As another poster has pointed out, one of the reasons they added all this gunk was that the wine itself was often crap. People who really enjoy wine today generally want to just taste the wine--provided it's a *good* wine, of course.
The alcohol would've evaporated before the water did. And what's been left behind has rotted to hell and gone by now. By now, there's nothing even remotely fit for human consumption.
"Almost as much" is putting it a bit strongly. In 2012, the US spent $682 billion on its military. The rest of the world combined spent $1071 billion (source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2013 Yearbook). Granted, that's still an oversized hunk of world military spending. The runner-up (China) spent only $166 billion.
That's the reported number; there's good reason to suspect that the actual numbers were much higher. The reported incidence was less than 10% of the age cohort, and we know that (thanks to measles being extremely contagious) that the actual incidence was close to 100%.
The number of cases of measles in total might have been severely underreported, but deaths and hospitalizations? It's one thing if the parents keep home a kid sick with measles but not seriously ill and don't bother to file an official report. But if the kid dies, surely the coroner is most likely going to find out what killed him, and if he's taken to the hospital, the hospital staff will diagnose him and record it in the hospital records.
The cost of running the CPUs is infinitesimal compared to the cost of them running idle
Actually, that's not true. Even assuming that the CPU does not do voltage scaling, freqency scaling or other power management, a CPU under heavy load can use 150% or more of the power of the same CPU at idle. And since the higher energy use causes it to run hotter, you pay for that twice as you also have to pay for the A/C to keep it cool as well.
On the other hand, Mordor is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.... from all that volcanic discharge from Mount Doom.
The Plains of Gorgoroth that Frodo and Sam struggled across fits that description, yes. But Nurn, around the Sea of Nurnen in the southeast was quite fertile (though not pleasant--no place in Morder was pleasant) and raised abundant crops. After all, Sauron's armies had to be fed somehow.
Elvish really suffers from a lack of sufficient definition. Quenya is close to having enough material in it, and people have done some writing in it, but even there, you'd have to make up large swaths to fill in the blanks to be able to fully use it as a language. Sindarin is worse, and there's nothing more than snippets of anything else.
Klingon, on the other hand, has been sufficiently defined that people can and have used it as an actual lanaguage.
Well, there's "take", and there's "take". By the end of the Third Age, many of the tribal dialects were in fact heavily corrupted and debased versions of Black Speech, but they were not intelligible to each other, nor to a speaker of pure Black Speech.
Honest question here: Exactly what price was that? How much did these kids suffer?
With effective modern medical care, the death rate from measles is about 0.1%. If proper care is not given, it can be as high as 10%. Just prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in the USA, approximately 450 people died each year of the disease, and 48,000 had complications severe enough to require hospitalization.
Actually, it's not eradicated, and it's actually making a comeback (thanks to the anti-vaxxers).
Acutally, it *is* eradicated in the wild. The last documented case of naturally occuring smallpox was in 1977. WHO officially declared it eradicated in 1979. You may be confusing it with polio, which they're still trying to chase down and eliminate the last pockets of.
eCigarettes still have nicotine, which is *not* good for you. It causes high blood pressure and contributes to heart and circulatory disease in other ways as well.
Why do these researchers transfer ALL copyrights, instead of just giving a non-exclusive copyright?
Because those are the terms of the journal. Don't transfer all the copyrights, don't get published.
Why not just put it on their institutional web server, and submit the link to google? I never saw a university that didn't make such a web server available to Faculty and even Students.
Because that doesn't count. Research has to be published in a peer-reviewed journal (or at a peer-reviewed conference) or it doesn't exist. You don't get credit for it, it never gets cited or used by other research, it doesn't become part of the literature.
I haven't seen the truck or the Cobalt container, but the only way these guys might warrant a Darwin Award is if they ignored flagrant radioactive warning labels.
I haven't seen the truck or the container either, but I would be very, very surprised if the container did *not* have flagrant radioactive warning labels.
its only the faux news crowd that has been spoon-fed the bullshit that snowden is a traitor or bad guy.
Wow, I never knew Nancy Pelosi was one of "the faux news crowd".
"I think on three scores -- that is leaking the Patriot Act section 215, FISA 702, and the president's classified cyber operations's directive -- on the strength of leaking that, yes, that would be a prosecutable offense," Pelosi told reporters at her Capitol Hill news briefing. "I think that he should be prosecuted."
You can't assign this to conservatives. You can find plenty of conservatives that think Snowden is a hero--and plenty of liberals who say Snowden's a criminal and think the NSA should be give free rein to "protect" us.
The logic espoused by the quoted idea is the same as saying if police were to start strip searching everyone without cause, it would be reasonable simply because it always happens.
Mainly because of how constantly "difference" has been used to try to prove "superiority" and "inferiority". It's an over-reaction, yes, but understandable.
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As another poster has pointed out, one of the reasons they added all this gunk was that the wine itself was often crap. People who really enjoy wine today generally want to just taste the wine--provided it's a *good* wine, of course.
The alcohol would've evaporated before the water did. And what's been left behind has rotted to hell and gone by now. By now, there's nothing even remotely fit for human consumption.
It's 3700 years old. What difference does two weeks make, fer cryin' out loud?
"Almost as much" is putting it a bit strongly. In 2012, the US spent $682 billion on its military. The rest of the world combined spent $1071 billion (source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2013 Yearbook). Granted, that's still an oversized hunk of world military spending. The runner-up (China) spent only $166 billion.
...why ARE you spying on Grandma?
The number of cases of measles in total might have been severely underreported, but deaths and hospitalizations? It's one thing if the parents keep home a kid sick with measles but not seriously ill and don't bother to file an official report. But if the kid dies, surely the coroner is most likely going to find out what killed him, and if he's taken to the hospital, the hospital staff will diagnose him and record it in the hospital records.
Actually, that's not true. Even assuming that the CPU does not do voltage scaling, freqency scaling or other power management, a CPU under heavy load can use 150% or more of the power of the same CPU at idle. And since the higher energy use causes it to run hotter, you pay for that twice as you also have to pay for the A/C to keep it cool as well.
But go not to the Elves for counsel, for they shall say both solar and oil.
The Plains of Gorgoroth that Frodo and Sam struggled across fits that description, yes. But Nurn, around the Sea of Nurnen in the southeast was quite fertile (though not pleasant--no place in Morder was pleasant) and raised abundant crops. After all, Sauron's armies had to be fed somehow.
Elvish really suffers from a lack of sufficient definition. Quenya is close to having enough material in it, and people have done some writing in it, but even there, you'd have to make up large swaths to fill in the blanks to be able to fully use it as a language. Sindarin is worse, and there's nothing more than snippets of anything else.
Klingon, on the other hand, has been sufficiently defined that people can and have used it as an actual lanaguage.
Well, there's "take", and there's "take". By the end of the Third Age, many of the tribal dialects were in fact heavily corrupted and debased versions of Black Speech, but they were not intelligible to each other, nor to a speaker of pure Black Speech.
With effective modern medical care, the death rate from measles is about 0.1%. If proper care is not given, it can be as high as 10%. Just prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in the USA, approximately 450 people died each year of the disease, and 48,000 had complications severe enough to require hospitalization.
Acutally, it *is* eradicated in the wild. The last documented case of naturally occuring smallpox was in 1977. WHO officially declared it eradicated in 1979. You may be confusing it with polio, which they're still trying to chase down and eliminate the last pockets of.
eCigarettes still have nicotine, which is *not* good for you. It causes high blood pressure and contributes to heart and circulatory disease in other ways as well.
Because those are the terms of the journal. Don't transfer all the copyrights, don't get published.
Because that doesn't count. Research has to be published in a peer-reviewed journal (or at a peer-reviewed conference) or it doesn't exist. You don't get credit for it, it never gets cited or used by other research, it doesn't become part of the literature.
I haven't seen the truck or the container either, but I would be very, very surprised if the container did *not* have flagrant radioactive warning labels.
Wow, I never knew Nancy Pelosi was one of "the faux news crowd".
You can't assign this to conservatives. You can find plenty of conservatives that think Snowden is a hero--and plenty of liberals who say Snowden's a criminal and think the NSA should be give free rein to "protect" us.
You can always charter a flight. You can have your rights, if you're rich.
"TSA" appears to be a three letter agency. 4th Amendment doesn't seem to be even slowing them down.
Yes, it is. Gone through an airport lately?
Interstate Highways A1, A2, A3 and A4. Although they aren't named as such by their signage.
Hawaii has three. And so does Puerto Rico, even though it's not even a state.
Mainly because of how constantly "difference" has been used to try to prove "superiority" and "inferiority". It's an over-reaction, yes, but understandable.
Or if you're just watching Netflix. The advantage may not be as big downstream, but double the data rate still isn't to be sneezed at.
The fact that 4G LTE (if you can get it) is at best 300 Mb/s down and 75 Mb/s up, while 802.11n is 600 Mb/s bi-directional?
I remember when a local Volvo dealer got himself elected mayor of the city his dealership was in. The city police got kitted out with new Volvos.