The amount of times I have missed a red light because the dickwad ahead is fucking with their phones and failed to roll on is phenomenal. By the time said dickwad has reacted to my horn, put the phone down, and moved on, the light is often changing. Don't be that dickwad.
Well, I'm speaking from personal experience there. Her phone (in a school bag) got soaked when she got stuck out in a rain storm, and she had to use her friends phone to call me to come get her.
That's going to be a great precedent and standard to set, especially when your daughter needs to use her friends phone to call you for help because hers just got trashed/out of credit/stolen.
If my phone bounces like the ball does in the demo video here, them for the first time in my life, I will happily pay a premium for a shiny apple case.
Imagine the hand-eye dexterity you'd gain from catching your phone on the rebound from the pavement.
So, does anyone here actually give a shit for the life, intelligence and potential lost with the passage of this life or are you emotionally inept cum towels just going to keep pebble spraying each other over who's right about where cars/guns/criminals/mexicans/drones should be allowed?
Oh wait. This is slashdot. My bad.
R.I.P Andrew. At least one of us see's your passing as something beyond an opportunity to garner insightful mod points.
The Hybrid RotorWing can operate in five different flight modes.
Fixed Wing Flight: where the RotorWing is locked to operate as a fixed wing Rotary Wing Flight: The RotorWing rotates like a helicopter rotor providing sustained hover capability Compound Rotary Wing Flight: where the rotors requirement to produce lift and thrust is off loaded to other lifting surfaces or propulsion engines Autogiro Flight: a form of rotary wing flight where the rotor is driven by the relative airflow and not directly by the engine Transition Flight Mode: where the conversion from fixed to rotary or rotary to fixed wing flight occurs
Autogyro mode is one of 5 flight modes. To call this an old concept is like saying tyres are not a new concept because we have spoked wagon wheels. Its existing tech, but better.
Though at least these guys seem to have worked out how to stop the thing from sinking like a stone during rotor transition though, which is a welcome feature.
I can't help but notice that as our technology becomes more and more advanced, the narrative gets closer to and more interchangeable with sci-fi..
The starships prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way. While monitoring a red dwarf star — designated KOI-256 — the crew detected a dip in starlight in the Kepler data. But it wasn't caused by an exoplanet. After some careful detective work, flight astrophysicist Lt. Slarti B. Artfast reported that the red dwarf was actually in orbit around a binary partner — a white dwarf.
I swear, this is how I read 80% of the astronomical articles I come across.
My god, I went cold when I heard about this today, as it did when Columbine and the Amish school shootings went down. Chains on doors, reports of sole survivors from classes that had to pretend to be dead while the bodies of their friends rained down and onto them, it just makes me cry. I called a guy I went to Uni of Tech in Sydney 20 years ago with this morning just to talk to him, to hear he was having a good day. We speak often enough, but this poor lad, sole survivor left behind in a classroom full of bodies, and dozens.. hundreds of others given the size of the campus, have just lost life long friends worth more than all the gold on the planet.
This kid who opened fire, talk of looking for his girlfriend, whatever reasons he had, he had a lot going on, and I for one will not write him off, as thankfully a lot of you haven't. some of you have expressed a degree of sympathy towards him, as do I. Such destruction must not be tolerated, but at the same time, neither should anyone feeling so messed up that the only solution is hot lead. These are all kids for god sake.
Please oh please, fellow humans creatures, we must do something to stop this. Have your moments of sadness and say your prayers to and ask [insert deity here] to hold and warm the families of both the victims and perpetrator. But for the love of [insert deity here] push your legislators and law makers to tighten gun control. We can't allow this to happen anymore. its just such a [insert deity here] damn waste.
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I'd book you for parking your car in a traffic lane. How about you just pay attention to the road like the mature adult you're supposed to be.
The amount of times I have missed a red light because the dickwad ahead is fucking with their phones and failed to roll on is phenomenal. By the time said dickwad has reacted to my horn, put the phone down, and moved on, the light is often changing. Don't be that dickwad.
Well, I'm speaking from personal experience there. Her phone (in a school bag) got soaked when she got stuck out in a rain storm, and she had to use her friends phone to call me to come get her.
For a lot of reasons, I hope you never breed.
That's going to be a great precedent and standard to set, especially when your daughter needs to use her friends phone to call you for help because hers just got trashed/out of credit/stolen.
"I don't know this number, fuck that!"
If my phone bounces like the ball does in the demo video here, them for the first time in my life, I will happily pay a premium for a shiny apple case.
Imagine the hand-eye dexterity you'd gain from catching your phone on the rebound from the pavement.
So, does anyone here actually give a shit for the life, intelligence and potential lost with the passage of this life or are you emotionally inept cum towels just going to keep pebble spraying each other over who's right about where cars/guns/criminals/mexicans/drones should be allowed?
Oh wait. This is slashdot. My bad.
R.I.P Andrew. At least one of us see's your passing as something beyond an opportunity to garner insightful mod points.
FTFA;
The Hybrid RotorWing can operate in five different flight modes.
Fixed Wing Flight: where the RotorWing is locked to operate as a fixed wing
Rotary Wing Flight: The RotorWing rotates like a helicopter rotor providing sustained hover capability
Compound Rotary Wing Flight: where the rotors requirement to produce lift and thrust is off loaded to other lifting surfaces or propulsion engines
Autogiro Flight: a form of rotary wing flight where the rotor is driven by the relative airflow and not directly by the engine
Transition Flight Mode: where the conversion from fixed to rotary or rotary to fixed wing flight occurs
Autogyro mode is one of 5 flight modes. To call this an old concept is like saying tyres are not a new concept because we have spoked wagon wheels. Its existing tech, but better.
Someone has been watching it.
"Convert to da choppa!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Though at least these guys seem to have worked out how to stop the thing from sinking like a stone during rotor transition though, which is a welcome feature.
I'm just disappointed they didn't call it the Thirty Meter Newtonian Telescope. Everyone could have agreed on that.
I can't help but notice that as our technology becomes more and more advanced, the narrative gets closer to and more interchangeable with sci-fi..
The starships prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way. While monitoring a red dwarf star — designated KOI-256 — the crew detected a dip in starlight in the Kepler data. But it wasn't caused by an exoplanet. After some careful detective work, flight astrophysicist Lt. Slarti B. Artfast reported that the red dwarf was actually in orbit around a binary partner — a white dwarf.
I swear, this is how I read 80% of the astronomical articles I come across.
YouTube you bastarBZZZZZZZZ!!
Making you an.. Android?
My god, I went cold when I heard about this today, as it did when Columbine and the Amish school shootings went down. Chains on doors, reports of sole survivors from classes that had to pretend to be dead while the bodies of their friends rained down and onto them, it just makes me cry. I called a guy I went to Uni of Tech in Sydney 20 years ago with this morning just to talk to him, to hear he was having a good day. We speak often enough, but this poor lad, sole survivor left behind in a classroom full of bodies, and dozens.. hundreds of others given the size of the campus, have just lost life long friends worth more than all the gold on the planet.
This kid who opened fire, talk of looking for his girlfriend, whatever reasons he had, he had a lot going on, and I for one will not write him off, as thankfully a lot of you haven't. some of you have expressed a degree of sympathy towards him, as do I. Such destruction must not be tolerated, but at the same time, neither should anyone feeling so messed up that the only solution is hot lead. These are all kids for god sake.
Please oh please, fellow humans creatures, we must do something to stop this. Have your moments of sadness and say your prayers to and ask [insert deity here] to hold and warm the families of both the victims and perpetrator. But for the love of [insert deity here] push your legislators and law makers to tighten gun control. We can't allow this to happen anymore. its just such a [insert deity here] damn waste.
- A very sorrowful Australian