Love is openness, fear is tightness and closeness in a battle for survival. Besides the complementary brain chemicals involved, remember Machiavelli's question to a prince: would you rather be loved or feared?

I understand it doesn't make sense when one is caught up in words.

I'll agree. It is a pain to simply copy mp3 files from my PC to my iPhone -- everything has to go through iTunes, which I never use, and which threatens to erase all music if you "sync", and when I did sync in order to copy those few songs I needed for a demo it erased a bunch of contacts from my phone.

I just googled for how you copy mp3s to Android and it's a simple file copy. If you go outside the use style Apple designed for you, you'll pay the price, and don't think it's worth it any longer.

No, the opposite of Love is Fear.

Giving birth is a major strain on the person's body. It is only normal that the person who goes through that strain gets more time to recover than the person who's merely emotionally involved.

This is why I like Slashdot! After reading "inklings of the battle" I opened the post just to see if people will take the bait or if they'll see it as empty. Glad to see it's the latter.

I think the fact that he defended himself vigorously after his brother's death shows he was not a forced party in that duo. If your monster evil brother is finally dead you'd be more resigned to whatever comes next.

But vacuum is far from nothing, from what I've read: it has infinite energy and a very complex structure, in terms of quantum physics. What we call "matter" is also a manifestation of energy (literally). So the universe is never empty, energy-wise, it just always appears differently.

And even if you do end up with 100s of 1000s of real users, the app and therefore the architecture will be different than what you're projecting in your mind now. "Premature optimization" is right on the money.

One thing re Bing Bang that now makes sense with the Higgs is this: fundamental particles that make up the material world have zero volume each. Mass is just a property of those zero-volume particles like charge is. So the total sum of volumes of all particles in the universe is exactly zero. It is not inconceivable that some force was keeping them all together in a singular point. Their total mass is finite (though huge), but the volume is zero, hence infinite density.

And as someone said below, the Big Bang theory is an inference, not a belief. Assuming that all of universe can be explained with math and that all that exists is the material world is a belief.

Neither was I until I saw this video by PhD Comics, about three months before Higgs discovery: http://vimeo.com/41038445. I checked with some physics PhD friends and they confirmed that it is an implication of the Standard Model. Protons, for example, are systems of quarks moving around each other, and quarks like electrons have zero volume. In some cases two different fundamental particles can be at exactly the same point in space. (However "different" and "point" and "space" and even "be" is defined by the SM.)

It's the craziest thing. Like when you remember something from a dream, say a car, and know the car wasn't made of anything solid, you can look at anything in reality and know it's essentially the same thing here.

Quite the opposite, it's the most exciting discovery because it confirms the standard model's idea that all the particles that make this material world are point particles -- particles with zero volume. Not just infinitely small but zero. The entire world is made of nothing, of moving twists in space. 100% empty.

That's exactly the sort of thing those financial analysts should know. That they don't just shows how useless they are, and Motley Fool in particular.

For no particular reason I'm going to toot my own horn -- I can't say I *saw* Groupon failing, but was certainly hoping for it:

        Re:This is what we value in this country (Score:1)
        by iMadeGhostzilla (1851560) on Saturday March 19 2011, @01:05AM (#35538564)
        > This is what we value in this country. Companies that spam coupons for the masses to buy more shit they don't need.
        Thank you! I thought I was going crazy seeing how so many people even *here* think it's cool, and these are people who are used to creating value. If I ever wanted to see a concept fail, it's this one.

Because Assange himself is a private person with lots of things to hide, he is able to think in terms of what it takes to get secrets out -- that is his obsession. Someone who spent all his life completely open, with nothing to hide, would not know the minds of secretive people and could not have made WikiLeaks.

What if we the people pool our resources, find patents with prior art, and submit requests for reexamination?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination

Hit the worst offenders first, then from that imbalance let them start a patent war -- use their nuclear weapons -- among themselves until the whole system unravels. Might that be possible?