The US founding fathers had many principles that were markedly different than those most people today think are important, just like the people who wrote the bible. The American founders also wrote things that have been reinterpreted many times until today they mean different things than they originally did. Just like the bible.
For example, all those rights, enumerated, customary and natural that they talk about. Inherent to all men. Not women. And not men who aren't white. Those you can do what you like with.
Really? It was a roach. Bedbugs bite and are almost impossible to get rid of once you've got them. Roaches are kinda gross in large numbers.
I was putting on my shorts in Costa Rica one morning, shook them out as everyone should, and a scorpion longer than my middle finger dropped out onto the bed. I gathered up the sheet, tossed his ass out the door, and continued getting dressed.
Canada's hate speech laws specifically require that you incite hatred and violence against others:
Public incitement of hatred (s. 319[1]). Every one who, by communicating statements in a public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of [a crime].
— s. 319[1], Criminal Code of Canada
If I say "white people are dumbasses" that's legal. If I say "white people are dumbasses, we should corner them in dark alleys and kill them all," that's hate speech. Life, liberty and security of person DOES include the right not to have someone inciting violence against you.
Incidentally, although US courts have limited it's interpretation, "fighting words" are not protected in the US. So by the letter of the law, speech that offends someone else in the US is not protected.
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
— Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942
Interestingly, that decision stemmed from a case involving a Jehovah's witness getting arrested for calling a cop "a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned fascist", clearly insulting but not inciting violence.
It is a fair comparison, because one of the drawbacks of space telescopes is that they cost a godawful amount to upgrade. Magellan II is new, but the AO tech it uses may well be installed on older telescopes. Most of the big ground telescopes have been upgraded many times, including with AO. Hubble got upgraded a couple of times, each at a cost that would have built many big ground telescopes.
Hubble is currently very close to being diffraction limited - in other words, limited by the size of it's primary mirror. The original sensors were something like a factor of 2 away from that IIRC.
You seem to make a lot of statements about things that you don't know very well.
Hubble is diffraction limited by the size of it's mirror. It is not physically possible for it to resolve things smaller than that limit, which happens to be about twice that of Magellan II. The original spec for Hubble could not have exceeded that limit, unless it included a much bigger mirror (it didn't).
Telescopes on the surface make up for losses in receiver sensitivity by being frickin huge. Sure, if you put the same size mirror in space and on the ground, you'd rather have the one in space. But that's not how it works. The ones on the ground are cheaper, so for the same cost you can get a much bigger one. Sensitivity is NOT why you want space telescopes.
Space telescopes *used* to have an unbeatable advantage in natural image resolution because they didn't have to deal with the atmosphere. Then someone invented adaptive optics.
Space telescopes still have several advantages. There are no clouds, they can (usually) see the whole sky, and they can often do long continuous observations without having to stop for little irritations like daytime. But the biggest advantage is that they can observe wavelengths that are absorbed strongly by the atmosphere.
Yup, no difference at all. I mean, I'm just tightening this bolt and trying to grab the right wrench. So 7/16" is a little too small. Should I try 3/8" next? Or 1/2"? And did somebody just put this 15/32" in to screw with me?
You don't use two different units for the same thing in science. Some of the units might not be technically SI, but there is almost always a specific unit that you're supposed to use for something. When there isn't, you certainly don't use two different ones.
What an excellent post! Do you have an actual argument, or do you just buy the "webapps are better!11!" line and feel the need to parrot it unsupported?
Unless of course you're arguing that webapps are different by agreeing with me that they have to run in a hacked together interpreted environment and are crappy second class citizens as a result, in which case thanks, but your post is still useless.
It's a little more complicated than that. The consensus is that the climate is warming, which it would be doing naturally, but it's doing so at an unprecedented rate because of what humans are doing.
Except that crappy drivers are even crappier when they have phones or kids. Crappy drivers make crappy choices. The problem with glass is that it's an exceptionally crappy choice when you're driving because it's in your vision and you can't really do anything to get rid of the distraction in an emergency. Kind of like a kid, except most people are smart enough not to drive with their kids between themselves and the windshield.
Web apps are just like native apps except they have to run under a comparability layer called a browser, have to be written in a shitty (for larger projects at least) language, can only do things some standards board has decided on, a decade or two after they became routinely available to native apps, and pretty much require that you have a network connection, at least some of the time, so they can talk to a third party frequently.
You could have all the same "benefits" of a web app with a native app if you just gave your root password to the vendor. All the same data security too.
Sounds awesome. Start up your browser one day, stupid web app got updated and now some feature you use doesn't work. Awesome.
For example, when I was writing my thesis MS updated Office. Except my reference manager wouldn't work with the updated Office. What did I do? I didn't update Office
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The US founding fathers had many principles that were markedly different than those most people today think are important, just
like the people who wrote the bible. The American founders also wrote things that have been reinterpreted many times until today they mean different things than they originally did. Just like the bible.
For example, all those rights, enumerated, customary and natural that they talk about. Inherent to all men. Not women. And not men who aren't white. Those you can do what you like with.
I don't understand. Bumper to bumper traffic is a fairly trivial situation for a self driving car. Low speed, just don't hit anything.
Or are you one of those people who hops lanes like a cracked out rabbit and ends up just making up the three car lengths he lost ten minutes ago?
I love driving. But I'd also love to not have to.
I'd hesitate to buy a car that was ONLY self driving, but I'd definitely be interested in one that had a self driving mode.
Really? It was a roach. Bedbugs bite and are almost impossible to get rid of once you've got them. Roaches are kinda gross in large numbers.
I was putting on my shorts in Costa Rica one morning, shook them out as everyone should, and a scorpion longer than my middle finger dropped out onto the bed. I gathered up the sheet, tossed his ass out the door, and continued getting dressed.
I had the same experience as a child... bed bugs were kind of like fleas. Things in books. I've still never seen one.
I'm sorry, you've written the English first, and not in a smaller font size than the French. The language police would like to talk to you now.
I know those sentences sound completely ridiculous, but everything in them is real, in La Belle Provence.
Yeah, and if they find against you, you get guillotined. ;)
Canada's hate speech laws specifically require that you incite hatred and violence against others:
If I say "white people are dumbasses" that's legal. If I say "white people are dumbasses, we should corner them in dark alleys and kill them all," that's hate speech. Life, liberty and security of person DOES include the right not to have someone inciting violence against you.
Incidentally, although US courts have limited it's interpretation, "fighting words" are not protected in the US. So by the letter of the law, speech that offends someone else in the US is not protected.
Interestingly, that decision stemmed from a case involving a Jehovah's witness getting arrested for calling a cop "a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned fascist", clearly insulting but not inciting violence.
It's not. In fact, Quebec is the only province in the country that has laws against using any but the official language (French).
If you want proof, my speeding tickets are delivered only in French.
"It was more likely he was sued because his review had english in it. This IS Quebec we're talking about after all."
There. Probably mentioned "pasta" or something equally insidious.
Astronomers are proposing to build a 100 m ground telescope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope.
It was also cancelled. But in favour of a 39 m one.
It is a fair comparison, because one of the drawbacks of space telescopes is that they cost a godawful amount to upgrade. Magellan II is new, but the AO tech it uses may well be installed on older telescopes. Most of the big ground telescopes have been upgraded many times, including with AO. Hubble got upgraded a couple of times, each at a cost that would have built many big ground telescopes.
Hubble is currently very close to being diffraction limited - in other words, limited by the size of it's primary mirror. The original sensors were something like a factor of 2 away from that IIRC.
You seem to make a lot of statements about things that you don't know very well.
Hubble is diffraction limited by the size of it's mirror. It is not physically possible for it to resolve things smaller than that limit, which happens to be about twice that of Magellan II. The original spec for Hubble could not have exceeded that limit, unless it included a much bigger mirror (it didn't).
Telescopes on the surface make up for losses in receiver sensitivity by being frickin huge. Sure, if you put the same size mirror in space and on the ground, you'd rather have the one in space. But that's not how it works. The ones on the ground are cheaper, so for the same cost you can get a much bigger one. Sensitivity is NOT why you want space telescopes.
Space telescopes *used* to have an unbeatable advantage in natural image resolution because they didn't have to deal with the atmosphere. Then someone invented adaptive optics.
Space telescopes still have several advantages. There are no clouds, they can (usually) see the whole sky, and they can often do long continuous observations without having to stop for little irritations like daytime. But the biggest advantage is that they can observe wavelengths that are absorbed strongly by the atmosphere.
Yup, no difference at all. I mean, I'm just tightening this bolt and trying to grab the right wrench. So 7/16" is a little too small. Should I try 3/8" next? Or 1/2"? And did somebody just put this 15/32" in to screw with me?
You don't use two different units for the same thing in science. Some of the units might not be technically SI, but there is almost always a specific unit that you're supposed to use for something. When there isn't, you certainly don't use two different ones.
Sure, because it's not like you can keep an OS automatically updated now.
What an excellent post! Do you have an actual argument, or do you just buy the "webapps are better!11!" line and feel the need to parrot it unsupported?
Unless of course you're arguing that webapps are different by agreeing with me that they have to run in a hacked together interpreted environment and are crappy second class citizens as a result, in which case thanks, but your post is still useless.
It's a little more complicated than that. The consensus is that the climate is warming, which it would be doing naturally, but it's doing so at an unprecedented rate because of what humans are doing.
Yes they do, and the one you want is "affect." Because the sentence "contrails effect weather" means they *cause* weather.
Except that crappy drivers are even crappier when they have phones or kids. Crappy drivers make crappy choices. The problem with glass is that it's an exceptionally crappy choice when you're driving because it's in your vision and you can't really do anything to get rid of the distraction in an emergency. Kind of like a kid, except most people are smart enough not to drive with their kids between themselves and the windshield.
Of course, google never introduces a product with no ads and then adds ads later. Nope. Maps.
Web apps are just like native apps except they have to run under a comparability layer called a browser, have to be written in a shitty (for larger projects at least) language, can only do things some standards board has decided on, a decade or two after they became routinely available to native apps, and pretty much require that you have a network connection, at least some of the time, so they can talk to a third party frequently.
You could have all the same "benefits" of a web app with a native app if you just gave your root password to the vendor. All the same data security too.
Sounds awesome. Start up your browser one day, stupid web app got updated and now some feature you use doesn't work. Awesome.
For example, when I was writing my thesis MS updated Office. Except my reference manager wouldn't work with the updated Office. What did I do? I didn't update Office
Winner: native app.