"When you rape Nanking, you are not affored the luxury of a 'conditional' surrender."
And yet conditional surreneder is exactly what they got. They got to keep their Emporer.
Nothing in your arguement shows that the Allies could not have sought and received the surrender before the bombs were dropped. We wanted to test our bombs, so we delayed the end of the war to do so. You may think that the US had the moral right to do it. I'm not arguing that. My complaint is that denying thats what happened is a rewriting of history.
No, the only real condition was that they get to keep their Emperor. A condition that was met by the allies anyway.
If a nuclear bomb was convincing enough to force a surrender then why did it take two?
One of each type developed?
The use of nukes in WWII did not save more lives than the bombs took. Its pretty clear they were experimenting with WMD on a civilian population. As far as attrocities in WWII went, it was pretty small but saying the bombs were needed to force the surrender is just a plain lie.
While I'm sure many people will agree with such a statment, I'm also sure the fact that they also have largest economy, the second highest GDP per capita in the world and probably the most polictical influence makes them the kind of losers most nations want to become.
MAD works. It has a very long history of working. If your country wants to ensure it wont be successfully invaded then it should get nukes.
More likely, the editors waited till it got 50 submissions (diggs) before they decided to post the story. Heaven forbid editors should chose a story on its merits instead of waiting to see its popularity.
What are you talking about, this guy can save about $76 a week or $4000 a year in petrol, more if petrol goes higher. If you cant buy a $20,000 Prius over 6 years with that kind of repayment then there is something wrong with you. You dont have to spend an extra cent.
You should also know that the Prius is classed as midsize sedan, not a compact. As to its appearence, that is subjective but I find a natural beauty in its aerodynamic design. Efficiency is beautiful to me.
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Here are two ideas for you.
1. Buy a small car. (appologies for this, but I think in metric) 400 miles a week is 640kms. Pleanty of small cars can get 7 litres per 100kms. Thats about 45 litres a week. If your petrol is $3 a gallon, 3.8 litres to the gallon, 45/3.8*$3 is only $36 a week, not $100. Which is only 5% of you income before paycheck. A Prius can get 4.5l/100kms ($22 a week, 1.5% of your income). I just realised that to be spending $100 a week on petrol you car must be getting 21 l/100km which I am sure is a crime in some countries.
I think you need to spend some time thinking about how business works.
You just suggested that ISP's will be upset if their customers want more of their product.
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It was suggested for deletion. Then it was kept.
The problem is that the term now exists outside wikipedia. The term was "old" before it was discovered how it was created.
Should wikipedia refuse to document any term it accidentally started but that is now commonly recognised outside the encyclopedia?
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What you say is generally true but I did find a counterexample.
The wikipedia entry on Kryder's Law, which is just Moore's law for hard disks was an example of a technical article older than 6 months, which should not have been controversial. It turned out to have some serious problems, like there never was any such thing as Kryder's law until Wikipedia invented it.
I imagine that this process could cut costs for flash memory. The amount that will be manufactured in the near future will be measured in square kilometers.
Here is a key quote: "The improvement rate for flash for the last three years comes in at 109% a year whereas for hard disks over the same period the figure is only 35%."
Mostly because Digg had the story first. They were the ones who took this from nothing to huge internet exposure.
It seems that in order to get a particular type of story up on slashdot it must be submitted by many people. This way the editors get a vote of confidence about stories they would not normally publish. Rest asssured that there is no way Slashdot would have led the pack on this one.
If the copyright industry wants to extend the averge lifespan then they want universally available, cheap drugs. Something that the 20 year long patent protection system seems to inhibit.
The copyright industry trying to reduce patent law protection? Its win/win!
The bottom of the ocean test boisphere doesnt need to be any deeper that 10 meters to make 1 atm but why would you presurise your amosphere to 1 earth atm on the moon. You can save on construction strength and materials by lowering the presure to just 0.3 atm and just run a higher oxygen concentration.
These are all good points. But I think some need some clarification.
US farmers are a far too powerful political lobby that want to grow a product that nobody really wants. To get rid of their product they do various things to make the round peg (corn) fit into any square hole they can find. Corn Syrup sweetner is a good example. Manufacturers would rather use sugar from sugar cane because it is much cheaper (and some people think it taste better too). To force their product into the sweetner market, they got the government to tax sugar cane to point where it is less costly for manufacturers to just use corn syrup.
The same thing happens with (m)ethanol. Corn Ethanol doesnt make economic sense. Unless you get government subsidies and force import tarrifs on the competing product, which again is sugar cane.
Without the restrictive tarrifs the cost of ethanol would be about half what it is today. People would be converting to 100% ethanol compatible cars in droves due to price. Any country near the tropics that is capable of growing sugar cane would do so. They would also have a chance to take the first step out of the poverty trap they are in. Have you ever wondered why every world trade talkfest is dominated by the them of reducing agrigultural tarrifs and subsidies but never acheives anything? it's because the number one product of poor countries is agriculture. Farmers in rich countries arent interested in competition in their marketplace. Poor countries cant find a market for the one thing they are really good at making.
US farmers think you owe them a living. They are quite happy to have you pay high gas prices, destroy the environment and let people in the 3rd world suffer in poverty.
You asked "How much energy is used to create the ethanol and where does that come from?"
The answer is from the sun (there is that solar power you are looking for), some oil (later ethanol) and heat. The heat can come from nearly anywhere. I like the idea of using waste heat from power stations.
"So you are saying that if you and I worked at the same firm and you did all the work, you have no problem with the boss rewarding me for your labor and giving me your bonuses and raises because I can just copy what you've done and take all the credit. "
Actually, the boss would have a problem with it. Why pay two peole when one is enough. Thats how business works.
"I think your theory that anyone may infringe on someone else's livelihood is some socialist mumbo jumbo and if this were a case of you personally suffering the loss you'd change your tune pretty damn fast. Its pretty easy to give away something that doesnt belong to you. "
That you think that copyright is free market idea and that being anti copyright is socialist is commical. Copyright is a government protected monopoly. That's practically the definition of Socialism.
"And its pretty damn obvious you have no clue about business or supply and demand."
An efficient free market has no interest in artificial, goverment restricted supply.
Three years isnt a huge amount of time but it is the certainly longest period of poor growth in the survey and is hard to ignore.
Also, I know it is not clear from my graph but the increase that I have labeled "06" is the growth from March 05 to March 06. So it really is a full 3 years of poor growth.
I am also not expecting 4 years of fast growth from perpendicular recording. These 750 gigdrives are currently amost 200 Gigabits per square inch and they dont expect to push that past 1000 gigabits/sq in using perpendicular. Thats only a 5 fold increase or two and a bit doublings. Hitachi themselves say they are expecting to hit 230 Gbits/sq inch in 07. Perpendicular looks like will take a long time to play out meaning a continuation of ordinary results.
After looking at my data, interviews and data from manufacturers I have come to the conclusion that the hey day of hard disk is over. Hard drive based personal music players will all be replaced by flashed based devices in just 3 years. Disk drives in laptops will be going in 5 years. 3.5 inch drives will be the last hold out at about 10 years. These dates are taken from a simple graph that extrapolates the current 3 year trends. Sure some new break through could save the disk drive, but it had better hurry.
"There'll always be artists who will choose to go this route. But if somebody has not given me permission to copy their work, I'll respect their wishes, as well."
Except that you already copy thousands of peices of art without paying a cent to their creators and you dont even know it.
Everything that is designed is a peice of art. So the design of say, light bulbs, the telephone, or your shirt has been copied from the original creator. I'm certain there will be some items that you own that original inventor did not want copied for free. How are you going to respect their wishes?
"AOMP3 does not have permisson to duplicate and distribute content created by the labor and of others."
and they dont need it. The idea of artificially restricting the copy of art and ideas by making laws goes against the nature of humanity.
Humans have been copying each others other since Ugg drew on the cave wall. Its the reason we are the dominant species on this planet. Each of us doesnt have to re-ivent the wheel. Or pay a licence fee to make one.
If the Russians think that US copyright law is stupid then they don't have to have the same laws.
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"When you rape Nanking, you are not affored the luxury of a 'conditional' surrender."
And yet conditional surreneder is exactly what they got. They got to keep their Emporer.
Nothing in your arguement shows that the Allies could not have sought and received the surrender before the bombs were dropped. We wanted to test our bombs, so we delayed the end of the war to do so. You may think that the US had the moral right to do it. I'm not arguing that. My complaint is that denying thats what happened is a rewriting of history.
No, the only real condition was that they get to keep their Emperor. A condition that was met by the allies anyway.
If a nuclear bomb was convincing enough to force a surrender then why did it take two? One of each type developed?
The use of nukes in WWII did not save more lives than the bombs took. Its pretty clear they were experimenting with WMD on a civilian population. As far as attrocities in WWII went, it was pretty small but saying the bombs were needed to force the surrender is just a plain lie.
It seems, for some, the rewriting of history by the USA is complete.
Japan was ready to surrender before the bomb was dropped. This was known by the Americans from diplomatic message intercepts.
When you start your arguement with a lie, its hard to take anything you say seriously.
Some history lesson.
Considering Hitler died in 1945 and Israel wasn't a state until 1948, I'm not the least bit suprised that Hitler refused to recognise Isreal.
USA.
The only country to have used nukes, are losers.
While I'm sure many people will agree with such a statment, I'm also sure the fact that they also have largest economy, the second highest GDP per capita in the world and probably the most polictical influence makes them the kind of losers most nations want to become.
MAD works. It has a very long history of working. If your country wants to ensure it wont be successfully invaded then it should get nukes.
More likely, the editors waited till it got 50 submissions (diggs) before they decided to post the story. Heaven forbid editors should chose a story on its merits instead of waiting to see its popularity.
What are you talking about, this guy can save about $76 a week or $4000 a year in petrol, more if petrol goes higher. If you cant buy a $20,000 Prius over 6 years with that kind of repayment then there is something wrong with you. You dont have to spend an extra cent.
You should also know that the Prius is classed as midsize sedan, not a compact. As to its appearence, that is subjective but I find a natural beauty in its aerodynamic design. Efficiency is beautiful to me.
Here are two ideas for you.
1. Buy a small car. (appologies for this, but I think in metric) 400 miles a week is 640kms. Pleanty of small cars can get 7 litres per 100kms. Thats about 45 litres a week. If your petrol is $3 a gallon, 3.8 litres to the gallon, 45/3.8*$3 is only $36 a week, not $100. Which is only 5% of you income before paycheck. A Prius can get 4.5l/100kms ($22 a week, 1.5% of your income). I just realised that to be spending $100 a week on petrol you car must be getting 21 l/100km which I am sure is a crime in some countries.
2. Move closer to your work.
For long trips, you tow a small trailer that has a pertol generator.
If most of your travel entails this kind of long trip then you are not a suitable candidate for an electric vehicle.
If you hardly make this kind of long trip then you can just rent a petrol vehicle for the occasional trip or rent the forementioned trailer.
I think you need to spend some time thinking about how business works.
You just suggested that ISP's will be upset if their customers want more of their product.
It was suggested for deletion. Then it was kept.
The problem is that the term now exists outside wikipedia. The term was "old" before it was discovered how it was created.
Should wikipedia refuse to document any term it accidentally started but that is now commonly recognised outside the encyclopedia?
What you say is generally true but I did find a counterexample.
The wikipedia entry on Kryder's Law, which is just Moore's law for hard disks was an example of a technical article older than 6 months, which should not have been controversial. It turned out to have some serious problems, like there never was any such thing as Kryder's law until Wikipedia invented it.
Since I originally pointed out the error, the article has been updated. You can read about what was wrong with it at http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/Kryder's.html
Very true.
I imagine that this process could cut costs for flash memory. The amount that will be manufactured in the near future will be measured in square kilometers.
"Why? Flash goes down in price per capacity linearly while HDD's go down in price per capacity nearly exponentially."
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This page charts the annual improvement of price per capacity of hard disks (amongst other things): http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddrives.htm
This page does the same thing for flash: http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/flashmemory.ht
Here is a key quote: "The improvement rate for flash for the last three years comes in at 109% a year whereas for hard disks over the same period the figure is only 35%."
"Frankly, notebook hard drives are so quiet that I don't see why anyone is clamoring for solid state storage."
I do. Flash is smaller, lower power, cooler, more robust, quieter and has faster seek times.
When flash becomes cheaper than disk, I cant think of any reason to stay with disk.
Mostly because Digg had the story first. They were the ones who took this from nothing to huge internet exposure.
It seems that in order to get a particular type of story up on slashdot it must be submitted by many people. This way the editors get a vote of confidence about stories they would not normally publish. Rest asssured that there is no way Slashdot would have led the pack on this one.
If the copyright industry wants to extend the averge lifespan then they want universally available, cheap drugs. Something that the 20 year long patent protection system seems to inhibit.
The copyright industry trying to reduce patent law protection? Its win/win!
The bottom of the ocean test boisphere doesnt need to be any deeper that 10 meters to make 1 atm but why would you presurise your amosphere to 1 earth atm on the moon. You can save on construction strength and materials by lowering the presure to just 0.3 atm and just run a higher oxygen concentration.
These are all good points. But I think some need some clarification.
US farmers are a far too powerful political lobby that want to grow a product that nobody really wants. To get rid of their product they do various things to make the round peg (corn) fit into any square hole they can find. Corn Syrup sweetner is a good example. Manufacturers would rather use sugar from sugar cane because it is much cheaper (and some people think it taste better too). To force their product into the sweetner market, they got the government to tax sugar cane to point where it is less costly for manufacturers to just use corn syrup.
The same thing happens with (m)ethanol. Corn Ethanol doesnt make economic sense. Unless you get government subsidies and force import tarrifs on the competing product, which again is sugar cane.
Without the restrictive tarrifs the cost of ethanol would be about half what it is today. People would be converting to 100% ethanol compatible cars in droves due to price. Any country near the tropics that is capable of growing sugar cane would do so. They would also have a chance to take the first step out of the poverty trap they are in. Have you ever wondered why every world trade talkfest is dominated by the them of reducing agrigultural tarrifs and subsidies but never acheives anything? it's because the number one product of poor countries is agriculture. Farmers in rich countries arent interested in competition in their marketplace. Poor countries cant find a market for the one thing they are really good at making.
US farmers think you owe them a living. They are quite happy to have you pay high gas prices, destroy the environment and let people in the 3rd world suffer in poverty.
You asked "How much energy is used to create the ethanol and where does that come from?" The answer is from the sun (there is that solar power you are looking for), some oil (later ethanol) and heat. The heat can come from nearly anywhere. I like the idea of using waste heat from power stations.
"So you are saying that if you and I worked at the same firm and you did all the work, you have no problem with the boss rewarding me for your labor and giving me your bonuses and raises because I can just copy what you've done and take all the credit. "
Actually, the boss would have a problem with it. Why pay two peole when one is enough. Thats how business works.
"I think your theory that anyone may infringe on someone else's livelihood is some socialist mumbo jumbo and if this were a case of you personally suffering the loss you'd change your tune pretty damn fast. Its pretty easy to give away something that doesnt belong to you. "
That you think that copyright is free market idea and that being anti copyright is socialist is commical. Copyright is a government protected monopoly. That's practically the definition of Socialism.
"And its pretty damn obvious you have no clue about business or supply and demand."
An efficient free market has no interest in artificial, goverment restricted supply.
I'll try to be clear by offereng a theoretical example.
If you owned a copy of the painting Mona Lisa and then somehow found out that Leonardo didn't want people to copy it. Would you destroy it?
I'm trying to work out if you really care about the artists wishes or just agree with the law.
Three years isnt a huge amount of time but it is the certainly longest period of poor growth in the survey and is hard to ignore.
Also, I know it is not clear from my graph but the increase that I have labeled "06" is the growth from March 05 to March 06. So it really is a full 3 years of poor growth.
I am also not expecting 4 years of fast growth from perpendicular recording. These 750 gigdrives are currently amost 200 Gigabits per square inch and they dont expect to push that past 1000 gigabits/sq in using perpendicular. Thats only a 5 fold increase or two and a bit doublings. Hitachi themselves say they are expecting to hit 230 Gbits/sq inch in 07. Perpendicular looks like will take a long time to play out meaning a continuation of ordinary results.
After looking at my data, interviews and data from manufacturers I have come to the conclusion that the hey day of hard disk is over. Hard drive based personal music players will all be replaced by flashed based devices in just 3 years. Disk drives in laptops will be going in 5 years. 3.5 inch drives will be the last hold out at about 10 years. These dates are taken from a simple graph that extrapolates the current 3 year trends. Sure some new break through could save the disk drive, but it had better hurry.
"There'll always be artists who will choose to go this route. But if somebody has not given me permission to copy their work, I'll respect their wishes, as well."
Except that you already copy thousands of peices of art without paying a cent to their creators and you dont even know it. Everything that is designed is a peice of art. So the design of say, light bulbs, the telephone, or your shirt has been copied from the original creator. I'm certain there will be some items that you own that original inventor did not want copied for free. How are you going to respect their wishes?
"AOMP3 does not have permisson to duplicate and distribute content created by the labor and of others."
and they dont need it. The idea of artificially restricting the copy of art and ideas by making laws goes against the nature of humanity.
Humans have been copying each others other since Ugg drew on the cave wall. Its the reason we are the dominant species on this planet. Each of us doesnt have to re-ivent the wheel. Or pay a licence fee to make one.
If the Russians think that US copyright law is stupid then they don't have to have the same laws.
I feel very confident that all but 1 or two songs of that 3000 CDs fits in the least popular 2%, by sales volume, that I have already excluded.