Removing him from office will keep future presidents from claiming that the office has those same powers. And that's a far more important reason than just getting Junior Bush.
... as other commentors noted, how do you keep it dust free? Just don't spill any dust on it, and it will stay dust free.
There's no wind on the moon, so dust doesn't blow around. The dust on the ground is no more likely to jump up and land on the mirror than a boulder would be.
The best protection is freezing your credit. That way, no one can check your credit or add new lines of credit.... Unfortunately, this costs $5 per action per agency per person....
There was a bill awhile back that would have made this free, but the credit industry lobbyists got it killed. That may be true on the federal level, but there are state laws that may apply. In New Jersey, for example, you can put a freeze on all three of your accounts for nothing, and later release them as required, if, say, you're buying a car or opening some other sort of account.
Does anyone else think this is a breech of our privacy? No, I think it's closer to a breach of our privacy....unless you're talking about a breach of your breeches.
Actually, you can make add instructions out of subtract instructions, with the additional benefit that it gives you the "compare" instruction for free (just throw away the result).
I don't think you can reverse the process.
And a computer without a compare is not programmable, in any reasonable sense of the word.
I'm "censoring" someone if I don't let them scrawl graffiti on my house, am I now the boogeyman? That depends.
Have you first promoted scrawling on your your house as the hottest new way for people to communicate with each other, and encouraged them to do so until one of them posted something you didn't agree with?
Censorship is something the government can try/do, not a company or individual.
That's nonsense.
While censorship is often defined as "official" suppression, the definition of "official" can include all levels of government, religious organizations, as well as private groups or even individuals.
What's important is not the legal status of the censor, but the relative power of the censor. Network censors are not governmental, but they are censors just the same.
[Microsoft bashing has] gotten especially bad lately.... I guess you have to appeal to your audience even if it loses you credibility...it's the Fox News mantra. You have a point. Therefore, in the interest of being fair and balanced, I'll take this opportunity to point out that Faux News is the OTHER anti-Christ.
I said they can't conquer us, I didn't say that they couldn't kill a bunch of people and make our lives miserable. Two different things. Two different things, yes. But I think it's fair to say that any people that can be so easily convinced to voluntarily waive its bill of rights, submit to searches, seizures, sniffs, de-shoeing, de-pantsing, x-rays, wiretaps, eavesdrops, and imprisonment without trial is, in many important ways, indistinguishable from a "conquered people".
They were filming in the 1980/1981 Physics 1 class, though I don't know how long they were taking footage afterwards.
The earliest copyright date I saw was 1985, but that might have been a recompilation of the earlier material with the "...And Beyond" stuff.
It's possible they used lecture footage from one year, and then took their time in post-production. They staged historical vignettes with actors playing Galileo, Newton (young and old), Keppler, Leibnitz, et al., and then-modern settings such as a boat full of drunks lost at sea (Vectors) and Chalky's Billiard Parlor (Momentum).
Apart from the clothing, the "modern" scenes naturally look the most dated. The Coast-Guard radar sets and the Cal-Tech linear accelerator control room look like museum pieces, with physical analog meters, nixie tube readouts, actual push-button switches, and nothing recognizable as a computer anywhere in sight.
But he did use a laser to sight his dart gun for the Shoot-the-Monkey demonstration. Hi tech!
Rumor had it that David Goodstein was doing the same thing the year I had Freshman Physics at Caltech - there were often filming crews brought in for key lectures (like the day he derived E=mc**2, to a standing ovation...).
Rumors were right. His ca. 1985 lectures, augmented with voiceovers, live actors, animations, etc., became a classic video series "The Mechanical Universe", that covered Newtonian mechanics, and later augmented to an "... And Beyond" version that added electromagnetism, relativity, and quantum theory.
By now, millions of college and high school students (my students among them) have seen David L. Goodstein, and are still groaning at his puns, and chuckling at the 1980's college "fashions" seen in the lecture hall.
Considering that at the time people were tortured and burned for doing much less, being held in his own house was a very soft punishment.
And how many of those who were tortured or killed were ever posthumously acquitted? It's hypocritical of the Church to erect a statue to Galileo when they haven't even so much as apologized about Bruno, just to name one.
One guy at work has a TV running 24-7 just to keep him less bored. Where does one get one of those sets? A quick google of "TV" "less boring" yields only 48 k hits, while "TV" "is boring" gives a million and a half.
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There's a 'brightness' control on my TV but I turned it all the way up and everything is still stupid.
"It is also said - by esotherics and mysticists - that the cerebellum is the part of the brain that prophets and seers have learned to use 100% on command. The Bodi-Tree under which Budda sits is supposed to be a symbol of the cerebellum and have a simular structue with its branches and leaves, and thus represents enlightenment."
This seems to tacitly presume the old urban legend that there are vast areas of the brain that most people don't use, which has been widely debunked. http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp
It also seems to suggest that Chinese philosophers of, say, no later than the 7th century CE had a substantial knowledge of the physical structures of the brain as well as an understanding of the anatomical mapping of brain areas to their specific functions. This is a concept that, in the first place, wasn't suspected in Europe until the late Middle Ages and, in the second place, continued to be rejected by Chinese medicine long after that, in favor of such concepts as energy meridians, and so forth. I think it's more likely that since almost any nerve structure resembles, at least superficially, almost any tree, the symbolism is probably a modern back-formation.
I don't doubt that you're correct when you credit the cerebellum with helping coordinate martial arts techniques by encapsulating complex motions at a lower layer of organization than the conscious mind. But these are motor skills. The same effect occurs when one learns to ride a bicycle. As long as maintaining control is a conscious act it is nearly impossible. Once it becomes unconscious it is trivially easy. But stretching this point to apply to "prophets and seers" is, as you have noted, fairly esoteric and mystical, rather than scientific.
After all, we'd be outraged if Walmart managers started series of grassroots anti-union blogs in a number of places... "I'm just an anonymous low level walmart employee like you whose against the unionization because... reason reason reason reason... and I'm posting anonymously because I fear retaliation from the union rabble rousers who just want to consolidate power for themselves. I we unionize they'll win, and we'll all lose. And then over the following weeks posted all kinds of stuff criticising the union organizers in every way imaginable."
You mean you don't think that goes on already, all the time?
The earth did not gain angular momentum. Angular momentum is conserved. It has just as much now, after the quake, as before (ignoring tidal effects from the moon and sun).
What it did gain is angular speed, which resulted from a tiny reduction it the earth's moment of inertia, as the large chunk of crust dropped closer to the earth's center than it was before, making the earth slightly more compact.
The effect is the same, in principle, as the increase in angular speed we see when a figure skater draws her arms closer to her body, decreasing her moment of inertia. Her angular speed increases, in order to keep the angular momentum constant.
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Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking robot snakes on these motherfucking robot planes!
Removing him from office will keep future presidents from claiming that the office has those same powers. And that's a far more important reason than just getting Junior Bush.
... as other commentors noted, how do you keep it dust free? Just don't spill any dust on it, and it will stay dust free.There's no wind on the moon, so dust doesn't blow around. The dust on the ground is no more likely to jump up and land on the mirror than a boulder would be.
Do we need a new mod category for "bait flamers"?
Actually, you can make add instructions out of subtract instructions, with the additional benefit that it gives you the "compare" instruction for free (just throw away the result). I don't think you can reverse the process. And a computer without a compare is not programmable, in any reasonable sense of the word.
Have you first promoted scrawling on your your house as the hottest new way for people to communicate with each other, and encouraged them to do so until one of them posted something you didn't agree with?
Then, yeah. You sorta are.
That's nonsense.
While censorship is often defined as "official" suppression, the definition of "official" can include all levels of government, religious organizations, as well as private groups or even individuals.
What's important is not the legal status of the censor, but the relative power of the censor. Network censors are not governmental, but they are censors just the same.
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Home of the brave, my ass.
The earliest copyright date I saw was 1985, but that might have been a recompilation of the earlier material with the "...And Beyond" stuff.
It's possible they used lecture footage from one year, and then took their time in post-production. They staged historical vignettes with actors playing Galileo, Newton (young and old), Keppler, Leibnitz, et al., and then-modern settings such as a boat full of drunks lost at sea (Vectors) and Chalky's Billiard Parlor (Momentum).
Apart from the clothing, the "modern" scenes naturally look the most dated. The Coast-Guard radar sets and the Cal-Tech linear accelerator control room look like museum pieces, with physical analog meters, nixie tube readouts, actual push-button switches, and nothing recognizable as a computer anywhere in sight.
But he did use a laser to sight his dart gun for the Shoot-the-Monkey demonstration. Hi tech!
Rumors were right. His ca. 1985 lectures, augmented with voiceovers, live actors, animations, etc., became a classic video series "The Mechanical Universe", that covered Newtonian mechanics, and later augmented to an "... And Beyond" version that added electromagnetism, relativity, and quantum theory.
By now, millions of college and high school students (my students among them) have seen David L. Goodstein, and are still groaning at his puns, and chuckling at the 1980's college "fashions" seen in the lecture hall.
You can view the series at the Annenberg website: http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html.
I wanna see the movie it's in...
Sorry, this is real life.
And how many of those who were tortured or killed were ever posthumously acquitted? It's hypocritical of the Church to erect a statue to Galileo when they haven't even so much as apologized about Bruno, just to name one.
... but that wont happen at the hardon collider, because...Can't believe that wasn't modded Funny.
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There's a 'brightness' control on my TV but I turned it all the way up and everything is still stupid.
This seems to tacitly presume the old urban legend that there are vast areas of the brain that most people don't use, which has been widely debunked. http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp
It also seems to suggest that Chinese philosophers of, say, no later than the 7th century CE had a substantial knowledge of the physical structures of the brain as well as an understanding of the anatomical mapping of brain areas to their specific functions. This is a concept that, in the first place, wasn't suspected in Europe until the late Middle Ages and, in the second place, continued to be rejected by Chinese medicine long after that, in favor of such concepts as energy meridians, and so forth. I think it's more likely that since almost any nerve structure resembles, at least superficially, almost any tree, the symbolism is probably a modern back-formation.
I don't doubt that you're correct when you credit the cerebellum with helping coordinate martial arts techniques by encapsulating complex motions at a lower layer of organization than the conscious mind. But these are motor skills. The same effect occurs when one learns to ride a bicycle. As long as maintaining control is a conscious act it is nearly impossible. Once it becomes unconscious it is trivially easy. But stretching this point to apply to "prophets and seers" is, as you have noted, fairly esoteric and mystical, rather than scientific.
You mean you don't think that goes on already, all the time?
"'And all 6 billion people in the world cannot be thought workers.'"
"Why not?"
For the same reason that two people cannot get rich pressing each other's pants.
The earth did not gain angular momentum. Angular momentum is conserved. It has just as much now, after the quake, as before (ignoring tidal effects from the moon and sun). What it did gain is angular speed, which resulted from a tiny reduction it the earth's moment of inertia, as the large chunk of crust dropped closer to the earth's center than it was before, making the earth slightly more compact. The effect is the same, in principle, as the increase in angular speed we see when a figure skater draws her arms closer to her body, decreasing her moment of inertia. Her angular speed increases, in order to keep the angular momentum constant.