Comment: Lets toast... (Score 1) 39
lets try without poison this time!
Comment: Re:Begins? (Score 1) 519
Yes, since 1984
Comment: Re:Question (Score 1) 128
Actually, the amount of hydrogen used within a star before it starts to collapse is just a fraction of the total amount the star contains. It is only the hydrogen in the very core that runs out.
Hydrogen in outer layers cannot get into the center, since it is blocked by heavier elements over time, and hence cannot fuse.
If we (humanity) in the future could come u with a way to stir the star, so more of the outer layers of hydrogen could get into the center, then the Sun could run for more than hundreds of billions years. (Instead of a few billion we have left now)
Comment: Only 22% ? (Score 5, Funny) 142
There's a 78% chance we're not living on an earth-like planet. It does however support life. Are their models really that good?
Comment: Re:WTF (Score 2) 377
The real question is, can it withstand fracking underneath?
Comment: Re:You don't get to hire smart people for this job (Score 1) 743
You are missing the third category, the "Brillant" people.
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx ...they are in a category of their own.
Comment: Re:nuce, but not quite technically correct.. (Score 1) 255
nope, 451 is the perfect number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
Comment: (Farenheit) 451 (Score 1) 255
This is too good. I mean no coincidence it is the same number as Ray Bradberys dystopian novel "Farenheit 451", about censorship where books are outlawed, and firemen burn all that are found...
Comment: Really bad idea (Score 1) 93
With digital voting it is really easy to sell your vote, or to force someone (like members in a family) to vote in a certain way. Since who's to stop coercion when nobody is around?
Comment: Re:Government-run Utility (Score 1) 355
Here is one solution. (Slides are from 2009, but it still works.)
http://www.slideshare.net/eCommConf/26-brough-turner
This is the way it's done in Stockholm/Sweden. Lowest price and a ton of isp's to chose from (like 300 in stockholm)
I pay like 12 dollars a month for 100/100. Have been for 6 years... could get faster like gigabit but I'm lazy.
http://www.slideshare.net/eCommConf/26-brough-turner
This is the way it's done in Stockholm/Sweden. Lowest price and a ton of isp's to chose from (like 300 in stockholm)
I pay like 12 dollars a month for 100/100. Have been for 6 years... could get faster like gigabit but I'm lazy.
Comment: While we're at it just drop 3D at the theaters (Score 1) 120
It sucks imho... at least for me it's more of an immersion breaker than anything else. Get it right or don't do it at all.
Comment: Re:We need gas control! (Score 4, Insightful) 1591
What you really need is an agenda that keeps to a minimum the number of people who wake up one morning and say - "Alright, this is it. Society has chewed me up, stepped on me, brought me to such rage that the only thing I can think of is blind rage. I want to die and take as many other people with me as I can". If someone gets to that point and is even mildly resourceful, he will find a way to get what he wants, guns or no guns.
The difference between guns and knives is that guns make the slaughter really much more easy. You know like point and click easy. It's because guns were invented after knives as a way to kill with more ease. Don't present these tools to crazy people as an option to solve their demented problems, regardless of if they are resourceful or not.
It is simply not true that mildly resourceful people get what they want regardless. The harder it is to acquire or do something, the more likely it is that it will not be done at all. It works like that for all other aspects of human endeavors, not sure why you think this differs from it.
Comment: Re:What violation of his rights? (Score 2) 923
You are wrong. Sweden has to follow its own laws, and cannot give special treatment to any person. This explains it pretty well I think. It is from Dagens Nyheter, the largest morning news paper in Sweden. (it's google translated to english)
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fnyheter%2Fvarlden%2Fasyl-till-assange-ar-ett-slag-i-luften
To quote from the end of it:
Foreign Minister Patino claimed that they had sought to obtain guarantees from Sweden that Assange would not be extradited in the event of a request from the United States. According to Ove Bring, it would be completely unreasonable for Sweden to issue such guarantees.
- Who will guarantee it? The Supreme Court can not anticipate its own trial. If there is such a request it must be handled in the usual way.
- Then the government can stop the extradition even if HD have said yes, but it can give no assurance at this stage. This would mean that the government ran over the judiciary and said that it means nothing. So it will not work in a democracy, says Ove Bring.
It has nothing to do with if Julian is being reasonable or not. He is suspected of a crime on Swedish soil. In a democracy you cannot give one individual special treatment.That is what you do in a dictatorship.
Comment: Re:I hope.. (Score 5, Informative) 304
Life is not prisoner's dilemma. It's iterated prisoner's dilemma because people can actually build up reputations. It's been shown that the best stable strategy is tit-for-tat plus forgiveness.
Do you have a reference? I would be super-thankful.
I think he might be referring to this where Richard Dawkins explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EWLj3gIJ8
Comment: Re:We need a meta-meta-critic (Score 1) 131
But was it a 2 or a 10?
Apparently to them, it was.
Sure it was, but should they be at Metacritic? Anyone can rate anything without looking if they like to, but it will be of little or no use to anybody else.