It's also kind of funny how much the weather affects my MPG. Cold weather drops me down at least 5 MPG. I'm not sure if that's particular to hybrids, or if that's every car.
When you say the cold affects your MPG, are you taking into account that the gas you get in the summer isn't the same as the gas you get in the winter? The different formulations of gas can have a measurable effect on MPG.
I HATED the countryside in San Andreas, it's the reason I stoped playing the game. In particular having missions that frequently involved driving across 2/3 of the map really started to annoy me.
Well, if we're going to throw around anecdotal evidence: I've never worked for a company that didn't provide at least one paid 15 minute break to its hourly workers.
There is a possible flaw in that reasoning. If I build my car plant next to a hydro-electric plant, I'm using energy from that plant. If I wasn't there then that energy would likely go onto the grid, and as a result another (likely fossil fuel) power plant somewhere wouldn't need to make electricity.
I don't find Berkley's study very useful. I'd be more interested in the marginal 'cost' of increasing corn production, as this is what decisions to increase or decrease production should be based on.
My issue is based on the following series of facts and assumptions: The Berkley study relies on the current statistics for corn production. If corn based ethanol production is going to be increased, then corn production will have to increase. Increased corn production is going to rely on the use of areas that are not as good for growing corn. The increased work in growing this corn will require more energy input. This energy input will change the amount of CO2 released per unit of ethanol produced.
In a similar line of thought. If subsidies were cut, then less corn would be grown, this would result in the least productive areas growing corn being turned over to something else. Now that this 'more expensive' corn is no longer being turned into ethanol, the average amount of CO2 released in producing a unit of ethanol goes down.
The patent's grant date corresponds not to the date of first filing, but to the date when the submission is approved. This is a huge problem with the system. Besides shortening the duration of all patents, we should be dating the patents to the date of first submission.
While I don't know about the rest of the world, US patents are effective for 20 years from the earliest filing date.
Fluoride is toxic BTW.
That isn't saying much. Everything is toxic in the right dose.
Or as Paracelsus put it: "All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
There are thousands of people dying in Africa every day because of famine and disease, too, yet there is enough food in the world to feed everyone and most of the health problems they have are trivially cured by western medicine.
Just because something bad is happening, that doesn't mean we can't fix it. It just means that we (or our elected representatives, on this scale) aren't fixing it, and that's a very different kind of problem.
Feeding them and giving them medicine is not going to "fix" the problem, it's just treating the symptoms. If you want to fix the problem you need to go after the actual causes of the famine and disease.
The main reason for this is that the teachers are much more available and willing to help at smaller schools, while you generally have to figure everything out on your own at large schools.
At Cornell I found this was a function of the size of the department. The small departments tended to have professors who went out of their way to make themselves avaible, while the larger departments tended to make you work for it.
No it doesn't. While the Imperial system shares many features with the US Customary System there are also several differences. Some examples include the fact that the measurements used for liquids are different, that the US Customary System doesn't have "stone" as a unit, and gives different definitions for "hundredweight" and "ton".
Beyond this, the US system is totally screwed up. You have atleast two different systems for measureing length that use the same units, the US fluid ounce (volume) has no relationship to the US ounce (mass), the liquid pint and dry pint don't measure the same volume.
You seem to be confusing Ounces (mass) and Fluid Ounces (volume). The US Fluid Ounce exists off in its own little world, with no relation to either the Troy or Avoidupois Ounce (the latter being what the US typically uses when "Ounce" is used to refer to mass).
Well, I'm confused, but that's because I can't figure out where you are screwing up your conversion.
4 US pints is 1.9 liters.
Are you forgeting the fact that the US fluid ounce is not the same as the Imperial fluid ounce?
Your relative is probably thinking of the White Phosphorus shells that were very frequently used with the US 4.2" "chemical mortar". These shells produced dense white clouds that could cause burns to the unwary. The Germans frequently complained that the use of these shells was equivalent to using chemical weapons, but AFAIK no one else agreed with them.
Cancer cells are limited by outside factors as to how fast they can reproduce. For example you can limit cancer growth by preventing the growth of new blood vessels. If the tumor can't form new blood vessels then it's going to have a hard time growing.
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It's also kind of funny how much the weather affects my MPG. Cold weather drops me down at least 5 MPG. I'm not sure if that's particular to hybrids, or if that's every car.
When you say the cold affects your MPG, are you taking into account that the gas you get in the summer isn't the same as the gas you get in the winter? The different formulations of gas can have a measurable effect on MPG.
Yeah, because we all know there arn't parents who would sue the school if their kid was shot while hiding under a desk.
When Sauron is defeated...what happens
The Scouring of the Shire?
What are the vertices of the triangle you think has two right angles in it?
Are you sure they're a public utility? Last I heard Vonage and other VoIP providers were putting a lot of effort to avoiding being public utilities.
I'm sure Verizon is crushed when they lose people who likely would never have been their customers to begin with.
I HATED the countryside in San Andreas, it's the reason I stoped playing the game. In particular having missions that frequently involved driving across 2/3 of the map really started to annoy me.
Well, if we're going to throw around anecdotal evidence:
I've never worked for a company that didn't provide at least one paid 15 minute break to its hourly workers.
There is a possible flaw in that reasoning. If I build my car plant next to a hydro-electric plant, I'm using energy from that plant. If I wasn't there then that energy would likely go onto the grid, and as a result another (likely fossil fuel) power plant somewhere wouldn't need to make electricity.
you must be thinking of plain old audio analog tapes
Just out of curiousity, was your first clue when he said "If you have an analog tape"?
I don't find Berkley's study very useful. I'd be more interested in the marginal 'cost' of increasing corn production, as this is what decisions to increase or decrease production should be based on.
My issue is based on the following series of facts and assumptions:
The Berkley study relies on the current statistics for corn production. If corn based ethanol production is going to be increased, then corn production will have to increase. Increased corn production is going to rely on the use of areas that are not as good for growing corn. The increased work in growing this corn will require more energy input. This energy input will change the amount of CO2 released per unit of ethanol produced.
In a similar line of thought. If subsidies were cut, then less corn would be grown, this would result in the least productive areas growing corn being turned over to something else. Now that this 'more expensive' corn is no longer being turned into ethanol, the average amount of CO2 released in producing a unit of ethanol goes down.
The patent's grant date corresponds not to the date of first filing, but to the date when the submission is approved. This is a huge problem with the system. Besides shortening the duration of all patents, we should be dating the patents to the date of first submission.
While I don't know about the rest of the world, US patents are effective for 20 years from the earliest filing date.
Fluoride is toxic BTW. That isn't saying much. Everything is toxic in the right dose. Or as Paracelsus put it: "All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
[points and chants] One eye! One eye!
Weird, because I seem to recall KOTOR 2 being held up as an example of a game who had its story brutually riped apart so it could be shipped earlier.
There are thousands of people dying in Africa every day because of famine and disease, too, yet there is enough food in the world to feed everyone and most of the health problems they have are trivially cured by western medicine.
Just because something bad is happening, that doesn't mean we can't fix it. It just means that we (or our elected representatives, on this scale) aren't fixing it, and that's a very different kind of problem.
Feeding them and giving them medicine is not going to "fix" the problem, it's just treating the symptoms. If you want to fix the problem you need to go after the actual causes of the famine and disease.
The price in Euros was in the summary. How is stating it again more meaningful to Europeans?
Who was it cracked Enigma without a computer again? The Poles did. What does that have to do with this discussion?
The main reason for this is that the teachers are much more available and willing to help at smaller schools, while you generally have to figure everything out on your own at large schools.
At Cornell I found this was a function of the size of the department. The small departments tended to have professors who went out of their way to make themselves avaible, while the larger departments tended to make you work for it.
And the Imperial system works in the US.
No it doesn't. While the Imperial system shares many features with the US Customary System there are also several differences. Some examples include the fact that the measurements used for liquids are different, that the US Customary System doesn't have "stone" as a unit, and gives different definitions for "hundredweight" and "ton".
Beyond this, the US system is totally screwed up. You have atleast two different systems for measureing length that use the same units, the US fluid ounce (volume) has no relationship to the US ounce (mass), the liquid pint and dry pint don't measure the same volume.
You seem to be confusing Ounces (mass) and Fluid Ounces (volume). The US Fluid Ounce exists off in its own little world, with no relation to either the Troy or Avoidupois Ounce (the latter being what the US typically uses when "Ounce" is used to refer to mass).
Well, I'm confused, but that's because I can't figure out where you are screwing up your conversion. 4 US pints is 1.9 liters. Are you forgeting the fact that the US fluid ounce is not the same as the Imperial fluid ounce?
People commonly eat animals that arn't herbivors.
Chickens will eat insects. Turkeys eat insects and occasionaly small animals. Pigs will eat almost anything including other pigs.
Your relative is probably thinking of the White Phosphorus shells that were very frequently used with the US 4.2" "chemical mortar". These shells produced dense white clouds that could cause burns to the unwary. The Germans frequently complained that the use of these shells was equivalent to using chemical weapons, but AFAIK no one else agreed with them.
Cancer cells are limited by outside factors as to how fast they can reproduce. For example you can limit cancer growth by preventing the growth of new blood vessels. If the tumor can't form new blood vessels then it's going to have a hard time growing.