Besides, many knives are equally effective at causing harm using just the bladed edge (think butcher knives.)
I guess if you preferred dismemberment over stabbing, then yes.
And if something like this is taken seriously, how does one define a "pointed" knife? Any section of the blade with an acute angle between the hypotenuse and adjacent sides? A perfect right angle on the butcher knife you speak of might qualify, as it'd do a halfway decent job of penetration if enough force were applied.
Geeze, all the science and mathematics behind cruelty...
This hysteria and panic is caused by, well, nothing. Except the fact that for some unknown reason over the last 5 years the media has become much more likely to report each and every incident of violence with a knife that they get to hear about.
Perhaps there's more media: more reporters + more vehicles of delivery = more output for the same crime.
Blow it out of proportion: one knife crime a day, 10,000 reporters to cover it, and reported in 25 newspapers, 37 TV channels and 600 websites. You would think the world was ending, too.
Really, it's all potentiometers, capacitors, resistors, and condenser microphones. There's no magical voo-doo involved in recording tracks any more than there is with electricity in general. While those parts cost money, the use of them doesn't necessarily cost anything. Hiring someone to use them properly can cost something, and that person's fee may be in line with their experience, or it may not. Some engineers with self-proclaimed golden ears charge an exorbitant amount to turn a compressor's gain knob, others virtually volunteer their time because they enjoy doing it. So yeah, $500 could get you somewhere.
However, a chance discovery was made in March 2008, by The CBM Museum at Wuppertal in Germany, that immersing parts in a solution of Hydrogen Peroxide could partially reverse the process.
They accidentally immersed old plastic parts in Hydrogen Peroxide?
Basically the point I was trying to get across is that there's very little you can do to directly affect the outcome of the scenario. (Of course, since it's technically a medical practice, you are the one that's most in charge of your body, and you *can* directly affect the outcome of that scenario.) I think another topic about sensor drift from yesterday or a few days ago brought up the question of, "How much can you trust the data of a climatologist who's paid by a 'concerned interest' and expected to find climate problems?" Sure, you can study the available data all you want, and with some self-taught knowledge, you can probably make heads or tails of it all, but having knowledge of why something is happening does not fix the problem. Using a scenario from above, having knowledge of aerodynamics won't really help you if you're in a plane and it's crashing to the ground. (Mentally, it might scare you less than your fellow passengers because you'll know precisely WHY you're plummeting to your death, but you cannot directly affect the outcome of the scenario.)
So, my question is: how exactly are you going to...
most certainly HELP THEM GET MORE DATA
...unless you have a job with JPL, NASA, or one of their subcontractors? Barring that, I'm not sure there's very much you could do to help the situation, the situation being the loss of the OCO.
What exactly are you suggesting I do? We (should?) play the cards we are dealt with in the best (most rational) way we can.
That's precisely what I meant when I said, "Do your part because there's nothing else you can do." If you feel that reducing your carbon output will help the atmosphere, then do that.
For future reference, the "snowflake" bit points out that while each one is special and unique, in the grand scheme of things such as the amount of snow that falls over the North American continent in a winter season, one snowflake cannot make a difference. It was more cynical than necessary, and I apologize.
Since you're not a doctor, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that you have a serious illness, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a pilot, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the plane is going down, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a general, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the war is lost, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a climatologist, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the carbon dioxide levels are increasing, what exactly are you going to do about it, snowflake?
Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Do your part because there's nothing else you can do. (except worry, apparently.) The powers that be, who you have to trust, are doing their jobs just as they have been all along.
Depends on if you need a ride or not. And exactly what kind of ride you need.
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Yeah, but there's also this phenomenon called suspension of disbelief. It's what makes works of fiction believable. For instance, I can't stand Transformers, not for the robot characters, but for the completely unbelievable stunts and stretches of the laws of physics that the human characters went through, especially towards the end of the movie. For me, suspension of disbelief stopped about halfway through that movie, while other radically-different movies worked great, such as The Matrix. I would consider Total Recall to be a better movie than Transformers, and that's not saying much about Total Recall.
True. This is precisely the reason why Montana did away with their "Reasonable and Prudent" daylight no-speed-limit. The Fed stopped giving them an allowance for maintaining the Interstates, something Montana has quite a few miles of.
Old news. Price of scrap has bottomed out in the past few months. Most scrapyards around here won't even cut a check if you bring in less than $10 worth of scrap... which is a lot of copper these days.
As an anecdote, there was a construction site we were working on where the plumbers painted all the copper pipes black, to make them look like steel pipes, to thwart would-be thieves during construction where access to the building is very easy.
In math one year, my teacher taught me more than I learned in the three before it combined.
My math teacher could have gotten a job where he would have made 6 figures a year; instead he was a high school teacher earning less after a decade than I made after 1 year programming. How is that right?
We need to pay teachers more so that we have good teachers so that they can motivate the students and teach more to the ones who are serious about it.
Again, I say to you, it is not about the pay, as much as the effort. I whole-heartedly agree that we should be paying our teachers more, but increasing the pay does not equal better teachers; there is some discussion that higher pay scales will also bring in more of the "bad" teachers only looking to make a buck. Your own high school math teacher was there for 10 years, and you said yourself that he taught you a great deal. Perhaps he enjoyed it. There are still some people left in this country who take jobs because they enjoy them.
As a useless anectdote, I have a friend who graduated high school with me. She went to college and became a public school teacher in St. Paul. I went right into the working world. Now, 8 years later, I'm making 10K a year more than she is, and don't have nearly half the debt.
She truly enjoys her job. As for my job happiness... the jury's still out. There really is something rewarding about seeing a young child "get it," and I'm not sure if anyone can attach a dollar figure to it. Your math teacher saw it.
Maybe charge $2 more per seat at the football games and have an overly-funded football team.
There, fixed that for you. Money made from extra-curricular activities generally go into an extra-curricular pool that all the activities draw from. Calc is not an activity. Haven't you been a bureaucrat before?:)
I really don't think it has as much to do with the amount of money, than it does the amount of desire the student has to learn.
One can put forth the argument that higher-paid teachers will teach better and more aggressively, but at the end of the day, did the student "learn" anything? Did they want to learn anything?
I went to a public school in a hick town in the upper Midwest, and graduated in a class of 153. The teachers were paid poorly and there weren't a lot of extra-curricular activities. According to most, I should be as dumb as a box of rocks. However, I believe that "You Get Out Of It What You Put Into It." (tm) It's why there are still some idiots coming out of private schools, and some really smart kids coming out of a big-city public school. It's more about the effort on behalf of the student to excel, the desire to achieve something great, and the power that comes with knowledge.
Those things come from inside the student, not from a tax levy.
Our legal standards abhor "fishing expeditions" by the authorities.
You've gotta be more specific about which country you live in. It's obviously not the same country as I live in. TSA has every right to search you at random, or for any made-up-on-the-spot reason. I once was selected for a full search in Missoula because "an interesting substance" was showing up on my laptop case. Yeah, it's called drywall dust from a construction site. Same thing that's on my shoes and my jacket, along with 6 different kinds of clay from Wyoming.
Once these technologies are in place, a passenger may pass through a security screening without realizing it. For example, passengers could use an automated check-in system or gaze at a screen with departures information without realizing they've just been exposed to the words "Islamic jihad" written in Arabic.
It's going to cause anyone who can read Arabic to freak out.
Last time I checked, that was a fairly good percentage of the world. It would probably make as much sense as putting up an English advertisement in Dulles saying, "ARE YOU READY FOR FEDERAL POUND-ME-IN-THE-ASS PRISON?"
It would make everyone who can read English a little freaked out, terrorist or not.
They've got a lot of data to figure out what probably happened. But, FTFA:
Most likely cause : an electric arc due to rupture of the interconnection.
Unfortunately this is difficult to prove, since the whole dipole
interconnect was 'vaporised' during the event!
I think they didn't want to test it outdoors in February at International Falls because you can't type with gloves on, and your fingers don't stay attached if you take the gloves off.
I live in MN, and if I leave my Dell D820 in the car overnight between October and April, and then power it up in the morning, the fan will kick on and it will boot incredibly slow. I've always presumed this is some sort of preventative action to keep the processor from heating up too fast and snapping something... but nobody has been able to give me a straight answer on this.
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Besides, many knives are equally effective at causing harm using just the bladed edge (think butcher knives.)
I guess if you preferred dismemberment over stabbing, then yes.
And if something like this is taken seriously, how does one define a "pointed" knife? Any section of the blade with an acute angle between the hypotenuse and adjacent sides? A perfect right angle on the butcher knife you speak of might qualify, as it'd do a halfway decent job of penetration if enough force were applied.
Geeze, all the science and mathematics behind cruelty...
This hysteria and panic is caused by, well, nothing. Except the fact that for some unknown reason over the last 5 years the media has become much more likely to report each and every incident of violence with a knife that they get to hear about.
Perhaps there's more media: more reporters + more vehicles of delivery = more output for the same crime.
Blow it out of proportion: one knife crime a day, 10,000 reporters to cover it, and reported in 25 newspapers, 37 TV channels and 600 websites. You would think the world was ending, too.
Really, it's all potentiometers, capacitors, resistors, and condenser microphones. There's no magical voo-doo involved in recording tracks any more than there is with electricity in general. While those parts cost money, the use of them doesn't necessarily cost anything. Hiring someone to use them properly can cost something, and that person's fee may be in line with their experience, or it may not. Some engineers with self-proclaimed golden ears charge an exorbitant amount to turn a compressor's gain knob, others virtually volunteer their time because they enjoy doing it. So yeah, $500 could get you somewhere.
Are you referring to the local musician I met after paying $12 to see them live in a performance?
Gladly.
However, a chance discovery was made in March 2008, by The CBM Museum at Wuppertal in Germany, that immersing parts in a solution of Hydrogen Peroxide could partially reverse the process.
They accidentally immersed old plastic parts in Hydrogen Peroxide?
Sounds like a "whoops" turned into a "cool!"
So, my question is: how exactly are you going to...
most certainly HELP THEM GET MORE DATA
...unless you have a job with JPL, NASA, or one of their subcontractors? Barring that, I'm not sure there's very much you could do to help the situation, the situation being the loss of the OCO.
What exactly are you suggesting I do? We (should?) play the cards we are dealt with in the best (most rational) way we can.
That's precisely what I meant when I said, "Do your part because there's nothing else you can do." If you feel that reducing your carbon output will help the atmosphere, then do that.
For future reference, the "snowflake" bit points out that while each one is special and unique, in the grand scheme of things such as the amount of snow that falls over the North American continent in a winter season, one snowflake cannot make a difference. It was more cynical than necessary, and I apologize.
Since you're not a doctor, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that you have a serious illness, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a pilot, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the plane is going down, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a general, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the war is lost, what exactly are you going to do about it?
Since you're not a climatologist, and you have to trust them, if they tell you that the carbon dioxide levels are increasing, what exactly are you going to do about it, snowflake?
Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Do your part because there's nothing else you can do. (except worry, apparently.) The powers that be, who you have to trust, are doing their jobs just as they have been all along.
Depends on if you need a ride or not. And exactly what kind of ride you need.
Yeah, but there's also this phenomenon called suspension of disbelief. It's what makes works of fiction believable. For instance, I can't stand Transformers, not for the robot characters, but for the completely unbelievable stunts and stretches of the laws of physics that the human characters went through, especially towards the end of the movie. For me, suspension of disbelief stopped about halfway through that movie, while other radically-different movies worked great, such as The Matrix. I would consider Total Recall to be a better movie than Transformers, and that's not saying much about Total Recall.
Well, thank you. I was not aware of that. That'll teach me to check my sources!
True. This is precisely the reason why Montana did away with their "Reasonable and Prudent" daylight no-speed-limit. The Fed stopped giving them an allowance for maintaining the Interstates, something Montana has quite a few miles of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Parent AC's post is a good description as well, and is actually the source for the Wiki article.
Old news. Price of scrap has bottomed out in the past few months. Most scrapyards around here won't even cut a check if you bring in less than $10 worth of scrap... which is a lot of copper these days.
As an anecdote, there was a construction site we were working on where the plumbers painted all the copper pipes black, to make them look like steel pipes, to thwart would-be thieves during construction where access to the building is very easy.
Perhaps we're not normal. =P
Well, both of you are posting on Slashdot... and I'm having a hard time finding "normal" people here. It's the part I like best.
In math one year, my teacher taught me more than I learned in the three before it combined.
My math teacher could have gotten a job where he would have made 6 figures a year; instead he was a high school teacher earning less after a decade than I made after 1 year programming. How is that right?
We need to pay teachers more so that we have good teachers so that they can motivate the students and teach more to the ones who are serious about it.
Again, I say to you, it is not about the pay, as much as the effort. I whole-heartedly agree that we should be paying our teachers more, but increasing the pay does not equal better teachers; there is some discussion that higher pay scales will also bring in more of the "bad" teachers only looking to make a buck. Your own high school math teacher was there for 10 years, and you said yourself that he taught you a great deal. Perhaps he enjoyed it. There are still some people left in this country who take jobs because they enjoy them.
As a useless anectdote, I have a friend who graduated high school with me. She went to college and became a public school teacher in St. Paul. I went right into the working world. Now, 8 years later, I'm making 10K a year more than she is, and don't have nearly half the debt.
She truly enjoys her job. As for my job happiness... the jury's still out. There really is something rewarding about seeing a young child "get it," and I'm not sure if anyone can attach a dollar figure to it. Your math teacher saw it.
Maybe charge $2 more per seat at the football games and have an overly-funded football team.
There, fixed that for you. Money made from extra-curricular activities generally go into an extra-curricular pool that all the activities draw from. Calc is not an activity. Haven't you been a bureaucrat before? :)
I really don't think it has as much to do with the amount of money, than it does the amount of desire the student has to learn.
One can put forth the argument that higher-paid teachers will teach better and more aggressively, but at the end of the day, did the student "learn" anything? Did they want to learn anything?
I went to a public school in a hick town in the upper Midwest, and graduated in a class of 153. The teachers were paid poorly and there weren't a lot of extra-curricular activities. According to most, I should be as dumb as a box of rocks. However, I believe that "You Get Out Of It What You Put Into It." (tm) It's why there are still some idiots coming out of private schools, and some really smart kids coming out of a big-city public school. It's more about the effort on behalf of the student to excel, the desire to achieve something great, and the power that comes with knowledge.
Those things come from inside the student, not from a tax levy.
Our legal standards abhor "fishing expeditions" by the authorities.
You've gotta be more specific about which country you live in. It's obviously not the same country as I live in. TSA has every right to search you at random, or for any made-up-on-the-spot reason. I once was selected for a full search in Missoula because "an interesting substance" was showing up on my laptop case. Yeah, it's called drywall dust from a construction site. Same thing that's on my shoes and my jacket, along with 6 different kinds of clay from Wyoming.
Once these technologies are in place, a passenger may pass through a security screening without realizing it. For example, passengers could use an automated check-in system or gaze at a screen with departures information without realizing they've just been exposed to the words "Islamic jihad" written in Arabic.
It's going to cause anyone who can read Arabic to freak out.
Last time I checked, that was a fairly good percentage of the world. It would probably make as much sense as putting up an English advertisement in Dulles saying, "ARE YOU READY FOR FEDERAL POUND-ME-IN-THE-ASS PRISON?"
It would make everyone who can read English a little freaked out, terrorist or not.
Is there a chance I might actually see an image of Goatse Guy while being tested? I wonder what kind of "stimulation" that would bring up.
I think Monticello is looking at citywide fiber, installed by the City of Monticello. http://www.monticellofiber.com/
Most likely cause : an electric arc due to rupture of the interconnection. Unfortunately this is difficult to prove, since the whole dipole interconnect was 'vaporised' during the event!
How about 6 months in a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison?
I think they didn't want to test it outdoors in February at International Falls because you can't type with gloves on, and your fingers don't stay attached if you take the gloves off.
I live in MN, and if I leave my Dell D820 in the car overnight between October and April, and then power it up in the morning, the fan will kick on and it will boot incredibly slow. I've always presumed this is some sort of preventative action to keep the processor from heating up too fast and snapping something... but nobody has been able to give me a straight answer on this.
Actually, no, it doesn't. It varies the voltage to the rotor.
Here's a schematic: http://mightymo.org/Proj_OneWire.html#DELCO%20SI%20schematics