to start discussing within 30 days potential remedies, including different note sizes for different denominations and raised numerals and perforated dots on the bills.
That's a time scale, which is very short for bureaucracy.
I wish I knew where the quote came from, but it reminds me of a caricature of the Vietnam war: the US is a sledgehammer, and the insurgents are pieces of cork floating in a tub of watter. We can keep at it as long as we'd like, but we're not fighting the same kind of war they are.
And like Microsoft, the Catholic church reached massive success by (violently) exploiting a monopoly---that is, until people realized that institutionalized suppression of ideas wasn't all that great of an idea. Then came Linux.
However since she did work with pitchblend [sic] there where possibly trace amounts of plutonium in some of her samples but none that really amounted to anything..
Considering that Plutonium is not a naturally occurring elements (except in freak cases of naturally-occurring fission), pitchblende should not have any plutonium.
Also (but not altogether negatively) consider how much money Google is making by simply shifting through other people's news and presenting it in a 'rehashed'-way.
Has anyone else noticed that this is one of very few articles reporting this story? Almost nothing findable on Google News. It couldn't be that no one else would be interested in this story---I suspect it is inaccurate.
Although Tsipropoulos gave no clues to the identity of the plaintiff, the only satirical blog known to appear in blogme.gr lampooned televangelist and national mysticist Dimosthenis Liakopoulos.
But it couldn't be! Televangelists never go to extremes; when was the last time you heard of a religious evangelical wako with enough influence in governemnt to get people arrested?
But seriously now, maybe Liakopoulos just took the advice of Ted Haggard.
Pickpocketing used to be a skilled profession---requiring years of practice and subtle hands. Where is the 'art' in scanning frequencies while sitting next to someone? I know, I'm old-fashioned: but I miss the good-old-times when you could feel them doing it.
There are two kinds of explosives: high and low. High explosives are like gun powder, TNT, or nitroglycerin: they will 'bang' without being enclosed. Low explosives can be pretty much anything that burns---including black powder, flower, and their rocket fuel: they need to be contained to explode.
But it doesn't really matter that their rocket fuel is a low-explosive: it's a darn-good low-explosive, and could make an enormous bomb if contained.
But hell: low/high explosives don't kill people, people kill people. The government should not be able to prevent people engaging in a productive, fun, and technologically exciting hobby.
Think about the fraction of time during which Earth has had life, compared to the length of time during which that life has had technology capable of 'space science:' it's about 10^(-7) (you can gain a few factors of 10 if you think that our civilization will outlast the next dinosaur-wiping-out-sized mass extinction).
So, crudely, even if there were billions of planets with life on them in our galaxy, only a few tens or hundreds would have 'intellegent ENOUGH' life today.
(All sorts of caveats and assumptions made in the estimate, but it is not a bad back-of-the-envelope number).
The grand prize winner will receive $300,000 (£159,000) to enable the mass production of the system and $400,000 (£212,000) to co-market the design with Intel. The runner-up will receive up to $300,000 to help with manufacturing costs.
Who are they advertising this competition to? They are giving rewards with criteria on how to spend it---and criteria, I may add, that few people could meet. Indeed, the only 'people' that can effeciently use '$300k to enable mass production' are corporations.
And anyway, it doesn't look like there are any direct financial awards to the winners at all---maybe just a job offer from Intel.
Google has done the right thing so far: if a news agency tells Google their stuff is off limits, then Google should comply (without a court order being necessary).
Google argues that they increase traffic to news agency's websites; if this is the case, then a few weeks of blocking Google's access to Belgian news should make them come pleading for forgiveness.
Just think, someday, Google Earth may be comparable to WoW reconstructions. Imagine the possibilities: people could spend countless hours a day bettering their imaginary lives in an imaginary planet called 'earth' instead of interacting with this one. That'll be the day.
This is certainly true these days. There are two plausible explanations why top schools don't like to accept AP:
1. They don't trust the AP-level standards (at least compared to their 'good' education) (joke).
2. They want to force people to pay at least 4 year's worth of tuition to earn their degree.
Considering that top schools don't care that much about teaching people (their world-famous faculty are usually not world-famous lecturers), I'm leaning toward number 2.
p.s. I go to an ivy-league school now for grad school and I finished undergrad in 3 years (math+physics) with AP credits and heavy-course loads---and that included one year 'ill-used' while enrolled in a different programme.
I bet the numbers are right and I'm not at all surprised: I haven't bought a Mac yet (which I have been planning to do for some time) for the simple reason that they are behind in their updates... I mean, the MacBook Pro hasn't had a major update for quite some time.
Frankly, it'd be absurd to ask anyone to censor dynamically changing information such as a Wiki with those kinds of rules.
But this is exactly what search companies like Google must do: Google doesn't censor its own material; it has to dynamically alter what it shows to the user based on dynamically changing information: the entire internet.
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That's a time scale, which is very short for bureaucracy.
What is legal changes from country to country, but morality is a universal constant. (Even if we don't agree on it.)
As I write, the Zune is number 22 on Amazon's top MP3 players. Although it really isn't a fair count: 14 of the top 22 are iPods.
I wish I knew where the quote came from, but it reminds me of a caricature of the Vietnam war: the US is a sledgehammer, and the insurgents are pieces of cork floating in a tub of watter. We can keep at it as long as we'd like, but we're not fighting the same kind of war they are.
Well, you're point is so obvious it hardly deserves consideration at the patent office.
And like Microsoft, the Catholic church reached massive success by (violently) exploiting a monopoly---that is, until people realized that institutionalized suppression of ideas wasn't all that great of an idea. Then came Linux.
I am sure I'm not the first to realize that 6 million Yen is only $52000.
Considering that Plutonium is not a naturally occurring elements (except in freak cases of naturally-occurring fission), pitchblende should not have any plutonium.
Also (but not altogether negatively) consider how much money Google is making by simply shifting through other people's news and presenting it in a 'rehashed'-way.
Has anyone else noticed that this is one of very few articles reporting this story? Almost nothing findable on Google News. It couldn't be that no one else would be interested in this story---I suspect it is inaccurate.
But it couldn't be! Televangelists never go to extremes; when was the last time you heard of a religious evangelical wako with enough influence in governemnt to get people arrested?
But seriously now, maybe Liakopoulos just took the advice of Ted Haggard.
I should just say, that between this and Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor Simonyi has made some excellent uses of his money. Enjoy space!
Pickpocketing used to be a skilled profession---requiring years of practice and subtle hands. Where is the 'art' in scanning frequencies while sitting next to someone? I know, I'm old-fashioned: but I miss the good-old-times when you could feel them doing it.
I can just see the rival spyware companies' lawsuit: "the users were never promted and asked if they wanted our product removed."
But it doesn't really matter that their rocket fuel is a low-explosive: it's a darn-good low-explosive, and could make an enormous bomb if contained.
But hell: low/high explosives don't kill people, people kill people. The government should not be able to prevent people engaging in a productive, fun, and technologically exciting hobby.
So, crudely, even if there were billions of planets with life on them in our galaxy, only a few tens or hundreds would have 'intellegent ENOUGH' life today.
(All sorts of caveats and assumptions made in the estimate, but it is not a bad back-of-the-envelope number).
And anyway, it doesn't look like there are any direct financial awards to the winners at all---maybe just a job offer from Intel.
Wait a minute! Can't any news website simply block Google's crawling via robots.txt?
Google has done the right thing so far: if a news agency tells Google their stuff is off limits, then Google should comply (without a court order being necessary). Google argues that they increase traffic to news agency's websites; if this is the case, then a few weeks of blocking Google's access to Belgian news should make them come pleading for forgiveness.
Just think, someday, Google Earth may be comparable to WoW reconstructions. Imagine the possibilities: people could spend countless hours a day bettering their imaginary lives in an imaginary planet called 'earth' instead of interacting with this one. That'll be the day.
This is certainly true these days. There are two plausible explanations why top schools don't like to accept AP:
1. They don't trust the AP-level standards (at least compared to their 'good' education) (joke).
2. They want to force people to pay at least 4 year's worth of tuition to earn their degree.
Considering that top schools don't care that much about teaching people (their world-famous faculty are usually not world-famous lecturers), I'm leaning toward number 2.
p.s. I go to an ivy-league school now for grad school and I finished undergrad in 3 years (math+physics) with AP credits and heavy-course loads---and that included one year 'ill-used' while enrolled in a different programme.
I bet the numbers are right and I'm not at all surprised: I haven't bought a Mac yet (which I have been planning to do for some time) for the simple reason that they are behind in their updates... I mean, the MacBook Pro hasn't had a major update for quite some time.
So MS is making money from the spammers and the spammed, fantastic!
Oh my god. Am I the only one who thinks that this taxonomy of planets is a terribly uninteresting waste of time and certainly not science?