true but there are also economies of transmision to take into consideration. There is a reason the US doen't have one big power plant in the middle of the country. You lose more the farther you transmit the power.
Cars have the advandage of transmiting power about 6 inches.
Sure we could put an enormous power plant east of the mounains but you'll have to pay for the power lost while getting from there to your car.
If adaquate air quality could be achieved with hybrid cars there's a good chance that its cheaper to do it that way.
There's also a chance its cheaper to build the big power plant out east. I'm no econimist/cost type guy.
that the universe is going to do something blatantly ridiculus they say that my simulation is wrong or that I dropped a minus sign or that it's just not worth considering.
After all *their* simulation must be right and they *haven't* dropped any minus signs and they certanly have all the information they need to make radical but perfectly justifiable claims like this.
Sure is good to know that ever since that whole flat earth thing they've always been right on.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know what the author(s) of the book of Genisis meant when they wrote it?
I mean is there somekind of secret page 0 where it says,
"It should be noted that the author(s) of the book of Genesis did not write the story of the creation in order to teach how the world came to be, rather it was written to express a spiritual concept - that of a parental higher power, god, or divine origin that preceedes mankind."
or something? I sure haven't seen it when I've read it.
The reason we have awards for movies is the same as the reason English teachers can give good grades to some students for good writing and poor grades to others for poor writing.
We can't actually draw up specs for good art but there is "good art" and "bad art".
Some movies are *almost* universally accepted as powerful well done or otherwise meritorious. For example, La Vida e Bella(Life is Beautiful) or Casablanca.
Other films are *almost* universally accepted as bad uninteresting or sloppy. For example, the movies lambasted on MST3K(prior to the addition of the robots of course).
Not that the acadamy awards acurately represent that correlation but the idea of awarding good or spurning bad movies is not that radical.
i'm going to build a giant hot air ballon out of this stuff and use my "electrical denim" ballon to power a hydrogen extractor that will pull fuel out of moist air.
Then I should be able to make it around the world no problem since I won't have to start with any gas.
And when I'm done i'll just pick an ugly building and crash into it and change them for the power supply.
If we put stuff on those probes that can withstand an atmosphere of sulpheric acid and temperatures hot enough to boil lead I think we would probably be using them here for research already.
Have you tried Zyprexa? My dads manic depressive and he can't sleep very well when hes on a manic kick. His doctor prescribed it since it was kind of designed to help manic people calm down. Its also supposed to help with controlling the up phases and thus limits the down phases.
At least for my dad the stuff works like a charm. He gets the smallest dose they make and takes 1/3 of a pill if hes having problems.
while I agree with you that medical companies have probably gone a bit far with overcharging I really don't see why the medical industry should be that different from other industries.
If they put billions into research and don't get paid for it then they won't do research.
Think of it not as "poor people don't get this cause we patented it"
instead think of it as "rich people pay exhorbitant amounts of money for new treatments so that eventually poor people can have them".
If a computer can regognize the difference between a t-shirt and a sweater by sight in a closet in order to select one and pack it for me then great.
I don't however want my computer butler staring at my closet for O(N^8) seconds where N is the number of pixels in his ccd camera just to figure out what to grab next.
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In article 1 section 8 it says that the president is to raise and support an army but no appropriations for this shall endure for more than two years.
The next statement is that he is to provide and maintain a navy with no restrictions on this.
Navy is usually part of the military and it appears that it was to be standing.
true but there are also economies of transmision to take into consideration. There is a reason the US doen't have one big power plant in the middle of the country. You lose more the farther you transmit the power. Cars have the advandage of transmiting power about 6 inches. Sure we could put an enormous power plant east of the mounains but you'll have to pay for the power lost while getting from there to your car. If adaquate air quality could be achieved with hybrid cars there's a good chance that its cheaper to do it that way. There's also a chance its cheaper to build the big power plant out east. I'm no econimist/cost type guy.
that the universe is going to do something blatantly ridiculus they say that my simulation is wrong or that I dropped a minus sign or that it's just not worth considering.
After all *their* simulation must be right and they *haven't* dropped any minus signs and they certanly have all the information they need to make radical but perfectly justifiable claims like this.
Sure is good to know that ever since that whole flat earth thing they've always been right on.
Yay
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heres a good form of encryption.
:)
step one: make up your own alphabet/language.
step two: write a letter in it on paper
step three: bite the bullet and pay the 40 cents to mail it.
as long as you don't leave your rosetta stone lying around your good.
lets set up 2 dozen mailservers or so, and then flood the internet with their mail addresses in all the *good* spam spots.
if we could get some percentage of spam going to those servers *we* want, then none would get to the servers the spammers want
right from your own home, earn >$1000000000
in your first 35 years or LESS.
thousands of scientists and drug companies have made FORTUNES looking in obscure places for LIFE SUSTAINING pharmocueticals.
Just start looking at nasty dirty places in and around your home and use RIDICULOSLY EXPENSIVE LAB EQUIPMENT to search for CURATIVE properties.
It's so easy anyone can do it
or not
take that back, wrong author
Sorry
Do you really believe what seems to be implied at the end or your Uplift series, that *aliens* have influenced our development?
some naturally occuring aluminum projectile weapons on europa and *BANG* life :)
Just out of curiosity, how do you know what the author(s) of the book of Genisis meant when they wrote it?
I mean is there somekind of secret page 0 where it says,
"It should be noted that the author(s) of the book of Genesis did not write the story of the creation in order to teach how the world came to be, rather it was written to express a spiritual concept - that of a parental higher power, god, or divine origin that preceedes mankind."
or something?
I sure haven't seen it when I've read it.
The reason we have awards for movies is the same as the reason English teachers can give good grades to some students for good writing and poor grades to others for poor writing.
We can't actually draw up specs for good art but there is "good art" and "bad art".
Some movies are *almost* universally accepted as powerful well done or otherwise meritorious. For example, La Vida e Bella(Life is Beautiful) or Casablanca.
Other films are *almost* universally accepted as bad uninteresting or sloppy. For example, the movies lambasted on MST3K(prior to the addition of the robots of course).
Not that the acadamy awards acurately represent that correlation but the idea of awarding good or spurning bad movies is not that radical.
i'm going to build a giant hot air ballon out of this stuff and use my "electrical denim" ballon to power a hydrogen extractor that will pull fuel out of moist air.
Then I should be able to make it around the world no problem since I won't have to start with any gas.
And when I'm done i'll just pick an ugly building and crash into it and change them for the power supply.
I can't believe no one has thought of this yet.
Those of your customers who don't have fast access to the internet may appreciate even a slightly faster standard.
contaminating venus would be rather interesting.
If we put stuff on those probes that can withstand an atmosphere of sulpheric acid and temperatures hot enough to boil lead I think we would probably be using them here for research already.
Maybe I'm crazy but if your processor is vaporizing water doesn't that mean that its running at 100 deg celcius?
Isn't that a slightly less desireable temperature for your CPU to run at?
Like my signals and systems teacher says
"If you know how to build (room temperature superconductors) come see me."
I don't care how expensive they are, I'll buy them.
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Have you tried Zyprexa? My dads manic depressive and he can't sleep very well when hes on a manic kick. His doctor prescribed it since it was kind of designed to help manic people calm down. Its also supposed to help with controlling the up phases and thus limits the down phases.
At least for my dad the stuff works like a charm. He gets the smallest dose they make and takes 1/3 of a pill if hes having problems.
i've heard that even with modern dram the capacitors are so small they have to rewrite them after reading so thats really not that different.
while I agree with you that medical companies have probably gone a bit far with overcharging I really don't see why the medical industry should be that different from other industries.
If they put billions into research and don't get paid for it then they won't do research.
Think of it not as "poor people don't get this cause we patented it"
instead think of it as "rich people pay exhorbitant amounts of money for new treatments so that eventually poor people can have them".
everything at a longitude more west than the prime meridian and more east than the international date line is "west" antartica
Just like for the rest of the world
"Drive 3 blocks north, then take the one-quarter pi radian turn right, and go another block."
You must live in a strange nieghborhood to tell people "Drive 3 blocks north then take the 90 degree turn right" yourself.
Really!!
:)
I SWEAR
I'm NOT just pulling this out of my butt. I PROMISE!!!!
There is also something to be said of big-O
If a computer can regognize the difference between a t-shirt and a sweater by sight in a closet in order to select one and pack it for me then great.
I don't however want my computer butler staring at my closet for O(N^8) seconds where N is the number of pixels in his ccd camera just to figure out what to grab next.
I really really want to sell private information about others
:)
Can't I PUH-LEASE Daddy
that would be why they decided to call it a VACCINE