I tend to agree. In this case a direct line probably meant someone at the brewery had the job of delivering a new keg whenever Bohr sent his son over to say, "Må vi gerne ha' mere øl, tak." Beer is very important in Denmark.
Nope. There have been at least ten skyjackings since 2001, and at least two cases where people have successfully blown up commercial aeroplanes in flight. Even the "increased passenger awareness" has only prevented a few of the known bombing attempts.
No, that is not correct. The US founding fathers kept the franchise more or less the way that it had been, and did not make significant changes. The reason that the franchise in the early US was restricted to certain property owners (the exact requirements varied greatly from state to state) is because that is how election had worked in the colonies for most of the previous 200 years. Also, in many states free black men, who met the property requirements, were originally able to vote. However, that right was systematically eliminated by the early 1800s. As for property ownership correlating with education, the vast majority of voters at the time had little or no formal education. Most property owners were skilled tradesmen who learned their skill through apprenticeships, not in a class or at a school.
Why? The value of the DOW is just the sum of the stock values of a handful of companies. All the DJIA tells you is whether or not investors think that those companies are profitable investments. It has nothing to do with employment. In fact, high unemployment usually translates to lower labour costs, which in turn can translate to higher corporate profits, and thus a higher DJIA value.
>> But... but... french fries and ketchup are two vegetables aren't they?
> No my friends, they're not two vegetables! > Ketchup is made of corn syrup and tomatoes! French fries and ketchup are three vegetables!
Ahh... But tomatoes are fruit and corn is a grain, so French fries and ketchup are only one vegetable. And now back to criticizing how people use commas...
Not quite so mind-boggling; there was an article recently saying the calculations for an Albuierre warp drive were wrong, and they determined that instead of needing the mass-energy of Jupiter for such a spacecraft, they only needed the mass-energy of a Voyager probe. That's still a lot of energy (think a whole bunch of H-bombs), but for a Class II civilization harnessing the entire energy output of a star, it's probably not that big a deal.
The energy requirements may be plausible, but the energy density needs to be negative, which means that you need exotic matter to make the Alcubierre drive work.
The original Star Trek was mostly simplistic and cartoonish (although there were moments of brilliance), but it was still significantly better than almost any other science fiction on tv at the time. The only thing that I can think of that was better in the 1960s was The Twilight Zone. Star Trek was simplistic compared to the science fiction literature in the 1960s, but (with a very few notable exceptions) it was not until the 1980s that any tv drama started to reach literary quality. Star Trek was just a product of its time.
Actually, the AC is right that Ayn Rand's novels are science fiction. She wrote about things like metals with near-magical properties, invisible battleships, force fields, colonies of übermenschen trying to take over the Earth -- classic science fiction material. While Ayn Rand's works are well known they are not often recognized for what they really are, works of science fiction.
So far we have had one nuclear war, one war between two nuclear-armed states that did not escalate to the use of nuclear weapons, and several wars between nuclear and non-nuclear states. We are still in the realm of small-numbers statistics.
Python may not be a legitimate data analysis tool, but it is widely used for data analysis, and it gives the right results. For the most part that is what really matters.
The outside temperature is over 40 deg and the relative humidity is high. Americans are obsessed with air conditioning because people die in this sort of weather.
Density has nothing to do with it. The population densities in many parts of the eastern US and southern Ontario live are similar to those in much of Europe. One of the big reasons that the US has not buried its power lines is that it would mean either raising electricity rates, or reducing corporate profits.
I am not a power engineer, but I do live near DC, and it is true, the infrastructure is awful. We regularly lose power even in good weather. I have lived in several countries around the world and I have never seen the power infrastructure in such bad shape as it is in the suburbs of DC. The only place that came close was northern Indiana. There are various reasons for this, but the main one is that no-one wants to pay the costs associated with updating the grid and burying the power lines, and there is no mechanism to require that the utility companies plough their profits back into upgrading their facilities.
The problem with applying the first law to smartphones is the first and last clauses contradict each other. A smartphone app does not need to know much about the user in order to function well and not injure the user. However, a smartphone may need to know a lot about the user in order to prevent the user from coming to harm. Imagine if the smartphone has reason to think that its user has been injured (the motion sensor detects a sudden acceleration, the GPS indicates that the user is at an intersection, a reasonable conclusion is that the user was just hit by a car). Having access to large amounts of information about the user (health insurance, doctors, family data, etc.) could save the user's life.
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The Dutch are not Danes, although they both have a great respect for beer.
I tend to agree. In this case a direct line probably meant someone at the brewery had the job of delivering a new keg whenever Bohr sent his son over to say, "Må vi gerne ha' mere øl, tak." Beer is very important in Denmark.
Nope. There have been at least ten skyjackings since 2001, and at least two cases where people have successfully blown up commercial aeroplanes in flight. Even the "increased passenger awareness" has only prevented a few of the known bombing attempts.
Yet.
No, that is not correct. The US founding fathers kept the franchise more or less the way that it had been, and did not make significant changes. The reason that the franchise in the early US was restricted to certain property owners (the exact requirements varied greatly from state to state) is because that is how election had worked in the colonies for most of the previous 200 years. Also, in many states free black men, who met the property requirements, were originally able to vote. However, that right was systematically eliminated by the early 1800s. As for property ownership correlating with education, the vast majority of voters at the time had little or no formal education. Most property owners were skilled tradesmen who learned their skill through apprenticeships, not in a class or at a school.
Yes! Given what a disaster Little Bush turned out to be it Al Gore would probably have been a significant improvement.
Just imagine Leia and Amidala as Disney princesses...
Sith MacFarlane? It would have been interesting.
Why? The value of the DOW is just the sum of the stock values of a handful of companies. All the DJIA tells you is whether or not investors think that those companies are profitable investments. It has nothing to do with employment. In fact, high unemployment usually translates to lower labour costs, which in turn can translate to higher corporate profits, and thus a higher DJIA value.
>> But ... but ... french fries and ketchup are two vegetables aren't they?
> No my friends, they're not two vegetables!
> Ketchup is made of corn syrup and tomatoes! French fries and ketchup are three vegetables!
Ahh... But tomatoes are fruit and corn is a grain, so French fries and ketchup are only one vegetable. And now back to criticizing how people use commas...
Not quite so mind-boggling; there was an article recently saying the calculations for an Albuierre warp drive were wrong, and they determined that instead of needing the mass-energy of Jupiter for such a spacecraft, they only needed the mass-energy of a Voyager probe. That's still a lot of energy (think a whole bunch of H-bombs), but for a Class II civilization harnessing the entire energy output of a star, it's probably not that big a deal.
The energy requirements may be plausible, but the energy density needs to be negative, which means that you need exotic matter to make the Alcubierre drive work.
So their Americans?
I doubt that other planets have their own Americans.
I would happily waive my hands in exchange for a working (and practical) warp drive.
The original Star Trek was mostly simplistic and cartoonish (although there were moments of brilliance), but it was still significantly better than almost any other science fiction on tv at the time. The only thing that I can think of that was better in the 1960s was The Twilight Zone. Star Trek was simplistic compared to the science fiction literature in the 1960s, but (with a very few notable exceptions) it was not until the 1980s that any tv drama started to reach literary quality. Star Trek was just a product of its time.
Actually, the AC is right that Ayn Rand's novels are science fiction. She wrote about things like metals with near-magical properties, invisible battleships, force fields, colonies of übermenschen trying to take over the Earth -- classic science fiction material. While Ayn Rand's works are well known they are not often recognized for what they really are, works of science fiction.
Cool! Where can I find your blog. I would like to add it to my RSS feed.
Guns are very heavily regulated in Switzerland.
So far we have had one nuclear war, one war between two nuclear-armed states that did not escalate to the use of nuclear weapons, and several wars between nuclear and non-nuclear states. We are still in the realm of small-numbers statistics.
Python may not be a legitimate data analysis tool, but it is widely used for data analysis, and it gives the right results. For the most part that is what really matters.
This gives me an idea for a new University...
The outside temperature is over 40 deg and the relative humidity is high. Americans are obsessed with air conditioning because people die in this sort of weather.
Density has nothing to do with it. The population densities in many parts of the eastern US and southern Ontario live are similar to those in much of Europe. One of the big reasons that the US has not buried its power lines is that it would mean either raising electricity rates, or reducing corporate profits.
I am not a power engineer, but I do live near DC, and it is true, the infrastructure is awful. We regularly lose power even in good weather. I have lived in several countries around the world and I have never seen the power infrastructure in such bad shape as it is in the suburbs of DC. The only place that came close was northern Indiana. There are various reasons for this, but the main one is that no-one wants to pay the costs associated with updating the grid and burying the power lines, and there is no mechanism to require that the utility companies plough their profits back into upgrading their facilities.
The problem with applying the first law to smartphones is the first and last clauses contradict each other. A smartphone app does not need to know much about the user in order to function well and not injure the user. However, a smartphone may need to know a lot about the user in order to prevent the user from coming to harm. Imagine if the smartphone has reason to think that its user has been injured (the motion sensor detects a sudden acceleration, the GPS indicates that the user is at an intersection, a reasonable conclusion is that the user was just hit by a car). Having access to large amounts of information about the user (health insurance, doctors, family data, etc.) could save the user's life.
The link was stripped. Google NC House Bill 819 for the text of the bill.