Awesome! That old man Cal Worthington still does commercials, but they just have cars and trucks. No more "dog" Spot. Nothing hits the nostalgia button more than old commercials. Old movies are great, but old commercials are just pure cheese.
As a kid, I was not aware of aspects #1 and #3, but I sure as heck was aware of #2 when I'd go to the video store and have one shelving section of Beta movies and the entire rest of the store was VHS.
I recall VCRs that were damn hard to mess up. I particularly remember one that took a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich and several crayons and still managed to play tapes fine after a little cleaning.
Replacement of all your bones would eliminate the source of all your blood cells, so not a good idea. Adamantium not being real makes it rather difficult to do anyway.
I haven't noticed much of this unskippable stuff on DVDs either, but I sure as hell see it a lot on Blurays that are purchased and definitely not rentals. It's extremely annoying, and not always just ads, sometimes its a shitty intro to the menu screen that's 30 seconds long and can't be skipped. It's almost enough to make a person go spend some time outside.
I am not a believer in this Uranium core theory, its a new one to me, but if you go to the link in the summary, you will get a blanket statement to the effect that under the extreme pressures inside the Earth, density is dependent only on atomic mass. Uranium has a higher atomic mass than all of those elements you mentioned so it would be denser within the Earth. Good luck finding a reference on how elements densities vary with extreme pressure like inside the center of an Earth sized planet though.
The earths orbit does decay over time. It doesn't have booster rockets to maintain its orbit. At some point it'll become one with the sun. Maybe from orbital decay, maybe from the sun expanding into a giant star. Unless of course the Earth is destroyed or the sun has a nova or supernova first.
That was a new one to me. From the link, they theorize that because it is the densest naturally occurring element. In a freshly forming proto-Earth that was mostly molten, the denser elements would settle to the core.
Makes sense, but I don't believe the engineering problems would ever be solved in my lifetime to drill to the core of the Earth, so I will never know. I also can't imagine why someone would want to do that, unless that Uranium turns out to be mankinds last source of energy at some point.
Just for your information, the idea behind AGW is not that burning fossil fuels directly heats up the earth like a fireplace heats up a house. It changes the atmosphere to trap and retain more of the suns energy that strikes the Earth, which is far and away more energy than us puny humans could even consider using. Think of it like this, burning fossil fuels is like opening up some flypaper around the Earth and that flypaper catches little bits of sunshine flies over time that do not escape and raise the mass of the system.
We can't expect the FBI to preserve every piece of data that might exonerate a defendant in a trial. If we take this to an extreme we could say the FBI is destroying evidence if they don't take a snapshot of the world when they serve an arrest warrant.
They should not have the broad powers to freeze assets like they did in this case, then Megaupload could continue to pay to keep all of the data intact and ready for a possible defense.
Any time you get a case that goes to this level (arrest warrants are served, assets frozen, etc.) The FBI, police, or whoever is involved have already made up their minds about innocence and guilt and will do anything they can to punish the arrested parties. They don't seem to really care that much if the case actually reaches a guilty verdict. As long as the business / organization that they were against has been destroyed they have their justice. Some of them may care about due process and justice, but the majority of law enforcement are "us vs. them" mentality troops.
You bring up an interesting point, but the FBI is not deleting any data. They have frozen Megauploads assets, so they can't pay to keep the data hosted. Therefore the 3rd party hosting will delete the data. I assume the FBI has grabbed all the data they want to try and make their case, and left everything else to be thrown out.
So, your theory is that it wouldn't take that long to get somewhere habitable, because you are assuming there is a habitable place much closer that we just haven't found yet? Let's just say we get lucky and the best case scenario is true, there is a perfect planet around the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri. This is 4.2 light years away. That's fairly close, if we can travel at light speed, otherwise its gonna take a long time to get there.
If you have a space ship that can fly through space that long and support generation after generation of humans, why do you need another planet at all?
Finally, what good would sending probes out there do us. You do realize that the Voyage probe is just now on the verge of leaving our solar system and was launched over 30 years ago. By the time any probe actually gets to another solar system and transmits data back to Earth, humanity may be dead and gone.
As much as I like the idea of human ingenuity conquering the vast realm of space to spread across the galaxy, it isn't necessary. At some point the Earth will no longer be suitable for human life. If we haven't left Earth by then, oh well, we're done. I will be gone long before that point in time regardless. To me this is just a debate about the idea that humanity is capable of space colonization. I want to believe that, but I most likely will never see if it's true or not.
Let's think about this for a moment. Exxon and Apple are approximately the same "size" as measured by market capitalization. Imagine what would the world be like if Apple just vanished overnight. Now, imagine if Exxon vanished overnight. Does it not make sense to anyone else that Exxon should be far more valuable? They drill, refine and ship oil and petroleum products that are used in damn near everything man does on Earth. Apple makes computers, smart phones, and tablets. It would be hard to live without computers, but I could do that a lot easier than without oil.
I know the fundamentals of AAPL back up its valuation. So maybe, the purchase habits of consumers in our society have gotten way out of whack with reality.
There is such a thing as a stock split. They can split the shares to any fraction to get the stock price anywhere they want it. There's a reason Exxon-Mobil is ~$87, they split the shares periodically. The question then is, why would apple want to keep the share price in the several hundred dollar range? Is it to show people exactly how much growth they are missing out on by not being a shareholder? Are they trying to make the company look more like a luxury with a high price tag? Do they just not care, or are there some fees involved that they don't want to pay? I don't know.
That makes sense now that I see a code example. Seems like a reasonable use of goto. Someone that is just dead set against using goto might chime in with other ways for you to accomplish this, but why rewrite the code if it works properly. This isn't convoluted and hard to follow, which seems to be the common complaint against goto.
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It's still less of a risk than carrying current munitions. Don't fight wars if you can't risk things blowing up.
Awesome! That old man Cal Worthington still does commercials, but they just have cars and trucks. No more "dog" Spot. Nothing hits the nostalgia button more than old commercials. Old movies are great, but old commercials are just pure cheese.
As a kid, I was not aware of aspects #1 and #3, but I sure as heck was aware of #2 when I'd go to the video store and have one shelving section of Beta movies and the entire rest of the store was VHS.
I recall VCRs that were damn hard to mess up. I particularly remember one that took a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich and several crayons and still managed to play tapes fine after a little cleaning.
Replacement of all your bones would eliminate the source of all your blood cells, so not a good idea. Adamantium not being real makes it rather difficult to do anyway.
this isn't the first time titanium has been implanted into humans. I think we would have already found out if there were problems
I haven't noticed much of this unskippable stuff on DVDs either, but I sure as hell see it a lot on Blurays that are purchased and definitely not rentals. It's extremely annoying, and not always just ads, sometimes its a shitty intro to the menu screen that's 30 seconds long and can't be skipped. It's almost enough to make a person go spend some time outside.
I am not a believer in this Uranium core theory, its a new one to me, but if you go to the link in the summary, you will get a blanket statement to the effect that under the extreme pressures inside the Earth, density is dependent only on atomic mass. Uranium has a higher atomic mass than all of those elements you mentioned so it would be denser within the Earth. Good luck finding a reference on how elements densities vary with extreme pressure like inside the center of an Earth sized planet though.
The earths orbit does decay over time. It doesn't have booster rockets to maintain its orbit. At some point it'll become one with the sun. Maybe from orbital decay, maybe from the sun expanding into a giant star. Unless of course the Earth is destroyed or the sun has a nova or supernova first.
That was a new one to me. From the link, they theorize that because it is the densest naturally occurring element. In a freshly forming proto-Earth that was mostly molten, the denser elements would settle to the core.
Makes sense, but I don't believe the engineering problems would ever be solved in my lifetime to drill to the core of the Earth, so I will never know. I also can't imagine why someone would want to do that, unless that Uranium turns out to be mankinds last source of energy at some point.
Just for your information, the idea behind AGW is not that burning fossil fuels directly heats up the earth like a fireplace heats up a house. It changes the atmosphere to trap and retain more of the suns energy that strikes the Earth, which is far and away more energy than us puny humans could even consider using. Think of it like this, burning fossil fuels is like opening up some flypaper around the Earth and that flypaper catches little bits of sunshine flies over time that do not escape and raise the mass of the system.
This is a bit of a whoosh.
The "You wouldn't steal a car, would you?" line is directly from anti piracy clips included on many DVDs and possibly back on VHS tapes.
We can't expect the FBI to preserve every piece of data that might exonerate a defendant in a trial. If we take this to an extreme we could say the FBI is destroying evidence if they don't take a snapshot of the world when they serve an arrest warrant.
They should not have the broad powers to freeze assets like they did in this case, then Megaupload could continue to pay to keep all of the data intact and ready for a possible defense.
Any time you get a case that goes to this level (arrest warrants are served, assets frozen, etc.) The FBI, police, or whoever is involved have already made up their minds about innocence and guilt and will do anything they can to punish the arrested parties. They don't seem to really care that much if the case actually reaches a guilty verdict. As long as the business / organization that they were against has been destroyed they have their justice. Some of them may care about due process and justice, but the majority of law enforcement are "us vs. them" mentality troops.
You bring up an interesting point, but the FBI is not deleting any data. They have frozen Megauploads assets, so they can't pay to keep the data hosted. Therefore the 3rd party hosting will delete the data. I assume the FBI has grabbed all the data they want to try and make their case, and left everything else to be thrown out.
So, your theory is that it wouldn't take that long to get somewhere habitable, because you are assuming there is a habitable place much closer that we just haven't found yet? Let's just say we get lucky and the best case scenario is true, there is a perfect planet around the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri. This is 4.2 light years away. That's fairly close, if we can travel at light speed, otherwise its gonna take a long time to get there.
If you have a space ship that can fly through space that long and support generation after generation of humans, why do you need another planet at all?
Finally, what good would sending probes out there do us. You do realize that the Voyage probe is just now on the verge of leaving our solar system and was launched over 30 years ago. By the time any probe actually gets to another solar system and transmits data back to Earth, humanity may be dead and gone.
As much as I like the idea of human ingenuity conquering the vast realm of space to spread across the galaxy, it isn't necessary. At some point the Earth will no longer be suitable for human life. If we haven't left Earth by then, oh well, we're done. I will be gone long before that point in time regardless. To me this is just a debate about the idea that humanity is capable of space colonization. I want to believe that, but I most likely will never see if it's true or not.
It's not an either or. They can pay a dividend and grow. Instead of sitting on the cash, the shareholders would get some of it out.
But buying them does. I can't believe that this level of consumer spending on discretionary items is sustainable.
Let's think about this for a moment. Exxon and Apple are approximately the same "size" as measured by market capitalization. Imagine what would the world be like if Apple just vanished overnight. Now, imagine if Exxon vanished overnight. Does it not make sense to anyone else that Exxon should be far more valuable? They drill, refine and ship oil and petroleum products that are used in damn near everything man does on Earth. Apple makes computers, smart phones, and tablets. It would be hard to live without computers, but I could do that a lot easier than without oil.
I know the fundamentals of AAPL back up its valuation. So maybe, the purchase habits of consumers in our society have gotten way out of whack with reality.
and access to infinitely better information than you.
This strikes me as a bit of hyperbole. Do the people at Apple truly know all the information in the universe?
There is such a thing as a stock split. They can split the shares to any fraction to get the stock price anywhere they want it. There's a reason Exxon-Mobil is ~$87, they split the shares periodically. The question then is, why would apple want to keep the share price in the several hundred dollar range? Is it to show people exactly how much growth they are missing out on by not being a shareholder? Are they trying to make the company look more like a luxury with a high price tag? Do they just not care, or are there some fees involved that they don't want to pay? I don't know.
I suppose humans don't need to go into space. We don't need to leave our basements either for that matter. Some humans may want to go into space.
Interesting, Where's the option where student buys no iDevices and 5 paper books per term?
This makes me question whether these will ever really replace all textbooks, or just the niche texts that were cheap to begin with.
That makes sense now that I see a code example. Seems like a reasonable use of goto. Someone that is just dead set against using goto might chime in with other ways for you to accomplish this, but why rewrite the code if it works properly. This isn't convoluted and hard to follow, which seems to be the common complaint against goto.