Oh, you're allowed to say "This person is doing a bad thing" as much as you want. But saying that they're as bad as the Nazis is out of line unless the person/organization you're talking about has killed millions.
Nevertheless, your point is valid. Why does Wikipedia punish the CoS as a collective whole instead of punishing the individuals who abused their editing privileges?
Because they are punishing those who abused it. They have done nothing to prevent anyone from editing while at home. They have simply blocked those IPs that are owned by the CoS as an organization. IPs that are used by the CoS in an organized internet whitewashing scheme. It's not possible to just get the IPs of the abusers, since they will simply grab a different IP owned by the CoS and go right back to 'work' making propaganda edits. (the CoS has people who are paid to do this sort of thing.)
I suspect the average cat would be difficult to put up a dogs nose. I do however think that if you managed to do so, then there would indeed be entertaining footage to be had.
(this doesn't work for the Wii, but that hasn't filled up anyway, and it doesn't look likely to anytime soon).
I'd be interested to know what type of copy protection they use to prevent this. I'd be surprised if it can prevent dd from making a proper copy and later putting it back on the card in a way indistinguishable from the way it was.
While there may be some price plans that allow for free incoming calls or free incoming text messages, the majority of US price plans charge airtime for incoming calls and charge the same for incoming text messages as outgoing - currently 20 cents per message.
About a year ago I had to call up my phone company (on their 800 number, so this part at least wasn't costing me) and yell at them for about two hours to get them to reverse the charges for incoming text messages that THEY SENT ME.
For a period of about a month (at the end of which I flipped when I saw the charges) they were sending me about 100 text messages per day advertising their own stuff. My phone doesn't ring for texts from anyone I haven't set it to ring for and it sorts the messages by sender, so I didn't even have to wade through the spam to get to anything I cared about. I was also under the impression that messages sent by the phone company were free (as had been the case the previous month, though they weren't sending quite so many back then.) So I didn't care about it until they tried to charge me 20 cents per text. No way in hell was I going to pay $600 for messages the PHONE COMPANY sent me!
Um, he's pushing files to retail stores that are part of a chain. He's doing this from the corporate office. I don't think the retail stores get much say in the matter, since they aren't customers, they're subsidiaries.
Ok, the way circular (and elliptical) polarization of light is as follows.
As light propagates, the wave shuffles back and forth between a magnetic field, and an electric field. In linearly polarized light, the electric field is in one axis, and the magnetic field is in another.
Elliptical polarization is different in that it (can be thought of as) the sum of 2 linearly polarized photons. one is polarized one way, and the other is polarized another way. The thing is, they aren't both electric at the same time, or magnetic at the same time.
You can also look at it like this, take a stopwatch and look at it from the edge. watch the tip of the second hand as it spins around. this is the electric component of the light wave, note that it goes back and forth in a straight line (from your perspective). If you tilt the stopwatch back toward you a little then the tip of the second hand appears to go around an ellipse(this is elliptically polarized light). As you continue to turn it back toward you, the path becomes more circular (circularly polarized light).
If it makes their lives more difficult then that's a good thing!
If they can't get a job legally in this country (say because they aren't even supposed to BE HERE) then I say we make their lives as miserable as we can.
Servos and remotes are cheaper than people. Why do we still have suicide bombers?
Servos and remotes are usually cheaper than people, that part is true. But they are not cheaper than volunteers, who are free. Also, (more importantly) remotes can be jammed, people can't. (well, they can, but not in any useful way.)
I'm not a rocket scientist but I do not believe that a rocket top speed is limited by nozzle velocity. Imagine going 1000mph and throwing an object in the direction you came from. Newtons law says you will get an equal and opposite reaction... you have just pushed the rocket and it will go faster due to conservation of energy.
At least until you hit relativistic speeds...
Relativistic speeds in whose reference frame? No matter how much you accelerate, or for how long, you will never perceive yourself as being anywhere close to the speed of light (it's still zipping past you at a relative speed of c). So, from your perspective you can maintain constant acceleration for as long as you have fuel, even if your spacecraft is 99.999% reaction mass at launch (that'd be an interesting trick now wouldn't it?)
Actually, the telcos are allready making a higher return on investment than the oil companies.
The oil companies just have a far larger investment.
(side note: If you account for inflation we are paying roughly the same for gas now as 40 years ago. gas prices went up slower than inflation for many years, then they caught up all at once.)
Have you encountered the Spring project? If you enjoy TA, you should check it out, it's an open source RTS engine that started out as a remake of TA.
it's here.
One of the big things that Spore does actually needs internet access. Now, I agree that you should not need to be connected to the internet to have the game function (well, once it's populated anyway). But, spore populates it's world with creatures and civilizations that other players have made. Without internet access the replay value of the game drops dramatically.
Furthermore, I'm sure there are plenty of people with terminal illnesses (especially the painful ones) who would absolutely leap on the opportunity to be guinea pigs for experimental treatments. If I were dying painfully I would certainly take a chance on a 1/1,000,000 long shot chance to survive, particularly since even if it failed the scientists would then know more about the condition and have a better chance to help the next guy.
Now admittedly, the kinds of experiments being discussed here aren't disease treatments, but I'd bet that there are still people who would be willing to volunteer for human testing.
All in all, I don't think it would be unethical to perform medical experiments on consenting, well informed, volunteers.
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Nice guys, rip off all your art from Tyrian. (seriously, look at their screenshots.)
Oh, you're allowed to say "This person is doing a bad thing" as much as you want. But saying that they're as bad as the Nazis is out of line unless the person/organization you're talking about has killed millions.
Because they are punishing those who abused it. They have done nothing to prevent anyone from editing while at home. They have simply blocked those IPs that are owned by the CoS as an organization. IPs that are used by the CoS in an organized internet whitewashing scheme. It's not possible to just get the IPs of the abusers, since they will simply grab a different IP owned by the CoS and go right back to 'work' making propaganda edits. (the CoS has people who are paid to do this sort of thing.)
Only in solid form.
But will it blend?
I suspect the average cat would be difficult to put up a dogs nose. I do however think that if you managed to do so, then there would indeed be entertaining footage to be had.
If it weren't a dealership (which implies customers) those may be a good solution, but causing your customers pain is not advised.
(this doesn't work for the Wii, but that hasn't filled up anyway, and it doesn't look likely to anytime soon).
I'd be interested to know what type of copy protection they use to prevent this. I'd be surprised if it can prevent dd from making a proper copy and later putting it back on the card in a way indistinguishable from the way it was.
540 M tons of debris, 99% of that was rock not ash.
While there may be some price plans that allow for free incoming calls or free incoming text messages, the majority of US price plans charge airtime for incoming calls and charge the same for incoming text messages as outgoing - currently 20 cents per message.
About a year ago I had to call up my phone company (on their 800 number, so this part at least wasn't costing me) and yell at them for about two hours to get them to reverse the charges for incoming text messages that THEY SENT ME .
For a period of about a month (at the end of which I flipped when I saw the charges) they were sending me about 100 text messages per day advertising their own stuff. My phone doesn't ring for texts from anyone I haven't set it to ring for and it sorts the messages by sender, so I didn't even have to wade through the spam to get to anything I cared about. I was also under the impression that messages sent by the phone company were free (as had been the case the previous month, though they weren't sending quite so many back then.) So I didn't care about it until they tried to charge me 20 cents per text. No way in hell was I going to pay $600 for messages the PHONE COMPANY sent me!
Um, he's pushing files to retail stores that are part of a chain. He's doing this from the corporate office. I don't think the retail stores get much say in the matter, since they aren't customers, they're subsidiaries.
Anyway, the stopwatch example works better if you hold the watch out in front of you and walk forward. (that's the axis of propagation)
As light propagates, the wave shuffles back and forth between a magnetic field, and an electric field. In linearly polarized light, the electric field is in one axis, and the magnetic field is in another.
Elliptical polarization is different in that it (can be thought of as) the sum of 2 linearly polarized photons. one is polarized one way, and the other is polarized another way. The thing is, they aren't both electric at the same time, or magnetic at the same time.
You can also look at it like this, take a stopwatch and look at it from the edge. watch the tip of the second hand as it spins around. this is the electric component of the light wave, note that it goes back and forth in a straight line (from your perspective). If you tilt the stopwatch back toward you a little then the tip of the second hand appears to go around an ellipse(this is elliptically polarized light). As you continue to turn it back toward you, the path becomes more circular (circularly polarized light).
If they can't get a job legally in this country (say because they aren't even supposed to BE HERE) then I say we make their lives as miserable as we can.
So, will this mean fewer gold spammers? I suppose we shall see.
Servos and remotes are cheaper than people. Why do we still have suicide bombers?
Servos and remotes are usually cheaper than people, that part is true. But they are not cheaper than volunteers, who are free. Also, (more importantly) remotes can be jammed, people can't. (well, they can, but not in any useful way.)
I'm not a rocket scientist but I do not believe that a rocket top speed is limited by nozzle velocity. Imagine going 1000mph and throwing an object in the direction you came from. Newtons law says you will get an equal and opposite reaction... you have just pushed the rocket and it will go faster due to conservation of energy. At least until you hit relativistic speeds...
Relativistic speeds in whose reference frame? No matter how much you accelerate, or for how long, you will never perceive yourself as being anywhere close to the speed of light (it's still zipping past you at a relative speed of c). So, from your perspective you can maintain constant acceleration for as long as you have fuel, even if your spacecraft is 99.999% reaction mass at launch (that'd be an interesting trick now wouldn't it?)
The oil companies just have a far larger investment.
(side note: If you account for inflation we are paying roughly the same for gas now as 40 years ago. gas prices went up slower than inflation for many years, then they caught up all at once.)
Have you encountered the Spring project? If you enjoy TA, you should check it out, it's an open source RTS engine that started out as a remake of TA. it's here.
One of the big things that Spore does actually needs internet access. Now, I agree that you should not need to be connected to the internet to have the game function (well, once it's populated anyway). But, spore populates it's world with creatures and civilizations that other players have made. Without internet access the replay value of the game drops dramatically.
http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html
Ok, so the pre-tax price is about the same, your government just wants a bigger cut.
(well, so does ours, they just haven't raised the taxes that high yet. crosses fingers)
somehow I doubt that anyone has ever died by breathing the vapors coming off of urine. (Though some may have wished that they could)
Limitations of current renewable/unlimited energy sources.
Solar - what about when it's cloudy? or at higher/lower latitudes? (also not cheap to produce panels)
Wind - doesn't always blow, which really blows when you're relying on it for your power. (sorry about the pun)
Geothermal - only possible at certain locations with current technology
Hydroelectric - need lots of water, again not available everywhere
Tidal/wave - great if you live near the coast, and in an area that gets this sort of thing all the time.
Is renewable energy a Good Thing, yes. is it the answer to all our needs, NO
Furthermore, I'm sure there are plenty of people with terminal illnesses (especially the painful ones) who would absolutely leap on the opportunity to be guinea pigs for experimental treatments. If I were dying painfully I would certainly take a chance on a 1/1,000,000 long shot chance to survive, particularly since even if it failed the scientists would then know more about the condition and have a better chance to help the next guy.
Now admittedly, the kinds of experiments being discussed here aren't disease treatments, but I'd bet that there are still people who would be willing to volunteer for human testing.
All in all, I don't think it would be unethical to perform medical experiments on consenting, well informed, volunteers.