Nope, ideas can crop up multiple times, but it works a lot better if people can just share ideas. We're all "standing on the shoulders of giants" thanks to people who are willing to share ideas rather than keep them secret and presume that someone else will hit on the exact same idea.
Everything we do is a matter of choice. I think the idea of some kind of trickster god is abhorrent - he makes creatures that enjoy the effects of alcohol and then tells them (in some versions) that they're not allowed to drink it.
It's like the garden of Eden: eat whatever you want, but not THAT tree over there. That tree - the one I'm pointing at. It's got the most delicious fruit that will immediately give you knowledge, but I forbid it. No, not the one on the left - this one here. It sure looks tasty, but NO!
And he was saying that to a woman! He was either extremely stupid or really spiteful.
Also, if alcohol had no effect on humans, would it still be banned in some religions? Is it inherently evil, or is this a case of god creating a specific effect just to fuck with us?
I don't see anything wrong with drinking alcohol (in moderation) and see no reason to abstain, especially when human society has used brewing for thousands of years to make water safe to drink.
I don't blame god for anything as he's clearly some kind of fairy story to scare kids - similar to the boogeyman.
If drinking alcohol is so abhorred by god, then why didn't he just make us immune to it? If we didn't feel the effects, then we wouldn't drink it. Man, that god bloke is seriously stupid - he even wired our retinas back-to-front and gave us badly designed backs for standing upright.
The problem with not having patents is that it encourages people to keep things secret to stop others from copying. This then leads to great ideas being lost when the business fails or the inventor dies.
I think the "patentable" bar should be set higher, so that a process has to be particularly inventive and non-intuitive to get a patent for it. The problem with software patents is the stifling effect from having too many obvious patents. If lots of developers can independently re-invent the same idea (e.g. progress bar) then the patent should be rendered invalid.
Probably not that rich due to the length of time that patents last for. The evidence suggests that the equivalent of patents in Greece around that time (500BC) only lasted for a year.
To be fair, he didn't call New Yorkers cowards, but referred to a state of mind he called NYC cowardice which seems to be more of a political philosophy that's often promoted by the media.
I don't think that gun laws are easy to enforce anywhere in the world, whether or not somewhere is an island. Stuff has always been smuggled into and out of places for as long as there's been civilisation. The importance of gun laws is to raise the bar on gun ownership and make it easier to prosecute anyone that you catch with a gun. In the USA, you can't just throw someone in prison for carrying a gun whereas gun laws make that a lot easier.
However, if you raise the bar on carrying a gun, that also means that criminals are more likely to use their guns if they deemed it necessary to carry them as the penalties tend to be a lot harsher for armed robbery.
Yes, I agree completely about average life expectancy which is most strongly affected by infant deaths which is the main area that modern medicine has made huge advances in.
What I was attempting to point out is that it is a fallacy that most people in medieval times (or earlier) only lived until they were 30 or so. Yes, the average life expectancy at birth was approximately 30 years for medieval Britain, but at age 21 the average life expectancy would be 64 which is not very different to the situation today in some countries (world average is around 67).
By the way, thanks for twisting my explanation into some hare-brained argument.
Low average life expectancy is usually caused by high infant mortality, so as long as they survive past childhood, they tended to live to the same ages that we live to. It's a myth that people used to die after reaching 30.
If antimatter has negative energy, then wouldn't that result in complete annhilation with no energy release when it hits matter? The positive energy of matter would be cancelled out by the negative energy of the anti-matter and there would be no explosion - just a silent "pop".
When all the other admins are Windows "trained" and the small business gets a lot of money discounted from other Microsoft products (e.g. System Center) by using Hyper-V.
You can run Linux VMs on a Hyper-V host as well. I agree that Hyper-V is better for Windows admins as it's more familiar to them, but after a learning curve, I've got plenty of Linux VMs running perfectly on it.
Absolutely. I don't mean to accuse individuals of the stupidity of their government; the UK government has more than enough stupid to go around and seems to want to emulate the US whenever feasible.
Slashdot Mirror
I totally agree. There should be some way to ensure that Patent offices are penalised for allowing obfuscated or obvious patents.
Nope, ideas can crop up multiple times, but it works a lot better if people can just share ideas. We're all "standing on the shoulders of giants" thanks to people who are willing to share ideas rather than keep them secret and presume that someone else will hit on the exact same idea.
Everything we do is a matter of choice. I think the idea of some kind of trickster god is abhorrent - he makes creatures that enjoy the effects of alcohol and then tells them (in some versions) that they're not allowed to drink it.
It's like the garden of Eden: eat whatever you want, but not THAT tree over there. That tree - the one I'm pointing at. It's got the most delicious fruit that will immediately give you knowledge, but I forbid it. No, not the one on the left - this one here. It sure looks tasty, but NO!
And he was saying that to a woman! He was either extremely stupid or really spiteful.
Also, if alcohol had no effect on humans, would it still be banned in some religions? Is it inherently evil, or is this a case of god creating a specific effect just to fuck with us?
I don't see anything wrong with drinking alcohol (in moderation) and see no reason to abstain, especially when human society has used brewing for thousands of years to make water safe to drink.
I don't blame god for anything as he's clearly some kind of fairy story to scare kids - similar to the boogeyman.
If drinking alcohol is so abhorred by god, then why didn't he just make us immune to it? If we didn't feel the effects, then we wouldn't drink it. Man, that god bloke is seriously stupid - he even wired our retinas back-to-front and gave us badly designed backs for standing upright.
Copyright theft? Copyright infringement possibly. Copyright theft would be removing the copyright from the original author.
The problem with not having patents is that it encourages people to keep things secret to stop others from copying. This then leads to great ideas being lost when the business fails or the inventor dies.
I think the "patentable" bar should be set higher, so that a process has to be particularly inventive and non-intuitive to get a patent for it. The problem with software patents is the stifling effect from having too many obvious patents. If lots of developers can independently re-invent the same idea (e.g. progress bar) then the patent should be rendered invalid.
Probably not that rich due to the length of time that patents last for. The evidence suggests that the equivalent of patents in Greece around that time (500BC) only lasted for a year.
What if it's an old image? You don't need any license if the copyright has expired.
I don't eat meat because I don't trust farmers and the food industry to not muck around with it.
Your name says all I need to read in your post. Thanks for making your lack of boldness clear.
To be fair, he didn't call New Yorkers cowards, but referred to a state of mind he called NYC cowardice which seems to be more of a political philosophy that's often promoted by the media.
I don't think that gun laws are easy to enforce anywhere in the world, whether or not somewhere is an island. Stuff has always been smuggled into and out of places for as long as there's been civilisation. The importance of gun laws is to raise the bar on gun ownership and make it easier to prosecute anyone that you catch with a gun. In the USA, you can't just throw someone in prison for carrying a gun whereas gun laws make that a lot easier.
However, if you raise the bar on carrying a gun, that also means that criminals are more likely to use their guns if they deemed it necessary to carry them as the penalties tend to be a lot harsher for armed robbery.
Yes, I agree completely about average life expectancy which is most strongly affected by infant deaths which is the main area that modern medicine has made huge advances in.
What I was attempting to point out is that it is a fallacy that most people in medieval times (or earlier) only lived until they were 30 or so. Yes, the average life expectancy at birth was approximately 30 years for medieval Britain, but at age 21 the average life expectancy would be 64 which is not very different to the situation today in some countries (world average is around 67).
By the way, thanks for twisting my explanation into some hare-brained argument.
Yes and no. There's more people living to extreme old age these days, but we haven't really increased the maximum lifespan.
Low average life expectancy is usually caused by high infant mortality, so as long as they survive past childhood, they tended to live to the same ages that we live to. It's a myth that people used to die after reaching 30.
The customers.
It certainly doesn't look like you went to college to improve your writing skills.
If antimatter has negative energy, then wouldn't that result in complete annhilation with no energy release when it hits matter? The positive energy of matter would be cancelled out by the negative energy of the anti-matter and there would be no explosion - just a silent "pop".
Possibly if it's encrypted or you're backing up a virtual machine (backup a snapshot of it's disk device).
You, sir, are wrong.
It's an English affectation rather than belonging to our American cousins over the pond.
Huh? It is released under the Creative Commons license.
When all the other admins are Windows "trained" and the small business gets a lot of money discounted from other Microsoft products (e.g. System Center) by using Hyper-V.
So, how many companies does it take for it to not be a club?
You can run Linux VMs on a Hyper-V host as well. I agree that Hyper-V is better for Windows admins as it's more familiar to them, but after a learning curve, I've got plenty of Linux VMs running perfectly on it.
Absolutely. I don't mean to accuse individuals of the stupidity of their government; the UK government has more than enough stupid to go around and seems to want to emulate the US whenever feasible.