NeRD is not a backronym. A backronym is when you take an existing word/name (Fiat) and create an acronym for it (Fix It Again Tony). I really doubt the Navy just stumbled on the name NeRD and later found the words to affix to it.
Also interesting to note, the submitter submits things from the same group of sites...
Naval-technology.com
Power-technology.com
Army-technology.com
Offshore-technology.com
Pharmaceutical-technology.com
Hydrocarbon-technology.com
There are articles about NeRD going back days. I guess these days news is more about rehashing someone else's news and getting traffic to your site.
It has been my constant gripe to my friends that the original HL was the superior game in the series. The story in the first one was enthralling and immersed you in it. The second one, while shinier, paled story wise.
Of course they shouldn't be denied employment, but noone in this case has changed their mind.
If gay marriage is passed everywhere in the US tomorrow, it doesn't change anything. Eich will only be fit to head a company of like minded individuals until he changes his views (or lies about them).
Even if the law has changed, he will have to say "I respect the rights given to gays" before being given the reins of a very public company. Its not about persecution, its about respecting a change in society. And if you can't do that, you don't get to be CEO of Mozilla.
One thing to consider here is that his belief was so strong that he would not recant it, he would not compromise it for the sake of working at Mozilla.
This is evident from his Cnet interview. http://www.cnet.com/news/mozil...
He couldn't even say, in the middle of the firestorm, that he would not donate again to Prop-8. Even though that wouldn't directly compromise his belief. He was so set against gays having the right to marry that he let it jeopardize his position as CEO. That's why he isn't the right person to be the CEO.
Are you suggesting that you wouldn't benefit from having that extra information?
Had I known the time left on the light (or the speed needed to make it), I would have been able to make a better decision, sooner, on whether to gas it or brake. The other driver, in turn, would have had more time to react. Whether he was paying attention all is another matter. But you can't tell me this isn't a safer situation overall.
First off, they put the timers on the crosswalks for the *pedestrians* who use the crosswalks. It just so happens to greatly benefit drivers who can make a better judgement on how fast to go.
Second, big surprise, not all intersections have those countdown timers. I find that most don't.
Third, if there is no countdown, and you are unfamiliar with the intersection, or the internal timer has schedules/triggers you cant depend on, no amount of paying attention is going to give you the optimal speed.
Finally, why is all of this important? For starters, it will cut down on accidents. I've been rear ended stopping quickly at a light that I wasn't sure I could make. The guy behind me still thought he could make it. Easily solved by him paying better attention? Maybe. More easily solved by both of us having information to make better decisions. Definitely. Secondly, the amount of gas that is wasted every day, by people accelerating up to lights that they don't know are going to turn red, must be astonishing. I can think of at least two stretches of road near me with limits of 45-50 where I can, from idle, hit 50 just in time for the next light to change, and do it 3 times in a row. Waste of gas, wear on my brakes, and bad for the environment.
You had it right the first time. They will gather information on the gamers. What do the play, who do they play with. Why do they pick this NPC over that NPC. How long do they look at X. In game advertisements. Ads on loading screens. Quests that give 5% off at [insert website]. Or maybe they buy Second Life.
I'm sure there are other Flukes with a similar body as well. In any case, this reminds me of when I was shopping for a multimeter on Ebay. I had to beware of Chinese knockoffs made to look like the real thing.
Suffocation through nitrogen is the answer. The body doesn't build up CO2 (which is the cause of unpleasantness when holding ones breath). Pain free execution.
When my night vision is ruined because the interior of my car is bright enough to read a book by, there is a problem. It's not just a matter of mirrors.
I think I'd have to experience it to really make a call.
What I do know is that I do enjoy driving when it isn't absolutely infuriating. So I guess I'd opt for the car you can take out of auto pilot and pay the full 100% insurance rate.
Assuming you're more than 10-15 years old, these probably aren't the magnets you played with as a youth. Any magnets small enough to eat were not strong enough to perforate your intestines. All the kids who did swallow a magnet never made the news because they still had their intestines intact afterwords.
Neodymium magnets are surprisingly strong for their size, maybe 10 times stronger than another magnet of the same size, depending on material. In the past decade they've really entered the consumer market, as fridge magnets, as parts of kids toys (which they fell out of causing a recall), and buckyballs. Before you could neglect your child and not worry about them eating a magnet. But now these are as bad as poison, and awareness hasn't caught up.
You might find it interesting to get a few magnets just to see how strong they are. I've never gotten a magnet more than a cubic inch in volume, just because it's a hassle to have something that strong around.
I'm not sure the author of the article even tried using the calculator. If he did, he obviously didn't try it for more than 2 lines. The calculator tells me that 4 lines on tmobile with unlimited voice and text (and no data) will cost $100. That's a bit better than $35 or $40 a line.
Someone must have caught Gattaca on Encore a few weeks ago. Sounds like a great idea, let's find the biomarker (a.k.a. genes) which identify violent behavior. Then what? Lobotomies? Indefinite internment? Put them on an island where they fight to the death on pay-per-view? Deny them the full rights accorded to them as citizens of the United States?
This is not a valid counterpoint. I've seen a a biker ride off the sidewalk, from behind a tree, in front of a car that had the right of way. Thank god the car stopped in time. If he hadn't, even though the accident would be the biker's fault, it is still going to mess up the driver psychologically. You can tell me all you want that the biker has the right to be stupid because he is the one that pays the cost. However, you overlook that the driver pays as well.
The guy had a body double with the same name as him. It is not a stretch, in my mind, for him to arrange the burning of his house for any reason. And to claim to be the victim afterwards.
Ad revenue allowed for the evolution of:
search engines
free email (not attached to an isp)
free personal websites (geocities, etc)
I don't know about you, but I consider those important achievements in making the internet accessible. It's like you think only technically capable people should use the internet. Maybe you do. And if you dont, you can't honestly tell me that you think some hobbyist is going to shell out the cash required so that millions of people can have those things. That's a lot of cash for a hobbyist to do just one of those things.
I respect your argument advocating ad revenue to support the sites you visit. This is one of the things the internet was built upon. I do feel bad about the sites I like not getting the money keep things running.
On the other hand, you have:
ads that track you
annoying popups
popups masquerading as windows messages that have faux buttons to close them, cancel them, or remove viruses that the popup supposedly just detected
ads that flash, flicker, or have a lot of motion/activity in them (which I find to be particularly distracting)
ads that play sound
I'm not saying I wouldn't adblock if you got rid of the above ads, but currently there are too many reasons for me to even consider getting rid of adblock.
WRT the handling of the material: The military's approach to the material (denying FOIA requests) was shady, but a pretty obvious function of, "err on the side of keeping stuff secret." You can't have war without casualties, and any time it happens somewhere where people live, some of those are going to be bad kills.
My gut instinct is that for the public to make decisions about the necessity for war, this sort of information needs to be available. Is it the place of the military to hides its faults to prevent public dissatisfaction? Is it the place of the military to defend itself from scrutiny to allow perpetual operation?
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NeRD is not a backronym. A backronym is when you take an existing word/name (Fiat) and create an acronym for it (Fix It Again Tony). I really doubt the Navy just stumbled on the name NeRD and later found the words to affix to it.
Also interesting to note, the submitter submits things from the same group of sites...
Naval-technology.com
Power-technology.com
Army-technology.com
Offshore-technology.com
Pharmaceutical-technology.com
Hydrocarbon-technology.com
There are articles about NeRD going back days. I guess these days news is more about rehashing someone else's news and getting traffic to your site.
Might want to replace "IR spectrum" with "near IR". That far IR stuff doesn't come cheap.
You're lucky she didn't leave you in the landfill
It has been my constant gripe to my friends that the original HL was the superior game in the series. The story in the first one was enthralling and immersed you in it. The second one, while shinier, paled story wise.
He's probably in hiding.
Someone else pointed out to me that he owes money to a lot of people that probably aren't good to owe money to.
Of course they shouldn't be denied employment, but noone in this case has changed their mind.
If gay marriage is passed everywhere in the US tomorrow, it doesn't change anything. Eich will only be fit to head a company of like minded individuals until he changes his views (or lies about them).
Even if the law has changed, he will have to say "I respect the rights given to gays" before being given the reins of a very public company. Its not about persecution, its about respecting a change in society. And if you can't do that, you don't get to be CEO of Mozilla.
One thing to consider here is that his belief was so strong that he would not recant it, he would not compromise it for the sake of working at Mozilla.
This is evident from his Cnet interview. http://www.cnet.com/news/mozil...
He couldn't even say, in the middle of the firestorm, that he would not donate again to Prop-8. Even though that wouldn't directly compromise his belief.
He was so set against gays having the right to marry that he let it jeopardize his position as CEO. That's why he isn't the right person to be the CEO.
Are you suggesting that you wouldn't benefit from having that extra information?
Had I known the time left on the light (or the speed needed to make it), I would have been able to make a better decision, sooner, on whether to gas it or brake. The other driver, in turn, would have had more time to react. Whether he was paying attention all is another matter. But you can't tell me this isn't a safer situation overall.
I'm not sure why this is modded insightful.
First off, they put the timers on the crosswalks for the *pedestrians* who use the crosswalks. It just so happens to greatly benefit drivers who can make a better judgement on how fast to go.
Second, big surprise, not all intersections have those countdown timers. I find that most don't.
Third, if there is no countdown, and you are unfamiliar with the intersection, or the internal timer has schedules/triggers you cant depend on, no amount of paying attention is going to give you the optimal speed.
Finally, why is all of this important? For starters, it will cut down on accidents. I've been rear ended stopping quickly at a light that I wasn't sure I could make. The guy behind me still thought he could make it. Easily solved by him paying better attention? Maybe. More easily solved by both of us having information to make better decisions. Definitely. Secondly, the amount of gas that is wasted every day, by people accelerating up to lights that they don't know are going to turn red, must be astonishing. I can think of at least two stretches of road near me with limits of 45-50 where I can, from idle, hit 50 just in time for the next light to change, and do it 3 times in a row. Waste of gas, wear on my brakes, and bad for the environment.
to publicly state that "We have to flawlessly update this thing from 655km away" until after I already updated it.
You had it right the first time. They will gather information on the gamers. What do the play, who do they play with. Why do they pick this NPC over that NPC. How long do they look at X. In game advertisements. Ads on loading screens. Quests that give 5% off at [insert website].
Or maybe they buy Second Life.
This model looks something like Fluke's 17B.
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/ine...
I'm sure there are other Flukes with a similar body as well. In any case, this reminds me of when I was shopping for a multimeter on Ebay. I had to beware of Chinese knockoffs made to look like the real thing.
Suffocation through nitrogen is the answer. The body doesn't build up CO2 (which is the cause of unpleasantness when holding ones breath). Pain free execution.
When my night vision is ruined because the interior of my car is bright enough to read a book by, there is a problem. It's not just a matter of mirrors.
I think I'd have to experience it to really make a call.
What I do know is that I do enjoy driving when it isn't absolutely infuriating. So I guess I'd opt for the car you can take out of auto pilot and pay the full 100% insurance rate.
Assuming you're more than 10-15 years old, these probably aren't the magnets you played with as a youth. Any magnets small enough to eat were not strong enough to perforate your intestines. All the kids who did swallow a magnet never made the news because they still had their intestines intact afterwords.
Neodymium magnets are surprisingly strong for their size, maybe 10 times stronger than another magnet of the same size, depending on material. In the past decade they've really entered the consumer market, as fridge magnets, as parts of kids toys (which they fell out of causing a recall), and buckyballs. Before you could neglect your child and not worry about them eating a magnet. But now these are as bad as poison, and awareness hasn't caught up.
You might find it interesting to get a few magnets just to see how strong they are. I've never gotten a magnet more than a cubic inch in volume, just because it's a hassle to have something that strong around.
Well, joke's on me. The article talks about couples using family plans, not families of 3+ people
I'm not sure the author of the article even tried using the calculator. If he did, he obviously didn't try it for more than 2 lines. The calculator tells me that 4 lines on tmobile with unlimited voice and text (and no data) will cost $100. That's a bit better than $35 or $40 a line.
Someone must have caught Gattaca on Encore a few weeks ago. Sounds like a great idea, let's find the biomarker (a.k.a. genes) which identify violent behavior. Then what? Lobotomies? Indefinite internment? Put them on an island where they fight to the death on pay-per-view? Deny them the full rights accorded to them as citizens of the United States?
I was thinking breed people for docility.
This is not a valid counterpoint. I've seen a a biker ride off the sidewalk, from behind a tree, in front of a car that had the right of way. Thank god the car stopped in time.
If he hadn't, even though the accident would be the biker's fault, it is still going to mess up the driver psychologically. You can tell me all you want that the biker has the right to be stupid because he is the one that pays the cost. However, you overlook that the driver pays as well.
All I can think of is Judas for some reason
The guy had a body double with the same name as him. It is not a stretch, in my mind, for him to arrange the burning of his house for any reason. And to claim to be the victim afterwards.
Ad revenue allowed for the evolution of:
search engines
free email (not attached to an isp)
free personal websites (geocities, etc)
I don't know about you, but I consider those important achievements in making the internet accessible. It's like you think only technically capable people should use the internet. Maybe you do. And if you dont, you can't honestly tell me that you think some hobbyist is going to shell out the cash required so that millions of people can have those things. That's a lot of cash for a hobbyist to do just one of those things.
I respect your argument advocating ad revenue to support the sites you visit. This is one of the things the internet was built upon. I do feel bad about the sites I like not getting the money keep things running.
On the other hand, you have:
ads that track you
annoying popups
popups masquerading as windows messages that have faux buttons to close them, cancel them, or remove viruses that the popup supposedly just detected
ads that flash, flicker, or have a lot of motion/activity in them (which I find to be particularly distracting)
ads that play sound
I'm not saying I wouldn't adblock if you got rid of the above ads, but currently there are too many reasons for me to even consider getting rid of adblock.
WRT the handling of the material: The military's approach to the material (denying FOIA requests) was shady, but a pretty obvious function of, "err on the side of keeping stuff secret." You can't have war without casualties, and any time it happens somewhere where people live, some of those are going to be bad kills.
My gut instinct is that for the public to make decisions about the necessity for war, this sort of information needs to be available. Is it the place of the military to hides its faults to prevent public dissatisfaction? Is it the place of the military to defend itself from scrutiny to allow perpetual operation?