Nonsense. Golf players generally prefer the earlier morning hours when it's cooler. They are also, as a rule, less restricted by things like "working hours" and whether or not playing golf counts as work.
Ah yes, life was so much better when people worked in subsistence farming, er, sunshine with exposure to the elements, er, the great outdoors and biting flies, er, nature. Damn these dungeons of comfort!
We don't have to have it at all!! And why we continue to tolerate it year after year is beyond me. It's actually a good example of how once a law is on the books, it's too much effort to remove it without a huge effort, and most of the time there's more important things to worry about.
I think we should all write our congressmen/women and say something along these lines:
If you support DST, why, and if not, why haven't you introduced legislation to repeal it yet?
It's pretty clear that most people see DST as, at best, a nuisance, with few people actually voicing a favorable opinion. In reality, its benefits for energy savings are unclear in the most favorable of interpretations of the data and quite clearly detrimental in other areas, from measurably increased stress and drowsiness and their consequential health effects, to the frustration of trying to explain to a child why it's still light out at bedtime. It's time to retire this tired relic of wishful thinking. Time and tide wait for no man.
I did calibration in the military. We calibrated the breathalyzers at my command, among other things, and it wasn't uncommon to find one bad out of every 3-4 using the manufacturer's recommended interval. Using the recommended interval *should* generally mean that you won't find any devices out of tolerance, and any units that are close to being out of tolerance are either adjusted or discarded.
Certifying a unit as being calibrated without actually performing the verification is colloquially called a "lick & stick." In the military, it's a potentially NJP (non-judicial punishment) offense on its own, which could be considered something like a misdemeanor. And if it there any actual consequences as a result, like damage or destruction of equipment or injury or death of personnel, you could easily be facing a court martial, which is more like felony charges.
Apparently they do things a little differently at the SFPD.
And they've been steadily progressing outside of large companies (with the exception of Java and.NET)
That's like saying "New cars have zero emissions (with the exception of those with internal combustion engines)." Java and.net are the elephants in the room.
Requires use of a potentially unsafe HIV variant that could mutate back to a virulent strain. Extreme care would be required to ensure that the modified virus can be contained.
Considering some treatments for cancer (like radiation therapy) can potentially *give you more cancer*, I think HIV is clearly the lesser evil.
What? DVDs are arguably the first successful consumer format to implement DRM. Ever heard of DeCSS? Yeah, you'll need that if you want to rip most commercial DVDs, though you still may technically be in violation of the law in doing so. The whole angle with this program isn't that it adds DRM, but that it allows the consumer to legally make digital copies with different "rights" than the DVD itself. You may not care whether or not it's illegal to rip your own DVDs, but if people are using this service, then they either do care, or else (more likely) they aren't resourceful enough to circumvent the DRM on their own. Either way, it's not adding DRM to previously unprotected content.
Since when is selling manufacturing assets giving everything away?
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You don't want backlight. You think you want backlight because for decades there was no way to make a decent display unit that wasn't either emissive (like CRTs, VFDs and LEDs) or transmissive (like LCDs), so you grew used to having the display throw light at you.
Indeed. I stare at pictures of stained glass and fires instead of the real things for similar reasons.
No wait. I don't do those things and I *do* want backlight thanks.
1) Not a great EV. Doesn't have the power or range of competitors. 2) Not a great ICE vehicle. Chevy's own Cruze gets better mileage.
So what do you get for your $40k? Flexibility? For the most part, people who can afford this don't need flexibility -- they already have a gasoline powered vehicle, and keeping a second vehicle gives much more flexibility than relying on the Volt as an all-purpose vehicle (short trips and extended trips). So they almost certainly gave up battery capacity for something most people probably don't want out of an EV -- an ICE. As the only hybrid of this sort, I think the tepid sales numbers speak for themselves in that regard. Maybe it's time for American car companies to start thinking *inside* the box again.
Only if they're in our galaxy, and only if it occurred in the past (75 + distance / c) years or so that we've been looking, and only if we were looking in the right direction at the time it occurred, etc.
Oh they all are, to be sure. There is no alternative because the market hasn't demanded it. (Another answer is that you can always connect a gamepad to a PC.)
But it's not my intent to debate the viability of alternatives; what I'm saying is that not buying into their paradigm is ALWAYS a valid option. Unfortunately, many people would rather disassociate their purchasing decision from the consequences -- supporting a business model that disenfranchises the consumer -- than go without. When it comes down to it, nobody needs a game console to survive, and buying a device while abdicating control over that device sends a clear message that you're willing to not only tolerate that policy, but that you're willing to support it financially. "Money talks, bullshit walks," I believe is the colloquialism.
When you read the letter in its entirety, it doesn't really pass the smell test. If I had to guess, I'd say it was written by someone trying to make schools look bad to promote their homeschooling agenda, but it could just be a prank as well. Either of those are more plausible than a teacher emphasizing a student correcting a legitimate mistake over his ostensibly disruptive methods of doing so. The way to write that letter, if it really happened, would be to emphasize the disruptive behavior and probably not even mention the details of the mistake the teacher made. The "accept my teachings without resistance" bit is particularly suspect.
There's a very, very simple solution to this, and that is: At some value UTC, we all light model rocket engines with the exhaust facing east, and slow down the day such that its length goes evenly into a year. Any over/undershoot in the quantity or duration of burns can be adjusted on a much smaller scale. After that we just perform regular burns in the opposite direction to maintain angular momentum. Voila!
I'm closer to 40 than 30 and grew up riding in a car seat. Maybe your parents didn't love you enough. Maybe it's because you argued with them on the cost effectiveness of buying vegetables you didn't want to eat.
That's not a straw man*; it's a reference to a peer reviewed study linking fracking to groundwater contamination.
* A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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Nonsense. Golf players generally prefer the earlier morning hours when it's cooler. They are also, as a rule, less restricted by things like "working hours" and whether or not playing golf counts as work.
Ah yes, life was so much better when people worked in subsistence farming, er, sunshine with exposure to the elements, er, the great outdoors and biting flies, er, nature. Damn these dungeons of comfort!
We don't have to have it at all!! And why we continue to tolerate it year after year is beyond me. It's actually a good example of how once a law is on the books, it's too much effort to remove it without a huge effort, and most of the time there's more important things to worry about.
I think we should all write our congressmen/women and say something along these lines:
It's pretty clear that most people see DST as, at best, a nuisance, with few people actually voicing a favorable opinion. In reality, its benefits for energy savings are unclear in the most favorable of interpretations of the data and quite clearly detrimental in other areas, from measurably increased stress and drowsiness and their consequential health effects, to the frustration of trying to explain to a child why it's still light out at bedtime. It's time to retire this tired relic of wishful thinking. Time and tide wait for no man.
I did calibration in the military. We calibrated the breathalyzers at my command, among other things, and it wasn't uncommon to find one bad out of every 3-4 using the manufacturer's recommended interval. Using the recommended interval *should* generally mean that you won't find any devices out of tolerance, and any units that are close to being out of tolerance are either adjusted or discarded.
Certifying a unit as being calibrated without actually performing the verification is colloquially called a "lick & stick." In the military, it's a potentially NJP (non-judicial punishment) offense on its own, which could be considered something like a misdemeanor. And if it there any actual consequences as a result, like damage or destruction of equipment or injury or death of personnel, you could easily be facing a court martial, which is more like felony charges.
Apparently they do things a little differently at the SFPD.
Or maybe your machines cost sub $500 to put together, in which case, yeah, you're not going to be having a very fluid gaming experience.
To be clear, he said "half a C-note", or $50, was too much. Which is either slang fail or an incredibly low ceiling.
Pretty sure the UK doesn't have a constitution.
That's the spirit.
And they've been steadily progressing outside of large companies (with the exception of Java and .NET)
That's like saying "New cars have zero emissions (with the exception of those with internal combustion engines)." Java and .net are the elephants in the room.
Requires use of a potentially unsafe HIV variant that could mutate back to a virulent strain. Extreme care would be required to ensure that the modified virus can be contained.
Considering some treatments for cancer (like radiation therapy) can potentially *give you more cancer*, I think HIV is clearly the lesser evil.
Dunno... not the point of my post.
What? DVDs are arguably the first successful consumer format to implement DRM. Ever heard of DeCSS? Yeah, you'll need that if you want to rip most commercial DVDs, though you still may technically be in violation of the law in doing so. The whole angle with this program isn't that it adds DRM, but that it allows the consumer to legally make digital copies with different "rights" than the DVD itself. You may not care whether or not it's illegal to rip your own DVDs, but if people are using this service, then they either do care, or else (more likely) they aren't resourceful enough to circumvent the DRM on their own. Either way, it's not adding DRM to previously unprotected content.
Since when is selling manufacturing assets giving everything away?
You don't want backlight. You think you want backlight because for decades there was no way to make a decent display unit that wasn't either emissive (like CRTs, VFDs and LEDs) or transmissive (like LCDs), so you grew used to having the display throw light at you.
Indeed. I stare at pictures of stained glass and fires instead of the real things for similar reasons.
No wait. I don't do those things and I *do* want backlight thanks.
I already addressed why I think the Volt's "flexibility" is a red herring.
My problems with the Volt are:
1) Not a great EV. Doesn't have the power or range of competitors.
2) Not a great ICE vehicle. Chevy's own Cruze gets better mileage.
So what do you get for your $40k? Flexibility? For the most part, people who can afford this don't need flexibility -- they already have a gasoline powered vehicle, and keeping a second vehicle gives much more flexibility than relying on the Volt as an all-purpose vehicle (short trips and extended trips). So they almost certainly gave up battery capacity for something most people probably don't want out of an EV -- an ICE. As the only hybrid of this sort, I think the tepid sales numbers speak for themselves in that regard. Maybe it's time for American car companies to start thinking *inside* the box again.
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Only if they're in our galaxy, and only if it occurred in the past (75 + distance / c) years or so that we've been looking, and only if we were looking in the right direction at the time it occurred, etc.
Oh they all are, to be sure. There is no alternative because the market hasn't demanded it. (Another answer is that you can always connect a gamepad to a PC.)
But it's not my intent to debate the viability of alternatives; what I'm saying is that not buying into their paradigm is ALWAYS a valid option. Unfortunately, many people would rather disassociate their purchasing decision from the consequences -- supporting a business model that disenfranchises the consumer -- than go without. When it comes down to it, nobody needs a game console to survive, and buying a device while abdicating control over that device sends a clear message that you're willing to not only tolerate that policy, but that you're willing to support it financially. "Money talks, bullshit walks," I believe is the colloquialism.
When you read the letter in its entirety, it doesn't really pass the smell test. If I had to guess, I'd say it was written by someone trying to make schools look bad to promote their homeschooling agenda, but it could just be a prank as well. Either of those are more plausible than a teacher emphasizing a student correcting a legitimate mistake over his ostensibly disruptive methods of doing so. The way to write that letter, if it really happened, would be to emphasize the disruptive behavior and probably not even mention the details of the mistake the teacher made. The "accept my teachings without resistance" bit is particularly suspect.
There's a very, very simple solution to this, and that is: At some value UTC, we all light model rocket engines with the exhaust facing east, and slow down the day such that its length goes evenly into a year. Any over/undershoot in the quantity or duration of burns can be adjusted on a much smaller scale. After that we just perform regular burns in the opposite direction to maintain angular momentum. Voila!
It's your problem because you chose to reside in their "walled garden" by buying a game console that you have limited control over.
I'm closer to 40 than 30 and grew up riding in a car seat. Maybe your parents didn't love you enough. Maybe it's because you argued with them on the cost effectiveness of buying vegetables you didn't want to eat.
McCain didn't need to nominate Palin to sink his campaign -- it was well on its way toward dying in obscurity before he brought her on board.
I was referencing the claimed excessive amount of chargebacks for said material, not the processor's moral values.
That's not a straw man*; it's a reference to a peer reviewed study linking fracking to groundwater contamination.
* A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man