Fair enough. I have more than a rudimentary knowledge of chemistry (PhD in physical biochemistry) - and I have no clue how all that solid state stuff actually works.
However, the grain structure is heavily influenced by the chemical composition of the steel. Think of microalloyed steels, where as little as 0,05% of grain refinement or precipitation hardening agents like e.g. Nb or Va have a huge effect on the steel's properties.
Grammar changes. Always has, always will. And the change comes not by decree from a language academy, but by popular use. The prescriptivists can't hold back the tide any better than King Canute.
Ahem. Cough. Public Service Announcement.... *tap* *tap* is this thing on?...... Ok, guys, I have a message for the mods. +1 Insightful has not, I repeat, not been redefined as meaning +1 Paranoid. Really. I checked with Oxford.... Ok, you may carry on now.
Well, overweight people can loose weight. Your sort of stupidity, however, is incurable. Well, whatever one needs to make oneself feel superior, I guess.
So the fact that you happen to live on a internal cycle that happens to coincide with societal norms makes you the "elite". Nice to know. Everyone different is "undisciplined". Well, well, well... Nice to meet someone who is not the slightest bit full of it, not at all.
And another glimpse into the mindset of the Paulbot. You scratch away the thin patina of faux "freedom" blahblah and you find nothing but a rotten core of hate mixed with uncritical hero worship. And you are the guys calling others "sheeple". Excuse me while I laugh my arse off.
I went to visit the State Library and have look at the Dresden Codex last month. The curator was around and gave us a little talk about the thing. There are in fact two calendars - one is tuned to the solar year, the other is a 260-day ritual calendar. The solar calendar was off a bit (and would have needed leap years), but that doesn't affect the translation of dates. The only effect it had was that the seasons were not fixed to given dates - they moved around. The Mayans were obviously fine with that.
Ehm, *cough*, ehem. Epic fail on my side. It should be "Oxidan", not Oxiran, that is actually in the IUPAC recommendation. On the "-oxide" or "-hydride" thing, on can discuss, it is pretty much on the boundary. If you go the oxide path, you should at least go with "hydrogen oxide" without the useless counters. Sounds pretentious otherwise. In the end, we (bio)chemists just call it "water", anyway.
Guys, I appreciate the joke, but the nomenclature sucks. Dihydrogenmonoxide is just not IUPAC conform. Or would you call methane with a systematic name of "Tetrahydrogen monocarbide"? Either you go with the Silane, Borane etc. nomenclature and call it Oxiran, or you go the usual way and call it Oxygen hydride.
Ok guys, let's suggest a crowd funding project - how about we all pool our beer money and buy a small third world nation to hand over to the libertarians, right-to-bear-arm-nutters and all the other lovely people posting their brainfarts around here. Only condition - we get drone overflight rights to record a livestream of the hilarity than shall certainly ensue.
I always suggested that TV channel execs get outfitted with an electroshock machine that activates when at least a given number of people press the "FUCK THAT SHIT"-button on their remote.
How do you go about removing the monarchy at this point?
With the least constitutional change necessary? Probably by going with the German model - just exchange the Queen by a President elected by popular assembly, with the same constitutional functions the Queen has at the moment. Much cheaper, gets elected.
It's by large not the patent system that is broken in the US, that just needs some minor fixes. What absolutely is broken, and what incurs monstrous costs for the little guys in the game, is the litigation system. Lawyer and litigation costs need to be limited. I've seen enough cases of single inventors going after multinational corporations over their patents - and succesfully. Here in Europe, though, where the costs of a lawsuit won't send you into bankruptcy.
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Fair enough. I have more than a rudimentary knowledge of chemistry (PhD in physical biochemistry) - and I have no clue how all that solid state stuff actually works.
However, the grain structure is heavily influenced by the chemical composition of the steel. Think of microalloyed steels, where as little as 0,05% of grain refinement or precipitation hardening agents like e.g. Nb or Va have a huge effect on the steel's properties.
Grammar changes. Always has, always will. And the change comes not by decree from a language academy, but by popular use. The prescriptivists can't hold back the tide any better than King Canute.
Ahem. Cough. Public Service Announcement. ... *tap* *tap* is this thing on?...... Ok, guys, I have a message for the mods. +1 Insightful has not, I repeat, not been redefined as meaning +1 Paranoid. Really. I checked with Oxford. ... Ok, you may carry on now.
And that is just one of hundreds of easily googled papers.
The broken window fallacy does not extend to necessary maintenance and repair work.
The wise, however, don't post as anonymous cowards on slashdot either....
The Dunning-Krugerites are out in force today, it seems.
Well, overweight people can loose weight. Your sort of stupidity, however, is incurable. Well, whatever one needs to make oneself feel superior, I guess.
So the fact that you happen to live on a internal cycle that happens to coincide with societal norms makes you the "elite". Nice to know. Everyone different is "undisciplined". Well, well, well... Nice to meet someone who is not the slightest bit full of it, not at all.
And another glimpse into the mindset of the Paulbot. You scratch away the thin patina of faux "freedom" blahblah and you find nothing but a rotten core of hate mixed with uncritical hero worship. And you are the guys calling others "sheeple". Excuse me while I laugh my arse off.
Ok, spam for chinese jaw crushing machines. Now I can die in peace, I have seen everything.
I went to visit the State Library and have look at the Dresden Codex last month. The curator was around and gave us a little talk about the thing. There are in fact two calendars - one is tuned to the solar year, the other is a 260-day ritual calendar. The solar calendar was off a bit (and would have needed leap years), but that doesn't affect the translation of dates. The only effect it had was that the seasons were not fixed to given dates - they moved around. The Mayans were obviously fine with that.
Scotch, cask strength. Only 40% oxidan. The only way to be sure, except, of course, for nuking the site from orbit.
Ehem, get the film rights! "Mini Mammoth vs. Jumbo Shrimp - The Epic Battle of the Geologic Ages!". Pretty please, before Michael Bay gets em?
Ehm, *cough*, ehem. Epic fail on my side. It should be "Oxidan", not Oxiran, that is actually in the IUPAC recommendation. On the "-oxide" or "-hydride" thing, on can discuss, it is pretty much on the boundary. If you go the oxide path, you should at least go with "hydrogen oxide" without the useless counters. Sounds pretentious otherwise. In the end, we (bio)chemists just call it "water", anyway.
When you only have one oxidation state, e.g. -2 in oxygen, you don't usually state the counters, since they are implied.
Guys, I appreciate the joke, but the nomenclature sucks. Dihydrogenmonoxide is just not IUPAC conform. Or would you call methane with a systematic name of "Tetrahydrogen monocarbide"? Either you go with the Silane, Borane etc. nomenclature and call it Oxiran, or you go the usual way and call it Oxygen hydride.
Ok guys, let's suggest a crowd funding project - how about we all pool our beer money and buy a small third world nation to hand over to the libertarians, right-to-bear-arm-nutters and all the other lovely people posting their brainfarts around here. Only condition - we get drone overflight rights to record a livestream of the hilarity than shall certainly ensue.
I always suggested that TV channel execs get outfitted with an electroshock machine that activates when at least a given number of people press the "FUCK THAT SHIT"-button on their remote.
It is is so obvious, why aren't there open source implementations all over the place?
How do you go about removing the monarchy at this point?
With the least constitutional change necessary? Probably by going with the German model - just exchange the Queen by a President elected by popular assembly, with the same constitutional functions the Queen has at the moment. Much cheaper, gets elected.
Disturbing, indeed, but yet.....
It's by large not the patent system that is broken in the US, that just needs some minor fixes. What absolutely is broken, and what incurs monstrous costs for the little guys in the game, is the litigation system. Lawyer and litigation costs need to be limited. I've seen enough cases of single inventors going after multinational corporations over their patents - and succesfully. Here in Europe, though, where the costs of a lawsuit won't send you into bankruptcy.
Go ahead, I need something for the barbecue anyway.
Signed,
a patent engineer.