Not only that, on any given airplane only a certain percantage of people on the plane will be seated near someone they want to talk to. With telephones, a much higher percentage of people will be able to connect to someone with which to engage in mindless chatter.
The "Lego Thing" is that you have a limited set of basic, standardized componants. Everyone's legos are the same but they can be used to make a nearly infinite set of creations. And with a little knowledge of good engineering practices you can create suprisingly solid constructions.
It combines the thrill of making something out of the smallest possible componants that you get from writing a program in assembly with the child-like simplicity of the building material. You have a system of construction that even the smallest child can use that is also capable of some rather complex creations.
That's the ideal anyway, in practice there are a good number of specialised componants. (Like the Mindstorms brick.)
"There is no way that keeps time accurately or is even remotely reliable. " Why not? Reliable you could debate, but if he can get the gear-ratio correct why wouldn't it be accurate? Properly adjusted, Pendulums are accurate no matter what you make them out of. Are you suggesting the gears will skip or break? Lego gears certainly aren't the strongest gears on the planet but they'll take more than this clock with throw at them in normal opperation.
Heck, with the quality of many consumer goods nowadays there are probably store-bought pendulum clocks with crappier gears than that.
"you learn a lot from the Gentoo installation." Yea, if you're a beginner. But, I think he's talking about installing Gentoo over an existing Linux install. Many machines with existing Linux installations are operated by people who already know how to use Linux.
For that matter, many brand new Linux machines are operated by people who already know how to use Linux.
"It's like dropping you in a car going 50 mph, if you had learned how to drive the car earlier, you could save yourself a whole lot of trouble." But... I do know how to drive a car. What's your point?
I'll bet that the labels on most Rubix Cubes are easily removable. If you swap the labels on two pieces it could make it unsolvable.
I'm looking at my Rubix Cube now and I'm noticing that a couple of the labels aren't on straight. Hmmmm.... Either this means that manufacturing standards are low enough that you probably wouldn't notice this type of hoaxing, or it means that someone has already done it to my Rubix cube and I still haven't noticed.
" This is a prime example of a "Post Hoc" logical fallacy, " And you got all this from this fluff article? Or have you read their research? It's hard to tell from such a sort article, but It looks to me that they're using complex computer models to make these claims. You could argue that the computer models are flawed, but I don't see how you get Post Hoc reasoning out of this.
""the last 500 years". So... what happened 500 years ago?" Galileo invented the thermometer.
This will help against accidental foul-ups. But why couldn't bad blocks be manufactured specificaly to pass the CRC?
The odds of a bad block 'accidentaly' passing a CRC test is phenominaly low, so it's great for verifying that nothing has gone wrong with the software. But if someone was intentionaly trying to beat the CRC check, why couldn't they?
You could create an EVIL bittorrent client that injects bad blocksinto the network!
This is the whole problem. Flawed election, and then everyone says "Well, Thank goodness that's over. We can stop thinking about it." Then they're all completely suprised when it happens four years later.
"But if the economy continues to improve over the next 4 years and the war in Iraq is concluded the Democrats major issues will have gone away." If everything is better then all is well. But, I think you'll find Democrats having a hard time beliving that America's troops will be back home in four years and our economy will be back on it's feet. (Remember National Debt == Future Taxes) But if it does happen, if things do get better, if the national debt goes down, if we got back the freedoms we lost right after 9/11, and if we bring our troops home (alive), all over the next four years, are you suggesting the democrats in general will be unhappy?
Don't be silly. If Bush and the Republican congress can really make this country a better place, then Yay! Four more years! We just don't think he can do it. He certainly didn't with his first four.
We're not voting for prom queen here. We're voteing for who we think can make a diference.
I don't think I said what you think I said. Or if I did, then I don't think you said what you think you said, because your comment doesn't seem to follow mine.
I said that a large number of people working to keep a single person electrified is unfair. When I said "large" I meant only relative to the people being provided with power. In that example "large" could have meant "three".
The fine details as to how many employees is "fair" was outside the scope of my post, so long as it was less than the number of ultimate customers.
In the real world, few industries have more employees than customers. Certainly not a common service like the electrical company.
Bah. You're right. The original post did not say exactly what I remembered it said. I suppose with the word "many" in there we could both be right about "many" hunters. And he does sort of qualify his statement as being based on personal experience.
"Maybe you can wade through the study if you're curious." Heh. This is far more information than I'm interested in, but you're probably right about the demographic split. Some interesting statistics in here though. My favorite is : 24% of hunters used a Bow and Arrow and 16% used a "Muzzleloader or other primitive firearm". That's pretty neat.
"You could pay them to ride a bicycle instead. It really makes no difference. " It makes a major difference. If a person is riding a bike to power my computer he is working for me and me alone. This is not a fair or even economic model because I would need huge teams of people on bikes to power my house. To keep a single person in luxury a large number of people would be needed. Because of this imbalance, only a small number of privileged people would have electricity even though a large number of people worked for that electricity.
Consider the local incinerator. They provide power for this entire region. The number of people who can power their entire homes far exceeds the number of people actually required to create that power. This is a far better model because large numbers of people get electricity including those who produced it.
Now, I suppose the next step in your little philosophy is to argue that I could be personally down there shoveling trash into the burner. And I certainly could. But where would I get my food? I don't have the time or stamina for a full time job at the power plant and a full time job on the farm. In addition I'd also need to start working at the Water Works, the oil company, and the waste water treatment plant, and at some point I'd need to learn carpentry so I could build a house. In addition to those necessities, I'd probably want to get part-time jobs at the Phone Company, The Cable company, The Local Newspaper, the local Dr Pepper bottling plant, etc,etc. I can tell you that if I followed your philosophy I'd have an extremely busy life.
I like our current system better than both the slave system where people hire large numbers of people for their own personal use, or your system where everyone does everything themselves. Namely, individual services are provided by a relatively small number of people and offered to a large number of people. This allows everyone to enjoy the benefit of services that they could not personally provide. With the introduction of currency we can keep the whole system at least roughly fair.
Now don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to admit that our current Capitalist system is not perfect and it has many problems, but it is a major step up from rich people hiring large sets of slaves and everyone else being screwed.
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Not only that, on any given airplane only a certain percantage of people on the plane will be seated near someone they want to talk to. With telephones, a much higher percentage of people will be able to connect to someone with which to engage in mindless chatter.
If China had a sense of humor they'd put their flag right next to the American one ... only slightly higher.
We keep a spare sun under the Atlantic ocean.
You know, just in case.
It looks like the subs surface to communicate and recharge.
The "Lego Thing" is that you have a limited set of basic, standardized componants. Everyone's legos are the same but they can be used to make a nearly infinite set of creations. And with a little knowledge of good engineering practices you can create suprisingly solid constructions.
It combines the thrill of making something out of the smallest possible componants that you get from writing a program in assembly with the child-like simplicity of the building material. You have a system of construction that even the smallest child can use that is also capable of some rather complex creations.
That's the ideal anyway, in practice there are a good number of specialised componants. (Like the Mindstorms brick.)
"There is no way that keeps time accurately or is even remotely reliable. "
Why not? Reliable you could debate, but if he can get the gear-ratio correct why wouldn't it be accurate? Properly adjusted, Pendulums are accurate no matter what you make them out of. Are you suggesting the gears will skip or break? Lego gears certainly aren't the strongest gears on the planet but they'll take more than this clock with throw at them in normal opperation.
Heck, with the quality of many consumer goods nowadays there are probably store-bought pendulum clocks with crappier gears than that.
According to the company, Lego is not a noun and therefore has no plural. The correct phrase (according to them) is "Lego Brick".
That's his point.
"you learn a lot from the Gentoo installation."
... I do know how to drive a car. What's your point?
Yea, if you're a beginner.
But, I think he's talking about installing Gentoo over an existing Linux install. Many machines with existing Linux installations are operated by people who already know how to use Linux.
For that matter, many brand new Linux machines are operated by people who already know how to use Linux.
"It's like dropping you in a car going 50 mph, if you had learned how to drive the car earlier, you could save yourself a whole lot of trouble."
But
I'll bet that the labels on most Rubix Cubes are easily removable.
If you swap the labels on two pieces it could make it unsolvable.
I'm looking at my Rubix Cube now and I'm noticing that a couple of the labels aren't on straight. Hmmmm....
Either this means that manufacturing standards are low enough that you probably wouldn't notice this type of hoaxing, or it means that someone has already done it to my Rubix cube and I still haven't noticed.
So the rest of the world sees us as close minded and bigoted because the rest of the world is too stupid to recognise satire?
Oh good. We thought it was something we'd done.
"500 years ago - when the temperatures were exactly the same as they were in 2003 according to this information"
According to what information?
" This is a prime example of a "Post Hoc" logical fallacy, "
And you got all this from this fluff article? Or have you read their research?
It's hard to tell from such a sort article, but It looks to me that they're using complex computer models to make these claims. You could argue that the computer models are flawed, but I don't see how you get Post Hoc reasoning out of this.
""the last 500 years". So... what happened 500 years ago?"
Galileo invented the thermometer.
You could have a digital clock that uses roman numerals.
The point is that the digits change to show the time. (As opposed to a analog clock where the hands move and numbers are just for reference.)
This will help against accidental foul-ups. But why couldn't bad blocks be manufactured specificaly to pass the CRC?
The odds of a bad block 'accidentaly' passing a CRC test is phenominaly low, so it's great for verifying that nothing has gone wrong with the software.
But if someone was intentionaly trying to beat the CRC check, why couldn't they?
You could create an EVIL bittorrent client that injects bad blocksinto the network!
I hope the army has the foresight to disable friendly damage and to enable infinite ammo.
You don't even have to jam the signal. I hear if you toss a hat on their plunger it'll completely neutralize them.
He just said he told the nephew to spell check his resume. The nephew didn't.
You expect him to put his own reputation in peril and recommend someone for a job who can't follow simple instructions?
Fewer of 'ours' if we do.
This is the whole problem. Flawed election, and then everyone says "Well, Thank goodness that's over. We can stop thinking about it." Then they're all completely suprised when it happens four years later.
"But if the economy continues to improve over the next 4 years and the war in Iraq is concluded the Democrats major issues will have gone away."
If everything is better then all is well.
But, I think you'll find Democrats having a hard time beliving that America's troops will be back home in four years and our economy will be back on it's feet. (Remember National Debt == Future Taxes) But if it does happen, if things do get better, if the national debt goes down, if we got back the freedoms we lost right after 9/11, and if we bring our troops home (alive), all over the next four years, are you suggesting the democrats in general will be unhappy?
Don't be silly. If Bush and the Republican congress can really make this country a better place, then Yay! Four more years! We just don't think he can do it. He certainly didn't with his first four.
We're not voting for prom queen here. We're voteing for who we think can make a diference.
It should.
I don't think I said what you think I said. Or if I did, then I don't think you said what you think you said, because your comment doesn't seem to follow mine.
I said that a large number of people working to keep a single person electrified is unfair. When I said "large" I meant only relative to the people being provided with power. In that example "large" could have meant "three".
The fine details as to how many employees is "fair" was outside the scope of my post, so long as it was less than the number of ultimate customers.
In the real world, few industries have more employees than customers. Certainly not a common service like the electrical company.
Bah. You're right. The original post did not say exactly what I remembered it said. I suppose with the word "many" in there we could both be right about "many" hunters. And he does sort of qualify his statement as being based on personal experience.
"Maybe you can wade through the study if you're curious."
Heh. This is far more information than I'm interested in, but you're probably right about the demographic split.
Some interesting statistics in here though. My favorite is : 24% of hunters used a Bow and Arrow and 16% used a "Muzzleloader or other primitive firearm". That's pretty neat.
"You could pay them to ride a bicycle instead. It really makes no difference. "
,etc. I can tell you that if I followed your philosophy I'd have an extremely busy life.
It makes a major difference. If a person is riding a bike to power my computer he is working for me and me alone. This is not a fair or even economic model because I would need huge teams of people on bikes to power my house. To keep a single person in luxury a large number of people would be needed. Because of this imbalance, only a small number of privileged people would have electricity even though a large number of people worked for that electricity.
Consider the local incinerator. They provide power for this entire region. The number of people who can power their entire homes far exceeds the number of people actually required to create that power. This is a far better model because large numbers of people get electricity including those who produced it.
Now, I suppose the next step in your little philosophy is to argue that I could be personally down there shoveling trash into the burner. And I certainly could. But where would I get my food? I don't have the time or stamina for a full time job at the power plant and a full time job on the farm. In addition I'd also need to start working at the Water Works, the oil company, and the waste water treatment plant, and at some point I'd need to learn carpentry so I could build a house.
In addition to those necessities, I'd probably want to get part-time jobs at the Phone Company, The Cable company, The Local Newspaper, the local Dr Pepper bottling plant, etc
I like our current system better than both the slave system where people hire large numbers of people for their own personal use, or your system where everyone does everything themselves. Namely, individual services are provided by a relatively small number of people and offered to a large number of people. This allows everyone to enjoy the benefit of services that they could not personally provide. With the introduction of currency we can keep the whole system at least roughly fair.
Now don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to admit that our current Capitalist system is not perfect and it has many problems, but it is a major step up from rich people hiring large sets of slaves and everyone else being screwed.
The Law of Unintended Consequences can be applied to argue against all future scientific research ever.
It's just a modern version of that scientist at the end of B monster movies who says "Well, I guess there are some things Man wasn't meant to know."
400% profit? Can you elaborate please?
400% of what? The purchase price?