No, which is why I'd go for the stop-and-swap model. With standardization and large scale adoption, you should be able to get to a point where you drive in, engage the mechanism, and drive out again with a new battery, in around the same timeframe it takes to pump a tankfull now.
I'm a little short on cash right now, so I'll take half a battery.
filing patent now for version that uses standard measurement on the ruler instead of metric.
Yeah, because gallons per furlong is a useful measurement.
What you call 'standard' measurement, the rest of us see as mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things. Hogsheads, firkins, furlongs, leagues, cubits, gills, rods, and other random old school things really make no sense to most of us. The dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is kind of a stupid measure (ok, it's not a real one, but it's not that far off the mark).
Granted, I grew up during the transition to metric... so my height and weight is feet and pounds, but pretty much everything is metric.
I knew I would never make it in Physics when the professor got to electromagnetism. Every time he said "flux" my mind would wander off for several minutes...
I had an Astronomy prof who consistently said "Carpenicus." I can't remember anything near those events, except trying not to laugh.
Really? Because the wheelbarrows that were in common use a little over a century ago had pretty crappy wheels - just a circle of wood. Apparently people found them useful...
I've got a 14 month old boy. I need to warm up my fart joke capacity, so it'll be ready when I need it. I wonder if a positively-charged fart would be different from a negatively-charged fart.
Farts with a range of 150 feet, what could go wrong?
Just the other day, I learnt that the awful smell of natural gas is actually because of something they add to gas and that it wouldn't smell if they didn't have it! Now, whenever my pilot light goes off or I don't quite turn the oven off, my house absolutely stinks! The smell's so bad that last time it happened, when I wanted to smoke, I had to go outside, and get well away from the house to escape the smell!
Why can't the government accept that not everyone uses these so called 'dangerous substances' like they seem to think they should be used?
This isn't about saving money. It isn't about some pro-business ideology. It's about "legitimate businessmen" collecting protection money via the tax system.
Cutting the brake lines can be effective, but only if the target needs to stop very fast (a moose runs out on the road etc). Otherwise you can downshift (if the car has a manual transmission) to brake with the engine and then turn the engine off to stop. At least it would greatly reduce the impact.
There is a gizmo called a proportioning valve that partially prevents that. Each brake gets a certain amount of pressure and the one with the cut line gets no pressure and leaking brake fluid. After a few stops, the loss of brake fluid will be a problem, but the car stops well enough before then.
So you drop out of warp outside the Van Allen belts and everybody gets a nice light show.
Worst case you only use Warp Drive as far in system as Mars and use more conventional means from there to Earth.
Hell using Warp drive through the Oort cloud or Asteroid Belt might be troublesome if you just start picking up crap when passing through dense matter. You slow down and all of the asteroids and comets you picked up are on a colission course for Earth. I suggest some different approach vectors might be the first precaution.
An Aggie with warp drive is what caused the Oort cloud.
Haha! you fool I was willing to sell my vote for a sandwich!
The going rate was $2 way back when. If someone had a two dollar bill, it was suspected that he had sold his vote. This was one of the reasons that the $2 bill was so unpopular.
* Salter did address the issue of rogue apps directly. She said that Fishbowl basically required policy support for locking out unapproved app installs, and that only NSA approved apps from the NSA enterprise app store would be allowed. "we don't want to be in the business of accrediting Angry Birds" is as close a quote as I can manage from memory.
Disgruntled Poultry, the classified version, because everything on this is probably classified.
I dated her back in grad school. One of those foreign students. She never shaved under her arms, and was often redolent of garlic, but man, she did this thing with her thumb and forefinger...
I remember her having nice clear skin, so I'm surprised to hear that she was spotted.
It was spotlights that did it. Amateurs are ruining everything.
Except this isn't about the conversation, this is about people trying to drowned out the conversation.
Do you really think this technology won't be abused to silence disenting opinions in a conversation even if it is being delivered in a calm and well thought out manner? I don't buy into the "big brother" mass usage, but stuff like this is ALWAYS abused.
Hell, the RIAA will probably want to use it at concerts to prevent people from "violating their IP" by singing along...
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
A wing nut (named after an actual nut) is a nut with two ears or wings on each side. It is made to operate without tools.
The security you're talking about it's not the type you think.
Now, if it were a bodyguard conference, maybe. But it's network security not building security or police security. It's also a conference, not a classified meeting. So I don't understand why they should have very tight policies, then it's an event open to public.
Just saying.
This is not the security you are seeking. Nothing to see here. Move along.
There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
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No, which is why I'd go for the stop-and-swap model. With standardization and large scale adoption, you should be able to get to a point where you drive in, engage the mechanism, and drive out again with a new battery, in around the same timeframe it takes to pump a tankfull now.
I'm a little short on cash right now, so I'll take half a battery.
Yeah, because gallons per furlong is a useful measurement.
What you call 'standard' measurement, the rest of us see as mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things. Hogsheads, firkins, furlongs, leagues, cubits, gills, rods, and other random old school things really make no sense to most of us. The dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is kind of a stupid measure (ok, it's not a real one, but it's not that far off the mark).
Granted, I grew up during the transition to metric ... so my height and weight is feet and pounds, but pretty much everything is metric.
The old rubber ruler trick.
There's difference between an anecdote and a scientific study.
Then again, you go to a chiropractor. A chiropractor who has a TENS machine.
This subluxation rates a ten.
I knew I would never make it in Physics when the professor got to electromagnetism. Every time he said "flux" my mind would wander off for several minutes...
I had an Astronomy prof who consistently said "Carpenicus." I can't remember anything near those events, except trying not to laugh.
Really? Because the wheelbarrows that were in common use a little over a century ago had pretty crappy wheels - just a circle of wood. Apparently people found them useful...
Drive around the feedlot.
I've got a 14 month old boy. I need to warm up my fart joke capacity, so it'll be ready when I need it. I wonder if a positively-charged fart would be different from a negatively-charged fart.
Farts with a range of 150 feet, what could go wrong?
Since there was no patent law, there was no incentive to innovate, and technological progress stagnated.
That in turn was caused by a lack of highly trained lawyers to run the patent mills, and sturdy politicians to promise support.
Yeah, screw the government.
Just the other day, I learnt that the awful smell of natural gas is actually because of something they add to gas and that it wouldn't smell if they didn't have it! Now, whenever my pilot light goes off or I don't quite turn the oven off, my house absolutely stinks! The smell's so bad that last time it happened, when I wanted to smoke, I had to go outside, and get well away from the house to escape the smell!
Why can't the government accept that not everyone uses these so called 'dangerous substances' like they seem to think they should be used?
Just open your Windows.
I'd buy that for a pound sterling!
Peel of a few Bob.
This isn't about saving money. It isn't about some pro-business ideology. It's about "legitimate businessmen" collecting protection money via the tax system.
Mob guys want to be legit.
... unless you cut all 4 lines
Someone should mod you up. Just because my tired ass was saved doesn't mean everyone is safe.
Cutting the brake lines can be effective, but only if the target needs to stop very fast (a moose runs out on the road etc). Otherwise you can downshift (if the car has a manual transmission) to brake with the engine and then turn the engine off to stop. At least it would greatly reduce the impact.
There is a gizmo called a proportioning valve that partially prevents that. Each brake gets a certain amount of pressure and the one with the cut line gets no pressure and leaking brake fluid. After a few stops, the loss of brake fluid will be a problem, but the car stops well enough before then.
So you drop out of warp outside the Van Allen belts and everybody gets a nice light show.
Worst case you only use Warp Drive as far in system as Mars and use more conventional means from there to Earth.
Hell using Warp drive through the Oort cloud or Asteroid Belt might be troublesome if you just start picking up crap when passing through dense matter. You slow down and all of the asteroids and comets you picked up are on a colission course for Earth. I suggest some different approach vectors might be the first precaution.
An Aggie with warp drive is what caused the Oort cloud.
Haha! you fool I was willing to sell my vote for a sandwich!
The going rate was $2 way back when. If someone had a two dollar bill, it was suspected that he had sold his vote. This was one of the reasons that the $2 bill was so unpopular.
* Salter did address the issue of rogue apps directly. She said that Fishbowl basically required policy support for locking out unapproved app installs, and that only NSA approved apps from the NSA enterprise app store would be allowed. "we don't want to be in the business of accrediting Angry Birds" is as close a quote as I can manage from memory.
Disgruntled Poultry, the classified version, because everything on this is probably classified.
I dated her back in grad school. One of those foreign students. She never shaved under her arms, and was often redolent of garlic, but man, she did this thing with her thumb and forefinger...
I remember her having nice clear skin, so I'm surprised to hear that she was spotted.
It was spotlights that did it. Amateurs are ruining everything.
Silencing guns don't silence people. People silence people.</sarcasm>
Aren't silencers illegal?
Except this isn't about the conversation, this is about people trying to drowned out the conversation.
Do you really think this technology won't be abused to silence disenting opinions in a conversation even if it is being delivered in a calm and well thought out manner? I don't buy into the "big brother" mass usage, but stuff like this is ALWAYS abused.
Hell, the RIAA will probably want to use it at concerts to prevent people from "violating their IP" by singing along...
Does it work on music?
You did not think that through did you? :D
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
A wing nut (named after an actual nut) is a nut with two ears or wings on each side. It is made to operate without tools.
Others are going to get incredibly impatient much sooner.
Most toilet seats are attached with wingnuts. Just detach it and walk to the nearest phone. It might be difficult if you are riding a bike.
If you're a Canadian company with Canadian customers, use .ca, eh? .com makes it seem like you're targeting your southern neighbors.
And Eastern, Western, and Northern neighbors too.
Call me when you've got orbitial balloon flights.
It was orbitching.
It's the Azure CLoud of Death!
FTFY
The security you're talking about it's not the type you think.
Now, if it were a bodyguard conference, maybe. But it's network security not building security or police security. It's also a conference, not a classified meeting. So I don't understand why they should have very tight policies, then it's an event open to public.
Just saying.
This is not the security you are seeking. Nothing to see here. Move along.
There was a warning on the box in an ancient script that someone translated as "do not open this box or you will die"- we figured we would open it for a lark.
If truth in advertising laws were enforced, that would be on engagement ring boxes.
And you found a lark in it?