I can't help wondering whether this is because he might now get the credit for discovering the tenth planet. Once upon a time the sun and the moon were considered to be planets. They are no longer. We have figured out that calling Pluto a planet doesn't allow us a useful definition of the word. Culture will eventually catch up.
> But you sure as hell can be forced to do things legally.
What are you talking about, declaring war on them? Their governments have enough to worry about maintaining basic security and making sure people have enough to eat without worrying about mere software piracy.
That there is a correlation between getting enough exercise and being of normal weight is well known. Isn't there also a correlation between being getting enough exercise and sleeping well? Wouldn't these two correlations explain the observed results?
"Get more exercise then you'll both lose weight and sleep better" seems more likely to me to be causal relationships, than "try and sleep better and then you'll lose weight".
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I can't help wondering whether this is because he might now get the credit for discovering the tenth planet. Once upon a time the sun and the moon were considered to be planets. They are no longer. We have figured out that calling Pluto a planet doesn't allow us a useful definition of the word. Culture will eventually catch up.
Mike Brown, a member of the team that discovered this object, has the following page on the definition of a planet: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/#What%20i s%20the%20definition%20of%20a%20planet?
According to his preferred definition neither the new object nor Pluto are planets.
> But you sure as hell can be forced to do things legally. What are you talking about, declaring war on them? Their governments have enough to worry about maintaining basic security and making sure people have enough to eat without worrying about mere software piracy.
That there is a correlation between getting enough exercise and being of normal weight is well known. Isn't there also a correlation between being getting enough exercise and sleeping well? Wouldn't these two correlations explain the observed results? "Get more exercise then you'll both lose weight and sleep better" seems more likely to me to be causal relationships, than "try and sleep better and then you'll lose weight".