Were they driving the wrong way down a one-way street naked from the waist down and surfing for child porn on a hacked wireless connection?
If not they should talk to this man.
"Alvarez Hypothesis" is the term used to describe the idea that dinosaurs died as a result of a catastrophic asteroid impact. I do not believe that the hypothesis has attained the status of theory, however.
The main evidence for such a hypothesis seems to come from the observation of geologist Walter Alvarez of a significant layer of Iridium on the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KT boundary), due to the fact that Iridium is a very rare element on Earth but found in abundance in asteroids and meteorites.
This link has some more information along with Wikipedia.
In the episode they also attempted to ignite the fuel using static electricity and failed miserably. They also varied the fuel/air mixture to the point of saturation in the chamber and still were not able to create an explosion.
Only until the very end of the segment when they employed a sparking device were they able to ignite the fuel.
Now, think about the concentration of evaporated fuel in the air surrounding your body as you fill a gas tank. It would be several orders of magnitude smaller than what was in the chamber that Jamie and Adam used in their experiment. I am not saying that it is not possible, just extremely unlikely. If Jamie and Adam could not get a chamber saturated with atomized fuel to ignite then there is even less chance that a minute concentration of evaporated fuel in the air around your body would ignite as well. This revelation is what sealed my conclusion.
Lastly, during the segment they also ran a clip of a fire department demonstrating quite effectively what static electricity will do when filling your tank.
Microsoft counters that their new Windows Server farm is 25% faster and has 50% less TCO.
I won't admonish you for not reading the article
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The article points out that both the HIV virus and the engineered "cure" can be transmitted from person to person.
I think the point you are trying to make is that while this engineered virus may inhibit the effects of HIV, it does not destroy the HIV virus. People may become even more complacent about sex than they are now.
Moreover, what happens if either of the viruses mutate? You could potentially lose the protective effects of the engineered virus and find yourself infected with a new strain of HIV.
As of February 2004 (the most recent I could find), Mexico and Canada were tied then Saudi Arabia, by country.
Looking over the current year it would seem to average out to be just about equal between Mexico and Canada (16%) with Saudi Arabia slightly behind in third place (15%).
The point being that North American sources of oil provide 32% of the total oil imported, more than you'd realize.
Here is my source.
Anti-piracy advocates like to drone on about how piracy raises prices for everyone. Why, then, are GC discs still so outrageously priced if piracy has not made a dent in their profit margin? Wind Waker is still C$69.99 in stores months after a very successful release.
It seems that only the shit titles see a price cut to attract otherwise uninterested customers.
Either the game companies are greedy or piracy has relatively little affect on console game prices.
Diebold is asserting attorney-client privilege and attorney work papers.
What a joke, if the Federal government can violate attorney-client privilege by listening in on the phone calls of accused persons with their attorney, the Tribune can publish internal memos. All gloves are off, so to speak.
I recall an interview with Harrison Ford where he describes his reaction to his lines for Star Wars.
In no uncertain fashion he told Lucas, "I am not saying this shit", and just winged some of these lines.
It seems that a movie needs synergy between actor and director to get the best out of both, even if it is sometimes negative. Lucas has surrounded himself with "Yes, sir" actors, uninspired lines, and a dismal story. He doesn't seem to understand the mix that is needed to recreate the magic from the original series and the actors never question his vision.
You can't have a civil discussion with a Christian. Christians like to think of themselves as rational, but if you observe their behavior you'll find they are anything but. They are full of anger and bitterness, and react with frightful outrage whenever they encounter someone with different views from their own. Even people who think that Christianity is a reasonable philosophy must admit that most Christians did not arrive at their point of view through anything resembling a rational process. Rather, they are poorly socialized individuals who are lashing out angrily at anything which they perceive to be valued by "mainstream" society. You really shouldn't take it personally. It is the result of an angry and profoundly unhappy psychological condition on
their part, not due to you or your Atheistic beliefs.
Exactly, if the NAB, and by proxy Clear Channel, wants to nitpick about XM and Sirius offering local weather and traffic then the FCC might want to ask the NAB about the fact that nothing in a Clear Channel market is local. It should be a condition of their license to offer locally produced, news, weather, etc. not shit beamed from across the country. What if there was a local emergency, how responsive would these stations be?
Clear Channel has nothing to bitch about when the offer a terrestrial only equivalent to XM and Sirius.
How would the tax apply to a company that has internal networking? What about a PBX telephone system, would taxes be due? If not, then LANs must also be logically excluded.
More importantly, most LANs integrate with some form of WAN, of which a relationship must exist with a telecommunications company that pays these state taxes already.
From what I read in the article, the tax was only created to level the taxation benefit that large companies would reap from having a private phone system. Even in 1985, the year this tax was implemented, many companies had some form of internal networking to cover such devices as computers, computerized cash registers, etc. and they were not taxed.
I moved from retail droid to management to IT within a Canadian company, so I have seen all sides. I personally have never had any payroll issues and our system was changed some time ago to bar ANY changes to payroll hours -- once they are recorded nothing can be done about it. I suspect this was in response to managers shaving hours after the fact.
Now that I am at head office I have seen the other side of things. We have, in the past, disciplined and fired many managers for pressuring their employees to report fewer hours. It got so bad they finally turned to the IT department for some answers and we developed a completely new payroll system that, among many things, pulls hours and sales every day for each employee and records a weekly schedule. This had the effect that district managers would give more hours, employees could verify their hours and sales, and managers could schedule more effectively.
My company still does stupid things, most companies do, but in this case it listened to the voices of change and the retail droids actually make more money now.
Let's put it all on the table if we're going to deal with this problem seriously and take a good, hard look at how musicians are compensated from both ends -- producers and consumers.
I have a feeling a lot of record companies would tone down the rhetoric or employ frantic hand waving if their business practices were exposed to some scrutiny. I do not understand why artists haven't brought up the issue of royalties before the Internet and I'd wager the total value of royalties "lost" to file sharing pales in comparison to the amount record companies extort.
Personally, I do not download music from Kazaa and the like, but I have used Puretracks. If services like Puretracks or iTunes existed years ago we might not be in the mess we are now.
Must we tread the same ground over and over again? Nintendo has already indicated more than once that their next machine will be backwards compatible with the GC. A quick Google turned up this.
Sony has also confirmed compatibilty with the PSX and PS2. The Register has the story here.
The only wildcard is Microsoft, who seem to be leaving some of the important hardware specs to the last minute in an effort to meet or beat Sony. It is very unlikely that the Xbox Next, or whatever they're are going to call it, will be backward compatible given the facts that the machine will lack a hard drive, has moved to a different microprocessor family (IBM), entirely new graphics chip from ATI, and a redesigned controller without the black and white buttons.
In my opinion, I find the lack of backwards compatibility very telling -- almost an admission from Microsoft that the current Xbox strategy is a failure. Quite a pity, I really do enjoy my Xbox and backwards compatibility would have cinched me as a customer of the next machine.
WHY does it cost so much more for the same laptop in the UK? Does the UK apply a duty on foreign electronics (many countries do)? Does the cost include expenses such as shipping, additional certifications or regulations that must be met in the UK? Is the cost of doing business in the UK that much more expensive?
Obviously most of this is true, but not to the tune of $1000, a 46% increase over the original price.
I live in Canada and the dollar difference is just enough to justify SOME purchases in the U.S. Shipping, duty and tax eat up almost of all difference. It's almost like it was planned that way.
He covers a wide range of misconceptions, myths and outright falsehoods about astronomy and associated topics. My favorite topic he covers is the "Apollo Moon Landing Hoax". He gives the subject an excellent treatment.
I was at a party with my girlfriend and much to my delight they had a air hockey table.
We just got a mini tournament started when one really scrawny guy was playing my girlfriend when he lunged for the puck, glanced his arm of the side of the table and broke it.
It's one of her favorite party stories; she loves telling people how she broke a guys arm.
Cut them off at the knees -- make purchasing products from companies that spam illegal. I realize it may not feasible or even constitutional, but the only reason spammers stay in business is because people are purchasing their products.
I think that criminalizing problems isn't the best solution, but in this case I would support it.
Dishnet has two DVR model lines -- Dishplayer and Dish. The lowest tier of each group is ONLY single tuner, Dishplayer models 510 and Dish 501/508. I believe Direct TV had dual tuner units a few years before Dish Net did.
I know because I have the Canadian equivalent to the Dish 508 on Express Vu (Express Vu employs Dishnet technology). Many Express Vu customers are anxiously awaiting the dual tuner units that are to be released very soon. There is a six month to a year lead time between Dishnet and Express Vu equivalent model releases.
Point is, some of the lower end DVR units are still single tuner.
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Were they driving the wrong way down a one-way street naked from the waist down and surfing for child porn on a hacked wireless connection? If not they should talk to this man.
did Tibet have to be "taken over" if it wasn't a sovereign nation?
"Alvarez Hypothesis" is the term used to describe the idea that dinosaurs died as a result of a catastrophic asteroid impact. I do not believe that the hypothesis has attained the status of theory, however. The main evidence for such a hypothesis seems to come from the observation of geologist Walter Alvarez of a significant layer of Iridium on the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KT boundary), due to the fact that Iridium is a very rare element on Earth but found in abundance in asteroids and meteorites. This link has some more information along with Wikipedia.
In the episode they also attempted to ignite the fuel using static electricity and failed miserably. They also varied the fuel/air mixture to the point of saturation in the chamber and still were not able to create an explosion.
Only until the very end of the segment when they employed a sparking device were they able to ignite the fuel.
Now, think about the concentration of evaporated fuel in the air surrounding your body as you fill a gas tank. It would be several orders of magnitude smaller than what was in the chamber that Jamie and Adam used in their experiment. I am not saying that it is not possible, just extremely unlikely. If Jamie and Adam could not get a chamber saturated with atomized fuel to ignite then there is even less chance that a minute concentration of evaporated fuel in the air around your body would ignite as well. This revelation is what sealed my conclusion.
Lastly, during the segment they also ran a clip of a fire department demonstrating quite effectively what static electricity will do when filling your tank.
Microsoft counters that their new Windows Server farm is 25% faster and has 50% less TCO.
The article points out that both the HIV virus and the engineered "cure" can be transmitted from person to person.
I think the point you are trying to make is that while this engineered virus may inhibit the effects of HIV, it does not destroy the HIV virus. People may become even more complacent about sex than they are now.
Moreover, what happens if either of the viruses mutate? You could potentially lose the protective effects of the engineered virus and find yourself infected with a new strain of HIV.
As of February 2004 (the most recent I could find), Mexico and Canada were tied then Saudi Arabia, by country. Looking over the current year it would seem to average out to be just about equal between Mexico and Canada (16%) with Saudi Arabia slightly behind in third place (15%). The point being that North American sources of oil provide 32% of the total oil imported, more than you'd realize. Here is my source.
Anti-piracy advocates like to drone on about how piracy raises prices for everyone. Why, then, are GC discs still so outrageously priced if piracy has not made a dent in their profit margin? Wind Waker is still C$69.99 in stores months after a very successful release.
It seems that only the shit titles see a price cut to attract otherwise uninterested customers.
Either the game companies are greedy or piracy has relatively little affect on console game prices.
Canadian scientists have announced an expedition to the North Pole in search of Santa's Workshop (TM).
Diebold is asserting attorney-client privilege and attorney work papers.
What a joke, if the Federal government can violate attorney-client privilege by listening in on the phone calls of accused persons with their attorney, the Tribune can publish internal memos. All gloves are off, so to speak.
Just my 2 cents.
...to keep my Mac running smoothly I have to periodically bleed the brakes and change the oil?
What a lot of work, I'll just stick with Windows.
could you see her ever telling Lucas, "I am not saying this shit" ?
:)
Didn't think so.
I recall an interview with Harrison Ford where he describes his reaction to his lines for Star Wars.
In no uncertain fashion he told Lucas, "I am not saying this shit", and just winged some of these lines.
It seems that a movie needs synergy between actor and director to get the best out of both, even if it is sometimes negative. Lucas has surrounded himself with "Yes, sir" actors, uninspired lines, and a dismal story. He doesn't seem to understand the mix that is needed to recreate the magic from the original series and the actors never question his vision.
You can't have a civil discussion with a Christian. Christians like to think of themselves as rational, but if you observe their behavior you'll find they are anything but. They are full of anger and bitterness, and react with frightful outrage whenever they encounter someone with different views from their own. Even people who think that Christianity is a reasonable philosophy must admit that most Christians did not arrive at their point of view through anything resembling a rational process. Rather, they are poorly socialized individuals who are lashing out angrily at anything which they perceive to be valued by "mainstream" society. You really shouldn't take it personally. It is the result of an angry and profoundly unhappy psychological condition on their part, not due to you or your Atheistic beliefs.
Exactly, if the NAB, and by proxy Clear Channel, wants to nitpick about XM and Sirius offering local weather and traffic then the FCC might want to ask the NAB about the fact that nothing in a Clear Channel market is local. It should be a condition of their license to offer locally produced, news, weather, etc. not shit beamed from across the country. What if there was a local emergency, how responsive would these stations be?
Clear Channel has nothing to bitch about when the offer a terrestrial only equivalent to XM and Sirius.
How would the tax apply to a company that has internal networking? What about a PBX telephone system, would taxes be due? If not, then LANs must also be logically excluded.
More importantly, most LANs integrate with some form of WAN, of which a relationship must exist with a telecommunications company that pays these state taxes already.
From what I read in the article, the tax was only created to level the taxation benefit that large companies would reap from having a private phone system. Even in 1985, the year this tax was implemented, many companies had some form of internal networking to cover such devices as computers, computerized cash registers, etc. and they were not taxed.
Doesn't make sense.
I moved from retail droid to management to IT within a Canadian company, so I have seen all sides. I personally have never had any payroll issues and our system was changed some time ago to bar ANY changes to payroll hours -- once they are recorded nothing can be done about it. I suspect this was in response to managers shaving hours after the fact.
Now that I am at head office I have seen the other side of things. We have, in the past, disciplined and fired many managers for pressuring their employees to report fewer hours. It got so bad they finally turned to the IT department for some answers and we developed a completely new payroll system that, among many things, pulls hours and sales every day for each employee and records a weekly schedule. This had the effect that district managers would give more hours, employees could verify their hours and sales, and managers could schedule more effectively.
My company still does stupid things, most companies do, but in this case it listened to the voices of change and the retail droids actually make more money now.
Let's put it all on the table if we're going to deal with this problem seriously and take a good, hard look at how musicians are compensated from both ends -- producers and consumers.
I have a feeling a lot of record companies would tone down the rhetoric or employ frantic hand waving if their business practices were exposed to some scrutiny. I do not understand why artists haven't brought up the issue of royalties before the Internet and I'd wager the total value of royalties "lost" to file sharing pales in comparison to the amount record companies extort.
Personally, I do not download music from Kazaa and the like, but I have used Puretracks. If services like Puretracks or iTunes existed years ago we might not be in the mess we are now.
Must we tread the same ground over and over again? Nintendo has already indicated more than once that their next machine will be backwards compatible with the GC. A quick Google turned up this.
Sony has also confirmed compatibilty with the PSX and PS2. The Register has the story here.
The only wildcard is Microsoft, who seem to be leaving some of the important hardware specs to the last minute in an effort to meet or beat Sony. It is very unlikely that the Xbox Next, or whatever they're are going to call it, will be backward compatible given the facts that the machine will lack a hard drive, has moved to a different microprocessor family (IBM), entirely new graphics chip from ATI, and a redesigned controller without the black and white buttons.
In my opinion, I find the lack of backwards compatibility very telling -- almost an admission from Microsoft that the current Xbox strategy is a failure. Quite a pity, I really do enjoy my Xbox and backwards compatibility would have cinched me as a customer of the next machine.
WHY does it cost so much more for the same laptop in the UK? Does the UK apply a duty on foreign electronics (many countries do)? Does the cost include expenses such as shipping, additional certifications or regulations that must be met in the UK? Is the cost of doing business in the UK that much more expensive?
Obviously most of this is true, but not to the tune of $1000, a 46% increase over the original price.
I live in Canada and the dollar difference is just enough to justify SOME purchases in the U.S. Shipping, duty and tax eat up almost of all difference. It's almost like it was planned that way.
If you enjoy his web site and the service he provides to the public buy his book, Bad Astronomy.
The link to his book on Amazon can be found here
He covers a wide range of misconceptions, myths and outright falsehoods about astronomy and associated topics. My favorite topic he covers is the "Apollo Moon Landing Hoax". He gives the subject an excellent treatment.
I was at a party with my girlfriend and much to my delight they had a air hockey table.
We just got a mini tournament started when one really scrawny guy was playing my girlfriend when he lunged for the puck, glanced his arm of the side of the table and broke it.
It's one of her favorite party stories; she loves telling people how she broke a guys arm.
How could we have overlooked something so obvious?
Cheers.
Cut them off at the knees -- make purchasing products from companies that spam illegal.
I realize it may not feasible or even constitutional, but the only reason spammers stay in business is because people are purchasing their products.
I think that criminalizing problems isn't the best solution, but in this case I would support it.
Dishnet has two DVR model lines -- Dishplayer and Dish. The lowest tier of each group is ONLY single tuner, Dishplayer models 510 and Dish 501/508. I believe Direct TV had dual tuner units a few years before Dish Net did.
I know because I have the Canadian equivalent to the Dish 508 on Express Vu (Express Vu employs Dishnet technology). Many Express Vu customers are anxiously awaiting the dual tuner units that are to be released very soon. There is a six month to a year lead time between Dishnet and Express Vu equivalent model releases.
Point is, some of the lower end DVR units are still single tuner.