Here's a 12-step plan to flash-freeze strawberries:
1) Obtain strawberries 2) Obtain a Styrofoam cooler 3) Obtain a small amount of dry ice 4) Put dry ice in cooler 5) Drive to liquid nitrogen supplier with cooler, dry ice, and strawberries 6) Arrange for the purchase of several liters of LN2 7) Place strawberries in cooler 8) Have LN2 supplier pour LN2 over strawberries. 9) Wait until they're hard as rocks 10) Pour out remaining LN2 or allow it to boil off 11) Close cooler 12) return home with flash-frozen strawberries on dry ice.
Exactly. According to my people's cultural Canon: The Fremen rule was that one's water belongs to the tribe. Thus when a Fremen died or was killed in combat, rather than being buried or cremated, he or she was rendered down into water.
"The good life" and having one's own culture are not mutually exclusive. I don't want countries to become like the US for our benefit or because it's the easiest thing to do, I want them to find their own road.
The "good life" can be provided by local companies; to think that only US companies can provide it is hubris. The British, for example, have their own home-grown restaurants, mobile phone providers, internet providers, TV stations, etc, and are in many ways superior to their US counterparts. They also have their own grocery stores, clothing stores, etc. Why adopt American tastes and preferences when the companies you have are paying local taxes and work just fine?
Many countries resent the Americanization of their culture and values, and I don't blame them. Much like we Americans decry the Walmart-ization of commerce, so should countries decry the loss of their individualism.
Stop into a local grocery store, buy recognizable food. Go into any restaurant and order rice, bread, or other bland, normal, fully-cooked options until your innards are back in sync. No need to blight the countryside with restaurants that serve food just as likely to make you ill.
I have the opposite opinion than that of what appears to be the majority of my countrymen - please DON'T adopt our culture; make your own!
I've seen the Bahamas and now the Cayman Islands Americanize themselves - stop it! Not only are you shortchanging your heritage and customs, you're making your tourist destinations bland and boring. No one except culturally vapid, Jerry Springer-ized Americans want to spend $$$ traveling to a supposedly exotic destination only to find Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts on every corner, just like at home. I want to experience your world view, your culture, not a poor reflection of my own.
A friend of mine accompanied some of those culturally walled-off types on a trip to Scotland a few years ago. She was assured that they'd 'see and do everything'. She ended up being forced by her friends to stay in US chain hotels instead of B&Bs and eat in US chain restaurants instead of local pubs. No local culture, no interaction with non-service industry locals working for US companies, no difference from their normal lives. How boring!
...emitting useless cues about folks they dislike.
The cues they 'emit' do not have to be intentional - a reaction to seeing a particularly ugly piece of luggage or one that screams "conspicuous consumption" might set the dog off. You allude to that in the next sentence with the word 'subconscious'.
Many electronic components (not devices necessarily, components, like CPU chips, etc) require rather rigid voltage levels to keep them from letting out the magic smoke. Rating these as being able to supply 5V/7W is entirely consistent, although usually it would be 7W @ 5V.
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Constitutional issues aside, you know you can opt for a pat-down instead of the machine, right? I do it every time I fly.
That's acetone peroxide. You've been watching too much NCIS.
As commented elsewhere, dicom is an open format. I used Osirix on my Mac to view the MRI of my wife's spine.
Or defusing a land mine, or any number of other human-life-saving tasks.
How about the "Beverage Base Powder"? That's 90+% sugar (Kool-aid (tm) by any other name, I'd bet).
Here's a 12-step plan to flash-freeze strawberries:
1) Obtain strawberries
2) Obtain a Styrofoam cooler
3) Obtain a small amount of dry ice
4) Put dry ice in cooler
5) Drive to liquid nitrogen supplier with cooler, dry ice, and strawberries
6) Arrange for the purchase of several liters of LN2
7) Place strawberries in cooler
8) Have LN2 supplier pour LN2 over strawberries.
9) Wait until they're hard as rocks
10) Pour out remaining LN2 or allow it to boil off
11) Close cooler
12) return home with flash-frozen strawberries on dry ice.
Exactly. According to my people's cultural Canon:
The Fremen rule was that one's water belongs to the tribe. Thus when a Fremen died or was killed in combat, rather than being buried or cremated, he or she was rendered down into water.
Muad'Dave says, "Let one of my Fremen extract their water, and you'll get 50+ liters."
Have you ever been to the Sun? How do you know it's not powered by unicorn farts, huh? Huh?
The spectrum is all wrong for unicorn farts.
It was also a starship in "Forbidden Planet" and DS9.
You mean like this?
There is no DEADBEEF in the first 4 billion digits of pi. but there is a DEADBABE.
Every spice grain is sacred.....
My life story.
Excuse me? I control the spice. See my username.
"The good life" and having one's own culture are not mutually exclusive. I don't want countries to become like the US for our benefit or because it's the easiest thing to do, I want them to find their own road.
The "good life" can be provided by local companies; to think that only US companies can provide it is hubris. The British, for example, have their own home-grown restaurants, mobile phone providers, internet providers, TV stations, etc, and are in many ways superior to their US counterparts. They also have their own grocery stores, clothing stores, etc. Why adopt American tastes and preferences when the companies you have are paying local taxes and work just fine?
Many countries resent the Americanization of their culture and values, and I don't blame them. Much like we Americans decry the Walmart-ization of commerce, so should countries decry the loss of their individualism.
Stop into a local grocery store, buy recognizable food. Go into any restaurant and order rice, bread, or other bland, normal, fully-cooked options until your innards are back in sync. No need to blight the countryside with restaurants that serve food just as likely to make you ill.
go away unwanted American culture
I have the opposite opinion than that of what appears to be the majority of my countrymen - please DON'T adopt our culture; make your own!
I've seen the Bahamas and now the Cayman Islands Americanize themselves - stop it! Not only are you shortchanging your heritage and customs, you're making your tourist destinations bland and boring. No one except culturally vapid, Jerry Springer-ized Americans want to spend $$$ traveling to a supposedly exotic destination only to find Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts on every corner, just like at home. I want to experience your world view, your culture, not a poor reflection of my own.
A friend of mine accompanied some of those culturally walled-off types on a trip to Scotland a few years ago. She was assured that they'd 'see and do everything'. She ended up being forced by her friends to stay in US chain hotels instead of B&Bs and eat in US chain restaurants instead of local pubs. No local culture, no interaction with non-service industry locals working for US companies, no difference from their normal lives. How boring!
Come visit Capital Ale House in Richmond Va.
And the best part. I actually KNOW their language.
You speak the binary language of moisture vaporators?
...emitting useless cues about folks they dislike.
The cues they 'emit' do not have to be intentional - a reaction to seeing a particularly ugly piece of luggage or one that screams "conspicuous consumption" might set the dog off. You allude to that in the next sentence with the word 'subconscious'.
Many electronic components (not devices necessarily, components, like CPU chips, etc) require rather rigid voltage levels to keep them from letting out the magic smoke. Rating these as being able to supply 5V/7W is entirely consistent, although usually it would be 7W @ 5V.
And I think "redrick" is supposed to be "rhetoric", although it may be a "The Shining"-esque reference to "kcirder".
...the aerial expanse and depth...
Shouldn't that be 'areal'? Unless he's talking about antennae, of course.
Last time I checked they weren't making anymore dead dinosaurs.
I eat freshly-killed dead dinosaurs at least 3 times a week. I call them "chicken", however.
...batteries are expensive and heaving...
I got a mental picture of a well-dressed battery puking its guts out over the rail of a luxury cruise liner.