No shit - life's scary, nothing's perfect, get over it.
Do you honestly prefer a dictator to "keep you safe" over free thought and free choice?
"After Sept. 11th I bet a true democracy would have passed some laws that treated Muslims pretty poorly."
I sincerely hope not, but you know your own prejudices better than I.
Democracy as a concept does not scale well beyond the tribal level (where there is intimate personal knowledge and accountability), but human nature scales to infinty and beyond. Until I get a better option, democracy it is.
"No one gets upset when Ford builds a concept car, for God's sake."
Others have already torn apart this metaphor - No need for me to duplicate.
The under current of your post is what I take issue with - this belief that you are in some way "building" a prototype.
A. Taking a BMW and hammering a Ford badge onto it does not equivocate with building a Ford (to continue the tortured analogy). GE is the stereotypical room full of typewriters and monkeys.
B. Any experimentation on living organisms carries a very large burden of responsibility. Not only ethically but also in terms of the threat to the rest of us "wild" organisms.
C. GE research must continue, and our current ignorance highlights the fact. We still have no firm suppositions regarding cross species exchange of genetic material, back-mutations, the possible roles of RNA virii, and any number of other important questions.
"Longer term, expect SVR 6, which will be 64-bit Unix on Intel. That is a few years out."
Oh yeah... SCO once again pushes the envelope...
I guess I had better pull the plug on that 64bit linux server I built, it is in "future breach" of the SCO's groundbreaking 64 bit support... Thank goodness it is not multi-CPU.
This is caused by the redundancy of language -- "gun" is a common word, "gub" is not.
I beg to differ - this is contextual inference, not linguistic redundancy. If you had never had any exposure to guns and/or robbery you would not be able to infer the word through the context.
"Give me all your cash, I have a Picasso/kebab/cheque/etc."
As Matsumoto pointed out, it is quite easy to fool biometric fingerprint scanners using a constructed gelatine print. Even when the original is a latent print (ie. from a glass).
This is far easier than pretending a severed thumb is your own, and with the use of acetone based prints (from the gelatine master) it is virtually impossible for a layperson to determine that you have an overlayed print on your thumb.
What a surprise - we got the 5GHz band with it's complete lack of utility.
Why are we allowed it? Cause it's no use to anyone else. It has all the problems of the 2.4GHz band without the balancing advantage of upper atmospheric scatter like with 10Ghz.
It's more than a little odd that not a single person has commented on his closing comments: "...sooner or later they will have a Saladin who will pull them together, and they will come after us. And it won't be pretty."
But I guess it is hard to acknowledge that you are methodically and knowingly sowing the seeds of your own eventual destruction.
At least you aren't alone, my government is hell bent on following yours into the gaping abyss.
The main character (Valentine Michael Smith) was the sole survivor of the first mars expedition and the first human to be born and raised (by martians) on the surface of mars.
Valentine ends up the sole inheritor of his mother's space-drive engine and the surface of the martian world (due to squatters rights IIRC - IANAL).
A large part of the book is about the governments attempts to take possession of these assets... hence the original poster was correct in his analysis.
Not to say that "The man who sold the moon" is not also applicable in this context, only that it does not preclude SIASL.
Oh shit, so that's where I have been getting it wrong - I always:
Read -> Post -> Comprehend -> Post Apology -> Re-Read -> Post Apology #2 -> Comprehend (finally) -> Leave before I make any more of a dickhead of myself.
Firstly, I think some of the "acoustic" vs "radio" waves confusion will have been caused by a cross reference to the ELF schumann resonances - a far more (IMO) useful quake research technique.
This discovery (the only really interesting bit is a way to detect the perturbations using existing equipment) is well and good for post-event quake analysis, but is of limited use for prediction and harm minimisation.
It is well known that ELF waves are detected in a crescendo that peaks (and dissapears) 48 to 72 hours before a geological event of sufficient magnitude.
The University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia had just developed the most accurate system of earthquake modelling and prediction in the world (using data from 50+ sensor stations) at the point they had their budget cut and all but 2 (IIRC) stations junked.
So once again the penny pinchers get to dictate the worlds scientific and cultural achievments - secure in their complete and comfortable ignorance.
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Oh come on... a square is an odd shape???
"What would be nice would be a set of bluetooth headphones so that a wire from my pocket to my ear wasn't necessary.">
So buy one...
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No shit - life's scary, nothing's perfect, get over it.
Do you honestly prefer a dictator to "keep you safe" over free thought and free choice?
"After Sept. 11th I bet a true democracy would have passed some laws that treated Muslims pretty poorly."
I sincerely hope not, but you know your own prejudices better than I.
Democracy as a concept does not scale well beyond the tribal level (where there is intimate personal knowledge and accountability), but human nature scales to infinty and beyond. Until I get a better option, democracy it is.
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2 people are a conspiracy.
3+ people is a riot.
They can get you if they wan't...
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Others have already torn apart this metaphor - No need for me to duplicate.
The under current of your post is what I take issue with - this belief that you are in some way "building" a prototype.
A. Taking a BMW and hammering a Ford badge onto it does not equivocate with building a Ford (to continue the tortured analogy). GE is the stereotypical room full of typewriters and monkeys.
B. Any experimentation on living organisms carries a very large burden of responsibility. Not only ethically but also in terms of the threat to the rest of us "wild" organisms.
C. GE research must continue, and our current ignorance highlights the fact. We still have no firm suppositions regarding cross species exchange of genetic material, back-mutations, the possible roles of RNA virii, and any number of other important questions.
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Ohhh, IT not it...
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I haven't laughed that hard in ages.... Yes, ok I'm a geek.
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Oh yeah... SCO once again pushes the envelope...
I guess I had better pull the plug on that 64bit linux server I built, it is in "future breach" of the SCO's groundbreaking 64 bit support... Thank goodness it is not multi-CPU.
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I beg to differ - this is contextual inference, not linguistic redundancy. If you had never had any exposure to guns and/or robbery you would not be able to infer the word through the context.
"Give me all your cash, I have a Picasso/kebab/cheque/etc."
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This is far easier than pretending a severed thumb is your own, and with the use of acetone based prints (from the gelatine master) it is virtually impossible for a layperson to determine that you have an overlayed print on your thumb.
Just your $0.02... :)
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Umm, up until the 1780s it was America that was the major penal colony for england.
Since the first fleet arrived in australia in 1788... I'll let you do the maths Admiral(sic).
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They are happy to allow high-speed races in the heart of a city... if it brings a profit.
And it's not just the Indy, even the nations capital (Canberra) is converted into a raceway for the V8 Supercars.
To be honest, the hoons I know are going to do it with or without this game, but I am happy to have some Oz scenery in PG2.
Australia's awake, but our leaders are too busy being Bush's glove puppet...
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I guess the interesting bit is that they didn't have to develop it.
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Don't sue, don't threaten, don't make yourself an international farce by responding in a knee-jerk litigous manner.
Perhaps you could even learn from something (it is hard to satire a logical and reasonable issue)...
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1. See media/politics/economics/etc. generating demand in a particular field, create course to absorb demand.
2. Profit.
3. Goto 1.
Note that this is analogous to the usual /. joke, but doesn't include the ??? step. Uni's don't leave anything to chance...
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Why are we allowed it? Cause it's no use to anyone else. It has all the problems of the 2.4GHz band without the balancing advantage of upper atmospheric scatter like with 10Ghz.
When can I have my Wi-Fi LAN runing on ELF :)
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But I guess it is hard to acknowledge that you are methodically and knowingly sowing the seeds of your own eventual destruction.
At least you aren't alone, my government is hell bent on following yours into the gaping abyss.
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Yes. Yes it is.
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Valentine ends up the sole inheritor of his mother's space-drive engine and the surface of the martian world (due to squatters rights IIRC - IANAL).
A large part of the book is about the governments attempts to take possession of these assets... hence the original poster was correct in his analysis.
Not to say that "The man who sold the moon" is not also applicable in this context, only that it does not preclude SIASL.
Can you "grock" it??
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Oh shit, so that's where I have been getting it wrong - I always:
Read -> Post -> Comprehend -> Post Apology -> Re-Read -> Post Apology #2 -> Comprehend (finally) -> Leave before I make any more of a dickhead of myself.
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PS. For the AC troll who has been stalking me - yes I know you "don't care what you(I) think" so why don't I just "fuck off and die"... *yawn*
This discovery (the only really interesting bit is a way to detect the perturbations using existing equipment) is well and good for post-event quake analysis, but is of limited use for prediction and harm minimisation.
It is well known that ELF waves are detected in a crescendo that peaks (and dissapears) 48 to 72 hours before a geological event of sufficient magnitude.
The University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia had just developed the most accurate system of earthquake modelling and prediction in the world (using data from 50+ sensor stations) at the point they had their budget cut and all but 2 (IIRC) stations junked.
So once again the penny pinchers get to dictate the worlds scientific and cultural achievments - secure in their complete and comfortable ignorance.
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