Close. The entanglement is created by the fact that the photon COULD HAVE chosen either one. Because the photon was not observed in such a way that it had to collapse into particle-ish behavior, the photon never had to choose which one to hit. Therefore, each crystal was AND was not hit by the photon. They only 'decide' who took the photon when the rest of reality (e.g. an observer, or an interaction with another incident particle) needs to know exactly who took it.

RFI doesn't even require a pin or wire to be a dipole -- RFI works just as well against a single pin acting as a monopole, since the device's case is almost certainly grounded and so can act as the other pole.

The daily peak power load in the south can be laid at the feet of air conditioning. Likewise for the daily peak load in the north for heating. Peak load is what compels states and utilities to con$$$truct more powerplants. If they can just get peak load down, average load can go way up, and it's all gravy to them.

Yes, that is the selling point used to win over the ballast into allowing those things on their houses.

Information also flows upstream. That information will be used to prove you guilty. It will not be available to you for use in proving yourself not-guilty.

I have seen the phenomenon with my own eyes. Houston has a red-light camera system, but civilians have not been told that it also logs license plates. "Authorized users" can remotely access the system in order to find out which intersection a particular license plate last crossed. It is used to track people down, usually for arrest.

Yep yep.

Remember when knol was first introduced? It was supposed to be a "verified wikipedia", written by experts. Those experts (you, me, anyone) were to spend a lot of time, effort, and domain knowledge in writing high-quality articles... and in return we would receive a per-click royalty. This would incentivize the creation of actionable content that would something something revolutionize something synergy something leverage.

I remember thinking through the subjects for which I am credible authority, and considering whether to produce some knols in order to develop a bit of side income. I very seriously considered it... and judging from some of the knols I've seen, lots of other people went all the way.

Now we see how it all ends up. Just like the DRM game ended up. "Oh, sorry users, but this quarter we have decided that the project isn't profitable. Or we just hired a new VP and he's shaking things up. Or whatever. We're closing it down, so f*** you and your investment, you're just an externality."

I will now NEVER, EVER contribute content to a for-profit enterprise. Be it amazon reviews or knols or sidebar markups or whatever, that's it, I'm done.

It doesn't work that way. A license expires after 10 years, but renewal is free and practically effortless, so everyone renews forever. The number of ham licenses will therefore always be "at an all time high" because of the ratchet effect created by free renewals.

My father has been a ham since the 1960s, but hasn't touched a radio in three decades.

Sorry to yank off your warm fuzzy blanket, but if you carry a cellphone and use it to make calls, your privacy is exactly bupkis because the cellular companies are already inside your kimono...

Your physical location is already tracked real-time, and accessible to people whose career advancement requires wrecking your life (law enforcement). Whereas all Google et. al. want to do is sell you stuff you want, or sell your information to other people who want to sell you stuff you want. They know where you are and they will use that information to prove you guilty -- but not to prove you not-guilty.

Your social connections are also already logged vis-a-vis your call logs, MMS logs, and email records, again accessible to people who are incentivized to get convictions without any primary concern for guilt or innocence. Whereas Google and friends just want to figure out which commercials to show you.

You act like someone on board the Titanic, who is so utterly intimidated by the prospect of sinking in the arctic that you lock yourself in your room and obsess about how to prevent the waitstaff from spilling a drink on you. You are worried about all the wrong things.

I agree that crop subsidies are teh stupid, but the corn health problems are real. In addition to acidosis, corn-fed cows have problems with liver failure from (corn) aflotoxin concentration, as well as founder and ulcers. It's not a secret either, just do some googling.

That principle was abruptly defenestrated under pressure from the agricultural sector. Even the very precious vancomycin, a "last line of defense" against multiple-drug-resistant pathogens, is being fed to cows now.

The alternative is expensive beef. Antibiotics are needed in order to fatten cows on corn. The alternatives are all much more expensive, but at least they are compatible with a cow's stomach lining. Unfortunately that would mean doubling the price of beef. If that happened, then the ballast would be shrieking at their congressmen within the hour ("McDonalds sez they hafta raise the price a'burger by two dollar!"), and boom, we're right back to corn.

The problem of antibiotic use in animals falls into the class of long-term abstract hazards that democracies cannot solve. Democracy can solve only those problems that are concrete and short-term painful.

Modern industrial cattle operations feed cows corn because calorie-for-calorie it is the cheapest food available for cows. The problem is that cows evolved to eat grass, not grains, so their stomachs aren't suited to it. They come down with stomach acidosis, and they will only live about six months once the corn diet begins.

While they are alive, they get infections via the stomach ulcers. So antibiotics are mixed into the corn to somewhat protect the stomach at least long enough for the cows to get obese for market.

I didn't choose the word 'obese' lightly. Industrial cows are literally obese, which is why their meat is so fatty. Fatty meat is easier to cook, and us dumb Westerners have been trained to prefer fatty meat ("nicely marbled").

Grass-fed meat not only has lower fat content (indeed -- it must be cooked differently than the obese meat from the grocery store), but the fats are different. I switched my family to grass-fed after I read the analysis of fat content from my local grass-fed distributor.

They deliver by UPS in insulated boxes packed with dry ice, so everything is still frozen when I get home and pick the box up off the porch.

Not to mention Golda Meier, former PM of Israel.

Not only does that chart use an irregular Y axis that makes Gates' performance seem more steady and reliable than it actually was...

...but it doesn't bother to mention the dot-com bubble popping in ~2000. The fact that Ballmer kept their stock price up, while everyone else was losing theirs, is no small feat.

Please don't post any more dishonest crap from zdnet. I passionately distrust and loathe Microsoft, especially now that the B&N revelations are out. There is so much to hate about them, we don't also need to fabricate indictments of Ballmer.

I never said otherwise... and reading your well-thought-out post, I see we already think alike on this subject.

I am one of those Camus-style thinkers who, on seeing that in our world "All is permitted" (Camus quoting Machievelli), develops a moral code and takes it seriously, even though "in reason, there is no reason to", as they say.

And yes, I'm aware of Rand's credible effort to rationally derive a moral code, which is entirely correct yet can't (to my satisfaction) answer the free-rider problem.

That teaching method was originally introduced in the 1960s as "Look Say". It was part of the general ideological overhaul of public education, of which the "New Math" was also a part. It all sprang from Russel et. al.'s philosophy of Behaviorism, which pointed away from man-the-rational and towards man-the-animal. Hence reading by memorization rather than by rational system (phonics).

Since then it has been discredited and so it had to change its name, I think it's called "Whole Language" now. It still competes with Phonics. This new research suggests the reason why Look Say is not the total failure that I and others predicted. However, it has a bit of difficulty explaining why (as others in this thread have pointed out) we can so easily read words whose internal letters are jumbled, so long as the first and last letters are correct.