Actually, the only reason that the U.S. has "clearly" passed its "peak oil" is because there are significant, rather large, oil reserves that are off limits to development. There has been a case made that these untapped reserves are greater than the amount that was in the currently exploited areas (until someone is allowed to start tapping these reserves, we will not have a reliable estimate of their extent).
If you are comparing Michael Jackson to Guns & Roses, you are not from his generation. I never liked his music (OK, some of the Jackson 5 stuff), but he was a tremendous talent. Those of the "Michael Jackson Generation" might prefer Aerosmith (first album 1972 to MJ's first solo album in 1971), but Guns & Roses (first album 1985) is a later generation. While MJ was still making music when Guns & Roses came along, so was Aerosmith.
And when that point is reached the price of oil will increase causing other sources of energy to be more cost effective. There has been a constant banging on this idea of limited resources. There was once talk similar to the Peak Oil idea about coal. William Stanley Jevons (one of the pre-eminent economists of the 19th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons) argued that coal would run out and that there was no possible substitute for it. There were other people around the same time making similar predictions.
The father of the child did the wrong thing. He should have beat the living s*** out of the guy and used the picture in his defense. I don't believe this case should stand, but I, also, would accept the father's defense if he had beat the guy to a pulp. There was actually a case like that near here (although this was an actual case of child abuse). An 11 year old girl was raped. The rape was caught on camera. The footage of the face of the attacker was broadcast. Someone in the neighborhood where the girl lived recognized the guy walking down the street. The entire neighborhood turned out to beat the guy within inches of his life. The guy has been indicted in the case, but not yet gone to trial.
If everyone had said, "Good, I'm glad they did that. If I knew who did it, I would thank them," I would say that the police should leave it at that. However. several of the people involved bragged about hitting the guy on the evening news, they should be prosecuted for assault. If they had gotten the wrong guy, the police should investigate to the fullest extent of their powers and the people involved prosecuted for attempted murder.
Actually, if I was a cop and saw a guy walking around a slum wearing gold chains, I absolutely would investigate him as a possible drug dealer (not arrest, investigate). The OP was right, these pictures would be the basis for investigating this guy for actual child pornography. It might even cross the line into being the basis for a search warrant to check his computer for child porn (although it is certainly a point that I can understand being the subject of serious discussion and argument).
Sexual abuse of children is a serious crime. The authorities should not wait until they have clear evidence of such a crime to investigate. There was a case in Delaware a few years ago where a young woman went missing. She had been having an affair with a rich and powerful man. There was no evidence that he had done anything. There was no evidence that she had not just up and moved away. However, the police investigated. It turns out the guy had killed her and dumped her body at sea. If the police had waited for evidence that something criminal had happened, the man would still be a powerful member of the political establishment of the state of Delaware. Instead he is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.
But in fact, it is not because you get older. That is an oversimplification.
It's because you are more used to what you see every day. There is no new stuff to remember.
If you want to prolong your life, the best thing you can do, is to make it more intense and more new. And suddenly, a day will feel like a week. It's in on same level of great feelings, as sex and flying, to notice how your life actually feels like it just got way longer and better.
Actually that is not entirely true, when you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your entire time of existence (and significantly more of your remembered existence). When you are 20, 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence. This continues as you get older and the milestones in your life get further apart.
This is an attempt by the government to increase the numbers and improve the skills of hackers in Australia. "You want to play those cool games, you have to hack your way past our Internet filters." People here on Slashdot are so paranoid. This is an attempt by the Australian government to provide a training environment for those computer skills that are needed in the 21st Century.
2. We expected that the genomes of different ethnic groups would be very different. They aren't.
It's hard to say this is true or false yet, because we simply don't know how functionally significant these differences are. Two genomes may look very similar, yet be very different in many very significant ways.
Well, the interesting thing they point out was that it was expected that pygmies would have a common gene (or at least a very limited set) that caused them to be short, when in fact, they have a large variety of genes that cause them to be short.
Assuming that his stated reason is correct, I suspect it went something like this. "I don't really like the APA or MLA style for online citations. I'll look for some other style that I like, so take it out for now, we'll put the online citations in later."......Months later the book is published and everyone forgot to go back and put the citations back in.
If someone is a nerd, they are not one of the "cool" kids, that is part of the definition of nerd. It's like you're asking, "Why can't something be both round and square?" The answer is that if something is round, it isn't square, and if something is square, it isn't round. That is the nature of what those words mean.
But the author is claiming that they weren't called defaults before computers.The author's claim is consistent with what I know, but I am young enough to be unwilling to say that he is definitively correct.
However, none of the arguments made so far on here that he is wrong succeed.
If Steve Jobs is terminally ill and Apple knows it, they cannot say that he broke his leg. I suspect that Apple can say nothing about Steve Jobs health, but if they make a statement about his health it must be true.
The statement they made about Steve Jobs health and his leave of absence treads a fine line. If he returns to work in July or August, they are probably just fine. If he never returns to work their statement is quite possibly basis for a winnable stockholders suit. If they had merely said he was taking an indefinite leave of absence and said nothing about his health, my understanding is they would be ok. However, they wanted to squash some of the rumors and minimize their impact on Apple's stock price,
No, you can't be both a jock and a nerd. A jock is one of the "cool" kids. A "cool" kid is never a nerd. This second is why Obama is not and cannot be a nerd. He is "cool".
You're right that confidence is not arrogance. George W. Bush was confident. Barack Obama is arrogant. Whether a person is described as confident or arrogant depends on the person doing the description.
The Bush Administration could be described as confident(arrogant) and self assured and unwilling to give ground to their opponent. The Obama Administration can be described as confident(arrogant) and self assured and unwilling to give ground to their opponent. What's the difference that makes Obama nerd like?
Actually its worse than that, when his electricity usage goes down, he will be saving less, not more. The things he uses to suggest that he will pay it off in less than 12 years actually mean it will take more than 12 years to pay off the investment. I, also, don't understand his base math.
savings in 1st year: ______________$3,000
Initial cost of installation: _________$38,000
1st year savings times 12: $36,000
Unrecovered cost after 12 years : $2,000
12 years interest from savings account: $10193
Nerds can play ultimate frisbee (it's almost a nerd sport) and even be good at it. If you play basketball and are good at it, you aren't a nerd--you may be a damn fine programmer, but you aren't a nerd.
Being good at a mainstream sport (football, basketball, baseball) makes you one of the cool kids. If you are a nerd, you aren't one of the cool kids, thats part of the definition of nerd.
The press made a big deal about his basketball playing ability during the campaign, therefore he is disqualified as a nerd. He is the diametric opposite of a nerd, he is a jock.
The return on investment of SS is approximately 2%. I am not aware of ANY mutual funds that don't beat that by a lot. If you are aware of a mutual fund that over 20 years has less than a 5% return on investment and has stayed in business for 20 years, please let me know what they are.
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Yes, but are you willing to pay $5 or more a day? Which is what the realistic estimates of the cost indicate
Actually, the only reason that the U.S. has "clearly" passed its "peak oil" is because there are significant, rather large, oil reserves that are off limits to development. There has been a case made that these untapped reserves are greater than the amount that was in the currently exploited areas (until someone is allowed to start tapping these reserves, we will not have a reliable estimate of their extent).
If you are comparing Michael Jackson to Guns & Roses, you are not from his generation. I never liked his music (OK, some of the Jackson 5 stuff), but he was a tremendous talent. Those of the "Michael Jackson Generation" might prefer Aerosmith (first album 1972 to MJ's first solo album in 1971), but Guns & Roses (first album 1985) is a later generation. While MJ was still making music when Guns & Roses came along, so was Aerosmith.
I don't either, but then William Stanley Jevons didn't know of an energy source superior to coal. So what was your point?
And when that point is reached the price of oil will increase causing other sources of energy to be more cost effective. There has been a constant banging on this idea of limited resources. There was once talk similar to the Peak Oil idea about coal. William Stanley Jevons (one of the pre-eminent economists of the 19th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons) argued that coal would run out and that there was no possible substitute for it. There were other people around the same time making similar predictions.
You realize that eventually, no matter what we do, the universe will no longer sustain life (2nd Law of Thermodynamics)?
The father of the child did the wrong thing. He should have beat the living s*** out of the guy and used the picture in his defense. I don't believe this case should stand, but I, also, would accept the father's defense if he had beat the guy to a pulp. There was actually a case like that near here (although this was an actual case of child abuse). An 11 year old girl was raped. The rape was caught on camera. The footage of the face of the attacker was broadcast. Someone in the neighborhood where the girl lived recognized the guy walking down the street. The entire neighborhood turned out to beat the guy within inches of his life. The guy has been indicted in the case, but not yet gone to trial.
If everyone had said, "Good, I'm glad they did that. If I knew who did it, I would thank them," I would say that the police should leave it at that. However. several of the people involved bragged about hitting the guy on the evening news, they should be prosecuted for assault. If they had gotten the wrong guy, the police should investigate to the fullest extent of their powers and the people involved prosecuted for attempted murder.
Actually, if I was a cop and saw a guy walking around a slum wearing gold chains, I absolutely would investigate him as a possible drug dealer (not arrest, investigate). The OP was right, these pictures would be the basis for investigating this guy for actual child pornography. It might even cross the line into being the basis for a search warrant to check his computer for child porn (although it is certainly a point that I can understand being the subject of serious discussion and argument).
Sexual abuse of children is a serious crime. The authorities should not wait until they have clear evidence of such a crime to investigate. There was a case in Delaware a few years ago where a young woman went missing. She had been having an affair with a rich and powerful man. There was no evidence that he had done anything. There was no evidence that she had not just up and moved away. However, the police investigated. It turns out the guy had killed her and dumped her body at sea. If the police had waited for evidence that something criminal had happened, the man would still be a powerful member of the political establishment of the state of Delaware. Instead he is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.
But in fact, it is not because you get older. That is an oversimplification. It's because you are more used to what you see every day. There is no new stuff to remember.
If you want to prolong your life, the best thing you can do, is to make it more intense and more new. And suddenly, a day will feel like a week. It's in on same level of great feelings, as sex and flying, to notice how your life actually feels like it just got way longer and better.
Actually that is not entirely true, when you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your entire time of existence (and significantly more of your remembered existence). When you are 20, 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence. This continues as you get older and the milestones in your life get further apart.
Dear god! who would've believed a democratic government could be so riddled with people who disagree with you?!
And were actively taking money from a hostile foreign government ("We will bury you") to undermine the government.
This is an attempt by the government to increase the numbers and improve the skills of hackers in Australia. "You want to play those cool games, you have to hack your way past our Internet filters." People here on Slashdot are so paranoid. This is an attempt by the Australian government to provide a training environment for those computer skills that are needed in the 21st Century.
2. We expected that the genomes of different ethnic groups would be very different. They aren't.
It's hard to say this is true or false yet, because we simply don't know how functionally significant these differences are. Two genomes may look very similar, yet be very different in many very significant ways.
Well, the interesting thing they point out was that it was expected that pygmies would have a common gene (or at least a very limited set) that caused them to be short, when in fact, they have a large variety of genes that cause them to be short.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerd an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person So, as you see a nerd cannot be one of the "cool" kids. So, try again.
Assuming that his stated reason is correct, I suspect it went something like this. "I don't really like the APA or MLA style for online citations. I'll look for some other style that I like, so take it out for now, we'll put the online citations in later."......Months later the book is published and everyone forgot to go back and put the citations back in.
If someone is a nerd, they are not one of the "cool" kids, that is part of the definition of nerd. It's like you're asking, "Why can't something be both round and square?" The answer is that if something is round, it isn't square, and if something is square, it isn't round. That is the nature of what those words mean.
But the author is claiming that they weren't called defaults before computers.The author's claim is consistent with what I know, but I am young enough to be unwilling to say that he is definitively correct.
However, none of the arguments made so far on here that he is wrong succeed.
Of course he does, if his actors were ad libbing the dialogue would be better.
If Steve Jobs is terminally ill and Apple knows it, they cannot say that he broke his leg. I suspect that Apple can say nothing about Steve Jobs health, but if they make a statement about his health it must be true.
The statement they made about Steve Jobs health and his leave of absence treads a fine line. If he returns to work in July or August, they are probably just fine. If he never returns to work their statement is quite possibly basis for a winnable stockholders suit. If they had merely said he was taking an indefinite leave of absence and said nothing about his health, my understanding is they would be ok. However, they wanted to squash some of the rumors and minimize their impact on Apple's stock price,
No, you can't be both a jock and a nerd. A jock is one of the "cool" kids. A "cool" kid is never a nerd. This second is why Obama is not and cannot be a nerd. He is "cool".
You're right that confidence is not arrogance. George W. Bush was confident. Barack Obama is arrogant.
Whether a person is described as confident or arrogant depends on the person doing the description.
The Bush Administration could be described as confident(arrogant) and self assured and unwilling to give ground to their opponent. The Obama Administration can be described as confident(arrogant) and self assured and unwilling to give ground to their opponent. What's the difference that makes Obama nerd like?
Actually its worse than that, when his electricity usage goes down, he will be saving less, not more. The things he uses to suggest that he will pay it off in less than 12 years actually mean it will take more than 12 years to pay off the investment. I, also, don't understand his base math.
savings in 1st year: ______________$3,000
Initial cost of installation: _________$38,000
1st year savings times 12: $36,000
Unrecovered cost after 12 years : $2,000
12 years interest from savings account: $10193
Nerds can play ultimate frisbee (it's almost a nerd sport) and even be good at it. If you play basketball and are good at it, you aren't a nerd--you may be a damn fine programmer, but you aren't a nerd.
Being good at a mainstream sport (football, basketball, baseball) makes you one of the cool kids. If you are a nerd, you aren't one of the cool kids, thats part of the definition of nerd.
The press made a big deal about his basketball playing ability during the campaign, therefore he is disqualified as a nerd. He is the diametric opposite of a nerd, he is a jock.
The return on investment of SS is approximately 2%. I am not aware of ANY mutual funds that don't beat that by a lot. If you are aware of a mutual fund that over 20 years has less than a 5% return on investment and has stayed in business for 20 years, please let me know what they are.