I hate flying to , but even I know that I'm more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than flying in the plane.
Sorry, not true. Flying is far safer than driving the same distance, but roughly the same risk per hour as driving. Takeoff is far more dangerous per minute than driving, so you are right to be nervous. But once it settles into a cruising altitude, relax.
a "singularity". This is another mathematical fiction that can't exist in the known universe.
Never mind the singularity. Yes, you might say that is a mathematical construct, and not science (quantam mechanics, relativity). But it is perfectly reasonable to talk about the physics around the event horizon.
Then he made the assumption (belief, faith) about the cause
English not you first language? The word is "hypothesis". And it has since been thoroughly tested.
Not so fast! If we are going to start comparing counts of "Devices", the clear winner is neither, but Linux. Windows still rules the Desktop, and Apple the MP3-players, but all those millions of routers, TVs, Blu-ray players, TiVos, GPS units, Android devices and even kitchen appliances.... Linux *Devices* clearly outsell any other comparable platform, by a huge margin.
The party is being created solely for the purpose of running for a senate seat. You cannot run as an independent, and the party will appoint a replacement for Julian if he is unable to take up the seat for some reason.
It is interesting to look at the list of National Councillors - includes peace activist, anti-whaling consultant, and of course, the compulsory indigenous consultant. Just one anti-nuclear activist short of being another Greens party. Definitely heading for a conflict with them. Do they have any chance without a Greens preference deal?
TFA is short on detail. TV whitespace could be anything from 40MHz to just under the 850 and 900 MHz bands widely used for cellular internet connection.
Anyone who would buy one and send it into a war zone without testing should go to jail.
Oh please, there is no chance even of the mass-murdering politicians who started the wars going to jail. This guy will probably be head-hunted as an executive for Northrop Grumann or Halliburton.
Google could just purchase Italy outright. I hear it will be rather a bargain.
Its like buying one of those $1 houses in America that have taxes owing - Italy comes with a lot of debt to service: $2.6 trillion, compared to Google's $0.26 trillion market cap. Even google will have trouble finding $130 billion/year in interest payments. Maybe they could go halfsies with Apple.
I can not understand putting a nuke on a beach just as we have done here.
For cooling water, duh! If there is a nasty leak, as at Fukushima, the isotopes in the water will quickly be dispersed to safe levels. If the power station had been on a lake or river and suffered a similar loss of cooling incident, the contamination would have been much m ore of a problem. Further, much of the atmospheric release was blown out to sea.
The coast is not a bad place for a reactor, you just need to make sure the cooling system is as protected from earthquake and innundation as the reactor dome itself.
Reactors are not normally built near large population centres - its not because that would kill lots of people, so much as the cost of the evacuation and relocation in a worst-case event.
Per Kw, methane generates half as much CO2 as coal.
Convention methane does, but non-conventional sources can be worse due to the energy needed for extraction, and leakage to methane to the atmosphere. Unless they can find a cheap, efficient way to get this methane, it will be worse than coal.
I've poured gasoline on something, dropped a lit match on it
Try repeating the experiment with a pool of gasoline, e.g. in a tray for test purposes. Though judging by American TV/movies, gasoline may be far more flammable and explosive than the petrol I tested.
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I hate flying to , but even I know that I'm more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than flying in the plane.
Sorry, not true. Flying is far safer than driving the same distance, but roughly the same risk per hour as driving.
Takeoff is far more dangerous per minute than driving, so you are right to be nervous. But once it settles into a cruising altitude, relax.
I'm a troll?? Am typing this on a Mac, FFS. When saying "Windows rules the desktop", I never said it was better.
a "singularity". This is another mathematical fiction that can't exist in the known universe.
Never mind the singularity. Yes, you might say that is a mathematical construct, and not science (quantam mechanics, relativity).
But it is perfectly reasonable to talk about the physics around the event horizon.
Then he made the assumption (belief, faith) about the cause
English not you first language? The word is "hypothesis". And it has since been thoroughly tested.
Not so fast! If we are going to start comparing counts of "Devices", the clear winner is neither, but Linux.
Windows still rules the Desktop, and Apple the MP3-players, but all those millions of routers, TVs, Blu-ray players, TiVos, GPS units, Android devices and even kitchen appliances....
Linux *Devices* clearly outsell any other comparable platform, by a huge margin.
Can we shoot him now?
Both legally and practically, no.
Humans with mutant photoreceptor protiens may well be able to meet the qualifications of the test,
No, UV is blocked before reaching the retina. What you need is someone who has had cataract surgery, and no replacement UV filter.
http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalens/ultra-violet-color-glow/
Not quite ESP - maybe super-sensory perception?
The party is being created solely for the purpose of running for a senate seat. You cannot run as an independent, and the party will appoint a replacement for Julian if he is unable to take up the seat for some reason.
It is interesting to look at the list of National Councillors - includes peace activist, anti-whaling consultant, and of course, the compulsory indigenous consultant.
Just one anti-nuclear activist short of being another Greens party. Definitely heading for a conflict with them. Do they have any chance without a Greens preference deal?
TFA is short on detail. TV whitespace could be anything from 40MHz to just under the 850 and 900 MHz bands widely used for cellular internet connection.
He sold a divining rod.
Could you please expand upon this? I'm curious what makes this bomb detector a divining rod.
Ah .. I was not making a metaphor. It literally is a divining rod - a stick that points, controlled by the users hand. That's why it needs no battery.
He sold a divining rod. Is it really any different to people selling alternative medicine, or prayer?
Anyone who would buy one and send it into a war zone without testing should go to jail.
Oh please, there is no chance even of the mass-murdering politicians who started the wars going to jail.
This guy will probably be head-hunted as an executive for Northrop Grumann or Halliburton.
Google could just purchase Italy outright. I hear it will be rather a bargain.
Its like buying one of those $1 houses in America that have taxes owing - Italy comes with a lot of debt to service: $2.6 trillion, compared to Google's $0.26 trillion market cap.
Even google will have trouble finding $130 billion/year in interest payments. Maybe they could go halfsies with Apple.
That's because you don't have any money. People with serious money will stick with the USD because historically it is safer than gold.
Isn't that what they said about the US housing market?
People with "serious money" have a diversified portfolio.
The British National Health service runs entire hospitals dedicated to placebo treatment.
While the clit analogy has some merit, most commentators prefer the nipple, partly for its fame as the first and only truly intuitive user interface.
Anyway, somebody already linked the canonical cartoon on the subject above.
Hang on, the 90's called, and they want their joke about previous decades calling back.
*Real* Thinkpads don't need a touchpad either, just the nipple-mouse. Sorry, trackpoint.
you're assuming that intelligence correlates necessarily with genetics,
Yes, IQ is a highly heritable trait
i.e. that a stupid person cannot have smart children.
Err, no. You do not seem to understand the word "correlates".
but upbringing and other factors play a strong role as well,
The evidence says not nearly as much as we used to think, unless the child suffers severe abuse or neglect early on.
Secondly, the "stupid" people have always bred more than the smarter ones.
Always? Citation please! Evidence of that will get you famous.
In much of history, breeding was limited by your ability to feed them.
And finally, it's been demonstrated that people have been getting smarter over the past century or so, so Idiocracy is demonstrably false.
Were getting better at IQ tests is all we can say. IQ, like life expectancy may have peaked.
There are numerous hypothesized explanations for it,
That's what he meant to refer to, but he is from an older generation than us.
Heil Zontar!
TFA photo caption says
the herd has been thinned to about 15 objects
... I read that as "the nerd hair has thinned ..."
I can not understand putting a nuke on a beach just as we have done here.
For cooling water, duh!
If there is a nasty leak, as at Fukushima, the isotopes in the water will quickly be dispersed to safe levels.
If the power station had been on a lake or river and suffered a similar loss of cooling incident, the contamination would have been much m ore of a problem.
Further, much of the atmospheric release was blown out to sea.
The coast is not a bad place for a reactor, you just need to make sure the cooling system is as protected from earthquake and innundation as the reactor dome itself.
Reactors are not normally built near large population centres - its not because that would kill lots of people, so much as the cost of the evacuation and relocation in a worst-case event.
Per Kw, methane generates half as much CO2 as coal.
Convention methane does, but non-conventional sources can be worse due to the energy needed for extraction, and leakage to methane to the atmosphere.
Unless they can find a cheap, efficient way to get this methane, it will be worse than coal.
I've poured gasoline on something, dropped a lit match on it
Try repeating the experiment with a pool of gasoline, e.g. in a tray for test purposes.
Though judging by American TV/movies, gasoline may be far more flammable and explosive than the petrol I tested.
The importance of the words "most likely" in my GP post cannot easily be overstated.