Lipservice and political grandstanding? I don't think there will be political will to carry out even a "footprint and flagpoles" Mars mission in the near future.
I love the history of science and usually include historic examples of faulty theories and wrongly interpreted experiments in my lectures. So, the warning is implicitly included in them.
My point was, of course, that it would be rather pointless for me to lecture about a physical theory and then every time point out that it is just a theory.
requiring that high school science teachers teaching evolution tell their students that evolutionary theory, a theory that has been shown to explain the origins of life time and time again, is flawed
I teach physics. Every theory in physics is most likely flawed. In fact, every theory in natural science is flawed. Should I have to point it out again and again?
I don't know where exactly the fee goes here in Finland, but I know for sure that our Teosto acts as an enforcer who collects the fee and sues those who won't pay.
Yep. As I said, it's nuts. I think that the levy also compensates for your right to make copies of CDs and DVDs you've borrowed from a close friend or a family member (that is, some guy on the internet is not your friend), too.
It's sort of funny to watch how every time someone questions this practise in public, their representative throws a hissy-fit and accuses the person of trying to deprive the poor artists of their income.
As far as copyproof CDs go, they'll most likely just say: "Well, we know it's a bitch, but you shouldn't blame us for implementing it - blame it on the people who keep on stealing music."
The last time I checked, the copyright holders' argument over here was that the levy is there because you have the right (by law) to make a limited number of personal backup copies of records you've bought. It doesn't compensate for any copyright infringements per se - it simply compensates for the "losses" induced when they can't force you to buy a new record for a backup instead.
they really are getting out of hand here. Every business (a store, barbership, taxi,...) must pay a fee if the wish to have a radio on during business hours. It doesn't matter that the radio stations have already paid the fee for music. Also, churches and kindergartens will probably have to begin to pay for singing copyrighted hymns and songs for children as this is deemed as a public performance. Nuts!
Even if the user is shoulder-surfed or the connection is sniffed, it doesn't help someone else get access to the account. Of course, the downside is if the list gets lost or left behind somewhere
My net bank works on one-time passwords. You've got a list of four digit one-time passwords and a nine digit "authentication ID" that doesn't change. The one time password list doesn't show the ID (which is easy to remember), so even if the one-time password list gets lost or left behind it's not a catastrophe.
My passwords are typically 10-12 characters (a-z,A-Z,0-9) long randomly generated strings. I don't learn or remember them in the sense that I could write them on paper or spell them out. Instead, my fingers learn them. Each password has a specific feel, rhythm or a sequence of finger movements to it and as long as I can remember which sequence belonged to which account, there's no problem.
By "major problems" I mean problems that are worse than those you have while working with MS Office.
Ah, yes. The good old "MS Office doesn't work any better" argument. Well, I say rubbish, too.
I have co-authored several proposals with embedded figures, equations, captions, tables, footnotes etc. I've co-authored manuscripts, A0 sized posters and edited entire 70-100 page long theses. All that without any significant problems as long as we've agreed beforehand about the printer settings and the paper size. The authors have used both MS Office 2K and XP.
Open Office just doesn't cut it.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for Open Office, but saying that it imports/exports MS Office documents OK is just factually wrong.
Are you saying that figure placement and text layout is irrelevant for school use?
Use Word to prepare a document in a two column format, add some text, a couple of JPG images, figure captions and a couple of equations. A typical report. Then, import it into Open Office. You'll be lucky if the images aren't all over the place and equations are not complete gibberish because of some font incompatibility.
So far I've tried using Open Office at work twice. However, when even the simplest of legacy documents won't import/export, there's really no other alternative than to keep on using MS Office.
I've done research using Hydrogen Sulfide and it's nasty stuff. It's corrosive, explosive, poisonous and a chemical asphyxiant.
Its corrosive property is particularly nasty. Here's what happens to a copper seal in a H2S gas line over time. The inner part of the seal has been in contact with H2S and as you can see it's just flaking away. Aluminum, plastic or synthetic rubber seals don't do much better and a leak in a H2S line will definitely ruin your day...
So your idea of free and fair competition is that every product should float no matter if another product completely outperforms/outmarkets them? I still don't see how were they illegaly forced out of the markets.
What do you mean by "not allowing others to play along"? There is the Open Office, Star Office and various other office suites. No one has been forced out of the market here and Microsoft is quite within its rights not to open up the document format. As the GP pointed out, not helping your competition is hardly illegal anti-competetive behavior.
It's always the guy doing 50 in a 50 when everyone knows the accepted speed on the road they're on is 70.
Bwahaha! Yeah, it's the people who drive safely and according to the official regulations who are dangerous -- not us speed freaks who break the rules and make new ones for themselves simply because we're so goddamned good drivers. Nice rationalization.
You wouldn't have any problem with the people doing 50 if you were doing 50 as well. "The other people are driving 70 mph too" is a pathetic excuse a kid might come up with. Besides, most people seriously overestimate their driving abilities.
Would that money cover the costs of increasingly worse accidents? Would that money bring back the dead the number of which would definitely increase? No.
Why is it that most people who like to "go faster" never seem to realize - or at least admit it - that it's not about them. It's primarily about the safety of the other people (yes, us who like to drive safely and by the regulations) on the road.
And if everybody started driving 70mph, some jackasses would feel the need to do 90mph because of exactly the same reason.
Automated speed control is a good thing. You can't rely on people's own judgement on how good drivers they are -- it's well known that most people completely overestimate their abilities.
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Lipservice and political grandstanding? I don't think there will be political will to carry out even a "footprint and flagpoles" Mars mission in the near future.
The lack of human interaction also means that you can't haggle.
The study does not seem to address drunken online shopping...
My point was, of course, that it would be rather pointless for me to lecture about a physical theory and then every time point out that it is just a theory.
I teach physics. Every theory in physics is most likely flawed. In fact, every theory in natural science is flawed. Should I have to point it out again and again?
I don't know where exactly the fee goes here in Finland, but I know for sure that our Teosto acts as an enforcer who collects the fee and sues those who won't pay.
It's sort of funny to watch how every time someone questions this practise in public, their representative throws a hissy-fit and accuses the person of trying to deprive the poor artists of their income.
As far as copyproof CDs go, they'll most likely just say: "Well, we know it's a bitch, but you shouldn't blame us for implementing it - blame it on the people who keep on stealing music."
they really are getting out of hand here. Every business (a store, barbership, taxi,...) must pay a fee if the wish to have a radio on during business hours. It doesn't matter that the radio stations have already paid the fee for music. Also, churches and kindergartens will probably have to begin to pay for singing copyrighted hymns and songs for children as this is deemed as a public performance. Nuts!
Yep, mailing daddypants doesn't work. I've tried it a few times and every time the dupe gets posted.
My net bank works on one-time passwords. You've got a list of four digit one-time passwords and a nine digit "authentication ID" that doesn't change. The one time password list doesn't show the ID (which is easy to remember), so even if the one-time password list gets lost or left behind it's not a catastrophe.
My passwords are typically 10-12 characters (a-z,A-Z,0-9) long randomly generated strings. I don't learn or remember them in the sense that I could write them on paper or spell them out. Instead, my fingers learn them. Each password has a specific feel, rhythm or a sequence of finger movements to it and as long as I can remember which sequence belonged to which account, there's no problem.
Ah, yes. The good old "MS Office doesn't work any better" argument. Well, I say rubbish, too.
I have co-authored several proposals with embedded figures, equations, captions, tables, footnotes etc. I've co-authored manuscripts, A0 sized posters and edited entire 70-100 page long theses. All that without any significant problems as long as we've agreed beforehand about the printer settings and the paper size. The authors have used both MS Office 2K and XP.
Open Office just doesn't cut it.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for Open Office, but saying that it imports/exports MS Office documents OK is just factually wrong.
The original argument was that Open Office fully supports MS Office documents. That's clearly not true and that was my only point.
Use Word to prepare a document in a two column format, add some text, a couple of JPG images, figure captions and a couple of equations. A typical report. Then, import it into Open Office. You'll be lucky if the images aren't all over the place and equations are not complete gibberish because of some font incompatibility.
So far I've tried using Open Office at work twice. However, when even the simplest of legacy documents won't import/export, there's really no other alternative than to keep on using MS Office.
After an H2S leak, you won't be feeling hungry ever again. ;)
Its corrosive property is particularly nasty. Here's what happens to a copper seal in a H2S gas line over time. The inner part of the seal has been in contact with H2S and as you can see it's just flaking away. Aluminum, plastic or synthetic rubber seals don't do much better and a leak in a H2S line will definitely ruin your day...
Can I brew beer in it?
So your idea of free and fair competition is that every product should float no matter if another product completely outperforms/outmarkets them? I still don't see how were they illegaly forced out of the markets.
What do you mean by "not allowing others to play along"? There is the Open Office, Star Office and various other office suites. No one has been forced out of the market here and Microsoft is quite within its rights not to open up the document format. As the GP pointed out, not helping your competition is hardly illegal anti-competetive behavior.
Or WiMaxPower...
On the DVD there's a nice commentary track by Jim Lovell and his wife and he points out some of the inaccuracies.
It looks like there already is a Gospel of Judas.
Bwahaha! Yeah, it's the people who drive safely and according to the official regulations who are dangerous -- not us speed freaks who break the rules and make new ones for themselves simply because we're so goddamned good drivers. Nice rationalization.
You wouldn't have any problem with the people doing 50 if you were doing 50 as well. "The other people are driving 70 mph too" is a pathetic excuse a kid might come up with. Besides, most people seriously overestimate their driving abilities.
Why is it that most people who like to "go faster" never seem to realize - or at least admit it - that it's not about them. It's primarily about the safety of the other people (yes, us who like to drive safely and by the regulations) on the road.
And if everybody started driving 70mph, some jackasses would feel the need to do 90mph because of exactly the same reason.
Automated speed control is a good thing. You can't rely on people's own judgement on how good drivers they are -- it's well known that most people completely overestimate their abilities.