corporation, n. A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
Which is essentially what your dictionary says but with more words.
Our "little risk" cash flow scam having a net worth of negative 70 billion dollars is more than what I would call "risky." I think I'd call that "foolhardedly, undeniably ignorant and shortsighted" or maybe "fucking stupid" depending on my mood at the time.
Like any scam it was good for those that thought it up and the people close to them, but fie upon everyone else.
Since the people who hatched this devious scheme are probably dead by now, I believe you and I and the rest of us are "everyone else" and I believe the system's ultimate plan for us was and currently is to be fied upon.
These days, most people buy what's cheap, they try to get the deal, they shop at Walmarts and "Dollar Stores," not realizing the kind of damage they're doing to the world around them by making the dollar amount the only "cost consideration" made during the exchange of goods. We've allowed ourselves to get into the position we're in now, and the only way we're going to stop being in this position is if we, the people, do something about it.
Maybe giving up half of what you make is worth it, knowing that your future would be totally secure, from the day you retire *for certain* at 55. I just turned 23, and I have no idea where I'm going to be when I'm 55. But I would love to know that no matter where I am, I'll be happy and taken care of.
You can store energy, but you will lose a portion of it in the process.
You will lose some of it, not a lot. A lot would be a significant amount, or perhaps "more than half" depending on who you talk to. Pumping water uphill and later using the downhill flow to drive a turbine or waterwheel can be up to 66% efficient using present technology, which means you're losing 34%, which is "one third" or "some" but not "a lot." (which is two words, by the way: a lot)
The power supply inside your computer is about 80% efficient at turning AC line voltage into the regulated DC voltages needed to run your hardware.
The internal combustion engine is about 20% efficient at turning gasoline into motive force. Now that is a lot of energy loss.
From what you describe, it isn't so much a speech recognition thing as it is a sound recognition thing; essentially, a way for a computer to logically distinguish between many millions of different sounds.
How far away are we from having a machine that could identify all of the instruments in a piece of music by "listening" to the music? I say "listening" because there need not physically be a playback-and-listen, the playback could be mathematically modeled by the computer.
No, noble means that an element doesn't usually get involved with other elements. Sometimes, however, under unique and rare conditions (pulsed lasers, low/high temperatures, high voltages) you can coerce noble elements into forming compounds with other elements. Just because it's noble doesn't mean that it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes, on occasion, though not often.
Wouldn't it be interesting if it's an esoteric reaction between Argon and Carbon inside your brain that makes you self-aware?
The atmopshere is about 1% Argon. The distribution 21:78:1 is roughly that of an "ideal" human atmosphere. And just because it's noble doesn't mean it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes, which may make it a very necessary component to the workings of things.
Apparently, the motion of a pendelum increases in speed during a solar eclipse; this was discovered by a fellow named Allais and the rest is history.
I don't know how gravity affects the distortion of spacetime, but given my rudimentary understanding of gravity, somebody between the earth and the moon during a solar eclipse would have the sun's force of gravity plus the moon's force of gravity acting upon them, in addition to the earth's gravity in the opposite direction. I don't know if the cumulative though oppositely-pulling gravitational pulls would cause any gravitational anomalies that would, say, speed up time. But I'd believe it in a sci-fi movie, no doubt.
If you point a loaded gun at an unarmed intruder breaking into your house and tell them to leave, I betcha fifty bucks that they'll leave and you won't have to pump them full of lead.
He's just saying that if it comes down to it you need to be willing to play your trump card, whether you like it or not, for the sake of self-preservation. However, if you shoot somebody in the knee you will probably not kill them, which is comforting if only for the sake of morality.
How about a missile shield? Focused microwave radiation causing instant vaporization of projectiles and missile weaponry. All you need to understand is how metals react to microwaves. It'd be great if you could deploy them inside the country, like a missile cage, so missile fire and aircraft could be contained.
If we could deploy such a device we could take North Korea the same way we took Iraq, with about the same level of casualties. We would have no worry of them obliterating the South, and China wouldn't get pissed off at us for all the nuclear fallout from the neutron bomb we might've dropped on North Korea. Everyone wins.
I'm wagering that the government dropped the ball and were totally caught off-guard. In order to maintain the very convincing facade of safety and omnipotent security, they have suppressed the spread of the story in order to keep the public in the mindset of safety and not the mindset of some-crazy-asian-with-a-nuke-who-hates-us.
There's nothing that makes a two mile wide mushroom cloud other than a nuclear explosion.
The bigger question is what kind of bomb was it: North Korean weapons test, Chinese warning, American Hello, or....?
Satellites get old and break and fall out of orbit. Just because we had it then doesn't mean we have it now. We might be on track for having it again soon, but just because we had it before doesn't mean we still have it now.
capsela. with an E. I believe it's a product of non-american origin which offers alternative spelling, but I agree whole-heartedly that capsela owns. I have a 1000 set (They seem to call it the Max-Out 1000 these days) in my closet.
I always liked the modular system. LEGO blocks were cool, but Capsela offered more versatility in terms of what you could build and how well it would stand up to the environment.
"For low-cost commodity goods I care more about price than about service."
That's the problem, yo! You don't CARE about your level of service for all of the little industries that you and everyone else uses, because you don't understand how your apathy affects the economy!
This is why there's a man from India or Mexico or Russia who cannot speak any english making your sandwiches and pumping your gas and changing your tires. They don't have to be kind or courteous or anything, they get minimum wage to follow specific instructions and that's it. Somebody who would've shaken your hand and said "Hello Mr. Johnson, in for another tire rotation I see?" got fucked out of his $12.75/hour so Jose can make $5.50/hour to just rotate your tires and give you the "I hate you, middle-class scum" look, while the company pockets the difference.
If we demanded a higher level of service from our day to day interactions with businesses and their representatives, we wouldn't have this joblessness problem. We should start by making it a requirement that you are able to clearly speak english, dammit.
The size of society today precludes locality to this phenomenon, but it used to be that whether or not you buy a loaf of bread at the market determines whether or not your neighbor will still live where he lives next week. It used to be that your economic decisions had a direct impact on your locale. But now people commute to their jobs and can live 30+ miles away; since you don't live by him you can't comprehend that you're putting Mr. William Bobson out of a job changing tires when you accept the sub-par level of service you're receiving, and therefore you don't care.
And that's more or less the problem: apathy. hooray, apathy!
I thought I'd seen this technique before, and upon reading to the end of the page I was reminded where: zsnes. Video game emulation. Of course, when you're stretching a 320x288 image to 1024x768 on a 15" or larger screen, you need as much enhancement as you can get. Anyone who hasn't seen this in action should check it out, it is pretty damn cool.
Something tells me that in the event of a catastrophe, the farthest thing from our minds will be to come together as a people in order to build the requisite spacecraft in order to retrieve the DNA. We'd have better luck with something buried in a mountain; for some reason I think it's more likely for people to pick up shovels and start digging than pick up pens and papers to calculate the proper re-entry vector.
My only question is: why wasn't there a backup system for chute deployment? If the thing is plummeting towards the earth at terminal velocity (~135 miles per hour?) then you should still be able to get a ground-based radio signal up to it before it makes impact. I'm incredibly surprised that there have been no mentions of a ground-based effort to deploy the landing chute. I mean, I've got a little remote for my garage and it didn't cost much, why can't I have a little remote for my two hundred and sixty MILLION DOLLAR SPACECRAFT? heh.
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corporation, n. A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
Which is essentially what your dictionary says but with more words.
Our "little risk" cash flow scam having a net worth of negative 70 billion dollars is more than what I would call "risky." I think I'd call that "foolhardedly, undeniably ignorant and shortsighted" or maybe "fucking stupid" depending on my mood at the time.
Like any scam it was good for those that thought it up and the people close to them, but fie upon everyone else.
Since the people who hatched this devious scheme are probably dead by now, I believe you and I and the rest of us are "everyone else" and I believe the system's ultimate plan for us was and currently is to be fied upon.
These days, most people buy what's cheap, they try to get the deal, they shop at Walmarts and "Dollar Stores," not realizing the kind of damage they're doing to the world around them by making the dollar amount the only "cost consideration" made during the exchange of goods. We've allowed ourselves to get into the position we're in now, and the only way we're going to stop being in this position is if we, the people, do something about it.
Maybe giving up half of what you make is worth it, knowing that your future would be totally secure, from the day you retire *for certain* at 55. I just turned 23, and I have no idea where I'm going to be when I'm 55. But I would love to know that no matter where I am, I'll be happy and taken care of.
"sounds better" is subjective. It sounds better to some people. Try it sometime and maybe you'll like it; maybe you won't, but maybe you will.
You can store energy, but you will lose a portion of it in the process.
You will lose some of it, not a lot. A lot would be a significant amount, or perhaps "more than half" depending on who you talk to. Pumping water uphill and later using the downhill flow to drive a turbine or waterwheel can be up to 66% efficient using present technology, which means you're losing 34%, which is "one third" or "some" but not "a lot." (which is two words, by the way: a lot)
The power supply inside your computer is about 80% efficient at turning AC line voltage into the regulated DC voltages needed to run your hardware.
The internal combustion engine is about 20% efficient at turning gasoline into motive force. Now that is a lot of energy loss.
In other words, it was an accomplishment of open-mindedness, not one of scientific brilliance.
Exactly!
From what you describe, it isn't so much a speech recognition thing as it is a sound recognition thing; essentially, a way for a computer to logically distinguish between many millions of different sounds.
How far away are we from having a machine that could identify all of the instruments in a piece of music by "listening" to the music? I say "listening" because there need not physically be a playback-and-listen, the playback could be mathematically modeled by the computer.
No, noble means that an element doesn't usually get involved with other elements. Sometimes, however, under unique and rare conditions (pulsed lasers, low/high temperatures, high voltages) you can coerce noble elements into forming compounds with other elements. Just because it's noble doesn't mean that it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes, on occasion, though not often.
Wouldn't it be interesting if it's an esoteric reaction between Argon and Carbon inside your brain that makes you self-aware?
What do they usually make the tanks out of?
The atmopshere is about 1% Argon. The distribution 21:78:1 is roughly that of an "ideal" human atmosphere. And just because it's noble doesn't mean it doesn't get involved with other atoms sometimes, which may make it a very necessary component to the workings of things.
Wikipedia: Argon
Interesting.
wikipedia link for "Allais effect"
Apparently, the motion of a pendelum increases in speed during a solar eclipse; this was discovered by a fellow named Allais and the rest is history.
I don't know how gravity affects the distortion of spacetime, but given my rudimentary understanding of gravity, somebody between the earth and the moon during a solar eclipse would have the sun's force of gravity plus the moon's force of gravity acting upon them, in addition to the earth's gravity in the opposite direction. I don't know if the cumulative though oppositely-pulling gravitational pulls would cause any gravitational anomalies that would, say, speed up time. But I'd believe it in a sci-fi movie, no doubt.
Or spacetime distortion system.
You missed the point, bro.
If you point a loaded gun at an unarmed intruder breaking into your house and tell them to leave, I betcha fifty bucks that they'll leave and you won't have to pump them full of lead.
He's just saying that if it comes down to it you need to be willing to play your trump card, whether you like it or not, for the sake of self-preservation. However, if you shoot somebody in the knee you will probably not kill them, which is comforting if only for the sake of morality.
My house is my domain, intruders beware.
I suppose I should amend this to say that volcanoes, as well, could do this sort of cloud-and-crater combo. My mistake.
(But it could still be a nuclear weapon. heh.)
How about a missile shield? Focused microwave radiation causing instant vaporization of projectiles and missile weaponry. All you need to understand is how metals react to microwaves. It'd be great if you could deploy them inside the country, like a missile cage, so missile fire and aircraft could be contained.
If we could deploy such a device we could take North Korea the same way we took Iraq, with about the same level of casualties. We would have no worry of them obliterating the South, and China wouldn't get pissed off at us for all the nuclear fallout from the neutron bomb we might've dropped on North Korea. Everyone wins.
The ONLY way to deal with North Korea is diplomacy.
Bullshit. We can nuke them. Can't launch no missiles if you're eating neutron bomb.
This is all Bush needs to take control of the country through elections and into next year.
I'm wagering that the government dropped the ball and were totally caught off-guard. In order to maintain the very convincing facade of safety and omnipotent security, they have suppressed the spread of the story in order to keep the public in the mindset of safety and not the mindset of some-crazy-asian-with-a-nuke-who-hates-us.
There's nothing that makes a two mile wide mushroom cloud other than a nuclear explosion.
The bigger question is what kind of bomb was it: North Korean weapons test, Chinese warning, American Hello, or....?
Satellites get old and break and fall out of orbit. Just because we had it then doesn't mean we have it now. We might be on track for having it again soon, but just because we had it before doesn't mean we still have it now.
There's about 15 minutes of CG in Tron. The rest is just good photography on special film.
capsela. with an E. I believe it's a product of non-american origin which offers alternative spelling, but I agree whole-heartedly that capsela owns. I have a 1000 set (They seem to call it the Max-Out 1000 these days) in my closet.
I always liked the modular system. LEGO blocks were cool, but Capsela offered more versatility in terms of what you could build and how well it would stand up to the environment.
I often wonder why more things aren't modular.
Why is this insightful and not shortsighted?
"For low-cost commodity goods I care more about price than about service."
That's the problem, yo! You don't CARE about your level of service for all of the little industries that you and everyone else uses, because you don't understand how your apathy affects the economy!
This is why there's a man from India or Mexico or Russia who cannot speak any english making your sandwiches and pumping your gas and changing your tires. They don't have to be kind or courteous or anything, they get minimum wage to follow specific instructions and that's it. Somebody who would've shaken your hand and said "Hello Mr. Johnson, in for another tire rotation I see?" got fucked out of his $12.75/hour so Jose can make $5.50/hour to just rotate your tires and give you the "I hate you, middle-class scum" look, while the company pockets the difference.
If we demanded a higher level of service from our day to day interactions with businesses and their representatives, we wouldn't have this joblessness problem. We should start by making it a requirement that you are able to clearly speak english, dammit.
The size of society today precludes locality to this phenomenon, but it used to be that whether or not you buy a loaf of bread at the market determines whether or not your neighbor will still live where he lives next week. It used to be that your economic decisions had a direct impact on your locale. But now people commute to their jobs and can live 30+ miles away; since you don't live by him you can't comprehend that you're putting Mr. William Bobson out of a job changing tires when you accept the sub-par level of service you're receiving, and therefore you don't care.
And that's more or less the problem: apathy. hooray, apathy!
How about this: You can have your cameras in public places if everything that they record is released to the public as well, free of charge.
I thought I'd seen this technique before, and upon reading to the end of the page I was reminded where: zsnes. Video game emulation. Of course, when you're stretching a 320x288 image to 1024x768 on a 15" or larger screen, you need as much enhancement as you can get. Anyone who hasn't seen this in action should check it out, it is pretty damn cool.
Something tells me that in the event of a catastrophe, the farthest thing from our minds will be to come together as a people in order to build the requisite spacecraft in order to retrieve the DNA. We'd have better luck with something buried in a mountain; for some reason I think it's more likely for people to pick up shovels and start digging than pick up pens and papers to calculate the proper re-entry vector.
You can get a four-controller version off of ebay for about the same price. I've got one and I love it.
My only question is: why wasn't there a backup system for chute deployment? If the thing is plummeting towards the earth at terminal velocity (~135 miles per hour?) then you should still be able to get a ground-based radio signal up to it before it makes impact. I'm incredibly surprised that there have been no mentions of a ground-based effort to deploy the landing chute. I mean, I've got a little remote for my garage and it didn't cost much, why can't I have a little remote for my two hundred and sixty MILLION DOLLAR SPACECRAFT? heh.