Maybe the Marxists are right. What happens when Free software rules supreme? And then throw in plentiful nanomolecular assemblers, and a space elevator.
In short, the marginal cost for everything becomes zero. Knowlege is free. You can have anything you want without buying or selling anything.
And I suppose RMS will call it all a Brave GNU/World.
Before 1964, the word Mustang was not used in connection with an automobile. Trademarks apply only to markets.
There's some funny pictures floating around of products named Linux. I think one of them is Linux Diapers or something like that. That's not a trademark infringement, because our Linux is a computer OS, and has nothing to do with adult diapers.
On the other hand, Windows diapers would be a trademark infringement, because Windows users rely on adult diapers, and otherwise would not be able to distinguish between the diapers and the OS.
Well, that makes sense. Most of the world isn't white, and in the Earth of the future, everyone is equally prosperous. With equal representation from the entire planet, probably most of the admirals in Starfleet would be black.
It's not politically correct drivel, it's mathematically correct fact.
The money might come in part from laundering. There's really nothing to show that you didn't do $100,000,000 of business in a year, when you might have really done $1000. The balance of the fictional business on the books might actually be sourced in illegal drug, gambling, or terrorism money.
John Ashcroft should lay off the Internet bong sellers and the purveyors of porn. If he wants to hit the terrorists in the wallet, he'll close down all the money laundering possibilities that exist. Spam operations are a huge gaping hole that everyone seems to be ignoring.
If I'm dead in 10 years, they'll get the insurance, hence no need to save for college at all.
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Suppose this nanomachine could tell you that you would be dead from cancer in 10 years. Would you want to know? I mean, if it's incurable, wouldn't it be better to find out just before you died, rather than having to worry about it for 10 years?
If you choke on simple fractions and can't train yourself to work with them then you have some kind of a learning disability.
Never said that I choke on them. I took ALL the math. Algebra, Calc I, II, III, IV, DiffEQ, and finally stopped at predicate calculus. Did well in all of them.
I dislike fractions because they are ANNOYING. Same reason I hate programming in APL, though I got an A in the class.
Ah fuck, what have I gotten myself into? For some reason, every luddite in the country has taken it upon themselves to teach me how to do fractional arithmetic!
OK, I hate programming in APL. What's next? An APL tutorial by some grumpy old programmers?
There's nothing hard about that, but there's a hell of a lot that's annoying about that. The same distance, 886 millimeters, is much easier to divide by two.
Plus, it's just too much damn work to curse at floor tiles AND fractions at the same time, is all.
Never buy anything from a page that has annoying music on it. Very bad sign. Also, on the front page there's a link to an RV sales site. Another really bad sign. The clues were all there, so caveat emptor.
I have some idea, yes. You see, I've laid tile in the past, and one of the things you do is center the pattern on the floor, with equal sized partial tiles at the edges. This requires division of the distances by 2. It's really cumbersome to divide 34 7/8 inches by two in your head, for example.
So, I went out to get a metric tape measure. Couldn't find a single one in my tiny Texas town. Eventually, I went to the Internet (Amazon.com) to find it. I wanted to get a tape measure with just centimeters on it, but had to settle for one with both inches and centimeters.
Just so I'm never stuck without a metric tape measure again, I bought two of them. Cost me $25 apiece.
Signed, an American who loves the metric system, was scientifically trained with the metric system, and if made emperor of the universe would provide free metric system education to the population at government expense.
Newton's law of universal gravitation F = G m1 m2 / r2
m1 = mass of space shuttle = 99E3 kg m2 = mass of earth = 5.9742E24 kg At Earth's surface:
F = (6.67E-11 N.m2/kg2) (9.9E4 kg) (5.9742E24 kg) / (6.378000E6 m)^2
F = 969776.724 N
At LEO (400 km):
F = (6.67E-11 N.m2/kg2) (9.9E4 kg) (5.9742E24 kg) / (6.778000E6 m)^2
F = 858692.475 N
Gravity at 400 km orbit is about 88% as strong as at the Earth's surface.
Still doesn't answer my question: What is gravity drag? Never heard of that before.
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Oh you are teh funnay! When you explain the joke, it can only get fannay-er. Thanks!
Splenda also has carbons and hydrogens in it. Gasoline has carbons and hydrogens in it. You wouldn't drink gasoline, would you?
Now watch. Some people who didn't get the point are going to try to explain to me why spenda isn't gasoline.
Babelfish. Duh.
Hardcore java is when you bomb the Microsoft headquarters for inventing C#.
Maybe the Marxists are right. What happens when Free software rules supreme? And then throw in plentiful nanomolecular assemblers, and a space elevator.
In short, the marginal cost for everything becomes zero. Knowlege is free. You can have anything you want without buying or selling anything.
And I suppose RMS will call it all a Brave GNU/World.
The only reason that you think the women in the gym don't mind you looking at them is that you are not the most obnoxious creep in the gym.
As long as you are not the most creepy person in the gym, you're safe.
Before 1964, the word Mustang was not used in connection with an automobile. Trademarks apply only to markets.
There's some funny pictures floating around of products named Linux. I think one of them is Linux Diapers or something like that. That's not a trademark infringement, because our Linux is a computer OS, and has nothing to do with adult diapers.
On the other hand, Windows diapers would be a trademark infringement, because Windows users rely on adult diapers, and otherwise would not be able to distinguish between the diapers and the OS.
The devil made me put that last paragraph in.
I think that you're probably correct.
Well, that makes sense. Most of the world isn't white, and in the Earth of the future, everyone is equally prosperous. With equal representation from the entire planet, probably most of the admirals in Starfleet would be black.
It's not politically correct drivel, it's mathematically correct fact.
The money might come in part from laundering. There's really nothing to show that you didn't do $100,000,000 of business in a year, when you might have really done $1000. The balance of the fictional business on the books might actually be sourced in illegal drug, gambling, or terrorism money.
John Ashcroft should lay off the Internet bong sellers and the purveyors of porn. If he wants to hit the terrorists in the wallet, he'll close down all the money laundering possibilities that exist. Spam operations are a huge gaping hole that everyone seems to be ignoring.
And you know what? Now that you've explained the joke, it seems much funnier somehow.
I've got children. I also have dogs.
If I'm dead in 10 years, they'll get the insurance, hence no need to save for college at all.
Suppose this nanomachine could tell you that you would be dead from cancer in 10 years. Would you want to know? I mean, if it's incurable, wouldn't it be better to find out just before you died, rather than having to worry about it for 10 years?
So what you're saying is that a whole bunch of people might be injured by falling water in the unlikely event of an engine-out?
And that those same people are somehow unafraid of being burned alive in a forest fire? That's unpossible!
That's going to be like 50 cents today! Cheap.
If you choke on simple fractions and can't train yourself to work with them then you have some kind of a learning disability.
Never said that I choke on them. I took ALL the math. Algebra, Calc I, II, III, IV, DiffEQ, and finally stopped at predicate calculus. Did well in all of them.
I dislike fractions because they are ANNOYING. Same reason I hate programming in APL, though I got an A in the class.
Ah fuck, what have I gotten myself into? For some reason, every luddite in the country has taken it upon themselves to teach me how to do fractional arithmetic!
OK, I hate programming in APL. What's next? An APL tutorial by some grumpy old programmers?
There's nothing hard about that, but there's a hell of a lot that's annoying about that. The same distance, 886 millimeters, is much easier to divide by two.
Plus, it's just too much damn work to curse at floor tiles AND fractions at the same time, is all.
Never buy anything from a page that has annoying music on it. Very bad sign. Also, on the front page there's a link to an RV sales site. Another really bad sign. The clues were all there, so caveat emptor.
I have some idea, yes. You see, I've laid tile in the past, and one of the things you do is center the pattern on the floor, with equal sized partial tiles at the edges. This requires division of the distances by 2. It's really cumbersome to divide 34 7/8 inches by two in your head, for example.
So, I went out to get a metric tape measure. Couldn't find a single one in my tiny Texas town. Eventually, I went to the Internet (Amazon.com) to find it. I wanted to get a tape measure with just centimeters on it, but had to settle for one with both inches and centimeters.
Just so I'm never stuck without a metric tape measure again, I bought two of them. Cost me $25 apiece.
Signed, an American who loves the metric system, was scientifically trained with the metric system, and if made emperor of the universe would provide free metric system education to the population at government expense.
1) I said practically the same
2) Here's the math:
Newton's law of universal gravitation
F = G m1 m2 / r2
m1 = mass of space shuttle = 99E3 kg
m2 = mass of earth = 5.9742E24 kg
At Earth's surface:
F = (6.67E-11 N.m2/kg2) (9.9E4 kg) (5.9742E24 kg) / (6.378000E6 m)^2
F = 969776.724 N
At LEO (400 km):
F = (6.67E-11 N.m2/kg2) (9.9E4 kg) (5.9742E24 kg) / (6.778000E6 m)^2
F = 858692.475 N
Gravity at 400 km orbit is about 88% as strong as at the Earth's surface.
Still doesn't answer my question: What is gravity drag? Never heard of that before.
I loaded the page and it asked me to fill out a giant form, which I've filled out before. More than once.
Then, I reloaded, and it took me right to the article.
Anyone have a link that doesn't require registration? I'm sick of telling the WP over and over that I'm a 99 year old woman from Azerbaijan.
Gravitational drag? What is that?
The acceleration due to gravity is practically identacal to the acceleration at sea level. There's not less gravity in orbit.
It's a little like the guy who gets injured in a home robbery, then decides to sue the owner of the house because it was unsafe!