The premise is that you cannot detect if the cat lives or dies from outside the box. One would deduce form this it must be, at the very least, airtight.
Hate to reply to myself but I couldn't have screwed that calcuation more if I tried.
Of course, trying again I came up with 0.017498198 miles an hour. So either way my point stands, asuming this one is any more accurate than my last blunder.
Again, because you dont stand up and take that right back from your goverment.
If there was a large enough movement, you can change the laws however you want. Freedom of Speech is not a law in the US, its a right that is protected by the law. There's a subtle difference there that sometimes I feel is lost on people who didn't grow up here.
That's not to say that right is fully protected here either, thats slowly slipping away even here. But the point is still valid, you have full freedom of speech, its only a question on your choice to protect it. There as here.
You're right! People do have regular incomes! Of course, the answer is so simple!
First, setup an organization that takes payments from its members, small 'donations', but its important we keep who and how much a secret as we dont want to altert those who wish to oversee what we're up to. Now, take this money and hire some influence in the DC area, I figure some old lawyer friends or something should work...err...anyway these people could argue... on behalf of the donators to have the laws changed as th....
Im going to take a wild guess and say impulse drive, being the horribly slow below-light-speed drive, allows one to easily maintain line-of-sight with a group of people on the ground. Its not like they're in orbit around the planet, atleast not if they dont want to be.
Technically you do have free speech in Australia, Nothing is physically preventing you from saying anything; You simply choose to not stand up and take that right back from your goverment.
Why bother worrying about it?
While I agree that we should be looking for these things to prevent the entire planet from getting sterlized in a single blinding flash of light, why worry about it?
Either its going to hit in your lifetime, or its not. Until one is found you can do something about, there's no point in worrying about it, since the one we dont see coming we cant stop. Dead is dead, learn to enjoy life while you have it and stopy worrying about ELE events that are 'overdue'.
I'm no expert in this, but I dont think you understand whats going on here at all. Flipping one doesn't instantly flip the other. You cant communicate information via entanglement.
Please, someone correct me if im wrong, but my understanding is its like having a red, and blue ball in seperate bags. You throw one ball (in its bag) across the room, then open the other bag. The open bag is blue, you now know the red one is across the room.
You've gained information but you haven't actually transfered any information. You cant do anything overly useful to the red ball with this information, only the blue one. The scheme you sugest above would allow you to determin what was sent over the wire, but the very nature of it would prevent you from sending anything useful over the wire, other than white noise.
All that said, I dont understand a word of the summary and how this can be used in a router, and frankly I hope my understanding is wrong. Sadly, i'm not so sure it is.
and in an odd sort of way, you are correct and that is basically what is being said here.
I'm no expert on this, but this is how im reading it. Maxwell's Deamon is a thought experiment that breaks the laws of Thermodynamics by moving bits with more energy from one area to another. This thought experiment was disproven to an extent when it was pointed out that the only way to do this, is to mesure the particals as they come at the gate.
What is being brought up here, is with entangled particals you dont need to measure everything, only one side of the entanglement. This brings this thought experiment into a new light, but using information that was already there, you can seemingly break the Laws of Thermodynamics. You've not converted information directly into energy, you've used information to convert energy in a way that gets around the Laws of Thermodynamics. Now, weather thats what's actually happening is of course the question, this is why its a thought experiment.
Myself, I didn't play this particular MMO but was a long time fan of WoW. However, life started to get in the way and I couldn't raid anymore. The Pug's and other things you can do in the game were ok, but not nearly as fun. What finally killed it for me was the freaking 15 a month.
Even 10 a month, i'd still be playing. I wouldn't be buying the expansion for another 50 bucks however, I can tell you that much. I get they want to make money, but that 15 a month adds up after a few years. I feel the same about Eve online, i'd be subscribed right now for 5-10 a month, but 15 is simply too much anymore for me to justify it.
Christ, I give my multiplayer Minecraft server 8.99 a month without a second thought. They have a donation tier at 14.99, but every time I think about it..just cant do it. There's something about going over 10 a month...
Thats why all my network traffic comes through on fiber optic cables with the outter shells stripped off in a dark room. I wait and watch the pulses of light and fire into the cable with a.38 special. I take special care to only hit the packets with the evil bit indicated however, im not some kind of barbarian after all.
I haven't had a virus in years!...or much of an actual internet connection.
If ever there was an argument for the police to video tape every encounter they have, its the above comment by AC. I agree with him on many points, someone very well could videotape the police and present the video out of context in an attempt to make the police look bad. The only way you could counter this, is to actually videotape the entire thing and present that as a rebuttel to the original edited tape. So....yeah you're an idiot AC.
I'm fine with this point of view if it can be assured the person going to the company first wont then get sued for what they've exposed as a flaw.
The way things are now, you're more likely to get sued and shut up by a court order before you could tell anyone else. Atleast this way, the public is aware of the issue before they get sued. If anything, this assures the public is served important information and does more for public good then going to the company directly.
I'm not saying this company would act this way, but since there's nothing protecting you there's no way to know beforehand. So might as well go with the lesser of two evils, rather than hoping for the best.
As I understand it, there is a fish that can disprove the existance of god.
Sadly, it also results in rather horrible death involving a zebra crossing.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why elections are held on a single day.
In my mind, an election should take place over 2 or 3 days. All of these days are considered federal holidays, and by law everyone gets atleast one of them off. If you choose to not vote at that point, thats your problem, but this would avoid the hassel many people feel with needing to vote before/after work if they're already working long hours.
There's no reason to have results ready at midnight the day of, other than it makes good TV. I dont own a TV anymore..for good reason.
Doesn't this allow you to sell your vote, and be able to prove you voted a specific way? This opens up a big issue as well.
Boss: "Vote Democan or you're fired!"
99%: "Umm...I did..!"
Boss: "Prove it, what is your token?"
And thus, the entire thing falls apart. You shouldn't be able to prove how you voted, while needing to be sure how you voted is how its being counted. This is why its so difficult.
Using Windows 7 I pin quite a bit to my task bar, but its all stuff I have open at all times. I also, dont use the start button with any kind of regular frequency, because everything I run is more or less at my fingertips. I dont run 30 programs at once, since my windows machine is little more than a gaming platform at this point. I suspect someone doing work on the machine would need it more often, if that work involved using 20-30 different programs, depending on what needs to get done.
...because its not "increasing the demand for health insurance"?
Its forcing everyone into the same risk pool with insurance. Insurance works by taking premiums from all members, and using that money to pay for services and overhead when people get sick. The only way you'd increase demand for health insurance, is by forcing people to use it by making them sick. And yes, if you take a few million people and give them all cancer, health premiums are likely to go up.
But being forced to have insurance isn't the same as being forced to use insurance. In this case the difference is rather subtle, because of how people view paying for insurance, clearly like you yourself are doing. The biggest danager is insurance companies taking all these new members in, and pocketing the increased profits instead of lowering premiums. Lucky the bill has this already worked into its implimentation, requiring I believe 85% of all money taken in to be paid out for services, 15% for overhead (or less, never more), anything left they're allowed to take as profit. If anything this will encourage overhead to be lowered, then raising premiums (as other companies will be fighting for members with lower premiums).
Atleast, thats the theory. Now to see how it works out. Personally, I still think a public option would have been better, and this is someone who works for an insurance company.
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No Nobel prize for you good sir.
The premise is that you cannot detect if the cat lives or dies from outside the box. One would deduce form this it must be, at the very least, airtight.
Still doesn't make what the judge did right.
If anything, he should have thrown her in jail for the maximum term after showing her complete lack of empathy for the people she hit.
I've said this before, and it warrents saying again.
The only thing homeopathy cures is dehydration.
Me and my Glitterboy beg to differ.
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Hate to reply to myself but I couldn't have screwed that calcuation more if I tried.
Of course, trying again I came up with 0.017498198 miles an hour. So either way my point stands, asuming this one is any more accurate than my last blunder.
You drive to work at 546,818.7 miles an hour?
And I thought my commute was bad.
Again, because you dont stand up and take that right back from your goverment.
If there was a large enough movement, you can change the laws however you want. Freedom of Speech is not a law in the US, its a right that is protected by the law. There's a subtle difference there that sometimes I feel is lost on people who didn't grow up here.
That's not to say that right is fully protected here either, thats slowly slipping away even here. But the point is still valid, you have full freedom of speech, its only a question on your choice to protect it. There as here.
You're right! People do have regular incomes! Of course, the answer is so simple!
First, setup an organization that takes payments from its members, small 'donations', but its important we keep who and how much a secret as we dont want to altert those who wish to oversee what we're up to. Now, take this money and hire some influence in the DC area, I figure some old lawyer friends or something should work...err...anyway these people could argue... on behalf of the donators to have the laws changed as th....
Wait a second.
Im going to take a wild guess and say impulse drive, being the horribly slow below-light-speed drive, allows one to easily maintain line-of-sight with a group of people on the ground. Its not like they're in orbit around the planet, atleast not if they dont want to be.
Technically you do have free speech in Australia, Nothing is physically preventing you from saying anything; You simply choose to not stand up and take that right back from your goverment.
Why bother worrying about it? While I agree that we should be looking for these things to prevent the entire planet from getting sterlized in a single blinding flash of light, why worry about it? Either its going to hit in your lifetime, or its not. Until one is found you can do something about, there's no point in worrying about it, since the one we dont see coming we cant stop. Dead is dead, learn to enjoy life while you have it and stopy worrying about ELE events that are 'overdue'.
The best post i've ever seen on this subject is as follows, I highly sugest giving it a read.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1643810&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=32121058
I'm no expert in this, but I dont think you understand whats going on here at all. Flipping one doesn't instantly flip the other. You cant communicate information via entanglement.
Please, someone correct me if im wrong, but my understanding is its like having a red, and blue ball in seperate bags. You throw one ball (in its bag) across the room, then open the other bag. The open bag is blue, you now know the red one is across the room.
You've gained information but you haven't actually transfered any information. You cant do anything overly useful to the red ball with this information, only the blue one. The scheme you sugest above would allow you to determin what was sent over the wire, but the very nature of it would prevent you from sending anything useful over the wire, other than white noise.
All that said, I dont understand a word of the summary and how this can be used in a router, and frankly I hope my understanding is wrong. Sadly, i'm not so sure it is.
and in an odd sort of way, you are correct and that is basically what is being said here.
I'm no expert on this, but this is how im reading it. Maxwell's Deamon is a thought experiment that breaks the laws of Thermodynamics by moving bits with more energy from one area to another. This thought experiment was disproven to an extent when it was pointed out that the only way to do this, is to mesure the particals as they come at the gate.
What is being brought up here, is with entangled particals you dont need to measure everything, only one side of the entanglement. This brings this thought experiment into a new light, but using information that was already there, you can seemingly break the Laws of Thermodynamics. You've not converted information directly into energy, you've used information to convert energy in a way that gets around the Laws of Thermodynamics. Now, weather thats what's actually happening is of course the question, this is why its a thought experiment.
I've got to agree with you on the price point.
Myself, I didn't play this particular MMO but was a long time fan of WoW. However, life started to get in the way and I couldn't raid anymore. The Pug's and other things you can do in the game were ok, but not nearly as fun. What finally killed it for me was the freaking 15 a month.
Even 10 a month, i'd still be playing. I wouldn't be buying the expansion for another 50 bucks however, I can tell you that much. I get they want to make money, but that 15 a month adds up after a few years. I feel the same about Eve online, i'd be subscribed right now for 5-10 a month, but 15 is simply too much anymore for me to justify it.
Christ, I give my multiplayer Minecraft server 8.99 a month without a second thought. They have a donation tier at 14.99, but every time I think about it..just cant do it. There's something about going over 10 a month...
Thats why all my network traffic comes through on fiber optic cables with the outter shells stripped off in a dark room. I wait and watch the pulses of light and fire into the cable with a .38 special. I take special care to only hit the packets with the evil bit indicated however, im not some kind of barbarian after all.
...or much of an actual internet connection.
I haven't had a virus in years!
If ever there was an argument for the police to video tape every encounter they have, its the above comment by AC. I agree with him on many points, someone very well could videotape the police and present the video out of context in an attempt to make the police look bad. The only way you could counter this, is to actually videotape the entire thing and present that as a rebuttel to the original edited tape. So....yeah you're an idiot AC.
I know what you could try.
You could try growing up, and if that doesn't work, fire someone over it.
"Haha, Bob is sexually herassing Martha (again!), time for the tie of shame! Hahahaha..."
"Time for a lawsuit..."
I'm fine with this point of view if it can be assured the person going to the company first wont then get sued for what they've exposed as a flaw.
The way things are now, you're more likely to get sued and shut up by a court order before you could tell anyone else. Atleast this way, the public is aware of the issue before they get sued. If anything, this assures the public is served important information and does more for public good then going to the company directly.
I'm not saying this company would act this way, but since there's nothing protecting you there's no way to know beforehand. So might as well go with the lesser of two evils, rather than hoping for the best.
As I understand it, there is a fish that can disprove the existance of god. Sadly, it also results in rather horrible death involving a zebra crossing.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why elections are held on a single day.
In my mind, an election should take place over 2 or 3 days. All of these days are considered federal holidays, and by law everyone gets atleast one of them off. If you choose to not vote at that point, thats your problem, but this would avoid the hassel many people feel with needing to vote before/after work if they're already working long hours.
There's no reason to have results ready at midnight the day of, other than it makes good TV. I dont own a TV anymore..for good reason.
Doesn't this allow you to sell your vote, and be able to prove you voted a specific way? This opens up a big issue as well.
Boss: "Vote Democan or you're fired!"
99%: "Umm...I did..!"
Boss: "Prove it, what is your token?"
And thus, the entire thing falls apart. You shouldn't be able to prove how you voted, while needing to be sure how you voted is how its being counted. This is why its so difficult.
Using Windows 7 I pin quite a bit to my task bar, but its all stuff I have open at all times. I also, dont use the start button with any kind of regular frequency, because everything I run is more or less at my fingertips. I dont run 30 programs at once, since my windows machine is little more than a gaming platform at this point. I suspect someone doing work on the machine would need it more often, if that work involved using 20-30 different programs, depending on what needs to get done.
...because its not "increasing the demand for health insurance"?
Its forcing everyone into the same risk pool with insurance. Insurance works by taking premiums from all members, and using that money to pay for services and overhead when people get sick. The only way you'd increase demand for health insurance, is by forcing people to use it by making them sick. And yes, if you take a few million people and give them all cancer, health premiums are likely to go up.
But being forced to have insurance isn't the same as being forced to use insurance. In this case the difference is rather subtle, because of how people view paying for insurance, clearly like you yourself are doing. The biggest danager is insurance companies taking all these new members in, and pocketing the increased profits instead of lowering premiums. Lucky the bill has this already worked into its implimentation, requiring I believe 85% of all money taken in to be paid out for services, 15% for overhead (or less, never more), anything left they're allowed to take as profit. If anything this will encourage overhead to be lowered, then raising premiums (as other companies will be fighting for members with lower premiums).
Atleast, thats the theory. Now to see how it works out. Personally, I still think a public option would have been better, and this is someone who works for an insurance company.