Benny: Please disable the shield systems. Computer: Of course. There are no movies in your area with that title.
[... a few minutes and many comparable misunderstandings later...]
Benny: Disable the shield! Come on! You are undermining me! Computer: Which phrase would you like me to underline? Benny: Disable the shield! Metal Beard: Let me try. Metal Beard: Be ye disabling of yond shield. Computer: Disabling shield. Benny: What?!
Don't listen to this AC either - in some jurisdictions, unusual ballots ("absentee", "provisional", or some other paper ballot in lieu of electronic voting, whether mailed-in or not) are NOT counted until all votes cast by "normal" means have all been processed after the polls close, and only if the estimated total number of issued, unusual ballots is still enough to affect who wins.
In other words, if there were a million unusual ballots issued, but there's more than a million normal votes separating the winner from the losers, the unusual ballots are ignored. The notion sucks, but I suppose it's done to avoid wasted effort (== wasted tax dollars).
Get your ass to the polls. Vote by whatever method is considered "usual", and if it's electronic, just suck it up, use the stupid machine, and double-check that the little printed receipt matches who you voted for.
Wealth is the sum total street value of all things and assets that a person owns or wholly controls and has the right to sell for cash or money in the bank. That value should only be based on what dollar amount that person would actually end up with if they liquidated everything they could without having a significant negative impact on their ability to live in a safe, clean, comfortable environment, as defined by agencies like HUD, EPA, etc., or by people who actually live at or below the poverty line, whichever makes more sense. One should rightfully let that person keep their
least-opulent house, car, etc., so long as they're in very good condition, and stocks/investments would only count as their final sale value, even if the value would crash during the sale.
Net worth of course is whatever the difference is between that wealth and the person's liabilities/debts.
"Rich" is when a person's net worth exceeds the general cost of living in the most expensive region out of the collection of countries that person has citizenship in and/or spends a significant fraction of their time in, perhaps by a factor of 3x. For someone for whom the US falls within that list, I guess one should use California as the cost base, making "rich" equal to a wealth of about 300 thousand bucks. That sounds about right to me.
The article doesn't say it, but I imagine the pilot will sleep at night, since the plane will glide down during that time anyway. All it would really need is some kind of alarm that's sensitive to time, light, and altitude.
No, without that goal you have either non-profit organizations, or at worst, Communism, neither of which is a bad thing.
> It’s a fiduciary requirement [...]
Only if the business' charter says so. A business' finances can be structured however they want, so long as it's all legal (ethical would be nice, too).
I make every effort to tell the truth when I speak. My post uses clear, simple math, hard facts taken from the US Constitution, and a supposition based on the two, not a forecast as would have had to be the case with the story you refer to.
Under a proportional system *with no funny business* (that includes gerrymandered congressional districts), if candidate A gets 45 percent of the popular vote, and candidate B gets 50 percent, then by definition, they should get approximately 45% and 50% of the Electoral College votes as well, not accounting for rounding errors.
Furthermore, I watched fivethirtyeight.com's forecasts throughout the election, and as I recall, they didn't exactly have the best accuracy this cycle. I don't trust that site's forecasts any more than I trust mainstream media to do the same.
...and the number you're looking for is 711,000 - the average ratio of state population to US House representatives.
By definition, the popular vote, while not being legally binding, is a reflection of states' populations, which are in turn supposed to be what determines the relative number of Representative in the House. The number of Electors each state gets is supposed to be equal to the count of their House reps, plus 2 (representing the Senate).
The problem, as has been the case since time immemorial, is that most states in the country are winner-take-all (all but one or two in the 2016 election). If all states had been strictly proportional with no funny business, then the results would have been approximately 259 votes for Clinton, 248 for Trump, and 31 for other candidates (not accounting for rounding errors).
On top of that, we should awaken the portions of our genes that permit regeneration. Currently we have only a few parts of our bodies that regenerate. The intestines for example still regenerate. But there is no reason it couldn't grow new internal organs, grow new limbs, grow new eyes, new ears, regenerate nerves, etc.All of that is latent in our biology.
But...didn't researchers at Marvel already establish that this may sometimes lead to people dying in sudden, very hot explosions?:-P
No, it just means you lack a sense of humor. In the real world, people think personification like this (and in particular stuff like those cartoons ESA released) is cute.
You're right of course about the sentiment regarding ads versus paying for the service. And yes, cable companies are scum. Can't say I agree with TV being more addictive than heroin, however:
It's not fucking entitlement, it's recognizing what you're paying for
"the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something"
You are using the "so-and-so has a sense of entitlement" definition of the word, and with the same negative connotation as some use when describing various social programs. Like those social programs, you paid for the service and therefore are entitled to it.
By erasing all evidence of both the pre-Islamic past and alternative interpretations of Islam, ISIS hopes to create a world where knowledge of any belief system except their own interpretation of Islam is forgotten forever.
These people (that is, the extremists) honestly believe they can make this Orwellian fantasy come true in the digital age? Sure, the world will lose a lot of precious artifacts, but information can't be destroyed - and that's withOUT people like Allahyari acting to resurrect those artifacts. The world needs more people like him.
According to the discussion here, http://electronics.stackexchan......assuming full, direct sunlight, some panels output up to 20 volts without a load, and 14 or so volts with. Others exist which will output 24 to 36 volts.
> The one thing I need to work out - exactly how do we make a Lava Lamp work efficiently on DC power....
You only need a 10-25W bulb for those, so just build a specialized "bulb" that consists of a couple of white LEDs for the light source, and a very small heating element to get the wax moving.
And you war-obsessed, money-blinded, overly-religious conservatives are saying what, exactly, about the current president? That he's some kind of angel of sunlight? No. You guys are currently calling him the worst president ever, claiming he's gonna make himself dictator (despite the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution), comparing his administration to... well let's not Godwin this. Notice I did NOT single out any current or past US political party.
Here's a newsflash: since before this country was founded, the person currently holding the highest office in most any country has been called every nasty name or epithet in [the then current version of] the book by his or her opposition, while that person's supporters of course use "softer" words when criticizing him or her, with variances of course depending on the country.
And yeah, I meant every word of that opening sentence. Why? Because I am a moderate, and would like to think I can see *both* sides of the current political climate, and conservatives today are just as bad as they were 50, 100, 200 years ago. The noises you make are the same, only the reasons and target of that noise have changed.
How's the phrase go? "Reality leans liberal" or something like that? Maybe it does, but only if you compare it to "conservative" as the terms are measured in the US. Compare it to the rest of the civilized world, and reality is (and should be) a lot closer to center/moderate.
Steering this back on topic, that means we keep our privacy, security, strong encryption without ANYONE else holding the keys but us), and so on, and the government goes and dunks its collective heads in the toilet. They don't need our data to make us any safer, and we don't need to BE any "safer" anyway.
You're right that a timer's a bad idea for your use-case, so how about something else? This seems simple enough, if a bit simplistic:
You've always got your smartphone with you, or most people do - certainly just about anyone who would have any interest in the "smart home" market, I would think. In any case, put the phone to work in the *right* way: there are apps that use the radio in the phone to triangulate its position to within a few dozen meters based on cell towers and neighboring wifi hotspots. Make another such app, or hook into an existing one, adding a function to calculate line-of-sight distance from your phone to your house's coordinates on the map.
At home, your smart-home controller would have a live, secure connection to a central server of some kind, waiting for commands.
* Triangulate the phone's position once per minute, in a background task. * At each interval, if the location resolves to within some "close enough to the house" distance, say 5 miles, send an event the main part of the app. * That event would cause the app to make a secure connection to the aforementioned server, over which it would send a single "power up the climate control, lights, etc" packet. The triangulation event would then be set to, say, 1 hour. * The app also could listen for an event from the triangulation routine for "leaving home" also, with a threshold that's a bit more distant than the "coming home" value, say 6 miles. The triangulation interval would reset to 1 minute and a "turn everything off" packet would be sent at this point.
Options to immediately send "power up now" and "power down now" packets (setting appropriate polling intervals in either case) could be offered.
Such an app should show a clear indication of its distance calculation and what the last command was that was sent, and if possible, some status info from the house's controller.
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Benny: Please disable the shield systems.
Computer: Of course. There are no movies in your area with that title.
[... a few minutes and many comparable misunderstandings later ...]
Benny: Disable the shield! Come on! You are undermining me!
Computer: Which phrase would you like me to underline?
Benny: Disable the shield!
Metal Beard: Let me try.
Metal Beard: Be ye disabling of yond shield.
Computer: Disabling shield.
Benny: What?!
Don't listen to this AC either - in some jurisdictions, unusual ballots ("absentee", "provisional", or some other paper ballot in lieu of electronic voting, whether mailed-in or not) are NOT counted until all votes cast by "normal" means have all been processed after the polls close, and only if the estimated total number of issued, unusual ballots is still enough to affect who wins.
In other words, if there were a million unusual ballots issued, but there's more than a million normal votes separating the winner from the losers, the unusual ballots are ignored. The notion sucks, but I suppose it's done to avoid wasted effort (== wasted tax dollars).
Get your ass to the polls. Vote by whatever method is considered "usual", and if it's electronic, just suck it up, use the stupid machine, and double-check that the little printed receipt matches who you voted for.
That's easy. In my mind:
Wealth is the sum total street value of all things and assets that a person owns or wholly controls and has the right to sell for cash or money in the bank. That value should only be based on what dollar amount that person would actually end up with if they liquidated everything they could without having a significant negative impact on their ability to live in a safe, clean, comfortable environment, as defined by agencies like HUD, EPA, etc., or by people who actually live at or below the poverty line, whichever makes more sense. One should rightfully let that person keep their
least-opulent house, car, etc., so long as they're in very good condition, and stocks/investments would only count as their final sale value, even if the value would crash during the sale.
Net worth of course is whatever the difference is between that wealth and the person's liabilities/debts.
"Rich" is when a person's net worth exceeds the general cost of living in the most expensive region out of the collection of countries that person has citizenship in and/or spends a significant fraction of their time in, perhaps by a factor of 3x. For someone for whom the US falls within that list, I guess one should use California as the cost base, making "rich" equal to a wealth of about 300 thousand bucks. That sounds about right to me.
Oh I dunno, planting trees isn't THAT expensive is it?
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The article doesn't say it, but I imagine the pilot will sleep at night, since the plane will glide down during that time anyway. All it would really need is some kind of alarm that's sensitive to time, light, and altitude.
> Without that goal you have socialism
No, without that goal you have either non-profit organizations, or at worst, Communism, neither of which is a bad thing.
> It’s a fiduciary requirement [...]
Only if the business' charter says so. A business' finances can be structured however they want, so long as it's all legal (ethical would be nice, too).
Badgers, lots and lots of badgers, eating mushrooms and doing calisthenics.
I make every effort to tell the truth when I speak. My post uses clear, simple math, hard facts taken from the US Constitution, and a supposition based on the two, not a forecast as would have had to be the case with the story you refer to.
Under a proportional system *with no funny business* (that includes gerrymandered congressional districts), if candidate A gets 45 percent of the popular vote, and candidate B gets 50 percent, then by definition, they should get approximately 45% and 50% of the Electoral College votes as well, not accounting for rounding errors.
Furthermore, I watched fivethirtyeight.com's forecasts throughout the election, and as I recall, they didn't exactly have the best accuracy this cycle. I don't trust that site's forecasts any more than I trust mainstream media to do the same.
So, where's the lie?
...and the number you're looking for is 711,000 - the average ratio of state population to US House representatives.
By definition, the popular vote, while not being legally binding, is a reflection of states' populations, which are in turn supposed to be what determines the relative number of Representative in the House. The number of Electors each state gets is supposed to be equal to the count of their House reps, plus 2 (representing the Senate).
The problem, as has been the case since time immemorial, is that most states in the country are winner-take-all (all but one or two in the 2016 election). If all states had been strictly proportional with no funny business, then the results would have been approximately 259 votes for Clinton, 248 for Trump, and 31 for other candidates (not accounting for rounding errors).
Nonono -- Fakin' Bacon
It is if the recipient has epilepsy of a type where he or she can actually die from a seizure induced by the malicious GIF.
But...didn't researchers at Marvel already establish that this may sometimes lead to people dying in sudden, very hot explosions? :-P
No, it just means you lack a sense of humor. In the real world, people think personification like this (and in particular stuff like those cartoons ESA released) is cute.
Because it's fun? It gives a little personality to not just the lander, but to the team running the project.
You're right of course about the sentiment regarding ads versus paying for the service. And yes, cable companies are scum. Can't say I agree with TV being more addictive than heroin, however:
It is *precisely* an entitlement, by definition:
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
"the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something"
You are using the "so-and-so has a sense of entitlement" definition of the word, and with the same negative connotation as some use when describing various social programs. Like those social programs, you paid for the service and therefore are entitled to it.
Since you asked, here are some mods/modpacks for you to try out:
More Blocks
Homedecor
Pipeworks
Gloopblocks
Streets
Infrastructure (cheapie's version)
Carbone MOBs (separated out from the Carbone subgame)
A few that do change the gameplay somewhat radically:
Plantlife modpack
More Trees
Technic modpack
There are a ton more on the forums. All of the above can be used together (as is usually the case with this engine).
Disclaimer: I maintain and or contribute to several of these.
From the article:
These people (that is, the extremists) honestly believe they can make this Orwellian fantasy come true in the digital age? Sure, the world will lose a lot of precious artifacts, but information can't be destroyed - and that's withOUT people like Allahyari acting to resurrect those artifacts. The world needs more people like him.
*shakes head*
According to the discussion here, http://electronics.stackexchan... ...assuming full, direct sunlight, some panels output up to 20 volts without a load, and 14 or so volts with. Others exist which will output 24 to 36 volts.
> The one thing I need to work out - exactly how do we make a Lava Lamp work efficiently on DC power....
You only need a 10-25W bulb for those, so just build a specialized "bulb" that consists of a couple of white LEDs for the light source, and a very small heating element to get the wax moving.
And you war-obsessed, money-blinded, overly-religious conservatives are saying what, exactly, about the current president? That he's some kind of angel of sunlight? No. You guys are currently calling him the worst president ever, claiming he's gonna make himself dictator (despite the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution), comparing his administration to ... well let's not Godwin this. Notice I did NOT single out any current or past US political party.
Here's a newsflash: since before this country was founded, the person currently holding the highest office in most any country has been called every nasty name or epithet in [the then current version of] the book by his or her opposition, while that person's supporters of course use "softer" words when criticizing him or her, with variances of course depending on the country.
And yeah, I meant every word of that opening sentence. Why? Because I am a moderate, and would like to think I can see *both* sides of the current political climate, and conservatives today are just as bad as they were 50, 100, 200 years ago. The noises you make are the same, only the reasons and target of that noise have changed.
How's the phrase go? "Reality leans liberal" or something like that? Maybe it does, but only if you compare it to "conservative" as the terms are measured in the US. Compare it to the rest of the civilized world, and reality is (and should be) a lot closer to center/moderate.
Steering this back on topic, that means we keep our privacy, security, strong encryption without ANYONE else holding the keys but us), and so on, and the government goes and dunks its collective heads in the toilet. They don't need our data to make us any safer, and we don't need to BE any "safer" anyway.
Oblig: https://xkcd.com/566/
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky."
You're right that a timer's a bad idea for your use-case, so how about something else? This seems simple enough, if a bit simplistic:
You've always got your smartphone with you, or most people do - certainly just about anyone who would have any interest in the "smart home" market, I would think. In any case, put the phone to work in the *right* way: there are apps that use the radio in the phone to triangulate its position to within a few dozen meters based on cell towers and neighboring wifi hotspots. Make another such app, or hook into an existing one, adding a function to calculate line-of-sight distance from your phone to your house's coordinates on the map.
At home, your smart-home controller would have a live, secure connection to a central server of some kind, waiting for commands.
* Triangulate the phone's position once per minute, in a background task.
* At each interval, if the location resolves to within some "close enough to the house" distance, say 5 miles, send an event the main part of the app.
* That event would cause the app to make a secure connection to the aforementioned server, over which it would send a single "power up the climate control, lights, etc" packet. The triangulation event would then be set to, say, 1 hour.
* The app also could listen for an event from the triangulation routine for "leaving home" also, with a threshold that's a bit more distant than the "coming home" value, say 6 miles. The triangulation interval would reset to 1 minute and a "turn everything off" packet would be sent at this point.
Options to immediately send "power up now" and "power down now" packets (setting appropriate polling intervals in either case) could be offered.
Such an app should show a clear indication of its distance calculation and what the last command was that was sent, and if possible, some status info from the house's controller.