The definition of a true democracy is a state where everyone has the right to directly vote for all of those who get to attain a position of public power.
A republic does this (ie approaches that ideal) by limiting who can vote and by having certain positions be indirectly voted for.
Also please note that the historical democracy (that of the greeks) severely limited who could vote by denying women, mentally incompetents, slaves, people with too little money, invalids, criminals, and anyone the voting public (those few that there were allowed to) didn't like the right to vote.
Therefore, pedanticaly speaking, one can only speak about the degree of democracy a state has attained; saying it is or isn't a democracy is just pure bollocks (always note that when a political figure says they are going to institute a democracy!).
Obviously, a true democracy is not something one should want (personally I'd like something akin to an IQ test, or at least a test of involvement/knowledge of politics, to be a mandatory part of being allowed to vote). But to really judge fairness of rule, one should also look at to which degree the voring public has control of who gets to hold the true power.
BTW: If you're really interested in this kind of thing, don't bother with contemporary writers: read the ancient greeks (Plato's Republic is a good one to start with, for all kinds of reasons).
Now that's a good point: if at all, patents should only be granted to a party which is involved in the actual application (ie making a usefull product) of that patent.
That's what I thought second terms were for; the first was to get re-elected so they could actually do stuff in the second:/
Appart from that, fuelefficiency and insulation should go a long way to bring consumption down, as would better use of solar and wind power. Too bad that all those plans formed during the first oilcrisis in the 70's were nixed:( That might even have prevented the whole course of actions that led to 9/11.
I'll go one further; it is as impossible to effectively patent algorithms and scientific ideas as it is to not think of pink elephants.
Once you read a scientific paper, or see the documentation of an algorithm, it's imprinted on you; it colours any representation of the world and possible approach to computing you think of. To patent something as basic as that puts both fields at a standstill. The same goes for bussiness models.
Please read some introductory texts to neuropsychology. The brain does rewire it's neural connections. And you can consiously rewire them. Maybe not in the way of "I want this neuron to connect to that one", but you can decide to learn for example a language, thereby rewiring and growing neurons in specific patterns.
And even though this is/., please have the decency to have at least some knowledge of a subject befor you start mouthing off.
Heh...this takes me back to when I actually studied. We used the computer lab attached to the workshop (mechanical engineering) and ran lan games of duke over it. We had to download the demo every time, as when the comps turned on, they loaded a clean image every time, but it always led to us getting kicked out by security when the school locked up for the night:)
Hmmm...my Soundblaster live should do it. The original drivers (those on the cd that came with it) have a decent DOS legacy driver (which I turn off in XP) that works well with most DOS games I've tried.
Of course, these things would be pretty useless in Iraq and everywhere else there's a large quantity of dust in the atmosphere...
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Phweew...I was wondering when someone would say that. I could hardly beleive that I had to read halfway down before I came across someone with a sense of logic.
But I wouldn't put it down to a third factor. I'd say the causality is just the other way 'round: countries with a large IT sector have low piracy. This is because when there is a large IT sector, there are many people conversant with the reasons/need to pay for software.
Look at China for a great example of this: their IT sector is by comparison small (not in absolute numbers, but percentually) and piracy runs rampant.
And of course another factor that comes into play is the open souyrce movement; the larger your IT sector is, the more people will twig to the use of free/open software...it's a critical mass thing. And the more open/free software is used, the less piracy there is.
Oh, come on...if you still can't start up a game by just booting up and clicking an icon, Linux should deserve to die.
Note that this isn't meant to be flamebait, just an observation on what a modern OS should be able to do; you don't type anything into your remote control now, do you?
This could go two ways, and both for the same reason. On the one hand he could have an easier time, seeing as the EU is a bit miffed at the US at the moment. On the other hand, that could be reason to screw Jon, just to show the US a little goodwill.
And even though I'm glad Jon did what he did and defends himself, I'd still not want to be in his shoes.
"No, the problem is that each book is really two books squeezed into one"
Hehe...that was a purely arbitrary decision by Tolkien's publishers...they told him to seperate them, and they originally published 6 books. Later, they decided that 6 books was a bit much, and put two 'books' per book. Tolkien OTOH wasd all for just one big book...so your point is kinda...uhm...wrong on that account:)
Hehe...in regards to your sig...my mom thought me and my bro where serious computer criminals when we were talking about the hacks we had on our palmpilots:)
No, again...you end up with two circles that intersect (remember, you have no positional data about the third point...that's the one you're trying to locate...you don't know it's signal strenght at the point of transmission, only at the point of recieval)...and unless you're really lucky, those two circles have two points where they intersect. What you end up with with two antennae is a circle (in 3 dimensions) where the third antenna could be; transposed, that circle gets you two points on a 2 dimensional plane where that point could be, at oposite ends of the 3d circle.
Ever since 9/11/01, the american media self-censors. And it has said that publically. Grandparent post isn't a 'commie', he's just telling it like it is...and if you accessed multiple news sources, you'd know that too.
One real good example is a friendly fire incident (yet another one, but this one was quite hefty) that happened three days ago. Got one mention on the BBC,/none!/ on CNN and was blasted all over the middle eastern press. In my estimate, the casualty rate was anywhere between the UK and the middle eastern estimates...but at least I know it happened, unlike many in the US.
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The definition of a true democracy is a state where everyone has the right to directly vote for all of those who get to attain a position of public power.
A republic does this (ie approaches that ideal) by limiting who can vote and by having certain positions be indirectly voted for.
Also please note that the historical democracy (that of the greeks) severely limited who could vote by denying women, mentally incompetents, slaves, people with too little money, invalids, criminals, and anyone the voting public (those few that there were allowed to) didn't like the right to vote.
Therefore, pedanticaly speaking, one can only speak about the degree of democracy a state has attained; saying it is or isn't a democracy is just pure bollocks (always note that when a political figure says they are going to institute a democracy!).
Obviously, a true democracy is not something one should want (personally I'd like something akin to an IQ test, or at least a test of involvement/knowledge of politics, to be a mandatory part of being allowed to vote).
But to really judge fairness of rule, one should also look at to which degree the voring public has control of who gets to hold the true power.
BTW: If you're really interested in this kind of thing, don't bother with contemporary writers: read the ancient greeks (Plato's Republic is a good one to start with, for all kinds of reasons).
Now that's a good point: if at all, patents should only be granted to a party which is involved in the actual application (ie making a usefull product) of that patent.
Nah...the US is a replic, which is slightly different from a democracy, pedanticaly speaking ;)
That's what I thought second terms were for; the first was to get re-elected so they could actually do stuff in the second :/
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Appart from that, fuelefficiency and insulation should go a long way to bring consumption down, as would better use of solar and wind power. Too bad that all those plans formed during the first oilcrisis in the 70's were nixed
That might even have prevented the whole course of actions that led to 9/11.
I'll go one further; it is as impossible to effectively patent algorithms and scientific ideas as it is to not think of pink elephants.
Once you read a scientific paper, or see the documentation of an algorithm, it's imprinted on you; it colours any representation of the world and possible approach to computing you think of. To patent something as basic as that puts both fields at a standstill. The same goes for bussiness models.
Damn..so who am I thinking of? Blast you, AC! Now I'll have to dig through all those past .plan files to find out!
Please read some introductory texts to neuropsychology. The brain does rewire it's neural connections.
/., please have the decency to have at least some knowledge of a subject befor you start mouthing off.
And you can consiously rewire them. Maybe not in the way of "I want this neuron to connect to that one", but you can decide to learn for example a language, thereby rewiring and growing neurons in specific patterns.
And even though this is
I can: "Damn!", "Cool!, What? and Great!", "Drool...but what a shame." and "Hehehe...I want one :)" respectively.
Which really makes you wonder where these guys get their funding from...
Yup...prey got scrapped. What's more (and I really don't mean to spread FUD here) but I beleive I read in someone's .plan file that the guy has died.
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PS: If he hasn't, I'm sorry!
Heh...this takes me back to when I actually studied. We used the computer lab attached to the workshop (mechanical engineering) and ran lan games of duke over it. :)
We had to download the demo every time, as when the comps turned on, they loaded a clean image every time, but it always led to us getting kicked out by security when the school locked up for the night
Hmmm...my Soundblaster live should do it. The original drivers (those on the cd that came with it) have a decent DOS legacy driver (which I turn off in XP) that works well with most DOS games I've tried.
Of course, these things would be pretty useless in Iraq and everywhere else there's a large quantity of dust in the atmosphere...
Phweew...I was wondering when someone would say that. I could hardly beleive that I had to read halfway down before I came across someone with a sense of logic.
But I wouldn't put it down to a third factor. I'd say the causality is just the other way 'round: countries with a large IT sector have low piracy. This is because when there is a large IT sector, there are many people conversant with the reasons/need to pay for software.
Look at China for a great example of this: their IT sector is by comparison small (not in absolute numbers, but percentually) and piracy runs rampant.
And of course another factor that comes into play is the open souyrce movement; the larger your IT sector is, the more people will twig to the use of free/open software...it's a critical mass thing. And the more open/free software is used, the less piracy there is.
Nah...but he did give away the middle :)
Oh, come on...if you still can't start up a game by just booting up and clicking an icon, Linux should deserve to die.
Note that this isn't meant to be flamebait, just an observation on what a modern OS should be able to do; you don't type anything into your remote control now, do you?
This could go two ways, and both for the same reason. On the one hand he could have an easier time, seeing as the EU is a bit miffed at the US at the moment. On the other hand, that could be reason to screw Jon, just to show the US a little goodwill.
And even though I'm glad Jon did what he did and defends himself, I'd still not want to be in his shoes.
"No, the problem is that each book is really two books squeezed into one"
:)
Hehe...that was a purely arbitrary decision by Tolkien's publishers...they told him to seperate them, and they originally published 6 books. Later, they decided that 6 books was a bit much, and put two 'books' per book. Tolkien OTOH wasd all for just one big book...so your point is kinda...uhm...wrong on that account
Now that's a good idea...let's set up a sourceforge project for Duke Nukem Forever...betcha we're done first!
hehe..looks like lactose99 has another account with modpoints :)
Ah, but then the question becomes: "What's the maximum ping of a pair of IPv6 pigeons?".
Hehe...in regards to your sig...my mom thought me and my bro where serious computer criminals when we were talking about the hacks we had on our palmpilots :)
No, again...you end up with two circles that intersect (remember, you have no positional data about the third point...that's the one you're trying to locate...you don't know it's signal strenght at the point of transmission, only at the point of recieval)...and unless you're really lucky, those two circles have two points where they intersect. What you end up with with two antennae is a circle (in 3 dimensions) where the third antenna could be; transposed, that circle gets you two points on a 2 dimensional plane where that point could be, at oposite ends of the 3d circle.
Actually, triangulation does require three, unless you don't mind having two equally possible solutions to your location.
Ever since 9/11/01, the american media self-censors. And it has said that publically. Grandparent post isn't a 'commie', he's just telling it like it is...and if you accessed multiple news sources, you'd know that too.
/none!/ on CNN and was blasted all over the middle eastern press. In my estimate, the casualty rate was anywhere between the UK and the middle eastern estimates...but at least I know it happened, unlike many in the US.
One real good example is a friendly fire incident (yet another one, but this one was quite hefty) that happened three days ago. Got one mention on the BBC,