How can you assume that cross pollination with natural strains will lead the cross-breeds to be infertile? Do you know if this infertilility gene is dominant?
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Linux GUI's are already far superior to Windows and Macs due to two simple features: multiple desktops, and the ability to select a window without having to click on it (just having the mouse cursor over it).
He didn't say anything other than, "I miss my old systems, but give me something really fancy and new." He wants a new fancy GUI but doesn't even attempt to make any suggestions about what a revolutionary GUI would do. A very boring read.
Since the RIAA is a body which enforces copyright law (through litigation), isn't it illegal to publish this script under the DMCA since you are attempting to circumvent said copyright enforcement?
If anyone has any extra cash lying around, they should write a EULA that does require the user to give the them their first born son. Take the first user of your software to court, and when it's deemed illegal, it will throw into question all EULA's.
I urge everyone who is concerned about the free and open exchange of scientific information to e-mail Dr. Atlas. This is a bad trend to start. Once we do start censoring ourselves, it's much easier to continue doing so.
Science journals usually only publish basic research. I think it's highly unlikely that any basic research could be used to harm anyone. For example, I have a basic understanding of nuclear fission and if I wanted to make a trip to the library, I could learn a lot more theoretical information about it. However, knowledge of nuclear fission in no way enables me to make a bomb. Engineers are the ones that make science into something that could potentially be dangerous or usefull. Engineers rarely publish due to the ecomonic benifits of selling their products. It's the engineers that made the bomb, not the scientists. And the engineers had to work incredibly hard to put such information to use.
So, there are many subjects that are arguably chemistry (the lines between biology, chemistry, and physics are very broad). However, the color of a compound and what aspects of a molecule's electronic structure make it be a certain color, is chemistry in its prime.
Also, a compound's absorbance spectrum and its color are both a result of the same thing and thus should not be referred to as physics and biology.
Not everyone, just the ones that get in their face. Any law that limits any freedom is dangerous, even if the people do not follow it. For example, you can call a cop a fuckhead to his face, but then he'd be likely to pull out some dumbass law to arrest you or at least give you a ticket ("Hey, since I'm such a fuckhead, let me take a look at that CD you're playing."). This type of activity essentially limits freedom of speach.
First, just to be picky, "Trees eat CO2" and thus O2 is not life-sustaining for all life.
Second, ever hear of CO2 being a greenhouse gas? If we put out too much of it, it will make everyone very uncomfortable.
But it's still combustion. The planet can't support us much longer (well, not comfortably anyway) if we keep driving around hundreds of millions of CO2 producers.
One of the best examples of this I've seen recently was in Minority Report where the spiders perform a retinal scan on each tenant in the apartment building while searching for Tom Cruise. The spiders scare the hell out of two little children, thus scaring their mother. They interupt two people having sex and have to tear open protective gauze on Tom's eyes to perform the scan (which could have been a legitimate eye injury). That whole scene made the issue much more clear to me.
Government is an imperfect organization that can make poor laws. Privacy laws protect us from bad decisions made by the governement.
Example: John Walker is recieving 20 years in prison for carying around a gun and trying to kill people. Congress is in the process of passing a bill that will allow computer hackers to be sentenced up to life in prison.
Is this right? It sure seems screwy to me. As long as the gov't is making stupid laws, I sure as hell don't want them watching me. Oral sex is illegal in most states, do you think that law enforcement agencies should be able to monitor private residences to make certain that no one is engaging in "criminal" behavior?
In 2000 the University of California, Berkeley published a study showing that printed content represents only 0.003% of the world's total information
But how about the ratio of usefull information that is printed to that of digitized. Whenever I need a science journal article that was printed before 1996 or any science book at all I have to go to the library. The only really good information that is on the internet pertains to computers. Most of the rest is crap.
This can only work for so long. The reason why virii only affect windows machines is because there are more of them and they've been around longer. Once the teeny-boppers learn to ask their parents for Linux boxes, we'll start seeing linux virii.
Why not just use GPL'd software and pay a bunch of people to scrutinize the hell out of all the security issues (spending the money that you would if you had to rewrite the code anyway). Re-writing the code is simply going to introduce new security problems. Granted, they may be more difficult to find without having the source, but there will be more of them --- and anyone dedicated enough to scour source code for security holes probably has other tricks up their sleeves if they don't have the source. I would feel safer flying in a plane that had solid open source source than shotty propriety software.
This is worse than the christains. Astrology was invented several thousand years ago and over that time the stars have changed position (i.e. the sun used to be in cancer from May XX - June XX but now the sun is in gemini on these dates). And yet the astrologers have not updated their calanders. Hmm....
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There's nothing wrong with repackaging GPL software and adding spywares IF the user is told what changes have occurred in the repackaging.
How can you assume that cross pollination with natural strains will lead the cross-breeds to be infertile? Do you know if this infertilility gene is dominant?
We're not at war (unless congress declared war when I was sleeping). W keeps telling us that we're at war, but we are not in any legal sense.
Not if they've got a EULA.
Linux GUI's are already far superior to Windows and Macs due to two simple features: multiple desktops, and the ability to select a window without having to click on it (just having the mouse cursor over it).
He didn't say anything other than, "I miss my old systems, but give me something really fancy and new." He wants a new fancy GUI but doesn't even attempt to make any suggestions about what a revolutionary GUI would do. A very boring read.
Since the RIAA is a body which enforces copyright law (through litigation), isn't it illegal to publish this script under the DMCA since you are attempting to circumvent said copyright enforcement?
If anyone has any extra cash lying around, they should write a EULA that does require the user to give the them their first born son. Take the first user of your software to court, and when it's deemed illegal, it will throw into question all EULA's.
I urge everyone who is concerned about the free and open exchange of scientific information to e-mail Dr. Atlas. This is a bad trend to start. Once we do start censoring ourselves, it's much easier to continue doing so.
Science journals usually only publish basic research. I think it's highly unlikely that any basic research could be used to harm anyone. For example, I have a basic understanding of nuclear fission and if I wanted to make a trip to the library, I could learn a lot more theoretical information about it. However, knowledge of nuclear fission in no way enables me to make a bomb. Engineers are the ones that make science into something that could potentially be dangerous or usefull. Engineers rarely publish due to the ecomonic benifits of selling their products. It's the engineers that made the bomb, not the scientists. And the engineers had to work incredibly hard to put such information to use.
Also, a compound's absorbance spectrum and its color are both a result of the same thing and thus should not be referred to as physics and biology.
Not everyone, just the ones that get in their face. Any law that limits any freedom is dangerous, even if the people do not follow it. For example, you can call a cop a fuckhead to his face, but then he'd be likely to pull out some dumbass law to arrest you or at least give you a ticket ("Hey, since I'm such a fuckhead, let me take a look at that CD you're playing."). This type of activity essentially limits freedom of speach.
Is it God or the nation that's indivisible?
First, just to be picky, "Trees eat CO2" and thus O2 is not life-sustaining for all life. Second, ever hear of CO2 being a greenhouse gas? If we put out too much of it, it will make everyone very uncomfortable.
But it's still combustion. The planet can't support us much longer (well, not comfortably anyway) if we keep driving around hundreds of millions of CO2 producers.
One of the best examples of this I've seen recently was in Minority Report where the spiders perform a retinal scan on each tenant in the apartment building while searching for Tom Cruise. The spiders scare the hell out of two little children, thus scaring their mother. They interupt two people having sex and have to tear open protective gauze on Tom's eyes to perform the scan (which could have been a legitimate eye injury). That whole scene made the issue much more clear to me.
Government is an imperfect organization that can make poor laws. Privacy laws protect us from bad decisions made by the governement. Example: John Walker is recieving 20 years in prison for carying around a gun and trying to kill people. Congress is in the process of passing a bill that will allow computer hackers to be sentenced up to life in prison. Is this right? It sure seems screwy to me. As long as the gov't is making stupid laws, I sure as hell don't want them watching me. Oral sex is illegal in most states, do you think that law enforcement agencies should be able to monitor private residences to make certain that no one is engaging in "criminal" behavior?
But how about the ratio of usefull information that is printed to that of digitized. Whenever I need a science journal article that was printed before 1996 or any science book at all I have to go to the library. The only really good information that is on the internet pertains to computers. Most of the rest is crap.
This can only work for so long. The reason why virii only affect windows machines is because there are more of them and they've been around longer. Once the teeny-boppers learn to ask their parents for Linux boxes, we'll start seeing linux virii.
Why not just use GPL'd software and pay a bunch of people to scrutinize the hell out of all the security issues (spending the money that you would if you had to rewrite the code anyway). Re-writing the code is simply going to introduce new security problems. Granted, they may be more difficult to find without having the source, but there will be more of them --- and anyone dedicated enough to scour source code for security holes probably has other tricks up their sleeves if they don't have the source. I would feel safer flying in a plane that had solid open source source than shotty propriety software.
Oh Canadia, if only you would give me residence (and had a good graduate school) I would be yours.
Don't you mean H2?
This is worse than the christains. Astrology was invented several thousand years ago and over that time the stars have changed position (i.e. the sun used to be in cancer from May XX - June XX but now the sun is in gemini on these dates). And yet the astrologers have not updated their calanders. Hmm....