I call bullshit. I've been a vaper (eCigarette user) for over a year now, since I switched over completely from smoking. I've tried over a dozen of the most popular devices, all with very similar physical characteristics of the vapor. I have vaped in my office, my home, coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, and a courtroom, mere feet from people who couldn't detect any smell at all. These are my co-workers, my family, friends, and complete strangers, dozens of which had no problem regularly informing me (and complaining), in past years, when I stank of smoke smell (usually right after a cigarette). Whatever anomalistic (read: psychosomatic) experience you had at the mall is not indicative of the normal experience.
I've used Composition C4 many of times in my Army career. I know first hand that you can drop, bump, hammer, shoot, and light on fire an M112 block of C4 without detonation.
To set off C4, you need a supersonic shockwave and a lot of heat at the same time. About the explosive power in a double overhand knot of 30-grain det cord, or an m6 or m7 blasting cap.
Exactly what I was thinking. Traveling 10% slower means 10% more time on the road. What I'd like to see is a study about the relationship/ratio between risk/injuries and speed. Even assuming that driving 10% slower (across all speeds) reduces accidents/injuries (which is not shown by this study), we still may have more accidents/injuries/deaths due to a disproportional decrease in accident rate between the different speeds and the increased time spent on the road. This doesn't even address the value of the lost time itself. The 130 million employed Americans spend, on average, more than 100 hours commuting to work each year. An increase of 7% (liberally assuming 30% of Americans are taking rail transit, or would otherwise be unaffected) would mean a loss of almost a billion hours a year. And that's just for the United States.
Is it just me or is anybody else worried about what they'll end up putting in these sprayers?
With the insane amount of pollution that China is already producing, you're worried about CFCs in the garbage deodorant?! "A drop in the ocean" doesn't even begin to capture your lack of perspective.
...or license the patent to a company who develops and sells it. The value of the inventor's work is coming up with an idea which can be developed into a product that consumers can buy - if this never happens, the inventor shouldn't get paid. This significantly reduces the value of patents as legal weapons since the inventor himself does not benefit from the licensee suing people.
I'm not sure I fully understand your proposal - specifically, who is able to sue infringers? If the licensee is (at your proposal suggests), then I don't see how this prevents companies from buying/hoarding myriad licensee rights simply for the sake of litigation (with no intention of production), which is the primary issue I was trying to mitigate with my proposal.
Shows how much thinking "out of the box" goes on in top engineering circles today...
Why are you surprised? NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space... the Russians used a pencil. Sometimes people look for a really complicated solution instead of going for something cheap and cheerful that gets-the-job-done.
To be fair, though, NASA saved billions by faking the moon landing.
This would remove the possibility for a dedicated inventor, who doesn't want to (or isn't capable to) deal with the complexities/difficulties with bringing his invention to market, or licensing the technology, but who would like to sell the patent to someone else to fund his own further inventing.
Heck, since we're using weasel words anyway, let's just reduce all laws to:"You are free to do anything as long as it's reasonable.
I agree with you about the ambiguity of the parent's proposal. How about - the life of a patent is halved with each transfer of ownership? This is unambiguous and severely cripples any potential for patent re-selling, while still retaining significant value for the 1st buyer to make money off of (allowing for inventors to sell their inventions and continue to invent instead of being forced to produce their invention themselves), if the buyer is actually ready/capable to bring the technology/product to market.
Or use spam to propagate malware whose only purpose is to forward the original spam message (without malware) to all of the infected users contacts, with an additional message at the beginning of the email "Hi everybody, I wanted to let you all know that I was very interested in this product/service and was willing to pay X dollars/pounds/euros for it."
Once the word spreads that this malware could be lurking in any spam, there should be a decline in the number of people willing to click on any spam, if only out of fear of social embarrassment.
Fruit juice != fruit. Drinking a tall glass of orange juice is the equivalent of eating 6~8 oranges, but without the fibers. Your liver treats the massive sugar dump much differently than eating the equivalent # of [fruit].
The FDA wants to toss fruit juices into the same category of "bad" drinks as sugar laden sodas.
That can't be right! I have it on good authority that drinking 1 oz. of Mona Vie acai berry juice is even healthier than 12 servings of fruits and vegetables. It comes from a super fruit, from the Amazon jungles! In fact, recent studies have shown that just purchasing a case of these stylish bottles may have an immediate positive effect on your interpersonal relationships (with any and all family and friends who have invested in the authorized reseller program). So, I say "Bah!" to your "science". Mona Vie has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!!
...and is just about as powerful as my Sempron desktop.
This. Is. Wrong.
Please make your way to NewEgg or Fry's immediately to renew your geek card. Seriously, man, it's all of $130 for a 2.8 GHz quad-core processor with a motherboard. It's time to move into this century...
Fascinating! You seem to be implying that there is more than one!! And I had always thought they were just a myth. What truly amazing times we live in, where such people live right alongside the rest of us, and we don't even know they're there!
Tell me, is it true that you all have fingertips as pointed as sharpened pencils, which allow you to actual use the OS? Or is it, like my friend believes, that you are all atoning for some great, and unspeakable crime? Perhaps you were AOL developers in your past life? :-P
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If you think that's an over-the-top opinion, run `netstab -ab'.
I tried this and all it did was kill all my current connections and produced the message "From Hell's heart..."
Is she really complaining or is she bragging like Sally Albright in the restaurant?
After googling that, I'm convinced that you must have believed that you were posting here. This is Slashdot. Nerds, and whatnot. Sorry.
I call bullshit. I've been a vaper (eCigarette user) for over a year now, since I switched over completely from smoking. I've tried over a dozen of the most popular devices, all with very similar physical characteristics of the vapor. I have vaped in my office, my home, coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, and a courtroom, mere feet from people who couldn't detect any smell at all. These are my co-workers, my family, friends, and complete strangers, dozens of which had no problem regularly informing me (and complaining), in past years, when I stank of smoke smell (usually right after a cigarette). Whatever anomalistic (read: psychosomatic) experience you had at the mall is not indicative of the normal experience.
And you end up with a fifth colon...
:-)
:-P
:-0
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>:-( <-----The Fifth Colon. Fear his anger.
I've used Composition C4 many of times in my Army career. I know first hand that you can drop, bump, hammer, shoot, and light on fire an M112 block of C4 without detonation.
To set off C4, you need a supersonic shockwave and a lot of heat at the same time. About the explosive power in a double overhand knot of 30-grain det cord, or an m6 or m7 blasting cap.
The best part of your post is your name.
Now only if I could get my wife to do that...
You are a sick bastard - I doubt that robot is anywhere close to the age of consent...
Exactly what I was thinking. Traveling 10% slower means 10% more time on the road. What I'd like to see is a study about the relationship/ratio between risk/injuries and speed. Even assuming that driving 10% slower (across all speeds) reduces accidents/injuries (which is not shown by this study), we still may have more accidents/injuries/deaths due to a disproportional decrease in accident rate between the different speeds and the increased time spent on the road. This doesn't even address the value of the lost time itself. The 130 million employed Americans spend, on average, more than 100 hours commuting to work each year. An increase of 7% (liberally assuming 30% of Americans are taking rail transit, or would otherwise be unaffected) would mean a loss of almost a billion hours a year. And that's just for the United States.
SATs over 750 each
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High metablosim
For some strange reason I find myself doubting the veracity of your SAT claims...
...and it would do more than just detect gestures.
Like lighten your wallet and provide an artificial sense of self-worth?
Are all against alliteration? AAAARG!!!!!
No, those of us below the age of 5 find it hilarious.
When will we wish we were "whooshed"?
By-the-by, being bitter becomes boring but blithe banter begets bliss.
Is it just me or is anybody else worried about what they'll end up putting in these sprayers?
With the insane amount of pollution that China is already producing, you're worried about CFCs in the garbage deodorant?! "A drop in the ocean" doesn't even begin to capture your lack of perspective.
notice any similarities between the names?
They're un-American!! I always knew FOSS was unpatriotic/treasonous - finally we have the proof!
...or license the patent to a company who develops and sells it. The value of the inventor's work is coming up with an idea which can be developed into a product that consumers can buy - if this never happens, the inventor shouldn't get paid. This significantly reduces the value of patents as legal weapons since the inventor himself does not benefit from the licensee suing people.
I'm not sure I fully understand your proposal - specifically, who is able to sue infringers? If the licensee is (at your proposal suggests), then I don't see how this prevents companies from buying/hoarding myriad licensee rights simply for the sake of litigation (with no intention of production), which is the primary issue I was trying to mitigate with my proposal.
Shows how much thinking "out of the box" goes on in top engineering circles today...
Why are you surprised? NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space... the Russians used a pencil. Sometimes people look for a really complicated solution instead of going for something cheap and cheerful that gets-the-job-done.
To be fair, though, NASA saved billions by faking the moon landing.
This would remove the possibility for a dedicated inventor, who doesn't want to (or isn't capable to) deal with the complexities/difficulties with bringing his invention to market, or licensing the technology, but who would like to sell the patent to someone else to fund his own further inventing.
Reasonable timeframe, reasonable period of time?
Heck, since we're using weasel words anyway, let's just reduce all laws to:"You are free to do anything as long as it's reasonable.
I agree with you about the ambiguity of the parent's proposal. How about - the life of a patent is halved with each transfer of ownership? This is unambiguous and severely cripples any potential for patent re-selling, while still retaining significant value for the 1st buyer to make money off of (allowing for inventors to sell their inventions and continue to invent instead of being forced to produce their invention themselves), if the buyer is actually ready/capable to bring the technology/product to market.
...but by quoting that polarizing reactionary dipshit you make yourself look like an idiot.
Whereas you establish yourself as a thoughtful, intelligent and objective participant in the discussion by describing her as such.
Or use spam to propagate malware whose only purpose is to forward the original spam message (without malware) to all of the infected users contacts, with an additional message at the beginning of the email "Hi everybody, I wanted to let you all know that I was very interested in this product/service and was willing to pay X dollars/pounds/euros for it."
Once the word spreads that this malware could be lurking in any spam, there should be a decline in the number of people willing to click on any spam, if only out of fear of social embarrassment.
Actually, even Jefferson in the first ever census saw the value in obtaining extra information.
I'll gladly my extra personal information to Jefferson, then. He's a trustworthy chap.
IDK, once I accidentally all of my personal information to Jefferson. I had know idea what to do next.
How many 12 year old girls type like 40 year old guys? What would be the consequences?
Obviously we'd be able to catch these future-predators-in-sheep's-clothing before they got a chance to grow-up and become 40-year-old men.
Fruit juice != fruit.
Drinking a tall glass of orange juice is the equivalent of eating 6~8 oranges, but without the fibers.
Your liver treats the massive sugar dump much differently than eating the equivalent # of [fruit].
The FDA wants to toss fruit juices into the same category of "bad" drinks as sugar laden sodas.
That can't be right! I have it on good authority that drinking 1 oz. of Mona Vie acai berry juice is even healthier than 12 servings of fruits and vegetables. It comes from a super fruit, from the Amazon jungles! In fact, recent studies have shown that just purchasing a case of these stylish bottles may have an immediate positive effect on your interpersonal relationships (with any and all family and friends who have invested in the authorized reseller program). So, I say "Bah!" to your "science". Mona Vie has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!!
...and is just about as powerful as my Sempron desktop.
This. Is. Wrong.
Please make your way to NewEgg or Fry's immediately to renew your geek card. Seriously, man, it's all of $130 for a 2.8 GHz quad-core processor with a motherboard. It's time to move into this century...
Goodbye to all my exes in my vacation photos. Stupid real dolls blocking the scenery.
You seem to have a... unique... relationship with your binaries. I rarely even photograph mine.
For every hour? Really? With that logic they should just keep it down 24/7 then.
Only when combined with the premise that profit is a goal for them. Which it's not.
For Windows Mobile fans...
Fascinating! You seem to be implying that there is more than one!! And I had always thought they were just a myth. What truly amazing times we live in, where such people live right alongside the rest of us, and we don't even know they're there!
Tell me, is it true that you all have fingertips as pointed as sharpened pencils, which allow you to actual use the OS? Or is it, like my friend believes, that you are all atoning for some great, and unspeakable crime? Perhaps you were AOL developers in your past life?
:-P