After the Duke of Monmouth was beheaded, they realized there was no official portrait of the guy, so they had his head put back and his portrait painted.
Probably the best way to connect securely when traveling cheaply is to boot a cyber cafe computer from a Knoppix CD.
That's of course also a good way to annoy the guy who runs the cyber cafe, since you will disable his metering software.
Do people actually regularly use Knoppix CD:s this way? Do you get in trouble often over it? Do you ask first? Are cyber cafe managers happy to let you?
If my friend isn't at the bar, I can't talk to him. The chance he's near his computer is much higher
Well, that certainly depends. If you are a regular at your computer, your friends are probably regular at theirs. If you're a regular at the pub, chances are your friends also are.
And, after a few pints, some people do indeed talk to people not present at the bar...
I can post something, he can read it later. A bar doesn't do that
Oh, yes, there are a few ways to do that, at least if you are a regular. If you need some theory on how it works, try following a tv series located in a bar or pub, within short, someone's wife is bound to leave an asynchronous message with the bar man!
Real life has its own set of advantages. Neither is obviously better than the other.
That's a subjective statement, of course, but taken to the extreme (that you really have to choose), I have to disagree.
be sold very near the price of a similary sized rear projection
Rear projections have not been very successful in Europe. I guess it is cultural thing. We just don't have big enough rears to make it worthwhile projecting anything.
I just flew from the UK two nights ago, and in the tax-free area after the security control, you are able to purchase D-cell maglites. As those in the know would tell you, the most dangerous part of a knife for use in close combat is not the blade, but the handle. Applied to the head of the adversary it is more likely to be deadly than the blade applied to the torso. Same thing with a maglite or any other object of similar hardlyness for that matter.
Yep. But it raises the bar a bit. Most people are able to kill with the blade of a knife. Many people are not able to easily kill another person with the hilt.
- As a previous poster stated, how do we know who is in which seat? I've seen "seat hopping" on many flights, and I've done it myself. Frankly, I'd like my family to get *my* remains, not those of the guy who took my seat after I moved to a different row.
Well as long as they know which 180 people were on the plane, the search space for DNA analysis is just a lot smaller.
For all the attacks that happen or that we hear about after being broken up, there's got to be dozens of plots that are being aborted or lose key personel to arrest before they had time to mature into being specific enough to pick an exact target.
These measures will stop all the terrorist equivalent of script-kiddies, the copy cats that try to repeat 9/11 (or similar). But what really made 9/11 9/11 was that these guys thought outside of the box. Noone expected hijackers to use planes as missiles. Now everyone does, so 9/11 type of attacks are more likely to fail since hijacked planes risk being shot down by the air force.
The requirement (and the reason you can't change seats *after* boarding an airplane) is purely (as another said) to identify the corpses.
If that was the case, then there would only be one toilet on a plane, right? (When was that requirement introduced? I don't fly all that often, and mostly in Europe, but I haven't noticed.)
How mandatory ID even prevents terrorist attacks is also not clear to me; all the 9/11 hijackers had valid government-issued ID.
Well, maybe not on the plane. But if they travel by plane to commit a terrorist act at their destination, maybe the ID requirement could help preventing the terrorist act. (maybe...could, right)
You guys have been checking ID at the border for a long time. Since most people who hate the American government are already inside the US, this seems to be of uncertain value.
It probably doesn't, but i imagine it helps to identify the passengers in case of a crash.
Indeed. In Sweden we discovered that shipping companies were not required to keep passenger lists when Estonia sank. Most of the bodies were not recovered, making it quite difficult to sort out who had gone down with her.
Needless to say, high sea passenger ships are now required to keep passenger lists. (Though, id control is not that strictly enforced)
More power for the world means quicker resource consumption.
Not necessarily. Recycling most resources takes energy. It seems to me that electricity spent on cleaning waste water is well spent. Etc.
Recycling resources means using them more efficiently. This sounds a lot like "increase the entropy of the universe" to me, but if we bring on the heat death of the universe a couple of year earlier, I think that is acceptable.
And the road to open source, like the road from feudalism or communism to capitalism is a one-way road. Once open source becomes established in a market, the trend cannot be reversed.
As I remember it, several of the communist countries were capitalist before becoming communist. Only a few started as feudal. So, yes, those trends can be reversed. Sometimes by gun, sometimes by the polling booth (Kerala and West Bengal in India both have had elected communist governments).
I don't think this has any implication for open source, but your analogy is broken.
When will all kids by default be forced to take this pill so they can do their homework? How long before this pill is forced on you by your employers?
It will happen in the exact same way as kids, employees and athletes are forced to take other pills that enhance your strength, wits or ability to go on without sleeping. That is, it won't happen generally, but in some sectors it will be rather common. And it will be partly due to the free will of the individual and partly because he is forced or tricked in to using these pills.
The reason the monkeys worked harder was that they could no longer judge how much work had to be done before they got a reward. Essentially, they became unable to estimate how long the work would take to complete.
A healthy human would recognize this situation and go back to doing nothing instead of risking to spend a long time doing something for no reward at all!
So the sponsors have to predistort their logos so that it looks good in a long, panoramic, high shot.
I thought that it was quite clever when I first saw it.
So did I. At Taj Mahal. There are some passages from the quran around some of the archways. The size of the lettering increases towards the top of the arches to compensate for the perspective.
While I also believe that is is worthless to distinguish "hate crimes" from "ordinary crimes,"
We prosecute crimes not to bring revenge to the victims (or rather, the degree revenge plays into the judicial system of a country is a measure of its (lack of) civilization), but to prevent future crimes partly by deterrence.
Crimes that are committed out of hatred of a specific group of people (defined by ethnicity, religion, sexuality, whatever) is more likely to inspire more similar crime than crime de passion, and it is also more dangerous to society in the sense that it scares people of participating in the democratic processes (violence against homosexuals is likely to scare other homosexual politicians).
If deterrence is related to the severity of the punishment given, hate crimes should be punished harder.
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After the Duke of Monmouth was beheaded, they realized there was no official portrait of the guy, so they had his head put back and his portrait painted.
I get lots of hits for "fjärrkyla" (sv. "city grid cooling", what ever the term is in English) on Google.
For example Fortum (Energy company in Sweden and Finland).
Probably the best way to connect securely when traveling cheaply is to boot a cyber cafe computer from a Knoppix CD.
That's of course also a good way to annoy the guy who runs the cyber cafe, since you will disable his metering software.
Do people actually regularly use Knoppix CD:s this way? Do you get in trouble often over it? Do you ask first? Are cyber cafe managers happy to let you?
If my friend isn't at the bar, I can't talk to him. The chance he's near his computer is much higher
Well, that certainly depends. If you are a regular at your computer, your friends are probably regular at theirs. If you're a regular at the pub, chances are your friends also are.
And, after a few pints, some people do indeed talk to people not present at the bar...
I can post something, he can read it later. A bar doesn't do that
Oh, yes, there are a few ways to do that, at least if you are a regular. If you need some theory on how it works, try following a tv series located in a bar or pub, within short, someone's wife is bound to leave an asynchronous message with the bar man!
Real life has its own set of advantages. Neither is obviously better than the other.
That's a subjective statement, of course, but taken to the extreme (that you really have to choose), I have to disagree.
be sold very near the price of a similary sized rear projection
Rear projections have not been very successful in Europe. I guess it is cultural thing. We just don't have big enough rears to make it worthwhile projecting anything.
I just flew from the UK two nights ago, and in the tax-free area after the security control, you are able to purchase D-cell maglites. As those in the know would tell you, the most dangerous part of a knife for use in close combat is not the blade, but the handle. Applied to the head of the adversary it is more likely to be deadly than the blade applied to the torso. Same thing with a maglite or any other object of similar hardlyness for that matter.
Yep. But it raises the bar a bit. Most people are able to kill with the blade of a knife. Many people are not able to easily kill another person with the hilt.
- As a previous poster stated, how do we know who is in which seat? I've seen "seat hopping" on many flights, and I've done it myself. Frankly, I'd like my family to get *my* remains, not those of the guy who took my seat after I moved to a different row.
Well as long as they know which 180 people were on the plane, the search space for DNA analysis is just a lot smaller.
For all the attacks that happen or that we hear about after being broken up, there's got to be dozens of plots that are being aborted or lose key personel to arrest before they had time to mature into being specific enough to pick an exact target.
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These measures will stop all the terrorist equivalent of script-kiddies, the copy cats that try to repeat 9/11 (or similar). But what really made 9/11 9/11 was that these guys thought outside of the box. Noone expected hijackers to use planes as missiles. Now everyone does, so 9/11 type of attacks are more likely to fail since hijacked planes risk being shot down by the air force.
There is always the risk that someone will come up with a novel idea that circumvents all the security measures put up to prevent the repeat of 9/11. This is a thought provoking article by Jef Raskin: http://humane.sourceforge.net/unpublished/next_ti
The requirement (and the reason you can't change seats *after* boarding an airplane) is purely (as another said) to identify the corpses.
If that was the case, then there would only be one toilet on a plane, right? (When was that requirement introduced? I don't fly all that often, and mostly in Europe, but I haven't noticed.)
How mandatory ID even prevents terrorist attacks is also not clear to me; all the 9/11 hijackers had valid government-issued ID.
Well, maybe not on the plane. But if they travel by plane to commit a terrorist act at their destination, maybe the ID requirement could help preventing the terrorist act. (maybe...could, right)
You guys have been checking ID at the border for a long time. Since most people who hate the American government are already inside the US, this seems to be of uncertain value.
It probably doesn't, but i imagine it helps to identify the passengers in case of a crash.
Indeed. In Sweden we discovered that shipping companies were not required to keep passenger lists when Estonia sank. Most of the bodies were not recovered, making it quite difficult to sort out who had gone down with her.
Needless to say, high sea passenger ships are now required to keep passenger lists. (Though, id control is not that strictly enforced)
'The boulders are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across -- ...'
More power for the world means quicker resource consumption.
Not necessarily. Recycling most resources takes energy. It seems to me that electricity spent on cleaning waste water is well spent. Etc.
Recycling resources means using them more efficiently. This sounds a lot like "increase the entropy of the universe" to me, but if we bring on the heat death of the universe a couple of year earlier, I think that is acceptable.
Exactly. Linux is going to win for economic reasons. Microsoft's ridiculous profit margins are drawing competition like moths to a flame.
The only problem with that is that it is a long time since a gang of moths smothered the flame!
And the road to open source, like the road from feudalism or communism to capitalism is a one-way road. Once open source becomes established in a market, the trend cannot be reversed.
As I remember it, several of the communist countries were capitalist before becoming communist. Only a few started as feudal. So, yes, those trends can be reversed. Sometimes by gun, sometimes by the polling booth (Kerala and West Bengal in India both have had elected communist governments).
I don't think this has any implication for open source, but your analogy is broken.
When will all kids by default be forced to take this pill so they can do their homework? How long before this pill is forced on you by your employers?
It will happen in the exact same way as kids, employees and athletes are forced to take other pills that enhance your strength, wits or ability to go on without sleeping. That is, it won't happen generally, but in some sectors it will be rather common. And it will be partly due to the free will of the individual and partly because he is forced or tricked in to using these pills.
I thought Microsoft was just going to cut out programs like media player and solitare, not completely cripple the OS and make it practically useless.
Given that Windows without Media Player and Solitaire IS useless to many people that'd be the same, m'kay?
The reason the monkeys worked harder was that they could no longer judge how much work had to be done before they got a reward. Essentially, they became unable to estimate how long the work would take to complete.
A healthy human would recognize this situation and go back to doing nothing instead of risking to spend a long time doing something for no reward at all!
Since when do monkeys understand what a timeline or due date is?
They don't need to properly understand it. They can be your boss anyway.
Meanwhile, a million workaholic monkeys were making experiments in the lab next door.
I'm looking for something quite the opposite...
So the sponsors have to predistort their logos so that it looks good in a long, panoramic, high shot.
I thought that it was quite clever when I first saw it.
So did I. At Taj Mahal. There are some passages from the quran around some of the archways. The size of the lettering increases towards the top of the arches to compensate for the perspective.
The mention of one for the internal combustion engine makes me wonder...didn't Henry T Ford stick his middle finger up at patents?
Only the patent must have expired some 70+ years before the T-Ford.
While I also believe that is is worthless to distinguish "hate crimes" from "ordinary crimes,"
We prosecute crimes not to bring revenge to the victims (or rather, the degree revenge plays into the judicial system of a country is a measure of its (lack of) civilization), but to prevent future crimes partly by deterrence.
Crimes that are committed out of hatred of a specific group of people (defined by ethnicity, religion, sexuality, whatever) is more likely to inspire more similar crime than crime de passion, and it is also more dangerous to society in the sense that it scares people of participating in the democratic processes (violence against homosexuals is likely to scare other homosexual politicians).
If deterrence is related to the severity of the punishment given, hate crimes should be punished harder.
(Similar reasoning applies for organized crime.)
The story line seems like a ripoff from Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World. Which happens to be a great book if you've never read it.
Yeah, that happens to me quite often. A good book turns bad just as soon as I start reading it. I never learn!