If you don't enjoy movies in 3D then the simple answer is to not watch them. Telling other people that they're wrong to enjoy something isn't going to gain you anything.
That's not enough for some people. They have an opinion and they won't shut up about it until they've convinced all the 'idiots' that they're right.
Agree. Speeding tickets should be issued on sustained speed across some set distance. If they set automated cameras down the freeway every 10km and worked out your average speed between them then they'd catch the speeders, not just the people who do 115 in a 110 zone as they are coming down a hill. You wouldn't just be able to slow down where the camera's are, you'd actually have to do the speed limit. I'd be in heaven!
But then people start complaining that they are being tracked, and while i'd _like_ to trust the authorities to immediately discard the data after the sums had been done and they'd determined that you weren't speeding, we all know that "the authorities" is just people with their own little agenda's. OTOH, toll points track where you've been, and existing roadside speed camera's can track you too - they say they only take a picture when your speed is registered above the limit but they don't use flashes these days so how could you tell?
Forgot to add, I know my tyres should be inflated to somewhere around 32PSI, but couldn't tell you what that was in metric units, and i've even drawn a blank trying to think of what the metric unit is (I blame the cold and flu tablets... and the cold that they are trying to mask)
I live in Australia and my generation has pretty much never been taught imperial units, apart from maybe a passing mention in school. But the foot and the inch are such useful measurements for reckoning, and pretty much everyone knows what it means.
Babies are still referred to in pounds over here too. I know that a 10 pound baby is a big one, and I think all my kids were all somewhere around 8, but I couldn't tell you what that was in kg without looking it up!
I did, even after I re-read it several times. I was imagining alien beings trying to look slimmer while being lit from two directions at once or something...
I'm more concerned that Slashdot itself has been hacked, and some unscrupulous bad guys is posting the news as it happens, instead of weeks, months, or years later.
They're trying to introduce a carbon tax here in AU which should make energy production with a high CO2 impact more expensive. Despite the fact that opposition to it is very loud and stupid, it seems like it might actually happen. I think the biggest problem with it is due to the various Free Trade Agreements, overseas products are implicitly subsidised because they don't have to pay the tax on the energy used to create them and we aren't allowed to tax them.
You could do something like post on the forum "This problem is fixed in version 1.2.3.2. Registered users can download this update for free.". The real version is, and always was, 1.2.3.2, but when pirated it reports 1.2.3.1 instead. If it's easier to pay your $10 for a genuinely useful product than to try and find someone with a pirated copy of 1.2.3.2 then at least a few people might be more likely to register.
They work well with your head in just the right place, and produce stereo vision but with no sense of parallax shift. This simulates the parallax effect but doesn't give you stereo vision. I'm not sure which is better... this would be fine if you were a cyclops or a pirate.
I had shoulder length hair as a teenager, then around my mid 20's I noticed it had thinned out a bit on top, and the long hair thing was starting to look a bit sad, so I cut it all off and now sport a #1 clipper cut. I know a bit about the sorts of hormone interaction that causes baldness and it seems kind of obvious that unless you can find something that specifically affects the hair folicle's(sp?) sensitivity to those hormones, the only other way is to tinker with the hormones themselves, and i'm not having any of that.
My other reason for cutting it all off was that I have exceptionally oily skin and it's much easier to get all the sebaceous cysts cut out with short hair, and I get a bunch of cool scars:)
Magnitude isn't the only factor at play here. A 6.3 earthquake destroyed parts of central Christchurch in NZ a few months ago, and earthquakes are no stranger to NZ so buildings are built with quakes in mind. It was so devastating because it was almost exactly under the city, and was very near the surface.
Well you just accelerate in the other direction to slow down. It takes almost as long to slow down as it did to get up to speed ('almost' because you are now lighter having lost some mass) so you need to start braking early, and in fact you may well spend half your trip accelerating and the other half decelerating.
And it's not as simple as 'send out probes while you fly past' either, otherwise your probes need to be able to decelerate from whatever speed you are doing down to a slow enough speed to land on / orbit the planet, which isn't easy if you are already going at any decent fraction of C. Using the planets gravity will help to some extent, but I think even that has its limits.
As you've already pointed out, 'Natural' or 'Synthetic' and 'Junk' or 'Healthy' are two separate concepts, and while they overlap one is not necessarily an indicator of the other.
Junk food is fairly well defined. Like anything there are border cases and exceptions but on the whole it's a pretty basic concept - it's anything where the calorie count dwarfs any other redeeming feature, or where if it was eaten regularly it would lead to problems. Stamping "Low Fat" on the packaging doesn't change the content.
And to redefine it as "food I don't like" when there is already an accepted definition is just dumb.
So, really, the smokers and obese actually subsidize healthcare for everyone else just by biting the dust earlier. And that's in addition to paying for a pension they won't get as much of, or at all. And subsidizing the government via tobacco taxes.
That's certainly an eye opener. They do tend to take a lot more sick days though (eg http://www.jsmea.com/obese-smokers-sick-leave/ or pretty much any page in the results of a search for obese smokers sick days), which has other economic impacts, so tax them anyway.
Nearly. It proves once again that the extremists who are complete idiots usually make the news more often for things such as using cesar ciphers and not accounting for DST when setting the detonation time on their bombs.
I'm not religious but I think the concept of the soul at the very basic level is valid. It's the program running in your head that is you. That's about where it ends though - I don't believe in any way that the program keeps running once the hardware fails, outside of the bits of your program that have rubbed off on the other people that you interacted with along the way.
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If you don't enjoy movies in 3D then the simple answer is to not watch them. Telling other people that they're wrong to enjoy something isn't going to gain you anything.
That's not enough for some people. They have an opinion and they won't shut up about it until they've convinced all the 'idiots' that they're right.
Agree. Speeding tickets should be issued on sustained speed across some set distance. If they set automated cameras down the freeway every 10km and worked out your average speed between them then they'd catch the speeders, not just the people who do 115 in a 110 zone as they are coming down a hill. You wouldn't just be able to slow down where the camera's are, you'd actually have to do the speed limit. I'd be in heaven!
But then people start complaining that they are being tracked, and while i'd _like_ to trust the authorities to immediately discard the data after the sums had been done and they'd determined that you weren't speeding, we all know that "the authorities" is just people with their own little agenda's. OTOH, toll points track where you've been, and existing roadside speed camera's can track you too - they say they only take a picture when your speed is registered above the limit but they don't use flashes these days so how could you tell?
Forgot to add, I know my tyres should be inflated to somewhere around 32PSI, but couldn't tell you what that was in metric units, and i've even drawn a blank trying to think of what the metric unit is (I blame the cold and flu tablets... and the cold that they are trying to mask)
I live in Australia and my generation has pretty much never been taught imperial units, apart from maybe a passing mention in school. But the foot and the inch are such useful measurements for reckoning, and pretty much everyone knows what it means.
Babies are still referred to in pounds over here too. I know that a 10 pound baby is a big one, and I think all my kids were all somewhere around 8, but I couldn't tell you what that was in kg without looking it up!
I did, even after I re-read it several times. I was imagining alien beings trying to look slimmer while being lit from two directions at once or something...
Or maybe we're just loosing our minds!
and some unscrupulous bad guys is posting the news as it happens
... and the same bad guys is inserting bad grammar in my posts.
I'm more concerned that Slashdot itself has been hacked, and some unscrupulous bad guys is posting the news as it happens, instead of weeks, months, or years later.
They're trying to introduce a carbon tax here in AU which should make energy production with a high CO2 impact more expensive. Despite the fact that opposition to it is very loud and stupid, it seems like it might actually happen. I think the biggest problem with it is due to the various Free Trade Agreements, overseas products are implicitly subsidised because they don't have to pay the tax on the energy used to create them and we aren't allowed to tax them.
For sure. Don't worry about getting the hardware working exactly right, we'll ship it now and release an upgrade later.
You could do something like post on the forum "This problem is fixed in version 1.2.3.2. Registered users can download this update for free.". The real version is, and always was, 1.2.3.2, but when pirated it reports 1.2.3.1 instead. If it's easier to pay your $10 for a genuinely useful product than to try and find someone with a pirated copy of 1.2.3.2 then at least a few people might be more likely to register.
They work well with your head in just the right place, and produce stereo vision but with no sense of parallax shift. This simulates the parallax effect but doesn't give you stereo vision. I'm not sure which is better... this would be fine if you were a cyclops or a pirate.
I had shoulder length hair as a teenager, then around my mid 20's I noticed it had thinned out a bit on top, and the long hair thing was starting to look a bit sad, so I cut it all off and now sport a #1 clipper cut. I know a bit about the sorts of hormone interaction that causes baldness and it seems kind of obvious that unless you can find something that specifically affects the hair folicle's(sp?) sensitivity to those hormones, the only other way is to tinker with the hormones themselves, and i'm not having any of that.
My other reason for cutting it all off was that I have exceptionally oily skin and it's much easier to get all the sebaceous cysts cut out with short hair, and I get a bunch of cool scars :)
Seems like you're damned if you do, damned if you dont...
Unless your girl knows a thing or two about what causes baldness... like Christine Lavin does...
Definitely. Start camping out on the streets away from tall buildings now.
Magnitude isn't the only factor at play here. A 6.3 earthquake destroyed parts of central Christchurch in NZ a few months ago, and earthquakes are no stranger to NZ so buildings are built with quakes in mind. It was so devastating because it was almost exactly under the city, and was very near the surface.
I say pay her room and board, and free internet, until she dies.
Oh you mean send her to an Australian prison?
Soapbox youtube videos are meant for people with a greater attention span than I have. Let me know when the book version comes out.
Well you just accelerate in the other direction to slow down. It takes almost as long to slow down as it did to get up to speed ('almost' because you are now lighter having lost some mass) so you need to start braking early, and in fact you may well spend half your trip accelerating and the other half decelerating.
And it's not as simple as 'send out probes while you fly past' either, otherwise your probes need to be able to decelerate from whatever speed you are doing down to a slow enough speed to land on / orbit the planet, which isn't easy if you are already going at any decent fraction of C. Using the planets gravity will help to some extent, but I think even that has its limits.
As you've already pointed out, 'Natural' or 'Synthetic' and 'Junk' or 'Healthy' are two separate concepts, and while they overlap one is not necessarily an indicator of the other.
Junk food is fairly well defined. Like anything there are border cases and exceptions but on the whole it's a pretty basic concept - it's anything where the calorie count dwarfs any other redeeming feature, or where if it was eaten regularly it would lead to problems. Stamping "Low Fat" on the packaging doesn't change the content.
And to redefine it as "food I don't like" when there is already an accepted definition is just dumb.
So, really, the smokers and obese actually subsidize healthcare for everyone else just by biting the dust earlier. And that's in addition to paying for a pension they won't get as much of, or at all. And subsidizing the government via tobacco taxes.
That's certainly an eye opener. They do tend to take a lot more sick days though (eg http://www.jsmea.com/obese-smokers-sick-leave/ or pretty much any page in the results of a search for obese smokers sick days), which has other economic impacts, so tax them anyway.
Junk is a very subjective term. I think all "low fat" food is junk.
Anything is subjective if you redefine it to mean whatever you want it to mean.
You know full well what is meant by the term "junk food" though.
While I feel a bit let down by April Fools Day this year (especially as it ended 23 hours ago here), the "and parking illegally." made me laugh.
Nearly. It proves once again that the extremists who are complete idiots usually make the news more often for things such as using cesar ciphers and not accounting for DST when setting the detonation time on their bombs.
I'm not religious but I think the concept of the soul at the very basic level is valid. It's the program running in your head that is you. That's about where it ends though - I don't believe in any way that the program keeps running once the hardware fails, outside of the bits of your program that have rubbed off on the other people that you interacted with along the way.