I have forgotten who it was who wrote that the real problem in life wasn't what we didn't know; it was the stuff we DO know that isn't true. Probably Sam Clemens.
But it was long enough ago to have been included in the musical play "The King And I".
How is it that SlashDot readers aren't aware of Robert Bruce Thompson's home chemistry lab book, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments? It's designed for high-schoolers or early college students who need some REAL chem lab, not the bowdlerized version that they're getting at school.
Here's a page from the author's "Journal" (he doesn't all it a "blog")
Master of Transhuman says:
"Egypt is now saying that no ship was near the location of the cut. They had onshore cameras viewing the area and reviewed the video. The area of the cut is also a "no-go" zone for ships. They're saying no ship did the cut."
Denial of responsibility is fairly common for everybody, but is positively epidemic in the Middle East. The Egyptians aren't exactly the most believable sources.
Sometimes accidents happen. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the US wanted to tap Middle East communications links. I am NOT ready to believe that they would have done so in so amateurish a fashion.
Just transfer your domain to some other registrar. I have transferred a domain from NetSol to GoDaddy,com. It's not a BIG hit to their bottom line, but every transfer away from NetSol has to hurt a little, right?
The problem is, there's PLENTY of food in the world; there's even plenty of food in AFRICA. The problem is that the people who run the governments there would rather starve their people for political reasons rather than to either feed them or let the people feed themselves.
It used to be that enough food to wipe out hunger would rot on African wharves every year; so Americans sent them trucks, as well. The governments stole the trucks, to transport their troops. Rhodesia used to be a net exporter of food; now in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, government thugs burn out the farmers in order to seal their land, and are then surprised that nothing grows there. Marxist African kleptocracies will NEVER be able to feed their people.
If Dvorak wants to provide rice for starving African children, he'd better hire mercenaries to deliver it; otherwise, the various governments will steal the food for themselves.
People will certainly explore and colonize Mars. But in the words of Robert Heinlein; there is no guarantee that the language spoken on Mars will be English.
Chinese would be more likely. Especially with this crop of American politicians.
The answer is #3, in that the writer(s) of the article are THEMSELVES not intelligent.
Yes, the Heisenberg principle suggests that, at a sub-atomic level, we change things by observing their state, i.e., either their position OR momentum. But the red maple tree in my back yard, being macroscopic, is not substantially impacted when I see that it is still right here in the yard.
I took another look; yup, it's still right there. (Hmmm. Maybe there's something to it. Some of the leaves have moved!)
Jerry Pournelle has frequently opined that the spam problem isn't going to abate until a dozen spammers are on TV doing the "perp walk" on CNN, and getting decades-long prison terms for being public nuisances. Either that, or resolve the problem the way the Russian mob does....
The "right to privacy" doesn't NEED to be enumerated:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The text of the Constitution http://constitution.org/cons/constitu.htm is pretty clear; the Federal government has only the 19 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8, and the States (or the people) have all the other rights and powers. The People have a right to privacy; the Federal government has no authority to ban it. Just as, absent the 18th Amendment, the government had no authority to ban alcohol, and the government has NEVER had the authority to ban drugs. (The STATES do, but that's another story.)
So you're in favor of letting the communist dictators control the Chinese internet regardless; you just think that Google should be given a pass from their "Don't Be Evil" motto and make a buck or three on the transaction, since the ChiComs are going to be dictatorial anyway? The difference is, one way the ChiCom internet is dictatorially but inefficiently controlled by Chinese bureacrats; the other way is that the State there has hired efficient capitalists to do their dirty work for them in the most efficient way possible.
Lenin was right about ONE thing, anyway; we capitalists ARE willing to sell them the rope that they'll use to hang us.
The beauty about dictatorships is that they ARE inefficient; the CAN'T be. Left alone, they'll collapse on their own. "Engagement", in the Kissingerian term, is simply our way of making a few rubles in prolonging the suffering of their people.
Google lost the right to use the "Don't be evil" motto when they teamed up with the Communist rulers of China to censor search results for Chinese subjects.
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But it was long enough ago to have been included in the musical play "The King And I".
Here's a page from the author's "Journal" (he doesn't all it a "blog")
He's also working on a "Home Forensics Lab" book.
Master of Transhuman says: "Egypt is now saying that no ship was near the location of the cut. They had onshore cameras viewing the area and reviewed the video. The area of the cut is also a "no-go" zone for ships. They're saying no ship did the cut." Denial of responsibility is fairly common for everybody, but is positively epidemic in the Middle East. The Egyptians aren't exactly the most believable sources. Sometimes accidents happen. I'm perfectly willing to believe that the US wanted to tap Middle East communications links. I am NOT ready to believe that they would have done so in so amateurish a fashion.
Just transfer your domain to some other registrar. I have transferred a domain from NetSol to GoDaddy,com. It's not a BIG hit to their bottom line, but every transfer away from NetSol has to hurt a little, right?
The problem is, there's PLENTY of food in the world; there's even plenty of food in AFRICA. The problem is that the people who run the governments there would rather starve their people for political reasons rather than to either feed them or let the people feed themselves. It used to be that enough food to wipe out hunger would rot on African wharves every year; so Americans sent them trucks, as well. The governments stole the trucks, to transport their troops. Rhodesia used to be a net exporter of food; now in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, government thugs burn out the farmers in order to seal their land, and are then surprised that nothing grows there. Marxist African kleptocracies will NEVER be able to feed their people. If Dvorak wants to provide rice for starving African children, he'd better hire mercenaries to deliver it; otherwise, the various governments will steal the food for themselves.
People will certainly explore and colonize Mars. But in the words of Robert Heinlein; there is no guarantee that the language spoken on Mars will be English. Chinese would be more likely. Especially with this crop of American politicians.
The answer is #3, in that the writer(s) of the article are THEMSELVES not intelligent. Yes, the Heisenberg principle suggests that, at a sub-atomic level, we change things by observing their state, i.e., either their position OR momentum. But the red maple tree in my back yard, being macroscopic, is not substantially impacted when I see that it is still right here in the yard. I took another look; yup, it's still right there. (Hmmm. Maybe there's something to it. Some of the leaves have moved!)
Jerry Pournelle has frequently opined that the spam problem isn't going to abate until a dozen spammers are on TV doing the "perp walk" on CNN, and getting decades-long prison terms for being public nuisances. Either that, or resolve the problem the way the Russian mob does....
The "right to privacy" doesn't NEED to be enumerated: Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The text of the Constitution http://constitution.org/cons/constitu.htm is pretty clear; the Federal government has only the 19 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8, and the States (or the people) have all the other rights and powers. The People have a right to privacy; the Federal government has no authority to ban it. Just as, absent the 18th Amendment, the government had no authority to ban alcohol, and the government has NEVER had the authority to ban drugs. (The STATES do, but that's another story.)
So you're in favor of letting the communist dictators control the Chinese internet regardless; you just think that Google should be given a pass from their "Don't Be Evil" motto and make a buck or three on the transaction, since the ChiComs are going to be dictatorial anyway? The difference is, one way the ChiCom internet is dictatorially but inefficiently controlled by Chinese bureacrats; the other way is that the State there has hired efficient capitalists to do their dirty work for them in the most efficient way possible. Lenin was right about ONE thing, anyway; we capitalists ARE willing to sell them the rope that they'll use to hang us. The beauty about dictatorships is that they ARE inefficient; the CAN'T be. Left alone, they'll collapse on their own. "Engagement", in the Kissingerian term, is simply our way of making a few rubles in prolonging the suffering of their people.
Google lost the right to use the "Don't be evil" motto when they teamed up with the Communist rulers of China to censor search results for Chinese subjects.
How convenient is this? The Wall Street Journal reports that Sentators Rockefeller and Snowe are threatening Exxon to shit up about their doubts about climate change, or else! http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?i d=110009338