And to think I heard it claimed a supernova was required to create elements heavier than iron. But you are claiming plain old geologic heat and pressure can turn carbon into uranium!!!
Do you keep your noble prize in a safe or do you display it in a trophy cabinet?
CNN was great last night, some Iranian spokesperson having a press conference declaring that there is no freedom of speech or privacy in Western countries and declaring that hence it must be a conspiracy by western governments that iranian embassies have seen disrupted by protests and so on. And that such a thing is unacceptable.
Because Iran has never, say, assaulted a foreign embassy and taken those inside hostage or anything like that.
Certainly never restricted freedom of speech by locking up reporters, or invaded the privacy of people by snooping on their electronic communications.
Lots of people know your current number but you want to switch to using google voice.
It would be simpler in terms of not having to get everyone to use a new number to get a new number for your actual phone (cell, land line, VoIP, whatever - the one everyone has) and give the number everyone has to google to use as the google voice entry point.
Why are people not allow to do things that risk harm to themselves?
I take it you think it should be illegal for people to drive cars as well (heck that risks harms to innocent by standers even)? And eat junk food?
If I want to strap a GPS and a cell phone to my arm and have it update my location on some website then it is not your place to stop me. You're free to not go anywhere with me.
Running around a city with a paintball gun is just a tad different than running around with an iphone.
Clearly you are bothered by random things that have no effect on you (like what software I run on my cell phone) so that something bothers you is way down on the list of things the damn government should restrict.
There is a history of the RIAA overstepping the bounds of the legal rules and fairness in these cases.
One way to try and put a stop to that is to punish the instances harshly. Throwing out all the testimony due to one additional statement would be one way of doing that.
Just like we throw away all the evidence involving the gun in a murder trial if it was obtained via an invalid search. Clearly letting the murderer go free is an extreme measure to take, but it's the best way to convince the police to not do that.
So letting an evil file sharer get off free might be an extreme measure to take, but it might be the best way to convince the RIAA to not do that.
Of course this case sounds pretty slam-dunk to me, they could win without that particular evidence and testimony. The defendant has hung herself out to dry all by herself.
Seems obvious to me that "mercifully" was used from the point of view that the judge gave a smaller penalty than he could have, the very definition of merciful. Nothing to do with which side the poster wants to win the case at all.
Did you leave of the "using a sleeve if you have no tissue." end of the sentence so you could make your stupid point that was already in the original post?
Or did it set of your pet-hate insanity and you didn't bother reading a few more words before rushing to reply?
The free market is completely useless at researching anything with a small chance of a long term payoff and no short term benefit.
The government can manage those because it doesn't give a shit if it burns through billions of dollars with no result in site.
Of course in the US the constitution doesn't allow* the Federal Government to do that work anyway, so this should be irrelevant. Of course since the constitution is ignored completely no one cares.
With the rather large exception of military research which can easily be argued is part of defending the country.
Which is what everyone said about the economy in 2004...
What happens when China says "no thanks" to rolling over US treasuries and invests elsewhere? When China figures, we can survive without the US export market just fine and drops their psuedo-dollar-peg?
When the Fed prints trillions more dollars to buy those US treasuries no one wants?
There's two choices:
1. Massive cuts in government spending or increases in taxes. And by massive I mean with 0% chance of ever happening.
2. The dollar collapses as either the government prints its way out of debt or defaults on it (and why would you default when you have can print money). Years away, though it's fragile enough that a panic by currency traders could collapse it over night...
It's in the same state as the US housing market was in 2003. Obviously over valued but the shell game keeps on going and no one seems to mind.
"No, the answer is statistics. What's safer and more reliable in the long run? How many crashes have we had due to computer error rather than human error given x hours flown by each?"
Except of course planes are flown on autopilot most the time and taken off precisely when there is a difficult or emergency situation. Hence you would expect more crashes due to human error than computer error per hour flown.
That doesn't mean that practice is correct in terms of maximizing safety, but you can't use that particular statistic.
"""The amount of the stretching suggests the object sits some 2 billion light years away"""
So if the conditions are perfect and it's moving exactly sideways with respect to us, and it's moving at the speed of light (the first is unlikely, the second is impossible)) - then in a year it moves 0.00000003 degrees in our view.
Good luck.
Especially considering the lensing will be insignificant, since the black hole isn't a galaxy cluster.
They have a large european presence. the big names in the USA (e.g. AT&T, Sprint) are US only which makes them significantly smaller.
As a wild stab I'd almost guarantee the largest cell phone company will be either Vonage (since they are almost everywhere) or whichever Chinese company you've never heard of has the most market share in China. And if Vonage isn't in China, it's going to be that Chinese company in first place.
In the accents I'm referring to they do sound a little different - if the speaker isn't too lazy.
It's clearly not an American thing. As you mention it is people hearing "could've" as "could of" and incorporating that into their language. Since English is full of phrases that make no literal sense it's not exactly surprising.
I must admit "to of" I had never come across until now.
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And to think I heard it claimed a supernova was required to create elements heavier than iron. But you are claiming plain old geologic heat and pressure can turn carbon into uranium!!!
Do you keep your noble prize in a safe or do you display it in a trophy cabinet?
How many journalists are there in the US?
How many journalist are there in Iran?
Central/South American janitors are also no reporters and hence irrelevant to Reporters without Borders.
They don't care that most people arrested arrested were protesters, they care about the subset that are journalists.
Just the FCC doesn't give a shit what you put in the pills you sell as Viagra - they let the FDA worry about that.
CNN was great last night, some Iranian spokesperson having a press conference declaring that there is no freedom of speech or privacy in Western countries and declaring that hence it must be a conspiracy by western governments that iranian embassies have seen disrupted by protests and so on. And that such a thing is unacceptable.
Because Iran has never, say, assaulted a foreign embassy and taken those inside hostage or anything like that.
Certainly never restricted freedom of speech by locking up reporters, or invaded the privacy of people by snooping on their electronic communications.
Not all people are journalists.
Reporters without Borders doesn't care about non-journalists being arrested (well they might care, but it isn't what they are talking about).
My SLI cards get me better performance. Of course they are ancient cards, I think the second one cost $50 2 years ago.
What I don't understanf is how you fit two cards in now that every card I see takes two slots all by itself.
But I'm years behind.
Lots of people know your current number but you want to switch to using google voice.
It would be simpler in terms of not having to get everyone to use a new number to get a new number for your actual phone (cell, land line, VoIP, whatever - the one everyone has) and give the number everyone has to google to use as the google voice entry point.
Why are people not allow to do things that risk harm to themselves?
I take it you think it should be illegal for people to drive cars as well (heck that risks harms to innocent by standers even)? And eat junk food?
If I want to strap a GPS and a cell phone to my arm and have it update my location on some website then it is not your place to stop me. You're free to not go anywhere with me.
Running around a city with a paintball gun is just a tad different than running around with an iphone.
Clearly you are bothered by random things that have no effect on you (like what software I run on my cell phone) so that something bothers you is way down on the list of things the damn government should restrict.
There is a history of the RIAA overstepping the bounds of the legal rules and fairness in these cases.
One way to try and put a stop to that is to punish the instances harshly. Throwing out all the testimony due to one additional statement would be one way of doing that.
Just like we throw away all the evidence involving the gun in a murder trial if it was obtained via an invalid search. Clearly letting the murderer go free is an extreme measure to take, but it's the best way to convince the police to not do that.
So letting an evil file sharer get off free might be an extreme measure to take, but it might be the best way to convince the RIAA to not do that.
Of course this case sounds pretty slam-dunk to me, they could win without that particular evidence and testimony. The defendant has hung herself out to dry all by herself.
Seems obvious to me that "mercifully" was used from the point of view that the judge gave a smaller penalty than he could have, the very definition of merciful. Nothing to do with which side the poster wants to win the case at all.
Great idea instead of just not playing the game, stop other people who want to from doing so.
Don't own a car. Never have owned a car.
Don't have a driving license. Never have had a driving license.
How did you people ever make a reply? I hung up after the 12th word of message.
Did you leave of the "using a sleeve if you have no tissue." end of the sentence so you could make your stupid point that was already in the original post?
Or did it set of your pet-hate insanity and you didn't bother reading a few more words before rushing to reply?
The free market is completely useless at researching anything with a small chance of a long term payoff and no short term benefit.
The government can manage those because it doesn't give a shit if it burns through billions of dollars with no result in site.
Of course in the US the constitution doesn't allow* the Federal Government to do that work anyway, so this should be irrelevant. Of course since the constitution is ignored completely no one cares.
With the rather large exception of military research which can easily be argued is part of defending the country.
Which is what everyone said about the economy in 2004...
What happens when China says "no thanks" to rolling over US treasuries and invests elsewhere? When China figures, we can survive without the US export market just fine and drops their psuedo-dollar-peg?
When the Fed prints trillions more dollars to buy those US treasuries no one wants?
There's two choices:
1. Massive cuts in government spending or increases in taxes. And by massive I mean with 0% chance of ever happening.
2. The dollar collapses as either the government prints its way out of debt or defaults on it (and why would you default when you have can print money). Years away, though it's fragile enough that a panic by currency traders could collapse it over night...
It's in the same state as the US housing market was in 2003. Obviously over valued but the shell game keeps on going and no one seems to mind.
And because you can see the guy across the table at the casino means he can't be playing for the house?
But they'd prefer big pots to small pots.
So action flops are better for the house.
with comcast in NJ.
Thn again I don't get advertising page IPs in response to non-existant names either.
"No, the answer is statistics. What's safer and more reliable in the long run? How many crashes have we had due to computer error rather than human error given x hours flown by each?"
Except of course planes are flown on autopilot most the time and taken off precisely when there is a difficult or emergency situation. Hence you would expect more crashes due to human error than computer error per hour flown.
That doesn't mean that practice is correct in terms of maximizing safety, but you can't use that particular statistic.
Food poisoning kills more people in the USA each year than airplane crashes?.
Of course there are far more McDonald's workers than airplane pilots too :)
Depends how wealthy the family is...
Much better to do undergrad at the less prestigious institution and then do your masters/phd/whatever at the top-tier one than the other way round.
Yes, but it's hilarious when there were only 5600 actual votes cast. +/-100% error bars, is good enough for government work apparently.
"""The amount of the stretching suggests the object sits some 2 billion light years away"""
So if the conditions are perfect and it's moving exactly sideways with respect to us, and it's moving at the speed of light (the first is unlikely, the second is impossible)) - then in a year it moves 0.00000003 degrees in our view.
Good luck.
Especially considering the lensing will be insignificant, since the black hole isn't a galaxy cluster.
They have a large european presence. the big names in the USA (e.g. AT&T, Sprint) are US only which makes them significantly smaller.
As a wild stab I'd almost guarantee the largest cell phone company will be either Vonage (since they are almost everywhere) or whichever Chinese company you've never heard of has the most market share in China. And if Vonage isn't in China, it's going to be that Chinese company in first place.
Both heard and seen written then.
In the accents I'm referring to they do sound a little different - if the speaker isn't too lazy.
It's clearly not an American thing. As you mention it is people hearing "could've" as "could of" and incorporating that into their language. Since English is full of phrases that make no literal sense it's not exactly surprising.
I must admit "to of" I had never come across until now.