No. I believe that the remaining 15% can still be catagorised as a free ride, a severely comfortable life, and rolling in it, all at the same time. Of course if the stock collapses, it may be another matter.
On the subject of Iran. If you look at it, you might just find that America overthrew the government of Iran, installed a madman who killed thousands of people until being overthrown in a bloody conflict and replaced by the theocracy. After 9/11 Americans asked, "Why do they hate us?". Well it turns out that they hate America because America killed their families and destroyed their homes. On the subject of Iraq. Don't get the idea America is leaving. If they were leaving they wouldn't be building all those bases.
I would explain "string" theory as a crisis in "particle" physics to. I find it extremely suspicious that to work out the instant of the creation of the universe that they essentially created another universe for it to come from. Very.......human.
Luckily, I don't know anything about either string physics or cosmology and thus you can rest easy knowing that I am more than likely wrong and the people who have trained for years in the subject are less wrong. Are we still at the point where string theory has gone from 32 dimensions to 10 and then collided with M theory, found itself with 11 dimensions and a shitload of membranes creating universe's by smashing into each other?
Over 4,000,000,000 years? I agree that cycles are a wonderful thing. I don't agree with someone using an invented 4,000,000,000 year cycle. I just walked to the shops, will I continue walking for the rest of the year? I personally have no idea about climate prediction but I am sick of other people who don't know making up theories with no investigation and based on nothing. To paraphrase Richard Feyman, "I know how hard it is to really know something". You see, I know almost nothing, but I don't represent myself as though I do know something.
I'm sorry, but are you willing to post your full hypothesis for the cyclical nature of the Earths climate over the past 4,000,000,000 years? Please include the evidence on which you based this hypothesis. I would also like to inform you that your opinion, in veiw of the 3,000,000 years of human evolution is completely worthless, as was Einstein's, Newtons, etc....where exactly did you come up with this? I am hoping you are a climate scientist so you can at least have some crediblity (Either university taught or self taught will do. I'm not particularly interested in a peice of paper, more what you can do). I would also like to point out that if the Earth does have cyclical weather, thats not going to make me any happier about dying from natures wonderful cycle.
"The current state of net advertising is that someone else is paid for stealing your time and your bandwidth."
I disagree with that. Google is providing me with a search service for free. I have no wish to try random URL's or follow the link path to find something I don't know, or even things I do know. Google deserves payment for this service. Websites with good content deserve to paid for that content as well. If the adverts end up obscurng the content then I don't go there.
"then one day we get into an argument and she punches me in the face - can I sue MySpace for failing to protect me from her" No, but when the cops turn up you would probably be arrested to protect the poor sobbing girl. Cynical aren't I.
True but isn't the primary problem in my veiw. The biggest problem with having to register to enter is I haven't seen the product. If I don't know what the Washington Post is like, I'm not going to pay to find out.
Google news does it well. I can get to the newspapers. I get a broad range of veiws. It's not cluttered. I don't have to worry about the newspapers agenda (as much) because I'm getting stories from China's angle, as well as the State's and quite often on the same subjects.
BBC has some good stories, but (after the top three) they expect you to chose them from the headline without an excerpt. eg;BBC says, "US troops face Iraq death charges", Google says,"Three US soldiers accused of Iraq murder (The Age, Australia - 9 hours ago)... Premeditated murder charges can bring the death penalty under US military law. The three soldiers are accused of deliberately allowing three men detained...
You're lucky. My father wanted to buy a Dell comp. He got through to Malaysia. He knew the computer he wanted to buy but he didn't want to pay by credit card. He wanted to deposit the money into an account. This took one and a half months and twenty faxes. He can be a stubborn bastard sometimes.
"People with paying jobs generally don't have much free time available to go play rebel."
Interesting if you apply that to western countries. Noticed how both partners work now?
"they successfully exterminated alien rats on some of their Islands by airdropping poisoned bait." It should be pointed out that these were not the North or South Islands (the major ones) but only some of the small islands.
Interesting. Why do you think the ability to multiboot isn't so good on some GNU/Linux distro's? I was under the impression that multiboot is purely handled through the bootloader. I ask because I have only ever installed SuSE on multiboot systems, and haven't run into these problems(All I've had to do is map the drives at the most).
"(disclaimer: I use services from both Yahoo! and Google, depending on the service, and also MSN Messenger. I have no problem doing so, because I'm not paranoid of everything that exists to make money)" It's not the making money part that worries me. Or the collection of information. It is the sale and usage of that information, and the access to the political and law making process. We have already largely separated church and state. If business continues to interfere in peoples lives, we may well have to separate business and state as well.
"I don't. I believe to create life and then to destroy it for the sake of harvesting it's cells is wrong."
Look man. I know you are hungry, but the plants will stop screaming after you eat them, I swear it......OK, it's probably not what you meant. But then I don't think you could have stated what you seemed to be meaning as then you would have had to define terms like human and life. Unfortunatly, I can't define them either, so we're stuck at this point.
IMHO there would be a lot more public outcry if the laws weren't enforced selectively. Currently the method is to prosecute a small number of people to put the "Fear of God" into the rest. Imagine the outcry if all the people breaking the law were sued. I could see quite a few things becoming legal very quickly (or the collapse of the court system) Personally, I found the animation to be a little too vague and in the future. I can imagine people watching it and saying, "Oh. that will never happen to me."
"Regardless, it is pretty cool that China, given their track record for openness and freedom of speech, is open to scientific progress."
Yes, they do seem to have had a historical problem with the scientific method. Rather lucky for western civilisation really as for most of history they have invented things 500 to 1000 years ahead of us. Except for the discovery of discovery.
This was recommended by someone on/. yesterday, it really is worth watching.
Interesting theory, and probably true. Personally I have never figured out whether girls really liked dolls (pink, etc...) or whether it was just forced down their throats. Then again, I had a doll (teddy) and I pulled it apart to see how it worked.
Another pressure would be wanting to have children. By the age of 30, only 24.3%of woman are without a child. Seeing as a child is a full time job, thats 75.7% of the female workforce whos first priority is not working a ten hour day, or being on call at all. That was from the 1996 census, so I admit the data is a little old but you can see what I mean. Now the pressure is all for woman to have a career, a baby, and a life (somewhere?), which is quite frankly crazy. One woman I know is currently teaching full time, running a business and raising her son.....I have no idea how she does it, it's almost superhuman.
This kind of thinking is rife in New Zealand as well though. We try and coerce the sexes into other roles, cultures into other roles, and spend vast amounts on social engineering to improve statistics, all the while forgetting that these aggregates of numbers were individual people making decisions on how best they wanted to live their lives. The best we can and should do (IMHO) is to make sure people aren't descriminated against and then help them live their lives in the way they they want.
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No. I believe that the remaining 15% can still be catagorised as a free ride, a severely comfortable life, and rolling in it, all at the same time. Of course if the stock collapses, it may be another matter.
On the subject of Iran. If you look at it, you might just find that America overthrew the government of Iran, installed a madman who killed thousands of people until being overthrown in a bloody conflict and replaced by the theocracy. After 9/11 Americans asked, "Why do they hate us?". Well it turns out that they hate America because America killed their families and destroyed their homes.
On the subject of Iraq. Don't get the idea America is leaving. If they were leaving they wouldn't be building all those bases.
I would explain "string" theory as a crisis in "particle" physics to. I find it extremely suspicious that to work out the instant of the creation of the universe that they essentially created another universe for it to come from. Very.......human.
Luckily, I don't know anything about either string physics or cosmology and thus you can rest easy knowing that I am more than likely wrong and the people who have trained for years in the subject are less wrong. Are we still at the point where string theory has gone from 32 dimensions to 10 and then collided with M theory, found itself with 11 dimensions and a shitload of membranes creating universe's by smashing into each other?
Yes, why is she wearing bikini in a shower? Probably followed by whats wrong with a picture of a girl wearing bikini in a shower.
Over 4,000,000,000 years? I agree that cycles are a wonderful thing. I don't agree with someone using an invented 4,000,000,000 year cycle. I just walked to the shops, will I continue walking for the rest of the year? I personally have no idea about climate prediction but I am sick of other people who don't know making up theories with no investigation and based on nothing. To paraphrase Richard Feyman, "I know how hard it is to really know something". You see, I know almost nothing, but I don't represent myself as though I do know something.
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I'm sorry, but are you willing to post your full hypothesis for the cyclical nature of the Earths climate over the past 4,000,000,000 years? Please include the evidence on which you based this hypothesis. I would also like to inform you that your opinion, in veiw of the 3,000,000 years of human evolution is completely worthless, as was Einstein's, Newtons, etc....where exactly did you come up with this? I am hoping you are a climate scientist so you can at least have some crediblity (Either university taught or self taught will do. I'm not particularly interested in a peice of paper, more what you can do).
I would also like to point out that if the Earth does have cyclical weather, thats not going to make me any happier about dying from natures wonderful cycle.
"like in retarded D&D-type settings and cheap fantasy flicks."
Ast kiranann kair gadunrm soth-arn suh kali jalaran!
Or, the results are actually Microsoft mining Googles search engine. If they got enough results, they should be able to recreate the algorithms.
"The current state of net advertising is that someone else is paid for stealing your time and your bandwidth."
I disagree with that. Google is providing me with a search service for free. I have no wish to try random URL's or follow the link path to find something I don't know, or even things I do know. Google deserves payment for this service. Websites with good content deserve to paid for that content as well. If the adverts end up obscurng the content then I don't go there.
Try this http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8. If you don't have the bandwidth you can buy them from the University of Auckland.
Its all good......until you hit the bus.
"then one day we get into an argument and she punches me in the face - can I sue MySpace for failing to protect me from her" No, but when the cops turn up you would probably be arrested to protect the poor sobbing girl. Cynical aren't I.
Wouldn't the effect be squared as you are bringing the material to Earth. Add in the rotation, the wobble, and the sun's gravity as well.
Google news does it well. I can get to the newspapers. I get a broad range of veiws. It's not cluttered. I don't have to worry about the newspapers agenda (as much) because I'm getting stories from China's angle, as well as the State's and quite often on the same subjects.
BBC has some good stories, but (after the top three) they expect you to chose them from the headline without an excerpt. eg;BBC says, "US troops face Iraq death charges", Google says,"Three US soldiers accused of Iraq murder (The Age, Australia - 9 hours ago)... Premeditated murder charges can bring the death penalty under US military law. The three soldiers are accused of deliberately allowing three men detained
You're lucky. My father wanted to buy a Dell comp. He got through to Malaysia. He knew the computer he wanted to buy but he didn't want to pay by credit card. He wanted to deposit the money into an account. This took one and a half months and twenty faxes. He can be a stubborn bastard sometimes.
"People with paying jobs generally don't have much free time available to go play rebel." Interesting if you apply that to western countries. Noticed how both partners work now?
"they successfully exterminated alien rats on some of their Islands by airdropping poisoned bait." It should be pointed out that these were not the North or South Islands (the major ones) but only some of the small islands.
Interesting. Why do you think the ability to multiboot isn't so good on some GNU/Linux distro's? I was under the impression that multiboot is purely handled through the bootloader. I ask because I have only ever installed SuSE on multiboot systems, and haven't run into these problems(All I've had to do is map the drives at the most).
"(disclaimer: I use services from both Yahoo! and Google, depending on the service, and also MSN Messenger. I have no problem doing so, because I'm not paranoid of everything that exists to make money)"
It's not the making money part that worries me. Or the collection of information. It is the sale and usage of that information, and the access to the political and law making process. We have already largely separated church and state. If business continues to interfere in peoples lives, we may well have to separate business and state as well.
"I don't. I believe to create life and then to destroy it for the sake of harvesting it's cells is wrong."
Look man. I know you are hungry, but the plants will stop screaming after you eat them, I swear it......OK, it's probably not what you meant. But then I don't think you could have stated what you seemed to be meaning as then you would have had to define terms like human and life. Unfortunatly, I can't define them either, so we're stuck at this point.
IMHO there would be a lot more public outcry if the laws weren't enforced selectively. Currently the method is to prosecute a small number of people to put the "Fear of God" into the rest. Imagine the outcry if all the people breaking the law were sued. I could see quite a few things becoming legal very quickly (or the collapse of the court system)
Personally, I found the animation to be a little too vague and in the future. I can imagine people watching it and saying, "Oh. that will never happen to me."
Or possibly because the rest of the world aren't members of those sites.
"Regardless, it is pretty cool that China, given their track record for openness and freedom of speech, is open to scientific progress."
/. yesterday, it really is worth watching.
Yes, they do seem to have had a historical problem with the scientific method. Rather lucky for western civilisation really as for most of history they have invented things 500 to 1000 years ahead of us. Except for the discovery of discovery.
This was recommended by someone on
Interesting theory, and probably true. Personally I have never figured out whether girls really liked dolls (pink, etc...) or whether it was just forced down their throats. Then again, I had a doll (teddy) and I pulled it apart to see how it worked.
Another pressure would be wanting to have children. By the age of 30, only 24.3%of woman are without a child. Seeing as a child is a full time job, thats 75.7% of the female workforce whos first priority is not working a ten hour day, or being on call at all. That was from the 1996 census, so I admit the data is a little old but you can see what I mean. Now the pressure is all for woman to have a career, a baby, and a life (somewhere?), which is quite frankly crazy. One woman I know is currently teaching full time, running a business and raising her son.....I have no idea how she does it, it's almost superhuman.
This kind of thinking is rife in New Zealand as well though. We try and coerce the sexes into other roles, cultures into other roles, and spend vast amounts on social engineering to improve statistics, all the while forgetting that these aggregates of numbers were individual people making decisions on how best they wanted to live their lives. The best we can and should do (IMHO) is to make sure people aren't descriminated against and then help them live their lives in the way they they want.