For about 3 or 4 months around when Velious came out, I had a group of five friends who I would go to the fungi camp in lower guk (at 4am, it was almost always uncamped) once or twice a week. We stayed 'til we all had a fungi tunic (they are lore) or school started. So we each made ~60k-90k plat a week, from 3-4 hours of playing, which is alot easier than this 60,000pp in a week with constant playing.
Could somebody please translate the text above into some commonly spoken language. I have tried babelfish but it did not work. The 'Fungi Tunic' part is especially confusing - and frankly the explanation that they are 'lore' did not help me much.
This guy and I used to have conversations about the USSR during the early 80s, wondering if we could ever tell if the picture we were given of the US/USSR situation wasn't actually the reverse of what most USians believed; USSR being "free" and the US being the tyrannical dicatatorship.
I visited the USSR in the early 80s and I can assure you that your speculations were quite unfounded.
If you are not convinced, I suggest a trip to North Korea before it falls apart.
in that year, the chemist Wohler was the first to make synthetic organic substance from inorganic substances. He thus proved that the 'vital force' theory was incorrect.
The exact performance of this technology is quite insignigicant next to what it will cost to mass-produce - and this we are not being told.
If it looks like shit but is half as expensive as normal flat screens I am sure it will find a significant market. If it looks superb but is ten times as expensive to produce it will never happen.
According to this graph the total amounts of donations have just fallen from a few thousand to a few hundred dollars (yes, thank you, I located it from this informative post).
Is this the extent of the problem? If so, it seems like just bringing it up once at/. might solve the problem. But then again, maybe there are more material issues, maybe they missed a grant or something...?
Do you also propose the cancellation of all astronomy research, and putting all the money into medicine?
It think the SETI project is great. If somebody donates their resources to science, don't complain about it, even if you happen to like other projects better. Go out and preach to somebody who has an idle computer instead.
just selling an empty chip, and a small device that connects to a computer to program the thing?
Then they can make the code available over the internet. Considering the customer base they probably don't even need to do this from their web site but rather they can spread it on file swapping services.
...that has a simple solution for Internet, email, instant messaging, some telephone support and, no not much more actually.
AOL provides these things but why is it so much bigger than the competition? Certainly the brand is important but what more is there to it? I am surprised that these bundles have not commodotized already.
I am from Sweden but I have been living in the US for a few years now. In Sweden, violence is censored to a much greater extent than in the US, but for nudity it is the other way around.
I can see the reasoning behind the ciolence argument (although I am not sure to what extent I agree)
watching lotsa violence -> violent behavior
But for nudity...
watching lotsa nudity -> ???
Spontanious stripping? Unlikely.
Will young men start raping girls if they see somebody naked? C'mon.
Will there be more unprotected sex? No, lack of information has to my knowledge never stopped anyone that wanted to get at it.
Could somebody with longer time in the US please explain. I really don't get it.
Let's say you're gay and living in an area where being gay is cause for persecution
And what if your lifestyle or religion or whatever you now lawfully do is declared illegal?
It seems like both of your examples assume that we already have huge problems. In these cases, I would gladly join your fight against persecution of homosexuals and against the withdrawal of religous rights.
Sure, this new tracking technology could make matters worse but so could a zillion other perfectly legal and commonly accepted technologies.
It seems to me like this technology should be treated as many other forms of privacy intrusion, such as searching a house or bugging a telephone.
Normally it is not permitted, but under extraordinary circumstances it can be allowed after say a court order.
While I am sure someone can name examples of misuse, I am glad that the government has the capability to search houses and bug phones and by and large I think it works fine.
Similarly, if this tracking technology was only activated after a court order we could reap most of the benefits (finding lost hikers, tracking down terrorists), while avoiding most of the problems (privacy intrusion on ordinary people).
There is no life elsewhere in the universe! Give it up.
You might very well be proven wrong within your life time. Within the next decades, probes will check out Mars, Venus and Europa. New telescopes will be able to detect planets similar to Earth in distant systems, and even reveal if tell-tale life signs (e.g., atmospheric oxygen) are present.
Before we go too far in discussing whether a virus is alive or not we must clearly define life.
There are plenty of alternative definitions. Some popular modern defninitions involve the capabilities of retaining low entropy. According to that definition, a virus is not alive by itself, but could be considered a part of the living system of the host.
is it me, or are most dino remains, tracks, etc. found in the western hemisphere?
The richest finds in the past few years have been in Inner Mongolia, China.
There they have found dinos with remaints of feathers. These and other finds in the region have now firmly established dinosaurs as the ancestors of modern birds.
In the US Air Force and part of the Army, pilots of traditional fighter/bomber aircraft are none too thrilled with the unmanned aerial vehicles
I saw a documentary about Commanche pilots working with UAVs. They controlled them directly from their cockpits. Every time they needed to take a step deeper into enemy territory, they sent the UAVs just ahead to scout. The pilots loved the things, and it was clear that they made a fantastic team.
We've always known that paleontologists were mostly just guessing at things, but how the heck are they going to figure out "how such dinosaurs were built and how they moved" from a stomach full of "ferns, conifers and a magnolia-type plant"???
How did the food grow? How could the dinosaur reach it? How was the dinosaur built?
How diverse was the food? Did the dino engage in many types of behavior? Did it walk around over large areas?
Was the food easy or hard to digest? Did the dino need a big heavy belly to take care of it all?
What was the enery content of the food? How many hours per day had to be spent eating? How active could the the dinosaur be?
Let's take this slowly and carefully. Decay rate, in proportion to the orignial mass (or the original decay rate, for that matter), is always changing exponentially. Of course, if the half life is thousands of years, then this can look very similar to linear for a short-term observer (unlike the bomb).
One could also say that the decay rate is directly proportional (linearity) to the number of radioactive isotopes available - although that is not the typical way in which decay is discussed.
The other assumptions are that there is a constant decay rate of the isotope...
Well, yes, or rather in proportion to the number of isotopes around. Anyway, do you suggest that this might not be the case here?
I can think of few scientific findings that are as well established as this one. This pattern has been observed in all radioactive decays - involving 100s of isotopes with decay rates spanning from nanoseconds to millenia.
Then, you guess at how much of that isotope was in the environment (and therefore the object you are dating as well) at the time period you assume the object was made
This is essentially true, but at the same time very misleading.
For example for carbon dating (which was not used in this case) you 'guess' that the the sun was shining on CO2 in the athmosphere at the orginal time - not a very risque suggestion.
For dating of older finds, the 'guess' involves modeling the formation of sun and earth. It turns out that these models predict very well what combinations of isotopes we find today.
type of dinosaur that it was. they know that type lived during a certain set of years.
This point is valid, but of course all dinosaurs can't be dated by this method - that would be circular!
Rather, they use dating based on geological layers. I would pressume that for some finds this is easier than for others, and then for the trickier ones they can use the method you suggest.
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For about 3 or 4 months around when Velious came out, I had a group of five friends who I would go to the fungi camp in lower guk (at 4am, it was almost always uncamped) once or twice a week. We stayed 'til we all had a fungi tunic (they are lore) or school started. So we each made ~60k-90k plat a week, from 3-4 hours of playing, which is alot easier than this 60,000pp in a week with constant playing.
Could somebody please translate the text above into some commonly spoken language. I have tried babelfish but it did not work. The 'Fungi Tunic' part is especially confusing - and frankly the explanation that they are 'lore' did not help me much.
Tor
Thanks.
I don't know if I should feel stupid because I speculate about something that is already available or smart because I figured it out myself.
Tor
This guy and I used to have conversations about the USSR during the early 80s, wondering if we could ever tell if the picture we were given of the US/USSR situation wasn't actually the reverse of what most USians believed; USSR being "free" and the US being the tyrannical dicatatorship.
I visited the USSR in the early 80s and I can assure you that your speculations were quite unfounded.
If you are not convinced, I suggest a trip to North Korea before it falls apart.
Tor
in that year, the chemist Wohler was the first to make synthetic organic substance from inorganic substances. He thus proved that the 'vital force' theory was incorrect.
Tor
The exact performance of this technology is quite insignigicant next to what it will cost to mass-produce - and this we are not being told.
If it looks like shit but is half as expensive as normal flat screens I am sure it will find a significant market. If it looks superb but is ten times as expensive to produce it will never happen.
Tor
According to this graph the total amounts of donations have just fallen from a few thousand to a few hundred dollars (yes, thank you, I located it from this informative post).
/. might solve the problem. But then again, maybe there are more material issues, maybe they missed a grant or something...?
Is this the extent of the problem? If so, it seems like just bringing it up once at
Tor
Do you also propose the cancellation of all astronomy research, and putting all the money into medicine?
It think the SETI project is great. If somebody donates their resources to science, don't complain about it, even if you happen to like other projects better. Go out and preach to somebody who has an idle computer instead.
Tor
...that all the CPU cycles I have donated over the years in processing over 1400 units have been...a waste of time?
No, even no-events are of some value. Now we know of a lot of frequencies that are not being used in a lot of start systems.
Tor
just selling an empty chip, and a small device that connects to a computer to program the thing?
Then they can make the code available over the internet. Considering the customer base they probably don't even need to do this from their web site but rather they can spread it on file swapping services.
Tor
...that has a simple solution for Internet, email, instant messaging, some telephone support and, no not much more actually.
AOL provides these things but why is it so much bigger than the competition? Certainly the brand is important but what more is there to it? I am surprised that these bundles have not commodotized already.
Tor
I am from Sweden but I have been living in the US for a few years now. In Sweden, violence is censored to a much greater extent than in the US, but for nudity it is the other way around.
I can see the reasoning behind the ciolence argument (although I am not sure to what extent I agree)
watching lotsa violence -> violent behavior
But for nudity...
watching lotsa nudity -> ???
Spontanious stripping? Unlikely.
Will young men start raping girls if they see somebody naked? C'mon.
Will there be more unprotected sex? No, lack of information has to my knowledge never stopped anyone that wanted to get at it.
Could somebody with longer time in the US please explain. I really don't get it.
Tor
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Let's say you're gay and living in an area where being gay is cause for persecution
And what if your lifestyle or religion or whatever you now lawfully do is declared illegal?
It seems like both of your examples assume that we already have huge problems. In these cases, I would gladly join your fight against persecution of homosexuals and against the withdrawal of religous rights.
Sure, this new tracking technology could make matters worse but so could a zillion other perfectly legal and commonly accepted technologies.
Tor
It seems to me like this technology should be treated as many other forms of privacy intrusion, such as searching a house or bugging a telephone.
Normally it is not permitted, but under extraordinary circumstances it can be allowed after say a court order.
While I am sure someone can name examples of misuse, I am glad that the government has the capability to search houses and bug phones and by and large I think it works fine.
Similarly, if this tracking technology was only activated after a court order we could reap most of the benefits (finding lost hikers, tracking down terrorists), while avoiding most of the problems (privacy intrusion on ordinary people).
Tor
There is no life elsewhere in the universe! Give it up.
You might very well be proven wrong within your life time. Within the next decades, probes will check out Mars, Venus and Europa. New telescopes will be able to detect planets similar to Earth in distant systems, and even reveal if tell-tale life signs (e.g., atmospheric oxygen) are present.
Tor
Before we go too far in discussing whether a virus is alive or not we must clearly define life.
There are plenty of alternative definitions. Some popular modern defninitions involve the capabilities of retaining low entropy. According to that definition, a virus is not alive by itself, but could be considered a part of the living system of the host.
Tor
is it me, or are most dino remains, tracks, etc. found in the western hemisphere?
The richest finds in the past few years have been in Inner Mongolia, China.
There they have found dinos with remaints of feathers. These and other finds in the region have now firmly established dinosaurs as the ancestors of modern birds.
Tor
Actually, US armed forces and the CIA has been using Iridium satellites for all kinds of stuff since they were launched.
Tor
In the US Air Force and part of the Army, pilots of traditional fighter/bomber aircraft are none too thrilled with the unmanned aerial vehicles
I saw a documentary about Commanche pilots working with UAVs. They controlled them directly from their cockpits. Every time they needed to take a step deeper into enemy territory, they sent the UAVs just ahead to scout. The pilots loved the things, and it was clear that they made a fantastic team.
Tor
They said the batteres would be LiIon and that the submersible would be comming to surface to communicate, so why not add a couple of solar panels?
The same reason you don't have solar cells on your car or on your laptop. They simply don't generate nearly enough energy to be worthwhile.
Does the depth and salinity in water affect solar panels; is that why they are refraining from using them?
This is not an issue - they can simply be covered with something transparent.
Tor
We've always known that paleontologists were mostly just guessing at things, but how the heck are they going to figure out "how such dinosaurs were built and how they moved" from a stomach full of "ferns, conifers and a magnolia-type plant"???
How did the food grow? How could the dinosaur reach it? How was the dinosaur built?
How diverse was the food? Did the dino engage in many types of behavior? Did it walk around over large areas?
Was the food easy or hard to digest? Did the dino need a big heavy belly to take care of it all?
What was the enery content of the food? How many hours per day had to be spent eating? How active could the the dinosaur be?
Tor
The decay rate is only exponential in a bomb
Let's take this slowly and carefully. Decay rate, in proportion to the orignial mass (or the original decay rate, for that matter), is always changing exponentially. Of course, if the half life is thousands of years, then this can look very similar to linear for a short-term observer (unlike the bomb).
One could also say that the decay rate is directly proportional (linearity) to the number of radioactive isotopes available - although that is not the typical way in which decay is discussed.
Tor
The other assumptions are that there is a constant decay rate of the isotope...
Well, yes, or rather in proportion to the number of isotopes around. Anyway, do you suggest that this might not be the case here?
I can think of few scientific findings that are as well established as this one. This pattern has been observed in all radioactive decays - involving 100s of isotopes with decay rates spanning from nanoseconds to millenia.
Tor
Then, you guess at how much of that isotope was in the environment (and therefore the object you are dating as well) at the time period you assume the object was made
/Tor
This is essentially true, but at the same time very misleading.
For example for carbon dating (which was not used in this case) you 'guess' that the the sun was shining on CO2 in the athmosphere at the orginal time - not a very risque suggestion.
For dating of older finds, the 'guess' involves modeling the formation of sun and earth. It turns out that these models predict very well what combinations of isotopes we find today.
type of dinosaur that it was. they know that type lived during a certain set of years.
This point is valid, but of course all dinosaurs can't be dated by this method - that would be circular!
Rather, they use dating based on geological layers. I would pressume that for some finds this is easier than for others, and then for the trickier ones they can use the method you suggest.
Tor