I agree, I don't buy music because I don't listen to music. It's not that I think music sucks as much as I don't care about it. Anyway, if your deaf and still forced to pay protection money to the RIAA then clearly the system is broken.
He is not over reacting that much if you where to stand in the worst area ~500mrem per hour for 8 hours a day for a week with zero protective gear you could hit the US the yearly federal limit for radiation workers in the United States. Granted you're under water so you would have to be hugging the tube the whole time and standing in the worst area but even still...
PS: Granted most people think the federal limit is extremely low but even still it's at the low end of the FUD spectrum.
We are talking about Japan which also develops tech and has been paying less for higher bandwidth connections for over 10 years. The US network sucks because of poor planning and poor execution and nothing else. We waste a lot of money without building fast networks because our telecoms suck and we let them get away with it.
Read up on the write of first sale. If you can buy something for X and ship it for y then the cost to distribute it is X + Y and you can leave Sony out of the picture.
It's $22,220 vs $17,135 ~1/2 of which should be paid back in 5 years. IMO the 2.5k for that many safety features is an easy question but it's up to you.
PS: If you don't know what a word means try wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima) And yes that is a picture of Rev Vs. Blue on the freaking page with a nice caption "A scene from the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue."
Your missing the point the second team took 10 hours more aka 60 hours which is not better than 50 hours but the race was still over 9 days.
The winner averaged 45 mph over 2,400 miles which took nine days driving ~5.5hours per day.
Second place averaged ~37.5mph over 2,400 miles in 9 days driving ~6.6 hours a day.
PS: It would take team 1 about the same energy to drive 80mph for ~760miles over 9 days driving ~1 hour a day. Or 1600miles at 55 mph for 4.5 hours a day over 9 days.
If your willing to pay for content then advertisers are willing to pay more to reach you because you have money and it's easy for them to prove you are looking at their site/show. This is why most newspapers cost money it's not about paying for the paper as much as increasing the amount they can charge for the ad's.
Your math is of and to be clear if your gas engine at 30% and your electric is at 81% then you need 81/30 = 2.7x as much gas energy to power your car vs electric energy. On the other hand it looks like your trying to compare the number of kwh you need per gal your on the right path.
However, hybrids still charge and discharge or use a transmission and start and stop more often than normal so 30% is high. And most of the US pays less than 8c/kwh on average but it can be as low as 5.29c/kwh in Idaho or as high as 26.79c/kwh in Hawaii (http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm). So it's a little more complex than 10c/kwh * x kwh.
PS: Using your assumptions 1.3e8 x.3 is not 3.9e6 it's 3.9e7 so it's 39/2.9 which means 13.4kwh per gal. So ~70.8c/gal in Idaho and ~3.44$/gal in Hawaii.
Occam's Razor is an assumption not a theory. The problem with calling it a theory is you can't disprove it.
What is "simpler"?
Has fewer degrees of freedom. A random universe has infinite degrees of freedom as does one with a completely insane all powerfull god. But, saying something is more likely to be true is far from a proof. And we don't have a that perfect rule book I was talking about. Every single "Law of Nature" is wrong in some areas.
Finally we don't have that absolute rule book every law breaks down at some level, big, small, fast or cold.
Science makes one assumption: The simple explanation is more likely to be true. The idea that fundamental rules don't change might seem like and assumption but let's look at our options:
In a random universe the fundamental rule it is: This is a random universe.
In a universe with an all powerful god then it is: God decides how things operate.
In a non random universe without god it is: Some set of rules define how all interactions take place.
Now it might not seem obvious how science could differentiate between the above situations but what's a simpler answer you randomly roll heads 100 billion times in a row or it is a non random dice? As to God, if some set of rules define all observed behavior then adding a god to such a universe is a more complex situation.
Species don't change into new species they split and become incompatible with each other due to minor mutations. Things almost identical to mice have been around for a long time but minor mutations split that ancestor mouse into other groups. Look at dogs as examples of how diverse as single species can become. And look at how tiny the number of mutations it takes to take something like a mouse and make something like a dog.
Evolution apply's to far more than just multi celled organisms that use sex to propigate. In the real world you can never make perfect copies forever so mutation is also a fact of life. Just look at all the minor errors in a good stack of hand copied documents for an example of this.
Anyway, the existence of species is a direct result the basic flaw inherent to the sex mechanism. When you get 1/2 your DNA from another organism it needs to be nearly identical to you before you can produce viable offspring. However, by sharing DNA you can rejoin separate lines of mutation and do a lot of cool mixing of dominate and recessive genes to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. So as long as you keep the overall mutation rate low it's not that big of a deal.
With complex systems this tends to be a one way street where once a species split they can't rejoin. You can find a lot of closely related organisms that can't mate where a tiny dog can still mate with a Great Dane. But there are also thousands of early stage splits where you can sometimes create viable offspring or cases where line A and B can mate and B and C can mate but A and C can't mate. Natural abortions often result from cases where the Father's DNA + mutation's don't line up with the Mother's DNA + mutations's. So a lot of these problems are not obvious and a lot of the splinter groups die off.
I would suggest you read up the low level details of how RNA and DNA works and is mutated at both the single and multi celled levels as well as reading up how people use evolution as a learning system. (It's part of AI.)
PS: The basic mathematical proof of evolution is somewhat dry and technical subject but game theory is a good introduction to the topic.
Evolution has been proven. Granted it's a form of math you might not be familiar with but it's just as true as trig. Now nothing says the universe is older than 15 seconds etc but given reproduction, natural selection, mutation, and time systems adapt to their environment or they die out (aka they evolve or die).
You forget about antibiotic resistance or it's use in Computer Science. Evolution is also a foundation for understanding modern biology such as why animal models work in testing specific kinds of drug responses etc.
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I agree, I don't buy music because I don't listen to music. It's not that I think music sucks as much as I don't care about it. Anyway, if your deaf and still forced to pay protection money to the RIAA then clearly the system is broken.
He is not over reacting that much if you where to stand in the worst area ~500mrem per hour for 8 hours a day for a week with zero protective gear you could hit the US the yearly federal limit for radiation workers in the United States. Granted you're under water so you would have to be hugging the tube the whole time and standing in the worst area but even still...
PS: Granted most people think the federal limit is extremely low but even still it's at the low end of the FUD spectrum.
We are talking about Japan which also develops tech and has been paying less for higher bandwidth connections for over 10 years. The US network sucks because of poor planning and poor execution and nothing else. We waste a lot of money without building fast networks because our telecoms suck and we let them get away with it.
Apple did well but go with Dell on feb 2, 1990 to now = 670$ * 465 = 311,000$.
Yes, but you can buy a 2nd, 3rd or 30,000th song at the same price. So, damage per song does not go up as you distribute more songs.
Read up on the write of first sale. If you can buy something for X and ship it for y then the cost to distribute it is X + Y and you can leave Sony out of the picture.
I know someone who stopped paying for movies and just downloads them now. So some download or bootleg DVD = movie ticket.
(363 - 247) * 4.25 = 493$ (If you only drive 12,000 miles a year.)
But, a Corolla does not have the same features as a Prius. So by going with a Corolla you skip:
4 Wheel ABS Brakes
Electronic Brake Distribution
Front Side Airbags
Side Head Curtain Airbag
Roll-Sensing Side Curtain Airbags
Steering Wheel Audio Controls
Automatic Climate Control
Illuminated Vanity Mirrors
Steering Wheel Mounted Controls
It's $22,220 vs $17,135 ~1/2 of which should be paid back in 5 years. IMO the 2.5k for that many safety features is an easy question but it's up to you.
Red vs. Blue = Machinima.
PS: If you don't know what a word means try wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima) And yes that is a picture of Rev Vs. Blue on the freaking page with a nice caption "A scene from the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue."
It's taking to much CPU time to transcode all those video's and few people are looking at them.
Your missing the point the second team took 10 hours more aka 60 hours which is not better than 50 hours but the race was still over 9 days.
The winner averaged 45 mph over 2,400 miles which took nine days driving ~5.5hours per day. Second place averaged ~37.5mph over 2,400 miles in 9 days driving ~6.6 hours a day.
PS: It would take team 1 about the same energy to drive 80mph for ~760miles over 9 days driving ~1 hour a day. Or 1600miles at 55 mph for 4.5 hours a day over 9 days.
If your willing to pay for content then advertisers are willing to pay more to reach you because you have money and it's easy for them to prove you are looking at their site/show. This is why most newspapers cost money it's not about paying for the paper as much as increasing the amount they can charge for the ad's.
Your math is of and to be clear if your gas engine at 30% and your electric is at 81% then you need 81/30 = 2.7x as much gas energy to power your car vs electric energy. On the other hand it looks like your trying to compare the number of kwh you need per gal your on the right path.
.3 is not 3.9e6 it's 3.9e7 so it's 39/2.9 which means 13.4kwh per gal. So ~70.8c/gal in Idaho and ~3.44$/gal in Hawaii.
However, hybrids still charge and discharge or use a transmission and start and stop more often than normal so 30% is high. And most of the US pays less than 8c/kwh on average but it can be as low as 5.29c/kwh in Idaho or as high as 26.79c/kwh in Hawaii (http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm). So it's a little more complex than 10c/kwh * x kwh.
PS: Using your assumptions 1.3e8 x
Close a hybrid is around 25% efficient so at $.10/kwh it's closer to $0.90 or at 8c/kwh it's 72c.
Occam's Razor is an assumption not a theory. The problem with calling it a theory is you can't disprove it.
What is "simpler"?
Has fewer degrees of freedom. A random universe has infinite degrees of freedom as does one with a completely insane all powerfull god. But, saying something is more likely to be true is far from a proof. And we don't have a that perfect rule book I was talking about. Every single "Law of Nature" is wrong in some areas.
Finally we don't have that absolute rule book every law breaks down at some level, big, small, fast or cold.
PS: I am also agnostic.
Science makes one assumption: The simple explanation is more likely to be true. The idea that fundamental rules don't change might seem like and assumption but let's look at our options:
In a random universe the fundamental rule it is: This is a random universe.
In a universe with an all powerful god then it is: God decides how things operate.
In a non random universe without god it is: Some set of rules define how all interactions take place.
Now it might not seem obvious how science could differentiate between the above situations but what's a simpler answer you randomly roll heads 100 billion times in a row or it is a non random dice? As to God, if some set of rules define all observed behavior then adding a god to such a universe is a more complex situation.
Species don't change into new species they split and become incompatible with each other due to minor mutations. Things almost identical to mice have been around for a long time but minor mutations split that ancestor mouse into other groups. Look at dogs as examples of how diverse as single species can become. And look at how tiny the number of mutations it takes to take something like a mouse and make something like a dog.
Evolution apply's to far more than just multi celled organisms that use sex to propigate. In the real world you can never make perfect copies forever so mutation is also a fact of life. Just look at all the minor errors in a good stack of hand copied documents for an example of this.
Anyway, the existence of species is a direct result the basic flaw inherent to the sex mechanism. When you get 1/2 your DNA from another organism it needs to be nearly identical to you before you can produce viable offspring. However, by sharing DNA you can rejoin separate lines of mutation and do a lot of cool mixing of dominate and recessive genes to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. So as long as you keep the overall mutation rate low it's not that big of a deal.
With complex systems this tends to be a one way street where once a species split they can't rejoin. You can find a lot of closely related organisms that can't mate where a tiny dog can still mate with a Great Dane. But there are also thousands of early stage splits where you can sometimes create viable offspring or cases where line A and B can mate and B and C can mate but A and C can't mate. Natural abortions often result from cases where the Father's DNA + mutation's don't line up with the Mother's DNA + mutations's. So a lot of these problems are not obvious and a lot of the splinter groups die off.
I would suggest you read up the low level details of how RNA and DNA works and is mutated at both the single and multi celled levels as well as reading up how people use evolution as a learning system. (It's part of AI.)
PS: The basic mathematical proof of evolution is somewhat dry and technical subject but game theory is a good introduction to the topic.
Evolution has been proven. Granted it's a form of math you might not be familiar with but it's just as true as trig. Now nothing says the universe is older than 15 seconds etc but given reproduction, natural selection, mutation, and time systems adapt to their environment or they die out (aka they evolve or die).
Without mutation Evolution does not work. With reproduction, natural selection, mutation, and time you end up with evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0 for an example.
You forget about antibiotic resistance or it's use in Computer Science. Evolution is also a foundation for understanding modern biology such as why animal models work in testing specific kinds of drug responses etc.
Because you force the students to be taught a "dogmatic belief" with zero factual basis at the whim of a teacher.
Note: Teachers are still government workers bound by the constitution in the same way that police officers are.
Do they still stone people?
E, Coli don't breed because they don't have sex. They just get big fat and then split in half.
Q: how long does it take to evolve into a platypus?
A: Around 3,000,000,000 years depending on the size of the population.
There are currently 92 active astronauts what are the odds that they will all make it to the next year?
PS: This is the real question saying that we lost 2 shuttles several years ago tells us vary little about the true risk of flying them.