Paying to have thousands upon thousands of miles of road remarked with new signs would be prohibitively expensive.
When the Olympics were being held in Atlanta, the whole Southeast was peppered with kilometer markers and metric distance signs, which seem to have disappeared now. If we could afford to do it just for the Olympics and then throw away the fruits of that effort, it seems like we could afford to do it for real.
I remember on one midterm being asked to convert a measurement in miles per gallon into "furlongs per fortnight" which is pretty easy if you know that a god damn furlong is 220 yards, and a fortnight is 2 weeks.
You'd still need a conversion for gallons to weeks, unless you meant to say "miles per hour into furlongs per fortnight".
Argh... reading that brought back a lot of bad memories. I/O address and IRQ conflicts, memory managers, etc., are things I'd rather not have ever thought about again, thank you very much.
I don't think there was any need to take their computers, the cable modems themselves would be the evidence.
No they wouldn't, because the cable modem will lose its configuration once it's unplugged. You'd have to have the computer from which it was being tricked into downloading its altered configuration file. At least, that's the way it works with the cable modems I'm familiar with.
Not according to George Bush senior, who, while campagining for the Presidency in 1987, said "No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."
Go back to where ever you came from. This is a Christian country.
Suppose this person was a Native American who didn't want to acknowledge the white man's god. How would he go back where he came from?
Seperation of church and state does not exist in the Constitution. Rather it states to guarentee the freedom of religion. Try reading it!
Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."
To my mind, making "under God" a required part of the Pledge would be prohibiting free exercise of religion, but so would omitting it. So, make it optional. Case closed, can everyone be happy now?
Do you want to live where there is NO freedom of speech, just to be sure no one is upset?
There is no freedom of speech, if a child is being forced to recite a pledge that they don't believe in. Of course, the pledge is supposed to be optional, and that is what the Court should have been concerned with, not whether the "under God" part is unConstitutional.
The fact is this nation is a nation under God. With 96% of the nation falling into that category, it is ludicrous to think otherwise.
One of the purposes of government is to protect the rights of the minority from abuse by the majority. That is why the US was set up as a Republic rather than a Democracy. Let the 96% say "under God" if they feel the need, but let the 4% have the right not to say it, and a guarantee that the 96% won't be allowed to persecute them for it.
There are FAR MORE THINGS TO BE WORRIED AND UPSET ABOUT then this.
There, I have to agree with you. We have a similar debate in the southeastern US over Confederate flags. Look, it's just a harmless decoration (just two measly words in a pledge). What's the big deal? Take the energy you spend complaining about it and put it to some use helping people with real problems and the world will be a much better place.
...is too much of a mouthful. If you want to lump all three together, just say "Abrahamic faiths" since both Jews and Muslims claim descent from Abraham and Christians claim the spiritual inheritance of the Jewish faith.
So, you only need to catch it on ET if you absolutely must see it @7:30 rather than @8:00 or if you are one of those unlucky few without a UPN station.
Or, if you don't want to watch the rerun of Enterprise. Unless it's one of the 2 or 3 I missed, I'm skipping it. Please, let the new season start soon!
While in Nexus, Picard can travel to ANY point in time? Does he go back to back in orbit, knowing where to use torpedos/phasers to destroy the launch site? Does he go back to just when the star explodes, so they can head STRAIGHT to the destination planet, beating the other ship? Or, even more intelligently, does he go back to when they first arrive at the station, so they can toss the bad guy in the brig, search the station, find the torpedo set to destroy the star, and prevent the whole thing?
Perhaps he was afraid going back too far would cause problems in the timeline. Also, I'm wondering if there'd be an issue with two Picards and Kirk suddenly being aboard Enterprise. Although, I suppose the Picard returning from the Nexus must replace the already-existing Picard, since Kirk and he didn't run into himself on the planet's surface.
I thought the entire concept was cheesy, though, so what am I doing trying to defend it?
Oh, and BTW, First Contact's huge plot hole? The Borg could simply have sent the probe back in time at some other place in the galaxy, not having alerted the federation to their plans...
I got the impression the Borg were just planning a full-scale assault on Earth, and the time-travel idea was hatched after they realized they were going to get blown up. Remember, Picard was supposed to be watching the neutral zone. Had he not defied Starfleet orders, the Borg cube would probably have wiped out the fleet in short order, and then begun the process of assimilating Earth.
As for Australia and New Zealand, their aboriginal peoples never accomplished anything more noteworthy than figuring out how to build tools out of sticks, so they don't count. Their current European inhabitants haven't acomplished much, either...
The most advanced American technlogy must therefore be the bow and arrow, since everything else has been done by the "current European inhabitants".
Actually, with slightly less gravity and much less air resistance to deal with, possibly considerably more.
I've always wondered why balloons aren't used as first stages of launch vehicles, considering how much fuel a typical rocket uses just getting to the altitude to which a balloon could float. You'd also avoid a lot of weather-related launch delays. I suppose the biggest problem would be that the drifting balloon makes getting to a precise place in orbit mode difficult?
I have a machine with a SB16 also. It's in a video game cabinet. I chose it because the speaker outputs are powered, so it can run the speakers in the cabinet without an external amp. A quite handy feature if you need it, and one almost no "modern" sound cards have.
Above/Below speakers in addition to front, back, left, right.
Then stuff like quake, rtcw, half-life, etc would be a bit more submersive. It would be nice to know if an enemy is above or below you by sound.
This can theoretically be done without extra speakers. Think about it: you only have two ears, left and right. When you hear sounds from above and below, your brain knows where they are because of the way different frequencies are filtered by the weird shape of your earlobe.
The trick is in figuring out how to filter the frequencies, and probably also in the fact that everyone's ears are a bit different so what works for some won't work for everyone. Also, it's questionable how well your brain is going to believe sound cues from above/below when your entire conscious mind is focused on a screen in front of your face. I've noticed that surround sound doesn't really work for me in a game - I want to physically turn around and look behind me rather than turning in the game to shoot the guy behind me.
Rather, it's the second-tier opportunist that takes the work and creativity of the innovator and reinvigorates it by repositioning it within the market or refining it in some way.
Like Thomas Crapper, whose name is now synonymous with toilet?
Wouldn't you rather that Congress spend its time re-writing Italian history from 2 centuries ago instead of designing ways to waste our money and limit our freedoms?
Seems like a relatively harmless undertaking.
Actually, if Congress has nothing better to do, they should take the day off, dock their pay, and return it to their employers - the taxpayers.
If it isn't human, then what is it? It doesn't start out as another species and then become Homo sapiens in the womb, y'know.
I'm not a pro-life nut, but I can't understand how someone could think of a fetus as "not alive" or "not human", because there's just not much else you can classify it as.
Aldebaran's great, okay, Algol's pretty neat, Betelgeuse's pretty girls Will knock you off your feet. They'll do anything you like Real fast and then real slow, But if you have to take me apart to get me there Then I don't want to go.
[Chorus]
Take me apart, take me apart, What a way to roam And if you have to take me apart to get me there I'd rather stay at home.
well, if there's no judging of the artistic side of the equation, then there's really no point in judging at all.
I agree. But, unfortunately, technique is pretty important in things like this. Anyway, the judges who are physically present could judge artistry, and the remote judge could be limited to a technical judgement. I don't know if that's how they're doing it, but that's how I think it should be done.
Yeah, I know this. I just didn't state my meaning clearly enough in my post. The problem with the heat generated by light bulbs isn't that they aren't efficient producing heat, it's that the heat they produce usually isn't where it needs to be. Lights are typically at or above the positions of people in the rooms, and the hot air rises, so they don't do as good a job of warming the air around the occupants as a well-designed heating system.
...I can tell you that the action is unnoticably different from a normal piano.
Don't you mean "is not noticably different"? The way you said it implies that there is a difference which is not noticable (in which case, you can't know there is a difference). The way I said it, implies that if there is a difference, you haven't noticed it.
Ok, that's my pedantry for the day. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
...you *won't* get the same performance since you won't hear the nuances the pianist is getting from the piano they're physically sitting at.
I guess it depends on what the judge is judging though. If he's only supposed to be judging technique, this system probably works fine. If he's making an 'artistic' judgement, I'm not so sure.
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Paying to have thousands upon thousands of miles of road remarked with new signs would be prohibitively expensive.
When the Olympics were being held in Atlanta, the whole Southeast was peppered with kilometer markers and metric distance signs, which seem to have disappeared now. If we could afford to do it just for the Olympics and then throw away the fruits of that effort, it seems like we could afford to do it for real.
I remember on one midterm being asked to convert a measurement in miles per gallon into "furlongs per fortnight" which is pretty easy if you know that a god damn furlong is 220 yards, and a fortnight is 2 weeks.
You'd still need a conversion for gallons to weeks, unless you meant to say "miles per hour into furlongs per fortnight".
Argh... reading that brought back a lot of bad memories. I/O address and IRQ conflicts, memory managers, etc., are things I'd rather not have ever thought about again, thank you very much.
I don't think there was any need to take their computers, the cable modems themselves would be the evidence.
No they wouldn't, because the cable modem will lose its configuration once it's unplugged. You'd have to have the computer from which it was being tricked into downloading its altered configuration file. At least, that's the way it works with the cable modems I'm familiar with.
Not according to George Bush senior, who, while campagining for the Presidency in 1987, said "No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."
Go back to where ever you came from. This is a Christian country.
Suppose this person was a Native American who didn't want to acknowledge the white man's god. How would he go back where he came from?
Seperation of church and state does not exist in the Constitution. Rather it states to guarentee the freedom of religion. Try reading it!
Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."
To my mind, making "under God" a required part of the Pledge would be prohibiting free exercise of religion, but so would omitting it. So, make it optional. Case closed, can everyone be happy now?
Do you want to live where there is NO freedom of speech, just to be sure no one is upset?
There is no freedom of speech, if a child is being forced to recite a pledge that they don't believe in. Of course, the pledge is supposed to be optional, and that is what the Court should have been concerned with, not whether the "under God" part is unConstitutional.
The fact is this nation is a nation under God. With 96% of the nation falling into that category, it is ludicrous to think otherwise.
One of the purposes of government is to protect the rights of the minority from abuse by the majority. That is why the US was set up as a Republic rather than a Democracy. Let the 96% say "under God" if they feel the need, but let the 4% have the right not to say it, and a guarantee that the 96% won't be allowed to persecute them for it.
There are FAR MORE THINGS TO BE WORRIED AND UPSET ABOUT then this.
There, I have to agree with you. We have a similar debate in the southeastern US over Confederate flags. Look, it's just a harmless decoration (just two measly words in a pledge). What's the big deal? Take the energy you spend complaining about it and put it to some use helping people with real problems and the world will be a much better place.
...is too much of a mouthful. If you want to lump all three together, just say "Abrahamic faiths" since both Jews and Muslims claim descent from Abraham and Christians claim the spiritual inheritance of the Jewish faith.
So, you only need to catch it on ET if you absolutely must see it @7:30 rather than @8:00 or if you are one of those unlucky few without a UPN station.
Or, if you don't want to watch the rerun of Enterprise. Unless it's one of the 2 or 3 I missed, I'm skipping it. Please, let the new season start soon!
While in Nexus, Picard can travel to ANY point in time? Does he go back to back in orbit, knowing where to use torpedos/phasers to destroy the launch site? Does he go back to just when the star explodes, so they can head STRAIGHT to the destination planet, beating the other ship? Or, even more intelligently, does he go back to when they first arrive at the station, so they can toss the bad guy in the brig, search the station, find the torpedo set to destroy the star, and prevent the whole thing?
Perhaps he was afraid going back too far would cause problems in the timeline. Also, I'm wondering if there'd be an issue with two Picards and Kirk suddenly being aboard Enterprise. Although, I suppose the Picard returning from the Nexus must replace the already-existing Picard, since Kirk and he didn't run into himself on the planet's surface.
I thought the entire concept was cheesy, though, so what am I doing trying to defend it?
Oh, and BTW, First Contact's huge plot hole? The Borg could simply have sent the probe back in time at some other place in the galaxy, not having alerted the federation to their plans...
I got the impression the Borg were just planning a full-scale assault on Earth, and the time-travel idea was hatched after they realized they were going to get blown up. Remember, Picard was supposed to be watching the neutral zone. Had he not defied Starfleet orders, the Borg cube would probably have wiped out the fleet in short order, and then begun the process of assimilating Earth.
As for Australia and New Zealand, their aboriginal peoples never accomplished anything more noteworthy than figuring out how to build tools out of sticks, so they don't count. Their current European inhabitants haven't acomplished much, either...
The most advanced American technlogy must therefore be the bow and arrow, since everything else has been done by the "current European inhabitants".
I'm not suggesting the people in the article are terrorists, but neither was the husband and wife team that invented the airplane.
Who was the wife, Wilbur or Orville?
Actually, with slightly less gravity and much less air resistance to deal with, possibly considerably more.
I've always wondered why balloons aren't used as first stages of launch vehicles, considering how much fuel a typical rocket uses just getting to the altitude to which a balloon could float. You'd also avoid a lot of weather-related launch delays. I suppose the biggest problem would be that the drifting balloon makes getting to a precise place in orbit mode difficult?
I have a machine with a SB16 also. It's in a video game cabinet. I chose it because the speaker outputs are powered, so it can run the speakers in the cabinet without an external amp. A quite handy feature if you need it, and one almost no "modern" sound cards have.
Above/Below speakers in addition to front, back, left, right.
Then stuff like quake, rtcw, half-life, etc would be a bit more submersive. It would be nice to know if an enemy is above or below you by sound.
This can theoretically be done without extra speakers. Think about it: you only have two ears, left and right. When you hear sounds from above and below, your brain knows where they are because of the way different frequencies are filtered by the weird shape of your earlobe.
The trick is in figuring out how to filter the frequencies, and probably also in the fact that everyone's ears are a bit different so what works for some won't work for everyone. Also, it's questionable how well your brain is going to believe sound cues from above/below when your entire conscious mind is focused on a screen in front of your face. I've noticed that surround sound doesn't really work for me in a game - I want to physically turn around and look behind me rather than turning in the game to shoot the guy behind me.
Rather, it's the second-tier opportunist that takes the work and creativity of the innovator and reinvigorates it by repositioning it within the market or refining it in some way.
Like Thomas Crapper, whose name is now synonymous with toilet?
Wouldn't you rather that Congress spend its time re-writing Italian history from 2 centuries ago instead of designing ways to waste our money and limit our freedoms?
Seems like a relatively harmless undertaking.
Actually, if Congress has nothing better to do, they should take the day off, dock their pay, and return it to their employers - the taxpayers.
It isn't human - yet. But it's alive.
If it isn't human, then what is it? It doesn't start out as another species and then become Homo sapiens in the womb, y'know.
I'm not a pro-life nut, but I can't understand how someone could think of a fetus as "not alive" or "not human", because there's just not much else you can classify it as.
Or, you could just take some stem cells from your fat (fat's full of stem cells) and grow the requisite organ(s)
Ah HAH! I knew all those cheeseburgers would come in handy someday.
Yup the original particle must be destroyed.
Obligatory Douglas Adams reference:
Aldebaran's great, okay,
Algol's pretty neat,
Betelgeuse's pretty girls
Will knock you off your feet.
They'll do anything you like
Real fast and then real slow,
But if you have to take me apart to get me there
Then I don't want to go.
[Chorus]
Take me apart, take me apart,
What a way to roam
And if you have to take me apart to get me there
I'd rather stay at home.
well, if there's no judging of the artistic side of the equation, then there's really no point in judging at all.
I agree. But, unfortunately, technique is pretty important in things like this. Anyway, the judges who are physically present could judge artistry, and the remote judge could be limited to a technical judgement. I don't know if that's how they're doing it, but that's how I think it should be done.
Or did you think it was absolutely, positively necessary to see your doctor about Prilosec?
Erm, it's a prescription drug, so it is absolutely necessary to see your doctor if you want to acquire it legally.
Yeah, I know this. I just didn't state my meaning clearly enough in my post. The problem with the heat generated by light bulbs isn't that they aren't efficient producing heat, it's that the heat they produce usually isn't where it needs to be. Lights are typically at or above the positions of people in the rooms, and the hot air rises, so they don't do as good a job of warming the air around the occupants as a well-designed heating system.
...I can tell you that the action is unnoticably different from a normal piano.
Don't you mean "is not noticably different"? The way you said it implies that there is a difference which is not noticable (in which case, you can't know there is a difference). The way I said it, implies that if there is a difference, you haven't noticed it.
Ok, that's my pedantry for the day. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
...you *won't* get the same performance since you won't hear the nuances the pianist is getting from the piano they're physically sitting at.
I guess it depends on what the judge is judging though. If he's only supposed to be judging technique, this system probably works fine. If he's making an 'artistic' judgement, I'm not so sure.