You guys are taking this way to seriously. This is not a law. It is just something to honor Pluto's discoverer.
And flowing water on Mars? Where is the evidence of that? Thousand of "tributaries" joining up with a "river" at right angles, all while this "river" gets no bigger from this added flow? Yeah, sounds like flowing water did that to me./sarcasm
Your idea is neat, but just not that useful. The vast majority of people just aren't ready to give up their land-lines, so it makes more sense to offer a docking station that just forwards calls to that land-line. At least one cell provider already offers something like that, and they have had television advertisements for it as well.
Despite your saying "what the article says", I don't think you actually read it (what a surprise). Or if you read it you somehow couldn't understand it. As it clearly says in the summary, it is about "why DRM cannot create successful new business models". Notice the bold word there. It never claims that DRM has to be a hindrance (though it is for many who use iTunes despite its success). If you don't understand what the article says, it's hardly your place to criticize it.
I'll pay for my downloads when they aren't neutered. Until then, I'll just rip CDs.
I'm a member of a forum where using "M$" is a bannable offense, not because anyone likes Microsoft there (they don't) but because its use is stupid and annoying. They don't censor anything swear words there, but last I knew they did sensor "lol" and another annoying term I can't remember at the moment. It seems over the top to some, but I absolutely love it.
Nine times out of ten, the "thermodynamical morons" are the ones shouting down the proponents of the "free" power source. The claims are not about whether perpetual motion is possible (it isn't), but whether or not we can get out more energy than we put in by tapping other power sources (anything from naturally occurring temperature differences to some sort of unknown cosmic energy).
The people who always bring up the impossibility of perpetual motion lose the argument before it even begins, since they fail to realize that it is not a closed system (and therefore not a claim of perpetual motion). But they yell louder than anyone else, so the general populace goes on believing that the Earth is the center of the solar system.
How the hell is that summary fine? The summary didn't say that the Apple Phone was a "closed platform" (and no one here said it wasn't, by the way). It said that the "iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed", which is a bold-faced lie.
He wrote the general plot, but did he write the dialogue? I can't say for sure, but I seem to remember someone having a specific critique along those lines about the prequels.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything about these theories, but you don't seem to understand either of them fully (especially the Electric/Plasma theory).
Electric/Plasma theory may not be complete (though it's far more complete than you claim), but that is better than being wrong. If they wanted to fill in the gaps, they could just invent some imaginary property of plasma to stick in the equation like some self-fulfilling prophecy. (Look everyone! Our equations work because we randomly inserted a device to compensate for the previously unexplained inaccuracies! And it was so much easier than real science!)
I like how you conveniently ignored half of my post. Like all of the parts that countered your reply.
I didn't just rant against the conventional theory without justification. The problem isn't just that the theory is complicated, but that there is a much less complicated theory that explains everything better. (And a man by the name of William of Ockham has something to say about that.)
Just so I'm clear and not picking apart your post as best suits me (as you did mine):
The history of science is filled with examples of new particles that were predicted -- and discovered -- on the basis of experimental discrepancies. You're going to have to do better than that.
How about the fact the Electric/Plasma theory predicts cosmological occurrences better than the traditional one, and without all of the "experimental discrepancies" that plague the traditional theory. Never mind the fact that the current theory isn't even testable through controllable experiments in a lab or even on a computer (excluding self-fulfilling experiments), contrast to Electric/Plasma theories which are entirely testable.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Theories that don't work are replaced by theories that do.
Thanks for making my point for me. The traditional theory doesn't work (even after extensive tweaking), so it should be replaced by one that does work (Electrical/Plasma). (And when I say "replaced", I mean it deserves the majority of the focus of scientific research and funding until it is proven to be at least as flawed as the current theory. I don't mean we should be subjected to indoctrination of it with a Nazi-like fervor as is the case with the current theory.)
So? Nobody has claimed that we know everything about the universe. Dark matter and dark energy are features of our universe, but they don't explain everything about it.
They don't explain everything because they are flawed devices invented to patch the holes in a sinking ship. Not to say the Electric/Plasma theory explains everything, but it explains a hell of a lot more than the currently accepted theory. And it does so without trying to isolate us from the rest of the universe (no electricity in between celestial bodies), and also without shitting on Galileo and putting us (as a solar system or galaxy this time) back at the center of the universe (as the current model seems to with its extension 13-odd billion light-years spherically around us and the Fingers of God pointing at us from every direction).
Dark matter is a crutch of a theory with so many problems they had to invent an imaginary substance to explain them.
The term "dark matter" originally referred to normal matter that we couldn't see because it wasn't lit up. Once this idea was proven inadequate, dark matter became something new and its definition was shaped solely by what the theorists needed it to be. Later on, they found even more problems with their theories and had to invent dark energy, which was once again defined solely by what the theorists needed it to be. But even with these inventions, they are routinely surprised by what they find in the universe. The only explanations they can come up with range from "it's a mystery" to claiming that previously accepted "universal" laws work differently out there in the universe.
Since you seem to be open minded, let me introduce you to a different (though never claiming to be definite) explanation. A growing number of people are starting to realize that these surprises are no longer surprising once you start to imagine that electric currents can flow throughout space (contrary to popular opinion). It is the Electric/Plasma Universe theory.I have only known about it for a relatively short time, but the bulk of what I have read is from this site: http://www.thunderbolts.info/home.htm
I have spent a lot of time just going through the Picture of the Day archive section and reading the explanations below the pictures (which is actually the point of that section - not showing pretty pictures or something like that). (Be warned - some entries are repeated several times.) Many anomalies can be explained simply as electric discharges (or the results thereof). And all of their theories are directly relatable and scalable to physical tests carried out in labs on Earth.
I'll point out a couple of my favorite examples so far: Io and the "Greatest Surprise"
and V838 Mon (which also happens to be one of my favorite pictures as well).
It never did sit right with me how things like the Cat's Eye Nebula were supposed to have formed through explosions and gravitational forces. Now I know why: it's electric!
P.S. I keep having the thought of how funny (and sad) it would be if the conventional model just keeps making up more rules and invisible entities until those evolve into the Electric/Plasma model.
That page is full of crap (surrounding its facts). Especially the whole "0.08 BAC drivers killed people because they were drunk" crap (paraphrased). I won't cry for people who get DUIs at this level, but to insinuate that they are putting lives in danger is ridiculous. If someone gets in an accident at 0.08, they would do the same sober.
Plus the whole attributing pot and coke use to drunk driving on that page is ridiculous as well (specifically the pot use). Not only is there no test to accurately determine if someone is currently under the influence of pot, but it stays in your system for up to a month. (Coke use is a little more obvious and is only in your system for a few days.) I know people who use both, and most who use coke don't do it while drinking (it would be a waste), and maybe half that smoke pot will drink while high (and that goes down a lot when they're getting behind the wheel of a car).
I'm not quite sure what you're on about. Jacksonian Democracy isn't even centered around populism vs. corporatism. It had some of both, but the hands-off nature of their dealing with the economy is clearly the most important aspect of it relevant to what I'm talking about. This just helps to prove my point how this country was leaning corporatist during the time before Lincoln. As for robber barons, their existence and/or success had nothing to with the corporatist or populist leanings of this country. In particular, take note of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. As for Teddy's trust busting, just how in the hell does that not fit in with my time line?
Did I oversimplify history? Hardly. All I did was point out the cyclic nature of populism vs. corporatism in this country. Go somewhere else if you are looking for a history lesson.
You missed the entire point of my post. The point is that with satellite radio everyone across the entire country hears the same commercials. Google has nothing to do with the content. The only ad-targeting to do on Satellite radio could be done by dozens of different groups. (Actually, I don't see how Google is any better equipped to do any radio advertising, though that doesn't mean they can't do it well.)
5-10 years for the things I can think of off the top of my head, the public always win
This country swings back and forth between corporatist and populist, but it takes more than 5-10 years.
For sometime before Lincoln: Corporatist From Lincoln to Wilson: Populist From Wilson to the Depression: Corporatist From FDR to 1981: Populist 1981 to present: Corporatist
The only period near that short was the one ending with the Great Depression. There may be some correlation between Republicans and corporatism, but not across the board (most notably with Clinton). It is more like the public alternates between not caring (corporatism) and being pissed off at their oppressors (populism). We can go back to populism, but it won't be by getting the right guy into the presidency. It will be by making it clear that we won't tolerate things going like they have been.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" -Mario Savio
Why would Google get involved with satellite radio? Google specializes in the targeting factor of the advertising. There isn't any targeting to be done with satellite radio outside of targeting the market as a whole or individual stations (which they don't need Google for). Everybody across the entire country hears the exact same thing.
assuming they're serious about homebrew development and haven't just put GNU on the PS3 as a tax dodge.
I don't know where you heard anyone claim this as even a possibility, but it is completely bogus. The exceptions in the tax laws that would have saved Sony money if they could get the PS2 classified as a "computer" were done away with years ago. Tax dodging has nothing to do with Sony calling their console a "computer" (this time).
I don't quite get what your point is, especially using the word "just" when linking to a six and a half year old article. And if that article proves anything, it is that it has nothing to do with how we use our currency - as their previous use of fractions proves.
It would be silly to only get rid of pennies. First off, we would then have to count by fives when dealing with money. Secondly, the nickel already costs more to make than it is worth. If we get rid of both then we can just cut off the second decimal place, and our lowest monetary unit will be tenths of a dollar. We can finally get rid of cents all together. Between cost of living increases, inflation, and the incredible loss in the value of the dollar in the world market, that second decimal place has pretty much lost all meaning anyway.
The question facing the courts was whether or not allow certain votes to be counted. They said no more recounts, so those votes were never official. So no official recount showed Gore to have won. However, all recounts that counted ALL countable votes showed Gore to have won by a very small margin. You say unofficial recounts were too close to call? That's because they didn't all count every vote. Most of the unofficial recounts that showed Bush to have won were meaningless, as they simply repeated what was done in the official count - they just number-checked and ignored the central issue of which votes to count. (Which is what the U.S. Supreme Court illegally ruled on, as they did not have jurisdiction. State vote => State law => State court.)
It says a lot about how corrupt politicians are there there hasn't been any investigation into obvious voter fraud - either who did it or how to prevent it in the future. And unlike vehement Bush supporters, I'm neutral on the subject. I would think it is quite obvious that Democrats in Congress are just as guilty of this as Republicans.
And just for the record, the facts I linked to previously aren't mine.
Well, US voters elected twice (not just once, but twice!) a man that does not care about science
Wrong.
In 2000, the people voted for Gore, but the Supreme Court stepped in (never mind that it should have been the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the state of Florida) before the votes were counted and declared Bush the winner. The votes were counted later anyways, and all final recount tallies showed that Gore recieved more votes than Bush in Florida, and therefore should have won the election.
In 2004, despite what MarkusQ said in his reply, more votes were registered for Bush than Kerry overall. However, in the closest state, Ohio, there was evidence of so much election fraud it was ridiculous. Never mind the fact that the person responsible for overseeing the vote was the head of Bush's campaign for the state (Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell). Everything from not delivering all of the voting machines in highly Democratic urban areas of Columbus to all of the absentee votes being opened and resealed (not in Columbus). It isn't put together very well, but here is a site with a bunch of examples.
Why wouldn't I blame them? They are the ones that are responsible for making that place smell like shit. I didn't say they shouldn't spread it, just that they are responsible for the smell I despise... which again, has relevance back to Slashdot (well, for this story at least).
Good point. I was more thrown off by how they said it like it would be harder with these materials. I would say that it would be easier to levitate a comparable amount of iridium and mercury specifically because they are more dense (i.e. more concentrated). It matters that they are alive, but I'm more impressed by the levitating of less dense objects.
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You guys are taking this way to seriously. This is not a law. It is just something to honor Pluto's discoverer.
/sarcasm
And flowing water on Mars? Where is the evidence of that? Thousand of "tributaries" joining up with a "river" at right angles , all while this "river" gets no bigger from this added flow ? Yeah, sounds like flowing water did that to me.
Your idea is neat, but just not that useful. The vast majority of people just aren't ready to give up their land-lines, so it makes more sense to offer a docking station that just forwards calls to that land-line. At least one cell provider already offers something like that, and they have had television advertisements for it as well.
Despite your saying "what the article says", I don't think you actually read it (what a surprise). Or if you read it you somehow couldn't understand it. As it clearly says in the summary, it is about "why DRM cannot create successful new business models". Notice the bold word there. It never claims that DRM has to be a hindrance (though it is for many who use iTunes despite its success). If you don't understand what the article says, it's hardly your place to criticize it.
I'll pay for my downloads when they aren't neutered. Until then, I'll just rip CDs.
I'm a member of a forum where using "M$" is a bannable offense, not because anyone likes Microsoft there (they don't) but because its use is stupid and annoying. They don't censor anything swear words there, but last I knew they did sensor "lol" and another annoying term I can't remember at the moment. It seems over the top to some, but I absolutely love it.
Are you anti-semitic? Not only do show no respect for Jewish beliefs, but you want his son to get HIV?
Nine times out of ten, the "thermodynamical morons" are the ones shouting down the proponents of the "free" power source. The claims are not about whether perpetual motion is possible (it isn't), but whether or not we can get out more energy than we put in by tapping other power sources (anything from naturally occurring temperature differences to some sort of unknown cosmic energy).
The people who always bring up the impossibility of perpetual motion lose the argument before it even begins, since they fail to realize that it is not a closed system (and therefore not a claim of perpetual motion). But they yell louder than anyone else, so the general populace goes on believing that the Earth is the center of the solar system.
How the hell is that summary fine? The summary didn't say that the Apple Phone was a "closed platform" (and no one here said it wasn't, by the way). It said that the "iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed", which is a bold-faced lie.
He wrote the general plot, but did he write the dialogue? I can't say for sure, but I seem to remember someone having a specific critique along those lines about the prequels.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything about these theories, but you don't seem to understand either of them fully ( especially the Electric/Plasma theory).
Electric/Plasma theory may not be complete (though it's far more complete than you claim), but that is better than being wrong. If they wanted to fill in the gaps, they could just invent some imaginary property of plasma to stick in the equation like some self-fulfilling prophecy. (Look everyone! Our equations work because we randomly inserted a device to compensate for the previously unexplained inaccuracies! And it was so much easier than real science!)
I didn't just rant against the conventional theory without justification. The problem isn't just that the theory is complicated, but that there is a much less complicated theory that explains everything better. (And a man by the name of William of Ockham has something to say about that.)
Just so I'm clear and not picking apart your post as best suits me (as you did mine):How about the fact the Electric/Plasma theory predicts cosmological occurrences better than the traditional one, and without all of the "experimental discrepancies" that plague the traditional theory. Never mind the fact that the current theory isn't even testable through controllable experiments in a lab or even on a computer (excluding self-fulfilling experiments), contrast to Electric/Plasma theories which are entirely testable.
Thanks for making my point for me. The traditional theory doesn't work (even after extensive tweaking), so it should be replaced by one that does work (Electrical/Plasma). (And when I say "replaced", I mean it deserves the majority of the focus of scientific research and funding until it is proven to be at least as flawed as the current theory. I don't mean we should be subjected to indoctrination of it with a Nazi-like fervor as is the case with the current theory.)
They don't explain everything because they are flawed devices invented to patch the holes in a sinking ship. Not to say the Electric/Plasma theory explains everything, but it explains a hell of a lot more than the currently accepted theory. And it does so without trying to isolate us from the rest of the universe (no electricity in between celestial bodies), and also without shitting on Galileo and putting us (as a solar system or galaxy this time) back at the center of the universe (as the current model seems to with its extension 13-odd billion light-years spherically around us and the Fingers of God pointing at us from every direction).
Dark matter is a crutch of a theory with so many problems they had to invent an imaginary substance to explain them.
The term "dark matter" originally referred to normal matter that we couldn't see because it wasn't lit up. Once this idea was proven inadequate, dark matter became something new and its definition was shaped solely by what the theorists needed it to be. Later on, they found even more problems with their theories and had to invent dark energy, which was once again defined solely by what the theorists needed it to be. But even with these inventions, they are routinely surprised by what they find in the universe. The only explanations they can come up with range from "it's a mystery" to claiming that previously accepted "universal" laws work differently out there in the universe.
Since you seem to be open minded, let me introduce you to a different (though never claiming to be definite) explanation. A growing number of people are starting to realize that these surprises are no longer surprising once you start to imagine that electric currents can flow throughout space (contrary to popular opinion). It is the Electric/Plasma Universe theory.I have only known about it for a relatively short time, but the bulk of what I have read is from this site:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/home.htm
I have spent a lot of time just going through the Picture of the Day archive section and reading the explanations below the pictures (which is actually the point of that section - not showing pretty pictures or something like that). (Be warned - some entries are repeated several times.) Many anomalies can be explained simply as electric discharges (or the results thereof). And all of their theories are directly relatable and scalable to physical tests carried out in labs on Earth.
I'll point out a couple of my favorite examples so far: Io and the "Greatest Surprise" and V838 Mon (which also happens to be one of my favorite pictures as well).
It never did sit right with me how things like the Cat's Eye Nebula were supposed to have formed through explosions and gravitational forces. Now I know why: it's electric!
P.S.
I keep having the thought of how funny (and sad) it would be if the conventional model just keeps making up more rules and invisible entities until those evolve into the Electric/Plasma model.
That page is full of crap (surrounding its facts). Especially the whole "0.08 BAC drivers killed people because they were drunk" crap (paraphrased). I won't cry for people who get DUIs at this level, but to insinuate that they are putting lives in danger is ridiculous. If someone gets in an accident at 0.08, they would do the same sober.
Plus the whole attributing pot and coke use to drunk driving on that page is ridiculous as well (specifically the pot use). Not only is there no test to accurately determine if someone is currently under the influence of pot, but it stays in your system for up to a month. (Coke use is a little more obvious and is only in your system for a few days.) I know people who use both, and most who use coke don't do it while drinking (it would be a waste), and maybe half that smoke pot will drink while high (and that goes down a lot when they're getting behind the wheel of a car).
I'm not quite sure what you're on about. Jacksonian Democracy isn't even centered around populism vs. corporatism. It had some of both, but the hands-off nature of their dealing with the economy is clearly the most important aspect of it relevant to what I'm talking about. This just helps to prove my point how this country was leaning corporatist during the time before Lincoln. As for robber barons, their existence and/or success had nothing to with the corporatist or populist leanings of this country. In particular, take note of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. As for Teddy's trust busting, just how in the hell does that not fit in with my time line?
Did I oversimplify history? Hardly. All I did was point out the cyclic nature of populism vs. corporatism in this country. Go somewhere else if you are looking for a history lesson.
The Big Bang did not occur from a single point. The Big Bang happened everywhere simultaneously.
You missed the entire point of my post. The point is that with satellite radio everyone across the entire country hears the same commercials. Google has nothing to do with the content. The only ad-targeting to do on Satellite radio could be done by dozens of different groups. (Actually, I don't see how Google is any better equipped to do any radio advertising, though that doesn't mean they can't do it well.)
For sometime before Lincoln: Corporatist
From Lincoln to Wilson: Populist
From Wilson to the Depression: Corporatist
From FDR to 1981: Populist
1981 to present: Corporatist
The only period near that short was the one ending with the Great Depression. There may be some correlation between Republicans and corporatism, but not across the board (most notably with Clinton). It is more like the public alternates between not caring (corporatism) and being pissed off at their oppressors (populism). We can go back to populism, but it won't be by getting the right guy into the presidency. It will be by making it clear that we won't tolerate things going like they have been.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
-Mario Savio
Why would Google get involved with satellite radio? Google specializes in the targeting factor of the advertising. There isn't any targeting to be done with satellite radio outside of targeting the market as a whole or individual stations (which they don't need Google for). Everybody across the entire country hears the exact same thing.
I don't quite get what your point is, especially using the word "just" when linking to a six and a half year old article. And if that article proves anything, it is that it has nothing to do with how we use our currency - as their previous use of fractions proves.
It would be silly to only get rid of pennies. First off, we would then have to count by fives when dealing with money. Secondly, the nickel already costs more to make than it is worth. If we get rid of both then we can just cut off the second decimal place, and our lowest monetary unit will be tenths of a dollar. We can finally get rid of cents all together. Between cost of living increases, inflation, and the incredible loss in the value of the dollar in the world market, that second decimal place has pretty much lost all meaning anyway.
The question facing the courts was whether or not allow certain votes to be counted. They said no more recounts, so those votes were never official. So no official recount showed Gore to have won. However, all recounts that counted ALL countable votes showed Gore to have won by a very small margin. You say unofficial recounts were too close to call? That's because they didn't all count every vote. Most of the unofficial recounts that showed Bush to have won were meaningless, as they simply repeated what was done in the official count - they just number-checked and ignored the central issue of which votes to count. (Which is what the U.S. Supreme Court illegally ruled on, as they did not have jurisdiction. State vote => State law => State court.)
It says a lot about how corrupt politicians are there there hasn't been any investigation into obvious voter fraud - either who did it or how to prevent it in the future. And unlike vehement Bush supporters, I'm neutral on the subject. I would think it is quite obvious that Democrats in Congress are just as guilty of this as Republicans.
And just for the record, the facts I linked to previously aren't mine.
In 2000, the people voted for Gore, but the Supreme Court stepped in (never mind that it should have been the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the state of Florida) before the votes were counted and declared Bush the winner. The votes were counted later anyways, and all final recount tallies showed that Gore recieved more votes than Bush in Florida, and therefore should have won the election.
In 2004, despite what MarkusQ said in his reply, more votes were registered for Bush than Kerry overall. However, in the closest state, Ohio, there was evidence of so much election fraud it was ridiculous. Never mind the fact that the person responsible for overseeing the vote was the head of Bush's campaign for the state (Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell). Everything from not delivering all of the voting machines in highly Democratic urban areas of Columbus to all of the absentee votes being opened and resealed (not in Columbus). It isn't put together very well, but here is a site with a bunch of examples.
Why wouldn't I blame them? They are the ones that are responsible for making that place smell like shit. I didn't say they shouldn't spread it, just that they are responsible for the smell I despise ... which again, has relevance back to Slashdot (well, for this story at least).
When I drive past a field that reeks of shit, I don't blame the cows. I blame the farmers that spread it.
Groklaw may have created it, but they aren't the ones who spread it on this site.
Good point. I was more thrown off by how they said it like it would be harder with these materials. I would say that it would be easier to levitate a comparable amount of iridium and mercury specifically because they are more dense (i.e. more concentrated). It matters that they are alive, but I'm more impressed by the levitating of less dense objects.