I've been told it was St Louis.
In any case, the upshot is that Baltimore is much more populous, safe, and wealthy (still not rich and crime-free or nuffin) city than the official stats would lead you to believe, because most of the people who can afford wifi laptops live in the county and therefore aren't counted. But they commute to/visit the harbor plenty.
Maybe you aren't aware, but Baltimore is an honest-to-god city. It was one of the largest in the nation, but has been hemorraging people. However, most of those people are going to the suburbs--which aren't counted in the city population thanks to an unusual city/county split.
Tourism is, IIRC, the second-largest official industry behind shipping (drugs being the actual largest).
OC, on the other hand, is a tiny strip of yuppies and self-important teeny boppers, and most of the people who go there are from Bmore anyway, not out of state.
Dude, you can autoclave lots of stuff. Research facilities do it all the time with plastic tubes and other plastic lab equipment. Though I agree that it would probably damage the current models...
Or how about we don't convert away from an absolute temperature scale before dividing things all over the place?
If you convert to C first, you've just assigned an arbitrary zero to the scale and cut off about 90% of room temp, but only about 2% of the force field temp, so of course when you then go dividing by 50 it doesn't work out.
Remember kiddies: arbitrary scales are all well and good for addition and subtraction, but don't go messing around with multiplication and division; you'll end up a pregnant murderer who supports terrorists.
oil and water do not mix because water is unable to adequately penetrate and dissolve the long, largely non-polar hydrocarbon chains that make up most oils (the oil is more attracted to itself than it is to the water).
You got that backwards, dude. Oil and water don't mix because water is more attracted to itself than it is to oil. Breaking the water-water hydrogen bond would require more energy than you gain from forming a water-hydrocarbon interaction, so it doesn't happen (or, that's the stripped-down thermodynamic way of looking at it).
A little basic chemistry will tell you that: 1. The source of a chemical has nothing to do with its properties. 2. The polarity is what you want to know. 3. Simple alcohols are used because they're cheap and basically non-toxic. 4. They are still rather polar, which is why they're not ideal for grease. Hexanes would work better, but are harder to get and sometimes you don't want something too nonpolar sloshing around and maybe dissolving some of your case.
"it's also a death trap. Statistically, it took one wreck to send it from the top of the safety list to the bottom."
Which just goes to show that you shouldn't trust small sample sizes (i.e. many fewer flights and passengers than other aircraft) when declaring the Concord a 'death trap'. Just like any thoughtful person wouldn't avoid a small town that happens to have an astronomical murder rate due to one killing...
As the proud owner of an ape suit, I can assure you be shaved bald and standing outside in 20 below weather, and you'd still be sweating buckets inside...
Consider a live movie: you get the actors in place for a shot, and then they do it while the camera rolls.
Now stop motion: You get the "actors" in place for the shot, then you take a frame or three, then move them a little, then another couple frames, then move them a little. And consider that each frame--even if it gets used--is a small fraction of a second. If you want to do it well, it takes time.
Well, Mars is cold enough that the water should--by all rights--be frozen, except that they're claiming it becomes a "super-saline" solutions. Salt lowers the freezing point of water (actually, anything that dissolves in a liquid depresses the freezing point), so it might stay liquid at very very cold temperatures.
While you're absolutely right that--at least for the moment--this sounds like a shell game, there is some benefit to moving petroleum-based fuels to the plants: cleaning pollutants out of the emmissions can be done more thoroughly and for less cost in the volumes that a plant operates at. It's just not space or monetarily efficient to implement existing anti-pollution technologies into individual cars.
Still, it doesn't sound like hydrogen's time has come yet.
...they're planning to enforce this how? Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think saying "don't spam" is going to mean much to the Nigerians who keep promising me untold riches. Still, I suppose you have to start somewhere.
Well, my college only had a statement that basically said "don't commit fraud or hack anything using our resources".
However, having a policy against something is not at all related to actively monitoring it. If you rent an apartment from me and the lease says "no dragging a keg inside and trashing the place", surely you'll agree that it's not my job (nor should it be) to install video cameras in the living room just to be sure. The same thing is true here: they can tell you not to share copyrighted files, but that shouldn't imply a responsibility to go through your shared files and determine which are copyright violations.
Which is not to say it won't be their responsibility by the time the lawyers are done with them...
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Well, the question is whether they'll be deactivated after you've paid for it. Because I'm not seeing a whole lot of incentive for retailers to bother to do that, and if people are walking around with these things on them, somebody will eventually decide to make use of it; it's only a matter of time.
Now now, I'm sure there's a clause buried in there somewhere to prevent the people of the US from enjoying the same right that corporations would have...
Well (as pointed out by the randomness article a few days back) it's possible that there's nothing inherently stronger about this comet than the others; it could just be the freak point on the bell curve.
Except that, even if you are willing to conceed that Star Wars is for children, it was for children 25 years ago. Who are now...
...adults! Adults who actually have their own money to spend. Adults who have some sentimental attachment to the series. Adults who don't like Lucas acting as if his fan base is still made up of 10-year-olds.
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The question is not "why doesn't oil dissolve in water?" The answer to that is obvious; water attracts other water molecules significantly better than it does oil, so it tends to exclude the oil. However, the effects of simple water-oil vs water-water interactions are only visible over a very short range.
The problem here, as far as I understand it, is that if you put two small droplets of oil far away from each other on a water surface, they'll tend to meet up sooner than you would expect just from random movement. There's nothing obvious from orgo that says why that should happen.
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I've been told it was St Louis. In any case, the upshot is that Baltimore is much more populous, safe, and wealthy (still not rich and crime-free or nuffin) city than the official stats would lead you to believe, because most of the people who can afford wifi laptops live in the county and therefore aren't counted. But they commute to/visit the harbor plenty.
Maybe you aren't aware, but Baltimore is an honest-to-god city. It was one of the largest in the nation, but has been hemorraging people. However, most of those people are going to the suburbs--which aren't counted in the city population thanks to an unusual city/county split. Tourism is, IIRC, the second-largest official industry behind shipping (drugs being the actual largest). OC, on the other hand, is a tiny strip of yuppies and self-important teeny boppers, and most of the people who go there are from Bmore anyway, not out of state.
Not only that, but the first article was better-written anyway.
Dude, you can autoclave lots of stuff. Research facilities do it all the time with plastic tubes and other plastic lab equipment. Though I agree that it would probably damage the current models...
Woburn and Somerville seem fine, too. Other than my apartment, which loses power of its own accord anyway.
Or how about we don't convert away from an absolute temperature scale before dividing things all over the place?
If you convert to C first, you've just assigned an arbitrary zero to the scale and cut off about 90% of room temp, but only about 2% of the force field temp, so of course when you then go dividing by 50 it doesn't work out.
Remember kiddies: arbitrary scales are all well and good for addition and subtraction, but don't go messing around with multiplication and division; you'll end up a pregnant murderer who supports terrorists.
oil and water do not mix because water is unable to adequately penetrate and dissolve the long, largely non-polar hydrocarbon chains that make up most oils (the oil is more attracted to itself than it is to the water).
You got that backwards, dude. Oil and water don't mix because water is more attracted to itself than it is to oil. Breaking the water-water hydrogen bond would require more energy than you gain from forming a water-hydrocarbon interaction, so it doesn't happen (or, that's the stripped-down thermodynamic way of looking at it).
Informative my arse.
A little basic chemistry will tell you that:
1. The source of a chemical has nothing to do with its properties.
2. The polarity is what you want to know.
3. Simple alcohols are used because they're cheap and basically non-toxic.
4. They are still rather polar, which is why they're not ideal for grease. Hexanes would work better, but are harder to get and sometimes you don't want something too nonpolar sloshing around and maybe dissolving some of your case.
You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee...
"it's also a death trap. Statistically, it took one wreck to send it from the top of the safety list to the bottom."
Which just goes to show that you shouldn't trust small sample sizes (i.e. many fewer flights and passengers than other aircraft) when declaring the Concord a 'death trap'. Just like any thoughtful person wouldn't avoid a small town that happens to have an astronomical murder rate due to one killing...
As the proud owner of an ape suit, I can assure you be shaved bald and standing outside in 20 below weather, and you'd still be sweating buckets inside...
Consider a live movie: you get the actors in place for a shot, and then they do it while the camera rolls.
Now stop motion: You get the "actors" in place for the shot, then you take a frame or three, then move them a little, then another couple frames, then move them a little. And consider that each frame--even if it gets used--is a small fraction of a second. If you want to do it well, it takes time.
Well, Mars is cold enough that the water should--by all rights--be frozen, except that they're claiming it becomes a "super-saline" solutions. Salt lowers the freezing point of water (actually, anything that dissolves in a liquid depresses the freezing point), so it might stay liquid at very very cold temperatures.
While you're absolutely right that--at least for the moment--this sounds like a shell game, there is some benefit to moving petroleum-based fuels to the plants: cleaning pollutants out of the emmissions can be done more thoroughly and for less cost in the volumes that a plant operates at. It's just not space or monetarily efficient to implement existing anti-pollution technologies into individual cars.
Still, it doesn't sound like hydrogen's time has come yet.
...they're planning to enforce this how? Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think saying "don't spam" is going to mean much to the Nigerians who keep promising me untold riches. Still, I suppose you have to start somewhere.
Well, my college only had a statement that basically said "don't commit fraud or hack anything using our resources".
However, having a policy against something is not at all related to actively monitoring it. If you rent an apartment from me and the lease says "no dragging a keg inside and trashing the place", surely you'll agree that it's not my job (nor should it be) to install video cameras in the living room just to be sure. The same thing is true here: they can tell you not to share copyrighted files, but that shouldn't imply a responsibility to go through your shared files and determine which are copyright violations.
Which is not to say it won't be their responsibility by the time the lawyers are done with them...
Well, the question is whether they'll be deactivated after you've paid for it. Because I'm not seeing a whole lot of incentive for retailers to bother to do that, and if people are walking around with these things on them, somebody will eventually decide to make use of it; it's only a matter of time.
Something impossible: like the little diamonds in the middle of the "XXX" that appear to be floating on thin air? How in the heck did he do that?
Now now, I'm sure there's a clause buried in there somewhere to prevent the people of the US from enjoying the same right that corporations would have...
Well (as pointed out by the randomness article a few days back) it's possible that there's nothing inherently stronger about this comet than the others; it could just be the freak point on the bell curve.
But what do I know from comets?
Except that, even if you are willing to conceed that Star Wars is for children, it was for children 25 years ago. Who are now...
...adults! Adults who actually have their own money to spend. Adults who have some sentimental attachment to the series. Adults who don't like Lucas acting as if his fan base is still made up of 10-year-olds.
Except that, IIRC, the article says that once the stuff was mixed in degassed water, it stays mixed even when gasses are reintroduced.
Never trust a press release that uses "leverage" as a verb three times in less than a page. Unless it's a press release about levers.
Duck.
The question is not "why doesn't oil dissolve in water?" The answer to that is obvious; water attracts other water molecules significantly better than it does oil, so it tends to exclude the oil. However, the effects of simple water-oil vs water-water interactions are only visible over a very short range.
The problem here, as far as I understand it, is that if you put two small droplets of oil far away from each other on a water surface, they'll tend to meet up sooner than you would expect just from random movement. There's nothing obvious from orgo that says why that should happen.