Harper has been reconsidering his relationship with the US lately. He finally got tired of them dithering on the Keystone pipeline and started investigating selling oil to China instead. When various US officials assured him that the pipeline would go through, he apparently told them "nah, we're looking into other options now."
As a Canadian currently living in Quebec... I don't think you're right. California seems to be reasonably productive, at least compared to the rest of the US. It has a large debt, but so does the rest of the country. I believe they even pay out more in taxes than they take in from the feds.
Quebec on the other hand has always been a gimme province, has a population who prefer not to work all that hard (not saying there's anything wrong with that, provided you can pay for it yourself) and systemic corruption levels FAR above the rest of Canada. They're also isolationist, and anti-English, which can't help when all your neighbours and potential trading partners are English speaking countries.
Quebec can't even keep their bridges and highways from falling apart, and that's WITH subsidies from the rest of the country. California has excellent highways.
The hedge funds and lazy wealthy will end. These people have all gotten rich by lending (imaginary) money to poor people and then taking it away again. The only question is how exactly it will happen, and how many people will get shot.
Why? My TV has a nice standard HDMI input (several of them in fact). That's quite sufficient to get video and sound into the TV. That way I can hook up anything I want and not have to worry about whether it has the right size, shape, connector and protocol to fit my TV.
I downloaded the paper... looks like they are harvesting energy from the rf, then creating current in coils to push against the main field. It does produce a healthy artifact. They claim it's MR compatible... perhaps it is in the gut. In the brain it would be a pretty serious artifact. It does make it easy to locate though.
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how practical it is. They haven't tried it in an actual intestine yet, and even if it does work, it has to compete against simpler techniques that don't require an MRI.
It sounds like this thing is using the gradients to move, and if it does that (or uses the RF) it's very unlikely it won't create an artifact. If you're going to use a field for locomotion you're going to have to distort that field locally, and that will cause a susceptibility artifact.
It's almost certainly the latter. You need higher energy X-rays to penetrate metal and "energy" is almost never used to refer to intensity, much less dose.
Maybe you were taking my post seriously - the idea that anybody would stifle a genuine discovery of cold fusion because they were worried about losing some grant money for hot fusion is ridiculous. Working cold fusion, as described in 1989 by F&P would be worth FAR more than all the hot fusion grants ever given, everywhere. As a motive for suppressing a discovery it fails miserably.
Hilarious. Somehow MIT managed not to notice how much a patent on practical cold fusion would be worth, and instead was worried about some grant money for hot fusion? Seriously?
He didn't go to jail, but he has already racked up one energy-related scam - he claimed to have invented a ridiculously efficient way to convert waste heat into electricity. Wikipedia (the same article you linked to) says when it came time to deliver the goods they didn't work.
Nonsense. If you want to spin something you use a) no statistics or b) incorrect or incomplete statistics. For example, the GP's 8>0 is spin - the actual numbers are 8+-1000* == 0+-1000*.
The world is pretty damn close to round. IIRC the vertical displacement due to terrain is proportionally less than an atom's thickness on a billiard ball. The planet is better approximated by an oblate spheroid than a sphere (an oblate spheroid is still round) but even that difference is about 0.3%.
Campaign funding doesn't really affect election outcomes. Certainly not insane amounts of it. The biggest predictor of who's going to win an election is charisma.
When US international relations becomes a major election issue and most of the populace comes out to vote and the election is ignored, THEN you can come and say you're powerless. In the meantime you're not powerless, you're apathetic.
I guess we could start with trade sanctions. It's what we do to all the other obnoxiously aggressive countries in the world. It usually doesn't work so well though. Although in this case, it might, and even if it doesn't change the US's behaviour, it would force the rest of the world to become more independent of the last major imperialist power.
UT and UTC are not the same. It does turn out I remembered it wrong - UT is mean solar time, the successor of GMT, also known as Zulu time, and is kept by observing quasars. Since it's mean solar time, just like GMT, it doesn't have a constant number of seconds per year, and none of them are the basis for unix time.
UTC is TAI plus leap seconds (of both signs). It's an approximation of UT.
"The stated goal from bin Laden was the destruction of the capitalist monster that is the United States. He wanted 330 million people dead, regardless of our position or purpose in this country."
Hm. It seems a rather large leap from destroying "the capitalist monster that is the United States" to "330 million people dead, regardless of [their] position or purpose."
The US has destroyed several democracies and a few dictatorships without killing everyone (or even very many) ordinary citizens.
The TSA might not discourage many people from flying within the US (although some people who used to fly short hop commuter airlines probably drive or take the train now), but they do discourage people from flying to or through the US.
I'll go to great lengths to avoid connecting through the US because it involves a minimum 40 minute trip to the special room.
No. Both are very valuable terms, and should be used more.
When someone reads an article with "Earth-like" in it and assumes that means this other planet is just like Earth, and comes and tells me about it, I then know that he is an idiot. On the other hand, if someone complains (especially at length) about the use of the term, I know he's pedantic. As a bonus, constant disappointment for the first guy may help him improve his critical thinking skills and general knowledge base, possibly making him not an idiot.
"God particle" is similar, except that it also elicits outraged statements that reveal the speaker is a crazy religious nut job having a crisis of faith.
See? Both terms have a habit of revealing useful information about people who see them used, potentially provide educational incentives for those people, AND provide a useful shorthand (well, God particle not so much) for the rest of us.
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Harper has been reconsidering his relationship with the US lately. He finally got tired of them dithering on the Keystone pipeline and started investigating selling oil to China instead. When various US officials assured him that the pipeline would go through, he apparently told them "nah, we're looking into other options now."
As a Canadian currently living in Quebec... I don't think you're right. California seems to be reasonably productive, at least compared to the rest of the US. It has a large debt, but so does the rest of the country. I believe they even pay out more in taxes than they take in from the feds.
Quebec on the other hand has always been a gimme province, has a population who prefer not to work all that hard (not saying there's anything wrong with that, provided you can pay for it yourself) and systemic corruption levels FAR above the rest of Canada. They're also isolationist, and anti-English, which can't help when all your neighbours and potential trading partners are English speaking countries.
Quebec can't even keep their bridges and highways from falling apart, and that's WITH subsidies from the rest of the country. California has excellent highways.
The hedge funds and lazy wealthy will end. These people have all gotten rich by lending (imaginary) money to poor people and then taking it away again. The only question is how exactly it will happen, and how many people will get shot.
Why? My TV has a nice standard HDMI input (several of them in fact). That's quite sufficient to get video and sound into the TV. That way I can hook up anything I want and not have to worry about whether it has the right size, shape, connector and protocol to fit my TV.
I downloaded the paper... looks like they are harvesting energy from the rf, then creating current in coils to push against the main field. It does produce a healthy artifact. They claim it's MR compatible... perhaps it is in the gut. In the brain it would be a pretty serious artifact. It does make it easy to locate though.
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how practical it is. They haven't tried it in an actual intestine yet, and even if it does work, it has to compete against simpler techniques that don't require an MRI.
It sounds like this thing is using the gradients to move, and if it does that (or uses the RF) it's very unlikely it won't create an artifact. If you're going to use a field for locomotion you're going to have to distort that field locally, and that will cause a susceptibility artifact.
It's almost certainly the latter. You need higher energy X-rays to penetrate metal and "energy" is almost never used to refer to intensity, much less dose.
Maybe you were taking my post seriously - the idea that anybody would stifle a genuine discovery of cold fusion because they were worried about losing some grant money for hot fusion is ridiculous. Working cold fusion, as described in 1989 by F&P would be worth FAR more than all the hot fusion grants ever given, everywhere. As a motive for suppressing a discovery it fails miserably.
Hilarious. Somehow MIT managed not to notice how much a patent on practical cold fusion would be worth, and instead was worried about some grant money for hot fusion? Seriously?
He didn't go to jail, but he has already racked up one energy-related scam - he claimed to have invented a ridiculously efficient way to convert waste heat into electricity. Wikipedia (the same article you linked to) says when it came time to deliver the goods they didn't work.
If your university is heavily into marketing, go somewhere else. For example, if they buy TV ads, don't go there.
Hey, I'm a great listener. Tell me all about your problems, then I'll randomly pick a drug off of Wikipedia and tell you to take it. Feel better?
And you miss out on the social aspect of college and end up as well adapted as a homeschooler.
The "peer pressure [that] weeds out trolls" the other poster mentioned is important.
Nonsense. If you want to spin something you use a) no statistics or b) incorrect or incomplete statistics. For example, the GP's 8>0 is spin - the actual numbers are 8+-1000* == 0+-1000*.
* value made up out of thin air.
Never trust a number without an error interval attached.
Speaking of lies, damned lies and (incorrect) statistics....
The world is pretty damn close to round. IIRC the vertical displacement due to terrain is proportionally less than an atom's thickness on a billiard ball. The planet is better approximated by an oblate spheroid than a sphere (an oblate spheroid is still round) but even that difference is about 0.3%.
Campaign funding doesn't really affect election outcomes. Certainly not insane amounts of it. The biggest predictor of who's going to win an election is charisma.
When US international relations becomes a major election issue and most of the populace comes out to vote and the election is ignored, THEN you can come and say you're powerless. In the meantime you're not powerless, you're apathetic.
I guess we could start with trade sanctions. It's what we do to all the other obnoxiously aggressive countries in the world. It usually doesn't work so well though. Although in this case, it might, and even if it doesn't change the US's behaviour, it would force the rest of the world to become more independent of the last major imperialist power.
The Dalai Lama has some pretty choice words about homosexuality, and strong opinions on sex in general.
And Buddhism isn't the only religion in the east.
UT and UTC are not the same. It does turn out I remembered it wrong - UT is mean solar time, the successor of GMT, also known as Zulu time, and is kept by observing quasars. Since it's mean solar time, just like GMT, it doesn't have a constant number of seconds per year, and none of them are the basis for unix time.
UTC is TAI plus leap seconds (of both signs). It's an approximation of UT.
TAI is the one I meant.
Yes, you can. Using the appropriate statistics. But any number without error bars is meaningless, low probability event or no.
"The stated goal from bin Laden was the destruction of the capitalist monster that is the United States. He wanted 330 million people dead, regardless of our position or purpose in this country."
Hm. It seems a rather large leap from destroying "the capitalist monster that is the United States" to "330 million people dead, regardless of [their] position or purpose."
The US has destroyed several democracies and a few dictatorships without killing everyone (or even very many) ordinary citizens.
The TSA might not discourage many people from flying within the US (although some people who used to fly short hop commuter airlines probably drive or take the train now), but they do discourage people from flying to or through the US.
I'll go to great lengths to avoid connecting through the US because it involves a minimum 40 minute trip to the special room.
No. Both are very valuable terms, and should be used more.
When someone reads an article with "Earth-like" in it and assumes that means this other planet is just like Earth, and comes and tells me about it, I then know that he is an idiot. On the other hand, if someone complains (especially at length) about the use of the term, I know he's pedantic. As a bonus, constant disappointment for the first guy may help him improve his critical thinking skills and general knowledge base, possibly making him not an idiot.
"God particle" is similar, except that it also elicits outraged statements that reveal the speaker is a crazy religious nut job having a crisis of faith.
See? Both terms have a habit of revealing useful information about people who see them used, potentially provide educational incentives for those people, AND provide a useful shorthand (well, God particle not so much) for the rest of us.
Until you hit that darn international date line.