I think your government started ruling for corporations rather than the people. Eg. Creating faux wars to enrich a few sociopaths thus stripping money from the lower and middle classes.... Using 9/11 to strip away fundamental rights.. Plus you have become a lazy consumer society. The USA is on a slow slide to corporate fascism.
And to add to your points. My wife says sex begins 12 hours before hand (I've also read this). It's just as much an mental and soul act as a physical act.
Genetic engineering. We induce mutations via the same mechanisms they occur in in nature (e.g. mismatch repair, retroviruses, etc) and increase their frequency through selective pressure. That's evolution.
No, thats natuaral selection. True evolution is the creation of ADDITIONAL NEW function that was not there before, not the re arrangement or rexpression of existing functionality. Developing thermal imaging sensors on your hands would be evolution.
but.... thre verses later Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing.... —Genesis 19:8
known here is clearly a 'sexual' reference.
also Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. —Jude 1:7
I went the opposite way. Chrome back to Firefox after they Chrome ditched side tabs. In the era of 16:9 screens (thank's a lot movie industry),I move as much as possible to the side. Eg Windows start bar & tree tabs on Firefox. Do any other browsers offer the same functionality as the tree tab plugin?
Tail: -gets caught on stuff -can only go half a turn
Flywheel: -can accelerate until the material limits of the fly wheel -can use the stored energy for recovery. -can be embedded inside the robot. -can act as a gyroscope to provide stability in other axes.
And how many Kids do you have? We have three boys with Engineering and Lawyer parents. From 9 months to around 2 years old, putting random stuff in ones mouth is what kids do as a part of exploring their world. Who knows how much shit they swallow without us seeing it. Thus shiny small smooth object would normally pass through the instestinal tract probabbly without the parent even knowing... but two objects highly magnetised can cause death. Solution 1 is not to have them in the house, but that is difficult if they are being sold as kids toys at a toy store. Don't ban them, be make it illegal for them to be sold as kids toys.
You can add Queensland to the list. My wife got the 'death threat' SMS. As far as I'm aware, it costs real $ to originate SMS's so hopefully it is traceable.
That's because most of the jobs using C are engineering jobs that work at the hardware level and it's assumed you know and use C at that level.
Of the 7 electronic engineers here, all can code in C. There are probably a few other discicplines in science/engineering/graphics where C is a subset of your main capability.
US states-- $7.50. That's also less than the UK minimum wage, which is about $9.40.
Man, no wonder your society is falling to pieces. In Australia, the minimum wage is about $16/hr. And to hire labor: A builders laboror is $35/hr, a builder $55/Hr, an Electrician $70/hr, a Plumber $80/hr.
As for booth babes. I always fell embarrsed for them and steer clear of the booth.
...I don't want it replaced before it's no longer doing its job effectively
Except you PDP11 system might burn through $10k of electricity per annum when an modern PC might use $200/annum Similarly, a euro diesel uses half the fuel of a typical amercan clunker for the same power and torque....
Your last idea is too easy to game. The companies would just "sell" the patents to shell companies, but would receive a share of everything earned through litigation. Apparently IP Ventures is already doing this and set up between 1600 and 1800 such companies.
Which is why I said you would need rules to stop this, which could be done by grouping common major share holders, treating subsiduaries as the same entity, treating licences to the IP as common ownership in some cases. ie make model, try break it, refine model etc. until intent is satisfied.
Some great points. Here are some more. - patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application) - software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click) - accidental infringement be not initially punishable (ie stop it, then you have the choice to stop unsing or litigate, but no backdated punitive action) - the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now. - patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost. Lets say v = $100 1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain 2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain 10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain 100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain 1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain 10k Patents = $5Billion/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system. You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
Yes, I believe insertions, deletions, changes occur, but I also believe that random changes produce increased disorder not order.
Changed DNA can result in - reduced function (on a scale from death to barely percieved) - no change in function. - increased function
If I have a billion self replicating programs, and randomly change the object code in all of them every second, they all won't suddenly die, but I will see the entire population gradully LOSE information and thus FUNCTION. Beneficial mutations are possible, but will be far outweighed by the gradual increased disorder . (how often will a beneficial mutation occur vs non beneficial mutation occur)
Rubbish. Natural Selection is the selection of pre existing characteristics. (Creationists agree) Evolution is the mutation/creation of NEW genetic information that produces new beneficial function that was not there before. (Creationists disagree)
There's no excuse for this, whoever is in charge of that calibration really needs to get their heads handed to them.
Fuel cell based units go out of cal (I used to do hundreds a week), so it is inexcusable they didn't calibrate.
I worked for Phoenix Police
I'm not sure how it works in the USA, but in Australia, police use portable fuel cell based instruments which are accurate to 0.01 BAC when calibrated. The portable instrument readings cannot be used in court, so are backed up by either a blood sample check at hospital, or an infrared evidential quality unit. An IR unit will take a pre sample reading from a reference ethanol gas, then the human sample, then the reference gas again which is printed out in front of the subject. You feel really screwed then!
The problem with intoxication, is you actually FEEL more competant than you actually are. The USA at 0.08 has the highest legal level of countries that enforce alchohol intoxication while driving.
I'm not sure why the media is playing down this as non event upgrade. I agree with the parent that the new screen is incredible. 5 years ago I could get 1920x1200 in a 17" laptop. Now they are all gone with 1920 x 1080 the highest offer (which are even hard to get with 1600x900 being more common), which is a sucky resolution for CAD & programming work. Maybe with windows non vectorness the PC comapnies had too many returns when people with poor eyesight returned hi res offerings?, but man I would love a 2560x1600 17"/19" laptop.
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I think your government started ruling for corporations rather than the people. Eg. Creating faux wars to enrich a few sociopaths thus stripping money from the lower and middle classes.... Using 9/11 to strip away fundamental rights.. Plus you have become a lazy consumer society. The USA is on a slow slide to corporate fascism.
And to add to your points.
My wife says sex begins 12 hours before hand (I've also read this). It's just as much an mental and soul act as a physical act.
Genetic engineering. We induce mutations via the same mechanisms they occur in in nature (e.g. mismatch repair, retroviruses, etc) and increase their frequency through selective pressure. That's evolution.
No, thats natuaral selection. True evolution is the creation of ADDITIONAL NEW function that was not there before, not the re arrangement or rexpression of existing functionality. Developing thermal imaging sensors on your hands would be evolution.
but.... thre verses later
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing.... —Genesis 19:8
known here is clearly a 'sexual' reference.
also
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. —Jude 1:7
I do. Daily. 100+ tabs open is not uncommon.
Do you use the treetab plugin? One reason I ditched Chrome was the removal of side tabbing.
Team Photo: 1 Female... 21 Males. Don't girls like composite engineering?
It's called 'taking the piss'. A strange Australian ritual of humor that I wold not expect anyone who has not been born here to understand.
I went the opposite way. Chrome back to Firefox after they Chrome ditched side tabs.
In the era of 16:9 screens (thank's a lot movie industry),I move as much as possible to the side. Eg Windows start bar & tree tabs on Firefox.
Do any other browsers offer the same functionality as the tree tab plugin?
Wouldn't a flywheel be much more practical?
Tail:
-gets caught on stuff
-can only go half a turn
Flywheel:
-can accelerate until the material limits of the fly wheel
-can use the stored energy for recovery.
-can be embedded inside the robot.
-can act as a gyroscope to provide stability in other axes.
The lawyers profit. It is their game.
1. Petition for patents on everything.
2. File Patent lawsuit with billable hours.
3. Profit.
Rubbish. Lawyers are tools of a puppetmaster, a knife for a hunter.
And how many Kids do you have?
We have three boys with Engineering and Lawyer parents. From 9 months to around 2 years old, putting random stuff in ones mouth is what kids do as a part of exploring their world. Who knows how much shit they swallow without us seeing it.
Thus shiny small smooth object would normally pass through the instestinal tract probabbly without the parent even knowing... but two objects highly magnetised can cause death.
Solution 1 is not to have them in the house, but that is difficult if they are being sold as kids toys at a toy store. Don't ban them, be make it illegal for them to be sold as kids toys.
You can add Queensland to the list. My wife got the 'death threat' SMS. As far as I'm aware, it costs real $ to originate SMS's so hopefully it is traceable.
That's because most of the jobs using C are engineering jobs that work at the hardware level and it's assumed you know and use C at that level.
Of the 7 electronic engineers here, all can code in C. There are probably a few other discicplines in science/engineering/graphics where C is a subset of your main capability.
$3k/month?
In Australia we pay at least $5.5k per month
US states-- $7.50. That's also less than the UK minimum wage, which is about $9.40.
Man, no wonder your society is falling to pieces. In Australia, the minimum wage is about $16/hr.
And to hire labor: A builders laboror is $35/hr, a builder $55/Hr, an Electrician $70/hr, a Plumber $80/hr.
As for booth babes. I always fell embarrsed for them and steer clear of the booth.
I uninstalled chrome after they took away side tabs. Not sure how anyone browses with them given the stupid 16:9 screens we have now.
...I don't want it replaced before it's no longer doing its job effectively
Except you PDP11 system might burn through $10k of electricity per annum when an modern PC might use $200/annum
Similarly, a euro diesel uses half the fuel of a typical amercan clunker for the same power and torque....
Your last idea is too easy to game. The companies would just "sell" the patents to shell companies, but would receive a share of everything earned through litigation. Apparently IP Ventures is already doing this and set up between 1600 and 1800 such companies.
Source: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
Which is why I said you would need rules to stop this, which could be done by grouping common major share holders, treating subsiduaries as the same entity, treating licences to the IP as common ownership in some cases. ie make model, try break it, refine model etc. until intent is satisfied.
Some great points. Here are some more.
- patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application)
- software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click)
- accidental infringement be not initially punishable (ie stop it, then you have the choice to stop unsing or litigate, but no backdated punitive action)
- the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now.
- patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held
eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost.
Lets say v = $100
1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain
2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain
10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain
100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain
1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain
10k Patents = $5Billion/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system.
You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
Mozilla!? Isn't that run by a bunch of freedom loving hippies.
Yes, I believe insertions, deletions, changes occur, but I also believe that random changes produce increased disorder not order.
Changed DNA can result in
- reduced function (on a scale from death to barely percieved)
- no change in function.
- increased function
If I have a billion self replicating programs, and randomly change the object code in all of them every second, they all won't suddenly die, but I will see the entire population gradully LOSE information and thus FUNCTION. Beneficial mutations are possible, but will be far outweighed by the gradual increased disorder . (how often will a beneficial mutation occur vs non beneficial mutation occur)
Natural selection IS evolution in action
Rubbish.
Natural Selection is the selection of pre existing characteristics. (Creationists agree)
Evolution is the mutation/creation of NEW genetic information that produces new beneficial function that was not there before. (Creationists disagree)
There's no excuse for this, whoever is in charge of that calibration really needs to get their heads handed to them.
Fuel cell based units go out of cal (I used to do hundreds a week), so it is inexcusable they didn't calibrate.
I worked for Phoenix Police
I'm not sure how it works in the USA, but in Australia, police use portable fuel cell based instruments which are accurate to 0.01 BAC when calibrated.
The portable instrument readings cannot be used in court, so are backed up by either a blood sample check at hospital, or an infrared evidential quality unit.
An IR unit will take a pre sample reading from a reference ethanol gas, then the human sample, then the reference gas again which is printed out in front of the subject. You feel really screwed then!
The problem is that blood-alcohol level isn't a good measure of actual inebriation. It's the wrong metric.
Bullshit. This has been researched to death and is why almost every country has a limit from 0.02 to 0.08.
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa25.htm
The problem with intoxication, is you actually FEEL more competant than you actually are.
The USA at 0.08 has the highest legal level of countries that enforce alchohol intoxication while driving.
I'm not sure why the media is playing down this as non event upgrade. I agree with the parent that the new screen is incredible.
5 years ago I could get 1920x1200 in a 17" laptop. Now they are all gone with 1920 x 1080 the highest offer (which are even hard to get with 1600x900 being more common), which is a sucky resolution for CAD & programming work.
Maybe with windows non vectorness the PC comapnies had too many returns when people with poor eyesight returned hi res offerings?, but man I would love a 2560x1600 17"/19" laptop.