People from mexico are taking our jobs for under min wage
Lies. You wouldn't scrub my toilet even for minimum wage + health insurance. You want to work in a nice air conditioned office, or drive a nice air conditioned piece of heavy machinery, or work in a union factory or retail job, earn $30k+ a year and pay your mortgage. I can't see you picking crops at $10k a year you lying fuck.
My understanding is that most helium is a byproduct of extracting natural gas from gas fields.
Earthly helium is the result of radioactive decay, because alpha particles are, after all, just helium nuclei. Once that alpha particle stops and absorbs a couple electrons, helium is formed. If this happens near the surface, it enters the atmosphere and eventually escapes into space. It is only present in natural gas because a lot of decay happens under layers of rock that are not permeable to gas and so the helium is trapped.
The dilemma is that the rate of production of helium is constant (ok, to be accurate it is decreasing, but not so much as we would notice given half-lives in the billions of years for radioactive potassium). Therefore if our rate of consumption exceeds the constant rate of production, we will end up with a real shortage.
You should tell him that he's not allowed to fly under 500 feet anyway anywhere under any circumstances unless taking off or landing - that should really get the conspiracy going...
We don't NEED to communicate with non-technical people. It has worked so far for well over 100 years of outstanding technological progress - why stop now? The drones can go on mopping floors, cleaning windows, and building buildings and we will go on doing our thing yeah? It's called specialization. Just like I don't expect my builder to understand or be interested in the carnitine shuffle, I have neither the time nor desire to get into the details of the local building code regarding a particular section of wall.
The author deserves an "F" for failing to understand that specialization is a good thing, and specialized fields REQUIRE their own efficient technical jargon. When two doctors speak "lingua medica" it's because it's faster, more convenient and more specific than common English. It's not to "say bad things about patients without them understanding". However why should any technical person lower themselves to the level of the common burger-flipper?
Yes it is. Oh and it's spelled advice, by the way. Don't look at the $30. Look at what will happen to the stock over the next few weeks. Had you shorted on the open of the second day (I posted after the close of the first day) you would be making a couple bucks per share.
But don't mind me, I just make money this way. IPO's are (usually) for suckers. Especially companies that don't have a sensible product (yeah let's sell cars that can only be re-charged within a 200 mile radius in LA, can only be serviced in LA, at a time when the US government is bending over backwards to subsidize GM and no one has any money). While I'm all for electric cars, Tesla is ultra-ultra niche - at least right now.
So you're saying that our politicians were appointed by an evil tyrant, rather than elected by the majority of people in their state or district?
No, I'm saying that Plato was right: anyone who WANTS power as a politician is by definition the worst candidate for the job. That is democracy's greatest flaw. They are ALL corrupt, it doesn't matter who you vote for - it's the job itself that corrupts you because there are no consequences to being crooked - only varying degrees of crookedness.
I'm not advocating a N. Korea-like dictatorship/monarchy. I am in favor of less powerful government and losing the standing armies.
rather than a bunch of folks that We The People voted into office to represent the interests of We The People?
Oh gosh, darn, I am sorry! I see you still believe in "democracy".
You think politicians actually listen to the people? $1.2 billion dollars for the G-20 summit. That's $600,000,000 per day. $25 million dollars per hour. They cite "security" as the cause of the huge costs, because 10,000 police were used. I guess those policemen were earning $60,000 per day each, huh? Oh wait no there were helicopters and other assets used so I will be generous and give you $200 million to buy and run those - so $50k each per day, right?
Politicians are told very vocally not to bail out the big banks, and do so anyway. Politicians are told very vocally not to bail out GM, and do so anyway. Politicians are elected on an anti-war agenda, and yet the wars continue. Why the hell do you still believe in democracy? Politicians promise you the world in order to get elected, and fuck you the minute they get into office. In fact I expect BP to receive a lot of government help in the form of contracts and/or tax breaks in the future because (as Cameron said at the G20 summit) we must ensure that BP remains a strong company. Forget the fact that they have one of the worst safety records leading in the deaths of their employees, forget the fact that they are directly responsible for the worst oil spill ever, and forget the fact that they continue to lie about the volume of the spill and continue to use dispersants which they were told not to use - they do whatever they want, and the politicians will forgive all - because apparently this is what the people want - bankrupt Gulf states, oily beaches and a dead sea.
The public took it back and they can lease it out again.
Unfortunately "the public" means "the government". So "the government" will auction the spectrum off to the highest bidder among its corporate bedfellows, and the real public "ie you and me" will have 1) absolutely no say in it and b) have to fork up another tax or fee to use "the public" airwaves.
I'm not one to stand in the way of research - but 20 bytes per second? I'm sure they should be able to design some sort of adapter for 300bps modems and use those over the cell phones as voice signals instead, and have a substantial gain in transmission speed...
Now considering that most cell phone carriers world-wide actually charge a fee nowadays for SMS messages, ESPECIALLY in underdeveloped countries, sending a whole lot of SMS messages is probably not going to be more economically viable than hiring Jose (or Ahmed or Abayomi) for a dollar to take a CD to the other town and back on his bicycle.
There's a certain type of mind that tries to innovate by brute force, and yet while it's true that if you put a pair of wings on an internal combustion engine you are close to developing something new, you also have to remember to lose the 4 wheels on 2 axles, the transmission, the heavy steel body and chassis, and add a propeller...
The "analysis" fails to account for what was happening in the currency markets - specifically the USD/JPY market that day. The events in the Forex market preceeded the equities market all day - specifically there was a huge drop in the US dollar (vs Japanese Yen) ten whole minutes BEFORE the S&P plunged. Looking only at the stock market will never let you understand what happened - it was a crisis of confidence not in equities, but rather in the US dollar as a whole.
I'm from Costa Rica where we get earthquakes of this magnitude and greater on a regular basis. Needless to say it caught me by surprise while I sat in my hotel room here in Buffalo. My fist thought was "oh, an earthquake". Then "hey wait a minute, this is normal back home but not here!".
As for GPS co-ordinates, google Buffalo City Hall. I can see it from my window.
I guess I'm being too literal. The codeine isn't taking the pain away anymore. My bad. You can have your nerd card back but first you have to let go of that female.
And water that is 100% free of bacteria. Oh that? We don't know what THAT is, isn't he kinda cute? But the radiation killed all the bacteria...OH MY GOD WHA
it takes time for the surrounding rock to heat up the cool spot you've created. This places a natural limit on the rate you can extract heat energy from a geothermal well
While I'm no expert in the field I daresay that there's a "natural limit" to anything, including the energy produced from an oil burning plant. Surely the output of the plant is an engineering issue, and it's simply a matter of design.
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A way to differentiate between the real girls and the guys playing female characters
Yes I am sure Leslie, Alex and Sam will turn out to be just what you dreamed of...
People from mexico are taking our jobs for under min wage
Lies. You wouldn't scrub my toilet even for minimum wage + health insurance. You want to work in a nice air conditioned office, or drive a nice air conditioned piece of heavy machinery, or work in a union factory or retail job, earn $30k+ a year and pay your mortgage. I can't see you picking crops at $10k a year you lying fuck.
My understanding is that most helium is a byproduct of extracting natural gas from gas fields.
Earthly helium is the result of radioactive decay, because alpha particles are, after all, just helium nuclei. Once that alpha particle stops and absorbs a couple electrons, helium is formed. If this happens near the surface, it enters the atmosphere and eventually escapes into space. It is only present in natural gas because a lot of decay happens under layers of rock that are not permeable to gas and so the helium is trapped.
The dilemma is that the rate of production of helium is constant (ok, to be accurate it is decreasing, but not so much as we would notice given half-lives in the billions of years for radioactive potassium). Therefore if our rate of consumption exceeds the constant rate of production, we will end up with a real shortage.
Is this actually incisive reporting or cheap voyeurism?
Nahh, it's just kdawson trolling...
You should tell him that he's not allowed to fly under 500 feet anyway anywhere under any circumstances unless taking off or landing - that should really get the conspiracy going...
Recapture the helium. Yeah it costs money - until you consider what He will cost in 20 years...
with an "IOU". After all, they've done it with everything else.
We don't NEED to communicate with non-technical people. It has worked so far for well over 100 years of outstanding technological progress - why stop now? The drones can go on mopping floors, cleaning windows, and building buildings and we will go on doing our thing yeah? It's called specialization. Just like I don't expect my builder to understand or be interested in the carnitine shuffle, I have neither the time nor desire to get into the details of the local building code regarding a particular section of wall.
The author deserves an "F" for failing to understand that specialization is a good thing, and specialized fields REQUIRE their own efficient technical jargon. When two doctors speak "lingua medica" it's because it's faster, more convenient and more specific than common English. It's not to "say bad things about patients without them understanding". However why should any technical person lower themselves to the level of the common burger-flipper?
Wonderful advise.
Yes it is. Oh and it's spelled advice, by the way. Don't look at the $30. Look at what will happen to the stock over the next few weeks. Had you shorted on the open of the second day (I posted after the close of the first day) you would be making a couple bucks per share.
But don't mind me, I just make money this way. IPO's are (usually) for suckers. Especially companies that don't have a sensible product (yeah let's sell cars that can only be re-charged within a 200 mile radius in LA, can only be serviced in LA, at a time when the US government is bending over backwards to subsidize GM and no one has any money). While I'm all for electric cars, Tesla is ultra-ultra niche - at least right now.
He may well be a terrorist !! What would you say then ?? Hm ??
I would say that the world needs many more of that sort of terrorist.
To be fair, you just mentioned them in the same sentence. Your point is moot.
So you're saying that our politicians were appointed by an evil tyrant, rather than elected by the majority of people in their state or district?
No, I'm saying that Plato was right: anyone who WANTS power as a politician is by definition the worst candidate for the job. That is democracy's greatest flaw. They are ALL corrupt, it doesn't matter who you vote for - it's the job itself that corrupts you because there are no consequences to being crooked - only varying degrees of crookedness.
I'm not advocating a N. Korea-like dictatorship/monarchy. I am in favor of less powerful government and losing the standing armies.
This is now the best time to sell it short.
rather than a bunch of folks that We The People voted into office to represent the interests of We The People?
Oh gosh, darn, I am sorry! I see you still believe in "democracy".
You think politicians actually listen to the people? $1.2 billion dollars for the G-20 summit. That's $600,000,000 per day. $25 million dollars per hour. They cite "security" as the cause of the huge costs, because 10,000 police were used. I guess those policemen were earning $60,000 per day each, huh? Oh wait no there were helicopters and other assets used so I will be generous and give you $200 million to buy and run those - so $50k each per day, right?
Politicians are told very vocally not to bail out the big banks, and do so anyway. Politicians are told very vocally not to bail out GM, and do so anyway. Politicians are elected on an anti-war agenda, and yet the wars continue. Why the hell do you still believe in democracy? Politicians promise you the world in order to get elected, and fuck you the minute they get into office. In fact I expect BP to receive a lot of government help in the form of contracts and/or tax breaks in the future because (as Cameron said at the G20 summit) we must ensure that BP remains a strong company. Forget the fact that they have one of the worst safety records leading in the deaths of their employees, forget the fact that they are directly responsible for the worst oil spill ever, and forget the fact that they continue to lie about the volume of the spill and continue to use dispersants which they were told not to use - they do whatever they want, and the politicians will forgive all - because apparently this is what the people want - bankrupt Gulf states, oily beaches and a dead sea.
The public took it back and they can lease it out again.
Unfortunately "the public" means "the government". So "the government" will auction the spectrum off to the highest bidder among its corporate bedfellows, and the real public "ie you and me" will have 1) absolutely no say in it and b) have to fork up another tax or fee to use "the public" airwaves.
When you bend over backwards to accommodate radicals. Facebook caved in so easily, now Islam wants to police the entire internet...
There's an old saying: Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
I feel sorry for non radical muslims living in Pakistan because you will soon lose access to slashdot? Why? Because of the following comment:
Mohammed was not the prophet of god, he was a homosexual violence crazed pedophile who enjoyed sneaking pork sandwiches between cock-sucking sessions.
To Pakistan, with love from yours truly and probably quite few of us here on slashdot.
I'm not one to stand in the way of research - but 20 bytes per second? I'm sure they should be able to design some sort of adapter for 300bps modems and use those over the cell phones as voice signals instead, and have a substantial gain in transmission speed...
Now considering that most cell phone carriers world-wide actually charge a fee nowadays for SMS messages, ESPECIALLY in underdeveloped countries, sending a whole lot of SMS messages is probably not going to be more economically viable than hiring Jose (or Ahmed or Abayomi) for a dollar to take a CD to the other town and back on his bicycle.
There's a certain type of mind that tries to innovate by brute force, and yet while it's true that if you put a pair of wings on an internal combustion engine you are close to developing something new, you also have to remember to lose the 4 wheels on 2 axles, the transmission, the heavy steel body and chassis, and add a propeller...
The "analysis" fails to account for what was happening in the currency markets - specifically the USD/JPY market that day. The events in the Forex market preceeded the equities market all day - specifically there was a huge drop in the US dollar (vs Japanese Yen) ten whole minutes BEFORE the S&P plunged. Looking only at the stock market will never let you understand what happened - it was a crisis of confidence not in equities, but rather in the US dollar as a whole.
I'm from Costa Rica where we get earthquakes of this magnitude and greater on a regular basis. Needless to say it caught me by surprise while I sat in my hotel room here in Buffalo. My fist thought was "oh, an earthquake". Then "hey wait a minute, this is normal back home but not here!".
As for GPS co-ordinates, google Buffalo City Hall. I can see it from my window.
Some bacteria can survive quite high levels of radiation, in fact, thrive even.
Oh really?
Not at the doses I am thinking about...
I guess I'm being too literal. The codeine isn't taking the pain away anymore. My bad. You can have your nerd card back but first you have to let go of that female.
And water that is 100% free of bacteria. Oh that? We don't know what THAT is, isn't he kinda cute? But the radiation killed all the bacteria...OH MY GOD WHA
it takes time for the surrounding rock to heat up the cool spot you've created. This places a natural limit on the rate you can extract heat energy from a geothermal well
While I'm no expert in the field I daresay that there's a "natural limit" to anything, including the energy produced from an oil burning plant. Surely the output of the plant is an engineering issue, and it's simply a matter of design.