How much are the royalties going to be for each dollar bill in circulation?
that's a recursion problem, because we'll just print more dollars to pay the bill. so the limit of, um, lemme see if i can find my old calculus book...
I've got no problem with this, as long as the proceeds go to pay reparations to Jews and other descendants of the Pharaohs' slaves. Forty camels and a condo in Acre might be a good start.
it may be right, but for the wrong reasons. skin color isn't going to make a difference when being hit by a misaligned microwave beam. use white and brown eggs in your own microwave to test this theory.
you make a good point. i don't know why this is even news. businesses do this all the time, and news organizations are happy to oblige them. but it's not so much bias as it is laziness.
Even a small ( 1% ) false positive rate is waaay too large, it swamps the real ones.
i'll take those odds. the thing about a rouge wave detector is that if it works, and you avoid the wave, you may never see it. you don't really know what the false-positive rate is. but if only 1% of your avoidance maneuvers (for a rare event) are for naught, there's not much time or fuel being wasted. the way you can determine if it works or not is if the number of lost ships decreases, or eyewitness accounts start matching the predictions of your system.
I don't see anything particularly damning in this redacted section. Sending 'uncooperative' suspects to countries with more conventional means of interrogation is really old news. We've got rendering, and an either overtight or improperly sized blood pressure cuff. That's it... oh yeah, and we've got a bunch of whining from a suspect. That's the part the government doesn't want you to see, because of the propaganda value to its enemies.
Now, feel free to redact me down to troll for not jumping on the administration-bashing bandwagon. I really was hoping to find evidence of waterboarding or shoving bamboo skewers under fingernails (you can never be too educated, might need that knowledge one day), but I didn't learn a damn thing. Where are the secret torture techniques that the government doesn't want me to know about?
IANAL, but IIRC, RICO was actually created to make it easier to convict 'known' criminals without having a lot of hard evidence of them being directly involved in a crime. Sometimes, the 'good guys' use this for good reasons. But other times, they abuse the power. As it turns out, the government doesn't appreciate anyone except themselves abusing power, so they are obviously upset about it (as are their largest campaign contributors).
Seems that the law of unintended consequences has consequences. I think it's pretty funny, myself. If you're going to send a man to prison, do it the right way, show what he actually did. Don't be lazy.
it'd be interesting to see what the wavelength is. US military laser rangefinders that i'm familiar with use a near infrared frequency. this one looks visible.
i wouldn't do that for fear of reflections off the exposed wire (although a properly guarded assembly line version might be OK). but if you want a quality wire stripper, there's a heated tweezer you can buy that will even make perfect cuts in teflon-coated wire without making a nick in the wire. this prevents so many problems that the military even requires it for their cable assemblies and such. something like this: http://www.series4.co.uk/prodeqpt/section01/ds5.ht m
i think intimidation is exactly what the prosecutor is doing here. the casino has bought the favor of law enforcement, and law enforcement responds in kind by saying they are thinking about prosecuting these people that got lucky. it really doesn't matter if they've got a case or not, the result is you frighten people into returning their winnings to the casino. it appears that John Colin is just one of their hired goons.
actually, that's only half true, and is part of why i get so disgusted when casinos and the law enforcement officials that work for them behave this way.
you see, even though the games appear random over the short term, they are still designed to give a predictable rate of return over longer time periods. especially with slot machines, no skill will help you beat a machine. unless the machine is broken, there's really no way they can lose. and you see, that's the way the casino management views the situation, patrons are not allowed to win, and if they do they *must* be "cheating". but the casino is already cheating, they do not offer games of chance that have fair odds.
and to make matters even worse, the casinos like to get an extra edge over the patrons playing games that use skill. they do this by getting you liquored up with free drinks. in my mind, casinos are as bad, or worse, than drug dealers when it comes to ruining lives and families. and just look what they're doing to law enforcement, even government is corrupted by them.
in any case, i think i mostly agree with you, but just felt like ranting a bit. the casinos are not running an honorable business, are not honorable men, and don't deserve to get their money back from these few patrons that got lucky just because this time it was one of their own employees that was swigging the free drinks and didn't bother to test the machine before setting it out on the floor. you booze, you lose, even if you're the casino.
it's honestly not a big deal. hasn't anyone here ever kept fish in an aquarium? ammonia is just fish piss, and bacteria break ammonia down into nitrite, then nitrate. there's even a an anaerobic process that occurs in deep substrate that rips the oxygen out of the nitrate, releasing elemental nitrogen back into the atmosphere. and if you keep the ppm low enough, it won't harm the fish.
i'd be more concerned about a pig farm dumping both phosphorus and nitrogen into a river.
dependent is such a strong word. it's like asking if walmart is dependent on local newspapers to sell goods. of course, everyone has heard of walmart, but running ads still brings in more customers and reduces sales to competitors. they may not be dependent on them, but they still need the ads to establish dominance. without dominance, you leave open the possibility that a competitor will one day take away a large piece of your pie. perhaps the whole pie.
taught new firing patterns to a network of neurons by targeting specific points of the network with a chemical called picrotoxin. The new patterns lasted for up to two days without harming the pre-existing firing patterns
or maybe they just caused an injury to the network that took 2 days to heal
maybe, except that this conduit (as i understand it) is being suggested for low-voltage communications cables only. if you're not running A/C power through it, i seriously doubt that any construction codes will apply. unless maybe there's a labelling requirement that the conduit is not for power applications.
that said, good practices regarding installation are still a good idea. the last thing you want is to install all that conduit, only to find out later that you can't pull cable through it without getting stuck.
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no, he shouldn't have. he should have kicked somebody's ass.
there wouldn't be fewer horrible human beings if there were more ass whoopins, but they might do fewer horrible things.
I seriously don't get it, though. I don't think a navigation system is something I'd ever get in an automobile. You don't learn by being told what to do, you learn by doing it yourself, and the journey itself is at least as fun as the destination. But I'm a person that has a hard time getting truly lost, even in a forest, so maybe my attitude is a bit elitist.
Now we're talking about serious production volume. Three or four such plants could build enough solar cells to cover Southern California's air conditioning energy load in five years.
... I won't believe we've solved anything until I see solar panel plants that are powered entirely by solar panels. That's the true test of an energy alternative, the ability to be self-sustaining. If you're producing over unity, then you'll go off-grid because you can make your own power cheaper than you can buy it from the grid.
been a few years since i used one, but the wheel even operates intuitively on these things, senseing how fast you want to go and adapting speed accordingly. a sort of log-taper effect i guess, kind of like audio potentiometers.
as for technology these days, i also think a lot of it is useless, being modern day versions of Rube Goldberg devices. if technology makes your job or life harder and more frustrating, it's not really technology.
sadly, though, i don't see the trend ending anytime soon. i think what drives much of it is manufacturing costs. a bunch of "low tech" analog knobs and sliders can cost more than you realize.
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I've got no problem with this, as long as the proceeds go to pay reparations to Jews and other descendants of the Pharaohs' slaves. Forty camels and a condo in Acre might be a good start.
it may be right, but for the wrong reasons. skin color isn't going to make a difference when being hit by a misaligned microwave beam. use white and brown eggs in your own microwave to test this theory.
don't nerds understand thermodynamics anymore? sheesh.
you make a good point. i don't know why this is even news. businesses do this all the time, and news organizations are happy to oblige them. but it's not so much bias as it is laziness.
i'll take those odds. the thing about a rouge wave detector is that if it works, and you avoid the wave, you may never see it. you don't really know what the false-positive rate is. but if only 1% of your avoidance maneuvers (for a rare event) are for naught, there's not much time or fuel being wasted. the way you can determine if it works or not is if the number of lost ships decreases, or eyewitness accounts start matching the predictions of your system.
I don't see anything particularly damning in this redacted section. Sending 'uncooperative' suspects to countries with more conventional means of interrogation is really old news. We've got rendering, and an either overtight or improperly sized blood pressure cuff. That's it... oh yeah, and we've got a bunch of whining from a suspect. That's the part the government doesn't want you to see, because of the propaganda value to its enemies.
Now, feel free to redact me down to troll for not jumping on the administration-bashing bandwagon. I really was hoping to find evidence of waterboarding or shoving bamboo skewers under fingernails (you can never be too educated, might need that knowledge one day), but I didn't learn a damn thing. Where are the secret torture techniques that the government doesn't want me to know about?
...the whole idea of business patents in the first place disgusts me.
IANAL, but IIRC, RICO was actually created to make it easier to convict 'known' criminals without having a lot of hard evidence of them being directly involved in a crime. Sometimes, the 'good guys' use this for good reasons. But other times, they abuse the power. As it turns out, the government doesn't appreciate anyone except themselves abusing power, so they are obviously upset about it (as are their largest campaign contributors).
Seems that the law of unintended consequences has consequences. I think it's pretty funny, myself. If you're going to send a man to prison, do it the right way, show what he actually did. Don't be lazy.
what a great way to spy on naive commuters
it'd be interesting to see what the wavelength is. US military laser rangefinders that i'm familiar with use a near infrared frequency. this one looks visible.
i wouldn't do that for fear of reflections off the exposed wire (although a properly guarded assembly line version might be OK). but if you want a quality wire stripper, there's a heated tweezer you can buy that will even make perfect cuts in teflon-coated wire without making a nick in the wire. this prevents so many problems that the military even requires it for their cable assemblies and such. something like this: http://www.series4.co.uk/prodeqpt/section01/ds5.ht m
i think intimidation is exactly what the prosecutor is doing here. the casino has bought the favor of law enforcement, and law enforcement responds in kind by saying they are thinking about prosecuting these people that got lucky. it really doesn't matter if they've got a case or not, the result is you frighten people into returning their winnings to the casino. it appears that John Colin is just one of their hired goons.
you see, even though the games appear random over the short term, they are still designed to give a predictable rate of return over longer time periods. especially with slot machines, no skill will help you beat a machine. unless the machine is broken, there's really no way they can lose. and you see, that's the way the casino management views the situation, patrons are not allowed to win, and if they do they *must* be "cheating". but the casino is already cheating, they do not offer games of chance that have fair odds.
and to make matters even worse, the casinos like to get an extra edge over the patrons playing games that use skill. they do this by getting you liquored up with free drinks. in my mind, casinos are as bad, or worse, than drug dealers when it comes to ruining lives and families. and just look what they're doing to law enforcement, even government is corrupted by them.
in any case, i think i mostly agree with you, but just felt like ranting a bit. the casinos are not running an honorable business, are not honorable men, and don't deserve to get their money back from these few patrons that got lucky just because this time it was one of their own employees that was swigging the free drinks and didn't bother to test the machine before setting it out on the floor. you booze, you lose, even if you're the casino.
it would be more funny if it weren't so sad.
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it's honestly not a big deal. hasn't anyone here ever kept fish in an aquarium? ammonia is just fish piss, and bacteria break ammonia down into nitrite, then nitrate. there's even a an anaerobic process that occurs in deep substrate that rips the oxygen out of the nitrate, releasing elemental nitrogen back into the atmosphere. and if you keep the ppm low enough, it won't harm the fish.
i'd be more concerned about a pig farm dumping both phosphorus and nitrogen into a river.
dependent is such a strong word. it's like asking if walmart is dependent on local newspapers to sell goods. of course, everyone has heard of walmart, but running ads still brings in more customers and reduces sales to competitors. they may not be dependent on them, but they still need the ads to establish dominance. without dominance, you leave open the possibility that a competitor will one day take away a large piece of your pie. perhaps the whole pie.
maybe, except that this conduit (as i understand it) is being suggested for low-voltage communications cables only. if you're not running A/C power through it, i seriously doubt that any construction codes will apply. unless maybe there's a labelling requirement that the conduit is not for power applications.
that said, good practices regarding installation are still a good idea. the last thing you want is to install all that conduit, only to find out later that you can't pull cable through it without getting stuck.
no, he shouldn't have. he should have kicked somebody's ass. there wouldn't be fewer horrible human beings if there were more ass whoopins, but they might do fewer horrible things.
Damn you! You stole my line!
I seriously don't get it, though. I don't think a navigation system is something I'd ever get in an automobile. You don't learn by being told what to do, you learn by doing it yourself, and the journey itself is at least as fun as the destination. But I'm a person that has a hard time getting truly lost, even in a forest, so maybe my attitude is a bit elitist.
yeah, hybrid interfaces work great. this digital logic analyzer is a pretty good example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:16801A.jpg
been a few years since i used one, but the wheel even operates intuitively on these things, senseing how fast you want to go and adapting speed accordingly. a sort of log-taper effect i guess, kind of like audio potentiometers.
as for technology these days, i also think a lot of it is useless, being modern day versions of Rube Goldberg devices. if technology makes your job or life harder and more frustrating, it's not really technology.
sadly, though, i don't see the trend ending anytime soon. i think what drives much of it is manufacturing costs. a bunch of "low tech" analog knobs and sliders can cost more than you realize.
yeah, but CO2 is actually poisonous to breathe in any quantity for very long. space stations and shuttles have CO2 scrubbers for a reason.