Your analogy is flawed. A CEO is responsible to his shareholders and can be replaced if he does a bad job. This is more analogous to a democracy, where, in theory a leader doing a bad job can be voted out and replaced. A CEO who was such by birthright, had absolute power and held no responsibility to anyone other than himself would very likely be worse than a CEO responsible to shareholders, like a leader responsible to the people would be better than one not responsible to anyone.
Benevolent dictators are not unheard of, but are definitely in the minority.
Second, in my mind the Copenhagen interpretation is impossible to prove because you can never really know what the wavefunction is doing before the observation, and this is why it's an interpretation
It seems that "in my mind" is the latest code-word for "I don't know what I'm talking about".
You would have been right until 1964. That's the year when John Bell showed that it makes an observable difference whether the particle had a precise (though unknown) position prior to the measurement or not. It was more or less Bell's Theorem that settled the Bohr-Einstein debates - in which Bohr claimed particles had no precise position prior to their measurement, and Einstein claimed they did but QM was incomplete as it only provided a statistical interpretation - in favor of Bohr, making the Copenhagen Interpretation the orthodox view in the community.
I prefer the term MiKKKro$hit myself. Not only does replacing soft with shit indicate my opinion of their software, along with the dollar sign indicating how greedy they are, I believe replacing the 'c' with KKK will portray them as the oppressive organization that they are, along with completely destroying any semblance of respect my post might have commanded up until that point.
Wouldn't solar sails also violate the law of conservation of momentum as photons bouncing off a sail have no mass, and yet cause the sail to accelerate?
So I communicate to others but through a nice free little thing called letters
My friends often try to send me files or pictures or videos through the "internet" and it doesn't work. They get annoyed and tell me to "go online." I'm told that snail mail is stupid & crappy for not supporting these features.
Really makes you wonder if the people who developed writing couldn't figure out how to make the videos/pictures stream through the mail box... or if it was a design decision by choice to avoid hidden viruses that the codecs unpack in the media files. Probably the latter.
Do you also rail against email attachments? Oh wait GAIM is OSS so it's automatically better even if that betterness manifests in a lack of basic features.
Depending on how you define "a lot of people" and "small companies", I'd wager you're talking out of your ass and haven't actually looked at any statistics. According to the US Census Bureau, only about 10% of everybody that's employed is employed in firms with less than 10 employees. On the other hand, firms with over 500 employees (I'd consider those to be 'big business') employ about 50% of the workforce.
Do you have anything backing up your argument other than "uhh, there's a lot of small businesses so, like, I'll go ahead and say they must employ a lot of people and I'll hope everyone will believe me because everyone believes things they want to hear regardless of proof"?
So, tell me, how hard would it be to stage an armed coup? I hear the second amendment was crafted with just such a scenario in mind.
(I'm waiting for the FBI raids website known to harbour militant and anti-US sentiments headline tomorrow. This is my attempt to bring slashdot down, FYI)
You're missing the point. The point is that cartoon child porn is icky. Just like gay sex. Anything that offends my sensibilities, anything at all, must banned and its participants jailed, regardless of whether they're doing any harm or even affecting me at all. The mere thought that something out there is icky fills me with pure rage; rage that causes me to go out and vote for any canditate who'll stop the ickiness.
Safari is a decent browser, and Firefox is a horrible pile of trash on OSX (look at my karma go). OSX doesn't really have an awesome browser, while Windows does. Opera is a great, fantastic browser which I can't recommend enough. It's faster than pretty much any other browser I've tried, and little features such as built in RSS/Atom readers, note-taking, gestures, tabs, mail-client and so forth work better their corresponding extensions. It's Opera, Foobar and uTorrent I miss most on a Mac.
On a more serious note, I can think of two "must have" (for me) applicatoins that Windows has but lack on OSX. Firstly uTorrent. There's no equivalent on OSX and every single other torrent client is miles behind uTorrent. Secondly, Foobar2000 - an extremely customizable database-driven music player with an insanely small memory footprint. It puts iTunes to shame. Take a look at this thread at the hydrogen audio forums to get an idea of just how customizable this program is. And remember, that's just the UI you're seeing, there's tons more that can be tweaked behind the scenes. Whenever I need to use iTunes, I feel like I have my hands tied behind my back. Did I mention Foobar has a terribly small memory footprint too?
Human beings do nothing outside a very specific environment tailored to their needs, where temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air, gravity, radiation, &c., all lie within specific bounds. How is this different from a virus needing an environment that includes cellular structures in order to replicate?
If the temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air and gravity don't meet a life form's specific needs, the life-form dies. A dead life-form doesn't eat, replicate or metabolize, even after it goes back to a suitable environment.
Living things would either die, metabolize, or replicate; viruses can do neither. I was about to type more words but thought that I'd instead link to a previous comment which explains everything pretty well.
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He's trolling trolls. It's all very meta and hard to understand. I wouldn't try too hard if I were you.
Your analogy is flawed. A CEO is responsible to his shareholders and can be replaced if he does a bad job. This is more analogous to a democracy, where, in theory a leader doing a bad job can be voted out and replaced. A CEO who was such by birthright, had absolute power and held no responsibility to anyone other than himself would very likely be worse than a CEO responsible to shareholders, like a leader responsible to the people would be better than one not responsible to anyone.
Benevolent dictators are not unheard of, but are definitely in the minority.
It seems that "in my mind" is the latest code-word for "I don't know what I'm talking about".
You would have been right until 1964. That's the year when John Bell showed that it makes an observable difference whether the particle had a precise (though unknown) position prior to the measurement or not. It was more or less Bell's Theorem that settled the Bohr-Einstein debates - in which Bohr claimed particles had no precise position prior to their measurement, and Einstein claimed they did but QM was incomplete as it only provided a statistical interpretation - in favor of Bohr, making the Copenhagen Interpretation the orthodox view in the community.
You mean fIling frivolous lawsuits?
I prefer the term MiKKKro$hit myself. Not only does replacing soft with shit indicate my opinion of their software, along with the dollar sign indicating how greedy they are, I believe replacing the 'c' with KKK will portray them as the oppressive organization that they are, along with completely destroying any semblance of respect my post might have commanded up until that point.
Ting-a-ling, you son of a bitch!
How are they showing originality if they are just doing what you say? :-)
They're not, which is what makes it funny
tag it ohgodsomeonewilltagthissharks instead and show some originality
Quantum Mechanics isn't magic, and can't pass information faster than c.
The fact that it's not microscopically fine, which would imply particle sizes in the 'micro' range.
And when they ask you for the password you either give it to them or get hit with "obstruction of justice".
Wouldn't solar sails also violate the law of conservation of momentum as photons bouncing off a sail have no mass, and yet cause the sail to accelerate?
I'd be even more shocked if people bitched about Starbucks prices while chugging away on their third $4.00 cup of gasoline.
You should read some exit mundi for fun and entertaining end-of-world scenarios!
So I communicate to others but through a nice free little thing called letters
... or if it was a design decision by choice to avoid hidden viruses that the codecs unpack in the media files. Probably the latter.
My friends often try to send me files or pictures or videos through the "internet" and it doesn't work. They get annoyed and tell me to "go online." I'm told that snail mail is stupid & crappy for not supporting these features.
Really makes you wonder if the people who developed writing couldn't figure out how to make the videos/pictures stream through the mail box
Do you also rail against email attachments? Oh wait GAIM is OSS so it's automatically better even if that betterness manifests in a lack of basic features.
Actually, Duke Nukem Forever will be ready to ship by early 2013. Regrettably, however, on the 21st December 2012 the world will end. :( Sorry.
Depending on how you define "a lot of people" and "small companies", I'd wager you're talking out of your ass and haven't actually looked at any statistics. According to the US Census Bureau, only about 10% of everybody that's employed is employed in firms with less than 10 employees. On the other hand, firms with over 500 employees (I'd consider those to be 'big business') employ about 50% of the workforce.
Do you have anything backing up your argument other than "uhh, there's a lot of small businesses so, like, I'll go ahead and say they must employ a lot of people and I'll hope everyone will believe me because everyone believes things they want to hear regardless of proof"?
So, tell me, how hard would it be to stage an armed coup? I hear the second amendment was crafted with just such a scenario in mind.
(I'm waiting for the FBI raids website known to harbour militant and anti-US sentiments headline tomorrow. This is my attempt to bring slashdot down, FYI)
You're missing the point. The point is that cartoon child porn is icky. Just like gay sex. Anything that offends my sensibilities, anything at all, must banned and its participants jailed, regardless of whether they're doing any harm or even affecting me at all. The mere thought that something out there is icky fills me with pure rage; rage that causes me to go out and vote for any canditate who'll stop the ickiness.
On an unrelated note, Eastern Orthodox Easter today, so happy Easter! Here's a picture of a cute bunny to offset any negative feelings I might have caused with the above paragraph.
This is Philips. Fuck the masses!
Hey, this works.
Opera.
Safari is a decent browser, and Firefox is a horrible pile of trash on OSX (look at my karma go). OSX doesn't really have an awesome browser, while Windows does. Opera is a great, fantastic browser which I can't recommend enough. It's faster than pretty much any other browser I've tried, and little features such as built in RSS/Atom readers, note-taking, gestures, tabs, mail-client and so forth work better their corresponding extensions.
It's Opera, Foobar and uTorrent I miss most on a Mac.
On a more serious note, I can think of two "must have" (for me) applicatoins that Windows has but lack on OSX. Firstly uTorrent. There's no equivalent on OSX and every single other torrent client is miles behind uTorrent.
Secondly, Foobar2000 - an extremely customizable database-driven music player with an insanely small memory footprint. It puts iTunes to shame. Take a look at this thread at the hydrogen audio forums to get an idea of just how customizable this program is. And remember, that's just the UI you're seeing, there's tons more that can be tweaked behind the scenes. Whenever I need to use iTunes, I feel like I have my hands tied behind my back.
Did I mention Foobar has a terribly small memory footprint too?
Human beings do nothing outside a very specific environment tailored to their needs, where temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air, gravity, radiation, &c., all lie within specific bounds. How is this different from a virus needing an environment that includes cellular structures in order to replicate?
If the temperature, pressure, oxygen content of air and gravity don't meet a life form's specific needs, the life-form dies. A dead life-form doesn't eat, replicate or metabolize, even after it goes back to a suitable environment.
Living things would either die, metabolize, or replicate; viruses can do neither. I was about to type more words but thought that I'd instead link to a previous comment which explains everything pretty well.
So in conclusion, dongs.
Does no one have mod points anymore? =( Today 95% (yes, that's right - exactly 95%) of all comments seem to be left with no moderation.
...upgraded cables...
Do you know this one saying about money and sense and one being more than the other? Yeah. It applies to people who buy Monster Cables.
On a related note, may I suggest you buy a CD Demagnetizer? Once I played a demagnetized CD to a friend and