Good luck to you. I'm sure most of the rest of us prefer to leave ourselves unmutilated, but more power to you.
The only downside I've found to having genitalia is that you sometimes spend far too much time wanking off while procrastinating. I don't think chopping my dick off will help in that matter, though. It's all a matter of self-discipline.
"ARR! ARRR! This dictionary is edited by the section of Lexigography and Language studies. The Nynorsk Dictionary is published by The Norwegian Society."
Somehow, doesn't seem like the kind of thing a ferocious viking would say, now does it?
It's a political decision. The diagnostic tools are installed in part to make it easier to get by with less knowledgeable mechanics, and partly to drive out the mom-and-pop mechanic with prohibitive costs of entry to the market. You need a specific diagnostic device for each brand of car.
Of course, what you didn't take into account was that the morse code sender had a bunch of overhead. He began with QC QC QC etc. On a longer message, they would beat the sms:er by an even wider margin. The SMS senser had at that time not even entered half the message.
You've got your units messed up. The ice field it's 5.166677 × 10^15 football fields
For your reference, here's a handy chart of the Internation Press Unit System:
Area: Football Fields. Defined as 60x100 square yards, or 501.6 square meters. The European equivalent is the tennis court, which is 668.9 square meters.
Volume: Volkswagen Beetle. Defined as 9.75 cubic metres.
Information: Library of Congress. Defined as 10 terabytes.
Length: One marathon. Defines as 42.5 km.
Length: One hair. Defined as 100 microns.
Currency: US National debt. Defined as 8 Trillion dollars.
Jon Stewart is first and foremost a comedian. He laughed the whole "stoned slackers" episode away, thinking at a joke - it was Comedy Central that procured the study.
That is such a fallacy. If those are the only options presented, somethings fucked up already. Are you saying that the American wardens were offering them the choice of being subjected to "scientific research" or have bamboo stuck under their fingernails? I don't think so.
Prisoners of war are to be treated as such, as agreed to in the Geneva Convention. Prisoners of war are enemy combatants that often have simply had the poor luck of being born in another country. Even regular prisoner should be treated fairly and justly, instead of being humiliates and tortured.
Being subjected to torture is simply unacceptable, regardless what TV series like 24 would have you believe. That some of the americans stationed in Iraq could not fathom this is testament to the depravity of the situation.
It's not cheating, it's metagaming. The same thing goes on in other games too, and it's almost universally frowned upon. Another example is giving Australia in a game of Risk in exchange for an alliance in the next game.
It's detrimental to the game, but there is little one can do to stop it.
Actually, patents are a temporary monopoly on a design. How you choose to use that monopoly is up to you - you can choose to license it to others, or you can choose to be the sole supplier of your design.
In some countries, there laws that force the licensing of patents if there is no implementation available within a reasonable time-frame.
The patent system was originally instated to grant an inventor a temporary and artificial monopoly on a new invention. The first patents are found in the 15th century in the republic of Venice. Patent abuse is nothing new. Prior to the enactement of the Statute of Monopolies in 1623, the crown would issue letters patent providing any person with a "monopoly" to produce particular goods or provide particular services. This was abused by the crown, leading to the legislation setting a term limit for the monopolies granted by a patent.
Most people seem to agree that granting an inventor a patent for novel idea or implementation fosters innovation. Let's say I invent a non-obvious and novel idea for building a smaller, lighter and more secure watertight latch for use in large cargo ships. Using this door would save shipbuilders lots of money in materials and labours. If there are no patents to protect me, any other company or individual could reverse engineer my design and sell a knock-off. Since they have little R&D costs to recuperate, they can sell it a cheaper price than me, thus preventing me from recuperating my R&D costs.
The patent system works by granting me a temporary monopoly on my design. I can choose to license it to other manufacturers, so that if they choosem to enter the market, I can still recoup my development costs.
The problem with the patent system today is that the patents are often not in the hands of those that produce and implement the patents in question. Instead, they are concentrated into holding companies that use them to cash in on patent infringments. Often these patents are neither novel nor non-obvious, so many have no idea they are infringing on a patent before they are slapped with a lawsuit. If this model of business was to be made unprofitable, many of the problem with the patent system would vanish.
And if you're stuck on windows, you could always use something like TeXnicCenter. It's an IDE for LaTex. If you take some time to learn the program, it's no harder to use than Word. You can just jump in and start typing LaTex if you like.
Of course, there is a RPG centered around bribing the GM: Backhanders and Dodgy Deals.
The game uses a "coin-pool" system, using coins of three different values.
The more you pay the GM, the better your character stats.
Any failures on a coin toss can be changed to a success by bribing the GM.
Besides, Homo Sapiens is hardly a hardy wanderer. 40km by foot per day is pretty much the best pace anyone can maintain over a length of time. Many animals migrate far further. No, Homo Sapiens was optimized by evolution for staying put and using tools to his advantage.
Pick a country that forbids the recreational use and possession of pot, say Singapore. The laws of Singapore still apply to Singaporean citizens even if they choose to toke in Amsterdam. Now, if they fail a drug test at their workplace 30 days later, they cannot plea the fact that they were in Amsterdam at the time.
There are lots of examples that are less contrived than this.
Not one bit in the article discusses anything about the technical bit. There isn't even a mention of whether or not they would use systems already installed on on all cargo ships above a certain gross tonnage, such as AIS.
Simply using the buoys to extend the coverage of their AIS network would make a lot of sense, since the transmitters are already installed on all relevant vessels and do contain some form of voyage data. Requiring Vessels to retrofit YAMaritime Surveillance Transponder doesn't make any sense.
Jackie Stewart can say this because he was there, creating the safety network that allows the drivers to make some mistakes without having to fear for their lives. Stewart was and is one of the biggest proponents of safety in motorsports. His comment was not intended to be a slight at Schumacher, but rather a comment of how far we've come with regards to safety.
When you don't have to fear for your life, you tend to push harder, and when you push harder, you make more mistakes.
You can, of course, to that to some extent now already. http://members.chello.nl/~s.ferris/ is a photo of one flightsim enthusiast that has 12 monitors lined up for the purpose. Granted, this takes up a total of 8 computers due to the limitations in card technology. Some people have also gotten Grand Prix Legends to work with three monitors.
3d modelling is another endeveour which benefits from increased real estate. In addition to that, ATC installation need some kind of overview displays. Since the blips are small, and the area covered is big, projection display simply do not cut the mustard. These days, the deed is done by using either tens of small displays or a couple of absurdly expensive Barco displays, running on a multitude of machines.
When the need arises for a 42" screen real estate with a high resolution, using several computers and several displays to render it is a neglible cost compared to the price of large high-resolution projection displays.
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13.1 will have a bigger sweet spot.
It's not unique, of course: at least here in Finland, the double-deckers have a playpen for children. I'd bet it's in use in other countries too.
Good luck to you. I'm sure most of the rest of us prefer to leave ourselves unmutilated, but more power to you.
The only downside I've found to having genitalia is that you sometimes spend far too much time wanking off while procrastinating. I don't think chopping my dick off will help in that matter, though. It's all a matter of self-discipline.
Which of course goes percektly with the Hello Kitty Laptop:
http://www.exonome.com/fj/phkl/
"ARR! ARRR! This dictionary is edited by the section of Lexigography and Language studies. The Nynorsk Dictionary is published by The Norwegian Society."
Somehow, doesn't seem like the kind of thing a ferocious viking would say, now does it?
It's a political decision. The diagnostic tools are installed in part to make it easier to get by with less knowledgeable mechanics, and partly to drive out the mom-and-pop mechanic with prohibitive costs of entry to the market. You need a specific diagnostic device for each brand of car.
Of course, what you didn't take into account was that the morse code sender had a bunch of overhead. He began with QC QC QC etc. On a longer message, they would beat the sms:er by an even wider margin. The SMS senser had at that time not even entered half the message.
- Area: Football Fields. Defined as 60x100 square yards, or 501.6 square meters. The European equivalent is the tennis court, which is 668.9 square meters.
- Volume: Volkswagen Beetle. Defined as 9.75 cubic metres.
- Information: Library of Congress. Defined as 10 terabytes.
- Length: One marathon. Defines as 42.5 km.
- Length: One hair. Defined as 100 microns.
- Currency: US National debt. Defined as 8 Trillion dollars.
HTH, HAND.You've got your units messed up. The ice field it's 5.166677 × 10^15 football fields
For your reference, here's a handy chart of the Internation Press Unit System:
Area:Foot ball fields
Jon Stewart is first and foremost a comedian. He laughed the whole "stoned slackers" episode away, thinking at a joke - it was Comedy Central that procured the study.
And you're absolutely right to be. The article states that the rendering of an image is slower than on an LCD screen.
That is such a fallacy. If those are the only options presented, somethings fucked up already. Are you saying that the American wardens were offering them the choice of being subjected to "scientific research" or have bamboo stuck under their fingernails? I don't think so.
Prisoners of war are to be treated as such, as agreed to in the Geneva Convention. Prisoners of war are enemy combatants that often have simply had the poor luck of being born in another country. Even regular prisoner should be treated fairly and justly, instead of being humiliates and tortured.
Being subjected to torture is simply unacceptable, regardless what TV series like 24 would have you believe. That some of the americans stationed in Iraq could not fathom this is testament to the depravity of the situation.
It's not cheating, it's metagaming. The same thing goes on in other games too, and it's almost universally frowned upon. Another example is giving Australia in a game of Risk in exchange for an alliance in the next game.
It's detrimental to the game, but there is little one can do to stop it.
Actually, patents are a temporary monopoly on a design. How you choose to use that monopoly is up to you - you can choose to license it to others, or you can choose to be the sole supplier of your design.
In some countries, there laws that force the licensing of patents if there is no implementation available within a reasonable time-frame.
Interesting proposition.
The patent system was originally instated to grant an inventor a temporary and artificial monopoly on a new invention. The first patents are found in the 15th century in the republic of Venice.
Patent abuse is nothing new. Prior to the enactement of the Statute of Monopolies in 1623, the crown would issue letters patent providing any person with a "monopoly" to produce particular goods or provide particular services. This was abused by the crown, leading to the legislation setting a term limit for the monopolies granted by a patent.
Most people seem to agree that granting an inventor a patent for novel idea or implementation fosters innovation. Let's say I invent a non-obvious and novel idea for building a smaller, lighter and more secure watertight latch for use in large cargo ships. Using this door would save shipbuilders lots of money in materials and labours. If there are no patents to protect me, any other company or individual could reverse engineer my design and sell a knock-off. Since they have little R&D costs to recuperate, they can sell it a cheaper price than me, thus preventing me from recuperating my R&D costs.
The patent system works by granting me a temporary monopoly on my design. I can choose to license it to other manufacturers, so that if they choosem to enter the market, I can still recoup my development costs.
The problem with the patent system today is that the patents are often not in the hands of those that produce and implement the patents in question. Instead, they are concentrated into holding companies that use them to cash in on patent infringments. Often these patents are neither novel nor non-obvious, so many have no idea they are infringing on a patent before they are slapped with a lawsuit.
If this model of business was to be made unprofitable, many of the problem with the patent system would vanish.
And if you're stuck on windows, you could always use something like TeXnicCenter. It's an IDE for LaTex. If you take some time to learn the program, it's no harder to use than Word. You can just jump in and start typing LaTex if you like.
Besides, Homo Sapiens is hardly a hardy wanderer. 40km by foot per day is pretty much the best pace anyone can maintain over a length of time. Many animals migrate far further. No, Homo Sapiens was optimized by evolution for staying put and using tools to his advantage.
No, my point was that the laws of the Netherlands apply, as well as the laws of Singapore.
A US citizen shall abide to US laws even when abroad, in addition to any local laws.
Pick a country that forbids the recreational use and possession of pot, say Singapore. The laws of Singapore still apply to Singaporean citizens even if they choose to toke in Amsterdam. Now, if they fail a drug test at their workplace 30 days later, they cannot plea the fact that they were in Amsterdam at the time.
There are lots of examples that are less contrived than this.
Not one bit in the article discusses anything about the technical bit. There isn't even a mention of whether or not they would use systems already installed on on all cargo ships above a certain gross tonnage, such as AIS.
Simply using the buoys to extend the coverage of their AIS network would make a lot of sense, since the transmitters are already installed on all relevant vessels and do contain some form of voyage data. Requiring Vessels to retrofit YAMaritime Surveillance Transponder doesn't make any sense.
Jackie Stewart can say this because he was there, creating the safety network that allows the drivers to make some mistakes without having to fear for their lives. Stewart was and is one of the biggest proponents of safety in motorsports. His comment was not intended to be a slight at Schumacher, but rather a comment of how far we've come with regards to safety.
When you don't have to fear for your life, you tend to push harder, and when you push harder, you make more mistakes.
You can, of course, to that to some extent now already.
http://members.chello.nl/~s.ferris/ is a photo of one flightsim enthusiast that has 12 monitors lined up for the purpose. Granted, this takes up a total of 8 computers due to the limitations in card technology.
Some people have also gotten Grand Prix Legends to work with three monitors.
3d modelling is another endeveour which benefits from increased real estate. In addition to that, ATC installation need some kind of overview displays. Since the blips are small, and the area covered is big, projection display simply do not cut the mustard. These days, the deed is done by using either tens of small displays or a couple of absurdly expensive Barco displays, running on a multitude of machines.
When the need arises for a 42" screen real estate with a high resolution, using several computers and several displays to render it is a neglible cost compared to the price of large high-resolution projection displays.
Indeed they are not. They are, however, keen on gravy.
Don't do that, then.