Such a country should not allowed to be part of the European Union with laws like this. Relgious insanity should be reserved Anyway, I can't see how a 'blasphemy' law could actually be useful, if any case came to court. Facts would surely have to be presented, and given their total absence in religion, I don't see any way that any such law could stand up, in front of any sane people.
You are quite right, but please note that the government and the Irish people are basically two different entities at this point. The overwhelming majority are horrified at this decision, while the group in charge only got in because of the grey vote, who barely pay attention to the real issues, focusing instead on maintaining their government pensions. Help drive them out, help Amhrán Nua.
The Irish have earned the derision of all free people everywhere in the world.
Stonewolf
The government hasn't represented our interests in quite some time, and the majority of people are sick to their hearts at this decision. I ask sincerely that you don't judge the people of Ireland by the fuckwits who managed to get themselves elected on the strength of their fathers name.
It's written in such a way no one will ever be prosecuted.
Yeah, under a government run by the same yahoo that was last seen crawling to Rome on his hands and knees to apologise for child abuse by Catholic clergymen.
I'd like to give a little background on whats going on over here. The governing party, Fianna Fáil (soldiers of destiny if you don't mind) have managed to run the country into one of the worst recessions in Europe by a fairly spectacular series of bad decisions, coasting through into a coalition with the greens mainly on inertia. The leader of that party, Bertie Ahern, was run out of office under a storm of corruption accustations, and his finance minister (the same one that ran the country into the ground) took over.
This mandateless buffoon is one of the least popular leaders the country has ever seen, a morbidly obese fellow by the name of Brian Cowen. This stellar example of why sons shouldn't be allowed to run for office in the same constituency as their father was last seen jetting off to Rome to kow-tow to the Pope over the massive child abuse rings that were operated by Catholic priests in Catholic industrial schools in the 50s and 60s. Thats right, the Clowen apologised to a religious leader for abuse carried out by religious officials.
I and the vast majority of Irish people feel sick to our cores at this new law, but the fact remains at this point that we have no real voice or means to overthrow the government - we can't force a general election so these yahoos have free reign to blacken the name of the nation internationally until 2012 at least. Its a monstrous situation and I sincerely ask that people hearing about this dont' use it to judge the Irish people as a whole. The government hasn't really represented us for quite some time.
If you want to help out to fight this problem, there are some small groups struggling to get traction politicially, although the media doesn't really want to let them in. One of the most promising is Amhrán Nua, the new tune party, so send help if you can, well wishes, whatever to give these few the chance to be heard. The people of Ireland will thank you for it.
I'm interested in the results of this technology as applied to stammering and similar speech disorders - these are not physical, but psychological issues, and appear to be mostly confined to the vocal chords; stammerers can type just fine. This might help us isolate exactly where the breakdown between mind and voice is happening.
They weren't speaking English as you'd know it back then. In fact it was the Norman conquest of England that lead directly to the formation of the modern English language, so the French are in fact responsible for the language you are dissing them in.
Indeed, the earth is an exceptionally harsh environment, responsible for a couple of dozen extinctions, several of which almost succeeded in wiping out the entire biosphere, to say nothing of numerous civilisations. Its little wonder that the majority of human history has been war and strife, given the world we evolved into. Its comforting now though that we have managed to chip off just barely enough information from the tree of knowledge to be able to step back from the simple, primitive imperialistic instincts displayed by nations in the last few centuries and consider moral and ethical implications to our actions, on the macro scale.
As for the noble savage concept, well if the shoe had been on the other foot would we have gotten a better deal? I sincerely doubt it.
Relative to the star though you wouldn't really be visible until really close. Or you could just reverse the ship and go in decelerating with the drive forward.
Then again if you assume that battles in space will be high speed flybys, which seems likely, for the majority of the time and at greater ranges, the rectangle will serve you better.
Also its misleading to say that three attackers would throw off the numbers - if all three are from the front/rear and are suitably concentrated, that does no harm to the rectangle's advantages at all. Also you can't add up the number of ships and say thats the total profile exposed - each individual ship has to shoot and hit independently, so the maximum profile per ship is all we're concerned about.
The sphere is the optimal shape for planets, stars, and birthday balloons - in space combat I feel it would be a significant hindrance, and not just for surface exposed reasons.
Seen from the front though the rectangle only presents a profile of 100. The maximum profile it will exhibit is 1000, and thats only directly from the side. The sphere, if I'm not mistaken, will always present in the region of 1800.
And you know what, the whole thing would pay for itself if you put a small percentage of the sale of the new beachfront properties towards paying for it. You will almost certainly end up making a huge profit, in fact.
Alright, lets do some back of the envelope calculations here:
The Eyre basin is some 171000 cubic kilometers, assuming an average of 15 below sea level.
The entire ocean has some 1347000000 cubi kilometers.
This makes the Eyre Basin approximately 0.000126948775 of the entire oceans in the world, and since the average depth of the ocean is about 3,796 meters, that comes to a roughly 48cm drop, which according to wikipedia should offset the effects of global warming for a century or so.
Current sea level rise has occurred at a mean rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past century,[1][2] and more recently at rates estimated near 2.8 ± 0.4[3] to 3.1 ± 0.7[4] mm per year (1993-2003). Current sea level rise is due significantly to global warming,[5] which will increase sea level over the coming century and longer periods.[6][7] Increasing temperatures result in sea level rise by the thermal expansion of water and through the addition of water to the oceans from the melting of continental ice sheets. Thermal expansion, which is well-quantified, is currently the primary contributor to sea level rise and is expected to be the primary contributor over the course of the next century. Glacial contributions to sea-level rise are less important,[8] and are more difficult to predict and quantify.[8] Values for predicted sea level rise over the course of the next century typically range from 90 to 880 mm, with a central value of 480 mm.
With increasing importance of online/cloud/Live applications and ChromeOS combining applications into the web -> To who? I wouldn't place any faith in Google to secure the kind of information that I would normally use my OS plus applications for, especially not for the ephemeral price of "data trends to help target advertisements". Also cloud computing isn't uploading your information to third party servers, its uploading it to your own servers in a manner that looks seamless to users, although its still a marketing buzzword with all that.
Mail to web was the integration of two important applications, for which a clear need was and is perceived. Web based standard applications are a forced combination that offers no real advantages except to lite users who wouldn't be using a lot of these applications anyway.
Indeed, why bother doing the acrobatics to work around it. I read BBC news, a few local newspapers, a couple of sites like slashdot and a few decent blogs to catch up on whats going on. If Murdoch wants to get people paying for what is free elsewhere, he'll discover how the internet routes around damage, at which point he'll either back up and try to find some other payment model, or he'll fold.
We don't trust others for critical things like water, food and electricity, we pay them for these services. If they don't supply those services, we have legislative and social recourse to deal with the issue, thats what governments are for.
The idea of uploading sensitive documents to a third party "cloud", especially a free one, is just nuts. This "don't be evil" thing is great PR, but come on.
Slashdot Mirror
Such a country should not allowed to be part of the European Union with laws like this. Relgious insanity should be reserved Anyway, I can't see how a 'blasphemy' law could actually be useful, if any case came to court. Facts would surely have to be presented, and given their total absence in religion, I don't see any way that any such law could stand up, in front of any sane people.
You are quite right, but please note that the government and the Irish people are basically two different entities at this point. The overwhelming majority are horrified at this decision, while the group in charge only got in because of the grey vote, who barely pay attention to the real issues, focusing instead on maintaining their government pensions. Help drive them out, help Amhrán Nua.
The Irish have earned the derision of all free people everywhere in the world.
Stonewolf
The government hasn't represented our interests in quite some time, and the majority of people are sick to their hearts at this decision. I ask sincerely that you don't judge the people of Ireland by the fuckwits who managed to get themselves elected on the strength of their fathers name.
Please do not think this represents the will of the people of Ireland. The government hasn't represented the majority for quite a while.
It's written in such a way no one will ever be prosecuted.
Yeah, under a government run by the same yahoo that was last seen crawling to Rome on his hands and knees to apologise for child abuse by Catholic clergymen.
I'd like to give a little background on whats going on over here. The governing party, Fianna Fáil (soldiers of destiny if you don't mind) have managed to run the country into one of the worst recessions in Europe by a fairly spectacular series of bad decisions, coasting through into a coalition with the greens mainly on inertia. The leader of that party, Bertie Ahern, was run out of office under a storm of corruption accustations, and his finance minister (the same one that ran the country into the ground) took over.
This mandateless buffoon is one of the least popular leaders the country has ever seen, a morbidly obese fellow by the name of Brian Cowen. This stellar example of why sons shouldn't be allowed to run for office in the same constituency as their father was last seen jetting off to Rome to kow-tow to the Pope over the massive child abuse rings that were operated by Catholic priests in Catholic industrial schools in the 50s and 60s. Thats right, the Clowen apologised to a religious leader for abuse carried out by religious officials.
I and the vast majority of Irish people feel sick to our cores at this new law, but the fact remains at this point that we have no real voice or means to overthrow the government - we can't force a general election so these yahoos have free reign to blacken the name of the nation internationally until 2012 at least. Its a monstrous situation and I sincerely ask that people hearing about this dont' use it to judge the Irish people as a whole. The government hasn't really represented us for quite some time.
If you want to help out to fight this problem, there are some small groups struggling to get traction politicially, although the media doesn't really want to let them in. One of the most promising is Amhrán Nua, the new tune party, so send help if you can, well wishes, whatever to give these few the chance to be heard. The people of Ireland will thank you for it.
We have it.
I'm interested in the results of this technology as applied to stammering and similar speech disorders - these are not physical, but psychological issues, and appear to be mostly confined to the vocal chords; stammerers can type just fine. This might help us isolate exactly where the breakdown between mind and voice is happening.
They weren't speaking English as you'd know it back then. In fact it was the Norman conquest of England that lead directly to the formation of the modern English language, so the French are in fact responsible for the language you are dissing them in.
Indeed, the earth is an exceptionally harsh environment, responsible for a couple of dozen extinctions, several of which almost succeeded in wiping out the entire biosphere, to say nothing of numerous civilisations. Its little wonder that the majority of human history has been war and strife, given the world we evolved into. Its comforting now though that we have managed to chip off just barely enough information from the tree of knowledge to be able to step back from the simple, primitive imperialistic instincts displayed by nations in the last few centuries and consider moral and ethical implications to our actions, on the macro scale.
As for the noble savage concept, well if the shoe had been on the other foot would we have gotten a better deal? I sincerely doubt it.
We'll not see his like again.
Relative to the star though you wouldn't really be visible until really close. Or you could just reverse the ship and go in decelerating with the drive forward.
Then again if you assume that battles in space will be high speed flybys, which seems likely, for the majority of the time and at greater ranges, the rectangle will serve you better.
Also its misleading to say that three attackers would throw off the numbers - if all three are from the front/rear and are suitably concentrated, that does no harm to the rectangle's advantages at all. Also you can't add up the number of ships and say thats the total profile exposed - each individual ship has to shoot and hit independently, so the maximum profile per ship is all we're concerned about.
The sphere is the optimal shape for planets, stars, and birthday balloons - in space combat I feel it would be a significant hindrance, and not just for surface exposed reasons.
What if you come in with a star behind you?
Could you not make your own cover with static mines or similar, pump out enough interference that its very hard to pinpoint the target?
Seen from the front though the rectangle only presents a profile of 100. The maximum profile it will exhibit is 1000, and thats only directly from the side. The sphere, if I'm not mistaken, will always present in the region of 1800.
I don't, note the "back of the envelope" phrase there. All the numbers came from google and wikipedia. It would be a hell of a project though.
And you know what, the whole thing would pay for itself if you put a small percentage of the sale of the new beachfront properties towards paying for it. You will almost certainly end up making a huge profit, in fact.
Alright, lets do some back of the envelope calculations here:
The Eyre basin is some 171000 cubic kilometers, assuming an average of 15 below sea level.
The entire ocean has some 1347000000 cubi kilometers.
This makes the Eyre Basin approximately 0.000126948775 of the entire oceans in the world, and since the average depth of the ocean is about 3,796 meters, that comes to a roughly 48cm drop, which according to wikipedia should offset the effects of global warming for a century or so.
Current sea level rise has occurred at a mean rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past century,[1][2] and more recently at rates estimated near 2.8 ± 0.4[3] to 3.1 ± 0.7[4] mm per year (1993-2003). Current sea level rise is due significantly to global warming,[5] which will increase sea level over the coming century and longer periods.[6][7] Increasing temperatures result in sea level rise by the thermal expansion of water and through the addition of water to the oceans from the melting of continental ice sheets. Thermal expansion, which is well-quantified, is currently the primary contributor to sea level rise and is expected to be the primary contributor over the course of the next century. Glacial contributions to sea-level rise are less important,[8] and are more difficult to predict and quantify.[8] Values for predicted sea level rise over the course of the next century typically range from 90 to 880 mm, with a central value of 480 mm.
Haha, that was way too much fun.
With increasing importance of online/cloud/Live applications and ChromeOS combining applications into the web -> To who? I wouldn't place any faith in Google to secure the kind of information that I would normally use my OS plus applications for, especially not for the ephemeral price of "data trends to help target advertisements". Also cloud computing isn't uploading your information to third party servers, its uploading it to your own servers in a manner that looks seamless to users, although its still a marketing buzzword with all that.
Mail to web was the integration of two important applications, for which a clear need was and is perceived. Web based standard applications are a forced combination that offers no real advantages except to lite users who wouldn't be using a lot of these applications anyway.
No it wasn't, the Song dynasty were doing it in China long before the Dutch.
Indeed, why bother doing the acrobatics to work around it. I read BBC news, a few local newspapers, a couple of sites like slashdot and a few decent blogs to catch up on whats going on. If Murdoch wants to get people paying for what is free elsewhere, he'll discover how the internet routes around damage, at which point he'll either back up and try to find some other payment model, or he'll fold.
We don't trust others for critical things like water, food and electricity, we pay them for these services. If they don't supply those services, we have legislative and social recourse to deal with the issue, thats what governments are for.
The idea of uploading sensitive documents to a third party "cloud", especially a free one, is just nuts. This "don't be evil" thing is great PR, but come on.
This is going to be as funny as hell.
What idiot keeps modding this racist trash up?
Its owned by Australian investment bank Babcock Brown, soon to change hands most likely. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/1030/1225303611201.html