Closer to the equator minimizes the amount of energy you have to put in to get something into orbit, since the earth's rotational velocity at the equator is maximal, and the distance from the center of gravity is greater (planets bulge at their equators).
But keep in mind, we are not talking about rockets and putting stuff into orbit. These craft are still more aero than space and the aren't being boosted into high orbit. Also, convenience for the target audience (rich people) is at a premium, not fuel.
Because if you *had* RTFA, you would know that every single redaction consisted of information already publicized, in several cases by members of the White House administration. The discussion of the article even links to citations where that VERY SAME INFORMATION is available, non-redact-stylee.
So really, what is the end effect of this censorship? To draw attention to both the attitude of Bush & Co., while simultaneously providing the curious with the information that they weren't supposed to know.
This administration must have lead in their water. I have never seen such ham-handed, short-sighted, and just plain dumb policy. Kind of like a class of Special Ed students who have read Machiavelli and think they know how to run the world.
Chris Spannos must be grinning his f_cking ears off. Good one, Greg. I think you really got some people thinking with this one. Of course, your typical Slashdotter alread "knows better", but they are mostly beyond hope anyhow. I think some of the lurkers might actually be affected by the merits of a principled democratic business.
It might be a flawed theory, proposed by an idiot, but one would never know based on your total shambles of a refutation.
I mean, really! If you are going to tell someone they are an idiot for proposing a connection between schoolyard violence and war, then you had better do more than invoke what you are "fairly certain" you will never hear as the basis for your counter-argument.
Because otherwise, you look like the kettle calling the pot black.
...a Bizzarro-world where the greatest producers in the society would be ground under the heels of the largely-mediocre masses.
Excuse me? You mean that the coordinator class are the "greatest producers" in society? As opposed to, say, the people who add use value in manufacturing and services (i.e. the wage slaves)? On the plantations of the American South, are you saying that the white slave owners were the greatest producers, and they shouldn't have to respect the concerns and aspirations of the slaves, because slaves are obviously--and permanently--incapable of promoting their own welfare?
...are you saying that hierarchies are a problem?
Hierarchies are fine when you are talking about emergency response, military, etc. Things where division of labour and lots of training allow quick and effective response. They do not do well when it comes to long-term, strategic planning, which requires many many sources to fill in the big picture. Hierarchies are notoriously bad for insulating themselves from the interests of the wider culture, and promoting their own interests over everyone elses. Systematically. Call it corruption and willful blindness.
Are you saying that it's bad to have strong, successful, intelligent people move into positions of power and leadership; then reap rewards for their ascension? Are you saying that rewards are bad? Are you saying that it's bad to allow people to enjoy success?
Rewards are not bad. But you should reward people based on their effort and sacrifice, not on their output or their status in society. If you want the whole of society to "win" as much as possible using some aggregate measure of well-being, then you should try and promote the maximum contribution from every individual, no matter what their output capacity.
Our culture rewards people based on how well they fared in the genetic and social lottery. Is it fair that I am stronger and smarter than the next guy? No, it just worked out that way: I got lucky (or, if you prefer, I am "blessed"). Should I be rewarded for possessing advantages I didn't do anything to earn? Why? Am I likely to put out more effort because of this reinforcement of my privileged status? Am I likely to sacrifice more for my fellow man?
Okay, I won't go on about stuff I am clueless about, *but* wasn't UNIX inspired by MULTICS, and wasn't MULTICS a pretty secure o/s, by design?
How hard would it be to start fresh, apply the Linux method to MULTICS or something like it, to have a an networking-oriented o/s with comprehensive security?
I know, I know: commitment of effort and resources is the main issue. I am just hoping someone is already doing it somewhere...
The Nazis extermination of the Jews was not part of their war effort, if anything it was a diversion of resources from the war effort, driven by their paranoid racist ideology rather than by military calculus. The concentration camps do not count as fighting dirty in World War II--they were quite simply genocidal crimes against humanity.
Not to defend the Nazis, but you are only half-right. A big part of the concentration camp system was the slave labour that was rented/sold to Nazi-friendly industries. So one could make the case that the systematic destruction of the Jewish population was actually of benefit to the German war effort, in that it provided funds and cheap labour to keep the ball rolling.
On a side note, without the IBM computer systems they used, they would have been much less efficient in managing and exterminating their force of slave labour.
Wow. Anthony Cools. I haven't seen that guy in years. He did a whole bunch of shows at a club I used to work at about 10 years ago. Even if I got bored as hell of the stage show (you can only see people humping their chairs so many times before it isn't that funny anymore), hanging out after closing was hilarious. He had a couple of the waitresses hypnotized to orgasm whenever they shook his hand.
Never worked on me, though. I guess I am just too unwilling or resistant or something.
Setting aside Anarcho-Communism, I think history has shown that Communism is quite distinct from Socialism. See Revolutionary Spain for an example of how Communists happily conspire with the bourgeouis and Western states to keep actual socialism from thriving.
Communism is totalitarian, anti-democratic, and ironically capitalistic (in that it accepts the same division of labour as a capitalist society, only it assigns to party administrators the economic functions reserved for "The Free Market" in the West). As long as a hierarchy of planners and bureaucrats exists, structural corruption is inevitable. And, in the case of historical communists movements, I would be jaded enough to say that accumulating power to their roles is the prime motivator for commie intelligensia.
From what I have heard, there is a lot of controversy over Einstein's first wife and her contributions to his early work. I don't believe he ever acknowledged her help publicly, and although her name apparently was attached to his earlier papers, it mysteriously vanished when they were published.
Not that I am an Einstein hater, but he really was a rotten husband and father.
He does, however, use Pokertracker, which helps him keep statistics on everyone he plays with, which in my opinion isn't cheating, it is just automating something that you could do manually.
Would you include counting cards in Blackjack in that analysis of what is and isn't cheating? I believe counting cards in your head at a real casino is okay. But just try "automating" it and then see what happens.
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Closer to the equator minimizes the amount of energy you have to put in to get something into orbit, since the earth's rotational velocity at the equator is maximal, and the distance from the center of gravity is greater (planets bulge at their equators).
But keep in mind, we are not talking about rockets and putting stuff into orbit. These craft are still more aero than space and the aren't being boosted into high orbit. Also, convenience for the target audience (rich people) is at a premium, not fuel.
Doesn't the "Gen" in GenCon come from "Lake Geneva"? As in, Wisconsin?
Hell, I'm from Canada and even *I* know that.
LOL @ "real economists"
Because if you *had* RTFA, you would know that every single redaction consisted of information already publicized, in several cases by members of the White House administration. The discussion of the article even links to citations where that VERY SAME INFORMATION is available, non-redact-stylee.
So really, what is the end effect of this censorship? To draw attention to both the attitude of Bush & Co., while simultaneously providing the curious with the information that they weren't supposed to know.
This administration must have lead in their water. I have never seen such ham-handed, short-sighted, and just plain dumb policy. Kind of like a class of Special Ed students who have read Machiavelli and think they know how to run the world.
Chris Spannos must be grinning his f_cking ears off. Good one, Greg. I think you really got some people thinking with this one. Of course, your typical Slashdotter alread "knows better", but they are mostly beyond hope anyhow. I think some of the lurkers might actually be affected by the merits of a principled democratic business.
:)
I look forward to the book.
"You shut your damn mouth right now."
:)
This was the funniest thing I have read on slashdot in a long time.
Thank you.
How about reading the damned paper before you make an ass out of yourself? Any decent scientist would.
Welcome to the club. I gave up on Azureus a few months ago. (Micro)torrent is a really good app.
It might be a flawed theory, proposed by an idiot, but one would never know based on your total shambles of a refutation.
I mean, really! If you are going to tell someone they are an idiot for proposing a connection between schoolyard violence and war, then you had better do more than invoke what you are "fairly certain" you will never hear as the basis for your counter-argument.
Because otherwise, you look like the kettle calling the pot black.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw this: finally a good semi-smart material for motorcycle armour. Gibsonesque, whut?
Excuse me? You mean that the coordinator class are the "greatest producers" in society? As opposed to, say, the people who add use value in manufacturing and services (i.e. the wage slaves)? On the plantations of the American South, are you saying that the white slave owners were the greatest producers, and they shouldn't have to respect the concerns and aspirations of the slaves, because slaves are obviously--and permanently--incapable of promoting their own welfare?
Hierarchies are fine when you are talking about emergency response, military, etc. Things where division of labour and lots of training allow quick and effective response. They do not do well when it comes to long-term, strategic planning, which requires many many sources to fill in the big picture. Hierarchies are notoriously bad for insulating themselves from the interests of the wider culture, and promoting their own interests over everyone elses. Systematically. Call it corruption and willful blindness.
Are you saying that it's bad to have strong, successful, intelligent people move into positions of power and leadership; then reap rewards for their ascension? Are you saying that rewards are bad? Are you saying that it's bad to allow people to enjoy success?
Rewards are not bad. But you should reward people based on their effort and sacrifice, not on their output or their status in society. If you want the whole of society to "win" as much as possible using some aggregate measure of well-being, then you should try and promote the maximum contribution from every individual, no matter what their output capacity.
Our culture rewards people based on how well they fared in the genetic and social lottery. Is it fair that I am stronger and smarter than the next guy? No, it just worked out that way: I got lucky (or, if you prefer, I am "blessed"). Should I be rewarded for possessing advantages I didn't do anything to earn? Why? Am I likely to put out more effort because of this reinforcement of my privileged status? Am I likely to sacrifice more for my fellow man?
Okay, I won't go on about stuff I am clueless about, *but* wasn't UNIX inspired by MULTICS, and wasn't MULTICS a pretty secure o/s, by design?
How hard would it be to start fresh, apply the Linux method to MULTICS or something like it, to have a an networking-oriented o/s with comprehensive security?
I know, I know: commitment of effort and resources is the main issue. I am just hoping someone is already doing it somewhere...
Think momentum, not energy.
I was just trying to point out that OSX 10.4 is the only operating system this Beta will run on. I think that is a pity.
Is that considered inflamatory speech on Slashdot now? Did I miss the memo or something?
Only for OSX? Pity!
Not to defend the Nazis, but you are only half-right. A big part of the concentration camp system was the slave labour that was rented/sold to Nazi-friendly industries. So one could make the case that the systematic destruction of the Jewish population was actually of benefit to the German war effort, in that it provided funds and cheap labour to keep the ball rolling.
On a side note, without the IBM computer systems they used, they would have been much less efficient in managing and exterminating their force of slave labour.
Wow. Anthony Cools. I haven't seen that guy in years. He did a whole bunch of shows at a club I used to work at about 10 years ago. Even if I got bored as hell of the stage show (you can only see people humping their chairs so many times before it isn't that funny anymore), hanging out after closing was hilarious. He had a couple of the waitresses hypnotized to orgasm whenever they shook his hand.
Never worked on me, though. I guess I am just too unwilling or resistant or something.
Setting aside Anarcho-Communism, I think history has shown that Communism is quite distinct from Socialism. See Revolutionary Spain for an example of how Communists happily conspire with the bourgeouis and Western states to keep actual socialism from thriving.
Communism is totalitarian, anti-democratic, and ironically capitalistic (in that it accepts the same division of labour as a capitalist society, only it assigns to party administrators the economic functions reserved for "The Free Market" in the West). As long as a hierarchy of planners and bureaucrats exists, structural corruption is inevitable. And, in the case of historical communists movements, I would be jaded enough to say that accumulating power to their roles is the prime motivator for commie intelligensia.
From what I have heard, there is a lot of controversy over Einstein's first wife and her contributions to his early work. I don't believe he ever acknowledged her help publicly, and although her name apparently was attached to his earlier papers, it mysteriously vanished when they were published.
Not that I am an Einstein hater, but he really was a rotten husband and father.
Anybody else noticed Roberto's (the orange-mohawk-havin'-NASA-technician... radical!) has a pretty sweet-looking laptop?
And thank god for that. Because it is a very good and fitting name for a country that is a test-case for the idea of a multicultural "global village".
Yes, it would seem you often are. And, indeed, too lazy to spend 15 seconds to find an answer.
I searched google with the terms "canada language english percentage" and got this as the top response:
"English 59.3% (official), French 23.2% (official), other 17.5%"
There ya go. A little Canuck assistance to test "what you heard". Knowledge is power, and all that.
All laws should be written in plain language.
Would you include counting cards in Blackjack in that analysis of what is and isn't cheating? I believe counting cards in your head at a real casino is okay. But just try "automating" it and then see what happens.
That funky monkey...