If we are enforcing our opinions on obscenity on others, we are little different than the Islamists who are enforcing their belief that women showing any skin are being obscene.
There are all sorts of sources that just spout out: it's easy; just get 10 minutes of sunlight. These don't take into account that the amount of sunlight you need depends on where you live, the season, and what color skin you have. If you have dark skin, you need more sunlight and don't have to worry much about sunburn. (Indeed, skin pigmentation is an adaptation that balances between vitamin D production and sunburning.) Pale people need less. The closer you get to the poles, the harder it is to get enough vitamin D in winter, since UVB drops off dramatically (exponentially) with the distance of air that sunlight must pass through. (Read up on Raleigh scattering if you are so inclined.)
I'm guessing that the 10 minute prescription is assuming that you are white and you live in middle United States during the summer. You might have to increase that by 10 times if under less favorable conditions.
Wow, can you detect some spin in that report? Let me just take a look at the data and come up with my own conclusion. The data says that high scorers gained 3 points while low scorers gained 16 points. Both groups improved from 2000 to 2007. The high scorers didn't improve as much as the low scorers, but they still improved. I wouldn't say (based on the data alone) that helping the low scorers _hurt_ the high scorers. The high scorers simply have less to improve in, because they are probably already getting most of the things correct.
Insightful my ass. You seem to have some distorted view of oil industries as controlled by pure evil entities. Real oil companies spend money on alternative energies because they know that they will have to evolve and adapt to new circumstances if they want to continue making money in the long term. They aren't dead set on crude oil. If they can make more money by shifting to alternative sources.
They can't block alternative technologies. They can only get in on the action.
*sigh*. Bribery is absolutely the wrong word to use here. This is attempting to hire someone to do work. Does you boss "bribe" you to get your ass to the office?
Define product. If I sell a single prototype in a mom-and-pop shop, is it a product? Does it need to be sold in Walmart? Who decides what a product is?
Geometry and number theory can be derived from a few axioms. These axioms are chosen to give geometries and/or numbers which are useful for describing nature, but you could also generate other geometries by using a different starting point. Since the starting axioms are ultimately arbitrary, everything constructed from them is just an invention.
However, at some level, the proofs fall back on pure logic and set theory. Is logic invented? I don't know. There are forms of logic with different rules, but there's seems to be something fundamental about the basic logic of sets. So some of math might be called discovered?
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It seems like the most you'll accomplish is doubling the cost and size.
If we are enforcing our opinions on obscenity on others, we are little different than the Islamists who are enforcing their belief that women showing any skin are being obscene.
Especially China, which is mostly non-religious, but strongly prude.
I guess it's time for me to unveil the tan-through parka.
No, but some will. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
I'm guessing that the 10 minute prescription is assuming that you are white and you live in middle United States during the summer. You might have to increase that by 10 times if under less favorable conditions.
Wow, can you detect some spin in that report? Let me just take a look at the data and come up with my own conclusion. The data says that high scorers gained 3 points while low scorers gained 16 points. Both groups improved from 2000 to 2007. The high scorers didn't improve as much as the low scorers, but they still improved. I wouldn't say (based on the data alone) that helping the low scorers _hurt_ the high scorers. The high scorers simply have less to improve in, because they are probably already getting most of the things correct.
Insightful my ass. You seem to have some distorted view of oil industries as controlled by pure evil entities. Real oil companies spend money on alternative energies because they know that they will have to evolve and adapt to new circumstances if they want to continue making money in the long term. They aren't dead set on crude oil. If they can make more money by shifting to alternative sources. They can't block alternative technologies. They can only get in on the action.
But you are basing your argument on a statement that you are *pretending* to be correct.
I hope more corps. patent unfeatures, so it becomes impossible to copy them.
It's against the law, so it's illegal.
*sigh*. Bribery is absolutely the wrong word to use here. This is attempting to hire someone to do work. Does you boss "bribe" you to get your ass to the office?
Do you HAVE to ride a car?
Many things are necessary until you can't use or don't have it anymore. Then, somehow, life goes on.
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Are you suggesting that parents have to pay for kids to go to school? And how wouldn't this screw poor people?
Open source software can integrate Havok. I can write a program and release its source and not be GPL.
that damned website reads like an advertisement. I'd like to see a serious proposal.
Define product. If I sell a single prototype in a mom-and-pop shop, is it a product? Does it need to be sold in Walmart? Who decides what a product is?
Right. 60 isn't much compared to when you are awake.
How did this get modded insightful? Rebooting often fixes the problem.
When you eat the calories affects the number of calories you burn. You don't burn many calories when you sleep.
That is, if you don't care about something called nutrition.
Geometry and number theory can be derived from a few axioms. These axioms are chosen to give geometries and/or numbers which are useful for describing nature, but you could also generate other geometries by using a different starting point. Since the starting axioms are ultimately arbitrary, everything constructed from them is just an invention. However, at some level, the proofs fall back on pure logic and set theory. Is logic invented? I don't know. There are forms of logic with different rules, but there's seems to be something fundamental about the basic logic of sets. So some of math might be called discovered?