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"the cost of regularly replacing the batteries as they expire" - how often do you think they "expire"?
"but I am against the idea of so readily selling them as less-polluting and more-energy-efficient than the alternative," why? they are.
"widespread use all over the world is trains fed from overhead wires." - thats going to change - battery powered train being developed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The exact reason for that is because that design avoids completely the need for huge, expensive, consumable battery packs." - more like the technology wasn't ready when they started to build the rail infrastructure - see previous point

Or oxygen. You could imagine a future human mission to Mars might find an oxygen tank the size of Tesla roadster handy.

Personally I'd ask Robert Zubrin for suggestions because he's been thinking about Mars missions for a really long time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just tell him the mass limit, any limitations on what can and can't be launched and, the odds of it reaching Mars and the odds of it blowing up on impact. And let him think for a week or so.

Elon Musk is basically an IRL Tony Stark but Robert Zubrin is more like Hans Zarkov. He'll come up with something clever.

Hey! Cut Rei some slack. It's not about karmawhoring. Colonising the solar system works a bit like fairies in Peter Pan. If we all believe it will happen, but all it takes is a few snarky comments on Slashdot and, like Tinkerbell, Elon Musk will wither away and so will the dream of human spaceflight

Rei is helpfully pointing this out.

Repeat after me. I do believe in Elon! I do!

In which case why not launch something useful? I realise he doesn't want to risk a commercial satellite but he could launch fuel. Or he could get a bunch of cube sats and put those into orbit, assuming the launch works.

Or he could talk to Robert Zubrin and ask him what's the best thing to launch to keep in reserve for a future Mars Direct like program given a) it's a free launch but b) there's a high risk of mission failure

Zubrin gave a memorable presentation here

The Case For Mars | Robert Zubrin

I bet if you asked him he could come up with something that'd be handy to have in Mars orbit and also wouldn't be a disaster if it got blown up on launch.

\m/ Venom performing Black Metal live \m/

When you say "build quality", what aspect do you refer to? If you refer to reliability, Consumer Reports ranks the Model S "above average", the Model X "below average" (heavily dinged on the falcon wing doors), and expects the Model 3 to be "average" at the time of its launch. They're pretty much the authorities in this regard.

And I'm sorry, but some of BMW's engineering these days is humorously bad.

In a few years, EVs will be cheaper anyway, even without any subsidies. The price of battery storage (in $/kwh) has been declining steadily at about 15%/yr for the last couple of decades. By 2022~23 there will be several EVs on the market for around $20k, simply because the batteries will be that cheap by then.

At that point, it's getting close to 'game over' territory for the ICE vehicle market. If EVs are cheaper all around, they will win. (Not to mention that they also tend to be far more reliable, because they only have a few dozen moving parts, rather than thousands.)

A Stanford lecturer, Tony Seba, wrote a book about this upcoming market shift, called "Clean Disruption." He also does a lecture on the topic, which you can find on YouTube. Pretty interesting stuff.

One album is not a representative of black metal. That album used as a reference is part of the "lo fi" "kvlt" style which really is that bad.
A proper black metal album can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And in particular, check out and in particular the last song "Chariots of Thunder." It might change your mind.
Alternately, give this song a spin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Siebenburgen "Plagued Be Thy Angel" one of my fav tunes and IMO, the entire album would be a MUCH better album to base the RNN on.

One album is not a representative of black metal. That album used as a reference is part of the "lo fi" "kvlt" style which really is that bad.
A proper black metal album can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And in particular, check out and in particular the last song "Chariots of Thunder." It might change your mind.
Alternately, give this song a spin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Siebenburgen "Plagued Be Thy Angel" one of my fav tunes and IMO, the entire album would be a MUCH better album to base the RNN on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (LEMMIE!)

This kind of reminds me of an old Microsoft project that didn't pan out. The "commercial" is pretty cringe inducing and not terribly interesting, but it gives you an idea of what it's supposed to do. The real fun was when people fed vocal tracks for popular songs into to see what it would do, often to comedic results: Queen, Johnny Cash, and Motörhead produce some amusing outcomes.

I don't listen to much black metal, but these results seem a bit better, or perhaps just far less silly.

This kind of reminds me of an old Microsoft project that didn't pan out. The "commercial" is pretty cringe inducing and not terribly interesting, but it gives you an idea of what it's supposed to do. The real fun was when people fed vocal tracks for popular songs into to see what it would do, often to comedic results: Queen, Johnny Cash, and Motörhead produce some amusing outcomes.

I don't listen to much black metal, but these results seem a bit better, or perhaps just far less silly.

This kind of reminds me of an old Microsoft project that didn't pan out. The "commercial" is pretty cringe inducing and not terribly interesting, but it gives you an idea of what it's supposed to do. The real fun was when people fed vocal tracks for popular songs into to see what it would do, often to comedic results: Queen, Johnny Cash, and Motörhead produce some amusing outcomes.

I don't listen to much black metal, but these results seem a bit better, or perhaps just far less silly.

This kind of reminds me of an old Microsoft project that didn't pan out. The "commercial" is pretty cringe inducing and not terribly interesting, but it gives you an idea of what it's supposed to do. The real fun was when people fed vocal tracks for popular songs into to see what it would do, often to comedic results: Queen, Johnny Cash, and Motörhead produce some amusing outcomes.

I don't listen to much black metal, but these results seem a bit better, or perhaps just far less silly.

We deserve to be replaced.

I was building a house

The limits of such a network are the humans you need to monitor it, classify behaviors and follow individuals as they move around.

Not true.

Eye in the Sky — June 2015
Update: Eye In the Sky — September 2016

These are brilliant episodes (almost on par with French Guy Ramen Noodle Mass Production).

The Panopticon in retrospective mode is crime investigation on steroids, almost certainly consuming fewer human resources per kingpin dethroned than traditional flatfeet. So efficient, it's scary.

Though you may still have a point if one factors in a 1000% enforcement escalation (surely all those cameras justify a 10× lip stiffening).

They actually lost an engine and completed the mission on one of their earlier launches ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) .

From what I've read, there's a chance they might even be able to make it to orbit while losing two of them, depending on how heavy the payload is.
And since they're planning all three cores of the FH, there's going to be more margin to bring the payload up in expendable mode if an engine fails.

So the question is, do you prefer the chance of losing one big engine and the whole mission, or betting that you won't lose 2-3 engines on the same launch (For F9, I'm not sure how many it would be for FH).

Of course, SpaceX has other considerations with the number of engines they use, like the ability to use fewer of them for landing, and general economies of scale for production and testing.

THIS IS THE VOICE OF WORLD CONTROL

Lame filter filler: "Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." It's the name of the fucking video, you cunt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So why did Constantinople get the works?

It did not!

If by "get the works" you referring to this (my English is not good) then learn that "istanbul" is the phonetic equivalent (with Turkish accent) of the Greek phrase "is tin poli" (translated "in the city") which was the way Turks were referring to "Konstantinoupoli" (Greek orthography - translated "Konstantin's city") - and actually, we Greeks still refer to Konstantinoupoli as just "THE CITY"

So why did Constantinople get the works?

It did not!

If by "get the works" you referring to this (my English is not good) then learn that "istanbul" is the phonetic equivalent (with Turkish accent) of the Greek phrase "is tin poli" (translated "in the city") which was the way Turks were referring to "Konstantinoupoli" (Greek orthography - translated "Konstantin's city") - and actually, we Greeks still refer to Konstantinoupoli as just "THE CITY"

They probably haven't. The way I see it they have lent a SAM to unqualified people - these who have served in the Soviet Army would have been over 40 and at that time, having lost their skills and these who have served later - the Ukrainian Air Defence training was, well, lacking. It is generally not a good idea to give modern weapons to monkeys.

I blame Ajit Pai.

http://www.shirky.com/writings...
"This strategy [of micropayments] doesn't work, because the act of buying anything, even if the price is very small, creates what Nick Szabo calls mental transaction costs, the energy required to decide whether something is worth buying or not, regardless of price. ... Like the salami slicing exploit in computer crime, micropayment believers imagine that such tiny amounts of money can be extracted from the user that they will not notice, while the overall volume will cause these payments to add up to something significant for the recipient. But of course the users do notice, because they are being asked to buy something. Mental transaction costs create a minimum level of inconvenience that cannot be removed simply by lowering the dollar cost of goods. Worse, beneath a certain threshold, mental transaction costs actually rise, a phenomenon is especially significant for information goods. It's easy to think a newspaper is worth a dollar, but is each article worth half a penny? Is each word worth a thousandth of a penny? A newspaper, exposed to the logic of micropayments, becomes impossible to value. ..."

My alternative solution is a *mix* of four types of economic activities:
* people producing their own personal content through better personal tools (subsistence production)
* a basic income (to soften the rough edges and rich-get-richer exchange economy)
* people giving away high-quality content (gift economy)
* more government funding of free information providers (an improved democratically-planned command economy)

The promotion of artificial scarcity (e.g. paywalls for digital content) as a way to fund content is one of the biggest problems we are facing as we transition to post-scarcity. There are several reason artificial scarcity is a problem -- but one of the biggest is that ensuring artificial scarcity in an age of technological abundance ultimately requires the equivalent of a police state monitoring everything everyone does 24X7.

See also Alfie Kohn: http://www.alfiekohn.org/artic... and Dan Pink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And Shia cracked up completely a few weeks after

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location," with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. Reporting on the move, Nylon reflected that "in tumultuous times like these, it's encouraging to see that art finds a way to exist and artists find a way to create, even when their work and message are under attack." Within 38 hours of resuming transmission, the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, an unknown person took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt. These were later removed, and the stream continued broadcasting an empty flag pole. Following escalating threats coordinated via 4chan and 8chan, and after a field at the location was set on fire, the artists were again forced to relocate the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

On June 26, 2014, LaBeouf was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at New York's Studio 54 theater. He was reported to have been "acting disorderly, yelling and being loud". He refused to leave the theater, so the police were called. In the arrest report it was stated that LaBeouf spat at arresting officers. The report also details LaBeouf using an impolite slur and swearing at arresting officers. He was arrested and held at the Midtown North police station to later appear in court. Following the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily began seeking outpatient treatment for alcoholism, becoming involved in a 12-step program.

On July 8, 2017, around 4 a.m. LaBeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. Bodycam footage was released of LaBeouf's profane tirade against the arresting officers following his arrest. In October 2017 LaBeouf was found not guilty on one charge of public intoxication and pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, for which he was fined $1,000, and will spend 12 months on probation minus time served. He was also required to attend anger management counseling.

Result : Decisive victory for Kekistani forces.

I lost my sister in much the same way (but due to lupus, not cancer). ...

Does it get better?

Yes and no. The day-to-day things go on and I get used to doing them all alone, but every once in a while something still or unexpectedly hits me hard and I miss her all over again. Maybe I'll start dating again one day and things will change. My best to you and yours as well.

This says it pretty well: My Heart is Broken by Evanescence.

I have taken into account that Mr Colella openly stored his PDA device in an empty foil 'Twisties' bag. As an experienced electrician, Mr Colella knew that this bag would work as a faraday cage, thereby preventing the PDA from working properly

Or as a Will Smith fan.

If you are "a little bit Turk yourself" you may be a little bit (crypto-)Greek/Armenian actually... ask your (grand-)parent(s) about their supervised everyday morning "how happy to be called a Turk" chant and you may be surprised!

Greetings -even if you are of a pure Turkish descent- from a Greek neighbor that his Greek grand-parents were Turkish citizens, originally from... Greece! (Konstantinople and Smyrna - before the violent Turkish ethnic-cleansing(s) of 1920 and 1950.)

* please, don't consider this reply as too hostile - you and me... arkadas! O.K.?

When Chris was in high school, his parents had to paint him green to reduce the bullying!

Here he is trying to learn grammar.

As we can see, Chris' problems with grammar go way back.

(With deep apologies to Fishka Rais.)

Is this you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some examples of problem solving by honey badgers.

If there's one thing 2017 has taught me, it's that national and international news is not essential information.

Thank you for your valuable input, Mr President.

Indeed. From the horse's mouth, "I Love the Poorly Educated".

Because good headlines need to be short and clever.
For those who don't remember or know Tales from the Crypt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are no easy solutions.

There are, the problem is the lack of human intelligence. A true independent media needs its own central bank to be immune to corporate influence, aka you'd build a media that had the ability to loan money to itself and build it into the system. That would be an anethema to the upper class however, you can see their feelings here about the common man:

Former national security advisor on his reservations of the political awakening of the masses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski

"Hey you guys?"

No, it's better to say Hi, everybody!

I just want to know if they opened it. Unlikely they go to the trouble of finding a similar zipty without wasting time.

Most locked suitcases can be opened and closed without leaving a sign. The zipper is a weakness.

Majority Rule was done before. Really, I think more people should watch Platonic Chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Says the person who hasn't trained labs , german shepherd dogs and australian shepherds. There is a reason why Aussies and Border Collies are the top 10 at agility contests, you might see a german rarely but basically never a lab at the top tier. Chaser the border collie who has the names of more than 1000+ toys and he can bring each one to you just by saying its name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A friend had an Aussie Shepherd who not only knew the names of his toys but also the rooms of the house. But he couldn't distinguish between "kitchen" and "chicken" so when she'd tell him "get out of the kitchen", he interpreted it as "get your chicken" and would bring his rubber chicken squeak toy to her.

Says the person who hasn't trained labs , german shepherd dogs and australian shepherds. There is a reason why Aussies and Border Collies are the top 10 at agility contests, you might see a german rarely but basically never a lab at the top tier. Chaser the border collie who has the names of more than 1000+ toys and he can bring each one to you just by saying its name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Think how many lives could be saved if only Congress would pass Safer Navigation Act which mandates autopilots and prevents other companies launching competitors to Google Autopilot incorporating Facebook Mobile Edition For Aviation.

Only airline pilots unions shills oppose it, and opposing it obviously that means they want people to die!

Oh shit, too bad that was something said by Chris Rock, a BLACK MAN. Ain't that a bitch? You really fucked yourself with that one, bro.

Read up on evolution and evolutionary pressure

That's a uselessly vague argument. Which part in particular ?

And remember that animals tend to have inactive tissue that are inherited from predecessors, think appendix*.

Evolutionary pressure is for a large part driven by energy requirements. The brain is a huge energy drain, even when you're just sitting doing nothing. In comparison, the appendix takes hardly any energy at all. There would be very little pressure to get rid of the appendix (especially not since it appear to serve some purpose).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Top Gear is not a show for facts - its entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We used to listen to this song on WXRT in the late '70's. Ill go back further than Johnny Cash with this same song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... You can compare them..

As of last month I progressed from not reading articles to not reading summaries. Now I don't even read the headlines before commenting, so if my comment made any sense at all it was purely a coincidence.

Either that or it was just all an elaborate ruse to see how many [other] people didn't read the summary [either]. Yeah, that's it. I got you good.

"Have you ever seen a single developer put "++" in their version number?" - by amicusNYCL ( 1538833 ) on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:26PM (#55644323)

Additionally, EAT YOUR WORDS yet again (notepad++ moron) & it shows you don't know dick - as to WHERE I got "++" from?

Charlie Chaplin's message, notice his sleeve (greatest speech I've ever heard - VERY inspiring) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ/ - NOT where notepad++ (look it up, it's been out there for years) got it from (C incrementor operator).

"He likes to make his stuff look more impressive than it actually is (this is a text sorting program that makes HTTP requests and writes to a file)" - by amicusNYCL ( 1538833 ) on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:26PM (#55644323)

Dimwit, again you show you're an imbecile who opens his mouth & INSERTS FOOT as you did here https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8641837&cid=51371259/ before stupid!

* CLUE - My program does a LOT more than that only which is a lot more than you ever have... & it does EXTREMELY WELL in the eyes of our /. peers that like & use it https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11351783&cid=55546175/

APK

P.S.=> ... & it's MORE than a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE "ne'er-do-well" in yourself does, lol... apk

CGP Grey did a good video on why social media is bad. Basically in a world where clicks and comments and shares is the metric, people create content which makes people angry

This Video Will Make You Angry

Or as Andrew Klavan put it 'outrage is the Devil's cocaine'

See also

I can tolerate anything except the outgroup

Add in the fact that most social media platforms have a very strong bias because they are full of young, college educated people and that people who try to derail the continuous Three Minute Hate against the outgroup(them) get banned for 'hate speech' and you can see why it is cancer.

And the final insult is that the people who run these companies want regulation of the ISPs, aka Net Neutrality to stop them doing things like zero rating and then claiming it's about free speech. Even though the FCC didn't actually ban zero rating when T Mobile did it

https://www.engadget.com/2015/...

So a US ISP can do exactly what Portugal's MEO did even if Net Neutrality stays in place

http://www.telecomsense.com/20...

And of course Google and Facebook launched a non Net Neutral service with zero rating in India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I.e. they're lobbying for it because they think it will stop zero rating, which would might force them to pay ISPs to be zero rated, and it won't. We know that because even when it was in place the FCC had no problem with T Mobile's Binge On. They don't actually have a principled objection to zero rating, because they did it themselves.

CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65

Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...