Then fundamentalist Christians will bomb, burn or shoot to kill.
And yet these people aren't called "Christian Terrorists", which they are.
But if Muslim extremists do the same thing then they're called, "Muslim terrorists" smearing the whole religion.
Oh, and let's not forget conservative commentators who advocate "killing all the leaders" of muslim nations and "converting the people to Christianity" like Anne Coulter did.
How is that really different than advocating for the death of the author of "The Satanic Verses"? Answer: It's not.
Written by Alan E. Nourse. I read it when I was in High School. The original novel, Blade Runner was set in a dystopia where doctors were outlawed and so someone who supplied illegal doctors with their scapels and other instruments were called, "blade runners".
A take on the phrase, "rum runner" when alcohol was illegal.
I really doubt this will ever work. It would be a violation of relativity for signals to travel faster then light.
Nope, Relativity only says objects with mass cannot be accelerated to C or beyond. Actually what it says is, "If a object with mass were to be traveling at the speed of light then we'd have a non-zero number being divided by zero. And we don't know what that means."
Similarly with faster than light speeds, but in this case it would be a real number being divided by an imaginary number. And we don't know what that means.
At the core of quantum mechanics is the simple fact that you cannot measure without disturbing.
It's often more than a full time job to find, hire and retain smart talented and passionate individuals
There's a whole department called 'Human Resources' whose whole purpose is to do that. Otherwise, what's their purpose?
... to choose from among the many solutions offered by them, to get everybody supporting the chosen solution...
Frankly the former could be done by discussion amongst the project members and a vote. Since the project members are the ones who are most familiar with the problem it only makes sense that they should decide and not someone who's completely divorced from the problem set, the implementation details and other information that isn't available to anyone who isn't in the trenches.
The latter is what you were arguing (or the parent post, if it wasn't you) the engineers should be doing, i.e., being passionate about their idea(s). If they're passionate about their idea while their pitching it then they certainly will remain so during it's implementation.
...o run interference for them to make sure other managers (investors, etc.) don't get in their way.
Frankly it sounds like companies would work better if they didn't have management. Especially if (part of) the purpose of managers is to prevent managers from interfering with the smooth operation of the company!;-)
Copyrights non-transferable? That will pretty much kill off the modern economic world as we know it.
Selling the copyright to your work is essentially what keeps programmers, authors, artists, and anyone involved in any form of creation creativity employed.
Authors, artists, etc., could just as easily sell first use rights. Or distribution rights or anything other than exclusive and absolute control over their works like they presently do. And they'd be less likely to be screwed over like so many black musicians were in the 1950s.
I've never grasped why inheritance should be taxed though, can you fill me in on the logic there?
Because, as Thomas Jefferson so wisely put it, the dead have no rights.
In no country in the world that I am aware of, are dairy farmers going to kick in your door and Abu Ghraib you and your family for saying you don't like cheddar.
But the Texas Cattle Association will sue your ass and IIRC it is indeed illegal to say bad things about the beef industry in Texas even today.
Had Oprah lose then I'm sure the Texas Rangers would have "Abu Ghraib" her and thrown her into prison.
Scary country we've been living in lately, wouldn't you say?
He specifically releases it into the public domain!
Once a work has been released into the public domain it cannot be retroactively removed from there, the Bono Copyright Act notwithstanding.
And that is because of one simple Constitutional provision, that no one can be alienated from their property without fair compensation. This applies to the public as well as to individuals and the Bono Act does not provide compensation to the public for works that have been removed from the public domain.
What if they were advertising for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 film?
Still feel so blaise about it?
Note, I like F911, but I bet kmweber doesn't. But he's quite willing to give anyone a free pass with intrusion and theft of resources as long as they're trying to make a buck from it.
Oh, and as long as an evil "socialist" government agency is the opposition too.
For we Americans, "freedom" is the crack cocaine of the English language. I found it helpful to remove it & try to same the same thing w/a more descriptive, less emotive word. Unregulated, is that what they mean? Ah, that gets to the heart of it. But it's not unregulated, it's regulated by the handful at the top. And damn if it doesn't benefit them, but at our expense.
We aren't more free. Our jobs are being sent away and our income is being transferred to the top 1% in inc. profits. Profits are now soo unimaginably vast that they can afford to buy up lots o' people - politicians, lobbyists & journalists to front for/rationalize their system.
Economics serves power. We have to ask ourselves, is this the system from which we most benefit, or would other arrangements benefit us more? The answer is obvious.
Then again. These are Libertarians we're talking about. Ayn Randies. The guys who have their thumb right on the pulse of the nation, who can see perfectly clearly how the problems of the nation could all be solved: if we just had fewer public parks and schools; worse health care and roads; and more corporate greed, wealth inequity, guns, pollution, and low-wage jobs -- we'd reach utopia.
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at least a little from David Gerald's, The Man Who Folded Himself.
But I still look forward to it. Sounds very interesting anyway.
The Oort cloud is the source of long-period comets and possibly higher-inclination intermediate comets that were pulled into shorter period orbits by the planets, such as Halley and Swift-Tuttle. Comets can also shift their orbits due to jets of gas and dust that rocket from their icy surface as they approach the sun. Although they get off course, comets do have initial orbits with widely different ranges, from 200 years to once every million years or more. Comets entering the planetary region for the first time, come from an average distance of 44,000 astronomical units.
Long period comets can appear at any time and come from any direction. Bright comets can usually be seen every 5-10 years. Two recent Oort cloud comets were Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. Hyakutake was average in size, but came to 0.10 AU (15,000,000 km) from Earth, which made it appear especially spectacular. Hale-Bopp, on the other hand, was an unusually large and dynamic comet, ten times that of Halley at comparable distances from the sun, making it appear quite bright, even though it did not approach closer than 1.32 AU (197,000,000 km) to the Earth
You have to remember that most of the material that the solar system accreated from was in a disk around the sun. So most of the dangerous debris is on the plane of the ecliptic, which sorta renders the Solar System 2D.
Now the gas giants do indeed "hoover" up a lot of the space debris that might otherwise hit the inner planets you also have to realize that they're also responsible for causing debris from the Kuniper Belt and Oort Cloud to decend out of their respective places in the outer Solar System into the inner Solar System. Due to gravitational perturbation.
So I'd argue the gas giants are sort of a mixed blessing overall.
One of the replies to my post above links to a review of the movie.
Basically I was right, all the movie and the book have in common is the title, oh, and they share the First Law too. I guess they didn't want to bother with the other two Laws.
Anyway, I'm not going to see it. Frankly if you're going to film a movie that's based on a book then MAKE THE FREAKIN' MOVIE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE BOOK!!!!
Sorry, I love my classic science fiction and I'd love to see them turned into good movies. Not just another money sucking device for Hollywood.
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Not "add" as in "add two numbers together"!!!
Obviously the polls were rigged!
And yet these people aren't called "Christian Terrorists", which they are.
But if Muslim extremists do the same thing then they're called, "Muslim terrorists" smearing the whole religion.
Oh, and let's not forget conservative commentators who advocate "killing all the leaders" of muslim nations and "converting the people to Christianity" like Anne Coulter did.
How is that really different than advocating for the death of the author of "The Satanic Verses"? Answer: It's not.
I agree, now if we could only extend it to the economic system too, industrial democracy.
And the problem with this is?
If they were green women from Rigel 7, then yes!
A take on the phrase, "rum runner" when alcohol was illegal.
...dream of Android Scotsman?
Actually they resemble Authur C. Clarke's "Biots" (or, "Biological Robots) from his novel, Rendevous with Rama.
Nope? Didn't think so. All you've got is hear-say, slander, fairy tales, and group-think.
Everybody is listening and nobody's transmitting!
Nope, Relativity only says objects with mass cannot be accelerated to C or beyond. Actually what it says is, "If a object with mass were to be traveling at the speed of light then we'd have a non-zero number being divided by zero. And we don't know what that means."
Similarly with faster than light speeds, but in this case it would be a real number being divided by an imaginary number. And we don't know what that means.
At the core of quantum mechanics is the simple fact that you cannot measure without disturbing.
Again, nope. Try reading up on "quantum non-demolition measurement".
There's a whole department called 'Human Resources' whose whole purpose is to do that. Otherwise, what's their purpose?
Frankly the former could be done by discussion amongst the project members and a vote. Since the project members are the ones who are most familiar with the problem it only makes sense that they should decide and not someone who's completely divorced from the problem set, the implementation details and other information that isn't available to anyone who isn't in the trenches.
The latter is what you were arguing (or the parent post, if it wasn't you) the engineers should be doing, i.e., being passionate about their idea(s). If they're passionate about their idea while their pitching it then they certainly will remain so during it's implementation.
Frankly it sounds like companies would work better if they didn't have management. Especially if (part of) the purpose of managers is to prevent managers from interfering with the smooth operation of the company! ;-)
Sorry, but that's the MANAGER'S JOB.
If it isn't then WTF is a manager's job?
I've never grasped why inheritance should be taxed though, can you fill me in on the logic there?
Because, as Thomas Jefferson so wisely put it, the dead have no rights.
Why should I be punished by the gov't for dying?
Why should you care? Geez, your dead brainiac!
At least that's how they sold it.
But the Texas Cattle Association will sue your ass and IIRC it is indeed illegal to say bad things about the beef industry in Texas even today.
Had Oprah lose then I'm sure the Texas Rangers would have "Abu Ghraib" her and thrown her into prison.
Scary country we've been living in lately, wouldn't you say?
Once a work has been released into the public domain it cannot be retroactively removed from there, the Bono Copyright Act notwithstanding.
And that is because of one simple Constitutional provision, that no one can be alienated from their property without fair compensation. This applies to the public as well as to individuals and the Bono Act does not provide compensation to the public for works that have been removed from the public domain .
That makes the law unConstitutional, period.
Still feel so blaise about it?
Note, I like F911, but I bet kmweber doesn't. But he's quite willing to give anyone a free pass with intrusion and theft of resources as long as they're trying to make a buck from it.
Oh, and as long as an evil "socialist" government agency is the opposition too.
For we Americans, "freedom" is the crack cocaine of the English language. I found it helpful to remove it & try to same the same thing w/a more descriptive, less emotive word. Unregulated, is that what they mean? Ah, that gets to the heart of it. But it's not unregulated, it's regulated by the handful at the top. And damn if it doesn't benefit them, but at our expense.
We aren't more free. Our jobs are being sent away and our income is being transferred to the top 1% in inc. profits. Profits are now soo unimaginably vast that they can afford to buy up lots o' people - politicians, lobbyists & journalists to front for/rationalize their system.
Economics serves power. We have to ask ourselves, is this the system from which we most benefit, or would other arrangements benefit us more? The answer is obvious.
Then again. These are Libertarians we're talking about. Ayn Randies. The guys who have their thumb right on the pulse of the nation, who can see perfectly clearly how the problems of the nation could all be solved: if we just had fewer public parks and schools; worse health care and roads; and more corporate greed, wealth inequity, guns, pollution, and low-wage jobs -- we'd reach utopia.
But I still look forward to it. Sounds very interesting anyway.
The name, USA PATRIOT Act, is an acronym!
It stands for, "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"!
Well your doubts have no basis in fact, as this link shows.
I've read and seen numerous interviews of her and she's said that she started writing the Harry Potter stories as bed time stories for her children.
Now the gas giants do indeed "hoover" up a lot of the space debris that might otherwise hit the inner planets you also have to realize that they're also responsible for causing debris from the Kuniper Belt and Oort Cloud to decend out of their respective places in the outer Solar System into the inner Solar System. Due to gravitational perturbation.
So I'd argue the gas giants are sort of a mixed blessing overall.
Basically I was right, all the movie and the book have in common is the title, oh, and they share the First Law too. I guess they didn't want to bother with the other two Laws.
Anyway, I'm not going to see it. Frankly if you're going to film a movie that's based on a book then MAKE THE FREAKIN' MOVIE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE BOOK!!!!
Sorry, I love my classic science fiction and I'd love to see them turned into good movies. Not just another money sucking device for Hollywood.