I'll take it a step further. We can manipulate people's ability to see better or worse by messing with their eyes, optical nerves, and occipital lobes. Certainly no one would contend that the "real" world therefore doesn't exist.
The event that determines a post's ordinal value is it's completion. Let us imagine a universe in which the completion of every post is separated by a space-like interval. Accordingly, for any pair of posts there must exist a relativistic frame of reference in which they complete at the same time. Thus, in such universes, there is no unambiguous ordering of of any pair of posts, and thus no post can be "first".
Actually, there exist many unambiguous orderings. Simply pick a point in space as the reference. Depending on definitions, your first post may be different than my first post.
Let's try an even simpler counterexample. Let's imagine a universe in which all posts are completed in pairs. That is, every post A must have another post B such that the completion time of A and B is simultaneous in some frame of reference. For example, we could imagine that in this universe, every poster is required to submit at least two posts at a time. In such universes, there may be a first pair of post, but neither post can be called "first" in itself.
First is not necessarily an exclusive term. They could certainly both be first posts. It is simply a matter of definition, and I believe the normal convention for resolving ties is to count like this: 1 1 3 4 5 5 5 8 (for example).
Universes with no posts whatsoever fill such conditions trivially; that is to say there do not exist any violations of the condition chosen.
The United States were formed "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The rights and responsibilities of the government are not limited only to securing life and liberty, but also that third branch: happiness.
Why don't you re-read the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I assume you are attacking Christianity. You seem to have several misconceptions. You understand the stories and myths, but fail to understand the heart of the religion. Allow me to outline a brief proof for you:
Good and bad things exist in this world. (Experimentally verifiable)
Good things deserve admiration. (logical jump, but easy to make)
The creator of a good thing deserves more admiration than the thing itself. (logical jump, but easy to make)
Define God to be the creator of all good things. God is the best thing. God is deserving of the most admiration. (All religions essentially agree up to this point.)
Given that a bad thing has occurred, forgiveness is required to undo its effects. (experimentally verifiable)
God forgives bad things. (People disagree as to whether it is some or all bad things which God will forgive. It is irrelevant for this argument.)
I recognize that I have done bad things. I want them forgiven.
How can I expect to be forgiven unless I forgive others? (This attitude forms the foundation of what is commonly called "Christian love")
Christianity is the only world view which satisfies all the points above. Therefore, Christianity is the best world view.
Believing the Bible's stories (whether or not they are true) is not what Christianity is about. Maybe you disagree with some of the points above and therefore disagree with the conclusion, but at least you should now have a proper understanding of what Christians believe.
The US actually does NOT have a "winner takes all" system like you describe. Sure, every individual office is elected by a winner take all ballot. It does not make sense to have an individual office decided by anything else (you can't have 60% of the presidents decisions be Obama's and 40% be McCains, for example). This is what happens in every country.
The difference is that every office has a different set of people voting for it. Therefore, the distribution of parties in sitting in Congress is roughly equal to the distribution of parties that the people voted for.
Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Wikipedia seems to agree with the GP. If you are going to correct someone, please provide more than a quick, flippant response and a link which doesn't help.
The premise of your book is interesting. I will, however, not buy it because your publisher has not let people search inside the book. At the very least I should be able to see the table of contents and verify that the content of the book is what I'm expecting.
Obama, as president, will have no authority over Chicago. If you don't like Chicagan policies, blame their (corrupt) mayor and city council.
Obama's (or McCain's) responsibility with respect to gun laws will be what weapons can be legally imported from foreign nations, and for what purposes.
That was a very insightful post. As a Christian myself, my experience is that American Christians feel attacked by atheists. The atheists use evolution in that attack, so Christians fight back by denying evolution. Thank you for a thoughtful and observant comment.
Well, I googled for "Anonymous Coward" and came up with 161,000 results. So therefore I must conclude that you are not even geeky enough to know how to use google. I am the true geekiest guy on earth, not some lamo imposter.
As my grandparent poster said, its possible that someone with the clebrity power was required to get the job done. For not following US domestic politics closely, you sure seem to know a lot about the Arnold's and Reagan's platforms, or did you just *assume* that they were elected for no really good reason.
Come on, sack up and go after someone who has persistently leveraged monopolistic control to promote inferior technology (Intel, Matsushita, JVC, Sony), rather than someone that your government can't currently do without.
The article doesn't really say, but I'm thinking it's just that Microsoft stepped on the wrong toes. It's not like Japan is banning Microsoft from doing business in Japan, but more like a little warning. This is less anoying than a flybite to the big MS.
Leave it to slashdot to have people completely overreact and blow things out of proportion. I actually see email as an effective means of campeigning.
According to the headlines, only about a million emails will be sent, and only to "close friends." That means less than 1% of the American population will see one of these emails, and I'd bet a pretty penny it won't just be in typical spam style (hint: it will actually be from a *real* address and company). The emails will probably be sent to people who have specifically given their addresses to the Republican/Democratic parties, or similar organizations that promote voting and voter education.
When it comes to campeigning, these guys are not stupid. They know people hate spam. But they also know if they use email in a legitimate fashion, it could actually help their cameign. Assuming they don't abuse this line of communication, I think it will prove beneficial in the long run.
The "fast[est] growing distribution" is determined by both downloads and purchases, not just the latter. It doesn't matter whether the users are "customers" or just users to be part of the user-base.
Security breaches happen. Even on OpenBSD and other "secure" systems. If you looked into the event at all, you would see that Gentoo did indeed have excellent security counter measures in place. No amount of firewalling is going to stop an *unknown* vulnerability from being exploited. No amount of security auditing is going to find *every* exploit in code as complex as gentoo's. The fact that the compromised server could be restored, and the compromising code be analysed and fixed within twenty-four hours is very impressive. If anything, this is a testiment to the security at gentoo.
If I were a CTO or someone who was checking to make a switch, this would be very impressive. I don't, however, think this is gentoo's target audience. But I do know that Microsoft definitely does not have turn-around times that impressive.
The bible you read is a translation of a translation of the Xth edition of...
It's actually just a translation of the original Greek/Hebrew. Original manuscripts still exist, and modern English Bibles are translated directly from those. Additionally, most Bibles include countless footnotes to describe possible translational misinterpretations. So although it would be best to learn Greek and review the original manuscripts yourself, you can get an extremely accurate picture of the Bible without doing that.
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To be fair, finding missing galaxies sounds awful close to finding unaccounted for matter. I would call this a not-at-all tenuous connection.
I'll take it a step further. We can manipulate people's ability to see better or worse by messing with their eyes, optical nerves, and occipital lobes. Certainly no one would contend that the "real" world therefore doesn't exist.
The event that determines a post's ordinal value is it's completion. Let us imagine a universe in which the completion of every post is separated by a space-like interval. Accordingly, for any pair of posts there must exist a relativistic frame of reference in which they complete at the same time. Thus, in such universes, there is no unambiguous ordering of of any pair of posts, and thus no post can be "first".
Actually, there exist many unambiguous orderings. Simply pick a point in space as the reference. Depending on definitions, your first post may be different than my first post.
Let's try an even simpler counterexample. Let's imagine a universe in which all posts are completed in pairs. That is, every post A must have another post B such that the completion time of A and B is simultaneous in some frame of reference. For example, we could imagine that in this universe, every poster is required to submit at least two posts at a time. In such universes, there may be a first pair of post, but neither post can be called "first" in itself.
First is not necessarily an exclusive term. They could certainly both be first posts. It is simply a matter of definition, and I believe the normal convention for resolving ties is to count like this: 1 1 3 4 5 5 5 8 (for example).
Universes with no posts whatsoever fill such conditions trivially; that is to say there do not exist any violations of the condition chosen.
And this was the GP's claim.
Notice that distribution of goods is italicized. That is what this thread is about.
The United States were formed "to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The rights and responsibilities of the government are not limited only to securing life and liberty, but also that third branch: happiness.
Why don't you re-read the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I assume you are attacking Christianity. You seem to have several misconceptions. You understand the stories and myths, but fail to understand the heart of the religion. Allow me to outline a brief proof for you:
Believing the Bible's stories (whether or not they are true) is not what Christianity is about. Maybe you disagree with some of the points above and therefore disagree with the conclusion, but at least you should now have a proper understanding of what Christians believe.
The US actually does NOT have a "winner takes all" system like you describe. Sure, every individual office is elected by a winner take all ballot. It does not make sense to have an individual office decided by anything else (you can't have 60% of the presidents decisions be Obama's and 40% be McCains, for example). This is what happens in every country.
The difference is that every office has a different set of people voting for it. Therefore, the distribution of parties in sitting in Congress is roughly equal to the distribution of parties that the people voted for.
Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Wikipedia seems to agree with the GP. If you are going to correct someone, please provide more than a quick, flippant response and a link which doesn't help.
Say what you will about the United States but we've never blown up ships in the harbors of our Allies.
Ever hear of the Spanish American War and the USS Maine?
log in the case of computational complexity is almost always base 2, so that would be 2^n [it's a binary thing]
Awful idea.
If I wanted one, I would buy one myself. Decrease tuition, let people buy whatever type of cellphone they want.
The premise of your book is interesting. I will, however, not buy it because your publisher has not let people search inside the book. At the very least I should be able to see the table of contents and verify that the content of the book is what I'm expecting.
My point was merely that the if the OP doesn't want his neighbors to have guns, he should settle it at the local level, not the federal one.
Your question does not make sense.
Obama, as president, will have no authority over Chicago. If you don't like Chicagan policies, blame their (corrupt) mayor and city council.
Obama's (or McCain's) responsibility with respect to gun laws will be what weapons can be legally imported from foreign nations, and for what purposes.
That was a very insightful post. As a Christian myself, my experience is that American Christians feel attacked by atheists. The atheists use evolution in that attack, so Christians fight back by denying evolution. Thank you for a thoughtful and observant comment.
It's obvious the town has been slashdoted.
Well, I googled for "Anonymous Coward" and came up with 161,000 results. So therefore I must conclude that you are not even geeky enough to know how to use google. I am the true geekiest guy on earth, not some lamo imposter.
As my grandparent poster said, its possible that someone with the clebrity power was required to get the job done. For not following US domestic politics closely, you sure seem to know a lot about the Arnold's and Reagan's platforms, or did you just *assume* that they were elected for no really good reason.
Come on, sack up and go after someone who has persistently leveraged monopolistic control to promote inferior technology (Intel, Matsushita, JVC, Sony), rather than someone that your government can't currently do without.
The article doesn't really say, but I'm thinking it's just that Microsoft stepped on the wrong toes. It's not like Japan is banning Microsoft from doing business in Japan, but more like a little warning. This is less anoying than a flybite to the big MS.
The article really doesn't say anything at all that Slashdot's preview didn't already say. (I guess that explains why slashdoters don't RTFA.)
I am curious, however, why the article's headline reads "update 3". Did stuff happen in the past I'm not aware of or what?
Leave it to slashdot to have people completely overreact and blow things out of proportion. I actually see email as an effective means of campeigning.
According to the headlines, only about a million emails will be sent, and only to "close friends." That means less than 1% of the American population will see one of these emails, and I'd bet a pretty penny it won't just be in typical spam style (hint: it will actually be from a *real* address and company). The emails will probably be sent to people who have specifically given their addresses to the Republican/Democratic parties, or similar organizations that promote voting and voter education.
When it comes to campeigning, these guys are not stupid. They know people hate spam. But they also know if they use email in a legitimate fashion, it could actually help their cameign. Assuming they don't abuse this line of communication, I think it will prove beneficial in the long run.
The "fast[est] growing distribution" is determined by both downloads and purchases, not just the latter. It doesn't matter whether the users are "customers" or just users to be part of the user-base.
Security breaches happen. Even on OpenBSD and other "secure" systems. If you looked into the event at all, you would see that Gentoo did indeed have excellent security counter measures in place. No amount of firewalling is going to stop an *unknown* vulnerability from being exploited. No amount of security auditing is going to find *every* exploit in code as complex as gentoo's. The fact that the compromised server could be restored, and the compromising code be analysed and fixed within twenty-four hours is very impressive. If anything, this is a testiment to the security at gentoo.
If I were a CTO or someone who was checking to make a switch, this would be very impressive. I don't, however, think this is gentoo's target audience. But I do know that Microsoft definitely does not have turn-around times that impressive.
Check out www.topcoder.com. They have a list of all the previous problems, and you can even see all the competitors' solutions if you want.
The bible you read is a translation of a translation of the Xth edition of...
It's actually just a translation of the original Greek/Hebrew. Original manuscripts still exist, and modern English Bibles are translated directly from those. Additionally, most Bibles include countless footnotes to describe possible translational misinterpretations. So although it would be best to learn Greek and review the original manuscripts yourself, you can get an extremely accurate picture of the Bible without doing that.