I read that he showed her a different book he had shot, where the bullet didn't go all the way through. However, it didn't say that he performed the test using the same firearm, distance, book, etc.
When I visited Costa Rica, I didn't see shopping in my search results, either. But, I do see it in USA. I just checked, and when I connect my VPN to a Costa Rica, I don't get shopping in my search results, but when I connect it to USA, I do. Perhaps a VPN would help you see these differences also.
While I have no doubt that Amazon will improve things for the part of Whole Foods that involves selling things that don't need refrigeration and can be wrapped in plastic with a bar code attached, I hope Amazon will take time to learn the techniques Whole Foods uses to keep their customers happy regarding the products that need refrigeration or need to be scooped onto a scale by the customer. Keeping the quality high for those products is not the same as the job Amazon does well now.
I notice that most Whole Foods stores are closed between 11:00 PM and 6:00 AM. If there's robots in the stores, I reckon that's when they'll be out and about.
As automation takes over many of the primary jobs of current store employees, I expect that everyone's secondary job, customer liaison, will need to become the primary job for at least a few people in each store. I just hope that it doesn't go like Radio Shack or the big box home hardware stores where they seem to be careful to avoid having customer facing employees who are very knowledgeable about the products.
I wonder what the size comparison is between an Amazon distribution warehouse and a Whole Foods distribution warehouse for dry goods. It might easily make sense not to have any distinction between the two. Also, knowledge of regional or local preferences regarding online purchases from Amazon might inform some of the choices for items to stock on store shelves. If there was a "locally popular on Amazon.com" shelf in stores that made no distinction as to category of product, there would certainly be lots of newspaper articles comparing what's locally popular in different parts of the country, which would be free advertising for the stores.
I'm not sure Sony has to do the legwork if they provide access. If the people at Jolla are competent at writing software, porting shouldn't be too difficult for them. I think it's very cool that Sony is providing the access.
Usually one big problem I see with these projects is that it's difficult to both build a phone OS and come out with hardware at a manufacturing scale that allows selling the hardware people want at a price people can afford. Sony has some decently nice hardware involved in their Open Devices project. HTC also has released kernel source code. Maybe it would be valuable to bring the new OS first to one of these devices that already has market share and look into building mobile phone hardware later on in life.
I had piriformis syndrome that was giving me a lot of pain and visited a chiropractor. He identified the problem, explained it to me in a clear manner, told me what to do about it, and taught me stretching exercises to prevent its recurrence in the future. He charged me $40 per visit (in cash, in full, at time of service) for 3 visits. At the end of the last of visit he told me I didn't need to come back anymore. A masseuse wouldn't have the knowledge, and if I even talked to a doctor for 5 minutes, I'd get three different bills a month and a half later, and they'd add up to way more than $120. I am quite glad I visited that chiropractor.
Another thing that free trade people don't (or pretend not to) understand is that the theory behind free trade only works if the people who make the import product get the money. If the people who make the product inexpensively are paid super low wages, and we pay a low price but much higher than what they get - while some importer's board of investors suck out lots of money in labor arbitrage, then the benefit that's supposed to accrue to the people who make the product inexpensively and cause them to improve their quality of life & want higher wages never gets to them, and the "free" market system fails.
If I want to get paranoid about LED bulbs, I'll ask why an LED lamp that lasts 100,000 hours is married to a driver (DC power supply) that lasts 15,000 hours. When I do the math on lumens per watt, to get lumens per ampere, I find that 36VDC can provide the same amount of light (from 3 each 12VDC LEDs in series) per ampere as 120VAC can provide using 4 foot fluorescent fixtures. So, the same wiring can be used for DC leds that last 100,000 hours in the lighting fixture when a 36VDC driver that has a significantly shorter life span is located adjacent to the load center that powers the formerly AC lighting circuit. This also keeps the lighting fixtures cooler, as much of the heat associated with AC LED lamps is generated by the driver.
Whether she goes to jail will depend on how the Judge/jury finds those things. Whether she's allowed to speak about her intent at trial is a different matter. Part of the defense argument will definitely be about whether the benefit from the public knowing what it learned outweighs the harm that came from that. Another argument, which I think she is doomed to lose, however, is that whenever she signed up for dealing with classified material, she promised that she would defer judgement on whether the benefit outweighs the harm to people with the authority to classify or declassify material. I think it'll be difficult for her to argue that by keeping secret what she revealed, the people with the authority to declassify it legally were in such egregious dereliction of their duty to the public that she needed to violate her oath and step outside the system in which she had chosen to participate.
the Espionage Act -- a World War I era law meant for spies -- which explicitly forbids the jury from hearing why the defendant acted, and bars them from deciding whether the outcome was to the public's benefit.
I read The Text of that Law and find no reference at all to restrictions on what the jury is allowed to hear. Moreover, it uses the phrase
with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation,
more than once. It seems challenging to me to obtain a proper conviction where one needs to show "with intent or reason to believe" and not allow the jury to hear from the defendant what that person intended or had reason to believe, especially since not permitting the jury to hear from the defendant in matters regarding intent violates the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment to the Constitution. That said, the way this law is phrased does poor service to people who believe the information obtained will be used to the benefit of the United States, since "benefit to the United States" itself provides advantage to those foreign nations who are allies of the United States, and the law makes no distinction between allies and opponents among foreign nations. I suppose it could be argued that with a sufficiently strong "America First" policy in place, benefit to the USA does not also benefit our allies. Certainly, any law that doesn't permit the defendant to tell the jury why she did what she did ought to be repealed or rewritten so that this is no longer the case.
Sure, Iranian women wearing niqabs with those Ballet Fantastique - Esther Costume Inspiration gowns and using big translucent displays with the Minority Report gestural interface. I think I saw them in MiB 17 when I was dreaming once. Or, we could go with boring old Watson.
In the Materials and Methods part of the PNAS article (it didn't seem paywalled to me, but I use Umatrix so the paywall script may not have loaded) they make it clear that this test was all done by people performing tests on sperm samples obtained by masturbation and subsequently purified with the swim-up technique. They showed that adding the chemicals to the purified sperm prevented the calcium channel of the sperm from being activated by progesterone. They didn't show that there's some pill one could safely take that would effectively deliver enough of these chemicals to sperm to act as a contraceptive under circumstances not involved with artificial insemination. This may be the first step on the way to a contraceptive, but unless ejaculating in advance and then mixing chemicals with your sperm can be part of your normal contraception routine, this is not actually a contraceptive.
Moretto et al (1991) found grooming behavior of African bees in Brazil to be eight times more efficient at removing Varroa than Italian bees and 31 percent of infested African honey bee workers removed Varroa by their own or another bee’s grooming action (Moretto 1997).
Considering that the mites are less problem, and that these bees are more difficult for commercial apiaries to use, I reckon that the die-offs due to mites reported by beekeepers are about European bees.
So, your request is: "If you're foolish, shut up," and you expect that making such a request will be successful?
Have you ever considered something like the following? "To those of you insightful enough to understand that US citizen surveillance via FBI/CIA/NSA is a partisan issue; please add your voice to our cacophony. We have gregarious souls. Don't leave us frozen out by your silence. We can't properly refute your arguments if we don't know what they are."
If I was Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, and that piddly company was overtaxing my revenue stream (customers), I'd form a consortium, buy it out, and run the last mile like the utility it ought to be. If I was Priceline, eBay, Netflix and Expedia, I'd join that consortium just to be sure it isn't representing too narrow a range of interests. There's no shortage of losers when the gatekeeper discourages participation by siphoning off too much money.
The Rosenbergs got plans for how to build nukes to the Russians. There's no comparison to the people you mention. The comparison for Snowden, who passed information to the entire public via the press is Daniel Ellsberg who did that same thing. All charges against Ellsberg were dropped. There is no comparison between Assange and any American citizen as he is not an American citizen and owes no duty to our government. However, if you want to look at someone who has passed classified intelligence to the Russians, there's been a story in the news recently...
I think people tending not to repeat the experience was part of what statistically contributed to the position of the mushrooms in the safety ranking. The less time you spend under the influence, the lower the odds are that you'll sustain an injury while in that condition.
They are the court of appeals for patents that has been telling defendants that they couldn't require the venue be changed away from East Texas (or, in this particular case, Delaware).
I see $11k for ground radar. If the price falls like thermal imaging did, it shouldn't be too long before it's an available accessory for rental excavators. I look forward to the day when they can sense the bucket position in relation to the cab, so that the control handles can be for horizontal and vertical bucket movement rather than how much oil goes to a given cylinder.
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between child robots and small robots? If you give 'em elf ears, then the character they depict is generally about 150 years old, right?
I read that he showed her a different book he had shot, where the bullet didn't go all the way through. However, it didn't say that he performed the test using the same firearm, distance, book, etc.
The least expensive option for them is to keep this in court for the next 30 years, and I expect that's just what they'll do.
When I visited Costa Rica, I didn't see shopping in my search results, either. But, I do see it in USA. I just checked, and when I connect my VPN to a Costa Rica, I don't get shopping in my search results, but when I connect it to USA, I do. Perhaps a VPN would help you see these differences also.
So do a search for online map providers. There's no pretense that Google Maps is the only one in those results.
While I have no doubt that Amazon will improve things for the part of Whole Foods that involves selling things that don't need refrigeration and can be wrapped in plastic with a bar code attached, I hope Amazon will take time to learn the techniques Whole Foods uses to keep their customers happy regarding the products that need refrigeration or need to be scooped onto a scale by the customer. Keeping the quality high for those products is not the same as the job Amazon does well now.
I notice that most Whole Foods stores are closed between 11:00 PM and 6:00 AM. If there's robots in the stores, I reckon that's when they'll be out and about.
As automation takes over many of the primary jobs of current store employees, I expect that everyone's secondary job, customer liaison, will need to become the primary job for at least a few people in each store. I just hope that it doesn't go like Radio Shack or the big box home hardware stores where they seem to be careful to avoid having customer facing employees who are very knowledgeable about the products.
I wonder what the size comparison is between an Amazon distribution warehouse and a Whole Foods distribution warehouse for dry goods. It might easily make sense not to have any distinction between the two. Also, knowledge of regional or local preferences regarding online purchases from Amazon might inform some of the choices for items to stock on store shelves. If there was a "locally popular on Amazon.com" shelf in stores that made no distinction as to category of product, there would certainly be lots of newspaper articles comparing what's locally popular in different parts of the country, which would be free advertising for the stores.
I'm not sure Sony has to do the legwork if they provide access. If the people at Jolla are competent at writing software, porting shouldn't be too difficult for them. I think it's very cool that Sony is providing the access.
Usually one big problem I see with these projects is that it's difficult to both build a phone OS and come out with hardware at a manufacturing scale that allows selling the hardware people want at a price people can afford. Sony has some decently nice hardware involved in their Open Devices project. HTC also has released kernel source code. Maybe it would be valuable to bring the new OS first to one of these devices that already has market share and look into building mobile phone hardware later on in life.
I had piriformis syndrome that was giving me a lot of pain and visited a chiropractor. He identified the problem, explained it to me in a clear manner, told me what to do about it, and taught me stretching exercises to prevent its recurrence in the future. He charged me $40 per visit (in cash, in full, at time of service) for 3 visits. At the end of the last of visit he told me I didn't need to come back anymore. A masseuse wouldn't have the knowledge, and if I even talked to a doctor for 5 minutes, I'd get three different bills a month and a half later, and they'd add up to way more than $120. I am quite glad I visited that chiropractor.
It did when I read it.
Another thing that free trade people don't (or pretend not to) understand is that the theory behind free trade only works if the people who make the import product get the money. If the people who make the product inexpensively are paid super low wages, and we pay a low price but much higher than what they get - while some importer's board of investors suck out lots of money in labor arbitrage, then the benefit that's supposed to accrue to the people who make the product inexpensively and cause them to improve their quality of life & want higher wages never gets to them, and the "free" market system fails.
Or, you could invest a small fraction of the proceeds of your foreknowledge in a lighting company.. Thanks for your kind words.
If I want to get paranoid about LED bulbs, I'll ask why an LED lamp that lasts 100,000 hours is married to a driver (DC power supply) that lasts 15,000 hours. When I do the math on lumens per watt, to get lumens per ampere, I find that 36VDC can provide the same amount of light (from 3 each 12VDC LEDs in series) per ampere as 120VAC can provide using 4 foot fluorescent fixtures. So, the same wiring can be used for DC leds that last 100,000 hours in the lighting fixture when a 36VDC driver that has a significantly shorter life span is located adjacent to the load center that powers the formerly AC lighting circuit. This also keeps the lighting fixtures cooler, as much of the heat associated with AC LED lamps is generated by the driver.
Whether she goes to jail will depend on how the Judge/jury finds those things. Whether she's allowed to speak about her intent at trial is a different matter. Part of the defense argument will definitely be about whether the benefit from the public knowing what it learned outweighs the harm that came from that. Another argument, which I think she is doomed to lose, however, is that whenever she signed up for dealing with classified material, she promised that she would defer judgement on whether the benefit outweighs the harm to people with the authority to classify or declassify material. I think it'll be difficult for her to argue that by keeping secret what she revealed, the people with the authority to declassify it legally were in such egregious dereliction of their duty to the public that she needed to violate her oath and step outside the system in which she had chosen to participate.
the Espionage Act -- a World War I era law meant for spies -- which explicitly forbids the jury from hearing why the defendant acted, and bars them from deciding whether the outcome was to the public's benefit.
I read The Text of that Law and find no reference at all to restrictions on what the jury is allowed to hear. Moreover, it uses the phrase
with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation,
more than once. It seems challenging to me to obtain a proper conviction where one needs to show "with intent or reason to believe" and not allow the jury to hear from the defendant what that person intended or had reason to believe, especially since not permitting the jury to hear from the defendant in matters regarding intent violates the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment to the Constitution. That said, the way this law is phrased does poor service to people who believe the information obtained will be used to the benefit of the United States, since "benefit to the United States" itself provides advantage to those foreign nations who are allies of the United States, and the law makes no distinction between allies and opponents among foreign nations. I suppose it could be argued that with a sufficiently strong "America First" policy in place, benefit to the USA does not also benefit our allies. Certainly, any law that doesn't permit the defendant to tell the jury why she did what she did ought to be repealed or rewritten so that this is no longer the case.
Sure, Iranian women wearing niqabs with those Ballet Fantastique - Esther Costume Inspiration gowns and using big translucent displays with the Minority Report gestural interface. I think I saw them in MiB 17 when I was dreaming once. Or, we could go with boring old Watson.
In the Materials and Methods part of the PNAS article (it didn't seem paywalled to me, but I use Umatrix so the paywall script may not have loaded) they make it clear that this test was all done by people performing tests on sperm samples obtained by masturbation and subsequently purified with the swim-up technique. They showed that adding the chemicals to the purified sperm prevented the calcium channel of the sperm from being activated by progesterone. They didn't show that there's some pill one could safely take that would effectively deliver enough of these chemicals to sperm to act as a contraceptive under circumstances not involved with artificial insemination. This may be the first step on the way to a contraceptive, but unless ejaculating in advance and then mixing chemicals with your sperm can be part of your normal contraception routine, this is not actually a contraceptive.
Moretto et al (1991) found grooming behavior of African bees in Brazil to be eight times more efficient at removing Varroa than Italian bees and 31 percent of infested African honey bee workers removed Varroa by their own or another bee’s grooming action (Moretto 1997).
Considering that the mites are less problem, and that these bees are more difficult for commercial apiaries to use, I reckon that the die-offs due to mites reported by beekeepers are about European bees.
So, your request is: "If you're foolish, shut up," and you expect that making such a request will be successful?
Have you ever considered something like the following?
"To those of you insightful enough to understand that US citizen surveillance via FBI/CIA/NSA is a partisan issue; please add your voice to our cacophony. We have gregarious souls. Don't leave us frozen out by your silence. We can't properly refute your arguments if we don't know what they are."
If I was Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, and that piddly company was overtaxing my revenue stream (customers), I'd form a consortium, buy it out, and run the last mile like the utility it ought to be. If I was Priceline, eBay, Netflix and Expedia, I'd join that consortium just to be sure it isn't representing too narrow a range of interests. There's no shortage of losers when the gatekeeper discourages participation by siphoning off too much money.
"Spaceplane" sounds like something piloted by a clean-limbed patriot in 1950s science fiction. This is a exospheric military drone.
The Rosenbergs got plans for how to build nukes to the Russians. There's no comparison to the people you mention. The comparison for Snowden, who passed information to the entire public via the press is Daniel Ellsberg who did that same thing. All charges against Ellsberg were dropped. There is no comparison between Assange and any American citizen as he is not an American citizen and owes no duty to our government. However, if you want to look at someone who has passed classified intelligence to the Russians, there's been a story in the news recently...
I think people tending not to repeat the experience was part of what statistically contributed to the position of the mushrooms in the safety ranking. The less time you spend under the influence, the lower the odds are that you'll sustain an injury while in that condition.
They are the court of appeals for patents that has been telling defendants that they couldn't require the venue be changed away from East Texas (or, in this particular case, Delaware).
I see $11k for ground radar. If the price falls like thermal imaging did, it shouldn't be too long before it's an available accessory for rental excavators. I look forward to the day when they can sense the bucket position in relation to the cab, so that the control handles can be for horizontal and vertical bucket movement rather than how much oil goes to a given cylinder.