dude, you are continuing to get very agitated about this homeopathy stuff. I would suggest that you take a gram of CRACK and dilute it over and over and over and over and over and over and over (don't forget to smack it against something each time) and then maybe you'll be able to relax.
Actual homeopathic remedies start can be anywhere between 10X and 100X. But there's the small problem of Avogadro's number. A 100X solution, you'd have to drink whole swimming pools of it, before an actual mollecule of caffeine actually entered your system to cure your insomnia.
so can I drink my homeopathic remedy for insomnia in my evening coffee?
WOW, I looked it up on wikipedia and the extremely bizarre explanation made by Mr. Spun two posts up is in fact correct. I apologize because it seemed that the description was a sarcastic exaggeration, and I did not believe you.
I guess the really bizarre thing is that the NHS actually paid for this sort of quackery at one point!!!
Everyone I know has a camera of some sort, and most use the camera in their phones from time to time when they don't have a real camera with them. With the exception of people who do presentations or commercial training I know ONE person who owns a projector.
So I don't think there is a big demand for super dim, hard to hold steady, low res, battery killing projectors that you can carry in your pocket. The cell phone is turning into the digital swiss army knife. The mini projector might belong on a super specialized model (kinda like the golfer's swiss army knife that has the divot tool and the cleat cleaner).
the very small projectors I have seen are almost uselessly dim. "Hey could you cover up your glow-in-the-dark watch face it's ruining everyone's night vision and we can't see the projector image!"
Though the common computer nerd is the most high profile and widely recognized nerd, there are in fact many varieties of nerds found in the wild. Today we will feature the mechanical engineer. The ME once dominated the high tech world creating turbines, fighter jets, and space rockets. Today it is common to find an odd crossbreed of the ME nerd and the car geek. This type of nerd stands out in several important ways. The mechanical engineer / car geek, often displays impressive social skills when compared to the meager skills of the computer nerd. ME's consider computers to be a means to an end instead of the end itself. One other common characteristic of the ME nerd / car geek is that he typically considered the various iterations of the Porsche 911 to be the very pinnacles of industrial design.
When radiation is so weak that it can't even penetrate a few millimeters of air then it is effectively harmless when it is outside of your body. Tritium in drinking water will end up inside your body. All of that radiation will be absorbed by the tissue in the immediate vicinity of the radioactive particle. That cell that ends up containing those few molecules of heavy water will get a huge dose and will be much more likely to mutate. That makes alpha and beta emitters very dangerous once they get inside of your body.
The problem is that underground plumes of bad stuff spread over time. If you discover the contamination before it gets dangerous and you stop the leak it may be that the levels in water that is used by people never gets above the regulatory limit. If you let it sit it won't be long before people are drinking water with many times the the EPA limit.
One thing that always bothers me about these environmental stories is that when some Chemical X is reported to be floating around, it's never 20% over the regulatory limit, or even twice the limit, it is always at least one order of magnitude too high. The regulatory limit may be conservative, but I really doubt it has a safety factor of 37 built in.
Mostly because the EPA standard is expressed in picocuries and it is easiest for most people to interpret the data when they don't have to do a unit conversion. Hell I'm in the business of environmental consulting and I had to look up the difference between micro and pico.
I agree. It is all about parenting. When I was little my Mom corrected any grammatical mistake I made no matter what the situation. It took me forever to get the cases of personal pronouns straight. My 6 year old son already has better grammar than many much older kids because I always correct him. Since I do it nicely, he loves it. I guess I'm lucky that my son has a love of language. Someday I'm sure that his friends will become much more of an influence and he will learn texting language and the slang of his generation, and that's just fine because he will be able to switch to real English when he chooses. Parents with poor grammar will pass it on to their kids unless their kids are unusually motivated or in a first rate school.
I think that poor grammar is a symptom of sloppy thinking. Sloppy thinking is at the root of our society's problems. The various political demagogues (thanks spell checker!) would never be able to get away with the lies and fallacious arguments they spew if most of the country were well trained in rhetoric or formal logic.
Here is the point I would like every parent or potential parent to hear: If your schools are not doing the job and you can't afford better schools, it is YOUR JOB to fill in the gaps. I guarantee that my son will be well versed in logic before he finished high school, because he will get it from me.
Corporations absolutely should not have rights equal to those of humans. Corporations are effectively immortal. Since they cannot be captured, jailed, or put to death they are not subject to criminal law at all. They are only subject to civil law and in many ways even that is limited. In comparison to the way individuals are taxed, corporations are almost exempt from taxes. If a corporation incurs more debt that it can pay it is able to file for bankruptcy and walk away from the debt and any contracts it does not like (say with unions) and often time w/in a year the stockholders have MADE money on the process.
When our country was young people understood how dangerous corporations are to liberty. In fact it was largely in response to the abuses of the British East India Company that our revolution took place. When our country was young corporate charters were issued for limited periods, 10- 40 years; for limited purposes, say to build a rail line and could be easily revoked for violating a law. Corporations could only engage in activities directly related to their charter; could not own property or stock in other corporations; and stockholders were not protected from the liabilities of the corporation. You can see how radically different things are today.
You may be surprised but Adam Smith actually argued against corporations in "The Wealth of Nations" because they drove out competition from individual merchants and artisans.
It was not until the railroads gained such power that they were able to get a Supreme Court to declare them "persons" that corporations began their meteoric rise to becoming the dominant world organizations. Now most governments act as proxies for corporations. The US governemnt already does more for the benefit of corporations that that of citizens, now with all restrictions on corporate electioneering removed these incorporeal, immortal, lawless monsters will be able to buy whatever elected position they desire by simply buying up so much propaganda that any truth will be buried in the din.
I waited until this spring to buy a PS2 since I only wanted it for GT4. I've since bought a few other games, mostly for my son (6 years old loves lego starwars). When I bought the refurbished console and GT4 I also shopped for and found a nice Logitech Driving Force Pro. With the control pad I was unable to complete the Nurburgring license test, but with the wheel I pulled it off. Anyway I would love to find other driving games that use the wheel on the ps2. There has to be one or two. A really arcadey game that my son would enjoy would be great, but from what I can tell most of the non GT driving games don't support the steering wheel. Any thoughts or recommendations?
personally I got all of the health benefits normally associated with quitting within about four days of switching to my PV - increased lung capacity, no coughing, increased stamina, no stink, etc.
Actually since you are still inhaling nicotine your cilia will still be paralyzed which means that your lung's self-cleaning system will not be functioning. You have eliminated all of the nasty gasses and particulate that smoking adds to the nicotine, but the root cause of the problem is the nicotine. All other gunk that you breath will still stay in your lungs (including very hazardous things like silica, asbestos, pm10.) So you have gotten some of the health benefits normally associated with quitting, not all.
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that people addicted to nicotine now have a way that they can get their fix without also breathing in all that nastiness that is smoke. I am also glad that people who do this won't be adding to the juggernaut of noxious clouds around every building entrance. I am also glad that these items are expensive enough that smokers won't throw them on the ground after they are done with them. I just wanted to remind people that these do not eliminate the dangers associated with nicotine use/addiction.
By 6pm today I read most of these posts. There are several squeaky wheels that are posting over and over but there are also dozens of individuals that are all telling the same story. These people are in areas with good 3g reception (as confirmed by the coverage map or by another 3g t-mobile phone in the same place at the same time. They report that their N1 continually switches between edge and g3. Their data download rates are about 1/10th what they should be. Many have reported that the constant switching between networks is draining their battery within a few hours. When they call HTC for support, HTC blames T-mobile's network. T-mobile blames HTC and claims that they have not been given any support documentation on the N1 from Google or HTC. The complainers are in a wide variety of locations throughout the country.
Gizmodo reports on the story and claims that their phones have poor 3g reception as well:
So I really don't think this is due to ignorant customers. There is a real problem with at least some of these phones. It may be there is a batch out there with bad antennas, or there could be a software glitch. If it's software then one would hope a patch is coming from Google asap. Regardless of what the problem is, Google has made a terrible mistake in ignoring this for almost 2 days now. Even if they had replied in their own support forums just once saying "sorry we're on it get back to you soon." They might not look so bad. Personally I think Google's experience with leaving their "products" in beta for years on end has finally bitten them on the ass.
From that perspective the only logical position on the leprechaun, unicorn, and santa clause questions is agnosticism. Of course the non-existence of unicorns can never be 100% proven, but we can be pretty sure that they don't exist based on a few simple things. There has never been any physical evidence of one. There is no convincing reason that one should exist. The existence of one would not simplify our understanding of the world or answer any pressing questions about the way the universe works or came into being. The existence of one would in fact be contrary to many things that we do understand about the world. It is fair to say that the existence of unicorns is very unlikely. It is so unlikely that I am perfectly comfortable in saying that unicorns do not exist.
The same argument applies to this god fellow, and santa clause, and bertrand's teapot, and the flying spaghetti monster, and allah, and zeus, zoroaster, the trickster, mithras, ganesh, and any of a thousand other gods. So to argue that the existence of a deity is some sort of 50/50 proposition is silly. It takes massive, colorful, flying leaps of faith to claim the existence of god. It takes only a reasonable look at the evidence to be overwhelmingly certain of his/its/her non-existence.
I'm not agnostic when it comes to unicorns, and I'm not agnostic when it comes to god.
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dude, you are continuing to get very agitated about this homeopathy stuff. I would suggest that you take a gram of CRACK and dilute it over and over and over and over and over and over and over (don't forget to smack it against something each time) and then maybe you'll be able to relax.
Actual homeopathic remedies start can be anywhere between 10X and 100X. But there's the small problem of Avogadro's number. A 100X solution, you'd have to drink whole swimming pools of it, before an actual mollecule of caffeine actually entered your system to cure your insomnia.
so can I drink my homeopathic remedy for insomnia in my evening coffee?
WOW, I looked it up on wikipedia and the extremely bizarre explanation made by Mr. Spun two posts up is in fact correct. I apologize because it seemed that the description was a sarcastic exaggeration, and I did not believe you.
I guess the really bizarre thing is that the NHS actually paid for this sort of quackery at one point!!!
We have now gotten the message of what homeopathy is not. There is is in all caps about 6 times above. So what the hell is it?
When I read this headline I imagined A stack of 15 routers on two cinderblocks and Chuck chopping through the whole stack.
Everyone I know has a camera of some sort, and most use the camera in their phones from time to time when they don't have a real camera with them. With the exception of people who do presentations or commercial training I know ONE person who owns a projector.
So I don't think there is a big demand for super dim, hard to hold steady, low res, battery killing projectors that you can carry in your pocket. The cell phone is turning into the digital swiss army knife. The mini projector might belong on a super specialized model (kinda like the golfer's swiss army knife that has the divot tool and the cleat cleaner).
the very small projectors I have seen are almost uselessly dim. "Hey could you cover up your glow-in-the-dark watch face it's ruining everyone's night vision and we can't see the projector image!"
No no it said a little bit geeky.
Canadians.
I wanna know if I can get one of those stickers for the carpool lane with the 911 GT3 Hybrid.
Though the common computer nerd is the most high profile and widely recognized nerd, there are in fact many varieties of nerds found in the wild. Today we will feature the mechanical engineer. The ME once dominated the high tech world creating turbines, fighter jets, and space rockets. Today it is common to find an odd crossbreed of the ME nerd and the car geek. This type of nerd stands out in several important ways. The mechanical engineer / car geek, often displays impressive social skills when compared to the meager skills of the computer nerd. ME's consider computers to be a means to an end instead of the end itself. One other common characteristic of the ME nerd / car geek is that he typically considered the various iterations of the Porsche 911 to be the very pinnacles of industrial design.
My son is bored through long sections of each of the prequel episodes. He loves every minute of the original trilogy. QED
When radiation is so weak that it can't even penetrate a few millimeters of air then it is effectively harmless when it is outside of your body. Tritium in drinking water will end up inside your body. All of that radiation will be absorbed by the tissue in the immediate vicinity of the radioactive particle. That cell that ends up containing those few molecules of heavy water will get a huge dose and will be much more likely to mutate. That makes alpha and beta emitters very dangerous once they get inside of your body.
The problem is that underground plumes of bad stuff spread over time. If you discover the contamination before it gets dangerous and you stop the leak it may be that the levels in water that is used by people never gets above the regulatory limit. If you let it sit it won't be long before people are drinking water with many times the the EPA limit.
One thing that always bothers me about these environmental stories is that when some Chemical X is reported to be floating around, it's never 20% over the regulatory limit, or even twice the limit, it is always at least one order of magnitude too high. The regulatory limit may be conservative, but I really doubt it has a safety factor of 37 built in.
Can't we just say 2.7 microcuries now?
Mostly because the EPA standard is expressed in picocuries and it is easiest for most people to interpret the data when they don't have to do a unit conversion. Hell I'm in the business of environmental consulting and I had to look up the difference between micro and pico.
16 contact points!?! my god I'm a man so I could use 11, but 16!?! wtf would someone do w/ 16!
I agree. It is all about parenting. When I was little my Mom corrected any grammatical mistake I made no matter what the situation. It took me forever to get the cases of personal pronouns straight. My 6 year old son already has better grammar than many much older kids because I always correct him. Since I do it nicely, he loves it. I guess I'm lucky that my son has a love of language. Someday I'm sure that his friends will become much more of an influence and he will learn texting language and the slang of his generation, and that's just fine because he will be able to switch to real English when he chooses. Parents with poor grammar will pass it on to their kids unless their kids are unusually motivated or in a first rate school.
I think that poor grammar is a symptom of sloppy thinking. Sloppy thinking is at the root of our society's problems. The various political demagogues (thanks spell checker!) would never be able to get away with the lies and fallacious arguments they spew if most of the country were well trained in rhetoric or formal logic.
Here is the point I would like every parent or potential parent to hear: If your schools are not doing the job and you can't afford better schools, it is YOUR JOB to fill in the gaps. I guarantee that my son will be well versed in logic before he finished high school, because he will get it from me.
Corporations absolutely should not have rights equal to those of humans. Corporations are effectively immortal. Since they cannot be captured, jailed, or put to death they are not subject to criminal law at all. They are only subject to civil law and in many ways even that is limited. In comparison to the way individuals are taxed, corporations are almost exempt from taxes. If a corporation incurs more debt that it can pay it is able to file for bankruptcy and walk away from the debt and any contracts it does not like (say with unions) and often time w/in a year the stockholders have MADE money on the process.
When our country was young people understood how dangerous corporations are to liberty. In fact it was largely in response to the abuses of the British East India Company that our revolution took place. When our country was young corporate charters were issued for limited periods, 10- 40 years; for limited purposes, say to build a rail line and could be easily revoked for violating a law. Corporations could only engage in activities directly related to their charter; could not own property or stock in other corporations; and stockholders were not protected from the liabilities of the corporation. You can see how radically different things are today.
You may be surprised but Adam Smith actually argued against corporations in "The Wealth of Nations" because they drove out competition from individual merchants and artisans. It was not until the railroads gained such power that they were able to get a Supreme Court to declare them "persons" that corporations began their meteoric rise to becoming the dominant world organizations. Now most governments act as proxies for corporations. The US governemnt already does more for the benefit of corporations that that of citizens, now with all restrictions on corporate electioneering removed these incorporeal, immortal, lawless monsters will be able to buy whatever elected position they desire by simply buying up so much propaganda that any truth will be buried in the din.
I waited until this spring to buy a PS2 since I only wanted it for GT4. I've since bought a few other games, mostly for my son (6 years old loves lego starwars). When I bought the refurbished console and GT4 I also shopped for and found a nice Logitech Driving Force Pro. With the control pad I was unable to complete the Nurburgring license test, but with the wheel I pulled it off. Anyway I would love to find other driving games that use the wheel on the ps2. There has to be one or two. A really arcadey game that my son would enjoy would be great, but from what I can tell most of the non GT driving games don't support the steering wheel. Any thoughts or recommendations?
I'm confused, I thought Win7 was Vista SP3. So wouldn't it be ready for the big time now?
personally I got all of the health benefits normally associated with quitting within about four days of switching to my PV - increased lung capacity, no coughing, increased stamina, no stink, etc.
Actually since you are still inhaling nicotine your cilia will still be paralyzed which means that your lung's self-cleaning system will not be functioning. You have eliminated all of the nasty gasses and particulate that smoking adds to the nicotine, but the root cause of the problem is the nicotine. All other gunk that you breath will still stay in your lungs (including very hazardous things like silica, asbestos, pm10.) So you have gotten some of the health benefits normally associated with quitting, not all.
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that people addicted to nicotine now have a way that they can get their fix without also breathing in all that nastiness that is smoke. I am also glad that people who do this won't be adding to the juggernaut of noxious clouds around every building entrance. I am also glad that these items are expensive enough that smokers won't throw them on the ground after they are done with them. I just wanted to remind people that these do not eliminate the dangers associated with nicotine use/addiction.
I can actually here Jeremy Clarkson saying this in my mind. Not that he's really a journalist...
Yesterday mathematicians announced that seven will no longer be considered a number.
This is the google support forum discussion that has earned all this bad press.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=0bd8ccd4799040c2&hl=en&fid=0bd8ccd4799040c200047c99c44ddfe6
By 6pm today I read most of these posts. There are several squeaky wheels that are posting over and over but there are also dozens of individuals that are all telling the same story. These people are in areas with good 3g reception (as confirmed by the coverage map or by another 3g t-mobile phone in the same place at the same time. They report that their N1 continually switches between edge and g3. Their data download rates are about 1/10th what they should be. Many have reported that the constant switching between networks is draining their battery within a few hours. When they call HTC for support, HTC blames T-mobile's network. T-mobile blames HTC and claims that they have not been given any support documentation on the N1 from Google or HTC. The complainers are in a wide variety of locations throughout the country.
Gizmodo reports on the story and claims that their phones have poor 3g reception as well:
http://gizmodo.com/5443123/does-the-nexus-one-have-3g-problems
The same problem crops up in the comments after this story at tmonews
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/01/nexus-one-incurring-3g-problems/
Lots of people are reporting the same problems here on the androidforums
http://androidforums.com/nexus-one/34321-nexus-one-3g-problems.html
So I really don't think this is due to ignorant customers. There is a real problem with at least some of these phones. It may be there is a batch out there with bad antennas, or there could be a software glitch. If it's software then one would hope a patch is coming from Google asap. Regardless of what the problem is, Google has made a terrible mistake in ignoring this for almost 2 days now. Even if they had replied in their own support forums just once saying "sorry we're on it get back to you soon." They might not look so bad. Personally I think Google's experience with leaving their "products" in beta for years on end has finally bitten them on the ass.
From that perspective the only logical position on the leprechaun, unicorn, and santa clause questions is agnosticism. Of course the non-existence of unicorns can never be 100% proven, but we can be pretty sure that they don't exist based on a few simple things. There has never been any physical evidence of one. There is no convincing reason that one should exist. The existence of one would not simplify our understanding of the world or answer any pressing questions about the way the universe works or came into being. The existence of one would in fact be contrary to many things that we do understand about the world. It is fair to say that the existence of unicorns is very unlikely. It is so unlikely that I am perfectly comfortable in saying that unicorns do not exist.
The same argument applies to this god fellow, and santa clause, and bertrand's teapot, and the flying spaghetti monster, and allah, and zeus, zoroaster, the trickster, mithras, ganesh, and any of a thousand other gods. So to argue that the existence of a deity is some sort of 50/50 proposition is silly. It takes massive, colorful, flying leaps of faith to claim the existence of god. It takes only a reasonable look at the evidence to be overwhelmingly certain of his/its/her non-existence.
I'm not agnostic when it comes to unicorns, and I'm not agnostic when it comes to god.
isn't this what spam is?