Saying something is more essential is like saying something is more unique. It's a meaningless phrase.
Being able to mail a letter anonymously is not an essential liberty.
Being free from being thrown in jail for, oh, I don't know, saying something like: You suck and those boys died, to the President of the United States IS an essential liberty. But instead of grabbing the pitchforks when Clinton and his thugs threw a lady in Chicao in jail for saying just that, slashdotters get their shorts all in a bind over having to tell people who you are when mailing a letter.
What is this justifiable privacy concern nonsense? YOU are contacting ME. Sorry, you don't get to do that anonymously, no matter how much you whine about your so-called right to privacy. You want to stay anonymous, don't bother me. You want to talk to me, then you tell me who you are.
How do you know US bullets did that? You were aware, right, that we bullhorned them to surrender. You do realize that they started firing RPGs and lots of bullets at our troops first, right? You do realize that any "civilian" would have gotten their butt out of there as fast as they could have once the soldiers started showing up, right?
You do realize there is a moral difference between deliberately targeting civilians and accidentally hitting civilians while engaging military targets, right?
Rush Limbaugh is actually quite a reliable source. Just because you don't like his politics doesn't make his factual presentations false. If you ever bothered to listen to his show, you'd find that he cites all his source material. Usually from such radical publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago-Sun Tribune, Matt Drudge, CNN...
Nice to see useful idiots are still with us. Everyone in the whole d@mn world knew he was guilty, including the Taliban. Why do you think Palestinians were dancing in the streets chanting his name as a hero?
No, the United States is a nation charged with protecting the lives and property of its citizens. Those citizens were attacked and killed. A country that harbored the group responsible, supported and abetted and aided them, refused to release them to us. That country therefore declared themselves allies of the group that attacked and killed US citizens, and therefore became valid and legitimate targets of our counterattack.
This is not rocket science, and it is not a difficult moral or philosophical dilemna. People don't get it because they don't want to get it.
They have barber shops in prisons. The man grew his beard out because he's an extremist militant muslim, was caught, and knew he didn't have to hide behind an infidel's face anymore.
That's fine as a shortcut. That sucks as interface as your primary interface. Why? Because it violates two principles of UI: Space and visibility.
All primary tools should be readily visible, and should be in a specific locale of space where the user can reliably remember where they are and locate them again in the future.
This is one of the biggest problems with Linux GUIs. The people who code them think a pretty icon makes a good GUI. They don't have a clue about usability, because 90% of them secretly despise the GUI as a dumbing down of the computer.
I can see this guy Lynd's frustration with people not getting it.
THERE IS NOT TIME T you can take a snapshot at. ALL T IS DELTA. Your "snapshot" at time T is actually nothing more than a smaller deltaT. You can never find an instant to take a snapshot of. You simply grab a smaller and smaller delta T until the Uncertainty Principle kicks in and you can no longer measure smaller intervals, but, mathematically, you HAVE NOT CAPTURED AN INSTANT OF TIME.
This is why in the macro world, Calculus works, because it is dealing with delta's that are so small compared with the size of the objects being measured, that they can be treated as instantaneous. Or as my Physics professor would say: You take your limit functions until you no longer get a measurable change and call it done.
From a theoretical standpoint, this could be quite profound.
You highlighted the wrong part. The cause of the tragedy was determined to be static electricity. The static electricity ignited the hydrogen. It started as a hydrogen fire.
You never have the mod points when you need them. Oh, well.
Finally someone who gets how capitalism works instead of just being a Marxist corporation-hater.
Price discrimination will FAIL because of the same technology that makes it possible. What makes you think that consumer groups won't form to point out companies that price discriminate, and recommend companies that don't?
You know, this is such an old Marxist argument that it's really getting stale.
Yeah, how much your spend determines what you can get away with? Tell it to Global Crossing and Enron and Arthur Anderson; their executives are in jail.
Who you know tells how much you can break the law? Tell it Jim McDougal, and Jim Guy Tucker (former gov. of Arkansas) and Liddy.
Just because you hate (fill in the blank) and they're not in jail doesn't mean the system is corrupt.
No, the Hindenburg exploded in a hydrogen fire, and the skin caught fire in a side reaction. This was settled by both the German and American investigations in the months following the disaster, and was in line with the many other zeppelin/dirigible hydrogen fires preceeding the Hindenburg, including a rather nasty one involving the Goodyear dirigible in Chicago a year or two earlier that killed a bunch of people on the ground and pretty much torched a building.
The report you're referencing is from some kook at NASA who has to build this whole black helicopter conspiracy so that he can set aside the reams of evidence against his conclusions. Oh, and interestingly enough, he's also a big hydrogen economy advocate.
Hate to dash your revisionism, but 99% of the time, the first and most obvious answer is the correct one.
You can still share playlists via Rendezvous. What you can't do is stream them over the internet anymore because some a$$hole hacker decided it would be cute to hack the system so the music could be copied instead of streamed. Fortunately, for him, he's smart enough to remain anonymous, or I and most other honest Apple users would go and beat the crap out of him.
You know, the author of the article would have more crediblity if he quit using phrases like "Berlin Wall of Solar Power" in the article.
Also buried in the article is the fact that this rig is so freakin' expensive to set up and so uneconomic to run, that only nations with massive subsidy programs are the ones looking at it. They are targeting Spain because they signed Kyoto and so the government (read taxpayer) is willing to underwrite the whole thing.
So, who wants to take bets on how long before environmentalists scream that we are destroying the planet by planting hundreds of thousands of square miles of mirrors across the Southwestern desert?
Have they figured in the cost of replacing sandblasted mirrors and the cost of trucking water in to clean the mirrors?
That's because your salary is only a fraction of your total cost of employment.
There's your payroll taxes (your company pays half your obligation).
There's workman's comp, which is all gray in the area of corporate liability should you electrocute yourself trying to telecommute from your laptop in the bathtub.
There's OSHA regulations and costs (see my point above about laptops and bathtubs).
etc.
Companies don't outsource to individuals in India. They outsource to COMPANIES in India.
Go ahead and form your own 1099 company and bid for some of those outsourcing contacts as your own company.
Of course this will work, but all it will prove is something we've known for a couple of thousand years: Selective breeding will bring out desired characteristics.
What this study does NOT address:
Irreducible complexity. We already have the groups of words. Well, where did they come from? How do we get the group of words in the first place? We can't do selection on the words until we have the words, so, how do we get the words?
Intelligent design. Intelligence (namely the humans running the model) is determining what we start with and is determining what the desired results (what constitutes acceptable survival),
Cost of mutation. There is no attempt to factor in mutational "drag" if you will. All mutations are either considered neutral, or beneficial. The reality is, most mutations are HARMFUL. Any mutation which does not directly improve the organism, will almost certainly harm the organism, greatly increasing its chance of death. If the mutation rate is too high, the species will die out (known as Haldane's dilemna).
Informational Loss. Nearly all mutations result in a LOSS of information, in this case, the elimination of a word. Once the word is gone, how will it ever come back?
So, this little exercise is nothing more than a cute gimmick that blind adherents to evolution as the source of all life will point to, smile, and say: See you idiot creationists, one more thing to prove your stupid, unthinking mindset wrong.
But the reality is, it won't prove or demonstrate anything other than the time-tested truism that trial and error will eventually get you what you want.
Maybe they aren't compensating for anything. Maybe they're just tired of self-righteous SOBs making it their d@amn business what they drive, where they live, what they eat and how much money they make.
Personally, I'd rather have such cheap and abundant energy that I can afford to be wasteful, rather than having to scrimp and save every milliamp I can just to use a "cool" technology.
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Nothing says you've won the argument like your opponent hurling personal insults.
Thanks.
Saying something is more essential is like saying something is more unique. It's a meaningless phrase.
Being able to mail a letter anonymously is not an essential liberty.
Being free from being thrown in jail for, oh, I don't know, saying something like: You suck and those boys died, to the President of the United States IS an essential liberty. But instead of grabbing the pitchforks when Clinton and his thugs threw a lady in Chicao in jail for saying just that, slashdotters get their shorts all in a bind over having to tell people who you are when mailing a letter.
Being able to send an anonymous letter is NOT an essential liberty.
Preventing the post office/gov't from opening and looking at a letter's contents WITHOUT a warrant IS an essential liberty.
People who put their neighbors at risk defending non-existent, non-essential liberties are a threat to society.
What is this justifiable privacy concern nonsense? YOU are contacting ME. Sorry, you don't get to do that anonymously, no matter how much you whine about your so-called right to privacy. You want to stay anonymous, don't bother me. You want to talk to me, then you tell me who you are.
I guess hardly supported anywhere in Slashdot means: Won't play on Linux.
How do you know US bullets did that? You were aware, right, that we bullhorned them to surrender. You do realize that they started firing RPGs and lots of bullets at our troops first, right? You do realize that any "civilian" would have gotten their butt out of there as fast as they could have once the soldiers started showing up, right?
You do realize there is a moral difference between deliberately targeting civilians and accidentally hitting civilians while engaging military targets, right?
Rush Limbaugh is actually quite a reliable source. Just because you don't like his politics doesn't make his factual presentations false. If you ever bothered to listen to his show, you'd find that he cites all his source material. Usually from such radical publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago-Sun Tribune, Matt Drudge, CNN...
Nice to see useful idiots are still with us. Everyone in the whole d@mn world knew he was guilty, including the Taliban. Why do you think Palestinians were dancing in the streets chanting his name as a hero?
No, the United States is a nation charged with protecting the lives and property of its citizens. Those citizens were attacked and killed. A country that harbored the group responsible, supported and abetted and aided them, refused to release them to us. That country therefore declared themselves allies of the group that attacked and killed US citizens, and therefore became valid and legitimate targets of our counterattack.
This is not rocket science, and it is not a difficult moral or philosophical dilemna. People don't get it because they don't want to get it.
They have barber shops in prisons. The man grew his beard out because he's an extremist militant muslim, was caught, and knew he didn't have to hide behind an infidel's face anymore.
That's fine as a shortcut. That sucks as interface as your primary interface. Why? Because it violates two principles of UI: Space and visibility.
All primary tools should be readily visible, and should be in a specific locale of space where the user can reliably remember where they are and locate them again in the future.
This is one of the biggest problems with Linux GUIs. The people who code them think a pretty icon makes a good GUI. They don't have a clue about usability, because 90% of them secretly despise the GUI as a dumbing down of the computer.
I can see this guy Lynd's frustration with people not getting it.
THERE IS NOT TIME T you can take a snapshot at. ALL T IS DELTA. Your "snapshot" at time T is actually nothing more than a smaller deltaT. You can never find an instant to take a snapshot of. You simply grab a smaller and smaller delta T until the Uncertainty Principle kicks in and you can no longer measure smaller intervals, but, mathematically, you HAVE NOT CAPTURED AN INSTANT OF TIME.
This is why in the macro world, Calculus works, because it is dealing with delta's that are so small compared with the size of the objects being measured, that they can be treated as instantaneous. Or as my Physics professor would say: You take your limit functions until you no longer get a measurable change and call it done.
From a theoretical standpoint, this could be quite profound.
Specifically, the right to profit and income from my intellectual/artistic work.
The right to profit through the providing of a product or service to a customer.
Oh, wait. I forgot. This is slashdot. Excuse me. You must have meant: "The right to be a parasite and take without paying."
You highlighted the wrong part. The cause of the tragedy was determined to be static electricity. The static electricity ignited the hydrogen. It started as a hydrogen fire.
Case closed.
You never have the mod points when you need them. Oh, well.
Finally someone who gets how capitalism works instead of just being a Marxist corporation-hater.
Price discrimination will FAIL because of the same technology that makes it possible. What makes you think that consumer groups won't form to point out companies that price discriminate, and recommend companies that don't?
Hello, competition.
You know, this is such an old Marxist argument that it's really getting stale.
Yeah, how much your spend determines what you can get away with? Tell it to Global Crossing and Enron and Arthur Anderson; their executives are in jail.
Who you know tells how much you can break the law? Tell it Jim McDougal, and Jim Guy Tucker (former gov. of Arkansas) and Liddy.
Just because you hate (fill in the blank) and they're not in jail doesn't mean the system is corrupt.
No, the Hindenburg exploded in a hydrogen fire, and the skin caught fire in a side reaction. This was settled by both the German and American investigations in the months following the disaster, and was in line with the many other zeppelin/dirigible hydrogen fires preceeding the Hindenburg, including a rather nasty one involving the Goodyear dirigible in Chicago a year or two earlier that killed a bunch of people on the ground and pretty much torched a building.
The report you're referencing is from some kook at NASA who has to build this whole black helicopter conspiracy so that he can set aside the reams of evidence against his conclusions. Oh, and interestingly enough, he's also a big hydrogen economy advocate.
Hate to dash your revisionism, but 99% of the time, the first and most obvious answer is the correct one.
You can still share playlists via Rendezvous. What you can't do is stream them over the internet anymore because some a$$hole hacker decided it would be cute to hack the system so the music could be copied instead of streamed. Fortunately, for him, he's smart enough to remain anonymous, or I and most other honest Apple users would go and beat the crap out of him.
You know, the author of the article would have more crediblity if he quit using phrases like "Berlin Wall of Solar Power" in the article.
Also buried in the article is the fact that this rig is so freakin' expensive to set up and so uneconomic to run, that only nations with massive subsidy programs are the ones looking at it. They are targeting Spain because they signed Kyoto and so the government (read taxpayer) is willing to underwrite the whole thing.
So, who wants to take bets on how long before environmentalists scream that we are destroying the planet by planting hundreds of thousands of square miles of mirrors across the Southwestern desert?
Have they figured in the cost of replacing sandblasted mirrors and the cost of trucking water in to clean the mirrors?
Heaven help us if we ever do get close to a pure democracy; it's a horrible form of government and the founding fathers knew it.
You want to see what a pure democracy is like, study the history of Athens.
That's because your salary is only a fraction of your total cost of employment.
There's your payroll taxes (your company pays half your obligation).
There's workman's comp, which is all gray in the area of corporate liability should you electrocute yourself trying to telecommute from your laptop in the bathtub.
There's OSHA regulations and costs (see my point above about laptops and bathtubs).
etc.
Companies don't outsource to individuals in India. They outsource to COMPANIES in India.
Go ahead and form your own 1099 company and bid for some of those outsourcing contacts as your own company.
Of course this will work, but all it will prove is something we've known for a couple of thousand years: Selective breeding will bring out desired characteristics.
What this study does NOT address:
Irreducible complexity. We already have the groups of words. Well, where did they come from? How do we get the group of words in the first place? We can't do selection on the words until we have the words, so, how do we get the words?
Intelligent design. Intelligence (namely the humans running the model) is determining what we start with and is determining what the desired results (what constitutes acceptable survival),
Cost of mutation. There is no attempt to factor in mutational "drag" if you will. All mutations are either considered neutral, or beneficial. The reality is, most mutations are HARMFUL. Any mutation which does not directly improve the organism, will almost certainly harm the organism, greatly increasing its chance of death. If the mutation rate is too high, the species will die out (known as Haldane's dilemna).
Informational Loss. Nearly all mutations result in a LOSS of information, in this case, the elimination of a word. Once the word is gone, how will it ever come back?
So, this little exercise is nothing more than a cute gimmick that blind adherents to evolution as the source of all life will point to, smile, and say: See you idiot creationists, one more thing to prove your stupid, unthinking mindset wrong.
But the reality is, it won't prove or demonstrate anything other than the time-tested truism that trial and error will eventually get you what you want.
The more you overwork the plumbing, the easier it is to clog up the pipes.
The punchcard and bubblesheets are still the best way to do this sort of stuff.
Our problem is, we don't push for the idea of responsible exercise of our franchise.
Maybe they aren't compensating for anything. Maybe they're just tired of self-righteous SOBs making it their d@amn business what they drive, where they live, what they eat and how much money they make.
Personally, I'd rather have such cheap and abundant energy that I can afford to be wasteful, rather than having to scrimp and save every milliamp I can just to use a "cool" technology.