Your average truck driver would also be unable to drive a truck, if not being taught how to.
Given the same level of truck driving education, i daresay the PhD grad would likely do better, because of more likeliness that he better understands driving physics.
Perhaps, initially. But I know how boring a long drive can be. Can you imagine if that's all you did all day long, everyday? I think most PhD grads would be too bored and either couldn't stand the boredom and have to quite for their sanity, or would end up in more accidents due to their mind wondering or trying to keep themselves entertained.
Plus, if I recall correctly, the original act didn't actually do anything anyway since the 'growing prevalence' of metal detector proof guns didn't really exist.
But Bruce Willis mentioned that ceramic Glock in one of the Die Hard movies. And it made a bunch of money, so it must be true. Obviously the law worked as there are no such guns today. I hear the senate is going to vote on a "water is wet" law next week, but the GOP is threatening a filibuster.
Bleach doesn't soften the tires, it's just more slippery than water, so people with underpowered cars use it to do burnouts. At a drag strip, they use water, because normal people that understand how to drag race wouldn't let bleach touch the paint on their vehicles. The idea is to heat up the tires (by doing a burnout) and thus, soften them to get better traction.
That said, you NEVER do this with street tires or drag radials, only slicks.
Like I said, it's been some time since I went to a 1/4 mile track. It was very common practice back then. When I went, I always drove around the bleach pit.
This used to be called line lock. For 1/4 milers it was a help to get the engine revved up to the torque band while heating the rubber on the tires to get better traction. When the green light comes on you release the brakes and go.
Sounds like a good way to lose. I can't say I've been to a track for years, not that 1/4 mile was ever that exciting to me. But the burn outs were done in a "bleach pit" The thought being that the bleach would somehow help to soften tires. It was more to create tons of smoke than anything. Once the tires were hot and sticky, you wold go to the starting line. The idea was to have better traction at the launch so you could get more power to the ground. If you were spinning your tires, you weren't applying it to forward momentum.
Considering most, if not all, country music played on the radio today is little more than rock/pop with a southern accent and possibly a violin (sorry, fiddle), on occasion, I'd say it's not. I like all kinds of music. But solid body guitars with heavy distortion don't mix well with what I consider to be country music. It's kind of like adding a theremin to an a cappella group. Hell, the Eagles would be considered country music by today's standards.
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Launching a drone out of a submarine (in the movie's case, to gather air samples and get video of major cities) has been done before, in movie form anyhow.
So if aliens contact us it's not news worthy? Or FTL is invented? Because someone already showed it in a movie?
Actually, for clinical purposes it's not all that useful to see tiny blood vessels. If you have a blood clot in a tiny artery, no big deal. It's the large supply arteries that put one in danger. We can already assess areas with poor perfusion with a couple of other technologies.
As a research tool, it may well be useful.
We can assess perfusion defects in a fairly poor way with current tech. But they suck. Spect is absolute shit, unless you happen to own a nuke scanner, then you probaby disagree with me. Be it's called "Un-clear medicine" for a damn good reason. Gadolinium perfusion in MRI is better, but to get the needed temporal resolution, it's not great. Still better than nuke med. Plus the FDA still doesn't approve of its use. Even though it gets used for perfusion and late enhancement in cardiac mri thousands of times a dayn in the USA. CT perfusion is still fairly rare. I know there some hospitals that use it, but it's used in animal trials more than in humans. Even so, the resolution is not high enough to give any thing more than an estimate of a microvascular obstruction. That's then problem with eschemic heart disease. There's no known way to reverse it, and it's damn hard to accurately test if a new treatment has made a marginal improvement.
That and how long does the membrane last, and does the system produce more energy in that time than it takes to produce the membrane? Either way, it's pretty cool.
I agree. But there are a lot of people that bought those types of systems who have never heard of Linux, let alone being able to install and configure it. I have no idea what the driver situation is on those types of systems either.
Keeping WinXP around for aging crufty hardware isn't that interesting - just throw that old worthless crap out already, this isn't the 90s where you have to hang on to the old box until you have $3000 for a new one.
On one hand I agree. On the other it's a little annoying that just about any system from the last 10 years, or more, has enough power to surf the web and check email. So it would be nice to keep perfectly adequate hardware out of landfills and not piss away a couple hundred bucks on a replacement.
I don't see Bush getting blamed as much recently. I assumed it wasn't because it* was no longer his fault, but that it is simply a given and would be redundant to state it.
* "It" in this case means everything that is wrong in the world (of course).
I think Thomas Jefferson would shoot a legislator in the chest with a musket if he were here to see how modern police, lawyers, legislators, judges, and presidents are "interpreting" The US Constitution..
Agreed, however today he would probably be considered a terrorist and sent to Gitmo.
If it keeps us safe from terrorists, drugs, child molesters, or other Bad Things, anything is okay. Sacrifice all of your freedoms to stop the Bad Things and just be thankful you're living in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Unfortunately, I like to keep all my freedoms in a secret compartment in my car - damn.
From the way the summary reads, that is just fine. It's only if the intent is to "conceal drugs for trafficking". Of course, I'm not sure how in the hell you prove intent without said drugs being in there.
Oh, wait. I forgot the times we live in; "freedom" and "rights" are now considered illicit drugs.
Considering the amount of content on the web related towards large breastesses this could culminate in the creation of a singular perverted AI that will lead towards the creation of more advanced AI perversion.
Yeah, what ever. All I want to know is when can I get a number 6 Cylon sex bot.
That's what the news media did with "Watergate" and the Ellsburg Paper. It resulted in the resignation of POTUS Richard M. Nixon.
I've thought about that a lot lately. I remember how the country was at a standstill during that time. I wonder if Watergate would even merit being published currently, let alone force a resignation.
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Your PhD grad probably couldn't drive a truck.
Your average truck driver would also be unable to drive a truck, if not being taught how to. Given the same level of truck driving education, i daresay the PhD grad would likely do better, because of more likeliness that he better understands driving physics.
Perhaps, initially. But I know how boring a long drive can be. Can you imagine if that's all you did all day long, everyday? I think most PhD grads would be too bored and either couldn't stand the boredom and have to quite for their sanity, or would end up in more accidents due to their mind wondering or trying to keep themselves entertained.
Plus, if I recall correctly, the original act didn't actually do anything anyway since the 'growing prevalence' of metal detector proof guns didn't really exist.
But Bruce Willis mentioned that ceramic Glock in one of the Die Hard movies. And it made a bunch of money, so it must be true. Obviously the law worked as there are no such guns today. I hear the senate is going to vote on a "water is wet" law next week, but the GOP is threatening a filibuster.
Bleach doesn't soften the tires, it's just more slippery than water, so people with underpowered cars use it to do burnouts. At a drag strip, they use water, because normal people that understand how to drag race wouldn't let bleach touch the paint on their vehicles. The idea is to heat up the tires (by doing a burnout) and thus, soften them to get better traction.
That said, you NEVER do this with street tires or drag radials, only slicks.
Like I said, it's been some time since I went to a 1/4 mile track. It was very common practice back then. When I went, I always drove around the bleach pit.
This used to be called line lock. For 1/4 milers it was a help to get the engine revved up to the torque band while heating the rubber on the tires to get better traction. When the green light comes on you release the brakes and go.
Sounds like a good way to lose. I can't say I've been to a track for years, not that 1/4 mile was ever that exciting to me. But the burn outs were done in a "bleach pit" The thought being that the bleach would somehow help to soften tires. It was more to create tons of smoke than anything. Once the tires were hot and sticky, you wold go to the starting line. The idea was to have better traction at the launch so you could get more power to the ground. If you were spinning your tires, you weren't applying it to forward momentum.
"Modern country [music]", isn't that an oxymoron?
Considering most, if not all, country music played on the radio today is little more than rock/pop with a southern accent and possibly a violin (sorry, fiddle), on occasion, I'd say it's not. I like all kinds of music. But solid body guitars with heavy distortion don't mix well with what I consider to be country music. It's kind of like adding a theremin to an a cappella group. Hell, the Eagles would be considered country music by today's standards.
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768/] Launching a drone out of a submarine (in the movie's case, to gather air samples and get video of major cities) has been done before, in movie form anyhow.
So if aliens contact us it's not news worthy? Or FTL is invented? Because someone already showed it in a movie?
Actually, for clinical purposes it's not all that useful to see tiny blood vessels. If you have a blood clot in a tiny artery, no big deal. It's the large supply arteries that put one in danger. We can already assess areas with poor perfusion with a couple of other technologies.
As a research tool, it may well be useful.
We can assess perfusion defects in a fairly poor way with current tech. But they suck. Spect is absolute shit, unless you happen to own a nuke scanner, then you probaby disagree with me. Be it's called "Un-clear medicine" for a damn good reason. Gadolinium perfusion in MRI is better, but to get the needed temporal resolution, it's not great. Still better than nuke med. Plus the FDA still doesn't approve of its use. Even though it gets used for perfusion and late enhancement in cardiac mri thousands of times a dayn in the USA. CT perfusion is still fairly rare. I know there some hospitals that use it, but it's used in animal trials more than in humans. Even so, the resolution is not high enough to give any thing more than an estimate of a microvascular obstruction. That's then problem with eschemic heart disease. There's no known way to reverse it, and it's damn hard to accurately test if a new treatment has made a marginal improvement.
the Hulk begs to differ
The Hulk doesn't beg. "Hulk smash"
werewolves were made extinct by werepanthers
I thought it was the DevilBunnies.
That and how long does the membrane last, and does the system produce more energy in that time than it takes to produce the membrane? Either way, it's pretty cool.
Honestly, I'd rather have a free app that generated 1 bitcoin each time I opened it instead of having ads.
So you would prefer your system to be hosed for several weeks or more before you can run a program each time?
I agree. But there are a lot of people that bought those types of systems who have never heard of Linux, let alone being able to install and configure it. I have no idea what the driver situation is on those types of systems either.
Keeping WinXP around for aging crufty hardware isn't that interesting - just throw that old worthless crap out already, this isn't the 90s where you have to hang on to the old box until you have $3000 for a new one.
On one hand I agree. On the other it's a little annoying that just about any system from the last 10 years, or more, has enough power to surf the web and check email. So it would be nice to keep perfectly adequate hardware out of landfills and not piss away a couple hundred bucks on a replacement.
and drinking American beer.
I thought drinking water was generally considered to be good for your health.
Blame Americah/Bush for this one, again. :)
I don't see Bush getting blamed as much recently. I assumed it wasn't because it* was no longer his fault, but that it is simply a given and would be redundant to state it.
* "It" in this case means everything that is wrong in the world (of course).
I think Thomas Jefferson would shoot a legislator in the chest with a musket if he were here to see how modern police, lawyers, legislators, judges, and presidents are "interpreting" The US Constitution..
Agreed, however today he would probably be considered a terrorist and sent to Gitmo.
Seriously, if I had a secret compartment in my car, I would keep a copy of the King James Bible,
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people".
If it keeps us safe from terrorists, drugs, child molesters, or other Bad Things, anything is okay. Sacrifice all of your freedoms to stop the Bad Things and just be thankful you're living in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Unfortunately, I like to keep all my freedoms in a secret compartment in my car - damn.
From the way the summary reads, that is just fine. It's only if the intent is to "conceal drugs for trafficking". Of course, I'm not sure how in the hell you prove intent without said drugs being in there.
Oh, wait. I forgot the times we live in; "freedom" and "rights" are now considered illicit drugs.
How do you know that you weren't created 10 minutes ago, with your knowledge already in place?
It is every so pesky when figments of my imagination start getting snarky. -YHWH
Or is it?
Considering the amount of content on the web related towards large breastesses this could culminate in the creation of a singular perverted AI that will lead towards the creation of more advanced AI perversion.
Yeah, what ever. All I want to know is when can I get a number 6 Cylon sex bot.
Well, it's common to learn from the mistakes of others, isn't it?
You'd think. But, no, not really.
The problem is that not all that are claimed to be "made up" in fact are made up.
That's what makes it work so well.
Moffat has his moments, but at least his D.e.M.'s are driven by human factors, rather than a Big Red Button.
Actually wasn't it one of the Moffat episodes that actually had a "big red button" that fixed everything?
no... but he will be.
Will have been.
That's what the news media did with "Watergate" and the Ellsburg Paper. It resulted in the resignation of POTUS Richard M. Nixon.
I've thought about that a lot lately. I remember how the country was at a standstill during that time. I wonder if Watergate would even merit being published currently, let alone force a resignation.