people experiencing wind-turbine related illnesses and whether or not they own a Dyson "bladeless" fan. If a normal electric fan produces "annoying buffeting", imagine what those super-sized wind turbines must do!
OK, smaller eyes and more emotional brains allowed us to socialize and survive, but what explains our recent stupefaction, and how much longer can we last?
Some Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door on Sunday morning to hand me a flyer inviting me to Easter services at their church. After they left I looked at the flyer. On it, Jesus was portrayed with short hair and a neatly trimmed beard. The one image of him on being crucified showed 6-pack abs.
I have never seen a picture of Jesus in which he didn't have long hair, and never noticed 6-pack abs before, and it got me thinking. Why, of all the Christian denominations, would the Jehovah's Witnesses try to make Jesus so physically appealing? Wouldn't such a deliberately sexualized depiction inspire lascivious thoughts among the believers? Wouldn't some believers focus on their romantic fantasies to the detriment of his message ?
And now I get to the reason this particular story makes me think of this- why have I never seen a depiction of Jesus that was unattractive, maybe like Kim Jong Un? Isn't Jesus' message supposed to transcend his physical appearance? Have we become so shallow that it's not enough that all our popular singers be pretty/handsome, but now even our religious figures have to be attractive?
No one knows what Jesus actually looked like (if you believe he ever actually lived), and in general, there are far more unattractive people in the world than attractive ones, so with nothing else to go on, it's probable that he was unattractive. Yet all the pictures of him make him look attractive. Just an observation...
watches with LED displays that first dropped to reasonable prices in the 70s. They didn't last long because pushing a button to see the time was a PITA. You had to have your opposite hand free and the displays were generally unreadable in sunlight (sort of like most color LCD displays now).
If you gotta push a button to see the time, the thing will fail as a watch.
Insurance companies maximize their own wealth by maximizing cash coming in and minimizing cash going out. They do everything they can to NOT insure people who may require a payout (identify and insure good drivers, healthy people, homes/businesses not located in flood plains, etc.) and it means doing everything they can to deny payouts to customers they have (ever tried calling a health insurance company about a claim they denied for a covered service? You get to talk to an idiot chosen for the job specifically because they are an idiot, the intention being to frustrate your attempts to get information/coverage).
The insurance industry figured out a long time ago that they can take in and keep more money by going into the lobbying business, hence the army of lawyers to lobby state and federal governments to pass laws that allow them to take more money in and pay less out in claims. Insurance company lobbyists (i.e. payouts to politicians) are the reason why we have such a crappy system of health care in the US.
Insurance companies might have to pay some money out, so they buy the state legislature to write laws allowing them to screw the insurance purchaser.
How long will insurance companies keep getting their way? They did the same with health care. If someone is sick they don't want to insure them because they might have to actually pay out some money. The insurance industry is more evil than cell phone and cable TV companies combined.
We are stupid and deserve the government we elect. The human race is doomed to extinction before we figure out how to get off this rock.
So we need to clearly define "bear" then. I define it as having something under my control- i.e., an autonomous robot that kills is not me "bearing" arms, but a robot I control that kills is. I think that is what the "founding fathers" intended and therefore is appropriate and relevant to today's technology.
Touch screens provide a point of attack by looking at the smudges left by a finger on the glass. Even if the glass is wiped clean, microscopic analysis might show the common finger path. I think I'd trust mechanical buttons to be more reliable than a touch screen over a long period of time. They are also less likely to get broken during rough handling.
of setting up and announcing a task force of this type.
Right now, the MPAA, RIAA, and other organizations that represent artists have a difficult time figuring out to whom they should make political donations in order to protect artists' rights. 450+ representatives and 100 senators- that means a lot of money has to be spread far and wide in order to have the desired outcome. By forming and announcing the existence of a group dedicated specifically to protecting artists' rights, this group of senators has provided a focal point for the flow of donations, easing the burden on contributing organizations and leaving more money for the artists whose works are going to be protected.
The representatives should be applauded for their efforts to ensure that artists rights are protected and that there will be more money for those artists now that the lobbying groups will have to spend less to acquire that protection.
what is the only point of reference for a technology that starts off crazy expensive and then gets cheap enough for consumers? Ink jet printing. Has the cost of ink cartridges dropped to almost free even as millions and millions of the things get manufactured and used? Nope.
Why would 3D printing chemistry (photo resins for STL) get cheap?
If you want 3D on the cheap, you need a plastic extruder and use ABS or PLA.
mouth on a regular basis, all I can say is there should be warning labels on all fizzy beverage containers. For some reason there are a lot of stupid people in the world who think that drinking soda all day long is OK, even as they look in a mirror and see their teeth turning black.
One recent patient, a 28 YO female, who will probably be in complete dentures within 5 years, told me she cut back from 3 six packs of the Dew per day to only one because her physician told her it was wrecking her teeth and making her fat. By the time she got to me I had to extract 8 of her remaining teeth and fit her for partial dentures. She reported that her teeth didn't start hurting until just before she came to see me in spite of the fact that 3 of her teeth had no clinical crowns left at all (they were rotted down to the gum line).
The combination of acid and sugar is the worst thing for your teeth, and generally not good for your body either.
We bounce STEM graduates out of the country and we make student loans available to people who want to study subjects that will never lead to employment and income that will allow them to repay their student loans, so we create a permanent underclass who will have to work low wage jobs and always be behind in their student loan repayment. Meanwhile, STEM graduate, doctoral, and post doctoral students have to pay 6.5-8.5%, presumably to make up for all the underwater basket weaving dopes who will never be able to repay their loans (why else would a loan that can't be escaped even through bankruptcy cost >2X a home mortgage, considered safe (yeah, sure, youbetcha!)?).
An intelligent approach would be to assess what this country needs and encourage it through immigration and education policies that provide education loans and school grants for STEM and let the underwater basket weavers find their own way to pay for school.
your scenario about elections being swung through manipulation of odds on Intrade is based on an assumption that large numbers of voters pay attention to the odds on Intrade and that those odds influence their votes. I'm not sure I believe either to be true.
I suspect your ideas are more applicable to stock markets where thinly traded stocks are in play among day-traders..
but when I do (assembly language, PIC microcontrollers) I always start with diagrams that show the overall flow of the program, then I start making diagrams for the subroutines, etc. I generally have the whole thing diagrammed before I start writing any code and try to make subroutines as generic as I can so they can be reused easily. I thought this was how coding is done -it's how I learned about 30 years ago... are they teaching it different now?
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president we've ever had.
people experiencing wind-turbine related illnesses and whether or not they own a Dyson "bladeless" fan.
If a normal electric fan produces "annoying buffeting", imagine what those super-sized wind turbines must do!
OK, smaller eyes and more emotional brains allowed us to socialize and survive, but what explains our recent stupefaction, and how much longer can we last?
Some Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door on Sunday morning to hand me a flyer inviting me to Easter services at their church. After they left I looked at the flyer. On it, Jesus was portrayed with short hair and a neatly trimmed beard. The one image of him on being crucified showed 6-pack abs.
I have never seen a picture of Jesus in which he didn't have long hair, and never noticed 6-pack abs before, and it got me thinking. Why, of all the Christian denominations, would the Jehovah's Witnesses try to make Jesus so physically appealing? Wouldn't such a deliberately sexualized depiction inspire lascivious thoughts among the believers? Wouldn't some believers focus on their romantic fantasies to the detriment of his message ?
And now I get to the reason this particular story makes me think of this- why have I never seen a depiction of Jesus that was unattractive, maybe like Kim Jong Un? Isn't Jesus' message supposed to transcend his physical appearance? Have we become so shallow that it's not enough that all our popular singers be pretty/handsome, but now even our religious figures have to be attractive?
No one knows what Jesus actually looked like (if you believe he ever actually lived), and in general, there are far more unattractive people in the world than attractive ones, so with nothing else to go on, it's probable that he was unattractive. Yet all the pictures of him make him look attractive. Just an observation...
Yeah!
3."Uphold the law"
Humans can't even decide what the law is- the second amendment is a classic example- so how do you think a robot will be able to interpret law?
when we can have sex with them.
watches with LED displays that first dropped to reasonable prices in the 70s. They didn't last long because pushing a button to see the time was a PITA. You had to have your opposite hand free and the displays were generally unreadable in sunlight (sort of like most color LCD displays now).
If you gotta push a button to see the time, the thing will fail as a watch.
hope you don't mind the reboots...
Insurance companies maximize their own wealth by maximizing cash coming in and minimizing cash going out. They do everything they can to NOT insure people who may require a payout (identify and insure good drivers, healthy people, homes/businesses not located in flood plains, etc.) and it means doing everything they can to deny payouts to customers they have (ever tried calling a health insurance company about a claim they denied for a covered service? You get to talk to an idiot chosen for the job specifically because they are an idiot, the intention being to frustrate your attempts to get information/coverage).
The insurance industry figured out a long time ago that they can take in and keep more money by going into the lobbying business, hence the army of lawyers to lobby state and federal governments to pass laws that allow them to take more money in and pay less out in claims. Insurance company lobbyists (i.e. payouts to politicians) are the reason why we have such a crappy system of health care in the US.
Insurance companies might have to pay some money out, so they buy the state legislature to write laws allowing them to screw the insurance purchaser.
How long will insurance companies keep getting their way? They did the same with health care. If someone is sick they don't want to insure them because they might have to actually pay out some money. The insurance industry is more evil than cell phone and cable TV companies combined.
We are stupid and deserve the government we elect. The human race is doomed to extinction before we figure out how to get off this rock.
So we need to clearly define "bear" then. I define it as having something under my control- i.e., an autonomous robot that kills is not me "bearing" arms, but a robot I control that kills is. I think that is what the "founding fathers" intended and therefore is appropriate and relevant to today's technology.
self defense? Now they're walking all over my 2nd amendment rights!
Corsair Padlock II USB drive.
Touch screens provide a point of attack by looking at the smudges left by a finger on the glass. Even if the glass is wiped clean, microscopic analysis might show the common finger path. I think I'd trust mechanical buttons to be more reliable than a touch screen over a long period of time. They are also less likely to get broken during rough handling.
of setting up and announcing a task force of this type.
Right now, the MPAA, RIAA, and other organizations that represent artists have a difficult time figuring out to whom they should make political donations in order to protect artists' rights. 450+ representatives and 100 senators- that means a lot of money has to be spread far and wide in order to have the desired outcome. By forming and announcing the existence of a group dedicated specifically to protecting artists' rights, this group of senators has provided a focal point for the flow of donations, easing the burden on contributing organizations and leaving more money for the artists whose works are going to be protected.
The representatives should be applauded for their efforts to ensure that artists rights are protected and that there will be more money for those artists now that the lobbying groups will have to spend less to acquire that protection.
There goes another one of ID's already weak arguments against evolution...
mineral rights to that place? It would look so pretty with a big 'ol pipeline running across it!
what is the only point of reference for a technology that starts off crazy expensive and then gets cheap enough for consumers? Ink jet printing. Has the cost of ink cartridges dropped to almost free even as millions and millions of the things get manufactured and used? Nope.
Why would 3D printing chemistry (photo resins for STL) get cheap?
If you want 3D on the cheap, you need a plastic extruder and use ABS or PLA.
mouth on a regular basis, all I can say is there should be warning labels on all fizzy beverage containers. For some reason there are a lot of stupid people in the world who think that drinking soda all day long is OK, even as they look in a mirror and see their teeth turning black.
One recent patient, a 28 YO female, who will probably be in complete dentures within 5 years, told me she cut back from 3 six packs of the Dew per day to only one because her physician told her it was wrecking her teeth and making her fat. By the time she got to me I had to extract 8 of her remaining teeth and fit her for partial dentures. She reported that her teeth didn't start hurting until just before she came to see me in spite of the fact that 3 of her teeth had no clinical crowns left at all (they were rotted down to the gum line).
The combination of acid and sugar is the worst thing for your teeth, and generally not good for your body either.
Drink water.
Shiva and Kali, because I like Indian food and music.
Except that both were among the worst bands ever recorded.
If you want to name those rocks after bands, how about Morphine and Radiohead?
We bounce STEM graduates out of the country and we make student loans available to people who want to study subjects that will never lead to employment and income that will allow them to repay their student loans, so we create a permanent underclass who will have to work low wage jobs and always be behind in their student loan repayment. Meanwhile, STEM graduate, doctoral, and post doctoral students have to pay 6.5-8.5%, presumably to make up for all the underwater basket weaving dopes who will never be able to repay their loans (why else would a loan that can't be escaped even through bankruptcy cost >2X a home mortgage, considered safe (yeah, sure, youbetcha!)?).
An intelligent approach would be to assess what this country needs and encourage it through immigration and education policies that provide education loans and school grants for STEM and let the underwater basket weavers find their own way to pay for school.
and Diwali?
your scenario about elections being swung through manipulation of odds on Intrade is based on an assumption that large numbers of voters pay attention to the odds on Intrade and that those odds influence their votes. I'm not sure I believe either to be true.
I suspect your ideas are more applicable to stock markets where thinly traded stocks are in play among day-traders..
but when I do (assembly language, PIC microcontrollers) I always start with diagrams that show the overall flow of the program, then I start making diagrams for the subroutines, etc. I generally have the whole thing diagrammed before I start writing any code and try to make subroutines as generic as I can so they can be reused easily. I thought this was how coding is done -it's how I learned about 30 years ago... are they teaching it different now?