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Gravity turns are not performed after getting above 10 km. Reality isn't KSP, and those things in KSP aren't gravity turns anyway. Gravity turns usually begin as soon as possible after launch (some rockets actually launch at a slight angle). The idea is that gravity will naturally bend your trajectory over into a curve and aerodynamic pressure will keep you pointed along that trajectory. Gravity turns are also called "zero-lift turns."

The space shuttle initiated it's turn quite early on, despite having to perform a roll maneuver. You can see it in this picture:

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The length is relevant because all of that dust, seen straight on, blocks a lot of light. Stack enough window panes (less than you'd think, probably) on top of each other and eventually you won't be able to see anything through them at all.

Then it's just a question of how wide a comet's tail can get, in order to get sufficient coverage of the star's shape as seen from Earth. And since the tail can be 720x longer than the star's diameter, I don't think it's much of a leap to think that it could spread out enough in the other two dimensions to do this.

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Lotus was one of the first companies to push icons over words ex: AmiPro ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... ). AmiPro was more powerful than Word or WordPerfect yet it came in 3rd. One reason is hard to understand icons.

s/croissant/crescent/ ... https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

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Sure! Here you go!

The record on sea level rise says we're not in any real danger when you consider the 20,000 year record. It's increased a LOT faster in the past (orders of magnitude faster)...

Incorrect

thus eliminate a bunch of American jobs. Bravo, Mr President!

Hmm, maybe the "birthers" were right, maybe Obama was born outside the United States after all! :P

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While they do work nicely on new concrete, with older brittle concrete they just make a mess (an sds-plus drill with a concrete nail holds up much better)

Probably the most easily spotted contraband I have accidentally brought through was an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammo in a coat pocket. Sent the coat through the x-ray machine and they didn't find it. only slightly worse was the time I sent that same coat through with a handful of 3" 12 gauge magnum goose loads in a pocket. This was after 9-11-01, and I have also forgotten about pocket knives as well since then that were never found.

So you are saying that OS X is "innovative" because it consists largely of 1980's technology (NextStep, BSD, Smalltalk, OO dev tools)? Seems to me that that makes it about three decades behind the times.

Anyone who would look at OS X and say "this looks like an '80s OS" has got a screw loose.

The core technologies in OS X are quite mature, but the innovations in the UI set the pace for the 2000s.

Remember what Windows looked like before OS X came along? What Linux looked like?

Common law (kinda sorta minus Louisiana. Maybe.)

A pretty map

common law != case law/precedence. They are two opposite sides of the coin.

Common law (kinda sorta minus Louisiana. Maybe.)

A pretty map

If you don't want the solar time and UTC to drift many seconds out of synch, but are willing to let the alignment between the two to drift by more than a second at any given time, then using the long-term average rate of rotation slowing to calculate regularly scheduled leap seconds seems the way to go.

We add whole leap days at regular intervals, but it does not seem to cause any problems because everyone knows when they occur, even millenia in advance. It is not possible to schedule leap seconds that far in advance, but using an average trend over the last 20 years (perhaps), and the cumulative planning miss over the last decade, to plan for the next decade (say) would not allow deviations of more than a couple of seconds from solar time to ever accumulate.

Look at a chart of the deceleration of rotation over decades.

You hear about looting and crap like that happening in New York and California. Not really in the vast majority of the country, just the coasts. When is the last time you heard about looting and rioing in Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, or Kentucky?

Interestingly:

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That sounds really familiar.

Well, at least the Atari used to have a keyboard, so it could be used as a transportable desktop, you can move it around and need only to plug it into any TV.

TFA's device doesn't have any input, so you need to supply your own keyboard and mouse.

So it isn't as much like Atari/Amiga/Commodore compute of past history, as much as yet another variation of Raspberry Pi, Asus eee, Intel NUC, Intel HDMI compute stick, etc. only with much shittier specs.

That sounds really familiar.

Nope, Reykjavík.

Here's what it looks like. Or this or this. Roads like this.

A NSL is a type of subpoena, a request for basic account info and activity logs. A NSL can't ask you to provide the content of someone's data, kill someone, or smear Crisco all over your body and dance around praising Lord Xenu. (Though if it did, you'd probably be grateful for the non-disclosure clause.)

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The original purpose of non-disclosure was to avoid tipping off suspects that their communications could be monitored, but now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag and any target who worries about NSLs has surely switched to more secure communications, the secrecy around NSLs does a lot more harm than good. Of course, any change to or publicity about NSLs would rekindle debate on the legality of the program (or lack thereof), and they wouldn't want that to happen... Thankfully, people like Nicholas Merrill are forcing the issue, and hopefully there will be change...eventually.

Hint: hyperbole doesn't help, it just distracts people from the real issue. NSLs are bad because they force people to reveal personal information without due process of law. That is all.

If you had even an infants' understanding of Norse cosmology, you would include the mass of Asgard, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Jotunheim, Svartalfheim, Nidavellir, & Muspelheim in your calculations. Thor is not pleased. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

vocational school / tech schools have there place but lot's of them have become just get people in on to the loans that have no cap and take anyone.

I'm friends with the principal of a local tech school. They've almost broken that stereotype. He said he can't graduate highschoolers fast enough. They're learning internet security, coding, CNC, 2015 automotive repair. I sat in on one of his tech classes, 16 year olds had a better grasp of how CAN networking works and how to debug problems in engines than a lot of PhDs. I'm trying to talk him into opening the school part time as a MakerSpace, it has better equipment than I had going though college. (Oscilloscopes, CNC machines, 3D printers, etc).

These are the trades of the next century. It's why H1Bs are being hired into the spot, a lot of these jobs don't need someone with a masters degree. They need someone that has been training to do it since they were 14-15. It's still how Germany structures their school system.

Not everyone needs to go to university. They have 21 century trades. It's why Simulator games are a huge hit there.

"Even though the average purchasing power is very different between say the UK and Poland, we actually sell more copies in Poland than in bigger Western Europe countries," he notes. "We also have lots of fans in developing market countries like Brazil or Turkey, and incredible number of players in China, but it's really hard to actually sell any games in those markets."

Meanwhile, the Farming Simulator series is a very similar story. Marc Schwegler, associate producer at Giants Software in Germany, tells me that the main audience for its annual farming series is kids, especially boys who love tractors. Oh, and farmers, of course.

Kids that grow up playing 'stupid simulation' games will be trained to run a fleet of automated trucks or tractors. We already see military implementation with drones. Doctors are starting to do it with DaVinci. You could work anywhere with fast enough internet. There are still things that require a human, we have the technology such that the human doesn't need to be where the actual process is going on.

IT is already doing it with support Apple and other companies have house moms with VOIP answering tech support questions.

We turned this into this in a couple of generations of selective breeding. What's the big difference here?

We turned this into this in a couple of generations of selective breeding. What's the big difference here?

Redhat -> Debian -> Ubuntu

                          -> Mint
Ubuntu -> Lubuntu
                          -> Kubuntu

etc etc etc

Here's an awesome picture/diagram:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

To emphasize what the previous poster stated, it is nice to get a good visual of how our spectrum is diced up and see who has the big chunks...

I present "The US Frequency Allocation Table -> https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Empirical example. That was the checkout for the Pu-238 RTG units sent on the Cassini mission. Doesn't look particularly dangerous.

I pick on fashion shows because the dresses are butt ugly.

(I didn't even have to work for this shot. It is literally the first image Google threw up for "Fashion show".)

That looks like a promo shot for the Zoolander 2 movie they are making....Almost like a Derelicte Carnivale line.

I don't pick on fashion shows because the dresses wouldn't hold up to actual wear (although they wouldn't). I pick on fashion shows because the dresses are butt ugly.

(I didn't even have to work for this shot. It is literally the first image Google threw up for "Fashion show".)

Most terror incidents in the US aren't committed by Muslims either, not that there are all that many to begin with. The same can be said for Europe, in which about only 5% of a decreasing number of incidents each year are religious in motive.

No, more like:
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Open up this page in a browser with no ad-blockers (don't worry, I just did it). Scroll down and find the ads. Do you see the precious revenue-generating ads? No? Well, that's because there aren't any.

The Alexa rank for wikipedia.org is #7 globally. If you want to read about their strategy, here is it.

So keep the list going. I've yet to see a suitable alternative.

Wikipedia's 14+ years aren't convincing you yet? You want to know what the difference is between Wikipedia and your own sites which you can't make financially viable without advertising? People actually value the content at Wikipedia, that's why they donate. If you want to determine whether people find the content on your site to be valuable, then put up a donation button and page and explain your position. If your donations bring in enough money to run the site, then people think it's valuable. If they don't, then you're like anyone else with nothing to say and the expectation that people should pay them via advertising to say it, like you have some inherent right to post your babble and be paid for it.

Great if you have the facilities and network to do it. And if you're quirky and interesting enough that someone seems to think affiliating with your website is worth their while.

There are any number of merchandisers just waiting for you to give them a call, while they take their percentage and give you the rest. It's not difficult, and it does not require connections. What it does require is people who think that your content is interesting or quirky enough to make it worth their while and want to pay to support it. I own $50 t-shirts that are not worth $50, but I didn't buy them expecting a superior-quality shirt that would last 20 years. It's not a difficult concept. If you have a valuable site then people will support it, end of story. If you can't manage to meet your bandwidth bill then you have a lot of people using your site who don't care whether it goes away. And that's why people turn to advertising, because they think they have the right to be paid for their stuff that no one really cares about.

I know these sorts of articles are wildly popular these days, showing HOW DUMB ALL OF YOU OTHER PEOPLE ARE. I understand, it's very reassuring to see yourself placed in the top position where you can shit on everyone else. Thousands of years of tyrannical human elites agree with you. But you don't need everyone to see it. It just takes a single person to spot that something is wrong, point it out, and the viral internet takes over from there. That's how Tom Brokaw's fraud was exposed, someone said, "Hmm, that looks just like MS-Word" and then made the animated .gif that changed the world. Thinking that everyone needs to be a Photoshop expert is just naive and misanthropic. Reuters was also caught red-handed altering photos to conform to their narrative. It just takes one person to utter the sacred phrase "Hmm, that's funny".

Pretty sure he runs BSD.

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Well, you have to stick to a certain standard transliteration, otherwise it only will end up like this.

Now point to the "computer" in this photo.

OK OK, and this is the last (much more recent) one. Point to the computer in this photo.

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Anyway that's what I started voting on. Probably still works, harder to hack than something updating an MDB file. Had lasted at least 40-50 years when I used it.

Isn't that just a bit of regurgitated propaganda, assuming facts not in evidence (i.e. that liberal arts majors, dogs and Republicans would follow the rules)?

Here is what happens in real life:

manipulation in the service of commercial agendas,

hoaxes,

malice, and

blackmail,

along with "skewed information, unattributed material, and potential copyright violations".

Wikipedia throws such people out today, and they're back tomorrow, with a new pseudonymous sockpuppet account.

Wikipedia lists over 70,000 blocked sockpuppeteers, and that list does not include some of the most serious cases, where individuals have used literally hundreds of sockpuppet accounts. (For reference, the English Wikipedia has around 3,000 steady contributors making at least three or four content edits a day.)

You've got that backwards mate. There is one side that's composed primarily of extremists and terrorists, and has been from the very beginning... here's a hint: It's the side that had a very close political and military alliance with the Third Reich and which has continued to openly call for the total annihilation of the jewish people uninterrupted since WW2.

Funny what one itty bitty little word will do:

Effective

Seems that we have the highest "suggested donation" on the planet, but a lot of companies pass the plate quite hastily.

Actually, yes. One way streets except for bicycles are more and more common in the Netherlands and other European countries.

See for instance here, here or here.

NetBSD. It even runs on my SE/30. A worthy upgrade from anything Apple on nearly any Apple hardware.

Really? Have you ever tried A/UX?

I was just talking with a friend yesterday about "what ever happened to..." in regard to A/UX. If you can scare up an install set (and I think he said there is someone who has posted same up to the internet), it would run on your SE/30, and give you a nice MacOS GUI plus a UNIX POSIX environment.

Alas, I don't know much more about it, and I'm really just throwing it out there, because a lot of people don't even realize that Apple's involvement with UNIX actually goes WAY back, at least to around 1991. The reason it didn't take off was that Apple didn't market it very aggressively, and it was pricey.

But as far as preferring NetBSD over OS X, isn't that pretty much just saying you don't like OS X's GUI; because, unlike ANY Linux distro, OS X is a descendant of BSD UNIX, which, among other things, begat NetBSD?

But you simply won't admit that anything that comes out of Cupertino is worthy; so I don't know why I am wasting my e-breath.

And here's a picture that not only shows his fruit, it shows just how excited he got when he was making everybody think that he was the brains behind the Apple computer.

Here is a graph of the data from the Vostok core samples. The (numbers on the bottom are in thousands of years). Based on those core samples, what do you think? How would you say CO2 relates to temperature?

for me to poop on!

You are trying to use Triumph in this day and age? What are you? 80 and dickless?

for me to poop on!

Yes

Have you seen that smug motherfucker? Tell me you don't want to shoot it down.

they could just give their environmental regulators the authority to enforce their existing environmental laws.

In the film Under the Dome, Chinese journalist Chai Jing astonishes a Chinese audience with a film clip from California where Cal DoT stops a truck and actually checks that it has all the mandatory safety and emissions equipment. That never happens in China. China has tough emissions standards on paper, but the law is written so that the regulators don't have any enforcement powers. So Chinese manufacturers simply slap stickers on vehicles claiming they have all the mandatory emissions equipment without installing any of it. Technically this is a crime, but the law's written so there's literally nothing anyone can do about it.

And if you don't think environmental regulations make a difference, this is what New York looked like in 1970. Note that that isn't a sepia tinted black and white photo, it's true color. Granted it shows an exceptionally bad day, but before the Clean Air Act got strengthened in the mid 70s bad smog was pretty common. If you look at pictures of American cities from the 70s you'd think that photo technology of the day put a blue or yellow haze on stuff in the distance (like this). It wasn't the film, cities actually looked that way a lot of the time.

Predicting bad pollution days isn't "fighting" pollution, it's living with it. If you want to fight pollution you've got to stop people from polluting. You've got to catch them at it, fine them, and in some cases throw them in jail. Pollution like they have in China is nothing short of manslaughter on a national scale. 1.6 million people die every year from it.

"A-10". Two syllables. Short and unambiguous.

Warthogs look like this. An A-10 (really, a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II) looks like this.