ok, now i know you're a troll. obviously you never worked anywhere where you could be subject to enourmous pressures, having only a split second to make a vital decision.
Forget the fact that there are numerous high stress situations for nurses, show me a person in any job that hasn't made a single mistake. No amount of prep work can eliminate error, it can only reduce it. This is why hospitals should (have started to?) use checklists for many if not all procedures. Checklists, while sometimes tedious and annoying, go a long way to reduce human error. The same would be true for different sized/ shaped connectors.
All these are fine and dandy, but none of them has the elegance and nearly, I repeat, nearly idiot proof-ness of the OPs different connections concept, which I believe has and is used in various other industries to great success. This is not to say that the nurses themselves are idiots for missing the connections when all the tubes are identical but if you can make something strong against idiots its safe to say that educated people should be able to have even greater success.
I'm fairly certain you were being sarcastic in your post but relativity doesn't invalidate Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics is still correct, it's just less accurate than relativity and quantum mechanics.
Shouldn't the Telcos be up in arms about this. Every FM tuner that a consumer uses is one less person that isn't using that precious data, sprinting towards their monthly quota, on streaming music. It would be pretty difficult (though probably not impossible for them) for the telcos to make money on FM radio.
This sounds impossible but you're simultaneously under- and over-estimating the threat.
The point I was trying to make was this, every day we take risks, risks that can cause us to perish. I believe that freedom is more important than being free from risk. And before this gets twisted, every individual has the freedom to remove as much risk as they deem necessary, but the government should not be imposing on how much freedom should be removed to reduce risk.
In the UK, the authorities can drop you down a hole for 72 hours without allowing you contact with anyone.
And still, the nations you mention have been attacked. There is no way to prevent the unknown, only to mitigate against it. The tube bombings in London could have been prevented if no one rode, but are people really willing to give that up for the certainty that they will not die in a subway?
Have you ever even BEEN to NYC? Having spent the first 30 years of my life in Buffalo, NYC was just down the road. Street-corner vendors were selling BOTTLED WATER for $5/bottle in 2001.
I've been offered bottled water for $8/bottle in Indiana. I've been to NYC a handful of times, lived in London for a decent amount of time, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. So yes, I'm aware of expensive places and realized that $150k is not a bad salary in NYC. No, you're not rich, you don't own that penthouse in Manhattan, but you can find a place to live, maybe not in the posh, fun downtown, but still a decent place and afford food, a vehicle, clothing, etc. Maybe I was a little terse in saying that the only difference was housing, but the thrust of my point was that for some reason people think that $150k isn't a good salary in New York when in reality it is better than a majority of American's are making.
It was the fact that we knew almost nothing definite about the attack prior to them happening. Since then, our investigative agencies have been scrambling to figure out a good answer to the question of "what's going on?" since our previous methods were so obviously incomplete.
News flash, that is an impossible mission without grossly destroying the United States and the liberties that have been fought for over the past two centuries. We are not (by inception) a nation of safety but a nation of individual freedoms and collective assistance. Attacks will happen, and the constitution allows for some defense against those attacks, but the rights of the citizenry are paramount to that defense.
It's a good thing, overall. Yes, there are some innocent folks getting detained, deported, and denied entry, but in time those will work out.
I'd have to disagree. We as a nation have let the enemy win as a significant portion of the citizenry and leaders have been terrorized into removing what makes this nation great in the hopes of not being afraid. Let's get this out in the open, if you want a free society then you're going to have to deal with the fear that nothing will be certain. Take something as simple as driving, you are taking a risk that the person on the other side of the road matching your 50 mph isn't going to just drive straight into you. Life is dangerous, deal with it.
America as a nation is only 234 years old, compared to other nations that have been in roughly the same state for a thousand years.
And England has no better method of detecting impeding attacks. Nor does any other nation.
And it ain't exactly the poor house either. People have this idea that things are so expensive in the big cities (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) but that really only applies to housing. $150k in New York is probably matched by $80-100k elsewhere in the states.
9 square units means you can fit nine 1 square units in the space (dependent on geometry you might have to modify the actual shapes of those pieces as a square unit doesn't necesary have equal length sides, or sides at all).
The President is not authorized to make loans without Congressional approval, either.
And it appears that Congress did give him approval. Approval in the sense of, here's cash, and here's a very large limit we may or may not enforce. Go forth and do what you will.
Your percentages are off by a factor of 100, should be 0.3% and 1.7%, but that still doesn't affect your argument much as those percentages are still rather low.
America simply won't build a great bridge (or solar power station) for President and Country - it doesn't fit in your culture's way of thinking at all.
You're right about President and Country, but there was a time when we would pull out all stops for Country. Look at the Apollo missions, those were incredibly expensive and most people probably didn't see a return on investment (taxes) coming to them from the project (though NASA helped push technology that eventually reached the citizenry). It's a shame that our nation has shifted away from that, there seems to be less patriotism for projects of this grand scope. Maybe we'll come back to that mindset, maybe children will become more interested in the sciences, but there doesn't appear to be any strong push from the leaders of the nation to make a true push to improve the education and the well being of the nation.
Abengoa Solar, a unit of the Seville, Spain-based engineering company
Outsourcing again.
Which US based firms would you recommend? The construction jobs will come from the US, as well as a fair amount of those 85 permanent positions (I assume that some of the heads of the facility will be Spaniards on expat assignments).
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The "watch this but don't keep a copy" model has been ad-supported on aerial TV for decades, and on YouTube for the better part of one
And the iTunes tv episode rental would supposedly not have any commercials, thus defeating the ad supported revenue model.
How about using color codes?
In chemical industry, and in labs, color codes have been used for the last 15 millennia or something.
I think that falls squarely on the "or something" time frame.
We should have the tubes manufactured by the same companies that produce battery chargers for mobile phones. Problem solved!
Tears, tears of laughter and joy.
do their job and not make mistakes,
ok, now i know you're a troll. obviously you never worked anywhere where you could be subject to enourmous pressures, having only a split second to make a vital decision.
Forget the fact that there are numerous high stress situations for nurses, show me a person in any job that hasn't made a single mistake. No amount of prep work can eliminate error, it can only reduce it. This is why hospitals should (have started to?) use checklists for many if not all procedures. Checklists, while sometimes tedious and annoying, go a long way to reduce human error. The same would be true for different sized/ shaped connectors.
All these are fine and dandy, but none of them has the elegance and nearly, I repeat, nearly idiot proof-ness of the OPs different connections concept, which I believe has and is used in various other industries to great success. This is not to say that the nurses themselves are idiots for missing the connections when all the tubes are identical but if you can make something strong against idiots its safe to say that educated people should be able to have even greater success.
unless you're saying that the cable itself is transferring hum from the dvd player to the analog amp.
That would be the point. Or the fact that you've used all the other audio connections in your receiver.
That apple was perturbed, I tell you, PERTURBED!!!
Perturbation theory sucks. There's no matlab script for it. So much paperwork for so little gain.
we can quit teaching Newtonian physics in school
I'm fairly certain you were being sarcastic in your post but relativity doesn't invalidate Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics is still correct, it's just less accurate than relativity and quantum mechanics.
Shouldn't the Telcos be up in arms about this. Every FM tuner that a consumer uses is one less person that isn't using that precious data, sprinting towards their monthly quota, on streaming music. It would be pretty difficult (though probably not impossible for them) for the telcos to make money on FM radio.
Those are all arguments for why the iPod Touch was innovative. iPhone was just an iPod Touch that could make calls.
The iPod Touch came out before the iPhone?
This sounds impossible but you're simultaneously under- and over-estimating the threat.
The point I was trying to make was this, every day we take risks, risks that can cause us to perish. I believe that freedom is more important than being free from risk. And before this gets twisted, every individual has the freedom to remove as much risk as they deem necessary, but the government should not be imposing on how much freedom should be removed to reduce risk.
In the UK, the authorities can drop you down a hole for 72 hours without allowing you contact with anyone.
And still, the nations you mention have been attacked. There is no way to prevent the unknown, only to mitigate against it. The tube bombings in London could have been prevented if no one rode, but are people really willing to give that up for the certainty that they will not die in a subway?
Now, you may call it a privacy breach. But if this analysis saves lives, why the heck should government not do that?
And if US is allowed to do that, its duplicity to cry foul when India asks for the same?
It is a privacy breach, and no the government shouldn't be doing it. The US might do it, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to do so.
Have you ever even BEEN to NYC? Having spent the first 30 years of my life in Buffalo, NYC was just down the road. Street-corner vendors were selling BOTTLED WATER for $5/bottle in 2001.
I've been offered bottled water for $8/bottle in Indiana. I've been to NYC a handful of times, lived in London for a decent amount of time, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. So yes, I'm aware of expensive places and realized that $150k is not a bad salary in NYC. No, you're not rich, you don't own that penthouse in Manhattan, but you can find a place to live, maybe not in the posh, fun downtown, but still a decent place and afford food, a vehicle, clothing, etc. Maybe I was a little terse in saying that the only difference was housing, but the thrust of my point was that for some reason people think that $150k isn't a good salary in New York when in reality it is better than a majority of American's are making.
most students are too lazy or too stupid to learn on their own and need someone to do the song and the dance going with the lesson.
Read this and tell me if you wouldn't benefit from a lecturer who has been in the field for 20+ years.
It was the fact that we knew almost nothing definite about the attack prior to them happening. Since then, our investigative agencies have been scrambling to figure out a good answer to the question of "what's going on?" since our previous methods were so obviously incomplete.
News flash, that is an impossible mission without grossly destroying the United States and the liberties that have been fought for over the past two centuries. We are not (by inception) a nation of safety but a nation of individual freedoms and collective assistance. Attacks will happen, and the constitution allows for some defense against those attacks, but the rights of the citizenry are paramount to that defense.
It's a good thing, overall. Yes, there are some innocent folks getting detained, deported, and denied entry, but in time those will work out.
I'd have to disagree. We as a nation have let the enemy win as a significant portion of the citizenry and leaders have been terrorized into removing what makes this nation great in the hopes of not being afraid. Let's get this out in the open, if you want a free society then you're going to have to deal with the fear that nothing will be certain. Take something as simple as driving, you are taking a risk that the person on the other side of the road matching your 50 mph isn't going to just drive straight into you. Life is dangerous, deal with it.
America as a nation is only 234 years old, compared to other nations that have been in roughly the same state for a thousand years.
And England has no better method of detecting impeding attacks. Nor does any other nation.
What did he expect? A Boy Scout merit badge?
As a citizen of the United States? Probably that one phone call to his lawyer and the right from unlawful detainment, to name a few.
And it ain't exactly the poor house either. People have this idea that things are so expensive in the big cities (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) but that really only applies to housing. $150k in New York is probably matched by $80-100k elsewhere in the states.
the states do not have the power to nullify federal laws.
Unless those states are equal to or greater than 38 states.
Let's drop meter to feet conversions and go with 1 square yard to square feet.
There are 3 feet in a yard.
1 yard^2 * (3 feet/yard) * (3 feet/yard) = 9 feet^2
9 square units means you can fit nine 1 square units in the space (dependent on geometry you might have to modify the actual shapes of those pieces as a square unit doesn't necesary have equal length sides, or sides at all).
The President is not authorized to make loans without Congressional approval, either.
And it appears that Congress did give him approval. Approval in the sense of, here's cash, and here's a very large limit we may or may not enforce. Go forth and do what you will.
Your percentages are off by a factor of 100, should be 0.3% and 1.7%, but that still doesn't affect your argument much as those percentages are still rather low.
Unless they default on the loan it only costs imaginary money.
I think you mean Reactive money.
America simply won't build a great bridge (or solar power station) for President and Country - it doesn't fit in your culture's way of thinking at all.
You're right about President and Country, but there was a time when we would pull out all stops for Country. Look at the Apollo missions, those were incredibly expensive and most people probably didn't see a return on investment (taxes) coming to them from the project (though NASA helped push technology that eventually reached the citizenry). It's a shame that our nation has shifted away from that, there seems to be less patriotism for projects of this grand scope. Maybe we'll come back to that mindset, maybe children will become more interested in the sciences, but there doesn't appear to be any strong push from the leaders of the nation to make a true push to improve the education and the well being of the nation.
Abengoa Solar, a unit of the Seville, Spain-based engineering company
Outsourcing again.
Which US based firms would you recommend? The construction jobs will come from the US, as well as a fair amount of those 85 permanent positions (I assume that some of the heads of the facility will be Spaniards on expat assignments).
Since I expect the car to last 250,000 miles ... plus maybe $5000 in maintenance.
What car are you driving? I'd spend an additional $5,000 up front on the price of a car if I could get a guarantee on maintenance only costing $5,000.