Throughout history, terrorist and guerilla groups have only been beaten in two ways.
One is to stick their entire parent population - be it the Jews, the Boers or whatever - in concentration camps. Annihilate their will to fight. Make them subservient, and write fear into their psyche.
The other is to work around them. Undermine their hold on their populations, until the groups become themselves irrelevant, and fade away.
A different question would be - why do we need evidence for dark matter?
It is surely more absurd to insist that all the matter in the universe interacts by the electromagnetic force, than to suggest that a sizable proportion does not.
Yeah. That was a great game. The beams looked good, and sounded good with that long charging sound... Trying to kill that beam cannon before it tears your own fleet in half was a cool moment...
And when you have beams on your side, like a group of Mojinirs... Hehehehehe...
Vandalism does not seem to be a problem with wikis. (Generallising vastly, of course) Either a wiki is so small that vandalism is pointless, or a wiki is so big that it can defend itself.
The end result of any wiki is either a self-reinforcing rush to the extreme (as a site acquires bias, new users of an opposite inclination would feel rejected), or a centre compromise. (as in wikipedia)
Neither would make a good editorial/opinion article. Editorials need to be in the mildly insane category - enough to offend or incite emotion, and not enough to lose all credibility. The results of a wiki will always be either too boring, or too wacko to be good.
The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that.
Shame how the libre definition of free has fallen by the wayside.
In my old school, there was a rule where we had to clear the memories of our calculators before each exam. Presumeably, it's in case we invented some fractal compression algorithm that allowed us to store all our lecture notes as a 10-digit signed number.
Calculators are still sometimes useful, though. If you've forgotten a theorem, or something, you can use them to do mathematical experiments and guess at results on the fly. Also, sometimes it's helpful to visualise the 'shape' of solutions, so you know what you are dealing with.
Seriously, maybe I've forgotten or something, but how hard could it possibly be to figure out how to convert decimals into fractions? I mean, surely, to know decimals at all, you need to be familiar with how they work, powers of ten and stuff. How could anyone not know to just get rid of the decimal point and put it over 10, or 100, or 1000 or whatever...?
I mean, hell, you've got a calculator. You can multiply the damn thing by 1000 or so to get an integer. Who on earth is teaching these kids?
The problem with that is that if we are in a simulation, then it's impossible for us to leave it or to realise that we are in a simulation. (Since we would mistake flaws in the simulation for laws of nature. QM could just be a memory leak or something.)
Therefore, the distinction between 'real' and 'simulated' becomes utterly meaningless.
Libre vs beer. Ease of porting to unsupported browsers. Insurance against Macromedia going crazy and making the next version a license encumbered, 'feature rich', bug ridden mess. The same old reasons.
I agree completely. We just don't need to send manned missions to the moon or mars, right now. If we are looking at human benefit, then we need to be spending the money on sorting out climate change on Earth. If we are looking for scientific advancement, then we have plenty of more interesting things to do - like send a probe to Pluto/Kuiper Belt, or take a better look at Europa.
While it's nice that there's this money and everything, I'm suspecting that this money is going to find itself taken from other, less PR friendly, fields.
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Throughout history, terrorist and guerilla groups have only been beaten in two ways.
One is to stick their entire parent population - be it the Jews, the Boers or whatever - in concentration camps. Annihilate their will to fight. Make them subservient, and write fear into their psyche.
The other is to work around them. Undermine their hold on their populations, until the groups become themselves irrelevant, and fade away.
Take your pick.
A different question would be - why do we need evidence for dark matter?
It is surely more absurd to insist that all the matter in the universe interacts by the electromagnetic force, than to suggest that a sizable proportion does not.
Now we just need a version that works with humans, and we can really change the world.
How do you know they are reciting, and not actually working it all out as they go along?
It's a trap!
Yeah. That was a great game. The beams looked good, and sounded good with that long charging sound... Trying to kill that beam cannon before it tears your own fleet in half was a cool moment...
And when you have beams on your side, like a group of Mojinirs... Hehehehehe...
If more people use it, they might get more donations, and so be more able to get better/more servers up.
First Beagle 2, then this. Man, this sucks.
Don't forget Ed, man. Ed.
Vandalism does not seem to be a problem with wikis. (Generallising vastly, of course) Either a wiki is so small that vandalism is pointless, or a wiki is so big that it can defend itself.
This is really a massively dumb idea.
The end result of any wiki is either a self-reinforcing rush to the extreme (as a site acquires bias, new users of an opposite inclination would feel rejected), or a centre compromise. (as in wikipedia)
Neither would make a good editorial/opinion article. Editorials need to be in the mildly insane category - enough to offend or incite emotion, and not enough to lose all credibility. The results of a wiki will always be either too boring, or too wacko to be good.
Yet somehow, he manages to drown.
The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that. Shame how the libre definition of free has fallen by the wayside.
I can't want for the rush of emigrants to Indonesia.
In my old school, there was a rule where we had to clear the memories of our calculators before each exam. Presumeably, it's in case we invented some fractal compression algorithm that allowed us to store all our lecture notes as a 10-digit signed number.
Calculators are still sometimes useful, though. If you've forgotten a theorem, or something, you can use them to do mathematical experiments and guess at results on the fly. Also, sometimes it's helpful to visualise the 'shape' of solutions, so you know what you are dealing with.
No need to go that far. It obviously doesn't have factors 2 or 5, so the fraction can't be reduced.
Seriously, maybe I've forgotten or something, but how hard could it possibly be to figure out how to convert decimals into fractions? I mean, surely, to know decimals at all, you need to be familiar with how they work, powers of ten and stuff. How could anyone not know to just get rid of the decimal point and put it over 10, or 100, or 1000 or whatever...?
I mean, hell, you've got a calculator. You can multiply the damn thing by 1000 or so to get an integer. Who on earth is teaching these kids?
Wow, we have a few unverified, unpeerreviewed websites in opposition. How terrifying a display of academic disagreement!
I, for one, am partly scared by my Google overlords who would want to read my email.
The problem with that is that if we are in a simulation, then it's impossible for us to leave it or to realise that we are in a simulation. (Since we would mistake flaws in the simulation for laws of nature. QM could just be a memory leak or something.) Therefore, the distinction between 'real' and 'simulated' becomes utterly meaningless.
Well, it certainly brightens up my day!
Libre vs beer. Ease of porting to unsupported browsers. Insurance against Macromedia going crazy and making the next version a license encumbered, 'feature rich', bug ridden mess. The same old reasons.
I sure hope Yahoo doesn't patent it, so we can see things like this in other search engines as well...
While it's nice that there's this money and everything, I'm suspecting that this money is going to find itself taken from other, less PR friendly, fields.