Thats OK, The Germans can rely on their good friends in Russia for a cheap reliable supply of natural gas to fire their power stations for the next century or so while they work on alternatives. What could go wrong?
This industry is riddled with perverse incentives toward taking on outsize risk loads
Which industry? That could equally apply to any business that pays perversely large performance bonuses. When an executive can get a multi-million dollar bonus, why not take any necessary risk? The downside is insignificant for an individual who is already got enough to retire on.
I'm in the southern hemisphere, you insensitive clod!
That's OK. We had front-row seats for the 1987 supernova, a mere 168,000 light-years away, and visible to the naked eye. The previous one brighter was in 1604.
. so, of course I'm not interested in paying for two 3G contracts.
OK, I was thinking tablets don't use much data, and forgot how expensive a minimum data plan is in the US. Here you can just pay a couple of dollars a month (2c/MB) through resellers - unless you like to watch youtube on the train every day. If Amazon can get cheap low-data-volume 3G access for the Kindle, why can't anybody else get it?
Maybe Lenovo decided to make this based on Samsung's inflated sales claim. And they got really pissed off when they discovered the truth, after spending lots of money.
In Australia we have for example the ZTE v9 7" WVGA tablet with 3G for $129. (Was $99 for a while). Easily unlocked, Android 2.2 or Cyanogen 2.3. An 8 or 16GB micro-SD is a cheap add-on. The Lenovo is certainly higher spec, except it seems crazy to have such a small (i.e. portable) tablet without 3G.
Steven Fry once said... just say fuck instead of "making love", say shit instead of "going to the bathroom",
If I were as witty as Mr Fry, I might make a clever remark about such obfuscation contributing to his confusion of the anatomical parts used for those two purposes.
On the other hand black athletes do overwhelmingly better than white ones.... Or it could be that genes that favor physical prowess
You may be wrongly assuming it is just physical. Australian Aboriginals do very well at sport, especially football, despite not being especially big or strong. They have better visual / spatial skills, ie a higher spatial IQ . It his hypothesized that this is a genetic trait adapted to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, but of course any talk of genetic difference becomes controversial. Some academics will probably try to tell you that skin colour too is environmental and cultural and we need to "close the gap" in melanin.
Whenever I get annoyed about how everything is so much cheaper in the US (houses, food, clothes, computers, cable internet,...) it helps to remember how at least you folks are screwed over on telephones, both fixed and mobile. By cost and service. - "What, you must pay to *receive* calls!? A phone plan costs *how* much? pay extra for tethering, really?" Ah, schadenfreude.
No, but I'll make fun of that awful bland corn-mash that passes for regular food in Kenya. You'd think anything that is not ugali would sell well. No wonder they are so skinny.
Gold has little intrinsic value. If you want a *real* currency, go back to salt. It worked for the Romans. The British navy conquered the world while using rum as payment.
The US military does not use gasoline, so I doubt "1000 soldiers have died delivering gasoline to military operations".
The UAVs do indeed run on gasoline, though I'd assume the 1000 number includes all petroleum fuels. It is a bit disappointing, since the Predator is made by General Atomics, who do not live up to their name.
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Thats OK, The Germans can rely on their good friends in Russia for a cheap reliable supply of natural gas to fire their power stations for the next century or so while they work on alternatives. What could go wrong?
Continents are defined by plate tectonics.
Continents were defined long before anyone had heard of plate tectonics.
Politics have no business in science.
Heisenberg. 1941. Are you certain?
A quarter of the US is hardly microscopic.
Or could they mean something else? Might help to be a bit more clear for us ignorant furriners.
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Probably a stupid question, but if they think their currency is over-valued, why not just "print" more to buy euros?
This industry is riddled with perverse incentives toward taking on outsize risk loads
Which industry? That could equally apply to any business that pays perversely large performance bonuses.
When an executive can get a multi-million dollar bonus, why not take any necessary risk? The downside is insignificant for an individual who is already got enough to retire on.
I actually pointed out a flaw in Jurassic Park.
Oh no! Next thing you'll be telling me that velociraptors were not even Jurassic.
How light? Would it be powerful enough to run a pocket calculator?
I bags the patent on that idea.
I'm in the southern hemisphere, you insensitive clod!
That's OK. We had front-row seats for the 1987 supernova, a mere 168,000 light-years away, and visible to the naked eye.
The previous one brighter was in 1604.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A
In our reference frame it happened days ago.
Only if your reference frame includes infinite light speed. I'd like to see your maths for that one.
. so, of course I'm not interested in paying for two 3G contracts.
OK, I was thinking tablets don't use much data, and forgot how expensive a minimum data plan is in the US.
Here you can just pay a couple of dollars a month (2c/MB) through resellers - unless you like to watch youtube on the train every day.
If Amazon can get cheap low-data-volume 3G access for the Kindle, why can't anybody else get it?
Maybe Lenovo decided to make this based on Samsung's inflated sales claim. And they got really pissed off when they discovered the truth, after spending lots of money.
In Australia we have for example the ZTE v9 7" WVGA tablet with 3G for $129. (Was $99 for a while). Easily unlocked, Android 2.2 or Cyanogen 2.3.
An 8 or 16GB micro-SD is a cheap add-on.
The Lenovo is certainly higher spec, except it seems crazy to have such a small (i.e. portable) tablet without 3G.
Steven Fry once said ... just say fuck instead of "making love", say shit instead of "going to the bathroom",
If I were as witty as Mr Fry, I might make a clever remark about such obfuscation contributing to his confusion of the anatomical parts used for those two purposes.
On the other hand black athletes do overwhelmingly better than white ones. ... Or it could be that genes that favor physical prowess
You may be wrongly assuming it is just physical. Australian Aboriginals do very well at sport, especially football, despite not being especially big or strong.
They have better visual / spatial skills, ie a higher spatial IQ . It his hypothesized that this is a genetic trait adapted to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, but of course any talk of genetic difference becomes controversial. Some academics will probably try to tell you that skin colour too is environmental and cultural and we need to "close the gap" in melanin.
Whenever I get annoyed about how everything is so much cheaper in the US (houses, food, clothes, computers, cable internet, ...) it helps to remember how at least you folks are screwed over on telephones, both fixed and mobile. By cost and service.
- "What, you must pay to *receive* calls!? A phone plan costs *how* much? pay extra for tethering, really?" Ah, schadenfreude.
just planning a crime isn't a crime everywhere though.
If two people plan one, it is conspiracy.
If one person invites others, it is definitely a crime.
, and if the kids sneak looks at their palms, they probably have.
Conversely, if the kids do not sneak a look, they probably have anyway.
Are we making fun of hungry kenyans now?
No, but I'll make fun of that awful bland corn-mash that passes for regular food in Kenya.
You'd think anything that is not ugali would sell well. No wonder they are so skinny.
Its not state of the art and it has a resistive touch screen
Of course it does. You ever try writing chinese characters without a stylus? Or taking your gloves off to answer the phone in February in Beijing?
Gold has little intrinsic value. If you want a *real* currency, go back to salt. It worked for the Romans.
The British navy conquered the world while using rum as payment.
Not until they stop keeping it artificially undervalued.
Why is it always the other guy's fault? How about the US pegs the dollar to the Yuan at 1:3? Too soon?
The US military does not use gasoline, so I doubt "1000 soldiers have died delivering gasoline to military operations".
The UAVs do indeed run on gasoline, though I'd assume the 1000 number includes all petroleum fuels.
It is a bit disappointing, since the Predator is made by General Atomics, who do not live up to their name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotax_914
In the last decade, 1000 soldiers have died delivering gasoline to military operations.
And countless thousands have died in a military operation to deliver gasoline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War