If it were Libertarian, it would be concerned with liberty, or prople's rights. One of those rights is the right to property. Therefore space "property" would be high on their agenda.
Yeah, but the quality is horrible. Some of the pages produced by that device are illegible. Also I only get about 0.4 PPM. Not to mention that the printing process requires constant attention by an operator and you have to manually feed each page. I also saw one of those once that wasn't clear, but it had four manually selectable ink colors.
The project's goal is not to come up with a perfect robot brain, it is to research AI using statistics. If you talked about rape, the seed bearing plant, the AI would certainly be confused. By looking at the 33 lines containng the word 'rape', the AI would probably assume they had to do with the most used form of the word. Maybe by the overwhelming negative response it could determine that the "Is rape a good thing?" mindpixel was about the rape act and not the plant from the definition and other mindpixels. If it determined you were talking about the plant, it may disregard those mindpixels. Just like our brain has to determine what definition of 'rape' is being talked about in the question, the AI would have to as well.
Timothy explained that there was still a bit of tweaking to do in order to put Jesus into a "god-mode" without allowing the other characters to be in "god-mode" as well.
That is someone wanting to steal it. Just because you are jaded enough to believe that someone would take it doesn't make it the victim's fault. We SHOULD be able to live in a society where we wouldn't think twice about leaving a bike at the end of a driveway or leaving our house unlocked at night.
A lot of people probably don't know this, but a processor under load uses much more energy than an idle processor. One of my computers uses 100-105 watts when idle, but jumps up to 150-160 watts running a CPU intensive application. If electricity costs 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that would be an extra $3 a month. If you don't mind donating that much money to your favorite distributed computing project, then go ahead, but know the facts. Actually shutting down your system when not in use will help much more, it only uses a few watts when turned off.
Well normally she is a buyer, probably most of the auctions that don't have links were for NES games or paraphenalia, we won't know since ebay doesn't keep the data past 90 days and she mostly stopped collecting 6 months ago. She has 147 positive feedbacks from 125 unique EBAY members going back to December of 2003, so she probably didn't just set this account up to pull a scam now. Considering she picked the name 'neswoman' over 18 months ago, she probably is into the NES.
That said, with $10,000 at stake I would definitely use an escrow account of some kind anyway.
The reason they offer unlimited in-calling is because it is inexpensive to keep calls within their own network. When calling even local number, they have to access a trunk to the phone company. They don't have to do any work if someone wants to do this, and they get paid for two plans a month. Cell companies can only offer these plans though because the average use really isn't that much. At a company I worked for we offered an unlimited local calling plan that was a huge success. The only problem were a very small minority of customers that would actually use their cell phones up to 20 hours EVERY day. Maybe they were using them as baby monitors while they slept, or as phones in call centers, we don't know... Can you imagine the size of the tumor from 20 hours/day of use?
Here in the U.S. we live in a capitalist society, but the ethanol industry enjoys a large government subsidy. How large is it and how much does the ethanol actually cost? The U.S. Federal government subsidizes ethanol with a 54 cents per gallon (gallon of ethanol, that's 5.4 cents per gallon of 10% ethanol fuel then) tax credit, and states also give credits individually.
1) Let's factor out those credits. Say someone wants to make 90/10 gas/ethanol to take advantage of the tax credit. How much will they actually pay for each gallon of ethanol, before taking into account the credit?
2) Ethanol is not as efficient as gasoline. I saw one figure that said 3% less efficient, but that was probably from an ethanol propaganda site. Wikipedia says gasoline is more like a 48% gain in BTU over ethanol (104k BTU/gal versus 70.3k BTU/gal).
If we say that gasoline costs $2.00 per gallon, that's $1.92 for 100,000 BTU of energy ($2/1.04). To be competitive, the price of ethanol must be about $1.35 per gallon ($1.92 * 0.703). If we can get the price of ethanol below that, there would be no reason to buy gasoline.
Well, what is wrong with this picture then? This site says the cost of producing ethanol has dropped from $1.40 in 1980 to under $1.00 in 2001, with the average being $1.09 (since some plants use old equipment still). If ethanol costs less per unit work, why don't more cars run on it, or at least higher blends of it?
Can someone comment on these points? I don't have time to research them all...
Is ethanol less powerful, therefore our SUV/muscle car culture that isn't interested in fuel efficiency doesn't care, they just want the power?
Is it that the range of a car will be 30% less running pure ethanol that it would be with pure gasoline?
Is ethanol more volatile? Wikipedia says it's flashpoint is pretty low, 17 degrees celsius I believe.
Are my numbers wrong above?
Is it a conspiracy of the oil companies?
Is production too low? If more people bought it, would the price just go back up?
My wife had to go in for a meeting, file papers, and they contacted her employer. Someone trying to do this "scam" here would have a tough time. I doubt the truth of this story.
I thought that mass and energy were interchangeable. E=MC^2? Wouldn't the energy of a photon curve space like a mass would? Granted it would be small...
Let me reword your justification of of this behaviour so others can see the flaw in it more clearly:
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. So, a group of vigilantes randomly started machine gunning people walking the street. Not something I'd do myself, I prefer to use a shotgun, but certainly more effective then using the court system. Paul chose to live there, and he should have known it's a bad area. If he gets shot at random, well, too fucking bad, he should have known better. Living there was probably not a good call.]
Now let me reword your anti-justification so people can see it even more clearly:
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. Therefore I CHOOSE not to go into that neighborhood. My friend that lives there will never have a visit from me because I don't want to get gunned down on the street outside his house, like three people were in the last week.]
How the hell did blocking someone's email ever get associated WITH MACHINEGUNNING PEOPLE TO DEATH?!?!? Jesus Christ.
I don't get how you can have a different number of strokes for the same number of characters. Is a stroke only counted when a finger moves from the home position?
If you tape a song from a friend, that's copyright infringement (or is it? I think it may be legal, as long as you loan the CD to the friend to make the copy and don't make the copy yourself then give it to them). Stealing the CD from them is theft as they no longer have the CD.
So what is this case? The "property" is virtual, but by selling it he deprived the rightful owner of the use of that object.
Vaccines rally the immune system to fight the invader. If given after infection but before symptoms show up, it may be able to help your body fight it off. That's exactly what is done with rabies.
Her ex-boyfriend posted them along with her contact info in an attempt to hurt her. That woman's hair doesn't look like the other pictures, I assume his intent was to make people think that was her with a picture he found somewhere else.
All I could find is this, and it doesn't really make sense:
Power Generation:
Pipes draw warm water from the ocean surface and cold water from the seabed. The warm water enters a vacuum chamber and is evaporated into steam that drives an electricity-producing turbine. The cold water condenses the steam back into water for drinking and irrigation.
It would take as much energy to create the vacuum as would be delivered by the "steam". A steam turbine is driven by pressure. Normally water is heated to convert liquid water to a gas, creating an excess of pressure which would drive a turbine. Here you actually have a vacuum to cause the water to evaporate, so it will evaporate until the vapor pressure for the temperature is reached. So what is turning the turbine? Is the turbine in the vacuum chamber too? Is the turbine at the entrance to the vacuum chamber and they run it in cycles to pump the gas out and water in?
What about the quality of the programming, graphics design, and level design? These are more important than the voice actors in my opinion. I just don't see why they should be treated special because they are "actors". If you want that extra money, negotiate for it. If the publisher would rather use a different voice instead of giving you royalties for the next 5 years, so be it. Don't complain about only working two days either, that is like getting paid $37 an hour for 20 days.
It's a lot better with the game pad, although since it is multiplayer you can't look around with the right analog stick like you can with normal platformers.
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If it were Libertarian, it would be concerned with liberty, or prople's rights. One of those rights is the right to property. Therefore space "property" would be high on their agenda.
Yeah, but the quality is horrible. Some of the pages produced by that device are illegible. Also I only get about 0.4 PPM. Not to mention that the printing process requires constant attention by an operator and you have to manually feed each page. I also saw one of those once that wasn't clear, but it had four manually selectable ink colors.
The project's goal is not to come up with a perfect robot brain, it is to research AI using statistics. If you talked about rape, the seed bearing plant, the AI would certainly be confused. By looking at the 33 lines containng the word 'rape', the AI would probably assume they had to do with the most used form of the word. Maybe by the overwhelming negative response it could determine that the "Is rape a good thing?" mindpixel was about the rape act and not the plant from the definition and other mindpixels. If it determined you were talking about the plant, it may disregard those mindpixels. Just like our brain has to determine what definition of 'rape' is being talked about in the question, the AI would have to as well.
That is someone wanting to steal it. Just because you are jaded enough to believe that someone would take it doesn't make it the victim's fault. We SHOULD be able to live in a society where we wouldn't think twice about leaving a bike at the end of a driveway or leaving our house unlocked at night.
A lot of people probably don't know this, but a processor under load uses much more energy than an idle processor. One of my computers uses 100-105 watts when idle, but jumps up to 150-160 watts running a CPU intensive application. If electricity costs 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that would be an extra $3 a month. If you don't mind donating that much money to your favorite distributed computing project, then go ahead, but know the facts. Actually shutting down your system when not in use will help much more, it only uses a few watts when turned off.
That said, with $10,000 at stake I would definitely use an escrow account of some kind anyway.
The reason they offer unlimited in-calling is because it is inexpensive to keep calls within their own network. When calling even local number, they have to access a trunk to the phone company. They don't have to do any work if someone wants to do this, and they get paid for two plans a month. Cell companies can only offer these plans though because the average use really isn't that much. At a company I worked for we offered an unlimited local calling plan that was a huge success. The only problem were a very small minority of customers that would actually use their cell phones up to 20 hours EVERY day. Maybe they were using them as baby monitors while they slept, or as phones in call centers, we don't know... Can you imagine the size of the tumor from 20 hours/day of use?
54 cents per gallon of ethanol, 5.4 cents per gallon of 90/10 blended gasoline. Did you forget that the oil industry is also subsidized by the feds?
1) Let's factor out those credits. Say someone wants to make 90/10 gas/ethanol to take advantage of the tax credit. How much will they actually pay for each gallon of ethanol, before taking into account the credit?
2) Ethanol is not as efficient as gasoline. I saw one figure that said 3% less efficient, but that was probably from an ethanol propaganda site. Wikipedia says gasoline is more like a 48% gain in BTU over ethanol (104k BTU/gal versus 70.3k BTU/gal).
If we say that gasoline costs $2.00 per gallon, that's $1.92 for 100,000 BTU of energy ($2/1.04). To be competitive, the price of ethanol must be about $1.35 per gallon ($1.92 * 0.703). If we can get the price of ethanol below that, there would be no reason to buy gasoline.
Well, what is wrong with this picture then? This site says the cost of producing ethanol has dropped from $1.40 in 1980 to under $1.00 in 2001, with the average being $1.09 (since some plants use old equipment still). If ethanol costs less per unit work, why don't more cars run on it, or at least higher blends of it?
Can someone comment on these points? I don't have time to research them all...
But I live in Iowa. The closest store to me is in Missouri. You can check yourself to find the closest store to you.
My wife had to go in for a meeting, file papers, and they contacted her employer. Someone trying to do this "scam" here would have a tough time. I doubt the truth of this story.
I thought that mass and energy were interchangeable. E=MC^2? Wouldn't the energy of a photon curve space like a mass would? Granted it would be small...
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. So, a group of vigilantes randomly started machine gunning people walking the street. Not something I'd do myself, I prefer to use a shotgun, but certainly more effective then using the court system. Paul chose to live there, and he should have known it's a bad area. If he gets shot at random, well, too fucking bad, he should have known better. Living there was probably not a good call.]
Now let me reword your anti-justification so people can see it even more clearly:
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. Therefore I CHOOSE not to go into that neighborhood. My friend that lives there will never have a visit from me because I don't want to get gunned down on the street outside his house, like three people were in the last week.]
How the hell did blocking someone's email ever get associated WITH MACHINEGUNNING PEOPLE TO DEATH?!?!? Jesus Christ.
I don't get how you can have a different number of strokes for the same number of characters. Is a stroke only counted when a finger moves from the home position?
So what is this case? The "property" is virtual, but by selling it he deprived the rightful owner of the use of that object.
I can't wait to see what Pong will look like on this baby!
Vaccines rally the immune system to fight the invader. If given after infection but before symptoms show up, it may be able to help your body fight it off. That's exactly what is done with rabies.
This car manages to beat a Ferrari to 60mph and can go 280-300 miles at 60mph without recharging. That should be plenty for driving around town.
Her ex-boyfriend posted them along with her contact info in an attempt to hurt her. That woman's hair doesn't look like the other pictures, I assume his intent was to make people think that was her with a picture he found somewhere else.
I thought the correct term was "hydrogen hydroxide"...
What about the quality of the programming, graphics design, and level design? These are more important than the voice actors in my opinion. I just don't see why they should be treated special because they are "actors". If you want that extra money, negotiate for it. If the publisher would rather use a different voice instead of giving you royalties for the next 5 years, so be it. Don't complain about only working two days either, that is like getting paid $37 an hour for 20 days.
It's a lot better with the game pad, although since it is multiplayer you can't look around with the right analog stick like you can with normal platformers.