Indeed, this link is never made. The article is rather an opinion piece learning us what the authors consider 'bad acts' (shoplifting, downloading, picking your nose,...), and confirming that those who are still young enough to be able to commit them, do so.
every language but English is phonetic. No other language has stupid rules where Y is 'sometimes' a vowel - where C is sometimes K - where "tongue" is pronounced "tung"
This is completely not true. In Dutch for instance, 'c' can mean either 's' or 'k'. And I know in French an Spanish letters also have a different pronunciation, depending on what other letters they are surrounded by. Admittedly, English has a lot of oddities, but it is far from the only language to do so.
Also: what you call 'phonetic' is no phonetic, just the original word split into syllables. In a language completely unknown to you, I don't think this will get you anywhere near the correct pronunciation.
Meanwhile, my friends majoring in the liberal arts pulled dandy grades while studying little. "You just wait," I thought, gazing upon them like the ant regarding the grasshopper in the summer. "You party and blow off homework now, but in ten years, you'll be making merely wonderful money as investment bankers and consultants, while I'll be getting laid off from a great job at General Electric."
Am I really the only one to detect some self-irony in the article?
The forces that go against submarines are the same in either direction, so at the very least, they could put a giant squid inside a submarine.
Note that submarines can resist a high outside pressure. There is no reason to assume they can also resist a strong inner pressure. I can imagine the doors open to the outside etc...
The short is sized to fit across the hand, while the long end is made form a pleasing proportion. This works, is comfortable, and many people already know how to utilize it.
Latex is great for CV's, letters etc. Just use a template et voilla, nice output. However it is indeed NO replacement for word processors because of a few reasons:
- afaik it was designed as a typesetting program, i.e. to give a nice PRINTED result, especially for mathematical formulas. Roughly speaking, its target group is academics (and maybe professional typesetters).
- it is not very legible. Writing text is easy enough, but editing someone else's source is no fun (unless using an editor that recognises the directives etc). Alse cut-and-paste is not so trivial because style files can be incompatible.
- The output is great, but it can be a pain when (for some reason) you want to enforce your own layout.
Admittedly, being European a lot of things going on in the US escape my attention. This includes a lot of wrong stuff, 'justified' by BS arguments. So I think I get your point completely.
But unless I missed something in the article, this guy was NOT targeted because he belonged to an ethnic group but because he was behaving 'suspiciously'. While his treatment was abusive of power, I am still not convinced he goes in the same list (admitted, your new examples do).
...are we on the verge of something big that will make fusion a practical reality in a much shorter time frame than the often quoted '30 years away, and always will be'?"
Yes, from now on it will only (perpetually) be 20 years away...
IMHO your logic would hold if the police would be targeting nerds. However, they are after 'terrorists', i.e. guys killing innocent people, and sometimes they make a mistake and catch a nerd.
Agreed, they were not polite, a compensation for the inconvenience would be appropriate, and keeping his data stored may not be pleasant. My point is they were not targeting nerds, whereas the Nazis were targeting Jews etc. I don't see how 'terrorists' fit in the category 'Jews', 'communists',...
It just uses surplus electricity being generated by the alternator whether the battery needs charging or not. The engine is already doing the work, we're just recuperating it in the form of a mileage increasing
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Where do you think the power would go if you were not there to 'harvest' it? In reality it works like this: when no electrical power is consumed the alternator does not load the engine, leaving more torque available for acceleration. You just steal this.
Methanol isn't too common a substance, partially because it is some nasty stuff.
You're joking, right? Methanol is an ondinary alcohol from methane (CH4) just like ethanol is an alcohol from ethane (C2H6). Ethanol is alcohol 'as we know it' of course.
Indeed, methanol has somewhat of a bad reputation because it makes you blind, but it is FAR from difficult to get. As far as I know it is easily manufactured and a common by-product of fermentation of beers, wine etc. Apparently its effect is limited when mixed with (more) ethanol (present in drinks), I have heard (not sure) that if you go to a hospital with methanol intixocation, you are fed ethanol intraveinously to counter it. AFAIK the major causes of blindness are illegal distilleries (crooks selling 'bad' liquor), NOT people accidentally drinking a bottle of pure methanol.
Anyway, methanol is a very common household product, used for cleaning, degreasing, fondue sets... Ok, it is not safe to drink but neither is gasoline, cleaning agents etc.
Another way would be to store charge on a plate capacitor. By pulling the plates away from each other, the capacity C goes down. Because C in C=Q/V goes down and obviously the charge Q stays, V should go up. Maybe this is cheating a bit, because the field strength (E=V/distance) will not increase I think, but still it is easy to build up a high voltage.
"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts... Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.
Indeed, they are mixing up units. There is NO WAY these clothes could deliver a strong current for a long time:
- they are not highly conductive
- they do not form a high capacitance so they could not store a really high charge (even if the voltage is high)
- this supposedly high current in combination with the high voltage (40kV) would lead to an immense release of power which could never be present in the clothing.
Wikipedia may be interesting, but it is hardly an official document. Basically it guarantees nothing: content may be (and often is) relevant and correct, but that's it. IMHO it should only be used as an initial pointer. Would you perform any critical action (open heart surgery, nuclear power plant control,...) based on Wikipedia's information? I surely would not. I would not be surprised if its legal value turned out to be limited.
Completele agreed for e.g. open source drivers of products a company can sell. But imho Gates has a point that developers of open source software, which is often free (as in beer) need an anternative source of income.
Ok, fine I'll wear the earthing strap. Although I'd already earthed myself by touching part of a near by radiator, this would save me any more earache.
Actually I think you need not necessarily be at the same potential as the ground, but as the PC. Touching the case would imho be far more effective. In case the PC is plugged in this has the same effect of course. I sometimes unplug mine before servicing it.
The interference caused by one person's stereo system was solved by having a part on the sound card replaced by the factory.
When these measurements are even disturbed by EMI due to sources that aren't even supposed to be radiating at all, they apparently are very sensitive. Why don't they do them somewhere else, far from civilisation? Also, how can they be sure that what is measured is actually this deuterium and not another very weak terrestrial noise source?
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Indeed, this link is never made. The article is rather an opinion piece learning us what the authors consider 'bad acts' (shoplifting, downloading, picking your nose,...), and confirming that those who are still young enough to be able to commit them, do so.
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This is completely not true. In Dutch for instance, 'c' can mean either 's' or 'k'. And I know in French an Spanish letters also have a different pronunciation, depending on what other letters they are surrounded by. Admittedly, English has a lot of oddities, but it is far from the only language to do so.
Also: what you call 'phonetic' is no phonetic, just the original word split into syllables. In a language completely unknown to you, I don't think this will get you anywhere near the correct pronunciation.
Am I really the only one to detect some self-irony in the article?
In other words: don't fart.
Note that submarines can resist a high outside pressure. There is no reason to assume they can also resist a strong inner pressure. I can imagine the doors open to the outside etc...
It would also indicate a serious lack of imagination and self-confidence.
Are you still talking about the radio?
Have you got any idea how many PhD's you nukes with these infernally addictive games?
Latex is great for CV's, letters etc. Just use a template et voilla, nice output. However it is indeed NO replacement for word processors because of a few reasons:
- afaik it was designed as a typesetting program, i.e. to give a nice PRINTED result, especially for mathematical formulas. Roughly speaking, its target group is academics (and maybe professional typesetters).
- it is not very legible. Writing text is easy enough, but editing someone else's source is no fun (unless using an editor that recognises the directives etc). Alse cut-and-paste is not so trivial because style files can be incompatible.
- The output is great, but it can be a pain when (for some reason) you want to enforce your own layout.
But unless I missed something in the article, this guy was NOT targeted because he belonged to an ethnic group but because he was behaving 'suspiciously'. While his treatment was abusive of power, I am still not convinced he goes in the same list (admitted, your new examples do).
Yes, from now on it will only (perpetually) be 20 years away...
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Where do you think the power would go if you were not there to 'harvest' it? In reality it works like this: when no electrical power is consumed the alternator does not load the engine, leaving more torque available for acceleration. You just steal this.
You're joking, right? Methanol is an ondinary alcohol from methane (CH4) just like ethanol is an alcohol from ethane (C2H6). Ethanol is alcohol 'as we know it' of course.
Indeed, methanol has somewhat of a bad reputation because it makes you blind, but it is FAR from difficult to get. As far as I know it is easily manufactured and a common by-product of fermentation of beers, wine etc. Apparently its effect is limited when mixed with (more) ethanol (present in drinks), I have heard (not sure) that if you go to a hospital with methanol intixocation, you are fed ethanol intraveinously to counter it. AFAIK the major causes of blindness are illegal distilleries (crooks selling 'bad' liquor), NOT people accidentally drinking a bottle of pure methanol.
Anyway, methanol is a very common household product, used for cleaning, degreasing, fondue sets... Ok, it is not safe to drink but neither is gasoline, cleaning agents etc.
Another way would be to store charge on a plate capacitor. By pulling the plates away from each other, the capacity C goes down. Because C in C=Q/V goes down and obviously the charge Q stays, V should go up. Maybe this is cheating a bit, because the field strength (E=V/distance) will not increase I think, but still it is easy to build up a high voltage.
Indeed, they are mixing up units. There is NO WAY these clothes could deliver a strong current for a long time:
- they are not highly conductive
- they do not form a high capacitance so they could not store a really high charge (even if the voltage is high)
- this supposedly high current in combination with the high voltage (40kV) would lead to an immense release of power which could never be present in the clothing.
Wikipedia may be interesting, but it is hardly an official document. Basically it guarantees nothing: content may be (and often is) relevant and correct, but that's it. IMHO it should only be used as an initial pointer. Would you perform any critical action (open heart surgery, nuclear power plant control,...) based on Wikipedia's information? I surely would not. I would not be surprised if its legal value turned out to be limited.
Catwoman's final blow.
Finally a solution for the World's excess cat problem... or is it?
Completele agreed for e.g. open source drivers of products a company can sell. But imho Gates has a point that developers of open source software, which is often free (as in beer) need an anternative source of income.
Actually I think you need not necessarily be at the same potential as the ground, but as the PC. Touching the case would imho be far more effective. In case the PC is plugged in this has the same effect of course. I sometimes unplug mine before servicing it.
A way shorter and imho more legible notation would be Latex's: CO_2.
Yeah, that's why everybody knows you and never heard of Stallman...
When these measurements are even disturbed by EMI due to sources that aren't even supposed to be radiating at all, they apparently are very sensitive. Why don't they do them somewhere else, far from civilisation? Also, how can they be sure that what is measured is actually this deuterium and not another very weak terrestrial noise source?