You picked an analogy which disproves your assertion.
Two words: contributary negligence.
If you leave your keys in the car and the door open, and some drooling kid drives off with the
car and runs down toddlers on the playground, you
ARE going to get sued at the least, and hopefully charged as an accesory before the fact. You are certainly enabling the crime.
There is no excuse for you to fail to follow common sense and exercise reasonable care. There's no excuse for MS either.
The legal filing was synchronized with the release of a report by the environmental group Friends of the Earth that highlighted the growing number of personal care products with nanoingredients, defined as smaller than 100-millionths of a millimeter.
From Steven Den Beste:
Lemme see: 1/100 million == 10^-8. A millimeter is 10^-3 meter. Multiply them together and you get 10^-11 meter. So they're talking about banning particles smaller than 10 picometers.
The smallest atom is helium, which is 280 picometers in diameter. The only things smaller are elemental particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons. I guess we have to ban everything made out of them, right?
It would be interesting to know if this is the Wapo's mistake, or if Friends of the Earth really are that clueless. I wouldn't want to bet either way.
How much does Rove pay you to go online and try to make vauge connections between Bush and Hitler?
Because regular people just roll their eyes, snort, and by extenesion become immune to other, valid criticisms of Bush.
We need a balance of the two parties. Unfortunately, right now, the Democrats support the "Bush == Nazi" types in their midst, and that is going to make Democrats unelectable for some time to come. While on some level this makes me laugh, I also understand that Republican excesses can only be limited by the possibility of losing an election, which is why we need a sane Democratic Party that normal people can vote for.
So please. Unless you are a paid agent of Rove, or the villiage idiot, STFU
Maybe it's time to look at some new applications.
People did that when they moved from expensive VAXs (that worked) to cheap PCs that were rolling on the floor laughably crippled by comparison, just to save the bucks.
People are moving now away from windows, to a free OS,
which not only works, has a ton of free apps,
and saves even more bucks.
The only thing that is constant is change.
The "real problem" is that apple is trying to persecute a messenger and silence criticism, rather than admitting fault and changing the behaviour/issue which is the cause of the criticism.
It's a stupid thing for them to have done. If they had kept their yaps shut and their rottlawers on a leash, they could have done fixes for people on the quiet. Now the issue will get far, far more attention than it would have, probably force a mass recall, a class action lawsuit, and bad press for apple for their heavy handed and tone deaf handling of the situation.
It's rarely the original sin that gets you the big trouble. It's usually the attempt at a coverup.
As an apple shareholder, I'll make a point of going to the next meeting and asking them what the fuck they were thinking.
[1] In other words, if anyone is going to say "Apple sucks" on this front, 1.) anyone can come up with service or product nightmare anecdotes from any vendor, and 2.) all other vendors are worse in all categories, if you accept Consumer Reports' rating processes.
So what's your point exactly? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone? We should not dare to criticize the applegods because other vendors have problems too?
I guess taco better pull the plug on all the servers then, cause criticism/discussion is what this site is about.
Thanks, a google search cleared that up for me.
seems that with the power section stalled or zero rpm
the cooling air which is normally bled out of the blades
themselves might not flow properly and insulate the blade.
But I guess thats just a life/cost tradeoff.
Electric motors deliver their maximum torque at 0 rpm, and then it drops off as mechanical friction starts acting as a parasite.
That second part is not true. As the motor speed up it generates back-emf which reduces the current thru the motor. Motors are current flow operated devices. This also limits the maximum motor rpm with no load.
These high end luxury cars are exported overseas to markets (North Africa for example)
where the origin of the car is easily hidden,
and the new owners might not even care.
Crash parts are taken from cars that are very popular,
like Toyota Camry, where there is a big demand due to the huge number of cars on the road.
An original Toyota front fender is about $260.
Add headlights, front bumper cover, hood, grill,
and a stolen Camry is worth almost 2 K in just front end parts.
Here is an experiment we can try to help you understand how things got this way.
Let me come over and follow you around everwhere you go. At random intervals I shall tap you on the head from behind with a pencil. After you flip out (after an hour? a day?) and try to tear my head off, I will chastise you about your over-reaction, and how I was just tapping you with a pencil, etc. etc., and how I fear you might join a mob of People Against Pencil Tapping.
Now imagine if someone had been sending you 300 pencil taps a day for years.
But it uses more total *electricity*, since any storage system must have an efficiency less than 1.
I wonder if the off peak electricity is generated with a more efficient power source than the peak electricity..
which might make the the system as a whole (from generation to consumption) more energy efficient, thus using less energy (not less electricity) in total.
Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp
James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly
Saturday March 6, 2004
The Guardian
Asadullah strives to make his point, switching to English lest there be any mistaking him. "I am lucky I went there, and now I miss it. Cuba was great," said the 14-year-old, knotting his brow in the effort to make sure he is understood.
Both are particularly amusing due to your choice of link to "prove" your point.
...
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
The industry is out of touch with the consumer, is uninterested in changing their advertising model to better engauge the consumer, and is uninterested in any feedback the consumer might have regarding the consumers wants or needs.
stfu
We have free speech in this country. Get used to it.
We're talking about the current administration, the one we've got, the one we can do something about. Not just partisan politics. But actual politics that go way beyond elections, to actually governing the country.
You are not going to "do" something about the current administration, so get over it. If Democrats come up with some ideas about running the country and present them to the people before the next ELECTION, then Democrats might actually get elected.
Note: "Bush is a Moron" is not a platform idea the Democrats can run on, because BUSH IS NOT A CANDITATE IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
While on some level it is amusing to see people in the thrall of Bush Derangement Syndrome, the country needs the Democrats to get a grip, get a message, and Move On, so that the voters have two viable parties to choose from.
The rest of your rant about/. being like Free Republic is to risible to deserve a response.
Furthermore, if we follow the suggestion in the supersig below, we can eliminate
one of the components of voting fraud, and get an honest election result....
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
Slashdot Mirror
Two words: contributary negligence.
If you leave your keys in the car and the door open, and some drooling kid drives off with the car and runs down toddlers on the playground, you ARE going to get sued at the least, and hopefully charged as an accesory before the fact. You are certainly enabling the crime.
There is no excuse for you to fail to follow common sense and exercise reasonable care. There's no excuse for MS either.
FTA:
The legal filing was synchronized with the release of a report by the environmental group Friends of the Earth that highlighted the growing number of personal care products with nanoingredients, defined as smaller than 100-millionths of a millimeter.
From Steven Den Beste:
Lemme see: 1/100 million == 10^-8. A millimeter is 10^-3 meter. Multiply them together and you get 10^-11 meter. So they're talking about banning particles smaller than 10 picometers.
The smallest atom is helium, which is 280 picometers in diameter. The only things smaller are elemental particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons. I guess we have to ban everything made out of them, right?
It would be interesting to know if this is the Wapo's mistake, or if Friends of the Earth really are that clueless. I wouldn't want to bet either way.
All via Instapundit.
Maybe this video will help you refresh your memory on that second one.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-29912547
Because regular people just roll their eyes, snort, and by extenesion become immune to other, valid criticisms of Bush.
We need a balance of the two parties. Unfortunately, right now, the Democrats support the "Bush == Nazi" types in their midst, and that is going to make Democrats unelectable for some time to come. While on some level this makes me laugh, I also understand that Republican excesses can only be limited by the possibility of losing an election, which is why we need a sane Democratic Party that normal people can vote for.
So please. Unless you are a paid agent of Rove, or the villiage idiot, STFU
Funny how they push the "no retraining" while at the same time pushing the "completely new menus make you more productive".
Maybe it's time to look at some new applications. People did that when they moved from expensive VAXs (that worked) to cheap PCs that were rolling on the floor laughably crippled by comparison, just to save the bucks. People are moving now away from windows, to a free OS, which not only works, has a ton of free apps, and saves even more bucks. The only thing that is constant is change.
Yes.
This is why people switched TO sattelite TV FROM cable TV.
The "cable guy" movie was a documentary.
Those are not vigilantes. They are freedom fighters. Words matter. Let's use the right ones.
http://billhobbs.com/2006/05/postmortem_1.html
The "real problem" is that apple is trying to persecute a messenger and silence criticism, rather than admitting fault and changing the behaviour/issue which is the cause of the criticism.
It's a stupid thing for them to have done. If they had kept their yaps shut and their rottlawers on a leash, they could have done fixes for people on the quiet. Now the issue will get far, far more attention than it would have, probably force a mass recall, a class action lawsuit, and bad press for apple for their heavy handed and tone deaf handling of the situation.
It's rarely the original sin that gets you the big trouble. It's usually the attempt at a coverup.
As an apple shareholder, I'll make a point of going to the next meeting and asking them what the fuck they were thinking.
[1] In other words, if anyone is going to say "Apple sucks" on this front, 1.) anyone can come up with service or product nightmare anecdotes from any vendor, and 2.) all other vendors are worse in all categories, if you accept Consumer Reports' rating processes.
So what's your point exactly? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone? We should not dare to criticize the applegods because other vendors have problems too? I guess taco better pull the plug on all the servers then, cause criticism/discussion is what this site is about.
Thanks, a google search cleared that up for me. seems that with the power section stalled or zero rpm the cooling air which is normally bled out of the blades themselves might not flow properly and insulate the blade. But I guess thats just a life/cost tradeoff.
Who are you, and what are you doing on slashdot?
(Not sure if I am really joking)
That's an interesting trick since at zero rpm the compressor fan is producing zero air into the engine, so the engine is in fact not even running..
You cannot extrapolate the engine torque curve for a combustion engine down to zero rpm, it's not valid.
That second part is not true. As the motor speed up it generates back-emf which reduces the current thru the motor. Motors are current flow operated devices. This also limits the maximum motor rpm with no load.
Crash parts are taken from cars that are very popular, like Toyota Camry, where there is a big demand due to the huge number of cars on the road.
An original Toyota front fender is about $260. Add headlights, front bumper cover, hood, grill, and a stolen Camry is worth almost 2 K in just front end parts.
They must have called them grad students.
Let me come over and follow you around everwhere you go. At random intervals I shall tap you on the head from behind with a pencil. After you flip out (after an hour? a day?) and try to tear my head off, I will chastise you about your over-reaction, and how I was just tapping you with a pencil, etc. etc., and how I fear you might join a mob of People Against Pencil Tapping.
Now imagine if someone had been sending you 300 pencil taps a day for years.
But it uses more total *electricity*, since any storage system must have an efficiency less than 1.
I wonder if the off peak electricity is generated with a more efficient power source than the peak electricity.. which might make the the system as a whole (from generation to consumption) more energy efficient, thus using less energy (not less electricity) in total.
Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp
James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly
Saturday March 6, 2004 The Guardian
Asadullah strives to make his point, switching to English lest there be any mistaking him. "I am lucky I went there, and now I miss it. Cuba was great," said the 14-year-old, knotting his brow in the effort to make sure he is understood.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743 ,1163435,00.html
These figments of an overheated neocon imagination?
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Right right, we made that all up.
Carry on, then!
Well, if we lose the war against Islamic Global Domination, (you know, the one that Iran has been building the Bomb for) and people like this guy
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2005 0_Saudi_Author-_Women_in_the_West_Marry_Dogs_and_D onkeys&only
are in charge, you are going to wish that having your email read was your biggest problem.
After the adoption of Sharia Law, you can bleat about your precious liberty and privacy as you are taken away to be slowly hanged from a crane.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all& q=girl+hanged+crane+iran+moral+crimes&btnG=Search
Logical Fallacy # 1: Poisoning the Well
linky:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/poisoning -the-well.html
Logical Fallacy # 2: Guilt By Association
linky:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/guilt-by- association.html
Both are particularly amusing due to your choice of link to "prove" your point.
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
Robert Racansky
The industry is out of touch with the consumer, is uninterested in changing their advertising model to better engauge the consumer, and is uninterested in any feedback the consumer might have regarding the consumers wants or needs.
stfu
We have free speech in this country. Get used to it.
You are not going to "do" something about the current administration, so get over it. If Democrats come up with some ideas about running the country and present them to the people before the next ELECTION, then Democrats might actually get elected.
Note: "Bush is a Moron" is not a platform idea the Democrats can run on, because BUSH IS NOT A CANDITATE IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
While on some level it is amusing to see people in the thrall of Bush Derangement Syndrome, the country needs the Democrats to get a grip, get a message, and Move On, so that the voters have two viable parties to choose from.
The rest of your rant about /. being like Free Republic is to risible to deserve a response.
Furthermore, if we follow the suggestion in the supersig below, we can eliminate one of the components of voting fraud, and get an honest election result. ...
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
Robert Racansky
You already know who the valid faxers are. put them on a whitelist in this box.
http://www.privacycorps.com/products/?id=20
Approved faxes get thru. Everyone else gets the boot.
Done.