> I thought it was a misprint in the article, so
> I went to Nature news.
I've been writing for wikipedia about TNOs, and so I've checked links to articles at CNN, WashPost, BBC, etc.. The commercial news companies get so much wrong it's scary.
In the article you linked to at Nature.com it says "The Spitzer telescope has spied Sedna." and "The Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes later confirmed the find.". Co-discover Mike Brown however, clearly states that they "used the 30 meter diameter IRAM telscope, and in collaboration with John Stansberry at the University of Arizona and Bill Reach at the Spitzer Science Certer, we used the Spitzer Space Telescope. Sedna was too small to be detected in either."
Avoid the corporate media and go to the source, or lacking that know that the news companies exist to make money - not to report the facts.
> This has been tried out, by a south american
> corporation. Unfortunately, I forget the name
> of the person that introduced this.
> -- ravind
The company is called Semco, it's in Brazil, and the CEO is Ricardo Semler. You can read about it in his excellent book Maverick!. He's written a follow up called The Seven Day Weekend which I'm getting when it's available here in paperback.
"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their work place? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue -- control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is -- a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, 1996
As a smart and good man said: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding... Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." It seems we'll have to amend his philosophy that "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." tho.
As for "The robots would navigate and communicate with each other autonomously, but a human would oversee the whole network.", they'll still get orders from the kind of people who volunteer to join, erm, wait, where's my asbestos suit?
Old joke -
Lt: Are they attacking from the east or the south?
RSHT: Yes.
Lt: Excuse me?
RSHT: Sir, yes sir!
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Things that become inconvenient or embarrassing after the fact are hard to hide. At the time this quote by Dick seemed reasonable:
link
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it only subdirectories of 08 that's blocked, not the files in 08?
At the moment Google still finds to the page you linked to. While I despise those plutocrats as much as the next guy, be very careful before accusing them of something just because they have a history of being vile. As critics of Bush we must be thorough, reasonable, and sceptical.
I'm a bit scared looking at Karey Kirkpatrick's previous work: The rescuers down under, James and the giant peach,
Honey, we shrunk ourselves, Chicken run, The little vampire. I'm really hoping he does a good job tho, H2g2 is my favorite book of all time.
Like the Office of Strategic Influence?
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"And then there was the office of strategic influence. [...] I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I'll give you the corpse. There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have." - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002-11-18, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2002/t11212002_ t1118sd2.html
Ask your boss: "You want me to deprioritize my current reports, until you advise a status upgrade?" and hope he doesn't always answer: "Make these your primary action items.".
Also, "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.".
behind-the-scenes footage [...] no audio [...] "Star Wars" buffs won't be treated to actual scenes being shot, but they probably will watch Darth Vader eating in the cafeteria, space-station sets getting hammered into place and makeup artists touching up the face of Obi-Wan Kenobi. [...] There are a lot of things we can do with that webcam and not spoil the excitement of the film for fans
"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." - George Bernard Shaw, 1912, Androcles and the lion
"Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition." - Freedom from religion foundation
"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist." - Epicurus, 341/270 BCE
I do however agree with: "Doubt everything. Find your own light." - Siddhartha Gautama (circa 563/483 BCE).
"Think about the power of bringing our library to little schools in the middle of Africa," Keller said. "Would it make a difference for those who now have their minds closed to the idea of democracy?"
As an African reading Moore's Stupid white men, and who lives in a country that has a proportional and one person one vote voting system, I'm thinking we should export some of our books to middle America:)
"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." - James Reston, New York times, 1968-06-12.
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Wait, are you suggesting that there are people who read /. who don't live on Iles Kerguelen?
> I went to Nature news.
I've been writing for wikipedia about TNOs, and so I've checked links to articles at CNN, WashPost, BBC, etc.. The commercial news companies get so much wrong it's scary.
In the article you linked to at Nature.com it says "The Spitzer telescope has spied Sedna." and "The Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes later confirmed the find.". Co-discover Mike Brown however, clearly states that they "used the 30 meter diameter IRAM telscope, and in collaboration with John Stansberry at the University of Arizona and Bill Reach at the Spitzer Science Certer, we used the Spitzer Space Telescope. Sedna was too small to be detected in either."
Avoid the corporate media and go to the source, or lacking that know that the news companies exist to make money - not to report the facts.
> corporation. Unfortunately, I forget the name
> of the person that introduced this.
> -- ravind
The company is called Semco, it's in Brazil, and the CEO is Ricardo Semler. You can read about it in his excellent book Maverick!. He's written a follow up called The Seven Day Weekend which I'm getting when it's available here in paperback.
"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their work place? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue -- control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is -- a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, 1996
"whose pilot cost more than $8 million" - TIME
If you can handle satire, see my suffer the Usenetter prayer.
According to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/numusers.html there are over half a million active (returned > 0 WU(s) last 28 days) users at the moment.
As a smart and good man said: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding... Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." It seems we'll have to amend his philosophy that "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." tho.
As for "The robots would navigate and communicate with each other autonomously, but a human would oversee the whole network.", they'll still get orders from the kind of people who volunteer to join, erm, wait, where's my asbestos suit?
Old joke -
Lt: Are they attacking from the east or the south?
RSHT: Yes.
Lt: Excuse me?
RSHT: Sir, yes sir!
How about, I give you the finger... and you give me my new cell phone.
Some do, including Ralph Nader.
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At the moment Google still finds to the page you linked to. While I despise those plutocrats as much as the next guy, be very careful before accusing them of something just because they have a history of being vile. As critics of Bush we must be thorough, reasonable, and sceptical.
DNA on voters.
"And then there was the office of strategic influence. [...] I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I'll give you the corpse. There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have." - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002-11-18, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2002/t11212002_ t1118sd2.html
They tried: House sends spam bill to Senate; Senate spam filter deletes it
Ask your boss: "You want me to deprioritize my current reports, until you advise a status upgrade?" and hope he doesn't always answer: "Make these your primary action items.".
Also, "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.".
I'd tell you more, but I'm not allowed to...
> -- AltGrendel
Please don't do what again?
"optimized", "optimzed", "opie";
it's
"optimized", "optimzed", "optmzd"!
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"Not only is there nothing to be gained by believing an untruth, but there is everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition." - Freedom from religion foundation
"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist." - Epicurus, 341/270 BCE
I do however agree with: "Doubt everything. Find your own light." - Siddhartha Gautama (circa 563/483 BCE).
ObSatireWire: Canadian warship seizes tanker in... wait... Canada has a warship?
"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." - James Reston, New York times, 1968-06-12.