What I don't understand is why people think we have any resources here that they couldn't get much easier closer to home. If they have technology advanced enough to get here, they can already make anything the Earth can supply.
Unless different teams consist of different individuals with different preferences, in which case an arrangement that can make one group very productive can make others miserable...
> GDP isn't a measure of wealth, it's a measure of productivity.
Yeah, right. My country's (Norway) GDP PP is extremely high because we have oil, not because the 50% of the population that's not on welfare is so extremely productive.
Let's do the math. 200+ million firearms in the hands of the civilian populace.
But then there would probably be lots of them on either side, all of them shooting at each other.
2.5 million American soldiers, many of whom would be reluctant to drive tanks over protestors.
If the protesters were shooting at them I doubt they would be very reluctant to use any means to stop them. It's just 40 years since they shot at unarmed peacefull protesters.
"Gold can't provide less than $80/ounce of value in its capacity as a conductor, or nobody would pay $900/ounce to use it as a conductor."
Because the price is so high, very few who need gold to use it need it enough to buy at the current prices, but of course some do. The real use value is the price it would have if everybody bought it to use it. If there were no competition from all those who buy it just because everybody else seems to want it, the price would be much lower.
The following comment might be potentially stupid, but why not just move the computer clock forward to April 1st, and see what Conficker does.
In that sense we already know what will happen. Computers infected with Conficker will get a new update. The problem is, it uses a routine which generates 50 000 different host names, many of which are legitimate, and tries to download updates from each of them. The Conficker owner will have updates ready on some of those servers, so what we don't know is what that update contains. We can probably be sure it will contain a fix for the part that makes it detectable remotely, though.
Better analogy: if I keep on ringing on someone's doorbell, and it drives them mad and they shoot themselves, it's their fault for not removing their doorbell, or installing a fingerprint-recogniser that doesn't ring the bell for my prints, or some other option.
Except that for the analogy to be analogous, there would have to be 10 000 people lined up in front of all the entrances to your house. It doesn't matter what kind of filter you have at the door, because most of the visitors you actually do want will never get there.
> But posting pictures of yourself breastfeeding just seems like being deliberately provocative.
I consider your comment very provocative. As I'm sure you don't want to be deliberately provocative, I appreciate that you will never say something like this again.
> Violent criminals don't generally buy their guns at hunting stores, they buy them from illegal gun dealers.
Who bought it from someone who stole it from someone who bought it legally. If you have much stricter rules on who can buy weapons, and how and where they have to be kept, a lot fewer illegal weapons will be available.
We are solid proof that intelligent life forms can exist. There is no evidence that any deity exists, other than some peoples very strong feelings, which they seem to almost always blame on the religion that is popular in the area they were born. Whether or not either exists I don't know, but given the evidence the first seems a lot more likely than the other.
Parent is the proper answer to this question. Checking C1/C2 is the best way to ensure you use good media and that it's not degrading. The other tricks I use to secure high quality are: - only use DVDs, as the data there are stored in the midle of the disc instead of just below the surface. A scratch on the top of a CD will completely erase the data in that area. - not putting anything important on the last few 200 - 300 MB of a DVD. - Fill the last part with PAR2 recovery files. I put the index PAR2 file in the beginning of the disc, though. - Burn using 8x instead of 16x. Even though the discs are perfectly readable either way, this gives significantly fewer low level errors with my Pioneer. - Buy a high quality burner and media that suits it. CD Freaks does extremely thorough tests in this area.
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The "testing" part means trying to prove that it's wrong. If there's a single article on Wikipedia everybody should read, it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
> How much data constitutes "massive"?
From the way he asks and what he will be using it for I would guess 10-20TB.
What I don't understand is why people think we have any resources here that they couldn't get much easier closer to home. If they have technology advanced enough to get here, they can already make anything the Earth can supply.
Unless different teams consist of different individuals with different preferences, in which case an arrangement that can make one group very productive can make others miserable...
> or you get 0% from radio..... I wonder why the didn't ban radio?
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties7.htm
> GDP isn't a measure of wealth, it's a measure of productivity.
Yeah, right. My country's (Norway) GDP PP is extremely high because we have oil, not because the 50% of the population that's not on welfare is so extremely productive.
Will it just float around until another (innocent) boat gets entangled in it?
Just fine everybody who gives any Chinese citizen information the Chinese government don't want them to have.
The cost is also a little misleading. Additional units cost ~$130M each [...]
Then why did they need 4 billion to build 20 more?
Let's do the math. 200+ million firearms in the hands of the civilian populace.
But then there would probably be lots of them on either side, all of them shooting at each other.
2.5 million American soldiers, many of whom would be reluctant to drive tanks over protestors.
If the protesters were shooting at them I doubt they would be very reluctant to use any means to stop them. It's just 40 years since they shot at unarmed peacefull protesters.
he's patented how you make people help the competition? Seems like a pretty ironic patent.
"Gold can't provide less than $80/ounce of value in its capacity as a conductor, or nobody would pay $900/ounce to use it as a conductor."
Because the price is so high, very few who need gold to use it need it enough to buy at the current prices, but of course some do. The real use value is the price it would have if everybody bought it to use it. If there were no competition from all those who buy it just because everybody else seems to want it, the price would be much lower.
Is available at http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
There isn't much, but a little bit in the install notes.
The following comment might be potentially stupid, but why not just move the computer clock forward to April 1st, and see what Conficker does.
In that sense we already know what will happen. Computers infected with Conficker will get a new update. The problem is, it uses a routine which generates 50 000 different host names, many of which are legitimate, and tries to download updates from each of them. The Conficker owner will have updates ready on some of those servers, so what we don't know is what that update contains. We can probably be sure it will contain a fix for the part that makes it detectable remotely, though.
I bet nobody with a clue who's name is Elizabeth will work for them now. The nick name she'll get is just too obvious.
Then protest by not using their services.
Unfortunately, this is pretty much impossible in practice. Way too many sites are using Google Adsense.
Better analogy: if I keep on ringing on someone's doorbell, and it drives them mad and they shoot themselves, it's their fault for not removing their doorbell, or installing a fingerprint-recogniser that doesn't ring the bell for my prints, or some other option.
Except that for the analogy to be analogous, there would have to be 10 000 people lined up in front of all the entrances to your house. It doesn't matter what kind of filter you have at the door, because most of the visitors you actually do want will never get there.
Now my gold will be much more valuable in the future.
> The mind has a significant effect on the body.
That's not an explanation. What does the mind do that affects the body, and what makes it do it?
They do. Some sites suggest IE7, Firefox or Opera, and some also mention Chrome and Safari.
> But posting pictures of yourself breastfeeding just seems like being deliberately provocative.
I consider your comment very provocative. As I'm sure you don't want to be deliberately provocative, I appreciate that you will never say something like this again.
> Violent criminals don't generally buy their guns at hunting stores, they buy them from illegal gun dealers.
Who bought it from someone who stole it from someone who bought it legally. If you have much stricter rules on who can buy weapons, and how and where they have to be kept, a lot fewer illegal weapons will be available.
We are solid proof that intelligent life forms can exist. There is no evidence that any deity exists, other than some peoples very strong feelings, which they seem to almost always blame on the religion that is popular in the area they were born. Whether or not either exists I don't know, but given the evidence the first seems a lot more likely than the other.
Parent is the proper answer to this question. Checking C1/C2 is the best way to ensure you use good media and that it's not degrading. The other tricks I use to secure high quality are:
- only use DVDs, as the data there are stored in the midle of the disc instead of just below the surface. A scratch on the top of a CD will completely erase the data in that area.
- not putting anything important on the last few 200 - 300 MB of a DVD.
- Fill the last part with PAR2 recovery files. I put the index PAR2 file in the beginning of the disc, though.
- Burn using 8x instead of 16x. Even though the discs are perfectly readable either way, this gives significantly fewer low level errors with my Pioneer.
- Buy a high quality burner and media that suits it. CD Freaks does extremely thorough tests in this area.
It is ultimately our guns that secures our voice.
Would you dare to go to the most gun loving parts of the US with a sign that says "There is no evidence that god exists"?