The bottom of the battery is covered with a 1/4 inch sheet steel, there's not a lot more 'strengthening' that's going to happen without seriously affecting performance/range/stability. Personally, if I hit something going fast enough to punch through 1/4 inch of steel I'm going to assume that there's a good chance I'm going to die anyway.
Nokia was already in decline before Elop came on board, and the decision to abandon Symbian had already been made. His choices were 1) join the stampede towards Android and attempt to compete with established monsters Samsung and LG, 2) resurrect Symbian, or 3) chose a new phone OS. What would your choice have been?
there'd still be massive scope for Blackberry to start releasing Android devices that were secured
You could have stopped there, the gaping security holes in pretty much all of the Android installations on the market, and the even worse ones introduced by manufacturers' preinstalled crapware, need to be dealt with adequately before I'll consider doing anything like online banking on them.
The hearing has been scheduled for weeks, it's not like this is a surprise.
Bitcoins will last as long as it's amusing to the PTB for them to last. The day that it starts to actually compete for the trillion and a half dollars laundered through the US banking system every year (we're the world's largest money laundry) you'll see the concerted attack that will destroy it. You think spammers have a lot of resources? They don't hold a candle to bankers.
Would 500 bitcoins look as ugly as this? I never thought I'd see a production vehicle uglier than an AMC Gremlin, but then I never thought I'd see a president worse than Reagan either.
Not all the pyramids, those of Chanchan in Peru are in the midst of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world and the largest pyramid of all, the Great Mound near Kehokia, is in the Great Plains of North America. My time was off a bit though, it was during the period of 10,500-5,500 years ago that the Sahara was grasslands.
When the Peruvians here idiots exclaiming that Machu Picchu and Sacsayhuaman must have been built by aliens because people couldn't have done it they're insulted. They know almost exactly how it was done, and their ancestors were even recorded doing it by the Spanish. Can't help but think the Egyptians might well feel similarly insulted.
By this time the Andean peoples were already drying meat for use in the off season. I wonder what made it so much more difficult to dry meat in the Sahara.
Yeah but this "archaeological chemist" thinks that ancient Egypt was a desert, whereas most others have concluded that it was a lush rainforest, and that the people of that day were into farming on a large scale. That and there aren't many comments on this "nerd fair" article.
Twelve thousand years ago the area was mixed grassland and scrub fed from the heavier rainfall caused by the extended ice cap. Forests ran along river banks. By four thousand years ago the area was arid desert. It was never rain forest.
There is no contemporaneous documentation of the existence of Jesus, the closest thing is Josephus, writing about his disciples seventy years later. On the other hand, there is abundant documentation of Genghis Khan from people who had met him personally and official documents from the time of his rule. Cities he built and trading posts he had established exist to this day.
For many years Cuba offered to train doctors for free, as long as they spent the first five years of practice at poor and under-served areas (don't know if they still do, but that offer is good for med students in most of the rest of the world). The AMA refused to even consider allowing Cuban graduates to test in the US, much less practice.
If government intervention were the issue then countries with socialized government-run medical systems would automatically be more expensive. Instead we see the opposite, and our for-profit insurance industry-run medical system is far, far more expensive with much worse average treatment and far worse average outcomes. Eliminate the insurance leeches and 1/3 or more of the costs evaporate, eliminate the hospital chain (and they're almost all chains now) executive and marketing staff and the pharmaceutical companies' grotesque profits and we would be closer to the world average in cost and treatment.
And if we stopped adding CO2 to the atmosphere tomorrow it will be a century before we see the last effect, as it will take that long for Earth to process it.
Actually in a lot of areas you do, at least it's done for you. In may places sewerage solids can be used for fertilizer, but in areas where the heavy metal or other contamination is too high, or there's just no demand, it ends up in the landfill.
I'm glad I've known enough Yupers over the years to know that you're not a typical example, because otherwise I might be embarrassed to admit that my grandmother was from Marquette. Your family hasn't been in the UP since the 1600s, the Sioux lived there then. The Hurons didn't push them out until the tail end of that century.
You're apparently younger than I am. I remember quite well when the copper smelters had left a plume of dead land several miles downwind, when many of the rivers ran weird colors when the rain ran off the mountains of mine tailings, the enormous dead zones in Lake Superior surrounding every pulp mill, and their appalling stench. Welcome to 2013, when the water is clean and the air is breathable because of the government regulations enforced with tax dollars taken from people like me to assist people like you. You're welcome.
When is the UP finally going to get around to declaring their independence from the US so that you don't have to pay taxes any more? They've been talking about it since I was a little kid in the 1960s, but every time someone points out that they'll lose their welfare checks and it quiets down. Those people in Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee that "don't want to be robbed at gunpoint so their money can be used to support people they don't even like" really needn't fret either. They suck down far more tax dollars from those of us in the Blue states than they'd ever dream of paying, the same as the UP. Maybe some day they'll start to pull their own weight, but not in the foreseeable future.
You needn't worry about me, if the crash comes I'll be punching wells, building windmills, growing mushrooms in depths of the parking garages and tomatoes on their roof, smoking salmon, and making wine. I'll feel sorry for the rednecks condemned to drinking from the river their neighbor crapped in upriver, eating venison 200 days a year and suckers and carp the rest.
America which was progressing in rocketry just as fast as Germany
Yes, which is why American rockets were targeting Berlin from England by the end of the war. Oh, wait, no they weren't. To claim that rocketry was progressing as fast in the US as in Germany you'd have to pretend that Goddard was getting adequate financing, which was so far from the truth as to be laughable. His experiments were ignored by the Pentagon until well after his death, although the German, Soviet, French and British rocketry associations were very enthusiastic about them. By the beginning of WWII rocketry in the Soviet Union was actually ahead of the US.
Never been able to figure out why Parsons is considered important by some. Solid fuel rockets were well understood by the War of 1812, all I can tell that he did is add an inferior copy of Goddard's guidance system.
Electric fences work wonders for keeping racoons and herons out of goldfish ponds. On the other hand, it also keeps your spouse from doing any weeding at all in that part of the garden.
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Can you hear the growing 'Woosh'?
The bottom of the battery is covered with a 1/4 inch sheet steel, there's not a lot more 'strengthening' that's going to happen without seriously affecting performance/range/stability. Personally, if I hit something going fast enough to punch through 1/4 inch of steel I'm going to assume that there's a good chance I'm going to die anyway.
Nokia was already in decline before Elop came on board, and the decision to abandon Symbian had already been made. His choices were 1) join the stampede towards Android and attempt to compete with established monsters Samsung and LG, 2) resurrect Symbian, or 3) chose a new phone OS. What would your choice have been?
there'd still be massive scope for Blackberry to start releasing Android devices that were secured
You could have stopped there, the gaping security holes in pretty much all of the Android installations on the market, and the even worse ones introduced by manufacturers' preinstalled crapware, need to be dealt with adequately before I'll consider doing anything like online banking on them.
The hearing has been scheduled for weeks, it's not like this is a surprise.
Bitcoins will last as long as it's amusing to the PTB for them to last. The day that it starts to actually compete for the trillion and a half dollars laundered through the US banking system every year (we're the world's largest money laundry) you'll see the concerted attack that will destroy it. You think spammers have a lot of resources? They don't hold a candle to bankers.
Would 500 bitcoins look as ugly as this? I never thought I'd see a production vehicle uglier than an AMC Gremlin, but then I never thought I'd see a president worse than Reagan either.
Not all the pyramids, those of Chanchan in Peru are in the midst of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world and the largest pyramid of all, the Great Mound near Kehokia, is in the Great Plains of North America. My time was off a bit though, it was during the period of 10,500-5,500 years ago that the Sahara was grasslands.
it's still considered impossible
When the Peruvians here idiots exclaiming that Machu Picchu and Sacsayhuaman must have been built by aliens because people couldn't have done it they're insulted. They know almost exactly how it was done, and their ancestors were even recorded doing it by the Spanish. Can't help but think the Egyptians might well feel similarly insulted.
By this time the Andean peoples were already drying meat for use in the off season. I wonder what made it so much more difficult to dry meat in the Sahara.
Yeah but this "archaeological chemist" thinks that ancient Egypt was a desert, whereas most others have concluded that it was a lush rainforest, and that the people of that day were into farming on a large scale. That and there aren't many comments on this "nerd fair" article.
Twelve thousand years ago the area was mixed grassland and scrub fed from the heavier rainfall caused by the extended ice cap. Forests ran along river banks. By four thousand years ago the area was arid desert. It was never rain forest.
There is no contemporaneous documentation of the existence of Jesus, the closest thing is Josephus, writing about his disciples seventy years later. On the other hand, there is abundant documentation of Genghis Khan from people who had met him personally and official documents from the time of his rule. Cities he built and trading posts he had established exist to this day.
Nukes are as powerful as they are because generals like big booms.
Only on the Internet. That usage has never been standard.
I take it you've never worked in a fast food place. Those of us who have are laughing at your statement.
For many years Cuba offered to train doctors for free, as long as they spent the first five years of practice at poor and under-served areas (don't know if they still do, but that offer is good for med students in most of the rest of the world). The AMA refused to even consider allowing Cuban graduates to test in the US, much less practice.
So much cluelessness in such a short post . . .
If government intervention were the issue then countries with socialized government-run medical systems would automatically be more expensive. Instead we see the opposite, and our for-profit insurance industry-run medical system is far, far more expensive with much worse average treatment and far worse average outcomes. Eliminate the insurance leeches and 1/3 or more of the costs evaporate, eliminate the hospital chain (and they're almost all chains now) executive and marketing staff and the pharmaceutical companies' grotesque profits and we would be closer to the world average in cost and treatment.
And if we stopped adding CO2 to the atmosphere tomorrow it will be a century before we see the last effect, as it will take that long for Earth to process it.
Actually it's another Predator hunting reserve under the ice, they're warming it up for another hunting party.
Actually in a lot of areas you do, at least it's done for you. In may places sewerage solids can be used for fertilizer, but in areas where the heavy metal or other contamination is too high, or there's just no demand, it ends up in the landfill.
You're from Alabama and you moved to the UP? No wonder you have an attitude. It's a wonder you survived the first winter.
I'm glad I've known enough Yupers over the years to know that you're not a typical example, because otherwise I might be embarrassed to admit that my grandmother was from Marquette. Your family hasn't been in the UP since the 1600s, the Sioux lived there then. The Hurons didn't push them out until the tail end of that century.
You're apparently younger than I am. I remember quite well when the copper smelters had left a plume of dead land several miles downwind, when many of the rivers ran weird colors when the rain ran off the mountains of mine tailings, the enormous dead zones in Lake Superior surrounding every pulp mill, and their appalling stench. Welcome to 2013, when the water is clean and the air is breathable because of the government regulations enforced with tax dollars taken from people like me to assist people like you. You're welcome.
When is the UP finally going to get around to declaring their independence from the US so that you don't have to pay taxes any more? They've been talking about it since I was a little kid in the 1960s, but every time someone points out that they'll lose their welfare checks and it quiets down. Those people in Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee that "don't want to be robbed at gunpoint so their money can be used to support people they don't even like" really needn't fret either. They suck down far more tax dollars from those of us in the Blue states than they'd ever dream of paying, the same as the UP. Maybe some day they'll start to pull their own weight, but not in the foreseeable future.
You needn't worry about me, if the crash comes I'll be punching wells, building windmills, growing mushrooms in depths of the parking garages and tomatoes on their roof, smoking salmon, and making wine. I'll feel sorry for the rednecks condemned to drinking from the river their neighbor crapped in upriver, eating venison 200 days a year and suckers and carp the rest.
There are climatologists now that can explain things so simply that even a journalist can understand it (I know, hard to believe).
America which was progressing in rocketry just as fast as Germany
Yes, which is why American rockets were targeting Berlin from England by the end of the war. Oh, wait, no they weren't. To claim that rocketry was progressing as fast in the US as in Germany you'd have to pretend that Goddard was getting adequate financing, which was so far from the truth as to be laughable. His experiments were ignored by the Pentagon until well after his death, although the German, Soviet, French and British rocketry associations were very enthusiastic about them. By the beginning of WWII rocketry in the Soviet Union was actually ahead of the US.
Never been able to figure out why Parsons is considered important by some. Solid fuel rockets were well understood by the War of 1812, all I can tell that he did is add an inferior copy of Goddard's guidance system.
This is why one takes up gardening in the first place, to have a place to put the bodies . . .
Electric fences work wonders for keeping racoons and herons out of goldfish ponds. On the other hand, it also keeps your spouse from doing any weeding at all in that part of the garden.