Hm, I'm not sure you're correct. "Earthrise" is this picture.
The famous picture of Earth with Africa visible is this picture. It wasn't taken from the Moon (I recall this from reading about it in the past, although I can't cite it; however it's easily provable, as the position of the camera is much too far below the Moon's ecliptic; you cannot see the entirety of Antarctica from any point on the Moon).
What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals? Hell, you guys made region-locked DVD players against the law, clearly your entire justice system is in league with teh pirates.
Lay off! They're just trying to stop global warming.
A few hundred thousand for the next level down in the command chain doesn't seem unreasonable.
I agree, it's not unreasonable. However Congress specifically forbade USAF from using this money for this purpose, and USAF did it anyway.
If USAF wants to spend money for this that they're allowed to spend for this, by all means -- I also have no problem providing high-ranking officers with better quarters, within reason.
I'm not saying that the discussion couldn't be had; I guess "irrelevant" was the wrong word. I mean that we don't need to settle upon One True Definition Of What Qualifies, like some kind of grand unified theory for what deserves copyright protection; we can simply dictate that history shows that it's bad to protect math and good to protect art. Whether or not math and art are philosophically distinguishable given the proper terms doesn't change whether or not it helps society to give them each copyright protection.
The problem in this argument you two are having is that the reason it's bad to allow IP ownership of math, and that it's okay to allow IP ownership of artwork, is that it's best for the improvement of society when things are that way. Theoretical disputes over the exact definition of what should be covered by copyright/patents are irrelevant; allowing math to be patented would do more harm than good; allowing art to be copyrighted (at least, for a sane duration, like 20 years) does more good than harm.
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
Yeah, sorry, but what this guy did is not terrorism by any usage of the word (except for that of opportunistic nitwits who like to make things sound scarier than they really are, or to try to justify draconian changes to the law to allow them to bypass due process and other Constitutional protections).
Yeah, T-Mobile has a $20/month addon for the family plan that gives unlimited SMS/MMS. I did the math, we'd have to send about five times as many messages as we currently do in order for it to be worth it:)
No, I meant that SMS messages to or from *the carrier themselves* are free. Like, if T-Mobile sends me an SMS advertising something, I don't get charged for it. There isn't a carrier in existence that doesn't charge for SMS messages to other cell customers:)
T-Mobile does indeed charge extra for SMS on BlackBerry plans, I have a BlackBerry Pearl and SMS are 15 cents apiece (which means that when I SMS my wife, who is on the *same account*, we get charged 30 cents in total). Even still, we don't send enough messages per month to justify the flat-rate SMS addon (and even if we had unlimited messages, we still wouldn't send enough SMS to justify it).
I'm on T-Mobile; SMS messages to or from them are free for me. This is the case for most cell carriers, AFAIK.
As far as gouging... it may be overpriced, but it's not gouging in the legal sense. The reason they can charge 15 cents per SMS is because so many people are willing to pay it. I don't really think it's worth it and use SMS sparingly for that reason.
If you want to say the war was about oil, then it was about the US ensuring a stable supply of oil for the EU, not for itself.
When someone says that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, they don't mean that it was about securing those specific oil supplies for US use. Rather, the war was about having an excuse to drive up the price of oil, which benefits... all of the oil companies. Who runs the oil companies? Mostly friends of Bush and his cronies. Bush, Cheney, and the others care absolutely not one whit how well the occupation of Iraq goes; the increased instability in the region due to our invasion of Iraq has caused the price of a barrel of oil to increase about five times, which makes them happy.
Even though most of the oil that the U.S. consumes doesn't come from the Middle East, the oil market is global, and the price goes up everywhere when it goes up anywhere.
It's not a science when compared to the hard sciences, no.:) What he meant, though, is that the feeding-everyone issue isn't a technological problem; we can already produce enough food to give everyone on the planet 2000 kcal/day. The problem isn't even one of the technology of distribution; we have the technology and resources to do so. The problem is a political one: convincing various governments to stop playing warlord and preventing food from getting to those who need it. Or, more productively, stopping the various civil wars and kleptocracies so that the various underdeveloped regions can start building infrastructure, etc.
And if you think that moving everybody to Texas and getting the water from Oregon down to Texas and building 700 nukular power plants is a POLITICAL problem, you have a gross misestimation of reality.
You completely missed his point.:) He's not suggesting that it would be feasible or a good idea to move everyone to Texas; he's just saying that North America by itself can support the entire world's population, resource-wise. (Actually, I think he's underestimating, numerically; it'll take more than he suggests in order to give all 6.6 billion people a good quality of life. 27 gallons of water per day sounds like a lot, except you have to irrigate all the crops, it takes water to run industrial processes like the production of stainless steel, etc. But I digress.)
Cyrillic? So that's the fancy way of saying pornoglyphics?
...what? I'm sure you know this, but Cyrillic is the alphabet that written Russian uses. The add requests I get usually do include a URL, but I never read enough of the message to parse the URL. I just see a backwards R and insta-deny.
Since you are rarely allowed to bring food or drink into a theater, they have you by the nads.
I don't know where you live, but I live in Los Angeles, and there is exactly one theater chain around here that prohibits outside food and drink -- Mann Theaters. They won't even make an exception if your kid has food allergies and can't eat anything they serve, the jackasses.
But AMC, Pacific, ArcLight... everyone else lets you bring in your own food if you want. The independent theaters all do, too.
911 service works on any landline connected to the phone system (by law), even if you don't have an account and are unable to make any other kind of call.
Language evolves, you prescriptivist nitwit. "Unique" has long since been used (and accepted by almost everyone in casual usage) as an endpoint along a sliding scale; if I say something is "fairly unique", it means it's fairly close to being unique. If X is "more unique" than Y, it's closer to being unique than Y is, even if neither thing is especially close to being unique.
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Hm, I'm not sure you're correct. "Earthrise" is this picture.
The famous picture of Earth with Africa visible is this picture. It wasn't taken from the Moon (I recall this from reading about it in the past, although I can't cite it; however it's easily provable, as the position of the camera is much too far below the Moon's ecliptic; you cannot see the entirety of Antarctica from any point on the Moon).
Um, real coders can read all of the common brace styles equally fast without a problem.
Wouldn't you expect regular Nazis to also be Nazis about grammar anyway?
All ze Americans are morons and deserve Bush.
I'm an American who doesn't deserve Bush, you insensitive Claude!
In Australia...
What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals?
Hell, you guys made region-locked DVD players against the law, clearly your entire justice system is in league with teh pirates.
Lay off! They're just trying to stop global warming.
A few hundred thousand for the next level down in the command chain doesn't seem unreasonable.
I agree, it's not unreasonable. However Congress specifically forbade USAF from using this money for this purpose, and USAF did it anyway.
If USAF wants to spend money for this that they're allowed to spend for this, by all means -- I also have no problem providing high-ranking officers with better quarters, within reason.
So if you don't install anything, hence n is 0, it will always work since the probability of failure is 1-1 = 0.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say that it would never fail. ;)
There's already a backup Batman!
I'm not saying that the discussion couldn't be had; I guess "irrelevant" was the wrong word. I mean that we don't need to settle upon One True Definition Of What Qualifies, like some kind of grand unified theory for what deserves copyright protection; we can simply dictate that history shows that it's bad to protect math and good to protect art. Whether or not math and art are philosophically distinguishable given the proper terms doesn't change whether or not it helps society to give them each copyright protection.
The problem in this argument you two are having is that the reason it's bad to allow IP ownership of math, and that it's okay to allow IP ownership of artwork, is that it's best for the improvement of society when things are that way. Theoretical disputes over the exact definition of what should be covered by copyright/patents are irrelevant; allowing math to be patented would do more harm than good; allowing art to be copyrighted (at least, for a sane duration, like 20 years) does more good than harm.
This is why you never hire a xenomorph as your copilot.
From dictionary.com:
Yeah, sorry, but what this guy did is not terrorism by any usage of the word (except for that of opportunistic nitwits who like to make things sound scarier than they really are, or to try to justify draconian changes to the law to allow them to bypass due process and other Constitutional protections).
Yeah, T-Mobile has a $20/month addon for the family plan that gives unlimited SMS/MMS. I did the math, we'd have to send about five times as many messages as we currently do in order for it to be worth it :)
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No, I meant that SMS messages to or from *the carrier themselves* are free. Like, if T-Mobile sends me an SMS advertising something, I don't get charged for it. There isn't a carrier in existence that doesn't charge for SMS messages to other cell customers :)
T-Mobile does indeed charge extra for SMS on BlackBerry plans, I have a BlackBerry Pearl and SMS are 15 cents apiece (which means that when I SMS my wife, who is on the *same account*, we get charged 30 cents in total). Even still, we don't send enough messages per month to justify the flat-rate SMS addon (and even if we had unlimited messages, we still wouldn't send enough SMS to justify it).
I'm on T-Mobile; SMS messages to or from them are free for me. This is the case for most cell carriers, AFAIK.
As far as gouging... it may be overpriced, but it's not gouging in the legal sense. The reason they can charge 15 cents per SMS is because so many people are willing to pay it. I don't really think it's worth it and use SMS sparingly for that reason.
.. as it also opens the door for the teachings of our noodly saviour
Mmmm... savory noodles...
Sorry, what were we talking about? Um, hail Eris! And the FSM for good measure.
When someone says that the invasion of Iraq was about oil, they don't mean that it was about securing those specific oil supplies for US use. Rather, the war was about having an excuse to drive up the price of oil, which benefits... all of the oil companies. Who runs the oil companies? Mostly friends of Bush and his cronies. Bush, Cheney, and the others care absolutely not one whit how well the occupation of Iraq goes; the increased instability in the region due to our invasion of Iraq has caused the price of a barrel of oil to increase about five times, which makes them happy.
Even though most of the oil that the U.S. consumes doesn't come from the Middle East, the oil market is global, and the price goes up everywhere when it goes up anywhere.
It's not a science when compared to the hard sciences, no. :) What he meant, though, is that the feeding-everyone issue isn't a technological problem; we can already produce enough food to give everyone on the planet 2000 kcal/day. The problem isn't even one of the technology of distribution; we have the technology and resources to do so. The problem is a political one: convincing various governments to stop playing warlord and preventing food from getting to those who need it. Or, more productively, stopping the various civil wars and kleptocracies so that the various underdeveloped regions can start building infrastructure, etc.
You completely missed his point. :) He's not suggesting that it would be feasible or a good idea to move everyone to Texas; he's just saying that North America by itself can support the entire world's population, resource-wise. (Actually, I think he's underestimating, numerically; it'll take more than he suggests in order to give all 6.6 billion people a good quality of life. 27 gallons of water per day sounds like a lot, except you have to irrigate all the crops, it takes water to run industrial processes like the production of stainless steel, etc. But I digress.)
No, I saw that, but as usual, the Internet fails at transmitting the humorous aspect of text ;)
...what? I'm sure you know this, but Cyrillic is the alphabet that written Russian uses. The add requests I get usually do include a URL, but I never read enough of the message to parse the URL. I just see a backwards R and insta-deny.
I don't know where you live, but I live in Los Angeles, and there is exactly one theater chain around here that prohibits outside food and drink -- Mann Theaters. They won't even make an exception if your kid has food allergies and can't eat anything they serve, the jackasses.
But AMC, Pacific, ArcLight... everyone else lets you bring in your own food if you want. The independent theaters all do, too.
911 service works on any landline connected to the phone system (by law), even if you don't have an account and are unable to make any other kind of call.
Language evolves, you prescriptivist nitwit. "Unique" has long since been used (and accepted by almost everyone in casual usage) as an endpoint along a sliding scale; if I say something is "fairly unique", it means it's fairly close to being unique. If X is "more unique" than Y, it's closer to being unique than Y is, even if neither thing is especially close to being unique.
This probably explains why my ICQ account gets at least one or two random spam add requests in Cyrillic every day.