You can keep modding this down, but the truth is the truth. It's bullshit. If the key is in the ignition, the wheel does not lock. Ever. Period. Regardless of the position; off, on, accessory, or start. The wheel can only lock if the key is removed from the ignition. Nobody should be able to get a license without knowing this.
On a Lexus, slamming on the brakes is not enough to overcome the engine.
Bullshit. Double bullshit. Triple bullshit. On every car on the road the brakes greatly overcome the power the engine. Worst case, if you are going like hell downhill, you may have to really mean it; step on it smartly and not ride it timidly.
Bullshit. There is no position you can rotate the key to that lets the wheel lock. You have to remove the key from the ignition to allow the wheel to lock. Nobody should be allowed to get a license without knowing this fact.
Bullshit. If the key is in the ignition, the wheel does not lock. Ever. Period. Regardless of the position; off, on, accessory, or start. The wheel can only lock if the key is removed from the ignition. Nobody should be able to get a license without knowing this.
There may be a small minority who want the teaching of evolution replaced by the teaching of creationism in a mystical or religious sense, but that is not an intellectually serious position.
The real debate is whether both evolution and intelligent design should be presented in school. Unlike creationism, intelligent design is not based on a surrender to abject faith and no more. Intelligent design is just a measured gut belief that the vast richness and detail of life as we know it, and particularly sentience, suggest that some unspecified intelligent agency must have been responsible for it. It is not a full scientific theory, but it is not a stupid position.
And again unlike creationism, intelligent design is not fundamentally at odds with evolution. They can coexist. Intelligent design is not really answering the same question as evolution. It goes beyond. It poses a possible answer (perhaps a convenient one, but find me another) to a series of questions which rise in most people's minds when they learn evolution. Some of these, in no particular order, are:
* Why is a flower uniformly beautiful to essentially all humans? (You can substitute "rolling landscape", "rocky coast", etc). One can understand why a flower is attractive to a bee.
* Similarly, why does a flower smell "good" to a human? It seldom tastes good.
* Why did one and only one species develop sentience?
There are also questions which appear to suggest evolution does not work "right":
* Why does a human possess serially two sets of teeth, but no more?
* Why do many species of animals sleep? That is not a survival trait.
* Why do almost all animals above a certain very low level have two lungs, two kidneys, two reproductive organs, but only a single throat, heart, and digestive tract?
* Why do only a few rather primitive animals have the ability to regenerate limbs?
* Survival, love, and competitiveness are drives that are easily explained in evolution, but how to explain why man's brain evolved with strong drives to hate, vengeance, and non-constructive exasperation?
You mean kind of like the way the USA is spending beyond its means on all sorts of things while many are homeless? And the price of food is rocketing beyond the means of many?
Thank you. I would have liked to see them try to refuse me, but it's nice to know the greedy bastards can't even try to make this stick in an actual first world state.
Because lord knows, nobody could be doing any of these: 1) Replacing all their incandescents with fluorescents or LEDs 2) Getting a new, more efficient refrigerator 3) Replacing an electric oven with a gas oven 4)... Yep, they all should be presumed guilty. Terrorists!
For God's sake, stop falling for the tired old left-right lie they've been foisting upon us. It's not about left-right, liberal-conservative, or whatever other obfuscation the bastards want you to believe in. It's about the corporate state vs individual liberty. Some D's are OK and some R's are OK. The rest are in the bag.
When and if this dawns on enough people, it's Katie bar the door. It will be the end of the evil empire and they know it.
Just because the farmer was a bloody idiot and signed the agreement, probably under duress, doesn't mean anybody else is bound by the agreement. If the agreement was really only not to plant the second generation seed himself, but he was free to sell same to someone else not bound by the agreement, then Fuck You Monsanto, See You In Hell.
You're entirely right, except for one thing. Of COURSE the Supreme Court should ask for a VARIETY of input. That's what a court is FOR. To weigh competing legal cases and theories. Sheesh. Whether they BUY the establishment's arguments or not is an entirely different matter, but they should HEAR them.
I have experience that supports that desktop drives last as long as enterprise drives, and my bullshit detector is off the scale for many of the claims made in that Intel document.
It has become the fashion for manufacturers of late to specify "operational availability" and arbitrarily set this spec to 8x5 for "desktop" drives and 24x7 for "server drives". It is most likely bullshit. I personally have had dozens of "desktop" drives that have been operating very successfully 24x7 for a period of years, some in desktops and some in servers. Actually, turning drives on and off stresses them much more than leaving them on.
That is just embarrassing. You are comparing monthly figures directly with yearly figures. Inconsistent units. cpu6502 said his phone costs $60 a YEAR, not a month.
Nothing says "sell by" any more. If you've noticed, all items now say "best before", with no indication whatever what date they are "horrible after" or "life threatening after". At least where I live.
How do you figure an AVR at 24 MHz is faster than a 486 when the latter was offered at 20, 25, 33, 40, 50, 66, 75, 90, and 100 MHz, and I don't think the 20's were sold in any major numbers.
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You can keep modding this down, but the truth is the truth. It's bullshit. If the key is in the ignition, the wheel does not lock. Ever. Period. Regardless of the position; off, on, accessory, or start. The wheel can only lock if the key is removed from the ignition. Nobody should be able to get a license without knowing this.
Wrong. Just wrong.
On a Lexus, slamming on the brakes is not enough to overcome the engine.
Bullshit. Double bullshit. Triple bullshit. On every car on the road the brakes greatly overcome the power the engine. Worst case, if you are going like hell downhill, you may have to really mean it; step on it smartly and not ride it timidly.
Bullshit. There is no position you can rotate the key to that lets the wheel lock. You have to remove the key from the ignition to allow the wheel to lock. Nobody should be allowed to get a license without knowing this fact.
Bullshit. If the key is in the ignition, the wheel does not lock. Ever. Period. Regardless of the position; off, on, accessory, or start. The wheel can only lock if the key is removed from the ignition. Nobody should be able to get a license without knowing this.
There may be a small minority who want the teaching of evolution replaced by the teaching of creationism in a mystical or religious sense, but that is not an intellectually serious position.
The real debate is whether both evolution and intelligent design should be presented in school. Unlike creationism, intelligent design is not based on a surrender to abject faith and no more. Intelligent design is just a measured gut belief that the vast richness and detail of life as we know it, and particularly sentience, suggest that some unspecified intelligent agency must have been responsible for it. It is not a full scientific theory, but it is not a stupid position.
And again unlike creationism, intelligent design is not fundamentally at odds with evolution. They can coexist. Intelligent design is not really answering the same question as evolution. It goes beyond. It poses a possible answer (perhaps a convenient one, but find me another) to a series of questions which rise in most people's minds when they learn evolution. Some of these, in no particular order, are:
* Why is a flower uniformly beautiful to essentially all humans? (You can substitute "rolling landscape", "rocky coast", etc). One can understand why a flower is attractive to a bee.
* Similarly, why does a flower smell "good" to a human? It seldom tastes good.
* Why did one and only one species develop sentience?
There are also questions which appear to suggest evolution does not work "right":
* Why does a human possess serially two sets of teeth, but no more?
* Why do many species of animals sleep? That is not a survival trait.
* Why do almost all animals above a certain very low level have two lungs, two kidneys, two reproductive organs, but only a single throat, heart, and digestive tract?
* Why do only a few rather primitive animals have the ability to regenerate limbs?
* Survival, love, and competitiveness are drives that are easily explained in evolution, but how to explain why man's brain evolved with strong drives to hate, vengeance, and non-constructive exasperation?
You mean kind of like the way the USA is spending beyond its means on all sorts of things while many are homeless? And the price of food is rocketing beyond the means of many?
Some proportion of rent. Up to a certain maximum.
It's bittersweet that we won't have these dregs of society to kick around much longer.
Thank you. I would have liked to see them try to refuse me, but it's nice to know the greedy bastards can't even try to make this stick in an actual first world state.
Because lord knows, nobody could be doing any of these: ...
1) Replacing all their incandescents with fluorescents or LEDs
2) Getting a new, more efficient refrigerator
3) Replacing an electric oven with a gas oven
4)
Yep, they all should be presumed guilty. Terrorists!
For questioning your masters - you are hereby sentenced to ... to ... live in this HELL your masters have made of your country.
For God's sake, stop falling for the tired old left-right lie they've been foisting upon us. It's not about left-right, liberal-conservative, or whatever other obfuscation the bastards want you to believe in. It's about the corporate state vs individual liberty. Some D's are OK and some R's are OK. The rest are in the bag.
When and if this dawns on enough people, it's Katie bar the door. It will be the end of the evil empire and they know it.
Unless it goes the other way and suddenly you don't hate the supremes any more, but love them.
For God's sake mind your tongue! THIS patent may not involve synthetic genes, but if it doesn't work, guess what Monsanto will try next?
Just because the farmer was a bloody idiot and signed the agreement, probably under duress, doesn't mean anybody else is bound by the agreement. If the agreement was really only not to plant the second generation seed himself, but he was free to sell same to someone else not bound by the agreement, then Fuck You Monsanto, See You In Hell.
You're entirely right, except for one thing. Of COURSE the Supreme Court should ask for a VARIETY of input. That's what a court is FOR. To weigh competing legal cases and theories. Sheesh. Whether they BUY the establishment's arguments or not is an entirely different matter, but they should HEAR them.
I believe poster said "you can build your own machine" instead of "you may build your own machine" advisedly. They are completely separate things.
Terrorists! No jury trial for them.
An AVR is not to be seriously compared to an ARM.
I have experience that supports that desktop drives last as long as enterprise drives, and my bullshit detector is off the scale for many of the claims made in that Intel document.
It has become the fashion for manufacturers of late to specify "operational availability" and arbitrarily set this spec to 8x5 for "desktop" drives and 24x7 for "server drives". It is most likely bullshit. I personally have had dozens of "desktop" drives that have been operating very successfully 24x7 for a period of years, some in desktops and some in servers. Actually, turning drives on and off stresses them much more than leaving them on.
That is just embarrassing. You are comparing monthly figures directly with yearly figures. Inconsistent units. cpu6502 said his phone costs $60 a YEAR, not a month.
Nothing says "sell by" any more. If you've noticed, all items now say "best before", with no indication whatever what date they are "horrible after" or "life threatening after". At least where I live.
And we only had an excellent and extremely comprehensive national phone line system because of the monopoly.
How do you figure an AVR at 24 MHz is faster than a 486 when the latter was offered at 20, 25, 33, 40, 50, 66, 75, 90, and 100 MHz, and I don't think the 20's were sold in any major numbers.