ems that would allow ICs to be ten times faster (or something like that), and 3 or 4 years down the road some asshole at Intel say "eureka" and comes up with the same thing? Wouldn't it have been nice for you if you had written it all down and filed a patent on it?
The essence of the patent is to allow prepaid accounts instead of monthly metered accounts. That's not really innovative. In fact, it's downright obvious. Speeding up an IC by 10 times is almost certainly non-obvious, unlike applying the prepaid model to cell phones.
Depends on what you mean by "value". Value as a human being, yes of course. I give the same respect to all humans, until they show they don't deserve it.
Generally, it means 'equal before the law' and assumes that they should have equal chances to excel.
Some people are just dumb, were always dumb, and will stay dumb. Born into a good family with all the advantages, and are dumb. Do they have the same rights as anyone else? Yes, they do.
So if they're going to speculate to students about how life came into being, might as well mention that God could be as good a reason as comet (which just moves the problem off planet). But maybe I'm missing the point about the whole school controversy.
No, because you can't falsify the God thing, so don't mention it. If someone asks, say 'maybe, we don't know' and move on. The controversy is that people want to teach Creationism in science class, where it does not belong.
NY Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton later announced that if elected president, she will just generally outlaw people.
I'd point out that Hillary is guilty of being a person, but I'm not sure if it's illegal to make vaguely threatening statements towards someone who might get elected president.
But atleast now when you're watching underaged girls strip on webcam you have plausable deniability. Yahoo said you had to be 18 to join the chats, how were you supposed to
It's probably one of statutory deals - sure you checked her ID and all that, but she was 17, so you're a rapist, or guilty of watching kiddy porn in this case.
You trust your kid. But would you repeal the laws against the sale of alcohol to minors? Kids make mistakes. Mistakes are sometimes fatal.
I'd knock the age back to 18, give states the say in what it actually is, and also make it legal for kids to drink around their parents (with permission). Dunno about you.
But from an objective point of view, isn't that better than not drawing *any* line at all?
No, when you have a vague, hard to interpret line, that opens up the door to intimidation - someone in power doesn't like you? You might get charged under this law for selling simcity to a kid.
I was just explaining to a friend of mine who works for an online marketing company (they do ad placement) He said I was breaking a social contract by blocking ads - that I am hurting the revenue stream for the content producer, which in turn will hurt my ability to access the content for free. I agree with this, but I object to the terms of the social contract.
It's not a contract, it's a gamble. They think that enough people will see the ad to justify the expense of the ad.
Here's the one I was talking about: link. Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Also, I'm not aware of any competing theories.
Couldn't it merely be that instead of a common ancestor, we have a common creator?
Who cares? You can't test that, falsify it, or make predictions based on it.
Perhaps, the more gravity the less the speed of light and the more gravity the slower the speed of light is.
Sort of. The more gravity, the more space is curved, which makes light travel a longer path and thus appear slower. Once gravity exceeds a certain limit, light is curved in on itself.
Wow, how lucky we are that you're around to point out to us that all those so-called astrophysicists and cosmologists with their fancy book-larnin' don't know nothin' bout anything. Sheesh, what are you wasting time posting to Slashdot for, when you could be picking up the Nobel Prize for Physics?
So someone points out that Dark Matter is a fudge factor and you respond with sarcasm? You must be soo fun at parties.
We can observe that selection causes adaption and minor mutations, but we have never observed a whole new species evolving from another.
To my knowledge, nobody has attempted to do something like create a ring species of dogs. It may be because that would be horrifically expensive and take an age (literally).
Evolution is a theory supported by inductive logic, it is not an empirically observed fact such as the existence of dogs, the process of cellular replication, or nuclear fission.
Evolution has more supporting evidence than you give it credit for. It's made some very specific predictions about our genetic makeup which have been recently confirmed experimentally. Hell, the whole 'tastes like chicken' thing demonstrates a common ancestor.
There's a small but vocal group of people (called NIMBYs or "Not In My Back Yards") who claim that having a cell phone tower in the vicinity of their house/school/whatever will dramatically increase their chance of getting cancer from the radio waves coming off of the tower.
Yeah, I know about them. Fact is, it's just ignorant hysteria - 50W of radio waves won't do anything to you.
That's why everyone gets so freaked out and wants a law when the ratings aren't perceived to be working--because they are supposed to both do the same thing.
Bunch of fucking children. The same parents that buy whatever little Jimmy wants will still do so, then complain that Jimmy's got some violent stuff. The ESRB stuff works only as long as parents pay attention.
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ems that would allow ICs to be ten times faster (or something like that), and 3 or 4 years down the road some asshole at Intel say "eureka" and comes up with the same thing? Wouldn't it have been nice for you if you had written it all down and filed a patent on it?
The essence of the patent is to allow prepaid accounts instead of monthly metered accounts. That's not really innovative. In fact, it's downright obvious. Speeding up an IC by 10 times is almost certainly non-obvious, unlike applying the prepaid model to cell phones.
OK, are you implying that learning Japanese will get me laid by Japanese women?
Knowing english will get you laid by Japanese women. You just have to not be a total troll.
The US Military
Yeah, I'm sure field medics would love this thing - wave over infected wound, bandage up, and take to a field hospital.
So the national debt is larger than all US dollars in circulation?
No, it's larger that the currency in circulation - parper and coins. Most of our money is made of bits.
o yes the government could very well pay for anything like funding for this pen if it wants without raising taxes or using your tax dollars.
No they can't. They still have to service that debt, or else it grows as a percentae of GDP.
Anyone that ventures away from an established, responsible corporate or government site should be prepared to encounter spyware.
Yeah, it's a dangerous world. Doesn't mean that hijacking someone's computer should be legal.
Poking our head in the sand by legislating this isn't going to help.
Setting a precedent saying that this is illegal does help. Once it's set, suing the next guy is easier.
Depends on what you mean by "value". Value as a human being, yes of course. I give the same respect to all humans, until they show they don't deserve it.
Generally, it means 'equal before the law' and assumes that they should have equal chances to excel.
Some people are just dumb, were always dumb, and will stay dumb. Born into a good family with all the advantages, and are dumb. Do they have the same rights as anyone else? Yes, they do.
And one of them is prez-o-dent. Oh, the irony!
So if they're going to speculate to students about how life came into being, might as well mention that God could be as good a reason as comet (which just moves the problem off planet). But maybe I'm missing the point about the whole school controversy.
No, because you can't falsify the God thing, so don't mention it. If someone asks, say 'maybe, we don't know' and move on. The controversy is that people want to teach Creationism in science class, where it does not belong.
Let's use the obvious example: intelligent design. It's a fine theory.
No it isn't, for the reasons you cited. It may be a hypothesus, but it isn't a theory.
And as a computer programmer with a liberal arts degree....
...you're talking to yourself. 'Would you like Prozac with that?'
he was apparently a hell of a programmer back in the day.
So, what did he do exactly?
NY Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton later announced that if elected president, she will just generally outlaw people.
I'd point out that Hillary is guilty of being a person, but I'm not sure if it's illegal to make vaguely threatening statements towards someone who might get elected president.
But atleast now when you're watching underaged girls strip on webcam you have plausable deniability. Yahoo said you had to be 18 to join the chats, how were you supposed to
It's probably one of statutory deals - sure you checked her ID and all that, but she was 17, so you're a rapist, or guilty of watching kiddy porn in this case.
You trust your kid. But would you repeal the laws against the sale of alcohol to minors? Kids make mistakes. Mistakes are sometimes fatal.
I'd knock the age back to 18, give states the say in what it actually is, and also make it legal for kids to drink around their parents (with permission). Dunno about you.
But from an objective point of view, isn't that better than not drawing *any* line at all?
No, when you have a vague, hard to interpret line, that opens up the door to intimidation - someone in power doesn't like you? You might get charged under this law for selling simcity to a kid.
The same ID he/she got when they were a zero-year-old: a birth certificate.
So, you're advocating that a 12 year old carry a birth certificate (with no picture attached) to the store to buy a game. No problems with that one...
I was just explaining to a friend of mine who works for an online marketing company (they do ad placement) He said I was breaking a social contract by blocking ads - that I am hurting the revenue stream for the content producer, which in turn will hurt my ability to access the content for free. I agree with this, but I object to the terms of the social contract.
It's not a contract, it's a gamble. They think that enough people will see the ad to justify the expense of the ad.
Name one prediction that has come to pass.
Here's the one I was talking about: link. Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Also, I'm not aware of any competing theories.
Couldn't it merely be that instead of a common ancestor, we have a common creator?
Who cares? You can't test that, falsify it, or make predictions based on it.
Give credit where due - this is an H L Mencken quote.
Again, I ask, what is the scientific reason for this being the goal?
Rather thaan reiterating what someone's already told you, I'll just link to it.
Perhaps, the more gravity the less the speed of light and the more gravity the slower the speed of light is.
Sort of. The more gravity, the more space is curved, which makes light travel a longer path and thus appear slower. Once gravity exceeds a certain limit, light is curved in on itself.
Wow, how lucky we are that you're around to point out to us that all those so-called astrophysicists and cosmologists with their fancy book-larnin' don't know nothin' bout anything. Sheesh, what are you wasting time posting to Slashdot for, when you could be picking up the Nobel Prize for Physics?
So someone points out that Dark Matter is a fudge factor and you respond with sarcasm? You must be soo fun at parties.
We can observe that selection causes adaption and minor mutations, but we have never observed a whole new species evolving from another.
To my knowledge, nobody has attempted to do something like create a ring species of dogs. It may be because that would be horrifically expensive and take an age (literally).
Evolution is a theory supported by inductive logic, it is not an empirically observed fact such as the existence of dogs, the process of cellular replication, or nuclear fission.
Evolution has more supporting evidence than you give it credit for. It's made some very specific predictions about our genetic makeup which have been recently confirmed experimentally. Hell, the whole 'tastes like chicken' thing demonstrates a common ancestor.
There's a small but vocal group of people (called NIMBYs or "Not In My Back Yards") who claim that having a cell phone tower in the vicinity of their house/school/whatever will dramatically increase their chance of getting cancer from the radio waves coming off of the tower.
Yeah, I know about them. Fact is, it's just ignorant hysteria - 50W of radio waves won't do anything to you.
That's why everyone gets so freaked out and wants a law when the ratings aren't perceived to be working--because they are supposed to both do the same thing.
Bunch of fucking children. The same parents that buy whatever little Jimmy wants will still do so, then complain that Jimmy's got some violent stuff. The ESRB stuff works only as long as parents pay attention.
It's not the watching or playing by minors, it's the selling to minors.
Wait, is it illegal to sell Terminator to a 17 year old?