I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was the best thing ever, until i thought about it a little. no good beer comes in cans See if you can find some Dale's Pale Ale. It's definitely not your run of the mill canned brew.
They might be using tungsten photonic lattice technology. Note that this is an article from 2002, and claims a similar efficiency. IIRC this was discussed on/. at the time:
Now a microscopic tungsten lattice -- in effect, a tungsten filament fabricated with an internal crystalline pattern -- developed at Sandia has been shown to have the potential to transmute the majority of this wasted infrared energy (commonly called heat) into the frequencies of visible light.
This would raise the efficiency of an incandescent electric bulb from five percent to greater than 60 percent and greatly reduce the world's most vexing power problem -- excess electrical generating capacity and costs to homeowners caused by inefficient lighting.
Five years to market doesn't sound especially unreasonable to me.
CNG has been in fairly wide use for decades, mostly for fleets in areas with Air Pollution issues. Here's a site with locations for CNG, E85, Hydrogen, biodiesel, etc, etc...
Ok, you're probably right - but you should be aware that a significant percentage of people now randomly use either "he" or "she" as a generic pronoun for an unknown person, or alternate the two in a document that calls for multiple instances of such usage. We do it in order to step away from the sexist "he" as a default, and to avoid the awkward "he/she" (which frankly doesn't flow very well.) This still discriminates against genderless objects.
As poorly stated as my point may have been what I'm trying to say is that libraries already do censor content, at least all my local libraries did growing up. What they censor is up to them. That's really a matter of necessity. When a librarian makes acquisitions for the library's collection the selection process is a form of censorship. This isn't a bad thing, of course, unless the {librarian|mayor|county commission|town council} is pushing some sort of agenda or trying to suppress something. (Yes, my mom was a librarian)
According to the CIA World Factbook, "approximately 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border" (That's 100 miles for us yanks.)
Not really. Libraries may be public but they are still owned and operated by the government. Libraries are most certainly NOT owned by the federal government. If the County Commissioners or City Council then were to consider a rule like this they could make this argument, but the feds only are involved indirectly as a source of grants or other ancillary funding.
That's good advice for those folks living in New Hampshire and Iowa. A year from today the nominations will be a done deal before many states will even have had their primaries.
Well, as a fundamental principle there cannot really be an open source program which supports digital rights restriction (because someone can just remove it). Uh-oh! Somebody better go tell Sun!
The best part about RPN is when that smart-ass pre-med in chem lab borrows it, punches in a bunch of numbers, and then asks, "Where's the equals key?"... Priceless
Not just the magnetron. The capacitor inside a microwave can hold a lethal charge for days or even weeks. If you ever have to do anything inside a microwave discharge the capacitor first. Besides, it makes a very impressive spark when you do it.
The problem is that it's not an auto-learning system, you have to make each of those shortcuts manually. It's not really all that bad, since windows installers have the habit of pooping icons all over your desktop anyway. Just take one of those, give it a terse name, and then drag it into a folder which is in %PATH%. Since you can also open up file manager windows using the Windows-R method, you can call up this folder by name. Simply put this directory under your root directory, or put a shortcut to itself inside and you're good to go.
Absolutely! This is an extension of what Jello Biafra refers to as the "Camcorder Truth Jihad" and is exemplified by groups such as The Video Activist Network. The ubiquity of camera phones can only help this spread.
If anyone doubts the power of individuals with cameras, they could just ask George Allen or Micheal Richards for their opinions.
It makes more sense to call them "labels" because the word "tag" generally refers to html/xml tags. The first "T" in TIFF stands for "tagged", and that's been in use since the '80s. Also, the ID3 and Exif formats both refer to "tags".
If your going to include production for solar panels you need to remember that fossil fuels don't exactly jump out of the ground and into your furnace. Strip mines, refineries, natural gas production all have a significant environmental cost.
No no, the market will cause standardization on its own, it doesn't require a non-business body (unless you call the consumers as a whole the "superceding, non-business body"). As a counter argument I submit AM Stereo. The FCC decided to let the market decide (this was in the early Regan years) and 5 'standards' came about, none of which prevailed.
A TiVO's HD runs 24/7 and is in constant use (buffering whatever happens to be on live TV at the time). While I have replaced my tivo's HD a few times since it was bought in 2001, this was to increase capacity, not due to failure. There would be a lot of really pissed off DVR owners if HDs were as unreliable as you imply.
Scientifically, life began about 5 billion years ago. Gametes are no less alive than somatic cells. As you point out, whether they, or embryos for that matter, are Persons entitled to various rights is a matter that falls outside of the scientific domain. Which is why this debate will go on and on.....
Assuming you're in the US, if you want to be able to use that recording as proof in any kind of legal proceeding you'll need to be *really* sure you're adhering to the law if either you or they are in a state that requires the consent of all parties to record a conversation. This site has a pretty good overview of what the laws are for the various states, and for recording in general. Fortunately, most companies' phone systems have a recording which tells me that "This call may be recorded", so I choose to interpret the word "may" as granting permission.
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What I want to know is where everybody's getting all this free beer!
Nobody doesn't like Molten Boron!
Five years to market doesn't sound especially unreasonable to me.
CNG has been in fairly wide use for decades, mostly for fleets in areas with Air Pollution issues. Here's a site with locations for CNG, E85, Hydrogen, biodiesel, etc, etc...
Ok, you're probably right - but you should be aware that a significant percentage of people now randomly use either "he" or "she" as a generic pronoun for an unknown person, or alternate the two in a document that calls for multiple instances of such usage. We do it in order to step away from the sexist "he" as a default, and to avoid the awkward "he/she" (which frankly doesn't flow very well.) This still discriminates against genderless objects.
One should say "S/h/it" instead.
Won't somebody think of the machines?
According to the CIA World Factbook, "approximately 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border" (That's 100 miles for us yanks.)
That's good advice for those folks living in New Hampshire and Iowa. A year from today the nominations will be a done deal before many states will even have had their primaries.
Instead of recycling paper, bury it in landfills. Then make new paper out of those trees. Problem solved!
The slow response can be a plus sometimes. When your eyes are adjusted to the dark the CFs are a lot less abrupt and disturbing when they come on.
The best part about RPN is when that smart-ass pre-med in chem lab borrows it, punches in a bunch of numbers, and then asks, "Where's the equals key?"... Priceless
Not just the magnetron. The capacitor inside a microwave can hold a lethal charge for days or even weeks. If you ever have to do anything inside a microwave discharge the capacitor first. Besides, it makes a very impressive spark when you do it.
Absolutely! This is an extension of what Jello Biafra refers to as the "Camcorder Truth Jihad" and is exemplified by groups such as The Video Activist Network. The ubiquity of camera phones can only help this spread.
If anyone doubts the power of individuals with cameras, they could just ask George Allen or Micheal Richards for their opinions.
If your going to include production for solar panels you need to remember that fossil fuels don't exactly jump out of the ground and into your furnace. Strip mines, refineries, natural gas production all have a significant environmental cost.
You call that a python?
A TiVO's HD runs 24/7 and is in constant use (buffering whatever happens to be on live TV at the time). While I have replaced my tivo's HD a few times since it was bought in 2001, this was to increase capacity, not due to failure. There would be a lot of really pissed off DVR owners if HDs were as unreliable as you imply.
Scientifically, life began about 5 billion years ago. Gametes are no less alive than somatic cells. As you point out, whether they, or embryos for that matter, are Persons entitled to various rights is a matter that falls outside of the scientific domain. Which is why this debate will go on and on.....