"classical music including Bach, Mozart, and a bunch of other guys who have been dead for a long time"
Does the performer of music written by old dead dudes get a royalty? I am just curious if Symphony orchestras get any credit for a quality performance of a classical piece of music or are they just really really good cover bands?
I have a set, they amplify ambient sounds (crunch of gravel under foot, whispers, vehicle engines in the distance)and clip the amplitude peaks of loud or sudden sounds.
You can hear whispered sighting instructions yet protect your hearing when you squeeze the trigger (muffled boom) and right back to whispered conversation.
If they pay $500 for a toilet seat and $250 for a hammer then a nice trophy would be like $2 million.
They could award some kind of voucher to go pick the trophy the winning team wants.
You wouldnt want them stuck with just any $2 million trophy. They should pick the one they want.
I'm sure the government has some kind of voucher that would be good at any trophy shop.
Yea maybe the Govt. bank will back the voucher so you know its good, call it a "Federal Reserve Note" or something like that. 2 million of those ought to do.
For most users computers are appliances at the level a console TV was in the '70s. Right on the cusp from when it was a novelty to when it is a necessity for entertainment and information. Think of the old console TVs they had a whole bunch of knobs that controlled horizontal hold, verticle hold, brightness, contrast, and tuned the TV frequency. Let a kid play with the knobs for a few minutes and the tv could be rendered unwatchable. Prone to causing an epiliptic siezure. It could take hours to get the settings back to where you wanted them, you might miss the show you are watching, you may never quite get it back the way you though you had it.
Now take this analogy to a modern PC connected to the internet, without proper security (firewall, spyware, virus software)a PC is like that console with the knobs wired to the outside where all the neighorhood kids can screw with your settings and know what you are watching. And the commercials are trying to trick you to let them play with the knobs.
Herbicide resistance has been seen time and time again for decades.
Herbicide after herbicide has been effective for a while, sooner or later that effectiveness diminishes and that herbicide falls out of favor. Some are mandated out of existence due to unforeseen environmental side effects (see DDT)others simply have to be replaced due to diminishing effectiveness.
Herbicide resistance drives a large segment of the chemical engineering industry.
As an aside it should also be noted that cross-pollenization is the mechanism that genes are distributed Within a Species not from species to species.
One of the definitions of a species is a set of actually or potentially interbreeding populations. "crabgrass doe not get it on with corn, its as simple as that.
If Good Takes over evil, Does Evil become Good or is Good turned to Evil.
Has Google become 5% evil or has AOL become 5% good. Or Does good and evil cancel each other out, is Google now 5% neutral. Is Google now on its way to just is... not good or evil?
I guess we will have to wait and see if Google becomes Skynet...
Here in Las Vegas, the golf courses are heavily restricted in water use. A few have wells that are supported by the perenial yield in the groundwater basin, the rest are using reclaimed water (treated wastewater used for irrigation), As for the casinos here that so many wave their finger at, They use grey water for the water features (Bellagio and Mirage fountains) and the only significant consumptive use is the water lost to evaporation in the air conditioning systems. The water used for toilets and showers is treated and returned to the Colorado River and a return flow credit is recieved. The single largest use of water in Vegas is single family home turf irrigation.
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The Dueseberg chassis sold for $9500 the rest was spent on coachwork. Prices were typically around $20,000 to $25,000. Of course this was in the twenties when a ford was like $600 new and a caddilac was somethig like $2500. A duesenberg was the Mcclaran F1 or Ferrari Enzo of its day.
Make a tiny version and build it into a digital wristwatch, never change your battery again.
They already do that, its generally called a kinetic watch, not to be confused with the automatics that have been around for a while (automatics use kinetic motion to wind a spring)Kinetics use motion th run a small generator.
I do appreciate the need for police to commandeer supplies, food, weapons, ammo,etc.
But what does the cop 2/3 rds down the page need with a stack of DVDs? Thats a picture of police looting, plain and simple, sucks but cops are people too, they are fallable too, trying to pretend it doesn't happen or sweep it under the rug because of the risks cops make will do nothing to keep cops from looting in the future.
I would expect that "wings" will still be wings even in the distant future of space travel. The award ceremony will just contain an explanation of the symbolic significance of "wings".
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And no mention of the really cool lightning created when you leave a metal fork in the plastic.
"classical music including Bach, Mozart, and a bunch of other guys who have been dead for a long time"
Does the performer of music written by old dead dudes get a royalty?
I am just curious if Symphony orchestras get any credit for a quality performance of a classical piece of music or are they just really really good cover bands?
You Want out Wi-Fi Enabled Lap Tops ? Molon labe (Come and Take Them) !
Mr. Liggett: Alright, Lightman. Maybe you could tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex.
David Lightman: Umm... Your wife?
Mr. Liggett: Get out, Lightman. Get out.
Does it come in more than one model? Like the John Holmmes or Ron Jeremy models...
Noise canceling headphones rock!
I have a set, they amplify ambient sounds (crunch of gravel under foot, whispers, vehicle engines in the distance)and clip the amplitude peaks of loud or sudden sounds.
You can hear whispered sighting instructions yet protect your hearing when you squeeze the trigger (muffled boom) and right back to whispered conversation.
"what amount of shear gall is needed to say that"
I don't know how much force it takes to shear gall.
What is the Youngs Modulus of gall?, or is gall a fluid, in which case I would need to know the viscosity to anwser your query?
Or does gall come from sheep?
Its easy, They said they would award a Trophy.
If they pay $500 for a toilet seat and $250 for a hammer then a nice trophy would be like $2 million.
They could award some kind of voucher to go pick the trophy the winning team wants.
You wouldnt want them stuck with just any $2 million trophy. They should pick the one they want.
I'm sure the government has some kind of voucher that would be good at any trophy shop.
Yea maybe the Govt. bank will back the voucher so you know its good, call it a "Federal Reserve Note" or something like that. 2 million of those ought to do.
I Got your Alcohol Powered Muscle Right Here
Would Welcome our Big Meat-Eating Mofoasarus overlords.
"No other living thing can have a significant effect on the planet and environment"
There was little or no oxygen in the atmosphere before there were photosynthetic organisms (plants).
For most users computers are appliances at the level a console TV was in the '70s. Right on the cusp from when it was a novelty to when it is a necessity for entertainment and information. Think of the old console TVs they had a whole bunch of knobs that controlled horizontal hold, verticle hold, brightness, contrast, and tuned the TV frequency. Let a kid play with the knobs for a few minutes and the tv could be rendered unwatchable. Prone to causing an epiliptic siezure. It could take hours to get the settings back to where you wanted them, you might miss the show you are watching, you may never quite get it back the way you though you had it. Now take this analogy to a modern PC connected to the internet, without proper security (firewall, spyware, virus software)a PC is like that console with the knobs wired to the outside where all the neighorhood kids can screw with your settings and know what you are watching. And the commercials are trying to trick you to let them play with the knobs.
Herbicide resistance has been seen time and time again for decades.
Herbicide after herbicide has been effective for a while, sooner or later that effectiveness diminishes and that herbicide falls out of favor. Some are mandated out of existence due to unforeseen environmental side effects (see DDT)others simply have to be replaced due to diminishing effectiveness.
Herbicide resistance drives a large segment of the chemical engineering industry.
As an aside it should also be noted that cross-pollenization is the mechanism that genes are distributed Within a Species not from species to species.
One of the definitions of a species is a set of actually or potentially interbreeding populations. "crabgrass doe not get it on with corn, its as simple as that.
Good Lord this machine has been infected with Linux... Doh, Wait!!! I Think I want That.
If Good Takes over evil, Does Evil become Good or is Good turned to Evil.
Has Google become 5% evil or has AOL become 5% good. Or Does good and evil cancel each other out, is Google now 5% neutral. Is Google now on its way to just is... not good or evil?
I guess we will have to wait and see if Google becomes Skynet...
Here in Las Vegas, the golf courses are heavily restricted in water use. A few have wells that are supported by the perenial yield in the groundwater basin, the rest are using reclaimed water (treated wastewater used for irrigation), As for the casinos here that so many wave their finger at, They use grey water for the water features (Bellagio and Mirage fountains) and the only significant consumptive use is the water lost to evaporation in the air conditioning systems. The water used for toilets and showers is treated and returned to the Colorado River and a return flow credit is recieved. The single largest use of water in Vegas is single family home turf irrigation.
The Dueseberg chassis sold for $9500 the rest was spent on coachwork. Prices were typically around $20,000 to $25,000. Of course this was in the twenties when a ford was like $600 new and a caddilac was somethig like $2500. A duesenberg was the Mcclaran F1 or Ferrari Enzo of its day.
1.0 to 2.5 millimeters per year... ...rise at a rate of about two to five times the current rate over the next 100 years...
Worst case thats 1.250 m of rise over the next century.
I think even the Army Corps of Engineers can build levees to meet that rate.
I for one welcome out 3I overlords...
The post was refering to wild climate fluctuations in ice core samples that date to >10,000 years ago, precivilization.
Make a tiny version and build it into a digital wristwatch, never change your battery again.
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They already do that, its generally called a kinetic watch, not to be confused with the automatics that have been around for a while (automatics use kinetic motion to wind a spring)Kinetics use motion th run a small generator.
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I do appreciate the need for police to commandeer supplies, food, weapons, ammo,etc.
But what does the cop 2/3 rds down the page need with a stack of DVDs? Thats a picture of police looting, plain and simple, sucks but cops are people too, they are fallable too, trying to pretend it doesn't happen or sweep it under the rug because of the risks cops make will do nothing to keep cops from looting in the future.
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I would expect that "wings" will still be wings even in the distant future of space travel. The award ceremony will just contain an explanation of the symbolic significance of "wings".