Too bad they make more than 85% of the money, meaning they still don't even pay their fair share.
"In 2006, the top 1 percent of tax returns paid 39.9 percent of all federal individual income taxes and earned 22.1 percent of adjusted gross income..."
... and depriving consumers of their fundamental right to have access to data of their own creation.
Why do we need to keep creating new rights? I thought we had a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't recall the founding documents mentioning healthcare, housing, or the interoperability of manufactured goods as fundamental rights.
... our duty to users everywhere to violate those bits of intellectual property at every possible opportunity until it becomes such a legal nightmare for these companies that they are forced to back down. Anything less would be uncivilized.
Another alternative is to petition your congressman/woman to change the laws to the same effect. I would imagine this to be a more civilized answer.
2) O-Chem is more than memorization, it is flexibility in applying the memorized data - synthesis
Amen. Synthesis problems in Organic Chemistry are like combining chess with LEGO models. You know what you have to build (a molecule), you have memorized what pieces (reactions) you can use, but you are very limited in what order you can use them (like chess).
One reaction can interfere with a part of the molecule you didn't want to affect. Reactions can tack on parts where you want and where you don't want them to go. It takes far more than memorization to succeed in a well-designed Organic Chemistry course. You must develop a mastery of both the tactics and strategy of synthesis in order to do well in this subject.
This problem solving technique is very similar to the medical diagnosis and treatment steps. You have to take into account side-effects and drug interactions when picking what treatment option to use.
I am currently in the middle of a Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry and I have several MD and DDS friends. It is through conversations with them that I have come to appreciate how important my field is to the development of a medical professional.
However, electricity has tripled in the last 20 years from 5.3 to 16~ish cents.
That depends on where you live. I am in eastern Washington and pay only 5.21 cents per kWh. Virtually all of our power comes from hydroelectric and a small part from wind so the eco people are happy too!
I have one of the 400MHz 'Special Editions' running 10.4.11 happily. As a relatively low power consumption computer I don't mind letting it run overnight for those TV show torrents. Casual web browsing works just fine!
As with most things, The Onion has already tapped this comedy vein: Peace Activist Has To Admit Barrett.50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Is Pretty Cool
As I just had the opportunity to fire a few.50 BMG rounds through a Barrett Model 95 this past Friday, I can attest that it is indeed immensely cool! There is very little recoil, but an impressive shock wave smacks you after each shot. I challenge any man to fire this gun and not walk away smiling.
There was at least one F-15 that had a mid-air and lost a wing! That plane made it home!
The incident to which you refer was a mid-air collision in an Israeli Air Force training flight. Here is a link to the History Channel interview with the pilot. After McDonnell Douglas analyzed the accident, they concluded that the F-15's lifting body design allowed it to remain airborne on one wing, given enough speed.
Gigantic kudos to the pilot who brought that plane home safely! After a full investigation into the accident, a new wing was fitted, and the fighter returned to service.
How's that for American aircraft ruggedness! (Well, in the F-15's case anyway)
Next week on The Schrodingers - the Christmas Episode! Will little Erwin be happy with his new kitten?
Now if only Heisenberg had invented a contraption that could tell whether or not the cat was alive and well without opening the box. I guess we'll never know...
It seems to me that the faster a spacecraft travels, the more damage is done when a random chunk of whatever collides with the spacecraft.
That is what the 'deflector dish' is for. Now, if only we could stop burning it out when using it for other random purposes, such as an ill-fated weapon against Borg cubes...
...this would mean that a 5000 KG spaceship would be travelling at 320 m/s, which is 1152 KM/h, which is just under Mach 1.
A minor point, to be sure, but mach numbers relate speed with the speed of sound in the same medium. Since sound does not travel in a vacuum, using mach as a unit of speed in space is meaningless.
Two atoms were walking down the street and one says to the other, "hey, I think I lost an electron." The other says, "are you sure?" The first one replied, "yeah, I'm positive."
As a chemist, this is my favorite corny science joke! Thanks for the smile...
...the base gets/hot/. Scary when you consider the case is military-spec magnesium armour.
Magnesium ignition requires a temperature of at least 800 degrees F. I highly doubt your laptop gets hotter than a commercial oven. Even if it did, solid magnesium is very resistant to ignition (not to say that it doesn't ignite, just that it is resistant) compared to the magnesium ribbon (which has a much larger surface area) or powder that you probably remember seeing burn back in chemistry classes.
In other words, don't worry about your Panasonic's case igniting. You'll be fine.
It was that or "Popplers", everything else was taken.
What happens when you cut its strings(jam the signal)? Will it have a hover failsafe, or will it fall straight to the ground?
Considering that there are commercialautopilots for radio control vehicles already that can return the vehicle to the take-off GPS coordinates, it seems that a company as large as Honeywell would have thought about how to get the UAV back to the 'base' in the event of a radio failure.
After rereading the thread, I realized my post came off as trying to argue with you. That was not my intention. I really was just venting about how ridiculous zero point energy as an energy source. I wish authors and screenwriters would just stop trying to use that term. From the tone of your original post it is obvious you are aware of this reality.
Why don't they just ask for Zero Point Energy while they're at it?
Zero point energy is simply the vibrational energy that an atom or molecule contains after having been cooled to the unattainable temperature of 0K. Despite science fiction talking about ZPE as some magical power source, it really is just the miniscule amount of energy that exists in a systems ground state. It is unusable as a power source for anything since it is by definition the ultimate cold sink in a heat engine.
They are like little anvils placed in low orbit. When called on they drop from orbit onto the tanks at terminal velocity. A swarm of these weapons can take out a battalion of vehicles in just a few seconds.
The CBU-97 is basically what you describe. Instead of being deployed in orbit, it is a cluster munition delivered by an aircraft. It is quite effective at taking out large groups of tanks without the pilot having to target an individual vehicle. The weapon is simply aimed at a cluster of tanks and each individual submunition seeks out the vehicles based on their IR signature.
Tom Clancy readers may recognize this description from The Bear and the Dragon. This weapon was used in his account to take out large Chinese tank forces in eastern Russia.
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I refuse to call a Mountain Lion a Puma.
Just don't call a Warthog a Puma. Sarge doesn't like that.
Too bad they make more than 85% of the money, meaning they still don't even pay their fair share.
"In 2006, the top 1 percent of tax returns paid 39.9 percent of all federal individual income taxes and earned 22.1 percent of adjusted gross income..."
Let me ask again. Is this server, 'rackable'? How many Us?
4 Mac Minis will fit on this $58 2U tray..
And lets not forget about THC being schedule 3.
THC is in the Schedule 1 category.
I don't see anything 'round' about your distances of 1.8288222384784 and 3.0480370641307 metres.
Um, what? An inch is defined as exactly 0.0254 m, and a foot as exactly 12 inches. So that should be 1.8288 and 3.048 meters.
It's understandable, he's just using a Pentium 60.
... and depriving consumers of their fundamental right to have access to data of their own creation.
Why do we need to keep creating new rights? I thought we had a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't recall the founding documents mentioning healthcare, housing, or the interoperability of manufactured goods as fundamental rights.
... our duty to users everywhere to violate those bits of intellectual property at every possible opportunity until it becomes such a legal nightmare for these companies that they are forced to back down. Anything less would be uncivilized.
Another alternative is to petition your congressman/woman to change the laws to the same effect. I would imagine this to be a more civilized answer.
I know, I'm an idealist.
Amen. Synthesis problems in Organic Chemistry are like combining chess with LEGO models. You know what you have to build (a molecule), you have memorized what pieces (reactions) you can use, but you are very limited in what order you can use them (like chess).
One reaction can interfere with a part of the molecule you didn't want to affect. Reactions can tack on parts where you want and where you don't want them to go. It takes far more than memorization to succeed in a well-designed Organic Chemistry course. You must develop a mastery of both the tactics and strategy of synthesis in order to do well in this subject.
This problem solving technique is very similar to the medical diagnosis and treatment steps. You have to take into account side-effects and drug interactions when picking what treatment option to use.
I am currently in the middle of a Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry and I have several MD and DDS friends. It is through conversations with them that I have come to appreciate how important my field is to the development of a medical professional.
So did he say to himself on the way to the interview, "I just love it when a plan comes together!"?
Things cost more than they used to! Young people swear!
Do you want a popsicle?
That depends on where you live. I am in eastern Washington and pay only 5.21 cents per kWh. Virtually all of our power comes from hydroelectric and a small part from wind so the eco people are happy too!
Are fires bad for the ecosystem? Ballmer might not be too happy about that...
It is also illogical to apply logic to a joke! He said that the fastest horse was slowed down a bit by dragging all of the...
Well, never mind.
I have one of the 400MHz 'Special Editions' running 10.4.11 happily. As a relatively low power consumption computer I don't mind letting it run overnight for those TV show torrents. Casual web browsing works just fine!
His head would not have hit the windshield if he was wearing his seatbelt. So basically, the most effective safety device was not user activated.
As I just had the opportunity to fire a few .50 BMG rounds through a Barrett Model 95 this past Friday, I can attest that it is indeed immensely cool! There is very little recoil, but an impressive shock wave smacks you after each shot. I challenge any man to fire this gun and not walk away smiling.
The incident to which you refer was a mid-air collision in an Israeli Air Force training flight. Here is a link to the History Channel interview with the pilot. After McDonnell Douglas analyzed the accident, they concluded that the F-15's lifting body design allowed it to remain airborne on one wing, given enough speed.
Gigantic kudos to the pilot who brought that plane home safely! After a full investigation into the accident, a new wing was fitted, and the fighter returned to service.
How's that for American aircraft ruggedness! (Well, in the F-15's case anyway)
Now if only Heisenberg had invented a contraption that could tell whether or not the cat was alive and well without opening the box. I guess we'll never know...
That is what the 'deflector dish' is for. Now, if only we could stop burning it out when using it for other random purposes, such as an ill-fated weapon against Borg cubes...
Cheers!
A minor point, to be sure, but mach numbers relate speed with the speed of sound in the same medium. Since sound does not travel in a vacuum, using mach as a unit of speed in space is meaningless.
Cheers!
As a chemist, this is my favorite corny science joke! Thanks for the smile...
Magnesium ignition requires a temperature of at least 800 degrees F. I highly doubt your laptop gets hotter than a commercial oven. Even if it did, solid magnesium is very resistant to ignition (not to say that it doesn't ignite, just that it is resistant) compared to the magnesium ribbon (which has a much larger surface area) or powder that you probably remember seeing burn back in chemistry classes.
In other words, don't worry about your Panasonic's case igniting. You'll be fine.
It was that or "Popplers", everything else was taken.
Additionally, Popplers taste great!
Considering that there are commercial autopilots for radio control vehicles already that can return the vehicle to the take-off GPS coordinates, it seems that a company as large as Honeywell would have thought about how to get the UAV back to the 'base' in the event of a radio failure.
After rereading the thread, I realized my post came off as trying to argue with you. That was not my intention. I really was just venting about how ridiculous zero point energy as an energy source. I wish authors and screenwriters would just stop trying to use that term. From the tone of your original post it is obvious you are aware of this reality.
Cheers!
Zero point energy is simply the vibrational energy that an atom or molecule contains after having been cooled to the unattainable temperature of 0K. Despite science fiction talking about ZPE as some magical power source, it really is just the miniscule amount of energy that exists in a systems ground state. It is unusable as a power source for anything since it is by definition the ultimate cold sink in a heat engine.
Why yes, I am a chemist.
The CBU-97 is basically what you describe. Instead of being deployed in orbit, it is a cluster munition delivered by an aircraft. It is quite effective at taking out large groups of tanks without the pilot having to target an individual vehicle. The weapon is simply aimed at a cluster of tanks and each individual submunition seeks out the vehicles based on their IR signature.
Tom Clancy readers may recognize this description from The Bear and the Dragon. This weapon was used in his account to take out large Chinese tank forces in eastern Russia.