At my CCW course (Virginia) it was drummed into me that when carrying you do not pursue or confront. If someone starts to get riled and seems to want to fight, you get out of there. Take their verbal shit, but leave. There is no such thing as "them's fightin' words" when you're carrying.
You may defend yourself if necessary from actual violence but never, NEVER put yourself into a confrontational situation. You do NOT chase someone down. Period. Ever.
Zimmerman should NEVER have left his truck. Whether he was defending himself or not, that act alone makes the outcome his fault.
I have a 1999 Lincoln Towncar that gets 22 MPG average over a month of driving, mostly highway. So most likely it is something in that range.
I've been debating buying a new car to get better gas mileage, but when I factor in having to pay car payments, it is not a simple decision. The Lincoln was paid off years ago. And I have a 135 mile round-trip commute 4-days a week.
It doesn't hurt but it does kind of freak you out.
I had a cornea transplant and went thru a lot of the needle-in-the-eye bit. You vastly understate the issue. I ended up telling the surgeon early on "you need to sedate me because if you poke me with that needle again in the eye I'm going to do my level best to kill you".
Even today, with follow-ups, if a stitch breaks and needs pulled it totally freaks me out.
Science is testable and repeatable, religion isn't.
Most people don't because they absorb the results by osmosis. I turn the key, the engine in my car starts. If it stops, I don't call the priest for a prayer and a blessing -- I put gasoline in it.
All testable and repeatable. And little things like this go one all day, every day of a person's life. It is why tech support in any field every once in a while gets hilarious help requests. Some poor user confuses correlation with causation and a Rube-Goldberg device, totally unrelated to reality, is born.
Religion ignores all that. God *COULD* make your car go without gas, he just chose to answer your prayer with a "no". Try again tomorrow. (Take car analogy and apply to faith healing for a more realistic and pathetic reality.)
Followed up by the next step is for Africa to stop shitting on itself. They have an unending line of thugs willing and eager to butcher their own populations and keep them in mud huts as long as the thugs get theirs.
The transition from Windows XP and Office 2003 to Windows 7 and Office 2010 has enormous training costs associated with it. I would not be surprised if the training for the Linux setup was less, if the kept the basic look and feel. And a wash if the didn't bother.
Meh. It still brought in $185 million in worldwide box-office receipts and $53 million in DVD sales. Production costs were estimated at $120 million, but I can't find an advertising cost estimate.
Still, a decent profit. Not Titanic by any stretch, but not John Carter of Mars, either.
It seems I missed the Director's and Ultimate cuts, and it looks like they added some good stuff in a re-edit. I may have to add a small amount to their take and pick up the Ultimate cut. I liked the movie.
There are plenty of scientists who enjoy that sort of thing, but put it into the scale I'm talking about. Compare the number of scientists with this particular interest with the total number of bacteria species out there.
For a more apt example, look at paleontology. Lots of stuff was dug up decades and CENTURIES ago and stuck in little drawers in museums. Every now and then some grad student looks through a 100 year old find and says "gee, never seen one of THOSE before" and files a paper. BAM! New species. Outside of that community, unless it is an unusually big and toothed species that would make a good transition to a Michael Bay movie, how many people notice?
I do, however, suspect you're right about the latter part and Voyager-like probes. I think the whole "faster than light travel" bit and getting around the universe like motoring around the city is quite possibly a hard ceiling and impossible. I really, REALLY hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
We'd be excited because it would be novel to us. Imagine how (not) excited we would be if it was one of a few billion seen over the last few million years.
I've never bought into this argument. It all falls down around "competing for resources". The abundance of every major element is profound, if you can travel around the galaxy.
Hell, just look at the volume of metals in the asteroid belt. At things like hydrogen and helium in the gas giants.
If you have the tech for real space travel -- and by that I mean access to the energy levels required for interstellar travel on a non-generational timescale -- I *seriously* doubt you are resource constrained anymore.
We're eventually going to find out that not only we aren't alone, but we're pretty fucking insignificant and late to the party.
The answer to the question "if intelligent life is out there, where are they" will be "not here because we're boring and common". Like the unpopular kid who throws a party and wonders where all the cool kids are, we're in for an ego-bruising answer.
On a side note, it is looking more and more like we can shave 3-4 terms off of Drake's Equation. R, f(p), n(e) and L are looking to be more and more equal to some big number.
If you look at the details, which would include the mass and velocity of the asteroid in question, you'll understand. The mass and fuel needed for such a "tug" satellite would be directly proportional and not possibly to launch, much less have extra fuel to maneuver over to the target, etc.
They asteroids in question only look small and slow because of the incomprehensible size and emptiness of the background. That is, lack of a good reference point.
No, it isn't. If you can't export it then the refineries will just lower production and/or close down. Supply will decrease to meet the lesser demand.
And just wait to see what happens if gasoline becomes significantly cheaper in Mexico and Canada and people are screaming that your proposed U.S. law is keeping prices HIGH.
Epic fail on your part. Nouveau got it to light up. Gaming support comes from acceleration support.
From the actual article on Phoronix:
There isn't any acceleration support yet for Kepler or anything besides mode-setting on Nouveau, but this is welcoming at least so early Kepler adopters won't need to fall-back to the xf86-video-vesa driver and likely some less-than-ideal resolution.
Wikipedia puts it well. A physical law is a summary observation of strictly empirical matters, whereas a theory is a model that accounts for the observation, explains it, relates it to other observations, and makes testable predictions based upon it. Simply stated, while a law notes that something happens, a theory explains why and how something happens.
Also keep in mind Newton's "Law" of Gravitation is only a good approximation of low-mass behavior. When you say "Law of Nature" people assume graven in stone, unchanging and absolute. But that isn't what it means.
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At my CCW course (Virginia) it was drummed into me that when carrying you do not pursue or confront. If someone starts to get riled and seems to want to fight, you get out of there. Take their verbal shit, but leave. There is no such thing as "them's fightin' words" when you're carrying.
You may defend yourself if necessary from actual violence but never, NEVER put yourself into a confrontational situation. You do NOT chase someone down. Period. Ever.
Zimmerman should NEVER have left his truck. Whether he was defending himself or not, that act alone makes the outcome his fault.
I'm sorry, you're clueless.
"Climate" means 30-year average in this context. Being able to predict next year's specific temperatures has nothing to do with climate.
Think of the stock market. "Climate" is the 30-year graph and the ability to say "from 1982 to 2012 the trend is ever increasing". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730258898&chddm=4050760&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
"Weather" is saying "last year was up and down". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730383316&chddm=98923&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
You're confusing "long term trend" with "what will it be like this weekend". They are two distinctly different things.
I have a 1999 Lincoln Towncar that gets 22 MPG average over a month of driving, mostly highway. So most likely it is something in that range.
I've been debating buying a new car to get better gas mileage, but when I factor in having to pay car payments, it is not a simple decision. The Lincoln was paid off years ago. And I have a 135 mile round-trip commute 4-days a week.
It doesn't hurt but it does kind of freak you out.
I had a cornea transplant and went thru a lot of the needle-in-the-eye bit. You vastly understate the issue. I ended up telling the surgeon early on "you need to sedate me because if you poke me with that needle again in the eye I'm going to do my level best to kill you".
Even today, with follow-ups, if a stitch breaks and needs pulled it totally freaks me out.
Canada sucks. Heh. I always wondered what that little nub of Minnesota sticking into Canada was caused by.
Joining the military and working as a civilian for the DoD are two very different things.
Science is testable and repeatable, religion isn't.
Most people don't because they absorb the results by osmosis. I turn the key, the engine in my car starts. If it stops, I don't call the priest for a prayer and a blessing -- I put gasoline in it.
All testable and repeatable. And little things like this go one all day, every day of a person's life. It is why tech support in any field every once in a while gets hilarious help requests. Some poor user confuses correlation with causation and a Rube-Goldberg device, totally unrelated to reality, is born.
Religion ignores all that. God *COULD* make your car go without gas, he just chose to answer your prayer with a "no". Try again tomorrow. (Take car analogy and apply to faith healing for a more realistic and pathetic reality.)
Followed up by the next step is for Africa to stop shitting on itself. They have an unending line of thugs willing and eager to butcher their own populations and keep them in mud huts as long as the thugs get theirs.
The transition from Windows XP and Office 2003 to Windows 7 and Office 2010 has enormous training costs associated with it. I would not be surprised if the training for the Linux setup was less, if the kept the basic look and feel. And a wash if the didn't bother.
Meh. It still brought in $185 million in worldwide box-office receipts and $53 million in DVD sales. Production costs were estimated at $120 million, but I can't find an advertising cost estimate.
Still, a decent profit. Not Titanic by any stretch, but not John Carter of Mars, either.
It seems I missed the Director's and Ultimate cuts, and it looks like they added some good stuff in a re-edit. I may have to add a small amount to their take and pick up the Ultimate cut. I liked the movie.
There are plenty of scientists who enjoy that sort of thing, but put it into the scale I'm talking about. Compare the number of scientists with this particular interest with the total number of bacteria species out there.
For a more apt example, look at paleontology. Lots of stuff was dug up decades and CENTURIES ago and stuck in little drawers in museums. Every now and then some grad student looks through a 100 year old find and says "gee, never seen one of THOSE before" and files a paper. BAM! New species. Outside of that community, unless it is an unusually big and toothed species that would make a good transition to a Michael Bay movie, how many people notice?
I do, however, suspect you're right about the latter part and Voyager-like probes. I think the whole "faster than light travel" bit and getting around the universe like motoring around the city is quite possibly a hard ceiling and impossible. I really, REALLY hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
We'd be excited because it would be novel to us. Imagine how (not) excited we would be if it was one of a few billion seen over the last few million years.
Yawn.
I've never bought into this argument. It all falls down around "competing for resources". The abundance of every major element is profound, if you can travel around the galaxy.
Hell, just look at the volume of metals in the asteroid belt. At things like hydrogen and helium in the gas giants.
If you have the tech for real space travel -- and by that I mean access to the energy levels required for interstellar travel on a non-generational timescale -- I *seriously* doubt you are resource constrained anymore.
We're eventually going to find out that not only we aren't alone, but we're pretty fucking insignificant and late to the party.
The answer to the question "if intelligent life is out there, where are they" will be "not here because we're boring and common". Like the unpopular kid who throws a party and wonders where all the cool kids are, we're in for an ego-bruising answer.
On a side note, it is looking more and more like we can shave 3-4 terms off of Drake's Equation. R, f(p), n(e) and L are looking to be more and more equal to some big number.
If you look at the details, which would include the mass and velocity of the asteroid in question, you'll understand. The mass and fuel needed for such a "tug" satellite would be directly proportional and not possibly to launch, much less have extra fuel to maneuver over to the target, etc.
They asteroids in question only look small and slow because of the incomprehensible size and emptiness of the background. That is, lack of a good reference point.
http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/64710.aspx
Because the servers that were seized were in Virginia?
Really? We already know there are Starbucks, Strip Clubs and Walmarts on these planets? I'm impressed with Kepler's resolution!
Raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! We were tempered in raw shit.
I've done some of my best work under women. :-)
No, it isn't. If you can't export it then the refineries will just lower production and/or close down. Supply will decrease to meet the lesser demand.
And just wait to see what happens if gasoline becomes significantly cheaper in Mexico and Canada and people are screaming that your proposed U.S. law is keeping prices HIGH.
Epic fail on your part. Nouveau got it to light up. Gaming support comes from acceleration support.
From the actual article on Phoronix:
There isn't any acceleration support yet for Kepler or anything besides mode-setting on Nouveau, but this is welcoming at least so early Kepler adopters won't need to fall-back to the xf86-video-vesa driver and likely some less-than-ideal resolution.
Wikipedia puts it well. A physical law is a summary observation of strictly empirical matters, whereas a theory is a model that accounts for the observation, explains it, relates it to other observations, and makes testable predictions based upon it. Simply stated, while a law notes that something happens, a theory explains why and how something happens.
Also keep in mind Newton's "Law" of Gravitation is only a good approximation of low-mass behavior. When you say "Law of Nature" people assume graven in stone, unchanging and absolute. But that isn't what it means.
Done!
Are you kidding?
"Stick 'em up. Bang! Bang! Someone call 911!" versus "Damn, someone spoofed my credit card. I'm out $50. Let me call my bank."
What part of violent crime is much, much worse than financial crime aren't you understanding?
The phrase "come to the dark side, we have cookies" now makes sense to me. :-)