I might be wrong of course but in my mind FTL doesn't mean time has to go backwards. FTL just means more of space-time is accessible from any other point in spacetime in the forward direction. It still takes positive time to get somewhere FTL it is just when us slower than light guys look at it afterwards and assume it must be slower than light too and back project the cause further back in time than it actually was.
That applies only if you disregard relativity and assume a single global reference frame. There is a good explanatory article with diagrams (somewhat graspable even for non-physicists like me) that explains how FTL signal propagation allows for an actual violation of causality (sending something and receiving a response before you sent it) merely by introducing instantaneous transmission and reference frames moving at high speeds relative to each other.
I never said causality was provable, just that we can't have it and relativity and FTL. In fact, I kind of hope it turns out the universe doesn't obey strict causality. It'd be much more interesting, since it'd leave the possibility of FTL travel and of whizzing about in a police box through a big ball of wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey stuff.
Those who have the ability to pay for the technology will have a majorly unfair advantage against those who don't, creating a dangerously elite group of people.
I agree that women holding leadership positions in open source tech should (and almost certainly will, eventually) be common-place enough to be unremarkable and not newsworthy. In the meantime, it is helpful to point out/celebrate steps on that road. Remarking on Bergeron being the first female project leader does not imply she was picked for that reason, so the misogynists' "affirmative action" claims would simply look silly. We shouldn't avoid drawing attention to the gender issue just because we feel it shouldn't be an issue. It's not going to go away on its own soon.
I supported this originally, but their argument raises a very good point.
Alan Turing was convicted of being homosexual. Who is guilty of something that needs forgiveness; Alan Turing or the ones who convicted him? Is granting a pardon not (1) an implicit assertion that he did something to require a pardon, and (2) white-washing of the past? If the German government signed a law pardoning every concentration camp victim of the crimes they were imprisoned for, this would rightly be considered an insult and in extremely bad taste. (I'm German, so please forgive the seeming non-sequitur.)
I'm reminded of a quote by Thomas Paine: "Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it." It seems presumptuous to grant a pardon to someone convicted of violating an unjust law.
(Addendum: The point is that the realistic scenario India is concerned about is their relationship with America deteriorating to the point where the US will refuse them military technology, not the point where the US is at war with them.)
Unfortunately LibreOffice hasn't yet managed to fix the horrible memory footprint OO.o had, so I've switched to writing all text documents in TeX (using Lyx) and using Gnumeric for spreadsheets. But for opening files others send me, this is easily the best. It'll even make an excellent effort at rendering shitty formats like.doc.
This is not true in mathematics and physics. Lots of things have been proved to be impossible. One can prove, without leaving room for doubt, that the halting problem is undecidable, that no arithmetic theory can be consistent and complete, that the universe cannot allow FTL propagation while obeying both causality and relativity, etc.
Call your health care provider if you have any walking, swallowing, or coordination problems. Kuru is extremely rare. Your doctor will rule out other neurological diseases.
And besides the US, most countries involved in wars are either fighting the US, or supported by the US, or fighting countries supported by the US. That's why remote-controlled drones are now involved in practically every conflict.
Autonomous robots is something else, though. I recall South Korea has some fully automatic machine gun sentries, but other than that most people understandably aren't big on the idea of letting software autonomously decide to kill - not even because of Skynet, but because most software is full of bugs.
It'll have twenty times the gas mileage of any commercial car and be completely impervious to theft, but steerable only via console commands.
user@car$ left 30 user@car$ right 30 user@car$ speed 90 user@car$ braek braek: command not found user@car$ BRAKE BRAKE: command not found user@car$ brake The program 'brake' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install brake
(Unless it's an Ubuntu car, in which case it will have a colorful and animated dashboard that will completely change form twice a year.)
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Also the only taxpayer with a net worth of over a billion. Congratulations, America; enjoy your trickle-down wealth.
I might be wrong of course but in my mind FTL doesn't mean time has to go backwards. FTL just means more of space-time is accessible from any other point in spacetime in the forward direction. It still takes positive time to get somewhere FTL it is just when us slower than light guys look at it afterwards and assume it must be slower than light too and back project the cause further back in time than it actually was.
That applies only if you disregard relativity and assume a single global reference frame. There is a good explanatory article with diagrams (somewhat graspable even for non-physicists like me) that explains how FTL signal propagation allows for an actual violation of causality (sending something and receiving a response before you sent it) merely by introducing instantaneous transmission and reference frames moving at high speeds relative to each other.
I never said causality was provable, just that we can't have it and relativity and FTL. In fact, I kind of hope it turns out the universe doesn't obey strict causality. It'd be much more interesting, since it'd leave the possibility of FTL travel and of whizzing about in a police box through a big ball of wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey stuff.
Unlike now.
I agree that women holding leadership positions in open source tech should (and almost certainly will, eventually) be common-place enough to be unremarkable and not newsworthy. In the meantime, it is helpful to point out/celebrate steps on that road. Remarking on Bergeron being the first female project leader does not imply she was picked for that reason, so the misogynists' "affirmative action" claims would simply look silly.
We shouldn't avoid drawing attention to the gender issue just because we feel it shouldn't be an issue. It's not going to go away on its own soon.
I supported this originally, but their argument raises a very good point.
Alan Turing was convicted of being homosexual. Who is guilty of something that needs forgiveness; Alan Turing or the ones who convicted him? Is granting a pardon not (1) an implicit assertion that he did something to require a pardon, and (2) white-washing of the past?
If the German government signed a law pardoning every concentration camp victim of the crimes they were imprisoned for, this would rightly be considered an insult and in extremely bad taste. (I'm German, so please forgive the seeming non-sequitur.)
I'm reminded of a quote by Thomas Paine: "Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it." It seems presumptuous to grant a pardon to someone convicted of violating an unjust law.
There's no conflict; the lawyer's interests are perfectly consistent.
(Addendum: The point is that the realistic scenario India is concerned about is their relationship with America deteriorating to the point where the US will refuse them military technology, not the point where the US is at war with them.)
There are plenty of countries the United States is neither shooting at nor selling fighter jets to...
Sorry, I overthink these metaphor thingies.
Unfortunately LibreOffice hasn't yet managed to fix the horrible memory footprint OO.o had, so I've switched to writing all text documents in TeX (using Lyx) and using Gnumeric for spreadsheets. But for opening files others send me, this is easily the best. It'll even make an excellent effort at rendering shitty formats like .doc.
This is not true in mathematics and physics. Lots of things have been proved to be impossible. One can prove, without leaving room for doubt, that the halting problem is undecidable, that no arithmetic theory can be consistent and complete, that the universe cannot allow FTL propagation while obeying both causality and relativity, etc.
Doctor: So... eaten anyone's brains lately?
That worked out well for Assange, too.
Or at least it should.
Even without the typo, infrajurisdictional literally means "below the jurisdiction". Servers in the planetary core?
Interjurisdictional?
In particular, sue them $50,000 per view on the infringing music video. =)
It'll be a hundred million dollar application that searches Twitter for the "#bomb" hashtag.
And besides the US, most countries involved in wars are either fighting the US, or supported by the US, or fighting countries supported by the US. That's why remote-controlled drones are now involved in practically every conflict.
Autonomous robots is something else, though. I recall South Korea has some fully automatic machine gun sentries, but other than that most people understandably aren't big on the idea of letting software autonomously decide to kill - not even because of Skynet, but because most software is full of bugs.
They will now publish Elsevere.
(ducks)
Fortunately, for evil to lose not much more is required than for good men to do something.
And yet somehow, bureaucratic oppressive Europe got awesome privacy legislation. What did the democratic land of the free get? SOPA.
Life is good here in the socialist hellhole. ;-)
That lunatics like these make headlines, or that they very possibly have funding.
It'll have twenty times the gas mileage of any commercial car and be completely impervious to theft, but steerable only via console commands.
user@car$ left 30
user@car$ right 30
user@car$ speed 90
user@car$ braek
braek: command not found
user@car$ BRAKE
BRAKE: command not found
user@car$ brake
The program 'brake' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install brake
(Unless it's an Ubuntu car, in which case it will have a colorful and animated dashboard that will completely change form twice a year.)
Cop? More like every guy with a smartphone.