Don't know if you (or the mods!) were joking, but that condition holds 25% of the time, or 50% if you remove the president bit. (i.e., Reps are up for re-election every 2 years, senators every 6, so every two years all Reps and 1/3 the Senate is up for re-election).
So I don't think that's a good explanation -- is there really a persistent 25-50% chunk of time where dumb/unpopular bills can't pass?
And for the love of foreigners, if you guys do something about your spelling issues, please remove unsounded letters (like the "gh" in straight"), don't add any more of them.
Not to change the topic too badly, but if you're concerned with unsounded letters in major languages, it's French you should be worried about. They seem to take a policy of "last three letters are optional -- hope you didn't learn the language just from speech!"
There are theoretical limits to how much information can be stored in a molecule -- this given by the molar entropy, typically expressed in J/(K*mol). But it can also be expressed, more intuitively, as bits per molecule.
(Yes, you can convert between J/K and bits -- they measure the same thing, degrees of freedom.)
Per this table, iron has a molar entropy of 27.3 J/K*mol, or 4.73 bits/molecule.
IBM is claiming an information density of (1/12) bits/molecule, which is reasonable -- the thermodynamic limit is ~57x greater.
If you are driving long enough for the car to complain that you are not wearing your seat belt, then you are not making an intelligent decision.
*What?* My car gives a loud, annoying seat belt warning the *moment* the engine is turned on. Now, I don't object to wearing a seat belt (I wear it every time), and I don't even object to being reminded to wear one, but come on: you can't tell me I'm an unintelligent seat-belt opponent just because I don't have the seat belt on before turning the ignition!
Usually, it's fastest, to turn the ignition, put the seatbelt on, and then put it into drive/reverse to start moving. Yet the annoying-ass beep goes off if your engine has been on for more than *zero* seconds without the seat belt plugged in. Give me a f'in break! Is it too much to ask that the warning not come on until I shift out of park?
(You might have a point if you were talking about some other, secondary alarm that activates later.)
But if you're an interviewer and you have to choose between two people, one who answers "Because you're the only people who'll talk to me" and one who answers "Because your output seems interesting and your public image seems like somewhere I'd fit in" - who do you think would be more likely to be productive?
Realistically, this is only a test for which employee learned the Magic Interview Password for this question -- not an actual informative test.
But why do you have to track someone's car *at all* to know whether they're showing up at work? Can't you just, like, check the workplace for the presence of this worker?
Also, the lack of any discernable output from him should kinda clue you in without having to track where his car is.
I'm just interested how they got the point of deciding that the only way to "catch" him was to track his car. For my whole life, my bosses have known when I don't show up for work without needing to tack a GPS unit onto my ride...
I don't think you understand SOPA. SOPA isn't a problem with Technology. It's not going to physically break the backbone routers we need for the internet. It's not going to present technological challenges. What it's going to do that is a problem is rape free speech [eff.org], make user-generated content (like what I'm doing right now) nearly impossible and on par with China's arcane policies [nytimes.com] as well as a number of other things. It threatens uploading content, it threatens internal networks, it threatens open source software, it threatens DNS, DNSSEC and internet security. And the worst part is that it's going to be completely ineffective at what it aims to do!
Phew! I was worried about that for a second, and then you mentioned it would be ineffective at what it aims to do. I guess I have nothing to worry about then!
What advice are you talking about? When I click the link, I just see an overcluttered website. I tried to find out what I should be eating, so I clicked the "dieters" link, but after three clicks I still can't find advice. The closest I got was (a few clicks from) a daily food plan, which doesn't tell me what the carbs/fat/protein breakdown ideal is, and a few vague double-pie charts.
I want to know what advice you're talking about so I can know what it is I'm agreeing or disagreeing with.
So the only way to pay full cost for the phone upfront so as to avoid that 30+% effective interest rate (that results from spreading its costs over two years on your cell phone bill) is to use as pay-as-you-go plan?
From my end, he sounds more like the type that would blame a homeowner that would put up a sign on his front door that says, "Door unlocked; combination to safe with valuables is... . On vacation until..."
Well, there's a big unknown in terms of how much it would cost to monitor the 13 year olds who would pilot the next generation offensive drones from the ground. See, while they're good at actually fighting, they have a strange tendency to think it's "funny" to blow up a camel or mosque in a "video game".
Rat and frog organs are homologous with human organs, that's why it's so easy to remember different animals' anatomies ones you've learned one. (Though there are quirks, like a horse's hooves bein homologous to middle fingernails...)
Of course, anti-evolution fanatics try to keep such convenient shortcuts from being learned because it infringes on their "faith".
It is a joke. Just look at the Abu Ghraib trials or others where they were not tried for torture, murder and rape (which they did) but for 'dereliction of duty' or 'illegal discharge of a firearm'.
No, you're think of the BSG episode where Cally gets 30 days in the brig for murdering a Cylon because the Admiral reduces her violationg to "unauthorized discharge of a firearm". Abu Ghraib didn't involve gunshots.
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Exactly. And when I hear them say "Charles de Gaulle", it sounds moe like "shah-de-gah".
In the NATO phonetic alphabet the have to write the word for J as "Juliette" instead of "Juliet" so that French speakers will pronounce the T!
Don't know if you (or the mods!) were joking, but that condition holds 25% of the time, or 50% if you remove the president bit. (i.e., Reps are up for re-election every 2 years, senators every 6, so every two years all Reps and 1/3 the Senate is up for re-election).
So I don't think that's a good explanation -- is there really a persistent 25-50% chunk of time where dumb/unpopular bills can't pass?
And for the love of foreigners, if you guys do something about your spelling issues, please remove unsounded letters (like the "gh" in straight"), don't add any more of them.
Not to change the topic too badly, but if you're concerned with unsounded letters in major languages, it's French you should be worried about. They seem to take a policy of "last three letters are optional -- hope you didn't learn the language just from speech!"
Um, if you define poverty as relative to other people in the same economy, you're always going to find as much of it as you want.
Oh, puh-f'in-leeze. As if there aren't homeless on the streets, probably more, in every other OECD country.
There's no such thing as an anti-antibiotics bandwagon. Does not exist.
Sure there is. You've never heard of probiotics?
Please. There's a world market for maybe 5 scanning tunneling microscopes.
There are theoretical limits to how much information can be stored in a molecule -- this given by the molar entropy, typically expressed in J/(K*mol). But it can also be expressed, more intuitively, as bits per molecule.
(Yes, you can convert between J/K and bits -- they measure the same thing, degrees of freedom.)
Per this table, iron has a molar entropy of 27.3 J/K*mol, or 4.73 bits/molecule.
IBM is claiming an information density of (1/12) bits/molecule, which is reasonable -- the thermodynamic limit is ~57x greater.
I also thought that's what they were doing as well, and that Fuku has recently passed it n-decade review?
This is one of those days when I wish I had mod points, and could dump every last one of them into uploading a single comment.
No, it's fitting to a simple societal norm: specifically, "use this answer {...} to the lame-ass question about why you're applying there."
If you are driving long enough for the car to complain that you are not wearing your seat belt, then you are not making an intelligent decision.
*What?* My car gives a loud, annoying seat belt warning the *moment* the engine is turned on. Now, I don't object to wearing a seat belt (I wear it every time), and I don't even object to being reminded to wear one, but come on: you can't tell me I'm an unintelligent seat-belt opponent just because I don't have the seat belt on before turning the ignition!
Usually, it's fastest, to turn the ignition, put the seatbelt on, and then put it into drive/reverse to start moving. Yet the annoying-ass beep goes off if your engine has been on for more than *zero* seconds without the seat belt plugged in. Give me a f'in break! Is it too much to ask that the warning not come on until I shift out of park?
(You might have a point if you were talking about some other, secondary alarm that activates later.)
But if you're an interviewer and you have to choose between two people, one who answers "Because you're the only people who'll talk to me" and one who answers "Because your output seems interesting and your public image seems like somewhere I'd fit in" - who do you think would be more likely to be productive?
Realistically, this is only a test for which employee learned the Magic Interview Password for this question -- not an actual informative test.
But why do you have to track someone's car *at all* to know whether they're showing up at work? Can't you just, like, check the workplace for the presence of this worker?
Also, the lack of any discernable output from him should kinda clue you in without having to track where his car is.
I'm just interested how they got the point of deciding that the only way to "catch" him was to track his car. For my whole life, my bosses have known when I don't show up for work without needing to tack a GPS unit onto my ride...
I don't think you understand SOPA. SOPA isn't a problem with Technology. It's not going to physically break the backbone routers we need for the internet. It's not going to present technological challenges. What it's going to do that is a problem is rape free speech [eff.org], make user-generated content (like what I'm doing right now) nearly impossible and on par with China's arcane policies [nytimes.com] as well as a number of other things. It threatens uploading content, it threatens internal networks, it threatens open source software, it threatens DNS, DNSSEC and internet security. And the worst part is that it's going to be completely ineffective at what it aims to do!
Phew! I was worried about that for a second, and then you mentioned it would be ineffective at what it aims to do. I guess I have nothing to worry about then!
What advice are you talking about? When I click the link, I just see an overcluttered website. I tried to find out what I should be eating, so I clicked the "dieters" link, but after three clicks I still can't find advice. The closest I got was (a few clicks from) a daily food plan, which doesn't tell me what the carbs/fat/protein breakdown ideal is, and a few vague double-pie charts.
I want to know what advice you're talking about so I can know what it is I'm agreeing or disagreeing with.
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So the only way to pay full cost for the phone upfront so as to avoid that 30+% effective interest rate (that results from spreading its costs over two years on your cell phone bill) is to use as pay-as-you-go plan?
Does it cover web/texting?
Inquiring minds want to know: does the Turkish government put that "I kiss you!" guy on the block-list?
From my end, he sounds more like the type that would blame a homeowner that would put up a sign on his front door that says, "Door unlocked; combination to safe with valuables is ... . On vacation until ..."
Right, but where would the other 99% come from?
Well, there's a big unknown in terms of how much it would cost to monitor the 13 year olds who would pilot the next generation offensive drones from the ground. See, while they're good at actually fighting, they have a strange tendency to think it's "funny" to blow up a camel or mosque in a "video game".
I would rather talk to my phone like it is a phone than a woman
Okay, fair point. But, um, how do you "normally" have conversations with a telephone?
"Oh, oh, don't even give me the silent treatment, you little shit! I want to know why you didn't connect that call and I want to know NOW!"
Rat and frog organs are homologous with human organs, that's why it's so easy to remember different animals' anatomies ones you've learned one. (Though there are quirks, like a horse's hooves bein homologous to middle fingernails...)
Of course, anti-evolution fanatics try to keep such convenient shortcuts from being learned because it infringes on their "faith".
It is a joke. Just look at the Abu Ghraib trials or others where they were not tried for torture, murder and rape (which they did) but for 'dereliction of duty' or 'illegal discharge of a firearm'.
No, you're think of the BSG episode where Cally gets 30 days in the brig for murdering a Cylon because the Admiral reduces her violationg to "unauthorized discharge of a firearm". Abu Ghraib didn't involve gunshots.