Nice conspiracy theory, except for a couple of things. What happened to the people who were on flight 77? There was no recognizeable plane debris in Shanksville PA either. Large planes made of lightweight aluminum traveling at near their top speed will completely disintegrate on impact. At Shanksville the pieces of plane found were mostly tiny fragments. Not to mention witnesses who saw the plane crash into the building.
I agree with you on almost every point, I only have a problem with this one: "Mathematically, it's possible that all of these traits appeared simultaneously, but it's also an extremely minute chance".
I hear this one a lot, but I don't think it is valid. Since we are talking about a large number of random events that just happen to randomly occur in one organism to produce a useful trait, I compare it to asking somebody to pick a number from one to infinity. The odds of picking the number 1,234,543 are essentially zero, but I picked it anyway. According to the logic of hardcore ID believers, because the odds were so small, it must never have happened.
It looks to me like all of the so-called significant violations outlined in the article are problems with paperwork.
"In one case, FBI agents kept an unidentified target under surveillance for at least five years -- including more than 15 months without notifying Justice Department lawyers after the subject had moved from New York to Detroit."
"...agents obtained e-mails after a warrant expired, seized bank records without proper authority and conducted an improper "unconsented physical search,""
"The violation occurred when the agent failed to extend the inquiry while maintaining contact with the potential asset, the documents show."
"FBI officials disagreed, saying that none of the cases have involved major violations and most amount to administrative errors. The officials also said that any information obtained from improper searches or eavesdropping is quarantined and eventually destroyed."
Precisely explained apparently does not mean clearly explained. Perhaps this is why people are still confused. How about instead of precision we aim for clarity? The purpose of the GPL is to make information more free. Violations of it, therefore, actually make information less free. The purpose of most copyrights is to make information less free, so violations of them make the information more free.
"A pioneer in the field of telecommunications, Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. Throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people. This interest lead him to invent the microphone and, in 1876, his "electrical speech machine," which we now call a telephone. News of his invention quickly spread throughout the country, even throughout Europe. By 1878, Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. By 1884, long distance connections were made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City."
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Agreed. A representation of the periodic table should show as much chemical information as possible at a glance. Information such as orbital levels, number of valence electrons, etc are easily seen in the Mendeleev chart, but I am not sure they are so obvious with this arrangement.
PS I am a chemist (or at least I have a chemistry degree)
Not only is this not THE chance for linux. It's not even a small opening. Most people don't care about DRM. Even people that do care about DRM probably don't care enough to switch their operating system.
What do you do when your power goes out? I have not had my cable internet connection go out in months and when it does it is rarely longer than a few minutes. The power goes out at least as often and I can't use my PC at all. Then again, you can't really build an emergency internet generator can you...?
I used to work at a university that gave all students, faculty and staff unix accounts. A CS professor told us a story of a CS student in an operating systems course who wrote a program that forked so much they had to reboot the server. When some of the administration found out why the server had to be unexpectedly rebooted they wanted to punish the student, but thankfully the IT guys were able to save him. He definitely should not have had the ability to write such a program. Of course, after hearing this story everyone tried it, it didn't cause any problems.
Mr. Columbus, I can't believe you are still clinging to this absurd notion that the earth is round.
Yeah, let's not explore anything, I'm sure there's nothing left to discover in THE UNIVERSE. Unmanned probes are great, but an unmanned probe will have a limited set of instruments, cameras etc. and a limited ability to use them. A human can develop new methodologies and experiments on the fly and therefore return much more data.
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This could kill WiMax before it even gets off the ground.
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Nice conspiracy theory, except for a couple of things. What happened to the people who were on flight 77? There was no recognizeable plane debris in Shanksville PA either. Large planes made of lightweight aluminum traveling at near their top speed will completely disintegrate on impact. At Shanksville the pieces of plane found were mostly tiny fragments. Not to mention witnesses who saw the plane crash into the building.
I agree with you on almost every point, I only have a problem with this one: "Mathematically, it's possible that all of these traits appeared simultaneously, but it's also an extremely minute chance".
I hear this one a lot, but I don't think it is valid. Since we are talking about a large number of random events that just happen to randomly occur in one organism to produce a useful trait, I compare it to asking somebody to pick a number from one to infinity. The odds of picking the number 1,234,543 are essentially zero, but I picked it anyway. According to the logic of hardcore ID believers, because the odds were so small, it must never have happened.
It looks to me like all of the so-called significant violations outlined in the article are problems with paperwork.
"In one case, FBI agents kept an unidentified target under surveillance for at least five years -- including more than 15 months without notifying Justice Department lawyers after the subject had moved from New York to Detroit."
"...agents obtained e-mails after a warrant expired, seized bank records without proper authority and conducted an improper "unconsented physical search,""
"The violation occurred when the agent failed to extend the inquiry while maintaining contact with the potential asset, the documents show."
"FBI officials disagreed, saying that none of the cases have involved major violations and most amount to administrative errors. The officials also said that any information obtained from improper searches or eavesdropping is quarantined and eventually destroyed."
Precisely explained apparently does not mean clearly explained. Perhaps this is why people are still confused. How about instead of precision we aim for clarity? The purpose of the GPL is to make information more free. Violations of it, therefore, actually make information less free. The purpose of most copyrights is to make information less free, so violations of them make the information more free.
I vote we call it Next-August.
"A pioneer in the field of telecommunications, Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. Throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people. This interest lead him to invent the microphone and, in 1876, his "electrical speech machine," which we now call a telephone. News of his invention quickly spread throughout the country, even throughout Europe. By 1878, Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. By 1884, long distance connections were made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City." Taken From Here
I am going to lose my mind. My goose and my moose have both gotten loose.
There is quite a difference between Penn and Penn State. Penn us an Ivy League school. She is from Penn.
Agreed. A representation of the periodic table should show as much chemical information as possible at a glance. Information such as orbital levels, number of valence electrons, etc are easily seen in the Mendeleev chart, but I am not sure they are so obvious with this arrangement.
PS I am a chemist (or at least I have a chemistry degree)
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What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
Not only is this not THE chance for linux. It's not even a small opening. Most people don't care about DRM. Even people that do care about DRM probably don't care enough to switch their operating system.
What do you do when your power goes out? I have not had my cable internet connection go out in months and when it does it is rarely longer than a few minutes. The power goes out at least as often and I can't use my PC at all. Then again, you can't really build an emergency internet generator can you...?
I used to work at a university that gave all students, faculty and staff unix accounts. A CS professor told us a story of a CS student in an operating systems course who wrote a program that forked so much they had to reboot the server. When some of the administration found out why the server had to be unexpectedly rebooted they wanted to punish the student, but thankfully the IT guys were able to save him. He definitely should not have had the ability to write such a program. Of course, after hearing this story everyone tried it, it didn't cause any problems.
Awesome!!! Break into the secure facility and have a snack. Super sweet.
Mr. Columbus, I can't believe you are still clinging to this absurd notion that the earth is round. Yeah, let's not explore anything, I'm sure there's nothing left to discover in THE UNIVERSE. Unmanned probes are great, but an unmanned probe will have a limited set of instruments, cameras etc. and a limited ability to use them. A human can develop new methodologies and experiments on the fly and therefore return much more data.