We use the SI system in the United States, not the antiquated metric system (of which some definitions were translated in the creation of SI). The "standard" units are proxies for SI units, and are all exact, linear conversions.
We use lbf as a proxy for weight (N), and lb (or lbm) as a proxy for mass (kg). They are not the same. We are therefore, very, very confused by European insistence on continuing the mass-force confusion by incorporating kgf into their commerce system.
Unless, of course, the "someone" was a neighbors' kid, or a person whom I had taken guardianship of or responsibility for. In which case, there are other avenues that I would pursue first in the hopes of not only mitigating my personal damage but more importantly helping them to learn to grow up.
Just because you have a right to legal redress does not mean that you should take that option in all instances. Obviously, the decision lies in the hands of whomever was actually injured.
Yes, but the difference is that it was the university's own department. It's not just any organization. Students, by definition, are going to make some bad decisions along the way, and one of a university's jobs is to minimize the damage of those decisions so that a student can benefit from learning from their mistakes.
It's one of the reasons colleges like to have "campus police" rather than real police: keep everything "in the family" and out of the "rap sheets" where possible.
Academic sanctions, sure. But involving law enforcement where no significant damages have occurred shows a serious lack of judgment somewhere in the administration. I would emphatically not recommend attending any school which prefers to make an example of someone over protecting their students from making life-altering mistakes.
Perhaps. But when was the last time you heard someone describe themselves as an aphilatelist? anumismatist? What about "area man" who "doesn't watch television?"
You may have managed to avoid it, but the fact is that many who think they do not, have a religion, and it is none. They are evangelical, they have dogma, they demonize those who are not of the faith. They even have priests with vestments: A white lab coat.
Not doing something can be just as intense as doing it, only with 61.8% more smug.
Based on the article, it appears that it isn't "dating" either: it is used to infer biological activity. Presumably, the sample would be dated using other isotopes.
The controls are pretty redundant, and their routing is not obvious from anywhere inside the passenger module. The odds of randomly hitting anything critical with a centimeter-wide slug from a handgun before other passengers with guns would take you out is astronomical. Especially if they just had a bowl of complementary derringers at the boarding ramp.
Which is why I'm sad to say we will probably always be dealing with Islamic terrorists
And how is "not able to fight back" going to help us with that?
Atheism is a "faith" like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Gaah, I'm really quite sick of this mantra. For one thing.. it's a mantra. That does not make sense.
For another, if you put as much effort into not collecting stamps as most of the atheists on slashdot put into not believing in god, people would be suggesting support groups for your aphilatelism problem.
I'll bet it's a lot cheaper, though, if you can kick-start yourself by buying the remaining equipment and expertise of a failed company at firesale prices.
You have the client issue a popup when new messages are received. The google toolbar does this, if you have gmail. I'm pretty sure most of the linux clients do it. And you can set them to check a lot more frequently than every five minutes. I used to set one of 'em to 1 second, in fact. I don't remember which one though. It came with Mandrake, IIRC.
I would hate to be the guy that has to walk the ring looking for damage/sabotage.
Although.. It would make for a pretty cool jogging track. The exceptionally fit could brag about how many "pi"s they've done during the off-time.
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Go read some papers about the *timescale* of the projected "destruction" and you'll see that even if the odds are as high as.1%, a number pulled entirely out of someones ass, with no justification whatsoever, it's still pretty stupid to bother worrying about.
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I dunno.. would you really want to sit on that sofa, dude?
Cars, if it's a short trip 2km walk/ride a bike unless it's important/heavy to carry. Or unless the car has 2 or more passengers.
Indeed, if your commute is less than 2k and you still drive all the time, don't start bitching about your "glandular problem" every time the word "boombalatti" comes up in your presence.
Frankly, I think a lot of societal ills could be solved if we'd just stop considering it "impolite" to make fun of people's shortcomings.
I suppose that depends on whether dark is the powered-on or powered-off state for the crystals. Probably a better option would be to pick a relatively dim, low-contrast color-scheme, so the backlight could be powered down. Assuming the display is capable of powering down the backlight in that circumstance.
The proper procedure in the case of the Titanic would've been to steer into the iceberg and hit it head-on. It certainly was NOT too late. They simply used the wrong procedure, one which ended up breaching too many of the water-"tight" compartments.
Further, the procedure they *did* choose was not an unsophisticated "yelp! turn away!" but a tricky maneuver to swing the stern about. The "guiding center" of their motion would have actually passed through the iceberg. It was the correct maneuver for a ship with more power and turning capability, and one they would've learned was inappropriate if they hadn't abbreviated the sea trials.
The real lesson is not to jump in too soon all knee-jerk, and instead carefully study all of the options.
Why? Uranium and thorium come from the ground, too. The "hegemony" can build mines, and would certainly enjoy the extra barriers to entry that the additional regulation a nuclear America would "require."
Of course, the only part of our energy infrastructure that is heavily dependent on oil happens to be the one which is unsuitable for more robust systems due mostly to weight concerns, but don't let that get in the way of a good anti-capitalist rant.
Which was quite annoying. Google video had a much better interface at the time, and the videos seemed less crappy (encoding-wise...). I'm certain they would've overtaken youtube as "what youtube ought-to have been" if google had given it half a chance.
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Well part of the problem is that you don't understand what a hybrid car is. It's not your fault, though because the manufacturers have been deliberately marketingy.
Pop the electric drive out of a hybrid car and you might even see the fuel economy increase, depending on how you drive. The electric drive is really a "performance assist" to make what many would consider to be an underpowered engine acceptable.
So it's really no surprise that you can get the same results by simply accepting a bit less performance (i.e. lower acceleration.)
Seems to me that a naive way to do it would be to construct a linear feedback shift register with a period much longer than the expected number of transactions. Like.. expecting 10,000 transactions over the lifetime of the key fob? Make the period billions of words long.
The challenge is then fed in as the starting value, cycled a certain number of times, and the output is sent back.
Of course, the processing on the back end in verifying the output, as well as establishing millions of unique LSFR sequences would be pretty prohibitive. Nevertheless, you could *claim* "unlimited" number of challenge response pairs.
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We use the SI system in the United States, not the antiquated metric system (of which some definitions were translated in the creation of SI). The "standard" units are proxies for SI units, and are all exact, linear conversions.
We use lbf as a proxy for weight (N), and lb (or lbm) as a proxy for mass (kg). They are not the same. We are therefore, very, very confused by European insistence on continuing the mass-force confusion by incorporating kgf into their commerce system.
Of course I would.
Unless, of course, the "someone" was a neighbors' kid, or a person whom I had taken guardianship of or responsibility for. In which case, there are other avenues that I would pursue first in the hopes of not only mitigating my personal damage but more importantly helping them to learn to grow up.
Just because you have a right to legal redress does not mean that you should take that option in all instances. Obviously, the decision lies in the hands of whomever was actually injured.
Yes, but the difference is that it was the university's own department. It's not just any organization. Students, by definition, are going to make some bad decisions along the way, and one of a university's jobs is to minimize the damage of those decisions so that a student can benefit from learning from their mistakes.
It's one of the reasons colleges like to have "campus police" rather than real police: keep everything "in the family" and out of the "rap sheets" where possible.
Academic sanctions, sure. But involving law enforcement where no significant damages have occurred shows a serious lack of judgment somewhere in the administration. I would emphatically not recommend attending any school which prefers to make an example of someone over protecting their students from making life-altering mistakes.
The problem with that is that you won't be able to see the other cars, either. Or the bus, for that matter.
Someone needs to read more Shakespeare. Even if it was incorrect, it'd still be a paraphrased line from one of his more famous historical tragedies.
But the reference falls flat: Who is Mozilla's friend, which Mozilla is betraying for the greater good here?
You mean Admin von Richthofen?
Perhaps. But when was the last time you heard someone describe themselves as an aphilatelist? anumismatist? What about "area man" who "doesn't watch television?"
You may have managed to avoid it, but the fact is that many who think they do not, have a religion, and it is none. They are evangelical, they have dogma, they demonize those who are not of the faith. They even have priests with vestments: A white lab coat.
Not doing something can be just as intense as doing it, only with 61.8% more smug.
Based on the article, it appears that it isn't "dating" either: it is used to infer biological activity. Presumably, the sample would be dated using other isotopes.
The controls are pretty redundant, and their routing is not obvious from anywhere inside the passenger module. The odds of randomly hitting anything critical with a centimeter-wide slug from a handgun before other passengers with guns would take you out is astronomical. Especially if they just had a bowl of complementary derringers at the boarding ramp.
And how is "not able to fight back" going to help us with that?
It's Magic!
Gaah, I'm really quite sick of this mantra. For one thing.. it's a mantra. That does not make sense.
For another, if you put as much effort into not collecting stamps as most of the atheists on slashdot put into not believing in god, people would be suggesting support groups for your aphilatelism problem.
I'll bet it's a lot cheaper, though, if you can kick-start yourself by buying the remaining equipment and expertise of a failed company at firesale prices.
You have the client issue a popup when new messages are received. The google toolbar does this, if you have gmail. I'm pretty sure most of the linux clients do it. And you can set them to check a lot more frequently than every five minutes. I used to set one of 'em to 1 second, in fact. I don't remember which one though. It came with Mandrake, IIRC.
I would hate to be the guy that has to walk the ring looking for damage/sabotage.
Although.. It would make for a pretty cool jogging track. The exceptionally fit could brag about how many "pi"s they've done during the off-time.
Go read some papers about the *timescale* of the projected "destruction" and you'll see that even if the odds are as high as .1%, a number pulled entirely out of someones ass, with no justification whatsoever, it's still pretty stupid to bother worrying about.
I dunno.. would you really want to sit on that sofa, dude?
Chrome's as resource heavy as any other browser.
Per instance.
Indeed, if your commute is less than 2k and you still drive all the time, don't start bitching about your "glandular problem" every time the word "boombalatti" comes up in your presence.
Frankly, I think a lot of societal ills could be solved if we'd just stop considering it "impolite" to make fun of people's shortcomings.
I suppose that depends on whether dark is the powered-on or powered-off state for the crystals. Probably a better option would be to pick a relatively dim, low-contrast color-scheme, so the backlight could be powered down. Assuming the display is capable of powering down the backlight in that circumstance.
The proper procedure in the case of the Titanic would've been to steer into the iceberg and hit it head-on. It certainly was NOT too late. They simply used the wrong procedure, one which ended up breaching too many of the water-"tight" compartments.
Further, the procedure they *did* choose was not an unsophisticated "yelp! turn away!" but a tricky maneuver to swing the stern about. The "guiding center" of their motion would have actually passed through the iceberg. It was the correct maneuver for a ship with more power and turning capability, and one they would've learned was inappropriate if they hadn't abbreviated the sea trials.
The real lesson is not to jump in too soon all knee-jerk, and instead carefully study all of the options.
Why? Uranium and thorium come from the ground, too. The "hegemony" can build mines, and would certainly enjoy the extra barriers to entry that the additional regulation a nuclear America would "require."
Of course, the only part of our energy infrastructure that is heavily dependent on oil happens to be the one which is unsuitable for more robust systems due mostly to weight concerns, but don't let that get in the way of a good anti-capitalist rant.
Which was quite annoying. Google video had a much better interface at the time, and the videos seemed less crappy (encoding-wise...). I'm certain they would've overtaken youtube as "what youtube ought-to have been" if google had given it half a chance.
Well part of the problem is that you don't understand what a hybrid car is. It's not your fault, though because the manufacturers have been deliberately marketingy.
Pop the electric drive out of a hybrid car and you might even see the fuel economy increase, depending on how you drive. The electric drive is really a "performance assist" to make what many would consider to be an underpowered engine acceptable.
So it's really no surprise that you can get the same results by simply accepting a bit less performance (i.e. lower acceleration.)
Seems to me that a naive way to do it would be to construct a linear feedback shift register with a period much longer than the expected number of transactions. Like.. expecting 10,000 transactions over the lifetime of the key fob? Make the period billions of words long.
The challenge is then fed in as the starting value, cycled a certain number of times, and the output is sent back.
Of course, the processing on the back end in verifying the output, as well as establishing millions of unique LSFR sequences would be pretty prohibitive. Nevertheless, you could *claim* "unlimited" number of challenge response pairs.
Neither of those vehicles can use the diamond lanes.