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How does the fact that Canada is a global leader in music sales imply that they are not a "pirate nation"? Has any credible study shown that one would expect that to be the case? The studies and surveys that come to mind all indicate that those who pirate the most media also spend the most...
As far as household objects go, a mylar emergency blanket might do the job. Your best bet is to stick with commercially rated filters... here's an interesting article from the World Health Organization about safely viewing the sun.
...apparently one that has fallen out of fashion. Most functional adults interact with people who are less 'intelligent' than them- both in terms of having more knowledge and being more creative/insightful. That shouldn't be a barrier to empathy or communication. It is sheer arrogance when someone who is more knowledgeable or more capable at a particular task than someone else allows that to get in the way of caring about others and forming social relationships. I decided to comment on this story rather than moderate because so many of the commenters here seem to be wallowing in their own misery, lamenting about how smart they are and how lonely they are as a result.
Sure, those at the top.01% of whatever intelligence scale you choose to measure by have a different experience of things. Their skills may allow for a level of self sufficiency but "no man is an island" still applies, and if people isolate themselves from others then it is easy to fall into self-destructive patterns. With some mental disorders there is a very fine line between learned/self-induced behaviors and biological causes... I'm sure someone will throw up a snarky [citation needed] reply, but working to keep oneself involved with a community and investing the time and effort to develop genuine friendships can do a lot to ease the "burden" of intelligence.
If I had any say, I'd flip education and military budget around, but then we'd have to deal with a soaring unemployment rate, 'cause soldiers can't easily be turned into teachers...
Visible firearms do cause a disturbance, and it makes perfect sense that they can make an officer feel uncomfortable, because they are an existential threat to the officer
I think it comes down to a lack of courage. The reason people who open carry might be treated differently than people who don't is fear. Courage is not a trait that is particularly valued in the law enforcement community, and it's becoming less valued in the military as we change the way we fight wars. It's *hard* not to respond with aggression when you feel threatened, and due to the nature of most interactions cops have with the public they do feel threatened- whether or not it's justified by the particular open-carrying person they are interacting with.
It may make sense that openly worn weapons can make an officer feel uncomfortable, but when that officer responds by breaking the law and disregarding someone's rights the cop is in the wrong.
To be fair, in most places there are options for satellite. Many rural locations also have small-business ISPs that can set up a LOS shot. Not always economical, but definite alternatives to the nationwide ISPs.
Proof that we're living in The Future. Ghost in the Shell fans will recognize the Japanese Miracle in action. The '30s should be an interesting decade...
http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crossover
I came across a similar project last month. It has been active for about a year now and features the original mario levels that you can play through with any of several other old NES characters. Maybe Nintendo is actually playing nice with the fan community?
I started to write a comment about being glad that Murdoch is finally getting what's coming to him... then I realized that I didn't know why I felt that way. I have a generally negative opinion of him... but all that comes to mind when I think of him is a caricature assembled from various stories I've come. I gather that he's been consolidating several media markets into near-monopolies and there's controversy about him forcing editorial opinions onto his reporters... but is he the guy who single-handedly broke the news business, or just a businessman who got in over his head with yellow journalism?
Oh my!
Armed with a reliable source like a three year old article from pimpinturtle and *dozens* of second and third hand stories, the ignorant masses can no longer ignore the truth! Cast off your shackles! Rise up against your oppressors! Cast down the corporate overlords of the New World Order! Free yourselves from the Black Iron Prison!
Yet a veteran gets his leg blown off, and no one makes a fuss
Fussing wouldn't help things. Instead we provide top-of-the-line prosthetics, years of psychological, physical, and occupational therapy, additional consideration for promotion, a medical retirement plan, and a (admittedly not as large as it could be) and lump sum payment.
It is heart-wrenching when the system fails veterans who have been hurt, but the "bad press" can make people forget that the support is there and the failures are the exception, not the rule.
Actually, any substance with a suitably high osmotic pressure would work- you don't need to buy more of their powder. I've heard of people using maple syrup or generic electrolyte mix.
Forward osmosis has been used for years and will filter out the stuff you mention. It's the same principle that a home or industrial osmotic water filter (reverse osmosis) would use, except that the pressure comes from the 'charged' liquid on one side (the stuff that makes it taste like a sports drink) instead of from the water being forced against the membrane. You can buy a system like this commercially from HTI (http://www.htiwater.com/technology/forward_osmosis/index.html). Some people like it for hiking, but from what I've heard it's more suited to emergency water production on lifeboats.
These graduate students are obviously trying to muscle in on the US military's contract for BCGs! They're the only frames I've seen that are ugly enough to give the 'Birth Control Glasses' a run for their money.
I had a good experience with http://www.dreamhost.com/ a few years ago. Employee owned company with good prices, good service, and active forums that DreamHost's employee's participated in regularly.
The summary was inaccurate and TFA was fairly political. It took a quote about the cost of doing business in remote areas then labelled all of the $20B infrastructure costs as air conditioning. The military is very, very aware of the costs of fuel convoys and bad insulation, and do what they can to fix it.
Just like any new system, alternative energy products take a while to acquire, test, and push out to troops in the field. Several posts in this story write about the lack of alternative energy... it definitely is used wherever practical, but the mission and the logistical considerations don't often make it practical.
Aside from the generic solar pannels you see powering various sensors and stuff installed on base, http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/military-products/military-products.php has several products they've been making for the military. I know the 60W folding solar pannels have been used by patrols in Afghanistan and were well-received; I haven't seen the shelters in use, but I can definitely think of a few places they would be handy.
I played through FFIV entirely too many times. When/if you revisit Yang, you can get a spoon. You can throw the spoon for a ridiculous amount of damage, the Excalibre sword also throws for max damage. That was about the most obscure trivia I could come up with off the top of my head.
Nice job with the gunner answer! I'm an Air Force guy so it's a fact I've come across a few times a few times. The aircrews in the 8th AF suffered very high casualties during the strategic bombing raids, and the belly gunners had the worst of it. I've heard that the German U-boat crews had the highest casualty rates overall in the war, but I haven't come across a reliable statistic about them.
I had several obscure questions come to mind, but every time I tested them against a few google queries they were all answered fairly quickly. Here are the ones that seem at least somewhat tough to google:
In FF2 (FF4 in Japan), which weapons could Edge throw for maximum damage?
In WW2, what was (statistically) the most dangerous job in the American military?
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I don't understand the headline.
How does the fact that Canada is a global leader in music sales imply that they are not a "pirate nation"? Has any credible study shown that one would expect that to be the case? The studies and surveys that come to mind all indicate that those who pirate the most media also spend the most...
As far as household objects go, a mylar emergency blanket might do the job. Your best bet is to stick with commercially rated filters... here's an interesting article from the World Health Organization about safely viewing the sun.
Humility, it's a virtue.
...apparently one that has fallen out of fashion. Most functional adults interact with people who are less 'intelligent' than them- both in terms of having more knowledge and being more creative/insightful. That shouldn't be a barrier to empathy or communication. It is sheer arrogance when someone who is more knowledgeable or more capable at a particular task than someone else allows that to get in the way of caring about others and forming social relationships. I decided to comment on this story rather than moderate because so many of the commenters here seem to be wallowing in their own misery, lamenting about how smart they are and how lonely they are as a result.
.01% of whatever intelligence scale you choose to measure by have a different experience of things. Their skills may allow for a level of self sufficiency but "no man is an island" still applies, and if people isolate themselves from others then it is easy to fall into self-destructive patterns. With some mental disorders there is a very fine line between learned/self-induced behaviors and biological causes... I'm sure someone will throw up a snarky [citation needed] reply, but working to keep oneself involved with a community and investing the time and effort to develop genuine friendships can do a lot to ease the "burden" of intelligence.
Sure, those at the top
The US Department of Education disagrees with you.
That one made my toes curl.
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
I think it comes down to a lack of courage. The reason people who open carry might be treated differently than people who don't is fear. Courage is not a trait that is particularly valued in the law enforcement community, and it's becoming less valued in the military as we change the way we fight wars. It's *hard* not to respond with aggression when you feel threatened, and due to the nature of most interactions cops have with the public they do feel threatened- whether or not it's justified by the particular open-carrying person they are interacting with.
It may make sense that openly worn weapons can make an officer feel uncomfortable, but when that officer responds by breaking the law and disregarding someone's rights the cop is in the wrong.
To be fair, in most places there are options for satellite. Many rural locations also have small-business ISPs that can set up a LOS shot. Not always economical, but definite alternatives to the nationwide ISPs.
Here, let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+facebook+track+you
Short answer: mostly by setting cookies in your browser, but with several other tricks as well.
Proof that we're living in The Future. Ghost in the Shell fans will recognize the Japanese Miracle in action. The '30s should be an interesting decade...
Plus my penis is 21 feet long... (/thread)
Are you, perchance, a barnacle?
http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crossover I came across a similar project last month. It has been active for about a year now and features the original mario levels that you can play through with any of several other old NES characters. Maybe Nintendo is actually playing nice with the fan community?
Replying to undo accidental moderation... I meant to mark as informative.
Thank you! Your link and the AC's link below were exactly the sort of information I was looking for to fill in the gaps.
I started to write a comment about being glad that Murdoch is finally getting what's coming to him... then I realized that I didn't know why I felt that way. I have a generally negative opinion of him... but all that comes to mind when I think of him is a caricature assembled from various stories I've come. I gather that he's been consolidating several media markets into near-monopolies and there's controversy about him forcing editorial opinions onto his reporters... but is he the guy who single-handedly broke the news business, or just a businessman who got in over his head with yellow journalism?
...yes I am a messiah like it or lump it...
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Oh my! Armed with a reliable source like a three year old article from pimpinturtle and *dozens* of second and third hand stories, the ignorant masses can no longer ignore the truth! Cast off your shackles! Rise up against your oppressors! Cast down the corporate overlords of the New World Order! Free yourselves from the Black Iron Prison!
Yet a veteran gets his leg blown off, and no one makes a fuss
Fussing wouldn't help things. Instead we provide top-of-the-line prosthetics, years of psychological, physical, and occupational therapy, additional consideration for promotion, a medical retirement plan, and a (admittedly not as large as it could be) and lump sum payment. It is heart-wrenching when the system fails veterans who have been hurt, but the "bad press" can make people forget that the support is there and the failures are the exception, not the rule.
Actually, any substance with a suitably high osmotic pressure would work- you don't need to buy more of their powder. I've heard of people using maple syrup or generic electrolyte mix.
Forward osmosis has been used for years and will filter out the stuff you mention. It's the same principle that a home or industrial osmotic water filter (reverse osmosis) would use, except that the pressure comes from the 'charged' liquid on one side (the stuff that makes it taste like a sports drink) instead of from the water being forced against the membrane. You can buy a system like this commercially from HTI (http://www.htiwater.com/technology/forward_osmosis/index.html). Some people like it for hiking, but from what I've heard it's more suited to emergency water production on lifeboats.
These graduate students are obviously trying to muscle in on the US military's contract for BCGs! They're the only frames I've seen that are ugly enough to give the 'Birth Control Glasses' a run for their money.
I had a good experience with http://www.dreamhost.com/ a few years ago. Employee owned company with good prices, good service, and active forums that DreamHost's employee's participated in regularly.
The summary was inaccurate and TFA was fairly political. It took a quote about the cost of doing business in remote areas then labelled all of the $20B infrastructure costs as air conditioning. The military is very, very aware of the costs of fuel convoys and bad insulation, and do what they can to fix it. Just like any new system, alternative energy products take a while to acquire, test, and push out to troops in the field. Several posts in this story write about the lack of alternative energy... it definitely is used wherever practical, but the mission and the logistical considerations don't often make it practical. Aside from the generic solar pannels you see powering various sensors and stuff installed on base, http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/military-products/military-products.php has several products they've been making for the military. I know the 60W folding solar pannels have been used by patrols in Afghanistan and were well-received; I haven't seen the shelters in use, but I can definitely think of a few places they would be handy.
I played through FFIV entirely too many times. When/if you revisit Yang, you can get a spoon. You can throw the spoon for a ridiculous amount of damage, the Excalibre sword also throws for max damage. That was about the most obscure trivia I could come up with off the top of my head.
Nice job with the gunner answer! I'm an Air Force guy so it's a fact I've come across a few times a few times. The aircrews in the 8th AF suffered very high casualties during the strategic bombing raids, and the belly gunners had the worst of it. I've heard that the German U-boat crews had the highest casualty rates overall in the war, but I haven't come across a reliable statistic about them.
Sure, I'm game.
I had several obscure questions come to mind, but every time I tested them against a few google queries they were all answered fairly quickly. Here are the ones that seem at least somewhat tough to google:
In FF2 (FF4 in Japan), which weapons could Edge throw for maximum damage?
In WW2, what was (statistically) the most dangerous job in the American military?