No in California commutes are long for most people who still have to work every day because they can't afford to live anywhere near where they work. Also, range numbers for a charge are based on continuous driving on an uncongested roadway. Throw in traffic jams and start and stop driving while running AC and stereo, etc., and that 300 mile range drops fast.
How you drink soda or sports drinks affects how they damage teeth. Sipping any sugary drink throughout the day is very bad because it keeps the mouth's pH low (acidic). If you're going to drink soda or sports drinks or any other sugary drink, including fruit juice, you should consume it relatively quickly and even chase it with plain water to help the pH return to a normal value more quickly.
Replacing electrolytes lost through sweating during a work out is a good idea, but be sensible about it. For lower sugar look at Pedialyte.
I was thinking more along the lines of chemical additives to alter the pH or shifting the temperature range at which the things work, etc. Bacteria need a source of food of some sort. It might be possible to identify it and eliminate it from the towers. Maybe they consume fungus. If you can stop the fungus you stop the things that feed on it.
because it provides a good environment for them. It is not at all surprising that the bacteria would be found in a recently disinfected cooling tower. The only way to stop that from happening is to somehow make the cooling tower environment a less friendly one for the bugs.
1) adding CO2 to water turns it into an acid- carbonic acid- which is bad for the teeth because it demineralizes (dissolves) tooth enamel. 2) most sodas contain additional phosphoric acid- the same stuff dentists use to etch teeth to help composite restorative materials bond to the teeth 3) the sugar in soda feeds the bacteria in the mouth. The bacteria cling to the teeth in biofilms that must be removed by mechanical actions of brushing and flossing. Many of the bacteria that live in the mouth convert sugar into lactic acid which, like soda, dissolves the enamel on the teeth. Eventually anaerobic bacteria move in to the newly created environment and invade the soft tissue and bone. This is when teeth start getting loose and breath smells like death. 4) minerals in the saliva can harden on the teeth (calculus) above and below the gum line and can't be removed by brushing and flossing- they must be removed by a hygienist with steel bladed instruments, sometimes with ultrasonic assistance. Calculus is porous and is like a high rise condo for bacteria- party all the time! Everyone should see a hygienist regularly to keep calculus build up under control. 5) sugar is high in non nutritive calories which contributes to obesity. 6) a huge number of health problems are related to obesity including type II diabetes, cardiovascular problems, joint problems, etc. 7) "sports" drinks are as bad for the teeth as soda. 8) "Mountain Dew Mouth" is indistinguishable from "Meth Mouth", probably because the condition is largely caused by meth users consuming large amounts of candy and soda because it's easier, faster, and cheaper than cooking/eating proper food and well, you know, food costs money that could be spent on more meth... 9) Keeping teeth healthy is important for maintaining overall health and quality of life. When you lose teeth your ability to chew food properly before swallowing is diminished. Poor chewing performance leads to poor digestive performance. Lose enough teeth and you're stuck eating soft foods that you can mash with your tongue. Dentures help, but they are prosthetics- like an artificial leg, and a poor substitute for the real thing when it comes to function. Imagine spending the last 30 years or so of your life unable to eat the things you like to eat. What will a diet of spaghetti, mashed potatoes, and apple sauce do to your disposition and overall health? 10) Your immune system helps control bacterial populations in the mouth, but in diabetics the immune response is lessened by the disease so it becomes even more important for diabetics who want to keep their teeth to step up their self care and see professionals regularly. It is extremely important to monitor your blood sugar and take your medications as instructed by your physician/endocrinologist. 11) Smoking is bad for the teeth. Nicotine causes the small blood vessels that carry immune system components to constrict, reducing blood flow to the teeth, gums and surrounding bone. The bad bacteria freely invade the soft tissues and bone and before you know it, you start losing teeth. Smoking makes the breath stink and stains teeth. It is a filthy habit. Chewing tobacco is just disgusting and equally bad for the teeth. Any form of tobacco use delivers carcinogens to the soft tissues in the mouth and can lead to oral cancer, a particularly disfiguring form of cancer.
Please reduce or stop soda/sports drink consumption and drink more water, quit smoking or chewing tobacco, brush and floss as instructed by your dentist, and see the dentist/hygienist regularly for maintenance. Your life will be a more pleasant experience, guaranteed.
You may be right, but his trolling is so much more nuanced than the average, "I'm going to post my opinion as an anonymous coward" produced by Joe Sixpack. Other than calling it art, he makes no pretensions that the.gif is anything more than it is, and he attaches his name to it. As trolling goes it is pretty mild stuff. Yet, in a thousand years someone may assemble and analyze all the responses to the project and he may be considered a genius for the simplicity of the project producing a fractal-like complex response. Imagine the different graphics the response mapping may produce! Maybe something like a pebble tossed into a pond creating ripples growing into tidal waves!
The long, slow, uncreative.gif file is only a tiny part of this project. The biggest piece of the project is the commentary about whether it is art, created by all of us after being manipulated by the artist into doing so. The artist's contribution to the whole work was his ability to get media attention for his project and to generate something so uncreative, even unartistic in the traditional sense, so lacking in required practice or skill, that it would surely get the ball rolling on the comments.
In this, my one comment, I have done more work than the "artist" did for the whole project.
It's interesting how someone's small waste of time can be snowballed into a collectively huge waste of time by so many others.
THAT is ART, and I am pleased to have been allowed a chance to contribute to the project.
this sort of cheating is- I assume all the car makers are going to get looked at if not by government agencies, by independent interests. We'll see just how far this string of potatoes goes when the pulling starts.
Two dope(s) were talking and looking at each other and stepped out into traffic between two parked cars without ever looking at the roadway. I slammed on the brakes and leaned on the horn which got their and a nearby cop's attention. He wrote me a ticket for failure to yield to a pedestrian as I protested that had I in fact failed to yield, the idiots would have been under the car instead of sipping cappuccino in a cafe across the street. At least I got the satisfaction of seeing them jump when I hit the horn.
I used to see that sort of careless, walking out into traffic all the time there. Berkeley may have more than its share of smart people, but someone should teach them how to cross a street safely.
If the block chain is so unerringly perfect, recording the validity of every transaction throughout time, how has it been so easy for people to steal huge numbers of bitcoins and disappear with them?
What are the chances he was just making a clock? Clocks are relatively simple projects that are made by millions of hobbyists to learn about electronics. One can learn a lot from such a simple project - soldering, reading and understanding electronic component data sheets, programming- all are required in such a project.
Just as water is a common ingredient in insecticides, the fact that clocks happen to be used in some bombs is testament to their broad range of uses.
You know, cell phones are commonly used to make remote bomb triggers (for some of the bombs that don't have clock timers). Is every kid in that school carrying a cell phone intending to blow people up? Maybe we should put them all in cuffs until we can sort this mess out.
as the stupid design of most bikes. Look at the dumb things- if you hit something, you are launched head-first over the handlebars. If that isn't a recipe for disaster I don't know what is. The only thing worse would be if we were riding high-wheelers.
I have ridden mostly recumbents for the last 20 years and in few times I've crashed in that interval I have always gone feet first and either landed on my feet or on my side next to the bike- with one exception (rear-ended by a motorcycle in Japan) no head or neck injuries, no fractured clavicles, no broken wrists. I designed and built the bike myself with crash safety in mind. It has a short wheel base with steering located alongside and below the seat. There are no steering or derailleur posts between my legs to bust my nuts on in a frontal crash.
That's the extra time allowed for modifying the design and reprinting. Making the plastic thicker is trivial. This isn't a musical instrument. It's a stethoscope. Fine tuning isn't really required.
$10k to develop this thing. Give me a Littman stethoscope, a $10 Harbor Freight digital caliper, and some free CAD software (DesignSpark Mechanical) and I'll have a copy rolling off my printer in about an hour. OK, maybe 3 hours if I have to modify the design a little and print a few test pieces.
The $10K probably included the cost of buying a 3D printer, a Solidworks license, and paid training for both.
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No in California commutes are long for most people who still have to work every day because they can't afford to live anywhere near where they work. Also, range numbers for a charge are based on continuous driving on an uncongested roadway. Throw in traffic jams and start and stop driving while running AC and stereo, etc., and that 300 mile range drops fast.
is an idiot and deserves to lose all their money.
Here's a hint: if there's money involved, someone will or already has figured out how to cheat.
How you drink soda or sports drinks affects how they damage teeth. Sipping any sugary drink throughout the day is very bad because it keeps the mouth's pH low (acidic). If you're going to drink soda or sports drinks or any other sugary drink, including fruit juice, you should consume it relatively quickly and even chase it with plain water to help the pH return to a normal value more quickly.
Replacing electrolytes lost through sweating during a work out is a good idea, but be sensible about it. For lower sugar look at Pedialyte.
I was thinking more along the lines of chemical additives to alter the pH or shifting the temperature range at which the things work, etc. Bacteria need a source of food of some sort. It might be possible to identify it and eliminate it from the towers. Maybe they consume fungus. If you can stop the fungus you stop the things that feed on it.
because it provides a good environment for them. It is not at all surprising that the bacteria would be found in a recently disinfected cooling tower. The only way to stop that from happening is to somehow make the cooling tower environment a less friendly one for the bugs.
1) adding CO2 to water turns it into an acid- carbonic acid- which is bad for the teeth because it demineralizes (dissolves) tooth enamel.
2) most sodas contain additional phosphoric acid- the same stuff dentists use to etch teeth to help composite restorative materials bond to the teeth
3) the sugar in soda feeds the bacteria in the mouth. The bacteria cling to the teeth in biofilms that must be removed by mechanical actions of brushing and flossing. Many of the bacteria that live in the mouth convert sugar into lactic acid which, like soda, dissolves the enamel on the teeth. Eventually anaerobic bacteria move in to the newly created environment and invade the soft tissue and bone. This is when teeth start getting loose and breath smells like death.
4) minerals in the saliva can harden on the teeth (calculus) above and below the gum line and can't be removed by brushing and flossing- they must be removed by a hygienist with steel bladed instruments, sometimes with ultrasonic assistance. Calculus is porous and is like a high rise condo for bacteria- party all the time! Everyone should see a hygienist regularly to keep calculus build up under control.
5) sugar is high in non nutritive calories which contributes to obesity.
6) a huge number of health problems are related to obesity including type II diabetes, cardiovascular problems, joint problems, etc.
7) "sports" drinks are as bad for the teeth as soda.
8) "Mountain Dew Mouth" is indistinguishable from "Meth Mouth", probably because the condition is largely caused by meth users consuming large amounts of candy and soda because it's easier, faster, and cheaper than cooking/eating proper food and well, you know, food costs money that could be spent on more meth...
9) Keeping teeth healthy is important for maintaining overall health and quality of life. When you lose teeth your ability to chew food properly before swallowing is diminished. Poor chewing performance leads to poor digestive performance. Lose enough teeth and you're stuck eating soft foods that you can mash with your tongue. Dentures help, but they are prosthetics- like an artificial leg, and a poor substitute for the real thing when it comes to function. Imagine spending the last 30 years or so of your life unable to eat the things you like to eat. What will a diet of spaghetti, mashed potatoes, and apple sauce do to your disposition and overall health?
10) Your immune system helps control bacterial populations in the mouth, but in diabetics the immune response is lessened by the disease so it becomes even more important for diabetics who want to keep their teeth to step up their self care and see professionals regularly. It is extremely important to monitor your blood sugar and take your medications as instructed by your physician/endocrinologist.
11) Smoking is bad for the teeth. Nicotine causes the small blood vessels that carry immune system components to constrict, reducing blood flow to the teeth, gums and surrounding bone. The bad bacteria freely invade the soft tissues and bone and before you know it, you start losing teeth. Smoking makes the breath stink and stains teeth. It is a filthy habit. Chewing tobacco is just disgusting and equally bad for the teeth. Any form of tobacco use delivers carcinogens to the soft tissues in the mouth and can lead to oral cancer, a particularly disfiguring form of cancer.
Please reduce or stop soda/sports drink consumption and drink more water, quit smoking or chewing tobacco, brush and floss as instructed by your dentist, and see the dentist/hygienist regularly for maintenance. Your life will be a more pleasant experience, guaranteed.
You may be right, but his trolling is so much more nuanced than the average, "I'm going to post my opinion as an anonymous coward" produced by Joe Sixpack. Other than calling it art, he makes no pretensions that the .gif is anything more than it is, and he attaches his name to it. As trolling goes it is pretty mild stuff. Yet, in a thousand years someone may assemble and analyze all the responses to the project and he may be considered a genius for the simplicity of the project producing a fractal-like complex response. Imagine the different graphics the response mapping may produce! Maybe something like a pebble tossed into a pond creating ripples growing into tidal waves!
The long, slow, uncreative .gif file is only a tiny part of this project. The biggest piece of the project is the commentary about whether it is art, created by all of us after being manipulated by the artist into doing so. The artist's contribution to the whole work was his ability to get media attention for his project and to generate something so uncreative, even unartistic in the traditional sense, so lacking in required practice or skill, that it would surely get the ball rolling on the comments.
In this, my one comment, I have done more work than the "artist" did for the whole project.
It's interesting how someone's small waste of time can be snowballed into a collectively huge waste of time by so many others.
THAT is ART, and I am pleased to have been allowed a chance to contribute to the project.
Citations needed...
this sort of cheating is- I assume all the car makers are going to get looked at if not by government agencies, by independent interests. We'll see just how far this string of potatoes goes when the pulling starts.
Two dope(s) were talking and looking at each other and stepped out into traffic between two parked cars without ever looking at the roadway. I slammed on the brakes and leaned on the horn which got their and a nearby cop's attention. He wrote me a ticket for failure to yield to a pedestrian as I protested that had I in fact failed to yield, the idiots would have been under the car instead of sipping cappuccino in a cafe across the street. At least I got the satisfaction of seeing them jump when I hit the horn.
I used to see that sort of careless, walking out into traffic all the time there. Berkeley may have more than its share of smart people, but someone should teach them how to cross a street safely.
"most elegant", "highest class", "most luxurious" in China?
coating, they lost the prototype and it hasn't been seen since.
is a moron and deserves to get sheared like the sheep he/she is.
Florida as the most entertaining state.
If the block chain is so unerringly perfect, recording the validity of every transaction throughout time, how has it been so easy for people to steal huge numbers of bitcoins and disappear with them?
What are the chances he was just making a clock? Clocks are relatively simple projects that are made by millions of hobbyists to learn about electronics. One can learn a lot from such a simple project - soldering, reading and understanding electronic component data sheets, programming- all are required in such a project.
Just as water is a common ingredient in insecticides, the fact that clocks happen to be used in some bombs is testament to their broad range of uses.
You know, cell phones are commonly used to make remote bomb triggers (for some of the bombs that don't have clock timers). Is every kid in that school carrying a cell phone intending to blow people up? Maybe we should put them all in cuffs until we can sort this mess out.
If it's so scratch resistant, why don't they use it for the whole watch casing?
Polycarbonate is plastic. Plastic is soft. It will resist scratches from your shirt sleeve and not much else.
Pffft!
as the stupid design of most bikes. Look at the dumb things- if you hit something, you are launched head-first over the handlebars. If that isn't a recipe for disaster I don't know what is. The only thing worse would be if we were riding high-wheelers.
I have ridden mostly recumbents for the last 20 years and in few times I've crashed in that interval I have always gone feet first and either landed on my feet or on my side next to the bike- with one exception (rear-ended by a motorcycle in Japan) no head or neck injuries, no fractured clavicles, no broken wrists. I designed and built the bike myself with crash safety in mind. It has a short wheel base with steering located alongside and below the seat. There are no steering or derailleur posts between my legs to bust my nuts on in a frontal crash.
Fix the bike design and fix the safety problem.
"60% of the time it works every time!"
I'm afraid of autonomous cars carrying drones that drop bombs and fire 3D printed weapons.
I'm also afraid of drones carrying autonomous cars that are equipped with 3D printed weapons.
And 3D printed weapons that fire autonomous cars from drones.
The race to the bottom has begun in earnest. We are stupid people and we deserve the stupid politicians we keep electing.
That's the extra time allowed for modifying the design and reprinting. Making the plastic thicker is trivial. This isn't a musical instrument. It's a stethoscope. Fine tuning isn't really required.
$10k to develop this thing. Give me a Littman stethoscope, a $10 Harbor Freight digital caliper, and some free CAD software (DesignSpark Mechanical) and I'll have a copy rolling off my printer in about an hour. OK, maybe 3 hours if I have to modify the design a little and print a few test pieces.
The $10K probably included the cost of buying a 3D printer, a Solidworks license, and paid training for both.
If they can provide me with an OS that boots consistently...
What in their long history of OS's leads you to believe this one is different from all its predecessors?
How much did MS pay for this bit of astroturfing, or are you an MS intern, not getting paid at all?