Not if the plug has an earth pin its not (the French type, used in many other European countries).
The German (Type F) plug is far more common, and does indeed allow turning a grounded plug 180 degrees. As well as allowing an ungrounded plug (Type C) to be used in a grounded outlet.
The only system which seems to have been designed with some consistency and attention to clearance is the British 3-pin.
Then again, in older British houses, ground is often earth, which causes Big Scary Problems when trying to use a converter plug or connecting the earth socket on a radio or receiver to earth...
i had read previously of Watson helping doctors in diagnosing a baffling case of Leukemia that seemed totally untreatable, Watson correctly indicated that the patient had 2 kinds of Leukemia at once, which the human doctors didnâ(TM)t realise.
With two kinds of leukemia at once, you're surely a goner anyhow, so the actual value might not have been that great for the patient.
Still, knowledge is knowledge and a value in itself.
So...you want them to flip it and offer the 2 million to anyone who turns in a pirate radio operator? You'll have pirate bounty hunters lined up!
No, I don't want to see that either, unless the fine for running a non-commercial unlicensed radio station can be lowered to the point where it won't ruin the rest of people's lives.
A small reward for reporting that turns out to be substantiated would be good if combined with a lower fine for non-commercial operations, and a fine for false reports.
it would increase fines from a maximum of a hundred and forty-four thousand dollars to two million dollars.
That will do absolutely nothing to deter the pirate radio stations, which seldom are for-profit entities, but special interest and religious kooks. They can't afford $144,000 either, so it doesn't matter whether you raise this. As long as people think they won't get caught, it doesn't matter how harsh the penalty is. Too high fines even work against the intention, in that you might report your neighbor for running an illegal radio station if he was facing a $1,000 fine, but won't do so if he risks $144,000 or $2,000,000. Ruining a person's life is not something all of us are willing to do, even if they were the ones who broke the law.
(This is also why excessive prison terms for certain crimes make things worse, not better.)
ntp is designed to minimize time jumps, skewing by small amounts more often. timesyncd is just a reinvention of old timed, including unfounded beliefs in predictable network latency, and, yes, clock jumps where none are needed.
My suggestion: Make bids non-retractable while trading is active, and only allow retractions after the bourse closes. That should stop microtrading that attempts to game the system, while still allowing computerized bids.
How did that work? If the area code wasn't the same, it was long distance?
If it was a jack on the same switchboard, it was local. If it had to be patched through, it was distance. If it had to be patched through more than one exchange, it was long distance. That could take a couple of minutes to set up.
And there wasn't necessarily any area code. You could ask the operator for Somewhere County 1234.
I actually miss that. Long distance calls were expensive enough that people didn't call long distance just to try to sell you something or try to scam you. Emergency calls got through, because Peggy at the exchange would make sure they did.
It's actually up 8% since yesterday. That's an awesome return for 1 day. This is more proof of why investment analysts do worse the the market as a whole.... They are either lying or don't know what they are talking about. I'll assume the later.
And the last time I played Black Jack, I got a 100% payout. Now that's an even more awesome return for 1 day.
If you don't understand statistics and stochastics, don't come crying once you've lost.
If that were literally the case, all wills would be meaningless.
No, you can say who inherits something, but not what they must do with what they inherit. Most countries laws not allow "Dead Hand" control. Vladimir Nabokov and Franz Kafka are good examples of where the author's express wills were disregarded for moolah. Some would say Robert A. Heinlein too.
"Ellison was fiercely protective of his work and was not shy about going after those he believed had stolen or tampered with it. He instructed his fifth wife, Susan, to destroy all his notes and unfinished works after his death to avoid having them completed by some "literary grave-robber."
I believe that when I see it. In the US, people lose all control over their possessions when they die, and clauses and stipulations placed on them are generally void. As an heir, if she chooses to sell them and become a bit better off than otherwise, she can, no matter what she promised. And if others claim rights to inheritance, she cannot legally destroy assets at all unless a court awards them to her.
Look at how much cheese, cream and butter the French intake daily. Why aren't they known for being obese slobs like Americans are?
They are known for being just that, by continental European standards, at 23.9% obese people. That's significantly more than, Say, Germany at 20.1% or Austria at 18.4%. They just are well behind the American standard of 33.7%.
That said, Harlan Ellison was not obese. He had gained some weight in his later years, but kept in relatively good shape for his age.
The desert environment combines very hot temperatures with very low humidity, so the evaporation of sweat has a profound cooling effect. The air inside their robes is substantially cooler than the air outside. This tactic will NOT work in a climate with high heat and high humidity. Try wearing Bedouin robes in the amazon jungle and see how long you last.
True. I also suspect that risk of snagging is much higher in rain forests than in deserts, making large robes and loose clothing less functional. But if it's just heat and not humidity (or branches or norms), I'd layer with as much air as possible between me and the environment. And a hat, even when the sun isn't hitting me.
I'm disappointed, I thought better of you. Plenty of desert dwellers have women who wear non-black clothing, often quite colourful. And men who wear black.
It's when you start adding religion (spit!) into the mix that the utility of layered clothing takes back seat to norms and oppression. But when there's no religious concern, desert people still dress in many layers to keep the heat out. When wearing many layers of clothing, the albedo becomes less important, and the colour is of their own choosing.
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot.
No, this is only the case for mildly hot climates. In very hot climates, people generally dress in several layers of insulating clothing to keep the heat out.
You would need to undress a bit, which might not be practical in every situation.
Ask a Bedouin whether undressing in the heat of the desert is smart.
It's not old, it's not outdated, and the sunk cost fallacy is inappropriate in this case. If the project is scrapped, NASA has a ten billion dollar paperweight sitting in a warehouse because you don't want the government to spend the equivalent of pocket change on a space telescope.
Another billion dollar (and it's likely going to exceed that) is not pocket change. It's more than the original cost estimate for the entire mission.
For comparison, the New Horizons program cost around $700 million all in all. Dawn was around $500 million.
And new technologies not available at the time those missions were planned, and certainly not when JWT was planned, are available now, giving more bang for the buck.
This is a prime example of sunken cost fallacy, where people feel obliged to continue because of how much has already been put into the program, instead of looking only at how much we need to put in from now on, no matter how much was put into it in the past.
Ironically, James Webb was one of the non-nerd bureaucrats that ran NASA, coming from a background as heading the Bureau of Business for president Truman.
Perhaps the project just should be canned. If not falling for the sunk cost fallacy, but completely disregarding how much we have already spent, will the now needed money (and realistically, multiply it by 3) buy us something that gives us more than if the money is spent on something else? If the latter, axe the project.
And given how old and outdated this project already is, my inclination is to spend that money on new technology for new problems, not what was designed 15-11 years ago, and will still cost us more now than what was budgeted back then.
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Not if the plug has an earth pin its not (the French type, used in many other European countries).
The German (Type F) plug is far more common, and does indeed allow turning a grounded plug 180 degrees. As well as allowing an ungrounded plug (Type C) to be used in a grounded outlet.
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The only system which seems to have been designed with some consistency and attention to clearance is the British 3-pin.
Then again, in older British houses, ground is often earth, which causes Big Scary Problems when trying to use a converter plug or connecting the earth socket on a radio or receiver to earth...
Protip: Not everyone in the world browses websites with the same software and configuration as you do.
i had read previously of Watson helping doctors in diagnosing a baffling case of Leukemia that seemed totally untreatable, Watson correctly indicated that the patient had 2 kinds of Leukemia at once, which the human doctors didnâ(TM)t realise.
With two kinds of leukemia at once, you're surely a goner anyhow, so the actual value might not have been that great for the patient.
Still, knowledge is knowledge and a value in itself.
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Ah, that explains it.
That's all well and fine, but what's juggalo?
So...you want them to flip it and offer the 2 million to anyone who turns in a pirate radio operator? You'll have pirate bounty hunters lined up!
No, I don't want to see that either, unless the fine for running a non-commercial unlicensed radio station can be lowered to the point where it won't ruin the rest of people's lives.
A small reward for reporting that turns out to be substantiated would be good if combined with a lower fine for non-commercial operations, and a fine for false reports.
it would increase fines from a maximum of a hundred and forty-four thousand dollars to two million dollars.
That will do absolutely nothing to deter the pirate radio stations, which seldom are for-profit entities, but special interest and religious kooks.
They can't afford $144,000 either, so it doesn't matter whether you raise this. As long as people think they won't get caught, it doesn't matter how harsh the penalty is.
Too high fines even work against the intention, in that you might report your neighbor for running an illegal radio station if he was facing a $1,000 fine, but won't do so if he risks $144,000 or $2,000,000. Ruining a person's life is not something all of us are willing to do, even if they were the ones who broke the law.
(This is also why excessive prison terms for certain crimes make things worse, not better.)
ntp is designed to minimize time jumps, skewing by small amounts more often. timesyncd is just a reinvention of old timed, including unfounded beliefs in predictable network latency, and, yes, clock jumps where none are needed.
My suggestion: Make bids non-retractable while trading is active, and only allow retractions after the bourse closes.
That should stop microtrading that attempts to game the system, while still allowing computerized bids.
How did that work? If the area code wasn't the same, it was long distance?
If it was a jack on the same switchboard, it was local. If it had to be patched through, it was distance. If it had to be patched through more than one exchange, it was long distance. That could take a couple of minutes to set up.
And there wasn't necessarily any area code. You could ask the operator for Somewhere County 1234.
I actually miss that. Long distance calls were expensive enough that people didn't call long distance just to try to sell you something or try to scam you.
Emergency calls got through, because Peggy at the exchange would make sure they did.
It's actually up 8% since yesterday. That's an awesome return for 1 day. This is more proof of why investment analysts do worse the the market as a whole.... They are either lying or don't know what they are talking about. I'll assume the later.
And the last time I played Black Jack, I got a 100% payout. Now that's an even more awesome return for 1 day.
If you don't understand statistics and stochastics, don't come crying once you've lost.
If that were literally the case, all wills would be meaningless.
No, you can say who inherits something, but not what they must do with what they inherit. Most countries laws not allow "Dead Hand" control.
Vladimir Nabokov and Franz Kafka are good examples of where the author's express wills were disregarded for moolah. Some would say Robert A. Heinlein too.
Considering that one of his collections was titled Angry Candy, I'm sure he went to be angry and arrived in hell (or god-help-him, heaven) angry.
Harlan Ellison started life as Jewish, but was an atheist.
https://infidels.org/kiosk/aut...
I have always thought "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream" would make a great movie.
A great silent movie, you mean?
"Ellison was fiercely protective of his work and was not shy about going after those he believed had stolen or tampered with it. He instructed his fifth wife, Susan, to destroy all his notes and unfinished works after his death to avoid having them completed by some "literary grave-robber."
I believe that when I see it. In the US, people lose all control over their possessions when they die, and clauses and stipulations placed on them are generally void. As an heir, if she chooses to sell them and become a bit better off than otherwise, she can, no matter what she promised. And if others claim rights to inheritance, she cannot legally destroy assets at all unless a court awards them to her.
Look at how much cheese, cream and butter the French intake daily. Why aren't they known for being obese slobs like Americans are?
They are known for being just that, by continental European standards, at 23.9% obese people. That's significantly more than, Say, Germany at 20.1% or Austria at 18.4%.
They just are well behind the American standard of 33.7%.
That said, Harlan Ellison was not obese. He had gained some weight in his later years, but kept in relatively good shape for his age.
The desert environment combines very hot temperatures with very low humidity, so the evaporation of sweat has a profound cooling effect. The air inside their robes is substantially cooler than the air outside. This tactic will NOT work in a climate with high heat and high humidity. Try wearing Bedouin robes in the amazon jungle and see how long you last.
True. I also suspect that risk of snagging is much higher in rain forests than in deserts, making large robes and loose clothing less functional.
But if it's just heat and not humidity (or branches or norms), I'd layer with as much air as possible between me and the environment. And a hat, even when the sun isn't hitting me.
You can't export a commodity you don't have.
I'm disappointed, I thought better of you.
Plenty of desert dwellers have women who wear non-black clothing, often quite colourful. And men who wear black.
It's when you start adding religion (spit!) into the mix that the utility of layered clothing takes back seat to norms and oppression. But when there's no religious concern, desert people still dress in many layers to keep the heat out. When wearing many layers of clothing, the albedo becomes less important, and the colour is of their own choosing.
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot.
No, this is only the case for mildly hot climates. In very hot climates, people generally dress in several layers of insulating clothing to keep the heat out.
You would need to undress a bit, which might not be practical in every situation.
Ask a Bedouin whether undressing in the heat of the desert is smart.
It's not old, it's not outdated, and the sunk cost fallacy is inappropriate in this case. If the project is scrapped, NASA has a ten billion dollar paperweight sitting in a warehouse because you don't want the government to spend the equivalent of pocket change on a space telescope.
Another billion dollar (and it's likely going to exceed that) is not pocket change. It's more than the original cost estimate for the entire mission.
For comparison, the New Horizons program cost around $700 million all in all. Dawn was around $500 million.
And new technologies not available at the time those missions were planned, and certainly not when JWT was planned, are available now, giving more bang for the buck.
This is a prime example of sunken cost fallacy, where people feel obliged to continue because of how much has already been put into the program, instead of looking only at how much we need to put in from now on, no matter how much was put into it in the past.
Ironically, James Webb was one of the non-nerd bureaucrats that ran NASA, coming from a background as heading the Bureau of Business for president Truman.
Perhaps the project just should be canned.
If not falling for the sunk cost fallacy, but completely disregarding how much we have already spent, will the now needed money (and realistically, multiply it by 3) buy us something that gives us more than if the money is spent on something else?
If the latter, axe the project.
And given how old and outdated this project already is, my inclination is to spend that money on new technology for new problems, not what was designed 15-11 years ago, and will still cost us more now than what was budgeted back then.
If considering timelines, keep in mind that:
There might not have been time enough for advanced life to have evolved close enough to us to notice.