Some time ago, Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) did an interview in which he equated the notion that observing violence in media causes violent behavior to voodoo: the belief that altering a symbolic representation of reality somehow magically changes that which it symbolizes.
Oh, and U.S. readers should remember that Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of speech.
I'd honestly like to see a real cite (not a rant site) for
Even in wartime, up until WWII, most riflemen would not shoot - the rate of fire for individual riflemen was only 15-20%.
I've seen several variations of this quote citing different wars and different percentages, which could be natural internet meme mutation of a real study- or it could indicate that this anecdote is like 92.46227% of all statistics.
The game concepts are unique, the problems and Tests are challenging but not impossible, and almost everyone I've met through the game is a good, friendly, kind, intelligent, helpful person.
Current consensus is that the Test of the Acrobat is impossible with the current population of active players.
Sorry to interrupt a rant with actual facts, but...
LANL and LLNL have actually done research on cancer, unlike SETI@HOME which has done no work at all on cancer.
The University of California is currently a 'Key Sponsor' of SETI@HOME and its Berkeley campus is home to the SETI researchers who set up and use SETI@HOME. The University of California also currently operates both LANL and LLNL.
I'm not familiar with Evil Linux, is it anything like Red Hat?
Based on your User-ID number, you have yet to experience the joy that is having access to the "moderator" pulldown menus.
Speaking as someone who has had Mod points more than once, I can assure you that individuals with UIDs significantly higher than 580340 can moderate. I moderated before I was eligible to metamoderate.
This is partly a consequence of the fact that it took 8 months for me to become eligible to metamoderate (thanks to the creation of UID#672236) the FAQ is outdated in its time estimates for this, as the user base isn't proportionally growing as fast as it used to.
Kids may have Youthful Tendency Disorder
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The trouble with diagnosing kids with ADHD is that Youthful Tendency Disorder has very similar symptoms.
There is a tendency to treat both 'conditions' with the drugs developed for ADHD.
There do exist conditions in which SUVs are better "to get going"; a SUV can drive through significantly deeper snow than a small car simply because of larger tires and more ground clearance. If the task is to get up an icy incline, a 4WD SUV is much better at it than a 2WD small car. I have in mind a little road to a cabin I've been up which is impassible without a large 4WD vehicle for much of the winter (and rarely, after a really big snow even with one it's impassable without a lot of shoveling, but the vehicle type makes a big difference.) Plus, the six or eight people you can bring with you in a SUV can dig snow, push the SUV, or haul and spread gravel on the ice...
Of course, a more typical task of modern SUV owners is driving alone on a clear road... but there certainly are jobs for which a large, 4WD vehicle is particularly well-suited.
Do you have evidence that two SUV's in an accident are not safer than two rice burners?
Certainly. The NHTSA publishes statistics for front and side-impact collision safety- the front collision is based on hitting an immoble object at 35 MPH or an oncoming car of the same size at the same speed, while the side impact is based on a fixed mass object hitting the car from the side. The statistics for compact cars and for SUVs are given. The number of stars is based on an estimated probability of injury from a 35 MPH collision with a fixed object or with a same-size head on collision with another car going 35 MPH.
For Front impact statistics: The compact cars range from 3 to 5 stars, as do the SUVs... but there are 15 5-star compact makes and only one 3 star, while there are 13 5-star SUVs to 11 3-star SUVs. It's more important to choose the right make in either case, but the average is worse for an SUV than for a compact car.
For Side impact, the test uses a fixed-momentum side impact object, so it's not a 'vehicle vs. the same vehicle' test as in the front impact. The more massive vehicle is safer than the less massive vehicle when the two collide because it has more momentum, so this test doesn't address the two identical vehicles in a collision question.
How about an SUV vs a stop sign or tree compared to a rice burner and a non-moving object.
The above front-impact tests show that against something that is immobile like a large tree the two are similar, with the compact car averaging slightly better. For not-quite-immobile objects, like a stop sign, the SUV may plow on through where the compact car stops. In that case the SUV may be safer for the occupants...unless the object was something that you want to stop the vehicle, like a highway divider or a railing on a bridge or cliff.
I don't have any recent accident anecdotes to respond with, as I haven't been in an automobile accident in 15 years. This also allows you to not lose your car.
You do all realize that water vapor is many, many times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, right?
You do all realize that water vapor is in an equilibrium in the atmosphere, and that it precipitates out on a regular basis, right? And that the burning of fossil fuels produces water vapor too, right?
When my wife and I have kids that reach driving age, I certainly hope I can put them in vehicles that are safe and robust. You may value a fast fuel efficient vehicle, I value my child's life. I'm not going to impose on you my belief.
But it's not inherently safer. If two SUVs collide or two compact cars collide the death rates are similar, as the masses of the vehicles are similar. The trick is that when the SUV and the compact car collide the SUV inhabitants are safer... but the compact car inhabitants are less safe.
You're making your kids safer by increasing the danger to everyone else. This is common, rational, and misanthropic. There are good reasons to object to it, as it does impose on others the results of your choice in the form of higher death rates for everyone else.
That being said, making big cars illegal isn't a good idea,for reasons others have mentioned.
This isn't my field, but I want to a talk on this recently.
There are a lot of different hydrogen storage projects being worked on- it's one of the few non-defense scientific areas where government funding has been increasing substantially. National labs and universities as well as corporate entities are working on this. There are a number of difficulties to get the ideal hydrogen storage cell. They'd like it to:
1. Store a lot of hydrogen per volume
2. Store a lot of hydrogen per mass (10%-15% of the mass is the target)
3. Release and reabsorb hydrogen at moderate temperature and pressure
4. Be able to do this a large number of times
5. Depending on how good it is at 4, be easily recycled
6. Be cheap
7. Not be dangerous (toxic, explosive, etc.)
This is not easy, and there are specific goals attached to specific dates (If I recall correctly, 10% hydrogen by mass by 2010, 15% by 2015.)
NaBH4 was mentioned as one of the early candidates, as were variants like NaAlH4 and LiBH4. The mass percentage of hydrogen isn't as high for these as they'd like.
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either a fully assembled computer system or non-peripheral computer hardware component. (bolding mine)
the paraphrase:
So desktop OSes must be sold with a full computer system,
non-peripheral hardware.
Not quite the same meaning without the words 'either', 'or', and 'component', is it?
As Rumproast points out, a cable is certainly a computer hardware component, while under some definitions it isn't a peripheral, but under others it is.
Using the first definition, a cable is a "non-peripheral computer hardware component". Even using the second definition, a CPU can be purchased for all of $18...
More to the point, they're a US based company advertising this on the web. I suspect that they might have consulted lawyers about this. Well, either that or they'll be hearing from Microsoft soon...
If you shop around a little bit, you can buy a full version of Windows XP for $93., or a full version of XP Pro for $143.
Both specify "must be purchased with hardware" which is apparently related to the deal they have with Microsoft. This is probably intended to be sold to people building their own computers, as that's the primary business of the referenced site, so Microsoft's 'with hardware' clause may have been intended to mean a processor and motherboard etc... but a $5 cable satisfies the formal requirement.
The $93 price has been pretty constant at that site at least a year, so the $50 price mentioned in the article doesn't seem like the dramatic, unusual thing the article's author claims it is. I suspect the low price for 'purchase with hardware' there is for similar reasons to the Lindows case- people who build their own computers have to actually choose Windows instead of having it preinstalled for them, and there are SuSE and RedHat distributions sold at the same site. In a competitive sales environment, the price of Windows goes down.
I know you are trying to be informative, but factually, the temperature of "you" will go up in that situation, not down.
... 14 MILLION kelvins...you will still freeze to death standing (erm, floating) in the middle of it.
What interaction there is with this material will act to heat you. As you point out, there will be few interactions, but there won't be cooling interactions either.
Assuming oxygen and some form of space suit protection but no temperature control in a true vacuum, a live human would cook itself rather quickly because of production of large amounts of waste heat. A human at 310 K will very slowly lose thermal energy by emitting infrared (black body radiation), but this is much, much slower than its natural production of heat.
People often think that all of what gas there is in space is cold, because low earth orbit is cold... but interstellar space is mostly 1000K and up. (Dense gas clouds in nebulae are pretty cold, though.) Fewer atoms and higher temperature balances out pressure for gas laws (PV=nRT)- or at least that's where the equilibrium would be if it weren't for all this gravity, stars, and other things disrupting it.
Nope, it's the Uncle. See the salon.com article, which gives the Sr. suffix to the quoted judge. Besides, the OP specifies a US District Court judge, which the uncle is, while the cousin is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
It is true that there exists a Judge Stephen Limbaugh (Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.) who is the famous Rush Limbaugh's (Rush H. Limbaugh III) first cousin.
However, the person referred to by the OP who rejected that request is Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr.- his uncle.
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I will quote Al Gore, from his book Earth in the Balance, page 325:
It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
It's from a book, so you may have missed it by relying on "something you heard on tv, or a half-remembered conversation".
Gore would have been a disaster, but then again Bush has been horrible too. Sigh. I want a better electorate.
Whether a substance is ferromagnetic or diamagnetic is the big difference. To somewhat oversimplify, Ferromagnetic substances have unpaired electrons which become attracted to magnetic fields. Most common substances are diamagnetic- all of their electrons paired up- and are thus (very weakly) repelled.
Many, but far from all, metals are ferromagnetic. Amalgams (compounds with mercury) in dental fillings are generally diamagnetic.
A given metal atom may pair up its electrons and become diamagnetic if its local chemical enviroment encourages it even if in bulk the metal is ferromagnetic. (Yes, there are iron compounds which are not ferromagnetic)
There also exist unpaired electrons in organic compounds, but they're generally not very stable. ('Free Radicals')
The really unfortunate part is, to cut Der Ring das Nibelungen down to only nine hours, Peter Jackson cut out most of the valkyrie scenes- including the critical scene where Tom Bombadil and Brunnhilde meet. Also, the characterization of Alberich(or, as Jackson calls him, 'Gollum') is way off.
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Oh, and U.S. readers should remember that Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of speech.
A. You're right.
B. Despite trying, I'm unable to come up with any wordplay puns in order to pretend that the above was intentional.
LANL and LLNL have actually done research on cancer, unlike SETI@HOME which has done no work at all on cancer.
The University of California is currently a 'Key Sponsor' of SETI@HOME and its Berkeley campus is home to the SETI researchers who set up and use SETI@HOME. The University of California also currently operates both LANL and LLNL.
I'm not familiar with Evil Linux, is it anything like Red Hat?
Clearly, this is an appropriate occasion for a Viola solo.
ASCI White (#4) is at LLNL, but it is not a linux cluster- perhaps that contributed to the confusion.
This is partly a consequence of the fact that it took 8 months for me to become eligible to metamoderate (thanks to the creation of UID#672236) the FAQ is outdated in its time estimates for this, as the user base isn't proportionally growing as fast as it used to.
There is a tendency to treat both 'conditions' with the drugs developed for ADHD.
Of course, a more typical task of modern SUV owners is driving alone on a clear road... but there certainly are jobs for which a large, 4WD vehicle is particularly well-suited.
For Front impact statistics: The compact cars range from 3 to 5 stars, as do the SUVs... but there are 15 5-star compact makes and only one 3 star, while there are 13 5-star SUVs to 11 3-star SUVs. It's more important to choose the right make in either case, but the average is worse for an SUV than for a compact car.
For Side impact, the test uses a fixed-momentum side impact object, so it's not a 'vehicle vs. the same vehicle' test as in the front impact. The more massive vehicle is safer than the less massive vehicle when the two collide because it has more momentum, so this test doesn't address the two identical vehicles in a collision question.
The above front-impact tests show that against something that is immobile like a large tree the two are similar, with the compact car averaging slightly better. For not-quite-immobile objects, like a stop sign, the SUV may plow on through where the compact car stops. In that case the SUV may be safer for the occupants...unless the object was something that you want to stop the vehicle, like a highway divider or a railing on a bridge or cliff.I don't have any recent accident anecdotes to respond with, as I haven't been in an automobile accident in 15 years. This also allows you to not lose your car.
You're making your kids safer by increasing the danger to everyone else. This is common, rational, and misanthropic. There are good reasons to object to it, as it does impose on others the results of your choice in the form of higher death rates for everyone else.
That being said, making big cars illegal isn't a good idea,for reasons others have mentioned.
You need to everything right and die young anyway to spite Darwin.
There are a lot of different hydrogen storage projects being worked on- it's one of the few non-defense scientific areas where government funding has been increasing substantially. National labs and universities as well as corporate entities are working on this. There are a number of difficulties to get the ideal hydrogen storage cell. They'd like it to:
1. Store a lot of hydrogen per volume
2. Store a lot of hydrogen per mass (10%-15% of the mass is the target)
3. Release and reabsorb hydrogen at moderate temperature and pressure
4. Be able to do this a large number of times
5. Depending on how good it is at 4, be easily recycled
6. Be cheap
7. Not be dangerous (toxic, explosive, etc.)
This is not easy, and there are specific goals attached to specific dates (If I recall correctly, 10% hydrogen by mass by 2010, 15% by 2015.)
NaBH4 was mentioned as one of the early candidates, as were variants like NaAlH4 and LiBH4. The mass percentage of hydrogen isn't as high for these as they'd like.
As Rumproast points out, a cable is certainly a computer hardware component, while under some definitions it isn't a peripheral, but under others it is.
Using the first definition, a cable is a "non-peripheral computer hardware component". Even using the second definition, a CPU can be purchased for all of $18...
More to the point, they're a US based company advertising this on the web. I suspect that they might have consulted lawyers about this. Well, either that or they'll be hearing from Microsoft soon...
Check this out. Its cost is the same as the discount from the price of XP with its purchase... it's de facto free. It's not subtle.
Both specify "must be purchased with hardware" which is apparently related to the deal they have with Microsoft. This is probably intended to be sold to people building their own computers, as that's the primary business of the referenced site, so Microsoft's 'with hardware' clause may have been intended to mean a processor and motherboard etc... but a $5 cable satisfies the formal requirement.
The $93 price has been pretty constant at that site at least a year, so the $50 price mentioned in the article doesn't seem like the dramatic, unusual thing the article's author claims it is. I suspect the low price for 'purchase with hardware' there is for similar reasons to the Lindows case- people who build their own computers have to actually choose Windows instead of having it preinstalled for them, and there are SuSE and RedHat distributions sold at the same site. In a competitive sales environment, the price of Windows goes down.
Assuming oxygen and some form of space suit protection but no temperature control in a true vacuum, a live human would cook itself rather quickly because of production of large amounts of waste heat. A human at 310 K will very slowly lose thermal energy by emitting infrared (black body radiation), but this is much, much slower than its natural production of heat.
People often think that all of what gas there is in space is cold, because low earth orbit is cold... but interstellar space is mostly 1000K and up. (Dense gas clouds in nebulae are pretty cold, though.) Fewer atoms and higher temperature balances out pressure for gas laws (PV=nRT)- or at least that's where the equilibrium would be if it weren't for all this gravity, stars, and other things disrupting it.
Thank you, Larry Groznic.
Nope, it's the Uncle. See the salon.com article, which gives the Sr. suffix to the quoted judge. Besides, the OP specifies a US District Court judge, which the uncle is, while the cousin is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
However, the person referred to by the OP who rejected that request is Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr.- his uncle .
Gore would have been a disaster, but then again Bush has been horrible too. Sigh. I want a better electorate.
Many, but far from all, metals are ferromagnetic. Amalgams (compounds with mercury) in dental fillings are generally diamagnetic.
A given metal atom may pair up its electrons and become diamagnetic if its local chemical enviroment encourages it even if in bulk the metal is ferromagnetic. (Yes, there are iron compounds which are not ferromagnetic)
There also exist unpaired electrons in organic compounds, but they're generally not very stable. ('Free Radicals')
The really unfortunate part is, to cut Der Ring das Nibelungen down to only nine hours, Peter Jackson cut out most of the valkyrie scenes- including the critical scene where Tom Bombadil and Brunnhilde meet. Also, the characterization of Alberich(or, as Jackson calls him, 'Gollum') is way off.