"All too often, we find that before we can catch these offenders, Internet service providers have unwittingly deleted the very records that would help us identify these offenders and protect future victims," Mueller said.
Now is that a typo ?
If they can identify the offenders, surely they would prevent future victims ?
Or maybe it's a Freudian slip, because they know it won't prevent anything, but maybe, just maybe, enable them to exact retribution after the fact. And it's instilling the notion that they are there to "protect" us because we can't do it ourselves.
If there were no internet piracy, the *IAA would find it necessary to invent it.
If there were no terrorism, the govt. would find it necessary to invent it.
It's easier to control peoples thinking when you have an enemy to "protect" them from. Even more so when the enemy is ficticious, because there is no way you can protect yourselves from a faceless, formless demon - only high powered organisations with specialist knowledge can do that. (See Religion)
Now, I'm no rocket scientist (no sh1t sherlock), but orbiting a captured comet has one big problem, that I can see.
As comets approach the sun, they develop a tail, caused by the solar wind. If you keep a comet "tethered" in orbit around the earth, it is going to be constantly eroded by the solar wind, and the earth will be bombarded by the crap falling off whenever we are "downwind" of it.
If it was in orbit around the moon, the same would happen, which may or may not be a useful way to get the comets contents onto the lunar surface. But it would be quite inefficient, as the percentage of time where the tail would hit the moon would be quite low. So unless you kept motors running to hold it always in the same position relative to the sun you would lose most of the material to space. Motors add inefficiency.
All this is assuming you could capture a comet in the first place. The inertia alone would mean you would have to gradually change its orbit, and that could take thousands of years to get it where you wanted it, and have a massive fuel supply to keep adjusting the comets course over that time.
I think that we have more efficient ways already available to get water to the moon, they are just expensive. Time is an expense too, so if you need something now, it's usually more costly.
OTOH, it might be worthwhile attaching a craft to a comet as it passes us, and adopting its orbit long enough to extract a supply of whatever chemicals/gases we can, and using them as fuel for longer distance travel.
The right of "habeus corpus" is the fundamental right of a prisoner to demand a *fair* review of why he is a captive.
I don't think that's entirely correct.
Habeas Corpus - literally, "you may have the body". A Habeas Corpus is a legal writ that protects an individual against arbitrary imprisonment by requiring that any person arrested be brought before a court for formal charge. If the charge is considered to be valid, the person must submit to trial; if not, the person goes free. When the law is suspended, then individuals can be imprisoned indefinitely and without charge.
I think there is a substantial difference between " fair review" and "formal charge". And there is no "demand" about it. It must be done. It is a restriction on the imprisoner not a right of the captive. If they can't produce a charge then they must release you. If it were a review, it would be open to the judge to let you go, whereas if the police charge you, he has no choice but to keep you locked up.
It took millions of years to sequester carbon dioxide in the ground and cool our climate
Sorry, but that's not how it works. If you have noticed, most coal seams are covered with layers of other rock, usually sedimentary rock. That is to say, huge areas of previously forested land were covered by water. Now these days we are worried about sea level rises caused by melting ice caps (amongst other things).
Surely if the forests had sequestered all that CO2 and lowered the global temperature, then there wouldn't have been such massive rises in sea level in the past. Yet this happened time and time again over millions of years, as evidenced by layers of coal upon sedimentary rock upon layers of coal upon sedimentary rock etc etc.
If we are to believe that CO2 is responsible for global warming that melted the ice caps, then the sequestering didn't have much effect, given the repeated flooding and ice ages. And given that there was vastly more forestation millions of years ago, but there were still repeated ice ages, I suggest that there is more to global warming than just lack of CO2 sequestration. After all, the ice cores have shown that CO2 levels are highest just before the temperature drops ! And I think it's fruitless to argue that successive periods of sequestration have lowered the overall CO2 levels in the atmosphere, as all the ice cores show a gradual rise in CO2 levels over time. This isn't a very good graph but it's the best I can find right now.
It took hundreds of millions of years for earth to develop its diversity and abundance of life forms and again in hundreds of years we will have decimated all of them.
Well, I just don't think that is fair either. For instance, there have been 5 mass extinctions over the past 439 million years, which on average is one per 87.8 million years. The actual variance of inter-extinction period is from 44 million years up to 142 million years. So the last mass extinction being 65 million years ago means we're getting close to the average, but we're way beyond the minimum period. Blaming it all on humans is a bit much IMHO.
None of what I have said above means that I deny global warming or that human CO2 could be a factor, or that we shouldn't take better care of our environment. But I'm fed up with being terrorised by the media and the government over something which, judging by the evidence, isn't entirely our fault. Not that we can do anything about it anyway. Sure, stop using fossil fuels, adopt a f*kin whale, but at the end of the day, there WILL be another ice age, and there WILL be another mass extinction. King Canute realised this a long time ago.
Here's an example of the crap I'm talking about (from the new scientist)
The tight coupling between temperatures and the greenhouse gas levels revealed by the core matches the predictions from climate models used to forecast future global warming. It also bears some good news: the warm interglacial periods between ice ages can last a long time, contrary to the view that we may already be due for the onset of the next ice age.
followed by
The data also show that half of the previous six interglacial periods each lasted nearly 30,000 years - far longer than the roughly 10,000 years of the most recent cycles. The current interglacial period has persisted for about 10,000 years so far.
Well doesn't that imply that we are due for another ice age ? Maybe my reading comprehension has diminished, but "roughly 10,000 years" and "about 10,000 years so far" and "[contrary to] the view that we may already be due for the onset of the next ice age" seems to imply that maybe we ARE due. Or is that science not valid ?
I'm running xorg 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1 on FC4 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2142 I have just installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625 and it seems ok so far. I've visited a few of the troublesome links with firefox 1.5.0.7 and it's not crashed X yet. I was using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762 before the update, and several times I've had X crap out on me. I don't believe I was r00ted though, after reading about the glyph problems. It can also be triggered by a long "get" request, or long lines of text in a form field. I was using TinyMCE when it first happened to me. Here's a test url that supposedly crashes X from firefox - http://comptune.com/calc.php?methos=POST&base1=10& base2=10&S1=50&S2=3553&func=bcpow&base3=10&places= 500 from this thread on the nVidia forums.
I didn't check this before the update though, so it may not be conclusive.
My main complaint about the whole issue is that I only found out because it was posted here. I don't have time to go checking for updates and exploits for all my different drivers and software, that's why yum runs from cron every night. It would have been nice if somebody (nVidia) had posted that a new version was available that fixed potential security holes, or even had a version checker built in to notify me of an update.
Why should you get carte blanche to create something using heavy metals and poisonous gases ?
Passing the cost of recycling in that case to the consumer is ass backwards.
The idea is to make manufacturers more responsible about not only the type of materials used, but also how easy it is to recycle them at the end of their useful life.
In Germany, the manufacturers are responsible for all the packaging that their products come delivered in. Under your rules, they could use massive boxes and fill them with any old shit, chemical waste, and broken glass. Under the German rules, they (the manufacturers) realised it was in their own best interest to use as little packaging as possible. That also happens to be in the environments best interests. Now apply the same principle to the design of refrigerators, TVs and other electrical goods. If the manufacturer knows that come the end, they will have to re-use or responsibly dispose of their old products, they are going to make damn sure that it costs them at little as possible.
The ironic thing is, as much as the manufacturers whine now, when they actually start getting with the program, their costs actually go down !
It strikes me that the software is pretty good at translating English into a foreign language (can't tell about the non-european) but is completely crap at translating *into* English.
Maybe that's the problem here. the programmers need to learn the languages concerned, and not just take the equivalent terms straight from a dictionary. After all, English is one of the most complex languages to learn, with many counter-intuitive meanings.
Please, do not take my post as flamebait. I introduce general points. Many of you are chefs. Admit that, it's okay. Many of you are restauranteurs, too. Many of you are general cooks and like to tweak and customize out the wazoo. For all of you folk, potatos like French Fries are great. They're crunchy, bitesized, not boring, everything you could want in a potato. Now consider everyone else in the world. And actually, this even includes myself, even though I AM a potato enthusiast and a slight cook. You have mashed potato, given to you automatically via your wife. No hassles required. It is already on your table, offers spoonability and good roughage, and tastes like a fluffy cloud. It is integrated into the menu so there's less argument and does not introduce any problems. I have used mashed potato for years and never once got a stomach ache or the runs because of it. So please, tell me, why should I switch to French Fries ? Answer: I shouldn't. Mash may not pass some edibility test or whatever, but I am a consumer , not a restauranteur. Mashed potato is soft and fluffy and tastes just right and there is really no reason for me to eat any other type of potato product.
When GWB said "You are either with us, or you are against us" just after 9/11, he didn't mean "us" as in the United States. He meant "us" as in his group of cronies.
Given the amount of anti-Bush feeling on this site, I would guess that anybody who expresses such sentiments is open to accusations of siding with terrorism. And your govt. is giving him the tools he needs to back it up.
BTW, if the US became a fascist dictatorship, and there was a popular uprising against it, you do realise that you would all be terrorists ?
Then what you gonna do ?
I guess you can't wrest control of the country from the dictator without breaking the law, so are you just going to give up ?
The law is supposed to be by the will of the people, not against the people.
Government sponsored FUD is also terrorism, just at a more insidious level.
And the next time you need surgery, try the same thing.
Just because you don't know the name of something, the professional shouldn't use its correct name ? If the mechanic tells you a part is broken, what else do you need to know about it ? Either you trust them or you don't. If it's the latter, go buy a book on the subject.
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If they can identify the offenders, surely they would prevent future victims ?
Or maybe it's a Freudian slip, because they know it won't prevent anything, but maybe, just maybe, enable them to exact retribution after the fact. And it's instilling the notion that they are there to "protect" us because we can't do it ourselves.
If there were no internet piracy, the *IAA would find it necessary to invent it.
If there were no terrorism, the govt. would find it necessary to invent it.
It's easier to control peoples thinking when you have an enemy to "protect" them from.
Even more so when the enemy is ficticious, because there is no way you can protect yourselves from a faceless, formless demon - only high powered organisations with specialist knowledge can do that. (See Religion)
As comets approach the sun, they develop a tail, caused by the solar wind. If you keep a comet "tethered" in orbit around the earth, it is going to be constantly eroded by the solar wind, and the earth will be bombarded by the crap falling off whenever we are "downwind" of it.
If it was in orbit around the moon, the same would happen, which may or may not be a useful way to get the comets contents onto the lunar surface. But it would be quite inefficient, as the percentage of time where the tail would hit the moon would be quite low. So unless you kept motors running to hold it always in the same position relative to the sun you would lose most of the material to space. Motors add inefficiency.
All this is assuming you could capture a comet in the first place. The inertia alone would mean you would have to gradually change its orbit, and that could take thousands of years to get it where you wanted it, and have a massive fuel supply to keep adjusting the comets course over that time.
I think that we have more efficient ways already available to get water to the moon, they are just expensive. Time is an expense too, so if you need something now, it's usually more costly.
OTOH, it might be worthwhile attaching a craft to a comet as it passes us, and adopting its orbit long enough to extract a supply of whatever chemicals/gases we can, and using them as fuel for longer distance travel.
The first 10 miles were the worst,
the second 10 miles were the worst as well,
after that he went into a bit of a decline.
In the UK at least ...
Surely if the forests had sequestered all that CO2 and lowered the global temperature, then there wouldn't have been such massive rises in sea level in the past. Yet this happened time and time again over millions of years, as evidenced by layers of coal upon sedimentary rock upon layers of coal upon sedimentary rock etc etc.
If we are to believe that CO2 is responsible for global warming that melted the ice caps, then the sequestering didn't have much effect, given the repeated flooding and ice ages. And given that there was vastly more forestation millions of years ago, but there were still repeated ice ages, I suggest that there is more to global warming than just lack of CO2 sequestration. After all, the ice cores have shown that CO2 levels are highest just before the temperature drops ! And I think it's fruitless to argue that successive periods of sequestration have lowered the overall CO2 levels in the atmosphere, as all the ice cores show a gradual rise in CO2 levels over time.
Well, I just don't think that is fair either. For instance, there have been 5 mass extinctions over the past 439 million years, which on average is one per 87.8 million years. The actual variance of inter-extinction period is from 44 million years up to 142 million years. So the last mass extinction being 65 million years ago means we're getting close to the average, but we're way beyond the minimum period. Blaming it all on humans is a bit much IMHO.This isn't a very good graph but it's the best I can find right now.
None of what I have said above means that I deny global warming or that human CO2 could be a factor, or that we shouldn't take better care of our environment. But I'm fed up with being terrorised by the media and the government over something which, judging by the evidence, isn't entirely our fault. Not that we can do anything about it anyway. Sure, stop using fossil fuels, adopt a f*kin whale, but at the end of the day, there WILL be another ice age, and there WILL be another mass extinction. King Canute realised this a long time ago.
followed by Well doesn't that imply that we are due for another ice age ? Maybe my reading comprehension has diminished, but "roughly 10,000 years" and "about 10,000 years so far" and "[contrary to] the view that we may already be due for the onset of the next ice age" seems to imply that maybe we ARE due. Or is that science not valid ?Here's an example of the crap I'm talking about (from the new scientist)
bah !
I have just installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625 and it seems ok so far. I've visited a few of the troublesome links with firefox 1.5.0.7 and it's not crashed X yet. I was using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762 before the update, and several times I've had X crap out on me. I don't believe I was r00ted though, after reading about the glyph problems. It can also be triggered by a long "get" request, or long lines of text in a form field. I was using TinyMCE when it first happened to me. Here's a test url that supposedly crashes X from firefox - http://comptune.com/calc.php?methos=POST&base1=10
I didn't check this before the update though, so it may not be conclusive.
My main complaint about the whole issue is that I only found out because it was posted here. I don't have time to go checking for updates and exploits for all my different drivers and software, that's why yum runs from cron every night. It would have been nice if somebody (nVidia) had posted that a new version was available that fixed potential security holes, or even had a version checker built in to notify me of an update.
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His statement only implies that there is less violence in the game than is seen every day on TV.
I don't know about all the arguments, and whether IQ is relevant, but this guy is just stupid !
How we celebrated !
Happy days, happy days ....
Of course, we all thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea.
Ah you crazy kiwis, always out there on the bleeding edge ....
What has analogue got over digital and how does it relate to battery power ?
Take a pill !
BTW, I have a combi dvd-digital tv with a seven inch screen, and yes it runs on 12v or rechargables.Passing the cost of recycling in that case to the consumer is ass backwards.
The idea is to make manufacturers more responsible about not only the type of materials used, but also how easy it is to recycle them at the end of their useful life.
In Germany, the manufacturers are responsible for all the packaging that their products come delivered in. Under your rules, they could use massive boxes and fill them with any old shit, chemical waste, and broken glass. Under the German rules, they (the manufacturers) realised it was in their own best interest to use as little packaging as possible. That also happens to be in the environments best interests. Now apply the same principle to the design of refrigerators, TVs and other electrical goods. If the manufacturer knows that come the end, they will have to re-use or responsibly dispose of their old products, they are going to make damn sure that it costs them at little as possible.
The ironic thing is, as much as the manufacturers whine now, when they actually start getting with the program, their costs actually go down !
Make me an offer !
Maybe that's the problem here. the programmers need to learn the languages concerned, and not just take the equivalent terms straight from a dictionary. After all, English is one of the most complex languages to learn, with many counter-intuitive meanings.
Once you're hooked, you'll have to pay, whatever happens.
He can carry more, but it gets lost in the hair !
Please, do not take my post as flamebait. I introduce general points. Many of you are chefs. Admit that, it's okay. Many of you are restauranteurs, too. Many of you are general cooks and like to tweak and customize out the wazoo. For all of you folk, potatos like French Fries are great. They're crunchy, bitesized, not boring, everything you could want in a potato. Now consider everyone else in the world. And actually, this even includes myself, even though I AM a potato enthusiast and a slight cook. You have mashed potato, given to you automatically via your wife. No hassles required. It is already on your table, offers spoonability and good roughage, and tastes like a fluffy cloud. It is integrated into the menu so there's less argument and does not introduce any problems. I have used mashed potato for years and never once got a stomach ache or the runs because of it. So please, tell me, why should I switch to French Fries ? Answer: I shouldn't. Mash may not pass some edibility test or whatever, but I am a consumer , not a restauranteur. Mashed potato is soft and fluffy and tastes just right and there is really no reason for me to eat any other type of potato product.
Now, what's for dinner ?
they switch the sound to extremely low pitch and make you shit yourself.
Given the amount of anti-Bush feeling on this site, I would guess that anybody who expresses such sentiments is open to accusations of siding with terrorism. And your govt. is giving him the tools he needs to back it up.
BTW, if the US became a fascist dictatorship, and there was a popular uprising against it, you do realise that you would all be terrorists ?
Then what you gonna do ?
I guess you can't wrest control of the country from the dictator without breaking the law, so are you just going to give up ?
The law is supposed to be by the will of the people, not against the people.
Government sponsored FUD is also terrorism, just at a more insidious level.
I want some l33t b4ckd00r haxxor to replace Vistas startup sound with this, then watch Vistas market share plummet !
And the next time you need surgery, try the same thing.
Just because you don't know the name of something, the professional shouldn't use its correct name ?If the mechanic tells you a part is broken, what else do you need to know about it ? Either you trust them or you don't. If it's the latter, go buy a book on the subject.
I think they mispronounced fscked ...