Even if you aren't Christian, your civilization has probably been influenced (converted, overrun, allied) by one that was acting in Jesus' name.
So this person "that was acting in Jesus' name" should clearly be considered influential.
In fact, there were at least hundreds of them who were acting in Jesus' name on a higher political level (massively supported by emperors, kings and their respective armies) and thus be regarded as highly influential.
Some of these persons, the early ones, are called "church fathers", some others, later on, just "popes".
It's more influential than you or I, but it's not more influential than Jesus.
Advantage Linnaeus. Linnaeus is a person of history.
Jesus is not. So the early "church fathers" who designed and developed this character should be considered influential (very influential, that is), not their work of fiction (or any part thereof).
Prometheus? No birth or death dates given for him.
Or, rather the guy (note, it might have been a gal as well) who came up with the techniques to start, to maintain, and to utilize a fire, way back in stone age? Over some millennia, there must have been many of them, hundreds, even thousands, in many different places of the world who achieved this, independently from each other.
Alas: No birth or death dates given for them, either. Not even first names.
The FOSS nutjobs don't want to allow you the freedom to give up a particular freedom of your choice for a particular time in exchange for something. They are selfish, they want to propagate their ideology of "freedom" by restricting your freedom of choice.
Don't like freedom? You choose, go for serfdom.
The latter option ain't GNU, it isn't even new.
And as to
to give up a particular freedom of your choice for a particular time in exchange for something.
Good ol' Benjamin Franklin had to say a bit about that. Ever heard his name?
Clearly christianity (as well as the contents of most other theistic beliefs) isn't compatible with tthe Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Just imagine an allegedly almighty god, helplessly aging towards the "mildly warm" soup that will be the final state - and "fate", so to speak - of everything...
"The NSA and other Alphabet Agencies only wish they had the authority to do what the Gestapo and Stasi did."
They don't have it yet. (There are still obstacles left to be cleared on the way, Judges like Richard Leon* among them.)
But they (the Alphabet Agencies) are looking forward to getting comparable authority eventually.
* The Federal Judge who ordered December 16, 2013: "... for all the above reasons, I will grant Larry Klayman’s and Charles Strange’s request for an injunction and enter an order that (1) bars the Government from collecting, as part of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, any telephony metadata associated with their personal Verizon accounts and (2) requires the Government to destroy any such metadata in its possession that was collected through the bulk collection program. ” —Judge Richard Leon,"
"... However, in light of the significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues, I will stay my order pending appeal. In doing so, I hereby give the Government fair notice that should my ruling be upheld, this order will go into effect forthwith. Accordingly, I fully expect that during the appellate process, which will consume at least the next six months, the Government will take whatever steps necessary to prepare itself to comply with this order when, and if, it is upheld. Suffice it to say, requesting further time to comply with this order months from now will not be well received and could result in collateral sanctions."
The Nokia 1280 has been originally designed for India and some of the East African Markets (hence, Swahili as one of the languages selectable for the menus).
The Nokia 1280 is readily available in a number of case colours in the U.K. these days (around 23 pounds). I bought my Nokia 1280 in Germany, where just the black variety seems to be available (between 26 and 30 euros).
And for the original poster who mentioned the Motophone (which was called the Motorola F3 hereabouts):
Among other things, I especially like the 1280's black-and-white display. Another very simplistic but well made phone with a black-and-white display is the Motorola W156. It can still be bought in Germany, maybe in other European markets as well (around 30 euros). I have a W156 here as a fallback option to the 1280, but the Nokia doesn't show any weaknesses.;-)
The Moto W156 does not have the unique electrophoretic display technology like the Motophone. So it does not offer the F3's exceptional battery time, but when it comes to reading or writing SMS or just to looking at a long international telephone number, it's advantage W156 (which still has very good battery time).
The growth of a black hole is a process that takes place on a completely different time scale than the evaporation of the black hole as proposed by Hawking.
The eventual evaporation of a black hole of astronomical size will take many magnitudes more time than the one that has passed since the Big Bang.
It's the mass to size ratio that is relevant here.
If you manage to compress an object the mass of the Himalayas (i.e. a minuscule mass on an astronomical scale) way down to the size of an elementary particle, you end up with a black hole in your laboratory. Enjoy, but enjoy quick, as the thing will start to eat your laboratory immediately...
Should you prefer to make a black hole out of Grandpa's old lawn mower instead, just make sure to compress it down to a far, far tinier size than you'd have compressed the Himalayans to. A nice little black hole will be the reward for your efforts...
Wasn't "high volume purchase" meant to work the other way, originally?
Did I just miss another great innovation by Pearson and Apple, along the lines of "The more you buy, the higher the per-item price"?
Not to mention the fact that iPads are, by design, nearly non-repairable. What a bad idea to give such an example of non-sustainability to young people these days.
Not to mention that an all purpose computing platform, like a netbook, with a choice of OSes and application software (preferably OSS/FOSS), not just single task "apps", would render a better service to high school students
This theory has some merit as the universe itself is a black hole from a certain point of view.
Care to explain this a little better?
One of the top experts in the field (maybe Leonard Susskind?) put it once that some of the most essential characteristics of a black hole the size (and the mass etc.) of the universe would be exactly the same as those of the universe itself.
So, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, maybe one could say:
"A black hole the size of the universe would be indistinguishable from the universe itself."
Tidal forces depend on the size (and thus, on the density or compactness) of the black hole being approached.
If the black hole is a big one (i.e., not a very dense one), like the one that probably is sitting at the center of our galaxy, an astronaut falling into it would only start feeling tidal effects long after having passed the event horizon, being eventually killed already far inside the black hole..
On the other hand, if the black hole is a small (and thus a compact) one, like one having just a couple of masses of our sun, the astronaut would painfully experience the tidal forces long before he (or she) passed the black hole's event horizon, probably being killed before even having reached the horizon, still outside the black hole.
"Note that we are not prepared to render equal services to the religious and the infidels. However, the fees we will charge to the religious and the infidels are exactly equal, though.
May at least one of the gods officially approved by USPS be with you, if not all of them.
Regards, Services Justification Service Dept., United States Postal Service."
I wonder if this 100 percent genetical identicality might be just the "start condition" for twins and some (albeit tiny) differences between them might still develop over the years?
Perhaps such minimal differences just occur in some more "peripheral" tissues of the twins' organisms, like skin cells oder bodily fluids?
If so, a valid and reliable test procedure for this case would require very finely tuned levels of discrimination and would be non-standard (maybe not even related to common DNA analysis) and according to this, very expensive, like the article said.
As the Obama administration put it, there's allegedly not enough money available to shut down Guantanamo.
Also, there's purportedly not enough money for a number of other not-too-unimportant things to be funded properly, many of them in the field of education.
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Even if you aren't Christian, your civilization has probably been influenced (converted, overrun, allied) by one that was acting in Jesus' name.
So this person "that was acting in Jesus' name" should clearly be considered influential.
In fact, there were at least hundreds of them who were acting in Jesus' name on a higher political level (massively supported by emperors, kings and their respective armies) and thus be regarded as highly influential.
Some of these persons, the early ones, are called "church fathers", some others, later on, just "popes".
It's more influential than you or I, but it's not more influential than Jesus.
Advantage Linnaeus.
Linnaeus is a person of history.
Jesus is not.
So the early "church fathers" who designed and developed this character should be considered influential (very influential, that is), not their work of fiction (or any part thereof).
Let alone this fictitious character's possibly even more fictitious mother.
(Just for the record: One of the regional lists even names the "step-father of god", Joseph.)
Prometheus?
No birth or death dates given for him.
Or, rather the guy (note, it might have been a gal as well) who came up with the techniques to start, to maintain, and to utilize a fire, way back in stone age?
Over some millennia, there must have been many of them, hundreds, even thousands, in many different places of the world who achieved this, independently from each other.
Alas: No birth or death dates given for them, either. Not even first names.
Shouldn't we lie down, put a paper bag over our head or something?
Originally, any one out of a selection of a few certified newspapers was recommended.
Such as the National Inquirer, I believe.
Luckily support for XP embedded is not ending on April 8th. It is supported until January 2014.
That's something like 2016, I presume.
The FOSS nutjobs don't want to allow you the freedom to give up a particular freedom of your choice for a particular time in exchange for something. They are selfish, they want to propagate their ideology of "freedom" by restricting your freedom of choice.
Don't like freedom? You choose, go for serfdom.
The latter option ain't GNU, it isn't even new.
And as to
to give up a particular freedom of your choice for a particular time in exchange for something.
Good ol' Benjamin Franklin had to say a bit about that. Ever heard his name?
Clearly christianity (as well as the contents of most other theistic beliefs) isn't compatible with tthe Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Just imagine an allegedly almighty god, helplessly aging towards the "mildly warm" soup that will be the final state - and "fate", so to speak - of everything...
*Kicks cat back into box and starts again!*
No objections to that concept here.
But that would be Schrödinger, not Hawking. ;-)
So the stuff old Rockefeller had shipped to China a 120 years ago, and made a huge fortune from, to fuel the given away lamps was actually "Jet Fuel"?
Making all his chinese consumers think it were plain kerosene. Tricky John...
Is it available as an Ebook?
An ebook. Pah.
I'd rather like to have an audiobook edition... ;-)
"because if the employer does it for you, they get to use pre-tax money to do so, whereas you have to pay tax first."
Excellent point.
"The NSA and other Alphabet Agencies only wish they had the authority to do what the Gestapo and Stasi did."
They don't have it yet. (There are still obstacles left to be cleared on the way, Judges like Richard Leon* among them.)
But they (the Alphabet Agencies) are looking forward to getting comparable authority eventually.
* The Federal Judge who ordered December 16, 2013:
"... for all the above reasons, I will grant Larry Klayman’s and Charles Strange’s request for an injunction and enter an order that (1) bars the Government from collecting, as part of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, any telephony metadata associated with their personal Verizon accounts and (2) requires the Government to destroy any such metadata in its possession that was collected through the bulk collection program. ”
—Judge Richard Leon,"
"... However, in light of the significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues, I will stay my order pending appeal. In doing so, I hereby give the Government fair notice that should my ruling be upheld, this order will go into effect forthwith. Accordingly, I fully expect that during the appellate process, which will consume at least the next six months, the Government will take whatever steps necessary to prepare itself to comply with this order when, and if, it is upheld. Suffice it to say, requesting further time to comply with this order months from now will not be well received and could result in collateral sanctions."
http://judgepedia.org/Richard_Leon
When the native apps are better or just simply faster?
Hopefully, this might be a crucial point.
Still, the sheer number of android apps could turn out to be overwhelming in the eyes of some aspiring developers of native ones.
(And yes, I'm massively biased in favour of the Jolla/SailfishOS. Bon voyage, brave little Jolla dinghy!)
"... with magnetic fields strong enough to maintain an atmosphere"
I guess this concept works best with an atmosphere that consists of magnetic nitrogen, magnetic oxygen, a dash of magnetic carbon dioxide and so on.
Sounds fancier than poor old gravity maintaining a boring non-magnetic atmosphere.
"Let's sing another song, boys. This one has grown old and bitter."
- Bob Dylan
The Nokia 1280 has been originally designed for India and some of the East African Markets (hence, Swahili as one of the languages selectable for the menus).
The Nokia 1280 is readily available in a number of case colours in the U.K. these days (around 23 pounds).
I bought my Nokia 1280 in Germany, where just the black variety seems to be available (between 26 and 30 euros).
And for the original poster who mentioned the Motophone (which was called the Motorola F3 hereabouts):
Among other things, I especially like the 1280's black-and-white display. ;-)
Another very simplistic but well made phone with a black-and-white display is the Motorola W156. It can still be bought in Germany, maybe in other European markets as well (around 30 euros). I have a W156 here as a fallback option to the 1280, but the Nokia doesn't show any weaknesses.
The Moto W156 does not have the unique electrophoretic display technology like the Motophone. So it does not offer the F3's exceptional battery time, but when it comes to reading or writing SMS or just to looking at a long international telephone number, it's advantage W156 (which still has very good battery time).
The growth of a black hole is a process that takes place on a completely different time scale than the evaporation of the black hole as proposed by Hawking.
The eventual evaporation of a black hole of astronomical size will take many magnitudes more time than the one that has passed since the Big Bang.
It's the mass to size ratio that is relevant here.
If you manage to compress an object the mass of the Himalayas (i.e. a minuscule mass on an astronomical scale) way down to the size of an elementary particle, you end up with a black hole in your laboratory. Enjoy, but enjoy quick, as the thing will start to eat your laboratory immediately...
Should you prefer to make a black hole out of Grandpa's old lawn mower instead, just make sure to compress it down to a far, far tinier size than you'd have compressed the Himalayans to. A nice little black hole will be the reward for your efforts...
That's a refreshing $1,000 a pop.
Wasn't "high volume purchase" meant to work the other way, originally?
Did I just miss another great innovation by Pearson and Apple, along the lines of
"The more you buy, the higher the per-item price"?
Not to mention the fact that iPads are, by design, nearly non-repairable. What a bad idea to give such an example of non-sustainability to young people these days.
Not to mention that an all purpose computing platform, like a netbook, with a choice of OSes and application software (preferably OSS/FOSS), not just single task "apps", would render a better service to high school students
This theory has some merit as the universe itself is a black hole from a certain point of view.
Care to explain this a little better?
One of the top experts in the field (maybe Leonard Susskind?) put it once that some of the most essential characteristics of a black hole the size (and the mass etc.) of the universe would be exactly the same as those of the universe itself.
So, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, maybe one could say:
"A black hole the size of the universe would be indistinguishable from the universe itself."
Tidal forces depend on the size (and thus, on the density or compactness) of the black hole being approached.
If the black hole is a big one (i.e., not a very dense one), like the one that probably is sitting at the center of our galaxy, an astronaut falling into it would only start feeling tidal effects long after having passed the event horizon, being eventually killed already far inside the black hole..
On the other hand, if the black hole is a small (and thus a compact) one, like one having just a couple of masses of our sun, the astronaut would painfully experience the tidal forces long before he (or she) passed the black hole's event horizon, probably being killed before even having reached the horizon, still outside the black hole.
"Note that we are not prepared to render equal services to the religious and the infidels.
However, the fees we will charge to the religious and the infidels are exactly equal, though.
May at least one of the gods officially approved by USPS be with you, if not all of them.
Regards,
Services Justification Service Dept.,
United States Postal Service."
Spinning at "nearly the speed of light" is o.k.
Note: Anything faster will certainly not be approved.
Signed,
A. Einstein
Chief relativity supervisor
IANAG (as in "I am not a geneticist"), but -
I wonder if this 100 percent genetical identicality might be just the "start condition" for twins and some (albeit tiny) differences between them might still develop over the years?
Perhaps such minimal differences just occur in some more "peripheral" tissues of the twins' organisms, like skin cells oder bodily fluids?
If so, a valid and reliable test procedure for this case would require very finely tuned levels of discrimination and would be non-standard (maybe not even related to common DNA analysis) and according to this, very expensive, like the article said.
As the Obama administration put it, there's allegedly not enough money available to shut down Guantanamo.
Also, there's purportedly not enough money for a number of other not-too-unimportant things to be funded properly, many of them in the field of education.