I'm always confused by this... moobs are _always_ bad, and they're justboobs on a man. If people like boobs so much, there are probably plenty of candidates with them on this site.
We've been making artificial boobs for decades, anyway.
The Falklands is probably the last war that had any ounce of patriotism to it but that was as much about protecting our global influence, as much about protecting access to any resources down there, and as much about doing what was right for the people of the Falklands who are themselves British citizens.
If the UK had have given up the Falklands, everything would have been fair game for foreign powers (not that we have much left). The UK is _not_ colonialist now... the Falklands are possibly important politically, but not otherwise. Self determination is important.
I used to deliver tyres to the airport destined for the Falklands... all 4*4, big tyres. Ok, not relevant.
I grew up in Oman until I was 9, in an English school. The only song I remember from there was "happy birthday" in dutch (it was a 1/2 English/Dutch school). There was no patriotism. Charles and Diana did visit Oman once, but the event was a farce. The timing was off, so there were hundreds of kids waiting for a couple of hours in 40C degree heat for the car to go past... That was fun.
My secondary English school was CRGS. This is about as traditional a school as you can get in the UK. Latin was compulsory until you were 14, for example. There was _no_ mention of patriotism, at all. I don't remember ever singing the national anthem. We had Christianity foisted upon us to some degree... but only really in singing songs, and I didn't mind that (I'm an atheist now, but I have an affinity with the CoE, this is possibly its cause). Patriotism was seen as limiting. We were men of the world.
The only time you ever sing the national anthem in England is at football matches. That is to say, England football matches. And only when things are getting boring. It is a shit song, after all. Club competitions never get the anthem.
Well... the Independent is the newspaper I usually read... here's how they covered the royal christening.
For those who don't know about the UK press, the Independent is generally a centrist broadsheet... perhaps a little left wing, a little libertarian. It's not radical.
Most people are trained to be "patriotic" to whatever country they live in from a young age.
We are taught the pledge of allegiance in class for just this reason.
No... No, we are not. No one is trained to be patriotic in England. Seriously. There is no patriotism at all in schools, no proudness of what the UK has achieved. This is a US phenomenon.
I personally love my country... but that has nothing to do with education, and the bits I love are probably the bits someone else who loves the UK hates. That's part of what I love about my country.
Most people learn about how important the UK is now (7th biggest economy in the world) and was (largest empire of all time) after they have left school.
To qualify for the protections of the Geneva Conventions you have to wage war lawfully, it is part of the enforcement mechanism of the treaty. Al Qaida doesn't do so. They are unlawful combatants. They could still be charged with war crimes. And no, it isn't a legal fallacy.
Many people who have been held as unlawful combatants have been proven innocent. Holding _anyone_ in this way means that you will have some innocent people in there. People who have nothing to do with any terrorist organisation. Some of these people have not waged war at all, let alone illegally.
If you're happy with innocent people's rights being ignored, so be it.
Also, "An unlawful combatant who is not a national of a neutral State, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent State, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention so that he must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial"".
Personally I don't think just being locked up for years on end qualifies.
Everyone knows he deserved to die is the anti-judicial refrain. I personally am happy he is dead, but there was no justice involved. The government killing people and imprisoning people without a fair and open trial is fucking immoral, no matter what anyone says.
This is the point I was trying to make. For most cars, traveling at 50mph or so is the most efficient. I've not actually seen any studies about acceleration and fuel economy over a certain distance, but there is obviously a most efficient way to travel a set distance, and obviously accelerating very very slowly is not it, because you're spending too much time at an inefficient speed.
I'm guessing absolutely flooring it and getting to 50mph as quickly as possible is probably not the most efficient, either... but I am only guessing with that - it may be efficient for all I know. Have there been any studies you know of about the most fuel efficient way to accelerate?
By the details I've read on their blog, I'm pretty certain Valve has gotten down that they need a high refresh rate to get the VR to work right. They have identified strobe effect as a problem, and have identified that while the traditional 60Hz rate, while tolerable, is far from ideal for low persistance displays. They seem to believe they can push the refresh rate high enough to deal with strobe effect. I have confidence that they can.
The fundamental problem with VR is the disparity between the visual effect and movement. You can get VR to 100% picture perfect accurate, and it won't feel close to real, because you can't move.
I personally think most of the nausea found with 3D games, and VR, is probably due to this effect. It won't be cured by making the video better.
Higher refresh rates also have other advantages for gaming as Internet router designs improve and ping times drop
Yeah... they do, but only marginally. Also, ping times have not been dropping. Contention is a factor. I very much doubt I will ever see as good a gaming performance as playing Quake online with an ISDN and _single digit pings_, on a CRT. In fact, I very much doubt you could even achieve the low latencies I got back then, unless you spent tens of thousands now. Current monitors mostly have more than single digit lag on their own, 120hz sets often increase input lag. The main lag with monitors is input lag, not refresh rate, and the input lag is caused by the software processing.
Nope... Road traffic act is the bare minimum insurance you have to have by law, but most insurers basic package is 3rd party, or 3rd party fire & theft. The difference in price between 3rd party and comprehensive is basically 0, so most people have comprehensive insurance now. Most people who have a prang fix it themselves, and don't report it to the insurance, because the cost of repair is less than the insurance price hike most of the time.
No... these electric vehicles were destroyed because they were awful. They were slow as hell, and/or had crap range. And they took a half day or so to recharge.
Tesla has succeeded because they have good/ok performance, and ok range. The charging time and availability is still an issue, but that's something the buyers can deal with.
I guess I'm just tired of seeing thinly-velied advertisements for Tesla's stock on/.
You may be tired of it, I'm not. I enjoy seeing innovative companies doing well, I like hearing about new stuff, and I don't care about the stock exchange.
I doubt I'll ever buy an electric car, because I always buy cheap and sell (or scrap) cheap. My current car (a DC2 Integra type R) cost 5% of a new Tesla.
The other material, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), could produce a gun that fired 8 times without incident.
The agents stopped shooting after 8 bullets, an ATF spokesperson said.
These aren't intended to be highly engineered precision weapons. If you expect that, you're missing the point. However, a downloadable gun that will fire at least 8 rounds without failing... that's quite useful to some people.
The other material, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), could produce a gun that fired 8 times without incident.
The agents stopped shooting after 8 bullets, an ATF spokesperson said.
Looks like the tests showed this gun worked pretty well. I'd personally expect experimental plastic guns to be a bit unreliable, and this test showed they were better than I expected.
Straw man. Social democracies have existed for decades. Some stuff (like the postal service, and power) is better nationalised. The US, bastion of the free market supposedly, pumps billions into infrastructure via private companies. It's more socialist than you realise.
Yes. However... this is not a result of socialism per se... it's a result of cronyism. There are quite a few Venezuelan companies which have not been targeted like this. There are plenty of stable social democracies around the world.
That being said, with the US's record of destabilizing democracies in south America that it does not like... I wouldn't put it past them to nudge a bit (I'm not accusing, just guessing).
The diameter (goes with the radius, r), the surface area (goes with r^2), and the volume of berries (goes with r^3). They cannot all be Normally distributed at the same time, so assuming any of them is starts you out on shaky foundation.
So what? People are only trying to show normalised distribution over one thing. No one is trying to tell you what the best berry is. You can obviously do normalised distribution over each one of those, the radius, area, and volume. I don't see the problem with that.
If only the... wait, over a billion years ago? There was basically nothing on the earth a billion years ago. No plants, no nothing. There was stuff in the sea.
Also... yes, people have thought to look at plants techniques. It is one of the starting points.
Desalination is not easy or quick... the reason it's not caught on is because it's difficult, and energy intensive. If you're rich enough, they work... You need lots of power to run then though.
Desalination plants are common in the middle east. There is loads of power there, and not much water.
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From your linkie : "Only about 51% of the smartphones in peoples' hands in the US are Android phones."
That's a lot. The percentage is growing.
I'm always confused by this... moobs are _always_ bad, and they're justboobs on a man. If people like boobs so much, there are probably plenty of candidates with them on this site.
We've been making artificial boobs for decades, anyway.
Police are civil servants, and paid for by our taxes. Why not have them completely accountable and visible all the time they are on the job?
Straight to internet feeds... no watchers.
The Falklands is probably the last war that had any ounce of patriotism to it but that was as much about protecting our global influence, as much about protecting access to any resources down there, and as much about doing what was right for the people of the Falklands who are themselves British citizens.
If the UK had have given up the Falklands, everything would have been fair game for foreign powers (not that we have much left). The UK is _not_ colonialist now... the Falklands are possibly important politically, but not otherwise. Self determination is important.
I used to deliver tyres to the airport destined for the Falklands... all 4*4, big tyres. Ok, not relevant.
I grew up in Oman until I was 9, in an English school. The only song I remember from there was "happy birthday" in dutch (it was a 1/2 English/Dutch school). There was no patriotism. Charles and Diana did visit Oman once, but the event was a farce. The timing was off, so there were hundreds of kids waiting for a couple of hours in 40C degree heat for the car to go past... That was fun.
My secondary English school was CRGS. This is about as traditional a school as you can get in the UK. Latin was compulsory until you were 14, for example. There was _no_ mention of patriotism, at all. I don't remember ever singing the national anthem. We had Christianity foisted upon us to some degree... but only really in singing songs, and I didn't mind that (I'm an atheist now, but I have an affinity with the CoE, this is possibly its cause). Patriotism was seen as limiting. We were men of the world.
The only time you ever sing the national anthem in England is at football matches. That is to say, England football matches. And only when things are getting boring. It is a shit song, after all. Club competitions never get the anthem.
I've just googled for the Independent coverage of the christening, and am glad to see it has got the respect it deserved.
I am personally generally pro-royal, but I don't want to read about them in my paper doing mundane things.
Well... the Independent is the newspaper I usually read... here's how they covered the royal christening.
For those who don't know about the UK press, the Independent is generally a centrist broadsheet... perhaps a little left wing, a little libertarian. It's not radical.
I'm English, by the way.
Most people are trained to be "patriotic" to whatever country they live in from a young age.
We are taught the pledge of allegiance in class for just this reason.
No... No, we are not. No one is trained to be patriotic in England. Seriously. There is no patriotism at all in schools, no proudness of what the UK has achieved. This is a US phenomenon.
I personally love my country... but that has nothing to do with education, and the bits I love are probably the bits someone else who loves the UK hates. That's part of what I love about my country.
Most people learn about how important the UK is now (7th biggest economy in the world) and was (largest empire of all time) after they have left school.
To qualify for the protections of the Geneva Conventions you have to wage war lawfully, it is part of the enforcement mechanism of the treaty. Al Qaida doesn't do so. They are unlawful combatants. They could still be charged with war crimes. And no, it isn't a legal fallacy.
Many people who have been held as unlawful combatants have been proven innocent. Holding _anyone_ in this way means that you will have some innocent people in there. People who have nothing to do with any terrorist organisation. Some of these people have not waged war at all, let alone illegally.
If you're happy with innocent people's rights being ignored, so be it.
Also, "An unlawful combatant who is not a national of a neutral State, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent State, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention so that he must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial"".
Personally I don't think just being locked up for years on end qualifies.
Everyone knows he deserved to die is the anti-judicial refrain. I personally am happy he is dead, but there was no justice involved. The government killing people and imprisoning people without a fair and open trial is fucking immoral, no matter what anyone says.
Taking 10 miles to get up to the most efficient speed is always going to be bad on fuel, whatever you are driving.
This is the point I was trying to make. For most cars, traveling at 50mph or so is the most efficient. I've not actually seen any studies about acceleration and fuel economy over a certain distance, but there is obviously a most efficient way to travel a set distance, and obviously accelerating very very slowly is not it, because you're spending too much time at an inefficient speed.
I'm guessing absolutely flooring it and getting to 50mph as quickly as possible is probably not the most efficient, either... but I am only guessing with that - it may be efficient for all I know. Have there been any studies you know of about the most fuel efficient way to accelerate?
By the details I've read on their blog, I'm pretty certain Valve has gotten down that they need a high refresh rate to get the VR to work right. They have identified strobe effect as a problem, and have identified that while the traditional 60Hz rate, while tolerable, is far from ideal for low persistance displays. They seem to believe they can push the refresh rate high enough to deal with strobe effect. I have confidence that they can.
The fundamental problem with VR is the disparity between the visual effect and movement. You can get VR to 100% picture perfect accurate, and it won't feel close to real, because you can't move.
I personally think most of the nausea found with 3D games, and VR, is probably due to this effect. It won't be cured by making the video better.
Higher refresh rates also have other advantages for gaming as Internet router designs improve and ping times drop
Yeah... they do, but only marginally. Also, ping times have not been dropping. Contention is a factor. I very much doubt I will ever see as good a gaming performance as playing Quake online with an ISDN and _single digit pings_, on a CRT. In fact, I very much doubt you could even achieve the low latencies I got back then, unless you spent tens of thousands now. Current monitors mostly have more than single digit lag on their own, 120hz sets often increase input lag. The main lag with monitors is input lag, not refresh rate, and the input lag is caused by the software processing.
Rapid acceleration wastes fuel.
Does it? Accelerating rapidly to 56mph and staying there is much more efficient than taking 10 miles to get to that speed, for example.
Nope... Road traffic act is the bare minimum insurance you have to have by law, but most insurers basic package is 3rd party, or 3rd party fire & theft. The difference in price between 3rd party and comprehensive is basically 0, so most people have comprehensive insurance now. Most people who have a prang fix it themselves, and don't report it to the insurance, because the cost of repair is less than the insurance price hike most of the time.
No... these electric vehicles were destroyed because they were awful. They were slow as hell, and/or had crap range. And they took a half day or so to recharge.
Tesla has succeeded because they have good/ok performance, and ok range. The charging time and availability is still an issue, but that's something the buyers can deal with.
I guess I'm just tired of seeing thinly-velied advertisements for Tesla's stock on /.
You may be tired of it, I'm not. I enjoy seeing innovative companies doing well, I like hearing about new stuff, and I don't care about the stock exchange.
I doubt I'll ever buy an electric car, because I always buy cheap and sell (or scrap) cheap. My current car (a DC2 Integra type R) cost 5% of a new Tesla.
The other material, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), could produce a gun that fired 8 times without incident.
The agents stopped shooting after 8 bullets, an ATF spokesperson said.
These aren't intended to be highly engineered precision weapons. If you expect that, you're missing the point. However, a downloadable gun that will fire at least 8 rounds without failing... that's quite useful to some people.
The other material, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), could produce a gun that fired 8 times without incident.
The agents stopped shooting after 8 bullets, an ATF spokesperson said.
Looks like the tests showed this gun worked pretty well. I'd personally expect experimental plastic guns to be a bit unreliable, and this test showed they were better than I expected.
Straw man. Social democracies have existed for decades. Some stuff (like the postal service, and power) is better nationalised. The US, bastion of the free market supposedly, pumps billions into infrastructure via private companies. It's more socialist than you realise.
Chavez, not nationalization, ruined the oil industry.
This, and more this. Chavez and the resultant government is the problem, not nationalisation. The US not buying from Peru is also a big problem.
Yes. However... this is not a result of socialism per se... it's a result of cronyism. There are quite a few Venezuelan companies which have not been targeted like this. There are plenty of stable social democracies around the world.
That being said, with the US's record of destabilizing democracies in south America that it does not like... I wouldn't put it past them to nudge a bit (I'm not accusing, just guessing).
The diameter (goes with the radius, r), the surface area (goes with r^2), and the volume of berries (goes with r^3). They cannot all be Normally distributed at the same time, so assuming any of them is starts you out on shaky foundation.
So what? People are only trying to show normalised distribution over one thing. No one is trying to tell you what the best berry is. You can obviously do normalised distribution over each one of those, the radius, area, and volume. I don't see the problem with that.
Already done. Over a billion years ago too.
If only the... wait, over a billion years ago? There was basically nothing on the earth a billion years ago. No plants, no nothing. There was stuff in the sea.
Also... yes, people have thought to look at plants techniques. It is one of the starting points.
Desalination is not easy or quick... the reason it's not caught on is because it's difficult, and energy intensive. If you're rich enough, they work... You need lots of power to run then though.
Desalination plants are common in the middle east. There is loads of power there, and not much water.