I'm sure you've heard of the analogy of the universe being a stretched and distorted rubber sheet, right? For a moment, just think in one dimension instead of two - a piece of elastic. Put two sets of marks on that piece of elastic, one set 5 cm apart and one set 10 cm apart. Now, over the course of one second, stretch the elastic to twice its original length. The marks that were 5 cm apart are now 10 cm apart, and so moved apart at 5 cm/s. The marks that started 10 cm apart moved apart at 10 cm/s. Put the marks far enough apart on a long enough piece of elastic, and they'll be moving apart faster than the speed of light. A photon from one will never reach the other.
The biggest reason the mean age at death has increased so dramatically is because of the decrease in infant and child mortality. The mean age at death of people who survived past their 10th birthday has only increased by about 5 years.
This would mean giving up all connections to friends and family and all the comforts of civiliation. You couldn't buy anything, including transportation. Hitchhiking would probably be out of the question, too, if they put your face on the news. Hiding in the woods would not work -- at least not anywhere "they" would conceive of looking for you. Between dogs and infrared cameras, there'd be nowhere to hide.
Your best bet would probably be to get as far away as you can, as quickly as you can, from everything you've ever had a connection to, by some means that requires no interaction with any other person. Look to the homeless for a glimpse of your new life.
When the spectrum of ambient light does not match that of "white" light (which is simply the particular spectrum we evolved to perceive), the eye's photoreceptors become disproportionately fatigued, and perception of the light's color drifts toward white. You can experience this phenomenon yourself if you light a room entirely with red party lights. Soon, your red photoreceptors will become fatigued and the colors of objects in the room begin to appear more normal. I think explorers on Mars would experience the same effect. So photos like this are actually how it would look to them.
Hasn't it long been assumed that Mars had plate tectonics in the past? Because it's a smaller planet and lacks a large moon, its mantle has cooled and plate tectonics has stopped. Then its core cooled, its magnetic field weakened, and its atmosphere was blown off by solar wind...
There's an interesting parallel between the bots and scripts people use to play TradeWars 2002 and the bots and scripts people use to trade on the stock market. It seems to me that the TW2002 arms race may serve as a model for understanding the fundamental problem and what Wall Street or government regulators might be able to do about it.
I still use Firefox primarily because of NoScript. Chrome has nothing comparable. (And yes, I know about NotScript.) Also, Chrome doesn't give me the option to keep using an outdated version of Flash. It just disables it. Fuck you too, Chrome.
I don't think that's true at all. That's just the perspective of a religious person. To others, anyone who cuts religion any slack is automatically the Bad Guy.
Philosophically, yes. Legally, maybe not. This is why so many cops (literally) get away with murder. We need closer public review of police department policies and their legal authority to make them.
The law grants police departments the authority to make policies necessary to carry out their duties. Only within the limits of those policies is a police officer who confiscates property not a thief.
Unless you have a two-year-old netbook with a Mobility Radeon chip. Then ATI decides to drop you and you're stuck with the choice of a fglrx driver that crashes X when something tries to go full screen, or an open source driver package that forces you to disconnect and reconnect your monitors and then reconfigure your display settings every time you reboot.
Negative publicity is only good if it's only viewed as negative by people who are not your customers or potential customers. Negative publicity that is viewed as negative by just about everyone is, well, negative.
Sad, but true: organic food . . . will be the purview of the rich.
Nonsense! Buying organic food from overpriced chain stores may be the purview of the rich, but that's for suckers. One of the great advantages of organic farming, which this "comprehensive analysis" entirely misses, is that it has the potential to put ordinary people back in control of their food supply. Even if a person doesn't have enough land or time to grow all of their own food, they can still significantly supplement what they buy. It's not just about nutrition; it's about economic security.
We've known for a long time that organic farming won't produce the same yields in the same area with the same amount of labor. If all industrial farmers, and only industrial farmers, were to suddenly convert to organic production, lots of people would starve. This is not news. But it's also not what the organic farming movement advocates.
The argument that probability failed us overlooks the fact that, although the Fukushima reactor was totally destroyed, the entire nuclear incident wasn't that big a deal. Compared to Chernobyl, it was nothing. Compared to the other damage caused by the tsunami, it was nothing. The real lesson here is that, thanks to design improvements since Chernobyl, a reactor can fail catastrophically and still not cause significant harm. I'm willing to bet that the ecological damage and human suffering caused by this worst-case scenario was significantly less than the damage caused by generating the power that the reactor generated over its lifetime via other means. And newer reactors are even better: less likely to fail, and less likely to cause significant damage if they do.
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If you're looking at Messier objects, the sky is clear and you should have seen the aircraft's navigation lights.
The main problem is that it would take billions of years to make a gram.
Red Hat -> Mandrake -> Linux From Scratch -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint.
I'm sure you've heard of the analogy of the universe being a stretched and distorted rubber sheet, right? For a moment, just think in one dimension instead of two - a piece of elastic. Put two sets of marks on that piece of elastic, one set 5 cm apart and one set 10 cm apart. Now, over the course of one second, stretch the elastic to twice its original length. The marks that were 5 cm apart are now 10 cm apart, and so moved apart at 5 cm/s. The marks that started 10 cm apart moved apart at 10 cm/s. Put the marks far enough apart on a long enough piece of elastic, and they'll be moving apart faster than the speed of light. A photon from one will never reach the other.
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8239/vulcanships.jpg
That's not what Democrats think. We know that people like Karl Rove and Rupert Murdoch are diabolical geniuses. It's Republican voters who are stupid.
The biggest reason the mean age at death has increased so dramatically is because of the decrease in infant and child mortality. The mean age at death of people who survived past their 10th birthday has only increased by about 5 years.
Your best bet would probably be to get as far away as you can, as quickly as you can, from everything you've ever had a connection to, by some means that requires no interaction with any other person. Look to the homeless for a glimpse of your new life.
When the spectrum of ambient light does not match that of "white" light (which is simply the particular spectrum we evolved to perceive), the eye's photoreceptors become disproportionately fatigued, and perception of the light's color drifts toward white. You can experience this phenomenon yourself if you light a room entirely with red party lights. Soon, your red photoreceptors will become fatigued and the colors of objects in the room begin to appear more normal. I think explorers on Mars would experience the same effect. So photos like this are actually how it would look to them.
Allegations that weren't tried because the "victim" admitted she was lying!
Hasn't it long been assumed that Mars had plate tectonics in the past? Because it's a smaller planet and lacks a large moon, its mantle has cooled and plate tectonics has stopped. Then its core cooled, its magnetic field weakened, and its atmosphere was blown off by solar wind...
There's an interesting parallel between the bots and scripts people use to play TradeWars 2002 and the bots and scripts people use to trade on the stock market. It seems to me that the TW2002 arms race may serve as a model for understanding the fundamental problem and what Wall Street or government regulators might be able to do about it.
I still use Firefox primarily because of NoScript. Chrome has nothing comparable. (And yes, I know about NotScript.) Also, Chrome doesn't give me the option to keep using an outdated version of Flash. It just disables it. Fuck you too, Chrome.
I don't think that's true at all. That's just the perspective of a religious person. To others, anyone who cuts religion any slack is automatically the Bad Guy.
And just how do you think that will happen if people don't keep experimenting?
Philosophically, yes. Legally, maybe not. This is why so many cops (literally) get away with murder. We need closer public review of police department policies and their legal authority to make them.
The law grants police departments the authority to make policies necessary to carry out their duties. Only within the limits of those policies is a police officer who confiscates property not a thief.
Unless you have a two-year-old netbook with a Mobility Radeon chip. Then ATI decides to drop you and you're stuck with the choice of a fglrx driver that crashes X when something tries to go full screen, or an open source driver package that forces you to disconnect and reconnect your monitors and then reconfigure your display settings every time you reboot.
Call me when it's free.
Negative publicity is only good if it's only viewed as negative by people who are not your customers or potential customers. Negative publicity that is viewed as negative by just about everyone is, well, negative.
Oh, shit... she's one of those Fourth Wave feminists. No wonder she thinks she can get away with this kind of bullshit.
Suspected by idiots... important distinction.
Nonsense! Buying organic food from overpriced chain stores may be the purview of the rich, but that's for suckers. One of the great advantages of organic farming, which this "comprehensive analysis" entirely misses, is that it has the potential to put ordinary people back in control of their food supply. Even if a person doesn't have enough land or time to grow all of their own food, they can still significantly supplement what they buy. It's not just about nutrition; it's about economic security.
We've known for a long time that organic farming won't produce the same yields in the same area with the same amount of labor. If all industrial farmers, and only industrial farmers, were to suddenly convert to organic production, lots of people would starve. This is not news. But it's also not what the organic farming movement advocates.
How long before GCC can target the DCPU-16?
The argument that probability failed us overlooks the fact that, although the Fukushima reactor was totally destroyed, the entire nuclear incident wasn't that big a deal. Compared to Chernobyl, it was nothing. Compared to the other damage caused by the tsunami, it was nothing. The real lesson here is that, thanks to design improvements since Chernobyl, a reactor can fail catastrophically and still not cause significant harm. I'm willing to bet that the ecological damage and human suffering caused by this worst-case scenario was significantly less than the damage caused by generating the power that the reactor generated over its lifetime via other means. And newer reactors are even better: less likely to fail, and less likely to cause significant damage if they do.