In Western culture, Mother may say one thing, and Grandmother may say another thing, but ultimately Mother gets her say.
Ummm no. In Western culture, I do whatever the hell I want.
The Chinese have similar problems in this sense to the British royal family. The system worked okay when people had the decency to die before they were 60. Now its just getting stupid and we have to hang on to the lingering obsessions of people born 80 or 90 years ago and rapidly running out of brain cells.
Besides continually innovating at hacking computer networks in the U.S. and globally, Chinese interests also hack companies physically by infiltrating them with people who can then be recruited as spies, Winkler said.
Huh? I can see infiltrating them with spies... but infiltrating them with people who you will then try to recruit to be a spy?
Isn't that a bit... stupid?
Not if you know you will be able to manipulate the recruits. China has a lot of control over the lives of those peoples relatives back home.
The prospect of a nuke igniting the oil deposit is one of the more persuasive counterarguments. It may be a low probability, but when one of the possible side effects of an experiment is the destruction of life as we know it, that tends to make people shy away from trying it.
There is no oxygen under water, so the oil and gas can not ignite.
Lets say that in the US it is illegal for me to probe DirectoryIndex on apache web servers, while in Australia it is perfectly okay. From the UK I try this trick on company X not knowing or careing where their servers are located...
Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK (not that far fetched in this day and age) should he be tried in the UK?
I would say getting hold of a £500000 ICBM is still pretty far fetched. We have gun laws in the UK.. maybe the Americans can buy them in walmart, but we don't have the second amendment here:-)
A cruise missile can be a model airplane. An ICBM is a missile.
I wasn't sure about my assumption that the left over energy would be all our energy, including the energy which would be released ultimately fusing everything down to iron. But if that is the case we can't be 100% matter because then we would be at maximum entropy.
If I put a picture of my wife on the internet should I be extradited to Saudi Arabia for breaking their laws and corrupting the morals of their citizens?
Thats true but my point is that for Lance Armstrong (a very fit guy) to get any benefit from exercise he is going to have to push against something. Jumping up and down on a DDR pad won't cut it.
As you point out, cycling, running, swimming are all good.
Nick Clegg: Um, yeah well, nice bloke that Barack Obama, isn't he?
(thats my guess anyway).
Maybe crimes comitted in the UK should be prosecuted there as well. Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK (not that far fetched in this day and age) should he be tried in the UK?
Hawking radiation comes out of back holes. Because of quantum mechanics space is filled with virtual particles which come into existence and the annihilate themselves. Particles like an electron and an antielectron. Stuff like that. But if a black hole is nearby the electron could get swallowed, leaving the antielectron all alone in the world. The antielectron in this base becomes hawking radiation.
i am a psychologist
All right, okay. I should have read your post before I replied. How about this: particles come and go and nobody knows why. Sometimes they get lost which makes the other particles sad, so they wander off and get called "radiation".
The thing is that there are scales of exercise. For a morbidly obese person playing a wii game might be a good workout. For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.
The deciding factor is what would the person be doing otherwise. If the choice is between DDR and world of warcraft, then even Lance Armstrong is going to benefit from choosing DDR.
Okay but my argument is really that slow rail (taking days) and lighter than air travel will always be expensive because of the cost of labour, while semi ballistic transport my be cheaper than we expect, because of the same labour cost issue.
Its a bit like how intercontinental travel was very expensive by sea because you were effectively paying for a hotel for a month just getting there.
So presumably 99% of the mass-energy in the universe is currently energy, much of which must be potential and kinetic energy. The momentum of the Big Bang, the energy we will get back in the eventual collapse, light elements which will eventually fuse, and heavy elements which will eventually undergo fission.
I once had a friend who said had a similar outlook when he would practice his habit of driving like an idiot: "The faster we go, the less time we spend in danger!"
It is kind of true. I ride a bike to work. Some of the hazards I face scale with the time I spend on the road, while others scale with other factors. I could reduce those factors by cycling at 1 km/h but then the factors which scale with time on the road would make it very dangerous. Not that I agree with your friend though.
My "scale with time on the road" factor is the probability that your friend will come along in his car.
Yeah but the big cost of supersonic flight is that big sonic boom, exactly like the wake of a fast boat. Boats get around this by flying higher (planing). In an aircraft you can fly high too, on a semiballistic trajectory, but you have to go most of the way into orbit to go half way around the earth.
The problem that Concorde had was that was simply a gross fuel hog, making trips on the Concorde prohibitively expensive. Would you pay 3x as much for a trip to Australia if it got you there in half the time?
Maybe. Look at what your time is worth. The cost of labor is pretty high and if you can save money by getting there faster then thats a plus. Also when you fly some of the cost goes into the labor for operating the aircraft. Go faster, employ fewer people.
Where I work a business class ticket to Europe and back is about one man week, at the rates we charge internally. If you can save two weeks on a project by banging heads together then you are making a profit by traveling.
Okay I googled it and I find the idea that Lance Armstrong would benefit from using it hilarious. This is a guy who can cycle 300km in six hours. I would believe that lifting weights would constitute a workout for Lance Armstrong but not using a DDR pad on a wii.
could give Lance Armstrong a DDR mat and copy of the game and after going through a little learning curve I almost guarantee he'd be getting a good workout with it.
I am sorry but I just don't believe that. For Lance Armstrong to get a good workout in a static environment he would need equipment of the same standard as a competition road bike, and fans to blow the heat away. If he is standing in front of a TV with no attempt to dispose of heat then he isn't working hard enough.
I just cycled to work. The air was at 4 degrees C and I arrived feeling hot. Anybody who rides fairly hard on the road would find it very uncomfortable to use any kind of static trainer. I don't know what a DDR mat is but I assume it is made of plastic, not steel or titanium. I don't believe Armstrong could put any amount of work into it without breaking it.
The thing is that there are scales of exercise. For a morbidly obese person playing a wii game might be a good workout. For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.
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Really? Just have a look at some of these posts.
OMG all the articles linked from there return 502.
In Western culture, Mother may say one thing, and Grandmother may say another thing, but ultimately Mother gets her say.
Ummm no. In Western culture, I do whatever the hell I want.
The Chinese have similar problems in this sense to the British royal family. The system worked okay when people had the decency to die before they were 60. Now its just getting stupid and we have to hang on to the lingering obsessions of people born 80 or 90 years ago and rapidly running out of brain cells.
They do cool shit all the time.
No kidding
And furthermore:
Huh? I can see infiltrating them with spies ... but infiltrating them with people who you will then try to recruit to be a spy?
Isn't that a bit ... stupid?
Not if you know you will be able to manipulate the recruits. China has a lot of control over the lives of those peoples relatives back home.
Yes you beat be to that little bit of BS. I was going to quote it too.
The prospect of a nuke igniting the oil deposit is one of the more persuasive counterarguments. It may be a low probability, but when one of the possible side effects of an experiment is the destruction of life as we know it, that tends to make people shy away from trying it.
There is no oxygen under water, so the oil and gas can not ignite.
Lets say that in the US it is illegal for me to probe DirectoryIndex on apache web servers, while in Australia it is perfectly okay. From the UK I try this trick on company X not knowing or careing where their servers are located...
I have never explicitly authorised anybody to follow the web page link on my profile.
I would say getting hold of a £500000 ICBM is still pretty far fetched. We have gun laws in the UK.. maybe the Americans can buy them in walmart, but we don't have the second amendment here :-)
A cruise missile can be a model airplane. An ICBM is a missile.
Case in point
I wasn't sure about my assumption that the left over energy would be all our energy, including the energy which would be released ultimately fusing everything down to iron. But if that is the case we can't be 100% matter because then we would be at maximum entropy.
If I put a picture of my wife on the internet should I be extradited to Saudi Arabia for breaking their laws and corrupting the morals of their citizens?
We could do this all day...
Thats true but my point is that for Lance Armstrong (a very fit guy) to get any benefit from exercise he is going to have to push against something. Jumping up and down on a DDR pad won't cut it.
As you point out, cycling, running, swimming are all good.
David Cameron: Gary who?
Nick Clegg: Um, yeah well, nice bloke that Barack Obama, isn't he?
(thats my guess anyway).
Maybe crimes comitted in the UK should be prosecuted there as well. Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK (not that far fetched in this day and age) should he be tried in the UK?
Hawking radiation comes out of back holes. Because of quantum mechanics space is filled with virtual particles which come into existence and the annihilate themselves. Particles like an electron and an antielectron. Stuff like that. But if a black hole is nearby the electron could get swallowed, leaving the antielectron all alone in the world. The antielectron in this base becomes hawking radiation.
i am a psychologist
All right, okay. I should have read your post before I replied. How about this: particles come and go and nobody knows why. Sometimes they get lost which makes the other particles sad, so they wander off and get called "radiation".
The thing is that there are scales of exercise. For a morbidly obese person playing a wii game might be a good workout. For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.
The deciding factor is what would the person be doing otherwise. If the choice is between DDR and world of warcraft, then even Lance Armstrong is going to benefit from choosing DDR.
Okay but I don't see Lance making that choice.
Okay but my argument is really that slow rail (taking days) and lighter than air travel will always be expensive because of the cost of labour, while semi ballistic transport my be cheaper than we expect, because of the same labour cost issue.
Its a bit like how intercontinental travel was very expensive by sea because you were effectively paying for a hotel for a month just getting there.
Well okay but even if we don't rewind the energy to push us to infinity must have come out of that 99%.
So presumably 99% of the mass-energy in the universe is currently energy, much of which must be potential and kinetic energy. The momentum of the Big Bang, the energy we will get back in the eventual collapse, light elements which will eventually fuse, and heavy elements which will eventually undergo fission.
The faster you go, the less time you spend going.
I once had a friend who said had a similar outlook when he would practice his habit of driving like an idiot: "The faster we go, the less time we spend in danger!"
It is kind of true. I ride a bike to work. Some of the hazards I face scale with the time I spend on the road, while others scale with other factors. I could reduce those factors by cycling at 1 km/h but then the factors which scale with time on the road would make it very dangerous. Not that I agree with your friend though.
My "scale with time on the road" factor is the probability that your friend will come along in his car.
Yeah but the big cost of supersonic flight is that big sonic boom, exactly like the wake of a fast boat. Boats get around this by flying higher (planing). In an aircraft you can fly high too, on a semiballistic trajectory, but you have to go most of the way into orbit to go half way around the earth.
The problem that Concorde had was that was simply a gross fuel hog, making trips on the Concorde prohibitively expensive. Would you pay 3x as much for a trip to Australia if it got you there in half the time?
Maybe. Look at what your time is worth. The cost of labor is pretty high and if you can save money by getting there faster then thats a plus. Also when you fly some of the cost goes into the labor for operating the aircraft. Go faster, employ fewer people.
Where I work a business class ticket to Europe and back is about one man week, at the rates we charge internally. If you can save two weeks on a project by banging heads together then you are making a profit by traveling.
Okay I googled it and I find the idea that Lance Armstrong would benefit from using it hilarious. This is a guy who can cycle 300km in six hours. I would believe that lifting weights would constitute a workout for Lance Armstrong but not using a DDR pad on a wii.
could give Lance Armstrong a DDR mat and copy of the game and after going through a little learning curve I almost guarantee he'd be getting a good workout with it.
I am sorry but I just don't believe that. For Lance Armstrong to get a good workout in a static environment he would need equipment of the same standard as a competition road bike, and fans to blow the heat away. If he is standing in front of a TV with no attempt to dispose of heat then he isn't working hard enough.
I just cycled to work. The air was at 4 degrees C and I arrived feeling hot. Anybody who rides fairly hard on the road would find it very uncomfortable to use any kind of static trainer. I don't know what a DDR mat is but I assume it is made of plastic, not steel or titanium. I don't believe Armstrong could put any amount of work into it without breaking it.
The thing is that there are scales of exercise. For a morbidly obese person playing a wii game might be a good workout. For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.