And I bet if you searched, you can find free apps that use data from random.org.
But most tabletop gamers prefer the heft and feel of real dice. It's much more fun to roll 6d6 for your mage's fireball than to punch a button on an app.
I recall one Car Wars head on collision where I got to roll 26 dice for damage. I had only brought 12 to the game, but wanted to roll 26d6 - when was I ever going to get another chance? We had to collect d6's from multiple people, and it was a big ol' handful of dice.
Actually, no, the Western corporations would still be meddling there, and lobbying their governments to meddle there.
In the game of geopolitical economic domination they play, one does not let opportunities to secure a resource like oil pass by, because your rivals certainly will not. And when it comes to finite resources like petroleum, it is most definitely a zero-sum game.
Granted, the way they're going about it is assholish and utterly sociopathic, but then what more do you expect from the asshole sociopaths who play that game?
Yea, well the Supreme Court doesn't seem to agree, and now you've probably also contractually agreed to resolve any disputes in Arbitration, with an arbitrator chosen by the corporation.
Actually, it might. It will attract attention from sympathetic people and companies. And if it goes viral, it may even affect public policy. And it might even inspire white hat hackers who don't like Trolls to help identify the culprits. It sure sounds like the work of more than one.
Anyway, it sure sounds like it can't get much worse.
Right, agreed, it's a daunting task. So the additional security step is "don't attract attention by hanging out with trolls and then pissing them off."
This is advice. It is not blame.
That said, I feel really horrible for the family, especially the daughter. They don't deserve any blame.
As for Blair, TFA is very inconclusive about what he may or may not have done to attract attention.
If it's small enough that a mining craft could alter its orbit, then the craft won't "land" on it. It will dock with it.
And the same kinds of smarts that got the craft there are required to predict what forces will have what effects. And the very small technical risk of altering the orbit is further reduced by the tiny probability that the altered orbit will intersect Earth's. It took a lot of delta-V on a very small mass to get the ship there. A few newtons to bury a harpoon isn't going to do more than move aphelion/perihelion by a few cm.
The argument that mining will create a risk of Earth impact is up there with being afraid of hostile spacefaring aliens on the improbability curve.
Big Pharma seems more interested in tweaking drugs just out of patent to market new patentable ones, and to make new drugs for very uncommon diseases (restless leg? overactive bladder?), and marketing the hell out of both.
And then they turn around and claim that the high prices charged for these patented drugs are because they have to pay for R&D for the unprofitable drugs.
If they had a pipeline of research, filled with long-term development of these meds, then they could have a new product every 3-5 years and the argument "it takes too long" goes out the window. But instead they spend money at cheap, incremental development and even more at marketing and lobbying, and record record profits measured in tens of gigabucks.
TFA just describes another symptom of approaching medicine as something to profit from. I've come to doubt the ethics of this practice, because it leads to situations where "First, do no harm" is ignored. The patient winds up being harmed due to the provider, or the provider's supplier, or the insurer, valuing profits over their patients' health.
Also, TFS should have specified it was the first *orbital* rocket launch from Hawaii.
(I've launched suborbitals from Barking Sands myself... it's usually used to send missiles towards Kwajalein, either to test an ICBM vehicle, or to launch targets for missile defense tests.)
Experimental rockets often carry payloads, in fact it's better if they do because a) they don't have to carry ballast in order to mimic operational weight and CG, and b) they can partially defray the costs of the development program and launch campaign.
Not that they charge much, and the payloads are not often insured, so it's usually University and High School and NGO satellites or experiments. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the space was donated.
This Planetary Society blog entry by their Senior Editor does a pretty good job of explaining how the chemistry of a primordial rock can tell you the conditions under which it condensed, and zircon U-Pb dating can give you a pretty good idea of the age. This gives astronomers a clear picture of what the primordial system was like.
Raising taxes on high incomes and capital gains does nothing but take money from the rich and the middle class and give it to the government. Why would we want to do that?
Oh, I dunno, perhaps for things like roads, bridges, public schools, water and power infrastructure, Air Traffic Control systems, and you know, all the other shit we've been letting fall to pieces ever since we bought into Reagan's Voodoo Economics and stopped collecting enough taxes to maintain it, all the while spending Trillions and Trillions on overseas wars.
Or how about collecting it for public financing of all campaigns, you know so our politicians don't have to spend all their time begging people for money and becoming beholden to special interests and can actually have time to govern?
Your comment makes it clear that you've been duped by the corporatist libertarian's propaganda that All Government is Bad.
Well guess what, it's NO government that's bad. Effective government can do great things.
You forgot about the part where a sensor fails, the AV is the cause of a multiple fatality accident (e.g., plows head on to a school bus), the entire country hates on the automaker, and the families of the victims all sue the automaker.
Even numbered Windows versions and odd numbered Star Trek movies. Everybody knows to stay away from them.
What everybody doesn't know is that if you put all of the even numbered Windows versions and odd numbered Star Trek movies on a hard drive, it will create a supercritical suckular fusion reaction, and the hard drive will spontaneously implode into a singularity of failure.
Technically that's still a critical reaction, just using a subcritical mass. This is sometimes called a critical assembly, esp when using neutron reflectors.
And this device accelerates electrons. Neutrons are hard to accelerate; the only means we have of doing that are using small fusion reactions created by accelerating ionized helium isotopes into targets with more H isotopes.
But yes, neutron acceleration can allow criticality in a much much smaller mass of fissile material, thus enabling backpack sized nuclear fission reactors... not that you'd want to get near one, or could lift one if it had adequate shielding. But it would be backpack sized.
Why even try to mimic meat? It struck me the first time I walked into a grocery in an Adventist community - there were multiple aisles of highly processed vegetable/fungus/grain matter trying to resemble meat.
I mean, especially if you're living a totally meatless lifestyle, why even kowtow to the omnivore food culture?
For example, look at Middle Eastern cuisine. Sure, they have kabobs, etc, but things like Falafel, Faul, Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, Tabouleh and Dolmas are all fantastic, and none of them are trying to mimic a hunk of beef or chicken.
Same with Asian food. There are fantastic meatless dishes that don't try to resemble an animal part.
Lots of people do it for Religious reasons, for instance, Adventists.
I once dated an Adventist girl who lived in Loma Linda, CA, which has a very high population of Adventists. I was amazed when I first walked into her local grocery store - there was aisle after aisle after aisle of stuff pretending to be meat.
The BAC thresholds vary from person to person - the brash friend from upthread may have a limit of 0.00, but my grandpa could, and would probably do just fine at 0.08 since he used to be a professional race car driver.
In fact, before that, he was a rum-runner during Prohibition. Whenever this topic came up he'd say "If you can't drive drunk, you can't drive." Meaning if your driving skills weren't good enough to allow for some impairment, then your driving skills weren't adequate. (NOT meaning one should always be intoxicated while driving.)
Also notably: he passed away in the 80's, in his 80's, when MADD was just getting off the ground. These days the legal penalties alone make it stupid to drive drunk, even if individually your skills "aren't impaired" at 0.08 BAC. It's very different now. Back then, in rural NC, the good ol' boys all knew each other and the only time DUI was ever charged was when someone actually caused injury or property damage.
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I tried this with my dice, and they ALL sank straight to the bottom.
But then, I bought all my dice back in the late 80's early 90's... that's the last time I lost my dice bag.
This already exists. Use your smartphone's browser.
And I bet if you searched, you can find free apps that use data from random.org.
But most tabletop gamers prefer the heft and feel of real dice. It's much more fun to roll 6d6 for your mage's fireball than to punch a button on an app.
I recall one Car Wars head on collision where I got to roll 26 dice for damage. I had only brought 12 to the game, but wanted to roll 26d6 - when was I ever going to get another chance? We had to collect d6's from multiple people, and it was a big ol' handful of dice.
And yes, we both confettied.
Actually, no, the Western corporations would still be meddling there, and lobbying their governments to meddle there.
In the game of geopolitical economic domination they play, one does not let opportunities to secure a resource like oil pass by, because your rivals certainly will not. And when it comes to finite resources like petroleum, it is most definitely a zero-sum game.
Granted, the way they're going about it is assholish and utterly sociopathic, but then what more do you expect from the asshole sociopaths who play that game?
Yea, well the Supreme Court doesn't seem to agree, and now you've probably also contractually agreed to resolve any disputes in Arbitration, with an arbitrator chosen by the corporation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...
Actually, it might. It will attract attention from sympathetic people and companies. And if it goes viral, it may even affect public policy. And it might even inspire white hat hackers who don't like Trolls to help identify the culprits. It sure sounds like the work of more than one.
Anyway, it sure sounds like it can't get much worse.
Right, agreed, it's a daunting task. So the additional security step is "don't attract attention by hanging out with trolls and then pissing them off."
This is advice. It is not blame.
That said, I feel really horrible for the family, especially the daughter. They don't deserve any blame.
As for Blair, TFA is very inconclusive about what he may or may not have done to attract attention.
If it's small enough that a mining craft could alter its orbit, then the craft won't "land" on it. It will dock with it.
And the same kinds of smarts that got the craft there are required to predict what forces will have what effects. And the very small technical risk of altering the orbit is further reduced by the tiny probability that the altered orbit will intersect Earth's. It took a lot of delta-V on a very small mass to get the ship there. A few newtons to bury a harpoon isn't going to do more than move aphelion/perihelion by a few cm.
The argument that mining will create a risk of Earth impact is up there with being afraid of hostile spacefaring aliens on the improbability curve.
And before that, it was the English, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, and French colonial powers.
And before them it was the Muslim Arabs and the Mongols.
And before them it was the Romans and the Macedonians.
It's a human thing, really.
Big Pharma seems more interested in tweaking drugs just out of patent to market new patentable ones, and to make new drugs for very uncommon diseases (restless leg? overactive bladder?), and marketing the hell out of both.
And then they turn around and claim that the high prices charged for these patented drugs are because they have to pay for R&D for the unprofitable drugs.
If they had a pipeline of research, filled with long-term development of these meds, then they could have a new product every 3-5 years and the argument "it takes too long" goes out the window. But instead they spend money at cheap, incremental development and even more at marketing and lobbying, and record record profits measured in tens of gigabucks.
TFA just describes another symptom of approaching medicine as something to profit from. I've come to doubt the ethics of this practice, because it leads to situations where "First, do no harm" is ignored. The patient winds up being harmed due to the provider, or the provider's supplier, or the insurer, valuing profits over their patients' health.
Imagine if the GOP had a credible presidential candidate!
Also, TFS should have specified it was the first *orbital* rocket launch from Hawaii.
(I've launched suborbitals from Barking Sands myself... it's usually used to send missiles towards Kwajalein, either to test an ICBM vehicle, or to launch targets for missile defense tests.)
Yea, but this one started precessing wildly at about 0:48.
Experimental rockets often carry payloads, in fact it's better if they do because a) they don't have to carry ballast in order to mimic operational weight and CG, and b) they can partially defray the costs of the development program and launch campaign.
Not that they charge much, and the payloads are not often insured, so it's usually University and High School and NGO satellites or experiments. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the space was donated.
This Planetary Society blog entry by their Senior Editor does a pretty good job of explaining how the chemistry of a primordial rock can tell you the conditions under which it condensed, and zircon U-Pb dating can give you a pretty good idea of the age. This gives astronomers a clear picture of what the primordial system was like.
It sounds like they give plenty of fucks.
Read the sentence again without being so critical. He's not predetermining the result, he's just saying X = Y && Z .
If both Y and Z become true, then X (the scandal will be a boon) will become true.
In this case Y and Z aren't independent variables. Z likely won't happen unless Y does, but Y could happen without causing Z.
This. Completely this.
If the filthy rich don't want to be depicted as Milburn Drysdales, then perhaps they should stop behaving like Milburn fucking Drysdale.
Raising taxes on high incomes and capital gains does nothing but take money from the rich and the middle class and give it to the government. Why would we want to do that?
Oh, I dunno, perhaps for things like roads, bridges, public schools, water and power infrastructure, Air Traffic Control systems, and you know, all the other shit we've been letting fall to pieces ever since we bought into Reagan's Voodoo Economics and stopped collecting enough taxes to maintain it, all the while spending Trillions and Trillions on overseas wars.
Or how about collecting it for public financing of all campaigns, you know so our politicians don't have to spend all their time begging people for money and becoming beholden to special interests and can actually have time to govern?
Your comment makes it clear that you've been duped by the corporatist libertarian's propaganda that All Government is Bad.
Well guess what, it's NO government that's bad. Effective government can do great things.
You forgot about the part where a sensor fails, the AV is the cause of a multiple fatality accident (e.g., plows head on to a school bus), the entire country hates on the automaker, and the families of the victims all sue the automaker.
Even numbered Windows versions and odd numbered Star Trek movies. Everybody knows to stay away from them.
What everybody doesn't know is that if you put all of the even numbered Windows versions and odd numbered Star Trek movies on a hard drive, it will create a supercritical suckular fusion reaction, and the hard drive will spontaneously implode into a singularity of failure.
Technically that's still a critical reaction, just using a subcritical mass. This is sometimes called a critical assembly, esp when using neutron reflectors.
And this device accelerates electrons. Neutrons are hard to accelerate; the only means we have of doing that are using small fusion reactions created by accelerating ionized helium isotopes into targets with more H isotopes.
But yes, neutron acceleration can allow criticality in a much much smaller mass of fissile material, thus enabling backpack sized nuclear fission reactors... not that you'd want to get near one, or could lift one if it had adequate shielding. But it would be backpack sized.
Why even try to mimic meat? It struck me the first time I walked into a grocery in an Adventist community - there were multiple aisles of highly processed vegetable/fungus/grain matter trying to resemble meat.
I mean, especially if you're living a totally meatless lifestyle, why even kowtow to the omnivore food culture?
For example, look at Middle Eastern cuisine. Sure, they have kabobs, etc, but things like Falafel, Faul, Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, Tabouleh and Dolmas are all fantastic, and none of them are trying to mimic a hunk of beef or chicken.
Same with Asian food. There are fantastic meatless dishes that don't try to resemble an animal part.
Why do we do it in the West? Marketing?
Lots of people do it for Religious reasons, for instance, Adventists.
I once dated an Adventist girl who lived in Loma Linda, CA, which has a very high population of Adventists. I was amazed when I first walked into her local grocery store - there was aisle after aisle after aisle of stuff pretending to be meat.
It was bizarre.
The BAC thresholds vary from person to person - the brash friend from upthread may have a limit of 0.00, but my grandpa could, and would probably do just fine at 0.08 since he used to be a professional race car driver.
In fact, before that, he was a rum-runner during Prohibition. Whenever this topic came up he'd say "If you can't drive drunk, you can't drive." Meaning if your driving skills weren't good enough to allow for some impairment, then your driving skills weren't adequate. (NOT meaning one should always be intoxicated while driving.)
Also notably: he passed away in the 80's, in his 80's, when MADD was just getting off the ground. These days the legal penalties alone make it stupid to drive drunk, even if individually your skills "aren't impaired" at 0.08 BAC. It's very different now. Back then, in rural NC, the good ol' boys all knew each other and the only time DUI was ever charged was when someone actually caused injury or property damage.
And thus he is saving even more money, probably more than he saves driving the Prius.