I seriously doubt that the Pope honestly believes himself to be infallible. Hell, just take the last guy to wear the hat, he had to admit that the church fucked up with that whole geocentrism thing and giving Galileo house arrest. I'm sure in a few centuries, if the Catholic church is still around, that one of the popes will say the whole "condoms don't prevent aids" thing was total bullshit, and the current guy was way off base.
The sealed documentation that the Vatican maintains in every pedophilia case that's not unsealed until the victim reaches adulthood? The Pope knows it's a fucked up policy, but he wants to keep getting paid to travel the world and spout nonsense.
I'd say that the heads of any organization that's scamming a lot of people is fully aware of it, but they're being motivated by greed. The Pope, David Miscavige, and even the heads of various Evangelical groups like Kent Hovind and Ted Haggard, they're all crooks.
I was enrolled in a gifted program when I entered third grade, but I never got snobbish about it. Several of my fellow gifted students were able to quickly do things, but I've always worked methodically. When I was growing up, I just assumed that the adults were total morons who didn't know who was smart and who was stupid. Of course, I never really experienced a wall like you describe. My grasping of a subject has been pretty much constant for as long as I can remember, once I'm able to visualize something in terms that make sense to me, it makes things easy.
Even in your scenario we'd still need as many Einsteins as we could get. Who wants to wait for their spaceship to reach that galaxy in ten minutes? C'mon, theorists, bump it up to 2 minutes. Even in our world of computers and the internet, we don't scoff at the mathematician who's working on some pointless theorem. We might laugh at him, but his work could potentially end up to be as important as Newton's calculus.
2)making sure his contributions will never be forgotten
I fail to see how having some chick waving a sword around is going to make certain that Turing's contributions are never forgotten. The guy is one of the father figures of the entire field of Computer Science, and with this whole "internet" fad, I doubt very much that his legacy will vanish unless the queen chants some voodoo and makes a dead guy part of her court, or whatever.
You don't need a bullshit sir in front of your name for people to remember your accomplishments. I'm an American and I know who Turing was, and how important his contributions were. In a hundred years, Americans in the computer field will also be aware of Turing's contributions and achievements, with or without the knighthood.
Socrates DID commit a crime, he basically committed blasphemy, by claiming things like "the truth is what matters" and "Sparta's pretty cool, Athens not so much". Most countries on earth today don't see blasphemy as a crime, but this is ancient Greece we're talking about.
Also, his guilt wasn't established by a secret panel in a star chamber, it was determined by a public trial. Now, I'm sure the court wasn't neutral or even fair, but it wasn't a simple "let's get this guy to drink some hemlock, cause he annoys me".
The Consitution of the United States actually sets forth the SECOND government to be in control of the post-revolutionary British Colonies. The Articles of Confederation were our system of inter-state communication during the war, and after it.
You should read amendments 1 and 14 again. I'm sure Utah's state constitution also has some language about protecting the freedom of speech, all the other state constitutions I've read have language like that.
Those same objections were made in the United States before the civil war. Until then, people didn't see themselves as "American" but "Virginian", Pennsylvanian", and so on. Federalism slowly erodes sovereignty, unless the federal power is kept in check, and that checking system is maintained.
I'm not talking about FAT in general, but FAT32 specifically. I imagine that FAT32's limitations will be major hurdles in the next couple years. What about the day when we have hard drive based camcorders that record in HD? I'm sure those files would max out the 4 gig limit of a FAT file.
I suppose it's doubtful that operating systems will flat out remove support for FAT, but I wouldn't discount the possibility. Microsoft might completely kill support for FAT32 in a decade, and if that happens, I doubt the Linux community would continue to include native support for it, because it wouldn't be needed.
USB 3.0 is coming in a year or so, and it's still maintaining backwards compatibility with the older revisions, so it seems reasonable that computers 17 years in the future would be able to support them, since USB technology is already 13 years old. The bigger problem would be the file system on the drive. Is FAT16 still supported by default on the major operating systems of today?
The feds pay something like 50 grand a year per prisoner in a regular security prison. Would you spend that 50 grand on more guards for violent prisoners, or keep more of the money as profits from non-violent prisoners like drug addicts and prostitutes?
The Taliban destroyed every poppy field they could find when they were in power. Fundamentalist Muslims avoid dealing with alcohol and drugs, because it goes against their religious ideology. Osama bin Laden doesn't profit from drugs.
But the state doesn't value its citizens and preserve their lives.
If the government actually cared about the health and well being of the citizens, it wouldn't outlaw harmless drugs like marijuana and LSD, they would make it illegal to eat at McDonald's, illegal to smoke cigarettes, and every morning when you woke up, you'd be mandated by law to exercise for at least thirty minutes.
We'd be healthy, and we'd be miserable. It's not the government's job to babysit us, or worry about our health, at least in the United States, I can't speak for other countries because I'm not familiar with their foundations. But all citizens of the United States are free, we are not slaves, and as such, only you can own your body. If you own your car, you're free to do whatever you wish to it, even if you decide to destroy it. As long as you don't attempt to defraud anybody else when you destroy your car, or crash it into somebody, you can do what you please. The same holds true for the body you own. If you want to run it on beer and LSD, that should be your right. If you want to exercise and eat tofu, that's also your right.
LSD is a crystalline solid, not a liquid. You can no more drown in LSD than cocaine, heroin, or sugar. You could choke on it, I suppose, or you could drown in a solution of LSD and water.
If the NSA were able to do it with some sort of classified technology, the technology involved would certainly land them a Nobel Prize, if not the JREF million dollar challenge.
Recovery from a zeroed drive is impossible given the current laws of physics.
They have never understood the meaning of R.S.V.P.
That one doesn't make sense to me. Only people who dabble in French actually know what it means, and it's not like people were shunned in the late 80s for not knowing it.
Vice presidents of the United States have always had real power.
I suppose this one is a reference to the first couple months of Dubya's term, when the Senate was 50:50 with D and R. This made Cheney the official tie breaker. After Jim Jeffords switch to Independent and started voting with the Democrats, Cheney's job was effectively useless again.
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I seriously doubt that the Pope honestly believes himself to be infallible. Hell, just take the last guy to wear the hat, he had to admit that the church fucked up with that whole geocentrism thing and giving Galileo house arrest. I'm sure in a few centuries, if the Catholic church is still around, that one of the popes will say the whole "condoms don't prevent aids" thing was total bullshit, and the current guy was way off base.
The sealed documentation that the Vatican maintains in every pedophilia case that's not unsealed until the victim reaches adulthood? The Pope knows it's a fucked up policy, but he wants to keep getting paid to travel the world and spout nonsense.
I'd say that the heads of any organization that's scamming a lot of people is fully aware of it, but they're being motivated by greed. The Pope, David Miscavige, and even the heads of various Evangelical groups like Kent Hovind and Ted Haggard, they're all crooks.
If it weren't for the CoS, I doubt Tom Cruise would have made that hilarious video on Oprah's show. I'd call that a positive contribution.
The EBS is used for many things and saves lives? I've honestly never heard it used for anything but tests. Please elaborate on this point.
I was enrolled in a gifted program when I entered third grade, but I never got snobbish about it. Several of my fellow gifted students were able to quickly do things, but I've always worked methodically. When I was growing up, I just assumed that the adults were total morons who didn't know who was smart and who was stupid. Of course, I never really experienced a wall like you describe. My grasping of a subject has been pretty much constant for as long as I can remember, once I'm able to visualize something in terms that make sense to me, it makes things easy.
Even in your scenario we'd still need as many Einsteins as we could get. Who wants to wait for their spaceship to reach that galaxy in ten minutes? C'mon, theorists, bump it up to 2 minutes. Even in our world of computers and the internet, we don't scoff at the mathematician who's working on some pointless theorem. We might laugh at him, but his work could potentially end up to be as important as Newton's calculus.
My dictionary doesn't have any entries for "fnacy" or "nmae"
2)making sure his contributions will never be forgotten
I fail to see how having some chick waving a sword around is going to make certain that Turing's contributions are never forgotten. The guy is one of the father figures of the entire field of Computer Science, and with this whole "internet" fad, I doubt very much that his legacy will vanish unless the queen chants some voodoo and makes a dead guy part of her court, or whatever.
You don't need a bullshit sir in front of your name for people to remember your accomplishments. I'm an American and I know who Turing was, and how important his contributions were. In a hundred years, Americans in the computer field will also be aware of Turing's contributions and achievements, with or without the knighthood.
Socrates DID commit a crime, he basically committed blasphemy, by claiming things like "the truth is what matters" and "Sparta's pretty cool, Athens not so much". Most countries on earth today don't see blasphemy as a crime, but this is ancient Greece we're talking about.
Also, his guilt wasn't established by a secret panel in a star chamber, it was determined by a public trial. Now, I'm sure the court wasn't neutral or even fair, but it wasn't a simple "let's get this guy to drink some hemlock, cause he annoys me".
Achilles was a fictional character from Greek mythology. He wasn't an athlete anyway, he was a soldier.
The Consitution of the United States actually sets forth the SECOND government to be in control of the post-revolutionary British Colonies. The Articles of Confederation were our system of inter-state communication during the war, and after it.
You should read amendments 1 and 14 again. I'm sure Utah's state constitution also has some language about protecting the freedom of speech, all the other state constitutions I've read have language like that.
Does the United Kingdom currently offer protection against ex post facto laws?
If anybody starts selling porn to children in the three months it'll take for this law to get re-passed, they might find themselves in hot water.
Those same objections were made in the United States before the civil war. Until then, people didn't see themselves as "American" but "Virginian", Pennsylvanian", and so on. Federalism slowly erodes sovereignty, unless the federal power is kept in check, and that checking system is maintained.
I'm not talking about FAT in general, but FAT32 specifically. I imagine that FAT32's limitations will be major hurdles in the next couple years. What about the day when we have hard drive based camcorders that record in HD? I'm sure those files would max out the 4 gig limit of a FAT file.
I suppose it's doubtful that operating systems will flat out remove support for FAT, but I wouldn't discount the possibility. Microsoft might completely kill support for FAT32 in a decade, and if that happens, I doubt the Linux community would continue to include native support for it, because it wouldn't be needed.
USB 3.0 is coming in a year or so, and it's still maintaining backwards compatibility with the older revisions, so it seems reasonable that computers 17 years in the future would be able to support them, since USB technology is already 13 years old. The bigger problem would be the file system on the drive. Is FAT16 still supported by default on the major operating systems of today?
The feds pay something like 50 grand a year per prisoner in a regular security prison. Would you spend that 50 grand on more guards for violent prisoners, or keep more of the money as profits from non-violent prisoners like drug addicts and prostitutes?
The Taliban destroyed every poppy field they could find when they were in power. Fundamentalist Muslims avoid dealing with alcohol and drugs, because it goes against their religious ideology. Osama bin Laden doesn't profit from drugs.
But the state doesn't value its citizens and preserve their lives.
If the government actually cared about the health and well being of the citizens, it wouldn't outlaw harmless drugs like marijuana and LSD, they would make it illegal to eat at McDonald's, illegal to smoke cigarettes, and every morning when you woke up, you'd be mandated by law to exercise for at least thirty minutes.
We'd be healthy, and we'd be miserable. It's not the government's job to babysit us, or worry about our health, at least in the United States, I can't speak for other countries because I'm not familiar with their foundations. But all citizens of the United States are free, we are not slaves, and as such, only you can own your body. If you own your car, you're free to do whatever you wish to it, even if you decide to destroy it. As long as you don't attempt to defraud anybody else when you destroy your car, or crash it into somebody, you can do what you please. The same holds true for the body you own. If you want to run it on beer and LSD, that should be your right. If you want to exercise and eat tofu, that's also your right.
LSD is a crystalline solid, not a liquid. You can no more drown in LSD than cocaine, heroin, or sugar. You could choke on it, I suppose, or you could drown in a solution of LSD and water.
and it's a hell of a lot more private than asking her to show people her genitals.
But it's not NEARLY as sexy.
If the NSA were able to do it with some sort of classified technology, the technology involved would certainly land them a Nobel Prize, if not the JREF million dollar challenge.
Recovery from a zeroed drive is impossible given the current laws of physics.
That's a really good point, but don't forget that Ozzy is performing also.
They have never understood the meaning of R.S.V.P.
That one doesn't make sense to me. Only people who dabble in French actually know what it means, and it's not like people were shunned in the late 80s for not knowing it.
Vice presidents of the United States have always had real power.
I suppose this one is a reference to the first couple months of Dubya's term, when the Senate was 50:50 with D and R. This made Cheney the official tie breaker. After Jim Jeffords switch to Independent and started voting with the Democrats, Cheney's job was effectively useless again.
But it does have a built in screen and instant access time.