Let this be a lesson for Londoners and the rest of the world that terrorism can strike anywhere, and appeasing them will only make them stronger.
Londoners like me learned this years ago, after repeated bombings by the IRA -- ironically, a terrorist group lent a large degree of support by the USA.
Noam Chomsky has pointed out that the USA is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world. While I love the USA greatly, I also agree with him.
It is pretty obvious. Joe Shmoes like me fund these eggheads and want better performance out of them.
If you want better performance, then why take away their incentive (proprietry data rights) to do bold, innovative science? Dude, you have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Ultimately, it comes down to this: non-project scientists have to wait c. 1 year for the data to become publically available. They have no problems with this wait. Why then are you whining about data access, when there's likely bugger all real science that you can achieve with the data? Sure, you've paid taxes (cents) to support the project; but if you think that entitles you to the same rights as those whove expended blood, sweat and tears on the project, then you're a fool.
If you want proprietry rights, then learn some science and start a project of your own. Otherwise, quit crying.
There is also a "Dead Sea Scrolls" attitude by researchers toward raw data. They figure they should be able to see results and cherry pick them before the rest of us get so see anything significant.
Perhaps they figure they have a right to see the data first. After all, it's them that conceived, designed and built the whole experiment. Why should some Joe Schmoe like you, who has contributed absolutely nothing to the project, be given access to the data before the project team has had their usual 12-month headstart?
I agree with all of your points. However, you've missed my point completely. Which was that invading Iraq had very little direct relevance to combatting fundamentalist Islam. Read the grandparent post again -- the one that I replied to.
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Imagine how I greased my gusset when a headcrab leapt out at me for the first time. It was two years before I could bring myself to continue playing the game, and then on easy level.
Black & White was amazing with the glasses. But they gave me really bad headaches, and got ditched when I upgraded my graphics card.
It's about reforming the Middle East by eliminating fundamentalist Islam as a viable worldview...
Explain, then, why we invaded arguably the most secular (ie, least religious) Arab nation in the Middle East? Am I stupid for not understanding why this is? Could it in fact be that your bald assertion is wholly without merit?
Hong Kong is part of the People's Republic of China. It is not part of Japan. But I guess fuckwits like yourself have difficulty in distinguishing them; after all, they're all sliteyes, eh?
OK, I checked out this link, and I found the statement "The entropy of an isolated system never decreases with time". That, I agree with. But the converse of this statement, that the entropy of a closed system *must* increase with time, simply isn't true, and the second law makes no such claim.
Oh, and one other point: at an atomic scale, entropy is an ill-defined concept. What is the entropy of an electron? An atom? A molecule? Entropy is only well defined when we have a large enough sample of particles for statistical mechanics to begin to apply.
Nothing you have said refutes my statement that maintaining constant entropy does not require an input of energy. I suggest you re-learn your thermodynamics, preferably from a better source than Wikipedia.
Apply this to any situation and you will find that the higher the order in the system the more energy it takes to keep the system in that higher state of order.
That's simply not true. The second law states that 'entropy can only remain the same, or increase, in a closed system'. For the entropy to remain the same requires no input of energy. For instance, a porcelain teacup sitting atop a table is a high-order state, yet no energy is required to maintain this state.
What you really mean is that he isn't supporting your pet projects.
Wrong. I've already benefitted from one of these programs, and therefore have nothing to lose personally from their cancellation. I'm thinking more of the general science impact; there is nothing in the USA funding structure that can support long-term projects in the same way as the LTSA program. But you wouldn't be aware of this, since you obviously haven't got a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Regardless of what you think about Bush, he is very supportive of the space program.
Why, then, has NASA recently had to cut its Long Term Space Astrophysics and Astrophysics Data programs? These well-established funding programs provide vital support for scientists working on data from space telescopes, yet 6 days ago it was announced that they are cancelled for budgetary reasons. Bush is pissing on NASA's science goals from a great height, but you've got your head so far up his arse that you can't see this.
Someone once corrected me that the word router is actually pronounced "roo-ter".
Likewise, "route" is pronounced like "root". Or, at least, the American Heritage Dictionary (one of your very own "many more pages" dictionaries) gives this as the principal pronounciation, with "rout" as an alternative.
Hoist on your own petard. I bite my thumb at you, sir.
American english language dictionaries are usually several hundred pages bigger than UK dictionaries.
I disagree; I find American English to be a far smaller, poorer language than English English. On top of retaining more Anglo-Saxon words in its everyday vocabulary (for instance, 'spinster' instead of the godawful 'batchelorette', and 'burgled' instead of 'burglarized'), the UK has assimilated a far wider (non-European) mix of cultures than the US has. Don't forget, we've already had our Empire -- and it was a lot bigger than yours.
If you want to compare the length of dictionaries, then the Oxford English Dictionary makes all US offerings look like pamhplets.
Who's language is REALLY more consistent and logical?
Besides, the USA has far surpassed the UK in intellectual achievement
Since when did consistence and logicality become a metric for languages? Even Latin has irregular words. And US English itself is full of non-sequiturs. Why the fuck do you call plug alley a 'restroom', when it contains a porcelain throne rather than a bed?
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Boy, I wish there was a "-1, dumber than a turd on a stick" moderation option. Because you just earned it, boy. The only thing here harming Apple's image is employees like yourself advertising, to the whole world, Apple's policy of hiring people with diminished cognitive skills.
In the USA, 'mathematics' is abbreviated to 'math'. In the UK, it is abbreviated to 'maths'. Since the UK comprises England amongst other countries, and England created the English language, the abbreviation 'maths' would appear to be a perfectly valid -- if not even 'more correct' -- usage.
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and they've also announced plans to militarize their space program.
What, like the USA did years ago?
What? There isn't one? WTF, how is it going to torch the guitar after a blistering Hendrix performance?
Let this be a lesson for Londoners and the rest of the world that terrorism can strike anywhere, and appeasing them will only make them stronger.
Londoners like me learned this years ago, after repeated bombings by the IRA -- ironically, a terrorist group lent a large degree of support by the USA.
Noam Chomsky has pointed out that the USA is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world. While I love the USA greatly, I also agree with him.
Their worst attrocities were two incidents where they blew up pubs.
What about Omagh or Enniskillen?
Don't complain. If I didn't say it, someone else would.
Yes, but they would have made it funny. Or even mildly humourous.
It is pretty obvious. Joe Shmoes like me fund these eggheads and want better performance out of them.
If you want better performance, then why take away their incentive (proprietry data rights) to do bold, innovative science? Dude, you have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Ultimately, it comes down to this: non-project scientists have to wait c. 1 year for the data to become publically available. They have no problems with this wait. Why then are you whining about data access, when there's likely bugger all real science that you can achieve with the data? Sure, you've paid taxes (cents) to support the project; but if you think that entitles you to the same rights as those whove expended blood, sweat and tears on the project, then you're a fool.
If you want proprietry rights, then learn some science and start a project of your own. Otherwise, quit crying.
There is also a "Dead Sea Scrolls" attitude by researchers toward raw data. They figure they should be able to see results and cherry pick them before the rest of us get so see anything significant.
Perhaps they figure they have a right to see the data first. After all, it's them that conceived, designed and built the whole experiment. Why should some Joe Schmoe like you, who has contributed absolutely nothing to the project, be given access to the data before the project team has had their usual 12-month headstart?
I thought that the way Bush acts was reason enough to assume that he's a crackhead.
No, the reason to assume Bush is a crackhead is the cocaine habit he kept throughout much of the late 1970s. Well done, red states!
I agree with all of your points. However, you've missed my point completely. Which was that invading Iraq had very little direct relevance to combatting fundamentalist Islam. Read the grandparent post again -- the one that I replied to.
Modded troll? Ah yes, Slashdot's legendary respect for Freedom of Expression, and tolerance in general. See my sig.
Freedom of Expression. Bite me.
Imagine how I greased my gusset when a headcrab leapt out at me for the first time. It was two years before I could bring myself to continue playing the game, and then on easy level.
Black & White was amazing with the glasses. But they gave me really bad headaches, and got ditched when I upgraded my graphics card.
It's about reforming the Middle East by eliminating fundamentalist Islam as a viable worldview...
Explain, then, why we invaded arguably the most secular (ie, least religious) Arab nation in the Middle East? Am I stupid for not understanding why this is? Could it in fact be that your bald assertion is wholly without merit?
Hong Kong is part of the People's Republic of China. It is not part of Japan. But I guess fuckwits like yourself have difficulty in distinguishing them; after all, they're all sliteyes, eh?
OK, I checked out this link, and I found the statement "The entropy of an isolated system never decreases with time". That, I agree with. But the converse of this statement, that the entropy of a closed system *must* increase with time, simply isn't true, and the second law makes no such claim.
Oh, and one other point: at an atomic scale, entropy is an ill-defined concept. What is the entropy of an electron? An atom? A molecule? Entropy is only well defined when we have a large enough sample of particles for statistical mechanics to begin to apply.
So you explicitly refute the existence of reversible processes, that are allowed for by the second law?
Nothing you have said refutes my statement that maintaining constant entropy does not require an input of energy. I suggest you re-learn your thermodynamics, preferably from a better source than Wikipedia.
Apply this to any situation and you will find that the higher the order in the system the more energy it takes to keep the system in that higher state of order.
That's simply not true. The second law states that 'entropy can only remain the same, or increase, in a closed system'. For the entropy to remain the same requires no input of energy. For instance, a porcelain teacup sitting atop a table is a high-order state, yet no energy is required to maintain this state.
One aspect of the peky little law is that the tighter you try and control something the more energy it takes.
Precisely which law of thermodynamics is this?
What you really mean is that he isn't supporting your pet projects.
Wrong. I've already benefitted from one of these programs, and therefore have nothing to lose personally from their cancellation. I'm thinking more of the general science impact; there is nothing in the USA funding structure that can support long-term projects in the same way as the LTSA program. But you wouldn't be aware of this, since you obviously haven't got a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Regardless of what you think about Bush, he is very supportive of the space program.
Why, then, has NASA recently had to cut its Long Term Space Astrophysics and Astrophysics Data programs? These well-established funding programs provide vital support for scientists working on data from space telescopes, yet 6 days ago it was announced that they are cancelled for budgetary reasons. Bush is pissing on NASA's science goals from a great height, but you've got your head so far up his arse that you can't see this.
Oh, and I almost forgot:
Someone once corrected me that the word router is actually pronounced "roo-ter".
Likewise, "route" is pronounced like "root". Or, at least, the American Heritage Dictionary (one of your very own "many more pages" dictionaries) gives this as the principal pronounciation, with "rout" as an alternative.
Hoist on your own petard. I bite my thumb at you, sir.
American english language dictionaries are usually several hundred pages bigger than UK dictionaries.
I disagree; I find American English to be a far smaller, poorer language than English English. On top of retaining more Anglo-Saxon words in its everyday vocabulary (for instance, 'spinster' instead of the godawful 'batchelorette', and 'burgled' instead of 'burglarized'), the UK has assimilated a far wider (non-European) mix of cultures than the US has. Don't forget, we've already had our Empire -- and it was a lot bigger than yours.
If you want to compare the length of dictionaries, then the Oxford English Dictionary makes all US offerings look like pamhplets.
Who's language is REALLY more consistent and logical?
Besides, the USA has far surpassed the UK in intellectual achievement
Since when did consistence and logicality become a metric for languages? Even Latin has irregular words. And US English itself is full of non-sequiturs. Why the fuck do you call plug alley a 'restroom', when it contains a porcelain throne rather than a bed?
Boy, I wish there was a "-1, dumber than a turd on a stick" moderation option. Because you just earned it, boy. The only thing here harming Apple's image is employees like yourself advertising, to the whole world, Apple's policy of hiring people with diminished cognitive skills.
Unless, of course...
In the USA, 'mathematics' is abbreviated to 'math'. In the UK, it is abbreviated to 'maths'. Since the UK comprises England amongst other countries, and England created the English language, the abbreviation 'maths' would appear to be a perfectly valid -- if not even 'more correct' -- usage.
Oh, and chaps: it's aluminium.