2. Oh, there's no need to bring race into it at all. It's economic - US citizens *can't* compete with "poor" countries, because their cost of living is so low. They can work for rates we can't even survive on - I don't mean living in luxury here, I mean *survive*, as in being able to feed, clothe, and shelter oneself and one's dependents (spouse, children). We can remove race from it entirely - if you're insinuating that all Americans are white - by looking at Canada, because US workers have trouble competing with Canadians; they aren't poor at all, but if push comes to shove they can underbid us every time.
I'm not agreeing with starting a trade war, just disagreeing with the myth that this is more of a race/nationality thing than a survival thing.
"So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
Oh, because those are all leftovers of the advanced space programs of the Third Reich, finally falling out of orbit now. We just got tired of using the proper 30-syllable term, so now we use the euphemism "Volkswagon".
"I can change, I can chaaangee...I can learn to keep my promises I swear it! I'll open up my heart and I will share it any minute now I will be born again!
Yes I can change I can change, I know I've been a dirty little bastard... I like to killIliketomainyesi'minsane but it's ok 'cause I can change!"
etc, etc =)
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"We are arrogant and feel the rules dont apply to us"
True of a huge number of UN members. Nations frequently go against the will of the UN when it benefits them to do so. Conversely, the UN frequently blocks neccessary progress when it serves them to do so (Afghanistan part 1? Kosovo?). It's a flawed system, but it's better than anything else yet designed, and it's survived worse than this.
Thankfully, we ARE!
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Our disarmament continues to this day. US biological programs were halted in, I believe, the early 70s, and all materials destroyed. Chemicals we don't have, as per the various laws of war banning them.
Nuclear stockpiles continue to be reduced. The Treaty of Moscow, signed by Bush and Putin last summer and ratified by Congress this month, promises that another 2/3 of each nuclear stockpile be dismantled - the logical conclusion of decades of nuclear cuts.
As long as hostile nations continue to possess (or seek) nuclear arms, the rest will have several hundred as a deterrant... but we've all come a LONG way. NATO, Russia, China... none are inclined to ever use a nuke ever again. I expect to live to see the day it's down to 200 warheads or less, here...maybe I'll be very very old, but I expect it in my lifetime.
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"Poor Iraquies had to suffer Saddam Hussein's dictatorship"
Yes. So let's leave him there to keep butchering them, until he dies, and his crazy son spends another lifetime doing the same, and perhaps *his* son after that! Let's also ignore the Kuwaitis he beat and robbed, and the Iranians and Kurds he burned the lungs and eyes out of with chemicals! Let's let it go on forever, and let him do it to more people! Let's let him do it to our allies, too! Let's let him do it to us! In the name of not repeating mistakes of the past, let's let worse new mistakes happen by letting the madman run free!
The longer term view you take, and the more moral factors you examine, the stronger moral obligation there is to remove Saddam.
If you "feel like vomiting" because we're about to end this farce, consider if we had decided to do nothing, and _then_ vomit all you want.
In a bank vault breakin, they take inventory afterwards and only charge you with stealing what you stole. In a computer breakin, they automatically charge you with stealing everything.
The schedule is something like a 2 hour block of anime per day for four days...and they're showing 4 series. So yes, they'll just show a few "safe" episodes of Eva as a teaser. I get the feel that this is Cartoon Network feeling out the audience to see how it reacts to the genre...
What's being suggested is only that the transfer is wrapped in encryption, yes. But it's a lot harder to catch people by having to make your own custom client, join the trading network, and monitor it. You can't tell what actual transfers are going on, either, only that some people are offering certain things. You can't sue someone as easily with this lesser evidence, and you can't easily collect it in the first place.
Do it without losing quality at all...store a high quality.ogg of the song. You can strip bits from oggs without losing extra quality, so you're potentially able to quickly generate dozens of unique-looking copies of the same song.
Clock rate != frequency, not in the way you think. It's the timer signal that tells the CPU to calculate the next step in its instructions. If you have two CPUs of the same style, the higher clocked one really IS faster.
I was confused by the phrase "Liquid Petrolium Gas"...since it's made up of the same words we already use to describe "normal" gas. So I looked it up...
"LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) is a mixture of Propane and Butane derived from crude oil distillation"
I'd never heard of it before. Seems to be higher octane, less polluting, and easier on the engine. It also gets slightly worse mileage. It's also a lot cheaper in the UK than "normal" gas, because it isn't so heavily taxed. I have no idea what it would cost in the USA compared to normal USA gas.
Part of the reason it's such a large creditor is that Japanese banks have made a lot of bad loans, which is part of why they've been in a recession for so long.
So now you're saying cable contract violation is worse than robberies and theft? And that stealing the violator's hardware is in any way related to the stolen bandwidth? Glad YOU aren't running the country.
For me it's mainly inertia. Also the fact that I windows for $5 (college rates), and the few lingering programs that I can't run in linux yet without hassle - though arguably that's gotten a lot better. But still, it's mostly inertia. I play around with linux on server stuff, but I haven't switched to it full time on my main everyday slashdot-reading game-playing anime-watching cd-burning box. I take it as absolute truth that I'll eventually be 100% linux, I just haven't done it yet..
Million(10^6) billion(10^9) trillion(10^12) quadrillion(10^15) and so on. They're named in order, every time you add another comma in the number the name goes up. Make sense now?
What do the british call the stuff in between 10^6 and 10^12?
It can be practical if the tank is using it against aircraft and missles, since right now the only thing with a good chance of taking out a US tank (besides another US tank) is a big bomb dropped on it from a plane.
If the tank-mounted laser is good enough to take out bombs/missles launched from the air, then tanks can be used without air superiority...something which hasn't been workable since WW2. And when defending, you could put a bunch of tanks around something to shoot down incoming missles.
But the more elegant human algorithm still demands more computational power than we can put together in a computer, so the advancement of the computer is still important. When we have the powerful enough computer, maybe then we'll be able to figure out the more elegant algorithm and implement it. Maybe we'll need ten or a hundred times that power, even...after all, the human chess skills are also partly the sum of knowledge passed down from hundreds of years of earlier chess players.
I'm sorry, I was calculating based on life+70 years, but I've seen some other posts assuming life+90. In that case, not only will most citizens never see the freedom of works made before their birth, most citizen's CHILDREN will never see those works either.
Can you imagine walking into a store in your 60s and paying $18 (2002 equivalent, scale for inflation) for some music that was copyrighted before your parents were born? Does that fit your definition of "limited copyright"?
The copyright length has exceeded the human definition of limited - that is, lifespan. Assuming I live my full expected lifespan, and author X dies decades too young, it is not only possible but extremely likely that works created even ten years before my birth will not enter public domain before I die. (Author's birth at 0, work created at 20, I'm born at 30, author dies at 45, i die at 110, work enters public domain at 115 ASSUMING no greater extensions).
Because of the extension is retroactive, any US citizen age 35 or younger is going to have the same problem...they'll be dead before copyrights granted before their birth finally expire.
Sure there'll be drives that small around. Because the drives will be _physically_ small, to make the appliance smaller. Basically picture something like the IBM microdrive, but the platter in that gets the same data density as the normal-sized 2TB drives. It's pretty tiny 40 gig drives will exist anyway, for portable devices, so there's no reason appliances won't use them too.
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I don't see any states merging any time soon...that would both weaken each area's votes AND concentrate senatorial power into fewer individuals. So both from a state perspective and a national perspective, it's a bad idea.
The opposite of your proposal would make a little more sense...follow a cellular model, when a state gets really big, split it into equal halves by population. Preserve local democracy and keep the power decentralized - it's the way the system is designed to work, it's what keeps things so stable (relatively speaking).
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2. Oh, there's no need to bring race into it at all. It's economic - US citizens *can't* compete with "poor" countries, because their cost of living is so low. They can work for rates we can't even survive on - I don't mean living in luxury here, I mean *survive*, as in being able to feed, clothe, and shelter oneself and one's dependents (spouse, children). We can remove race from it entirely - if you're insinuating that all Americans are white - by looking at Canada, because US workers have trouble competing with Canadians; they aren't poor at all, but if push comes to shove they can underbid us every time.
I'm not agreeing with starting a trade war, just disagreeing with the myth that this is more of a race/nationality thing than a survival thing.
"So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
Oh, because those are all leftovers of the advanced space programs of the Third Reich, finally falling out of orbit now. We just got tired of using the proper 30-syllable term, so now we use the euphemism "Volkswagon".
from the South Park movie a few years ago...
"I can change, I can chaaangee...I can learn to keep my promises I swear it! I'll open up my heart and I will share it any minute now I will be born again!
Yes I can change I can change, I know I've been a dirty little bastard... I like to killIliketomainyesi'minsane but it's ok 'cause I can change!"
etc, etc =)
"We are arrogant and feel the rules dont apply to us"
True of a huge number of UN members. Nations frequently go against the will of the UN when it benefits them to do so. Conversely, the UN frequently blocks neccessary progress when it serves them to do so (Afghanistan part 1? Kosovo?). It's a flawed system, but it's better than anything else yet designed, and it's survived worse than this.
Our disarmament continues to this day. US biological programs were halted in, I believe, the early 70s, and all materials destroyed. Chemicals we don't have, as per the various laws of war banning them.
Nuclear stockpiles continue to be reduced. The Treaty of Moscow, signed by Bush and Putin last summer and ratified by Congress this month, promises that another 2/3 of each nuclear stockpile be dismantled - the logical conclusion of decades of nuclear cuts.
As long as hostile nations continue to possess (or seek) nuclear arms, the rest will have several hundred as a deterrant... but we've all come a LONG way. NATO, Russia, China... none are inclined to ever use a nuke ever again. I expect to live to see the day it's down to 200 warheads or less, here...maybe I'll be very very old, but I expect it in my lifetime.
"Poor Iraquies had to suffer Saddam Hussein's dictatorship"
Yes. So let's leave him there to keep butchering them, until he dies, and his crazy son spends another lifetime doing the same, and perhaps *his* son after that! Let's also ignore the Kuwaitis he beat and robbed, and the Iranians and Kurds he burned the lungs and eyes out of with chemicals! Let's let it go on forever, and let him do it to more people! Let's let him do it to our allies, too! Let's let him do it to us! In the name of not repeating mistakes of the past, let's let worse new mistakes happen by letting the madman run free!
The longer term view you take, and the more moral factors you examine, the stronger moral obligation there is to remove Saddam.
If you "feel like vomiting" because we're about to end this farce, consider if we had decided to do nothing, and _then_ vomit all you want.
Five people modded this up without checking the math first...
3gbps = 3000mbps.
3000mbps / 8 = 375MB/s. There are 8 bits in a byte, not ten!
375MB/s (serial SCSI) is more than 320MB/s!
In a bank vault breakin, they take inventory afterwards and only charge you with stealing what you stole. In a computer breakin, they automatically charge you with stealing everything.
The schedule is something like a 2 hour block of anime per day for four days...and they're showing 4 series. So yes, they'll just show a few "safe" episodes of Eva as a teaser. I get the feel that this is Cartoon Network feeling out the audience to see how it reacts to the genre...
In the USA we mostly have to BUY our anime. In Japan, it's on TV! All the time! On multiple stations!
What's being suggested is only that the transfer is wrapped in encryption, yes. But it's a lot harder to catch people by having to make your own custom client, join the trading network, and monitor it. You can't tell what actual transfers are going on, either, only that some people are offering certain things. You can't sue someone as easily with this lesser evidence, and you can't easily collect it in the first place.
Do it without losing quality at all...store a high quality .ogg of the song. You can strip bits from oggs without losing extra quality, so you're potentially able to quickly generate dozens of unique-looking copies of the same song.
Clock rate != frequency, not in the way you think. It's the timer signal that tells the CPU to calculate the next step in its instructions. If you have two CPUs of the same style, the higher clocked one really IS faster.
I was confused by the phrase "Liquid Petrolium Gas"...since it's made up of the same words we already use to describe "normal" gas. So I looked it up...
"LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) is a mixture of Propane and Butane derived from crude oil distillation"
I'd never heard of it before. Seems to be higher octane, less polluting, and easier on the engine. It also gets slightly worse mileage. It's also a lot cheaper in the UK than "normal" gas, because it isn't so heavily taxed. I have no idea what it would cost in the USA compared to normal USA gas.
bring on the californian inquisition!
nooooo-one expects the californian inquisition!
Part of the reason it's such a large creditor is that Japanese banks have made a lot of bad loans, which is part of why they've been in a recession for so long.
So now you're saying cable contract violation is worse than robberies and theft? And that stealing the violator's hardware is in any way related to the stolen bandwidth? Glad YOU aren't running the country.
For me it's mainly inertia. Also the fact that I windows for $5 (college rates), and the few lingering programs that I can't run in linux yet without hassle - though arguably that's gotten a lot better. But still, it's mostly inertia. I play around with linux on server stuff, but I haven't switched to it full time on my main everyday slashdot-reading game-playing anime-watching cd-burning box. I take it as absolute truth that I'll eventually be 100% linux, I just haven't done it yet..
Million(10^6) billion(10^9) trillion(10^12) quadrillion(10^15) and so on. They're named in order, every time you add another comma in the number the name goes up. Make sense now?
What do the british call the stuff in between 10^6 and 10^12?
It can be practical if the tank is using it against aircraft and missles, since right now the only thing with a good chance of taking out a US tank (besides another US tank) is a big bomb dropped on it from a plane.
If the tank-mounted laser is good enough to take out bombs/missles launched from the air, then tanks can be used without air superiority...something which hasn't been workable since WW2. And when defending, you could put a bunch of tanks around something to shoot down incoming missles.
True, all true.
But the more elegant human algorithm still demands more computational power than we can put together in a computer, so the advancement of the computer is still important. When we have the powerful enough computer, maybe then we'll be able to figure out the more elegant algorithm and implement it. Maybe we'll need ten or a hundred times that power, even...after all, the human chess skills are also partly the sum of knowledge passed down from hundreds of years of earlier chess players.
I'm sorry, I was calculating based on life+70 years, but I've seen some other posts assuming life+90. In that case, not only will most citizens never see the freedom of works made before their birth, most citizen's CHILDREN will never see those works either.
Can you imagine walking into a store in your 60s and paying $18 (2002 equivalent, scale for inflation) for some music that was copyrighted before your parents were born? Does that fit your definition of "limited copyright"?
Again, sorry for replying to myself.
The copyright length has exceeded the human definition of limited - that is, lifespan. Assuming I live my full expected lifespan, and author X dies decades too young, it is not only possible but extremely likely that works created even ten years before my birth will not enter public domain before I die. (Author's birth at 0, work created at 20, I'm born at 30, author dies at 45, i die at 110, work enters public domain at 115 ASSUMING no greater extensions).
Because of the extension is retroactive, any US citizen age 35 or younger is going to have the same problem...they'll be dead before copyrights granted before their birth finally expire.
To us, there are NO limits on copyright.
Sure there'll be drives that small around. Because the drives will be _physically_ small, to make the appliance smaller. Basically picture something like the IBM microdrive, but the platter in that gets the same data density as the normal-sized 2TB drives. It's pretty tiny 40 gig drives will exist anyway, for portable devices, so there's no reason appliances won't use them too.
I don't see any states merging any time soon...that would both weaken each area's votes AND concentrate senatorial power into fewer individuals. So both from a state perspective and a national perspective, it's a bad idea.
The opposite of your proposal would make a little more sense...follow a cellular model, when a state gets really big, split it into equal halves by population. Preserve local democracy and keep the power decentralized - it's the way the system is designed to work, it's what keeps things so stable (relatively speaking).