The 'best coffee' in the world comes out of a cats ass i'm told...
I don't know about better, but it is cheaper. I just scoop it out of the litter box. After you reduce it to charcoal for that authentic espresso style, you can't tell the difference anyway.
Well [Charbucks] is at least several times as good as Dunkin Donuts...
Fortunately, I can make coffee at home in that little espresso pot that sits on the stove - pure, strong espresso goodness. Or I can make in my regular espresso machine
Obviously you prefer charcoal to coffee. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't understand why they insist on staring with coffee beans. After it's burnt to charcoal (Italian roast) it doesn't really matter what organic substance you started from. Acorns might be a good choice.
No, I'm not saying Starbucks is the best thing on the planet. I'm just saying you forget how truly dismal the state of affairs was in American coffee before they came along.
Total nonsense. Dunkin Donuts has much better coffee than Starbucks, and did for decades before some marketing genius in Seattle figured out you could charge $5/cup if you said "small, medium or large" in a foreign language. That's just one example.
No, Dunkin Donuts is not some whiz-bang certified country/county/plantation of origin stuff, but it's decent stuff for a reasonable price.
More truth is said in jest. During WWII all kinds of stuff in the US was rationed, including sugar, butter, meat, etc., etc. Banana imports were halted (which is why Twinkies switched from banana to vanilla filling). One thing that was never rationed was coffee. The Arsenal of Democracy wouldn't have been worth squat if everybody was falling asleep.
It shouldn't be a surprise to people that many put different values on different rights
Of course it's not, and people who feel that the 4th Amendment is a bad tradeoff are free to push for its repeal.
the issue is not that they don't understand, but that they have different priorities
Different priorities and take the government's word for it that wholesale electronic spying does something to reduce terrorism, despite a complete lack of any evidence that it does.
"Goodies found inside include proximity, light and inertial sensors, sound transducers, a TI OMAP CPU, flash, RAM, camera and tiny projection display."
So could I. With the way people come to rely on technology instead of thinking, I could also see somebody with that app failing to notice the guy sitting next to them with a bomb in one hand, an AK-47 in the other, and a headband that read "Death to the Great Satan" (or whatever the terrorist slogan du jour is).
That's also a "more truth is said in jest" thought. With all the government electronic sniffing up everybody's butt the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to terrorism crap, let's not forget some recent low-tech history. The biggest before-the-fact clue to 9/11 was a flight instructor who was concerned that a couple of his students didn't care about learning to takeoff or land, and weren't interested in job opportunities. The local FBI office took and interest, but headquarters ignored it. The attempted Times Square bombing was foiled by a couple of street vendors who noticed smoke coming from a car. Etc., etc., etc.
It is, after Nokia and some others switched to parts from other companies. They may keep making some OMAP parts for a while though (typically how reliable semi companies do things). Going forward Google can obviously switch to another mfg or something like TI's da Vinci line. I never did understand why TI had both the OMAP and da Vinci lines anyway.
if you will get rid of the insane alcohol requirements
While I'm no fan of the corn farmer subsidy, the requirement is only for road fuel. The question is why is alcohol free gasoline (that's otherwise mogas) not available at airports. Several posters have complained about that.
This is *exactly* why switching away from 100LL is problematic. There are plenty of other ways to increase octane, but not to prevent valve seat wear in these older engines.
Somebody else here mentioned that engines need to be overhauled every 1000 hours. What gets overhauled? Would installing new exhaust valves and seats be out of the question?
Tetraethyl lead works as a buffer against microwelds forming between the hot exhaust valves and their seats.[3] Once these valves reopen, the microwelds pull apart and leave the valves with a rough surface that would abrade the seats, leading to valve recession. When lead began to be phased out of motor fuel, the automotive industry began specifying hardened valve seats and upgraded exhaust valve materials to prevent valve recession without lead.
Not a big deal for new designs, but with cars anyway it meant it was a bad idea to use unleaded gas in old models that weren't designed for it.
That's a lot of maybe's. Do you have any numbers or cites to back your contention that say, China->LA, rail for LA->NY is more efficient than China->NY entirely by ship?
A china that is committed to trading with the world is not waging war.
During the so-called "first great age of free trade" they said the same thing. The European countries were too financially intertwined for war to make sense. For some reason that talking point was dropped in 1914.
This would shock americans but the Chinese of 700 years had ships bigger than any in Europe that could travel farther and were more advanced with magnetic compasses and watertight compartments.
Zheng He's voyages were 600 years ago, not 700. Hardly news to Americans, especially since it was a hot topic a few years ago. The magnetic compass was used in Europe by the 12th century, but your other points are probably correct. Unfortunately we know very little about Zheng He's ships since the government ordered the ships destroyed and the records of the voyages burned.
Saying the water is "wasted" is like saying that we should suck all the water out of the Mississippi and send it to dry parts of the US
Don't give California and Arizona any ideas. They're always talking about what wonderful sunny places they are, but seem to have overlooked that water is essential for life. They'd be good places for solar power stations though.
Hoover and FDR had it right w/ the Good Neighbor Policy. Even aside from the ethical and humanitarian aspects, treating Latin America like garbage is a terrible idea strategically. It's not that I'm so Cumbaya about international relations, for example I'm fine with the Monroe Doctrine, but crapping all over people tends to lose hearts and minds. After what we pulled there, can you imagine Nicaragua having anything to do with the US? If we'd gotten ridden of Batista (or just twisted his arm enough to make things a little better for most people) we might never had had a Cuban problem.
intelligence is a left-bounded Gaussian distribution
No, intelligence (by which I presume you mean IQ score) does not have a Gaussian distribution. They're kind of bell shaped, but that doesn't mean they're truly Gaussian (especially the tails).
Smart enough to know the meaning and purpose of a literary allusion...
It's not a literary allusion, which is typically defined as "a literary device in which the writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature".
P.S. I know I'm being incredibly pedantic, but that was the point of my original jest. As for me being too pedantic for Slashdot, the number and type of responses I got say that I'm in good company.
That surprises me too. I don't work with statisticians per se, but a few mathematicians. They seem to avoid the word "average" whenever they're talking math.
FWIW Merrian-Webster confirms the lack of mathematical precision in the word "average": a single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values
No offense, but I'm disappointed. I was really hoping it was evidence that "they're still teaching Americans about the Bill of Rights". I should also add, that despite the "are you 14" crap one always hears on Slashdot, there is no reason a thoughtful person of any age shouldn't post.
Can you imagining telling vets just after WWII that someday Americans would (correctly) cite Germany as a bastion of civil rights? Granted, Germany has seriously cleaned up its act, but what bothers me is that's not the only change.
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The 'best coffee' in the world comes out of a cats ass i'm told...
I don't know about better, but it is cheaper. I just scoop it out of the litter box. After you reduce it to charcoal for that authentic espresso style, you can't tell the difference anyway.
Well [Charbucks] is at least several times as good as Dunkin Donuts... Fortunately, I can make coffee at home in that little espresso pot that sits on the stove - pure, strong espresso goodness. Or I can make in my regular espresso machine
Obviously you prefer charcoal to coffee. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't understand why they insist on staring with coffee beans. After it's burnt to charcoal (Italian roast) it doesn't really matter what organic substance you started from. Acorns might be a good choice.
No, I'm not saying Starbucks is the best thing on the planet. I'm just saying you forget how truly dismal the state of affairs was in American coffee before they came along.
Total nonsense. Dunkin Donuts has much better coffee than Starbucks, and did for decades before some marketing genius in Seattle figured out you could charge $5/cup if you said "small, medium or large" in a foreign language. That's just one example.
No, Dunkin Donuts is not some whiz-bang certified country/county/plantation of origin stuff, but it's decent stuff for a reasonable price.
American business will grind to a halt!
More truth is said in jest. During WWII all kinds of stuff in the US was rationed, including sugar, butter, meat, etc., etc. Banana imports were halted (which is why Twinkies switched from banana to vanilla filling). One thing that was never rationed was coffee. The Arsenal of Democracy wouldn't have been worth squat if everybody was falling asleep.
It shouldn't be a surprise to people that many put different values on different rights
Of course it's not, and people who feel that the 4th Amendment is a bad tradeoff are free to push for its repeal.
the issue is not that they don't understand, but that they have different priorities
Different priorities and take the government's word for it that wholesale electronic spying does something to reduce terrorism, despite a complete lack of any evidence that it does.
"Goodies found inside include proximity, light and inertial sensors, sound transducers, a TI OMAP CPU, flash, RAM, camera and tiny projection display."
I could see people actually installing that app.
So could I. With the way people come to rely on technology instead of thinking, I could also see somebody with that app failing to notice the guy sitting next to them with a bomb in one hand, an AK-47 in the other, and a headband that read "Death to the Great Satan" (or whatever the terrorist slogan du jour is).
That's also a "more truth is said in jest" thought. With all the government electronic sniffing up everybody's butt the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to terrorism crap, let's not forget some recent low-tech history. The biggest before-the-fact clue to 9/11 was a flight instructor who was concerned that a couple of his students didn't care about learning to takeoff or land, and weren't interested in job opportunities. The local FBI office took and interest, but headquarters ignored it. The attempted Times Square bombing was foiled by a couple of street vendors who noticed smoke coming from a car. Etc., etc., etc.
I though TI was killing its OMAP division
It is, after Nokia and some others switched to parts from other companies. They may keep making some OMAP parts for a while though (typically how reliable semi companies do things). Going forward Google can obviously switch to another mfg or something like TI's da Vinci line. I never did understand why TI had both the OMAP and da Vinci lines anyway.
What, no government mind control device?
According to their legal dept. it's strictly a Google mind control device with no direct government access.
if you will get rid of the insane alcohol requirements
While I'm no fan of the corn farmer subsidy, the requirement is only for road fuel. The question is why is alcohol free gasoline (that's otherwise mogas) not available at airports. Several posters have complained about that.
This is *exactly* why switching away from 100LL is problematic. There are plenty of other ways to increase octane, but not to prevent valve seat wear in these older engines.
Somebody else here mentioned that engines need to be overhauled every 1000 hours. What gets overhauled? Would installing new exhaust valves and seats be out of the question?
The only reason the heavy metals are used is to reduce the cost of filling one's tank.
From a backwards compatibility viewpoint, what about exhaust valves? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaded_gasoline#A_valve_wear_preventive
Tetraethyl lead works as a buffer against microwelds forming between the hot exhaust valves and their seats.[3] Once these valves reopen, the microwelds pull apart and leave the valves with a rough surface that would abrade the seats, leading to valve recession. When lead began to be phased out of motor fuel, the automotive industry began specifying hardened valve seats and upgraded exhaust valve materials to prevent valve recession without lead.
Not a big deal for new designs, but with cars anyway it meant it was a bad idea to use unleaded gas in old models that weren't designed for it.
That's a lot of maybe's. Do you have any numbers or cites to back your contention that say, China->LA, rail for LA->NY is more efficient than China->NY entirely by ship?
A china that is committed to trading with the world is not waging war.
During the so-called "first great age of free trade" they said the same thing. The European countries were too financially intertwined for war to make sense. For some reason that talking point was dropped in 1914.
This would shock americans but the Chinese of 700 years had ships bigger than any in Europe that could travel farther and were more advanced with magnetic compasses and watertight compartments.
Zheng He's voyages were 600 years ago, not 700. Hardly news to Americans, especially since it was a hot topic a few years ago. The magnetic compass was used in Europe by the 12th century, but your other points are probably correct. Unfortunately we know very little about Zheng He's ships since the government ordered the ships destroyed and the records of the voyages burned.
Saying the water is "wasted" is like saying that we should suck all the water out of the Mississippi and send it to dry parts of the US
Don't give California and Arizona any ideas. They're always talking about what wonderful sunny places they are, but seem to have overlooked that water is essential for life. They'd be good places for solar power stations though.
Hoover and FDR had it right w/ the Good Neighbor Policy. Even aside from the ethical and humanitarian aspects, treating Latin America like garbage is a terrible idea strategically. It's not that I'm so Cumbaya about international relations, for example I'm fine with the Monroe Doctrine, but crapping all over people tends to lose hearts and minds. After what we pulled there, can you imagine Nicaragua having anything to do with the US? If we'd gotten ridden of Batista (or just twisted his arm enough to make things a little better for most people) we might never had had a Cuban problem.
Somehow a plan from the real life Dr. Strangelove makes me nervous.
theoretically, a cargo ship is more efficient than a train assuming you are only using hypothetical efficiencies and not real world scenarios
Then why does so much Chinese freight get shipped directly to NY harbor? http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120805/TRANSPORTATION/308059971
intelligence is a left-bounded Gaussian distribution
No, intelligence (by which I presume you mean IQ score) does not have a Gaussian distribution. They're kind of bell shaped, but that doesn't mean they're truly Gaussian (especially the tails).
Smart enough to know the meaning and purpose of a literary allusion...
It's not a literary allusion, which is typically defined as "a literary device in which the writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature".
P.S. I know I'm being incredibly pedantic, but that was the point of my original jest. As for me being too pedantic for Slashdot, the number and type of responses I got say that I'm in good company.
That surprises me too. I don't work with statisticians per se, but a few mathematicians. They seem to avoid the word "average" whenever they're talking math.
FWIW Merrian-Webster confirms the lack of mathematical precision in the word "average": a single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values
I don't think George expected them to know what median means. Take you, for example :)
But I clearly do know what median means. My stupidity lies elsewhere.
You are being pedantic. It is a joke.
No kidding. In reference to my response, I won't give the full Sheldon Cooper explanation of a joke, but it involves "irony".
No offense, but I'm disappointed. I was really hoping it was evidence that "they're still teaching Americans about the Bill of Rights". I should also add, that despite the "are you 14" crap one always hears on Slashdot, there is no reason a thoughtful person of any age shouldn't post.
Can you imagining telling vets just after WWII that someday Americans would (correctly) cite Germany as a bastion of civil rights? Granted, Germany has seriously cleaned up its act, but what bothers me is that's not the only change.