I remember being back in the woods and seeing this wooden box filled with ticks.
I thought to myself, if you took a box full of bugs and sprayed them all with RAID, I'd kill 99.9% of them. But some freaks would survive. And after they reproduced to fill the box again, and you sprayed them again, you might only kill 75% of them the second time around. Continue this process until you get a box of bugs that RAID won't kill.
Carriers are big, fat targets which positively invite attack by tactical nuclear weapons - whether delivered by torpedo, cruise missile or even ballistic missile. It's not necessary to get a direct hit - anything within a mile or so should do the trick
This is ridiculous. No country is going to open itself up to being nuke by the US just to take out a battle group.
To be the first one to use nuclear weapons in a war is stupid, unless they plan on going all-out from the beginning. Otherwise, you've just given your enemy a blank check to use their nukes on you, and in the US's case, we have more than anybody.
This "delay" is nothing more than Sony realizing that it would make much more money by releasing an eagerly anticipated new product during the peak Christmas buying season instead of releasing it during post-Christmas spring or the summer doldrums.
"In statehouse battles, the issue has pitted advocates of government openness - including journalists and civil liberties groups - against lawmakers and others who worry that public information could be misused, whether it's by terrorists or by computer hackers hoping to use your credit cards.
Or by normal citizens trying to monitor where their taxes go, and people that supposedly work for them. Joe Politician can't let Joe Public find out what he's really doing, now can he?
Wake up overlord. You owe more to luck than you are willing to believe.
Do you think that I've never been in a scuffle as a kid? Do you think that I've never lost a fight?
I didn't consistently get picked on because I busted people up when they tried. I wasn't an easy target. Take for instance the time older kids tried to kick my friends and I off the baseball field while we were playing. He thought he could push me around, but I had a baseball bat. I'm sure you can guess what happened next.
Now if you were a pussy and handed the bat over, you'd be the one at a disadvantage. Sometimes you have to be a man and take matters into your own hands.
Sure, I'm going to hear how you'll get put in jail for fighting and all this other nonsense. Bullshit. If someone picks on you and you jack them up, you won't get in trouble, especially when you're 12. Of course if you didn't have the balls to defend yourself in any other situation, you wouldn't have the balls to hit someone with a bat. I had friends who thought they were above hitting someone with a baseball bat, or a tennis racket, or a fishing pole, but then again they were the ones who were easy to pick on and got harassed their whole life and couldn't see why. They were a pushover, and a bully can see that from a mile away. Some of those pushovers were bigger than I was, but they'd never hit someone back while I would.
Not being a pushover is the key, and that's not about luck. Are you the type who will do what it takes to win, or are you the type who wilts over like a pansy?
I'm not buying the claim that you're all better now. You're still carring around the "perpetual victim" mentality. If you act like a victim, you'll always be a victim. I'm not the bully who picked on the fat dorky kids, but I wasn't the fat dorky kid, either. That doesn't make me an asshole, even if I don't feel sorry for you.
I'm in control of my own life, and you're in control of your own. There are people my age who still don't control their weight or brush their hair. They are bringing the negative image upon themselves.
I guess I was different than the typical Slashdot reader. I was a total nerd, the type who'd take apart all of his broken electronics and try to fix them, the type who'd rather play with his Epson 8088 PC than go to a school dance. I hooked up a 386 PC in my car through a power inverter, dammit.
But I was also a fun-loving person and would play football, and baseball, soccer, tennis, and any other sport. Sure, I was the geeky dude on the team but I surely was NOT the fat, pimply, D&D playing loser who'd rather eat cupcakes, read comics and play board games instead of play football when invited by his friends.
I'm the type of guy who is criticized for over-analysing everything and taking things to needless levels of understanding. I try to learn about and modify everything I can, whether it's modding my computer, building an ECU reader for my modified car or eating a strict diet and working out to get in shape. It's all about attention to detail and working towards a goal.
I was a total geek and people would poke fun at me, but I wasn't picked on too much. You can be a geek and not get beat up, just don't be a clumsy oaf who doesn't take care of himself and whines in a corner when someone whips you for being pathetic.
Now, I wonder: what about other groups who were picked on for something they couldn't/wouldn't change? In the U.S. for example, it's ALSO popular to pick on Jews. Would the other poster want all the jews to convert, would he blame them for their religion? How about people who are picked on because they look different, have freckles, whatever?
Ah yes, time to use the age-old "align yourself with the Jews" internet forum tactic. If anyone disagrees with you after that, they're a Nazi.
I can understand if someone finds themselves in a bad situation where they are the one getting pushed around, but it sounds like you consistently found yourself in this situation all through life. The only common denominator here is you. Whether you realize it or not, you brought it on yourself through your actions.
Whether it's in kindergarten, grade school, middle school, high school, college, or the Marines, people wanted to kick your ass. You could travel to a faraway, mystical place and people want to kick your ass.
..stop calling a 24 year old a kid? I have a friend who insists on calling anyone 10 years younger than him a kid, so at this point 30 years olds are "kids." Fuck, that's annoying.
You lose the luxury of being considered "just a kid" at age 18. Period.
All of your points are completely irrelevant to what is going on now. How am I responsible for what other white people did 200 years ago? Why should I be punished for it?
Not to mention the added cost of sending out maintenance crews to pick-up the thoroughly burnt bodies of any unfortunate bird that lands on a power line...
The bird won't get shocked, since there is no circuit being made. Power line crews already do work like this- they attach to a live line with a helicopter, and the lineman works on the line with power going through it. Since they're in the air (helicopter), the electricity has nowhere to flow and they won't be shocked.
Heaven could be replaced with "Sky," which has a completely different sound, or "Money," which (if I rcall correctly) is pronounced "Qian" (Q sounds close to English CH).
If Chinese uses complete different characters than English, then during translation, why would they choose an English letter like "Q" and claim it sounds like "CH"?
Since the alphabets are completely different and you have to choose an approximate English spelling which sounds like the Chinese word, why would you 1) choose an English spelling then 2) claim the pronunciation is nothing like the letters you just chose?
Your diet is a great way to lose a ton of muscle. I made the mistake of cutting my calories too low and I did lose a lot of weight, but my bodyfat percentage didn't change much. I lost muscle just as fast as I lost fat. I don't know if you lift heavy, but if you do you'll find that you're losing a lot of muscle.
Wikipedia is open for potential abuses like these, but then again Wiki has always been a good reflection of society, and this is precisely what political agents do with the rest of society/PR outlets.
Wikipedia isn't a good reflection of society, as most people out there haven't even heard of it. In addition, the articles you read are often heavily edited by the most fanatical people, not necessarily the most "normal" people.
Think of it this way: If an article is under debate and getting edited back and forth, who is going to win- a normal person who doesn't have much of an emotional attachment to the subject, or a member of the lunatic fringe who's made it their life mission to debate advocate a certain subject?
Your reply is extremely predictable, the type you'd expect to see from a misguided but highly emotional college student. The common, "you oppose my views and therefore you're a Nazi" tactic, complete with references to Nazi Germany.
People seem to have an emotional attachment with Apple that extends far beyond reason. They seem to believe that Apple can bully Microsoft around on its "home turf".
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is so much larger than Apple that they could easily gobble them up if they saw the need to do it. They could give a deal that Apple's shareholders couldn't refuse.
The only thing that prevents them from doing that is the US Government. Microsoft isn't really in competition with Apple in the Mp3 market and sees no need to crush them in it. Hell, if all bets were off and Microsoft had to defeat Apple in the Mp3 market, Microsoft could afford to either A) Buy Apple entirely , or B) subsidize the cost of a comparable Mp3 player so much that they'd basically give them away to starve Apple.
You're missing the obvious. Even with a mixture of both, it doesn't do you one bit of good.
You need both magnets to be permanent magnets for there to be repulsion at rest. However, if you used that setup in a maglev, they'd resist its movement during normal operation. That's the problem with permanent magnets- you can't switch them. Therefore to get usable motion, you need at least 1 electromagnet that you can switch.
You can have both sides being electromagnets, or you can have one side a permanent magnet and the other side an electromagnet. In both cases, when the power goes out, it's not going to hold its position.
If passenger elevators really would fall to the passengers' deaths if the cables broke, do you think that there would be any distinction between passenger and freight elevators?
The difference between passenger and freight elevators has absolutely nothing to do with that. Both of them have the same type of safety systems. The passenger elevators are just designed more for comfort, while freight elevators are more basic.
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I frequently see posts on here that use the wrong tense of verbs.
It seems that people, even ones which call themselves "educated", don't have a command of the English language.
I'm not referring to people who speak English as a second language, either.
I remember being back in the woods and seeing this wooden box filled with ticks.
I thought to myself, if you took a box full of bugs and sprayed them all with RAID, I'd kill 99.9% of them. But some freaks would survive. And after they reproduced to fill the box again, and you sprayed them again, you might only kill 75% of them the second time around. Continue this process until you get a box of bugs that RAID won't kill.
Carriers are big, fat targets which positively invite attack by tactical nuclear weapons - whether delivered by torpedo, cruise missile or even ballistic missile. It's not necessary to get a direct hit - anything within a mile or so should do the trick
This is ridiculous. No country is going to open itself up to being nuke by the US just to take out a battle group.
To be the first one to use nuclear weapons in a war is stupid, unless they plan on going all-out from the beginning. Otherwise, you've just given your enemy a blank check to use their nukes on you, and in the US's case, we have more than anybody.
This "delay" is nothing more than Sony realizing that it would make much more money by releasing an eagerly anticipated new product during the peak Christmas buying season instead of releasing it during post-Christmas spring or the summer doldrums.
"In statehouse battles, the issue has pitted advocates of government openness - including journalists and civil liberties groups - against lawmakers and others who worry that public information could be misused, whether it's by terrorists or by computer hackers hoping to use your credit cards.
Or by normal citizens trying to monitor where their taxes go, and people that supposedly work for them. Joe Politician can't let Joe Public find out what he's really doing, now can he?
That's a very good explanation of why slippery slope arguments are inherently invalid
They are not inherently invalid. A slippery slope argument can either be valid or invalid. It depends on the usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
"miss-perceptions"
"Got back and read."
"Yer just calling me names"
And you have the nerve to call ME illiterate? LOL! I think you're depriving a playground of a perfectly good punching bag.
Wake up overlord. You owe more to luck than you are willing to believe.
Do you think that I've never been in a scuffle as a kid? Do you think that I've never lost a fight?
I didn't consistently get picked on because I busted people up when they tried. I wasn't an easy target. Take for instance the time older kids tried to kick my friends and I off the baseball field while we were playing. He thought he could push me around, but I had a baseball bat. I'm sure you can guess what happened next.
Now if you were a pussy and handed the bat over, you'd be the one at a disadvantage. Sometimes you have to be a man and take matters into your own hands.
Sure, I'm going to hear how you'll get put in jail for fighting and all this other nonsense. Bullshit. If someone picks on you and you jack them up, you won't get in trouble, especially when you're 12. Of course if you didn't have the balls to defend yourself in any other situation, you wouldn't have the balls to hit someone with a bat. I had friends who thought they were above hitting someone with a baseball bat, or a tennis racket, or a fishing pole, but then again they were the ones who were easy to pick on and got harassed their whole life and couldn't see why. They were a pushover, and a bully can see that from a mile away. Some of those pushovers were bigger than I was, but they'd never hit someone back while I would.
Not being a pushover is the key, and that's not about luck. Are you the type who will do what it takes to win, or are you the type who wilts over like a pansy?
I'm not buying the claim that you're all better now. You're still carring around the "perpetual victim" mentality. If you act like a victim, you'll always be a victim. I'm not the bully who picked on the fat dorky kids, but I wasn't the fat dorky kid, either. That doesn't make me an asshole, even if I don't feel sorry for you.
I'm in control of my own life, and you're in control of your own. There are people my age who still don't control their weight or brush their hair. They are bringing the negative image upon themselves.
I guess I was different than the typical Slashdot reader. I was a total nerd, the type who'd take apart all of his broken electronics and try to fix them, the type who'd rather play with his Epson 8088 PC than go to a school dance. I hooked up a 386 PC in my car through a power inverter, dammit.
But I was also a fun-loving person and would play football, and baseball, soccer, tennis, and any other sport. Sure, I was the geeky dude on the team but I surely was NOT the fat, pimply, D&D playing loser who'd rather eat cupcakes, read comics and play board games instead of play football when invited by his friends.
I'm the type of guy who is criticized for over-analysing everything and taking things to needless levels of understanding. I try to learn about and modify everything I can, whether it's modding my computer, building an ECU reader for my modified car or eating a strict diet and working out to get in shape. It's all about attention to detail and working towards a goal.
I was a total geek and people would poke fun at me, but I wasn't picked on too much. You can be a geek and not get beat up, just don't be a clumsy oaf who doesn't take care of himself and whines in a corner when someone whips you for being pathetic.
Now, I wonder: what about other groups who were picked on for something they couldn't/wouldn't change? In the U.S. for example, it's ALSO popular to pick on Jews. Would the other poster want all the jews to convert, would he blame them for their religion? How about people who are picked on because they look different, have freckles, whatever?
Ah yes, time to use the age-old "align yourself with the Jews" internet forum tactic. If anyone disagrees with you after that, they're a Nazi.
I can understand if someone finds themselves in a bad situation where they are the one getting pushed around, but it sounds like you consistently found yourself in this situation all through life. The only common denominator here is you. Whether you realize it or not, you brought it on yourself through your actions.
Whether it's in kindergarten, grade school, middle school, high school, college, or the Marines, people wanted to kick your ass. You could travel to a faraway, mystical place and people want to kick your ass.
What does that tell you?
..stop calling a 24 year old a kid? I have a friend who insists on calling anyone 10 years younger than him a kid, so at this point 30 years olds are "kids." Fuck, that's annoying.
You lose the luxury of being considered "just a kid" at age 18. Period.
Stop whining, kid.
So if someone's name is Xiang Li and I guess that they're Asian, that means I'm racist?
All of your points are completely irrelevant to what is going on now. How am I responsible for what other white people did 200 years ago? Why should I be punished for it?
You don't really think that they'd design a system where all it takes is a bird to short-circuit it, do you?
Not to mention the added cost of sending out maintenance crews to pick-up the thoroughly burnt bodies of any unfortunate bird that lands on a power line...
The bird won't get shocked, since there is no circuit being made. Power line crews already do work like this- they attach to a live line with a helicopter, and the lineman works on the line with power going through it. Since they're in the air (helicopter), the electricity has nowhere to flow and they won't be shocked.
Heaven could be replaced with "Sky," which has a completely different sound, or "Money," which (if I rcall correctly) is pronounced "Qian" (Q sounds close to English CH).
If Chinese uses complete different characters than English, then during translation, why would they choose an English letter like "Q" and claim it sounds like "CH"?
Since the alphabets are completely different and you have to choose an approximate English spelling which sounds like the Chinese word, why would you 1) choose an English spelling then 2) claim the pronunciation is nothing like the letters you just chose?
Your diet is a great way to lose a ton of muscle. I made the mistake of cutting my calories too low and I did lose a lot of weight, but my bodyfat percentage didn't change much. I lost muscle just as fast as I lost fat. I don't know if you lift heavy, but if you do you'll find that you're losing a lot of muscle.
Wikipedia is open for potential abuses like these, but then again Wiki has always been a good reflection of society, and this is precisely what political agents do with the rest of society/PR outlets.
Wikipedia isn't a good reflection of society, as most people out there haven't even heard of it. In addition, the articles you read are often heavily edited by the most fanatical people, not necessarily the most "normal" people.
Think of it this way: If an article is under debate and getting edited back and forth, who is going to win- a normal person who doesn't have much of an emotional attachment to the subject, or a member of the lunatic fringe who's made it their life mission to debate advocate a certain subject?
Your reply is extremely predictable, the type you'd expect to see from a misguided but highly emotional college student. The common, "you oppose my views and therefore you're a Nazi" tactic, complete with references to Nazi Germany.
How sad.
People seem to have an emotional attachment with Apple that extends far beyond reason. They seem to believe that Apple can bully Microsoft around on its "home turf".
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is so much larger than Apple that they could easily gobble them up if they saw the need to do it. They could give a deal that Apple's shareholders couldn't refuse.
The only thing that prevents them from doing that is the US Government. Microsoft isn't really in competition with Apple in the Mp3 market and sees no need to crush them in it. Hell, if all bets were off and Microsoft had to defeat Apple in the Mp3 market, Microsoft could afford to either A) Buy Apple entirely , or B) subsidize the cost of a comparable Mp3 player so much that they'd basically give them away to starve Apple.
This is definitely true. Now it's more like "educational entertainment" than educational shows.
You're missing the obvious. Even with a mixture of both, it doesn't do you one bit of good.
You need both magnets to be permanent magnets for there to be repulsion at rest. However, if you used that setup in a maglev, they'd resist its movement during normal operation. That's the problem with permanent magnets- you can't switch them. Therefore to get usable motion, you need at least 1 electromagnet that you can switch.
You can have both sides being electromagnets, or you can have one side a permanent magnet and the other side an electromagnet. In both cases, when the power goes out, it's not going to hold its position.
If passenger elevators really would fall to the passengers' deaths if the cables broke, do you think that there would be any distinction between passenger and freight elevators?
The difference between passenger and freight elevators has absolutely nothing to do with that. Both of them have the same type of safety systems. The passenger elevators are just designed more for comfort, while freight elevators are more basic.