Surely the article is announcing the very explanation you're seeking. The fact that you choose to reject the official scientifically rigourous report in favour of your own ad hoc opinions cobbled together from a bunch of unsubstantiated and comprehensively refuted speculations about what can and can't collapse a building is a problem with your own judgement, and not a problem with the adequacy of the report. You really should spend some time researching the plentiful refutations to these crazy "arguments", if you genuinely care about the truth.
so you'll be agreeing with the architects and engineers that compiled this NIST report then? Or do you only apply the argument from authority to people who agree with your predetermined conclusion?
Apparently Metamaterials with negative refractive indexes offer a potential way to focus existing wavelengths of light beyond their diffraction limit, so that we might be able to have finer lithography without decreasing the wavelength of light used.
It's not one single celled organism - it's one species of single celled organisms. This is never explicitly made clear when people refer to the last universal common ancestor - the term doesn't refer to an individual.
Which is why i use Azureus with the SafePeer plugin. And PeerGuardian on windows. It blacklists known MPAA/RIAA and now hopefully BPI spying IP ranges. Of course that relies on the comprehensiveness of the blacklist, but at least it removes you from the "low hanging fruit" category. It also helps if you don't download anything high profile, like blockbuster movies and shitty pop albums. Because I don't pay for DVDs it justifies me spending 6 freaking quid every time i go to the cinema. (about every 1 1/2 weeks on average).
If this stuff wasn't so stupidly expensive and inconvenient i would totally pay for it. If there was a MPAA/RIAA/BPI authorised torrent site that worked as simply as mininova or isohunt, and just had a £5 a month subscription fee with authenticated trackers that dished out unencumbered MPEG-4/FLAC/MP3 format files i would subscribe in a heartbeat. I already happily pay for a broadband connection every month so that i can get this stuff from torrent sites anyway - why don't these dickheads get with the program?
So you genuinely believe that the only reason any person in the world would behave ethically is through fear of retribution?
This is obviously absurd, and any person such as yourself who relies of intangible threats to control there antisocial urges because they have no internal sense of altruism is basically a frustrated sociopath. What an ugly world you live in. No wonder your post has such a sneering hate-filled tone. I'd pity you if you weren't potentially dangerous.
ok, so it's only significant because it's equal to the number of fingers we have and thus represents the threshold at which an extra character is introduced to the string representing the number. the point remains that it's still an arbitrary proportion.
What disappoints me about Hans Reiser is that he didn't do the right thing.
Surely the time to decide to do the right thing would have been just before he murdered his wife, not during the aftermath, when clearly no amount of "right things" would rectify anything but the most comparatively trivial aspects of this situation.
i think the point is this guy doesnt know where they are, but if the thief's landline repeatedly dialled 911, the 911 people would know where the call was made from.
more sensible would be to get the modem to dial the owner's home, so that he could get the phone number himself, instead of hassling 911.
it seems to be a kind of mini package manager that runs on windows, that allows you to install kde apps the same way you do on linux. so this installer thing doesnt just install koffice - it stays on your system and allows you to install and uninstall any other kde apps that become available for windows in the future.
i think i heard that kde have a long term plan of being able to run a full KDE desktop session on top of windows - presumably this package manager is the foundation of that ultimate goal.
"There's no archaeological or historical evidence that the Mayans themselves expected anything other than a New Year's Eve party to happen on this date: Claims that this rollover represents a Mayan prediction of the end of the world appear to be a modern pop-culture invention."
The GPL is about sharing what was given to you and anything you've done as well that might be (by a ridiculously broad brush) considered a "derivative work".
how is it a ridiculously broad brush? please justify this.
You just need to pick your pet cause that "people" must have the "freedom from" being subjected to.
i think you need to reread my statement and you'll find you have i clearly stated, and indeed my whole point was, that the GPL's "pet cause" is the freedom of users to have complete access to all derivatives of your work.
The GPL ensures the freedom of the all users, by restricting distributors from withholding the source from downstream users - a similar freedom those distributors enjoyed which allowed them access to the source code in their binaries in their first place. Do you honestly feel the minor "restriction" (more accurately a simple and easily fulfilled obligation) to not withhold what was freely shared to you is worse than the deliberate act of constructing DRM, to facilitate the imposition of any and every arbitrary whim of the distributor on all downstream users?
In terms of the freedom of all users as a collective, rather than just the subset of users that want to insert DRM to restrict the freedom of all users, there is no Freer licence than the GPL. Having a set of rules to ensure freedom is a hell of a lot freer than a total absence of rules.
take the example of the US constitution - what's freer - that set of "restrictions" or a total anarchy?
so let me get this straight, you think a purely american FBI report is less biased than a UN report? can you explain the logic behind that please? and could you provide a link to this FBI report? you seem to think that because the UN report is 8 years old it must be irrelevant, but it's funny, in the past 8 years of living in the UK i haven't notice the violent crime rate quadrupling. perhaps you've noticed the violent crime rate dropping by a factor of 4 in america?
just choose a (per capita) crime from the drop down list, and you'll see the US outranks the UK in rape and assault - there isn't one for domestic violence, but there is one for firearm homicides, and what do you know - the US is 8th on the list and the UK is nowhere to be seen. Oh and it says the US has more than 3 times as many murders as the UK per capita too.
I'd love to know, has this changed your mind? Are you now for gun control? Or have you suddenly decided that crime rates are irrelevant, now that the figure don't back up your position? I wonder...
you have a lot of redundancy in that set of plugins - i am using ff3 with "adblock plus" and noscript running fine. Adblock+filterset.g and flashblock are not necessary.
you've just totally missed the point. the point he was making is that scientists can determine that the certain things exist without seeing them with their own eyes or relying on faith, by the use of indirect evidence and deductive reasoning. this is what the theory of evolution has been carefully crafted out of for the past 150 years. this is also what allows us to know about, understand and harness electrons, without visually witnessing them.
his point was that the creationist argument that "because no one sat there and watched generations of fish gradually develop limbs there can be no reason to believe it happened except blind faith"
is not valid. the implication that the only way to know something without faith is to visually witness it is easily countered with the example that the existence of electrons which is indisputable due to the vast amount of varied and converging lines of indirect evidence, compounded by the most intuitively compelling evidence of 100 years of technology that could not possibly work if there was no such thing as a electron. This is also exactly the case for evolution. All of modern biology and medicine would not work if the theory of evolution was fundamentally flawed.
you've also conflated abiogenesis with evolution, to try and imply that the current lack of a workable theory of abiogenesis implies something lacking from the theory of evolution, when the two do not rely on each other for validation. even if (though there is no evidence for this whatsoever) god created the first RNA molecule and there was no naturalistic abiogenesis, this would do nothing to undermine the mountains of evidence that all life on earth is a naturally modified descendant of that first life form. thus evolution does not depend on how the first life form came to be, so arguing that evolution is "faith based" because there is no solid evidence based theory of abiogenesis is a specious argument.
i take exception to the constant kicking people give superman 3 - it's a comedy classic i tells ya! and the scene where superman fights himself in the junkyard... iconic moment. obviously superman 3 is not as classy and the first two, but it works in comic-book come to life kind of way.
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Surely the article is announcing the very explanation you're seeking. The fact that you choose to reject the official scientifically rigourous report in favour of your own ad hoc opinions cobbled together from a bunch of unsubstantiated and comprehensively refuted speculations about what can and can't collapse a building is a problem with your own judgement, and not a problem with the adequacy of the report. You really should spend some time researching the plentiful refutations to these crazy "arguments", if you genuinely care about the truth.
so you'll be agreeing with the architects and engineers that compiled this NIST report then? Or do you only apply the argument from authority to people who agree with your predetermined conclusion?
Apparently Metamaterials with negative refractive indexes offer a potential way to focus existing wavelengths of light beyond their diffraction limit, so that we might be able to have finer lithography without decreasing the wavelength of light used.
We all have a pretty clear picture of the RIAA's moral standing already.
lots might have, but that doesn't mean everyone who reads this particular story is aware of the depths to which they are prepared to stoop.
It's not one single celled organism - it's one species of single celled organisms. This is never explicitly made clear when people refer to the last universal common ancestor - the term doesn't refer to an individual.
or you can press Alt-v,y,n to turn styles off. (_v_iew ->page st_y_les ->_n_o style) and Alt-v,y,b to turn them back on again.
If this stuff wasn't so stupidly expensive and inconvenient i would totally pay for it. If there was a MPAA/RIAA/BPI authorised torrent site that worked as simply as mininova or isohunt, and just had a £5 a month subscription fee with authenticated trackers that dished out unencumbered MPEG-4/FLAC/MP3 format files i would subscribe in a heartbeat. I already happily pay for a broadband connection every month so that i can get this stuff from torrent sites anyway - why don't these dickheads get with the program?
This is obviously absurd, and any person such as yourself who relies of intangible threats to control there antisocial urges because they have no internal sense of altruism is basically a frustrated sociopath. What an ugly world you live in. No wonder your post has such a sneering hate-filled tone. I'd pity you if you weren't potentially dangerous.
ok, so it's only significant because it's equal to the number of fingers we have and thus represents the threshold at which an extra character is introduced to the string representing the number. the point remains that it's still an arbitrary proportion.
Yeah that's the thing i'm talking about - it's in alpha at the moment.
Surely the time to decide to do the right thing would have been just before he murdered his wife, not during the aftermath, when clearly no amount of "right things" would rectify anything but the most comparatively trivial aspects of this situation.
more sensible would be to get the modem to dial the owner's home, so that he could get the phone number himself, instead of hassling 911.
i think i heard that kde have a long term plan of being able to run a full KDE desktop session on top of windows - presumably this package manager is the foundation of that ultimate goal.
how do you know that the 300 years have improved the sound? a new stradivarius might sound better.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093
how is it a ridiculously broad brush? please justify this.
You just need to pick your pet cause that "people" must have the "freedom from" being subjected to.
i think you need to reread my statement and you'll find you have i clearly stated, and indeed my whole point was, that the GPL's "pet cause" is the freedom of users to have complete access to all derivatives of your work.
yeah sorry, anarchy was a not the correct word to use there, i meant an absence of law
In terms of the freedom of all users as a collective, rather than just the subset of users that want to insert DRM to restrict the freedom of all users, there is no Freer licence than the GPL. Having a set of rules to ensure freedom is a hell of a lot freer than a total absence of rules.
take the example of the US constitution - what's freer - that set of "restrictions" or a total anarchy?
so let me get this straight, you think a purely american FBI report is less biased than a UN report? can you explain the logic behind that please? and could you provide a link to this FBI report? you seem to think that because the UN report is 8 years old it must be irrelevant, but it's funny, in the past 8 years of living in the UK i haven't notice the violent crime rate quadrupling. perhaps you've noticed the violent crime rate dropping by a factor of 4 in america?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita
just choose a (per capita) crime from the drop down list, and you'll see the US outranks the UK in rape and assault - there isn't one for domestic violence, but there is one for firearm homicides, and what do you know - the US is 8th on the list and the UK is nowhere to be seen. Oh and it says the US has more than 3 times as many murders as the UK per capita too.
I'd love to know, has this changed your mind? Are you now for gun control? Or have you suddenly decided that crime rates are irrelevant, now that the figure don't back up your position? I wonder...
you have a lot of redundancy in that set of plugins - i am using ff3 with "adblock plus" and noscript running fine. Adblock+filterset.g and flashblock are not necessary.
his point was that the creationist argument that "because no one sat there and watched generations of fish gradually develop limbs there can be no reason to believe it happened except blind faith" is not valid. the implication that the only way to know something without faith is to visually witness it is easily countered with the example that the existence of electrons which is indisputable due to the vast amount of varied and converging lines of indirect evidence, compounded by the most intuitively compelling evidence of 100 years of technology that could not possibly work if there was no such thing as a electron. This is also exactly the case for evolution. All of modern biology and medicine would not work if the theory of evolution was fundamentally flawed.
you've also conflated abiogenesis with evolution, to try and imply that the current lack of a workable theory of abiogenesis implies something lacking from the theory of evolution, when the two do not rely on each other for validation. even if (though there is no evidence for this whatsoever) god created the first RNA molecule and there was no naturalistic abiogenesis, this would do nothing to undermine the mountains of evidence that all life on earth is a naturally modified descendant of that first life form. thus evolution does not depend on how the first life form came to be, so arguing that evolution is "faith based" because there is no solid evidence based theory of abiogenesis is a specious argument.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093
i take exception to the constant kicking people give superman 3 - it's a comedy classic i tells ya! and the scene where superman fights himself in the junkyard... iconic moment. obviously superman 3 is not as classy and the first two, but it works in comic-book come to life kind of way.
greatest by what metric?