If it weren't for the government taxing imported sugar, then sugar would be just as cheap as HFCS. There are no differences between the two, and thus we would again be stuck with the current obesity epidemic. The solution is education and moderation, not regulation.
HFCS is one molecule of glucose, one molecule of fructose. The only difference between sugar and HFCS is that in sugar, the two molecules are very loosly bound. However, this bond is broken in an instant by enzymes in our bodies, so for all intents and purposes, they are the same.
Brown sugar and honey are 99% sugar. There might be some trace nutritional elements in them that make them ever so slightly better than white sugar and HFCS, but they are still sugar and they are still bad for you.
Sugar in general should be avoided. Fructose, which is the bad half of sugar and HFCS, is the culprit. It can only be processed by the liver, and during processing it wreaks havoc on the body's systems for controlling hunger, satiation, insulin, etc.
Information still can't be transferred faster than the speed of light. Information transfer with Quantum entanglement requires one of the entangled particles to be sent to the destination (never faster than light). Once the particle is at the destination the transmitter can cause the unmoved particle to collapse which will cause the transferred particle to collapse instantaneously, after which the two particles are no longer entangled. This is not FTL since the particle had to get there somehow.
General Relativity requires that FTL information transmission cannot happen without some kind a time travel mechanism. Time and space are inherently linked. Everything moves at the same 'speed' through the 4 dimensional spacetime. If an object is not moving through space, it is moving through time at the maximum 'speed'. If it is moving through space at the speed of light, it is not moving through time.
I run Ubuntu, as well. I've found it's easiest to install virtualbox and create a winxp virtual image for this purpose. If you make a snapshot after installing your drivers & java, then you can just restore to it so you don't have to worry about a virus somehow getting in. This is much safer than running an actual windows box, IMHO (for financial reasons, no less).
Your using an extra 'mod', 'compare' and 'or' to avoid a branch, yet those 'compare's are probably going to be compiled into branches anyway, thus defeating the point.
Really, you should either break down and write it as a simple branch, or write branch free assembly for each target platform. I would suggest the former. Simplicity and readability are much more important in this day and age than a few clock cycles.
Democracy is defined as a system of government carried out by the people directly (direct democracy), or through elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). Either one leads inevitably to majority rule. Luckily, the US is not a democracy. The US is a democratic republic with (supposedly) finite, expressly defined powers. Unfortunately, the call for "national security" and "protecting the children" (etc.) leads inevitably to more and more power being amassed in the hands of the representatives. Power corrupts - not only directly, but indirectly. Power attracts the corrupt, and power turns well intentioned individuals into corrupt individuals.
The best leaders are the people who have no desire to lead. Take George Washington, for instance. With the tremendous support he had after "winning" the American Revolutionary War (In actuality, the British just decided to ignore us. They didn't grant us independence.), he could have easily turned the 13 colonies into a dictatorship, but he had no desire to rule.
All of the currently existing life on earth originated from one source (to a good approximation). We know this because all of life is based on DNA (or RNA). If the life forms at thermal vents originated independently, it is extremely unlikely that they would also use DNA to code their genes.
If we ever find life on another planet, it most likely will not be based on DNA. If it is, that will be good evidence that the DNA was seeded by outside sources.
Indeed. The truth is, it is all a dream. My dream, in fact. It all emanates from me, I designed it all based on what you know as mathematical principles.
That assertion can also never be proved wrong, and it is mathematically sound.
You're pretty confident for a figment of my imagination....
An invisibility cloak, as in the sort used by harry potter, is not possible with a passive device. This is fairly obvious since you can't see light and yet be transparent to it at the same time.
However, there is no theoretical limit if the device is active. A simple example would be a flat panel display with a camera on the back. If you track the position of the observer, you can create a very convincing "invisibility" effect.
More interestingly, it may one day be possible to use active metamaterials to produce a similar effect. However, such a device would not be used for cloaking people, but rather for cloaking planes to Radar (for example).
That's not to mention all the domestic crime that could actually be stopped if law enforcement agencies had the proper funding and training (much cheaper than funding and training foreign law enforcement agencies).
Then, of course, there is the incredible amount of organised crime that has sprung up to feed the illegal drug addiction.
THEN there is the poor school system, and horrible infrastructure.
I mean, what the hell are the politicians doing? We would be better off without them. Just give us back our money, and we will decide who needs it.
Actually, it is completely different. The mechanism for hearing is not like the mechanism for seeing. Hearing uses a fluid filled sac that oscillates when tapped by your eardrum. The cilia inside the sack then stimulate neurons. So, there is a step in between the absorption of the stimulus, and the firing of the neurons. This step has the effect of damping (or filtering) both very low, and very high frequency sound. It is true that some people can hear higher pitches than other people, but 20 KHz is generally considered the upper limit of human hearing.
The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem basically states that a signal with frequency no higher than 20 KHz is uniquely defined by a sampling at 40 KHz. Of course, this theorem only really holds when the signal extends infinitely long in time, but in practice - a sampling rate twice the highest frequency provides for very accurate signal recreation.
This is in contrast to human vision, in which neurons are directly stimulated by light. In vision, there is no stimulus frequency filtering (note that the stimulus frequency is seperate from the frequency of light, which IS filtered by pigments. This is what allows us to see colors).
The debt is in the form of US Treasury bonds, which are held by many different groups. Chinese investment firms own a very large percentage (somewhere near 60% I believe). The further the US goes in to debt the more risky the investment becomes. Eventually no one will want to buy more bonds, at which point the US will have to print money in order to pay off the old bonds that are maturing. When that time comes, there will be no way of recovering. The dollar's value will rapidly plummet. Everyone will switch to gold, silver, the Imperial Pound, and/or the Euro.
I think it's funny when people think "freedom of speech" means "I can say whatever I want to anyone, anytime, anywhere, and they can't stop me." You're very mistaken if you believe this. (And most probably, also very immature)
Yeah, I guess it would only mean that in a society that is actually free. You would have to be pretty immature to believe that about the USA.
In the end, the earth belongs to those who have the most babies, and, all those things you advocate, undermine your own culture as much as they undermine your genes.
Survival of the fittest is about adaptation, not about who can have the most babies. When resources start to run out it is the species that is ready to change and adapt that wins out. I don't think anyone will disagree with me when I say religions aren't exactly proponents of change.
So sure, please, believe it: marriage and having a person stay at home is quaint.... if you get your girlfriend pregnant, its better to get rid of the child than to ruin your lives, believe all of it. If we can then privati[s]e schools and do the other things so that your input to our culture can be blocked, we can exterminate liberalism all the more quickly, simply by out-breeding it.
Privatising schools won't do much to shield children from alternate viewpoints in the age of the Internet.
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If it weren't for the government taxing imported sugar, then sugar would be just as cheap as HFCS. There are no differences between the two, and thus we would again be stuck with the current obesity epidemic. The solution is education and moderation, not regulation.
HFCS is one molecule of glucose, one molecule of fructose. The only difference between sugar and HFCS is that in sugar, the two molecules are very loosly bound. However, this bond is broken in an instant by enzymes in our bodies, so for all intents and purposes, they are the same.
Brown sugar and honey are 99% sugar. There might be some trace nutritional elements in them that make them ever so slightly better than white sugar and HFCS, but they are still sugar and they are still bad for you.
Sugar in general should be avoided. Fructose, which is the bad half of sugar and HFCS, is the culprit. It can only be processed by the liver, and during processing it wreaks havoc on the body's systems for controlling hunger, satiation, insulin, etc.
Take the time to watch this talk by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology. It might save your life (by extending your life).
Information still can't be transferred faster than the speed of light. Information transfer with Quantum entanglement requires one of the entangled particles to be sent to the destination (never faster than light). Once the particle is at the destination the transmitter can cause the unmoved particle to collapse which will cause the transferred particle to collapse instantaneously, after which the two particles are no longer entangled. This is not FTL since the particle had to get there somehow.
General Relativity requires that FTL information transmission cannot happen without some kind a time travel mechanism. Time and space are inherently linked. Everything moves at the same 'speed' through the 4 dimensional spacetime. If an object is not moving through space, it is moving through time at the maximum 'speed'. If it is moving through space at the speed of light, it is not moving through time.
Did you type this on a phone with T9? You misspelled 'of' as 'me'...
I run Ubuntu, as well. I've found it's easiest to install virtualbox and create a winxp virtual image for this purpose. If you make a snapshot after installing your drivers & java, then you can just restore to it so you don't have to worry about a virus somehow getting in. This is much safer than running an actual windows box, IMHO (for financial reasons, no less).
Can you show me the page in Principia Mathematica where it proves the assumed axioms? It seems you have to start with something to get something.
Scientists and Mathematicians aren't immune to blind faith.
Your using an extra 'mod', 'compare' and 'or' to avoid a branch, yet those 'compare's are probably going to be compiled into branches anyway, thus defeating the point.
Really, you should either break down and write it as a simple branch, or write branch free assembly for each target platform. I would suggest the former. Simplicity and readability are much more important in this day and age than a few clock cycles.
No one said spirituality is not real.
Spirits are not real.. There's a difference.
Democracy is defined as a system of government carried out by the people directly (direct democracy), or through elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). Either one leads inevitably to majority rule. Luckily, the US is not a democracy. The US is a democratic republic with (supposedly) finite, expressly defined powers. Unfortunately, the call for "national security" and "protecting the children" (etc.) leads inevitably to more and more power being amassed in the hands of the representatives. Power corrupts - not only directly, but indirectly. Power attracts the corrupt, and power turns well intentioned individuals into corrupt individuals.
The best leaders are the people who have no desire to lead. Take George Washington, for instance. With the tremendous support he had after "winning" the American Revolutionary War (In actuality, the British just decided to ignore us. They didn't grant us independence.), he could have easily turned the 13 colonies into a dictatorship, but he had no desire to rule.
All of the currently existing life on earth originated from one source (to a good approximation). We know this because all of life is based on DNA (or RNA). If the life forms at thermal vents originated independently, it is extremely unlikely that they would also use DNA to code their genes.
If we ever find life on another planet, it most likely will not be based on DNA. If it is, that will be good evidence that the DNA was seeded by outside sources.
Unless you did a double-blind (single-blind at absolute minimum) study, this is all completely useless evidence. It is circumstantial at best.
Not to mention destroy your DNA, and give you cancer.
Indeed. The truth is, it is all a dream. My dream, in fact. It all emanates from me, I designed it all based on what you know as mathematical principles.
That assertion can also never be proved wrong, and it is mathematically sound.
You're pretty confident for a figment of my imagination....
You think, therefore I am?
An invisibility cloak, as in the sort used by harry potter, is not possible with a passive device. This is fairly obvious since you can't see light and yet be transparent to it at the same time.
However, there is no theoretical limit if the device is active. A simple example would be a flat panel display with a camera on the back. If you track the position of the observer, you can create a very convincing "invisibility" effect.
More interestingly, it may one day be possible to use active metamaterials to produce a similar effect. However, such a device would not be used for cloaking people, but rather for cloaking planes to Radar (for example).
That's not to mention all the domestic crime that could actually be stopped if law enforcement agencies had the proper funding and training (much cheaper than funding and training foreign law enforcement agencies).
Then, of course, there is the incredible amount of organised crime that has sprung up to feed the illegal drug addiction.
THEN there is the poor school system, and horrible infrastructure.
I mean, what the hell are the politicians doing? We would be better off without them. Just give us back our money, and we will decide who needs it.
Actually, it is completely different. The mechanism for hearing is not like the mechanism for seeing. Hearing uses a fluid filled sac that oscillates when tapped by your eardrum. The cilia inside the sack then stimulate neurons. So, there is a step in between the absorption of the stimulus, and the firing of the neurons. This step has the effect of damping (or filtering) both very low, and very high frequency sound. It is true that some people can hear higher pitches than other people, but 20 KHz is generally considered the upper limit of human hearing.
The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem basically states that a signal with frequency no higher than 20 KHz is uniquely defined by a sampling at 40 KHz. Of course, this theorem only really holds when the signal extends infinitely long in time, but in practice - a sampling rate twice the highest frequency provides for very accurate signal recreation.
This is in contrast to human vision, in which neurons are directly stimulated by light. In vision, there is no stimulus frequency filtering (note that the stimulus frequency is seperate from the frequency of light, which IS filtered by pigments. This is what allows us to see colors).
If you are willing to use the 32 bit version (which is all you need for standard desktop stuff), all of that stuff works.
Are you trying to say that one-fourth of Americans are retarded?
The Bush administration didn't get that memo.
The debt is in the form of US Treasury bonds, which are held by many different groups. Chinese investment firms own a very large percentage (somewhere near 60% I believe). The further the US goes in to debt the more risky the investment becomes. Eventually no one will want to buy more bonds, at which point the US will have to print money in order to pay off the old bonds that are maturing. When that time comes, there will be no way of recovering. The dollar's value will rapidly plummet. Everyone will switch to gold, silver, the Imperial Pound, and/or the Euro.
I think it's funny when people think "freedom of speech" means "I can say whatever I want to anyone, anytime, anywhere, and they can't stop me." You're very mistaken if you believe this. (And most probably, also very immature)
Yeah, I guess it would only mean that in a society that is actually free. You would have to be pretty immature to believe that about the USA.
FREE WILL as in you are FREE to attempt to rigorously define it, but you never WILL. That's the problem.
In the end, the earth belongs to those who have the most babies, and, all those things you advocate, undermine your own culture as much as they undermine your genes.
Survival of the fittest is about adaptation, not about who can have the most babies. When resources start to run out it is the species that is ready to change and adapt that wins out. I don't think anyone will disagree with me when I say religions aren't exactly proponents of change.
So sure, please, believe it: marriage and having a person stay at home is quaint.... if you get your girlfriend pregnant, its better to get rid of the child than to ruin your lives, believe all of it. If we can then privati[s]e schools and do the other things so that your input to our culture can be blocked, we can exterminate liberalism all the more quickly, simply by out-breeding it.
Privatising schools won't do much to shield children from alternate viewpoints in the age of the Internet.