That does sound strange. A metal object can be connected to a negative battery pole to stop corrosion, though. It does this by replacing the electrons lost to oxidation, like a sacrificial anode. I don't know if that could be applied to live wires.
Ah, yes, I did read it, but didn't connect it properly to the post you were replying to, and got it in the wrong context. Sorry about that. The study still does not mention 'strictly gun-free homes' or 'teaching children responsible use of guns', though. The crime rates you seem to cite are for adolescents who don't have a gun vs. those who own a gun legally vs. those who possess a gun illegally.
I don't think that's quite what it says... It doesn't say anything about 'strictly gun-free homes', merely whether the adolescent owns/are in possession of a gun. You aren't suggesting that not owning a gun directly leads to drug use, are you?
And your sig... Thinking that a random woman is more likely to have a gun than someone who plans to commit rape. And that more people die from being strangled with their panties and then raped, than die from irresponsible gun handling. Bah.
Sure, you could reference people from 'the market' in 1900 who said that we'll run out of oil soon, but I could likely find scores of people from 199 who essentially claimed the dot-com bubble would never end. No direct analogy, but sometimes the market is wrong, big time.
My advice? Learn blacksmithing in your spare time.
Of course, blacksmiths have traditionally employed large amounts of coal in their trade, which might prove hard to come across in your romantic little setting. Sure, fire up those nuclear furnaces if that's what floats your boat, but expect to be outperfomed by factories doing the same.
But the world would get larger again. Current aircraft tech runs poorly on both batteries and nuclear power, prompting increased reliance on boat and train. Maybe we'd even get that wicked transatlantic railroad I read about the other day, though building something on that scale is hard enough without a polymer shortage.
Developing countries also get to do fun stuff like turn lots of crops into less meat, which is then sold to the USA to get money to pay debts. The meat is then used to make pet food because food regulations mark it unfit for human consumption... There's lots of really suboptimal stuff going on that elevates the problem.
Weren't it called just "Mac OS" back in the days? I guess it is a leftover from then. I'm not really yet comfortable calling a x86 machine a mac, though, so it feels more oxymoronic than redundant.
But they all got a say in the disk design... I can't get myself to believe that people from Sony would stand up at content protection hearings and ask "But what about consumer rights?" Screw blu-ray. I'm waiting for Google GDisc.
Hi, my name is Post From A Person Who Is Impersonating An Antromorphization Of An Object Being Discussed. I were funny the first time, but I get old really quick. I should be used in strict moderation.
So, wise guy, how do you move the super-customizable FF status bar to the top? I do like Firefox, but the complete reliance on extensions for basic browser functionality like session saving is überannoying, and not really a 'feature', even if you call it customizability or whatever. Frankly, it feels rather rigid, and most of the extension stuff you can't do with javascript, opera already has built-in. I sometimes use it for the DOM inspector, though. That thing is golden... So I guess plug-ins are nice... Man, why can't Opera implement omnipotent python plugins or something? It would be the single best browser the world... All enemies would fall before them, and it and Opera Mini would rule the galaxy as father and son.
Honestly, no way to customize keyboard? Did you even look? Or did you just type in the completely non-proprietary yet strangely Firefox-specific about:config and assumed what you saw is what you got? There's complete mouse and keyboard customization in preferences>advanced>shortcuts, FYI, where you should be able to use all the same commands those buttons are using.
Oh, but it does impress me... I agree that the Firefox way is more convenient for newssites and other rapidly changing throwaway feeds, but i prefer Opera for program specific news feeds, and for slashdot. I can only imagine how the/. dupe count would look if the editors utilized this zero-effort way to, say, see all newsitems from the last month with the word 'laser' in the short summary. (Ok, there probably would be no difference.)
I agree that FF-style RSS-bookmarks would be nice, but last time I checked, FF didn't even have the option to archive RSS-feeds.
Pointing out one of the many sublime ironies in this hardly makes anyone a China defender. It's too damn funny, really; "Google, we think you should risk legal prosecution for not maximizing profits, by beeing uncooperative with one of USA's major trading partners because they want your help in censoring information from their people. And by the way, give us those search listings already, would you? We need them to keep harmful web content from our citizens."
(Incidentally; yes, that is a 33 word sentence. Me type good.)
Of course it matters! Dark materia, though still only a theory, is currently the best explanation scientists have to explain detected irregularies in the path of certain celestial objects.
Because they normally don't interact with the matter, by simply not hitting it. Gravity, on the other hand, clearly does. Hm... Are neutrinos affected by gravity? I guess that if even light is, they would be, too.
That's funny, but only assuming the only goal of the game is to 'win' by convincing the other. If you both want to find the best possible answer, both players would gain by considering all arguments for objective truth.
I'm just assuming here, never having owned a mac, but the difference may also be that it doesn't encourage application developers to put stuff willy-nilly in system directories, always assume user is root, and stuff internal windows settings and game options alike into the huge, fat, slimy blob that is the register, where the data will remain eternal unless cleansed by the sacrament of reinstall... I'm well past the 'where is the any key' stage, but while I have managed to keep my XP machine operational for years by being highly critical of what is allowed onto my computer, I do have a high application turnover rate, and the fair majority leave cruft where they should never have had access in the first place. Yes, I should be logged in as a restricted user, but as many older applications won't run then, and the ones that will at least need administrator access for the install, it gets too tiresome to follow best practises, and the system detoriates. Point being, crappy software should only be able to destabilise itself, not the entire computing enviroment.
Nonsense! Futurama is like Shakespeare and Ibsen; it works on all levels. Well, not quite like Ibsen, but still, I did read somewhere (here, I think) that while they do try to cram in as much "high-brow" jokes as possible, they won't let it detract from the story. Most of the humor in Futurama is of the "everybody gets it" variant. I can't immagine Zack Brannigan being anything less than hillarious even if you've never heard of Star Trek. And then you get the "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" lines that really are the icing on the cake, and makes Futurama rather unique in the field of humorous cartoons. Where else do you get pinball references, Titanic parodies, quantum physics jokes and booze and hookers in such a neat package?
A person who has slept 1 hour in the last 48 hours is clearly unfit for driving, and any country with sensible driving laws will prohibit driving if you are in any way in unfit condition, like being sleep-depraved, drunk, dangerously short-sighted, etc. From hearing you talk, you'd think driving drunk was a necessity akin to eating, clothing and shelter. A problem with the people who drink and drive is that their own estimate on how influenced they are are wildly off. The idea should be to establish a non-tolerance in combining alcohol and driving. Saying that "a little is okay" misses the point, and makes people try to sense "have I drunk too much to drive?" when they should be thinking "have I been drinking?" Never make a drugged person estimate his own fitness! And what about combinations? What if a sleepy 50-year old person drives with what he estimates to be "only" 0.1 BAL? Should guys in their twentys, one of the most lethal traffic element know to man (In fact only surpassed by people influenced by alcohol.) be allowed to drive after drinking, while 50 year olds should not? It would be a slippery slope... If the answers weren't so blindingly obvious.
Not at all. Someone talking about "Artificial" gravity would usually, incorrectly, use it to mean simulated gravity, created by some other means to accelerate you or your surroundings. The most common one beeing the circle motion of a centrifuge or spacewheel, though linear acceleration or magnetism could also be used. I guess technically, "artificial gravity" would refer to gravity created without mass, which at the moment is kind of unpossible. Or would that be synthesized gravity?
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That does sound strange. A metal object can be connected to a negative battery pole to stop corrosion, though. It does this by replacing the electrons lost to oxidation, like a sacrificial anode. I don't know if that could be applied to live wires.
Ah, yes, I did read it, but didn't connect it properly to the post you were replying to, and got it in the wrong context. Sorry about that. The study still does not mention 'strictly gun-free homes' or 'teaching children responsible use of guns', though. The crime rates you seem to cite are for adolescents who don't have a gun vs. those who own a gun legally vs. those who possess a gun illegally.
I don't think that's quite what it says... It doesn't say anything about 'strictly gun-free homes', merely whether the adolescent owns/are in possession of a gun.
You aren't suggesting that not owning a gun directly leads to drug use, are you?
And your sig... Thinking that a random woman is more likely to have a gun than someone who plans to commit rape. And that more people die from being strangled with their panties and then raped, than die from irresponsible gun handling. Bah.
1999, rather. I'm no archaeologist.
Sure, you could reference people from 'the market' in 1900 who said that we'll run out of oil soon, but I could likely find scores of people from 199 who essentially claimed the dot-com bubble would never end. No direct analogy, but sometimes the market is wrong, big time.
My advice? Learn blacksmithing in your spare time.
Of course, blacksmiths have traditionally employed large amounts of coal in their trade, which might prove hard to come across in your romantic little setting. Sure, fire up those nuclear furnaces if that's what floats your boat, but expect to be outperfomed by factories doing the same.
But the world would get larger again. Current aircraft tech runs poorly on both batteries and nuclear power, prompting increased reliance on boat and train. Maybe we'd even get that wicked transatlantic railroad I read about the other day, though building something on that scale is hard enough without a polymer shortage.
Developing countries also get to do fun stuff like turn lots of crops into less meat, which is then sold to the USA to get money to pay debts. The meat is then used to make pet food because food regulations mark it unfit for human consumption... There's lots of really suboptimal stuff going on that elevates the problem.
Weren't it called just "Mac OS" back in the days? I guess it is a leftover from then.
I'm not really yet comfortable calling a x86 machine a mac, though, so it feels more oxymoronic than redundant.
It is a fraction, and even if you solve it with derivation, it still amounts to 1.
Is too! http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anthropom orphization
The spelling is duly noted, though.
But they all got a say in the disk design... I can't get myself to believe that people from Sony would stand up at content protection hearings and ask "But what about consumer rights?"
Screw blu-ray. I'm waiting for Google GDisc.
Hi, my name is Post From A Person Who Is Impersonating An Antromorphization Of An Object Being Discussed. I were funny the first time, but I get old really quick. I should be used in strict moderation.
So, wise guy, how do you move the super-customizable FF status bar to the top?
I do like Firefox, but the complete reliance on extensions for basic browser functionality like session saving is überannoying, and not really a 'feature', even if you call it customizability or whatever. Frankly, it feels rather rigid, and most of the extension stuff you can't do with javascript, opera already has built-in. I sometimes use it for the DOM inspector, though. That thing is golden... So I guess plug-ins are nice...
Man, why can't Opera implement omnipotent python plugins or something? It would be the single best browser the world... All enemies would fall before them, and it and Opera Mini would rule the galaxy as father and son.
Honestly, no way to customize keyboard? Did you even look? Or did you just type in the completely non-proprietary yet strangely Firefox-specific about:config and assumed what you saw is what you got?
There's complete mouse and keyboard customization in preferences>advanced>shortcuts, FYI, where you should be able to use all the same commands those buttons are using.
Oh, but it does impress me... I agree that the Firefox way is more convenient for newssites and other rapidly changing throwaway feeds, but i prefer Opera for program specific news feeds, and for slashdot. I can only imagine how the /. dupe count would look if the editors utilized this zero-effort way to, say, see all newsitems from the last month with the word 'laser' in the short summary. (Ok, there probably would be no difference.)
I agree that FF-style RSS-bookmarks would be nice, but last time I checked, FF didn't even have the option to archive RSS-feeds.
Pointing out one of the many sublime ironies in this hardly makes anyone a China defender.
It's too damn funny, really;
"Google, we think you should risk legal prosecution for not maximizing profits, by beeing uncooperative with one of USA's major trading partners because they want your help in censoring information from their people. And by the way, give us those search listings already, would you? We need them to keep harmful web content from our citizens."
(Incidentally; yes, that is a 33 word sentence. Me type good.)
Dude, it's the man. He wants the word.
It's all part of the conspiracy, y'see. Against the people.
Fascinating how the definite article can sometimes make statements even vaguer, innit?
Of course it matters! Dark materia, though still only a theory, is currently the best explanation scientists have to explain detected irregularies in the path of certain celestial objects.
Because they normally don't interact with the matter, by simply not hitting it. Gravity, on the other hand, clearly does.
Hm... Are neutrinos affected by gravity? I guess that if even light is, they would be, too.
That's funny, but only assuming the only goal of the game is to 'win' by convincing the other.
If you both want to find the best possible answer, both players would gain by considering all arguments for objective truth.
I'm just assuming here, never having owned a mac, but the difference may also be that it doesn't encourage application developers to put stuff willy-nilly in system directories, always assume user is root, and stuff internal windows settings and game options alike into the huge, fat, slimy blob that is the register, where the data will remain eternal unless cleansed by the sacrament of reinstall...
I'm well past the 'where is the any key' stage, but while I have managed to keep my XP machine operational for years by being highly critical of what is allowed onto my computer, I do have a high application turnover rate, and the fair majority leave cruft where they should never have had access in the first place. Yes, I should be logged in as a restricted user, but as many older applications won't run then, and the ones that will at least need administrator access for the install, it gets too tiresome to follow best practises, and the system detoriates. Point being, crappy software should only be able to destabilise itself, not the entire computing enviroment.
Nonsense! Futurama is like Shakespeare and Ibsen; it works on all levels. Well, not quite like Ibsen, but still, I did read somewhere (here, I think) that while they do try to cram in as much "high-brow" jokes as possible, they won't let it detract from the story.
Most of the humor in Futurama is of the "everybody gets it" variant. I can't immagine Zack Brannigan being anything less than hillarious even if you've never heard of Star Trek. And then you get the "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" lines that really are the icing on the cake, and makes Futurama rather unique in the field of humorous cartoons. Where else do you get pinball references, Titanic parodies, quantum physics jokes and booze and hookers in such a neat package?
A person who has slept 1 hour in the last 48 hours is clearly unfit for driving, and any country with sensible driving laws will prohibit driving if you are in any way in unfit condition, like being sleep-depraved, drunk, dangerously short-sighted, etc. From hearing you talk, you'd think driving drunk was a necessity akin to eating, clothing and shelter.
A problem with the people who drink and drive is that their own estimate on how influenced they are are wildly off. The idea should be to establish a non-tolerance in combining alcohol and driving. Saying that "a little is okay" misses the point, and makes people try to sense "have I drunk too much to drive?" when they should be thinking "have I been drinking?" Never make a drugged person estimate his own fitness!
And what about combinations? What if a sleepy 50-year old person drives with what he estimates to be "only" 0.1 BAL? Should guys in their twentys, one of the most lethal traffic element know to man (In fact only surpassed by people influenced by alcohol.) be allowed to drive after drinking, while 50 year olds should not?
It would be a slippery slope... If the answers weren't so blindingly obvious.
Not at all. Someone talking about "Artificial" gravity would usually, incorrectly, use it to mean simulated gravity, created by some other means to accelerate you or your surroundings. The most common one beeing the circle motion of a centrifuge or spacewheel, though linear acceleration or magnetism could also be used.
I guess technically, "artificial gravity" would refer to gravity created without mass, which at the moment is kind of unpossible. Or would that be synthesized gravity?