I thougth it was only a few fault here and there, and here you come and say the whole continent (particulary the north east) inclusive canada is full of fault and earthquake richter 7.9. Funny that.
Even then this is not a good argument for wood construction because a wooden house built with no respect of earthquake safety will fall down exactly like a brick house no respecting earthquake code (OTOH material price and material availibility is a good argument for wooden house).
A lot can be defined in math which is not "real" and can beproved totally utterly from a few axiom. Then again you would know that a lot do not apply to the real world. Like TADA !!! Imaginary number. We are speaking of reality. And god as far as I can tell is per religious definition a real being. Now if you want to define God as an imaginary entity, not definible within the real entity ensemble, I agree with you totally. But you cannot DISPROVE the inexistence of a real entity. Point. Final.
"Do you have any tangible position to argue from besides smugness?"
Using logic only, you can't disprove the existence of anything. You can't disprove the existence of blue dragon. You can't disprove the existence of faery and gnome. In other word, saying "we always did it so" is an axiom, and no better than saying "god exists" as an hypothesis to prove that gods exists. But you cannot disprove god exists, because there is nothing you can start up with. You CANNOT disprove an axiom of existence. You can only disprove an axiom of INEXISTANCE.
It ain't a question of smugness but a question of logic. The only way ANYTHING could be ever proved is that gods exists with a proof of it, the contrary cannot be proved. And for that there is millenia of philosophical discussion, LONGER than any discussion from aquinas or descartes (which spans hundred of years and not millenia as you supposed : Aquinas : 1200 ish and descartes 1600 ish. Philosophy : waaaay before 0-ish).
In other word it ain't a question from smugness from atheist which just point out at the philosophical logical discourse to base their logic, it is a question of religious people in general which refuse utterly to put their religion in question. Point. Final.
If I remmember correctly, if the brain is used to the item you are looking at, even looking with one eye you will ahve the eprception of depth, NOT because one eye is enough, but because the rbain "remember" it. Now try the same (only 1 eye) in an unfamiliar item or environment, that the brain cannot recognize.
It is easy to throw such accusation "in the air". Too bad i respect every stop sign, signalisation, right of passage.
Funny how it is those car owner which most of the time rant about cyclist, who are more probably not respecting any right of passage on cyclist themselves.
Before : when I am on bicycle, people ignore the stop on their own street, and despite me comming from their right, they speed up and nearly kill me nearing me on the 5 inches up to 1 yard (it happenned often on a specific intersection on my way that I go thru every day).
After : what the hell will it change ? They were already breaking the law (the stop sign), breaking my right of passage (I am coming from the right). If they were "brethen" on the street they would respect my right of passage today. With such a change as getting right of sign it won't help idiot respect my right of being safe on the street any better.
The truth is that for some people being in some monster of metal and palstic of 800+ kg, with the protection on the sdie, air bag and whatnot, they do not care, especially against bicycle. Might make Right. SAme for circle crossing. They should leave me the priority while I am circling on it. 95% of the time they accelerate and apss me from inches rather than wait a few second I am passing their street. Brethen ? My ass.
As for the place where I used to live where there was no sign at all ? Well I cycled on the PEDESTRIAN sidewalk, because the street were deadly. I do not count the number of kids which were killed because some ass hole decided right-side priority don't apply to bicycle, 70mph in residential area is OK etc... Bottom line : it is not the overglut of sign which is a problem : this is the HUMAN NATURE : IF YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT, THEN YOU CAN DO IT.
I mean, it is not like the NK will not have week, month or year to map map out where those are, then prepare artillery bombardement on those coordinate. Or pass through the holes between the coverage zone of those gun. And it is not like anarmored vehicule would not roll those over twice. And I wonder also if there isn't ways to simply camouflage yourself : have a very wide light weighted tube for the infrared, go in the center with something for sight, and advance slowly toward the sentry gun. Or advance slowly under a thermal carpet. Or in a camouflage of bushes. OR snipe it out with explosive bullet or destroy it with mortar. It sound like this things would need an incredible AI to handle the various way to camoufalge yourself, but it seems only to have IR camera, normal camera and be smart enough to distinguish between trees and human. Just disguise yourself as a tree and that is it.
There is still a possibility that my skeeming over all psot ehre does not report to be considered : it could be very well that indeed, he was an idiot, and he miscast his vote.
I am not saying he is, but before we all go mad frothing on the mouth about this, maybe the origin of the problem is far simpler and elss dark than most imagine here.
And how many of those toy were made to "detect" , "kill" and/or "maim" a potential enemy/target ?
And how many of those toy were made for peace keeping (read : not bluntly killing) and rebuild, diplomacy ?
Don't bother answering, the response in your tone is self evident. Too bad you completly missed the point of the GP and let your aggressivity out. Ho wait, that was TOO a point of the GP.
I can count 300K people estimated dead over 20 years in the state.gov link above.
There was an estimate hanging around of 600K people which died since the start of the US invasion.
Even if it was 1/6 less than that and in reality 100K this is the number of live lost over way LESS than the 20 years than Saddam had. So.... Quote "has resulted in tens of thousands fewer" sorry but this is not true. Extrapolated over the same time period, the us invasion any way you see it killed MORE people than if Saddam was still in power. ESPECIALLY that all massacre happenned while he was a US "friend". He refrained from anything way too bad in the last years.
a better demonstration is to use other google image search result from other country in addition (example : iran, japan, germany...). Why ? Because it could be that.com image search people are interrested into tiananmen square image whereas china is not. In other word it could be not a censure but just incidental.
At least up to now, even if the UN is corrupt, they do not ship people in other country for torture, do not hold them indefinitly without judgement, do not invad any other country. Face it, the UN is corrupt, but the UN is a bunch of nation together. more often than not, it change nothing and leave everything in status quo. OTOH the US is a single nation, and as we saw in the last 12 years, can turn to less democreatic and less freedom. And we might not even have seen the bottom. True US is way better than many country on the democratic side, but better a bunch of people wishing for status quo, than one good guy which can turn very bad indeed.
You realize that we can fabricate ruby in BIG quantites since way way back ? If I recall correctly the first laser were done with a long bar of ruby (artificially made) during the 60's. Just put the ruby in a light path and make a population inversion. And houpla ! You get a red laser. Heck, even if my memory fail me and ruby was artificially created later, I recall using some big bar of ruby as practice work to fabricate a laser in my physic 101 university year. So Ruby might be rare, but you can fabricate it cheap ass. EVen cheaper than diamond. If you really want something interresting, then hunt for a precious stone which is not yet fabricated in industrial quantities:).
If the atomic structure was different and there was fluoerescence then this would imply a different structure than tetrahedrical diamond (here and now some double bond for example, or even different type of atoms in the crystaline structure).
The funny things is I did indeed fabricate diamond : I was in a french labor during the early 90's which studied such stuff. They looked more like glass or plastic than diamond:), but then again we made them in form of lens, not in form of jewelry diamond , so there was not "facet" to reflect light and make them atractive. The method used (an inefficient one) was to seed some diamond on a silicon waffer (microdiamond) then put that in a plasma of 95% H2 and 5% CH4 (more or less a big microwave oven of 10K-20K power) for 24 hours. Afterward we had a nice 1-1.5 inch (2.5-3 cm) radius lens with a thickness of 1/8 inch (3 mm). They were far away from "perfect" for jewelry usage, but I put it under 10 years to get them to the point where the only way to distinguish them from natural one would be to MARK the natural one which goes out of the mine. Turn out I was wrong, it took 15 years:).
Right now many firm have to fork $/ for microsoft and other proprietary software. They are NOT investing it in their own line of work, and they are not giving value added to their shareholder. Sure the software and PC revolution changed many of this industry forever, but right now this looks more like a tax than a value addition (think : difference of productivity between a worker using windows XP and windows Vista : NIL).
In other word this is the myth of the broken windows all over again : this consulting firm speaks of loosing value and strength in the economy, but in reality the money saved from paying the software would have been more likely to be reinvested into something else. And since msot big software as far as I can tell are US centric, many local economy in the world (i.e. : EU) would ON THE CONTRARY benefit by having the money reinvested locally into something else, instead of giving it away to the other side of the atlantic.
This is the official explanation. But the cast system is alive and well in India. Just not officially. I just had to look at the mariage of our outsourcing coworker, where they explained us who can marry whom, and why one could not marry another. They never mentionned cast, only stutbornly said "no he can't marry her, because of what he is and what she is." If this not caste, well that smell and looks like it. Taste like it too.
In many country in EU Hate speech and violence incitation is already penalised, as well as nazi crime denier. And yes, web site in written form also fall under this law. Think the auction about nazi memorabellia for example.
If anything this only bring video web site up the SAME standard as other media. Which is IMO not a bad thing (having the same standard that is).
Now you can argue to death that thougth crime are bad and should not be penalized, but this is forgetting TWO THING :
* USA with its constitutional amendment is the USA, and never had global war on its soil except texas mexican war, and indep war (19th century all of it, isn't it?). No I do not really count as "global" war.
* EU still bear the scar of WW2 in some place, and certainly bear the scar of nazism at least in its culture, and has at least 2 global war on its soil in the last 100 years. Some are still alive to remmember what the Nazi at that time did.
In other word you are judging OUR culture with the "mass and measurement" of YOUR culture. All I am saying is that you might get a conclusion that such a law is bad for your cultural stand point, but this is like judging the egyptian culture : it is quite easy to judge your neighbours or somebody foreign to you, but another to judge itself.
Frankly if I wanted to spark a real debat I would say "why are you all screaming murder for this simple broadcast law, whereas you aren't on the street taking arms when your own governement suspend habeas corpus, and can make people disappear like in a very bad dictature ?"
Think deeply on tat before modding me either up or down.
Maybe in the US Spam=Can of food. Here we use "Corned Beef", "Canned ham" or suchlike.
I never heard in my whole life in the 2 EU country I lived and 6 different placed, that spam=canned food. Only until recently I was taught the other meaning....Here on slashdot.
I can see a lot of "duh" reaction, and while I agree on the "feigned" shock, I would like to see something more of substance. Is this illegal for MS to do that or not ? IANAL , but it does not seems to be.
When you hear radio you are already hearing light, albeit a very low energy light (long wave length). And we can already "see" all the highier energy wave like IR, Visible, uv, x ray : just use a spectrometer and instead of having a visible spectra transform it in corresponding vibration. Et Voila ! You hear light. Alternatively for visible light you could use you eyeball to just plain see light...
I can accept that stupid people like to moderate funny the lukewarm joke about fleeing and WW2. But
insightful ??? Francophoby and prejudice run an all time high on slashdot !
By the way : easy Gate : "simple portail" in direct french translation. In french I would translate into "Accés simple" but this clearly
would not be as nice a keyword as easy gate.
It does not even matter if they are the worst hypocryte of the world.
Their work. Their IP. It is so then protected and nobody can copy it without their agreement.
But now I bet that in the admission rules it will be written that "student give fully and eternally the right
to the school to copy and dsitribute any essay they give back for a notation, for any usage. "
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I thougth it was only a few fault here and there, and here you come and say the whole continent (particulary the north east) inclusive canada is full of fault and earthquake richter 7.9. Funny that.
Even then this is not a good argument for wood construction because a wooden house built with no respect of earthquake safety will fall down exactly like a brick house no respecting earthquake code (OTOH material price and material availibility is a good argument for wooden house).
A lot can be defined in math which is not "real" and can beproved totally utterly from a few axiom. Then again you would know that a lot do not apply to the real world. Like TADA !!! Imaginary number. We are speaking of reality. And god as far as I can tell is per religious definition a real being. Now if you want to define God as an imaginary entity, not definible within the real entity ensemble, I agree with you totally. But you cannot DISPROVE the inexistence of a real entity. Point. Final.
"Do you have any tangible position to argue from besides smugness?"
Using logic only, you can't disprove the existence of anything. You can't disprove the existence of blue dragon. You can't disprove the existence of faery and gnome. In other word, saying "we always did it so" is an axiom, and no better than saying "god exists" as an hypothesis to prove that gods exists. But you cannot disprove god exists, because there is nothing you can start up with. You CANNOT disprove an axiom of existence. You can only disprove an axiom of INEXISTANCE. It ain't a question of smugness but a question of logic. The only way ANYTHING could be ever proved is that gods exists with a proof of it, the contrary cannot be proved. And for that there is millenia of philosophical discussion, LONGER than any discussion from aquinas or descartes (which spans hundred of years and not millenia as you supposed : Aquinas : 1200 ish and descartes 1600 ish. Philosophy : waaaay before 0-ish).
In other word it ain't a question from smugness from atheist which just point out at the philosophical logical discourse to base their logic, it is a question of religious people in general which refuse utterly to put their religion in question. Point. Final.
If I remmember correctly, if the brain is used to the item you are looking at, even looking with one eye you will ahve the eprception of depth, NOT because one eye is enough, but because the rbain "remember" it. Now try the same (only 1 eye) in an unfamiliar item or environment, that the brain cannot recognize.
It is easy to throw such accusation "in the air". Too bad i respect every stop sign, signalisation, right of passage. Funny how it is those car owner which most of the time rant about cyclist, who are more probably not respecting any right of passage on cyclist themselves.
Before : when I am on bicycle, people ignore the stop on their own street, and despite me comming from their right, they speed up and nearly kill me nearing me on the 5 inches up to 1 yard (it happenned often on a specific intersection on my way that I go thru every day). After : what the hell will it change ? They were already breaking the law (the stop sign), breaking my right of passage (I am coming from the right). If they were "brethen" on the street they would respect my right of passage today. With such a change as getting right of sign it won't help idiot respect my right of being safe on the street any better.
The truth is that for some people being in some monster of metal and palstic of 800+ kg, with the protection on the sdie, air bag and whatnot, they do not care, especially against bicycle. Might make Right. SAme for circle crossing. They should leave me the priority while I am circling on it. 95% of the time they accelerate and apss me from inches rather than wait a few second I am passing their street. Brethen ? My ass.
As for the place where I used to live where there was no sign at all ? Well I cycled on the PEDESTRIAN sidewalk, because the street were deadly. I do not count the number of kids which were killed because some ass hole decided right-side priority don't apply to bicycle, 70mph in residential area is OK etc... Bottom line : it is not the overglut of sign which is a problem : this is the HUMAN NATURE : IF YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT, THEN YOU CAN DO IT.
I mean, it is not like the NK will not have week, month or year to map map out where those are, then prepare artillery bombardement on those coordinate. Or pass through the holes between the coverage zone of those gun. And it is not like anarmored vehicule would not roll those over twice. And I wonder also if there isn't ways to simply camouflage yourself : have a very wide light weighted tube for the infrared, go in the center with something for sight, and advance slowly toward the sentry gun. Or advance slowly under a thermal carpet. Or in a camouflage of bushes. OR snipe it out with explosive bullet or destroy it with mortar. It sound like this things would need an incredible AI to handle the various way to camoufalge yourself, but it seems only to have IR camera, normal camera and be smart enough to distinguish between trees and human. Just disguise yourself as a tree and that is it.
There is still a possibility that my skeeming over all psot ehre does not report to be considered : it could be very well that indeed, he was an idiot, and he miscast his vote.
I am not saying he is, but before we all go mad frothing on the mouth about this, maybe the origin of the problem is far simpler and elss dark than most imagine here.
And how many of those toy were made to "detect" , "kill" and/or "maim" a potential enemy/target ?
And how many of those toy were made for peace keeping (read : not bluntly killing) and rebuild, diplomacy ?
Don't bother answering, the response in your tone is self evident. Too bad you completly missed the point of the GP and let your aggressivity out. Ho wait, that was TOO a point of the GP.
I can count 300K people estimated dead over 20 years in the state.gov link above.
There was an estimate hanging around of 600K people which died since the start of the US invasion.
Even if it was 1/6 less than that and in reality 100K this is the number of live lost over way LESS than the 20 years than Saddam had.
So.... Quote "has resulted in tens of thousands fewer" sorry but this is not true. Extrapolated over the same time period, the us invasion any way you see it killed MORE people than if Saddam was still in power. ESPECIALLY that all massacre happenned while he was a US "friend". He refrained from anything way too bad in the last years.
a better demonstration is to use other google image search result from other country in addition (example : iran, japan, germany...). Why ? Because it could be that .com image search people are interrested into tiananmen square image whereas china is not. In other word it could be not a censure but just incidental.
At least up to now, even if the UN is corrupt, they do not ship people in other country for torture, do not hold them indefinitly without judgement, do not invad any other country. Face it, the UN is corrupt, but the UN is a bunch of nation together. more often than not, it change nothing and leave everything in status quo. OTOH the US is a single nation, and as we saw in the last 12 years, can turn to less democreatic and less freedom. And we might not even have seen the bottom. True US is way better than many country on the democratic side, but better a bunch of people wishing for status quo, than one good guy which can turn very bad indeed.
You realize that we can fabricate ruby in BIG quantites since way way back ? If I recall correctly the first laser were done with a long bar of ruby (artificially made) during the 60's. Just put the ruby in a light path and make a population inversion. And houpla ! You get a red laser. Heck, even if my memory fail me and ruby was artificially created later, I recall using some big bar of ruby as practice work to fabricate a laser in my physic 101 university year. So Ruby might be rare, but you can fabricate it cheap ass. EVen cheaper than diamond. If you really want something interresting, then hunt for a precious stone which is not yet fabricated in industrial quantities :).
If the atomic structure was different and there was fluoerescence then this would imply a different structure than tetrahedrical diamond (here and now some double bond for example, or even different type of atoms in the crystaline structure).
:), but then again we made them in form of lens, not in form of jewelry diamond , so there was not "facet" to reflect light and make them atractive. The method used (an inefficient one) was to seed some diamond on a silicon waffer (microdiamond) then put that in a plasma of 95% H2 and 5% CH4 (more or less a big microwave oven of 10K-20K power) for 24 hours. Afterward we had a nice 1-1.5 inch (2.5-3 cm) radius lens with a thickness of 1/8 inch (3 mm). They were far away from "perfect" for jewelry usage, but I put it under 10 years to get them to the point where the only way to distinguish them from natural one would be to MARK the natural one which goes out of the mine. Turn out I was wrong, it took 15 years :).
The funny things is I did indeed fabricate diamond : I was in a french labor during the early 90's which studied such stuff. They looked more like glass or plastic than diamond
Right now many firm have to fork $/ for microsoft and other proprietary software. They are NOT investing it in their own line of work, and they are not giving value added to their shareholder. Sure the software and PC revolution changed many of this industry forever, but right now this looks more like a tax than a value addition (think : difference of productivity between a worker using windows XP and windows Vista : NIL).
In other word this is the myth of the broken windows all over again : this consulting firm speaks of loosing value and strength in the economy, but in reality the money saved from paying the software would have been more likely to be reinvested into something else. And since msot big software as far as I can tell are US centric, many local economy in the world (i.e. : EU) would ON THE CONTRARY benefit by having the money reinvested locally into something else, instead of giving it away to the other side of the atlantic.
This is the official explanation. But the cast system is alive and well in India. Just not officially. I just had to look at the mariage of our outsourcing coworker, where they explained us who can marry whom, and why one could not marry another. They never mentionned cast, only stutbornly said "no he can't marry her, because of what he is and what she is." If this not caste, well that smell and looks like it. Taste like it too.
In many country in EU Hate speech and violence incitation is already penalised, as well as nazi crime denier. And yes, web site in written form also fall under this law. Think the auction about nazi memorabellia for example.
If anything this only bring video web site up the SAME standard as other media. Which is IMO not a bad thing (having the same standard that is).
Now you can argue to death that thougth crime are bad and should not be penalized, but this is forgetting TWO THING :
* USA with its constitutional amendment is the USA, and never had global war on its soil except texas mexican war, and indep war (19th century all of it, isn't it?). No I do not really count as "global" war.
* EU still bear the scar of WW2 in some place, and certainly bear the scar of nazism at least in its culture, and has at least 2 global war on its soil in the last 100 years. Some are still alive to remmember what the Nazi at that time did.
In other word you are judging OUR culture with the "mass and measurement" of YOUR culture. All I am saying is that you might get a conclusion that such a law is bad for your cultural stand point, but this is like judging the egyptian culture : it is quite easy to judge your neighbours or somebody foreign to you, but another to judge itself.
Frankly if I wanted to spark a real debat I would say "why are you all screaming murder for this simple broadcast law, whereas you aren't on the street taking arms when your own governement suspend habeas corpus, and can make people disappear like in a very bad dictature ?"
Think deeply on tat before modding me either up or down.
Maybe in the US Spam=Can of food. Here we use "Corned Beef", "Canned ham" or suchlike. I never heard in my whole life in the 2 EU country I lived and 6 different placed, that spam=canned food. Only until recently I was taught the other meaning....Here on slashdot.
I can see a lot of "duh" reaction, and while I agree on the "feigned" shock, I would like to see something more of substance. Is this illegal for MS to do that or not ? IANAL , but it does not seems to be.
When you hear radio you are already hearing light, albeit a very low energy light (long wave length). And we can already "see" all the highier energy wave like IR, Visible, uv, x ray : just use a spectrometer and instead of having a visible spectra transform it in corresponding vibration. Et Voila ! You hear light. Alternatively for visible light you could use you eyeball to just plain see light...
Minimal "professional" army, socialized medicine, and still goign strong on rocket science.
Ever hear of "last temptation of christus" by I think scorseze ?
I can accept that stupid people like to moderate funny the lukewarm joke about fleeing and WW2. But insightful ??? Francophoby and prejudice run an all time high on slashdot !
By the way : easy Gate : "simple portail" in direct french translation. In french I would translate into "Accés simple" but this clearly would not be as nice a keyword as easy gate.
Not valid for paper you turn in, at least for the 4 university I once studied, or were part of the research personal.
It does not even matter if they are the worst hypocryte of the world.
Their work. Their IP. It is so then protected and nobody can copy it without their agreement.
But now I bet that in the admission rules it will be written that "student give fully and eternally the right to the school to copy and dsitribute any essay they give back for a notation, for any usage. "