I don't get why those people insist on believing that everything on Earth that appears to be old must have been created by some other process in the last 6000 years. If you're going to believe that the Earth is literally 6000 years old, the simplest explanation seems to be that it was created to look much older than it really is. However, I haven't actually met anyone who thought that way.
Debian uses a version number, but they nickname each release with a character from Toy Story. Kind of like how Apple uses 10.x to version OSX, but also nicknames each release with a type of feline.
Don't be no hater, use fewer cliches, and tell me, what is the population density in America East of Las Vegas and West of Pittsburgh... Note, that in Bay Area the density exceeds 1000 people per square mile, while Iowa has less than 55 [iowadatacenter.org].
Yet almost all that land is developed, it's farmland.
I really don't care, where food is produced, as long as it is produced. America is currently using only about 44% of its land for agriculture.
That's for the entire country though, so you have vast areas of land that's not suitable for farming dragging that number down, like the entirety of Nevada. Which is a desert and makes Iowa look densely populated. And Alaska. Or the Bay area.
You can fit a hundred of Bay Areas (about 100 square miles each) into Iowa's 55 thousand square miles — and still have plenty of room left for corn.
No, what should happen is that the government should back the R&D to develop the drug (chances are, there is already public money involved as it is now). Once the drug is approved, it goes into the public domain and anyone can manufacture it. The free market would then make sure prices stay low. Everyone wins, except big pharma.
Well, according to the linked article, what happened is that the Cadillacs were originally designed to be within compliance, but because of this they tended to stall when the heat or A/C was on. So GM's solution was have the car use more fuel when the climate control was on, which fixed the stalling issue but caused the car to go out of compliance. But GM know the tests were run with the climate control turned off, and figured they would not get caught. So in Cadillac's case, they weren't designed with a some special test-beating hidden mode, but rather GM just took advantage of the fact that they knew certain features of the car weren't tested. Quite a bit different that what you assert...
The odd part is that the article implies that if Cadillac had informed the EPA they had modified the car's programming so that it went out of compliance, they wouldn't have gotten in trouble.
I can't read the article, but I have no problems believing that there are a lot of very old VW's running around. It wasn't until about the mid-90's when their quality went to shit (same for Mercedes, really). Around here, VW's from about 1993-2005 are pretty much extinct. If I see a VW running around it's either a newer model, or a classic. The one exception might be the T4 (Eurovan), but likely that's due it being designed in the late 80's.
Gearing does play a pretty big role. One of the reasons why automatic versions beat the manual versions of the same car is because the overdrive in the automatic almost always has a lower ratio than the top gear on the manual version.
With that said, my car (typical 4 door sedan with a 2.0L 4 cylinder engine, automatic) gets its best mileage at about 50 MPH or so.
What I'm really curious about is if he actually provided the instructions to disarm the tilt sensor so that the bomb could be "safely" transported, would the bomb squad (or the casino owners) have actually taken their chances with actually toggling the switches as instructed and attempting to move the bomb, or would they have just gone ahead with their plans on trying to disable the device in place?
Well, you could defeat the float sensor by building a container around the bomb to pour the liquid nitrogen into, and using something like a layer of plastic around the bomb itself so that the liquid nitrogen couldn't seep into the bomb. From there, you'd just have to hope that the temperature changes don't set it off from various bits contracting, and that the timer doesn't set it off before it gets cold enough to deactivate the explosives or the battery.
The big one that I bet gets a lot of people is that you're supposed to pay sales tax on items that you buy from out of state and have shipped to you. Almost no one actually does this.
Most of the rest of the cheating I imagine has to do with claiming deductions that one is not eligible for. Or things like you can deduct expenses such as medical costs. Sure, they may audit you and you'd have to prove you actually spent $X on qualifying medical expenses by coughing up bills, receipts, etc. But chances are you won't get audited and therefore it's basically on the honor system, so one might be tempted to pad the number a bit. Or they might try to claim their son or daughter as a dependent even though their kid has grown up and moved out, etc.
People who own their own business seem to like to cheat a bit too, mostly by having their business buy something like a laptop as a "business expense" (which is then tax deductible) even though the item in question is used mostly for personal use. And so on.
The thing about water vapor is that the amount in the atmosphere is essentially in equilibrium. If human activities or some other process adds water vapor to the atmosphere, the excess precipitates out (better known as rain). If something removes water vapor, evaporation makes sure it gets back to the equilibrium. So while water vapor is a greenhouse gas, nothing we really do is going to change the levels in the atmosphere in any kind of meaningful way.
CO2 is different, because there really isn't an equilibrium, and the CO2 that's added to the atmosphere is ancient CO2 that's been trapped for a very long time. And since there isn't a process to remove this CO2 it just keeps accumulating. That's why it's a problem. We've nearly doubled CO2 levels in the atmosphere, at a rate that's totally unprecedented and to a level that's not been seen for millions of years.
Actually, when I said there isn't a process to remove the CO2, that's not really true because the oceans have been acting as a massive CO2 sink. This has had the effect of acidifying the oceans, the effects of which are apparently to anyone who pays attention to that kind of thing.
Many auto parts stores will loan you one for free too for reading your car in the parking lot. (the hope being that you'll then buy the parts from them to fix it, of course)
I guess it depends on how you look at it. The warp core Enterprise-D from Star Trek produced 12.75 exawatts of power, or 12.75 x 10^18 watts. The output of the sun is 4 x 10^26 watts. So you would need about 3.1 million Galaxy Class star ships to put the Federation of Planets as a Type II civilization. Now, we never really are given a number of starships that the Federation has, but the upper estimates are about 30 thousand or so by the time of the Dominion war. The Galaxy class is one of the largest starships operated by the Federation, but assuming all 30k ships has a similar warp core then the entire fleet is 1% of the energy harnessed by a type II civilization. Now, obviously there are planets and starbases too, but it's not clear to be that even Starfleet is all the way to harnessing the full energy a single star.
That's exactly it. It was clear then that McCain was getting senile. The McCain of 2008 was not the McCain of 2000. The fact he picked Palin as his running mate really showed that he had lost it.
The thing is, those systems may be kludgey compared to modern electronically controlled systems, but to someone with some mechanical aptitude, basic electronics, and the fundamentals of engines worked, they were fairly easy to understand and figure out why the car wasn't running right when they inevitably went awry. Sure, they required constant adjustments and tinkering, but it's something you could do and was just part of owning a car. Nowadays, you don't have to think about that stuff - cars are pretty much turn the key and go. But if it doesn't start, you pretty much can't do much but open the hood at stare at it. Used to be you just had to make sure you had fuel, spark, and compression and the thing should run. Those days are gone.
Thought pre-1980 does include the cars of the 70's and their early emission control systems. All analog, usually involving a maze of vacuum lines. Some of those cars are totally bewildering to work on.
Well, we don't have that yet, but with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping systems the car could potentially keep driving down the highway until the car runs out of gas. So Grandpa never shows up, then several hours later you get the call from the State Patrol two states over...
How many jobs do you see that are truly entry level? That is, no experience required? The market is flooded right now with people with newly minted degrees who can't find jobs because they all require 3+ years of experience. Even more sad are the ones that require experience in enterprise-type tools you won't see at school. You're right that there aren't job listings for over 10 years - employers seem to want people who have been trained in by someone else, but are still early enough in their careers that they can still get cheap. The real entry level stuff can go overseas or to H1b's. Those experienced guys who cost too much? Don't need 'em.
When you come out of hibernation, the computer has to read the entire contents of the ram back from the disk. So the more ram you have, the slower it is actually to come out of hibernation.
The universities are pretty big on pushing the idea that a university degree is part of the path of landing a good paying job. This resulted in lots of people going to university, flooding the market with people holding degrees. The end result being that businesses started requiring degrees for positions that didn't really need one, pretty much because they could. Even with this, there's still lots of people with degrees who couldn't land a job with it.
This is actually coming back to bit the universities in the ass a bit, because now the expectation is that the university's purpose is to provide job training, a 4 year vocational school instead of university. A lot of the more traditional studies are starting to suffer like pure science, research, arts, philosophy, literature, history, etc. because these degrees don't typically translate directly into a job nowadays so people consider them worthless. Of course, as long as the money keeps pouring in most universities don't care though.
That's true, but is the solution to take that money and hire young women to wander around the office and be eye candy? If they don't want to increase my salary maybe something like a cell phone allowance or a company car or something.
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Or you don't plan on keeping the car more than 3-5 years. Those will be someone else's problems.
I don't get why those people insist on believing that everything on Earth that appears to be old must have been created by some other process in the last 6000 years. If you're going to believe that the Earth is literally 6000 years old, the simplest explanation seems to be that it was created to look much older than it really is. However, I haven't actually met anyone who thought that way.
Debian uses a version number, but they nickname each release with a character from Toy Story. Kind of like how Apple uses 10.x to version OSX, but also nicknames each release with a type of feline.
Yet almost all that land is developed, it's farmland.
That's for the entire country though, so you have vast areas of land that's not suitable for farming dragging that number down, like the entirety of Nevada. Which is a desert and makes Iowa look densely populated. And Alaska. Or the Bay area.
But what are they going to eat?
No, what should happen is that the government should back the R&D to develop the drug (chances are, there is already public money involved as it is now). Once the drug is approved, it goes into the public domain and anyone can manufacture it. The free market would then make sure prices stay low. Everyone wins, except big pharma.
Actually, we're living in the sixth mass extinction event right now.
Well, according to the linked article, what happened is that the Cadillacs were originally designed to be within compliance, but because of this they tended to stall when the heat or A/C was on. So GM's solution was have the car use more fuel when the climate control was on, which fixed the stalling issue but caused the car to go out of compliance. But GM know the tests were run with the climate control turned off, and figured they would not get caught. So in Cadillac's case, they weren't designed with a some special test-beating hidden mode, but rather GM just took advantage of the fact that they knew certain features of the car weren't tested. Quite a bit different that what you assert...
The odd part is that the article implies that if Cadillac had informed the EPA they had modified the car's programming so that it went out of compliance, they wouldn't have gotten in trouble.
I can't read the article, but I have no problems believing that there are a lot of very old VW's running around. It wasn't until about the mid-90's when their quality went to shit (same for Mercedes, really). Around here, VW's from about 1993-2005 are pretty much extinct. If I see a VW running around it's either a newer model, or a classic. The one exception might be the T4 (Eurovan), but likely that's due it being designed in the late 80's.
Gearing does play a pretty big role. One of the reasons why automatic versions beat the manual versions of the same car is because the overdrive in the automatic almost always has a lower ratio than the top gear on the manual version.
With that said, my car (typical 4 door sedan with a 2.0L 4 cylinder engine, automatic) gets its best mileage at about 50 MPH or so.
What I'm really curious about is if he actually provided the instructions to disarm the tilt sensor so that the bomb could be "safely" transported, would the bomb squad (or the casino owners) have actually taken their chances with actually toggling the switches as instructed and attempting to move the bomb, or would they have just gone ahead with their plans on trying to disable the device in place?
Well, you could defeat the float sensor by building a container around the bomb to pour the liquid nitrogen into, and using something like a layer of plastic around the bomb itself so that the liquid nitrogen couldn't seep into the bomb. From there, you'd just have to hope that the temperature changes don't set it off from various bits contracting, and that the timer doesn't set it off before it gets cold enough to deactivate the explosives or the battery.
The big one that I bet gets a lot of people is that you're supposed to pay sales tax on items that you buy from out of state and have shipped to you. Almost no one actually does this.
Most of the rest of the cheating I imagine has to do with claiming deductions that one is not eligible for. Or things like you can deduct expenses such as medical costs. Sure, they may audit you and you'd have to prove you actually spent $X on qualifying medical expenses by coughing up bills, receipts, etc. But chances are you won't get audited and therefore it's basically on the honor system, so one might be tempted to pad the number a bit. Or they might try to claim their son or daughter as a dependent even though their kid has grown up and moved out, etc.
People who own their own business seem to like to cheat a bit too, mostly by having their business buy something like a laptop as a "business expense" (which is then tax deductible) even though the item in question is used mostly for personal use. And so on.
In the 80's, you could buy a Mustang with a 86 HP naturally aspirated 4 cylinder.
The thing about water vapor is that the amount in the atmosphere is essentially in equilibrium. If human activities or some other process adds water vapor to the atmosphere, the excess precipitates out (better known as rain). If something removes water vapor, evaporation makes sure it gets back to the equilibrium. So while water vapor is a greenhouse gas, nothing we really do is going to change the levels in the atmosphere in any kind of meaningful way.
CO2 is different, because there really isn't an equilibrium, and the CO2 that's added to the atmosphere is ancient CO2 that's been trapped for a very long time. And since there isn't a process to remove this CO2 it just keeps accumulating. That's why it's a problem. We've nearly doubled CO2 levels in the atmosphere, at a rate that's totally unprecedented and to a level that's not been seen for millions of years.
Actually, when I said there isn't a process to remove the CO2, that's not really true because the oceans have been acting as a massive CO2 sink. This has had the effect of acidifying the oceans, the effects of which are apparently to anyone who pays attention to that kind of thing.
Many auto parts stores will loan you one for free too for reading your car in the parking lot. (the hope being that you'll then buy the parts from them to fix it, of course)
On the other hand, there's a fair number of posted jobs that aren't real either.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. The warp core Enterprise-D from Star Trek produced 12.75 exawatts of power, or 12.75 x 10^18 watts. The output of the sun is 4 x 10^26 watts. So you would need about 3.1 million Galaxy Class star ships to put the Federation of Planets as a Type II civilization. Now, we never really are given a number of starships that the Federation has, but the upper estimates are about 30 thousand or so by the time of the Dominion war. The Galaxy class is one of the largest starships operated by the Federation, but assuming all 30k ships has a similar warp core then the entire fleet is 1% of the energy harnessed by a type II civilization. Now, obviously there are planets and starbases too, but it's not clear to be that even Starfleet is all the way to harnessing the full energy a single star.
That's exactly it. It was clear then that McCain was getting senile. The McCain of 2008 was not the McCain of 2000. The fact he picked Palin as his running mate really showed that he had lost it.
The thing is, those systems may be kludgey compared to modern electronically controlled systems, but to someone with some mechanical aptitude, basic electronics, and the fundamentals of engines worked, they were fairly easy to understand and figure out why the car wasn't running right when they inevitably went awry. Sure, they required constant adjustments and tinkering, but it's something you could do and was just part of owning a car. Nowadays, you don't have to think about that stuff - cars are pretty much turn the key and go. But if it doesn't start, you pretty much can't do much but open the hood at stare at it. Used to be you just had to make sure you had fuel, spark, and compression and the thing should run. Those days are gone.
Thought pre-1980 does include the cars of the 70's and their early emission control systems. All analog, usually involving a maze of vacuum lines. Some of those cars are totally bewildering to work on.
Well, we don't have that yet, but with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping systems the car could potentially keep driving down the highway until the car runs out of gas. So Grandpa never shows up, then several hours later you get the call from the State Patrol two states over...
How many jobs do you see that are truly entry level? That is, no experience required? The market is flooded right now with people with newly minted degrees who can't find jobs because they all require 3+ years of experience. Even more sad are the ones that require experience in enterprise-type tools you won't see at school. You're right that there aren't job listings for over 10 years - employers seem to want people who have been trained in by someone else, but are still early enough in their careers that they can still get cheap. The real entry level stuff can go overseas or to H1b's. Those experienced guys who cost too much? Don't need 'em.
When you come out of hibernation, the computer has to read the entire contents of the ram back from the disk. So the more ram you have, the slower it is actually to come out of hibernation.
The universities are pretty big on pushing the idea that a university degree is part of the path of landing a good paying job. This resulted in lots of people going to university, flooding the market with people holding degrees. The end result being that businesses started requiring degrees for positions that didn't really need one, pretty much because they could. Even with this, there's still lots of people with degrees who couldn't land a job with it.
This is actually coming back to bit the universities in the ass a bit, because now the expectation is that the university's purpose is to provide job training, a 4 year vocational school instead of university. A lot of the more traditional studies are starting to suffer like pure science, research, arts, philosophy, literature, history, etc. because these degrees don't typically translate directly into a job nowadays so people consider them worthless. Of course, as long as the money keeps pouring in most universities don't care though.
Those are 3840x2160 monitors. 3840x2400 would be the famous IBM T221 and its variants.
That's true, but is the solution to take that money and hire young women to wander around the office and be eye candy? If they don't want to increase my salary maybe something like a cell phone allowance or a company car or something.