Your attitude is very dangerous. Sure thare may be some bad laws. But if people stopped respecting laws we would have anarchy and it would be unsafe to walk down the street. We should respect all of our laws, even if we think that they are wrong.
Sounds like there is a lot of high level manipulation going on.
So when the the yaun gets floated can we expect our manufacturing and tech jobs to come back home?
We have only accessed and burnt a small proportion of the existing fossil fuel reserves, moreover, every blade of grass and green tree leaf is currently photosynthizing at a slightly higher rate. The carbon is sequested away in biomass at a slightly higher rate. Higher crop yields may also be observed once you factor out soil degradation.
Where would all this plant matter actually be located?
An increased amount of plant foliage and leaf litter spread evenly across the planet.
Why would this mechanism result in an equilibrium level the same as that of the pre-industrial revolution?
Once you stop the artificial input of carbon dioxide into the system then the level of carbon dioxide will gradually drop (due to the higher rate of photosynthesis), until it reaches pre-industrial revolution levels.
Plants photosynthesize. This means that plants convert the carbon dioxide back into oxygen. If the concentration of carbon dioxide increases then so will the rate of photosynthesis. The process of photosynthesis acts like a chemical buffer that stabilises the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In the novel "Atlas Shrugged" there was a press release that is almost identical. It was released by the "State Science Institute". It said nothing concrete but spread FUD into the community about Reardon Metal. This is clearly an underhand attempt to stifle the uptake of Skype in the business world. Reardon Metal ultimately triumphed and so will Skype assuming it is the worthy technology it seems to be.
It all depends on just how much ice melts.
It actually depends on how much the temperature of the world's oceans increase. The thermal expansion of seawater is more of a concern than the melting ice caps.
what makes your behavior a slave to your genetics?
Carl Jung claimed that we all have an inner subconscious shadow that was a manefestation of our genetic drives and interests. He used this idea in psychiatry when treating people with mental illnesses. Jung believed that people that failed to act in accordance with ones shadow's drives and desires were liable to neuroses and mental illness.
So while we a not exactly a slave to our genetics we can get quite sick if we fail to obey our genetics.
it WILL happen again at some time or place or in some reality
How do you know? What if in some time in the future time will stop or the universe will undergo some form of heat death thus preventing your hypothetical resurrection?
All of those rules can be determined and eventually will be.
I agree with all that you said except for this statement. I think that statement is a rather arrogant one.
What makes you think that there are a finite number of rules which govern our universe? It seems to me that the more we learn about our universe the more we discover how incredibly complex and subtle the laws that govern our universe are. To assume that there are a finite number of laws which govern our universe is something that indeed you cannot prove and may never be proved.
Take for example Newtonian Mechanics which all scientists once thought was the end of the story, then Einstein came along... What about Big Bang Theory and the seemingingly contradictory fact that the universe is expanding at and accelerating rate?
The universe may be infinitely complex.
Here are some ideas for you. Though it will require a change in thinking.
1. Abandon the foolish idea of buying or leasing your software off other companies. The personnel of other companies, as has been pointed out, are not necessarily as technically competent and trustworthy as your own staff. The management of your company have control over who they employ but they do not have control over the recruitment policies of of third party vendors.
2. Use Free Software. If that is not up to scratch for your needs then divert the large sums of money your are paying your vendors into the development/enhancement of free software alternatives for your requirements. Configure and manage your software inhouse.
3. Employ talented IT people and software developers to achieve point 2. Don't outsource your software, instead insource it.
4. Contribute back to the community by GPLing your software.
DVD Jon reminds me of the renegade heating technician, Harry played by De Niro, the film Brazil
The state views him as a terrorist but to the average person he's a freedom fighter.
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The current system is shitty, and it's being exploited like gangbusters.
Right, in my country (Australia) the banks coerce us into using internet banking by charging us for the 'privilege' of speaking to a teller.
If they can't make internet banking safe then there should not be a charge for doing banking with a teller.
Bush and Clinton are merely a facade or public face for a vast network of corporate and private interests. The American people are only a very small part of what they represent and act for.
Keeping the patent system the way it is certainly serves the corporate interests since it gives them a monopoly of the commercial exploitation of human inventiveness and innovation. This benefits exactly who Bush serves the corporations and capital, not the American people.
I wasn't born for an age like this. - George Orwell
The purpose of SETI isn't to advertise our existence to aliens, but to *detect* the presence of intelligent life in the universe. We don't want to advertise our existence becuase they signal may be detected by hostile aliens which may then come and destroy us or enslave us.
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Your attitude is very dangerous. Sure thare may be some bad laws. But if people stopped respecting laws we would have anarchy and it would be unsafe to walk down the street. We should respect all of our laws, even if we think that they are wrong.
Stop complaining. If you don't like you job you can always quit and find something else to do.
Sounds like there is a lot of high level manipulation going on.
So when the the yaun gets floated can we expect our manufacturing and tech jobs to come back home?
Don't you mean the yuan is undervalued?
Can you elaborate on the mechanism for this?
We have only accessed and burnt a small proportion of the existing fossil fuel reserves, moreover, every blade of grass and green tree leaf is currently photosynthizing at a slightly higher rate. The carbon is sequested away in biomass at a slightly higher rate. Higher crop yields may also be observed once you factor out soil degradation.
Where would all this plant matter actually be located?
An increased amount of plant foliage and leaf litter spread evenly across the planet.
Why would this mechanism result in an equilibrium level the same as that of the pre-industrial revolution?
Once you stop the artificial input of carbon dioxide into the system then the level of carbon dioxide will gradually drop (due to the higher rate of photosynthesis), until it reaches pre-industrial revolution levels.
Why would carbon levels go back to equilibrium?
Plants photosynthesize. This means that plants convert the carbon dioxide back into oxygen. If the concentration of carbon dioxide increases then so will the rate of photosynthesis. The process of photosynthesis acts like a chemical buffer that stabilises the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What time scale are you expecting for this?
Give it a couple of hundred years.
In the novel "Atlas Shrugged" there was a press release that is almost identical. It was released by the "State Science Institute". It said nothing concrete but spread FUD into the community about Reardon Metal. This is clearly an underhand attempt to stifle the uptake of Skype in the business world. Reardon Metal ultimately triumphed and so will Skype assuming it is the worthy technology it seems to be.
It all depends on just how much ice melts.
It actually depends on how much the temperature of the world's oceans increase. The thermal expansion of seawater is more of a concern than the melting ice caps.
Cripes, all these years I have been bushwalking in Australia. I could have been attacked by a panther!
Hmmm, let us look at some facts:
12/26/04: Most deadly tsunami in recorded history happens.
12/27/04: Largest ever gamma ray burst happens.
These two major natural events occur with in one day of each other.
Coincidence? Could there be a possible linkage? If so, what could possibly link these two seemingly unrelated events.
Atheism is as unproveable as theism.
Atheism is unprovable but theism is not since you could, in theory, show me a God.
Not necessarily.
what makes your behavior a slave to your genetics?
Carl Jung claimed that we all have an inner subconscious shadow that was a manefestation of our genetic drives and interests. He used this idea in psychiatry when treating people with mental illnesses. Jung believed that people that failed to act in accordance with ones shadow's drives and desires were liable to neuroses and mental illness.
So while we a not exactly a slave to our genetics we can get quite sick if we fail to obey our genetics.
it WILL happen again at some time or place or in some reality
How do you know? What if in some time in the future time will stop or the universe will undergo some form of heat death thus preventing your hypothetical resurrection?
All of those rules can be determined and eventually will be.
I agree with all that you said except for this statement. I think that statement is a rather arrogant one.
What makes you think that there are a finite number of rules which govern our universe? It seems to me that the more we learn about our universe the more we discover how incredibly complex and subtle the laws that govern our universe are. To assume that there are a finite number of laws which govern our universe is something that indeed you cannot prove and may never be proved.
Take for example Newtonian Mechanics which all scientists once thought was the end of the story, then Einstein came along... What about Big Bang Theory and the seemingingly contradictory fact that the universe is expanding at and accelerating rate? The universe may be infinitely complex.
Here are some ideas for you. Though it will require a change in thinking.
1. Abandon the foolish idea of buying or leasing your software off other companies. The personnel of other companies, as has been pointed out, are not necessarily as technically competent and trustworthy as your own staff. The management of your company have control over who they employ but they do not have control over the recruitment policies of of third party vendors.
2. Use Free Software. If that is not up to scratch for your needs then divert the large sums of money your are paying your vendors into the development/enhancement of free software alternatives for your requirements. Configure and manage your software inhouse.
3. Employ talented IT people and software developers to achieve point 2. Don't outsource your software, instead insource it.
4. Contribute back to the community by GPLing your software.
DVD Jon reminds me of the renegade heating technician, Harry played by De Niro, the film Brazil The state views him as a terrorist but to the average person he's a freedom fighter.
The current system is shitty, and it's being exploited like gangbusters.
Right, in my country (Australia) the banks coerce us into using internet banking by charging us for the 'privilege' of speaking to a teller.
If they can't make internet banking safe then there should not be a charge for doing banking with a teller.
There is no DMCA in Norway, and attempts to impose American law there have failed miserably
Wait until the Norway-USA FTA is imposed. Such an agreement will be sure to address Norway's appalling lack of anti-copyright-circumvention laws.
If not, then it's merely a DMCA violation.
What DVD John has done might be legally dubious, but it is certainly not immoral or unethical.
Thanksgiving night?
Many slashdot readers don't live in the USA and hence don't celebrate thankgiving, heathens that we are.
Bush and Clinton are merely a facade or public face for a vast network of corporate and private interests. The American people are only a very small part of what they represent and act for.
Keeping the patent system the way it is certainly serves the corporate interests since it gives them a monopoly of the commercial exploitation of human inventiveness and innovation. This benefits exactly who Bush serves the corporations and capital, not the American people.
I wasn't born for an age like this. - George Orwell
Thomas Huxley was a British biologist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.H._Huxley
Aldous is Thomas' grandson.
The purpose of SETI isn't to advertise our existence to aliens, but to *detect* the presence of intelligent life in the universe. We don't want to advertise our existence becuase they signal may be detected by hostile aliens which may then come and destroy us or enslave us.