Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, called a "Batleth."
2 out of 2 7-11 store clerks can recognize Star Trek paraphernalia. Michael Dorn should be proud.
Also:
The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect left on foot.
I wonder if this clerk would have given the money to a guy with a gun? Or a guy with a human sword? I wonder if the average bat'leh wielder is more or less desperate or murderous than the average gun/sword wielder? Perhaps the robber didn't know the proper Klingon curse words.
U.S. businesses don't provide health care because the government doesn't subsidize it. U.S. businesses provide health care because the government requires it, and subsidizes it. It isn't anything close to a free market.
If these developers "support" Wine then they should recompile their apps with WineLib instead of saying "see, someone else made our app work on Linux - aren't we nice guys?"
You are incorrect. *ix functions exactly the same way as Windows in this case.
I'm sat here right now, running an admin account on XP, and if I try to delete the "Desktop" folder in my own account, I can't. It tells me "Desktop is a Windows system folder and is required for Windows to run properly. It cannot be deleted"
Do that from the command-line and Windows will not stop you.
Contrast this against the stories about *nix systems where some fool runs rm -rf as
The equivalent command in Windows is del/s C:\, and it will delete anything that is not in use, that you have permission to delete.
Yeah, but there is more energy in the waste than was produced by the power plant. That means it would take more power to clear the waste than the power plant could even produce.
The problem is that you put just as much energy into the particle beam as you could get from the waste. So it was a net energy loss. It was academically interesting, but practically useless.
It has nothing to do with coherence. It has to do with the fact that light bulbs spread their light in all directions. Coherent refers to the properties of the photons.
Don't trust their "equivalent to..." things. Look at the lumens which is listed for both the incandescent bulb, and the LED bulb.
This rule goes for buying CFLs too: They often over-estimate by about one level. (Ex: A "40-watt equivalent" is really a 25-watt. A "60-watt equivalent" is really a 40 watt. Etc.)
Are you telling me that some meat producers abuse their animals to impact the flavor?
"Jeb, I think beating that sheep then neglecting it for 3 days really added to the smoky flavor. Do you think we should try shooting it and letting it bleed to death first?"
All cord blood banks are private companies. That's not what I was talking about.
The NECBB provides public cord blood banking, meaning that they will accept donations of cord blood for free, and that anyone can buy the blood. This is opposed to private cord blood banking, where you pay to privately store your own cord blood so that nobody else can use it.
1) Someone turned on a buzz-saw outside, and I immediately hunched down and felt a fear of something dangerous above me. I realized after a moment that the sound was reminiscent of the flying buzz-cutting robots in Half Life 2.
2) I started a job at a BioScience company, and there is an area with a whole bunch of machines that make a humming sound, like a refrigerator running. One day one of the fluorescent lights on the walls was flickering on and off and I immediately felt that foreboding caution like walking into a new room in Doom 3. The humming is very much like the machinery in that game, and the flickering light took it to the next level. Now, every time I walk by there, I hear the narrator saying "The molecular fuel storage compactor..." and I imagine a Cacodemon coming around the corner. (It makes me like my job a bit more...)
To me it just seems foolish to do. The "immoral" suggestion, as you say, came from the realization that private banks provide misinformation or exaggeration to get people to use them. There seems to be a distaste for the whole thing amongst the medical community.
I have a 7 week old, and we used the New England Cord Blood bank because they are public. Private cord blood banks are a scam, and they are immoral. Somewhere I read somewhere that the American Board of Pediatrics quasi-condones the practice. You should be able to find a public cord blood bank that is available to you wherever you are in the US. Many states have laws requiring that local banks take your donation for free.
As far as public/private is concerned:
1) There are many diseases where you CANNOT use your own cord blood cells to treat them.
2) Since the odds of you needing the cells is low, it is preferable to bank them publicly so that if you don't use them, someone else can. Likewise, if you need someone else's cells, you have access to them.
Matching stem cells is comparable to matching bone marrow. It's not as easy as matching blood types. But once there is a large enough public supply, people should find stems cells readily available for treatments.
Many doctors offices and birthing centers will try to sell you on private banking. Don't listen: Many of them aren't even aware that public banking is possible, or don't mention it even if they do know. The salesman of the private banks come around and give them flyers and I-don't-know-what-else-kickbacks so the offices are biased. If you ask an OB/GYN what use the stem cells are, it is like asking them to bet on a roulette wheel. Not only is it unlikely now, but we have no idea what future treatments, IF ANY, will be available from the cells. So medically, there's just no good answer on the issue.
Check out the Wikipedia articles on this subject, and follow the links to the various studies. You'll find lots of good information there. If you can't find a public cord blood bank near you, check your state laws or contact your local hospital and ask.
Yeah, I was surprised at the jump from vacuum tubes to modern computers. But I'm not qualified to add details without investing considerable time into the research.
So, you get pulled over and they decide you're baked. They can't really prove it...
Who cares? If they pull you over, and judge you aren't fit to drive, it doesn't matter if it is because you are on THC, Alcohol, an overdose of meds, talking on your cell phone, or just too tired. Get out of your car, take a cab home, and pay a fine for reckless driving.
Now, if it happened to be that you are under the influence of something that makes you unfit to drive, and you did it intentionally, then THAT should be a stiffer penalty. But the particular chemical combination you used is irrelevant.
This example demonstrates a fundamental flaw in our legal system: We punish the cause, not the effect. Laws against talking on your cell phone, or against particular chemicals, miss the point. Punish the effect: reckless driving, and then you don't have to update the law every single time a new chemical comes out. And then you don't have to worry about punishing every person who uses those things safely. (Ex: people who talk on their cell and drive safely).
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Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, called a "Batleth."
2 out of 2 7-11 store clerks can recognize Star Trek paraphernalia. Michael Dorn should be proud.
Also:
The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect left on foot.
I wonder if this clerk would have given the money to a guy with a gun? Or a guy with a human sword? I wonder if the average bat'leh wielder is more or less desperate or murderous than the average gun/sword wielder? Perhaps the robber didn't know the proper Klingon curse words.
U.S. businesses don't provide health care because the government doesn't subsidize it. U.S. businesses provide health care because the government requires it, and subsidizes it. It isn't anything close to a free market.
If these developers "support" Wine then they should recompile their apps with WineLib instead of saying "see, someone else made our app work on Linux - aren't we nice guys?"
You are incorrect. *ix functions exactly the same way as Windows in this case.
I'm sat here right now, running an admin account on XP, and if I try to delete the "Desktop" folder in my own account, I can't. It tells me "Desktop is a Windows system folder and is required for Windows to run properly. It cannot be deleted"
Do that from the command-line and Windows will not stop you.
Contrast this against the stories about *nix systems where some fool runs rm -rf as
The equivalent command in Windows is del /s C:\, and it will delete anything that is not in use, that you have permission to delete.
Your link is not functioning.
Yeah, but there is more energy in the waste than was produced by the power plant. That means it would take more power to clear the waste than the power plant could even produce.
The problem is that you put just as much energy into the particle beam as you could get from the waste. So it was a net energy loss. It was academically interesting, but practically useless.
It has nothing to do with coherence. It has to do with the fact that light bulbs spread their light in all directions. Coherent refers to the properties of the photons.
You took my statement out of context.
So who needs this OLPC stuff?
Off the top of my head:
The cheap eee PC laptops still don't serve those purposes. They probably never will, since it is a very specialized and likely unprofitable market.
Aren't some solar panels made with GaN as well? Will this help them too?
Don't trust their "equivalent to..." things. Look at the lumens which is listed for both the incandescent bulb, and the LED bulb.
This rule goes for buying CFLs too: They often over-estimate by about one level. (Ex: A "40-watt equivalent" is really a 25-watt. A "60-watt equivalent" is really a 40 watt. Etc.)
"Disk vendors are free to choose to use AES 128-bit or AES 256-bit keys depending on the level of security they want"
More likely, they will choose based on the power of the controller. Nobody would want less security.
Did they mean a gram?
Didn't Dolly die of Cancer? Have they solved that problem?
Are you telling me that some meat producers abuse their animals to impact the flavor?
"Jeb, I think beating that sheep then neglecting it for 3 days really added to the smoky flavor. Do you think we should try shooting it and letting it bleed to death first?"
double transistor density each month
All cord blood banks are private companies. That's not what I was talking about.
The NECBB provides public cord blood banking, meaning that they will accept donations of cord blood for free, and that anyone can buy the blood. This is opposed to private cord blood banking, where you pay to privately store your own cord blood so that nobody else can use it.
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1) Someone turned on a buzz-saw outside, and I immediately hunched down and felt a fear of something dangerous above me. I realized after a moment that the sound was reminiscent of the flying buzz-cutting robots in Half Life 2.
2) I started a job at a BioScience company, and there is an area with a whole bunch of machines that make a humming sound, like a refrigerator running. One day one of the fluorescent lights on the walls was flickering on and off and I immediately felt that foreboding caution like walking into a new room in Doom 3. The humming is very much like the machinery in that game, and the flickering light took it to the next level. Now, every time I walk by there, I hear the narrator saying "The molecular fuel storage compactor..." and I imagine a Cacodemon coming around the corner. (It makes me like my job a bit more...)
Yes, I agree.
To me it just seems foolish to do. The "immoral" suggestion, as you say, came from the realization that private banks provide misinformation or exaggeration to get people to use them. There seems to be a distaste for the whole thing amongst the medical community.
I did some searching, here is the American Academy of Pediatrics 1999 recommendation, and here is the 2007 recommendation
Based on reading those, my use of the word "immoral" was too strong.
I have a 7 week old, and we used the New England Cord Blood bank because they are public. Private cord blood banks are a scam, and they are immoral. Somewhere I read somewhere that the American Board of Pediatrics quasi-condones the practice. You should be able to find a public cord blood bank that is available to you wherever you are in the US. Many states have laws requiring that local banks take your donation for free.
As far as public/private is concerned:
1) There are many diseases where you CANNOT use your own cord blood cells to treat them.
2) Since the odds of you needing the cells is low, it is preferable to bank them publicly so that if you don't use them, someone else can. Likewise, if you need someone else's cells, you have access to them.
Matching stem cells is comparable to matching bone marrow. It's not as easy as matching blood types. But once there is a large enough public supply, people should find stems cells readily available for treatments.
Many doctors offices and birthing centers will try to sell you on private banking. Don't listen: Many of them aren't even aware that public banking is possible, or don't mention it even if they do know. The salesman of the private banks come around and give them flyers and I-don't-know-what-else-kickbacks so the offices are biased. If you ask an OB/GYN what use the stem cells are, it is like asking them to bet on a roulette wheel. Not only is it unlikely now, but we have no idea what future treatments, IF ANY, will be available from the cells. So medically, there's just no good answer on the issue.
Check out the Wikipedia articles on this subject, and follow the links to the various studies. You'll find lots of good information there. If you can't find a public cord blood bank near you, check your state laws or contact your local hospital and ask.
Yeah, I was surprised at the jump from vacuum tubes to modern computers. But I'm not qualified to add details without investing considerable time into the research.
[citation required]
Judging from this History of computing it looks like war contributed more to computers than the space program did.
So, you get pulled over and they decide you're baked. They can't really prove it...
Who cares? If they pull you over, and judge you aren't fit to drive, it doesn't matter if it is because you are on THC, Alcohol, an overdose of meds, talking on your cell phone, or just too tired. Get out of your car, take a cab home, and pay a fine for reckless driving.
Now, if it happened to be that you are under the influence of something that makes you unfit to drive, and you did it intentionally, then THAT should be a stiffer penalty. But the particular chemical combination you used is irrelevant.
This example demonstrates a fundamental flaw in our legal system: We punish the cause, not the effect. Laws against talking on your cell phone, or against particular chemicals, miss the point. Punish the effect: reckless driving, and then you don't have to update the law every single time a new chemical comes out. And then you don't have to worry about punishing every person who uses those things safely. (Ex: people who talk on their cell and drive safely).