Of course, the copy now in possession of the legislator/FBI is the only copy, right? So, if the FBI can just keep this *one* copy off the streets, then everything will be fine, right? Putting it on a web/FTP server is not possible, right?
Yeah well, every Linux geek always has a huge flock of Windoze sheep to take care of. That is why we honestly wish that MS would really improve Windoze, so that we don't have to deal with so much crap.
Consider that this was written about 300 years ago, some 200 years before Darwin:
THE superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant. Further, the superstitious man is governed by the fanatic and becomes fanatic. Superstition born in Paganism, adopted by Judaism, infested the Christian Church from the earliest times. All the fathers of the Church, without exception, believed in the power of magic. The Church always condemned magic, but she always believed in it: she did not excommunicate sorcerers as madmen who were mistaken, but as men who were really in communication with the devil.
To-day one half of Europe thinks that the other half has long been and still is superstitious. The Protestants regard the relics, the indulgences, the mortifications, the prayers for the dead, the holy water, and almost all the rites of the Roman Church, as a superstitious dementia. Superstition, according to them, consists in taking useless practices for necessary practices. Among the Roman Catholics there are some more enlightened than their ancestors, who have renounced many of these usages formerly considered sacred; and they defend themselves against the others who have retained them, by saying: " They are indifferent, and what is merely indifferent cannot be an evil."
It is difficult to mark the limits of superstition. A Frenchman travelling in Italy finds almost everything superstitious, and is hardly mistaken. The Archbishop of Canterbury maintains that the Archbishop of Paris is superstitious; the Presbyterians make the same reproach against His Grace of Canterbury, and are in their turn treated as superstitious by the Quakers, who are the most superstitious of all in the eyes of other Christians.
In Christian societies, therefore, no one agrees as to what superstition is. The sect which seems to be the least attacked by this malady of the intelligence is that which has the fewest rites. But if with few ceremonies it is still strongly attached to an absurd belief, this absurd belief is equivalent alone to all the superstitious practices observed from the time of Simon the magician to that of Father Gauffridi.
It is therefore clear that it is the fundamentals of the religion of one sect which is considered as superstition by another sect.
The Moslems accuse all Christian societies of it, and are themselves accused. Who will judge this great matter? Will it be reason? But each sect claims to have reason on its side. It will therefore be force which will judge, while awaiting the time when reason will penetrate a sufficient number of heads to disarm force.
Up to what point does statecraft permit superstition to be destroyed? This is a very thorny question; it is like asking up to what point one should make an incision in a dropsical person, who may die under the operation. It is a matter for the doctor's discretion.
Can there exist a people free from all superstitious prejudices? That is to ask-Can there exist a nation of philosophers? It is said that there is no superstition in the magistrature of China. It is probable that none will remain in the magistrature of a few towns of Europe.
Then the magistrates will stop the superstition of the people from being dangerous. These magistrates' example will not enlighten the mob, but the principal persons of the middle-classes will hold the mob in check. There is not perhaps a single riot, a single religious outrage in which the middle-classes were not formerly imbrued, because these middle-classes were then the mob; but reason and time will have changed them. Their softened manners will soften those of the lowest and most savage populace; it is a thing of which we have striking examples in more than one country. In a word, less superstition, less fanaticism; and less fanaticism, less misery.
Maybe the Iranian Mullahs should ban breathing, food and water too, since we do all that in the west. That will solve the whole problem permanently, rather quick.
Lawn does nothing??? Comeon, lawns are excellent at fixing carbon. Think of all those clippings going off to be buried at a land fill. If it is always buried together, then in a few million years, it will make a nice coal bed to be exploited again for electricity production...
I took a little 6 inch plastic propellor and a tiny electric motor and tried to see whether I can make a AAA battery charger for my MP3 player. What I found so far, is that in a stiff breeze on the outside deck, I can coax about 200mV out of the motor. That isn't enough to overcome the forward voltage drop of a single diode, so I'm kinda stuck still. To make by AAA charger and do my good for humanity, I'll need a surprizingly large fan so i can turn a bigger motor, or I'll have to wind my own alternator.
At least, that would explain why most programming suck so much.
I know only two autistic people - yes, it is *that* uncommon - and they don't particularly like to watch TV at all - too much movement and noise I guess, so this whole 'study' is suspect to me.
Simple: You build it in one place, then tow it to where it is needed. That makes installation really easy. The Russian navy is using a number of decommissioned nuclear submarines to power small coastal towns. This is the same idea, but without the submarines...
Yup, one can safely chew and swallow plutonium (some crazy scientist actually did that as a demonstration). The only damage will be to your teeth. It would be like chewing on a steel nail. With a half life of 25000 years, plutonium doesn't radiate, so the main danger is that it is a little poisonous, but to do anything, it needs to dissolve and being a solid metal, that doesn't happen easily, so if you swallow a plutonium pellet, it will pass through your body quite harmlessly. Compared to that, the liquid mercury is much worse and we eat mercury all the time in the form of salmon, tuna and dental fillings...
It is the schtuff with short half lives that are problematic and since they decay rapidly, they become less problematic rather quickly - a self correcting problem.
The real danger of a nuclear power plant lies in the Chernobyl type of fire, where the whole place goes up in smoke, creating a huge mess. This risk is reduced by building the reactors differently. Chernobyl was a carbon mederated reactor, so the obvious solution is to eliminate the carbon from the reactor design and modern reactors don't use carbon, for this very reason.
Hmm, Diesel locomotives can be used during emergencies to provide power. Those things can churn out enormous amounts of power, about half a megawatt, which is enough to supply power to quite a few city blocks.
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Of course, the copy now in possession of the legislator/FBI is the only copy, right? So, if the FBI can just keep this *one* copy off the streets, then everything will be fine, right? Putting it on a web/FTP server is not possible, right?
A hash, hmmm. That just means that YOU don't know what it means, but Opera still knows. They have the database that the hashes map to.
Well, there are only about ten people who use Opera, so their servers won't get overloaded... ;)
Well, obviously THEY know what the hash mean.
Yeah well, every Linux geek always has a huge flock of Windoze sheep to take care of. That is why we honestly wish that MS would really improve Windoze, so that we don't have to deal with so much crap.
Consider that this was written about 300 years ago, some 200 years before Darwin: THE superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant. Further, the superstitious man is governed by the fanatic and becomes fanatic. Superstition born in Paganism, adopted by Judaism, infested the Christian Church from the earliest times. All the fathers of the Church, without exception, believed in the power of magic. The Church always condemned magic, but she always believed in it: she did not excommunicate sorcerers as madmen who were mistaken, but as men who were really in communication with the devil. To-day one half of Europe thinks that the other half has long been and still is superstitious. The Protestants regard the relics, the indulgences, the mortifications, the prayers for the dead, the holy water, and almost all the rites of the Roman Church, as a superstitious dementia. Superstition, according to them, consists in taking useless practices for necessary practices. Among the Roman Catholics there are some more enlightened than their ancestors, who have renounced many of these usages formerly considered sacred; and they defend themselves against the others who have retained them, by saying: " They are indifferent, and what is merely indifferent cannot be an evil." It is difficult to mark the limits of superstition. A Frenchman travelling in Italy finds almost everything superstitious, and is hardly mistaken. The Archbishop of Canterbury maintains that the Archbishop of Paris is superstitious; the Presbyterians make the same reproach against His Grace of Canterbury, and are in their turn treated as superstitious by the Quakers, who are the most superstitious of all in the eyes of other Christians. In Christian societies, therefore, no one agrees as to what superstition is. The sect which seems to be the least attacked by this malady of the intelligence is that which has the fewest rites. But if with few ceremonies it is still strongly attached to an absurd belief, this absurd belief is equivalent alone to all the superstitious practices observed from the time of Simon the magician to that of Father Gauffridi. It is therefore clear that it is the fundamentals of the religion of one sect which is considered as superstition by another sect. The Moslems accuse all Christian societies of it, and are themselves accused. Who will judge this great matter? Will it be reason? But each sect claims to have reason on its side. It will therefore be force which will judge, while awaiting the time when reason will penetrate a sufficient number of heads to disarm force. Up to what point does statecraft permit superstition to be destroyed? This is a very thorny question; it is like asking up to what point one should make an incision in a dropsical person, who may die under the operation. It is a matter for the doctor's discretion. Can there exist a people free from all superstitious prejudices? That is to ask-Can there exist a nation of philosophers? It is said that there is no superstition in the magistrature of China. It is probable that none will remain in the magistrature of a few towns of Europe. Then the magistrates will stop the superstition of the people from being dangerous. These magistrates' example will not enlighten the mob, but the principal persons of the middle-classes will hold the mob in check. There is not perhaps a single riot, a single religious outrage in which the middle-classes were not formerly imbrued, because these middle-classes were then the mob; but reason and time will have changed them. Their softened manners will soften those of the lowest and most savage populace; it is a thing of which we have striking examples in more than one country. In a word, less superstition, less fanaticism; and less fanaticism, less misery.
Darwin is so old, the future tense would be an insult to both him and Origin of Species...
Early space cameras were single pixel and scanned their surroundings by their rotation.
Early fax machines worked the same way, but spun the paper around while the single photocell moved linearly left to right.
Hmmfff - Guess I'm giving my age away...
Maybe the Iranian Mullahs should ban breathing, food and water too, since we do all that in the west. That will solve the whole problem permanently, rather quick.
I can just imagine the noise generated when that woer-woer is spinning around.
Lawn does nothing??? Comeon, lawns are excellent at fixing carbon. Think of all those clippings going off to be buried at a land fill. If it is always buried together, then in a few million years, it will make a nice coal bed to be exploited again for electricity production...
does it run MythTV? If it does, then it may be a nice box.
where's my tea... I guess Tic tac toe is one step up from that.
You'll need to use cancer cells for your photolysis tank. Ordinary cells will die.
no matter how you cut that case mod, it ain't gonna fit on your desk.
will it run Vista?
it just takes one helluva long time to renew.
I took a little 6 inch plastic propellor and a tiny electric motor and tried to see whether I can make a AAA battery charger for my MP3 player. What I found so far, is that in a stiff breeze on the outside deck, I can coax about 200mV out of the motor. That isn't enough to overcome the forward voltage drop of a single diode, so I'm kinda stuck still. To make by AAA charger and do my good for humanity, I'll need a surprizingly large fan so i can turn a bigger motor, or I'll have to wind my own alternator.
Hmm, 50W - something tells me they are not using Intel processors...
At least, that would explain why most programming suck so much.
I know only two autistic people - yes, it is *that* uncommon - and they don't particularly like to watch TV at all - too much movement and noise I guess, so this whole 'study' is suspect to me.
Hmm, also install a wind generator in your chair, so that whenever you fart, the power can be fed back into the grid...
Why? Because there is something wrong with your math maybe?
Simple: You build it in one place, then tow it to where it is needed. That makes installation really easy. The Russian navy is using a number of decommissioned nuclear submarines to power small coastal towns. This is the same idea, but without the submarines...
Yup, one can safely chew and swallow plutonium (some crazy scientist actually did that as a demonstration). The only damage will be to your teeth. It would be like chewing on a steel nail. With a half life of 25000 years, plutonium doesn't radiate, so the main danger is that it is a little poisonous, but to do anything, it needs to dissolve and being a solid metal, that doesn't happen easily, so if you swallow a plutonium pellet, it will pass through your body quite harmlessly. Compared to that, the liquid mercury is much worse and we eat mercury all the time in the form of salmon, tuna and dental fillings... It is the schtuff with short half lives that are problematic and since they decay rapidly, they become less problematic rather quickly - a self correcting problem. The real danger of a nuclear power plant lies in the Chernobyl type of fire, where the whole place goes up in smoke, creating a huge mess. This risk is reduced by building the reactors differently. Chernobyl was a carbon mederated reactor, so the obvious solution is to eliminate the carbon from the reactor design and modern reactors don't use carbon, for this very reason.
Hmm, Diesel locomotives can be used during emergencies to provide power. Those things can churn out enormous amounts of power, about half a megawatt, which is enough to supply power to quite a few city blocks.