I think the "warm day in the shade" advice is what's most useful here. The newspaper advice is BAD, though, because they don't really print newspapers worth a crap and they leave ink on your windshield. At least, any newspaper I can get my hands on does. I usually use paper towels because they are absorbent and because all my cotton rags rapidly end up greasy and thus utterly unsuitable for windshield cleaning... because I don't just clean, I fix stuff too.
I had a friend many years ago who worked construction. He said that they always used newspaper to clean the windows because it did not leave dust. I have tried this and found it to be true, but I always wondered about the ink. Still, it seemed to work and any ink residue was not noticeable, but the lack of lint most definitely was.
"This looks interesting" is not a good reason to fund something in this economy.
No, we have to make sure that the financial sector is allowed to loot large amounts of tax-free cash from the economy. That is the purpose of society after all.
If the government gets rid of DST for the health benefits of a few then they should be required to make new laws for other causes of stress too: How about doing federal taxes, job interviews, coming home to the wife after a sneak trip to a strip club, traffic jams, law suits, the bogyman, XMAS shopping, public speaking, jock itch, earthquakes, tornadoes, ice storms and the list could go on forever. More so for some and less for others. Maybe our government should not try to protect us from all stresses in life?
I think the problem here is that the government is causing the stress and it is being suggested that they just stop.
A person can try to add a safeguard by handing the reins over to another person, like is done with prescriptions for therapeutic drugs. But that other person's judgment is almost unavoidably colored by their own self interest.
No, it is the bane of any kind of literature. MW implies that all the choices made by the characters are meaningless because another version of them in another universe makes the opposite choice. This was one of the things that drove me insane trying to read Phillip Pullman...
This doesn't refute Intelligent Design, it just suggests that the Designer isn't as Intelligent as He's cracked up to be.
A positive CC yields a universe susceptible to the Big Rip. Maybe another design requirement was that the universe have an obvious end so the creatures in it were forced to consider their own mortality instead of attempting some sort of asymptotic immortality (e.g. Gregory Benford's "Galactic Center" novels.)
We somehow today equate winning a war with winning over the people and making them love us.
Well, isn't that the point? I mean, why are we in Afghanistan? Because many of the people there hated us and blew up some buildings. So we decided to kill a bunch of the people who hate us and leave only the people who love us, and make them love us more because we've invaded their country.
(I have to admit, it does sound pretty stupid when you put it like that.)
"Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly." - Dogbert
Even better: A Sony Walkman can record and play music in realtime, fast-forward and rewind, and store an hour's worth of music. These tasks cannot be done by the human brain, therefore a Sony Walkman has more power than the human brain.
I don't know about you, but my brain can store a lot more than an hour's worth of music and play it back in real time. Some of which (mostly 70s pop) I dearly wish I could forget!
It has nothing to do with BP being foreign. I suspect that most Americans think BP is an American company (I know at least one slashdotter wanted Congress to confiscate all of BP's assets).
Even the idea that a company the size of BP has a "nationality" is pretty silly.
Maybe there's something to those chemtrails after all, as the populace is handing the country over to a few elite, with no fight whatsoever. John Carpenter's "They Live" is starting to look like a documentary. Where's the Hoffman lenses when you need them?
Let people get hungry and you'll see that violence we're talking about here.
...which is why public assistance will never go away. It is too risky for the Powers That Be to have large herds of hungry animals running about with opposable thumbs.
Nice, but my wife would kill me if I used something that would wake her too when I have to get up.
We use alarms for deaf people with a vibrator element that's put under the mattress cover, so only 1 person wakes up and not everybody else in the room/house. Best thing I ever had.
Are you sure that is why you got buy in from your wife?
And part of the reason I don't trust private sector space exploration at this stage of space exploration..
Any private launch company who killed its passengers one time in fifty would be out of business very fast. As far as I remember Branson is planning over a hundred test flights before putting passengers on SS2.
This seems to imply that NASA did little to no testing of the Shuttle before putting humans aboard. This is simply not true. I once saw a list of all the pre flight testing that was done and it was quite substantial.
I'd also like to know how a private company can get the MTBF up so high in such a dangerous environment without either killing customers or burning through an obscene amount of cash.
Boeing, Arianespace and various other companies launch things into orbit on a regular basis. Putting a capsule on top is easy, finding people willing to pay for it is the hard part.
Last I checked they are putting payloads into orbit, not humans. And what is the success rate with these less complex payloads?
How does this explanation play with Von Neumann's view that you can't have entropy in a classical universe? I think his point was that there is no way to mathematically describe the "few ordered arrangements [that] are clearly distinguishable" because the classical universe is deterministic. In his quantum description of entropy, though, I believe he argues that waveform collapse changes the information level of the system and produces entropy. This would seem to suggest that the arrow of time is actually connected to waveform collapse and not to a statistical descriptions of the states that we prefer to use for work extraction. The reason I asked the original question was because this seems like an interesting connection (and I freely admit my knowledge of the subject is quite spotty).
Simple better nutrition moves puberty a few years it's true but unless you're very old that wouldn't be an issue.
This needs a cite. The canonical counterexample is Victorian England where the nutrition level was about the same as today among the upper classes and yet there was no corresponding drop in the age of menarche.
The evidence for an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter has been growing for some time now (cosmological observations, recent muon experiments and now this). It used to be said that an antiparticle was a particle travelling backwards in time. So how does these findings affect our understanding of the asymmetry of time?
That said, hell yes I would love superpowers, and yes, I would want to do nothing but good. The problem is the other damage, and resisting the temptation of all the Lois Lane types throwing their bodies at you. You would have super babies all over the planet.
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Read some Karl Popper, then add in a dash of Thomas Kuhn and a soupcon of Stephen Toulmin for good measure. The post-modernist take on all of this starts with Lakatos and Musgrave.
Then go read some Feyerabend...
I think the "warm day in the shade" advice is what's most useful here. The newspaper advice is BAD, though, because they don't really print newspapers worth a crap and they leave ink on your windshield. At least, any newspaper I can get my hands on does. I usually use paper towels because they are absorbent and because all my cotton rags rapidly end up greasy and thus utterly unsuitable for windshield cleaning... because I don't just clean, I fix stuff too.
I had a friend many years ago who worked construction. He said that they always used newspaper to clean the windows because it did not leave dust. I have tried this and found it to be true, but I always wondered about the ink. Still, it seemed to work and any ink residue was not noticeable, but the lack of lint most definitely was.
"This looks interesting" is not a good reason to fund something in this economy.
No, we have to make sure that the financial sector is allowed to loot large amounts of tax-free cash from the economy. That is the purpose of society after all.
If the government gets rid of DST for the health benefits of a few then they should be required to make new laws for other causes of stress too: How about doing federal taxes, job interviews, coming home to the wife after a sneak trip to a strip club, traffic jams, law suits, the bogyman, XMAS shopping, public speaking, jock itch, earthquakes, tornadoes, ice storms and the list could go on forever. More so for some and less for others. Maybe our government should not try to protect us from all stresses in life?
I think the problem here is that the government is causing the stress and it is being suggested that they just stop.
Well, given the definition of matter and antimatter, I guess you would need a medium-to-high-rise load of antimatter to take care of the matter stuff.
Yeah just like you would need a similar load of nitro to take it down...
Or you could just put it somewhere structural in the basement.
Mozart though was know to have been old and ill.
Ill, yes, but old? He was 35 when he died. Which led Tom Leherer to quip
It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
It is pretty well known that Mr. Gates is on the spectrum, which makes his condemnation of this particular bit of lunacy even more powerful.
A person can try to add a safeguard by handing the reins over to another person, like is done with prescriptions for therapeutic drugs. But that other person's judgment is almost unavoidably colored by their own self interest.
Indeed.
The manyworlds thing is a boon for sci-fi...
No, it is the bane of any kind of literature. MW implies that all the choices made by the characters are meaningless because another version of them in another universe makes the opposite choice. This was one of the things that drove me insane trying to read Phillip Pullman...
Linguam romanae scio. Latina difficila non est; ego in annis tribus didici.
Uh... I know the Roman language. Latin is not difficult; I learned it in three years.
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This doesn't refute Intelligent Design, it just suggests that the Designer isn't as Intelligent as He's cracked up to be.
A positive CC yields a universe susceptible to the Big Rip. Maybe another design requirement was that the universe have an obvious end so the creatures in it were forced to consider their own mortality instead of attempting some sort of asymptotic immortality (e.g. Gregory Benford's "Galactic Center" novels.)
I just assumed Sarah Palin was involved ;-)
We somehow today equate winning a war with winning over the people and making them love us.
Well, isn't that the point? I mean, why are we in Afghanistan? Because many of the people there hated us and blew up some buildings. So we decided to kill a bunch of the people who hate us and leave only the people who love us, and make them love us more because we've invaded their country.
(I have to admit, it does sound pretty stupid when you put it like that.)
"Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly." - Dogbert
Even better: A Sony Walkman can record and play music in realtime, fast-forward and rewind, and store an hour's worth of music. These tasks cannot be done by the human brain, therefore a Sony Walkman has more power than the human brain.
I don't know about you, but my brain can store a lot more than an hour's worth of music and play it back in real time. Some of which (mostly 70s pop) I dearly wish I could forget!
Buckaroo Banzai
Note to mods: this is a movie character... Not a bad choice, though ;-)
It has nothing to do with BP being foreign. I suspect that most Americans think BP is an American company (I know at least one slashdotter wanted Congress to confiscate all of BP's assets).
Even the idea that a company the size of BP has a "nationality" is pretty silly.
Maybe there's something to those chemtrails after all, as the populace is handing the country over to a few elite, with no fight whatsoever. John Carpenter's "They Live" is starting to look like a documentary. Where's the Hoffman lenses when you need them?
Let people get hungry and you'll see that violence we're talking about here.
...which is why public assistance will never go away. It is too risky for the Powers That Be to have large herds of hungry animals running about with opposable thumbs.
Nice, but my wife would kill me if I used something that would wake her too when I have to get up.
We use alarms for deaf people with a vibrator element that's put under the mattress cover, so only 1 person wakes up and not everybody else in the room/house.
Best thing I ever had.
Are you sure that is why you got buy in from your wife?
And part of the reason I don't trust private sector space exploration at this stage of space exploration..
Any private launch company who killed its passengers one time in fifty would be out of business very fast. As far as I remember Branson is planning over a hundred test flights before putting passengers on SS2.
This seems to imply that NASA did little to no testing of the Shuttle before putting humans aboard. This is simply not true. I once saw a list of all the pre flight testing that was done and it was quite substantial.
I'd also like to know how a private company can get the MTBF up so high in such a dangerous environment without either killing customers or burning through an obscene amount of cash.
can't even get INTO orbit.
So your comment is out of order.
Boeing, Arianespace and various other companies launch things into orbit on a regular basis. Putting a capsule on top is easy, finding people willing to pay for it is the hard part.
Last I checked they are putting payloads into orbit, not humans. And what is the success rate with these less complex payloads?
How does this explanation play with Von Neumann's view that you can't have entropy in a classical universe? I think his point was that there is no way to mathematically describe the "few ordered arrangements [that] are clearly distinguishable" because the classical universe is deterministic. In his quantum description of entropy, though, I believe he argues that waveform collapse changes the information level of the system and produces entropy. This would seem to suggest that the arrow of time is actually connected to waveform collapse and not to a statistical descriptions of the states that we prefer to use for work extraction. The reason I asked the original question was because this seems like an interesting connection (and I freely admit my knowledge of the subject is quite spotty).
Simple better nutrition moves puberty a few years it's true but unless you're very old that wouldn't be an issue.
This needs a cite. The canonical counterexample is Victorian England where the nutrition level was about the same as today among the upper classes and yet there was no corresponding drop in the age of menarche.
The evidence for an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter has been growing for some time now (cosmological observations, recent muon experiments and now this). It used to be said that an antiparticle was a particle travelling backwards in time. So how does these findings affect our understanding of the asymmetry of time?
That, sir, is the most beautiful piece of abuse I have read in a long time. Not to mention well deserved. I salute you.
That said, hell yes I would love superpowers, and yes, I would want to do nothing but good. The problem is the other damage, and resisting the temptation of all the Lois Lane types throwing their bodies at you. You would have super babies all over the planet.
Or not!