I agree with the prevailing mediæval opinion that the Champerty and Maintenance legal system needs fixing.
However, until that is done, why is buying a share of someone elses lawsuit and then trying to collect a share of the loot considered so evil? Rail against the Champerty system if you wish, but demonizing the buying and selling of lawsuit shares seems misguided.
What I would like to know is, if I do the following:
ssh -X otheruser@localhost kmail
Does it Just Work(TM)? Or does it still crash because akonadi / nepomuk / strigi / mysql / kitchensink haven't all been woken up at the same time to serve the urgent e-mail indexing needs of otheruser@localhost.
It's interesting to me that akonadi has such a nice and detailed self-test, but a pity that it seems to need it:-(
Milutin Milankovic found this out (published in 1930?), however (according to the Wikipedia page; I'm not an expert) these "orbital forcings" produce temperature oscillations on the timescale of tens of thousands of years! The quickest of the three cycles described says, that the orbital forcing by axial tilt produced a maximum warming effect at 8 700 B.C. (think: before Jerusalem and before Babylon, in the time of Jericho when there were still woolly mammoths and agriculture was invented etc.) and is now slowly "cooling down" (predicting a DOWNWARD temperature trend) until the minimum at the year 11 800 (think: the Plutonium in Yucca Mountain nuclear waste has decayed to 75% of its current strength).
Therefore, orbital forcing can not be used to predict or explain a temperature change that occurs in the time period of only 200 years. Your timescale is wrong.
Well there you have it: make sure that the NASA project directors are sent up on a human-rated vessel first, just like they do at Otis with their lifts.
This would be a great motivator for the staff that built the vessel, on both ends of the "I like my boss" spectrum.
There is probably lots of iron oxide on the Martian surface, and you'll want the oxygen and iron.
Have you considered what kind of reducing agent you'd bring along to reduce it? Or are you planning to reduce something else electrolytically (e.g. aluminium) and obtain it that way?
Cheap reducing agent would probably also come in handy to remove the perchlorate from the soil so your worms and plants thrive a bit better:-)
Do you have any plans to construct and take along a small (e.g. washing-machine sized) factory that can run on solar power and spits out small amorphous silicon solar cells?
Because I've got nothing serious to add to this hilarious discussion, here's a few examples of how *good* our brains are at trying to extract meaning out of what people try to tell us.
First an example from AI (gramatically correct I think):
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
WANTS PAWN TERM DARE WORSTED LADLE GULL HOE LIFT wetter murder inner ladle cordage honor itch offer lodge, dock, florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry Putty ladle rat cluck wetter ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
Wan moaning Ladle Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset.
"Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter an shirker cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tutor cordage offer groin-murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist. (...)
It's marvellous. Cave lupus, though (or whatever is the imperativus form of lupus; lupem?).
6. Ensure that the average citizen can see and understand how the process works and how easy or difficult it is to steal an election. This one seems to be the one Slashdotters don't understand with their large computer-oriented brains:-)
I don't think that's what OP means. For example, last election at the polling station I was allowed to vote in two of the three elections: local and EP, but not national. I could see them verify this, because next to my name on their bit of paper there was a cross through the national ballot column. So I was allowed to put a ballot paper in only two of the three boxes present. The vote itself was still secret of course, as it should be.
They can already tell too much just by watching which elections you vote in and extrapolating your likelihood of voting in other elections based on past preferences.
By seeing me vote for local and European elections, they can extrapolate that I'll probably do that again in 4 years? I don't see what the problem with that is. My presence near the polling station would probably already give them the suspicion that I was trying to vote, and might try to do it again in the future:-).
BTW I'll share here again the cartoon that the people from www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl have made, read it, it's very easy to understand (I see they've translated it this year) and totally convincing:
cartoon
But just to take that argument a little further, next you have to remember that each copy still has some kind of value.
Depends.
IANAE, but I think value can only be determined when there is a person willing to sell and a person willing to buy.
For example:
A tin of Piero Manzoni's "Merde d'Artiste" has a value of approx. EUR 30 000, because that is what such tins have been sold for at auction in the past.
If you'd erhm.. extrude one of your own and tin it, its sale value might be different, because the potential buyers might ignore your beautiful product, and either copy your production process by making their own (that would bring us to patents, or trademark infringement if you claim Manzoni filled your tin, but he's dead anyway), but in any case refrain from buying a tin of it from you because to them, it has insufficient value.
I think this disproves your statement, but even if it didn't, it reminded us of the thought processes of the 60's conceptual artists so I hope I've enriched your life and fertilized your imagination a bit with this posting:-)
If insurance companies are elbowing each other out of the way to get the contract to insure your factory / power plant;
because their income depends on accurately assessing the risk/reward factors.
In other news, I read Oliver North has become a political commentator on Fox "News" (after failing to become a US Senator), so I believe you're spot on:-)
It's an interesting approach, assuming the GDP continues growing for the coming 100 years. You assumed it costs 10 x current world GDP, and that number 10 is made up as well;
I get a different result 2.3%, check it:
Now let's do a different one for a laugh: assume the world GDP starts a long descent and declines with 4.5007% per year (peak oil was in 2005 or so). This means world GDP in 2112 will be 0.01 x world GDP in 2012. If it costs less than your 1.34 % of GDP or my 2.33 % of GDP to combat global warming now, it costs less than 134% or 233% of world GDP then, to combat global warming. So, it's 100 times cheaper to just start solving it now rather than leaving our petroleum-industry-less grandchildren to pay the bill.
I made that huge percentage 4.5007% up to suit the calculation, BTW.
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Oh noes! You mean... they have to continue trolling with only their remaining 1299 shell companies!
I agree with the prevailing mediæval opinion that the Champerty and Maintenance legal system needs fixing.
However, until that is done, why is buying a share of someone elses lawsuit and then trying to collect a share of the loot considered so evil? Rail against the Champerty system if you wish, but demonizing the buying and selling of lawsuit shares seems misguided.
That prediction was of course WAY off the mark...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16409664
Seriously, sometimes you Americans do scare the living crap out of us rest-of-the-worlders..
What I would like to know is, if I do the following:
:-(
ssh -X otheruser@localhost kmail
Does it Just Work(TM)? Or does it still crash because akonadi / nepomuk / strigi / mysql / kitchensink haven't all been woken up at the same time to serve the urgent e-mail indexing needs of otheruser@localhost.
It's interesting to me that akonadi has such a nice and detailed self-test, but a pity that it seems to need it
A battle robot controlled by Pippi Longstockings... oh dear.....
Milutin Milankovic found this out (published in 1930?), however (according to the Wikipedia page; I'm not an expert) these "orbital forcings" produce temperature oscillations on the timescale of tens of thousands of years! The quickest of the three cycles described says, that the orbital forcing by axial tilt produced a maximum warming effect at 8 700 B.C. (think: before Jerusalem and before Babylon, in the time of Jericho when there were still woolly mammoths and agriculture was invented etc.) and is now slowly "cooling down" (predicting a DOWNWARD temperature trend) until the minimum at the year 11 800 (think: the Plutonium in Yucca Mountain nuclear waste has decayed to 75% of its current strength).
Therefore, orbital forcing can not be used to predict or explain a temperature change that occurs in the time period of only 200 years.
Your timescale is wrong.
Yeah, mod up :-)
I for one welcome our new avian, brick-tunneling overlords!
Well there you have it: make sure that the NASA project directors are sent up on a human-rated vessel first, just like they do at Otis with their lifts.
This would be a great motivator for the staff that built the vessel, on both ends of the "I like my boss" spectrum.
According to the people who budgetted the Delta Works for 40 years, Dutchies are € 2.2 million apiece (= value to not let them drown):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works#Delta_law_and_Conceptual_framework
Mind you besides André Kuipers and before him Wubbo Ockels, I don't think many Dutchies are astronauts.
There is probably lots of iron oxide on the Martian surface, and you'll want the oxygen and iron.
:-)
Have you considered what kind of reducing agent you'd bring along to reduce it? Or are you planning to reduce something else electrolytically (e.g. aluminium) and obtain it that way?
Cheap reducing agent would probably also come in handy to remove the perchlorate from the soil so your worms and plants thrive a bit better
Do you have any plans to construct and take along a small (e.g. washing-machine sized) factory that can run on solar power and spits out small amorphous silicon solar cells?
LOL!
See also, David MacAuley - Motel of the Mysteries
The work has already been done, see the Rosetta Stone project of the Long Now foundation:
http://rosettaproject.org/.
First an example from AI (gramatically correct I think):
And next a story by a mr. Howard L. Chace, you can get the whole story here: http://www.justanyone.com/allanguish.html
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
WANTS PAWN TERM DARE WORSTED LADLE GULL HOE LIFT wetter murder inner ladle cordage honor itch offer lodge, dock, florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry Putty ladle rat cluck wetter ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
Wan moaning Ladle Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset.
"Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter an shirker cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tutor cordage offer groin-murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist. (...)
It's marvellous. Cave lupus, though (or whatever is the imperativus form of lupus; lupem?).
Agreed, I should have said it appears nuclear power industry is not cost-effective unless subsidized heavily by the government.
And in the 60's and 70's this was the case because those power plants also made plutonium for nukes, perceived necessary for the Cold War.
So does Belgium.
Ok, ok.. BAD example.. although I think di Rupo managed to conjure up a cabinet somehow this year.
6. Ensure that the average citizen can see and understand how the process works and how easy or difficult it is to steal an election. This one seems to be the one Slashdotters don't understand with their large computer-oriented brains :-)
By seeing me vote for local and European elections, they can extrapolate that I'll probably do that again in 4 years? I don't see what the problem with that is. My presence near the polling station would probably already give them the suspicion that I was trying to vote, and might try to do it again in the future :-).
BTW I'll share here again the cartoon that the people from www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl have made, read it, it's very easy to understand (I see they've translated it this year) and totally convincing:
cartoon
Depends.
:-)
IANAE, but I think value can only be determined when there is a person willing to sell and a person willing to buy.
For example:
A tin of Piero Manzoni's "Merde d'Artiste" has a value of approx. EUR 30 000, because that is what such tins have been sold for at auction in the past.
If you'd erhm.. extrude one of your own and tin it, its sale value might be different, because the potential buyers might ignore your beautiful product, and either copy your production process by making their own (that would bring us to patents, or trademark infringement if you claim Manzoni filled your tin, but he's dead anyway), but in any case refrain from buying a tin of it from you because to them, it has insufficient value.
I think this disproves your statement, but even if it didn't, it reminded us of the thought processes of the 60's conceptual artists so I hope I've enriched your life and fertilized your imagination a bit with this posting
If insurance companies are elbowing each other out of the way to get the contract to insure your factory / power plant;
because their income depends on accurately assessing the risk/reward factors.
Actuary is a very well paying profession, I hear.
Nobody wants to insure nuclear power plants. That's an indicator from an unbiased source that they are a bad idea.
In other news, I read Oliver North has become a political commentator on Fox "News" (after failing to become a US Senator), so I believe you're spot on :-)
What are the odds that they've changed 140 000 passwords to "sukkel01" now, I wonder.
6. What size of Beowulf cluster are we talking about to solve this, exactly?
I get a different result 2.3%, check it:
(radix of the log doesn't matter for this)
Now let's do a different one for a laugh: assume the world GDP starts a long descent and declines with 4.5007% per year (peak oil was in 2005 or so). This means world GDP in 2112 will be 0.01 x world GDP in 2012. If it costs less than your 1.34 % of GDP or my 2.33 % of GDP to combat global warming now, it costs less than 134% or 233% of world GDP then, to combat global warming. So, it's 100 times cheaper to just start solving it now rather than leaving our petroleum-industry-less grandchildren to pay the bill.
I made that huge percentage 4.5007% up to suit the calculation, BTW.