Example? Notice how bible belters will shout to death about genesis being to exactly how it is, to the T, and refuse to acknowledge evolution.. well if you follow it so precisely then how come i have never heard of a christian: keeping kosher, or the sabbath no power thing come to mind, but just about any jewish custom taken from the torah would do
It's called The New Testament, and it's what differentiates Christianity from Judaism. You see, this crazy Jesus guy came along and said "this is my blood of the new covenant" (Mathew 26:28). This was in contrast to the old covenant of Moses and all of the kosher rules, etc. Christians are not bound by the Jewish law. (Although much of the Ten Commandments follow from Jesus's first and second commandments (Mark 12:29-31)).
Now, the people that believe the letter of the bible over the message of the bible...Well, they just don't get it.
Unless you're building an actual Corps of Engineers office, my guess is that the Corps is just providing construction oversight for the actual customer. This is actually a very common function of the Corps of ENgineers. For instance, the Corps is watching the contractors for a new DHS border crossing up in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. That means that the contractor needs to comply with DHS regulations and the Corps is just making sure they do. Place the blame appropriately.
I think you're confusing the purpose of flocking with how it comes about. The bird's are not actively sitting down and "optimizing a complex multiplanar lifting system". The optimization can be an emergent behavior that arises from simple flocking rules.
Mmmm, applets & cotlets. Basically, they are apple and apricot turkish delights from WA. Good stuff and they always seemed to show up at holidays when I was growing up.
Ever been into a bank or a store? There's cameras all around, and no signed consent needed.
And most of those cameras don't have microphones. Recording of images is not illegal, but recording audio is (in most states, YMMV, etc.). This brings us back to your second point:
What you THINK is the law, isn', its just common sage.
a private pilots license. unlike a drivers license it actually requires an IQ and SKILL to get and hold onto one
Last I heard, the only thing you needed to keep a pilot's license is a valid medical certificate. "Well, he hasn't flown in thirty years, but at least he won't have a heart attack in midair..." (A good pilot would do some refresher training w/an instructor before soloing again after that long, but I don't think the FAA requires it.)
Huh? According to the actual U.S. News & World Report rankings, Berkeley was 21 overall for undergrad for National Universities. It was, however, #1 for public institutions. A more relevant ranking here would probably be undergraduate engineering. That list has MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley, in that order.
To be honest, in my experience, undergraduate engineering education at big research universities doesn't necessarily produce good practicing engineers.
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"Idle Worship"?
Well, I guess I do tend to just sit in front of the TV not doing anything worthwhile...
I've heard stories both ways regarding farmers' opinions about DST, so its not a cut and dry issue as you or Wikipedia says it is.
I suspect that it annoys farmers with livestock a lot more than ones that primarily deal with plants. Even then, the phrase "Make hay while the sun is shining" can sum most of it up.
The one argument that I can see is on modern, family farms, where the principal wage-earner comes home from Company X and then heads out to the field to work the farm. (A distressingly high percentage of income for farm families actually comes from other sources than farming. That's what we get for insisting that everyone should be able to afford milk, bread, and eggs at the local supermarket.)
Farmers hold a decent bit of lobbying power, moreso than one would expect by chance. They complain about DST one way or another. Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done. My grandfather didn't really care; he just got up when it was light out, regardless of time.
Indiana still doesn't do DST (due to the farm lobby), but, IIRC, they're trying to work it through their legislature. Whenever I go to my mom's in the summer I always laugh at them because the sun rises around 5 a.m. in June / July.
According to Wikipedia, most farmers actually hate DST (as others have mentioned). And the reason that Indiana doesn't do the whole DST thing has more to do with the fact that the state is divided between time zones as it is.
But hey, if you want to blame the guys that grow the food you eat, go ahead.
What normal person reads articles about computer security? Do you read articles about new studies concerning the use of various grains in dry cat foods? Why not? I do all the time.
From TFA: "few computer users haven't considered tossing a misbehaving PC out an office window at one time or another. One respondent in Norman's study did just that, but left out an important step.
"His mistake was he forgot to open the window," Norman said."
Heh, one of the boarding students at my high school had a similar experience. What saved him was that he forgot to unplug the computer!
So, I think we've all learned some important lessons here. (You know, open the window and unplug the computer before throwing it to the death it so justly deserves...)
One of the cool things about Bill Nye is that he was actually an engineer! For some reason, RPI doesn't try to get many of them for graduation speakers. He was also pretty clever and had good advice for engineers and scientists (i.e. the majority of the student population). Heck, I can't even remember who spoke at my graduation the year before, but I went for my girlfriends graduation in '99 and I'm really glad I did!
Isn't the minimum number of bathrooms for a new building determined by building code?
Actually, I think the building codes specify the number of toilets/urinals (as well as number of handicapped accessible and maybe even by gender). It just takes up less space (and plumbing effort) to site all of those in the same location.
I remember it because my prents gave me a paper dust mask and let me play in the ash with my Tonka trucks. Great fun! (We were in Olympia and had a fair amount as I recall.)
Hmmm. Mybe that doesn't help you feel any younger.
Do you know how fast they would have shut that shit off once they saw the other media owners making $65+ on a set of DVDs for a recent season and $35+ on a set of DVDs from a show that's from 1983?
No. It's a different business model. How many sets of DVDs are actually sold of a show? Now how many peaople rent them? If you charge $1/episode for a million downloads of each episode (~$24 million) (and probably still sell some DVDs) you'll make more than if you sell 200,000 DVD sets at $65 (~$13 million).
A solar array is analogous to mining equipment. And the land you put it on is analogous to mineral rights. There is nothing free about solar electricity's fuel that is not also free about nuclear/coal/gas-turbine/petroleum electricity's fuel.
Well if you want to draw the boundaries of the system at the extreme, then the "fuel" cost of solar is $0 and the fuel cost petroleum is "zero but you need to include drilling rights, labor, equipment, transportation, refining, overhead, etc. Fine, but most end users really only care about the $2/gallon at the corner pump where they actually purchase it. As someone that's studied economics and industrial ecology/life-cycle analysis, I can appreciate your argument, but it's just not important for most people.
Oh yeah, all equipment depreciates over time. Mineral leases also deplete over time. Unless you're long-range planning runs into billions of years, you don't need to worry about sunlight depleting at your location.
Not really sure why I'm getting sucked into this, but I feel obligated to point out the difference between "soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War)" and "Gulf Era Veterans". This means that while 56% of soldiers who actually served in the Gulf are on disability (a staggeringly high number, in and of itself), the second figure (which you seem to have used to calculate the 89% number) should include everyone that served in the armed forces around 1991 and would therefore include someone that had a HMMWV drive over their foot in Kansas.
When the law requiring the same expired, that very month, the speed limits jumped to as high a 75 MPH through relatively uninhabited areas.
Higher, in fact. Montana went back to "Safe and Reasonable" (65 at night and for trucks) for a while. Ahhh, that was great summer to drive across the country in a car with turbo...
There are some places that have light pollution ordinances. Sedona, AZ here in the states requires all street lights to be off after 9 or 10PM. Since the town's in the middle of a national forest (and at 4500' a.s.l), it's supposed to have incredible stargazing...
A better question is how you can learn FORTRAN these days. Most U.S. universities (including engineering/science focused ones) have phased it out of their undergraduate programs. (You may still run into it as an aside in an upper level class.) When I started my most recent job, I had to pretty much teach myself FORTRAN so that I could maintain undocumented (and uncommented) FORTRAN-77 code. Not fun stuff, but I now have another skill to put on my resume.
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Example? Notice how bible belters will shout to death about genesis being to exactly how it is, to the T, and refuse to acknowledge evolution.. well if you follow it so precisely then how come i have never heard of a christian: keeping kosher, or the sabbath no power thing come to mind, but just about any jewish custom taken from the torah would do
It's called The New Testament, and it's what differentiates Christianity from Judaism. You see, this crazy Jesus guy came along and said "this is my blood of the new covenant" (Mathew 26:28). This was in contrast to the old covenant of Moses and all of the kosher rules, etc. Christians are not bound by the Jewish law. (Although much of the Ten Commandments follow from Jesus's first and second commandments (Mark 12:29-31)).
Now, the people that believe the letter of the bible over the message of the bible...Well, they just don't get it.
That's enough theology for me for one day.
Unless you're building an actual Corps of Engineers office, my guess is that the Corps is just providing construction oversight for the actual customer. This is actually a very common function of the Corps of ENgineers. For instance, the Corps is watching the contractors for a new DHS border crossing up in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. That means that the contractor needs to comply with DHS regulations and the Corps is just making sure they do. Place the blame appropriately.
"Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor?"
"Convicted? No, never convicted."
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I think you're confusing the purpose of flocking with how it comes about. The bird's are not actively sitting down and "optimizing a complex multiplanar lifting system". The optimization can be an emergent behavior that arises from simple flocking rules.
Mmmm, applets & cotlets. Basically, they are apple and apricot turkish delights from WA. Good stuff and they always seemed to show up at holidays when I was growing up.
Ever been into a bank or a store? There's cameras all around, and no signed consent needed.
And most of those cameras don't have microphones. Recording of images is not illegal, but recording audio is (in most states, YMMV, etc.). This brings us back to your second point:
What you THINK is the law, isn', its just common sage.
a private pilots license. unlike a drivers license it actually requires an IQ and SKILL to get and hold onto one
Last I heard, the only thing you needed to keep a pilot's license is a valid medical certificate. "Well, he hasn't flown in thirty years, but at least he won't have a heart attack in midair..." (A good pilot would do some refresher training w/an instructor before soloing again after that long, but I don't think the FAA requires it.)
US News and World Report. 2005: #1 Berkeley
Huh? According to the actual U.S. News & World Report rankings, Berkeley was 21 overall for undergrad for National Universities. It was, however, #1 for public institutions. A more relevant ranking here would probably be undergraduate engineering. That list has MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley, in that order.
To be honest, in my experience, undergraduate engineering education at big research universities doesn't necessarily produce good practicing engineers.
"Idle Worship"?
Well, I guess I do tend to just sit in front of the TV not doing anything worthwhile...
Oh, wait! You meant "Idol Worship"! Nevermind.
I've heard stories both ways regarding farmers' opinions about DST, so its not a cut and dry issue as you or Wikipedia says it is.
I suspect that it annoys farmers with livestock a lot more than ones that primarily deal with plants. Even then, the phrase "Make hay while the sun is shining" can sum most of it up.
The one argument that I can see is on modern, family farms, where the principal wage-earner comes home from Company X and then heads out to the field to work the farm. (A distressingly high percentage of income for farm families actually comes from other sources than farming. That's what we get for insisting that everyone should be able to afford milk, bread, and eggs at the local supermarket.)
Farmers hold a decent bit of lobbying power, moreso than one would expect by chance. They complain about DST one way or another. Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done. My grandfather didn't really care; he just got up when it was light out, regardless of time.
Indiana still doesn't do DST (due to the farm lobby), but, IIRC, they're trying to work it through their legislature. Whenever I go to my mom's in the summer I always laugh at them because the sun rises around 5 a.m. in June / July.
According to Wikipedia, most farmers actually hate DST (as others have mentioned). And the reason that Indiana doesn't do the whole DST thing has more to do with the fact that the state is divided between time zones as it is.
But hey, if you want to blame the guys that grow the food you eat, go ahead.
Does anybody know any FORTRAN or COBOL hackers for some contract work?
I'll be busy enough ferreting all the problems out where I work.
What normal person reads articles about computer security? Do you read articles about new studies concerning the use of various grains in dry cat foods? Why not? I do all the time.
This from someone that goes by "DogDude"...
From TFA: "few computer users haven't considered tossing a misbehaving PC out an office window at one time or another. One respondent in Norman's study did just that, but left out an important step.
"His mistake was he forgot to open the window," Norman said."
Heh, one of the boarding students at my high school had a similar experience. What saved him was that he forgot to unplug the computer!
So, I think we've all learned some important lessons here. (You know, open the window and unplug the computer before throwing it to the death it so justly deserves...)
One of the cool things about Bill Nye is that he was actually an engineer! For some reason, RPI doesn't try to get many of them for graduation speakers. He was also pretty clever and had good advice for engineers and scientists (i.e. the majority of the student population). Heck, I can't even remember who spoke at my graduation the year before, but I went for my girlfriends graduation in '99 and I'm really glad I did!
Isn't the minimum number of bathrooms for a new building determined by building code?
Actually, I think the building codes specify the number of toilets/urinals (as well as number of handicapped accessible and maybe even by gender). It just takes up less space (and plumbing effort) to site all of those in the same location.
A British Airways 747 flew through volcanic ash once. The results were nogt good, though kudos to the crew for getting the bird down safely.
Interestingly enough, the last page in Discover magazine this month is about exactly this issue. You can see it here.
I remember it because my prents gave me a paper dust mask and let me play in the ash with my Tonka trucks. Great fun! (We were in Olympia and had a fair amount as I recall.)
Hmmm. Mybe that doesn't help you feel any younger.
Do you know how fast they would have shut that shit off once they saw the other media owners making $65+ on a set of DVDs for a recent season and $35+ on a set of DVDs from a show that's from 1983?
No. It's a different business model. How many sets of DVDs are actually sold of a show? Now how many peaople rent them? If you charge $1/episode for a million downloads of each episode (~$24 million) (and probably still sell some DVDs) you'll make more than if you sell 200,000 DVD sets at $65 (~$13 million).
A solar array is analogous to mining equipment. And the land you put it on is analogous to mineral rights. There is nothing free about solar electricity's fuel that is not also free about nuclear/coal/gas-turbine/petroleum electricity's fuel.
Well if you want to draw the boundaries of the system at the extreme, then the "fuel" cost of solar is $0 and the fuel cost petroleum is "zero but you need to include drilling rights, labor, equipment, transportation, refining, overhead, etc. Fine, but most end users really only care about the $2/gallon at the corner pump where they actually purchase it. As someone that's studied economics and industrial ecology/life-cycle analysis, I can appreciate your argument, but it's just not important for most people.
Oh yeah, all equipment depreciates over time. Mineral leases also deplete over time. Unless you're long-range planning runs into billions of years, you don't need to worry about sunlight depleting at your location.
Blah.
Not really sure why I'm getting sucked into this, but I feel obligated to point out the difference between "soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War)" and "Gulf Era Veterans". This means that while 56% of soldiers who actually served in the Gulf are on disability (a staggeringly high number, in and of itself), the second figure (which you seem to have used to calculate the 89% number) should include everyone that served in the armed forces around 1991 and would therefore include someone that had a HMMWV drive over their foot in Kansas.
When the law requiring the same expired, that very month, the speed limits jumped to as high a 75 MPH through relatively uninhabited areas.
Higher, in fact. Montana went back to "Safe and Reasonable" (65 at night and for trucks) for a while. Ahhh, that was great summer to drive across the country in a car with turbo...
There are some places that have light pollution ordinances. Sedona, AZ here in the states requires all street lights to be off after 9 or 10PM. Since the town's in the middle of a national forest (and at 4500' a.s.l), it's supposed to have incredible stargazing...
A better question is how you can learn FORTRAN these days. Most U.S. universities (including engineering/science focused ones) have phased it out of their undergraduate programs. (You may still run into it as an aside in an upper level class.) When I started my most recent job, I had to pretty much teach myself FORTRAN so that I could maintain undocumented (and uncommented) FORTRAN-77 code. Not fun stuff, but I now have another skill to put on my resume.
is developing a similar panel that relies on specially doped diamond dust.
Do you suppose the author meant dropped? Otherwise, I hope that dust has glaucoma!
I suspect the author really meant "doped", as in adding an artificial impurity to create a semiconductor. (It might sell well either way, however...)