*snip* Maybe this has to do with the time scale - she would usually make 5 minute plans, rather than 2 hours or whatever the monkey's time scale is.
I don't wish to sound petty, but chimpanzees are apes. I'm sure you know that but if a monkey was seen planning like this then it would be much bigger news. As you say, it's probably a question of timescales; our dog may have been bright but I can't recall her ever planning like this unless you count burying things in the garden.
On every jukebox I've seen there's been a notice saying that not all selections will be played. When you think about it, there might not be enough time on a given night to play all the songs that are requested. Not being reimbursed when your song isn't played is not new, but this happening because someone paid more probably is.
Ok , some smartphones have gone back to that and now have a SIM slot on the outside but most STILL require you to disassemble the phones first. Why??
Because saying that space is at a premium in modern phones is a massive understatement. The space needed to accommodate what you describe, especially with a full-size SIM card just isn't available. As this image shows, the space devoted to even a micro-SIM is a significant fraction of what is available. The SIM holder is directly beneath the A4 chip and it's fairly plain to see why Apple are pushing to do away with physical SIMs altogether. FWIW I'm still against the idea, but I do see why they're so keen on it.
This reminds me of something that happened in one of our old computer labs, one which we affectionately called "The Ice Box". As the story goes the A/C was originally designed on the assumption that the room would contain a few dozen computers, which it did, and an equal number of CRTs, which it did not. I suppose it's because the new building took so long going up that they missed the big switch to LCDs.
The whole thing is probably apocryphal but I found it quite amusing all the same; there's something quite absurd about a bunch of people in thick coats huddled over keyboards when it's twenty degrees outside.
I'm sorry, I should have been more specific*. By "distillery" I meant something used to extract heavy or deuterated water from the sea, which could yield deuterium fuel for a fusion reactor.
*Or more general, depending on how you look at it.
No, it won't work that way, but those armchair admirals are easily snowed.
Why not?
If this hypothetical fusion power plant runs on D-D or D-T or even the more esoteric p-B there's no real reason that fuel could be extracted from seawater. That of course assumes that you could fit a distillery into the boat. If not, then it's no big deal when you realise just how minuscule the amount of fuel such a craft would need.
Still I think you're dead-on when it comes to approaching the DoD; those people have pockets as deep as the oceans they patrol.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is patently bunk since this obviously couldn't contain 5 million words... unless you can read really fast.
Huh? How'd this make the front page? French internal politics?
Well I'm not French either, but it does make a pleasant change from the US political stories that seem to inevitably descend into bleating about libertarians after about a dozen comments.
Out of curiosity, just what is the safe limit for boron/boric acid consumption in humans? I was under the impression that it was so high as to be inconsequential. It's pretty nasty stuff for insects, but not the rest of the animal kingdom AFAIK.
You want to provide proof of spontaneous self-replicating protein generation? Go find some XNA laying around outside.
There's no need, the Miller-Urey experiment neatly showed that protein building blocks can self-assemble in nature. The leap to self-replication isn't as far a leap as that between nothing and amino acids.
The fact that these people have created a synthetic analogue to DNA does not prove that a creator diety created the real stuff any more than a Tesla coil making long electrical arcs would lead one to believe that Thor throws every natural lightning bolt.
For my two penneth worth, both you and the parent are wrong, though frankly you're the more wrong of the two. kurzweilfreak is correct for the wrong reasons while you are wrong, but for equally wrong reasons. In essence, the parent is saying that a creator deity need not exist because humans can create X; you are saying that because humans made X there must be a creator. There's nothing to say a creator and human ingenuity in recreating His/Her/Its creations are mutually exclusive, and there's nothing to say that because certain complex creations have not been seen to arise in nature in human timescales they couldn't without divine intervention.
Still, I'm talking out of my arse; It's not like a have a doctorate in biochemistry (I really don't). I just get irritated by people taking interesting but relatively small - as compared to, say, DNA itself - discoveries and using them to "prove" the existence of $GOD. Personally I don't see a problem in using a deity to explain how the Universe in all its splendour was set in motion; I confess that the idea of a cosmic finger flicking the first atoms like dominoes appeals to my love of whimsy. I do, however, say that you can't reconcile evolution with a deity creating - hence creationism the Earth and all creatures thereon in their current form, since there's a more than ample fossil record that says otherwise. I'm not going to get into the cop-out that is ID, mainly because it's just that - a cop-out for school boards - but also because I have difficulty in believing in any "intelligent" designer that would reinvent the wheel.
Three men are sharing a hotel room in Russia. While one is trying to sleep the other two are chatting noisily so he decides to play a little practical joke on them. He calls down to the front desk and asks for some sandwiches to be sent up, then calmly walks into the room where the other two men are talking. Upon a coffee table sits a small plant-pot, which he taps three times and speaks: "Comrade Major, please send up some sandwiches and coffee."
A deathly silence falls upon the room and the prankster finally gets some sleep.
When morning comes he is woken by the maid, who is carrying a tray of sandwiches and a pot of coffee. His erstwhile companions are nowhere to be seen; their beds have been neatly made and their luggage is gone. As panic grips him he asks the maid "where have they gone?", to which she replies - not unkindly - that the two men are probably in the gulag by now. The maid starts to leave, but as she reaches the door she turns and sees the pallor on the remaining guest's face...
"Don't worry, Comrade Major thought it was hilarious."
Firstly, you forgot one of the Brits' most significant characteristics: self-deprecation.
- Free healthcare to all, at much cheaper rates than the US private healthcare system. I've tried both, and I'd take the NHS in a heart-beat.
The NHS has its ups and downs but we count ourselves very lucky for having it as well as private healthcare providers like Bupa.
- Significantly subsidized education. You don't come out of college desperate to find a job to pay off your immense loans.
Desperate to find a job, maybe, but our student loans aren't taken out privately - for the most part - so the repayments are actually quite reasonable. In fact, the first £15k (around the $23k mark) of your earnings are disregarded when it comes to calculating repayments.
- They're not currently at war with any chemicals, nouns, or indeed any nation-states as far as I'm aware.
Some chemicals are very much targeted, but punishments are nowhere near as harsh as those in the US. Words... well, so long as you aren't encouraging violence, intolerance, etc. you're pretty much free to say what you want, including insults directed towards the Royal Family (see point the First). As for nation-states that depends entirely on who the US is after at the moment:P, but suffice it to say we don't have it in for Cuba; it's 4,500 miles away.
- There's no gate-rape or sanctioned government-grope at the borders
Nope, free travel between EU nations in particular is a wonderful thing and we've learned to take the rough with the smooth. We have enough home-grown nutcases anyway.
- They don't have 1 in every 31 adults behind bars or on parole / being monitored. Think about that for a second. One in Thirty-one.
Amen to that. That statistic is quite saddening and I'm given to understand that many inmates are imprisoned for relatively minor drug offences.
- They live longer, and have less infant deaths
A double-edged sword, since we're careening towards the same pension crisis as many other nations. Infant mortality, however, is a bad thing however one looks at it.
- They have a genuine choice in politics - left, center, or right. As opposed to right and crazy-town here in the US.
LOL! Our choice is basically pro-business toffs (Tory - blue), pro-union spendaholics (Labour - red) and the Liberal Democrats, whose yellow ties should give some indication as to their character. (I actually vote LD for their progressive social policies and attitude toward proportional representation... and partly because I'm curious to see how they would screw things up)
- Their police won't handcuff you, lie you on the floor, then shoot you dead on a subway train.
Generally, no they won't, and the fact that most of them don't carry firearms, but the ones that do have been known to shoot people before boarding a subway train. That was a dark day, but in our defence most of the nation was in uproar over it.
- No metal-detectors needed at schools. Schools, for $deity sake!
Not yet, thankfully, but we need to sort out the problem of knife crime, which is preferable to gun crime but still lethal.
- There's no software patents:)
Yes, but given that the blues are in charge and the reds seem keen on the idea too I think it's only a matter of time even without US pressure.
All told, the UK society seems to be functioning as well as any enlightened Western society should, unlike the USA. On th
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*snip* Maybe this has to do with the time scale - she would usually make 5 minute plans, rather than 2 hours or whatever the monkey's time scale is.
I don't wish to sound petty, but chimpanzees are apes. I'm sure you know that but if a monkey was seen planning like this then it would be much bigger news. As you say, it's probably a question of timescales; our dog may have been bright but I can't recall her ever planning like this unless you count burying things in the garden.
On every jukebox I've seen there's been a notice saying that not all selections will be played. When you think about it, there might not be enough time on a given night to play all the songs that are requested. Not being reimbursed when your song isn't played is not new, but this happening because someone paid more probably is.
Ok , some smartphones have gone back to that and now have a SIM slot on the outside but most STILL require you to disassemble the phones first. Why??
Because saying that space is at a premium in modern phones is a massive understatement. The space needed to accommodate what you describe, especially with a full-size SIM card just isn't available. As this image shows, the space devoted to even a micro-SIM is a significant fraction of what is available. The SIM holder is directly beneath the A4 chip and it's fairly plain to see why Apple are pushing to do away with physical SIMs altogether. FWIW I'm still against the idea, but I do see why they're so keen on it.
That's twenty degrees celsius, which is quite warm where I'm from.
This reminds me of something that happened in one of our old computer labs, one which we affectionately called "The Ice Box". As the story goes the A/C was originally designed on the assumption that the room would contain a few dozen computers, which it did, and an equal number of CRTs, which it did not. I suppose it's because the new building took so long going up that they missed the big switch to LCDs.
The whole thing is probably apocryphal but I found it quite amusing all the same; there's something quite absurd about a bunch of people in thick coats huddled over keyboards when it's twenty degrees outside.
I'm sorry, I should have been more specific*. By "distillery" I meant something used to extract heavy or deuterated water from the sea, which could yield deuterium fuel for a fusion reactor.
*Or more general, depending on how you look at it.
how does it sound?
The same as one hand fwapping.
No, it won't work that way, but those armchair admirals are easily snowed.
Why not?
If this hypothetical fusion power plant runs on D-D or D-T or even the more esoteric p-B there's no real reason that fuel could be extracted from seawater. That of course assumes that you could fit a distillery into the boat. If not, then it's no big deal when you realise just how minuscule the amount of fuel such a craft would need.
Still I think you're dead-on when it comes to approaching the DoD; those people have pockets as deep as the oceans they patrol.
"The Universe is big and old and rare things happen all the time, including life."
...I can't sue the FDA
It's America; of course you can!
:P
The guys with inflatable penis implants are going to be very nervous, very soon... UpDownUpDownUpDownUpDown
Up and down aren't a problem for a penis, nor are left or right, but how is the poor fella supposed to manage B and A?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is patently bunk since this obviously couldn't contain 5 million words... unless you can read really fast.
We apologise again for the fault in the email. Those responsible for sacking the person who has just been sacked have been sacked.
Your guess is as good as mine; I've never seen a turbo button that was wired up to anything!
(Pipe down, grandad. I'm not on your lawn.)
Huh? How'd this make the front page? French internal politics?
Well I'm not French either, but it does make a pleasant change from the US political stories that seem to inevitably descend into bleating about libertarians after about a dozen comments.
Out of curiosity, just what is the safe limit for boron/boric acid consumption in humans? I was under the impression that it was so high as to be inconsequential. It's pretty nasty stuff for insects, but not the rest of the animal kingdom AFAIK.
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The Pope is incapable of being wrong, so his reasons are moot... aren't they?
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You want to provide proof of spontaneous self-replicating protein generation? Go find some XNA laying around outside.
There's no need, the Miller-Urey experiment neatly showed that protein building blocks can self-assemble in nature. The leap to self-replication isn't as far a leap as that between nothing and amino acids.
The fact that these people have created a synthetic analogue to DNA does not prove that a creator diety created the real stuff any more than a Tesla coil making long electrical arcs would lead one to believe that Thor throws every natural lightning bolt.
For my two penneth worth, both you and the parent are wrong, though frankly you're the more wrong of the two. kurzweilfreak is correct for the wrong reasons while you are wrong, but for equally wrong reasons. In essence, the parent is saying that a creator deity need not exist because humans can create X; you are saying that because humans made X there must be a creator. There's nothing to say a creator and human ingenuity in recreating His/Her/Its creations are mutually exclusive, and there's nothing to say that because certain complex creations have not been seen to arise in nature in human timescales they couldn't without divine intervention.
Still, I'm talking out of my arse; It's not like a have a doctorate in biochemistry (I really don't). I just get irritated by people taking interesting but relatively small - as compared to, say, DNA itself - discoveries and using them to "prove" the existence of $GOD. Personally I don't see a problem in using a deity to explain how the Universe in all its splendour was set in motion; I confess that the idea of a cosmic finger flicking the first atoms like dominoes appeals to my love of whimsy. I do, however, say that you can't reconcile evolution with a deity creating - hence creationism the Earth and all creatures thereon in their current form, since there's a more than ample fossil record that says otherwise. I'm not going to get into the cop-out that is ID, mainly because it's just that - a cop-out for school boards - but also because I have difficulty in believing in any "intelligent" designer that would reinvent the wheel.
The deaf only rarely care what something sounds like...
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The Jetsons.
If I ever get to choose my own sound, it will be this.
Three men are sharing a hotel room in Russia. While one is trying to sleep the other two are chatting noisily so he decides to play a little practical joke on them. He calls down to the front desk and asks for some sandwiches to be sent up, then calmly walks into the room where the other two men are talking. Upon a coffee table sits a small plant-pot, which he taps three times and speaks: "Comrade Major, please send up some sandwiches and coffee."
A deathly silence falls upon the room and the prankster finally gets some sleep.
When morning comes he is woken by the maid, who is carrying a tray of sandwiches and a pot of coffee. His erstwhile companions are nowhere to be seen; their beds have been neatly made and their luggage is gone. As panic grips him he asks the maid "where have they gone?", to which she replies - not unkindly - that the two men are probably in the gulag by now. The maid starts to leave, but as she reaches the door she turns and sees the pallor on the remaining guest's face...
"Don't worry, Comrade Major thought it was hilarious."
- Free healthcare to all, at much cheaper rates than the US private healthcare system. I've tried both, and I'd take the NHS in a heart-beat.
The NHS has its ups and downs but we count ourselves very lucky for having it as well as private healthcare providers like Bupa.
- Significantly subsidized education. You don't come out of college desperate to find a job to pay off your immense loans.
Desperate to find a job, maybe, but our student loans aren't taken out privately - for the most part - so the repayments are actually quite reasonable. In fact, the first £15k (around the $23k mark) of your earnings are disregarded when it comes to calculating repayments.
- They're not currently at war with any chemicals, nouns, or indeed any nation-states as far as I'm aware.
Some chemicals are very much targeted, but punishments are nowhere near as harsh as those in the US. Words... well, so long as you aren't encouraging violence, intolerance, etc. you're pretty much free to say what you want, including insults directed towards the Royal Family (see point the First). As for nation-states that depends entirely on who the US is after at the moment :P, but suffice it to say we don't have it in for Cuba; it's 4,500 miles away.
- There's no gate-rape or sanctioned government-grope at the borders
Nope, free travel between EU nations in particular is a wonderful thing and we've learned to take the rough with the smooth. We have enough home-grown nutcases anyway.
- They don't have 1 in every 31 adults behind bars or on parole / being monitored. Think about that for a second. One in Thirty-one.
Amen to that. That statistic is quite saddening and I'm given to understand that many inmates are imprisoned for relatively minor drug offences.
- They live longer, and have less infant deaths
A double-edged sword, since we're careening towards the same pension crisis as many other nations. Infant mortality, however, is a bad thing however one looks at it.
- They have a genuine choice in politics - left, center, or right. As opposed to right and crazy-town here in the US.
LOL! Our choice is basically pro-business toffs (Tory - blue), pro-union spendaholics (Labour - red) and the Liberal Democrats, whose yellow ties should give some indication as to their character.
(I actually vote LD for their progressive social policies and attitude toward proportional representation... and partly because I'm curious to see how they would screw things up)
- Their police won't handcuff you, lie you on the floor, then shoot you dead on a subway train.
Generally, no they won't, and the fact that most of them don't carry firearms, but the ones that do have been known to shoot people before boarding a subway train. That was a dark day, but in our defence most of the nation was in uproar over it.
- No metal-detectors needed at schools. Schools, for $deity sake!
Not yet, thankfully, but we need to sort out the problem of knife crime, which is preferable to gun crime but still lethal.
- There's no software patents :)
Yes, but given that the blues are in charge and the reds seem keen on the idea too I think it's only a matter of time even without US pressure.
All told, the UK society seems to be functioning as well as any enlightened Western society should, unlike the USA. On th
Not just bollocks, bullocks' bollocks!
I'm typing this from my MBP, where it's shift-3 too and it evidently works as it should: £
How odd.
How are you typing the pound sign? It seems to work just fine whenever I do it.
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Disclaimer: at least it works fine in the preview, would someone mind telling me if it appears correctly to other people?