I am definitely not the conspiracy expert type of person, but it seems like the authors did a pretty thorough analysis of possible voting machine tampering during the primary here:
I don't know enough stats to really delve into possible biases, and also who knows if they are starting from the right data. But I'd be curious about what others thought of this. If it is true, it is scary.
The ony possible flaw I saw from looking at the results is the anomalous results always came at the expense of Santorum, so perhaps there was some correlation between precinct size and vote patterns specifically for Santorum's policies that the authors couldn't tease out of the data.
But seriously, dollars per mile (or how about pounds sterling per kilometer, just to keep the mix of units) doesn't really work well either because diesels typically cost more up front.
On the dollars per mile front, the best bet is to get an all-electric car. But the price premium upfront for that hardly ever makes up for the savings in euros per furlong side of things.
The thing is, it is not all attributable to efficiencies (although diesel's higher compression ratios do help in that regard). Diesel averages much longer-chain hydrocarbons and thus has a higher ratio of higher-energy C-C bonds to lower energy C-H bonds per gallon, and thus has more energy per gallon. This also means more CO2 per gallon. So you can't really compare MPG between gas and diesel engines. Us nerds would prefer to see kilometers per kilojoule for a better comparison, but we probably won't.
I do know that in Europe, where they report CO2 per kilometer, you can see that these emissions don't scale directly with the mileage comparing gas and diesel versions of the same car.
I am looking at getting one of them or the XV version. I wonder if the better mileage in the CVT is just based on the way the EPA test is run. You can get better or worse mileage from a stick, depending on how you use it (many who want the manual want it for better performance which gives them worse mileage).
Then again, the CVT has a lower ratio for its tallest "gear". It can afford to do that since if there is a slight incline, it only needs to infinitesimally upshift to maintain speed. If the manual transmission had that tall a gear for the highway, small inclines would make the engine lug and/or lose power requiring much more frequent upshifts. So I can see how theoretically the CVT could get better mileage on the highway. City, not so sure.
You are quoting their current plans. They disappear at the end of the month and are replaced with the just announced data plans starting at $50/mo 1 GB (including voice and text, but *not* including the monthly price to put a device on the network, which is $30 for a dumb phone and $40 for a smart phone).
OK, verizon, so then go ahead and charge me by the megabyte (or gigabyte). They aren't doing that.
They require at least a $50 base charge (supposedly made palatable because it also includes the voice and text -"now unlimited!' - I never used up my voice and text quotas!) for 1 GB. Can I just pay per gigabyte after that? No. If I upgrade my dumb phone to a smart phone so I can use that data, I have to pay an extra $20 - $30/mo. *with no extra data* (adding a smart phone to the plan is $40/mo. Right now, adding a dumb phone to a family plan is only $10 plus $10 for text).
Every time one wants to "share" the rationed GB's with another device, one has to pay $20 - $40/mo. extra for no more data. That's not paying by the GB.
Stop lying through your teeth VZW! If bandwidth is limited, then just sell it by the GB.
I feel like it could bite our ass in the future when all of Pennsylvania has pockets of water underneath it that, by themselves pose no risk but added up eventually cause us some discomfort
Statements like this show you don't really understand what is going on here. "Pockets of water"? The whole point of hydrofracking is that this shale is incredibly impermeable and you have to fracture it to get the gas out. A lot of the water returns to the surface (handling this at the surface is the biggest challenge), and the rest if pretty much locked up in shale that is thousands of feet below any aquifers used for drinking water.
People seem to get upset when I try to place the burden of proof that this will not harm us in anyway on the companies that are going to make billions of dollars off it
In other words you are saying you'll be fine with hydrofracking as soon as someone proves the negative. Can't be done.
What can be done on the other hand, is hydrofracking safely, presuming it is adequately regulated. If the damn republicans stop trying to convince everyone that regulation is bad, then perhaps we can get going on producing more gas from shale.
Same thing with the Universal Sports over the air station. This was one of the few stations I used to watch (OTA). When Comcast bought NBC, they stopped distributing Universal Sports (which was on one of the secondary channels on the NBC channel). How this merger ever made it through antitrust scrutiny is beyond me.
He's talking about mechanical engineering, not coding. There's a huge difference. You can always teach yourself new languages, and by the very nature of coding, there is lots online that can help you become efficient.
But when it comes to mechanical, chemical, and other types of engineering, you need to take the courses. Sure you can buy some books and read them, but there is a large set of knowledge that builds on itself that has to be learned to get to where you can be productive.
This kind of relates to a pet peeve of mine when I hear coders talking about how they can reinvent themselves to keep themselves marketable. I agree they have to, and so does everyone else to varying degrees. However, it is one thing to reinvent yourself by learning a new language that uses a semicolon rather than a line feed to end a line (OK, so I exagerate, there is a lot of other deeper concepts that differentiate languages), and another to go from being an expert in, say, thrust bearing design to wastewater treatment. There is a lot of new knowledge and experience that has to be gained, which may or may not be available through book or on-line learning.
No shit. My kid (who's a better than average swimmer) won't go to the State competition anymore as he's seen too many parents yelling at their kids. "How come you didn't win? You really screwed up!" - to a 7 year old.
The FA (Football Association) in the UK has a campaign targeted at parents to try and prevent that. Take a look, it's here. Maybe write to the swimming association (whoever accredits the competition) and see if they recognise the problem.
They do. Although the reference to "State Competition" tells me he might be referring to High School Competition rather than club swimming.
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Since when are coal or petroleum complex molecules? Coal is to varying degrees just carbon (the harder the coal, more it is just plain C) and petroleum is chains of Carbon with hydrogens haning off the sides. These are pretty simple molecules.
We are talking data plans here, not cell phones. There are plenty of cell phone plans you can get that are reasonable.
Personally, I choose to not get a smartphone for the reasons outlined above. However, I still have a cell phone, and the rates are way way cheaper than a smartphone.
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Actually, this was the paper I was looking for:
http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Republican-Primary-Election-Results-Amazing-Statistical-Anomalies_V2.0.pdf
Same authors and analysis. But much more in depth treatment of the data and analysis of alternate explanations.
I am definitely not the conspiracy expert type of person, but it seems like the authors did a pretty thorough analysis of possible voting machine tampering during the primary here:
http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2008_2012_ElectionsResultsAnomaliesAndAnalysis_V1.51.pdf
I don't know enough stats to really delve into possible biases, and also who knows if they are starting from the right data. But I'd be curious about what others thought of this. If it is true, it is scary.
The ony possible flaw I saw from looking at the results is the anomalous results always came at the expense of Santorum, so perhaps there was some correlation between precinct size and vote patterns specifically for Santorum's policies that the authors couldn't tease out of the data.
It's not the UN, it is the OSCE. Despite the article summary, I could find nothing linking the OSCE to the UN.
I like looking shifty you insensitive clod!
But seriously, dollars per mile (or how about pounds sterling per kilometer, just to keep the mix of units) doesn't really work well either because diesels typically cost more up front.
On the dollars per mile front, the best bet is to get an all-electric car. But the price premium upfront for that hardly ever makes up for the savings in euros per furlong side of things.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/04/business/the-cost-of-higher-fuel-economy.html
The thing is, it is not all attributable to efficiencies (although diesel's higher compression ratios do help in that regard). Diesel averages much longer-chain hydrocarbons and thus has a higher ratio of higher-energy C-C bonds to lower energy C-H bonds per gallon, and thus has more energy per gallon. This also means more CO2 per gallon. So you can't really compare MPG between gas and diesel engines. Us nerds would prefer to see kilometers per kilojoule for a better comparison, but we probably won't.
I do know that in Europe, where they report CO2 per kilometer, you can see that these emissions don't scale directly with the mileage comparing gas and diesel versions of the same car.
I am looking at getting one of them or the XV version. I wonder if the better mileage in the CVT is just based on the way the EPA test is run. You can get better or worse mileage from a stick, depending on how you use it (many who want the manual want it for better performance which gives them worse mileage).
Then again, the CVT has a lower ratio for its tallest "gear". It can afford to do that since if there is a slight incline, it only needs to infinitesimally upshift to maintain speed. If the manual transmission had that tall a gear for the highway, small inclines would make the engine lug and/or lose power requiring much more frequent upshifts. So I can see how theoretically the CVT could get better mileage on the highway. City, not so sure.
Yes, pretty much. That's how obnoxious it would be have to listen to someone talk on the phone while packed in next to you during a flight.
The point being, TFA is about rape. So why do you refer to this as an exception?
I bought an OEM version of NT once a long time ago and the mail-order place (forget who) sent along an old apple motherboard as the hardware!
You are quoting their current plans. They disappear at the end of the month and are replaced with the just announced data plans starting at $50/mo 1 GB (including voice and text, but *not* including the monthly price to put a device on the network, which is $30 for a dumb phone and $40 for a smart phone).
OK, verizon, so then go ahead and charge me by the megabyte (or gigabyte). They aren't doing that.
They require at least a $50 base charge (supposedly made palatable because it also includes the voice and text -"now unlimited!' - I never used up my voice and text quotas!) for 1 GB. Can I just pay per gigabyte after that? No. If I upgrade my dumb phone to a smart phone so I can use that data, I have to pay an extra $20 - $30/mo. *with no extra data* (adding a smart phone to the plan is $40/mo. Right now, adding a dumb phone to a family plan is only $10 plus $10 for text).
Every time one wants to "share" the rationed GB's with another device, one has to pay $20 - $40 /mo. extra for no more data. That's not paying by the GB.
Stop lying through your teeth VZW! If bandwidth is limited, then just sell it by the GB.
It was in a display case in cooperstown last time I visited there.
Statements like this show you don't really understand what is going on here. "Pockets of water"? The whole point of hydrofracking is that this shale is incredibly impermeable and you have to fracture it to get the gas out. A lot of the water returns to the surface (handling this at the surface is the biggest challenge), and the rest if pretty much locked up in shale that is thousands of feet below any aquifers used for drinking water.
In other words you are saying you'll be fine with hydrofracking as soon as someone proves the negative. Can't be done.
What can be done on the other hand, is hydrofracking safely, presuming it is adequately regulated. If the damn republicans stop trying to convince everyone that regulation is bad, then perhaps we can get going on producing more gas from shale.
Same thing with the Universal Sports over the air station. This was one of the few stations I used to watch (OTA). When Comcast bought NBC, they stopped distributing Universal Sports (which was on one of the secondary channels on the NBC channel). How this merger ever made it through antitrust scrutiny is beyond me.
Pink six-wheeled vehicle? Wasn't that Penelope from the "Thunderbirds"?
He's talking about mechanical engineering, not coding. There's a huge difference. You can always teach yourself new languages, and by the very nature of coding, there is lots online that can help you become efficient.
But when it comes to mechanical, chemical, and other types of engineering, you need to take the courses. Sure you can buy some books and read them, but there is a large set of knowledge that builds on itself that has to be learned to get to where you can be productive.
This kind of relates to a pet peeve of mine when I hear coders talking about how they can reinvent themselves to keep themselves marketable. I agree they have to, and so does everyone else to varying degrees. However, it is one thing to reinvent yourself by learning a new language that uses a semicolon rather than a line feed to end a line (OK, so I exagerate, there is a lot of other deeper concepts that differentiate languages), and another to go from being an expert in, say, thrust bearing design to wastewater treatment. There is a lot of new knowledge and experience that has to be gained, which may or may not be available through book or on-line learning.
Huh? Stallman is a fan of selling free software!
No shit. My kid (who's a better than average swimmer) won't go to the State competition anymore as he's seen too many parents yelling at their kids. "How come you didn't win? You really screwed up!" - to a 7 year old.
The FA (Football Association) in the UK has a campaign targeted at parents to try and prevent that. Take a look, it's here. Maybe write to the swimming association (whoever accredits the competition) and see if they recognise the problem.
They do. Although the reference to "State Competition" tells me he might be referring to High School Competition rather than club swimming.
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Since when are coal or petroleum complex molecules? Coal is to varying degrees just carbon (the harder the coal, more it is just plain C) and petroleum is chains of Carbon with hydrogens haning off the sides. These are pretty simple molecules.
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We are talking data plans here, not cell phones. There are plenty of cell phone plans you can get that are reasonable.
Personally, I choose to not get a smartphone for the reasons outlined above. However, I still have a cell phone, and the rates are way way cheaper than a smartphone.
I usually do
$kdesudo konsole &2>/dev/null &
on my kubuntu boxes. Then I can open as many root terminal tabs as I need.
Except they didn't "remove it". From the TFA:
"Our Kindle Keyboard 3G will continue to offer experimental web browsing over 3G or Wi-Fi."
All they did was introduce a new product with a different price point and different features.
Amazon pays the cell bill. But makes websurfing very hard and slow so not much data is used.
And no, there is no sim card to take out. Maybe there is one inside (not sure what network/protocol they use), but if so it is sealed inside.