It would be nice to know how large the device in that very small photo is. It looks much larger than something that would easily fit in the palm of one's hand, judging by the attached wire and earpiece (or microphone?). Also note the strap handle on top, sized for a hand. I don't think they made anything nearly as small as whatever the person in the film is supposedly holding.
He says it's obviously not an AM/FM radio because it's 1928. That's a strange thing to say considering he thinks it might be a cell phone. She's certainly dressed like she belongs in 1928. Anyway, Doctor Who was able to let Rose Tyler call her mom from like 10 million years in the future...maybe she's a different incarnation of The Doctor.
It must be the Japan is xenophobic comment. There might be some truth to it, but it's not nice to say so. Regardless, the rest of the post is insightful/informative.
Woo-hoo! Anecdote time! We have an Xbox 360 and a Wii. The Xbox gets played much more (a result of the particular games that we have for it that aren't made for Wii). It was won in a contest, and the Wii was purchased by the grandparents. What was the question again?
Officer Krupke, you've done it again. [Steve B] don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen. It ain't just a question of misunderstood; Deep down inside him, he's no good!
I think most of us know what liberal used to mean. But since it's never used that way anymore, and everyone knows the new meaning, you've got an uphill battle if you're gonna try to get people to use the old meaning in everyday discourse.
Voting isn't that hard to do, so if it allows you to complain guilt-free, why not just go ahead and do it? I did it last night while sitting in my living room recliner. (I live in a mandatory all-vote-by-mail state).
Of course, I think I agonize over and research who/what to vote for more than the average guy, so the ease of voting varies.
What bugs me is how I agonize *every time* between voting for at least one third-party candidate whose ideals I like, but either has one or more extreme or crackpot views or just has no chance of getting elected, or both. I wish I could just settle it in my mind for all time and either never even think about voting third-party, or actually do it without feeling it's a "wasted vote".
Gee, I thought Schwarzenegger came from Austria, which is why he cannot run for POTUS.
As for Nixon, if you consider his domestic policies, he wasn't particularly conservative:
...new economic policies which called for wage and price control and the abolition of the gold standard; sweeping environmental reforms, including the Clean Air Act and creation of the EPA; the launch of the War on Cancer and War on Drugs; reforms empowering women, including Title IX; and the desegregation of schools in the deep South.
Of course, the ways in which Republicans and Democrats were liberal and conservative, respectively, before the 1970s, makes the two parties almost indistinguishable from what we see today.
But of course there are always exceptions, and I think you'd be right if you said, despite all the stereotypes, California is not the most liberal state in the Union.
Actually, I imagine that quite a few CEOs did take some hard science or engineering courses, at least in tech companies. Maybe I just hope that is the case. I would not expect bank or insurance company CEO's to even bother with reading an article about quantum computing, as simplified as it might be.
No, it means that the more you read the article, the less certain you become about quantum computing. In other words, you should read as little of it as possible, i.e standard/. procedure.
Hi timr ! [ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] Welcome, timr. Type "help" if you need it. timr - hi, I'm timr. What should we chat about? [ Af:0 At:8 Sp:0] Name a topic. If you can't think of a topic, here are some suggestions: "burial customs" work "new year's" telephones "hate lists" . timr - that's a strange list of suggestions. burial customs? why that? [ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0] timr - cat got your tongue? [ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0] I don't like anatomy courses. They should make you eat what you dissect. timr - who said anything about anatomy? [ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0] Sorry. I can't help you. You did.
But if that is the case, how is it possible for anyone to not get any beer? (i.e. the "system" works for the poorest just as it does for the richest, all he has to do is take advantage of it: i.e. get an education , work hard, etc.)
...[the] system continues to operate, which necessarily benefits the wealthy more than the poor as it's the same system in which they were able to become wealthy in the first place. sounds suspiciously like a circular argument to me.
Is any system which allows any income disparity unjust in your worldview? If so, then the only just system is one in which *all wealth and income* is taken by the government and distributed to all, exactly equally. If you can point to an example of that ever having been done successfully (not just communes that people join voluntarily, but whole nations), I'd be interested to know it.
You say it's disingenuous to consider the taxation system from the standpoint of individual benefit, but then you complain about the one guy at the bottom who isn't benefitting from the system. You can't have it both ways.
Not true. The bar only provides beer (and mixed drinks and pretzels). Beer is not the only thing the ten men need or want. The bar does not provide cable TV, electricity, gasoline, telephones, pizza, cars, or dental treatment, for instance. Likewise, most things we get, we don't get from government. From government we expect national defense, roads and bridges, NASA, OSHA, and some other stuff like that. Not everything we need to survive. Making it so that we have to get *everything we need to survive* from the government: you think that is a good idea? why?
Like water for chocolate....apparently someone has found cadmium in chocolate. I wouldn't worry about it though: you'd have to eat 12kg/week of the chocolate they tested for an average adult to exceed the recommended limit.
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It would be nice to know how large the device in that very small photo is. It looks much larger than something that would easily fit in the palm of one's hand, judging by the attached wire and earpiece (or microphone?). Also note the strap handle on top, sized for a hand. I don't think they made anything nearly as small as whatever the person in the film is supposedly holding.
He says it's obviously not an AM/FM radio because it's 1928. That's a strange thing to say considering he thinks it might be a cell phone.
She's certainly dressed like she belongs in 1928.
Anyway, Doctor Who was able to let Rose Tyler call her mom from like 10 million years in the future...maybe she's a different incarnation of The Doctor.
And the average American has one ball.
Gaaah.
Screwed up the link.
It's here: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=-31.955949,141.462311&num=1&t=h&sll=-35.310258,149.125156&sspn=0.015987,0.033023&ie=UTF8&ll=-31.955931,141.462573&spn=0.003973,0.006727&z=18
Here's a circular feature in southern central interior Australia, and all the street names around it come from minerals:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?sll=-28.87835,141.047974&sspn=4.39095,8.453979&ll=-35.310258,149.125156&spn=0.015987,0.033023&t=h&z=16
It must be the Japan is xenophobic comment. There might be some truth to it, but it's not nice to say so.
Regardless, the rest of the post is insightful/informative.
Yeah, and I can tell by the pixels. I've seen quite a few shops in my day.
Maybe he wrote it from Japan. I heard he got some time off.
Woo-hoo! Anecdote time!
We have an Xbox 360 and a Wii. The Xbox gets played much more (a result of the particular games that we have for it that aren't made for Wii). It was won in a contest, and the Wii was purchased by the grandparents.
What was the question again?
More song lyrics:
Officer Krupke, you've done it again.
[Steve B] don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen.
It ain't just a question of misunderstood;
Deep down inside him, he's no good!
That biscuit doesn't happen to look like a diaphragm, does it?
Each SLBM (which they must be totally ignoring, since we have 14 SSBNs, each of which can carry 24 Trident D-5 SLBMs) can carry 8 MIRVs.
True, but (X/9) != 50.
Hell, two Ohio class SSBNs have (the capacity for) almost 50 nuclear (Trident, MIRV) missiles.
I think most of us know what liberal used to mean. But since it's never used that way anymore, and everyone knows the new meaning, you've got an uphill battle if you're gonna try to get people to use the old meaning in everyday discourse.
Voting isn't that hard to do, so if it allows you to complain guilt-free, why not just go ahead and do it?
I did it last night while sitting in my living room recliner. (I live in a mandatory all-vote-by-mail state).
Of course, I think I agonize over and research who/what to vote for more than the average guy, so the ease of voting varies.
What bugs me is how I agonize *every time* between voting for at least one third-party candidate whose ideals I like, but either has one or more extreme or crackpot views or just has no chance of getting elected, or both. I wish I could just settle it in my mind for all time and either never even think about voting third-party, or actually do it without feeling it's a "wasted vote".
Gee, I thought Schwarzenegger came from Austria, which is why he cannot run for POTUS.
As for Nixon, if you consider his domestic policies, he wasn't particularly conservative:
...new economic policies which called for wage and price control and the abolition of the gold standard; sweeping environmental reforms, including the Clean Air Act and creation of the EPA; the launch of the War on Cancer and War on Drugs; reforms empowering women, including Title IX; and the desegregation of schools in the deep South.
Of course, the ways in which Republicans and Democrats were liberal and conservative, respectively, before the 1970s, makes the two parties almost indistinguishable from what we see today.
But of course there are always exceptions, and I think you'd be right if you said, despite all the stereotypes, California is not the most liberal state in the Union.
Hmm, I would have thought "with fava beans and a nice chianti".
Actually, I imagine that quite a few CEOs did take some hard science or engineering courses, at least in tech companies. Maybe I just hope that is the case. I would not expect bank or insurance company CEO's to even bother with reading an article about quantum computing, as simplified as it might be.
No, it means that the more you read the article, the less certain you become about quantum computing. In other words, you should read as little of it as possible, i.e standard /. procedure.
...I guess it could have been typed on the keypad.
+1, Duh!
Here's a bit of a "conversation" I tried to have:
Hi timr !
[ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] Welcome, timr. Type "help" if you need it.
timr - hi, I'm timr. What should we chat about?
[ Af:0 At:8 Sp:0] Name a topic. If you can't think of a topic, here are some suggestions: "burial customs" work "new year's" telephones "hate lists" .
timr - that's a strange list of suggestions. burial customs? why that?
[ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0]
timr - cat got your tongue?
[ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0] I don't like anatomy courses. They should make you eat what you dissect.
timr - who said anything about anatomy?
[ Af:0 At:13 Sp:0] Sorry. I can't help you. You did.
They charge the runners and apply a magnetic field perpendicular to the playing field? Synchrotron baseball. Cool.
But if that is the case, how is it possible for anyone to not get any beer? (i.e. the "system" works for the poorest just as it does for the richest, all he has to do is take advantage of it: i.e. get an education , work hard, etc.)
Is any system which allows any income disparity unjust in your worldview? If so, then the only just system is one in which *all wealth and income* is taken by the government and distributed to all, exactly equally. If you can point to an example of that ever having been done successfully (not just communes that people join voluntarily, but whole nations), I'd be interested to know it.
You say it's disingenuous to consider the taxation system from the standpoint of individual benefit, but then you complain about the one guy at the bottom who isn't benefitting from the system. You can't have it both ways.
Not true. The bar only provides beer (and mixed drinks and pretzels). Beer is not the only thing the ten men need or want. The bar does not provide cable TV, electricity, gasoline, telephones, pizza, cars, or dental treatment, for instance. Likewise, most things we get, we don't get from government. From government we expect national defense, roads and bridges, NASA, OSHA, and some other stuff like that. Not everything we need to survive. Making it so that we have to get *everything we need to survive* from the government: you think that is a good idea? why?
Try it at 256x. Then it's over before you have time to lose interest.
Like water for chocolate....apparently someone has found cadmium in chocolate. I wouldn't worry about it though: you'd have to eat 12kg/week of the chocolate they tested for an average adult to exceed the recommended limit.