but then again hey, it's Finland. everything is more expensive. practically the only more expensive place in the world is Norway.
You forgot Switzerland, almost as bad as Norway. But there are plenty of countries comparable to Finland in cost of living, including Japan and Australia, as well as your Nordic neighbours. So don't feel so bad. However Australia is only one Chinese recession away from a massive aussie dollar devaluation, while you folks are stuck with the Euro.
The scary part is when it says the Kutsuplus is only a "dollar or two" more than a regular bus. Buses must be very expensive in Finland too, unless they are only talking about very short trips.
Keep your hammers in the toolbox, and guns in the gun-safe, unless needed.
Carrying either one at all times can turn a fist-fight or a robbery into a murder, and I would not want to rely on the odds of being on the better end. Not sure about a car-jack. Around here its something we use to change a tyre, and I would not want to be hit with one.
You mean that thing in bad American movies where the robber tells the victim to drive, instead of just get out and leave the keys!?
The cynical might think that the offensive and racist AC post above was deliberately made to discredit more rational posts mentioning race and ethnicity as a major factor in comparing US scores to other OECD countries.
The truth is that Americans of _any_ race or ethnicity score well in literacy and numeracy compared to the _same_ group in other countries.
Weapons research always trickles down into practical applications.
But its not very efficient. It would be nice to have more than a trickle to show for the billions spent. Or at least some weapons useful against modern threats.
Correct. Now the question is: Can they be prosecuted for insider trading?
In the United States? tell me again how many Wall St bankers were prosecuted for the billions of dollars defrauded that lead to the GFC? That's like asking if a US politician can be prosecuted for an illegal war. About as likely as Vladimir Putin getting a tax audit.
These books are all just copies, not original manuscripts. And O'Reilly books were never a work of art as a medium. Be ruthless. If you ever really do need an old edition of the Camel Book, it is available as a PDF download.
As for, K&R C and the Folley/van Dam book - well, some things are special cases. I still have mine. But as above, very few books are as important as those.
The Engineer does make some improvements though. Humans have the infant food production centre moved upsteam, unlike earlier models which had that too down near the waste treatment plant. Give him 20 million years or so and he might fix something.
They realised it was impossible to be any more bizarre or improbable than the real Nobel Peace Prize.
How can you top the 1973 award to Kissinger and Le Duc Tho to end the Vietnam war? Or legendary snake-oil promoter Linus Pauling, convicted terrorists including Yasir Arafat and Nelson Mandela (OK, maybe) , an AIDS conspiracy theorist, and various war criminals.
Obama really won the inaugural "not being GW Bush prize", but that turned out to have been a little premature.
Notification LEDs are passe. I loved the always-on AMOLED display on the Nokia phones (RIP) with time and notification icons. Why don't all AMOLED phones do this? (Not possible on LCD due to power drain.)
I'd hardly dignify the post by calling it an article. As a recent comment states:
So according to this article the total world wide contamination of CS-137 would go up by 50% compared to the near undetectable levels that are already there from previous events. But somehow that's going to extinguish all life on earth?
Bollocks. TFA states the pools contain "85 times the cesium released" at Chernobyl, which tells us little by itself. How much cesium might be released into the atmosphere by a fire? An how much of the exposure at Chernobyl was caused by cesium? I thought most of the exposure was from iodine and other shorter-lived isotopes.
To says an "85 times bigger disaster" is shameful dishonest scaremongering.
But we are talking about the US here, which is an outlier - the only developed, high-IQ country where religion remains strong. So in this particular case, other causes of religiosity are likely to be more relevant.
> Another alias for "Anonymous Coward" is "________ Dweller". (8 letters)
That one is culturally biased and took me a while. It might eliminate a lot of humans from countries (or even states?) where such architectural features are never found in homes.
... the First Electric Vehicle made primarily of plastic. Carbon fibres are just the re-inforcing, so this car is no more "primarily carbon fiber" than a concrete building is "primarily steel".
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but then again hey, it's Finland. everything is more expensive. practically the only more expensive place in the world is Norway.
You forgot Switzerland, almost as bad as Norway. But there are plenty of countries comparable to Finland in cost of living, including Japan and Australia, as well as your Nordic neighbours. So don't feel so bad. However Australia is only one Chinese recession away from a massive aussie dollar devaluation, while you folks are stuck with the Euro.
The scary part is when it says the Kutsuplus is only a "dollar or two" more than a regular bus.
Buses must be very expensive in Finland too, unless they are only talking about very short trips.
Keep your hammers in the toolbox, and guns in the gun-safe, unless needed.
Carrying either one at all times can turn a fist-fight or a robbery into a murder, and I would not want to rely on the odds of being on the better end.
Not sure about a car-jack. Around here its something we use to change a tyre, and I would not want to be hit with one.
You mean that thing in bad American movies where the robber tells the victim to drive, instead of just get out and leave the keys!?
So if you ask the people how much to fund each item, it will add up to well over 100% of revenue?
Of course it is inconceivable for the federal government to spend more than they receive.
Looks like a Panopticon to me. Except the iSight in every monitor makes the central tower obsolete.
The cynical might think that the offensive and racist AC post above was deliberately made to discredit more rational posts mentioning race and ethnicity as a major factor in comparing US scores to other OECD countries.
The truth is that Americans of _any_ race or ethnicity score well in literacy and numeracy compared to the _same_ group in other countries.
Weapons research always trickles down into practical applications.
But its not very efficient. It would be nice to have more than a trickle to show for the billions spent.
Or at least some weapons useful against modern threats.
Correct. Now the question is: Can they be prosecuted for insider trading?
In the United States? tell me again how many Wall St bankers were prosecuted for the billions of dollars defrauded that lead to the GFC?
That's like asking if a US politician can be prosecuted for an illegal war. About as likely as Vladimir Putin getting a tax audit.
These books are all just copies, not original manuscripts. And O'Reilly books were never a work of art as a medium. Be ruthless.
If you ever really do need an old edition of the Camel Book, it is available as a PDF download.
As for, K&R C and the Folley/van Dam book - well, some things are special cases. I still have mine. But as above, very few books are as important as those.
The Engineer does make some improvements though. Humans have the infant food production centre moved upsteam, unlike earlier models which had that too down near the waste treatment plant. Give him 20 million years or so and he might fix something.
SPRINT-A telescope, is designed for planetary observation
Perhaps recent revelations have made me cynical, but would the planet happen to be earth?
The ignoble Peace prize is to be abandoned.
They realised it was impossible to be any more bizarre or improbable than the real Nobel Peace Prize.
How can you top the 1973 award to Kissinger and Le Duc Tho to end the Vietnam war?
Or legendary snake-oil promoter Linus Pauling,
convicted terrorists including Yasir Arafat and Nelson Mandela (OK, maybe) ,
an AIDS conspiracy theorist, and various war criminals.
Obama really won the inaugural "not being GW Bush prize", but that turned out to have been a little premature.
Notification LEDs are passe. I loved the always-on AMOLED display on the Nokia phones (RIP) with time and notification icons.
Why don't all AMOLED phones do this? (Not possible on LCD due to power drain.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+contributions+to+linux
Or to put it more succinctly, "Romania has scientists?!"
I'd hardly dignify the post by calling it an article. As a recent comment states:
So according to this article the total world wide contamination of CS-137 would go up by 50% compared to the near undetectable levels that are already there from previous events.
But somehow that's going to extinguish all life on earth?
Bollocks. TFA states the pools contain "85 times the cesium released" at Chernobyl, which tells us little by itself.
How much cesium might be released into the atmosphere by a fire? An how much of the exposure at Chernobyl was caused by cesium? I thought most of the exposure was from iodine and other shorter-lived isotopes.
To says an "85 times bigger disaster" is shameful dishonest scaremongering.
Per minute? You Americans use some odd units. The correct unit for dental drill rotational speed is Hurts.
they were carrying uranium in a bucket and it went super-critical in 1999. That was a level 4. 2 people died of multiple organ failure.
Starting with the brain failure that preceded the criticality. One doesn't simply throw another bucket of 18% enriched uranium into the tank.
Religiosity is strongly and negatively correlated with IQ, and IQ is heritable.
But we are talking about the US here, which is an outlier - the only developed, high-IQ country where religion remains strong.
So in this particular case, other causes of religiosity are likely to be more relevant.
Welcome to 2013, the terrerists are still winning without having to lift a finger.
The terrorists won in 1783. And they do not want to give up power.
For those with no time for a 20 minute youtube link,
The 13th Doctor was played by Joanna Lumley. (Definitely a Woman.)
Nobody can say the BBC never let the girlies have a turn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death
http://doctorher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1956-239x300.jpg
> Another alias for "Anonymous Coward" is "________ Dweller". (8 letters)
That one is culturally biased and took me a while. It might eliminate a lot of humans from countries (or even states?) where such architectural features are never found in homes.
Summary:
I'm so glad I live in an enlightened democracy, instead of that totalitarian hell hole.
... the First Electric Vehicle made primarily of plastic.
Carbon fibres are just the re-inforcing, so this car is no more "primarily carbon fiber" than a concrete building is "primarily steel".