Is personal responsibility compatible with atheism?
The concept of 'Ethical Hedonism' discusses exactly this point. A quick synopsis boils down to this: lacking any other reason to act ethically, it's easier to get people to do what you want them to do, or to give you what you want to get from them, if you're nice to them and suit your own behavior to match their ethics, even if you do not personally agree with those ethics.
And that's because Humans and Neanderthals are actually the same "species".
BZZZZZT! Wrong! Same genus (homo) but different species. Neanderthals were homo neanderthalensis while modern humans are homo sapiens sapiens.
Still not correct. The debate is still on whether they are a separate species (Homo Neanderthalensis), or merely a subspecies of humans (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis).
If the researcher in the story should find evidence that Modern humans and Neanderthals did in fact interbreed on a regular basis, the findings may likely result in the classification of Neanderthal man being set as a subspecies of human rather than a separate species.
All humans have a veromonasal organ. (Pheromone sensor in the nose.) A very, very small percentage of humans have active nerve connections to the veromonasal organ, while most do not. (Probably a recessive trait.) Though there have been some studies which suggest that the veromonasal organ sets off chemical signals to the brain, even in those individuals with no direct nerve connection to it.
Say your car door doesn't have any manual door locks, since it was built to be all automatic, but you lost the remote a long time ago. Your car could easily be broken into or stolen, now that you can't lock the door. So, you have someone read through the engineering manual for the car to find the code the remote used, and build another one to let you lock the doors again.
... even at 10 minutes for a full charge, that's longer than it takes to refill my gas tank. This means a correspondingly low throughput at gas stations or the new equivalent. Has anyone addressed this looming logistical problem?
Easy, just lower the speed limit so it takes everyone longer to get to the new zap stations!
Slightly more seriously, if it takes consistently longer to fill up, fuel stations could try turning more into fast food style establishments. (I'll have a cheeseburger, 60kWh, and a diet coke, please.)
Microsoft taped POWER with Xbox360 and they have the most powerful console on the market (sorry PS3 fanboys, this is true, ask developers not marketing).
I think you need to study up on your processors a little more.
From Wikipedia:
The cores of the [X-Box 360's] Xenon processor were developed using a slightly-modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture
Soooo, if they're both using basically the same CPU, the only difference comes out to what set of software you like better. (Or which set of dev tools the programmers like better.)
Personally I think it's past due for someone to start regulating commercial diesel trucks. Have you seen the amount of crap that comes out of some of the dump trucks and 18-wheelers? I bet one commercial diesel vehicle dumps more crap into the air than 100 cars/SUVs. Unfortunately that industry seems to have paid off the right people to keep it quiet while in plain view.
Diesel engines are regulated. That's one of the reasons for the switch to low-sulfur diesel in recent years. (Same idea as the switch from regular to unleaded gasoline.)
Actually, over the road large diesel engines have better fuel efficiency and lower emissions than a gasoline engine when running at speed on the highway. The black soot you see coming out of the muffler is only produced when they are accelerating and the fuel to air ratio is too heavy towards fuel.
The same thing actually happens with the emissions from your car too, but its harder to see due to the lighter weight of gasoline. (Pay attention to a car's exhaust during a cold winter when it's visible.)
I've been trying to read the second book in the series, but it has an even more ridiculous overabundance of military acronyms than the first book. I don't care for the Ringo's dialog style. His descriptions of action sequences are pretty good, but slogging through the rest of the book makes it almost not worth trying to read.
The author does seem a bit full of himself, as in the plot of the first book, the first people the military went running to when the aliens landed were the science fiction authors.....
Mil spec hammers don't cost $500. They cost $20, just like at Home Depot. The other $480 dissapears into a black ops project.
Actually... some of them do.
It costs a lot to pay a machinist (with appropriate security clearance) to custom mill a hammer to the correct tolerances, out of a block of metal that has been fully tested to have the correct shear and tensile strength, all using a design drafted by an engineer (also with appropriate security clearance) who has been given a set of requirements said hammer must meet, both of whom work for a defense contractor who put in a bid for building hammers, who were the only company who could actually meet the convoluted requirements set by a committee headed by some congressman getting a kickback from all the defense contractors in his state for each contract they win.
What does the Oxford English Dictionary say?
OED is the standard reference for legal and government matters, and should be the first point of reference for English Language questions.
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Is personal responsibility compatible with atheism?
The concept of 'Ethical Hedonism' discusses exactly this point. A quick synopsis boils down to this: lacking any other reason to act ethically, it's easier to get people to do what you want them to do, or to give you what you want to get from them, if you're nice to them and suit your own behavior to match their ethics, even if you do not personally agree with those ethics.
Richard Garriot, of Ultima fame, who uses 'Ethical Hedonism' as his personal motto, wrote an essay about his understanding of the concept: http://www.ianstorm.com/screens/Worlds/UO/npcbooks/ethic.html
Lots of Dark Matter at the galaxy's core? So they just found the path to the Niblonians' home planet?
And that's because Humans and Neanderthals are actually the same "species".
BZZZZZT! Wrong! Same genus (homo) but different species. Neanderthals were homo neanderthalensis while modern humans are homo sapiens sapiens.
Still not correct. The debate is still on whether they are a separate species (Homo Neanderthalensis), or merely a subspecies of humans (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis).
If the researcher in the story should find evidence that Modern humans and Neanderthals did in fact interbreed on a regular basis, the findings may likely result in the classification of Neanderthal man being set as a subspecies of human rather than a separate species.
I call dibs on Sr. Fleet Captain!
You know, I just don't know how to mod this one. Is it Funny, or potential flamebait? Congratulations sir. You win a cookie.
All humans have a veromonasal organ. (Pheromone sensor in the nose.) A very, very small percentage of humans have active nerve connections to the veromonasal organ, while most do not. (Probably a recessive trait.) Though there have been some studies which suggest that the veromonasal organ sets off chemical signals to the brain, even in those individuals with no direct nerve connection to it.
Grinds...Griiinds..
Holy cow level. Modded flamebait, but funny too.
I just wish I was quick witted enough to make it sound more like porn.
Woah, I think I'm going to need a car analogy...
Say your car door doesn't have any manual door locks, since it was built to be all automatic, but you lost the remote a long time ago. Your car could easily be broken into or stolen, now that you can't lock the door. So, you have someone read through the engineering manual for the car to find the code the remote used, and build another one to let you lock the doors again.
Is that like junk in the trunk? Does this mean I should only have sex with women who are endowed with large posteriors?
Yes! Sir Mixalot was a wise man.
Aargh. Is this -1 Troll, or +1 Funny? /* brain explodes */
... even at 10 minutes for a full charge, that's longer than it takes to refill my gas tank. This means a correspondingly low throughput at gas stations or the new equivalent. Has anyone addressed this looming logistical problem?
Easy, just lower the speed limit so it takes everyone longer to get to the new zap stations!
Slightly more seriously, if it takes consistently longer to fill up, fuel stations could try turning more into fast food style establishments. (I'll have a cheeseburger, 60kWh, and a diet coke, please.)
The Cell is just a POWER4+ with some programmable vector processors tacked on.
Microsoft taped POWER with Xbox360 and they have the most powerful console on the market (sorry PS3 fanboys, this is true, ask developers not marketing).
I think you need to study up on your processors a little more. From Wikipedia:
The cores of the [X-Box 360's] Xenon processor were developed using a slightly-modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture
Soooo, if they're both using basically the same CPU, the only difference comes out to what set of software you like better. (Or which set of dev tools the programmers like better.)
Don't speak too hastily. http://www.chris-crockett.com/blog/wpg2?g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum&g2_keyword=chainmail+bikini&g2_itemId=1910
Personally I think it's past due for someone to start regulating commercial diesel trucks. Have you seen the amount of crap that comes out of some of the dump trucks and 18-wheelers? I bet one commercial diesel vehicle dumps more crap into the air than 100 cars/SUVs. Unfortunately that industry seems to have paid off the right people to keep it quiet while in plain view.
Diesel engines are regulated. That's one of the reasons for the switch to low-sulfur diesel in recent years. (Same idea as the switch from regular to unleaded gasoline.)
Actually, over the road large diesel engines have better fuel efficiency and lower emissions than a gasoline engine when running at speed on the highway. The black soot you see coming out of the muffler is only produced when they are accelerating and the fuel to air ratio is too heavy towards fuel.
The same thing actually happens with the emissions from your car too, but its harder to see due to the lighter weight of gasoline. (Pay attention to a car's exhaust during a cold winter when it's visible.)
Man, I can't imagine living 20 years in one state.
Not even the state of Inebriation?
Somehow I don't think so. "AJAJ" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Use YAML (a superset of JSON), and then you can have AJAY.
Just like I'll consume as much plutonium as you're willing to consume caffeine.
With ingested Pu, it's not the radiation that gets you, it's the heavy metal toxicity.
A wizard did it.
No, no, no. The writers did it!
I've been trying to read the second book in the series, but it has an even more ridiculous overabundance of military acronyms than the first book. I don't care for the Ringo's dialog style. His descriptions of action sequences are pretty good, but slogging through the rest of the book makes it almost not worth trying to read.
The author does seem a bit full of himself, as in the plot of the first book, the first people the military went running to when the aliens landed were the science fiction authors.....
Mil spec hammers don't cost $500. They cost $20, just like at Home Depot. The other $480 dissapears into a black ops project.
Actually... some of them do.
It costs a lot to pay a machinist (with appropriate security clearance) to custom mill a hammer to the correct tolerances, out of a block of metal that has been fully tested to have the correct shear and tensile strength, all using a design drafted by an engineer (also with appropriate security clearance) who has been given a set of requirements said hammer must meet, both of whom work for a defense contractor who put in a bid for building hammers, who were the only company who could actually meet the convoluted requirements set by a committee headed by some congressman getting a kickback from all the defense contractors in his state for each contract they win.
Welcome to the pork barrel.
It is unlikely that you would survive to complete step 2, since the high voltage will likely be able to travel through the rope.
What does the Oxford English Dictionary say? OED is the standard reference for legal and government matters, and should be the first point of reference for English Language questions.
Is it still adultery if you sleep with your wife's clone?
The answer can be easily deduced by following two easy steps:
1) ask your wife to pretend that she has a twin (unnecessary if she actually has one)
2) ask her if you can sleep with her sister.
Why not while you're sending one cable down, send another identical cable up?
Center of mass stays at Geo-Synchronous Orbit, and you've got a built in sling-shot at the far end.