I know this is a joke but seriously, in my health (read propoganda) class they would tell us "The only sure way not to get get somebody pregnet or get an STD was abstinece." So I Said yeah but the only sure way not to get killed in a car crash is not to drive, but we know people are gonna drive so we tell them to wear seatbelts, why is this any different. They never answered my question.
The problem with it is it doesn't have ANY features. You have your contact list and you can double click on an email address to message them. The message window consists of a send botton, a place to type, and a window with what has been said. Thats the entire program.
No one wants to tie up their PC for 2 weeks compressing a 200GB disc down to 2GB, and those that do probably won't want to do it just to gain infamy amongst Kazaa users.
This sounds logical but the way movies are distributed online it doesn't work that way. Even now its not your everyday person that works at a theater, makes a copy of the movie using a video camera and direct sound, posts it on the internet to highly secretive ftp sites, spreads it around to other sites, and then feels good about a job well done. These people (or groups really) are perfectly willing to spend their time encoding 200GB down to 2GB. From there it slowly leeks to kazaa.
Law should be restricted to preventing someone from harming others. Alot of morals also fit into this catagory but not all. Murder is morally and legally wrong. However, smoking pot doesn't harm anybody but the one doing it, therefore it is none of the governments business to legislate this. Legislating morality just doesn't work.
I meant people in the US would tend to think their system is better than canada's system, not that their system is perfect. Americans have an unfounded fear of anything remotly looking like socialism.
Regardless, it's motivation for people to get a job, and more importantly, to keep the job.
The problem with this is that it is more than motivation, it is necessity. Health care isn't something someone can just give up. This means employers have a huge amount of power over their employees. This power gap makes abuses more likely. Unions can help this to an extent but its not a perfect solution.
I happen to agree that the canadian system is better than the US system (I live in the US) but this is not typical. People in the US would tend to say their system is better and people in canada say theirs is. All this means is people in a democracy tend to be reletivly happy with the way their own governments do things.
It is the government that is barred from restricting free speech by the first amendment. Other people can restrict free speech all they want (as far as the law goes anyway).
I wonder if this latest pronouncement is related to my long held belief that the idea of Hawking radiation seems to contradict the notion of a black hole.
Your long held belief? That was everybody's first thought about Hawking Radiation was that it was a contradiction of the concept of a black hole. However I don't quite fallow your reasoning that a black hole would have to start with an infitessimal radius. Quite the contrary, if a black hole starts with an event horizon around the planck length or less, it loses all its mass and becomes almost nothing very quickly. It would in fact have to start with a larger radius for it to stay around.
I believe he had a bet with Kip Thorne over whether Cygnus X1 was a black hole or not. Hawking said it wasn't and Thorne said it was. Hawking conceded the bet a while ago. It was for a subscription to playboy. Hawking said that he really thought that it was a black hole but wanted a consolation prize if it wasn't.
On second thought could it be that when the event horizon (which really isn't an event korizon anymore) becomes nothing all the matter is in a way released and so it gets out that way? I suppose it doesn't make sense that it all leaves at the same time but maybe there is something that is distorting time that I do not understand that makes it seem to the observer as if the energy is being radiated slowly as hawking radiation?
I could be wrong here but I believe black holes actually get smaller and smaller until they no longer exist. This was the problem with Hawking's original theory. If the black hole eventually becomes nothing then where does all the information that went into it go? This is what is apperently solved.
Is that because the event horizon is in fact shrinking? So if you think of it this way nothing is ever in the black whole. You sort of have an imaginary event horizon which constantly gets smaller and smaller and you have particles chasing it but since they go slower and slower as they get closer and closer they never catch up? One would think if this were the case then when the event horizon finally got so small it becomes nothing, all these particles would crash into each other. This doesn't make sense because the thing is emiting waves. Am I at all understanding this properly? I don't know the complex physics involved at all so this is really just my best guess.
Someone made the same comment a few months ago the last time there was talk of Hawking losing this bet confusing the same two bets. I replied here.
"Actually that was a different bet between Thorne and Hawking which Hawking conceded to Thorne years ago. It was a bet on whether Cygnus X1 was in fact a black whole. Hawking bet it wasn't and Thorne bet it was. Hawking said he really did think it was a black hole but he wanted to win something if he was wrong so as to be less depressed about it."
I would be seriously pissed off if I could only use their SMTP server. Spam may be a problem but I'd rather have spam and an internet connection that I chose the way I use then to lose that freedom and spam. But then hey I'm just some wacko that values freedom over safty from terrorism.
At some point the robots will have to be given their rights. At this point people won't control them anymore. This will take a long time but with advanced enough robots it would be a serious "robot rights" abuse. Its not like there is any real difference between an extremly complex robot brain and a human one.
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I know this is a joke but seriously, in my health (read propoganda) class they would tell us "The only sure way not to get get somebody pregnet or get an STD was abstinece." So I Said yeah but the only sure way not to get killed in a car crash is not to drive, but we know people are gonna drive so we tell them to wear seatbelts, why is this any different. They never answered my question.
The problem with it is it doesn't have ANY features. You have your contact list and you can double click on an email address to message them. The message window consists of a send botton, a place to type, and a window with what has been said. Thats the entire program.
I've seen servers on gigabit connections download movies in seconds already.
No one wants to tie up their PC for 2 weeks compressing a 200GB disc down to 2GB, and those that do probably won't want to do it just to gain infamy amongst Kazaa users.
This sounds logical but the way movies are distributed online it doesn't work that way. Even now its not your everyday person that works at a theater, makes a copy of the movie using a video camera and direct sound, posts it on the internet to highly secretive ftp sites, spreads it around to other sites, and then feels good about a job well done. These people (or groups really) are perfectly willing to spend their time encoding 200GB down to 2GB. From there it slowly leeks to kazaa.
Yes but thats not why he really wrote it. Its a very zen like theme. Your idea of the question even reads like a koan.
Law should be restricted to preventing someone from harming others. Alot of morals also fit into this catagory but not all. Murder is morally and legally wrong. However, smoking pot doesn't harm anybody but the one doing it, therefore it is none of the governments business to legislate this. Legislating morality just doesn't work.
He didn't put one in the books for a reason. There isn't one.
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I meant people in the US would tend to think their system is better than canada's system, not that their system is perfect. Americans have an unfounded fear of anything remotly looking like socialism.
Regardless, it's motivation for people to get a job, and more importantly, to keep the job.
The problem with this is that it is more than motivation, it is necessity. Health care isn't something someone can just give up. This means employers have a huge amount of power over their employees. This power gap makes abuses more likely. Unions can help this to an extent but its not a perfect solution.
I happen to agree that the canadian system is better than the US system (I live in the US) but this is not typical. People in the US would tend to say their system is better and people in canada say theirs is. All this means is people in a democracy tend to be reletivly happy with the way their own governments do things.
It is the government that is barred from restricting free speech by the first amendment. Other people can restrict free speech all they want (as far as the law goes anyway).
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He's obviously running a very large warez site. Thats the only group of people that use that much space outside of research situation and the like.
You post just MADE me go eat raman...free will my left nut.
That's ripped off from a Steven Wright joke (funniest comedian ever btw).
Not information like a computer. Information like quantum states.
I wonder if this latest pronouncement is related to my long held belief that the idea of Hawking radiation seems to contradict the notion of a black hole.
Your long held belief? That was everybody's first thought about Hawking Radiation was that it was a contradiction of the concept of a black hole. However I don't quite fallow your reasoning that a black hole would have to start with an infitessimal radius. Quite the contrary, if a black hole starts with an event horizon around the planck length or less, it loses all its mass and becomes almost nothing very quickly. It would in fact have to start with a larger radius for it to stay around.
I believe he had a bet with Kip Thorne over whether Cygnus X1 was a black hole or not. Hawking said it wasn't and Thorne said it was. Hawking conceded the bet a while ago. It was for a subscription to playboy. Hawking said that he really thought that it was a black hole but wanted a consolation prize if it wasn't.
On second thought could it be that when the event horizon (which really isn't an event korizon anymore) becomes nothing all the matter is in a way released and so it gets out that way? I suppose it doesn't make sense that it all leaves at the same time but maybe there is something that is distorting time that I do not understand that makes it seem to the observer as if the energy is being radiated slowly as hawking radiation?
I could be wrong here but I believe black holes actually get smaller and smaller until they no longer exist. This was the problem with Hawking's original theory. If the black hole eventually becomes nothing then where does all the information that went into it go? This is what is apperently solved.
Is that because the event horizon is in fact shrinking? So if you think of it this way nothing is ever in the black whole. You sort of have an imaginary event horizon which constantly gets smaller and smaller and you have particles chasing it but since they go slower and slower as they get closer and closer they never catch up? One would think if this were the case then when the event horizon finally got so small it becomes nothing, all these particles would crash into each other. This doesn't make sense because the thing is emiting waves. Am I at all understanding this properly? I don't know the complex physics involved at all so this is really just my best guess.
Someone made the same comment a few months ago the last time there was talk of Hawking losing this bet confusing the same two bets. I replied here.
"Actually that was a different bet between Thorne and Hawking which Hawking conceded to Thorne years ago. It was a bet on whether Cygnus X1 was in fact a black whole. Hawking bet it wasn't and Thorne bet it was. Hawking said he really did think it was a black hole but he wanted to win something if he was wrong so as to be less depressed about it."
I would be seriously pissed off if I could only use their SMTP server. Spam may be a problem but I'd rather have spam and an internet connection that I chose the way I use then to lose that freedom and spam. But then hey I'm just some wacko that values freedom over safty from terrorism.
At some point the robots will have to be given their rights. At this point people won't control them anymore. This will take a long time but with advanced enough robots it would be a serious "robot rights" abuse. Its not like there is any real difference between an extremly complex robot brain and a human one.