Actually, people used to get wisdom teeth routinely extracted. In more recent times, because of the risk of complications, wisdom teeth are extracted only if they will or are causing problems for other teeth through impaction, or in the event of severe decay. If they aren't causing a problem, we tend to leave them alone.
No, you're supposed to eat food that contains a lot of dirt and sand which will grind away at the other teeth, reducing them so there will be space for the wisdom teeth.
Being in space for years, with extreme temperature variations, vacuum, and radiation, isn't sufficient to guarantee sterility? I know bacterial spores can be pretty tough, but THAT tough?
From the article: "Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, to protect one of its discoveries -- a possible ocean beneath Jupiter's moon Europa."
What is that supposed to mean? Protect a possible ocean from what? Or were they protecting Galileo's discovery by destroying evidence? Protecting from whom?
corporations who threatened to take their offices/factories elsewhere, defunding the schools, so now they have a shortage of qualified workers and they have to import them. I wonder if they have anything similar to an H1B visa program...
I could make a device that discreetly clips onto my jacket or on a cap that sends out the IR signal continuously to stop cameras that are pointed at me.
Or maybe similar devices on my car that sends the signal to stop cameras from recording pictures or video of my car.
Look on the back of the ticket. It will say something to the effect that "this disclaimer limits our liability" blah blah blah "we are not responsible for damage to or theft of/from your vehicle" blah blah blah. As far as I know, that isn't quite accurate from a legal standpoint.
If a site requires a password, why don't they tell you the acceptable characters and the minimum and maximum lengths? I default to 16 characters but usually have to play a try-it-and-see-if-it-works guessing game with regard to the maximum length and even the allowable character set. A few sites actually spell it out in detail, but most just say "password too long" or after you've included some special characters they don't like, "passowrd can only contain xxxx". Sometimes they only have one error message like "password too long" even if the length is fine but you've entered a character it doesn't like.
The thing I don't understand is the variation in password acceptiblilty from one site to another. Some sites don't allow special characters, or only certain ones, some limit passwords to 12 characters, some 16, etc. Why on earth are there any limits to usable characters and why are any limited to less than 64 characters?
This is sort of like storing energy in a vacuum vs a pressurized vessel. The energy stored in a vacuum is very limited (you can only go to zero pressure), while you can make a pressure vessel that can store a lot more energy in the same volume because the pressure is unlimited up to the point of condensing the gas.
There's a practical limit to how cold you can make things, and therefore the energy you can store that way, but you can get a lot of things super hot (liquid sodium, for example) and store much more energy in the same volume.
Maximizing energy/volume is what it's all about economically, because cost is directly proportional to volume.
except for the astroturfers who will be posting followup comments to this and probably modding me down to troll status, but even I keep a machine running Windows to do CAD because the Linux CAD programs are pretty bad.
I look forward to the day I can escape Windows completely.
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Actually, people used to get wisdom teeth routinely extracted. In more recent times, because of the risk of complications, wisdom teeth are extracted only if they will or are causing problems for other teeth through impaction, or in the event of severe decay. If they aren't causing a problem, we tend to leave them alone.
No, you're supposed to eat food that contains a lot of dirt and sand which will grind away at the other teeth, reducing them so there will be space for the wisdom teeth.
Yeah, that's pretty nutz, but this person was a different sort of loony.
see Harry Potter movies because "they promote witchcraft". Yes, he was an adult and father of three sons.
Being in space for years, with extreme temperature variations, vacuum, and radiation, isn't sufficient to guarantee sterility? I know bacterial spores can be pretty tough, but THAT tough?
From the article: "Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, to protect one of its discoveries -- a possible ocean beneath Jupiter's moon Europa."
What is that supposed to mean? Protect a possible ocean from what? Or were they protecting Galileo's discovery by destroying evidence? Protecting from whom?
corporations who threatened to take their offices/factories elsewhere, defunding the schools, so now they have a shortage of qualified workers and they have to import them. I wonder if they have anything similar to an H1B visa program...
I could make a device that discreetly clips onto my jacket or on a cap that sends out the IR signal continuously to stop cameras that are pointed at me.
Or maybe similar devices on my car that sends the signal to stop cameras from recording pictures or video of my car.
I'll become invisible!
Look on the back of the ticket. It will say something to the effect that "this disclaimer limits our liability" blah blah blah "we are not responsible for damage to or theft of/from your vehicle" blah blah blah. As far as I know, that isn't quite accurate from a legal standpoint.
Let's all thank Steve Jobs!
Too risky for who? If the economics, including the cost of insurance, didn't favor bigger ships, they wouldn't get built.
They need to throw in "drone" and "fuel cell" at least.
about 20 years ago that sold for >$10k.
This is MUCH better!
That'll last about 6 mo in Cali.
Thorazine in the water supply. Keep everyone in a lethargic/catatonic state and the shootings will stop.
That gibberish sucked.
If a site requires a password, why don't they tell you the acceptable characters and the minimum and maximum lengths? I default to 16 characters but usually have to play a try-it-and-see-if-it-works guessing game with regard to the maximum length and even the allowable character set. A few sites actually spell it out in detail, but most just say "password too long" or after you've included some special characters they don't like, "passowrd can only contain xxxx". Sometimes they only have one error message like "password too long" even if the length is fine but you've entered a character it doesn't like.
Yeah, but you can't get one of those jobs without an H1B visa.
I wonder if anyone will notice if we just stop paying them entirely!
and let nature take its course!
The thing I don't understand is the variation in password acceptiblilty from one site to another. Some sites don't allow special characters, or only certain ones, some limit passwords to 12 characters, some 16, etc. Why on earth are there any limits to usable characters and why are any limited to less than 64 characters?
I asked a question because I didn't understand how the guy's statement related to what I said.
"I would vote you -1 for being a dick if I had points."
I would do likewise for you if you had the cajones to post under your own ID.
What does that have to do with what I said?
This is sort of like storing energy in a vacuum vs a pressurized vessel. The energy stored in a vacuum is very limited (you can only go to zero pressure), while you can make a pressure vessel that can store a lot more energy in the same volume because the pressure is unlimited up to the point of condensing the gas.
There's a practical limit to how cold you can make things, and therefore the energy you can store that way, but you can get a lot of things super hot (liquid sodium, for example) and store much more energy in the same volume.
Maximizing energy/volume is what it's all about economically, because cost is directly proportional to volume.
except for the astroturfers who will be posting followup comments to this and probably modding me down to troll status, but even I keep a machine running Windows to do CAD because the Linux CAD programs are pretty bad.
I look forward to the day I can escape Windows completely.
And all this time I thought that the scientist's parents created the scientist. Freakin' biology class! Nothing but a pack of lies!