Australia has been using polymer notes since 1992.
We had a few problems with the ink for the queen's eyes being easy to rub off but they solved all that years ago.
The notes never had any problems with our 45C (113F) heat.
Agreed.
My home (Perth) sees 45C (113F) almost every year.
All of our roads are asphalt and none of them melt.
We're on the edge of a desert where country towns see 55C (130F) every year.
Those roads are also asphalt and they don't melt either.
Using asphalt isn't the problem.
But using a blend designed for lower temperatures is a problem.
I lived in Hong Kong for a few years and they make about half of their roads from concrete and half from asphalt.
The concrete roads have an old broom pulled across them before the concrete dries.
This leaves ridges for the tyres to grip but now the whole vehicle drums noisily as you travel:(
An old joke I remember from 30 years ago goes something like this...
Professor: Some languages use a double negative to mean a positive. But no language uses a double positive to mean a negative.
Student (in a sarcastic voice): Sure...sure...
Any irony in waiting for the 11 second ad to finish before being allowed to see the 15 second show (which had about 30 seconds of nothing exiting tacked on the end)?
We had a similar experience back in the late 1990's. Big promo during the week about the newest and biggest individual firework. Halfway during the show there was a pretty big one that had us all wondering "that was bigger then anything we've seen before, what must the really big one be like?" Turned out that a remnant of an earlier firework floated down into the firing tube of the biggy and set it off half way through the show.
Agreed. I visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in 1997. Was very nervous as the only white guy (I'm Australian) in the building but there was no animosity from the people or the exhibits. Saw hand bones melted through a bottle. Like you said "war bad!".
Stores - Tax for not wearing the "approved" shoes, since you are causing more wear on the floor.
Most people wearing normal shoes - no extra charge. A track and field runner wearing track shoes (with spikes underneath) should be charged extra or banned. Many squash courts used to ban black soled sneakers because they nearly always left black marks on the courts that were hard to clean off.
Ctrl+Esc opens the Start Menu on current and older Windows machines. Works within a full screen VM (even fullscreen on a secondary monitor) but not for non-full screen VM.
If you hit a brick wall then some of the car's energy will go into the brick wall, causing it to fall down away from the car. Ie, some of the energy crosses the imaginary plane and the wall acts like a (bad) crumple zone. Whereas in your two car example the other car resists the transfer of energy and your own car has to do all of its own crumpling.
Don't forget that a commercial airliner has a pilot who can say "hmm! That mountain looks a little close, I'd better steer around it". The satellites can change their orbits but it takes a heap of planning and maybe nobody will see the obstacle in time to prevent it.
Or as the Gary Larson cartoon put it "What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?"
Ours was done in 1995 with a variation on front projection. The photographer inserted large slides into a special attachment on his camera and took pictures of us in front of a white screen. Apparently we went to France, Italy, Japan, etc during that 2 hours.
Every time you print a doc, MS-Office adjusts the doc to remember it's last printed date (you can see the last printed date in the list of auto values, along with useful stuff like current date, number of pages, etc). Hence it wants to save the change. Pointless, but that's their rational.
If you call someone normal they are happy about it.
If you call someone average they are unhappy about it.
If you call someone mean they are very unhappy about it.
if you call someone modal they are either confused or very unhappy about it.
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for things like x/x or x^0? After all, for any x those = 1
x/x = 1 for x != 0
x/x undefined for x=0
Division by 0 is never allowed.
Australia has been using polymer notes since 1992. We had a few problems with the ink for the queen's eyes being easy to rub off but they solved all that years ago. The notes never had any problems with our 45C (113F) heat.
Agreed.
:(
My home (Perth) sees 45C (113F) almost every year.
All of our roads are asphalt and none of them melt.
We're on the edge of a desert where country towns see 55C (130F) every year.
Those roads are also asphalt and they don't melt either.
Using asphalt isn't the problem.
But using a blend designed for lower temperatures is a problem.
I lived in Hong Kong for a few years and they make about half of their roads from concrete and half from asphalt.
The concrete roads have an old broom pulled across them before the concrete dries.
This leaves ridges for the tyres to grip but now the whole vehicle drums noisily as you travel
An old joke I remember from 30 years ago goes something like this...
Professor: Some languages use a double negative to mean a positive. But no language uses a double positive to mean a negative.
Student (in a sarcastic voice): Sure...sure...
DOUBLE NEGATIVES HURT MY BRAIN :*(
IS THAT BETTER?
Damned slashdot filter won't let me use all-caps for the whole message.
Should that be "orientised"?
Any irony in waiting for the 11 second ad to finish before being allowed to see the 15 second show (which had about 30 seconds of nothing exiting tacked on the end)?
We had a similar experience back in the late 1990's. Big promo during the week about the newest and biggest individual firework. Halfway during the show there was a pretty big one that had us all wondering "that was bigger then anything we've seen before, what must the really big one be like?" Turned out that a remnant of an earlier firework floated down into the firing tube of the biggy and set it off half way through the show.
damage without authorization
I'm sure the EULA will fill that loophole for them.
It's spelt "brake light".
Break light is what the copper was doing.
Which side are we talking about again?
Agreed. I visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in 1997. Was very nervous as the only white guy (I'm Australian) in the building but there was no animosity from the people or the exhibits. Saw hand bones melted through a bottle. Like you said "war bad!".
Stores - Tax for not wearing the "approved" shoes, since you are causing more wear on the floor.
Most people wearing normal shoes - no extra charge.
A track and field runner wearing track shoes (with spikes underneath) should be charged extra or banned.
Many squash courts used to ban black soled sneakers because they nearly always left black marks on the courts that were hard to clean off.
Ctrl+Esc opens the Start Menu on current and older Windows machines.
Works within a full screen VM (even fullscreen on a secondary monitor) but not for non-full screen VM.
If you hit a brick wall then some of the car's energy will go into the brick wall, causing it to fall down away from the car.
Ie, some of the energy crosses the imaginary plane and the wall acts like a (bad) crumple zone.
Whereas in your two car example the other car resists the transfer of energy and your own car has to do all of its own crumpling.
Rankine 911 somehow seems more appropriate.
"It demanded feet" :)
Metres are approx 3x better
Don't forget that a commercial airliner has a pilot who can say "hmm! That mountain looks a little close, I'd better steer around it".
The satellites can change their orbits but it takes a heap of planning and maybe nobody will see the obstacle in time to prevent it.
Or as the Gary Larson cartoon put it "What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?"
"I can see nothing"
Grammatically correct and unambiguous.
Still unambiguous even if it is spoken as "Aye see nuttin"
The day that I get so lazy that I can't order one of the kids to get up and change the channel ...
Ours was done in 1995 with a variation on front projection.
The photographer inserted large slides into a special attachment on his camera and took pictures of us in front of a white screen.
Apparently we went to France, Italy, Japan, etc during that 2 hours.
Every time you print a doc, MS-Office adjusts the doc to remember it's last printed date (you can see the last printed date in the list of auto values, along with useful stuff like current date, number of pages, etc). Hence it wants to save the change. Pointless, but that's their rational.
s/in the butt/up the arse/
Seems Russia doesn't like Powerpoint style presentations either.
http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/145/
$ cd /bin
$ mv cp knockoff
$ alias cp="knockoff"
To be complete, should do it to the source files too.
If you call someone normal they are happy about it.
If you call someone average they are unhappy about it.
If you call someone mean they are very unhappy about it.
if you call someone modal they are either confused or very unhappy about it.