Dag-nabbit. PITA is either Pain In The Ass or a type of bread. The "animals are people too" group (as opposed to the more rational, "people are animals too" group IMO) are PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
However I would submit that anyone using the phrase, "I see a bunch in this one place," would fail the litmus test regarding whether or not he's qualified to diagnose the health of a species.
That sounds like a great idea! Try to adopt out cute fuzzy puppies who are well-fed and well-cared for, maybe and maybe not. But if you start juggling the little buggers - Just watch how fast people run up to snatch them out of your hands!
Las Cruces (At least when I was there) had 2. One for RC cars, cell phones, etc. Another one for EE students to buy components that most RS customers would look at and think, "Why would somebody want a metal toothpick? Especially one that flimsy?"
That makes a bill ever so much more complicated. For example, I find myself looking away from the road fairly often to check my speedometer. Sometimes my fuel gauge at the same time. I don't feel particularly dangerous looking at the built-in GPS in cars that have them even if I'm in an area I'm not familiar with (in fact, especially in an area I'm unfamiliar with.) My car doesn't have one, so I occasionally pick up my mobile unit or phone to glance at the map (I program it ahead of time.) It seems that the only way to enforce "distracted driving" is if the driver is doing something else wrong (e.g. Failure to Maintain Lanes, Speeding, Failure to Brake at a light/sign/yield properly, etc.)
Yes, Google Glass is more "in your face" and has a high potential for misuse (Do you REALLY need to update your Facebook status to announce that you're doing 82 mph on I-25 on your way out of Santa Fe?) But so do many other things. Is it OK to take a bite of a burrito? How about squeeze hot sauce on one? How about heating up a hot plate to warm up a tortilla to make one while opening a can of beans, peeling green chile, & browning some ground beef? Personally, looking at a map makes me a safer driver. Talking on the phone (even hands free) makes me more hazardous - I realize that and pull over if it's urgent. For others, the circumstances may be different. If you're not breaking existing laws, why create others to make sure you're less likely to? If you are breaking laws, well - There are already laws in place to enforce that.
Very rarely. I live in Los Alamos and am mostly familiar with which studies were happening in parallel in which Tech Areas. Some are 10+ miles from others.
He did say "decay" in decades not "disappear" in decades. Using a 30-year half-life, that means it's decayed by half in 3 decades. If you want to chart out decay to 1.001x, it's about 30 decades (or 3.0 centuries). If you want it to decay down to 1x, wait until sometime after the universe achieves heat death.
BTW, sarcastically calling somebody "genius" because he didn't completely clarify his statement just makes you sound petty, genius. I'm not saying that I agree with GP, just that squabbling over decades vs centuries with no indication of what level of "decay" implies "decayed" makes less sense than squabbling over milliliters vs square meters of contaminated water. If it's at 100x and you're waiting for it to decay to 99x, it takes a little over 5 months (or 0.0043 centuries.)
That's true, but I'd say that the economic divide sending some people to Stanford and others who started with equal skill to Chico State is a much larger learning division than 100 Mbps vs 56 kbps. To think that somebody getting 100 Mbps downloads is learning 100x faster than somebody getting 1Mbps is ridiculous. The guys who developed the atomic bomb communicated using their voices, shoes, and chalk boards.
The problem isn't that the technology isn't ready or developed enough to radically decrease energy costs. The problem is that the question is never, "How much are we saving monetarily and environmentally over coal plants?" or even, "How can we do this as safely as practical?" Either of those would motivate cheap, clean energy. The question is always, "How much more cheaply can we do this?" Which, inevitably, results in catastrophe.
Do steel-toed-boot makers say, "How much can we save by using aluminum instead of steel?" Of course not, because the liability the first time somebody crushes their foot is huge. Power stations are experts at the "Pass the Buck" game.
I can't get to the link and know no more about this metal except from the summary, but it sounds like it would be solid below 10.5 C - Not that cold. With sufficient sophistication (i.e. FAR beyond turning into a ball), you could imagine some solid "cool" pieces with "warm" joints.
But then again, with "sufficient sophistication," 3-d scanners/printers and electron microscopes could give us teleportation and/or human duplication capabilities. Yep, sci-fi and suspension of disbelief. But the idea that we might be so advanced that we could build pneumatic tubes as a means of trans-Atlantic message passing seemed impossibly advanced 150 years ago. And we beat the hell out of that one.
[Yeah, I realize I just posted 3 "buts," all of them big. Well, I like big "buts" and I cannot lie.]
Anti-stalking laws? Yes, we are certainly wallowing in false equivalence. Seeing someone I recognize and mentioning it to my wife is stalking now? "Many states"? I don't know which state you're in, but I'd hate to be there if I can be charged for failing to pretend not to recognize somebody.
One thing you did get right:
Which has nothing to do with the right of free travel, FYI.
Absolutely - None of this does. Which is why it has nothing to do with the 10th Amendment. Because none of this restricts free travel.
Yes, the 10th Ammendment says that you can move from state to state. But it doesn't say that everyone you pass has to close their eyes and pretend not to see or recognize you. Heck, I can even go home and tell my wife, "You know, I saw CanHasDIY in the park today." Or to go even further, "I was taking pictures in the park today. Is that CanHasDIY?" None of those things restricts your movement, it just means you don't turn invisible when you're in public unless you're somewhere that you can reasonably expect a "right to privacy" (e.g. using a public toilet, not driving across a bridge.)
...have the users of these sites started truly fundamentally changing how they behave in terms of being led down certain directions as a result of their use of software-based services like Facebook, and if so will this reflect their purchasing habits?
Yes. Even if 5% of FB users have used Candy Crush, and only 10% of those drop $.99 twice a month on "lollipop hammers" or some such, that's still $150M+/year - On an imaginary product with infinite free supply. And if targeted advertising was ineffective, then a lot of very successful companies & governments have wasted a lot of money on it spanning decades.
Decades of repeated success strongly suggests that these companies have found an effective market strategy. That said, I do believe that FB is a wildly over-inflated bubble. WhatsApp even more so.
Just pay someone to manually thoroughly check every IP every day for possible offending content. You could even automate it so that you only have to manually check pages that have changed since the day before. That won't stop it, but it's somewhere to start.
Just pull it back out of the sea. California has a mighty big ocean and, since they've spent so much time and tax money perfecting NIF, energy for desalination should be practically free.
Do you think everyone should dig up all the grass and use astro turf?
Actually in a lot of New Mexico (can't speak for elsewhere), digging under your grass and "zeroscaping" is fairly popular. Looks good and takes almost no water. Of course, you might need grass out back if you want to play on your Slip-n-Slide.
You didn't use the most water, you recycled the most water! I mean, you weren't breaking it down to hydrogen and oxygen, were you? Or hoarding it? No, you applied it for its intended purpose, and then gave it right back.
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Dag-nabbit. PITA is either Pain In The Ass or a type of bread. The "animals are people too" group (as opposed to the more rational, "people are animals too" group IMO) are PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Yeah... It does...
litmus test ...
2. Fig. A question or experiment that seeks to determine the state of one important factor. His performance on the long exam served as a litmus test to determine whether he would go to college. The amount of white cells in my blood became the litmus test for diagnosing my disease.
However I would submit that anyone using the phrase, "I see a bunch in this one place," would fail the litmus test regarding whether or not he's qualified to diagnose the health of a species.
People for the Inhumane Treatment of Animals?
That sounds like a great idea! Try to adopt out cute fuzzy puppies who are well-fed and well-cared for, maybe and maybe not. But if you start juggling the little buggers - Just watch how fast people run up to snatch them out of your hands!
553-2869. Or 867-5309. It's not like they call and verify before they give you the batteries.
Las Cruces (At least when I was there) had 2. One for RC cars, cell phones, etc. Another one for EE students to buy components that most RS customers would look at and think, "Why would somebody want a metal toothpick? Especially one that flimsy?"
That makes a bill ever so much more complicated. For example, I find myself looking away from the road fairly often to check my speedometer. Sometimes my fuel gauge at the same time. I don't feel particularly dangerous looking at the built-in GPS in cars that have them even if I'm in an area I'm not familiar with (in fact, especially in an area I'm unfamiliar with.) My car doesn't have one, so I occasionally pick up my mobile unit or phone to glance at the map (I program it ahead of time.) It seems that the only way to enforce "distracted driving" is if the driver is doing something else wrong (e.g. Failure to Maintain Lanes, Speeding, Failure to Brake at a light/sign/yield properly, etc.)
Yes, Google Glass is more "in your face" and has a high potential for misuse (Do you REALLY need to update your Facebook status to announce that you're doing 82 mph on I-25 on your way out of Santa Fe?) But so do many other things. Is it OK to take a bite of a burrito? How about squeeze hot sauce on one? How about heating up a hot plate to warm up a tortilla to make one while opening a can of beans, peeling green chile, & browning some ground beef? Personally, looking at a map makes me a safer driver. Talking on the phone (even hands free) makes me more hazardous - I realize that and pull over if it's urgent. For others, the circumstances may be different. If you're not breaking existing laws, why create others to make sure you're less likely to? If you are breaking laws, well - There are already laws in place to enforce that.
How many secretaries and how many hours a day does it take to match the efficiency of a 56kbps modem?
Very rarely. I live in Los Alamos and am mostly familiar with which studies were happening in parallel in which Tech Areas. Some are 10+ miles from others.
He did say "decay" in decades not "disappear" in decades. Using a 30-year half-life, that means it's decayed by half in 3 decades. If you want to chart out decay to 1.001x, it's about 30 decades (or 3.0 centuries). If you want it to decay down to 1x, wait until sometime after the universe achieves heat death.
BTW, sarcastically calling somebody "genius" because he didn't completely clarify his statement just makes you sound petty, genius. I'm not saying that I agree with GP, just that squabbling over decades vs centuries with no indication of what level of "decay" implies "decayed" makes less sense than squabbling over milliliters vs square meters of contaminated water. If it's at 100x and you're waiting for it to decay to 99x, it takes a little over 5 months (or 0.0043 centuries.)
That's true, but I'd say that the economic divide sending some people to Stanford and others who started with equal skill to Chico State is a much larger learning division than 100 Mbps vs 56 kbps. To think that somebody getting 100 Mbps downloads is learning 100x faster than somebody getting 1Mbps is ridiculous. The guys who developed the atomic bomb communicated using their voices, shoes, and chalk boards.
Apparently, even Google has adopted it.
The problem isn't that the technology isn't ready or developed enough to radically decrease energy costs. The problem is that the question is never, "How much are we saving monetarily and environmentally over coal plants?" or even, "How can we do this as safely as practical?" Either of those would motivate cheap, clean energy. The question is always, "How much more cheaply can we do this?" Which, inevitably, results in catastrophe.
Do steel-toed-boot makers say, "How much can we save by using aluminum instead of steel?" Of course not, because the liability the first time somebody crushes their foot is huge. Power stations are experts at the "Pass the Buck" game.
Really - So much drama. Who's never been guilty of a simple error resulting in a core dump?
The time of holographic storage is NOW! Take a hologram, toss it in a filing cabinet, and that cabinet is now holographic storage.
You could conceivably imagine a non-mutable core in charge of external communication and manipulation.
I can't get to the link and know no more about this metal except from the summary, but it sounds like it would be solid below 10.5 C - Not that cold. With sufficient sophistication (i.e. FAR beyond turning into a ball), you could imagine some solid "cool" pieces with "warm" joints.
But then again, with "sufficient sophistication," 3-d scanners/printers and electron microscopes could give us teleportation and/or human duplication capabilities. Yep, sci-fi and suspension of disbelief. But the idea that we might be so advanced that we could build pneumatic tubes as a means of trans-Atlantic message passing seemed impossibly advanced 150 years ago. And we beat the hell out of that one.
[Yeah, I realize I just posted 3 "buts," all of them big. Well, I like big "buts" and I cannot lie.]
Anti-stalking laws? Yes, we are certainly wallowing in false equivalence. Seeing someone I recognize and mentioning it to my wife is stalking now? "Many states"? I don't know which state you're in, but I'd hate to be there if I can be charged for failing to pretend not to recognize somebody.
One thing you did get right:
Which has nothing to do with the right of free travel, FYI.
Absolutely - None of this does. Which is why it has nothing to do with the 10th Amendment. Because none of this restricts free travel.
Yes, the 10th Ammendment says that you can move from state to state. But it doesn't say that everyone you pass has to close their eyes and pretend not to see or recognize you. Heck, I can even go home and tell my wife, "You know, I saw CanHasDIY in the park today." Or to go even further, "I was taking pictures in the park today. Is that CanHasDIY?" None of those things restricts your movement, it just means you don't turn invisible when you're in public unless you're somewhere that you can reasonably expect a "right to privacy" (e.g. using a public toilet, not driving across a bridge.)
...have the users of these sites started truly fundamentally changing how they behave in terms of being led down certain directions as a result of their use of software-based services like Facebook, and if so will this reflect their purchasing habits?
Yes. Even if 5% of FB users have used Candy Crush, and only 10% of those drop $.99 twice a month on "lollipop hammers" or some such, that's still $150M+/year - On an imaginary product with infinite free supply. And if targeted advertising was ineffective, then a lot of very successful companies & governments have wasted a lot of money on it spanning decades.
Decades of repeated success strongly suggests that these companies have found an effective market strategy. That said, I do believe that FB is a wildly over-inflated bubble. WhatsApp even more so.
Yeah - That too. I'd always heard/said Xeroscape (old spelling) but hadn't seen it written and subbed in the Z.
Just pay someone to manually thoroughly check every IP every day for possible offending content. You could even automate it so that you only have to manually check pages that have changed since the day before. That won't stop it, but it's somewhere to start.
Just pull it back out of the sea. California has a mighty big ocean and, since they've spent so much time and tax money perfecting NIF, energy for desalination should be practically free.
Do you think everyone should dig up all the grass and use astro turf?
Actually in a lot of New Mexico (can't speak for elsewhere), digging under your grass and "zeroscaping" is fairly popular. Looks good and takes almost no water. Of course, you might need grass out back if you want to play on your Slip-n-Slide.
You didn't use the most water, you recycled the most water! I mean, you weren't breaking it down to hydrogen and oxygen, were you? Or hoarding it? No, you applied it for its intended purpose, and then gave it right back.
We're getting to a point where, "Can I store it on a card smaller than my pinky nail?" has replaced "Libraries of Congress."