Even if you consider this a direct analog to real property, the government is not liable to billboard owners (or owners of the land beneath them) when a highway is relocated such that the billboards become non-visible.
Then again, the government doesn't control the laws of physics, so the analogy breaks down a bit.
The second clause points out that I believe that that I have more fun than 98% of the population, and that this is something that I canNOT prove statistically! While the comma isn't strictly necessary, it does further serve to separate the two clauses.
I'm still having a hard time getting my head around this morally sure thing, even in the context of 'more fun'. Usually, when I have fun, it isn't very moral.
well, i personally never say hardware is bullet proof, because i have seen many a bad peice of hardware fall prey to a several large and well placed bullets.
Yeah, you can always make bigger bullets. I challenge you to find something that'll stand up to a GAU cannon.
If a seller decides to defraud people, they COULD start all over with 0 moderation points -- but people are less likely to trust someone with 0 feedback.
So what? You can buy positive feedback for about $1/point. What did you think people were selling used gum for, anyway?
In other words, the smaller company is concerned with costs and your "medical" company doesn't bother... which helps drive up healthcare costs to current astronomical levels for me and everyone else.
Nah, they probably save moneyt buying only decent stuff. You'd be surprised how expensive cheap stuff can be.
I, personally, would like to know why it is considered legal to sell anything to a minor, considering that minors cannot enter into legally binding contracts (in the general case, not counting underage emancipation).
What fool told you that? A minor can renounce any contract without penalty, but a simple purchase has nothing to renounce. The money has already been traded for goods.
A number of people would probably object to the idea that no one under 18 can own property, but in my opinion that is an issue with the age of consent and not the principle expressed above.
Who says that they can't and why would that involve the ability to consent to sex?
I knew a guy who worked for a company as a contractor. He was billing $60 an hour, and they were giving him about 50 hours of work a week. They gave him a nice office. The guy turned around and sued the company to be recognized as an employee because he wanted the benifits.
If this is the same guy, then he worked contract for 2 or 3 years, was offered a blue badge and refused it, and sued over stock options, not benefits. This was a class action suit that cost MS a pretty penny and resulted in the 100 day rule.
Come back when you have an appreciation for the limits of humanity instead of an arrogant belief in a cult.
Oh please, you can't do good science if you're constantly blathering about how you're imperfect and this is just an approximation. I find your marginalization of all that we've accomplished tiring.
I pay myself minimum wage every month (I think I make about US$600 take home salary a month).
Only problem for me is that minimum wage isn't enough to live on around here. I don't have a 6 month cushion and, going into a new place, I'd be wary of someone who offered a deal like yours.
No, it's far worse than that- basically we're ALL wrong and are incapable of being right
Don't go all philosophical on me: the point is, this is what we know now.
Or at least if you're as arrogant as Heisenberg and think you are God and infallible, then it's an inherent trait of fundamental particles and not your own stupidity.
Yeah right. The fact is, when a molecule gets very cold, its location becomes fuzzy, hence the inherent property argument. Don't like it? Prove me wrong.
Heisenberg didn't say anything about averages vs instantaneous.
Okay then, go do your experiment and see if you can disprove Heisenberg. Also, make sure it can be repeated by somebody else.
As far as we KNOW- but we're finite beings that don't know everything. In a different frame of reference, it's still possible.
So basically, you were wrong but couldn't admit it?
what the heck does the reduction of velocity in a gas in relation to temperature have to do with the position of an electron at a given point in the trajectory of it's velocity?
That the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is an inherent trait of fundamental particles and not a problem of observation.
Hmm, does that mean if we can vary the temperature between -246 and -247 Kelvin we could potentially measure *both* position and velocity
No.
After all, once you have 3 positions, and the amount of time in between, you've got velocity...thanks for providing an experiment to disprove Heisenberg.
the grandparent poster said it was impractical. I don't think it's impractical at all.
That was me. I said impractical based on the assumption that the user wouldn't be throttled. Email can be easily ignored, and calling 10,000 people a day costs real money.
How do you propose the ISP would be able to determine whether or not joe consumer needs to "unfuck" his computer?
Measure outputs - dead giveaway would be excessive icmp traffic or lotsa email traffic all of a sudden (both well out of line for a normal person). My interpretation of the proposal was to notify the user in place of restricting their port.
This is true, however, the purpose of a catch phrase is to communiate the proper gestalt, even if some of the details are off. Expanding 'E of E is convenient' can get you your phrase.
The information is there- it's just arrogance to suggest that it isn't- but as finite beings we're not capable of processing in paralell sufficently enough to measure both position and velocity of an electron at the same time.
No, an electron is not capable of possessing both definite position and velocity at the same time. That's why, if you cool stuff sufficiently, you get the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
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Looks like it only has about 3 component inputs, though.
Homeowner's Associations can do it, why not a MMORPG? You sign a contract that says you agree to allow the contract to be changed at any time.
What kind of HOA do you have, anyway? I sure as hell wouldn't sign something like that.
Even if you consider this a direct analog to real property, the government is not liable to billboard owners (or owners of the land beneath them) when a highway is relocated such that the billboards become non-visible.
Then again, the government doesn't control the laws of physics, so the analogy breaks down a bit.
The second clause points out that I believe that that I have more fun than 98% of the population, and that this is something that I canNOT prove statistically! While the comma isn't strictly necessary, it does further serve to separate the two clauses.
I'm still having a hard time getting my head around this morally sure thing, even in the context of 'more fun'. Usually, when I have fun, it isn't very moral.
I don't think it's a coincidence that I earn more than 98% of the population, and (I can't prove statistically but am morally sure)
What the hell does it mean to be morally sure that you earn more than 98% of the population? That's statistice, not morality.
Of course, now our illiteracy rate is closer to 10%, but they can't read Shakespeare until High School. I don't think that's such a bad tradeoff.
Exactly right. By high school, they should be able to get the dirty jokes.
Well sometimes a Gut Feeling is the best you can do. Even for Computer Gurus it is not always that cut and dry.
That's why computer gurus get evaluation units and test them. If you're buying 1000 units, a gut feeling ain't good enough.
The Toshiba has been pretty solid. It's not a stellar laptop but it's been pretty reliable.
Seconded. I've had 3 Toshibas of various vintages and all have been reliable and dependable.
well, i personally never say hardware is bullet proof, because i have seen many a bad peice of hardware fall prey to a several large and well placed bullets.
Yeah, you can always make bigger bullets. I challenge you to find something that'll stand up to a GAU cannon.
If a seller decides to defraud people, they COULD start all over with 0 moderation points -- but people are less likely to trust someone with 0 feedback.
So what? You can buy positive feedback for about $1/point. What did you think people were selling used gum for, anyway?
Oh, dont worry its not a monsterous beheamouth of ugly like one of those Xaser cases or something.
Was it a Sonata case? I've 2 of those myself.
But Vista will lock out DVD drives that have a region of 0, and that's the bigger issue at hand...
The right hand specifically: most porn is region 0.
In other words, the smaller company is concerned with costs and your "medical" company doesn't bother... which helps drive up healthcare costs to current astronomical levels for me and everyone else.
Nah, they probably save moneyt buying only decent stuff. You'd be surprised how expensive cheap stuff can be.
I, personally, would like to know why it is considered legal to sell anything to a minor, considering that minors cannot enter into legally binding contracts (in the general case, not counting underage emancipation).
What fool told you that? A minor can renounce any contract without penalty, but a simple purchase has nothing to renounce. The money has already been traded for goods.
A number of people would probably object to the idea that no one under 18 can own property, but in my opinion that is an issue with the age of consent and not the principle expressed above.
Who says that they can't and why would that involve the ability to consent to sex?
I knew a guy who worked for a company as a contractor. He was billing $60 an hour, and they were giving him about 50 hours of work a week. They gave him a nice office. The guy turned around and sued the company to be recognized as an employee because he wanted the benifits.
If this is the same guy, then he worked contract for 2 or 3 years, was offered a blue badge and refused it, and sued over stock options, not benefits. This was a class action suit that cost MS a pretty penny and resulted in the 100 day rule.
Come back when you have an appreciation for the limits of humanity instead of an arrogant belief in a cult.
Oh please, you can't do good science if you're constantly blathering about how you're imperfect and this is just an approximation. I find your marginalization of all that we've accomplished tiring.
I pay myself minimum wage every month (I think I make about US$600 take home salary a month).
Only problem for me is that minimum wage isn't enough to live on around here. I don't have a 6 month cushion and, going into a new place, I'd be wary of someone who offered a deal like yours.
Philosophy is exactly the point.
No, this is science. Come back when you understand what that is.
No, it's far worse than that- basically we're ALL wrong and are incapable of being right
Don't go all philosophical on me: the point is, this is what we know now.
Or at least if you're as arrogant as Heisenberg and think you are God and infallible, then it's an inherent trait of fundamental particles and not your own stupidity.
Yeah right. The fact is, when a molecule gets very cold, its location becomes fuzzy, hence the inherent property argument. Don't like it? Prove me wrong.
Heisenberg didn't say anything about averages vs instantaneous.
Okay then, go do your experiment and see if you can disprove Heisenberg. Also, make sure it can be repeated by somebody else.
As far as we KNOW- but we're finite beings that don't know everything. In a different frame of reference, it's still possible.
So basically, you were wrong but couldn't admit it?
what the heck does the reduction of velocity in a gas in relation to temperature have to do with the position of an electron at a given point in the trajectory of it's velocity?
That the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is an inherent trait of fundamental particles and not a problem of observation.
Hmm, does that mean if we can vary the temperature between -246 and -247 Kelvin we could potentially measure *both* position and velocity
No.
After all, once you have 3 positions, and the amount of time in between, you've got velocity...thanks for providing an experiment to disprove Heisenberg.
No, you have average velocity, not instantaneous.
the grandparent poster said it was impractical. I don't think it's impractical at all.
That was me. I said impractical based on the assumption that the user wouldn't be throttled. Email can be easily ignored, and calling 10,000 people a day costs real money.
How do you propose the ISP would be able to determine whether or not joe consumer needs to "unfuck" his computer?
Measure outputs - dead giveaway would be excessive icmp traffic or lotsa email traffic all of a sudden (both well out of line for a normal person). My interpretation of the proposal was to notify the user in place of restricting their port.
This is true, however, the purpose of a catch phrase is to communiate the proper gestalt, even if some of the details are off. Expanding 'E of E is convenient' can get you your phrase.
f I were God and created creature that I loved I would not put them in a world that I could not control. I would place each one in their own world.
You don't exist. You are merely a figment of His imagination.
The information is there- it's just arrogance to suggest that it isn't- but as finite beings we're not capable of processing in paralell sufficently enough to measure both position and velocity of an electron at the same time.
No, an electron is not capable of possessing both definite position and velocity at the same time. That's why, if you cool stuff sufficiently, you get the Bose-Einstein Condensate.