Well, our civilization. Civilization arose in several places independently, including India, several places in the Americas, China, and Egypt (Its civilization developed mostly independently of the Levant & Fertile Crescent), and perhaps elsewhere, too.
I think there's a difference in the level of thinking required to realize that you can bang two sticks together and seeking out a hollow stick of just the right dimensions and cutting holes at the appropriate intervals such that when you force air through it you can control the kind of sound it makes.
Not that that means you're less intelligent for being happy with banging two sticks together (that's about the degree of musical aptitude I possess), but one obviously takes a little more forethought to produce. This just goes to show that the gulf between "primitive" humanity and "modern" humanity really ain't so great as we once thought. You're right, though- this probably wouldn't so much shed light on the origins of music so much as it fills in details of its early days. I believe musical instruments- including flutes- have been found at Neanderthal sites as well, and earlier than this one.
The evidence strongly suggests that smoking heavily (5+ joints per diem), daily, for years at a time impairs short-term memory. That's not a common usage pattern AFAIK.
While I don't believe deploying wind farms all over the damn place is the best solution, this study does demonstrate that there's a ton of energy out there waiting to be used. We need a mixture of many different sources of energy: some wind, some solar, maybe nuclear, some hamsters on wheels, etc. We have options.
One of the upcoming features is a way for Firefox to send websites your location information based on a best-guess provided by Google (or your location-guesser of choice) once you've expressly okayed it. From the sound of it they try to extrapolate based on nearby wi-fi hotspots and your IP address.
This isn't really the kind of information I would like to share, and I imagine other people might not like it either, so to just disable it so you won't even be asked, do the following:
The British still ignored them. Result: full out warfare and for the want of a 10% drop in basic tax, a few MP's and a end to the tea and cotton taxes, they lost the entire American colonies...
They lost 13 colonies. They did, however, retain all their other holdings in North America, hence the existence of Canada.
Of course, I'm still missing the biggest point here - since when do they need FFMpeg for HTML 5 support? It doesn't require any patented codecs, and they could always use DirectShow filters.
Not if they want to port it to Mac or Linux, which, while it's coming glacially slow, is indeed coming.
Holding hands is regarded as something lovers do here.
The only way I'd regard it as bad for men to do it would be if they did it in the wrong place or around the wrong people and they got the crap beaten out of them, or worse, killed. There are people with very definite views on the evils of homosexuality here.
I believe he's saying that the RIAA are trying to either stall or wear down the defense with frivolous motion after frivolous motion. While it's up for debate whether or not the judge will allow it to happen, that's not the point. The point is to waste time and energy by introducing as much noise into the process as possible.
The RIAA have deeper pockets than Jammie so they can afford to waste time like that longer.
What really facilitates technological advancement is agriculture, and for agriculture you need to look to warmth. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and the like are not known for their harsh winters yet where did our civilization come from?
For thousands of years civilization is what happened in the hot places of the world. Babylon, Israel, the Assyrian Empire, the Persian Empire, Uruk, the list goes on.
Additionally, in support of your point someone further down the discussion linked to Publication 525 from the IRS which requires you to pay taxes on bribes, kickbacks and stolen property.
Are you referring to the Tax Act of '37? That was repealed in 1970 as part of the Controlled Substances Act, since the CSA did outright what the Tax Act could only do indirectly: make marijuana illegal*, only the CSA was far more sweeping.
*for those unfamiliar with the history of weed law, the Marijuana Tax Act levied a moderate tax on anybody dealing commercially in weed but in order to pay the tax you had to first prove that you hadn't been paying the tax and were thus in breach of the law, and it levied heavy penalties on people thus incriminated. The courts eventually ruled that the requirements were a breach of the 5th Amendment but not until 1969.
The only problem with that is that it's not a very rare process. Seems like every other week some scientist has looked somewhere odd you'd never suspect and has found organic chemistry happening there. All life (as we know it, Jim;)) is organic chemistry, but not all organic chemistry is life.
I installed Ubuntu for the first time last year, and man, I was disappointed.
Right out of the box, so to speak, there were problems:
1. NVIDIA graphics card drivers weren't installed because they were proprietary. Come on. Even then, dragging windows around and typing into text boxes had a minor delay that didn't feel natural.
I never got those by default with Windows. I would actually argue Ubuntu has had an edge over Windows in this regard because for several releases now the process for enabling those kinds of restricted drivers has been:
be notified of the option of using restricted drivers
open the driver manager by clicking the notification
click "install"
I never got anything so convenient and well-integrated with Windows.
But yeah, Ubuntu gets over-hyped by the faithful. Like, it's a good OS and all but it has its limitations which get glossed over. I especially feel ya with the fonts. Even with the web-safe fonts installed they still look like ass to me.
Altogether I think that whoever it is who comes up with these expressions is not mathematically or scientifically literate.
Altogether I think that people who read phrases like "the only constant is change" and flourish a physical constant as counterevidence have completely missed the point of the expression.
It has often been said that change is the only constant in the 21st Century.
I've never heard that applied specifically to the 21st century. It's an oddly-specific use of the phrase: does that imply that change has not been constant in other times? Empires grow and fall, cultures collapse or are swept away or conquered by the next Big Empire, customs change, ethnic identities change, etc etc. The only unique thing about the 21st century is that we've inherited a tradition of rapid technological change. Technology is important but it's hardly the only thing that changes over time and it strikes me as fairly myopic to single out the 21st century as a time of change.
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Well, our civilization. Civilization arose in several places independently, including India, several places in the Americas, China, and Egypt (Its civilization developed mostly independently of the Levant & Fertile Crescent), and perhaps elsewhere, too.
That was not lost on me :)
I think there's a difference in the level of thinking required to realize that you can bang two sticks together and seeking out a hollow stick of just the right dimensions and cutting holes at the appropriate intervals such that when you force air through it you can control the kind of sound it makes.
Not that that means you're less intelligent for being happy with banging two sticks together (that's about the degree of musical aptitude I possess), but one obviously takes a little more forethought to produce. This just goes to show that the gulf between "primitive" humanity and "modern" humanity really ain't so great as we once thought. You're right, though- this probably wouldn't so much shed light on the origins of music so much as it fills in details of its early days. I believe musical instruments- including flutes- have been found at Neanderthal sites as well, and earlier than this one.
Dammit, why did I have to spend my last mod point on a throwaway "funny" mod in a different discussion an hour ago?
The evidence strongly suggests that smoking heavily (5+ joints per diem), daily, for years at a time impairs short-term memory. That's not a common usage pattern AFAIK.
Geez, what a waste of money.
I coulda told them why for only $100,000!
While I don't believe deploying wind farms all over the damn place is the best solution, this study does demonstrate that there's a ton of energy out there waiting to be used. We need a mixture of many different sources of energy: some wind, some solar, maybe nuclear, some hamsters on wheels, etc. We have options.
Our energy use isn't quantified solely by electricity. For example, oil use counts as energy use but oil is not electricity.
The fact that it was awarded is public knowledge. What it covers is not public, or a good deal of it.
This isn't really the kind of information I would like to share, and I imagine other people might not like it either, so to just disable it so you won't even be asked, do the following:
All information summarized (read: stolen wholesale) from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/
The British still ignored them. Result: full out warfare and for the want of a 10% drop in basic tax, a few MP's and a end to the tea and cotton taxes, they lost the entire American colonies...
They lost 13 colonies. They did, however, retain all their other holdings in North America, hence the existence of Canada.
Perhaps he was checking it out in Rawhide? The only reason F11 is being released today and not a week ago was because of a bug in Anaconda ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html ), and the only reason it wasn't released two weeks ago was because of another bug in Anaconda ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00007.html ). If he wasn't affected by either bug there's no reason he couldn't have been testing it for a while now.
Just for context they performed a major rewrite of the storage subsystem in Anaconda this release.
Of course, I'm still missing the biggest point here - since when do they need FFMpeg for HTML 5 support? It doesn't require any patented codecs, and they could always use DirectShow filters.
Not if they want to port it to Mac or Linux, which, while it's coming glacially slow, is indeed coming.
Holding hands is regarded as something lovers do here.
The only way I'd regard it as bad for men to do it would be if they did it in the wrong place or around the wrong people and they got the crap beaten out of them, or worse, killed. There are people with very definite views on the evils of homosexuality here.
I believe he's saying that the RIAA are trying to either stall or wear down the defense with frivolous motion after frivolous motion. While it's up for debate whether or not the judge will allow it to happen, that's not the point. The point is to waste time and energy by introducing as much noise into the process as possible.
The RIAA have deeper pockets than Jammie so they can afford to waste time like that longer.
Leastways, that's what I took away from it.
Storing food is no great feat.
What really facilitates technological advancement is agriculture, and for agriculture you need to look to warmth. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and the like are not known for their harsh winters yet where did our civilization come from?
For thousands of years civilization is what happened in the hot places of the world. Babylon, Israel, the Assyrian Empire, the Persian Empire, Uruk, the list goes on.
There's no accounting for state law.
Additionally, in support of your point someone further down the discussion linked to Publication 525 from the IRS which requires you to pay taxes on bribes, kickbacks and stolen property.
Are you referring to the Tax Act of '37? That was repealed in 1970 as part of the Controlled Substances Act, since the CSA did outright what the Tax Act could only do indirectly: make marijuana illegal*, only the CSA was far more sweeping.
*for those unfamiliar with the history of weed law, the Marijuana Tax Act levied a moderate tax on anybody dealing commercially in weed but in order to pay the tax you had to first prove that you hadn't been paying the tax and were thus in breach of the law, and it levied heavy penalties on people thus incriminated. The courts eventually ruled that the requirements were a breach of the 5th Amendment but not until 1969.
You missed the end, where they explain that it was just some swamp gas.
The only problem with that is that it's not a very rare process. Seems like every other week some scientist has looked somewhere odd you'd never suspect and has found organic chemistry happening there. All life (as we know it, Jim ;)) is organic chemistry, but not all organic chemistry is life.
Wow! I don't even have to compile it from source?
I installed Ubuntu for the first time last year, and man, I was disappointed.
Right out of the box, so to speak, there were problems: 1. NVIDIA graphics card drivers weren't installed because they were proprietary. Come on. Even then, dragging windows around and typing into text boxes had a minor delay that didn't feel natural.
I never got those by default with Windows. I would actually argue Ubuntu has had an edge over Windows in this regard because for several releases now the process for enabling those kinds of restricted drivers has been:
I never got anything so convenient and well-integrated with Windows.
But yeah, Ubuntu gets over-hyped by the faithful. Like, it's a good OS and all but it has its limitations which get glossed over. I especially feel ya with the fonts. Even with the web-safe fonts installed they still look like ass to me.
Altogether I think that whoever it is who comes up with these expressions is not mathematically or scientifically literate.
Altogether I think that people who read phrases like "the only constant is change" and flourish a physical constant as counterevidence have completely missed the point of the expression.
It has often been said that change is the only constant in the 21st Century.
I've never heard that applied specifically to the 21st century. It's an oddly-specific use of the phrase: does that imply that change has not been constant in other times? Empires grow and fall, cultures collapse or are swept away or conquered by the next Big Empire, customs change, ethnic identities change, etc etc. The only unique thing about the 21st century is that we've inherited a tradition of rapid technological change. Technology is important but it's hardly the only thing that changes over time and it strikes me as fairly myopic to single out the 21st century as a time of change.