And does anyone know how to shut off the autorun function in Ubuntu? Frankly I always found it to be quite annoying, this just gives me more incentive to actively disable it.
We had to get rid of some of that from our stocks a few years ago. The HF can not be protected from by practically any latex/nitrile gloves and it dissolves your bones. To stop it you have to stick a big needle into your bone and inject a counter agent and the only way to know if it's working is intense searing pain. It's not pretty.
Does anyone know exactly how long the reservoir tanks will keep the molten salt at a high enough temp to be useful? It says it can run for 24 hours but should an abnormally long string of cloudy days occur would this inhibit its usefulness? I realize it's California so it should be fairly sunny year round but I'm not familiar with the area it's being built at. Looked up the salt as well. (Had a hard time thinking it would be sodium chloride...) It's a mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate. I was a bit worried as nitrates tend to be violently reactive/explosive but this would only be with reducing agents. (so it should be relatively fairly safe if there was a leak.) However when potassium nitrate is heated above 560C (as it would in this plant) it turns to potassium nitrite and gives off oxygen. I'm curious if this would be an issue or if the sodium nitrate or something else in the mixture inhibits this. I imagine the oxygen would either stick in the solar collector part as a gas bubble or just be dissolved in the molten salt mixture. Anyone know? (My expertise is more in biochemistry than inorganic/industrial chemistry)
No, the government is destroying this house for the safety of the populace. The tenants stupidly stored unusual materials that science has deemed dangerous.
First of all, you're lying. You will never go back and buy the games you pirated and even if you did you'll pay the bargain discount price because it will be several years old.
Incorrect. Already happened. And there's no difference between that and borrowing it from a friend until you can get it for the discount price or renting it until then. Either way the producers still get nothing until later. If people won't pay the full retail price, mmm maybe the full retail price is TOO DAMN HIGH.
And the other argument about the value of the game based on how long it engages you is complete garbage too. That's why there are game rentals at your local store or any of several netflix style game rental sites.
That... doesn't even make sense. Games give you a longer engagement time. They cost more to rent than a movie...
If you pay to go to the movies you can't get your money back because you didn't like the movie.
Actually, yes, you can.
You generally don't get your money back for meals unless it was really atrocious.
Yeah if the meal sucks or isn't prepared as you asked it to be you can always get your money back. Can't typically do that for games. And the state of demos (when they actually bother to MAKE one) is atrocious. You get barely one level, if that. They don't tell you what the full product is like. And they tend to be buggy as all hell. I can't tell you how many demos I've played that sucked hardcore but my friends swear the full game is great. If I can't test it out first, I'm not shelling out $60 fucking dollars with no chance of recouping my losses if it blows.
This idea of having your cake and eating it too. Most games are in the $50 range. If you can't be bothered to cut two lawns on a Saturday to get a newly released video game then you've got problems. And if you don't like the game? It only cost you the time you played + 2 hours and a bit of gas.
The only one trying to have their cake and eat it too is the companies producing the games. Market your product properly (GOOD DEMOS, NO DRM) and people will buy it when they have the money. And if they'd just drop the damn prices (like the sales on Steam) they'd sell a shit ton more and make more profit from it. Rather than waste good money trying to lock down the games and prosecute people that either want to see the product before buying or don't have the money to spend on it YET.
Then there are some transactions which cannot really be done other than in cash, such as taxi rides.
Not sure where you live but here in Chicago you can pay for taxis with credit cards. They highly frown upon it (because they can't cheat their company out of claimed tip money) but they legally have to take it. (unless they claim, as usual, that the machine is broken...)
To make antihydrogen, the accelerators that feed protons to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN divert some of these to make antiprotons by slamming them into a metal target; the antiprotons that result are held in CERN’s Antimatter Decelerator ring, which delivers bunches of antiprotons to ALPHA and another antimatter experiment.
They're going to show 2girls1cup and record viewers reactions, then make a new movie from that footage.
And then show THAT footage to the 2 girls with the 1 cup and make a movie off of that, which is then shown to viewers, which is recorded for the girls... oh my gods I think I just solved our energy crisis.
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And does anyone know how to shut off the autorun function in Ubuntu? Frankly I always found it to be quite annoying, this just gives me more incentive to actively disable it.
"Did you get any cool pictures of that horrible growth before they removed it?"
I believe the official term for those is "baby."
The large majority of our technology was developed by catholic clergy.
Wow, that's a big fat [citation needed] right there...
We had to get rid of some of that from our stocks a few years ago. The HF can not be protected from by practically any latex/nitrile gloves and it dissolves your bones. To stop it you have to stick a big needle into your bone and inject a counter agent and the only way to know if it's working is intense searing pain. It's not pretty.
Does anyone know exactly how long the reservoir tanks will keep the molten salt at a high enough temp to be useful? It says it can run for 24 hours but should an abnormally long string of cloudy days occur would this inhibit its usefulness? I realize it's California so it should be fairly sunny year round but I'm not familiar with the area it's being built at. Looked up the salt as well. (Had a hard time thinking it would be sodium chloride...) It's a mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate. I was a bit worried as nitrates tend to be violently reactive/explosive but this would only be with reducing agents. (so it should be relatively fairly safe if there was a leak.) However when potassium nitrate is heated above 560C (as it would in this plant) it turns to potassium nitrite and gives off oxygen. I'm curious if this would be an issue or if the sodium nitrate or something else in the mixture inhibits this. I imagine the oxygen would either stick in the solar collector part as a gas bubble or just be dissolved in the molten salt mixture. Anyone know? (My expertise is more in biochemistry than inorganic/industrial chemistry)
We apologize again for the fault in the statement. Those responsible for removing the statement remotely have been removed (remotely).
You seem to have made the false assumption that anyone IS immune to wackos with a grudge.
This porn site seems rather... submissive.
No, the government is destroying this house for the safety of the populace. The tenants stupidly stored unusual materials that science has deemed dangerous.
FTFY
And my social life takes another hit. Not because I play, but because a good deal of my friends do. Curse you Blizzard! (shakes fist)
pfft. Leave it to Oxygen to over react...
Uh, coyotes are native to the midwest. They aren't an invader species.
First of all, you're lying. You will never go back and buy the games you pirated and even if you did you'll pay the bargain discount price because it will be several years old.
Incorrect. Already happened. And there's no difference between that and borrowing it from a friend until you can get it for the discount price or renting it until then. Either way the producers still get nothing until later. If people won't pay the full retail price, mmm maybe the full retail price is TOO DAMN HIGH.
And the other argument about the value of the game based on how long it engages you is complete garbage too. That's why there are game rentals at your local store or any of several netflix style game rental sites.
That... doesn't even make sense. Games give you a longer engagement time. They cost more to rent than a movie...
If you pay to go to the movies you can't get your money back because you didn't like the movie.
Actually, yes, you can.
You generally don't get your money back for meals unless it was really atrocious.
Yeah if the meal sucks or isn't prepared as you asked it to be you can always get your money back. Can't typically do that for games. And the state of demos (when they actually bother to MAKE one) is atrocious. You get barely one level, if that. They don't tell you what the full product is like. And they tend to be buggy as all hell. I can't tell you how many demos I've played that sucked hardcore but my friends swear the full game is great. If I can't test it out first, I'm not shelling out $60 fucking dollars with no chance of recouping my losses if it blows.
This idea of having your cake and eating it too. Most games are in the $50 range. If you can't be bothered to cut two lawns on a Saturday to get a newly released video game then you've got problems. And if you don't like the game? It only cost you the time you played + 2 hours and a bit of gas.
The only one trying to have their cake and eat it too is the companies producing the games. Market your product properly (GOOD DEMOS, NO DRM) and people will buy it when they have the money. And if they'd just drop the damn prices (like the sales on Steam) they'd sell a shit ton more and make more profit from it. Rather than waste good money trying to lock down the games and prosecute people that either want to see the product before buying or don't have the money to spend on it YET.
Then there are some transactions which cannot really be done other than in cash, such as taxi rides.
Not sure where you live but here in Chicago you can pay for taxis with credit cards. They highly frown upon it (because they can't cheat their company out of claimed tip money) but they legally have to take it. (unless they claim, as usual, that the machine is broken...)
Yeah that's a much better link. Would mod up if I had the points.
Whoops, I probably should have looked for the original. Thanks. Would mod up but I don't have points right now.
To make antihydrogen, the accelerators that feed protons to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN divert some of these to make antiprotons by slamming them into a metal target; the antiprotons that result are held in CERN’s Antimatter Decelerator ring, which delivers bunches of antiprotons to ALPHA and another antimatter experiment.
source: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/11/17/antimatter-atoms/
It takes hydrogen atoms from the LHC and diverts them to the ALPHA experiment. So it's not the whole of the LHC but it is a small part of it.
perhaps a better link: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/11/17/antimatter-atoms/
A story about the LHC and you link to Fox News? Come on now...
As aunt Mildred will of course want pictures of you with your new gift...
Monogamy > protection.
Apparently you've never heard of viruses that lie dormant... or monogamy that isn't quite as monogamous as you thought/hoped/believed.
Who?
I believe that was the Gnostics, although there were several different sects of them. Simon Magus was one of the more interesting ones in my opinion.
They're going to show 2girls1cup and record viewers reactions, then make a new movie from that footage.
And then show THAT footage to the 2 girls with the 1 cup and make a movie off of that, which is then shown to viewers, which is recorded for the girls... oh my gods I think I just solved our energy crisis.