Also I think you'll find that you are wrong concerning military bases on the moon. If you read the basic outline of the Outer Space Treaty and have a look at the huge numbers of countries that have ratified it you'll see that any attempt at a military operation would be met with global outrage.
You mean, kinda like how we all promised not to militarize orbital space? Uh, huh. How's that working out so far? What with the Keyholes and the SDI and the shooting satellites out of orbit and all that? Nah, we'd never dream of trying to militarize Mars...
Yeah, it's like defending free speech and having to stick up for Nazis and pedophiles. It's still a worthy cause in the abstract, but the specifics can take some of the wind out of your sails.
It shouldn't. Nobody wants to censor talk about mom and apple pie. The right of free speech only matters when it comes down to speech that somebody finds offensive. If you aren't willing to defend the freedom to speak about stuff you find offensive, then you didn't ever really believe in free speech to begin with.
There's a difference between being willing to defend speech that one finds offensive, and being able to get excited about it.
You honestly believe Social Security will one day, just cease to exist?
No, it won't cease to exist in an official sense, it will just continue to pay out increasingly smaller amounts of benefits while soaking the taxpayers for more and more of their income. Given the absolutely abysmal levels of interest earned on the Social Security pool, Social Security cannot possibly be more than a Ponzi scheme that will get weaker and weaker as the ratio of retirees to workers keeps rising.
That area is "Russia's Back Yard", so to speak, and all the US's currency will be worth is grousing. Doing any more will just exacerbate things. If Iowa, or Nebraska had cause or prodding to secede, how long would the rest of the US wait before the various US marshals and federally-deployed troops move in to "restore order" or "rescue US-passport-holding citizens held hostage in break-away states"?
But... Iowa is a part of the US; it would be entirely appropriate for US forces to react to an Iowan secession. South Ossetia, however, is part of Georgia, not Russia. It was annexed, along with the rest of Georgia, by the Russian Empire in 1801, and was then made part of the Georgian SSR under the Soviet Union (with some limited autonomy), and naturally Georgia kept control of it when they broke away. Therefore, South Ossetian secession (say it five times fast!), whether one supports it or not, is a Georgian matter, not a Russian one.
Using the word isopropyl should get you pretty far with the pharmacist. Apparently isopropanol is correct as well, but I've seen the former more often on products.
"Isopropanol" and "isopropyl alcohol" mean the same thing, just like "ethanol" and "ethyl alcohol", or "methanol" and "methyl alcohol".
Reducing the world's dependency on a non-renewable resource that, depending on who you ask, may be running out (or at least getting increasingly difficult to extract in the desired quantities for reasonable costs)
But that fact alone (the short supply and high costs) will drive us to reduce our dependency on that resource... when it hurts enough - and apparently it's starting to, since we are starting to make the effort. These things don't happen overnight.
Hmmm. An alcohol flame gets plenty hot. Hot enough to melt glass rods if you don't have a bunsen burner handy, so temps can probably reach over 1000 degrees F.
Friend of mine found this out the hard way once. Bunch of us were on a camping trip, and someone was trying to teach him how to down a Flaming B-52 (OK, so not exactly hardcore camping). So he basically threw the thing, lit 151 and all, at his mouth, and missed. Let's just say it was a good thing there was a doctor on hand, and the guy got away merely looking kinda sunburned for a few days...
Well, higher-res, actually. 1024x600 is just not enough pixels. 1280x768 would give it the same amount of screen real estate as many full-size notebooks. And it's not impossible; there have been notebooks in the past with small WXGA screens, such as the Fujitsu P2120, with a 10" WXGA screen (and that was five years ago!)...
...and what *do* you like to do? You must've gotten into CS for some reason, right? What was it that attracted you? Which classes did you like/were you good at?
Oh, boy. And I assume you would never buy a Volkswagen, or a Mitsubishi, and of course you would never buy anything from any of those nasty evil corporations that do business with China, or supply CCTV equipment for the Big Brother regime in the UK, etc. etc. right?
This is capitalism at work (in China). If the potential for capital reward outweighs the associated risks (losing the claim) then it's a simple business decision.
Shame (morality) is a social value, and unless it somehow effects your net gain (not likely) then it's consideration should be minimal. Fraud (including fraudulent lawsuits) is not part of a reasonable capitalist system.
As an anarcho-communist, I have to say, I don't acknowledge property rights. Why? Because property rights boil down to "I was here first, I stuck a flag in it, it is mine", and everything had a flag stuck in it before I was born, and I refuse to acknowledge a system that considers all of this to be someone elses property. It is not. It is my birthright, to share with others of my generation. WTF is a "birthright"? Something you decided you're entitled to, just because? How's that any better than "I was here first, etc."?
They are in the business of selling energy. Why should they not want to move into selling different types of energy? Well, for one thing, because those other types of energy are often more expensive/less profitable to produce than just pumping oil out of the ground. Of course, one day oil will be sufficiently scarce that other energy sources will permit higher overall profits due to higher available volume. Right now, we're just on the very beginning of that path.
Slavery is a good deal more efficient than negotiating with unions. Efficient at what? Guaranteeing the freedoms of the slaves? Maximizing their wages? I would say that, in general, slavery is not very efficient at anything, if you're a slave.
An Emperor is a good deal more efficient than Democracy. Again, efficient at what? Protecting the rights of the people? Providing those people with the society they desire? I don't think so.
...it's just that they're not all that good anymore. I would have willingly paid $20 for Master of Puppets if it were sold directly online. But for another St. Anger or whatever? No thankee.
So, the only means of transportation is truck, train or barge -- fossil fuel transportation systems. Who says they have to be fossil-fuel transports? Fill 'em up with ethanol, right at the processing plant where they're going to pick up the stuff, and run them on it. (That said, I agree that ethanol is not the way to go.)
Not to mention it's suited better to everyday life.
the metric system for distance is pansy BS. if i'm going 100 of something, i want it to be legitimately fast.
the metric(type) system for temperature is also BS. When it is hot, the temp should be in triple digits, not at 38C.
the metric system just isn't scaled for awesome, and that's why the US doesn't use it. -Drew Heyman But meanwhile, in metric, the Bugatti Veyron tops out at 400 km/hr instead of just 250 mi/hr. Talk about awesome, huh?
Of course that type of experiment is entirely unethical and immoral and we'd have to disregard any result taken from it. Right? Right?!;-) Human activities are moral or immoral. Knowledge is not.
Phantom II. There was a sturdy beast. A friend who was ground crew talked about picking small trees out of what landed, replacing unheard of percentages of missing wingspan and getting them back in the air. An Israeli F-15 was once involved in a mid-air collision in which all but two feet of the right wing was torn off, yet managed to land successfully, and was subsequently returned to active service.
Most of the population on this planet assumes celcius when talking about room temperature, meaning that my processors are always at least at 42 degrees.
That's fine, but then don't go calling it "twice the temperature", 'cause it isn't, no matter how you slice it. And it's "Celsius", by the way - two esses, not two cees.
Seriously, sometimes I feel the line between science and magic gets fuzzy. A transistor one atom by 10 atoms? That's on such a small scale that is so hard to comprehend that it'd almost be easier to hand-wave it and just say "it's magic."
To get a real feel for it, you need to put it in different terms, namely: How many of these will fit in the Library of Congress?
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Also I think you'll find that you are wrong concerning military bases on the moon. If you read the basic outline of the Outer Space Treaty and have a look at the huge numbers of countries that have ratified it you'll see that any attempt at a military operation would be met with global outrage.
You mean, kinda like how we all promised not to militarize orbital space? Uh, huh. How's that working out so far? What with the Keyholes and the SDI and the shooting satellites out of orbit and all that? Nah, we'd never dream of trying to militarize Mars...
Yeah, it's like defending free speech and having to stick up for Nazis and pedophiles. It's still a worthy cause in the abstract, but the specifics can take some of the wind out of your sails.
It shouldn't. Nobody wants to censor talk about mom and apple pie. The right of free speech only matters when it comes down to speech that somebody finds offensive. If you aren't willing to defend the freedom to speak about stuff you find offensive, then you didn't ever really believe in free speech to begin with.
There's a difference between being willing to defend speech that one finds offensive, and being able to get excited about it.
You honestly believe Social Security will one day, just cease to exist?
No, it won't cease to exist in an official sense, it will just continue to pay out increasingly smaller amounts of benefits while soaking the taxpayers for more and more of their income. Given the absolutely abysmal levels of interest earned on the Social Security pool, Social Security cannot possibly be more than a Ponzi scheme that will get weaker and weaker as the ratio of retirees to workers keeps rising.
That area is "Russia's Back Yard", so to speak, and all the US's currency will be worth is grousing. Doing any more will just exacerbate things. If Iowa, or Nebraska had cause or prodding to secede, how long would the rest of the US wait before the various US marshals and federally-deployed troops move in to "restore order" or "rescue US-passport-holding citizens held hostage in break-away states"?
But... Iowa is a part of the US; it would be entirely appropriate for US forces to react to an Iowan secession. South Ossetia, however, is part of Georgia, not Russia. It was annexed, along with the rest of Georgia, by the Russian Empire in 1801, and was then made part of the Georgian SSR under the Soviet Union (with some limited autonomy), and naturally Georgia kept control of it when they broke away. Therefore, South Ossetian secession (say it five times fast!), whether one supports it or not, is a Georgian matter, not a Russian one.
Using the word isopropyl should get you pretty far with the pharmacist. Apparently isopropanol is correct as well, but I've seen the former more often on products.
"Isopropanol" and "isopropyl alcohol" mean the same thing, just like "ethanol" and "ethyl alcohol", or "methanol" and "methyl alcohol".
Reducing the world's dependency on a non-renewable resource that, depending on who you ask, may be running out (or at least getting increasingly difficult to extract in the desired quantities for reasonable costs)
But that fact alone (the short supply and high costs) will drive us to reduce our dependency on that resource... when it hurts enough - and apparently it's starting to, since we are starting to make the effort. These things don't happen overnight.
Tell him that he'd better not ever do it, and that if you catch him doing it, he's grounded for a year.
Hmmm. An alcohol flame gets plenty hot. Hot enough to melt glass rods if you don't have a bunsen burner handy, so temps can probably reach over 1000 degrees F.
Friend of mine found this out the hard way once. Bunch of us were on a camping trip, and someone was trying to teach him how to down a Flaming B-52 (OK, so not exactly hardcore camping). So he basically threw the thing, lit 151 and all, at his mouth, and missed. Let's just say it was a good thing there was a doctor on hand, and the guy got away merely looking kinda sunburned for a few days...
Well, higher-res, actually. 1024x600 is just not enough pixels. 1280x768 would give it the same amount of screen real estate as many full-size notebooks. And it's not impossible; there have been notebooks in the past with small WXGA screens, such as the Fujitsu P2120, with a 10" WXGA screen (and that was five years ago!)...
...and what *do* you like to do? You must've gotten into CS for some reason, right? What was it that attracted you? Which classes did you like/were you good at?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
I find it funny how the wikipedia article on Chiquita just mentions the name change but none of the history it was meant to hide
Oh, boy. And I assume you would never buy a Volkswagen, or a Mitsubishi, and of course you would never buy anything from any of those nasty evil corporations that do business with China, or supply CCTV equipment for the Big Brother regime in the UK, etc. etc. right?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquita_Brands_International
Shame (morality) is a social value, and unless it somehow effects your net gain (not likely) then it's consideration should be minimal. Fraud (including fraudulent lawsuits) is not part of a reasonable capitalist system.
For 500 meters?!? Indeed. After digging a 500 meter trench by hand, I'm not gonna have enough energy for even one ho(e).
...it's just that they're not all that good anymore. I would have willingly paid $20 for Master of Puppets if it were sold directly online. But for another St. Anger or whatever? No thankee.
0 = bloody cold
10 = cold Pansy.
the metric(type) system for temperature is also BS. When it is hot, the temp should be in triple digits, not at 38C.
the metric system just isn't scaled for awesome, and that's why the US doesn't use it. -Drew Heyman But meanwhile, in metric, the Bugatti Veyron tops out at 400 km/hr instead of just 250 mi/hr. Talk about awesome, huh?
Right?!
Most of the population on this planet assumes celcius when talking about room temperature, meaning that my processors are always at least at 42 degrees.
That's fine, but then don't go calling it "twice the temperature", 'cause it isn't, no matter how you slice it. And it's "Celsius", by the way - two esses, not two cees.
To get a real feel for it, you need to put it in different terms, namely: How many of these will fit in the Library of Congress?