Celsius is arbitrary too. There is nothing inherently connecting temperature and water.
Kelvin is the only scale based on something fundamental.
Fahrenheit is based on the coldest you can get brine before it freezes and the approximate human body temperature. Both of these make great sense for telling the weather as 0 is dangerously cold and 100 is dangerously hot.
One might argue that a lot of people don't live in the temperate zone where 0 and 100 occur regularly but C's water boiling and freezing points are only good for people at sea level and no one's weather on Earth ever involves boiling water.
1. Vote Libertarian on November 4th 2. Vote Green on November 4th
When will the Libertarians and Greens learn the lesson from the Teas? If you want to get elected, work from WITHIN the establishment. There are multiple Tea candidates in office via running under the Republican umbrella. The Libertarians could do the same except all they seem to want to do is siphon votes away from a potentially winning Republican. The Greens need to work from within the Democrats the same way instead of siphoning off. Then we COULD get real change but it's doubtful either the Libs or Greens can get off their ideological high horses.
I bet Apple does though. The last thing they want is "iPad" becoming so generic they lose the trademark, like hoover or cellophane or escalator or sellotape.
The becoming generic is a longer term problem than the immediate one of the commentators mocking the guy who seemed to be having trouble scrolling around.
WOW, what a shock, they helped you enforce their laws?
No, laws are made by statute which are passed by the governing assembly bodies when those are in session, Statutes are almost always available to the public with only modest effort or even published freely. These censorship standards are regulatory in nature which means not only do they change at the whim of the administering beaurocrats but also (especially in less democratic countries like China) unpublished to the public and either require significant effort to obtain or aren't available at all.
You lost perspective in this last sentence; income redistribution account for the lion's share of the entire federal budget next to which the price of these rockets isn't even a rounding error.
I'll be people who get cancer will be perfectly happy to settle for "easily curable/reversible" if it can't be prevented in the first place. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Yes, it is the point. Money is a generic medium of exchange. Calling for money to be abolished in favor of barter is just crazy talk.
How many chickens (or pigs or dogs) does Intel HQ need to barter (and then transport) to the fabrication facilities in SE Asia to get the CPUs for all the computers? Yeah, there's a super efficient financial system.
It sounds like the governments bent on censorship have managed to pack the ICANN board enough to get this proposal seriously considered but not enough that the ICANN board can't still usually override them:
ICANN is now proposing that the threshold be increased so that 2/3 of eligible ICANN board members would be required to vote against GAC advice in order to reject it
Why else would ICANN's own board even be considering giving this power away?
Someone was pulling your leg unless you mean their internal bookkeeping and H.R. records or internal research projects. But for the typical drive in a Google search engine node, well, all of its data is available to the entire public via Google's own web page. which is kinda the point. There's no need to shred those drives
Isn't the sticking point here not that the person contracting for service agrees to a non-disparagement clause but that person agrees on behalf of everyone in their entire group? Is that realistic?
Why would anyone SELL bitcoin mining rigs instead of simply building them and getting rich themselves?p>
It's right there in the opening phrase; this IS a case of someone who sells the systems using it themselves: "Bitcoin hardware vendor BitFury has opened..."
He isn't looking at it backwards and does indeed have three serious business concerns. The business is concerned about shelling out to the third party consultants for every little change, concerned about data silos in the form of the spreadsheets, and concerned about future scalability in light of concerns 1 and 2.
I say definitely move development in house for this large of an ongoing project.
For every person who wants the factory built nearby for the economic impact, there's a certain ratio of people who don't want it built nearby for whatever reason; traffic, worries about industrial accidents, whatever. So if they're smart, yes, they're already way too far along building to get it stopped by protests.
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Celsius is arbitrary too. There is nothing inherently connecting temperature and water.
Kelvin is the only scale based on something fundamental.
Fahrenheit is based on the coldest you can get brine before it freezes and the approximate human body temperature. Both of these make great sense for telling the weather as 0 is dangerously cold and 100 is dangerously hot.
One might argue that a lot of people don't live in the temperate zone where 0 and 100 occur regularly but C's water boiling and freezing points are only good for people at sea level and no one's weather on Earth ever involves boiling water.
1. Vote Libertarian on November 4th
2. Vote Green on November 4th
When will the Libertarians and Greens learn the lesson from the Teas? If you want to get elected, work from WITHIN the establishment. There are multiple Tea candidates in office via running under the Republican umbrella. The Libertarians could do the same except all they seem to want to do is siphon votes away from a potentially winning Republican. The Greens need to work from within the Democrats the same way instead of siphoning off. Then we COULD get real change but it's doubtful either the Libs or Greens can get off their ideological high horses.
I bet Apple does though. The last thing they want is "iPad" becoming so generic they lose the trademark, like hoover or cellophane or escalator or sellotape.
The becoming generic is a longer term problem than the immediate one of the commentators mocking the guy who seemed to be having trouble scrolling around.
How any automated system will know if the phone is used by driver vs passenger is a challenge, I imagine.
By the inward pointing dash camera, of course.
"....the average baby will work their way through 8,000 of them before they end up in landfill where they'll take centuries to break down."
This is an episode of "Hoarders" I don't want to see; where they kept all 8,000 diapers before sending them to the landfill.
WOW, what a shock, they helped you enforce their laws?
No, laws are made by statute which are passed by the governing assembly bodies when those are in session, Statutes are almost always available to the public with only modest effort or even published freely. These censorship standards are regulatory in nature which means not only do they change at the whim of the administering beaurocrats but also (especially in less democratic countries like China) unpublished to the public and either require significant effort to obtain or aren't available at all.
Of course, when poor folks need a hand...
You lost perspective in this last sentence; income redistribution account for the lion's share of the entire federal budget next to which the price of these rockets isn't even a rounding error.
I'll be people who get cancer will be perfectly happy to settle for "easily curable/reversible" if it can't be prevented in the first place. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
With those specs it will barely run anything.
Yes, it is the point. Money is a generic medium of exchange. Calling for money to be abolished in favor of barter is just crazy talk.
How many chickens (or pigs or dogs) does Intel HQ need to barter (and then transport) to the fabrication facilities in SE Asia to get the CPUs for all the computers? Yeah, there's a super efficient financial system.
It sounds like the governments bent on censorship have managed to pack the ICANN board enough to get this proposal seriously considered but not enough that the ICANN board can't still usually override them:
ICANN is now proposing that the threshold be increased so that 2/3 of eligible ICANN board members would be required to vote against GAC advice in order to reject it
Why else would ICANN's own board even be considering giving this power away?
How many chickens did you trade for your computer?
Someone put this scientist on the no fly list. That's some Twelve Monkeys shit he's pulling right there.
But if they're on the no fly list they won't be able to get a sample of the original virus.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
They were buying a little RC quadcopter not a Predator or Reaper.
Someone was pulling your leg unless you mean their internal bookkeeping and H.R. records or internal research projects. But for the typical drive in a Google search engine node, well, all of its data is available to the entire public via Google's own web page. which is kinda the point. There's no need to shred those drives
All the truly impoverished and starving people around the world are in countries that feature a lack of capitalism.
Isn't the sticking point here not that the person contracting for service agrees to a non-disparagement clause but that person agrees on behalf of everyone in their entire group? Is that realistic?
Definitely - there are plenty of phone options that do NOT require a PC adding complexity.
Why would anyone SELL bitcoin mining rigs instead of simply building them and getting rich themselves?p>
It's right there in the opening phrase; this IS a case of someone who sells the systems using it themselves: "Bitcoin hardware vendor BitFury has opened ..."
He isn't looking at it backwards and does indeed have three serious business concerns. The business is concerned about shelling out to the third party consultants for every little change, concerned about data silos in the form of the spreadsheets, and concerned about future scalability in light of concerns 1 and 2.
I say definitely move development in house for this large of an ongoing project.
For every person who wants the factory built nearby for the economic impact, there's a certain ratio of people who don't want it built nearby for whatever reason; traffic, worries about industrial accidents, whatever. So if they're smart, yes, they're already way too far along building to get it stopped by protests.
UK have nowhere NEAR the rate of deaths caused by traffic accidents because the British know how drive.
Which it really weird considering they're always driving on the wrong side of the road.
How does it deal when I ask it what ketamine is?
I suppose he's never heard of the uncanny valley affect. This sounds like a great way to RAISE stress, not lower it.