Swords were simpler than muskets. Muskets were simpler than bolt action rifles. Bolt action rifles were simpler than automatic weapons and so on...
Not to nitpick, but you've got a lot of those backwards.
Swords take a lot of training. Bludgeoning weapons or spears would have been a better example. The common footman didn't get a sword, those were usually reserved for the professionals.
Muskets were popular because with some training you could grab a schmuck out of a field, run him through some drills and when placed in a large group of similar schmucks could be a threat to a another group of schmucks that happen to be wearing a different uniform.
There's a lot more fiddling around in the process of loading a musket than in the operation of a bolt action. Also, bolt actions don't have an unpredictable delay between pulling the trigger and the gun firing which is common to black powder weapons.
Bolt action versus automatics comes down to what areas you define as being the criteria as being. In firing it is simpler to use a semi or fully automatic as you don't have to move around to operate the bolt, you can keep the weapon pointed at the target and continue to fire. Aiming is a lot simpler with a fully automatic weapon.
Generally, the "new" stuff just cost more because it was new and not available in bulk from negotiated contracts or because it would chew through too much ammunition, and sometimes both.
I've always figured that they specifically don't want a low end version of the Mac Pro because the people that are too cheap to buy a Pro would be the ones that would buy an "Amateur" and slap el-cheapo discount cards in it and create a very unfavorable view of Apple from their experience (that they created themselves but will blame Apple for).
If you have the money for a Pro you're probably not going to slap a $50 card from walmart into it.
"Densifying"? What we need is to provoke Iran into wiping out a bunch of our major cities. We don't need the urban cancer spreading further than it already is.
It's those damned city folk that are trying to get four wheel drive vehicles banned in my state except for ag uses. The vast majority of the state suffers from this thing called "winter" and has to deal with "snow". Something the city slickers are only aware of as something big orange trucks pick up and haul away.
Long before the paved highways were put in the population was overall rather sparsely populated. Cities weren't the norm.
It is probably due to the belief that those pure sweet innocent little children are just too stupid to figure out the missing letter that would create a swear word.
If you bubble wrap everything and hose it down with disinfectants little Johnny and Jane will always be innocent little kids. Until they hit 18 and instantly go from "cute" (personally I find little kids rather disturbing creatures, beyond some of the minor Lovecraftian horrors) kids to mature adults, without any transition time in between.
Sort of like CSI nudity, as long as you leave out or obscure the important bit(s), it is not porn. Because kids won't be able to figure out what bit was shown in shadowed profile. I'd link the Nukee's comic about males and their mosaic imaging ability but I don't have access to that at the moment.
By employing the physical distance between two points and the limit to the speed at which information can be propagated these messages will experience a delay between the time the sender transmits the message and the recipient receives the message.
I also hereby place this patent into the public domain.
I do wish I could figure how they managed instant communications. Blasted C going and ruining my plans.
The biggest difference would be that the aeropress produces coffee that's more in the espresso range than what a french does. You can dilute it down to normal coffee.
It does seem to use a bit more coffee than a press, but there is almost no bitterness. Even less than a french press. All the flavor though.
Basically it is the short time the water is in contact with the grounds and the pressure used to press it through the grounds and very effective filter (about $3 for 350 and they can be easily washed and reused a few times) that makes the difference. Follow the instructions that come with it then start varying it according to your taste. It is also VERY easy to clean. The coffee grounds really are pressed into a puck that just pops out. The plunger cleans the chamber on the way down so all you really have to clean is the plunger head and the grate.
A good cup of coffee isn't bitter, unless you want it that way.
Alas, coffee is a lost art in America. Where "black coffee" generally means bitter stuff so thick you can stand a spoon up in it (at least until it dissolves the spoon and or cup) and people are proud of making and drinking this abomination. There's a reason I keep a hot pot, manual grinder and press in my cube.
And then there's the starbucks generation that doesn't understand that the point of coffee house coffee is not to dash in, get your beverage to go and then dash off again. But that's another rant.
Good beans, good roasting, the right grind, a good apparatus (machine just doesn't fit things like french presses and vacuum pots) and someone who knows how to put all those things together will get you a cup of coffee that you wouldn't dare spoil with creamers or sweeteners.
So what does Apple care if you use their OS on a PC?
Perhaps Apple wants a uniform and "good" user experience and does not want people to start complaining about how poorly OS X performs while neglecting to mention they were trying to run it on something with less power than a TI-84 calculator?
Part of the "Apple Experience" is having the software set up for your specific hardware and not the eleventy billion possible setups of a windows box.
Organic cucumbers are very likely to *NOT* have a wax coating on the skin.
A lot of the "good stuff" in a cucumber is stored in the skin. Which you can't use if you don't want to eat the wax as well. (Good luck finding "normal" parsnips that aren't coated in wax.)
Some of the benefits of "organic" food are related to the methods of post-harvest handling and preparation. (Like natural vs. artificial ripening.)
ignore other potential good uses from such technology.. Imagine being able to catch Kidnappers, fugitives and the ilk before they actually do more harm. Fleeing bank robbers, etc.. In all technology there is a chance for abuse of authority, be it in your own office or with government control. Chance for abuse does not negate the ability for technology to be helpful to society. To be sure - be vigilant of government practices, but don't cut off your feet to spite your nose either.
Stop thinking of the children already. All this thinking of the children will do nothing but leave them with no rights at all. Then imagine when the children start "But think of the children!"
Having a single beat cop look through a window requires an 'effort' of sorts. Active use of a finite resource with a very localized sphere of effect.
Mounting cameras on every corner and passively trolling for not-entirely-easy-to-block-radiation-which-is-beyond-the-normal-realm-of-the-average-joe really doesn't require effort. We shouldn't have to build faraday cage houses with no windows and five feet of thermal insulation just to have our right to privacy.
Terrorists be damned, we can't make it easy for the gov't to keep an eye on us.
The gov't has a lot of resources to bring against the average joe. They really don't need to use those things to do the jobs they are _supposed_ to be doing (as opposed to the things they want to do).
Also, where do you draw the line between drugs and things like proper nutrition?
By consuming an optimal diet of the proper nutrients (which are just specific chemical compounds) am I really a lesser person because I did not make my achievements while on a near starvation diet?
Am I cheating by juicing up more vegetables than I could eat whole and obtaining all those extra nutrients?
You mean getting told that the terrorist doesn't intend to hijack the plane and take it to Cuba, instead he means to fly it into a building and kill everyone on board?
Ya, that's information I really don't want to know.
What is fiction is the extent of man's impact on climate change.
Were there SUVs cruising around back when the glaciers that covered most of the northern U.S. retreated?
Was it coal burning power plants that lead to Greenland being, well, green and the actions of valiant environmentalist that replaced the glaciers there?
What about the climate shifts of the cretacious, cambrion and jurassic ages? Dinosaurs in Cadillacs to blame?
Corn is a poor choice for ethanol. If it was really about the ethanol and not massive subsidies and general price gouging, they wouldn't be using corn for fuel ethanol.
It's nice and all that you're concerned about ecology and conservation (well, not really, you seem concerned about THE ENVIRONMENT!), but I'd rather you were concerned for the right reasons and not the knee jerk reaction hype the media spews.
They exist to allow consumers without an ounce of self control to spend themselves into not being able to pay the minimum credit card payments and the interest only payment of their over-valued sub prime mortgage during a time when they can't even declare bankruptcy anymore?
The "government" will charge you with two murders because it does two things:
1. It it makes them look like they are "tough" on crime.
2. It makes them look like they are protecting "women and children". Kill men all you want, but oh boy, you kill someone with a Y-chromosome deficiency and are you going to get it.
Those things get people re-elected. People are afeared for their women-folk and politicians know to exploit the fears of the yokels.
Being on the books doesn't make it a just law or implementation of the law.
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Swords were simpler than muskets.
Muskets were simpler than bolt action rifles.
Bolt action rifles were simpler than automatic weapons and so on...
Not to nitpick, but you've got a lot of those backwards.
Swords take a lot of training. Bludgeoning weapons or spears would have been a better example. The common footman didn't get a sword, those were usually reserved for the professionals.
Muskets were popular because with some training you could grab a schmuck out of a field, run him through some drills and when placed in a large group of similar schmucks could be a threat to a another group of schmucks that happen to be wearing a different uniform.
There's a lot more fiddling around in the process of loading a musket than in the operation of a bolt action. Also, bolt actions don't have an unpredictable delay between pulling the trigger and the gun firing which is common to black powder weapons.
Bolt action versus automatics comes down to what areas you define as being the criteria as being. In firing it is simpler to use a semi or fully automatic as you don't have to move around to operate the bolt, you can keep the weapon pointed at the target and continue to fire. Aiming is a lot simpler with a fully automatic weapon.
Generally, the "new" stuff just cost more because it was new and not available in bulk from negotiated contracts or because it would chew through too much ammunition, and sometimes both.
I've always figured that they specifically don't want a low end version of the Mac Pro because the people that are too cheap to buy a Pro would be the ones that would buy an "Amateur" and slap el-cheapo discount cards in it and create a very unfavorable view of Apple from their experience (that they created themselves but will blame Apple for).
If you have the money for a Pro you're probably not going to slap a $50 card from walmart into it.
Innocent until proven guilty is (was? seems to be out of fashion these days) a necessary legal concept.
However, for consumers, it is a very dangerous approach when dealing with questionable businesses. Caveat emptor and all that.
I'd reserve reversing the hoax judgment until they fulfill the majority if not the entirety of the pre-orders.
It may hurt their profit a bit to kick out a few machines, but some profit is better than no profit.
Has anyone checked to see if they have an actual physical location (or at least a front) yet?
Politicians make the laws so they don't have to be subject to them.
It would be madness to expect them to be subject to the same laws that we, the masses, are.
We drink and drive and we get a ticket, jail time and sky high insurance rates.
They drink and drive and the cops give them a ride home.
We kill someone and it is jail time.
They kill someone and they get re-elected.
Social order would be destroyed if there weren't paragons of non-virtue standing tall upon the backs of the masses.
"Densifying"? What we need is to provoke Iran into wiping out a bunch of our major cities. We don't need the urban cancer spreading further than it already is.
It's those damned city folk that are trying to get four wheel drive vehicles banned in my state except for ag uses. The vast majority of the state suffers from this thing called "winter" and has to deal with "snow". Something the city slickers are only aware of as something big orange trucks pick up and haul away.
Long before the paved highways were put in the population was overall rather sparsely populated. Cities weren't the norm.
It is probably due to the belief that those pure sweet innocent little children are just too stupid to figure out the missing letter that would create a swear word.
If you bubble wrap everything and hose it down with disinfectants little Johnny and Jane will always be innocent little kids. Until they hit 18 and instantly go from "cute" (personally I find little kids rather disturbing creatures, beyond some of the minor Lovecraftian horrors) kids to mature adults, without any transition time in between.
Sort of like CSI nudity, as long as you leave out or obscure the important bit(s), it is not porn. Because kids won't be able to figure out what bit was shown in shadowed profile. I'd link the Nukee's comic about males and their mosaic imaging ability but I don't have access to that at the moment.
They've probably been hit with the neuralizer one too many times.
By employing the physical distance between two points and the limit to the speed at which information can be propagated these messages will experience a delay between the time the sender transmits the message and the recipient receives the message.
I also hereby place this patent into the public domain.
I do wish I could figure how they managed instant communications. Blasted C going and ruining my plans.
I'd like to know so I can invest in their stock.
I bought an aeropress about a week ago.
The biggest difference would be that the aeropress produces coffee that's more in the espresso range than what a french does. You can dilute it down to normal coffee.
It does seem to use a bit more coffee than a press, but there is almost no bitterness. Even less than a french press. All the flavor though.
Basically it is the short time the water is in contact with the grounds and the pressure used to press it through the grounds and very effective filter (about $3 for 350 and they can be easily washed and reused a few times) that makes the difference. Follow the instructions that come with it then start varying it according to your taste. It is also VERY easy to clean. The coffee grounds really are pressed into a puck that just pops out. The plunger cleans the chamber on the way down so all you really have to clean is the plunger head and the grate.
So far I've been very impressed.
A good cup of coffee isn't bitter, unless you want it that way.
Alas, coffee is a lost art in America. Where "black coffee" generally means bitter stuff so thick you can stand a spoon up in it (at least until it dissolves the spoon and or cup) and people are proud of making and drinking this abomination. There's a reason I keep a hot pot, manual grinder and press in my cube.
And then there's the starbucks generation that doesn't understand that the point of coffee house coffee is not to dash in, get your beverage to go and then dash off again. But that's another rant.
Good beans, good roasting, the right grind, a good apparatus (machine just doesn't fit things like french presses and vacuum pots) and someone who knows how to put all those things together will get you a cup of coffee that you wouldn't dare spoil with creamers or sweeteners.
I was thinking of a different Rule 37. Too bad there's no bounty on lawyer drones, yet.
"Not in *MY* backyard!" Would be why. It may not have any meltdowns or smog, but it will be an eyesore and you have to think of your property value.
We can thank our shrewd and astute homeowners for the lack of modern powerplants.
Perhaps Apple wants a uniform and "good" user experience and does not want people to start complaining about how poorly OS X performs while neglecting to mention they were trying to run it on something with less power than a TI-84 calculator?
Part of the "Apple Experience" is having the software set up for your specific hardware and not the eleventy billion possible setups of a windows box.
There is logic.
Organic cucumbers are very likely to *NOT* have a wax coating on the skin.
A lot of the "good stuff" in a cucumber is stored in the skin. Which you can't use if you don't want to eat the wax as well. (Good luck finding "normal" parsnips that aren't coated in wax.)
Some of the benefits of "organic" food are related to the methods of post-harvest handling and preparation. (Like natural vs. artificial ripening.)
They sell Round Up. It's not a one time payment. Round Up they can patent and protect. They can keep selling that.
Monsanto is a good example why capitalism will be the downfall of our civilization.
When profit is your prophet the devil is the one to make deals with.
Stop thinking of the children already. All this thinking of the children will do nothing but leave them with no rights at all. Then imagine when the children start "But think of the children!"
Having a single beat cop look through a window requires an 'effort' of sorts. Active use of a finite resource with a very localized sphere of effect.
Mounting cameras on every corner and passively trolling for not-entirely-easy-to-block-radiation-which-is-beyond-the-normal-realm-of-the-average-joe really doesn't require effort. We shouldn't have to build faraday cage houses with no windows and five feet of thermal insulation just to have our right to privacy.
Terrorists be damned, we can't make it easy for the gov't to keep an eye on us.
The gov't has a lot of resources to bring against the average joe. They really don't need to use those things to do the jobs they are _supposed_ to be doing (as opposed to the things they want to do).
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...
Also, where do you draw the line between drugs and things like proper nutrition?
By consuming an optimal diet of the proper nutrients (which are just specific chemical compounds) am I really a lesser person because I did not make my achievements while on a near starvation diet?
Am I cheating by juicing up more vegetables than I could eat whole and obtaining all those extra nutrients?
I'd rather have a screaming baby free area. Cell phone blather mouths are annoying but they barely register on the wailing infant scale of annoyance.
There is also a correlation between screaming babies and puking babies. I'd pay extra for a baby fluid (and solid) free flight.
You mean getting told that the terrorist doesn't intend to hijack the plane and take it to Cuba, instead he means to fly it into a building and kill everyone on board? Ya, that's information I really don't want to know.
Climate change is real.
What is fiction is the extent of man's impact on climate change.
Were there SUVs cruising around back when the glaciers that covered most of the northern U.S. retreated?
Was it coal burning power plants that lead to Greenland being, well, green and the actions of valiant environmentalist that replaced the glaciers there?
What about the climate shifts of the cretacious, cambrion and jurassic ages? Dinosaurs in Cadillacs to blame?
Corn is a poor choice for ethanol. If it was really about the ethanol and not massive subsidies and general price gouging, they wouldn't be using corn for fuel ethanol.
It's nice and all that you're concerned about ecology and conservation (well, not really, you seem concerned about THE ENVIRONMENT!), but I'd rather you were concerned for the right reasons and not the knee jerk reaction hype the media spews.
They exist to allow consumers without an ounce of self control to spend themselves into not being able to pay the minimum credit card payments and the interest only payment of their over-valued sub prime mortgage during a time when they can't even declare bankruptcy anymore?
Is that the answer you were looking for?
The "government" will charge you with two murders because it does two things:
1. It it makes them look like they are "tough" on crime.
2. It makes them look like they are protecting "women and children". Kill men all you want, but oh boy, you kill someone with a Y-chromosome deficiency and are you going to get it.
Those things get people re-elected. People are afeared for their women-folk and politicians know to exploit the fears of the yokels.
Being on the books doesn't make it a just law or implementation of the law.