The remote control is on (and you probably turned it on my pressing a button) and it is the one flipping the switches. So once again, a switch cannot flip itself.
Both sides legislate morality, since every single law ever passed dows that. However, the Republicans want to do this less, so I will prefer them for the time being.
Laws have little to do with morality outside of a theocracy. For example, it's unlawful to speed on an open highway; however, it's in no way immoral if you're not doing it wrecklessly. Laws provide a framework for people to live under in relative peace. Morals get mixed up with laws when people belonging to a dominant religous attitude start governing based on their own personal morals.
Where do you get that price? On the dynamism site, they are selling the C760 for $800 and that's not including the large-capacity battery (one of the reasons for purchase of the 760 over the 750, I believe?) or the voltage adapter (for those of us not living in Japan) or wireless LAN card.
If I download a song but never listen to it, the record companies have lost absolutely nothing. However, if I steal a CD from a store and never listen to it, the CD still has to be replaced.
Record companies are claiming that they are losing sales every time someone downloads a song. In reality, a lot of people would never have bought the CD to begin with (because they're so damned expensive).
A parting shot. When I mentioned this to a die-hard creationist, he related to me the ultimate loophole: God makes the rules. Therefore, God can (did?) create a universe where evolution is considered fact rather than theory.
I'd take a theory over a fact any day. For example: "Pregnant man gives birth." Now that's a fact, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet any money on it being true. A theory, however, has evidence to support it's claims. The theory of relativity, for instance, has been verified over and over again by precise atomic clocks, the bending of light by the sun, particle physics, etc.
"Oh it's just a theory," are claims made by the ignorant who are unwilling to accept the truth.
I know this is offtopic, but you simply can't deny evolution any more than you can deny calculus. Evolution is a mathematical consequence of a system that has components which (a) compete to reproduce and (b) during reproduction, incur imperfect copying of a genotype. If you don't believe me, read up on genetic algorithms (you could start here with Lenski in Nature vol 423, 2003 pg 139).
Now, of course you can deny that evolution has happened (if you believe, for instance, that God created the universe yesterday). But you can't deny that evolution is happening. Otherwise, you're completely deluding yourselves.
On that note, perhaps in Arkansas they could teach evolution in a math, rather than in biology where the fuss is going on.
Actually no you dont, I heard that alot of clubs have to pay the RIAA a decent sum of money to play music for crowds.
That's because clubs aren't private places.
If you want to see the law, plop in a video into your VCR and read the FBI warning. It basically states that it's illegal to show it to a public audience without permission.
Oppenheim: Or, I have heard that the Bible gets distributed on these networks. Apart from the fact that we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited
And taking a Bible from the motel would be called.....
Not really, how many people belive it will not happen to them? Look at smoking, the packects say on them "these things will kill you and give you cancer" but people still keep on doing it.
In the US, they say that cigarettes may cause health problems. Speaking of which.....
Nine in ten (90 per cent) of office workers at London's Waterloo Station gave away their computer password for a cheap pen, compared with 65 per cent last year.
So it looks like they only interviewed one firm and at least ten office workers.
The same goes for the idea espoused by McKenna et al that psychedelic plants and fungi produce the chemicals they do as an evolutionary response- by producing euphoria-inducing chemicals, they encourage people to care for them and cultivate them, ensuring survival. I can't even begin to explain everything that I find wrong with that line of thought. At least, not in a venue like Slashdot.
So are you saying that there would still be marijuana growing in peoples basements if it didn't induce euphoria? I guarantee that there would be much less marijuana around if it didn't get you high. Thus, the presence of THC was an evolutionary advantage to this plant.
Yes, that's what I was trying to explain. But I took a sophomore level physics class only three years ago and my physics teacher told me that no information can travel faster than the speed of light. He even said this in reference to quantum entanglement and said that the collapse of the wavefunction did not carry information. But the case you've brought up does sound like you are transmitting some sort of information so I wonder what physicists define as "information".
I was using the word probability as being the probability of measuring a green or red jelly bean.
The point is that I have no way of forcing a particular outcome to occur (I can't tell the jelly bean what color I want it to be when I measure it). If I could force an outcome to occur, then I could easily send some sort of binary signal faster than the speed of light to someone on the ground. But since I cannot, information cannot be sent faster than the speed of light.
This is what my favorite physics teacher as an undergrad taught me. But now that I think about it, it does seem like you can know something across a distance at a speed faster than light. Suppose we give these entangled jelly-beans to two people (A and B) and send them far far away from each other. They agree that if person A's jelly bean is measure red then they both go home but if it turns green then they go alpha centauri. It does seem like that would be some sort of information.
Any specialists in quantum mechanics want to explain this?
Mass and energy are the same quantity expressed in different units.
Mass and energy are not the same quantity. Although they are exchangeable through the famous equation E=m*c^2, this doesn't not mean there is no distinction between the two. Otherwise, you have to say that height and energy are the same thing since E=m*g*h (i.e. a difference in gravitation potential, height, can be used as a source of energy but the thing that is height is not energy).
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Funny thing is the state of Utah just got it's own 1000 processor AMD Opteron cluster.
The remote control is on (and you probably turned it on my pressing a button) and it is the one flipping the switches. So once again, a switch cannot flip itself.
A switch cannot flip itself.
You could say the same thing about pot, but a number of high profile people have already been busted and it's still illegal.
Even if he turned the computer off, it would turn itself back on and dial the Internet on its own.
Who's computer can turn on all by itself?
Laws have little to do with morality outside of a theocracy. For example, it's unlawful to speed on an open highway; however, it's in no way immoral if you're not doing it wrecklessly. Laws provide a framework for people to live under in relative peace. Morals get mixed up with laws when people belonging to a dominant religous attitude start governing based on their own personal morals.
Where do you get that price? On the dynamism site, they are selling the C760 for $800 and that's not including the large-capacity battery (one of the reasons for purchase of the 760 over the 750, I believe?) or the voltage adapter (for those of us not living in Japan) or wireless LAN card.
Record companies are claiming that they are losing sales every time someone downloads a song. In reality, a lot of people would never have bought the CD to begin with (because they're so damned expensive).
7 words: The Star Trek experience in Las Vegas.
Right, that's why the US is no longer allowing non-cockheadasians into the country. Problem solved.
However, 80% of everything is shit.
I'd take a theory over a fact any day. For example: "Pregnant man gives birth." Now that's a fact, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet any money on it being true. A theory, however, has evidence to support it's claims. The theory of relativity, for instance, has been verified over and over again by precise atomic clocks, the bending of light by the sun, particle physics, etc.
"Oh it's just a theory," are claims made by the ignorant who are unwilling to accept the truth.
Now, of course you can deny that evolution has happened (if you believe, for instance, that God created the universe yesterday). But you can't deny that evolution is happening. Otherwise, you're completely deluding yourselves.
On that note, perhaps in Arkansas they could teach evolution in a math, rather than in biology where the fuss is going on.
That's because clubs aren't private places.
If you want to see the law, plop in a video into your VCR and read the FBI warning. It basically states that it's illegal to show it to a public audience without permission.
there's a reason communism fell, ya know.
Yeah, because it was illegal.
And taking a Bible from the motel would be called .....
That's not right either. Flame me, I'm a dumbass.
You mean 01, right? 10 would be 31.4159..... in base 10 (err....ten).
In the US, they say that cigarettes may cause health problems. Speaking of which .....
So it looks like they only interviewed one firm and at least ten office workers.
Without periodic boundary conditions, you run into finite size and surface problems.
So are you saying that there would still be marijuana growing in peoples basements if it didn't induce euphoria? I guarantee that there would be much less marijuana around if it didn't get you high. Thus, the presence of THC was an evolutionary advantage to this plant.
Yes, that's what I was trying to explain. But I took a sophomore level physics class only three years ago and my physics teacher told me that no information can travel faster than the speed of light. He even said this in reference to quantum entanglement and said that the collapse of the wavefunction did not carry information. But the case you've brought up does sound like you are transmitting some sort of information so I wonder what physicists define as "information".
The point is that I have no way of forcing a particular outcome to occur (I can't tell the jelly bean what color I want it to be when I measure it). If I could force an outcome to occur, then I could easily send some sort of binary signal faster than the speed of light to someone on the ground. But since I cannot, information cannot be sent faster than the speed of light.
This is what my favorite physics teacher as an undergrad taught me. But now that I think about it, it does seem like you can know something across a distance at a speed faster than light. Suppose we give these entangled jelly-beans to two people (A and B) and send them far far away from each other. They agree that if person A's jelly bean is measure red then they both go home but if it turns green then they go alpha centauri. It does seem like that would be some sort of information.
Any specialists in quantum mechanics want to explain this?
Mass and energy are not the same quantity. Although they are exchangeable through the famous equation E=m*c^2, this doesn't not mean there is no distinction between the two. Otherwise, you have to say that height and energy are the same thing since E=m*g*h (i.e. a difference in gravitation potential, height, can be used as a source of energy but the thing that is height is not energy).