I think the gist of it is, you appear to 'have it all figured out' with a nice tight argument. An approach that should always be vigorously scrutinized. It doesn't mean you are a 'conspiracy theorist, ' though a shrill tone is never a good sign. This is just an observation, I'm not taking sides in this. Thank goodness people are posing arguments here, not just listening to one person's edict. Right?
We have reverse-osmosis filtering system on the water source for the humidifiers for the environmental chambers in the test lab at work. It's not unknown technology. The old-fashioned alternative is a still.
Are these breweries currently using unfiltered, unpurified water?
I suspect that when a corporation unscrupulously installs 10,000 copies of unlicensed Microsoft Office on their computers, they don't start with an ISO they downloaded from Pirate Bay.
That is the value of having a torrent community. You go to a place like TPB and read the comments before downloading a torrent. People have a way of looking after each other when they are part of a community.
Okay, conceded. They don't contain lead, just other presently unclassified hazardous waste. The regulators will get around to it within the next 20 years. Count on it.
Android has pretty good Bluetooth support. I am really hoping that before too long some sort of standard Bluetooth-enabled controller will emerge for Android. It just makes sense that it should, because the games are over there, but you're right that controlling the game by mashing up against a corner of the glass display isn't a good gaming experience.
Twenty years from now your kid won't be allowed to buy an Xbox One at a garage sale. They contain lead and other hazardous wastes, and will have to be surrendered at the Hazardous Waste Depot.
'Quick breads' are fairly strict chemical formulations because the leavening agent is a chemical. Yeast bread is a complex living process. There are way too many factors to really control anything by strict measure once you set that yeast loose in the dough.
A good cook doesn't really work in absolute units of flour in the first place. You make a batch of dough by weighing it out, but then you must sift in more flour of an arbitrary amount as you're kneading the dough. And as it rises and is punched down yet more flour is added. Industrial baking can be done by strict weight, but, then, I started out talking about good cooks.
Only if you're an average human. Guinea pigs have three toes in front, four in back. One of our cats is polydactyl. I'm not even sure how many toes she has on each foot, but there she has a bunch of extra toes.
The metric system is actually rather badly scaled, if you want to talk about scalability. Sure, in a laboratory it scales well, but for purposed of human craftsmanship, you can't get much better than the 12 inch foot. 12 is easily divisible into 1/3 and 1/4 units. And the 3:4 scale is fairly useful in human scale. Also, the foot is roughly scaled on the length of the human foot. Stuff people can relate to. Not a metal bar in a glass case somewhere in Paris with lines scribed on it.
The French tried to renumber the calendar right after the French Revolution, right at the same time they prescribed the Metric System (SI) be adopted. I have some 'year one' and 'year two' French centime coins in my coin collection. Just the usual sort of flaky stuff you expect from the French. Unfortunately the metric system didn't blow over the way most of the rest of their 'revolution' did.
But don't you find it interesting that the GP commenter appears to endorse Fracking as a good thing? It's good to find open-minded people in places you don't expect them.
Except the voters then have the power to say 'lets get rid of these idiot politicians nattering about the metric system' and they're voted out of office. I guess they have pretty good pensions lined up for themselves if that were to happen, but being a politician is all about the seductiveness of flexing all that power. A govt. pension and a crummy lobbying job just doesn't appeal to those guys much.
They got an opportunity to engage in a research project: exploring the meaning of the terms 'progressive' and 'conservative.' That's a surprising perk coming from Obama's White House.
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I think the gist of it is, you appear to 'have it all figured out' with a nice tight argument. An approach that should always be vigorously scrutinized. It doesn't mean you are a 'conspiracy theorist, ' though a shrill tone is never a good sign. This is just an observation, I'm not taking sides in this. Thank goodness people are posing arguments here, not just listening to one person's edict. Right?
We have reverse-osmosis filtering system on the water source for the humidifiers for the environmental chambers in the test lab at work. It's not unknown technology. The old-fashioned alternative is a still.
Are these breweries currently using unfiltered, unpurified water?
A Rootkit on your cellphone, that you use to listen to music, would make you jump and react, though. Correct?
I suspect that when a corporation unscrupulously installs 10,000 copies of unlicensed Microsoft Office on their computers, they don't start with an ISO they downloaded from Pirate Bay.
That is the value of having a torrent community. You go to a place like TPB and read the comments before downloading a torrent. People have a way of looking after each other when they are part of a community.
Okay, conceded. They don't contain lead, just other presently unclassified hazardous waste. The regulators will get around to it within the next 20 years. Count on it.
Android has pretty good Bluetooth support. I am really hoping that before too long some sort of standard Bluetooth-enabled controller will emerge for Android. It just makes sense that it should, because the games are over there, but you're right that controlling the game by mashing up against a corner of the glass display isn't a good gaming experience.
Twenty years from now your kid won't be allowed to buy an Xbox One at a garage sale. They contain lead and other hazardous wastes, and will have to be surrendered at the Hazardous Waste Depot.
We're funny that way in the U.S.
You're entitled to be proud of whatever you wish to be proud of about your National culture.
USians don't always take well to government edicts, tho.
I am all in favor of a non-linear time scale.
Some hours (i.e. lunch hour) should be longer. Some hours should be shorter. Oh, and it shouldn't be up to Management.
No, we have to all switch to Esperanto.
And code only in Ada, of course.
'Quick breads' are fairly strict chemical formulations because the leavening agent is a chemical. Yeast bread is a complex living process. There are way too many factors to really control anything by strict measure once you set that yeast loose in the dough.
A good cook doesn't really work in absolute units of flour in the first place. You make a batch of dough by weighing it out, but then you must sift in more flour of an arbitrary amount as you're kneading the dough. And as it rises and is punched down yet more flour is added. Industrial baking can be done by strict weight, but, then, I started out talking about good cooks.
Only if you're an average human. Guinea pigs have three toes in front, four in back. One of our cats is polydactyl. I'm not even sure how many toes she has on each foot, but there she has a bunch of extra toes.
The metric system is actually rather badly scaled, if you want to talk about scalability. Sure, in a laboratory it scales well, but for purposed of human craftsmanship, you can't get much better than the 12 inch foot. 12 is easily divisible into 1/3 and 1/4 units. And the 3:4 scale is fairly useful in human scale. Also, the foot is roughly scaled on the length of the human foot. Stuff people can relate to. Not a metal bar in a glass case somewhere in Paris with lines scribed on it.
The French tried to renumber the calendar right after the French Revolution, right at the same time they prescribed the Metric System (SI) be adopted. I have some 'year one' and 'year two' French centime coins in my coin collection. Just the usual sort of flaky stuff you expect from the French. Unfortunately the metric system didn't blow over the way most of the rest of their 'revolution' did.
But don't you find it interesting that the GP commenter appears to endorse Fracking as a good thing? It's good to find open-minded people in places you don't expect them.
The 4 x 8 bit refers to 4 foot by 8 foot sheets of plywood or OSB, actually.
I've never heard of a 4" x 8" board.
Me, I think it would be an excellent thing for the Obama Administration to spend the rest of it's term working on.
But I'm just weird that way.
Weiner isn't in congress anymore. He is trying to nudge his way back into public view, though.
This isn't a 'thread about standards.'
It's a standard Slashdot Metric System Troll. They always turn out like this.
Except the voters then have the power to say 'lets get rid of these idiot politicians nattering about the metric system' and they're voted out of office. I guess they have pretty good pensions lined up for themselves if that were to happen, but being a politician is all about the seductiveness of flexing all that power. A govt. pension and a crummy lobbying job just doesn't appeal to those guys much.
Proofreading is for typos. Not blatant blunders.
But it's fun watching someone who just exclaimed 'redneck detected' squirm a little.
Did you know that some intellectuals have shown that black culture is redneck in origin?
They got an opportunity to engage in a research project: exploring the meaning of the terms 'progressive' and 'conservative.' That's a surprising perk coming from Obama's White House.
Be realistic. You're arguing with a guy who has his middle initial in his Slashdot username, and it appears it might be his real middle initial....
We need to keep all the shovels ready for Obama's Shovel Ready Healthcare System, ya know.