The scary thing is that Britain has a constitution but nobody know about it. I guess it's not much different from the US where everyone knows there is a constitution but nobody knows what it means.
There's the Law Lords who are really just a subset of the House of Lords who serve a similar function to the Supreme Court. There's also the European Court of Justice.
Compare traveling on mass transit in Japan to the same thing in the US and you'll see there is an immense difference. The Japanese won't use cellphones for voice on the Tokyo subway, say, and even when in the streets they'll use cellphones discreetly. Travel on the BART near San Francisco (or even the tube in London, outside of the tunnels), say, you'll get to hear the ins and outs of the love lives and business lives of everyone around you as people shout the details loudly enough into their phones to overcome the sound of the train.
Stop demonising Muslims for sins committed by many other peoples around the world, while refusing to criticise them as well.
Bush is an evil lying bastard - whether we're dealing with Katrina or war in Iraq.
Nometheless, unlike the popular Hamas, Bush does not sponsor terrorism against civilians and certainly doesn't call for death threats for something as trivial as some satire.
And your talk of Jewish Manifest Destiny is pure anti-semitism straight out of medieval times.
It's pretty widely known that Muslim 'humanitarian' groups engage in terrorism. The official list of terrorist groups, published by the US government, and involved in the financial freezes a few years back, mostly look like humanitarian groups.
So you are saying that it is by definition part of religion that faith healers won't guarantee results. This is a very weird claim.
you can't disprove religion, the existance of a force that does not follow physical laws
Pick up a Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon, Book of the Dead, Tao Te Ching, Diamond Sutra, or Rig Veda. Start at the beginning and work your way through to the end. Tell me how many times you see "physical law" mentioned in them. You have a very bizarre 'definition' of religion.
Because religion's basic premise is the existence of an omnipotent force not governed by physical laws, it is by definition unfalsifiable
Sorry? What part of "omnipotent force not governed by physical laws" specifies "unfalsifiable" by definition. Many religions frequently make claims that are falsifiable. A simple example: faith healing, for which tangible results are claimed. This completely fits standard notions of falsifiability. You have a claim: the creator of the universe can do anything and he'll do what you want if you pray. Deduction: if you pray for healing you will be healed. Falsifiable claim: Test a bunch of people who pray agains a control group to see who's healed better. Where's the "unfalsifiable by definition"?
This whole "it's only a few thousand rioting" business doesn't hold much water. Hamas, ie. a bunch of terrorists, have just been voted in democratically in Palestine. Ahmadinejad was voted in democratically in Iran. Extremist Islamic view represent popular opinion across the Middle East and are not solely the beliefs of a minority.
And if you can't understand that, you either have never worked in a corporate, or for that matter, large educational, or government, environment, or you are simply too low on the totem pole
I used to run the R&D group of a high profile, high tech, 300 employee company. I now work in a position with less responsibility because I moved to a much larger company that is supposed to be the best in the field. In my 15 years of work experience (after many years in academia) I have worked professionally with DOS, Irix, Windows and Linux. I currently work with Linux and find it an unpleasant and unreliable mess. My 4 years working with Windows were the most pleasant of my programming career. The staff at my company used to rave about the systems department. Some of the systems staff at my old Windows based company now work at the new Linux based company. They tell me that they used to get bored in the old job because there was nothing to do once they had set up the network and filesystem. They are now overworked disentangling the mess that is Suse Linux running on HP AMD64 boxes. Every morning my inbox is full of emails from people asking the most ridiculous questions like "how do I make my speakers work?" or "how do I make the backspace key work?". God forbid that somone wants to do something as radical as change their monitor or mouse. And these are fairly geeky half-technical people.
You, like the other poster, are creating fantasies about totem poles because you have difficulty understanding why someone else would choose to do something that conflicts with your religious beliefs. Give it up.
You look out your window. If you see that objects in front of you are being repulsed you must be travelling at c/sqrt(3). Being able to tell what your velocity is is a violation of relativity.
Let's see what cliches you managed to come up with. All people who aren't geeks are sheep who follow the herd. All IT management are incompetent. It's a nice little belief system you've built for yourself there. I hope you feel cosy there. It's much nicer than facing reality isn't it?
You may be right. But you ought to consider the implications of travelling faster than light which include time travel. I'm pretty confident in that implication because it follows from a model that fits lab experiments where accelerating particles to near lightspeed are commonplace.
Are you comfotable with the notion of time travel?
The answer is an emphatic yes. Despite the countless problems with Windows that are repeatedly reported in places like Slashdot users flock to use Windows because in a real working environment it delivers what users need with a level of usability and stability that is entirely acceptable. You might like to consider what this implies about people's experiences of using Linux, experiences that rarely see the light of day on Slashdot.
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...I could announce that in the Palm ebook reader, eReader's PalmReader, you can uncover the markup used to format the text even though it isn't directly visible. You can do this by using the search facility to search for markup tokens from the "Peanut Markup Language" used. Curiously it skips the escape character ('\') and the first letter of each markup symbol, as if the original authors expected all markup symbols to be one character long. The markup also includes the filenames of included images which are stored in.png format. So you can search for images in an eReader ebook by searching for the string ".png". I discovered this by disassembling the executable - not by trial and error in the application. I think this was a much more interesting bit of sleuthing than this trivial iTunes one and wish it would get published on slashdot.
On the other hand, even I think this is too boring to tell other people.
Looks to me like a pretty good demonstration of how not to use weak field approximations. He appears to be describing something manifestly non-invariant which is just what you might expect from pushing the approximation too far.
Yes, but making up new and untested physics and then saying that this untested physics will give us warp drives by the end of the century does make you a crackpot. There's a general principle in science of testing your new ideas before publishing major extrapolations.
You are completely missing the point even though I was at great pains to spell it out. He claims his deductions are from Einstein's equations. This is impossible. Therefore he has made up new physics. Anyone can make up new equations. Absolutely anyone. This isn't new science at all. Look, I can do it. I think I'll say F=ma^1.0002 and show how I can use this to violate conservation of energy and generate free power for all. You can't just make up new equations to solve an engineering problem unless you have something motivating them besides an attention grabbing headline. Maxwell didn't wake up one day and say that electromagnetism satisfied his equations. Einstein didn't just make up E=mc^2. People who make up new physics without any kind of data to motivate it are crackpot, especially when they go on to claim they have invented the warp drive etc. Anti-science? You make me laugh!
If you travel fast enough you can get as far as you like in as short a time as you like. There's an effect called time dilation. Maybe you haven't heard of it?
Have you every tried to compute the distance you can cover assuming a constant acceleration of, say, a tolerable 2G. The distance you can get in a time t in your own frame of reference grows exponentially (well, hyperbolically cosinusoidaly which is much the same thing) with t because of time dilation. When you've mastered the physics required you may be pleasantly surprised by how far that distance is.
Felber's research shows that any mass moving faster than 57.7 percent of the speed of light will gravitationally repel other masses lying within a narrow 'antigravity beam' in front of it.
because, of course, no physical phenomenon can operate only for masses travelling above a fixed speed like that because such a phenomenon would violate Lorentz invariance. Therefore he's not actually using Einstein's equations which are fully Lorentz invariant. Note that I'm making weak assumptions here - I'm not even assuming the validity of Einstein's field equations, I'm just saying that this work doesn't follow from the equations he claims it follows from. That means he's made up some new physics, something completely untested, and is therefore a crackpot.
OK, now take a deep breath and look at your baby. Does it appear to be breathing? Does it have a pulse? Does it actually move? They make great looking plastic dolls these days and I think you may have mistaken one of these for an actual baby.
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The scary thing is that Britain has a constitution but nobody know about it. I guess it's not much different from the US where everyone knows there is a constitution but nobody knows what it means.
There's the Law Lords who are really just a subset of the House of Lords who serve a similar function to the Supreme Court. There's also the European Court of Justice.
...where'd they get all the benefits of the US without any of the disadvantages.
Compare traveling on mass transit in Japan to the same thing in the US and you'll see there is an immense difference. The Japanese won't use cellphones for voice on the Tokyo subway, say, and even when in the streets they'll use cellphones discreetly. Travel on the BART near San Francisco (or even the tube in London, outside of the tunnels), say, you'll get to hear the ins and outs of the love lives and business lives of everyone around you as people shout the details loudly enough into their phones to overcome the sound of the train.
Nometheless, unlike the popular Hamas, Bush does not sponsor terrorism against civilians and certainly doesn't call for death threats for something as trivial as some satire.
And your talk of Jewish Manifest Destiny is pure anti-semitism straight out of medieval times.
This whole "it's only a few thousand rioting" business doesn't hold much water. Hamas, ie. a bunch of terrorists, have just been voted in democratically in Palestine. Ahmadinejad was voted in democratically in Iran. Extremist Islamic view represent popular opinion across the Middle East and are not solely the beliefs of a minority.
You, like the other poster, are creating fantasies about totem poles because you have difficulty understanding why someone else would choose to do something that conflicts with your religious beliefs. Give it up.
You look out your window. If you see that objects in front of you are being repulsed you must be travelling at c/sqrt(3). Being able to tell what your velocity is is a violation of relativity.
Are you comfotable with the notion of time travel?
The answer is an emphatic yes. Despite the countless problems with Windows that are repeatedly reported in places like Slashdot users flock to use Windows because in a real working environment it delivers what users need with a level of usability and stability that is entirely acceptable. You might like to consider what this implies about people's experiences of using Linux, experiences that rarely see the light of day on Slashdot.
On the other hand, even I think this is too boring to tell other people.
Looks to me like a pretty good demonstration of how not to use weak field approximations. He appears to be describing something manifestly non-invariant which is just what you might expect from pushing the approximation too far.
Yes, but making up new and untested physics and then saying that this untested physics will give us warp drives by the end of the century does make you a crackpot. There's a general principle in science of testing your new ideas before publishing major extrapolations.
Good point. Overrated pulp science fictions writers of the mid twentieth century all look the same after a while.
You are completely missing the point even though I was at great pains to spell it out. He claims his deductions are from Einstein's equations. This is impossible. Therefore he has made up new physics. Anyone can make up new equations. Absolutely anyone. This isn't new science at all. Look, I can do it. I think I'll say F=ma^1.0002 and show how I can use this to violate conservation of energy and generate free power for all. You can't just make up new equations to solve an engineering problem unless you have something motivating them besides an attention grabbing headline. Maxwell didn't wake up one day and say that electromagnetism satisfied his equations. Einstein didn't just make up E=mc^2. People who make up new physics without any kind of data to motivate it are crackpot, especially when they go on to claim they have invented the warp drive etc. Anti-science? You make me laugh!
- If you travel fast enough you can get as far as you like in as short a time as you like. There's an effect called time dilation. Maybe you haven't heard of it?
- Have you every tried to compute the distance you can cover assuming a constant acceleration of, say, a tolerable 2G. The distance you can get in a time t in your own frame of reference grows exponentially (well, hyperbolically cosinusoidaly which is much the same thing) with t because of time dilation. When you've mastered the physics required you may be pleasantly surprised by how far that distance is.
Methinks you know not of what you speak.This is essentially the basis of the novel Tau Zero by Robert Silverberg. Mildly entertaining.
OK, now take a deep breath and look at your baby. Does it appear to be breathing? Does it have a pulse? Does it actually move? They make great looking plastic dolls these days and I think you may have mistaken one of these for an actual baby.
But yes, I do mean 3D hardware.