Apparently ethanol has 68% of the energy content of gasoline by volume (8.9x10^7 J/gal vs. 1.3x10^8 J/gal). Therefore gasoline has 146% of the energy content of ethanol by volume. This translates to 1 liter of gasoline = 1.46 liters of ethanol. 46% more ethanol to equal a volume of gasoline.
It varies from state-to-state, but typically it works like this: If an election is very close (within the margin of error of the vote tallying method), an automatic recount is done, and is payed for by the state. Any candidate can request a recount for any reason if they are willing to pay for it in the case the election did not fall into the automatic recount scenario.
Also, if the recount proves that original result was wrong, the candidate will not be charged with a timeout.
I believe the first video game I played was Space Invaders in a roller skating rink. I don't have anything interesting to say about that.
There was a Galaga and a Battlezone in the Osco drug store that I played occasionally a few years later. I remember once dying pretty much immediately in Battlezone. Then immediately afterward a mother bringing two children, probably twins, about 5 years old. She dropped in a quarter and they both played, each using one of the two joysticks used to steer the tank. They were too short to see the screen. And they beat my score.
It was clear to me that I was really a Galaga player at that point, and I never played that Battlezone machine again.
I use WPA with a strong password, MAC address filtering, I renumbered the subnet from the default, I set a strong administrator password, and disabled DHCP...
DHCP isn't a security protocol. That's not really doing anything for you. Are you afraid of hackers who can't figure out an appropriate address and assign it themselves?
Funny. Seems to me that defense is one of the top priorities, according to the constitution. I didn't see anything about education in that document so that is supposed to be left up to the states.
I agree with you about education. But the current military is way out of proportion to what the framers of the Constitution had in mind.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
If Congress needs an armies for a specific purpose, they have a mandate to *raise* them. That's an entirely different animal than maintaining a sufficient military to wage war on two continents indefinitely.
That's a handy side effect, but I don't think it's a primary putpose. There are animals who have evolved other ways of dealing with the lack of light at night, such as bats and owls and cats. All of those still sleep.
Cats in particular are interesting exceptions. They might just sleep because of evolutionary baggage from ancestors who couldn't do well at night. Bats might not do so well against birds in the daytime.
Evolutionary reason for dreaming, it seems like a silly thing to evolve a period of a beings life where they body goes into paralysis just so they don't kill themselves from acting lucid imagery, the fact the dreams gave us a survival advantage would explain the tradeoff of the paralysis during the night. This seems a good theory. It should be investaged further.
My guess is that sleep itself is an adaptation for animals that can't see in the dark. Since we're just going to bump into stuff, there's no point in expending energy. By that hypothesis, not moving is pretty much the whole point.
I've been involved in this process a couple of times. Engineers participated, but the UI people and ultimately the product manager made the final call. It's not even necessarily about making the device function well for the consumer; some buttons exist for the purpose of demonstrating to a potential buyer that the device has a particular feature.
No, not really. The US will permit its citizens to gamble in casinos in the US, and also in casinos overseas. The US will not permit its citizens to gamble online with sites hosted in the US, and also will not permit it with sites hosted overseas.
So where's the difference between domestic and foreign?
UIGEA states:
(A) IN GENERAL.--The term 'unlawful Internet gambling' means to place, receive, or otherwise knowingly transmit a bet or wager by any means which involves the use, at least in part, of the Internet where such bet or wager is unlawful under any applicable Federal or State law in the State or Tribal lands in which the bet or wager is initiated, received, or otherwise made. (B) INTRASTATE TRANSACTIONS. The term 'unlawful Internet gambling' does not include placing, receiving, or otherwise transmitting a bet or wager where (i) the bet or wager is initiated and received or otherwise made exclusively within a single State;
So as long as there is no state law prohibiting the gambling, the feds (in theory) don't screw with the banking transactions. So as far as the national obligations, the US allows domestic internet gambling but doesn't allow international internet gambling.
Since when did "free trade" translate into an abandonment of sovereignty in favor of having an unelected global organization dictate national policy? If the people of the United States (or any country) want to ban online gambling then what business of the WTO is it? At least when the WTO steps in over protective tariffs that makes SOME sense. If a product is completely outlawed though, how the hell is a free trade issue?
You haven't been following this issue. Countries can prohibit trade on moral ground under the WTO. They just can't treat the domestic businesses differently than the foreign ones, which the US does explicitly.
I don't think they would do it to help their attentiveness. I think they would more likely do it to stay awake. (I have a friend who's into "better living through chemistry", and he has never talked about using this type of drug to help him pay attention--just maintain alertness.)
It was thought for years (back in the "minimal brain dysfunction" days) that children with ADHD had strange brains that reacted "paradoxically" to stimulant medications (the reverse of the expected effect). Actually, everybody reacts about the same to the medication. The medications stimulate any brain to focus better, as demonstrated by standardized tests meant to measure that ability. This better concentration reduces the fidgeting that "hyper" kids demonstrate and the distractibility of attention impaired children - the daydreamers.
So what the medication really does is to move everybody to the right on the attention curve so that those kids who were functioning poorly now lie more in the normal range of attention ability.
The medications simply improve the ability to concentrate and focus, shifting the poor attention kids up into the range of normal school function. To repeat, they have the same effect on everyone who takes them; people with good attending ability don't need help and so don't take these medications. I think it is important for every parent to understand this basic fact. There is nothing "weird" about your child, nor anything to be ashamed of, any more than you would be ashamed if he were a lousy singer.
The people I know all realize that speed and ADHD tablets are pretty much the same thing (if not exactly the same thing). The difference is not in the drug, but how it is used. When it is used in those that suffer from ADHD, it helps them function in society, interact with others and lead a meaningful and happy life. When those that don't suffer from ADHD tablet take it, they begin to act like as if they're a child sufferer of ADHD.
I've seen that assertion several times, so I don't at all think you've inventing this idea. But don't normal people take speed to help their attentiveness?
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I hope that people who have seen Star Wars think it's funny. I'm sorry if I offended you.
I don't support my country's Middle East policy, for the record.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion.
Right, a 2-bit nerd knows only four things, and this probably isn't one of them.
Here's a comment that answers that question.
http://wwia.org/sgroup/biofuel/42730/1
Apparently ethanol has 68% of the energy content of gasoline by volume
(8.9x10^7 J/gal vs. 1.3x10^8 J/gal). Therefore gasoline has 146% of the
energy content of ethanol by volume. This translates to 1 liter of gasoline
= 1.46 liters of ethanol. 46% more ethanol to equal a volume of gasoline.
Also, if the recount proves that original result was wrong, the candidate will not be charged with a timeout.
Suppose I buy some spectrum and want to use it for an analog TV network. Is that against the rules?
Even worse, I guess, it's really:
<render-not-like-IE6>
sigh.
<render-like-IE6>
I believe the first video game I played was Space Invaders in a roller skating rink. I don't have anything interesting to say about that.
There was a Galaga and a Battlezone in the Osco drug store that I played occasionally a few years later. I remember once dying pretty much immediately in Battlezone. Then immediately afterward a mother bringing two children, probably twins, about 5 years old. She dropped in a quarter and they both played, each using one of the two joysticks used to steer the tank. They were too short to see the screen. And they beat my score.
It was clear to me that I was really a Galaga player at that point, and I never played that Battlezone machine again.
Of course they do. Unfortunately, those documents are in Word 2.0 doc format and MS can't figure out how to open them.
The one where the fifth dentist lives.
If being a good programmer includes knowing what a CV is, then I'm screwed.
Ah, it's the same as a résumé. I'm good now. Thank you, wikipedia.
DHCP isn't a security protocol. That's not really doing anything for you. Are you afraid of hackers who can't figure out an appropriate address and assign it themselves?
I agree with you about education. But the current military is way out of proportion to what the framers of the Constitution had in mind.
If Congress needs an armies for a specific purpose, they have a mandate to *raise* them. That's an entirely different animal than maintaining a sufficient military to wage war on two continents indefinitely.
Bah! That's just the way space contractors avoid paying big ebay fees on the Rovers. $700 million shipping my ass.
Cats in particular are interesting exceptions. They might just sleep because of evolutionary baggage from ancestors who couldn't do well at night. Bats might not do so well against birds in the daytime.
My guess is that sleep itself is an adaptation for animals that can't see in the dark. Since we're just going to bump into stuff, there's no point in expending energy. By that hypothesis, not moving is pretty much the whole point.
Does Bizarro Superman post on backslash dot?
I've been involved in this process a couple of times. Engineers participated, but the UI people and ultimately the product manager made the final call. It's not even necessarily about making the device function well for the consumer; some buttons exist for the purpose of demonstrating to a potential buyer that the device has a particular feature.
That's only $133 per star. Sounds pretty good to me.
If that were true, then the US couldn't block the import of heroin.
UIGEA states:
So as long as there is no state law prohibiting the gambling, the feds (in theory) don't screw with the banking transactions. So as far as the national obligations, the US allows domestic internet gambling but doesn't allow international internet gambling.
You haven't been following this issue. Countries can prohibit trade on moral ground under the WTO. They just can't treat the domestic businesses differently than the foreign ones, which the US does explicitly.
Dr. Hull on ADHD
I've seen that assertion several times, so I don't at all think you've inventing this idea. But don't normal people take speed to help their attentiveness?