This scam is just the tip of the (melting) iceberg. Huge amounts of money have been scammed for hot air. If only we could make James Hansen personally liable...
...is bring up a picture of Steve Jobs, then place the back of your middle finger against the screen and move up and down.
It won't do anything but it makes you feel better
...and all of their products are made by modern Chinese slaves working an absolute minimum 80 hour week. I've thought about upgrading to iPhone 4 or getting an iPad but my conscience keeps getting in the way of my technogeek hard-on.
But the thing is that the other side simply aren't that concerned about creation. Most probably feel that there is more than enough creation going on already, and instead they are much more concerned about the availability of what has been created. And that is an area where copyright fail by definition, as the act of copyright restricts availability under the pretense of promoting creation.
Only by negotiating a balance of availability and creation that both sides can respect, will this issue ever be resolved. And that may take a long long time.
Let me translate that for the people of Somalia:
Most Somalians probably feel there is more than enough consumer goods, oil, raw materials passing by their shores already, and are much more concerned about the availability of what's on board those ships. So that's why some Somalians take it upon themselves to liberate those ships for a while until the content owners can pay those Somalians some money to hand them back.
Slashdot isn't a groupthink collective. You absolutely hit the nail on the head and I'm sure there are many Slashdotters nodding their heads in agreement.
That was first postulated by Thomas Malthus, and comprehensively debunked by the succeeding 200+ years of history. Paul Erlich has preached on it, and its still just as wrong as it ever was.
I think its time you cracked a book on economics and then get back to the rest of us on how exactly you went wrong.
Well I can tell all Slashdotters that upgrading within a WUBI install doesn't work - it completely trashes the boot loader. Anyone know when the new version of WUBI comes out?
Circles, as a child will tell you, are flat. If the Bible had written anywhere that the Earth was a ball (which they could have done, as the word is used elsewhere in the Bible), then I might have been impressed.
Oh and Jesus affirming the Earth is flat? Try the story (which can only come from Jesus himself since he was alone) of the Temptation by the Devil. He said that he was taken to the top of a very high mountain where "he could see all of the kingdoms of the world". Now ask yourself how all of the kingdoms of the world could be seen on a ball from a mountain of arbitrary height.
He affirmed that which most people of his time believed - that the Earth was a flat circle whose center was somewhere in the Middle East, perhaps Jerusalem. He hadn't heard of Eratosthenes either.
I fail to see how the parent could be labelled "Troll" when its entirely true - Wikipedia has been gamed by multiple special interest groups. The crowdsourcing model is an abject failure.
Harry Markopolos did not suggest this sort of approach, but the polar opposite: expertise in the SEC with examinations to get in, a good rate of pay, the funding of whistleblowers through the confiscation of ill-gotten gains from fraudsters.
Nowhere in that statement does she say it is. There's a second quote further on which could be taken together with this to imply, kinda, that she was making the statement from the traveler's perspective, but it's far from clear, and, I also think, "Which is more likely, the physicist doesn't know basic relativity or the reporter botched it and gave quotes out of context?" The question pretty much answers itself.
Who the hell marked that as insightful? The boldened sentence clearly says it is from the pov of the traveler.
QED
Doesn't really matter where or how fast that inertial frame is going, it just has to be non accelerating at any time during the event you wish to find the time interval for
Oh dear you've failed special relativity too. Time dilation does not require acceleration.
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In the last 100 years, Tokyo has sank relative to the sea by 19 feet. Has anyone noticed?
This scam is just the tip of the (melting) iceberg. Huge amounts of money have been scammed for hot air. If only we could make James Hansen personally liable...
The important thing about the iPad is that you can hold it in one hand.
...is bring up a picture of Steve Jobs, then place the back of your middle finger against the screen and move up and down. It won't do anything but it makes you feel better
Great idea! For us atheists we could have a big nothing on the Moon. Which we've already put there.
...and all of their products are made by modern Chinese slaves working an absolute minimum 80 hour week. I've thought about upgrading to iPhone 4 or getting an iPad but my conscience keeps getting in the way of my technogeek hard-on.
Why didn't anyone think of this before? You must be a genius.
...Any sign of Half Life 2 Episode 3?
But the thing is that the other side simply aren't that concerned about creation. Most probably feel that there is more than enough creation going on already, and instead they are much more concerned about the availability of what has been created. And that is an area where copyright fail by definition, as the act of copyright restricts availability under the pretense of promoting creation.
Only by negotiating a balance of availability and creation that both sides can respect, will this issue ever be resolved. And that may take a long long time.
Let me translate that for the people of Somalia:
Most Somalians probably feel there is more than enough consumer goods, oil, raw materials passing by their shores already, and are much more concerned about the availability of what's on board those ships. So that's why some Somalians take it upon themselves to liberate those ships for a while until the content owners can pay those Somalians some money to hand them back.
Slashdot isn't a groupthink collective. You absolutely hit the nail on the head and I'm sure there are many Slashdotters nodding their heads in agreement.
We know you're not feeling guilty, especially since you're a leech without a spine, a creative impulse or a moral compass.
Fortunately the original AC speaks for many Slashdotters who work for a living and don't believe in the pseudo-Marxist "World of What's Yours Is Mine"
That was first postulated by Thomas Malthus, and comprehensively debunked by the succeeding 200+ years of history. Paul Erlich has preached on it, and its still just as wrong as it ever was.
I think its time you cracked a book on economics and then get back to the rest of us on how exactly you went wrong.
Well I can tell all Slashdotters that upgrading within a WUBI install doesn't work - it completely trashes the boot loader. Anyone know when the new version of WUBI comes out?
I find it incredible that my comment, which was entirely true, could be considered a "troll".
Has Slashdot been taken over by creationists?
Circles, as a child will tell you, are flat. If the Bible had written anywhere that the Earth was a ball (which they could have done, as the word is used elsewhere in the Bible), then I might have been impressed.
Oh and Jesus affirming the Earth is flat? Try the story (which can only come from Jesus himself since he was alone) of the Temptation by the Devil. He said that he was taken to the top of a very high mountain where "he could see all of the kingdoms of the world". Now ask yourself how all of the kingdoms of the world could be seen on a ball from a mountain of arbitrary height.
He affirmed that which most people of his time believed - that the Earth was a flat circle whose center was somewhere in the Middle East, perhaps Jerusalem. He hadn't heard of Eratosthenes either.
And yet from Genesis to Revelation, they all assumed the world was flat. Even Jesus.
...OSX on Macs is the real threat. How is Linux going to win when most students take Macs to college, then Windows on laptops with Linux on nearly 0%
Riddle me that.
I think KDE4 and Gnome have ruined Linux on the desktop for a very long time.
Oh and don't bother modding this down as a troll or flamebait Its a serious question.
I fail to see how the parent could be labelled "Troll" when its entirely true - Wikipedia has been gamed by multiple special interest groups. The crowdsourcing model is an abject failure.
Harry Markopolos did not suggest this sort of approach, but the polar opposite: expertise in the SEC with examinations to get in, a good rate of pay, the funding of whistleblowers through the confiscation of ill-gotten gains from fraudsters.
You can't read either. Crack a book and get back to me when you've managed "See Spot run"
You clearly can't read. Take a ten year timeout to grow some more.
Nowhere in that statement does she say it is. There's a second quote further on which could be taken together with this to imply, kinda, that she was making the statement from the traveler's perspective, but it's far from clear, and, I also think, "Which is more likely, the physicist doesn't know basic relativity or the reporter botched it and gave quotes out of context?" The question pretty much answers itself.
Who the hell marked that as insightful? The boldened sentence clearly says it is from the pov of the traveler. QED
0.99998*c ~= c
"at light speed" 0.99998c. It means exactly c
Doesn't really matter where or how fast that inertial frame is going, it just has to be non accelerating at any time during the event you wish to find the time interval for
Oh dear you've failed special relativity too. Time dilation does not require acceleration.
Read it again. "That means that, if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4.2 years to get there."
The good Dr Freese wrote:
"That means that, if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4.2 years to get there."
which is clearly wrong. In the traveler's frame of reference (the rocket) it would take no time at all.