What did the parents expect to happen after all those thousand years, during which children were taught to talk with the Imaginary Friend (euphemism for God) in heaven?
As a way to transport energy, hydrocarbons are much safer than batteries.
This is because hydrocarbons are dangerous only when they are mixed with oxygen, and it is possible to put a thick wall between them without impairing the efficiency of energy extraction. On the other hand, batteries are based upon separating, by a very thin membrane, two materials that would shortcircuit and burst into flames if they were to touch each other.
Another considration is the effective energy density of hydrocarbons relative to that of batteries. The high energy density of hydrocarbons is thanks also to the fact that one does not need to transport oxygen (unless one goes to space) - it is available for free when the fuel is burned to release energy.
Therefore, the most logical solution to the CO2 problem is to use solar energy to convert it and water back into hydrocarbons, which will be burned again. Airplanes and cars won't need to haul heavy batteries.
We need technology which uses solar energy to convert airborne CO2 back into hydrocarbons. The technology is to be deployed in deserts. They hydrogen could be provided by pumping water to those deserts.
For transporting large quantities of energy, hydrocarbons are better than batteries. They are safer than batteries, because the technology does not depend upon making barriers, among different chemicals, as thin as possible. When using batteries to transport energy, you must transport both materials which react to release the energy. When transporting hydrocarbons, you need to transport only one material, because the other material (oxygen) gets transported for free in your behalf by Nature.
The biggest drawback of the technology is the entrenched interests in using fossil fuels from deep in land and in sea. Those interests would face huge losses if people switch to usage of solar-created hydrocarbons in their factories, cars and airplanes.
I wonder if anyone made statistics of workplace male-male bullying incidents and compared it to statistics of male-female bullying incidents. Men are, on the average, less sensitive about being bullied at work than women.
... if we invest in systems which use solar energy to convert airborne CO2 back into hydrocarbons. Unfortunately, the gas producing establishment is too strong to push this solution, which will annihilate their profits, which are based upon extraction of hydrocarbons from Earth's depths and burning them.
There is a scene in Zardoz in which the group of "Eternals" gangs up on one of its members and harshly punishes him for his crimethought. The witchhunt of the Google engineer reminds me of this scene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ruling is a setback for accessibility to the deaf of movies and TV programs. Same as prohibiting, without rightowners' permission, auditory transcription of books for the benefit of the blind.
Another possible way to reboot the immune system is to infect the patient with measles. One of the effects of this disease is to erase all information accumulated by the immune system and force it to relearn how to make antibodies for everything. Hopefully, it won't learn how to attack its host's body.
With four years' hindsight, and with what you know today, would you have boycotted Israeli academic institutions like you did at 2011? And why?
By the way, one of the universities, which you boycotted at the time, is Haifa University, in which the percentage of Arab students among its student body is about 20% - similar to their percentage in the general population of Israel.
Nothing is useful forever and every technology will eventually be phased out in favor of something better.
What, in your opinion, will cause Linux kernel in its present form to be phased out in favor of something different, such as Hurd or whatever OS used to control quantum computers?
Make it easier to lipread speaking people by displaying hints next to their mouths.
The hints would for example show degree of vocalization of the speech sound.
Numbers do not matter here.
As long as there are some people, who want to communicate in Sign Language - whether they are deaf or not - the proposed video regulations would severely discriminate against their preferred language.
Why not regulate, in EU, communications written in non-European character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopic, Korean, Thai, the several character sets used in India, etc.)?
Another aspect - there are Web sites, which offer VRS (video relay services).
They allow a deaf person to communicate with an hearing person who does not have Webcam or something, via the help of a Sign Language interpreter who communicates with the deaf person in Sign Language via video, and with the hearing person using voice or whatever.
Would VRS Web sites be subject to the proposed regulations?
If yes, this would deny deaf people, who are fluent only in Sign Language, some rights to communicate.
Patent laws already have procedures for forced licensing (I am not sure I used the correct legal terms).
If a patent owner refuses to practice his patent in a country with such a legal provision, and he refuses to license other parties to practice the patent - then a potential licensee can obtain a forced license after court appeal. The party, which obtained a forced license, then pays royalties to the patent owner at rate set by the court.
In Israel, there was such a case several years ago. A company registered a patent in Israel on a certain medication, and then refused to sell it in Israel or license its manufacture to an Israeli company. The reason was that the company in question wanted to do business with Arab countries, and they would boycott it if it did business also with Israel.
An Israeli company got a forced license and manufactured the medication in question. If I am not mistaken, the Israeli company in this case was Teva.
There are deaf admirers of Donald Knuth
on
Donald Knuth On NPR
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· Score: 3, Insightful
and they would like to have a written transcript of the interview with him.
This actually happened where I worked 24 years ago. However, probably not by the way of prank. At the time, I worked in Intel Israel (74) in Haifa, which was the first design center of Intel Corp. outside of USA. One day I and my buddy tried to display a file in our computer terminal (this was before the IBM PC era). What was displayed instead was information about the salaries of the 40+ employees which Intel Israel had at the time.
Israel conquered Arab areas in the 1967 Six Day War (a war which was started by Gamal Abd a-Nasser, the then ruler of Egypt - Israel was in an economic depression and Nasser believed that he has a chance to completely destroy Israel). During the war Israel invaded the Golan Heights (Syrian area), the Western Bank (then under control of Jordan, but Jordan subsequently waived all territorial claims in favor of the Palestinians), Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel returned to Egypt a small part of Sinai, and to Syria a small part of the Golan Heights - so the area controlled by Israel actually shrunk.
After those wars, the only newly invaded Arab territory was that of southern Lebanon, and Israel completely withdrew from it in 2000 (causing Arabs to believe that Israel is again weak, and start the Al-Aqsa intifada).
What is the current fate of Sinai, Gaza Strip, Western Bank and Golan Heights? Sinai - 100% returned to Egypt, as part of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, which was signed in 1979. Gaza Strip - the Egyptians didn't want to get it back, so it is still under partial Israeli control. Western Bank - under partial Israeli control. Jordan got some areas in the border it has with Israel as part of the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and Jordan. Golan Heights - were not to returned to Syria, because the Syrians refused to sign a peace agreement with Israel. It is assumed that Syria will get back most of the area once they have peace with Israel, which requires that they stop wishing that Israel become part of the Greater Syria.
There are several deaf persons in the world, who are interested in Stephen Wolfram's ideas. However, as long as the lecture exists only as audio stream, its gems of wisdom will remain forever out of reach of the deaf in the world.
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What did the parents expect to happen after all those thousand years, during which children were taught to talk with the Imaginary Friend (euphemism for God) in heaven?
'Nuff said.
Simple and letting them off gently:
MGVFS for Microsoft Git VFS
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MSGVFS for MicroSoft Git VFS
As a way to transport energy, hydrocarbons are much safer than batteries.
This is because hydrocarbons are dangerous only when they are mixed with oxygen, and it is possible to put a thick wall between them without impairing the efficiency of energy extraction. On the other hand, batteries are based upon separating, by a very thin membrane, two materials that would shortcircuit and burst into flames if they were to touch each other.
Another considration is the effective energy density of hydrocarbons relative to that of batteries. The high energy density of hydrocarbons is thanks also to the fact that one does not need to transport oxygen (unless one goes to space) - it is available for free when the fuel is burned to release energy.
Therefore, the most logical solution to the CO2 problem is to use solar energy to convert it and water back into hydrocarbons, which will be burned again. Airplanes and cars won't need to haul heavy batteries.
We need technology which uses solar energy to convert airborne CO2 back into hydrocarbons. The technology is to be deployed in deserts. They hydrogen could be provided by pumping water to those deserts.
For transporting large quantities of energy, hydrocarbons are better than batteries. They are safer than batteries, because the technology does not depend upon making barriers, among different chemicals, as thin as possible. When using batteries to transport energy, you must transport both materials which react to release the energy. When transporting hydrocarbons, you need to transport only one material, because the other material (oxygen) gets transported for free in your behalf by Nature.
The biggest drawback of the technology is the entrenched interests in using fossil fuels from deep in land and in sea. Those interests would face huge losses if people switch to usage of solar-created hydrocarbons in their factories, cars and airplanes.
I wonder if anyone made statistics of workplace male-male bullying incidents and compared it to statistics of male-female bullying incidents.
Men are, on the average, less sensitive about being bullied at work than women.
... if we invest in systems which use solar energy to convert airborne CO2 back into hydrocarbons.
Unfortunately, the gas producing establishment is too strong to push this solution, which will annihilate their profits, which are based upon extraction of hydrocarbons from Earth's depths and burning them.
There is a scene in Zardoz in which the group of "Eternals" gangs up on one of its members and harshly punishes him for his crimethought.
The witchhunt of the Google engineer reminds me of this scene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ruling is a setback for accessibility to the deaf of movies and TV programs.
Same as prohibiting, without rightowners' permission, auditory transcription of books for the benefit of the blind.
Another possible way to reboot the immune system is to infect the patient with measles.
One of the effects of this disease is to erase all information accumulated by the immune system and force it to relearn how to make antibodies for everything.
Hopefully, it won't learn how to attack its host's body.
I wrote a blog article about the need to treat information embodied in the patient's body: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate...
With four years' hindsight, and with what you know today, would you have boycotted Israeli academic institutions like you did at 2011? And why? By the way, one of the universities, which you boycotted at the time, is Haifa University, in which the percentage of Arab students among its student body is about 20% - similar to their percentage in the general population of Israel.
Nothing is useful forever and every technology will eventually be phased out in favor of something better. What, in your opinion, will cause Linux kernel in its present form to be phased out in favor of something different, such as Hurd or whatever OS used to control quantum computers?
Make it easier to lipread speaking people by displaying hints next to their mouths. The hints would for example show degree of vocalization of the speech sound.
Numbers do not matter here. As long as there are some people, who want to communicate in Sign Language - whether they are deaf or not - the proposed video regulations would severely discriminate against their preferred language. Why not regulate, in EU, communications written in non-European character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopic, Korean, Thai, the several character sets used in India, etc.)? Another aspect - there are Web sites, which offer VRS (video relay services). They allow a deaf person to communicate with an hearing person who does not have Webcam or something, via the help of a Sign Language interpreter who communicates with the deaf person in Sign Language via video, and with the hearing person using voice or whatever. Would VRS Web sites be subject to the proposed regulations? If yes, this would deny deaf people, who are fluent only in Sign Language, some rights to communicate.
Patent laws already have procedures for forced licensing (I am not sure I used the correct legal terms).
If a patent owner refuses to practice his patent in a country with such a legal provision, and he refuses to license other parties to practice the patent - then a potential licensee can obtain a forced license after court appeal.
The party, which obtained a forced license, then pays royalties to the patent owner at rate set by the court.
In Israel, there was such a case several years ago. A company registered a patent in Israel on a certain medication, and then refused to sell it in Israel or license its manufacture to an Israeli company. The reason was that the company in question wanted to do business with Arab countries, and they would boycott it if it did business also with Israel.
An Israeli company got a forced license and manufactured the medication in question.
If I am not mistaken, the Israeli company in this case was Teva.
and they would like to have a written transcript of the interview with him.
This actually happened where I worked 24 years ago. However, probably not by the way of prank.
At the time, I worked in Intel Israel (74) in Haifa, which was the first design center of Intel Corp. outside of USA.
One day I and my buddy tried to display a file in our computer terminal (this was before the IBM PC era). What was displayed instead was information about the salaries of the 40+ employees which Intel Israel had at the time.
Actually your information is not accurate.
Israel conquered Arab areas in the 1967 Six Day War (a war which was started by Gamal Abd a-Nasser, the then ruler of Egypt - Israel was in an economic depression and Nasser believed that he has a chance to completely destroy Israel). During the war Israel invaded the Golan Heights (Syrian area), the Western Bank (then under control of Jordan, but Jordan subsequently waived all territorial claims in favor of the Palestinians), Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel returned to Egypt a small part of Sinai, and to Syria a small part of the Golan Heights - so the area controlled by Israel actually shrunk.
After those wars, the only newly invaded Arab territory was that of southern Lebanon, and Israel completely withdrew from it in 2000 (causing Arabs to believe that Israel is again weak, and start the Al-Aqsa intifada).
What is the current fate of Sinai, Gaza Strip, Western Bank and Golan Heights?
Sinai - 100% returned to Egypt, as part of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, which was signed in 1979.
Gaza Strip - the Egyptians didn't want to get it back, so it is still under partial Israeli control.
Western Bank - under partial Israeli control. Jordan got some areas in the border it has with Israel as part of the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and Jordan.
Golan Heights - were not to returned to Syria, because the Syrians refused to sign a peace agreement with Israel. It is assumed that Syria will get back most of the area once they have peace with Israel, which requires that they stop wishing that Israel become part of the Greater Syria.
There are several deaf persons in the world, who are interested in Stephen Wolfram's ideas.
However, as long as the lecture exists only as audio stream, its gems of wisdom will remain forever out of reach of the deaf in the world.
AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!