20 million weren't tried at Nuremberg. Those who were tried, could not appeal to "just following orders", however there was quite a bit of leniency by not trying people because the allies didn't want to cause lasting resentment in the German people.
After WW2 America had enormous goodwill in the minds of many nations. That stayed even after Vietnam (though a little faded). But now no-one trusts America. Which is really sad, and scary too. After the Cold War there was no fundamental reason for the West to stay together, in fact I remember Gorbachev saying to a reporter that the days of the West were numbered because they [Russia] had removed the main reason for it to hold together. But it didn't have to be sabotaged the way it was! The next 10 years could be very dangerous for us all because of Bush. I fear this far more than the 9/11 attacks. There is no fundamental reason why in 10 years the EU / Russia / China could not be pointing nukes at the US and banning imports from the US. The USA now needs the world more than the world needs the USA , it isn't the 1950s anymore.
But the reality of the situation is that a soldier does what he is told, and the people giving the orders aren't necessarily as ethical as those carrying them out.
"Just carrying out orders" was not grounds for a defence in the Nuremberg Trials. This was mentioned explicitly by the judges as I recall. The soldier is supposed to be able to see with some humanity. Some soldiers actually did this.
... [spoiler warning]... he didn't know that he was actually fighting the buggers when he defeated them. Which just added to his dismay later when he realised what he had done.
Like your choices, yesssirree. Though I haven't seen Hudsucker Proxy.
Jacob's Ladder I didn't see till recently a big surprise.
I'll add my own, this isn't probably under rated, I don't know... don't know anyone else who's seen it... "Run, Lola, Run"... amazing movie. Must see. Just watched the video again, and again , and again.
Yeah. Definitely a "dont fuck with me" creature. Able to snap trees in half simply because it couldn't be bothered walking around them. Yep... want one!
Most people outside Australia wouldn't have heard Adam and Dr Karl doing their Sleek Geek show. Really entertaining, and accurate stuff. Adam Spencer is a DJ at JJJ, and also holds a PhD in mathematics. Dr Karl is a regular visitor on Thursday mornings since it seems time began. See some of his stuff here. Recently, they got together for a tour called "Sleek Geeks".. and here's a report on it by New Scientist.
How is a radiation field going to penetrate kilometres of ice... or even a few metres ? It can't. Timothy didn't even bother to read the original article which made NO mention of that conclusion.. he thought that up by himself.
Europa still looks good. In fact it looks like the best place to me.
I remember seeing an interview with Niven and Pournelle where they both admitted this.. though Larry seemed a bit shy about it. Maybe it was just a 'tall story' that they didn't mind helping along in a cheeky way. But I did see them do this. And of course Larry did travel around promoting SDI.. that I distinctly recall.
One would think that the ultimate goal is not just a hit detector but a hit generator. Press the button generate a hit send it to some AI layer that renders it into vocals and music... and there you are... no artists needed at all. And eventually you can have it built into you stereo (patented of course) so that you can listen to as much 'original' hit music as you poor mind can bear... for a monthly fee. All potential hits by any artists would then be considered products of the HitGenerator and therefore breach copyright. Ahh can you just see it... what a wonderful world !
SWT doesn't use Swing it uses a JNI layer to hook into the native GUI stuff. Very fast and looks like Windows on Windows, gtk on linux etc. Only wish it had a UI builder. I guess that will come one day.
Damn! Shows what happens when you don't do any physics for a decade (though I remember the actual physics but not the names). Ok. Ok. 'k' is of course Boltzman's Constant from thermodynames , and sigma is the Stefan-Boltzman constant (or sometimes referred to as Stefan's Constant I think) from EM theory as in energy_density = sigma*T^4 etc etc
Hmmm. Way back in my BBS days I used to argue CO2 / Greenhouse Effect stuff with John. I was initially impressed with his knowledge and thought he made a good case.
However, problems arose when I started reading his book "The Greenhouse Trap"... I noticed that he got the Stefan-Boltzman Constant (k) mixed up with Stefan's Constant (sigma) when I told him this it took me a few emails to convince him he was wrong... and then he said well it didn't matter because he was using a ratio so the constant would cancel out (true). But I wasn't impressed with a) his lack of knowledge on something so fundamental, and b) the fact that he could not admit a mistake was made.
Then I noticed a few other things... he argued strongly to the person in many cases where he didn't agree with someone's ideas... any argument against his thesis by "experts" he took personally, and also would rant about scientists being corrupted by the greenies. In my opinion some of his statements were very close to libel.
Another thing about his book, in one part he argues that since there is CO2 in the air then adding any more should have no additional effect... he seemed to not understand that opacity can be between 0 and 100%.
John used to be a greenie but was very bitter about the experience and blamed them for many woes. He told me he once had a self sufficient farm in Wales before me moved to Australia. He's a smart guy but I think he carries personal grudges into his public statements. Pity.
I finally stopped arguing with him because it got me nowhere. He has access to a lot of data and reports but he is very selective in what he references. To me the final bit of evidence that was unequivocal and "proved" global warming were the borehole temperature measurements into permafrost. John's answer was that: there is no global warming and if there is then it is due to a natural cycle. That's not exactly what he said but in more longwinded form it is the gist of his view. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to spot the logical flaw there:)
So yeah he has some interesting things to say, but remember he is VERY selective. Read more widely.
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Check this article in New Scientist. The researchers have found a way of increasing the effectiveness by a factor of 25 , and it is so easy that the technique could be done on a farm. Incredible. Smells like a revolution to me.
What I don't understand is why NASA hasn't tried a quick flyby using a shuttle. I mean once you're outside the atmosphere moving from Earth orbit to the moon is easy. Why not just rig some extra fuel for a shuttle and in the bay it could hold a lander of some kind.
And for the adventurous I guess we could envision some means for the shuttle itself to land. That just might be me fantasising though, what with how fragile the tiles are supposed to be.
was better than the books. Well from my point of view. After hearing the radio series the books seem boring. I didn't hear the entire series only to the old man in the hut episode -- the real ruler of the galaxy. The radio series had humour and a flow that was just missing from the books. The TV series was OK but only covered a small portion of the story.
For example, remember the scene where Arthur Dent hears Marvin humming... except its "Wish You Were Here" and comments in amazement about him humming Pink Floyd ? Just doesn't transfer well to a book in my opinion. Actually I wish they did it as a mini-series so they could get the whole story. Get the guys who did Third Rock From the Sun to do it... that has a HGTTG feel about it.
In my home town of Brisbane, Australia. The city council uses a web interface to their catalog. Its easy and apart from the browser being IE with some apparent functionality locked out, including closing / minimising the browser, its fine. In fact you can access the catalog remotely by browser. The other PCs in each library just run IE to interface to the web. Soooo... if you had something like Konqueror or *insert name of favourite browser* then why run Winders at all ?
So my suggestion is, yep a linux box but it only runs a browser and that is the only interface the user sees.
I understand your argument. You're right -government-owned is not public-owned. No easy solutions to this one, I'm afraid.
That is exactly why it is called "the tragedy of the commons" because there is no easy solution. The original commons were of course maintained by nobility, who were looking after "their" land. A cure worse than the disease. Other solutions ?...
Wow. I remember reading about fluidic processing in the late 1960s. Must've gone from the "valve" stage to to the IC (Integrated Conduit ?);-) since then. Hey, check out this fluidic amplifier... not very micro back then eh ?
Man that must really take persistence working on a tech bywater for 40 years waiting for it to come good. Mind you I think I remember even back then there being real world applications for this... slow processing in hostile environments where electronics would get fried etc... I think from memory it used the Coanda Effect or something for switching fluid streams. And there were adds in New Scientist for years afterwards selling DIY fluidics kits.
There appears to be a movement of a huge mass from the poles to the equator over the last 4 years. The article describes how they excluded the obvious culprits: melting ice, earth movements, atmosphere etc. And finally concluded that it is related to ocean circulation. Now that gives me the creeps!
Why the creeps? Because ocean circulation changes can happen relatively quickly and are implicated in the starting / stopping of ice ages. They are crucial indicators for climate change. And when the ocean circulation changes there is nothing humans can do about it.
Hopefully it either isn't the oceans or if it is it wont have a serious effect (dont believe my own words here... but it sounds comforting). Whatever, this requires some serious investigation, just hope they got it wrong.
A lecturer in a Fortran IV class (ptui!), part of the Mathematics syllabus (grr punched cards, grr core dumps), said something to the effect of : "some people say that storing the year as two digits will cause problems in the year 2000" -- followed by general laughter. After all software only lasts a year or two , right? So No Worries.
Now I'll need to do some C++ or Java to get the Fortran and the IBM360 core hex dumps outta my head.
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20 million weren't tried at Nuremberg. Those who were tried, could not appeal to "just following orders", however there was quite a bit of leniency by not trying people because the allies didn't want to cause lasting resentment in the German people.
What an enormous chunk of hubris.
After WW2 America had enormous goodwill in the minds of many nations. That stayed even after Vietnam (though a little faded). But now no-one trusts America. Which is really sad, and scary too. After the Cold War there was no fundamental reason for the West to stay together, in fact I remember Gorbachev saying to a reporter that the days of the West were numbered because they [Russia] had removed the main reason for it to hold together. But it didn't have to be sabotaged the way it was! The next 10 years could be very dangerous for us all because of Bush. I fear this far more than the 9/11 attacks. There is no fundamental reason why in 10 years the EU / Russia / China could not be pointing nukes at the US and banning imports from the US. The USA now needs the world more than the world needs the USA , it isn't the 1950s anymore.
Just my 2 cents.
"Just carrying out orders" was not grounds for a defence in the Nuremberg Trials. This was mentioned explicitly by the judges as I recall. The soldier is supposed to be able to see with some humanity. Some soldiers actually did this.
..why just last week, it seems, it was "6000 years of civilisation".
Like your choices, yesssirree. Though I haven't seen Hudsucker Proxy.
Jacob's Ladder I didn't see till recently a big surprise.
I'll add my own, this isn't probably under rated, I don't know ... don't know anyone else who's seen it ... "Run, Lola, Run" ... amazing movie. Must see. Just watched the video again, and again , and again.
Yeah. Definitely a "dont fuck with me" creature. Able to snap trees in half simply because it couldn't be bothered walking around them. Yep ... want one!
Most people outside Australia wouldn't have heard Adam and Dr Karl doing their Sleek Geek show. Really entertaining, and accurate stuff. Adam Spencer is a DJ at JJJ, and also holds a PhD in mathematics. Dr Karl is a regular visitor on Thursday mornings since it seems time began. See some of his stuff here. Recently, they got together for a tour called "Sleek Geeks" .. and here's a report on it by New Scientist.
It can be done !
How is a radiation field going to penetrate kilometres of ice ... or even a few metres ? It can't. Timothy didn't even bother to read the original article which made NO mention of that conclusion .. he thought that up by himself.
Europa still looks good. In fact it looks like the best place to me.
I remember seeing an interview with Niven and Pournelle where they both admitted this .. though Larry seemed a bit shy about it. Maybe it was just a 'tall story' that they didn't mind helping along in a cheeky way. But I did see them do this. And of course Larry did travel around promoting SDI .. that I distinctly recall.
One would think that the ultimate goal is not just a hit detector but a hit generator. Press the button generate a hit send it to some AI layer that renders it into vocals and music ... and there you are ... no artists needed at all. And eventually you can have it built into you stereo (patented of course) so that you can listen to as much 'original' hit music as you poor mind can bear ... for a monthly fee. All potential hits by any artists would then be considered products of the HitGenerator and therefore breach copyright. Ahh can you just see it ... what a wonderful world !
Now you didn't really read the article properly did you ?
The word "supertasters" is used as an existing definition of people with hypersensitivity.
And although the phrase "heart attack" is not used the cardiovascular consequences are described. Which translates into 'heart attack'.
SWT doesn't use Swing it uses a JNI layer to hook into the native GUI stuff. Very fast and looks like Windows on Windows, gtk on linux etc. Only wish it had a UI builder. I guess that will come one day.
Damn! Shows what happens when you don't do any physics for a decade (though I remember the actual physics but not the names). Ok. Ok. 'k' is of course Boltzman's Constant from thermodynames , and sigma is the Stefan-Boltzman constant (or sometimes referred to as Stefan's Constant I think) from EM theory as in energy_density = sigma*T^4 etc etc
Hmmm. Way back in my BBS days I used to argue CO2 / Greenhouse Effect stuff with John. I was initially impressed with his knowledge and thought he made a good case.
However, problems arose when I started reading his book "The Greenhouse Trap" ... I noticed that he got the Stefan-Boltzman Constant (k) mixed up with Stefan's Constant (sigma) when I told him this it took me a few emails to convince him he was wrong ... and then he said well it didn't matter because he was using a ratio so the constant would cancel out (true). But I wasn't impressed with a) his lack of knowledge on something so fundamental, and b) the fact that he could not admit a mistake was made.
Then I noticed a few other things ... he argued strongly to the person in many cases where he didn't agree with someone's ideas ... any argument against his thesis by "experts" he took personally, and also would rant about scientists being corrupted by the greenies. In my opinion some of his statements were very close to libel.
Another thing about his book, in one part he argues that since there is CO2 in the air then adding any more should have no additional effect ... he seemed to not understand that opacity can be between 0 and 100%.
John used to be a greenie but was very bitter about the experience and blamed them for many woes. He told me he once had a self sufficient farm in Wales before me moved to Australia. He's a smart guy but I think he carries personal grudges into his public statements. Pity.
I finally stopped arguing with him because it got me nowhere. He has access to a lot of data and reports but he is very selective in what he references. To me the final bit of evidence that was unequivocal and "proved" global warming were the borehole temperature measurements into permafrost. John's answer was that: there is no global warming and if there is then it is due to a natural cycle. That's not exactly what he said but in more longwinded form it is the gist of his view. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to spot the logical flaw there :)
So yeah he has some interesting things to say, but remember he is VERY selective. Read more widely.
Check this article in New Scientist. The researchers have found a way of increasing the effectiveness by a factor of 25 , and it is so easy that the technique could be done on a farm. Incredible. Smells like a revolution to me.
What I don't understand is why NASA hasn't tried a quick flyby using a shuttle. I mean once you're outside the atmosphere moving from Earth orbit to the moon is easy. Why not just rig some extra fuel for a shuttle and in the bay it could hold a lander of some kind.
And for the adventurous I guess we could envision some means for the shuttle itself to land. That just might be me fantasising though, what with how fragile the tiles are supposed to be.
was better than the books. Well from my point of view. After hearing the radio series the books seem boring. I didn't hear the entire series only to the old man in the hut episode -- the real ruler of the galaxy. The radio series had humour and a flow that was just missing from the books. The TV series was OK but only covered a small portion of the story.
For example, remember the scene where Arthur Dent hears Marvin humming ... except its "Wish You Were Here" and comments in amazement about him humming Pink Floyd ? Just doesn't transfer well to a book in my opinion. Actually I wish they did it as a mini-series so they could get the whole story. Get the guys who did Third Rock From the Sun to do it ... that has a HGTTG feel about it.
In my home town of Brisbane, Australia. The city council uses a web interface to their catalog. Its easy and apart from the browser being IE with some apparent functionality locked out, including closing / minimising the browser, its fine. In fact you can access the catalog remotely by browser. The other PCs in each library just run IE to interface to the web. Soooo ... if you had something like Konqueror or *insert name of favourite browser* then why run Winders at all ?
So my suggestion is, yep a linux box but it only runs a browser and that is the only interface the user sees.
Best answer I've seen on this topic in a long long time.
No the GUI was invented by the RAM companies ... it just explains so much doesn't it? ;-)
I understand your argument. You're right -government-owned is not public-owned. No easy solutions to this one, I'm afraid.
That is exactly why it is called "the tragedy of the commons" because there is no easy solution. The original commons were of course maintained by nobility, who were looking after "their" land. A cure worse than the disease. Other solutions ? ...
Wow. I remember reading about fluidic processing in the late 1960s. Must've gone from the "valve" stage to to the IC (Integrated Conduit ?) ;-) since then. Hey, check out this fluidic amplifier ... not very micro back then eh ?
Man that must really take persistence working on a tech bywater for 40 years waiting for it to come good. Mind you I think I remember even back then there being real world applications for this ... slow processing in hostile environments where electronics would get fried etc ... I think from memory it used the Coanda Effect or something for switching fluid streams. And there were adds in New Scientist for years afterwards selling DIY fluidics kits.
Well maybe at last its time has come ...
There appears to be a movement of a huge mass from the poles to the equator over the last 4 years. The article describes how they excluded the obvious culprits: melting ice, earth movements, atmosphere etc. And finally concluded that it is related to ocean circulation. Now that gives me the creeps!
Why the creeps? Because ocean circulation changes can happen relatively quickly and are implicated in the starting / stopping of ice ages. They are crucial indicators for climate change. And when the ocean circulation changes there is nothing humans can do about it.
Hopefully it either isn't the oceans or if it is it wont have a serious effect (dont believe my own words here ... but it sounds comforting). Whatever, this requires some serious investigation, just hope they got it wrong.
A lecturer in a Fortran IV class (ptui!), part of the Mathematics syllabus (grr punched cards, grr core dumps), said something to the effect of : "some people say that storing the year as two digits will cause problems in the year 2000" -- followed by general laughter. After all software only lasts a year or two , right? So No Worries.
Now I'll need to do some C++ or Java to get the Fortran and the IBM360 core hex dumps outta my head.