In the 1940's Central heating had not been invented.
Central heating was invented several centuries BCE by the Romans (I don't know of any earlier ; I'd welcome hearing of any earlier).
EVERY house in the uK had fireplaces in every room.
Not correct. I've recently moved out of a house which was built in approximately 1938 (a friend and former colleague lived in the house next door when being strafed in 1941). All of the houses of that design - thousands of them in this town alone - had a single fireplace in the living room with a "back boiler" which heated water for washing and bathing. Cooking was by town gas (dry distillation of coal) or electricity. In the late 1970s the city council (landlords) added a central-heating system also fired off the back boiler, while simultaneously replacing the open fire places with gas fires.
There was no heating outside the living room, kitchen and bathroom. I added bedroom radiators to the house myself.
And the building's insulation was crap. Waking up to find ice on the inside of the windows was nothing unusual.
Kids today are poofs, even the straight ones.
And yes, a cold bird resting in the warm flue gasses would rapidly be paralised by carbon monoxide poisoning,
If and only if the fire in the grate below was under-ventilated. Otherwise, the amount of carbon monoxide produced (and the consequent formation of carboxy-haemoglobin, and it's slow decay compared to oxy-haemoglobin) wouldn't be sufficient to kill the animal. A properly ventilated fire isn't a problem, as the fucking pigeons who would nest on the top of my chimney every year at the above-mentioned house can testify. I've come worryingly close to being rendered unconscious by carbon monoxide poisoning in the past (different flat, "unfit for human habitation", portable gas heater in the depths of winter with all the windows closed ; fucking dangerous bits of kit) but it's not an automatic death sentence.
Since this is (allegedly) world war 2, and "Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960," (Wikipedia), it's a pretty safe bet that it's not encoded in ASCII. It may (or may not) be in Latin script.
He held up a sign saying "end climate silence" and called for the candidates to address the issue in the wake of Sandy. The crowd started booing him, then started chanting "USA! USA! USA!" and he was led out by the secret service.
This is about the most interesting thing to come out of the American election so far. (It is an election isn't it? Different details of foreign politics tend to blur into each other.)
So... the Secret Service people thought that this political commentator was in some way a physical threat to the candidate? Like, he was also waving a gun (isn't gun-ownership a requirement for membership of that party?) as well as his sign? Or a sword? But not just a pen alone? Surely? They're not allowed to act as political bouncers paid for by the state are they?
Call me crazy, but jury duty is one of the few things a US citizen can do to have a positive influence.
I'm not going to call you crazy, but I am going to call you poorly informed. You might not be aware of it, but the USA is not the only country in the world that uses more-or-less randomly selected members of the public as jurors.
Don't bother ; find a cheap one that is good enough, buy a box full (or a couple of bodies and a box of refills in several colours), then get on with your life.
When did that happen? Or is this a marketing aspiration? What is this "cool" thing anyway (I don't think that you're referring to a thermodynamic comparison), and what self-respecting nerd ("News for Nerds ; stuff that matters") gives a shit about it.
The story goes that, when DC sued Marvel over Captain Marvel allegedly infringing on Superman, Marvel responded by having a villain take out either copyright or patent on the letters A-Z, and then sue anybody who tried to write or print anything without paying royalties first.
Sorry, God didn't bring this hurricane down upon us. Nature and science did!
Point of factual order, sirrah!.
Nature is perfectly capable of bringing this sort of storm down on you without Science's assistance. It is possible that Science, through it's handmaid "technology" and with the able assistance of "human greed", has had a non-trivial influence in increasing the probability of events like this, but that's a probability about which there is genuine uncertainty (it may be a 10% contribution ; it may be a 50% contribution ; but since there have been pretty serious storms along this coast recorded for centuries, it's unlikely to be a 90% contribution).
But otherwise... a fairly normal rant. Don't give up the day job, and hurry up with my fries!
Everything is putting you in imminent danger, so you must watch us 24/7/365, so we can increase the rates we charge for each 30 second advertising slot that we sell.
FTFY. It's important to remember what the driving forces are.
It's (probably) not that that the editorial staff are manipulative fuck-tards ; it's that commercial broadcasting systems put manipulative fuck-tards into positions of power in broadcasting organisations.
Please complete this code for your philosophy homework :
#define PUBLIC_GOOD: Cover all viewpoints that are held by two or more citizens of your jurisdiction. Remember : for maximum points, no unconsidered cases and no doubly-covered cases!
As disgusting as all this was, nobody, however, ever suggested fecal transplants, which I (admittedly ignorant here) would put on a list of reasonable medical alternatives just below Mexican abortion clinics.
They've been mentioned in the medical news radio programmes several times over the last few years.
Since the specimens are taken from the donor using a colonoscopic technique, and applied to the recipient with an endoscope, you don't come into contact with "shit" as such.
What, off the back of an envelope, is the prevalence of "pin worm" infestations? 11% of total people, and up to 50% in some country's children. Contracted by, essentially, getting an infected person's shit in your mouth.
If I found myself with a C.difficile infection, from the reported success rates, I'd be looking at this as a first-line treatment. As your experience shows, antibiotics can have severe side-effects. Having said that, I've shovelled TB-laden shit for a living as a student, and pig shit when money was tight. Shit doesn't scare me.
(1) I don't know if it's been in the news in outer Muckbeckistan or wherever you are, but I believe that the US shuttle fleet has already been recycled into novelty ashtrays. The important fiddly-to-make bits of it anyway.
(2) The satellites are in polar orbit. IIRC, the highest inclination orbit that the shuttles could reach is around 55degrees to the equatorial plane. Coincidentally (not!), that's about the inclination of the ISS.
Workable for an idea. And with a little attention to detail, you could use it multiple times.
The precision of aim would have to be high. For a 100m asteroid in the nearest 10'th of it's orbit... I make it between 5 microradians and 100 nanoradians.
What is the likelihood of particles that miss the target coming back on their orbit to impact Earth (or the gun) a year later?
But if we are going to deflect an asteroid we will need to do it when it is still months or years away from hitting the Earth.
If you leave it until the PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) is a few hours travel from Earth, then you're going to need large forces and you've got no time for a plan 'B'. If you get it wrong, millions or billions will die.
Most PHAs are going to be in an orbit with approximately the same period as the Earth (they can have different phase, inclination, argument of perihelion and eccentricity though), which increases the probability of encountering Earth.
So, all realistic schemes that I've seen for deflecting real PHAs (do you want to see a Tunguska event over your town? Barringer Crater #2 in Hollywood?) have a lower force being applied for a longer duration, normally starting one or more apparitions (look it up) of the PHA before the one that people are worried about. Then, if the first device doesn't work adequately, the version-2 is added in the next apparition, then version-3, incrementally adding to the understanding of real planetoid-moving (as opposed to the theory) and hopefully mitigating the risk in time.
Oh, sorry, not Hollywood friendly. Can't do it that way in the real world.
That last term is the important one. Is your "short term" a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, or a century. Only the last couple of those are noticeably different from "instantaneous" in my working environment.
If that computer and configuration was available in my country, I'd not have looked at it in any respect other than to check out the hardware specification to see if it was good enough value (hardware-wise) for the money. I'm not interested in "media centres" in any way shape or form (I don't waste time on music ; I put discs in the DVD player and then return them to the rental company ; podcast MP3s go onto the MP3 player for use on the bike) ; and I dumped Windows years ago after some abortion called Vista came into effect. So, there's nothing left to consider apart from how the hardware works.
Meanwhile, the laptop whose graphics card I recently static'd has just been replaced, and for warranty reasons, I'm just cloning the hard drive before I power it up, for warranty reasons. According to a sticker on the machine it has "Windows 7" on it, but that just means that I need to clone the drive before I use the computer. How Win7 works and how it behaves doesn't even raise waning interest. Does this version of Windows still play media?
Most American corporations I've worked with (many, many of them), go to strenuous efforts to tie the use of one product or service to needing to buy many instances of a consumable to actually make it work. In my industry, we call it "repatriation of profit". Cartel activities are deeply expected. It's one of the things to watch out for in the bidding process.
Having said that, I'd be surprised if Siemens (a German-based company) were to be "repatriating profit" to the US. Indeed, I'm moderately surprised that they operate at all in such a litigious health-care system. Obviously the amount by which they can rip-off the American public makes the danger of carrying out business in the country worthwhile. Cunning! And all in the finest traditions of business "ethics"!
Extensive investigation showed that two countries top the list of probable locations. Neither is as renowned as the US a for gouging the ill, though one at least competes vigorously with the US in the "we'll perform any sort of business for money" stakes.
Bow before my one-click hacking prowess! Can I have your mother's maiden name and her credit card number?
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Central heating was invented several centuries BCE by the Romans (I don't know of any earlier ; I'd welcome hearing of any earlier).
Not correct. I've recently moved out of a house which was built in approximately 1938 (a friend and former colleague lived in the house next door when being strafed in 1941). All of the houses of that design - thousands of them in this town alone - had a single fireplace in the living room with a "back boiler" which heated water for washing and bathing. Cooking was by town gas (dry distillation of coal) or electricity. In the late 1970s the city council (landlords) added a central-heating system also fired off the back boiler, while simultaneously replacing the open fire places with gas fires.
There was no heating outside the living room, kitchen and bathroom. I added bedroom radiators to the house myself.
And the building's insulation was crap. Waking up to find ice on the inside of the windows was nothing unusual.
Kids today are poofs, even the straight ones.
If and only if the fire in the grate below was under-ventilated. Otherwise, the amount of carbon monoxide produced (and the consequent formation of carboxy-haemoglobin, and it's slow decay compared to oxy-haemoglobin) wouldn't be sufficient to kill the animal. A properly ventilated fire isn't a problem, as the fucking pigeons who would nest on the top of my chimney every year at the above-mentioned house can testify. I've come worryingly close to being rendered unconscious by carbon monoxide poisoning in the past (different flat, "unfit for human habitation", portable gas heater in the depths of winter with all the windows closed ; fucking dangerous bits of kit) but it's not an automatic death sentence.
They may or may not have had an education. If they did have an education, then it doesn't appear to have taken hold.
Since this is (allegedly) world war 2, and "Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960," (Wikipedia), it's a pretty safe bet that it's not encoded in ASCII. It may (or may not) be in Latin script.
It'll be their children doing the prosecution.
This is about the most interesting thing to come out of the American election so far. (It is an election isn't it? Different details of foreign politics tend to blur into each other.)
So ... the Secret Service people thought that this political commentator was in some way a physical threat to the candidate? Like, he was also waving a gun (isn't gun-ownership a requirement for membership of that party?) as well as his sign? Or a sword? But not just a pen alone? Surely? They're not allowed to act as political bouncers paid for by the state are they?
I'm not going to call you crazy, but I am going to call you poorly informed. You might not be aware of it, but the USA is not the only country in the world that uses more-or-less randomly selected members of the public as jurors.
Don't bother ; find a cheap one that is good enough, buy a box full (or a couple of bodies and a box of refills in several colours), then get on with your life.
If you're already sneezing your brains out, then it's too late for a vaccine to benefit you. You do understand kindergarten-level biology, don't you?
(I grew up in an overspill town ; if London is so great, how come millions are struggling to get out of the place?)
When did that happen? Or is this a marketing aspiration? What is this "cool" thing anyway (I don't think that you're referring to a thermodynamic comparison), and what self-respecting nerd ("News for Nerds ; stuff that matters") gives a shit about it.
Revise on the natural Oklo nuclear reactor of the last billennium.
I don't know the truth or not of that story. But last year a web-comic of my acquaintance proposed a similar scheme : "There's a theory that an infinite amount of monkeys at an infinite amount of typewriters will eventually write everything. With spell and grammar checkers, even a simple program can churn out thousands of pages of text per hour. Storage capacity is cheap. Make an exabyte length novel. Become a copyright troll. Sue when another writer "copies" from your work."
Follow the "next" links on that page to follow the development of the idea to the point of destroying (other) universes to act as Tweet-storage.
Well, I like it, which is good enough for me.
Point of factual order, sirrah!.
Nature is perfectly capable of bringing this sort of storm down on you without Science's assistance. It is possible that Science, through it's handmaid "technology" and with the able assistance of "human greed", has had a non-trivial influence in increasing the probability of events like this, but that's a probability about which there is genuine uncertainty (it may be a 10% contribution ; it may be a 50% contribution ; but since there have been pretty serious storms along this coast recorded for centuries, it's unlikely to be a 90% contribution).
But otherwise ... a fairly normal rant. Don't give up the day job, and hurry up with my fries!
FTFY. It's important to remember what the driving forces are.
It's (probably) not that that the editorial staff are manipulative fuck-tards ; it's that commercial broadcasting systems put manipulative fuck-tards into positions of power in broadcasting organisations.
#define PUBLIC_GOOD
Cover all viewpoints that are held by two or more citizens of your jurisdiction. Remember : for maximum points, no unconsidered cases and no doubly-covered cases!
Plato argued over this problem.
They've been mentioned in the medical news radio programmes several times over the last few years.
Since the specimens are taken from the donor using a colonoscopic technique, and applied to the recipient with an endoscope, you don't come into contact with "shit" as such.
What, off the back of an envelope, is the prevalence of "pin worm" infestations? 11% of total people, and up to 50% in some country's children. Contracted by, essentially, getting an infected person's shit in your mouth.
If I found myself with a C.difficile infection, from the reported success rates, I'd be looking at this as a first-line treatment. As your experience shows, antibiotics can have severe side-effects. Having said that, I've shovelled TB-laden shit for a living as a student, and pig shit when money was tight. Shit doesn't scare me.
(1) I don't know if it's been in the news in outer Muckbeckistan or wherever you are, but I believe that the US shuttle fleet has already been recycled into novelty ashtrays. The important fiddly-to-make bits of it anyway. (2) The satellites are in polar orbit. IIRC, the highest inclination orbit that the shuttles could reach is around 55degrees to the equatorial plane. Coincidentally (not!), that's about the inclination of the ISS.
The precision of aim would have to be high. For a 100m asteroid in the nearest 10'th of it's orbit ... I make it between 5 microradians and 100 nanoradians.
What is the likelihood of particles that miss the target coming back on their orbit to impact Earth (or the gun) a year later?
Hmmm.
If you leave it until the PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) is a few hours travel from Earth, then you're going to need large forces and you've got no time for a plan 'B'. If you get it wrong, millions or billions will die.
Most PHAs are going to be in an orbit with approximately the same period as the Earth (they can have different phase, inclination, argument of perihelion and eccentricity though), which increases the probability of encountering Earth.
So, all realistic schemes that I've seen for deflecting real PHAs (do you want to see a Tunguska event over your town? Barringer Crater #2 in Hollywood?) have a lower force being applied for a longer duration, normally starting one or more apparitions (look it up) of the PHA before the one that people are worried about. Then, if the first device doesn't work adequately, the version-2 is added in the next apparition, then version-3, incrementally adding to the understanding of real planetoid-moving (as opposed to the theory) and hopefully mitigating the risk in time.
Oh, sorry, not Hollywood friendly. Can't do it that way in the real world.
That last term is the important one. Is your "short term" a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, or a century. Only the last couple of those are noticeably different from "instantaneous" in my working environment.
Meanwhile, the laptop whose graphics card I recently static'd has just been replaced, and for warranty reasons, I'm just cloning the hard drive before I power it up, for warranty reasons. According to a sticker on the machine it has "Windows 7" on it, but that just means that I need to clone the drive before I use the computer. How Win7 works and how it behaves doesn't even raise waning interest. Does this version of Windows still play media?
Under torture.
You poor deluded pinko communist subversive. They'll be draining your precious bodily fluids and be replacing them with hydrogen fluoride next.
Having said that, I'd be surprised if Siemens (a German-based company) were to be "repatriating profit" to the US. Indeed, I'm moderately surprised that they operate at all in such a litigious health-care system. Obviously the amount by which they can rip-off the American public makes the danger of carrying out business in the country worthwhile. Cunning! And all in the finest traditions of business "ethics"!
Bow before my one-click hacking prowess! Can I have your mother's maiden name and her credit card number?