I'm sick and tired of these exaggerated claims regarding the temperature of the sun. We have sent three manned probes to try and confirm the alleged surface temperature, and I can categorically state that we have received no (that is, zero) reports to indicate any abnormally high temperature...
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
Like the first female President of the United States wouldn't be news?
Like the first black President of the United States wasn't news?
OK, but a Parliament decides who the Prime Minister will be. And if things are not going well, they can decide again. The people (allegedly) decide who the President will be. Then they live with that choice for the term of office, baring despotism or tragedy. So between the two positions there is a significant disparity in the difficulty of the acquisition of office, the term of office, and the practical, usable power of the office. It's kind of like comparing apples and bowling balls.
All that being said, the recent event in Australia is certainly news worthy. The opinions (read "biases") of political leaders can take a long time to shift, and given the chattel like view that some of the world's current governments seem to hold towards females, it is good for those bass-ackwards chumps to have to deal with women in power.
Oh sure, you may think you'll benefit... but what do we do when our female relatives start showing up in ads at our favorite pron site? "Oh, look at the boobs on that... Aunt Jane?!?!"
As is stands, evaporative coolers (a.k.a. swamp coolers) are used quite a bit in the southwest right now. As long as the humidity is low they work great. Having two motors (typically a 1/2 to 1 hp blower and a 1/10 hp water pump) they use about 20 to 35% of the power a comparable A/C unit would pull. Of course when the humidity goes up, they do just make it worse, but in the desert that's not the norm so they will cover about 70-80% of the cooling season. It's important to note you have to open the home up so the air can get out, or the whole system suffers (and your doors slam). Often the cooled air is vented into the attic to help cool it in passing. Swamp coolers are also sometimes used as pre-chillers for large A/C units, or to supply cooled air to the condenser coil for an efficiency boost (as opposed to say, replacing a marginal system). I lived with swamp coolers for 20 years and never heard of a single case of legionnaires... the water evaporates and is replaced by fresh water. The water in the holding area is also pretty cold while the unit is running, I think that retards the growth of most nasties. A poorly maintained unit could grow bacteria, mold, or even moss... I've seen it. But if the unit is cleaned and used regularly they are very safe.
Most people running swamp coolers do so because of money, I can't see them upgrading to the new system if they manage now. As a replacement for normal A/C, this new unit will still have the issue of not working well in humidity.
I think the exact opposite should apply. There is no more important time for a person to have the right of choice then when their quality of life is going to suffer massively. From my point of view, no one can live for another. Unless we have a mechanism for transferring the suffering and financial consequences to ourselves, we should not try to abrogate their freedom of choice. I would not choose experimental treatment unless it had met with great success and approval in many places. That being said, if a person dying wants to grasp at straws, and no one else is put in harms way, let them do it. At the very least they will serve as a warning to others, and they might just get a lucky break... I have a neighbor that has stopped getting cancer treatments because it is advanced and at this point the treatments are worse than the cancer. He made his choice, and it could be argued that he is not in his right mind... but I would not do it, and his doctor seems to be OK with it, his kids know what he is doing. They are not happy, but they do understand.
What do you say, should we strap him down and force drugs (poison really) into his veins? If not, then why do we intercede when they decide the other way? When they decide to fight death to last breath, do we say, "You are out of your mind, just die already..."
Age of consent usually applies to statutory rape. If a person is below the age of consent, they can not legally consent to a sexual relationship, regardless of their actual actions or feelings. In my state an adult having sex with a person under 18 is a violation of the law. Period. The lower the age of the minor, the more serious the offense. I'll tell you what's freaky, decipher Arkansas Law on the subject.
What we are talking about is a person being charged with a crime in spite of lawful consent... if it is experimental medicine or sex hardly seems to matter if lawful informed consent was given. The thread I responded to suggested a violation of the Geneva Convention may be an issue in experimental medicine... That's more than a slippery slope, it's a pitfall.
Since the Geneva convention has specific rules against testing on human subjects. True it is meant for forced testing but this seems like it might still apply.
If we travel down that road, anyone that has had consensual sex should be worried about being charged with rape...
Wow, I can't believe I get to conjecture, It's a bug, not a feature. It just seems so wrong some how... does this mean Microsoft will be calling me soon?
Well, it's true I could have phrased that better. I do agree they were not used in large volume. But where they were used, it was to strategic advantage. Line Officers and critical support functions were decimated or worse. Forming ranks and firing muskets had little effect on the men hiding far out of range, killing at will. Yes, they were slower to load and took more maintenance. An attack helicopter takes more maintenance than a basic artillery piece, but the total overall benefit is obvious.
My main point was that the men drafting our core laws knew that the people were entitled to modern weapons and that the civilian long guns
(rifles) used in the war far surpassed the technology of the newly minted army. The framers did not assure the right to bear old, ineffective arms... just the right to bear arms as defined by the usage of arms in context of the current state of the art.
Oh, the Minié ball, also French. What happened to those guys, they used to have so many great inventors and scientists. Did they behead their gene pool?
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We're all going to die.
Well, we're still waiting to hear from Harry Houdini, but I have to admit that the empirical evidence seems to support your claim...
I'm sick and tired of these exaggerated claims regarding the temperature of the sun. We have sent three manned probes to try and confirm the alleged surface temperature, and I can categorically state that we have received no (that is, zero) reports to indicate any abnormally high temperature...
It just seems like there should be a Comparative Religion vs Multiple Personality Disorder joke around here someplace...
I know what you mean. When I was a kid my family relocated several times... but I always found them...
Now I get it. China employs a fleet of censor ships to enforce an information embargo. On itself.
But... HOW do they sail past the Great Fire Wall?
Actually I think you bathing in his forest pool would make the alligator's day considerably better.
Yup. No fangs, claws, scales, fur.... just wiggling red meat with a fuzzy screaming thing on the top....
That's like some kind of alligator lollipop.
Yeah, George has long since seemed to be more in it for the money, like he is trying to build this vast empire to rival Microsoft.
That's what happens when you surrender to the Dark Side of The Farce...
That's kinda snarky coming from someone laying in a morgue drawer wearing nothing but a toe tag... Mr. Doe...
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen duck?
Is that an African duck or a European duck?
And, as a bonus, Schrödinger's cat gets to LIVE!
Well, maybe...
...I'd better go check...
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
I'm pretty sure the MP3 compression algorithm is not open. These folks make a nice bundle of money from it. A little more background information is available here. Rates and fees are covered here.
I don't know if The Fraunhofer Society is "for profit", but it would seem they co-own the rights to MP3 and via Thomson Consumer Electronics, they do collect money for it's use.
Nicely elucidated. I must now seek out and read some copy and paste trolling to reassure myself that slashdot is functioning normally...
Like the first female President of the United States wouldn't be news? Like the first black President of the United States wasn't news?
OK, but a Parliament decides who the Prime Minister will be. And if things are not going well, they can decide again. The people (allegedly) decide who the President will be. Then they live with that choice for the term of office, baring despotism or tragedy. So between the two positions there is a significant disparity in the difficulty of the acquisition of office, the term of office, and the practical, usable power of the office. It's kind of like comparing apples and bowling balls.
All that being said, the recent event in Australia is certainly news worthy. The opinions (read "biases") of political leaders can take a long time to shift, and given the chattel like view that some of the world's current governments seem to hold towards females, it is good for those bass-ackwards chumps to have to deal with women in power.
Oh sure, you may think you'll benefit... but what do we do when our female relatives start showing up in ads at our favorite pron site? "Oh, look at the boobs on that... Aunt Jane?!?!"
As is stands, evaporative coolers (a.k.a. swamp coolers) are used quite a bit in the southwest right now. As long as the humidity is low they work great. Having two motors (typically a 1/2 to 1 hp blower and a 1/10 hp water pump) they use about 20 to 35% of the power a comparable A/C unit would pull. Of course when the humidity goes up, they do just make it worse, but in the desert that's not the norm so they will cover about 70-80% of the cooling season. It's important to note you have to open the home up so the air can get out, or the whole system suffers (and your doors slam). Often the cooled air is vented into the attic to help cool it in passing. Swamp coolers are also sometimes used as pre-chillers for large A/C units, or to supply cooled air to the condenser coil for an efficiency boost (as opposed to say, replacing a marginal system). I lived with swamp coolers for 20 years and never heard of a single case of legionnaires... the water evaporates and is replaced by fresh water. The water in the holding area is also pretty cold while the unit is running, I think that retards the growth of most nasties. A poorly maintained unit could grow bacteria, mold, or even moss... I've seen it. But if the unit is cleaned and used regularly they are very safe.
Most people running swamp coolers do so because of money, I can't see them upgrading to the new system if they manage now. As a replacement for normal A/C, this new unit will still have the issue of not working well in humidity.
They will display Goatse of course.
So, a reflection of the state's current budgetary condition...
Coming soon, "Honk" brand masturbatory aids!
Sorry, meds have not kicked in yet...
Be careful about hooking them up in series, they might fry!
Sorry, did not mean to post as AC there...
I think the exact opposite should apply. There is no more important time for a person to have the right of choice then when their quality of life is going to suffer massively. From my point of view, no one can live for another. Unless we have a mechanism for transferring the suffering and financial consequences to ourselves, we should not try to abrogate their freedom of choice. I would not choose experimental treatment unless it had met with great success and approval in many places. That being said, if a person dying wants to grasp at straws, and no one else is put in harms way, let them do it. At the very least they will serve as a warning to others, and they might just get a lucky break...
I have a neighbor that has stopped getting cancer treatments because it is advanced and at this point the treatments are worse than the cancer. He made his choice, and it could be argued that he is not in his right mind... but I would not do it, and his doctor seems to be OK with it, his kids know what he is doing. They are not happy, but they do understand.
What do you say, should we strap him down and force drugs (poison really) into his veins? If not, then why do we intercede when they decide the other way? When they decide to fight death to last breath, do we say, "You are out of your mind, just die already..."
Age of consent usually applies to statutory rape. If a person is below the age of consent, they can not legally consent to a sexual relationship, regardless of their actual actions or feelings. In my state an adult having sex with a person under 18 is a violation of the law. Period. The lower the age of the minor, the more serious the offense. I'll tell you what's freaky, decipher Arkansas Law on the subject.
What we are talking about is a person being charged with a crime in spite of lawful consent... if it is experimental medicine or sex hardly seems to matter if lawful informed consent was given. The thread I responded to suggested a violation of the Geneva Convention may be an issue in experimental medicine... That's more than a slippery slope, it's a pitfall.
Since the Geneva convention has specific rules against testing on human subjects. True it is meant for forced testing but this seems like it might still apply.
If we travel down that road, anyone that has had consensual sex should be worried about being charged with rape...
Wow, I can't believe I get to conjecture,
It's a bug, not a feature.
It just seems so wrong some how...
does this mean Microsoft will be calling me soon?
Well, it's true I could have phrased that better. I do agree they were not used in large volume. But where they were used, it was to strategic advantage. Line Officers and critical support functions were decimated or worse. Forming ranks and firing muskets had little effect on the men hiding far out of range, killing at will. Yes, they were slower to load and took more maintenance. An attack helicopter takes more maintenance than a basic artillery piece, but the total overall benefit is obvious.
My main point was that the men drafting our core laws knew that the people were entitled to modern weapons and that the civilian long guns (rifles) used in the war far surpassed the technology of the newly minted army. The framers did not assure the right to bear old, ineffective arms... just the right to bear arms as defined by the usage of arms in context of the current state of the art.
Oh, the Minié ball, also French. What happened to those guys, they used to have so many great inventors and scientists. Did they behead their gene pool?
Should you let them set your skin on fire, or let them set the clothes just on top of your skin on fire?
Would you rather put out a fire on your arm or your sleeve?
I'm excited because my line of foil clothing is about to take off... so far all that's been selling is a few hats...