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Whenever I travel and turn on CNN (as we don't get it at home), I feel like someone served up a meringue. It tastes sweet but has no real substance and certainly isn't good for you.
Take this for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its a video of Putin talking about ISIS. And I'm suddenly struck by what feels like raw honesty from a politician, not this fake pseudo speak we normally get from the MSM and western politics.

So you prefer your sociopaths to be more cunning, more opaque and less transparent? Good, because that's exactly what those types of sociopaths want as well :)

Never confuse sincerity with honesty, truth or fact.

"Government makes all untaxable activity illegal."

At the request of the central banks. The IRS and CRA are little more than collection agencies for the banksters.

Money As Debt

No I'm not. I'm actually right next to the Pizzazium Infinionite.

And NASCAR demands that all the cars be about as identical as possible, giving rise to the 200 mph traffic jam effect. Yeah, that's fun.

What are you whining about? Looks fun to me.

It doesn't surprise me how Arizona drivers reacted. I used to live there. Road rage is all too common there. I used to ride my bike to school, and people would throw things at me as they drove by.

Arizona drivers are a spiteful, entitlist bunch, even more than usual. So the kind of aggression you described is entirely in character for Arizona drivers. It's the wild west out there!

Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?

This is definitive. Watch the whole thing.

Whenever I travel and turn on CNN (as we don't get it at home), I feel like someone served up a meringue. It tastes sweet but has no real substance and certainly isn't good for you.
Take this for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its a video of Putin talking about ISIS. And I'm suddenly struck by what feels like raw honesty from a politician, not this fake pseudo speak we normally get from the MSM and western politics.

Yep, old stuff

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

Yeah, the Worth a Buy Shadow of Morder review alleges that Warner Brothers was threatening to issue DMCA takedowns to youtube reviewers who didn't have a branding agreement with Warner Brothers. I've been hearing similar allegations about other games from a number of reviewers. Obviously that didn't happen with Mack's video, as it's still up, but it highlights the kind of abuse that's possible under existing laws.

This is an easy one.

You're looking at a buy-in problem, which is two-part: getting and keeping. You first need buy-in, and second need to maintain buy-in.

Getting buy-in is not difficult. Find the people with the most stake, the most interest. You need to figure out who's important and who's aligned.

First, you build a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. List the people involved (your boss, the VP, coworkers), their Current (C) state, and their Desired (D) state, ranging from Unaware to Resistant (opposition), through Neutral (doesn't care), up into Supportive (is interested) and Leading (is actively advocating, pushing back against opposition).

Take the ones in a less-than-desired state and work on them, picking out who's important first. Figure out what drives them, what do they want. Someone who says, "It's a lot of work," has given you a way in: it would be a good idea, right? It'd be nice if we could do it, wouldn't it? Take responsibility. You'll find a way to make it workable; you'll figure out what it will take; you'll make sure we know going in if this is doable or if it's an unending behemoth we simply can't tackle. Now you've got them to agree that this is a good idea, and allow you to go find out just how hard it'd be.

Get those executive stakeholders on the line first, if possible. Especially hit the command chain: if your boss is concerned with his boss and you typically have that communication line, bring it casually up to his boss. Remember to manage all of your stakeholders: if you're going to go over your boss's head, point out that it's a lot of effort; shift responsibility off your boss for getting it done right, underscore that it may be impossible even if it's worth a look. If your boss is okay on the idea and it's generally a very structured organization where you don't have that rapport with his boss, bring it to him first, then let him take it upwards; don't circumvent where circumvention isn't just called "small-office politics".

Your boss being good with the idea means your team has to go along with it, in theory. Don't lay that weight on them if you don't have to; it's your idea, it was your proposal, and he sent you to find out what it's going to take. It's not their responsibility, not yet anyway. They'll hand you enough rope to hang yourself, especially if you seem to think they've got what it takes to actually do it--remember, the team's doing the work, not just you.

So now you've got people to listen in, to say, "Hmm, yes, it's a good idea in theory..." and to let you find out just how bad "...but it's a lot of work" really is.

Now you need to keep it.

The simple way there is to produce results. Ask questions, find the people who know and get their input. Get together and determine what pieces need to change and how, conceptually; then determine, roughly, what it would take. Build a work breakdown structure, every element down to the work package being a deliverable--an adjective-noun--and not a task; no verbs on WBS. Work packages are the largest manageable deliverable, the piece that you fully understand and can estimate time and complexity and completion; break it down further if it's a nebulous piece, don't break it down further if you already understand it.

Project managers break those work packages into activities and tasks; these can be verbs. You don't have to do that right away; we do that during scheduling.

Once you have your Work Breakdown Structure, you can look at it and say, "This is everything it will take." Just having that scaffold in front of you will show you something important: big or small, you can do it.

You can do it.

It's not a phantom under your bed, not a giant behemoth you can't conquer; it's a mountain, y

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

3D UI's don't work (well) because they are horribly inefficient.

When it came time for an (almost) complete novice to navigate a complex theme park security system to lock it down before a velocaraptor ate her for dinner, what type of UI did they use? A friggin 3D UI on a Unix system. If it's good enough in that case, it's good enough anywhere.

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Typical future scenario in your autonomous vehicle: "Why the hell is the car slowing d... oh, I see..."

Here is a video of that actually happening, with Tesla's autopilot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So feminists, if you're really for equality

Don't look at what they say, look at what they do.

So feminists, if you're really for equality

Don't look at what they say, look at what they do.

Your need to always post 5 replies to (almost) every post of mine, really reminds me of this:

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

That is a good example of your OCD.

Your constant need to ALWAYS be right and win every argument, that is an example of your NPD. Now, are you ready to go get the help you clearly need?

also once upon a time star trek writers bothered to come up with plot lines where they didn't place the huge saucer space ship in atmosphere/gravity as well.

Are you speaking of this scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I thought it was pretty believable, the way the saucer section kind of flies down. Now, Into Darkness was entirely unbelievable, a ship in orbit doesn't just fall straight down when power is removed...

Please explain. Sexual assault among students is almost unheard of in my country..

Sexual assault is evenly distributed around the globe. About 33% of women were sexually assaulted at least one time. These figures are readily available at the WHO website.

In some countries it is 29% in some 32%, but it is an issue of reporting. This figure seems to be geographically independent, and corresponds to Homo Sapiens in general.

I think the women should also take some part of responsibility. They should be stronger. For example, it is close to impossibe to assault these women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It just would be suicidal.

Yes a change of snow conditions, hitting a bare patch etc. does feel like your ski has been grabbed by a bear trap. However if you do fall over that is because your position on the skies, was bad in the first place and you where too slow to correct it.

Here is a YouTube video on how to box slide which is probably the closest freestyle trick to the James Bond ski over a table stunt you are referring too.

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

The stunt in James Bond is perfectly possible for a good freestyle skier, clearly something your brother was not at the time.

People will remember the one and only Windows 98 C:/con/con Bug , not good for new Microsoft ;-)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Here's one documentary that mentions that if they make it across the border, they are "in": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When you see footage of thousands of refugees, do you think they all went through a checkpoint and had their passports stamped? It is not like that.

If true, then it would be trivial for ISIS or other lunatic fringe groups to simply infiltrate the refugee flows. In fact ISIS said they would do just that. Why should we not take them at their word?

Whether or not sending terrorists in as migrants is the smartest approach, I can't say. But to say that they will be "watched, suspected, and scrutinized" is nonsense.

Elsewhere, three days before the Minecraft Hour of Code announcement, Microsoft indicated it had bigger fish to fry with Minecraft. Can you think of a better way to help make that happen than a 1 hour "infomercial" that as many as 200 million kids are made to participate in by their prize-seeking teachers and schools? :-)

Minecraft in education: Published on Nov 13, 2015. "Minecraft is already empowering millions of players to create, explore, and discover. We want to bring that passion into the classroom."

I dunno, NASCAR's always struck me as a bit, um...soft?

I agree. He's worn out his welcome by being such a snob all the time.

I mostly agree - although auto racing, especially NASCAR and Indy, isn't all that interesting these days.

In fact, when I was a kid, I gave up on Indy racing. I was getting really interested, and I was super impressed with the STP Turbocar. This thing was putting the piston cars to shame, but a 6 dollar gearbox bearing failure cost it the race.

So what did USAC do? First they limited the engine intake area to 24 inches. But the plucky little turbo, despite a acceleration time lag, could still produce lots of ponies. So in the spirit of technology, the USAC then limited the intake to 16 inches, and imposed the ruling immediately, rather than the 2 year notice normally given, and killed the Turbocar.

It was so freakin' cool, and the bastards killed it because the piston engines couldn't compete with it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Looking back, I think that might be the foundations of my cynicism and why I like EV's so much. Technology that earns such hatred must be on to something.

And NASCAR demands that all the cars be about as identical as possible, giving rise to the 200 mph traffic jam effect. Yeah, that's fun.

And in the spirit of that..... 6.94 seconds at 201 mph on an electric bike

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

Big Daddy Don Garlits isn't afraid of technology at age 82.

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

anyhow, they aren't 100 percent related to this other than that I believe that Indy and NASCAR are anti competitive, and it's fun to see people doing it differently. Hell that's half the excitement. They're here just for fun

I agree. He's worn out his welcome by being such a snob all the time.

I mostly agree - although auto racing, especially NASCAR and Indy, isn't all that interesting these days.

In fact, when I was a kid, I gave up on Indy racing. I was getting really interested, and I was super impressed with the STP Turbocar. This thing was putting the piston cars to shame, but a 6 dollar gearbox bearing failure cost it the race.

So what did USAC do? First they limited the engine intake area to 24 inches. But the plucky little turbo, despite a acceleration time lag, could still produce lots of ponies. So in the spirit of technology, the USAC then limited the intake to 16 inches, and imposed the ruling immediately, rather than the 2 year notice normally given, and killed the Turbocar.

It was so freakin' cool, and the bastards killed it because the piston engines couldn't compete with it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Looking back, I think that might be the foundations of my cynicism and why I like EV's so much. Technology that earns such hatred must be on to something.

And NASCAR demands that all the cars be about as identical as possible, giving rise to the 200 mph traffic jam effect. Yeah, that's fun.

And in the spirit of that..... 6.94 seconds at 201 mph on an electric bike

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

Big Daddy Don Garlits isn't afraid of technology at age 82.

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

anyhow, they aren't 100 percent related to this other than that I believe that Indy and NASCAR are anti competitive, and it's fun to see people doing it differently. Hell that's half the excitement. They're here just for fun

Or Rumsfeld's AlQaeda high tech bunkers, with computing centers, infrared SAMs, bunkers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJe5l_ELSA/

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

i guess anything could be faked, but this really doesn't look like it. the video doesn't show anything special for sure, but it seems like proof they at least tried to build a product.

3.5m USD is nothing when it comes to hardware. i don't know much about manufacturing, but i do know it's really, really hard. triple that when it comes to something with moving parts. it's completely plausible that they built a few semi-working prototypes, but taking it to a quality consumer product was just too far of a stretch.

they built flyable drones and built the smartphone app to control it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

i guess anything could be faked, but this really doesn't look like it. the video doesn't show anything special for sure, but it seems like proof they at least tried to build a product.

3.5m USD is nothing when it comes to hardware. i don't know much about manufacturing, but i do know it's really, really hard. triple that when it comes to something with moving parts.

Not when there's fraudulent misrepresentation involved. The promo video they showed everyone was totally fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
doesn't look faked to me.

Remember when Saddam had some complex masterplan for building chemical and nuclear weapons? And Al Qaeda were criminal masterminds? Now it is ISIL (The Tiny Penises) that have sophisticated methods that only our authorities can figure out if you give them unlimited powers.
I feel that this terror threat is vastly over-stated. Saddam was not a really threat (a little but not that much). Al Qaeda weren't really a threat (sure they killed people, but hardly enough to roll over your way of life for), and now The Tiny Pensis are a threat (no they aren't).

To put it in perspective, the Police in the US have killed more civilians this year than The Tiny Penises have in France.

Terrorists are shitty humans, but it's not enough to give up for freedom and privacy for.

I read the article...

You must be new here.

...expecting to read Bill slamming NASCAR, but in reality he acknowledges the excitement of speed in a race and the level of engineering involved which is why he suggested a fuel limit to spur advancements in fuel consumption (due to the competitive nature of the race and the engineering component that already exists).

Oh, stop interfering with the narrative. It's important to discredit Bill Nye because he might believe in global warming or something equally non-slashdottish. He probably doesn't even get a woody whenever nuclear power is mentioned! You shouldn't be telling people that he's actually suggested a way to make NASCAR more of an engineering challenge, you're messing everything up with your "facts" and "objective viewpoint".

Comment from a youtube unboxing video:

So, basically, it isn't autonomous, it doesn't swarm, it has a flight time of less than five minutes, it can't even save videos to its micro SD card and it's only slightly more intelligent than its backers. It has less functionality than a Hubsan X4 H107c and it's six times the price. Awesome, I bet you're delighted.

I'd be interested in hearing a founder response to this.

how are your star citizen ships working out?

Rather well, actually. Thanks for asking. It's far from perfect or finished but there's been nonstop definable progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

While the bold text is really convincing and completely negates the instruction of every English teacher on Earth, you forgot the link to the blog that was using other blogs as citations. As for "valid singular pronouns", we have "one": "When one is cold one might shiver." We also have "it", though it's generally not used in reference to people, unless, of course, you keep your victims at the bottom of a hole in your basement floor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What? Why would you ever want to do away with those commercials, when they're so perfectly ripe for comic spoofing?

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

He means the vast majority of voters are too stupid to care let alone know... except people who watch John Oliver 8-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Adblocking didn't come as a result of "man fuck ads in general", it came about as a result of ads getting overbearing, obnoxious, and dangerous

It did for me, been sayin it for decades. The way it assploded is just an inherent side effect. Ads by their very nature are all the things you have described. That is exactly how they have been since this obnoxious ad

They must have been friends of that snake-oil salesman Dr. Oz.

We also have a snake-oil salesman running for POTUS right now.
Here he is doing a commercial for Mannatech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Alright then.

I think one of the main problems with the muslim world is lack of critical thinking, which leads to unquestioning belief in authority and conspiracy theories. Don't take my word for it, this is straight from the horse's mouth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As for ISIS, it's too simplistic to say it's just religion, see this (somewhat biased, but largely true):
https://newrepublic.com/articl...

But you can't understand what they do without taking islam into account. They blow up not just ruins from pagan times (Jahiliyyah), but also muslim shrines. Well, that's Wahhabism in action, and Saudi Arabia has the same policies, to the extent that they can get away with it.
In Paris, IS targeted the music venue Bataclan, makes sense since music is banned in Wahhabism. It's also jewish-owned, and has been a target many times before, also the headlining band recently toured Israel, apparently. So there's the antisemitic aspect. Restaurants and bars were attacked: that's alcohol, music, *and* men and (non-covered) women in the same room, that's triple haram. Wahhabism also bans sports (any kind of game actually), which explains the attack on the soccer game.

Without this background-knowledge the massacre looks like a random burst of violence, perpetrated by mentally ill people. Far from it, it was well-planned, and in line with doctrine.

Another example, IS wants to conquer Rome. They also called Obama "the dog of Rome". This obsession puzzled me, until I found out what "Rome" can refer to in the Muslim world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Know your enemy. Western policymakers don't seem to understand IS, so they got caught off gaurd last friday:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

IS announced Washington DC and London will be next, so nobody can plead ignorance anymore.

50++% & counting - Google's propulsion's out (ads) + so are most tracking/spying mechinations -> FROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

* :)

That about "sums it up" by analogy perfectly as to my hosts files program functioning like Capt. America's shield giving you more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single other "so-called 'souled-out solution'" there is, bar-none!

(Simply by using what you already have natively instead of STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY bolting on an already defeated by clarityray browser addon crippled by default OR built on its faulty easily detected & blocked code))

* See subject above - None of your troll bs can make me 'stand down' & you know it - you fail (on ALL fronts).

(I'm not 'advertising' anything - it's free, it works doing MORE than any other single "so-called solution" can + FOR LESS no less - & you're terrified of it, hence the abused downmods on this post!)

APK

P.S.=> Quoting "Captain America the Winter Soldier" in the analogy above & now Howard Stark from the 1st Capt. America film in keeping w/ it regarding hosts files superiority on ability + resource consumption fronts:

"It's stronger than steel & a 3rd the weight" - Howard Stark

... apk

P.S.S.=> Funny you never prove my points wrong on hosts superiority to other methods and just troll off topic... apk

What about Mannatech?

Guys, Dice, get it through your thick skulls: the ladies just aren't into you.

Dice, he's right you know.... but all's not lost; some of us think you look mighty cute in them jeans...

;)

It's clear that somebody wants energy to be more expensive

And this is Slashdot, where calls to increase the gas tax are ubiquitous.

We have drawn a line in the sand.

Cross it and we shall draw another.

If only we could make it work like this.

Technically you can: N-PENTADECANE

There's a DEFCON 21 talk on this topic. The punchline is: wax motors are high-force/high-latency/low-displacement change buoyancy engines that are extremely energy inefficient. The speaker ended up going the opposite direction(IE. shallow depth but low power) using medical syringes and pager motors to compress small gas pockets. This has a nice side benefit of avoiding enthalpy losses, or insulation concerns associated with using a heat engine. Other forms of air-independent propulsion do exist though... (Some are even low-cost. )

The topic is interesting but the presentation was inadequately rehearsed and the speaker misspoke several times(10 degrees C is the thermocline / N-Pentadecane phase transition, and 60 degrees C is the approximate melting temperature of paraffin).

If I could give it over again, I would have done more pool testing before the conference and brought some video footage of a glide test on stage with me. The yaw instability resulting from the lack of a stabilizer is noticeable if you watch closely. I never generated any drag data, but the surface finish would need to be vapor polished to achieve the desired laminar flow.

Gushing about how much money I squandered on this project is the main thing I find embarrassing about it... I try not to think too much about the presentation quality and I hope it will still impress me as informative(despite its warts) once I'm finished with my education.

Sincerely,
@nickflipper

Technically you can: N-PENTADECANE

There's a DEFCON 21 talk on this topic. The punchline is: wax motors are high-force/high-latency/low-displacement change buoyancy engines that are extremely energy inefficient. The speaker ended up going the opposite direction(IE. shallow depth but low power) using medical syringes and pager motors to compress small gas pockets. This has a nice side benefit of avoiding enthalpy losses, or insulation concerns associated with using a heat engine. Other forms of air-independent propulsion do exist though... (Some are even low-cost. )

The topic is interesting but the presentation was inadequately rehearsed and the speaker misspoke several times(10 degrees C is the thermocline / N-Pentadecane phase transition, and 60 degrees C is the approximate melting temperature of paraffin).

If I could give it over again, I would have done more pool testing before the conference and brought some video footage of a glide test on stage with me. The yaw instability resulting from the lack of a stabilizer is noticeable if you watch closely. I never generated any drag data, but the surface finish would need to be vapor polished to achieve the desired laminar flow.

Gushing about how much money I squandered on this project is the main thing I find embarrassing about it... I try not to think too much about the presentation quality and I hope it will still impress me as informative(despite its warts) once I'm finished with my education.

Sincerely,
@nickflipper