It wasn't a belief but only a statement on how it works here. This is why my post was called "different country different use" but my english isn't very good.
There is no such a things as animal pound being different from the city or private. There is only the regional animal pound, and they never come to you if you complain about an animal. You have to talk to the police which might decide to directly call the pound, and THEN you get fined. But privately owned animal shelters or orgs cannot take an animal even if there is a complaint. That has to go to formal ways to the local PD.
"Responsible pet ownership includes not letting pets run free in an urban environment." that can be discussed. I tend to think the same, but some value giving more freedom to the pet, to the possible cost of death.
"... and how do they accomplish this magic trick? Did they give the cat a cell phone so they can consult their GPS?:-) It's hard enough getting kids to come home on time."
From all I cat I got : the force of habits, and making it responsive to food calls. Granted it does not happen 100% of the time, and at least once every two month I had some of my cats come back in the morning, but for the huge majority of the time : yeah. Kids are far more block headed than cats or animals, animals can be trained a bit, whereas in my limited experience kids intentionally disobey you for the kick out of it. None of my cats died of car incident BTW, two died of cancer at 12+, another one died of cardiac problem at 8+, the two other are alive and kicking. That is 30+ years of cat history.
The animal pound usually do not pick up cat with a tatoo in the ear, or when they do they contact the person to which it is registered. Lately they even have programs with those chips, but I prefer a visible tatoo. What you have at the pound are most probably either stray cat, or abandoned animals, and that happen all too often with cats and dogs (neat and nice while small, and once they reach 1 year old or the next summer holiday, left over the side of the road, I wish I could have a few word with people doing that type of shit). Most people which have cat I know of, try to get their cat to come back home in the evening. So again yowling cat outside are most probably not a home cat. As for killing birds, well you realize that cats in the wild DO eat birds, rodent and various small animals, right ?
Up to a certain point , all phenomenon we looked at shows essentially a neutral universe. Dark matter and energy were thought up to explain something which could not be explained with our normal theory without, but would neatly fit with a universe being neutral & flat (aka everything going to zero). And thus far it seems to fit. "God did it", does not fit the same type of explanation , as the more we know, the more we see natural process shugging alone without any design whatsoever. It is simply an ad-hoc thrown in belief without any basic of fundamental for it. It is fine for faith and belief, but does not offer any prediction one can falsify. Dark matter and energy actually does that.
The sound control panel I had before upgrading showed me all my input/output in line and with a slider for the volume, and a mute button. After the upgrade it show me some brain dead interface I can't switch on all sound from it. i had to download some additional gnome alsa volume control panel. Worst : the default interface does not allow me to set volume for some of the stuff gnome alsa shows me (I think it is PCE for example, I did not find an equivalent in that control volume default program) *BUT* it is RESET TO MUTE after every reboot. That is very very frustrating and i can imagine a user giving up on Ubuntu after not finding out why they don't hear a sound from Ubuntu. I nearly gave up and wanted to go back to the previous version, until I thought of trying in the package manager to find a volume controller panel.
But I certainly hope that apple lose. One should not allow a software SOLD to have its usage restricted. if it does, this opens the pandora box for all sort of abuse and restriction in EULA, abuse as you have not seen up to now.
Also, if dwarven females are that ugly, there you have an immediate selection pressure against them taking over.
That is not a given. that would only be a given , if there was no contraception. Letme give you a scenario : beautfiul women might want to avoid pregnancy more often than ugly dwarf as you so tactfully put. So they use more often contraception to keep their "beauty" longer, OTOH ugly dwarf would not care on pregnancy making them fat (or at least would not care as much). That could be a scenario, and it would be interresting to see if they took into account societal pressure in the "why" women are getting heavier in average. Also in some country "ideal" women are definitively far heavier than the skeleton ralf lauren and co present us, and that many western women try to imitate. If in those country the women reproduce more in average, then the statistic above, on the whole world, WILL lead to heavier women in average, if not by the sheer number of "lighter" women not reproducing as much in other country.
Mind you I have not read the article so I dunno if they took that into account or not.
Finally evolution is only linked to what facilitate gene to be given to offspring in a aprticular environment. It does not say that the environment must be natural or artificial, or even purely psychologic (societal). Our modern society changed that environment , and allowed other weaker offspring to be born, but this is only a NEW environment with different constraint. Thus human still evolve. Human would stop evolving is *ALL* environmental constraint were removed, and we ALL had the same number of kids and everybody reproduced the same number of kid (all women and men) since this is obviously NOT true, some selection will happen.
I have seen film in VO-stf in France on *public* channel, and I have bought DVD without even subtitle or dubs in France in big retailer. Sure there could have been a law they ignored, but I would like to see that law linked and shown. There was an old law in ~1930 saying they could only show original film in a few cinema, but has been AFAIK repelled or not enforced for DVD.
DVD region are *whole* region, and no specific countries. DVD region code the UAE and middle east is for example region 2 and Europe too. Would you care to compare censoring of UAE with the one of say, sweden ? Censorship at state level is done film by film (usually an authority stamp an approval) and is fully independant of DVD region. The only reason DVD region is there is to stage different price and release date for different region, parallel to the release date of the films. Whether this is enough of a reason, I will let other judge, but my opinion is that it is certainly abused by the cinematographic industry.
Someof the WORST driver I know are driver which do exactly the same as above, and THINK they can maintain control of their vehicle in all circumstance except when the OTHER are responsible. I think there is definitively a gene for overestimating one own attitude. There has been recently an article on that recently, where the worst people were overestimating their aptitude more than the one really apt.
Because those passage are about as bunk as the mayan end-of-the-word-in-2012, or about as bunk as Thor's legend, or whatever sumerian stuff or the impregnation as a shower of coin by Zeus (or whatever it was). Your bible is about as much a myth as the rest. the only difference is a lot more people believe in the myth. That does not make it more right.
Most of pet is known to be refuses, or rest of what is left of an animal after human have taken the best or less best part. So the eco foot print has ALREADY BEEN PAID, except maybe transportation cost. Comparing it to using 1Kg of real chicken and surface is a lie, and I smell the kind of lie a PETA associate would do. Remember PETA dislike pets.
This is probably not a story of 100% being a pirate or anything, but mostly a landscape of lighter and darker grays.When I started buying game, i bought a lot. Why ? Despite good reviews, a lot of them ended up being utter crap, or with a lot of bugs. So I started "pirating" them game to check them up, then if they were crap I would not buy them. But nowadays ANOTHER problem has cropped up. The game is very very very short. So while I try the game I already finish it in the afternoon. Should I buy it since I enjoyed it up to the end ? Yes I should. But I do not. And usually there are no demo or the demo come LATER. So in a way I am depriving of my money a few software developper and it is not justifiable. But OTOH pirating to get a demo, *IS* justifiable, it avoided me a lot , and I mean a LOT of stinkers. Nowadays i do not even need to pirate. i jsut rent the game (it is in gray zone here around). And i buy on regular basis the game when I like them. I even bought some game which were not findable for more money than the publisher originally asked for, (5-10 euro more) after trying the game and not finding it easily. one such example was Okami, after I tried it at the videothek. So no, it is not only black and white.
A final word : sicne i started renting game / pirating them my disposable income directed toward the game industry has increased. Because now that I know that what I will buy is GOOD, I buy witghout a remorse. Earlier I got stinged so much that I hesitated or even pushed a sale for later. Not to be burned again. So pirating/renting has allowed the game indsutry to make MORE money from me, even if actually some of the stuff I tryed would be coutned as LOST SALE due to piratery at high sea.
That said "Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment... like the body or the subject!) " yeah, my bloody cat DID indeed paw on the mouse and somehow submit the post while I was writing the title
exactly like other legal drug, ethanol and nicotine are administrated ?
The simple matter of fact is that THC is as dangerous as the other aforementionned poison. But it is culturally OK to poison yourself with alcohol (a bit less accepted for smoking) but less or downright not culturally accepted to smoke pot. There is NO REASON whatsoever to have one prescribed and the other free for sale in supermarket.
That said, I do not consume either of those 3. But I dislike the hypocrysis people show when they want to forbid one but allow the others.
Buy 2 or 3 from different retailer under different name and a different CC. Then look at WHERE the difference are. It does not matter if you udnerstand what the data is (encrypted) or not, all you need is to remove or garble it. And they can't have a very big watermark in *All* frame changing msot of the frame, can't they ? For that reason, I doubt watermark can ever work on a digital content which is not DRM protected.
300000 km.s-1 speed of light, 15000 km s-1 is 5% of it, so 1,5 e7 m.s-1 at 1g , or 1 meter s-2, you need 1.5e7 seconds, divided by 3600 this is 4166 hours, divided by 24 this is 176 days. Where am I off by a factor 10 ?
"While that's out of the question, an unmanned nuke-powered probe could possibly survey such a system in one life-time if sufficiently funded".
Nope. To reach the nearest solar system within a lifetime (80 years) and brake to it, you would have to have an acceleration, deceleration and speed such as it make the 4 light year distance within 80 years. Let us imagine this is a 1 kg probe, accelerating at a reasonable 1g constantly, go toward the system, then decelerate at 1g constantly. To make those 4 LY in less than 80 years, you will need to have at least a speed of 5% light speed (5% light speed, so 1 LY take 20 years, 4 LY take 80 years). 5% light speed is 1,5e7 meter.second-1. So you will need to accelerate at 1g over : 1,5e7seconds or over 1/2 year and decelerate over 1/2 years. I will spare you the number of megajoule needed for this, and the fact the reactor will add weight, and so the calculation is far more complex, I am pretty sure we haven't anything technology wise to reach such acceleration over such time.
From the above you can see that before your probe can survey such a system, it will take much much more than a life time to even REACH the nearest system. And that was a very small probe.
They would be dead end only of they died before having offspring. Once they have had offspring, then they can die, or live forever until today, it does not matter. I can only imagine you took this "every fossil=dead end" from a creationist web site. To give you an analogy, once your grand parent gave birth to your parent, whether they continue to live or not, they were not a dead end : your parents lived, and gave birth to you. And you did not disappear if (sadly) your parents have died/or will die, chance is that you will survive your parents, and maybe have offspring of your own. It make no sense whatsoever to think all fossile we found were dead end.
For pity sake, support the euro sign... In the previous post insert the word "euro" after all numbers , since I made the mistake of using the euro sign.
My copy of 1984 at home, cannot be destroyed remotely by amazon. Once they sold it to me, the only way they can get it back is to pry it from my hand, or burn my house. Now since we are all/. reader we all know it is not the same with DRM'd book (even if they ask to be forgiven afterward or whatever, the fact that it is do-able and has been done remains). Call me back when e-book are not DRM'd.
Another advantage : when joe six pack ask me to loan my latest Grisham, I can give him my 6 copy. Too bad if he dunk it in cofee I lsot 6. With eBook I can't legally do it, unless i loan my 300 eBook with all risk that include.
Resale is bothersome or even fully impossible. Strike another one for paperback. About the only reason I would want an ebook, is when I travel, maybe, or when I want technical manuals eBook. But for everyday usage, you CANNOT , as of now, beat dead tree.
And I do not trust the DST (or whatever it is called nowadays) as far as I can throw them. Even less than that. I can remember the "rainbow warrior" ship story, for example. It could very possible that they found a real idiot planning to do a terrist attack, or it is possible this is polically motivated and somebody needed that sort of "news" for nefarious purpose. We'll see in the next days.
I am not sure if this can be translated directly to tourist number but I found this char on wiki on tourism : internationala rrival It seems people just accept the security theater, and ignore it while enojoying their 5 days in Vegas. As anecdtotial story, my sister only remember her holiday, not the problem of the security while coming or going.
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It wasn't a belief but only a statement on how it works here. This is why my post was called "different country different use" but my english isn't very good.
There is no such a things as animal pound being different from the city or private. There is only the regional animal pound, and they never come to you if you complain about an animal. You have to talk to the police which might decide to directly call the pound, and THEN you get fined. But privately owned animal shelters or orgs cannot take an animal even if there is a complaint. That has to go to formal ways to the local PD.
:-) It's hard enough getting kids to come home on time."
"Responsible pet ownership includes not letting pets run free in an urban environment."
that can be discussed. I tend to think the same, but some value giving more freedom to the pet, to the possible cost of death.
"... and how do they accomplish this magic trick? Did they give the cat a cell phone so they can consult their GPS?
From all I cat I got : the force of habits, and making it responsive to food calls. Granted it does not happen 100% of the time, and at least once every two month I had some of my cats come back in the morning, but for the huge majority of the time : yeah. Kids are far more block headed than cats or animals, animals can be trained a bit, whereas in my limited experience kids intentionally disobey you for the kick out of it. None of my cats died of car incident BTW, two died of cancer at 12+, another one died of cardiac problem at 8+, the two other are alive and kicking. That is 30+ years of cat history.
The animal pound usually do not pick up cat with a tatoo in the ear, or when they do they contact the person to which it is registered. Lately they even have programs with those chips, but I prefer a visible tatoo. What you have at the pound are most probably either stray cat, or abandoned animals, and that happen all too often with cats and dogs (neat and nice while small, and once they reach 1 year old or the next summer holiday, left over the side of the road, I wish I could have a few word with people doing that type of shit). Most people which have cat I know of, try to get their cat to come back home in the evening. So again yowling cat outside are most probably not a home cat. As for killing birds, well you realize that cats in the wild DO eat birds, rodent and various small animals, right ?
Up to a certain point , all phenomenon we looked at shows essentially a neutral universe. Dark matter and energy were thought up to explain something which could not be explained with our normal theory without, but would neatly fit with a universe being neutral & flat (aka everything going to zero). And thus far it seems to fit. "God did it", does not fit the same type of explanation , as the more we know, the more we see natural process shugging alone without any design whatsoever. It is simply an ad-hoc thrown in belief without any basic of fundamental for it. It is fine for faith and belief, but does not offer any prediction one can falsify. Dark matter and energy actually does that.
The sound control panel I had before upgrading showed me all my input/output in line and with a slider for the volume, and a mute button. After the upgrade it show me some brain dead interface I can't switch on all sound from it. i had to download some additional gnome alsa volume control panel. Worst : the default interface does not allow me to set volume for some of the stuff gnome alsa shows me (I think it is PCE for example, I did not find an equivalent in that control volume default program) *BUT* it is RESET TO MUTE after every reboot. That is very very frustrating and i can imagine a user giving up on Ubuntu after not finding out why they don't hear a sound from Ubuntu. I nearly gave up and wanted to go back to the previous version, until I thought of trying in the package manager to find a volume controller panel.
But I certainly hope that apple lose. One should not allow a software SOLD to have its usage restricted. if it does, this opens the pandora box for all sort of abuse and restriction in EULA, abuse as you have not seen up to now.
Also, if dwarven females are that ugly, there you have an immediate selection pressure against them taking over.
That is not a given. that would only be a given , if there was no contraception. Letme give you a scenario : beautfiul women might want to avoid pregnancy more often than ugly dwarf as you so tactfully put. So they use more often contraception to keep their "beauty" longer, OTOH ugly dwarf would not care on pregnancy making them fat (or at least would not care as much). That could be a scenario, and it would be interresting to see if they took into account societal pressure in the "why" women are getting heavier in average. Also in some country "ideal" women are definitively far heavier than the skeleton ralf lauren and co present us, and that many western women try to imitate. If in those country the women reproduce more in average, then the statistic above, on the whole world, WILL lead to heavier women in average, if not by the sheer number of "lighter" women not reproducing as much in other country.
Mind you I have not read the article so I dunno if they took that into account or not.
Finally evolution is only linked to what facilitate gene to be given to offspring in a aprticular environment. It does not say that the environment must be natural or artificial, or even purely psychologic (societal). Our modern society changed that environment , and allowed other weaker offspring to be born, but this is only a NEW environment with different constraint. Thus human still evolve. Human would stop evolving is *ALL* environmental constraint were removed, and we ALL had the same number of kids and everybody reproduced the same number of kid (all women and men) since this is obviously NOT true, some selection will happen.
I have seen film in VO-stf in France on *public* channel, and I have bought DVD without even subtitle or dubs in France in big retailer. Sure there could have been a law they ignored, but I would like to see that law linked and shown. There was an old law in ~1930 saying they could only show original film in a few cinema, but has been AFAIK repelled or not enforced for DVD.
DVD region are *whole* region, and no specific countries. DVD region code the UAE and middle east is for example region 2 and Europe too. Would you care to compare censoring of UAE with the one of say, sweden ? Censorship at state level is done film by film (usually an authority stamp an approval) and is fully independant of DVD region. The only reason DVD region is there is to stage different price and release date for different region, parallel to the release date of the films. Whether this is enough of a reason, I will let other judge, but my opinion is that it is certainly abused by the cinematographic industry.
Someof the WORST driver I know are driver which do exactly the same as above, and THINK they can maintain control of their vehicle in all circumstance except when the OTHER are responsible. I think there is definitively a gene for overestimating one own attitude. There has been recently an article on that recently, where the worst people were overestimating their aptitude more than the one really apt.
Because those passage are about as bunk as the mayan end-of-the-word-in-2012, or about as bunk as Thor's legend, or whatever sumerian stuff or the impregnation as a shower of coin by Zeus (or whatever it was). Your bible is about as much a myth as the rest. the only difference is a lot more people believe in the myth. That does not make it more right.
if you are a dev manager , then you do not care a SHIT on leak. As the ncie article pointed out, only MARKETING manager and associated cre for a leak.
Most of pet is known to be refuses, or rest of what is left of an animal after human have taken the best or less best part. So the eco foot print has ALREADY BEEN PAID, except maybe transportation cost. Comparing it to using 1Kg of real chicken and surface is a lie, and I smell the kind of lie a PETA associate would do. Remember PETA dislike pets.
This is probably not a story of 100% being a pirate or anything, but mostly a landscape of lighter and darker grays.When I started buying game, i bought a lot. Why ? Despite good reviews, a lot of them ended up being utter crap, or with a lot of bugs. So I started "pirating" them game to check them up, then if they were crap I would not buy them. But nowadays ANOTHER problem has cropped up. The game is very very very short. So while I try the game I already finish it in the afternoon. Should I buy it since I enjoyed it up to the end ? Yes I should. But I do not. And usually there are no demo or the demo come LATER. So in a way I am depriving of my money a few software developper and it is not justifiable. But OTOH pirating to get a demo, *IS* justifiable, it avoided me a lot , and I mean a LOT of stinkers. Nowadays i do not even need to pirate. i jsut rent the game (it is in gray zone here around). And i buy on regular basis the game when I like them. I even bought some game which were not findable for more money than the publisher originally asked for, (5-10 euro more) after trying the game and not finding it easily. one such example was Okami, after I tried it at the videothek. So no, it is not only black and white.
... like the body or the subject!) " yeah, my bloody cat DID indeed paw on the mouse and somehow submit the post while I was writing the title
A final word : sicne i started renting game / pirating them my disposable income directed toward the game industry has increased. Because now that I know that what I will buy is GOOD, I buy witghout a remorse. Earlier I got stinged so much that I hesitated or even pushed a sale for later. Not to be burned again. So pirating/renting has allowed the game indsutry to make MORE money from me, even if actually some of the stuff I tryed would be coutned as LOST SALE due to piratery at high sea.
That said "Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
exactly like other legal drug, ethanol and nicotine are administrated ?
The simple matter of fact is that THC is as dangerous as the other aforementionned poison. But it is culturally OK to poison yourself with alcohol (a bit less accepted for smoking) but less or downright not culturally accepted to smoke pot. There is NO REASON whatsoever to have one prescribed and the other free for sale in supermarket.
That said, I do not consume either of those 3. But I dislike the hypocrysis people show when they want to forbid one but allow the others.
Buy 2 or 3 from different retailer under different name and a different CC. Then look at WHERE the difference are. It does not matter if you udnerstand what the data is (encrypted) or not, all you need is to remove or garble it. And they can't have a very big watermark in *All* frame changing msot of the frame, can't they ? For that reason, I doubt watermark can ever work on a digital content which is not DRM protected.
I was so concentrated on the time calculation I forgot to check the most glaring error : wrong constant :P. It does not change the reasonment tough.
300000 km.s-1 speed of light, 15000 km s-1 is 5% of it, so 1,5 e7 m.s-1 at 1g , or 1 meter s-2, you need 1.5e7 seconds, divided by 3600 this is 4166 hours, divided by 24 this is 176 days. Where am I off by a factor 10 ?
"While that's out of the question, an unmanned nuke-powered probe could possibly survey such a system in one life-time if sufficiently funded".
Nope. To reach the nearest solar system within a lifetime (80 years) and brake to it, you would have to have an acceleration, deceleration and speed such as it make the 4 light year distance within 80 years. Let us imagine this is a 1 kg probe, accelerating at a reasonable 1g constantly, go toward the system, then decelerate at 1g constantly. To make those 4 LY in less than 80 years, you will need to have at least a speed of 5% light speed (5% light speed, so 1 LY take 20 years, 4 LY take 80 years). 5% light speed is 1,5e7 meter.second-1. So you will need to accelerate at 1g over : 1,5e7seconds or over 1/2 year and decelerate over 1/2 years. I will spare you the number of megajoule needed for this, and the fact the reactor will add weight, and so the calculation is far more complex, I am pretty sure we haven't anything technology wise to reach such acceleration over such time.
From the above you can see that before your probe can survey such a system, it will take much much more than a life time to even REACH the nearest system. And that was a very small probe.
They would be dead end only of they died before having offspring. Once they have had offspring, then they can die, or live forever until today, it does not matter. I can only imagine you took this "every fossil=dead end" from a creationist web site. To give you an analogy, once your grand parent gave birth to your parent, whether they continue to live or not, they were not a dead end : your parents lived, and gave birth to you. And you did not disappear if (sadly) your parents have died/or will die, chance is that you will survive your parents, and maybe have offspring of your own. It make no sense whatsoever to think all fossile we found were dead end.
For pity sake, support the euro sign... In the previous post insert the word "euro" after all numbers , since I made the mistake of using the euro sign.
My copy of 1984 at home, cannot be destroyed remotely by amazon. Once they sold it to me, the only way they can get it back is to pry it from my hand, or burn my house. Now since we are all /. reader we all know it is not the same with DRM'd book (even if they ask to be forgiven afterward or whatever, the fact that it is do-able and has been done remains). Call me back when e-book are not DRM'd.
Another advantage : when joe six pack ask me to loan my latest Grisham, I can give him my 6 copy. Too bad if he dunk it in cofee I lsot 6. With eBook I can't legally do it, unless i loan my 300 eBook with all risk that include.
Resale is bothersome or even fully impossible. Strike another one for paperback. About the only reason I would want an ebook, is when I travel, maybe, or when I want technical manuals eBook. But for everyday usage, you CANNOT , as of now, beat dead tree.
If this structure is anything like the other high temp superconductor, it is a ceramic, which can hardly be used as a cable conductor.
And I do not trust the DST (or whatever it is called nowadays) as far as I can throw them. Even less than that. I can remember the "rainbow warrior" ship story, for example. It could very possible that they found a real idiot planning to do a terrist attack, or it is possible this is polically motivated and somebody needed that sort of "news" for nefarious purpose. We'll see in the next days.
I am not sure if this can be translated directly to tourist number but I found this char on wiki on tourism : internationala rrival
It seems people just accept the security theater, and ignore it while enojoying their 5 days in Vegas. As anecdtotial story, my sister only remember her holiday, not the problem of the security while coming or going.