If the government has more money than it can spend at the moment, why did they need that huge loan to cover the checks?
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I wonder if the above (with which I can't say that I particularly agree, but that's irrelevant) was moderated as a troll just because the moderator didn't agree with the opinion expressed and/or didn't like the way in which it was expressed.
Are you sure about that current generating voltage part? The way I always heard it, it's voltage, i.e., a difference in potential between 2 points, that causes current to flow. Provided, of course, that there is a sufficiently conductive path between those 2 points.
But did you see the first 3 movies (episodes 4,5, and 6) as a grownup when they were new and not already an indelible part of the culture, before a bunch of other movies, television shows, and who knows what all else influenced by those first 3 movies were created?
I did. Phantom Menace just wasn't as good. At least not if judged as a movie intended for adults.
To be a touch more pedantic about it, a class of people (all victims or relatives of victims of x, y, or z) join together to enter into a legal action against whomever they consider responsible for x, y, or z, rather than, as indicated above, taking separate actions against those they consider responsible. This way, what could potentially be hundreds, thousands, or more, of lawsuits are replaced by one, making things easier on the court system and reducing lawyers fees and other legal expenses for both parties.
Better than, worse than, higher, lower, fatter, skinnier, those types of comparisons use "than", but when noting a difference without expressing it quantitatively or qualitatively, one refers to something as being different from something else.
To remember this, associate the "F" sound in "different" with the "F" which is the first letter in "from", and the "T" sound in "better" with the "T" which is the first letter in "than".
As for "then" versus "than", the rule is "know which word means what".
Thank you for your attention, we now return you to your regularly scheduled flamefest.
You are correct about the lack of amperage. But when it comes to punching through semiconductor gates that are only insulted by an extremely thin layer of oxide, it doesn't take much, as long as the voltage pushing those few electrons is high, and that doorknob (or little brother, heh, heh ) spark is the result of a charge (a difference in potential) of several thousand volts. A *lot* higher than 12.
If you're talking about the case speaker (the one that's there to go "beep", not one connected to your sound card for playing MP3s), if the speaker had a short across the terminals, it can draw enough current to melt the insulation on the wires running back to the 4-pin (position) header on the motherboard. Also speakers, because of the voice coils, are inductive devices, so it's not impossible for them to send a spike back into the motherboard. If there isn't sufficient isolation and filtering between various power lines on the board, a spike on one could damage a component on another.
Since ring voltage is up around the range of wall socket voltage, it may be possible to connect the AC line and the phone line without immediately letting all the smoke out of the phones in the house, and if you pick one up the 60 Hz electrical line frequency probably won't be audible since phones are designed and filtered for a 300 Hz to 3,000 Hz (3kHz) bandwidth.
In other words, the story is so hard to believe that it must be true. Could you have made it up?
Please note that connecting your telephone system and electrical wiring is something that should never be done. Electrocution (of utility workers and neighbors as well as anyone in your own household) and fire are distinct possiblities, even probabilities. If you don't understand all the reasons why, you definitely do not know enough about the subject to be doing anything except hiring someone who does.
"Why is it so difficult to believe that other people's experience is different than your own?"
Making no judgement whatsoever about whoever that is that you're replying to, people in general are opposed to anything and anyone different.
I think it's because they can't get past the idea that different doesn't necessarily mean better or worse, so, since *they* couldn't possibly be inferior, that which is different must be, that not to denounce the different is tantamount to admitting inferiority.
Did we read the same article? Nowhere does it say anything about the woman's former spouse having gone to Florida or anywhere else to work construction or any other occupation. She said that her ex-husband was wanted on felony child neglect charges. For all anybody knows he's still in Oklahoma somewhere. Or Timbuktu.
As I pointed out above, they knew where the photo had been taken, the guy in the photo was wearing his little orange road construction vest, they probably went back to the area where the picture was taken and checked out the construction workers until they found the guy in the picture. No computer needed.
If clicking the icon launches a browser, shouldn't the icon be labeled "Browser", or perhaps whatever actual browser it launches? Didn't I hear a rumor somewhere that there's more to the internet than just HTML?
Or is it easier to make fun of and complain about ignorant users if you do what you can to keep them that way?
The article is extremely remiss in never saying how the police went about finding him.
As best I can make out, his picture was taken in some fast food place while he was on lunch break (looks like he's wearing one of those bright orange "don't run over me" vests that you see on people working road construction).
Since the cops knew where the picture was taken they probably went to the area and looked for construction workers that matched the picture (sorta).
If some wire service photographer had taken his picture to illustrate a story about how hot it was outside and the woman had seen it that way and mistaken him for her ex, things would probably have happened the same way.
I don't see any basis for assuming that the face recognition software or the driver's license database had anything to do with it.
Considering the kinds of involuntary muscle contractions that 50kV can cause, slamming into something could cause you as much physical damage as the current.
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If the government has more money than it can spend at the moment, why did they need that huge loan to cover the checks?
I wonder if the above (with which I can't say that I particularly agree, but that's irrelevant) was moderated as a troll just because the moderator didn't agree with the opinion expressed and/or didn't like the way in which it was expressed.
From an article on The Register a couple of days ago--
"Execs at Rhythms NetConnections in the US awarded themselves $4 million in bonuses just three days before seeking bankruptcy."
Probably snuck their Aeron chairs out the back door while no onw was looking as well.
Who was the idiot that thought *that* was a good idea?
You mean other than being the same people with multiple accounts?
Are you sure about that current generating voltage part? The way I always heard it, it's voltage, i.e., a difference in potential between 2 points, that causes current to flow. Provided, of course, that there is a sufficiently conductive path between those 2 points.
I did. Phantom Menace just wasn't as good. At least not if judged as a movie intended for adults.
To be a touch more pedantic about it, a class of people (all victims or relatives of victims of x, y, or z) join together to enter into a legal action against whomever they consider responsible for x, y, or z, rather than, as indicated above, taking separate actions against those they consider responsible. This way, what could potentially be hundreds, thousands, or more, of lawsuits are replaced by one, making things easier on the court system and reducing lawyers fees and other legal expenses for both parties.
To remember this, associate the "F" sound in "different" with the "F" which is the first letter in "from", and the "T" sound in "better" with the "T" which is the first letter in "than".
As for "then" versus "than", the rule is "know which word means what".
Thank you for your attention, we now return you to your regularly scheduled flamefest.
You are correct about the lack of amperage. But when it comes to punching through semiconductor gates that are only insulted by an extremely thin layer of oxide, it doesn't take much, as long as the voltage pushing those few electrons is high, and that doorknob (or little brother, heh, heh ) spark is the result of a charge (a difference in potential) of several thousand volts. A *lot* higher than 12.
If you're talking about the case speaker (the one that's there to go "beep", not one connected to your sound card for playing MP3s), if the speaker had a short across the terminals, it can draw enough current to melt the insulation on the wires running back to the 4-pin (position) header on the motherboard. Also speakers, because of the voice coils, are inductive devices, so it's not impossible for them to send a spike back into the motherboard. If there isn't sufficient isolation and filtering between various power lines on the board, a spike on one could damage a component on another.
In other words, the story is so hard to believe that it must be true. Could you have made it up?
Please note that connecting your telephone system and electrical wiring is something that should never be done. Electrocution (of utility workers and neighbors as well as anyone in your own household) and fire are distinct possiblities, even probabilities. If you don't understand all the reasons why, you definitely do not know enough about the subject to be doing anything except hiring someone who does.
If serial ports don't supply power, where does the Vcc for a serial port mouse's IR LEDs, photo-detectors and ICs come from?
Anymore any relationship between the moderation category used by some moderators and their actual intent is strictly co-incidental.
The September that never ended will be replaced by the one that never started.
It probably *is* a trademarked name. Back in the '60s or '70s that was the name of a particular brand of surfboard wax. Still is for all that I know.
Making no judgement whatsoever about whoever that is that you're replying to, people in general are opposed to anything and anyone different.
I think it's because they can't get past the idea that different doesn't necessarily mean better or worse, so, since *they* couldn't possibly be inferior, that which is different must be, that not to denounce the different is tantamount to admitting inferiority.
But is there anything on the other end of NC? The one with the ocean.
Now if only we could choose the comments that we get to meta-mod.
At least since he was 53, and that's just here on Slashdot.
Did we read the same article? Nowhere does it say anything about the woman's former spouse having gone to Florida or anywhere else to work construction or any other occupation. She said that her ex-husband was wanted on felony child neglect charges. For all anybody knows he's still in Oklahoma somewhere. Or Timbuktu.
As I pointed out above, they knew where the photo had been taken, the guy in the photo was wearing his little orange road construction vest, they probably went back to the area where the picture was taken and checked out the construction workers until they found the guy in the picture. No computer needed.
Or is it easier to make fun of and complain about ignorant users if you do what you can to keep them that way?
As best I can make out, his picture was taken in some fast food place while he was on lunch break (looks like he's wearing one of those bright orange "don't run over me" vests that you see on people working road construction).
Since the cops knew where the picture was taken they probably went to the area and looked for construction workers that matched the picture (sorta).
If some wire service photographer had taken his picture to illustrate a story about how hot it was outside and the woman had seen it that way and mistaken him for her ex, things would probably have happened the same way.
I don't see any basis for assuming that the face recognition software or the driver's license database had anything to do with it.
Considering the kinds of involuntary muscle contractions that 50kV can cause, slamming into something could cause you as much physical damage as the current.