To me Joyce seems like the broken watch of politics: for two seconds a day he's spot on, for the other 84,398 he's wrong in so many ways. Whether it's deliberate or just a result of living in rural Queensland too long is hard to say.
No surprise with the Slipper case, and we're going to hear a lot about press releases and timestamps over the next few days.
Yes indeed: five litres of water minimum, five litre fuel can, basic first aid kit and emergency blanket, spare tyre and a can of foam tyre filler (where there's one puncture...), wrenches, pliars, screwdrivers, hammer, steel wire, gaffer tape, two part epoxy putty,WD-40, and hexamine fuel tablets usually. Quantity of food depended on anticipated range, but I never travelled without something edible, even if it was just a bag of caramels (chocolate tends to melt)...mind you, there's usually plenty to eat even in arid areas, provided you're not too fussy.
IMO it's good sense to have most of this stuff in a car even in a city.
OK, let me rephrase that to suit your sudden literal turn: less of a loss is still a loss. You may know a bit of basic commerce, but you seem to forget that most businesses exist to turn a profit, and by that standard the Daily would still be a failure.
I'm sorry if you think your point excludes all others...It doesn't.
Where did I say that it did? All I said was that what you said and what the AC said are not the same, and I was responding to the AC, not you (and it'd be bloody amazing if I could respond to your post before it was written). In fact, if you look carefully you'll see I agreed that developing exclusively for iOS doesn't make sense any more. But I still maintain that porting Android wouldn't have saved such a fundamentally flawed concept as this one, and in this instance the AC was wrong (which is not a statement about porting to Android in general).
Ironically having looked at the figures, I think your point is not as strong as you think it is.
How does an estimate that includes Android and still comes up with a loss weaken my point? If anything it proves it.
No AC is stating that iExclusivity when Apples market share has been shrinking, is stupid
I agree with that last part, but the exact words were "This would have thrived in Android space". There's no reason to believe it would have since it was just plain awful, and I was responding to what was written, not your interpretation of what was written.
by supporting Platforms other than Apple it could have supported twice the readership, at very extra cost.
Twice nothing is still nothing. And that's my point: apps on either platform aren't a license to print money, they have to provide a superior service to the built-in browser. This one didn't, hence my interpretation of the AC's comment.
That depends on how you define life. I define it as "a self-sustaining biological unit suitably equipped to survive in its nominal environment". Humans are not adapted to survive when immersed in amniotic fluid, and when they are immersed in it they aren't a self-sustaining biological unit. Your definition may be "any functioning cells", but that includes a leaf just fallen from a tree, a heart in an organ transport cooler, or the leg of a cat that's just been run over and otherwise reduced to pulp, and that's clearly way too broad.
Life OBVIOUSLY starts at conception.
Not obvious at all. At conception all you have is a single cell, and while there are single celled organisms, this cell isn't capable of surviving on it's own. It's just a free-drifting cell which will cease to function if it doesn't implant itself in the uterus wall within a matter of days, so at this stage it's biological but about as much "life" as a blood cell or a transplant organ.
Once it implants itself it relies 100% on the host (or mother if you prefer) for nutrition, oxygen, etc. This is also true of a kidney. Again, both are biological, but neither are independently self-sustaining biological units. Still not life by my definition, but life by the cat's leg standard.
After some months the internal organs develop to a point where it can survive outside the womb with varying degrees of artificial assistance. This could be considered life, but lacking the intervention it's not viable life, it will quickly die or suffer serious permanent damage in the event of a power outage, a faulty humidicrib, or even spontaneous organ failure due to stress.
Full term baby: definitely life. It breathes without assistance, it maintains it's own body temperature (not perfectly, true), its skin is suited to exposure to air...IOW, it is fully adapted to function as a biological unit in its nominal environment.
So unless you introduce unprovable religious concepts like a soul or use an effectively meaningless definition of life, it is by no means certain that life begins at conception.
Can you get life without conception?
Of course you can. Bacteria do just fine without it, and there are lots of higher species that can reproduce by parthenogenesis or other asexual means. And if you're prepared to accept artificially supported life as life, I don't see why artificial cloning doesn't count.
Oh that's right, life starts AFTER the baby leaves the womb and not before.
Well, yes. Until that point it's only potential life, and sometimes confusing potential life with actual life can have dire consequences. HAND.
There are more than three. In fact, the Bureau of Meteorology's phone lines were jammed for almost two minutes with calls from Far North Queensland (or Effin' Q as it's usually called) complaining that the sun had gone out early and blaming the southern states for confusing it with their newfangled daylight savings time. The calls stopped when it came back, of course, but they vowed to remember this at the next federal election...
The 15 years is cumulative; six counts of rape or any other violent crime would get way more than 15 years (probably six consecutive life sentences for a third-strike offender if I'm reading it right, but IANAMSL), so the direct comparison to a single count is somewhat misleading. Debate over whether a custodial sentence is justified in this instance aside, we could limit the terms for an indefinite number of non-violent crimes to less than the minimum for a single violent crime, but since that's effectively offering a bulk discount anyone breaking a law would have to be pretty stupid not to do it on a grand scale. Of course, that's one way of cutting down the number of petty crooks...
This is a modern reverb spring module, but it's essentially the same as the original George Hammond design which was used by Fender (and, of course, in Hammond organs)...note the driver and pickup coils at the ends of the spring assembly.
Reverb springs in guitar amps never used acoustic coupling for two reasons: first, putting a microphone inside the same cabinet as the speaker it's feeding is obviously a bad idea; second, the SPL required to excite the spring is so much higher than the spring itself can produce (2nd law of thermodynamics on top of very lossy coupling) that any reverb signal is swamped by the direct sound from the speaker, with the result that you're mostly mixing in the speaker's frequency and phase response and screwing up your EQ settings according to how high you crank the reverb return level. It'd sound awful, not anything like the classic guitar spring reverb.
Turnbull is an idiot, he knows nothing about IT and tech, why is he the shadow communications minister?
Turnbull was the chairman of OzEmail and owns part of online CD retailer Chaos Music. He may not be an IT specialist, but he definitely knows more about the industry than Conroy. He also knows damn well how the NBN stands to hurt his current business interests (outside Goldman Sachs, that is). Thinking he's an idiot is a mistake...he is in fact quite clever and very, very dangerous.
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Fair call, typo on my part.
To me Joyce seems like the broken watch of politics: for two seconds a day he's spot on, for the other 84,398 he's wrong in so many ways. Whether it's deliberate or just a result of living in rural Queensland too long is hard to say.
No surprise with the Slipper case, and we're going to hear a lot about press releases and timestamps over the next few days.
There's a current politician who isn't?
Im just glad she listened to the right people when it comes to fiber.
Indeed, the last thing you want is a constipated PM.
Don't forget Julie Bishop's effort in outstaring a garden gnome.
Yes indeed: five litres of water minimum, five litre fuel can, basic first aid kit and emergency blanket, spare tyre and a can of foam tyre filler (where there's one puncture...), wrenches, pliars, screwdrivers, hammer, steel wire, gaffer tape, two part epoxy putty,WD-40, and hexamine fuel tablets usually. Quantity of food depended on anticipated range, but I never travelled without something edible, even if it was just a bag of caramels (chocolate tends to melt)...mind you, there's usually plenty to eat even in arid areas, provided you're not too fussy.
IMO it's good sense to have most of this stuff in a car even in a city.
How about following the road signs that predate GPS by decades? Worked for me when I used to drive around out that way in the 90s.
OK, let me rephrase that to suit your sudden literal turn: less of a loss is still a loss. You may know a bit of basic commerce, but you seem to forget that most businesses exist to turn a profit, and by that standard the Daily would still be a failure.
I'm sorry if you think your point excludes all others...It doesn't.
Where did I say that it did? All I said was that what you said and what the AC said are not the same, and I was responding to the AC, not you (and it'd be bloody amazing if I could respond to your post before it was written). In fact, if you look carefully you'll see I agreed that developing exclusively for iOS doesn't make sense any more. But I still maintain that porting Android wouldn't have saved such a fundamentally flawed concept as this one, and in this instance the AC was wrong (which is not a statement about porting to Android in general).
Ironically having looked at the figures, I think your point is not as strong as you think it is.
How does an estimate that includes Android and still comes up with a loss weaken my point? If anything it proves it.
No AC is stating that iExclusivity when Apples market share has been shrinking, is stupid
I agree with that last part, but the exact words were "This would have thrived in Android space". There's no reason to believe it would have since it was just plain awful, and I was responding to what was written, not your interpretation of what was written.
by supporting Platforms other than Apple it could have supported twice the readership, at very extra cost.
Twice nothing is still nothing. And that's my point: apps on either platform aren't a license to print money, they have to provide a superior service to the built-in browser. This one didn't, hence my interpretation of the AC's comment.
So you're saying Android users like apps that emulate crippled web sites with intrusive advertising? That seems odd.
So when does life start?
That depends on how you define life. I define it as "a self-sustaining biological unit suitably equipped to survive in its nominal environment". Humans are not adapted to survive when immersed in amniotic fluid, and when they are immersed in it they aren't a self-sustaining biological unit. Your definition may be "any functioning cells", but that includes a leaf just fallen from a tree, a heart in an organ transport cooler, or the leg of a cat that's just been run over and otherwise reduced to pulp, and that's clearly way too broad.
Life OBVIOUSLY starts at conception.
Not obvious at all. At conception all you have is a single cell, and while there are single celled organisms, this cell isn't capable of surviving on it's own. It's just a free-drifting cell which will cease to function if it doesn't implant itself in the uterus wall within a matter of days, so at this stage it's biological but about as much "life" as a blood cell or a transplant organ.
Once it implants itself it relies 100% on the host (or mother if you prefer) for nutrition, oxygen, etc. This is also true of a kidney. Again, both are biological, but neither are independently self-sustaining biological units. Still not life by my definition, but life by the cat's leg standard.
After some months the internal organs develop to a point where it can survive outside the womb with varying degrees of artificial assistance. This could be considered life, but lacking the intervention it's not viable life, it will quickly die or suffer serious permanent damage in the event of a power outage, a faulty humidicrib, or even spontaneous organ failure due to stress.
Full term baby: definitely life. It breathes without assistance, it maintains it's own body temperature (not perfectly, true), its skin is suited to exposure to air...IOW, it is fully adapted to function as a biological unit in its nominal environment.
So unless you introduce unprovable religious concepts like a soul or use an effectively meaningless definition of life, it is by no means certain that life begins at conception.
Can you get life without conception?
Of course you can. Bacteria do just fine without it, and there are lots of higher species that can reproduce by parthenogenesis or other asexual means. And if you're prepared to accept artificially supported life as life, I don't see why artificial cloning doesn't count.
Oh that's right, life starts AFTER the baby leaves the womb and not before.
Well, yes. Until that point it's only potential life, and sometimes confusing potential life with actual life can have dire consequences. HAND.
OK, let's sing it instead!
There are more than three. In fact, the Bureau of Meteorology's phone lines were jammed for almost two minutes with calls from Far North Queensland (or Effin' Q as it's usually called) complaining that the sun had gone out early and blaming the southern states for confusing it with their newfangled daylight savings time. The calls stopped when it came back, of course, but they vowed to remember this at the next federal election...
The 15 years is cumulative; six counts of rape or any other violent crime would get way more than 15 years (probably six consecutive life sentences for a third-strike offender if I'm reading it right, but IANAMSL), so the direct comparison to a single count is somewhat misleading. Debate over whether a custodial sentence is justified in this instance aside, we could limit the terms for an indefinite number of non-violent crimes to less than the minimum for a single violent crime, but since that's effectively offering a bulk discount anyone breaking a law would have to be pretty stupid not to do it on a grand scale. Of course, that's one way of cutting down the number of petty crooks...
Congratulations on providing proof that the study is correct.
That's OK, it's 15% backwards compatible.
This is a modern reverb spring module, but it's essentially the same as the original George Hammond design which was used by Fender (and, of course, in Hammond organs)...note the driver and pickup coils at the ends of the spring assembly.
Reverb springs in guitar amps never used acoustic coupling for two reasons: first, putting a microphone inside the same cabinet as the speaker it's feeding is obviously a bad idea; second, the SPL required to excite the spring is so much higher than the spring itself can produce (2nd law of thermodynamics on top of very lossy coupling) that any reverb signal is swamped by the direct sound from the speaker, with the result that you're mostly mixing in the speaker's frequency and phase response and screwing up your EQ settings according to how high you crank the reverb return level. It'd sound awful, not anything like the classic guitar spring reverb.
That was Mary Shelley's department.
Turnbull is an idiot, he knows nothing about IT and tech, why is he the shadow communications minister?
Turnbull was the chairman of OzEmail and owns part of online CD retailer Chaos Music. He may not be an IT specialist, but he definitely knows more about the industry than Conroy. He also knows damn well how the NBN stands to hurt his current business interests (outside Goldman Sachs, that is). Thinking he's an idiot is a mistake...he is in fact quite clever and very, very dangerous.
Check out Oolite. Much of the stuff on your list is already there.
You won't find a Dell logo inside the Dell display either. What's your point?
Yeah... I'm pretty sure they fired everyone on that team and fumagated the building.
Shouldn't have been done in that order, IMO.
Here's the 2010 Australian Hilux TV commercial; looks more like a major selling point than a suggestion to me.
That's a feature: quick self-drying.
I tried writing with one of those Bic pens, but the ergonomics were so bad it left me with a burning sensation.