So why use a decimal system for currency? Indeed, until the year 2001 US stock market operated in fractions: two and a half dollars, twelve and 17/32, etc. By your reasoning, fractions are such a wonderful notion that they should never have changed.
What about 'shortest day' is it that trips you up?
It's that when the advert says "Jaws 12, coming to a theatre near you not far from the longest day of the year", I have no idea when to don my Jaws 11 T-shirt and head down to the multiplex.
I'm not sure what you're saying. I think you're saying christmas is a shortest day celebration, and that therefore in the southern hemisphere christmas should be observed in June. I think you're saying the southern hemisphere is doing the right thing on the wrong date.
If you never said 'christmas == cold' (two equal signs, note), you certainly did say 'christmas == shortest day', and by virtue of physics 'shortest day == cold'.
Seasons are local effects, but many inwardly-focussed societies don't grasp that. Whenever I see an ad that says "coming this summer", my immediate reaction is "when the fuck is that?". I'm not being obtuse for the sake of it, I'm just being tripped up by someone using a metric that is not appropriate for indicating time. I have to consider a) where I am, b) where the ad writer was, c) whether the ad writer has a global view (usually not), d) convert.
What do you in the north do to celebrate the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere? I'm guessing not much (and rightly so) !
But when it's cold, food is scarce and everything seems to be fighting to live, even some wild animals share what is available. Merry Christmas everyone.
Well, I've looked out the window, and it's none of those things. The sun is shining, it's hot, the grass is green and I think I might go for a swim. Oh, and by the way, it's also tomorrow.
Yep, only domestic, and moreover only when your entire journey involves major domestic airports. If you're flying from one capital to another and then onward to somewhere interesting, the Q-Tag she no work. Great for business travellers; not so good for people travelling with fishing rods or BCDs:(
Doubtless the reach will spread in time, but in the years I've had them, I've been asked to take them off more often than I've been able to leave them on.
Well, it's a rigid pressure vessel and air weighs 1.2kg per cubic metre, so why not lighten the boat simply by removing the air.
True, that wouldn't account for 100T, but after you remove the bodies you could also remove the air (vacuum) conditioning equipment, galley, fresh water, etc, etc.
From TFA: "close in" and "slow moving". So as long as the North Koreans can arrange to have their rockets hover over US ships on clear days, yeah, nothing to worry about at all.
It has to do with use of the word "World", and the assumption that it always involves the actual world rather than an expansive term applied to a parochial event.
A solar powered air ship is probably more the go. Greater surface area, less power required. But it would need to fly above the weather, and the low speed combined with daylight operation would yield a very low range. Probably in the same category as a solar powered submarine.
Sorry - correction: they're not looking for "deep" pools of money otherwise they'd be going after GOOG and MSFT as well. They're looking for modest pools of money.
I got hit by a patent troll a few years back. I used the same technique that I'd used when MSFT once approached us and said they thought we might be infringing on their IP and could we prove that we're not. And again when another large company said we needed to change our logo because it looked like we had dotted a capital 'i', and they owned that. Just ignore them. We got one additional letter from the patent troll, and that was the last ever heard. As someone else has said, these people are looking for deep pools of money.
In the first instance, ignore. If they demand that you must do something by some certain date, ignore. When they send the follow-up, ignore. If they come back a third time, then send a really badly written letter produced on a manual typewriter or written in crayon with a hand-written envelope telling them what they're claiming isn't applicable, but provide no details. Make yourself look small, impoverished and hard work.
EPIRB for sure, but also AIS. The big ships don't even have someone looking out the window, and rely on AIS alerts to avoid bumping into other big ships. Active AIS not only tells you whe the ships are, but more importantly makes *you* show up on their displays. Probably also add some forward-looking sonar because in many parts of the world, you can't rely on your GPS plotter to match what's actually there.
"If anybody approaches you in open water, he's not your friend."
Either that, or he needs help, or he's approaching to warn you of some hazard, or offer you some fish, or just to be friendly. Yeah, you go ahead and pull your gun. Or better still, just stay home.
why carry a bunch of extra fuel in later stages to haul al that deadweight around?
It's not quite as simple as this, but the answer to your question is "because fuel is really really cheap, and flight hardware is really really expensive".
From the Wired article: "Capsules, being more streamlined, must shed just 5 percent as much energy as a winged transport while re-entering the atmosphere. That makes them safer."
Arrant nonsense on all counts. But other than that, quite informative.
Its a common misconception, but the "great southern land" Cook was tasked to find was not Australia -- it was another large continent in the south pacific. Cook criss-crossed the Pacific sufficiently to establish there was not room for another continent to be hiding. Having *not* discovered the great southern land, the next part of his mission was to go map the east coast of Australia. Everyone knew it was there, and had done for hundreds of years. But nobody had any accurate charts. He "charted", did not "discover".
I lead them along, then thank them profusely, then tell them god has a special place picked out for them, then ask if they believe in god (interestingly, 100% of them feel unable to duck this question and willingly admit they believe), then I tell them they're a bad, bad person and that god will send them to hell. To hell, I say.
Very pure water is bad for you, as it leeches good minerals out of your cells (reverse reverse osmosis, if I'm not mistaken aka osmosis). If your desalination does too good a job, you have to "cut" that water with impure water.
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So why use a decimal system for currency? Indeed, until the year 2001 US stock market operated in fractions: two and a half dollars, twelve and 17/32, etc. By your reasoning, fractions are such a wonderful notion that they should never have changed.
For length, at least, our system is more natural. [...] Nature isn't base 10, other than the number of fingers and toes we have.
Yes, excellent point. I propose that we immediately abandon base 10 and start using base pi.
What about 'shortest day' is it that trips you up?
It's that when the advert says "Jaws 12, coming to a theatre near you not far from the longest day of the year", I have no idea when to don my Jaws 11 T-shirt and head down to the multiplex.
Anyway, happy Generic Solstice to you !
I'm not sure what you're saying. I think you're saying christmas is a shortest day celebration, and that therefore in the southern hemisphere christmas should be observed in June. I think you're saying the southern hemisphere is doing the right thing on the wrong date.
If you never said 'christmas == cold' (two equal signs, note), you certainly did say 'christmas == shortest day', and by virtue of physics 'shortest day == cold'.
Seasons are local effects, but many inwardly-focussed societies don't grasp that. Whenever I see an ad that says "coming this summer", my immediate reaction is "when the fuck is that?". I'm not being obtuse for the sake of it, I'm just being tripped up by someone using a metric that is not appropriate for indicating time. I have to consider a) where I am, b) where the ad writer was, c) whether the ad writer has a global view (usually not), d) convert.
What do you in the north do to celebrate the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere? I'm guessing not much (and rightly so) !
But when it's cold, food is scarce and everything seems to be fighting to live, even some wild animals share what is available. Merry Christmas everyone.
Well, I've looked out the window, and it's none of those things. The sun is shining, it's hot, the grass is green and I think I might go for a swim. Oh, and by the way, it's also tomorrow.
You hemispherist, you.
That Kim Jong Un is no fool. When executing relatives, always do it just *before* xmas, not *after*. That way you save on buying a present.
Yep, only domestic, and moreover only when your entire journey involves major domestic airports. If you're flying from one capital to another and then onward to somewhere interesting, the Q-Tag she no work. Great for business travellers; not so good for people travelling with fishing rods or BCDs :(
Doubtless the reach will spread in time, but in the years I've had them, I've been asked to take them off more often than I've been able to leave them on.
Well, it's a rigid pressure vessel and air weighs 1.2kg per cubic metre, so why not lighten the boat simply by removing the air.
True, that wouldn't account for 100T, but after you remove the bodies you could also remove the air (vacuum) conditioning equipment, galley, fresh water, etc, etc.
From TFA: "close in" and "slow moving". So as long as the North Koreans can arrange to have their rockets hover over US ships on clear days, yeah, nothing to worry about at all.
I've been on this ship several times, albeit not recently. Steel below the water line.
It has to do with use of the word "World", and the assumption that it always involves the actual world rather than an expansive term applied to a parochial event.
You might have an argument if was decided by a US organization rather than the World Meteorological Organization. Note the word "World".
What, like in World Series?
A solar powered air ship is probably more the go. Greater surface area, less power required. But it would need to fly above the weather, and the low speed combined with daylight operation would yield a very low range. Probably in the same category as a solar powered submarine.
I rather suspect the motive here might just be to make the non-coders be awestruck with how dazzlingly clever and amazingly admirable the coders are.
Sorry - correction: they're not looking for "deep" pools of money otherwise they'd be going after GOOG and MSFT as well. They're looking for modest pools of money.
I got hit by a patent troll a few years back. I used the same technique that I'd used when MSFT once approached us and said they thought we might be infringing on their IP and could we prove that we're not. And again when another large company said we needed to change our logo because it looked like we had dotted a capital 'i', and they owned that. Just ignore them. We got one additional letter from the patent troll, and that was the last ever heard. As someone else has said, these people are looking for deep pools of money.
In the first instance, ignore. If they demand that you must do something by some certain date, ignore. When they send the follow-up, ignore. If they come back a third time, then send a really badly written letter produced on a manual typewriter or written in crayon with a hand-written envelope telling them what they're claiming isn't applicable, but provide no details. Make yourself look small, impoverished and hard work.
EPIRB for sure, but also AIS. The big ships don't even have someone looking out the window, and rely on AIS alerts to avoid bumping into other big ships. Active AIS not only tells you whe the ships are, but more importantly makes *you* show up on their displays. Probably also add some forward-looking sonar because in many parts of the world, you can't rely on your GPS plotter to match what's actually there.
"If anybody approaches you in open water, he's not your friend."
Either that, or he needs help, or he's approaching to warn you of some hazard, or offer you some fish, or just to be friendly. Yeah, you go ahead and pull your gun. Or better still, just stay home.
+1
why carry a bunch of extra fuel in later stages to haul al that deadweight around?
It's not quite as simple as this, but the answer to your question is "because fuel is really really cheap, and flight hardware is really really expensive".
I think they're talking about how he discovered Cuba
From the Wired article: "Capsules, being more streamlined, must shed just 5 percent as much energy as a winged transport while re-entering the atmosphere. That makes them safer."
Arrant nonsense on all counts. But other than that, quite informative.
Its a common misconception, but the "great southern land" Cook was tasked to find was not Australia -- it was another large continent in the south pacific. Cook criss-crossed the Pacific sufficiently to establish there was not room for another continent to be hiding. Having *not* discovered the great southern land, the next part of his mission was to go map the east coast of Australia. Everyone knew it was there, and had done for hundreds of years. But nobody had any accurate charts. He "charted", did not "discover".
I lead them along, then thank them profusely, then tell them god has a special place picked out for them, then ask if they believe in god (interestingly, 100% of them feel unable to duck this question and willingly admit they believe), then I tell them they're a bad, bad person and that god will send them to hell. To hell, I say.
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Very pure water is bad for you, as it leeches good minerals out of your cells (reverse reverse osmosis, if I'm not mistaken aka osmosis). If your desalination does too good a job, you have to "cut" that water with impure water.