If you bother to RTFA, you will see that the rules being revisited are those regarding unintentional radiators. Cell phones will still be prohibited in flight, as they probably should be.
Maybe you can't. On what basis do you claim I can't?
No man is an island. Any miracle that affects you has a good chance of affecting the lives of those around you, forcing people down paths their lives wouldn't otherwise have taken.
You can say that "free will" is just the ability to react to life's little twists and turns, however they're caused, but the concept rapidly loses all meaning once you introduce a supernatural being who reaches down and tweaks things every so often.
Chaos theory tells us that the fluttering of an insect's wings in China can trigger or stop a hurricane in the Caribbean. If that's true, how can God go around working miracles without robbing countless other people of their free will?
Say God heals a cancer patient. Now the doctor's no longer needed. Maybe the lost income is enough to cause him to miss his malpractice insurance premium that month. Once his insurance lapses, he's dismissed from the hospital where he practices. Now the doctor's kid can no longer go to Harvard like his old man did, so he joins the Army to earn money for college...
I want to know the kind of science which requires timings of this accuracy
The recent CERN / Gran Sasso experiments on neutrino velocity, for instance. Better timing translates into better certainty and better reproducibility.
Nobody cares how illogical the law is. The legislators who passed the DMCA have already received their checks, paperclipped to the draft of the law itself.
It doesn't matter if 200,000,000 Americans think the law is illogical, because they're not the ones coughing up the baksheesh, are they?
The thing is, home shop machinists tend to be creative people who are (by definition) already in a creative mood when they're working with their tools of choice. The Chinese stuff from Harbor Freight is total crap, but crap is sometimes acceptable if you can fix it.
I'm not a machinist but I deal with the same kind of issues with SMT soldering gear. It may not be awesome gear, and it might burn my house down if I ever forget to power it off when I'm done with it, but it gets the job done... and when it breaks, the problem is usually something that can be hacked back into working order.
Another situation where cheap tools are good tools is when you want to modify them. You wouldn't normally take your high-$$$ Snap-On tools to the bench grinder when they won't quite fit a particular application, but a $0.50 wrench from Harbor Freight is something else entirely. Grind away.
It's fine to appreciate the best tools and equipment, and it's certainly desirable to use the right tool for the job at all times... but in the real world you either have to be wealthy to live up to those ideals, or you have to turn them into your profession, which is a good way to ruin a nice hobby. The rest of us are getting useful and interesting work done with the cheap Chinese crap.... often the sort of work that would otherwise be completely out of our reach at home.
Finally, ever notice how people muttering about cheap Chinese crap sound just like our parents did? Except they were complaining about cheap Japanese crap. If history repeats itself, then our children will complain about cheap shit from Pakistan or Brazil or wherever, and "Made In China" will be considered a good thing.
Funny how 99.99% of all of the software and hardware you use every day was ineligible for patent protection or otherwise created without bothering with it. It's almost as if patents are just another economic racket associated with living in a lawyer-ridden society, or something.
It's really tough to imagine a nastier or more stupid thing to do than use stolen credit cards with charities.
Maybe that was Hammond's whole idea. By feeding bogus credit-card donations to controversial charities like the Church of Scientology, ACLU, NRA, or Freedom From Religion Foundation, you could effectively DoS them, as far as their ability to take Visa/MC is concerned.
They also aren't considered to have any rights to speak of, compared to humans.
Kill this bullshit story, please
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Not only does the summary have absolutely nothing to do with "news for nerds," but it reveals an agenda that is probably (if you scratch it deeply enough) based on religious asshattery rather than sound medical, scientific, or ethical principles.
Case in in point: But here's the weird part. In at least two studies before the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, some 'brain-dead' patients were found to be emitting brain waves, and at least one doctor has reported a case in which a patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
You know who else emits brain waves and breathes spontaneously? Pretty much every life form in kingdom Animalia.
Why did the submitter not choose to reveal his/her actual agenda, rather than duping an editor into publishing this stupidity? Organ donation saves lives... real lives, lives which are distinguished by characteristics beyond the ability to inhale oxygen and exhale CO2.
Exactly. I'm sure the author goes on and on about the evil banks and corporations, without acknowledging the fact that they would never have had the power to do so much evil in the first place if the government hadn't given it to them. The notion of an entity that's "too big to fail" is the farthest thing imaginable from a capitalistic perspective... yet look who gets blamed.
Regardless of the question you're asking, more gatekeepers and middlemen are not the answer. That applies to governments as well as corporations.
I was an apatheist, too, until I came to understand the threat to civilization posed by theism. At that point I found it necessary to stand on one side of the line or the other.
also, petrol cars can have problems - seen a mitsubishi older than 2 years lately? shocking things.
Yes, and as I pointed out, those problems will be flagged at the semiannual emissions inspection that's required of passenger cars, but (apparently) not diesel trucks.
As the short answer to that, well-maintained big diesel engines have a useful lifetime measured in millions of miles. Decades of use.
So? My four-year-old Honda Accord still has to pass a state emissions test every two years. If my gasoline-powered car ever starts belching the kind of crap that comes out of the diesel trucks (and even some diesel cars) around here, it will be illegal for me to drive away from the inspection station.
The only explanation I can think of is that the diesel trucks are operated by politically-connected corporations and my car isn't. Do you have any other explanation to suggest?
This is basically why I snicker when some well-meaning enviro-weenie starts extolling the benefits of "clean diesel" cars. They were all "clean" when they left the factory. Then, 500,000 miles later, the urea canister that traps all those carcinogenic sulfur compounds wears out, the operator removes the clogged-up particulate filter without bothering to replace it, and the health of everybody within a quarter-mile radius is put at risk.
Diesel vehicles suck ass... there's just no way to spin it.
If you want to make a difference, you take a good picture of him.
That's exactly what was done. The result? A lot of badge-lickers log onto Slashdot and post messages justifying the actions of the police.
When your advice to use cameras to address the problem fails, as it has here, what's your next recommendation for dealing with these steroid-addled Wehrmacht wannabees? Strongly-worded letters?
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If you bother to RTFA, you will see that the rules being revisited are those regarding unintentional radiators. Cell phones will still be prohibited in flight, as they probably should be.
Hint: If it can't be reproduced, it didn't happen.
The movie had it right. If the Winklevosses were going to invent Facebook, they would have invented Facebook.
Maybe you can't. On what basis do you claim I can't?
No man is an island. Any miracle that affects you has a good chance of affecting the lives of those around you, forcing people down paths their lives wouldn't otherwise have taken.
You can say that "free will" is just the ability to react to life's little twists and turns, however they're caused, but the concept rapidly loses all meaning once you introduce a supernatural being who reaches down and tweaks things every so often.
Chaos theory tells us that the fluttering of an insect's wings in China can trigger or stop a hurricane in the Caribbean. If that's true, how can God go around working miracles without robbing countless other people of their free will?
Say God heals a cancer patient. Now the doctor's no longer needed. Maybe the lost income is enough to cause him to miss his malpractice insurance premium that month. Once his insurance lapses, he's dismissed from the hospital where he practices. Now the doctor's kid can no longer go to Harvard like his old man did, so he joins the Army to earn money for college...
I want to know the kind of science which requires timings of this accuracy
The recent CERN / Gran Sasso experiments on neutrino velocity, for instance. Better timing translates into better certainty and better reproducibility.
It's just the single biggest economy in europe
That will change in a hurry, given enough legislation like this.
Nobody cares how illogical the law is. The legislators who passed the DMCA have already received their checks, paperclipped to the draft of the law itself.
It doesn't matter if 200,000,000 Americans think the law is illogical, because they're not the ones coughing up the baksheesh, are they?
The thing is, home shop machinists tend to be creative people who are (by definition) already in a creative mood when they're working with their tools of choice. The Chinese stuff from Harbor Freight is total crap, but crap is sometimes acceptable if you can fix it.
I'm not a machinist but I deal with the same kind of issues with SMT soldering gear. It may not be awesome gear, and it might burn my house down if I ever forget to power it off when I'm done with it, but it gets the job done... and when it breaks, the problem is usually something that can be hacked back into working order.
Another situation where cheap tools are good tools is when you want to modify them. You wouldn't normally take your high-$$$ Snap-On tools to the bench grinder when they won't quite fit a particular application, but a $0.50 wrench from Harbor Freight is something else entirely. Grind away.
It's fine to appreciate the best tools and equipment, and it's certainly desirable to use the right tool for the job at all times... but in the real world you either have to be wealthy to live up to those ideals, or you have to turn them into your profession, which is a good way to ruin a nice hobby. The rest of us are getting useful and interesting work done with the cheap Chinese crap.... often the sort of work that would otherwise be completely out of our reach at home.
Finally, ever notice how people muttering about cheap Chinese crap sound just like our parents did? Except they were complaining about cheap Japanese crap. If history repeats itself, then our children will complain about cheap shit from Pakistan or Brazil or wherever, and "Made In China" will be considered a good thing.
You can have a God that works miracles, or you can have humans with free will. You can't have both. What's it going to be?
Funny how 99.99% of all of the software and hardware you use every day was ineligible for patent protection or otherwise created without bothering with it. It's almost as if patents are just another economic racket associated with living in a lawyer-ridden society, or something.
Yet still insist we pay for your gal's birth control and/or abortions, right?
As long as you insist I pay for your wars of choice, yes. It seems like a fair trade, doesn't it?
It's really tough to imagine a nastier or more stupid thing to do than use stolen credit cards with charities.
Maybe that was Hammond's whole idea. By feeding bogus credit-card donations to controversial charities like the Church of Scientology, ACLU, NRA, or Freedom From Religion Foundation, you could effectively DoS them, as far as their ability to take Visa/MC is concerned.
... the robot reportedly announced plans to seek the GOP Presidential nomination.
They also aren't considered to have any rights to speak of, compared to humans.
Not only does the summary have absolutely nothing to do with "news for nerds," but it reveals an agenda that is probably (if you scratch it deeply enough) based on religious asshattery rather than sound medical, scientific, or ethical principles.
Case in in point: But here's the weird part. In at least two studies before the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, some 'brain-dead' patients were found to be emitting brain waves, and at least one doctor has reported a case in which a patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
You know who else emits brain waves and breathes spontaneously? Pretty much every life form in kingdom Animalia.
Why did the submitter not choose to reveal his/her actual agenda, rather than duping an editor into publishing this stupidity? Organ donation saves lives... real lives, lives which are distinguished by characteristics beyond the ability to inhale oxygen and exhale CO2.
Exactly. I'm sure the author goes on and on about the evil banks and corporations, without acknowledging the fact that they would never have had the power to do so much evil in the first place if the government hadn't given it to them. The notion of an entity that's "too big to fail" is the farthest thing imaginable from a capitalistic perspective... yet look who gets blamed.
Regardless of the question you're asking, more gatekeepers and middlemen are not the answer. That applies to governments as well as corporations.
I was an apatheist, too, until I came to understand the threat to civilization posed by theism. At that point I found it necessary to stand on one side of the line or the other.
also, petrol cars can have problems - seen a mitsubishi older than 2 years lately? shocking things.
Yes, and as I pointed out, those problems will be flagged at the semiannual emissions inspection that's required of passenger cars, but (apparently) not diesel trucks.
As the short answer to that, well-maintained big diesel engines have a useful lifetime measured in millions of miles. Decades of use.
So? My four-year-old Honda Accord still has to pass a state emissions test every two years. If my gasoline-powered car ever starts belching the kind of crap that comes out of the diesel trucks (and even some diesel cars) around here, it will be illegal for me to drive away from the inspection station.
The only explanation I can think of is that the diesel trucks are operated by politically-connected corporations and my car isn't. Do you have any other explanation to suggest?
This is basically why I snicker when some well-meaning enviro-weenie starts extolling the benefits of "clean diesel" cars. They were all "clean" when they left the factory. Then, 500,000 miles later, the urea canister that traps all those carcinogenic sulfur compounds wears out, the operator removes the clogged-up particulate filter without bothering to replace it, and the health of everybody within a quarter-mile radius is put at risk.
Diesel vehicles suck ass... there's just no way to spin it.
So was Huxley agnostic about Zeus, too?
It's a completely meaningless weasel word.
More like firebombing the Library of Alexandria. Would you be OK with that?
Google funds Firefox (and other browsers, none the less) because it brings them revenue
And you get out of bed every weekday morning and go to work because it brings you "revenue." Did you have a point?
If you want to make a difference, you take a good picture of him.
That's exactly what was done. The result? A lot of badge-lickers log onto Slashdot and post messages justifying the actions of the police.
When your advice to use cameras to address the problem fails, as it has here, what's your next recommendation for dealing with these steroid-addled Wehrmacht wannabees? Strongly-worded letters?
I can point to a bunch of examples, but it doesn't matter. You'll refuse any example that differs even in a trivial way from the iPad.
Oh.
OK.