If I recall a-rightly, celibacy was a property matter - priest has a family they inherit a portion; no family, everything reverts to Church. The argument in favour of celibacy may've been cloaked by other stated reasons.
Second reference was particularly interesting, if way over my head. If I understand correctly the authors explore various mechanisms to explain known behaviours without knowing in which cells such occurs; the current article says they've isolated the cells themselves, at least in one species of fish. Whether the trout mechanism is the same...
I took plenty of acid '67-'77, ain't no DMT to it. Were occasional rumors some chemists added stuff to their blotter or whatnot, but I never saw any. Helps to know good chemists.;)
Sure. I was being a tad facetious; on the face of it, it was a rather remarkable admission. We don't know what we don't know - what he really meant or in what precise ways and over what time various inputs into the planet's energy balance will manifest themselves, both including and beyond what's already been observed and reasonably shown to be valid. Humans tend to be a hardy lot, I'll agree; to what extent that trait may be needed, I dunno. Everyone seems to have his own opinion. I try to have as few as possible while trying to understand what's going on, or not.
Yow, I know I'm getting older; put enough quarters into Pong, etc. (Only program I sold was written on an 800 for a corporation in MIchigan, '82.) More stuff's been inspired from the Atari than you can shake a stick at. Happy Birthday Atari, and thanks, Nolan and Jay!
....if you're unable or otherwise refuse to identify yourself to police, you can be detained until your identity can be confirmed.
Could be. It's been awhile since I looked this stuff up and the precise wording of the Federal and various state laws may have been changed since then.
However, at the time, Federal (and those states for which I looked) all generally phrased it as "make an account of oneself." For years, the bulk of precedent established that giving one's name and a general description of activity was sufficient, e.g., "I'm [name] and I'm taking a walk." Note that, at least then, the issue of one's address or a more detailed account were only held relevant on a case-by-case basis.
None. Practice patience, exercise commensurate with food intake, catch up on sleep, etc.
Theoretically, you can be held only for so long before a charge must be filed or you will be let go. If you have been charged with something (disorderly, resisting, or vagrancy are usually good) then you'll eventually appear before a judge or magistrate for probable cause or arraignment.
Since you've no papers, it's likely they'd run your prints. If you've never been printed, that's a dead end, of course. Or, being a "John Doe" they could decide for their amusement to play games, moving you around to various facilities within their own or adjacent jurisdictions "to alleviate crowding" or somesuch.
At the hearing, or even in the interim if someone is interested enough to help resolve the matter, means might be provided to get required info. If you're local, someone who recognizes you may provide corroboration.
Common wisdom is that you're allowed two phone calls. Basically, bullshit. Fine print, most places says as many as needed to get in touch with "responsible party" or the like; in practice, you may be offered one call no matter the results.
I'm no lawyer and speak only from personal experience.
Woman at the bar to man next to her, "$100? I wouldn't sleep with you for $200!" "Okay," says the man. "How about $300? We already know you're a whore, now we can haggle price."
Please do note nothing on talent or skill is addressed.
I dunno, but ICANN seems to have been screwing up by the numbers of late. I realize non-profits can be a great dodge for the upper crust, but $800k to facilitate extortion for silly domains? And competence is still not addressed.
Late Seventies, in conversation about the big power outage of '65, several people remarked that all it would take would be a handful of guys with deer rifles driving around knocking out transformers at distribution sub-stations to thoroughly bollix things. They're large, expensive, and most importantly, take a while to make and test. Such spares as may exist are insufficient to fix things speedily. (From personal experience, it can take a day or more just to wind the secondaries for a small 300kVA three-phase rig. That's presuming the plant has power....)
Some years later a friend who designs them for a living said it would work handily. The problem and risk are well-known in the industry but there's not much that can be done about it without major changes.
If one can find a copy, "An Omnibus of Science Fiction" edited by Groff Conklin. Several editions from the Fifties, he also edited a variety of other anthologies. Excellent stories, easily accessible and though-provoking, although some will seem dated. "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber has stuck with me since I read it circa '58.
Out of mods, so I'll thank you for explaining something so well such that I could understand that what had been irrelevant to me is something I want to remember.
"I've got all sorts of papers to prove it, with fancy embossed stamps...." Beauty of a para.
My hope, Your Eminence, is that someday you will unbend enough to tell us what you really think.
I respect English as a tool and as a thing of beauty in it's own way, but not enough to correct my abuse of it. Being simple, I still mourn the death of the adverbial form, and detest the verbification of nouns and such locutions as "going forward", "at this point in time" and "price point."
Agreed. I was happy to finally be able to save up and get a six-core CPU last year. All cores are set to run BOINC for WCG work. Works well; I've been able to contribute more work units in just the past six months than in the previous seven years combined. Plenty of cores for VMs, a game; and yes, I'd like more.
When I was in school there was no choice other than to decline an item. Through high school (11 schools, four states, overseas) meals were cooked from scratch by student's mothers and other locals or the mess cooks. Only "pre-made" food was the half-pints of milk and often bread. Menu was always meat, starch (potato, noodle, rice), veg and fruit. While not always the prettiest or "just like Mom makes" it was always good; or at least I was hungry enough to like it.
Agreed. Few years back, maintained an old IBM desktop for a friend at her business, which I had set up with Linux when she brought it to the store to get Windows problems fixed. Gave her then-eight-year-old his own account, desktop icons for several local and on-line ed games, showed him the ropes (took all of five minutes), and he had a blast. Some stuff let him tie in exercises with school lessons, other stuff let him explore (dinosaurs!)
And when I was in primary school the choices were pencil and paper, chalk an blackboard. Early grades, many teachers had a stack or three or flash cards for drill. Looking back, I think it odd that the abacus was not considered.
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If I recall a-rightly, celibacy was a property matter - priest has a family they inherit a portion; no family, everything reverts to Church. The argument in favour of celibacy may've been cloaked by other stated reasons.
Second reference was particularly interesting, if way over my head. If I understand correctly the authors explore various mechanisms to explain known behaviours without knowing in which cells such occurs; the current article says they've isolated the cells themselves, at least in one species of fish. Whether the trout mechanism is the same...
Would "We dispense accurately." fix it? Then it's a matter of grammar, no?
This is not the link I was looking for, which showed detonation _inside_ the device casing, but it's a start:
http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/abombs.html while
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_photography gives some good background reading, references, and links.
What the folks at UCLA have done seems pretty neat for getting real-world results (but maybe I'm easily amused.)
Those and more were in the [ahem] article.
http://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/ might be a good place to start.
Forgot to say, I dig your sig.
I don't think I ever knew that, good info to file away. Thanks.
"DMT is the psychedelic used in LSD."
Uh, no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd
I took plenty of acid '67-'77, ain't no DMT to it. Were occasional rumors some chemists added stuff to their blotter or whatnot, but I never saw any. Helps to know good chemists. ;)
Still, not too shabby. Check out the photo conversions on page 7.
Sure. I was being a tad facetious; on the face of it, it was a rather remarkable admission. We don't know what we don't know - what he really meant or in what precise ways and over what time various inputs into the planet's energy balance will manifest themselves, both including and beyond what's already been observed and reasonably shown to be valid. Humans tend to be a hardy lot, I'll agree; to what extent that trait may be needed, I dunno. Everyone seems to have his own opinion. I try to have as few as possible while trying to understand what's going on, or not.
"....society will be able to adapt."
really means, "I've got mine. Screw everybody else."
Yow, I know I'm getting older; put enough quarters into Pong, etc. (Only program I sold was written on an 800 for a corporation in MIchigan, '82.) More stuff's been inspired from the Atari than you can shake a stick at. Happy Birthday Atari, and thanks, Nolan and Jay!
....if you're unable or otherwise refuse to identify yourself to police, you can be detained until your identity can be confirmed.
Could be. It's been awhile since I looked this stuff up and the precise wording of the Federal and various state laws may have been changed since then.
However, at the time, Federal (and those states for which I looked) all generally phrased it as "make an account of oneself." For years, the bulk of precedent established that giving one's name and a general description of activity was sufficient, e.g., "I'm [name] and I'm taking a walk." Note that, at least then, the issue of one's address or a more detailed account were only held relevant on a case-by-case basis.
....what's my strategy?
None. Practice patience, exercise commensurate with food intake, catch up on sleep, etc.
Theoretically, you can be held only for so long before a charge must be filed or you will be let go. If you have been charged with something (disorderly, resisting, or vagrancy are usually good) then you'll eventually appear before a judge or magistrate for probable cause or arraignment.
Since you've no papers, it's likely they'd run your prints. If you've never been printed, that's a dead end, of course. Or, being a "John Doe" they could decide for their amusement to play games, moving you around to various facilities within their own or adjacent jurisdictions "to alleviate crowding" or somesuch.
At the hearing, or even in the interim if someone is interested enough to help resolve the matter, means might be provided to get required info. If you're local, someone who recognizes you may provide corroboration.
Common wisdom is that you're allowed two phone calls. Basically, bullshit. Fine print, most places says as many as needed to get in touch with "responsible party" or the like; in practice, you may be offered one call no matter the results.
I'm no lawyer and speak only from personal experience.
Woman at the bar to man next to her, "$100? I wouldn't sleep with you for $200!"
"Okay," says the man. "How about $300? We already know you're a whore, now we can haggle price."
Please do note nothing on talent or skill is addressed.
I dunno, but ICANN seems to have been screwing up by the numbers of late. I realize non-profits can be a great dodge for the upper crust, but $800k to facilitate extortion for silly domains? And competence is still not addressed.
Late Seventies, in conversation about the big power outage of '65, several people remarked that all it would take would be a handful of guys with deer rifles driving around knocking out transformers at distribution sub-stations to thoroughly bollix things. They're large, expensive, and most importantly, take a while to make and test. Such spares as may exist are insufficient to fix things speedily. (From personal experience, it can take a day or more just to wind the secondaries for a small 300kVA three-phase rig. That's presuming the plant has power....)
Some years later a friend who designs them for a living said it would work handily. The problem and risk are well-known in the industry but there's not much that can be done about it without major changes.
If one can find a copy, "An Omnibus of Science Fiction" edited by Groff Conklin. Several editions from the Fifties, he also edited a variety of other anthologies. Excellent stories, easily accessible and though-provoking, although some will seem dated. "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber has stuck with me since I read it circa '58.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?298440
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318155.Omnibus_of_Science_Fiction
http://www.iblist.com/book12137.htm
for starters.
Why not use ghostery and use browsers' built-in cookie settings?
Out of mods, so I'll thank you for explaining something so well such that I could understand that what had been irrelevant to me is something I want to remember.
"I've got all sorts of papers to prove it, with fancy embossed stamps...." Beauty of a para.
My hope, Your Eminence, is that someday you will unbend enough to tell us what you really think.
I respect English as a tool and as a thing of beauty in it's own way, but not enough to correct my abuse of it. Being simple, I still mourn the death of the adverbial form, and detest the verbification of nouns and such locutions as "going forward", "at this point in time" and "price point."
Agreed. I was happy to finally be able to save up and get a six-core CPU last year. All cores are set to run BOINC for WCG work. Works well; I've been able to contribute more work units in just the past six months than in the previous seven years combined. Plenty of cores for VMs, a game; and yes, I'd like more.
For lots of stuff, the more cores, the merrier.
When I was in school there was no choice other than to decline an item. Through high school (11 schools, four states, overseas) meals were cooked from scratch by student's mothers and other locals or the mess cooks. Only "pre-made" food was the half-pints of milk and often bread. Menu was always meat, starch (potato, noodle, rice), veg and fruit. While not always the prettiest or "just like Mom makes" it was always good; or at least I was hungry enough to like it.
Agreed. Few years back, maintained an old IBM desktop for a friend at her business, which I had set up with Linux when she brought it to the store to get Windows problems fixed. Gave her then-eight-year-old his own account, desktop icons for several local and on-line ed games, showed him the ropes (took all of five minutes), and he had a blast. Some stuff let him tie in exercises with school lessons, other stuff let him explore (dinosaurs!)
And when I was in primary school the choices were pencil and paper, chalk an blackboard. Early grades, many teachers had a stack or three or flash cards for drill. Looking back, I think it odd that the abacus was not considered.