Unlike the Chinese, that seem to do a lot of "me, too" stuff (which is very impressive, of course), the Russians do work that is nicely complementing the US, European (ESA) and Japanese efforts. The Spektr-R (and RadioAstron) is something novel and unique, and will provide insights in the astrophysics and astronomy beyond the Milky Way with high angular resolution.
Another example is ill-fated Phobos Grunt. It would have been another interesting and unique experiment.
Why wouldn't you want your washing machine last a long, long time? I know I do, and bought a Miele, the only brand that is actually manufactured in Germany (unlike all the others, being made in China). That washing machine cost twice as much as almost any other equivalent, but I figured it will last me about 4 to 5 times as long. It has already worked for longer than any other brand would have, and shows 0 signs of getting old. It seems I'll sooner sell this apartment than replace my washing machine.
Wrong. The entire book is scanned. The filtration is done at presentation time; the entire work is digitized. I know this because Google tried to do this with my book.
Or see them intact, for that matter. Whenever I get some UPS package (not my choice, I am always forced into this option), I wonder in what creative new ways will the parcel be damaged. Broken items, punctures in various places of the package, even folded parcels (3D parcels, that is, where one dimension isn't particularly prominent, either), leaks of chemicals into the parcel, these are all various joys of a UPS-delivered parcel.
The fact that they treat you like an idiot by never telling you when they'll deliver it at your home (and doing this repeatedly) just adds insult to injury.
What the fuck Google? I like Google as a company, I really do, but this is a shit move however you look at it. They don't have to support any more updates to Knol, but why the hell not jsut host the pages as static content? That wouldn't break the bank and would definitely generate some good will. Or at least, stem a fuckton of ill-will.
Cut social spending? The US is already a 3rd world country in that not all of its citizens are covered by health care. To be honest, there is a TON of money wasted because of the ludicrous involvement of insurance companies. Just go single-payer like we do in Europe, you'll spend a lot less and could cover everybody.
...that one of the reasons why, in the long run, USA will lose out to countries such as Sweden, Germany etc. is the high tuition costs for universities/colleges. In the nordic country where I live, education (including university) is free for all - we have high taxes for high earners ("tax the rich") which pays for a lot of things, inlcuding universal university education. These countries are picking up, little by little, from the US. The US is lucky to have many graduate students and postdocs flocking to their universities, but that's not a sustainable model for having highly competitive research - these people will start going back home, as their countries' economies improve (China and India in particular). The US will find itself depleted of scientists, because the high tuition fees guarantee that only the rich can afford the university degree, and those are fewer than you'd want. And if they're not coming from a rich family, they'll have to work through their studies, slowing them down considerably, and having and adverse effect on their academic achievements. Einstein didn't have to worry about working in a cafeteria 30 hrs/week to pay for his tuition.
Well, actually nowadays the chip-level (instead of wafer-level) stacking/integration is taking ever more precedence. There are various types of micro-manipulators, and even self-aligning techniques, mostly developed by Japanese scholars, that make this task possible.
EMI has one of the most impressive catalogues of great classical music recordings. Only Deutsche Grammophon may come close. Hey, maybe that's worthless compared to Britney and co., I wouldn't know. It's very valuable for people like me, though.
And of course, Deutsche Grammophon is now part of Universal, too.
Damn you Universal, fucking trolls of musical industry.
At least Google did a lot of good by allowing me and everybody else to access a TON of publications online. Publications that would have been lost ot humanity, otherwise. If they'd have EMI's music catalogue, you'd see a ton of beautiful classical music made available. OK, I'm a classical music buff, so bear with me.
EMI has been the only label trying to shake some sense into the RIAA, read for example here, tried to convince the RIAA that suing music fans MAYBE isn't such a great idea.
Universal, on the other hand, have been the FUCKING TROLL DOUCHEBAGS of the industry!
Mod parent way up - credit unions are basically the consumer's institutions. Banks are the banksters' way to gamble trillions - except they are gambling with tax payers' money (because even if their stupid gamble backfires, the taxpayer bails them out).
Also, I hate to be that guy but why do I see SO many people that don't know how to use loose vs lose? You lose a customer. You loose the hounds upon someone. That bolt is loose. You lose bolts all the time. I am not kidding at all...I see it everywhere. I think I'm starting to see this more than the people that can't use then and than right and I am perplexed.
I feel a few facts need to be added to your otherwise informative post: mercury poisoning is infamous for being detected only months after the fact. You definitely positively must know that you had contact with organometallic mercury (such as dimethylmercury, which killed Wetterhahn), otherwise you will only notice the first symptoms much later.
And as for treatment, which is chelation: dimethylmercury is extremely hard to remove by chelation, since it tends to be re-absorbed before it's expelled. Unlike hydrosoluble mercury compounds which respond well to chelation, dimethylmercury is almost impossible to remove. That's why the methylmercury ion has such a tendency to bioaccumulate (in large fish and humans) - there is no good mechanism for it to be removed, and it is recyrcled in the body.
Paid by corporations and wealthy individuals who have a shitload more money than they have any clue what the fuck to do with it. Money that is put in education is clearly the best long-term investment for any nation. The chinese have realized that, and yeah, you better start learning mandarin, because the USA is going down, fast.
In the USA, wealthy individuals store their amassed money in offshore accounts or generally sit on it, because buying artificial islands and other shit they don't need only goes so far.
Yeah, ok, it is funny to a degree. And the bronies know it, too. The brony circle I have has some of the most amazing guys and girls I've ever met. Most of them are progressive, all of them are science-philes, all have a great sense of humor and are generally good people overall.
Really, for me it's not about the series as much as it is the interesting profile of people I met in that circle. I myself have only watched 2 episodes, to inform myself.
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Unlike the Chinese, that seem to do a lot of "me, too" stuff (which is very impressive, of course), the Russians do work that is nicely complementing the US, European (ESA) and Japanese efforts. The Spektr-R (and RadioAstron) is something novel and unique, and will provide insights in the astrophysics and astronomy beyond the Milky Way with high angular resolution.
Another example is ill-fated Phobos Grunt. It would have been another interesting and unique experiment.
Those look anorexic. Is this really considered "perfection"?
Why wouldn't you want your washing machine last a long, long time? I know I do, and bought a Miele, the only brand that is actually manufactured in Germany (unlike all the others, being made in China). That washing machine cost twice as much as almost any other equivalent, but I figured it will last me about 4 to 5 times as long. It has already worked for longer than any other brand would have, and shows 0 signs of getting old. It seems I'll sooner sell this apartment than replace my washing machine.
Wrong. The entire book is scanned. The filtration is done at presentation time; the entire work is digitized. I know this because Google tried to do this with my book.
Fuck you and your book.
So "C" is a space opera? I was really hoping for a Sci-fi movie :(
Or see them intact, for that matter.
Whenever I get some UPS package (not my choice, I am always forced into this option), I wonder in what creative new ways will the parcel be damaged. Broken items, punctures in various places of the package, even folded parcels (3D parcels, that is, where one dimension isn't particularly prominent, either), leaks of chemicals into the parcel, these are all various joys of a UPS-delivered parcel.
The fact that they treat you like an idiot by never telling you when they'll deliver it at your home (and doing this repeatedly) just adds insult to injury.
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It's a funny spoof, though.
What would be some useful keywords to use, to search, say, eBay for a device such as that?
What the fuck has Nokia Siemens Networks to do with Qt, Windows Mobile or TrollTech?
What the fuck Google? I like Google as a company, I really do, but this is a shit move however you look at it. They don't have to support any more updates to Knol, but why the hell not jsut host the pages as static content? That wouldn't break the bank and would definitely generate some good will. Or at least, stem a fuckton of ill-will.
Cut social spending? The US is already a 3rd world country in that not all of its citizens are covered by health care. To be honest, there is a TON of money wasted because of the ludicrous involvement of insurance companies. Just go single-payer like we do in Europe, you'll spend a lot less and could cover everybody.
Uhmmm. how the fuck am I talking about philosophy? I am saying that this is an experiment that is much harder to refute and that it trumps OPERA.
That's exactly why I am not just sceptical but quite openly dismissive of any claims of superluminal neutrinos.
...that one of the reasons why, in the long run, USA will lose out to countries such as Sweden, Germany etc. is the high tuition costs for universities/colleges. In the nordic country where I live, education (including university) is free for all - we have high taxes for high earners ("tax the rich") which pays for a lot of things, inlcuding universal university education. These countries are picking up, little by little, from the US. The US is lucky to have many graduate students and postdocs flocking to their universities, but that's not a sustainable model for having highly competitive research - these people will start going back home, as their countries' economies improve (China and India in particular). The US will find itself depleted of scientists, because the high tuition fees guarantee that only the rich can afford the university degree, and those are fewer than you'd want. And if they're not coming from a rich family, they'll have to work through their studies, slowing them down considerably, and having and adverse effect on their academic achievements. Einstein didn't have to worry about working in a cafeteria 30 hrs/week to pay for his tuition.
At least in Finland, I cannot buy MP3 music from Amazon, from any of their stores (uk, de or any other).
Well, actually nowadays the chip-level (instead of wafer-level) stacking/integration is taking ever more precedence. There are various types of micro-manipulators, and even self-aligning techniques, mostly developed by Japanese scholars, that make this task possible.
EMI has one of the most impressive catalogues of great classical music recordings. Only Deutsche Grammophon may come close. Hey, maybe that's worthless compared to Britney and co., I wouldn't know. It's very valuable for people like me, though.
And of course, Deutsche Grammophon is now part of Universal, too.
Damn you Universal, fucking trolls of musical industry.
At least Google did a lot of good by allowing me and everybody else to access a TON of publications online. Publications that would have been lost ot humanity, otherwise. If they'd have EMI's music catalogue, you'd see a ton of beautiful classical music made available. OK, I'm a classical music buff, so bear with me.
EMI has been the only label trying to shake some sense into the RIAA, read for example here, tried to convince the RIAA that suing music fans MAYBE isn't such a great idea.
Universal, on the other hand, have been the FUCKING TROLL DOUCHEBAGS of the industry!
...anti-trust rulings by Japan, South Korea and the EU, I presume.
Mod parent way up - credit unions are basically the consumer's institutions. Banks are the banksters' way to gamble trillions - except they are gambling with tax payers' money (because even if their stupid gamble backfires, the taxpayer bails them out).
Also, I hate to be that guy but why do I see SO many people that don't know how to use loose vs lose? You lose a customer. You loose the hounds upon someone. That bolt is loose. You lose bolts all the time. I am not kidding at all...I see it everywhere. I think I'm starting to see this more than the people that can't use then and than right and I am perplexed.
Here, here!
I feel a few facts need to be added to your otherwise informative post: mercury poisoning is infamous for being detected only months after the fact. You definitely positively must know that you had contact with organometallic mercury (such as dimethylmercury, which killed Wetterhahn), otherwise you will only notice the first symptoms much later.
And as for treatment, which is chelation: dimethylmercury is extremely hard to remove by chelation, since it tends to be re-absorbed before it's expelled. Unlike hydrosoluble mercury compounds which respond well to chelation, dimethylmercury is almost impossible to remove. That's why the methylmercury ion has such a tendency to bioaccumulate (in large fish and humans) - there is no good mechanism for it to be removed, and it is recyrcled in the body.
Paid by corporations and wealthy individuals who have a shitload more money than they have any clue what the fuck to do with it. Money that is put in education is clearly the best long-term investment for any nation. The chinese have realized that, and yeah, you better start learning mandarin, because the USA is going down, fast.
In the USA, wealthy individuals store their amassed money in offshore accounts or generally sit on it, because buying artificial islands and other shit they don't need only goes so far.
Yeah, ok, it is funny to a degree. And the bronies know it, too. The brony circle I have has some of the most amazing guys and girls I've ever met. Most of them are progressive, all of them are science-philes, all have a great sense of humor and are generally good people overall.
Really, for me it's not about the series as much as it is the interesting profile of people I met in that circle. I myself have only watched 2 episodes, to inform myself.