I can see how the rubber sheet analogy is a good demonstration of why a body moving through space in a straight line will follow a curve. But if you just put the marble there it will roll down toward the mass that is deforming the sheet. This breaks the analogy for me. I don't see how the earth's gravity pulling the marble in toward the mass demonstrates anything about why a body in space will fall toward another. In the first example gravity is only used to deform the sheet, the curvature of the path is not really caused by earth gravity. It can be done with string, tape or a line drawn on the sheet to demonstrate the curve without a marble that would be pulled by earth gravity. But a marble just sitting there is only pulled by earth gravity. The curvature has no effect on a stationary marble so to me the analogy does not work for a non-moving object.
Why did they even need to test this? It is quite obvious that it is just an analogy and that it doesn't actually work that way. For one, the marble rolling on the rubber sheet is pulled by our real gravity below the sheet, and not by some mysterious rubber sheet warping the pulls the marble in towards the mass. And the talk in the article about the sheet not forming a cone shape like gravity space warping does. For the correct orbiting motion using a surface under our gravity field you don't even want a cone. Most people have probably seen those curved funnel things where you roll a coin into it and it orbits quite well all the way down into the center part. The profile of that device is not linear like a cone is, but starts out shallow at the outer edge and gets steeper in towards the center. It could be derived from some parabola or something, but it definitely isn't a cone. So the analogy is just an analogy and things don't really work like that. Big deal! If it help your mind grasp the underlying math involved in a more concrete way then it did it's job!
This is how we made the cold coffee that Seattle's Best called Iced Toddy when I worked there. And it did have a nice mild flavor without the bitterness that brewed coffee can have. The only drawback to it is that is can be hard to dissolve sugar into a cold drink. I found that vanilla syrup works good as a replacement since it is already a liquid it goes into the cold drink very nicely. I like to make this at home during the hot parts of summer. I make a pot or so instead of a whole pound of coffee and it works out fine. I also just put the grounds and water into a carafe and then pour it into a strainer or use a french press to filter out the coffee since getting large filter bags might be hard to find.
Actually I did hear the "Star Wars" project relating to satellites that can shoot down enemy ICBMs was an imaginary project. The US even had sci-fi authors come up with ideas and then made it seem to the US public as well as the USSR that we were working on those. It helped to bankrupt the USSR as they were spending money on these futuristic weapon systems while we were not.
It isn't that hard to just not take a job at a criminal organization. If you work there then you are complicit of the illegal actions done by your organization. It is that complicity that has marked you for death. Each and every NSA employee and contractor deserves death and if I were to govern the New US, they would all be lined up for the firing squad!
I know this isn't a popular belief, but I actually am willing to buy into the idea that most of them had no idea this sort of stuff was going on. You gotta figure that with it being a compartmentalized intelligence agency, the right hand may not know what the left is doing in many cases, particularly for the rank-and-file employees. And by all indications, most of the things we're hearing about really were the result of initiatives being pushed through by top people who had a couple of small teams of developers willing to do their dirty work.
Isn't compartmentalization a big part of any terrorist organization structure? They want to keep the different parts unaware of what the other parts are doing. So it sounds like the NSA is just another terrorist organization that needs to be taken out with remote drones. In this case we have the proof that they are illegal and unconstitutional so I have no problems with drones or just armies of upset citizens storming their compound and taking them all out execution style. We need to take back our government from the illegal terrorists that have stolen it from us!
I hope you can also see the problem. Sure the best (those with honesty, integrity and loyalty to their country and fellow citizens and fortunately the brightest) but that will basically leave behind the sick perverts, psychopaths and the politically corrupt. Those are the ass hats that took the NSA down that route and they will be the only ones left. Now that is going to be a huge problem and pretty much the exact same problem that manifested at the CIA, where the best left leaving behind the corrupt who then privatised and contracted out intelligence services as retirement plans for themselves, billions blown on make believe for profit misinformation.
Declaring open season on any NSA employee or contractor would be a good way to fix it. Once all the people that have a conscience leave, then you are only taking out the psychopathic sickos and making the world a better place. Since they are breaking the law and the constitution anyway, it is really just a big illegal gang and if the police can't handle it perhaps we need an old-fashioned lynch mob to round them up and end them all. And people will think much more thoroughly about applying for a job there in the future.
I've heard this argument before. Then just last week I learned of a new cure for hepatitis C that seems to be pretty reliable. I would say that blows your theory out of the water!
I know people who have made great strides is the symptoms of their autistic children by changing their diet and especially cutting out gluten. I thought there was already a known connection between the gut bacteria and autism. Oh, well. Sometimes it takes the mainstream a while to catch up on what some people are figuring out.
Personally, I am perfectly ok with setting the precedent that if you put something that looks like a service out in public with no control over it whatsoever, you are giving them implicit license to use it.
Yeah really!! Do we all have to start worrying about being arrested when at the airport waiting area and we plug in our smart phone to top off the charge. What about coffee shops that don't have explicit signs saying it's ok to plug in your laptop. But what about my rechargeable toothbrush? Will plugging that in instead of a laptop get me arrested.
"2: If used on a motorcycle, it can mean the rider can lose control, causing a crash, fatality, and lawsuits."
MC mechanic of many years here.
Not especially likely. MCs aren't drive-by-wire other than EFI and engine shutdown takes out no control systems. Manual steering and brake make for simple stopping when your engine quits.
The steering and brakes may be manual and work fine if the engine cuts out, but the engine braking that starts up suddenly while doing 65 down the freeway might cause your rear wheel to slip out or something. All I can say is I would not want to be on a bike going at speed when you suddenly let out the clutch on a dead engine!
That's really the point right there. You are perfectly fine to try to convince people that your way is right. If you can change many people's opinion you can make great progress in shifting public opinion. If you pass laws to outlaw things, you haven't convinced anyone that you are right and they will either fight back and forth about the law (abortion rights), or just lose respect for the law and break it.
Reference or learning material is definitely paper book for me. Reading a sci-fi novel at lunch time or whenever I find myself waiting in line or with time to kill for some reason, the ebook is always in my phone in my pocket ready to go.
This is the biggest benefit of ebooks to me. I have them with me wherever and whenever I am. I don't have to carry an extra book in my hand to lunch. Even a small paperback won't really fit in pants pockets, but my phone does. And if I find I end up having to wait in line for something unexpected, I will never be in a situation where I didn't remember to bring a book, it's there on my phone.
Trader Joe's does something close. It's not a deposit return, but they give you 10 cents off your bill for each bag you bring with you to be reused. There is a big 10c mark printed right on the bag to remind you to bring them back. They use the paper kind with good strong handles, so I use them for keeping recycled stuff in until I take it out to the recycling can outside which also works good as they are being reused. And if you don't have enough with you when you are shopping you don't pay for the extra, it's money back for reusing, but not an extra cost to get new ones.
Trader Joe's does it the other way. If you bring your own paper bag back with you, you get a 10 cent discount for each bag reused. It may apply if you use the nylon or canvas ones also, I'm not sure. But it doesn't look like a cash grab because you don't pay to get a paper bag, you get money for reusing your bags.
I prefer the paper bags as I use them for the recycling can. They stand on their own so there is no can that the bag is in, the bag is the can. As for the plastic, I will say I like the fact that I can carry 8 - 12 of them in from the car in one go. You can loop plenty of the handles over you hands at once. So even though they might hold less stuff in each bag I can bring in more stuff in each trip from the car. Still, they are less useful later as a reuse item for me, they just pile up in a bag in the kitchen and get used less often than the paper ones. So overall I would be fine getting rid of the plastic ones and only using paper.
I find the price of ebooks on bit-torrent sites to be perfect. You can't beat free!
On a more serious note, they should be much cheaper than the printed version to be worth it. The hassle of DRM and not being able to loan it to a friend. The worry of losing your ability to read it someday with incompatible readers or simple drive failure. At least half the price of a physical book if not less, any more and piracy is my alternative.
Or wirelessly sent to the wearable display. The WiiU gamepad gets it's picture sent wirelessly from the console and it runs on battery for a few hours before you need to plug it in.
Why couldn't the video be wirelessly sent to the screen. The WiiU has a screen that gets it's picture wirelessly sent to it by the system. It runs off of battery and the WiiU console has to be able to drive two separate video outputs at once, one for the TV and all the players using the Wiimotes, and a separate video signal sent to whoever is using the game pad. It doesn't seem too far off from a head mounted display. Just send both pictures to the HMD.
Wow, that video was really good! I learned a lot about how what appears to be oppression of women is actually the oppression of the men. When I first started watching it I wasn't sure what to expect and the appearance of the woman with her short cut hair made me suspect it was a feminist male-hater or something. I am sorry that I had that impression at first, but I guess I have seen a few of those types before and knowing the video was about feminism pushed me into that feeling. It is a very insightful video and I recommend everyone interested to watch it. The basic premiss is that women (examples given in afghanistan and china) are given privileges which leads to their apparent oppression when what is actually happening is the men are forced to have obligations.
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I can see how the rubber sheet analogy is a good demonstration of why a body moving through space in a straight line will follow a curve. But if you just put the marble there it will roll down toward the mass that is deforming the sheet. This breaks the analogy for me. I don't see how the earth's gravity pulling the marble in toward the mass demonstrates anything about why a body in space will fall toward another. In the first example gravity is only used to deform the sheet, the curvature of the path is not really caused by earth gravity. It can be done with string, tape or a line drawn on the sheet to demonstrate the curve without a marble that would be pulled by earth gravity. But a marble just sitting there is only pulled by earth gravity. The curvature has no effect on a stationary marble so to me the analogy does not work for a non-moving object.
Oh good! I was hoping I would get to see a car analogy here somewhere.
Why did they even need to test this? It is quite obvious that it is just an analogy and that it doesn't actually work that way. For one, the marble rolling on the rubber sheet is pulled by our real gravity below the sheet, and not by some mysterious rubber sheet warping the pulls the marble in towards the mass. And the talk in the article about the sheet not forming a cone shape like gravity space warping does. For the correct orbiting motion using a surface under our gravity field you don't even want a cone. Most people have probably seen those curved funnel things where you roll a coin into it and it orbits quite well all the way down into the center part. The profile of that device is not linear like a cone is, but starts out shallow at the outer edge and gets steeper in towards the center. It could be derived from some parabola or something, but it definitely isn't a cone. So the analogy is just an analogy and things don't really work like that. Big deal! If it help your mind grasp the underlying math involved in a more concrete way then it did it's job!
This is how we made the cold coffee that Seattle's Best called Iced Toddy when I worked there. And it did have a nice mild flavor without the bitterness that brewed coffee can have. The only drawback to it is that is can be hard to dissolve sugar into a cold drink. I found that vanilla syrup works good as a replacement since it is already a liquid it goes into the cold drink very nicely. I like to make this at home during the hot parts of summer. I make a pot or so instead of a whole pound of coffee and it works out fine. I also just put the grounds and water into a carafe and then pour it into a strainer or use a french press to filter out the coffee since getting large filter bags might be hard to find.
I don't think an easy-bake-oven will work with an LED or fluorescent bulb. You need a heat ball for one of those.
Or just write faster!
Actually I did hear the "Star Wars" project relating to satellites that can shoot down enemy ICBMs was an imaginary project. The US even had sci-fi authors come up with ideas and then made it seem to the US public as well as the USSR that we were working on those. It helped to bankrupt the USSR as they were spending money on these futuristic weapon systems while we were not.
It isn't that hard to just not take a job at a criminal organization. If you work there then you are complicit of the illegal actions done by your organization. It is that complicity that has marked you for death. Each and every NSA employee and contractor deserves death and if I were to govern the New US, they would all be lined up for the firing squad!
I know this isn't a popular belief, but I actually am willing to buy into the idea that most of them had no idea this sort of stuff was going on. You gotta figure that with it being a compartmentalized intelligence agency, the right hand may not know what the left is doing in many cases, particularly for the rank-and-file employees. And by all indications, most of the things we're hearing about really were the result of initiatives being pushed through by top people who had a couple of small teams of developers willing to do their dirty work.
Isn't compartmentalization a big part of any terrorist organization structure? They want to keep the different parts unaware of what the other parts are doing. So it sounds like the NSA is just another terrorist organization that needs to be taken out with remote drones. In this case we have the proof that they are illegal and unconstitutional so I have no problems with drones or just armies of upset citizens storming their compound and taking them all out execution style. We need to take back our government from the illegal terrorists that have stolen it from us!
I hope you can also see the problem. Sure the best (those with honesty, integrity and loyalty to their country and fellow citizens and fortunately the brightest) but that will basically leave behind the sick perverts, psychopaths and the politically corrupt. Those are the ass hats that took the NSA down that route and they will be the only ones left. Now that is going to be a huge problem and pretty much the exact same problem that manifested at the CIA, where the best left leaving behind the corrupt who then privatised and contracted out intelligence services as retirement plans for themselves, billions blown on make believe for profit misinformation.
Declaring open season on any NSA employee or contractor would be a good way to fix it. Once all the people that have a conscience leave, then you are only taking out the psychopathic sickos and making the world a better place. Since they are breaking the law and the constitution anyway, it is really just a big illegal gang and if the police can't handle it perhaps we need an old-fashioned lynch mob to round them up and end them all. And people will think much more thoroughly about applying for a job there in the future.
I've heard this argument before. Then just last week I learned of a new cure for hepatitis C that seems to be pretty reliable. I would say that blows your theory out of the water!
I know people who have made great strides is the symptoms of their autistic children by changing their diet and especially cutting out gluten. I thought there was already a known connection between the gut bacteria and autism. Oh, well. Sometimes it takes the mainstream a while to catch up on what some people are figuring out.
Personally, I am perfectly ok with setting the precedent that if you put something that looks like a service out in public with no control over it whatsoever, you are giving them implicit license to use it.
Yeah really!! Do we all have to start worrying about being arrested when at the airport waiting area and we plug in our smart phone to top off the charge. What about coffee shops that don't have explicit signs saying it's ok to plug in your laptop. But what about my rechargeable toothbrush? Will plugging that in instead of a laptop get me arrested.
"2: If used on a motorcycle, it can mean the rider can lose control, causing a crash, fatality, and lawsuits."
MC mechanic of many years here. Not especially likely. MCs aren't drive-by-wire other than EFI and engine shutdown takes out no control systems. Manual steering and brake make for simple stopping when your engine quits.
The steering and brakes may be manual and work fine if the engine cuts out, but the engine braking that starts up suddenly while doing 65 down the freeway might cause your rear wheel to slip out or something. All I can say is I would not want to be on a bike going at speed when you suddenly let out the clutch on a dead engine!
They knew about zombies in Shawn of the Dead also. Shawn didn't want his friend to say the 'Z' word.
That's really the point right there. You are perfectly fine to try to convince people that your way is right. If you can change many people's opinion you can make great progress in shifting public opinion. If you pass laws to outlaw things, you haven't convinced anyone that you are right and they will either fight back and forth about the law (abortion rights), or just lose respect for the law and break it.
Reference or learning material is definitely paper book for me. Reading a sci-fi novel at lunch time or whenever I find myself waiting in line or with time to kill for some reason, the ebook is always in my phone in my pocket ready to go.
This is the biggest benefit of ebooks to me. I have them with me wherever and whenever I am. I don't have to carry an extra book in my hand to lunch. Even a small paperback won't really fit in pants pockets, but my phone does. And if I find I end up having to wait in line for something unexpected, I will never be in a situation where I didn't remember to bring a book, it's there on my phone.
Trader Joe's does something close. It's not a deposit return, but they give you 10 cents off your bill for each bag you bring with you to be reused. There is a big 10c mark printed right on the bag to remind you to bring them back. They use the paper kind with good strong handles, so I use them for keeping recycled stuff in until I take it out to the recycling can outside which also works good as they are being reused. And if you don't have enough with you when you are shopping you don't pay for the extra, it's money back for reusing, but not an extra cost to get new ones.
Trader Joe's does it the other way. If you bring your own paper bag back with you, you get a 10 cent discount for each bag reused. It may apply if you use the nylon or canvas ones also, I'm not sure. But it doesn't look like a cash grab because you don't pay to get a paper bag, you get money for reusing your bags.
I prefer the paper bags as I use them for the recycling can. They stand on their own so there is no can that the bag is in, the bag is the can. As for the plastic, I will say I like the fact that I can carry 8 - 12 of them in from the car in one go. You can loop plenty of the handles over you hands at once. So even though they might hold less stuff in each bag I can bring in more stuff in each trip from the car. Still, they are less useful later as a reuse item for me, they just pile up in a bag in the kitchen and get used less often than the paper ones. So overall I would be fine getting rid of the plastic ones and only using paper.
I find the price of ebooks on bit-torrent sites to be perfect. You can't beat free!
On a more serious note, they should be much cheaper than the printed version to be worth it. The hassle of DRM and not being able to loan it to a friend. The worry of losing your ability to read it someday with incompatible readers or simple drive failure. At least half the price of a physical book if not less, any more and piracy is my alternative.
Or wirelessly sent to the wearable display. The WiiU gamepad gets it's picture sent wirelessly from the console and it runs on battery for a few hours before you need to plug it in.
Why couldn't the video be wirelessly sent to the screen. The WiiU has a screen that gets it's picture wirelessly sent to it by the system. It runs off of battery and the WiiU console has to be able to drive two separate video outputs at once, one for the TV and all the players using the Wiimotes, and a separate video signal sent to whoever is using the game pad. It doesn't seem too far off from a head mounted display. Just send both pictures to the HMD.
Wow, that video was really good! I learned a lot about how what appears to be oppression of women is actually the oppression of the men. When I first started watching it I wasn't sure what to expect and the appearance of the woman with her short cut hair made me suspect it was a feminist male-hater or something. I am sorry that I had that impression at first, but I guess I have seen a few of those types before and knowing the video was about feminism pushed me into that feeling. It is a very insightful video and I recommend everyone interested to watch it. The basic premiss is that women (examples given in afghanistan and china) are given privileges which leads to their apparent oppression when what is actually happening is the men are forced to have obligations.