"Conventional" tram needs wires along the whole route, while this one would need only a few recharging points => less wires needed.
I suppose a bus that works in the same fashion could be even more beneficial since it would combine the route flexibility of a bus with the cheapness and cleanness of an electrically-powered vehicle
>The 'education' studies usually do things like compare US % of High School graduates going on to get a College degree with another country. Sounds like we are doing pretty bad, until you do a little bit more reasearch and find out that 85% of US citizens graduate high school, while only 30% of the other countries citizens get that far. Big surprise, there. They picked their richest and smartest 30% of the population and compared it to our "everyone except the worst 15%".
So is it "another country" or "other countries" somehow combined. Because you know, if you combine, say, Zimbabwe with Japan, the average won't be too great, but take Japan or UK or Germany alone and 85% HS graduation level may not look so great.
>nowhere near a straight copy as the Tu-144 was of Concorde for example
For one thing, Tu-144 had a tiltable nose for better landing visibility, so it's not a carbon copy either.
Came to say that the simple solution would be not listening/watching their stuff, but then I thought their next step would be introducing the implied usage. If you are alive, you've got to pay for 3 new albums (1 if you're deaf) and 1 DVD release every month. If you have more two computers at home this means you're sharing, that would be $0.99 per share or $19.99/mo flat fee.
True, but I think it would be more productive to stop the discouraging -- by prohibiting television, for example;)
Seriously, this type of watered down, glamorized, "math can be fun" books just reinforce the idea that school-level mathematics is something only a few nerds can master. No it isn't, anyone can learn what the cosine is or how to add fractions -- it just takes a few days of practice, that's it. But of course, you'd be considered doubleplusuncool if you actually do practice these things. And while cool people on TV/movies show off their ignorance, this will never change.
What is the point of forcing (or "encouraging") people to learn mathematics at all? Those who want to learn it, can use regular textbooks because the subject is interesting by itself, without horoscopic bastardizations. And those who don't want to learn -- well, there are some 3 billion people in Asia whose children do learn;)
And also, smoking is probably more hazardous to one's health than drinking. The reason is, I suppose, is that it's rather hard to smoke enough cigarettes to cause problems to the society, like hitting other peoples' cars and other people themselves.
Society protects itself, not individuals.
>Who's going to push your bits around when you're gone?
I don't see why I should care:)
But seriously, if my children think that antique porn and pictures of mom's and pop's adventures in Grand Canyon are important enough, they'll keep rewriting them on their uber-cool storage media. If not -- well, I'm dead anyway.
I just "upgrade" important stuff to the new media: take CDs and reburn them on DVDs. When the successor of DVDs appears, I'll move the data there. This way I don't worry about a) degradation of the particular media and b) non-compatibility of the old media and the new hardware.
So, does "clear desks of wires" include life-time battery for my camera/cell phone/zune (:p), or we'll still have to have those gross wires (but won't admit it even to ourselves, of course).
What about the ECU? Of course that's not the same as let the software _drive_ for you, but I doubt you really want to manually calibrate ignition angles.
I buy games a couple of years after the release. It's double savings: older games are cheaper themselves, and they need older (i.e. _musch_ cheaper video card).
>We still have tons of people trying to immigrate here, but they're all dirt-poor uneducated Mexicans who want to work as landscapers
You know, besides Indians and Mexicans there're lots of other peoples:P
But yeah, it gets harder for educated people to stay in the US, and as the conditions in their home countries improve, more and more of them decide that waiting years for a green card it's just not worth it.
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"Conventional" tram needs wires along the whole route, while this one would need only a few recharging points => less wires needed.
I suppose a bus that works in the same fashion could be even more beneficial since it would combine the route flexibility of a bus with the cheapness and cleanness of an electrically-powered vehicle
>The 'education' studies usually do things like compare US % of High School graduates going on to get a College degree with another country. Sounds like we are doing pretty bad, until you do a little bit more reasearch and find out that 85% of US citizens graduate high school, while only 30% of the other countries citizens get that far. Big surprise, there. They picked their richest and smartest 30% of the population and compared it to our "everyone except the worst 15%".
So is it "another country" or "other countries" somehow combined. Because you know, if you combine, say, Zimbabwe with Japan, the average won't be too great, but take Japan or UK or Germany alone and 85% HS graduation level may not look so great.
>nowhere near a straight copy as the Tu-144 was of Concorde for example For one thing, Tu-144 had a tiltable nose for better landing visibility, so it's not a carbon copy either.
I, for one, welcome our new zygotless overlords!
Came to say that the simple solution would be not listening/watching their stuff, but then I thought their next step would be introducing the implied usage. If you are alive, you've got to pay for 3 new albums (1 if you're deaf) and 1 DVD release every month. If you have more two computers at home this means you're sharing, that would be $0.99 per share or $19.99/mo flat fee.
True, but I think it would be more productive to stop the discouraging -- by prohibiting television, for example ;)
Seriously, this type of watered down, glamorized, "math can be fun" books just reinforce the idea that school-level mathematics is something only a few nerds can master. No it isn't, anyone can learn what the cosine is or how to add fractions -- it just takes a few days of practice, that's it. But of course, you'd be considered doubleplusuncool if you actually do practice these things. And while cool people on TV/movies show off their ignorance, this will never change.
So yeah, ban TV!
What is the point of forcing (or "encouraging") people to learn mathematics at all? Those who want to learn it, can use regular textbooks because the subject is interesting by itself, without horoscopic bastardizations. And those who don't want to learn -- well, there are some 3 billion people in Asia whose children do learn ;)
May be he's off inspecting the disgusting blue planet, preparing a surprise for the nasty water-breeds.
Yes! And don't eat tomatoes! Everyone who eats tomatoes, dies!
No, a deep link is someone blindfolding you and leading through the maze to the picture.
And also, smoking is probably more hazardous to one's health than drinking. The reason is, I suppose, is that it's rather hard to smoke enough cigarettes to cause problems to the society, like hitting other peoples' cars and other people themselves.
Society protects itself, not individuals.
>Who's going to push your bits around when you're gone?
:)
I don't see why I should care
But seriously, if my children think that antique porn and pictures of mom's and pop's adventures in Grand Canyon are important enough, they'll keep rewriting them on their uber-cool storage media. If not -- well, I'm dead anyway.
I just "upgrade" important stuff to the new media: take CDs and reburn them on DVDs. When the successor of DVDs appears, I'll move the data there. This way I don't worry about a) degradation of the particular media and b) non-compatibility of the old media and the new hardware.
So, does "clear desks of wires" include life-time battery for my camera/cell phone/zune (:p), or we'll still have to have those gross wires (but won't admit it even to ourselves, of course).
Buttons on sticks and sticks on buttons are fine with me. But buttons on buttons is abomination!
Sure. And before those cars, I've heard, horses were sufficient :P
They definetly worked without an ECU, but power/weight, as well as milage were incomparable to modern engines.
What about the ECU? Of course that's not the same as let the software _drive_ for you, but I doubt you really want to manually calibrate ignition angles.
And just whom do they pay for that click? ;)
Why, yes, I am concerned about sterility. I always wash my hands!
Only for the phone :(
I carry my cell phone in my pants pocket. Is it safe?
I buy games a couple of years after the release. It's double savings: older games are cheaper themselves, and they need older (i.e. _musch_ cheaper video card).
>We still have tons of people trying to immigrate here, but they're all dirt-poor uneducated Mexicans who want to work as landscapers
:P
You know, besides Indians and Mexicans there're lots of other peoples
But yeah, it gets harder for educated people to stay in the US, and as the conditions in their home countries improve, more and more of them decide that waiting years for a green card it's just not worth it.
So we just have to include a language textbook with every pack of archive DVDs!