Right, first of all, no, it absolutely does not have mass.
Photons have momentum, they have inertia, they are affected by gravitational fields, and they generate gravitational fields. You could say they have no "rest mass", but since they are never at rest that is meaningless. There are experiments that "stopped" light in a Bose-Einstein condensate, but really the energy was temporarily stored in the excited state of the BEC, and during that time, the mass of the BEC increased.
I buy DVDs from the local second hand place and watch them. That way the copyright holders never see a penny of what I spend
Yes they do. The existence of a 2nd-hand market supports a higher 1st sale price. I will pay more for a new DVD or book if I know I can resell it to get some of that money back.
I was really surprised to see that Software Development was the second most popular primary application for Linux laptops.
Like any solicitation-response based survey, this one suffers from a huge selection bias. The Linux users that see the solicitation differ from "typical" Linux users, and those that take the time to respond differ even more.
Poor countries are poor precisely because they fail to use the talents of skilled people. There is no incentive to be productive and innovative when your earnings will be taken away by a corrupt kleptocratic government.
The streets are clogged with motorbikes. The elite cannot drive their cars. So get rid of the bikes...
But people still need to get to work/school/whatever. If even 10% of them switch to cars instead, the congestion will likely get even worse. Even buses likely cause more congestion than the same people on scooters.
And in the good ole USA it is always "Think of the Children!!
It should be "Think about the data". These child-sexbots are legal in Japan, and many psychologists there believe that they help pedos to avoid interactions with real children. But, so far there is no published data.
In a free society, anything should be legal by default, and the burden should be on the advocates of a ban to provide evidence of harm.
The moral panic in TFA is justified with some severe cognitive dissonance. It says adult sexboxs will cause "social isolation" as people use them as substitutes for interaction with other people... yet child sexbots will do the exact opposite, and cause more interaction with children. That makes no sense.
No. The opposite of the US. China has the world's biggest trade surplus, yet the value of their currency is falling. That reason is that much of the surplus is leaking out of the country into offshore investments. China has implemented capital controls, but those are easy to work around, and actually increase the desire to get money out before restrictions get even worse.
America has the world's biggest deficits, Yet the dollar is rising. A big reason is that America is the biggest destination for investment, despite having perverse tax laws that discourage capital inflows.
The people executed were political opponents of Xi Jinping. Their arrests and executions had very little to do with "corruption".
Xi's term in office ends in 2022. By then, he will have completed the purge, stuffed the central committee with his cronies, and should have no problem getting rubber stamp approval to extend his term "for the good of the nation".
Norway has the highest percentage of electric car adoption in the world, so I don't think they are being hypocritical. If they stopped pumping oil ad gas from the North Sea, it would just mean more money going to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
I'd take the teacher with a master's in childhood education any day.
You shouldn't. There is very little or no correlation between advanced degrees and teacher effectiveness. Many school districts pay extra to teachers with masters degrees, but that money could almost certainly be better spent on things that actually matter.
It impacts your credibility if you're talking about that and you don't know what apostrophes are for.
He is criticizing the education system. So the fact that he failed to learn how to use apostrophes properly actually strengthens his argument that the system is defective.
And oil and gas companies should be required to minimize methane leaks
Reducing leaks is an "easy win". It is cost effective, and can make a substantial difference. Delaying the implementation is stupid. But deciding if a regulation or law is stupid is NOT WHAT COURTS ARE FOR. The job of the judiciary is to rule on the legality. When courts start ruling on the merits, and doing the legislature's job, then the courts become politicized and lose their legitimacy.
People who seek to do harm or make trouble will just mod their drone so it doesn't squawk anything.
That may not be easy to do. How many people have the ability to write their own DroneOS? I have a Mavic Pro, and registering with the FAA was a mandatory part of the installation process. There is no "skip" button. So I either register, or I spend the next 10 years writing my own code to fly my drone. It is likely that squawking an ID will be the same. Very few people will have the skills to bypass it.
We really need to get the NRA to defend drone rights. I had to register my drone, but not my assault rifle. Yet the drone would be way more useful in an insurrection. They should be classified as militia weapons protected under the 2nd Amd.
The common solar cells don't use lead, but if the wiring connecting the cells uses lead-tin solder, the solar panel contains lead.
PbSn solder is very restricted in the EU, and it is unlikely that a solar panel manufacturer would get a waiver to use it. PbSn solder is also banned for many purposes in America. I doubt if a solar panel manufacturer would use PbSn solder since it would greatly restrict where the panels can be sold, and there are adequate substitutes available.
Do you have any evidence that any solar panels are currently manufactured with PbSn solder?
The "study" is intentionally misleading. It is designed to push an agenda. They only look at nukes during normal operation. Yet almost all human exposure to radiation has occurred during accidents, like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Yet they just handwave that away.
The typical Slashdot reader spends his weekend in his parents basement
If you RTFA you will see that it is based on 100% conjecture, and 0% actual evidence. So I am not coming upstairs until you give me a good reason why I should.
I lived in Shanghai for several years, but I now live in San Jose. My company has an office in Shanghai, and I work there for several months each year. I will be going to Shanghai in a few weeks, and I will be there until October.
Silicon valley is not very liberal, it's very much libertarian.
Not according to voting patterns. Congresspeople from SV are not libertarian. Dianne Feinstein has won solid majorities in SV, despite being an across the board authoritarian.
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Right, first of all, no, it absolutely does not have mass.
Photons have momentum, they have inertia, they are affected by gravitational fields, and they generate gravitational fields. You could say they have no "rest mass", but since they are never at rest that is meaningless. There are experiments that "stopped" light in a Bose-Einstein condensate, but really the energy was temporarily stored in the excited state of the BEC, and during that time, the mass of the BEC increased.
It's also being viewed by a lot of women as a first-class ticket to unlimited media attention and a big fat legal payday.
Can you provide a few examples of women who claimed harassment, and received a payout that you feel was unjustified?
Is this basically proposing to rename Air Force Space Command into its own full branch?
Yes, but with a lot more money spent on bureaucratic and political overhead.
I buy DVDs from the local second hand place and watch them. That way the copyright holders never see a penny of what I spend
Yes they do. The existence of a 2nd-hand market supports a higher 1st sale price. I will pay more for a new DVD or book if I know I can resell it to get some of that money back.
Apple laptops do quite well. iOS is just a candy coated version of Linux.
1. Apple laptops run OS X, not iOS.
2. OS X is based on BSD not Linux.
Perhaps you are thinking of Android, which is based on Linux, and accounts for way more instances than all the servers in the world combined.
I was really surprised to see that Software Development was the second most popular primary application for Linux laptops.
Like any solicitation-response based survey, this one suffers from a huge selection bias. The Linux users that see the solicitation differ from "typical" Linux users, and those that take the time to respond differ even more.
Canadian citizens will lose as the H-1Bs take all the jobs.
This is the lump of labor fallacy. There is not a fixed number of jobs in an economy, and immigration tends to create more jobs than are taken.
Poor countries are poor precisely because they fail to use the talents of skilled people. There is no incentive to be productive and innovative when your earnings will be taken away by a corrupt kleptocratic government.
The streets are clogged with motorbikes. The elite cannot drive their cars. So get rid of the bikes ...
But people still need to get to work/school/whatever. If even 10% of them switch to cars instead, the congestion will likely get even worse. Even buses likely cause more congestion than the same people on scooters.
And in the good ole USA it is always "Think of the Children!!
It should be "Think about the data". These child-sexbots are legal in Japan, and many psychologists there believe that they help pedos to avoid interactions with real children. But, so far there is no published data.
In a free society, anything should be legal by default, and the burden should be on the advocates of a ban to provide evidence of harm.
The moral panic in TFA is justified with some severe cognitive dissonance. It says adult sexboxs will cause "social isolation" as people use them as substitutes for interaction with other people ... yet child sexbots will do the exact opposite, and cause more interaction with children. That makes no sense.
So...just like the US, eh?
No. The opposite of the US. China has the world's biggest trade surplus, yet the value of their currency is falling. That reason is that much of the surplus is leaking out of the country into offshore investments. China has implemented capital controls, but those are easy to work around, and actually increase the desire to get money out before restrictions get even worse.
America has the world's biggest deficits, Yet the dollar is rising. A big reason is that America is the biggest destination for investment, despite having perverse tax laws that discourage capital inflows.
The people executed were political opponents of Xi Jinping. Their arrests and executions had very little to do with "corruption".
Xi's term in office ends in 2022. By then, he will have completed the purge, stuffed the central committee with his cronies, and should have no problem getting rubber stamp approval to extend his term "for the good of the nation".
Norway has the highest percentage of electric car adoption in the world, so I don't think they are being hypocritical. If they stopped pumping oil ad gas from the North Sea, it would just mean more money going to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
I'd take the teacher with a master's in childhood education any day.
You shouldn't. There is very little or no correlation between advanced degrees and teacher effectiveness. Many school districts pay extra to teachers with masters degrees, but that money could almost certainly be better spent on things that actually matter.
It impacts your credibility if you're talking about that and you don't know what apostrophes are for.
He is criticizing the education system. So the fact that he failed to learn how to use apostrophes properly actually strengthens his argument that the system is defective.
And oil and gas companies should be required to minimize methane leaks
Reducing leaks is an "easy win". It is cost effective, and can make a substantial difference. Delaying the implementation is stupid. But deciding if a regulation or law is stupid is NOT WHAT COURTS ARE FOR. The job of the judiciary is to rule on the legality. When courts start ruling on the merits, and doing the legislature's job, then the courts become politicized and lose their legitimacy.
People who seek to do harm or make trouble will just mod their drone so it doesn't squawk anything.
That may not be easy to do. How many people have the ability to write their own DroneOS? I have a Mavic Pro, and registering with the FAA was a mandatory part of the installation process. There is no "skip" button. So I either register, or I spend the next 10 years writing my own code to fly my drone. It is likely that squawking an ID will be the same. Very few people will have the skills to bypass it.
We really need to get the NRA to defend drone rights. I had to register my drone, but not my assault rifle. Yet the drone would be way more useful in an insurrection. They should be classified as militia weapons protected under the 2nd Amd.
The ones made in the 80s used lead solder at their electrical connections.
That is irrelevant to the merits of solar going forward.
Flexible perovskite solar cells most certainly contain a layer of chromium oxide.
Those have not been made in commercial quantities.
The common solar cells don't use lead, but if the wiring connecting the cells uses lead-tin solder, the solar panel contains lead.
PbSn solder is very restricted in the EU, and it is unlikely that a solar panel manufacturer would get a waiver to use it. PbSn solder is also banned for many purposes in America. I doubt if a solar panel manufacturer would use PbSn solder since it would greatly restrict where the panels can be sold, and there are adequate substitutes available.
Do you have any evidence that any solar panels are currently manufactured with PbSn solder?
The "study" is intentionally misleading. It is designed to push an agenda. They only look at nukes during normal operation. Yet almost all human exposure to radiation has occurred during accidents, like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Yet they just handwave that away.
The typical Slashdot reader spends his weekend in his parents basement
If you RTFA you will see that it is based on 100% conjecture, and 0% actual evidence. So I am not coming upstairs until you give me a good reason why I should.
Have you ever been in Germany?
I have been there several times. Mostly to Hannover, but I have also been to Berlin. I liked Berlin way better.
You make such authoritative statements about it?
When I was a kid, I watched Hogan's Heros every week. That show taught me a lot about Germans.
Feinstein is in San Francisco, Silicon Valley is not.
Feinstein is a senator. She is elected statewide. I think you have her confused with Nancy Pelosi (congresswoman from SF, and house minority leader).
Eh, no longer in Shanghai?
I lived in Shanghai for several years, but I now live in San Jose. My company has an office in Shanghai, and I work there for several months each year. I will be going to Shanghai in a few weeks, and I will be there until October.
Silicon valley is not very liberal, it's very much libertarian.
Not according to voting patterns. Congresspeople from SV are not libertarian. Dianne Feinstein has won solid majorities in SV, despite being an across the board authoritarian.