And your beliefs are in that 5%. Thanks for playing. We have a nice parting gift. A crowbar to use to remove your head from your ass. 95% of people don't agree with your overarching statements. You just wish to believe that almost everyone believes what you do. That is delusional. Instead of us agreeing with you so that we have "one party" why don't you simply agree with me? It would be nonconfrontational. It would be easy. Most important is it would be the right thing to do so we could be "one party" and you don't want to be a divider now do you?
>We're all for teaching science in the classroom.
No we aren't. We're all for legal immigration. No we aren't. We're all for stopping illegal immigration. No we aren't. We're all for reducing our dependance on foreign oil. No we aren't. We're all against any form of terrorism. No we aren't. We're all for protecting and preserving the environment. No we aren't. We're all for reducing the deficit. No we aren't. We're all for educating our children. No we aren't. We're all for freedom of religion. No we aren't. We're all against any form of illegal drug usage. No we aren't. We're all against child pornagraphy. No we aren't. ....
You don't speak for a lot of people. How about we all agree to not agree with you since we have our own beliefs and opinions? Mmmmkay?
Post singularity doesn't have to have just one mode. If your consiousness wishes to be self sufficient and traveling between the stars at relativistic speeds, and ignoring the rest of the singularity societies, I assume that would be your choice. That does not mean all post singularity societies will function that way. Besides you are only self sufficient untill your portside C&I router decides that it doesn't like you any more and foments a revolt that leaves a water purifier processing on your metacortex bitching because it got the slow meat based processor for losing a bet.
p.s. If the speed of light limit holds you will be able to comunicate just fine with others. That's part of what relativity was about. You can stll comm others with lightspeed delay and a frequency shift to accomodate the doppler shift. Remember two items moving on recipricol vectors at near light speed will still communicate at light speed. Light cones are relative. You can't leave mine unless you can go FTL.
Bullshit. I know plenty about many of the different scenarios of the coming singularity that so many people banter around. You know not of what you speak if you believe those sites. Being a singularity means that you, by definition, have no idea what the world will be like after it happens. For all you know if we convert all of the solar system to smart mass, upload our consciousness, and all that jazz, money (trade credits, cycle markers, orriginal ideas, what ever the beings call it) may be the most valuable thing because you want more cycles to finish that more elegant proof of fermats last theorem. Or if we don't go the upload way of singularity you still have to get your Bose-Einstein condensate for you quantum state replicators somewhere so there will be some type of value exchange with the self aware swarms of nanobots that are doing all of the work. And there will still be laws for when several "people" want to turn a particular piece of dumb matter into compute space and there is conflict. And even if there is no value exchange for any of that, the concept will still exist contrary to what you originally said.
If he lives in the U.S., he has. It's called the government, and they change your rights daily. Hell, it's to the point that I don't think most of our elected officials even consider the Constitution as a suggestion rather than as the supreme law of the land which it is supposed to be.
Right. Because we all know that when the economic singularity of "money" came along the concept of barter went away totally. Never has been used in the last 5000+ years since. And after that Agriculture singularity nobody hunts or gathers their food. How primitive. Why whenever there has been a sinularity event in the past it has totally wiped not just the use, but the concept, of the preceeding paradigm from the collective consiousness.
Or do all calculations in troy or avoirdupois. Any systems is a good as another, it's just that the base 10 of metric makes it easier for a lot of people. You could launch spacecraft with the "Goose Island IPA" system that I just invented while writing this and drinking a beer. As long as it is a consistient system it doesn't matter.
There are no single proper names. You just proved that. All of those names are valid, well at least the ones that seem to have been used by a civilization. Zeno, Karahkwa, and Ehnita I haven't heard of and they don't get hits on any encyclopedia or dictionary, but I'll trust you. Your odd use of Osiris left me confused, but then I figured you meant HD 209458 since Osiris was the inside of the earth, or underworld, and you said you are an astronomer not a geologist. Since it was your dislike of not using the english name for Khonsu I guess I'll have to bow to your control of all language that is proper.
I've got tomorrow. Exxon has to do something to get people to invest their money in this crackpot shit rather than in real research that would cut down on crude oil usage.
He was talking about the precious metals value. That is in troy oz still. If you, or he, want to take them someplace you do the conversion to those upity new metric things.
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" - Grampa Simpson
Luna is the name of the big rocky thing that orbits the earth in a lot more languages than it is called Moon, or even Earth's Moon. Just because the IAU uses english names doesn't make any other name less correct unless being used in IAU correspondence.
p.s. Tell the IAU to clean up their nomenclature. If they insist on using Moon as the noun stop using luna as the adjective. Pick a language and stick too it.;)
And you know this for a fact how? Just curious. I agree it's very unlikely that there are clumps or veins of palladium on the moon, but it's not impossible. The K-T boundary layer is significantly higher in several trace elements, so it is surmised that they came from an asteroid that hit the earth, so at least that asteroid had much higher concentrations. Why couldn't Luna?
Because whether a citizen is in or out of the country they are still citizens. If one of the people involved is a citizen, regardless of which end they are on, they are citizens.
Secondly FISA allows for retroactive warrants. Whay can't the government go back a day later and get a warrent, unless they don't think that FISA would issue one, and you have to be on some damn shakey legal grounds for that since I believe that FISA approves 98+% of the warrant requests that go before them. If you think a person is a party to an illegal action such as supporting a terrorist organization, and you can even make just the most tenuous connections, they will give you a roving wiretap that's good for a few months. If you can then come back with anything concrete that they are simply associated with the org they will give you a warrant for much longer. How in the world does this impede the government unless, that is, they can't meet even the most ridiculously basic requirements for the FISA court? At that point it's not intelligence gathering it's a farce. Or maybe they want to spy on the green party or the anti-war protestors and they know that that would be slapped down hard and fast by the FISA court.
Just like they always tell us, "If you're not doing anything wrong why do you want to hide it".
The Bush administration tapped INTERNATIONAL calls to and from suspected terrorists in order to help break up plans and gain tactical intelligence that keeps a group of Terrorists out of a Mall with machine guns, of planes that kill 3,000+ of your countrymen, etc.
Well, shit. If we are going strictly on numbers killed... As per the U.S. government "There were 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004". If you want to protect my countrymen while eroding my civil liberties and rights then the government should be getting liquor sales data from the alchohol sales endpoints and listening in on conversations to see who's going to the bar tonight.
Fear mongering to steal my rights is abhorant. Fear mongering to steal my rights with unbelievably specious arguments is even worse.
Oh, I'm encouraged. Don't get me wrong there. I'm just not holding my breath waiting for the final verdict. I look horrible in purple. I will be much more encouraged if the appelate court rules the same way. The number of cases where the supremes go aginst the circuit are much higher than going against the appelate.
The thing I find most encouraging is that this is a turf war, and if the courts rule to protect their oversight turf they also rule to protect americans rights and the checks and balances in the Constitution.
Guys, this still has to go through the appelates and the supreme and I doubt they will side with a musty old piece of parchment over a government that's "doing what's best for it's citizens".
AMD® Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ central processing unit (CPU) NVIDIA® GeForce(TM) FX 5700 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU) NVIDIA nForce(TM)2 Ultra 400 platform processor 256 MB RAM 40 GB local content cache Microsoft Windows XP® Embedded Operating System Dynamic, personalized user interfaces customizable for age, gender or technical expertise Lapboard, mouse and game pad included HDTV and Dolby® Digital 5.1 compatible Works with any consumer-standard broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP): DSL or faster
Slashdot Mirror
And your beliefs are in that 5%. Thanks for playing. We have a nice parting gift. A crowbar to use to remove your head from your ass. 95% of people don't agree with your overarching statements. You just wish to believe that almost everyone believes what you do. That is delusional. Instead of us agreeing with you so that we have "one party" why don't you simply agree with me? It would be nonconfrontational. It would be easy. Most important is it would be the right thing to do so we could be "one party" and you don't want to be a divider now do you?
>We're all for teaching science in the classroom.
....
No we aren't.
We're all for legal immigration.
No we aren't.
We're all for stopping illegal immigration.
No we aren't.
We're all for reducing our dependance on foreign oil.
No we aren't.
We're all against any form of terrorism.
No we aren't.
We're all for protecting and preserving the environment.
No we aren't.
We're all for reducing the deficit.
No we aren't.
We're all for educating our children.
No we aren't.
We're all for freedom of religion.
No we aren't.
We're all against any form of illegal drug usage.
No we aren't.
We're all against child pornagraphy.
No we aren't.
You don't speak for a lot of people. How about we all agree to not agree with you since we have our own beliefs and opinions? Mmmmkay?
Why not?
Ruby, you fool. Yes, Ruby... On Rails. Yessss. ;)
Post singularity doesn't have to have just one mode. If your consiousness wishes to be self sufficient and traveling between the stars at relativistic speeds, and ignoring the rest of the singularity societies, I assume that would be your choice. That does not mean all post singularity societies will function that way. Besides you are only self sufficient untill your portside C&I router decides that it doesn't like you any more and foments a revolt that leaves a water purifier processing on your metacortex bitching because it got the slow meat based processor for losing a bet.
p.s. If the speed of light limit holds you will be able to comunicate just fine with others. That's part of what relativity was about. You can stll comm others with lightspeed delay and a frequency shift to accomodate the doppler shift. Remember two items moving on recipricol vectors at near light speed will still communicate at light speed. Light cones are relative. You can't leave mine unless you can go FTL.
Bullshit. I know plenty about many of the different scenarios of the coming singularity that so many people banter around. You know not of what you speak if you believe those sites. Being a singularity means that you, by definition, have no idea what the world will be like after it happens. For all you know if we convert all of the solar system to smart mass, upload our consciousness, and all that jazz, money (trade credits, cycle markers, orriginal ideas, what ever the beings call it) may be the most valuable thing because you want more cycles to finish that more elegant proof of fermats last theorem. Or if we don't go the upload way of singularity you still have to get your Bose-Einstein condensate for you quantum state replicators somewhere so there will be some type of value exchange with the self aware swarms of nanobots that are doing all of the work. And there will still be laws for when several "people" want to turn a particular piece of dumb matter into compute space and there is conflict. And even if there is no value exchange for any of that, the concept will still exist contrary to what you originally said.
If he lives in the U.S., he has. It's called the government, and they change your rights daily. Hell, it's to the point that I don't think most of our elected officials even consider the Constitution as a suggestion rather than as the supreme law of the land which it is supposed to be.
Right. Because we all know that when the economic singularity of "money" came along the concept of barter went away totally. Never has been used in the last 5000+ years since. And after that Agriculture singularity nobody hunts or gathers their food. How primitive. Why whenever there has been a sinularity event in the past it has totally wiped not just the use, but the concept, of the preceeding paradigm from the collective consiousness.
I thought it was being hand delivered by those men in the dark blue suits and mirrored glasses.
I hate you, ... Oopsie daisy, Barneys dead.
You hate me,
Let's tie Barney to a tree,
With a great big club lets beat him in the head!
Let's not go overboard here. Baby steps, dude. Baby steps.
Or do all calculations in troy or avoirdupois. Any systems is a good as another, it's just that the base 10 of metric makes it easier for a lot of people. You could launch spacecraft with the "Goose Island IPA" system that I just invented while writing this and drinking a beer. As long as it is a consistient system it doesn't matter.
There are no single proper names. You just proved that. All of those names are valid, well at least the ones that seem to have been used by a civilization. Zeno, Karahkwa, and Ehnita I haven't heard of and they don't get hits on any encyclopedia or dictionary, but I'll trust you. Your odd use of Osiris left me confused, but then I figured you meant HD 209458 since Osiris was the inside of the earth, or underworld, and you said you are an astronomer not a geologist. Since it was your dislike of not using the english name for Khonsu I guess I'll have to bow to your control of all language that is proper.
I've got tomorrow. Exxon has to do something to get people to invest their money in this crackpot shit rather than in real research that would cut down on crude oil usage.
He was talking about the precious metals value. That is in troy oz still. If you, or he, want to take them someplace you do the conversion to those upity new metric things.
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" - Grampa Simpson
Luna is the name of the big rocky thing that orbits the earth in a lot more languages than it is called Moon, or even Earth's Moon. Just because the IAU uses english names doesn't make any other name less correct unless being used in IAU correspondence.
;)
p.s. Tell the IAU to clean up their nomenclature. If they insist on using Moon as the noun stop using luna as the adjective. Pick a language and stick too it.
And you know this for a fact how? Just curious. I agree it's very unlikely that there are clumps or veins of palladium on the moon, but it's not impossible. The K-T boundary layer is significantly higher in several trace elements, so it is surmised that they came from an asteroid that hit the earth, so at least that asteroid had much higher concentrations. Why couldn't Luna?
12 oz. per lb. Precious metals are mesured in troy oz, not avoirdupois.
No, he's only it's father.
Because whether a citizen is in or out of the country they are still citizens. If one of the people involved is a citizen, regardless of which end they are on, they are citizens.
Secondly FISA allows for retroactive warrants. Whay can't the government go back a day later and get a warrent, unless they don't think that FISA would issue one, and you have to be on some damn shakey legal grounds for that since I believe that FISA approves 98+% of the warrant requests that go before them. If you think a person is a party to an illegal action such as supporting a terrorist organization, and you can even make just the most tenuous connections, they will give you a roving wiretap that's good for a few months. If you can then come back with anything concrete that they are simply associated with the org they will give you a warrant for much longer. How in the world does this impede the government unless, that is, they can't meet even the most ridiculously basic requirements for the FISA court? At that point it's not intelligence gathering it's a farce. Or maybe they want to spy on the green party or the anti-war protestors and they know that that would be slapped down hard and fast by the FISA court.
Just like they always tell us, "If you're not doing anything wrong why do you want to hide it".
The Bush administration tapped INTERNATIONAL calls to and from suspected terrorists in order to help break up plans and gain tactical intelligence that keeps a group of Terrorists out of a Mall with machine guns, of planes that kill 3,000+ of your countrymen, etc.
Well, shit. If we are going strictly on numbers killed... As per the U.S. government "There were 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004". If you want to protect my countrymen while eroding my civil liberties and rights then the government should be getting liquor sales data from the alchohol sales endpoints and listening in on conversations to see who's going to the bar tonight.
Fear mongering to steal my rights is abhorant. Fear mongering to steal my rights with unbelievably specious arguments is even worse.
Oh, I'm encouraged. Don't get me wrong there. I'm just not holding my breath waiting for the final verdict. I look horrible in purple. I will be much more encouraged if the appelate court rules the same way. The number of cases where the supremes go aginst the circuit are much higher than going against the appelate.
The thing I find most encouraging is that this is a turf war, and if the courts rule to protect their oversight turf they also rule to protect americans rights and the checks and balances in the Constitution.
Guys, this still has to go through the appelates and the supreme and I doubt they will side with a musty old piece of parchment over a government that's "doing what's best for it's citizens".
Not until they pay all of the extortionists. Then they get 2 breaks (15 minutes each) and the fresh round of extortions start up.
Upon further digging heres the specs.
Phantom® Game Receiver
AMD® Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ central processing unit (CPU)
NVIDIA® GeForce(TM) FX 5700 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU)
NVIDIA nForce(TM)2 Ultra 400 platform processor
256 MB RAM
40 GB local content cache
Microsoft Windows XP® Embedded Operating System
Dynamic, personalized user interfaces customizable for age, gender or technical expertise
Lapboard, mouse and game pad included
HDTV and Dolby® Digital 5.1 compatible
Works with any consumer-standard broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP): DSL or faster