.
Fe=G*M1*M2/Re^2
Fo=G*M1*M2/Ro^2
Fo/Fe=(G*M1*M2/Ro^2)/(G*M1*M2/Re^2)
or
Fo/Fe=Re^2/Ro^2=6378136^2/6578136^2
Fo is about 94% of Fe, or about 9.2m/s^2
The way I see it, cable companies are doing things wrong. Instead of bundling an internet channel within their video channels, they should be sending video on demand channels over an internet pipe. One cable, or fibre into the home, into a box that splits out a number of phone lines, a number of video channels, and a number of ethernet lines.
The problem is that the infrastructure is not there. Of course this scheme would cause telco vs cable wars, ISP vs. telco wars, etc. Our bright shiny future gets pushed back a few more years.
Rejection is a non issue. You simply harvest the stem cells from the recipient, grow the organ and install the organ. Donor=Recipient therefore rejection=0.
Of course there's an excuse. By disclosing how you've done something, you may provide the missing piece of the puzzle to another research firm. Suddenly, they're the ones holding a patent for cloning human kidneys, and you're stuck with an endless supply of cow kidneys. All those untold millions of dollars from dialysis patients wanting new kidneys will wind up in someone else's pockets.
Perhaps the moderator didn't know that Ed Dillinger was the (real world) villain in Tron, and that he had a special terminal built into his desk whereby he could talk to the MCP.
In the rental/sale biz, the picture is relatively the same. The flow is You->rental store->content generators. Now if you were able to download the content from the net, for free, where would the rental store and content generators get their money? Again, the only way they could protect their revenue would be to encrypt the content, and encrypt it to the point of per view encryption.
The unexplored territory is the ad based download site, and /or embedding the ad directly into the show. ("Hey Chandler, pass me a cold, refreshing Miller Lite, would ya?", "Sure! Say, do you drink it because it's great tasting, or because it's less filling?", "No, I drink it because Tops was having a sale on Nabisco Shredded Wheat, and this was in the next aisle. Oh, and you wouldn't believe who I ran into there...")
Yeah man, gravity is a downer, and friction's a drag!
Imagine, if you will, an image processing system that detects and highlights enemy positions. (Think of the scene in Terminator II, when Arnold scans the bar and the people in the bar are highlighted and identified.)
Stick a camera on a gun and suddenly you can shoot around a corner.
Imagine a tricorder-like device which could detect people through walls using thermal or radar technologies.
Imagine one soldier firing a guided rocket at a target that a fellow soldier can see.
In short, don't increase the load, make the load count.
Still, there may be a place for a weapon similar to the steadicam mounted one used in the movie "Aliens". An exoskeletal leg unit with a hip level mounted support for, say, a 25mm cannon or gatling gun.
I'm picturing a bunch of kids playing hockey and then scrambling to get the nets off the "runway" when someone yells "Plane!" :-)
Well, I don't have access to the slashdot connection logs, so... Yes, the air I'm blowing may be a little warm. However, it is fairly well known that public newsgroups and bulletin board systems generally have a lot more readers than posters (I believe the term is "lurkers"). Besides, you don't think the notorious "slashdot effect" is caused by the 200-600 people who actually post to any given article, do you?
By far the largest majority of readers read at 0. Most people do not have an account and Slashdot defaults them to 0. For the longest time, I did not have an account. I read at the default 0 and posted at the default -1 granted to Anonymous Cowards. For the longest time, I could not even read my own posts. Even now that I have an account, I still read at 0 (again default).
This piece of hardware is the equivalent of mounting a video camera in the room, and should only be installed under the same guidelines.
That function can be disabled by the software.
By design, only the driver's window on the port side of my vehicle can open. On the starboard side, the front passenger's window can open, and the rearmost window can be propped out about two inches. Other than that, all of the windows are permanently shut. This is the way the vehicle was designed.
It goes something like this. You choose, say, five pictures when setting up your password.
When entering the password, the computer displays a grid of pictures, randomly placed, one of which is the first of your five.
Once the first picture is selected, a new grid of pictures is displayed, one of which is the second of your five, again, randomly placed. The process repeats for all five pictures.
At each iteration, a cracker is faced with a 1/25 chance of getting the right picture (assuming a 5x5 grid). That's 9,756,625 different combinations. A cracker is also faced with an ever-changing input pattern. The pictures may be in a straight line this time, but odds are against it next time.
There are two other factors which make this system more secure. People are visually oriented, so remembering pictures is easy, especially compared to a mess of uppercase, lowercase and symbols. The other factor that makes this more secure, is that it is difficult to describe pictures to other people. If the system uses pictures of faces for example, it would be very easy to use similar photos (ie same model, different poses, or different models, same pose), and yet it would be difficult to describe to someone else.
There are two things that will work:
Users donating money to programmers, or
Programmers charging money for their work.
Let's face it folks. We've had a good run so far thanks to the efforts of a great many good people. We all want this open source idea to work. We all want these good people to get compensated for their efforts. Prestige/recognition is fine. Doing it for kicks is fine. However, somewhere along the line these people are gonna want to put food on the table.
If his home builder won't let him run network cable, then he's got the wrong home builder.