Sadly, they are not on the road all on their own. And as much as I won't miss them if they drive into a ravine while watching TV, I'm a bit less happy if they're driving in the oncoming lane on the same road I'm driving (or more likely, in my lane while they are fiddling with the controls).
(Kind of like I'm fine with them being superuser on their own system, but what do you do when they need to have modify rights to a network drive which also contains my work)
Sounds like you've found a great way to save fuel:
Start your car, get up to speed, set car to neutral, then turn of the ignition.
That way you could drive from Mexico to Canada on just a liter of gas!
(Or perhaps there's that nasty thing called friction which you have to overcome by running the engine?)
But don't let this stop you from calling people trolls, otherwise you might just have to spend time doing your physics homework. Eww, thermodynamics...
Since this method converts potential energy into kinetic energy (the car pushing down), this means your car will be moving from a higher position to a lower position, losing it's potential energy.
Since your car has to drive out of the 'pit' it was lowered into, when the plate came down, your car has to expend the energy necessary to climb back out of that 'pit'.
So your car is directly providing the energy to power this plate system.
Before calling someone you are attempting to have an argument with a moron or other things, perhaps you should first have looked up what the word culture actually means? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
Culture describes human creations and behavior, contrary all natural things which is typically described as nature. So yes, society is a part of culture. The word is much wider than just the programs shown on TV.
Actually, what this research demonstrates is that with the basic components, it IS possible to create RNA. The research in no way proclaims to have found the way in which RNA was created in nature. It only proves that, without making any claims as to method, it is possible. I do not believe that they claim that they have found the -ONLY- way in which RNA can be created based on the raw components.
Hmm, if this describes the reasoning behind ID, then it is inherently flawed. Since it says that to have something exist, something more complicated needs to design it, thus we fall into an endless loop.
Because who designed the aliens who designed us? And who designed those aliens? Ad infinitum.
From reading what you say, I fail to see how what the Brazilians are doing would be in any way illegal. Apparently, somebody launched a satellite over their head, which bounces back what they send to it. Sort of like a giant mirror. They can hardly complain that other people are using the stuff they shoot away over those people's head (and space still doesn't belong to anyone, as far as I know).
Well, the same could be said about the works of Homerus, who wrote about the war of Troy, which was of course a retelling based on eyewitnesses. Actually, perhaps more accurate, as Homerus was supposed to actually have been present, while the New Testament was written down later, so the stories have been passed along before they were put on paper.
Since Homerus did write about the gods, their interventions during the battles, does that not make for just as accurate an account if not better as the New Testament Gospels?
You are rather quick to place the whole of Greek Mythology as a metaphor, and not take some parts of it as possibly containing truths, and thus allowing for the gods of the Greek. If you allow they story of Jesus as being entirely true (including miracles), why would every miracle from Zeus or Apollo suddenly be a fairytale?
I fail to see how Greek Mythology can be dismissed as fairytale. Perhaps you are taking some stories from Greek mythology a little too literally, and do not understand them for the metaphors that they are. Or do you take the bible literally as well? (6000 years, universe in 6 days, etc...)
You might have to be careful with that. I don't want Occam's razor proving the existence of Xenu, just because a lot of people want to pay loads of money to find out the plot of a bad SF story.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman
Actually, the point is, regardless of who the person is you are holding in prison, you have to live by your -OWN- standards.
Thinking that you can treat people differently depending on who they are is called class justice. Sadly it happens a lot, but usually people aren't proud of it.
Actually, you make the money by breaking into those computers, collect all those profiles, then hock them to burglars in nice batches for a decent 'compensation'.
Kind of like I believe the going rate for a creditcard number was $4 per ten.
I have no problem with taking DNA of every person who was convicted of a crime(of a certain level, parking tickets for instance probably shouldn't warrant it).
I think the correct term for 'a certain level' is slope.
The only people that need secret votes is if they are afraid of who they are voting for, and if it is that bad, then we have other problems beyond voting machines to worry about.... As for General election, I don't think that will be an issue. Wow, hope you can explain that to the people in Zimbabwe who get beat up if they don't vote for Mugabe in their presidential election.
Vote anonymity is important, in EVERY election. It's not about being ashamed of your vote, but about not having ANY outside pressure influencing how you vote. People should be allowed to vote even for something they 'should feel ashamed about', since that means they just disagree with the current morals of that community.
I don't know why Toshiba would chase this medium, it will be dead much faster than DVD... Well, as long as there is doubt about what the next medium is going to be, the obvious winner will indeed be downloads. This can therefor directly impact the sales of Bluray players, and of course the Playstation 3. And as you state, one of the biggest beneficiaries will be Microsoft (who also helped to drag out the deathstruggle of HD-DVD as long as possible).
Could it be that there is a financial incentive from Microsoft to Toshiba to have them keeping the movie-buying market in doubt, and therefor hinder the uptake of Bluray (and thus the Playstation)? This is all just wild speculation of course.
Well, since the NSA has already tapped into almost all telephone communication, they could easily do the same with all the internet communication (and perhaps they already have) If you just want bandwidth, and all the IP addresses in the US, why not hi-jack the very communication lines, and you can spoof all the IP addresses in use in the whole of the US. You just need to build a little firewall (China can show them how to do that) which adds a couple of extra requests on top of the normal communication that comes from the unsuspecting user of that IPaddress.
Well, the article itself makes a point for that. In the ever increasing technological possibilities, an individual gets ever greater destructive powers at its personal control. If the general personality is hostile, it would just as likely try to kill its own people (like we do on Earth). And if every individual had even greater power at his disposal than say a nuke (genetically designed super viruses, nanomachines, perhaps tailored at just one specific group of people, or perhaps even indiscriminate). You only need one idiot with a planet-killer, and it's the end of the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography: The first modern ("integrated tri-pack") color film, Kodachrome, was introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935, using three colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for Agfacolor (as "Agfacolor Neue") in 1936. (In this newer technology, chromogenic dye couplers are already within the emulsion layers, rather than having to be carefully diffused in during development.) Instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963.;)
My guess for Spore is, right now, they are trying to figure out how they can split up the game. After all, you wouldn't want to give the gamers everything at once for one price, when you could release it all in 10 expansion packs.
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Sadly, they are not on the road all on their own. And as much as I won't miss them if they drive into a ravine while watching TV, I'm a bit less happy if they're driving in the oncoming lane on the same road I'm driving (or more likely, in my lane while they are fiddling with the controls).
(Kind of like I'm fine with them being superuser on their own system, but what do you do when they need to have modify rights to a network drive which also contains my work)
Sounds like you've found a great way to save fuel:
Start your car, get up to speed, set car to neutral, then turn of the ignition.
That way you could drive from Mexico to Canada on just a liter of gas!
(Or perhaps there's that nasty thing called friction which you have to overcome by running the engine?)
But don't let this stop you from calling people trolls, otherwise you might just have to spend time doing your physics homework. Eww, thermodynamics...
Since this method converts potential energy into kinetic energy (the car pushing down), this means your car will be moving from a higher position to a lower position, losing it's potential energy.
Since your car has to drive out of the 'pit' it was lowered into, when the plate came down, your car has to expend the energy necessary to climb back out of that 'pit'.
So your car is directly providing the energy to power this plate system.
Before calling someone you are attempting to have an argument with a moron or other things, perhaps you should first have looked up what the word culture actually means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
Culture describes human creations and behavior, contrary all natural things which is typically described as nature.
So yes, society is a part of culture. The word is much wider than just the programs shown on TV.
Uhmm... you're asking this on Slashdot? Seriously?
Actually, what this research demonstrates is that with the basic components, it IS possible to create RNA.
The research in no way proclaims to have found the way in which RNA was created in nature. It only proves that, without making any claims as to method, it is possible.
I do not believe that they claim that they have found the -ONLY- way in which RNA can be created based on the raw components.
Hmm, if this describes the reasoning behind ID, then it is inherently flawed. Since it says that to have something exist, something more complicated needs to design it, thus we fall into an endless loop.
Because who designed the aliens who designed us? And who designed those aliens? Ad infinitum.
Supernatural does not mean outside of our understanding of nature, but means outside of nature itself.
The fact that we do not know all the ins and outs of quantum mechanics does not make it supernatural.
Thank you for clearing up what is happening.
From reading what you say, I fail to see how what the Brazilians are doing would be in any way illegal. Apparently, somebody launched a satellite over their head, which bounces back what they send to it. Sort of like a giant mirror.
They can hardly complain that other people are using the stuff they shoot away over those people's head (and space still doesn't belong to anyone, as far as I know).
Well, the same could be said about the works of Homerus, who wrote about the war of Troy, which was of course a retelling based on eyewitnesses. Actually, perhaps more accurate, as Homerus was supposed to actually have been present, while the New Testament was written down later, so the stories have been passed along before they were put on paper.
Since Homerus did write about the gods, their interventions during the battles, does that not make for just as accurate an account if not better as the New Testament Gospels?
You are rather quick to place the whole of Greek Mythology as a metaphor, and not take some parts of it as possibly containing truths, and thus allowing for the gods of the Greek. If you allow they story of Jesus as being entirely true (including miracles), why would every miracle from Zeus or Apollo suddenly be a fairytale?
I fail to see how Greek Mythology can be dismissed as fairytale. Perhaps you are taking some stories from Greek mythology a little too literally, and do not understand them for the metaphors that they are. Or do you take the bible literally as well? (6000 years, universe in 6 days, etc...)
You might have to be careful with that. I don't want Occam's razor proving the existence of Xenu, just because a lot of people want to pay loads of money to find out the plot of a bad SF story.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman
I think if anything, Einstein was above this whole discussion, although somewhat amused by it.
(See: http://atheism.about.com/od/einsteingodreligion/tp/Was-Einstein-an-Atheist-.htm
& http://atheism.about.com/od/einsteingodreligion/tp/Einstein-on-a-Personal-God.htm )
Actually, the point is, regardless of who the person is you are holding in prison, you have to live by your -OWN- standards.
Thinking that you can treat people differently depending on who they are is called class justice. Sadly it happens a lot, but usually people aren't proud of it.
Actually, you make the money by breaking into those computers, collect all those profiles, then hock them to burglars in nice batches for a decent 'compensation'.
Kind of like I believe the going rate for a creditcard number was $4 per ten.
I have no problem with taking DNA of every person who was convicted of a crime(of a certain level, parking tickets for instance probably shouldn't warrant it).
I think the correct term for 'a certain level' is slope.
But as always this is my 02c,YMMV
How much flurb is 02c worth these days?
Vote anonymity is important, in EVERY election. It's not about being ashamed of your vote, but about not having ANY outside pressure influencing how you vote.
People should be allowed to vote even for something they 'should feel ashamed about', since that means they just disagree with the current morals of that community.
Could it be that there is a financial incentive from Microsoft to Toshiba to have them keeping the movie-buying market in doubt, and therefor hinder the uptake of Bluray (and thus the Playstation)? This is all just wild speculation of course.
Of course the analogy falls flat on it's face...
it's not a car analogy.
Well, since the NSA has already tapped into almost all telephone communication, they could easily do the same with all the internet communication (and perhaps they already have)
If you just want bandwidth, and all the IP addresses in the US, why not hi-jack the very communication lines, and you can spoof all the IP addresses in use in the whole of the US.
You just need to build a little firewall (China can show them how to do that) which adds a couple of extra requests on top of the normal communication that comes from the unsuspecting user of that IPaddress.
Well, the article itself makes a point for that.
In the ever increasing technological possibilities, an individual gets ever greater destructive powers at its personal control.
If the general personality is hostile, it would just as likely try to kill its own people (like we do on Earth).
And if every individual had even greater power at his disposal than say a nuke (genetically designed super viruses, nanomachines, perhaps tailored at just one specific group of people, or perhaps even indiscriminate).
You only need one idiot with a planet-killer, and it's the end of the story.
Duh...
;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T:
was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography:
The first modern ("integrated tri-pack") color film, Kodachrome, was introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935, using three colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for Agfacolor (as "Agfacolor Neue") in 1936. (In this newer technology, chromogenic dye couplers are already within the emulsion layers, rather than having to be carefully diffused in during development.) Instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963.
My guess for Spore is, right now, they are trying to figure out how they can split up the game.
After all, you wouldn't want to give the gamers everything at once for one price, when you could release it all in 10 expansion packs.
Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the mission. Thank you for helping us explore Mars.