Of course US citizens believe in free speech : no "enemy" ideology has ever marginally sucessfully attacked anyone on American soil (with the exception of islam).
I suppose America's own indigenous population doesn't count? Or was that war simply long enough ago that it does not count? We "whites" living outside of Europe should remember that, even though we call it colonization, we are the attackers - ours is the "enemy" ideology.
Write a rejection of Claim 1 based in part on the OP's website and/or code. And none of this handwavy "clearly prior art" bullshit. I'm talking something that would hold up in court.
I'm pretty sure that printing dollars is illegal in the United States.
And watch the world laugh as you die from indium poisoning! Hah!
But seriously folks... Sure we know about arsenic and how miniscule amounts are probably OK in small amounts like that, but how is indium's toxicity? And what about indium arsenide itself? Is the whole more toxic than the sum of its parts?
Ahem, if it's hard enough, neither putting on a condom nor peeing on a chip should get in the way.
You could not possibly make that statement if you'd ever had an erection and a full bladder at the same time. If it's hard enough, peeing on a chip is going to pose a significant problem - or at least provide a moment of hilarity!
That may indeed be so in the U.S., but here in Australia (and, I suspect, in most British Commonwealth countries), "maths" is by far the more common usage and not the least bit pretentious. Take care with absolutes, my ignorant friend.
One factor, though, is that a lottery is a passive game, you get hardly any thrill out of it. I would expect more lottery players to play not for thrill but just for the money.
The thrill (or rather, the enjoyment - it's not really excitement), is in the hope, the mental spending spree, the brief escape from one's workaday drudgery. It's not the money per se, so much as what the money can do for the lottery player.
Personally, speaking as a software engineer, I do wish I had studied more higher math in college, because it would help me do more.
This is the key as far as I'm concerned. You hear this sentiment all too often. Yet I don't think I have ever heard anyone voicing the converse sentiment - that they wish they had not wasted so much time on maths.
Personally, I wish I'd studied more maths at primary school (elementary school). Because of those stupid bloody Cuisenaire rods, I was playing with blocks when I should have been rote-learning multiplication tables at primary school. That meant that the arithmetic behind most forms of maths was always hard for me even though I found the concepts quite easy to grasp. This was in the seventies when calculators were still not permitted as study aids in class, so I was pretty much hamstrung for any sort of higher maths by my early education experience.
Yes, she's shielding her eyes from the (probably VERY bright, since film was less sensitive back then) studio lights. If you look at the shadows, that is exactly where the light is coming from. But it's funny nonetheless.
Indeed. And the shadows are very dark with really well-defined edges, further suggesting very bright light. Now, the narrator says it is from the footage of the Hollywood premiere of the movie at Mann's Chinese Theatre in 1928, so it's probably bright sunlight that she's shielding her eyes from. This being Hollywood, the talking she's doing is probably just practicing lines. We see her turn, look at the camera and then the footage fades to the next shot. I wonder if, immediately after that, this aspiring actress (actor?) approached the camera looking to be "discovered". Pure speculation of course, but more likely than time travel, no?.
Y'know... if they are going to track all "browsing, email and phone calls", I'd really like to see the technology that facilitates this.
OTOH, if they really mean any "browsing, email and phone calls", then I do not want to see legislation passed that permits it. Even as a non-Brit, I wouldn't want this to ever see the light of day.
No, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if parents voted to allow something like "the inclusion of usage monitoring and access control software on all school-supplied laptop computers", would you?
Yes, Fractint. It was my introduction to truly Free Software. Because the group that released it called themselves Stone Soup Software, and I knew the story of Stone Soup, I immediately understood what Free Software was all about.
I always remember this little snippet from one of the many text files that accompanied the archive:
As a prior beekeeper and honey aficionado myself, I strongly prefer Texas Wildflower Honey, a rich brown flavor. Clover honey has this green taste that I find out of place in my honey.
Judging by your descriptions of taste, I think you would really enjoy Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey. It has a unique rich, round, almost nutty flavour, with no hint of that thin green sharpness some honeys have.
Actually, I'm saying that the explanation of how magnets work is not quite as simple as mangu made it out to be. Forces such as magnetism and gravity can really be quite difficult to grasp at pretty much anything beyond a functional level (and thus to explain). In fact, the functional is pretty simple to understand. Magnets attract ferrous objects. Current flowing through a wire can impart a magnetic force. A magnet moving near a wire can induce a current. I have seen these things demonstrated in early high school science classes, and I utilise these principles daily. I simply don't understand how the magnetic force operates.
If you tell me it comes from the electric charges in the magnet, then there must be electricity involved, even if it is generated by rubbing wool on amber. But with just a steel magnet and a piece of soft iron, there is no electricity to speak of - two pieces of highly conductive metal both at the same potential, a net zero charge. Now, if there is no electricity around, I need to understand the source of the charges. If the source of the electric charges is the magnetic force itself, then we have a need for a better explanation.
Then there's the further issue of why certain materials are acted on by magneic forces and others are not. If this is to do with moving electrons, why is it that copper, one of the most highly conductive metals is not susceptible to magnetism? No, magnets really aren't that easy to understand, are they? And why is it that iron at high temperatures is non-magnetic?
I know it is not magic, but I don't understand why, so until I read or hear a better explanation, magnetism shall remain barely distinguishable from magic.
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Did I just catch you arguing with someone who knows the inauguration year of the Happy Meal?
Of course US citizens believe in free speech : no "enemy" ideology has ever marginally sucessfully attacked anyone on American soil (with the exception of islam).
I suppose America's own indigenous population doesn't count? Or was that war simply long enough ago that it does not count? We "whites" living outside of Europe should remember that, even though we call it colonization, we are the attackers - ours is the "enemy" ideology.
Using cinnamon with gold is nothing particularly new!
I'm pretty sure that printing dollars is illegal in the United States.
Not if you call it "Quantitative Easing".
And watch the world laugh as you die from indium poisoning! Hah!
But seriously folks... Sure we know about arsenic and how miniscule amounts are probably OK in small amounts like that, but how is indium's toxicity? And what about indium arsenide itself? Is the whole more toxic than the sum of its parts?
I'm a native speaker.
Surely you mean "I am nativ spikr."?
Yep, everyone else is wrong when they pronounce SCSI. Just like everyone else is wrong when they use the word "hacker".
Aside: I have heard a third pronunciation of SCSI - "Skizzy". I like it because it sounds kinda friendly, rather than sounding just plain nasty.
Kinda like eating steak with one on your tongue. Sure, you know there's a pleasurable thing going on there...but you just get no sensation whatsoever.
If you paid for your last steak with about 20% of your gross income for the ensuing 18 years, you might think differently.
where's -1 Irresponsible Idiot when you need it.
It really should be -2 Irresponsible Couple. Half the blame must be borne by the other idiot involved.
Ahem, if it's hard enough, neither putting on a condom nor peeing on a chip should get in the way.
You could not possibly make that statement if you'd ever had an erection and a full bladder at the same time. If it's hard enough, peeing on a chip is going to pose a significant problem - or at least provide a moment of hilarity!
The rest of your post is spot on, though.
He has crazy eyes...
Soviet image editink software works good, da?
If parthenogenesis is occurring, it's hardly conception, is it?
It's "maths" if you're pretentious.
That may indeed be so in the U.S., but here in Australia (and, I suspect, in most British Commonwealth countries), "maths" is by far the more common usage and not the least bit pretentious.
Take care with absolutes, my ignorant friend.
One factor, though, is that a lottery is a passive game, you get hardly any thrill out of it. I would expect more lottery players to play not for thrill but just for the money.
The thrill (or rather, the enjoyment - it's not really excitement), is in the hope, the mental spending spree, the brief escape from one's workaday drudgery. It's not the money per se, so much as what the money can do for the lottery player.
Personally, speaking as a software engineer, I do wish I had studied more higher math in college, because it would help me do more.
This is the key as far as I'm concerned. You hear this sentiment all too often. Yet I don't think I have ever heard anyone voicing the converse sentiment - that they wish they had not wasted so much time on maths.
Personally, I wish I'd studied more maths at primary school (elementary school). Because of those stupid bloody Cuisenaire rods, I was playing with blocks when I should have been rote-learning multiplication tables at primary school. That meant that the arithmetic behind most forms of maths was always hard for me even though I found the concepts quite easy to grasp. This was in the seventies when calculators were still not permitted as study aids in class, so I was pretty much hamstrung for any sort of higher maths by my early education experience.
Yes, she's shielding her eyes from the (probably VERY bright, since film was less sensitive back then) studio lights. If you look at the shadows, that is exactly where the light is coming from. But it's funny nonetheless.
Indeed. And the shadows are very dark with really well-defined edges, further suggesting very bright light. Now, the narrator says it is from the footage of the Hollywood premiere of the movie at Mann's Chinese Theatre in 1928, so it's probably bright sunlight that she's shielding her eyes from. This being Hollywood, the talking she's doing is probably just practicing lines. We see her turn, look at the camera and then the footage fades to the next shot. I wonder if, immediately after that, this aspiring actress (actor?) approached the camera looking to be "discovered". Pure speculation of course, but more likely than time travel, no?.
Oh please! Slashdotters are making her all hot and bothered.
In Soviet Russia, perhaps.
Y'know... if they are going to track all "browsing, email and phone calls", I'd really like to see the technology that facilitates this.
OTOH, if they really mean any "browsing, email and phone calls", then I do not want to see legislation passed that permits it. Even as a non-Brit, I wouldn't want this to ever see the light of day.
...pretty sure parents wouldn't have voted to allow the school to spy on students through webcams
No, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if parents voted to allow something like "the inclusion of usage monitoring and access control software on all school-supplied laptop computers", would you?
Yes, Fractint. It was my introduction to truly Free Software. Because the group that released it called themselves Stone Soup Software, and I knew the story of Stone Soup, I immediately understood what Free Software was all about.
I always remember this little snippet from one of the many text files that accompanied the archive:
Don't want money, got money. Want admiration.
No, sorry, tech support is in the call center on the next block. Thank you for calling, my name is Steve, I am in Detroit.
Thank you Sanjeet, please do the needful and revert immediately.
Oh, you must be a hoot at parties!
As a prior beekeeper and honey aficionado myself, I strongly prefer Texas Wildflower Honey, a rich brown flavor. Clover honey has this green taste that I find out of place in my honey.
Judging by your descriptions of taste, I think you would really enjoy Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey. It has a unique rich, round, almost nutty flavour, with no hint of that thin green sharpness some honeys have.
Actually, I'm saying that the explanation of how magnets work is not quite as simple as mangu made it out to be. Forces such as magnetism and gravity can really be quite difficult to grasp at pretty much anything beyond a functional level (and thus to explain). In fact, the functional is pretty simple to understand. Magnets attract ferrous objects. Current flowing through a wire can impart a magnetic force. A magnet moving near a wire can induce a current. I have seen these things demonstrated in early high school science classes, and I utilise these principles daily. I simply don't understand how the magnetic force operates.
If you tell me it comes from the electric charges in the magnet, then there must be electricity involved, even if it is generated by rubbing wool on amber. But with just a steel magnet and a piece of soft iron, there is no electricity to speak of - two pieces of highly conductive metal both at the same potential, a net zero charge. Now, if there is no electricity around, I need to understand the source of the charges. If the source of the electric charges is the magnetic force itself, then we have a need for a better explanation.
Then there's the further issue of why certain materials are acted on by magneic forces and others are not. If this is to do with moving electrons, why is it that copper, one of the most highly conductive metals is not susceptible to magnetism? No, magnets really aren't that easy to understand, are they? And why is it that iron at high temperatures is non-magnetic?
I know it is not magic, but I don't understand why, so until I read or hear a better explanation, magnetism shall remain barely distinguishable from magic.