seems a bit overdone, I think they pretty much explained freshman quantum physics in the first part... but if you skip down to the bottom, it makes a smidgeon of sense....
I wouldn't doubt that the actual solution is something similar to this, but the problem they would have is that (if the whole electron bit is true) is the immense forces on the armatures and the internal superconductor.
Theres a problem is that if you try to push strong magnetic fields into a superconductor, they tend to break down (the property of superconductivity, not the actual ceramics).. so when this thing (if its even possible) starts to lift, it will likely collapse the superconductivity of the internal sphere, and it would fail to lift. You'd still see the difference on a scale, but I would doubt you'd ever get off the "launch pad" in the next 50 years.
1. Toxoplasmosis can be contracted from Cat Poop
2. Slashdot nerds keep cats
3. Same nerds may or may not clean out litter pan (Plasmoid control?)
4. Same nerds allow cats to breed until they have 50 feline friends pooping all over the house.
5. Plasmoids tell nerd he likes the urine smell.
6. Nerd gives cats to other nerd friends.
7. Toxoplasmid profit!!
But soil bacteria were the major *SOURCE* of soil bacteria after penecillin was discovered... of *COURSE* they are resistant, they are the source of many of those drugs.
No way in hell a computer can actually interpret in sign language within the next 10 years - at least. I appreciate the difficulty in doing what they have done, but there are intense subtlies to sign that will never be attainable by a machine without a human-like form. Puffing the cheeks, eyebrows, and other expressions are semantic modifiers that can change "I drove" into "I was driving forever!" or "I had to drive those kids ALL day!".
I remember once telling a story, having given place names in space and subjects at the start, that used no further nouns or "pronouns" for the rest of the story. Imagine writing a paragraph without no further nouns/pronouns after the first sentence.
Heck.. "I think therefore I am" doesn't really translate to ASL, as there are no forms of be. Typically, such a quote would be done in SEE, using english terms... but literally it translates to ("I" is implied) "Think then live" or "Here because think"... I've always been confounded by trying to translate the intent of the statement. It was easy to interpret in general use, but always gave me a sort of stumble when I tried to interpret it accurately. I think My best was "I (honorific) proof because I (hon.) think"
Yep, nothing'll teach you a foreign language like being immersed in it and finding a girlfriend. I learn ASL (American Sign Language) this way, and paid a large chunk of my college tuition being an interpreter.
The breakdown using the mit plot parallelled with brigadoon: "Any group of people/persons (student/village) who pray to be delivered from some unfortunate circumstance (waiting/pillaging), who therefore fall into a long slumber to wake at some later time (30 years / one century) until the spell is broken (letter arrives / --)"
In the case of Disney's Gummibears, I believe the spell was broken.
I remember back in '94-'95 running across a "mad science" page with all sorts of these things. This one was supposed to basically attach to the carb and the hydrogen would reduce some of the more complex hydrocarbons into simpler ones or somesuch. I also remember a charcoal fuel filter (involving panty hose), and an electrolysis device based on cavitation... along with a "disk" internal combustion engine (think inside of a harddrive with fuel burning under pressure at the edges and exhaust coming thru the center axel.)
forgot.. in a reasonably non-humid atmosphere, the fluid evaporates without condensing too much water.. leaving the envelope not too much worse for wear.
But you completely forgot to mention Flying Spaghetti Monsterism! I am sure the flying spahetti Monster would have something to say about stem cells... perhaps involving "mast cells" or some other piratey theme.
W is a fisher of men. Throw back the little ones, when they get older, you can send em to die for oil! Much more profit in em once they're older, right George?
Fine, I amend this (see my longer post). Soldiers should not question lawful orders. Command should know that orders should not be given over insecure channels.
Being in the habit of questioning orders is not a good habit. People die ("gee, what if I get shot going over that rise"). Sometimes orders suck, thats the POINT of making them orders. The situation did not have anything to do with lawfulness, it was a situation where orders were being followed in an insecure channel... it should be mandated that official orders will not travel through such channels.
AND speaking of Mai Lai from a news article @ http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/040518 The gentleman was following his duty to the laws of the United States. Thats why soldiers can be tried for Murder in the middle of a war. You are still bound by the laws of your country.
Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who stopped the massacre and promptly reported it to his commander. According to Chief My Lai prosecutor William Eckhardt, when Thompson realized what was happening "He put his helicopter down, put his guns on Americans, and said he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese.
He was doing his duty, and following his Oath to defend the consitution. He also followed to proper channels to report the massacre.
Lets take a look at the Oath:
"I,____________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God"
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) 809.ART.90 (20), makes it clear that military personnel need to obey the "lawful command of his superior officer," 891.ART.91 (2), the "lawful order of a warrant officer", 892.ART.92 (1) the "lawful general order", 892.ART.92 (2) "lawful order". In each case, military personnel have an obligation and a duty to only obey Lawful orders and indeed have an obligation to disobey Unlawful orders, including orders by the president that do not comply with the UCMJ. The moral and legal obligation is to the U.S. Constitution and not to those who would issue unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the UCMJ.
This should place the burden on the USPTO or copyright office or whatever.. if all online companies must comply with this sort of precendence, then there must be a web service or something that will allow website the ability to search for trademarks. This of course, would have to be corporate backed, if there were to be anything resembling snappyness to the whole thing, which just makes the whole matter that much messier.
1. Send one million rubber stamps maked "approved" to India 2. Ship all the applications to India 3. Stamp Away!
Also,
I've been dying for someone to "hack" the patent system and using different words patent the same idea twice (or have two people approved for the same idea).
The "Learning Center" in Okaloosa County, FLorida. is a once-a-week school for the gifted. Kids are bussed in from all over the county on given days of the week. It is structured like a university in that you sign up for classes (one "in depth" class for half a day all semester, and two smaller classes that last half a semester each). I took Chemistry, Oceanography (in depth incl. field trips and studies), Archeology (small digs and trips), Aerospace (mainly lessons of basic Aeronautics - lift,drag, etc.) , Children's Theater (the hobbit), Pottery, Botany, etc. in my 4th through 6th grade adventure.
Frequently teachers at "normal school" would make your life suck (extra homework on learning center days, that you were responsible for).. but the classes I took in elementary school carried me through to college. Botany, for example, I was able to keep straight A's in botany through highschool and college botany classes until my sophomore year. Not much, but this was a semester class I took in elementary school!
The best thing they ever taught, in addition to all this.. was "Looking Good". Dr. Christenson (who everyone had the hots for) taught etiquette, couples dancing, dinner manners, grooming, etc. in separate classes for girls and boys. The "final" was a dance with the girls and boys classes together. Again, lessons that have stuck with me for a life time.
Now that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is arriving or has already arrived in your warehouses and stores, and especially with the weekend before the release upon us, we want to ask your continued vigilance in maintaining the highest level of security around the books. We do not want any "spoilers" to change the readers' experience of the new book!
We ask that you confirm that all procedures are in place and, in particular, that the following steps are implemented:
* Insure the product is segregated from all other stock * Insure all security measures are in place in all stages of the process, and that access to the product and processing areas are appropriately restricted * Insure your entire staff is aware of the restrictions that are in place * Particularly over the weekend, insure appropriate staff, including security personnel, are on site * We recommend you implement, if you haven't already, the following in the secured staging areas and communicate this to your employees: no cell phones or recording devices and no lunch boxes or coolers, only clear bags * Please contact us prior to any communication with the media or other third parties, concerning your operations and security
We greatly appreciate your cooperation and look forward to a successful launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 16th for all booksellers!
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seems a bit overdone, I think they pretty much explained freshman quantum physics in the first part... but if you skip down to the bottom, it makes a smidgeon of sense.... I wouldn't doubt that the actual solution is something similar to this, but the problem they would have is that (if the whole electron bit is true) is the immense forces on the armatures and the internal superconductor. Theres a problem is that if you try to push strong magnetic fields into a superconductor, they tend to break down (the property of superconductivity, not the actual ceramics).. so when this thing (if its even possible) starts to lift, it will likely collapse the superconductivity of the internal sphere, and it would fail to lift. You'd still see the difference on a scale, but I would doubt you'd ever get off the "launch pad" in the next 50 years.
1. Toxoplasmosis can be contracted from Cat Poop 2. Slashdot nerds keep cats 3. Same nerds may or may not clean out litter pan (Plasmoid control?) 4. Same nerds allow cats to breed until they have 50 feline friends pooping all over the house. 5. Plasmoids tell nerd he likes the urine smell. 6. Nerd gives cats to other nerd friends. 7. Toxoplasmid profit!!
But soil bacteria were the major *SOURCE* of soil bacteria after penecillin was discovered... of *COURSE* they are resistant, they are the source of many of those drugs.
No way in hell a computer can actually interpret in sign language within the next 10 years - at least. I appreciate the difficulty in doing what they have done, but there are intense subtlies to sign that will never be attainable by a machine without a human-like form. Puffing the cheeks, eyebrows, and other expressions are semantic modifiers that can change "I drove" into "I was driving forever!" or "I had to drive those kids ALL day!". ... I've always been confounded by trying to translate the intent of the statement. It was easy to interpret in general use, but always gave me a sort of stumble when I tried to interpret it accurately. I think My best was "I (honorific) proof because I (hon.) think"
I remember once telling a story, having given place names in space and subjects at the start, that used no further nouns or "pronouns" for the rest of the story. Imagine writing a paragraph without no further nouns/pronouns after the first sentence.
Heck.. "I think therefore I am" doesn't really translate to ASL, as there are no forms of be. Typically, such a quote would be done in SEE, using english terms... but literally it translates to ("I" is implied) "Think then live" or "Here because think"
Yep, nothing'll teach you a foreign language like being immersed in it and finding a girlfriend. I learn ASL (American Sign Language) this way, and paid a large chunk of my college tuition being an interpreter.
So, given a pile of cash - how does this stop the Appropriately-Motivated-Bad-Guy(tm) from building his own damn equipment?
Brigadoon!
The breakdown using the mit plot parallelled with brigadoon:
"Any group of people/persons (student/village) who pray to be delivered from some unfortunate circumstance (waiting/pillaging), who therefore fall into a long slumber to wake at some later time (30 years / one century) until the spell is broken (letter arrives / --)"
In the case of Disney's Gummibears, I believe the spell was broken.
Make it pressure sensitive for interfacing (writing with a stylus and touch screen), and you got a deal mister!
I remember back in '94-'95 running across a "mad science" page with all sorts of these things. This one was supposed to basically attach to the carb and the hydrogen would reduce some of the more complex hydrocarbons into simpler ones or somesuch. I also remember a charcoal fuel filter (involving panty hose), and an electrolysis device based on cavitation... along with a "disk" internal combustion engine (think inside of a harddrive with fuel burning under pressure at the edges and exhaust coming thru the center axel.)
funny how this stuff shows up time and again
forgot.. in a reasonably non-humid atmosphere, the fluid evaporates without condensing too much water.. leaving the envelope not too much worse for wear.
I just discovered that duster cans (those little cans that blow dust out of your keyboard) when turned upsidedown will blow coolant.
Aim this coolant at a sealed envelope and it makes the paper transparent.
I always thought an IQ test only predicted how white and male you were.
But you completely forgot to mention Flying Spaghetti Monsterism! I am sure the flying spahetti Monster would have something to say about stem cells... perhaps involving "mast cells" or some other piratey theme.
W is a fisher of men. Throw back the little ones, when they get older, you can send em to die for oil! Much more profit in em once they're older, right George?
Prior art? See Aliens.
Fine, I amend this (see my longer post). Soldiers should not question lawful orders. Command should know that orders should not be given over insecure channels.
Being in the habit of questioning orders is not a good habit. People die ("gee, what if I get shot going over that rise"). Sometimes orders suck, thats the POINT of making them orders. The situation did not have anything to do with lawfulness, it was a situation where orders were being followed in an insecure channel... it should be mandated that official orders will not travel through such channels.
:
AND speaking of Mai Lai from a news article @ http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/040518
The gentleman was following his duty to the laws of the United States. Thats why soldiers can be tried for Murder in the middle of a war. You are still bound by the laws of your country.
Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who stopped the massacre and promptly reported it to his commander. According to Chief My Lai prosecutor William Eckhardt, when Thompson realized what was happening "He put his helicopter down, put his guns on Americans, and said he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese.
He was doing his duty, and following his Oath to defend the consitution. He also followed to proper channels to report the massacre.
Lets take a look at the Oath:
"I,____________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God"
From http://www.counterpunch.org/mosqueda02272003.html
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) 809.ART.90 (20), makes it clear that military personnel need to obey the "lawful command of his superior officer," 891.ART.91 (2), the "lawful order of a warrant officer", 892.ART.92 (1) the "lawful general order", 892.ART.92 (2) "lawful order". In each case, military personnel have an obligation and a duty to only obey Lawful orders and indeed have an obligation to disobey Unlawful orders, including orders by the president that do not comply with the UCMJ. The moral and legal obligation is to the U.S. Constitution and not to those who would issue unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the UCMJ.
In combat, no order should be questioned. the edict should be, "Follow any order that comes in official form, email is NOT official for giving orders"
This should place the burden on the USPTO or copyright office or whatever.. if all online companies must comply with this sort of precendence, then there must be a web service or something that will allow website the ability to search for trademarks. This of course, would have to be corporate backed, if there were to be anything resembling snappyness to the whole thing, which just makes the whole matter that much messier.
1. Send one million rubber stamps maked "approved" to India
2. Ship all the applications to India
3. Stamp Away!
Also,
I've been dying for someone to "hack" the patent system and using different words patent the same idea twice (or have two people approved for the same idea).
The bank site needs to tell *YOU* something secret first.
Me (arriving at site): zooble my gooble?
Bank Site: flooble
Me (ok I trust you)
Instead of the site asking me for a password, I give the bank a challenge word or phrase, and I expect a certain response.
The "Learning Center" in Okaloosa County, FLorida. is a once-a-week school for the gifted.
Kids are bussed in from all over the county on given days of the week. It is structured like a university in that you sign up for classes (one "in depth" class for half a day all semester, and two smaller classes that last half a semester each). I took Chemistry, Oceanography (in depth incl. field trips and studies), Archeology (small digs and trips), Aerospace (mainly lessons of basic Aeronautics - lift,drag, etc.) , Children's Theater (the hobbit), Pottery, Botany, etc. in my 4th through 6th grade adventure.
Frequently teachers at "normal school" would make your life suck (extra homework on learning center days, that you were responsible for).. but the classes I took in elementary school carried me through to college. Botany, for example, I was able to keep straight A's in botany through highschool and college botany classes until my sophomore year. Not much, but this was a semester class I took in elementary school!
The best thing they ever taught, in addition to all this.. was "Looking Good". Dr. Christenson (who everyone had the hots for) taught etiquette, couples dancing, dinner manners, grooming, etc. in separate classes for girls and boys. The "final" was a dance with the girls and boys classes together. Again, lessons that have stuck with me for a life time.
sounds a bit like "lithobreaking" in reference to space probes and Mars.
Pictures of the boxes:
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:
Dear Bookseller,
Now that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is arriving or has already arrived in your warehouses and stores, and especially with the weekend before the release upon us, we want to ask your continued vigilance in maintaining the highest level of security around the books. We do not want any "spoilers" to change the readers' experience of the new book!
We ask that you confirm that all procedures are in place and, in particular, that the following steps are implemented
* Insure the product is segregated from all other stock
* Insure all security measures are in place in all stages of the process, and that access to the product and processing areas are appropriately restricted
* Insure your entire staff is aware of the restrictions that are in place
* Particularly over the weekend, insure appropriate staff, including security personnel, are on site
* We recommend you implement, if you haven't already, the following in the secured staging areas and communicate this to your employees: no cell phones or recording devices and no lunch boxes or coolers, only clear bags
* Please contact us prior to any communication with the media or other third parties, concerning your operations and security
We greatly appreciate your cooperation and look forward to a successful launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 16th for all booksellers!
Sincerely,
Scholastic Sales Management