Skeptics use this as evidence that all motion is illusion. And to think that some http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides fellow had this figured out 2500 years ago or so. Maybe listening to the teachings of really old dead guys IS a worthwhile pursuit.
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Unless your ancestors were here more recently than 1921 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act, or 1882 for people of Asian descent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act _(United_States) There was no legal way to enter the country. There wasn't any procedure or anything, just documentation of who came in, and if the immigration guy liked you, you got in. Any historical point on this sort of thing has little bearing unless the proposal is to revert to the old system or claiming that the new way is the same as the old way. So I guess the policy was: "Hell, come on in the water's fine! Unless you're Chinese, Jewish, Eastern European, Italian, and especially not if you're Irish, they're pricks!"
Though it does seem that there is nothing more American than hating immigrants...
But the consequences are that if programs are just numbers either one should be able to patent a useful number (dibs on pi!) or it might spill over into copyright law. I know that a patent != a copyright, but if a program is numbers and not artifice, then a book is just an arrangement of letters. Or, (god forbid) more programs will be come copyrighted instead of patented.
Well, actually, it is, and seems to be embracing a different sort of audience than just NIN fans. The release is part of the Year Zero project and has a buinch of puzzles and related websites. Here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=218 is a pretty good start on that aspect of it.
After crunching the numbers, it comes out that a single average sized person breathes out approx. 700 tonnes CO2 per annum, assuming 100% efficiency. If we want to eliminate one billion tonnes of CO2, at the ideal rate, we get rid of 1.4 million people. More realistically, we would have to get rid of a few more, like 3 million.
How do we do that? Birth control. Distribution of condoms around the west (we spew out more extra CO2 per capita than anywhere else), and education programs on how awesome it is to not have children. If other nations can have population reduction, so can America. As an added benefit, if we get a smaller population, we get the benefit of more wealth to go around (fewer people, same amount of wealth = more wealth per person).
Actually, the "X" comes from the Greek letter chi. It's used because it looks like a chi. Xi is the |ks| sound and looks likes an equals sign with an extra bar over the top and parallel to it.
Our modern "x" sounds like |ks| because some dialects of Ancient Greek had the aspirated |k| sound slur, for whatever reason, into the |ks| sound. This was picked up by Latin speakers and thus the letter "x" as we know and love it today was born.
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No no, it's a clever reference to Monty Python I mean, he's got to know something about rackets, or else he wouldn't be heading a company.
More like Metallica.
Well, then he'll crash the internets! My personal internets was clogged by something like this.
Unless your ancestors were here more recently than 1921 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act, or 1882 for people of Asian descent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act _(United_States) There was no legal way to enter the country. There wasn't any procedure or anything, just documentation of who came in, and if the immigration guy liked you, you got in. Any historical point on this sort of thing has little bearing unless the proposal is to revert to the old system or claiming that the new way is the same as the old way. So I guess the policy was: "Hell, come on in the water's fine! Unless you're Chinese, Jewish, Eastern European, Italian, and especially not if you're Irish, they're pricks!"
Though it does seem that there is nothing more American than hating immigrants...
http://hankspotter.ytmnd.com/
But if deployment leads to a catastrophe, there aren't any backups.
But the consequences are that if programs are just numbers either one should be able to patent a useful number (dibs on pi!) or it might spill over into copyright law. I know that a patent != a copyright, but if a program is numbers and not artifice, then a book is just an arrangement of letters. Or, (god forbid) more programs will be come copyrighted instead of patented.
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Thrown of iPhones? I didn't know they let Ballmer into the Apple offices.
Well, actually, it is, and seems to be embracing a different sort of audience than just NIN fans. The release is part of the Year Zero project and has a buinch of puzzles and related websites. Here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=218 is a pretty good start on that aspect of it.
Unless Nintendo is ramping up for a big April Fools Prank, it's on their official press release website, found here: http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=11783.
All I have to say is that Bowser is the cooler bad guy than Dr. Eggman/Robotnik.
Natalie Portman and hot grits?
After crunching the numbers, it comes out that a single average sized person breathes out approx. 700 tonnes CO2 per annum, assuming 100% efficiency. If we want to eliminate one billion tonnes of CO2, at the ideal rate, we get rid of 1.4 million people. More realistically, we would have to get rid of a few more, like 3 million.
How do we do that? Birth control. Distribution of condoms around the west (we spew out more extra CO2 per capita than anywhere else), and education programs on how awesome it is to not have children. If other nations can have population reduction, so can America. As an added benefit, if we get a smaller population, we get the benefit of more wealth to go around (fewer people, same amount of wealth = more wealth per person).
So they got rid of what, exactly?
Well, if it's libraries destroyed, then Bush could take Wolverine with one hand behind his back. Remember: Is our children being educated?
Actually, the "X" comes from the Greek letter chi. It's used because it looks like a chi. Xi is the |ks| sound and looks likes an equals sign with an extra bar over the top and parallel to it.
Our modern "x" sounds like |ks| because some dialects of Ancient Greek had the aspirated |k| sound slur, for whatever reason, into the |ks| sound. This was picked up by Latin speakers and thus the letter "x" as we know and love it today was born.