Around the year 2000, I heard a statistic somewhere that the average American household watches about 7 hours of television per day
I think 'watching' is a gross simplification. Using almost everyone I know as a sample, the TV is white noise. It's on, but no one is watching.
The same cannot be said of video games. (Not that I'm saying "game addiction" is a medical condition or anything, just that its not necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison.)
The speed of light is constant in all reference frames. Nothing will happen to the spaceships. Each will see the other spaceship's headlights' photons comming at the speed of light [doppler [blue] shifted], followed by the spaceship.
Yes. We can see other planets (via transit method), but few other planets will be able to see our solar system using the transit method.
Because the vast, vast majority of non-clustered stars (those capable of having a planet in a stable orbit) occur within the galactic plane, and our solar system's planets orbit perpendicular to that plane (and quite vast -- no hot jupiters here), only planets within a few hundredths (thousandths? -- didn't do the math) of seconds of arc of the ecliptic will be able to see any transit.
If our solar system's plane did coincide with the galactic plane, and wasn't quite so vast, transits (from the point of view of the galactic plane) would occur much more frequently.
That's not to say another planet could not infer the presence of a solar system here by other means -- the Doppler method has a much wider detection angle, but leaves the/true/ mass of any planet hidden (good estimates can be made, but are subject to debate) Using both the transit and Doppler methods, you can get a very accurate number for the mass.
To scale it down a step, if you were on Mars, you would see the moon pass in front of Earth quite frequently. However, if you were 1 billion miles directly above Earth's north pole, you would never see the moon pass in front of earth, but you could still tell the moon was there, because the Earth would "wobble".
It should be noted that out the Sun's axis of rotation (and that of the major planets) is NOT with the galactic plane. We can see them, but they can't see us...
Catalog sales have always been exempt from sales tax when they cross State lines.
Why (seriously)? What prevents states from having online (or catalog) shops from collecting local taxes (as in where the business is, not where the customer is)?
I live in Minnesota. If I go to, say, Maryland, and buy something, and arrange for the store to ship it back to my house, I still pay the local 5% tax in Maryland. Same thing's true if I go Canada, Japan, Australia. I still have to pay the sales/VA tax, even if I have it shipped to a different [S|s]tate.
So, again, what prevents states from taxing the sales revenues originating in their states? (Other than the fact all businesses will end up in tax-free Delaware...)
Given the inefficiencies in PV solar, wouldn't it be better to have thermal solar plants, and leave the PV to the individual [person|business].
After all, PV output goes as peak usage, more or less, whereas a well-implement thermal solar can provide power at night. You can get more power/acre, and PV is non-obtrusive on a roof.
or am I missing something, other than current costs?
Because in ratifying the Constitution, the states agree to abide by it? Maybe?
Actually, no, at least not for states prior to the ratification of the 14th. Prior to 1868, it was only the federal government that was bound by the Constitution, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the Constitution.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This has more-or-less been ruled to mean that Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8 apply to the States as well as Congress.
Also, if it doesn't explicitly violate the US Constitution, it may violate the NY Constitution.
Somehow, such a virus combined with the tremendous (and largely wasted) computing resources now available online strikes me as the most likely candidate for true, "artificial intelligence" and/or "artificial life".
You are not the only one. I've been thinking that for years. After all, a computer virus is almost exactly like a real virus -- capable of defense and reproduction, targets specific weaknesses very well but ineffective against things it wasn't designed to interact with, requires a host to actually do anything, and cannot move to another host without some vector.
Definitely a plus, I liked that already back then on the N64 where you could play certain games (Perfect Dark) with two controllers, one for each hand, to get two analogsticks.
N64? I remember some NES games supported two-controller use. (Smash-TV is the one specific game I can name, but there were others.) You held the controllers in the same position as the Wii-mote in normal (pointer) mode, cradling the body of the controller in hands with your thumbs over the d-pads. One pad controlled the direction you shot, the other controlled the direction you moved.
Downside was that you needed the NES satellite to play in dual-controller mode with a friend.
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If you're a male between the ages of 6 and 18, yes. Anything else is ADHD.
I think 'watching' is a gross simplification. Using almost everyone I know as a sample, the TV is white noise. It's on, but no one is watching.
The same cannot be said of video games. (Not that I'm saying "game addiction" is a medical condition or anything, just that its not necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison.)
A common fuel ( for the SSME among other things ) is liquid hydrogen, which when combined with LOX (burned) created water, which is a greenhouse gas.
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Yes. We can see other planets (via transit method), but few other planets will be able to see our solar system using the transit method.
/true/ mass of any planet hidden (good estimates can be made, but are subject to debate) Using both the transit and Doppler methods, you can get a very accurate number for the mass.
Because the vast, vast majority of non-clustered stars (those capable of having a planet in a stable orbit) occur within the galactic plane, and our solar system's planets orbit perpendicular to that plane (and quite vast -- no hot jupiters here), only planets within a few hundredths (thousandths? -- didn't do the math) of seconds of arc of the ecliptic will be able to see any transit.
If our solar system's plane did coincide with the galactic plane, and wasn't quite so vast, transits (from the point of view of the galactic plane) would occur much more frequently.
That's not to say another planet could not infer the presence of a solar system here by other means -- the Doppler method has a much wider detection angle, but leaves the
To scale it down a step, if you were on Mars, you would see the moon pass in front of Earth quite frequently. However, if you were 1 billion miles directly above Earth's north pole, you would never see the moon pass in front of earth, but you could still tell the moon was there, because the Earth would "wobble".
What about the mine shaft gap?
It should be noted that out the Sun's axis of rotation (and that of the major planets) is NOT with the galactic plane. We can see them, but they can't see us...
As is the Korean DMZ from what I've read.
Not as good as Micro$oft, though
Why (seriously)? What prevents states from having online (or catalog) shops from collecting local taxes (as in where the business is, not where the customer is)?
I live in Minnesota. If I go to, say, Maryland, and buy something, and arrange for the store to ship it back to my house, I still pay the local 5% tax in Maryland. Same thing's true if I go Canada, Japan, Australia. I still have to pay the sales/VA tax, even if I have it shipped to a different [S|s]tate.
So, again, what prevents states from taxing the sales revenues originating in their states? (Other than the fact all businesses will end up in tax-free Delaware...)
After all, PV output goes as peak usage, more or less, whereas a well-implement thermal solar can provide power at night. You can get more power/acre, and PV is non-obtrusive on a roof.
or am I missing something, other than current costs?
Actually, no, at least not for states prior to the ratification of the 14th. Prior to 1868, it was only the federal government that was bound by the Constitution, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the Constitution.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This has more-or-less been ruled to mean that Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8 apply to the States as well as Congress.
Also, if it doesn't explicitly violate the US Constitution, it may violate the NY Constitution.
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You are not the only one. I've been thinking that for years. After all, a computer virus is almost exactly like a real virus -- capable of defense and reproduction, targets specific weaknesses very well but ineffective against things it wasn't designed to interact with, requires a host to actually do anything, and cannot move to another host without some vector.
Its about a tranny addicted to narcotics?
ESR?
N64? I remember some NES games supported two-controller use. (Smash-TV is the one specific game I can name, but there were others.) You held the controllers in the same position as the Wii-mote in normal (pointer) mode, cradling the body of the controller in hands with your thumbs over the d-pads. One pad controlled the direction you shot, the other controlled the direction you moved.
Downside was that you needed the NES satellite to play in dual-controller mode with a friend.
I think I'm gonna be sick. :{ Have some standard -- any standard...
I think some of those are in Wario Smooth Moves.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
But the federal government says they're "light trucks," and therefore have less stringent mpg requirements.
Wood is brown; Tress, OTOH, tend to be gray.
Alot of them. If I recall correctly, that's why we ended up with Janet Reno as AG. The first two nominees got caught for having hired illegal nannies.
I'm glad I'm not the only person in the world who understands this.