The drift to the verge caused by camber is probably quite useful, if a driver falls asleep they'll hit the stationary stuff off the road rather than drifting into the opposing lane, reducing collision speeds, vehicles involved and overall casualties.
You're thinking of the trimmers, there's a subtly different function. Trim wheels are used because the central position on the joystick is the "neutral" position for the ailerons and rudder, which is different to the "fly straight" position, which changes depending on airspeed, engine RPM, altitude and so on. The neutral position may make the plane fly straight and level at 300kts at 1000ft, but won't at 400kts. The trim wheels are used to offset the control surfaces so the neutral position on the joystick is flat and level. They can also be used, as you mention, to control the aircraft to a certain extent if the primary control (joystick) fails for any reason, planes have been landed using trim wheels only, but it's not recommended unless you have no other option.
In a car the equivalent would be a trim wheel to correct for a camber in the road or crosswind so you're not always steering slightly to one side.
Shush, don't give them ideas. Facebook has turned out to be an invaluable solution to the Eternal September, just don't have an account and 90% of interweb banality is kept safely out of your way.
The idea that not being able to read a map is a form of brain damage is one of the most ludicrous things I've ever read on here.
It can be. There are various different types of brain damage which will screw with the interpretation of visual data. A fairly common one is when there's a problem in the hemispheres communicating, it can lead to a situation where a person can easily draw an object they're looking at, but can't recognise it as, say, a wine glass. Or where they can look at a building and recognise a spire, windows and flying buttresses but not recognise it as a whole building (ie Notre Dame). Not being able to read a map could well be a sign of brain damage, if not in the way the GP means - I think the original reference was to lack of learning rather than physical or biochemical damage.
Unless it's mead, possibly. A Muslim friend of mine reckons there's a loophole in the sections of the Qu'ran banning alcohol in that it specifically bans fermented grasses/grains or fruit, so being honey based mead is fair game. He's not tried it because he believes it's still against the general spirit of the religion.
Anarchists can do whatever they want, including being part of an organization. I suspect a pure anarchist society woul end up defaulting to a form of Marxism or democracy purely for convenience.
Oh yes, if you get your timing wrong. It's very similar to the Catholic/Protestant schism, which is in turn related to the differences in Mc/Mac, which is an Irish Gaelic v Scots Gaelic thing. Sort of. It's pretty blurred these days though, I've never heard anyone get upset about it. [/scottish]
I don't want it and won't buy it. After the farce of 6Gb+ of "updates" being required for B3 I'm completely off buying anything from EA again. Why should you have to download the DLC you have no intention of paying for just to continue playing the game? No thanks, I'll stick with 1943 and BBC2 (both brilliant games), and switch to MW or whatever when the servers are finally turned off, EA have lost my custom for good. I did try to get in touch with them regarding the "updates" but they wouldn't talk to me because I "didn't have the right date of birth". I used the data protection act to get hold of all of the data they hold on me, and my DOB was correct, so that's two big fails.
The big point here isn't what can be done, but what is done. All of this technology exists, and can be very useful in, for example, locating missing people. It could also be used to track people at protests to identify ringleaders. The technology is already here, we can't close the box, the important thing is whether suitable laws are in place to prevent misuse.
Nope. The very fact that you've made the call will give a rough geolocation, typically within 20m or so in a city. Other calls can be similarly located, also texts and any other time the phone pings the base stations. Your daily route can be tracked and analysed from day to day. That's just with a basic phone. Connect to the internet and install a Facebook app, well, say goodbye to your privacy in theory.
The impression I had from TFA was that Facebook weren't behind it as such, but didn't really care. Their opinion was that it was a drop in the ocean, and that's what you'd expect them to say when fake "likes" boost their advertising revenue.
The point is, it's orbital. You'd run out of consumables before you needed to worry about re-entry, just aim for a recovery craft. I'll place a bet here and now that somebody does an orbit in a Red Bull branded capsule (complete with ring-pull) before 2025.
Ever read any Stephen Baxter? He's got a character called Reid Malenfant who's very Branson-esque, with some trampling-over-regulation thrown in for good measure. Thinking about it, I suspect Branson's main challenge has been red tape.
You can't float around in open air zero G for minutes in hot air balloons or MiGs. It's space. You can't do that in a MiG, and you can just about get there in a balloon for several times the price of a Virgin seat. If I had the money I'd be going up. You might call that a waste of money, I call it my life's ambition since I was three.
No, I'll simply continue without a Facebook account as I always have, problem solved.
There's only one crime I'm guilty of (as far as I can remember), and I keep that nice and quiet and don't do it around anyone who might take exception to it. If I get done for it then I can't really blame the person who reports me, surely? Even if it was you and you turned up to court to point and laugh I'd still only have myself to blame.
I wouldn't say "should", but there's certainly legal precedence for it. Whether a private company should require a court warrant as the police would is a good question. On the flipside, I've reported people to the police because I overheard them dealing drugs in the pub I worked in. Was this right or wrong? Is a Facebook discussion any different to any other discussion in a workplace?
So Facebook bad, drink driving and possession of a controlled substance good?
Don't get me wrong, there are laws I don't particularly agree with, but blaming the person who reports a crime, whatever your views on it, is nonsensical. I've reported several DUIs, am I partaking in a police state? I prefer to think of it as stopping a muppet who's going to kill someone eventually.
At what point in this entire discussion have Congress passed a law relating to this in any way? Nobody has been censored, quite the opposite, their "free speech" has been spread further and wider than they wanted. If anybody in this should be in favour of censorship it's the idiot who decided to chat up a 13yr old in public, it would have saved him a whole bunch of hassle.
I wish people would stop using "free speech" as a synonym for "shut up, I can do what I want".
It saves them spending more money on lawsuits from angry parents, fighting court issued warrants, and losing advertising money from $kidsToyCompany. Spend a penny to save a pound and all that.
[pedantic]
There's still the issue of data protection. In the UK any kind of personally identifying information can only be accessed by employees with a need to - if I, as a Google employee (which I'm not), decided to start reading an ex-girlfriends emails then that would almost certainly be a breach of the law, unless of course I'd been asked to for some reason (troubleshooting Gmail or whatever).
[/pedantic]
Facebook themselves don't count as "public", however, they can view everything. As can companies who pay for data and anyone who can convince a user to authorise an app.
There's two issues here: Facebook employees using common sense and passing on useful data about bad guys to the authorities (good) and Facebook's algorithms automatically reporting people who are entirely innocent (bad). Hopefully they're using a Mk 1 Eyeball and some common sense with this, I can forsee plenty of problems if they let software think of the children too much.
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The drift to the verge caused by camber is probably quite useful, if a driver falls asleep they'll hit the stationary stuff off the road rather than drifting into the opposing lane, reducing collision speeds, vehicles involved and overall casualties.
You're thinking of the trimmers, there's a subtly different function. Trim wheels are used because the central position on the joystick is the "neutral" position for the ailerons and rudder, which is different to the "fly straight" position, which changes depending on airspeed, engine RPM, altitude and so on. The neutral position may make the plane fly straight and level at 300kts at 1000ft, but won't at 400kts. The trim wheels are used to offset the control surfaces so the neutral position on the joystick is flat and level. They can also be used, as you mention, to control the aircraft to a certain extent if the primary control (joystick) fails for any reason, planes have been landed using trim wheels only, but it's not recommended unless you have no other option.
In a car the equivalent would be a trim wheel to correct for a camber in the road or crosswind so you're not always steering slightly to one side.
With speeds now comparable to DDR memory, what's to stop blank USB sticks being used as a temporary RAM boost?
Shush, don't give them ideas. Facebook has turned out to be an invaluable solution to the Eternal September, just don't have an account and 90% of interweb banality is kept safely out of your way.
It can be. There are various different types of brain damage which will screw with the interpretation of visual data. A fairly common one is when there's a problem in the hemispheres communicating, it can lead to a situation where a person can easily draw an object they're looking at, but can't recognise it as, say, a wine glass. Or where they can look at a building and recognise a spire, windows and flying buttresses but not recognise it as a whole building (ie Notre Dame). Not being able to read a map could well be a sign of brain damage, if not in the way the GP means - I think the original reference was to lack of learning rather than physical or biochemical damage.
Unless it's mead, possibly. A Muslim friend of mine reckons there's a loophole in the sections of the Qu'ran banning alcohol in that it specifically bans fermented grasses/grains or fruit, so being honey based mead is fair game. He's not tried it because he believes it's still against the general spirit of the religion.
Anarchists can do whatever they want, including being part of an organization. I suspect a pure anarchist society woul end up defaulting to a form of Marxism or democracy purely for convenience.
Oh yes, if you get your timing wrong. It's very similar to the Catholic/Protestant schism, which is in turn related to the differences in Mc/Mac, which is an Irish Gaelic v Scots Gaelic thing. Sort of. It's pretty blurred these days though, I've never heard anyone get upset about it. [/scottish]
Being US President gives you a fair statistical chance of spending the rest of your life in the job.
I don't want it and won't buy it. After the farce of 6Gb+ of "updates" being required for B3 I'm completely off buying anything from EA again. Why should you have to download the DLC you have no intention of paying for just to continue playing the game? No thanks, I'll stick with 1943 and BBC2 (both brilliant games), and switch to MW or whatever when the servers are finally turned off, EA have lost my custom for good. I did try to get in touch with them regarding the "updates" but they wouldn't talk to me because I "didn't have the right date of birth". I used the data protection act to get hold of all of the data they hold on me, and my DOB was correct, so that's two big fails.
You've clearly never been stalked by an ex.
The big point here isn't what can be done, but what is done. All of this technology exists, and can be very useful in, for example, locating missing people. It could also be used to track people at protests to identify ringleaders. The technology is already here, we can't close the box, the important thing is whether suitable laws are in place to prevent misuse.
Nope. The very fact that you've made the call will give a rough geolocation, typically within 20m or so in a city. Other calls can be similarly located, also texts and any other time the phone pings the base stations. Your daily route can be tracked and analysed from day to day. That's just with a basic phone. Connect to the internet and install a Facebook app, well, say goodbye to your privacy in theory.
The impression I had from TFA was that Facebook weren't behind it as such, but didn't really care. Their opinion was that it was a drop in the ocean, and that's what you'd expect them to say when fake "likes" boost their advertising revenue.
The point is, it's orbital. You'd run out of consumables before you needed to worry about re-entry, just aim for a recovery craft. I'll place a bet here and now that somebody does an orbit in a Red Bull branded capsule (complete with ring-pull) before 2025.
Of course not, they're all weightless. Badam tzzz. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Ever read any Stephen Baxter? He's got a character called Reid Malenfant who's very Branson-esque, with some trampling-over-regulation thrown in for good measure. Thinking about it, I suspect Branson's main challenge has been red tape.
You can't float around in open air zero G for minutes in hot air balloons or MiGs. It's space. You can't do that in a MiG, and you can just about get there in a balloon for several times the price of a Virgin seat. If I had the money I'd be going up. You might call that a waste of money, I call it my life's ambition since I was three.
No, I'll simply continue without a Facebook account as I always have, problem solved.
There's only one crime I'm guilty of (as far as I can remember), and I keep that nice and quiet and don't do it around anyone who might take exception to it. If I get done for it then I can't really blame the person who reports me, surely? Even if it was you and you turned up to court to point and laugh I'd still only have myself to blame.
I wouldn't say "should", but there's certainly legal precedence for it. Whether a private company should require a court warrant as the police would is a good question. On the flipside, I've reported people to the police because I overheard them dealing drugs in the pub I worked in. Was this right or wrong? Is a Facebook discussion any different to any other discussion in a workplace?
So Facebook bad, drink driving and possession of a controlled substance good?
Don't get me wrong, there are laws I don't particularly agree with, but blaming the person who reports a crime, whatever your views on it, is nonsensical. I've reported several DUIs, am I partaking in a police state? I prefer to think of it as stopping a muppet who's going to kill someone eventually.
At what point in this entire discussion have Congress passed a law relating to this in any way? Nobody has been censored, quite the opposite, their "free speech" has been spread further and wider than they wanted. If anybody in this should be in favour of censorship it's the idiot who decided to chat up a 13yr old in public, it would have saved him a whole bunch of hassle.
I wish people would stop using "free speech" as a synonym for "shut up, I can do what I want".
It saves them spending more money on lawsuits from angry parents, fighting court issued warrants, and losing advertising money from $kidsToyCompany. Spend a penny to save a pound and all that.
[pedantic] There's still the issue of data protection. In the UK any kind of personally identifying information can only be accessed by employees with a need to - if I, as a Google employee (which I'm not), decided to start reading an ex-girlfriends emails then that would almost certainly be a breach of the law, unless of course I'd been asked to for some reason (troubleshooting Gmail or whatever). [/pedantic]
Facebook themselves don't count as "public", however, they can view everything. As can companies who pay for data and anyone who can convince a user to authorise an app.
There's two issues here: Facebook employees using common sense and passing on useful data about bad guys to the authorities (good) and Facebook's algorithms automatically reporting people who are entirely innocent (bad). Hopefully they're using a Mk 1 Eyeball and some common sense with this, I can forsee plenty of problems if they let software think of the children too much.
You mean the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program based in Miramar?