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Except Fox. Fox is bad for America.
Just because Fox says the health care reform is bad doesn't mean that we should therefore support the reform. It disappoints me that this is the first comment I saw when I opened up this page. The point of this article is to discuss the reform in a constructive manner, not to bash entire ideologies just because they are not your own.
I am temporarily residing outside the U.S. at this time, and I haven't been paying attention to the argument. My mind is still malleable on this, so convince me one way or the other!
Now, let's get back to a real discussion regarding the pros and cons of health care reform!
Everyone knows that the US has orbital photo recon. We don't have a 100% clear picture of what the capabilities are.
The fact that it's an X craft tells us this orbital space plane is a test vehicle. But a test vehicle for what? What are the ultimate objectives of the program? How does it tie in with Prompt Global Strike?
The use of the phrase Prompt Global Strike sounds nefarious... but the program is just looking to develop a non-nuclear version of the Prompt Global Strike we can already conduct.
I was lucky enough to solve the final puzzle myself, and therefore happened to be the first person to have all eight keys and decrypt the message. As lame as this might sound, it was pretty thrilling.
That's really not worth a lot. And I bet Randall solved it before you did.;)
Best. Summary. Ever. No information was left out. It is the perfect example to which all other summaries pale in comparison. It set the bar so high. Here was my pitiful attempt:
A man believed to be a sumo wrestler ripped out a cash machine weighing 90kg (200lb) and made off with it on his shoulders, police in Moscow report.
The machine containing 25,320 roubles ($850) was found in his car.
Borrow one of your friend's e-ink readers. The screen is like nothing you've seen before (except paper;), and looking at images/videos online of e-ink screens doesn't do them justice.
I don't think e-ink is overrated. Kindle lasts for literally DAYS AND DAYS of non-stop reading. I'm sure all the other e-ink readers work similarly. The drawback for e-ink is that it requires external like light a book does, but it really looks like you're reading a paper book. I just bought another Kindle two days ago because I sat on my other one. It was one of those canvas fold-out chairs... it didn't stand a chance. Sigh. Anyway, to actually be amazed by e-ink you have to see it in person. Ask your friends if they have e-readers, because watching it on YouTube or seeing pictures on Amazon's site or whatever simply doesn't do it any justice.
I agree. The difference between bands like Girl Talk who sample music to create new pieces, and someone copying someone else's words into a paper they're writing, is that Girl Talk doesn't claim to have made the samples. One of the aspects of why plagiarism is seen as wrong is because you're taking credit for someone else's work. When you're sampling music, you're crediting them.
A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. The expression "in a nutshell" (of a story, proof, etc.) means "in essence", metaphorically alluding to the fact that the essence of the nut, i.e., its edible part, is contained inside its shell.
Yeah, I'm certainly not going to agree to being sentenced to weeks of solitary confinement without having myself been accused of a crime. Even prisoners get to receive visitors and make phone calls.
Watch out, refusing to serve jury duty is punishable by jail time...
What I want to see (or hear) are the last four minutes of the Challenger recordings. There is something interesting in such macabre things... for example this air show crash that killed dozens in the audience. There are body parts all over in the video of the crash and aftermath. The pilot and co-pilot both got years and years of jail time for it.
I hope they fixed the terrible monotony of all the side quests in Mass Effect 1. The voice acting in Mass Effect 1 was spot-on, and the story was intriguing. I will be playing this game, regardless of side quest monotony...
Oil is such a stupid, facile explanation for those wars, I can't believe people think they are reasoning when they come to that conclusion.
Those of us with more than a lick of sense can't believe all you idiots who still think it wasn't an oil war -- and on behalf of Big Oil, not the U.S. directly. Congratulations, you're a moron.
Yes, because the U.S. is in control of the Iraqi Government and the U.S. controls all the Iraqi oil fields and when Iraqi oil is sold the money goes to U.S. pockets and the U.S. is not footing its own money to support electricity and water and sewage infrastructure and oh, yeah, don't forget about the oil in Iraq that the U.S. corporations now own... also Iraq is the 51st state in the Union...
Now to be serious, my colleagues and I have discussed our opinions with each other, and we've decided that greater facilitation of oil in the region was only a minor reason for going to war, and not a major one. Major reasons are likely vastly increased regional security in the area (Saddam started two belligerent wars in ten years) as well as a buffer to Iran that is friendly to the U.S. (Iraqis in general hate Iran due to the Iraq-Iran war). The vast majority of Iraqis currently like the U.S. and enjoy meeting soldiers face-to-face (which is becoming rarer and rarer), but they are disenchanted with their own government, which they believe is essentially being run by Iran. The war was only supposed to last a couple months in the original vision and then be over, but things are finally starting to calm down after the climax in 2006/2007, and people's lives have already begun turning back to normal.
If you wave a laser pointer around at the moon, you can make a dot on the moon that moves faster than light. That doesn't mean your laser photons are moving faster than light.
Thanks for your post. I like it a lot. I always trusted massive neutrinos to be true, but I never knew about the bounds on their masses the way you put it. Great post!
Why? Light can change frequency during its flight, and that travels at c. Neutrinos take a certain amount of time to travel from point A to point B in our perspective.
The quote from the first line of the page you linked reads thusly: Neutrino oscillation is of theoretical and experimental interest since observation of the phenomenon implies that the neutrino has a non-zero mass, which is not part of the original Standard Model of particle physics.
It doesn't sound like anything is proven, or else it would be "case closed". The jury is still out on this one (although contrary to my posts, I believe the neutrino to be massive--just as you believe.)
Gamma rays travel at the speed of light, so there is no possible warning should something like this happen closer to us. When you see it, it's already there. It could all be over any minu
Neutrinos also travel at the speed of light. Don't believe me? Well, why is it so hard to prove they don't?
The energy released was mind-numbing: in one-fifth of a second, this supercharged magnetic neutron star blasted out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years!"
There's no way for me to get my head around these numbers to "truly" feel it. What methods can you use to visualize such extreme numbers?
I really hate the long silences on NASA TV, and it is a big reason I don't watch it in my freetime online. The long silences makes it feel like nobody cares at NASA cares about what is being shown. Sometimes I like watching spacewalks with commentary/astronaut mic audio.
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Except Fox. Fox is bad for America.
Just because Fox says the health care reform is bad doesn't mean that we should therefore support the reform. It disappoints me that this is the first comment I saw when I opened up this page. The point of this article is to discuss the reform in a constructive manner, not to bash entire ideologies just because they are not your own.
I am temporarily residing outside the U.S. at this time, and I haven't been paying attention to the argument. My mind is still malleable on this, so convince me one way or the other! Now, let's get back to a real discussion regarding the pros and cons of health care reform!
Everyone knows that the US has orbital photo recon. We don't have a 100% clear picture of what the capabilities are.
The fact that it's an X craft tells us this orbital space plane is a test vehicle. But a test vehicle for what? What are the ultimate objectives of the program? How does it tie in with Prompt Global Strike?
The use of the phrase Prompt Global Strike sounds nefarious... but the program is just looking to develop a non-nuclear version of the Prompt Global Strike we can already conduct.
I was lucky enough to solve the final puzzle myself, and therefore happened to be the first person to have all eight keys and decrypt the message. As lame as this might sound, it was pretty thrilling.
That's really not worth a lot. And I bet Randall solved it before you did. ;)
What kind of wire would this router need? Is a single fibre cable enough for this kind of bandwidth? What is the limit of a fibre cable?
Eleven.
A man believed to be a sumo wrestler ripped out a cash machine weighing 90kg (200lb) and made off with it on his shoulders, police in Moscow report.
The machine containing 25,320 roubles ($850) was found in his car.
All of our nuclear reactors are leaking QUADRILLIONS of neutrinos per second! Close down these radiation death machines NOW! Rah rah rah!
Borrow one of your friend's e-ink readers. The screen is like nothing you've seen before (except paper ;), and looking at images/videos online of e-ink screens doesn't do them justice.
I don't think e-ink is overrated. Kindle lasts for literally DAYS AND DAYS of non-stop reading. I'm sure all the other e-ink readers work similarly. The drawback for e-ink is that it requires external like light a book does, but it really looks like you're reading a paper book. I just bought another Kindle two days ago because I sat on my other one. It was one of those canvas fold-out chairs... it didn't stand a chance. Sigh. Anyway, to actually be amazed by e-ink you have to see it in person. Ask your friends if they have e-readers, because watching it on YouTube or seeing pictures on Amazon's site or whatever simply doesn't do it any justice.
I agree. The difference between bands like Girl Talk who sample music to create new pieces, and someone copying someone else's words into a paper they're writing, is that Girl Talk doesn't claim to have made the samples. One of the aspects of why plagiarism is seen as wrong is because you're taking credit for someone else's work. When you're sampling music, you're crediting them.
A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. The expression "in a nutshell" (of a story, proof, etc.) means "in essence", metaphorically alluding to the fact that the essence of the nut, i.e., its edible part, is contained inside its shell.
You've just described in a nutshell on Slashdot.
Yeah, I'm certainly not going to agree to being sentenced to weeks of solitary confinement without having myself been accused of a crime. Even prisoners get to receive visitors and make phone calls.
Watch out, refusing to serve jury duty is punishable by jail time ...
No jury would convict on that!
Somehow the last four minutes of the recordings were incinerated, but all the other footage is intact.
What I want to see (or hear) are the last four minutes of the Challenger recordings. There is something interesting in such macabre things... for example this air show crash that killed dozens in the audience. There are body parts all over in the video of the crash and aftermath. The pilot and co-pilot both got years and years of jail time for it.
I hope they fixed the terrible monotony of all the side quests in Mass Effect 1. The voice acting in Mass Effect 1 was spot-on, and the story was intriguing. I will be playing this game, regardless of side quest monotony...
Those of us with more than a lick of sense can't believe all you idiots who still think it wasn't an oil war -- and on behalf of Big Oil, not the U.S. directly. Congratulations, you're a moron.
Yes, because the U.S. is in control of the Iraqi Government and the U.S. controls all the Iraqi oil fields and when Iraqi oil is sold the money goes to U.S. pockets and the U.S. is not footing its own money to support electricity and water and sewage infrastructure and oh, yeah, don't forget about the oil in Iraq that the U.S. corporations now own... also Iraq is the 51st state in the Union...
Now to be serious, my colleagues and I have discussed our opinions with each other, and we've decided that greater facilitation of oil in the region was only a minor reason for going to war, and not a major one. Major reasons are likely vastly increased regional security in the area (Saddam started two belligerent wars in ten years) as well as a buffer to Iran that is friendly to the U.S. (Iraqis in general hate Iran due to the Iraq-Iran war). The vast majority of Iraqis currently like the U.S. and enjoy meeting soldiers face-to-face (which is becoming rarer and rarer), but they are disenchanted with their own government, which they believe is essentially being run by Iran. The war was only supposed to last a couple months in the original vision and then be over, but things are finally starting to calm down after the climax in 2006/2007, and people's lives have already begun turning back to normal.
Maybe they're all just seeing stars.
Shenmue. ;*(
If you wave a laser pointer around at the moon, you can make a dot on the moon that moves faster than light. That doesn't mean your laser photons are moving faster than light.
Test Picture of Subject A...
Thanks for your post. I like it a lot. I always trusted massive neutrinos to be true, but I never knew about the bounds on their masses the way you put it. Great post!
Why? Light can change frequency during its flight, and that travels at c. Neutrinos take a certain amount of time to travel from point A to point B in our perspective.
Neutrino oscillation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation proves that they DON'T travel at the speed of light.
The quote from the first line of the page you linked reads thusly: Neutrino oscillation is of theoretical and experimental interest since observation of the phenomenon implies that the neutrino has a non-zero mass, which is not part of the original Standard Model of particle physics.
It doesn't sound like anything is proven, or else it would be "case closed". The jury is still out on this one (although contrary to my posts, I believe the neutrino to be massive--just as you believe.)
Gamma rays travel at the speed of light, so there is no possible warning should something like this happen closer to us. When you see it, it's already there. It could all be over any minu
Neutrinos also travel at the speed of light. Don't believe me? Well, why is it so hard to prove they don't?
The energy released was mind-numbing: in one-fifth of a second, this supercharged magnetic neutron star blasted out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years!"
There's no way for me to get my head around these numbers to "truly" feel it. What methods can you use to visualize such extreme numbers?
I really hate the long silences on NASA TV, and it is a big reason I don't watch it in my freetime online. The long silences makes it feel like nobody cares at NASA cares about what is being shown. Sometimes I like watching spacewalks with commentary/astronaut mic audio.