No, illegal in the U.S. means "not adhering to rules of power and money grubbing scum, who are stealing, murdering, abusing power and warmongering to further their self-interests".
I you want to cram your tongue up to your neck up the ass of such, go right ahead, but some of us find the air cleaner and the taste better far outside.
and besides what the other persons replied, not only would you fall in quickly from your point of view as black hole fodder, you'd be drawn out thinner than a spaghetti noodle by tidal forces long before you reached the event horizon. Like a good whore, black holes not only suck, they pull and squeeze with vigor.
Get your sniffer fixed. The big rip theory has to do with (a postulated) inflation of space between particles. field interaction is the only thing holding anything together, interaction is the only way one particle can influence another. without interaction by photons, the carrier of the electromagnetic force, a proton could not hold an electron to make a hydrogen atom. The quarks that constitute a proton could not bind each other.
can't adapt when there is no way at all to do work, and moreover no way to store information. Pud should make website FuckedUniverse, that's what it will be
actually, thermodynamics just was expanded to include work by radiation, work by changing quantum energy level, and also information theory. Heat death of universe refers to inability to do meaningful work over any non-quantum time period.
Star formation is believed to end about 10^14 years from now, the total entropy of universe only affects events after that. Not a worry. If protons decay with 10^32 year half-life, then practically all nucleons decay after 10^40 years, which leaves all black holes to evaporate after about 10^99 years.
If protons don't decay as we suspect, then universe slowly tunnels to iron-56, (light nuclei via fusion and heavier via fission) in about 10^1500 years, which coalesce into black holes or neutron stars in about 10^10^76 years (yup, double exponent).
So quite frankly, this bit about more entropy means little for life as we know it, though if life can arise by some heat-engine powered means (due to temperature differences only). still the time scales are staggering.
but all mute if Big Rip is possible, we might only have 22 billion years left!:
indeed, his method for measuring the speed of a locomotive involved open railroad drawbridges. After he invented the hydraulic press he was known as "thumbs".
bullshit, the middle of the middle class, people making $40K to 75K a year, can afford a Mac (or two or three), for less than price of typical home entertainment center. People who have used both Windows and Mac with software tools designed for specific job often prefer Mac way. That's the way my wife and kids are, they love their Macs and are not happy with windows (or GNOME or KDE for that matter, I'm the only Linuxer in the house) way of doing things.
Hell, just to get away for all those popup nag balloons in windows is a blessing, and volume of downloads of patches, databases of virus, malware, spyware update....there's 100x the amount of that in windows world as other OS.
And the treadmill of install, patch reboot to get any new thing going in windows, just &$&%*&$ annoying compared to any real operating system, I know because I have windows partitions and virtual machine to run tax and other specialized software, what a total pain in the ass, 10x the admin effort of Linux and BSD and MacOSX and OpenSolaris put together (yeah, I do them all for all the machines in my house)
so a company makes a popular product, but keeps proprietary information like 99.99% of all other companies that make popular products. no contradiction, nothing mysterious, and no correlation between the purpose of the product (which help some people's creativity it is said) and how it is made because it is mostly irrelevant how it is made. Apple uses open API, and has some open source in there, which might be good enough if not ideal. Sure, I'd rather my kid's and wife's Macs were totally open right down to circuit traces and firmware, but ah well, we didn't get that 21st century (and no flying cars)
January 27th, Sun product fan-boi Geeks the world over who have been fretting, "but they *can't* kill my favorite Sun thing and fire the engineers for it because of x,y, and z" will find their X through Z reasons run through the wood chipper
hating is much more satisfying having a name preceded by vile offensive adjectives for the object of hatred. The starker the contrast between the grandioseness of the name and the induced abhorrence in the mind of the hearer, the better.
well heck, all it really is is a sand bar that partially surfaces during ice ages. Kiwis being part of the biofilm crud that accumulates then. no offense to actual biofilms.
actually no, after more proper definitions of a continent, your article says "some geographers take Australia, New Zealand and all the islands of Oceania (or sometimes Australasia) to be equivalent to a continent, allowing the entire land surface of the Earth to be divided into continents or quasi-continents.[11]"
so some silly people construct what we would call a "continent equivalent", which has no scientific meaning like the true geological continent.
but we didn't have capitalism in the U.S., we had "state capitalism" of oligarchy, which despite silly name has nothing to do with free markets or capitalism. And the oligarchy merely used the recent troubles to help themselves to more wealth in exchange for debt on the workers. Failure of something?, yes; capitalism? none such here.
New Zealand is part of a continent called Zealandia, not Australia. but by all means pull some more "facts" out of your ass, it's more interesting than reality.
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No, illegal in the U.S. means "not adhering to rules of power and money grubbing scum, who are stealing, murdering, abusing power and warmongering to further their self-interests".
I you want to cram your tongue up to your neck up the ass of such, go right ahead, but some of us find the air cleaner and the taste better far outside.
and besides what the other persons replied, not only would you fall in quickly from your point of view as black hole fodder, you'd be drawn out thinner than a spaghetti noodle by tidal forces long before you reached the event horizon. Like a good whore, black holes not only suck, they pull and squeeze with vigor.
Get your sniffer fixed. The big rip theory has to do with (a postulated) inflation of space between particles. field interaction is the only thing holding anything together, interaction is the only way one particle can influence another. without interaction by photons, the carrier of the electromagnetic force, a proton could not hold an electron to make a hydrogen atom. The quarks that constitute a proton could not bind each other.
I posit the big bang, the moment of the universes creation, as a single violation of thermodynamics.
or maybe those were his loan officers
can't adapt when there is no way at all to do work, and moreover no way to store information. Pud should make website FuckedUniverse, that's what it will be
actually, thermodynamics just was expanded to include work by radiation, work by changing quantum energy level, and also information theory. Heat death of universe refers to inability to do meaningful work over any non-quantum time period.
it's a pun, which fell on deaf ears
Star formation is believed to end about 10^14 years from now, the total entropy of universe only affects events after that. Not a worry. If protons decay with 10^32 year half-life, then practically all nucleons decay after 10^40 years, which leaves all black holes to evaporate after about 10^99 years.
If protons don't decay as we suspect, then universe slowly tunnels to iron-56, (light nuclei via fusion and heavier via fission) in about 10^1500 years, which coalesce into black holes or neutron stars in about 10^10^76 years (yup, double exponent).
So quite frankly, this bit about more entropy means little for life as we know it, though if life can arise by some heat-engine powered means (due to temperature differences only). still the time scales are staggering.
but all mute if Big Rip is possible, we might only have 22 billion years left!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
The core pressure of Uranus is estimated at 8 million bar, temperature about 5,000 K.
For Neptune, 7 million bar, temperature 5,400 K.
So yes, someone is full of shit.
indeed, his method for measuring the speed of a locomotive involved open railroad drawbridges. After he invented the hydraulic press he was known as "thumbs".
or $300 gets you a Mac on eBay good enough for common tasks and certainly for writing code to get into the API
bullshit, the middle of the middle class, people making $40K to 75K a year, can afford a Mac (or two or three), for less than price of typical home entertainment center. People who have used both Windows and Mac with software tools designed for specific job often prefer Mac way. That's the way my wife and kids are, they love their Macs and are not happy with windows (or GNOME or KDE for that matter, I'm the only Linuxer in the house) way of doing things.
Hell, just to get away for all those popup nag balloons in windows is a blessing, and volume of downloads of patches, databases of virus, malware, spyware update....there's 100x the amount of that in windows world as other OS.
And the treadmill of install, patch reboot to get any new thing going in windows, just &$&%*&$ annoying compared to any real operating system, I know because I have windows partitions and virtual machine to run tax and other specialized software, what a total pain in the ass, 10x the admin effort of Linux and BSD and MacOSX and OpenSolaris put together (yeah, I do them all for all the machines in my house)
so a company makes a popular product, but keeps proprietary information like 99.99% of all other companies that make popular products. no contradiction, nothing mysterious, and no correlation between the purpose of the product (which help some people's creativity it is said) and how it is made because it is mostly irrelevant how it is made. Apple uses open API, and has some open source in there, which might be good enough if not ideal. Sure, I'd rather my kid's and wife's Macs were totally open right down to circuit traces and firmware, but ah well, we didn't get that 21st century (and no flying cars)
do you have authoritative source for announcement about 4.2.2.2 ??
google just announced their public dns, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 a.k.a. google-public-dns-a.google.com and google-public-dns-b.google.com
Both are pingable.
January 27th, Sun product fan-boi Geeks the world over who have been fretting, "but they *can't* kill my favorite Sun thing and fire the engineers for it because of x,y, and z" will find their X through Z reasons run through the wood chipper
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/01/sun-setting-on-jobs/1
Going to be a great splatter-fest, stay tuned.
hating is much more satisfying having a name preceded by vile offensive adjectives for the object of hatred. The starker the contrast between the grandioseness of the name and the induced abhorrence in the mind of the hearer, the better.
man, you have rose colored glasses on, thousands of sun engineers have been given the boot in the past five years.
I disagree, we spent millions of tax dollars to find and analyze that rock, damn right it better have a grandiose name.
And samples do need labels, you'd be happy with "specimen #204"?.
well heck, all it really is is a sand bar that partially surfaces during ice ages. Kiwis being part of the biofilm crud that accumulates then. no offense to actual biofilms.
actually no, after more proper definitions of a continent, your article says "some geographers take Australia, New Zealand and all the islands of Oceania (or sometimes Australasia) to be equivalent to a continent, allowing the entire land surface of the Earth to be divided into continents or quasi-continents.[11]"
so some silly people construct what we would call a "continent equivalent", which has no scientific meaning like the true geological continent.
but we didn't have capitalism in the U.S., we had "state capitalism" of oligarchy, which despite silly name has nothing to do with free markets or capitalism. And the oligarchy merely used the recent troubles to help themselves to more wealth in exchange for debt on the workers. Failure of something?, yes; capitalism? none such here.
but they go to book burnings too, sometimes...doesn't that make them fascists?
New Zealand is part of a continent called Zealandia, not Australia. but by all means pull some more "facts" out of your ass, it's more interesting than reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent)
guess again, New Zealand is part of the continent Zealandia
it is NOT part of the continent of Australia, different shelf.
makes sense our schools gave up teaching geography and history, who needs that when we have blogs.