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2.2e6 kph = 0.002c...

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Ok lets try your perspective, dumbass.

>At least 286 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.

>In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city.[14][15] Damage in the United States amounted to $65 billion (2013 USD). a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.

https://www.google.com/search?q=breezy+point+sandy&tbm=isch&

http://www.businessinsider.com/battery-park-flooding-2012-10

Why would there need to be? It is a matter of controversy whether passwords/phrases are protected from disclosure under the 5th amendment; but physical unlock fobs that can be seized definitely don't enjoy anything more than 4th amendment warrant requirements (and, on a bad day, probably not even that...) A physical fob makes the system markedly more accesssible to authorities, even ones acting within the law.

Right, if they got your phone, chances are that they took it off of you, and have your Skip-Chip as well.
(Its actually not really even a fob, its just something to slide over your pants pocket or belt. (Better Picture Here).
Comes in a set of three, because you WILL soon lose it.)

But with an APP, and a cheap NFC stickers you can make your own with any android phone that has an NFC chip.

Some states are Not allowing mobile device searches without a warrant warrants, but that is a trifling impediment. When they confiscate your phone, they will certainly find your "Skip" or they will simply take your phone into their lab an crack it via other means.

This thing is aimed at the casual user that keeps their phone on their desk, and needs to keep it locked to keep busybodies away from it. Its not meant as protection from the police.

nothing new here folks .... NFC Secure ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t3hh4xx0r.nfcsecure&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fingerprint%20unlock&c=apps

This may sound stupidly, blindingly, mind-numbingly obvious, yet: Hang Glider pilots have a specific "hook check" procedure to prevent them from jumping off a cliff without their glider attached. When performing a complex operation, humans are very good at forgetting easy steps irrespective of importance. Most commonly, you are supposed to announce when you hook in, and one of your wire crew should tug on the primary and backup lines to make sure both are attached. Google for hang gliding hook check and you will find instances where people forget.

Pick up glider. Proper grip. Wings level. Wind is smooth. Wind speed good. Wait! Lemme go get my water bottle! Unhook. Fumble around for water bottle. "Hey Joe, Bob is on deck to launch next, are you ready?" "Be right there!" Come back. Pick up glider. Proper grip. Wings level. Wind is smooth...

I haven't been around in years but the artists I knew weren't exactly wannabes. Or rich I once saw a friend polishing a big metal bean that looked weirdly artistic.

I was specifically referring to (among others) the second result using your search terms. This is exactly why I stated that you need to cite your own research. You're hung up on my reaching a different conclusion than you did - because you didn't cite your sources...even after I had asked for them. This is exactly why I said what I did - please go back and read it, and then please cite your sources next time.

With regard to the (summary of the) single scientific article that I read - the Cornell article, the authors specifically stated that the data was not sound and that it was a commentary on policy rather than actual science.

I have no idea what you're basing your opinion on. I prefer science - it's all I have. I still have no clue where you're coming from, and I don't have any definitive answers - I'm not trying to bullshit you, my friend. However, you've only offered presumption and Google search terms. I would be happy to discuss this with you when we're on even ground. Unfortunately, we're still not speaking the same language.

Until someone who buys your random numbers app sues you for your numbers being insufficiently random.

Ghandi.

Nelson Mandela.

Not saying Bradley Manning is in the same category. But sometimes people in prison do end up as powerful symbols.

Interesting contrast between Facebook and Google here - Facebook wants to organize all these companies and NGOs (each of which will have an agenda), where Google says (with Project Loon, http://www.google.com/loon/), let's just get them access and not try to overprescribe how it evolves or what they do with it - continuing with their "a rising tide lifts all boats", abundance mentality.

The title to this thread is slightly dated. There have been articles in the news recently that the obesity rate among American children is no longer rising, but is leveling off.

Google News Search On Obesity Rates

Actual supermarket profit margins statistics:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=204979

Buddhists follow a non violent religion [...] if they are true Buddhists they would not attack people[...] A true Buddhist is non violent [...] an extreme sect of Buddhism [...] cannot be call Buddhist.

So what you're saying is that Wirathu is actually a Welshman?

Buddhists follow a non violent religion [...] if they are true Buddhists they would not attack people[...] A true Buddhist is non violent [...] an extreme sect of Buddhism [...] cannot be call Buddhist.

So what you're saying is that Wirathu is actually a Welshman?

Nah. You just wave your hand around and the app learns the apppropriate behavior based on your gestures. Unfortunately, Google did it first.

Now, if only they could have used this to redo Metro, it might actually be usable.

There really is nothing TO discuss because if they haven't come up with some magical potion that keeps 100% of the ice crystals from forming AND a way to unfreeze without damage all they are gonna end up with when they thaw it is mush anyway. The way it was explained to me its not the flash freezing that is the biggest problem, after all you dunk a head in liquid nitrogen and it'll flash freeze alright, the problem is in the thawing as THAT is where all the damage occurs.

Actually, it's typically done these days using organ vitrification, which prevents ice crystals from forming. For most crypoprotectants used in the process of vitrification, you are limited to one cell type one which it has best effect. The CI folks mostly try their best to preserve the brain without freezing damage, at the expense of some of the other cell types. This has been successfully used on laboratory animal organ transplants for mammalian livers, kidneys, and hearts; the first reference is a patent on the method of prepping the organ, which the second is a PubMed article case study dealing with a rabbit kidney vitrification and subsequent live transplant.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5723282
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/

There has also been some interesting work in the last 5 years using in Japan using a 0.01 mT magnetic field. This prevents ice crystals from forming. The technique was originally developed by ABI, a Japanese company using a technique they call the "Calls Alive System", for storing sushi at cryogenic temperatures without permitting formation of ice crystals by triggerning through the glass phase change without normal expansion you would typically have with ice. The technique is currently being used for long term storage of live teeth, and has shown some merit for other larger organs:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20478291
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011224010000854

My point which you seemed to miss is that the 5 star rating of the Tesla in the NHTSA rating gives the appearance that it is a super safe car for front collisions but I doubt it will fare as well in the more realistic case of a partial front impact that the IIHS does.

And why do you doubt that? What do you know that I don't? Did Tesla completely leave out the side panel impact zones or something? It sounds like you have some insight into specifically how they designed the car.

In a NHTSA test Tesla uses the whole front end to stop the car safely if the sides were as rigid as an IC car it would stop too fast causing injuries to the crash test dummies. The sides of the IC car absorb the collision because the engine is in the middle and it cannot absorb it. When Tesla gets into a partial head on collision it won't have the whole center area too absorb energy, IC cars are built not to rely on the center so partial tests have less variance from full frontal impacts because they are still using the same structure to stop the car.

The Tesla is very safe for full frontal impacts but that is not a real world scenario

How is someone driving head-on into something else not a real world scenario? You're saying that never happens?

Head on accidents are rarely ever like the NHTSA test where the full front of the car is taking the impact, the vast majority are partial impacts, IIHS tests a 40% and a 25% which means 40% of the front bumper hit the wall and 25% of the front bumper hit the wall.

My point which you seemed to miss is that the 5 star rating of the Tesla in the NHTSA rating gives the appearance that it is a super safe car for front collisions but I doubt it will fare as well in the more realistic case of a partial front impact that the IIHS does.

And why do you doubt that? What do you know that I don't? Did Tesla completely leave out the side panel impact zones or something? It sounds like you have some insight into specifically how they designed the car.

The Tesla is very safe for full frontal impacts but that is not a real world scenario

How is someone driving head-on into something else not a real world scenario? You're saying that never happens?

I've made use of their same-day delivery service in NYC a couple of times now. Problem is, the cutoff time is quite early in the morning, so that usually it ends up being "next day" delivery. That said, at least in my experience, it works well and is reasonably cheap, at least for Prime customers. I just recently bought a gamepad (coincidentally, it arrived this morning, after ordering it yesterday afternoon).

Anyway, that said, Google is working on a similar service: http://www.google.com/shopping/express/about/

The main difference appears to be that Google isn't using its own warehouses: it's actually sending people to stores to pick up the stuff for people. So it works with retailers, instead of competing with them.

Of course, no matter what system or who is doing it, this sort of thing is only ever going to be feasible in urban locations.

Check the polls, 52% want it legal. The numbers have been steadily rising for 40 years, in 1969 it was 13% and 33% just ten years ago.

Here's a bunch of links.

check the top free apps - none could be made without code
it looks like MS wants quantity instead of quality - no wonder the only informative thing TFA has is the number of users and projects.

There are plenty

Well all I can say is google has thrown a wrench into my international smuggling scheme

Yup... see here.

See Google Apps Status Dashboard for more details (hover over red outage dots for times).

"We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 8/16/13 5:37 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
The incident lasted 1-5 minutes."

See Google Apps Status Dashboard for more details (hover over red outage dots for times).

Canada has had these for years. Check em out all over Google eh! https://www.google.com/search?q=dog+sled&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qpIRUsPeLqHOyAGx2oA4&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=993

That's very interesting. I'll note the caveats "currently" and "foreseeable future", so it's possible they will. There's also been murmurings about this happening because they are sitting on so much cash.

To me, without the possibility of dividends it's a pyramid scheme. You buy the stock because the company is doing well, but unless it happens to be gobbled up by a bigger company, without dividends you buy because you expect somebody else to buy as the company grows. The whole thing is built on air, and the real profits go to exorbitant salaries.

Mos Eisley is a suburb of Brumingham. It's got absolutely nothing in common with the city of London.

But people buy stock on the premise that dividends can be handed out. Take away the premise and the stock is almost worthless.

From Google's initial prospectus:

We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock.

We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future.

From Google's investor FAQ:

Does Google pay a cash dividend?

No, we have never declared or paid a cash dividend nor do we expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

So, if you buy GOOG expecting a dividend, you simply haven't done your homework.

    Bring out your dead!
    CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence.
    DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
    MORTICIAN: What?
    CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
    DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
    MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!
    CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
    DRIVE IN I'm not!
    MORTICIAN: He isn't.
    CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
    DRIVE IN I'm getting better!
    CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
    MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.

I'm religious because I think the advice in the Sermon on the Mount is generally good advice.

So you take parts that you like and ignore parts that you do not like? For that you do not have to be religious. You can do that without religion.

Here an interesting read: Even If I DID Believe ...

Part of the text below. Read it all on the link above.

If I had undeniable proof of the existence of Yahweh, aka Jehovah, aka Adonai, aka El Shaddai, aka Yahweh Elohim, the father of Jesus and the ancient leader of the Semitic peoples, I still would not worship the bastard. If an angel appeared to me and removed my appendectomy scar so I could never deny the reality of divine power, I still would not be a Christian. My primary reason for not being a Christian or Jew has nothing to do with my lack of belief in their god. My primary reason is that the Bible is a disgusting book describing the behavior of a god without the morality of an average high school student.

That God does what he wants, when he wants, without even an attempt at self-justification, and all for what reason? According to Paul, all for his own greater glory. Oh, how charming. For his own glory he condemns billions to eternal torment, drowns millions of innocent beasts and thousands of children, orders the slaughter of entire cities down to the last man, woman, and child, creates a race that he knows is flawed and will hurt itself (so that in their pain they can worship him better), refuses to deal with any other god on a friendly basis, restricts the normal expression of the sexual function, rains doom on those who dare to try to be as knowledgable as he is, and so on.

This is not the first time that a protocol that restores energy metabolism, or protects it, has been found effective. And not just in early-onset Parkinson's. See for example the work of Birkmeyer who developed a protocol around NADH and Co-enyme Q10 (both co-enzymes active in glucose metabolism). Or the use of coconut oil (for the lauric acid contained therein) as a dietary addition to provide ketones as an alternative for glucose to energize cells: also found effective for many Alzheimers patients.

The ketogenic approach is easy to try as coconut oil is readily available. The Birkmeyer protocol requires a few supplements, in particular stablized NADH to be taken on an empty stomach.

Here is some info about Germany (use Google translate):

http://www.test.de/Deutsche-Bahn-Wie-puenktlich-fahren-die-Zuege-wirklich-1617492-2617492/

Note in particular that people reached only half the train connections without problems.

Here are some more news stories (these probably aren't the best ones to illustrate the problems, just some examples):

http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-dienstleister/deutsche-bahn-bund-will-konkurrenz-auf-der-schiene-foerdern-seite-all/7154850-all.html

http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/wirtschaftsticker/verband-kritisiert-bahn-verspaetungen-schaden-unternehmen_aid_1067256.html

Try some comparisons between car and train routes:

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=chemnitz&daddr=fulda&hl=en&ll=50.785102,11.228027&spn=2.927746,4.493408&sll=50.951506,11.304932&sspn=2.917317,4.493408&geocode=FUWSBwMdGirFACnpnf0BX0anRzEc0XUJKPjdUQ%3BFaJrAwMdzbeTACktufnpSTSjRzEwq7ApUEMiBA&mra=ltm&t=m&z=8

Note that for trains, you usually lose a couple of hours due to scheduling: they don't run exactly when you need them to, and you need to leave an extra couple of hours to allow for delays and missed connections.

Trust me, I have traveled a lot on trains in Europe. It's great fun as a tourist when you don't have to worry about time or schedules; as a practical means of transportation, it sucks.

The original design capacity for Eurotunnel was supposed to be 30 trains per hour in each direction. But with the present signalling system (classic fixed block), it's only 20 trains per hour. They never reach that, though, much to the annoyance of Eurotunnel's financial backers. They have far more capacity than they need. Surprisingly, the tunnel hasn't totally replaced car ferries, although it did put the hovercraft ferries out of business. There are shuttles, through passenger trains, and freight trains all being funneled into the tunnels.

This is a real worry for SF to LA high speed rail. If built, it may be way underutilized.

If they did this, how would the index or process it? Of course these are services given in exchange for privacy--for some kinds of data it's worth it, for others it's not.

If they did this, how would the index or process it? Of course these are services given in exchange for privacy--for some kinds of data it's worth it, for others it's not.

So what unit did you fight in during the Second World War, or was 28 too old to be drafted? https://plus.google.com/photos/107393796095434664991/albums/5235534135256807809?banner=pwa

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1626&bih=960&q=cloud+atlas&oq=cloud+at&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1167.2233.0.3933.8.8.0.0.0.0.458.1361.3j3j1j0j1.8.0....0...1ac.1.25.img..4.4.407.mbVkATjVfeg#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=d_7VK3javq1loM%3A%3BBrz7rb7K34mdUM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geekadelphia.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F05%252Fcloud-atlas-war.jpeg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geekadelphia.com%252F2013%252F05%252F14%252Fcloud-atlas-hit-blu-ray-this-tuesday-impressions%252F%3B1280%3B800

8D Thats the way it is done do you not think so.

A number of patents have been issued for various methodologies for weather modification (which I suppose doesn't prove they work). But don't also forget that China openly brags about doing weather modification such as clearing smog for the Beijing Olympics or around other cities.

I wouldn't suspect they are the only ones.

Not to mention that part of the budget is for a fleet of high-performance chase cars:
https://www.google.com/search?q=U2+air+force+chase+cars

"NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds".

Change the name with another thing, which is also true:

Facebook Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds

In the former, everyone decries the organization. In the latter, every cherishes the organization.

I prefer to watch YouTube via Chrome (beta) on my Note 2. The app seems to have buffering problems from time to time.

For Google it does not stop with just the notice. e.g. I did a search on harry potter filetype:torrent and at the bootom I get:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

If you read the DMCA complaint, you can find the URL (and many more) that you wer looking for. Hilarious, I think.

See John Oliver's take on it.

(He actually pokes fun at the media coverage rather than at Teh Loop itself.)

Sure, I saw it. It was strings of jokes that were criticizing the idea based on the headlines and sound bytes regarding the idea, rather than the idea itself. It was a disappointingly shallow assessment of the idea.

Maybe it sounds crazy, but a lot of revolutionary ideas sounded crazy to everyone before they became common.

How about Steampower and the famous Napoleon quote, "Would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense."

Yes, i read the article and also a few more related articles about this... The link was to what Microsoft wrote on technet, ie their opinion of what is happening.. If you actually check a few more sources you can actually find a bit of history of how Microsoft have behaved since the start of this.
If a company blatantly ignores terms and continues to say that "we fixed it" without actually fixing the opposite party might become more and more strict on the terms specified for the service.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms
There you go.. It's for the publicly available API, not for the ad-enabled API but to get access to that you have to agree to a similar terms, and you have about the same level of documentation for that.

And just because they have not yet received the information does not make it ok for them to publish the application that fails to follow the terms. If they have problems to fulfill all the terms maybe they should pay google for a single person to do a simple "do we fulfill the terms now" test before they go public with the app.

I actually own a Windows phone, and it sucks that Google's acting like jerks. But really, what goes around, comes around.

Yes, MS has never used it's on secret API's in it's own OS, while leaving less efficient ones for everyone else to use. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/18/microsoft-secret-api-mobile/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Copyright_enforcement

Or like MS isn't suing Google various ways. https://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=10e5a3add6d6d99c&q=microsoft+suing+google&safe=off (too many different ones to list)

Or that MS CEO said they would kill google http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-5846243.html

So yes, Google are acting like the jerks here. (yes, this is sarcasm)