Pot smokers are everyone. But since 49% of the US lives on some sort of government assistance, it isn't too much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine that only a few percent of the affluent don't smoke pot, thereby pushing pot users into the >50% range, and hence a majority.
It appears that this was translated poorly from the original Italian.
I don't think so. If the full article was in Nano Letters, they published it in English.
You beat me to it. I don't know HOW that abstract made it through. The ACS kept telling me that they could only maintain their current level of quality publishing if I kept giving them money, but I didn't realize they actually meant it!
Yup, from a different summary I read they claimed it was a bundle of 7 molecules (6 around a core), apparently (for what their explanation is worth) because a single one would be destroyed by the TEM.
I am by no means a TEM expert, but I did spend a semester learning to use one in grad school (in a bio class all my materials chemistry classmates taunted me for taking), and it only a minute or two at relatively low acceleration voltages to completely trash each cell I was imaging, so I'm not surprised by this at all.
No, he put NASA's credibility on the line. How many times in this thread have you seen Felisa Wolfe-Simon's name come up in reference to the arsenic DNA fiasco? And yet how many times have you seen arsenic DNA mentioned in this thread about NASA?
When I was going through grad school at IU in the chemistry program, if we expressed opinions that were "problematic," we were in deep shit not because the views were "problematic," but because we clearly weren't working hard enough that we had time to "express."
I currently work in a blending/bottling/packaging/bulk shipping facility that was built forty years ago, but has been upgrading and expanding the entire time - we just finished an expansion in January that houses a new gallon bottle line that does four times the volume the old gallon line did - but it needs six workers, while the twenty-year-old one only needs four. It's fewer employees per capita, but as we increase volume, we still need more workers. Hell, they've expanded the parking lot twice since I started there four years ago.
The plant has three quart bottle lines, a 12-ounce line, the new gallon line (the old one has been mothballed, but will be pulled out next year for another quart line), a 2.5 gallon line, a five-gallon pail line, and a 55 gallon drum line. The eight lines together require about sixty people directly operating them over three shifts, four forklift drivers per shift (because we're loading multiple semis at a time), and about thirty people for the three shifts in the warehouse - about a hundred people for a facility that moves between one and two million gallons of product a week.
For our fancy new 1.5 million dollar gallon line (bad photo taken in the dark because that's the only one I have on my phone), we have a person to operate the filler/check fill amounts, a person to fill the cap hopper, a person to clear backups, a person to do visual inspections (watching for leakers, bad labels, etc.), a person to break and load the pallets of bottles onto the line, and a person to break/load boxes onto the line.
Gone are the days of single skilled individuals. The mechanic is not going to sit there waiting for something to break, he/she might also be cross trained in how to use the forklift. Think about it.
I think calling our rednecks single-skilled individuals is being a bit too kind to them. "Open box, dump into hopper, break down box, repeat" doesn't qualify as a "skill" in my book. Maybe the delivery drivers count as skilled, but not the line workers.
And our mechanics (four per shift) always have something to fix - our half-mile-long facility has something like 300 pumps, almost a thousand automatic valves, a mile or so of conveyors, a dozen or so miles of pipes, automated control systems for the blending/pumping systems, and things like the goddamn entrance gate that breaks down EVERY time it rains. And then, of course, they also get the mundane tasks like changing lighting, doing safety inspections and testing the fire suppression system every week - that's where their down-time "cross-training" comes in. Companies that pay a mechanic $20/hr to do what they could pay Joe Six-Pack $10/hr to do don't stay in business long.
You must have never worked in a factory. You're right that they'll only employ a handful of engineers (actually, it'll be a handful of mechanics and maybe two engineers), but they will still need a couple hundred rednecks to load and unload trucks, make sure the parts hoppers are always full, and clear the backups on the line when a box goes into the heat shrinker sideways.
But your wife probably doesn't check app permissions anyway - generally the only people that do are the people that care (and therefore know about) security.
I will hack* anything except my phone - it's too important. I can't afford to fuck it up and be out of touch with the world for a few days until I either unbrick it or get a new one.
*Well, attempt to hack - never claimed to be any good.
A large part of the problem is that Android groups permissions together too much. Why is "read phone state" bundled with "phone identity?" A game doesn't need to identify me if all it wants to do is let me know a call is coming through.
Most of the Samsung hate I have encountered (and I'll be honest, contributed) is due to the quality of their builds and engineering, not necessarily their ideas.
I imagine the Amazon thing was to get it up on Amazon, for exposure. Multiple prices since he doesn't have the ability to put a Paypal link up on Amazon.
As to people getting annoyed because they accidentally bought a free book - screw 'em. These are teachers, supposedly - if they don't have the reading comprehension to understand what's going on, they shouldn't be teaching anyway.
Never heard that one before, normally More Options = Good. It's not like you need a PhD in rocket science to understand the difference between Low, Med, High graphics settings.
Clearly you haven't attended John Carmack's Institute of Rage.
Stupid people like to tease me for liking Star Trek and the Misfits. Fuck them, it's what *I* like that matters to me. If you switch phones because your old one isn't cool enough, you're a dipshit and deserved the mockery you were getting in the first place.
And while I believe the Pope doesn't technically receive a salary, I bet he's never had to say, "Damn, I wish someone had gotten me a 3DS for Christmas!"
Wouldn't you just jump back to the date from which you originated and tell Alt-You to find the correct date in a book and jump there, instead of the stranding one?
Not taking home ec is one of two regrets in my high school years, the other being that I didn't realize I was taking high school way too seriously until senior year.
Strictly speaking, it would be physical chemistry.
"Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of laws and concepts of physics."
Like vapor pressures, thermal breakdown, and azeotropic tendencies.
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Pot smokers are everyone. But since 49% of the US lives on some sort of government assistance, it isn't too much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine that only a few percent of the affluent don't smoke pot, thereby pushing pot users into the >50% range, and hence a majority.
Of course, if the recreational users all started having half a million dollars in property to confiscate, we'd probably see a shift.
The government has never focused on recreational users. It's focused on the dealers. Recreational users are just targets of opportunity.
You're right. My dad keeps escaping from the old persons' home I left him at. They clearly need longer-range tasers to keep him under control.
It appears that this was translated poorly from the original Italian.
I don't think so. If the full article was in Nano Letters, they published it in English.
You beat me to it. I don't know HOW that abstract made it through. The ACS kept telling me that they could only maintain their current level of quality publishing if I kept giving them money, but I didn't realize they actually meant it!
Yup, from a different summary I read they claimed it was a bundle of 7 molecules (6 around a core), apparently (for what their explanation is worth) because a single one would be destroyed by the TEM.
I am by no means a TEM expert, but I did spend a semester learning to use one in grad school (in a bio class all my materials chemistry classmates taunted me for taking), and it only a minute or two at relatively low acceleration voltages to completely trash each cell I was imaging, so I'm not surprised by this at all.
No, he put NASA's credibility on the line. How many times in this thread have you seen Felisa Wolfe-Simon's name come up in reference to the arsenic DNA fiasco? And yet how many times have you seen arsenic DNA mentioned in this thread about NASA?
When I was going through grad school at IU in the chemistry program, if we expressed opinions that were "problematic," we were in deep shit not because the views were "problematic," but because we clearly weren't working hard enough that we had time to "express."
I currently work in a blending/bottling/packaging/bulk shipping facility that was built forty years ago, but has been upgrading and expanding the entire time - we just finished an expansion in January that houses a new gallon bottle line that does four times the volume the old gallon line did - but it needs six workers, while the twenty-year-old one only needs four. It's fewer employees per capita, but as we increase volume, we still need more workers. Hell, they've expanded the parking lot twice since I started there four years ago.
The plant has three quart bottle lines, a 12-ounce line, the new gallon line (the old one has been mothballed, but will be pulled out next year for another quart line), a 2.5 gallon line, a five-gallon pail line, and a 55 gallon drum line. The eight lines together require about sixty people directly operating them over three shifts, four forklift drivers per shift (because we're loading multiple semis at a time), and about thirty people for the three shifts in the warehouse - about a hundred people for a facility that moves between one and two million gallons of product a week.
For our fancy new 1.5 million dollar gallon line (bad photo taken in the dark because that's the only one I have on my phone), we have a person to operate the filler/check fill amounts, a person to fill the cap hopper, a person to clear backups, a person to do visual inspections (watching for leakers, bad labels, etc.), a person to break and load the pallets of bottles onto the line, and a person to break/load boxes onto the line.
Gone are the days of single skilled individuals. The mechanic is not going to sit there waiting for something to break, he/she might also be cross trained in how to use the forklift. Think about it.
I think calling our rednecks single-skilled individuals is being a bit too kind to them. "Open box, dump into hopper, break down box, repeat" doesn't qualify as a "skill" in my book. Maybe the delivery drivers count as skilled, but not the line workers.
And our mechanics (four per shift) always have something to fix - our half-mile-long facility has something like 300 pumps, almost a thousand automatic valves, a mile or so of conveyors, a dozen or so miles of pipes, automated control systems for the blending/pumping systems, and things like the goddamn entrance gate that breaks down EVERY time it rains. And then, of course, they also get the mundane tasks like changing lighting, doing safety inspections and testing the fire suppression system every week - that's where their down-time "cross-training" comes in. Companies that pay a mechanic $20/hr to do what they could pay Joe Six-Pack $10/hr to do don't stay in business long.
You must have never worked in a factory. You're right that they'll only employ a handful of engineers (actually, it'll be a handful of mechanics and maybe two engineers), but they will still need a couple hundred rednecks to load and unload trucks, make sure the parts hoppers are always full, and clear the backups on the line when a box goes into the heat shrinker sideways.
Foxconn's suicide rate is lower than the average. The only reason they get bad press for it is they supply Apple.
That's because they shoot you when you threaten to jump.
It's odd that I don't see GM and Chrysler being investgated. Or perhaps the EPA itself needs to be investigated...
They have been, and they have been caught. 2001 Dodge Ram, 1 mpg overstatement.
But your wife probably doesn't check app permissions anyway - generally the only people that do are the people that care (and therefore know about) security.
I will hack* anything except my phone - it's too important. I can't afford to fuck it up and be out of touch with the world for a few days until I either unbrick it or get a new one.
*Well, attempt to hack - never claimed to be any good.
A large part of the problem is that Android groups permissions together too much. Why is "read phone state" bundled with "phone identity?" A game doesn't need to identify me if all it wants to do is let me know a call is coming through.
Most of the Samsung hate I have encountered (and I'll be honest, contributed) is due to the quality of their builds and engineering, not necessarily their ideas.
I imagine the Amazon thing was to get it up on Amazon, for exposure. Multiple prices since he doesn't have the ability to put a Paypal link up on Amazon.
As to people getting annoyed because they accidentally bought a free book - screw 'em. These are teachers, supposedly - if they don't have the reading comprehension to understand what's going on, they shouldn't be teaching anyway.
Never heard that one before, normally More Options = Good.
It's not like you need a PhD in rocket science to understand the difference between Low, Med, High graphics settings.
Clearly you haven't attended John Carmack's Institute of Rage.
No, it is a shock - that would be the first time an MS service pack made something usable.
Whether or not the software is better, until an iPhone comes with a hardware keyboard, nuts to them!
Stupid people like to tease me for liking Star Trek and the Misfits. Fuck them, it's what *I* like that matters to me. If you switch phones because your old one isn't cool enough, you're a dipshit and deserved the mockery you were getting in the first place.
My "citizenship" class in high school was the biggest waste of time I have ever encountered.
The general format was watch the morning news (~25 minutes), then talk about the news for about 10 minutes, then have ten minutes of *real* class.
This was the spring of '98, when very important things were being covered every fucking day on the news.
I guessing you are unfamiliar with the incomes of the PBS and NPR CEOs, then. And those are small compared to some other non-profits that get a smaller, or no, bite of government funding.
And while I believe the Pope doesn't technically receive a salary, I bet he's never had to say, "Damn, I wish someone had gotten me a 3DS for Christmas!"
Wouldn't you just jump back to the date from which you originated and tell Alt-You to find the correct date in a book and jump there, instead of the stranding one?
Not taking home ec is one of two regrets in my high school years, the other being that I didn't realize I was taking high school way too seriously until senior year.
Strictly speaking, it would be physical chemistry.
"Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of laws and concepts of physics."
Like vapor pressures, thermal breakdown, and azeotropic tendencies.