Dude seriously? Stephen Hawking did not invent black holes. The "idea" of black holes was put forward by John Michell in 1783. The issue at hand is the Black hole information paradox, whether or not information (total mass, charge, and angular momentum) is lost or persists. Hawking said it doesn't (1997). In 2004 he conceded it did and provided a proof.
You're argument might have carried more weight had your analogy not been so wrong.
LMOL....you're saying that the reason someone would be put off of a movie is because of the quality of the pirated version?? What crack are you smoking?
The reason to agree with the article is because of the empirical evidence provided.
Where is that listed in the report? Your conclusions are wrong. The paper talked about versions of a movie being shared BEFORE it was released in theaters. So obviously any anti piracy efforts won't work on this type of material.
God bless Google for protecting fans of Brazil's soccer team. I suppose if the humiliating defeat wasn't enough to send them over the edge, the endless parade of articles pointing out the humungous ASS KICKING they received, would. FYI there was rioting after the match but I guess Google figured it could have escalated to a global catastrophe...
Part of the problem is to do with Politicians. Former defense secretary Gates tried to kill several wasteful and necessary weapons programs, only to be criticized by congress. The same thing is happening with missile defense. Regardless if the program is completely hair brain, Congress pushed out the door an experimental program and declared it operational. When there were problems - and there were many - no one was allowed to fix them. Reason: defense contractors would be out of work because orders for defective parts would have been cancelled and contractors would have been idle until new parts that would work could be developed. Wow. So when members of Congress say we need to make cuts to Social Security, tell them to fix the wasteful Defense spending first. You'll find your money there.
We need to make cuts in Social Security because of some perceived budget ramification but blowing $1 Trillion dollars on one weapons program, no problem. Well done Republicans well done.
Umm yes it is the right choice. Spending good money after bad. This the definition of wasteful spending. People in the DoD have talked about killing this project. We have other planes, so no that would leave us without an air force - they fact that you think that means you know nothing about the situation.
THANK YOU! You get a lot more done with space probes. There's a reason why chimps where the first in space - man was not needed. Maned space exploration is a PR move.
Actually that was Star Trek and science fiction. Given the space program was an arms race issue...won't happen again. The key to NASA's success is studying the universe with space probes. Maned exploration is a waste of money with no ROI. We can discover a lot more and do more scientific research with space probes - Cassini anyone....
"In the old days there was a respected profession of application programming. There was a minority of elite system programmers who built infrastructure and tools that empowered the majority of application programmers. Our goal was to allow regular people without extensive training to easily and quickly build useful software. This was the spirit of languages like COBOL, Visual Basic, and HyperCard. Elegant tools for a more civilized age. Before the dark times before the web."
"The web is just an enormous stack of kluges upon hacks upon misbegotten designs. This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple applications on today’s web. What a waste. Twenty years of expediency has led the web into a technical debt crisis."
Step back and see what Goldman Sachs is asking. What if they are lying? How does Google know what Goldman Sachs is asking is valid. What would happen if the user was suppose to get email, suddenly finds that email not longer present because Goldman Sachs or someone else asked Google to delete it.
Really? Where was it stated that you will become part of an experiment when you signed up for a Facebook account? Where was the disclosure that the experiment was about to begin and giving you the option to opt out?
I find interesting that people think EULA's are blanket excuses to do anything. In fact they are not. Court decisions have stated that EULA's are limited in scope. Facebook's EULA is too broad and therefore has no legal weight.
Actually you don't have a question but rather an ignorant and inane comment. The objection to what Facebook did has been clearly stated and you have the ability to do research on the subject to understand what Facebook did wrong (hint, it was about informed consent). You don't care about the issue at hand. Rather, your intention was to make a feeble comparison between Facebook and other media in order to make the "you too" argument - a claim which does no justify Facebook's actions (see Tu quoque logical fallacy). Pinhead.
Wow someone with comcast's dick in their mouth. Yo moron, you might want to ask why there is no competition in the first place. Then ask yourself how reducing competition by reducing the number of companies in an industry is a good thing for the consumers. Considering Comcast said prices will not go down but up, this is not beneficial to time warner customers.
No, that was your asinine assumption. But if you are so worried that only 3 people oppose this merger, why don't you do your own poll and see how many time warner customers want time warner to merge with comcast.
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Dude seriously? Stephen Hawking did not invent black holes. The "idea" of black holes was put forward by John Michell in 1783. The issue at hand is the Black hole information paradox, whether or not information (total mass, charge, and angular momentum) is lost or persists. Hawking said it doesn't (1997). In 2004 he conceded it did and provided a proof.
You're argument might have carried more weight had your analogy not been so wrong.
Yeah because oil is real cheap *eye roll* - moron.
People still watch South Park.....
LMOL....you're saying that the reason someone would be put off of a movie is because of the quality of the pirated version?? What crack are you smoking?
The reason to agree with the article is because of the empirical evidence provided.
Where is that listed in the report? Your conclusions are wrong. The paper talked about versions of a movie being shared BEFORE it was released in theaters. So obviously any anti piracy efforts won't work on this type of material.
Which citizens of America? Because there were no citizens, just colonists with no sovereign rights to America. See the point.
God bless Google for protecting fans of Brazil's soccer team. I suppose if the humiliating defeat wasn't enough to send them over the edge, the endless parade of articles pointing out the humungous ASS KICKING they received, would. FYI there was rioting after the match but I guess Google figured it could have escalated to a global catastrophe...
honestly - that's no joke. stupid idea but in terms of cost, true.
Part of the problem is to do with Politicians. Former defense secretary Gates tried to kill several wasteful and necessary weapons programs, only to be criticized by congress. The same thing is happening with missile defense. Regardless if the program is completely hair brain, Congress pushed out the door an experimental program and declared it operational. When there were problems - and there were many - no one was allowed to fix them. Reason: defense contractors would be out of work because orders for defective parts would have been cancelled and contractors would have been idle until new parts that would work could be developed. Wow. So when members of Congress say we need to make cuts to Social Security, tell them to fix the wasteful Defense spending first. You'll find your money there.
We need to make cuts in Social Security because of some perceived budget ramification but blowing $1 Trillion dollars on one weapons program, no problem. Well done Republicans well done.
F-15 is a multi role aircraft and it did the job very well.
Umm yes it is the right choice. Spending good money after bad. This the definition of wasteful spending. People in the DoD have talked about killing this project. We have other planes, so no that would leave us without an air force - they fact that you think that means you know nothing about the situation.
Child Labor laws moron. They're just taking advantage of a cheap labor group nothing more. This has nothing to do with "intelligent minds."
THANK YOU! You get a lot more done with space probes. There's a reason why chimps where the first in space - man was not needed. Maned space exploration is a PR move.
Actually that was Star Trek and science fiction. Given the space program was an arms race issue...won't happen again. The key to NASA's success is studying the universe with space probes. Maned exploration is a waste of money with no ROI. We can discover a lot more and do more scientific research with space probes - Cassini anyone....
Right and the Republican are all about restoring NASA's budget. Moron.
Or apparently reading comprehension. Look up the term autism and understand why the author used that term.
Somebody didn't read the article:
"In the old days there was a respected profession of application programming. There was a minority of elite system programmers who built infrastructure and tools that empowered the majority of application programmers. Our goal was to allow regular people without extensive training to easily and quickly build useful software. This was the spirit of languages like COBOL, Visual Basic, and HyperCard. Elegant tools for a more civilized age. Before the dark times before the web."
"The web is just an enormous stack of kluges upon hacks upon misbegotten designs. This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: it takes a skilled programmer with years of experience just to build simple applications on today’s web. What a waste. Twenty years of expediency has led the web into a technical debt crisis."
It's a fair point.
Step back and see what Goldman Sachs is asking. What if they are lying? How does Google know what Goldman Sachs is asking is valid. What would happen if the user was suppose to get email, suddenly finds that email not longer present because Goldman Sachs or someone else asked Google to delete it.
Think Potsy, think.
As has been pointed out several times, this was not product testing. This was a psychological test which Facebook failed to get informed consent.
Science is in no way hurt by this but that you think it is shows how truly ignorant you are.
Really? Where was it stated that you will become part of an experiment when you signed up for a Facebook account? Where was the disclosure that the experiment was about to begin and giving you the option to opt out?
I find interesting that people think EULA's are blanket excuses to do anything. In fact they are not. Court decisions have stated that EULA's are limited in scope. Facebook's EULA is too broad and therefore has no legal weight.
Actually you don't have a question but rather an ignorant and inane comment. The objection to what Facebook did has been clearly stated and you have the ability to do research on the subject to understand what Facebook did wrong (hint, it was about informed consent). You don't care about the issue at hand. Rather, your intention was to make a feeble comparison between Facebook and other media in order to make the "you too" argument - a claim which does no justify Facebook's actions (see Tu quoque logical fallacy). Pinhead.
THANK YOU! Not Annual cost but TOTAL cost. That's $3.9 Billion over a 44 year time span. That breaks down to $88.6 Million / year.
Wow someone with comcast's dick in their mouth. Yo moron, you might want to ask why there is no competition in the first place. Then ask yourself how reducing competition by reducing the number of companies in an industry is a good thing for the consumers. Considering Comcast said prices will not go down but up, this is not beneficial to time warner customers.
No, that was your asinine assumption. But if you are so worried that only 3 people oppose this merger, why don't you do your own poll and see how many time warner customers want time warner to merge with comcast.