It is critical to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the privacy of personal information within the FACTS database so this accumulation of information will not be used to monitor innocent citizens.
So are they saying they'll use it to only monitor guilty citizens? Guilty of what? Isn't everybody innocent until proven guilty? If they were already proven guilty, why monitor them?
I'm sorry you don't have the patience to explain, but perhaps you should bear through it if just for your own understanding. Hubble is in orbit around earth and not at a lagrange point. I don't know the orbital period off hand, but I think it's something like 20 minutes. This means Hubble can only take small exposures at a time before whatever it is observing gets blocked by earth. Even so, Hubble still needs to focus on one point, but I'd be very surprised if they didn't code some sort of image stability correction into Hubble.
As for the next part, the great thing about telescopes is that the don't have to be identical to contribute to the same image. Any number of telescopes looking at the same object will contribute linearly in proportion to their mirror area. Telescopes have to account for the rotation of the earth all the time, even on exposures of just a few minutes. If you don't believe me, try taking a long exposure photograph of the night sky and you'll see a streaking effect of the stars. You can put these telescopes in arrays such as the two Keck 10m, and as long as you're looking at a stable object that's not going through rapid change, it doesn't matter when you take exposures. They could be weeks apart.
It gets even better though. We've constructed huge radio 'telescopes' as the VLA and VLBA which has elements in Hawaii and the eastern US. These are arrays of multiple dishes all pointing at the same object. A few number crunches later, the overall effect is our ability to observe insanely large wavelengths of light, wavelengths almost the size of earth! We're more cabable than you might think, and we most certainly have NOT lost any collective will, whatever that means.
Not to be confused with those other awards being handed out right now... By the way, I just love how the techies get their own little Oscar ceremony, complete with Jennifer Garner. It's almost as if they're teasing us nerds with women of such calibre.
What about badly designed objects? My comcast cable remote is horrible. To use the scroll buttons on the program guide (if it can be called such, half of it is ads) I need to contort my wrist. Why remote controls are still shaped like hotdog buns is beyond me. On some level, these designers must realize that an ideal situation would involve a more mouse-like remote. And please, lets start using RF instead of IR. I'm sick of pointing my remote. Yes I'm that lazy.
What Verisign doesn't understand is that the public will put up with it's monopoly if we can use the internet day to day without seeing the verisign logo. This company has somehow cheated the system to become the overlord of the internet. As long as everyday consumers aren't aware where their meat comes from, they'll eat it. But if the harsh truth faced them every day, nobody would touch a big mac. In the same way, Verisign can get away with it's monopoly because nobody cares where the internet comes from. I hope sitefinder changes this. Let sitefinder be the 21st century "The Jungle."
As long as the pressure from the inside is the same as the pressure on the outside, we're good to go. Assuming an ideal gas, this means the number of particles on the inside of the baloon is equal to the number of particles on the outside of the baloon. What we are really concernd about is the composition of the atmosphere, not the density. The baloon's size therefore is not related to the atmospheric pressure but rather the molar mass of the atmosphere. And as you said, gravity is weaker, so if anything I bet the baloon would be smaller than it has to be on earth.
From that comment, it seems hard to believe that you've attended a university: you should know that failing students often take out their frustrations on the professors. At UC Berkeley we have a rating system where at the end of each semester the students are asked to rate the professors on a scale of 1-5. Even the best professors while recieving only 5's from 80% of the class, will get a few 1's.
Ants can carry huge amounts of weight in proportion to their own body mass. This is not because they have super-muscles that are far better than ours, but rather because the effect of gravity in proportion to the other forces becomes rather weak at such small scales. That's why dust floats in the air, to give another example. Cells in our body don't give a rat's ass (or in this case, mouse) about gravity, either: surface tension and molecular interaction are thousands of times stronger than gravity at that size.
People don't try on cloths to see what the cloths look like. They can do that by just looking at them. People try cloths on to see how they fit - ie, how big their boobs/asses look.
Don't you find it the least bit suspicious that the thing arrives there just fine after a long time in space, and fails only when it touches a rock with it's metallic arm? Static electricity is a very plausible culprit in my mind, simply because of the statistical improbability of a flash ram failure, at all times, now.
You are assuming that these are the only harms that are produced from such acivity. Please state your hypohesis as such and not as fact.
I leave it to you, then, to come up with a harmful aspect of prostitution within "The Sims" that would warrant a treatment similar to that of prostitution within meatspace.
Again you are assuming that simply because something occurs in nature it must be good and therefore allowed. We do not live in an anarchy. Our scociety, and much of our law, depends on the fact that we should generally do what is good for the whole, which is not always what we feel like doing.
Agreed, but what is "good?" Good for society or good in terms of classical morals? In my opinion, if prostitution within "The Sims" does no harm to that society (and our exterior one, but that's not part of the argument) why disallow it? In fact, since it naturally occurs, it should be given the benefit of the doubt. Subsequent laws restricting it should keep this in mind, and recognize that it is the shortcoming of the society, not the individuals nor the backing human nature that prompts such a law to be made.
Simply put, since we humans aren't built with a default set of morals fit for living in large-scale and complex societies such as ours, we DO have laws to bend and shape those morals into something that is acceptable. Since "The Sims" is external to our current society, those laws need to be rebuilt from the ground up, ignoring our current set. This means re-examining things such as prostitution and murder. In the virtual world, murder is but a mere annoyance: one may simply respawn, whereas murder in the real world warrants severe penalties.
A group of people gets together under the premise of starting a virtual community. They let it grow, and eventually a fully fledged society emerges. Lo and behold, that society has evolved to the point where a breed of prostitution exists. It causes no harm unlike in meatspace, where STDs, rape and other types of violence are common. Since those of us in meatspace have linked all of these together under one disreputable roof, it stands to reason that prostitution online must fit in the same category. Let's censor it.
Let's censor it in desperate hope that nobody notices that the evil notion of selling sex really has turned out to be quite a human trait, not something derived from the devil as some religions would have us believe. Let's censor it so that nobody notices that true human nature just might not be mirrored by our current society's value system.
That's censorship. It's a layor of makeup to hide our "flaws."
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On a more serious note, that price IS low enough to paper an entire city. I'd like to see someone do it.
But of course, do you know anybody to work harder when they're paid more?
Look Ma, it's raining planets!
Did we just slashdot yahoo? The movie doesn't work.
So are they saying they'll use it to only monitor guilty citizens? Guilty of what? Isn't everybody innocent until proven guilty? If they were already proven guilty, why monitor them?
As for the next part, the great thing about telescopes is that the don't have to be identical to contribute to the same image. Any number of telescopes looking at the same object will contribute linearly in proportion to their mirror area. Telescopes have to account for the rotation of the earth all the time, even on exposures of just a few minutes. If you don't believe me, try taking a long exposure photograph of the night sky and you'll see a streaking effect of the stars. You can put these telescopes in arrays such as the two Keck 10m, and as long as you're looking at a stable object that's not going through rapid change, it doesn't matter when you take exposures. They could be weeks apart.
It gets even better though. We've constructed huge radio 'telescopes' as the VLA and VLBA which has elements in Hawaii and the eastern US. These are arrays of multiple dishes all pointing at the same object. A few number crunches later, the overall effect is our ability to observe insanely large wavelengths of light, wavelengths almost the size of earth! We're more cabable than you might think, and we most certainly have NOT lost any collective will, whatever that means.
Sell energy back to your local utility!
Not to be confused with those other awards being handed out right now... By the way, I just love how the techies get their own little Oscar ceremony, complete with Jennifer Garner. It's almost as if they're teasing us nerds with women of such calibre.
Whatever happened to Microsoft's bovine naming scheme? I was looking forward to another mountain cat tearing a cow to pieces.
What about badly designed objects? My comcast cable remote is horrible. To use the scroll buttons on the program guide (if it can be called such, half of it is ads) I need to contort my wrist. Why remote controls are still shaped like hotdog buns is beyond me. On some level, these designers must realize that an ideal situation would involve a more mouse-like remote. And please, lets start using RF instead of IR. I'm sick of pointing my remote. Yes I'm that lazy.
Spacefaring is one of the few instances where socialism has shown a clear advantage over capitalism. That and OSS, but don't tell Microsoft.
What Verisign doesn't understand is that the public will put up with it's monopoly if we can use the internet day to day without seeing the verisign logo. This company has somehow cheated the system to become the overlord of the internet. As long as everyday consumers aren't aware where their meat comes from, they'll eat it. But if the harsh truth faced them every day, nobody would touch a big mac. In the same way, Verisign can get away with it's monopoly because nobody cares where the internet comes from. I hope sitefinder changes this. Let sitefinder be the 21st century "The Jungle."
As long as the pressure from the inside is the same as the pressure on the outside, we're good to go. Assuming an ideal gas, this means the number of particles on the inside of the baloon is equal to the number of particles on the outside of the baloon. What we are really concernd about is the composition of the atmosphere, not the density. The baloon's size therefore is not related to the atmospheric pressure but rather the molar mass of the atmosphere. And as you said, gravity is weaker, so if anything I bet the baloon would be smaller than it has to be on earth.
Can't we use hydrogen instead? Does it even burn in the martian atmosphere?
From that comment, it seems hard to believe that you've attended a university: you should know that failing students often take out their frustrations on the professors. At UC Berkeley we have a rating system where at the end of each semester the students are asked to rate the professors on a scale of 1-5. Even the best professors while recieving only 5's from 80% of the class, will get a few 1's.
Ants can carry huge amounts of weight in proportion to their own body mass. This is not because they have super-muscles that are far better than ours, but rather because the effect of gravity in proportion to the other forces becomes rather weak at such small scales. That's why dust floats in the air, to give another example. Cells in our body don't give a rat's ass (or in this case, mouse) about gravity, either: surface tension and molecular interaction are thousands of times stronger than gravity at that size.
You sound like a very sick person, want a ride in my x-473?
Now I can fit my geekiness in my pants...
Perhaps you could show us some pointers? My geekiness always seems to come out at parties.
I wouldn't know, I'm on a mac, but I do believe that the key command does a lot more than reboot the computer.
Because if you were in a text editor, stuff would start deleting until you hit the "Alt" key.
People don't try on cloths to see what the cloths look like. They can do that by just looking at them. People try cloths on to see how they fit - ie, how big their boobs/asses look.
Don't you find it the least bit suspicious that the thing arrives there just fine after a long time in space, and fails only when it touches a rock with it's metallic arm? Static electricity is a very plausible culprit in my mind, simply because of the statistical improbability of a flash ram failure, at all times, now.
hit command-w, and you'll be fine.
I leave it to you, then, to come up with a harmful aspect of prostitution within "The Sims" that would warrant a treatment similar to that of prostitution within meatspace.
Again you are assuming that simply because something occurs in nature it must be good and therefore allowed. We do not live in an anarchy. Our scociety, and much of our law, depends on the fact that we should generally do what is good for the whole, which is not always what we feel like doing.Agreed, but what is "good?" Good for society or good in terms of classical morals? In my opinion, if prostitution within "The Sims" does no harm to that society (and our exterior one, but that's not part of the argument) why disallow it? In fact, since it naturally occurs, it should be given the benefit of the doubt. Subsequent laws restricting it should keep this in mind, and recognize that it is the shortcoming of the society, not the individuals nor the backing human nature that prompts such a law to be made.
Simply put, since we humans aren't built with a default set of morals fit for living in large-scale and complex societies such as ours, we DO have laws to bend and shape those morals into something that is acceptable. Since "The Sims" is external to our current society, those laws need to be rebuilt from the ground up, ignoring our current set. This means re-examining things such as prostitution and murder. In the virtual world, murder is but a mere annoyance: one may simply respawn, whereas murder in the real world warrants severe penalties.
A group of people gets together under the premise of starting a virtual community. They let it grow, and eventually a fully fledged society emerges. Lo and behold, that society has evolved to the point where a breed of prostitution exists. It causes no harm unlike in meatspace, where STDs, rape and other types of violence are common. Since those of us in meatspace have linked all of these together under one disreputable roof, it stands to reason that prostitution online must fit in the same category. Let's censor it.
Let's censor it in desperate hope that nobody notices that the evil notion of selling sex really has turned out to be quite a human trait, not something derived from the devil as some religions would have us believe. Let's censor it so that nobody notices that true human nature just might not be mirrored by our current society's value system.
That's censorship. It's a layor of makeup to hide our "flaws."