I generally hate the concept of phones being tied to a provider, but I got mine for £5 with a mandatory £10 topup (i.e. I handed over £15) on prepay. For that price I can buy a phone for every network I want.
Yes, it's the bottom-of-the-line Nokia, but what do I care? It's a fully functional phone.
In other universes, they didn't have any issues starting the LHC, it accidentally the entire universe, and they got wiped from creation.
I think a micro black hole ate your verb;)
I'm reminded of a side story in a Charles Stross novel - Singularity Sky I think. Humans discovered that causality violation was actually possible and not that hard, cue intervention from mysterious advanced beings and the message "Don't fuck around with causality in our reverse light cone. OR ELSE." Further attempts at causality violation received responses ranging from subtle sabotage to unsubtle asteroid impacts.
Kahlua actually has very low levels of caffeine, (approximately 4.85 mg in each 1.5 oz drink).
One cup of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine, so if were looking at 100ml of Kahlua there should be about 10 mg of caffeine. (1/10 of a cup of coffee).
I gather you'd be wasted before you noticed any caffeine from drinking Kahlua.
Has Ray ever stated an opinion on file sharing? I recall him being lawyerly and decrying the RIAA attacks on his clients and the ridiculous penalties compared to the actions his clients are accused of. I don't think he's ever defended the action of sharing copyrighted material.
we have no idea whether it is even possible to test the theory of "God exists."
Actually we do; it's explicitly impossible to test the theory of 'God exists'. Or rather, it's impossible to falsify it which is what any meaningful test should do.
With all respect to the fantastic Mr Feynman, none of my philosophy lecturers cared what I wrote in my essays as long as they were intelligent and intelligible (I imagine his were). Regurgitating the textbook was a sure way to get a C.
Exactly the opposite actually, caffeine constricts the blood vessels and raises your blood pressure. Ginger will dilate your blood vessels, although I don't know much about dosages or practical effects.
It's dead simple actually, all the intermediate species were out-competed by their slightly more adapted offspring or just failed to adapt to the changing environment. Lots of species die out and it's pretty rare for any species to survive for long unchanged. I think crocodiles and sharks are notable in that respect.
IANAB(iologist), but my understanding is that once in a while a new variety of a species strikes it lucky with an adaptation and spreads widely, then the different local populations diverge from each other leading to new subspecies. As circumstances change the subspecies specialise further or simply die out.
LOTS of species die out, it's probably simply chance that our predecessors hung on long enough to get the big brains and subsequent pwnage of the entire earth rather than just dieing out like the other proto-humans.
I wouldn't normally lower myself to this kind of stereotyping... but on the other hand, in my experience guys would always know where east is, and girls never would. So there.
animals that reproduce sexually get an overwhelming majority of their genetic diversity from recombining genes from both parents. Random mutation, while present, is a minor factor in their evolution (how minor is a source of continued debate)
Careful there, all those genes that are being recombined were random mutations originally. Mutation is the only source of novelty in evolution, recombination is just shuffling the deck.
It really depends how picky you are about defining the origin of your mutations. Personally, I blame the sun. Fucking big ball of radioactivity right there, shooting mutation beams at us all day long.
Look, I don't want to get into an argument about whether anthropogenic global warming is 'really happening' or not, but your comments show little understanding of... maths.
CO2 does not, and never has, been a significant greenhouse gas. but suddenly it's responsible for our planets temp???!
It's not 'responsible for our planets temp???!'(sic). It's a contributing factor. Unless you thing CO2 isn't in any way a greenhouse gas you must admit that the increase from ~315 to ~385 ppm since 1960 will result in some increased heat retention which will be compounded every year until a new, higher, equilibrium is reached. CO2 concentration is only one factor in a complex equation which, yes, features insolation and water vapour prominently. Claiming that changing the CO2 concentration should have no effect on the climate only shows that you don't understand the mathematics of a basic climate model.
Jesus man, the square mile of London has been a city for over 2000 years - it was a roman fort at one point. They didn't plan the roads for modern traffic - they're all narrow windy lanes from the centuries before property zoning was invented. There's just no room for wide streets and if the footpaths seem wide to you maybe it's because accommodating foot traffic in a city of 10 million people is often more important than having a dedicated bus lane, let alone parking space.
Now now, let's not blow things out of proportion. The Mexican drug gangs aren't terrorists, they're organised criminals. Organised criminals will kill thousands of people for money and power and for getting in their way. Terrorists will kill dozens of people to make a political point. So you see we don't have to be afraid of the Mexican drug gangs because they have perfectly rational, evil, criminal reasons for what they do. Hooray!
Ridiculous. Any biblical scholar will tell you that that passage isn't directly discussing the value of pi. Taken properly in context with an understanding of Hebrew grammar it's clear that the passage describes the miracle of an unusually curved space-time.
Unfortunately pi and one will be irrational whatever base you use. If you decide to count in units of pi instead of units of (one), you can represent any multiple of pi properly but if you try to represent (one) in that base you will find that it is irrational relative to pi. Sucks for simplicity, but also very interesting.
At the risk of being out-geeked; in the original trilogy it wasn't stated that the storm troopers were clones, they're just some generic jackbooted thugs with masks so you're not tempted to empathise with them (the contractors on the other hand...).
IIRC some of the earlier Star Wars novels explained the 'clone wars' as being a failed attempt by the empire to clone bazillions of guys to crew their star destroyers. Turned out the clones didn't have <strike>souls</strike> a presence in the force and went insane or something. So the storm troopers not clones, just some mooks in plastic armour.
From interest I looked up the proportion of petroleum in American energy consumption, finding this, specifically that gasoline powered transportation accounts for about 17% of energy consumption. A little more is natural gas, and the remainder looks like electricity from various sources.
From this I'm guessing (without any particular knowledge of energy infrastructure) that if the entire transport system moved to electricity the load would not more than double, and I'd guess more like +25% from graph-glancing. Of course there would be overheads for increasing generation capacity and transport infrastructure, but given that the demand would be for charging batteries and could use off-peak power there might be surprisingly little effect on the electricity market.
Re: lemmings; if you're a rational player in this economy what's the best thing to do? Follow the bubble like everyone else and cash out early. For most of the economic cycle the smart action and dumb action are the same.
From my own experience with milk, what you want to look for us unhomogenised milk. Organic milk is probably that by default. What I used to buy was 4.3% fat but tasted twice as creamy as the 'full fat' 4% milk. I think the problem is that, in an industrial setting, to make 2% or 4% milk you first take out ALL the cream then put back exactly the amount you want.
I'm reminded of hundreds of years of attempted flight by trying to replicate bird wings without understanding how they actually work. Not that I have any better ideas.
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I generally hate the concept of phones being tied to a provider, but I got mine for £5 with a mandatory £10 topup (i.e. I handed over £15) on prepay. For that price I can buy a phone for every network I want.
Yes, it's the bottom-of-the-line Nokia, but what do I care? It's a fully functional phone.
I think a micro black hole ate your verb ;)
I'm reminded of a side story in a Charles Stross novel - Singularity Sky I think. Humans discovered that causality violation was actually possible and not that hard, cue intervention from mysterious advanced beings and the message "Don't fuck around with causality in our reverse light cone. OR ELSE." Further attempts at causality violation received responses ranging from subtle sabotage to unsubtle asteroid impacts.
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Kahlua actually has very low levels of caffeine, (approximately 4.85 mg in each 1.5 oz drink).
One cup of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine, so if were looking at 100ml of Kahlua there should be about 10 mg of caffeine. (1/10 of a cup of coffee).
I gather you'd be wasted before you noticed any caffeine from drinking Kahlua.
Has Ray ever stated an opinion on file sharing? I recall him being lawyerly and decrying the RIAA attacks on his clients and the ridiculous penalties compared to the actions his clients are accused of. I don't think he's ever defended the action of sharing copyrighted material.
we have no idea whether it is even possible to test the theory of "God exists."
Actually we do; it's explicitly impossible to test the theory of 'God exists'. Or rather, it's impossible to falsify it which is what any meaningful test should do.
I'm fascinated to know what The Sandman or Transmetropolitan are ripping off - I should read it!
With all respect to the fantastic Mr Feynman, none of my philosophy lecturers cared what I wrote in my essays as long as they were intelligent and intelligible (I imagine his were). Regurgitating the textbook was a sure way to get a C.
Exactly the opposite actually, caffeine constricts the blood vessels and raises your blood pressure. Ginger will dilate your blood vessels, although I don't know much about dosages or practical effects.
It's dead simple actually, all the intermediate species were out-competed by their slightly more adapted offspring or just failed to adapt to the changing environment. Lots of species die out and it's pretty rare for any species to survive for long unchanged. I think crocodiles and sharks are notable in that respect.
IANAB(iologist), but my understanding is that once in a while a new variety of a species strikes it lucky with an adaptation and spreads widely, then the different local populations diverge from each other leading to new subspecies. As circumstances change the subspecies specialise further or simply die out.
LOTS of species die out, it's probably simply chance that our predecessors hung on long enough to get the big brains and subsequent pwnage of the entire earth rather than just dieing out like the other proto-humans.
I wouldn't normally lower myself to this kind of stereotyping... but on the other hand, in my experience guys would always know where east is, and girls never would. So there.
animals that reproduce sexually get an overwhelming majority of their genetic diversity from recombining genes from both parents. Random mutation, while present, is a minor factor in their evolution (how minor is a source of continued debate)
Careful there, all those genes that are being recombined were random mutations originally. Mutation is the only source of novelty in evolution, recombination is just shuffling the deck.
It really depends how picky you are about defining the origin of your mutations. Personally, I blame the sun. Fucking big ball of radioactivity right there, shooting mutation beams at us all day long.
Look, I don't want to get into an argument about whether anthropogenic global warming is 'really happening' or not, but your comments show little understanding of... maths.
CO2 does not, and never has, been a significant greenhouse gas. but suddenly it's responsible for our planets temp???!
It's not 'responsible for our planets temp???!'(sic). It's a contributing factor. Unless you thing CO2 isn't in any way a greenhouse gas you must admit that the increase from ~315 to ~385 ppm since 1960 will result in some increased heat retention which will be compounded every year until a new, higher, equilibrium is reached. CO2 concentration is only one factor in a complex equation which, yes, features insolation and water vapour prominently. Claiming that changing the CO2 concentration should have no effect on the climate only shows that you don't understand the mathematics of a basic climate model.
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*snicker*... manual mounting... is that what you call it?
Wait, we're already in an entire story dedicated to discussing pornography. Somehow filthy innuendo seems redundant.
Jesus man, the square mile of London has been a city for over 2000 years - it was a roman fort at one point. They didn't plan the roads for modern traffic - they're all narrow windy lanes from the centuries before property zoning was invented. There's just no room for wide streets and if the footpaths seem wide to you maybe it's because accommodating foot traffic in a city of 10 million people is often more important than having a dedicated bus lane, let alone parking space.
Sorry, rant off.
Now now, let's not blow things out of proportion. The Mexican drug gangs aren't terrorists, they're organised criminals. Organised criminals will kill thousands of people for money and power and for getting in their way. Terrorists will kill dozens of people to make a political point. So you see we don't have to be afraid of the Mexican drug gangs because they have perfectly rational, evil, criminal reasons for what they do. Hooray!
Ridiculous. Any biblical scholar will tell you that that passage isn't directly discussing the value of pi. Taken properly in context with an understanding of Hebrew grammar it's clear that the passage describes the miracle of an unusually curved space-time.
Unfortunately pi and one will be irrational whatever base you use. If you decide to count in units of pi instead of units of (one), you can represent any multiple of pi properly but if you try to represent (one) in that base you will find that it is irrational relative to pi. Sucks for simplicity, but also very interesting.
At the risk of being out-geeked; in the original trilogy it wasn't stated that the storm troopers were clones, they're just some generic jackbooted thugs with masks so you're not tempted to empathise with them (the contractors on the other hand...).
IIRC some of the earlier Star Wars novels explained the 'clone wars' as being a failed attempt by the empire to clone bazillions of guys to crew their star destroyers. Turned out the clones didn't have <strike>souls</strike> a presence in the force and went insane or something. So the storm troopers not clones, just some mooks in plastic armour.
From interest I looked up the proportion of petroleum in American energy consumption, finding this, specifically that gasoline powered transportation accounts for about 17% of energy consumption. A little more is natural gas, and the remainder looks like electricity from various sources.
From this I'm guessing (without any particular knowledge of energy infrastructure) that if the entire transport system moved to electricity the load would not more than double, and I'd guess more like +25% from graph-glancing. Of course there would be overheads for increasing generation capacity and transport infrastructure, but given that the demand would be for charging batteries and could use off-peak power there might be surprisingly little effect on the electricity market.
The oil market, however, would shit itself.
Re: lemmings; if you're a rational player in this economy what's the best thing to do? Follow the bubble like everyone else and cash out early. For most of the economic cycle the smart action and dumb action are the same.
From my own experience with milk, what you want to look for us unhomogenised milk. Organic milk is probably that by default. What I used to buy was 4.3% fat but tasted twice as creamy as the 'full fat' 4% milk. I think the problem is that, in an industrial setting, to make 2% or 4% milk you first take out ALL the cream then put back exactly the amount you want.
...I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this scrawny geek is too narrow to contain
Pfft. When I was young strong AI was a summer project for a couple of grad students. We're only getting further away.
Ah, reminds me of undergrad psychology. Those ethics committees sure ruin a lot of cheap laughs.
I'm reminded of hundreds of years of attempted flight by trying to replicate bird wings without understanding how they actually work. Not that I have any better ideas.