I would call my Rep but he wrote the amendment, so it would be pointless.
Call or write to him anyway.
It is as important to encourage good actions by politicians as it is to discourage bad actions. Letting him know that he has grass roots support is important, and allows him to demonstrate that support to colleagues.
Also, a letter/message supporting a politician probably receives more notice than one opposing for two reasons -
1. it is much easier to get people to complain than to support
2. The natural human tendency for people to believe people who agree with them.
You seem to be under the impression that China's leaders are wholly evil demons out to cause as much suffering as possible. This is simply wrong.
People in power want two things : -
Priority 1/ to stay in power
Priority 2/ to do what they believe is best for their country (or a sub-group) under their value system.
There are very few people in the world who believe themselves evil, and virtually none in power anywhere. They do what they think is necessary to maintain that power and control, and within those constraints they generally try to do their best.
Where the evil (real or apparent) enters into it is the actions they take to maintain control, the actions they take that further their sub-group at the expense of the rest of their country, and in having a different order of values/priorities.
If we've got a problem with filesharing, wait until someone figures out a way to make a home-fabrication machine the size of a car that can produce anything a machinist can.;)
"Hard for a good musician to produce music without a good sopund engineer."
I'd argue that the person who cannot create good music without a good sound engineer is not a good musician at all.
I'd agree with that. But a good musician would not necessarily make a good recording without a good sound engineer.
Interestingly, in Australia it is illegal for private citizens to even possess body armour.
They don't bother chasing SCA types, but try importing a kevlar vest and they will kick your arse into court real fast.
The cops LIKE to have the ability to shoot without worrying about the slugs bouncing off.
This makes a heck of a lot more sense due to ONE SIMPLE FACT: theres no need to have a camera show a person whats behind them when they want the screen to overlay on whats INFRONT OF THEM
I don't know about that. If I'm going to be wearing those glasses I want at least the option of a window that shows a 360 degree view. I guess you could do it with cameras on the earpieces pointed backwards (as well as the cameras pointing forward).
I agree on the handcrank. The times when hiking that you are going to most use this are when you are stuck in a tent and it's pissing down rain outside. Solar won't do you much good then.
Hmm. What's the range on the wireless? I foresee ad-hoc gaming and chat networks in campgrounds.
I think you may have misplaced some units here.
The no-harm figure from that page that you quote is 0.5mg/kg/day.
Meaning you wouldn't want to drink more than 0.035 fully hydrolysed cans per day.
Unless you are quoting the animal dose figures, which only specify no brain or liver effects at 500 mg/kg/day,(but which is then contradicted by the studies quoted further down)
I think this is unlikely given that the lethal dose for humans is quoted as 80 - 150 ml. i.e. about 1000mg/kg.
It is very unlikely that they use Word to lay out their Journal, and word documents are a pain to directly convert into decent typesetting program files.
The usual procedure in places I have worked that need to do this is to open the document in word, select all the text and copy and paste into Quark/Framemaker/Indesign/Whatever.
You will have to re-apply all the formatting and styles, but you usually have to do that anyway in the Journal's style, and you can generally do it a paragraph or more at a time. Then the graphics/tables are done separately. The only way I have found to get decent quality graphics back out of word is to print the whole thing to a postscript file and cut out the bits you need. Word seems to deliberately damage embedded graphics if you cut and paste them to a non-office program.
If they operate this way, which I strongly suspect they do, then any hidden text or data is automatically left behind. The document will usually then be proof-read against the hard copy supplied and "OK'ed" from that.
Not many things in life are free, true.
But the price of things can be much more than those things are worth.
You never get more than you pay for, but it is quite easy to get less.
What does it actually cost to run a wi-fi network? How much of what BS would charge is pure profit? If a community decides to run their own wi-fi as a non-profit (ie. at cost) why is that wrong if they can do it for less than BS charges?
Not if the length of the cycle in years was the same as the diameter of the universe in light-years. You could look at the back of your head from the last cycle.:)
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It's a shame they don't let you play a song four times.
must have been the pills.
I would call my Rep but he wrote the amendment, so it would be pointless.
Call or write to him anyway.
It is as important to encourage good actions by politicians as it is to discourage bad actions. Letting him know that he has grass roots support is important, and allows him to demonstrate that support to colleagues.
Also, a letter/message supporting a politician probably receives more notice than one opposing for two reasons -
1. it is much easier to get people to complain than to support
2. The natural human tendency for people to believe people who agree with them.
Funny or not, it is the correct answer according to game theory.
Now there's a waste of 4MB.
So... what's your point?
You draw straws ....
Wankel Rotary Engine !!!
yeah, but think of the marketing -
New! Viagra Golf Clubs - You don't need a Golf Buggy, They Stand Up on Their Own!
"that doesn't make much sense when a baby gets dropped on its head now does it?"
Where do you think God gets new worshippers from?
You seem to be under the impression that China's leaders are wholly evil demons out to cause as much suffering as possible. This is simply wrong.
People in power want two things : -
Priority 1/ to stay in power
Priority 2/ to do what they believe is best for their country (or a sub-group) under their value system.
There are very few people in the world who believe themselves evil, and virtually none in power anywhere. They do what they think is necessary to maintain that power and control, and within those constraints they generally try to do their best.
Where the evil (real or apparent) enters into it is the actions they take to maintain control, the actions they take that further their sub-group at the expense of the rest of their country, and in having a different order of values/priorities.
Strewth mate, I don't have any bloody accent either, but the bastards can't recognize a bloody word I say!!
You mean like this thing: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm
I'd agree with that. But a good musician would not necessarily make a good recording without a good sound engineer.
Interestingly, in Australia it is illegal for private citizens to even possess body armour.
They don't bother chasing SCA types, but try importing a kevlar vest and they will kick your arse into court real fast.
The cops LIKE to have the ability to shoot without worrying about the slugs bouncing off.
This makes a heck of a lot more sense due to ONE SIMPLE FACT: theres no need to have a camera show a person whats behind them when they want the screen to overlay on whats INFRONT OF THEM
I don't know about that. If I'm going to be wearing those glasses I want at least the option of a window that shows a 360 degree view. I guess you could do it with cameras on the earpieces pointed backwards (as well as the cameras pointing forward).
I agree on the handcrank. The times when hiking that you are going to most use this are when you are stuck in a tent and it's pissing down rain outside. Solar won't do you much good then.
Hmm. What's the range on the wireless? I foresee ad-hoc gaming and chat networks in campgrounds.
I think you may have misplaced some units here.
The no-harm figure from that page that you quote is 0.5mg/kg/day.
Meaning you wouldn't want to drink more than 0.035 fully hydrolysed cans per day.
Unless you are quoting the animal dose figures, which only specify no brain or liver effects at 500 mg/kg/day,(but which is then contradicted by the studies quoted further down)
I think this is unlikely given that the lethal dose for humans is quoted as 80 - 150 ml. i.e. about 1000mg/kg.
It is very unlikely that they use Word to lay out their Journal, and word documents are a pain to directly convert into decent typesetting program files.
The usual procedure in places I have worked that need to do this is to open the document in word, select all the text and copy and paste into Quark/Framemaker/Indesign/Whatever.
You will have to re-apply all the formatting and styles, but you usually have to do that anyway in the Journal's style, and you can generally do it a paragraph or more at a time.
Then the graphics/tables are done separately. The only way I have found to get decent quality graphics back out of word is to print the whole thing to a postscript file and cut out the bits you need. Word seems to deliberately damage embedded graphics if you cut and paste them to a non-office program.
If they operate this way, which I strongly suspect they do, then any hidden text or data is automatically left behind.
The document will usually then be proof-read against the hard copy supplied and "OK'ed" from that.
...we're the only country in the world that eats its coat of arms
Yep.
Emu meat is pretty strong too. But it's better than the roo.
Not many things in life are free, true.
But the price of things can be much more than those things are worth.
You never get more than you pay for, but it is quite easy to get less.
What does it actually cost to run a wi-fi network? How much of what BS would charge is pure profit? If a community decides to run their own wi-fi as a non-profit (ie. at cost) why is that wrong if they can do it for less than BS charges?
"dotcom"-ming, i guess
ok. But what are backrounds?
Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo.
yes, very handy for us travelling salesmen....
Not if the length of the cycle in years was the same as the diameter of the universe in light-years. You could look at the back of your head from the last cycle. :)