The question here is what 'remote sensing' means. I think that automatically exempts any hand held camera, but I'm not sure about sensors on a manned spacecraft. The entire bit posted above seems to deal primarily with satellites, or at least that seems to be the intent.
Well, for one thing, I think kids like dark -- and won't be harmed by it -- contrary to most parent's expectations. I cut my teeth on Bradbury, and if "Pillar of Fire" isn't dark, I don't know what is. Yet, it is fascinating and beautiful, like most of Bradbury's short stories. IN fact, I highly recommend those.
A lot of Heinlein does work -- anything that he wrote for the YA crowd, like "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" work. I think Starship Troopers would be a good read, too, but not a lot of his more mature work, quite yet.
Many of Asimov's short stories are great, but forget his novels.
Anything by Terry Pratchett is great, and pretty much safe for teens, though "The Colour of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic" aren't really that great, so I wouldn't start with those.
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher deals with mature subjects, but stays pretty PG-13.
Alan Dean Foster has a great range of suitable books.
And, of course, there're the classic sci-fi authors: Clarke, Card, Cherryh, Niven & Pournelle (the stuff they write on their own kinda sucks, generally,) Frederic Pohl, LeGuinne, etc.
Personally, I recommend getting them started and then letting them read what they want. For the most part, what is considered truly age-appropriate kinda sucks, though there are a lot of gems. What's important is to get them to think about what they're reading.
Well, if we want to make it easier for terrorists to take over a plane, this'll do it. For one, it's dead easy to defeat -- a piece of aluminum foil shorting the contacts with a piece of rubber against the skin for insulation would easily be slipped into place, and I'm sure it wouldn't exactly be hard to trigger every band in the plane at once, after they figure out what codes are needed to do so.
I had something similar happen: I was bidding on an infrared filter for what I thought was a remarkably good price. I put in the bid.. then upon winning, realized the shipping was $150. (This is for a camera lens filter, something you could fit ten of in your hand.)
He sent me a threatening letter, I said 'fuck off, scammer,' and nothing happened.
I think the reason that people are fanboying about this edition is because it's introduced some really great changes, from a gameplay and game design point of view. It's definitely worth checking out.
"hey can make you sign a contract that limits or restricts what someone can say, but the person has to agree and sign. And the contract can only have civil penalties (being fired, fines, etc.) and not criminal ones. And an easy way to avoid this is to not sign the contract. But people really seem to think that they are entitled to have their cake and eat it, too."
When people say that Scientology suppresses free speech, they're not talking about the current members. They're talking about the people who get harassed, subjected to DMCA takedown notices, subjected to barratry, and even killed in order to suppress them or what they say. The 'Church' of Scientology's actions present a chilling effect and have a de facto effect of suppressing free speech.
I'd say any church is a "tax dodge", or does YOUR religion receive exempt status because its the only truth?
Most churches aren't set up as money-making ventures. Most churches do considerable charity work. Most churches don't resort to infiltration of government offices, and get convicted of Breach of the Public Trust. Most churches don't give commissions on sales of lessons in the church to those who manage to sell them. Most churches don't engage in agressive brain-washing tactics. (Yeah, someone's gonna argue with me on this, but there's a world of difference between cult brainwashing and being brought up Catholic, at least in most places. Now, some of the Baptist sects...)
and B, you should leave the decisions on scientific research to scientists.
Wait, you're under the delusion that America's space policy was devised by scientists?!? You're insane. If it truly had been devised by scientists and not politicians, we'd've never had the debacle that was the Space Shuttle and the ISS. The Space Shuttle was a horrible compromise between a crew-vehicle and a heavy-lift vehicle; no one at NASA wanted it in the way that it came to be; it was made that way by the politicians. And the ISS is a useless white elephant. If we wanted a real space station, it'd be at a useful altitude.
I'd say that if we had followed the original Von Braunian plan -- a heavy lift vehicle, a reuseable crew vehicle, and a station in a useable orbit, we'd already -have- men on Mars. Instead we got legislated screw-ups of massive proportions.
No, that's not what happened, or at least, you cannot infer that.
This guy took some CDs and ripped them to his hard drive. The folder he ripped them to happened to be shared by the filesharing program. I've seen some of these programs attempt to share entire drives, so the user may or may not have been aware of this behavior.
"A wake-up call to a 1 in a 1000000000000000000000000000000 chance of a piece of rock hitting us? I couldn't care less, and even if I did care, there is nothing I can do about it."
Actually, the probability that the Earth will be hit by an asteroid which would be large enough to devastate continents, change the environment, and generally completely wreck the ecosphere is close enough to 1 that it doesn't matter. It'll happen, eventually, unless proactive detection-and-deflection measures are taken -- and we've actually developed some interesting ways to do that, as of late.
So, what we have here is a threat to the entire human race -- actually, the entire biota of Earth. It is essentially a guarantee that Humanity's time on this rock is limited. If something else doesn't do us in first, an asteroid eventually will, unless we make that not happen.
These Nigerian retards claim it took nine years of work to come up with meta-keys? I've typed on keyboards with two meta keys for typing what'd normally be alt-characters.
Don't know about the U.K. but in the U.S., traffic accidents result in about 43,000 deaths per year and hundreds of thousands of injuries, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars in property damage, suffering, litigation, insurance fees, on and on.
The thing is, these accidents mostly aren't caused by speeding. They're caused by a collection of behaviors that I call 'being a douchebag.' Not paying attention? Talking on a cellphone? Driving aggressively? Driving too defensively? Driving too fast for the road conditions (whether or not it's above or below the speed limit?) Not paying attention to red lights? Not yielding the right of way? Not -taking- the right of way, resulting in that dance of mutual hesitation you see at four-way stops? Following too closely? Douchebags.
(Of course, some accidents are also caused by external factors, things which could not be anticipated, etc. But most of 'em? Caused by douchebags who weren't paying attention.)
Anyone who has ever been on a long distance phone line when the echo suppressors aren't working will immediately recognize the effect. It's simply impossible to continue speaking coherently.
Oh, god, yeah, this'd work. It -is- possible to ignore the effect, but you essentially have to turn off the part of your brain that processes incoming audio.
When you cannot tell where something is coming from, you begin to think that you are going insane - especially if you are in a group and only you are targeted.
Only if you're of a mindset to do so. Only if you lack the critical thinking skills to determine that it's from a localized, external source. Only if you're an idiot.
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It's not like they couldn't be easily removed; the article states that they're not even glued in.
Besides, the Beautiful Ancient Relic is just yesteryear's wall.
The question here is what 'remote sensing' means. I think that automatically exempts any hand held camera, but I'm not sure about sensors on a manned spacecraft. The entire bit posted above seems to deal primarily with satellites, or at least that seems to be the intent.
Well, for one thing, I think kids like dark -- and won't be harmed by it -- contrary to most parent's expectations. I cut my teeth on Bradbury, and if "Pillar of Fire" isn't dark, I don't know what is. Yet, it is fascinating and beautiful, like most of Bradbury's short stories. IN fact, I highly recommend those.
A lot of Heinlein does work -- anything that he wrote for the YA crowd, like "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" work. I think Starship Troopers would be a good read, too, but not a lot of his more mature work, quite yet.
Many of Asimov's short stories are great, but forget his novels.
Anything by Terry Pratchett is great, and pretty much safe for teens, though "The Colour of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic" aren't really that great, so I wouldn't start with those.
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher deals with mature subjects, but stays pretty PG-13.
Alan Dean Foster has a great range of suitable books.
And, of course, there're the classic sci-fi authors: Clarke, Card, Cherryh, Niven & Pournelle (the stuff they write on their own kinda sucks, generally,) Frederic Pohl, LeGuinne, etc.
Personally, I recommend getting them started and then letting them read what they want. For the most part, what is considered truly age-appropriate kinda sucks, though there are a lot of gems. What's important is to get them to think about what they're reading.
Well, if we want to make it easier for terrorists to take over a plane, this'll do it. For one, it's dead easy to defeat -- a piece of aluminum foil shorting the contacts with a piece of rubber against the skin for insulation would easily be slipped into place, and I'm sure it wouldn't exactly be hard to trigger every band in the plane at once, after they figure out what codes are needed to do so.
I had something similar happen: I was bidding on an infrared filter for what I thought was a remarkably good price. I put in the bid .. then upon winning, realized the shipping was $150. (This is for a camera lens filter, something you could fit ten of in your hand.)
He sent me a threatening letter, I said 'fuck off, scammer,' and nothing happened.
Once the tree dies, its carbon goes right back into the air.
Funny, I haven't seen many evaporating trees, lately. Generally, you have to burn it or have something eat it in order to turn cellulose into CO2.
I think the reason that people are fanboying about this edition is because it's introduced some really great changes, from a gameplay and game design point of view. It's definitely worth checking out.
Except, no, most of the stuff you mention is incorrect or misleading. In fact, I can tell that you haven't even cracked the books.
Has there ever been a time in world history where bigotry served an actual purpose that benefited everyone?
;)
Generally, if it served an actual purpose, it wouldn't be classified as bigotry.
"hey can make you sign a contract that limits or restricts what someone can say, but the person has to agree and sign. And the contract can only have civil penalties (being fired, fines, etc.) and not criminal ones. And an easy way to avoid this is to not sign the contract. But people really seem to think that they are entitled to have their cake and eat it, too."
When people say that Scientology suppresses free speech, they're not talking about the current members. They're talking about the people who get harassed, subjected to DMCA takedown notices, subjected to barratry, and even killed in order to suppress them or what they say. The 'Church' of Scientology's actions present a chilling effect and have a de facto effect of suppressing free speech.
I'd say any church is a "tax dodge", or does YOUR religion receive exempt status because its the only truth?
Most churches aren't set up as money-making ventures. Most churches do considerable charity work. Most churches don't resort to infiltration of government offices, and get convicted of Breach of the Public Trust. Most churches don't give commissions on sales of lessons in the church to those who manage to sell them. Most churches don't engage in agressive brain-washing tactics. (Yeah, someone's gonna argue with me on this, but there's a world of difference between cult brainwashing and being brought up Catholic, at least in most places. Now, some of the Baptist sects...)
and B, you should leave the decisions on scientific research to scientists.
Wait, you're under the delusion that America's space policy was devised by scientists?!? You're insane. If it truly had been devised by scientists and not politicians, we'd've never had the debacle that was the Space Shuttle and the ISS. The Space Shuttle was a horrible compromise between a crew-vehicle and a heavy-lift vehicle; no one at NASA wanted it in the way that it came to be; it was made that way by the politicians. And the ISS is a useless white elephant. If we wanted a real space station, it'd be at a useful altitude.
I'd say that if we had followed the original Von Braunian plan -- a heavy lift vehicle, a reuseable crew vehicle, and a station in a useable orbit, we'd already -have- men on Mars. Instead we got legislated screw-ups of massive proportions.
That's just because Apple isn't as popular. ;)
See yesterday's /.
See? Things like this are what make that MMO that NASA's considering developing less-than-ridiculous.
A human exoskeleton form factor. Not to mention, in some places, due to terrain, a bipedal vehicle could be very handy.
Actually, no. The distributor's computer creates the unauthorized copies at the request of the client computer.
No, that's not what happened, or at least, you cannot infer that.
This guy took some CDs and ripped them to his hard drive. The folder he ripped them to happened to be shared by the filesharing program. I've seen some of these programs attempt to share entire drives, so the user may or may not have been aware of this behavior.
"A wake-up call to a 1 in a 1000000000000000000000000000000 chance of a piece of rock hitting us? I couldn't care less, and even if I did care, there is nothing I can do about it."
Actually, the probability that the Earth will be hit by an asteroid which would be large enough to devastate continents, change the environment, and generally completely wreck the ecosphere is close enough to 1 that it doesn't matter. It'll happen, eventually, unless proactive detection-and-deflection measures are taken -- and we've actually developed some interesting ways to do that, as of late.
So, what we have here is a threat to the entire human race -- actually, the entire biota of Earth. It is essentially a guarantee that Humanity's time on this rock is limited. If something else doesn't do us in first, an asteroid eventually will, unless we make that not happen.
Now we just need giant floating heads that vomit forth guns! I want a Webley!
These Nigerian retards claim it took nine years of work to come up with meta-keys? I've typed on keyboards with two meta keys for typing what'd normally be alt-characters.
Don't know about the U.K. but in the U.S., traffic accidents result in about 43,000 deaths per year and hundreds of thousands of injuries, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars in property damage, suffering, litigation, insurance fees, on and on.
The thing is, these accidents mostly aren't caused by speeding. They're caused by a collection of behaviors that I call 'being a douchebag.' Not paying attention? Talking on a cellphone? Driving aggressively? Driving too defensively? Driving too fast for the road conditions (whether or not it's above or below the speed limit?) Not paying attention to red lights? Not yielding the right of way? Not -taking- the right of way, resulting in that dance of mutual hesitation you see at four-way stops? Following too closely? Douchebags.
(Of course, some accidents are also caused by external factors, things which could not be anticipated, etc. But most of 'em? Caused by douchebags who weren't paying attention.)
Anyone who has ever been on a long distance phone line when the echo suppressors aren't working will immediately recognize the effect. It's simply impossible to continue speaking coherently.
Oh, god, yeah, this'd work. It -is- possible to ignore the effect, but you essentially have to turn off the part of your brain that processes incoming audio.
When you cannot tell where something is coming from, you begin to think that you are going insane - especially if you are in a group and only you are targeted.
Only if you're of a mindset to do so. Only if you lack the critical thinking skills to determine that it's from a localized, external source. Only if you're an idiot.
No, but when one book is stolen, the entire community is deprived of the information, whereas when one OLPC is stolen, one person is.