Umm, no. They're not. There's a nest of avian dinosaurs living in my greenhouse. And my dino-feeder is very popular with the local wood-pecking dinos (Downy, Red-headed, and Red-bellied, at least one pair of each in the back yard)....
You are going for a computer science degree. You must be able to express your ideas on paper, a white board, napkin, back of your hand,....anywhere.
Presumably, you should also be tested on your ability to express your ideas using a quill pen and parchment, then?
The question wasn't about CONTENT of the exam, but about format. And using paper and pen isn't any more useful to testing your knowledge than using a clay tablet and a stylus (which, presumably, would be baked before it's turned in, to prevent changes).
Face it, most people use keyboards for writing these days, not pens & pencils. So why hasn't University caught up with that notion (yes, not just for CS. Not really a good reason why an anthropology major should use pen & paper either.)?
Think of them as a major us employer and energy consumer.
Or not, since TFA mentions that Apple produces its own clean energy and sells the excess to the grid. Perhaps Apple is worried that they won't be able to sell their excess for quite so much as they had planned on....
The only way clean energy does not make sense as a national grid objective is if the fuel is practically free, and you need significant multi-week storage capacity locally. Battery economics plus improved transmission capacity are likely to marginalized those benefits.
If it makes sense, then you won't have to force people to do it, do you? Or does it only make sense when you use force?
Of course, the info is out there anyway, but it probably wasn't as common when the law was actually written.
The law dates back to '92. Which is longer than some of the people reading this have been alive, but not nearly long enough to be meaningful. The Russians (to pick an obvious example) have had spy satellites up for 50+ years, so the 26-year-old law/rule/whatever was pretty much meaningless when it was passed.
Note, for those who'd like to blame a political Party for passage of this law, the Dems controlled both House and Senate, and the President was a Republican about to be replaced by a Democrat....
Battleships were restricted in the Washington Naval Treaty. There was some cheating, but it mostly worked pretty well. But not well enough to prevent WW2.
It should also be noted that the Treaty limits on BB's resulted in the rise of the CV as the capital ship....
IOW, all that really happened as a result of the Washington Naval Treaties is that WW2 was fought with different weapons/tactics than WW1....
While I've never had a brain tumor scan, I've had to deal with radiologists for other issues for a long time now. Can't think of a single occasion when a two hour wait would've made the slightest difference to me, my radiologist, or the doctors he sent me scan results to....
Come to that, can't think of a single occasion when a 24 hour delay would've mattered either.
IOW, come up with a real example, not a completely bogus one. You'll look smarter, and your side will too....
The world needs 2 or 3 viable YouTube competitors, so when YouTube abuses their position, content creators have recourse.
Governments should find a way to offer Microsoft and Amazon incentives to expand Mixer and Twitch to become true YouTube competitors.
Quite so. Note that there is absolutely nothing stopping YOU from doing a YouTube competitor. Come up with a business plan, buy (or rent) hardware, hire programmers, go to town....
This event does not qualify as a mass shooting. It is a rampage shooting. A mass shooting has 4 or more fatalities (other than the shooter).
Not quite. Definition of "mass shooting" was changed during the Obama administration to four or more fatalities INCLUDING the shooter.
It should also be noted that a "mass shooting" has occurred if someone opens fire, wounding one person, then is killed by a cop along with three other people killed by the cops at the scene.
Yes, it's possible to be a "mass shooting" if four innocent bystanders are killed by the cops in the process of stopping the "mass shooter" (who doesn't actually have to even hit anyone with his/her shots)....
And what did you do when there was a flood or hurricane or other unexpected event and the power went off -- for more than just a few minutes? How did you buy stuff then?
Like Katrina, you mean? I got in my car, and drove up to my parents' house. Using a credit card to buy gas in northern Alabama, same place as I always buy gas when going to the parentals'.
Oddly enough, Katrina didn't knock out power in TN, so it wasn't really much of an issue...
Yeah, I suppose it's possible to find a situation where a power outage is so widespread that you can't just drive away from it. But I've never seen one in half a century plus....
If you want to kill a lot of people with a gun, find a bunch of them in an open area with no easy way to cover and shoot them with a high-powered rifle from an elevated perch. Bolt action will work fine as long as the action is smooth and you've practiced a little.
Ruger No 1. Single shot. Would work just as well as the bolt action in this situation. Mostly because most people don't really know how to cycle a bolt action quickly (Army used to teach this, back when the Army used bolt actions, but it's not really needed for your average hunter).
Not really sure what OP meant by "fragmentary rounds", but pretty sure 5.56 doesn't fit any of the possible interpretations of what I think he/she/it meant.
I don't know which country you are in but did you ever went to a bank?
USA.
My bank is open Saturdays. I have never seen more than three people in line (this ignoring the zero to five people already talking to one of the four to five tellers), and have never had to wait more than five minutes to get to a teller.
That said, I go to a bank fewer than ten times a year. Fewer than six most years....
I consider "going to the bank" incredible effort (and banks make sure it is).
Your bank, as they used to say, doth well and truly sucketh. I'd suggest switching to one that actually wants your business....
If there's trouble with the Webb, we'll have to politely ask our good friends the Russians for help.
Why? They can't get to the Earth/Sun L2 point with any manned vehicle they've ever built.
Or maybe the Chinese.
Neither have they.
Has India done any manned flight yet . . . ?
No. And if they had, they wouldn't be capable of going beyond LEO either.
Note that since the retirement of Apollo, NOONE has had the ability to send people beyond LEO. And even Apollo wasn't capable of going to the Earth/Sun L2.
Note further that NOONE is even planning such capability anytime soon (by "soon" I mean before 2050 or so).
Except SpaceX. Whether they will have that capability before my leftovers are in the ground, not a clue. But they're at least aiming to have the capability....
And on an almost unrelated note, how long is the Webb supposed to stay at Earth/Sun L2, what with Luna perturbing its orbit?
Read summary, and this was the first thing that occurred to me.
ANYTHING can be defined as "in the public interest", if your lawyers are halfway decent. Including having the government spy on everyone, all the time.
This looks like the beginning of a very slippery slope, and we aren't going to enjoy the ride to the bottom even a little bit....
DO remember that even if you approve of this sort of thing when done to your enemies (political and otherwise), it won't be nearly so much fun when they use it against you by and by.
This statement implies that other species don't have the ability to reason. So, do you have some evidence to support the notion that only man can reason? Or is it a religious thing with you?
Note that there's a fair amount of evidence to support the notion that (some) cetaceans can reason, as well as some of the current crop of dinosaurs (e.g. ravens)....
What, you really think humans are not a part of nature?
We're just another animal, really. A bit more successful than most primates, but just another animal (for which read: a part of nature like any other)....
and to build the infrastructure does require, if not new taxes, then taxpayer-backed bond measures.
Which bonds require raising taxes to pay for. It's not like the people who buy bonds are just throwing their excess money away - they expect a return on their investment. All the bonds to is spread the extra taxes out over enough time that your children and grandchildren get to pay for the excesses of this year's government.
Or do people still believe that governments automagically have enough money to do anything they want to?
People who regularly eat fast food with similar heritage, sex, age and height weighs 16.3% more than the average of 193lbs at 5'3", that's interesting by itself.
Never realized I was emaciated. Less than 160# at 6'2"....
Than thousands of devices burning a chemical. Plus, delivering the chemical fuel to each of the devices. Repairing them, replacing them, etc, etc, etc....
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Umm, no. They're not. There's a nest of avian dinosaurs living in my greenhouse. And my dino-feeder is very popular with the local wood-pecking dinos (Downy, Red-headed, and Red-bellied, at least one pair of each in the back yard)....
Presumably, you should also be tested on your ability to express your ideas using a quill pen and parchment, then?
The question wasn't about CONTENT of the exam, but about format. And using paper and pen isn't any more useful to testing your knowledge than using a clay tablet and a stylus (which, presumably, would be baked before it's turned in, to prevent changes).
Face it, most people use keyboards for writing these days, not pens & pencils. So why hasn't University caught up with that notion (yes, not just for CS. Not really a good reason why an anthropology major should use pen & paper either.)?
Or not, since TFA mentions that Apple produces its own clean energy and sells the excess to the grid. Perhaps Apple is worried that they won't be able to sell their excess for quite so much as they had planned on....
If it makes sense, then you won't have to force people to do it, do you? Or does it only make sense when you use force?
The law dates back to '92. Which is longer than some of the people reading this have been alive, but not nearly long enough to be meaningful. The Russians (to pick an obvious example) have had spy satellites up for 50+ years, so the 26-year-old law/rule/whatever was pretty much meaningless when it was passed.
Note, for those who'd like to blame a political Party for passage of this law, the Dems controlled both House and Senate, and the President was a Republican about to be replaced by a Democrat....
It should also be noted that the Treaty limits on BB's resulted in the rise of the CV as the capital ship....
IOW, all that really happened as a result of the Washington Naval Treaties is that WW2 was fought with different weapons/tactics than WW1....
While I've never had a brain tumor scan, I've had to deal with radiologists for other issues for a long time now. Can't think of a single occasion when a two hour wait would've made the slightest difference to me, my radiologist, or the doctors he sent me scan results to....
Come to that, can't think of a single occasion when a 24 hour delay would've mattered either.
IOW, come up with a real example, not a completely bogus one. You'll look smarter, and your side will too....
Quite so. Note that there is absolutely nothing stopping YOU from doing a YouTube competitor. Come up with a business plan, buy (or rent) hardware, hire programmers, go to town....
A sonic boom near an ARMY base??
That's moderately incredible, what with the Key West Accords forbidding the Army from having fixed wing aircraft, much less supersonic aircraft.
You sure you weren't just near an artillery range and hearing HE rounds exploding?
Not quite. Definition of "mass shooting" was changed during the Obama administration to four or more fatalities INCLUDING the shooter.
It should also be noted that a "mass shooting" has occurred if someone opens fire, wounding one person, then is killed by a cop along with three other people killed by the cops at the scene.
Yes, it's possible to be a "mass shooting" if four innocent bystanders are killed by the cops in the process of stopping the "mass shooter" (who doesn't actually have to even hit anyone with his/her shots)....
Like Katrina, you mean? I got in my car, and drove up to my parents' house. Using a credit card to buy gas in northern Alabama, same place as I always buy gas when going to the parentals'.
Oddly enough, Katrina didn't knock out power in TN, so it wasn't really much of an issue...
Yeah, I suppose it's possible to find a situation where a power outage is so widespread that you can't just drive away from it. But I've never seen one in half a century plus....
Ruger No 1. Single shot. Would work just as well as the bolt action in this situation. Mostly because most people don't really know how to cycle a bolt action quickly (Army used to teach this, back when the Army used bolt actions, but it's not really needed for your average hunter).
Not really sure what OP meant by "fragmentary rounds", but pretty sure 5.56 doesn't fit any of the possible interpretations of what I think he/she/it meant.
USA.
My bank is open Saturdays. I have never seen more than three people in line (this ignoring the zero to five people already talking to one of the four to five tellers), and have never had to wait more than five minutes to get to a teller.
That said, I go to a bank fewer than ten times a year. Fewer than six most years....
Your bank, as they used to say, doth well and truly sucketh. I'd suggest switching to one that actually wants your business....
Why? They can't get to the Earth/Sun L2 point with any manned vehicle they've ever built.
Neither have they.
No. And if they had, they wouldn't be capable of going beyond LEO either.
Note that since the retirement of Apollo, NOONE has had the ability to send people beyond LEO. And even Apollo wasn't capable of going to the Earth/Sun L2.
Note further that NOONE is even planning such capability anytime soon (by "soon" I mean before 2050 or so).
Except SpaceX. Whether they will have that capability before my leftovers are in the ground, not a clue. But they're at least aiming to have the capability....
And on an almost unrelated note, how long is the Webb supposed to stay at Earth/Sun L2, what with Luna perturbing its orbit?
ANYTHING can be defined as "in the public interest", if your lawyers are halfway decent. Including having the government spy on everyone, all the time.
This looks like the beginning of a very slippery slope, and we aren't going to enjoy the ride to the bottom even a little bit....
DO remember that even if you approve of this sort of thing when done to your enemies (political and otherwise), it won't be nearly so much fun when they use it against you by and by.
And they will....
This statement implies that other species don't have the ability to reason. So, do you have some evidence to support the notion that only man can reason? Or is it a religious thing with you?
Note that there's a fair amount of evidence to support the notion that (some) cetaceans can reason, as well as some of the current crop of dinosaurs (e.g. ravens)....
What, you really think humans are not a part of nature?
We're just another animal, really. A bit more successful than most primates, but just another animal (for which read: a part of nature like any other)....
No.
Qualifier: maybe if they taste good, we should consider it seriously...mammoth steak, mmmmmm....
Umm, no.
US Military budget is around 630 billion dollars. Total Federal budget is north of 4 trillion dollars.
Even if you only count discretionary spending, the military budget is maybe 40% of the budget, at most.
Sounds like Sam Delaney's "Nova". Though "Nova" (probably) postdated the Bradbury short you mentioned....
Their forced??? What about MY forced, that's what I want to know....
Which bonds require raising taxes to pay for. It's not like the people who buy bonds are just throwing their excess money away - they expect a return on their investment. All the bonds to is spread the extra taxes out over enough time that your children and grandchildren get to pay for the excesses of this year's government.
Or do people still believe that governments automagically have enough money to do anything they want to?
Never realized I was emaciated. Less than 160# at 6'2"....
Than thousands of devices burning a chemical. Plus, delivering the chemical fuel to each of the devices. Repairing them, replacing them, etc, etc, etc....
Hmm, center of Asia, water-laden air moving northwards...
Who could possibly be effected by this sort of thing? After all, there's noone north of China, after all.
What's that you say? Russia? Nah, couldn't be!
Didn't know that. But I have to say that's one helluva big organ.....