It's funny. You have some picture of the Chinese government as an evil mastermind, calculating every move to his advantage. It's a lot simpler than that. The laws largely reflect the attitudes of the population. A lot of Chinese people (just as a lot of Americans) feel that porn is morally bankrupt and want to see it go away. In America, various guarantees of liberties like the Bill of Rights prevent lawmakers from simply banning whatever the majority doesn't like. But in China, these safeguards don't exist.
You don't need religion to be anti-liberal. Chinese culture is strongly influenced by asceticism and shares some conservative ideas. Sex is more taboo there than here.
Certainly there is some bias in the report. The survey questions were chosen such that right wing people were more likely to get them wrong. People will believe what they want to believe true. I'm not saying that Fox is a news network, but the study isn't very informative by itself.
How many people have heard of Cryptome or Tor? Outside Slashdot, almost nobody. How many people have heard of Wikileaks? Everyone. It's all over the news, all the time. Government leaders are paying attention and making statements and responses. When has any government ever responded to a small group of activists? Whether or not you agree with it, Wikileaks is a BIG DEAL. Sure, there have been similar projects, but nothing with this kind of exposure. Palin says we should go after Wikileaks like al Qaeda.
The recent actions of Wikileaks seems engineered to maximize exposure. This means putting out a biased message, and targeting a superpower with a lot of listeners. You may not agree with it, but it worked.
The problem (as I see it) isn't with animals having owners (as long as the owners aren't abusing them), but the whole business of breeding animals and with people abandoning them in the city. If you bought your cats from a breeder, you aren't blame-free.
AC and DC both lose power to resistance. The only real advantage of AC is that it can be stepped up in a transformer. Higher voltage = less loss to resistance.
Could it possibly be that US has simply leaked more of this information than other countries? Maybe Wikileaks seems to target US more because there are more sources in America, and not some bias on the side of the editors. Or, does Wikileaks actually have a large supply of other countries' documents that they are just not publicizing?
It's not practical to put backscatter scanneers on every home, mall, school, park, bus stop. Obviously, the solution is more technology. When we have hyper-ray detectors installed on satellites, with view over the entire country with sub-millimeter resolution, through clothing, rock, and steel, and mind readers installed on every block, then we can finally be safe from terrorists.
Wow! In the past, the human made the decisions and the robot was just a dumb tool, repeating movements ad nauseam. In the future, the robot makes the decisions and the human is just a dumb tool, repeating movements ad nauseam.
Actually, terrorists do have moral qualms. They just don't tend to align with your moral qualms. I'm not saying their qualms are as valid as yours. I'm just arguing for the sake of arguing.
I think I would feel more comfortable with personally cloned human pudding in a bullet wound in my body than some foreign bacteria. mmm, human pudding...
They use the magnetic moment of the antihydrogen. They trap it for about 1/6 of a second, which isn't very long, considering we can trap charged antiparticles for weeks in Penning-Malmberg traps. But it's still impressive.
Scheme is a nice toy language, but its lazy evaluation and loose typing makes it impossible to debug anything substantial. Also, the language structure makes it hard to find a misplaced parenthesis or arguments.
In declarative languages, complicated passages are broken down into a list of steps, with intermediate results stored in aptly named variables: step1 = a(2) step2 = b(step1, 3) etc. and it's easy to trace and debug. But, variable use is avoided in functional programming, and you get terrible nested functions. In the following line, can you find what function 53 is an argument to? (a 2 3 (b 2) 4 (c (d e 2) (f (g)) h (i (j (k 2 (l) (m 2) 3) 443) 53)) (n 23))
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That's pretty much how it is in the US.
It's funny. You have some picture of the Chinese government as an evil mastermind, calculating every move to his advantage. It's a lot simpler than that. The laws largely reflect the attitudes of the population. A lot of Chinese people (just as a lot of Americans) feel that porn is morally bankrupt and want to see it go away. In America, various guarantees of liberties like the Bill of Rights prevent lawmakers from simply banning whatever the majority doesn't like. But in China, these safeguards don't exist.
You don't need religion to be anti-liberal. Chinese culture is strongly influenced by asceticism and shares some conservative ideas. Sex is more taboo there than here.
You'd better work on your reading comprehension. Within an order of magnitude could mean anywhere from 10 times slower to 10 times faster.
Something is very wrong with your calculation. I got 2.53*10^16 atoms.
You determine false in a court of law.
Simply put, banks own the world. If you screw up, you lose. If banks screw up, you lose.
Certainly there is some bias in the report. The survey questions were chosen such that right wing people were more likely to get them wrong. People will believe what they want to believe true. I'm not saying that Fox is a news network, but the study isn't very informative by itself.
How many people have heard of Cryptome or Tor? Outside Slashdot, almost nobody. How many people have heard of Wikileaks? Everyone. It's all over the news, all the time. Government leaders are paying attention and making statements and responses. When has any government ever responded to a small group of activists? Whether or not you agree with it, Wikileaks is a BIG DEAL. Sure, there have been similar projects, but nothing with this kind of exposure. Palin says we should go after Wikileaks like al Qaeda.
The recent actions of Wikileaks seems engineered to maximize exposure. This means putting out a biased message, and targeting a superpower with a lot of listeners. You may not agree with it, but it worked.
The problem (as I see it) isn't with animals having owners (as long as the owners aren't abusing them), but the whole business of breeding animals and with people abandoning them in the city. If you bought your cats from a breeder, you aren't blame-free.
It's more renewable than any other source of energy we have.
AC and DC both lose power to resistance. The only real advantage of AC is that it can be stepped up in a transformer. Higher voltage = less loss to resistance.
2%? I'd put that number more like 85%.
Could it possibly be that US has simply leaked more of this information than other countries? Maybe Wikileaks seems to target US more because there are more sources in America, and not some bias on the side of the editors. Or, does Wikileaks actually have a large supply of other countries' documents that they are just not publicizing?
It's not practical to put backscatter scanneers on every home, mall, school, park, bus stop. Obviously, the solution is more technology. When we have hyper-ray detectors installed on satellites, with view over the entire country with sub-millimeter resolution, through clothing, rock, and steel, and mind readers installed on every block, then we can finally be safe from terrorists.
What is the difference between real multitasking and fake multitasking? I don't think processors with multiple cores existed back then.
Here's a very clear example of that - The Kiva robotic order fulfillment system.
Wow! In the past, the human made the decisions and the robot was just a dumb tool, repeating movements ad nauseam. In the future, the robot makes the decisions and the human is just a dumb tool, repeating movements ad nauseam.
Actually, terrorists do have moral qualms. They just don't tend to align with your moral qualms. I'm not saying their qualms are as valid as yours. I'm just arguing for the sake of arguing.
I think I would feel more comfortable with personally cloned human pudding in a bullet wound in my body than some foreign bacteria. mmm, human pudding...
They use the magnetic moment of the antihydrogen. They trap it for about 1/6 of a second, which isn't very long, considering we can trap charged antiparticles for weeks in Penning-Malmberg traps. But it's still impressive.
Scheme is a nice toy language, but its lazy evaluation and loose typing makes it impossible to debug anything substantial. Also, the language structure makes it hard to find a misplaced parenthesis or arguments.
In declarative languages, complicated passages are broken down into a list of steps, with intermediate results stored in aptly named variables:
step1 = a(2)
step2 = b(step1, 3)
etc.
and it's easy to trace and debug. But, variable use is avoided in functional programming, and you get terrible nested functions.
In the following line, can you find what function 53 is an argument to?
(a 2 3 (b 2) 4 (c (d e 2) (f (g)) h (i (j (k 2 (l) (m 2) 3) 443) 53)) (n 23))
It would make docking somewhat difficult, to say the least.
It doesn't really help our moral authority that we gave Iraq all sorts of warnings and then invaded anyway after they caved into all our demands.
Why would you run Ubuntu on a headless remote system? I'm not sure why Ubuntu needs to cater to everyone. That's what other distributions are for.
I'm wondering if there's greater risk of overheating or crashing.