> That doesn't mean we should put it in toys outside the battery.
Why not, if those parts are treated with the same care as batteries? Oh wait, people are just SO good with recycling those, and they KNOW they should. If it's as well sealed as a battery, and there is a mechanism for recycling those parts, fine. If they can just go into the existing battery stream, fine. But of course, people will be too stupid/fat/lazy/whatever.
Requiring this kind of protection with jewelry would make the whole thing pointless. If you have to coat it in $10 worth of actual sealed, nonporous plastic, (as Plasti-Dip is cheap but pretty nasty), it doesn't make sense to save $5 on the metal. At that point, silver-plated brass starts to make sense again because it's cheaper to use safer metal than to try to isolate dangerous metal. It will do no good unless somebody is watching, though.
For those of you that want to hear what this ratios sounds like, it's 833 cents, or a minor sixth plus 33 cents. This happens to be the interval used to form the aptly named Bohlen 833 cents (or A12) scale.
I'm using an Aspire One now (the 9" variety). The keyboard is cramped, and I wish they could have found a way to use all of the available space for a display, without a bezel almost an inch wide on three sides. The track pad is mediocre as well. But all that said, it's a GREAT thing to have around. When I need more muscle, I can generally get it. If I need more screen real estate, these are an option if a regular monitor is not available.
The nice part is that I can carry everything -- netbook, power brick, and mouse -- in a lunch cooler bag, and still have room for an umbrella, or a couple bottles of soda or beer, or even a LUNCH! Imagine that! I have played with the 11.6" Aspire One, and while I can certainly see the advantages if you use it a lot for "real work", my upgrade envy ended when I tried to slip the larger netbook under my coat to go to lunch. I felt like a freaking umpire wearing a chest protector.
For whatever reason, I find the smaller keyboard to be less of an issue in the Dvorak format. I wish they could find space for one-touch Home and End keys though, instead of requiring the Fn key for those.
The screens are still limited to 600 pixels vertically. Use the ones from the 11.6" version, at 1366x768 each, and I'll be buying one.
I stopped carrying around a 14" notebook because it was just too much to carry around everywhere. A 9" netbook fits the need much better. After playing with someone else's 11.6", I was struck by how much more useful the 1366x768 screen is over a 1024x600 screen (the full-size keyboard doesn't hurt either). If I could have two such screens, which fold up for convenient carrying, I would be all over this.
I have to imagine this will be thicker than a typical netbook, but I could deal with that if the other dimensions do not change.
$10,000 isn't much for a recording studio. Still it's TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more than the equipment used to record what we were listening to. That was the whole point. What did 100 times the cost buy? In this case, absolutely nothing.
I was at a friend's basement recording studio, and we were smoking out between laying tracks and mastering. In between we put on "Ween - Pure Guava". About three tracks in (I think it was "Push the Little Daisies" at the time) I started laughing and he asked why. I said "we're listening to $10,000 gear, playing an album recorded on $100 gear!"
That's not to say his gear wasn't worth the money, but sometimes it's just overkill.
This is one generation old (not two) and more than adequate for the casual gamer. It's also under $100. It's also available in AGP, which is why I own one.
That is, they are trying to create "Hybrid Vigor" - matching people whose DNA matches the LEAST. Among other things this should reduce recessive traits. No more blond haired/blue eyed children, but also no more hemophilia.
For one generation. Unless the hybrid generation is ALSO screened to find their recessives, the traits will return in the next generation as the recessives get paired up randomly. This would probably be acceptable in the days where families had four or more children -- the chances of having mostly healthy ones would outweigh the risks. But in a world where most families are having one or two before splitting and re-pairing with others, you will instead have a lot of families with ONLY healthy children, and a handful with ONLY fucked up children. Those dealing with the defective kids will be less likely to re-pair (or attempt more kids), and thus be stuck with what they got. At a societal and species level, we should be able to deal with this. It's still going to lead to a lot of small-scale tardgedies.
I've heard LSD called the drug that keeps on giving. So even if the drug itself is no longer in your system, there could be mental effects for a month after.
It's called PTSD. Getting in a car accident or getting shot at can do the same thing, as can anything with that much emotional impact. I've known people that needed counseling after an accident before they could get behind the wheel again. If you're that sort of person, dropping acid in an uncontrolled environment is probably a bad idea. Then again, doing so under the care and supervision of a therapist might prove helpful.
The problem we have now is that the drugs are usually illegal, but they are allowed as an excuse for bad behavior -- except DUI, thankfully. The drugs should not be illegal, but BEING AN ASSHOLE on drugs should be punished as severely as performing the same acts sober. If you're going to experiment, lock yourself down so you can't go stupid on anyone else.
To counter this dodge, the fees are VERY steep (and in some cases it is just plain forbidden) if you attempt to bring a car into California and register it with less than 7500 miles on it. Heaven help you if your tags run out on the prior state before you hit 7500 miles.
As men and women are close to 50:50 of our population, it seems that employers prefer people of gender XY over people with gender XX. I don't know if that's fair, but I am not socialist and therefore cannot judge what a particular person or skill is worth or even guess why this disparity exists at all. It just seems that XX people are valued less by employers resulting in lower pay for equal supply.
Men generally do not go out on maternity leave, and even less often decide to take a few years off to raise a child. If you have a choice between two otherwise equal employees (who will be paid the same), but one of them is liable to develop a health condition that will remove them from the job for months, years, or even permanently, which one do YOU hire?
This is not to say that it is fair, but there is no way it CAN be fair so long as the burden of gestation and nursing lies solely on the XX portion of the population. Fair or not, you can't argue with biology.
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El Nino has not kicked in yet and it is NOT forecast to do so this year [bom.gov.au], this dust has accumulated [bom.gov.au] under El Nina conditions. When ENSO does in fact flip to El Nino conditions the ground is going to get even dryer than it already is.
As evidence to the contrary, the NOAA is predicting that the El Niño effect most likely WILL kick in during Northern Hemisphere winter 09-10.
Synopsis: El Niño is expected to strengthen and last through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2009-2010.
A weak El Niño continued during August 2009, as sea surface temperature (SST) remained above-average across the equatorial Pacific Ocean (Fig. 1). Consistent with this warmth, the latest weekly values of the Niño-region SST indices were between +0.7oC to +1.0oC (Fig. 2). Subsurface oceanic heat content (average temperatures in the upper 300m of the ocean, Fig. 3) anomalies continued to reflect a deep layer of anomalous warmth between the ocean surface and the thermocline, particularly in the central Pacific (Fig. 4). Enhanced convection over the western and central Pacific abated during the month, but the pattern of suppressed convection strengthened over Indonesia. Low-level westerly wind anomalies continued to become better established over parts of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. These oceanic and atmospheric anomalies reflect an ongoing weak El Niño.
A majority of the model forecasts for the Niño-3.4 SST index (Fig. 5) suggest El Niño will reach at least moderate strength during the Northern Hemisphere fall (3-month Niño-3.4 SST index of +1.0oC or greater). Many model forecasts even suggest a strong El Niño (3-month Niño-3.4 SST index in excess of +1.5oC) during the fall and winter, but current observations and trends indicate that El Niño will most likely peak at moderate strength. Therefore, current conditions, trends, and model forecasts favor the continued development of a weak-to-moderate strength El Niño into the Northern Hemisphere fall 2009, with the likelihood of at least a moderate strength El Niño during the winter 2009-10.
If the photographer uses a wide-angle lens and get really close so that proportion is distorted, is that manipulation or is it just a photo? If he uses a diffusion filter to hide some minor skin flaws, is that manipulation? How about polarizers, graduated filters, extra lighting? What about solarizing, overexposing, underexposing, cropping, dodge-and-burn, or any of the other tricks that have been done in the darkroom long before anyone had even thought of using a computer to manipulate photos? I can imagine a resurgence in the "old school" techniques so that an ad agency can say "that's how it came off the camera, it's not manipulated at all!" while continuing to do exactly what they've been doing since the days of tintypes.
First rule of dumping has to be "don't shit where you eat". They sank these vessels in their own back yard, so to speak -- something that should be regarded as a last resort. It's not at all unreasonable to believe they've already used up the easily accessible places that AREN'T in their own back yard. It's reason enough to check, in any case.
Chronic tailgaters are either going to turn it off, or ignore it, or maybe yell back at it. What makes anyone think they're going to respect it? They already fire back at the warning signs they currently get -- the finger and the brake light.
I sort of understand tailgating someone going too slow who could move over into a more appropriate lane. What is the point of tailgating someone who has nowhere to go?
Admittedly this system might help when SoccerMom is distracted by the kids in back at exactly the moment traffic grinds to a halt ahead of her.
Hunger is a big motivator. The machine equivalent would be "resources critically low, obtain more." As the resource crunch becomes more critical, the intelligence would become more desperate, just like real animals (and people). This doesn't seem all that hard to code for.
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Mars, motherfucker! Do you grok it?
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> That doesn't mean we should put it in toys outside the battery.
Why not, if those parts are treated with the same care as batteries? Oh wait, people are just SO good with recycling those, and they KNOW they should. If it's as well sealed as a battery, and there is a mechanism for recycling those parts, fine. If they can just go into the existing battery stream, fine. But of course, people will be too stupid/fat/lazy/whatever.
Requiring this kind of protection with jewelry would make the whole thing pointless. If you have to coat it in $10 worth of actual sealed, nonporous plastic, (as Plasti-Dip is cheap but pretty nasty), it doesn't make sense to save $5 on the metal. At that point, silver-plated brass starts to make sense again because it's cheaper to use safer metal than to try to isolate dangerous metal. It will do no good unless somebody is watching, though.
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Share and enjoy! Or go stick your head in a pig. Whichever works for you.
Brain the size of a planet, and all it is asked to do is have sex with an ignorant monkey that doesn't know any better.
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O RLY?
I suspect you meant circles have a circumference of Pi times the diameter. Or not. Anything is possible.
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For those of you that want to hear what this ratios sounds like, it's 833 cents, or a minor sixth plus 33 cents. This happens to be the interval used to form the aptly named Bohlen 833 cents (or A12) scale.
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I'm using an Aspire One now (the 9" variety). The keyboard is cramped, and I wish they could have found a way to use all of the available space for a display, without a bezel almost an inch wide on three sides. The track pad is mediocre as well. But all that said, it's a GREAT thing to have around. When I need more muscle, I can generally get it. If I need more screen real estate, these are an option if a regular monitor is not available.
The nice part is that I can carry everything -- netbook, power brick, and mouse -- in a lunch cooler bag, and still have room for an umbrella, or a couple bottles of soda or beer, or even a LUNCH! Imagine that! I have played with the 11.6" Aspire One, and while I can certainly see the advantages if you use it a lot for "real work", my upgrade envy ended when I tried to slip the larger netbook under my coat to go to lunch. I felt like a freaking umpire wearing a chest protector.
For whatever reason, I find the smaller keyboard to be less of an issue in the Dvorak format. I wish they could find space for one-touch Home and End keys though, instead of requiring the Fn key for those.
Has anyone else noticed that December 19th is a Saturday?
If you're "John Smith", I think it will be pretty easy to disclaim being the SAME John Smith unless there are a lot of other matching details.
On the other hand, if your last name is "Szczerbiak", maybe you can make a case for wanting to simplify the spelling and change it.
Basically those are the first two options I can think of -- dodge, and go stand somewhere else.
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This is just an obfuscated way of saying "We don't want to pay them as much as they're making now, let alone enough to entice them to switch."
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The screens are still limited to 600 pixels vertically. Use the ones from the 11.6" version, at 1366x768 each, and I'll be buying one.
I stopped carrying around a 14" notebook because it was just too much to carry around everywhere. A 9" netbook fits the need much better. After playing with someone else's 11.6", I was struck by how much more useful the 1366x768 screen is over a 1024x600 screen (the full-size keyboard doesn't hurt either). If I could have two such screens, which fold up for convenient carrying, I would be all over this.
I have to imagine this will be thicker than a typical netbook, but I could deal with that if the other dimensions do not change.
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$10,000 isn't much for a recording studio. Still it's TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more than the equipment used to record what we were listening to. That was the whole point. What did 100 times the cost buy? In this case, absolutely nothing.
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I was at a friend's basement recording studio, and we were smoking out between laying tracks and mastering. In between we put on "Ween - Pure Guava". About three tracks in (I think it was "Push the Little Daisies" at the time) I started laughing and he asked why. I said "we're listening to $10,000 gear, playing an album recorded on $100 gear!"
That's not to say his gear wasn't worth the money, but sometimes it's just overkill.
This is one generation old (not two) and more than adequate for the casual gamer. It's also under $100. It's also available in AGP, which is why I own one.
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For one generation. Unless the hybrid generation is ALSO screened to find their recessives, the traits will return in the next generation as the recessives get paired up randomly. This would probably be acceptable in the days where families had four or more children -- the chances of having mostly healthy ones would outweigh the risks. But in a world where most families are having one or two before splitting and re-pairing with others, you will instead have a lot of families with ONLY healthy children, and a handful with ONLY fucked up children. Those dealing with the defective kids will be less likely to re-pair (or attempt more kids), and thus be stuck with what they got. At a societal and species level, we should be able to deal with this. It's still going to lead to a lot of small-scale tardgedies.
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It's called PTSD. Getting in a car accident or getting shot at can do the same thing, as can anything with that much emotional impact. I've known people that needed counseling after an accident before they could get behind the wheel again. If you're that sort of person, dropping acid in an uncontrolled environment is probably a bad idea. Then again, doing so under the care and supervision of a therapist might prove helpful.
The problem we have now is that the drugs are usually illegal, but they are allowed as an excuse for bad behavior -- except DUI, thankfully. The drugs should not be illegal, but BEING AN ASSHOLE on drugs should be punished as severely as performing the same acts sober. If you're going to experiment, lock yourself down so you can't go stupid on anyone else.
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Here is a method to toilet training a cat, written by Charles Mingus.
To counter this dodge, the fees are VERY steep (and in some cases it is just plain forbidden) if you attempt to bring a car into California and register it with less than 7500 miles on it. Heaven help you if your tags run out on the prior state before you hit 7500 miles.
Men generally do not go out on maternity leave, and even less often decide to take a few years off to raise a child. If you have a choice between two otherwise equal employees (who will be paid the same), but one of them is liable to develop a health condition that will remove them from the job for months, years, or even permanently, which one do YOU hire?
This is not to say that it is fair, but there is no way it CAN be fair so long as the burden of gestation and nursing lies solely on the XX portion of the population. Fair or not, you can't argue with biology.
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And corporate charters are not generally defined by morality. That is why the laws exist.
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This is directly from the website:
As evidence to the contrary, the NOAA is predicting that the El Niño effect most likely WILL kick in during Northern Hemisphere winter 09-10.
If the photographer uses a wide-angle lens and get really close so that proportion is distorted, is that manipulation or is it just a photo? If he uses a diffusion filter to hide some minor skin flaws, is that manipulation? How about polarizers, graduated filters, extra lighting? What about solarizing, overexposing, underexposing, cropping, dodge-and-burn, or any of the other tricks that have been done in the darkroom long before anyone had even thought of using a computer to manipulate photos? I can imagine a resurgence in the "old school" techniques so that an ad agency can say "that's how it came off the camera, it's not manipulated at all!" while continuing to do exactly what they've been doing since the days of tintypes.
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First rule of dumping has to be "don't shit where you eat". They sank these vessels in their own back yard, so to speak -- something that should be regarded as a last resort. It's not at all unreasonable to believe they've already used up the easily accessible places that AREN'T in their own back yard. It's reason enough to check, in any case.
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Chronic tailgaters are either going to turn it off, or ignore it, or maybe yell back at it. What makes anyone think they're going to respect it? They already fire back at the warning signs they currently get -- the finger and the brake light.
I sort of understand tailgating someone going too slow who could move over into a more appropriate lane. What is the point of tailgating someone who has nowhere to go?
Admittedly this system might help when SoccerMom is distracted by the kids in back at exactly the moment traffic grinds to a halt ahead of her.
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Hunger is a big motivator. The machine equivalent would be "resources critically low, obtain more." As the resource crunch becomes more critical, the intelligence would become more desperate, just like real animals (and people). This doesn't seem all that hard to code for.
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