The answer is the same reason that we "know" anything - because the chance of any alternative is so incredibly low as to be negligible. It's the same reason I know that God does not exist.
You 'know' that god doesn't exist, that's a probability calculation I'd like to see, Honestly that statement is as absurd as a lot of the things that religious people believe in.
Lack of evidence != Low probability != Lack of existence.
Also 'God' is not a well defined being, or is your definition of god an actual old man with a white beard and robes sitting on a real cloud somewhere.
Do you think this universe just randomly happened? - how does such a complicated structure come to exist? - to rule out the possibility of an external creator is erroneous because it may not be possible to know.
NSA infiltration is unlikely you say - but you don't say why it is unlikely.
NSA infiltration is hard, so they wouldn't try you say - by this logic, spys would have never existed anywhere ever.
Do the credit card companies step up their charges to Sony because of this? Or perhaps they should be suing Sony for the cost of the resulting credit card fraud, They've been negligent and should pay for that.
Bill Gates Foundation, giving with one hand, taking with the other whilst being a very convenient tax-free way to hold large amounts of money and influence world politics.
From Wikipedia
Investments
The foundation invests the assets that it has not yet distributed, with the exclusive goal of maximizing the return on investment. As a result, its investments include companies that have been criticized for worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the Foundation is attempting to relieve poverty.[54] These include companies that pollute heavily and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world.[55] In response to press criticism, the foundation announced in 2007 a review of its investments to assess social responsibility.[56] It subsequently cancelled the review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices.[57]
The discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating,
the discovery that the speed of stars around center of galaxy is nearly uniform (dark matter),
Theorised, not discovered - new theories and measurements supporting/opposing universal expansion and dark matter/energy etc seem to come out every few months, I am far from convinced that scientists have solid theories regarding these ideas.
Bah, This could turn out to be a real pain for anybody who deletes cookies, now every time I visit a European site I'm going to have to opt out of tracking cookies - and how are they going to log this decision - with a cookie of course. What a complete pain (I can do my own privacy thanks). This reminds me of when Internet explorer would regularly pop-up a box saying the site had active-x would I like to turn active-x on - I switched back to mozilla.
Meanwhile the UK census has just come round and the gov't will promptly be selling the information to anyone who wants it (without my name on it, ha).
My ISP blocks port 25 and I'm glad they do because it stops botted machines from setting up spam servers.
The point is that if I want port 25 opened, all I have to do is ask - Have you asked Verizon and Comcast to open the port?
Ahh, ok, that makes my rant look silly now, but I guess I was right about $27million transport costs being crazy, funny thing is other respondents tried to justify the price, a lot of people will look for justification of anything that govt's do, rather than just accept that all gov't actions are not morally correct.
Agreed, and what the fuck is a court doing giving a persons private property to a corporation? Courts should not be taking peoples property and handing it over to some corporation for any reason at all, ever.
Gov't confiscation of proceeds of crime is ok. Gov't confiscation of illegal goods is ok.
Taking anything else is not ok, and it definitely is not ok to hand someones property over to a fucking corporation when they have only commited a civil illegal act. Judge is a **** with no respect for the principles of law.
Is your keyboard broken or something? Use your shift key you lazy git - or do you not empathise with the rest of the slashdotters who are reading what you've typed.
Also that dot on the end of a sentance, fullstop - is it really so hard to use one?
The French kilo appears to be getting lighter...or the copies might be getting heavier.
Well if there's two other methods of weighing a substance, you don't they frigging use them, like duh.
This article leaves a lot out and doesn't add up.
And another thing: 175 parts per billion error is huge in some areas of science.
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You 'know' that god doesn't exist, that's a probability calculation I'd like to see, Honestly that statement is as absurd as a lot of the things that religious people believe in.
Lack of evidence != Low probability != Lack of existence.
Also 'God' is not a well defined being, or is your definition of god an actual old man with a white beard and robes sitting on a real cloud somewhere.
Do you think this universe just randomly happened? - how does such a complicated structure come to exist? - to rule out the possibility of an external creator is erroneous because it may not be possible to know.
NSA infiltration is unlikely you say - but you don't say why it is unlikely.
NSA infiltration is hard, so they wouldn't try you say - by this logic, spys would have never existed anywhere ever.
Do the credit card companies step up their charges to Sony because of this? Or perhaps they should be suing Sony for the cost of the resulting credit card fraud, They've been negligent and should pay for that.
Ahh.. thank you so much for saying beer, totally forgot mine was in the freezer.. Just right now, ta!!!!
Yeah, nice to have links though, saves googling it.
And agent ransack gives you back a decent file search tool: Agent Ransack
Classic start menu: ClassicShell
108 gigabytes for 1 day duh, 5 days at 10mbits = 540 gigabytes.
10mbit for 1 day = 540 Gigabytes
Bill Gates Foundation, giving with one hand, taking with the other whilst being a very convenient tax-free way to hold large amounts of money and influence world politics.
From Wikipedia
Investments
The foundation invests the assets that it has not yet distributed, with the exclusive goal of maximizing the return on investment. As a result, its investments include companies that have been criticized for worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the Foundation is attempting to relieve poverty.[54] These include companies that pollute heavily and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world.[55] In response to press criticism, the foundation announced in 2007 a review of its investments to assess social responsibility.[56] It subsequently cancelled the review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices.[57]
Perhaps due to negative publicity, or perhaps they thought they could lose, I wonder which.
All UK MEPs contact info
Or search for 1 here
Would you prefer an attorney whose expertise is in Animal Husbandry to get this job?
Yes, Hell, I'd prefer a cow was given this job, that way, current copyright laws would be a little safer.
Laffer Curve by OECD
I didn't find it uncanny at all myself.
This 'Air Jelly' also very cool: Air Jelly
so fucking what.
Doesn't work for me because I'm not in the right place.
The discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, the discovery that the speed of stars around center of galaxy is nearly uniform (dark matter),
Theorised, not discovered - new theories and measurements supporting/opposing universal expansion and dark matter/energy etc seem to come out every few months, I am far from convinced that scientists have solid theories regarding these ideas.
Bah, This could turn out to be a real pain for anybody who deletes cookies, now every time I visit a European site I'm going to have to opt out of tracking cookies - and how are they going to log this decision - with a cookie of course. What a complete pain (I can do my own privacy thanks). This reminds me of when Internet explorer would regularly pop-up a box saying the site had active-x would I like to turn active-x on - I switched back to mozilla.
Meanwhile the UK census has just come round and the gov't will promptly be selling the information to anyone who wants it (without my name on it, ha).
He's not lost yet, he will be appealing against extradition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12564865
They are corrupt (pretty much everyone knows this)
So why did they vote for them then?
My ISP blocks port 25 and I'm glad they do because it stops botted machines from setting up spam servers. The point is that if I want port 25 opened, all I have to do is ask - Have you asked Verizon and Comcast to open the port?
Ahh, ok, that makes my rant look silly now, but I guess I was right about $27million transport costs being crazy, funny thing is other respondents tried to justify the price, a lot of people will look for justification of anything that govt's do, rather than just accept that all gov't actions are not morally correct.
$27 Million to move half a ton of material, really? so $100,000 for transport and security, where did the other 26.9 million dollars go?
Agreed, and what the fuck is a court doing giving a persons private property to a corporation? Courts should not be taking peoples property and handing it over to some corporation for any reason at all, ever.
Gov't confiscation of proceeds of crime is ok.
Gov't confiscation of illegal goods is ok.
Taking anything else is not ok, and it definitely is not ok to hand someones property over to a fucking corporation when they have only commited a civil illegal act. Judge is a **** with no respect for the principles of law.
Is your keyboard broken or something? Use your shift key you lazy git - or do you not empathise with the rest of the slashdotters who are reading what you've typed. Also that dot on the end of a sentance, fullstop - is it really so hard to use one?
The French kilo appears to be getting lighter...or the copies might be getting heavier. Well if there's two other methods of weighing a substance, you don't they frigging use them, like duh. This article leaves a lot out and doesn't add up. And another thing: 175 parts per billion error is huge in some areas of science.