me too. In fact, I'm an advocate of not removing the cake from the oven early unless there's a problem with the oven. I also like cake with frosting. Which is added after the cake has been removed from the oven. Some people might even say it's not really a cake until you've added the frosting.
unjust laws shouldn't be unenforced. They should be stricken from the books. If you object because you don't want to get caught committing crimes, you have missed the point of the constitutional protections in this matter. They were designed to protect the INNOCENT from undue harrassment. If the law could tell the difference between the innocent and the guilty a priori, the protections would be different, but as it stands, the guilty are protected from harrassment so that the innocent will not be burdened with unjust activities of a vengeful state.
And yet, that is the only clearly definable event in the entire process. (well closing the oven door if you want to be pedantic). It is the only clearly definable instant prior to which you definately won't have cake, and after which there's a pretty good chance of cake.
Between the closing of the door and the removal at then end, there is a continuum of states of varying cakiness, but while a cake cooked for a half-hour might not be done enough, a slightly smaller cake cooked for the same time might be.
Since the correlation between cakiness and time cooked is not strictly 1:1, if you want to count your cakes early, you need either some objective and nondestructive way of determining "percent done" to set an appropriate limit. Or you can play it safe and just pick the clearly definable event at the begining.
The rescue worker will do what all rescue workers are trained to do. Rescue the least injured/in-danger victim first. In your hypothetical example, he would rescue the girl then go back for the embryos. But even there he might not go back in, being trained not to put himself at personal risk if the cause is literally hopeless. (how long would it take to get them into another cryo-facility while they were still viable?)
And anyway, why would you expect him to use a millsian ethical paradigm in the first place?
And how much did the FDA(insert appropriate regulatory agency for your country here) approval process cost for the new use? R&D and regulatory necessities far outstrips the marginal cost of producing another pill. especially in the case you've referred to where the potency needs were so much lower.
The first round of well-publicized ED pills also had some very well publicized processes. Pfizer aparantly was looking for a drug that increases bloodflow to a certain area of the body. One drug in particular turned out to be quite specific in its bloodflow increase, and though medically less useful, was found to have a very marketable effect and was then popularized by Bob Dole. (if only his candidacy ads were as good as his ED pill hawking ads...)
Anyway, they weren't specifically looking for ED treatments, but they happened upon it during the course of their research. Should they forgo the potent revinue stream available from its sales simply because it doesn't happen to cure cancer or aids? Revinue that could be applied to those very activities?
Ah, but how much of electric-rail's vaunted efficiency is complemented by the fact that the overhead wires mean they don't have to carry a full day's worth of power in the weight of batteries?
Different circumstances require different solutions, which are at varying levels of practicality.
Ok, there's a bit of a misconception about what hybrid cars are. Currently, they use underpowered engines that are very efficient (4-cyl prius, 3-cyl honda IIRC). The electric part is a performance-boost to enable these whiny wonders to accelerate as well as or better than their conventionally powered counterparts.
So although the electric part is useless for cruising, it does allow the engine to run at higher RPMs more often by decoupling the engine power from the drive power at least somewhat, and the smaller engine is still quite efficient for highway driving.
Which is why hybrids actually post better efficiency numbers for regular highway driving just like regular cars do. It's just that their city numbers are closer to their highway numbers. They allow you to almost make a full-sized car into an economy car, but if you look at the numbers, an economy car will still beat any hybrid currently on the market.
Except.. why would oil companies be opposed to electric cars? The way we currently make the electricity (and will continue to make electricity as long as the anti-nuke NIMBYs have any say) means that every electric car would be like two regular gasoline cars in terms of oil consumption.
I don't think you understand godwin's law at all. Or for that matter what a physical law is, which is what "godwin's law" is a tongue-in-cheek example of.
Except here's the problem. You bought gold, and continued to play the game. and pay blizzard for the privilege. So you are effectively voting for the game that's not quite what you wanted with your dollars.
The problem is that a lot of people are doing that instead of just quitting and waiting for the game they really want to play to come out. It is a problem because it gives the game companies no incentive to produce such a game. So until MMORPGs are as common as pork belly futures, there's going to be something of a market failure.
modified wow player disclaimer: I have played WoW. I never bought gold. I quit playing rather than do that. I don't see anything wrong with buying gold aside from the concern I've already mentioned. You are not cheating. In agregate however, your actions do hurt consumers with similar intrests as you.
The most important thing is to figure out why people play the parts they play and why people pay to bypass the parts they pay to bypass. In all liklihood, Blizzard has done this analysis and determined that actually making a game under which all parts are fun is less profitable than other options. Of course this means they're almost as evil as crack dealers, but I think we already suspected that.
glitches can't send you over a cliff. maps & GPS (or inertial) keeps you off the cliffs. glitches could send you into a ditch or onto a bush, either of which would be difficult to extract from.
One day at maximum usage is way way more than enough. You'll be home for charging for plenty of time during that, and if you're going to say that you want to take your phone camping, i've got to ask why you even are camping.
Ok, day-trader. That's true, but that's hardly the kind of long-term effect that would merit the attention of the likes of Warren Buffet. The situation you describe is a problem/opportunity for speculators. Not for serious investors.
One additional word: vulcanism. Meteor impacts have dropped off exponentially since the formation of the planets. Active vulcanism resurfaces the planet every so often, so the earlier more frequent and larger impacts that we see on the cold, cold moon have been melted away as they fell below the soup-skin that we call the lithosphere.
No, you're not storing it in a balloon. You're storing it in a DOT approved pressure vessel at well, well, swear-at-the-archaic-rules-of-the-DOT-for-making-t he-tank-heaver-than-it-really-needs-to-be pressures below the yeild strength of the tank. Punctures relieve pressure, which makes the rest of the tank even less likely to tear apart. Of course you've still got quite the compressed-gas rocket to contend with but that shouldn't be a problem as long as the tank is securely fastened to something appropriately heavy.
You need to watch more mythbusters. Specifically the exploding scuba tank in shark's mouth episode.
The only explosion danger is from igniting the natural gas.
Frankly, if they're going to put a camera in it, i'd rather have a high quality 640x480 resolution. Pictures of that size are absolutely fine for most purposes if they are taken with a low noise imager with appropriate optics and aren't compressed as all get-up. If all you want is to share some cameos on the web or print off some 4x6s for the family, a good 640x480 is actually a lot better than a poorly designed 5MP camera.
but wouldn't you rather have a really really tiny phone which you can add those things through equally tiny modular attachments if you so desire?
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me too. In fact, I'm an advocate of not removing the cake from the oven early unless there's a problem with the oven. I also like cake with frosting. Which is added after the cake has been removed from the oven. Some people might even say it's not really a cake until you've added the frosting.
unjust laws shouldn't be unenforced. They should be stricken from the books. If you object because you don't want to get caught committing crimes, you have missed the point of the constitutional protections in this matter. They were designed to protect the INNOCENT from undue harrassment. If the law could tell the difference between the innocent and the guilty a priori, the protections would be different, but as it stands, the guilty are protected from harrassment so that the innocent will not be burdened with unjust activities of a vengeful state.
And yet, that is the only clearly definable event in the entire process. (well closing the oven door if you want to be pedantic). It is the only clearly definable instant prior to which you definately won't have cake, and after which there's a pretty good chance of cake.
Between the closing of the door and the removal at then end, there is a continuum of states of varying cakiness, but while a cake cooked for a half-hour might not be done enough, a slightly smaller cake cooked for the same time might be.
Since the correlation between cakiness and time cooked is not strictly 1:1, if you want to count your cakes early, you need either some objective and nondestructive way of determining "percent done" to set an appropriate limit. Or you can play it safe and just pick the clearly definable event at the begining.
The rescue worker will do what all rescue workers are trained to do. Rescue the least injured/in-danger victim first. In your hypothetical example, he would rescue the girl then go back for the embryos. But even there he might not go back in, being trained not to put himself at personal risk if the cause is literally hopeless. (how long would it take to get them into another cryo-facility while they were still viable?)
And anyway, why would you expect him to use a millsian ethical paradigm in the first place?
And how much did the FDA(insert appropriate regulatory agency for your country here) approval process cost for the new use? R&D and regulatory necessities far outstrips the marginal cost of producing another pill. especially in the case you've referred to where the potency needs were so much lower.
The first round of well-publicized ED pills also had some very well publicized processes. Pfizer aparantly was looking for a drug that increases bloodflow to a certain area of the body. One drug in particular turned out to be quite specific in its bloodflow increase, and though medically less useful, was found to have a very marketable effect and was then popularized by Bob Dole. (if only his candidacy ads were as good as his ED pill hawking ads...)
Anyway, they weren't specifically looking for ED treatments, but they happened upon it during the course of their research. Should they forgo the potent revinue stream available from its sales simply because it doesn't happen to cure cancer or aids? Revinue that could be applied to those very activities?
Ah, but how much of electric-rail's vaunted efficiency is complemented by the fact that the overhead wires mean they don't have to carry a full day's worth of power in the weight of batteries?
Different circumstances require different solutions, which are at varying levels of practicality.
Ok, there's a bit of a misconception about what hybrid cars are. Currently, they use underpowered engines that are very efficient (4-cyl prius, 3-cyl honda IIRC). The electric part is a performance-boost to enable these whiny wonders to accelerate as well as or better than their conventionally powered counterparts.
So although the electric part is useless for cruising, it does allow the engine to run at higher RPMs more often by decoupling the engine power from the drive power at least somewhat, and the smaller engine is still quite efficient for highway driving.
Which is why hybrids actually post better efficiency numbers for regular highway driving just like regular cars do. It's just that their city numbers are closer to their highway numbers. They allow you to almost make a full-sized car into an economy car, but if you look at the numbers, an economy car will still beat any hybrid currently on the market.
Except.. why would oil companies be opposed to electric cars? The way we currently make the electricity (and will continue to make electricity as long as the anti-nuke NIMBYs have any say) means that every electric car would be like two regular gasoline cars in terms of oil consumption.
I don't think you understand godwin's law at all. Or for that matter what a physical law is, which is what "godwin's law" is a tongue-in-cheek example of.
Except here's the problem. You bought gold, and continued to play the game. and pay blizzard for the privilege. So you are effectively voting for the game that's not quite what you wanted with your dollars.
The problem is that a lot of people are doing that instead of just quitting and waiting for the game they really want to play to come out. It is a problem because it gives the game companies no incentive to produce such a game. So until MMORPGs are as common as pork belly futures, there's going to be something of a market failure.
modified wow player disclaimer:
I have played WoW. I never bought gold. I quit playing rather than do that. I don't see anything wrong with buying gold aside from the concern I've already mentioned. You are not cheating. In agregate however, your actions do hurt consumers with similar intrests as you.
The most important thing is to figure out why people play the parts they play and why people pay to bypass the parts they pay to bypass. In all liklihood, Blizzard has done this analysis and determined that actually making a game under which all parts are fun is less profitable than other options. Of course this means they're almost as evil as crack dealers, but I think we already suspected that.
Oh how convenient for you.
"Premise is true because of thing I say is true"
thing isn't true..
"Ok, then, but Thing is not true because of previosly unmentioned, but obvious extrapolation of Premise. so, Premise is still true."
water vapor != clouds. Clouds are composed of liquid water.
Of course, the CSI version will allow you to explore the crime scene, including things that were *behind* the camera when the picture was taken.
glitches can't send you over a cliff. maps & GPS (or inertial) keeps you off the cliffs. glitches could send you into a ditch or onto a bush, either of which would be difficult to extract from.
You're right,
CIA factbook says #3 for the US, preceeded by Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Tell you though, it felt really weird clicking "allow cia.gov" in my trusty ol' noscript plugin...
'vi', 'emacs', 'gedit'.. all take up too much space.
'cat >>' is better than the rest.
I'm pretty sure the single largest producer of oil is the US. It's just that our appetite is so large we must import quite a bit as well.
One day at maximum usage is way way more than enough. You'll be home for charging for plenty of time during that, and if you're going to say that you want to take your phone camping, i've got to ask why you even are camping.
Ok, day-trader. That's true, but that's hardly the kind of long-term effect that would merit the attention of the likes of Warren Buffet. The situation you describe is a problem/opportunity for speculators. Not for serious investors.
One additional word: vulcanism. Meteor impacts have dropped off exponentially since the formation of the planets. Active vulcanism resurfaces the planet every so often, so the earlier more frequent and larger impacts that we see on the cold, cold moon have been melted away as they fell below the soup-skin that we call the lithosphere.
No, you're not storing it in a balloon. You're storing it in a DOT approved pressure vessel at well, well, swear-at-the-archaic-rules-of-the-DOT-for-making-t he-tank-heaver-than-it-really-needs-to-be pressures below the yeild strength of the tank. Punctures relieve pressure, which makes the rest of the tank even less likely to tear apart. Of course you've still got quite the compressed-gas rocket to contend with but that shouldn't be a problem as long as the tank is securely fastened to something appropriately heavy.
You need to watch more mythbusters. Specifically the exploding scuba tank in shark's mouth episode.
The only explosion danger is from igniting the natural gas.
Frankly, if they're going to put a camera in it, i'd rather have a high quality 640x480 resolution. Pictures of that size are absolutely fine for most purposes if they are taken with a low noise imager with appropriate optics and aren't compressed as all get-up. If all you want is to share some cameos on the web or print off some 4x6s for the family, a good 640x480 is actually a lot better than a poorly designed 5MP camera.
but wouldn't you rather have a really really tiny phone which you can add those things through equally tiny modular attachments if you so desire?
But the apostrophe. Won't somebody please think of the apostrophy?