Pardon? How does society "foot the bill"? Seems Ms. Hilton is footing the bill for whatever she purchases. If her money is invested in instruments that put that cash back into play for others to borrow and use to kick start their own dreams, and she profits from that, that's usury, not cheating. So her Dad built an empire, and then chose to leave his hard-earned money to her. He is within his rights to do so, and I would argue that we should defend his right to do so.
I already given the reason for that, but I will repeat it for you. Mr. Hilton may have been very productive. And he does have the right to provide for his descendants. But when investment interest is greater than inflation this leads to a scenario where all of his descedants lazily accumulate an infinite amount of wealth from Mr. Hilton's finite amount of productivity. There is nothing fair about this. You would argue that Paris Hilton's money funds investment and that is her productivity, but you arguing from your premise. Paris does nothing and is a lazy, worthless drain on the economy. She is a blackhole for productivity.
If you want to talk about being fair, then let's go with a flat tax, no exceptions, no deductions except for families that fall below the poverty line, no loopholes, and remove the tax cap on programs like Social Security. The overall tax rate could be reduced considerably, and the rich would pay in a proportionate, and therefore fair, amount.
I totally agree with a flat tax and I could write 10 more paragraphs detailing how fucked up US taxes are and how congress should have minimal control over the tax rates but they should be controlled by someone analagous to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve who would set rates according to factors such as growth, savings,...
Surprised you huh? You thought I was a liberal for being for the estate tax. I am for the estate tax because it introduces fairness and naturally corrects the economy and class structure. I also happen to be for the privatization of social security as well as a flat tax. I am a pragmatist, I look at each idea on it's own merits.
Money isn't real, it's a social contract. The estate tax is an economic corrector that prevents the growth of an aristocrat class that is forever rich and never has to work. Wealth accumulates without work when interest is better than inflation. It is not fair to get an infinite amount of reward over many generations from a finite amount of productivity over a few generations. Society doesn't have to foot the bill for Paris Hilton's lifestyle just because her ancestors were productive. It is neither beneficial to society nor fair.
Saying that lawful gun owners rarely commit any crimes is misleading. Most gun related deaths are the result of domestic attacks, accidents, and suicides. Guns are far more dangerous to the owner/family/friends than to any perp. It is correct that the lawful owner isn't generally suspected of commiting a _crime_ except in the case of domestic violence (which you neglected to mention), though someone who steals that gun is. The gun cabinet is almost always plundered in robberies which almost always occur when the gun owner isn't home.
The UK crime rate went up as their economy went down. High unemployment fosters crime. For instance, their auto theft rate shot through the roof. But guess what? Their level of violent crimes like murder remained lower than the US even though their overall crime rate became much higher. If anything the UK is an annecdote that gun restriction works even when times are bad.
Personally I don't think the UK model can work as well in the US. We have far too many outdoorsmen. A criminal only needs to steal a hunting weapon from them. Not nearly as many people hunt in England. But I do think that handguns could be prohibited. And I do think that would work to some degree and make the US safer as a rifle or shotgun is much harder to conceal but better at home defense (the intimidation factor of it's size) and better for any future rebellions against our tyrannical government (in keeping with the 2nd ammendment).
Good record like the NES front loading cartridge slot and the first generation GameCube optical drive?
Well I guess 2/4 is a good record compared to Microsoft and Sony who are both 0/2 for problem free first generation models. Still nothing to be proud of.
I would have had him invade North Korea the second they launched test missiles into the sea of Japan. Of course he would have needed to strike a deal with China to get permission to do this. And China would have said yes for say a 50/50 split of North Korea between them and South Korea.
I too am against the Iraq war. I don't even consider the Iraq war to be a preemptive war (as we were not preempting any aggression) but a proactive war. And I am against proactive wars. Iraq was no threat to us and after their failed takeover of Kuwait (that we prevented) they were only a threat to Iran. We have started an unjust war and we have tipped the power balance into Iran's favor. And look at the nonlocal effects of this! Iran is now immune to US criticism (because they know we can't invade them) and can fund any proxy wars they can afford.
North Korea on the other hand is a completely different story. (1) Many people don't know this, but the Korean War never truely ended. We've had endless skirmishes and kidnappings occur around the DMZ. (2) North Koreans are severely brainwashed. It's not just that their leader is a lone nutter. There is an entire military full of batshit Koreans. Plenty of them would rat their mother out for their country. (3) North Korea really is building up a weapons program. They really will have nukes at some point if not already. They really will sell these weapons to anyone with cash as they already have. (4) North Korea really is a threat to our allies South Korea and Japan. Japan is probably going to lose faith in the US and start building up a weapons program/military of their own.
I am against the Iraq war and I am against the president, but do not for a second think that makes me a pacifist. I am severely let down by Bush. He blew our load load in Iraq and now we can't do shit about a real threat to our allies. Fuck Bush, he has ruined everything and is a failure of a human being.
to license technology from a company that sued them over a patent as idiotic as a vibrating controller. Any dildo manufacturer could think of that. I'd be upset if they did license the technology, just as I am upset that Apple has licensed the use of Amazon.com's 1-click patent.
I don't want Sony to feed the patent trolls.
And by the way, filtering out vibrations at _known_ frequencies from motion data is also trivial and not deserving of a patent.
I tried it on firefox at high resolution (2028x1536). My system DPI is set correctly to 144dpi. Firefox is set to render fonts at no less than 20pt.
Firstly the text is all scrunched up in the menus so that some things can't be read and some things are hard to click on. Obviously some idiot designed the page to be viewed at one resolution.
But more importantly, there is an empty frame that pokes out of the top left corner and covers the menu and the button to switch back to regular Yahoo mail. You have to slide the menu frame to the right to make it go away. I can even see the frame in the code and it doesn't seem to do anything.
All this sloppiness and I couldn't find anywhere to submit bug reports. If this is what Yahoo mail is switching to in the future, I will have to find another webemail provider.
I'd like to see a reference on that, because I believe you just pulled that one out of the air - I have been following things, albeit only as closely as work allows, and I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest what you've just said. As a game developer, I do not believe for one minute that developers are going to come close to utilizing the space. As it is we have trouble filling a DVD now.
I think you are full of crap. There is no way you are a developer for DVD based console games or even an informed gamer in that respect. There are tons of PS2 games that fill up a single layer DVD, there are a handful of games that fill up 2-layer DVD's, and there are plenty of games that fill multiple single layer DVD's.
The simple fact is that textures will take up 4x the space in the SD to HD transition and we already fill up single layer DVD's very often. A single 2-layer DVD cannot make up for that. HD versions of games like God of War, GTA:SD, and Metal Gear will not be possible on current DVD media without swapping many disks.
The chamber is part of the closed system. The closed system consists of the entire device. If it starts at rest, it must remain at rest.
A propeller plane would be not be a closed system. Momentum is still conserved, but you push the air to push your self like swimming. The air goes back and you go forward.
It's only a closed system if you think in terms of eletro-magnetics. Assuming the prototype works to any degree, what if he's found an electro-gravitational effect?
Won't work either. Momentum is conserved in electrodynamics and in general relativity.
Yes, I'm reaching a bit here, but gravitational effects aren't limited to an enclosure...or maybe even our dimensions... so it wouldn't be a closed system.
You might as well conjure up god to make it work.
His derivation came from theories that conserved momentum. Even if the device works, his derivation is wrong and even he doesn't know how it works.
A sail (of any kind) works because of conservation of momentum. The sail steals some of the momentum from the wind. The total momentum of the system (sail + wind) is constant.
Here is a case where the total momentum of the system is initially zero, you turn on the magic box and the momentum is then non-zero. Can't happen.
What you were thinking of is that loss of energy (in systems that do not conserve energy) generally turns into thermal energy. This does not extend to momentum. Momentum is conserved an all closed systems period.
There is nothing in Relativity that says this someone can't exploit the difference in frames.
Unfortunately logic does not work like that. Exploiting relativistic effects will not allow you to violate 4-momentum conservation, which is a conserved invariant in relativity. 4-momentum is conserved in every inertial reference frame. I don't care what frame you switch to, you can't make 1=0.
Note that the balance of mass and electric charge cannot happen for fundamental particles because mass charge is so far smaller than electric charge. For example, an electron's mass charge is sixteen orders of magnitude smaller than the electric charge of the electron. This is a macroscopic situation you propose looking at. There are classical situations where gravity is balanced by EM: think of hair standing up due to a wee bit of static electricity.
That is a situation where forces cancel out. It is demonstrably different from this.
Any asymmetric tensor can be represented as the sum of a symmetric and an antisymmetric tensor:... The second term is F^mu;nu (and I am sophisticated enough to care about the semicolon, since the theory is about having the choice to work in curved spacetime).
And when you square that term you don't get the E&M action. Instead you get F^2 (which alone would be E&M) and 2 F.(the symmetric tensor). F doesn't couple to anything like that and give you E&M and that symmetric tensor doesn't correspond to gravity.
There is nothing wrong with this suggestion, but I do think it is meant to be a put down. As to fundamentals I know how to work with, that would include what a Lagrange density is, how to generate the field equations by the calculus of variations, finding perturbation solutions to the field equations, and working with Christoffel symbols.
Believe me when I say that I am trying to be as nice as possible while being honest. You haven't proven that you have a theory of gravity or E&M at all.
And I find your aguments for using diffomorphism invariance to be highly dubious.
I am afraid to tell you that your theory isn't sensible.
For instance, in equation (2), if you make the mass density equal to the charge density, then you get nothing. But with opposite charge, you do get something. That's just a simple example.
Your action, equation (1), contains neither E&M nor linearized gravity. Where is F_mu,nu F^mu,nu? Where is D^2 h_mu,nu D^2 h^mu,nu ?
I'd suggest that if this is something you are really interested in, you take some courses and learn the fundamentals before you start putting together a theory.
You're going to have to use a different word than GEM for your theory, GEM is already taken for when you write low energy GR down in a form like Maxwell's equations.
After exactly 4 years the price of the Xbox360 with 20GB hard drive, component out, and XBox Live Gold subscription reaches parity with the price of the PS3 with 20GB hard drive, component out, and XFire.
After 4 the PS3 becomes cheaper with each additional year one keeps the XBL subscription.
Hopefully MS will recognize this and start knocking that price down. Or perhaps MS will simply hope the consumer doesn't notice.
There are (only) a handfull of PS2 games that are 2 layer. The problem with 2 layer on the PS2 was that it caused excessive loading when switching layers. Developers basically wrote the game like it would be on two small DVD's to get around that issue. Aside from that there are a plethora games that fill up single layer DVD's.
The move to HD will increase texture and movie size 4 fold. Even 2-layer DVD's cannot make up for that increase in storage requirement. Games like Metal Gear and God of War are going to have movies that even the PS3 cannot possibly render. BluRay and HD-DVD (crosses fingers) will be a developer advantage that the luddite Slashdoters don't want to accept.
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I already given the reason for that, but I will repeat it for you. Mr. Hilton may have been very productive. And he does have the right to provide for his descendants. But when investment interest is greater than inflation this leads to a scenario where all of his descedants lazily accumulate an infinite amount of wealth from Mr. Hilton's finite amount of productivity. There is nothing fair about this. You would argue that Paris Hilton's money funds investment and that is her productivity, but you arguing from your premise. Paris does nothing and is a lazy, worthless drain on the economy. She is a blackhole for productivity.
I totally agree with a flat tax and I could write 10 more paragraphs detailing how fucked up US taxes are and how congress should have minimal control over the tax rates but they should be controlled by someone analagous to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve who would set rates according to factors such as growth, savings,
Surprised you huh? You thought I was a liberal for being for the estate tax. I am for the estate tax because it introduces fairness and naturally corrects the economy and class structure. I also happen to be for the privatization of social security as well as a flat tax. I am a pragmatist, I look at each idea on it's own merits.
Money isn't real, it's a social contract. The estate tax is an economic corrector that prevents the growth of an aristocrat class that is forever rich and never has to work. Wealth accumulates without work when interest is better than inflation. It is not fair to get an infinite amount of reward over many generations from a finite amount of productivity over a few generations. Society doesn't have to foot the bill for Paris Hilton's lifestyle just because her ancestors were productive. It is neither beneficial to society nor fair.
Saying that lawful gun owners rarely commit any crimes is misleading. Most gun related deaths are the result of domestic attacks, accidents, and suicides. Guns are far more dangerous to the owner/family/friends than to any perp. It is correct that the lawful owner isn't generally suspected of commiting a _crime_ except in the case of domestic violence (which you neglected to mention), though someone who steals that gun is. The gun cabinet is almost always plundered in robberies which almost always occur when the gun owner isn't home.
The UK crime rate went up as their economy went down. High unemployment fosters crime. For instance, their auto theft rate shot through the roof. But guess what? Their level of violent crimes like murder remained lower than the US even though their overall crime rate became much higher. If anything the UK is an annecdote that gun restriction works even when times are bad.
Personally I don't think the UK model can work as well in the US. We have far too many outdoorsmen. A criminal only needs to steal a hunting weapon from them. Not nearly as many people hunt in England. But I do think that handguns could be prohibited. And I do think that would work to some degree and make the US safer as a rifle or shotgun is much harder to conceal but better at home defense (the intimidation factor of it's size) and better for any future rebellions against our tyrannical government (in keeping with the 2nd ammendment).
I have a first generation PS2 that still works great and I play it regularly.
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I haven't heard much first hand info on bad GC drives either, but then again I hardly know anyone with GC's, let alone first generation GC's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube#Dr
Don't trust annecdotes.
Good record like the NES front loading cartridge slot and the first generation GameCube optical drive?
Well I guess 2/4 is a good record compared to Microsoft and Sony who are both 0/2 for problem free first generation models. Still nothing to be proud of.
I would have had him invade North Korea the second they launched test missiles into the sea of Japan. Of course he would have needed to strike a deal with China to get permission to do this. And China would have said yes for say a 50/50 split of North Korea between them and South Korea.
I too am against the Iraq war. I don't even consider the Iraq war to be a preemptive war (as we were not preempting any aggression) but a proactive war. And I am against proactive wars. Iraq was no threat to us and after their failed takeover of Kuwait (that we prevented) they were only a threat to Iran. We have started an unjust war and we have tipped the power balance into Iran's favor. And look at the nonlocal effects of this! Iran is now immune to US criticism (because they know we can't invade them) and can fund any proxy wars they can afford.
North Korea on the other hand is a completely different story.
(1) Many people don't know this, but the Korean War never truely ended. We've had endless skirmishes and kidnappings occur around the DMZ.
(2) North Koreans are severely brainwashed. It's not just that their leader is a lone nutter. There is an entire military full of batshit Koreans. Plenty of them would rat their mother out for their country.
(3) North Korea really is building up a weapons program. They really will have nukes at some point if not already. They really will sell these weapons to anyone with cash as they already have.
(4) North Korea really is a threat to our allies South Korea and Japan. Japan is probably going to lose faith in the US and start building up a weapons program/military of their own.
I am against the Iraq war and I am against the president, but do not for a second think that makes me a pacifist. I am severely let down by Bush. He blew our load load in Iraq and now we can't do shit about a real threat to our allies. Fuck Bush, he has ruined everything and is a failure of a human being.
to license technology from a company that sued them over a patent as idiotic as a vibrating controller. Any dildo manufacturer could think of that. I'd be upset if they did license the technology, just as I am upset that Apple has licensed the use of Amazon.com's 1-click patent.
I don't want Sony to feed the patent trolls.
And by the way, filtering out vibrations at _known_ frequencies from motion data is also trivial and not deserving of a patent.
I just wanted to add that this blank frame issue also occurs with IE, so it's not a firefox rendering bug.
I tried it on firefox at high resolution (2028x1536). My system DPI is set correctly to 144dpi. Firefox is set to render fonts at no less than 20pt.
Firstly the text is all scrunched up in the menus so that some things can't be read and some things are hard to click on. Obviously some idiot designed the page to be viewed at one resolution.
But more importantly, there is an empty frame that pokes out of the top left corner and covers the menu and the button to switch back to regular Yahoo mail. You have to slide the menu frame to the right to make it go away. I can even see the frame in the code and it doesn't seem to do anything.
All this sloppiness and I couldn't find anywhere to submit bug reports. If this is what Yahoo mail is switching to in the future, I will have to find another webemail provider.
Screw the jap cars. Why are all the hippies and yuppies buying Hitler Wagons and NAZI Sleds?!
I think you are full of crap. There is no way you are a developer for DVD based console games or even an informed gamer in that respect. There are tons of PS2 games that fill up a single layer DVD, there are a handful of games that fill up 2-layer DVD's, and there are plenty of games that fill multiple single layer DVD's.
But here is some info for you: Resistance: Fall of Man is going to weigh in at 22GB burned onto a BlueRay.
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=79480
The simple fact is that textures will take up 4x the space in the SD to HD transition and we already fill up single layer DVD's very often. A single 2-layer DVD cannot make up for that. HD versions of games like God of War, GTA:SD, and Metal Gear will not be possible on current DVD media without swapping many disks.
In addition, good PS2 games get reprinted as classics and sold for $20 after a few years.
The chamber is part of the closed system. The closed system consists of the entire device. If it starts at rest, it must remain at rest.
A propeller plane would be not be a closed system. Momentum is still conserved, but you push the air to push your self like swimming. The air goes back and you go forward.
Won't work either. Momentum is conserved in electrodynamics and in general relativity.
You might as well conjure up god to make it work.
His derivation came from theories that conserved momentum. Even if the device works, his derivation is wrong and even he doesn't know how it works.
Bullshit! Momentum is conserved all the way down to The Standard Model and all the way up to General Relativity.
Take it back!
A sail (of any kind) works because of conservation of momentum. The sail steals some of the momentum from the wind. The total momentum of the system (sail + wind) is constant.
Here is a case where the total momentum of the system is initially zero, you turn on the magic box and the momentum is then non-zero. Can't happen.
What you were thinking of is that loss of energy (in systems that do not conserve energy) generally turns into thermal energy. This does not extend to momentum. Momentum is conserved an all closed systems period.
If that is the case, then his derivation from known theories is completely wrong. In which case, even he doesn't know how his magic device works.
Unfortunately logic does not work like that. Exploiting relativistic effects will not allow you to violate 4-momentum conservation, which is a conserved invariant in relativity. 4-momentum is conserved in every inertial reference frame. I don't care what frame you switch to, you can't make 1=0.
Think a little harder.
Ever tried to accelerate in the snow?
Acceleration and deceleration essentially work via the same friction between the tires and road.
That is a situation where forces cancel out. It is demonstrably different from this.
And when you square that term you don't get the E&M action.
Instead you get F^2 (which alone would be E&M) and 2 F.(the symmetric tensor).
F doesn't couple to anything like that and give you E&M and that symmetric tensor doesn't correspond to gravity.
Believe me when I say that I am trying to be as nice as possible while being honest.
You haven't proven that you have a theory of gravity or E&M at all.
And I find your aguments for using diffomorphism invariance to be highly dubious.
I looked at your paper on your wesite.
I am afraid to tell you that your theory isn't sensible.
For instance, in equation (2), if you make the mass density equal to the charge density, then you get nothing. But with opposite charge, you do get something. That's just a simple example.
Your action, equation (1), contains neither E&M nor linearized gravity. Where is F_mu,nu F^mu,nu? Where is D^2 h_mu,nu D^2 h^mu,nu ?
I'd suggest that if this is something you are really interested in, you take some courses and learn the fundamentals before you start putting together a theory.
You're going to have to use a different word than GEM for your theory, GEM is already taken for when you write low energy GR down in a form like Maxwell's equations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitoelectromagnet
It's basically the Newtonian potential + a vector potential that makes it a special relativistic theory that agrees with GR to around ?1-2? PPN.
After exactly 4 years the price of the Xbox360 with 20GB hard drive, component out, and XBox Live Gold subscription reaches parity with the price of the PS3 with 20GB hard drive, component out, and XFire.
After 4 the PS3 becomes cheaper with each additional year one keeps the XBL subscription.
Hopefully MS will recognize this and start knocking that price down. Or perhaps MS will simply hope the consumer doesn't notice.
Yeah, saying DAT failed versus cassette is like saying Cray failed versus Apple.
There are (only) a handfull of PS2 games that are 2 layer. The problem with 2 layer on the PS2 was that it caused excessive loading when switching layers. Developers basically wrote the game like it would be on two small DVD's to get around that issue. Aside from that there are a plethora games that fill up single layer DVD's.
The move to HD will increase texture and movie size 4 fold. Even 2-layer DVD's cannot make up for that increase in storage requirement. Games like Metal Gear and God of War are going to have movies that even the PS3 cannot possibly render. BluRay and HD-DVD (crosses fingers) will be a developer advantage that the luddite Slashdoters don't want to accept.