While you can find west there is no "western edge" to the continent so it seems a somewhat strange name given that no part of the continent is more westerly than any other.
But if you flip a coin 1000 times and it comes up heads 659 times, you can say with a high degree of confidence that the coin is not fair.
Not quite - it might also be because the person tossing it is not flipping it fairly...which interestingly is also like climate change. We can have a very high degree of certainty that the Earth is warming but the degree to which this is due to human influence vs. natural influences is not yet very clear (at least that's what my colleagues in geophysics tell me).
I would welcome your solution if we could be certain everyone else would also dispose of their rings too. which leaves us at a bit of an impasse.
It is not so easy because, while the knowledge on how to make nuclear weapons remains we are still are risk of rouge states or powerful terrorist groups eventually creating one. So really you need to eliminate the knowledge of how to make them at the basic physics level because anyone who understands enough basic nuclear physics behind how these things work will be able to figure out a means to make one given enough time and resources. Frodo had it a lot easier - destroying his ring got rid on the only person who knew how to make it in the first place. A better analogy for our case is Pandora's box.
this is about Civilian (government) vs. Military (government, specifically the DOD).
Ok, so we are effectively talking TSA airport security vs. the US military and the TSA is already irradiating millions of people without access to nuclear weapons. Is there really any question who you want to be in control?
No universities or scientists in or near Alberta, and it's too close to the anti-science craziness of the USA.
That's news to me - last I checked there were universities in Edmonton (University of Alberta), Calgary and Lethbridge. Of the top 10 Canadian Universities the UofA is also the furthest from the US and as a scientist working there I can definitely confirm that there are lots of scientists in the faculty there. Finally I can even see that you got your nickname wrong: Grishnakh was an orc, not a troll.
In other words, the same rules as we have on Earth. A government claims a land because they want it and they have the means to defend it...
Sort of...but with a nasty twist. Whoever has control of large amounts of material in space and the ability to transport it back to earth will actually have the biggest guns. So if we let corporations loose in space without some viable means to prevent large chunks of rock hitting the Earth they will end up not just with more spending power than governments but with more military might than them too. I'm not sure this is a good environment for democracy to flourish.
Rad hard usually means that they are not damaged by radiation e.g. you can stick them close to an LHC beam as part of a detector and the massive radiation dose they receive will not cause the device to permanently cease functioning (or at least last longer before it fails). On the other hand cosmic rays which slow down and stop in material can cause a large amount of local ionization. This can be enough to flip the state of a memory bit which can cause crashes. As devices get smaller the charge needed to flip the state gets less and so more cosmic rays are capable of depositing enough charge to make a difference. These two processes are different: one is a permanent failure of the device the other is just temporarily flipping the state.
How about Alberta? Very stable geologically, lots of open space and excellent transport links with Europe, North America and Asia. Plus mountains nearby so those moving from Geneva should be able to cope.
Following this logic, if he were still alive and in prison, there would be no reason to release him once his "crime" ceased to be labeled as a "crime."
If he were still in prison when the law was repealed he would automatically have been released but would not get a pardon. Indeed I really don't think that a pardon is appropriate but perhaps for slightly different reasons: pardoning a crime implies you are forgiving the individual who committed the crime. This is the wrong way around. By our modern standards, he committed no crime and so has no need to ask for a pardon. Indeed by petitioning that Turing be pardoning you have to implicitly assume that he did something that needs to be pardoned!
...and yet somehow, despite these issues, European cities tend to bury their cables and then rarely suffer from power cuts. It might be more expensive but it is clearly not too expensive and it might be considerably cheaper than the installation and maintenance costs of solar cells on every building. As for ground shifts and animals this is clearly an extremely rare occurrence: I experienced more (and longer) power cuts in one year in the US that I had in 21 years in the UK and 10 years in Canada combined. So even if the cost to fix per incident might be higher the vastly reduced number of incidents means it is far from clear which way is the least expensive to maintain.
Here's some hard data for the number of murders per 100k citizens in various countries. The US has a murder rate over 2.5 times that of any other country with strict firearms control so it does not seem to do anything to improve that. However the same article also has stats for property crime which suggest that the US does seem to do better there than other countries. Finally there is child abuse and neglect where again the US has a rate over twice that of other countries with firearm control.
So while are argument could be made that firearms may suppress property crime they seem to have an appalling effect on the rate of murder. Given that if I have to be the victim of a crime I would much rather be robbed than murdered it seems that firearms make things worse not better.
Using bigger and bigger colliders, we can virtually create any particule with any property that fix the equations.
I think you are ascribing far too much power to us particle physicists! We don't get to create whatever particle we want we can only create ones that can exist. What is remarkable is that the ones we think exist to solve inconsistencies actually turn out to be there. This means that our extrapolations from existing physics are extremely good at predicting new physics. In fact there are already theoretical models, such as supersymmetry (SUSY) which predict 5 Higgs bosons, two of which are charged...
There's no way we could have possibly manufactured such a modern marvel as that here in the US.
Correct - while you might have the technical capacity for some reason you lacked the will to do so. For example the US could have build the Superconducting Supercollider but chose not to leaving Europe to build the LHC. Having the capability to do a thing is only half the story, you also need the will to do it as well. Other countries like Canada and the EU have both the capability and the will to do these things so don't be surprised when we take the opportunities which the US is unwilling to seize itself.
And if some crisis, like say a monster autumn storm, does billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure...
Then you should bury that infrastructure underground in a city like everyone else does and then it will not blow down nor will it flood if you design it sensibly. Trying to mitigate storm damage caused by sticking infrastructure on the top of wooden poles by sticking even more infrastructure on top of poles and roofs is stupid.
No it is not science at all. Civilization is a great game but its educational value as far as science is concerned is zero and the way that government and religion (in the versions which have that) affect things is more dependent on game mechanics than history. If you want a more educational game (in terms of history) try Europa Universalis III.
Many Europeans are terrible at geography.....Russia is whole different issue. Calling Russia 'part of Europe' is, at best, a half-truth.
This is probably the most unintentionally ironic post I've every seen on on Slashdot. Since I am guessing that you won't understand why anyone is saying that have a look at this. Now I'll grant you that the boundary between the Asian and European continents is not well defined but even allowing for sizeable error bars on the boundary you will notice that actually quite a large part of the European continent belongs to Russia. So saying that "Russia is part of Europe" is not a half truth but the complete truth: literally a part of Europe is Russian. Oh, and just in case your geography knowledge exceeds your English ability you might also want to look up irony.
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While you can find west there is no "western edge" to the continent so it seems a somewhat strange name given that no part of the continent is more westerly than any other.
But if you flip a coin 1000 times and it comes up heads 659 times, you can say with a high degree of confidence that the coin is not fair.
Not quite - it might also be because the person tossing it is not flipping it fairly...which interestingly is also like climate change. We can have a very high degree of certainty that the Earth is warming but the degree to which this is due to human influence vs. natural influences is not yet very clear (at least that's what my colleagues in geophysics tell me).
5) None of the above (I did not go to school in the US)
I would welcome your solution if we could be certain everyone else would also dispose of their rings too. which leaves us at a bit of an impasse.
It is not so easy because, while the knowledge on how to make nuclear weapons remains we are still are risk of rouge states or powerful terrorist groups eventually creating one. So really you need to eliminate the knowledge of how to make them at the basic physics level because anyone who understands enough basic nuclear physics behind how these things work will be able to figure out a means to make one given enough time and resources. Frodo had it a lot easier - destroying his ring got rid on the only person who knew how to make it in the first place. A better analogy for our case is Pandora's box.
this is about Civilian (government) vs. Military (government, specifically the DOD).
Ok, so we are effectively talking TSA airport security vs. the US military and the TSA is already irradiating millions of people without access to nuclear weapons. Is there really any question who you want to be in control?
What they're talking about is a different expression of magnetism, typically because the atoms inside are lined up differently.
Sacks of potatoes can form a mostly human shape
Only if you ignore the legs...which would also explain how they estimate the legroom to provide in economy seats.
No universities or scientists in or near Alberta, and it's too close to the anti-science craziness of the USA.
That's news to me - last I checked there were universities in Edmonton (University of Alberta), Calgary and Lethbridge. Of the top 10 Canadian Universities the UofA is also the furthest from the US and as a scientist working there I can definitely confirm that there are lots of scientists in the faculty there. Finally I can even see that you got your nickname wrong: Grishnakh was an orc, not a troll.
In other words, the same rules as we have on Earth. A government claims a land because they want it and they have the means to defend it...
Sort of...but with a nasty twist. Whoever has control of large amounts of material in space and the ability to transport it back to earth will actually have the biggest guns. So if we let corporations loose in space without some viable means to prevent large chunks of rock hitting the Earth they will end up not just with more spending power than governments but with more military might than them too. I'm not sure this is a good environment for democracy to flourish.
Many SOI processes are rad hardened by default.
Rad hard usually means that they are not damaged by radiation e.g. you can stick them close to an LHC beam as part of a detector and the massive radiation dose they receive will not cause the device to permanently cease functioning (or at least last longer before it fails). On the other hand cosmic rays which slow down and stop in material can cause a large amount of local ionization. This can be enough to flip the state of a memory bit which can cause crashes. As devices get smaller the charge needed to flip the state gets less and so more cosmic rays are capable of depositing enough charge to make a difference. These two processes are different: one is a permanent failure of the device the other is just temporarily flipping the state.
the compiler had done exactly what it should according to the standard...
That's even better - it means that you've found a bug in the standard! ;-)
How about Alberta? Very stable geologically, lots of open space and excellent transport links with Europe, North America and Asia. Plus mountains nearby so those moving from Geneva should be able to cope.
Following this logic, if he were still alive and in prison, there would be no reason to release him once his "crime" ceased to be labeled as a "crime."
If he were still in prison when the law was repealed he would automatically have been released but would not get a pardon. Indeed I really don't think that a pardon is appropriate but perhaps for slightly different reasons: pardoning a crime implies you are forgiving the individual who committed the crime. This is the wrong way around. By our modern standards, he committed no crime and so has no need to ask for a pardon. Indeed by petitioning that Turing be pardoning you have to implicitly assume that he did something that needs to be pardoned!
...and yet somehow, despite these issues, European cities tend to bury their cables and then rarely suffer from power cuts. It might be more expensive but it is clearly not too expensive and it might be considerably cheaper than the installation and maintenance costs of solar cells on every building. As for ground shifts and animals this is clearly an extremely rare occurrence: I experienced more (and longer) power cuts in one year in the US that I had in 21 years in the UK and 10 years in Canada combined. So even if the cost to fix per incident might be higher the vastly reduced number of incidents means it is far from clear which way is the least expensive to maintain.
That's fine and dandy for when building NEW cities...
London, Paris etc. predate the US and yet use buried cables.
Sorry the link to the article got omitted: here it is.
Here's some hard data for the number of murders per 100k citizens in various countries. The US has a murder rate over 2.5 times that of any other country with strict firearms control so it does not seem to do anything to improve that. However the same article also has stats for property crime which suggest that the US does seem to do better there than other countries. Finally there is child abuse and neglect where again the US has a rate over twice that of other countries with firearm control.
So while are argument could be made that firearms may suppress property crime they seem to have an appalling effect on the rate of murder. Given that if I have to be the victim of a crime I would much rather be robbed than murdered it seems that firearms make things worse not better.
Using bigger and bigger colliders, we can virtually create any particule with any property that fix the equations.
I think you are ascribing far too much power to us particle physicists! We don't get to create whatever particle we want we can only create ones that can exist. What is remarkable is that the ones we think exist to solve inconsistencies actually turn out to be there. This means that our extrapolations from existing physics are extremely good at predicting new physics. In fact there are already theoretical models, such as supersymmetry (SUSY) which predict 5 Higgs bosons, two of which are charged...
Actually, if not a statistical fluctuation, it might be Susy Higgs.
There's no way we could have possibly manufactured such a modern marvel as that here in the US.
Correct - while you might have the technical capacity for some reason you lacked the will to do so. For example the US could have build the Superconducting Supercollider but chose not to leaving Europe to build the LHC. Having the capability to do a thing is only half the story, you also need the will to do it as well. Other countries like Canada and the EU have both the capability and the will to do these things so don't be surprised when we take the opportunities which the US is unwilling to seize itself.
And if some crisis, like say a monster autumn storm, does billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure...
Then you should bury that infrastructure underground in a city like everyone else does and then it will not blow down nor will it flood if you design it sensibly. Trying to mitigate storm damage caused by sticking infrastructure on the top of wooden poles by sticking even more infrastructure on top of poles and roofs is stupid.
While it's not science exactly
No it is not science at all. Civilization is a great game but its educational value as far as science is concerned is zero and the way that government and religion (in the versions which have that) affect things is more dependent on game mechanics than history. If you want a more educational game (in terms of history) try Europa Universalis III.
Not only that but this is probably the only instance where Canada was better armed than the US.
No shit. People want government involved in literally fucking everything at this point.
But we need them to be involved in everything. Who else will protect us from people making wildly inaccurate historical comparisons online?
Many Europeans are terrible at geography.....Russia is whole different issue. Calling Russia 'part of Europe' is, at best, a half-truth.
This is probably the most unintentionally ironic post I've every seen on on Slashdot. Since I am guessing that you won't understand why anyone is saying that have a look at this. Now I'll grant you that the boundary between the Asian and European continents is not well defined but even allowing for sizeable error bars on the boundary you will notice that actually quite a large part of the European continent belongs to Russia. So saying that "Russia is part of Europe" is not a half truth but the complete truth: literally a part of Europe is Russian. Oh, and just in case your geography knowledge exceeds your English ability you might also want to look up irony.