In a similar fashion, I'm always amused at how US courts seem to feel they have the right to judge and incriminate foreigners living in foreign countries running their businesses nowhere near the US.
Take, for example, the RIAA suing anybody anywhere according to US laws, in places like Canada and Sweden.
I guess, as many people have pointed out, we'll have to wait until the 21st to get some sense of it. I believe, however (and I am pretty much the opposite of a Physicist, a tsicisyhP if you will), that these theories as they stand now preclude the existence of dark matter...? Am I wrong?
If this is true, I wonder what it means for the MOND and TeVeS theories that purport to explain many mysteries of the universe without invoking dark matter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor-vector-scalar_ gravity
And they *just* made Discover magazine!:)
It strikes me that this is such a typically capitalist notion:
All impoverished nations need is a bit of technology such that they can become competitive on the world market.
We don't address their basic needs, we give them tools to make them intelligent investors and market place powers.
Unfortunately the system *requires* impoverished people.
Our wealth has to come from somewhere, and currently it comes from them. If a third world nation becomes wealthy, all they are doing is redistributing the poverty elsewhere.
Then what...we give another nation $100 laptops to help them educate themselves, make themselves rich, and push the poverty somewhere else?
Capitalism is a give and take system, and when that happens it's taken from somewhere regardless if they have $100 laptops or $Alienware laptops.
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In a similar fashion, I'm always amused at how US courts seem to feel they have the right to judge and incriminate foreigners living in foreign countries running their businesses nowhere near the US.
Take, for example, the RIAA suing anybody anywhere according to US laws, in places like Canada and Sweden.
I guess, as many people have pointed out, we'll have to wait until the 21st to get some sense of it. I believe, however (and I am pretty much the opposite of a Physicist, a tsicisyhP if you will), that these theories as they stand now preclude the existence of dark matter...? Am I wrong?
If this is true, I wonder what it means for the MOND and TeVeS theories that purport to explain many mysteries of the universe without invoking dark matter?_ gravity
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor-vector-scalar
And they *just* made Discover magazine!
Rather, sign up for a spinning class...
I'm not sure, but I think you just called me a fat, self-deluded bastard...
It strikes me that this is such a typically capitalist notion: All impoverished nations need is a bit of technology such that they can become competitive on the world market. We don't address their basic needs, we give them tools to make them intelligent investors and market place powers. Unfortunately the system *requires* impoverished people. Our wealth has to come from somewhere, and currently it comes from them. If a third world nation becomes wealthy, all they are doing is redistributing the poverty elsewhere. Then what...we give another nation $100 laptops to help them educate themselves, make themselves rich, and push the poverty somewhere else? Capitalism is a give and take system, and when that happens it's taken from somewhere regardless if they have $100 laptops or $Alienware laptops.