The electrical telegraph dates from about 1838, and proficient operators could manually send better than one character per second. The record, set in 1939, is 75 words per minute (about 6 characters per second). That's manual entry, and all modems have been faster.
SELinux is a huge stinking pile. Once it's installed it can't be disabled, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. The last time I tried to disable it, my system wouldn't boot. The advice SELinux gives for overcoming alerts doesn't work more often than it does.
Hand controls for handicapped car drivers can be very effective. If you have a garage, you never have to deal with snow. But try taking your wheelchair through a half mile of snow banks: if you make it to the bus stop at all, you'll be fortunate.
I've met people who are just plain nasty, who will pick a fight with anyone. As far as I'm concerned, they're more dangerous than neo-Nazis, because the latter can be seen and avoided.
No politician - zilch, zero, none, nobody, nemo - understands a nonexistent vote as a rebuke. If he gets a 1-0 victory, he will trumpet unanimous voter support. To send any sort of message, write in almost anybody, or deliberately and obviously spoil your ballot (in those cases where it's possible.) In some rare situations, it's possible to explicitly vote "none of the above".
Electret microphones are cheap and can be flat across the entire audio spectrum. Speakers are much more difficult; there are fundamental physical limitations that cannot be escaped.
The frequency response best for hifi (flat) is not the same as that which is best for communications.
Poor Indy doesn't have much of a chance, but TFA is much too pessimistic. There could have been a big berm between the fridge and the nuke, absorbing and deflecting the initial impulse and direct radiation. He could have been accelerated very rapidly instead of instantaneously. He could have been launched with the fridge at an angle, so that aerodynamic forces kept it aloft only a few feet above the earth (no devastating landing crash). Rapid application of heat does not melt an object all at once, the surface boils off like the "ablative shield" of the Mercury capsules. Being sealed in a fridge doesn't asphyxiate you immediately, it probably takes about 20 minutes if you're at ease and very inactive and aren't oxygen deleted when you get inside. And so forth, and so on.
It does not make a convincing argument if you don't allow for possibilities that defeat your viewpoint. Not all sharks wear lasers.
Cadillac and Corvette frequently have leading edge technology, often to the point of gimmickry. It's deployed in these cars before the bugs are worked out, resulting in hideous reliability, particularly when there's a major model change, like the 1984 Corvette. Things just designed wrong, guaranteed to fail repeatedly.
When a program starts, the first action is almost always File->Open or File->New. If that capability can't be made available in less than half a second, something is badly wrong. Then user input is required, and if then the program STILL isn't ready, put up an "I'm working on it" message.
The diseases of youth have been easier to fix, and I wouldn't call youth "fragile". Most old people are worn out in many ways, especially in their ability to regenerate broken parts. Curing 1 of 5 diseases that are killing an oldster won't do a lot to keep him alive.
Thanks for adding to the evidence that "environmentalists" and the "limited resource" and "sustainability" crowds are opposed to the principle of "live long and prosper". A pox on your house.
The myth of extreme old age in Georgian yoghurt eaters is a fraud perpetrated by draft dodgers. The people actually had prematurely aged-looking faces, and claimed to be much older than they were, to avoid military service. Records from that time persisted, and when examined as those people became old, the records indicated they were extremely old.
You,on the other hand, support stealing money at gunpoint to support people who have failed to adequately plan their lives. Stealing from people who have done a good job of living to support those who do a bad job. Hurting the good for the purpose of helping the bad. And that is the essence of liberalism/progressivism/communism/etc..
The claim that the supplies of precursors are limited is idiotic. The supply of convenient precursors may be limited, but the supply of each of the types of atoms is effectively unlimited, it's "just" a question of going through a complete synthesis.
I was born in 1949, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s measles, mumps, chicken pox, and German measles (rubella) were considered "childhood diseases" that everyone got and almost nobody died from, although there was some danger if you got 2 at the same time. According to wikipedia, the fatality rate is about 0.1%, and that includes people already in poor health and people who contract pneumonia at the same time. Now, general practice is to start measles vaccination at about 18 months; earlier not being necessary because some immunity is carried over from the mother. That's earlier than I'd want to start, but I am no expert.
The problem is not that "Monsanto then forces farmers to burn all their seed", if that were the case, a farmer would be completely justified in putting a bullet through a Monsanto employee's head. The problem is that Monsanto is using courts to create this travesty of justice, and that the farmer has no recourse but to find a way to fight back through the legal system.
Most econuts don't think through the results of their desires. It's only when pressed that they crumble, and then they either deny that bad things will happen or they say "So what?". You don't hear it because few people are willing to spend the hours it takes to grind through the layers of idiocy in environmentalism.
We have the same farms we've always had, only less of them. Farms are not the problem.
400 years ago, there was negligible farming in Maine. 150 years ago, probably most of the state was farmland. Now, most of the state is forest and there's very little farmland. What's changed is the nature of farms, and particularly fertilizers. Modern fertilizers, whether "organic" or "chemical", are not purified significantly with respect to heavy metals. Runoff from modern farms is much different than 150 years ago, or even 60 years ago.
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Round trip spaceflight is so much more complicated, big, and expensive than one way. To save money, just ask the Martians to send us some samples.
The electrical telegraph dates from about 1838, and proficient operators could manually send better than one character per second. The record, set in 1939, is 75 words per minute (about 6 characters per second). That's manual entry, and all modems have been faster.
SELinux is a huge stinking pile. Once it's installed it can't be disabled, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. The last time I tried to disable it, my system wouldn't boot. The advice SELinux gives for overcoming alerts doesn't work more often than it does.
Postscript is an Apple conspiracy, designed to wear out electrons by sending too many of them through the printer cable.
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My driveway is more than 20 yards long, and if I don't back in I have to back out.
Hand controls for handicapped car drivers can be very effective. If you have a garage, you never have to deal with snow. But try taking your wheelchair through a half mile of snow banks: if you make it to the bus stop at all, you'll be fortunate.
The research is expanding the knowledge of mankind and has enormous potential. We already know plenty of ways to make people sterile.
I've met people who are just plain nasty, who will pick a fight with anyone. As far as I'm concerned, they're more dangerous than neo-Nazis, because the latter can be seen and avoided.
No politician - zilch, zero, none, nobody, nemo - understands a nonexistent vote as a rebuke. If he gets a 1-0 victory, he will trumpet unanimous voter support. To send any sort of message, write in almost anybody, or deliberately and obviously spoil your ballot (in those cases where it's possible.) In some rare situations, it's possible to explicitly vote "none of the above".
Electret microphones are cheap and can be flat across the entire audio spectrum. Speakers are much more difficult; there are fundamental physical limitations that cannot be escaped.
The frequency response best for hifi (flat) is not the same as that which is best for communications.
Poor grammar and spelling is less objectionable than nasty language. Malice is worse than incompetence.
Poor Indy doesn't have much of a chance, but TFA is much too pessimistic. There could have been a big berm between the fridge and the nuke, absorbing and deflecting the initial impulse and direct radiation. He could have been accelerated very rapidly instead of instantaneously. He could have been launched with the fridge at an angle, so that aerodynamic forces kept it aloft only a few feet above the earth (no devastating landing crash). Rapid application of heat does not melt an object all at once, the surface boils off like the "ablative shield" of the Mercury capsules. Being sealed in a fridge doesn't asphyxiate you immediately, it probably takes about 20 minutes if you're at ease and very inactive and aren't oxygen deleted when you get inside. And so forth, and so on.
It does not make a convincing argument if you don't allow for possibilities that defeat your viewpoint. Not all sharks wear lasers.
Drivers licenses are issued by states.
That must have have been a dandy accident. Have you any photos?
Cadillac and Corvette frequently have leading edge technology, often to the point of gimmickry. It's deployed in these cars before the bugs are worked out, resulting in hideous reliability, particularly when there's a major model change, like the 1984 Corvette. Things just designed wrong, guaranteed to fail repeatedly.
When a program starts, the first action is almost always File->Open or File->New. If that capability can't be made available in less than half a second, something is badly wrong. Then user input is required, and if then the program STILL isn't ready, put up an "I'm working on it" message.
The diseases of youth have been easier to fix, and I wouldn't call youth "fragile". Most old people are worn out in many ways, especially in their ability to regenerate broken parts. Curing 1 of 5 diseases that are killing an oldster won't do a lot to keep him alive.
Thanks for adding to the evidence that "environmentalists" and the "limited resource" and "sustainability" crowds are opposed to the principle of "live long and prosper". A pox on your house.
The myth of extreme old age in Georgian yoghurt eaters is a fraud perpetrated by draft dodgers. The people actually had prematurely aged-looking faces, and claimed to be much older than they were, to avoid military service. Records from that time persisted, and when examined as those people became old, the records indicated they were extremely old.
You,on the other hand, support stealing money at gunpoint to support people who have failed to adequately plan their lives. Stealing from people who have done a good job of living to support those who do a bad job. Hurting the good for the purpose of helping the bad. And that is the essence of liberalism/progressivism/communism/etc..
The claim that the supplies of precursors are limited is idiotic. The supply of convenient precursors may be limited, but the supply of each of the types of atoms is effectively unlimited, it's "just" a question of going through a complete synthesis.
I was born in 1949, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s measles, mumps, chicken pox, and German measles (rubella) were considered "childhood diseases" that everyone got and almost nobody died from, although there was some danger if you got 2 at the same time. According to wikipedia, the fatality rate is about 0.1%, and that includes people already in poor health and people who contract pneumonia at the same time. Now, general practice is to start measles vaccination at about 18 months; earlier not being necessary because some immunity is carried over from the mother. That's earlier than I'd want to start, but I am no expert.
The problem is not that "Monsanto then forces farmers to burn all their seed", if that were the case, a farmer would be completely justified in putting a bullet through a Monsanto employee's head. The problem is that Monsanto is using courts to create this travesty of justice, and that the farmer has no recourse but to find a way to fight back through the legal system.
Most econuts don't think through the results of their desires. It's only when pressed that they crumble, and then they either deny that bad things will happen or they say "So what?". You don't hear it because few people are willing to spend the hours it takes to grind through the layers of idiocy in environmentalism.
400 years ago, there was negligible farming in Maine. 150 years ago, probably most of the state was farmland. Now, most of the state is forest and there's very little farmland. What's changed is the nature of farms, and particularly fertilizers. Modern fertilizers, whether "organic" or "chemical", are not purified significantly with respect to heavy metals. Runoff from modern farms is much different than 150 years ago, or even 60 years ago.