But, as the theorists have stated, they haven't gotten to examine those blobs of steel. How do they know they're structural steel and not other metals in the building.
I'll believe the verified department full of professors of engineering over the single anonymous internetian claiming to be one.
As for how they fell in their own footprint, they didn't entirely. Their fairly small spread seems easily enough explained - stack up a bunch of thin boxes and jump on them. They'll collapse one by one, just as the floors pancaked.
The conspiracy theory is only more believable if you ignore the need to have work crews coming in and wiring each floor for explosives... not to mention the lack of real motive.
"Chairman of the BYU department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Miller, is on record stating in an e-mail, "I think without exception, the structural engineering professors in our department are not in agreement with the claims made by Jones in his paper, and they don't think there is accuracy and validity to these claims"."
"One more point. Glass glows yellow and melts at far lower temperatures than steel. Had their been such an inferno as the government describes, the outer glass windows of those floors would have melted and run down the sides of the building. The shards of glass at the openings where the aircraft penetrated are still sharp-edged, not glowing, and not melting."
Someone should tell these numbskulls that the temperature in the center of a fire can be hotter than the temperature at the edges.
This, in fact, is why you can roast a marshmallow to a nice toasty brown at the edge of a campfire, or enjoy a yummy flaming black fireball if you jab it into the center. Heh.
Conspiracy theorists like this and fundies aren't far removed - their underlying problems seem to be a lack of ability to think critically and ignoring evidence that directly contradicts their positions.
I'm not trying to tear this movie a new anal orifice. I assure you, the film already has SEVERAL, and it defecates simultaneously through all of them. You don't want to get any of this on you.
There are 6.02214199 × 10^23 atoms in a single mole (~1 gram) of hydrogen.
100,000 is a good first step, but to call it a large quantity is incorrect. If my math is correct, it's orders of magnitude less than a picogram. Additionally, the article you linked to says they did indeed use Penning traps.
In summary, to refute j_cavera's point, you agreed with it in full.
You must not have looked very hard, and if it didn't cross your mind to use the drive's installation CD either, you shouldn't be using Windows or OSX - you should be using this.
I'm the proud owner of a Mac mini, by the way, and I'm no fan of Windows, but FUD is rediculous.
They pay the same percentage of their income as anyone else.
That's precisely the problem.
A family unit making $30,000 a year paying 10% in taxes likely can't spare that $3,000, while the family unit making $300,000 a year is far more likely to be able to spare $30,000 for taxes.
At the time, the National Weather Service used the same naming list each year, so the name given to this storm was "Alice" and it was designated as a part of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. However, it was found during post-storm analysis that the storm had actually formed on December 30, and was instead a part of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. Therefore, that season had two storms named "Alice": the first storm of the season, and the last. Had Alice been discovered in 1954, it would have been named Irene, the next name on the 1954 list.
It's more like objecting to radio shack collecting name and address information every time you buy a pack of batteries.
Not really.
I'd say it's more like RadioShack saying "here's a customer number, bring it back and we'll have an easier time finding your records next time... but if you want to rip it up, be our guest - we've got you on the security camera anyways."
Yeah, releasing a product right before Christmas is always a shitty decision.
Anyone who'd have bought it in Spring 2006 can still buy it in Spring 2006. If they can't get one because they're all sold out now, they're not waiting any longer than they would have if Microsoft had held off the release as you say they should have.
Starting the work proposed by the offeror indicates acceptance of contract, and failure to complete would be breach of contract, according to my business law textbook.
The thing I most liked about Suprnova was the interface. Far less cluttered than all the torrent sites that seem to be around today.
I wish some group would release a tracker that's not shittily coded. I've hacked the frontend of one so it looks okay, but the admin interface is still horrific.
Anyone got one done in nice XHTML/CSS I can play around with?
Representatives of giant Microsoft's Redmond, Wash.-based IE7 team even took a trip down to tiny Mozilla's Mountain View, Calif. offices to work out a deal.
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Tip: If you wish to remain anonymous on a Slashdot story submission... don't fill out the e-mail address field!
Hell, it even says:
If you wish to be anonymous, feel free to leave the identifying fields blank. Anonymity has no effect on whether we will accept or reject the story.
But, as the theorists have stated, they haven't gotten to examine those blobs of steel. How do they know they're structural steel and not other metals in the building.
I'll believe the verified department full of professors of engineering over the single anonymous internetian claiming to be one.
As for how they fell in their own footprint, they didn't entirely. Their fairly small spread seems easily enough explained - stack up a bunch of thin boxes and jump on them. They'll collapse one by one, just as the floors pancaked.
The conspiracy theory is only more believable if you ignore the need to have work crews coming in and wiring each floor for explosives... not to mention the lack of real motive.
Again, easily debunked. You don't have to melt the steel - you just have to weaken it enough, which doesn't require as high a temperature.
As for the paper, it hasn't yet finished peer reviewing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones - and most of his colleagues seem to disagree.
"Chairman of the BYU department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Miller, is on record stating in an e-mail, "I think without exception, the structural engineering professors in our department are not in agreement with the claims made by Jones in his paper, and they don't think there is accuracy and validity to these claims"."
Doesn't take much to debunk most of those.
For example:
"One more point. Glass glows yellow and melts at far lower temperatures than steel. Had their been such an inferno as the government describes, the outer glass windows of those floors would have melted and run down the sides of the building. The shards of glass at the openings where the aircraft penetrated are still sharp-edged, not glowing, and not melting."
Someone should tell these numbskulls that the temperature in the center of a fire can be hotter than the temperature at the edges.
This, in fact, is why you can roast a marshmallow to a nice toasty brown at the edge of a campfire, or enjoy a yummy flaming black fireball if you jab it into the center. Heh.
Conspiracy theorists like this and fundies aren't far removed - their underlying problems seem to be a lack of ability to think critically and ignoring evidence that directly contradicts their positions.
Yeah, but then they'd DOS the server with Tomahawks. :-p
Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary has a hillarious review.
Best bit, IMO:
I'm not trying to tear this movie a new anal orifice. I assure you, the film already has SEVERAL, and it defecates simultaneously through all of them. You don't want to get any of this on you.
There are 6.02214199 × 10^23 atoms in a single mole (~1 gram) of hydrogen.
100,000 is a good first step, but to call it a large quantity is incorrect. If my math is correct, it's orders of magnitude less than a picogram. Additionally, the article you linked to says they did indeed use Penning traps.
In summary, to refute j_cavera's point, you agreed with it in full.
Uh... formatting a hard drive in Windows XP:
My Computer > Right-click on drive > "Format"
You must not have looked very hard, and if it didn't cross your mind to use the drive's installation CD either, you shouldn't be using Windows or OSX - you should be using this.
I'm the proud owner of a Mac mini, by the way, and I'm no fan of Windows, but FUD is rediculous.
Of course.
Did you know that there are more car accidents today than in 1900, too?
And what else is rising? Oh, right, article count.
They pay the same percentage of their income as anyone else.
That's precisely the problem.
A family unit making $30,000 a year paying 10% in taxes likely can't spare that $3,000, while the family unit making $300,000 a year is far more likely to be able to spare $30,000 for taxes.
Flat tax wouldn't be much fun for the poor.
Apparently, everything starts over in the new year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Alice
At the time, the National Weather Service used the same naming list each year, so the name given to this storm was "Alice" and it was designated as a part of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. However, it was found during post-storm analysis that the storm had actually formed on December 30, and was instead a part of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. Therefore, that season had two storms named "Alice": the first storm of the season, and the last. Had Alice been discovered in 1954, it would have been named Irene, the next name on the 1954 list.
It's more like objecting to radio shack collecting name and address information every time you buy a pack of batteries.
Not really.
I'd say it's more like RadioShack saying "here's a customer number, bring it back and we'll have an easier time finding your records next time... but if you want to rip it up, be our guest - we've got you on the security camera anyways."
And yet one of the British Tube Bombers was traced to Italy by using an ordinary cell phone.
I don't think the guys who blew themselves up worried much about getting caught afterwards.
Their web server is undoubtedly working on a separate network from the super secret NSA databases, and most likely with an entirely separate staff.
If the NSA website gets hacked, no biggie. If the NSA's internal network gets hacked, big deal. Very different situations.
Yeah, releasing a product right before Christmas is always a shitty decision.
Anyone who'd have bought it in Spring 2006 can still buy it in Spring 2006. If they can't get one because they're all sold out now, they're not waiting any longer than they would have if Microsoft had held off the release as you say they should have.
In most cases, such an offer invites acceptance by performance, and there is no acceptance until performance is complete.
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l , specifically Restatement (Second) Section 32 -- Invitation of Promise or Performance.
Partial performance may fall under promissory estoppel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promissory_estoppel#
Starting the work proposed by the offeror indicates acceptance of contract, and failure to complete would be breach of contract, according to my business law textbook.
See http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/bam/k2000/r2k.htm
No, that's a unilateral offer. An offer is not a contract. Acceptance by the offeree creates the bilateral oral contract.
The thing I most liked about Suprnova was the interface. Far less cluttered than all the torrent sites that seem to be around today.
I wish some group would release a tracker that's not shittily coded. I've hacked the frontend of one so it looks okay, but the admin interface is still horrific.
Anyone got one done in nice XHTML/CSS I can play around with?
Read the article.
Representatives of giant Microsoft's Redmond, Wash.-based IE7 team even took a trip down to tiny Mozilla's Mountain View, Calif. offices to work out a deal.
Presumably, they got permission.
Hell, it even gets negative margins right when IE6 for the PC still can't handle them.
Even valid domain names cost actual money, as opposed to email messages with fake sender address.
Sure, but you only need one person to earn you that $10 affiliate fee for the pornsite or the poker to pay for the domain.
If banning domains were all it took, I wouldn't get phishing scams in my Gmail inbox.
Quick, go tell the anti-spam vendors that all they need to do is blacklist spammer domain names! ;-)
Jabber has built in anti spam. In order for me to talk to you, I have to ask you if I can, and then you have to tell me that it's OK.
N ET would like to talk to you.
CHECK.IT.OUT.PENIS.ENLARGMENT.CHEAP@BIGGER-PENIS.