North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme
For those who don't want to RTFA:
The tax provision that Amazon objects to would apply sales tax to purchases made through such click through transactions from Web sites run by affiliates based in North Carolina.
If they cannot stop infringement as long as the internet as we know it exists, then enforcing laws that break the internet sounds like a great way to solve the problem. Maybe they do know what they're doing.
I can understand occasional mild flaming if someone earns it, but of your three sentences one was insightful and the other two inciteful. Not that I haven't resorted to a bit of flame myself sometimes, but I think most can agree Youtube comments are a better place for that. If I had mod points I wouldn't mod you down but I wouldn't mod you up either, despite the relevent point you make. Nothing against you, I just hate to see good points get lost amongst the flames.
The point I was making is that imperial units are rooted in easy to visualize multiples and fractions. Look at a ruler and the inches side is divided by powers of two, while the metric side is in powers of ten. If powers of two are more intuitive (as per the "no ruler" scenario), why not use the system that uses that?
If you use a calculator, it doesn't matter what system you are in really, so to me the whole argument is which is more intuitive. The only reason I prefer metric in engineering calculations is I have more metric constants memorized and I always get caught up with the whole pounds-mass/pounds-force/slugs conversion. I still think of things in imperial units.
Clearly it is insecure to type your normal password in a plaintext box, so I will assume* he means you should use one-time passwords. One-time passwords are random and unfamiliar, therefore hard to type correctly the first try, so plaintext password fields would complement this technology well. It doesn't matter if someone sees such a password, since it becomes a useless string of characters within seconds.
To me the greater point of finding ET life is not so much to see what it is like (although that should be interesting), but to gain more knowledge of how life started. We have our ideas of what it took to start life, and how it managed to survive, but one data point (Earth) isn't a very good sample. If it started in a similar fashion, we learn more about Earth, and if it started in a different way, we get a ton of new information we likely would never come across on Earth.
Fewer moving parts would imply less maintainance (not enough to offset that battery cost), but that brings up the question: what do you do to get your car repaired? I don't know if dealers would be equipped to deal with it, assuming there even would be dealers instead of having to buy the car direct. Low maintainance would be great, but that would quickly be offset if you have to send it to California whenever it does have problems.
If one or two nukes manage to hit DC and these leaders have no warning to get out or deep underground I think we've got a big enough problem that it doesn't matter if we have said leaders. I'm sure these organizations have something in place should everyone in DC get killed or isolated, but I would be worried if those in charge of our defense weren't confident in their ability to defend themselves.
If I gave you a 2x4 and asked you to cut it in half, in thirds or in quarters and didn't provide a ruler, you could do it fairly accurately. Now try to cut it in 10ths just as precisely. Powers of 10 might be nice for mental math, but they aren't intuitive in all cases. You may need little more mental math with the imperial system, but you are less reliant upon measurement devices.
I'm studying mechanical engineering, and as much as I hate working in imperial units when working out calculations, I still find them convenient for everyday use or quick tasks.
The effort to convert to SI would be better spent making a new system. You can develop a new rocket with the newest alloys and nano-tech carbon fiber composites, but you will likely have a parts list that is mostly made up of custom components. Those rockets are big and I won't venture to guess how many parts go into them, but each custom part means a lot of extra money and time, and you quickly have an unfeasable project. Given the low demand for space-capable rockets, if you want to draw from currently available parts, guess what? You are looking at the parts list of the rockets used with the space shuttle, along with those of rockets used by the handful of other space programs out there. Unless you are working with new technology, you had best stick with existing models. NASA could use an SI-based rocket from a foreign program, or a rocket they designed and are acutely familiar with.
As much as I think NASA should go SI, it will have to be when rockets go obsolete and they have to start from scratch anyways.
Going between home and college I go through a large wind farm- I think it is impressive and interesting to see. Related, on a road trip with the cross country team we were at a rest stop where some truckers hauling turbine blades also stopped. Those things look big on the towers, but you really get them in perspective when they're pulling in to the parking spot next to you. I see wind as the green power source of the near future, not solar. Looks so much cooler too.
His return will be sooner than 12 years based on changes in his electricity usage (like his daughter leaving for college). This is bad math.
He installs big ugly solar panels on his roof, making his daughter decide to go away for college to get away from her dorky dad, which reduces electricity usage. I don't see what the problem is.
A bigger part of it is just that European governments take the privacy of their citizens very seriously.
Except Britain, of course.
I was under the impression the British government took privacy very - almost too - seriously. They even have those cameras set up to monitor private lives - ensuring no one's right to privacy goes overlooked or unwatched. How can the government know their citizens have privacy if the government can't watch?
So Dear Leader Kim must be behind this - no one else would be so intent on wasting the military's resources. Of course that means the North Koreans aren't as advanced as we thought, as they are merely throwing rocks at us.
The satellites were picking up data on meteors as they hit the atmosphere. This has nothing to do with the search for large objects that may or may not hit the earth.
This is technically made clear by the use of the word meteor, as opposed to asteroid, but I only remembered that as I type this so I expect I am not the only one that could have used a clarifying sentence in the summary.
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Maybe a compromise is warranted: never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity exploited by the malicious.
North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme
For those who don't want to RTFA:
The tax provision that Amazon objects to would apply sales tax to purchases made through such click through transactions from Web sites run by affiliates based in North Carolina.
If they cannot stop infringement as long as the internet as we know it exists, then enforcing laws that break the internet sounds like a great way to solve the problem. Maybe they do know what they're doing.
I can understand occasional mild flaming if someone earns it, but of your three sentences one was insightful and the other two inciteful. Not that I haven't resorted to a bit of flame myself sometimes, but I think most can agree Youtube comments are a better place for that. If I had mod points I wouldn't mod you down but I wouldn't mod you up either, despite the relevent point you make. Nothing against you, I just hate to see good points get lost amongst the flames.
The point I was making is that imperial units are rooted in easy to visualize multiples and fractions. Look at a ruler and the inches side is divided by powers of two, while the metric side is in powers of ten. If powers of two are more intuitive (as per the "no ruler" scenario), why not use the system that uses that?
If you use a calculator, it doesn't matter what system you are in really, so to me the whole argument is which is more intuitive. The only reason I prefer metric in engineering calculations is I have more metric constants memorized and I always get caught up with the whole pounds-mass/pounds-force/slugs conversion. I still think of things in imperial units.
Clearly it is insecure to type your normal password in a plaintext box, so I will assume* he means you should use one-time passwords. One-time passwords are random and unfamiliar, therefore hard to type correctly the first try, so plaintext password fields would complement this technology well. It doesn't matter if someone sees such a password, since it becomes a useless string of characters within seconds.
*For the sake of conversation
Or else at mass when they get the host they'd all go "more Lamdas bread... *sigh*".
The source is strong with this one.
To me the greater point of finding ET life is not so much to see what it is like (although that should be interesting), but to gain more knowledge of how life started. We have our ideas of what it took to start life, and how it managed to survive, but one data point (Earth) isn't a very good sample. If it started in a similar fashion, we learn more about Earth, and if it started in a different way, we get a ton of new information we likely would never come across on Earth.
But "transparency" doesn't mean everyone needs to know the details of how Northrop Grumman builds its missiles or whatever.
As long as said missiles are made of glass or similarly see-through material it's good enough.
I don't see why it has to be so complicated. All you need is one question: Will it blend?
425 is what you get after you subtract all the songs that sound the same.
Fewer moving parts would imply less maintainance (not enough to offset that battery cost), but that brings up the question: what do you do to get your car repaired? I don't know if dealers would be equipped to deal with it, assuming there even would be dealers instead of having to buy the car direct. Low maintainance would be great, but that would quickly be offset if you have to send it to California whenever it does have problems.
If one or two nukes manage to hit DC and these leaders have no warning to get out or deep underground I think we've got a big enough problem that it doesn't matter if we have said leaders. I'm sure these organizations have something in place should everyone in DC get killed or isolated, but I would be worried if those in charge of our defense weren't confident in their ability to defend themselves.
If I gave you a 2x4 and asked you to cut it in half, in thirds or in quarters and didn't provide a ruler, you could do it fairly accurately. Now try to cut it in 10ths just as precisely. Powers of 10 might be nice for mental math, but they aren't intuitive in all cases. You may need little more mental math with the imperial system, but you are less reliant upon measurement devices.
I'm studying mechanical engineering, and as much as I hate working in imperial units when working out calculations, I still find them convenient for everyday use or quick tasks.
I am not sure if it is a national law, but at least in Illinois it is illegal to have unpaid interns do work that a paid employee might do.
The effort to convert to SI would be better spent making a new system. You can develop a new rocket with the newest alloys and nano-tech carbon fiber composites, but you will likely have a parts list that is mostly made up of custom components. Those rockets are big and I won't venture to guess how many parts go into them, but each custom part means a lot of extra money and time, and you quickly have an unfeasable project. Given the low demand for space-capable rockets, if you want to draw from currently available parts, guess what? You are looking at the parts list of the rockets used with the space shuttle, along with those of rockets used by the handful of other space programs out there. Unless you are working with new technology, you had best stick with existing models. NASA could use an SI-based rocket from a foreign program, or a rocket they designed and are acutely familiar with.
As much as I think NASA should go SI, it will have to be when rockets go obsolete and they have to start from scratch anyways.
Going between home and college I go through a large wind farm- I think it is impressive and interesting to see. Related, on a road trip with the cross country team we were at a rest stop where some truckers hauling turbine blades also stopped. Those things look big on the towers, but you really get them in perspective when they're pulling in to the parking spot next to you. I see wind as the green power source of the near future, not solar. Looks so much cooler too.
So if a ninja gets a law degree we're all screwed?
His return will be sooner than 12 years based on changes in his electricity usage (like his daughter leaving for college). This is bad math.
He installs big ugly solar panels on his roof, making his daughter decide to go away for college to get away from her dorky dad, which reduces electricity usage. I don't see what the problem is.
A bigger part of it is just that European governments take the privacy of their citizens very seriously.
Except Britain, of course.
I was under the impression the British government took privacy very - almost too - seriously. They even have those cameras set up to monitor private lives - ensuring no one's right to privacy goes overlooked or unwatched. How can the government know their citizens have privacy if the government can't watch?
I, for one, think that our cops are smart enough to learn how to do a simple field test.
Are you suggesting that cops should try to smoke any plants to determine what they are?
The quote refers to a people as a group, not individuals. To apply to the quote a law would have to be passed requiring locks on all doors.
So Dear Leader Kim must be behind this - no one else would be so intent on wasting the military's resources. Of course that means the North Koreans aren't as advanced as we thought, as they are merely throwing rocks at us.
The satellites were picking up data on meteors as they hit the atmosphere. This has nothing to do with the search for large objects that may or may not hit the earth.
This is technically made clear by the use of the word meteor, as opposed to asteroid, but I only remembered that as I type this so I expect I am not the only one that could have used a clarifying sentence in the summary.