I don't think you understand how scientific funding works. I am not given a lump sum and then told to go figure something out.
This is how it works in the EU:
I am given a sum of money. This has to be accounted for. There are a number predefined areas where I can spend this money. During this project I will have to fill in time sheets detailing what I'm spending my time doing. All the different work areas will have spending limits. I.e. I can't just put some more time into community outreach(like preparing data) at the cost of Research and development time. There will be a number of milestones I have to reach along with something called deliverables. Deliverables can be reports or code or raw data if the EU has decided it was of interest. At the same time I also have to prepare papers and so on to keep my position at the university.
Where do I account for the time spent on giving out data because some random person wants it?
Answer: I can't so it will have to come out of my own pocket or I could commit fraud and put my time down into one of the projects and newsflash I'm not going to risk jailtime.
The fact is that while the public is funding the science, what they are funding is SPECIFICALLY not the data distribution.
You don't believe you should have access to Pfizers raw data even though it is funded by the public(through the purchase of medicine), do you? Because what you paid for was a pill and not the data.
If you believe in this so strongly, please lobby research grant givers to always include funding for public data dissemination, no matter whether the grant giver thinks the data will be of use and has included it as an accountable deliverable.
There's nothing unsafe about pointer arithmetic, unless you do things in a lazy way and don't think things through.
There's nothing unsafe about juggling alligators on a tight-rope made of razor wire over a tub of acid, unless you do things in a lazy way and don't think things through.
Having a government "plan" a silicon valley is like trying to cook by throwing all the ingredients in a pot, turning on the heat and hoping for the best.
Which after all is a proposition with better chances of succeeding than just standing in the kitchen staring at the ingredients.
(also it worked for the Manhattan project, CERN etc.)
What you described was exactly what I was trying to say. My moves have been programmed and are bypassing the "consciousness" and are therefore faster.
An interesting thing is that I can choose the reflex ahead of the move. Say I've done a parry
my reflex would be to riposte(attack), but I can
select whether I go for the chest, flank, or head. But I have to decide some time before and "forget" about it. If I'm still thinking about it when it's time to do the move it will be slow.
Also, when I said my muscles are faster I didn't mean that my nerves were any faster. I meant that I obviously have more muscles(fibers) in relevant areas and I can execute my moves faster than an untrained person. I have also learned better techniques. I only engage the triceps and finger muscles in an attack. Where beginners invariably will also use biceps,lower arm and shoulder muscles. While this supplies more "power" to the attack they also work against the triceps and slows down the attack.
(Funny coincidence: not long after the recent Star Wars movies came out, BBC did a special "Top Gear" about race driving and the host actually took Michael Schumacher into a bar and demonstrated Schumacher was no better than anybody else at the old trick of "catch the bill before I drop it through your fingers". He has the same physical reaction time as anybody else. Top drivers like Schumacher *anticipate* what's coming next - seeing into the future by the ordinary ability of the brain to model the world - and actually start reacting to things before they happen. Lucas is really pretty smart, just not so hot at dialogue.)
I'm sure he has better physical reaction time, for things related to racing. He probably has programmed reflexes that are related to the feel of the steering wheel
that are much faster than either yours or mine.
I'm a fencer and I can see both(better model, better reflexes) working for me, when fencing beginners. I am better at predicting what people will do. My muscles are faster, and finally I can react faster. The final trick comes from not thinking about a move. If you have to do what Schumacher did in the test (observe,analyse,react) it's clear you are going to be about as fast as anyone else. With enough training you can teach your body to have certain reflexes that are much faster, because the action bypasses parts of the brain. (you can exploit this in fencing because if you discover your opponent has a reflex like this you can trigger it and know his reaction)
We don't know the circumstances, but all the military had to do was to explain. "These were the circumstances, we are sad it ended like this." Then they would be off the hook.
Instead, they've covered it up. That, to me, is the end all proof that the action was completely unjustifiable.
Isn't the entire fucking reason we're there in the first place to prove that we're better then them?
No, you're thinking of Afghanistan.
Iraq was invaded to install a new puppet that would keep the oil in USD instead of selling it in Euros to the french, and thereby threatening both the oil supply and the US currency.
Why do you believe that democracy is magically equated with freedom? I'm a lot less free under the current democracy than I would have been when my country was a monarchy.
The students will give up their usual fast food fare for the more traditional gladiator diet of berries and white beans. They'll also learn how to fight while wearing bronze armor, and showers, clean clothes or visits from a girlfriend won't be allowed during the project.
I'm a physics/computer science research assistant on a public grant, who does sabre fencing in his spare time. They can just come study me. I've been living like they describe for the last 5 years.
Also, why no showers? Didn't they have baths back then?
I have the same problem. In school they were considering putting me in remedial classes because I had trouble doing basic arithmetic with even single digit numbers(I still have trouble with anything above 6). I can and could do a reasonably accurate estimate, but not the real result (possibly has something to do with me also having a bad short term memory). As soon as we got to the abstract bit (i.e. real math) I had no trouble. I can do integration with coordinatesystem shifts(e.g. cartesian->polar) in my head, but I will have to check my constants with a calculator.
While the ISP did not log your attempt, the hotel has. It has become part of danish law that all communication must be stored.
If you're Norwegian(or can read Danish:-)) this Danish article explains it: https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=2445
The reason is tracking terror, but be aware that a list of all sites you visit will be stored for 1 year, and during that time the police can get
a warrant to look through it.
Everyone was really mad went this went through all the way from ISP to bed and breakfast places. I've heard of one small rural hotel that disabled all their free Wi-Fi and instead you can walk across the road and use the owners Internet, which is not covered by this silly law.
Secondly, I would never do anything illegal, but I have a good "friend" who assures me you can easily access pirate bay from Danish ISPs simply by using host files. I know... my friend... does it.
Your post is contradictory, you say you would not blame the Germans of this generation for the Holocaust, yet you would blame the Christians of today for their past misgivings?
It's not contradictory at all. If he had said he wouldn't blame nazis of this generation you would be on to something.
A Freesat decoder box costs about £50. Buy one, have it shipped to Denmark, hook it up, done. It's not encrypted, you don't need a subscription, what's the problem?
No you wouldn't. People in the Netherlands can (according to another poster in this thread), but they are next door neighbours to Britain. Unfortunately I'm in Denmark quite a way up the road and I can't receive it. You are on another continent.:-)
This is one of my beefs with copyright law as it is implemented today. I want to be able to see the REAL bbc channels(to watch top gear, real british news, british comedy etc.) and I want to see the real French channels (to watch their talk shows). But because I live in Denmark that is not possible. No amount of money would make it possible. It is technically feasible, because I can receive the same satellites as the UK. But they will not sell me the decoding equipment.
The reason is that they are not allowed to by their content providers. So instead I can get some watered-down international versions, or I can get it "free" on the Internet. I cannot feel sympathy for the plight of the big content providers(murdoch et al.) when they won't even take my money.
Then why does the Hammas have Israel's entire land on its flag?
Maybe because they're pissed off? Try living under siege, seeing your land encroached by illegal settlers and your people's homes bulldozed and see if you're still reasonable towards your oppressors. I don't agree with Hamas's methods, but I can see why they do what they do.
What other methods can they use? Conventional warfare against a US-backed Israel? They might as well stab themselves in the balls.
But everything else down there will. And, poison you. Or, sting.
I'm happy right here where the most dangerous animal is the "killer" slug,
that in a fit of rage might go so far as to eat your lettuce.
Last weekend, along with my wife and son, I visited one of the "free" events for Chinese New Year. We wanted to see a Chinese dragon, dancing, and so forth. At the entrance, volunteers searched my bag and poured out my bottle of water. This was for the benefit of Coca-Cola Corp., which was selling bottled tap water (Dasani is tap water) for $3.50. I was literally (I don't mean figuratively) spitting mad. You don't go somewhere with a little kid unless you have food and water.
I don't know how your "good samaritan" laws are in Canada, but here in Denmark it's illegal to refuse someone water. A cafe or restaurant must
give you a glass of tapwater free of charge if you ask for it, if you occupy a seat or otherwise behave like an ordinary customer they can obviously charge. The same goes for ordinary people. You can ask at any house or appt, and they must give you a glass of water.
And I'm Gowachin, and I find the traditions of common law as a mortal sin against sapience. Therefore courts are obscene and must immediately be banned, and all practioners of law are to be found innocent.
I'm sure that you were no where near as disappointed as me when I bought nails and discovered some weird tiny metal pencil looking thing. There I was looking forward to some keratin based fun.
And, when I complained to the management some large rather brusque men took me away to a rubber cell, but I get Internet so it's not all bad.
Actually American is considered by linguists to be closer to original English. It's the British who have
bastardised bastardize. The "correct" form is with a 'z' it's also the version preferred by OED (exchanging s for z in ise words began in england in the 17th century). Many British English words have been transformed due to rampant francophilia during the Victorian period, e.g. program(me).
Disclaimer: I am not a native English speaker, but I have a keen interest in languages from my great granduncle who worked in this field. I have inherited a number of his books, and plan to put them on project Guthenberg when I get some spare time.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen)
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I don't think you understand how scientific funding works. I am not given a lump sum and then told to go figure something out. This is how it works in the EU:
I am given a sum of money. This has to be accounted for. There are a number predefined areas where I can spend this money. During this project I will have to fill in time sheets detailing what I'm spending my time doing. All the different work areas will have spending limits. I.e. I can't just put some more time into community outreach(like preparing data) at the cost of Research and development time. There will be a number of milestones I have to reach along with something called deliverables. Deliverables can be reports or code or raw data if the EU has decided it was of interest. At the same time I also have to prepare papers and so on to keep my position at the university.
Where do I account for the time spent on giving out data because some random person wants it? Answer: I can't so it will have to come out of my own pocket or I could commit fraud and put my time down into one of the projects and newsflash I'm not going to risk jailtime.
The fact is that while the public is funding the science, what they are funding is SPECIFICALLY not the data distribution. You don't believe you should have access to Pfizers raw data even though it is funded by the public(through the purchase of medicine), do you? Because what you paid for was a pill and not the data.
If you believe in this so strongly, please lobby research grant givers to always include funding for public data dissemination, no matter whether the grant giver thinks the data will be of use and has included it as an accountable deliverable.
There's nothing unsafe about pointer arithmetic, unless you do things in a lazy way and don't think things through.
There's nothing unsafe about juggling alligators on a tight-rope made of razor wire over a tub of acid, unless you do things in a lazy way and don't think things through.
Geeks and nerds like the free range freedoms of the USA not gilded gulags.
I think you've been misled/brainwashed by US propaganda. Geeks and nerds love the gilded gulag of their mom's basement.
Having a government "plan" a silicon valley is like trying to cook by throwing all the ingredients in a pot, turning on the heat and hoping for the best.
Which after all is a proposition with better chances of succeeding than just standing in the kitchen staring at the ingredients.
(also it worked for the Manhattan project, CERN etc.)
What you described was exactly what I was trying to say. My moves have been programmed and are bypassing the "consciousness" and are therefore faster.
An interesting thing is that I can choose the reflex ahead of the move. Say I've done a parry my reflex would be to riposte(attack), but I can select whether I go for the chest, flank, or head. But I have to decide some time before and "forget" about it. If I'm still thinking about it when it's time to do the move it will be slow.
Also, when I said my muscles are faster I didn't mean that my nerves were any faster. I meant that I obviously have more muscles(fibers) in relevant areas and I can execute my moves faster than an untrained person. I have also learned better techniques. I only engage the triceps and finger muscles in an attack. Where beginners invariably will also use biceps,lower arm and shoulder muscles. While this supplies more "power" to the attack they also work against the triceps and slows down the attack.
(Funny coincidence: not long after the recent Star Wars movies came out, BBC did a special "Top Gear" about race driving and the host actually took Michael Schumacher into a bar and demonstrated Schumacher was no better than anybody else at the old trick of "catch the bill before I drop it through your fingers". He has the same physical reaction time as anybody else. Top drivers like Schumacher *anticipate* what's coming next - seeing into the future by the ordinary ability of the brain to model the world - and actually start reacting to things before they happen. Lucas is really pretty smart, just not so hot at dialogue.)
I'm sure he has better physical reaction time, for things related to racing. He probably has programmed reflexes that are related to the feel of the steering wheel that are much faster than either yours or mine.
I'm a fencer and I can see both(better model, better reflexes) working for me, when fencing beginners. I am better at predicting what people will do. My muscles are faster, and finally I can react faster. The final trick comes from not thinking about a move. If you have to do what Schumacher did in the test (observe,analyse,react) it's clear you are going to be about as fast as anyone else. With enough training you can teach your body to have certain reflexes that are much faster, because the action bypasses parts of the brain. (you can exploit this in fencing because if you discover your opponent has a reflex like this you can trigger it and know his reaction)
- so could you give a couple of pointers as to why we should trust an amateur looking website over the people who defeated Hitler?
So don't hold back, what was the Russian's reasoning?
The whole point is that it has been covered up.
We don't know the circumstances, but all the military had to do was to explain. "These were the circumstances, we are sad it ended like this." Then they would be off the hook.
Instead, they've covered it up. That, to me, is the end all proof that the action was completely unjustifiable.
Isn't the entire fucking reason we're there in the first place to prove that we're better then them?
No, you're thinking of Afghanistan.
Iraq was invaded to install a new puppet that would keep the oil in USD instead of selling it in Euros to the french, and thereby threatening both the oil supply and the US currency.
Why do you believe that democracy is magically equated with freedom? I'm a lot less free under the current democracy than I would have been when my country was a monarchy.
The students will give up their usual fast food fare for the more traditional gladiator diet of berries and white beans. They'll also learn how to fight while wearing bronze armor, and showers, clean clothes or visits from a girlfriend won't be allowed during the project.
I'm a physics/computer science research assistant on a public grant, who does sabre fencing in his spare time. They can just come study me. I've been living like they describe for the last 5 years.
Also, why no showers? Didn't they have baths back then?
I have the same problem. In school they were considering putting me in remedial classes because I had trouble doing basic arithmetic with even single digit numbers(I still have trouble with anything above 6). I can and could do a reasonably accurate estimate, but not the real result (possibly has something to do with me also having a bad short term memory). As soon as we got to the abstract bit (i.e. real math) I had no trouble. I can do integration with coordinatesystem shifts(e.g. cartesian->polar) in my head, but I will have to check my constants with a calculator.
While the ISP did not log your attempt, the hotel has. It has become part of danish law that all communication must be stored. If you're Norwegian(or can read Danish :-)) this Danish article explains it: https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=2445
The reason is tracking terror, but be aware that a list of all sites you visit will be stored for 1 year, and during that time the police can get
a warrant to look through it.
Everyone was really mad went this went through all the way from ISP to bed and breakfast places. I've heard of one small rural hotel that disabled all their free Wi-Fi and instead you can walk across the road and use the owners Internet, which is not covered by this silly law.
Secondly, I would never do anything illegal, but I have a good "friend" who assures me you can easily access pirate bay from Danish ISPs simply by using host files. I know ... my friend ... does it.
Your post is contradictory, you say you would not blame the Germans of this generation for the Holocaust, yet you would blame the Christians of today for their past misgivings?
It's not contradictory at all. If he had said he wouldn't blame nazis of this generation you would be on to something.
and kittens died
And the world became a better place.
If you own a ship?
A Freesat decoder box costs about £50. Buy one, have it shipped to Denmark, hook it up, done. It's not encrypted, you don't need a subscription, what's the problem?
That it won't reach Denmark. The unencrypted channels run on Astra 2D: http://www.ses-astra.com/business/en/satellite-fleet/satellite-list/astra2d/index.php (scroll to the map at the bottom.)
No you wouldn't. People in the Netherlands can (according to another poster in this thread), but they are next door neighbours to Britain. Unfortunately I'm in Denmark quite a way up the road and I can't receive it. You are on another continent. :-)
This is one of my beefs with copyright law as it is implemented today. I want to be able to see the REAL bbc channels(to watch top gear, real british news, british comedy etc.) and I want to see the real French channels (to watch their talk shows). But because I live in Denmark that is not possible. No amount of money would make it possible. It is technically feasible, because I can receive the same satellites as the UK. But they will not sell me the decoding equipment.
The reason is that they are not allowed to by their content providers. So instead I can get some watered-down international versions, or I can get it "free" on the Internet. I cannot feel sympathy for the plight of the big content providers(murdoch et al.) when they won't even take my money.
Maybe because they're pissed off? Try living under siege, seeing your land encroached by illegal settlers and your people's homes bulldozed and see if you're still reasonable towards your oppressors. I don't agree with Hamas's methods, but I can see why they do what they do.
What other methods can they use? Conventional warfare against a US-backed Israel? They might as well stab themselves in the balls.
We won't bite :P
But everything else down there will. And, poison you. Or, sting. I'm happy right here where the most dangerous animal is the "killer" slug, that in a fit of rage might go so far as to eat your lettuce.
Last weekend, along with my wife and son, I visited one of the "free" events for Chinese New Year. We wanted to see a Chinese dragon, dancing, and so forth. At the entrance, volunteers searched my bag and poured out my bottle of water. This was for the benefit of Coca-Cola Corp., which was selling bottled tap water (Dasani is tap water) for $3.50. I was literally (I don't mean figuratively) spitting mad. You don't go somewhere with a little kid unless you have food and water.
I don't know how your "good samaritan" laws are in Canada, but here in Denmark it's illegal to refuse someone water. A cafe or restaurant must give you a glass of tapwater free of charge if you ask for it, if you occupy a seat or otherwise behave like an ordinary customer they can obviously charge. The same goes for ordinary people. You can ask at any house or appt, and they must give you a glass of water.
And I'm Gowachin, and I find the traditions of common law as a mortal sin against sapience. Therefore courts are obscene and must immediately be banned, and all practioners of law are to be found innocent.
If that made no sense to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowachin
I'm sure that you were no where near as disappointed as me when I bought nails and discovered some weird tiny metal pencil looking thing. There I was looking forward to some keratin based fun.
And, when I complained to the management some large rather brusque men took me away to a rubber cell, but I get Internet so it's not all bad.
Actually American is considered by linguists to be closer to original English. It's the British who have bastardised bastardize. The "correct" form is with a 'z' it's also the version preferred by OED (exchanging s for z in ise words began in england in the 17th century). Many British English words have been transformed due to rampant francophilia during the Victorian period, e.g. program(me).
Disclaimer: I am not a native English speaker, but I have a keen interest in languages from my great granduncle who worked in this field. I have inherited a number of his books, and plan to put them on project Guthenberg when I get some spare time.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen)