If the reason we're holding back scientific progress is actually "ethics"-- people complaining about genetics and such keep using that word, I am not sure they know what it means
Hmm... complaining about medical eithcs. So are you a supporter of Josef Mengele by any chance? Or any of his ilk?
The main reason most people seem to be against this is, at what point is the chimera no longer an animal? At what point does it qualify as human or sentient? Doing this blurs the line and that is what they are afraid of.
How about this: They don't have a clue on how to get to the heads of the insurgency, thus they can't send them bad information, in which case they "do an error that looks legit" and broadcast it abroad knowing every news agency and curious person on the planet will pick it up.
Ya know, when I read about this, the first thing that came to mind was ULTRA OMEGA in the Cryptonomicon, where the alies plant false evidence of many things in order to keep the Germans from finding out the alies had broken(?) Enigma. What better way to justify changing a whole bunch of procedures that you think/know are compromised than by a world wide leak? Or, it could be false information. Who knows.
Well, at home I primarily use Mozilla. Mainly for the interface. I use FireBird (or whatever the stand alone email client is called) for email. I rarely use FireFox because I like the Mozilla layout more (To me, it is slightly better than FF). As for others, usually they can figure it out. Last time I rebuilt an XP box with the owner (he knew enough about computers, just not XP) he replaced IE with FF. For him and the other 4 people who were using the machine.
As for the sites that require IE only? My mother gets pissed about that. She knows it's BS and says so, but still uses Mozilla.
So how many unique users does that translate to? Anyone with a reasonable estimate?
Well, seeing as how I've downloaded it at least 10 times (multiple versions, multiple computers), that might knock it down to 5 million. However, given that I distribute the ones I have downloaded to other people (takes less time for a LAN transfer than a dload), that might average out to 5 times per person. 10 million maybe? Then again, I haven't been using FireFox that long and other people have had more/less repeat downloadings. So 1 to 10 million would be my guess.
I think it also apllies to British Telecom. We techies have way too many acronyms. I have had some interesting conversations at work when sorting out which one we mean. We also have some that sound similar VOD&VOB and NOC&MOC for starters. Phone conversations are fun too.
Unless you're suggesting you just looked at the pretty pictures, and didn't bother to read it. The text was flamingly obvious.
Well, to me the issue here is the pictures themselves, not the text. So yes, I am "looking at the pretty pictures". If you copied them directly off the foundation website and didn't modify them in any way, it looks like you would (for starters) be violating WalMarts trademark (such as the Wal*Mart and Sams Club Icons). They legally have to defend any violations of said trademark or they can lose it. If you had changed those, that would be a start. For example, The "Giving, Helping, Doing" Could have been replaced with "Taking, Hurting, (something else here)". "Wal*Mart, Good, Works" replaced with "Wal*Mart, (Bad/Evil/Something),Hurts. Next time, actually change what the images are. Same for the rest of the images.
To me, to be parody it can over all look similar, but everything in it still has to be different and created by you. Copying the images off and only changing the text doesn't meet parody to me.
No idea, I just wanna know how those winds are starting. Doesnt something have to "push" them?
Winds on mars occur for the same reason as wind on earth. Pretty much the sun heats up one area more than another and causes a pressure differential. Just because there is a lot less atmosphere on mars doesn't mean it occurs for a different reason.
Oh well, I've had a G5 for over a year and I have yet to find anything for PCI-X but fibre channel cards.
Raid Cards (SCSI/S-ATA/P-ATA), Gigabit ethernet cards, and it apparently can take regular PCI cards as well. Trust me, if all you see are fibre channel for PCI-X, you aren't looking hard enough.
It's because everyone skimps on RAM. Dell, HP, Toshiba, Alienware, IBM... The goal is to have the cheapest introductory price you can, regardless of the performance.
That said, I get the beachball more often than I'd like What is "the beachball"?
As I understand it, Apple has made the succesive versions of OSX more efficient in processor and resource utilization. In other words, people are saying 10.4 will run faster than 10.3 on the same hardware. No upgrade necessary, unless 10.3 is running too slowly for you. I have not betatested this (I don't even own a mac yet (yet!)) but that is what I have been reading about 10.4 so far.
but there's always the knee-jerk question about what would happen if a Columbia-esque accident occured
Columbia was re-entry. Challenger was take-off. I think you mean Challenger-esque. That aside, we have already built and sent into orbit reactors capable of surviving a launch pad explosion. In fact, one rocket did blow up and the reactor (or at least the radioactive material casing) survived intact, was recovered and was sent up on a later mission.
So, old technology and already been developed and tested.
To address one point, in Europe (region 2) there are coutnries that have outlawed region codes and so have region free DVD players (Norway?). However, I think the parent is talking about his objections to region codes in general.
So what are they going to call the new Star Wars TV Show? Star Trek? Star Wars 3 1/2? Star Wars: Battlegrounds? Star Wars: Rebelion? Battle Star Wars? Or What?
DDT is the best chemical yet created for killing of mosquitos. Banning DDT in the third world has allowed mosquito populations to grow. Mosquitos carry diseases such as west nile and malaria. West nile and malaria have killed many people. The envoronmentalists (not just ones in the US, either) caused DDT to be banned in order to recieve international aid (IMF, among others). Environmentalists banning DDT has caused mosqitos to infect people leading them to an early grabe. Thus, environmentalists have killed people. That is the logic being used. (NOTE: Not my opinion, I just know the logic behind this one).
2)the security costs of defending these plants against osame and pals
They are probably already the most secure. Do you even know where the reactor is in one of those? Hint: Not in the smoke stacks. They have already figured that if you crash a plane into a nuke plant it won't do anything. A regular bomb wont do anything that a plane wont do.
3)the problem of leakage, and potential long term health effects on people nearby
We have been operating nuke plants near people for 50 years. Leakage is measured, and is less than what you get by going outside and soaking up some rays. Already been measured, studied and evaluated.
4)the proliferation of nuclear tech. Pretty tough to lecture iran & korea about nuclear tech as you lay the foundations for 100 reactors.
The lecture to Irand and North Korea (Why does everybody forget the north part?) Is on nuclear WEAPONS, not power plants. It is believed by some (many?) that Iran would/is use/using the refining technology to refine weapons grade plutonium/uranium, not just creat nuclear fuel for power plants. As for North Korea, they have already claimed they have nuclear weapons. Laying the foundation for power plants has nothing to do with refining material for usage. As for Iran, one proposal was to have Iran shut down it's enrichment process and use fuel created elsewhere (say, in Europe). Iran would shut down it's refinery and get the fuel from someplace else. That is the big thing on Iran.
The current climate flies in the face of +90% of the climate models from 1990 for what the earth was supposed to look like in 2005. The sea level was supposed to have risen 10 inches. It hasn't.
Ah, one of the reasons I put no faith in todays climate models. They run a couple thousand simultanious simulations, pick those that closely match what has happened historically, and then tout those as ironclad. Lets actually see those results match up in a few years just as perfectly as they did the previous several and then I may start to believe a model. Anyone can make a model that shows the past, it's keeping it projected into the future that's hard.
Renewable? YES! It's called reprocessing. We recycle the used radioactive material that comes out of a nuclear power plant and reprocess it in a breeder reactor to get more useable nuclear material. The result is more material suitable for a reactor and some (as in very little) low level radioative material that is much easier to hand and dispose of.
The original plan back in the 50's when we staretd using nuclear power was to use reprocessing on the fuel and make waste management easier. Carter nixed this. So as for "Clean? It depends." well, it still depends.
It's not rich people and it's not just the views. It's called NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard). Some people just don't want things near them and will reaise political hell to keep them away. It's not just rich people, either. Usually it is middle class folk who don't want something and have hte free time to complain. Prisons, powerplants, andything industrial and comercial is all subject to this (and those are only a few). Although, I have heard of instances where sufficient people have gotten together to overcome the NIMBYs when they have sufficient incentive.
45 was to mean the OC-1, I knew that an OC-1 was about the speed of a T3, and that a T3 was about 45mbps. I estitmated that. It's still in the same general area, so it still applies. Thanks for the link.
Seeing as how most internet backbones are OC-1 or OC-3 (45,135mbps), having the extra bandwidth don't do jack for download/upload speeds and pingtimes. You might as well stick with (at most) the 100mbps that Japan has. The only thing this extra bandiwdth is good for, is buying TV from your internet provider.
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If the reason we're holding back scientific progress is actually "ethics"-- people complaining about genetics and such keep using that word, I am not sure they know what it means
Hmm... complaining about medical eithcs. So are you a supporter of Josef Mengele by any chance? Or any of his ilk?
The main reason most people seem to be against this is, at what point is the chimera no longer an animal? At what point does it qualify as human or sentient? Doing this blurs the line and that is what they are afraid of.
How about this: They don't have a clue on how to get to the heads of the insurgency, thus they can't send them bad information, in which case they "do an error that looks legit" and broadcast it abroad knowing every news agency and curious person on the planet will pick it up.
Ya know, when I read about this, the first thing that came to mind was ULTRA OMEGA in the Cryptonomicon, where the alies plant false evidence of many things in order to keep the Germans from finding out the alies had broken(?) Enigma. What better way to justify changing a whole bunch of procedures that you think/know are compromised than by a world wide leak? Or, it could be false information. Who knows.
The trip to zero is a hard fall at any price.
Stock never actually hits zero. 1/128th of a cent, yes. But never zero. (And yes, I do remember a company trading for about that price at one point)
Well, at home I primarily use Mozilla. Mainly for the interface. I use FireBird (or whatever the stand alone email client is called) for email. I rarely use FireFox because I like the Mozilla layout more (To me, it is slightly better than FF). As for others, usually they can figure it out. Last time I rebuilt an XP box with the owner (he knew enough about computers, just not XP) he replaced IE with FF. For him and the other 4 people who were using the machine.
As for the sites that require IE only? My mother gets pissed about that. She knows it's BS and says so, but still uses Mozilla.
P.S. nice sig.
So how many unique users does that translate to? Anyone with a reasonable estimate?
Well, seeing as how I've downloaded it at least 10 times (multiple versions, multiple computers), that might knock it down to 5 million. However, given that I distribute the ones I have downloaded to other people (takes less time for a LAN transfer than a dload), that might average out to 5 times per person. 10 million maybe? Then again, I haven't been using FireFox that long and other people have had more/less repeat downloadings. So 1 to 10 million would be my guess.
I think it also apllies to British Telecom. We techies have way too many acronyms. I have had some interesting conversations at work when sorting out which one we mean. We also have some that sound similar VOD&VOB and NOC&MOC for starters. Phone conversations are fun too.
Unless you're suggesting you just looked at the pretty pictures, and didn't bother to read it.
The text was flamingly obvious.
Well, to me the issue here is the pictures themselves, not the text. So yes, I am "looking at the pretty pictures". If you copied them directly off the foundation website and didn't modify them in any way, it looks like you would (for starters) be violating WalMarts trademark (such as the Wal*Mart and Sams Club Icons). They legally have to defend any violations of said trademark or they can lose it. If you had changed those, that would be a start. For example, The "Giving, Helping, Doing" Could have been replaced with "Taking, Hurting, (something else here)". "Wal*Mart, Good, Works" replaced with "Wal*Mart, (Bad/Evil/Something),Hurts. Next time, actually change what the images are. Same for the rest of the images.
To me, to be parody it can over all look similar, but everything in it still has to be different and created by you. Copying the images off and only changing the text doesn't meet parody to me.
IIRC a parody has to be clearly different than the original to be considered a parody.
Well then, since he was using images directly coppied off the Walmart Foundation site it was clearly not a parody then.
No idea, I just wanna know how those winds are starting. Doesnt something have to "push" them?
Winds on mars occur for the same reason as wind on earth. Pretty much the sun heats up one area more than another and causes a pressure differential. Just because there is a lot less atmosphere on mars doesn't mean it occurs for a different reason.
Oh well, I've had a G5 for over a year and I have yet to find anything for PCI-X but fibre channel cards.
Raid Cards (SCSI/S-ATA/P-ATA), Gigabit ethernet cards, and it apparently can take regular PCI cards as well. Trust me, if all you see are fibre channel for PCI-X, you aren't looking hard enough.
I've never understood why Apple skimps on RAM
It's because everyone skimps on RAM. Dell, HP, Toshiba, Alienware, IBM... The goal is to have the cheapest introductory price you can, regardless of the performance.
That said, I get the beachball more often than I'd like What is "the beachball"?
Can anyone lend me $13,071.00 so I can buy one of these maxed out dual 2.7Ghz?
As I understand it, Apple has made the succesive versions of OSX more efficient in processor and resource utilization. In other words, people are saying 10.4 will run faster than 10.3 on the same hardware. No upgrade necessary, unless 10.3 is running too slowly for you. I have not betatested this (I don't even own a mac yet (yet!)) but that is what I have been reading about 10.4 so far.
The US hasn't made a nuclear weapon in over a decade. Read the list. We just keep up maintainence on the current ones.
We already have missiles that launch from space (thanks to clinton) which Bush has already used
Please provide link to source for missles in space. Could not find any information on space bassed missiles, much less any that were launched.
but there's always the knee-jerk question about what would happen if a Columbia-esque accident occured
Columbia was re-entry. Challenger was take-off. I think you mean Challenger-esque. That aside, we have already built and sent into orbit reactors capable of surviving a launch pad explosion. In fact, one rocket did blow up and the reactor (or at least the radioactive material casing) survived intact, was recovered and was sent up on a later mission.
So, old technology and already been developed and tested.
To address one point, in Europe (region 2) there are coutnries that have outlawed region codes and so have region free DVD players (Norway?). However, I think the parent is talking about his objections to region codes in general.
So what are they going to call the new Star Wars TV Show? Star Trek? Star Wars 3 1/2? Star Wars: Battlegrounds? Star Wars: Rebelion? Battle Star Wars? Or What?
DDT is the best chemical yet created for killing of mosquitos. Banning DDT in the third world has allowed mosquito populations to grow. Mosquitos carry diseases such as west nile and malaria. West nile and malaria have killed many people. The envoronmentalists (not just ones in the US, either) caused DDT to be banned in order to recieve international aid (IMF, among others). Environmentalists banning DDT has caused mosqitos to infect people leading them to an early grabe. Thus, environmentalists have killed people. That is the logic being used. (NOTE: Not my opinion, I just know the logic behind this one).
1)the waste problem, LONG term.
Combination of Breeder Reactors plus what we already have
2)the security costs of defending these plants against osame and pals
They are probably already the most secure. Do you even know where the reactor is in one of those? Hint: Not in the smoke stacks. They have already figured that if you crash a plane into a nuke plant it won't do anything. A regular bomb wont do anything that a plane wont do.
3)the problem of leakage, and potential long term health effects on people nearby
We have been operating nuke plants near people for 50 years. Leakage is measured, and is less than what you get by going outside and soaking up some rays. Already been measured, studied and evaluated.
4)the proliferation of nuclear tech. Pretty tough to lecture iran & korea about nuclear tech as you lay the foundations for 100 reactors.
The lecture to Irand and North Korea (Why does everybody forget the north part?) Is on nuclear WEAPONS, not power plants. It is believed by some (many?) that Iran would/is use/using the refining technology to refine weapons grade plutonium/uranium, not just creat nuclear fuel for power plants. As for North Korea, they have already claimed they have nuclear weapons. Laying the foundation for power plants has nothing to do with refining material for usage. As for Iran, one proposal was to have Iran shut down it's enrichment process and use fuel created elsewhere (say, in Europe). Iran would shut down it's refinery and get the fuel from someplace else. That is the big thing on Iran.
The current climate flies in the face of +90% of the climate models from 1990 for what the earth was supposed to look like in 2005. The sea level was supposed to have risen 10 inches. It hasn't.
Ah, one of the reasons I put no faith in todays climate models. They run a couple thousand simultanious simulations, pick those that closely match what has happened historically, and then tout those as ironclad. Lets actually see those results match up in a few years just as perfectly as they did the previous several and then I may start to believe a model. Anyone can make a model that shows the past, it's keeping it projected into the future that's hard.
Renewable? No. Clean? It depends.
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http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_ waste_future/nuclear_waste_future.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/ fasbre.html
Renewable? YES! It's called reprocessing. We recycle the used radioactive material that comes out of a nuclear power plant and reprocess it in a breeder reactor to get more useable nuclear material. The result is more material suitable for a reactor and some (as in very little) low level radioative material that is much easier to hand and dispose of.
The original plan back in the 50's when we staretd using nuclear power was to use reprocessing on the fuel and make waste management easier. Carter nixed this. So as for "Clean? It depends." well, it still depends.
Here's some links on the matter, please actually read them, they give a better explanation than I can:
http://www.argee.net/DefenseWatch/Nuclear%20Waste
It's not rich people and it's not just the views. It's called NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard). Some people just don't want things near them and will reaise political hell to keep them away. It's not just rich people, either. Usually it is middle class folk who don't want something and have hte free time to complain. Prisons, powerplants, andything industrial and comercial is all subject to this (and those are only a few). Although, I have heard of instances where sufficient people have gotten together to overcome the NIMBYs when they have sufficient incentive.
45 was to mean the OC-1, I knew that an OC-1 was about the speed of a T3, and that a T3 was about 45mbps. I estitmated that. It's still in the same general area, so it still applies. Thanks for the link.
Seeing as how most internet backbones are OC-1 or OC-3 (45,135mbps), having the extra bandwidth don't do jack for download/upload speeds and pingtimes. You might as well stick with (at most) the 100mbps that Japan has. The only thing this extra bandiwdth is good for, is buying TV from your internet provider.