MythBusters couldn't reproduce the scientific experiment that holding a bit of paper in a flame will set it alight. They'd probably use water-soaked paper, or do the test in a wind tunnel or some shit. Don't take the "findings" of a tv show made for people who can't spell "physics" let alone have even the barest comprehension of any of its precepts as if they're research findings from a genuine study...
For what it's worth, the British Army has standing rules about the marching of soldiers over bridges and has done since a parade a couple of hundred years ago when the bridge went bye bye. Might have been a crap bridge. Might not. Either way Mythbusters declaring for one side or another makes not a damned bit of difference.
Au contrare. Darwin will have his harvest will ye, nil ye. This just gives us a lovely chance to speed things up. Sure, you might have an addictive personality, so do I. WoW was hard to give up. But I didn't do meth. Why? 'Cause Im not a fucking moron. There are those out there who are fucking stupid, and despite knowing all the risks, will go out and get meth'd up, stab people for cash when they run out and fuel the Mr. Big's crime spree in the process before ending up a toothless sack of smelly street waste some poor cop will have to bag & tag...
Make it easy on those of us who aren't fucking stupid, make it cheap (so they don't have to steal to get it), make it freely available (so the violent cartels and gangs go outta business) and then the sort of morons who would look at the realities of what it does and still say "yeah, gimme some ICE brand meth thanks" can do so without really bothering me and will happily drug themselves to death. The economy prospers from taking the idiots money, society prospers from no longer having drug crime since virtually all drug crime is on the supply side, and humanity prospers from losing all its rejects in a decade or two. Where's the downside?
Print warnings and educate by all means. Tell people "if you take this you will die" in big letters. Then sit back and watch evolution in action; the dickheads that take meth in their teens till they're flying to the moon will not grow up to have little dickheads of their own.
Actually a lot of vegans won't eat dairy products because the dairy farming system regularly produces a lot of male calves that are then slaughtered and sold on dirt cheap. If you drink milk, you're supporting a very unpleasant life/death cycle for them.
I'm a meat-eater and I'm not sure I like the dairy system, ethically speaking. I highly doubt vegans being any less ethical.
That then leaves them veggies (which they WILL eat), fruit, fungus and nuts. And maybe eggs. Some won't eat eggs tough, since it's still supporting chicken farming... I don't mind them. As long as they don't stop me eating what I want I won't stop them eating what they want.
/ Posted from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her Isles and Dominions. Although we've dropped the later bit as of the last 50 or so years...
I trust you have heard of the "3 boxes" analogy? You know, that there are 3 boxes the People can use to change things; the soap-box, and if that fails, the ballot-box, and if that fails, in last recourse, the ammo-box.
Although, here in Scotland there is at least a glimmer of hope in the form of the SNP who not only seem to be slightly different, they also espouse complete independence from the UK, something which would shake things up a little. You're still screwed though.
Yeah! Let's all go and use YouTube instead. And whilst we're at it, let's stop using MSN and their associated M$ brands, 'cause they're an evil corporation too.
Let's use Gmail instead.
/ Hope Google aren't evil. Otherwise we're really screwed.
A little offtopic perhaps, but I just had to write a reply on how AWESOME tags are:)
The tag "whoopdefuckingdo" is most hilarious. I was actually laughing to the point of pain when I saw it.
Oh, and yeah, new macbook: nice case, greaat it's finally got a real 3D chip. Shame there's no firewire. Even if I could afford to upgrade my original macbook to it I wouldn't; I'm not buying new (slower) hard drive caddies and losing my ability to edit film. Teh suck Apple, Teh suck!
We already live in a police state. That much is certain, and the State's biggest accomplishment is not the camera on every street, in every office, every school, on every motorway. It's not the limitless wiretapping, the ability to have people "disappear" or to deploy troops in peacetime if the public decide it's time for a change.
No. The British Government's major achievement since 1997 has been that the majority of people do not realise we now live in a Police State. Worse yet, the Government show no signs of slowing in their program; if anything they're accelerating it. Right now, they could put us under curfews and restrictions that make Nazi Germany seem "free", and they would have broken no laws However, the people would stand-up at that point.
No, the Government will act only when they have to; and when that fist is brought down upon the objectors and decriers, when people start disappearing into black-bags, never to be heard of again for "sedition" or "terrorism", it will be too late to stop them. I am afraid of my Government and I am not the only one.
People shouldn't fear their Government. The Government should fear the People.
Actually, they made an out-of-court agreement; Budweiser in the US is the cats-piss stuff, here in Europe, Budweiser can me either; the real stuff is marketed as the "Original Budweiser" with distinct markings and logos etc.
It's not bad stuff, unlike the horrific yank knock-off.
I'm partly of the opinion that Apple should just release Cocoa for windows. They have already ported it, since iTunes, QuickTime and Safari all use it on Windows for their custom UI. It's in there. I think it's even called "Cocoa.dll". They should maybe open it up for usage by everyone else (perhaps a plugin for X-Code to allow compilation for Windows) and thus make Cocoa the preferred cross-platform API for mac & windows. Not to mention mean that bugs like this would have to get stamped a lot quicker. It would put a down on Mac sales though.
Then again, I'm also partly of the opinion that Apple should discontinue iTunes and Safari for Windows and give everyone a 10% off your next Mac voucher in place of it. Why support shitty OS's that let a media-player down the entire system? Windows is a bag of balls, Vista in particular. I know it, you know it, Steve knows it, Bill G knows it, we all know it. Sooner businesses stop buying Vista or Vista OEM machines the better.
KOffice has come a loooong way, much like Konqueror (which is now WebCore really, an open source success story!) with a lot of code optimization, bug fixes, streamlining etc. and is becoming a pretty mature office set. It's also had a little visual polish applied to snazz its looks up a bit.
If you worked on Win2K, you're right to be proud. It's the only decent OS Microsoft have ever made. At this time, I'm gonna say it's likely it'll be the only decent OS microsoft will ever make.
Sure it had it's issues, but it was fairly steady, dependable, fast and not all that bloated. When the time came it couldn't run the apps I needed (nothing to do with the OS really, just Adobe wanting people to upgrade), I switched to Mac. No way in hell was I touching 2k++ (aka XP). All the bugs of 2K plus a hell of a lot more, and loads of totally unnecessary bloat, but none of the stability or minimalism of 2k. All downhill from there.
Ballmer really is the death-knell of microsoft. If you got any stock from working at MS, sell it now, cause believe me it's not gonna go up anymore.
Maybe buy Apple stock. Looks like their time has come...
Nothing mysterious at all. They were victims of today's suicide culture; they all committed suicide!
I seem to remember one died from 3 self-sustained gunshot wounds to the head, another managed to stab himself in the back 15 times and a third jumped into a river roped and gagged, wearing lead-boots. Very tragic.
Granted, the "Special Mix" is always good with an Apple Pro. But that leads to something I failed to mention in my last post; disassembly and cleaning an Apple Pro is very painless. You can remove all the keys, drop them in a bowl of disinfectant, use a hoover to remove all the special mix in the case, hell, even remove the circuitry and give that a clean then put it all back together no problem. A lot of other keyboards you try that and you'll be looking on eBay for new keys that broke and new cases.
Apart from the fact it's obviously better for Mac users anyway since it *has* the Apple key and option key in the right place, it also has the extended F keys, the volume and the optical eject keys too. In addition, it's also really nice to type on and perfect USB-hub placement. The only caveats are that a) it's no longer made since they went to the casio-inspired ones of late and b) there isn't a power button on them like the old iMac keyboard (and the follow on almost identical white-iMac keyboard that preceded the Pro keyboard). That said, I still like the g3 iMac and the white iMac keyboards just as much, they're just harder to find. Virtually identical keys as well, nice and chunky. I'm even partial to the new calculator style ones. Thought I'd hate them but since I got used to my Macbook's internal keyboard I find I quite like them. Easier on the wrists and hands.
As someone who is just learning Cocoa, and finding it though since it's my first real programming language, I am amazed at what 3 guys in a college dorm have cooked up. Apple need to drop that spruotCore thing like a rock and make happy with these guys. I read that they worked for Apple before spinning this out... Perhaps if they get offered much better paid positions with Apple they might come back. This is some seriously cool shit they're doing. That web-app required no knowledge at all of HTML & CSS!! You could even probably write code for OS X and "port" it to the web in minutes!! If Apple get in on this, they could seriously bring about a shift from Flash and horrible media plugins like that silverlight crap, to something everyone can use, even iPhones and Blackberry's. Words fail to describe how awesome that demo app is. I was dreading getting to the point of having to learn me some java so I can do web-apps eventually. They've actually managed to make me interested!! Programming is hard and I'm finding it tough, but now I really want to master Cocoa and start on Objective-J and Cappuccino. WAY TO GO!!!!!
True; they're not representative of anyone but themselves.
Just so happens though that there are a lot of them. True not all Christians think pagans are wrong, or that their beliefs are evil and wrong, but a significant proportion do. And let us not forget that, back-in-the-day, it was official Church policy to burn pagans/heathens at the stake. Point in fact even after reformation there were people being killed for "witchcraft"; Salem in the USA comes to mind. The anti-witchraft laws here in Scotland were only totally repealed in 1997 (with the UK-wide ones going in 1952). So as a whole, the attitude of Christians to Pagans hasn't been one of love and joy. In fact, in the last 2 years it was the Catholic Church, the Free Church of Scotland and a few others that tried to block the Pagan Federation from being present at the multi-faith thingie in edinburgh because they were uncomfortable at being seen to condone or encourage paganism!! That's just pure religious intolerance.
Oh, and I'm well aware of the religious beliefs of Wiccans and most pagans in general, being I pagan and having a good number of wiccan friends. When I said "Wicca is worshipping demons and Satan and all that, it's ungodly", I was paraphrasing what a lot of the aforementioned Christians believe Wiccans do, not stating I thought it to be true, since as you rightly pointed out, it is not. Sorry if the slightly sarcastic tone of my words didn't come through well, it is difficult to do sarcasm in writing, leastways it is for me!
Okay. Stop telling Wiccans what is a valid way to view and practice their religion, you ignorant bigot. Why? Plenty of Christians do. In fact, according to a lot of them, it's not a "valid religion" anyway. Wicca is worshipping demons and Satan and all that, it's ungodly. Except when they do it, they're not being "bigoted", they're practising their religion.
-- Not Wiccan. -- Different sort of Pagan/Heathen though.
It means exactly what Les Mis. means. It's a story, something to entertain the bored masses whilst they kill some time.
Just like Christianity was a story to keep the 'proles' under control; "See? Even though lifes hard now, even though the rich man takes all your food for taxes, you'll get your reward in heaven; don't knock the boat!". No. There is no Sky Wizard, no miraculously undead Jew, no Noah, no Adam, no Eve, no Satan and no talking bushes. No one parted the Red Sea, no one made the blind see or the lame walk. It's a book of stories to keep the masses in check, provide a "higher authority" to the priests to justify taxing folks, allow for a moral framework to be imposed, and explain the stuff we just don't know, like why it's cold in winter and warm in summer..God did it! See? Only when you know we get seasonal variation because Earth spins on a 23 degree variation from vertical, it kinda takes the magic from the "god" thing. Maybe we could use the "god" thing against modern conundrums, but I doubt people would fall for it anymore. Why is the Universe heavier than it should be? Is it dark matter? No, it's God, he's really god damned heavy. Hasn't done any sit-ups in years and is addicted to Celestial Fried Chicken.
Nah, didn't think so. The gullible will continue to believe their crap about sky wizards and flying winged dudes blood rites and stuff, and the rest of us will get back to science and rationalism.
It kinda depends. Libel (in England & Wales) is a defamation made in a written or permanent media form. E.g. writing a reference for someone that states "they do drugs at work all the time". If that was true (and could be shown to be true/fair comment) then you'd get off when the junkie takes you to court. Slander (again, in England & Wales, ymmv) would be if a person said it, but didn't write it. There's a fair bit of legal debate as to whether a recording of speech constitutes slander (since it was written down, ergo it is "fleeting") or libel (since now nothing spoken need be "fleeting" ever again, see youTube!). At the moment the courts tend to hold spoken as slander written as libel no matter what medium it is stored.
Course it makes no odds to me at all, since I live in Scotland, where, like a lot of civil-law based countries (as opposed to common-law based ones like England, Canada, Austraila, the USA etc.) there is no such thing as libel or slander.
It's called "defamation" and applies wherever a person or their character has been defamed to their negative detriment. Again, however, truth is a defence (called veritas in Scotland), as is privilege (hence why MP's can call Scientology whatever they want in the House of Commons without getting sued to death; not sure if this extends to the Scottish Parliament now).
However, I am NOT a lawyer, so if you depend on any of this for legal advice, not my fault!
True; what I was really getting at was that in a datacentre, you can;t just "ramp up the aircon" easily. it would often require large-scale building renovations, if it's even possible. Most consumers houses with air-con, the air-con is done as an afterthought, or is easily modifiable. In a datacentre, the air-con is as fundamental to the design of the building as the power conduits, foundations and water-lines. Once it's at 100%, ramping it up further is harder than just planning for the failiures you know will happen.
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The 3rd party ones are better. No DRM, no AIR....
www.lawrencedudley.co.uk/iplayer
Disclaimer: I helped make that on. But it IS good.
We'll be making iTunes playlist support soon....
MythBusters couldn't reproduce the scientific experiment that holding a bit of paper in a flame will set it alight. They'd probably use water-soaked paper, or do the test in a wind tunnel or some shit.
Don't take the "findings" of a tv show made for people who can't spell "physics" let alone have even the barest comprehension of any of its precepts as if they're research findings from a genuine study...
For what it's worth, the British Army has standing rules about the marching of soldiers over bridges and has done since a parade a couple of hundred years ago when the bridge went bye bye.
Might have been a crap bridge. Might not.
Either way Mythbusters declaring for one side or another makes not a damned bit of difference.
Au contrare. Darwin will have his harvest will ye, nil ye. This just gives us a lovely chance to speed things up. Sure, you might have an addictive personality, so do I. WoW was hard to give up. But I didn't do meth. Why? 'Cause Im not a fucking moron. There are those out there who are fucking stupid, and despite knowing all the risks, will go out and get meth'd up, stab people for cash when they run out and fuel the Mr. Big's crime spree in the process before ending up a toothless sack of smelly street waste some poor cop will have to bag & tag...
Make it easy on those of us who aren't fucking stupid, make it cheap (so they don't have to steal to get it), make it freely available (so the violent cartels and gangs go outta business) and then the sort of morons who would look at the realities of what it does and still say "yeah, gimme some ICE brand meth thanks" can do so without really bothering me and will happily drug themselves to death. The economy prospers from taking the idiots money, society prospers from no longer having drug crime since virtually all drug crime is on the supply side, and humanity prospers from losing all its rejects in a decade or two. Where's the downside?
Print warnings and educate by all means. Tell people "if you take this you will die" in big letters.
Then sit back and watch evolution in action; the dickheads that take meth in their teens till they're flying to the moon will not grow up to have little dickheads of their own.
Actually a lot of vegans won't eat dairy products because the dairy farming system regularly produces a lot of male calves that are then slaughtered and sold on dirt cheap. If you drink milk, you're supporting a very unpleasant life/death cycle for them.
I'm a meat-eater and I'm not sure I like the dairy system, ethically speaking. I highly doubt vegans being any less ethical.
That then leaves them veggies (which they WILL eat), fruit, fungus and nuts. And maybe eggs. Some won't eat eggs tough, since it's still supporting chicken farming...
I don't mind them. As long as they don't stop me eating what I want I won't stop them eating what they want.
yep.
/ Posted from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her Isles and Dominions.
Although we've dropped the later bit as of the last 50 or so years...
I trust you have heard of the "3 boxes" analogy?
You know, that there are 3 boxes the People can use to change things; the soap-box, and if that fails, the ballot-box, and if that fails, in last recourse, the ammo-box.
Although, here in Scotland there is at least a glimmer of hope in the form of the SNP who not only seem to be slightly different, they also espouse complete independence from the UK, something which would shake things up a little.
You're still screwed though.
Yeah! Let's all go and use YouTube instead.
And whilst we're at it, let's stop using MSN and their associated M$ brands, 'cause they're an evil corporation too.
Let's use Gmail instead.
/ Hope Google aren't evil. Otherwise we're really screwed.
And what "LASER" stands for has just gone flying over your head at the, well the speed of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
A little offtopic perhaps, but I just had to write a reply on how AWESOME tags are :)
The tag "whoopdefuckingdo" is most hilarious. I was actually laughing to the point of pain when I saw it.
Oh, and yeah, new macbook: nice case, greaat it's finally got a real 3D chip. Shame there's no firewire. Even if I could afford to upgrade my original macbook to it I wouldn't; I'm not buying new (slower) hard drive caddies and losing my ability to edit film. Teh suck Apple, Teh suck!
You mean like this:
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/10/02/cctv-cameras-installed-at-school-toilet-blocks-64375-21944943/
Or this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/506140.stm
O perhaps you meant this:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/235/235518_school_puts_cctv_in_toilets_to_stop_bullies.html
Or maybe you wanted a more technological look rather than local papers:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/school_cctv/
We already live in a police state. That much is certain, and the State's biggest accomplishment is not the camera on every street, in every office, every school, on every motorway. It's not the limitless wiretapping, the ability to have people "disappear" or to deploy troops in peacetime if the public decide it's time for a change.
No. The British Government's major achievement since 1997 has been that the majority of people do not realise we now live in a Police State.
Worse yet, the Government show no signs of slowing in their program; if anything they're accelerating it. Right now, they could put us under curfews and restrictions that make Nazi Germany seem "free", and they would have broken no laws However, the people would stand-up at that point.
No, the Government will act only when they have to; and when that fist is brought down upon the objectors and decriers, when people start disappearing into black-bags, never to be heard of again for "sedition" or "terrorism", it will be too late to stop them.
I am afraid of my Government and I am not the only one.
People shouldn't fear their Government. The Government should fear the People.
Actually, they made an out-of-court agreement; Budweiser in the US is the cats-piss stuff, here in Europe, Budweiser can me either; the real stuff is marketed as the "Original Budweiser" with distinct markings and logos etc.
It's not bad stuff, unlike the horrific yank knock-off.
Didnae stop the bastards suing a Mr. McDonald here in the highlands for running a café. The fat it had been running for generations, long before some Yank upstart that was started by some muppet ho wasn't even called McDonald was neither here nor there to these arses.
They lost :D
Had to pay the man damages.
Sadly they didn't lose enough that they'd have had to rename or anything in the UK. That would have been spectacular!
I know; I was just about to post the same damn thing.
We mac-programmers should stick together. Maybe all four of us should meet up some time and party. :)
Sucks how few mac programmers there are out there. Objective-C is better than C++ imho and far easier to understand. No cryptic method names here!
Saying that, with Apple's market-share rising daily and iPhone being a Obj-C platform, maybe our day is coming :)
I'm partly of the opinion that Apple should just release Cocoa for windows. They have already ported it, since iTunes, QuickTime and Safari all use it on Windows for their custom UI. It's in there. I think it's even called "Cocoa.dll".
They should maybe open it up for usage by everyone else (perhaps a plugin for X-Code to allow compilation for Windows) and thus make Cocoa the preferred cross-platform API for mac & windows. Not to mention mean that bugs like this would have to get stamped a lot quicker. It would put a down on Mac sales though.
Then again, I'm also partly of the opinion that Apple should discontinue iTunes and Safari for Windows and give everyone a 10% off your next Mac voucher in place of it. Why support shitty OS's that let a media-player down the entire system?
Windows is a bag of balls, Vista in particular. I know it, you know it, Steve knows it, Bill G knows it, we all know it.
Sooner businesses stop buying Vista or Vista OEM machines the better.
'Cause it's shit, basically.
KOffice has come a loooong way, much like Konqueror (which is now WebCore really, an open source success story!) with a lot of code optimization, bug fixes, streamlining etc. and is becoming a pretty mature office set. It's also had a little visual polish applied to snazz its looks up a bit.
OpenOffice hasn't.
Don't use it.
If you worked on Win2K, you're right to be proud. It's the only decent OS Microsoft have ever made. At this time, I'm gonna say it's likely it'll be the only decent OS microsoft will ever make.
Sure it had it's issues, but it was fairly steady, dependable, fast and not all that bloated. When the time came it couldn't run the apps I needed (nothing to do with the OS really, just Adobe wanting people to upgrade), I switched to Mac. No way in hell was I touching 2k++ (aka XP). All the bugs of 2K plus a hell of a lot more, and loads of totally unnecessary bloat, but none of the stability or minimalism of 2k. All downhill from there.
Ballmer really is the death-knell of microsoft. If you got any stock from working at MS, sell it now, cause believe me it's not gonna go up anymore.
Maybe buy Apple stock. Looks like their time has come...
Nothing mysterious at all. They were victims of today's suicide culture; they all committed suicide!
I seem to remember one died from 3 self-sustained gunshot wounds to the head, another managed to stab himself in the back 15 times and a third jumped into a river roped and gagged, wearing lead-boots. Very tragic.
Granted, the "Special Mix" is always good with an Apple Pro. But that leads to something I failed to mention in my last post; disassembly and cleaning an Apple Pro is very painless. You can remove all the keys, drop them in a bowl of disinfectant, use a hoover to remove all the special mix in the case, hell, even remove the circuitry and give that a clean then put it all back together no problem. A lot of other keyboards you try that and you'll be looking on eBay for new keys that broke and new cases.
Apart from the fact it's obviously better for Mac users anyway since it *has* the Apple key and option key in the right place, it also has the extended F keys, the volume and the optical eject keys too.
In addition, it's also really nice to type on and perfect USB-hub placement.
The only caveats are that a) it's no longer made since they went to the casio-inspired ones of late and b) there isn't a power button on them like the old iMac keyboard (and the follow on almost identical white-iMac keyboard that preceded the Pro keyboard).
That said, I still like the g3 iMac and the white iMac keyboards just as much, they're just harder to find. Virtually identical keys as well, nice and chunky.
I'm even partial to the new calculator style ones. Thought I'd hate them but since I got used to my Macbook's internal keyboard I find I quite like them. Easier on the wrists and hands.
Just WOW!!
As someone who is just learning Cocoa, and finding it though since it's my first real programming language, I am amazed at what 3 guys in a college dorm have cooked up.
Apple need to drop that spruotCore thing like a rock and make happy with these guys. I read that they worked for Apple before spinning this out...
Perhaps if they get offered much better paid positions with Apple they might come back. This is some seriously cool shit they're doing. That web-app required no knowledge at all of HTML & CSS!!
You could even probably write code for OS X and "port" it to the web in minutes!! If Apple get in on this, they could seriously bring about a shift from Flash and horrible media plugins like that silverlight crap, to something everyone can use, even iPhones and Blackberry's.
Words fail to describe how awesome that demo app is.
I was dreading getting to the point of having to learn me some java so I can do web-apps eventually. They've actually managed to make me interested!! Programming is hard and I'm finding it tough, but now I really want to master Cocoa and start on Objective-J and Cappuccino.
WAY TO GO!!!!!
True; they're not representative of anyone but themselves.
Just so happens though that there are a lot of them.
True not all Christians think pagans are wrong, or that their beliefs are evil and wrong, but a significant proportion do. And let us not forget that, back-in-the-day, it was official Church policy to burn pagans/heathens at the stake. Point in fact even after reformation there were people being killed for "witchcraft"; Salem in the USA comes to mind. The anti-witchraft laws here in Scotland were only totally repealed in 1997 (with the UK-wide ones going in 1952). So as a whole, the attitude of Christians to Pagans hasn't been one of love and joy. In fact, in the last 2 years it was the Catholic Church, the Free Church of Scotland and a few others that tried to block the Pagan Federation from being present at the multi-faith thingie in edinburgh because they were uncomfortable at being seen to condone or encourage paganism!! That's just pure religious intolerance.
Oh, and I'm well aware of the religious beliefs of Wiccans and most pagans in general, being I pagan and having a good number of wiccan friends.
When I said "Wicca is worshipping demons and Satan and all that, it's ungodly", I was paraphrasing what a lot of the aforementioned Christians believe Wiccans do, not stating I thought it to be true, since as you rightly pointed out, it is not. Sorry if the slightly sarcastic tone of my words didn't come through well, it is difficult to do sarcasm in writing, leastways it is for me!
-- Not Wiccan.
-- Different sort of Pagan/Heathen though.
It means exactly what Les Mis. means. It's a story, something to entertain the bored masses whilst they kill some time.
Just like Christianity was a story to keep the 'proles' under control; "See? Even though lifes hard now, even though the rich man takes all your food for taxes, you'll get your reward in heaven; don't knock the boat!". No. There is no Sky Wizard, no miraculously undead Jew, no Noah, no Adam, no Eve, no Satan and no talking bushes. No one parted the Red Sea, no one made the blind see or the lame walk. It's a book of stories to keep the masses in check, provide a "higher authority" to the priests to justify taxing folks, allow for a moral framework to be imposed, and explain the stuff we just don't know, like why it's cold in winter and warm in summer..God did it! See?
Only when you know we get seasonal variation because Earth spins on a 23 degree variation from vertical, it kinda takes the magic from the "god" thing.
Maybe we could use the "god" thing against modern conundrums, but I doubt people would fall for it anymore. Why is the Universe heavier than it should be? Is it dark matter? No, it's God, he's really god damned heavy. Hasn't done any sit-ups in years and is addicted to Celestial Fried Chicken.
Nah, didn't think so. The gullible will continue to believe their crap about sky wizards and flying winged dudes blood rites and stuff, and the rest of us will get back to science and rationalism.
It kinda depends.
Libel (in England & Wales) is a defamation made in a written or permanent media form. E.g. writing a reference for someone that states "they do drugs at work all the time". If that was true (and could be shown to be true/fair comment) then you'd get off when the junkie takes you to court.
Slander (again, in England & Wales, ymmv) would be if a person said it, but didn't write it. There's a fair bit of legal debate as to whether a recording of speech constitutes slander (since it was written down, ergo it is "fleeting") or libel (since now nothing spoken need be "fleeting" ever again, see youTube!). At the moment the courts tend to hold spoken as slander written as libel no matter what medium it is stored.
Course it makes no odds to me at all, since I live in Scotland, where, like a lot of civil-law based countries (as opposed to common-law based ones like England, Canada, Austraila, the USA etc.) there is no such thing as libel or slander.
It's called "defamation" and applies wherever a person or their character has been defamed to their negative detriment. Again, however, truth is a defence (called veritas in Scotland), as is privilege (hence why MP's can call Scientology whatever they want in the House of Commons without getting sued to death; not sure if this extends to the Scottish Parliament now).
However, I am NOT a lawyer, so if you depend on any of this for legal advice, not my fault!
True; what I was really getting at was that in a datacentre, you can;t just "ramp up the aircon" easily. it would often require large-scale building renovations, if it's even possible. Most consumers houses with air-con, the air-con is done as an afterthought, or is easily modifiable. In a datacentre, the air-con is as fundamental to the design of the building as the power conduits, foundations and water-lines. Once it's at 100%, ramping it up further is harder than just planning for the failiures you know will happen.