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I live in a country that has government-run universal insurance, and I deal *directly* with my doctor, too. I'm not sure why you believe this isn't possible.
Brain-washing and indoctrination.
Listen. Just because the person you meet and discuss intimate details with at the "doctor's" office is wearing a lab coat and a stethescope, it doesn't mean he or she is a doctor. They are actually just civil servants who have hidden microphones and very discrete ear pieces, that allows what you're telling them to be heard by a 13-person death-panel, who will then instruct the "doctor" what to do.
The death-panel consists of:
3 lawyers
5 bean counters
1 veterinarian (there are no real doctors outside the US)
3 politicians
1 organ broker (whose job is to sell your organs)
This is how socialized "medicine" works. The only medicine involved with it, is making sure your body is sold off in parts to raise money for the party leaders! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES! Actually, those aren't roses but the perfumes used to cover up the stench of rotting corpses in the streets. </sarcasm>
Yeah, there's a difference between making a modern adaptation of Shakespeare, or even a whole other thing INSPIRED by Shakespeare, and writing "Hamlet 2: The Revenge of the Prince!"
You do realise, that Hamlet IS "The Revenge of the Prince!"?
You might as well suggest "Die Hard 2: Nakatomi Plaza Robbery!"
If the software patents are the issue, then simply don't publish in the US. Considering the state of the mobile market in the US, it's not like it's a breeding ground for new and innovative features
Even then, a 96 km/h baseball won't take your head off. It'll hurt like hell, but that's about it.
And even the (likely lethal) "shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays" won't somehow have a combined energy above the level of energy of the original particle. Antoli Burgoski's head didn't explode. The proton beam cut right through his skull - and while that was possibly a "weaker" impact that that of an OMG-particle, that really just means the OMG-particle would do the same.
There certainly are events that will make your head explode. If any of the nearby stars go nova, we shouldn't expect to survive it. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to talk about 'stars exploding will rip your head off'. If you're close enough - yes, duh. But these elusive insane energy particles? How many actual documented cases do we have of people's limbs exploding for no apparent reasons? None? That makes it a pretty good case, that those particles have never ever hit the Earth in written history. If an example should show up, I'll change my stance on this - until then, I'll place that idea along side the idea of proving the existence of a god-like creature and supernatural abilities.
Occasionally a relativistic proton arrives with a respectable human-scale energy, measurable in Joules. Cancer is the least of your worries. It could blow your head clean off
Are you entirely sure about that? While I will agree that it's a huge amount of energy for a single particle, that particle is tiny. It's going to leave a very very small hole going in and out. Even if the entire energy of that particle was transferred into your head, would it really make it explode?
It takes 4.2 joule to heat one gram of water 1C. A brain is 1.5 kg and probably 50% water. So 750 grams of water at 38C. Getting that to boiling point (which might make your head explode) would require 195,300 joule. According to google that is 1.21 × 10^15 gigaelectron volts. I rounded it down slightly, just to get that 1.21 Giga[...]volt. By comparison, the Higgs Boson is expected to be between 115 and 150 GeV.
I'm not a physicist, not even by a long shot, but the idea that a single proton can blow your head clean off is probably in the same realm of realism as bad guys being thrown back across a room when hit by pistol fire. But I'd love for someone who HAS a background in physics to show me wrong.
One mistake per two hundred trips does not seem unreasonable
The interesting thing is if you compare it to working a register. Giving back change manually incurs mistakes. Even if you're 100% honest, you're going to make mistakes. The difference here being that those mistakes work both ways. One customer will get a few cents too much back, another will get too few.
At the end of the day, you're going to see maybe 20 cents mismatch on a thousand dollars. More than that and you had to recount it (we didn't have counting machines). If the discreprancy was still larger than that, you posted those money, and you had some explaining to do. The thing is, when you make these small mistakes, you will lose about as much as you will gain. The cab drivers only saw a gain.
Since neither the summary nor the article has been kind enough to expand on "300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene", I figured I'd look it up. Thermal Conductivity of some common Materials: Polyethylene HD: 0.42 - 0.51 W/mK Aluminium: 250W/mK Copper: 401 W/mK
Best case scenario: 153 W/mK or 61% as conductive as aluminium, 38% as conductive as copper. Not exactly impressive for a heat sink
This test was pretty much dead on accurate.I talked to a technician at my local ISP (in Sweden), who told me that they can pretty much fake every single network speed test, simply by dedicating the necessary bandwidth to it, so that even if you're downloading at 100% speed before running the test, you'll get another 100% bandwidth allocation to the server it's testing against.
the only thing I didn't particularly care for was the fact that they wanted your exact address
No. As others have said, sometimes you end up with some fucked up rules for your neighbourhood, where your next door neighbour can get 30/30 Mbit/s broadband, and you are limited to 8/2 Mbit/s. And worse cases exist elsewhere. I've lived next to people that could get cable TV and I couldn't, because the cable company couldn't get permission to run the connection that extra 25 metres.
Fonic is a service brand of O2 Germany (owned by Telefonica), offering pay as you go prepaid services, both voice and data. Their data offering is 2.50 Euros per calendar day, for a maximum of 1 GB transfer volume
€2.50 a day for 97 kb/s mobile data isn't bad. Sounds quite reasonable to me. The 97 kb/s is the average speed needed to hit 1 GB in a day.
And while 1 GB/day isn't really enough to spend all day on youtube etc., it should be plenty to keep you up-to-date on news, email (just don't download all attached files) and the like.
There are plenty of legitimate secrets a CISO is expected to keep. Plans for upgrades that reveal current deficiencies but can't be implemented yet due to budget constraints.
This means over the course of a year you will have paid out $438
And if you play an hour a day on average, you're paying $1.20 an hour to be entertained. Compared to the price of movie rentals, cinema and pretty much every other entertainment you pay for, that's not that bad.
Not true. We aren't talking "fake - not the correct part", we're talking "fake - not a cpu but a hunk of metal, not a cooler just a piece of plastic with a sticker on it".
If you are buying cpus, you'll know they're fake when you see them.
Okay, so what did Einstein bring to the table after the mid forties? What about Bohr? Oppenheimer?
What Knuth delivered was no just a pair of shoulders for computer science to stand on for the next decades, it was a huge scaffolding.
Granted, we're taking it for granted, just like we do with all the other crap that we don't see put to use every day. Like sanitation. Imagine how quickly civilized society would break down, if all sewers, waste treatment and garbage collection just disappeared. That'd give you an idea of just what Knuth has provided for us.
Cars, even under favourable circumstances, don't produce enough power to get up the same mountains that bicycle riders can climb.
Don't believe me? The reason there are "out of category" mountains in the Tour de France, is that originally the categories were used to determine which cars could get up there along with the riders. Out of category was too steep for the cars at the time.
Obviously you'd be hard pressed to find cars that cannot out-climb a professional bike rider today, but guess what - technology marches on.
The iPad doesn't qualify as a netbook/notebook. You said it yourself. And to be honest, I really want an IPS display on a notebook, but for some reason all manufacturers have seemingly decided "fuck it, we'll do cheap over good", which is completely stupid. There IS a market for expensive laptops in the business segment.
You can't do proper image manipulation on a TN-display - the colours are all wrong. That means you can't sell that laptop to people who do photo-work, be it professionally or in their spare time. You also can't sell the laptop to people who needs to change their working position constantly, because you constantly need to readjust the display. And before you ask, that'd be as a desktop replacement.
Quite a lot of photographers are yearning for the iPad. Not because it's an Apple product. Not because it's "fancy". Because it has an IPS display.
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Brain-washing and indoctrination.
Listen. Just because the person you meet and discuss intimate details with at the "doctor's" office is wearing a lab coat and a stethescope, it doesn't mean he or she is a doctor. They are actually just civil servants who have hidden microphones and very discrete ear pieces, that allows what you're telling them to be heard by a 13-person death-panel, who will then instruct the "doctor" what to do.
The death-panel consists of:
This is how socialized "medicine" works. The only medicine involved with it, is making sure your body is sold off in parts to raise money for the party leaders! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES! Actually, those aren't roses but the perfumes used to cover up the stench of rotting corpses in the streets.
</sarcasm>
You do realise, that Hamlet IS "The Revenge of the Prince!"?
You might as well suggest "Die Hard 2: Nakatomi Plaza Robbery!"
Which is why we do tests on lab animals instead of injecting random people with completely untested gene therapies.
But don't tell PETA. They don't want you to do lab tests on animals, but they also don't want to volunteer themselves as human guinea pigs.
If the software patents are the issue, then simply don't publish in the US. Considering the state of the mobile market in the US, it's not like it's a breeding ground for new and innovative features
Even then, a 96 km/h baseball won't take your head off. It'll hurt like hell, but that's about it.
And even the (likely lethal) "shower of muons, pions, kaons, W+, W-, Z, e+, e-, and gamma rays" won't somehow have a combined energy above the level of energy of the original particle. Antoli Burgoski's head didn't explode. The proton beam cut right through his skull - and while that was possibly a "weaker" impact that that of an OMG-particle, that really just means the OMG-particle would do the same.
There certainly are events that will make your head explode. If any of the nearby stars go nova, we shouldn't expect to survive it. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to talk about 'stars exploding will rip your head off'. If you're close enough - yes, duh. But these elusive insane energy particles? How many actual documented cases do we have of people's limbs exploding for no apparent reasons? None? That makes it a pretty good case, that those particles have never ever hit the Earth in written history. If an example should show up, I'll change my stance on this - until then, I'll place that idea along side the idea of proving the existence of a god-like creature and supernatural abilities.
Does that mean that illiterate homo sapiens do not count as people?
Are you entirely sure about that? While I will agree that it's a huge amount of energy for a single particle, that particle is tiny. It's going to leave a very very small hole going in and out. Even if the entire energy of that particle was transferred into your head, would it really make it explode?
It takes 4.2 joule to heat one gram of water 1C. A brain is 1.5 kg and probably 50% water. So 750 grams of water at 38C. Getting that to boiling point (which might make your head explode) would require 195,300 joule. According to google that is 1.21 × 10^15 gigaelectron volts. I rounded it down slightly, just to get that 1.21 Giga[...]volt. By comparison, the Higgs Boson is expected to be between 115 and 150 GeV.
I'm not a physicist, not even by a long shot, but the idea that a single proton can blow your head clean off is probably in the same realm of realism as bad guys being thrown back across a room when hit by pistol fire. But I'd love for someone who HAS a background in physics to show me wrong.
I think that IS the fix, but you have to pay for it yourself
Citizens of The United States of America seem pretty well off to me. But oddly enough there are claims that there are millions of homeless people and tens of millions of people living in poverty.
While the head count is likely smaller in other western countries, I wouldn't be too surprised if the percentages are about the same.
The interesting thing is if you compare it to working a register. Giving back change manually incurs mistakes. Even if you're 100% honest, you're going to make mistakes. The difference here being that those mistakes work both ways. One customer will get a few cents too much back, another will get too few.
At the end of the day, you're going to see maybe 20 cents mismatch on a thousand dollars. More than that and you had to recount it (we didn't have counting machines). If the discreprancy was still larger than that, you posted those money, and you had some explaining to do. The thing is, when you make these small mistakes, you will lose about as much as you will gain. The cab drivers only saw a gain.
That's not a mistake. That's fraud.
You have a really weird way of playing bowling. Now, if you had gone with hammer throw, you would have had a much better analogy.
I'm pretty sure that the tail of an airplane falling off is an unanticipated scenario that humans cannot deal with either ;)
Since neither the summary nor the article has been kind enough to expand on "300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene", I figured I'd look it up.
Thermal Conductivity of some common Materials:
Polyethylene HD: 0.42 - 0.51 W/mK
Aluminium: 250W/mK
Copper: 401 W/mK
Best case scenario: 153 W/mK or 61% as conductive as aluminium, 38% as conductive as copper. Not exactly impressive for a heat sink
€2.50 a day for 97 kb/s mobile data isn't bad. Sounds quite reasonable to me. The 97 kb/s is the average speed needed to hit 1 GB in a day.
And while 1 GB/day isn't really enough to spend all day on youtube etc., it should be plenty to keep you up-to-date on news, email (just don't download all attached files) and the like.
Depending on the issue, those NEED to be exposed.
Imagine the outcry you'd get, if it turns out that the ADX Florence/a> had been built with paper mache, but due to budget issues, there was no way of fixing it, because it'd be too expensive. Should we wait for a hundred convicted murderes to walk out before doing anything?
It's a case of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"
And if you play an hour a day on average, you're paying $1.20 an hour to be entertained. Compared to the price of movie rentals, cinema and pretty much every other entertainment you pay for, that's not that bad.
Not true. We aren't talking "fake - not the correct part", we're talking "fake - not a cpu but a hunk of metal, not a cooler just a piece of plastic with a sticker on it".
If you are buying cpus, you'll know they're fake when you see them.
Okay, so what did Einstein bring to the table after the mid forties? What about Bohr? Oppenheimer?
What Knuth delivered was no just a pair of shoulders for computer science to stand on for the next decades, it was a huge scaffolding.
Granted, we're taking it for granted, just like we do with all the other crap that we don't see put to use every day. Like sanitation. Imagine how quickly civilized society would break down, if all sewers, waste treatment and garbage collection just disappeared. That'd give you an idea of just what Knuth has provided for us.
Had his day.
In ... space. No-one. Can hear you. Pause.
Cars, even under favourable circumstances, don't produce enough power to get up the same mountains that bicycle riders can climb.
Don't believe me? The reason there are "out of category" mountains in the Tour de France, is that originally the categories were used to determine which cars could get up there along with the riders. Out of category was too steep for the cars at the time.
Obviously you'd be hard pressed to find cars that cannot out-climb a professional bike rider today, but guess what - technology marches on.
The issue wasn't about ending the sentence with the word "with", it was with not using "whom".
The iPad doesn't qualify as a netbook/notebook. You said it yourself. And to be honest, I really want an IPS display on a notebook, but for some reason all manufacturers have seemingly decided "fuck it, we'll do cheap over good", which is completely stupid. There IS a market for expensive laptops in the business segment.
You can't do proper image manipulation on a TN-display - the colours are all wrong. That means you can't sell that laptop to people who do photo-work, be it professionally or in their spare time. You also can't sell the laptop to people who needs to change their working position constantly, because you constantly need to readjust the display. And before you ask, that'd be as a desktop replacement.
Quite a lot of photographers are yearning for the iPad. Not because it's an Apple product. Not because it's "fancy". Because it has an IPS display.