To all of you "bank notes aren't real money" people, I have a question: What do you consider to be "real" money? Gold? Diamonds? Platinum? Carbon credits? Bitcoin? The value of those things can change suddenly, too. Any form of currency is only worth what people agree that it is worth.
If I have a bunch of friends that I can trade Monopoly money with for other goods, then Monopoly money is real enough among us. There are modern on-line communities that use barter, or other non-cash value exchange. I'd consider a Boba Fett minifig (with printed arm pattern) to be a legitimate payment of debt, but I wouldn't take gold.
That's a really interesting idea; I hope you get modded up. I bet police departments would want something similar to this for evidence chain of custody, if they don't use a similar system already.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The real solution to copyright problems is making your own content, or getting into a consortium with those who can. That's what CC is all about. The next best thing is to boycott RIAA, MPAA and the big publishing houses. The problem with that theory is that most of what you can get for free is really subpar.
We're not talking about elemental mercury here. We're talking about thiomersal. Compounds and elements have different levels of toxicity. While thiomersal is toxic at high levels, it is easily handled by the body. It is broken into ethylmercury, which is excreted and does not bioaccumulate. source There is still some question as to how much of the compound degrades into inorganic mercury, but it's not nearly as much as you get from living within a few miles of a coal power plant.
I think as long as the kid is interested in science, there's no problem with his parents focusing on that. If he wants to learn art history, fine, but there's no need to shove it down his throat yet. Expose him to as much as possible, but if he chooses not to study history or art, so be it. Being well-rounded is about exposure to things, not necessarily studying things. BTW if you RTFA, you'll notice that his parents have him attending a fine arts school. So he's apparently getting opportunities to study the humanities, too.
But neutrinos aren't photons, and don't propagate due to electromagnetic field. Isn't it possible that gravi-weak propagation happens at a slightly different speed than electromagnetic propagation? If it really is a massless particle, is there anything in special relativity that says it can't go faster than light?
The most interesting theory I've heard is that we only witness the highest energy neutrinos, because all the lower energy ones travel much faster than light. In other words, neutrinos have an imaginary rest mass, and are always tachyonic. Then the nest quest would be how we detect even lower and lower energy tachyons with speeds much greater than light. They wouldn't react with normal matter, and there'd be all sorts of causality problems.
I guess they could have negative mass and an imaginary velocity, but that makes my brain hurt even more. *checks maths* Nope, that wouldn't work.
Actually the more I read about this, here's what I think. Neutrinos are barely tachyonic. But since they are in Earth's gravity well, they loose energy through gravitational Cherenkov radiation. This makes them speed up even more. That's why the speed difference is so much greater than the ones from that supernova. They spent all that time in more-or-less empty space, and didn't accelerate due to loss of energy. (Don't forget tachyons have zero energy at infinite velocity)
No, if two out of five people are ill you have 20%. "Out of" means divided by. "Of" means times. More importantly, in your scenario it is obvious from the context what you are looking for. It sounds like the example in TFA is intentionally vague. If you have 7 of a number, you have seven times that number. If you have 7 of 9, you have 63 (or a hot cyborg). The question should have said "7 is 11% of what number?" Or the correct answer should have been 11/700 as Dunbal says.
2. Make ToS "Any access to this website is prohibited."
3. Report all website accesses to the authorities.
4. Invest in new prison construction.
5. PROFIT.
It may sound far-fetched, but your step four is a well-proven business model. It made a lot of people rich in Arizona. But it didn't turn out so well for this guy.
That's asinine; Republicans and Democrats are both corporate whores, just for different corporations. I do think we should have more sunset provisions though. In fact, laws should default to a four or five year maximum effective time, unless voted for by a super-majority, say 70%.
It's not just Microsoft that pulls this crap. Ever since the 2009 edition, Autodesk has lost its mind, fixing all sorts of things that weren't broken. The problem is, you can't just buy the improvements you want. If they could make these changes modular and let you pick and choose what to upgrade, that would be the best of both worlds.
Also, all industrial machinery is lumped into one category. As if a lathe and a drill press are equally likely to cause the same sorts of injuries. There really doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to why the insurance companies want this particular level of granularity.
You were making a meta-commentary, and it got modded down? WTF? You have a very good point. People who point out other misdeeds may be trying to add to the argument against the initial offender by offering corollary and analogy. The status quo on/. tends to be a presumption of fanboyism until proven otherwise.
50+ consecutive days of 100+ degrees in Texas? Global Warming!
No. We're having a drought in Texas because people aren't praying hard enough. Don't you know anything about climate science? Just ask our future president.
Private problems can still be brought up in one-on-one sessions after class.
High school students rarely have enough time between classes to even get a drink from the water fountain, much less delve into private problems.
Honestly, if I was a teacher, I'd avoid one-on-one emails as well - the system is too easily stacked against teachers for stuff like sexual misconduct and the like, and it's way too easy for a student to make a false accusation that gets blown way out of proportion.
How is one-on-one face time any less likely to lead to false accusations than e-communication?
Right. And these guys were also inventing their device before their file date. Remember, the US has a "first to invent" system, not a "first to file" system. This makes priority a difficult thing to determine, but both parties undoubtedly have notebooks dating back to well before July 2005. I haven't seen the file wrapper, but there may have even been interference proceedings associated with this patent.
Wait, you think that having to throw out benign things like shaving cream is normal? Why should we listen to anything you have to say? You are obviously a shill for the shaving cream manufacturers.
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To all of you "bank notes aren't real money" people, I have a question: What do you consider to be "real" money? Gold? Diamonds? Platinum? Carbon credits? Bitcoin? The value of those things can change suddenly, too. Any form of currency is only worth what people agree that it is worth.
If I have a bunch of friends that I can trade Monopoly money with for other goods, then Monopoly money is real enough among us. There are modern on-line communities that use barter, or other non-cash value exchange. I'd consider a Boba Fett minifig (with printed arm pattern) to be a legitimate payment of debt, but I wouldn't take gold.
That's a really interesting idea; I hope you get modded up. I bet police departments would want something similar to this for evidence chain of custody, if they don't use a similar system already.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The real solution to copyright problems is making your own content, or getting into a consortium with those who can. That's what CC is all about. The next best thing is to boycott RIAA, MPAA and the big publishing houses. The problem with that theory is that most of what you can get for free is really subpar.
We're not talking about elemental mercury here. We're talking about thiomersal. Compounds and elements have different levels of toxicity. While thiomersal is toxic at high levels, it is easily handled by the body. It is broken into ethylmercury, which is excreted and does not bioaccumulate. source There is still some question as to how much of the compound degrades into inorganic mercury, but it's not nearly as much as you get from living within a few miles of a coal power plant.
Next thing you know it will be the end of the universe and you'll have fast forwarded through everything of substance!
Yes, but there's that great restaurant there.
Maybe it's not about breaking the bank. Maybe it's about getting a better value for that $8 with some other service.
I think as long as the kid is interested in science, there's no problem with his parents focusing on that. If he wants to learn art history, fine, but there's no need to shove it down his throat yet. Expose him to as much as possible, but if he chooses not to study history or art, so be it. Being well-rounded is about exposure to things, not necessarily studying things. BTW if you RTFA, you'll notice that his parents have him attending a fine arts school. So he's apparently getting opportunities to study the humanities, too.
Solution: upload a bunch of random photos of other people, and tag them with your name.
But neutrinos aren't photons, and don't propagate due to electromagnetic field. Isn't it possible that gravi-weak propagation happens at a slightly different speed than electromagnetic propagation? If it really is a massless particle, is there anything in special relativity that says it can't go faster than light?
The most interesting theory I've heard is that we only witness the highest energy neutrinos, because all the lower energy ones travel much faster than light. In other words, neutrinos have an imaginary rest mass, and are always tachyonic. Then the nest quest would be how we detect even lower and lower energy tachyons with speeds much greater than light. They wouldn't react with normal matter, and there'd be all sorts of causality problems.
I guess they could have negative mass and an imaginary velocity, but that makes my brain hurt even more. *checks maths* Nope, that wouldn't work.
Actually the more I read about this, here's what I think. Neutrinos are barely tachyonic. But since they are in Earth's gravity well, they loose energy through gravitational Cherenkov radiation. This makes them speed up even more. That's why the speed difference is so much greater than the ones from that supernova. They spent all that time in more-or-less empty space, and didn't accelerate due to loss of energy. (Don't forget tachyons have zero energy at infinite velocity)
We are not their customers any more than we are Google's customers.
I'm confused. I thought "job creators" meant "rich people."
No, if two out of five people are ill you have 20%. "Out of" means divided by. "Of" means times. More importantly, in your scenario it is obvious from the context what you are looking for. It sounds like the example in TFA is intentionally vague. If you have 7 of a number, you have seven times that number. If you have 7 of 9, you have 63 (or a hot cyborg). The question should have said "7 is 11% of what number?" Or the correct answer should have been 11/700 as Dunbal says.
1. Register commonly mis-spelled domain names.
2. Make ToS "Any access to this website is prohibited."
3. Report all website accesses to the authorities.
4. Invest in new prison construction.
5. PROFIT.
It may sound far-fetched, but your step four is a well-proven business model. It made a lot of people rich in Arizona. But it didn't turn out so well for this guy.
That's asinine; Republicans and Democrats are both corporate whores, just for different corporations. I do think we should have more sunset provisions though. In fact, laws should default to a four or five year maximum effective time, unless voted for by a super-majority, say 70%.
It's not just Microsoft that pulls this crap. Ever since the 2009 edition, Autodesk has lost its mind, fixing all sorts of things that weren't broken. The problem is, you can't just buy the improvements you want. If they could make these changes modular and let you pick and choose what to upgrade, that would be the best of both worlds.
Translation: "Let us know your account number so we can disable it for failing to agree to our terms."
No Silverlight? That's got to be the best news about Windows 8 ever.
Also, all industrial machinery is lumped into one category. As if a lathe and a drill press are equally likely to cause the same sorts of injuries. There really doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to why the insurance companies want this particular level of granularity.
Ridicule can have adverse side effects
Luckily there's an ICD-10 code for that.
You were making a meta-commentary, and it got modded down? WTF? You have a very good point. People who point out other misdeeds may be trying to add to the argument against the initial offender by offering corollary and analogy. The status quo on /. tends to be a presumption of fanboyism until proven otherwise.
50+ consecutive days of 100+ degrees in Texas? Global Warming!
No. We're having a drought in Texas because people aren't praying hard enough. Don't you know anything about climate science? Just ask our future president.
Private problems can still be brought up in one-on-one sessions after class.
High school students rarely have enough time between classes to even get a drink from the water fountain, much less delve into private problems.
Honestly, if I was a teacher, I'd avoid one-on-one emails as well - the system is too easily stacked against teachers for stuff like sexual misconduct and the like, and it's way too easy for a student to make a false accusation that gets blown way out of proportion.
How is one-on-one face time any less likely to lead to false accusations than e-communication?
Right. And these guys were also inventing their device before their file date. Remember, the US has a "first to invent" system, not a "first to file" system. This makes priority a difficult thing to determine, but both parties undoubtedly have notebooks dating back to well before July 2005. I haven't seen the file wrapper, but there may have even been interference proceedings associated with this patent.
Because their patent hadn't been granted yet. You can't sue when you file a patent, only once it's been issued. You're the one who is trolling.
Wait, you think that having to throw out benign things like shaving cream is normal? Why should we listen to anything you have to say? You are obviously a shill for the shaving cream manufacturers.