There are other ways to adjust the bacteria present, such as through diet.
That worked for me. A few years ago I bought a $39 yogurt maker from Amazon, and started eating a bowl fresh from the incubator every morning. As my gut bacteria changed, so did my appetite. I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies. I guess the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback to make me eat a diet more to their liking. I am about 5 pounds lighter, have more energy, and have had no gut problems (diarrhea, constipation, or pain) in years.
Doesn't seem cut and dry to me, since I am neither a student nor a teacher. I am a parent, coaching other people's kids as well as my own. So am I a criminal? I don't know.
It is needlessly complicated and incredibly stupid.
Indeed. The distinction between "hobby" and "commercial" use is vague and mostly meaningless. If a drone hits you in the head, does it matter if the operator was a hobbyist? The licensing requirements should be based on weight, capabilities (camera, out-of-line-of-sight flying, etc), and flight envelope, not on whether the operator is trying to earn a living and feed his family.
The FAA originally put the "commercial use" restrictions in place to prevent drones from competing with piloted planes for services in photography, surveillance, etc. Although that battle has mostly been lost, the anti-business distinction lives on in the regulations mostly out of bureaucratic inertia.
Click the JS file you want to inspect. Click { } for "Pretty Print". Done.
Sure, and you can use a hexdump or disassembler to get the "source" to a binary program. That doesn't mean that you can understand what it is doing, or see security holes, or modify it, or fix bugs.
I help coach an after school enrichment program at my kids' elementary school. We have been using drones, with cameras and Raspberry Pis. I had no idea it was illegal up till now. We do it for several of the reasons you listed, but mainly because it is fun, and it keeps the kids engaged.
It is also unlikely that we'll ever make contact with another intelligence in our own galaxy.
It is unlikely that we will make contact with a specific civilization, but there are 100 billion stars in the galaxy, so there may be millions of civilizations out there.
It is 100,000 light years across.
You don't have to go 100,000 ly in one jump. Even in our neighborhood, the stars are only a few ly apart. In much of the galaxy, they are much closer than that. If a civilization propagates through the galaxy at even 0.01c, that is just a blink on the time scale of geology or biological evolution.
That is not what this is about. The problem is requiring proprietary programs written in JavaScript. When minimized, JavaScript is about as indecipherable as binary, so these proprietary programs are basically closed source.
Nobody owns C either. But it can certainly be used to write proprietary closed source programs.
Taking someone's phone is macro-managing, wanting to know each text or conversation is micro-managing.
But both are bad parenting. By the time a kids are in high school, they are ready to start making their own choices. Parents should give guidance and step in when there is a problem.
Here is a checklist of things that are, and are not, major teenage problems:
Is a problem: 1. Drug addiction 2. Binge drinking 3. Drunk driving 4. Flunking out of school 5. Juvenile detention 6. Pregnancy 7. HIV 8. Suicide
Not a problem: 1. Sharing cat videos with her friends
But the UNIVERSE is huge. With billions of galaxies.
Sure, but it is unlikely we will ever make contact with life outside our own galaxy. So the real question isn't whether there is other life in the Universe, but whether there is other life in the Milky Way, where civilizations can spread from star to star until they eventually meet.
Why assume life out there would be carbon based, breath, and require water?
Plenty of life doesn't "breathe", so nobody is assuming that. Early life on earth was almost certainly anaerobic. But carbon and water have some very useful properties, and they are both extremely common in the universe. So assuming that life is carbon based in a liquid water medium is reasonable.
Also, we are searching in extreme environments outside the habitable zone. For instance, we are planning missions to Europa which has far more liquid water than earth.
IKids need to learn that there are consequences for their actions, while those consequences are relatively minor.
They aren't going to do that if mommy and daddy micromanage their lives. Kids socialize. Get over it. My 15 year daughter spends a lot of time on her phone. That is her choice. She isn't out drinking, or using drugs, or getting pregnant, and her grades are good. So she is doing a lot better than I was at her age.
If you seriously believe that too much texting and photo sharing is an existential crisis, then please don't have kids.
Do you want treatment by a stressed out doctor, or no treatment at all?
False dichotomy.
There is more need than can be met by the supply of doctors.
Many other countries deal with this by having PAs and nurses handle routine cases, and only get a doctor involved if symptoms are unusual. Oh, and these countries have far lower costs and better health outcomes than America.
To be fair, many of the people dying from these medical errors are really sick, and would have soon died from something else anyway. Also, killing off old people helps keep Social Security and Medicare from going bankrupt. I am not saying killing them is a good thing, just that it is not all bad.
Some hospitals have dramatically cut medical errors using a very simple tool: Checklists.
How much testing have they done on snowed in and icy roads?
My wife has a Tesla, and before a big snowstorm last winter, she received an email from Tesla recommending that she use Autopilot during the storm, because it would navigate more reliably than a human on snow covered roads, and handle icy surfaces more safely.
Who cares? Lyin' Ted just lost the Indiana primary, so the race is all but over, and Trump will be the Republican nominee. Maybe Donald can ride a self-driving minivan to his inauguration.
If you have rich parents, then maybe. Otherwise, working as a waitress is not going to be "less stressful" than college, and you are going to make a lot less money than if you got your degree first and then worked a year. Taking a "year off" may be great if you are part of the British monarchy, but it is not something that normal people can afford.
Yes, if the mountain was a cone or pyramid, then it would be cubic. When I said quadratic, I was thinking of a linear ridgeline, which would be more effective at collecting rain. The volume of a ridgeline would increase more-or-less quadratically with height.
The Chinese likely stole it from one of the numerous and vastly profitable America factories churning out graphene based products. Some new materials turn out to be 100% hype, with no actual applications, but not graphene. We need tariffs against inferior Chinese graphene, to protect American graphene workers from unfair competition.
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are you getting paid, either in cash or in kind? If no, then it's not commercial. Very cut and dried.
I am not paid to coach, but my employer lets me leave early on the days that I coach. So not so cut and dried.
There are other ways to adjust the bacteria present, such as through diet.
That worked for me. A few years ago I bought a $39 yogurt maker from Amazon, and started eating a bowl fresh from the incubator every morning. As my gut bacteria changed, so did my appetite. I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies. I guess the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback to make me eat a diet more to their liking. I am about 5 pounds lighter, have more energy, and have had no gut problems (diarrhea, constipation, or pain) in years.
Fairly cut and dry.
Doesn't seem cut and dry to me, since I am neither a student nor a teacher. I am a parent, coaching other people's kids as well as my own. So am I a criminal? I don't know.
It is needlessly complicated and incredibly stupid.
Indeed. The distinction between "hobby" and "commercial" use is vague and mostly meaningless. If a drone hits you in the head, does it matter if the operator was a hobbyist? The licensing requirements should be based on weight, capabilities (camera, out-of-line-of-sight flying, etc), and flight envelope, not on whether the operator is trying to earn a living and feed his family.
The FAA originally put the "commercial use" restrictions in place to prevent drones from competing with piloted planes for services in photography, surveillance, etc. Although that battle has mostly been lost, the anti-business distinction lives on in the regulations mostly out of bureaucratic inertia.
Click the JS file you want to inspect. Click { } for "Pretty Print". Done.
Sure, and you can use a hexdump or disassembler to get the "source" to a binary program. That doesn't mean that you can understand what it is doing, or see security holes, or modify it, or fix bugs.
I help coach an after school enrichment program at my kids' elementary school. We have been using drones, with cameras and Raspberry Pis. I had no idea it was illegal up till now. We do it for several of the reasons you listed, but mainly because it is fun, and it keeps the kids engaged.
It is also unlikely that we'll ever make contact with another intelligence in our own galaxy.
It is unlikely that we will make contact with a specific civilization, but there are 100 billion stars in the galaxy, so there may be millions of civilizations out there.
It is 100,000 light years across.
You don't have to go 100,000 ly in one jump. Even in our neighborhood, the stars are only a few ly apart. In much of the galaxy, they are much closer than that. If a civilization propagates through the galaxy at even 0.01c, that is just a blink on the time scale of geology or biological evolution.
Which company owns JavaScript?
That is not what this is about. The problem is requiring proprietary programs written in JavaScript. When minimized, JavaScript is about as indecipherable as binary, so these proprietary programs are basically closed source.
Nobody owns C either. But it can certainly be used to write proprietary closed source programs.
Taking someone's phone is macro-managing, wanting to know each text or conversation is micro-managing.
But both are bad parenting. By the time a kids are in high school, they are ready to start making their own choices. Parents should give guidance and step in when there is a problem.
Here is a checklist of things that are, and are not, major teenage problems:
Is a problem:
1. Drug addiction
2. Binge drinking
3. Drunk driving
4. Flunking out of school
5. Juvenile detention
6. Pregnancy
7. HIV
8. Suicide
Not a problem:
1. Sharing cat videos with her friends
But the UNIVERSE is huge. With billions of galaxies.
Sure, but it is unlikely we will ever make contact with life outside our own galaxy. So the real question isn't whether there is other life in the Universe, but whether there is other life in the Milky Way, where civilizations can spread from star to star until they eventually meet.
Why assume life out there would be carbon based, breath, and require water?
Plenty of life doesn't "breathe", so nobody is assuming that. Early life on earth was almost certainly anaerobic. But carbon and water have some very useful properties, and they are both extremely common in the universe. So assuming that life is carbon based in a liquid water medium is reasonable.
Also, we are searching in extreme environments outside the habitable zone. For instance, we are planning missions to Europa which has far more liquid water than earth.
IKids need to learn that there are consequences for their actions, while those consequences are relatively minor.
They aren't going to do that if mommy and daddy micromanage their lives. Kids socialize. Get over it. My 15 year daughter spends a lot of time on her phone. That is her choice. She isn't out drinking, or using drugs, or getting pregnant, and her grades are good. So she is doing a lot better than I was at her age.
If you seriously believe that too much texting and photo sharing is an existential crisis, then please don't have kids.
Can Don still pick Hillary as his running mate?
No. The P and the VP cannot be from the same state. They are both New Yorkers.
Do you want treatment by a stressed out doctor, or no treatment at all?
False dichotomy.
There is more need than can be met by the supply of doctors.
Many other countries deal with this by having PAs and nurses handle routine cases, and only get a doctor involved if symptoms are unusual. Oh, and these countries have far lower costs and better health outcomes than America.
To be fair, many of the people dying from these medical errors are really sick, and would have soon died from something else anyway. Also, killing off old people helps keep Social Security and Medicare from going bankrupt. I am not saying killing them is a good thing, just that it is not all bad.
Some hospitals have dramatically cut medical errors using a very simple tool: Checklists.
In the future I suspect that some people will still drive manually for pleasure,
That's fine, as long as they don't do it on a public road where they may endanger other people.
Is that no one wants to be self driven. 99% of people want to drive themselves.
Except for people with disabilities, or old people with slow reflexes, or people that would rather sleep, or read, or text, or browse, or sightsee.
How much testing have they done on snowed in and icy roads?
My wife has a Tesla, and before a big snowstorm last winter, she received an email from Tesla recommending that she use Autopilot during the storm, because it would navigate more reliably than a human on snow covered roads, and handle icy surfaces more safely.
We'll have less control of self-driving cars, which will probably be even more dangerous.
Self driving cars have already driven millions of miles on public roads, and have a proven track record far better than human drivers.
Indeed if it had not been for the gun it would probably have done this with fewer people dying.
The question is, what is the most influential, not the most beneficial.
I vote for the flint firestarter over the iPhone.
Lyin' ted is a traitor.
Who cares? Lyin' Ted just lost the Indiana primary, so the race is all but over, and Trump will be the Republican nominee. Maybe Donald can ride a self-driving minivan to his inauguration.
Also, surge pricing is a perk for the passenger, because it means a ride is actually available.
Surge pricing is just supply and demand. If you don't like it, you are free to go wait at the taxi stand for an hour in the rain.
What's the point? You gonna find yourself?
If you have rich parents, then maybe. Otherwise, working as a waitress is not going to be "less stressful" than college, and you are going to make a lot less money than if you got your degree first and then worked a year. Taking a "year off" may be great if you are part of the British monarchy, but it is not something that normal people can afford.
Umm... don't you mean cubic?
Yes, if the mountain was a cone or pyramid, then it would be cubic. When I said quadratic, I was thinking of a linear ridgeline, which would be more effective at collecting rain. The volume of a ridgeline would increase more-or-less quadratically with height.
Perhaps you should provide some evidence.
The Chinese likely stole it from one of the numerous and vastly profitable America factories churning out graphene based products. Some new materials turn out to be 100% hype, with no actual applications, but not graphene. We need tariffs against inferior Chinese graphene, to protect American graphene workers from unfair competition.