No, it doesn't need to be completely sheilded. As far as 'reading' the information simultaneously detroying the quantum state, that is true...just like reading a memory cell that uses a capacitor destroys the information, yet we miraculously still build computers with them:P. Also, the application of quantum computers is quite limited (factoring numbers is one thing they can do well), don't expect to be playing Doom 6 on them.
And don't think of that 'other world' explanation. It's not really what is happening according to current theory, just a convenient/spooky way to explain it to some lay people. And yes, IAAP
There is a really, really big difference between McJunkie Girl (violently raped at each of last three parties she attended and happy for that) and the wife of some Taliban Man (violently beaten up each evening, and happy for that). And laws are made to reflect that.
So you're saying that its OK for the Taliban wives who have* no rights (much less representation in the government) to be violently beaten? And you think they are HAPPY about this??
The facts contradict you. A quick Google search on "iraq voter turnout" gives numbers ranging from 60-72% turnout (link)
Seems pretty high since everyone who wanted to see a doctor or get food was FORCED to register to boost the numbers. Oh, and a quick google search on that will show that Al Jazeera seems to be the only source for this information.
I personally don't want to see the development of a new noble class based on the ability to pass down accumulated wealth indefinitely. If this were the case in the US, Bill Gates' knighthood would be the real deal and we would all have to bow down before him and refer to him as "Your Excellency." The estate tax is as you say the primary method that US society uses to prevent this. The framers of the Constitution had seen the evils perpetrated by the feudal/noble system and wanted to make sure that this would never happen in the United States.
Ummm....no. The reason it is there is because politicians like to take more money from the people so they can spend it. It has nothing, zero, zip, nada, to do with the 'noble class' BS. We live in a free country, rich people get no luxuries over the poor that they don't rightly pay for. And the framers of the Constitution prevented the noble class by...*gasp* not having one! Created equal and all that.
I think this tax should be removed, but we can't have a rational conversation about it if you are going to argue baseless points like this.
It is impossible to look at that data honestly and say that it is not correlated with the president.
Wrong. In 1990-91, there was a recession. Clinton came in, and there was 8 years of economic growth. As Clinton was leaving, another recession started. Seems to me it is associated with the economic condition of the country. Whether or not the President is fully responsible for the economic state of the country...I don't want to debate that:)
And yes, I realize that Bush has spent an assload on domestic spending, and, as a conservative, it pisses me off. But don't liberals LIKE when the government spends money/gives handouts?
One more thing I have to bring up from my high school stats teacher: Association does not imply causation! IE correlation does not mean there is a cause-effect relationship.
For many of the Democrat rank-and-files, I would agree with you. But there is a growing portion of the Democrat base that is the wacko tree-hugging PC crowd. Yes, there are the conservatives trying to force creationism, but they are a much smaller voice than the Democrat equivalent.
Also, the Democrat leaders do not support the sort of free speech we are talking about. Case and point: When Trent Lott was sucking up to Strom Thurmond on his birthday (which is what Congress does to each other on days like that), the Democrat leaders and many followers went nuts, and Lott ended up resigning.
However, I have been reading right-wing blogs and news sources for years, and I have consistently seen individual writers advocating, say, treason trials for anti-war protestors.
OK. So there's a few wackos on the right. Big surprise. I didn't see any high profile conservatives supporting camapaign finance reform.
But it would be a gross exaggeration to state that the GOP rank-and-file supports unfettered free speech.
Uh....no it wouldn't. It would mean there are a few wackos who don't. It would be dead on to say that most GOP rank-and-files support free speech.
Block out Galileo without permission? Maybe you should think about the fact that they are relying on US Military equipment before saying we are blocking it out without permission.
And who cares if Joe Blow gets lost so that the terrorst who hijacked a plane can't find DC.
If the study is 90% off, then there is a 5% chance the true death toll is
The report's authors derive this figure by estimating how many Iraqis died in a 14-month period before the U.S. invasion, conducting surveys on how many died in a similar period after the invasion began (more on those surveys later), and subtracting the difference. That difference--the number of "extra" deaths in the post-invasion period--signifies the war's toll.
Iraqi soldiers killed do not count as innocents in my book. And Iraqis killed due to roadside bombers do not count. And when terrorists choose to hide with "innocent civilians" and get bombed...well, I don't really consider them all that innocent anyway.
Certainly some innocent civilians have died. It's unavoidable in war. But it's not 100,000.
The US certainly has killed civilians, probably in the very low thousands. A lot more civilians have died than this--at the hands of suicide and roadside bombers.
I really don't see this as a problem. There is overwhelming evidence that MS had nothing to do with the development of TCP/IP. The worst they can do is claim a patent over it, and send a case to court. Hopefully something like this will result in a reform to the patent system, but I think that's being optimistic. Whatever happens, there's no way MS could win any case over this (even a poor guy/small business would win with the EFF or whatever taking the case)
He voted for the Iraq war, and said it would be irresponsible to leave the troops stranded without funding. He then voted to do just that.
He called the war on Iraq the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. He then said it was an imminent threat that had to be dealt with (but he would have done it smarter, nice details there).
He then said the Iraq war was a diversion from the war on terror, then went back to saying he would have done the same thing, only smarter.
He said that the President spent $200 billion that could have gone to education, health care, etc. He then said that the President underfunded the troops and didn't send them in with enough body armor etc.
He said he met with all the members of the security counsel...oh wait nevermind no he didn't.
He's voted to cut the military funding every chance he's gotten, then criticizes Bush for having an unprepared intelligence and military system thanks to eight years of Clinton and Congressmen like him.
He's voted to weaken the second amendment every chance he's gotten, then his national election rolls around and he's suddenly an avid hunter.
All big companies donate large amounts of money to both political parties. It's too late to do any research on this particular one, but I would be surprised if they donated money to Republicans without donating to Democrats.
This is not insightful. AFAIK, the RIAA cannot subpoena anything, nor can they spy on people at their leisure. What they can do, and you could do as well, is file a civil suit (as the other respodent said). They do not have the power to implement electronic wiretaps. They can, of course, query your computer and ask if you have, say, Matrix 2 shared on KaZaA (something Warner Bros. busted me for:) ), but that's a tap no more than calling someone up on the phone is.
The (Republican) speaker of the house is supposedly proposing eliminating the IRS and income tax. That would be great. Voting Libertarian isn't gonna get you anywhere, vote Republican:)
I agree with the grandparent to this post. I'm halfway through an undergrad degree in Physics, and I can barely understand the topic of physics papers when I read them. IE, abstract for the #1 paper is:
From a theory of Hohenberg and Kohn, approximation methods for treating an inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons are developed. These methods are exact for systems of slowly varying or high density. For the ground state, they lead to self-consistent equations analogous to the Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations, respectively. In these equations the exchange and correlation portions of the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas appear as additional effective potentials. (The exchange portion of our effective potential differs from that due to Slater by a factor of 23.) Electronic systems at finite temperatures and in magnetic fields are also treated by similar methods. An appendix deals with a further correction for systems with short-wavelength density oscillations.
I kinda sorta knew what they were talking about up until Hartree and Hartree-Fock. After that I have no idea. For most of these papers, you really do need some graduate level education to know what's going on..
They already did this. I forget the name of the movie, but it involved a catastrphic failure of the Earth's magnetic field in a matter of months. The result of this, according to the movie, would be that the Earth would be 'cooked by microwaves from the sun'. The heros bored into the Earth and set of a nuke, somehow adding enough angular momentum to the Earth's core to stregnthen the field.
This planet should host about 1 to 1.5 bn people comfortably and sustainably. Any more than that is too much.
What? No way. This planet should host as many people as it can up to the point of sutainability (which we aren't even close to now). If the US had to, we could remain self-sufficient, completely cut off from the rest of the world, with probably twice (if not more) the current population. Other countries, therefore, could do it as well. And whatever you may think, the vast majority of people in this country are living "comfortably and sustainably". Ask the REALLY poor people in Africa if they think the average poor person here has a tough life (ie, no problem getting food, free emergency healthcare, no problem getting a job, possessing a car, tv, clothing, free education, a roof over their head, etc, etc).
And if you really think the planet is overpopulated, please help contribute to the solution and kill yourself (or at least go get a vasectomy).
I guess I would call myself Libertarian more than Republican, but its stupid to think progress can be made through the Libertarian party. If you want anything to change, someone needs to be elected first.
Believe me, the grass roots ain't happy. If it weren't for 9-11, and Dubyah's very minimal response to the threat of Islam [aka Islamofascism, but that's redundant], there would be a heckuva revolt going on in the ranks.
OK, I agree a lot of conservatives aren't happy with Bush's domestic policy (myself included, although he did get 2 crucial tax cuts through)...but how can you say he's had a 'minimal response' to terrorists? He has invaded two countries, not too much more you can do than that.
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No, it doesn't need to be completely sheilded. As far as 'reading' the information simultaneously detroying the quantum state, that is true...just like reading a memory cell that uses a capacitor destroys the information, yet we miraculously still build computers with them :P. Also, the application of quantum computers is quite limited (factoring numbers is one thing they can do well), don't expect to be playing Doom 6 on them.
And don't think of that 'other world' explanation. It's not really what is happening according to current theory, just a convenient/spooky way to explain it to some lay people. And yes, IAAP
There is a really, really big difference between McJunkie Girl (violently raped at each of last three parties she attended and happy for that) and the wife of some Taliban Man (violently beaten up each evening, and happy for that). And laws are made to reflect that.
So you're saying that its OK for the Taliban wives who have* no rights (much less representation in the government) to be violently beaten? And you think they are HAPPY about this??
What idiot modded this up
*had, thank you USA
Seems pretty high since everyone who wanted to see a doctor or get food was FORCED to register to boost the numbers. Oh, and a quick google search on that will show that Al Jazeera seems to be the only source for this information.
Ummm....no. The reason it is there is because politicians like to take more money from the people so they can spend it. It has nothing, zero, zip, nada, to do with the 'noble class' BS. We live in a free country, rich people get no luxuries over the poor that they don't rightly pay for. And the framers of the Constitution prevented the noble class by...*gasp* not having one! Created equal and all that.
I think this tax should be removed, but we can't have a rational conversation about it if you are going to argue baseless points like this.
On second thought...this is probably a troll.
Wrong. In 1990-91, there was a recession. Clinton came in, and there was 8 years of economic growth. As Clinton was leaving, another recession started. Seems to me it is associated with the economic condition of the country. Whether or not the President is fully responsible for the economic state of the country...I don't want to debate that :)
And yes, I realize that Bush has spent an assload on domestic spending, and, as a conservative, it pisses me off. But don't liberals LIKE when the government spends money/gives handouts?
One more thing I have to bring up from my high school stats teacher: Association does not imply causation! IE correlation does not mean there is a cause-effect relationship.
For many of the Democrat rank-and-files, I would agree with you. But there is a growing portion of the Democrat base that is the wacko tree-hugging PC crowd. Yes, there are the conservatives trying to force creationism, but they are a much smaller voice than the Democrat equivalent.
Also, the Democrat leaders do not support the sort of free speech we are talking about. Case and point: When Trent Lott was sucking up to Strom Thurmond on his birthday (which is what Congress does to each other on days like that), the Democrat leaders and many followers went nuts, and Lott ended up resigning.
However, I have been reading right-wing blogs and news sources for years, and I have consistently seen individual writers advocating, say, treason trials for anti-war protestors. OK. So there's a few wackos on the right. Big surprise. I didn't see any high profile conservatives supporting camapaign finance reform. But it would be a gross exaggeration to state that the GOP rank-and-file supports unfettered free speech. Uh....no it wouldn't. It would mean there are a few wackos who don't. It would be dead on to say that most GOP rank-and-files support free speech.
Block out Galileo without permission? Maybe you should think about the fact that they are relying on US Military equipment before saying we are blocking it out without permission.
And who cares if Joe Blow gets lost so that the terrorst who hijacked a plane can't find DC.
The report's...
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If the study is 90% off, then there is a 5% chance the true death toll is The report's authors derive this figure by estimating how many Iraqis died in a 14-month period before the U.S. invasion, conducting surveys on how many died in a similar period after the invasion began (more on those surveys later), and subtracting the difference. That difference--the number of "extra" deaths in the post-invasion period--signifies the war's toll.
Iraqi soldiers killed do not count as innocents in my book. And Iraqis killed due to roadside bombers do not count. And when terrorists choose to hide with "innocent civilians" and get bombed...well, I don't really consider them all that innocent anyway.
Certainly some innocent civilians have died. It's unavoidable in war. But it's not 100,000.
Ermm....no.
The US certainly has killed civilians, probably in the very low thousands. A lot more civilians have died than this--at the hands of suicide and roadside bombers.
I refuse to believe that Microsoft could win a battle claiming ownership of TCP/IP. Period. It would be thrown out on day one.
I really don't see this as a problem. There is overwhelming evidence that MS had nothing to do with the development of TCP/IP. The worst they can do is claim a patent over it, and send a case to court. Hopefully something like this will result in a reform to the patent system, but I think that's being optimistic. Whatever happens, there's no way MS could win any case over this (even a poor guy/small business would win with the EFF or whatever taking the case)
He voted for the Iraq war, and said it would be irresponsible to leave the troops stranded without funding. He then voted to do just that.
He called the war on Iraq the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. He then said it was an imminent threat that had to be dealt with (but he would have done it smarter, nice details there).
He then said the Iraq war was a diversion from the war on terror, then went back to saying he would have done the same thing, only smarter.
He said that the President spent $200 billion that could have gone to education, health care, etc. He then said that the President underfunded the troops and didn't send them in with enough body armor etc.
He said he met with all the members of the security counsel...oh wait nevermind no he didn't.
He's voted to cut the military funding every chance he's gotten, then criticizes Bush for having an unprepared intelligence and military system thanks to eight years of Clinton and Congressmen like him.
He's voted to weaken the second amendment every chance he's gotten, then his national election rolls around and he's suddenly an avid hunter.
Need I go on (there's plenty more)?
All big companies donate large amounts of money to both political parties. It's too late to do any research on this particular one, but I would be surprised if they donated money to Republicans without donating to Democrats.
Geez, take your tinfoil hat off...
This is not insightful. AFAIK, the RIAA cannot subpoena anything, nor can they spy on people at their leisure. What they can do, and you could do as well, is file a civil suit (as the other respodent said). They do not have the power to implement electronic wiretaps. They can, of course, query your computer and ask if you have, say, Matrix 2 shared on KaZaA (something Warner Bros. busted me for :) ), but that's a tap no more than calling someone up on the phone is.
The (Republican) speaker of the house is supposedly proposing eliminating the IRS and income tax. That would be great. Voting Libertarian isn't gonna get you anywhere, vote Republican :)
From a theory of Hohenberg and Kohn, approximation methods for treating an inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons are developed. These methods are exact for systems of slowly varying or high density. For the ground state, they lead to self-consistent equations analogous to the Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations, respectively. In these equations the exchange and correlation portions of the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas appear as additional effective potentials. (The exchange portion of our effective potential differs from that due to Slater by a factor of 23.) Electronic systems at finite temperatures and in magnetic fields are also treated by similar methods. An appendix deals with a further correction for systems with short-wavelength density oscillations.
I kinda sorta knew what they were talking about up until Hartree and Hartree-Fock. After that I have no idea. For most of these papers, you really do need some graduate level education to know what's going on..
They already did this. I forget the name of the movie, but it involved a catastrphic failure of the Earth's magnetic field in a matter of months. The result of this, according to the movie, would be that the Earth would be 'cooked by microwaves from the sun'. The heros bored into the Earth and set of a nuke, somehow adding enough angular momentum to the Earth's core to stregnthen the field.
Pretty bad movie...
What? No way. This planet should host as many people as it can up to the point of sutainability (which we aren't even close to now). If the US had to, we could remain self-sufficient, completely cut off from the rest of the world, with probably twice (if not more) the current population. Other countries, therefore, could do it as well. And whatever you may think, the vast majority of people in this country are living "comfortably and sustainably". Ask the REALLY poor people in Africa if they think the average poor person here has a tough life (ie, no problem getting food, free emergency healthcare, no problem getting a job, possessing a car, tv, clothing, free education, a roof over their head, etc, etc).
And if you really think the planet is overpopulated, please help contribute to the solution and kill yourself (or at least go get a vasectomy).
This is a childish post and obvious troll/flamebait. Please stop moderating such worthless posts up. And yes, I had mod points before posting this.
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Yeah, but we saved your ass in world war 3! /not even british
I guess I would call myself Libertarian more than Republican, but its stupid to think progress can be made through the Libertarian party. If you want anything to change, someone needs to be elected first.
OK, I agree a lot of conservatives aren't happy with Bush's domestic policy (myself included, although he did get 2 crucial tax cuts through)...but how can you say he's had a 'minimal response' to terrorists? He has invaded two countries, not too much more you can do than that.