Being from Maine, I used to do a lot of fishing with my Dad, and we always used to catch good fish many years ago. Lately we catch nothing, or small yellow perch if we’re lucky.
You BAR-STEWARD! You caught all the fish- and now there are none left!;)
Apparantly there are enough copepods (small crustaceans) in New York drinking water that some Rabbis say that New York's drinking water is not Kosher.
It's not just New York either- there are little wee beasties in the drinking water that all of us drink. Usually not harmfull ones- but they're there nonetheless- happily swimming around until someone decided to have a glass.
Ammonia isn't as bad as somethings. It is part of the natural nitrogen cycle. Bacteria will break down the ammonia- plants will use the ammonia as food.
Aquarists sometimes use ammonia to kick-start the nitrogen cycle in fish tanks before adding any animals.
It is quite toxic to animal life though if in high enough concentrations- if draining into a lake this would have to be a HUGE quantity of ammonia. So it could potentially kill off animal life, you'd need an awfull lot of it- but in a few months of the leak being found it will be gone from the system.
Even though you are joking- I wonder if anyone ever has considered that approach.
Not Bubblegum- but if there is a way to trap and stick to micro-pieces in space traveling at such high velocities without being ripped to shreds? Is a trash mopping satellite with a super-bubblegum-like property infeasible? Obviously- that would be for the micro-trash.
Even though if the bus is traveling at 65mph relative to the street
I was in full agreement until this comment. Everyone knows buses never go over 35mph... 35mph tops- and then only in the fast lane whilst overtaking a bus going 34.5mph.
The only way a bus would travel 65mph is if you pushed it off a cliff.
Yeah, if our marksmen had the same accuracy- a sniper with a powerfull enough rifle could have taken out Saddam Hussein with a single shot whilst standing on top of Mt. Rushmore. Completely avoiding the 2nd Gulf war.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been too soft on Science and Technology instead preferring to spend money elsewhere.
Technology is not a priority for either party. Republicans prefer military spending- democrats prefer social spending. There isn't really anyone who is speaking out for technology.
In other news China's technological espionage department has just petitioned Beijing to allow them another 1% more funding to help steal the extra technology discovered from America's 1% tech research spending increase.
Probably sitting in front of my fish tank swatting at the glass.
I worship my cat- she is my goddess and empress of the universe. I admit, the question wasn't aimed at me, and not everyone agrees with my deity of choice.
Nah- Pluto is getting slashed too. A few years ago a planet, now a dwarf planet- soon it will be an asteroid and later it will be reclassified as inter-stellar debris.
Getting to pass close to an object as small as Pluto, (reclassified as I like to say as a "vertically challenged" planet) from 3 billion miles away is impressive. Especially since this is no sitting duck.
This is an object whose velocity is measured in KM per second moving in a very eccentric orbit.
We often take for granted NASA does this and NASA does that- because they have been doing it for decades- but it never ceases to amaze me how we can so accurately target (relatively) small objects that are travelling at such incredible speeds from such mind boggling distances.
Ahhh... so the iPad is company bought. Well that makes it more worthwhile. I would let my company buy me an iPad every year too with no complains.
There was no trolling intent from me- just a general bewilderment on why anyone would spend so much more on a device that offers less functionality- I admit they are pretty cool and neat toys. Incidentally- I suspect rather than being a seperate group- the "buys expensive gourmet coffee" group on a venn diagram would heavily overlap with the "owns an iPad group".
Both iPads and Gourment coffee consumption serve the same requirement of fulfilling social-bling.
I don't. It irks me how Microsoft feel the need to shuffle icons and commands around and rename control panel items- just to make it look different.
Pick a name and stick with it! Pick an icon and stick with it. If I don't like the icon I'll make one myself and replace it. I want to scream at Redmond for changing things just for the sake of making it different.
Wow! I wouldn't even pay $500 a year for a desktop- let alone some neutered "carry around" device.
$500 would get me a machine I would keep for 5 years + and do way more than an iPad can. I can't fathom spending $500 on a device I'll throw away after a year. Presumably if you get a data plan for it- that's another $200 or so a year.
So $700 a year just on a tech-status symbol that does less than a desktop.
I think the time to dislike MS was a decade ago in that case. Microsoft was far worse a decade ago- they seem to have calmed down a lot recently.
Incidentally, regarding silly patents. Microsoft holds the patent to a specific breed of apple tree.
One would have though Apple were the most likely tech company to hold patents on apple tree variants. What possible use does Microsoft have holding an apple tree patent?
I've been waiting a while for data plans to no longer cost extra (or at least minimal extra) before buying a smart phone.
Yes, I'm going to be a late adopter- but at one point I was fairly neutral in the whole Apple/Android debate. I wasn't keen on Apple's "everything goes through us" approach- but I was aware that Apple was, at least nominally, more sound. I had planned to research heavily prior to buying- but until then, take a hands-off approach.
I must say, whilst taking a back seat view with my pop-corn, I've been put off by apple. I was once a potential customer but their legal shenanigans have made it very unlikely (not impossible but unlikely) I would consider them when I finally do take the plunge and get a smartphone. In fact- despite previously being apple-neutral, this has put me off buying ANY of their products in the future. I don't want my hard-earned money going towards some lawsuit to squish innovation.
I wonder if I am an "odd one out" or if I represent a larger portion of society. At what point do their legal games drive away more customers than they gain by throwing out competitors from the ring? The consumer doesn't win; Samsung doesn't win; I'm not sure Apple wins- at the end of the day there are a lot of happy lawyers but everyone else misses out.
To be fair, just like the Foxconn scandals- Apple is not the only one to blame so I (and the public) are probably a little unfair- but Apple are the most prominent. Everyone sues everyone it seems- but Apple seems to be going "above and beyond". Is it because they are just more letigious- or because they have more resources to pay countless lawyers?
Either way- each lawsuit makes it less likely I will buy from them- and probably puts more people in the anti-apple camp. Even if they are the best- if they turn everyone towards the "anti-apple" castra; they will eventually marginalise themselves.
LOL... OK- I stand corrected then. It wasn't Washington.
Decided to read your link!;)
From the same article it claims that many Americans officials signed it before it ever made it across to the US- that Adams (who has many anti-Christian comments attributed to his name BTW- I did a google- he seemed quite bitter towards Christians actually) quoted:
Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof.
Also- the Senate signed it unanimously and there were no protests. So it sounds like no-one at the time had any problem with it.
I'm disappointed it wasn't Washington to be honest- because he was more private about his religion- Adam was quite vocal in his views about Christianity.
In "real life" students will have access to all those things. Perhaps it isn't cheating but rather utilizing tools that they would have access to in "real life".
Assume they'll use every tool at their disposal- and write the tests in such a way that they can't copy the question into a search bar and google the answer.
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Is this a Bill Clinton program?
Close, but no cigar.
Being from Maine, I used to do a lot of fishing with my Dad, and we always used to catch good fish many years ago. Lately we catch nothing, or small yellow perch if we’re lucky.
You BAR-STEWARD! You caught all the fish- and now there are none left! ;)
If not- by your gut!
Apparantly there are enough copepods (small crustaceans) in New York drinking water that some Rabbis say that New York's drinking water is not Kosher.
It's not just New York either- there are little wee beasties in the drinking water that all of us drink. Usually not harmfull ones- but they're there nonetheless- happily swimming around until someone decided to have a glass.
Ammonia isn't as bad as somethings. It is part of the natural nitrogen cycle. Bacteria will break down the ammonia- plants will use the ammonia as food.
Aquarists sometimes use ammonia to kick-start the nitrogen cycle in fish tanks before adding any animals.
It is quite toxic to animal life though if in high enough concentrations- if draining into a lake this would have to be a HUGE quantity of ammonia. So it could potentially kill off animal life, you'd need an awfull lot of it- but in a few months of the leak being found it will be gone from the system.
Even though you are joking- I wonder if anyone ever has considered that approach.
Not Bubblegum- but if there is a way to trap and stick to micro-pieces in space traveling at such high velocities without being ripped to shreds? Is a trash mopping satellite with a super-bubblegum-like property infeasible? Obviously- that would be for the micro-trash.
Even though if the bus is traveling at 65mph relative to the street
I was in full agreement until this comment. Everyone knows buses never go over 35mph... 35mph tops- and then only in the fast lane whilst overtaking a bus going 34.5mph.
The only way a bus would travel 65mph is if you pushed it off a cliff.
I should point out that in my analogy above- the sniper is standing on top of Mt. Rushmore- not Sadam Hussein.
Saddam would presumably have been dedicating a statue of himself in Baghdad.
Yeah, if our marksmen had the same accuracy- a sniper with a powerfull enough rifle could have taken out Saddam Hussein with a single shot whilst standing on top of Mt. Rushmore. Completely avoiding the 2nd Gulf war.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been too soft on Science and Technology instead preferring to spend money elsewhere.
Technology is not a priority for either party. Republicans prefer military spending- democrats prefer social spending. There isn't really anyone who is speaking out for technology.
In other news China's technological espionage department has just petitioned Beijing to allow them another 1% more funding to help steal the extra technology discovered from America's 1% tech research spending increase.
Probably sitting in front of my fish tank swatting at the glass.
I worship my cat- she is my goddess and empress of the universe. I admit, the question wasn't aimed at me, and not everyone agrees with my deity of choice.
I don't know why- but that comment has got the song "UFOs, Big Rigs, And BBQ" stuck in my head.
UFOs are big rigs
They come from outer-space
stopping off at the truck stop earth
looking for some food to eat
Nah- Pluto is getting slashed too. A few years ago a planet, now a dwarf planet- soon it will be an asteroid and later it will be reclassified as inter-stellar debris.
Getting to pass close to an object as small as Pluto, (reclassified as I like to say as a "vertically challenged" planet) from 3 billion miles away is impressive. Especially since this is no sitting duck.
This is an object whose velocity is measured in KM per second moving in a very eccentric orbit.
We often take for granted NASA does this and NASA does that- because they have been doing it for decades- but it never ceases to amaze me how we can so accurately target (relatively) small objects that are travelling at such incredible speeds from such mind boggling distances.
Ahhh... so the iPad is company bought. Well that makes it more worthwhile. I would let my company buy me an iPad every year too with no complains.
There was no trolling intent from me- just a general bewilderment on why anyone would spend so much more on a device that offers less functionality- I admit they are pretty cool and neat toys. Incidentally- I suspect rather than being a seperate group- the "buys expensive gourmet coffee" group on a venn diagram would heavily overlap with the "owns an iPad group".
Both iPads and Gourment coffee consumption serve the same requirement of fulfilling social-bling.
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I don't. It irks me how Microsoft feel the need to shuffle icons and commands around and rename control panel items- just to make it look different.
Pick a name and stick with it! Pick an icon and stick with it. If I don't like the icon I'll make one myself and replace it. I want to scream at Redmond for changing things just for the sake of making it different.
Wow! I wouldn't even pay $500 a year for a desktop- let alone some neutered "carry around" device.
$500 would get me a machine I would keep for 5 years + and do way more than an iPad can. I can't fathom spending $500 on a device I'll throw away after a year. Presumably if you get a data plan for it- that's another $200 or so a year.
So $700 a year just on a tech-status symbol that does less than a desktop.
Doesn't seem worth it to me.
I think the time to dislike MS was a decade ago in that case. Microsoft was far worse a decade ago- they seem to have calmed down a lot recently.
Incidentally, regarding silly patents. Microsoft holds the patent to a specific breed of apple tree.
One would have though Apple were the most likely tech company to hold patents on apple tree variants. What possible use does Microsoft have holding an apple tree patent?
I've been waiting a while for data plans to no longer cost extra (or at least minimal extra) before buying a smart phone.
Yes, I'm going to be a late adopter- but at one point I was fairly neutral in the whole Apple/Android debate. I wasn't keen on Apple's "everything goes through us" approach- but I was aware that Apple was, at least nominally, more sound. I had planned to research heavily prior to buying- but until then, take a hands-off approach.
I must say, whilst taking a back seat view with my pop-corn, I've been put off by apple. I was once a potential customer but their legal shenanigans have made it very unlikely (not impossible but unlikely) I would consider them when I finally do take the plunge and get a smartphone. In fact- despite previously being apple-neutral, this has put me off buying ANY of their products in the future. I don't want my hard-earned money going towards some lawsuit to squish innovation.
I wonder if I am an "odd one out" or if I represent a larger portion of society. At what point do their legal games drive away more customers than they gain by throwing out competitors from the ring? The consumer doesn't win; Samsung doesn't win; I'm not sure Apple wins- at the end of the day there are a lot of happy lawyers but everyone else misses out.
To be fair, just like the Foxconn scandals- Apple is not the only one to blame so I (and the public) are probably a little unfair- but Apple are the most prominent. Everyone sues everyone it seems- but Apple seems to be going "above and beyond". Is it because they are just more letigious- or because they have more resources to pay countless lawyers?
Either way- each lawsuit makes it less likely I will buy from them- and probably puts more people in the anti-apple camp. Even if they are the best- if they turn everyone towards the "anti-apple" castra; they will eventually marginalise themselves.
Can Apple sue Bell laboratories- the earliest phones were voice operated for searches.
"Operator, can you connect me to Oswaldina McWeaney in Memphis Tennessee please?"
- incidentally I wonder if any operator was named Siri?
LOL... OK- I stand corrected then. It wasn't Washington.
Decided to read your link! ;)
From the same article it claims that many Americans officials signed it before it ever made it across to the US- that Adams (who has many anti-Christian comments attributed to his name BTW- I did a google- he seemed quite bitter towards Christians actually) quoted:
Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof.
Also- the Senate signed it unanimously and there were no protests. So it sounds like no-one at the time had any problem with it.
I'm disappointed it wasn't Washington to be honest- because he was more private about his religion- Adam was quite vocal in his views about Christianity.
In "real life" students will have access to all those things. Perhaps it isn't cheating but rather utilizing tools that they would have access to in "real life".
Assume they'll use every tool at their disposal- and write the tests in such a way that they can't copy the question into a search bar and google the answer.
He is an alien.
I've noticed his name is an anagram of "SOME LUNK" Lunk is probably a type of space alien that have a vested interest in electric cars.
It's not just that- but- they're in the back- kids can't close them as easy that high up.
Granted it may only be a few seconds- but entrance/exit take longer.
Safety... if a car door comes open when driving- wind pushes it back closed. If Gull wings open up- everything in the car flies out.
Gull Wings just arn't as practical/safe/aesthetically pleasing/cheap.
It doesn't break the deal- all the problems are fairly minor or happen infrequently- but it just seems a stupid gimmic more than anything.