Your example of construction materials still being produced in US customary units is technically wrong. The nominal sizes are still expressed in feet, inches, whatever.
The vast majority of construction materials are actually produced using metric measurements. Your 4'x8' sheet of plywood is no longer 4'x8'. It's 1220 x 2440 mm.
I hate to be a nitpicker, but if it's "only 8 degrees above absolute zero" that precludes the measurement from being Kelvin. There is no such thing as a "degree Kelvin". It is simply a "Kelvin".
It's somewhat convenient that one degree Celsius and a Kelvin are the same.
Either way, 8 degrees of anything above absolute zero is pretty darned cold and for most folks it doesn't make a bloody lick of difference what units you use.
If the idea of divying up states based on the percentage of votes is a great idea, why not just do away with the electoral college and simply tally all the votes nationally?
Oh, but then we run into the problem of whether or not we allow a candidate with a plurality to become president. Or do we have an instant runoff system? Maybe the logical extreme would be to have the citizenry vote on every proposed bill.
Remember folks, you live in a republic. Not in a democracy.
There's plenty of value in a faster processor. At work, I simulate contaminant transport in ground water. Some of the simulations that we run can easily take hours, days or even weeks.
If I can finish a simulation 20% quicker by buying a new CPU, I can save my clients and myself piles of money.
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Take a look at the First Internet Bank of Indiana (www.firstib.com). I've been with them for over a year and have paid about 2 dollars in service fees.
I think the editors should set up a new category for this type of post. We could put posts like this into a "Pseudo-Science" or "Environmentalist Shakedown", or maybe a "Put More Control of Your Land into the Hands of Government Bureaucrats" topic category.
Don't believe a word of what these people say. Their goal is to make sure that land is never used by humans. If they want that, they should buy it and put fences around their land, not have the government spend my money and your money to tell me what I can and cannot do on my own property.
If you want "clean" tantalum, look up north to Manitoba or down south to Australia which produces most of the world's Ta. Contrary to popular belief, the Congo doesn't have 80% of the world's Ta reserves. They do, however, have a hell of a lot of Coltan which is the principle ore used in their "mining" schemes.
Not only is it used for cellphones, but it's also used for that wonderful Corning wear, making fake hips and joints (the body doesn't reject tantalum), it's used in allows for airplanes, nuclear reactors and in capacitors and electronics for your Playstation 2, in most of your computers and you Nintendo Game Cube.
Tantalum is used to produce pesticides, insecticides, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Neat stuff Tantalum.
most of the "bugs" used in these projects have nothing to do with genetic engineering or some sort of weird "superbugs". The company that I work for, along with many others work on isolating bugs that are able to use certain "contaminants" as food sources.
They do so by making the environment that they live in more hospitable to them by changing factors such as pH, dissolved oxygen and the presence of nutrients.
There's nothing new about this, guys. And it's only scary if you don't take the time to read up on it. What IS scary is some of the crap that's in people's drinking water right now.
Maybe if the government didn't give money to people for sitting around on their lazy asses, funding any of this wouldn't be a problem.
The whole problem is that the tax system has devolved from one that is used to raise money for operations to a system that is geared towards redistribution of wealth.
Umm. That was a bad example. Just a quick search of the web will lead to several manufacturers that have just recently come into the airliner market. Check out Bombardier, Embraer, and Fairchild Dornier just to name a few. What happens when the big guys get complacent like Boeing and Airbus, the little guys poke their noses into a niche and run with it. All of these companies have the ability to compete with the big two...
You guys are idiots. Since when is the position of attorney general reserved for leftist pinkos only?
Why is it that you believe so strongly in freedom, then proceed to try to restrict the freedoms of others; including that freedom to make business or personal decisions based on whatever criteria one wishes?
As for the hate crimes, why should any segment of the population, either homosexuals, blacks, hispanics, jews, christians or penguins deserve any special protections under the law. All crimes are hate crimes. Not just those directed at people because they belong to a certain group.
The so-called "clean water protections" were woefully inadequate and ill-structured and it has been shown any number of times that the pitiful efforts to roll back greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop the purported global warming.
Why on earth should the Government be funding the National Endowment for the Arts? Why should my money be forced to pay for something that a very small portion of the population appreciates?
This guy gets to be attorney general because the representatives of the majority of Americans decided he was suitable for the job.
In Canada it is completely legal to decrypt the DirecTV signal. Because of antiquated laws governing the sale of content in Canada, we are not allowed to purchase the programming from Hughes. Instead we are forced to purchase from one of two local companies that offer a smaller selection and that force us to pay for unwanted Canadian content.
In Canadian law however, it is legal to decrypt a satelite signal provided that it cannot be legally paid for. We cannot legally purchase and pay for the DirecTV stream and thus we are legally and morally entitled to decrypt and watch the DirecTV stream.
So whereas Americans who attempt to decrypt the signal can indeed be considered "crackers", the Canadians that have been victimized by the Canadian government and Hughes are "Hackers". We have done nothing wrong and are being punished for it.
Because Bill J. Clinton and his lapdog Janet Reno have been much better for privacy in the US. Get a grip guy. At least George W. is not an opponent of your right to defend yourself and you belongings.
Canada's privacy commissioner is simply another position established so that the Liberal government has a job to grant to party supporters who no longer want to act as representatives. The position is a farce and carries absolutely no real duties or responsibilities.
It's something akin to the new $182,000/year "Ambassador to the Environment" position conjured up for a retired Liberal...
A couple of things. There is no debate as to whether or not these fertilized eggs are humans. They indeed have the genetic makeup that makes them humans. The debatable part is whether or not it is a person. Some argue that it only becomes a human when it passes through the proverbial cervix of the woman, some argue that it's when the egg is fertilized by the sperm. This isn't the debate that we're discussing now though.
Again, I do not disagree with your idea that we repair these problems in the womb, after the baby is on its way to being born, however, once we decide to eliminate the embryos that are not "up to snuff" in some way (CF, Huntington's disease, predisposition to breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, etc) we are already on that slippery slope.
People that are much taller and stronger than others have a great chance of surviving in certain places in the world. Why don't we try to design our humans in order to allow them to survive in these environments.
And please don't tell me to avoid the Mengele reference. I had plenty of friends and relatives that have suffered through a certain government's efforts to create a homogenous people. There might not be a "master plan" as you put it, but where do we draw the line? Which diseases are alright to cure, and which diseases are not OK to cure?
I know first hand how someone with a horrible disease can be a burden on society, however, I know also that said sick person contributes more to society through the changes he makes in other's people's lives than what he draws from it in financial terms.
My friend, I believe that we're already on that slippery slope. Why is it that you find someone with a terrible genetic disease worth less than someone with a hair colour that we may not like.
At which point do we draw the line? Should we allow people to kill their babies if they'll have large noses? Well, the kid will be made fun of, and he'll be better off if he was never born. How about this one; he's going to be born blind due to some terrible genetic disease. Maybe it's better that we don't bring him into this world. For we all know how worthless blind people are.
Paint it however you like, choosing the embryos to use for implantation based on genetic screening is nothing less than what your mentor Joseph Mengele did a handful of decades ago. After all, he was doing it to benefit the entire human race. Wasn't he?
We at digital Convergence think that there's something wrong with what's on your website, so you should take it down. We're not going to tell you what we find objectionable, however we will spew some marketing speak about the number of hours and dollars invested in no-brainer technologies that we have created.
Thank you for your help in making us look like morons.
Amazing how there's not one bit in the letter describing exactly which IP they believe he's compromized or what they find objectionable on his website. Perhaps they just want him to Cease and Desist living...
The Soviet military and space agency built a GPS system at exactly the same time as the Americans. The system is still functional, and many of the GPS receivers from European firms actually accepts both of the signals, and can use either on for positioning.
The Russian system gives you many more satelites in the arctic regions due to the large area of Russia that's located in the arctic.
You don't need military hardware to get sub-metre accuracy. There are commercial systems available which rely on the phase of the signals from the satellites. It uses a series of FM signals to specialized portable receivers and you can get sub-centimetre accuracy horizontally and accuracy to about 1 centimetre in the vertical. It's already in use all over the country (Canada and the US), and I've seen it used for surveying in boreholes and the resurveying of benchmarks.
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Actually, if you read the whole page, you'll see close to the bottom that digital (I can't remembet whether it was optical or coax out) outputs is going to be included on the card. It has a regular output for Dolby Surround (just your regular headphone type jack...)
If this money actually went to the development of the systems instead of being funneled into corrupt third world governments or the administrators of this progam, it might be worth it.
Here's a thought: The dictators that run these countries are some of the richest people in the world... Why not make those assholes pay for these types of projects...
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Your example of construction materials still being produced in US customary units is technically wrong. The nominal sizes are still expressed in feet, inches, whatever.
The vast majority of construction materials are actually produced using metric measurements. Your 4'x8' sheet of plywood is no longer 4'x8'. It's 1220 x 2440 mm.
If you want to make consistent looking graphs, with minimal effort, use GNUPLOT. Great piece of software.
www.gnuplot.info
It's somewhat convenient that one degree Celsius and a Kelvin are the same.
Either way, 8 degrees of anything above absolute zero is pretty darned cold and for most folks it doesn't make a bloody lick of difference what units you use.
Check this page out for more information.
If the idea of divying up states based on the percentage of votes is a great idea, why not just do away with the electoral college and simply tally all the votes nationally?
Oh, but then we run into the problem of whether or not we allow a candidate with a plurality to become president. Or do we have an instant runoff system? Maybe the logical extreme would be to have the citizenry vote on every proposed bill.
Remember folks, you live in a republic. Not in a democracy.
Explain to me, please, how it is unfair to pay for services that you use.
Perhaps a flat tax would actually encourage those people to work harder and actually be rewarded for it.
It is not the job of the government to perform charity. That's the responsibility of individuals.
There's plenty of value in a faster processor. At work, I simulate contaminant transport in ground water. Some of the simulations that we run can easily take hours, days or even weeks.
If I can finish a simulation 20% quicker by buying a new CPU, I can save my clients and myself piles of money.
Take a look at the First Internet Bank of Indiana (www.firstib.com). I've been with them for over a year and have paid about 2 dollars in service fees.
Don't believe a word of what these people say. Their goal is to make sure that land is never used by humans. If they want that, they should buy it and put fences around their land, not have the government spend my money and your money to tell me what I can and cannot do on my own property.
If you want "clean" tantalum, look up north to Manitoba or down south to Australia which produces most of the world's Ta. Contrary to popular belief, the Congo doesn't have 80% of the world's Ta reserves. They do, however, have a hell of a lot of Coltan which is the principle ore used in their "mining" schemes.
Not only is it used for cellphones, but it's also used for that wonderful Corning wear, making fake hips and joints (the body doesn't reject tantalum), it's used in allows for airplanes, nuclear reactors and in capacitors and electronics for your Playstation 2, in most of your computers and you Nintendo Game Cube.
Tantalum is used to produce pesticides, insecticides, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Neat stuff Tantalum.
most of the "bugs" used in these projects have nothing to do with genetic engineering or some sort of weird "superbugs". The company that I work for, along with many others work on isolating bugs that are able to use certain "contaminants" as food sources.
They do so by making the environment that they live in more hospitable to them by changing factors such as pH, dissolved oxygen and the presence of nutrients.
There's nothing new about this, guys. And it's only scary if you don't take the time to read up on it. What IS scary is some of the crap that's in people's drinking water right now.
Maybe if the government didn't give money to people for sitting around on their lazy asses, funding any of this wouldn't be a problem.
The whole problem is that the tax system has devolved from one that is used to raise money for operations to a system that is geared towards redistribution of wealth.
Umm. That was a bad example. Just a quick search of the web will lead to several manufacturers that have just recently come into the airliner market. Check out Bombardier, Embraer, and Fairchild Dornier just to name a few. What happens when the big guys get complacent like Boeing and Airbus, the little guys poke their noses into a niche and run with it. All of these companies have the ability to compete with the big two...
The same will happen in the CPU market.
You guys are idiots. Since when is the position of attorney general reserved for leftist pinkos only?
Why is it that you believe so strongly in freedom, then proceed to try to restrict the freedoms of others; including that freedom to make business or personal decisions based on whatever criteria one wishes?
As for the hate crimes, why should any segment of the population, either homosexuals, blacks, hispanics, jews, christians or penguins deserve any special protections under the law. All crimes are hate crimes. Not just those directed at people because they belong to a certain group.
The so-called "clean water protections" were woefully inadequate and ill-structured and it has been shown any number of times that the pitiful efforts to roll back greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop the purported global warming.
Why on earth should the Government be funding the National Endowment for the Arts? Why should my money be forced to pay for something that a very small portion of the population appreciates?
This guy gets to be attorney general because the representatives of the majority of Americans decided he was suitable for the job.
Get over it.
In Canada it is completely legal to decrypt the DirecTV signal. Because of antiquated laws governing the sale of content in Canada, we are not allowed to purchase the programming from Hughes. Instead we are forced to purchase from one of two local companies that offer a smaller selection and that force us to pay for unwanted Canadian content.
In Canadian law however, it is legal to decrypt a satelite signal provided that it cannot be legally paid for. We cannot legally purchase and pay for the DirecTV stream and thus we are legally and morally entitled to decrypt and watch the DirecTV stream.
So whereas Americans who attempt to decrypt the signal can indeed be considered "crackers", the Canadians that have been victimized by the Canadian government and Hughes are "Hackers". We have done nothing wrong and are being punished for it.
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Because Bill J. Clinton and his lapdog Janet Reno have been much better for privacy in the US. Get a grip guy. At least George W. is not an opponent of your right to defend yourself and you belongings.
Canada's privacy commissioner is simply another position established so that the Liberal government has a job to grant to party supporters who no longer want to act as representatives. The position is a farce and carries absolutely no real duties or responsibilities.
It's something akin to the new $182,000/year "Ambassador to the Environment" position conjured up for a retired Liberal...
Amazing!
Even after reading the article, you leave out the apostrophe in friend's.
A couple of things. There is no debate as to whether or not these fertilized eggs are humans. They indeed have the genetic makeup that makes them humans. The debatable part is whether or not it is a person. Some argue that it only becomes a human when it passes through the proverbial cervix of the woman, some argue that it's when the egg is fertilized by the sperm. This isn't the debate that we're discussing now though.
Again, I do not disagree with your idea that we repair these problems in the womb, after the baby is on its way to being born, however, once we decide to eliminate the embryos that are not "up to snuff" in some way (CF, Huntington's disease, predisposition to breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, etc) we are already on that slippery slope.
People that are much taller and stronger than others have a great chance of surviving in certain places in the world. Why don't we try to design our humans in order to allow them to survive in these environments.
There's an article about a couple in the National Post which talks about a couple of parents wanting to choose a female child in order to cure their own phsychological illness (diagnosed by doctors). How does differ from the subject of today's discussion about the child raised for stem cells? Or does it differ at all?
And please don't tell me to avoid the Mengele reference. I had plenty of friends and relatives that have suffered through a certain government's efforts to create a homogenous people. There might not be a "master plan" as you put it, but where do we draw the line? Which diseases are alright to cure, and which diseases are not OK to cure?
I know first hand how someone with a horrible disease can be a burden on society, however, I know also that said sick person contributes more to society through the changes he makes in other's people's lives than what he draws from it in financial terms.
My friend, I believe that we're already on that slippery slope. Why is it that you find someone with a terrible genetic disease worth less than someone with a hair colour that we may not like.
At which point do we draw the line? Should we allow people to kill their babies if they'll have large noses? Well, the kid will be made fun of, and he'll be better off if he was never born. How about this one; he's going to be born blind due to some terrible genetic disease. Maybe it's better that we don't bring him into this world. For we all know how worthless blind people are.
Paint it however you like, choosing the embryos to use for implantation based on genetic screening is nothing less than what your mentor Joseph Mengele did a handful of decades ago. After all, he was doing it to benefit the entire human race. Wasn't he?
We at digital Convergence think that there's something wrong with what's on your website, so you should take it down. We're not going to tell you what we find objectionable, however we will spew some marketing speak about the number of hours and dollars invested in no-brainer technologies that we have created.
Thank you for your help in making us look like morons.
Amazing how there's not one bit in the letter describing exactly which IP they believe he's compromized or what they find objectionable on his website. Perhaps they just want him to Cease and Desist living...
Holy shit.
And water boils at 100. I never realized how hot it can get south of the 41st.
The Soviet military and space agency built a GPS system at exactly the same time as the Americans. The system is still functional, and many of the GPS receivers from European firms actually accepts both of the signals, and can use either on for positioning.
The Russian system gives you many more satelites in the arctic regions due to the large area of Russia that's located in the arctic.
You don't need military hardware to get sub-metre accuracy. There are commercial systems available which rely on the phase of the signals from the satellites. It uses a series of FM signals to specialized portable receivers and you can get sub-centimetre accuracy horizontally and accuracy to about 1 centimetre in the vertical. It's already in use all over the country (Canada and the US), and I've seen it used for surveying in boreholes and the resurveying of benchmarks.
Actually, if you read the whole page, you'll see close to the bottom that digital (I can't remembet whether it was optical or coax out) outputs is going to be included on the card. It has a regular output for Dolby Surround (just your regular headphone type jack...)
Can't wait for DVD's on my Linux Box....
If this money actually went to the development of the systems instead of being funneled into corrupt third world governments or the administrators of this progam, it might be worth it.
Here's a thought: The dictators that run these countries are some of the richest people in the world... Why not make those assholes pay for these types of projects...