Scientist 1: The Wind Turbines, they've become self aware. Scientist 2: Dammit, scorching the sky won't work! Scientist 3: We need to drill to the earth's core to counter the influence over the earth's spin Scientist 4: No we have to go to space and detonate a nuke, call Bruce Willis
Hollywood's latest summer blockbuster
"The return of the Deep Matrix Armageddon Terminators"
I was wondering where the comparison charts for oil/gas/coal were, but I guess the point TFA was assuming was they they required no infrastructure to mine, process and burn these materials.
How much acre feet of groundwater does the average coal burning plant use by comparison (KWh of electricity produced)
A chain of supermarkets in Ireland, tried (I don't know if they still do it) a system where you walk around with a handheld scanner, adding items as you picked them up to put in your cart.
They would start by checking you 3 times, then 1/5, 1/20, 1/50.
You can, if you try hard enough, get anywhere between 120 and 200 rpm even higher short term spikes if you get a good rhythm going, all while remaining on a flat surface.
No, what you need to do, is pour your wine through a tea strainer/sieve thus aerating like a watering can/shower-head.
Also, blowing bubbles through it with a straw, using a whisk or simply pouring it from glass to glass from a height also works.
I was asked the other day whether I knew any movie that did Dragons justice.
The only movies I could think of were Dragonheart, Eragon and Reign of fire, none of them really worked. Reign of fire did well to depict them as an "out of context problem" as Iain M Banks would put it, but it could just have easily been aliens.
I always wondered what it would be like to see a movie or TV series of Pern.
Now, I haven't read George R.R. Martin's books, so I don't know whether the Game of Thrones sequels will feature them well, but I like to think that if the same people responsible for the GoT TV series made a Pern series, it might just do them justice.
Like you said, their depiction of Dragons as allied with humans is unique (in terms of scale, I know Robin Hobb, and possibly others, have incorporated them on smaller scales) and very interesting, also not just the female protagonists, but the antagonists also were very good. Some of them, even the lesser ones, were well motivated and believable.
One stat is also from people actively trying hard to stay alive. The other is by people who are constantly distracted by many other things going on, like mobile phone ringing, that accident that happened in the other lane, the noisy kids in the back.
If only there was some system that allowed a car to get from A to B, focusing 100% on getting there safely, w/o being so distracted...
You also assume that licensed drivers are the only people killed in traffic accidents. I suspect that helps your case, since just about anyone could be hit by an out of control car.
Did you do any form of test to be able to drive? Surly that is impinging on your freedom to do whatever you wish, for the sake of security? I wonder where in the world we would be if such things were totally unregulated.
The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error
Perhaps I should Google every TLA I don't understand when I read/. posts, or perhaps people should be more aware that there are countries outside the US and make their posts more internationally understood, but then we might have world peace which is bad for business.
Either way, in thread about sporting achievements, in an article about genetic testing for the purpose of sporting achievements, the parent really went to a lot of trouble to outline sporting achievements...
His follow up post was very informative, but still doesn't win the argument for age vs hard work.
I didn't recognise the significance of co-MVP, but that's due to my own ignorance I'll admit, I suspect it's a more commonly used term in the states, I've never heard it used here in Ireland.
Back to the topic though:
You're saying you didn't get a volleyball team starting position until sophomore year. Can you think back to people who had been on various teams through the age brackets all the way up through school, and what age they are/were relative to their peers?
Nothing in the thesis says that you can't have some measure of success being the younger person later on when age is less of a divider, and what's needed is hard work and practice.
You have yet to offer anything that invalidates the arguments above.
Your original post looked to me like you valued your competitiveness on an intellectual level greater than the 5 words you offered to sport, when this article is all about sport, so you have to forgive the misunderstanding.
This is not about being a couch potato, but about being successful at competitive levels of sport based on your genetics. While playing and coaching volleyball for your university is a laudable achievement, it is not within the scope of the article. The ability to genetically test children to identify what sports they would be suitable for, is an attempt to pick one they can be highly successful (I'm thinking Olympics) at later on in life, by putting them on the path really early on.
The counter argument, of this thread, is it really doesn't matter that much, what is more important is to put the child into a sport where they will always have an age advantage, which will build confidence and success.
I would subscribe to a combination of both, where you find out a list of suitable sports, then pick one where they got the age advantage also. It's no use when someone reaches the age of 20, at a professional level, where everyone is 19.5 but they are better suited, genetically, to the sport.
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Scientist 1: The Wind Turbines, they've become self aware.
Scientist 2: Dammit, scorching the sky won't work!
Scientist 3: We need to drill to the earth's core to counter the influence over the earth's spin
Scientist 4: No we have to go to space and detonate a nuke, call Bruce Willis
Hollywood's latest summer blockbuster
"The return of the Deep Matrix Armageddon Terminators"
I was wondering where the comparison charts for oil/gas/coal were, but I guess the point TFA was assuming was they they required no infrastructure to mine, process and burn these materials.
How much acre feet of groundwater does the average coal burning plant use by comparison (KWh of electricity produced)
A chain of supermarkets in Ireland, tried (I don't know if they still do it) a system where you walk around with a handheld scanner, adding items as you picked them up to put in your cart.
They would start by checking you 3 times, then 1/5, 1/20, 1/50.
Made shopping so easy.
You can, if you try hard enough, get anywhere between 120 and 200 rpm even higher short term spikes if you get a good rhythm going, all while remaining on a flat surface.
No, what you need to do, is pour your wine through a tea strainer/sieve thus aerating like a watering can/shower-head.
Also, blowing bubbles through it with a straw, using a whisk or simply pouring it from glass to glass from a height also works.
The latter being the Children?
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Tourettes, finally useful!
To truly appreciate the full meaning of the Bible, you must read it in the original Klingon.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPyPA/TFBCC4Wv0qI/AAAAAAAANpU/qiFZoulx9cU/s1600/farside-hopeful-parents.gif
Change "Hopeful" to "South Korean"
I'm reminded of the scene in "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" where they try to make Nitroglycerin.
I was asked the other day whether I knew any movie that did Dragons justice.
The only movies I could think of were Dragonheart, Eragon and Reign of fire, none of them really worked. Reign of fire did well to depict them as an "out of context problem" as Iain M Banks would put it, but it could just have easily been aliens.
I always wondered what it would be like to see a movie or TV series of Pern.
Now, I haven't read George R.R. Martin's books, so I don't know whether the Game of Thrones sequels will feature them well, but I like to think that if the same people responsible for the GoT TV series made a Pern series, it might just do them justice.
Like you said, their depiction of Dragons as allied with humans is unique (in terms of scale, I know Robin Hobb, and possibly others, have incorporated them on smaller scales) and very interesting, also not just the female protagonists, but the antagonists also were very good. Some of them, even the lesser ones, were well motivated and believable.
That must be the Economy model then.
One stat is also from people actively trying hard to stay alive. The other is by people who are constantly distracted by many other things going on, like mobile phone ringing, that accident that happened in the other lane, the noisy kids in the back.
If only there was some system that allowed a car to get from A to B, focusing 100% on getting there safely, w/o being so distracted...
You also assume that licensed drivers are the only people killed in traffic accidents. I suspect that helps your case, since just about anyone could be hit by an out of control car.
Did you do any form of test to be able to drive? Surly that is impinging on your freedom to do whatever you wish, for the sake of security? I wonder where in the world we would be if such things were totally unregulated.
The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error
Well it's considered good behavior in girls/women, to keep their legs crossed. One must wonder what Socrates' problem with leg-crossing was.
Hell, the act of reading and writing posts on /. is a social activity.
Fuck, I've been tricked!
"The term "Most Valuable Player" is typically only used in Canada, the United States, the Philippines and South Korea."
Courtesy of Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Valuable_Player
Perhaps I should Google every TLA I don't understand when I read /. posts, or perhaps people should be more aware that there are countries outside the US and make their posts more internationally understood, but then we might have world peace which is bad for business.
Either way, in thread about sporting achievements, in an article about genetic testing for the purpose of sporting achievements, the parent really went to a lot of trouble to outline sporting achievements...
His follow up post was very informative, but still doesn't win the argument for age vs hard work.
I didn't recognise the significance of co-MVP, but that's due to my own ignorance I'll admit, I suspect it's a more commonly used term in the states, I've never heard it used here in Ireland.
Back to the topic though:
You're saying you didn't get a volleyball team starting position until sophomore year. Can you think back to people who had been on various teams through the age brackets all the way up through school, and what age they are/were relative to their peers?
Nothing in the thesis says that you can't have some measure of success being the younger person later on when age is less of a divider, and what's needed is hard work and practice.
You have yet to offer anything that invalidates the arguments above.
Your original post looked to me like you valued your competitiveness on an intellectual level greater than the 5 words you offered to sport, when this article is all about sport, so you have to forgive the misunderstanding.
This is not about being a couch potato, but about being successful at competitive levels of sport based on your genetics. While playing and coaching volleyball for your university is a laudable achievement, it is not within the scope of the article. The ability to genetically test children to identify what sports they would be suitable for, is an attempt to pick one they can be highly successful (I'm thinking Olympics) at later on in life, by putting them on the path really early on.
The counter argument, of this thread, is it really doesn't matter that much, what is more important is to put the child into a sport where they will always have an age advantage, which will build confidence and success.
I would subscribe to a combination of both, where you find out a list of suitable sports, then pick one where they got the age advantage also. It's no use when someone reaches the age of 20, at a professional level, where everyone is 19.5 but they are better suited, genetically, to the sport.
Easier said than done. You know how hard it is to alter the orbits of moons? Getting 2 to crash into each other is tricky business.