So, what's you're point? F=GMm/r^2 doesn't work on momentum, it works on mass. Gravity does not affect light as a force, so there's no point in using a classical definition of gravity to predict gravitational lensing.
Well yeah, that "only remaining option" was if you want the tool to be available in the live boot. In theory, they could fit even more tools on the live-cd by installing almost everything into the live environment from the installer "side" (and thus, avoiding the duplication) but that would make booting to live a very painful process.
The package may be on the CD, but it would still take up almost twice as much space to have it also installed on the compressed filesystem. They have to fit a runnable linux and an installer on those CDs, you know. The only remaining option is to install things into the running live distro from the installer portion, which the GP apparently did.
Which makes me wonder even more vociferously how Ubuntu can manage to make Live CDs that are so much more useful (to me) than Knoppix (which doesn't have the "need to save some space for packages") The latest one, Gutsy, recognizes my wireless card right out of the box, and simply asks me for the pass phrase. I fiddled with knoppix for an hour (each, CD and DVD), running between the computer I was testing on and the computer that actually connected to the internet before giving up on it, especially as Ubuntu Live had everything I needed. I'm sure it's possible to do, it just wasn't easy (for me). Also, the GUI wasn't nearly as smooth as Ubuntu. I'm geek enough that I'll probably try again next major revision, though.
You do realize that those juke boxes, even with the "extortive fees" put a lot of real, local artists out of business: instead of needing a band 3 or 4 nights a week, the bars could scale down to the 1 or 2 most popular nights.
Juke boxes are like, the Wal*Mart of the bar music industry.
Which is not a problem if you use virtual account numbers (what Citibank calls it. I'm sure other banks have the same thing with different names) that are only authorized for one transaction for the amount you specify.
Ok, so now we're assuming that George Carlin assumes that:
Intelligence is a symmetric normal distribution and the audience is also aware of that fact
Thus making it possible for him to use sloppy language that happens to be more poetic. As in, he really did mean two different definitions of average when making the joke, but did it anyway because that way he won't sound like he's just regurgitating the old, "50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class" line.
I dunno, I guess I never got the appeal. Carlin's edginess always felt a bit "manufactured" to me. He always seems to pick on safe targets.
Read: the whole *western* world. Spout that to the countless millions of impoverished in China, India and Africa and they'll eat your for lunch. Nothing personal, just because they're starving.
Well if coal and oil are useless to them, I guess they won't mind if we demand they stop using it to improve themselves, then. Maybe, they can accept some of the Kyoto restrictions that they were exempted from due to their "developing" status.
What would be wrong with this? If it's forbidden, except under specific circumstances which are clearly defined. We don't have an absolute right to privacy in the US, either, we've ceded a little of it (through court-issued Warrants, and even circumstance-based interpretation of the word, "warrant") so that we can be protected from those who would do us harm.
Only anarchists think that "privacy rights" should mean that you have the right to not get caught doing nefarious crap.
Why does it matter? What do you think the exhaust of a hydrogen-powered vehicles is?
I'll give you a hint: It's distilled water!*
*unless you just straight burn it with air, then it's distilled water and Nitric Oxide, which is a gas, so there shouldn't be too much dissolved in hot exhaust water.
So, you just collect the exhaust, and dump it into your hydrogen converter when you get home.
And.. what is the energy source for this "on-demand" electrolysis? If it's any definition of electrolysis that I'm aware of, whatever the energy source is, it's converted to electricity to perform the electrolysis. But if you have it in the form of electricity, why not just skip that step and drive electric motors directly? You wouldn't have to worry about an extra Carnot efficiency loss that way, since you wouldn't be adding an additional combustion step.
Sharks have looked like sharks for over a hundred million years. Same with alligators and crocodiles. I don't think you can make a blanket statement that they "sure as hell" won't be recognizable as homo sapiens. If circumstances or our technology has enabled us to reach a local optimum, we could remain in this form for many millennia to come.
The only thing I think is safe to say is that Humans will not be evolving separate from their tools.
The main difference is that smoking tobacco doesn't really benefit anybody wheras burning coal and oil has literally driven the engines of production creating tremendous wealth for the whole world. We still have some distribution problems resulting in a number of people not being able to take full advantage of this wealth, but that number is decreasing all the time.
Even if coal and oil use is causing noticeable and net deleterious effects, there is some argument that they should be forgiven past liability and even protected from some amount of current liability, as long as they are taking reasonable steps to mitigate deleterious effects, now.
The earth can support 6 billion modern people. It already does. It cannot support 6 billion cave-men.
Then again, this is a channel that regularly runs silly supernatural phenomena shows.
Yeah, but in that genre, ironically, the sillier they are, the less stupid they are. In the limit of a bunch of cranks making fun of people who believe in ghosts being the just about the least stupid possible "ghost hunting" show.
I am curious as to why they shut down the plants though. Wouldn't it be easier to shunt to a dummy load (whether electrical or mechanical or what have you) and and then take your time deciding whether to full shutdown depending on the circumstances?
And the owner of those 600 acres, what does he do after being bought out by the 500-acre ex-farmer? Also, if there are 600 acres available for the same price, why is the developer going after the 500-acre farm?
Further, the farmer's 500 acres might be unique in the county as to their growing potential. What if the only 600 acre lots available at the farmer's price are inferior, or different enough to require the farmer to learn entirely new techniques and crops to have a chance at exploiting them?
Well environmentalists who oppose lopping of the tops of mountains deserve to be dropped in the same bin as the ones who oppose terraforming mars (putting aside the practical issues) as if the desolation itself is a habitat worthy of preservation.*
Certainly, there are aesthetic issues, and it would be nice to have a few pristine views, but those views only benefit people who can access them. Above the tree-lines, there is nothing but rock. If that rock contains minerals whose extraction will benefit people, improving their lives, I'm gonna have to say, lop off that mountain-top. Aesthetics that only a few people will ever experience should always be subordinate to quality of life of millions of people.
Further, given the choice between strip-mining and underground mining, I think the recent spate of trapped miners should gives us a bit to think about on that issue.
* Obviously, areas where things actually live deserve more consideration. I'm just talking about the "lopping off a few mountain tops" where it really ought to be an easy decision. In the case of Mars, discovering actual life would change the equation quite a bit. Assuming that it will ever be possible to turn it into something we could talk about living on. There is plenty of time yet before any of our descendants could have the slightest chance of having that decision to make.
Wouldn't the "average years of service" also drop if the USPTO was increasing the size of the "examiner core" to match the increase in claims since the newbies, by definition, have zero years of service when they join?
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So, what's you're point? F=GMm/r^2 doesn't work on momentum, it works on mass. Gravity does not affect light as a force, so there's no point in using a classical definition of gravity to predict gravitational lensing.
How does money improve his economy? Shouldn't he be focusing on growing the wealth of mexicans?
Well yeah, that "only remaining option" was if you want the tool to be available in the live boot. In theory, they could fit even more tools on the live-cd by installing almost everything into the live environment from the installer "side" (and thus, avoiding the duplication) but that would make booting to live a very painful process.
no. That is wrong. The "particle" part of "wave-particle duality" does not refer to a separate state. Further, it doesn't have mass, either.
The package may be on the CD, but it would still take up almost twice as much space to have it also installed on the compressed filesystem. They have to fit a runnable linux and an installer on those CDs, you know. The only remaining option is to install things into the running live distro from the installer portion, which the GP apparently did.
Which makes me wonder even more vociferously how Ubuntu can manage to make Live CDs that are so much more useful (to me) than Knoppix (which doesn't have the "need to save some space for packages") The latest one, Gutsy, recognizes my wireless card right out of the box, and simply asks me for the pass phrase. I fiddled with knoppix for an hour (each, CD and DVD), running between the computer I was testing on and the computer that actually connected to the internet before giving up on it, especially as Ubuntu Live had everything I needed. I'm sure it's possible to do, it just wasn't easy (for me). Also, the GUI wasn't nearly as smooth as Ubuntu. I'm geek enough that I'll probably try again next major revision, though.
You do realize that those juke boxes, even with the "extortive fees" put a lot of real, local artists out of business: instead of needing a band 3 or 4 nights a week, the bars could scale down to the 1 or 2 most popular nights.
Juke boxes are like, the Wal*Mart of the bar music industry.
Which is not a problem if you use virtual account numbers (what Citibank calls it. I'm sure other banks have the same thing with different names) that are only authorized for one transaction for the amount you specify.
Does this bank pay interest?
If so, then they must be investing in something. That's who you boycott.
If you don't deposit money, they just make less money. If their investments fail to profit, they lose money.
Ok, so now we're assuming that George Carlin assumes that:
Intelligence is a symmetric normal distribution and the audience is also aware of that fact
Thus making it possible for him to use sloppy language that happens to be more poetic. As in, he really did mean two different definitions of average when making the joke, but did it anyway because that way he won't sound like he's just regurgitating the old, "50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class" line.
I dunno, I guess I never got the appeal. Carlin's edginess always felt a bit "manufactured" to me. He always seems to pick on safe targets.
Why.. um.. why would you need to send them silently?
If you're generating them in program to send to the printer, why not just print directly?
You.. You're talking about banning Halloween! The single largest holiday on the calender for people who don't believe in the holi- part.
Well if coal and oil are useless to them, I guess they won't mind if we demand they stop using it to improve themselves, then. Maybe, they can accept some of the Kyoto restrictions that they were exempted from due to their "developing" status.
Ah yes, George Carlin. One day you'll learn the difference between median and mean.
Only anarchists think that "privacy rights" should mean that you have the right to not get caught doing nefarious crap.
Why does it matter? What do you think the exhaust of a hydrogen-powered vehicles is?
I'll give you a hint: It's distilled water!*
*unless you just straight burn it with air, then it's distilled water and Nitric Oxide, which is a gas, so there shouldn't be too much dissolved in hot exhaust water.
So, you just collect the exhaust, and dump it into your hydrogen converter when you get home.
And.. what is the energy source for this "on-demand" electrolysis? If it's any definition of electrolysis that I'm aware of, whatever the energy source is, it's converted to electricity to perform the electrolysis. But if you have it in the form of electricity, why not just skip that step and drive electric motors directly? You wouldn't have to worry about an extra Carnot efficiency loss that way, since you wouldn't be adding an additional combustion step.
Sharks have looked like sharks for over a hundred million years. Same with alligators and crocodiles. I don't think you can make a blanket statement that they "sure as hell" won't be recognizable as homo sapiens. If circumstances or our technology has enabled us to reach a local optimum, we could remain in this form for many millennia to come.
The only thing I think is safe to say is that Humans will not be evolving separate from their tools.
The main difference is that smoking tobacco doesn't really benefit anybody wheras burning coal and oil has literally driven the engines of production creating tremendous wealth for the whole world. We still have some distribution problems resulting in a number of people not being able to take full advantage of this wealth, but that number is decreasing all the time.
Even if coal and oil use is causing noticeable and net deleterious effects, there is some argument that they should be forgiven past liability and even protected from some amount of current liability, as long as they are taking reasonable steps to mitigate deleterious effects, now.
The earth can support 6 billion modern people. It already does. It cannot support 6 billion cave-men.
Woah, woah, RMS is a worthless commie, but he's not a lazy worthless commie.
He did write the Emacs Operating System, after all.
IMO, that gets negative points, but it's certainly quite a bit far from nothing, you'll have to concede.
And you still have plenty of Unix options that don't involve free software. You just have to buy actual Unix.
That is interesting and informative, thanks.
I am curious as to why they shut down the plants though. Wouldn't it be easier to shunt to a dummy load (whether electrical or mechanical or what have you) and and then take your time deciding whether to full shutdown depending on the circumstances?
Why do you say that? Because of that y-chromosome repair fault thing?
And the owner of those 600 acres, what does he do after being bought out by the 500-acre ex-farmer? Also, if there are 600 acres available for the same price, why is the developer going after the 500-acre farm?
Further, the farmer's 500 acres might be unique in the county as to their growing potential. What if the only 600 acre lots available at the farmer's price are inferior, or different enough to require the farmer to learn entirely new techniques and crops to have a chance at exploiting them?
Well environmentalists who oppose lopping of the tops of mountains deserve to be dropped in the same bin as the ones who oppose terraforming mars (putting aside the practical issues) as if the desolation itself is a habitat worthy of preservation.*
Certainly, there are aesthetic issues, and it would be nice to have a few pristine views, but those views only benefit people who can access them. Above the tree-lines, there is nothing but rock. If that rock contains minerals whose extraction will benefit people, improving their lives, I'm gonna have to say, lop off that mountain-top. Aesthetics that only a few people will ever experience should always be subordinate to quality of life of millions of people.
Further, given the choice between strip-mining and underground mining, I think the recent spate of trapped miners should gives us a bit to think about on that issue.
* Obviously, areas where things actually live deserve more consideration. I'm just talking about the "lopping off a few mountain tops" where it really ought to be an easy decision. In the case of Mars, discovering actual life would change the equation quite a bit. Assuming that it will ever be possible to turn it into something we could talk about living on. There is plenty of time yet before any of our descendants could have the slightest chance of having that decision to make.
Wouldn't the "average years of service" also drop if the USPTO was increasing the size of the "examiner core" to match the increase in claims since the newbies, by definition, have zero years of service when they join?