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It most certainly costs money to send email.
Yeah, those guys with the open relays see a lot of nice, fat checks from the spammers.
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So? There are free email providers as well. I've never paid for email.
But that doesn't mean that the sender is absorbing the basic cost of sending the mail. In the case of snail mail and landline telephone, receiving the communication is free because the sender incurs the costs of communicating. Not so with your free email account.
Water waves are an example of gravity waves. Gravitational waves are produced, for example, by merging neutron stars. Not the same thing.
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Snail mailers don't pay for my Mailboxes etc. account, nor the $1/pound forwarding charge.
Neither of which are necessary services for receiving US Mail. I've certainly never paid for either of them.
As we all know, telemarketing is more restricted when they call cell phones than landline phones, because the called party normally incurs a cost for the former but not the latter. If I freely choose to forward my landline calls to my cell, I would not expect to successfully prosecute telemarketers, since I chose to incur the extra cost of forwarding my calls.
Sure, your Corvette goes somewhat fast (that is a matter of opinion), but try to corner with it or bring it onto any kind of race or track which isn't an oval, and your Corvette shows just how much of a front heavy, over-rated piece of shit it is.
Have you ever seen a Z06 with a good driver at an autocross? I hate American cars as much as anyone, but you made the mistake of picking the one piece of cheap plastic that can actually hold its own in the turns.
I hope you really didn't call a female high school student "girl"...
Are they older now than they used to be? When I was in HS, it was certainly the "girls' swim team," the "boys' track team," and so forth. Likewise we used the restroom marked "BOYS" and the male teachers used the one marked "MEN."
You always have a an option of not showing up at 7:00 if you don't like your girl friend.
And you have the option of having kids, no matter who asks you not to. You're the one who used the term "asking," which is completely different from "requiring" or "compelling." Please explain more clearly how your human rights are violated by any person or body merely asking you to do or not do anything.
You also ignored the point that the Catholic church has influenced the world population without (in this case) violating human rights. There is no reason that an influential body such as the church could do likewise in the "fewer children" sense if it so desired.
Popoluation is not a controllable thing! To ask a person to have fewer children is to deny him the basic human right to self propagate.
What amazing insight (of the knee-jerk variety).
In case you haven't noticed, population can be controlled to a significant extent without harming human rights. The Catholic church has been doing it for a long time, just in the wrong direction. On the flip side, providing useful sexual education and easy access to contraception may help to limit population growth. No trampling on human rights required. Or just slip the Pope a mickey and convince him to say kids are bad.
In re-reading your post, I see that you say that asking someone not to have kids is an denies them their human rights. You're stupider than I previously believed. Should a panhandler be charged with theft because he asked me to give him money? If my girlfriend asks me to be at her place at 7:00, should I sue her for false imprisonment or kidnapping?
And we're talking about torque, not energy. Torque is still a force times a distance, but the distance is perpendicular to the force. The correct unit is the N-m, not the joule. The fact that they are dimensionally the same doesn't matter; the joule is a unit of energy, not torque.
Who the hell gave "+1 Interesting" to the parent? How is it interesting that two people who have nothing to do with FreeBSD development, and did not run for FreeBSD Core, were not elected to FreeBSD Core?
Otherwise, note well that it would be impractical for them to display all of the submissions, much less a critique of each.
Why? Displaying them would be trivial using any of several thumbnail gallery generators. Writing brief critiques would take time, but far less time than the artists invested. If they planned to reap the benefit of all those artists' person-hours, asking for a small fraction of that in return seems reasonable.
By the same token, if someone invests considerable time in a patch to open source software, we generally expect the maintainer(s) to either accept it or say more than "Your patch is unacceptable."
A similar technique, called pre-flashing, was sometimes used for photographic astronomical plates. Photographic emulsions have a nonlinear response, and so you would briefly expose the plate to light (which is a source of noise... we fight light pollution and sky glow all the time) to bring faint sources up to a better part of the response curve.
Ansel Adams also discusses this technique in his books, for improving tonal separation in the shadows.
Now if only the comments would last five minutes without obligatory mentions of polygamy, jello, large
families, missionaries or cults, we'd have it made.
Who says credit cards are only for impulse purchases? I've heard of people buying expensive works of art on their plastic, collecting the airline miles, and (presumably) paying off the balance.
so by using the GPL for your own software you are refusing!
Right, you're refusing to let them license your software per-seat, which is what RMS is talking about. But as usual, the slashdot article made a mis-statement that authors should "refuse to allow their work to be used by such a distribution." That's a completely, if subtly, different idea.
My guess is that it's in English. It basically says (A); (B); or (C). In English, when there's a list of things subject to an "and" or "or" operator, we put the things in a comma- or semicolon-separated list and put the operator before the last item. "Bob, Joe, and Fred went to the movies." "Do you want the chicken, beef, or spam?"
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Water waves are an example of gravity waves. Gravitational waves are produced, for example, by merging neutron stars. Not the same thing.
Neither of which are necessary services for receiving US Mail. I've certainly never paid for either of them.
As we all know, telemarketing is more restricted when they call cell phones than landline phones, because the called party normally incurs a cost for the former but not the latter. If I freely choose to forward my landline calls to my cell, I would not expect to successfully prosecute telemarketers, since I chose to incur the extra cost of forwarding my calls.
Well, you could have submitted a link to the freakin' article instead of just a URL for it.
And you have the option of having kids, no matter who asks you not to. You're the one who used the term "asking," which is completely different from "requiring" or "compelling." Please explain more clearly how your human rights are violated by any person or body merely asking you to do or not do anything.
You also ignored the point that the Catholic church has influenced the world population without (in this case) violating human rights. There is no reason that an influential body such as the church could do likewise in the "fewer children" sense if it so desired.
What amazing insight (of the knee-jerk variety).
In case you haven't noticed, population can be controlled to a significant extent without harming human rights. The Catholic church has been doing it for a long time, just in the wrong direction. On the flip side, providing useful sexual education and easy access to contraception may help to limit population growth. No trampling on human rights required. Or just slip the Pope a mickey and convince him to say kids are bad.
In re-reading your post, I see that you say that asking someone not to have kids is an denies them their human rights. You're stupider than I previously believed. Should a panhandler be charged with theft because he asked me to give him money? If my girlfriend asks me to be at her place at 7:00, should I sue her for false imprisonment or kidnapping?
Who the hell gave "+1 Interesting" to the parent? How is it interesting that two people who have nothing to do with FreeBSD development, and did not run for FreeBSD Core, were not elected to FreeBSD Core?
By the same token, if someone invests considerable time in a patch to open source software, we generally expect the maintainer(s) to either accept it or say more than "Your patch is unacceptable."
A similar technique, called pre-flashing, was sometimes used for photographic astronomical plates. Photographic emulsions have a nonlinear response, and so you would briefly expose the plate to light (which is a source of noise... we fight light pollution and sky glow all the time) to bring faint sources up to a better part of the response curve.
Ansel Adams also discusses this technique in his books, for improving tonal separation in the shadows.
...you want this. 0.5 arcsecond pointing and tracking accuracy for a 2.5-meter telescope on a 747 with a sunroof.
Who says credit cards are only for impulse purchases? I've heard of people buying expensive works of art on their plastic, collecting the airline miles, and (presumably) paying off the balance.
I'm runnning genuine, honest-to-god, long passwords right out of the box. Why aren't you?
My guess is that it's in English. It basically says (A); (B); or (C). In English, when there's a list of things subject to an "and" or "or" operator, we put the things in a comma- or semicolon-separated list and put the operator before the last item. "Bob, Joe, and Fred went to the movies." "Do you want the chicken, beef, or spam?"