Sorry, but "highly critical solutions" and "Windows" does not really go together. If you go to Unix, run headless and ssh in. Or write some simple message-oriented control programs if the connection is not fast enough for proper TCP. "/etc/init.d essentialservice restart" does not require much coding.
Teaching evolution promotes atheism which is a violation of church and state.
Of course, atheism is not a religion, and much less a church. But your whole premise is morally bankrupt ("let's not teach the truth because I don't like the consequences") and almost entirely unfounded. You might want to talk to the Pope, or to the Archbishop of Canterbury, or to any of the 11000+ signatories of the Clergy Letter Project. Thousands of scientists and millions and millions of Christians have no trouble reconciling evolution and the other sciences with their religion.
In the UK all you have to do is write your name on a work, and its copyrighted anyway, not sure about the US.
In the US, the UK, and any country that has ratified the Berne Convention (i.e. nearly all countries), any creative work fixed in a tangible medium has automatic copyright protection. There is no need to attach a name, or to register the work, although both may help in proving the copyright.
Complete nonsense. Your "recent observance" usually refers to Mount Sankt Helens and its "Little Grand Canyon", an erosion feature that formed quickly (in soft volcanic ash) and had a superficial similarity with the Grand Ganyon. "They" who have looked where a couple of creationist wackos with no scientific education to speak off. The superficial similarity was lost after a few seasons, an there never was a substantial geological similarity. See e.g. here.
Your allegations about science are unfounded as well. Contrary to your claim, science very much rewards people who find out new things and overturn old hypotheses. In practice, I admit, scientists will only listen to people who show a basic understanding of what they are talking about. Of course the "thinking has to be kept the same" - rational, sound, critical, and not ignoring unwelcome evidence. I don't think you have a better mode of thinking...
...For example, the process of radioactivity is used to date living and non living objects. Carbon dating is only one of these dating methods based on radioactivity. Science has known about radioactivity for only about 100 years. Over that short time span we observed radioactive decays to be occurring at a quite regular, apparently highly predictable rate. We assume (believe) therefore that this is a linear process, even over immense amounts of time, millions and even billions of years.
We can actually observe many radioactive decay processes long in the past, by looking at events far away. Supernova SN 1987A, for example, allowed a very good observation of uranium decay 168000 years ago.
We can also C14-date objects over a wide range of known history, and synchronize the dates with e.g. dendrochronology and simple recorded history. This is not enough to deal with geological time ranges, but it is plenty long enough to rule out any kind of Bishop Uther young earth chronology.
The difference between advanced space aliens and a deity is the the supposed omnipotency of a deity. It can do anything without leaving any traces, hence it's existence can never be refuted. "Last Tuesday the invisible Pink Unicorn created the universe with the apparent age of 13.6 billion years".
Do people just not sweat or something?
I would never be able to bike to work and not offend people.
For me, I just cycle in cycle clothing, cool down five minutes, and change into a fresh t-shirt at work. Of course, if you have a shower, even better. But I never found this necessary, and never had complaints. Fresh sweat does not smell, it only does so when it gets stale and bacteria start to decompose it. Most of the fresh sweat will be in your cycling jersey - have a few and change them daily.
In fact, there was very little research on the causes of the hole. Research basically informed that there was a hole (but with no previous history) and this paper (I don't remember the authors).
It doesn't free up a spot if it takes just as long to unload, service and load one big airplane as it would two smaller ones.
Only if your throughput is limited by the terminal facilities. But normally it is limited by the capacity of the airspace, not by the ability to process planes on the ground. One can be solved by building more terminals, or by moving to better organization. But increasing the capacity of the airspace is much more demanding. It requires near-universal adoption of new air traffic control surveillance measures, followed by changes in regulation, and by working out new procedures and training of controllers. That takes decades - air traffic is actually am extremely conservative business (for good reasons - no one wants to be caught with a faulty safety case if there is an accident). And even then, there is only so much reserve capacity that can be utilized.
I'm sorry but the U.S and UK are not Civil Law Countries. Both of them are Common Law Countries. Civil Law refers to the Legal structure created by the Roman Empire and used throughout most of Europe with the exception of the UK and Possessions/Colonies (former/current) and the U.S.
Sorry, you misquote me. I wrote "certainly in civil law countries, the US, and the UK" - meaning (and maybe I should have made that explicit) "certainly in civil law countries, and the US, and the UK". Your rebracketing changes the meaning.
That said, the US is not a pure Common Law country. Louisiana's private law, including property law, is based on a civil code.
In most jurisdictions I know (certainly in civil law countries, the US, and the UK), you cannot acquire ownership of stolen property. If you buy something stolen, bad for you. It still belongs to the original owner. If you buy it while being aware that it as stolen, you are guilty of receiving stolen property, a rather serious crime. Indeed, in many jurisdictions this even applies if you should have reasonably assumed that it was stolen (the back alley huge discount scenario).
The motivation behind this is to make theft less profitable. If you could acquire actual ownership of stolen property, you would be willing to pay up to market price for it, and your interest would be to ''not'' inquire wether the item has been legitimately acquired by the fence. With the common arrangement, however, the buyers carries (part of) the risk, so fencing becomes a lot harder and less profitable.
I checked out some of the bugs. A Windows bug was "unspecified bug in local procedure call may be used to execute arbitrary code" (one bug). For the Mac, it was "buffer overflow in handling of escape sequence \E\Q in PCRE library may allow crash (and possibly arbitrary code execution)" (one bug), "buffer overflow in handling of escape sequence \P\Q in PCRE library may allow crash (and possibly arbitrary code execution)" (second bug),...
As long as the bugs are counted at very different resolutions, and as long as very different functionality is compared, the numbers are worthless.
Almost certain? Given that neatly all integrated circuits are built in either China or Taiwan? I bet the CIA's computers run on Chinese hardware too.
Maybe most ICs are made in China or Taiwan. But AMD processors are made in Dresden, Germany, and under a cooperation agreement, by a company in Singapore. All but the processors can be sourced from any number of suppliers.
It is almost certain that China was the source of this.
Almost certain? Given that you can probably buy these parts via mail-order and have them shipped to oodles of addresses all over the world, there are many possible sources. It's useless to try to contain what is essentially a mass-market consumer item.
The scientist who is sharing the prize with Gore is "90%" sure we are the cause of global warming.
It's not a single scientist, but the IPCC, which has several thousand members. And they are at least 90% sure that the predomint cause of global warming is human. Of course, 90% is already rather high. Imagine a group of 10 bouncers. Nine of them will punch you in the nose if you approach them, but one will not. How urgent is your need to ask one of them for the time?
If all the ice melts will the sea levels rise? Yes they will. Will they rise 7 meters? No way. 1-2 meters maybe. This is still bad news for all of the coastal cities and people whose homes are alone the coast. Most of the coastal cities are less then 3 meters above sea level.
Unfortunately, you are wrong. Just the Greenland icecap is enough for a global 7 m sea level rise (on top of whatever thermal expansion will create). Yes, the oceans are big, but so is Greenland. The Greenland ice sheet has about 1.8 million square kilometers and is about 1.5 km thick. Spread that out over the 3.6 million square kilometers of ocean, and you get your approximately 7 meters.
The classic example is why you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre -- the real reason is that it intrudes on the private property owner's rights to operate his business in a peaceful manner.
I thought it was actually about the danger of imminent bodily harm to those who would be trampled in a stampede. It's perfectly legal to use speech to attempt to bring down somebody's business -- that's what boycotts, protests and pickets are all about -- but not to cause a risk of a stampede.
The opposite of bad is good, the opposite of good is bad. The opposite of evil is NOT: Good!
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The closest thing I could get to the opposite of Evil is compassion, NB: compassion is not the same as good. So while using the word evil, be very careful to be clear that its opposite is not good, thinking like that will dumb you down.
You've never played D&D, right? It might be fun to see a "lawful compassionate" Paladin compassionately smiting the "chaotic bad" tribesmen of Wuu.
"You agree that OUP may include the Article in an "open access" version of the Journal subject to payment of the relevant 'open access' fee or submission of a valid fee-waiver form."
This part is a bit confusing, but it refers to the author paying OUP to put it into an open access journal, not the reader paying to access this paper. The reader access is described on the right of that form:
"Open access" versions are made freely available online immediately
upon publication as part of a long-term archive without subscription
barriers to access.
Iran has not been in a war of aggression since the 19th century? Better fix up this bogus wikipedia link [to Iran-Iraq war].
In this context, it's only called a "war of aggression" for the nation who attacked the other. Memory may be short, but it was Iraq, under the benign dictatorship of Sadam Hussein (you remember him?) that attacked Iran in that war. And this is well-documented in the Wikipedia article.
The Wikipedia article to which you linked isn't clear, but the few geothermal plans mentioned in it seem to be spotty efforts, not a large-scale one. The corporation that owns most of the existing plants isn't doing too well in terms of stock price, so I'm assuming that's what "commercial" is referring to, that there's been a breakthrough in profit-making in the area of geothermal power generation.
Well, the nation of Iceland uses geothermal energy for more than half of its total primary energy input, including the generation of about 20% of its electricity. Icesland has only about 300000 inhabitants, but still, I would not call that "spotty". They use fossil fuel nearly exclusively for transportation, and hope to get rid of than by 2050 as well.
Of course it helps if you are sitting on a volcanic hot spot;-)
I'm sure that it cost him a fortune to defend a suit against Google.
Probably not a cent. Germany has a loser-pays court system. For such a trivial case I would expect the lawyer to work for the standard fees, so all of that would be borne by Google.
Patents get extended by corrupt politicans? Since when? (Hint: you're thinking about copyright)
Humm. I know what I'm thinking about. The copyright extension is more blatant, but patents get extended in scope (business methods, software,...), if not in duration. Wether patents as a whole are good or not is hard to decide, as they are used for very different things now. And regardless of wether they are good or bad: This is not a "pure" market, but rather something that has already been created by meddling politicians.
Yes, because lord knows a bunch of politicians are best folk to decide how much 'profit' a company needs, as opposed to the market (which can be cruel but a whole lot less corruptible than your average socialist wannabe).
"The market" would not have artificial shortages as given by IP rights anyways. And those, BTW, keep getting extended by "corrupt politicians".
The Brazilian government could have done this in good faith and entered into negotiations to drive down the prize.
Indeed. If you had read the article, you would know that they have, and failed.
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Sorry, but "highly critical solutions" and "Windows" does not really go together. If you go to Unix, run headless and ssh in. Or write some simple message-oriented control programs if the connection is not fast enough for proper TCP. "/etc/init.d essentialservice restart" does not require much coding.
Of course, atheism is not a religion, and much less a church. But your whole premise is morally bankrupt ("let's not teach the truth because I don't like the consequences") and almost entirely unfounded. You might want to talk to the Pope, or to the Archbishop of Canterbury, or to any of the 11000+ signatories of the Clergy Letter Project. Thousands of scientists and millions and millions of Christians have no trouble reconciling evolution and the other sciences with their religion.
In the US, the UK, and any country that has ratified the Berne Convention (i.e. nearly all countries), any creative work fixed in a tangible medium has automatic copyright protection. There is no need to attach a name, or to register the work, although both may help in proving the copyright.
Your allegations about science are unfounded as well. Contrary to your claim, science very much rewards people who find out new things and overturn old hypotheses. In practice, I admit, scientists will only listen to people who show a basic understanding of what they are talking about. Of course the "thinking has to be kept the same" - rational, sound, critical, and not ignoring unwelcome evidence. I don't think you have a better mode of thinking...
...For example, the process of radioactivity is used to date living and non living objects. Carbon dating is only one of these dating methods based on radioactivity. Science has known about radioactivity for only about 100 years. Over that short time span we observed radioactive decays to be occurring at a quite regular, apparently highly predictable rate. We assume (believe) therefore that this is a linear process, even over immense amounts of time, millions and even billions of years.
We can actually observe many radioactive decay processes long in the past, by looking at events far away. Supernova SN 1987A, for example, allowed a very good observation of uranium decay 168000 years ago.
We can also C14-date objects over a wide range of known history, and synchronize the dates with e.g. dendrochronology and simple recorded history. This is not enough to deal with geological time ranges, but it is plenty long enough to rule out any kind of Bishop Uther young earth chronology.
The difference between advanced space aliens and a deity is the the supposed omnipotency of a deity. It can do anything without leaving any traces, hence it's existence can never be refuted. "Last Tuesday the invisible Pink Unicorn created the universe with the apparent age of 13.6 billion years".
For me, I just cycle in cycle clothing, cool down five minutes, and change into a fresh t-shirt at work. Of course, if you have a shower, even better. But I never found this necessary, and never had complaints. Fresh sweat does not smell, it only does so when it gets stale and bacteria start to decompose it. Most of the fresh sweat will be in your cycling jersey - have a few and change them daily.
That said, the US is not a pure Common Law country. Louisiana's private law, including property law, is based on a civil code.
The motivation behind this is to make theft less profitable. If you could acquire actual ownership of stolen property, you would be willing to pay up to market price for it, and your interest would be to ''not'' inquire wether the item has been legitimately acquired by the fence. With the common arrangement, however, the buyers carries (part of) the risk, so fencing becomes a lot harder and less profitable.
As long as the bugs are counted at very different resolutions, and as long as very different functionality is compared, the numbers are worthless.
Of course it helps if you are sitting on a volcanic hot spot ;-)