And because it's suspended by wires from the floor to resist the magnetic force makes it totally different than if it were suspended by the same wires from the ceiling, to resist the gravitational force.
About $1,539,900 different.
Or you could just buy a Mayan style hammock, the most comfortable sleep in the known universe.
I was never quite sure I was scoring it right by the end... when we want to play a quick game, games with difficult scoring, tend to take a backseat. ..
Go directly to Snakes(Chutes) and Ladders. Do not play Go. Go not pay $200 for a set of (cheap) stones.
Oh, give her a break, our little girl is growing up
. ..you mourn not just your lost PS2 games or your Xbox controllers but also the fact that these once precious things have been proven completely meaningless.
But she's not quite there yet.
What the hell is this crap doing on/.?
The current crop of geeks think that stuff is the stuff that matters.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, but lay up treasures of knowledge so that even though moths and rust doth corrupt and theives break in steal. ..you can just make yourself new stuff.
I think it's strange how 20-30 years ago, college dropouts could do so well. Now, it's almost expected to have a Bachelor's degree or even a Master's for some occupations.
This isn't a difference in the times, it's the difference between being the master or the slave. There's nothing to stop someone from dropping out of High School, founding a company and refusing to hire Phds because they haven't done any post doc work.
As a caveat in support of your thesis, however, I'll note that's its becoming increasingly common for parents to demand a Masters degree in pedegogy to pay someone to teach their little princess how to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the violin.
A greater waste of everybody's resources is hard to imagine, until you start thinking of government.
That was true back in the early days when Hef didn't actually have the photographs taken himself. He simply bought them from independents and published. Some of those photos were rather crude and he did already have standards for what he wanted to see. He stopped that when he was able to aquire his own facilities to control the product from beginning to end.
Ironically the Vargas stuff that he bought almost all had at least some airbrushing, because Hef insisted on it. Vargas didn't like airbrush. Didn't think it was real painting. Hef didn't like airbrush, because he didn't think it was real photography.
I don't actually know how things are done these days. a)My family's Chicago and I don't go to LA; b)Hef isn't actually in control these days, women are. Women are also responsible for Maxim. Say no more.
Haven't seen a Playboy for some years, but the last time I did I got the impression that they were still holding to the formula of retouching the models, not the photographs, but had over refined their makeup techniques to the point where it almost makes no nevermind.
And what the hell was with that period where it seemed like every other Playmate was some sort of Ivana Trump lookalike? That sucked.
Playboy airbrushes the hell . . . out their models.
Indeed they do; but not the photos.
S'truth. Suburb makeup artists and suburb photographers with suburb darkroom technique, but no actual photo retouching, that's always been the formula; except when they're being obviously "artsy."
That too has already all but happened but the shooting.
When asked if he belonged to an organized political party, Will Rogers replied, "No, I'm a Democrat."
There's a lot of talk about "Red States" vs. "Blue States," and it's all hogwash. Just look at the map from the last election. There is, indeed, a cohesive "Red Country," but there are three seperate "Blue Countries" who have absolutely nothing in common, either philosophically or geographically, except nonimal Democratic party leanings.
You have "Old America" in the Northeast (capital; New York City). Home of the money and classical liberalism. This place has nothing to do with the politically correct, Democratic Socialist nation of Kookifornia (capital; San Francisco) on the west coast. Neither one of them has anything to do with the blue collar, industrial heartland (capital; Chicago).
We are four nations who have one and only one concept in common; to trash that annoying Constitution thingy.
The first shots were fired at Waco and Ruby Ridge. The counterstrike came in Oklahoma city.
Yes, these were wingnuts (including the government forces), but the wingnuts always have furnished the canaries.
See John Brown. His body is a-mouldrin' in the grave, but his soul goes marching on.
Bear in mind that I'm no right wing wingnut myself. On "the test" I share a data point with the Dalai Lama. I'm not promoting the idea of civil war, but I got eyes and ears and I can see it comin'.
bio d can be manufactured by the armed forces themselves, making them fuel independent for the most part.
Try something a lot easier to begin with, to see how it goes, say growing enough food along the way to feed the tank crew.
Let me know how it goes.
We've used biofuels to run military machinary in the past. That's why we use oil now, and our current needs are much, much greater.
Now, if that tank in the picture is in the middle east, making bio diesel is akin to synthesizing coal in newcastle.
Assuming you capture the oil fields and refineries; and can keep them secure, before your tanks run out of fuel. Even Napleon came to grief in the Syrian desert.
They'll still need jet fuel, gasoline, perhaps kerosene for some purposes.
Diesel, jet fuel and kerosene can be considered equivilent for the current discussion. A gasoline substitute can be refined from bio oils (remember that petroleum is bio oil), but the yield is necessarily lower.
soybeans are not one of the more desirable feed stocks for bio diesel.
One of the poorer ones, but soybeans and corn are what you are likely to have to forage off of. Maybe some flax, depending on where in the world you find yourself.
Remember, that chart is talking about cultivated acres.
Ahhhhh, but the increase in gravity due to mass is linear. Double the mass, double the force.
But the force of gravity also follows the inverse square law, get twice as far away and you quarter the force of gravity.
So if your added mass necessarily pushes you farther away from the center the force will fall off due to distance faster than it increases due to mass, lowering the net force, unless your cement block is very massive. Say about 1000 Kg.
He weighs more because all mass underneath him to the surface of the earth on the opposite side is pulling him down.
But you are father away from the mass on the opposite side, reducing its contribution to the total force.
Turns out that if you average all the forces it works out to the same as if all the mass were concentrated at the Earth's center.
If you dig a hole and jump in gravity will be decreased, even though you're closer to the center, because the average force exerted on you by the entire shell of the Earth above your own center of mass averages to zero. You can intuit this easier if you imagine yourself at the center of the Earth, where you would be weightless.
does the extra attractive force between you and the cement block more than compensate for the extra distance you've put between yourself and the earth's center of mass
Gravity falls off by the inverse of the square of the distance. If your cement block is equal in mass to the average of the column of Earth underneath you the mass is only going up linearly with distance and the total force will go down. If it's equal to the square of the average mass you'll break even.
So what happens when I fart? . ..I've stood on a bathroom scale trying to measure this but my instruments are either too insensitive or are too greatly affected by the tremendous resultant atmospheric change. Any ideas?
Use a satellite.
Contemplate other phenomenon that might affect the outcome of the experiment (hint: think of a balloon) and propose a means of compensating for their effect.
If the satellite turns out to be insufficiently precise ponder the limits of measurment and the concept of significance.
For extra credit ponder the relevence of your conlusions to measurements of, ummmmm, "gross" atmospheric changes and relate this to public policy.
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It's held to its place with small metal wires. . .
And because it's suspended by wires from the floor to resist the magnetic force makes it totally different than if it were suspended by the same wires from the ceiling, to resist the gravitational force.
About $1,539,900 different.
Or you could just buy a Mayan style hammock, the most comfortable sleep in the known universe.
KFG
I was never quite sure I was scoring it right by the end... when we want to play a quick game, games with difficult scoring, tend to take a backseat. . .
Go directly to Snakes(Chutes) and Ladders. Do not play Go. Go not pay $200 for a set of (cheap) stones.
KFG
Oh, give her a break, our little girl is growing up
.you mourn not just your lost PS2 games or your Xbox controllers but also the fact that these once precious things have been proven completely meaningless.
/.?
.you can just make yourself new stuff.
. .
But she's not quite there yet.
What the hell is this crap doing on
The current crop of geeks think that stuff is the stuff that matters.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, but lay up treasures of knowledge so that even though moths and rust doth corrupt and theives break in steal. .
KFG
Different people are entertained differently by different things and no one is better or worse because of their entertainment choices.
I like beating the crap out of the punks down the street and taking their lunch money.
KFG
I think it's strange how 20-30 years ago, college dropouts could do so well. Now, it's almost expected to have a Bachelor's degree or even a Master's for some occupations.
This isn't a difference in the times, it's the difference between being the master or the slave. There's nothing to stop someone from dropping out of High School, founding a company and refusing to hire Phds because they haven't done any post doc work.
As a caveat in support of your thesis, however, I'll note that's its becoming increasingly common for parents to demand a Masters degree in pedegogy to pay someone to teach their little princess how to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on the violin.
A greater waste of everybody's resources is hard to imagine, until you start thinking of government.
KFG
"...but think about what could have happened if you'd have stayed in school"
Paying off $100k in student loans with your tips from Denny's?
KFG
I'm guessing that Michael is not a typical Dell owner.
KFG
That was true back in the early days when Hef didn't actually have the photographs taken himself. He simply bought them from independents and published. Some of those photos were rather crude and he did already have standards for what he wanted to see. He stopped that when he was able to aquire his own facilities to control the product from beginning to end.
Ironically the Vargas stuff that he bought almost all had at least some airbrushing, because Hef insisted on it. Vargas didn't like airbrush. Didn't think it was real painting. Hef didn't like airbrush, because he didn't think it was real photography.
I don't actually know how things are done these days. a)My family's Chicago and I don't go to LA; b)Hef isn't actually in control these days, women are. Women are also responsible for Maxim. Say no more.
Haven't seen a Playboy for some years, but the last time I did I got the impression that they were still holding to the formula of retouching the models, not the photographs, but had over refined their makeup techniques to the point where it almost makes no nevermind.
And what the hell was with that period where it seemed like every other Playmate was some sort of Ivana Trump lookalike? That sucked.
KFG
Playboy airbrushes the hell . . . out their models.
Indeed they do; but not the photos.
S'truth. Suburb makeup artists and suburb photographers with suburb darkroom technique, but no actual photo retouching, that's always been the formula; except when they're being obviously "artsy."
Touch the models, not the prints.
KFG
Look, you have to hand it to microsoft here - they are at least TRYING.
They certainly are.
KFG
There are conservatives in CA and I'm sure a liberal or two in TX.
You have introduced terms that I:
a) Did not
b) Would not
KFG
look where they're aiming their market. . .
At the people so hip they're square?
KFG
It's almost overdue for a national breakup.....
That too has already all but happened but the shooting.
When asked if he belonged to an organized political party, Will Rogers replied, "No, I'm a Democrat."
There's a lot of talk about "Red States" vs. "Blue States," and it's all hogwash. Just look at the map from the last election. There is, indeed, a cohesive "Red Country," but there are three seperate "Blue Countries" who have absolutely nothing in common, either philosophically or geographically, except nonimal Democratic party leanings.
You have "Old America" in the Northeast (capital; New York City). Home of the money and classical liberalism. This place has nothing to do with the politically correct, Democratic Socialist nation of Kookifornia (capital; San Francisco) on the west coast. Neither one of them has anything to do with the blue collar, industrial heartland (capital; Chicago).
We are four nations who have one and only one concept in common; to trash that annoying Constitution thingy.
KFG
What problem? What problem?
That damned First Amendment, that's what problem.
KFG
We may see a new civil war real soon
The first shots were fired at Waco and Ruby Ridge. The counterstrike came in Oklahoma city.
Yes, these were wingnuts (including the government forces), but the wingnuts always have furnished the canaries.
See John Brown. His body is a-mouldrin' in the grave, but his soul goes marching on.
Bear in mind that I'm no right wing wingnut myself. On "the test" I share a data point with the Dalai Lama. I'm not promoting the idea of civil war, but I got eyes and ears and I can see it comin'.
KFG
bio d can be manufactured by the armed forces themselves, making them fuel independent for the most part.
Try something a lot easier to begin with, to see how it goes, say growing enough food along the way to feed the tank crew.
Let me know how it goes.
We've used biofuels to run military machinary in the past. That's why we use oil now, and our current needs are much, much greater.
Now, if that tank in the picture is in the middle east, making bio diesel is akin to synthesizing coal in newcastle.
Assuming you capture the oil fields and refineries; and can keep them secure, before your tanks run out of fuel. Even Napleon came to grief in the Syrian desert.
They'll still need jet fuel, gasoline, perhaps kerosene for some purposes.
Diesel, jet fuel and kerosene can be considered equivilent for the current discussion. A gasoline substitute can be refined from bio oils (remember that petroleum is bio oil), but the yield is necessarily lower.
soybeans are not one of the more desirable feed stocks for bio diesel.
One of the poorer ones, but soybeans and corn are what you are likely to have to forage off of. Maybe some flax, depending on where in the world you find yourself.
Remember, that chart is talking about cultivated acres.
KFG
Ahhhhh, but the increase in gravity due to mass is linear. Double the mass, double the force.
But the force of gravity also follows the inverse square law, get twice as far away and you quarter the force of gravity.
So if your added mass necessarily pushes you farther away from the center the force will fall off due to distance faster than it increases due to mass, lowering the net force, unless your cement block is very massive. Say about 1000 Kg.
KFG
Can you say "wet sweater?"
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I knew ya could.
KFG
He weighs more because all mass underneath him to the surface of the earth on the opposite side is pulling him down.
But you are father away from the mass on the opposite side, reducing its contribution to the total force.
Turns out that if you average all the forces it works out to the same as if all the mass were concentrated at the Earth's center.
If you dig a hole and jump in gravity will be decreased, even though you're closer to the center, because the average force exerted on you by the entire shell of the Earth above your own center of mass averages to zero. You can intuit this easier if you imagine yourself at the center of the Earth, where you would be weightless.
KFG
Really?
Wellllllll, not with a typical cement block, no.
does the extra attractive force between you and the cement block more than compensate for the extra distance you've put between yourself and the earth's center of mass
Gravity falls off by the inverse of the square of the distance. If your cement block is equal in mass to the average of the column of Earth underneath you the mass is only going up linearly with distance and the total force will go down. If it's equal to the square of the average mass you'll break even.
KFG
So let's refine the experiment a bit.
How about we put our g meter on top of a stool, take a reading, and then shove a concrete block under the stool?
KFG
Linux gets along fine with trademark and copyright law.
Of course it does. That's why I have to stone you now.
Trademark law is a jealous law.
KFG
It's not a parody of Linux. Therefore, it's trademark and copyright infringement.
Dude, you just said Linux and . . .
Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop throwing those stones at me.
KFG
So what happens when I fart? . . .I've stood on a bathroom scale trying to measure this but my instruments are either too insensitive or are too greatly affected by the tremendous resultant atmospheric change. Any ideas?
Use a satellite.
Contemplate other phenomenon that might affect the outcome of the experiment (hint: think of a balloon) and propose a means of compensating for their effect.
If the satellite turns out to be insufficiently precise ponder the limits of measurment and the concept of significance.
For extra credit ponder the relevence of your conlusions to measurements of, ummmmm, "gross" atmospheric changes and relate this to public policy.
This will account for 50% of your final grade.
KFG
I believe I rather missread the last sentence I quoted:
Nevermind. I'll go sit in the corner now.
KFG