I'm sure James Watt's engine was the only design that was built for quite a few years too
Actually, the Watt engine was a third generation engine.
The first commercial steam engines were built by Thomas Savery. The second generation were Newcomen engines. James Watt invented the separate condenser, which allowed a more economic operation than Newcomen engines.
Watt then went on to invent further improvements, in the double action and rotative beam engines. Until them, steam engines were limited to back and forth motion, adequate for pumping water from mines, which was their first application, but in industry one usually needs rotating motions.
I always think it is worth pointing out that the US made an important decision between the time Apollo was announced and when it placed men on the moon: millions of poor and elderly would receive health care paid for by the government.
Careful, comrade, you are not being politically correct. Everybody knows that the solution to end the $1.6 trillion deficit is to cut the $700 billion military spending, while leaving the $800 billion health care and $700 billion social security spending intact.
If only the military spending didn't exist, I'm sure some hand waving could take care of the remaining $900 billion deficit. That is, if you forget that nearly half of those $700 billion military spending is manpower cost, which would become unemployment benefits, but let's not consider that detail, just think of a $1.2 trillion deficit if there existed no military spending at all.
Fuck hard data and numbers, dreaming of a socialist utopia is much easier...
We have known since the 1930s that the energy bounding atoms together is nothing compared to the energy bounding the atom nucleus together. In the 1940s we started learning how to use that energy.
We have been stalling ever since. It's like we stopped developing automobiles because some people became afraid of them.
I think the theory here is, lawyers have a duty of confidentiality about what they are told, but no such duty about what they weren't told, and no duty to further propagate lies clients tell them
-"Counselor, did your client ever tell you he was innocent?"
-"Nope"
Lawyers have a duty of confidentiality, period. They cannot reveal, directly or indirectly, what their clients told them. And, except for sworn statements, they can tell lies, if that's in the client's best interests. Obviously, law enforcement people also tell lies, if they think it will help convict the suspect.
It's only on the witness stand that they have the duty to answer every question truthfully, although even there they don't have (are not allowed to) answer what wasn't asked. It's not perjury if you don't volunteer information.
How much are you paying Google for the advertisement you get? Have you stopped to consider how many people have ever seen your photos just because Google news pointed it to them? You are like a movie star that complains when a poster of one of his films is used to promote it. Stop being childish, it's unprofessional.
Besides, it's not your photos Google is using, it's thumbnails created from those photos. Extreme case: if they publish a single pixel that's the average of one of your photos, would you still have reason to complain? Where would you draw the line?
The only time you really need a Navy is if you want, not to defend yourself, but to sail around the world attacking or threatening to attack other people in their own homes.
Also, lasers don't bounce back at the attacker they way they do in fiction. A mirror is essentially armour against lasers, but unless you can aim the beam back in the time it takes for the mirror to melt, it isn't a weapon reflector.
Would you believe TWO mirrors? Well, actually six mirrors, because it's 3d, but you get the idea.
We're talking about like half of one atmosphere, here. I don't think you're going to get the bends.
That's absolutely correct, the pressure difference is equivalent to coming up from a five meters deep dive. I've done that many times but I never stayed that deep more than a minute or so.
Here's a question for the divers here: do you need special decompression routines if you dive at five meters for long periods?
Only when trust develops between buyer and seller the economy would flourish. Can I explain the important role played by that federal bureaucrat who defines the difference between tomato sauce and tomato ketchup to a tea partier in 30 seconds?
Please, try, because I cannot see why that role could be important.
If it's a question of life or death, or some other irreparable damage of great consequence being caused, then I agree that some regulation by government could be needed.
However, if it's petty fraud, like this Chinese HD, it's up to the local police to handle. If a tourist falls prey to that kind of swindle and has no intention to go back there, too bad for him, it's suckers like that who let crooks profit.
When trust is needed between seller and buyer, it's up to them both to build that trust. There are specialized corporations for that, no government intervention is needed.
The GP wasn't saying he needed 30 seconds to define the difference. He needed more than 30 seconds to explain the role of the person doing that definition to someone who needs things explained in simple terms.
No, he needed more than 30 seconds to explain why we need to pay thousands to the government to do badly what Consumer Reports does for $26.
"But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; If I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am responsible for everything I do."
("The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", 1966)
No copyright extensions will affect me as long as P2P exists.
The problem is in practice the average person is entirely incapable of testing many scientific hypotheses, let alone understanding the reasoning behind them and their ramifications
In practice an illiterate person is incapable of reading a text, he depends on someone reading it for him. Does this mean that writing is the same as speaking?
Priests can just as well tell me that they're able to replicate miracles all the time for all the difference it makes to me.
But you use the results of scientific discovery in your life. That's different from faith, you get a physical result, even if you don't understand why the thing works.
The end result is what really matters, and in this respect you are testing scientific discoveries on your day-to-day life. After all, no one understands every detail in all fields of science. The particle physicist uses a computer to do his calculations, even if he doesn't know the details of how the CPU works. Does this mean he depends on faith to do his work? No, because he can check the numerical results of the calculation. Same as for you, it's the results that matter for him where he does not understand the details.
The fact that a scientist can do the same thing over and over again and call it antihydrogen doesn't make it any more real to you than someone who tells you that they see miracles attributed to God every day.
The fact is that I see the results of science every time I use a computer, ride a car, take a medicine, watch TV, etc, etc, etc.
All the results I can see coming from god is that when someone burns a book about him someone else kills twenty innocent people at the other side of the world.
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I'm sure James Watt's engine was the only design that was built for quite a few years too
Actually, the Watt engine was a third generation engine.
The first commercial steam engines were built by Thomas Savery. The second generation were Newcomen engines. James Watt invented the separate condenser, which allowed a more economic operation than Newcomen engines.
Watt then went on to invent further improvements, in the double action and rotative beam engines. Until them, steam engines were limited to back and forth motion, adequate for pumping water from mines, which was their first application, but in industry one usually needs rotating motions.
I always think it is worth pointing out that the US made an important decision between the time Apollo was announced and when it placed men on the moon: millions of poor and elderly would receive health care paid for by the government.
Careful, comrade, you are not being politically correct. Everybody knows that the solution to end the $1.6 trillion deficit is to cut the $700 billion military spending, while leaving the $800 billion health care and $700 billion social security spending intact.
If only the military spending didn't exist, I'm sure some hand waving could take care of the remaining $900 billion deficit. That is, if you forget that nearly half of those $700 billion military spending is manpower cost, which would become unemployment benefits, but let's not consider that detail, just think of a $1.2 trillion deficit if there existed no military spending at all.
Fuck hard data and numbers, dreaming of a socialist utopia is much easier...
We have known since the 1930s that the energy bounding atoms together is nothing compared to the energy bounding the atom nucleus together. In the 1940s we started learning how to use that energy.
We have been stalling ever since. It's like we stopped developing automobiles because some people became afraid of them.
He made $75.000,00 a year but couldn't pay off a debt of $5000,00?
He's convicted for millions of dollars worth of fraud, but can't afford a ticket to Turkey for his lawyer?
Can someone explain, please.
Google for "frozen assets" or "impounded assets"
I think the theory here is, lawyers have a duty of confidentiality about what they are told, but no such duty about what they weren't told, and no duty to further propagate lies clients tell them
-"Counselor, did your client ever tell you he was innocent?"
-"Nope"
Lawyers have a duty of confidentiality, period. They cannot reveal, directly or indirectly, what their clients told them. And, except for sworn statements, they can tell lies, if that's in the client's best interests. Obviously, law enforcement people also tell lies, if they think it will help convict the suspect.
It's only on the witness stand that they have the duty to answer every question truthfully, although even there they don't have (are not allowed to) answer what wasn't asked. It's not perjury if you don't volunteer information.
The Church is a human institution, no doubt, but it spent a long time as the only civilizing influence in a lot of Europe.
Only if your definition if civilizing is burning dissenters alive.
With a week's training, I'll bet the 1869 man could drive a car, use a cell phone, or browse the internet
How much do you want to bet? I can program cell phones, have created a few symbian applications, but I often get mixed up when using a "smart" phone.
Studies have shown that kids who go hungry in the first 5 or so years of life tend to score markedly below those that do not.
I don't believe that people who went to Harvard or any other university in the 1860s had been hungry as a child.
How much are you paying Google for the advertisement you get? Have you stopped to consider how many people have ever seen your photos just because Google news pointed it to them? You are like a movie star that complains when a poster of one of his films is used to promote it. Stop being childish, it's unprofessional.
Besides, it's not your photos Google is using, it's thumbnails created from those photos. Extreme case: if they publish a single pixel that's the average of one of your photos, would you still have reason to complain? Where would you draw the line?
why violate the privacy of these innocent creatures?
Look, if zebras cared for their privacy, then why do they pose for pictures like these?
No Roswell, no Demi Moore
No Demi Moore, no Ghost
By staying home they have also destroyed all sorts of paranormal phenomena.
The only time you really need a Navy is if you want, not to defend yourself, but to sail around the world attacking or threatening to attack other people in their own homes.
The people of Great Britain beg to disagree.
If it weren't for the closely fought battle over importation of raw materials from the USA, Hitler would have invaded England.
Also, lasers don't bounce back at the attacker they way they do in fiction. A mirror is essentially armour against lasers, but unless you can aim the beam back in the time it takes for the mirror to melt, it isn't a weapon reflector.
Would you believe TWO mirrors? Well, actually six mirrors, because it's 3d, but you get the idea.
It is known today that even the CIA's estimate was too high; the actual number of ICBMs, even including interim-use prototypes, was 4.
So, let's see: Washington, New York, Chicago, Detroit? Or would they put San Francisco on that list? Los Angeles?
I don't think any leader in the world would risk losing his main four cities like that.
We're talking about like half of one atmosphere, here. I don't think you're going to get the bends.
That's absolutely correct, the pressure difference is equivalent to coming up from a five meters deep dive. I've done that many times but I never stayed that deep more than a minute or so.
Here's a question for the divers here: do you need special decompression routines if you dive at five meters for long periods?
It sucks!
How many brazillians is one octillion?
Only when trust develops between buyer and seller the economy would flourish. Can I explain the important role played by that federal bureaucrat who defines the difference between tomato sauce and tomato ketchup to a tea partier in 30 seconds?
Please, try, because I cannot see why that role could be important.
If it's a question of life or death, or some other irreparable damage of great consequence being caused, then I agree that some regulation by government could be needed.
However, if it's petty fraud, like this Chinese HD, it's up to the local police to handle. If a tourist falls prey to that kind of swindle and has no intention to go back there, too bad for him, it's suckers like that who let crooks profit.
When trust is needed between seller and buyer, it's up to them both to build that trust. There are specialized corporations for that, no government intervention is needed.
The GP wasn't saying he needed 30 seconds to define the difference. He needed more than 30 seconds to explain the role of the person doing that definition to someone who needs things explained in simple terms.
No, he needed more than 30 seconds to explain why we need to pay thousands to the government to do badly what Consumer Reports does for $26.
So if one buys a album in 1961 when the copyright term is 20 years,
one has an expectation that it will be in the public domain in their lifetime.
Suppose you bought it as an investment, planning on selling copies starting in 1981. Could you sue the corrupt lawmakers?
Google translate says "Dansk jävlar!" is "Danish bastards!"
Literally, it would be "Danish devils", but the meaning is bastards.
Du er fucking velkommen!
"You are Welcome" in Swedish is "var så god"
"But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; If I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am responsible for everything I do."
("The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", 1966)
No copyright extensions will affect me as long as P2P exists.
The problem is in practice the average person is entirely incapable of testing many scientific hypotheses, let alone understanding the reasoning behind them and their ramifications
In practice an illiterate person is incapable of reading a text, he depends on someone reading it for him. Does this mean that writing is the same as speaking?
Priests can just as well tell me that they're able to replicate miracles all the time for all the difference it makes to me.
But you use the results of scientific discovery in your life. That's different from faith, you get a physical result, even if you don't understand why the thing works.
The end result is what really matters, and in this respect you are testing scientific discoveries on your day-to-day life. After all, no one understands every detail in all fields of science. The particle physicist uses a computer to do his calculations, even if he doesn't know the details of how the CPU works. Does this mean he depends on faith to do his work? No, because he can check the numerical results of the calculation. Same as for you, it's the results that matter for him where he does not understand the details.
The fact that a scientist can do the same thing over and over again and call it antihydrogen doesn't make it any more real to you than someone who tells you that they see miracles attributed to God every day.
The fact is that I see the results of science every time I use a computer, ride a car, take a medicine, watch TV, etc, etc, etc.
All the results I can see coming from god is that when someone burns a book about him someone else kills twenty innocent people at the other side of the world.
It's also a much cheaper place to live ... so it evens out
No, that one-tenth figure I mentioned already considered purchasing power parity.
In nominal terms, the per-capita GDP of the USA is $47132, nearly 18 times Armenia's $2676