So... if someone was to glue your ass to a toilet seat, you'd be fine with just wearing extra extra extra extra large boxers and extra extra extra extra large trousers to fit over the toilet seat, until it comes off on its own?
Do the same study again only this time instead of looking at what drugs they're on, give them a sleep disorder questionnaire, drowsiness survey, and a sleep study.
Since they were looking at people who died, I think the ability to get them to answer questions would be much more interesting than what the answers would be.
Now you're making in the top 20% of income earners in the country. It's hard to do, but can be done. Look at my wife. She did it. While doing all the housework, and taking care of our children. I worked full time and took classes part-time. It can be done.
So what you're telling us, is that you married a hard working and intelligent woman, and she married a lazy slob who can't even be bothered to help around the house?
John is on the board of director's of company A. John tells his friend Dave, that company B is in secret talks about buying out company A. Dave tells his friend Charlie, that he should buy lots of stocks in company A.
Dave gets his information from an outside source, but I'm fairly confident it still counts as insider trading.
At the current levels of energy consumption, natural gas from fraking alone satisfies all energy needs for the next 150 years.
That's very interesting, but the main issue with that is "at the current levels". The trend is ever increasing energy consumption. Even if the US, Japan and Europe cut their energy consumption by 50%, there'd still be 6 billion people trying to get up to our levels of consumption.
So, if we reduce our levels by those 50%, that'd extend the coverage to 300 years. But then you'd have to take into account that there are 6x as many people who wants to get to our level, and that'll cut it right down to 50 years.
And in 150 years, with an average population growth of 1%/year, the worlds population will have increased from 7 billion to 31 billion.
Any time you see anyone saying things like "at the current levels of consumption" you need to smack them over the head.
Saying that FLAC is better than MP3 is like saying that an M1A1 is better than a smart car. If you care only about getting something from point A to point B undamaged, then yes, it is.
Okay, I get your point, but you picked a rather unfortunate comparison.
1) Getting a parking space? Never an issue with the M1A1, even when all the lots are filled... 2) Traffic jams? Shouldn't be a problem with the M1A1 either... 3) Tail gaters?.50 cal machine gun and 120 mm cannon! 4) People cutting you off in traffic? See 3. 5) Getting T-boned in an intersection? Yeah, you might get banged about a bit, but I suspect the M1A1 will do just fine unless it's an 18-wheeler or bigger. 6) Are the local roads washed out by inclement weather? The M1A1 will still get you there. (I even suspect there'd be no real danger in driving straight through tornadoes and hurricanes in an M1A1). 7) Is there a foot of snow covering your local roads? Debris from the recent hurricane or tornado blocking the roads? The M1A1 will still get you there.
It's not difficult to think up even plausible ways that an M1A1 is better for your commute than a SmartCar.
There are now semi-automatic cash-registers, where the teller doesn't do any counting, but simply feeds notes into one part, and the customer puts coins into the other. The machine then gives the correct change.
On average, I'd say that in my local supermarket (which uses these), the wait is longer for credit card transactions, mostly because people seem to have enormous trouble remembering their pin codes for some reason.
Those machines obviously cost money, but since the teller doesn't have access to cash, they discourage robberies. There's a constant and accurate running tally on the money they have (i.e. no losses due to mistakes) And the transport of money is handle by the same crew as usual.
That removes essentially all the downsides to cash that a large business would have.
At least the state can't just make your Benjamins disappear when you become an unperson.
While it very rarely happens (thankfully), getting declared dead is a major pain in the ass, as there are all kinds of legal crap you have to go through to be declared undead again (yes, that was on purpose).
When you are declared dead (at least around here), your bank accounts are frozen. This is problematic for couples with shared bank accounts when one of them dies, and the other one suddenly can't pay bills and at times even get their salary paid out, because the account is frozen.
If your spouse died, it sucks but it will pass on its own, and at least you can open your own separate bank account if needed.
If you have been declared dead however, you're in trouble, because you can't do anything with your stuff or your identity. You could risk being evicted from your home, because your mortgage defaults automatically etc., and even if you are declared alive again, you might not get your stuff back, as your "death" has cost the financial institutions money.
Could be interesting to check with your insurance company if they'll insure you against such problems.
GLONASS is different from GPS in more than just frequency - each satellite has its own specific frequency.
One of the advantages to this over GPS is that atmospheric disturbances are much easier to cancel out. Might make it harder to jam as well, as you'd need a broader spectrum, but I don't know.
One disadvantage is, of course, that your receivers have to be able to pick up multiple frequencies.
there are at least some circumstances where it is legal to destroy a flag.
Uhm... most of them?
I'd hope that as long as you're not endangering anyone or anyone else's property by doing so, you'd be fine?
Sure, setting fire to my neighbour's flag in the middle of his living room would very likely to illegal, but burning my own in a fireplace? Or even as a protest - why should that be illegal?
It's MY flag. I bought it, I paid for it, and I can bloody well do what I want with it.
Why should we give organizations, known to be industry shills, equal weight with hard science when it comes to policy discussions?
Because they give lots of money to politicians.
Wait, you probably meant "why should we (the people)", right?
The problem with that is, that the only people who can change the original problem (giving money to politicians) are politicians, and that's about as likely to happen as me winning the lottery jackpot three years in a row.
The blitz worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Nazi's were trying to do.
By that standard, the attack on Perl Harbor worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Japanese were trying to do.
I hate to tell you this, but when there are people coming at you, firing weapons at you, you don't pause to think "gee, I wonder if they agree with me on these values".
There was also this whole newfangled thing called "blitzkrieg". What the US today would call Shock and Awe.
The Germans didn't stop to secure the areas their tank divisions had overrun - they kept pressing forward, completely counter to essentially all military strategies that were thought to be viable.
This meant that by the time the French had a chance to regroup and do anything, they were, in effect, already defeated.
My intro quantum professor had very chaotic notes. They were non-linear, jumping around from board to board.[...] And yet it all made sense in a deep way.
I don't know if you meant this on purpose, but doesn't that seem extremely fitting for a course on quantum mechanics?
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Could be worse. Could be MUCH worse.
So ... if someone was to glue your ass to a toilet seat, you'd be fine with just wearing extra extra extra extra large boxers and extra extra extra extra large trousers to fit over the toilet seat, until it comes off on its own?
Since they were looking at people who died, I think the ability to get them to answer questions would be much more interesting than what the answers would be.
So you're saying that the bulldozer CPU upped its power draw to no less than 300 watts?
What the hell kind of cooling were you using in that machine in order for it not to power throttle, shut down or wreck itself?
So what you're telling us, is that you married a hard working and intelligent woman, and she married a lazy slob who can't even be bothered to help around the house?
Poor woman - she could probably do better ... ;)
That was my point.
I set up the example, because motard claimed that it wouldn't be insider trading.
John is on the board of director's of company A.
John tells his friend Dave, that company B is in secret talks about buying out company A.
Dave tells his friend Charlie, that he should buy lots of stocks in company A.
Dave gets his information from an outside source, but I'm fairly confident it still counts as insider trading.
That's very interesting, but the main issue with that is "at the current levels". The trend is ever increasing energy consumption. Even if the US, Japan and Europe cut their energy consumption by 50%, there'd still be 6 billion people trying to get up to our levels of consumption.
So, if we reduce our levels by those 50%, that'd extend the coverage to 300 years. But then you'd have to take into account that there are 6x as many people who wants to get to our level, and that'll cut it right down to 50 years.
And in 150 years, with an average population growth of 1%/year, the worlds population will have increased from 7 billion to 31 billion.
Any time you see anyone saying things like "at the current levels of consumption" you need to smack them over the head.
Okay, I get your point, but you picked a rather unfortunate comparison.
1) Getting a parking space? Never an issue with the M1A1, even when all the lots are filled ... ... .50 cal machine gun and 120 mm cannon!
2) Traffic jams? Shouldn't be a problem with the M1A1 either
3) Tail gaters?
4) People cutting you off in traffic? See 3.
5) Getting T-boned in an intersection? Yeah, you might get banged about a bit, but I suspect the M1A1 will do just fine unless it's an 18-wheeler or bigger.
6) Are the local roads washed out by inclement weather? The M1A1 will still get you there. (I even suspect there'd be no real danger in driving straight through tornadoes and hurricanes in an M1A1).
7) Is there a foot of snow covering your local roads? Debris from the recent hurricane or tornado blocking the roads? The M1A1 will still get you there.
It's not difficult to think up even plausible ways that an M1A1 is better for your commute than a SmartCar.
But your point still stands.
There are now semi-automatic cash-registers, where the teller doesn't do any counting, but simply feeds notes into one part, and the customer puts coins into the other. The machine then gives the correct change.
On average, I'd say that in my local supermarket (which uses these), the wait is longer for credit card transactions, mostly because people seem to have enormous trouble remembering their pin codes for some reason.
Those machines obviously cost money, but since the teller doesn't have access to cash, they discourage robberies. There's a constant and accurate running tally on the money they have (i.e. no losses due to mistakes) And the transport of money is handle by the same crew as usual.
That removes essentially all the downsides to cash that a large business would have.
While it very rarely happens (thankfully), getting declared dead is a major pain in the ass, as there are all kinds of legal crap you have to go through to be declared undead again (yes, that was on purpose).
When you are declared dead (at least around here), your bank accounts are frozen. This is problematic for couples with shared bank accounts when one of them dies, and the other one suddenly can't pay bills and at times even get their salary paid out, because the account is frozen.
If your spouse died, it sucks but it will pass on its own, and at least you can open your own separate bank account if needed.
If you have been declared dead however, you're in trouble, because you can't do anything with your stuff or your identity. You could risk being evicted from your home, because your mortgage defaults automatically etc., and even if you are declared alive again, you might not get your stuff back, as your "death" has cost the financial institutions money.
Could be interesting to check with your insurance company if they'll insure you against such problems.
GLONASS is different from GPS in more than just frequency - each satellite has its own specific frequency.
One of the advantages to this over GPS is that atmospheric disturbances are much easier to cancel out. Might make it harder to jam as well, as you'd need a broader spectrum, but I don't know.
One disadvantage is, of course, that your receivers have to be able to pick up multiple frequencies.
Yes ... those genes DO in fact make your ass look big.
And all that cake isn't helping either ...
Uhm ... most of them?
I'd hope that as long as you're not endangering anyone or anyone else's property by doing so, you'd be fine?
Sure, setting fire to my neighbour's flag in the middle of his living room would very likely to illegal, but burning my own in a fireplace? Or even as a protest - why should that be illegal?
It's MY flag. I bought it, I paid for it, and I can bloody well do what I want with it.
Yes. [sarcasm]
But more to the point - who cares if janitorial employees in the Netherlands speak English?
Thankfully the cleaners spoke perfect Dutch, which was a good thing, as the University of Twente is in the Netherlands.
Dumbass.
Because they give lots of money to politicians.
Wait, you probably meant "why should we (the people)", right?
The problem with that is, that the only people who can change the original problem (giving money to politicians) are politicians, and that's about as likely to happen as me winning the lottery jackpot three years in a row.
He might make for one hell of a night burglar!
By that standard, the attack on Perl Harbor worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Japanese were trying to do.
I hate to tell you this, but when there are people coming at you, firing weapons at you, you don't pause to think "gee, I wonder if they agree with me on these values".
There was also this whole newfangled thing called "blitzkrieg". What the US today would call Shock and Awe.
The Germans didn't stop to secure the areas their tank divisions had overrun - they kept pressing forward, completely counter to essentially all military strategies that were thought to be viable.
This meant that by the time the French had a chance to regroup and do anything, they were, in effect, already defeated.
I don't know if you meant this on purpose, but doesn't that seem extremely fitting for a course on quantum mechanics?
Any idea where we might here the lamentations of their women?
Where can you buy other things distributed digitally (like music, movies and games), that you are allowed to resell later?
This isn't an Apple issue. Well, it is an issue that includes Apple, but to put it forward as if only Apple only does this is disingenuous.
Can you resell your Kindle ebooks?
Can you resell your Steam games?
Your Amazon music?
Apps you've bought on Android store?
And he knocked up some random chick and pissed off as soon as he found out.
Just remind people that the fear of zombies are at an all time high ...