Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia? Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime. The other's a computer company.
I knew they had privatized everything when the Soviet Union fell, but this is ridiculous!
No way they turned Russia into a computer company!
People also learn how not to be rigorous and how to be lazy (not look for holes in their hypotheses or experimental technique then just dismiss these shortcomings)
You have never actually watched a Mythbusters episode, have you?
They are always looking for hole in their hypotheses, any demonstration they do present alternative theories and the checks they do to verify them. It's only that the time they have on air for each one is limited, so they need to have priorities.
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the number of people you must stop is much smaller near the top of the pyramid
Yes, but once you get the right propaganda you can convince most of the people with that.
Near the top you must deal with the outliers, people like frustrated art students who once were corporals in an army that lost a war or some former Christian Orthodox divinity student turned bank robber.
Do you believe it will be easier to prevent evil from seeking and reaching the top of the pyramid, or to convince common people not to follow evil orders?
If common people is convinced they cannot follow evil orders then no one on the top of the pyramid can order anyone to do harm.
If you prevent an evil leader to reach the top of the pyramid there will be others trying.
I think it would be better (more effective) to work on the common people.
Actually, there exists a well defined frame of reference with respect to velocity. In rotation this is pretty obvious, since rotation with respect to the absolute frame causes centrifugal forces to appear.
Constant linear movement is not so easy to measure, but there's the background radiation dipole that can be measured and defines an absolute velocity with respect to the universe.
We cannot define one point as an absolute origin, but we can define one state as being "standing still" with respect to the absolute origin, both in rotation and in translation.
An impact crater look very differently from what happens when you toss a coin. Hint: there's a *BIG* explosion when the kinetic energy is suddenly transformed into heat.
No matter how shallow is the angle, impact craters are always nearly circular and symmetric. The material is suddenly compressed with a huge amount of energy and heats up to thousands of degrees. The resulting explosion propagates to all directions, independent of which direction the meteor came from.
The real question is who has the remaining 16.76% of the market? How much did they have one year ago? I remember when, not so long ago, Microsoft had about 95% of the desktop market.
Frankly, considering this trend, I would think twice before investing in Microsoft stock these days.
Is the hardware really that much? Considering what current CPUs can do, with or without GPGPU, I wonder if the same effect couldn't be done with a couple of cheap webcams.
I guess that the amount produced by evaporating salt water was tiny compared to mining, and thus commercially inviable.
This might be true, but I find it hard to believe. I grew up in Brazil and some of my earliest memories are seeing windmills like these pumping seawater into evaporation ponds in the Rio de Janeiro state. The amount produced was by no means "tiny".
Today, the biggest economic competitor to this business is tourism, seafront real estate is becoming too expensive for evaporation ponds, but in the poorer regions in the Brazilian northeast this is still a major resource.
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y girlfriend will have to get off manually
You got it wrong. Only men masturbate manually, women are more advanced, they have digital masturbation.
maybe the patent should read "a hand-held 3 dimensional geometrically shaped container" instead or is that too broad?
My church uses perfectly flat, i.e. 2 dimensional, collection plates, you insensitive clod!
Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
The other's a computer company.
I knew they had privatized everything when the Soviet Union fell, but this is ridiculous!
No way they turned Russia into a computer company!
he was killed in a sword fight
That explains why he lost, since Galois died of a gunshot wound.
-"En garde!"
BANG!
-"Now, THAT should explain to you the difference between a postulate and a theorem!"
People also learn how not to be rigorous and how to be lazy (not look for holes in their hypotheses or experimental technique then just dismiss these shortcomings)
You have never actually watched a Mythbusters episode, have you?
They are always looking for hole in their hypotheses, any demonstration they do present alternative theories and the checks they do to verify them. It's only that the time they have on air for each one is limited, so they need to have priorities.
Don't.
One cosmic ray and the gene is replaced by another one that says," invade humans and turn them into statues
Ssshhh, don't give people ideas. Remember, this is Slashdot
Okay, so there are many parameters to consider, should we give up because of that?
an 800C furnace may be more expensive than you think
No, it's really cheap. That's the temperature at which molten aluminum is cast, many people, including me, do it with home built furnaces.
Google for gingery electric furnace to find an excellent little book which tells you how.
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The letter PSI can also be a symbol for:
psychology, psychiatry, and sometimes parapsychology (involving paranormal or relating with the supernatural subjects, especially research into extrasensory perception).
In mathematics, the reciprocal Fibonacci constant.
Water potential in movement of water between plant cells.
In biochemistry, it denotes the rare nucleotide pseudouridilic acid.
Stream function in fluid mechanics defining the curve to which the flow velocity is always tangent.
One of the dihedral angles in the backbones of proteins
The planet Neptune
The Schrödinger equation and throughout quantum mechanics, PSI(x) stands for the wave function
Indiana University (as a superimposed I and U)
Gangster Disciples
A Sai, the name of which is pronounced the same way.
Pharmacology, general pharmacy
In virology the PSI site is a viral packaging signal.
The PSI meson, in particle physics.
In the Computability Theory, PSIP(x)\,\! represents the return value Y\,\! of a program P\,\!.
In the comic Monochrome, Psi is a mentally disturbed character, though her name is usually spelled out.
In the television show Babylon 5, PSI is the symbol of the Psi Corps.
Hey, that's a lot of uses for a trident!
How evil can you get?
the number of people you must stop is much smaller near the top of the pyramid
Yes, but once you get the right propaganda you can convince most of the people with that.
Near the top you must deal with the outliers, people like frustrated art students who once were corporals in an army that lost a war or some former Christian Orthodox divinity student turned bank robber.
There's no fixed rule on how to deal with those.
Luckily this story is a dupe and we know from the previous one that there's a unicorn in there.
Those colors come from the unicorn farting.
Do you believe it will be easier to prevent evil from seeking and reaching the top of the pyramid, or to convince common people not to follow evil orders?
If common people is convinced they cannot follow evil orders then no one on the top of the pyramid can order anyone to do harm.
If you prevent an evil leader to reach the top of the pyramid there will be others trying.
I think it would be better (more effective) to work on the common people.
In my time at school some of our teachers gave us free hand - bring what you want and see if you succeed.
The best anecdote about this was a physics exam at CalTech where the teacher allowed students to "consult Feynman", which was the standard textbook.
One student grabbed the exam sheet and ran to professor Feynman's office. Feynman, practical joker that he was, was glad to do the whole exam for him.
FTFS: "I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration."
Hah! I'd love to see how this guy would do a physics or calculus paper...
Actually, there exists a well defined frame of reference with respect to velocity. In rotation this is pretty obvious, since rotation with respect to the absolute frame causes centrifugal forces to appear.
Constant linear movement is not so easy to measure, but there's the background radiation dipole that can be measured and defines an absolute velocity with respect to the universe.
We cannot define one point as an absolute origin, but we can define one state as being "standing still" with respect to the absolute origin, both in rotation and in translation.
An impact crater look very differently from what happens when you toss a coin. Hint: there's a *BIG* explosion when the kinetic energy is suddenly transformed into heat.
No matter how shallow is the angle, impact craters are always nearly circular and symmetric. The material is suddenly compressed with a huge amount of energy and heats up to thousands of degrees. The resulting explosion propagates to all directions, independent of which direction the meteor came from.
Their experimental uranium enrichment wasn't working as expected, so the scientists invented this virus in order to shift the blame.
If "nought" isn't the same as "nothing", then what did this ship dread?
The real question is who has the remaining 16.76% of the market? How much did they have one year ago? I remember when, not so long ago, Microsoft had about 95% of the desktop market.
Frankly, considering this trend, I would think twice before investing in Microsoft stock these days.
Is the hardware really that much? Considering what current CPUs can do, with or without GPGPU, I wonder if the same effect couldn't be done with a couple of cheap webcams.
large boobs is an American thing, which is really silly for the rest of the world.
Japanese porn, OTOH, is characterized by bound girls and pixellated genitalia.
Shouldn't be too difficult, the robot is operated by wires, anyhow.
ITAR can be easy to get around
It's possible to do it, but not easy. Getting ITAR licenses from the US State Department can take years, believe me, I work at this business.
A major marketing argument used today by European and Japanese companies id "ITAR free"
I guess that the amount produced by evaporating salt water was tiny compared to mining, and thus commercially inviable.
This might be true, but I find it hard to believe. I grew up in Brazil and some of my earliest memories are seeing windmills like these pumping seawater into evaporation ponds in the Rio de Janeiro state. The amount produced was by no means "tiny".
Today, the biggest economic competitor to this business is tourism, seafront real estate is becoming too expensive for evaporation ponds, but in the poorer regions in the Brazilian northeast this is still a major resource.