LEGALIZE all drugs for use at your own private RESIDENCE. i.e. no private business and no parties. If caught outside of RESIDENCE under influence then some minimum
So you're saying one couldn't have a few friends round to smoke a bowl and watch a movie? Being able to smoke in a private home seems to be an meaningless liberty when there's a limit on who is there. There's always the argument that there should be laws against giving it to children but, like alcohol, I would think that's already covered by child welfare laws.
I don't know about you, but my parents never had a bad word on Mary J, in fact my mum and I still enjoy a joint or two on bonfire night - pretty lights! The only advice they gave was to exercise a little self control and to stay away from the car if I ever indulged and indeed my first stash came from my mum because she "didn't want me getting ripped off by some crook". As for the government we have a PM that has admitted to using and I hear that your Obama has done the same, so it seems the only political barrier to legalisation is a craven legislature, Mail-reading types, lobbyists or more likely all three.
Count yourselves lucky that you don't have whitecoats getting sacked for expressing any dissent against the idea that All Drugs are Bad*. It seems to me that a prohibitionist gov't is even worse when they ignore their own advice.
*Except the heavily taxed booze and fags, of course!
Not necessarily correct. You only need that much helium if it's at atmospheric pressure. Perhaps one could design a reinforced balloon where the increased weight is offset by the increased lift?
And a word to the wise: you don't need to show your work when you do simple multiplication/division. And you certainly shouldn't need Alpha to convert tons to kg. For shame.
That site serves as a poster child for why Safari 5.0's "Reader" feature exists.
And why's that? It's not especially long/tall and even when viewing a 500 pixels rendition in FF there is always a landmark, so to speak, which means one rarely loses their place. Reader is definitely handy; I think it's great for reading short stories posted online*, but I fail to see what's wrong with the site in question besides being another damn blog...
*Preferably as.txts, but anything is better than a 10-page ad fest. One of the good things about adjustable font size is that I can decide how much text will be on a page.
His big weakness is that he's no politician, and he sometimes has trouble keeping is mouth shut from speaking politically inconvenient things. For example, dealing with the hydrogen people...;)
Be thankful. Here in the UK we sack our scientists for being politcally inconvenient, just look at the recent drugs fiasco.
Scientists are just people. The geekverse needs to let go of this scientist worship.
Putting aside the fact that some geeks are the scientists you describe, the public perception of scientists as white coat-wearing boffins with pipes and tweed jackets is more the fault of the media than the scientists themselves.
I'm proud of the Beeb bringing Prof. Cox into the limelight - though I'm not a fan myself - but unfortunately there are many who will publically applaud the idea of our impartial, dedicated and modest whitecoat. They only do so to decry a real one.* Geeks aren't the problem because they usually know what scientists and academics are really like.
As I understand it, the good Mr. Chu wasn't given his post as the result of a public vote. That makes him more akin to a public servant than a politician, I would say, and frankly the US is lucky to have him. Elections are rather like exams: often they don't gauge how well a candidate will perform in office, rather the candidates' ability to pass exams.
*Sir Humphrey was dead on. You all know which quote I mean. No XKCD today chaps.
And we all despair, as the naughty bits of attractive ladies everywhere get cancer.
X-Ray vision couldn't work like that - the eyes need to recieve x-rays. Either there are ambient x-rays (perhaps a component of sunlight, I didn't bother to look this up) or x-ray vision is just a catch-all term for seeing through shit.
Storing hydrogen is a chore to say the least, and that's without thinking about what makes a fuel cell. Call it prejudice but when I imagine the future of the car I don't see a hydrogen IC engine in the spotlight; electric motors are so much better.
My guess is that the actual antenna engineers never had knowledge of the final design of the phone. The process guys designing the machining to make the external antenna probably didn't know they were making antennas.
Imagine you're designing a phone and someone says "make it a metal strip ~1cm wide and ~1mm thick bent into a rectangular shape". I'm not one myself, but the first question I'd ask is "why?". The chances are it would have no resemblence to any other phone antenna, seeing as how it's just the right size to wrap around the phone you helped design last year...
Antenna designs are always a compromise between aesthetics and performance.
Mobile phone antennae have been of the patch variety for some time now. Besides this point I agree. I had an Ericsson T28 and if you've ever owned one yourself I think you'd agree that Ericsson made the right choice. I often wish Sony had never met them...
This is only reasonable engineering if function follows form. I try not to bash apple, I really do, but in this case it's painfully obvious what they are after when they "engineered" this thing.
I agree wholeheartedly; design is not engineering. This was a design decision but the RF engineer in charge still didn't shoot down this proposal as soon as it was suggested.
Industrial design is such a hit-and-miss affair simply because it's the intersection between two very disparate disciplines.
They're accepting returns and accepting fiscal responsibility? Apple didn't take your money. Show me a single instance where Apple refunded the purchase price of an iPhone and I'll eat my hats as well as any other item of clothing you care to mention! I'll disregard the service contract because mine (at least) doesn't specifically mention "iPhone" anywhere. I expect the question of cancelling a service contract because the carrier can't provide a working iPhone 4*
Assuming it's a design flaw of course, but frankly I've bought first revision Apple gear before and been disappointed more than once.
I don't think the poor implementation from Adobe is the root issue; I think it's that no-one but Adobe can do anything about it. If we were happy with Flash we wouldn't bitch about it so.
The point was to remove any possibility that downloading the video would affect the test, nor would decoding. The point was to compare the power usage of flash doing practically nothing to an HTML5 video doing just the same.
The key word is scripting: you're talking about converting a bunch of files in one format, which aren't malformed (or people would have voted and pulled them) to another format using a well-established program. You could probably do it in one line in most languages
Ffmpeg is another matter, but it's been doing flash->h264 for a while now
I didn't see a torus, it looks like a fusor in the article. They still produce neutrons, but the issue isn't the shape of the device or the confinement method it's the fuel you use. Not every reaction produces neutron radiation; if for example we can get a useful p+11B (hydrogen + boron-11) device we'll have a pretty plentiful fuel source and helium coming out of the exhaust pipe.
The border between local and state/national government is a fine one to tread. On one side you have local control over services and disparity between the more and less affluent areas, on the other you have evenly distributed resources and the problems that a central beaurocracy can bring. That is merely on observation, but personally I feel that the curriculum isn't the only thing that should be nationalised.
Even if its electronic billing does it matter, if you choose to cancel after a change before you pay your bill(paying your bill will automatically accept new terms)they cannot charge you for it. And yes all changes are to be either mailed to you with your bill or sent with your electronic bill. This is why automatic payments are stupid, you automatically accept all term changes.
In the UK any direct debit charge has to be communicated 15 days before the payment date. If, somehow, you signed an agreement that stipulated payment the instant the invoice was produced you'd deserve all you got, which I hope would be a nullification of an unfair contract: one that has effectively given one party to make changes without the consent of the other.
Please clarify it further: if the AG is the AG in a state that has the death penalty and he prosecuted a case (even through a subordinate) that sought the death penalty then he's at least as much to blame as the judge/jury that decided on it.
If a populace doesn't abolish capital punishment then they're to blame for every occurrence; I'm not in favour of it myself but it's their choice and I'm not passing judgement (if you'll forgive the phrase).
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LEGALIZE all drugs for use at your own private RESIDENCE. i.e. no private business and no parties. If caught outside of RESIDENCE under influence then some minimum
So you're saying one couldn't have a few friends round to smoke a bowl and watch a movie? Being able to smoke in a private home seems to be an meaningless liberty when there's a limit on who is there. There's always the argument that there should be laws against giving it to children but, like alcohol, I would think that's already covered by child welfare laws.
I don't know about you, but my parents never had a bad word on Mary J, in fact my mum and I still enjoy a joint or two on bonfire night - pretty lights! The only advice they gave was to exercise a little self control and to stay away from the car if I ever indulged and indeed my first stash came from my mum because she "didn't want me getting ripped off by some crook". As for the government we have a PM that has admitted to using and I hear that your Obama has done the same, so it seems the only political barrier to legalisation is a craven legislature, Mail-reading types, lobbyists or more likely all three.
Count yourselves lucky that you don't have whitecoats getting sacked for expressing any dissent against the idea that All Drugs are Bad*. It seems to me that a prohibitionist gov't is even worse when they ignore their own advice.
*Except the heavily taxed booze and fags, of course!
I am pretty sure that could cause an effective public outrage.
Perhaps, but not necessarily against the Chinese Government. Think more along the lines of OMG h4x0r5!!
And a word to the wise: you don't need to show your work when you do simple multiplication/division. And you certainly shouldn't need Alpha to convert tons to kg. For shame.
That site serves as a poster child for why Safari 5.0's "Reader" feature exists.
And why's that? It's not especially long/tall and even when viewing a 500 pixels rendition in FF there is always a landmark, so to speak, which means one rarely loses their place. Reader is definitely handy; I think it's great for reading short stories posted online*, but I fail to see what's wrong with the site in question besides being another damn blog...
*Preferably as .txts, but anything is better than a 10-page ad fest. One of the good things about adjustable font size is that I can decide how much text will be on a page.
His big weakness is that he's no politician, and he sometimes has trouble keeping is mouth shut from speaking politically inconvenient things. For example, dealing with the hydrogen people... ;)
Be thankful. Here in the UK we sack our scientists for being politcally inconvenient, just look at the recent drugs fiasco.
Scientists are just people. The geekverse needs to let go of this scientist worship.
Putting aside the fact that some geeks are the scientists you describe, the public perception of scientists as white coat-wearing boffins with pipes and tweed jackets is more the fault of the media than the scientists themselves.
I'm proud of the Beeb bringing Prof. Cox into the limelight - though I'm not a fan myself - but unfortunately there are many who will publically applaud the idea of our impartial, dedicated and modest whitecoat. They only do so to decry a real one.* Geeks aren't the problem because they usually know what scientists and academics are really like.
As I understand it, the good Mr. Chu wasn't given his post as the result of a public vote. That makes him more akin to a public servant than a politician, I would say, and frankly the US is lucky to have him. Elections are rather like exams: often they don't gauge how well a candidate will perform in office, rather the candidates' ability to pass exams.
*Sir Humphrey was dead on. You all know which quote I mean. No XKCD today chaps.
That is all.
X-ray vision
And we all despair, as the naughty bits of attractive ladies everywhere get cancer.
X-Ray vision couldn't work like that - the eyes need to recieve x-rays. Either there are ambient x-rays (perhaps a component of sunlight, I didn't bother to look this up) or x-ray vision is just a catch-all term for seeing through shit.
Storing hydrogen is a chore to say the least, and that's without thinking about what makes a fuel cell. Call it prejudice but when I imagine the future of the car I don't see a hydrogen IC engine in the spotlight; electric motors are so much better.
How about ohplease or maybe even spareus!
absolutedrivel would be good too, though I'd rather not see this sort of trast on /. at all. I can dream, can't I?
So the autonomous system beats having humans in the loop. Explain to me why we need people in space again.
Because in the future we won't be mere tourists.
My guess is that the actual antenna engineers never had knowledge of the final design of the phone. The process guys designing the machining to make the external antenna probably didn't know they were making antennas.
Imagine you're designing a phone and someone says "make it a metal strip ~1cm wide and ~1mm thick bent into a rectangular shape". I'm not one myself, but the first question I'd ask is "why?". The chances are it would have no resemblence to any other phone antenna, seeing as how it's just the right size to wrap around the phone you helped design last year...
Antenna designs are always a compromise between aesthetics and performance.
Mobile phone antennae have been of the patch variety for some time now. Besides this point I agree. I had an Ericsson T28 and if you've ever owned one yourself I think you'd agree that Ericsson made the right choice. I often wish Sony had never met them...
And like many other first-generation designs, flaws related to these trade-offs surfaced after implementation.
You hit the nail on the head, but an antenna that still works with the user holding the device is pretty elementary. Hindsight shouldn't be required.
This is only reasonable engineering if function follows form. I try not to bash apple, I really do, but in this case it's painfully obvious what they are after when they "engineered" this thing.
I agree wholeheartedly; design is not engineering. This was a design decision but the RF engineer in charge still didn't shoot down this proposal as soon as it was suggested.
Industrial design is such a hit-and-miss affair simply because it's the intersection between two very disparate disciplines.
Assuming it's a design flaw of course, but frankly I've bought first revision Apple gear before and been disappointed more than once.
I don't think the poor implementation from Adobe is the root issue; I think it's that no-one but Adobe can do anything about it. If we were happy with Flash we wouldn't bitch about it so.
The point was to remove any possibility that downloading the video would affect the test, nor would decoding. The point was to compare the power usage of flash doing practically nothing to an HTML5 video doing just the same.
Ffmpeg is another matter, but it's been doing flash->h264 for a while now
In these circumstances CSD is probably available too at a heady (in comparison) 9.6kbps.
I didn't see a torus, it looks like a fusor in the article. They still produce neutrons, but the issue isn't the shape of the device or the confinement method it's the fuel you use. Not every reaction produces neutron radiation; if for example we can get a useful p+11B (hydrogen + boron-11) device we'll have a pretty plentiful fuel source and helium coming out of the exhaust pipe.
The border between local and state/national government is a fine one to tread. On one side you have local control over services and disparity between the more and less affluent areas, on the other you have evenly distributed resources and the problems that a central beaurocracy can bring. That is merely on observation, but personally I feel that the curriculum isn't the only thing that should be nationalised.
Even if its electronic billing does it matter, if you choose to cancel after a change before you pay your bill(paying your bill will automatically accept new terms)they cannot charge you for it. And yes all changes are to be either mailed to you with your bill or sent with your electronic bill. This is why automatic payments are stupid, you automatically accept all term changes.
In the UK any direct debit charge has to be communicated 15 days before the payment date. If, somehow, you signed an agreement that stipulated payment the instant the invoice was produced you'd deserve all you got, which I hope would be a nullification of an unfair contract: one that has effectively given one party to make changes without the consent of the other.
IANAL; this is common sense. God I hope it is...
Please clarify it further: if the AG is the AG in a state that has the death penalty and he prosecuted a case (even through a subordinate) that sought the death penalty then he's at least as much to blame as the judge/jury that decided on it.
If a populace doesn't abolish capital punishment then they're to blame for every occurrence; I'm not in favour of it myself but it's their choice and I'm not passing judgement (if you'll forgive the phrase).