Well, for the love of $DIETY, don't forget to set a hard-to-guess private community string, unless you want random strangers tweaking the writeable objects in your neural MIB.
So if you do decide to piss Amazon off, like someone else implied above, you might as well just sit down, have a cup of coffee, and wait for the black Amazon helicopters to land on your lawn.:)
Oh, boy, finally! A real-world use for yelling "Get off my lawn!"
So, Martin Luther King, Jr. advocating and inciting the unlawful conduct of sit-ins, unlicensed Freedom Marches, and other demonstration actions directed at segregationist members of the U.S. South... is hate speech?
I would be certainly want to say "of course not", but your definition doesn't leave me much room.
No matter how well you want to codify it, much of the definition of "hate speech" is "I know it when I hear it."
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
Well be clean when their work is done
Well be eternally free yes and eternally young
have small objects measured in millions of an inch, or tenths of a millionth of a meter, been "nano" scale? I think SI already has a prefix for this... Oh, yeah, "micro". Microbees*, perhaps. Nano, not so much.
*Maybe our intrepid scientists were afraid of colliding with the trademark of this obscure microcomputer from Australia. (Yes, from the land Down Under, and released at about the same time as the song with that name. Amazing coincidence, though nothing to do with bees, micro, nano, or otherwise.)
The Inquirer (the IT news website, not the tabloid) has some words about this:
HP, on the other hand, wants Sun's hardware to boost its services business. HP bought outsourcing player EDS. EDS was Sun's best customer. By owning Sun technology, HP will improve its profit margins on many EDS deals.
HP told CNN that the EDS integration process has gone well and the subtext is that the maker of expensive printer ink is fine with writing a big cheque to Ellison.
So, HP bought EDS, and EDS has a historical habit of recommending or BOM'ing Sun hardware. Solution? HP buys and manufactures Sun hardware. That way, EDS is eating HP's own dog food. That's the "x) PROFIT!" stage.
It is theorised by Known Space scientists that the greatest problem faced by any advancing civilisation is not economics, health, or safety, but heat. Heat is produced by any suffienciently industrialised race in great amounts, and eventually the heat threatens the ecology of the planet, which in turn threatens the lives of everything on the world. Expansion to other systems is not a solution since the heat problems are merely carried from world to world.
The Puppeteers faced this dilemma early in their star-faring history. A Conservative faction ruled at the time, and they were forced to hear insane proposals from the Experimentalists. The Conservatives relinquished control of the seat of government to the other party. The Puppeteer homeworld was moved away from its sun to dissipate the heat, and four farming worlds were terraformed, seeded, and placed in convenient orbits.
The Fleet of Worlds was formed to readjust the heat balance of their homeworld. The only living space the Puppeteers have is their one world. The agricultural worlds weren't living space. If I recall, they were populated solely by machines. (Who would be crazy enough to migrate there? And live there practically alone? A sane Puppeteer needs Puppeteer company. An entire extended herd of it. A population density sufficient to content a sane Puppeteer would turn an agricultural world into another world-wide Puppeteer city.)
A Klempere rosette isn't gravitationally bound to a star; only mutually. In essence, they're orbiting each other (their common barycenter). That's the reason the Puppeteers created their "Fleet of Worlds": Their own industrial heat generation warmed their homeworlds well enough that they neither needed solar energy, nor desired it. In other words, they solved their version of anthropogenic global warming, not by reducing anthropogenic (puppeteerogenic?) heat, but by moving away from their sun. The planetary heat budget settles back into equilibrium. Problem solved.
Of course, Niven's A Gift from Earth and the various Gil Hamilton stories make it pretty plain: make transplantation foolproof and effective in extending life, and make organ harvesting the sanctioned method of execution, and all good people will vote the death penalty for any crime. Quoting this Wikipedia article, which (at this moment) is a pretty good summary of Niven's assertion:
On Earth, the problem led to a repressive society almost unrecognizable by today's standards. Since the average citizens wished to extend their lives, the world government sought to increase the supply by using condemned criminals to supply the organ banks. When this failed to meet the demand, citizens would vote for the death penalty for more and more trivial crimes. First violent crimes, then theft, tax evasion, false advertising, and even traffic violations became punishable by the organ banks. This failed to solve the problem, as once the death penalty was passed for a crime, people stopped committing it. This resulted in nearly every crime meriting the death penalty.
You can almost see the wheels turning in Joe Q. Citizen's brain, when faced with the referendum "Shall the United Nations make Third-Offense Jaywalking a capital criminal felony, punishable by execution by disassembly?"
"Hmmm... I've been smoking a bit too much, and now my breath is getting kinda short. I could use some new lungs, but the government organ bank is running short of tissue in my rejection compatibility. I don't want to suffer from emphysema, and I deserve new lungs. I'm a good citizen, and those criminals don't deserve their lungs as much as I deserve them. This is a pure win-win for me. I get new lungs, and some filthy jaywalker gets yanked off the streets, so they stop cutting in front of me and making me stop for them. Yup, easy, 'Yes' to the referendum."
While we all appreciate the thoughtful and incisive commentary on the appropriate symbol for "feet", I must humbly point out you misspelled "apostrophe", which has the unfortunate effect of putting your credibility as a master of punctuation in some... doubt.
But yes, since Slashcode fails to recognize ANY of the HTML4 entities for "prime" , we will have no choice but to fall back on that ancient artifact of the bygone typewriter era: the apostrophe key. I blame GP commentor's lamentable faux pas in choosing the wrong key on a lack of training in typewriter keyboarding. This modern computer keyboarding is an anarchic madhouse of unregulated freedom and undisciplined overabundance of choices. It's good to have the leadership and mentorship of those who know better, in order to provide guidance to youngling slashdotters. Thank you, evilbessie.
All of these subjects were touched on within (all 11 pages) of the discussions. I know that "tl;dr" is a way of life here, but really, sometimes you can learn stuff.
Galvanic corrosion was dealt with by insulation (standoff "chairs") air gapping (or concrete-gapping) the steel remesh and the copper plumbing. Chemical corrosion was discussed; consensus was that it's an issue with a timeframe of decades.
Permanence was not explicitly addressed, but the homeowner's idea was that it's his dedicated PC room; who would make him relocate anything?
The entire lightning-strike angle was properly laughed off. If you get a lightning strike close enough to energize the floor slab, you have bigger problems than the cooling loop. And the interconnection approach to the PC seemed to be evolving to a dual-loop system, with a heat-exchanging tank. Also, flexible plastic interconnects. Honestly, is this lightning risk even remotely credible, given that most computers are directly connected to MILES of conductors (power lines, cable or telephone lines), some of which is suspended in the air begging for a direct lightning strike.
As to heat transfer, again, if you leave large bubbles in your concrete, you have larger problems than a few inches of non-contact between the heatpipe and the thermal mass. And with the dual-loop system proposed, the exchanger tank functions as a buffer.
No, if I were to guess, I'd speculate that the real problem would be that the concrete doesn't have infinite thermal mass or spectacular thermal conductivity within itself. Run hard enough long enough, the concrete in immediate contact with the heatpipe would begin to warm, killing its cooling capability. But I'm no thermal engineer, so I dunno.
Didn't happen, too. Though it was close, kinda. The Indiana General Assembly almost did that, maybe. Some evidence indicates that many of the legislators in question considered the whole thing a joke and were pursuing it, to borrow a modern phrase, "for lulz".
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Advocated by a guy name "Trollope"?
<looks at calendar>
It's not April 1st; what's up with that?
Well, for the love of $DIETY, don't forget to set a hard-to-guess private community string, unless you want random strangers tweaking the writeable objects in your neural MIB.
That would be madness!
So if you do decide to piss Amazon off, like someone else implied above, you might as well just sit down, have a cup of coffee, and wait for the black Amazon helicopters to land on your lawn. :)
Oh, boy, finally! A real-world use for yelling "Get off my lawn!"
But...but... IBM said that the patent was moist and delicious!
So, Martin Luther King, Jr. advocating and inciting the unlawful conduct of sit-ins, unlicensed Freedom Marches, and other demonstration actions directed at segregationist members of the U.S. South... is hate speech?
I would be certainly want to say "of course not", but your definition doesn't leave me much room.
No matter how well you want to codify it, much of the definition of "hate speech" is "I know it when I hear it."
Judging from the construction of his statement*, not Steven Colbert. That narrows it down a bit.
*My evidence? The use of the "or" conjunction, which in English is semantically equivalent to a logical XOR.
Donald Fagen, is that you?
-- I.G.Y.
have small objects measured in millions of an inch, or tenths of a millionth of a meter, been "nano" scale? I think SI already has a prefix for this... Oh, yeah, "micro". Microbees*, perhaps. Nano, not so much.
*Maybe our intrepid scientists were afraid of colliding with the trademark of this obscure microcomputer from Australia. (Yes, from the land Down Under, and released at about the same time as the song with that name. Amazing coincidence, though nothing to do with bees, micro, nano, or otherwise.)
The successful scientists are cyberneticists working on a robotic Richard Simmons. Truth.
IT services arm.
The Inquirer (the IT news website, not the tabloid) has some words about this:
So, HP bought EDS, and EDS has a historical habit of recommending or BOM'ing Sun hardware. Solution? HP buys and manufactures Sun hardware. That way, EDS is eating HP's own dog food. That's the "x) PROFIT!" stage.
What about a fansite for the UN Secretary-General? That guy's AWESOME! If I can't have my website bankimoon.se, I'll JUST DIE!
I choose NOT to make a choice!
Rush thanks you for making your choice.
You accidentally the English Language.
Miyamoto Musashi would be intrigued.
Larry Niven begs to differ, Pedantic Coward:
The Fleet of Worlds was formed to readjust the heat balance of their homeworld. The only living space the Puppeteers have is their one world. The agricultural worlds weren't living space. If I recall, they were populated solely by machines. (Who would be crazy enough to migrate there? And live there practically alone? A sane Puppeteer needs Puppeteer company. An entire extended herd of it. A population density sufficient to content a sane Puppeteer would turn an agricultural world into another world-wide Puppeteer city.)
My toons are all celibate. Since my beloved IRL doesn't play, I don't even allow myself the fantasy of another SO relationship. Problem solved.
Flirting is flirting, even on line. There's a real live person behind the character. Don't do it.
What sun?
A Klempere rosette isn't gravitationally bound to a star; only mutually. In essence, they're orbiting each other (their common barycenter). That's the reason the Puppeteers created their "Fleet of Worlds": Their own industrial heat generation warmed their homeworlds well enough that they neither needed solar energy, nor desired it. In other words, they solved their version of anthropogenic global warming, not by reducing anthropogenic (puppeteerogenic?) heat, but by moving away from their sun. The planetary heat budget settles back into equilibrium. Problem solved.
€ symbol is available by HTML entity: €
If you just poked it in by keyboard, I think slashcode will eat it.
Why? Cuz it's slashcode.
Of course, Niven's A Gift from Earth and the various Gil Hamilton stories make it pretty plain: make transplantation foolproof and effective in extending life, and make organ harvesting the sanctioned method of execution, and all good people will vote the death penalty for any crime. Quoting this Wikipedia article, which (at this moment) is a pretty good summary of Niven's assertion:
You can almost see the wheels turning in Joe Q. Citizen's brain, when faced with the referendum "Shall the United Nations make Third-Offense Jaywalking a capital criminal felony, punishable by execution by disassembly?"
"Hmmm... I've been smoking a bit too much, and now my breath is getting kinda short. I could use some new lungs, but the government organ bank is running short of tissue in my rejection compatibility. I don't want to suffer from emphysema, and I deserve new lungs. I'm a good citizen, and those criminals don't deserve their lungs as much as I deserve them. This is a pure win-win for me. I get new lungs, and some filthy jaywalker gets yanked off the streets, so they stop cutting in front of me and making me stop for them. Yup, easy, 'Yes' to the referendum."
Well, technically, "theft" is a noun. But it requires no possessive qualification.
"That's theft."
"Theft? Of what!?"
"That's theft. Just theft. <leveling and charging assault rifle> Come along with me."
That's the new grammatical paradigm: "theft" and "steal" are intransitive verbs. They don't need objects.
"You stole."
"What? What did I steal?"
"You stole."
While we all appreciate the thoughtful and incisive commentary on the appropriate symbol for "feet", I must humbly point out you misspelled "apostrophe", which has the unfortunate effect of putting your credibility as a master of punctuation in some... doubt.
But yes, since Slashcode fails to recognize ANY of the HTML4 entities for "prime" , we will have no choice but to fall back on that ancient artifact of the bygone typewriter era: the apostrophe key. I blame GP commentor's lamentable faux pas in choosing the wrong key on a lack of training in typewriter keyboarding. This modern computer keyboarding is an anarchic madhouse of unregulated freedom and undisciplined overabundance of choices. It's good to have the leadership and mentorship of those who know better, in order to provide guidance to youngling slashdotters. Thank you, evilbessie.
All of these subjects were touched on within (all 11 pages) of the discussions. I know that "tl;dr" is a way of life here, but really, sometimes you can learn stuff.
Galvanic corrosion was dealt with by insulation (standoff "chairs") air gapping (or concrete-gapping) the steel remesh and the copper plumbing. Chemical corrosion was discussed; consensus was that it's an issue with a timeframe of decades.
Permanence was not explicitly addressed, but the homeowner's idea was that it's his dedicated PC room; who would make him relocate anything?
The entire lightning-strike angle was properly laughed off. If you get a lightning strike close enough to energize the floor slab, you have bigger problems than the cooling loop. And the interconnection approach to the PC seemed to be evolving to a dual-loop system, with a heat-exchanging tank. Also, flexible plastic interconnects. Honestly, is this lightning risk even remotely credible, given that most computers are directly connected to MILES of conductors (power lines, cable or telephone lines), some of which is suspended in the air begging for a direct lightning strike.
As to heat transfer, again, if you leave large bubbles in your concrete, you have larger problems than a few inches of non-contact between the heatpipe and the thermal mass. And with the dual-loop system proposed, the exchanger tank functions as a buffer.
No, if I were to guess, I'd speculate that the real problem would be that the concrete doesn't have infinite thermal mass or spectacular thermal conductivity within itself. Run hard enough long enough, the concrete in immediate contact with the heatpipe would begin to warm, killing its cooling capability. But I'm no thermal engineer, so I dunno.
And they're MIDGETS. OMG, that's like the worst kink EVAR.
Didn't happen, too. Though it was close, kinda. The Indiana General Assembly almost did that, maybe. Some evidence indicates that many of the legislators in question considered the whole thing a joke and were pursuing it, to borrow a modern phrase, "for lulz".