But if they result in the loss of information then they may be distorted to far to be able to tell whether or not there was a threat there, making them completely useless. (Assuming they aren't completely useless already.)
Exactly. If anyone wants to see me naked all they have to do is ask. It's not a big deal for me.
Radiation is my concern. Even if it is less than I get anyway by flying it's still more than I need to get. There is no safe level of that stuff. Your total lifetime accumulation contributes to your cancer risk, so unless I have a damn good reason, I'm not going to let myself get x-rayed.
They do that in Australia too, which I think is a bit rude. If I stay outside and use the ATM, then there's all the back end work that still needs to be done, but it doesn't cost me anything!
If there were million dollar a year positions out there you get a lot more people signing up for the college courses that would make them qualified. So it might take a few years to settle out, but it would settle out eventually.
They started trying that at a couple of places in Sydney. Everything has an RFID, so you just push your trolley through the reader and your total pops up on the screen. I never heard anything more about it (it was a few years ago now) so I assumed that it didn't work right.
I don't remember the exact wording, but one of my lecturers often said that just because we've always done something in a particular way isn't a good enough reason to keep doing it that way, but there was probably a good reason to start doing it that way in the first place.
The wise men of the past thought that it was a bad idea to congregate too much power in one place, so they communicated it to their people in the manner they would understand best. Even though the means of communication have become (very) outdated, does not mean that we should completely disregard their messages.
Seems you and I have completely different worlds in which we'd like to live. I'd prefer to live in a world where the laws are sensible and everybody follows them, rather than a world where everyone breaks the law so we can get on alright.
On a side note, when I go to restaurants, I usually write in a tip on the credit card receipt. Does this mean that it's tracked and the waiter will have to pay tax on it, where if I left him cash he could put it straight into his pocket?
So, what you're telling us is that electronic transactions don't actually cost the banks any more than the cash transactions we've been using for years. Yet they still seem to charge us for the electronic ones.
If the banks started just 'eating' the costs for the electronic transactions the same way they do with cash transactions, there would be a lot less perceived resistance to widespread use of electronic money transfer. Sure we wouldn't get quite as high rates on our savings, but that's the trade off we'd have to make.
Why should I get double the pay for only 50% more work?
For the record, I'm an engineer, was on $74k a year straight out of college, and if I ever work more than 40 hours in a week I add it to my vacation hours.
A lot of it isn't science in the sense of testing theories. It is demonstrations of what actually happens. Sure you can look at a textbook, do some equations and then work it out, but that doesn't make very good TV.
Does it count as science when I crystallize a supersaturated solution. I know full well what's going to happen, and some of the children I show it to have an idea as well, but actually seeing it happen - that's where the magic of science happens.
One class I had in uni, the prof used the exact same test every year. Someone in my class got a hold of all his previous years tests and handed them out to all of their friends. So the half the class that got the tests all scored 90% while the rest of us followed a fairly standard curve. None of us could convince the prof that there was a problem with this situation.
But when I groped the kid in the mall it wouldn't be sexual either. I'd just be concerned that the kid was hiding a bomb so she could blow up the mall.
Even if we completely drop the sexual aspect of this discussion; other countries have been dealing with terrorist attacks for a very long time, and the US and the TSA have been the first to decide that terrorizing little girls like this is the appropriate response.
You think this is all about a parent not controlling their kid? So next time I see kids running rampant in the mall I should feel free to have a grope? Why can't you sheep all just find a field somewhere and stop ruining it for the rest of us?
I used to have a plan to buy a black belt, and then store it in some obscure Japanese town. Then I can truthfully say "I have a black belt in Hiroshima" and people would think it was some kind of martial art of which they'd never heard before.
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But if they result in the loss of information then they may be distorted to far to be able to tell whether or not there was a threat there, making them completely useless. (Assuming they aren't completely useless already.)
Exactly. If anyone wants to see me naked all they have to do is ask. It's not a big deal for me.
Radiation is my concern. Even if it is less than I get anyway by flying it's still more than I need to get. There is no safe level of that stuff. Your total lifetime accumulation contributes to your cancer risk, so unless I have a damn good reason, I'm not going to let myself get x-rayed.
They do that in Australia too, which I think is a bit rude. If I stay outside and use the ATM, then there's all the back end work that still needs to be done, but it doesn't cost me anything!
If there were million dollar a year positions out there you get a lot more people signing up for the college courses that would make them qualified. So it might take a few years to settle out, but it would settle out eventually.
You must be new here.
They started trying that at a couple of places in Sydney. Everything has an RFID, so you just push your trolley through the reader and your total pops up on the screen. I never heard anything more about it (it was a few years ago now) so I assumed that it didn't work right.
I don't remember the exact wording, but one of my lecturers often said that just because we've always done something in a particular way isn't a good enough reason to keep doing it that way, but there was probably a good reason to start doing it that way in the first place.
The wise men of the past thought that it was a bad idea to congregate too much power in one place, so they communicated it to their people in the manner they would understand best. Even though the means of communication have become (very) outdated, does not mean that we should completely disregard their messages.
assuming tax fraud
Seems you and I have completely different worlds in which we'd like to live. I'd prefer to live in a world where the laws are sensible and everybody follows them, rather than a world where everyone breaks the law so we can get on alright.
On a side note, when I go to restaurants, I usually write in a tip on the credit card receipt. Does this mean that it's tracked and the waiter will have to pay tax on it, where if I left him cash he could put it straight into his pocket?
So, what you're telling us is that electronic transactions don't actually cost the banks any more than the cash transactions we've been using for years. Yet they still seem to charge us for the electronic ones.
If the banks started just 'eating' the costs for the electronic transactions the same way they do with cash transactions, there would be a lot less perceived resistance to widespread use of electronic money transfer. Sure we wouldn't get quite as high rates on our savings, but that's the trade off we'd have to make.
Clearly 4 people disagree with you. Someone even modded him insightful!
Find a better source. The metre still hasn't been tied to anything tangible.
It's part of the new TSA screening procedure.
Why should I get double the pay for only 50% more work?
For the record, I'm an engineer, was on $74k a year straight out of college, and if I ever work more than 40 hours in a week I add it to my vacation hours.
A lot of it isn't science in the sense of testing theories. It is demonstrations of what actually happens. Sure you can look at a textbook, do some equations and then work it out, but that doesn't make very good TV.
Does it count as science when I crystallize a supersaturated solution. I know full well what's going to happen, and some of the children I show it to have an idea as well, but actually seeing it happen - that's where the magic of science happens.
But, you posted anonymously, so you're probably a completely different person just trying to troll.
One class I had in uni, the prof used the exact same test every year. Someone in my class got a hold of all his previous years tests and handed them out to all of their friends. So the half the class that got the tests all scored 90% while the rest of us followed a fairly standard curve. None of us could convince the prof that there was a problem with this situation.
But when I groped the kid in the mall it wouldn't be sexual either. I'd just be concerned that the kid was hiding a bomb so she could blow up the mall.
Even if we completely drop the sexual aspect of this discussion; other countries have been dealing with terrorist attacks for a very long time, and the US and the TSA have been the first to decide that terrorizing little girls like this is the appropriate response.
You think this is all about a parent not controlling their kid? So next time I see kids running rampant in the mall I should feel free to have a grope? Why can't you sheep all just find a field somewhere and stop ruining it for the rest of us?
I'm saying we should prevent the groping from happening in the first place.
That would've been great, but they're already happening now, so we've gotta stop them.
I'm interested to know in which ballparks they respectively reside, in your opinion.
I used to have a plan to buy a black belt, and then store it in some obscure Japanese town. Then I can truthfully say "I have a black belt in Hiroshima" and people would think it was some kind of martial art of which they'd never heard before.
Really? I'm a little disappointed now. I thought I was at least getting a little retribution for the damage to my mind.
Did I miss the meeting where we decided that than is no longer a word and we should use then in its place? I've been seeing that one a lot recently.
Even better, the summary is of the news report.
So now I'm commenting on your comment of the comment to the summary of the reports about the report about the report!
Where did all the oil go anyway?
According to Google, Mach 4 is about 50.75 miles per minute.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=mach+4+in+miles+per+minute&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=fbb9e82777227709
Let's assume that it accelerates at a constant rate up to Mach 4 over those 10 minutes. It would still be over 250 miles away in those minutes. That's a long way.