You "can't disprove" that there is an invisible planet hiding behind the sun
Actually, you can, both from the gravitational effects and because the situation is not stable: two planets in the same orbit are stationary relative to each other, and if the orbits differ so will orbital periods, so they won't stay in opposing sides of the Sun for very long. See Wikipedia animation for Big Splash Moon formation theory.
(with gravity suspended)
This makes the situation more, not less, complex, since neither Sun, Earth nor the Milky Way Galaxy are stationary. Also, since General Relativity relates gravity to distortions in the structure of spacetime, the phrase "with gravity suspended" doesn't really make sense.
Maybe if you'd somehow nullify the mass of the other planet - but even then it wouldn't stay opposite to Earth for more than a few years.
Children not having anything to do with the concept of innocence... right.
As someone who still remembers his childhood, I'd like to point out that children are indeed inocent - which means that they are the closest things to demons this side of Hell, torturing other people for fun without even a hint of guilt or conscience. Sure, they are a joy to be around if you're adult and thus superior in power, but absolute horrors otherwise.
The same is true of animals, of course - a dog can be absolutely loyal to its master yet an absolute horror to everyone else.
I believe the math shows that a multi-billion dollar company (like Amazon), makes a million in well under an hour. Amazon may be willing to drop off Google's list, but I would be willing to be the first thing they will do when hearing this offer is run a quick 'referrer' analysis.
What kind of moron would enter any kind of contract for less than an hour's earnings? Seriously, whether or not customers coming from Google generate a lot of direct sales - which they probably do, given the numberf of times Amazon appears in a search about a book - it still generates visibility for them. Why take any risk for what's basically a rounding error in the balance sheet?
And that's not even taking into account the possible legal ramifications in EU, for example - court costs alone would eat this million for breakfast, even if Amazon won. Which is kinda disturbing, now that I think of it...
I would be willing to happily accept $1M in cash to never use Google again. It may be a bribe but I would be willing to suffer your scorn.
And crippling your ability to find information in the most important media, who's relative importance is likely going to continue growing? Would a mere million dollars be worth it?
Hell, the whole billion dollars this is going ot cost Markie would only make it worth it if I could use them to relocate somewhere the deal wouldn't bind me anymore.
No, the idea behind this company is that people tend to be attracted to people who have different immune system and proteins from them, something that apparently we can tell by smell. The biological reason for this is that our children will be healthier, literally, and everything is just a side-effect from our bodies.
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just pick your mate from a social gathering where you can actually smell them than to send your genetic profile to some website?
You do realize that iron would become brittle as steel from the neutron flux if you built your reactor vessel out of it, right?
What does that matter? It's inner lining for a reactor wall, it doesn't have to withstand hits or bear weight. It doesn't even have to contain the reactant, since that's done by magnetic fields. It simply has to sit there and absorb neutrons.
It's appalling but understandable when you consider that most teachers are government employees...
They are government employees in Danmark, too. In fact I'd imagine a higher proportion of them are, based on grandparent's point about investment on education - just who do you think did that?
But then again, that's not compatible with libertarian/conservative/far right agenda, so you ignored it and posted pointless propaganda for your pet ideology instead. Just as pretty much everyone else who has strong opinions - left or right - on these matters - or any matter, really - does. That's an unfortunate human trait, and one we really have to get rid of if we're to advance as a species.
Heil Hitler and the German Reich,
New York Times editor
It is quite ironic indeed that Germany's laws which were originally meant to suppress Nazism seem to be excellent tools for erasing history. Or is that how it was intended all along?
And if you owe a trillion dollars, the debt gets cancelled and you get a bonus.
Really, these things happen all the time. This was just the most public one lately. It's only humans who are actually stuck with their debts, not businessmen.
Think all you want about how immaterial things should be free, but if all information somehow had to be free then you wouldn't have anymore professional software around, you'd be stuck with crap like GIMP or Blender and would never again see anything like Photoshop or 3DS Max.
And guess what: that would be just fine with me. I can't afford Photoshop or 3DS Max as is. The people who can, and need such tools, could simply pool their resources and pay programmers to make them - a bit like happened with Apache, PostgreSQL, Linux etc. In fact, I'd imagine that both Gimp and Blender would receive a lot more development resources, making them better faster.
The thing is, "professional software" is simply software made by people who are getting paid. You don't need copyright to have paid programmers; you simply need someone who needs software and has money.
By the way, not believing in private property is communism.
The current scareword is terrorism. And the issue under consideration is not private property, or any property for that matter, but restricting people's ability to communicate certain data to other people in order to give financial benefit to unrelated people, called "copyright holders".
It's like, someone painstakingly creates something and then some wanker like you comes up and goes "this is now property of the people, thank you".
It's more like some wanker comes and says I can't tell this neat thing I heard to anyone else and I go "fuck you".
Endless copyright may be wrong but that will change eventually.
Too late. Copyright has already lost the veneer of respectability. There is no social stigma attached to breaking it, nor bangs of conscience, so now the copyright cartels have switched to Three-Strike Law and other draconian measures - which, of course, only serve to further paint pro-copyright people as vile villains and the Pirate Bay guys as heroes a shining armor.
In the mean time we have laws and I still want to get paid. So whether you think so or not, copyrights and patents are there for a reason most of which involve me being able to eat and make the rent in order to continue to produce more software for you (collective not getting personal) to pirate.
We do indeed have laws. When those laws are considered a nuisance by the majority, they are impossible to enforce (see Prohibition for an example). Maybe you could sue Disney for damages - their Mickey Mouse Protection Acts are a large reason why copyright is given the same respect that "Don't fuck virgins" -laws that some states still have.
In other words: you want to be paid for every copy in use and little city girls want ponies. Little girls's wishes are far more realistic.
If you only use blacklisting as a very small part of your overall filter scoring, you won't have problems when the IPs in question get turned over to non-spammers.
I won't have problems; whoever bought IPs from spammers and is now trying to contact me will have problems.
If I know you, you have other means at your disposal to contact me and ask to be added to my whitelist/filter-exceptions; and if I don't know you, chances are that I don't want your communication in the first place.
Rather than have a single e-mail address, I'll nowadays get a new address for each contact I wish to maintain, and drop it if it starts getting spammed. If I need to accept inbound contact attempts from unknown people, I'll make a new address for that. I also use throwaway addresses for registering into forums that require them.
That's great and all, but I was very disappointed with the result I got:
No reason to be. It just means that WA is truly intelligent, for it has learned the fine art of not technically lying while not giving an answer contrary to its business interests either. Truly a great leap in AI.
If you don't have the guts to write a naughty word correctly, don't use it at all. Swear or swear not, there is no try.
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter commercial
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" -commercial.
if your thoughts aren't important enough to proofread, why on Earth would they be important enough for anyone else to ponder the content?
Because the point of "proper" grammar and pronounciation is to make text easy to read and understand. If it can be read with a single glance, and the meaning is unambigious, it is well enough written.
Why on Earth should other people spend the time and effort to ensure that their textual output meets your standards? If you are obsessive-compulsive enough to ignore anything that contains grammatical errors - which includes your own post, see above - remain ignorant, and preferably silent, rather than posting offtopic melodramatic garbage about "butchering the language".
With the abundance of the red ring of death syndrome it's rather sketchy to buy a used xbox 360 already.
With the Ring of Death, destruction of game disks, overheating consoles and probably other results of the famous Microsoft quality, and now deliberate sabotage, I really don't thing it's a good idea to buy Xbox, period. Why do people keep on dealing with Microsoft at all, despite it leading to pain, trouble and financial loss every single time? I can only imagine the reason as some bizarre combination of stupidity and masochism.
"It never has"? Are you suggesting that the free market has never solved any problem, ever? That's absurd on its face. The free market gave us:
Child labour, 16-hour days, smog, Enron, worldwide financial crisis. The first three have been eliminated through legislation, let's see if the last two can be as well.
I could go on pretty much ad infinitum but hopefully this is enough to make you rethink your comment above.
You miss the point. Free market doesn't work, since the nature of geometric growth of investment means that any initial differences in wealth and power grow ever wider, which in turn leads to the market not being free anymore - you have the freedom to do what you're told or starving to death. It is a useful model for managing resources, but it's not the silver bullet its supporters tend to present it as. It's just a tool, but people treat it as a religion - and a fundamentalist one at that.
I suppose you could say I'm for free markets but against capitalism.
Rendering fonts in kernel space to make it faster is like removing the the wall between engine and passenger compartments of a car to reduce its weight. Not to mention seatbelts.
This is surely the correct decision. In order to decide whether to sue, the mother needs to know who she might be suing.
Yeah, have to know if there's money to be made.
One reason freedom of speech needs to be protected is because it takes away an argument for anonymity - that anonymity is necessary for protection from the powerful.
It doesn't, actually. Freedom of speech means that the Government can't imprison me for saying something they don't like (but they can send an assassin after me if they really dislike me, altought this is one of the areas where Russians are far ahead). Anyone else - employers, businessmen, Rober Murdoch - can use their power to harass me, or simply refuse to do business with me or anyone who will.
The only way to have freedom of speech is to hide your identity in such a way as to make it impossible for the powerful to target you. If you don't have the freedom to say something offensive, you don't have freedom to say anything - because everything is offensive to someone.
This is why I run a Tor and Freenet nodes. Might not be much, but it's the best I can do to help others be anonymous.
Civil society does not convey to teenagers an automatic right to post offensive, anonymous graffiti and that needs to be clearly understood.
Biggest development in a decade! We haven't figured out how yet though!
Coming up with any definitive answers would be the biggest development of the whole human history. Simply asserting that they exist is easily the development of the century. This is economics, after all, rather than astrology or psychics or similar respectful scientifically studied fields.
We have lots of manufacturing capacity in the U.S., but instead of 4 guys manually operating 4 lathes to turn out 4 parts in an hour, we now have one guy operating 4 CNC lathes turning out 8 parts in an hour.
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Actually, you can, both from the gravitational effects and because the situation is not stable: two planets in the same orbit are stationary relative to each other, and if the orbits differ so will orbital periods, so they won't stay in opposing sides of the Sun for very long. See Wikipedia animation for Big Splash Moon formation theory.
This makes the situation more, not less, complex, since neither Sun, Earth nor the Milky Way Galaxy are stationary. Also, since General Relativity relates gravity to distortions in the structure of spacetime, the phrase "with gravity suspended" doesn't really make sense.
Maybe if you'd somehow nullify the mass of the other planet - but even then it wouldn't stay opposite to Earth for more than a few years.
As someone who still remembers his childhood, I'd like to point out that children are indeed inocent - which means that they are the closest things to demons this side of Hell, torturing other people for fun without even a hint of guilt or conscience. Sure, they are a joy to be around if you're adult and thus superior in power, but absolute horrors otherwise.
The same is true of animals, of course - a dog can be absolutely loyal to its master yet an absolute horror to everyone else.
What kind of moron would enter any kind of contract for less than an hour's earnings? Seriously, whether or not customers coming from Google generate a lot of direct sales - which they probably do, given the numberf of times Amazon appears in a search about a book - it still generates visibility for them. Why take any risk for what's basically a rounding error in the balance sheet?
And that's not even taking into account the possible legal ramifications in EU, for example - court costs alone would eat this million for breakfast, even if Amazon won. Which is kinda disturbing, now that I think of it...
And crippling your ability to find information in the most important media, who's relative importance is likely going to continue growing? Would a mere million dollars be worth it?
Hell, the whole billion dollars this is going ot cost Markie would only make it worth it if I could use them to relocate somewhere the deal wouldn't bind me anymore.
Did you just learn how Markov chains work, and decided to test them with a text generator, or was that verbal vomit actually intended to make sense?
Not accepting any axioms might cause some problems with applying logic. Then again, this might explain a lot of things...
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just pick your mate from a social gathering where you can actually smell them than to send your genetic profile to some website?
What does that matter? It's inner lining for a reactor wall, it doesn't have to withstand hits or bear weight. It doesn't even have to contain the reactant, since that's done by magnetic fields. It simply has to sit there and absorb neutrons.
Not only is it physically addictive, it's also one of the few substances who's withdrawal symptoms can kill you.
They are government employees in Danmark, too. In fact I'd imagine a higher proportion of them are, based on grandparent's point about investment on education - just who do you think did that?
But then again, that's not compatible with libertarian/conservative/far right agenda, so you ignored it and posted pointless propaganda for your pet ideology instead. Just as pretty much everyone else who has strong opinions - left or right - on these matters - or any matter, really - does. That's an unfortunate human trait, and one we really have to get rid of if we're to advance as a species.
It is quite ironic indeed that Germany's laws which were originally meant to suppress Nazism seem to be excellent tools for erasing history. Or is that how it was intended all along?
And if you owe a trillion dollars, the debt gets cancelled and you get a bonus.
Really, these things happen all the time. This was just the most public one lately. It's only humans who are actually stuck with their debts, not businessmen.
And guess what: that would be just fine with me. I can't afford Photoshop or 3DS Max as is. The people who can, and need such tools, could simply pool their resources and pay programmers to make them - a bit like happened with Apache, PostgreSQL, Linux etc. In fact, I'd imagine that both Gimp and Blender would receive a lot more development resources, making them better faster.
The thing is, "professional software" is simply software made by people who are getting paid. You don't need copyright to have paid programmers; you simply need someone who needs software and has money.
The current scareword is terrorism. And the issue under consideration is not private property, or any property for that matter, but restricting people's ability to communicate certain data to other people in order to give financial benefit to unrelated people, called "copyright holders".
It's more like some wanker comes and says I can't tell this neat thing I heard to anyone else and I go "fuck you".
Too late. Copyright has already lost the veneer of respectability. There is no social stigma attached to breaking it, nor bangs of conscience, so now the copyright cartels have switched to Three-Strike Law and other draconian measures - which, of course, only serve to further paint pro-copyright people as vile villains and the Pirate Bay guys as heroes a shining armor.
We do indeed have laws. When those laws are considered a nuisance by the majority, they are impossible to enforce (see Prohibition for an example). Maybe you could sue Disney for damages - their Mickey Mouse Protection Acts are a large reason why copyright is given the same respect that "Don't fuck virgins" -laws that some states still have.
In other words: you want to be paid for every copy in use and little city girls want ponies. Little girls's wishes are far more realistic.
I won't have problems; whoever bought IPs from spammers and is now trying to contact me will have problems.
If I know you, you have other means at your disposal to contact me and ask to be added to my whitelist/filter-exceptions; and if I don't know you, chances are that I don't want your communication in the first place.
Rather than have a single e-mail address, I'll nowadays get a new address for each contact I wish to maintain, and drop it if it starts getting spammed. If I need to accept inbound contact attempts from unknown people, I'll make a new address for that. I also use throwaway addresses for registering into forums that require them.
No reason to be. It just means that WA is truly intelligent, for it has learned the fine art of not technically lying while not giving an answer contrary to its business interests either. Truly a great leap in AI.
Can't you just create sock puppets and network them all together?
Deconstruct.
Assholes.
If you don't have the guts to write a naughty word correctly, don't use it at all. Swear or swear not, there is no try.
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" -commercial.
Because the point of "proper" grammar and pronounciation is to make text easy to read and understand. If it can be read with a single glance, and the meaning is unambigious, it is well enough written.
Why on Earth should other people spend the time and effort to ensure that their textual output meets your standards? If you are obsessive-compulsive enough to ignore anything that contains grammatical errors - which includes your own post, see above - remain ignorant, and preferably silent, rather than posting offtopic melodramatic garbage about "butchering the language".
With the Ring of Death, destruction of game disks, overheating consoles and probably other results of the famous Microsoft quality, and now deliberate sabotage, I really don't thing it's a good idea to buy Xbox, period. Why do people keep on dealing with Microsoft at all, despite it leading to pain, trouble and financial loss every single time? I can only imagine the reason as some bizarre combination of stupidity and masochism.
Add two zeroes and wait.
Child labour, 16-hour days, smog, Enron, worldwide financial crisis. The first three have been eliminated through legislation, let's see if the last two can be as well.
You miss the point. Free market doesn't work, since the nature of geometric growth of investment means that any initial differences in wealth and power grow ever wider, which in turn leads to the market not being free anymore - you have the freedom to do what you're told or starving to death. It is a useful model for managing resources, but it's not the silver bullet its supporters tend to present it as. It's just a tool, but people treat it as a religion - and a fundamentalist one at that.
I suppose you could say I'm for free markets but against capitalism.
Rendering fonts in kernel space to make it faster is like removing the the wall between engine and passenger compartments of a car to reduce its weight. Not to mention seatbelts.
Yeah, have to know if there's money to be made.
It doesn't, actually. Freedom of speech means that the Government can't imprison me for saying something they don't like (but they can send an assassin after me if they really dislike me, altought this is one of the areas where Russians are far ahead). Anyone else - employers, businessmen, Rober Murdoch - can use their power to harass me, or simply refuse to do business with me or anyone who will.
The only way to have freedom of speech is to hide your identity in such a way as to make it impossible for the powerful to target you. If you don't have the freedom to say something offensive, you don't have freedom to say anything - because everything is offensive to someone.
This is why I run a Tor and Freenet nodes. Might not be much, but it's the best I can do to help others be anonymous.
Exactly! Only the foulest of traitors would wish to publish their foul offensive drivel anonymously.
Coming up with any definitive answers would be the biggest development of the whole human history. Simply asserting that they exist is easily the development of the century. This is economics, after all, rather than astrology or psychics or similar respectful scientifically studied fields.
So why is everything "Made in China" nowadays?