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I suppose you would of rather the Russian’s won. The world has missed a golden opportunity to make this world safer after the end of the cold war. Europe is as much to blame as Bush. The free world is more interested in bickering amongst one another then standing for freedom and human rights. There may not be a leader capable of uniting the free world any time soon like Bill Clinton could.

Wikipedia has some good information. Apparently it is only put in water to help speed up the decay of the fastest decaying particles. It is later extracted, the water is removed and it is made into a glass like substance that takes a million years for water to dissolve. It sounds quite stable. Apparently France reprocess the waste but there process creates a considerable amount of waste water.

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

At least you’re consistent. The Clinton administration was the first administration to say it is justified to use military action against nations that Harbor terrorist. I suppose that it is your opinion that war by proxy against the US is not a legitimate reason for self defense. Would you hold these views if nations were sponsoring and sheltering terrorists to attack Canada?

Has anyone tried this. It is kind of neat

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html

I’m curious Robert. Were you also against Clinton sending cruise missiles into a country to try and get Osama Bin Laden in response to an embassy bombing?

Why do we assume each black hole emits one gamma ray burst per day? Does the frequency or size of a gamma ray burst depend on the size of the black hole?

Translation is secondary. First we have to find a signal. We can recognize signals because they follow well defined patterns. For instance frequency and amplitude modulated signals have a distinct carrier frequency. For the signal to be intelligible the signal should be well above the background noise.

Thus a frequency band should be chosen that is not generally produced by natural processes and is not easily absorbed while traveling though space. Alien races will probably not use amplitude or frequency modulated signals since they are more susceptible to noise. More likely they will use a spread band signal as I discuss in the following threads:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5165
http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5160

They will probably also use an error correction scheme that can correct for dispersion.

What is your bias for these assertions? Anyway, I am against legislating morality regardless of weather it is attributed to religious people or secularists. As for Sharpten did you see when he was interviewed  by Glen Beck. They agreed on more then you think. You may not like all of Sharpten’s methods but I consider him more enlightened then most politicians

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ … gb.01.html

There was a sighting of an oval shapes vehicle over O’hare Airport recently. My usual inclination is to believe such sightings are a hoax but I remember seeing hypothetical pictures of wingless hypersonic vehicles. I can’t find the one I was looking for but I found this picture:

http://curta.ueuo.com/images/aerei/B3/s … nic-2.html

Unfortunately, I can’t find any description of such a vehicle on the web so perhaps it was just something someone random drew on their computer. Please post any pictures of wingless aircraft you know. It is not that I believe the person actually saw something but it is fun to imagine.

Here is an odd piece of Tria:

"Big Cyc ("Cyc" is Polish for "Tit") is a Polish rock band formed in 1988.

The band is well-known in Poland for their controversial behaviour. The cover of their first album, Z partyjnym pozdrowieniem (Polish for With a Party greeting), was an image of Vladimir Lenin with a Mohawk hairstyle. The title of their second album, Nie wierzcie elektrykom (Don't believe electricians) refers to the Polish president Lech Wałęsa, an electrician by education. Their fourth album cover, Wojna plemników (War of spermatozoons) featured a nun drying condoms on a clothes line. In May 1999, the band leader Krzysztof Skiba was charged with indecent exposure and fined the equivalent of $308 for mooning the Polish prime minister Jerzy Buzek during a festival in February 1999."

Perhaps Cyc is the mother of AI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Cyc

I’ve heard about multi agents before. A student that had the same supervisor as me was doing his thesis on multi agent systems. He was building a system for an oil company to combine multiple fault detection techniques. I don’t think human’s work in this fashion because personally I can’t concentrate on very many things at once. Although the human mind has a highly parallel architecture.

Today I was thinking about how AI could be applied to a diet program. I was thinking how on packaging they list the ingredients in food but they don’t tell you how much of each ingredient. However they give the composition of the food in terms of vitamins and if you assume the composition of the food in terms of vitamins is made up of a linear combination of the ingredients you should be able to estimate how much of each ingredient there is.

One might try to solve this problem with matrix inversion but some ingredients with virtually no nutritional value will lead to an ill conditioned matrix inversion. Say you have access to visual basic, MATLAB and not a lot of money to by extra packages for visual basic. You might write a short script in visual basic to solve the problem based on ridge regression because it keeps you having to worry about numerical issues like pivoting.

You might write one or more complex techniques in MATLAB to deal with the problem because it has built in algorithms created by experts in their field. Now the visual basic algorithm you can probably run as a thread in the background or maybe it will be fast enough that you won’t even to bother to run it as a thread. It will give you a crude quick answer and let you proceed.

MATLAB is a large process and you might want to access it via a server on another computer. It can only handle one process at a time and two instances of MATLAB running on one computer don’t share resources well. IF the algorithm in MATLAB is sufficiently more complex it might take a while and even if it runs quick, the MATLAB resource could be tied up solving a more difficult problem that you previously requested it solve.

As a consequence you might have to wait for the answer. The main program can do two things. It can create an ID representing the problem and each answer can be uniquely stored and linked to the question so it can be used when needed. With this kind of architecture you can use the crude answers to provide early solutions to problems and will have access to better answers latter to improve the solution. Thus in my diet example as you enter in new food information, you can get a quick answer of what you ingested and later in the day if you are curious you can check to see if more sophisticated techniques changed that answer much.

Another point is have the program set up to use several techniques will allow people to utilized what packages they have available. Not everyone may have access to complex software packages running on other computers so if these auxiliary systems aren’t configured the software will still be able to function and return an answer.

To each there own. Not everyone would agree with you:

'"Give me liberty or give me death" is a famous quotation from a speech made by Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

The speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having single-handedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. In attendance were Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Reportedly, the crowd, upon hearing the speech, jumped up and shouted, "To Arms! To Arms!"'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_li … e_me_death

“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself…."-John Stuart Mill (1868)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill