Except what makes him happy is trying to convince me the rolex is the better watch despite it not performing nearly as well in the category of "watch-ness".
The rolex looks very nice, in a manly sort of way, but to me, not $2970 nicer.
A friend has a $3000 rolex which he just knows is far superior to my $30 timex digital. (has to be, doesn't it, it cost 100 x more).
The rolex and the timex both do the same thing, they tell time. The rolex gains 3 seconds per day, the timex looses 20 seconds per year so the timex is 50 times more accurate at keeping time. In addition the timex has big easy-to-read numbers, a reflective background so you can damn near read it by moonlight and a light for when its real dark. The timex also has a stopwatch, alarm, 2nd time zone display and up/down timers (all perfectly sensible time-related functions) all of which the rolex desn't have.
But he still thinks his watch is "better". He just can't say why.
An eye for an eye was a biblical limit on retribution. If someone pokes out your eye, the most you can do to him is poke out his eye. ie you can't kill him or sell him and his entire family into slavery. A fair and balanced (TM) response. Spamming the spammers is approved by (at least one) God.
I don't get why having the misfortune to be on a shuttle that came apart on re-entry makes the crew heroes. It doesn't require any heroism to get killed, you just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; physics will take care of the rest.
To me, what makes them heroes, and the other shuttle crews just as heroic, is knowing that they could die a spectacular flaming death, but getting on the shuttle anyhow.
No No NO (or are you an SI-Troll). Newton is a unit of force - kgm^2/s^2. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram. The SI unit of force (weight is a force) is the Newton. The US unit of force is the pound and the US unit of mass is the slug.
The Engineering school I went to back when required 15 units of Arts as part of the program (5 full term courses). I recall we liked the idea because we blew through classes like Psych 100 or Econ 100 with condescending ease. The engineer's natural disdain for and arrogant dismissal of "Artsies" was not improved by actual contact with said "Artsies"
example: Econ 100. Prof draws a graph on chalkboard, two axes and a 45 degree sloping line. He labels the y-intercept "a" and the x-intercept "b". Girl (not engineer) raises hand and says "I don't think the curve is really that steep". Prof erases line, redraws it with 30 degree slope, labels the y-intercept "a" and the x-intercept "b". Girl nods, says "much better". Engineers are laughing so hard they fall out of their chairs, girl can't figure out why they are laughing.
Many (not all) arts students would never graduate if they had to take 15 units of engineering courses.
Hugely Pedantic Technical Niggle - We use loops for vehicle detection and they are mostly not a single conductor. We drop one loop of a 4 conductor unshielded control cable in the ground. Then cross connect the wires red to black, black to green, green to white and hook up the remaining red and green to the detector terminals. One cable gives you four turns of loop which = 4 times the sensitivity.
There is a story that when the Italian government first proposed a lottery the Catholic Church made its objection to state run gambling known. The Revenue Minister reassured the Papal Nuncio, saying that the lottery was not gambling but rather a tax on imbeciles.
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Hare Brained!!! - posessing the brains of a hare.
Nice Troll. Completely disconnected from reality. Note especially the clever mis-use of flaunt when he meant to say flout.
OK, I'll bite. Um...isn't an uncontrolled unregulated decentralized transnational communications network by definition a haven for free speech?
That is an Urban Myth - Fisher invented the space pen at no cost to the government. He sold them to NASA for $2.95 each.
The Russians used them too.
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Gallileo... Newton... Einstein.... McBride
A retired Canadian General, after an interviewer asked him if the Canadian Forces could stop the US Army from invading Canada.
Except what makes him happy is trying to convince me the rolex is the better watch despite it not performing nearly as well in the category of "watch-ness".
The rolex looks very nice, in a manly sort of way, but to me, not $2970 nicer.
The rolex and the timex both do the same thing, they tell time. The rolex gains 3 seconds per day, the timex looses 20 seconds per year so the timex is 50 times more accurate at keeping time. In addition the timex has big easy-to-read numbers, a reflective background so you can damn near read it by moonlight and a light for when its real dark. The timex also has a stopwatch, alarm, 2nd time zone display and up/down timers (all perfectly sensible time-related functions) all of which the rolex desn't have.
But he still thinks his watch is "better". He just can't say why.
An eye for an eye was a biblical limit on retribution. If someone pokes out your eye, the most you can do to him is poke out his eye. ie you can't kill him or sell him and his entire family into slavery. A fair and balanced (TM) response. Spamming the spammers is approved by (at least one) God.
I don't get why having the misfortune to be on a shuttle that came apart on re-entry makes the crew heroes. It doesn't require any heroism to get killed, you just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; physics will take care of the rest.
To me, what makes them heroes, and the other shuttle crews just as heroic, is knowing that they could die a spectacular flaming death, but getting on the shuttle anyhow.
No No NO (or are you an SI-Troll). Newton is a unit of force - kgm^2/s^2. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram. The SI unit of force (weight is a force) is the Newton. The US unit of force is the pound and the US unit of mass is the slug.
example: Econ 100. Prof draws a graph on chalkboard, two axes and a 45 degree sloping line. He labels the y-intercept "a" and the x-intercept "b". Girl (not engineer) raises hand and says "I don't think the curve is really that steep". Prof erases line, redraws it with 30 degree slope, labels the y-intercept "a" and the x-intercept "b". Girl nods, says "much better". Engineers are laughing so hard they fall out of their chairs, girl can't figure out why they are laughing.
Many (not all) arts students would never graduate if they had to take 15 units of engineering courses.
Hugely Pedantic Technical Niggle - We use loops for vehicle detection and they are mostly not a single conductor. We drop one loop of a 4 conductor unshielded control cable in the ground. Then cross connect the wires red to black, black to green, green to white and hook up the remaining red and green to the detector terminals. One cable gives you four turns of loop which = 4 times the sensitivity.
There is a story that when the Italian government first proposed a lottery the Catholic Church made its objection to state run gambling known. The Revenue Minister reassured the Papal Nuncio, saying that the lottery was not gambling but rather a tax on imbeciles. . . Eschew Obfuscation!