Since Arabic doesn't use the same alphabet, any phonetic spelling is equally correct. "Iraq" is more of a US convention. Interestingly "Osama" is not the most accepted way to spell bin laden's name. "Usama" is more phonetically correct, but isn't used because it would start with "USA", and might lead to confusion with common government acronyms.
It won't be long until insurance companies are using your grocery shopping habits to build a health profile for you. They'll either raise premiums based on what you eat or deny your claims based on "undisclosed health risks".
It's not a question of being paranoid, its a question of being paranoid enough.
During its 2004-05 term, the Supreme Court reversed 84 percent of the cases it chose to hear from appeals of 9th Circuit decisions, compared to a 73 percent average reversal rate for all circuit courts of appeals.* But the high court reversed 100 percent of the decisions it heard from the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeals.* Moreover, as Media Matters for America has documented, the 9th Circuit's reversal rate was slightly lower than the national average for all circuit courts during the 2003-04 Supreme Court term (76 percent for 9th Circuit vs. 77 percent nationally), and only slightly higher than the national average during the 2002-03 term (75 percent for 9th Circuit vs. 73 percent nationally) and the 2001-02 term (76 percent for 9th Circuit vs. 75 percent nationally). In previous years, the 9th Circuit's reversal rate has exceeded the national average, most notably during the 1996-97 term, when the court's 95 percent reversal rate had exceeded the national average of 71 percent and "earned the Western circuit [the 9th Circuit] its reputation as the nation's 'most reversed,
In the interest of balance, I did try to find a more "right-wing" source, but interestingly they don't seem to cite any verifiable numbers.
A band of rag-tag adventurers is caught between two military forces and battle an elite assasin and you don't expect anyone to DIE? How believable would that be?
Compare to Star Wars where all the main character survive through a galactic war. By the time you watched Return of the Jedi were you really wondering if Luke and Han were going to make it?
The fact that Wash dies senselessly conveys the reality of the situation and makes you realize that all of the characters are in real danger. At that point you've got to be asking if anyone is going to make it. To me, killing off Wash and Book is what puts Serenity on top.
This comes up everytime a story about college education is posted. The example is always a self-taught programmer/sys-admin. All that really proves is that it's possible to teach yourself enough CS to get by. And all that really proves is that these are becoming trade skills, like mechanics or carpenters.
But there's a lot more to the world than hacking some Visual Basic. Before you declare college education dead, show me some self-taught civil engineers or self-taught accountants or self-taught biochemists. There may be a few, but not enough to keep those industries running.
The Egyptians didn't have simulations, but they did have a lot of trial and error. The pyramids at Giza are only the most famous. There were many other projects that show a refinement of methods. These were sophisticated people with generations of engineering experience, so the "obvious" method may not be not correct.
That said, you are correct about this article being speculation. The author is making quite a claim without any physical evidence.
Examples of other pyramids: http://www.egyptologyonline.com/pyramids.htm
The value of an employee in not about how critical their job is to the running of the company, but how easy it is hire and train a replacement. Just about anyone has the skills to pick strawberries or mop floors or run a register, therefore these jobs don't get paid much. Fewer people have the skills to be a developer, as you know it takes time and effort to aquire those skills, therefore you get paid more than the janitor.
Do you realize that you practically proved the GP's point? You don't need to repeat the entire course of evolution on earth in order to for it be in the realm of science! You just need to be able to form a hypothesis based on the theory, then perform an experiment that will confirm or deny that hypothesis. This is something that's done literally every single day in labs around the world. You do not understand science.
In Civ 4, you can pick any leader and use basically the same cookie-cutter strategies. Not so on Alpha Centauri. The advantages/disadvantage of each faction lead to completely different approaches. It's almost scary how it forces to get inside the characters heads in order to win.
Very nifty concept. Assuming it worked, wouldn't it be more practical to drive a stirling engine with the mechanism? A non-critical nuclear car seems like an easier sale than a pogo-stick.
Just a thought: California and Texas both have similar immigration situations, but radically different housing costs. Maybe the cost of living problems in Cali have less to do with immigration and more to do with the stupid property tax schemes?
Someone is pulling your leg, xenon is inert. Breathing in pure oxygen and holding your breath for five minutes might have some effect, but the xenon won't have more effect than helium or argon.
I think that it is worth noting that the 10,000 gallons per acre estimate assumes that the algae will have a gas feed from a coal power plant. It would be more apt to compare the tield of this process to direct generation of liquid fuel from coal since it's essentially generating it indirectly. Other questions unanswered by TFA: Are there enough coal plants in the country to support a total replacement of gasoline by this method? Does it affect the efficiency of the power plant? How long will our coal resources last if this were implemented on a large scale? What are the maintainence costs (hard to estimate from a test setup, but important to consider)?
That's why I said you wouldn't be convicted. Here's how it would play out:
Officer:"Sir, why are you carrying a weapon?"
You:"No reason, just felt like it."
Officer:"Sir, if you don't take that off and put it away I will arrest you for brandishing/disturbing the peace/public nuisance"
Then you would comply or you would spend a night in jail. The DA would drop the case the next day and you'd have an arrest on your record. You'd never get a chance to argue the finer points of the 2nd amendment in front of a judge.
Note, all of this changes if you can provide a reasonable excuse, like, "I'm going to that SCA event in the park over there."
Like other have said, there is no law against it in most places, but you would probably be harassed be law enforcement or arrested for "brandishing a weapon". Not that you would be convicted, but they have ways to make things hard for you.
There are so many laws that if the police don't like you, they can almost always find something to arrest you for.
map of countries that are considering support:
http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html
The United States is listed as "currently seeking government support".
I am from the United States.
I am complaining.
What is your point, again?
OLPC hasn't done anything other than make a toy for Kofi Annan to break. Now is exactly the time to argue against it before it becomes an enormous waste of resources.
No, its worse than that. This is more like giving you a cheap used car, then making you pay for the driver's training,gas, insurance,servicing and THE ROADS IT DRIVES ON. You don't think a broadband connection will cost $50 dollars a year? You also don't account for the cost to power the things. If the infrastructure doesn't exist, it will be an enormous cost to install.
I don't argue too much against this project because so far its just contributors and other countries wasting money on it. My real concern is that when it falls flat on its face, they'll turn to my tax dollars to bail it out.
GR was published in 1915. Hubble's work that debunked the constant was from 1929 to 1931, so about 15 years. That's about the same time scale that global warming as been debated.
Further, the cosmological constant is an example of "fitting in" and kowtowing to concensus. There are plenty more in the history of science, global warming could be one of them.
Albert Einstein himself introduced a "cosmological constant" to support his (false) belief. That's a big example, small ones happen all the time, you just don't want to know about them.
As someone else who does computational chemistry, I have my doubts about global warming because the simulations don't match reproducible results. To the best of my knowledge, there has not been a model that accurately describes the current warming trends as well as previous cooling/warming cylces. This http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005 1110/20051110_03.html is the closest that I've seen. Since inconsistencies like this exist, I don't think we can say conclusively that global warming is human caused. The compelling thing is that if global warming is human caused, it might be too late by the time we have conclusive evidence.
Part of the reason "prestige" films are made is to generate good will in the filmmaking community. As a consumer, I'm unlikely to have any studio loyalty. But a filmmaker may be more likely to cooperate with a studio that they know supports some artistic material.
Even though gaming does have some big names, their involvement in a game doesn't make or break it automatically the way a talented person on a film can, so there's less incentive to create an environment that courts individual talent.
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Since Arabic doesn't use the same alphabet, any phonetic spelling is equally correct. "Iraq" is more of a US convention. Interestingly "Osama" is not the most accepted way to spell bin laden's name. "Usama" is more phonetically correct, but isn't used because it would start with "USA", and might lead to confusion with common government acronyms.
It won't be long until insurance companies are using your grocery shopping habits to build a health profile for you. They'll either raise premiums based on what you eat or deny your claims based on "undisclosed health risks".
It's not a question of being paranoid, its a question of being paranoid enough.
A band of rag-tag adventurers is caught between two military forces and battle an elite assasin and you don't expect anyone to DIE? How believable would that be?
Compare to Star Wars where all the main character survive through a galactic war. By the time you watched Return of the Jedi were you really wondering if Luke and Han were going to make it?
The fact that Wash dies senselessly conveys the reality of the situation and makes you realize that all of the characters are in real danger. At that point you've got to be asking if anyone is going to make it. To me, killing off Wash and Book is what puts Serenity on top.
This comes up everytime a story about college education is posted. The example is always a self-taught programmer/sys-admin. All that really proves is that it's possible to teach yourself enough CS to get by. And all that really proves is that these are becoming trade skills, like mechanics or carpenters.
But there's a lot more to the world than hacking some Visual Basic. Before you declare college education dead, show me some self-taught civil engineers or self-taught accountants or self-taught biochemists. There may be a few, but not enough to keep those industries running.
The Egyptians didn't have simulations, but they did have a lot of trial and error. The pyramids at Giza are only the most famous. There were many other projects that show a refinement of methods. These were sophisticated people with generations of engineering experience, so the "obvious" method may not be not correct.
That said, you are correct about this article being speculation. The author is making quite a claim without any physical evidence.
Examples of other pyramids: http://www.egyptologyonline.com/pyramids.htm
The value of an employee in not about how critical their job is to the running of the company, but how easy it is hire and train a replacement. Just about anyone has the skills to pick strawberries or mop floors or run a register, therefore these jobs don't get paid much. Fewer people have the skills to be a developer, as you know it takes time and effort to aquire those skills, therefore you get paid more than the janitor.
Do you realize that you practically proved the GP's point? You don't need to repeat the entire course of evolution on earth in order to for it be in the realm of science! You just need to be able to form a hypothesis based on the theory, then perform an experiment that will confirm or deny that hypothesis. This is something that's done literally every single day in labs around the world. You do not understand science.
In Civ 4, you can pick any leader and use basically the same cookie-cutter strategies. Not so on Alpha Centauri. The advantages/disadvantage of each faction lead to completely different approaches. It's almost scary how it forces to get inside the characters heads in order to win.
You're lucky. The total time I've wasted on civ games is measured in percent of life expectancy.
Very nifty concept. Assuming it worked, wouldn't it be more practical to drive a stirling engine with the mechanism? A non-critical nuclear car seems like an easier sale than a pogo-stick.
Just a thought: California and Texas both have similar immigration situations, but radically different housing costs. Maybe the cost of living problems in Cali have less to do with immigration and more to do with the stupid property tax schemes?
Someone is pulling your leg, xenon is inert. Breathing in pure oxygen and holding your breath for five minutes might have some effect, but the xenon won't have more effect than helium or argon.
I think that it is worth noting that the 10,000 gallons per acre estimate assumes that the algae will have a gas feed from a coal power plant. It would be more apt to compare the tield of this process to direct generation of liquid fuel from coal since it's essentially generating it indirectly. Other questions unanswered by TFA: Are there enough coal plants in the country to support a total replacement of gasoline by this method? Does it affect the efficiency of the power plant? How long will our coal resources last if this were implemented on a large scale? What are the maintainence costs (hard to estimate from a test setup, but important to consider)?
you should ask for your money back
That's why I said you wouldn't be convicted. Here's how it would play out:
Officer:"Sir, why are you carrying a weapon?"
You:"No reason, just felt like it."
Officer:"Sir, if you don't take that off and put it away I will arrest you for brandishing/disturbing the peace/public nuisance"
Then you would comply or you would spend a night in jail. The DA would drop the case the next day and you'd have an arrest on your record. You'd never get a chance to argue the finer points of the 2nd amendment in front of a judge.
Note, all of this changes if you can provide a reasonable excuse, like, "I'm going to that SCA event in the park over there."
Like other have said, there is no law against it in most places, but you would probably be harassed be law enforcement or arrested for "brandishing a weapon". Not that you would be convicted, but they have ways to make things hard for you. There are so many laws that if the police don't like you, they can almost always find something to arrest you for.
map of countries that are considering support: http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html The United States is listed as "currently seeking government support". I am from the United States. I am complaining. What is your point, again?
OLPC hasn't done anything other than make a toy for Kofi Annan to break. Now is exactly the time to argue against it before it becomes an enormous waste of resources.
No, its worse than that. This is more like giving you a cheap used car, then making you pay for the driver's training,gas, insurance,servicing and THE ROADS IT DRIVES ON. You don't think a broadband connection will cost $50 dollars a year? You also don't account for the cost to power the things. If the infrastructure doesn't exist, it will be an enormous cost to install. I don't argue too much against this project because so far its just contributors and other countries wasting money on it. My real concern is that when it falls flat on its face, they'll turn to my tax dollars to bail it out.
Might be something wrong with the euro conversion. I didn't have that problem when I tried it using dollars
GR was published in 1915. Hubble's work that debunked the constant was from 1929 to 1931, so about 15 years. That's about the same time scale that global warming as been debated. Further, the cosmological constant is an example of "fitting in" and kowtowing to concensus. There are plenty more in the history of science, global warming could be one of them.
Albert Einstein himself introduced a "cosmological constant" to support his (false) belief. That's a big example, small ones happen all the time, you just don't want to know about them.
As someone else who does computational chemistry, I have my doubts about global warming because the simulations don't match reproducible results. To the best of my knowledge, there has not been a model that accurately describes the current warming trends as well as previous cooling/warming cylces. This http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005 1110/20051110_03.html is the closest that I've seen. Since inconsistencies like this exist, I don't think we can say conclusively that global warming is human caused. The compelling thing is that if global warming is human caused, it might be too late by the time we have conclusive evidence.
Part of the reason "prestige" films are made is to generate good will in the filmmaking community. As a consumer, I'm unlikely to have any studio loyalty. But a filmmaker may be more likely to cooperate with a studio that they know supports some artistic material. Even though gaming does have some big names, their involvement in a game doesn't make or break it automatically the way a talented person on a film can, so there's less incentive to create an environment that courts individual talent.