Not entirely. It means that doing BSG without an FTL would have been really really boring (running from a superior force in space without the ability to 'jump' doesn't last very long). And making BSG without generated gravity would be very expensive with everyone having to be on wires every time they moved around. Also, the exercise program to keep all those people from losing all their muscle mass would have taken up the entire show.
I think the one thing that BSG got right about living ships was the fact that the living goo inside actually served a purpose. Near the end, when Galactica was about done for, they started spreading that goo around and it would grow and harden in ways that improved the structure of the ship. So it isn't like it was useless goo just there for looks. It was the self repair system, which makes a lot of sense in how it operated. The fact that it was red like blood was simply a design decision (or maybe because it was rich in iron oxide?).
We all know that emacs has had the ability to create nukes for a while now. Meta-X Ctrl-N Ctrl-N. Then type in where you want it to go and a few minutes later... boom.
I've always had a problem with people saying that the more people you have the lower the average IQ. Unless your mob starts at MIT and heads for down town Boston (LOL), I doubt this is true. What actually happens is that people disociate themselves with the actions of mobs and are able to justify things worse and worse things. Same thing happens in corporations and countries that commit unspeakable crimes. The individual says to themselves that they aren't responsible because its the mob/corporation/state doing it.
I'm an Aerospace Engineer and I took a couple of classes in orbital mechanics too. And your pretty wrong. You can actually fire something at the sun and it will hit it eventually. It really depends on its velocity and trajectory. The easiest way is to put it in a degraded orbit into the sun. This is your fire it directly back idea and requires the least amount of energy as you would just need to escape earths gravity and give it enough deltaV to drop out of our solar orbit. For that matter you probably wouldn't even need to hit the sun. Just dump the thing into Venus's orbit and let Venus take care of things for you. It no where needs 12km/s of deltaV.
There are several quotes where city officials basically call the blogger a thief. The blogger then goes on the point out that their actions show that they knew the real source of the information. Sounds like a the blogger could sue the city officials. If I were them Id be looking into that one.
If that's true, contact the OP. That cop just smoked any immunity he had and he could potentially end up in jail. I would hate to be him right about now.
Too bad this didn't happen in Virginia. The cop would have arrested the two Circuit City employees. Here its fairly well laid out what the stores can and cannot do. The law also sets out 4 or 5 specific actions that a store must see an individual make before they can even speak to them on the subject. Also normal store employees aren't allowed to detain individuals. Only security guards that have guns are allowed to do this (if the security guard doesn't have a gun your allowed to walk right around him).
I was a security guard as my summer job in high school and I was surprised to learn all this during training as I had been stopped before by a store employee. Live and learn I guess.
I believe its actually "reasonably believed" the search was legal. This can cover things like going into a room that does not have a lock on it, yet is rented by another person. The exception assumes a reasonably well informed police officer. So they can't get away with pretending to be stupid.
Not so much. Capitalism generally doesn't like the concentration of wealth. What your talking about is Corporatism or perhaps a Fascist economy. They generally seek monopolies and the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few.
Capitalism generally wants to keep money flowing through the economy to generate more wealth. Its also pretty agnostic about who is rich and who is poor as long as the money keeps flowing. Any time someone starts hording money, thats bad for Capitalism.
As for this particular incident being against Capitalism? Not at all. Its one entity exchanging money for a service. Its the same type of deal where you pay an electrician to wire up a new building. The HDDVD people expect to get some benefit out of paying these movie studios to only use their format. Don't for one second believe similar things didn't go on when the VHS/BetaMax thing was going around.
That says 21.8 million units in that time period. After some more quick googling, it seems that they have a line consisting of 57 models. Thus, an average of 382k phones per model over that three month period. So, from your statement that the iPhone has sold 500k phones since it was released a week ago, I would say that Apple is having a pretty successful launch.
You have got the wrong variables. The number of doctors don't increase based upon the number of patients. It increases on the available resources to pay them. All you would be doing is mandating that the same amount of resources be spread across more people. In the end you would likely see a reduction in the number of doctors because they would be over worked and not paid as much. The smart people that make effective doctors would move on to other professions that pay better.
So, who should get treatment first? Two patients, exactly the same disease, in exactly the same stage. One is a famous surgeon and the other is a mentally ill homeless person. Who should be treated first? What if you can treat only one? What now?
Saying one life is more important than the other is cruel, but the surgeon can go on to be much more productive and help many more people than a mentally ill homeless person who refuses to take medication to control their illness. What happens when the disparity isn't so clear? All you have is two business people. One is successful and the other is not. Choose which one to treat.
Socialism doesn't work cause most people don't consider the common good when they are working every day. They want to know whats in it for them. In the end better health care is one of the motivators to be successful. Its sad, but its a fact of life. Without such motivators you get situations like France. France is making itself irrelevant and highly unproductive because of its socialist coarse. Socialism hopes for the best in people and bets on that. Unfortunately if you bet on people doing whats best for the general good then you'll find yourself mistaken more often than not. And thats not the way to run a country.
From MTV no less. But its worth a read. In short, you can't mandate access to a scarce resource without rationing. The best course of action (IMHO) is to reduce the cost of healthcare. And no, I'm not talking about making health insurance charge less by some law, I'm talking about reducing the real costs. The cost of malpractice insurance is one area that creates a big impact on the final cost of health care. Also moving more of the development of new drugs into public institutions and making sure that the results aren't privatized. Even patent reform could help in this area.
There are underlying realities in the health care industry that can not be changed. You can't increase the number of EFFECTIVE doctors and you can't make them work for peanuts. You can drive down the costs of education, equipment and drugs through the use of public funding though.
You would be surprised how much the military dislikes the current administration. I doubt that they would do anything to protect the current administration from any legal means of having it removed. Illegal means on the other hand, they would rightly protect the Government.
Funny you mention snow. I live in the mountains of West Virginia and I have a crappy mercury tracer. Whenever I go out in a heavy snow storm (because WVU never cancels classes), the vehicles I see stranded on the side of the road and wrecked are the SUVs. Meanwhile, I carefully pick my way down the road and get to my destination safe and sound. In fact, if I had the money and I cared about performance in the snow, I'd buy a subaru or an audi. In my experience, SUVs are crappy in the snow. My sister has a Jeep Liberty and its terrible in the snow. The last vehicle I go for if I care about performance in the snow would be a standard SUV.
Congratulations, you entirely missed my point and then warped it into a nice strawman that you could tear apart. Two things. One, if a person does not want to get pregnant, then they should not be having sex. The liberty you speak of does not free people of the concequences of their actions when it affects someone else. Two, the question of life begins is at the heart of the issue. It is a very controversial issue. One could argue that the main metric at the end of life is when the heart stops beating could be applied to the beginning of life, which occurs at 6 weeks. Just because a person is weak and can't survive without the help of another person doens't mean they are less of a human. The point is that the federal government has no right to descide that life cannot start before the end of the first trimester. This is a decision for the state to make.
The 'liberty' here involves ending the life of another person. There is a reason the founding fathers put life ahead of liberty. When the act of excersising a liberty causes the death of another person, the government must protect the life of the person. Thus, my point still stands. Also, saying that your forcing someone to have an unwanted child is bs anyway. There seems to be this direct link between having sex and getting pregnant that people don't seem to get. The best way to keep from having a child is to not have sex. There is no god given right to sex in the constitution and no where does the constitution say that you have the right to the pursuit of happiness without concequences. And before you bring up rape and incest, in those cases the woman will ussually get the morning after pill. And in cases where the woman hides it till its too late to get a legal abortion (assuming that the state she lives in allows abortions up until a certain point) then they should be able to go to a judge and get due process of law to authorize the abortion.
Oh look, I just found an argument that outlawing abortion that isn't an egregious assault on liberty. The constitution holds perfectly well for this situation, if people would just follow it.
Actually, I would say its perfectly fine to be pro-life and pro-death penalty. The distinction comes in the fifth amendment to the U.S. constitution. "No person shall be... deprived of life... without due process of law..." In the case of abortion its one person desciding that another should die. No courts, no juries, no due process of law. In the case of the death penalty, the person has been found guilty by due process of law of a crime. You can argue that the punishment is to final for the inperfections of the process, but then I would argue that we should endever to make the process more perfect.
The problem I have with abortion is that I believe that the Roe v. Wade court did not have the right to say that abortion was legal up until the end of the first trimester. In effect the court said that the federal goverment has the right to establish the point at which life begins. There is no where in the constitution that says the federal goverment has this right, but the consitution does say that any right not enumerated to the federal government is reserved to the states. I would thus say that its for the states to descide when abortions are legal and when they are not.
Not all people's objections to abortion are based upon religion or life. If you were to classify me I would have to say I'm pro-consitution and pro-states rights. What I was pointing out in the original post is that you should call a group by the name that it has given itself. Otherwise someone could come along and start calling the pro-choice people pro-baby killing. Obviously they are not, they just have a different view of the subject.
Wrong, it's called the First Amendment. Organizations like: the KKK, PETA (or the ultra radical cousin the ALF), anti-abortion groups, MADD, etc have stood behind the First Amendment and been obnoxious assholes for a very long time.
You can add the "anti-life" groups to that list.
Sorry, but its a pet pieve of mine. The proper terms are of course pro-life and pro-choice. Neither group really cares about abortion, their beliefs just cause them to disagree on it. I prefer to focus on the root beliefs instead of the disagreement.
Why, yes, I am a computer scientist. A software engineer to be exact.
I don't see how you can say that Windows is a larger project than Ubuntu. They both do the exact same thing. Well roughly anyway. If Windows involves more source code and more crap, then that is MS's problem.
As for Windows package system versus Ubuntu's, the very fact that you need to manually write dependancy resolution code proves that its complete crap and not truly a package management system. And if your talking about MSI I know your even more full of crap. MSI doesn't come anywhere near deb (and rpm for that matter though I lothe the rpm tools). The fact is that every part of an Ubuntu system is installed via the packaging system. Can MSI claim that? Didn't think so.
And, "upconverting to the version"???? What does that actually mean? I have never run into a situation that dpkg and apt failed to properly install a package and all of its dependancies when the packager has properly declared the dependancies. This includes versioned depends on libraries and having multiple versions of the same library installed at the same time. The only time multiple versions of a library causes problem is when the original programmer attempts to be smarter than the system and ends up doing something amazingly stupid. Also, debhelper and friends give the developer incredibly powerful tools for finding the dependencies and making them accurate down to the point that they are generally generated at build time.
As for the installer, again you make no sense and make no point. Ubuntu has two installers. Both are very good at what they do, I even use the 'alternate' install to automatically install machines. I then use the package management system to configure the machine and it has never failed me. Once I get it working it stays working. I can't even remotely stay the same for windows. Ubuntu's package management system is reproducable and simple. The halmarks of science.
Try again troll. You showed no evidence to backup your statement that Ubuntu's package management system fails horribly. I would actually say its very successful and perfectly meets all of my needs.
Your point that Windows is more complexe is complete BS. Both are operating systems and both do generally the same thing. If Windows is more complexe that is a problem, not something to be proud of. In fact, it proves my original point.
I said it used the latest development linux kernel. Though I am talking about the full development Ubuntu. Meaning everything from the kernel to the libraries to the desktop environment to the office environment to the web browser... You get the point. I would say that Windows doesn't compare to the size and complexity of Ubuntu.
And I doubt that packages are used in Windows in the same way as they are in Ubuntu. Like I said, poor definition of interfaces and too much integration. The same thing thats bad for competition is bad for development. Poor documentation and poor interfaces.
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Not entirely. It means that doing BSG without an FTL would have been really really boring (running from a superior force in space without the ability to 'jump' doesn't last very long). And making BSG without generated gravity would be very expensive with everyone having to be on wires every time they moved around. Also, the exercise program to keep all those people from losing all their muscle mass would have taken up the entire show.
I think the one thing that BSG got right about living ships was the fact that the living goo inside actually served a purpose. Near the end, when Galactica was about done for, they started spreading that goo around and it would grow and harden in ways that improved the structure of the ship. So it isn't like it was useless goo just there for looks. It was the self repair system, which makes a lot of sense in how it operated. The fact that it was red like blood was simply a design decision (or maybe because it was rich in iron oxide?).
We all know that emacs has had the ability to create nukes for a while now. Meta-X Ctrl-N Ctrl-N. Then type in where you want it to go and a few minutes later... boom.
You sir (or ma'am) get the quote of the century. FDR a fiscal concervative?!?! Wow...
I've always had a problem with people saying that the more people you have the lower the average IQ. Unless your mob starts at MIT and heads for down town Boston (LOL), I doubt this is true. What actually happens is that people disociate themselves with the actions of mobs and are able to justify things worse and worse things. Same thing happens in corporations and countries that commit unspeakable crimes. The individual says to themselves that they aren't responsible because its the mob/corporation/state doing it.
I'm an Aerospace Engineer and I took a couple of classes in orbital mechanics too. And your pretty wrong. You can actually fire something at the sun and it will hit it eventually. It really depends on its velocity and trajectory. The easiest way is to put it in a degraded orbit into the sun. This is your fire it directly back idea and requires the least amount of energy as you would just need to escape earths gravity and give it enough deltaV to drop out of our solar orbit. For that matter you probably wouldn't even need to hit the sun. Just dump the thing into Venus's orbit and let Venus take care of things for you. It no where needs 12km/s of deltaV.
There are several quotes where city officials basically call the blogger a thief. The blogger then goes on the point out that their actions show that they knew the real source of the information. Sounds like a the blogger could sue the city officials. If I were them Id be looking into that one.
If that's true, contact the OP. That cop just smoked any immunity he had and he could potentially end up in jail. I would hate to be him right about now.
Too bad this didn't happen in Virginia. The cop would have arrested the two Circuit City employees. Here its fairly well laid out what the stores can and cannot do. The law also sets out 4 or 5 specific actions that a store must see an individual make before they can even speak to them on the subject. Also normal store employees aren't allowed to detain individuals. Only security guards that have guns are allowed to do this (if the security guard doesn't have a gun your allowed to walk right around him).
I was a security guard as my summer job in high school and I was surprised to learn all this during training as I had been stopped before by a store employee. Live and learn I guess.
I believe its actually "reasonably believed" the search was legal. This can cover things like going into a room that does not have a lock on it, yet is rented by another person. The exception assumes a reasonably well informed police officer. So they can't get away with pretending to be stupid.
Not so much. Capitalism generally doesn't like the concentration of wealth. What your talking about is Corporatism or perhaps a Fascist economy. They generally seek monopolies and the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few.
Capitalism generally wants to keep money flowing through the economy to generate more wealth. Its also pretty agnostic about who is rich and who is poor as long as the money keeps flowing. Any time someone starts hording money, thats bad for Capitalism.
As for this particular incident being against Capitalism? Not at all. Its one entity exchanging money for a service. Its the same type of deal where you pay an electrician to wire up a new building. The HDDVD people expect to get some benefit out of paying these movie studios to only use their format. Don't for one second believe similar things didn't go on when the VHS/BetaMax thing was going around.
I have a hard time believing any phone sold 22 million in 3 months. Maybe over the lifetime of the phone. Lets ask google what it thinks.
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http://www.nokiaphoneblog.com/2007/04/news_sony_e
That says 21.8 million units in that time period. After some more quick googling, it seems that they have a line consisting of 57 models. Thus, an average of 382k phones per model over that three month period. So, from your statement that the iPhone has sold 500k phones since it was released a week ago, I would say that Apple is having a pretty successful launch.
You have got the wrong variables. The number of doctors don't increase based upon the number of patients. It increases on the available resources to pay them. All you would be doing is mandating that the same amount of resources be spread across more people. In the end you would likely see a reduction in the number of doctors because they would be over worked and not paid as much. The smart people that make effective doctors would move on to other professions that pay better.
So, who should get treatment first? Two patients, exactly the same disease, in exactly the same stage. One is a famous surgeon and the other is a mentally ill homeless person. Who should be treated first? What if you can treat only one? What now?
Saying one life is more important than the other is cruel, but the surgeon can go on to be much more productive and help many more people than a mentally ill homeless person who refuses to take medication to control their illness. What happens when the disparity isn't so clear? All you have is two business people. One is successful and the other is not. Choose which one to treat.
Socialism doesn't work cause most people don't consider the common good when they are working every day. They want to know whats in it for them. In the end better health care is one of the motivators to be successful. Its sad, but its a fact of life. Without such motivators you get situations like France. France is making itself irrelevant and highly unproductive because of its socialist coarse. Socialism hopes for the best in people and bets on that. Unfortunately if you bet on people doing whats best for the general good then you'll find yourself mistaken more often than not. And thats not the way to run a country.
I'd just like point out this link: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1563758/st ory.jhtml
From MTV no less. But its worth a read. In short, you can't mandate access to a scarce resource without rationing. The best course of action (IMHO) is to reduce the cost of healthcare. And no, I'm not talking about making health insurance charge less by some law, I'm talking about reducing the real costs. The cost of malpractice insurance is one area that creates a big impact on the final cost of health care. Also moving more of the development of new drugs into public institutions and making sure that the results aren't privatized. Even patent reform could help in this area.
There are underlying realities in the health care industry that can not be changed. You can't increase the number of EFFECTIVE doctors and you can't make them work for peanuts. You can drive down the costs of education, equipment and drugs through the use of public funding though.
You would be surprised how much the military dislikes the current administration. I doubt that they would do anything to protect the current administration from any legal means of having it removed. Illegal means on the other hand, they would rightly protect the Government.
Funny you mention snow. I live in the mountains of West Virginia and I have a crappy mercury tracer. Whenever I go out in a heavy snow storm (because WVU never cancels classes), the vehicles I see stranded on the side of the road and wrecked are the SUVs. Meanwhile, I carefully pick my way down the road and get to my destination safe and sound. In fact, if I had the money and I cared about performance in the snow, I'd buy a subaru or an audi. In my experience, SUVs are crappy in the snow. My sister has a Jeep Liberty and its terrible in the snow. The last vehicle I go for if I care about performance in the snow would be a standard SUV.
Hello fellow Mountaineer, Or at least I would assume as WVU does the exact same idiotic thing.
Congratulations, you entirely missed my point and then warped it into a nice strawman that you could tear apart. Two things. One, if a person does not want to get pregnant, then they should not be having sex. The liberty you speak of does not free people of the concequences of their actions when it affects someone else. Two, the question of life begins is at the heart of the issue. It is a very controversial issue. One could argue that the main metric at the end of life is when the heart stops beating could be applied to the beginning of life, which occurs at 6 weeks. Just because a person is weak and can't survive without the help of another person doens't mean they are less of a human. The point is that the federal government has no right to descide that life cannot start before the end of the first trimester. This is a decision for the state to make.
The 'liberty' here involves ending the life of another person. There is a reason the founding fathers put life ahead of liberty. When the act of excersising a liberty causes the death of another person, the government must protect the life of the person. Thus, my point still stands. Also, saying that your forcing someone to have an unwanted child is bs anyway. There seems to be this direct link between having sex and getting pregnant that people don't seem to get. The best way to keep from having a child is to not have sex. There is no god given right to sex in the constitution and no where does the constitution say that you have the right to the pursuit of happiness without concequences. And before you bring up rape and incest, in those cases the woman will ussually get the morning after pill. And in cases where the woman hides it till its too late to get a legal abortion (assuming that the state she lives in allows abortions up until a certain point) then they should be able to go to a judge and get due process of law to authorize the abortion.
Oh look, I just found an argument that outlawing abortion that isn't an egregious assault on liberty. The constitution holds perfectly well for this situation, if people would just follow it.
Actually, I would say its perfectly fine to be pro-life and pro-death penalty. The distinction comes in the fifth amendment to the U.S. constitution. "No person shall be... deprived of life... without due process of law..." In the case of abortion its one person desciding that another should die. No courts, no juries, no due process of law. In the case of the death penalty, the person has been found guilty by due process of law of a crime. You can argue that the punishment is to final for the inperfections of the process, but then I would argue that we should endever to make the process more perfect.
The problem I have with abortion is that I believe that the Roe v. Wade court did not have the right to say that abortion was legal up until the end of the first trimester. In effect the court said that the federal goverment has the right to establish the point at which life begins. There is no where in the constitution that says the federal goverment has this right, but the consitution does say that any right not enumerated to the federal government is reserved to the states. I would thus say that its for the states to descide when abortions are legal and when they are not.
Not all people's objections to abortion are based upon religion or life. If you were to classify me I would have to say I'm pro-consitution and pro-states rights. What I was pointing out in the original post is that you should call a group by the name that it has given itself. Otherwise someone could come along and start calling the pro-choice people pro-baby killing. Obviously they are not, they just have a different view of the subject.
You can add the "anti-life" groups to that list.
Sorry, but its a pet pieve of mine. The proper terms are of course pro-life and pro-choice. Neither group really cares about abortion, their beliefs just cause them to disagree on it. I prefer to focus on the root beliefs instead of the disagreement.
Kerberos was built for just this situation. Read up on it. I think its even available as Active Directory for MS.
Why, yes, I am a computer scientist. A software engineer to be exact.
I don't see how you can say that Windows is a larger project than Ubuntu. They both do the exact same thing. Well roughly anyway. If Windows involves more source code and more crap, then that is MS's problem.
As for Windows package system versus Ubuntu's, the very fact that you need to manually write dependancy resolution code proves that its complete crap and not truly a package management system. And if your talking about MSI I know your even more full of crap. MSI doesn't come anywhere near deb (and rpm for that matter though I lothe the rpm tools). The fact is that every part of an Ubuntu system is installed via the packaging system. Can MSI claim that? Didn't think so.
And, "upconverting to the version"???? What does that actually mean? I have never run into a situation that dpkg and apt failed to properly install a package and all of its dependancies when the packager has properly declared the dependancies. This includes versioned depends on libraries and having multiple versions of the same library installed at the same time. The only time multiple versions of a library causes problem is when the original programmer attempts to be smarter than the system and ends up doing something amazingly stupid. Also, debhelper and friends give the developer incredibly powerful tools for finding the dependencies and making them accurate down to the point that they are generally generated at build time.
As for the installer, again you make no sense and make no point. Ubuntu has two installers. Both are very good at what they do, I even use the 'alternate' install to automatically install machines. I then use the package management system to configure the machine and it has never failed me. Once I get it working it stays working. I can't even remotely stay the same for windows. Ubuntu's package management system is reproducable and simple. The halmarks of science.
Try again troll. You showed no evidence to backup your statement that Ubuntu's package management system fails horribly. I would actually say its very successful and perfectly meets all of my needs.
Your point that Windows is more complexe is complete BS. Both are operating systems and both do generally the same thing. If Windows is more complexe that is a problem, not something to be proud of. In fact, it proves my original point.
I said it used the latest development linux kernel. Though I am talking about the full development Ubuntu. Meaning everything from the kernel to the libraries to the desktop environment to the office environment to the web browser... You get the point. I would say that Windows doesn't compare to the size and complexity of Ubuntu.
And I doubt that packages are used in Windows in the same way as they are in Ubuntu. Like I said, poor definition of interfaces and too much integration. The same thing thats bad for competition is bad for development. Poor documentation and poor interfaces.