English is weird. Oh, btw, in English, unlike in German, the names of languages are capitalised; you have them uncapitalised in your sig. (In that respect, German is a bit weird too.)
(...) [B]lack people made better slaves for several reasons (...).
American Indian slaves were familiar with the environment, and would often escape with success into local groups.
Black slaves had much more difficulty surviving in far different world once they escaped; this often acted as a barrier.
Also, early colonial America depended heavily on the sugar trade, which lead to malaria, a disease the Africans were far less susceptible to.
Black people also easily stood out.
I believe parent gives very clear arguments against several points made in "The Great Global Warming Swindle".
For what it's worth, I've seen neither the Swindle nor An Inconvenient Truth myself; from what I've heard, they both feature too much bad science to my taste. I prefer to consult the references myself.
At some point, I may watch the documentaries; if I do, I'll probably watch both of them.
If an individual in China posted his "isellgold.ch" web site (...) I'm sorry,.ch is Switzerland. You mean.cn. (The Swiss are known for their banking...)
The real reason why black paper used to be used for this, is slightly more evil. Faxes used to be thermal, and using black paper caused them to burn out, at least the early models.
It's the difference between them running out of fax paper and breaking their fax machine.
(something I haven't killed yet) - the entirely superfluous usage of the apostrophe button to bring up another method of search. No, I don't care if it's handier for vi users.
Setting 'accessibility.typeaheadfind' to true allows you to start finding as soon as you type, without having to press apostrophe.
I've also set 'accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly' to true, so that just starting to type only finds hyperlinks (as was the case in Mozilla); for finding any text, I press '/' (slash). Very useful for keyboard navigation.
By the way, I also set 'accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar' to 0 (zero), probably because the default value was annoying.
already have troubles with another part of the Genesis. Since God is omniscient and transcends space and time, he must have known that Adam and Eve will eat from the forbidden fruit of knowledge. Why did he punish them for something he must have known all along? Why did he let it happen first of all? Why did he put the trees into the garden of Eden, it would have been in his power (remember, omnipotent) to put them somewhere else so they could not reach it.
Personally, I think God framed the humans. So did Ford Prefect. Chapter 30 of The restaurant at the end of the universe, talking with Arthur Dent:
"Your God person puts an apple in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting 'Gotcha.' It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it."
"Why not?"
"Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end."
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind, eat the fruit."
"You know, this place almost looks like the Garden of Eden."
"Eat the fruit."
"Sounds quite like it too."
Arthur took a bite from the thing which looked like a pear.
"It's a pear," he said.
I have no idea who runs this site, but I wanted to see how legit they were. So I sent them a small amount of money through paypal and, lo and behold, 30 minutes later, the gold was in my mailbox. I figure at least they aren't just scamming people completely. Of course, many people will 'test the water' first by buying a small amount of gold, and it's not very worthwile to rip people off for that small amount either. Better wait till the buyer is confident enough to spend a little more.
Except it's not about volts (V), it's about electronvolts (eV). That's a unit of energy, not power (as has been detailed numerous times in these comments).
BTW, the energy consumption of the machine would never be measured in Watts (the SI unit of POWER). It may be listed in kw-hr though.
Well, you were only told "the machine consumes n kWh", you wouldn't be a lot the wiser. If you were told it consumes n kWh in m hours of operation, you'd be back at power (to wit n/m kW). Energy consumption for household appliances is also listed in kW.
Everything about the collider sounds, well, large -- from the 14 trillion electron volts of energy with which it will smash together protons (...)
So that energy is not the consumption (which would be more usefully measured in Watts anyway, as you point out), but the energy the particles have when they collide (which is usually measured in (T)eV).
I read "Dell Refunds Vista" and "Works With Two Emails" separately and then parsed the second phrase as a Native American name, akin to "Dances With Wolves" and "Stands With a Fist".
How would a Native American get the name "Works With Two Emails"?
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- relyably should be reliably;
- feasable should be feasible;
- powerfull should be powerful.
English is weird. Oh, btw, in English, unlike in German, the names of languages are capitalised; you have them uncapitalised in your sig. (In that respect, German is a bit weird too.)No, slaves were shipped there from Africa.
From the Wikipedia article on slavery in Colonial America:
Let's start by colonising our solar system, shall we? For the time being, that's challenging enough.
I believe parent gives very clear arguments against several points made in "The Great Global Warming Swindle". For what it's worth, I've seen neither the Swindle nor An Inconvenient Truth myself; from what I've heard, they both feature too much bad science to my taste. I prefer to consult the references myself. At some point, I may watch the documentaries; if I do, I'll probably watch both of them.
The real reason why black paper used to be used for this, is slightly more evil. Faxes used to be thermal, and using black paper caused them to burn out, at least the early models.
It's the difference between them running out of fax paper and breaking their fax machine.
The Telecrapper 2000 Telemarketer Interception System! See this flash example of it in operation.
Setting 'accessibility.typeaheadfind' to true allows you to start finding as soon as you type, without having to press apostrophe.
I've also set 'accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly' to true, so that just starting to type only finds hyperlinks (as was the case in Mozilla); for finding any text, I press '/' (slash). Very useful for keyboard navigation.
By the way, I also set 'accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar' to 0 (zero), probably because the default value was annoying.
"Why not?"
"Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end."
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind, eat the fruit."
"You know, this place almost looks like the Garden of Eden."
"Eat the fruit."
"Sounds quite like it too."
Arthur took a bite from the thing which looked like a pear.
"It's a pear," he said.
Except it's not about volts (V), it's about electronvolts (eV). That's a unit of energy, not power (as has been detailed numerous times in these comments).
I read "Dell Refunds Vista" and "Works With Two Emails" separately and then parsed the second phrase as a Native American name, akin to "Dances With Wolves" and "Stands With a Fist".
How would a Native American get the name "Works With Two Emails"?