Your blog makes you sound like an apologist for paedophilia. You're deliberately conflating naturist images of children and pictures of people having sex with them to try to muddy the issue.
Two of three recent precedents have been contrary to the Sentencing Advisory Panels definition of Level 1 indecency, as they have involved the successful conviction of defendants who have possessed/made naturist photographs of children. Tom OCarroll, founder of PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange), was convicted of evading the prohibition on the importation of indecent material, for attempting to import photographs which he had taken depicting boys playing on nudist beaches in Qatar. The Judge believed that his use of a long lens to take photographs was unreasonable, as the children were not aware that photographs were being taken. That opinion, viewed alongside OCarrolls political ideals, persuaded the jury to declare the photographs indecent. The fact that weight was given to OCarrolls beliefs was later decided to be incorrect by the Appeal Court, but it does imply subjectivity within a jury. Look it's simple. People want to protect their kids from people like Tom & you. They absolutely loath and detest you. Judges have a certain amount of discretion, and they will use that to criminalize your behaviour. Juries will probably convict you. You are not welcome in civilized society given your sexual preferences.
Actually, now that you've seen one here's what it is.
A teratoma is essentially a lump of cancerous stem cells. They can differentiate to form any tissue - teratomas often have teeth, skin and hair and muscles inside a large fleshy mass, but all the cell replication controls are disabled so they grow into bizarre twisted, pulsating forms. The creepiest thing is that sometimes when surgeons remove them, they *flinch*, at least according to a stomach churning documentary I was glued to for some reason. They're a bit like the alien in The Thing really, or The Many in System Shock 2. The name comes from teratos, the greek word for monster.
Some joked about the flinching thing here http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=313859&area=/columnist__tom_eaton/
I Shouldn't Be Alive, one of a dizzying number of new series dedicated to the visceral thrill of the narrow squeak, sounds promising at first. At last, one assumes, a show in which impossible odds are overcome and life affirmed. Perhaps episode one will introduce us to a parasitic teratoma, sporting half an eye, a tooth and a hank of hair, who escapes the scalpel and incinerator and is given all the advantages of its more intact, less pulsating siblings. It goes to law school, answering multiple choice questions by flinching or not flinching. It fights prejudice in the office by rolling about on the desks of bigots, getting ooze on their memos. At last it goes into politics and, supported by the love of a good woman (and her handbag, in which it travels to rallies), it becomes president. Now that's adversity. That's television.
Maybe it's like in Socialist countries, where you could go from General Secretary of the Communist Party and Head of the Armed Forces, to General Secretary of the Communist Party, to Chairman of the People's Assembly, to Assistant Deputy Chair of the North Siberian Republic People's Assembly, to prisoner number 14856734 in People's Reformation Of Incorrect Thoughts Through Death Camp Number 8763, North Siberia.
I'm not going to license your patent. If I get any teratomas I will have them removed and raise them as children.
They'll be ugly little bastards, but they'll be immortal and capable of limb regeneration. I'm sure they'll be able to make a living as superheros or something.
TOP TIP: Do NOT do a Google image search for "teratoma"
Republic just means "no king". Unless Bush stays in power until he dies and is succeeded by one of his kids and that process is the norm, you're still living in republic.
Republic is not synonymous with a free society though, E.g. the USSR was a Republic and so was Nazi Germany whereas Sweden and the UK are not. Amusingly rabidly communist North Korea is arguably not one, since leadership has always been hereditry there. Same with Syria - even though it calls itself the Syrian Arab Republic leaders rule until they die and are succeeded by their sons.
I'll have to agree. Let's shoot for and maybe fail with an analogy. Back in the days of cameras that used film the folks that printed the photos from the film negatives were not prevented from reporting questionable/illegal content to the proper authorities. The authorities have always been able to use those photos and negatives as evidence. About ten years ago my brother, unbeknownst to anyone else, bought two dope plants. For some reason known only to him he stuck them in his wardrobe, photographed them using a film camera and dropped the film off at the chemist. A couple of days later the police raided my parents house at 3am while he was out and took away his plants. My Dad said he heard the doorbell ring, walked downstairs and opened the door and there were about twenty policemen in riot gear. He said they were very polite though - after he worked out that they had a search warrant and he had to let them in, he asked them to remove their boots, and they did.
This was in the UK. I'm not sure what the legality of the chemist reporting it is/was, we were too busing teasing my brother him for being an idiot stoner to check up on it. He was never prosecuted, only cautioned.
or cartoons of naked children (watch out, Simpsons Movie rippers), or images of statues of naked children (David, get out your ID). Child porn is clearly a very bad thing, since children must have been abused to create it, but you have to wonder if the laws against child porn might be a bad thing too. It reminds me of a comic -
The sad thing, this has happened. Parents in the UK have been arrested for pretty much exactly this. From what I can see, no one seriously thinks they were abusing their children - they just took a few admittedly tasteless pictures of them.
E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John
Controversy struck in late September of 2007 when police confiscated a picture taken by a well known photographer by the name of Nan Goldin that featured two naked prepubescent girls. The concern surrounding the picture was the "provocative" position they were standing in. The picture was one of 4,000 pictures in John's collection. On October 27, 2007, the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. I actually think that pictures should be legal in themselves. If they show someone committing a crime, they could be used as evidence to prosecute that person but would not become illegal in themselves. Making pictures illegal when they don't depict any criminal activity is an absurd overreaction.
And if the ant was to ask us "why am I here" Why does there have to be a reason? It seems likely to me that science can explain how given enough time and technology to do experiments, and there is no why. However not knowing a reason doesn't mean there isn't one.
So we don't know.
I think it's verrry interesting that there are white and black holes. Could this be inter-dimensional? Can the weight of a black hole "tear" the fabric of space time and spew into a parallel dimension/different location? Relativity predicts a singularity inside a black hole. But that might just be a limitation of the theory. People have speculated that the matter goes somewhere else - maybe to a new big bang. But we just don't know. If we had a theory of quantum gravity it might not break down and predict something different. But it's very hard to see how we could be sure that theory was correct. Science has traditionally worked by experiments falsifying theories which are then replaced by better ones. But we can't generate anything like the conditions where relativity starts to go crazy. There isn't a consensus as far as I can see which theory of quantum gravity is correct.
Basically, no one knows.
Who's to say that the big bang isn't the result of a black hole collecting so much matter from all directions, that it eventually puts all that matter somewhere else, in all directions, hence the Big Bang and the "universe" expanding. Yeah, I like that idea too. You could imagine that the Big Bang is matter from other universe's black holes. But the problem is that the Big Bang involved far more matter than any one black hole swallowed. If the Universe were to end in a big crunch where all the black holes merged together it would seem to work - the matter could expand into a Big Bang in another Universe. But at the moment it seems like it won't.
Then again as the Big Crunch article on wiki puts it "since the nature of the dark energy that drives the acceleration is unknown, it is still possible that it might eventually reverse sign and cause a rapid collapse".
So we don't know that either.
Actually the Law of Conservation of matter might not apply either. People have speculated that the total energy of the Universe might be zero - http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/31_02/nothing.html
In the inflationary theory, matter, antimatter, and photons were produced by the energy of the false vacuum, which was released following the phase transition. All of these particles consist of positive energy. This energy, however, is exactly balanced by the negative gravitational energy of everything pulling on everything else. In other words, the total energy of the universe is zero! It is remarkable that the universe consists of essentially nothing, but (fortunately for us) in positive and negative parts. You can easily see that gravity is associated with negative energy: If you drop a ball from rest (defined to be a state of zero energy), it gains energy of motion (kinetic energy) as it falls. But this gain is exactly balanced by a larger negative gravitational energy as it comes closer to Earths center, so the sum of the two energies remains zero. In which case you don't need to worry about conservation of energy.
The problem is that white holes have never been observed either directly or indirectly. No, but in Hoyle's steady state theory he worked out that the rate of creation of matter would need to be very low to explain the appearance of the universe. Later the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation was discovered, which most people think is evidence for the Big Bang and that steady state theory is wrong. He tried to modify it into Quasi Solid State Theory, where there are lots of little bangs. Now admittedly no one takes this theory at all seriously, but it works by having minibangs, essentially white holes, doing the creation.
Up to now, the only supernova seen have been inside galaxies. So it's plausible that they are stars exploding. But this one is between the galaxies. So my question is could this be one of Hoyle's minibangs, a white hole spewing out matter in the void between the galaxies? Like Hoyle, steady state theory appeals to me because it means there is no act of creation to explain - the universe has essentially always existed. The idea that matter is conserved in one universe is appealing too. But I'm no astrophysicist and it seems clear that the consensus among them is that Hoyle is wrong. But then again, even if this supernova isn't a minibang, maybe no one found one because no one is looking in the right places - i.e. observatories don't look at the space between galaxies because the consensus is that nothing happens there. And for Hoyle to be right, you don't need very many white holes
On the other hand Chaotic inflation theory gives an eternal universe but (as far as I can tell) no minibangs - the Big Bang is not unique but it's the only white hole we can 'see'. There are multiple bubble universes, but each one comes from a single event and they are not causally connected since light doesn't have time to travel from one to another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Big_Bang
While having no argument with the Lemaître theory, (later confirmed by Edwin Hubble's observations) that the universe was expanding, Hoyle disagreed on its interpretation. An atheist, he found the idea that the universe had a beginning to be philosophically troubling, as many argue that a beginning implies a cause, and thus a creator (see kalam cosmological argument).[4] Instead, Hoyle, along with Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi (with whom he had worked on radar in World War II), argued for the universe as being in a "steady state". The theory tried to explain how the universe could be eternal and essentially unchanging while still having the galaxies we observe moving away from each other. The theory hinged on the creation of matter between galaxies over time, so that even though galaxies get further apart, new ones that develop between them fill the space they leave. The resulting universe is in a "steady state" in the same manner that a flowing river is - the individual water molecules are moving away but the overall river remains the same. I guess you could imagine white holes spewing out matter from black holes into the void between the galaxies in a sort of mini big bang. I guess if we had lots of little bangs instead of one big one it would explain why the universe is flat and homogenous - you wouldn't need to have an inflationary period to flatten things like you do after one big bang. The cosmic microwave background radiation would thus come from all these white holes over eternity rather than one big bang.
Matter is conserved in one universe too, which seems neat. Black holes gobble it up and white holes spit it out. In the big bang model, something spooky connects black holes in one universe to big bangs in a different one. Or maybe matter isn't conserved at all.
I think at one point they claimed that Firefox was freeing the memory but Windows for some reason was not releasing it from the process firefox.exe. Which is kind of cool, because all the Firefox fans would then assume that Windows contains code like this
BOOL GlobalFree ( HGLOBAL Mem ) { #ifndef DOJ_SOURCE_CODE// Take out this shit before you show the damn lawyers Bill says or you will be fukken shot!!!1 if ( (!_tcsicmp ( ProcessControlBlock.name, _T("FIREFOX.exe") )) && random() < HIPPY_SHAFTING_PROBABILITY )
{ // lol suck it hippies! Heil BillG! IE IE Ueber Alles, Ueber Alles in der welt!
return( TRUE );
} #endif///Take out this shit before you show the damn lawyers Bill says or you will be fukken shot!!!1
Actually there's an article here that quotes the density of the new battery as 3000Wh/kg.. 12200 as an energy density for old Lithium Ion batteries is completely bogus by the way.
So 12,200*0.2 = 2440 vs 3000*0.85 = 2550
Not as good as you said since the battery still has 4x worse energy density but you're right that engine efficiency makes up for it.
I dunno it seems like obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence and so on are much more serious crimes than copyright infringement and whatever else they were orginally charged with.
In fact they have to be, otherwise people would just destroy evidence as soon as they were charged with anything.
Just a quick correction, in America you do have the right to do the first two. They fall under fair use, and if anyone tries to tell you different, shoot em. Just a quick correction. If you're in America, unless you're in Texas or Alabama you don't have the right to shoot people just because they lie to you.
If you ever encounter Yahweh, the Old Testament God, don't say that. Don't even think it.
Come to think of it that means that if Swinburne was wrong he got anhilated when he died (No God, aferlife and so on), and if he was right he would be well and truly fucked when God finally got to meet him in person.
If you have a mobile phone that's a few years old it will be pretty hard to get the firmware updated to support SDHC since development on it ceased before SDHC was common. Most firmware updates are about fixing bugs, not adding features like SDHC support.
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A teratoma is essentially a lump of cancerous stem cells. They can differentiate to form any tissue - teratomas often have teeth, skin and hair and muscles inside a large fleshy mass, but all the cell replication controls are disabled so they grow into bizarre twisted, pulsating forms. The creepiest thing is that sometimes when surgeons remove them, they *flinch*, at least according to a stomach churning documentary I was glued to for some reason. They're a bit like the alien in The Thing really, or The Many in System Shock 2. The name comes from teratos, the greek word for monster.
Some joked about the flinching thing here
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=313859&area=/columnist__tom_eaton/ I Shouldn't Be Alive, one of a dizzying number of new series dedicated to the visceral thrill of the narrow squeak, sounds promising at first. At last, one assumes, a show in which impossible odds are overcome and life affirmed. Perhaps episode one will introduce us to a parasitic teratoma, sporting half an eye, a tooth and a hank of hair, who escapes the scalpel and incinerator and is given all the advantages of its more intact, less pulsating siblings. It goes to law school, answering multiple choice questions by flinching or not flinching. It fights prejudice in the office by rolling about on the desks of bigots, getting ooze on their memos. At last it goes into politics and, supported by the love of a good woman (and her handbag, in which it travels to rallies), it becomes president. Now that's adversity. That's television.
Maybe it's like in Socialist countries, where you could go from General Secretary of the Communist Party and Head of the Armed Forces, to General Secretary of the Communist Party, to Chairman of the People's Assembly, to Assistant Deputy Chair of the North Siberian Republic People's Assembly, to prisoner number 14856734 in People's Reformation Of Incorrect Thoughts Through Death Camp Number 8763, North Siberia.
I'm not going to license your patent. If I get any teratomas I will have them removed and raise them as children.
They'll be ugly little bastards, but they'll be immortal and capable of limb regeneration. I'm sure they'll be able to make a living as superheros or something.
TOP TIP: Do NOT do a Google image search for "teratoma"
Oh great, now any bacteria reading this forum know how to avoid the human immune system. Good work, sparky.
Republic just means "no king". Unless Bush stays in power until he dies and is succeeded by one of his kids and that process is the norm, you're still living in republic.
Republic is not synonymous with a free society though, E.g. the USSR was a Republic and so was Nazi Germany whereas Sweden and the UK are not. Amusingly rabidly communist North Korea is arguably not one, since leadership has always been hereditry there. Same with Syria - even though it calls itself the Syrian Arab Republic leaders rule until they die and are succeeded by their sons.
So you're saying "IAAL but IANAGL?"
This was in the UK. I'm not sure what the legality of the chemist reporting it is/was, we were too busing teasing my brother him for being an idiot stoner to check up on it. He was never prosecuted, only cautioned.
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF215-Kitty_Photographer.jpg
The sad thing, this has happened. Parents in the UK have been arrested for pretty much exactly this. From what I can see, no one seriously thinks they were abusing their children - they just took a few admittedly tasteless pictures of them.
E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John Controversy struck in late September of 2007 when police confiscated a picture taken by a well known photographer by the name of Nan Goldin that featured two naked prepubescent girls. The concern surrounding the picture was the "provocative" position they were standing in. The picture was one of 4,000 pictures in John's collection. On October 27, 2007, the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. I actually think that pictures should be legal in themselves. If they show someone committing a crime, they could be used as evidence to prosecute that person but would not become illegal in themselves. Making pictures illegal when they don't depict any criminal activity is an absurd overreaction.
Seems like a risk of teratomas if you get these things injected into you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1748928.stm
So we don't know. I think it's verrry interesting that there are white and black holes. Could this be inter-dimensional? Can the weight of a black hole "tear" the fabric of space time and spew into a parallel dimension/different location? Relativity predicts a singularity inside a black hole. But that might just be a limitation of the theory. People have speculated that the matter goes somewhere else - maybe to a new big bang. But we just don't know. If we had a theory of quantum gravity it might not break down and predict something different. But it's very hard to see how we could be sure that theory was correct. Science has traditionally worked by experiments falsifying theories which are then replaced by better ones. But we can't generate anything like the conditions where relativity starts to go crazy. There isn't a consensus as far as I can see which theory of quantum gravity is correct.
Basically, no one knows. Who's to say that the big bang isn't the result of a black hole collecting so much matter from all directions, that it eventually puts all that matter somewhere else, in all directions, hence the Big Bang and the "universe" expanding. Yeah, I like that idea too. You could imagine that the Big Bang is matter from other universe's black holes. But the problem is that the Big Bang involved far more matter than any one black hole swallowed. If the Universe were to end in a big crunch where all the black holes merged together it would seem to work - the matter could expand into a Big Bang in another Universe. But at the moment it seems like it won't.
Then again as the Big Crunch article on wiki puts it "since the nature of the dark energy that drives the acceleration is unknown, it is still possible that it might eventually reverse sign and cause a rapid collapse".
So we don't know that either.
Actually the Law of Conservation of matter might not apply either. People have speculated that the total energy of the Universe might be zero -
http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/31_02/nothing.html In the inflationary theory, matter, antimatter, and photons were produced by the energy of the false vacuum, which was released following the phase transition. All of these particles consist of positive energy. This energy, however, is exactly balanced by the negative gravitational energy of everything pulling on everything else. In other words, the total energy of the universe is zero! It is remarkable that the universe consists of essentially nothing, but (fortunately for us) in positive and negative parts. You can easily see that gravity is associated with negative energy: If you drop a ball from rest (defined to be a state of zero energy), it gains energy of motion (kinetic energy) as it falls. But this gain is exactly balanced by a larger negative gravitational energy as it comes closer to Earths center, so the sum of the two energies remains zero. In which case you don't need to worry about conservation of energy.
Up to now, the only supernova seen have been inside galaxies. So it's plausible that they are stars exploding. But this one is between the galaxies. So my question is could this be one of Hoyle's minibangs, a white hole spewing out matter in the void between the galaxies? Like Hoyle, steady state theory appeals to me because it means there is no act of creation to explain - the universe has essentially always existed. The idea that matter is conserved in one universe is appealing too. But I'm no astrophysicist and it seems clear that the consensus among them is that Hoyle is wrong. But then again, even if this supernova isn't a minibang, maybe no one found one because no one is looking in the right places - i.e. observatories don't look at the space between galaxies because the consensus is that nothing happens there. And for Hoyle to be right, you don't need very many white holes
On the other hand Chaotic inflation theory gives an eternal universe but (as far as I can tell) no minibangs - the Big Bang is not unique but it's the only white hole we can 'see'. There are multiple bubble universes, but each one comes from a single event and they are not causally connected since light doesn't have time to travel from one to another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Big_Bang While having no argument with the Lemaître theory, (later confirmed by Edwin Hubble's observations) that the universe was expanding, Hoyle disagreed on its interpretation. An atheist, he found the idea that the universe had a beginning to be philosophically troubling, as many argue that a beginning implies a cause, and thus a creator (see kalam cosmological argument).[4] Instead, Hoyle, along with Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi (with whom he had worked on radar in World War II), argued for the universe as being in a "steady state". The theory tried to explain how the universe could be eternal and essentially unchanging while still having the galaxies we observe moving away from each other. The theory hinged on the creation of matter between galaxies over time, so that even though galaxies get further apart, new ones that develop between them fill the space they leave. The resulting universe is in a "steady state" in the same manner that a flowing river is - the individual water molecules are moving away but the overall river remains the same. I guess you could imagine white holes spewing out matter from black holes into the void between the galaxies in a sort of mini big bang. I guess if we had lots of little bangs instead of one big one it would explain why the universe is flat and homogenous - you wouldn't need to have an inflationary period to flatten things like you do after one big bang. The cosmic microwave background radiation would thus come from all these white holes over eternity rather than one big bang.
Matter is conserved in one universe too, which seems neat. Black holes gobble it up and white holes spit it out. In the big bang model, something spooky connects black holes in one universe to big bangs in a different one. Or maybe matter isn't conserved at all.
Try releasing some commercial code and then telling users that you can't fix the bugs until someone shows you how to reproduce them.
Works perfectly in Opera 9.23!
Opera runs a lot faster than the Firefox on my machine too. Plus I can leave it running all day and it doesn't leak at all.
Why not try Opera while you wait for Firefox 3.0 to come out of Beta?
Hmm, fair point.
I got 20% efficiency for 4 stroke gasoline engines, vs 85% for brushless DC electric motors.
Actually there's an article here that quotes the density of the new battery as 3000Wh/kg.. 12200 as an energy density for old Lithium Ion batteries is completely bogus by the way.
So
12,200*0.2 = 2440
vs
3000*0.85 = 2550
Not as good as you said since the battery still has 4x worse energy density but you're right that engine efficiency makes up for it.
Antimatter would be e=2mc^2. E.g. 1 kilo of antimatter would combine with 1 kilo of air (or some other matter)
Dividing by 3600J gives 5 * 10^13 Wh/kilogram
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(2kg+*+(c%5E2)%2F++3%2C600&btnG=Search
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Energy_density
Material Volumetric(Wh/l)Gravimetric (Wh/kg)
Fission of U-235 4.7 x 1012 2.5 x1010
Boron 38,278 16361
JP10 (dicyclopentadiene)10,975 11,694
Diesel 10,942 13,762
Gasoline 9,700 12,200
Black Coal solid =>CO2 9444 6667
LNG 7,216 12,100
Propane (liquid) 7,500 - 6,600 13,900
Black Coal Bulk =>CO2 6278 6667
Ethanol 6,100 7,850
Methanol 4,600 6,400
Liquid H2 2,600 39,000
Secondary LiOn Polymer 300 130 - 1200
Secondary Lithium-Ion 300 110
Nickel Metal Hydride 100 Wh/l 60Wh/kg
Lead Acid Battery 40 25
Propane (Gas - 1 bar) 28.1 13,900
Compressed Air 17 34
Ice to water 9.3 9.3
If this new battery is 10x as efficient it is still 3x worse than gasoline.
Hmm, I'm thinking of suing you.
By the way, I offer great deals on backup systems!
I dunno it seems like obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence and so on are much more serious crimes than copyright infringement and whatever else they were orginally charged with.
In fact they have to be, otherwise people would just destroy evidence as soon as they were charged with anything.
This is the fohootville loser again.
Incidentally, since tinyurl seems to exclusively used for goatse and myminicity, you should set preview. It sets a cookie so it's persistent.
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?enable=1
If you ever encounter Yahweh, the Old Testament God, don't say that. Don't even think it.
Come to think of it that means that if Swinburne was wrong he got anhilated when he died (No God, aferlife and so on), and if he was right he would be well and truly fucked when God finally got to meet him in person.
If you have a mobile phone that's a few years old it will be pretty hard to get the firmware updated to support SDHC since development on it ceased before SDHC was common. Most firmware updates are about fixing bugs, not adding features like SDHC support.