Srs face now: This is something that annoys me no end. Just like you'll never meet someone on the internet who doesn't have at least a 9 inch cock, and still thinks it could be an inch or two bigger, every time people talk about endurance they always say "20 minutes is still too quick, you have to last at least an hour!". That's bullshit. On the first count, anyone over about 6" who's been with more than one or two women will know that sometimes, more than 6 inches just. won't. fit. Anyone who says they're "9 inches and that all the bitches love it" is either 5" or less, or a virgin. On the second count, no matter how much lube you use, you're going to start chafing after about 15-20 minutes unless you're either fully tantric or you're both on IRC at the same time or something, and forget to make with the thrusting.
The only correct answer is "if it's big enough that she couldn't take any more, without being too big and hurting her, and if it lasts long enough for her to get off a couple of times, but not long enough to chafe, then you're doing it right."
Then its a bit like putting the Earth at the focus of a mirror. We would need to find a source of cooling at the same time. Don't want wind up like the Puppeteers.
Yeah, it's starting to become the classic passive-aggressive "tactic" for open source products to avoid any kind of responsibility.
Not just open source. A lot of commercial software, and especially free-beer closed-source software, stays in beta for months or years before they finally put a 1.0 on it. Hell, how long did GMail last, 5 years or something?
That said, I do have a VR device that induces the feelings of motion in the brain through electrodes(1 on the forehead and 2 behind each ear on the "mastoid process") that when cranked high will induce visual hallucinations for a second or two...but they wouldn't make me think I was seeing ball lightning.
Interesting! What 'VR device' is this? I haven't heard of inducing feelings of motion with such things... do want more info! I'm getting a mental picture of Eight from the movie 9.
Also, do these visual hallucinations remain stationary with respect to the world around you, when you move your head/eyes? Bright lights on their own can cause spots in front of your eyes, but since they're fixed w.r.t. your field of vision, they're easy to tell apart from actual entities in the world. I'd imagine that if these hallucinations are caused by induced currents, something similar would apply?
Well, actually I'm city boy so I'd be in trouble, but I married a farm girl and from what she's said, it'll be a couple of weeks at least, maybe a month before you really notice the apocalypse. And that's without even trying to stretch supplies. Sure, that's not much if you're talking a permanent dwelling, but you'll still look mighty tasty to city folks after two weeks with no meals.
If you survive the first couple of weeks after an apocalyptic event, I'd imagine your survival rate improves dramatically, since 90% of your competition will (a) be dead, and (b) be a distraction for animals which would otherwise eat you. After that... as a species we tend to do pretty well vs. other animals, even when armed only with fire, spears, and maybe a longbow or a sling.
The whole notion of working for an employer revolves around you giving up something in exchange for money. In this case it is your freedom and your intellect/creativity/etc.
Usually, on the face of it, what you're giving up is eight hours of your creative time. Trying to sneak a clause in the fine print entitling them to 100% of your creative output is just deceitful. If they want every single piece of creativity I come up with, on my own time, while I'm employed at the company, then they'd have to pay me more than three times what they're paying now.
In the US that should also be true, but your employer is allowed to create contracts which take away everything you should own.
I'm fairly sure that there are limitations on what sort of contracts you *can* make, in Australia if not in the U.S, to stop people from being tricked into crazy things. They can't enforce a contract that entitles your employer to harvest your organs, or that excludes you from ever working for anyone but that employer in your life. I'm pretty sure a contract that has fine print letting your employer take possession of your house and car, likewise, is not enforceable. And obviously a contract isn't enforceable if you have to break the law to fulfil it (unless of course it's the sort of contract with breach clauses involving your kneecaps and the wearing of concrete boots).
What if the organization, eg CorpInc, took software released under the GPL and made modifications to it. Then they installed the modified versions to their own computers. The modified version is clearly under the GPL, because it is a derivative work. However is CorpInc required to give it's employees that use those computers the source to the modified version? If they are, then by the terms of the GPL the employees can give the source, and binaries, to others.
I don't believe so, since you have a company installing its own software on its own computers. That's not distribution/propagation/release/whatever.
If we wake up tomorrow and find that oil disappeared from the ground, the best next thing is to go and buy a nice, comfortable coffin. This is because no amount of horses would be sufficient to deliver food from places where it is made to places where it is consumed. Hundreds of millions of city dwellers will be left without food; what do you think will happen next? I think making a new kind of lipstick would be rather a low priority project.
If we wake up tomorrow and find that one of the mainstays of modern infrastructure has been destroyed (the power grid, our source of petrochemicals, our road transport system, etc.) then the safest place to be would be the furthest away from the city. You could live almost indefinitely on some outback farm with some cows, as long as ravening hordes of starving cubicle-dwellers don't descend to eat your farm.
Like you said at first, they ALSO require pressure. And they're shock-sensitive. Shock, minimal temperature changes, or minimal pressure changes can make them go back into gaseous form.
There is a ton of energy available in this form, throughout the oceans. It's a concern that the instability of these methane structures could actually cause some rapid climate change, if they're disturbed by warming oceans, current changes, etc.
Sounds to me like they'd be vulnerable to a Dr Evil-style ecoterror plot where you threaten to detonate a large conventional explosive under the ice cap, setting off a large area of this stuff in one go and generally causing an ice shelf or two to go BOOM.
Oh, bother. We have a lot of higher-end TVs calling themselves "LED TVs". I incorrectly assumed that they were OLED, whereas in fact they're just LCD TVs with LED backlights.
Sneaky fucking marketers. Can't trust anything you read.
Also, I don't see any (display quality) reason that OLED and SED (or FED) displays are superior to plasmas. S/FED displays use the same phosphors as plasma screens, and OLEDs have severe (worse than phosphor) lifespan issues, last I heard. Even inorganic LEDs have lifespans not much longer than modern phosphors. So the only deciding factor is power consumption - and I'm not paying 5x - 10x the price for a screen that uses 150w instead of 400w.
In the end we won't see practical HDR displays for sale to average consumers until something like OLEDs become cheap enough for mass market.
I concur, but aren't OLED displays already infiltrating the small-screen end of the market? I've seen them up to 42" (although the bigger units are very expensive, around the same as plasma screens 5-6 years ago).
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I believe the second and third '6' were 6k, not just $6. I infer this from the original sum mentioned being $18000, not $6012.
I'd just like to thank Timothy for correctly saying "raises the question", rather than misusing "begs the question", in the summary.
That's why you have a parachute too. It's not rocket sci- erm... it's not complicated.
Pressure suit and a semi-wearable gliding wing would be so SO much more epic.
Remember not to open the 'chute until you're down below about 15,000 feet or you'll freeze to death before you hit the ground.
Srs face now: This is something that annoys me no end. Just like you'll never meet someone on the internet who doesn't have at least a 9 inch cock, and still thinks it could be an inch or two bigger, every time people talk about endurance they always say "20 minutes is still too quick, you have to last at least an hour!". That's bullshit. On the first count, anyone over about 6" who's been with more than one or two women will know that sometimes, more than 6 inches just. won't. fit. Anyone who says they're "9 inches and that all the bitches love it" is either 5" or less, or a virgin. On the second count, no matter how much lube you use, you're going to start chafing after about 15-20 minutes unless you're either fully tantric or you're both on IRC at the same time or something, and forget to make with the thrusting.
The only correct answer is "if it's big enough that she couldn't take any more, without being too big and hurting her, and if it lasts long enough for her to get off a couple of times, but not long enough to chafe, then you're doing it right."
My grammar was slide parking cars when your mammy was in nappies.
Unless pebble bed reactors become deployed on a commercial scale.
That will never happen because it makes far too much sense.
Quiet or I'll tasp you! ;)
North Korea has achieved fusion
Don't be silly, everyone knows that the soviets developed it first!
Then its a bit like putting the Earth at the focus of a mirror. We would need to find a source of cooling at the same time. Don't want wind up like the Puppeteers.
Two heads and your brain in your ass?
Yeah, it's starting to become the classic passive-aggressive "tactic" for open source products to avoid any kind of responsibility.
Not just open source. A lot of commercial software, and especially free-beer closed-source software, stays in beta for months or years before they finally put a 1.0 on it. Hell, how long did GMail last, 5 years or something?
What? I've never met a pothead who tried to push anything anywhere, except maybe pushing Discovery Channel onto the TV.
...let me also point out that LSD doesn't explain real spiders.
HOLY SHIT THOSE THINGS ARE REAL?
That said, I do have a VR device that induces the feelings of motion in the brain through electrodes(1 on the forehead and 2 behind each ear on the "mastoid process") that when cranked high will induce visual hallucinations for a second or two...but they wouldn't make me think I was seeing ball lightning.
Interesting! What 'VR device' is this? I haven't heard of inducing feelings of motion with such things... do want more info! I'm getting a mental picture of Eight from the movie 9.
Also, do these visual hallucinations remain stationary with respect to the world around you, when you move your head/eyes? Bright lights on their own can cause spots in front of your eyes, but since they're fixed w.r.t. your field of vision, they're easy to tell apart from actual entities in the world. I'd imagine that if these hallucinations are caused by induced currents, something similar would apply?
Well, actually I'm city boy so I'd be in trouble, but I married a farm girl and from what she's said, it'll be a couple of weeks at least, maybe a month before you really notice the apocalypse. And that's without even trying to stretch supplies. Sure, that's not much if you're talking a permanent dwelling, but you'll still look mighty tasty to city folks after two weeks with no meals.
If you survive the first couple of weeks after an apocalyptic event, I'd imagine your survival rate improves dramatically, since 90% of your competition will (a) be dead, and (b) be a distraction for animals which would otherwise eat you. After that... as a species we tend to do pretty well vs. other animals, even when armed only with fire, spears, and maybe a longbow or a sling.
The whole notion of working for an employer revolves around you giving up something in exchange for money. In this case it is your freedom and your intellect/creativity/etc.
Usually, on the face of it, what you're giving up is eight hours of your creative time. Trying to sneak a clause in the fine print entitling them to 100% of your creative output is just deceitful. If they want every single piece of creativity I come up with, on my own time, while I'm employed at the company, then they'd have to pay me more than three times what they're paying now.
In the US that should also be true, but your employer is allowed to create contracts which take away everything you should own.
I'm fairly sure that there are limitations on what sort of contracts you *can* make, in Australia if not in the U.S, to stop people from being tricked into crazy things. They can't enforce a contract that entitles your employer to harvest your organs, or that excludes you from ever working for anyone but that employer in your life. I'm pretty sure a contract that has fine print letting your employer take possession of your house and car, likewise, is not enforceable. And obviously a contract isn't enforceable if you have to break the law to fulfil it (unless of course it's the sort of contract with breach clauses involving your kneecaps and the wearing of concrete boots).
What if the organization, eg CorpInc, took software released under the GPL and made modifications to it. Then they installed the modified versions to their own computers. The modified version is clearly under the GPL, because it is a derivative work. However is CorpInc required to give it's employees that use those computers the source to the modified version? If they are, then by the terms of the GPL the employees can give the source, and binaries, to others.
I don't believe so, since you have a company installing its own software on its own computers. That's not distribution/propagation/release/whatever.
If we wake up tomorrow and find that oil disappeared from the ground, the best next thing is to go and buy a nice, comfortable coffin. This is because no amount of horses would be sufficient to deliver food from places where it is made to places where it is consumed. Hundreds of millions of city dwellers will be left without food; what do you think will happen next? I think making a new kind of lipstick would be rather a low priority project.
If we wake up tomorrow and find that one of the mainstays of modern infrastructure has been destroyed (the power grid, our source of petrochemicals, our road transport system, etc.) then the safest place to be would be the furthest away from the city. You could live almost indefinitely on some outback farm with some cows, as long as ravening hordes of starving cubicle-dwellers don't descend to eat your farm.
Like you said at first, they ALSO require pressure. And they're shock-sensitive. Shock, minimal temperature changes, or minimal pressure changes can make them go back into gaseous form.
There is a ton of energy available in this form, throughout the oceans. It's a concern that the instability of these methane structures could actually cause some rapid climate change, if they're disturbed by warming oceans, current changes, etc.
Sounds to me like they'd be vulnerable to a Dr Evil-style ecoterror plot where you threaten to detonate a large conventional explosive under the ice cap, setting off a large area of this stuff in one go and generally causing an ice shelf or two to go BOOM.
Oh, bother. We have a lot of higher-end TVs calling themselves "LED TVs". I incorrectly assumed that they were OLED, whereas in fact they're just LCD TVs with LED backlights.
Sneaky fucking marketers. Can't trust anything you read.
Also, I don't see any (display quality) reason that OLED and SED (or FED) displays are superior to plasmas. S/FED displays use the same phosphors as plasma screens, and OLEDs have severe (worse than phosphor) lifespan issues, last I heard. Even inorganic LEDs have lifespans not much longer than modern phosphors. So the only deciding factor is power consumption - and I'm not paying 5x - 10x the price for a screen that uses 150w instead of 400w.
brick-shittingly amazing results
My new goal at work is to inject this brick-shittingly amazing figure of speech into normal conversation.
In the end we won't see practical HDR displays for sale to average consumers until something like OLEDs become cheap enough for mass market.
I concur, but aren't OLED displays already infiltrating the small-screen end of the market? I've seen them up to 42" (although the bigger units are very expensive, around the same as plasma screens 5-6 years ago).
obviously not...
Slightly denser than water, if we breathe all the way out.
Short pig good, long pig bad?