StringJunky

I am of the opinion that those who have committed harm to their fellow citizens relinquish their right to have a say in the governance of their society for a period until they will cause no more harm. You should not give any power to someone who is at a high risk of wielding it with malicious or reckless intent. This seems at odds with your previously expressed desire where you want sensible, pragmatic selectivity with regards to civilians having arms, yet you appear here uncompromisingly ideological in this matter, in a manner similar to those who covet the apparently "inalienable" right to bear arms? Your position on voting rights for everyone is a noble aspiration but pragmatically very precarious for society methinks.

How do we know there's a sound? He can't hear it. You are not the observer; he is.

I think the important thing is to stick to the limit of the question. Because the word 'sound' is used we must address it in that context but if the word 'perturbations' was used instead the answer could be different. Semantics matters in this case otherwise we couldn't share and address the subtleties of the world around us because single words could mean different things, potentially leading us to bark up different trees. In philosophy, this ability to distinguish subtleties with different words is an important skill. This is all imo of course.

Does a right have to be absolute i.e. no conditions attached?

If we couldn't do both we would have no sense of 'self' because one needs to be able to think in the second-person to do that.

Yeah I know, but you know how it is between 'you lot and us': two nations divided by a common language. This looks the job for you; check the size of your drive to be sure, which is 3.5": http://www.amazon.co.uk/L803B-Drive-Enclosure-External-compatible/dp/B000JK769E Although W98 is not listed there it says you get a cd containing the W98 driver with it.

In English-English, one has a licence (noun) but one is licensed (verb). It's probably an English mag. Have you tried just copying the files you want to a usb stick and then putting them on your new computer? Edit: Just noticed you said it was just a drive. To do it yourself, you need a compatible external harddrive enclosure I think and then it will just be like a normal drive you can read and take stuff off. The W98 OS won't work but still readable and extractable. Just done this myself with a screwed up W7 computer, It cost about 20ish dollars in your currency (£14). A shop might cost more.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3489206/run-windows-98-programs-in-windows-7/

It's not just a gap in reading; it's a gap in a way of thinking and worldview. Rectify it at once MigL and buy all the books as a post-Christmas present to yourself.

Concentration (not easily distracted) and dedication i.e committed.

Read that first article; very interesting. I've always had a soft spot for worms and humus. I am not averse to saving a worm stranded on a path to be placed back on a friendlier surface. I am in agreement with the author: it is not the "invasive" worms fault; it's us.

A lot of the modern hardware and software standards are incompatible with Windows 98. It can be run in a virtual machine run by a modern PC though I think.

Yes, Google paying £11m Corporation Tax on £3.4bn UK revenues is a fine example of the level they'll stoop to.

Science doesn't do proof; we are not doing maths. If we can ascertain to a confidence level exceeding 95%, then that conclusion will be judged to be correct.

Residual percussion effects in the ground around the tree resulting from it falling and structural trauma in the tree itself.

By understanding the conditions and behaviour required for trees to grow the way they do.

Extra-terrestrial exploration is a fine balance between available energy, weight, resources and the limitations of communicating with something so far away. Having tools in situ that can give us the experience to the level that CGI gives is not feasible to do 'live'.

The way I look at it is that sound is an experiential thing and necessitates an observer whereas perturbations don't. I suppose it depends on what those perturbations interact with, and the product of that interaction, that determines what we call it. For example those interactions could have a visual product rather than a sonic one via some appropriate device/sense.

Happy New Year to everyone.

I assumed he was referring to "Hitch-hikers Guide...".

We know that a falling tree produces a sound, when we are there which is the result of perturbations, so we extrapolate that in our absence, the tree will very likely produce perturbations. We can only be sure to a high degree of probability but we can't be certain ..if we are being pernickety about it.

A sound is something experienced by an observer, so, in the absence of one there is no sound BUT there are perturbations travelling through the air/ground from the falling tree which could be sensed as sound if an observer was there. I think it's an observer-dependent phenomenon.

If you want to mess about with Hosts, Hostman is handy tool for interacting/modifying it. You can select hosts lists as well to download with it.

http://www.wettropics.gov.au/site/user-assets/docs/butterflydefencestrategies.pdf

Right. I don't often look at the Who's Online list so I don't notice.It'll only interest Cap'n Refsmat as admin and the general site computer geek I think...that's a software nuisance rather than a people one. We've spoken about XRumer before PMing. I think he does what can with it but it's always evolving with any new forum countermeasures as you probably realise.