reminds me of the bit from Apollo 13 where two of them look wistfully out the window at the Moon, and the third says "Gentlemen, what are your intentions?"
There's a reason why they put free speech in the first amendment.
actually it was originally the third. the first two were something about allotting Representatives (technically outstanding, but completely irrelevant now) and the one about congress not being able to vote themselves an instant pay raise (finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th). go read it for yourself: here's the original version.
not strictly true, actually--WORM is a perfectly valid concept in data storage. roughly speaking, i'd say the difference is in whether users are meant to be the ones doing the "write once" part.
There's plenty of Marathon homages in the original Halo (haven't yet played 2 or 3 myself). First, look on Captain Keyes's uniform for the Marathon symbol at the game's starting adventure on the bridge.
similarly, look at the center of the original Halo logo, just between the 'A' and the 'L'--there it is again.
everyone hated that level. the version of marathon one that works with Aleph One actually changed the jumping puzzle to be much easier. (only thing they did change, apart from adding a couple credits-type easter eggs.)
I think with archaeologists, there was (and probably still is) a lingering hangover from the Middle Ages that severely warped their ability to value "traditional" sources (the Bible, classical mythology, etc.) seriously. Too many people wanted too strongly to prove they weren't taking "silly old myths" seriously....
why does anyone ship anything with a six-character password? why does any website allow them? eight is barely sufficient given recent gpu-based attacks, and i seriously doubt people who have trouble remembering eight characters have any less trouble with six.
basically how WoW works--you can buy extra shiny pets and mounts direct from blizzard, or gamble for others (and other vanity stuff) with the CCG, but nothing you pay for affects the actual game at all. (well, except possibly that it makes the pet and mount collection achievements somewhat easier.)
see also Goodhart's law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." and Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
reminds me of the.hack project--it was cool (briefly) to watch the anime and be able to say "hey, i walked down that street yesterday on my ps2!" hopefully the plot will be more interesting....
i've met people who've been shocked at how quickly standard pin tumbler locks can be picked by an expert (i.e., as fast as you can open a slightly stuck lock with its own key).
if that's your level of understanding, you shouldn't be choosing the locks for a new building....
you kid, but the cloaca maxima, rome's sewer system, was one of their earliest engineering triumphs, and was traditionally said to have been built by the last king of rome. (and we all know where governments come from....)
every now now and then, organized crime starts spontaneously turning into government again. i read somewhere that during the rodney king riots, the chinese gangs (tong/triads/whatever) that all the chinese-owned businesses in the area had been paying "protection" money to for so many years actually showed up and protected them from the rioters.
Does it have an electric charge, for instance, or the concept of electric charge does not apply?
Antimatter is more or less defined by having an opposite (electric or other type) charge from regular matter. (Some electrically-neutral particles (like neutrons) have antiparticles through being composed of antiparticles of their composite particles; some are their own antiparticles (photons); some are still up for debate (neutrinos, apparently (TIL)).
Does it interact with the known forces of the universe just like matter?
Antimatter is presumed to have the same mass (in both senses) as matter, and thus to interact with gravity identically, but this is only just now becoming directly testable. (Gravity is basically unmeasurable on the quantities of antimatter we've had available so far--its effect on single particles is completely swamped by all the other, much stronger forces.)
Is there a "periodic table" for antimatter?
Antimatter is a phenomenon at the particle level, not the atom level, so the closest equivalent of the Periodic Table would be the Standard Model (more detail in the full list of fermions).
0. It cannot be printed by politicians to buy elections.
I may be wrong, but I believe it is in fact possible to make new gold-- that IS what nuclear reactions do, transform elements into other elements. Not sure that its terribly cost effective, of course.
yes, nuclear synthesis of gold is possible, from (at least) mercury or platinum, but it involves either a nuclear reactor, or a particle accelerator that costs orders of magnitude more in power to run than the new gold will be worth. if we ever got to the point where power was cheap enough that nuclear alchemy was profitable, i think society would be past the point of needing money at all.
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reminds me of the bit from Apollo 13 where two of them look wistfully out the window at the Moon, and the third says "Gentlemen, what are your intentions?"
shirley they meant armbidextrous....
A nation by definition must have territory.
a surprising number of countries recognize the Knights of Malta as sovereign, despite their having lost their last territory over 200 years ago.
There's a reason why they put free speech in the first amendment.
actually it was originally the third. the first two were something about allotting Representatives (technically outstanding, but completely irrelevant now) and the one about congress not being able to vote themselves an instant pay raise (finally ratified in 1992 as the 27th). go read it for yourself: here's the original version.
not strictly true, actually--WORM is a perfectly valid concept in data storage. roughly speaking, i'd say the difference is in whether users are meant to be the ones doing the "write once" part.
well of course you'd use WORMs with fish....
Interesting, I'd only heard that called "aphasia". Sounds like one meaning of "dysnomia" is from Latin, the other Greek.
Xena was just a temporary suggestion for the name; since 13th September 2006 it's actually been called Eris.
and what are eris and dysnomia (its moon) if not lawless?
There's plenty of Marathon homages in the original Halo (haven't yet played 2 or 3 myself). First, look on Captain Keyes's uniform for the Marathon symbol at the game's starting adventure on the bridge.
similarly, look at the center of the original Halo logo, just between the 'A' and the 'L'--there it is again.
everyone hated that level. the version of marathon one that works with Aleph One actually changed the jumping puzzle to be much easier. (only thing they did change, apart from adding a couple credits-type easter eggs.)
I think with archaeologists, there was (and probably still is) a lingering hangover from the Middle Ages that severely warped their ability to value "traditional" sources (the Bible, classical mythology, etc.) seriously. Too many people wanted too strongly to prove they weren't taking "silly old myths" seriously....
why does anyone ship anything with a six-character password? why does any website allow them? eight is barely sufficient given recent gpu-based attacks, and i seriously doubt people who have trouble remembering eight characters have any less trouble with six.
basically how WoW works--you can buy extra shiny pets and mounts direct from blizzard, or gamble for others (and other vanity stuff) with the CCG, but nothing you pay for affects the actual game at all. (well, except possibly that it makes the pet and mount collection achievements somewhat easier.)
see also Goodhart's law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." and Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
Note, we don't call it "carrot", as (yellow-red) carrots were developed in the 1700s.
and popularized as a symbol of dutch patriotism, iirc
reminds me of the .hack project--it was cool (briefly) to watch the anime and be able to say "hey, i walked down that street yesterday on my ps2!" hopefully the plot will be more interesting....
this. you can always pluralize a mass noun (not a collective noun, that's something else) to refer to multiple kinds.
i've met people who've been shocked at how quickly standard pin tumbler locks can be picked by an expert (i.e., as fast as you can open a slightly stuck lock with its own key).
if that's your level of understanding, you shouldn't be choosing the locks for a new building....
you kid, but the cloaca maxima, rome's sewer system, was one of their earliest engineering triumphs, and was traditionally said to have been built by the last king of rome. (and we all know where governments come from....)
every now now and then, organized crime starts spontaneously turning into government again. i read somewhere that during the rodney king riots, the chinese gangs (tong/triads/whatever) that all the chinese-owned businesses in the area had been paying "protection" money to for so many years actually showed up and protected them from the rioters.
AKA the (hot) lead standard.
some disagree
I remember in one of the James Bond books, he reluctantly cuts down from 120 to 80 a day, on doctor's orders.
Does it have an electric charge, for instance, or the concept of electric charge does not apply?
Antimatter is more or less defined by having an opposite (electric or other type) charge from regular matter. (Some electrically-neutral particles (like neutrons) have antiparticles through being composed of antiparticles of their composite particles; some are their own antiparticles (photons); some are still up for debate (neutrinos, apparently (TIL)).
Does it interact with the known forces of the universe just like matter?
Antimatter is presumed to have the same mass (in both senses) as matter, and thus to interact with gravity identically, but this is only just now becoming directly testable. (Gravity is basically unmeasurable on the quantities of antimatter we've had available so far--its effect on single particles is completely swamped by all the other, much stronger forces.)
Is there a "periodic table" for antimatter?
Antimatter is a phenomenon at the particle level, not the atom level, so the closest equivalent of the Periodic Table would be the Standard Model (more detail in the full list of fermions).
0. It cannot be printed by politicians to buy elections.
I may be wrong, but I believe it is in fact possible to make new gold-- that IS what nuclear reactions do, transform elements into other elements. Not sure that its terribly cost effective, of course.
yes, nuclear synthesis of gold is possible, from (at least) mercury or platinum, but it involves either a nuclear reactor, or a particle accelerator that costs orders of magnitude more in power to run than the new gold will be worth. if we ever got to the point where power was cheap enough that nuclear alchemy was profitable, i think society would be past the point of needing money at all.