These are typically better than oocalc for more sophisticated analysis
(labplot uses the very powerful GNU Scientific libs
as backends). Also, better 3-D graphics using the qwt libraries.
While I agree with you that spelling like a three year old is
a bad thing, you have to admit grandparent has a point. The truth of
the matter is that the racist tirades against Indians on slashdot is a
manifestation of Wagnerian ideologies among white christians,
who see Indians as little more than trained monkeys who don't belong in
their professions. This is particularly true among the
Ulster-Scott-Irish derived Americans (most americans are of Scott-Irish
descent), themselves of poor breeding even among westerners. Their
crude behaviour, violent lifestyles, alcoholic excesses, obsession with
killing and guns, and their criminal tendencies are a result of that
breeding.
They are conditioned by their families and communities to
believe that white christians are chosen by god to rule the earth, and
anybody who challenges this claim should be summarily murdered.
Whenever any ethnic group tries to work their way up in the world, they
see a threat to their perceived entitlement and superiority.
White society in America is rigidly stratified in terms of
race, with white anglo-saxon protestants seen as the highest
race. Others, such as Catholics, Slavs, Mediterraneans,
Ashkenazy/Mizrahi Jews, Arabs etc. seen as inferior white races, and
Hispanics, African-Americans, South Asians, East Asians and
miscellaneous other groups seen as "mud people". Basically we are not
seen by these people as human at all, but simulcra of human beings
created by the Abrahamic satan with the intent of "putting down the
white man".
So you see, the Bharatiyas are not the first ones
to go through this. In fact, there have even been other white races who
have had to suffer discrimination and hate attacks from these people
because they were perceived as "racially inferior whites", as noted
above. The treatment of Jewish people in America has been particularly
bad, with widespread antisemetism and Judenhass in many parts of
America making life very difficult for these poor people.
The good news is that they are losing. America is becoming
increasingly more multicultural, and the political influence of
minority lobbies is greater now than ever before. More and more White
americans are rejecting this kind of hate and turning away from their
jaundiced roots.
I don't know whether enlightenment will come to the world in
time for our people or not. I read a lot about the past history
of the Jews in Europe and North America and wonder if that might be our
future. Whether Indian Hindus would be next in line for white christian pogroms and gas chambers.
Don't think that this cannot happen. All the signs are there. The traditional path of racial hatred among white christians usually takes this route. Already, the blood libels against Indians have started (see slashdot forum posts).
If that is to be the case, it is vitally
important that out cultural solidarity remain strong and intact. We
must not miscegenate or diasporise into these foreign
socities and we must not allow them to dilute our traditions and our
heritage. Our unity should be our greatest strength, as should be our
will to survive. If we stay together as one, we can weather this storm
until the western world evolves past their bestial tendencies, or they
destroy themselves with their nuclear bombs.
Erm, actually it does (irrespective of what fraction of c your velocity
is). Because Electric & Magnetic fields always scale as c no
matter what your frame of reference is, you always have to do a Lorentz
transform no matter how slow your speed is. Here is a good example to
illustrate my point:
Suppose you see a constant magnetic field. You see a charged
particle moving
perp. to that field with velocity v, so the lorentz force shuld be q(v
X B). Now, if you were in the frame of reference of that particle, a
Galilean transformation would give you a v of 0, & a magnetic
field B so net force of q(0 X B)=0.
WTF??? How can the force be 0 in one inertial frame & nonzero
in another?
This can't be right, so clearly the Galilean
Transformation is wrong for ANY v even though it's "supposed" to work
at v<<c (kept unity here). Now, if you do a Lorentz Transformation on F
(like I said earlier), you get v=0, B is something new, BUT you also
get an E= v X B. So now, the force is q(0 X B)+qE=0+q(v X B)=q(v X B) and
it all adds up. See?
I see no noticeable loss in application perf, apart from the
hopeless swapping (hopefully more RAM will take care of that).
Dunno much about my HDD, but I'd imagine it's rpm would be
verylow (4200?).
The other problem is that xorg clocks up the cpu badly
(almost at 100% all the time). I probably should switch to a low
footprint distro like DSL or slackware or whatever, but dammit I want
to make my box look cool and wipe the smug grins off of the faces of
the windoze users in my office! Should I roll back to XFree86? Maybe
I'll google sometime & see if there is any way to calm down the
running X.
[quote]
b) move to another country which values scientists more and then pays
them (see: Russia after the fall of the USSR)
[/quote]
What!??? Are you retarded? Do you know how lousy it is for
physicists in Russia today? How many of them lost their funding after
the Yeltsin cartel took over the country? The Physics Department at
Texas A&M is 90% Russian/East-European (faculty I mean). There
is a reason for that.
I assure you, The US(presently) treats
academicsa lot better than the Russian mafia-government.
[quote]
I also find it amusing that you think that communism is the
solution for malnutrition.
[/quote]
When America & western Europe was busy wallowing in
their own colelctive feces during he Depression. The USSR was building
tanks the size of small cities.
Socialism (not communism, they are different things) may not
be the perfect solution, but it sure is a damn sight more enlightened
than being dragged back into the middle ages.
[quote]
Have you read what happens when communism is
implemented? FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE IN CHINA STARVED TO DEATH.
[/quote]
Because of the atrocities and excesses of Chiang-Kai-Shek, a
capitalist and a dictator, and the Tiawanese K.M.T thugs named an
airport after him for it.
[quote]
MILLIONS
STARVED TO DEATH in the USSR.
[/quote]
Which was caused by Germany invading them. The
Russians had to follow the only military strategy that could defeat the
Nazi War machine, the "scorched
earth" strategy. They burned down farms in order to defeat
Nazism, and there can be no nobler a cause, and every Russian who
starved to death during WW-II is a martyr who died in defense of the
human race from the subhuman animals of Nazi Germany.
[quote]
North Korea is starving to death.
[/quote]
Says who? CNN? FOX news? Mouthpieces of the Christian Reich!
There is no objective information that The Republic of North Korea has
starvation problems any more than any other country in Asia.
[quote]
More
would have died if the UNITED BLOODY STATES hadn't shipped millions of
tons of grain to the USSR. If I recall correctly, America gave grain to
India as well in the 60s to stop a famine there.
[/quote]
And murdered thousands during the Union Carbide massacre.
[quote]
All of those
issues you raised have nothing to deal with my main point, which is
that you deny the horrors of communism.
[/quote]
Deny? Denial is not even an issue. The issue here is the
facts. True, many people died in the USSR, but you have no facts to
support the claim that there was an organized campaign of Genocide
perpetrated by Stalin. The only support you provide are canards and
half-truths from movies that Hollywood pulls out of it's emergent ass,
and backwater websites probably run by Neo-Nazis and anti-semites.
Here is the truth. Under Stalin, Kruschev etc, the USSR was
POWERFUL. The WHOLE WESTERN WORLD shook with fear and pissed their
pants in the wake of their nuclear submarines and under the thunder of
their rockets. They cowered in intimidation under the brilliance of
their scientists and engineers. They were feared. That fear brought
respect, which brought survival in the face of western hatred and
oppression.
What is Russia today? America's new prison bitch. A
nation ruled by gansters and prostitutes.
Who cares about freedom and democracy when you're perceived
as a bunch of spineless pussies? Survival counts for much more than
freedom, and even the deaths of millions is preferable to Russia being
overrun by Nordic-Christians, for that will bring about the complete
eradication ofentire sections of humanity. Any amount of
short term misery is preferable to even having a SINGLE WASP in ANY old
world country.
[quote]
Admit that Stalin outshone even
yourself (you claim to be Ghengis Khan, after all) in the millions he
killed, that he is the #1 killer of all time.
[/quote]
Only in your brainwashed mind. I prefer to stick to reality
thank you. My imagination isn't as wild as yours.
Joseph Stalin was a political visionary and a hero of Russia.
He saved her from decaying into a Feudal cesspit. He stood up the the
Nordic race when they tried to conquer his country and rape his land,
fought back and defeated them.He dedicated his life to the
prosperity of Russia and the triumph of the Slavic people over their
Nordic oppressors and the
[quote]
because you think that a person named "Shaka" is white.
[/quote]
So you're a Zulu Emperor? Sure, and I'm Chengiz Khan.
[quote]
Wow, that's certainly a, um... interesting way of reacting to facts
about the mass murder of innocent lives.
[/quote]
As is the reaction of the white world to the Genocide of the
Aztecs (They weren't Christian, so they weren't human), The Native
Americans (same as above), the Ashkenazy Jews of Germany & East
Europe (Holocaust denial), their blubbering hatred towards any and all
"Non-Aryans", their ridicule of all non-christian cultures, and the
spread of their religion through subversion and outright lies.
[quote]
denies the mass murder of millions of innocent lives.
[/quote]
When capital and the ruling classes apologize for: Colonialism, the 14 hour day, class priviledge, the 7-day work week, Children in coalmines, the opium wars, the massacre of the paris commune, slavery, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, Starvation, Apartheid, anti-union laws, the first world war, Flanders, Trench Warfare, Mustard Gas, Aerial Bombing, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Chemical weapons, Nazism, the Great Depression, Hunger marches, the Spanish Civil War, Militarism, Christianity, Asbestos, Radiation Death, The Massacre at Nanking, the Second World War, Belsen, Dresden, Hiroshima, Racism, the Mafia, Nuclear Weapons, The Korean War, DDT, the Vietnam War, Production lines, Blacklisting, McCarthyism, Plastic Surgery, the Electric Chair, Environmental Degradation, the military suppression of Greece, India, Malaya, Indonesia, Turkey, Chile, El-Salvador, Turkey,Nicaragua & Panama, The Guld War, Trade in human body parts,MAlnutrition, Exxon Valdez, Deforestation, Organized Crime, Heroin, Cocaine, Tuberculosis, Ozone Depletion, and the deaths of murder of 50 million socialists and trade unionists in this country alone, then---and only then will I consider apologising for the errors of socialism.
---Joseph Stalin.
[quote]
No, no. Let me guess.
1) Iran
2) Pakistan?
3) Any of the other *stans.
[/quote]
Like I said, the race hater finally reveals himself. Or are you just another dimwitted moron who's been adequately brainwashed by white propaganda ; watching too many Arnold Schwartzenegger movies where "ragheads" run about with a Koran in one hand and a Kalashnikov on the other?
[quote]
Croatia
[/quote]
India, actually. Contrary to what your television tells you, we are not
lice-infested bullock cart drivers and terrorists. There are those among us willing
to protect our nation from the lies of the west. There are those among
us that know the white man for who he really is.
And we're healing our homeland from the cultural imperialism that
nearly ate her alive.
Educate
yourself... please. Learn to think for yourself. For the sake of
everyone on this planet. People willing to lightly dismiss the largest
mass murderer the world has ever seen are not just deluded, but scarily
so.
[/quote]
Ooooooo! Whitey wants to enlighten me now is it? Big White man wants to
convert me to western capitalism, the schizophrenic twin brother of
christian savagery.
So the redneck finally reveals himself from the veneer of
intelligence. Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think we don't see beyond
your half-truths, outright lies and propaganda? Do you think that, like
you, our perceptions of an entire way of life are determined
byreruns of Rambo? Do you think we buy into whatever garbage
spouted by Fox News and the lie-machines of Hollywood?
Do you westerners think we are so inferior that we
don't know the truth, that your hatred for socialism is the product of
your mania towards a nonexistent god and your irrational hatred for
slavic people as an "Impure Aryan Race" because they have some Asian
blood in them? Please, don't waste your time trying to "educate" me.
I'd rather just be shot than listen to your mind-numbing drivel.
If you read my eariler post I DID supply references to place the
algebra in context.
I'm a physicist not a physics teacher.
I can only report the truth. I do not have the ability to explain it
better than Einstein, Bergmann and Wheeler themselves
(Covariant 4-vector formalism is their work mainly).
Furthermore, The references are mostly wikipedia, a popular reference
on slashdot, and if wikipedians can understand it well enough to write
decent articles about it, so can the sad person who responded to the
truth with personal insults.
This person is clearly ignorant about many things, and too
arrogant to admit it and try to learn something interesting and
relevant to the discussion.
(American?Nah!That's just a stereotype).
I thought the whole point of slashdot forum was the free
exchange of ideas (no I'm not new here). This is impossible if we are
restricted to the theocratic medium of the English language
(or any language devised by humans that is too imprecise and vague to
clearly convey information about the fundamental physical processes of
the universe).
If I am to submit to a dogma of words and humanlanguage and
restrict my explanations to crude and imprecise nonmathematics instead
of the proper and categorically correct statements (with appropriate
references) then that exchange cannot take place.
[quote]
"well that's ok, because the study was about Electromagnetic fields,
not
magnetic
fields, which are two different things. As far as I am aware,
there is absolutely nodanger to humans from a magnetic field."
[/quote]
Wrong. All Electric and Magnetic Fields are the same thing.
They are components of the same EM field Tensor.
F_mu_nu=del_mu(A^nu)-del_nu(A^mu)
Where A is the 4-vector Potential (ie the scalar potential
& the regular magnetic vector potential).
All quantities here are 4-vectors/tensors with a Minkowskian metric:
g_mu_nu=diag(1,-1,-1,-1)
F has 6 independent components, 3 being the electric field components,
3 being the magnetic field components.
The above expression, together with Maxwell's Equations:
del.F=J
del~.F=0
are manifestly Lorentz Covariant equations, meaning they are invariant
under a Lorentz Transformation. This means that, since the lorentz
transformation is unitary, & can be written as:
F`=L_dagger*F*L
this will leave Maxwell's equations unchanged. Thus, if you
have a pure magnetic field (like that of the earth) with the 3 E's in F
being 0, it is always possible to construct an L st F` has nonzero E's.
L is a Lorentz Transformation, so the physical significance is that you
can always transform relativistically to a frame of reference where a
magnetic field picks up an electric field and even radiation EM fields
(such as Lienard-Wiechert potentials), making it an "electromagnetic"
field.
[quote]
Also,
the public machines (the ones in the computer labs) have a known root
password. The assumption is that anyone who really cares could hack a
machine they have physical access to anyway, and the root password is
needed at times... Since all the user files live out in AFS anyway,
local root doesn't do you all that much good in terms of user data.
[/quote]
I disagree. All I have to do once I've pw3ned the root in one
of these public boxes is to install a keystroke logger & bingo!
In 3 weeks I'm in the Bahamas banging chicks in my brand new yatch
officially owned by Prof. Haldane.
OK. I'm being a tad facetious. But the possibility of a
system-wide (including user files) compromise is significant without a
robust and proper authentication policy.
If he wanted to, it would be impossible to force his
policies of staff, many of whom are Noble Prize Laureates
2 people in my department are Nobel Laureates (well, one
died), and our IT department makes no exceptions for them. Neither can
launch an email client without whining to the sysadmin. They're quite
intelligent, but utterly ignorant about IT-related matters. They need a
strong sysadmin to enforce rigid policies.I think your post is made up
nonsense.
You're forgetting Demetrius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactr ia) , who succeeded where Alexander the Ordinary failed (ie actually conquering a sizable fraction of South Asia). Demetrius was less crazy and more enlightened than Alexander the Ordinary, too.
I basically agree. But one main wierdness in knoppmyth is that you can't "apt-get dist-upgrade" w/out rendering your box useless (zillions of broken dependencies). The only way to upgrade is to use the auto-upgrade script in knoppmyth installer which backs up your sql stuff, your home dir and etc dir thru mythbackup, then wipes out your root partition and installs the current release. Problem is that I spend weeks installing & configging stuff there (firewall, apache.htaccess for mythweb, samba tweaks for good network performance, most difficult was compiling the ivtv 0.4 drivers and getting them to work on the new Hauppauge PVR-150 together with the tv-out on the older 350) that I don't wanna repeat (not all the config files are in "/etc" & older config files may not work in newer versions unless apt fixes them automatically), so it would be nice if some dedicated knoppmyth apt repos were kept from where we could update/upgrade stuff using apt.
Slashdot Mirror
Check these out for decent technical graphics and voluminous data analysis:
http://labplot.sourceforge.net/
http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/
These are typically better than oocalc for more sophisticated analysis (labplot uses the very powerful GNU Scientific libs as backends). Also, better 3-D graphics using the qwt libraries.
Yep, and this is also called "sour grapes" from a troll who probably lost his job to a better programmer who was Indian.
While I agree with you that spelling like a three year old is a bad thing, you have to admit grandparent has a point. The truth of the matter is that the racist tirades against Indians on slashdot is a manifestation of Wagnerian ideologies among white christians, who see Indians as little more than trained monkeys who don't belong in their professions. This is particularly true among the Ulster-Scott-Irish derived Americans (most americans are of Scott-Irish descent), themselves of poor breeding even among westerners. Their crude behaviour, violent lifestyles, alcoholic excesses, obsession with killing and guns, and their criminal tendencies are a result of that breeding.
They are conditioned by their families and communities to believe that white christians are chosen by god to rule the earth, and anybody who challenges this claim should be summarily murdered. Whenever any ethnic group tries to work their way up in the world, they see a threat to their perceived entitlement and superiority.
White society in America is rigidly stratified in terms of race, with white anglo-saxon protestants seen as the highest race. Others, such as Catholics, Slavs, Mediterraneans, Ashkenazy/Mizrahi Jews, Arabs etc. seen as inferior white races, and Hispanics, African-Americans, South Asians, East Asians and miscellaneous other groups seen as "mud people". Basically we are not seen by these people as human at all, but simulcra of human beings created by the Abrahamic satan with the intent of "putting down the white man".
So you see, the Bharatiyas are not the first ones to go through this. In fact, there have even been other white races who have had to suffer discrimination and hate attacks from these people because they were perceived as "racially inferior whites", as noted above. The treatment of Jewish people in America has been particularly bad, with widespread antisemetism and Judenhass in many parts of America making life very difficult for these poor people.
The good news is that they are losing. America is becoming increasingly more multicultural, and the political influence of minority lobbies is greater now than ever before. More and more White americans are rejecting this kind of hate and turning away from their jaundiced roots.
I don't know whether enlightenment will come to the world in time for our people or not. I read a lot about the past history of the Jews in Europe and North America and wonder if that might be our future. Whether Indian Hindus would be next in line for white christian pogroms and gas chambers. Don't think that this cannot happen. All the signs are there. The traditional path of racial hatred among white christians usually takes this route. Already, the blood libels against Indians have started (see slashdot forum posts).
If that is to be the case, it is vitally important that out cultural solidarity remain strong and intact. We must not miscegenate or diasporise into these foreign socities and we must not allow them to dilute our traditions and our heritage. Our unity should be our greatest strength, as should be our will to survive. If we stay together as one, we can weather this storm until the western world evolves past their bestial tendencies, or they destroy themselves with their nuclear bombs.
Erm, actually it does (irrespective of what fraction of c your velocity is). Because Electric & Magnetic fields always scale as c no matter what your frame of reference is, you always have to do a Lorentz transform no matter how slow your speed is. Here is a good example to illustrate my point:
Suppose you see a constant magnetic field. You see a charged particle moving
perp. to that field with velocity v, so the lorentz force shuld be q(v X B). Now, if you were in the frame of reference of that particle, a Galilean transformation would give you a v of 0, & a magnetic field B so net force of q(0 X B)=0.
WTF??? How can the force be 0 in one inertial frame & nonzero in another?
This can't be right, so clearly the Galilean Transformation is wrong for ANY v even though it's "supposed" to work at v<<c (kept unity here). Now, if you do a Lorentz Transformation on F (like I said earlier), you get v=0, B is something new, BUT you also get an E= v X B. So now, the force is q(0 X B)+qE=0+q(v X B)=q(v X B) and it all adds up. See?
I like hyperbole,sorry.
Well lemme throw my specs in (this is my office PC,my home machine is 3 orders of magnitude faster).
= oooqs)
I'm running Mandriva on a Dell T-500. 128 Mb RAM, Katmai P-3 processor (500 MHz, 512 kb cache) & kernel's vm.swappiness is at 60. KDE 3.4 stable with most of the bells & whistles. May be able to upgrade the RAM soon. Right now, if I keep ooffice & firefox preloaded in memory (http://mozillaqs.sourceforge.net/#DOWNLOADS) & (http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content
I see no noticeable loss in application perf, apart from the hopeless swapping (hopefully more RAM will take care of that).
Dunno much about my HDD, but I'd imagine it's rpm would be verylow (4200?).
The other problem is that xorg clocks up the cpu badly (almost at 100% all the time). I probably should switch to a low footprint distro like DSL or slackware or whatever, but dammit I want to make my box look cool and wipe the smug grins off of the faces of the windoze users in my office! Should I roll back to XFree86? Maybe I'll google sometime & see if there is any way to calm down the running X.
Mea Culpa.
[quote]
b) move to another country which values scientists more and then pays them (see: Russia after the fall of the USSR)
[/quote]
What!??? Are you retarded? Do you know how lousy it is for physicists in Russia today? How many of them lost their funding after the Yeltsin cartel took over the country? The Physics Department at Texas A&M is 90% Russian/East-European (faculty I mean). There is a reason for that.
I assure you, The US(presently) treats academicsa lot better than the Russian mafia-government.
[quote]
Literally, I cringed at how many commentors thought they were soooooo clever for burning to a CD then re-ripping to MP3.
[/quote]
I think you might save up on cds if you burned it to a virtual drive (iso image). Does anybody know if that's doable?
[quote]
I also find it amusing that you think that communism is the solution for malnutrition.
[/quote]
When America & western Europe was busy wallowing in their own colelctive feces during he Depression. The USSR was building tanks the size of small cities.
Socialism (not communism, they are different things) may not be the perfect solution, but it sure is a damn sight more enlightened than being dragged back into the middle ages.
[quote]
Have you read what happens when communism is implemented? FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE IN CHINA STARVED TO DEATH.
[/quote]
Because of the atrocities and excesses of Chiang-Kai-Shek, a capitalist and a dictator, and the Tiawanese K.M.T thugs named an airport after him for it.
[quote]
MILLIONS STARVED TO DEATH in the USSR.
[/quote]
Which was caused by Germany invading them. The Russians had to follow the only military strategy that could defeat the Nazi War machine, the "scorched earth" strategy. They burned down farms in order to defeat Nazism, and there can be no nobler a cause, and every Russian who starved to death during WW-II is a martyr who died in defense of the human race from the subhuman animals of Nazi Germany.
[quote]
North Korea is starving to death.
[/quote]
Says who? CNN? FOX news? Mouthpieces of the Christian Reich! There is no objective information that The Republic of North Korea has starvation problems any more than any other country in Asia.
[quote]
More would have died if the UNITED BLOODY STATES hadn't shipped millions of tons of grain to the USSR. If I recall correctly, America gave grain to India as well in the 60s to stop a famine there.
[/quote]
And murdered thousands during the Union Carbide massacre.
[quote]
All of those issues you raised have nothing to deal with my main point, which is that you deny the horrors of communism.
[/quote]
Deny? Denial is not even an issue. The issue here is the facts. True, many people died in the USSR, but you have no facts to support the claim that there was an organized campaign of Genocide perpetrated by Stalin. The only support you provide are canards and half-truths from movies that Hollywood pulls out of it's emergent ass, and backwater websites probably run by Neo-Nazis and anti-semites.
Here is the truth. Under Stalin, Kruschev etc, the USSR was POWERFUL. The WHOLE WESTERN WORLD shook with fear and pissed their pants in the wake of their nuclear submarines and under the thunder of their rockets. They cowered in intimidation under the brilliance of their scientists and engineers. They were feared. That fear brought respect, which brought survival in the face of western hatred and oppression.
What is Russia today? America's new prison bitch. A nation ruled by gansters and prostitutes.
Who cares about freedom and democracy when you're perceived as a bunch of spineless pussies? Survival counts for much more than freedom, and even the deaths of millions is preferable to Russia being overrun by Nordic-Christians, for that will bring about the complete eradication ofentire sections of humanity. Any amount of short term misery is preferable to even having a SINGLE WASP in ANY old world country.
[quote]
Admit that Stalin outshone even yourself (you claim to be Ghengis Khan, after all) in the millions he killed, that he is the #1 killer of all time.
[/quote]
Only in your brainwashed mind. I prefer to stick to reality thank you. My imagination isn't as wild as yours.
Joseph Stalin was a political visionary and a hero of Russia. He saved her from decaying into a Feudal cesspit. He stood up the the Nordic race when they tried to conquer his country and rape his land, fought back and defeated them.He dedicated his life to the prosperity of Russia and the triumph of the Slavic people over their Nordic oppressors and the
[quote]
because you think that a person named "Shaka" is white.
[/quote]
So you're a Zulu Emperor? Sure, and I'm Chengiz Khan.
[quote]
Wow, that's certainly a, um... interesting way of reacting to facts about the mass murder of innocent lives.
[/quote]
As is the reaction of the white world to the Genocide of the Aztecs (They weren't Christian, so they weren't human), The Native Americans (same as above), the Ashkenazy Jews of Germany & East Europe (Holocaust denial), their blubbering hatred towards any and all "Non-Aryans", their ridicule of all non-christian cultures, and the spread of their religion through subversion and outright lies.
[quote]
denies the mass murder of millions of innocent lives.
[/quote]
When capital and the ruling classes apologize for:
Colonialism, the 14 hour day, class priviledge, the 7-day work week,
Children in coalmines, the opium wars, the massacre of the paris commune,
slavery, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, Starvation, Apartheid,
anti-union laws, the first world war, Flanders, Trench Warfare, Mustard Gas,
Aerial Bombing, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Chemical weapons, Nazism,
the Great Depression, Hunger marches, the Spanish Civil War, Militarism,
Christianity, Asbestos, Radiation Death, The Massacre at Nanking,
the Second World War, Belsen, Dresden, Hiroshima, Racism, the Mafia,
Nuclear Weapons, The Korean War, DDT, the Vietnam War, Production lines,
Blacklisting, McCarthyism, Plastic Surgery, the Electric Chair,
Environmental Degradation, the military suppression of
Greece, India, Malaya, Indonesia, Turkey, Chile, El-Salvador,
Turkey,Nicaragua & Panama, The Guld War, Trade in human
body parts,MAlnutrition, Exxon Valdez, Deforestation,
Organized Crime, Heroin, Cocaine, Tuberculosis, Ozone Depletion,
and the deaths of murder of 50 million socialists and trade
unionists in this country alone, then---and only then will I
consider apologising for the errors of socialism. ---Joseph Stalin.
[quote]
No, no. Let me guess.
1) Iran
2) Pakistan?
3) Any of the other *stans.
[/quote]
Like I said, the race hater finally reveals himself. Or are you just another dimwitted moron who's been adequately brainwashed by white propaganda ; watching too many Arnold Schwartzenegger movies where "ragheads" run about with a Koran in one hand and a Kalashnikov on the other?
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India, actually. Contrary to what your television tells you, we are not lice-infested bullock cart drivers and terrorists. There are those among us willing to protect our nation from the lies of the west. There are those among us that know the white man for who he really is.
And we're healing our homeland from the cultural imperialism that nearly ate her alive.
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No, communism is the single greatest murderer of innocents the world has ever seen.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/tyrants.htm [erols.com]
Educate yourself... please. Learn to think for yourself. For the sake of everyone on this planet. People willing to lightly dismiss the largest mass murderer the world has ever seen are not just deluded, but scarily so.
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Ooooooo! Whitey wants to enlighten me now is it? Big White man wants to convert me to western capitalism, the schizophrenic twin brother of christian savagery.
So the redneck finally reveals himself from the veneer of intelligence. Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think we don't see beyond your half-truths, outright lies and propaganda? Do you think that, like you, our perceptions of an entire way of life are determined byreruns of Rambo? Do you think we buy into whatever garbage spouted by Fox News and the lie-machines of Hollywood?
Do you westerners think we are so inferior that we don't know the truth, that your hatred for socialism is the product of your mania towards a nonexistent god and your irrational hatred for slavic people as an "Impure Aryan Race" because they have some Asian blood in them? Please, don't waste your time trying to "educate" me. I'd rather just be shot than listen to your mind-numbing drivel.
I have other logins Hausdorff.
Be glad I used up my mod points, troll.
If you read my eariler post I DID supply references to place the algebra in context.
I'm a physicist not a physics teacher.
I can only report the truth. I do not have the ability to explain it better than Einstein, Bergmann and Wheeler themselves (Covariant 4-vector formalism is their work mainly).
Furthermore, The references are mostly wikipedia, a popular reference on slashdot, and if wikipedians can understand it well enough to write decent articles about it, so can the sad person who responded to the truth with personal insults.
This person is clearly ignorant about many things, and too arrogant to admit it and try to learn something interesting and relevant to the discussion.
(American?Nah!That's just a stereotype).
I thought the whole point of slashdot forum was the free exchange of ideas (no I'm not new here). This is impossible if we are restricted to the theocratic medium of the English language (or any language devised by humans that is too imprecise and vague to clearly convey information about the fundamental physical processes of the universe).
If I am to submit to a dogma of words and humanlanguage and restrict my explanations to crude and imprecise nonmathematics instead of the proper and categorically correct statements (with appropriate references) then that exchange cannot take place.
Go Ahead, I'm waiting. Ad-Hominem attacks are the last refuge of the ignorant.
I apologize for actually studying physics and knowing what I say. If you don't believe me, you are welcome to join the republicans in denial.
Sorry to dissapoint you, but I'm a grad student in theoretical physics. Here is some third party material to verify that the above is correct:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_fiel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-vector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_Equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformati
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/lecture
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/lecture
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/lecture
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"well that's ok, because the study was about Electromagnetic fields, not magnetic
fields, which are two different things. As far as I am aware, there is absolutely nodanger to humans from a magnetic field."
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Wrong. All Electric and Magnetic Fields are the same thing. They are components of the same EM field Tensor.
F_mu_nu=del_mu(A^nu)-del_nu(A^mu)
Where A is the 4-vector Potential (ie the scalar potential & the regular magnetic vector potential).
All quantities here are 4-vectors/tensors with a Minkowskian metric:
g_mu_nu=diag(1,-1,-1,-1)
F has 6 independent components, 3 being the electric field components, 3 being the magnetic field components.
The above expression, together with Maxwell's Equations:
del.F=J
del~.F=0
are manifestly Lorentz Covariant equations, meaning they are invariant under a Lorentz Transformation. This means that, since the lorentz transformation is unitary, & can be written as:
F`=L_dagger*F*L
this will leave Maxwell's equations unchanged. Thus, if you have a pure magnetic field (like that of the earth) with the 3 E's in F being 0, it is always possible to construct an L st F` has nonzero E's. L is a Lorentz Transformation, so the physical significance is that you can always transform relativistically to a frame of reference where a magnetic field picks up an electric field and even radiation EM fields (such as Lienard-Wiechert potentials), making it an "electromagnetic" field.
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Also, the public machines (the ones in the computer labs) have a known root password. The assumption is that anyone who really cares could hack a machine they have physical access to anyway, and the root password is needed at times... Since all the user files live out in AFS anyway, local root doesn't do you all that much good in terms of user data.
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I disagree. All I have to do once I've pw3ned the root in one of these public boxes is to install a keystroke logger & bingo! In 3 weeks I'm in the Bahamas banging chicks in my brand new yatch officially owned by Prof. Haldane.
OK. I'm being a tad facetious. But the possibility of a system-wide (including user files) compromise is significant without a robust and proper authentication policy.
You'll remember their names when the architect behind "LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS.EXE" buys a yatch using your SSN.
If he wanted to, it would be impossible to force his policies of staff, many of whom are Noble Prize Laureates
2 people in my department are Nobel Laureates (well, one died), and our IT department makes no exceptions for them. Neither can launch an email client without whining to the sysadmin. They're quite intelligent, but utterly ignorant about IT-related matters. They need a strong sysadmin to enforce rigid policies.I think your post is made up nonsense.
You're forgetting Demetrius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactr ia) , who succeeded where Alexander the Ordinary failed (ie actually conquering a sizable fraction of South Asia). Demetrius was less crazy and more enlightened than Alexander the Ordinary, too.
Well if you're THAT pissed why not just build your own mythtv box?
I basically agree. But one main wierdness in knoppmyth is that you can't "apt-get dist-upgrade" w/out rendering your box useless (zillions of broken dependencies). The only way to upgrade is to use the auto-upgrade script in knoppmyth installer which backs up your sql stuff, your home dir and etc dir thru mythbackup, then wipes out your root partition and installs the current release. Problem is that I spend weeks installing & configging stuff there (firewall, apache .htaccess for mythweb, samba tweaks for good network performance, most difficult was compiling the ivtv 0.4 drivers and getting them to work on the new Hauppauge PVR-150 together with the tv-out on the older 350) that I don't wanna repeat (not all the config files are in "/etc" & older config files may not work in newer versions unless apt fixes them automatically), so it would be nice if some dedicated knoppmyth apt repos were kept from where we could update/upgrade stuff using apt.