Is there some kind of well-rounded, adequately-functioning, happy-with-life mediocre model that we all should be striving towards becoming?
I'd like to know what that ideal is and who defines it.
Sure, there *are* rambling homeless people, depressed people and confused people out there, but hasn't this always been the case? Or is the general consensus that it happens more often now and needs treatment?
I've known quite a few people that might be considered "a bit off", but as long as they are not hurting others, where's the harm in treating them as eccentrics or oddballs and just accepting them for how they are? Or does everyone have to "fit in" these days? Honest questions.
But the idea was to make it as appealing as possible to females for maximum audience acceptance. That's why Starbuck is now a tough girl and the show is essentially a soap c/w on/off again love affairs and some intangible Cylon blonde babe that manipulates that guy.
Will this one also feature the "edgy", trendy, subtly shaky camera work designed to give that "gritty, real-world" feel? Sheesh, it's overdone and hackneyed already. I think there's even software now that can take perfectly-filmed stuff and shakify it "for artistic effect".
One example of manufacturing harmless Canadian pop stars was many years ago. I was watching TV expecting [whatever show, probably a cartoon] on a Saturday morning. It was pre-empted by a "live" performance by Edward Bear obviously directed towards younger kids (I was a younger kid in the early 70s).
I don't remember April Wine, BTO or Rush needing to pimp their stuff in such a manner. These days the manufacturing of talent is the main goal, it seems. Then again, my memories may be faulty.
Oh, the memories: Zon, Streetheart, Max Webster, Teaze, Chilliwack, Hellfield, Wireless...
OK, this is fascinating and I have an appreciation for theoretical stuff. How does this help me build a bridge (one that carries real life cars, people, trains, etc.) in the real world?
"Ah-ha!" you might say. "This helps to design better chips so that the CAD programs you use to build such things are much better."
Pfft. For large-scale engineering projects, CAD has actually become somewhat of a hindrance, what with competing, expensive programs that are incompatible with each other. It fragments design talent into "which bidders use our software"-type situations. You can design a building to one-tenth of a millimetre, but big projects can only be practically built to much larger tolerances.
Assembly-line robots are a different story, but people rarely live in, drive on or swim in machine-made facilities.
Thank God for the internet and computers. Without them there'd be much more unemployment.
"mutually orthagonal vectors" simply means that two separate things are going in the X-Y plane, which is good. If one of them might be travelling in the Z plane, it might have poked you in the eye for reading it. That would be bad.
At the risk of sounding sycophantic, most of Digg's success is due to Kevin Rose's TV (and thus pop culture recognition) history. Putting most of the faces of the guys behind Slashdot on TV would probably result in a certain segment of the population clawing their eyes out.
All kidding aside, Digg's colour contrast in the comments section is too subtle. It's nice in a pastel kind of way.
I must apologize to you. I don't know how third or fourth party sellers are marketing industrial gases. All I really know about is the established use of pure gases in industrial environments.
However, I've heard that filling racing tires with Helium results in a lighter tire weight and therefore less mass.
"Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?"
If you can also do the arrow-through-the-head thing while playing banjo I'll give you twenty dollars. If done while wearing bunny slippers, add ten bucks.
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I'm Canadian, and my 15 year-old son was doing (no doubt heard in school) his "Americans are so stupid, Canadians are so great" thing.
Choosing my words carefully, I pointed out to him that attributed, obvious, reported stupidity requires at least 5% of the population to be actually, clinically stupid. I also noted that Americans tend to be very vocal and opinionated about stuff they don't know much about.
Canada's current problem is that it lacks a critical mass of stupid people. 13 million dumb Americans is a group to be reckoned with, but 1.3 million dumb Canadians is just Manitoba.
My point was that for large fleets it can be a definite cost savings. Maybe you missed that part.
Your many words (apparently pasted from another source due to the poor formatting and lack of coherency) seem to indicate that someone thinks the concept is Yet Another Scam to fleece people from their hard-earned dollars (and I do admit that N2 tire-filling is essentially useless for individuals).
Producing near pure nitrogen from air is not all that complicated, as your post implies. Reply and we'll go back and forth.
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes. Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
Disclosure: I have worked for one of the above-mentioned companies as a head office designer in R&D and customer installations.
...money hungry artists will fleece anyone they can for their new multimillion dollar home
My guess is that famous, relatively wealthy musicians are motivated by something other than the joy of making music (greed, political goals, need for attention, extravagant entourage maintenance, etc.). After all, there's only so many Ferraris and manses that can be owned.
I'd rather have product placements then 25 minutes of commercials per hour.
See, here is where spelling makes a difference. Depending on how you parse the above sentence (let's assume the writer missed a comma), it sounds like s/he would rather have 25 minutes of commercials preceeded by product placement ads.
No offense intended, but this seems to be a common mistake (among others) around here. Sure, in this case it's obvious (or is it?) what the writer meant due to the context. Seemingly innocuous language errors often have a way of multiplying misconfusion.
There will always be some sort of media that will fill hard drives to their capacity.
Yes, that is true because there are always those who want to brag about how much they have. Some people I know have so much data/movies/music that they don't even know that parts of their "collection" is corrupt or unreadable. That doesn't matter to them, though, the notion that they got "free stuff" and screwed "the man" is good enough for them.
That's interesting, as I host a discussion list (based from the main website) that has a lot of foreign-sounding names asking engineering-related questions.
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Is there some kind of well-rounded, adequately-functioning, happy-with-life mediocre model that we all should be striving towards becoming?
I'd like to know what that ideal is and who defines it.
Sure, there *are* rambling homeless people, depressed people and confused people out there, but hasn't this always been the case? Or is the general consensus that it happens more often now and needs treatment?
I've known quite a few people that might be considered "a bit off", but as long as they are not hurting others, where's the harm in treating them as eccentrics or oddballs and just accepting them for how they are? Or does everyone have to "fit in" these days? Honest questions.
But the idea was to make it as appealing as possible to females for maximum audience acceptance. That's why Starbuck is now a tough girl and the show is essentially a soap c/w on/off again love affairs and some intangible Cylon blonde babe that manipulates that guy.
Will this one also feature the "edgy", trendy, subtly shaky camera work designed to give that "gritty, real-world" feel? Sheesh, it's overdone and hackneyed already. I think there's even software now that can take perfectly-filmed stuff and shakify it "for artistic effect".
One example of manufacturing harmless Canadian pop stars was many years ago. I was watching TV expecting [whatever show, probably a cartoon] on a Saturday morning. It was pre-empted by a "live" performance by Edward Bear obviously directed towards younger kids (I was a younger kid in the early 70s).
I don't remember April Wine, BTO or Rush needing to pimp their stuff in such a manner. These days the manufacturing of talent is the main goal, it seems. Then again, my memories may be faulty.
Oh, the memories: Zon, Streetheart, Max Webster, Teaze, Chilliwack, Hellfield, Wireless...
OK, this is fascinating and I have an appreciation for theoretical stuff. How does this help me build a bridge (one that carries real life cars, people, trains, etc.) in the real world?
"Ah-ha!" you might say. "This helps to design better chips so that the CAD programs you use to build such things are much better."
Pfft. For large-scale engineering projects, CAD has actually become somewhat of a hindrance, what with competing, expensive programs that are incompatible with each other. It fragments design talent into "which bidders use our software"-type situations. You can design a building to one-tenth of a millimetre, but big projects can only be practically built to much larger tolerances.
Assembly-line robots are a different story, but people rarely live in, drive on or swim in machine-made facilities.
Thank God for the internet and computers. Without them there'd be much more unemployment.
"mutually orthagonal vectors" simply means that two separate things are going in the X-Y plane, which is good. If one of them might be travelling in the Z plane, it might have poked you in the eye for reading it. That would be bad.
At the risk of sounding sycophantic, most of Digg's success is due to Kevin Rose's TV (and thus pop culture recognition) history. Putting most of the faces of the guys behind Slashdot on TV would probably result in a certain segment of the population clawing their eyes out.
All kidding aside, Digg's colour contrast in the comments section is too subtle. It's nice in a pastel kind of way.
Just turn off the graphics in preferences. Of greater concern to me is the delay caused by offsite adservers that often take 3-4 seconds to respond.
Did you ever PLAY OUTSIDE with your FRIENDS when you were a kid?
I did once, back in 1968. Some kid threw a bottle up in the air, saying, "...where she drops, nobody knows." Guess where it landed.
Then there was this other time where I got nailed in the skull with a baseball bat.
I forget my actual point now, but thinking back on these things explain maybe post Slashdot me...uh
Like a T-Rex?
I must apologize to you. I don't know how third or fourth party sellers are marketing industrial gases. All I really know about is the established use of pure gases in industrial environments.
However, I've heard that filling racing tires with Helium results in a lighter tire weight and therefore less mass.
From: http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.ht
"Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?"
Danforth: "[...] a person is either with this court or he is against it [...]" Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"
Thanks for ruining the movie for me, jerk.
If you can also do the arrow-through-the-head thing while playing banjo I'll give you twenty dollars. If done while wearing bunny slippers, add ten bucks.
I'm Canadian, and my 15 year-old son was doing (no doubt heard in school) his "Americans are so stupid, Canadians are so great" thing.
Choosing my words carefully, I pointed out to him that attributed, obvious, reported stupidity requires at least 5% of the population to be actually, clinically stupid. I also noted that Americans tend to be very vocal and opinionated about stuff they don't know much about.
Canada's current problem is that it lacks a critical mass of stupid people. 13 million dumb Americans is a group to be reckoned with, but 1.3 million dumb Canadians is just Manitoba.
Uh-oh...
My point was that for large fleets it can be a definite cost savings. Maybe you missed that part.
Your many words (apparently pasted from another source due to the poor formatting and lack of coherency) seem to indicate that someone thinks the concept is Yet Another Scam to fleece people from their hard-earned dollars (and I do admit that N2 tire-filling is essentially useless for individuals).
Producing near pure nitrogen from air is not all that complicated, as your post implies. Reply and we'll go back and forth.
Nah, that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scream
Super Single Tires
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes. Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
Disclosure: I have worked for one of the above-mentioned companies as a head office designer in R&D and customer installations.
My guess is that famous, relatively wealthy musicians are motivated by something other than the joy of making music (greed, political goals, need for attention, extravagant entourage maintenance, etc.). After all, there's only so many Ferraris and manses that can be owned.
I'd rather have product placements then 25 minutes of commercials per hour.
See, here is where spelling makes a difference. Depending on how you parse the above sentence (let's assume the writer missed a comma), it sounds like s/he would rather have 25 minutes of commercials preceeded by product placement ads.
No offense intended, but this seems to be a common mistake (among others) around here. Sure, in this case it's obvious (or is it?) what the writer meant due to the context. Seemingly innocuous language errors often have a way of multiplying misconfusion.
Never underestimate the purchasing power and gullibility of soccer moms.
There will always be some sort of media that will fill hard drives to their capacity.
Yes, that is true because there are always those who want to brag about how much they have. Some people I know have so much data/movies/music that they don't even know that parts of their "collection" is corrupt or unreadable. That doesn't matter to them, though, the notion that they got "free stuff" and screwed "the man" is good enough for them.
Mea culpa. It *is* a word, and I fucked-up by questioning it's legitimacy. Sorry to all and thanks to those that pointed out my mistake.
That's interesting, as I host a discussion list (based from the main website) that has a lot of foreign-sounding names asking engineering-related questions.
Maybe I missed the memo - is 'manse' a word now?