With the internet now readily available in Beijing, it's very difficult for the ChiComs to keep news like this from the general public. I seems to me at first glance that tricks like this could be a good way to undermine a particular government's confidence in it's "right" to rule. Similar stunts all put together over many years time (e.g. Boston Tea Party) have worked in the past...
Thanks for the explanation. I think I understand now. Obviously the (0) thing is off (I think I meant(1)) but Geez...Something about that equation always confused me.
Isn't this really only half the story though? IIRC a feather and a bowling ball only fall at approximately the same speed and the reason is because they are relatively the same mass relative to earth. If we're talking about a mass that is say 1/6 earth (e.g. the moon), the accelleration is going to be a lot more than 9.8m/s/s due to the mass of the 2nd object. When we assume 9.8m/s/s accelleration for objects on earth we're merely assuming a mass of 0 for M2 in this equation: F = (G * M1 * M2) / R^2
So the whole experiment always seemed a little hokey to me.
Maybe since Gateway is in the tech business, not the record business, they will be able to come up with the business model that can make money for themselves and [their?] artists with new technology.
What are we missing here? This is not a first amendment issue. Constitutionally speaking, state and local governments have the right to set their own decency standards.
If you don't like it, move. The federal gov't is [supposed to be] restricted from setting these types of standards (see Campaign Finance Reform), so should be able to find some place to live if you don't like it.
I don't think local governments should be doing that so much but under our federal constitution, they can
I can't think of any serious ramifications here. Any business that's actually worth anything these days can still do business without the internet. My life would go on.
What you're saying is that the hoax is quiet well written but not as good as it could be. Those of us who have been there would catch this. i.e. if this article was for honest real, listening to Christian Rock would put this man in the heathen bin, not the "cleaned up" bin.
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With the internet now readily available in Beijing, it's very difficult for the ChiComs to keep news like this from the general public. I seems to me at first glance that tricks like this could be a good way to undermine a particular government's confidence in it's "right" to rule. Similar stunts all put together over many years time (e.g. Boston Tea Party) have worked in the past...
Why that's simple, you can buy a Lego Mindstorm at lego.com! :-)
I can see it now. Local hacker sued after aibo takes off neighbor's hand...details at 10...
a plan comes together. Politicians getting caught red handed by the media and the citizens. This is how it's supposed to work folks! :)
Thanks for the explanation. I think I understand now. Obviously the (0) thing is off (I think I meant(1)) but Geez...Something about that equation always confused me.
Isn't this really only half the story though? IIRC a feather and a bowling ball only fall at approximately the same speed and the reason is because they are relatively the same mass relative to earth. If we're talking about a mass that is say 1/6 earth (e.g. the moon), the accelleration is going to be a lot more than 9.8m/s/s due to the mass of the 2nd object. When we assume 9.8m/s/s accelleration for objects on earth we're merely assuming a mass of 0 for M2 in this equation: F = (G * M1 * M2) / R^2
So the whole experiment always seemed a little hokey to me.
Maybe since Gateway is in the tech business, not the record business, they will be able to come up with the business model that can make money for themselves and [their?] artists with new technology.
What are we missing here? This is not a first amendment issue. Constitutionally speaking, state and local governments have the right to set their own decency standards.
If you don't like it, move. The federal gov't is [supposed to be] restricted from setting these types of standards (see Campaign Finance Reform), so should be able to find some place to live if you don't like it.
I don't think local governments should be doing that so much but under our federal constitution, they can
Everybody's always worried about funding and what's going to drive the next space race. Here you go. It's the free market system at it's best.
I can't think of any serious ramifications here. Any business that's actually worth anything these days can still do business without the internet. My life would go on.
If only NS would uninstall IE...
Also, IIRC, Pluto's moon is nearly as big as Pluto. So is it really more of a double planet? Or a planet system?
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What you're saying is that the hoax is quiet well written but not as good as it could be. Those of us who have been there would catch this. i.e. if this article was for honest real, listening to Christian Rock would put this man in the heathen bin, not the "cleaned up" bin.