actually its not a good insulator, it is a semi-conductor, which is the reason it is used to make transistors, because its conductivity can be modified to give it a switching effect.
It was intended to be, but as the job of working it out the distance was done by the French, it got cocked up, and by the time anyone realised, it was too late, so now, a Metre is the length of a stick of platinum in France (blah blah atomic clock speed of light, yea whatever, it's the fucking stick just accept it).
Earth: Yo ET, This is Earth calling hows it hanging? You wana exchange some information, learn about human culture n we learn about urs
30 years later
ET: Yo Earth, sure, sounds good here's a data transmission all about us, tell me all about human culture.
another 30 years later
Earth: Umm, yea, a few things have changed since the last transmission, probably best to forget about human culture, there ain't noone but us giant mutant cockroach thingys over here.
"Wikipedia's huge amount of Web traffic is a resource" - These 9 words are what discredits the whole of the article.
What Evan Prodromou calls a "resource" I call users, or rather participants. We are talking about people, people are not a commodity to be sold off to advertisers (thats how corporations treat us, not how community projects do), they are the same people who contribute to wikipedia, they are what makes wikipedia successful, they are the purpose of wikipedia.
Right now, peoples know that wikipedia is owned by the people and it there because people do their bit. People know that wikipedia exists cos people have spent their time and effort and money on making it good, for the good of everyone, no one exploits the fruits or their labour for their own benefit, so people know that helping wikipedia is for the good of everyone.
People reading wikipedia also know that they are bound by an unwritten un thought social contract, that they know that they can read about stuff because people have spent their time writing or adding to articles, and so they know, only if only subconsciously that they have a moral debt, as they are benefiting from this work, and that the repayment for this is that should contribute too. Whenever I see an incomplete part of an article, a missing detail, or a mistake, I feel that it is an obligation to edit the article and add to or correct or whatever "I think, this is wrong/incomplete, I have the knowledge to fix it, I ought to fix it". Sometimes I can't be arsed, and I feel a tinge of guilt and sometimes I do contribute and I feel good, because I have helped out even if only in a tiny way.
If I am reading Encarta or Britannica and see a mistake or a missing detail, I think "This is wrong/incomplete those lazy cunts at Microsoft/Britannica ought to fix it, that's what they are payed for"
If wikipedia becomes an advertising source, it will be tainted in the mind of people as a corporate entity. People will see errors or omissions and think "This is wrong, someone should fix this, I'm not doing it, the sponsors should be paying for this"
The bigger danger isn't advertisers manipulating content, but that people will no longer see Wikipedia as theirs, they will see it as yet another place that corporations bombard them with advert, wikipedia will be forever tainted in the minds of people as yet another corporate device, bombarding them with ads like everything else in the world. It will no longer be theirs and it will no longer be their responsibility, it will be the corporate sponsors responsibility.
Wikipedia is what everyone dreamed the web would be before it became a a corporate slush bucket of spam and adverts, a cash cow to be milked for all its worth, it is a tiny seed of that time when the web was for people to share knowledge and work together on things for mutual benefit. It's the best hope of open source, creative commons, copy left, every movement that has ever wanted knowledge to be free, and people to be free from lies and propaganda.
And if people don't believe in wikipedia, and its purpose, they won't contribute to it, and if people don't contribute to it, it will die.
Except employment law doesn't allow that. I'm a volunteer leader in a caritable trust organisation and our legal advisers have told us we cannot create any kind of middle ground between an employee and a volunteer, we can't ask people to work for what we can afford. It's nothing or a full fixed wage, no middle ground.
That is exactly the first thing I did as soon as I read the headline. I was worried about the fact it wasn't open source from the very start, I feared something like this would happen.
The idea that border guards would only let you through if your passport photo is identical to you is totally flawed, peoples faces do not stay the same over 10 year, sometimes they down stay the same over 1 year. My passport photo looks absolutely nothing like me, yet I have never been questioned about it or anything, the most I've ever had was once a Finnish border guard took an extra 20 second to check my photo at a quiet border crossing. If border guards insisted that everyone's photo matched perfectly, some people would never get anywhere unless they got a new passport every year.
Putting vertical tubes inside a building? kind of like lift shafts, which of course fill with burning fumes through which the fire spreads to other floors. i certainly would not want to get into one of these tubes in the middle of a fire.
Plus it doesn't help people trapped above the fire at all, which is the main problem that needs solving with one of these escape systems.
Don't worry, the US is 100% accurate in knowing who exactly gassed the kurds, because they are the ones who supplied the gas and gave the go ahead for its use on civilians.
I could probably round up a group of my friends at universtity who could probably draw up plans to make a nuke within a year, actually doing it is a totaly different matter.
Destabilizing a stable ecosystem leads to spurs of evolution and new species. During the hardest times on Earth, biggest leaps of development happened. Death of dinosaurs led to mammals taking over.
This is true, however, during the hardest times, most animals die, right now 'most animals' includes us, we are the dominant species, we stand to lose the most in any change of conditions, and this means billions of people dying. We are in the position the dinosaurs were in 65 million years ago, to be quite honest I don't care that some other species will take over after we die out, I would prefer not to see billions of my fellow humans starve to death in the future.
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actually its not a good insulator, it is a semi-conductor, which is the reason it is used to make transistors, because its conductivity can be modified to give it a switching effect.
it's very easy to nail jelly to a wall, I nailed some jelly to a wall in November and it is still there now.
It was intended to be, but as the job of working it out the distance was done by the French, it got cocked up, and by the time anyone realised, it was too late, so now, a Metre is the length of a stick of platinum in France (blah blah atomic clock speed of light, yea whatever, it's the fucking stick just accept it).
Same thing happened with the kilogram.
Potential slope? I'm sure all the people in Guantanamo bay will be comforted to know they are only potentially imprisoned without charge or trial.
Still doesn't solve the embarrassing situation for the giant cockroaches.
Earth: Yo ET, This is Earth calling hows it hanging? You wana exchange some information, learn about human culture n we learn about urs 30 years later ET: Yo Earth, sure, sounds good here's a data transmission all about us, tell me all about human culture. another 30 years later Earth: Umm, yea, a few things have changed since the last transmission, probably best to forget about human culture, there ain't noone but us giant mutant cockroach thingys over here.
unless you use a vibrator made by trapping a load of angry bumble bees in an empty cigar case.
I don't think that's what he was referring to, I think he was referring to the bucket full of crack he smoked earlier.
Apparently it works better with a .Rar
"Wikipedia's huge amount of Web traffic is a resource" - These 9 words are what discredits the whole of the article. What Evan Prodromou calls a "resource" I call users, or rather participants. We are talking about people, people are not a commodity to be sold off to advertisers (thats how corporations treat us, not how community projects do), they are the same people who contribute to wikipedia, they are what makes wikipedia successful, they are the purpose of wikipedia. Right now, peoples know that wikipedia is owned by the people and it there because people do their bit. People know that wikipedia exists cos people have spent their time and effort and money on making it good, for the good of everyone, no one exploits the fruits or their labour for their own benefit, so people know that helping wikipedia is for the good of everyone. People reading wikipedia also know that they are bound by an unwritten un thought social contract, that they know that they can read about stuff because people have spent their time writing or adding to articles, and so they know, only if only subconsciously that they have a moral debt, as they are benefiting from this work, and that the repayment for this is that should contribute too. Whenever I see an incomplete part of an article, a missing detail, or a mistake, I feel that it is an obligation to edit the article and add to or correct or whatever "I think, this is wrong/incomplete, I have the knowledge to fix it, I ought to fix it". Sometimes I can't be arsed, and I feel a tinge of guilt and sometimes I do contribute and I feel good, because I have helped out even if only in a tiny way. If I am reading Encarta or Britannica and see a mistake or a missing detail, I think "This is wrong/incomplete those lazy cunts at Microsoft/Britannica ought to fix it, that's what they are payed for" If wikipedia becomes an advertising source, it will be tainted in the mind of people as a corporate entity. People will see errors or omissions and think "This is wrong, someone should fix this, I'm not doing it, the sponsors should be paying for this" The bigger danger isn't advertisers manipulating content, but that people will no longer see Wikipedia as theirs, they will see it as yet another place that corporations bombard them with advert, wikipedia will be forever tainted in the minds of people as yet another corporate device, bombarding them with ads like everything else in the world. It will no longer be theirs and it will no longer be their responsibility, it will be the corporate sponsors responsibility. Wikipedia is what everyone dreamed the web would be before it became a a corporate slush bucket of spam and adverts, a cash cow to be milked for all its worth, it is a tiny seed of that time when the web was for people to share knowledge and work together on things for mutual benefit. It's the best hope of open source, creative commons, copy left, every movement that has ever wanted knowledge to be free, and people to be free from lies and propaganda. And if people don't believe in wikipedia, and its purpose, they won't contribute to it, and if people don't contribute to it, it will die.
Except employment law doesn't allow that. I'm a volunteer leader in a caritable trust organisation and our legal advisers have told us we cannot create any kind of middle ground between an employee and a volunteer, we can't ask people to work for what we can afford. It's nothing or a full fixed wage, no middle ground.
That is exactly the first thing I did as soon as I read the headline. I was worried about the fact it wasn't open source from the very start, I feared something like this would happen.
but then you're out the cost of a bullet and a judge sized bribe and you have both shit and blood on your carpet, your violence solves nothing!
It's cold and rainy outside.
I heard they were considering bringing out shinpads for football games.
except for precious precious karma....
There are a hell of a lot of people with more money than sense, and most of them would be in the same situation if they had only a penny.
The idea that border guards would only let you through if your passport photo is identical to you is totally flawed, peoples faces do not stay the same over 10 year, sometimes they down stay the same over 1 year. My passport photo looks absolutely nothing like me, yet I have never been questioned about it or anything, the most I've ever had was once a Finnish border guard took an extra 20 second to check my photo at a quiet border crossing. If border guards insisted that everyone's photo matched perfectly, some people would never get anywhere unless they got a new passport every year.
Tape string to pencil, tape string to desk. Pencil no get lost.
Haven't they heard of the amazing inventions 'string' and 'sticky tape'?
Putting vertical tubes inside a building? kind of like lift shafts, which of course fill with burning fumes through which the fire spreads to other floors. i certainly would not want to get into one of these tubes in the middle of a fire. Plus it doesn't help people trapped above the fire at all, which is the main problem that needs solving with one of these escape systems.
Don't worry, the US is 100% accurate in knowing who exactly gassed the kurds, because they are the ones who supplied the gas and gave the go ahead for its use on civilians.
I could probably round up a group of my friends at universtity who could probably draw up plans to make a nuke within a year, actually doing it is a totaly different matter.
no, his response was: "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13"