When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do.
Your cat sensed that your wife was weakened and was going for the most vulnerable spot. It was trying to kill your wife but, like most cats, didn't do a very good job of it.
Don't get me wrong; I love cats, but I can't help but notice that many of them seem to be competing for the title of "World's Most Incompetent Villain."
Would you state the range of a normal combustion powered vehicle with a starting point of only half a tank of fuel? Of course not.
The battery charge is a type of fuel. When discussing the range of a vehicle, you assume that it is fully fueled. In the case of a hybrid, that means both a full tank of gas and a fully charged battery.
Neither of the bacteria you mention are spread by contact, so antibacterial surfaces will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on them. Not exactly a good argument for your case.
You can buy a jug of distilled water at virtually any grocery store in the country.
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It was an up sell item on computer systems.
This is the real reason for the ridiculous pricing of cables. Stores don't sell a lot of cables and customers who are only buying a cable are rare, so competing on cable pricing doesn't make any sense.
They jack up the prices on cables because they know that they can often sell them to customers who are buying computers, televisions or other expensive products that the store does have to compete on pricing with. The profit margin on the expensive item will be fairly low, so they want a variety of high profit margin add-ons like cables and extended warranties that they can push the customer to buy.
It's not as common now, but ebook pricing used to be much wonkier. In the past, publishers would release an ebook for a dollar or two less than the hardcover price. Later, when the paperback was released at half the price of the hardcover, they often didn't bother changing the ebook price and you'd see ebooks priced much higher than the paperback as a result.
Publishers have mostly accepted that ebooks are now a market that they need to participate in, so they're a lot better about adjusting the prices when a newer, cheaper dead tree version is released. Occasionally it still happens, but it's about as common as seeing the hardcover priced lower than the paperback (which does happen, despite the ridiculousness of it).
If you fly commercial air flights, you already trust your life to most of the technologies involved. As the article mentions, "larger aircraft have autopilot systems that can control takeoff, ascent, cruising, descent, approach, and landing." An unmanned flight was the logical next step in the progression.
I don't think we'll see passenger flights without pilots anytime soon, but you might begin seeing flights where you have only a co-pilot on board. It would be a long time before there would be enough evidence that the pilots weren't needed and the majority of the public would trust the systems enough to be willing to fly.
10 years is a maximum, not a fixed sentence that all hackers get. The minimum is nothing. It's up to the judge to decide the actual sentence and, believe it or not, most judges understand that the scope of a crime should be taken into account when deciding the sentence given.
In other words, the legal system is set up the way you're saying it should be, but you don't realize it so you're arguing that it's wrong and should be set up the way it's already set up.
Windows is little more than a container for the programs that I launch. What I actually use is a browser, email client, chat client, MP3 player, video games and so forth.
I don't understand how people can get so worked up over which OS someone uses when most people spend 99% of their time interacting with applications, not the OS.
The OS has two jobs: 1) Provide a solid framework for the applications you want to run. 2) Stay the hell out of the way.
As long as it accomplishes those two jobs, the OS you're using doesn't matter.
"According to The Nielsen Company, the 2011 regular [NFL] season reached more than 200 million unique viewers."
Yeah! Grow up and be like other adults. Sit on your ass in front of a TV drinking beer, watching football. Occasionally you can even get your heart rate to go a little higher by cheering or screaming some profanities.
Fuck gaming. You have to have reflexes and think about that shit. That's for babies. Real adults sit on their ass and passively watch other people playing a game and derive their enjoyment from that!
This is nothing new. We, as a society, recognized long ago that children do stupid shit and sometimes shouldn't receive the full punishment for their actions.
If the Steubenville rapists had been tried as adults (and I think they should have), they would have been facing up to 25 years in prison. Under certain circumstances, Ohio law allows for a sentence of life in prison for someone convicted of rape, too, but I don't think that applies to those two. As it is, they not only have their sentences, but they're going to be added to the sex offender list for anywhere from ten years to life. They're going to find it very difficult to find jobs and places to live while they're on that list.
There's nothing shockingly disproportionate about a maximum of 10 years for hacking vs a maximum of 25/life for rape. You might argue about the specific numbers, but I think everyone will agree that rape is the more serious crime and Ohio law allows for more serious consequences, just as it should.
APU is the only unusual acronym in the summary. It refers to a chip with both the CPU and graphics processor on the same die. It was previously called Fusion, but trademarks got in the way.
But only if it's an entirely different story set in the same world with no other connection beyond the setting itself. The world of Blade Runner was beautifully visualized and there's more than enough room in it for unrelated stories to be told.
Unfortunately, that's almost certainly not what they're going to do. The script that's being rewritten included characters from the first movie and I doubt the rewrite will remove them.
many countries want a total moratorium on whaling for cultural reasons. Japan and several other countries with long culture of whaling view this as insanity
I think "about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan" and "younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale" suggest that the majority of the population of Japan doesn't really care about whaling and wouldn't care if there was a total moratorium. Last year, whaling companies failed to sell 908 of the 1,211 tons of whale meat that they brought in and the industry was given over £22 million in subsidies and emergency funds to keep it alive.
While it may be different in other countries, the Japanese people aren't eating most of the whale meat that's being taken and they aren't encouraging their kids to eat any. This is purely a case of a dying industry trying to regain some popularity. Insert your favorite buggy whip manufacturer analogy here.
Their ad is below the other two paid-for credit card ads on the page, so they aren't giving preferential treatment to their ad in that way. Sponsored ads always appear above regular search results, too, so there's nothing preferential about Google's ad being above the search results.
In return for the entertainment industry installing root kits on our computers to lock up files if they believe they've found a case of piracy, the public gets to install root kits on the entertainment industry's computers that will lock up their files if we believe they've acted on a false positive that they didn't properly verify. Once the entertainment executives who were responsible for the program show up at a police station, confess to their crimes and are properly charged, the files will be unlocked.
I think it would take less than 48 hours to shut down all of Hollywood.
Eventually the entertainment companies will get the point and either eliminate rid of the program or go bankrupt since they can't produce anything with the constant shutdowns. Either way, we'll be done with this silliness and we'll have put at least some of the idiots proposing it where they belong; in jail.
Not an exactly answer, but "If all goes well, Goubard aims to release a full version of the suite next year." He's only spent ~14% of the amount of time he thinks he'll need (and that could be an underestimate, of course). That suggests that there's quite a lot that doesn't work.
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People do eat dirt, just not for nutritional purposes.
Too bad these are valet parking attendants who aren't law enforcement officers and aren't subject to to those rules.
To be fair, buying cigars and strippers is probably just as effective at preventing terrorism as having valets search the cars they're parking.
When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do.
Your cat sensed that your wife was weakened and was going for the most vulnerable spot. It was trying to kill your wife but, like most cats, didn't do a very good job of it.
Don't get me wrong; I love cats, but I can't help but notice that many of them seem to be competing for the title of "World's Most Incompetent Villain."
This isn't Reddit. Once a comment is modded to -1, no further downmods are permitted as the comment as reached its limit.
Would you state the range of a normal combustion powered vehicle with a starting point of only half a tank of fuel? Of course not.
The battery charge is a type of fuel. When discussing the range of a vehicle, you assume that it is fully fueled. In the case of a hybrid, that means both a full tank of gas and a fully charged battery.
Nonsense. That's where the Nazis are hiding out. Didn't you see the documentary about it?
Neither of the bacteria you mention are spread by contact, so antibacterial surfaces will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on them. Not exactly a good argument for your case.
You can buy a jug of distilled water at virtually any grocery store in the country.
It was an up sell item on computer systems.
This is the real reason for the ridiculous pricing of cables. Stores don't sell a lot of cables and customers who are only buying a cable are rare, so competing on cable pricing doesn't make any sense.
They jack up the prices on cables because they know that they can often sell them to customers who are buying computers, televisions or other expensive products that the store does have to compete on pricing with. The profit margin on the expensive item will be fairly low, so they want a variety of high profit margin add-ons like cables and extended warranties that they can push the customer to buy.
It's not as common now, but ebook pricing used to be much wonkier. In the past, publishers would release an ebook for a dollar or two less than the hardcover price. Later, when the paperback was released at half the price of the hardcover, they often didn't bother changing the ebook price and you'd see ebooks priced much higher than the paperback as a result.
Publishers have mostly accepted that ebooks are now a market that they need to participate in, so they're a lot better about adjusting the prices when a newer, cheaper dead tree version is released. Occasionally it still happens, but it's about as common as seeing the hardcover priced lower than the paperback (which does happen, despite the ridiculousness of it).
Flooding caused by rising sea levels isn't catastrophic enough for you? RTFA.
At this point? No. In the future? Probably.
If you fly commercial air flights, you already trust your life to most of the technologies involved. As the article mentions, "larger aircraft have autopilot systems that can control takeoff, ascent, cruising, descent, approach, and landing." An unmanned flight was the logical next step in the progression.
I don't think we'll see passenger flights without pilots anytime soon, but you might begin seeing flights where you have only a co-pilot on board. It would be a long time before there would be enough evidence that the pilots weren't needed and the majority of the public would trust the systems enough to be willing to fly.
I don't think God gives a shit about your 'right' to file a joint tax return.
That's what meta-moderation is for.
10 years is a maximum, not a fixed sentence that all hackers get. The minimum is nothing. It's up to the judge to decide the actual sentence and, believe it or not, most judges understand that the scope of a crime should be taken into account when deciding the sentence given.
In other words, the legal system is set up the way you're saying it should be, but you don't realize it so you're arguing that it's wrong and should be set up the way it's already set up.
Windows is little more than a container for the programs that I launch. What I actually use is a browser, email client, chat client, MP3 player, video games and so forth.
I don't understand how people can get so worked up over which OS someone uses when most people spend 99% of their time interacting with applications, not the OS.
The OS has two jobs:
1) Provide a solid framework for the applications you want to run.
2) Stay the hell out of the way.
As long as it accomplishes those two jobs, the OS you're using doesn't matter.
"According to The Nielsen Company, the 2011 regular [NFL] season reached more than 200 million unique viewers."
Yeah! Grow up and be like other adults. Sit on your ass in front of a TV drinking beer, watching football. Occasionally you can even get your heart rate to go a little higher by cheering or screaming some profanities.
Fuck gaming. You have to have reflexes and think about that shit. That's for babies. Real adults sit on their ass and passively watch other people playing a game and derive their enjoyment from that!
This is nothing new. We, as a society, recognized long ago that children do stupid shit and sometimes shouldn't receive the full punishment for their actions.
If the Steubenville rapists had been tried as adults (and I think they should have), they would have been facing up to 25 years in prison. Under certain circumstances, Ohio law allows for a sentence of life in prison for someone convicted of rape, too, but I don't think that applies to those two. As it is, they not only have their sentences, but they're going to be added to the sex offender list for anywhere from ten years to life. They're going to find it very difficult to find jobs and places to live while they're on that list.
There's nothing shockingly disproportionate about a maximum of 10 years for hacking vs a maximum of 25/life for rape. You might argue about the specific numbers, but I think everyone will agree that rape is the more serious crime and Ohio law allows for more serious consequences, just as it should.
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APU is the only unusual acronym in the summary. It refers to a chip with both the CPU and graphics processor on the same die. It was previously called Fusion, but trademarks got in the way.
But only if it's an entirely different story set in the same world with no other connection beyond the setting itself. The world of Blade Runner was beautifully visualized and there's more than enough room in it for unrelated stories to be told.
Unfortunately, that's almost certainly not what they're going to do. The script that's being rewritten included characters from the first movie and I doubt the rewrite will remove them.
many countries want a total moratorium on whaling for cultural reasons. Japan and several other countries with long culture of whaling view this as insanity
I think "about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan" and "younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale" suggest that the majority of the population of Japan doesn't really care about whaling and wouldn't care if there was a total moratorium. Last year, whaling companies failed to sell 908 of the 1,211 tons of whale meat that they brought in and the industry was given over £22 million in subsidies and emergency funds to keep it alive.
While it may be different in other countries, the Japanese people aren't eating most of the whale meat that's being taken and they aren't encouraging their kids to eat any. This is purely a case of a dying industry trying to regain some popularity. Insert your favorite buggy whip manufacturer analogy here.
Their ad is below the other two paid-for credit card ads on the page, so they aren't giving preferential treatment to their ad in that way. Sponsored ads always appear above regular search results, too, so there's nothing preferential about Google's ad being above the search results.
Perhaps YOU should try to look at it objectively.
In return for the entertainment industry installing root kits on our computers to lock up files if they believe they've found a case of piracy, the public gets to install root kits on the entertainment industry's computers that will lock up their files if we believe they've acted on a false positive that they didn't properly verify. Once the entertainment executives who were responsible for the program show up at a police station, confess to their crimes and are properly charged, the files will be unlocked.
I think it would take less than 48 hours to shut down all of Hollywood.
Eventually the entertainment companies will get the point and either eliminate rid of the program or go bankrupt since they can't produce anything with the constant shutdowns. Either way, we'll be done with this silliness and we'll have put at least some of the idiots proposing it where they belong; in jail.
Not an exactly answer, but "If all goes well, Goubard aims to release a full version of the suite next year." He's only spent ~14% of the amount of time he thinks he'll need (and that could be an underestimate, of course). That suggests that there's quite a lot that doesn't work.