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I had to add this section of text to get this comment past the lameness filter, which may or may not have been a good idea.
seriously, English is likely to change very little in the next 10,000 years. The reason languages changed so rapidly in the past was that not that they were learned orally, and there were very few written rules as to the usage of the language. In the last 200-300 years though, we've started to educate almost everybody about the proper usage of English and the rules are written down clearly and are easily accessible. If you go back and read something from 300 years ago, you will find that it is still quite readable, though they do tend to be a bit more verbose and like to use more complicated words than most of the writtings of today do. For example, and sentence from "AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING" by Locke: "This discontinued way of writing may have occasioned, besides others, two contrary faults, viz., that too little and too much may be said in it."
I think that with widespread education of people in the rules of grammar there shouldn't be much more difference between today's english and english 10,000 years from now than there is between today's english and the english of about 500 years ago. Unless of course we stop widespread education in english grammar, in which case all bets are off.
The Mythbusters may get a fair amount of money to play around with, but they don't get a quater million dollars to spend on a single myth. I recently went to a lecture by the Mythbusters, and they mentioned that they thought they had only half finished that myth. They really want to recreate the results of the myth (car going airborne for about half a mile and crashing into a cliff at 300+ MPH), but they haven't been able to get the Discovery Channel to fork over enough money for that, yet...
I continue to question evolution, and I gradutated University with a Bachelor's of Science in Physics. However I haven't had a biology course since 10th grade, so I haven't had that much exposure to evolutionary ideas in a while. However, one of my main objections has been that nobody could explain in a detailed manner how a random mutation could every add functionality to an organism, so it is nice to see that such things can be explained. It makes evolution seem more plausible to me, although I haven't quite made up my mind yet if I am going to believe in evolution or not.
Then get a motorcycle. You can easily get one (a Kawasaki klr 650 for example) that will get over 60 MPG and still do 0-60 in under 6 seconds. Plus once you start riding motorcycles you'll just hate cars (both driving them and the all the ones driven by everyone else)anyway.
Personally, someone could read my entire hard drive and it wouldn't bother me much. I don't keep sensitive information on my computer, because any computer connected to the internet should be considered insecure.
Seriously, if you can't keep your own computer free of viruses and spyware, you should have your Ph.D in computer science revoked. I have no problem with that sort of stuff at all, and my degree is in physics (bachelors), not cs. If you have too much trouble with this stuff, just follow 3 simple rules.
1) Apply all security patches immediatly upon getting a new computer, preferably from a cd rather than the internet.
2)Only install open source software or software you've purchased from a legit source.
3) Don't use Internet Explorer or Outlook Express, I recommend Firefox and Thunderbird.
Last year the number of terrorist attacks worldwide more than tripled, from a record of 175 in 2003 to 655 in 2004. That certainly doesn't sound like a successful "war on terror" to me.
The simple fact is that terrorists attack the US because they are seriously pissed off at our foreign policies, and if we would just quit trying to be the world's self appointed police force, terrorist attacks would decline dramatically.
I don't think that innovations per person is the proper thing to measure. When we come up with a new technologies, they aren't divided up so that only a a few people get each innovation. Instead they are available to all people. Thus the only number that matters is the absolute number of inovations, which is currently higher than ever.
You have to use legal definitions when defining crimes. Dictionary.com would get thrown out of court. If you look up theft in a legal dictionary you find that it is taking someone else's personal property without consent and with intention to convert it to the taker's use (i.e. if you took something on accident it wouldn't be theft). Personal property is movable assets (things, including animals) which are not real property, money or investments. So, theft can only be the taking of actual property, not the copying of copyrighted works.
Anyone who thinks that fansubs kill the US anime market is a moron. I would never have watched anime if it weren't for fansubs. While I have yet to buy any anime, I might in the future if I ever have an excess of money.
If I were in a situation like this I would take the operation underground as an act of civil disobedience against our failed patent system. We really need some people to revolt against the system if we want it to seriously change.
I suggest making your own with a layer of thermite on top of the drive. I wouldn't trust a chemical mist to destroy data to the point where it couldn't be read with a SQUID device, I want to see my hard drive melt! Plus if they charge $9000, you'd be hardpressed to build a computer expensive enough where it would cost more than if the whole thing was toasted.
I always thought that blacksmithing was kind of interesting, and it has some similarities with computer work.
1) swinging a hammer all day can give you a repetetive motion injury like using a keyboard.
2) When making complex things you have to pay attention to details and have an idea of what your working towards.
3) You can undo mistakes fairly easily, just heat it up and pound out the error.
4) There are lots of technical things to remember like metal compostions, metalworking techniques, and different ways to heat treat metals to give them different properties.
5) It's rather a skilled job compared to being a farmer, and I suppose the pay might not have been too bad.
Plus you can make your own swords and armor for D&D.
This is a non-military use. They are using it to simulate conditions deep within giant planets. Also this isn't really a rail gun. For one it doesn't use rails, and the whole aim of this experiment is unrelated to rail guns.
Once you use dual monitors for even a few days, you'll never want to go back. Especially if you're like me, and the only free desktop space you have isyour computer desktop. Having dual monitors is almost orgasmic.
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Well if they would quite testing cancer treatments on mice and start testing them on people, they would have better luck curing people.
I have trademarked the frowny face emoticon, expect to hear from my lawyer soon.
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I had to add this section of text to get this comment past the lameness filter, which may or may not have been a good idea.
seriously, English is likely to change very little in the next 10,000 years. The reason languages changed so rapidly in the past was that not that they were learned orally, and there were very few written rules as to the usage of the language. In the last 200-300 years though, we've started to educate almost everybody about the proper usage of English and the rules are written down clearly and are easily accessible. If you go back and read something from 300 years ago, you will find that it is still quite readable, though they do tend to be a bit more verbose and like to use more complicated words than most of the writtings of today do. For example, and sentence from "AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING" by Locke: "This discontinued way of writing may have occasioned, besides others, two contrary faults, viz., that too little and too much may be said in it." I think that with widespread education of people in the rules of grammar there shouldn't be much more difference between today's english and english 10,000 years from now than there is between today's english and the english of about 500 years ago. Unless of course we stop widespread education in english grammar, in which case all bets are off.
The Mythbusters may get a fair amount of money to play around with, but they don't get a quater million dollars to spend on a single myth. I recently went to a lecture by the Mythbusters, and they mentioned that they thought they had only half finished that myth. They really want to recreate the results of the myth (car going airborne for about half a mile and crashing into a cliff at 300+ MPH), but they haven't been able to get the Discovery Channel to fork over enough money for that, yet...
I continue to question evolution, and I gradutated University with a Bachelor's of Science in Physics. However I haven't had a biology course since 10th grade, so I haven't had that much exposure to evolutionary ideas in a while. However, one of my main objections has been that nobody could explain in a detailed manner how a random mutation could every add functionality to an organism, so it is nice to see that such things can be explained. It makes evolution seem more plausible to me, although I haven't quite made up my mind yet if I am going to believe in evolution or not.
I do that sometimes, in fact I'm playing online poker right now.
Then get a motorcycle. You can easily get one (a Kawasaki klr 650 for example) that will get over 60 MPG and still do 0-60 in under 6 seconds. Plus once you start riding motorcycles you'll just hate cars (both driving them and the all the ones driven by everyone else)anyway.
Personally, someone could read my entire hard drive and it wouldn't bother me much. I don't keep sensitive information on my computer, because any computer connected to the internet should be considered insecure.
Seriously, if you can't keep your own computer free of viruses and spyware, you should have your Ph.D in computer science revoked. I have no problem with that sort of stuff at all, and my degree is in physics (bachelors), not cs. If you have too much trouble with this stuff, just follow 3 simple rules.
1) Apply all security patches immediatly upon getting a new computer, preferably from a cd rather than the internet.
2)Only install open source software or software you've purchased from a legit source.
3) Don't use Internet Explorer or Outlook Express, I recommend Firefox and Thunderbird.
I'm pretty sure that they have been using these things in Iraq for a while.
And the cable companies will still only give you 32kb of upstream.
Last year the number of terrorist attacks worldwide more than tripled, from a record of 175 in 2003 to 655 in 2004. That certainly doesn't sound like a successful "war on terror" to me.
The simple fact is that terrorists attack the US because they are seriously pissed off at our foreign policies, and if we would just quit trying to be the world's self appointed police force, terrorist attacks would decline dramatically.
I don't think that innovations per person is the proper thing to measure. When we come up with a new technologies, they aren't divided up so that only a a few people get each innovation. Instead they are available to all people. Thus the only number that matters is the absolute number of inovations, which is currently higher than ever.
You have to use legal definitions when defining crimes. Dictionary.com would get thrown out of court. If you look up theft in a legal dictionary you find that it is taking someone else's personal property without consent and with intention to convert it to the taker's use (i.e. if you took something on accident it wouldn't be theft). Personal property is movable assets (things, including animals) which are not real property, money or investments. So, theft can only be the taking of actual property, not the copying of copyrighted works.
Anyone who thinks that fansubs kill the US anime market is a moron. I would never have watched anime if it weren't for fansubs. While I have yet to buy any anime, I might in the future if I ever have an excess of money.
If I were in a situation like this I would take the operation underground as an act of civil disobedience against our failed patent system. We really need some people to revolt against the system if we want it to seriously change.
I suggest making your own with a layer of thermite on top of the drive. I wouldn't trust a chemical mist to destroy data to the point where it couldn't be read with a SQUID device, I want to see my hard drive melt! Plus if they charge $9000, you'd be hardpressed to build a computer expensive enough where it would cost more than if the whole thing was toasted.
I always thought that blacksmithing was kind of interesting, and it has some similarities with computer work.
1) swinging a hammer all day can give you a repetetive motion injury like using a keyboard.
2) When making complex things you have to pay attention to details and have an idea of what your working towards.
3) You can undo mistakes fairly easily, just heat it up and pound out the error.
4) There are lots of technical things to remember like metal compostions, metalworking techniques, and different ways to heat treat metals to give them different properties.
5) It's rather a skilled job compared to being a farmer, and I suppose the pay might not have been too bad.
Plus you can make your own swords and armor for D&D.
I think it's an argument that God has a twisted sense of Humor.
This is a non-military use. They are using it to simulate conditions deep within giant planets. Also this isn't really a rail gun. For one it doesn't use rails, and the whole aim of this experiment is unrelated to rail guns.
Or, you could get Dasher and get rid of your keyboard.
Once you use dual monitors for even a few days, you'll never want to go back. Especially if you're like me, and the only free desktop space you have isyour computer desktop. Having dual monitors is almost orgasmic.
Well, It looks like forgetmenot panties has figured out how to win the contagiousmedia contest, just post their page to Slashdot.