It's the same in any other civilised nation where the gun lobby doesn't have control of the legislature and gun laws are actually somewhat sensible. **************** Civilized nations spell it "civilized".:P
A) USB 2.0 can choke and die. Firewire 400 is leaps and bounds faster, and was present on pretty much every Mac sold at the time. You do remember iPods were for Macs only at the beginning, right? And then there was a special PC version, before they were unified into a single line?
B) My 2nd Gen 20GB has a non-spinning wheel surrounded by 4 "compass rose" buttons. How is clicking the wheel itself that different from clicking the buttons at the very edge of the wheel?
I love my 2nd Gen iPod, unfortunately the hard disk died about 2 years ago. RIP
Perhaps Citizenship and the right to vote can be secured through some form of Federal service. I'm sure I saw that is some horrendous film based on a classic sci-fi text somewhere...
Oh, come now, that film was GREAT! Satire in its highest form. Skewers jingoists quite nicely.
Do you like RoboCop? I put both those movies in the same category.
Exactly. A metal pole outside in the winter "feels" a hell of a lot colder than the air does at the same temp.
Hooray for that little micro-layer of air that stays close to your skin to keep you toasty (and when it gets blown away by wind, you feel colder, hence "wind chill").
This is not a case where "Let Me Google That For You" is appropriate. There is a MOUNTAIN of bullshit and misinformation out there, and Google finds all of it.
In case anyone wants specifics, here is the "main" questionnaire you have to fill out if you're going to have any kind of security clearance (even a really low one) while working for the Gov.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
Society did. If (as some rich business owner) you enjoy people buying your products so that you can continue to live high on the hog, you have to preserve the health of those that support YOU.
Let's say I have $1000. I can pay it for health insurance premiums, or I can go without health insurance and spend the money on whores instead. That's 'choice'.
I don't believe that's a choice you should be allowed to make. Because:
We ALL know that when you get catastrophically sick, you're going to go to the hospital and get treatment, reglardless of your ability to pay. Without insurance, that treatment will probably (and quite literally) be unaffordable. Multiple times what you make in a year. Which means you won't be able to pay it, ever. Which means the hospital/whoever is providing the care increases the cost on everyone else to make up for that loss.
Now, if you were willing to only get the treatment you could actually afford (without insurance) when you have your stroke or heart attack or whatever, then I'd say "More power to you". If you had only a couple grand in the bank, you're not going to say to yourself "Well, I certainly don't have the money to get treatment for the heart attack I'm having at this moment, I'll just die and not call 911."
However, we all know that's not going to happen. You're going to the hospital, and we're paying for it.
However, it's been proven that harm DOES occur much much much more frequently when driving drunk. Therefore there are laws in place to mitigate that risk.
There's nothing *inherently* evil about driving a car drunk. If you're the only one for miles in any direction, and you're on a perfectly flat surface (and you're a frictionless sphere, etc), go nuts.
You don't have to "emit" anything, you just set up magnetic fields to push against the "vacuum" of space, which is not at all a true, classical vacuum (it contains little fields all over the place). It's like the ocean, a force that can be interacted with. A "working fluid".
And since we're talking electromagnetism, a really strong force in the grand scheme of things, maybe this will be a lot of energy efficient that simply throwing almost-massless particles out your rear.
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It's the same in any other civilised nation where the gun lobby doesn't have control of the legislature and gun laws are actually somewhat sensible. :P
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Civilized nations spell it "civilized".
also +1 welcome to the 21st century
nuff said.
I saw it in 3D and I really didn't like the effect.
Seemed "dimmer" than normal movies, not quite as high-hes, etc. Wasn't worth it, and it gave me a slight headache. :()
A) USB 2.0 can choke and die. Firewire 400 is leaps and bounds faster, and was present on pretty much every Mac sold at the time. You do remember iPods were for Macs only at the beginning, right? And then there was a special PC version, before they were unified into a single line?
B) My 2nd Gen 20GB has a non-spinning wheel surrounded by 4 "compass rose" buttons. How is clicking the wheel itself that different from clicking the buttons at the very edge of the wheel?
I love my 2nd Gen iPod, unfortunately the hard disk died about 2 years ago. RIP
Perhaps Citizenship and the right to vote can be secured through some form of Federal service. I'm sure I saw that is some horrendous film based on a classic sci-fi text somewhere...
Oh, come now, that film was GREAT! Satire in its highest form. Skewers jingoists quite nicely.
Do you like RoboCop? I put both those movies in the same category.
Exactly. A metal pole outside in the winter "feels" a hell of a lot colder than the air does at the same temp.
Hooray for that little micro-layer of air that stays close to your skin to keep you toasty (and when it gets blown away by wind, you feel colder, hence "wind chill").
Assuming the website doesn't crash.
Oh BoC, why hast thou forsaken me?
Please show us the study. In a real journal.
This is not a case where "Let Me Google That For You" is appropriate. There is a MOUNTAIN of bullshit and misinformation out there, and Google finds all of it.
Show us the study. Or STFU.
Oblig: http://xkcd.com/598/
I know, I'm still waiting to see the clarinet footage.
Are we talking perfectly round, frictionless pizzas?
The mechanics must be.....interesting. :)
In case anyone wants specifics, here is the "main" questionnaire you have to fill out if you're going to have any kind of security clearance (even a really low one) while working for the Gov.
http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
Also, note that lying on the SF86 is a felony. It's a terrifying, terrifying form.
In the same vein:
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
New American Bible, Saint Joseph Edition, from around 2003 or so
Wow, that sounds reliable and not at all revisionist!
Maybe cigarettes and beer should be cheaper. :)
Who gave you the authority to take that, exactly?
Society did. If (as some rich business owner) you enjoy people buying your products so that you can continue to live high on the hog, you have to preserve the health of those that support YOU.
Otherwise you're a parasite, not a symbiote.
Let's say I have $1000. I can pay it for health insurance premiums, or I can go without health insurance and spend the money on whores instead. That's 'choice'.
I don't believe that's a choice you should be allowed to make. Because:
We ALL know that when you get catastrophically sick, you're going to go to the hospital and get treatment, reglardless of your ability to pay. Without insurance, that treatment will probably (and quite literally) be unaffordable. Multiple times what you make in a year. Which means you won't be able to pay it, ever. Which means the hospital/whoever is providing the care increases the cost on everyone else to make up for that loss.
Now, if you were willing to only get the treatment you could actually afford (without insurance) when you have your stroke or heart attack or whatever, then I'd say "More power to you". If you had only a couple grand in the bank, you're not going to say to yourself "Well, I certainly don't have the money to get treatment for the heart attack I'm having at this moment, I'll just die and not call 911."
However, we all know that's not going to happen. You're going to the hospital, and we're paying for it.
Man, I *knew* there was a good reason I marked you "Foe" sometime in the past.
Wow, someone tell that guy to hire a UI designer, for both his website and software. /stinky
Makes sense to me. No harm, no foul.
However, it's been proven that harm DOES occur much much much more frequently when driving drunk. Therefore there are laws in place to mitigate that risk.
There's nothing *inherently* evil about driving a car drunk. If you're the only one for miles in any direction, and you're on a perfectly flat surface (and you're a frictionless sphere, etc), go nuts.
I've known a few cops. They view the world in 3 categories
1) Other cops
2) Cops' families
3) Suspects
You're absolutely right. I didn't realize (before today) that photons were the force-carriers of electromagnetism. Makes sense now. :)
And all electromagnetic forces are carried by photons so there isn't a difference in strength.
OK, I officially don't know what I'm talking about. Carry on. :)
Red this short article about "vacuum propellers" (props to RedJesus for finding the article):
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/vprop/
You don't have to "emit" anything, you just set up magnetic fields to push against the "vacuum" of space, which is not at all a true, classical vacuum (it contains little fields all over the place). It's like the ocean, a force that can be interacted with. A "working fluid".
And since we're talking electromagnetism, a really strong force in the grand scheme of things, maybe this will be a lot of energy efficient that simply throwing almost-massless particles out your rear.