For a long time, for reasons I won't go into, I believed that McCain would make a good president. Although this was one issue I completely disagree with his published opinion, I guess it doesn't matter. I'm reminded of a proverb:
"The absent are always in the wrong"
Looks like I'm voting for a third party for the third time in a row! Who's with me?
For those of us on the other side of the pond, that's about $529.66 and $687.18 respectively, using yesterday's exchange rate (i.e., the first one I found)
an important distinction, something that confused me for awhile; "prejudice" in this sense is not the same as "discrimination", but instead means "pre-judged".
Exactly as you said, when a case is dismissed "without prejudice", it allows another case to be filed later. My understanding is that this is generally in the event of a case being dismissed due to a clerical error.
I would take your comment even further, and say that in general "fate" tends to laugh at plans, and (anecdotally, of course) most efforts undertaken to advance along a set path and accomplish a specific goal are fraught with failures and setbacks. On the other hand, efforts undertaken for the pleasure of doing them frequently not only yield our best culture, but our most innovative advancements (and at worst, they were generally at least amusing).
That's not to say we shouldn't set goals, we should just expect that our true successes in life will come from what others might view as frivolous.
I hate to reply to my own post, but I'm serious. You can mod me down because you disagree with me, but it would be more productive to give an honest answer. Why Obama?
The same question could be asked about Obama. Every time he opens his mouth, I cringe. His only appeal from my vantage point comes not from his logic or aparent ability to govern, but from his charisma.
Disclaimer: This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be snarky, just state the fact that I think that question applies equally to both of the people that our masters permit us to cast a ballot for.
Not in landfill it doesn't. Learn some basic science. If you go to a dump, you can find 50 year old newspapers and phone books that look better preserved than they would in a museum.
Get off my planet, you pathetic waste of oxygen.
As per your very polite suggestion, I went and "learn[ed] some basic science."
Note, please, that I never said how or where things ought to be thrown away (ignoring the fact that "throw it away" is a general term of disposal, and people who are less smug than you don't specifically mean "stuff it away in an eeeeevil laaaandfill", but just "make it so I don't have it anymore"). Also, I never said where or how paper biodegrades.
It turns out that I have always just been exposed to Bioreactor Landfills, and so never really gave a thought that there was another kind. Even regular landfills slowly give off methane, though, which wouldn't happen without bacteria breaking down the organic matter!
You know, folks are more reasonable than you might think. Give some thought next time before you simply start slandering someone. It may be more difficult to change someone's mind, and easier just to belt out insults, and present claims that you don't bother to fully research or cite sources for, but it doesn't accomplish your goal. It just alienates those who OUGHT to be your target audience, and makes people antagonistically disregard your message.
need to set up another guest bedroom for the family reuinion?
Paper dresser, paper night stand, paper bedframe. Paper (mostly) boxspring. The only part that would cost anything would be the actual matress.
And if Uncle Ernest is a particularly rough sleeper, you can just throw the bedframe away and not feel guilty, because it cost $6 and took you 10 minutes to set up.
That's a distortion.
Corporations and LLCs exist to separate the assets of their members from the assets of the company.
If by "shield owners from the liability," you mean "keep the owners' private houses or cars or yachts from becoming a viable asset to be punitively liquidated in a lawsuit," then yes, you are correct.
Howevery, if by "shield owners from the liability," you mean "give the owners a get out of jail free card," then you are mistaken.
They get those cards because they hire charming lawyers and sly accountants.
Given that this is being compared to the EEE, physical dimensions are important. Guessing based on the pencil in the pictures, this looks like it is maybe 8" x 5" (20 cm x 12 cm). You'd think so, but that's actually one of those comically large pencils, putting it at about the size of your entire desk.
Unfortunately, grounding would only help for an electric field - the field would (basically) stop, and the current induced would travel down your connection (although, I'm not sure this would work even then, because one of the things required for an electric field system like this would be a common ground point).
A magnetic field doesn't care terribly about grounds, it only cares about a current loop.
It's moot anyhow, though, because you'd need an incredibly strong magnet to do this... and... well good luck with that.
I live in Ohio (in the greater Columbus area), and face this issue myself. I followed a significant other here, because the market for their skills is much more in demand here. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck to a job which I don't care about at all, and can't find another in the area. So what do I do? Do I start my own company? I've thought about doing that, but I am yet young, and unwise in the ways of the world. Do I keep looking? Jobs are rarely posted, and unfortunately I have yet to find any professional engineering societies locally to network with people. If I caught wind of a local tech start up, I know I for one would flock to such an opportunity.
The further we divorce ourselves from our roots, the further we get from understanding where food comes from, the more you hear about this sort of nonsense. People want to deny that their medium-rare steak once mooed and smelled awful, that their artisan bread was made from grain that rooted in decomposing pig shit. The food pill that so many people wish for is simple fantasy - an escape from the cold harsh reality that we are not saints (and the even less palatable truth that there is nothing wrong with that assertion).
People in denial about nature, thinking that the concept of morals - a concept created by man, for the governing of the behaviour of man towards man - can be applied to animals, are sorely mistaken. Not that we shouldn't treat our animals right in life - heck, I think what takes place on CAFOs and egg factories is downright unconscionable. BUT YOU DON'T FIX THINGS BY REDUCING AND ABSTRACTING THEM. This can work for simple problems, or for a short time, but it will not work in the long run (neither for industrial food, or pretend food like MEATA (TM) ).
Farming over the centuries has provided innumerable benefits to our animals. Chickens, Cows, etc. actually benefit from being under our protection. They no longer have the natural defenses their progenitors once posessed. The image of the wild cow freed from its shackles of slavery is a myth, a fantasy. If we synthesized all of our meat, and freed our livestock, they would in short order go extinct. Reducing its suffering? Yes, I suppose not living implies not suffering. But once again, you don't solve these problems by getting further away from them - you reduce suffering by farming differently, not genetically engineering away anxiety, or making brainless test-tube ribeye.
Finally, this is completely unsustainable. By that I mean that doing this requires substantial energy input. Where is that energy going to come from? This is just a guess, but based off of previous data, I think it would bear out: petroleum. Love it, hate it, it's an amazing source of energy. One that won't be around forever. How do you grow sustainable meat? Well, that also requires substantial energy input - from the sun. I'm of course ignoring pesticides and fertilizers for the feed crops - they're unsustainable as well. However, you don't fix the problem BY ABSTRACTING IT EVEN FURTHER.
Okay, done ranting. If you want more information about this and other topics, might I redirect you to The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, and Polyface Farms? Not the whole answer, but it's a good start. We aren't going to solve these problems by thinking about it from an industrial perspective. It's about time we start to think differently.
Peter: Brian, are you suggesting that Battlestar Galactica didn't change everything?
Brian: What? No, I was just...
Peter: 'Cause Battlestar Galactica changed everything, Brian! Battlestar Galactica changed everything!
Brian: Peter, you didn't even know what Battlestar Galactica was until the reimagined series.
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yeah, but then I have to reach for my keyboard to type it in, which is hard to do while one hand is on the mouse and the other is... uh... er... busy.
Most people don't care about true things. They care about exciting things. And to them, unfortunately, the truth is usually not exciting.
Newspaper reporters and editors are there to keep ad revenue coming in, and ensure that people want to keep buying subscriptions.
For a long time, for reasons I won't go into, I believed that McCain would make a good president. Although this was one issue I completely disagree with his published opinion, I guess it doesn't matter. I'm reminded of a proverb:
"The absent are always in the wrong"
Looks like I'm voting for a third party for the third time in a row! Who's with me?
For those of us on the other side of the pond, that's about $529.66 and $687.18 respectively, using yesterday's exchange rate (i.e., the first one I found)
an important distinction, something that confused me for awhile; "prejudice" in this sense is not the same as "discrimination", but instead means "pre-judged".
Exactly as you said, when a case is dismissed "without prejudice", it allows another case to be filed later. My understanding is that this is generally in the event of a case being dismissed due to a clerical error.
Pennies are zinc.
Maybe that's another good reason to stop making pennies.
I would take your comment even further, and say that in general "fate" tends to laugh at plans, and (anecdotally, of course) most efforts undertaken to advance along a set path and accomplish a specific goal are fraught with failures and setbacks. On the other hand, efforts undertaken for the pleasure of doing them frequently not only yield our best culture, but our most innovative advancements (and at worst, they were generally at least amusing).
That's not to say we shouldn't set goals, we should just expect that our true successes in life will come from what others might view as frivolous.
It'll only baffle our ancestors if it performs the time-travel slingshot maneuver while going backwards around the sun.
I hate to reply to my own post, but I'm serious. You can mod me down because you disagree with me, but it would be more productive to give an honest answer. Why Obama?
Disclaimer: This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be snarky, just state the fact that I think that question applies equally to both of the people that our masters permit us to cast a ballot for.
As per your very polite suggestion, I went and "learn[ed] some basic science."
Note, please, that I never said how or where things ought to be thrown away (ignoring the fact that "throw it away" is a general term of disposal, and people who are less smug than you don't specifically mean "stuff it away in an eeeeevil laaaandfill", but just "make it so I don't have it anymore"). Also, I never said where or how paper biodegrades.
It turns out that I have always just been exposed to Bioreactor Landfills, and so never really gave a thought that there was another kind. Even regular landfills slowly give off methane, though, which wouldn't happen without bacteria breaking down the organic matter!
You know, folks are more reasonable than you might think. Give some thought next time before you simply start slandering someone. It may be more difficult to change someone's mind, and easier just to belt out insults, and present claims that you don't bother to fully research or cite sources for, but it doesn't accomplish your goal. It just alienates those who OUGHT to be your target audience, and makes people antagonistically disregard your message.
Paper, being a simple product of natural goods, biodegrades.
Now, go wave your greenwashing stick at someone else, please.
need to set up another guest bedroom for the family reuinion?
Paper dresser, paper night stand, paper bedframe. Paper (mostly) boxspring. The only part that would cost anything would be the actual matress.
And if Uncle Ernest is a particularly rough sleeper, you can just throw the bedframe away and not feel guilty, because it cost $6 and took you 10 minutes to set up.
That's a distortion. Corporations and LLCs exist to separate the assets of their members from the assets of the company. If by "shield owners from the liability," you mean "keep the owners' private houses or cars or yachts from becoming a viable asset to be punitively liquidated in a lawsuit," then yes, you are correct. Howevery, if by "shield owners from the liability," you mean "give the owners a get out of jail free card," then you are mistaken. They get those cards because they hire charming lawyers and sly accountants.
This is a picture of the moon blowing up, and this is me smiling!
A magnetic field doesn't care terribly about grounds, it only cares about a current loop.
It's moot anyhow, though, because you'd need an incredibly strong magnet to do this... and... well good luck with that.
I live in Ohio (in the greater Columbus area), and face this issue myself. I followed a significant other here, because the market for their skills is much more in demand here. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck to a job which I don't care about at all, and can't find another in the area. So what do I do? Do I start my own company? I've thought about doing that, but I am yet young, and unwise in the ways of the world. Do I keep looking? Jobs are rarely posted, and unfortunately I have yet to find any professional engineering societies locally to network with people. If I caught wind of a local tech start up, I know I for one would flock to such an opportunity.
so, by that logic, wouldn't a better name for it be a flux capacitor?
I made the horrible mistake of reading that while eating!
People in denial about nature, thinking that the concept of morals - a concept created by man, for the governing of the behaviour of man towards man - can be applied to animals, are sorely mistaken. Not that we shouldn't treat our animals right in life - heck, I think what takes place on CAFOs and egg factories is downright unconscionable. BUT YOU DON'T FIX THINGS BY REDUCING AND ABSTRACTING THEM. This can work for simple problems, or for a short time, but it will not work in the long run (neither for industrial food, or pretend food like MEATA (TM) ).
Farming over the centuries has provided innumerable benefits to our animals. Chickens, Cows, etc. actually benefit from being under our protection. They no longer have the natural defenses their progenitors once posessed. The image of the wild cow freed from its shackles of slavery is a myth, a fantasy. If we synthesized all of our meat, and freed our livestock, they would in short order go extinct. Reducing its suffering? Yes, I suppose not living implies not suffering. But once again, you don't solve these problems by getting further away from them - you reduce suffering by farming differently, not genetically engineering away anxiety, or making brainless test-tube ribeye.
Finally, this is completely unsustainable. By that I mean that doing this requires substantial energy input. Where is that energy going to come from? This is just a guess, but based off of previous data, I think it would bear out: petroleum. Love it, hate it, it's an amazing source of energy. One that won't be around forever. How do you grow sustainable meat? Well, that also requires substantial energy input - from the sun. I'm of course ignoring pesticides and fertilizers for the feed crops - they're unsustainable as well. However, you don't fix the problem BY ABSTRACTING IT EVEN FURTHER.
Okay, done ranting. If you want more information about this and other topics, might I redirect you to The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, and Polyface Farms? Not the whole answer, but it's a good start. We aren't going to solve these problems by thinking about it from an industrial perspective. It's about time we start to think differently.
Boycott his class. "Wildlife Issues in the New Millennium" sounds replaceable to me.
Peter: Brian, are you suggesting that Battlestar Galactica didn't change everything? Brian: What? No, I was just... Peter: 'Cause Battlestar Galactica changed everything, Brian! Battlestar Galactica changed everything! Brian: Peter, you didn't even know what Battlestar Galactica was until the reimagined series.
This gives a new meaning to the word "vaporware" :P