The worst scam is whatever cables Monster Cable is currently selling.
Not really. At least the cables that Monster is selling are just over priced cables that actually function as such. This company should probably be pictured right next to the definition of modern snake oil.
Godzilla is a guy in a rubber suit stomping around models.
So they dropped depth charges on and electrocuted a guy in a rubber suit? Then fire on him with tanks and jet fighters? And finally asphyxiate him? What the hell is wrong with Japan.
People call Americans savages for the death penalty. But at least we don't make death row inmates dress in embarrassing rubber suits and continually fail at actually killing them. Jeez.
Yeah, that's what they invented Airplane Mode for. I can still use my camera without a single antenna turned on...Â
But how can you get the selfie you just took on Facebook before everyone else if you do that? I mean what's more important here. Some silly science stuff, or getting more likes?
Can't wait to laugh at all the butthurt and jealous android users that can't afford a proper smartphone.
Seriously, it's just a phone, not a religion or way of life. I've never bought an iPhone for myself, but have for my teenager, twice now. I don't get why people get so worked up over this. But it is fun to say things that get people who are fanatical about any brand riled up on occasion.
It is kind of sad to see an announcement from Apple like this though. Even if Jobs did over hype things. Seeing Apple state that the next release will simply be a bigger screen and/or a faster processor is kind of depressing.I'm sure if Steve Jobs were still around he would have found a way to make even a mundane upgrade like this sound more exciting. I'm sure the faster processor would be running at synapse speed or some such, and the bigger screen would be the "Fovea Display" because it fills that area of the eye perfectly at the average distance people hold their phone.
Personally, I don't care anymore. I'm still running a Galaxy S5. It's a little bigger than I care for it to be, but does everything I need it for. I've been using smart phones since before they were called such and really hate switching phones anymore.
I didn't ignore it, I gave anecdotal evidence that you're wrong, which is more evidence than you gave.
I've been buying nothing but LED for the last 7 or 8 years now and replacing CFL mostly when they burn out. And it was only in the last 2 years that I've been able to replace some of the halogen bulbs.
I've stopped buying generic no name LEDs as they have all been garbage and lasted barely longer than the incandescent bulbs they replaced.
Even expensive ones are hit or miss in bathrooms, and in some cases they don't have the cooling figured out for the electronics for recessed lighting in a reliable way. Any fixture that requires the bulb be mounted with the threaded end up has a tenancy to overheat the electronics more often. I've had several LED bulbs die before I've had them in for 500 hours. I know they're warrantied, but I never remember where I put the receipts in order to get them replaced, so that's worthless to me.
The failure mode is also more annoying than incandescent bulbs. Those usually just die and you replace them. I have one LED in my office that has been flickering off an on for the last couple of months. It never does it when I'm thinking about it, or have the time to replace it. But it seems to always know when I'm on a call and can't do anything about it. I've also had one catch on fire and another get hot enough to release the magic blue smoke. Something that incandescent bulbs never did.
It would be interesting to know how many house and business fires have been started by faulty LEDs. I never see that factored into the overall cost. Some of the first bulbs I bought were ridiculously expensive. I have several UPS and a lot of surge protectors for electronics. At one point I was seriously thinking about putting in a whole house surge protector because the price of all of those non-incandescent bulbs would be a big hit on the bank account if I needed to replace them all at once due to a spike in the power. I'd also imagine that brown outs are pretty hard on LED bulbs too.
Any how, I'm not advocating incandescent bulbs But LED and CFL certainly have some drawbacks that are worth noting. It's not all unicorns and rainbows.
looks like a pocket but sewn shut (like on some suit jackets for men)
I can't speak for women's pockets, but on any suit that I ever had, the pockets may have been sewn shut, but there Was still a full pocket there. Some people like to keep the pockets sewn shut because it looks better when they aren't sagging in the middle.
If it's anything like Carbonite (Han Solo), the wall can be made of illegal aliens facing outwards as a reminder to those that dare attempt to cross the border illegally.
If I was a kid, a wall like that would probably give me nightmares for the rest of my life. If I was a desperate adult, I'd probably be grateful for all of the hand and foot holds for climbing over the wall.
Apple argued that buildings it owned around Cupertino, where it is headquartered, were only worth $200 instead of the $1 billion tax assessors deemed in 2015,
If that's the case, I'd be willing to buy it from them at double the value they're claiming it to be worth. That should make them happy as they'll make double what it's worth to them.
try over 10 tons of it for every human on the planet...
Well 10 tons times 6 billion people would be 60 billion tons. or 132.3 trillion lbs. I believe that Everest is estimated (w/o snow and ice) to be 360 trillion lbs. So we could build a half Everest mountain of it, assuming a similar density. Or a hell of a big Bender statue.
So one tonne of this mineral will remove 5 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 per year.
I'm assuming that you missed the decimal point. One tonne of it will remove 1/2 or.5 tonnes of CO2. Which is still impressive.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm wondering if the mineral can be used for some sort of construction. As you stated, it's going to take an awful of it to be effective, and it would seem to be silly if we're just going to have to pile it up somewhere. I'm wondering if it could be used as a building material, or insulation. If not perhaps we can build a gigantic statue of Bender,Or a mount Everest sized pyramid.
Then feels a bit sorry for the kids these days who missed out on such a golden age:)
You know, I always felt like I missed out on a golden age because I didn't grow up in the 1950's. But the 1970's and 80's really were a golden age for technology. In a lot of ways it felt like you could do just about anything tech wise as the circuit boards from then were still something that I could follow and modify. With today's boards being multi layer circuit boards it's just not possible to do anymore. Plus everything as gotten so small, and my eyesight isn't what it once was either.
So many animals! People forget that lots of animals have no trouble surviving natural forest fires all the time. This is just plain mean to them. Kinda screwing with natural selection.
Actually this will speed up natural selection. The smartest animals will build anti aircraft artillery units and shoot down the bombers.
I didn't RTFA, but if they already have to seal this thing up to put it underwater, I would think that it would be fairly trivial to do so with no oxygen in it. Why not make the atmosphere inside consist of nitrogen and/or CO2? No fires w/o oxygen.
you would not want to be in an aircraft for 26 days in a stretch
I wouldn't want to be either. But These guys did it for a little shy of 65 days in a Cessna almost 60 years ago.
So this is not exactly the record for longest continuous flight of any aircraft.
I was about to post this too. Perhaps they meant the record for this century, or without refueling. Still, it's kind of surprising that the longest (time period) record, and most recent was almost 60 years ago. It's even crazier that to get to 7th place it beat out a flight that took place 88 years ago. I guess that no one cares about this record as it seems like it would be somewhat easy to beat with modern tech. Perhaps modern regulations are what is stopping someone from attempting it.
I know. My father-in-law has stents, wheezes on every code yellow smog day, but don't you dare say anything about his big-ass diesel truck.
Totally different from this study. The stents were needed due to plaque building up in the coronary arteries. This is mostly a genetic issue due to high LDL cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol. The study is talking about pollutants having a correlation to enlarged left an right ventricular volume in both end diastole (when the heart is relaxed and the ventricle is at it's largest) and during end systole (when the heart is fully contracted and pushing blood out of the ventricle). I'll have to look at the full paper later, but the article is not well written. But from the abstract it's much different from the way the article is written. In the article it sounds more like a hypertension response which would cause the myocardium to thicken. But that's not the case in the abstract.
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I..is that a parody site? It must be?
No, sadly, it is not a parody. But I can understand why you would think it is. It certainly does look as such.
The worst scam is whatever cables Monster Cable is currently selling.
Not really. At least the cables that Monster is selling are just over priced cables that actually function as such. This company should probably be pictured right next to the definition of modern snake oil.
Godzilla is a guy in a rubber suit stomping around models.
So they dropped depth charges on and electrocuted a guy in a rubber suit? Then fire on him with tanks and jet fighters? And finally asphyxiate him? What the hell is wrong with Japan.
People call Americans savages for the death penalty. But at least we don't make death row inmates dress in embarrassing rubber suits and continually fail at actually killing them. Jeez.
The need to keep the hoax alive.
So you saw that documentary with OJ Simpson too?
Yeah, that's what they invented Airplane Mode for. I can still use my camera without a single antenna turned on...Â
But how can you get the selfie you just took on Facebook before everyone else if you do that? I mean what's more important here. Some silly science stuff, or getting more likes?
Can't wait to laugh at all the butthurt and jealous android users that can't afford a proper smartphone.
Seriously, it's just a phone, not a religion or way of life. I've never bought an iPhone for myself, but have for my teenager, twice now. I don't get why people get so worked up over this. But it is fun to say things that get people who are fanatical about any brand riled up on occasion.
It is kind of sad to see an announcement from Apple like this though. Even if Jobs did over hype things. Seeing Apple state that the next release will simply be a bigger screen and/or a faster processor is kind of depressing.I'm sure if Steve Jobs were still around he would have found a way to make even a mundane upgrade like this sound more exciting. I'm sure the faster processor would be running at synapse speed or some such, and the bigger screen would be the "Fovea Display" because it fills that area of the eye perfectly at the average distance people hold their phone.
Personally, I don't care anymore. I'm still running a Galaxy S5. It's a little bigger than I care for it to be, but does everything I need it for. I've been using smart phones since before they were called such and really hate switching phones anymore.
I didn't ignore it, I gave anecdotal evidence that you're wrong, which is more evidence than you gave.
I've been buying nothing but LED for the last 7 or 8 years now and replacing CFL mostly when they burn out. And it was only in the last 2 years that I've been able to replace some of the halogen bulbs.
I've stopped buying generic no name LEDs as they have all been garbage and lasted barely longer than the incandescent bulbs they replaced.
Even expensive ones are hit or miss in bathrooms, and in some cases they don't have the cooling figured out for the electronics for recessed lighting in a reliable way. Any fixture that requires the bulb be mounted with the threaded end up has a tenancy to overheat the electronics more often. I've had several LED bulbs die before I've had them in for 500 hours. I know they're warrantied, but I never remember where I put the receipts in order to get them replaced, so that's worthless to me.
The failure mode is also more annoying than incandescent bulbs. Those usually just die and you replace them. I have one LED in my office that has been flickering off an on for the last couple of months. It never does it when I'm thinking about it, or have the time to replace it. But it seems to always know when I'm on a call and can't do anything about it. I've also had one catch on fire and another get hot enough to release the magic blue smoke. Something that incandescent bulbs never did.
It would be interesting to know how many house and business fires have been started by faulty LEDs. I never see that factored into the overall cost. Some of the first bulbs I bought were ridiculously expensive. I have several UPS and a lot of surge protectors for electronics. At one point I was seriously thinking about putting in a whole house surge protector because the price of all of those non-incandescent bulbs would be a big hit on the bank account if I needed to replace them all at once due to a spike in the power. I'd also imagine that brown outs are pretty hard on LED bulbs too.
Any how, I'm not advocating incandescent bulbs But LED and CFL certainly have some drawbacks that are worth noting. It's not all unicorns and rainbows.
10. Kill everyone.
Is a friend day similar to a person day?
No, it's more like a wife router or penis M&M's. Freaking autocomplete.
Can WiFi also be used to detect dupes? This was posted within the last couple ofriends days.
looks like a pocket but sewn shut (like on some suit jackets for men)
I can't speak for women's pockets, but on any suit that I ever had, the pockets may have been sewn shut, but there Was still a full pocket there. Some people like to keep the pockets sewn shut because it looks better when they aren't sagging in the middle.
You sound like a fag and your shits all retarded
Take it easy, Elon.
I don't think that's Elon. Sound's more like Dr. Lexus to me.
If it's anything like Carbonite (Han Solo), the wall can be made of illegal aliens facing outwards as a reminder to those that dare attempt to cross the border illegally.
If I was a kid, a wall like that would probably give me nightmares for the rest of my life. If I was a desperate adult, I'd probably be grateful for all of the hand and foot holds for climbing over the wall.
Apple argued that buildings it owned around Cupertino, where it is headquartered, were only worth $200 instead of the $1 billion tax assessors deemed in 2015,
If that's the case, I'd be willing to buy it from them at double the value they're claiming it to be worth. That should make them happy as they'll make double what it's worth to them.
try over 10 tons of it for every human on the planet...
Well 10 tons times 6 billion people would be 60 billion tons. or 132.3 trillion lbs. I believe that Everest is estimated (w/o snow and ice) to be 360 trillion lbs. So we could build a half Everest mountain of it, assuming a similar density. Or a hell of a big Bender statue.
So one tonne of this mineral will remove 5 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 per year.
I'm assuming that you missed the decimal point. One tonne of it will remove 1/2 or .5 tonnes of CO2. Which is still impressive.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm wondering if the mineral can be used for some sort of construction. As you stated, it's going to take an awful of it to be effective, and it would seem to be silly if we're just going to have to pile it up somewhere. I'm wondering if it could be used as a building material, or insulation. If not perhaps we can build a gigantic statue of Bender,Or a mount Everest sized pyramid.
Then feels a bit sorry for the kids these days who missed out on such a golden age :)
You know, I always felt like I missed out on a golden age because I didn't grow up in the 1950's. But the 1970's and 80's really were a golden age for technology. In a lot of ways it felt like you could do just about anything tech wise as the circuit boards from then were still something that I could follow and modify. With today's boards being multi layer circuit boards it's just not possible to do anymore. Plus everything as gotten so small, and my eyesight isn't what it once was either.
Don't care. It works, does not require external power,
Really? Where did you find that? My hot water heater is gas also. But it still requires a 110 line to run the exhaust blower.
So many animals! People forget that lots of animals have no trouble surviving natural forest fires all the time. This is just plain mean to them. Kinda screwing with natural selection.
Actually this will speed up natural selection. The smartest animals will build anti aircraft artillery units and shoot down the bombers.
Putting out a fire would be trivial.
I didn't RTFA, but if they already have to seal this thing up to put it underwater, I would think that it would be fairly trivial to do so with no oxygen in it. Why not make the atmosphere inside consist of nitrogen and/or CO2? No fires w/o oxygen.
Don't you mean almost continuously refueled? Because that's what a solar panel on the drone is doing.
Not at night.
you would not want to be in an aircraft for 26 days in a stretch
I wouldn't want to be either. But These guys did it for a little shy of 65 days in a Cessna almost 60 years ago. So this is not exactly the record for longest continuous flight of any aircraft.
I was about to post this too. Perhaps they meant the record for this century, or without refueling. Still, it's kind of surprising that the longest (time period) record, and most recent was almost 60 years ago. It's even crazier that to get to 7th place it beat out a flight that took place 88 years ago. I guess that no one cares about this record as it seems like it would be somewhat easy to beat with modern tech. Perhaps modern regulations are what is stopping someone from attempting it.
I know. My father-in-law has stents, wheezes on every code yellow smog day, but don't you dare say anything about his big-ass diesel truck.
Totally different from this study. The stents were needed due to plaque building up in the coronary arteries. This is mostly a genetic issue due to high LDL cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol. The study is talking about pollutants having a correlation to enlarged left an right ventricular volume in both end diastole (when the heart is relaxed and the ventricle is at it's largest) and during end systole (when the heart is fully contracted and pushing blood out of the ventricle). I'll have to look at the full paper later, but the article is not well written. But from the abstract it's much different from the way the article is written. In the article it sounds more like a hypertension response which would cause the myocardium to thicken. But that's not the case in the abstract.
wouldn't that be "teh bassline" every electricity grid needs a good bassline.
Barney Miller or Night Court?