Why pay? just get the hardware yourself and then you can take care of the encryption yourself. Personally, I am waiting for this technology to pass over into the harddrive arena. If they can make it read-write, it would be great. If not, we still have holographic storage.
Please, differentiate between Natural Selection and Evolution. Natural Selection is the intuitively appealing and frankly obvious idea that if in a meaningful and important comparison of ability, something scores higher then something else, that something else is going to die off (cludgy and inaccurate definition, sorry). This is easy to prove and potentially dis-prove. Easy to dis-prove because you can just pull up 2 species, or 2 companies, or 2 countries, or 2 anything for that matter, compare them on one of the meaningful parameters (species: reproductive ablity, companies: productivity + net revenue/profits/valuation cang over time etc. for countries... something else entirely) and see if the better one really is becoming more influential and spreading (yes it is.)
Evolution is the non-intuitive and non-disprovableidea that everything in current life started from the elementry chemicals and worked its way up through natural selection.
Oh really... Then in that case, lets jump to Newtonian mechanics. People believed that it applied for all situations. They had ~100 years of evidence as well. Until Einstein came along that is. Before Einstein, they tried all sorts of things to make the theory fit the data like the Aether, etc. So... at that point would you have supported Newtonian mechanics in favor of Relativity. Relativity was barely understandable even after it got some evidence on its side. Would you have gone in and said the Newtonian Mechanics has a few hundred years of data behind it?
I should point out that this is directly applicable only to your point of picking Evolution because of the large amount of data behind it. It is not applicable to the debate on general because both sides are trying to push trash. The ID people largely admit their religious bias, make god the creator and thus wipe out any possible method of falsifying their claim. The Evolution people go through a few more contortions, collect up mounds of data and then conveniently forget that mounds of data does NOT equal a proof. Relativity will probably be replaced eventually by something else which can do a better job of explaining natural phenomena that it cannot explain well (maybe something to replace dark matter and dark energy) and then not even 5 millennia worth of data can help it out. Ultimately, neither side presents a theory that is falsifiable and therefore, none of the theories are provable. In effect, booth sides have presented a religious argument.
Fine. Prove evolution or falsify it... absolutely. The kind of absolutely that can be shown for Relativity, QM, and measured by some (probably very expensive but precise and accurate) ruler.
Fine. Prove relativity... absolutely. The kind of absolutely that can be shown for Relativity, QM, and measured by some (probably very expensive but precise and accurate) ruler.
not quite government funded (thankfully) and definitely not government managed (really thankfully but government subsidized (not good but not as bad as the previous two).
efficient, buried power line I am not so sure about the efficiency part. The lines are made of ceramic and have to be cooled by liquid nitrogen to -385 F. I would be very interested in finding out how they deal with the logistical issues of the liquid nitrogen as well as possible line breaks and maintainence. But... If they manage to do it cost effectively, all the more power to them.
you are being sarcastic right? Such a bill is in direct conflict with capitalism and should be unconstitutional never mind the massive havoc this will wreak on the medical insurance industry (and raise medical bills again).
command and conquer: generals has a few generals with suicide troops. Could that possibly be the interpretation? Then again, in the game, the bodies fly up into the air so probably not...
US census, GAO, and The president's budget reports are excellent means of checking how well (or not well) the US government is spending money. Especially US census. They have data on the budget of every single agency and department in the US government.
there is no gaurentee that a change will allow for people. At this point, I don't think the weather here could actually do much to kill us if we really tried. Internal environmental control is very good nowadays. If things burn over, we can go underground. If the world freezes, we will just build massive greenhouses and nuclear heaters until the world thaws again. If we drown, we can always de-salinize the sea-water and use electricity to go from water to O2. It wouldn't be cheap but it would still be quite feasible. I doubt humans will ever be going extinct in the next few millenia barring a freak accident like a planet killing asteroid.
b/c significant portions of the inbound sunlight is blocked/reflected by the atmosphere. Also notice that the night side will basically freeze over on this atmosphere-less planet (unless there were large water-bodies present. However, if there were water-bodies, some of the water would evaporate, eventually resulting in an atmosphere).
Modern scientist's have been studying how this 100 million year old planet functions for literally decades now, so I am confident that they a complete and accurate understanding upon which to base their predictions. Sure they're only 50% accurate at predicting this weekend's weather, but still... Decades. Oh my, so long. So, what else have we being studying for decades... Theres chemistry in general but we have been studying that for centuries. How about physics? Oh only a few more centuries and we are still only at a good but far from complete understanding. (QM and relativity are great but they still have plenty of holes and string theory is not even close to a viable alternative). Studying the climate and weather of this planet especially under previously unknown circumstances for only a few decades is not even close to being enough to get a decent understanding. We still need a few more centuries for that. Humans are great but don't become arrogant just because you are surrounded "advanced" models based on multitudes of assumptions and simplifications.
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Wow, another insane idea from the GW peanut gallery.
Why pay? just get the hardware yourself and then you can take care of the encryption yourself. Personally, I am waiting for this technology to pass over into the harddrive arena. If they can make it read-write, it would be great. If not, we still have holographic storage.
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you are.
Please, differentiate between Natural Selection and Evolution. Natural Selection is the intuitively appealing and frankly obvious idea that if in a meaningful and important comparison of ability, something scores higher then something else, that something else is going to die off (cludgy and inaccurate definition, sorry). This is easy to prove and potentially dis-prove. Easy to dis-prove because you can just pull up 2 species, or 2 companies, or 2 countries, or 2 anything for that matter, compare them on one of the meaningful parameters (species: reproductive ablity, companies: productivity + net revenue/profits/valuation cang over time etc. for countries... something else entirely) and see if the better one really is becoming more influential and spreading (yes it is.)
Evolution is the non-intuitive and non-disprovableidea that everything in current life started from the elementry chemicals and worked its way up through natural selection.
Oh really... Then in that case, lets jump to Newtonian mechanics. People believed that it applied for all situations. They had ~100 years of evidence as well. Until Einstein came along that is. Before Einstein, they tried all sorts of things to make the theory fit the data like the Aether, etc. So... at that point would you have supported Newtonian mechanics in favor of Relativity. Relativity was barely understandable even after it got some evidence on its side. Would you have gone in and said the Newtonian Mechanics has a few hundred years of data behind it?
I should point out that this is directly applicable only to your point of picking Evolution because of the large amount of data behind it. It is not applicable to the debate on general because both sides are trying to push trash. The ID people largely admit their religious bias, make god the creator and thus wipe out any possible method of falsifying their claim. The Evolution people go through a few more contortions, collect up mounds of data and then conveniently forget that mounds of data does NOT equal a proof. Relativity will probably be replaced eventually by something else which can do a better job of explaining natural phenomena that it cannot explain well (maybe something to replace dark matter and dark energy) and then not even 5 millennia worth of data can help it out. Ultimately, neither side presents a theory that is falsifiable and therefore, none of the theories are provable. In effect, booth sides have presented a religious argument.
Fine. Prove evolution or falsify it... absolutely. The kind of absolutely that can be shown for Relativity, QM, and measured by some (probably very expensive but precise and accurate) ruler.
Fine. Prove relativity... absolutely. The kind of absolutely that can be shown for Relativity, QM, and measured by some (probably very expensive but precise and accurate) ruler.
I know what you mean. My mother used to work at Verizon (I still know some people who do) and that place is a management hell.
not quite government funded (thankfully) and definitely not government managed (really thankfully but government subsidized (not good but not as bad as the previous two).
How about: CREATE DATABASE blah ENCODING 'UNICODE';
Or does that not work in MySQL?
you are being sarcastic right? Such a bill is in direct conflict with capitalism and should be unconstitutional never mind the massive havoc this will wreak on the medical insurance industry (and raise medical bills again).
Hit the point. Insurances are businesses and should be treated as such.
command and conquer: generals has a few generals with suicide troops. Could that possibly be the interpretation? Then again, in the game, the bodies fly up into the air so probably not...
in postgres:
\d <table_name>
pretty easy.
US census, GAO, and The president's budget reports are excellent means of checking how well (or not well) the US government is spending money. Especially US census. They have data on the budget of every single agency and department in the US government.
oh boy. Thats another massive attack vector right there. Just swipe the keys off the network jack with a man in the middle attack. AACS is screwed.
The parent makes an excellent point about how pointless FUD and scare mongering can hava a vast negative economic impact on our society.
b/c significant portions of the inbound sunlight is blocked/reflected by the atmosphere. Also notice that the night side will basically freeze over on this atmosphere-less planet (unless there were large water-bodies present. However, if there were water-bodies, some of the water would evaporate, eventually resulting in an atmosphere).
and the one paying for the thousands of miles of roads needing re-painting would be...
Studying the climate and weather of this planet especially under previously unknown circumstances for only a few decades is not even close to being enough to get a decent understanding. We still need a few more centuries for that. Humans are great but don't become arrogant just because you are surrounded "advanced" models based on multitudes of assumptions and simplifications.
personally, I use an openVPN setup myself to route all wireless traffic. As long as the keys are kept safe, the encryption is nearly unbreakable.