She didn't know how to navigate her car insurance and prove damages,
She was in a collision ; OK, fine.
She submits a claim for the damage to the vehicle and herself. Fine.
The insurance company will ask for supporting documentation - police crime reference (since a drunk driver was mentioned, which is a crime in most countries I've head of ; the crash and injury may or may not be a separate crime ; also "dangerous driving", "driving without insurance", "taking and driving away" ; whatever else in the case) ; possibly supervising physician's contact details (or whatever is equivalent in America) for the medical details ; possibly damage reports from the repairing garage (who wouldn't have done diddly-squat to the vehicle without communicating with the insurance company in writing).
I've never had to deal with an injury collision, but several other car crunches have come and gone. It's not exactly difficult. Where does the lawyer come into it?
chocolate in the UK has kinda lost it's taste for me.
UK chocolate lost it's taste for me as soon as I tasted chocolate from outside the UK. It really is "chocolate-flavoured mixed vegetable and milk fat solids," as the Daily Mail froths at the organ.
Even though it made me cringe a bit at the time it was still pretty funny. There are things that make you laugh that you can still regret laughing at...but that is where comedy can also educate and expose the unpleasant corners of a society
To misquote... someone, "Offence is in the eye of the beholder. (Substitute appropriate sense organ for the differently-abled."
Personally, I'm still giggling over last night's James Bond spoof where the MegaSuper Agent is dispatched with all the weapons from Q-department encased in a dildo.
Obviously Buzz Aldrin disagrees with you on that point. And of the two people in that disagreement, I'd be more inclined to take Aldrin's opinion on Aldrin's fitness to visit the south pole then your opinion. On the other hand, I'll accept your opinion over Buzz's on whether you should use super-soft arse-wipe or ultra-soft.
Temperature is a measure of the vibration rate of particles - it's not found in vacuums.
I'm not sure that works, r is relevant. There is no such thing as a vacuum - you can remove every particle and all photons from a volume of space... and as you're doing it the space will remain populated with virtual particles springing out from the void in accord with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Those particles will have a spectrum of velocities and therefore a temperature in the sense you're denying the existence of.
So you would need 42 thousand trillion trillion joules of energy to raise just one gram of water that high. Just about any other substance - the number goes up.
Water has an unusually high specific heat capacity. In the units you use, yes, it's 4.2 ; for most materials it's 1.0 or lower. Not that that changes your point by much.
My Android (Samsung S5, IIRC) just tells me "no applications that can read notifications are installed," suggesting that it's not a core service of Android, but something that is packaged with phones intended for some (one?) market only.
Get over yourself. Uber isn't going to steal $5 from you.
Agreed. They're not going to steal a cent from me if they require a credit card before service delivery. They're not going to get my business.
Actually, where in my country do they have employees? Oh, just the capital and the largest city ; nowhere important. I'll look at the question in another year. Or the next time I use a taxi, whichever comes sooner.
It's M$ they'd put broken glass on a Bouncy Castle and bill it as an improvement
Broken glass in a bouncy castle would be an improvement. Particularly if the glass is covered in nice infectious shit, and the castle is erected over a pit of hungry alligators. Or landmines.
You need to throttle the supply to boost prices and increase the value of existing stocks. Though Trump might experience constitutional issues due to his conflicts of interest in this business. He has several investments in this market.
Oblig Swift reference.
Too bad the vast majority of eligible/potential voters (over 100 million) chose not to even bother voting, instead they sat back and just watched it happen.
Eh? What? Hang on.
The population of the US is what - 300-odd million. Something like 50 million under 18s. Is it 1 or 2 million in jail? So that's an electorate of 248 million or so.
How do you exclude something over 2/3 of the electorate from voting? Is that the 66% apathy rate that is the price of non-compulsory voting? Or is it because they're black, Hispanic or Cuban?
Those box-numbered adverts were paid for by the person posting the advert(*). If that was done by cheque, then there is a traceable route there. If it were done in cash at the newspaper's office (or by postal order), then there were people who would potentially recognise (or at least be able to give a description of) the poster.
It didn't stop frauds and assaults, but it did discourage them.
(*) Remember - every column inch of "content" in a public newspaper or magazine exists solely for the purpose of selling that advertising space. The situation is different for a "house" journal - for example the "Weekly Slashdot News" recounting the drunken antics of the Editors on Saturday nights - where at least some of the production costs are carried as a loss by the home organisation, but even they tend to try to defray their running cots by selling advertising. The advertising sales and accounting staff of newspapers and magazines normally considerably outnumber the journalism department.
The tendency of silica tetrahedra is strongly to polymerise with themselves and form minerals which have melting temperatures in the high hundreds of centigrade, are insulators, and which don't participate in reactions with more typical "organic" molecules (e.g. biopolymers, water, biological acids and alkalis). In short, their chemistry is very different to and incompatible with interactions with the large majority of "organic" materials. If people got that (not entirely unreasonable) inference from the original article, or that the reactions might lead to "biosilicon" computers, then that should be corrected.
From the other end of the telescope, carbon dioxide can readily interact with other organic molecules - the whole of the organic produce of the Earth has done that already through the good offices of RUBISCO, and those interactions produce compounds with low melting points and relatively high reactivity - look at any text book in organic chemistry for details. Silicon dioxide OTOH, mostly doesn't interact with organic compounds, or other silicate compounds until you're at temperatures in the high hundreds, and then it mostly interacts with metal oxides for form what is better known as glass.
Arguably, the closest you get to close similarity between organic chemistry and silicate chemistry is in the zeolite minerals, and while they're a fascinating, useful and complex group, they're still anonymous crystalline white powders, most of which decompose before reaching their melting point.
So they didn't correlate the IMU data with ranging radar or even barometric altitude information so as to avoid this?
How do you know the barometric pressure profile before you enter the atmosphere? Mars has a trickily variable atmosphere.
There was a large dust storm developing at the time, which is a (potentially) global event. How much does that affect barometric pressure? (On Mars, not necessarily on Earth.)
Presumably the IMU is expected to tell you the probe has run into the planet (i.e. landed) and it's time to get rid of the 'chute before it lands on your probe and also time to shut down the thrusters
Wrong landing sequence. This spacecraft was intended to parachute down to some hundreds of metres, then fire up retro-rockets and jettison the parachutes, then descend to a few metres on the retro-rockets, then drop to the ground. So, the signal from the IMU would vary between free-fall and various substantial decelerations several times during the planned descent.
Well, they achieved the desired state of not having the parachute land on top of the lander.
Interfacing anything electronic with anything biological is going to involve combining conductors (things that let electrons move through them easily) with biological materials which are to a first approximation salty water with organic bits in it. That is a recipe for corrosion, contact resistance, and worst of all, dissolution of the metal cations into the organic salty water. Which opens up a host of subsequent problems which need to be dealt with.
On a little more reflection, materials like graphene or carbon--fibre would probably be a better starting place for such interfacing than metals, being conductors but not prone to dropping reactive cations into solution when they meet a bit of salty water. Many problems avoided that way.
Don't get me wrong - this is some interesting chemistry. But if it has any ultimate utility (not a given), then I suspect it's not in the electronics industry.
Reality check : what are the occupational safety levels for silicon like? "(NIOSH) has set a Recommended exposure limit (REL) of 10 mg/m3 total exposure and 5 mg/m3 respiratory exposure over an 8-hour workday." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon#Occupational_safety_and_health) That's not "run for the hills" levels of danger, but it's hardly stuff you want to be introducing to people's biochemistry without a lot of looking at.
Do you really want your electrical contacts to chemically interact with your environment? There is a good reason that cheap contacts use relatively inert brass plating, and more expensive contacts use very unreactive gold or platinum.
Just in case you've never had to deal with the problems, no, you don't want this because the reactions result in changing contact resistance, electrochemical voltage either increasing or counteracting the voltages you're trying to sense. Yes, you can deal with these problems, but life is much simpler without such complications.
Diatoms use silica - silicon dioxide - not silicon. That's a significant difference. The silicon atoms are never (TTBOMK, and I am a geologist, so a bit more familiar with the natural chemistry of silicon than most people) alone or simply solvated. The silicon is present and moves around as SiO4 tetrahedra with varying degrees and species of charge-balancing other anions and cations.
Sorry, but it's a pet nark. I bet there is someone down-thread who makes some comment about silicone tits, and I'm going to get all mediaeval on him (it'll be a him).
How is the phone going to know that without turning on the GPS chipset?
I keep the GPS (and wifi) turned off to improve battery life unless I have a specific reason to use those subsystems. That was... let's see... n the last 3 months, about 5 minutes to find the local cinema when coming out of the underground station. I'd never been to that station before, you see.
Cold-start time for a GPS system is really important.
Driving proficiency has only been a basic necessity for about a century,
Driving proficiency is - or was - a necessity?
So the 4 years between me graduating from university and starting to learn how to drive (plus the year it took to learn to drive, then the additional year before I got a car, and the 60% of the time since then when I've had a driving license, ut not a car)... I was actually surviving without a necessity of life? [Spock-mode]Fascinating.[/Spock-mode]
Things are changing. My step daughter actually learned to drive in the same year tht she graduated from university. But she hasn't brought (or rented) a car yet. Actually, I'm not sure if she's driven for one second since she got her driving license.
What dictionary definition of "necessity" do you use? "Intermittently helpful" or "occasionally useful"?
I wonder if my stepdaughter will ever own a car? I wouldn't bet on it.
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She was in a collision ; OK, fine.
She submits a claim for the damage to the vehicle and herself. Fine.
The insurance company will ask for supporting documentation - police crime reference (since a drunk driver was mentioned, which is a crime in most countries I've head of ; the crash and injury may or may not be a separate crime ; also "dangerous driving", "driving without insurance", "taking and driving away" ; whatever else in the case) ; possibly supervising physician's contact details (or whatever is equivalent in America) for the medical details ; possibly damage reports from the repairing garage (who wouldn't have done diddly-squat to the vehicle without communicating with the insurance company in writing).
I've never had to deal with an injury collision, but several other car crunches have come and gone. It's not exactly difficult. Where does the lawyer come into it?
UK chocolate lost it's taste for me as soon as I tasted chocolate from outside the UK. It really is "chocolate-flavoured mixed vegetable and milk fat solids," as the Daily Mail froths at the organ.
no, it doesn't now, and never really did, have more than a passing acquaintance with chocolate.
To misquote ... someone, "Offence is in the eye of the beholder. (Substitute appropriate sense organ for the differently-abled."
Personally, I'm still giggling over last night's James Bond spoof where the MegaSuper Agent is dispatched with all the weapons from Q-department encased in a dildo.
Surely?
No, smeared seconds is the anal equivalent of sloppy seconds. Great if you like the extra lubrication.
Obviously Buzz Aldrin disagrees with you on that point. And of the two people in that disagreement, I'd be more inclined to take Aldrin's opinion on Aldrin's fitness to visit the south pole then your opinion. On the other hand, I'll accept your opinion over Buzz's on whether you should use super-soft arse-wipe or ultra-soft.
You're probably right - it's a safe bet.
I'm not sure that works, r is relevant. There is no such thing as a vacuum - you can remove every particle and all photons from a volume of space ... and as you're doing it the space will remain populated with virtual particles springing out from the void in accord with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Those particles will have a spectrum of velocities and therefore a temperature in the sense you're denying the existence of.
Water has an unusually high specific heat capacity. In the units you use, yes, it's 4.2 ; for most materials it's 1.0 or lower. Not that that changes your point by much.
My Android (Samsung S5, IIRC) just tells me "no applications that can read notifications are installed," suggesting that it's not a core service of Android, but something that is packaged with phones intended for some (one?) market only.
Agreed. They're not going to steal a cent from me if they require a credit card before service delivery. They're not going to get my business.
Actually, where in my country do they have employees? Oh, just the capital and the largest city ; nowhere important. I'll look at the question in another year. Or the next time I use a taxi, whichever comes sooner.
Broken glass in a bouncy castle would be an improvement. Particularly if the glass is covered in nice infectious shit, and the castle is erected over a pit of hungry alligators. Or landmines.
You need to throttle the supply to boost prices and increase the value of existing stocks. Though Trump might experience constitutional issues due to his conflicts of interest in this business. He has several investments in this market. Oblig Swift reference.
Eh? What? Hang on.
The population of the US is what - 300-odd million. Something like 50 million under 18s. Is it 1 or 2 million in jail? So that's an electorate of 248 million or so.
How do you exclude something over 2/3 of the electorate from voting? Is that the 66% apathy rate that is the price of non-compulsory voting? Or is it because they're black, Hispanic or Cuban?
You suppose correctly.
I always suspected the TheDonald was really Castro on sabbatical. Now we have proof!
It didn't stop frauds and assaults, but it did discourage them.
(*) Remember - every column inch of "content" in a public newspaper or magazine exists solely for the purpose of selling that advertising space. The situation is different for a "house" journal - for example the "Weekly Slashdot News" recounting the drunken antics of the Editors on Saturday nights - where at least some of the production costs are carried as a loss by the home organisation, but even they tend to try to defray their running cots by selling advertising. The advertising sales and accounting staff of newspapers and magazines normally considerably outnumber the journalism department.
From the other end of the telescope, carbon dioxide can readily interact with other organic molecules - the whole of the organic produce of the Earth has done that already through the good offices of RUBISCO, and those interactions produce compounds with low melting points and relatively high reactivity - look at any text book in organic chemistry for details. Silicon dioxide OTOH, mostly doesn't interact with organic compounds, or other silicate compounds until you're at temperatures in the high hundreds, and then it mostly interacts with metal oxides for form what is better known as glass.
Arguably, the closest you get to close similarity between organic chemistry and silicate chemistry is in the zeolite minerals, and while they're a fascinating, useful and complex group, they're still anonymous crystalline white powders, most of which decompose before reaching their melting point.
How do you know the barometric pressure profile before you enter the atmosphere? Mars has a trickily variable atmosphere.
There was a large dust storm developing at the time, which is a (potentially) global event. How much does that affect barometric pressure? (On Mars, not necessarily on Earth.)
Wrong landing sequence. This spacecraft was intended to parachute down to some hundreds of metres, then fire up retro-rockets and jettison the parachutes, then descend to a few metres on the retro-rockets, then drop to the ground. So, the signal from the IMU would vary between free-fall and various substantial decelerations several times during the planned descent.
Well, they achieved the desired state of not having the parachute land on top of the lander.
On a little more reflection, materials like graphene or carbon--fibre would probably be a better starting place for such interfacing than metals, being conductors but not prone to dropping reactive cations into solution when they meet a bit of salty water. Many problems avoided that way.
Don't get me wrong - this is some interesting chemistry. But if it has any ultimate utility (not a given), then I suspect it's not in the electronics industry.
Reality check : what are the occupational safety levels for silicon like? "(NIOSH) has set a Recommended exposure limit (REL) of 10 mg/m3 total exposure and 5 mg/m3 respiratory exposure over an 8-hour workday." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon#Occupational_safety_and_health) That's not "run for the hills" levels of danger, but it's hardly stuff you want to be introducing to people's biochemistry without a lot of looking at.
Just in case you've never had to deal with the problems, no, you don't want this because the reactions result in changing contact resistance, electrochemical voltage either increasing or counteracting the voltages you're trying to sense. Yes, you can deal with these problems, but life is much simpler without such complications.
Sorry, but it's a pet nark. I bet there is someone down-thread who makes some comment about silicone tits, and I'm going to get all mediaeval on him (it'll be a him).
How is the phone going to know that without turning on the GPS chipset?
I keep the GPS (and wifi) turned off to improve battery life unless I have a specific reason to use those subsystems. That was ... let's see ... n the last 3 months, about 5 minutes to find the local cinema when coming out of the underground station. I'd never been to that station before, you see.
Cold-start time for a GPS system is really important.
Driving proficiency is - or was - a necessity?
So the 4 years between me graduating from university and starting to learn how to drive (plus the year it took to learn to drive, then the additional year before I got a car, and the 60% of the time since then when I've had a driving license, ut not a car) ... I was actually surviving without a necessity of life? [Spock-mode]Fascinating.[/Spock-mode]
Things are changing. My step daughter actually learned to drive in the same year tht she graduated from university. But she hasn't brought (or rented) a car yet. Actually, I'm not sure if she's driven for one second since she got her driving license.
What dictionary definition of "necessity" do you use? "Intermittently helpful" or "occasionally useful"?
I wonder if my stepdaughter will ever own a car? I wouldn't bet on it.
I take it you work for (or used to work for) an American company.