What if something really important happened on one of your lunchtime subway rides? You might get some enjoyment out of reviewing that, but you'd never record it without also recording all the boring ones.
I would argue that it's still not worth it. But I'm the guy that doesn't even take cameras on vacation anymore because it started to feel like I wasn't so much having a vacation as making a vacation collage for later use.
CFLs start quickly (though not instantly) *but* they have a limited number of starts. In an applications like bathrooms, where they are on briefly and often, they'll fail before a conventional bulb would have. If the price of a product is indicative of the its environmental impact, they are worse for the environment in some applications.
My wasteful halogens on a one-minute motion sensor outside use a lot less energy than the fluorescents that would replace them since the fluorescent would have to be on all the time rather than a cumulative total of about ten minutes a night.
Similarly with bathroom lights.
CFLs are good, and we should all use them. But we shouldn't use them stupidly as if they're some kind of magic energy-reducing talisman.
Tell me metrician, why do people under your system insist on making one of the very mistakes they switched to avoid: namely the confusion between weight and mass. When the imperial/standard systems were developing, that difference was unclear, so at least it's understandable that they'd make that mistake.
I speak of the kgf I hear bandied about, even in some scientific circles. Sure, it's meaning is relatively clear when you state it that way, but it's still an ill-defined unit (at what altitude for instance?) that there was no need of since you've got the perfectly serviceable newton.
Oh and liters per 100 km? Yeah, that's a much clearer unit than miles per gallon. No unnecessary over specification there, nosiree. BTW, we've both got that one wrong. Thermal expansion means that you're getting ripped off in the summer time. Auto efficiency should be measured in km/kg or miles/pound or something similar. My car gets an embarrassing 11 km/kg.
Guantanamo is a POW camp. The people in it are not necessarily legitimate POWs by the definition provided in the Geneva Convention, but they were captured fighting against American troops in a war zone. That war is not yet over, so they remain. Due to their sub-POW status in the Geneva Convention, a treaty which they neither recognized nor adhered to, it is only by the magnanimity of US leadership that they are accorded rights and privileges normally reserved for regular soldiers fighting under a recognized flag.
Well, maybe they do. I've never seen anyone drive worse than cops: driving through red on a 10-lane intersection, tailgating really freakin' close(I think they do this to see if you'll get nervous about a car on your bumper and speed up just a notch), weaving, speeding > 25 over (all w/o the lights...)
Yet I have not seen a single accident as a result of their irresponsible behavior.
Many of the quests are little more than glorified grinding themselves. There's only ever one or two fairly obvious ways to accomplish a quest and the vast majority of time is spent on *kill monsters to get x amount of y kind of loot where the percent of monsters which drop that loot is small.*
these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water.
The ecosystems rely on meltwater from the glacier, right? So the glacier must have been melting for quite some time. Suppose we could stop the glacier from melting, wouldn't that also be bad for the ecosystems below?
We did this one in diff eq. The equation which best fit the historical data had an asymptote at somewhere between 9 and 12 billion (I forget which..)
BUT
One of its assumptions basically implies that people can't live together without fighting (death rate proportional to number of interactions), so it might not be the best world to live in.
Once you 'collapse' it (which I assume you have taken from the statement that observing a quantity collapses its wave function) future observations will all yield the same result. The probability function becomes zero for every value but the observed.
for instance, if the probability function was a gaussian distribution, You could think of "collapse" as reducing the width until it became a delta function.
You shouldn't be allowed to cite World Book or Britannica for any papers you write after.. third grade.. anyway.
Wikipedia is good for the same thing a conventional encyclopedia is good for: Learning enough about a subject to pick good search terms for, at a minimum, a general search engine, and possibly even more specialized catalogs.
Anything that gets people using more sporting goods.. and therefore engaging in more activity, can't be all bad, can it? Even if done for entirely evil reasons, the good that results is tremendous.
I rather like the idea that if I use my cell phone to call 911, the police, ambulance, fire trucks, whatever will come to where I am when I make the call rather than just busting down the door to my house and billing me for the privilege.
Could they have implemented this without using GPS? Well, certainly, using cell-tower data. But it would be a lot less accurate, and not necessarily even any easier to do, and there's already a GPS receiver in there for timing purposes, so why not use it for location too?
Stealing is 'wrong' regardless of its purpose. However, it may be a 'wrongness' that Heinz is willing to live with considering the consequence of not stealing.
Should Heinz have stolen the drug? sure. Should Heinz be required to make restitution for his crime? absolutely.
Was the druggist's action morally right? not enough information: What did it cost him to develop the drug? Has he paid for that yet? If he gives in to Heinz's request, he probably won't starve, but if he gives in to every one whose wife is dying and can't pay, he will. How should he choose? It seems odd that he wouldn't accept the man's debt in return for the drug, but the nature of the drug has also not been fully revealed: Is it a one-time course of treatment, after which Heinz would be able to pay him back? Or is it a lifetime thing, such that Heinz would never be able to pay him back no matter how earnest?
This situation is tragedy precisely because of the clash of moral values and righteousness: there is no way out for Heinz or the druggist. There are no actions for either of them that are 100% morally good.
Does this analogy even relate to the discussion of copyright violation? Probably not. No one will ever come to bodily harm from not watching a particular episode of a particular show.
You don't need a fancy device for that. Just use a piece of foam. Turning useful kinetic energy into worthless heat is one of the simplest things anyone can do.
By far the best thing you can do to keep your feet warm though is make sure your shoes are appropriately sized. If you don't get enough circulation to the foot, it doesn't matter how well insulated your boot is, you're going to have chilly feet.
I was going to point out that you can get some of your about eq's and other mathematical symbols by using html charaacter codes. I'm nearly certain you USED to be able to sneak them in through the slashcode. Why would this feature be disabled on a forum for technically minded people?
Until some latchkey kid doesn't get to play games with his friends after school decides to whine about the unoccupied bank of computers and convinces his parents to sue: after all, there's no law requiring you to keep that bank free, so you shouldn't put any restrictions.. right?
It's the same thing with cigarette laws. It ends up being an all-or-nothing propositon because people make a stink if there aren't any laws and a restaurant wants to be non-smoking, so the legislature steps in and bans 'em from all restaurants.
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Don't forget to pour out the beer and throw the *can* in...
That will work fine. Unless you've only got two or three ram slots...
What if something really important happened on one of your lunchtime subway rides? You might get some enjoyment out of reviewing that, but you'd never record it without also recording all the boring ones.
I would argue that it's still not worth it. But I'm the guy that doesn't even take cameras on vacation anymore because it started to feel like I wasn't so much having a vacation as making a vacation collage for later use.
CFLs start quickly (though not instantly) *but* they have a limited number of starts. In an applications like bathrooms, where they are on briefly and often, they'll fail before a conventional bulb would have. If the price of a product is indicative of the its environmental impact, they are worse for the environment in some applications.
Were the fake tears more distracting than Leo's unbelievably fake accent? (or was his accent more realistic in the movie than the trailers)
Maybe they can fix the dialog with some post-processing....
My wasteful halogens on a one-minute motion sensor outside use a lot less energy than the fluorescents that would replace them since the fluorescent would have to be on all the time rather than a cumulative total of about ten minutes a night.
Similarly with bathroom lights.
CFLs are good, and we should all use them. But we shouldn't use them stupidly as if they're some kind of magic energy-reducing talisman.
Ahh the old metric superiority claim.
Tell me metrician, why do people under your system insist on making one of the very mistakes they switched to avoid: namely the confusion between weight and mass. When the imperial/standard systems were developing, that difference was unclear, so at least it's understandable that they'd make that mistake.
I speak of the kgf I hear bandied about, even in some scientific circles. Sure, it's meaning is relatively clear when you state it that way, but it's still an ill-defined unit (at what altitude for instance?) that there was no need of since you've got the perfectly serviceable newton.
Oh and liters per 100 km? Yeah, that's a much clearer unit than miles per gallon. No unnecessary over specification there, nosiree. BTW, we've both got that one wrong. Thermal expansion means that you're getting ripped off in the summer time. Auto efficiency should be measured in km/kg or miles/pound or something similar. My car gets an embarrassing 11 km/kg.
No, gravity does no work if you remain in place. Radiation pressure requires expenditure of energy to maintain.
Plenty of things repel, but that does not make them the opposite of the gravitational force.
Guantanamo is a POW camp. The people in it are not necessarily legitimate POWs by the definition provided in the Geneva Convention, but they were captured fighting against American troops in a war zone. That war is not yet over, so they remain. Due to their sub-POW status in the Geneva Convention, a treaty which they neither recognized nor adhered to, it is only by the magnanimity of US leadership that they are accorded rights and privileges normally reserved for regular soldiers fighting under a recognized flag.
Well, maybe they do. I've never seen anyone drive worse than cops: driving through red on a 10-lane intersection, tailgating really freakin' close(I think they do this to see if you'll get nervous about a car on your bumper and speed up just a notch), weaving, speeding > 25 over (all w/o the lights...)
Yet I have not seen a single accident as a result of their irresponsible behavior.
Toronto? Portland?
Boise??
Many of the quests are little more than glorified grinding themselves. There's only ever one or two fairly obvious ways to accomplish a quest and the vast majority of time is spent on *kill monsters to get x amount of y kind of loot where the percent of monsters which drop that loot is small.*
We did this one in diff eq. The equation which best fit the historical data had an asymptote at somewhere between 9 and 12 billion (I forget which..)
BUT
One of its assumptions basically implies that people can't live together without fighting (death rate proportional to number of interactions), so it might not be the best world to live in.
Once you 'collapse' it (which I assume you have taken from the statement that observing a quantity collapses its wave function) future observations will all yield the same result. The probability function becomes zero for every value but the observed.
for instance, if the probability function was a gaussian distribution, You could think of "collapse" as reducing the width until it became a delta function.
You shouldn't be allowed to cite World Book or Britannica for any papers you write after.. third grade.. anyway.
Wikipedia is good for the same thing a conventional encyclopedia is good for: Learning enough about a subject to pick good search terms for, at a minimum, a general search engine, and possibly even more specialized catalogs.
Anything that gets people using more sporting goods.. and therefore engaging in more activity, can't be all bad, can it? Even if done for entirely evil reasons, the good that results is tremendous.
What you're asking for is some kind of electric monk.
I rather like the idea that if I use my cell phone to call 911, the police, ambulance, fire trucks, whatever will come to where I am when I make the call rather than just busting down the door to my house and billing me for the privilege.
Could they have implemented this without using GPS? Well, certainly, using cell-tower data. But it would be a lot less accurate, and not necessarily even any easier to do, and there's already a GPS receiver in there for timing purposes, so why not use it for location too?
Yeah, no government in history has ever done that before...
They don't?
Stealing is 'wrong' regardless of its purpose. However, it may be a 'wrongness' that Heinz is willing to live with considering the consequence of not stealing.
Should Heinz have stolen the drug? sure.
Should Heinz be required to make restitution for his crime? absolutely.
Was the druggist's action morally right? not enough information: What did it cost him to develop the drug? Has he paid for that yet? If he gives in to Heinz's request, he probably won't starve, but if he gives in to every one whose wife is dying and can't pay, he will. How should he choose?
It seems odd that he wouldn't accept the man's debt in return for the drug, but the nature of the drug has also not been fully revealed: Is it a one-time course of treatment, after which Heinz would be able to pay him back? Or is it a lifetime thing, such that Heinz would never be able to pay him back no matter how earnest?
This situation is tragedy precisely because of the clash of moral values and righteousness: there is no way out for Heinz or the druggist. There are no actions for either of them that are 100% morally good.
Does this analogy even relate to the discussion of copyright violation? Probably not. No one will ever come to bodily harm from not watching a particular episode of a particular show.
You don't need a fancy device for that. Just use a piece of foam. Turning useful kinetic energy into worthless heat is one of the simplest things anyone can do.
By far the best thing you can do to keep your feet warm though is make sure your shoes are appropriately sized. If you don't get enough circulation to the foot, it doesn't matter how well insulated your boot is, you're going to have chilly feet.
I was going to point out that you can get some of your about eq's and other mathematical symbols by using html charaacter codes. I'm nearly certain you USED to be able to sneak them in through the slashcode. Why would this feature be disabled on a forum for technically minded people?
It's a great solution.
Until some latchkey kid doesn't get to play games with his friends after school decides to whine about the unoccupied bank of computers and convinces his parents to sue: after all, there's no law requiring you to keep that bank free, so you shouldn't put any restrictions.. right?
It's the same thing with cigarette laws. It ends up being an all-or-nothing propositon because people make a stink if there aren't any laws and a restaurant wants to be non-smoking, so the legislature steps in and bans 'em from all restaurants.