Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 315
The cost of a traditional print newspaper subscription is supposed to cover the distribution costs -- that is, to pay the carrier. Advertising pays for everything else.
[citation needed]
Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 572
Hello there slashdot user "ionix5891"
Could you tell me more about those supposed Usenet/Torrent/Http/Ftp servers that you run?
Sincerely yours,
Not the RIAA
Comment Re:Snow Leopard? More like SLOW Leopard! (Score 1) 647
He's trolling trolls. It's all very meta and hard to understand. I wouldn't try too hard if I were you.
Comment you're a dumbass (Score 3, Informative) 333
Your analogy is flawed. A CEO is responsible to his shareholders and can be replaced if he does a bad job. This is more analogous to a democracy, where, in theory a leader doing a bad job can be voted out and replaced. A CEO who was such by birthright, had absolute power and held no responsibility to anyone other than himself would very likely be worse than a CEO responsible to shareholders, like a leader responsible to the people would be better than one not responsible to anyone.
Benevolent dictators are not unheard of, but are definitely in the minority.
Comment Re:Copenhagen interpretation (Score 1) 521
Second, in my mind the Copenhagen interpretation is impossible to prove because you can never really know what the wavefunction is doing before the observation, and this is why it's an interpretation
It seems that "in my mind" is the latest code-word for "I don't know what I'm talking about".
You would have been right until 1964. That's the year when John Bell showed that it makes an observable difference whether the particle had a precise (though unknown) position prior to the measurement or not. It was more or less Bell's Theorem that settled the Bohr-Einstein debates - in which Bohr claimed particles had no precise position prior to their measurement, and Einstein claimed they did but QM was incomplete as it only provided a statistical interpretation - in favor of Bohr, making the Copenhagen Interpretation the orthodox view in the community.
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