Get over it. You live in a China-backed country. Who do you think is buying all those worthless 30-year T-bonds? China is, so Americans can keep going to WalMart and keep the Chinese factories in business.
Its on everything: DVD players, TVs, even fridges have those. And if people really hate them so much, why do so many people leave them on? You still see homes with colourful but faded stickers covering the front panel of the disused VHS-player ("Super-FF", "Long Play",...)
And why does every home and office still have those stupid Energy Rating stickers on their fridges, years after they bought them? They even peel off cleanly. (Go remove yours now!)
Substantial evidence (1) has discounted speculation that abstainers include a large proportion of former heavy drinkers with pre-existing health problems (i.e., "sick quitters").
If you've ever been to Africa, you'll know this. The reason you drink only beer, no matter your objections and thoughts on the matter is that you're relatively sure it won't infect you with an illness.
And the local home-made liquor will send you blind!
There's about 1kW of photons centered around the visual spectrum hitting every square meter of the moon.
wait.. so the big bang theory episode where they shot a laser at the moon totally wouldnt work?
Those guys are geniuses and somehow figured out a way to hit the reflectors when they were shielded from the sun. I think they called it "loonar kinght" or something.
Maybe they could explain to the GP about the topology of spheres and illumination from a point light source.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use a laser as the transmitter? You can use the satellite dish to receive the bounce, if the surface is sufficiently shiny and polished.
You know how many people nearing retirement in 2008 and 2009 watched their retirement plans go out the window?
That's just dumb. The first rule of retirement savings* is to shift your investments to lower risk ones as you get closer to retirement. So start with a growth-oriented share portfolio when you are young, and move towards government bonds as you near retirement. This must have been in the first leaflet I ever read from a fund manager.
blown to the ground by terrorists. As happened to us on 9/11.
EU has had countless bombings and hijackings from IRA, ETA, Baader Meinhof, PLO, Red Brigades, etc over decades. The US has just one attack and runs around screaming like it's WWIII...
Why EM? There are not a lot of alternatives. Gravity waves? Or do you expect new fundamental forces to be discovered? Anything we have not see yet must interact so incredibly weakly with matter that it is probably not a good communications medium. Would particle beams have any advantage over photons? A neutrino beam would have good range, but the antenna design is a bitch.
He said they responded "in kind", ie in the same way. Quite the opposite of kindness.
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The 2003 US withdrawal from Saudi might get some credit too. Wasn't that the main goal of the 9/11 hijackers? Mission accomplished boys! No need for more attacks from that group at least.
Comparing US with China is kinda like comparing Obama with Stalin or Bush with Hitler. It's such a massive and obvious exaggeration that it only weakens any valid points you might have.
And yet you just made five comparisons in the previous paragraph! Is China now the standard on which the US is to be judged as free or not free?
the country with the largest fraction of its population in prison is the United States.
And a huge number (hundreds of thousands) of those are in for victimless crimes like using drugs. They really should stop that "land of the free" slogan.
For companies who target marketshare and the low end like Dell, the last 10 years have been sort of murderous on the stockholders. Nokia's has been awful as well.
Fortunately for Sun Microsystems, they stuck to the high end.
Actually, DB25 was standard for serial. the DB9 serial was an IBM oddity, as was the DB25 instead of Centronics for parallel. I guess it saved them a few bucks. However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy:-)
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It's fun to charter an accountant And sail the wide accountancy, To find, explore the funds offshore And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy!
It can be manly in insurance. We'll up your premium semi-annually. It's all tax deductible. We're fairly incorruptible, We're sailing on the wide accountancy!
mod parent troll - I sounded serious!:-) Its the popular wisdom amongst an element of slashdot that Apple customers are sheep, but I know Apple fans who are not otherwise into any sort of brand display or conspicuous consumption. We have to admit that some loyalty comes from Apple making good products, even if I personally cannot stant the restrictions on some of them.
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The computation took 23 days on 1,000 of Yahoo's computers, racking up the equivalent of more than 500 years of a single computer's efforts.
And before answering, the computer paused and said, "You're not going to like it ..."
(or fund a China-backed company),
Get over it. You live in a China-backed country. Who do you think is buying all those worthless 30-year T-bonds? China is, so Americans can keep going to WalMart and keep the Chinese factories in business.
Its on everything: DVD players, TVs, even fridges have those. ...)
And if people really hate them so much, why do so many people leave them on?
You still see homes with colourful but faded stickers covering the front panel of the disused VHS-player ("Super-FF", "Long Play",
And why does every home and office still have those stupid Energy Rating stickers on their fridges, years after they bought them?
They even peel off cleanly. (Go remove yours now!)
For those of you who prefer completely natural cleaners, ...
What!? You mean baby oil is synthetic?
Abstainers may include teetotalers who used to abuse.
This hypothesis has been tested and rejected as a cause of the results.
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa45.htm
Substantial evidence (1) has discounted speculation that abstainers include a large proportion of former heavy drinkers with pre-existing health problems (i.e., "sick quitters").
If you've ever been to Africa, you'll know this. The reason you drink only beer, no matter your objections and thoughts on the matter is that you're relatively sure it won't infect you with an illness.
And the local home-made liquor will send you blind!
There's about 1kW of photons centered around the visual spectrum hitting every square meter of the moon.
wait.. so the big bang theory episode where they shot a laser at the moon totally wouldnt work?
Those guys are geniuses and somehow figured out a way to hit the reflectors when they were shielded from the sun. I think they called it "loonar kinght" or something.
Maybe they could explain to the GP about the topology of spheres and illumination from a point light source.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use a laser as the transmitter?
You can use the satellite dish to receive the bounce, if the surface is sufficiently shiny and polished.
what is the real significance of learning Pi to a more accurate measurement?
The same as the damage a bulldozer would suffer if it were allowed to run over you.
You know how many people nearing retirement in 2008 and 2009 watched their retirement plans go out the window?
That's just dumb. The first rule of retirement savings* is to shift your investments to lower risk ones as you get closer to retirement.
So start with a growth-oriented share portfolio when you are young, and move towards government bonds as you near retirement.
This must have been in the first leaflet I ever read from a fund manager.
(* or 2nd rule after "diversify".)
Not all refugees arrive on a 12" dinghy.
Do any refugees arrive on a twelve inch boat?
blown to the ground by terrorists. As happened to us on 9/11.
EU has had countless bombings and hijackings from IRA, ETA, Baader Meinhof, PLO, Red Brigades, etc over decades. ...
The US has just one attack and runs around screaming like it's WWIII
Why is everything legitimized by putting the word terrorist in it?
Because "communist" just doesn't have the same impact any more. Didn't you get the memo? Its a choice between terrorist and paedophile now. And we already have mind-reading for the latter menace.
Why EM? There are not a lot of alternatives. Gravity waves? Or do you expect new fundamental forces to be discovered?
Anything we have not see yet must interact so incredibly weakly with matter that it is probably not a good communications medium.
Would particle beams have any advantage over photons?
A neutrino beam would have good range, but the antenna design is a bitch.
I'm just mocking your "kindness" statement)
He said they responded "in kind", ie in the same way. Quite the opposite of kindness.
The 2003 US withdrawal from Saudi might get some credit too. Wasn't that the main goal of the 9/11 hijackers? Mission accomplished boys! No need for more attacks from that group at least.
Comparing US with China is kinda like comparing Obama with Stalin or Bush with Hitler. It's such a massive and obvious exaggeration that it only weakens any valid points you might have.
And yet you just made five comparisons in the previous paragraph! Is China now the standard on which the US is to be judged as free or not free?
the country with the largest fraction of its population in prison is the United States.
And a huge number (hundreds of thousands) of those are in for victimless crimes like using drugs.
They really should stop that "land of the free" slogan.
For companies who target marketshare and the low end like Dell, the last 10 years have been sort of murderous on the stockholders. Nokia's has been awful as well.
Fortunately for Sun Microsystems, they stuck to the high end.
Trick question: A is South Korea and B is Nigeria.
The smaller country many times the number of +140 IQs even if emigration is ignored.
In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand.
Same in London. Which is odd - why would countries that keep left on the road and footpath have "keep right" on the escalators?
Actually, DB25 was standard for serial. the DB9 serial was an IBM oddity, as was the DB25 instead of Centronics for parallel. I guess it saved them a few bucks. :-)
However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Whoosh!
Meta-woosh! Nobody could be that dumb. It must have been ironic. Maybe he was trolling for wooshes?
Sadly, unless you are bringing the parliament on your ship, and moving it ..
There is precedent. And the Swedish Riksdag is already floating on Stockholm harbour. They just need to weigh anchor and head for the high seas! But with only 4% of parliament, they might need to mutiny and send the PM down the plank first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX61PUZ3xkI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Permanent_Assurance
It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountancy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy!
It can be manly in insurance.
We'll up your premium semi-annually.
It's all tax deductible.
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountancy!
mod parent troll - I sounded serious! :-)
Its the popular wisdom amongst an element of slashdot that Apple customers are sheep, but I know Apple fans who are not otherwise into any sort of brand display or conspicuous consumption. We have to admit that some loyalty comes from Apple making good products, even if I personally cannot stant the restrictions on some of them.