Your statement is true enough, but he claims to "brainwash" his kids. This article definitley needs to be forwarded to Ballmer's local Department of Social Services for investigation.
Where does lying to a joint session of Congress fall on that scale?
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I told you it's been too long; of course the energy level structure is why you'd expect it to decay to 4He if it held together long enough.
We used to do 2-neutron correlation out of heavy ion collisions, and even that required a good timing signal on when the beam pulse arrived on target so we could eliminate detections clearly not from the reaction (eg, if it arrived such that its speed was greater than c, we knew it wasn't from the reaction). This "time of flight" was also how we energy callibrated.
The detectors we used (for the unitiated reading this) were big jars of napthalene. Large organic molecule=lots of protons for neutrons to hit---then the smacked protons gave off light as they moved, which gets collected. Never break one of these; you smell for weeks. Take it from one who knows.
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A single neutron, not bound to a proton, is not stable against decaying into a proton. (It's oh-so-slighlty more massive than the proton.) Half-life is on the order of minutes (it's been years since I did nuclear research in undergrad and the exact #'s are escaping me). In a nucleus it's stablizied because if it decayed, the electrical repulsion between the old protons and new proton would be to great, so it's more stable if it remains a neutron. Presumably, these neutrons would also decay, and you might expect (if the 4 nucleons remained together) to see it decay to 4He (ie 2 protons and 2 neutrons)--I don't know if Hydrogen 4 has any stability, but I don't think so.
2nd time? Heck, they should run the campaign as "re-elect Al Gore." "right the injustice." And given the Bush, Cheney and Asscraft are giving them so many ways to paint the current administration as "evil-doers"...
Disclaimer: personally I believe the election was a statistical dead heat. Kaplan's book on it is an excellent portrayal of how both sides would have pulled whatever shennanigans necessary to win....
But what I am really trying to ask is why can't the US ammend the laws to allow each school to decide for themselves on what they want to do? I realize that this opens a whole can of worms, but the free market allows each company to set its own prices. Why can't the schools have the same freedoms?
Public Schools aren't a free market, in most places. You go to the one closest to you; occasionally you can get shuttled around to certain schools that are strong in math/arts/whatever, like you can here in Chicago. And in most places parents can pay to send their kids to a different public school district, I think, though it costs them up front and in arranging their own transportation. Obviously, this is not available to lower income parents.
So no, sir, this is not even "worth debating about". The freedom of people to worship privately as they see fit is of utmost importance--depending on your view of ultimate importance of the here and now vs. the eternal, it may be even more important than free speech.
It does beg the question of Google being raided, doesn't it? They are storing and making accessible the content as surely as the site owner is. Will Bush declare google caching "un-American"?
"Frodo Baggins?" What kind of gibberish is this? I won't read any further.
"Bite my thumb"? What kind of insult is that? shakespeare sux.
"The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin." (Matthew 1:1). Senseless, there can't be any worthwhile reading in there...not to mention it continues "And Zorobabel begot Abiud." (1:13).
Sorry. Just wanted to point out that three words-well, two words and a grunt--don't show you what you're missing.
Stevis
P.S. "/."--what kind of gibberish is this? I won't read any further.
They're not childish stories. I had much the same opinion, but my wife, who is a children's literature buff, knew the difference--and convinced me to read them. At the end of Goblet of Fire, I had much the same ominous feeling that I had at the end of Empire Strikes Back...you don't know where the "good guys" are going from here.
The novels are dealing with the kids growing into adults, something that is universal. It is dealing with the kids as they learn about and define ourselves, and talks about what makes us who we are and how we face choices between good and evil.
In addition, from a storytelling side, JK Rowling has her arc plotted out and knows where she's going--while it's not as tight as Straczynski does things and some inconsistencies slip through, she's not pulling things out of her hindquarters as she goes along.
Try reading book one; you'll like it. That's all I can say.
Stevis
Imagine what would have happened to that CIO if his company couldn't meet payroll because oracle had forced them to upgrade to Oracle 11i which didn't work yet.
Imagine what would happen to the CIO of a company who was forced to upgrade his financial software, which didn't work for a week so he cut checks that he couldn't cover because he'd been forced to pay for an "upgrade"...
Stevis
Two friends came into town via air travel this past weekend for a living. One had his safety razor (e.g. Gillette,, etc--the kind with teh 1.5 in "blade" that you'd have to get parallel to the skin to cut with) confiscated (sort of--he was told to ditch it or check it, looked at the line for checked baggage, and decide he could get another razor--true enough they didn't arrest him or anything). The other had her hair done up for the wedding--my wife's similar style took 42 pins, so hers must've been of that order--and set off the metal detectors. Apparently the security guard was equipped with a brain, discerned the issue, and let her through without further incident. (We couldn't see, since at Chicago Midway they now don't let you *near* the metal detectors without a ticket.)
Not *one* of these restrictions would stop a dedicated terrorist. You can get some pretty sharp wood letter openers you know...at least the effective equivalent of a box cutter...
I don't recall saying there was a button, but that they do have control over the pressurization of the button.
What are you going to do with that minute? Get a mask on, and then be tied to the location of the mask?
Explosive decompression of the cabin is what is "less than ideal"--and that's the very foreseeable end result of cabin firearms. Not to mention the sitting-duck passengers in the very narrow shooting gallery of a passenger jet...
Why is it that we still think armed cowboys are the solution to every problem in this country?
Has the consequence of speeding bullet ripping through pressurized cabin crossed your mind? at 30,000 feet it wouldn't be pretty.
I do recall in Stephen King's <em>The Langoliers</em>--yeah, yeah, I know, it's not exactly the font of all aviation knowledge--they could lower cabin pressure to ~5PSI from the cockpit, enough to render unconscious but not enough to kill. Seal off the cabin, the pilots grab their emergency masks, and land the plane asap (with security meeting them on the ground.)
Seem like a reasonable solution? anyone with specific knowledge why that won't work, let me know so I can stop bugging my other friends about it...
and please, before flaming me for having a different view than yours, read the fucking post and tell me where i have promoted one view or another.
Let's see, how about:
doing so would cast those favored by the media in a negative light. can't have that!
This states that those called pro-choice in the media would be considered negative by being called pro-abortion. Therefore, you call call pro-abortion a "negative" thing, promoting an anti-abortion view.
Which is your right of course. I myself am pro-choice and anti-abortion. I'd like to see it never happen, but I'm not the one carrying the baby to term. I'd like to see adoption become a more viable option, but until that time...
And I do have a problem with anti-abortion, pro-death-penalty people calling themselves "pro-life". Not that you have displayed any evidence of this hypocracy (or any hypocracy, for that manner), just saying.
Would there be a way to allow greater than +5 moderation is question-gathering threads?
This could lend itself to a "me too"-ness among moderators, where they blow all their points making the best question +42, but it would make the dividing line easier...
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Your statement is true enough, but he claims to "brainwash" his kids. This article definitley needs to be forwarded to Ballmer's local Department of Social Services for investigation.
Not to mention when they randomly generate a company name by combining astronomical and electrical engineering terms, and get "Uranus-Hertz."
We need to make sure Earth is still here for when the Galactica arrives....
Mmmm. Godwaffles.
Where does lying to a joint session of Congress fall on that scale?
*whacks forehead*
I told you it's been too long; of course the energy level structure is why you'd expect it to decay to 4He if it held together long enough.
We used to do 2-neutron correlation out of heavy ion collisions, and even that required a good timing signal on when the beam pulse arrived on target so we could eliminate detections clearly not from the reaction (eg, if it arrived such that its speed was greater than c, we knew it wasn't from the reaction). This "time of flight" was also how we energy callibrated.
The detectors we used (for the unitiated reading this) were big jars of napthalene. Large organic molecule=lots of protons for neutrons to hit---then the smacked protons gave off light as they moved, which gets collected. Never break one of these; you smell for weeks. Take it from one who knows.
A single neutron, not bound to a proton, is not stable against decaying into a proton. (It's oh-so-slighlty more massive than the proton.) Half-life is on the order of minutes (it's been years since I did nuclear research in undergrad and the exact #'s are escaping me). In a nucleus it's stablizied because if it decayed, the electrical repulsion between the old protons and new proton would be to great, so it's more stable if it remains a neutron. Presumably, these neutrons would also decay, and you might expect (if the 4 nucleons remained together) to see it decay to 4He (ie 2 protons and 2 neutrons)--I don't know if Hydrogen 4 has any stability, but I don't think so.
"I told him to install a firewall!"
"I heard, 'Make a big fire ball!'"
who exactly is going to prosecute? which great-great-....great-grandchild is going to stick up for your rights?
I only wish I'd had the idea for this scam first.
Stevis
"It's a secret message...from my teeth."
Stevis
Seven of Nine whine this bad when they removed her implants.
Stevis
2nd time? Heck, they should run the campaign as "re-elect Al Gore." "right the injustice." And given the Bush, Cheney and Asscraft are giving them so many ways to paint the current administration as "evil-doers"...
Disclaimer: personally I believe the election was a statistical dead heat. Kaplan's book on it is an excellent portrayal of how both sides would have pulled whatever shennanigans necessary to win....
Stevis
Public Schools aren't a free market, in most places. You go to the one closest to you; occasionally you can get shuttled around to certain schools that are strong in math/arts/whatever, like you can here in Chicago. And in most places parents can pay to send their kids to a different public school district, I think, though it costs them up front and in arranging their own transportation. Obviously, this is not available to lower income parents.
So no, sir, this is not even "worth debating about". The freedom of people to worship privately as they see fit is of utmost importance--depending on your view of ultimate importance of the here and now vs. the eternal, it may be even more important than free speech.
Stevis
Stevis, frustrated at his local scientific communication
It does beg the question of Google being raided, doesn't it? They are storing and making accessible the content as surely as the site owner is. Will Bush declare google caching "un-American"?
Stevis
Is that all you do, cruise Slashdot looking for work?
Stevis
Hmm...let me try that!
"Frodo Baggins?" What kind of gibberish is this? I won't read any further.
"Bite my thumb"? What kind of insult is that? shakespeare sux.
"The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin." (Matthew 1:1). Senseless, there can't be any worthwhile reading in there...not to mention it continues "And Zorobabel begot Abiud." (1:13).
Sorry. Just wanted to point out that three words-well, two words and a grunt--don't show you what you're missing.
Stevis
P.S. "/."--what kind of gibberish is this? I won't read any further.
The novels are dealing with the kids growing into adults, something that is universal. It is dealing with the kids as they learn about and define ourselves, and talks about what makes us who we are and how we face choices between good and evil.
In addition, from a storytelling side, JK Rowling has her arc plotted out and knows where she's going--while it's not as tight as Straczynski does things and some inconsistencies slip through, she's not pulling things out of her hindquarters as she goes along. Try reading book one; you'll like it. That's all I can say. Stevis
Imagine what would happen to the CIO of a company who was forced to upgrade his financial software, which didn't work for a week so he cut checks that he couldn't cover because he'd been forced to pay for an "upgrade"... Stevis
Two friends came into town via air travel this past weekend for a living. One had his safety razor (e.g. Gillette,, etc--the kind with teh 1.5 in "blade" that you'd have to get parallel to the skin to cut with) confiscated (sort of--he was told to ditch it or check it, looked at the line for checked baggage, and decide he could get another razor--true enough they didn't arrest him or anything). The other had her hair done up for the wedding--my wife's similar style took 42 pins, so hers must've been of that order--and set off the metal detectors. Apparently the security guard was equipped with a brain, discerned the issue, and let her through without further incident. (We couldn't see, since at Chicago Midway they now don't let you *near* the metal detectors without a ticket.)
Not *one* of these restrictions would stop a dedicated terrorist. You can get some pretty sharp wood letter openers you know...at least the effective equivalent of a box cutter...
I don't recall saying there was a button, but that they do have control over the pressurization of the button.
What are you going to do with that minute? Get a mask on, and then be tied to the location of the mask?
Explosive decompression of the cabin is what is "less than ideal"--and that's the very foreseeable end result of cabin firearms. Not to mention the sitting-duck passengers in the very narrow shooting gallery of a passenger jet...
Why is it that we still think armed cowboys are the solution to every problem in this country?
Has the consequence of speeding bullet ripping through pressurized cabin crossed your mind? at 30,000 feet it wouldn't be pretty.
I do recall in Stephen King's <em>The Langoliers</em>--yeah, yeah, I know, it's not exactly the font of all aviation knowledge--they could lower cabin pressure to ~5PSI from the cockpit, enough to render unconscious but not enough to kill. Seal off the cabin, the pilots grab their emergency masks, and land the plane asap (with security meeting them on the ground.)
Seem like a reasonable solution? anyone with specific knowledge why that won't work, let me know so I can stop bugging my other friends about it...
Stevis
Let's see, how about:
doing so would cast those favored by the media in a negative light. can't have that!
This states that those called pro-choice in the media would be considered negative by being called pro-abortion. Therefore, you call call pro-abortion a "negative" thing, promoting an anti-abortion view.
Which is your right of course. I myself am pro-choice and anti-abortion. I'd like to see it never happen, but I'm not the one carrying the baby to term. I'd like to see adoption become a more viable option, but until that time...
And I do have a problem with anti-abortion, pro-death-penalty people calling themselves "pro-life". Not that you have displayed any evidence of this hypocracy (or any hypocracy, for that manner), just saying.
Stevis
Would there be a way to allow greater than +5 moderation is question-gathering threads?
This could lend itself to a "me too"-ness among moderators, where they blow all their points making the best question +42, but it would make the dividing line easier...
Stevis
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Stevis