Do I alter the sun by squinting at it, and does it take eight minutes to upload my observation back into the sun's hard drive? It's the same thing, and it sounds rather silly.
Finally, a theory about Global Warming that doesn't require me to adopt global communism, move to a cave and eat only berries I find on the ground. It's already too late! We've collapsed the wave function.
You can get on the "green" bandwagon by changing your logo to use more green, and flying out attractive, young, female stars to Japanese dolphin fisheries to cry over the cute animals.
Actually reducing power requirements of something by even an insignificant percentage is way overkill.
A PCB? You've got it easy! All I've got is this refrigerator magnet and the bare coax from the cable company with a few inches of the shielding stripped away.
For Christmas, I think it may have something to do with Dickens. Everyone trying to have the storybook Victorian Christmas or something. If it's good enough for Tiny Tim, it's gotta be good? maybe?
Of course, this is especially odd considering how depressing so much of Dickens' work is...
No, she did the right thing. The non-emergency numbers are for non-emergencies. One clue that you're not having an emergency is that it seems like a reasonable idea to go to the phone book and skim through a few blue-pages until you find the right number. Obviously, if you have reason to believe you might have to put yourself in physical danger to even get to the phone book, you're not having a non-emergency.
It's important not to abuse the emergency numbers, but it's also just as important not to be nervous about using them when you actually need to.
Not all meteors nee asteroid are earth-destroying. Some of them are just earth-messing-up-a-lot. If you know when (and where) it's going to hit, you can plan your day to either avoid those parts of the world or specifically be in the projected impact zone.
I have voted in two states (in different elections, although disturbingly there doesn't seem to be an effective mechanism in place to prevent simultaneous), and in both the ballot was a single, sometimes double-sided piece of large card-stock. Bigger than legal-sized paper, but certainly not so big as a booklet.
I agree with your second paragraph, except I don't want to waste time and money on electronic voting for everybody. It should be a couple of machines for people with special needs. I can wipe a marker across a scantron bubble as fast as I can push a button. Why should I have to wait for something to print out after that?
How about, playing the game at any age is not appropriate for many people. And although you can't easily measure maturity, you can make guesses about it based on age.
Further, the person making the decision for children should be their parents, so stores should not sell these items to persons who are below the age of maturity, lest they bypass that person's parents' authority.
And further, the products might not be appropriate for quite a few people OVER 18, but you can't prevent the sale of legal goods to people over 18 unless you control federal highway money.
As far as I can tell, from my admittedly user point of view, the task manager doesn't actually kill processes. It sends them exit signals. As evidenced by the fact that, unlike every Linux distribution I've ever used, "end task" doesn't result in the immediate disappearance of any windows related to the process and the process name's removal from the process list. Only after a period of unresponsiveness does it drop ceremony and outright end the process.
In normal circumstances this is a good thing as it would allow applications to run their exit routines, saving settings, recovery files, and whatnot. But it would certainly be unwise to give malicious code the opportunity to run yet more code once you've decided to terminate it.
Are process explorer and pskill available from Microsoft (either as part of the install or as a download from microsoft's official site?) Otherwise you still run into some trust issues just to get that instant-kill functionality. Obviously, if you're running windows, you trust microsoft.
Indeed. Also, Chinese political prisoners are going to be killed, anyway, so why not harvest their organs to help sick people live longer?
The issue has always been one of a single, very important definition. What qualifies as a Human Being, deserving of human rights and what doesn't. Where is the cutoff? If there are multiple levels, what delineates them?
Most will agree (although, some even will hold fast here) that the individual germ cells are not deserving of separate human rights prior to conception. Otherwise, even wanking is an immoral act, with the numbers killed on par with the worst genocides.
Most, again, will agree that a person past the age of 21 is definitely a human deserving of having his rights protected. So the cutoff should go somewhere between just before conception, to just after the 21st birthday.
I think it should be an event based cutoff though, rather than an age based one. For how do you account those who mature faster? Age is easy to compute, but age-based humanity is based on statistics. You only get a probability that you're looking at a human. Statistical humanity is a rather frightening concept.
So, what do you have left as far as quantitatively measurable events at which to place humanity?
Conception is one such event, it happens quickly, and can be determined by direct observation with a microscope. Birth is another such event. First cell division? First electrical activity? You'd have to be measuring constantly, and you have to have perfect equipment. "good enough" brings us back to "statistical human." First heartbeat? same problem. Except that you have to explain whether heartbeat is the essence of humanty or if it is only a proxy for "humanity" where even with perfect, constant monitoring, you still have the statistical human problem.
Probably quite a few others, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Just an overview of the problems with picking a cutoff. I imagine there are quite a few in the pro-life camp that believe life actually starts some time after conception, but can't think of an easily measurable and unambiguous event or state at which to place the cutoff, and so revert to conception because it is prior to the life-point rather than some event after the life-point, guaranteeing that some humans will be murdered.
You already failed by implicitly accepting the options at face value. If you don't trust a website, how can you trust that a control button labeled "no" will "not do something?"
The only way to be sure is to kill -9 the application. But since windows (at least, XP) doesn't have kill -9, only a weaker {ctrl-alt-delete, send exit signal, wait a bunch, then kill}, you have to cut the power. With the switch, not the button.
Isn't The artist formerly known as Prince, once again known as Prince? Thus making him The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
With all this focus on calories, and calories from this and calories from that...
It is the material derivative that is important. It's all about the m-dot. Mass can only accumulate if more enters than leaves. Therefore, the cause of fatness is eating too much and/or not pooping enough.
I've seen those bracelets, too. But I didn't know they were some kind of crazy cook medical scam. I thought they were some kind of cool jewelry for linemen. They do look kind of neat if you ignore the wacky scam part.
That's true, but it's much worse for countries with a cooperative justice system where the prosecutor's record is still dependent on the number of cases he closes.
One thing that does bug me..
Cases where convictions are overruled or the defendant is found not guilty.. They don't ever seem to get investigated further. It's like, if our guy doesn't get convicted, the crime didn't really happen, or something. At least, there isn't any media coverage. For instance, OJ was acquitted. Doesn't that mean the case should still be open? What progress have the police made in finding the real killer (or killers?)
Examine the engraving again. The lengths of the stays are critical, as is the shape of the rope bridge between the vertical lines.
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No need for a sensor. 14.7 psi on a plane the size of a door is a tremendous amount of force. You just set it up so that when the door is bowed due to the pressure difference, the motor is incapable of overcoming friction from the deformation causing the door to be firmly lodged against one side or the other. You want the motor to be weak for other reasons as well. Heroes don't die of "Crushed in the lavatory doorway."
What's with the "McMansion" haters? By going with a more cookie-cutter style, with the facade of expensive materials over adequate if uninteresting ones, Home buyers are able to purchase a larger, more luxurious home than they would otherwise be able to afford. Sure, you lose the "originality" of a more traditionally built home, but how many of those "original" homes are just minor variations of ugly ranches, anyway.
These aren't suspension bridges, as the comparison to the George Washington bridge in the article clearly shows. They are rope bridges.
The difference is that the walking surface is not suspended from the overhead cables. It is instead supported by tension in the ropes that compose it.
The critical difference from the MIT bridge and the monkey bridges many of us made in the scouts is that it was supported by concrete blocks instead of lashed wooden A-frames and stakes. And that the MIT students put a rather impressive number of hours into making and thoroughly vetting their own rope and design.
Considering it's one of the few things the federal government does that it's actually authorized to do, I'd say that 21% is too small. It should be closer to 100% (and should be mostly Navy spending barring a constitutional amendment; A standing army is not allowed by the constitution and an air force is not even considered.) Though I'd like to see the percentage increase by virtue of divestment of all the other stuff in favor of the states running those aspects.
We're supposed to be a coalition of sovereign states for things like mutual security, currency and infrastructure, a lot like the EU was proposed to be, and not a single monolithic nation, as the EU is marching toward.
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Finally, a theory about Global Warming that doesn't require me to adopt global communism, move to a cave and eat only berries I find on the ground. It's already too late! We've collapsed the wave function.
You can get on the "green" bandwagon by changing your logo to use more green, and flying out attractive, young, female stars to Japanese dolphin fisheries to cry over the cute animals.
Actually reducing power requirements of something by even an insignificant percentage is way overkill.
Which, strangely enough, actually is somewhat dome shaped.
A PCB? You've got it easy! All I've got is this refrigerator magnet and the bare coax from the cable company with a few inches of the shielding stripped away.
For Christmas, I think it may have something to do with Dickens. Everyone trying to have the storybook Victorian Christmas or something. If it's good enough for Tiny Tim, it's gotta be good? maybe?
Of course, this is especially odd considering how depressing so much of Dickens' work is...
No, she did the right thing. The non-emergency numbers are for non-emergencies. One clue that you're not having an emergency is that it seems like a reasonable idea to go to the phone book and skim through a few blue-pages until you find the right number. Obviously, if you have reason to believe you might have to put yourself in physical danger to even get to the phone book, you're not having a non-emergency.
It's important not to abuse the emergency numbers, but it's also just as important not to be nervous about using them when you actually need to.
Not all meteors nee asteroid are earth-destroying. Some of them are just earth-messing-up-a-lot. If you know when (and where) it's going to hit, you can plan your day to either avoid those parts of the world or specifically be in the projected impact zone.
I have voted in two states (in different elections, although disturbingly there doesn't seem to be an effective mechanism in place to prevent simultaneous), and in both the ballot was a single, sometimes double-sided piece of large card-stock. Bigger than legal-sized paper, but certainly not so big as a booklet.
I agree with your second paragraph, except I don't want to waste time and money on electronic voting for everybody. It should be a couple of machines for people with special needs. I can wipe a marker across a scantron bubble as fast as I can push a button. Why should I have to wait for something to print out after that?
How about, playing the game at any age is not appropriate for many people. And although you can't easily measure maturity, you can make guesses about it based on age.
Further, the person making the decision for children should be their parents, so stores should not sell these items to persons who are below the age of maturity, lest they bypass that person's parents' authority.
And further, the products might not be appropriate for quite a few people OVER 18, but you can't prevent the sale of legal goods to people over 18 unless you control federal highway money.
As far as I can tell, from my admittedly user point of view, the task manager doesn't actually kill processes. It sends them exit signals. As evidenced by the fact that, unlike every Linux distribution I've ever used, "end task" doesn't result in the immediate disappearance of any windows related to the process and the process name's removal from the process list. Only after a period of unresponsiveness does it drop ceremony and outright end the process.
In normal circumstances this is a good thing as it would allow applications to run their exit routines, saving settings, recovery files, and whatnot. But it would certainly be unwise to give malicious code the opportunity to run yet more code once you've decided to terminate it.
Are process explorer and pskill available from Microsoft (either as part of the install or as a download from microsoft's official site?) Otherwise you still run into some trust issues just to get that instant-kill functionality. Obviously, if you're running windows, you trust microsoft.
Indeed. Also, Chinese political prisoners are going to be killed, anyway, so why not harvest their organs to help sick people live longer?
The issue has always been one of a single, very important definition. What qualifies as a Human Being, deserving of human rights and what doesn't. Where is the cutoff? If there are multiple levels, what delineates them?
Most will agree (although, some even will hold fast here) that the individual germ cells are not deserving of separate human rights prior to conception. Otherwise, even wanking is an immoral act, with the numbers killed on par with the worst genocides.
Most, again, will agree that a person past the age of 21 is definitely a human deserving of having his rights protected. So the cutoff should go somewhere between just before conception, to just after the 21st birthday.
I think it should be an event based cutoff though, rather than an age based one. For how do you account those who mature faster? Age is easy to compute, but age-based humanity is based on statistics. You only get a probability that you're looking at a human. Statistical humanity is a rather frightening concept.
So, what do you have left as far as quantitatively measurable events at which to place humanity?
Conception is one such event, it happens quickly, and can be determined by direct observation with a microscope.
Birth is another such event.
First cell division?
First electrical activity? You'd have to be measuring constantly, and you have to have perfect equipment. "good enough" brings us back to "statistical human."
First heartbeat? same problem. Except that you have to explain whether heartbeat is the essence of humanty or if it is only a proxy for "humanity" where even with perfect, constant monitoring, you still have the statistical human problem.
Probably quite a few others, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Just an overview of the problems with picking a cutoff. I imagine there are quite a few in the pro-life camp that believe life actually starts some time after conception, but can't think of an easily measurable and unambiguous event or state at which to place the cutoff, and so revert to conception because it is prior to the life-point rather than some event after the life-point, guaranteeing that some humans will be murdered.
You already failed by implicitly accepting the options at face value. If you don't trust a website, how can you trust that a control button labeled "no" will "not do something?"
The only way to be sure is to kill -9 the application. But since windows (at least, XP) doesn't have kill -9, only a weaker {ctrl-alt-delete, send exit signal, wait a bunch, then kill}, you have to cut the power. With the switch, not the button.
Isn't The artist formerly known as Prince, once again known as Prince? Thus making him The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
What are 20k people doing that doesn't need to be done on AT&T property? Certainly they're not maintaining or deploying physical infrastructure.
A guy studying obesity, and his name is pronounced, "Tubbs?"
With all this focus on calories, and calories from this and calories from that...
It is the material derivative that is important. It's all about the m-dot. Mass can only accumulate if more enters than leaves. Therefore, the cause of fatness is eating too much and/or not pooping enough.
I've seen those bracelets, too. But I didn't know they were some kind of crazy cook medical scam. I thought they were some kind of cool jewelry for linemen. They do look kind of neat if you ignore the wacky scam part.
That's true, but it's much worse for countries with a cooperative justice system where the prosecutor's record is still dependent on the number of cases he closes.
One thing that does bug me..
Cases where convictions are overruled or the defendant is found not guilty.. They don't ever seem to get investigated further. It's like, if our guy doesn't get convicted, the crime didn't really happen, or something. At least, there isn't any media coverage. For instance, OJ was acquitted. Doesn't that mean the case should still be open? What progress have the police made in finding the real killer (or killers?)
We need Polish pros to polish Polish prose?
Examine the engraving again. The lengths of the stays are critical, as is the shape of the rope bridge between the vertical lines.
No need for a sensor. 14.7 psi on a plane the size of a door is a tremendous amount of force. You just set it up so that when the door is bowed due to the pressure difference, the motor is incapable of overcoming friction from the deformation causing the door to be firmly lodged against one side or the other. You want the motor to be weak for other reasons as well. Heroes don't die of "Crushed in the lavatory doorway."
What's with the "McMansion" haters? By going with a more cookie-cutter style, with the facade of expensive materials over adequate if uninteresting ones, Home buyers are able to purchase a larger, more luxurious home than they would otherwise be able to afford. Sure, you lose the "originality" of a more traditionally built home, but how many of those "original" homes are just minor variations of ugly ranches, anyway.
These aren't suspension bridges, as the comparison to the George Washington bridge in the article clearly shows. They are rope bridges.
The difference is that the walking surface is not suspended from the overhead cables. It is instead supported by tension in the ropes that compose it.
The critical difference from the MIT bridge and the monkey bridges many of us made in the scouts is that it was supported by concrete blocks instead of lashed wooden A-frames and stakes. And that the MIT students put a rather impressive number of hours into making and thoroughly vetting their own rope and design.
Yeah, even if they are, it's racist to think so.
Considering it's one of the few things the federal government does that it's actually authorized to do, I'd say that 21% is too small. It should be closer to 100% (and should be mostly Navy spending barring a constitutional amendment; A standing army is not allowed by the constitution and an air force is not even considered.) Though I'd like to see the percentage increase by virtue of divestment of all the other stuff in favor of the states running those aspects.
We're supposed to be a coalition of sovereign states for things like mutual security, currency and infrastructure, a lot like the EU was proposed to be, and not a single monolithic nation, as the EU is marching toward.