If you generate more power than you use with solar panels, are you able to sell it to your energy provider? Here in Germany any extra power your panels generate has to be bought by your utilities company, at a price a lot higher than the market average for electricity. So as long as you're generating more power than you consume, your utilities company actually pays you. For many people this means they end up with a net gain at the end of the year, as the money they make in the summer more than offsets the price of the electricity they have to buy in the winter.
The only remaining downside is the high installation cost of the panels. Still, I see them everywhere here.
Asperger's is not a disease, nor is it a mental deficiency, nor are the people who supposedly have it 'stupid' (do you think someone who thrives on social situations doesn't think he's above a nerd?). That kind of thinking comes from the flawed assumption that there's a class of "normal" people, and anyone exhibiting behaviors not part of this class must have something wrong with them. Truth is there is no such thing as "normal", there's only an average, and I don't find those concepts to be the same at all.
Asperger's is a behavioral difference, that's all. Some people thrive on social relationships, most people enjoy them, some people find them to be a chore. Those people thrive on independence, spending an evening by themselves doing whatever they're interested in is as invigorating for them as a night on the town for a socialite. Big deal.
On the one hand we all accept that people are different, and on the other hand we expect them all to be the same. It's confusing. Lets just go with the first one and stop expecting everyone to exhibit the same social behaviors, shall we?
I think you mean their Medical Information Lexicon Format. Personally, I can't wait to have a.milf of my very own. As long as I can access my.milf whenever I choose, and I'd want strict protection placed on my.milf, the last thing I want is for my.milf to fall into the wrong hands.
I'll hold my judgment on whether digital records are a good idea, but I'm fascinated by the attempt at sugar coating the cost of this program. 212,000 jobs? Great, that's enough to put half the people entering welfare last week alone back to work, a few years from now. And it's only going to cost $100 billion during an economic crisis? Sounds like a bargain to me!
I've already given up on the fantasy future where everything gets better, privacy means more and money no longer runs people's lives. Now I've adopted George Carlin's perspective on life, I try to keep my sanity by laughing at the increasingly ridiculous happenings as society circles the drain ever faster, ever faster.
providing carefully timed jerks of the cable at its base with a broomstick to represent the cable held in tension, an electric sander to provide a rhythmic vibration to the bottom of the stick, and three brushes representing the climber with their bristles pointing downwards allowing the climber assembly to slide upward along the broomstick as it moved slightly downward, but grip it as it moved slightly upward.
Clearly this man has a calling in erotic literature.
Obviously those infants are being exploited into performing sexual acts in front of a camera. You're damn right those pictures should be removed, think of the children!
78% accurate in a controlled setting is nothing to be proud of. I'll grant the fact that they're still in the early research stages, as they say, but I'd need to see an accuracy rate of over 99% in a real world application for me to consider it a valid option. Otherwise there will be far too many false positives for it to be useful in a high-traffic situation.
I'll leave it to other people to point out everything else wrong with this kind of system.
Why not combine this with a text message system? I see these all over the place here in Germany, you send an SMS to a number and they bill you a few euro in exchange for a ringtone or whatever else they're offering. Even some charity organizations here are doing it. I no nothing about the infrastructure behind this, in fact if someone knows how it works I'd be interested in finding out.
This way people could quickly give a small donation without the hassle of Paypal.
"Meanwhile, music sales continue to fall. In 2003, the industry sold 656 million albums. In 2007, the number fell to 500 million CDs and digital albums, plus 844 million paid individual song downloads -- hardly enough to make up the decline in album sales."
Wow, so now that people are given the option of buying only the track they like instead of the whole album... album sales are dropping. Imagine that! I guess blaming it on piracy is easier than making all 12 songs on an album worth buying.
Because assuming we are the cause of the climate shift implies we have to do something to fix it. If the outcome of all this is limited to reducing pollution and working toward cleaner energy then I'm happy. We should be doing that regardless. But the minute people start talking about deliberate climate modification to offset the warming I get worried. And this kind of thinking is already cropping up, with proposals to seed clouds to reflect more sunlight, or add lime to seawater.
Because if there's one thing students in the US don't have enough of, it's fees.
But seriously, an opt-in fee to benefit the artists sounds like a good compromise, though I think it's safe to say that's not going to happen. It will be a mandatory fee, collected by the universities and deposited into the coffers of Sony BMG, EMI, Warner and Universal without them having to lift a finger. Artists will never see a dime, labels will have a new printing press for cash and students all across America will get screwed.
It's a sad state of affairs when the pessimistic view is synonymous with the realistic.
Normally I'm not a fan of rap, but I came across a guy by the name of Immortal Technique a few weeks ago that impressed me quite a bit. Not only are his lyrics actually about important things rather than bling, hos and poppin caps, but he seems to get the new way music distribution works.
He's been on an independent label since 2000 (he's co-owner of it now I think) and in that time he's sold maybe 300,000 units total. Is that a lot compared to artists on major labels? No, but he makes $7 per CD sold and lots more money doing live shows. He said in an interview that he was offered $150,000 to make an album for a major label and he turned them down.
He's not making nearly as much money as Jay Z or some other big name rapper, but he has full control over his production and full control over his music, something he says is more important than money. I'll leave you with a piece from an interview:
Lots of people, not just the record labels, told me that this wasn't going to be lucrative or that no one was going to care, but I was fortunate enough to believe in myself and say, listen, I'm going to do whatever I want, with or without the express permission of other people. There's no gatekeeper for me. I don't need somebody to co-sign me to put me on.
Anyone who has supported me has never been because I twisted their arm, it's been out of the goodness of their own heart because they felt the truth in the music. So I think in terms of marketing myself, I don't need to create a rap persona, or a different personality in order to sell records. For me, it's just as simple as getting the word out and getting the music to people. The music sells itself, and the message sells itself.
...
I definitely would like people to purchase The 3rd World in stores and purchase it online, but I think it was more of a way for me to express my frustration with the music industry. I can't believe they have the audacity to call anybody else a thief. As much money as they steal from artists, as much as they don't have a health care program for any of their artists, and I look at stuff like that and I'm disgusted. They go to these conferences and tell kids, "How can you steal a record?" I'm like really?
That's the nature of an unobservable object. All you can do is infer its existence through its effects on other objects, in this case through the gravitational effects on stars. But then all you've *proven* is that something is causing those effects. The simplest explanation is a black hole, but it could be something else, and that's why black holes are still considered theoretical.
Dark matter is in the same boat. Same with dark energy and strings. Physics seems to be moving toward explanations involving unobservable objects, whether that's right or not remains to be seen. Question is, can it ever be seen? See?
I always thought it was really cool of Volition to release the source code to Freespace 2 after Interplay's demise. It's allowed a whole ton of custom mods and campaigns that I'm still playing today, 12 years after the game's release. Textures and effects were updated by the mod community and a lot of the new campaigns include new ships or weapons. Some of the best include:
Looks like a military propaganda video out of a cheesy sci-fi movie. In fact, it reminds me of the military commercials in Starship Troopers. Still, it shows how these things should work.
It seems like sci-fi shows get mishandled by their networks more often than not, then they blame the show when it gets mediocre ratings. The few episodes of BSG in season 3 that seemed like one-offs came about because the network decided the long story arc made it too hard for people to get into the show. The producers were pressured to create one-off episodes (like Star Trek used to be) and look what happened. Those episodes were by far the worst episodes in BSG (The Woman King?).
They've barely been investigated because one of the best avenues for investigating them, hallucinogenic drugs, has been actively suppressed. Take the tryptamines for example. Here we have a class of chemicals that are, for the most part, physically harmless, that can be administered in a controlled setting and are all but guaranteed to produce hallucinations. Hell one of them, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), is even produced naturally in the human brain. This is the most powerful hallucinogen known to exist, yet we know almost nothing about it or what it's doing there, because (ironically) it's a Schedule I drug. Technically, we're all guilty of possession of a controlled substance.
Whether these things should be legalized is another topic, but at least make it easier for researchers to do legitimate science with them. Just tell me where to sign up.
If I know I'm nothing but an elevated heartbeat away from being branded a suspected terrorist by airport security, well guess what? I'd probably have an elevated heartbeat.
On top of this TCP hasn't seen a major update since the 80's. Most of it was implemented to deal with a very different internet than the one we have today. If you can side step TCP's shortcomings by doing the congestion control more efficiently at the application level then why not give it a shot?
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If you generate more power than you use with solar panels, are you able to sell it to your energy provider? Here in Germany any extra power your panels generate has to be bought by your utilities company, at a price a lot higher than the market average for electricity. So as long as you're generating more power than you consume, your utilities company actually pays you. For many people this means they end up with a net gain at the end of the year, as the money they make in the summer more than offsets the price of the electricity they have to buy in the winter.
The only remaining downside is the high installation cost of the panels. Still, I see them everywhere here.
said governments have a legitimate interest in preventing known bad actors from entering their country.
I guess they slipped up with Keanu Reeves.
Asperger's is not a disease, nor is it a mental deficiency, nor are the people who supposedly have it 'stupid' (do you think someone who thrives on social situations doesn't think he's above a nerd?). That kind of thinking comes from the flawed assumption that there's a class of "normal" people, and anyone exhibiting behaviors not part of this class must have something wrong with them. Truth is there is no such thing as "normal", there's only an average, and I don't find those concepts to be the same at all.
Asperger's is a behavioral difference, that's all. Some people thrive on social relationships, most people enjoy them, some people find them to be a chore. Those people thrive on independence, spending an evening by themselves doing whatever they're interested in is as invigorating for them as a night on the town for a socialite. Big deal.
On the one hand we all accept that people are different, and on the other hand we expect them all to be the same. It's confusing. Lets just go with the first one and stop expecting everyone to exhibit the same social behaviors, shall we?
I think you mean their Medical Information Lexicon Format. Personally, I can't wait to have a .milf of my very own. As long as I can access my .milf whenever I choose, and I'd want strict protection placed on my .milf, the last thing I want is for my .milf to fall into the wrong hands.
I'll hold my judgment on whether digital records are a good idea, but I'm fascinated by the attempt at sugar coating the cost of this program. 212,000 jobs? Great, that's enough to put half the people entering welfare last week alone back to work, a few years from now. And it's only going to cost $100 billion during an economic crisis? Sounds like a bargain to me!
I've already given up on the fantasy future where everything gets better, privacy means more and money no longer runs people's lives. Now I've adopted George Carlin's perspective on life, I try to keep my sanity by laughing at the increasingly ridiculous happenings as society circles the drain ever faster, ever faster.
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providing carefully timed jerks of the cable at its base with a broomstick to represent the cable held in tension, an electric sander to provide a rhythmic vibration to the bottom of the stick, and three brushes representing the climber with their bristles pointing downwards allowing the climber assembly to slide upward along the broomstick as it moved slightly downward, but grip it as it moved slightly upward.
Clearly this man has a calling in erotic literature.
Obviously those infants are being exploited into performing sexual acts in front of a camera. You're damn right those pictures should be removed, think of the children!
78% accurate in a controlled setting is nothing to be proud of. I'll grant the fact that they're still in the early research stages, as they say, but I'd need to see an accuracy rate of over 99% in a real world application for me to consider it a valid option. Otherwise there will be far too many false positives for it to be useful in a high-traffic situation.
I'll leave it to other people to point out everything else wrong with this kind of system.
Why not combine this with a text message system? I see these all over the place here in Germany, you send an SMS to a number and they bill you a few euro in exchange for a ringtone or whatever else they're offering. Even some charity organizations here are doing it. I no nothing about the infrastructure behind this, in fact if someone knows how it works I'd be interested in finding out.
This way people could quickly give a small donation without the hassle of Paypal.
No kidding. They could have at least thrown in some UFO pictures from Area 51 or something!
"Meanwhile, music sales continue to fall. In 2003, the industry sold 656 million albums. In 2007, the number fell to 500 million CDs and digital albums, plus 844 million paid individual song downloads -- hardly enough to make up the decline in album sales."
Wow, so now that people are given the option of buying only the track they like instead of the whole album... album sales are dropping. Imagine that! I guess blaming it on piracy is easier than making all 12 songs on an album worth buying.
Because assuming we are the cause of the climate shift implies we have to do something to fix it. If the outcome of all this is limited to reducing pollution and working toward cleaner energy then I'm happy. We should be doing that regardless. But the minute people start talking about deliberate climate modification to offset the warming I get worried. And this kind of thinking is already cropping up, with proposals to seed clouds to reflect more sunlight, or add lime to seawater.
Because if there's one thing students in the US don't have enough of, it's fees.
But seriously, an opt-in fee to benefit the artists sounds like a good compromise, though I think it's safe to say that's not going to happen. It will be a mandatory fee, collected by the universities and deposited into the coffers of Sony BMG, EMI, Warner and Universal without them having to lift a finger. Artists will never see a dime, labels will have a new printing press for cash and students all across America will get screwed.
It's a sad state of affairs when the pessimistic view is synonymous with the realistic.
Normally I'm not a fan of rap, but I came across a guy by the name of Immortal Technique a few weeks ago that impressed me quite a bit. Not only are his lyrics actually about important things rather than bling, hos and poppin caps, but he seems to get the new way music distribution works.
He's been on an independent label since 2000 (he's co-owner of it now I think) and in that time he's sold maybe 300,000 units total. Is that a lot compared to artists on major labels? No, but he makes $7 per CD sold and lots more money doing live shows. He said in an interview that he was offered $150,000 to make an album for a major label and he turned them down.
He's not making nearly as much money as Jay Z or some other big name rapper, but he has full control over his production and full control over his music, something he says is more important than money. I'll leave you with a piece from an interview:
Lots of people, not just the record labels, told me that this wasn't going to be lucrative or that no one was going to care, but I was fortunate enough to believe in myself and say, listen, I'm going to do whatever I want, with or without the express permission of other people. There's no gatekeeper for me. I don't need somebody to co-sign me to put me on.
Anyone who has supported me has never been because I twisted their arm, it's been out of the goodness of their own heart because they felt the truth in the music. So I think in terms of marketing myself, I don't need to create a rap persona, or a different personality in order to sell records. For me, it's just as simple as getting the word out and getting the music to people. The music sells itself, and the message sells itself.
...
I definitely would like people to purchase The 3rd World in stores and purchase it online, but I think it was more of a way for me to express my frustration with the music industry. I can't believe they have the audacity to call anybody else a thief. As much money as they steal from artists, as much as they don't have a health care program for any of their artists, and I look at stuff like that and I'm disgusted. They go to these conferences and tell kids, "How can you steal a record?" I'm like really?
Full interview
See my reply to post above. Though I'd offer a question, could you prove the existence of a pen through ink written on paper?
If I could mod in stories I've posted in, I'd mod you up. That's a big flaw in my comment that I hadn't considered when I made it :)
That's the nature of an unobservable object. All you can do is infer its existence through its effects on other objects, in this case through the gravitational effects on stars. But then all you've *proven* is that something is causing those effects. The simplest explanation is a black hole, but it could be something else, and that's why black holes are still considered theoretical.
Dark matter is in the same boat. Same with dark energy and strings. Physics seems to be moving toward explanations involving unobservable objects, whether that's right or not remains to be seen. Question is, can it ever be seen? See?
Because as TFA says it's "3 out of 4 households" that might be affected, not 3 out of 4 accounts.
I always thought it was really cool of Volition to release the source code to Freespace 2 after Interplay's demise. It's allowed a whole ton of custom mods and campaigns that I'm still playing today, 12 years after the game's release. Textures and effects were updated by the mod community and a lot of the new campaigns include new ships or weapons. Some of the best include:
Beyond The Red Line (BSG conversion with Newtonian physics)
Blue Planet
The Procyon Insurgency
The Babylon Project (Babylon 5 conversion)
Looks like a military propaganda video out of a cheesy sci-fi movie. In fact, it reminds me of the military commercials in Starship Troopers. Still, it shows how these things should work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgIBES9U9M
It seems like sci-fi shows get mishandled by their networks more often than not, then they blame the show when it gets mediocre ratings. The few episodes of BSG in season 3 that seemed like one-offs came about because the network decided the long story arc made it too hard for people to get into the show. The producers were pressured to create one-off episodes (like Star Trek used to be) and look what happened. Those episodes were by far the worst episodes in BSG (The Woman King?).
Lets not even get into what FOX did to Firefly...
They've barely been investigated because one of the best avenues for investigating them, hallucinogenic drugs, has been actively suppressed. Take the tryptamines for example. Here we have a class of chemicals that are, for the most part, physically harmless, that can be administered in a controlled setting and are all but guaranteed to produce hallucinations. Hell one of them, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), is even produced naturally in the human brain. This is the most powerful hallucinogen known to exist, yet we know almost nothing about it or what it's doing there, because (ironically) it's a Schedule I drug. Technically, we're all guilty of possession of a controlled substance.
Whether these things should be legalized is another topic, but at least make it easier for researchers to do legitimate science with them. Just tell me where to sign up.
If I know I'm nothing but an elevated heartbeat away from being branded a suspected terrorist by airport security, well guess what? I'd probably have an elevated heartbeat.
On top of this TCP hasn't seen a major update since the 80's. Most of it was implemented to deal with a very different internet than the one we have today. If you can side step TCP's shortcomings by doing the congestion control more efficiently at the application level then why not give it a shot?