I lived in Calgary for a couple of years, which is warmer than Edmonton but not by all that much. It never got anywhere near that cold.
Since recordings began, the only time it dropped to -40C or lower in downtown Edmonton was January 26, 1972. That was a Wednesday, not a Tuesday, by the way.
You have it backwards. There would be no inherent difficulty in seeing the outside from within an event horizon, as light can travel _into_ an event horizon just fine. It's the reverse (seeing the inside from the outside) that isn't possible.
Measuring fuel consumption in units of volume burned per distance isn't a fair measure of fuel efficiency. Your diesel vehicle is given the appearance of being more fuel efficient than the equivalent gasoline vehicle in these units because diesel fuel is far denser than gasoline.
A more honest comparison would be to compare fuel efficiency in kg/100km. The mass of fuel burned correlates more closely with the amount of CO2 produced, for example, than it does to the volume.
Diesel fuel has a mass of about 850 g/L, compared to gasoline at about 720 g/L. To compare diesel to gasoline fuel consumption you can approximate this difference by dividing the diesel volume/distance numbers by 1.18.
Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, the first few participants got vastly more out of it than they put in, as do many current beneficiaries. It was sold as some sort of retirement plan, but that has never been an accurate description of the actual mechanism - it is more accurately described as a program to transfer wealth from the young to the old. (With a few exceptions on both ends, but that's the average.)
Social Security is absolutely a handout. One can argue whether this particular handout is justified, and I do think there's a case to be made for something like it, but let's not pretend it's anything but a transfer payment. If it's a good policy on balance, we should be able to describe it for what it is and make an honest case.
Sorry to disillusion you, but let me lay out the possibilities:
A. Your uncle had an incredibly, unbelievably unusual metabolism toward alcohol OR
B. He had been consistently lying about the amount of his alcohol consumption. This is extremely common behavior in alcoholics. The rest of his family supporting his story and generally being in denial is also very common.
I agree with you completely. The preening and posturing of the asshats pretending that their little in-joke should be an encyclopedia entry is hilarious!
And yet a few malcontents just keep on whining and moaning about not getting their way... what a bunch of ridiculous egotistical losers who take their puerile pop-culture references way too seriously. These people take their fandom far too seriously to understand that they are the joke!
The school banned gum and hard candy in order to avoid needing extra janitorial staff and thus to save taxpayer money, the child violated the rule and received a mild punishment. I see no problem with this scenario.
The school is not paid for by the parents' tax dollars alone, the revenue comes from the community as a whole including many non-parents, and as such the community as a whole absolutely has a right to ensure that their money is spent effectively... even if a few prima donna parents want their precious little darling to get special, expensive treatment. Perhaps if those parents paid out of pocket for an extra custodian for the school to clean up after the gum and hard candy messes that made the ban necessary they would have some justification. Pretending those particular parents are the only ones footing the bill for the school is lunacy.
Why? IR is light- it's right next to the visible spectrum. I don't see a theoretical reason why the technology could only be applied to the visible spectrum.
Exactly, and every time I use my discount card the store is made aware that one Elmer J. Fudd of 123 Fake Lane, Walla Walla Washington, 555-555-5555 has made that purchase.
One of the network technicians for Lower Marion School District, Mike Perbix, described a method to remotely Enable and Disable the built in iSight. He concludes this description of how to remotely use webcams with the single word, "ENJOY!".
What, exactly, was he "ENJOY!"ing about the ability to remotely operate webcams?
Once we know how much software this program creates, we can finally express amounts of software in the universal "a Library of Congress worth of" units!
It's clear that not all tasks can be completed, so this appears to be an optimization exercise. Nothing on the test indicates a particular sequence should be followed.
The best possible score on this test is to complete steps 1,2,3,4, and 6, while ignoring #5- that would earn a passing score of 5/6.
Anyone who completed 1,5, and 6 and did not complete 2, 3, or 4 would have only completed 50% of the problems, and is a clear failure. I would recommend pointing at them and laughing, as that sort of juvenile humiliation appears to be the point of this exercise.
Not trying to insult you, but I think you've fallen prey to the revisionist history that's occurred where as long as the government does ANYTHING they claim it's "socialism" - that's just false.
You appear to have developed your silly idea by only considering silly books. It's quite common for academic publishers to have separate pricing schemes depending on who is doing the purchasing. If you want a print subscription to The Lancet, a library will pay about five times the price that an (undiscounted) individual would- and more than ten times what a student subscription costs. This is common in academic publishing.
If all you want in your library is the latest in angsty teenage vampire fiction(i.e. silly books), the libraries get a good deal. For serious academic works, the reverse is true.
It may be incorrect for popular culture books, but for research materials there definitely exists a many tier pricing scheme. The American Chemical Society, for example, has separate member prices and four different pricing structures for institutions (Domestic Academic, International Academic, Corporate, and Government.) Within this, there are 5 different 'tiers' for Domestic Academic and six different tiers for International Academic.
Five years ago there were different prices for personal and institution print copies... but now a print subscription is only available to institutions and is roughly ten to fifty times as expensive as a member electronic subscription.
Your first choice of example is odd, considering that appealing specifically to Catholics and crusading against the "godless movement" were key tactics used used by the Nazis to consolidate power in the early 1930s. They most certainly did use religion (and more specifically anti-atheist sentiment) to consolidate power over their rival radical group, the communists.
Leaving aside the bank bailouts? That does seem rather convenient, as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was signed into law by Bush, with most of the money to be spent by the budgets of his successors. It is absurd to place the blame for this legislation on Obama.
Considering that the FBI pumped 77 pounds of a flammable aerosol into the compound, you might want to rethink who was to blame for the fire. But I do agree, it was "pretty harsh".
The original wording of that Tom Lehrer quote was, "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." See here.
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I lived in Calgary for a couple of years, which is warmer than Edmonton but not by all that much. It never got anywhere near that cold.
Since recordings began, the only time it dropped to -40C or lower in downtown Edmonton was January 26, 1972. That was a Wednesday, not a Tuesday, by the way.
I hear that the new A4 chip will allow the iPad to grow to 210 × 297 mm!
You have it backwards. There would be no inherent difficulty in seeing the outside from within an event horizon, as light can travel _into_ an event horizon just fine. It's the reverse (seeing the inside from the outside) that isn't possible.
Measuring fuel consumption in units of volume burned per distance isn't a fair measure of fuel efficiency. Your diesel vehicle is given the appearance of being more fuel efficient than the equivalent gasoline vehicle in these units because diesel fuel is far denser than gasoline.
A more honest comparison would be to compare fuel efficiency in kg/100km. The mass of fuel burned correlates more closely with the amount of CO2 produced, for example, than it does to the volume.
Diesel fuel has a mass of about 850 g/L, compared to gasoline at about 720 g/L. To compare diesel to gasoline fuel consumption you can approximate this difference by dividing the diesel volume/distance numbers by 1.18.
Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, the first few participants got vastly more out of it than they put in, as do many current beneficiaries. It was sold as some sort of retirement plan, but that has never been an accurate description of the actual mechanism - it is more accurately described as a program to transfer wealth from the young to the old. (With a few exceptions on both ends, but that's the average.)
Social Security is absolutely a handout. One can argue whether this particular handout is justified, and I do think there's a case to be made for something like it, but let's not pretend it's anything but a transfer payment. If it's a good policy on balance, we should be able to describe it for what it is and make an honest case.
Sorry to disillusion you, but let me lay out the possibilities:
A. Your uncle had an incredibly, unbelievably unusual metabolism toward alcohol OR
B. He had been consistently lying about the amount of his alcohol consumption. This is extremely common behavior in alcoholics. The rest of his family supporting his story and generally being in denial is also very common.
Let me respond to your "Insightful" post in kind.
I agree with you completely. The preening and posturing of the asshats pretending that their little in-joke should be an encyclopedia entry is hilarious!
Randall Munroe did expect something like this, but he didn't expect the persistance the foolish enthusiasts would have for adding this bit of fluff - in his words, "No, it shouldn't be an article. Yes, a clarifying article would be helpful. No, you shouldn't be helpful in this situation, because it's not your job."
And yet a few malcontents just keep on whining and moaning about not getting their way... what a bunch of ridiculous egotistical losers who take their puerile pop-culture references way too seriously. These people take their fandom far too seriously to understand that they are the joke!
The school banned gum and hard candy in order to avoid needing extra janitorial staff and thus to save taxpayer money, the child violated the rule and received a mild punishment. I see no problem with this scenario.
The school is not paid for by the parents' tax dollars alone, the revenue comes from the community as a whole including many non-parents, and as such the community as a whole absolutely has a right to ensure that their money is spent effectively... even if a few prima donna parents want their precious little darling to get special, expensive treatment. Perhaps if those parents paid out of pocket for an extra custodian for the school to clean up after the gum and hard candy messes that made the ban necessary they would have some justification. Pretending those particular parents are the only ones footing the bill for the school is lunacy.
I can understand why someone might think that the Juice might deserve the death penalty.
Why? IR is light- it's right next to the visible spectrum. I don't see a theoretical reason why the technology could only be applied to the visible spectrum.
Exactly, and every time I use my discount card the store is made aware that one Elmer J. Fudd of 123 Fake Lane, Walla Walla Washington, 555-555-5555 has made that purchase.
...at least as long as I always pay with cash.
One of the network technicians for Lower Marion School District, Mike Perbix, described a method to remotely Enable and Disable the built in iSight. He concludes this description of how to remotely use webcams with the single word, "ENJOY!".
What, exactly, was he "ENJOY!"ing about the ability to remotely operate webcams?
Woo Hoo! I'm boss!
Now why are these gentlemen escorting me out of the building?
Absolutely. These are the only two options we have.
Anyone who has a specific objection to a proposed expansion of govenment powers is advocating the only other option, anarchy.
Once we know how much software this program creates, we can finally express amounts of software in the universal "a Library of Congress worth of" units!
It's clear that not all tasks can be completed, so this appears to be an optimization exercise. Nothing on the test indicates a particular sequence should be followed.
The best possible score on this test is to complete steps 1,2,3,4, and 6, while ignoring #5- that would earn a passing score of 5/6.
Anyone who completed 1,5, and 6 and did not complete 2, 3, or 4 would have only completed 50% of the problems, and is a clear failure. I would recommend pointing at them and laughing, as that sort of juvenile humiliation appears to be the point of this exercise.
Not trying to insult you, but I think you've fallen prey to the revisionist history that's occurred where as long as the government does ANYTHING they claim it's "socialism" - that's just false.
Don't forget their longest-running software franchise, Flight Simulator, which they took over from another company back in 1982.
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You appear to have developed your silly idea by only considering silly books. It's quite common for academic publishers to have separate pricing schemes depending on who is doing the purchasing. If you want a print subscription to The Lancet, a library will pay about five times the price that an (undiscounted) individual would- and more than ten times what a student subscription costs. This is common in academic publishing.
If all you want in your library is the latest in angsty teenage vampire fiction(i.e. silly books), the libraries get a good deal. For serious academic works, the reverse is true.
It may be incorrect for popular culture books, but for research materials there definitely exists a many tier pricing scheme. The American Chemical Society, for example, has separate member prices and four different pricing structures for institutions (Domestic Academic, International Academic, Corporate, and Government.) Within this, there are 5 different 'tiers' for Domestic Academic and six different tiers for International Academic.
Five years ago there were different prices for personal and institution print copies... but now a print subscription is only available to institutions and is roughly ten to fifty times as expensive as a member electronic subscription.
Your first choice of example is odd, considering that appealing specifically to Catholics and crusading against the "godless movement" were key tactics used used by the Nazis to consolidate power in the early 1930s. They most certainly did use religion (and more specifically anti-atheist sentiment) to consolidate power over their rival radical group, the communists.
Leaving aside the bank bailouts? That does seem rather convenient, as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was signed into law by Bush, with most of the money to be spent by the budgets of his successors. It is absurd to place the blame for this legislation on Obama.
Considering that the FBI pumped 77 pounds of a flammable aerosol into the compound, you might want to rethink who was to blame for the fire. But I do agree, it was "pretty harsh".
The original wording of that Tom Lehrer quote was, "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." See here.