I believe they are called "positive ground" (+ terminal of battery connected to chassis ground instead of - terminal) and yes they do exist. I have installed FM business band radios in fire engines that had positive ground, which requires you to isolate the radio chassis ground from the vehicle chassis ground. Since most radios use quarter-wavelength antennas and use the vehicle ground for a ground plane, it may also require modification of your antenna input if it is not already isolated.
The fuel tax is not the same as pay-per-mile. The fuel tax effectively charges more for vehicles that are heavier, and thus do more damage to the road. In that sense, the fuel tax is far superior to pay-by-mile. It is also much harder to cheat on (GPS signals can easily be blocked). You can also cheat on odometers by disconnecting the speedometer cable, but that leaves one vulnerable to speeding tickets.
How many slashdotters were going to buy a Zune anyway? It is a dead-end product, regardless of whether or not they offer an app store. How many third party developers are ready, willing, and able to develop apps for Zune? Seems like most of them are too busy supporting iPod to even support Android, let alone Zune. Given a choice, and taking into consideration Microsoft's long history of screwing third party developers, which platform would you target?
How many different characters can you create? Where do you get the lifetime subscription? (I don't see it on the website.) Is this a game even an 8-year old can enjoy? And most importantly, how large can you make the female Champion's breasts?
I chase and catch small western terrestrial garter snakes all the time, and have never had one of them even try to bite, which surprises me. (The fact that they are so easy to catch also surprises me. Don't they have any natural predators?) They will do everything in their power to get away, whipping around, jumping out of cages, and defecating in your hand. But the thought of actually biting this huge monster that is apparently intent on eating them never seems to occur to them. Apparently I was incorrect in assuming they never bite, but I do believe there are no documented incidents of them doing serious harm to a human -- otherwise, I wouldn't let my daughter play with them. (I did, however, advise her not to kiss them.)
Actually, since she also loves the color pink, dressing up in foo-foo dresses, and playing with Barbies as well as quoting Katy Perry's "I kissed a girl", I prefer to believe she will grow up to be a quite well balanced bisexual. So far, though, she has had several boyfriends (starting when she was 6) and no girlfriends. Nothing wrong with being a butch lesbian, although as a man I take personal offense at being a man-hating lesbian.
I read somewhere that teaching is 1/4 knowledge and 3/4 theatrics. Actually, teaching is 10% knowledge and 90% understanding your target audience. Mythbusters understands its target audience, which explains the presence of Kari on the show! Jamie and Adam are not scientists, they are showmen. If they did insist on rigorous adherence to traditional scientific method, nobody would watch the show. Nevertheless, they do teach how to cleverly devise experiments to test a hypothesis, and there is a lot you can learn from watching. Perhaps the most important thing you can learn is that experiments sometimes don't turn out the results you expect.
How could anybody be stupid enough to report this as a factual story? When was the last time you read a new report about any scientific development that actually contained the facts necessary to understand the relevance of the discovery? First thing we need to do: make understanding the subject a prerequisite to writing about it.
If you find a lost child, you take them to customer service. They have a PA system, much more effective than "going aisle to aisle".
Yes, most of the "gender differences" we see are primarily nurture, not nature. Even if you don't brainwash your own daughter, trust me, other kids will.
As an adult male, I too find it depressing that I apparently cannot be trusted around children, but my daughter's male teacher and principal can (strange double standard). Unfortunately, I do like kids, in the sense that I want to see them be happy. And, as creepy as I am, little girls adore me. Why? Because, unlike most adults, I actually pay attention to them, and treat them like human beings. Which apparently is something that their paranoid parents are failing to do. I believe giving your kids the time and attention they crave would protect them much better than training them to fear all strangers. The "stranger danger" myth is bullshit - the vast majority of child abuse is perpetrated by people the parents know, those same school staff and relatives that the parents trust unconditionally.
As someone who believes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be in charge of party planning, I've always considered 0.08 BAC to be a suggested minimum... oh hell, who am I kidding. I sit around all night sucking down bottled water hoping to score -- does this mean I can now drink for free?
If the bastard has a history injuring you to the point where you require medical attention, but you still let him or her hang around, then I think the insurance company has a valid complaint. However, they should just make a restraining order a prerequisite, not just issue a blanket denial of coverage.
My daughter used to pick up spiders with her bare hands when she was 3, as well as dance on shelves 11 feet off the ground and climb out of second story windows. I had to intentionally terrify her a few times to teach her fear, but now I've trained her not to touch spiders. She still has no problem handling garter snakes. Her mother, coming from a part of the world where many venomous snakes are found, is so terrified of all snakes that she cannot even bear to see them on TV. So are all her relatives, so we have had the situation where an adult male refused to hold a garter snake I caught in the yard, but a 6-year old girl didn't have any problem with it. (By the way, garter snakes actually are venomous, but their venom teeth are in the back of their mouth and there are no known incidents of them biting people.)
They don't host ads...not for long! This is a typical dot bomb strategy - first you get lots of users, then you change the rules to start generating revenue, then you cash out quickly before everybody quits due to the rule change.
complaining female and LGBT gamers Wait... why are the "L" and "B" gamers complaining? Can't they win a date with a booth babe too? In fact, if they could just have male and female booth babes, couldn't you make everyone happy?
It is worse than that. We are currently in a race to determine if we establish self-sufficient colonies off-planet before technology advances to the point where a small group of nuts can destroy all human life on the planet. This is in addition to the risk of natural catastrophes that you point out. Evolution is based on the survival of the species, not on the survival of individuals. Our biological imperative is to ensure that our DNA goes on, and we can afford to sacrifice a LOT of individuals towards that end. Just as there are plenty of people that would be willing to harm us all if given the chance, so are there lots of people willing to take ridiculous risks to go into space. A one-way trip to Mars is much more cost effective then providing for a return journey. If there are qualified volunteers willing to take the risks, I say let 'em.
While we're at it, could you develop a bacteria that functions like Maxwell's Demon? That would seriously decrease heating and air conditioning costs. Thanks.
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I believe they are called "positive ground" (+ terminal of battery connected to chassis ground instead of - terminal) and yes they do exist. I have installed FM business band radios in fire engines that had positive ground, which requires you to isolate the radio chassis ground from the vehicle chassis ground. Since most radios use quarter-wavelength antennas and use the vehicle ground for a ground plane, it may also require modification of your antenna input if it is not already isolated.
The fuel tax is not the same as pay-per-mile. The fuel tax effectively charges more for vehicles that are heavier, and thus do more damage to the road. In that sense, the fuel tax is far superior to pay-by-mile. It is also much harder to cheat on (GPS signals can easily be blocked). You can also cheat on odometers by disconnecting the speedometer cable, but that leaves one vulnerable to speeding tickets.
Just like short people, the Zune has got no reason to live.
How many slashdotters were going to buy a Zune anyway? It is a dead-end product, regardless of whether or not they offer an app store. How many third party developers are ready, willing, and able to develop apps for Zune? Seems like most of them are too busy supporting iPod to even support Android, let alone Zune. Given a choice, and taking into consideration Microsoft's long history of screwing third party developers, which platform would you target?
Queue "That's not all it stimulated!" jokes in 3... 2... 1.
How many different characters can you create? Where do you get the lifetime subscription? (I don't see it on the website.) Is this a game even an 8-year old can enjoy? And most importantly, how large can you make the female Champion's breasts?
I chase and catch small western terrestrial garter snakes all the time, and have never had one of them even try to bite, which surprises me. (The fact that they are so easy to catch also surprises me. Don't they have any natural predators?) They will do everything in their power to get away, whipping around, jumping out of cages, and defecating in your hand. But the thought of actually biting this huge monster that is apparently intent on eating them never seems to occur to them. Apparently I was incorrect in assuming they never bite, but I do believe there are no documented incidents of them doing serious harm to a human -- otherwise, I wouldn't let my daughter play with them. (I did, however, advise her not to kiss them.)
Actually, since she also loves the color pink, dressing up in foo-foo dresses, and playing with Barbies as well as quoting Katy Perry's "I kissed a girl", I prefer to believe she will grow up to be a quite well balanced bisexual. So far, though, she has had several boyfriends (starting when she was 6) and no girlfriends. Nothing wrong with being a butch lesbian, although as a man I take personal offense at being a man-hating lesbian.
I read somewhere that teaching is 1/4 knowledge and 3/4 theatrics. Actually, teaching is 10% knowledge and 90% understanding your target audience. Mythbusters understands its target audience, which explains the presence of Kari on the show! Jamie and Adam are not scientists, they are showmen. If they did insist on rigorous adherence to traditional scientific method, nobody would watch the show. Nevertheless, they do teach how to cleverly devise experiments to test a hypothesis, and there is a lot you can learn from watching. Perhaps the most important thing you can learn is that experiments sometimes don't turn out the results you expect.
How could anybody be stupid enough to report this as a factual story? When was the last time you read a new report about any scientific development that actually contained the facts necessary to understand the relevance of the discovery? First thing we need to do: make understanding the subject a prerequisite to writing about it.
If you find a lost child, you take them to customer service. They have a PA system, much more effective than "going aisle to aisle".
Yes, most of the "gender differences" we see are primarily nurture, not nature. Even if you don't brainwash your own daughter, trust me, other kids will.
As an adult male, I too find it depressing that I apparently cannot be trusted around children, but my daughter's male teacher and principal can (strange double standard). Unfortunately, I do like kids, in the sense that I want to see them be happy. And, as creepy as I am, little girls adore me. Why? Because, unlike most adults, I actually pay attention to them, and treat them like human beings. Which apparently is something that their paranoid parents are failing to do. I believe giving your kids the time and attention they crave would protect them much better than training them to fear all strangers. The "stranger danger" myth is bullshit - the vast majority of child abuse is perpetrated by people the parents know, those same school staff and relatives that the parents trust unconditionally.
Best. Troll. Ever!
As someone who believes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be in charge of party planning, I've always considered 0.08 BAC to be a suggested minimum... oh hell, who am I kidding. I sit around all night sucking down bottled water hoping to score -- does this mean I can now drink for free?
If the bastard has a history injuring you to the point where you require medical attention, but you still let him or her hang around, then I think the insurance company has a valid complaint. However, they should just make a restraining order a prerequisite, not just issue a blanket denial of coverage.
What about female aversion to mice? They aren't dangerous.
I beg to differ.
My daughter used to pick up spiders with her bare hands when she was 3, as well as dance on shelves 11 feet off the ground and climb out of second story windows. I had to intentionally terrify her a few times to teach her fear, but now I've trained her not to touch spiders. She still has no problem handling garter snakes. Her mother, coming from a part of the world where many venomous snakes are found, is so terrified of all snakes that she cannot even bear to see them on TV. So are all her relatives, so we have had the situation where an adult male refused to hold a garter snake I caught in the yard, but a 6-year old girl didn't have any problem with it. (By the way, garter snakes actually are venomous, but their venom teeth are in the back of their mouth and there are no known incidents of them biting people.)
They don't host ads... not for long! This is a typical dot bomb strategy - first you get lots of users, then you change the rules to start generating revenue, then you cash out quickly before everybody quits due to the rule change.
Has anybody out there ever seen a school janitor who wasn't a socially awkward misfit??? If they had people skills, they'd have a better job...
Methinks you wouldn't want a child anywhere near all those sharp edges...
I believe it is called the Streisand effect.
well, that should address 80+% of the incoming posts. You forgot the 50% of the posts containing the word "pr0n"!
ScuttleMonkey must have cashed his check!
complaining female and LGBT gamers Wait... why are the "L" and "B" gamers complaining? Can't they win a date with a booth babe too? In fact, if they could just have male and female booth babes, couldn't you make everyone happy?
It is worse than that. We are currently in a race to determine if we establish self-sufficient colonies off-planet before technology advances to the point where a small group of nuts can destroy all human life on the planet. This is in addition to the risk of natural catastrophes that you point out. Evolution is based on the survival of the species, not on the survival of individuals. Our biological imperative is to ensure that our DNA goes on, and we can afford to sacrifice a LOT of individuals towards that end. Just as there are plenty of people that would be willing to harm us all if given the chance, so are there lots of people willing to take ridiculous risks to go into space. A one-way trip to Mars is much more cost effective then providing for a return journey. If there are qualified volunteers willing to take the risks, I say let 'em.
While we're at it, could you develop a bacteria that functions like Maxwell's Demon? That would seriously decrease heating and air conditioning costs. Thanks.