Unless 10 or more Conservatives or the Harper-appointed Governor-General spontaneously develop consciences, the next election isn't going to be for almost 2 years.
Not really "the system" so much as the current client implementations. There is provision (Section 7, "Reclaiming Disk Space" in the original whitepaper) for reducing the size of the blockchain by discarding transactions where all the outputs have been spent again and those subsequent transactions themselves are buried under enough blocks. This lets you pare down the size of the blockchain considerably.
It's just that, AFAIK, no clients currently implement this.
If you're just starting mining, the difficulty dropping would be an excellent thing for you. It would mean you would have a larger share of the network hash rate and thus get more coin out of the same equipment.
Though a difficulty cut doesn't seem all that likely at the moment unless the current trend suddenly reverses itself. Even with the price drop, the network hash rate is flirting with 10 petahashes (up from about 6 at the start of the month) and it looks like the difficulty is going to break 1 billion next adjustment, which looks like it will be either on christmas or boxing day.
Depends on how you define "shortage". The worst solar conditions in the lower 48 are better than the best Germany has, and they're charging ahead with solar.
Not to mention that the oil of a fingerprint on the envelope will cause sufficient heat buildup to make the thing crack. If not for the outer bulb, you'd have to wear gloves when putting it in, like with a car headlight bulb.
45MW is about the same as a GE LM6000 natural gas turbine. You stick three, or four, or a dozen of those together to make a single plant of worthwhile size. You'd use these mini-nukes in the same manner.
If they're talking about birth defects in general, I believe the rate is something like 3% in the USA, so a 30% kick on that would increase the risk to 3.9%.
Warren won't buy Microsoft stock because the entire world would be throwing insider trading accusations at him.
I—well, Microsoft is a special case because Microsoft is off bounds to us because of my friendship with Bill and if we spent seven months buying Microsoft stock and during that period they announced a repurchase or increase of the dividend or an acquisition, people would say you've been getting inside information from Bill. So I have told Todd and Ted and I apply it myself that we do not ever buy a share of Microsoft. I think Microsoft is attractive but that—but we will never buy Microsoft. It—people would just assume I knew something and I don't, but they would assume it and they would assume Bill talked to me and he wouldn't have. But there's no sense putting yourself in that position.
Not as far as I'm aware. I believe Denmark and Sweden fund some of their respective state churches out of general funds in addition to the church tax revenues, but you can still opt out of the church tax.
Huh. Never seen that around here. With our boxes, you unlock the package compartment, grab your package, close it, and then you drop the key into the send slot.
Yes, I have. It's not a big deal. And besides, most people just drop by the mailboxes on their way home from work, so you don't even need to walk from home.
Rural areas already run on this system, so nothing is going to change for them. If you're on a farm or such, you head to the town/village to get your mail. If you're in the village/town, you walk a block or three to the boxes (or you drop by the boxes on your way home from work) to get your mail
This is just moving everyone else onto this system.
Boxes don't work for parcels, even in apartment buildings, where they used heavily. Parcel delivery has the same problem with boxes: everyone ends up getting a postcard and schlepping off to the local pickup point because the darned boxes aren't big enough to hold the parcel. And big boxes are unaffordable!
Canada Post thought of that years ago. The community mailboxes have sizable parcel compartments (usually two, one "C" size (13.5x30.5x35cm) and one "D" size (30.5x30.5x35cm) for every 18 normal "B" size (13.5x12.5x35cm) mailboxes) built into them. If you have a parcel, they stick it in the parcel compartment and put the key for it in your own mailbox.
What I don't get is why they just don't just raise the price of first-class mail. In the US, as a lower-volume mailer I'd be okay with spending a dollar to mail something, I end up mailing something about four times a year. It'd still be cheaper than using UPS or FedEx or the like...
Because unlike in Canada where Canada Post control their own rates, postal rates in the USA are controlled by Congress, several members of which have interest in sabotaging the USPS.
In seriousness, assuming this outfit does LaVeyan Satanism, the 11 Satanic Rules would probably be the closest to an equivalent.
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked. 2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them. 3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there. 4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy. 5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal. 6. Do not take that which does not belong to you, unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved. 7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained. 8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself. 9. Do not harm young children. 10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food. 11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
I think you may have confused "satanist" for "atheist". They are not the same. The first group purports to believe in the Lord Satan. Whether they actually do or not is a question for another day and most likely varies from person to person. The second group purports to believe in no god at all. I'm sure there are a certain number of atheists who claim to be satanists but the group as a whole is not atheistic.
Depends on what one means by "satanist". LaVeyan Satanism (Church of Satan) could be considered atheistic.
Satanists do not believe in the supernatural, in neither God nor the Devil. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshipped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. Thus any concept of sacrifice is rejected as a Christian aberration—in Satanism there’s no deity to which one can sacrifice.
The whole flying spaghetti monster was created just to troll religious people - you know that, I know that, everyone knows that, and people who run around pretending to believe in it really are just being trolls.
And how do you know that Jesus and friends weren't trolling the Romans and Jews?
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Unless 10 or more Conservatives or the Harper-appointed Governor-General spontaneously develop consciences, the next election isn't going to be for almost 2 years.
Since when is Pennsylvania a "red state?"
In terms of the state government? 2012.
Governor - Tom Corbett, Republican
Lieutenant Governor - Jim Cawley, Republican
Pennsylvania House of Representatives - 110 Republican, 92 Democrat, 1 Vacant
Pennsylvania State Senate - 27 Republican, 23 Democrat
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania - 4 Republican, 3 Democrat
Not really "the system" so much as the current client implementations. There is provision (Section 7, "Reclaiming Disk Space" in the original whitepaper) for reducing the size of the blockchain by discarding transactions where all the outputs have been spent again and those subsequent transactions themselves are buried under enough blocks. This lets you pare down the size of the blockchain considerably.
It's just that, AFAIK, no clients currently implement this.
Not just yet, please
If you're just starting mining, the difficulty dropping would be an excellent thing for you. It would mean you would have a larger share of the network hash rate and thus get more coin out of the same equipment.
Though a difficulty cut doesn't seem all that likely at the moment unless the current trend suddenly reverses itself. Even with the price drop, the network hash rate is flirting with 10 petahashes (up from about 6 at the start of the month) and it looks like the difficulty is going to break 1 billion next adjustment, which looks like it will be either on christmas or boxing day.
intelligibly : In a manner capable of being understood.
While possibly not the word they meant, it still fits.
Depends on how you define "shortage". The worst solar conditions in the lower 48 are better than the best Germany has, and they're charging ahead with solar.
IMHO the regulations (if the government felt it NECESSARY to regulate) should have been written in terms of minimal efficiency
That's what they DID do. They specified the maximum allowable wattage for lights of given light output.
Read here and find the table "GENERAL SERVICE INCANDESCENT LAMPS" on page 121.
Not to mention that the oil of a fingerprint on the envelope will cause sufficient heat buildup to make the thing crack. If not for the outer bulb, you'd have to wear gloves when putting it in, like with a car headlight bulb.
You are using an article that is almost 5 years old. LED prices have come down dramatically in that time.
You don't use just one of them.
45MW is about the same as a GE LM6000 natural gas turbine. You stick three, or four, or a dozen of those together to make a single plant of worthwhile size. You'd use these mini-nukes in the same manner.
If they're talking about birth defects in general, I believe the rate is something like 3% in the USA, so a 30% kick on that would increase the risk to 3.9%.
Warren won't buy Microsoft stock because the entire world would be throwing insider trading accusations at him.
I—well, Microsoft is a special case because Microsoft is off bounds to us because of my friendship with Bill and if we spent seven months buying Microsoft stock and during that period they announced a repurchase or increase of the dividend or an acquisition, people would say you've been getting inside information from Bill. So I have told Todd and Ted and I apply it myself that we do not ever buy a share of Microsoft. I think Microsoft is attractive but that—but we will never buy Microsoft. It—people would just assume I knew something and I don't, but they would assume it and they would assume Bill talked to me and he wouldn't have. But there's no sense putting yourself in that position.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45290263
Not as far as I'm aware. I believe Denmark and Sweden fund some of their respective state churches out of general funds in addition to the church tax revenues, but you can still opt out of the church tax.
Huh. Never seen that around here. With our boxes, you unlock the package compartment, grab your package, close it, and then you drop the key into the send slot.
If you don't want to pay the tithe, just ditch the religion.
Yes, I have. It's not a big deal. And besides, most people just drop by the mailboxes on their way home from work, so you don't even need to walk from home.
Rural areas already run on this system, so nothing is going to change for them. If you're on a farm or such, you head to the town/village to get your mail. If you're in the village/town, you walk a block or three to the boxes (or you drop by the boxes on your way home from work) to get your mail
This is just moving everyone else onto this system.
Boxes don't work for parcels, even in apartment buildings, where they used heavily. Parcel delivery has the same problem with boxes: everyone ends up getting a postcard and schlepping off to the local pickup point because the darned boxes aren't big enough to hold the parcel. And big boxes are unaffordable!
Canada Post thought of that years ago. The community mailboxes have sizable parcel compartments (usually two, one "C" size (13.5x30.5x35cm) and one "D" size (30.5x30.5x35cm) for every 18 normal "B" size (13.5x12.5x35cm) mailboxes) built into them. If you have a parcel, they stick it in the parcel compartment and put the key for it in your own mailbox.
I'm sure Canada Post is just fine with you using Purolator rather than parcel post, given that they own Purolator.
What I don't get is why they just don't just raise the price of first-class mail. In the US, as a lower-volume mailer I'd be okay with spending a dollar to mail something, I end up mailing something about four times a year. It'd still be cheaper than using UPS or FedEx or the like...
Because unlike in Canada where Canada Post control their own rates, postal rates in the USA are controlled by Congress, several members of which have interest in sabotaging the USPS.
It's a digital magazine, not just print.
And closed source stuff only costs the price they quote if your time has no value.
In seriousness, assuming this outfit does LaVeyan Satanism, the 11 Satanic Rules would probably be the closest to an equivalent.
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you, unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm young children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
I think you may have confused "satanist" for "atheist". They are not the same. The first group purports to believe in the Lord Satan. Whether they actually do or not is a question for another day and most likely varies from person to person. The second group purports to believe in no god at all. I'm sure there are a certain number of atheists who claim to be satanists but the group as a whole is not atheistic.
Depends on what one means by "satanist". LaVeyan Satanism (Church of Satan) could be considered atheistic.
Satanists do not believe in the supernatural, in neither God nor the Devil. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshipped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. Thus any concept of sacrifice is rejected as a Christian aberration—in Satanism there’s no deity to which one can sacrifice.
The whole flying spaghetti monster was created just to troll religious people - you know that, I know that, everyone knows that, and people who run around pretending to believe in it really are just being trolls.
And how do you know that Jesus and friends weren't trolling the Romans and Jews?