If a lifetime of playing video games, including first-person shooters, had ANY VALUE at all as 'target practice,' my IDPA ranking would be WAY higher than it is. Oddly enough, though, pointing a mouse cursor and clicking, or tilting a thumbstick and hitting a button, doesn't really magically translate into completely different sets of physical action.
I mean, by that logic, you could go play Track & Field and become an amazing athlete.
You don't think that there are small animals, let alone larger animals, or insects, that burrow?
Or is it that you think that 'biodegradation' is also dependent on *where* the thing being degraded is, not just *what* is doing the eating?
The article is chock full of descriptions of animals 'eating' the insulation. I don't draw an artificial distinction between that eating being done by rodents and bacteria. You do. Fine. We don't agree on the definition of 'biodegradation.' That's OK. I wish you well in your future endeavors.
You don't find it interesting that you apparently have a size bias as to what constitutes 'an organism breaking down something via various forms of digesting?' What's the difference between bacteria eating something, or fungi, or mold, or insects, or scavengers?
Well, clearly, everybody other than you here is going by the standard dictionary definition, aka the very first line of the article you posted. You, however, are going by a very narrow definition used in very specific contexts, aka the tiny footnote at the end of the article, which you linked directly to. Which, going from the article title and abstract, seems to be referring specifically to artificial polymers?
Hell Hyundai Canada just released an update that added CarPlay to my 2015 Sonata. And it was DIY if you wanted; go to a website, put in the VIN, download the update, get it on to an SD card, and apply it to the car. Done and done.
In the wooden chair Beside my window I wear a face born in the falling rain I talk to shadows from a lonely candle Recite the phrases from the wall I can't explain this Holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble The orders came from high above they say A need to use me once again they've got my number Further the cause boy, yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer Till the sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady that can ease my sorrow She brings the only friend That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time When I was younger A target for the new society Picked to displace the leaders Countering objectives Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer TilL sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady that can ease my sorrow My love for her Will help me find my way
My mission saved the world And I stood proud My mission changed the world It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles Each one a story but they end the same I'll hide away in here the law will never find me The walls will tell the story of my pain Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady that can ease my sorrow She sets the pace for my delivery of pain My mission saved the world And I stood proud My mission changed the world The underground will rise and Save this world, we'll all stand proud Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world We'll all stand proud
A User's Guide to the Universe by Dave Goldberg and Jeff Blomquist is a great high-level introduction to a lot of this stuff, with weird but relatable examples included, and covers a lot of interconnected topics.
What does 'mod support' have to do with monetizing the Minecraft brand? I'd opine that the vast majority of Minecraft income is coming from merchandising.
Crap. Here in Ontario, French is mandatory from Kindergarten to grade nine, and French Immersion education isn't only available, it's regarded as prestigious.
Now, admittedly, it's French, not Quebecois, and there's no way to 'learn' a language that doesn't involve living and operating in that language, and you're always going to run into issue of dialect, slang, common usage, etc.
Which actually doesn't matter in most jurisdictions in the US of A; if you decide to kill Bob, go out and buy a gun, lay in wait for Bob, shoot at Bob, miss, and kill Alice instead, it's still first degree murder; being a crap shot doesn't buy you a reduction in charge.
Issac Asimov posited that there are three kinds of science fiction: gadget, adventure, and social. He gives a lovely example of the three kinds of story, were they written about a new invention called the 'automobile:
Writer X spends most of his time describing how the machine would run, explaining the workings of an internal-combustion engine, painting a word-picture of the struggles of the inventor, who after numerous failures, comes up with a successful model. The climax of the yarn is the drama of the machine, chugging its way along at the gigantic speed of twenty miles an hour, possibly beating a horse and carriage which have been challenged to a race. This is gadget science fiction. (Asimov, "Social Science Fiction")
Writer Y invents the automobile in a hurry, but now there is a gang of ruthless crooks intent on stealing this valuable invention. First they steal the inventor's beautiful daughter, whom they threaten with every dire eventuality but rape (in these adventure stories, girls exist to be rescued and have no other uses). The inventor's young assistant goes to the rescue. He can accomplish his purpose only by the use of the newly perfected automobile. He dashes into the desert at an unheard-of speed of twenty miles an hour to pick up the girl who otherwise would have died of thirst if he had relied on a horse, however rapid and sustained the horse's gallop. This is adventure science fiction. (ibid.)
Writer Z has the automobile already perfected. A society exists in which it is already a problem. Because of the automobile, a gigantic oil industry has grown up, highways have been paved across the nation, America has become a land of travelers, cities have spread into the suburbsâ"and what do we do about automobile accidents? Men, women, and children are being killed by automobiles faster than by artillery shells or airplane bombs. What can be done? What is the solution? This is social science fiction. (ibid.)
(I like the paraphrased version: Gadget sci-fi: Man invents car, holds lecture on how it works. Adventure sci-fi: Man invents car, gets into car to chase a villan. Social sci-fi: Man invents car, gets stuck in traffic in the suburbs.)
Yeah, but if you import water from the Hub, it knocks a big chunk of time off of the timer before the Master and his super-mutant army invade the vault. (Pre-patch, I know.)
I always try to remember, when coming out of anesthetic, to say something like 'what year is it? WHAT YEAR?!'
Every time I mention that, I'm reminded about how lucky we are to live in a day and age when we can treat invasive surgery so casually, and when it's perfectly possible for somebody to have gone through five or six of these things for relatively minor ailments.
Also, even more lucky, that I live in a country where I don't go bankrupt just for want to, say, not suffer from painful gall stones for the rest of my life.
Yeah, this is more along the lines of 'people aren't really, truly aware of how much stuff is 'internet.'
I've sent service techs to people's houses when they swear up and down that despite their bandwidth being maxed out for days, 'nobody is using the internet.'
"Say, there's junior, sitting on the couch, streaming Netflix on an iPad. That's using four or five mb/s right there." "THAT'S NOT INTERNET, HE'S WATCHING TV! DON'T YOU TRY TO TELL ME THAT WATCHING TV USES INTERNET!"
If the front of your house is made out of completely transparent glass, yes, you can build a fence (and hope nobody brings a step-ladder,) you can install curtains (don't forget not to open them!) you can hire guards to stand around in front of them keeping people away (but hope they don't get bored/inattentive/bribed/lazy/corrupt) and so on, but fundamentally, unless and until you rebuild that wall not to be utterly transparent, it's utterly transparent.
Well, you can always scan the film down to finer and finer degrees, but at that point, you're just getting finer and finer resolution of the film grain. For 35mm film, I don't think there's a ton of use in going past 4k, and 4k digital cameras are considered 'equivalent' to 35mm film for filming movies, in terms of resolution and color range.
Hell, IMDB says that Skyfall was filmed in '2.8K;' the cameras used can go all the way up to 2880x2160.
On the other hand, maybe, just maybe (ok, probably not in this case) he wants to know what sources the asserter is drawing upon, specifically, rather than finding random sources that may come to the same conclusion, but via different means.
Two things. One, yes, when one makes an assertion, one is generally expected to provide, or be able to provide, support for that assertion, not pooh pooh the questioner with 'it's all out there, find it yourself' or 'it is known, you sweet summer child.'
Second, I do believe he's referring to the overall political tone of major Twitter users, where others are referring to the politics and policies of Twitter the company, based on the posts involved.
No, you'll never be able to beat plugging the device in, but will you get to 'good enough?'
I mean, you'll never get as much bandwidth out of Wi-Fi/LTE/whatever as out of Ethernet or fiber, but man, there's an awful lot of Wi-Fi/LTE/whatever in common, daily use in the world. It's not uncommon at all to find households that have never plugged a device into Ethernet.
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If a lifetime of playing video games, including first-person shooters, had ANY VALUE at all as 'target practice,' my IDPA ranking would be WAY higher than it is. Oddly enough, though, pointing a mouse cursor and clicking, or tilting a thumbstick and hitting a button, doesn't really magically translate into completely different sets of physical action.
I mean, by that logic, you could go play Track & Field and become an amazing athlete.
You don't think that there are small animals, let alone larger animals, or insects, that burrow?
Or is it that you think that 'biodegradation' is also dependent on *where* the thing being degraded is, not just *what* is doing the eating?
The article is chock full of descriptions of animals 'eating' the insulation. I don't draw an artificial distinction between that eating being done by rodents and bacteria. You do. Fine. We don't agree on the definition of 'biodegradation.' That's OK. I wish you well in your future endeavors.
You don't find it interesting that you apparently have a size bias as to what constitutes 'an organism breaking down something via various forms of digesting?' What's the difference between bacteria eating something, or fungi, or mold, or insects, or scavengers?
Well, clearly, everybody other than you here is going by the standard dictionary definition, aka the very first line of the article you posted. You, however, are going by a very narrow definition used in very specific contexts, aka the tiny footnote at the end of the article, which you linked directly to. Which, going from the article title and abstract, seems to be referring specifically to artificial polymers?
The article is literally about the insulation being biodegradable.
Biodegradable: (of a substance or object) capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms.
Hell Hyundai Canada just released an update that added CarPlay to my 2015 Sonata. And it was DIY if you wanted; go to a website, put in the VIN, download the update, get it on to an SD card, and apply it to the car. Done and done.
In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this Holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy, yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
TilL sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
My mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world, we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
A User's Guide to the Universe by Dave Goldberg and Jeff Blomquist is a great high-level introduction to a lot of this stuff, with weird but relatable examples included, and covers a lot of interconnected topics.
What does 'mod support' have to do with monetizing the Minecraft brand? I'd opine that the vast majority of Minecraft income is coming from merchandising.
Crap. Here in Ontario, French is mandatory from Kindergarten to grade nine, and French Immersion education isn't only available, it's regarded as prestigious.
Now, admittedly, it's French, not Quebecois, and there's no way to 'learn' a language that doesn't involve living and operating in that language, and you're always going to run into issue of dialect, slang, common usage, etc.
Which actually doesn't matter in most jurisdictions in the US of A; if you decide to kill Bob, go out and buy a gun, lay in wait for Bob, shoot at Bob, miss, and kill Alice instead, it's still first degree murder; being a crap shot doesn't buy you a reduction in charge.
I'd go so far as to say this is Murder 1. Full-on premeditated homicide with malice aforethought.
This guy made a plan, and executed the plan, and he knew that death was a likely outcome of that plan.
Issac Asimov posited that there are three kinds of science fiction: gadget, adventure, and social. He gives a lovely example of the three kinds of story, were they written about a new invention called the 'automobile:
Writer X spends most of his time describing how the machine would run, explaining the workings of an internal-combustion engine, painting a word-picture of the struggles of the inventor, who after numerous failures, comes up with a successful model. The climax of the yarn is the drama of the machine, chugging its way along at the gigantic speed of twenty miles an hour, possibly beating a horse and carriage which have been challenged to a race. This is gadget science fiction. (Asimov, "Social Science Fiction")
Writer Y invents the automobile in a hurry, but now there is a gang of ruthless crooks intent on stealing this valuable invention. First they steal the inventor's beautiful daughter, whom they threaten with every dire eventuality but rape (in these adventure stories, girls exist to be rescued and have no other uses). The inventor's young assistant goes to the rescue. He can accomplish his purpose only by the use of the newly perfected automobile. He dashes into the desert at an unheard-of speed of twenty miles an hour to pick up the girl who otherwise would have died of thirst if he had relied on a horse, however rapid and sustained the horse's gallop. This is adventure science fiction. (ibid.)
Writer Z has the automobile already perfected. A society exists in which it is already a problem. Because of the automobile, a gigantic oil industry has grown up, highways have been paved across the nation, America has become a land of travelers, cities have spread into the suburbsâ"and what do we do about automobile accidents? Men, women, and children are being killed by automobiles faster than by artillery shells or airplane bombs. What can be done? What is the solution? This is social science fiction. (ibid.)
(I like the paraphrased version: Gadget sci-fi: Man invents car, holds lecture on how it works. Adventure sci-fi: Man invents car, gets into car to chase a villan. Social sci-fi: Man invents car, gets stuck in traffic in the suburbs.)
Yeah, but if you import water from the Hub, it knocks a big chunk of time off of the timer before the Master and his super-mutant army invade the vault. (Pre-patch, I know.)
I always try to remember, when coming out of anesthetic, to say something like 'what year is it? WHAT YEAR?!'
Every time I mention that, I'm reminded about how lucky we are to live in a day and age when we can treat invasive surgery so casually, and when it's perfectly possible for somebody to have gone through five or six of these things for relatively minor ailments.
Also, even more lucky, that I live in a country where I don't go bankrupt just for want to, say, not suffer from painful gall stones for the rest of my life.
Yeah, this is more along the lines of 'people aren't really, truly aware of how much stuff is 'internet.'
I've sent service techs to people's houses when they swear up and down that despite their bandwidth being maxed out for days, 'nobody is using the internet.'
"Say, there's junior, sitting on the couch, streaming Netflix on an iPad. That's using four or five mb/s right there." "THAT'S NOT INTERNET, HE'S WATCHING TV! DON'T YOU TRY TO TELL ME THAT WATCHING TV USES INTERNET!"
You might be thinking about 4'33.
If the front of your house is made out of completely transparent glass, yes, you can build a fence (and hope nobody brings a step-ladder,) you can install curtains (don't forget not to open them!) you can hire guards to stand around in front of them keeping people away (but hope they don't get bored/inattentive/bribed/lazy/corrupt) and so on, but fundamentally, unless and until you rebuild that wall not to be utterly transparent, it's utterly transparent.
Government salaries should be tax exempt a priori, otherwise, it's a Ponzi scheme.
Well, you can always scan the film down to finer and finer degrees, but at that point, you're just getting finer and finer resolution of the film grain. For 35mm film, I don't think there's a ton of use in going past 4k, and 4k digital cameras are considered 'equivalent' to 35mm film for filming movies, in terms of resolution and color range.
Hell, IMDB says that Skyfall was filmed in '2.8K;' the cameras used can go all the way up to 2880x2160.
Direct counterpoint: Orion drive.
Incorrect counterpoint: All of the spinoffs of nuclear bomb research, including medicine, power, computing, etc etc.
On the other hand, maybe, just maybe (ok, probably not in this case) he wants to know what sources the asserter is drawing upon, specifically, rather than finding random sources that may come to the same conclusion, but via different means.
Man, I really word-saladed that to something like 'Nice if BeOS was next to be released.'
Two things. One, yes, when one makes an assertion, one is generally expected to provide, or be able to provide, support for that assertion, not pooh pooh the questioner with 'it's all out there, find it yourself' or 'it is known, you sweet summer child.'
Second, I do believe he's referring to the overall political tone of major Twitter users, where others are referring to the politics and policies of Twitter the company, based on the posts involved.
No, you'll never be able to beat plugging the device in, but will you get to 'good enough?'
I mean, you'll never get as much bandwidth out of Wi-Fi/LTE/whatever as out of Ethernet or fiber, but man, there's an awful lot of Wi-Fi/LTE/whatever in common, daily use in the world. It's not uncommon at all to find households that have never plugged a device into Ethernet.