So, you cannot inflict scars on the body, but you're free to inflict scars on the soul?
That's so melodramatic, but yes, if you're dealing with an adult I don't see any reason why you should have any particular protection from another human being when it comes to "soul".
Thank you for your post. When it comes to religion I tend to be rather coarse.
I don't have a problem with any religion - until it becomes a vehicle for hatred. In my youth I had a time when I was truly attracted to the Christian faith. That lasted for about two years until I was practically driven away by the people who, as you you describe, "think they are responsible for the actions of others and thus should have control over them".
I truly respect the people of faith who still own their minds - like you.
Did you guys really think that Microsoft's not profiling the Slashdot users, or the Linux kernel contributors or anyone they deem as a valuable target?
It seems like the only way to avoid this is to have completely relativity-based ethics and morals (no sure right or wrong -- "everything is relative")
Quite frankly, I am going quite far along that road of relativity. I don't believe strongly in anything except that in the freedom of being what you feel you are and expressing yourself in a way that does not physically hurt anyone. There is no god (Christian, Muslim, whatever) or a comprehensive set of rules for moral and ethical conduct. What is humanity? What binds it? Does it judge itself, mould itself, and dictate its own path? I believe it does. To quote Alan Moore's Watchmen:
"Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, Hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion.
There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the dogs.
It's also subversive, and really no different than lying.
I label myself as an ultra-liberal and quite frankly I think that if you want a truly liberal candidate to win in California, you should vote for Arnold.
I can't believe that people still view politics on the one dimensional axis of economically conservative-economically liberal.
Hell, I'm right in the middle of the spectrum when it comes to the economy, but when it comes to the social rights (gay marriage, drug decriminalization,...) I'm as liberal as you can get. And no, that's not a contradiction. Giving the right for the gay pairs to marry and inherit as well as taxing the mild drugs only makes economical sense! It's the right-wing, religious right who has problems with these issues. Fuck them.
The best idea that I've seen so far for a lightweigth attack has been a divide and conquer kind of a community effort:
Do the menial research for IBM and RedHat. Set up a website for it - preferably mirrored extensively around the world to keep it out of SCOs hands.
Dig out those CVS and BitKeeper kernel logs, trace where every significant line of code came from, find and contact the authors so that they can be heard if necessary. Every time SCO leaks out the "infringing code" bit, prepare a clear presentation - one that can be understood and quoted by the mainstream media, lawyers and judges - to which people can refer.
Search the literature. Find references to the most common OS kernel designs and implementations (like the recent malloc-bit) so that's easy to show that the stuff has been in public domain before SCO. Make this bibliography searchable on the beforementioned website.
in a closed system the gas must all be at the same temperature and pressure all the time
Closed system: no exchange on particles. Isolated system: no exchange of particles or energy.
It is correct to call this system a closed one. The water molecules inside the tube transfer energy in and out of the system via evaporation and condensation (+natural conduction through the pipe material) as long as one end of the tube is at a higher temperature than the other.
As far as the transient times are concerned, you're right in that thermodynamics does not deal with equilibration times. Why? Because it is a theory of systems in equilibrium. And of course there is a delay. Nothing in nature is instantaneous.
Unless you are damn sure your PhD topic is what you want to work on its probably not worth it, but then if you end up working in the University after that you still have considerable flexibility.
Unless, of course, you get your PhD from experimental physics or some engineering field.
Unless you're blessed with unlimited workshop and technician resources, you've got to learn how to do plumbing (serious water cooling), power engineering (kV lines, high current throughput), nuts-and-bolts kind of mechanics, CAD designing and machining metal components and also soft skills like how to manage a team of highly intelligent and sometimes eccentric people.
I don't think you should assign penalties to academic PhD-types - at least outright. Some of them actually do their work in projects involving academia-corporation or academia-military collaboration.
Not all of them are pipedreaming slackers, which is the stereotype of a PhD in the industry, but mentally tough individuals who are not only capable of doing penetrating analysis of a problem but also managing a team of people.
At least all the applied physicists I know are real pros on both accounts.
LaTeX produces far better results than what Word can do.
Yeah, sure if the publisher is kind enough to give you a LaTeX style/class.
If not, you're in for a week of hell trying to build your own template that would look good. And no, the default book and article styles will not do for most of the time.
Ever wondered why it has been used by a lot of scientists for their papers?
Because it is superior when it comes to math typesetting and the scientists have both the time and inclination to first learn a programming language before they can type in their document.
Oh, and what's so great about the jingoism-insipiring nation states (just witness the stupid government propaganda inspired animosity between the Europe and US) and having borders that make it difficult for people to exercise their natural right to move freely from one place to another?
PS is not PDF and even that is too hard for an average office worker to learn and remember. "How do I print in a file", "Where is the file?" and so on.
The filter must be in the drop-down menu where it says clealy: "PDF printer" and when you press OK the file will open in Acrobat.
I don't. Globalisation is the only way to bring down the ugly concept of a sovereign nation state and the silly borders between them.
Too bad your jobs are going abroad where they don't cost so much. Stop whining and start doing something that can't be done in the 2nd and 3rd world shops quite yet. While you're doing that, prepare already for the day when these new jobs will move abroad, too.
somebody will figure out you can exchange documents using Acrobat. Or just printing to a PDF file for that matter.
Don't you need Adobe Acrobat for that? Yes, yes. I know there is ghostscript but does it come with a printer plug-in these days? If it doesn't, it's useless to your average office worker.
I bought my last laptop from Compaq (when it was still separate from HP) and the one before that from HP.
They all came with an "installation CD" that just copied an image from one of the pre-installed Windows hard-drive partitions to the main partition and rebooted the machine.
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That's so melodramatic, but yes, if you're dealing with an adult I don't see any reason why you should have any particular protection from another human being when it comes to "soul".
Hiring, smearing, whatever.
I don't have a problem with any religion - until it becomes a vehicle for hatred. In my youth I had a time when I was truly attracted to the Christian faith. That lasted for about two years until I was practically driven away by the people who, as you you describe, "think they are responsible for the actions of others and thus should have control over them".
I truly respect the people of faith who still own their minds - like you.
My god, you are so naive.
Quite frankly, I am going quite far along that road of relativity. I don't believe strongly in anything except that in the freedom of being what you feel you are and expressing yourself in a way that does not physically hurt anyone. There is no god (Christian, Muslim, whatever) or a comprehensive set of rules for moral and ethical conduct. What is humanity? What binds it? Does it judge itself, mould itself, and dictate its own path? I believe it does. To quote Alan Moore's Watchmen:
It's also subversive, and really no different than lying.
It's only subversive to something you believe in.
I label myself as an ultra-liberal and quite frankly I think that if you want a truly liberal candidate to win in California, you should vote for Arnold.
I can't believe that people still view politics on the one dimensional axis of economically conservative-economically liberal.
Hell, I'm right in the middle of the spectrum when it comes to the economy, but when it comes to the social rights (gay marriage, drug decriminalization,...) I'm as liberal as you can get. And no, that's not a contradiction. Giving the right for the gay pairs to marry and inherit as well as taxing the mild drugs only makes economical sense! It's the right-wing, religious right who has problems with these issues. Fuck them.
I'll blatantly copy your post whenever I have to give an example of a moron "what-I-believe-is-right" conservative.
I don't see how the war on drugs "worked" or how it is an irrelevant topic.
No it doesn't.
Assholes.com came close, though.
Other close contestants were titled "licking dirty assholes" and "stretched assholes to the limits".
Glad to be of service.
Do the menial research for IBM and RedHat. Set up a website for it - preferably mirrored extensively around the world to keep it out of SCOs hands.
Dig out those CVS and BitKeeper kernel logs, trace where every significant line of code came from, find and contact the authors so that they can be heard if necessary. Every time SCO leaks out the "infringing code" bit, prepare a clear presentation - one that can be understood and quoted by the mainstream media, lawyers and judges - to which people can refer.
Search the literature. Find references to the most common OS kernel designs and implementations (like the recent malloc-bit) so that's easy to show that the stuff has been in public domain before SCO. Make this bibliography searchable on the beforementioned website.
Closed system: no exchange on particles. Isolated system: no exchange of particles or energy.
It is correct to call this system a closed one. The water molecules inside the tube transfer energy in and out of the system via evaporation and condensation (+natural conduction through the pipe material) as long as one end of the tube is at a higher temperature than the other.
As far as the transient times are concerned, you're right in that thermodynamics does not deal with equilibration times. Why? Because it is a theory of systems in equilibrium. And of course there is a delay. Nothing in nature is instantaneous.
Whoa, what a pain it must be to get a packet every 10 seconds...
If you insist dealing with the blaster first, here's a newsflash. I'm still getting hit by CodeRed. These things never die.
O-kay... and you have examples of these horrifying secrets that "Bill" tried to cover up? Was the Cigarette Smoking Man involved, too?
Unless, of course, you get your PhD from experimental physics or some engineering field.
Unless you're blessed with unlimited workshop and technician resources, you've got to learn how to do plumbing (serious water cooling), power engineering (kV lines, high current throughput), nuts-and-bolts kind of mechanics, CAD designing and machining metal components and also soft skills like how to manage a team of highly intelligent and sometimes eccentric people.
Not all of them are pipedreaming slackers, which is the stereotype of a PhD in the industry, but mentally tough individuals who are not only capable of doing penetrating analysis of a problem but also managing a team of people.
At least all the applied physicists I know are real pros on both accounts.
So what is it that you really want?
Manual updates? "LOLOLOL! M$ users are so stooopid that they can't do even that!".
Automatic updates? "LOLOLOLOLOL!!! You would let Microsoft to update your systems?! You fool! Why don't you download a Gentoo instead?!"
Systems that are secure and usable out-of-box? No such thing.
Fact: media companies are big faceless corporations which makes it okay.
Myth: it's only fair to pay for quality first-run movies.
Fact: most movies shown on cable get two stars or less and are repeated ad nauseum.
(Adapted from The Simpsons, of course)
Yeah, sure if the publisher is kind enough to give you a LaTeX style/class.
If not, you're in for a week of hell trying to build your own template that would look good. And no, the default book and article styles will not do for most of the time.
Ever wondered why it has been used by a lot of scientists for their papers?
Because it is superior when it comes to math typesetting and the scientists have both the time and inclination to first learn a programming language before they can type in their document.
Your average office worker: "Pswhat? Cygwin? Huh? Where should I click to run it?"
BTW. The word is "dystopian".
The filter must be in the drop-down menu where it says clealy: "PDF printer" and when you press OK the file will open in Acrobat.
Too bad your jobs are going abroad where they don't cost so much. Stop whining and start doing something that can't be done in the 2nd and 3rd world shops quite yet. While you're doing that, prepare already for the day when these new jobs will move abroad, too.
Don't you need Adobe Acrobat for that? Yes, yes. I know there is ghostscript but does it come with a printer plug-in these days? If it doesn't, it's useless to your average office worker.
Who cares if they get RedHat Linux- They can use it and then close the software if they like.
Sue them for a copyright infringement? Hah!
They all came with an "installation CD" that just copied an image from one of the pre-installed Windows hard-drive partitions to the main partition and rebooted the machine.