The time 12AM is unambiguous to anyone(in the USA at least) that knows how to tell time. Are we going to have to start issuing "clock licenses" now?
EDICT: No one may wear a watch or any other timepiece in public unless thay are 12(that's one more than 11, and 1 less than 13 in case you haven't passed your numbers class) years old or older and have passed a clock reader's ed class. 13 year olds may wear watches and tell time in public only while accompanied by an adult that has a current, up to date, and unqualified clock license. Furthermore if you don't have a clock license, you are not allowed to tell the time, or refer to specific times in public, nor enter in to any contractual agreements where time is a factor.
You think "Noon" is the way to clarify things? Well, "12 noon" is actually self contradictory most days. Since noon is defined as midday, or the time when the sun crosses the local meridian, on most days, the time "12 noon" doesn't exist. It never happens. 12 o'clock happens whenever the clock says it does, noon happens when the sun crosses the meridian.
What happens at "12 midnight" is left as an exercise.
Long ago a proper 24 hour clock was invented; and for good reason those that need to know the time, mostly to synchronize with others, started using it exclusively.
It's not that hard to understand how these scales came about.
Fahrenheit is based on local, human experienced weather conditions(in Europe), with some "standards" thrown in. Really, throughout the year, you could expect to see temperature reports ranging from 0 to 100.
Centigrade/Celcius is based on chemistry where the temps of boiling(at arbitrary pressure) and freezing water are much more important.
As far as all the factors of 10 incorporated in both metric and imperial systems, we are "digital" with 10 handy.
They've developed quite a bit of their own stuff, not just hardware but proceses and intelligence sources.
...I wonder why none of the talking heads have come up with this idea, perhaps it is part of the plan...
Ever since the "axis of evil" I have thought that the best way to defeat Saddam was to goad/coerce/fool him into attacking Israel. We of course would not stand in the way of any Israeli retaliation since we strongly support the concept of self defense and there would not be any coalition of arab states that we would have to protect. Anyway, after SH attacks Israel and we get out of the way, he's toast.
That is, a device located over the keyboard that projects the desired graphic onto the surface from above(the user's/hand/finger side of the keyboard). All the keys are then the same old same old plastic, just NO black images of letters, etc.
Or better yet, the surface is just that, a surface and you have a camera that watches where users put their fingers!
It would probably need some optics to focus well over the entire keyboard from a short distance, but it could work.
I don't know the details about the rest of the world, but here in Dallas, we do have some very flexible ISPs. My service agreement says explicitly that I can use the bandwidth as I see fit so long as it is not illegal.
I understand both intent of the original law, and that of SWA.
The problem is here:
>...There are reasonable accommodations for web sites... >...as much as reasonbly possible...
Those words "reasonable" and "reasonably" which have already been stretched to truly ridiculous lengths.
The definition of "reasonable" from the service provider's point of view is focused on the costs of the market. It does not matter whether the market is defined by physical/financial/whatever criteria. How much can I gain by making my product available to a particular market? How much does it cost to do so? There you have the decision, and the price of the goods.
If it costs me more to sell my product to you, don't you think that I should be able to charge you more for it?
Do realize that I am not talking about how much it costs to put special tags on a web page.
Also consider that if I overlook a potential market and a competitor does not, would it not be appropriate for my potential customer to take their business elsewhere?
If this had made it through, everyone that displayed *anything*, *anyway* would be liable.
If you are on the radio, you must make a visual display for the deaf.
If you display a sign on the front of your store advertising a special, or even own a billboard on the side of the highway, you must accomodate the blind.
If you follow history even at a trivial level, you will see that genocide only happens when the targeted population is unarmed. The most famous recent case being Hitler and the Jews. First he disarmed the population, then he started eliminating the undesirables.
See this for a decent summary: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,6588 9,00.html
I had a class at Rice U that basically taught all three at the same time. The class was specifically oriented to teach the Latin and Greek components of English. So...we had vocabulary and grammar from three languages at once. It was actually a very entertaining class and the prof had us spewing our own composites in no time.
I stopped shopping/thinking about RK or LASIK when my dad had cataract surgery. He got a new lens and better vision for less money than the laser treatment costs!
Working front panels...paper tape...10-30 characters per second...human interface devices (terminals) that weigh so much you cannot move them...terminals that make so much noise, you can't hear the roar of the computer's fans.
Later we got amazing advancements like 3-chip MICRO processors, 256 bits of static ram in a "chip" smaller than your little finger nail!
Wooaah...those were the days.
Back then, we flew kites while listening to transistor radios. Isn't FM cool? You don't get static during thunderstormns!
My daughter had to show her friend a "record" is, and how to operate a "turntable".
...rather than associating yourself with a particular party.
> But that's a problem with parties in general; they > try to force you to accept an entire platform > rather than finding out what people want issue by > issue
That's not a problem with parties, that's what parties are all about, a platform. The idea is to take a few basic principles and apply them to the concept of government. IOW, given principle X and issue Y, what should OUR policy be? Note the "OUR". This is a GROUP of people, ganging together, and pooling resources with hopes of increasing their influence by operating as a bloc. Obviously it involves compromises between the individual party members, but so far "partying" has been wildly successful.
Of course you are free to disagree, no one is forcing you into anything.
I suggest that you do what the founders intended and select a *candidate* as recipient of your vote, rather than a party. You will rarely find one that agrees with you on every issue you bring up, but I can often find one that is a close fit, or at least one that agrees with me on what I consider the major issues. I know it takes more work than simply "voting the party line", but that's OK if you really want your vote to be useful. If you don't want to research the candidates, that's OK too. Just don't vote.
Hey, if you are really unsatisfied with what's available, run for office yourself. No one but you is stopping you. That's what freedom is all about. Live your own life as you see fit, IOW, the freedom to govern yourself.
As a card carrying member, I am surprised to find a fellow member that does not appreciate how much hunters, fishermen, and their various organisations like the NRA have done for preserving and honestly managing our environmental treasures like forests, deserts, prairies, wetlands, and the wildlife that they harbor.
Those of us that enjoy hunting and fishing and generally being outdoors have good reason to place a high value on a healthy environment.
Besides that, the NRA is a pretty good, general purpose group when it comes to defending our Constitution as a whole, not just the 2nd amendment.
OBFamousQuote: "If you want to save some endagered species, figure out a way to eat it. Nothing that we like to eat will *ever* be allowed to go extinct." by Rush Limbaugh
It's OK, stick to your cash, but you can help us befuddle the databases by starting your own card swapping club.
Go ahead and register for your discount card, but never use it. Trade with someone else. Trade again. Get a bunch of friends together, throw all of your cards in a pile, stir them up and then pull out the same type and number of cards that you threw in. When you meet someone else that has cards like yours, swap again.
Obviously this doesn't work for credit cards or anything that has your name on it.
Keep paying with cash.
So far I have swapped Safeway, Albertson's, Tom Thumb, and Brookshires with people from all over the country, as far apart as Alaska, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. The last swap was in Alaska and I have no idea who's card I gave, nor who's I have.
OK, it means that you DO know what you are talking about rather than simply being confused by the terminology.
As far as a counter example, one of a true generator, even if it was a lab test I don't know. I have vague memories of the theoretical(not including conversion losses, etc) breakeven having been reached but nothing more.
Heh, if you want to be picky;-) I guess I could refer you to an island in the Pacific where there was one pulse that definitely produced more energy than was required to fire it off(including construction, etc.) however, capturing and converting that energy would be, uh let's say, difficult.
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All you gotta do is exchange one letter.
The time 12AM is unambiguous to anyone(in the USA at least) that knows how to tell time. Are we going to have to start issuing "clock licenses" now?
EDICT: No one may wear a watch or any other timepiece in public unless thay are 12(that's one more than 11, and 1 less than 13 in case you haven't passed your numbers class) years old or older and have passed a clock reader's ed class. 13 year olds may wear watches and tell time in public only while accompanied by an adult that has a current, up to date, and unqualified clock license. Furthermore if you don't have a clock license, you are not allowed to tell the time, or refer to specific times in public, nor enter in to any contractual agreements where time is a factor.
You think "Noon" is the way to clarify things? Well, "12 noon" is actually self contradictory most days. Since noon is defined as midday, or the time when the sun crosses the local meridian, on most days, the time "12 noon" doesn't exist. It never happens. 12 o'clock happens whenever the clock says it does, noon happens when the sun crosses the meridian.
What happens at "12 midnight" is left as an exercise.
Long ago a proper 24 hour clock was invented; and for good reason those that need to know the time, mostly to synchronize with others, started using it exclusively.
Somehow your .sig rings bells from 30 years ago...
This "Ask Slashdot" submission is a masterful example of trolling if I ever saw one.
A toast for lyapunov, hear hear!
...the aboriginal americans gave tobacco to my ancestors.
Later, my relatives created an effective vaccine for smallpox.
What have the AAs done for tobacco?
Which has killed more since they met?
It's not that hard to understand how these scales came about.
Fahrenheit is based on local, human experienced weather conditions(in Europe), with some "standards" thrown in. Really, throughout the year, you could expect to see temperature reports ranging from 0 to 100.
Centigrade/Celcius is based on chemistry where the temps of boiling(at arbitrary pressure) and freezing water are much more important.
As far as all the factors of 10 incorporated in both metric and imperial systems, we are "digital" with 10 handy.
The stuff on the main page gets much more traffic.
As of now 1161.
A woman finished speaking?
;-)
or,
All the men clapped except for the one with the knife that had been busy cutting the others below him loose.
...we are trying to build stuff like this
No reason such a weapon can't be scaled to appropriate targets. It is already a scaled up version of the MTHEL.
They've developed quite a bit of their own stuff, not just hardware but proceses and intelligence sources.
...I wonder why none of the talking heads have come up with this idea, perhaps it is part of the plan...
Ever since the "axis of evil" I have thought that the best way to defeat Saddam was to goad/coerce/fool him into attacking Israel. We of course would not stand in the way of any Israeli retaliation since we strongly support the concept of self defense and there would not be any coalition of arab states that we would have to protect. Anyway, after SH attacks Israel and we get out of the way, he's toast.
Cheers.
It could just as well suck the bills out of your pocket, and the dollars off of your paycheck before you even get it...
That is, a device located over the keyboard that projects the desired graphic onto the surface from above(the user's/hand/finger side of the keyboard). All the keys are then the same old same old plastic, just NO black images of letters, etc.
Or better yet, the surface is just that, a surface and you have a camera that watches where users put their fingers!
It would probably need some optics to focus well over the entire keyboard from a short distance, but it could work.
...or perhaps your brainwave monitor is OOS.
I don't know the details about the rest of the world, but here in Dallas, we do have some very flexible ISPs. My service agreement says explicitly that I can use the bandwidth as I see fit so long as it is not illegal.
It's nice to see that someone else has come up with the same "filter" that I have. We must have asked the same question.
/. these days?
How do you find interesting threads on
I understand both intent of the original law, and that of SWA.
The problem is here:
>...There are reasonable accommodations for web sites...
>...as much as reasonbly possible...
Those words "reasonable" and "reasonably" which have already been stretched to truly ridiculous lengths.
The definition of "reasonable" from the service provider's point of view is focused on the costs of the market. It does not matter whether the market is defined by physical/financial/whatever criteria. How much can I gain by making my product available to a particular market? How much does it cost to do so? There you have the decision, and the price of the goods.
If it costs me more to sell my product to you, don't you think that I should be able to charge you more for it?
Do realize that I am not talking about how much it costs to put special tags on a web page.
Also consider that if I overlook a potential market and a competitor does not, would it not be appropriate for my potential customer to take their business elsewhere?
My lawyer friend mentioned billboards.
If this had made it through, everyone that displayed *anything*, *anyway* would be liable.
If you are on the radio, you must make a visual display for the deaf.
If you display a sign on the front of your store advertising a special, or even own a billboard on the side of the highway, you must accomodate the blind.
The list of possible extremes is endless.
If you follow history even at a trivial level, you will see that genocide only happens when the targeted population is unarmed. The most famous recent case being Hitler and the Jews. First he disarmed the population, then he started eliminating the undesirables.
8 9,00.html
See this for a decent summary:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,658
I had a class at Rice U that basically taught all three at the same time. The class was specifically oriented to teach the Latin and Greek components of English. So...we had vocabulary and grammar from three languages at once. It was actually a very entertaining class and the prof had us spewing our own composites in no time.
I'm waiting.
I stopped shopping/thinking about RK or LASIK when my dad had cataract surgery. He got a new lens and better vision for less money than the laser treatment costs!
You have decrypted protected material.
You and your grammar teacher are now circumvention devices!
...a lot of stuff, but I did not have to live through a lightning strike on or about my person! :-)
I remember when 9600bps was FAST!
Working front panels...paper tape...10-30 characters per second...human interface devices (terminals) that weigh so much you cannot move them...terminals that make so much noise, you can't hear the roar of the computer's fans.
Later we got amazing advancements like 3-chip MICRO processors, 256 bits of static ram in a "chip" smaller than your little finger nail!
Wooaah...those were the days.
Back then, we flew kites while listening to transistor radios. Isn't FM cool? You don't get static during thunderstormns!
My daughter had to show her friend a "record" is, and how to operate a "turntable".
...rather than associating yourself with a particular party.
> But that's a problem with parties in general; they
> try to force you to accept an entire platform
> rather than finding out what people want issue by
> issue
That's not a problem with parties, that's what parties are all about, a platform. The idea is to take a few basic principles and apply them to the concept of government. IOW, given principle X and issue Y, what should OUR policy be? Note the "OUR". This is a GROUP of people, ganging together, and pooling resources with hopes of increasing their influence by operating as a bloc. Obviously it involves compromises between the individual party members, but so far "partying" has been wildly successful.
Of course you are free to disagree, no one is forcing you into anything.
I suggest that you do what the founders intended and select a *candidate* as recipient of your vote, rather than a party. You will rarely find one that agrees with you on every issue you bring up, but I can often find one that is a close fit, or at least one that agrees with me on what I consider the major issues. I know it takes more work than simply "voting the party line", but that's OK if you really want your vote to be useful. If you don't want to research the candidates, that's OK too. Just don't vote.
Hey, if you are really unsatisfied with what's available, run for office yourself. No one but you is stopping you. That's what freedom is all about. Live your own life as you see fit, IOW, the freedom to govern yourself.
Good luck which ever path you choose.
I agree with the suggestion of NRA.
As a card carrying member, I am surprised to find a fellow member that does not appreciate how much hunters, fishermen, and their various organisations like the NRA have done for preserving and honestly managing our environmental treasures like forests, deserts, prairies, wetlands, and the wildlife that they harbor.
Those of us that enjoy hunting and fishing and generally being outdoors have good reason to place a high value on a healthy environment.
Besides that, the NRA is a pretty good, general purpose group when it comes to defending our Constitution as a whole, not just the 2nd amendment.
OBFamousQuote: "If you want to save some endagered species, figure out a way to eat it. Nothing that we like to eat will *ever* be allowed to go extinct." by Rush Limbaugh
It's OK, stick to your cash, but you can help us befuddle the databases by starting your own card swapping club.
Go ahead and register for your discount card, but never use it. Trade with someone else. Trade again. Get a bunch of friends together, throw all of your cards in a pile, stir them up and then pull out the same type and number of cards that you threw in. When you meet someone else that has cards like yours, swap again.
Obviously this doesn't work for credit cards or anything that has your name on it.
Keep paying with cash.
So far I have swapped Safeway, Albertson's, Tom Thumb, and Brookshires with people from all over the country, as far apart as Alaska, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. The last swap was in Alaska and I have no idea who's card I gave, nor who's I have.
OK, it means that you DO know what you are talking about rather than simply being confused by the terminology.
;-) I guess I could refer you to an island in the Pacific where there was one pulse that definitely produced more energy than was required to fire it off(including construction, etc.) however, capturing and converting that energy would be, uh let's say, difficult.
As far as a counter example, one of a true generator, even if it was a lab test I don't know. I have vague memories of the theoretical(not including conversion losses, etc) breakeven having been reached but nothing more.
Heh, if you want to be picky
Cheers for clearing sematic clouds...