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Third-wave feminism is pretty much dead nowadays, and 4th wave is having a very hard time figuring who they should hate.

Wired had some blog piece where they measure pieces and got a standard deviation of 25 microns. A standard deviation would never cut it as a tolerance at shops I've worked with, which either expect all pass on a pass fail test for smaller, important runs, or at least a pass rate of 90-95% for cheaper, volume stuff. So that would be closer to two standard deviations. Those tolerances are pretty typical for small ABS parts (and similar to many machined parts), assuming you do quality control. The expensive part is not necessarily finding an injection shop that is way above average quality, but paying for the quality control and contract details to make sure the shop pays attention. And it is not like the same tolerance applies to every dimension.

Sigh, I was hoping links to paywalled articles would go away with the new ownership. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

Link to non-paywalled article here.

Yeah, why not something like 'northern Russia'?

But I guess that would conflict with the mention of North America in the write-up, which makes no sense.

Not likely

Everybody knows that the wifi protocol was defined in RFC-666. They'll tell you that RFC stands for 'request for comment,' but we know it stands for 'Refuse the Father and Christ.'

Use this handy chart to decode what YOUR kids are REALLY saying:

• LOL - Lucifer our Lord
• YOLO - Youth Obeying Lucifer's Orders
• SWAG - Satan's Wishes Are Granted
• ROFL - Rise, Our Father Lucifer
• BRB - Beelzebub Rules Below
• WTF - Worship The Fallen

Don't even get me started on Monster Energy drinks.

The Germans apparently ate sawdust during WW1: The foul black bread that was served was known as kriegsbrot, which translates to war bread. The recipe is quoted from the records of the German food providing ministry published in Berlin in 1941 was "50% bruised rye grain, 20% sliced sugar beets, 20% tree flour (sawdust), 10% minced leaves and straw" - https://books.google.ca/books?...

What about cinnamon? Woodn't that qualify as wood food too? Definitely more natural than eating shoes or drinking socks tea.

The Germans apparently ate sawdust during WW1: The foul black bread that was served was known as kriegsbrot, which translates to war bread. The recipe is quoted from the records of the German food providing ministry published in Berlin in 1941 was "50% bruised rye grain, 20% sliced sugar beets, 20% tree flour (sawdust), 10% minced leaves and straw" - https://books.google.ca/books?...

Terrorist pretty much all look dress alike.

You are the racist one that assumed that terrorist dress like Arab peoples. You brought race (Arabs) in by calling the GP a racist. The GP did not mention anything about Arab culture or any other culture. He only said that terrorist dress alike which is verifiable.

Stop being a muslim apologiest. Fuck off.

Baby boomers are the ones getting the net jobs in all of the atest employment numbers. The people are coming out of retirement thanks to the inflation created by the fed ( money printing and 0% interest rates).

All of the job gains went to people 55 and over. Between 24 and 55, 35000 jobs were lost. Men age 24-55 lost 119000 jobs.

The only people who are getting jobs are 55 and older and some women 24-55 years old.

Yes, there were national fads that came and went—and the practice wasn't always universal, albeit beneficial for legibility to an inexperienced reader and safer for the type. By making the spaces not a fixed part of the block, it was still possible to remove them for tighter typesetting in limited spaces and to make sure there weren't unnecessary gaps at the ends of lines. Here's an example from 1808 that puts spaces around colons and semicolons, but not apostrophes, periods, or commas—and quotation marks are handled irregularly (they're hard to find, but there's an example on page 132, at the bottom.) For a comparable debate, German can be typeset with four different quote patterns (normal English-style quotation marks, using double low-nine inverted quotation marks, guillemets, and inverted guillemets, which is the style used in Switzerland.)

demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think bearing children is the ultimate meaning of life.

Try this on for size:

demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think having sex is the ultimate meaning of life.

men are willing to have sex with just about anything that crosses their path, which I guess explains the two guys that had sex with a porcupine

Claiming women can't bring sufficient concentration to a problem because of their interest in child-bearing is as lame as claiming men can't because of sex.

While I broadly agree with you I have to (slightly) disagree on a particular point: women are more risk averse than men when it comes to sex. Being risk-averse in a particular field (say... sex) means spending more time contemplating it. Being less risk averse means spending less time contemplating it.

Sex is more important to women than to men; they take more care in evaluating partners because, from an evolutionary perspective, those that didn't get the "who'll be the daddy" part right didn't procreate. Men didn't need to exercise the same care because the number of children they can have is limited only by the number of females they can impregnate. Women had a limited number of opportunities for offspring, hence women took more care in ensuring the best offspring possible, with the best possible father-figure possible (not always the same man).

demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think bearing children is the ultimate meaning of life.

Try this on for size:

demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think having sex is the ultimate meaning of life.

men are willing to have sex with just about anything that crosses their path, which I guess explains the two guys that had sex with a porcupine

Claiming women can't bring sufficient concentration to a problem because of their interest in child-bearing is as lame as claiming men can't because of sex.

Probably this

They should have called this thing Cymothoa Exigua instead.

These tests are not pseudo science from my understanding, if you have not been drinking they will return that result.

No, not pseudoscience, but a) not necessarily good science, and b) that assumes the Breathalyzers are properly designed, built, maintained, regularly calibrated, used, reported and recorded.

Those are awfully big assumptions to make, especially when so many, like, you, assume that they're infallible magic boxes.

Breathalizer source code analysis. Slashdot discussion thereof

a) Not American
b) Nederlands is the *Dutch* word for Dutch
c) Vlaams is the *Dutch* word for Flemish
d) The local vernacular varies wherever you go. Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean it's universally that way. Take http://popvssoda.com/ for example. If you ask someone in California for a "pop" they likely wouldn't know what you're talking about while someone in Montana would. Here's a university reference for for Begian-Dutch: https://translate.google.ca/tr...

Yes, it depends on the anti-corrosion additives that are in the water. The proper ones block copper oxidation. Back when I was a young engineer, we had a boiler system that was protected this way, and we took samples evry month and sent them off to the boiler chemical company, who then sent us a list of actions to rebuild the additive prifile.

I expect external cooling towers are much the same, as this search reveals.
Just text to schedule, add the chemicals and all is well.

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Dig down, I did cast a wide net.
I found this on page 2.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionna...

and this, more directed search, gives more.

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

but the 2P is correct, this should be a solved problem

But, we forgot about lazy, cheap people.
Yes, chlorine or hydrogen peroxidation would solve this, but require some method to maintain the antiseptic aspect.
Copper sheeting might shed enough Cu ions for many years, but would ne replacing as it eroded away.

Newly installed cooling towers deal with this, as this search shows.
https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Even Vannevar Bush understood this, and he figured this out in the 1940s! It's hard to imagine why people have a difficult time with this.

But he wasn't smart enough I guess, he totally didn't understand that computers will get better therefore anything is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This space propaganda is just so much rhetoric.

https://books.google.ca/books?...

According to google statistics, 21% of Americans already use IPv6 to access the web. Unless something goes terribly wrong, I don't think they'll need to free up any IPv4 blocks, well, ever.

It's really difficult to reason with those who have emoted themselves into a position, but at least you gave it a try. It's always amusing to hear them cry science! as if everyone who disagrees with them is a moron. How many of the five tactics below have we seen repeated ad nauseum from the climate doomers over the past 20 years or so?

“Theorists of propaganda have identified five basic rules:

1. The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a single confrontation between ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Friend and Foe’.

2. The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one’s own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity: presenting one’s viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: drawing the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star performers, by social pressure, and by ‘psychological contagion’.

5. The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.”

In no way have those who have made endless extraordinary claims provided any extraordinary evidence. It's precise (but not accurate), "sophisticated" models and the precautionary principal all the way down, while consuming government grant money at an unprecedented pace.

I wonder if it would be possible to fabricate a compressed net that could be shot from a bow for 25-30 feet that would open up and foul the propellers, which would ground the drone with minimal destruction.
I agree with the property owners aggravation, but the use of a gunshot to deal with it is excessive.

Using google shows I am not alone.

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Because the PFS video is a hoax.

My guess is that IPv4 will be functionally dead within 5 to 10 years:

https://www.google.ca/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Free IPv4 /8

IPv4 address daily assignment rate

WTF?! When was the last time you've ever heard of a dogfight?
June 17th, 2015

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

It's been disproven using the very data that 3rd wave feminists claim it's from, that it is a myth. And no, those studies generally skip it, omit or fudge the data.

Doesn't work.

This is with verbatim turned on: https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

It's nearly the same with it off: https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

Doesn't work.

This is with verbatim turned on: https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

It's nearly the same with it off: https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

The advanced search fails similarly to using quotation marks:

https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

https://www.google.com/search?...

The last is done with the advanced search. Every result on the first 10 pages does not even contain the string for which I searched.

No human owns the rights to the genes in your seeds...

You are technically correct, but only because corporations own those rights.

Holland?

So now I need to fax the receipt to them because they have never heard of this thing called email.

response

https://scholar.google.ca/scho...

I agree though, the world would be a better place if journalists writing pieces on science were expected to provide references.

Found the problem, you have to be logged in to Facebook to see it. Or you could Google it.

Just how many >200 miles trips do you do a year by car that you won't stop ?

About 8 to 10 a year.

Stopping 30 mins to charge every 200 miles isn't the end of the world.

Not at all... except that unless you are driving south of about the 49th parallel, the routes you can take are extremely limited... instead of taking a direct route from A to B, you must drive a distance that can get to be two or even three times as far.

200 miles is at least 3 hours of driving and probably much more depending on traffic.

Traffic is not a huge issue on the freeway.

I know my bladder would be an issue long before the battery would. I would need to stop before 3 hours.

It takes 5 minutes for a rest-stop, maybe 10 minutes to fill up a car with gasoline, and 30 minutes to charge at a Tesla supercharger station. The latter might not sound too bad if you do it once every three hours or so, and you could still clock in 1000km in a day with that, but that time does not account for how long you may have to wait in line just to use a supercharger. Because of how sparsely they are distributed particularly in Canada, in practice, there is going to be a wait time as well... which can be upwards of half an hour all by itself.

Further, It's my understanding that map I linked to includes all currently planned supercharging stations, and not just all currently existing ones, so that map represents about what one can expect for at least the immediately foreseeable future. Want to drive from Calgary to Regina. for example? Fuhgeddaboudit in an EV....

Trips from Vancouver to Calgary are feasable, as long as you are spending the night in Calgary, and can use an overnight charging facility when you arrive... but it's utterly unworkable to drive from Vancouver to Edmonton via Jasper, since there are no superchargers in Alberta north of Red Deer, and no superchargers in BC north of about Kamloops anywhere along that route.

I think it's fairly realistic to use a Tesla S if there are Superchargers available on the route you are taking.

Yeah.... *IF*. Or did you miss my parenthetical remark about recharging...?

...(with suitably spaced recharging facilities)...

First time in a long while I've seen intelligent commentary about testes on the internet. I have to admit that it's well written, though the thought of a "bell curve of average testicular temperature" did make me giggle internally a bit. I suppose at some time a group of scientists had to have mapped that out, but I wonder what the sample diversity was.Google actually comes with up an an interesting article regarding the curve of temperature in rat scrotums (wider ranging than humans by quite a lot, but then rats are fairly large in that area) and the thermal receptors therein

Show me where the founding fathers burned down private owned buildings and stole from private citizens not directly related to government action? There may be damage during the war but not riots.

PS. The Boston Tea Party does not count as it was a direct protest against the Tea Act in 1773.

It's really not that big: google earth picture of the location from sat.

The pictures make it look like it's an entire city, but really it's just a small area. Of course, they don't show you aerial views because that would stop any sort or rational opinion from forming on the subject.

Um.That's how it used to be and nobody ever complained about it being too difficult. You spoiled kids with your easy expansion slots

Your memory serves you well, the aluminium cans did not take off until the late 70's early 80's when the technology needed to recycle them was invented.

Disclosure: one of the inventors on that patent is my father, his other research was in solar panels, ocean thermal engery (otec), the aluminum air battery , the use of adhesively bonded aluminum structures such as the Jaguar XJ and hybrid diesel electric vehicles.

"Ocean acidification killed off more than 90 per cent of marine life 252 million years ago, scientists believe"
Nonsense published in The Independent in April 2015.

In an attempt to frighten people about rising CO2 and ocean acidification The Independent ran a story postulating ocean acidification could have been responsible for massive die-offs we know as major extinction events. This is unlikely. Translate "scientists believe" as "a couple of guys had a crazy idea and wrote it up.". In a climate of increasing CO2 this might resonate with some, but rising CO2 has now stalled.

Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide stalled in 2014
Preliminary IEA data point to emissions decoupling from economic growth for the first time in 40 years
http://www.iea.org/newsroomand...

If it was so acid why didn't the coral die out? It's by far the most sensitive to pH. The fact is, coral has survived 7000 ppm CO2 in the past much higher than the 400ppm of today.

http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

How? It has genes it can switch on that let it ignore heat and pH, that's why. Have they not surveyed all the literature?

Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change
In less than 2 years, acclimatization achieves the same heat tolerance that we would expect from strong natural selection over many generations for these long-lived organisms.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cont...

Palau's coral reefs surprisingly resistant to ocean acidification
January 16, 2014 - Marine scientists working on the coral reefs of Palau have made two unexpected discoveries that could provide insight into corals' resistance and resilience to ocean acidification.
http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ....

JJ Scheel (1968:Page 25) proved in the 1950s aquatic life doesn't care about pH at all which you can prove to yourself at home. Transfer any fish from water of pH 9 to water of pH 4.5 and back again - they simply don't care about pH. One of the great aquarium myths along with "nitrates are deadly" (Not with an LD of 2200 ppm for marine larvae they're not) and "Plant bulbs" are essential (no, intensity matters, spectrum not one bit).

It's a widely held myth they do but again, the literature suggests otherwise and I've verified it's right on countless occasions and you can too.

Mythbusters rates this one: utter nonsense. Supervolcanoes blocked out the sun. When you have no light, warmths or plant life, pH of the water, irrelevant to aquatic life, is the least of your problems. Every species alive today survived this, there's no reason to think they won't if it were to happen again - which is isn't.

Refs:
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ....
http://www.sciencemag.org/cont...
https://books.google.ca/books?...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

BCE Inc (the conglomerate that owns Bell Canada) is listed on the NYSE

range anxiety, ability to recharge cross-country, cold weather conditions

Here is a blog about someone's trip in a Tesla across the US in winter. I think that pretty much takes care of all of your points. But you might also be interested in the fact that Norway is one of Tesla's best customers. Here is a video of a Tesla P85D beating a snowmobile in a drag race on ice. And for your convenience, here is a google search with the query "Tesla cross country road trips".

I'm not sure why you have been marked "interesting" when your post is counter-factual or at least deceptive.

Google is your friend. (Unless you're searching for drugs, bombs, or how to commit jihad, I suppose....)

The late Ordovician Period ice age is the one I'm referring to.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=ice+age+7000+ppm+co2&oq=ice+age+7000+ppm+co2&aqs=chrome..69i57.6084j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

A choice quote from one of those links:

The highest concentrations of CO2 during all of the Paleozoic Era occurred during the Cambrian Period, nearly 7000 ppm -- about 18 times higher than today.
The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today.
To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today -- 4400 ppm.

While it doesn't say this, and I'm going from memory here, so I could be mistaken, I believe the Ordovician ice age started with CO2 concentrations at about 7000 ppm, and they dropped to 4400 ppm during the course of the ice age. But even if it was only 4400 ppm, that's still 10 times what it is today.

Moats can look good and can be crossable only at slower speeds:

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

There can only be one explanation for a phenomenon, and it can never have anything to do with climate change. So obviously sea level rise has nothing to do with it. Because, LIBERALS!

There can only be one explanation for a phenomenon, and it is always everything to do with climate change. So obviously falling sea levels has nothing to do with it. Because, CONSERVATIVES!

See how stupid that sounds when the shoe's on the other foot?

Yes, but that still doesn't cover a lot of places.
Here: City of 100k, 400km (248mi) from the nearest 1,000,000+ city,
My house: 8km (~5mi) from city center
Bus service: 7:00am->9:00pm hourly. Weekend service ends sooner. Some holidays with no service. Uptown (where much of the shopping is) requires a transfer in town.

Hardly a McMansion, and not far from city center, but also no way to get by without a car when you work late/early hours, are on-call, and/or don't otherwise want to walk through thick snow in the winter.

There *IS* a corner-store in my neighbourhood. If I just need a loaf of bread and some tomatoes I happily get some exercise and walk... but for anything more than that - frankly - you need a car.

(yes, it would be nice to have better bus service, but no luck with that thus far, and sometimes we're lucky if they clear our streets properly during a heavy snow let alone bike lanes).

Even in bigger cities, weather is sometimes restrictive for travelling by vehicle, let alone by bike or on foot. Further east you're lucky if you can get out of your house in some places.