You are a pathetic little pedant. If you have nothing worth contributing, just use your little scroll wheel to move to the next post. Don't waste people's time by nit-picking insignificant shit that nobody cares about.
There was lots of crime involving bootleg alcohol when it was banned too. All that went away when alcohol was legalized.
Actually it diversified - it was a huge boost for organized crime syndicates like the mafia. We should expect the same sort of 50+ year run for everybody who came up in the drug cartel system to die off before we are really free of the effects of the drug war. Just in time for everybody to forget the lessons of the past and shoot ourselves in the foot with some new arbitrary contraband.
Most such work lights don't bother to paint the inside with anything like reflecting paint. All I've ever seen have used the same paint on the inside as on the outside, typically a dull orange or yellow. While not a perfect absorber, I doubt you'll get 10% reflection off of such a coating.
The brightest shop light you linked to is 300 lumens. A 75-watt incandescent bulb produces 1200 lumens.
If total light output, i.e. lumens, rather than directional light output, i.e. candelas, really is your criteria, then yep, that 300 lumen light is not as bright as a 75-watt bulb.
But, I'm having a really hard time coming up with a usage case for a work light where spherical illumination is important. Most work lights I've seen are only open 180 degrees anyway.
Well, unless the conspiracy theory that Tesla managed to make himself immortal, and moved to Argentina to pursue high energy experiments for gravity control and space travel are true. I kid you not, I picked up a really good book on Tesla. The last two chapters went into this wild conspiracy stuff.
Wait, what?!? Are you trying to say that The Prestige was not a true story?
There are lotsofLEDshoplightsoutthere. They are better than incandescents because (a) they are brighter, (b) being solid-state they are far more rugged and (c) they are usually cordless.
If you really have replaced all of your household bulbs with LEDs, then you can certainly afford the ~$30 to buy a new LED shop light.
Is it really so hard to admit that you simply didn't type what you were thinking? Attempting to defend the obviously indefensible doesn't fool anyone, at least not anyone worth fooling.
What bullshit. Anybody who wants to pay more in taxes can at any time do so, without be compelled to do so.... The only fucking reason this hypocrite pays less taxes is because he sets out to do so from the beginning.
No, THAT is the real bullshit. There is no contradiction between using "loopholes" and simultaneously wanting the loopholes to be taken out of the system because the simple fact of it is that there is no such thing as a loophole - only legal and illegal actions. Buffet explicitly wants the capital gains tax rate to be increased such that taking his income as dividends instead of earned income won't save him or his cronies from the higher tax rates that regular people pay.
Every movie is created by committee in order to appeal to the most demographics.
Nowadays that includes foreign audiences because roughly half of the revenue from big-budget movies comes from overseas. So they deliberately limit the scripts to what translates easily to any culture, and that leaves pretty much nothing other than famous faces, pretty girls and big explosions.
Except that it doesn't; I've borrowed a book from my library to my Kindle and then just kept the wireless turned off.
There is your friction right there - if you want to "keep" that book, you can't get any more books - you can't even go online with that device. That's like a $100 wasted so you can "keep" a $5 ebook. I don't think that's really much of a risk to the market.
I don't like these guys but this is the correct assessment of the situation. Limitless free library ebooks are the death of them.
Except "limitless" is not the issue at stake. Almost all library e-book lending works just like physical copies - the library can only "lend out" as many copies at any one time as the library purchased in the first place. What the publishers want is to impose restrictions that are even more onerous than the real world - deleting books after a certain (small) number of check-outs.
At best they can argue that physical books eventually wear out, but not in the same time frame these guys are trying force on ebook lending.
But to what extent can one teach critical thinking? Is critical thinking a skill? Or is it a habit of mind that must be cultivated?
In practice, I don't think there is much difference between your two choices.
However, a big problem with applying critical thinking skills is that it also requires good domain knowledge to be particularly useful. However, I'd be happy if most people had enough critical thinking skills to simply realize when they don't have enough domain knowledge to come to a useful conclusion. Better to hold no opinion at all than one built on a poor foundation.
But I will tell you watching my 4 year old draw pictures or make up stories or sing songs is WAY more rewarding than even fixing that niggling bug no one has been able to track down
The idea that a carrier can lock me into a device that at some point be a second class citizen while I'm still locked in is unreasonable.
Don't buy contract phones. For some reason there is very little competition in the contract market but tons in the prepay market. I got an LG Optimus V (low-end android phone) for $100 and pay only $35/month for 350 minutes plus unlimited 3G data and texts from virgin mobile. There are somewhat better prepaid plans from other carriers too. Compare that to roughly $100/month for unlimited everything from verizon on a contract.
How did their marketing department ever let that one out? Its almost as bad as HP using that Gary Glitter song "Touch Me" for their touchscreen PC advertisements.
The CNN anchor was clearly trying to corner him in to having to say something unpopular as opposed to having a dialog and talking about the issues it would cause. It was politics not news and appeared very clearly biased to me.
I didn't see it - I don't watch any television news. But if I were doing such an interview, that's exactly what I would be pushing for because few if any republicans had word one to say about how to pay for the extension of the Bush tax cuts. At best it was all magic talk about "job creators" ultimately improving the economy.
I don't think its "politics" at all to zero in on what sure looks like a serious case of hypocrisy. I put a lot more weight on increasing consumer demand as a way to create news jobs than I do on incentives for "job creators" so perhaps I'm biased, and there is some means of explaining the apparent hypocrisy that I've missed.
The company didn't try to hide their reasons. They told us flat out it was for legal liability.
I neglected to bookmark it, but there has been at least one fairly high profile case where a company got in trouble for that kind of thing. IIRC, the court saw what was obvious to any lay person - a company policy of deleting email in order to reduce legal liability was essentially institutionalised destruction of evidence. I think the particular case it might have been wall-street related.
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You are a pathetic little pedant. If you have nothing worth contributing, just use your little scroll wheel to move to the next post. Don't waste people's time by nit-picking insignificant shit that nobody cares about.
Irony, you are doing it right.
There was lots of crime involving bootleg alcohol when it was banned too. All that went away when alcohol was legalized.
Actually it diversified - it was a huge boost for organized crime syndicates like the mafia. We should expect the same sort of 50+ year run for everybody who came up in the drug cartel system to die off before we are really free of the effects of the drug war. Just in time for everybody to forget the lessons of the past and shoot ourselves in the foot with some new arbitrary contraband.
Most such work lights don't bother to paint the inside with anything like reflecting paint. All I've ever seen have used the same paint on the inside as on the outside, typically a dull orange or yellow. While not a perfect absorber, I doubt you'll get 10% reflection off of such a coating.
The brightest shop light you linked to is 300 lumens. A 75-watt incandescent bulb produces 1200 lumens.
If total light output, i.e. lumens, rather than directional light output, i.e. candelas, really is your criteria, then yep, that 300 lumen light is not as bright as a 75-watt bulb.
But, I'm having a really hard time coming up with a usage case for a work light where spherical illumination is important. Most work lights I've seen are only open 180 degrees anyway.
Sooner after his departure Ghostery went from reporting zero to 4, and as of today 5, web-bugs on most slashdot pages.
Could just be a coincidence, and awfully big coincidence though.
Seems to be true. The wikipedia article could use some clean-up, but google found lots of other stories that substantially confirm the OP's claims.
Well, unless the conspiracy theory that Tesla managed to make himself immortal, and moved to Argentina to pursue high energy experiments for gravity control and space travel are true. I kid you not, I picked up a really good book on Tesla. The last two chapters went into this wild conspiracy stuff.
Wait, what?!? Are you trying to say that The Prestige was not a true story?
So it seems that your answer is that yes, yes it really is too hard.
There are lots of LED shop lights out there. They are better than incandescents because (a) they are brighter, (b) being solid-state they are far more rugged and (c) they are usually cordless.
If you really have replaced all of your household bulbs with LEDs, then you can certainly afford the ~$30 to buy a new LED shop light.
Is it really so hard to admit that you simply didn't type what you were thinking?
Attempting to defend the obviously indefensible doesn't fool anyone, at least not anyone worth fooling.
What bullshit. Anybody who wants to pay more in taxes can at any time do so, without be compelled to do so. ... The only fucking reason this hypocrite pays less taxes is because he sets out to do so from the beginning.
No, THAT is the real bullshit. There is no contradiction between using "loopholes" and simultaneously wanting the loopholes to be taken out of the system because the simple fact of it is that there is no such thing as a loophole - only legal and illegal actions. Buffet explicitly wants the capital gains tax rate to be increased such that taking his income as dividends instead of earned income won't save him or his cronies from the higher tax rates that regular people pay.
I understand "guerrilla marketing" but to whom are we marketing: prepubescent teenie boppers?
Anime and manga fans.
Every movie is created by committee in order to appeal to the most demographics.
Nowadays that includes foreign audiences because roughly half of the revenue from big-budget movies comes from overseas. So they deliberately limit the scripts to what translates easily to any culture, and that leaves pretty much nothing other than famous faces, pretty girls and big explosions.
Audio allows for telling a more interesting story. 3D doesn't.
Withouth 3D, Avatar is just "Dances With Giant Smurfs."
Except that it doesn't; I've borrowed a book from my library to my Kindle and then just kept the wireless turned off.
There is your friction right there - if you want to "keep" that book, you can't get any more books - you can't even go online with that device. That's like a $100 wasted so you can "keep" a $5 ebook. I don't think that's really much of a risk to the market.
I don't like these guys but this is the correct assessment of the situation. Limitless free library ebooks are the death of them.
Except "limitless" is not the issue at stake. Almost all library e-book lending works just like physical copies - the library can only "lend out" as many copies at any one time as the library purchased in the first place. What the publishers want is to impose restrictions that are even more onerous than the real world - deleting books after a certain (small) number of check-outs.
At best they can argue that physical books eventually wear out, but not in the same time frame these guys are trying force on ebook lending.
But to what extent can one teach critical thinking? Is critical thinking a skill? Or is it a habit of mind that must be cultivated?
In practice, I don't think there is much difference between your two choices.
However, a big problem with applying critical thinking skills is that it also requires good domain knowledge to be particularly useful. However, I'd be happy if most people had enough critical thinking skills to simply realize when they don't have enough domain knowledge to come to a useful conclusion. Better to hold no opinion at all than one built on a poor foundation.
But I will tell you watching my 4 year old draw pictures or make up stories or sing songs is WAY more rewarding than even fixing that niggling bug no one has been able to track down
That's a pretty well known delusion among parents.
Perhaps it is more important to teach not believing everything that you read.
Critical thinking is the most important thing school can teach a person.
Unfortunately it seems to get pretty short shrift in much of the curriculum.
The document is public, no sign-in required. Or that's what Google says at least.
If that's the case, they are lying. All I get is a sign in page.
The idea that a carrier can lock me into a device that at some point be a second class citizen while I'm still locked in is unreasonable.
Don't buy contract phones. For some reason there is very little competition in the contract market but tons in the prepay market. I got an LG Optimus V (low-end android phone) for $100 and pay only $35/month for 350 minutes plus unlimited 3G data and texts from virgin mobile. There are somewhat better prepaid plans from other carriers too. Compare that to roughly $100/month for unlimited everything from verizon on a contract.
As far as I know there hasn't been an election since the Bush tax cuts were renewed.
TouchWiz? Sounds like a GUI for paedophiles.
How did their marketing department ever let that one out? Its almost as bad as HP using that Gary Glitter song "Touch Me" for their touchscreen PC advertisements.
The CNN anchor was clearly trying to corner him in to having to say something unpopular as opposed to having a dialog and talking about the issues it would cause. It was politics not news and appeared very clearly biased to me.
I didn't see it - I don't watch any television news. But if I were doing such an interview, that's exactly what I would be pushing for because few if any republicans had word one to say about how to pay for the extension of the Bush tax cuts. At best it was all magic talk about "job creators" ultimately improving the economy.
I don't think its "politics" at all to zero in on what sure looks like a serious case of hypocrisy. I put a lot more weight on increasing consumer demand as a way to create news jobs than I do on incentives for "job creators" so perhaps I'm biased, and there is some means of explaining the apparent hypocrisy that I've missed.
The company didn't try to hide their reasons. They told us flat out it was for legal liability.
I neglected to bookmark it, but there has been at least one fairly high profile case where a company got in trouble for that kind of thing. IIRC, the court saw what was obvious to any lay person - a company policy of deleting email in order to reduce legal liability was essentially institutionalised destruction of evidence. I think the particular case it might have been wall-street related.