There have been relatively few new 'fundamental' discoveries in physics, compared to refinements and increasing precision.
How about the accelerating expansion of the universe and the discovery that 75% of the universe is something we do not know anything about? How about the origin and machanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking? Or the discovery of the Higgs Boson? How much more "fundamental" do you expect?
the laws themselves haven't changed substantially since quantum mechanics became well understood (proposed nearly 100 years ago).
Integrating strong an weak interaction into quantum theory were pretty substantial.
inflation of the universe (eg. dark mater)
Dark matter is what holds our galaxies together; gravity only sucks, it can't push things apart.The cause for the accelerating expansion is called dark energy.
You have pretty much all of your facts wrong. Here's the cliff notes:
Antigua believed the US effort to prevent Antigua-licensed online gambling companies from offering services to US punters was in violation of international trade law. In 2005, a World Trade Organization (WTO) appellate body agreed, and told the US to either shut down its domestic online horse betting operations or allow Antigua equal access. Instead, America chose ‘none of the above’ and in 2007 the WTO ruled Antigua was owed an annual $21m in compensatory damages. If the US refused to pay, the WTO authorized Antigua to collect by other means, such as disregarding US copyrights to a value equal to the annual damages owed.
Here are some non-computer analogies to help people like you (who know nothing about computers) understand:
You notice that there are a couple of thousand cars in a parking lot, and you try to lockpick every single car door damaging some of them in the process after you've been told that tempering with car doors in the parking lot is not acceptable behavior and you might lose your right to hang out in this parking lot if you continue.
since this kind of security work is actually expensive if you hire someone to do it.
Just like the Koran the Bible contradicts itself constantly. The fallacy I'm talking about is only taking the "bad parts" of the Koran and only the "good parts" of the Bible and then comparing these two results.
Why do you choose this frame of reference? The choice is not in any way canonical. Relativity is the only relevant model here. But you're missing the point again. It's not about beeing wrong or right. It is about killing people beacause they have a different opinion.
You are neither right nor wrong. You are not even wrong because you talk about movement without giving a frame of reference. Don't worry I don't deem it lawful to kill you because of that. Only a disgusting piece of shit would threaten death for something like this.
In Islam we don't listen to any lunatic proclaiming stuff. There are sciences with defined methodologies, and there are scientists or scholars who debate religious issues, which is much like peer-reviewing in modern science.
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Show me one testable explanation that these "scientists or scholars" debate. Show me one testable prediction that these "scientists or scholars" debate. You're doing science in the same sense that the cargo cult guys do war fighting.
If MtG is Turing Complete (and it is, see link below) that would imply there is theoretically no optimum strategy
Depends on your definition of optimal strategy. The existence of a Nash Equilibrium, i. e. a set of strategies, one for each player, such that no player has a incentive to unilaterally change his action (because changing would increase loss/ decrease win), can usually be proven without actually finding theses optimal strategies for each player. Examples: Every finite game has Nash Equilibria (obv!). Every game with compact strategy sets and continuous utility function has Nash Equilibria (Kakutani FP Theorem). And so on. Note that in game theory the term "strategy" means the complete set of actions the player will take at any stage of the game. Also note that a optimal strategy does not guarantee maximum payout against every opponent's strategy. These strategies tend to not exist for anything but the most trivial games.
I don't know the rules to MtG so no idea if it falls in one of the two examples i gave but pretty much every game thats exist outside math faculties does:)
The correct response is for the countries in which the gambling sites in question, who are having their lawful business interefered with, reside to start taking retaliatory action - trade embargoes, expelled ambassadors, moratorium on extradition, closing airbases, etc.
Antigua and Barbuda tried something like that They won the international court case but are not able to collect on the damages awarded.
You're trying to change the subject. I wasn't arguing if WikiLeaks actions a right or wrong. GP made a claim about legality and the legal status of actions is determined by courts not by a press conference from Hillary Clinton. This also holds true for international disputes and is exactly how non-failed states handle "such things".
Problem with Wikileaks is they are the illegitimate business from the Point of View of US Law.
Why do you keep on claiming this? WikiLeaks has never been convicted or even charged in any US court. Form the point of view of US law they hence are innocent.
the only thing they could get against Assange was some trumped up rape accusation (I don't believe they've even charged him).
Correct. There are no rape accusations against Assange. Neither the two women involoved in the case nor the prosecutor claim that Assange raped anybody.
Surething. Oh... and have you seen any of the WBC protests? Most of them are children.
Was it ok to let OBL live after what he did?
That's quite off topic, isn't it? Whe are talking about people that do nothing but stand on some street corner and shout stupid things. Do you understand the difference between this and mass murder?
Congratulations. This is the 50th comment I've read in this thread that suggests violence as the one and only solution. And all describe how happy they would be. Best thing to do and only thing that comes to your mind is to just kill the people you don't like. You seem to see the world exactly like Adam Lanza did.
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There have been relatively few new 'fundamental' discoveries in physics, compared to refinements and increasing precision.
How about the accelerating expansion of the universe and the discovery that 75% of the universe is something we do not know anything about? How about the origin and machanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking? Or the discovery of the Higgs Boson? How much more "fundamental" do you expect?
the laws themselves haven't changed substantially since quantum mechanics became well understood (proposed nearly 100 years ago).
Integrating strong an weak interaction into quantum theory were pretty substantial.
inflation of the universe (eg. dark mater)
Dark matter is what holds our galaxies together; gravity only sucks, it can't push things apart.The cause for the accelerating expansion is called dark energy.
You have pretty much all of your facts wrong. Here's the cliff notes:
Antigua believed the US effort to prevent Antigua-licensed online gambling companies from offering services to US punters was in violation of international trade law. In 2005, a World Trade Organization (WTO) appellate body agreed, and told the US to either shut down its domestic online horse betting operations or allow Antigua equal access. Instead, America chose ‘none of the above’ and in 2007 the WTO ruled Antigua was owed an annual $21m in compensatory damages. If the US refused to pay, the WTO authorized Antigua to collect by other means, such as disregarding US copyrights to a value equal to the annual damages owed.
Here are some non-computer analogies to help people like you (who know nothing about computers) understand:
You notice that there are a couple of thousand cars in a parking lot, and you try to lockpick every single car door damaging some of them in the process after you've been told that tempering with car doors in the parking lot is not acceptable behavior and you might lose your right to hang out in this parking lot if you continue.
since this kind of security work is actually expensive if you hire someone to do it.
Script kiddies are actually pretty cheap.
see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3399879&cid=42672661
Just like the Koran the Bible contradicts itself constantly. The fallacy I'm talking about is only taking the "bad parts" of the Koran and only the "good parts" of the Bible and then comparing these two results.
2. That page itself admits that the NT, upon which Christianity is based, does not advocate violence.
Last time I checked the old testament was part of the "authoritative text" of Christianity, aka the Bible.
Why do you choose this frame of reference? The choice is not in any way canonical. Relativity is the only relevant model here. But you're missing the point again. It's not about beeing wrong or right. It is about killing people beacause they have a different opinion.
Do you submit to an authoritative text which commands you to kill anyone who disagrees with it or laughs at it?
Everyone who follows one of the abrahamic religions does that.
You are neither right nor wrong. You are not even wrong because you talk about movement without giving a frame of reference. Don't worry I don't deem it lawful to kill you because of that. Only a disgusting piece of shit would threaten death for something like this.
In Islam we don't listen to any lunatic proclaiming stuff. There are sciences with defined methodologies, and there are scientists or scholars who debate religious issues, which is much like peer-reviewing in modern science.
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Show me one testable explanation that these "scientists or scholars" debate. Show me one testable prediction that these "scientists or scholars" debate. You're doing science in the same sense that the cargo cult guys do war fighting.
Christian groups regularly denounce unChristian behavior among other Christian groups. Where does that occur in Islam?
Here.
It doesn't for two reasons
You do realize that you live in a complete fantasy world, right?
C# will and does have the same exact vulnerabilities.
No. CLR application domains and Java class loaders are different concepts.
If MtG is Turing Complete (and it is, see link below) that would imply there is theoretically no optimum strategy
Depends on your definition of optimal strategy. The existence of a Nash Equilibrium, i. e. a set of strategies, one for each player, such that no player has a incentive to unilaterally change his action (because changing would increase loss/ decrease win), can usually be proven without actually finding theses optimal strategies for each player. Examples: Every finite game has Nash Equilibria (obv!). Every game with compact strategy sets and continuous utility function has Nash Equilibria (Kakutani FP Theorem). And so on. Note that in game theory the term "strategy" means the complete set of actions the player will take at any stage of the game. Also note that a optimal strategy does not guarantee maximum payout against every opponent's strategy. These strategies tend to not exist for anything but the most trivial games.
I don't know the rules to MtG so no idea if it falls in one of the two examples i gave but pretty much every game thats exist outside math faculties does :)
Three words: Awesome!
Is google broken? Here's an example: In other words, in terms of country rankings, high incarceration rates tend to be associated with low levels of safety and "Quality of Life". Mob dynamics change the social contract. Your New York example only suggests correlation if you fail to control for this change.
The correct response is for the countries in which the gambling sites in question, who are having their lawful business interefered with, reside to start taking retaliatory action - trade embargoes, expelled ambassadors, moratorium on extradition, closing airbases, etc.
Antigua and Barbuda tried something like that They won the international court case but are not able to collect on the damages awarded.
Collectiong rake is illegal in most of the U.S. Playing poker for money is not illegal.
One of the major restraints against crime is the risk of getting caught and penalized.
Literally all data collected on this topic shows that this is wrong. How did you come up with this idea?
You're trying to change the subject. I wasn't arguing if WikiLeaks actions a right or wrong. GP made a claim about legality and the legal status of actions is determined by courts not by a press conference from Hillary Clinton. This also holds true for international disputes and is exactly how non-failed states handle "such things".
Nope. The rape allegations are only part of the smear campaign and are not part of any legal proceedings against Assange.
Problem with Wikileaks is they are the illegitimate business from the Point of View of US Law.
Why do you keep on claiming this? WikiLeaks has never been convicted or even charged in any US court. Form the point of view of US law they hence are innocent.
the only thing they could get against Assange was some trumped up rape accusation (I don't believe they've even charged him).
Correct. There are no rape accusations against Assange. Neither the two women involoved in the case nor the prosecutor claim that Assange raped anybody.
Which law was WikiLeaks convicted of breaking?
Difference is we do not kill children
Sure thing. Oh ... and have you seen any of the WBC protests? Most of them are children.
Was it ok to let OBL live after what he did?
That's quite off topic, isn't it? Whe are talking about people that do nothing but stand on some street corner and shout stupid things. Do you understand the difference between this and mass murder?
Congratulations. This is the 50th comment I've read in this thread that suggests violence as the one and only solution. And all describe how happy they would be. Best thing to do and only thing that comes to your mind is to just kill the people you don't like. You seem to see the world exactly like Adam Lanza did.