"The US is crashing as a country" is not a particularly new meme either which is what's puzzling. My father once told me that when he was my age people told him that he'd probably never have a job because the country was going down the toilet. I think people just like to doomsay because at least then they have an excuse for their own problems.
The human body needs somewhere between 40g - 70g of protein per day, depending on gender, age, and current physical state. According to a study I read recently, the average American consumes about 50% more protein than they need. I suspect we wouldn't need to up our protein intake all that much.
Scientific research often usually comes down to "what happens when I mix these two things together?" and "poke it with a stick and see what happens." The biggest variation is the type of stick we use.
In my experience, mass transit does not seem to do well in Texas. Austin's CapitalMetro system was found fiscally irresponsible to the point of criminal investigations by the FBI. San Antonio's ViaBus system is possibly the slowest and worst organized bus system in the world. In some instances a twenty-minute drive in a personal vehicle equates to a 1.5-hour bus ride due to the routes used by bus operators.
Just as long as the theorists don't come anywhere near the equipment. There's a graduate student at my university who I swear to the FSM causes the equipment to malfunction just by walking in the room. I shudder to think what happens if he enters a hospital.
As far as the "Christian" right being every bit as terrifying as Muslims, when was the last time someone from the "christian" right sawed off someone's head...or flew an airliner into a building...or encouraged a teenager to blow themselves up?
While I can cite none of those particular crimes, there are several instances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-related_violence#United_States) of violence directed towards abortion clinics by the Christian right.
If Islam must claim bin Laden, then Christianity must claim Paul Hill and others like him.
And for the record, I am a professing Christian.
An aquaintance of mine uses this one: "According to the multiverse theory, in some universe, you're giving me your phone number. It might as well be this one."
Interestingly enough, it works.
US shows up and says "we'll give you aid money as long as you don't promote safe sex, and oh, sorry, our business community is a little too nervous to really trade with you."
I heard a story on NPR a few weeks back about mineral imports from Africa. US business is reluctant to import minerals from theses regions due to guerrilla wars being fought over mining sites, similar to the blood diamond conflict.
As for the safe sex issues, can you provide a citation? I hadn't heard anything about this.
The Hobbit has a much different feel that the LoTR triology so a different director makes sense. However, The Hobbit has always felt brighter as a whole than LoTR did. I do worry that del Toro's darker style of directing might detract from that. Still, given the man's talents, it'll still be a film worth watching.
About four or five years ago, Texas A&M started experimenting with "class clusters" which is basically groups of students in the same major taking the same core classes specific to their discipline at the same time. The idea was to simplify scheduling and provide students with a consistent set of classmates. They even when so far mark certain groups of classes as "cluster-only." The problem was that non-clustered students got completely shafted come scheduling time. Since most of the core classes were designated for specific clusters, that left only one or two-sections for non-clustered students. To compound this, certain classes which were considered "core" for one major and considered elective for another major, even though the student needs that elective credit to move on. You ended up with engineering majors locked out of a number of sections of humanities classes, even though in Texas engineering majors need a certain number of humanities credits to graduate. It was quite a mess.
I'm not really sure what the outcome of the experiment was, but the big lesson to take from here is that the Japanese-style system has to be all or nothing.
Linux users are in the same boat. While there are some good original games written for Linux, if you want to play something originally written for Windows, you're limited to Cedega or WINE. The latter's been a crap-shoot for me for the last few years.
The usual argument against ports I hear is that it's too much work for too small a market. Apparently Linux pirates are way more damaging to the industry that Windows pirates.
In a nutshell, perfect video technology would be "indistinguishable from looking outside of a window on a sunny day"
Such a feat of technology would be amazing and special effects implications for movie and games is immense. [tinfoilhat]Still, one wonders what that kind of technology could do in the wrong hands:
"Why yes citizen, this is the real world. We promise."
[/tinfoilhat]
Having lived in Texas my entire life, I concur. Texas is pretty much desert once you're west of Junction. Why not install some turbines? If nothing else, you'd give the terrain some identifying features.
It's possible to remove PA in Jaunty? I posted some audio questions to the forums and got replies that summed up to "suck it up and deal", which is quite unusual for the community. Why do so many people seem to gung-ho for PA?
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"The US is crashing as a country" is not a particularly new meme either which is what's puzzling. My father once told me that when he was my age people told him that he'd probably never have a job because the country was going down the toilet. I think people just like to doomsay because at least then they have an excuse for their own problems.
In light of this story, I'm now wondering if my Chinese Redox is the genuine article. I'm hoping this doesn't reduce the value...
Talk about your furry fetish...
The human body needs somewhere between 40g - 70g of protein per day, depending on gender, age, and current physical state. According to a study I read recently, the average American consumes about 50% more protein than they need. I suspect we wouldn't need to up our protein intake all that much.
Hell, I'd settle for EA to have talent.
Scientific research often usually comes down to "what happens when I mix these two things together?" and "poke it with a stick and see what happens." The biggest variation is the type of stick we use.
Makes sense. My map shows Canada's farther up than we are, which obviously makes them closer to space, right? :)
In my experience, mass transit does not seem to do well in Texas. Austin's CapitalMetro system was found fiscally irresponsible to the point of criminal investigations by the FBI. San Antonio's ViaBus system is possibly the slowest and worst organized bus system in the world. In some instances a twenty-minute drive in a personal vehicle equates to a 1.5-hour bus ride due to the routes used by bus operators.
Just as long as the theorists don't come anywhere near the equipment. There's a graduate student at my university who I swear to the FSM causes the equipment to malfunction just by walking in the room. I shudder to think what happens if he enters a hospital.
See, now that's a reward!
As far as the "Christian" right being every bit as terrifying as Muslims, when was the last time someone from the "christian" right sawed off someone's head...or flew an airliner into a building...or encouraged a teenager to blow themselves up?
While I can cite none of those particular crimes, there are several instances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-related_violence#United_States) of violence directed towards abortion clinics by the Christian right. If Islam must claim bin Laden, then Christianity must claim Paul Hill and others like him. And for the record, I am a professing Christian.
An aquaintance of mine uses this one: "According to the multiverse theory, in some universe, you're giving me your phone number. It might as well be this one." Interestingly enough, it works.
US shows up and says "we'll give you aid money as long as you don't promote safe sex, and oh, sorry, our business community is a little too nervous to really trade with you."
I heard a story on NPR a few weeks back about mineral imports from Africa. US business is reluctant to import minerals from theses regions due to guerrilla wars being fought over mining sites, similar to the blood diamond conflict.
As for the safe sex issues, can you provide a citation? I hadn't heard anything about this.
The Hobbit has a much different feel that the LoTR triology so a different director makes sense. However, The Hobbit has always felt brighter as a whole than LoTR did. I do worry that del Toro's darker style of directing might detract from that. Still, given the man's talents, it'll still be a film worth watching.
Go. Now. Turn in your nerd card at the door.
I think Paul Simon phrased it better: "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high-school, it's a wonder I can think at all."*
*Paul Simon, Kodachrome
About four or five years ago, Texas A&M started experimenting with "class clusters" which is basically groups of students in the same major taking the same core classes specific to their discipline at the same time. The idea was to simplify scheduling and provide students with a consistent set of classmates. They even when so far mark certain groups of classes as "cluster-only." The problem was that non-clustered students got completely shafted come scheduling time. Since most of the core classes were designated for specific clusters, that left only one or two-sections for non-clustered students. To compound this, certain classes which were considered "core" for one major and considered elective for another major, even though the student needs that elective credit to move on. You ended up with engineering majors locked out of a number of sections of humanities classes, even though in Texas engineering majors need a certain number of humanities credits to graduate. It was quite a mess. I'm not really sure what the outcome of the experiment was, but the big lesson to take from here is that the Japanese-style system has to be all or nothing.
Linux users are in the same boat. While there are some good original games written for Linux, if you want to play something originally written for Windows, you're limited to Cedega or WINE. The latter's been a crap-shoot for me for the last few years.
The usual argument against ports I hear is that it's too much work for too small a market. Apparently Linux pirates are way more damaging to the industry that Windows pirates.
It's funny that you think all of that eighteen-million dollars is yours.
In a nutshell, perfect video technology would be "indistinguishable from looking outside of a window on a sunny day"
Such a feat of technology would be amazing and special effects implications for movie and games is immense. [tinfoilhat]Still, one wonders what that kind of technology could do in the wrong hands: "Why yes citizen, this is the real world. We promise." [/tinfoilhat]
Having lived in Texas my entire life, I concur. Texas is pretty much desert once you're west of Junction. Why not install some turbines? If nothing else, you'd give the terrain some identifying features.
Schrodinger's qbit?
It's possible to remove PA in Jaunty? I posted some audio questions to the forums and got replies that summed up to "suck it up and deal", which is quite unusual for the community. Why do so many people seem to gung-ho for PA?
Or maybe I don't get out enough
This is Slashdot. That kinda goes without saying.
The chemical should be "T", so that I can finally write Tungsten $ELEMENTNAME Flourine when I'm frustrated with lab results.