A bigger question is why western religions are so interested in sex. . . . Western religions should announce they no longer give a two-headed rat's ass about sex, from now on they'll be more involved with the eternal verities of life . ..
I dunno, the big "why are we here" type questions all have to do with death and birth, so, since sex is a big part of at least half of that, it ought to be a natural subject for religions. My question would be why do so many of the religious seem to avoid the subject of sex, other than to say "Don't do it" or "Procreate, but don't enjoy it"?.
More resources means people will think they can make more people.
Actually, the opposite effect has been observed in real life. When people obtain (relative) wealth, and mortality (especially infant mortality) rates drop, the birth rate drops within a generation or two.
No air compressor need be connected to the water system in order to get compressed air in the system. This has a better explanation.
Though very rare, it is not unheard of for flush valve water closets to explode. The flush valves need 20+psig to operate, and most codes allow up to 80 psig. Water is, practically, incompressible, so the release of pressure from a suddenly opening valve will create sudden acceleration that may cause "water hammer" and jerk the pipes some. But air is compressible, and if there is air in the pipes, a sudden release of pressure can cause the air to expand explosively, adding much greater acceleration and velocity to the water entering the fixture, and possibly rupturing the brittle ceramics that the fixture is made of.
In most buildings more than a few stories high, you need a pump to raise the water to the top floors and still have enough pressure. Especially in older buildings, this pump is a constant RPM centrifugal pump, which cannot adjust to the variability in flow rates, especially at times of low usage. So the discharge of the pump fills a bladder tank, which contains water on one side of the bladder and air compressed by the water on the other. The pump does not have to turn on and off all the time, because the bladder tank holds enough water and pressure to keep the water flowing for a minute or two after the pump turns off (much longer in times of low flow) and it takes a minute or two for the tank to fill to full pressure while the pump is running ( longer at times of high demand).
Apparently, in this case, the air got into the system because some part of the system failed, the water pressure dropped, and air got sucked in. It was then pressurized by the normal water pressures.
The Windows Phone advertisements have been great. I loved the one with the people so distracted by their phones, especially the chick in the black nighty.
To eachhisown, I guess. My instinct when watching those ads was, why would I want a phone that demands so much attention that I'm distracted from what I need to do? Then, again, I haven't seen the chick in the black nighty.
If he had bought a "license only for region X", then he would have contracted for a license, there would be no sale of goods for the doctrine of first sale to apply. But he didn't, he bought a good, it's his, and the doctrine of first sale should apply. Only this particular circumstance for that doctrine, which includes copyright treaties in addition to US copyright law, has never been tested by the Supreme Court, so they are willing to take it up to settle the issue. Hopefully, they'll rule in the judicial conservative manner and uphold the doctrine of first sale, rather than the political "Conservative" way and side with big money. (IANAL, I don't know the details of the Berne Convention or other treaties, YMMV, etc.)
I like how mod my comments are modded as Troll when I'm trying to explain why the situation is what it is . . .
I don't think you deserved Troll, but I believe that you got it backwards - see russotto's Insightful comment below. If copyright applies, particularly the copyright doctrine of first sale, then it is OK to import those books and resell them. The copyright holders are arguing against (that part of) copyright, the student importer of textbooks is arguing that (that part of) copyright does apply.
You can't just defer costs until a later point in time, and pretend that by doing so you are profitable now.
Actually, the tax code often requires you to defer costs by spreading them over a number of years, resulting in profits now that you must pay taxes on.
If the source is a list of postcodes from the post office, then it is copyright infringement.
In the USA, anyway, a list of facts is not copyrightable, no matter the source of those facts, unless some unusual creativity in the way the list is expressed (which is highly unlikely for simple list) can be shown, and then only the creative expression can be copyrighted. An alphabetical or numerically ordered list of facts should definitely not be copyrightable.
I think it's fair to point out that people were saying the same thing about color TV in the 1960's: It's a fad--who needs it.
I was only a child in the 60s, but I don't remember anyone saying about color TV that it's a fad, who needs it. I do remember getting a color TV, which we got not because it was color, but because our more than 10-year old old black-and-white TV set needed constant adjustment to keep the horizontal and vertical hold on target. Around that same time, NBC was the first station to go "all" color, hence the peacock logo, though I think it still had a lot of black and white for reruns and local affiliate shows. By the way, there were also a slew of "3D" stereoscopic movies every once in a while back then, but it never caught on for mainstream movies. How many current new movies are stereoscopic 3D? How many current theaters are equipped to deal with them? Until it's most movies and most theaters, it's not much less of a fad than it was in the 50s and 60s.
Except in cases of only low damage possibilities, risk should not be thought of as simply "damage * incidence". For an extreme example, the risk of an act with possible damages that would wipe out all life on earth should not be considered as mitigated by a very low probability of occurrence.
Because they would be idiots if they did. Keynesian economics have an absolutely terrible track record.
The only part of Keynesian economics that has a bad track record is the part where you're supposed to build up a surplus in the boom times in order to pay for the deficit in bad times. Governments, under the proddings of the Wold Bank, et. al., tend to try it the other way around.
It doesn't work that way in real life? I just gave you a list of examples where it DID work in real life:
I don't think you listed what you think you listed
- Microsoft OS/Explorer monopoly of the 90s broken-up by challengers Apple, Google, Mozilla (firefox)
With a ton of help from the government anti-trust lawyers. And MS still has a near monopoly on OS and office suites - precisely because of the fact that "everyone uses it", in other words, a self-reinforcing dominant market share, just what you say doesn't happen in real life.
- Kmart's retail monopoly of the 70s/80s broken-up by challenges from Walmart, Target
What? Kmart never had even close to a monopoly. In fact it was never higher than the no. 2 retailer in the US. Sears was no. 1 until Walmart overtook Kmart and then Sears in rapid succession. And all three of them had to compete with the rise of the shopping mall. Even Walmart is not a monopoly country-wide, (though in some low population areas it has become the local retail monopoly where there is not enough business for multiple outlets)
- DVD/Bluray Consortium movie monopoly currently being challenged by iTunes, NetFlix, Amazon, and other streaming movie downloads.
Though TFA did not really say, they would not typically be directly cooling the data center with water cooled by evaporation. They would be rejecting heat from their refrigeration equipment (probably water chillers, possibly other types) and using the refrigeration systems to cool the air. The advantage of a water-cooled AC equipment is that the cooling tower water is typically heated up by the refrigeration equipment from 85F to 95F and then cooled back down by evaporation. Whereas air-cooled refrigeration equipment typically has to work against air temperatures of 95F to 115F, creating a less efficient cycle.
"Graywater" is water that does not contain human waste, but has been used for other purposes and isn't fit for drinking.
"Blackwater" is sewage water containing human waste (and easily confused with the mercenary business formerly owned by Erik Prince).
Exactly.
Of course, if you read TPWFA (The Poorly Worded Fine Article), you'll find that they are using neither grey water nor black water, they're using treated effluent from the local sewage treatment plant, which should largely be free of solids and possibly decontaminated (in Chicago, anyway, there's a controversy brewing because the treated water dumped into the river is full of nasty bacteria). They will have to treat it further - even clean, potable water needs to be treated when using it in a cooling system in order to prevent fouling of the equipment and possible microbiological growth. Then, as the article says, it gets treated again before it is dumped into the river, since the water accumulates dissolved minerals and other solids and because the treatment chemicals added may themselves be bad for the environment.
Encarta was an inexpensive, multimedia encyclopedia that helped Microsoft sell Windows PCs to families.
I don't know anybody who bought a computer in that era who was enticed into it, even partially, by the prospect of getting Encarta. I did buy a computer in the 90's with Encarta on it, and I found it less than useless. (Anecdotal, I know, but to continue the anecdote, knew a lot of families with kids at the time, including mine, and many that were very invested in their kids' educations.)
By your own example, it took energy to erase the bit, just that the energy came from the pre-erasure difference in temperature between the bits and the environment. And the end result of the erasure in your example is an increase in entropy for the (assumedly closed) system of the room plus the bits. So, no, your example does not come close to disproving Landauer.
You are thinking of scientific theories or hypotheses. Scientific laws are based on observations, but they are not proven. In fact, they are the assumptions and axioms upon which proofs are built.
No, the issue at question here is whether it is right and legal to force religious organizations to act against their conscience, i.e. to provide health insurance that must includes contraceptives.
No, the freedom of conscience for religious organizations, e.g. to not provide health insurance that includes contraception, is established and not in doubt here. This is about non-religious organizations, such as hospitals, that are more or less affiliated with a religious organization, but that regularly hire people outside of their religion. Currently, those employers are not exempt from the laws that require them to not discriminate, to pay overtime wages, etc., while purely religious organizations like churches can be exempted from most of those laws because of the separation of church and state.
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Did this information theory proof include rule out the possibility that the part of the universe that the omniscient god is is the whole universe?
I dunno, the big "why are we here" type questions all have to do with death and birth, so, since sex is a big part of at least half of that, it ought to be a natural subject for religions. My question would be why do so many of the religious seem to avoid the subject of sex, other than to say "Don't do it" or "Procreate, but don't enjoy it"?.
Actually, the opposite effect has been observed in real life. When people obtain (relative) wealth, and mortality (especially infant mortality) rates drop, the birth rate drops within a generation or two.
No air compressor need be connected to the water system in order to get compressed air in the system.
This has a better explanation.
Though very rare, it is not unheard of for flush valve water closets to explode. The flush valves need 20+psig to operate, and most codes allow up to 80 psig. Water is, practically, incompressible, so the release of pressure from a suddenly opening valve will create sudden acceleration that may cause "water hammer" and jerk the pipes some. But air is compressible, and if there is air in the pipes, a sudden release of pressure can cause the air to expand explosively, adding much greater acceleration and velocity to the water entering the fixture, and possibly rupturing the brittle ceramics that the fixture is made of.
In most buildings more than a few stories high, you need a pump to raise the water to the top floors and still have enough pressure. Especially in older buildings, this pump is a constant RPM centrifugal pump, which cannot adjust to the variability in flow rates, especially at times of low usage. So the discharge of the pump fills a bladder tank, which contains water on one side of the bladder and air compressed by the water on the other. The pump does not have to turn on and off all the time, because the bladder tank holds enough water and pressure to keep the water flowing for a minute or two after the pump turns off (much longer in times of low flow) and it takes a minute or two for the tank to fill to full pressure while the pump is running ( longer at times of high demand).
Apparently, in this case, the air got into the system because some part of the system failed, the water pressure dropped, and air got sucked in. It was then pressurized by the normal water pressures.
To eachhisown, I guess. My instinct when watching those ads was, why would I want a phone that demands so much attention that I'm distracted from what I need to do? Then, again, I haven't seen the chick in the black nighty.
If he had bought a "license only for region X", then he would have contracted for a license, there would be no sale of goods for the doctrine of first sale to apply. But he didn't, he bought a good, it's his, and the doctrine of first sale should apply. Only this particular circumstance for that doctrine, which includes copyright treaties in addition to US copyright law, has never been tested by the Supreme Court, so they are willing to take it up to settle the issue. Hopefully, they'll rule in the judicial conservative manner and uphold the doctrine of first sale, rather than the political "Conservative" way and side with big money. (IANAL, I don't know the details of the Berne Convention or other treaties, YMMV, etc.)
I don't think you deserved Troll, but I believe that you got it backwards - see russotto's Insightful comment below. If copyright applies, particularly the copyright doctrine of first sale, then it is OK to import those books and resell them. The copyright holders are arguing against (that part of) copyright, the student importer of textbooks is arguing that (that part of) copyright does apply.
Actually, the tax code often requires you to defer costs by spreading them over a number of years, resulting in profits now that you must pay taxes on.
In the USA, anyway, a list of facts is not copyrightable, no matter the source of those facts, unless some unusual creativity in the way the list is expressed (which is highly unlikely for simple list) can be shown, and then only the creative expression can be copyrighted. An alphabetical or numerically ordered list of facts should definitely not be copyrightable.
I'm not at all sure of that - a trade secret can't be copyrighted, can it?
Only the creative form of the analyses are copywritable. The facts and figures of the analyses are not. IANAL, YMMV, etc.
I was only a child in the 60s, but I don't remember anyone saying about color TV that it's a fad, who needs it. I do remember getting a color TV, which we got not because it was color, but because our more than 10-year old old black-and-white TV set needed constant adjustment to keep the horizontal and vertical hold on target. Around that same time, NBC was the first station to go "all" color, hence the peacock logo, though I think it still had a lot of black and white for reruns and local affiliate shows.
By the way, there were also a slew of "3D" stereoscopic movies every once in a while back then, but it never caught on for mainstream movies.
How many current new movies are stereoscopic 3D? How many current theaters are equipped to deal with them? Until it's most movies and most theaters, it's not much less of a fad than it was in the 50s and 60s.
Except in cases of only low damage possibilities, risk should not be thought of as simply "damage * incidence". For an extreme example, the risk of an act with possible damages that would wipe out all life on earth should not be considered as mitigated by a very low probability of occurrence.
The only part of Keynesian economics that has a bad track record is the part where you're supposed to build up a surplus in the boom times in order to pay for the deficit in bad times. Governments, under the proddings of the Wold Bank, et. al., tend to try it the other way around.
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Hell, I'm typically working with ANSI E1, zooming and panning are a just normal part of life.
I don't think you listed what you think you listed
With a ton of help from the government anti-trust lawyers. And MS still has a near monopoly on OS and office suites - precisely because of the fact that "everyone uses it", in other words, a self-reinforcing dominant market share, just what you say doesn't happen in real life.
What? Kmart never had even close to a monopoly. In fact it was never higher than the no. 2 retailer in the US. Sears was no. 1 until Walmart overtook Kmart and then Sears in rapid succession. And all three of them had to compete with the rise of the shopping mall. Even Walmart is not a monopoly country-wide, (though in some low population areas it has become the local retail monopoly where there is not enough business for multiple outlets)
Again, not a monopoly.
Agreed. The Chicago Manual is the defacto standard for academic writing, but not necessarily standard for other types of writing.
Though TFA did not really say, they would not typically be directly cooling the data center with water cooled by evaporation. They would be rejecting heat from their refrigeration equipment (probably water chillers, possibly other types) and using the refrigeration systems to cool the air. The advantage of a water-cooled AC equipment is that the cooling tower water is typically heated up by the refrigeration equipment from 85F to 95F and then cooled back down by evaporation. Whereas air-cooled refrigeration equipment typically has to work against air temperatures of 95F to 115F, creating a less efficient cycle.
Exactly.
Of course, if you read TPWFA (The Poorly Worded Fine Article), you'll find that they are using neither grey water nor black water, they're using treated effluent from the local sewage treatment plant, which should largely be free of solids and possibly decontaminated (in Chicago, anyway, there's a controversy brewing because the treated water dumped into the river is full of nasty bacteria). They will have to treat it further - even clean, potable water needs to be treated when using it in a cooling system in order to prevent fouling of the equipment and possible microbiological growth. Then, as the article says, it gets treated again before it is dumped into the river, since the water accumulates dissolved minerals and other solids and because the treatment chemicals added may themselves be bad for the environment.
crap, mistyped "</"
By your own example, it took energy to erase the bit, just that the energy came from the pre-erasure difference in temperature between the bits and the environment. And the end result of the erasure in your example is an increase in entropy for the (assumedly closed) system of the room plus the bits. So, no, your example does not come close to disproving Landauer.
You are thinking of scientific theories or hypotheses. Scientific laws are based on observations, but they are not proven. In fact, they are the assumptions and axioms upon which proofs are built.
No, the freedom of conscience for religious organizations, e.g. to not provide health insurance that includes contraception, is established and not in doubt here. This is about non-religious organizations, such as hospitals, that are more or less affiliated with a religious organization, but that regularly hire people outside of their religion. Currently, those employers are not exempt from the laws that require them to not discriminate, to pay overtime wages, etc., while purely religious organizations like churches can be exempted from most of those laws because of the separation of church and state.