Strictly speaking soap just traps the natural oils in your skin in which a great many bacteria live which allows your hands to be much cleaner than otherwise. It doesn't make the bacteria directly "slip off" but it makes it so that you can get the nasty oil off of your hands. Also, washing with alcohol would likely be as effective or possibly more so, but the downside is dryness. Bleach, as you said is bad for your skin for multiple reasons.
(a 750ml bottle of wine over 2 hours for a 180lb person @ 0.08 = legal)
Only if you have the metabolism of the Flash. An entire bottle of wine solo is 5 drinks (at 1 drink = 5oz. serving of wine). At that rate your theoretical 180lb person (we'll say male to lower as much as possible) should be floating right around 0.14 after two hours. At around 6 hours he should be down around 0.08, but I would imagine he'd still be buzzing pretty hard. But 0.14 is jerky eyes walking is awkward drunk. Hell, you're 1/3 of the way to LD50.
TIFKAM - The Interface Formerly Known as Metro. Also double minus points for requiring the use of a contextual acronym translator that had to be adjusted for phonetic acronym reductions.
OTOH I think we may have found a new question to feed into the Turing test. Watson! Translate the acronym formerly known as TIFNAM!
Very nice job walking the razor's edge between incisive sarcasm and trolling. I feel that you succeeded in making an insightful point (just no mod points left this week). That was positively channeling Jonathan Swift in short form right there.
I need to get their customer list, I have a whole yard full of tiger rocks to sell that are specially crafted to protect them from tiger attacks. I know they work because my family has never been attacked by a tiger.
Because algorithms, like mathematical formulae are not so much developed as discovered. The same algorithm would've worked in caveman days on a rock-based Turing machine, it's just that we hadn't gotten around to finding it yet. It would be akin to patenting diamonds the first time they were discovered, and equally absurd. Now, you don't have to share your discovery with anyone, and you can certainly copyright your specific implementation of it, but patenting discoveries does the opposite of what the patent system was supposed to do which is to foster innovation. In point of fact the patent system fails pretty hard in fostering innovation right now, as quick as science is progressing.
Heck, that's not even your biggest problem. The hardest part of this scheme is piping all of that data into that storage in real time. And then maintaining backups, redundancy (do you lose data or re-route to another regional center if an outage occurs? Do you have multiple shadow trunk lines to account for the inevitable backhoe incident? how do you repair equipment that isn't supposed to exist?), power management, *cooling* - all of this costs time and money. An operation to store even 1% of all internet data being passed over the wires in real time would run into the trillions of dollars and would easily employ 1 million+ people. Wait...I just thought of a solution for the current jobs crisis!
I'll try to simplify - anyone who works with even moderate amounts of data understands that you can't just magically capture and sift through it all efficiently. The storage requirements alone are staggering not to mention you would need an entirely redundant shadow infrastructure to even begin to pipe all of this stuff in. And then, assuming you could build out the pipe and build out a datacenter to store it, you have to index that in a coherent fashion to even begin to attempt to do something with it. Bandwidth is not infinite. Providers can't just "duplicate everything" on their existing pipes. Hundreds of thousands of people would have to be in on something like this and they won't all be able to keep it secret.
tl;dr: you're not important enough for the government to waste time monitoring you. Chill out.
Here's the double-standard:
Every holy book has brutally violent sections. In the Old Testament God orders genocide more then once. Which means that if you think Islam has to be singled out due to it's violent nature you also think that Judaism, and the third Abrahamic religion (Christianity) need singling out.
The difference being that in the Old Testament you have God saying "these people are on the land I promised you now go kill them all to make room" which is pretty much a one shot at the time kind of command. Whereas in the Qu'ran you have explicit ongoing instructions to kill, convert, or subdue everyone that isn't Muslim. In the first case you have violent stuff happening that God condoned at the time, in the other you have an ongoing call to violence by Islam's "prophet". And in some countries, putting "prophet" in quotes would have people calling for my death.
Well to give Microsoft a little credit, easy to use install images have been the norm since at least Windows Vista (around 2006). There's still no good reason why this wasn't the case with XP/2000 also though.
It's effectively the same as type 1 diabetes in that the insulin producing cells are destroyed. There are probably other complications with your friend though as the pancreas produces a host of other enzymes that are needed for proper body function. I guess theoretically if they ever master islet transplants your friend could get off the pump though since true type 1 results from autoimmune destruction of beta type islets of Langerhans
Or if you just went for a soak in some sulfur hotsprings. Or if you're walking home from the store with a bag of Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) or if you spilled some sulfuric acid on you in the chem lab or... there's got to be a hundred plus sources of sulfur all around us. It's very common.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that. It was the only ST series, to me, that seemed even remotely realistic. All the others were set in some bullshit socialist utopia where no one needed or wanted money; the Federation was a bunch of flawless boy scouts; greed, lust, deceit, and religion were nonexistent; and no one thought it even remotely strange that crewmen were bringing their families aboard battleships. The characters on DS9 felt much more like real human beings (and aliens).
DS9 was more of a direct social commentary. The remainder of the Star Trek series are set in a post-scarcity culture. In fact one of the recurring themes in Star Trek TNG was bullshit reasons why they couldn't magic up the parts that they required. Think about it. Their power sources are orders of magnitude greater than required to sustain life functions (to the point where they convert pure energy back into mass for stupid shit like tea-cups and guitars), so anything that your neighbor has that you might want you just magic up on your home replicator or whatever. Starships have power problems only because they're limited in what they can carry on board, planet based installations wouldn't have that limitation.
So other than the occasional sociopathically imperial minded alien species, what is there to fight over in such a culture as that? Certainly most of the internal pressures are gone.
Sadly, given recent events with the sequester my first thought was that some high powered politician had to have been affected. Bravo for some common sense from the judiciary. Now lets percolate that up to Washington and spread it around.
I've built Windows XP install media with SP3 and all possible patches slipstreamed in (on DVD, but it still worked), then a supplemental CD with non-slippable updates (IE8,.NET, all that stuff). It's possible to install, offline, an XP machine with all updates applied to it in two reboots after the base install. Windows 7 is even easier since you just build a custom.wim file and replace the default install.wim with your custom one and bam. Nothing is unslippable in Win7.
Depending on the nature of the injury, sometimes the brain comes out before the autopsy begins and they just try to send in all the pieces they could find. Car accidents, shootings (I've heard of a shotgun to the face leaving a hole big enough for a brain to fall out), blunt force trauma - there's all kinds of ways to crack a brain out of a skull.
He's saying that they would be speaking German if Germany had been allowed to conquer Europe. Not so subtly implying that without the U.S.'s involvement that would have happened. The follow up joke of course being that we completely bastardized English after separating from Britain, with the echoing irony that we do, in fact, speak English anyway.
At the very least it's very much open to a Man in the Middle attack. All you have to do is store exactly what the card present and code that into your own chip for use at any place that takes NFC read cards. More likely though it's just obfuscated because the terminal reading it still uses a dialup connection to phone the bank and transmits those details for processing. Which means it will remain "encrypted" for exactly however long it takes to reverse engineer one of those NFC readers.
There are very few plants on that scale. Hoover dam outputs just over 2GW (peak) and you could probably count the number of plants on that scale in the U.S. on both hands. Honestly, 1GW is the peak power consumption for my entire desert county in summer (population ~140,000, with AC's cranking). That's a pretty huge setup.
Yeah, I usually drive with one hand, but that is only until I need to show a turn signal (or actually turn). That's when you do need the second hand.
I usually just turn with the heel of my palm if it's especially sharp and signal with my left hand which is the one on the wheel anyway. If you're sufficiently dextrous, you can also turn by twisting your wrist and snapping it around to grab the wheel to continue the turn. Harder and harder the older you get though.
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Strictly speaking soap just traps the natural oils in your skin in which a great many bacteria live which allows your hands to be much cleaner than otherwise. It doesn't make the bacteria directly "slip off" but it makes it so that you can get the nasty oil off of your hands. Also, washing with alcohol would likely be as effective or possibly more so, but the downside is dryness. Bleach, as you said is bad for your skin for multiple reasons.
Driving in excess of the posted limit doesn't harm anyone,
Until your front left tire blows out at 90mph and wipes out that happy little family of four driving in the opposite direction.
(a 750ml bottle of wine over 2 hours for a 180lb person @ 0.08 = legal)
Only if you have the metabolism of the Flash. An entire bottle of wine solo is 5 drinks (at 1 drink = 5oz. serving of wine). At that rate your theoretical 180lb person (we'll say male to lower as much as possible) should be floating right around 0.14 after two hours. At around 6 hours he should be down around 0.08, but I would imagine he'd still be buzzing pretty hard. But 0.14 is jerky eyes walking is awkward drunk. Hell, you're 1/3 of the way to LD50.
TIFKAM - The Interface Formerly Known as Metro. Also double minus points for requiring the use of a contextual acronym translator that had to be adjusted for phonetic acronym reductions.
OTOH I think we may have found a new question to feed into the Turing test. Watson! Translate the acronym formerly known as TIFNAM!
WHO doesn't need a smartphone?
Teenagers.
*slow clap*
Very nice job walking the razor's edge between incisive sarcasm and trolling. I feel that you succeeded in making an insightful point (just no mod points left this week). That was positively channeling Jonathan Swift in short form right there.
I need to get their customer list, I have a whole yard full of tiger rocks to sell that are specially crafted to protect them from tiger attacks. I know they work because my family has never been attacked by a tiger.
Because algorithms, like mathematical formulae are not so much developed as discovered. The same algorithm would've worked in caveman days on a rock-based Turing machine, it's just that we hadn't gotten around to finding it yet. It would be akin to patenting diamonds the first time they were discovered, and equally absurd. Now, you don't have to share your discovery with anyone, and you can certainly copyright your specific implementation of it, but patenting discoveries does the opposite of what the patent system was supposed to do which is to foster innovation. In point of fact the patent system fails pretty hard in fostering innovation right now, as quick as science is progressing.
Umm. RAW format is pretty standard. I mean it's essentially an uncompressed bitmap. The only thing that changes is that the resolution keeps going up.
Heck, that's not even your biggest problem. The hardest part of this scheme is piping all of that data into that storage in real time. And then maintaining backups, redundancy (do you lose data or re-route to another regional center if an outage occurs? Do you have multiple shadow trunk lines to account for the inevitable backhoe incident? how do you repair equipment that isn't supposed to exist?), power management, *cooling* - all of this costs time and money. An operation to store even 1% of all internet data being passed over the wires in real time would run into the trillions of dollars and would easily employ 1 million+ people. Wait...I just thought of a solution for the current jobs crisis!
I'll try to simplify - anyone who works with even moderate amounts of data understands that you can't just magically capture and sift through it all efficiently. The storage requirements alone are staggering not to mention you would need an entirely redundant shadow infrastructure to even begin to pipe all of this stuff in. And then, assuming you could build out the pipe and build out a datacenter to store it, you have to index that in a coherent fashion to even begin to attempt to do something with it. Bandwidth is not infinite. Providers can't just "duplicate everything" on their existing pipes. Hundreds of thousands of people would have to be in on something like this and they won't all be able to keep it secret.
tl;dr: you're not important enough for the government to waste time monitoring you. Chill out.
Here's the double-standard: Every holy book has brutally violent sections. In the Old Testament God orders genocide more then once. Which means that if you think Islam has to be singled out due to it's violent nature you also think that Judaism, and the third Abrahamic religion (Christianity) need singling out.
The difference being that in the Old Testament you have God saying "these people are on the land I promised you now go kill them all to make room" which is pretty much a one shot at the time kind of command. Whereas in the Qu'ran you have explicit ongoing instructions to kill, convert, or subdue everyone that isn't Muslim. In the first case you have violent stuff happening that God condoned at the time, in the other you have an ongoing call to violence by Islam's "prophet". And in some countries, putting "prophet" in quotes would have people calling for my death.
Well to give Microsoft a little credit, easy to use install images have been the norm since at least Windows Vista (around 2006). There's still no good reason why this wasn't the case with XP/2000 also though.
It's effectively the same as type 1 diabetes in that the insulin producing cells are destroyed. There are probably other complications with your friend though as the pancreas produces a host of other enzymes that are needed for proper body function. I guess theoretically if they ever master islet transplants your friend could get off the pump though since true type 1 results from autoimmune destruction of beta type islets of Langerhans
Or if you just went for a soak in some sulfur hotsprings. Or if you're walking home from the store with a bag of Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) or if you spilled some sulfuric acid on you in the chem lab or... there's got to be a hundred plus sources of sulfur all around us. It's very common.
DS9 was the best ST series
I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that. It was the only ST series, to me, that seemed even remotely realistic. All the others were set in some bullshit socialist utopia where no one needed or wanted money; the Federation was a bunch of flawless boy scouts; greed, lust, deceit, and religion were nonexistent; and no one thought it even remotely strange that crewmen were bringing their families aboard battleships. The characters on DS9 felt much more like real human beings (and aliens).
DS9 was more of a direct social commentary. The remainder of the Star Trek series are set in a post-scarcity culture. In fact one of the recurring themes in Star Trek TNG was bullshit reasons why they couldn't magic up the parts that they required. Think about it. Their power sources are orders of magnitude greater than required to sustain life functions (to the point where they convert pure energy back into mass for stupid shit like tea-cups and guitars), so anything that your neighbor has that you might want you just magic up on your home replicator or whatever. Starships have power problems only because they're limited in what they can carry on board, planet based installations wouldn't have that limitation.
So other than the occasional sociopathically imperial minded alien species, what is there to fight over in such a culture as that? Certainly most of the internal pressures are gone.
Well done sir
Well done indeed
*wishes /. had inline images*
Sadly, given recent events with the sequester my first thought was that some high powered politician had to have been affected. Bravo for some common sense from the judiciary. Now lets percolate that up to Washington and spread it around.
I've built Windows XP install media with SP3 and all possible patches slipstreamed in (on DVD, but it still worked), then a supplemental CD with non-slippable updates (IE8, .NET, all that stuff). It's possible to install, offline, an XP machine with all updates applied to it in two reboots after the base install. Windows 7 is even easier since you just build a custom .wim file and replace the default install.wim with your custom one and bam. Nothing is unslippable in Win7.
Depending on the nature of the injury, sometimes the brain comes out before the autopsy begins and they just try to send in all the pieces they could find. Car accidents, shootings (I've heard of a shotgun to the face leaving a hole big enough for a brain to fall out), blunt force trauma - there's all kinds of ways to crack a brain out of a skull.
He's saying that they would be speaking German if Germany had been allowed to conquer Europe. Not so subtly implying that without the U.S.'s involvement that would have happened. The follow up joke of course being that we completely bastardized English after separating from Britain, with the echoing irony that we do, in fact, speak English anyway.
At the very least it's very much open to a Man in the Middle attack. All you have to do is store exactly what the card present and code that into your own chip for use at any place that takes NFC read cards. More likely though it's just obfuscated because the terminal reading it still uses a dialup connection to phone the bank and transmits those details for processing. Which means it will remain "encrypted" for exactly however long it takes to reverse engineer one of those NFC readers.
You're off by a couple orders of magnitude on nuclear power plant power production. From wikipedia:
8.21 GW – tech: capacity of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world's largest nuclear power plant.
There are very few plants on that scale. Hoover dam outputs just over 2GW (peak) and you could probably count the number of plants on that scale in the U.S. on both hands. Honestly, 1GW is the peak power consumption for my entire desert county in summer (population ~140,000, with AC's cranking). That's a pretty huge setup.
Yeah, I usually drive with one hand, but that is only until I need to show a turn signal (or actually turn). That's when you do need the second hand.
I usually just turn with the heel of my palm if it's especially sharp and signal with my left hand which is the one on the wheel anyway. If you're sufficiently dextrous, you can also turn by twisting your wrist and snapping it around to grab the wheel to continue the turn. Harder and harder the older you get though.