If we look back at our cities in 5000 years we'd conclude that native africans built ships and came to the americas and built up a great expanse of technology and culture in what we now call "inner cities". Obviously that's not how it happened.
Dumb people have more children than smart people, especially when there is a natural abundance of food and shelter and intelligence offers no real reproductive benefit. So I don't think it matters one bit when the americas were populated. It is the sheeple that inherited it.
Conservation of energy is already violated according to current annihilation theory. When a positron and electron "annihilate" the energy of the outgoing photons does not include the intrinsic angular momentum energy of the electrons. It dissapears, supposedly.
My statement wasn't clear. I don't mean that GR is the is the only thing supporting black holes.
Your demands are very high. Providing alernative theories/explainations for observational data most physicists don't know exist is quite out of my reach. (after all physics has gone under the same brutal specialization that other fields have)
By the same token, I could criticize your statements as dubiously adherent to an entrenched model that you probably know far less about than you're letting on.
The proof offered for the existence of blackholes doesn't convince me. Just because there is a solution to the GR equations doesn't make it physically real.
Unfortunately these ideas are so institutionalized that there won't be much respect paid to challengers.
I don't think they could do the infinity gauntlet easily. Maybe in a two movie series, but it's hard to sell that because no one is familiar enough (as in lotr) to invest time in a plot that cuts out half way through. Not to mention that marvel already sold the rights to the xmen characters and spiderman. So that leaves out alot of the plot contained in the Infinity Guantlet miniseries.
Of course as with any movie project, if you have a script and story boarding, and they are done very well, with a good dramatic pace (no 10 minute love scence), then you could sell it to anyone with a brain.
Wasn't there a study showing that children who are better looking than their siblings are also more intelligent than them? They hypothesized that this was because of the mother's reaction to the better looks, that they would spend more quality time with the better looking children.
Actually the ultimate test would be for an independant party to Sponsor a challenge.
Each would team would get(windows and linux):
$5,000 in cash with which to buy hardware and software. All purchases must carry a receipt and all parts must run to spec. No overclocking.
Garunteed 5 9's power.
Each Team's computer will be housed in the same independant facility maintained by Sponsor.
The contest can last no longer than a year. Each team will be able to maintain their own server throughout the competition.
The scoring will be simple. You won't lose points for having down time. Your score is simply the number server pages(the kind to be determined) you've properly served before your first moment of downtime. So if your server crashes before the year is over, the number of pages served up to that point is your score.
Maybe someone has an idea for what a good server is to run.
Linux is an inanimate object which doesn't have the capacity to deem anything necessary.
Besides, the developers do that for your and their own benefit. If you are reporting a bug and you use proprietary drivers which they can neither examine the code of nor change, they want to know about it. Debugging the kernel with proprietary drivers installed is a nightmare.
I was just pointing out that it's more of a reflex to as "how's it going". Whether you meant anything at all by the phrase or not becomes irrelevant.
How does one deal with a manager according to your rubrick? Does one take a personality test every time a manager is, or isn't, asking you something meaningful? are you put on the spot to come up with a spontaneous answer which makes his own day easier? what if he's just "pretending" to be busy and doesn't want a honest, thoughtful answer? Should I just bullshit him?... maybe I should just bullshit my manager no-matter-what. that seems to be the lesson. thanks.
Here I come, advancing up the ranks! watch your back dim-witted managers!
USians is short for the US and asian countries that lock down their currency to ours.
it is derogatory. I guess we'll be making fun of asian countries until they can somehow feel safe enough to go their own way in the "world economy"... until then, USians is a good shorthand for america and its asian dependencies (dependent on american currency).
because it means 100 different things depending on what you should really be asking. If all you mean is "Tell me what's on your mind" then say it. You're far more likely to get a response. If you have no meaning and just want the formality of "How's it going", "OK, how are you?" "Fine thank. have a nice day" or something to that effect, then you are wasting your time.
in stead of saying "how's the project going?" which is a bad use of english anyway, one should say "are you having any problems with the project. if not, will it be completed on time?" -- at least this might get to the point what you're trying to say. Adjust it to reflect what you really mean. I think that people use phrases like that as a formal greeting, and for the appearance of doing something useful.
how is xxx going? is just bad english. don't use it.
Pollution isn't the problem. The catastrophic decline in oil reserves that the world is expecting in a few decades is.
Civilization could implode into regional and ethinic wars. Where once the economy held all the power in civilization, brute force dictatorships might take there place.
The need to develop sustainable sources of energy, and to do it as soon as possible so as not to effect the worlds economy into a deep depression, should be on everyone's mind who is younger than 30.
Classless societies are a harbinger of communism. Once technology starts actually *running* business and the need for human managers ceases, real human labor will become very valuable, not the management of human labor. In the not-so-distant future, when AI brains make the important decisions for us with their supra-human intelligences and wisdom gathering abilities, Corporate titans will become luddites complaining that the american way is dying and class based "meritocracy" (based on pagan formalism) is The One True way; And then the "trekkie" elites will laugh and continue on their merry way to a uptopian future where humans live more equally amongst eachother and enjoy the fruits of nature and their progress.
Capitalism will die because it is sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
Science doesn't care what free will is because it's not an objective thing by definition. Some people think they have it other people don't, among scientists. Some people reinterpret free will to mean something altogether different, maybe as a emergent phenomenon from the underlying machinery of the universe.
Free Will isn't that useful for making decisions or interacting with others necessarily. Even if our universe is based on predictable computations, our universe cannot itself predict its own outcome. So one can view the past as predermined from initial conditions, and free will loses its historical evidence.
Looking into the future, what our brains do can involve a semblance of free will in our actions. Self-directed, altruistic, and ambitious behavior are the closest we can probably get to a societal definition of free will.
Easy question to answer, and fairness has nothing to do with it. Mac OSX applications all have windows counterparts except for the obscure ones. But only die-hard mac lovers "need" those. Besides, linux users would have to emulate the ppc instruction set, which no linux user in their right mind would consider a viable way to run a generic application that has a windows counterpart.
How many people use MacOSX? How many of them Code for GNU/Linux/X-windows with deep knowledge of the low-level stuff needed? It's got to be less than 20.
They aren't morons in this lifetime, but I'm sure their enlightened grandchildren eating genetically engineered algae that provide all nutritional benifits and who are using hydrogen, wind and solar for power. They will see their grandfather as some kind of mental masterbator equivalent to a moron in practice if not in ability. People who can only think 1-2 years in advance and have no vision of ideal behavior for the masses that they themselves put into practice are moronic and contributing to the downfall of all people not a hypothetical roman clique.
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If anything else, this story made me laugh. It's like a food fight in the nerd headquarters.
If we look back at our cities in 5000 years we'd conclude that native africans built ships and came to the americas and built up a great expanse of technology and culture in what we now call "inner cities". Obviously that's not how it happened.
Dumb people have more children than smart people, especially when there is a natural abundance of food and shelter and intelligence offers no real reproductive benefit. So I don't think it matters one bit when the americas were populated. It is the sheeple that inherited it.
I think the fungus growing in my coffee pot contains more than 100 million spores.
Conservation of energy is already violated according to current annihilation theory. When a positron and electron "annihilate" the energy of the outgoing photons does not include the intrinsic angular momentum energy of the electrons. It dissapears, supposedly.
My statement wasn't clear. I don't mean that GR is the is the only thing supporting black holes.
Your demands are very high. Providing alernative theories/explainations for observational data most physicists don't know exist is quite out of my reach. (after all physics has gone under the same brutal specialization that other fields have)
By the same token, I could criticize your statements as dubiously adherent to an entrenched model that you probably know far less about than you're letting on.
The proof offered for the existence of blackholes doesn't convince me. Just because there is a solution to the GR equations doesn't make it physically real.
Unfortunately these ideas are so institutionalized that there won't be much respect paid to challengers.
I don't think they could do the infinity gauntlet easily. Maybe in a two movie series, but it's hard to sell that because no one is familiar enough (as in lotr) to invest time in a plot that cuts out half way through. Not to mention that marvel already sold the rights to the xmen characters and spiderman. So that leaves out alot of the plot contained in the Infinity Guantlet miniseries.
Of course as with any movie project, if you have a script and story boarding, and they are done very well, with a good dramatic pace (no 10 minute love scence), then you could sell it to anyone with a brain.
Wasn't there a study showing that children who are better looking than their siblings are also more intelligent than them? They hypothesized that this was because of the mother's reaction to the better looks, that they would spend more quality time with the better looking children.
That's too bad because intelligence is also correlated to how much quality time your mother spends with you in early life.
I don't understand why anyone would want to see a movie of some FPS shooter.
a Half Life movie would be alot better, and even that would be kind of tacky.
Doom3, quake*, Halo... they all suck. Stop twitching, players, and get a life.
Actually the ultimate test would be for an independant party to Sponsor a challenge.
Each would team would get(windows and linux):
$5,000 in cash with which to buy hardware and software. All purchases must carry a receipt and all parts must run to spec. No overclocking.
Garunteed 5 9's power.
Each Team's computer will be housed in the same independant facility maintained by Sponsor.
The contest can last no longer than a year. Each team will be able to maintain their own server throughout the competition.
The scoring will be simple. You won't lose points for having down time. Your score is simply the number server pages(the kind to be determined) you've properly served before your first moment of downtime. So if your server crashes before the year is over, the number of pages served up to that point is your score.
Maybe someone has an idea for what a good server is to run.
I don't know if people think it's an imprint or not.
Being an imprint doesn't make it fake. it could have been painted on for ceremonial purposes.
That said, the likelyhood of jesus wearing this in his tomb is extremely small.
Linux is an inanimate object which doesn't have the capacity to deem anything necessary.
Besides, the developers do that for your and their own benefit. If you are reporting a bug and you use proprietary drivers which they can neither examine the code of nor change, they want to know about it. Debugging the kernel with proprietary drivers installed is a nightmare.
no it doesn't. American means citizen of the US in almost all circumstances. Canadian means citizen of canada.
that's absurd.
I was just pointing out that it's more of a reflex to as "how's it going". Whether you meant anything at all by the phrase or not becomes irrelevant.
How does one deal with a manager according to your rubrick? Does one take a personality test every time a manager is, or isn't, asking you something meaningful? are you put on the spot to come up with a spontaneous answer which makes his own day easier? what if he's just "pretending" to be busy and doesn't want a honest, thoughtful answer? Should I just bullshit him?... maybe I should just bullshit my manager no-matter-what. that seems to be the lesson. thanks.
Here I come, advancing up the ranks! watch your back dim-witted managers!
USians is short for the US and asian countries that lock down their currency to ours.
it is derogatory. I guess we'll be making fun of asian countries until they can somehow feel safe enough to go their own way in the "world economy"... until then, USians is a good shorthand for america and its asian dependencies (dependent on american currency).
because it means 100 different things depending on what you should really be asking. If all you mean is "Tell me what's on your mind" then say it. You're far more likely to get a response. If you have no meaning and just want the formality of "How's it going", "OK, how are you?" "Fine thank. have a nice day" or something to that effect, then you are wasting your time.
in stead of saying "how's the project going?" which is a bad use of english anyway, one should say "are you having any problems with the project. if not, will it be completed on time?" -- at least this might get to the point what you're trying to say. Adjust it to reflect what you really mean. I think that people use phrases like that as a formal greeting, and for the appearance of doing something useful.
how is xxx going? is just bad english. don't use it.
"pet peeve" annoys me.
do see how easy that was?
simple english.
I just beat soldier of fortune 2 using wine (free version).
Wine really works... so what? There aren't many proprietary applications linux users want to be using day in and day out anyway... move on.
Pollution isn't the problem. The catastrophic decline in oil reserves that the world is expecting in a few decades is.
Civilization could implode into regional and ethinic wars. Where once the economy held all the power in civilization, brute force dictatorships might take there place.
The need to develop sustainable sources of energy, and to do it as soon as possible so as not to effect the worlds economy into a deep depression, should be on everyone's mind who is younger than 30.
Classless societies are a harbinger of communism. Once technology starts actually *running* business and the need for human managers ceases, real human labor will become very valuable, not the management of human labor. In the not-so-distant future, when AI brains make the important decisions for us with their supra-human intelligences and wisdom gathering abilities, Corporate titans will become luddites complaining that the american way is dying and class based "meritocracy" (based on pagan formalism) is The One True way; And then the "trekkie" elites will laugh and continue on their merry way to a uptopian future where humans live more equally amongst eachother and enjoy the fruits of nature and their progress.
Capitalism will die because it is sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
Science doesn't care what free will is because it's not an objective thing by definition. Some people think they have it other people don't, among scientists. Some people reinterpret free will to mean something altogether different, maybe as a emergent phenomenon from the underlying machinery of the universe.
Free Will isn't that useful for making decisions or interacting with others necessarily. Even if our universe is based on predictable computations, our universe cannot itself predict its own outcome. So one can view the past as predermined from initial conditions, and free will loses its historical evidence.
Looking into the future, what our brains do can involve a semblance of free will in our actions. Self-directed, altruistic, and ambitious behavior are the closest we can probably get to a societal definition of free will.
Easy question to answer, and fairness has nothing to do with it. Mac OSX applications all have windows counterparts except for the obscure ones. But only die-hard mac lovers "need" those. Besides, linux users would have to emulate the ppc instruction set, which no linux user in their right mind would consider a viable way to run a generic application that has a windows counterpart.
How many people use MacOSX? How many of them Code for GNU/Linux/X-windows with deep knowledge of the low-level stuff needed? It's got to be less than 20.
They aren't morons in this lifetime, but I'm sure their enlightened grandchildren eating genetically engineered algae that provide all nutritional benifits and who are using hydrogen, wind and solar for power. They will see their grandfather as some kind of mental masterbator equivalent to a moron in practice if not in ability. People who can only think 1-2 years in advance and have no vision of ideal behavior for the masses that they themselves put into practice are moronic and contributing to the downfall of all people not a hypothetical roman clique.