[ SUPER: "When you do only one thing, you do it better" ]
Customer #1: I needed to take the bus, but all I had was a five-dollar bill. I stopped by First Citiwide, and they were able to give me four singles and four quarters.
[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, We just make change" ]
Paul McElroy: We will work with the customer to give that customer the change that he or she needs. If you come to us with a twenty-dollar bill, we can give you two tens, we can give you four fives - we can give you a ten and two fives. We will work with you.
Customer #2: I went to my First Citiwide branch to change a fifty. I guess I was in kind of a hurry, and I asked for a twenty, a ten, and two fives. Their computers picked up my mistake right away, and I got the correct change.
[ SUPER: "Correct Change" ]
Paul McElroy: We have been in this business a long time. With our experience, we're gonna have ideas for change combinations that probably haven't occurred to you. If you have a fifty-dollar bill, we can give you fifty singles. [ SUPER: "We can give you fifty singles" ] We can give you forty-nine singles and ten dimes. We can give you twenty-five twos. Come talk to us. [ SUPER: "We can give you twenty-five twos" ] We are not going to give you change that you don't want. If you come to us with a hundred-dollar bill, we're not going to give you two-thousand nickels.. [ SUPER: "We're not going to give you two thousand nickels" ] - unless that meets your particular change needs. We will give you.. the change.. equal to.. the amount of money.. that you want change for!
[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, Our business is making change" ]
Here's a simple example: Here in Arizona we have a thing called, "Smoke Free Arizona," a voter-initiated law that makes smoking illegal in most occupied public places. That law says some fairly big things about where you can and can't smoke, but there were no fine details.
Enter the Arizona Department of Health Services. They said, "No smoking within 20 feet of a public building entrance." Nowhere in "the law" does it say that....but you'll still (at least on paper) get a fine for it. [You'll actually just get a snotty look, unless you're blowing smoke in a cop's face or something...] Why? Chevron.
As long as these administrative departments aren't completely smoking crack when they write their substantive policy statements, then their word is "law," and your next stop for rebuttal is with an administrative law judge -- not with a "real" judge and jury. So, uh, good luck.
If you don't like it - talk to SCOTUS, and let them know they should reconsider Chevron -- which will sort of suck, because every first year law student's history will need erased.
As others have pointed you - you missed the point.
It cools to 140, and then holds near 140 for as long as possible, because 140 is the optimal coffee temperature -- or so sayeth the coffee gods.
That said, I spent a lot of time explaining to people with the "new aluminum beer bottles" that "gets cold faster!" also means "gets warm faster" for all the same reasons.
There's nearly countless 2 and 3 card interactions in Magic that, unobstructed, end the game. Most of them are triggers and replacement effects. They generally don't exist in the same sets, and there's generally better strategies and card interaction in extended formats that make those card interactions sub-optimal strategies. That said, the older extended formats (the mostly-no-holds-bared forms of Magic) include a lot of decks that win on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd turn. Even "Modern" which uses only cards since when we reformatted everything has decks that win on turn 3-4 fairly consistently.
The game overall is pretty fast. You be shocked how many games are over by turn 8 in every format.
A quick google search for 2-card and 3-card Magic combos will give more than I could possibly come up with.
Playing Magic online is a lot like playing poker online. It either works for you or it doesn't. Different strokes. I play online (from time to time) because I can get an 8-player draft game pretty much at any time of the day or week -- something I can only get at few scheduled times locally.
Moving on...
There has always been a LIFO stack in Magic, the changes over the years have been to both standardize the rules so they could easily add on to them and to allow computer play without tons of corner cases -- programming Magic under the "old" rules would have been the living mother of all CASE statements.
There's still a lot of oddball cards that cause CRAZY interactions and require specific card+card rules, but the overwhelming majority of cards generate simple computer understandable rules.
Play is now almost always:
[...a bit simplified.] Priority alternates between the active (guy who's turn it is) and non-active player. The active player can add spells and effects to the stack, and the non-active player can respond to that. That can go back and forth for as long as players can add to the stack. When both players pass priority, effects on the stack start to unwind. As each effect resolves, each player has the same option to, if they want, add more to the stack. [These all happen in Active Player - Non-Active Player (AP/NAP) order.] When nothing is on the stack, and the AP wishes to put nothing more onto the stack, and the NAP wishes to put nothing more on the stack, the game moves to the next phase. Any time a there is an opportunity for priority to pass, "the game" does housekeeping. Anything that has been destroyed goes to the graveyard. Creatures with no toughness left are destroyed (and go to the graveyard). Any players with zero life dies, and their opponent wins. Game events and cards themselves may cause "triggers." Cards can say, "When X happens, do Y." These too can be responded to AP/NAP; they use the stack, and they work like anything else. A single trigger may cause a series of triggers, but they too simply add things to the stack. There's a few more complicated ideas (like replacement effects), but they're all programmable.
I know that seems long, but anyone who ever wrote a script should understand it.
Most plays are simply: "I try to put armor on my guy." "No, I kill your guy in response." "Ok, lets move to the next phase."
Also, when the re-engineering of the rules happened, there were a number of other clarifications.
(2):Draw a Card -- That says, spend 2 mana of any color, and draw a card. That's an activated ability. That's something you can do when you have priority, and when you activate it, it goes on the stack, and your opponent can respond to it, perhaps by casting a spell that negates your next card draw.
When your opponent draws a card, you draw a card -- That does exactly what it says. It's a trigger. Any time the game sees the trigger, it adds the ability of you drawing a card to the stack, and....APNAP opportunities to respond exist.
If your opponent would draw a card, you draw a card instead --...also does exactly what it sounds like. It's a replacement effect.
When multiple seemingly contradictory effects happen at the same time (e.g. you have two cards, one says "When a creature goes to the graveyard, instead, remove it from the game." and the other says "When a creates goes to the graveyard, instead, return it to play." the active player manages the order of those effects.)
This website tells me that a 2.5 ton residential AC running 24/7 at 9c/kWh costs me $234/mo. Since a residential electric bill here in Arizona can rise by $300 easily ($10 a day) in Phoenix during the summer, I know, for a fact, that those numbers are generous and ignore SEER.
Regardless, unless your utility bill averages $1.50 a day or so, you can't possibly power your house for "many days" like ZorinLynx pulled out of his ass.
If your power bill is ~$150/mo, and you had a super-efficient way to get the power back out of the Tesla's battery to your AC appliances, you could power your house for A DAY -- which is about the time it took to charge it on a residential charger to begin with.
I live in Arizona, where cooling a house can add $300 to your electric bill. It's very easy to have a well insulated house, have a $120 bill in cooler months and then have a $420 bill in summer, even when it's set for way higher than 72.
A Tesla Model S sitting in a garage has enough energy onboard to run a typical single family home for many days.
You *can't* be right.
It costs about $5 in electricity to get 200 miles out of a Tesla.
How many days straight do you think you can power my air conditioning from $5 worth of electricity?
You might be able to keep my lights on and power my appliances, but there's no way on this planet you can heat or cool my home for three days on $5 worth of electricity.
It's a combination of how pretty and tasty they are, and very little to do with their intelligence.
The English Bulldog, for example, is "cute" (in it's own special way), and probably one of the dumbest of all dog breeds, but we'd never think of eating poor Petunia. I don't know how bulldog tastes, but I suspect it's not terrible. [Dog gets eaten a bit around the world, but not much where I live.]
A pig, on the other hand, smart, but ugly, and tasty. Dig in!
Tuna are butt-ugly, and tasty. We don't care how smart they are. Dolphins are pretty, so we're happy to not eat them -- probably a more important factor that their intelligence. [See: Pigs.]
...it's the switch from national programming to regional or zip-code based advertising.
Program. National commercial. National commercial. REGIONAL COMMERCIAL Program.
My cable network screws this up regularly on Comedy Central. South Park goes into break, and then a BLARING LOUD commercial for a local product happens.
I skip most commercials that aren't on during live sports -- but I watch a lot of live sports, and they're guilty too.
I blame an idiot working in the Cox video operations center.
You're already modded troll. Nobody likes to hear that their beloved Pirate Bay isn't an excuse by entitled people to make money serving ads while they facilitate other entitled people's desire to not pay for the works of others.
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....what ever happened to these?
China gets one running and... ...then nothing? A few people stopped funding theirs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
Insane good?
Insane bad?
Insane, literally insane, where it includes payment only by Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions?
As much as it pains me, the number of google hits is pretty much how spelling is decided.
Language is dynamic, and it's the very reason that formerly alternate spellings for words are now the "right" spellings for words.
[ SUPER: "When you do only one thing, you do it better" ]
Customer #1: I needed to take the bus, but all I had was a five-dollar bill. I stopped by First Citiwide, and they were able to give me four singles and four quarters.
[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, We just make change" ]
Paul McElroy: We will work with the customer to give that customer the change that he or she needs. If you come to us with a twenty-dollar bill, we can give you two tens, we can give you four fives - we can give you a ten and two fives. We will work with you.
Customer #2: I went to my First Citiwide branch to change a fifty. I guess I was in kind of a hurry, and I asked for a twenty, a ten, and two fives. Their computers picked up my mistake right away, and I got the correct change.
[ SUPER: "Correct Change" ]
Paul McElroy: We have been in this business a long time. With our experience, we're gonna have ideas for change combinations that probably haven't occurred to you. If you have a fifty-dollar bill, we can give you fifty singles. [ SUPER: "We can give you fifty singles" ] We can give you forty-nine singles and ten dimes. We can give you twenty-five twos. Come talk to us. [ SUPER: "We can give you twenty-five twos" ] We are not going to give you change that you don't want. If you come to us with a hundred-dollar bill, we're not going to give you two-thousand nickels.. [ SUPER: "We're not going to give you two thousand nickels" ] - unless that meets your particular change needs. We will give you.. the change.. equal to.. the amount of money.. that you want change for!
[ SUPER: "At First Citiwide Change Bank, Our business is making change" ]
Bank Representative: That's what we do.
Any article indistinguishable from an Onion article is sufficiently fucked up.
Since money is fungible, if you've got more in bitcoins than your average grocery bill, then you're already doing this every time you shop.
A crash course in Administrative Law for 'ya. Regulatory agencies have it, within their powers, to clarify laws with policy statements.
See: "Chevron"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc.
Here's a simple example: Here in Arizona we have a thing called, "Smoke Free Arizona," a voter-initiated law that makes smoking illegal in most occupied public places. That law says some fairly big things about where you can and can't smoke, but there were no fine details.
Enter the Arizona Department of Health Services. They said, "No smoking within 20 feet of a public building entrance." Nowhere in "the law" does it say that. ...but you'll still (at least on paper) get a fine for it. [You'll actually just get a snotty look, unless you're blowing smoke in a cop's face or something...] Why? Chevron.
As long as these administrative departments aren't completely smoking crack when they write their substantive policy statements, then their word is "law," and your next stop for rebuttal is with an administrative law judge -- not with a "real" judge and jury. So, uh, good luck.
If you don't like it - talk to SCOTUS, and let them know they should reconsider Chevron -- which will sort of suck, because every first year law student's history will need erased.
I was going to say, "I can transfer bitcoins, bypassing the transaction chain, just by giving people a wallet face-to-face."
If he's handing out wallets, what's the password to them? Are they all the same?
As others have pointed you - you missed the point.
It cools to 140, and then holds near 140 for as long as possible, because 140 is the optimal coffee temperature -- or so sayeth the coffee gods.
That said, I spent a lot of time explaining to people with the "new aluminum beer bottles" that "gets cold faster!" also means "gets warm faster" for all the same reasons.
There's nearly countless 2 and 3 card interactions in Magic that, unobstructed, end the game. Most of them are triggers and replacement effects. They generally don't exist in the same sets, and there's generally better strategies and card interaction in extended formats that make those card interactions sub-optimal strategies. That said, the older extended formats (the mostly-no-holds-bared forms of Magic) include a lot of decks that win on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd turn. Even "Modern" which uses only cards since when we reformatted everything has decks that win on turn 3-4 fairly consistently.
The game overall is pretty fast. You be shocked how many games are over by turn 8 in every format.
A quick google search for 2-card and 3-card Magic combos will give more than I could possibly come up with.
This begs a number of questions....
These "services" can exist on your own network, or your own hard drive.
Playing Magic online is a lot like playing poker online. It either works for you or it doesn't. Different strokes. I play online (from time to time) because I can get an 8-player draft game pretty much at any time of the day or week -- something I can only get at few scheduled times locally.
Moving on...
There has always been a LIFO stack in Magic, the changes over the years have been to both standardize the rules so they could easily add on to them and to allow computer play without tons of corner cases -- programming Magic under the "old" rules would have been the living mother of all CASE statements.
There's still a lot of oddball cards that cause CRAZY interactions and require specific card+card rules, but the overwhelming majority of cards generate simple computer understandable rules.
Play is now almost always:
[...a bit simplified.]
Priority alternates between the active (guy who's turn it is) and non-active player.
The active player can add spells and effects to the stack, and the non-active player can respond to that.
That can go back and forth for as long as players can add to the stack.
When both players pass priority, effects on the stack start to unwind.
As each effect resolves, each player has the same option to, if they want, add more to the stack.
[These all happen in Active Player - Non-Active Player (AP/NAP) order.]
When nothing is on the stack, and the AP wishes to put nothing more onto the stack, and the NAP wishes to put nothing more on the stack, the game moves to the next phase.
Any time a there is an opportunity for priority to pass, "the game" does housekeeping. Anything that has been destroyed goes to the graveyard. Creatures with no toughness left are destroyed (and go to the graveyard). Any players with zero life dies, and their opponent wins.
Game events and cards themselves may cause "triggers." Cards can say, "When X happens, do Y." These too can be responded to AP/NAP; they use the stack, and they work like anything else.
A single trigger may cause a series of triggers, but they too simply add things to the stack.
There's a few more complicated ideas (like replacement effects), but they're all programmable.
I know that seems long, but anyone who ever wrote a script should understand it.
Most plays are simply: "I try to put armor on my guy." "No, I kill your guy in response." "Ok, lets move to the next phase."
Also, when the re-engineering of the rules happened, there were a number of other clarifications.
(2):Draw a Card -- That says, spend 2 mana of any color, and draw a card. That's an activated ability. That's something you can do when you have priority, and when you activate it, it goes on the stack, and your opponent can respond to it, perhaps by casting a spell that negates your next card draw.
When your opponent draws a card, you draw a card -- That does exactly what it says. It's a trigger. Any time the game sees the trigger, it adds the ability of you drawing a card to the stack, and....APNAP opportunities to respond exist.
If your opponent would draw a card, you draw a card instead -- ...also does exactly what it sounds like. It's a replacement effect.
When multiple seemingly contradictory effects happen at the same time (e.g. you have two cards, one says "When a creature goes to the graveyard, instead, remove it from the game." and the other says "When a creates goes to the graveyard, instead, return it to play." the active player manages the order of those effects.)
Allow me to say, "LOL, 5000 BTU."
That's a window-mounted cooler, suitable for cooling an area, as mentioned in the linked Amazon page, of 150 square feet.
Your numbers don't match real-world use.
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/howmuch.html
This website tells me that a 2.5 ton residential AC running 24/7 at 9c/kWh costs me $234/mo. Since a residential electric bill here in Arizona can rise by $300 easily ($10 a day) in Phoenix during the summer, I know, for a fact, that those numbers are generous and ignore SEER.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio
Regardless, unless your utility bill averages $1.50 a day or so, you can't possibly power your house for "many days" like ZorinLynx pulled out of his ass.
If your power bill is ~$150/mo, and you had a super-efficient way to get the power back out of the Tesla's battery to your AC appliances, you could power your house for A DAY -- which is about the time it took to charge it on a residential charger to begin with.
Only?
I live in Arizona, where cooling a house can add $300 to your electric bill. It's very easy to have a well insulated house, have a $120 bill in cooler months and then have a $420 bill in summer, even when it's set for way higher than 72.
A Tesla Model S sitting in a garage has enough energy onboard to run a typical single family home for many days.
You *can't* be right.
It costs about $5 in electricity to get 200 miles out of a Tesla.
How many days straight do you think you can power my air conditioning from $5 worth of electricity?
You might be able to keep my lights on and power my appliances, but there's no way on this planet you can heat or cool my home for three days on $5 worth of electricity.
It's a combination of how pretty and tasty they are, and very little to do with their intelligence.
The English Bulldog, for example, is "cute" (in it's own special way), and probably one of the dumbest of all dog breeds, but we'd never think of eating poor Petunia. I don't know how bulldog tastes, but I suspect it's not terrible. [Dog gets eaten a bit around the world, but not much where I live.]
A pig, on the other hand, smart, but ugly, and tasty. Dig in!
Tuna are butt-ugly, and tasty. We don't care how smart they are. Dolphins are pretty, so we're happy to not eat them -- probably a more important factor that their intelligence. [See: Pigs.]
...it's the switch from national programming to regional or zip-code based advertising.
Program.
National commercial.
National commercial.
REGIONAL COMMERCIAL
Program.
My cable network screws this up regularly on Comedy Central. South Park goes into break, and then a BLARING LOUD commercial for a local product happens.
I skip most commercials that aren't on during live sports -- but I watch a lot of live sports, and they're guilty too.
I blame an idiot working in the Cox video operations center.
I'll add that the wedding ring is probably the only other one.
Over-the-top wedding rings and watches aren't appropriate in a lot of settings, but "stately" watches and wedding rings are always acceptable.
nonsense, it makes boobs awesome holographic porn, projected from a surface.
RT or Pro?
Well, the title, Canada Post moves to end-of-street mailboxes to increase efficiency doesn't exactly meet with the media's goal of fear and panic.
Tune in at 10pm to see what household object you own could be killing your children.
All still largely avoidable by not being a gangbanger and not being a goddamned felon in prison to begin with.
The overwhelming majority of prisoners who aren't animals just quietly serve their time and go home.
less than 100 lines of code!
Fewer.
..the spirit of the original deal.
...and thousands of lawyers burst into laughter...
You're already modded troll. Nobody likes to hear that their beloved Pirate Bay isn't an excuse by entitled people to make money serving ads while they facilitate other entitled people's desire to not pay for the works of others.