i think "drought" is a bit over the top for the UK if you compare it to real droughts around the world. a few dryer periods sounds more like it
OTOH, there are some oceanographers who are watching the Gulfstream currents carefully. Should that flow ever relocate (the current candidate cause IIRC would be excess flow from melting Arctic ice), the Emerald Isle will go brown.
No problem: we'll scare the birds off with lizards, then use Chinese needle snakes to get rid of them, followed by snake-eating gorillas, and then we just need to make Africa have a winter.
And that is the root cause of this whole situation. We need to find a way to change the overall mindset (especially in these here Unitee States) towards other people's personal sexual congresses. Not only should it be nobody else's business, but nobody should even **care** what some person they're neither related to nor dating is doing.
If someone's cheating on a spouse (and the spouse does not approve of extramarital sex), the spouse will likely find out one way or another at some point. What happens to the couple is up to them. But what your employees, or Congressional reps, or sports/music/theatre idols do in their personal lives including sex, just plain shouldn't matter.
I keep hearing people saying replacing MS office with openoffice or libreoffice is no brainer. It is no brainer when your're replacing the word processor. It is a total different story to replace excel.
Friends don't let friends use Excel. End of story.
Details: never ever ever use Excel to do math or data analysis. The reasons are legion.. Never ever ever use Excel to set up a database. Again, the reasons are legion. Never ever Ever use Excel to format a cute-looking front page or even a tree diagram. It's stupid, painfully slow, and will break the moment someone tries to edit.
So then you're left with what Excel actually is: a spreadsheet tool. But just try writing a macro that won't foul up if someone hides/unhides a few rows, for example.
Stop being law enforcement officers. GO back to being peace officers.
I would agree if it weren't for the many scifi stories in which the term "peace officer" is pretty much synonymous with "CIA smarts and KGB thuggery combined."
Well, for those of us of a certain age:-(, our SSN does not actually identify us.Yes I know the Fed gov't now treats us as identified by our SSN, but I got mine by walking into an IRS office and requesting one. I could have gone back the next day and requested another -- but since at the time the only purpose of the SSN was to track my earnings so as to calculate my retirement payments, splitting my salary reports between 2 numbers would have been stupid.
I trust you were not alive during the previous Administration. Calls for the death of the President were common and daily occurrences. Books were written about fantasy coup scenarios. He was compared, un-ironically, to Adolf Hitler. Is this one of those things where it's only wrong when the other side does it?
There are a few "progressive" contact lenses as well. I use Air-Optix with great success. They are NOT weighted for orientation but (I believe) have a radial variation in power, and somehow your optics processing center learns, very quickly, to use the reduced power info for short-range work and the full-power info for distance viewing.
That said, the day either medication unstiffens my natural lens or a focussable artificial implant is approved, I'm going to jump at the chance. In fact, I'd prefer the latter so I can dump my -8 diopter contacts!
If AI gets "out of hand," just pull the frakking plug. Stop thinking it'll have some magic way of staying powered. This is why sieges worked in the medaevil days: sooner or later the castle runs out of food, or water, or batteries for their cellphones.
Sounds like an ideal site for all-optical computing.
No, I'm not serious -- there's no chance of designing a completely electron-free system of a computer, memory, keyboard, and display. (at least not yet...)
But really -- it's not hard to build Farday-cage-style workrooms. It's things like RF LED light controllers, RFID door / ID badge systems, and all the other little things (OnStar) that nobody thinks about.
There are some quality/safety standards for UK automotive software
Those are just voluntary guidelines that everyone is free to ignore.
Oh, please. Do I have to quote you the formula for determining whether to make something safer? It involves cost of new parts, frequency of accidents, cost of lawsuits, and possibly soap made from human fat.
When people say 'gosh you look like 20,' they're actually basing that on the way you behave, not your appearance. (Insert smiley faces at your own discretion)
Sorry for the flamebait, but the next "accident" really is the complete failure to start building more power plants. The cost we're incurring by sticking w/ fossil fuels, in environmental damage, human health, $$ flowing to the Middle East, far outweighs either the cost of nuc plants or the potential hazards of such plants.
Not all disasters are active. Some are purely passive but just as destructive.
Hah. Just wait 'til someone tells them those radio sources are in the day sky but invisible . You know, invisible just like radiation!
So... if sunlight's bad for vampires, but the moon isn't, even tho' the moon is lit primarily w/ sunlight, does this mean vampires could live happily in houses where all sunliight is reflected once before entering the house?
Sorry,can't tell if you're asking a question or posing a rhetorical response.
The answer is "1" . The limit is NOT the same as the value of the expression at 0. Calculus is loaded with examples of functions whose limit is not the same as the value at the stated point.
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i think "drought" is a bit over the top for the UK if you compare it to real droughts around the world. a few dryer periods sounds more like it
OTOH, there are some oceanographers who are watching the Gulfstream currents carefully. Should that flow ever relocate (the current candidate cause IIRC would be excess flow from melting Arctic ice), the Emerald Isle will go brown.
Hey, at least Jesus didn't come back with a brain stolen from Abby Normal.
They're inserting it wrong?
That's what she said.
C'mon, you know someone was going to post that answer.
No problem: we'll scare the birds off with lizards, then use Chinese needle snakes to get rid of them, followed by snake-eating gorillas, and then we just need to make Africa have a winter.
And that is the root cause of this whole situation. We need to find a way to change the overall mindset (especially in these here Unitee States) towards other people's personal sexual congresses. Not only should it be nobody else's business, but nobody should even **care** what some person they're neither related to nor dating is doing.
If someone's cheating on a spouse (and the spouse does not approve of extramarital sex), the spouse will likely find out one way or another at some point. What happens to the couple is up to them. But what your employees, or Congressional reps, or sports/music/theatre idols do in their personal lives including sex, just plain shouldn't matter.
I keep hearing people saying replacing MS office with openoffice or libreoffice is no brainer. It is no brainer when your're replacing the word processor. It is a total different story to replace excel.
Friends don't let friends use Excel.
End of story.
Details: never ever ever use Excel to do math or data analysis. The reasons are legion.. Never ever ever use Excel to set up a database. Again, the reasons are legion.
Never ever Ever use Excel to format a cute-looking front page or even a tree diagram. It's stupid, painfully slow, and will break the moment someone tries to edit.
So then you're left with what Excel actually is: a spreadsheet tool. But just try writing a macro that won't foul up if someone hides/unhides a few rows, for example.
Stop being law enforcement officers. GO back to being peace officers.
I would agree if it weren't for the many scifi stories in which the term "peace officer" is pretty much synonymous with "CIA smarts and KGB thuggery combined."
Or you could just blow up the moon and wait for the Hard Rain
Well, for those of us of a certain age :-(, our SSN does not actually identify us.Yes I know the Fed gov't now treats us as identified by our SSN, but I got mine by walking into an IRS office and requesting one. I could have gone back the next day and requested another -- but since at the time the only purpose of the SSN was to track my earnings so as to calculate my retirement payments, splitting my salary reports between 2 numbers would have been stupid.
I trust you were not alive during the previous Administration. Calls for the death of the President were common and daily occurrences. Books were written about fantasy coup scenarios. He was compared, un-ironically, to Adolf Hitler. Is this one of those things where it's only wrong when the other side does it?
[citation needed}
There are a few "progressive" contact lenses as well. I use Air-Optix with great success. They are NOT weighted for orientation but (I believe) have a radial variation in power, and somehow your optics processing center learns, very quickly, to use the reduced power info for short-range work and the full-power info for distance viewing.
That said, the day either medication unstiffens my natural lens or a focussable artificial implant is approved, I'm going to jump at the chance. In fact, I'd prefer the latter so I can dump my -8 diopter contacts!
Dunno why it's necessary to remind you of this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ .
If AI gets "out of hand," just pull the frakking plug. Stop thinking it'll have some magic way of staying powered. This is why sieges worked in the medaevil days: sooner or later the castle runs out of food, or water, or batteries for their cellphones.
Sounds like an ideal site for all-optical computing.
No, I'm not serious -- there's no chance of designing a completely electron-free system of a computer, memory, keyboard, and display. (at least not yet...)
But really -- it's not hard to build Farday-cage-style workrooms. It's things like RF LED light controllers, RFID door / ID badge systems, and all the other little things (OnStar) that nobody thinks about.
There are some quality/safety standards for UK automotive software
Those are just voluntary guidelines that everyone is free to ignore.
Oh, please. Do I have to quote you the formula for determining whether to make something safer? It involves cost of new parts, frequency of accidents, cost of lawsuits, and possibly soap made from human fat.
And here I was going to write that the warning was on display in the Planning Office in Alpha Centauri, but you beat me to it.
When people say 'gosh you look like 20,' they're actually basing that on the way you behave, not your appearance.
(Insert smiley faces at your own discretion)
Of course you are. And I am Santa Claus.
You sound more sinister than that. You're Death, right? I'd know that scythe anywhere.
Turn in your Pratchett Nerd Card. Death only speaks in ALL CAPS.
Dunno about cutting corners, but rounding them sure increased profits for one company!
I am GM of a nuclear power plan
And I am Jack's liver.
And I am Tyler Durden's Jack.
Sorry for the flamebait, but the next "accident" really is the complete failure to start building more power plants. The cost we're incurring by sticking w/ fossil fuels, in environmental damage, human health, $$ flowing to the Middle East, far outweighs either the cost of nuc plants or the potential hazards of such plants.
Not all disasters are active. Some are purely passive but just as destructive.
Speaking of which, check out "Seveneves," the latest Neal Stephenson. The Earth gets a serious case of rejuvenation.
Hah. Just wait 'til someone tells them those radio sources are in the day sky but invisible . You know, invisible just like radiation!
So... if sunlight's bad for vampires, but the moon isn't, even tho' the moon is lit primarily w/ sunlight, does this mean vampires could live happily in houses where all sunliight is reflected once before entering the house?
What the heck...
In Soviet Russia, video games ban government!
Ok, that really doesn't make any sense.
They should have done the test with half group real cat videos and the other half placebos.
So what counts as a placebo? :-)
bonsai kitty?
kitty-shaped furby?
Lim as x->0 of X/X =??
Sorry,can't tell if you're asking a question or posing a rhetorical response.
The answer is "1" . The limit is NOT the same as the value of the expression at 0. Calculus is loaded with examples of functions whose limit is not the same as the value at the stated point.