I suppose Bicycling and Running aren't sports, then, either?
While we're at it, rule out Mountain Climbing, Hiking, and probably numerous other mere activities. No sport for you, nidi says so.
Ever see a runner grab a cup to drink as he passed by an aid station?
Ever see a bicyclist reach down and grab a water bottle and drink?
Given that my 10mpg '66 Ford Galaxie Convertible pounds the ground with its 460 engine, the 20mpg replacement (...? Toyota Solara or something?) would be a miserable change... also consider that my 66 is driven perhaps 2500 miles a year; it's not on the list for replacement.
My wife's 20mpg (actually 23 average) Ford Freestyle on the other hand is driven probably 15,000 miles a year, and may get replaced soon, depending on what's available - being able to seat 7 passengers or carry considerably bulky items in a car-like vehicle definitely has its advantages, though now that our three kids will be in college next year the people-carrying capacity isn't as important - but then again, the amount of driving will probably be reduced as well.
Really what people need to consider when looking at fuel economy as an upgrade is this - does the overall economic picture substantiate the need for an upgrade? You're looking at helping the environment, but does buying a new car (the building of which probably incurred substantial environmental degradation in itself) actually save you and the environment anything?
Our station wagon (Freestyle) would get us perhaps $5k on the used market; buying a replacement which would function similarly though smaller (something Mazda3 hatchback sized, as we don't need to carry 7 people - mostly 2 or 3 and very occasionally 5) would get us a 8-10mpg increase but cost about $18k. Worth it? Probably not.
One cow can produce about two kilowatts of electricity
Given that 1 horsepower (hp) = 746 watts, 2Kw = 2.68hp.
It's generally accepted that your typical horse can't even put out 1hp for extended periods, so I have to assume that this cow of theirs is only going to put out 2hp for extremely short bursts.
I suppose the article could be confusing Kw with Kwh, but then the "one cow [can produce]... enough energy to power" doesn't make sense.
Overall, I call b-s, or cow-s, as the case may be.
What, they don't understand when told to fuck off that it's friendly, that being slapped or hit on the shoulder is a sign of good-will? Participating in a swirling was a sign of belonging?
I've got to say, though I personally was home-schooled for the first 3 years, I never got "properly socialized" to understand the mechanics of school society. I was able to function at its fringes, but I always did my best to avoid it.
Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I'm not surprised that they're uneasy when being questioned about their school seeing as how a, they're home-schooled and therefore "different" and b, so many people assume homeschoolers are whack-jobs.
My kids were homeschooled on and off. First 4 years of school at home, and then two of them did 7th and 8th grade at home. Non-religious (semi-atheist, agnostic, something... we did study religion but not as believers, if you can understand that). The kids are, by anyone's measure, among the best socialized kids you'll find - friendly, outgoing, thoughtful, respectful.
Of course, we made a big effort to provide social contact. In a controlled fashion, though, not like the free-for-all do-or-die in your typical school, where kids certainly aren't exposed to good practices.
I saw Avatar 3D - and it was interesting..... but really:
I got a headache - most definitely eyestrain
Colors were fine, I'll grant you this
Glasses were uncomfortable and definitely limiting (this is apart from the eyestrain headache)
The screen's not distorted but 3D seems to reduces the resolution of the film
I still intend to see it in 2D; I expect that it'll be better than the 3D, at least for my visual aparatus.
Personally I didn't see that much 3D about the film. Yes, there were seed pods floating around a bit and embers floating but most of the film didn't show substantial 3D aspects more than my own mind typically infers from a 2D film.
I understand the "our country" probably referring to the USA. What is the other country in the "both countries" that you're referring to? You are aware, I hope, that INTERPOL is an organization comprised of 188 nations... including the USA?
The trinity boils down to the game's AI. In D&D, you've got a (presumably) intelligent Dungeon Master who's running the mobs. The DM has the option of making the mobs smart or dumb, depending on the encounter; the DM controls what they do and can decide how they're going to react to the play style of the group.
The recent "Faction Champions" scene in WoW's Trial of the Crusader deviates from the typical encounter as it is a more "PvP" style fight, but still the mobs aren't actually intelligent; they do have some aggro, they just drop it a lot and go immune to attempts to recover it, and they still don't do smart stuff like getting out of area damage spells or attempting to break crowd control; if a DM was running the mobs in this encounter, it would be considerably different still.
Obviously without true AI, an MMO has an extremely difficult time trying to optimize the game's reaction to the player(s) in the encounter, and the game's designers have to fall back upon certain assumptions - the alternative without a much better AI is to just make every encounter a free-for-all where the mobs have no aggro at all; this would mean that every class would have to invest in heavier armor (which most games - RGPs and MMOs both - deny from the magic using classes).
Besides, real warfare often utilizes the trinity itself, through on a macroscopic scale. The front ground troops are the tanks - they're in the midst of the battle. Aerial attacks are kind of the DPS, and hospitals behind the lines are the healers. If you want to look at medieval warfare, you still had the infantry (often with shields) as tanks, archers behind, and.... ok, so no healers.... but 2 out of 3 ain't bad;)
Clear skies in the Sierra Nevada foothills, away from town (ie, where I live:)) - I saw a few nice trails, but it's pretty clear that North America was on the wrong side of the globe for this one.
If you write software for a living, you can't go home and sell your days coding
Actually, you can, and many people do (at least in the state of California - laws may differ elsewhere). Anything you do on your own time, your own space, your own equipment - this is yours and you can sell it.
Don't try to say that if you're salaried you're never off the clock; there's a legislated 40-hour work week and just because you're salaried doesn't mean you're always at work. Haven't you heard of people having two jobs? It is done, and they can even both be salaried.
Of course if you write software at home in the evening on your employer's computer you've got ownership issues. People like me who have a home office have to be extra careful to make sure that we have separate computers for work and personal use.
To be precise, about 1/100th the size of the Hiroshima bomb, which was 13Kilotons (13,000 tons, as opposed to the much smaller air burst from the 7m object).
Neanderthals are often classified as a sub-species - Homo sapiens neanderthalis - as well as occasionally classified as a separate species.
Given that offspring of cross-species breedings can and often do produce a fertile result (eg, see Wolf x Jackal - definitely separate species, we're not talking breeds here, as well as many other hybridizations), there's much to point to H.sapiens.sapiens x H(.sapiens?).neanderthalis being able to interbreed, especially if they were only a sub-species.
While the representation of the modern table can be considered cumbersome, it has a number of benefits - it's easy to see at a glance how various elements are related to each other (such as the noble gasses, the 1A metals, etc). Granted the circle arranges elements in groups as well (radially), but see if you can quickly find a specific group of elements... right, there you go, the traditional table does make that easier. Another thing that I like about the traditional table is that I can draw the table out from memory and fill it in quite a ways mainly by the shape of it and via associative memory (much as I can find the names of the 50 states by filling in a blank map of the USA). The circlular table doesn't have the same raw appearance; it has too much symmetry to give me any other clues about where what should go where.
That said, though, jogging one's memory isn't the best use of a table; given one put in front of you it'd be nice if its organization alone gave you information. I suppose that the circular representation could do this, with perhaps a few labels.
Of course this circular representation isn't all that new; the Chemical Galaxy has been around for a number of years now and has a similar structure.
"Turn-on-red", as far as I know, does not require you to yield (ie, slow, and stop only if there's opposing traffic of higher priority), but to actually stop first, and proceed with the turn only if it's safe to do so.
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If a bumblebee has such a low drag coefficient I'd be completely astounded - I'd guess closer to 0.5.
I suppose Bicycling and Running aren't sports, then, either? While we're at it, rule out Mountain Climbing, Hiking, and probably numerous other mere activities. No sport for you, nidi says so. Ever see a runner grab a cup to drink as he passed by an aid station? Ever see a bicyclist reach down and grab a water bottle and drink?
I'd suggest we call it the Bureau of Sabotage. It would help a lot of things out.
You may want to read up on Chronic Wasting Disease before choosing your target.
My wife's 20mpg (actually 23 average) Ford Freestyle on the other hand is driven probably 15,000 miles a year, and may get replaced soon, depending on what's available - being able to seat 7 passengers or carry considerably bulky items in a car-like vehicle definitely has its advantages, though now that our three kids will be in college next year the people-carrying capacity isn't as important - but then again, the amount of driving will probably be reduced as well.
Really what people need to consider when looking at fuel economy as an upgrade is this - does the overall economic picture substantiate the need for an upgrade? You're looking at helping the environment, but does buying a new car (the building of which probably incurred substantial environmental degradation in itself) actually save you and the environment anything?
Our station wagon (Freestyle) would get us perhaps $5k on the used market; buying a replacement which would function similarly though smaller (something Mazda3 hatchback sized, as we don't need to carry 7 people - mostly 2 or 3 and very occasionally 5) would get us a 8-10mpg increase but cost about $18k. Worth it? Probably not.
I've heard of threads getting Godwin'd..... but this one had it in the summary.
Doesn't that, by itself, mean that no further replies are necessary?
Given that 1 horsepower (hp) = 746 watts, 2Kw = 2.68hp.
It's generally accepted that your typical horse can't even put out 1hp for extended periods, so I have to assume that this cow of theirs is only going to put out 2hp for extremely short bursts.
I suppose the article could be confusing Kw with Kwh, but then the "one cow [can produce]... enough energy to power" doesn't make sense.
Overall, I call b-s, or cow-s, as the case may be.
2^8 == 256 ; 2^10 == 1024.
I've got to say, though I personally was home-schooled for the first 3 years, I never got "properly socialized" to understand the mechanics of school society. I was able to function at its fringes, but I always did my best to avoid it.
My kids were homeschooled on and off. First 4 years of school at home, and then two of them did 7th and 8th grade at home. Non-religious (semi-atheist, agnostic, something... we did study religion but not as believers, if you can understand that). The kids are, by anyone's measure, among the best socialized kids you'll find - friendly, outgoing, thoughtful, respectful.
Of course, we made a big effort to provide social contact. In a controlled fashion, though, not like the free-for-all do-or-die in your typical school, where kids certainly aren't exposed to good practices.
I still intend to see it in 2D; I expect that it'll be better than the 3D, at least for my visual aparatus.
Personally I didn't see that much 3D about the film. Yes, there were seed pods floating around a bit and embers floating but most of the film didn't show substantial 3D aspects more than my own mind typically infers from a 2D film.
I understand the "our country" probably referring to the USA. What is the other country in the "both countries" that you're referring to? You are aware, I hope, that INTERPOL is an organization comprised of 188 nations... including the USA?
The recent "Faction Champions" scene in WoW's Trial of the Crusader deviates from the typical encounter as it is a more "PvP" style fight, but still the mobs aren't actually intelligent; they do have some aggro, they just drop it a lot and go immune to attempts to recover it, and they still don't do smart stuff like getting out of area damage spells or attempting to break crowd control; if a DM was running the mobs in this encounter, it would be considerably different still.
Obviously without true AI, an MMO has an extremely difficult time trying to optimize the game's reaction to the player(s) in the encounter, and the game's designers have to fall back upon certain assumptions - the alternative without a much better AI is to just make every encounter a free-for-all where the mobs have no aggro at all; this would mean that every class would have to invest in heavier armor (which most games - RGPs and MMOs both - deny from the magic using classes).
Besides, real warfare often utilizes the trinity itself, through on a macroscopic scale. The front ground troops are the tanks - they're in the midst of the battle. Aerial attacks are kind of the DPS, and hospitals behind the lines are the healers. If you want to look at medieval warfare, you still had the infantry (often with shields) as tanks, archers behind, and.... ok, so no healers.... but 2 out of 3 ain't bad ;)
Clear skies in the Sierra Nevada foothills, away from town (ie, where I live :)) - I saw a few nice trails, but it's pretty clear that North America was on the wrong side of the globe for this one.
Actually, you can, and many people do (at least in the state of California - laws may differ elsewhere). Anything you do on your own time, your own space, your own equipment - this is yours and you can sell it.
Don't try to say that if you're salaried you're never off the clock; there's a legislated 40-hour work week and just because you're salaried doesn't mean you're always at work. Haven't you heard of people having two jobs? It is done, and they can even both be salaried.
Of course if you write software at home in the evening on your employer's computer you've got ownership issues. People like me who have a home office have to be extra careful to make sure that we have separate computers for work and personal use.
Call it in folks. Don't go to a store if you can help it.
To be precise, about 1/100th the size of the Hiroshima bomb, which was 13Kilotons (13,000 tons, as opposed to the much smaller air burst from the 7m object).
Of course, this is the phone that's in the garage... the other POTS phones in the house are wireless
Windows 7 had 1.9% market share before launch?
Epic failure, nice try. Even people who'd like to yell about that won't believe it.
Given that offspring of cross-species breedings can and often do produce a fertile result (eg, see Wolf x Jackal - definitely separate species, we're not talking breeds here, as well as many other hybridizations), there's much to point to H.sapiens.sapiens x H(.sapiens?).neanderthalis being able to interbreed, especially if they were only a sub-species.
I can't trust that I'll interpret the original writer's intentions correctly here....
That said, though, jogging one's memory isn't the best use of a table; given one put in front of you it'd be nice if its organization alone gave you information. I suppose that the circular representation could do this, with perhaps a few labels.
Of course this circular representation isn't all that new; the Chemical Galaxy has been around for a number of years now and has a similar structure.
Remember, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
"Turn-on-red", as far as I know, does not require you to yield (ie, slow, and stop only if there's opposing traffic of higher priority), but to actually stop first, and proceed with the turn only if it's safe to do so.