I'm assuming you were joking, but I'll respond just for the hell of it because I have free time. yay.
Maybe the package numbers go up quick because you don't have to have an upgrade to all the package components to get a package upgrade. If 1/3 of the packages components were upgraded you would very easily get a version number upgrade.
There are also set ways to write a novel. This is fine if you want a formulaic novel.
There are set ways to doing matematics... but that dosen't mean that creativity is never involved in mathematics when developing a new solution or heuristic and creativity is not nessicarily reliable.
The CIA sold cocaine to fund operations during Iran-Contra. I'm not sure which sources you'd find 'reputable' since people have different ideas of what's reputable but do a search on google on 'Iran, Contra, Cocaine' and you'll see what i'm talking about. The Iran-Contra affair isn't just some hallucination of conspiracy theorists.
First of all- do you know that the individuals who say 'information should be free' on slashdot are the same ones who want to protect their own information?
Second- there's a difference between putting information into the public domain and being forced to put it in to the public domain. It's the same difference between GPLing software and having the justice department force microsoft to open source its products.
Third- There is a legal precident for some privacy. Take anti-stalking laws. Take the fact that you own your home and can let people in, but aren't required to let anyone in who knocks. People can trade my e-mail all they want till they're blue in the face. I just want laws about who can use it, the same way there are laws about who I let into my house. If it's illegal to knock down a server with a DoS attack, there can be spam laws. Likewise, the supreme court recognized ( was it in Roe v. Wade? I don't remember) that a right to privacy was implied in the constitution because privacy was nessecary in order for the other components to be upheld.
If a person's personal information is used to harrass them with things like spam, then that should be illegal in the same way that I can't choose to harrass someone I don't like by calling them repeatedly.
>What next, find a crack dealer to handle >international trade?
No, they just run the CIA. Seriously, the CIA has sold cocaine to American citizens to fund its operations
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Our whole ecosystem is not based off of light. There are plenty of organisms that live near sulfur vents and metabolize the chemicals from that.
What I'd like to know is whether you can get an organism to utelize x-rays or some other shortwave light source that would be more prevalent on atmosphere-less worlds. The creature would live underground, the ground would be it's 'ozone layer' and it would be safe and snug
What skills are useful? Any good books? Do you just download an SDK or what?
hmm. not sure about this...
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>If a planet orbits its sun too closely or too >far away, liquid water would not exist. There >isn't much margin for error here: a change of 5 >to 15 percent in Earth's distance from the Sun >would lead to the freezing, or boiling, of all >water on Earth.
What about subterranian water? The ground is constant at about 60 degrees, summer or winter. On a planet with thinner atmosphere, that water might be liquid even when surface water boiled
As far as fuel sources go, nuclear waste produces lots of H2 (He also). That seems like a cheaper way to get the stuff as it wouldn't have to be mined, and would have to be released normally.
Hydrogen is too light to be held in the earth's atmosphere by gravity.
Water vapor splits into ions at high altitude.
Hydrogen could drift off into space.
I've always wondered if this process serves to regulate the 02 content in the air (i.e. if there's lots of O2 in the atmosphere, ionized hydrogen will reform into a molecule and less will escape into space)
Re:Military threats promote innovation
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>It 'takes' away either one's self or one's enemy. Yes, resources, money, destruction of capital and destruction of human life....
So if a war costs 100 million in taxes total to both sides, does 250 million in property damage, kills 200 people on your side and 10,000 people on the other side and produces some cool night vision apparatus for one side...
Did it spur technological innovation or not? Would the money have produced more innovation in peacetime?
Well, personally I was looking at how the government reacted to Celera's attempt to sequence the genome, and how state funded universities employeed poorer technology that made sequencing less efficient. The public sector won the race by throwing money at the problem (which I'm glad of, but I wish they could have been more streamlined about it). Of course, it may be bad to generalize here. But with the bay (sp) dole acts and technology transfer acts forcing public research to become more privatized and secretive the point starts to become moot.
An argument for or against natural selection? You mean should it happen or does it?
Keep in mind, if he dosen't have any kids if he has relatives and passes a few million dollars ( or fame or whatever) on to them then they can be more reproductivly successful. Of course, on average, more intelligent people (or at least those with advanced degrees anyways) have fewer kids. Intelligence is not evolutionarily evolutionarily beneficial in modern society, it seems.
It's not really that odd. The dems take a lot of money from the entertainment industry. Playboy, Disney, etc.
I thought it was odd at first when I heard republicans speaking up for Napster. Later I figured that they though they had a way to make the democrats unpopular for their link to the entertainment industry.
What would the US do if Canada just ignored them? What does Canada get out of the deal?
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The problem is that this dosen't measure what is lost. A cold war might spur innovation, but a government is neither the most efficient innovator, nor is it the most likely to freely distribute its innovations. You can measure what war 'gives' in terms of technology, but it's difficult to measure what it 'takes' away.
Would lower taxes result in more innovation, or not? Our economy is based on the idea of constant expansion. Research (in war or peace) is one way to do it.
Slashdot Mirror
Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a music exec of some sway...
I own a lot of congressmen who support the DMCA.
pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name.
But what's puzzling you, is it's a liscense that I claim.
I'm the one you can thank
for the hip hop and swank.
I'm a corporate pimp
leaching off some young skank.
pleased to meet you
won't you guess my name.
But what's puzzling you, is it's a liscense that I claim.
I'm assuming you were joking, but I'll respond just for the hell of it because I have free time. yay.
Maybe the package numbers go up quick because you don't have to have an upgrade to all the package components to get a package upgrade. If 1/3 of the packages components were upgraded you would very easily get a version number upgrade.
There are also set ways to write a novel.
This is fine if you want a formulaic novel.
There are set ways to doing matematics...
but that dosen't mean that creativity is never involved in mathematics when developing a new solution or heuristic and creativity is not nessicarily reliable.
...or if they learned to 'first post'.
The CIA sold cocaine to fund operations during Iran-Contra. I'm not sure which sources you'd find 'reputable' since people have different ideas of what's reputable but do a search on google on 'Iran, Contra, Cocaine' and you'll see what i'm talking about. The Iran-Contra affair isn't just some hallucination of conspiracy theorists.
First of all- do you know that the individuals who say 'information should be free' on slashdot are the same ones who want to protect their own information?
Second- there's a difference between putting information into the public domain and being forced to put it in to the public domain. It's the same difference between GPLing software and having the justice department force microsoft to open source its products.
Third- There is a legal precident for some privacy. Take anti-stalking laws. Take the fact that you own your home and can let people in, but aren't required to let anyone in who knocks. People can trade my e-mail all they want till they're blue in the face. I just want laws about who can use it, the same way there are laws about who I let into my house. If it's illegal to knock down a server with a DoS attack, there can be spam laws. Likewise, the supreme court recognized ( was it in Roe v. Wade? I don't remember) that a right to privacy was implied in the constitution because privacy was nessecary in order for the other components to be upheld.
If a person's personal information is used to harrass them with things like spam, then that should be illegal in the same way that I can't choose to harrass someone I don't like by calling them repeatedly.
>What next, find a crack dealer to handle >international trade?
No, they just run the CIA.
Seriously, the CIA has sold cocaine to American citizens to fund its operations
Our whole ecosystem is not based off of light. There are plenty of organisms that live near sulfur vents and metabolize the chemicals from that.
What I'd like to know is whether you can get an organism to utelize x-rays or some other shortwave light source that would be more prevalent on atmosphere-less worlds. The creature would live underground, the ground would be it's 'ozone layer' and it would be safe and snug
What skills are useful? Any good books?
Do you just download an SDK or what?
>If a planet orbits its sun too closely or too >far away, liquid water would not exist. There >isn't much margin for error here: a change of 5 >to 15 percent in Earth's distance from the Sun >would lead to the freezing, or boiling, of all >water on Earth.
What about subterranian water?
The ground is constant at about 60 degrees, summer or winter. On a planet with thinner atmosphere, that water might be liquid even when surface water boiled
once guys get mature they start searching the web for _immature_ chicks.
Try searching on hentai instead.
:)
As far as fuel sources go, nuclear waste produces lots of H2 (He also). That seems like a cheaper way to get the stuff as it wouldn't have to be mined, and would have to be released normally.
Hydrogen is too light to be held in the earth's atmosphere by gravity.
Water vapor splits into ions at high altitude.
Hydrogen could drift off into space.
I've always wondered if this process serves to regulate the 02 content in the air (i.e. if there's lots of O2 in the atmosphere, ionized hydrogen will reform into a molecule and less will escape into space)
...civilization on the other hand...
>It 'takes' away either one's self or one's enemy.
Yes, resources, money, destruction of capital and destruction of human life....
So if a war costs 100 million in taxes total to both sides, does 250 million in property damage, kills 200 people on your side and 10,000 people on the other side and produces some cool night vision apparatus for one side...
Did it spur technological innovation or not?
Would the money have produced more innovation in peacetime?
Well, personally I was looking at how the government reacted to Celera's attempt to sequence the genome, and how state funded universities employeed poorer technology that made sequencing less efficient. The public sector won the race by throwing money at the problem (which I'm glad of, but I wish they could have been more streamlined about it). Of course, it may be bad to generalize here. But with the bay (sp) dole acts and technology transfer acts forcing public research to become more privatized and secretive the point starts to become moot.
An argument for or against natural selection?
You mean should it happen or does it?
Keep in mind, if he dosen't have any kids if he has relatives and passes a few million dollars ( or fame or whatever) on to them then they can be more reproductivly successful. Of course, on average, more intelligent people (or at least those with advanced degrees anyways) have fewer kids. Intelligence is not evolutionarily evolutionarily beneficial in modern society, it seems.
It's not really that odd. The dems take a lot of money from the entertainment industry. Playboy, Disney, etc.
I thought it was odd at first when I heard republicans speaking up for Napster. Later I figured that they though they had a way to make the democrats unpopular for their link to the entertainment industry.
What would the US do if Canada just ignored them?
What does Canada get out of the deal?
The problem is that this dosen't measure what is lost. A cold war might spur innovation, but a government is neither the most efficient innovator, nor is it the most likely to freely distribute its innovations. You can measure what war 'gives' in terms of technology, but it's difficult to measure what it 'takes' away.
Would lower taxes result in more innovation, or not? Our economy is based on the idea of constant expansion. Research (in war or peace) is one way to do it.
you can say that again.
But how hard would it be to block all offshore mailings?
Considering how much lawyers charge, they could probably claim that $50 of their time was wasted just reading the title.
... by suing spammers.
They could be used to commit crimes.
If you're not against the airlines, you're with the terrorists.