putting on costume and makeup is a major part of an actor's transformation process. Andy Serkis seems to get it though.
Ever watched good actors? They don't need costumes. It's really pretty scary, they can get into character in seconds and if you're not ready for it it's quite a shock.
I believe his point was that there those who argue that governments should have bigger stakes in certain endeavors like NASA in the US, but everyone here seems to be lamenting that this is the end of science because the state is taking full control of this program - which being russia I'm assuming was fully government funded before anyway, just more autonomous from direction by the duma.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has had moderate autonomy in terms of spending. They've never been funded to a level commensurate with perceived need (sound familiar?) but they had quite a bit of leeway in terms of funding individual projects. That has never been completely true, of course - the military has often worked through the Academy on projects they're interested in (and funded). The Politburo has had significant input into how various fields are funded. What appears to be the issue is that the Institute Directors will be potentially political appointees, responsible to His Glorious Putiness. We may be seeing many more studies on wrestling and tigers.
Just because a Russian didn't invent the smartphone, it does not follow that there are no famous Russian scientists. Broaden your horizons. Quite a number of 20th century math fields are almost entirely Russian. And hey, those rocket scientists, the ones that keep boosting out American astronauts into space - they're exclusively Russian.
This. The location of the devices burning the natural gas and the location of the fracked shale deposits mean that you will either have to build a pipeline from North Dakota to New Jersey or run pressurized rail cars the same distance. Either one is very, very expensive. It is not even cost effective to transport natural gas to the end users via pipeline in many places - the stuff is still flared. Now you want to pipe the waste product back to the middle of nowhere?
You need to work on your pyschopathy. Everyone has some psychopathic tendencies, but if you want to understand a CEO you need to embrace and extend (but certainly not extinguish) those traits.
Stomp on little animals. Steal money from children. Get elected to some office and perform some official malfeasance. Find a trophy wife or two (or husband, lets be 21st century about this). Read up on biographies of famous people.
You seem like an intelligent, hard working person. It's not beyond your grasp.
I say, if the NSA wants half coherent snatches of the population's dreams, let'em have it.
This is definitely a Do Not Want for me. Think about it. Look at everyone here. How much of their subconcious do you really want to know about? Doritos lazily floating in a sea of Dvorak keyboard caps? Belly button lint black holes?
>If I remember correctly, General Relativity used tensors over a 10 dimensional simplificaiton of a 16 dimensional field.
The metric tensor, a second-order tensor, has 16 components (something like a 4x4 matrix), but it is symmetrical so it is completely determined by only 10 of the components.
A third-order tensor would have 64 components. These have nothing to do with the number of spacetime dimensions (4).
Oh, BS. I've been sued before (unsuccessfully) and my career is hardly over. I have to review the applications of new docs coming into our system and quite a number of them have been sued successfully in the past. We need to perform due diligence, so I look at the reviews of the case, it's almost invariably bizarre. A doc sued for not preventing a heart attack when the last time he saw the patient was eight months before the event. A radiologist sued for missing a breast cancer that only one expert witness (out of five) saw on a mammogram. And on and on.
If we see someone who is sued repeatedly, then you have a big red flag. But it is rarity for an experienced practitioner not to have been sued at least once.
And yes, 'defensive medicine' is real - cost estimates range from 10-20% of the US health care dollar, so it's quite significant. But it's hard to pin down exactly what is meant by defensive medicine. It's not just fear of being sued - more of it comes from the understandable desire to get the diagnosis correct. Nobody, but nobody, knows just what the 'right' level of medical testing is appropriate. I suspect this will remain true for quite some time. Even in diagnoses that have been studied carefully, like a lot of heart diseases, we still don't know what the best treatment strategy is when patients deviate from study populations (like having two diseases simultaneously, the horror).
While FEMA has had bad moments, in general it does pretty well. It might be useful to understand that it is one Federal agency that is 1) typically on the run 2) chronically underfunded 3) has to deal with lots of other Federal, State, Local and private entities, some of whom have issues with control and command and 4) is run by fallible human beings. Guess what, spot decisions aren't always correct.
And lots of things have been learned by the Katrina experience including the inadvisability of giving the top slot to a political appointee (Hi Brownie!). There will be debriefs of this and perhaps FEMA will decide that it can work with Falcon UAV in the future. Or it may decide that they're a loose cannon and need to be told to go play somewhere else.
You do realize that we're seeing just one side to this issue.
Monarch Programming is a method of mind control used by numerous organizations for covert purposes. It is a continuation of project MK-ULTRA, a mind-control program developed by the CIA, and tested on the military and civilians. The methods are astonishingly sadistic (its entire purpose is to traumatize the victim) and the expected results are horrifying: [...]
Do not touch your dial.
We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.
And you, dear AC, should control you alcohol and other drug intake. Hope you start feeling better soon.
YOU should read the article carefully. Superficially, it looks nice and all sciency. However, it is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.
Careful with your examples. Boulder is the poster child of what happens when you build on a flood plain. They're having a 100 year flood about 100 years from their last 100 year flood. Little to do with global warming, everything to do with increased population density.
Soap. You want soap. Diswashing soap is best - you can clean clothes, hair, bodies and dishes with it. And some bleach. And a way of purifying water as it's hard to keep enough bottled water for washing, etc.
Unfortunately, a lot of it was bought with the lowest bidder mentality and the packs didn't last very long. This brings up a rarely discussed issue: Since Zombie Apocalypses are rare events, how much money do you front load to treat it? Replacing 20 foot storage containers scattered all over the country every five years gets pretty damned expensive.
Hopefully round 2 will have a bit more attention to longevity but you'd best hope that the economy is doing well in the few years before the apocalypse. Ripping open your prepacked supplies to find they have melted into a plasticized mess is going to be a big downer.
Look behind the right ear. There is a little wire....
It's simpler than that. People have figured out that first responders do better when they know that their own personal well being and that of their loved ones is taken care of. That takes some fairly easy planning. First or all, responders are encouraged to have bugout kits and enough supplies to shelter in place depending on the specific circumstances.
Our FD and PD staff have cached supplies - clothing / medical supplies / toys / pet supplies in a locked closet in our local high school which will be the likely center of any major disaster response. Families are taught to head the high school if they are evacuating and there are specific communications protocols to have families check in. Thus, if it works, the first responders know that they are taken care of which allows them to help others. Took a couple weeks to implement, costs are minimal. The system has worked in other places and makes quite a bit of sense.
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putting on costume and makeup is a major part of an actor's transformation process. Andy Serkis seems to get it though.
Ever watched good actors? They don't need costumes. It's really pretty scary, they can get into character in seconds and if you're not ready for it it's quite a shock.
Pick any two (except this is Lucasfilm, "better" isn't part of the vocabulary.
I believe his point was that there those who argue that governments should have bigger stakes in certain endeavors like NASA in the US, but everyone here seems to be lamenting that this is the end of science because the state is taking full control of this program - which being russia I'm assuming was fully government funded before anyway, just more autonomous from direction by the duma.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has had moderate autonomy in terms of spending. They've never been funded to a level commensurate with perceived need (sound familiar?) but they had quite a bit of leeway in terms of funding individual projects. That has never been completely true, of course - the military has often worked through the Academy on projects they're interested in (and funded). The Politburo has had significant input into how various fields are funded. What appears to be the issue is that the Institute Directors will be potentially political appointees, responsible to His Glorious Putiness. We may be seeing many more studies on wrestling and tigers.
Just because a Russian didn't invent the smartphone, it does not follow that there are no famous Russian scientists. Broaden your horizons. Quite a number of 20th century math fields are almost entirely Russian. And hey, those rocket scientists, the ones that keep boosting out American astronauts into space - they're exclusively Russian.
Or, if you insist: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=famous+russian+scientists
This. The location of the devices burning the natural gas and the location of the fracked shale deposits mean that you will either have to build a pipeline from North Dakota to New Jersey or run pressurized rail cars the same distance. Either one is very, very expensive. It is not even cost effective to transport natural gas to the end users via pipeline in many places - the stuff is still flared. Now you want to pipe the waste product back to the middle of nowhere?
Righto.
I might question the amount but not the principle.
I believe I speak for most slashdotters in saying that $25 US dollars would have been plenty.
You need to work on your pyschopathy. Everyone has some psychopathic tendencies, but if you want to understand a CEO you need to embrace and extend (but certainly not extinguish) those traits.
Stomp on little animals. Steal money from children. Get elected to some office and perform some official malfeasance. Find a trophy wife or two (or husband, lets be 21st century about this). Read up on biographies of famous people.
You seem like an intelligent, hard working person. It's not beyond your grasp.
$25 million buys an awful lot of Ambien
And, hookers and blow if needed.
But what happens if you like a lot of the dreams that you remember?
Am I broken or something?
I say, if the NSA wants half coherent snatches of the population's dreams, let'em have it.
This is definitely a Do Not Want for me. Think about it. Look at everyone here. How much of their subconcious do you really want to know about? Doritos lazily floating in a sea of Dvorak keyboard caps? Belly button lint black holes?
Not a fucking chance, guys.
Too slow and expensive.
Seize all assets and nationalize them, fire every manager and conscript them into the army.
3. Invade Great Britain.
4. Profit !
>If I remember correctly, General Relativity used tensors over a 10 dimensional simplificaiton of a 16 dimensional field.
The metric tensor, a second-order tensor, has 16 components (something like a 4x4 matrix), but it is symmetrical so it is completely determined by only 10 of the components.
A third-order tensor would have 64 components. These have nothing to do with the number of spacetime dimensions (4).
I'm leaving now. My head asploded again.
"mere amplituhedron"?
Are you allowed to say that?
You mind sharing what you're smoking? Or is that sarcasm I'm smelling?
Oh, BS. I've been sued before (unsuccessfully) and my career is hardly over. I have to review the applications of new docs coming into our system and quite a number of them have been sued successfully in the past. We need to perform due diligence, so I look at the reviews of the case, it's almost invariably bizarre. A doc sued for not preventing a heart attack when the last time he saw the patient was eight months before the event. A radiologist sued for missing a breast cancer that only one expert witness (out of five) saw on a mammogram. And on and on.
If we see someone who is sued repeatedly, then you have a big red flag. But it is rarity for an experienced practitioner not to have been sued at least once.
And yes, 'defensive medicine' is real - cost estimates range from 10-20% of the US health care dollar, so it's quite significant. But it's hard to pin down exactly what is meant by defensive medicine. It's not just fear of being sued - more of it comes from the understandable desire to get the diagnosis correct. Nobody, but nobody, knows just what the 'right' level of medical testing is appropriate. I suspect this will remain true for quite some time. Even in diagnoses that have been studied carefully, like a lot of heart diseases, we still don't know what the best treatment strategy is when patients deviate from study populations (like having two diseases simultaneously, the horror).
I did my masters in non-Newtonian budget surpluses.
Would those be quantum budget surpluses? Did you notice any cats?
Oh stop it.
While FEMA has had bad moments, in general it does pretty well. It might be useful to understand that it is one Federal agency that is 1) typically on the run 2) chronically underfunded 3) has to deal with lots of other Federal, State, Local and private entities, some of whom have issues with control and command and 4) is run by fallible human beings. Guess what, spot decisions aren't always correct.
And lots of things have been learned by the Katrina experience including the inadvisability of giving the top slot to a political appointee (Hi Brownie!). There will be debriefs of this and perhaps FEMA will decide that it can work with Falcon UAV in the future. Or it may decide that they're a loose cannon and need to be told to go play somewhere else.
You do realize that we're seeing just one side to this issue.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/hidden-knowledge/origins-and-techniques-of-monarch-mind-control/
Monarch Programming is a method of mind control used by numerous organizations for covert purposes. It is a continuation of project MK-ULTRA, a mind-control program developed by the CIA, and tested on the military and civilians. The methods are astonishingly sadistic (its entire purpose is to traumatize the victim) and the expected results are horrifying: [...]
Do not touch your dial.
We control the horizontal.
We control the vertical.
And you, dear AC, should control you alcohol and other drug intake. Hope you start feeling better soon.
Where are YOU?
YOU should read the article carefully. Superficially, it looks nice and all sciency. However, it is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.
Careful with your examples. Boulder is the poster child of what happens when you build on a flood plain. They're having a 100 year flood about 100 years from their last 100 year flood. Little to do with global warming, everything to do with increased population density.
Soap. You want soap. Diswashing soap is best - you can clean clothes, hair, bodies and dishes with it. And some bleach. And a way of purifying water as it's hard to keep enough bottled water for washing, etc.
And you forgot the towel.
Yes. An interesting bit of historical fiction concerning these events: World without end.
But the 9/11 panic brought most of it back.
Unfortunately, a lot of it was bought with the lowest bidder mentality and the packs didn't last very long. This brings up a rarely discussed issue: Since Zombie Apocalypses are rare events, how much money do you front load to treat it? Replacing 20 foot storage containers scattered all over the country every five years gets pretty damned expensive.
Hopefully round 2 will have a bit more attention to longevity but you'd best hope that the economy is doing well in the few years before the apocalypse. Ripping open your prepacked supplies to find they have melted into a plasticized mess is going to be a big downer.
Look behind the right ear. There is a little wire....
It's simpler than that. People have figured out that first responders do better when they know that their own personal well being and that of their loved ones is taken care of. That takes some fairly easy planning. First or all, responders are encouraged to have bugout kits and enough supplies to shelter in place depending on the specific circumstances.
Our FD and PD staff have cached supplies - clothing / medical supplies / toys / pet supplies in a locked closet in our local high school which will be the likely center of any major disaster response. Families are taught to head the high school if they are evacuating and there are specific communications protocols to have families check in. Thus, if it works, the first responders know that they are taken care of which allows them to help others. Took a couple weeks to implement, costs are minimal. The system has worked in other places and makes quite a bit of sense.
Plan ahead....