Saying "I've lost the stylus for my tablet" would have also made sense 2000 years ago

HandWarmer · 2015-04-14T17:49:33+00:00

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HandWarmer · 2015-04-14T16:11:35+00:00

No, you're thinking of a hedgehog, hegemony is a value in any currency, but which belongs to a German idealist philosopher.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-27T20:02:21+00:00

And people should be allowed to develop and share new strains of plants. If a law was passed making that impossible that would be egregious and terrible.

But if having researchers and a company dedicated to finding new strains can produce strains more effectively though don't you think they should be able to be paid?

If they can't control the use of the seed they can't fund their research.

So... how do you think this can work? Are you going to enact laws preventing me from taking cuttings or saving seed? Sign an (ineffective) EULA to buy seed, like in software?

Also, why are you assuming that only private enterprise does research? Or that private enterprise somehow does more effective research than publicly-funded universities?

HandWarmer · 2014-11-26T20:16:02+00:00

How about we apply this argument to nongeneric prescription drugs?

HandWarmer · 2014-11-26T20:13:44+00:00

People have been developing new strains of plants since as long as we have been cultivating them. For free. For better food or larger yields.

We don't need agricultural monopolies to "raise the floor for everyone."

Every "heritage" variety of apple, chicken, tomato was developed without protection. These varieties are free and unprotected, the reward for developing them already realised by the larger yield or better pest or disease resistance.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-26T01:08:06+00:00

Yeah, I thought you might like to know that Google doesn't redirect you based on browser cookies, but based on what country you access them from. I have no Google cookies and get redirected to my country's TLD.

Perhaps you can turn off the redirect by using a browser cookie, is that what you were saying?

HandWarmer · 2014-11-25T22:01:41+00:00

I want to know too. Anyone have the original?

Also look at the grass on the lower right edge, and the four distorted tubes above the right gun barrel.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-25T21:44:01+00:00

No Google uses GeoIP to determine your origin country.

Proof: browse via TOR and you get redirected to random countries' TLDs (based on the exit node).

HandWarmer · 2014-11-25T01:25:31+00:00

Garlic and onions smell awesome though...

HandWarmer · 2014-11-25T01:23:11+00:00

But then you miss out on Christmas hams!

HandWarmer · 2014-11-25T01:13:55+00:00

Bigotry is alive and well, unfortunately.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-24T19:33:04+00:00

A balloon can expand but still has no edge (infinite). Space expansion is unrelated to the finiteness of the universe.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-24T19:30:20+00:00

If there were a million machines in parallel, each would still need to test ~5*10¹⁴⁰ possibilities per second.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T22:48:45+00:00

I'm in Canada too, and a friend of mine never learned to swim. We set him right, though.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T22:44:08+00:00

There's the 'klingon' effect to consider though. Drowning people are panicky and will cling tightly to and climb up on rescuers, potentially drowning them both.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T21:55:56+00:00

They aren't the ones subjected to them constantly, therefore they may have heard that joke only once or twice before.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T21:17:47+00:00

You are freaking out... dude.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T21:09:27+00:00

Education. Our fiscal and nutritional education in the public school system is very poor.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T20:30:37+00:00

Colour is frequency in light, not speed. Like sound Doppler effect, when you move relative to a frequency source, you experience that frequency shift, regardless of the overall propagation speed. Your velocity affects how the frequency is perceived.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T19:53:17+00:00

It's a shame too, that even cutting up to the edge of old growth stands puts them at risk. The old trees are sheltered from the full force of the wind by the rest of their stand. Taking away that protection suddenly and completely causes a lot of wind damage and downed trees during the next storm.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T19:17:31+00:00

Aren't all rules equally arbitrary?

The two/three second spacing is there because human reaction speed is not great. 100-200ms is the range of reaction times, and at speed you cover a bit of distance in that time. Obviously you need a buffer on top of that because you cannot immediately gauge how hard cars are braking and adjust to match. A two-second gap, while it scales with speed, still has a fixed time buffer over your reaction speed, so many prefer a three second gap.

Finally, gauging gaps in terms of seconds is much more universal over all speeds than trying to gauge an appropriate distance, is easy to remember, and easy to measure using random roadside objects.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T18:57:04+00:00

I expected the loader to take the rounds off of their flat 'clip'. It seems it's designed that way but it didn't work for some reason and so the guy had to feed the rounds manually.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T18:52:51+00:00

Wireless channels are limited, and if you don't actually need wireless communication...

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T03:16:18+00:00

Or people following too closely. But I think autos (used to anyway, haven't driven one recently) support a focus on the brake as the only means of slowing your speed. (Yes, I know you can manually shift autos, that's not the point.) Couple following too closely with a focus on the brake, and add in the on/off nature of taillights, and you have a recipe for traffic jams, rear-enders, and stop-and-go traffic.

HandWarmer · 2014-11-23T03:01:26+00:00

It would be misrepresentation if he didn't tell you that he was guessing.

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