That's not a problem. We've got thousands of years of fission power available if we use breeder reactors. even more if we find a way to recycle the waste. (if it's still "hot," that means there's still untapped energy right?).
we've got thousands of years of geothermal power too if we can improve our drilling capability. There's hot magma under everyone's feet.
By the time we *need* fusion power, we'll either have figured it out, or found another solution. In either event, you and I and our children, and their children, and their children (*10^lots) will be long dead by that time.
There are rights you cannot sign away. For instance, there is no form, statement, or contract you can sign, notorize, witness, swear before a judge, that grants another human being the right to take your life.
In the US, the vast majority of "liability waivers" that you sign before doing something that could be remotely dangerous (i.e. scuba lessons, skydiving lessons, bungee jumping, wall climbing, surfing, marathon running, go cart driving, you know, stuff you can't do sitting in front of a computer screen) are not valid contracts (however, rights that are appropriable may still be validly signed away, so the contract may not be wholly struck out. consult a lawyer).
Many in the GPL movement claim that similar law applies to reverse engineering for interoperability purposes. IIRC, the samba team in particular has had to do some kind of reverse engineering (i'm not sure if it was actual disasembly however), so their experience, and any cases they may have had to bring, would be informative.
Belief that a license is unfair is irrelevant, except where that unfairness runs into conflict with other laws, say.. anti-trust laws for instance. The outcome of a clash of multiple laws is not necessarily clear, and this is where the lawyers make their money.
Oh, and thanks for misconstruing my categorizing of some beliefs as an exposition of my own belief, then blowing it out of proportion for the purpose of discreditation via sarcasm.
It's not ok to do that. However many have argued that some terms of license are not legally enforceable as they unfairly prevent interoperability. I'm sure there's a tremendous amount of arguing those exact points wrt. samba.
If you don't like the things in the ads, the show's not being targeted at you. IOW, your peers are NOT watching it. Therefore you should never admit to saidsame peers that you're watching such shows, lest you get made fun of.
For example: what kind of woman's shows are you watching, sissy?
yes, however 1) my original post was that the 11-year (22 magnetic) cycle is not the ONLY cycle to be concerned with and 2) thermal "capacitance" demands that there be some phase difference between solar output and earthly temperatures.
I disagree that marketing meerly good songs is "not good for the customers." If all we knew about were "great" songs, then we'd have precious few songs at all. At least with the cost of increasing the noise, marketing also increases the signal. Everyone doesn't have the same taste in music. How would you feel if you missed out on a song you would've really loved because you just didn't ever know about it because it wasn't popular?
Which was also the worst thing you could've done. The air trapped in your friends clothing is a far better insulator than the (mostly-water) juices from the animal which would seep in there if he was actually *inside* the animal as implied.
Actually, the sun IS burning hotter currently. AND we know that it varies in cycles. For instance, the 22 year sunspot cycle is one cycle of varying solar constant. Why assume that other cycles are not also superposed?
Wait.. are you arguing FOR or AGAINST globalisation? I realize that america is the bad guy here, but is it the bad guy for outsourcing or for trying to put up protective barriers?
>>90% of the power in my house is used to either heat something up or cool something down. Electric stoves, water heaters, and light bulbs are all resistive elements. The AC/heat pump needs a motor and between it and the refrigerator uses up the lion's share of the power.
Only a very small percentage is spent by things which require DC - electronics. The CRT in my monitor and television set require the voltage to be stepped up to kV anyway, so need AC at some point, and the power used by my computer, the largest dc appliance by far, is insignificant compared to the other things i've mentioned. Just because the power supply is "rated" for 350 W doesn't mean that anywhere near 350 is actually being used.
If you're just powering electric motors, or resistive elements, what's the point of using DC? AC motors are just as efficient and don't require the conversion step.
but that's not the position parent was illuminating. the position was the slashthink that, "it's a business therefore it's evil" and "it's a successful business therefore it's really evil."
*gah did i just use the word, "slashthink?" Oh well, I for one welcome our new thought herding overlords.
Sounds like the problem was, "google got complacent"
I remember back in the day, when I was switching from webcrawler to yahoo because of result relevancy. Then it was "metacrawler" after which I just started using google directly.
My thought around the "metacrawler" switch was that no search engine can possibly return relevant results indefinately: the scum will eventually figure out the tricks and overwhelm through sheer numbers the good sites. I resigned myself to switching engines every so often.
I had much hope for google however, as when they were first starting to become popular, they made noises like they were going to change the algorithm every so often.
So it seems they have gotten complacent, or just too big to change. All the side projects may be having an unintended consequence as well. The sheer volume of irrelevant results indicates that the algorithm is not being changed drastically or often enough to achieve the desired outcomes.
If they are *White* labcoats, you could just bleach the hell out of 'em during the wash. I had assumed labcoats in hospitals were like scrubs: there's closets all over the place with stacks of clean ones for everyone.
hmm... perhaps.. but if you pay people not to work, they're technically not unemployed. for your theory to work, you need people -- looking for work -- not just sans job.
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That's not a problem. We've got thousands of years of fission power available if we use breeder reactors. even more if we find a way to recycle the waste. (if it's still "hot," that means there's still untapped energy right?).
we've got thousands of years of geothermal power too if we can improve our drilling capability. There's hot magma under everyone's feet.
By the time we *need* fusion power, we'll either have figured it out, or found another solution. In either event, you and I and our children, and their children, and their children (*10^lots) will be long dead by that time.
*sigh*
There are rights you cannot sign away. For instance, there is no form, statement, or contract you can sign, notorize, witness, swear before a judge, that grants another human being the right to take your life.
In the US, the vast majority of "liability waivers" that you sign before doing something that could be remotely dangerous (i.e. scuba lessons, skydiving lessons, bungee jumping, wall climbing, surfing, marathon running, go cart driving, you know, stuff you can't do sitting in front of a computer screen) are not valid contracts (however, rights that are appropriable may still be validly signed away, so the contract may not be wholly struck out. consult a lawyer).
Many in the GPL movement claim that similar law applies to reverse engineering for interoperability purposes. IIRC, the samba team in particular has had to do some kind of reverse engineering (i'm not sure if it was actual disasembly however), so their experience, and any cases they may have had to bring, would be informative.
Belief that a license is unfair is irrelevant, except where that unfairness runs into conflict with other laws, say.. anti-trust laws for instance. The outcome of a clash of multiple laws is not necessarily clear, and this is where the lawyers make their money.
Oh, and thanks for misconstruing my categorizing of some beliefs as an exposition of my own belief, then blowing it out of proportion for the purpose of discreditation via sarcasm.
It's not ok to do that. However many have argued that some terms of license are not legally enforceable as they unfairly prevent interoperability. I'm sure there's a tremendous amount of arguing those exact points wrt. samba.
If you don't like the things in the ads, the show's not being targeted at you. IOW, your peers are NOT watching it. Therefore you should never admit to saidsame peers that you're watching such shows, lest you get made fun of.
For example: what kind of woman's shows are you watching, sissy?
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http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1794
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17940
yes, however 1) my original post was that the 11-year (22 magnetic) cycle is not the ONLY cycle to be concerned with and 2) thermal "capacitance" demands that there be some phase difference between solar output and earthly temperatures.
Maybe, but Boeing & Sikorsky are here as well.
I disagree that marketing meerly good songs is "not good for the customers." If all we knew about were "great" songs, then we'd have precious few songs at all. At least with the cost of increasing the noise, marketing also increases the signal. Everyone doesn't have the same taste in music. How would you feel if you missed out on a song you would've really loved because you just didn't ever know about it because it wasn't popular?
Yeah.. good thing you made an exception for "crapflooders"...
hmm it seems that your use is of "begging the question," although correct, is ALSO incorrect. That's quite a linguistic dance you've done.
In what year did the concept of "risk management" as an organisational paradigm/department become popular?
Which was also the worst thing you could've done. The air trapped in your friends clothing is a far better insulator than the (mostly-water) juices from the animal which would seep in there if he was actually *inside* the animal as implied.
Actually, the sun IS burning hotter currently. AND we know that it varies in cycles. For instance, the 22 year sunspot cycle is one cycle of varying solar constant. Why assume that other cycles are not also superposed?
Top 40 hits.. somebody thinks it's good music.
Wait.. are you arguing FOR or AGAINST globalisation? I realize that america is the bad guy here, but is it the bad guy for outsourcing or for trying to put up protective barriers?
>>90% of the power in my house is used to either heat something up or cool something down. Electric stoves, water heaters, and light bulbs are all resistive elements. The AC/heat pump needs a motor and between it and the refrigerator uses up the lion's share of the power.
Only a very small percentage is spent by things which require DC - electronics. The CRT in my monitor and television set require the voltage to be stepped up to kV anyway, so need AC at some point, and the power used by my computer, the largest dc appliance by far, is insignificant compared to the other things i've mentioned. Just because the power supply is "rated" for 350 W doesn't mean that anywhere near 350 is actually being used.
If you're just powering electric motors, or resistive elements, what's the point of using DC? AC motors are just as efficient and don't require the conversion step.
but that's not the position parent was illuminating. the position was the slashthink that, "it's a business therefore it's evil" and "it's a successful business therefore it's really evil."
*gah did i just use the word, "slashthink?" Oh well, I for one welcome our new thought herding overlords.
more importantly, where's the hypoalergenic disposeable paper clothing from "Andromeda Strain?" Surely we have the tech to do that by now.
Sounds like the problem was, "google got complacent"
I remember back in the day, when I was switching from webcrawler to yahoo because of result relevancy. Then it was "metacrawler" after which I just started using google directly.
My thought around the "metacrawler" switch was that no search engine can possibly return relevant results indefinately: the scum will eventually figure out the tricks and overwhelm through sheer numbers the good sites. I resigned myself to switching engines every so often.
I had much hope for google however, as when they were first starting to become popular, they made noises like they were going to change the algorithm every so often.
So it seems they have gotten complacent, or just too big to change. All the side projects may be having an unintended consequence as well. The sheer volume of irrelevant results indicates that the algorithm is not being changed drastically or often enough to achieve the desired outcomes.
If they are *White* labcoats, you could just bleach the hell out of 'em during the wash. I had assumed labcoats in hospitals were like scrubs: there's closets all over the place with stacks of clean ones for everyone.
My speakers make noise from my MOUSE. (optical, usb mouse. non-wireless)
What does it mean then? TFA offered no clues after my half-interested skimming.
hmm... perhaps.. but if you pay people not to work, they're technically not unemployed. for your theory to work, you need people -- looking for work -- not just sans job.
I believe the word you're looking for is anagram.