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I said that greenhouses work by suppressing convection, and you reply by showing an image of using plastic to suppress convection. Thanks.

And you ignore my comment about how the thermal inertia of the tree is irrelevant in comparison to the heat loss rate. Do I need to show you the mass? The tree will in minutes equalize to the temperature of the outside air. The only difference the plastic provides is blocking radiative exchange.

If you'd rather, maybe you'd prefer, say, this picture ? Or this, or this, or this? How well do you think this blocks convection? It has holes in it. Floating row covers are designed specifically to extend growing seasons by blocking radiant exchange without hindering plant respiration. What do you want, books covering the subject?

I'll reiterate: most frost occurs at temperatures above freezing

eh, too late

Gotta side with BlackBerry on this one.

Keyboards like this one...

http://0.tqn.com/d/ipod/1/0/w/...

...have been around for years.

However, one look at the "Typo" tells you that it's a blatant BB ripoff. If you want / need a keyboard like that, buy a 'Berry.

Yeah the farmers need to shift to a water wicking method or something similar.

The high evaporation rates is what is using up a lot of the water.

http://0.tqn.com/d/gardening/1...

Wasn't sure what Meg Whitman looked like, so pulled up a photo on the Internet. I see what you mean.

I think you may be misunderstanding what "less educated, less well off people" means. A certain level of context comes into play there when we're talking about most of the rest of the world versus the Western countries. For the purposes of that comment, "less educated" would refer to individuals who've had little (less than 5 years) to no formal, useful education (centers for extremist religious indoctrination where no math, science, or arts are taught don't count). When you have someone who lacks the benefits of formal education, they have very little knowledge of themselves or the world around them and are vastly easier to manipulate.

When I say "less well off", I'm referring to people living in poverty. Not the US "I-can-barely-afford-my-apartment-and-2000-calorie-a-day-diet-for-me-and-my-three-kids" poverty, but rather the "I-have-no-money-and-live-in-a-shoddy-handmade-structure-and-three-of-my-kids-have-starved-to-death" poverty. US military members aren't poor and they at least complete high school. While not rich and not all walking around with doctorate degrees, they're vastly better off and better educated than the masses of people being recruited to die for Islamic extremists. we're talking this http://0.tqn.com/d/usmilitary/1/0/4/V/4/housing.jpg versus this http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/81518477-palestinian-refugees-live-in-a-shantytown-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QUZstEgSEzISlVU9i%2Bk2NM7I4BN20ZTyd4sqKm4demhVCrzgOzt9RaiIcVVEh90eoFKxaxDWC0%2BLBeZUYpfF0vk%3D and this http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/files/2013/06/Classroom.jpg versus this http://micconference.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/madrasa.jpg. Let's be honest about the differences.

As for my stance sickening you, I find it odd that you feel the need to call out self-defense as sickening, but apparently feel no such need to call out the brainwashing of uneducated, poor masses of people to die in futile attempts to advance the agendas of sick and twisted cowards by convincing them to murder as many innocent civilians as possible in the name of a god who wants to reward them for doing so. Perhaps you should reconsider what's actually sickening.

Yes. It isn't like Microsoft developed the phone, in which case it would be a relative certainty which one the owner used.

Artificial? Or not?

I present you... Non-US keyboards!

They do annoy the heck of me tho.

These tortoises are more photographed than the mutant spawn of William and Kate will be once it's born. Lonesome George was a celebrity before Charlie Chaplin...I'm sure he's used to it by now. And the tortoises I saw when I went to the Galapagos were hardly shy...two of them were going at it for nearly an hour in front of a crowd that had gathered and they didn't seem to care.

The bigger concern is that they might have a ton of uncensored booby shots.

Why do we need "next generation" satellites? Why not build more of the same, which apparently have worked adequately for quite a while?

Car Analogy Warning: When fuel is your biggest cost, the price difference between launching a Model-T into orbit isn't really that relevant compared to launching a ferrari.

There's also the whole "technology improving" thing.
Imagine the current state of science if we were only using microscopes that "have worked adequately for quite a while"
Heck, feel free to compare and contrast a 1999 cell phone with one made in 2010.

1. We don't want toe clips.

Neither do racers. We want clipless pedals. These are toe clips. These are clipless pedals

2. We don't want handlebars that force you to hunch over.

If you are hunched over your bike isn't setup right. They make bikes for you.
http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/multi-use
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/town/recreation

3. We don't want tires that will go out of true after 200 miles on potholed roads.

Your "tires" don't go out of true. It's your wheels that do. And racing wheel are usually higher quality than the junk you find at walmart and are less likely to go out of true. As far as tires go you should want the skinniest tires you can find other wise you are just wasting energy on the pavement.

4. We don't want to spend any more than $500.

Spending the extra money buys you better components. IE. Shifters and derailers that in tune longer, Cranks that can be disassembled easier, bearings that are manufacture to tighter tolerances that won't wear as quickly.

5. Steel is fine. Really.

Aluminum is cheaper to manufacture now.

Sturdiness is hella more important than saving a few blasted kg. Yes. I said kg. Not grams. 6. We want a seat you can actually sit on.. Anyway, you see a lot of steel cruisers here with fat tires (but they are slick usually), wide handlebars, steel frames, and AFAIK most have on gear but they have handle brakes. People don't want overpricd finicky racing machines that cost as much as a car. We're not Lance Armstrong.

And the bike industry sell bikes for you.
http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/multi-use
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/town/recreation

Here's a guy saying that we should stop paying attention to the fact that he and his team helped deliver to regimes like Iran and North Korea thousands of sensitive documents

Name one way the documents have actually helped Iran or North Korea or actually helped the United States. You were you (or your father) also bleating that the Pentagon Papers 'helped deliver sensitive documents' to the Soviet Union?

no matter the consequences for people under cover or working against oppressive regimes

Nevermind that the Assange-hating DOD can't even come up with a single example of that, of course.
And of course nevermind the callous corruption revealed by those documents. What a good little fascist ostrich, you are.

Which charges have been piled against him by which governments? Please be specific.

Leak the sealed indictment from the U.S. and we'll know.

Of course you know you're being a shrill, bleating goat-troll, since no charges have been made against him by any government, only complaints by two women about which police in Sweden simply want to interview him.

Which makes it obvious that the UK ignoring centuries of precedent on diplomatic immunity and the refusal of Sweden or the U.S. to agree to not extradite him to Gitmo is in fact evidence of a witch hunt.

Go Cardinals!

Yet at the same time you've unambiguously stated that they are homosexual.

I can see only two ways out of this:
- either you're suggesting that there are no female athletes at the olympics, and that Caster Semenya is merely a little more obvious than most, or
- all Olympic athletes love male chickens.

While the latter may well be true, it feels a little oblique to the discussion at hand.

However, it's still quite beyond me how olympic athletes can be deemed faggots or faggots.

I can only conclude that you are in fact delusional and that olympic athletes represent a broad spectrum of sexual diversity and chicken consumption.

The UN does NOT represent YOU

I feel so much better with the US govt representing me!

Just watch: the minute the WSJ stops running editorials like this, the UN will take over! ;-)

;) Doing my bit to help: here are some posters to go with it

Personally, I think we should hit 'em where it counts the most: in their pocketbooks. If all travelers simply chose another mode of transportation they would VERY rapidly find themselves with several quite influential allies: the airlines, the "hospitality industry", etc. (and yes, there ARE practical alternatives, at least for "domestic" travel: driving is still possible despite our rapidly deteriorating network of interstate highways and besides that people just don't ask themselves this question enough anymore anyway!)

Well. they haven't YET started setting up traffic stops. Except maybe in Arizona and Alabama. But if it's alternative travel you want, forget the bus system and Amtrak. And, sadly, the Boston subway system.

Boycotting the airlines is a start, and one that I've done ever since 9/11, but the rot has spread too far and too deep and isn't slowing. It's time to stop taking baths and haircuts, join the "smelly hippies" and Occupy Something.

And, of course, vote out every (censored) public official that doesn't swear an oath to return the USA to the status of a Free Country. A pledge that should be FAR more important than Grover Norquist's.

Definition of "search"
In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that a search occurs only when 1) a person expects privacy in the thing searched and 2) society believes that expectation is reasonable. In Katz, the Supreme Court ruled that a search had occurred when the government wiretapped a telephone booth.[20] The Court's reasoning was that 1) the defendant expected that his phonebooth conversation would not be broadcast to the wider world and 2) society believes that expectation is reasonable. This is a threshold question in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, since the Fourth Amendment only protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. If no search or seizure has occurred, the court ends its analysis.

Stop and frisk
Under Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968), law enforcement officers are permitted to conduct a limited warrantless search on a level of suspicion less than probable cause under certain circumstances. In Terry, the Supreme Court ruled that when a police officer witnesses "unusual conduct" that leads that officer to reasonably believe "that criminal activity may be afoot", that the suspicious person has a weapon and that the person is presently dangerous to the officer or others, the officer may conduct a "pat-down search" (or "frisk") to determine whether the person is carrying a weapon. To conduct a frisk, officers must be able to point to specific and articulatory facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant their actions. A vague hunch will not do. Such a search must be temporary and questioning must be limited to the purpose of the stop (e.g., officers who stop a person because they have reasonable suspicion to believe that the person was driving a stolen car, cannot, after confirming that it is not stolen, compel the person to answer questions about anything else, such as the possession of contraband).[21]

So, clearly travelers

1. 1) Have no "reasonable expectation of privacy"
2. 2) Should understand that traveling by air constitutes "suspicious" and "unusual" conduct

Personally, I think we should hit 'em where it counts the most: in their pocketbooks. If all travelers simply chose another mode of transportation they would VERY rapidly find themselves with several quite influential allies: the airlines, the "hospitality industry", etc. (and yes, there ARE practical alternatives, at least for "domestic" travel: driving is still possible despite our rapidly deteriorating network of interstate highways and besides that people just don't ask themselves this question enough anymore anyway!)

Clearly Newt & Santorum hadn't caught the same chimp look in the way W did. http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/l/7/bush_chimp.jpg

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/n/U/moran.jpg

If you consider "Africa" a warzone then it may be better to brush up on your geography before you look into moving. Africa is huge. I live in Mozambique and just this country has a coastline 200 miles longer than the western coastline of the USA. Mozambique is an average size country for Africa.

Furs were big in the '60s, when the ultimate gift for a wife was a fur coat and glamour was Zha Zha and Marilyn.

"THERE IS NO COMMAND LINE IN WINDOWS... by hairyfeet (841228)
Protip: Never go full retard."

A listing of the 230 commands available from "command prompt" is here.

Of course, Microsoft says it is not a "DOS prompt", but, if it looks like a DOS prompt, talks like a DOS prompt and walks like a DOS prompt, then it must be a .... "Command Prompt":
http://0.tqn.com/d/pcsupport/1/G/R/5/-/-/command-prompt-windows-7.jpg

Translation: for Joe and Sally Sixpack it's a "DOS box".

(quote)ranting nonsense(/quote)

I'm not sure why you printed that. I never said "ranting nonsense". Unless you are just trying to use logical fallacies (like the Ford-supporters in my earlier post almost always do). Sometimes it makes me think that my decades of education was a waste of money (including those four years I spent at university studying the social sciences).

So based on your arguments, you seem to also be comparing the US to Hitler.

I was comparing Canada (specifically), and not the US. However, you do make some excellent points. The U.S. is clearly a worse place than Canada and a model for which Canadian Conservatives have always idolized. Yes, the United States is closer to fascism than Canada is (although it would be more accurate to call it a neoliberal, neoconservative, republican plutocracy... and just completely forget about the mythology of "democracy"). Thanks for helping to point out that Hitler didn't have a monopoly on nastiness.

Unfortunately, most people would rather just ignore the truth, or undermine the truth by using cheap slurs like "ranting nonsense". I've been called ignorant, and many other things, many times before.

Sometimes I wonder why I take the time to try and educate people (like here on Slashdot) when it appears that most people would rather be ignorant and just live with their cognitive biases.

I thought it was more a reference to this quote.

Exactly. To try to claim that this was not purposefully designed to fool people into think it's official currency is laughable.

What Samsung did was totally uncreative and somewhat shameless, but not illegal.

Shameless? I call it inevitable. Samsung has historically nearly always had a black bezel around their screens. As pressures to increase screen size rose they started getting bigger, and hiding keyboards in slide out bits at the bottom, and the screens continued to have black bezels, and phones... well phones come in all shapes and colours including rounded edges making the phone almost circular and the ludicrously straight edges.

So my question to you is, when the world moves to a platform that emphasizes touch, on-screen keyboards, and the pressures are to maximize usable area while minimizing the size of the phone, what would you design? Ultimately you'll end up reducing the number of buttons, and making a phone that looks like every other fucking phone.

Is it shameless that I put my computer in a grey box? Is it shameless that my nextdoor neighbour builds a house that has 4 walls and a roof just like mine?

McCain, however, after his rightward lurch during the election would probably have gone to war with Iran, would have appointed right-wing nutjobs to the EPA, Department of the Interior, etc., and would have emboldened the Republican party for generations --"look how much we screwed the country up with Bush, and we still got re-elected, we can do anything!" So he was still worth voting for.

He [Ralph Nader] ruled out the possibility that he would prevent a Democratic victory in 2008.
“Not a chance,” he said. “If the Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form.”
-Ralph Nader on whether he will prevent a Democratic win in the 08 election. (New York TImes)

It wasn't a landslide, but then the Republicans had their secret weapon: Sarah Palin

Gyro cooking?

Better yet, a "Bonzo" scheme. We've been living through it since the 80s

To date, 100% of the time it's driver error.

So, the state cop that died with his family in California couldn't tell the difference between a break and gas pedal over the course of the time it took to call 911? Bullshit.

How can you all bullshit on it? Were you there?

You're talking about the Saylor case. Google it. Driver was in an unfamiliar car (loaner) with push-button ignition. Floor mat jammed accellerator pedal. Driver didn't know how to shut off he unfamiliar push button. He probably didn't know how to shift into neutral, either, since the automatic transmission in that Lexus has an odd shift gate.

Braking hard would have saved him, unless he wasted brake pressure by touching them or pumping them instead of standing on it. You only get one or two shots at that, then your pressure is gone.

The problem was the bad floor mat design, so yes, Toyota screwed up royally, but not a computer issue.

I've also been in a late 90's Grand Cherokee that was at a complete stop, watched it suddenly accellerate forward and had the throttle wide open while the driver held both feet on the break. I knew it was the break, because we didn't move any farther forward once he put both feet on it, but it did take 15 seconds until the engine went back down.

Exactly. Brakes will stop a speeding car even if the throttle sticks. A speeding car indicates failure to apply the brakes.

I have a replication of a bubble chamber photo on my wrist. I think there is so much beauty in science and math, and want to be reminded of this in everything I do....there is more to this world than the petty little things I find myself involved in from time to time. I want to add 137 to it as well. People ask all the time what it means, and it's an open opportunity to drop some knowledge on some people. Of course it helps if you can figure a way to dumb it down so they understand.

The history behind it has something to do with a jury not convicting someone in England for not being part of the STATE religion or something like that. The gov't starved them for many days and tossed them in jail, but they never convicted...and that right (to not convict based on merits of the law) has been long established.

It was used many times in the days of prohibition...an many claim it had a huge role in reversing prohibition.

Here is some more info...Or do a Google search for a whole crap-load more...

http://civilliberty.tqn.com/msubjury.htm

http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/BillInfo/FIJA.History. html

http://www.fija.org/

Jackson was the 2nd judge. Remember the 1995 Consent Decree?

Judge Sporkin's comments on the consent decree:
"It is clear to this Court that if it signs the decree presented to it, the message will be that Microsoft is so powerful that neither the market nor the Government is capable of dealing with all of its monopolistic practices. The attitude of Microsoft confirms these observations. While it has denied publicly that it engages in anticompetitive practices, it refuses to give the Court in any respect the same assurance. It has refused to take even a small step to meet any of the reasonable concerns that have been raised by the Court."

Judge Sporkin: Microsoft's Unwitting Ally, an interesting article from The Computer Lawyer (March 1995).
"On February 14, 1995, Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin refused to approve the consent decree negotiated between the U.S. Government and Microsoft to settle the antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft by the Government. Many think that this denial is a harsh blow against Microsoft. In fact, it may be very helpful to Microsoft for several reasons:
*It started an appellate process during which Microsoft will not be bound by any decree and after which any decree might be obsolete.
*It has caused an important adversary of Microsoft -- the government -- to become an advocate for Microsoft.
*It may well lessen the likelihood that the Government will investigate or take enforcement actions against other Microsoft anticompetitive practices.
*It may focus on a practice -- vaporware -- which is not illegal and which is fairly commonplace."

Civil Action No.: 94-1564, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant. Stanley Sporkin, Judge.

The Judge Who Rejected Microsoft / Stanley Sporkin is known as aggressive, unpredictable , S.F. Gate, 2/16/95
"Assigned to review the settlement, he could have rubber-stamped it, which was what both sides wanted. Instead, he peeled the respectability off the agreement like layers of skin off an onion, exposing it as an unenforceable deal that let the government save face while letting Microsoft off the hook.
In his lengthy, fiercely worded ruling, Sporkin characterized Microsoft as having monopolistic practices that pose ``a potential threat to the nation's well-being,'' and he called the consent decree ``too little, too late.''"


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Actually, Congress does have the power to elect the President if no candidate gets at least 270 votes from the electoral college( more than 50% of the 538 votes ). Each state in the House gets one vote to elect someone from the top 3 candidates. If none of them win by majority, the top two then goes to the Senate for their decision. See the FEC rules for more info. The party in majority generally should have the advantage in this situation.

(G) Microsoft's revenue from a License Agreement for any Covered

Product shall not be derived from other than Per Copy or Per System

Licenses, as defined herein. In any Per System License: