Reallistically, most people will not bother to write in a candidate for a state or national level election. After all, if they're not on the ballot, they're not very likely to win, right (except sometimes local elections)? Until we have ranked voting, this is essentially a throw-away vote.
Hmmm. That's an interesting question. As a 3rd party candidate, do you feel as though ranked voting would finally enable us to evolve out of the currect 2-party politics that we currently have? Or do you perceive that it would hurt 3rd parties in some way?
Of course, if the distribution was extremely dense on the low end, the more people there were on the very high end would indicate [an unfair?] disparity.
I think that the distribution is important as well. If the distribution is somewhat uniform, or even bell-curved then there shouldn't be a problem. However, if the distribution looked like 2 bell curves, one centered on 12k and the other on 36k, I think there would be a problem with the gap being that big.
I think MS makes most of its money by selling stuff which it then uses to pay its workers. The price of MS stock is meaningless, unless MS owns stock in itself and is willing to liquedate it. MS does not benefit if Mr. A sells stock to Mrs. B. All of the profit (or loss) goes to Mr. A. It was his risk/investment.
I just bought my first home. Guess how much money came from selling stock? $0.
That's right, when the lower/middle class buys their first home, they probably haven't had any money to put into the stock market yet. In fact, like many Americans, I have been tryiong to pay off my non-car, non-house debts. I haven't even been putting money into the stock market. Capital gains taxes have never had a direct influence on me in any way.
Can you cite a reference to the warp scale being logarithmic? That's what I had always thought too, but there I haven't actually seen anything to bear that out.
I really don't want to start an argument over this, but....
Consider the entire US. It would rank 1st in population vs. all of the states, but its crime rate should be near the middle.
If you can accept that then you will realize that crime rate and population ranks should not necessarily correspond. Otherwise you would be arguing that every kind of rate we can report for Kansas should be about 32nd. i.e., your literacy rate, your unemployment rate, etc. or else something is terribly wrong.
It would be hard to imagine that the behavior of light would not change as it crossed these boundaries. I would expect some sort of refraction, etc. as it changed from one medium to another. Observations do not bear this out, although I know of nothing off of the top of my head that would disprove your idea.
For all we know the formula for the gravitational force has a couple more terms. I seem to remember coming across an advanced formula for the electric force that contained a couple of more terms, that were generally insignifcant compared to the main term kq1q2/e^2 that most people recognize. Why not the gravitational too? I have heard some physicists advocate for a 1/r term I believe. Can anybody back up any of what I said about the electric force or arguments for an extra term in the gravitational force?
(Sorry to be so serious about this, but I was curious.) I'm going to have to agree with you that the episode must be wrong. From this website, the warp formula for TOS (apparently some of the later shows changed the scale to be asymptotic with 10 being infinite velocity) is given as v = (W^3)*c which seems consistant with some of the numbers I have been seeing.
TUCKER:
I thought the whole point of this was to get away from the Vulcans.
ARCHER:
Four days there, four days back... then she's gone. In the meantime, we're to extend her every courtesy.
ARCHER :
God, she's beautiful
TUCKER:
And fast. Warp four point five next Thursday.
ARCHER :
Neptune and back in six minutes.
ADMIRAL FORREST:
The warp five engine wouldn't be a reality without men like Doctor Cochrane and Henry Archer, who worked
so hard to develop it. So it's only fitting that Henry's
son, Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by that engine.
From this it can be deduced that the maximum warp that the new engine was designed for was warp 5, but they were going to be testing out warp 4.5 for the first time.
If you use warp 4.5 = 91.125*c for 4 days you get 0.998 light-years. This is so close to a light-year (possibly rounding issues) that the writer who came up with 4 days probably forgot to multiply by the number of light-years to Kronos.
I hate to point this out, but isn't a crime rate based expressed as a ratio of crime to population so that it comes out 17.1 per thousand people? I think that makes Kansas's population a bit irrelevant.
That's not what it sounded like to me. It sounds like they will own a piece of the infrastructure. Other people will own other pieces. Sure they will make some money (hopefully) off of their piece, but so will the other owners. They will not "own the internet."
As to the original article, "What's in it for Intel?" Maybe they have an interest in people using their computers more because they sell... computer chips? (Not to mention that the market for high-end servers is very lucrative.)
To a degree, you are what you think you are. You are running into the same problem as people who try to define a family as a husband and wife and kids. What about extended relatives, grandparents, non-traditional families, godparents, very close family friends (Uncle Jimmy), etc.? Let the family choose how big/small it is and who is included, not you or the government. Sure, you can restrict it as far as taxes, etc.; but don't tell me who is in my family.
I believe that the same goes for race. If I think of myself as black, fine. If I think of myself as African-American, fine. Both? Fine. Neither. No problem. Maybe just American. Or Canadian. Or Brit. Hispanic? Latin American? Latino? Mexican? Colombian? It is not fair to subject a person to the label that you want to put on them. Those are opinions that we should just keep to ourselves.
Please don't take offense at this. I am not attacking you, but rather the use of the US Census at the definitive authority on what race a person is.
I was hoping not to keep this off-topic thread going for too long, but....
It is believed that by dropping enough limestone, the atmosphere can be broken up. I think it has something to do with reacting with the CO2. With the CO2 absorbed and the clouds dissipated, the temperature would hopefully drop to a much more hospitable range (no more greenhouse effect). The entire process would take a very long time.
I have also heard theories about using certain plants/bacteria in place of/in conjunction with the above theory. If such organisms could survive high temperature and high acidity then they might be able to process the CO2 into O2 as well. This would also take a very long time (centuries?).
It's too early in the morning, so I'll have to ask you to google for yourself. Venus/Mars/Moon colonization strategies get to be pretty interesting (and sometimes far-fetched), but the repetutable are grounded in good science.
There are a lot of people that don't believe that life exists in any fashion on Venus, but just in case do not want to contaminate it. Also, what if we decide to colonize it one day (it is possible, though unlikely in the next few centuries)? Hate to shoot ourselves in the foot before getting a chance.
But really, I wish we could just shoot it all into the sun and use nuclear power instead of oil, coal, wood, etc.
AFAIK, the biggest hurdle to disposing of nuclear waste (or nukular as W would say) is safely launching it. And it would be expensive.
There is a large enough risk that it could blow up in the atmosphere (same fear that some people have over nuclear powered satellites, but it is much more realistic of a danger) or that it could reach space but reenter earth or some other planet.
Using something like a space ladder would be great, because if something went wrong, the radiation wouldn't be released in an explosion and there could be more safegaurds (like parachutes?).
Having no opinion on the argument over executive orders in the preceding posts... that is one f*ed up link. Wow, their views are so far outside mainstream science that it might be a fun read for an afternoon. Sometimes I think that these sites are setup by reasonable people hoping to discredit ludicrous views by exposing them, but then other times I worry that these are legit websites and people really believe that stuff!
I'm pretty sure that the FDA has to keep silent unless they perceive that the drug in question is unnecessarily dangerous, in which case all they can do is pull it off the market. They can't force any of the studies to be released or disseminate their contents.
Sorry for being redundant (but so is your post - there appears to be many similarly misinformed "astronomers" on/.).
According to our current understanding of Astrophysics, the Sun will not be going supernova.
This Wikipedia article seems to indicate the sun would need to be >12 solar masses to form a Type II Supernova (with Type 1 only being possible with a companion star).
This page from NASA's website claims the lower limit is 8 solar masses.
Point is, we don't need to worry about the sun going supernova. In fact, it would be more interesting to wonder what the nearest star capable of supernova is. It would still be irrelevant though.
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I am more afraid that someone else will read such misuse of statistics and "learn" from it. We need to comfront ignorance where it lives.
Reallistically, most people will not bother to write in a candidate for a state or national level election. After all, if they're not on the ballot, they're not very likely to win, right (except sometimes local elections)? Until we have ranked voting, this is essentially a throw-away vote.
Hmmm. That's an interesting question. As a 3rd party candidate, do you feel as though ranked voting would finally enable us to evolve out of the currect 2-party politics that we currently have? Or do you perceive that it would hurt 3rd parties in some way?
Of course, if the distribution was extremely dense on the low end, the more people there were on the very high end would indicate [an unfair?] disparity.
I think that the distribution is important as well. If the distribution is somewhat uniform, or even bell-curved then there shouldn't be a problem. However, if the distribution looked like 2 bell curves, one centered on 12k and the other on 36k, I think there would be a problem with the gap being that big.
I think MS makes most of its money by selling stuff which it then uses to pay its workers. The price of MS stock is meaningless, unless MS owns stock in itself and is willing to liquedate it. MS does not benefit if Mr. A sells stock to Mrs. B. All of the profit (or loss) goes to Mr. A. It was his risk/investment.
I think it is zero-sum. I don't think it is valid to disqualify the government's role in creating jobs, etc.
Oops, replied to the wrong post. I was really responding to that jadavis person. I hate incomplete logic.
I just bought my first home. Guess how much money came from selling stock? $0.
That's right, when the lower/middle class buys their first home, they probably haven't had any money to put into the stock market yet. In fact, like many Americans, I have been tryiong to pay off my non-car, non-house debts. I haven't even been putting money into the stock market. Capital gains taxes have never had a direct influence on me in any way.
yes, but are most of us?
yes, but are most of us?
thanks, have one already
Can you cite a reference to the warp scale being logarithmic? That's what I had always thought too, but there I haven't actually seen anything to bear that out.
I really don't want to start an argument over this, but....
Consider the entire US. It would rank 1st in population vs. all of the states, but its crime rate should be near the middle.
If you can accept that then you will realize that crime rate and population ranks should not necessarily correspond. Otherwise you would be arguing that every kind of rate we can report for Kansas should be about 32nd. i.e., your literacy rate, your unemployment rate, etc. or else something is terribly wrong.
It would be hard to imagine that the behavior of light would not change as it crossed these boundaries. I would expect some sort of refraction, etc. as it changed from one medium to another. Observations do not bear this out, although I know of nothing off of the top of my head that would disprove your idea.
For all we know the formula for the gravitational force has a couple more terms. I seem to remember coming across an advanced formula for the electric force that contained a couple of more terms, that were generally insignifcant compared to the main term kq1q2/e^2 that most people recognize. Why not the gravitational too? I have heard some physicists advocate for a 1/r term I believe. Can anybody back up any of what I said about the electric force or arguments for an extra term in the gravitational force?
From the script of the first episode: From this it can be deduced that the maximum warp that the new engine was designed for was warp 5, but they were going to be testing out warp 4.5 for the first time.
If you use warp 4.5 = 91.125*c for 4 days you get 0.998 light-years. This is so close to a light-year (possibly rounding issues) that the writer who came up with 4 days probably forgot to multiply by the number of light-years to Kronos.
Even if you use warp 5, you get 1.37 light-years. Considering that Alpha Centauri is 4.4 light-years from Earth, the 4 days at warp 5 idea still sounds absurd.
And you thought he meant earth days! ROFL!
I hate to point this out, but isn't a crime rate based expressed as a ratio of crime to population so that it comes out 17.1 per thousand people? I think that makes Kansas's population a bit irrelevant.
That's not what it sounded like to me. It sounds like they will own a piece of the infrastructure. Other people will own other pieces. Sure they will make some money (hopefully) off of their piece, but so will the other owners. They will not "own the internet."
As to the original article, "What's in it for Intel?" Maybe they have an interest in people using their computers more because they sell... computer chips? (Not to mention that the market for high-end servers is very lucrative.)
To a degree, you are what you think you are. You are running into the same problem as people who try to define a family as a husband and wife and kids. What about extended relatives, grandparents, non-traditional families, godparents, very close family friends (Uncle Jimmy), etc.? Let the family choose how big/small it is and who is included, not you or the government. Sure, you can restrict it as far as taxes, etc.; but don't tell me who is in my family.
I believe that the same goes for race. If I think of myself as black, fine. If I think of myself as African-American, fine. Both? Fine. Neither. No problem. Maybe just American. Or Canadian. Or Brit. Hispanic? Latin American? Latino? Mexican? Colombian? It is not fair to subject a person to the label that you want to put on them. Those are opinions that we should just keep to ourselves.
Please don't take offense at this. I am not attacking you, but rather the use of the US Census at the definitive authority on what race a person is.
I was hoping not to keep this off-topic thread going for too long, but....
It is believed that by dropping enough limestone, the atmosphere can be broken up. I think it has something to do with reacting with the CO2. With the CO2 absorbed and the clouds dissipated, the temperature would hopefully drop to a much more hospitable range (no more greenhouse effect). The entire process would take a very long time.
I have also heard theories about using certain plants/bacteria in place of/in conjunction with the above theory. If such organisms could survive high temperature and high acidity then they might be able to process the CO2 into O2 as well. This would also take a very long time (centuries?).
It's too early in the morning, so I'll have to ask you to google for yourself. Venus/Mars/Moon colonization strategies get to be pretty interesting (and sometimes far-fetched), but the repetutable are grounded in good science.
There are a lot of people that don't believe that life exists in any fashion on Venus, but just in case do not want to contaminate it. Also, what if we decide to colonize it one day (it is possible, though unlikely in the next few centuries)? Hate to shoot ourselves in the foot before getting a chance.
But really, I wish we could just shoot it all into the sun and use nuclear power instead of oil, coal, wood, etc.
No wonder you won't use your real name. Or handle for that matter.
AFAIK, the biggest hurdle to disposing of nuclear waste (or nukular as W would say) is safely launching it. And it would be expensive.
There is a large enough risk that it could blow up in the atmosphere (same fear that some people have over nuclear powered satellites, but it is much more realistic of a danger) or that it could reach space but reenter earth or some other planet.
Using something like a space ladder would be great, because if something went wrong, the radiation wouldn't be released in an explosion and there could be more safegaurds (like parachutes?).
Having no opinion on the argument over executive orders in the preceding posts... that is one f*ed up link. Wow, their views are so far outside mainstream science that it might be a fun read for an afternoon. Sometimes I think that these sites are setup by reasonable people hoping to discredit ludicrous views by exposing them, but then other times I worry that these are legit websites and people really believe that stuff!
I'm pretty sure that the FDA has to keep silent unless they perceive that the drug in question is unnecessarily dangerous, in which case all they can do is pull it off the market. They can't force any of the studies to be released or disseminate their contents.
Sorry for being redundant (but so is your post - there appears to be many similarly misinformed "astronomers" on /.).
According to our current understanding of Astrophysics, the Sun will not be going supernova.
This Wikipedia article seems to indicate the sun would need to be >12 solar masses to form a Type II Supernova (with Type 1 only being possible with a companion star).
This page from NASA's website claims the lower limit is 8 solar masses.
Point is, we don't need to worry about the sun going supernova. In fact, it would be more interesting to wonder what the nearest star capable of supernova is. It would still be irrelevant though.