Yeah, English is a bitch. I can spell and grammarize well enough to know what rules I'm breaking and why, but I am lousy at literary criticism. Whenever I encountered a question such as "Why did Jonathon leave his family", I would get about as far as "I really don't know for sure. But seriously, why are we even discussing the motivations and sympathies of a talking seagull?". Which is why I failed high school English.
2. The US deaths from gangs... and deaths from drunk driving
are, as you say, not health metrics but social metrics BUT thank you for reminding me of yet more indications of the decline and fall of the American empire.
This is just Clive Palmer's way of deflecting press coverage. Palmer is one of several Australian mining billionaires, and the Treasurer is expected to talk soon about their opposition to mining tax. Clive would rather have http://google.com/search?q=clive+palmer+news link to anything else, e.g. dinosaurs and his new resort.
Fascinating backstory. Apparently a week ago, Anthony Watts and a few mates heard about Muller's pending announcement, and spent about a week rehashing their tired old station site argument, adding some new Excel / Powerpoint bling and respinning the PR.
He even suspended posts two days ago to build up anticipation within his 'yes men' crowd and provide the comments section with plenty of pent-up congratulatory ooze.
Ah yes. Astronomer and computer wiz Cliff Stoll talking to a CIA agent, in the Cuckoo's Egg:
"What if someone made such a telescope and pointed it to the earth. What could
you see?"
I fiddled a few numbers in my head. Say, three hundred miles up in orbit, a
ninety-four-inch telescope. The wavelength of light is about four hundred
nanometers. . . . "Oh, you could easily see detail of a couple feet across. The
limit would be around a couple inches. Not quite good enough to recognize a face."
Greg smiled and said nothing. It took a while, but it eventually sunk in: the
astronomical Space Telescope wasn't the only big telescope in orbit. Greg was
probably talking about some spy satellite. The secret KH-11, most likely.
Let's turn that question around. What applications need limits such as 255 or 1024? Normalized database designs can hit such limits, and working around them (by spreading the relation over multiple tables, for example) is unpleasant.
Its too bad the programmer didn't even know he was looking for a "shuffle". The top two hits for javascript shuffle get it right and even refer to Fisher-Yates.
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Yeah, English is a bitch. I can spell and grammarize well enough to know what rules I'm breaking and why, but I am lousy at literary criticism. Whenever I encountered a question such as "Why did Jonathon leave his family", I would get about as far as "I really don't know for sure. But seriously, why are we even discussing the motivations and sympathies of a talking seagull?". Which is why I failed high school English.
My wife (who passed) asks me to spell.
Fascinating story. But weirdly, my "take home" from this is that Mensans aren't necessarily good proofreaders...
I was wondering that myself, so I googled darpa flying tank. This is what I found.
I think these guys are taking Avatar way too seriously.
It's only an ad hominem if it's part of a logical fallacy.
Fixed that for you.
I didn't notice any ...
Well, now you know what to look for.
1. The US reports infant mortality deaths differently than many other nations
Better brush up on your debunking skills. From the NCHS's report Behind Internation Rankings of Infant Mortality: How the United States Compares with Europe:
a. The difference in reporting is not as you describe, and
b. "it appears unlikely that differences in reporting are the primary explanation for the United States’ relatively low international ranking".
2. The US deaths from gangs ... and deaths from drunk driving
are, as you say, not health metrics but social metrics BUT thank you for reminding me of yet more indications of the decline and fall of the American empire.
Let me be the first to say "Congratulations! You no longer have ass boogers".
I quoted the article heading
No, you quoted the article summary. The heading is a little higher ... quite possibly between the blue e and the red X. Try harder next time.
No one claimed it is an combustion engine.
samzenpus claimed exactly that in the article heading.
Should I translate that for you?
Just read it quietly to yourself should be fine.
Apparently they are still working on the new Mayoral regalia. Here is a sneak preview
"Off topic, ad hominem comments are insightful" -- Slashdot
Even if it may be too early to dance on SCO's grave ...
Look on the bright side: It's not too late to dance on their carcass.
... ethernet is a LAN protocol, not WAN.
Not anymore.http://google.com/search?q=ethernet+wan
2 Feb 2006 – Undoubtedly, Ethernet has become the technology of choice for wide-area network (WAN) connectivity for both the enterprise and the carrier.
This is just Clive Palmer's way of deflecting press coverage. Palmer is one of several Australian mining billionaires, and the Treasurer is expected to talk soon about their opposition to mining tax. Clive would rather have http://google.com/search?q=clive+palmer+news link to anything else, e.g. dinosaurs and his new resort.
Fascinating backstory. Apparently a week ago, Anthony Watts and a few mates heard about Muller's pending announcement, and spent about a week rehashing their tired old station site argument, adding some new Excel / Powerpoint bling and respinning the PR.
You think I'm kidding? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/backstory-on-the-new-surfacestations-paper/
He even suspended posts two days ago to build up anticipation within his 'yes men' crowd and provide the comments section with plenty of pent-up congratulatory ooze.
The guy is a jerk.
Watts squirming?
That ain't half of it. The tag wattsupwiththat.com/tag/berkeley-earth-surface-temperature/ should point to BEST but currently directs to Watts' OWN new paper.
The guy just went over 9000.
Ah yes. Astronomer and computer wiz Cliff Stoll talking to a CIA agent, in the Cuckoo's Egg:
Intuitive? Watch a toddler try and fill a cup from a jug sometime.
That would buy us 1 or 2 years. The future is a bit longer than that.
Let's turn that question around. What applications need limits such as 255 or 1024? Normalized database designs can hit such limits, and working around them (by spreading the relation over multiple tables, for example) is unpleasant.
It's a mangrove.
Its too bad the programmer didn't even know he was looking for a "shuffle". The top two hits for javascript shuffle get it right and even refer to Fisher-Yates.
If it's not the God particle,
And it's not the Oh My God particle,
Allow me to introduce ....
The OMTFG particle.
Let me guess - because it has seen so many obfuscations of Viagra it has forgotten how to spell its own name?
Ad nauseam
Of course you are going to find DNA sequence even at only 11 bases long that do not exist in the human genome. Just do the math! 4^11 = 4.2 billion
Beg pardon but 4^11 = 4194304 ~= 4.2 million.
Of course Hampikian is a tosspot with a $1M grant. Qoth the article:
There may also be some [DNA or protein sequences] that are lethal in some species, but not others
There may indeed! Furthermore, they may be commonly known as venoms.sending electrical signals around square loop structures ... the electrical power is recycled ... the technology can achieve 75% power savings
And I thought P = VI.
But of course! I am educated stupid. According to NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE, the opposite hemispheres cancel out. Earth exist as 4 - 90 degree opposite corner quadrants, but not to a 360 degree circle...