I've been stuck in the exact same pit of confusion, am I moderating the comment, or the moderation? Just tell me how to moderate a comment that was rightfully modded troll/flamebait/etc.
Meta-moderation is moderating the original moderation. If they wanted you to moderate the comment, they would call it moderation instead. When they introduce moderating the meta-moderators, they will call it meta-meta-moderation.
Please, does no one understand simple PhD level Latin and Philosophy of Knowledge, anymore?
Boat sails are already plastic (dacron, mylar, or kevlar are commonly used), so getting wet is not a problem. I do not know what sail-driven ships (like the Coast Guard's Eagle, or the Windjammer schooners used for Caribbean cruises) use, but the old canvas sails were deliberately wetted in light air, so as to catch every bit of breeze by expanding the threads in the fabric.
Unless not getting wet also keeps molds and mildew off, it will not have any great nautical usefulness, I fear.
> It's possible that even sheep farmers will welcome fox eating tasmanian tigers.
Because the "tiger" would never go for the cheap and easy kill of a herd of domesticated sheep when the loner cunning fox is available to *really* test its mettle.
And for the obligatory car analogy, it is like running with only some of the cylinders when cruising, but all when climbing hills, except backwards.
Slower wind speeds cannot drive the turbine with the drag from spinning all the coils. Turning off some of the coils means that the slow speeds are producing something, rather than nothing, because there is less drag at those speeds. It also means that turbines can be built to be efficient at higher speeds by adding more coils than old designs could drive, to milk everything possible from high winds.
And, of course, now that he summary has explained it, it is obvious, and should have been done, long ago. Actually, with steam turbine-driven plants like nuclear or coal-fired, they DO do something like this by having high pressure and low pressure turbines. Also, big hydro-electric plants like the ones from the 1930s and 40s also do this, except that they turn off the flow into turbines that they do not need (since hydro plants are actually much better at modulating their output to match what the grid needs, while remaining efficient).
What "military space know-how"? No current US weapons system uses liquid hydrogen tanks, that I know about.
Fixed it for you.
The only reason to limit the export of liquid hydrogen tank technology is to slow down the Chinese manned space program.
Because the Chinese would never use what they have, rather than exactly copying an American design that they will not have all of until years from now.
> It might be interesting to look at German-Americans in 1930s
Bundists were a problem, until war was actually declared. Then, the majority became as patriotic as anyone else. Of course, the worst ones went home "when the Fuehrer called all good Germans back to the Fatherland." to quote Band Of Brothers (at least the movie - haven't read most of the book, yet). Mostly providing public information, suitably correlated, rather than "secret plans" or classified military info.
Also, as many 1st and 2nd generation Japanese of military age wanted to be sent back to Japan (once we started repatriation from the internment camps) as enlisted in the 442nd, the all-Japanese soldier regiment.
Italians tended to be better, but most were from lower Italy, which missed any good from Il Duce.
And our "illegal" agents (vs. those with diplomatic cover, and actually using the Soviet jargon, not US) know what will happen to them.
I say convict him, then put him in the general population of a prison, with a notation that he should never get solitary confinement. Bets on whether the good old honest cons will let him live for six months before someone shivs him?
For centuries, people assumed that women couldn't vote, be professionals, or hold political power because it had never happened.
For centuries, people assumed that men couldn't vote, except maybe gentlemen (the profession, not a level of politeness) voting on their Member of Parliament once every couple of years. Likewise with political power. In those days, there were no high-paying professions; certain members of a profession might be paid well, but the majority weren't (Bob Cratchet, from Dickens, for example).
Try something from the 1960s for this argument, not the 1760s.
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> I don't see what makes them so cult worthy
Little kids/young teenagers Uber Alles.
Everyone, well Everynerd, that age likes to think that they could be Ender, if only...
If more time had been spent on Mazer Rackham, and more time training Ender to deal with real problems of command, rather than treating the graduates of previous generations as sacrificial pawns, fewer readers would have enjoyed it.
Authorize a prequel to The Amber Chronicles, to be written by a less talented author.
Some people view this as rape, as the South Park writers do Star Wars Episodes 1-3.
Those people need to be raped to death in a very public manner, however, as their mindless fanboyism needs to be eliminated from the both gene pool and the meme pool.
Besides, it is not like they did a prequel to Lord Of Light, or Creatures Of Light And Darkness, or a sequel to the Dilvish series. That *would* be rape.
I can go out and buy a car and learn to drive it in a few minutes... at most an hour if it were a REALLY complicated car. Sure you may not be an expert at it, but you CAN drive it. Maybe the future makes all ships so different from each other that it requires special degrees from a major university to teach you how to drive each one. The same applies to weapons, and pretty much everything in the game.
OTOH, it takes 6 months for a US Air Force pilot to become (rated as, at least) proficient in any particular type of plane. If this is any particular type of fighter, vs. cargo plane, this includes being able to be better in it than most other competing air forces, of course, since they don't want you to die in your first combat like this was WWI (average pilot lifespan was 2 weeks, then) and, incidentally, wreck a $40 million plane when you do. Maybe they are modeling that?
If a cop needs a radar gun to see you make an illegal turn, he's doing something wrong.
I'm sure that the cop will be equipped with a radar gun, anyway, and so have to do something to help pay off that expensive piece of equipment. If everyone refused to speed, they'd just have to lower the speed limit for a short section that is "under construction" because the road needs repainted some time in the next 6 months, or something.
You could always just... drive the speed limit, and render the need for a Radar detector moot.
But that is un-American!
If they want to charge me $200 every time that that they catch me exceeding the speed limit, that means I need to multiply the fine by the probability of getting caught, then divide by the amount that getting there faster is worth, and minimize that unitless function. Just obeying the speed regulations is no fun. Next thing you know, you'll probably suggest that moonshiners should just pay the excise tax.
Besides, a good detector lets you drive past then at the lowest legal speed, then crank it up, afterwards (rather like thumbing your nose at them, but less undeniable).
Unfortunately, the nearest Fry's to some of us is about a day's drive away (I checked, about 6 months ago).
Seriously though its too bad there won't be any competition - Best Buy is the WORST,
Probably cause and effect. As their competition declines, there is little incentive to improve service, and some to slide down hill, at least until it matches their next best/worst competitor. Now, Best Buy just has to be better than mail order, where the prices may be good, but you have to know what you want, and hang around home for a few days to accept delivery, and hope that what was shipped isn't messed up in transit.
Some one else would buy theirs accounts-receivable assets, who would rudely expect you to pay it off.
And what if *they* died, and so on, down the line. Eventually, its accounts-receivables would be purchased by some person or company who REALLY made sure your credit card was paid on time, even if it involved attaching the insurance payments for the broken leg that you would get after you missed a third payment.
Sorry, but debts to companies only disappear when YOU go bankrupt.
The idea behind Jurassic Park was not dumb. It *was* not original, however. Robert Silverberg used it in two short stories (at least). I do not remember the title of the original, which had a T-Rex clone get released in Southern California to do great amounts of mayhem, but the sequel was published in Omni Magazine as "Our Lady Of The Dinosaurs" (the sequel was a bit dumb, though).
The OP complained that Crichton reused the plot of Jurassic Park in Westworld, and that his movies were predictable. I suppose that he also complains that the plots to Romeo And Juliet and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were given away by the initial chorus/theme song, or that the plot of Shakespeare's Henry V was predictable, especially when first presented?
What they do NOT provide is an overview; like things you might need to know to perform certain tasks
SunOS had an Intro page for each man section that also listed the whatis lines for each entry in that section. That seems to have been dropped, anymore.
To the best of my knowledge, man pages originally were a supplement to the paper books.
To the best of my knowledge, they were the source of the paper books. They certainly were, back in Version 6.
But they were much easier to update, so you'd never really want to read the paper reference manuals. (Guides and user manuals, yes.)
I guess that you are one of those poor souls that never read a set of encyclopedias from cover to cover, then:-)
They were easier, because it was hard to get a good archive binder or ten; the secretary that I had buy ours had never heard of them, so I had to bring mine from home to show her.
As for the info stuff... get over it, GNU, and give us complete nroff source.
That would be admitting that RMS made an error, and that info was not perfect. Never happen.
> Strange, nothing shows. I know I did it, and my history file contains things that are older than 2 weeks.
If you run multiple shells, they sometimes over-write each others changes when you exit them, so the history from the left shell is lost because you then exited the right-hand shell.
You might try using multiple history files. In Korn shell, and probably bash shells, the HISTFILE environment variable can be changed, and it takes immediate effect. Organizing them all is left as an exercise for the reader. I have never tried doing this for a C shell variant, but I would be surprised in there was not something similar.
And, of course, you know that you can edit the history files, as long as you are not adding to them, at the time, to clear out when you misspelled a directory in the middle of a long path, and called the same command 10 times until you determined what went wrong the first time, or other space wasters.
> It would be carbon neutral only if the fuel was > being created from biomass that was specifically > grown for that purpose,
Or if the biomass would otherwise be disposed in a non-carbon neutral fashion.
For instance, grown on trash that otherwise rots and produces methane gives a big win, as the CO2 produced is less of a problem than the C2H6 would have been. Grown on biomass that would otherwise be burned, ala sugarcane stalks, is probably neutral (looks like it, but would want to calculate it to be certain).
If you are converting biomass that would be well-sequestered, then you lose, but I tend to doubt that is a major problem, unless you tr to cut down a rain forest to get your biomass.
Or she thought that the associate's degrees would normally contribute nothing towards the BS, which seems unlikely unless the child shifted majors wildly.
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Meta-moderation is moderating the original moderation. If they wanted you to moderate the comment, they would call it moderation instead. When they introduce moderating the meta-moderators, they will call it meta-meta-moderation .
Please, does no one understand simple PhD level Latin and Philosophy of Knowledge, anymore?
> Ship sails that do not get wet.
Boat sails are already plastic (dacron, mylar, or kevlar are commonly used), so getting wet is not a problem. I do not know what sail-driven ships (like the Coast Guard's Eagle, or the Windjammer schooners used for Caribbean cruises) use, but the old canvas sails were deliberately wetted in light air, so as to catch every bit of breeze by expanding the threads in the fabric.
Unless not getting wet also keeps molds and mildew off, it will not have any great nautical usefulness, I fear.
> It's possible that even sheep farmers will welcome fox eating tasmanian tigers.
Because the "tiger" would never go for the cheap and easy kill of a herd of domesticated sheep when the loner cunning fox is available to *really* test its mettle.
> A sperm whale has about 5-8 times the brain matter we do.
> I don't see them inventing the digital clock radio any
> time soon.
And if THAT doesn't prove their superior intelligence, I don't know what does.
And for the obligatory car analogy, it is like running with only some of the cylinders when cruising, but all when climbing hills, except backwards. Slower wind speeds cannot drive the turbine with the drag from spinning all the coils. Turning off some of the coils means that the slow speeds are producing something, rather than nothing, because there is less drag at those speeds. It also means that turbines can be built to be efficient at higher speeds by adding more coils than old designs could drive, to milk everything possible from high winds. And, of course, now that he summary has explained it, it is obvious, and should have been done, long ago. Actually, with steam turbine-driven plants like nuclear or coal-fired, they DO do something like this by having high pressure and low pressure turbines. Also, big hydro-electric plants like the ones from the 1930s and 40s also do this, except that they turn off the flow into turbines that they do not need (since hydro plants are actually much better at modulating their output to match what the grid needs, while remaining efficient).
Fixed it for you.
Because the Chinese would never use what they have, rather than exactly copying an American design that they will not have all of until years from now.
> It might be interesting to look at German-Americans in 1930s
Bundists were a problem, until war was actually declared. Then, the majority became as patriotic as anyone else. Of course, the worst ones went home "when the Fuehrer called all good Germans back to the Fatherland." to quote Band Of Brothers (at least the movie - haven't read most of the book, yet). Mostly providing public information, suitably correlated, rather than "secret plans" or classified military info.
Also, as many 1st and 2nd generation Japanese of military age wanted to be sent back to Japan (once we started repatriation from the internment camps) as enlisted in the 442nd, the all-Japanese soldier regiment.
Italians tended to be better, but most were from lower Italy, which missed any good from Il Duce.
> But the US does it toooo!
And our "illegal" agents (vs. those with diplomatic cover, and actually using the Soviet jargon, not US) know what will happen to them.
I say convict him, then put him in the general population of a prison, with a notation that he should never get solitary confinement. Bets on whether the good old honest cons will let him live for six months before someone shivs him?
For centuries, people assumed that men couldn't vote, except maybe gentlemen (the profession, not a level of politeness) voting on their Member of Parliament once every couple of years. Likewise with political power. In those days, there were no high-paying professions; certain members of a profession might be paid well, but the majority weren't (Bob Cratchet, from Dickens, for example).
Try something from the 1960s for this argument, not the 1760s.
> I don't see what makes them so cult worthy
Little kids/young teenagers Uber Alles.
Everyone, well Everynerd, that age likes to think that they could be Ender, if only...
If more time had been spent on Mazer Rackham, and more time training Ender to deal with real problems of command, rather than treating the graduates of previous generations as sacrificial pawns, fewer readers would have enjoyed it.
> but listening to them on car trips makes the driving time fly by.
Where were you going? Around the world five times in a row?
> What did Zelazny's estate do?
Authorize a prequel to The Amber Chronicles, to be written by a less talented author.
Some people view this as rape, as the South Park writers do Star Wars Episodes 1-3.
Those people need to be raped to death in a very public manner, however, as their mindless fanboyism needs to be eliminated from the both gene pool and the meme pool.
Besides, it is not like they did a prequel to Lord Of Light, or Creatures Of Light And Darkness, or a sequel to the Dilvish series. That *would* be rape.
OTOH, it takes 6 months for a US Air Force pilot to become (rated as, at least) proficient in any particular type of plane. If this is any particular type of fighter, vs. cargo plane, this includes being able to be better in it than most other competing air forces, of course, since they don't want you to die in your first combat like this was WWI (average pilot lifespan was 2 weeks, then) and, incidentally, wreck a $40 million plane when you do. Maybe they are modeling that?
I'm sure that the cop will be equipped with a radar gun, anyway, and so have to do something to help pay off that expensive piece of equipment. If everyone refused to speed, they'd just have to lower the speed limit for a short section that is "under construction" because the road needs repainted some time in the next 6 months, or something.
But that is un-American!
If they want to charge me $200 every time that that they catch me exceeding the speed limit, that means I need to multiply the fine by the probability of getting caught, then divide by the amount that getting there faster is worth, and minimize that unitless function. Just obeying the speed regulations is no fun. Next thing you know, you'll probably suggest that moonshiners should just pay the excise tax.
Besides, a good detector lets you drive past then at the lowest legal speed, then crank it up, afterwards (rather like thumbing your nose at them, but less undeniable).
Unfortunately, the nearest Fry's to some of us is about a day's drive away (I checked, about 6 months ago).
Probably cause and effect. As their competition declines, there is little incentive to improve service, and some to slide down hill, at least until it matches their next best/worst competitor. Now, Best Buy just has to be better than mail order, where the prices may be good, but you have to know what you want, and hang around home for a few days to accept delivery, and hope that what was shipped isn't messed up in transit.
> Well, what would happen if Chase died?
Some one else would buy theirs accounts-receivable assets, who would rudely expect you to pay it off.
And what if *they* died, and so on, down the line. Eventually, its accounts-receivables would be purchased by some person or company who REALLY made sure your credit card was paid on time, even if it involved attaching the insurance payments for the broken leg that you would get after you missed a third payment.
Sorry, but debts to companies only disappear when YOU go bankrupt.
I think of you as someone who ruined a good response by anonymously posting
The idea behind Jurassic Park was not dumb. It *was* not original, however. Robert Silverberg used it in two short stories (at least). I do not remember the title of the original, which had a T-Rex clone get released in Southern California to do great amounts of mayhem, but the sequel was published in Omni Magazine as "Our Lady Of The Dinosaurs" (the sequel was a bit dumb, though).
The OP complained that Crichton reused the plot of Jurassic Park in Westworld, and that his movies were predictable. I suppose that he also complains that the plots to Romeo And Juliet and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were given away by the initial chorus/theme song, or that the plot of Shakespeare's Henry V was predictable, especially when first presented?
SunOS had an Intro page for each man section that also listed the whatis lines for each entry in that section. That seems to have been dropped, anymore.
To the best of my knowledge, they were the source of the paper books. They certainly were, back in Version 6.
I guess that you are one of those poor souls that never read a set of encyclopedias from cover to cover, then :-)
They were easier, because it was hard to get a good archive binder or ten; the secretary that I had buy ours had never heard of them, so I had to bring mine from home to show her.
That would be admitting that RMS made an error, and that info was not perfect. Never happen.
> Strange, nothing shows. I know I did it, and my history file contains things that are older than 2 weeks.
If you run multiple shells, they sometimes over-write each others changes when you exit them, so the history from the left shell is lost because you then exited the right-hand shell.
You might try using multiple history files. In Korn shell, and probably bash shells, the HISTFILE environment variable can be changed, and it takes immediate effect. Organizing them all is left as an exercise for the reader. I have never tried doing this for a C shell variant, but I would be surprised in there was not something similar.
And, of course, you know that you can edit the history files, as long as you are not adding to them, at the time, to clear out when you misspelled a directory in the middle of a long path, and called the same command 10 times until you determined what went wrong the first time, or other space wasters.
How is this about "rights"? Especially since the patent claims that the user can override the selection, later?
If you ask me, this belongs in Idle
> I wonder where that leaves, Leslie Nielson, Tracy Lawrence, Charlie Dore, Alex McKenna, and the like.
With Michael Learned (Mrs. Walton from "The Waltons" series, for those forgetting).
BTW, as I read the patent, one of the rules make "Penny" a man's name, as well :-)
> It would be carbon neutral only if the fuel was
> being created from biomass that was specifically
> grown for that purpose,
Or if the biomass would otherwise be disposed in a non-carbon neutral fashion.
For instance, grown on trash that otherwise rots and produces methane gives a big win, as the CO2 produced is less of a problem than the C2H6 would have been. Grown on biomass that would otherwise be burned, ala sugarcane stalks, is probably neutral (looks like it, but would want to calculate it to be certain).
If you are converting biomass that would be well-sequestered, then you lose, but I tend to doubt that is a major problem, unless you tr to cut down a rain forest to get your biomass.
Or she thought that the associate's degrees would normally contribute nothing towards the BS, which seems unlikely unless the child shifted majors wildly.