Don't forget about barbers, hairdressers, and interior decorators. Just imagine what would happen to our civilization if people could cut hair, or pick out curtains, without a license from the government.
Or police! We could have unlicensed/untrained police shooting or choking unarmed men, women and children
Why, exactly, should Uber drivers get to drive passengers using regular non-commercial drivers' insurance?
I once drove some of my daughter's friends home from a birthday party. Should I have had to have a commercial driver's license?
You probably need something else because, apparently, you can't read. The OP said "insurance" and you replied with "license"; OP said "drive people around for a living" (many over time) and you replied with "I once drove some of my daughter's friends home" (many one time). Seriously, OP offered *one* short paragraph and you fucked up reading comprehension 101.
If your automatic dies in the middle of an intersection, can you put it in gear and crank the starter to move it? Didn't think so.
You don't need to do that. Put it in neutral and push it, fat-ass.
If your car is dying in the middle of an intersection, it's time to take it to the junkyard and buy something newer than a 1985 model.
Can you get an automatic with a dead battery rolling down a hill, pop the clutch, and start it? Didn't think so.
Try that in any manual-transmission car made in the last 15 years and get back to me. It won't work.
Plus, manual transmissions serve as an anti-theft device. There are numerous accounts of theives breaking into cars, finding a stick shift there, and not being able to drive it, fleeing the scene on-foot.
If the car they're stealing is a model which is hot and frequently comes with a manual (i.e. any sports car, "sport compact", etc.), this isn't a problem for the thief. Thieves targeting those cars know how to drive them.
Are there any valuable functions mapped to a middle button anyway, that make it so important?
Yes. For people who use real computers, middle button = "paste selected text".
Who puts three fingers on the surface of a mouse?
People who use real computers but have not yet found the one true pointing device, the 4-button Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball.
Nope. Automatics have had lock-up torque converters for most of my life; I remember them being in cars in the 80s. According to Wikipedia, they first appeared in 1949, but only saw widespread use in the late 70s due to fuel economy concerns. But only recently have automatics gotten better highway fuel economy (or even equal) than manuals.
Hmm, it'd be interesting to see what the problem was. Was it the horrible MSC7120 chip in the ONU, or something on the OLT side? Did they go around and replace a lot of ONUs (the boxes on the residential side) at some point?
Romania is a backwater as far as population density and industrialization and such, yet they have much faster and cheaper ISP service than America.
UK isn't really Europe. I'm talking about *real* European countries like Germany, Finland, and even Romania, where internet service is fast and cheap. UK might geographically be in Europe (sorta, they're an island), but politically they don't act like it at all. After all, you're talking about a country even more prudish than the USA, by a long shot: they've banned all kinds of things in porn movies, such as female squirting (WTF?), a perfectly natural act. We Americans are made fun of for our prudish and religious ways, but you can film porn here with face-sitting and squirting all you want.
Yeah, I really don't get it either. I know someone from that generation (now 25) who loves the Prequels (esp. #3) because she was young when they came out. She seems reasonably intelligent otherwise, she's not a complete moron or anything, so I really don't get it. She acknowledges that the dialog wasn't great but that doesn't seem to be deal-breaker for her. It's weird. Like you said, they were rotten, boring, and racist, and the VFX (which were admittedly amazing for the time) simply weren't enough to make up for that.
Action potentials are a bit funny. They're not actually movements of electrons down a wire like we're used to thinking about, but rather propagating waves of changes in the way cellular pumps move heavy ions through the cell membrane. Action potentials provide essentially no long-distance current, for example.
If you applied 15 mV across the SA node (the heart's built in pacemaker) at just the right time in the cardiac sequence you might be able to interfere enough to stop the organized contraction. There's a lab at my university that's been looking at analyzing chaotic heart contractions in order to use very small, very well-timed pacemaker signals, to correct them.
You would absolutely have to do it internally though ("applied directly to the heart"). The human body is basically a bag of salt water, which conducts quite well (about 300 Ohm from head to toe IIRC) surrounded by skin, which is a pretty good insulator. So if you want to electrocute someone, stab the electrodes in first.
They should have just called their new product "Facecoin"
Otherwise known as "money shot" - or so I've heard.
You missed his point. 1 nA per ring, second, hour, whatever, makes no sense. An amp is already of measurement of charge per unit time. If the current measurement is correct, which I believe it is, then the GP's formula is correct. Multiplying a current (charge / unit time) by a time gives you a measure of total charge. Multiplying by the voltage then gives you total energy.
There goes my idea for a fork named "WhatsApp Doc?" for physicians - and rabbits.
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