Citation?
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1
UK teenager arrested for anti-war Facebook post
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/232192.html
April Jones: Matthew Woods jailed over explicit Facebook comments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/08/april-jones-matthew-woods-jailed
You're totally off-base. At least in that a few thousand people is not sufficient to give a large likelihood of a match. If it did, it would mean
that DNA databases would be useless for solving crimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
Even though my linux desktop machine runs for long periods without needing rebooting, there are exceptions:
My several year old Pioneer television runs linux. It crashes and reboots if I change HD channels more than 5 or 6 times.
My roku box needs to be rebooted from time to time.
So does my android phone.
burning old platform in the North Sea
should be
burning oil platform in the North Sea
My cell phone and google voice numbers certainly aren't in the phone book.
Also:
India 1947
South Africa 1994
U.S.A. 1964 (Civil Rights Act)
This is sort of like the idea that there are temperatures less than absolute zero. These would be negative kelvin temperatures.
The idea being that 0k means 0 energy, you would then have anti-energy, possibly anti-matter, and anti-physics.
Of course it's all just hokum, but hey, it's fun to theorize.
Negative absolute temperatures are fine. You just get a population inversion, such as in the case of lasers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
is the psychological technical term for what often happens I believe...
The classic deindividuation experiment concerned American children at Halloween. Trick-or-treaters were invited to take sweets left in the hall of a house on a table on which there was also a sum of money. When children arrived singly, and not wearing masks, only 8% of them stole any of the money. When they were in larger groups, with their identities concealed by fancy dress, that number rose to 80%. The combination of a faceless crowd and personal anonymity provoked individuals into breaking rules that under "normal" circumstances they would not have considered.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/24/internet-anonymity-trolling-tim-adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation
WTF? Go cry me a river. Since when does a company ( that isn't a monopoly ) have to be fair and charge 'reasonable' prices? Especially to the competition...
Here's one example:
Reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (RAND), also known as fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND), are a licensing obligation that is often required by standard-setting organizations for members that participate in the standard-setting process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing
Dimming incandescent bulbs does not save a significant amount of electricity.
Yes it does, but it's not a 1:1 reduction. Here's a detailed analysis from, where else but, Poultry Housing Tips (University of Georgia).
http://www.poultryventilation.com/sites/default/files/tips/2009/vol21n14.jpg
The problem is that at least the vast majority of religions come with "standard" texts that contain explanations for where, for example, humans and the Earth came from ("creation myths"). When science discovers information that conflicts the these texts, the texts are not typically discarded or revised, as would be the case in science. This sets up an automatic potential conflict between science and any religion that claims to provide real information about the physical world. (Except if a case was found where the "standard texts" of a religion actually were actually confirmed from genuine scientific research.)
A "religion" might exist without physical world predictions, but then it would probably be much more of just an ethical movement (e.g. such as vegetarianism) than a real religion. Possibly Unitarian-Universalism and some types of Buddhism could be such "light" forms of religion.
After the announcement, Nokia stock price has gone down 15 % from yesterday's closing value at OMX Helsinki. So, not the kind of announcement the market was expecting, it seems.
"Buy the rumor, sell the fact"
e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market#Market_psychology
WRONG. There was NEVER consensus as to the cooling. Not ever. In fact, it was never more then a tiny percent of climatologist.
You can try to pretend that cooling was "never" predicted. However, the inconvenient truth is that the seminal, and highly cited, work of Strummer et al. (1979) clearly predicted an incipient increase in ice coverage. As they stated (repeatedly):
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
At least, that's the only work I know of from that era that predicts another ice age soon...
So in the future I should have super docile, conformist babies that fit the cookie cutter notion of how a baby should look? No thanks, I'll just stick with chance.
But people don't usually stick with chance. In general, they prefer to very carefully choose who the other provider of 50% of the DNA of their child will be.
I also live in the "boondocks" - the Washington D.C. metro area.
I have almost no cell phone signal at either home or work.
However, it works pretty well for me even so because I can use T-mobile's calling over wi-fi to
get a pretty good voice service on my phone. (There's no additional charge for this.)
I'm using a plan, which may be discontinued now, which gives me a ~$10 lower charge/month because I
provided my own phone. So, overall it works reasonably well for me most of the time.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
