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It says on your chart, your fucked up. You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.

Except the airflow in at least a Model S is really poor in the trunk, ot the point where even with the air con going your dog is going to at best have a very unpleasant time in the back, along with any kids in the optional trunk seats. See the Rich Rebuilds video on this.

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

fyi (and take note, Jay Z) cops cannot detain you, even for 30 seconds, if they are waiting for the K9 to show up.

https://thehill.com/regulation...

chris watts

PS everyone should know the info here.. Guilty or not., knowing the law WILL keep you out of jail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and (already mentioned in t his thread)
  https://www.browarddefender.or...

fyi (and take note, Jay Z) cops cannot detain you, even for 30 seconds, if they are waiting for the K9 to show up.

https://thehill.com/regulation...

chris watts

PS everyone should know the info here.. Guilty or not., knowing the law WILL keep you out of jail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and (already mentioned in t his thread)
  https://www.browarddefender.or...

> I think my gripe is in the difference between a particle that was physically discovered, and a particle that was invented in order to balance an equation.

Virtual particles have empirical support. We can see their effects.

See: Empty Space is not Empty! (Dr. Lawrence Krauss)

It it a realistic proposition to repair the pack?

Yes, and if you DIY it can be quite worthwhile.

Here is a guy giving instructions for a Prius, which he picked up cheap because of the dead battery pack, then sold on for a 3K profit after replacing them. The Leaf probably has more batteries, so will cost a bit more, but should still be a similarly easy job.

Last I heard, Cyndi Lauper is still alive!
 
captcha: fifties

Yes it is possible, but only through the original Steinmetz/Heaviside mathematics. Quaternions posess a magnitude quantity that is not conveyed in the Lorentz vector simplifications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.goodreads.com/book...
"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expertâ"Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeleyâ(TM)s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab -- reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
    Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life -- eating, drinking, and reproducing -- the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
    An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
    Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book."

See also: "Lecture entitled "Why We Sleep" by Professor Matthew Walker of the University of California, Berkeley."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Quiet Earth

Eventually, SpaceX wants to build up the network to take in as many as 12,000 satellites in low Earth orbit...

That's fifteen times the number of satellites we currently have in low-Earth orbit. Is anyone else concerned that we may run out of satellite space? Or, alternatively, that every satellite we put up in the atmosphere has a greater likelihood of being struck by a meteor, adding to the minefield of space dust already in LEO?

Interestingly, I just watched Real Engineering's video of SpaceX's StarHopper construction just last night. And I didn't know how incredibly thin the walls of a rocket are, and that they are pressurized to retain rigidity. So, imagine the catastrophic destruction that would occur if one of our launches collided with a satellite, or a space dust minefield?

If only one company is asking for 12,000 low-Earth orbit satellites, what happens when one hundred more make the same request? What happens when Indian, Chinese, and Russian companies make the same request? While I don't know whether we'll ever see anything as bad as that one scene from Wall-E, but it feels like we're inching closer to that reality each day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "... No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost." -The Matrix

Oh don't worry, that's coming out this year, too:

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

Like most socialists, good job creating a straw man capitalist so you have a villain to push your arguments up against. As a die-hard capitalist, entrepreneur and someone who knows many like myself, there are a few bad eggs but generally most capitalists are dedicated members of society who built their companies to solve a problem, to do so profitability thus the value to society they create becomes sustainable, and spend a lot of their free time and/or resources in charitable actions such as donations or volunteer time.

Your denial, not my straw man. You resign your position and sell your shares when the company you work for announces it's entry into the Libyan slave markets, some other capitalist will buy your shares and the company will find someone else to do you job. Capitalism is a cancer in that it is a naturally self-selecting system that employs and rewards the worst of humanity, as long as there is profit to be made.

And your comments about the Air Force and the FBI are just stupid. You obviously take a very narrow view of the Constitution without understanding the historical context. The Constitution was written with an attempt to be a flexible document, blah blah blah

WHOOOSH. The Constitution wasn't written as a ridged, inflexible document, congratulations on getting the point. Almost. The point being that Randians and other nutjobs only use the "strict constitutionalist" trope against things they don't like, such as Social Security or the Department of Education, not military spending like NORAD or the USAF.

How easy is it to use Python and Pandas to do these kinds of analytics? I have been exploring the Chicago crime data set as an example (see: https://www.kaggle.com/boldy71...) and I am interested to know how much expertise and time does it take to do something like this. I am building a data analytics tool that will allow non-programmers the ability to do simple analysis of large data sets using a point-and-click interface. I use this crime data set to test things out, but I want to explore more in-depth analysis to see if it can help even more than it already does. A 4 minute video demonstrates our tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Not exactly brain surgery.

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Get a life retard! Cdreimer is gone!

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Apple is part of the UAE's "secret hacking team of American mercenaries" which seek to "help the United Arab Emirates engage in surveillance of other governments, militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy".

What Apple tells people via its ads: "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone"

Some of what Apple won't comment on: "The operatives utilized an arsenal of cyber tools, including a cutting-edge espionage platform known as Karma, in which Raven operatives say they hacked into the iPhones of hundreds of activists, political leaders and suspected terrorists." (source: the aforementioned Reuters article)

Additional commentary from the only comedy news program worth watching, Redacted Tonight.

Cdreimer told me he is having a Shake Shack cheese-burger tonight, asshole! Sure you can't afford it and be the one eating cup-a-noodle.

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Metallic foam is already well understood.

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

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

https://www.tms.org/pubs/journ...

(see especially Figure 4 on that page which REALLY looks like metallic wood; the stuff in the article doesn't so much)

What makes the the linked article interesting is the novel manufacturing method.

Fire engine red

Do you... want some more?

I call your more, and raise a head

Do you... want some more?

I call your more, and raise a head

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

Cdreimer left /. after 20+ years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt about this.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

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

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!
--
the biggest looser on Slashdot

SMD rework is not as difficult as most people think: https://www.youtube.com/channe... https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

SMD rework is not as difficult as most people think: https://www.youtube.com/channe... https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

i think i have that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

they changed the names to protect the identity of the stupid

i know why creimette has no teeth
all those cinco products i guess

Perhaps it's fair to say the poorer criminals are disproportionately investigated and prosecuted.

in my opinion, part of the reason black people are arrested more often for drugs than white people despite using in similar numbers is that poorer people are more likely to buy off the street where they are better targets for the cops and the poor are made up of a disproportionate number of black people.

I've been a white middle class stoner for 35 years and people like me don't have to hit the streets. It's always a "friend" who I met from an actual friend who knew the guy and I'd go over to their house or apartment and hang out for an hour or two so his place wouldn't look like grand central station. Really, you don't want a whole bunch of people stopping in at your home and staying for 5 minutes or less. It looks suspicious.

I used to buy pot from a guy who once answered his phone with "Grand Central Station" because he had finally scored and he was pretty busy. He did get arrested twice, but that was for DUI. Even though he had a small amount of pot in his truck both times, the cops weren't very interested in that. He was drunk.And also a lower middle class white blue-collar worker.

And with maybe 2 exceptions every pot dealer I have regularly bought from didn't rely on it for their sole income or even a majority of their income and both those guys got busted.

And they both acted stupidly. One thought he could move 3 pounds across state lines while speeding with a roach in his ashtray and the other...well, I don't know how he got busted but I wasn't surprised at all. He had gotten fired from his job at the head shop for stealing ("How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off"). And for all you racists out there he was mostly white. He had so much ink his arms and chest weren't white anymore though.

Also, CSB time.

It helps to have a mole in the police department.

He wasn't really a mole, but just some guy a friend of mine who also dealt a little pot on the side knew who did data entry for the local PD.

That's how another dealer found out the cops had him on a list of suspected pot dealers. I don't know if they ever busted that guy, but they never busted my friend who dealt pot and makes his living through legal means. He limited the people he dealt with to the point where I suspect he just made enough to pay for his own pot. And he was careful too. I was over at his place hanging out one day when his dealer was coming over and I had to get lost for about 45 minutes.

Mr. Big, as he called him wasn't going to lay a big bag of the finest pot you could find at the time in front of me because he didn't know me and didn't want me to know him.

Although I never met him, I don't think "Mr. Big" was some scary gangster or anything. I'm sure that was more of a tongue in cheek name than anything else.

Thank God pot is legal here now. I remember when we sat around arguing if it would ever happen with some saying it would and others saying it would never.

I don't give a shit about federal law as long as I can go to a store and not have to worry about all the drama of being paranoid and hoping you're not getting a bag full of stems and seeds.

if this post sounds a bit incoherent, I'm not just stoned. I'm drunk too.

The original Free Mr. Big

Perhaps it's fair to say the poorer criminals are disproportionately investigated and prosecuted.

in my opinion, part of the reason black people are arrested more often for drugs than white people despite using in similar numbers is that poorer people are more likely to buy off the street where they are better targets for the cops and the poor are made up of a disproportionate number of black people.

I've been a white middle class stoner for 35 years and people like me don't have to hit the streets. It's always a "friend" who I met from an actual friend who knew the guy and I'd go over to their house or apartment and hang out for an hour or two so his place wouldn't look like grand central station. Really, you don't want a whole bunch of people stopping in at your home and staying for 5 minutes or less. It looks suspicious.

I used to buy pot from a guy who once answered his phone with "Grand Central Station" because he had finally scored and he was pretty busy. He did get arrested twice, but that was for DUI. Even though he had a small amount of pot in his truck both times, the cops weren't very interested in that. He was drunk.And also a lower middle class white blue-collar worker.

And with maybe 2 exceptions every pot dealer I have regularly bought from didn't rely on it for their sole income or even a majority of their income and both those guys got busted.

And they both acted stupidly. One thought he could move 3 pounds across state lines while speeding with a roach in his ashtray and the other...well, I don't know how he got busted but I wasn't surprised at all. He had gotten fired from his job at the head shop for stealing ("How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off"). And for all you racists out there he was mostly white. He had so much ink his arms and chest weren't white anymore though.

Also, CSB time.

It helps to have a mole in the police department.

He wasn't really a mole, but just some guy a friend of mine who also dealt a little pot on the side knew who did data entry for the local PD.

That's how another dealer found out the cops had him on a list of suspected pot dealers. I don't know if they ever busted that guy, but they never busted my friend who dealt pot and makes his living through legal means. He limited the people he dealt with to the point where I suspect he just made enough to pay for his own pot. And he was careful too. I was over at his place hanging out one day when his dealer was coming over and I had to get lost for about 45 minutes.

Mr. Big, as he called him wasn't going to lay a big bag of the finest pot you could find at the time in front of me because he didn't know me and didn't want me to know him.

Although I never met him, I don't think "Mr. Big" was some scary gangster or anything. I'm sure that was more of a tongue in cheek name than anything else.

Thank God pot is legal here now. I remember when we sat around arguing if it would ever happen with some saying it would and others saying it would never.

I don't give a shit about federal law as long as I can go to a store and not have to worry about all the drama of being paranoid and hoping you're not getting a bag full of stems and seeds.

if this post sounds a bit incoherent, I'm not just stoned. I'm drunk too.

The original Free Mr. Big

I'm much older than 19 and the only reason I don't play with Legos is I can't afford them.

Okay, I wrote that and then went and browsed their site for a few minutes and maybe that's unfair to say. I mean I sort of want that Saturn V rocket and $120 isn't really unreasonable for what you get. I'm actually having to restrain myself from making an impulse buy.

But if I start buying Legos that will be less money for my other hobbies sucking up my disposable income which are arguably just as childish.

I just found this video:

Adam Savage Builds the LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V!

Okay, if I wait until tomorrow it won't be an impulse buy.

The reason for means tested social programs is that a) you make it harder to get and therefor lower potential taxes to the rich and b) it puts the poor and working class in an antagonistic position where the poor get something the working class does not (and at least partially pays for).

This is exactly why Joe Biden supports means testing for Social Security.

Creimette doesn't have time for your buggery. He has a new video explaining Microsoft's "Get Certified with Confidence" special offer and GetCertified4Less has a better discount on that special offer.

Do you... want some more?

In case anyone wasn't aware of these yet, the videos demonstrating how they work are pretty damn cool. Here's one that has slow motion captures of such a laser in action. It doesn't have any audio, but the whole thing is even more awesome if you open a video playing Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in another tab.

KILL DA WABBIT!

KILL DA WABBIT!

Yeah, I was the one in the movie theater years ago who couldn't prevent myself from shouting, "Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!" in an Elmer Fudd voice at the appropriate time in a showing of Apocalypse Now!

Creimette has a new video explaining Microsoft's "Get Certified with Confidence" special offer and GetCertified4Less has a better discount on that special offer.

In case anyone wasn't aware of these yet, the videos demonstrating how they work are pretty damn cool. Here's one that has slow motion captures of such a laser in action. It doesn't have any audio, but the whole thing is even more awesome if you open a video playing Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in another tab.

Creimette has a new video explaining Microsoft's "Get Certified with Confidence" special offer and GetCertified4Less has a better discount on that special offer.

Creimette has a new video explaining Microsoft's "Get Certified with Confidence" special offer and GetCertified4Less has a better discount on that special offer.

Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple

It's not that simple, because despite it's name, the Department of Energy is not primarily about the production and consumption of energy. Rather, it's primary mission is managing the U.S. nuclear weapons program: the design and manufacture of the weapons, making sure they still work, fundamental nuclear research, etc.

Here is the DoE FY2019 budget request fact sheet. It's a $30.6B department - tiny in the scope of the U.S. federal government. The top line item, fully one half of that budget, is "National Nuclear Security Administration".

Surprised? You're not alone. The present Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, also apparently didn't know that the DoE, ya know, doesn't do much with energy. That is, of course, when he wasn't forgetting about it entirely. Ooops.

And it's here, at the end of what I hope was an informative post, that I'll point out Obama's first DoE secretary was a Nobel laureate in physics.

I have the same concern, particularly with regards my MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard: I use the Mute key all the time for exactly what it does natively on Windows 7 (and did on XP too): mutes all audio on the system. If this functionality is implemented in the browser, what exactly happens? Does it mute the tab (something Chrome 71 already made a mess of)? Does it mute audio in the entire browser? And if it does either of those, is there a way to disable it (say, through chrome://flags)? Because if not, that's a huge problem and major oversight.

As I wrote the above paragraph, I noticed that a reply came in elsewhere indicating that apparently the only keys it'll look at are play/pause/seek and track-oriented keys. What if people are already using those with their media player of choice? Furthermore, the document is marked Editor's Draft as of 2019/02/09, a.k.a. working draft, a.k.a. subject-to-change-at-any-moment. And even if it wasn't, we all know this is exactly how it begins: today it supports only those functions, but 6 months from now it's extended to support Mute and Volume Up/Down, which will provoke someone to consider adding Home, Favourites, Mute, Calculator, etc. via something similar -- all keys that have historically (we're talking 15+ years, folks) been dedicated to the UX aspect of the OS only, UNLESS you specifically went out of your way to configure them on a per-program basis and within that program (ex: Winamp), with some exceptions (read: Internet Explorer actually does use some of these keys itself when running) -- then it'll get extended to Logitech G15 LCD so the browser can print stupid crap on the LCD, followed by RGB LED tweaking, then some kind of fan RPM mod, blah blah blah. This is what's called creeping featurism and it is not a new phenomenon, but its prevalence has greatly amplified in the past 10 or so years.

I have no problem with the browser implementing, say, the appropriate API functions so that an extension/add-on could be used to set said keys up in the browser to perform media-related tasks (not a bad idea really, sort of akin to what the Streamdeck does alongside OBS Studio) -- the user has to install the Chrome extension by choice, thus the concern is alleviated for everyone as a default (read: majority) and bugs/quirks only affect those who effectively opted in through use of an extension.

In all seriousness, the past few major Chrome releases -- 70, 71, and 72 -- all brought with them more UX-related problems than improvements, IMO. For example, in 72 for whatever reason they decided to get rid of the incredibly useful details at chrome://net-internals/#proxy that would tell you what the active/effective settings were -- extremely useful for knowing if your PAC file was loaded or not, if a proxy was in use at all (and if so, if it was SOCKS or DIRECT or what), etc.. And just today I found they removed the chrome://net-internals/#events viewer entirely and replaced it with a dump-crap-to-a-file model that requires you to install Python and a completely separate external utility to decode it. What was wrong with doing this natively? Why not offer both?

I say all of this as a person who is an extremely strong advocate of KISS principle. I just don't see why removing useful information and capabilities of this sort is considered positive progress. Likewise, I don't see how adding media keys support to a browser is progress either. I think it creates more problems and annoyances than it solves. Obligatory Jurassic Park reference.

How this slipped their review is beyond me, bur our fine paperless office applications, like ExactScan, they reject because they would "ask for an access the user's Contacs" (which we don't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And yet every other time they approve the updates, ..! And I swear we have no code to access the Contacts, ..! And they can't even answer with a backtrace where it would happen, ..! :-/ In the meantime I suspect our "crash reporter" optional "directly sending it to us" code accessing some "~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/" to trigger this. But only time and more data points will show if disabling this avoid the every 2nd App Store review reject, https://exactscan.com/

...if you believe in Keynes' bullshittery, sure.

Keynes v Hayek rap battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
KvH v2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...if you believe in Keynes' bullshittery, sure.

Keynes v Hayek rap battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
KvH v2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Swedish Chef has Bjork, Bjork, Bjork!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfipy3lp9o