We've had enough media hysteria about "nookyoolear" that we don't even build nuclear power plants anymore. I think there would be sufficient public outcry following a nuclear attack (even just a "dirty-bomb") to release the nuclear arsenal. And politicians always do whatever they think will get or maintain power. Only a few clear-thinking military officers could stand in the way.
Which brings to mind the important question: "What should we do if attacked domestically with nuclear weapons by a non-state actor*?" And also, "What if it is Israel who is attacked?"
*and do such exist with that capability or is it merely convenient for the states involved to create the fiction?
I would. Most of my clocks don't have digits on them, so thirty minutes change is about an order of magnitude more mad button smashing than a one hour change.
I don't understand why they have to change the time though. Why can't they just tell all the businesses: You have to start an hour earlier in the summer than you do in the winter. summer starts...now!
I've a good mind to create a company one day where we start an hour later during the summer because people might want to sleep in a bit.
Every business starting at the same time is the real killer (due needless surge on road capacity) anyway, now that less than 3% of the population is farmers (who didn't use clock-time when DST was invented anyway.)
If the site chooses to spend that much of it's precious real estate on stilted, poorly dithered ugliness, they probably aren't worth visiting in the first place. If they pay for their content through ads, and I think their content is worthwhile, I want to see the ads.
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Why do conservatives disregard conservation?
What property is "conserved."
Why do right-to-lifer's support the death penalty?
They don't. (ok, some do, most don't. Those that do believe there is a distinction between someone who has not yet had the chance to experience life and someone who has chosen to commit a heinous crime.)
Why do liberals promote loss of liberty?
They don't. They simply value some liberties higher than others. Possibly ones you or I might disagree with. Politicians claim to be liberal in order to take away the lesser valued liberties. Then they claim to be conservative to take away the rest.
Why do those who dodge military service advocate preemptive war?
The right thing to do is the right thing to do, regardless of one's background. If preemptive war is the right thing to do, and one's leader had previously mislead a ROTC director to avoid the draft, one would hope they would still see the wisdom in the use of decisive force when charged with its use. Now whether or not we agree on what was done, I think we can all agree that something would've eventually had to have been done about Serbia.
Yes, but it's symmetric about noon. However minutes "late" sunrise is, sunset will be "early." OP was questioning whether there might actually be times/places where the whole windows was actually shifted.
Yes. An effective teacher will impart more than enough knowledge to merely pass a midterm or final. If students aren't even making it to these bars, then there are really only two options: the bar really is too high or the teacher really is inadequate.
The argument that the NEA/AFT seem to like to make is that having standardized tests means that teachers will teach "to the test" to the exclusion of more important knowledge. They fail to consider the possibility that some teachers are not even teaching "to the test."
Sometimes the font and page layout are part of the artistic work.
Would a Bond film be worth watching without the special effects? no. They are integral to it as a work of art. What about Shakespeare's sonnets without all the formatting? well, maybe.. if they're read correctly anyway, but the page formatting certainly helps. Would you consider a tourism brochure an artistic work? Why not? Page layout and font are certainly important there. What about the font itself?
I agree that if the console can't handle the graphics, that doesn't mean its games aren't art, but it does close the console to certain categories of works.
fine, hum then. the union of {people who can whistle} and {people who can hum} is quite large. Even if you only consider the subset of each who {would like to find random songs from vague recollections}
"And the European constitution actually gives the right to freedom of expression, though of course it isn't anywhere near as long established as the US' right to free speech."
And that's the problem with it. The US document merely recognizes that and other freedoms.
Well the brilliance of these smaller impactors is that, while threatening, they're not world-destroying threatening. We don't need them to miss the Earth. We only need them to miss US.
A cynical nation could interpret this to mean that such a body could be directed to land on its enemies.
A more productive nation would suggest nudging just enough to land in an area that is unpopulated, or at least, could be made to be unpopulated in the time available. Say, Antarctica, parts of northern Canada, Or perhaps Siberia (one such event has already occurred there, even), Gobi, Sahara, etc.
Depending on its concentration of minerals it could be far more valuable having impacted than simply pushed away.
Explain how they are not leveraging their monopoly position in the search engine business to unfairly compete in the word processing & spreadsheet business? They are GIVING AWAY their product FOR FREE. In other industries, this would be called "Dumping."
Matlab, at least, has a linux version. or linux wrappers or something. The student edition for instance comes with both windows and linux versions on the same disk.
Lego has their own CAD program that links in with their block database and allows you to purchase your creation. I think you can even set up build instructions and get that included, but I haven't looked at it for a while.
It isn't. It's the job of the US to protect the US. Protecting/Establishing democratic, free-market governance in the middle east is seen as a way to turn hostile enemies into neutrals or allies.
Reducing potential threat == protecting the US.
You could argue that it won't accomplish the goal, but that is the goal.
Now stop being pithy and find a way to help the situation rather than just yelling at it.
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We've had enough media hysteria about "nookyoolear" that we don't even build nuclear power plants anymore. I think there would be sufficient public outcry following a nuclear attack (even just a "dirty-bomb") to release the nuclear arsenal. And politicians always do whatever they think will get or maintain power. Only a few clear-thinking military officers could stand in the way.
Which brings to mind the important question: "What should we do if attacked domestically with nuclear weapons by a non-state actor*?" And also, "What if it is Israel who is attacked?"
*and do such exist with that capability or is it merely convenient for the states involved to create the fiction?
I would. Most of my clocks don't have digits on them, so thirty minutes change is about an order of magnitude more mad button smashing than a one hour change.
I don't understand why they have to change the time though. Why can't they just tell all the businesses: You have to start an hour earlier in the summer than you do in the winter. summer starts...now!
I've a good mind to create a company one day where we start an hour later during the summer because people might want to sleep in a bit.
Every business starting at the same time is the real killer (due needless surge on road capacity) anyway, now that less than 3% of the population is farmers (who didn't use clock-time when DST was invented anyway.)
If the site chooses to spend that much of it's precious real estate on stilted, poorly dithered ugliness, they probably aren't worth visiting in the first place. If they pay for their content through ads, and I think their content is worthwhile, I want to see the ads.
Neither of those are necessary if you use NoScript.
I don't want to see zero ads anyway. I just don't want them to take over my browser.
Wait.. Are you seriously claiming that this guy wasn't/isn't a geek?
Y'know, I don't think you really are a Mac user at all...
How precisely would banning guns protect people from being shot accidentally by police?
Let's not ascribe more evil than necessary.
Why do conservatives disregard conservation?
What property is "conserved."
Why do right-to-lifer's support the death penalty?
They don't. (ok, some do, most don't. Those that do believe there is a distinction between someone who has not yet had the chance to experience life and someone who has chosen to commit a heinous crime.)
Why do liberals promote loss of liberty?
They don't. They simply value some liberties higher than others. Possibly ones you or I might disagree with. Politicians claim to be liberal in order to take away the lesser valued liberties. Then they claim to be conservative to take away the rest.
Why do those who dodge military service advocate preemptive war?
The right thing to do is the right thing to do, regardless of one's background. If preemptive war is the right thing to do, and one's leader had previously mislead a ROTC director to avoid the draft, one would hope they would still see the wisdom in the use of decisive force when charged with its use. Now whether or not we agree on what was done, I think we can all agree that something would've eventually had to have been done about Serbia.
A few more conundrums to ponder....
indeed.
Bah, vi and emacs are great...for losers who make mistakes.
All you need is cat if you get it right the first time. It's got all the keyboard shortcuts you need. ^D means done.
NiMH don't last longer than NiCd.
oh you meant per-cycle...
Yes, but it's symmetric about noon. However minutes "late" sunrise is, sunset will be "early." OP was questioning whether there might actually be times/places where the whole windows was actually shifted.
Yes. An effective teacher will impart more than enough knowledge to merely pass a midterm or final. If students aren't even making it to these bars, then there are really only two options: the bar really is too high or the teacher really is inadequate.
The argument that the NEA/AFT seem to like to make is that having standardized tests means that teachers will teach "to the test" to the exclusion of more important knowledge. They fail to consider the possibility that some teachers are not even teaching "to the test."
IIRC, tiff can contain lossy formats too.
tiff is a container format. Not all of its features are supported by all of its readers&writers.
Sometimes the font and page layout are part of the artistic work.
Would a Bond film be worth watching without the special effects? no. They are integral to it as a work of art.
What about Shakespeare's sonnets without all the formatting? well, maybe.. if they're read correctly anyway, but the page formatting certainly helps.
Would you consider a tourism brochure an artistic work? Why not? Page layout and font are certainly important there.
What about the font itself?
I agree that if the console can't handle the graphics, that doesn't mean its games aren't art, but it does close the console to certain categories of works.
fine, hum then. the union of {people who can whistle} and {people who can hum} is quite large. Even if you only consider the subset of each who {would like to find random songs from vague recollections}
If you design the suit right, you don't even need an airlock.
That's completely orthogonal to the question of dumping. Google Docs doesn't have advertising.
"And the European constitution actually gives the right to freedom of expression, though of course it isn't anywhere near as long established as the US' right to free speech."
And that's the problem with it. The US document merely recognizes that and other freedoms.
Well the brilliance of these smaller impactors is that, while threatening, they're not world-destroying threatening. We don't need them to miss the Earth. We only need them to miss US.
A cynical nation could interpret this to mean that such a body could be directed to land on its enemies.
A more productive nation would suggest nudging just enough to land in an area that is unpopulated, or at least, could be made to be unpopulated in the time available. Say, Antarctica, parts of northern Canada, Or perhaps Siberia (one such event has already occurred there, even), Gobi, Sahara, etc.
Depending on its concentration of minerals it could be far more valuable having impacted than simply pushed away.
Explain how they are not leveraging their monopoly position in the search engine business to unfairly compete in the word processing & spreadsheet business? They are GIVING AWAY their product FOR FREE. In other industries, this would be called "Dumping."
Matlab, at least, has a linux version. or linux wrappers or something. The student edition for instance comes with both windows and linux versions on the same disk.
Lego has their own CAD program that links in with their block database and allows you to purchase your creation. I think you can even set up build instructions and get that included, but I haven't looked at it for a while.
Remember that formula, E=mc^2?
It's a simplification that comes from writing the formula for kinetic energy in relativistic terms. It can be written as:
E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2
You can extract the "rest energy" by setting the momentum to zero.
It isn't. It's the job of the US to protect the US. Protecting/Establishing democratic, free-market governance in the middle east is seen as a way to turn hostile enemies into neutrals or allies.
Reducing potential threat == protecting the US.
You could argue that it won't accomplish the goal, but that is the goal.
Now stop being pithy and find a way to help the situation rather than just yelling at it.