There are multiple species of hummingbird. A few of them are common in north america, but there are less-common species, as well. Hummingbirds are rather remarkable, being the most maneuverable group of birds (ever seen a bird fly backwards?)
You're still amazed? I'm not! We know that: 1. Some people rarely have the chance to call during normal business hours. This eliminates some call volume. 2. Some problems seem to sort themselves out after a few hours. This eliminates some call volume during the business hours of the following day. 3. People who are inconvenienced late at night, when they're trying to relax before bed, are going to get irritated easily and vent all the frustrations they garnered during their work-day. If you force them to only call during the business day, they're apt to be more polite (after all, they've now had a night's rest) as well as take up less time on the phone (less venting). This shortens call time.
It's a lot like how, at big universities, some professors have their required office hours from 7-8:30am, because they know just how few students will come during this period.
Hmm, that would give a regex of: [2-9]([02-9][0-9]|1[02-9])([2-46-9][0-9]{6}|5[0-9][0-46-9][0-9]{4}|555[1-9][0-9]{3}|5550[02-9][0-9]{3}) (I know, I know, a regex is for matching, not for iterating, but since I'm not using any variable-length operators, you could iterate based on that pattern.) Of course, that doesn't account for unassigned/unused NPAs; removing those from the list would shorten it considerably.
As far as radio interference goes, Wenzel's Techlib has some info about how to mitigate this. Of course, sdddddddddddwsssssssssssssss cvvvvvvvvvvvvvv;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Sorry, cat got on keyboard. Anyway. Of course, it's not like the technicians installing the meters are checking for ground loops... but perhaps they should be? If there is that much potential to interfere with first responders, you'd think some tests on the wiring would be in order...
FTFA: "Because it was only 10 months ago that its three remaining members - or perhaps the remains of its three members - were in court fighting to preserve the "artistic integrity" of the the likes of Animals and Wish You Were Here by only flogging them as complete works rather than individual tracks." I think it's crazy that Wish You Were Here was trying to be held together as an album. I think every (or almost every) song from that gets radio airplay as a single. Some of their other albums it makes more sense to keep together, but then again, I guess that's why the article calls out 'Wish You Were Here' as an example.
Wish You Were Here (the song) has a really good line that I've seen in someone's sig on here ("And did you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?"). Funny how more people remember the silly (imho) line about souls in a fishbowl than that line... heh.
Oh, and the next poster to end a post with "Just sayin..." is going to get their head bashed in. Just sayin...;)
Continuing my above response--- 3) I think I would have to argue that people will still be judged on their suit; it's not a huge improvement over everyone just wearing clothing that has no printed words nor symbols, so it's not a particularly good reason to prefer suits over "business casual." 4) I'm uncomfortable with the idea of giving others the impression that I earn a lot of money. How much I earn is my business, not my co-workers', and if I'm buying clothes with my income, I'd prefer ones that I like and have high utility. Suits are not good things to wear when cooking, cleaning, nor gardening, but I can still sit at a computer and work wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Making a lot of money doesn't necessarily signal that you're good at your job; most people would describe it as being lucky enough to get paid well for the work you do, something that is more likely but not definite if you're competent in your field. Seeing someone in a suit to me generally signals that someone wants to appear authoritative or is trying to impress someone else; a poor person can always save up for a long time to buy a suit in order to impress people. 5) I don't feel suits are fairly neutral. In fact, by your point #4, you are saying they give someone an appearance of competence and wealth. I think you meant that suits are, at the present time in most circles in Europe and the US, viewed as unoffensive outfits in a typical man's wardrobe. I would argue that clothing free of words or symbols should be considered quite unoffensive. 6) Suits don't make the best uniforms for the very reason that it is not uncommon for a man to go arbitrary places wearing a suit. I know that in the past I have been often classified as an employee by other customers due to my appearance. Nametags/badges with the company name/logo make a better identifier; since they usually can only be seen from the front, some sort of clothing style/color scheme is helpful for customers to recognize potential employees from a distance (which is similar to the point you're making). 7) Eww, I don't think I look good in a suit. I'm told I do, but I'm far more comfortable with my appearance with all sorts of other outfits. 8) Haha. Yes, wearing a suit when you're trying to pick up women does tend to get you noticed.
Hmm, you have some interesting points, some of which I agree with, and some of which I don't (or, rather, I just see the situation very differently). So, to go number-by-number with my thoughts--- 1) Working with customers, I can see why you'd want to avoid making certain kinds of "dislike" statements. Making some kinds of "like" statements that don't immediately imply any "dislike" statement, while a slippery slope, still seems a justifiable privelege to me. If you don't work with customers, your clothing should be expected to meet a bare minimum of occupational requirements (and, by that, I don't mean running to join any new safety or professionalism standards, formal or not). If you work with any mildly unsafe reagents in a lab, for example, requiring shoes to not be open-toed seems reasonable to me. 2) I hate to hop onto semantics here, but if something is intentionally kept in a state that would qualify as "damaged" to an individual not wise to that intention, it isn't actually being "kept damaged.";) Shoes that are broken-in are far more comfortable than when they are freshly bought, but broken-in shoes are clearly modified to a noticeable (at least to the wearer) degree, by definition. Clothing being intentionally kept dirty can be argued similarly but not to as much of an extent. Consider the case of over-washing clothes (bringing eight outfits to work every day and changing each hour, then washing them all every night): their utility is diminished (shorter life before becoming unwearable). I know, it's an extreme example, but some people who make over $200k a year keep extra (super-expensive) business suits in their office to change into during the work-day if they feel any need to change out of slightly-soiled clothing that most people would consider still fit in which to dress themselves in the morning and go to work. Which clothes match is a matter of ever-changing fashion. I'd also argue that wearing clothes that don't significantly stand out when contrasted against the clothing of your peers/co-workers is more of a cultural norm than a logical choice; I could argue that, as a customer, being able to distinguish one employee over another is very valuable in a customer-business relationship wherein individual employees of the business are expected to take responsibility for their individual interactions with customers. Making a statement on the job when working with customers is generally unhelpful to a business as a whole, though, fairly universally, so I'm agreeing on that. 3) Sadly, people will always judge one another based on appearance. To some extent, it's hard-wired genetically; beyond that, it's cultural. (If you haven't noticed, I like to attempt to transcend human cultures in my reasoning.)... I'm going to come back to this, I have thoughts on the rest of your points and would like to finish my reponse to #3 =)
See, I liked the color system! You could combine it with other color codes--like, if Code Puce (puce is a reddish-brown) was declared, it meant that terrorists flinging poo was an imminent threat.;)
You could always get a 4-d bseball and play catch. The thought-provoking part is when you accidentally throw the ball with a velocity like (p != 0) and watch as the ball shrinks into a tiny point and disappears. Then, when it bounces off of something outside of your 3d-space and suddenly appears somewhere else, shrinking back from a point to a ball again, see if you can catch it! The inertia due to the last element of the velocity 4-vector will pull part of your arm out of your 3d-space. Have fun trying to get your arm back fully within your 3d-space! Great way to hide hairy arms, though.
Hmm, I can read it just fine. For the benefit of those with vision not as good: When is the course of human events it becomes necessary for one specie to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume onions the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Mature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the courses which inset them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men aree created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienate Fights, not going these are Lift, Liberty, and the pursuit of Hoppiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Hen, deriving their just squares from the consent of the governor. That whenever amy Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to sitter or to abolish it, and to institute sex Government, laxing its foundation an such princilpes and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Hoppiness. Prudence, indeed, will Skate not Governments lions established should not be changed for light and transient courses; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more Exposed to suffer, while anvils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the farms to which they are acoustment. But when a long rain of abuses and inspirations, pursuing invariably the sane Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it's their dub, to throw off such Government and to pray for new Guards for their future security. Such has been the potent sufferance of these Colonies: and such is now the necessity which constrains them to otter their former Systems of Government. The history of the resent Kite of Great Brittle is a history of reposted injuries and inspecting, oil having in direct abject submitted to a candid variable has refuted his Assent to Lows, the most wholesome and pressure importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Agent should be omitted; and when he suspended, he has utterly neglected to offend to them.He has refused to toss other Lows for the accomodations of large districts of people,unless those people would relinquish the fight of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.He has called together legislative bodies of prizes unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sale purpose of fatiguing then into compliance with his measures.He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cruise others to be ejected whereby the Legislative Powers,incapable of Annhilation,have returned to the People at large for their exercise;
Wow, see, I didn't even get this one right (that's how little it was discussed), but in my defense, I wasn't many worlds away. Centrioles are structural bodies involved in generation of the mitotic spindle (separates chromosomes during cell mitosis), extracellular structures (such as cilia), and microtubules that provide structure for the cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton itself also contains microfilaments and intermediate filaments. Intermediate filaments are involved with extracellular structure through interactions with desmosomes and hemidesmosomes.
Obviously OP has only seen the movie, not read the book. You could've come back with, "Don't you mean a big amarone?"
!OT: I'm a bit surprised the extracellular structure remains so viable after removing the animal cells, but then again, my cell biology background is limited to high school, which mostly discusses the organelles, adding, "Spindles are important and nifty! LMAO BUTTS!" more-or-less.
Is it just me, or was google instant available before the/. story about the google light-up-letters story even posted?:confused look: Yes, it is surprisingly fast, and it is great for relieving boredom. For example, I started typing llll, lllll, llllll, lllllll, etc., to see how long a string of l's I could make before it said "Press enter to search" and stopped giving me results. It seems like I needed a string of about 30 L's. It looks like the cut-off is about 5,000 hits.
Ha! Here we go. I was looking at all the posts of people who thought only in concepts and not understanding. Your post makes much more sense to me. I think mostly in words, but not entirely. Sometimes I have a moment where I have an incomplete thought, because I can't find the word I'm looking for. Right now, as I type, it feels like I'm thinking 'in my fingers.'
I am not a visual person at all. I am almost entirely an audial person. I can remember what just about anything sounds like. I cannot remember what anything looks like. If I don't see someone for a week or two, I can't remember what they look like. This applies to my immediate family and closest friends! Having such an audio-centric memory may be why I think so much in words.
Yes. ATC and safety systems should probably just use a timescale that has no arbitrary corrections.
OTOH, systems where humans expect the time to be correct (which is probably many of the Oracle DBs) should use something we have already had for a long time: adjtimex and its equivalents, which implement systematic drift. Instead of suddenly adding or removing one second, just make the second longer or shorter for a few minutes/hours/days (depending on how quickly you need it to be synchronized with UTC vs. how much shift your systems can tolerate w/o getting confused). The solution is simple, and already exists.
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You mean that instead of sound bytes prescribing (and sometimes proscribing) how to feel, community news instead should showcase the information the community itself has to offer?
Oh, and isn't there a GIMP plugin to do this with built-in speckling/add-entropy so that the prosecution/judge can't notice so easily?
My HS math teacher spent her spare time designing her tests carefully so that no calculators were needed. If you got down to the end of a question, and you had messed up and ended up with something that *would* need manual calculation, you didn't have to work out the calculation--you'd just lose the point(s) on whatever theoretical part you screwed up, and that was it. No calculators were ever allowed---nor were they needed.
I learned one hell of a lot of math.... including vector calc and laplace transforms senior year (finished ap calc bc junior year along with 11 other kids, so that teacher wrote course material for a calc 3 class).
Well, I'd check to see if the server's cooling fans might be spewing a stream of charged particles, van de Graffe-generator-style, with an electrometer whose input Z is up at *least* around 10^12 ohms---with improper grounding, those charged particles could be a nuisance! So, we ought to check for proper grounding via RF injection. If we find a stream of charged particles and either ground loops or lack of a decent ground in the area around the server, we'd be dealing with the possibility of large electrostatic fields occasionally building up and playing the occasional trick on *MOS silicon, or messing with SMD capacitors in the presence of passing charge carriers (radon daughter decay particles, passing cosmic rays or their post-upper-atmosphere-collision daughter decay particles, local sources of nominal charged particles)---typically this manifests as an occasional memory or transmission error, suggesting that if the server isn't using ECC RAM already, it ought to be (same goes for antiquated bus technologies with zero error-detection/retransmission ability), and that probably the next best step is check the output of ifconfig for checksum errors. I mean, in an ideal world, software can be written perfectly, but hardware has physical limitations, and you have to look at the mechanical parts that fail most often and consider all possible paths of influence, right?
[note to pedants: yes, there are surely a few factual, conceptual, and deductive mistakes above---feel free to correct them, but don't forget, it's called "humor" *g*]
I believe it is generally understood that the presence of mass causes curvature of space-time around it, and the force of gravity that is exerted upon mass is due to space-time curvature. The universe can have a natural curvature (i.e., outside of curvature due to mass) that is not flat, as well, which predicts the final destination of the universe by changing the long-term outcome of expansion, iirc. but, ianap.
If someone falls asleep at the wheel and drives into the side of your house, can they be charged with assault? How about brats with spray paint? Battery? If they spray-painted 'idiot', that's like putting a sign on someone's back, and they're mocking a living being that is publicly known to have no cerebrum by making a public display on the defenseless body of that being. Now we have a potential hate-crime.
I think law school enrollment just shot through the roof.
Based on a few papers I found and a few quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations, it should help at least 10.3% of the infected population and at best will help 96%. The huge amount of variability comes from not knowing much about superinfection in HIV. I'd also like to know what strains VRC01 and VRC02 specifically/don't/ target; if the researchers are referring to HIV-1M, O, and N and HIV-2, then "over 90%" means 23/25 is covered, so I'm betting HIV-1N [see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HIV-SIV-phylogenetic-tree.svg ]---but, who knows.
Anyway---for every 100 person-years, there will be a few HIV reinfections in HIV-positive individuals, sometimes by viruses of the same exact subtype, sometimes by viruses of differing subtypes. Sometimes the viruses are more virulent than the original infecting strain of HIV. The time elapsed since the original HIV infection does not seem to make an impact on the distribution of times of second HIV infections. (Yes, I know that sentence could use re-wording, but exactly how is eluding me atm.) http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/10/1177 suggests 5.0 reinfections per 100 person-years (population size 78) in SoCal, http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.0030177 suggests 3.7% reinfections (population size 36) per 100 person-years in Kenya, and http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/79/16/10701?ijkey=30fccead91569e63031af4357a242da634620d52#SEC3 suggests 10.3 reinfections per 100 person-years (population size 20). A weighted average of these numbers, where the weights are the population sizes (not the best approach, but given the sparse amount of data found in the literature about this particular topic in general, it's better than no weighting, perhaps), comes out to 5.0 reinfections [reinfection or superinfection is very hard to define for HIV---see the methodology in the second article for more information about this] per 100 person-years. So if we look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HIV_time.png a timeline...
If we assume the number of reinfections a year is simply the reinfection rate (5.0/100 to get per-year) multiplied by the HIV-positive population that year, and guess that none of the population in 1980 (where the timeline starts) was superinfected, we get 22.7 million in 2008. If the population in 1980 had all been superinfected, we get 30.0 million in 2008. On the other hand, if we assume that only the increment in HIV-positive population is eligible for reinfection (a lousy assumption, but with how little is known, it's as good as any---actually, I'm partly going off of the notes in the introduction of the second article about the known information about reinfection rates), and just multiple the difference from year-to-year in the HIV-positive population by the reinfection rate, we get 1.31 million. (It would not make sense to include the 1980 population here, based on the assumption made.)
We don't really know enough to guess, but we can probably assume there would be at least an easily noticeable impact. A 10% drop in HIV population would be very obvious---that's a few million people.
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There are multiple species of hummingbird. A few of them are common in north america, but there are less-common species, as well. Hummingbirds are rather remarkable, being the most maneuverable group of birds (ever seen a bird fly backwards?)
You're still amazed? I'm not! We know that:
1. Some people rarely have the chance to call during normal business hours. This eliminates some call volume.
2. Some problems seem to sort themselves out after a few hours. This eliminates some call volume during the business hours of the following day.
3. People who are inconvenienced late at night, when they're trying to relax before bed, are going to get irritated easily and vent all the frustrations they garnered during their work-day. If you force them to only call during the business day, they're apt to be more polite (after all, they've now had a night's rest) as well as take up less time on the phone (less venting). This shortens call time.
It's a lot like how, at big universities, some professors have their required office hours from 7-8:30am, because they know just how few students will come during this period.
It's more navigable in dillo than before---that's what counts for me!
Hmm, that would give a regex of: [2-9]([02-9][0-9]|1[02-9])([2-46-9][0-9]{6}|5[0-9][0-46-9][0-9]{4}|555[1-9][0-9]{3}|5550[02-9][0-9]{3})
(I know, I know, a regex is for matching, not for iterating, but since I'm not using any variable-length operators, you could iterate based on that pattern.)
Of course, that doesn't account for unassigned/unused NPAs; removing those from the list would shorten it considerably.
As far as radio interference goes, Wenzel's Techlib has some info about how to mitigate this. Of course, sdddddddddddwsssssssssssssss cvvvvvvvvvvvvvv;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Sorry, cat got on keyboard. Anyway. Of course, it's not like the technicians installing the meters are checking for ground loops... but perhaps they should be? If there is that much potential to interfere with first responders, you'd think some tests on the wiring would be in order...
FTFA: "Because it was only 10 months ago that its three remaining members - or perhaps the remains of its three members - were in court fighting to preserve the "artistic integrity" of the the likes of Animals and Wish You Were Here by only flogging them as complete works rather than individual tracks."
I think it's crazy that Wish You Were Here was trying to be held together as an album. I think every (or almost every) song from that gets radio airplay as a single. Some of their other albums it makes more sense to keep together, but then again, I guess that's why the article calls out 'Wish You Were Here' as an example.
Wish You Were Here (the song) has a really good line that I've seen in someone's sig on here ("And did you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?"). Funny how more people remember the silly (imho) line about souls in a fishbowl than that line... heh.
Oh, and the next poster to end a post with "Just sayin..." is going to get their head bashed in. ;)
Just sayin...
Continuing my above response---
3) I think I would have to argue that people will still be judged on their suit; it's not a huge improvement over everyone just wearing clothing that has no printed words nor symbols, so it's not a particularly good reason to prefer suits over "business casual."
4) I'm uncomfortable with the idea of giving others the impression that I earn a lot of money. How much I earn is my business, not my co-workers', and if I'm buying clothes with my income, I'd prefer ones that I like and have high utility. Suits are not good things to wear when cooking, cleaning, nor gardening, but I can still sit at a computer and work wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Making a lot of money doesn't necessarily signal that you're good at your job; most people would describe it as being lucky enough to get paid well for the work you do, something that is more likely but not definite if you're competent in your field. Seeing someone in a suit to me generally signals that someone wants to appear authoritative or is trying to impress someone else; a poor person can always save up for a long time to buy a suit in order to impress people.
5) I don't feel suits are fairly neutral. In fact, by your point #4, you are saying they give someone an appearance of competence and wealth. I think you meant that suits are, at the present time in most circles in Europe and the US, viewed as unoffensive outfits in a typical man's wardrobe. I would argue that clothing free of words or symbols should be considered quite unoffensive.
6) Suits don't make the best uniforms for the very reason that it is not uncommon for a man to go arbitrary places wearing a suit. I know that in the past I have been often classified as an employee by other customers due to my appearance. Nametags/badges with the company name/logo make a better identifier; since they usually can only be seen from the front, some sort of clothing style/color scheme is helpful for customers to recognize potential employees from a distance (which is similar to the point you're making).
7) Eww, I don't think I look good in a suit. I'm told I do, but I'm far more comfortable with my appearance with all sorts of other outfits.
8) Haha. Yes, wearing a suit when you're trying to pick up women does tend to get you noticed.
Hmm, you have some interesting points, some of which I agree with, and some of which I don't (or, rather, I just see the situation very differently). So, to go number-by-number with my thoughts--- ;) Shoes that are broken-in are far more comfortable than when they are freshly bought, but broken-in shoes are clearly modified to a noticeable (at least to the wearer) degree, by definition. ... I'm going to come back to this, I have thoughts on the rest of your points and would like to finish my reponse to #3 =)
1) Working with customers, I can see why you'd want to avoid making certain kinds of "dislike" statements. Making some kinds of "like" statements that don't immediately imply any "dislike" statement, while a slippery slope, still seems a justifiable privelege to me. If you don't work with customers, your clothing should be expected to meet a bare minimum of occupational requirements (and, by that, I don't mean running to join any new safety or professionalism standards, formal or not). If you work with any mildly unsafe reagents in a lab, for example, requiring shoes to not be open-toed seems reasonable to me.
2) I hate to hop onto semantics here, but if something is intentionally kept in a state that would qualify as "damaged" to an individual not wise to that intention, it isn't actually being "kept damaged."
Clothing being intentionally kept dirty can be argued similarly but not to as much of an extent. Consider the case of over-washing clothes (bringing eight outfits to work every day and changing each hour, then washing them all every night): their utility is diminished (shorter life before becoming unwearable). I know, it's an extreme example, but some people who make over $200k a year keep extra (super-expensive) business suits in their office to change into during the work-day if they feel any need to change out of slightly-soiled clothing that most people would consider still fit in which to dress themselves in the morning and go to work.
Which clothes match is a matter of ever-changing fashion. I'd also argue that wearing clothes that don't significantly stand out when contrasted against the clothing of your peers/co-workers is more of a cultural norm than a logical choice; I could argue that, as a customer, being able to distinguish one employee over another is very valuable in a customer-business relationship wherein individual employees of the business are expected to take responsibility for their individual interactions with customers.
Making a statement on the job when working with customers is generally unhelpful to a business as a whole, though, fairly universally, so I'm agreeing on that.
3) Sadly, people will always judge one another based on appearance. To some extent, it's hard-wired genetically; beyond that, it's cultural. (If you haven't noticed, I like to attempt to transcend human cultures in my reasoning.)
See, I liked the color system! You could combine it with other color codes--like, if Code Puce (puce is a reddish-brown) was declared, it meant that terrorists flinging poo was an imminent threat. ;)
You could always get a 4-d bseball and play catch. The thought-provoking part is when you accidentally throw the ball with a velocity like (p != 0) and watch as the ball shrinks into a tiny point and disappears. Then, when it bounces off of something outside of your 3d-space and suddenly appears somewhere else, shrinking back from a point to a ball again, see if you can catch it! The inertia due to the last element of the velocity 4-vector will pull part of your arm out of your 3d-space. Have fun trying to get your arm back fully within your 3d-space! Great way to hide hairy arms, though.
Hmm, I can read it just fine. For the benefit of those with vision not as good:
When is the course of human events it becomes necessary for one specie to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to
assume onions the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Mature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the courses
which inset them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men aree created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienate Fights, not going these are Lift, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Hoppiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Hen, deriving their just squares from the consent of the
governor. That whenever amy Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to sitter or to abolish it, and to
institute sex Government, laxing its foundation an such princilpes and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Hoppiness. Prudence, indeed, will Skate not
Governments lions established should not be changed for light and transient
courses; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more
Exposed to suffer, while anvils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the farms to which they are acoustment. But when a long rain of
abuses and inspirations, pursuing invariably the sane Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it's
their dub, to throw off such Government and to pray for new Guards for their
future security. Such has been the potent sufferance of these Colonies: and
such is now the necessity which constrains them to otter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the resent Kite of Great Brittle is a
history of reposted injuries and inspecting, oil having in direct abject
submitted to a candid variable has refuted his Assent to Lows, the most
wholesome and pressure importance, unless suspended in their operation till
his Agent should be omitted; and when he suspended, he has utterly neglected
to offend to them.He has refused to toss other Lows for the accomodations of
large districts of people,unless those people would relinquish the fight of
Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and
formidable to tyrants only.He has called together legislative bodies of
prizes unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their
Public Records, for the sale purpose of fatiguing then into compliance with
his measures.He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.He has refused
for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cruise others to be ejected
whereby the Legislative Powers,incapable of Annhilation,have returned to the
People at large for their exercise;
I wonder if idiot savants' routers are just fewer hops from the backbone? ;P
Wow, see, I didn't even get this one right (that's how little it was discussed), but in my defense, I wasn't many worlds away. Centrioles are structural bodies involved in generation of the mitotic spindle (separates chromosomes during cell mitosis), extracellular structures (such as cilia), and microtubules that provide structure for the cytoskeleton.
The cytoskeleton itself also contains microfilaments and intermediate filaments. Intermediate filaments are involved with extracellular structure through interactions with desmosomes and hemidesmosomes.
Obviously OP has only seen the movie, not read the book. You could've come back with, "Don't you mean a big amarone?"
!OT: I'm a bit surprised the extracellular structure remains so viable after removing the animal cells, but then again, my cell biology background is limited to high school, which mostly discusses the organelles, adding, "Spindles are important and nifty! LMAO BUTTS!" more-or-less.
Ah, but I wasn't signed in =)
Does google roll out to some IP blocks early, as well? Or randomly to some "users" as marked by cookie signatures?
Is it just me, or was google instant available before the /. story about the google light-up-letters story even posted? :confused look:
Yes, it is surprisingly fast, and it is great for relieving boredom. For example, I started typing llll, lllll, llllll, lllllll, etc., to see how long a string of l's I could make before it said "Press enter to search" and stopped giving me results. It seems like I needed a string of about 30 L's. It looks like the cut-off is about 5,000 hits.
Ha! Here we go. I was looking at all the posts of people who thought only in concepts and not understanding. Your post makes much more sense to me. I think mostly in words, but not entirely. Sometimes I have a moment where I have an incomplete thought, because I can't find the word I'm looking for. Right now, as I type, it feels like I'm thinking 'in my fingers.'
I am not a visual person at all. I am almost entirely an audial person. I can remember what just about anything sounds like. I cannot remember what anything looks like. If I don't see someone for a week or two, I can't remember what they look like. This applies to my immediate family and closest friends!
Having such an audio-centric memory may be why I think so much in words.
Yes. ATC and safety systems should probably just use a timescale that has no arbitrary corrections.
OTOH, systems where humans expect the time to be correct (which is probably many of the Oracle DBs) should use something we have already had for a long time: adjtimex and its equivalents, which implement systematic drift.
Instead of suddenly adding or removing one second, just make the second longer or shorter for a few minutes/hours/days (depending on how quickly you need it to be synchronized with UTC vs. how much shift your systems can tolerate w/o getting confused). The solution is simple, and already exists.
"automatic speech recognition just doesn't work."
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You mean that instead of sound bytes prescribing (and sometimes proscribing) how to feel, community news instead should showcase the information the community itself has to offer?
Oh, and isn't there a GIMP plugin to do this with built-in speckling/add-entropy so that the prosecution/judge can't notice so easily?
My HS math teacher spent her spare time designing her tests carefully so that no calculators were needed. If you got down to the end of a question, and you had messed up and ended up with something that *would* need manual calculation, you didn't have to work out the calculation--you'd just lose the point(s) on whatever theoretical part you screwed up, and that was it.
No calculators were ever allowed---nor were they needed.
I learned one hell of a lot of math.... including vector calc and laplace transforms senior year (finished ap calc bc junior year along with 11 other kids, so that teacher wrote course material for a calc 3 class).
Well, I'd check to see if the server's cooling fans might be spewing a stream of charged particles, van de Graffe-generator-style, with an electrometer whose input Z is up at *least* around 10^12 ohms---with improper grounding, those charged particles could be a nuisance! So, we ought to check for proper grounding via RF injection. If we find a stream of charged particles and either ground loops or lack of a decent ground in the area around the server, we'd be dealing with the possibility of large electrostatic fields occasionally building up and playing the occasional trick on *MOS silicon, or messing with SMD capacitors in the presence of passing charge carriers (radon daughter decay particles, passing cosmic rays or their post-upper-atmosphere-collision daughter decay particles, local sources of nominal charged particles)---typically this manifests as an occasional memory or transmission error, suggesting that if the server isn't using ECC RAM already, it ought to be (same goes for antiquated bus technologies with zero error-detection/retransmission ability), and that probably the next best step is check the output of ifconfig for checksum errors.
I mean, in an ideal world, software can be written perfectly, but hardware has physical limitations, and you have to look at the mechanical parts that fail most often and consider all possible paths of influence, right?
[note to pedants: yes, there are surely a few factual, conceptual, and deductive mistakes above---feel free to correct them, but don't forget, it's called "humor" *g*]
I believe it is generally understood that the presence of mass causes curvature of space-time around it, and the force of gravity that is exerted upon mass is due to space-time curvature. The universe can have a natural curvature (i.e., outside of curvature due to mass) that is not flat, as well, which predicts the final destination of the universe by changing the long-term outcome of expansion, iirc. but, ianap.
If someone falls asleep at the wheel and drives into the side of your house, can they be charged with assault?
How about brats with spray paint? Battery?
If they spray-painted 'idiot', that's like putting a sign on someone's back, and they're mocking a living being that is publicly known to have no cerebrum by making a public display on the defenseless body of that being. Now we have a potential hate-crime.
I think law school enrollment just shot through the roof.
Based on a few papers I found and a few quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations, it should help at least 10.3% of the infected population and at best will help 96%. The huge amount of variability comes from not knowing much about superinfection in HIV. I'd also like to know what strains VRC01 and VRC02 specifically /don't/ target; if the researchers are referring to HIV-1M, O, and N and HIV-2, then "over 90%" means 23/25 is covered, so I'm betting HIV-1N [see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HIV-SIV-phylogenetic-tree.svg ]---but, who knows.
Anyway---for every 100 person-years, there will be a few HIV reinfections in HIV-positive individuals, sometimes by viruses of the same exact subtype, sometimes by viruses of differing subtypes. Sometimes the viruses are more virulent than the original infecting strain of HIV. The time elapsed since the original HIV infection does not seem to make an impact on the distribution of times of second HIV infections. (Yes, I know that sentence could use re-wording, but exactly how is eluding me atm.)
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/10/1177 suggests 5.0 reinfections per 100 person-years (population size 78) in SoCal, http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.0030177 suggests 3.7% reinfections (population size 36) per 100 person-years in Kenya, and http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/79/16/10701?ijkey=30fccead91569e63031af4357a242da634620d52#SEC3 suggests 10.3 reinfections per 100 person-years (population size 20). A weighted average of these numbers, where the weights are the population sizes (not the best approach, but given the sparse amount of data found in the literature about this particular topic in general, it's better than no weighting, perhaps), comes out to 5.0 reinfections [reinfection or superinfection is very hard to define for HIV---see the methodology in the second article for more information about this] per 100 person-years. So if we look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HIV_time.png a timeline...
If we assume the number of reinfections a year is simply the reinfection rate (5.0/100 to get per-year) multiplied by the HIV-positive population that year, and guess that none of the population in 1980 (where the timeline starts) was superinfected, we get 22.7 million in 2008. If the population in 1980 had all been superinfected, we get 30.0 million in 2008.
On the other hand, if we assume that only the increment in HIV-positive population is eligible for reinfection (a lousy assumption, but with how little is known, it's as good as any---actually, I'm partly going off of the notes in the introduction of the second article about the known information about reinfection rates), and just multiple the difference from year-to-year in the HIV-positive population by the reinfection rate, we get 1.31 million. (It would not make sense to include the 1980 population here, based on the assumption made.)
We don't really know enough to guess, but we can probably assume there would be at least an easily noticeable impact. A 10% drop in HIV population would be very obvious---that's a few million people.