Who says drag has to be experienced in soley in the physical? I'd think it's entirely possibly that it's possible to drag time. Something could be moving at the same speed with or without the drag, but with the drag, the relative time the body/object experiences is slowed. In other words, if x, y, and z are distance, then the speed of t, which is time, goes slower for the object.
Efficiency is the key. Not using/paying for more than what is needed. I guess it depends on whether someone minds eating off of 90% clean dishes. As for heating and cooling houses, the same thing holds true concerning efficiency.
Isn't the problem with something being discrete is that it can be quantitized?
Instead of saying that such and such is 1/10th of the whole, it would be like saying that there is X number of units.
If there are discrete units for distance, there must be discrete units for time.
This would imply that when things gain speed, they are doing an instantaneous jump at the very beginning. For it to go from the 0th unit of time to the next unit of time, it's making an instant jump of infinite velocity, is it not? (I'm trying to remember some stuff from years past. It's been like 5 years since I think I had to deal with thinking about this precisely.)
Second of all, let me make a correction in what I typed up before I went to bed. I shouldn't have used the term photons. I should have said high frequency cosmic energy.
Still, I believe it would come from the sun, stars, and nebulae in our Uuniverse. Afterall, if the Universe is a finite dodecahedron with each side transporting material to another one of it's sides, then high frequency cosmic energy would end up leaving one side and coming through another and would keep traveling until it hits what we deem as matter.
Now, do you have anything intelligent to put forth in this discussion, or are you just going around trolling for attention?
Exactly. Who knows, maybe we should ditch our measurement system and go towards another one? Instead of measuring from point A to B, maybe we should measure what fraction of the sphere A and B encompass?
You can put two dots on a partially filled balloon. They start at 1 centimeter apart. You blow it up, and now they are still 2 centimeters apart. However, they encompassed the same amount of the total balloon as before, despite appearing to be further apart. I.e., they may have been 1/360th of the balloon's distance around in that given slice.
Hmmmm. It makes me wonder about redshifts. Redshifts happen because light is stretched, like in the Doppler affect. Kind of like when a motorcycle moves away from you and the sound waves have to take longer and longer to get to you. What if the motorcycle and you aren't getting further apart, but rather the road is expanding itself?
Wouldn't without gravity, time would be meaningless? Here in Earth, we're in a time well. If we go to the Moon, time is going to be going a bit faster because there is less resistance (i.e., less gravity). Out in deep space, in the middle of nothingness, time is going to go real fast, meaning 1 hour on Earth will seem like forever out in the middle of nothingness.
I think the word I'm looking for is hypercube, but I mean to apply it to the number of sides a dodecahedron has.
Going through one side will result ending up coming through another side. (Anyone ever have dreams of being stuck in a room, you go through the door, only to end up in the same room as before?)
Picture yourself in an empty room like this. You can see through the sides, and you see yourself like in a hall of mirrors. You pass through the walls only to end up in the same room.
Imagine release millions of tiny superballs, which we will call photons, in the room. Now, imagine there is another object, a big round object in the room, that isn't moving to start with.
All these superballs going in every single direction start bouncing off you, pushing you around. However, since there were few, if any, superballs between you and the big round object to begin with, there is less "pressure" inbetween you and the object, so the superballs on the outside push you towards it.
The big round object is moving slower as the superballs bounce off of it because it has more mass, however, you are pushed towards it ever quicker. More and more, you fall faster and faster towards it.
I know this is off topic, but how is it even possible for photons to exist without gravity? Isn't gravity that which feeds energy/matter into passing time?
If you can infate a soccer ball and make it grow, certainly I would imagine the Universe can grow.
Maybe there is currently a finite amount of material. Who says that material can't get relatively further apart from itself? Either things can be moving away from each other occupying more space, OR the material itself, the "dots", are getting smaller and smaller making it appear we are gaining space.
Isn't there a multi-big bang theory that states that new material can enter our Universe in this fashion? Perhaps our current Universe had no single beginning, but new stuff is being added to it all the time. How many mutli-player online gamers have an ever-expanding world? New levels are constantly being added.
First of all, child pornography depicting real victims creates problems. One, it can in a sense justify the crime, so those viewing it are in a sense justifying what happened. Two, it harms the minors after the fact by people still viewing what has happened to them.
As I said in another post, the issue is due process.
If these sites contain child pornography, wouldn't that be a crime in and of themselves? Shouldn'these sites be taken down?
Okay, what if the sites are out of country you ask? Isn't it still a crime to view them? Instead of blocking them, shouldn't the government be trying to go after people viewing them?
I do not like the idea of an ISP censoring, regardless of how noble it might be.
If these sites contain child pornography, wouldn't that be a crime in and of themselves? Shouldn'these sites be taken down?
Okay, what if the sites are out of country you ask? Isn't it still a crime to view them? Instead of blocking them, shouldn't the government be trying to go after people viewing them?
I do not like the idea of an ISP censoring, regardless of how noble it might be.
I think Washington state has 16 years old as the age of consent, but with exceptions. It seems liberal to allow it that young. Then again, horse sex was completely legal here, provided the horse isn't considered a small animal. Not sure if they changed the law yet.
I think for age of consent laws, maybe require that both parties must be 18+ OR the younger party must be 80% of the older party's age. I.e., 16 is 80% of 20. I don't know if it would work though, since 80% of 15 is 12. Would that be too young?
I assume you're kidding because one, I can't find that information on the Internet and two, that would be a 5th Amendment violation concerning due process.
My understanding is that sex offenders on social networking sites isn't a big issue compared to sex offenses that never involved the Internet in the first place.
How is a sex offender defined? I'm thinking there could be a whole range of sex offenses, from minor infractions to major ones.
If anything, if someone commits a major sex offense, then the judge in his or her right mind should consider removing Internet privledges. Wouldn't that stop the potential of the sex offender luring any more persons?
You can't solve the problem of malicious rootkits by fighting it with other rootkits. There is always going to be someone smarter out there that will defeat it. The solution will involve finding the root cause of people creating rootkits. Why do people release these types of malware in the first place?
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Sorry, but I am still going to have to disagree. Just because a theory hasn't made it to the point of writing it down doesn't make it untrue.
Who says drag has to be experienced in soley in the physical? I'd think it's entirely possibly that it's possible to drag time. Something could be moving at the same speed with or without the drag, but with the drag, the relative time the body/object experiences is slowed. In other words, if x, y, and z are distance, then the speed of t, which is time, goes slower for the object.
I'm in my 20s, but then again, I don't drink alcohol. I never tried it neither, so maybe I'm missing something.
This would make an interesting slashdot poll. "What kind of drinks do geeks out there consume when doing their stuff?"
Efficiency is the key. Not using/paying for more than what is needed. I guess it depends on whether someone minds eating off of 90% clean dishes. As for heating and cooling houses, the same thing holds true concerning efficiency.
Geeks need not beer. Give them a high energy drink instead.
Doesn't the pots and pans cycle use up more energy/water? Doesn't it end up costing you more money each year?
Isn't the problem with something being discrete is that it can be quantitized?
Instead of saying that such and such is 1/10th of the whole, it would be like saying that there is X number of units.
If there are discrete units for distance, there must be discrete units for time.
This would imply that when things gain speed, they are doing an instantaneous jump at the very beginning. For it to go from the 0th unit of time to the next unit of time, it's making an instant jump of infinite velocity, is it not? (I'm trying to remember some stuff from years past. It's been like 5 years since I think I had to deal with thinking about this precisely.)
For one, you assume too much.
Second of all, let me make a correction in what I typed up before I went to bed. I shouldn't have used the term photons. I should have said high frequency cosmic energy.
Still, I believe it would come from the sun, stars, and nebulae in our Uuniverse. Afterall, if the Universe is a finite dodecahedron with each side transporting material to another one of it's sides, then high frequency cosmic energy would end up leaving one side and coming through another and would keep traveling until it hits what we deem as matter.
Now, do you have anything intelligent to put forth in this discussion, or are you just going around trolling for attention?
Exactly. Who knows, maybe we should ditch our measurement system and go towards another one? Instead of measuring from point A to B, maybe we should measure what fraction of the sphere A and B encompass?
You can put two dots on a partially filled balloon. They start at 1 centimeter apart. You blow it up, and now they are still 2 centimeters apart. However, they encompassed the same amount of the total balloon as before, despite appearing to be further apart. I.e., they may have been 1/360th of the balloon's distance around in that given slice.
Hmmmm. It makes me wonder about redshifts. Redshifts happen because light is stretched, like in the Doppler affect. Kind of like when a motorcycle moves away from you and the sound waves have to take longer and longer to get to you. What if the motorcycle and you aren't getting further apart, but rather the road is expanding itself?
Wouldn't without gravity, time would be meaningless? Here in Earth, we're in a time well. If we go to the Moon, time is going to be going a bit faster because there is less resistance (i.e., less gravity). Out in deep space, in the middle of nothingness, time is going to go real fast, meaning 1 hour on Earth will seem like forever out in the middle of nothingness.
I wonder whatever happened to the Funny modifier, and just leaving something at one or zero would be good enough.
Attatch laser beams to the sharks, and we have another sequal for Jaws.
I think the word I'm looking for is hypercube, but I mean to apply it to the number of sides a dodecahedron has.
Going through one side will result ending up coming through another side. (Anyone ever have dreams of being stuck in a room, you go through the door, only to end up in the same room as before?)
Picture yourself in an empty room like this. You can see through the sides, and you see yourself like in a hall of mirrors. You pass through the walls only to end up in the same room.
Imagine release millions of tiny superballs, which we will call photons, in the room. Now, imagine there is another object, a big round object in the room, that isn't moving to start with.
All these superballs going in every single direction start bouncing off you, pushing you around. However, since there were few, if any, superballs between you and the big round object to begin with, there is less "pressure" inbetween you and the object, so the superballs on the outside push you towards it.
The big round object is moving slower as the superballs bounce off of it because it has more mass, however, you are pushed towards it ever quicker. More and more, you fall faster and faster towards it.
I know this is off topic, but how is it even possible for photons to exist without gravity? Isn't gravity that which feeds energy/matter into passing time?
If you can infate a soccer ball and make it grow, certainly I would imagine the Universe can grow.
Maybe there is currently a finite amount of material. Who says that material can't get relatively further apart from itself? Either things can be moving away from each other occupying more space, OR the material itself, the "dots", are getting smaller and smaller making it appear we are gaining space.
Isn't there a multi-big bang theory that states that new material can enter our Universe in this fashion? Perhaps our current Universe had no single beginning, but new stuff is being added to it all the time. How many mutli-player online gamers have an ever-expanding world? New levels are constantly being added.
First of all, child pornography depicting real victims creates problems. One, it can in a sense justify the crime, so those viewing it are in a sense justifying what happened. Two, it harms the minors after the fact by people still viewing what has happened to them.
As I said in another post, the issue is due process.
If these sites contain child pornography, wouldn't that be a crime in and of themselves? Shouldn'these sites be taken down?
Okay, what if the sites are out of country you ask? Isn't it still a crime to view them? Instead of blocking them, shouldn't the government be trying to go after people viewing them?
I do not like the idea of an ISP censoring, regardless of how noble it might be.
Whatever happened to due process?
If these sites contain child pornography, wouldn't that be a crime in and of themselves? Shouldn'these sites be taken down?
Okay, what if the sites are out of country you ask? Isn't it still a crime to view them? Instead of blocking them, shouldn't the government be trying to go after people viewing them?
I do not like the idea of an ISP censoring, regardless of how noble it might be.
I think Washington state has 16 years old as the age of consent, but with exceptions. It seems liberal to allow it that young. Then again, horse sex was completely legal here, provided the horse isn't considered a small animal. Not sure if they changed the law yet.
I think for age of consent laws, maybe require that both parties must be 18+ OR the younger party must be 80% of the older party's age. I.e., 16 is 80% of 20. I don't know if it would work though, since 80% of 15 is 12. Would that be too young?
I assume you're kidding because one, I can't find that information on the Internet and two, that would be a 5th Amendment violation concerning due process.
My understanding is that sex offenders on social networking sites isn't a big issue compared to sex offenses that never involved the Internet in the first place.
How is a sex offender defined? I'm thinking there could be a whole range of sex offenses, from minor infractions to major ones.
If anything, if someone commits a major sex offense, then the judge in his or her right mind should consider removing Internet privledges. Wouldn't that stop the potential of the sex offender luring any more persons?
Nope. Other stuff doesn't work with the page. I haven't tried Firefox yet.
Anyone else experiencing the webpage reloading itself endlessly?
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Go to http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061204/pf/061204-
You can't solve the problem of malicious rootkits by fighting it with other rootkits. There is always going to be someone smarter out there that will defeat it. The solution will involve finding the root cause of people creating rootkits. Why do people release these types of malware in the first place?
Enough said.
Can you stick one in the microwave, put it on high for 30 seconds, and have it come out fine?