I used to beat those crashes by taking a bunch of ice cubes, double-bagging them in ziplocs, and placing that on top of the ZX81 where their crappy thin aluminum prong "heat sink" came up from the board to meet the upper case interior. I never had "unreasonable" crashes after that but I went through a lot of ice cubes with that little thing.
I spent two hours in a 3-Tesla MRI scanner this morning getting my occipital lobes scanned while I had to fixate on a dot that would change color back and forth from red to blue, requiring trigger button presses. Besides the expected marching checkerboard rows, they showed behind the dot, every couple seconds: face... face... upside-down face... house... upside-down house... face... house... upside-down face... face... house... face... upside-down house... upside-down house... face... etc. Then, they would show the dot behind words every couple seconds: tennis... cubic... weapon... village... curved... submit... option... mobile... curved... tennis... letter... village... etc. Then, behind four-digit numbers: 8663... 1845... 2853... 9231... 1845... 4408... 7392... 8663... 1424... etc. And finally, behind names of numbers: thirty... eleven... seventy... twelve... eight... fifty-three... seventy-two... ten... That was obviously to pick out some artifact. These images were being displayed from a PowerMac using some software from a company called PsychoGenix or something (I forget). One funny moment was when it underestimated the Mac screen resolution, and displayed the central fixation dot in the upper left. They apologized for that being in the wrong place and it took them a while to move it back to the center. I didn't think to look more closely at how the actual large flat screen display above the magnet worked, when I had my chances. But the image was focused down an optical path down mirrors to me lying face up in the coil. During the control scans they said "close your eyes and let your mind wander" and I daydreamed about a job at PsychoGenix. Afterwards I saw the fMRI images corresponding to faces, words, lines, etc. They only had a resolution down to 2 mm, so active regions looked like symmetric clumps of squares on the screen.
This is a liberal district. Just look at who it elects. We all gravitated to the OWS in the East Bay because we were too busy to set one up here, releasing products for people to use when documenting abuse at the hands of riot police. Nyaah.
On behalf of my sovereign nation, the United States of America: I hereby make a territorial claim upon the entire surface of the larger of these two planets, and 75% of the temperate latitudes of the smaller one, wherever they are.
You aren't going to get one over on me with your highschool chem. Fluoride salts form transient HF covalent bonds in water that interfere with biochemical electron transport mechanisms.
Which raises the question, how does the number of animals raised for food compare to previous populations? For example there were one fuck of a lot of Bison in North America at one time which have been replaced by cows. I don't know the numbers or whether Bison expel similar amounts of methane but I wouldn't be surprised if the number is similar. Other parts of the world are similar, lots of native herbivores replaced by people and their livestock.
Humans are much better at packing the continent with a profitable/unsustainable density of herbivores. This has moved way past the time when humans still used hunter-gatherer strategies and could be considered a natural predator of a stable bison population. Now they have harnessed another species as livestock, bred them into grass-to-milk machines, fenced them into feedlots, harvested grass aggressively within, and after some time, surprise, wrecked the soil for them. Excrement builds up in feedlots and releases fumes with ammonia, thiols, etc. that makes both cows and humans sick unless it gets constantly shipped off to other places where it overloads the land with excess nitrogen and phosphate that screw up the soil and create dead zones in groundwater and aqueous environments that threaten fish.
And for a final kick in the nuts, many in the current generation of farmers now have to truck in water for their animals and grass on a regular basis, coping with longer and more frequent droughts that never plagued earlier generations for their own consideration.
Now how is this different from a herd of wild prehistoric bison nibbling their way around and migrating as they steadily exhaust the resources around them? For one thing there were fewer bison per acre. There were also fewer cubic feet of methane being produced per year per acre, or even per year per animal.
Weak anthropic principle: "Otherwise you wouldn't be here to ask! duh..."
Strong anthropic principle: implies a sort of reverse causation. The universe must exist in its present form, in order for us to be here... This is a more aggressive theory because it assumes things must have happened this way in order for us to be here.
Which one is right? Say there exists some system where an infinite number of universes are being created with different physical laws, spatial dimensions, types of matter, etc. and one just happens to have three spatial dimensions and similar fundamental physical forces, modest sized planets circling ordinary stars, water with a liquid phase, etc. If there is going to be any universe harboring puzzled observers within itself, it would be that one. So you could say that the strong principle is correct given that it has weak underpinnings outside of our universe.
It isn't "numerology" if psycophaths can be statistically identified by numerical analysis.
For example, while most people tend to include certain numbers in their speech more than most, like "ninety-nine", psychopaths make bizarre choices like "fifty-three" and "forty-seven".
Funny, IANAL but isn't that exactly what a statute of limitations DOES? Puts time limits on the government being able to go after you for anything from petty theft to capital murder.
Sorry to disappoint you, but murder is not subject to a statute of limitations in any jurisdiction, even where you live.
Bob sends Alice a cryptographic message encoded in DNA. Alice is unable to decrypt the message using standard techniques.
However certain techniques of combining the message with a similarly formatted DNA compliment of her own can often enable Alice to successfully identify Bob.
We canceled Comcast, but with a big change of furniture and new equipment several weeks later, we decided to pick up Comcast again because my wife wanted to see something on MSNBC.
Too bad- it all came back a month later with an identical look as before, except for one copious absence: MSNBC. The digital box UI displayed a list that jumped from 59 (FOX) to 61 (weather channel).
The MSNBC signal was still on the wire, since the no-frills auxiliary box that they attached to the bedroom TV could still get FOX, MSNBC, and TWC with perfect reception when entering all of "59", "60", and "61" in manually. The main digital cable box accepts 59 as FOX and 61 as TWC, but rejects "60" as nonsense. It steadfastly pretends the MSNBC signal is not there and jumps back and forth between 59 and 61.
We called the Comcast phone farm to see WTF and they said that Comcast had simply decided to stop offering certain "politically biased" channels in its package lineups they offer. According to them, anyone ordering cable and getting new service from Comcast (in the middle of Silicon Valley, at least) wasn't going to see MSNBC anymore. They also aid that at some point in the future Comcast will eliminate the MSNBC signal entirely.
Just go to an environmentally sensitive area in a suit and good hair, point to the ground, and say to the TV cameras, "We need that calcium hydroxide."
With a viewpoint looking down the fiber, these would be the rays that precess around like flowers and that generally avoid the center axis. Previous analytical techniques were unable to solve for photon wave functions with photons bearing certain nonzero quantum numbers that are not well understood for photons in fibers. We weren't good with photons that bear angular momentum with respect to the fiber and that generally avoid the center axis. Unless we assume certain symmetries with respect to clockwise or counterclockwise motion not happening, we don't know how to solve the Schrodinger equations, like with electrons in helium, and so we have no motive to shine that kind of light down fibers, although we certainly might want to extract the bandwidth. These people figured out something to do with the model needing to take the non-orbital spin angular momentum into account also.
Oh come on. What would our cross section be if we had to compete with everything under the floor? You don't know where we live.
And we were paying attention to the momentum vectors we were seeing. They were coming in with a general direction that went around like a clock- we both noticed that. We were paying attention to make sure it wasn't a terrestrial source because there's a wireless network in this neighborhood broadcasting an SSID of "breeder_reactor_bitch" but the neutrinos were coming in through the walls a little while later and in fact they knocked some of our books off the shelves when they did that. So I called my mother right away and told her I was OK and the neutrinos hadn't harmed us.
I think a lot of people are disregarding this supernova.
True the Type II explosions tend to produce experts in supernovae. But it should be remembered that Type I explosions still scare people.
My wife and I were on the couch last night and suddenly we were both like, "Did you feel that? It felt like a burst of neutrinos coming out of the ceiling!" Which surprised me because I just had the roofers here last week laying down Spanish tile to keep fermions out.
Human hip bones are often shoddy pieces of work; replacements could be created / evolved that break less easily by lacking that weird narrow neck in the femur at the ball joint at the hip bone for example. The bones that people complain about getting broken- knees, hips, coccyx, jawbone, etc. tend to be the ones that are a little screwed up by design. And of course testicles appear to be the product of a total disaster. There is an enzyme in them somewhere that denatures at body temperature, so instead of coming up with a better enzyme or a process that doesn't use it, we need to hold the organs in big bags of skin that hang outside the body, and that protect themselves by producing copious amounts of dull pain to put us in agony when messed with. This was the solution that evolution came up with. It could definitely have come up with a better one.
We've flattered ourselves for millenia. But why can't evolution produce more effective structures in the human anatomy that can't be so easily bested by an engineered design this simple? Imagine what life would be like for human beings if we were born with organs, musculature, etc. with that level of effectiveness. You could kick someone in the nuts with one of those and it would really hurt.
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Sure, I'll help you out with this.
When you can print money they give you a different kind of checkbook and you still have to balance it but the account has some nice features and it's not like the bank accounts you're used to but you should keep using your other accounts for buying porn because with this one they occasionally make you buy groceries with ten trillion dollar platinum coins.
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I used to beat those crashes by taking a bunch of ice cubes, double-bagging them in ziplocs, and placing that on top of the ZX81 where their crappy thin aluminum prong "heat sink" came up from the board to meet the upper case interior. I never had "unreasonable" crashes after that but I went through a lot of ice cubes with that little thing.
I spent two hours in a 3-Tesla MRI scanner this morning getting my occipital lobes scanned while I had to fixate on a dot that would change color back and forth from red to blue, requiring trigger button presses. Besides the expected marching checkerboard rows, they showed behind the dot, every couple seconds: face... face... upside-down face... house... upside-down house... face... house... upside-down face... face... house... face... upside-down house... upside-down house... face... etc. Then, they would show the dot behind words every couple seconds: tennis... cubic... weapon... village... curved... submit... option... mobile... curved... tennis... letter... village... etc. Then, behind four-digit numbers: 8663... 1845... 2853... 9231... 1845... 4408... 7392... 8663... 1424... etc. And finally, behind names of numbers: thirty... eleven... seventy... twelve... eight... fifty-three... seventy-two... ten... That was obviously to pick out some artifact.
These images were being displayed from a PowerMac using some software from a company called PsychoGenix or something (I forget). One funny moment was when it underestimated the Mac screen resolution, and displayed the central fixation dot in the upper left. They apologized for that being in the wrong place and it took them a while to move it back to the center. I didn't think to look more closely at how the actual large flat screen display above the magnet worked, when I had my chances. But the image was focused down an optical path down mirrors to me lying face up in the coil. During the control scans they said "close your eyes and let your mind wander" and I daydreamed about a job at PsychoGenix.
Afterwards I saw the fMRI images corresponding to faces, words, lines, etc. They only had a resolution down to 2 mm, so active regions looked like symmetric clumps of squares on the screen.
Voting with your wallets is much more effective then the fake choice presented in elections.
good thing everyone has the same number of votes in their wallets.
This is a fair point, not sure how to answer it properly.
Voting with your votes is much more effective than the fake choice presented in wallets.
This is a liberal district. Just look at who it elects. We all gravitated to the OWS in the East Bay because we were too busy to set one up here, releasing products for people to use when documenting abuse at the hands of riot police. Nyaah.
On behalf of my sovereign nation, the United States of America: I hereby make a territorial claim upon the entire surface of the larger of these two planets, and 75% of the temperate latitudes of the smaller one, wherever they are.
Bonehead,
You aren't going to get one over on me with your highschool chem. Fluoride salts form transient HF covalent bonds in water that interfere with biochemical electron transport mechanisms.
And FLUORINE is essential for your teeth! You should try bubbling a few hundred tons of that a year into your local river!
Which raises the question, how does the number of animals raised for food compare to previous populations? For example there were one fuck of a lot of Bison in North America at one time which have been replaced by cows. I don't know the numbers or whether Bison expel similar amounts of methane but I wouldn't be surprised if the number is similar. Other parts of the world are similar, lots of native herbivores replaced by people and their livestock.
Humans are much better at packing the continent with a profitable/unsustainable density of herbivores. This has moved way past the time when humans still used hunter-gatherer strategies and could be considered a natural predator of a stable bison population. Now they have harnessed another species as livestock, bred them into grass-to-milk machines, fenced them into feedlots, harvested grass aggressively within, and after some time, surprise, wrecked the soil for them. Excrement builds up in feedlots and releases fumes with ammonia, thiols, etc. that makes both cows and humans sick unless it gets constantly shipped off to other places where it overloads the land with excess nitrogen and phosphate that screw up the soil and create dead zones in groundwater and aqueous environments that threaten fish.
And for a final kick in the nuts, many in the current generation of farmers now have to truck in water for their animals and grass on a regular basis, coping with longer and more frequent droughts that never plagued earlier generations for their own consideration.
Now how is this different from a herd of wild prehistoric bison nibbling their way around and migrating as they steadily exhaust the resources around them? For one thing there were fewer bison per acre. There were also fewer cubic feet of methane being produced per year per acre, or even per year per animal.
Weak anthropic principle: "Otherwise you wouldn't be here to ask! duh..."
Strong anthropic principle: implies a sort of reverse causation. The universe must exist in its present form, in order for us to be here... This is a more aggressive theory because it assumes things must have happened this way in order for us to be here.
Which one is right? Say there exists some system where an infinite number of universes are being created with different physical laws, spatial dimensions, types of matter, etc. and one just happens to have three spatial dimensions and similar fundamental physical forces, modest sized planets circling ordinary stars, water with a liquid phase, etc. If there is going to be any universe harboring puzzled observers within itself, it would be that one. So you could say that the strong principle is correct given that it has weak underpinnings outside of our universe.
It isn't "numerology" if psycophaths can be statistically identified by numerical analysis.
For example, while most people tend to include certain numbers in their speech more than most, like "ninety-nine", psychopaths make bizarre choices like "fifty-three" and "forty-seven".
Funny, IANAL but isn't that exactly what a statute of limitations DOES? Puts time limits on the government being able to go after you for anything from petty theft to capital murder.
Sorry to disappoint you, but murder is not subject to a statute of limitations in any jurisdiction, even where you live.
Bob sends Alice a cryptographic message encoded in DNA. Alice is unable to decrypt the message using standard techniques.
However certain techniques of combining the message with a similarly formatted DNA compliment of her own can often enable Alice to successfully identify Bob.
When this happened (a year ago) Comcast still co-owned NBC with G&E. [shrugs]
As long as I haven't cancelled this account I'll have your evidence right here in my living room and bedroom.
Unfortunately you're still not invited, jackass.
We canceled Comcast, but with a big change of furniture and new equipment several weeks later, we decided to pick up Comcast again because my wife wanted to see something on MSNBC.
Too bad- it all came back a month later with an identical look as before, except for one copious absence: MSNBC. The digital box UI displayed a list that jumped from 59 (FOX) to 61 (weather channel).
The MSNBC signal was still on the wire, since the no-frills auxiliary box that they attached to the bedroom TV could still get FOX, MSNBC, and TWC with perfect reception when entering all of "59", "60", and "61" in manually. The main digital cable box accepts 59 as FOX and 61 as TWC, but rejects "60" as nonsense. It steadfastly pretends the MSNBC signal is not there and jumps back and forth between 59 and 61.
We called the Comcast phone farm to see WTF and they said that Comcast had simply decided to stop offering certain "politically biased" channels in its package lineups they offer. According to them, anyone ordering cable and getting new service from Comcast (in the middle of Silicon Valley, at least) wasn't going to see MSNBC anymore. They also aid that at some point in the future Comcast will eliminate the MSNBC signal entirely.
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes.
Let them play games then.
Just go to an environmentally sensitive area in a suit and good hair, point to the ground, and say to the TV cameras, "We need that calcium hydroxide."
Balloons should detonate up there and spray calcium hydroxide particles everywhere. My idea my patent.
With a viewpoint looking down the fiber, these would be the rays that precess around like flowers and that generally avoid the center axis. Previous analytical techniques were unable to solve for photon wave functions with photons bearing certain nonzero quantum numbers that are not well understood for photons in fibers. We weren't good with photons that bear angular momentum with respect to the fiber and that generally avoid the center axis. Unless we assume certain symmetries with respect to clockwise or counterclockwise motion not happening, we don't know how to solve the Schrodinger equations, like with electrons in helium, and so we have no motive to shine that kind of light down fibers, although we certainly might want to extract the bandwidth. These people figured out something to do with the model needing to take the non-orbital spin angular momentum into account also.
Oh come on. What would our cross section be if we had to compete with everything under the floor? You don't know where we live.
And we were paying attention to the momentum vectors we were seeing. They were coming in with a general direction that went around like a clock- we both noticed that. We were paying attention to make sure it wasn't a terrestrial source because there's a wireless network in this neighborhood broadcasting an SSID of "breeder_reactor_bitch" but the neutrinos were coming in through the walls a little while later and in fact they knocked some of our books off the shelves when they did that. So I called my mother right away and told her I was OK and the neutrinos hadn't harmed us.
I think a lot of people are disregarding this supernova. True the Type II explosions tend to produce experts in supernovae. But it should be remembered that Type I explosions still scare people. My wife and I were on the couch last night and suddenly we were both like, "Did you feel that? It felt like a burst of neutrinos coming out of the ceiling!" Which surprised me because I just had the roofers here last week laying down Spanish tile to keep fermions out.
Human hip bones are often shoddy pieces of work; replacements could be created / evolved that break less easily by lacking that weird narrow neck in the femur at the ball joint at the hip bone for example. The bones that people complain about getting broken- knees, hips, coccyx, jawbone, etc. tend to be the ones that are a little screwed up by design. And of course testicles appear to be the product of a total disaster. There is an enzyme in them somewhere that denatures at body temperature, so instead of coming up with a better enzyme or a process that doesn't use it, we need to hold the organs in big bags of skin that hang outside the body, and that protect themselves by producing copious amounts of dull pain to put us in agony when messed with. This was the solution that evolution came up with. It could definitely have come up with a better one.
whoosh
We've flattered ourselves for millenia. But why can't evolution produce more effective structures in the human anatomy that can't be so easily bested by an engineered design this simple? Imagine what life would be like for human beings if we were born with organs, musculature, etc. with that level of effectiveness. You could kick someone in the nuts with one of those and it would really hurt.
Sure, I'll help you out with this.
When you can print money they give you a different kind of checkbook and you still have to balance it but the account has some nice features and it's not like the bank accounts you're used to but you should keep using your other accounts for buying porn because with this one they occasionally make you buy groceries with ten trillion dollar platinum coins.