Lots of places serve $2 pints (often microbreweries will do this on nights with lighter traffic), which is quite a bit more expensive than a case of beer, but it isn't really murder, even if you drink 8 or 10 or them.
I'm not sure, but I imagine that posting the price for gas in gallons is written into law, so it would take quite a bit of effort (the UK was probably a bit further along in converting things when they did that trick than we are currently).
The roads don't always run in the right spot though, they are often built to one side of what the legal definition of the property ownership would imply given a perfect survey (it is often the case that an old survey means one guy owns a bigger 40 acres than his neighbor...).
Consistently and accurately labeling numbers with their units is a lot more important than making sure that it is easy to convert between units and occasionally be able to quickly do math.
SI is certainly easier to work with, but the constant implication that this makes it hard to work in Imperial units is ridiculous. If someone has trouble with inches and feet, I'm not going to pay them to do any work on my rocket.
To clarify a little, sorry for the double, I think what I talked about in the first reply reduces the likelihood of a culture of preserving the digital files.
Plus, people often don't realize how powerful computers are so they may not realize how easy it is to archive and track things (think about people talking about putting pictures 'in' the computer, rather than digitizing them, and so forth; this both results from thinking of the computer as similar to a special purpose tool rather than a general purpose device, and contributes to thinking about them as magical (and thus failing to accurately predict what the computer can do)).
Once you make the final paper, I think the computer drawings for something like a waste water plant become somewhat less useful. Especially if you figure some things are naturally going to deviate.
Except unit conversions are not the norm. When a grocery store manager orders potatoes, it doesn't really matter if he orders 200 10 pound bags (which is really tough to convert to 2,000 pounds) or if he orders 200 5 kilogram bags (which is really tough to convert to 1,000 kilograms).
Sure, sometimes someone has to get a calculator to figure out how many inches are in 200 feet (but hopefully not most people) before they figure out how many 1.65 inch pieces they can cut that 200 feet into, but the other guy is going to need a calculator (or some scratch paper, whatever) to figure out how many 4.191 cm pieces they can get from 60 meters anyway.
Flux? I suppose after heat-death, that state will quickly become the particular state that lasted the longest, but it won't dominate time for just a few billions of years (if time even exists at that point, for all we know time is a result of the way we perceive changes in the universe).
This tempts me to find a sharpie and start relabeling game controllers with a timeout button. Hearing someone say 'pause' to stop a playground game would make my ears feel strange.
That's a pretty pessimistic viewpoint. There are millions of hunters and millions of people who wouldn't want to take their guns away.
Besides, if it really starts looking like that is the way it is going to be, real crazies, people like me, will go to gun shows, buy some guns, package them nicely, and bury them somewhere. Maybe with reloading equipment, I haven't really looked closely at the shelf life of ammo recently.
I formatted that post using plain old text and blank lines to imply line breaks. In the rendered html, each block of text is wrapped in a p. So as far as I can tell, it is using blank-line-implies-paragraph. Maybe a single line break does something different (this sentence is a test).
Yep, the single line break got transformed into a br tag.
Blank-line-implies-paragraph is pretty straightforward in my opinion. It even looks like one way of making paragraphs in ASCII (or a typewriter, if one has ever used such a contraption).
I suppose a mode or tag that acted more like 'code' but didn't set a monospace font would be useful. They could call it preformatted or something.
Beyond the economic consequences, which the Chinese want no part of, we have too many nukes for them to nuke U.S. and a conventional occupation of a country the size of the United States (one with lots of goofballs armed with high powered rifles running around) simply isn't practical across an ocean. Especially when it is a big ocean.
There is a huge swath of income earners that could afford to move (someone else) into proximity to that hospital for months at a time. Not in the lap of luxury, but that isn't real important.
At a societal level, given that early work has been promising, the most ethical thing to do is to devote sufficient resources to tissue engineering research. I have no idea if all promising ideas are being researched, but 5 years ago it was 'we can get cells to grow on a scaffold!' and this year it is 'x is a decent way of ensuring enough blood flow for nutrients to reach all parts of the tissue'.
The easy answer is that it stops with whoever did not agree to disclose health issues to the company.
Even two people forming a partnership would be wise to write the contract in such a way that they were required to tell each other about life-altering health issues (to the extent that such a clause would be legal...).
The contract for CEO of a billion dollar company? You do everything the law allows. The janitor? You hire the guy that does it the cheapest and don't worry about it.
Some dude who doesn't care about conservation or energy or whatever but his friend tells him about some panels he got at Walmart that are saving him big bucks every month.
My fridge, TV, laptop and external monitor were the big devices running when I ran out and timed my power meter (I wanted to catch the fridge while the compressor was on, so I only timed it for 1/5 of a revolution, so these numbers are probably only decent).
Anyway, it turns out they were drawing a total of less than 350 watts (my meter has a Kh of 7.2 and 1/5 of a turn took 16 seconds, making one revolution 80 seconds; (3600 * 7.2) / 80 = 324.
If your refrigerator averages 900 watts, freaking replace it.
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Lots of places serve $2 pints (often microbreweries will do this on nights with lighter traffic), which is quite a bit more expensive than a case of beer, but it isn't really murder, even if you drink 8 or 10 or them.
I'm not sure, but I imagine that posting the price for gas in gallons is written into law, so it would take quite a bit of effort (the UK was probably a bit further along in converting things when they did that trick than we are currently).
Duh, if you insert more zeros your calculation will be more precise.
The roads don't always run in the right spot though, they are often built to one side of what the legal definition of the property ownership would imply given a perfect survey (it is often the case that an old survey means one guy owns a bigger 40 acres than his neighbor...).
My point was more that the details don't matter, asking for a pint in a bar should never become something that confuses the bar.
I imagine a pint would usually result in a large.
Damn right.
Consistently and accurately labeling numbers with their units is a lot more important than making sure that it is easy to convert between units and occasionally be able to quickly do math.
SI is certainly easier to work with, but the constant implication that this makes it hard to work in Imperial units is ridiculous. If someone has trouble with inches and feet, I'm not going to pay them to do any work on my rocket.
If I walked into a bar in Europe and they were unable to serve me a pint, with no further explanation on my part, I would leave.
To clarify a little, sorry for the double, I think what I talked about in the first reply reduces the likelihood of a culture of preserving the digital files.
Plus, people often don't realize how powerful computers are so they may not realize how easy it is to archive and track things (think about people talking about putting pictures 'in' the computer, rather than digitizing them, and so forth; this both results from thinking of the computer as similar to a special purpose tool rather than a general purpose device, and contributes to thinking about them as magical (and thus failing to accurately predict what the computer can do)).
Once you make the final paper, I think the computer drawings for something like a waste water plant become somewhat less useful. Especially if you figure some things are naturally going to deviate.
Except unit conversions are not the norm. When a grocery store manager orders potatoes, it doesn't really matter if he orders 200 10 pound bags (which is really tough to convert to 2,000 pounds) or if he orders 200 5 kilogram bags (which is really tough to convert to 1,000 kilograms).
Sure, sometimes someone has to get a calculator to figure out how many inches are in 200 feet (but hopefully not most people) before they figure out how many 1.65 inch pieces they can cut that 200 feet into, but the other guy is going to need a calculator (or some scratch paper, whatever) to figure out how many 4.191 cm pieces they can get from 60 meters anyway.
Flux? I suppose after heat-death, that state will quickly become the particular state that lasted the longest, but it won't dominate time for just a few billions of years (if time even exists at that point, for all we know time is a result of the way we perceive changes in the universe).
This tempts me to find a sharpie and start relabeling game controllers with a timeout button. Hearing someone say 'pause' to stop a playground game would make my ears feel strange.
I'm afraid of any arbitrary geographic region that has the ability to speak, the particular language doesn't enter into it.
Your tone is close enough to serious to scare me a little bit.
That's a pretty pessimistic viewpoint. There are millions of hunters and millions of people who wouldn't want to take their guns away.
Besides, if it really starts looking like that is the way it is going to be, real crazies, people like me, will go to gun shows, buy some guns, package them nicely, and bury them somewhere. Maybe with reloading equipment, I haven't really looked closely at the shelf life of ammo recently.
I formatted that post using plain old text and blank lines to imply line breaks. In the rendered html, each block of text is wrapped in a p. So as far as I can tell, it is using blank-line-implies-paragraph.
Maybe a single line break does something different (this sentence is a test).
Yep, the single line break got transformed into a br tag.
How do you want it to be different?
Blank-line-implies-paragraph is pretty straightforward in my opinion. It even looks like one way of making paragraphs in ASCII (or a typewriter, if one has ever used such a contraption).
I suppose a mode or tag that acted more like 'code' but didn't set a monospace font would be useful. They could call it preformatted or something.
No.
Beyond the economic consequences, which the Chinese want no part of, we have too many nukes for them to nuke U.S. and a conventional occupation of a country the size of the United States (one with lots of goofballs armed with high powered rifles running around) simply isn't practical across an ocean. Especially when it is a big ocean.
If you had made a Venn diagram, you would have phrased that differently (educational computer project, or not just a computer project, etc.).
Intention?
There is a huge swath of income earners that could afford to move (someone else) into proximity to that hospital for months at a time. Not in the lap of luxury, but that isn't real important.
At a societal level, given that early work has been promising, the most ethical thing to do is to devote sufficient resources to tissue engineering research. I have no idea if all promising ideas are being researched, but 5 years ago it was 'we can get cells to grow on a scaffold!' and this year it is 'x is a decent way of ensuring enough blood flow for nutrients to reach all parts of the tissue'.
That's pretty good progress.
The easy answer is that it stops with whoever did not agree to disclose health issues to the company.
Even two people forming a partnership would be wise to write the contract in such a way that they were required to tell each other about life-altering health issues (to the extent that such a clause would be legal...).
The contract for CEO of a billion dollar company? You do everything the law allows. The janitor? You hire the guy that does it the cheapest and don't worry about it.
What now?
Some dude who doesn't care about conservation or energy or whatever but his friend tells him about some panels he got at Walmart that are saving him big bucks every month.
My fridge, TV, laptop and external monitor were the big devices running when I ran out and timed my power meter (I wanted to catch the fridge while the compressor was on, so I only timed it for 1/5 of a revolution, so these numbers are probably only decent).
Anyway, it turns out they were drawing a total of less than 350 watts (my meter has a Kh of 7.2 and 1/5 of a turn took 16 seconds, making one revolution 80 seconds; (3600 * 7.2) / 80 = 324.
If your refrigerator averages 900 watts, freaking replace it.