Bonobos and the common chimp, as best we can tell, are both humanity's closest relative, having diverged from each other after their common ancestors and those of humans had diverged. That is, there is a common bonobo-chimp ancestor, and a common bonobo-chimp-human ancestor, but no common bonobo-human or chimp-human ancestor that is not also an ancestor of the third.
Similarly, humans, common chimpanzees, and bonobo chimpanzees are all more closely related to each other than any is to the gorilla. Humans, common chimpanzees, bonobo chimpanzees, and gorillas are all more closely related to each other than any of the four is to the orangutan. And the five great apes (including man) are more closely related to each other than any is to the "lesser" apes.
Not equivalent. The researchers aren't leaving this guy out to freeze and starve to death, and the poster isn't advocating that; they're sheltering him, giving him food, and going to ship him home safe.
The equivalent to refusing to sell this guy the fuel isn't refusing to do search-and-rescue; it's the equivalent of doing search-and-rescue and then not letting the idiot get back in his rowboat and maybe get in trouble again.
And I realize Australia doesn't charge the yachting and rowing idiots for the costs of their S&R. Myself, I think that's foolishly generous. If people had to worry about the costs, some would take fewer risks. And the market in S&R insurance would create an independent financial incentive for safe and reliable air- and watercraft, above and beyond inspection rules.
Zubrin does consider terraforming a possibility, but a long-term plan -- one on the order of hundreds of years of effort.
The basic, near-term plan of Mars Direct uses water for the shielding and admits that net radiation exposure will be relatively high for the astronauts on the mission; they'll probably have somewhat higher cancer rates, for example. The middle-term colonization has people living underground, with the crops on the surface in heated inflated domes. (Annuals don't have a lot of time to be affected by radiation and plants seem more resistant anyway.)
The first-stage Mars Direct plan includes leaving small nuclear power reactors on the surface of Mars (sent ahead of the manned mission and part of a system to convert Martian atmosphere into propellant for the manned mission's return flight), which makes them available to help jump-start the colonization stage. (Politically, this is probably the least feasible part of the plan.)
Which of the three colonization plans -- Mars, the Moon, or L4/L5 -- is most feasible is a matter of what assumptions you make. If you make Zubrin's political, economic, engineering, and environmental assumptions, which aren't unreasonable but aren't necessarily right, Mars is easiest to bootstrap from a relatively small budget and commitment of personnel, and in turn would reduce the costs of the other colonization plans later. Make another set, equally valid given what we do know, and L4/L5 are easiest.
If Win98 were open-sourced, it would be a matter of months before enough chunks were absorbed into WINE to make its Win32 support perfect.
Similarly, tweaking DOSEMU and modifying Win98 (a la the modified Windows 3.1 of Win-OS/2, which can run in DOSEMU) would be fairly easy, since Win98 is architecturally so similar to DOS plus Win 3.1's 386 enhanced mode.
Mainstream OSS talent would be diverted into those projects and the improving Win98 projects, sure. But mainstream computer dollars would be lost by Microsoft to both a Linux that can run Win32 programs as well as XP, and a "Winux" that is Linux to the hardware and power users but modified and improved Win98 to the ordinary user and his software. (In the latter case, BSODs would still happen, but they'd cause the underlying Linux to quick-load another Windows session.)
I expect "Winux" would quickly become the favorite OS of computer makers; free and looks just like the familar Windows environment. Microsoft would lose hundreds of millions.
Coding and review is currently being done on extending the spell check component to work in broswer windows. So not there yet, but it's on the horizon.
Where are you getting the idea that the unmanned X-50A is the same thing as a VH-22? I mean, none of the letters or numbers are the same, and the four-character pattern is different (letter-number-number-letter vs. letter-letter-number-number).
Or are you so obsessed with the off-topic VH-22 discussion you aren't pausing to actually read the on-topic posts you're replying to?
If IBM crushes SCO, it'll get the following benefits that it can't get from just an agreement:
1) A decent channce of driving SCO bankrupt, and thus intimidating of anybody who feels like trying this again for another decade. "They sued us, they don't exist anymore. Do you want to sue us?"
2) A first claim on SCO assets if SCO does go bankrupt. Having the rights to UNIX would be useful in a future scrap with Sun, HP, or maybe even Dell or Microsoft. Having what remains of the SCO code would help it scoop up the remaining SCO user base.
I don't want to hear from the 0.1% of the US that actually has competition -- you're the exception, and I bet that will disappear in the next decade too
You're willing to bet that why, exactly? Do you think that the local governments are going to come around and dig up one company's cables, leaving the other's?
If God didn't want us to use 12-based meansurement systems, why do we have four fingers of three segments each on a hand, plus a thumb that can conveniently point to each one?
Forunately, a hogshead is a measure of volume, not distance, and so the statement is one of fuel efficiency. As was the original Simpsons quote, where the vehicle was a car instead of a train, and in which Grandpa was decrying the metric system.
It's not like there's an automatic suspension for exceeding the limit. They're just advising that 20 in ten minutes is the level that now prompts them to look more closely at. If they aren't stupid about it, it shouldn't be a problem.
Admittedly, that's a big if, given that it's Telestra that we're talking about, but . . .
It's probably not too far off to say 99.9% of Windows crashing problems are due to operator error from installing bad drivers (from other manufacterers), installing bad hardware, installing crappy software.
The Kyoto Treaty, which the U.S. Senate unanimously declared it would not ratify.
The "Star Wars" ABM weapons we weren't developing, except for through the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which is the name under which Clinton continued to fund the Reagan-established Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
The land mine treaty, which Clinton refused to sign because it didn't include the Korea exemption.
Meanwhile, those of us back here on planet Earth note that the difference between the Clinton and Bush foreign policies are a few stylistic flourishes and a few minor details around the edges. Heck, even Clinton invaded a country, bypassing a recalitrant UNSC, with a coalition of the willing -- Kosovo.
(Of course, since European lives are valuable, unlike those of Kurds or Marsh Arabs, Kosovo was justified despite the fact that it was an illegal war of agression, unjustified by any threat Serbia posed to any of the invading nations, and of no straegic consequence.)
You can't build a space elevator on Venus. With its 5834-hour rotational period, geosynchronous orbit around Venus requires the center of mass of the elevator be far too far from Venus to be practical; the mass would be seriously perturbed by the Sun, Mecury, Earth, and Jupiter.
Throw in Venus's Earthlike high gravity and harsh environment, and you have the single body in the inner solar system that is hardest to commercially exploit. Mercury and the Moon have decently weak pulls, Mars combines weaker pull with an Earthlike rotational period for elevators, and all are vastly more hospitable than Venus.
The control rays are tuned for nonmetal and metalloid Group 14 elements. That is, carbon, the basis of life; silicon, used in both vacuum tubes and transistors; and germanium, used in transistors. They want to control you and your computer.
Given that, there are two and only two materials which can provide a proper defense -- tin and lead, the the two stable Group 14 metals. Ununquadium works, too, but doesn't last long enough to make an effective shield.
Aluminum? Bah! That's what they make TV antennas out of, you idiot! They guide the rays in!
Newton's Laws of Motion are only true within measurement errors at low speeds and relatively low masses.
Boyle's Law only applies to a nonexistent ideal gas; it does not apply to any gas in actual existence. Ohm's Law requires an ideal conductor.
Bode's Law breaks down at Neptune (if you count Ceres, the largest asteroid, as a planet), and only works approximately. Zipf's Law holds true in vast numbers of things (commonality of words, city sizes, web traffic . ..), but there doesn't seem to be anything in the physical realm or mathematics that would require things comply with it. Moore's Law seems to be approximately in this category of things.
Godwin's Law, Sturgeon's Law, and Murphy's Law are observations that are seen as being more-or-less true, but aren't even as rigorous as the above three.
Sure, you can argue that the latter six laws shuldn't be called Laws, but then you're going to run into the Hacker Law -- "Complaints about a word being used improperly will be ignored." See efforts to end the use of "hacker" for script kiddies.
The Convention clearly states that permanent artificial structures are not a valid basis for territorial claims. Sealand is an artifical structure; therefore its claim is invalid, no matter when it was built or when the claim was issued.
Therefore, Prince Roy's claims are not valid. As his claims are invalid, and the platform is within the territorial sea of Britain, it is under British jurisdiction. Period.
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Bonobos and the common chimp, as best we can tell, are both humanity's closest relative, having diverged from each other after their common ancestors and those of humans had diverged. That is, there is a common bonobo-chimp ancestor, and a common bonobo-chimp-human ancestor, but no common bonobo-human or chimp-human ancestor that is not also an ancestor of the third.
Similarly, humans, common chimpanzees, and bonobo chimpanzees are all more closely related to each other than any is to the gorilla. Humans, common chimpanzees, bonobo chimpanzees, and gorillas are all more closely related to each other than any of the four is to the orangutan. And the five great apes (including man) are more closely related to each other than any is to the "lesser" apes.
Danikite! Shirt! Humanity Uplifted itself!
Not equivalent. The researchers aren't leaving this guy out to freeze and starve to death, and the poster isn't advocating that; they're sheltering him, giving him food, and going to ship him home safe.
The equivalent to refusing to sell this guy the fuel isn't refusing to do search-and-rescue; it's the equivalent of doing search-and-rescue and then not letting the idiot get back in his rowboat and maybe get in trouble again.
And I realize Australia doesn't charge the yachting and rowing idiots for the costs of their S&R. Myself, I think that's foolishly generous. If people had to worry about the costs, some would take fewer risks. And the market in S&R insurance would create an independent financial incentive for safe and reliable air- and watercraft, above and beyond inspection rules.
Rot13? Try http://www.pinkroom.biz/owl/minirot13/
Why this hasn't been added to the codebase, I have no idea.
Zubrin does consider terraforming a possibility, but a long-term plan -- one on the order of hundreds of years of effort.
The basic, near-term plan of Mars Direct uses water for the shielding and admits that net radiation exposure will be relatively high for the astronauts on the mission; they'll probably have somewhat higher cancer rates, for example. The middle-term colonization has people living underground, with the crops on the surface in heated inflated domes. (Annuals don't have a lot of time to be affected by radiation and plants seem more resistant anyway.)
The first-stage Mars Direct plan includes leaving small nuclear power reactors on the surface of Mars (sent ahead of the manned mission and part of a system to convert Martian atmosphere into propellant for the manned mission's return flight), which makes them available to help jump-start the colonization stage. (Politically, this is probably the least feasible part of the plan.)
Which of the three colonization plans -- Mars, the Moon, or L4/L5 -- is most feasible is a matter of what assumptions you make. If you make Zubrin's political, economic, engineering, and environmental assumptions, which aren't unreasonable but aren't necessarily right, Mars is easiest to bootstrap from a relatively small budget and commitment of personnel, and in turn would reduce the costs of the other colonization plans later. Make another set, equally valid given what we do know, and L4/L5 are easiest.
If Win98 were open-sourced, it would be a matter of months before enough chunks were absorbed into WINE to make its Win32 support perfect.
Similarly, tweaking DOSEMU and modifying Win98 (a la the modified Windows 3.1 of Win-OS/2, which can run in DOSEMU) would be fairly easy, since Win98 is architecturally so similar to DOS plus Win 3.1's 386 enhanced mode.
Mainstream OSS talent would be diverted into those projects and the improving Win98 projects, sure. But mainstream computer dollars would be lost by Microsoft to both a Linux that can run Win32 programs as well as XP, and a "Winux" that is Linux to the hardware and power users but modified and improved Win98 to the ordinary user and his software. (In the latter case, BSODs would still happen, but they'd cause the underlying Linux to quick-load another Windows session.)
I expect "Winux" would quickly become the favorite OS of computer makers; free and looks just like the familar Windows environment. Microsoft would lose hundreds of millions.
Might sound silly, but why can't you set up filters to dump all incoming mail into the same folder?
Coding and review is currently being done on extending the spell check component to work in broswer windows. So not there yet, but it's on the horizon.
here, I'd suggest a fist-sized grain of salt.
Hey, I've got another question:
Where are you getting the idea that the unmanned X-50A is the same thing as a VH-22? I mean, none of the letters or numbers are the same, and the four-character pattern is different (letter-number-number-letter vs. letter-letter-number-number).
Or are you so obsessed with the off-topic VH-22 discussion you aren't pausing to actually read the on-topic posts you're replying to?
They don't have any oil
Well, except for the vast reserves in Alberta.
If IBM crushes SCO, it'll get the following benefits that it can't get from just an agreement:
1) A decent channce of driving SCO bankrupt, and thus intimidating of anybody who feels like trying this again for another decade. "They sued us, they don't exist anymore. Do you want to sue us?"
2) A first claim on SCO assets if SCO does go bankrupt. Having the rights to UNIX would be useful in a future scrap with Sun, HP, or maybe even Dell or Microsoft. Having what remains of the SCO code would help it scoop up the remaining SCO user base.
I don't want to hear from the 0.1% of the US that actually has competition -- you're the exception, and I bet that will disappear in the next decade too
You're willing to bet that why, exactly? Do you think that the local governments are going to come around and dig up one company's cables, leaving the other's?
Love your computer.
DOS 1.0 used / for command-line options, so DOS 2 couldn't use it as a path separator. Given that, \ seemed a logical substitute for the unavailable /.
If God didn't want us to use 12-based meansurement systems, why do we have four fingers of three segments each on a hand, plus a thumb that can conveniently point to each one?
Forunately, a hogshead is a measure of volume, not distance, and so the statement is one of fuel efficiency. As was the original Simpsons quote, where the vehicle was a car instead of a train, and in which Grandpa was decrying the metric system.
It's not like there's an automatic suspension for exceeding the limit. They're just advising that 20 in ten minutes is the level that now prompts them to look more closely at. If they aren't stupid about it, it shouldn't be a problem.
Admittedly, that's a big if, given that it's Telestra that we're talking about, but . . .
It's probably not too far off to say 99.9% of Windows crashing problems are due to operator error from installing bad drivers (from other manufacterers), installing bad hardware, installing crappy software.
Microsoft itself says half of Windows crashes are due to Windows or other Microsoft software.
So, either "99.9%" is far off, or installing Microsoft software is "installing crappy software".
Orwell said he drew on his experience working for the BBC when depicting the Ministry of Truth . . .
Oh, yes.
The Kyoto Treaty, which the U.S. Senate unanimously declared it would not ratify.
The "Star Wars" ABM weapons we weren't developing, except for through the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which is the name under which Clinton continued to fund the Reagan-established Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
The land mine treaty, which Clinton refused to sign because it didn't include the Korea exemption.
Meanwhile, those of us back here on planet Earth note that the difference between the Clinton and Bush foreign policies are a few stylistic flourishes and a few minor details around the edges. Heck, even Clinton invaded a country, bypassing a recalitrant UNSC, with a coalition of the willing -- Kosovo.
(Of course, since European lives are valuable, unlike those of Kurds or Marsh Arabs, Kosovo was justified despite the fact that it was an illegal war of agression, unjustified by any threat Serbia posed to any of the invading nations, and of no straegic consequence.)
You can't build a space elevator on Venus. With its 5834-hour rotational period, geosynchronous orbit around Venus requires the center of mass of the elevator be far too far from Venus to be practical; the mass would be seriously perturbed by the Sun, Mecury, Earth, and Jupiter.
Throw in Venus's Earthlike high gravity and harsh environment, and you have the single body in the inner solar system that is hardest to commercially exploit. Mercury and the Moon have decently weak pulls, Mars combines weaker pull with an Earthlike rotational period for elevators, and all are vastly more hospitable than Venus.
Fool! That's what they want you to think!
The control rays are tuned for nonmetal and metalloid Group 14 elements. That is, carbon, the basis of life; silicon, used in both vacuum tubes and transistors; and germanium, used in transistors. They want to control you and your computer.
Given that, there are two and only two materials which can provide a proper defense -- tin and lead, the the two stable Group 14 metals. Ununquadium works, too, but doesn't last long enough to make an effective shield.
Aluminum? Bah! That's what they make TV antennas out of, you idiot! They guide the rays in!
Well, what's a Law?
.), but there doesn't seem to be anything in the physical realm or mathematics that would require things comply with it. Moore's Law seems to be approximately in this category of things.
Newton's Laws of Motion are only true within measurement errors at low speeds and relatively low masses.
Boyle's Law only applies to a nonexistent ideal gas; it does not apply to any gas in actual existence. Ohm's Law requires an ideal conductor.
Bode's Law breaks down at Neptune (if you count Ceres, the largest asteroid, as a planet), and only works approximately. Zipf's Law holds true in vast numbers of things (commonality of words, city sizes, web traffic . .
Godwin's Law, Sturgeon's Law, and Murphy's Law are observations that are seen as being more-or-less true, but aren't even as rigorous as the above three.
Sure, you can argue that the latter six laws shuldn't be called Laws, but then you're going to run into the Hacker Law -- "Complaints about a word being used improperly will be ignored." See efforts to end the use of "hacker" for script kiddies.
The Convention clearly states that permanent artificial structures are not a valid basis for territorial claims. Sealand is an artifical structure; therefore its claim is invalid, no matter when it was built or when the claim was issued.
Therefore, Prince Roy's claims are not valid. As his claims are invalid, and the platform is within the territorial sea of Britain, it is under British jurisdiction. Period.