MPG is really two factors: the energy required to push the car around (internal friction, wind resistance, mass of the car, etc.) and the efficiency of the engine itself. The latter does actually matter -- larger engines are, roughly speaking, less efficient than a smaller engine at the same level of power output. So one of the two factors affects any power source you put in the car, and the other doesn't. (Granted, any power source you put in the car will have different efficiencies for different engines, but those have little to do with the gasoline efficiency in the same car.)
Good chocolate actually requires a fair amount of labor to produce, which is why it's so expensive. The raw materials (and for that matter, the labor to harvest the raw materials) are really cheap, unless you buy the slightly-more-expensive liberal chocolate that deigns to pay workers something they won't starve on.
But yeah. If you think Valrhona chocolate is just overpriced Hershey's, buy the latter, because you obviously have no sense of taste.
They actually make filtering mechanisms specifically for methane. Since it will come out of solution when the pressure drops, you need to remove it so it doesn't build up in your house.
401k's certainly aren't required to buy only AAA investments. Not only can they invest in stock funds, but most 401k bond offerings aren't solely AAA. Both Vanguard and Fidelity, which are major choices for institutional investors, have their major bond products investing in a wide range of investment-grade bonds.
If you're investing, you're stuck with the exchange rate. Purchasing power parity only matters if you're able to buy your goods in the other state. (That is, if you're trying to figure out the GDP for China as it impacts the Chinese, PPP is reasonable. If you're trying to figure it out for the purposes of investment, you need to use the exchange rate.)
The snow traction control is unpleasantly aggressive, though you can fix that with snow tires.
The reason it scales down the power so much when tires slip is that the torque on the electric motor is high enough that it can easily cause the tires to break traction and spin freely. (Once a tire is slipping, the force it can provide is dramatically decreased.) That will cause damage to the electric motor.
Right. So it's not, "increase taxes from their current levels to follow weight^4". It's, "modify the current taxes so they follow weight^4". Assuming that we're currently maintaining our roads (if not, we should be), the total amount of road taxes paid shouldn't change, but rather, be distributed differently so tax paid follows damage done. To a good approximation, that means making truck drivers bear the entire cost of road taxes. Ultimately, you'll pay the same amount of road tax, just in shipping costs instead of in gas tax. But now it's adding incentive in the right places -- purchases that require less shipping are more competitively-priced.
Many no-fault states still permit recovery against the liable party, but require your insurance company to initially pay for medical costs in a timely fashion. (They can later recover these costs from the liable party.)
The easiest way is probably to hack a BitTorrent client to act like it's downloading the game but never actually download data -- acquire peers through all the normal means, contact them, ask for their piece bitmap, and then choke off the connection. You can even recontact the peer multiple times to watch their piece bitmap fill in, though it's probably a reasonable assumption that every non-seed person in the swarm will eventually finish the download.
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All large numbers seem absurd in a vacuum. Better to say that the debt is at about 400% of tax receipts. It's not the same as using a credit card to pay off another, though, as the US has substantial revenue to back its debt. It's more like a family with a $45,000 / yr income having $180,000 of debt (albeit at a rate well below that of a credit card). That's still pretty high -- you'd be hard-pressed to get a mortgage with those numbers -- but the US's revenue stream is a lot more stable than individual job security.
In a Ponzi scheme, payments are made solely through new investor's money. The government, on the other hand, does have a fairly sizable revenue stream.
Since money is fungible, you can't say that the money to pay back bonds is necessarily paid with the income from the issuance of new bonds and not from revenues. This applies to individuals, too -- if, every month, I put $1000 on a credit card and pay it off every month, it's logically the same as having a perpetual balance on the card. The creditor certainly doesn't think so, though (in only one scenario am I charged interest, and most credit card companies will get upset if you don't pay *anything* back), because in the former scenario, I have revenue backing my credit.
Now, they might somehow say that you can't access those records because of national security or something. But I'm willing to bet that federal agencies track that information already. You have to give your employer a lot more information than just ISP billing information to work at a federal agency. For quite a lot of legal reasons, they want to track who in the government is using what IP address.
Requiring them to store names, addresses, credit card and banking info, and even phone numbers????? The ONLY thing they should store in the logs are a user account ID, the user's IP address, and maybe the destination IP address. Names, addresses, and phone numbers should be kept completely separate from the logs, not even stored on the same machine, and preferably not on the same network. Storing CC and banking info should be discouraged, or at the very least require that is be stored separately from the previous 2 categories, that it's not accessible from the network, and that it be encrypted all times when stored.
I don't think it stipulated that they needed to be stored in a separate database. Any ISP has a reliable, unique way of identifying you to ensure that you're a customer before giving you access to their service. It's common already to store (customer-identifier, time-range, IP-address) for each customer. It's also practically mandatory to store (customer-identifier, billing-and-contact info) in order to do business. They don't require that these two be stored together, but that both sets of information are stored and retained and that law enforcement has access to them.
BTW, keeping that information will not protect a single child, ever! This is complete nonsense.
Not strictly true. With the appropriate searches, you can turn up reams of child porn on Limewire (still!). So you have the IP addresses of people with child porn caches. A distinctly nonzero fraction of those people are pretty sick bastards that abuse children.
Now, you can say that not enough children will be protected to make it worthwhile. I won't really argue overall effectiveness -- just that the pedos that everyone says are a canard do actually exist. I would say that this information is already stored and kept for reasonably long periods of time by most ISPs, so it seems like a moot point whether or not you mandate that ISPs store it.
They keep it for a couple of months, since abuse reports aren't often immediate, but 18 can be high for some ISPs.
A number of ISPs manage to have fairly sticky DHCP distribution, though, so you can keep the same IP address for a year. In that case, storing for 18 months isn't very difficult.
Wait -- our leaders are taking the problem of global warming seriously and are tackling solving the problem?
Could have fooled me. I thought they were ignoring global warming and arguing about an arbitrary self-imposed debt limit in an attempt to gain political points while not actually addressing the root issue in any meaningful way.
A lot of the good climatologists were climatologists before we knew much of anything about global warming and before anyone cared. Certainly there was grant money for climatology before global warming, because it's useful. And government research grant money often isn't really all that lucrative unless you're working for the DoD.
Publishing major errors in global-warming models is a lot more lucrative, thanks to energy company research dollars. Publishing something that demonstrates "it's not global warming, it's this other thing" would be a career-maker.
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MPG is really two factors: the energy required to push the car around (internal friction, wind resistance, mass of the car, etc.) and the efficiency of the engine itself. The latter does actually matter -- larger engines are, roughly speaking, less efficient than a smaller engine at the same level of power output. So one of the two factors affects any power source you put in the car, and the other doesn't. (Granted, any power source you put in the car will have different efficiencies for different engines, but those have little to do with the gasoline efficiency in the same car.)
Good chocolate actually requires a fair amount of labor to produce, which is why it's so expensive. The raw materials (and for that matter, the labor to harvest the raw materials) are really cheap, unless you buy the slightly-more-expensive liberal chocolate that deigns to pay workers something they won't starve on.
But yeah. If you think Valrhona chocolate is just overpriced Hershey's, buy the latter, because you obviously have no sense of taste.
It boils out at atmospheric pressure, leaving you with water + an explosive gas.
They actually make filtering mechanisms specifically for methane. Since it will come out of solution when the pressure drops, you need to remove it so it doesn't build up in your house.
How bad is MRSA compared to people dying of infection from even relatively minor injuries? Not bad at all.
Spoiler: It wasn't actually a "turbo" button. It was really an "anti-turbo" button for intentionally slowing your computer down.
Well, it's not a pro-form, so it's not a pronoun. But it is an anaphora, which is probably what you meant. :-)
In any case, it's clearly referential and the antecedent is unambiguous, unless you're trolling. :p
There's no such thing as a paywall on arXiv -- you submit full preprints to it, and paywalling isn't an option. That is the point. :-)
401k's certainly aren't required to buy only AAA investments. Not only can they invest in stock funds, but most 401k bond offerings aren't solely AAA. Both Vanguard and Fidelity, which are major choices for institutional investors, have their major bond products investing in a wide range of investment-grade bonds.
If you're investing, you're stuck with the exchange rate. Purchasing power parity only matters if you're able to buy your goods in the other state. (That is, if you're trying to figure out the GDP for China as it impacts the Chinese, PPP is reasonable. If you're trying to figure it out for the purposes of investment, you need to use the exchange rate.)
The snow traction control is unpleasantly aggressive, though you can fix that with snow tires.
The reason it scales down the power so much when tires slip is that the torque on the electric motor is high enough that it can easily cause the tires to break traction and spin freely. (Once a tire is slipping, the force it can provide is dramatically decreased.) That will cause damage to the electric motor.
Right. So it's not, "increase taxes from their current levels to follow weight^4". It's, "modify the current taxes so they follow weight^4". Assuming that we're currently maintaining our roads (if not, we should be), the total amount of road taxes paid shouldn't change, but rather, be distributed differently so tax paid follows damage done. To a good approximation, that means making truck drivers bear the entire cost of road taxes. Ultimately, you'll pay the same amount of road tax, just in shipping costs instead of in gas tax. But now it's adding incentive in the right places -- purchases that require less shipping are more competitively-priced.
AT&T or Comcast won't dispatch techs in a prius
Yes, they will.
The gas tax is a pretty small component of delivery prices.
Many no-fault states still permit recovery against the liable party, but require your insurance company to initially pay for medical costs in a timely fashion. (They can later recover these costs from the liable party.)
They probably explain in their paper, yes?
The easiest way is probably to hack a BitTorrent client to act like it's downloading the game but never actually download data -- acquire peers through all the normal means, contact them, ask for their piece bitmap, and then choke off the connection. You can even recontact the peer multiple times to watch their piece bitmap fill in, though it's probably a reasonable assumption that every non-seed person in the swarm will eventually finish the download.
All large numbers seem absurd in a vacuum. Better to say that the debt is at about 400% of tax receipts. It's not the same as using a credit card to pay off another, though, as the US has substantial revenue to back its debt. It's more like a family with a $45,000 / yr income having $180,000 of debt (albeit at a rate well below that of a credit card). That's still pretty high -- you'd be hard-pressed to get a mortgage with those numbers -- but the US's revenue stream is a lot more stable than individual job security.
In a Ponzi scheme, payments are made solely through new investor's money. The government, on the other hand, does have a fairly sizable revenue stream.
Since money is fungible, you can't say that the money to pay back bonds is necessarily paid with the income from the issuance of new bonds and not from revenues. This applies to individuals, too -- if, every month, I put $1000 on a credit card and pay it off every month, it's logically the same as having a perpetual balance on the card. The creditor certainly doesn't think so, though (in only one scenario am I charged interest, and most credit card companies will get upset if you don't pay *anything* back), because in the former scenario, I have revenue backing my credit.
Now, they might somehow say that you can't access those records because of national security or something. But I'm willing to bet that federal agencies track that information already. You have to give your employer a lot more information than just ISP billing information to work at a federal agency. For quite a lot of legal reasons, they want to track who in the government is using what IP address.
Requiring them to store names, addresses, credit card and banking info, and even phone numbers????? The ONLY thing they should store in the logs are a user account ID, the user's IP address, and maybe the destination IP address. Names, addresses, and phone numbers should be kept completely separate from the logs, not even stored on the same machine, and preferably not on the same network. Storing CC and banking info should be discouraged, or at the very least require that is be stored separately from the previous 2 categories, that it's not accessible from the network, and that it be encrypted all times when stored.
I don't think it stipulated that they needed to be stored in a separate database. Any ISP has a reliable, unique way of identifying you to ensure that you're a customer before giving you access to their service. It's common already to store (customer-identifier, time-range, IP-address) for each customer. It's also practically mandatory to store (customer-identifier, billing-and-contact info) in order to do business. They don't require that these two be stored together, but that both sets of information are stored and retained and that law enforcement has access to them.
BTW, keeping that information will not protect a single child, ever! This is complete nonsense.
Not strictly true. With the appropriate searches, you can turn up reams of child porn on Limewire (still!). So you have the IP addresses of people with child porn caches. A distinctly nonzero fraction of those people are pretty sick bastards that abuse children.
Now, you can say that not enough children will be protected to make it worthwhile. I won't really argue overall effectiveness -- just that the pedos that everyone says are a canard do actually exist. I would say that this information is already stored and kept for reasonably long periods of time by most ISPs, so it seems like a moot point whether or not you mandate that ISPs store it.
They keep it for a couple of months, since abuse reports aren't often immediate, but 18 can be high for some ISPs.
A number of ISPs manage to have fairly sticky DHCP distribution, though, so you can keep the same IP address for a year. In that case, storing for 18 months isn't very difficult.
A European liter is the same as an American liter, though.
How is disk corruption less repairable when you encrypt?
The lost-passwords problem is already well-solved for decent systems.
Wait -- our leaders are taking the problem of global warming seriously and are tackling solving the problem?
Could have fooled me. I thought they were ignoring global warming and arguing about an arbitrary self-imposed debt limit in an attempt to gain political points while not actually addressing the root issue in any meaningful way.
A lot of the good climatologists were climatologists before we knew much of anything about global warming and before anyone cared. Certainly there was grant money for climatology before global warming, because it's useful. And government research grant money often isn't really all that lucrative unless you're working for the DoD.
Publishing major errors in global-warming models is a lot more lucrative, thanks to energy company research dollars. Publishing something that demonstrates "it's not global warming, it's this other thing" would be a career-maker.