that was a bit of a bang... lucky the systems were in place to prevent it turning into a disaster...
Also: I've seen comments on the mechanics of dealing with the ejecta. It's simple: when an engine fairing blows, it's no longer travelling at the same speed and direction as the rest of the vehicle. It might explode outwards, but it is, from that point, no longer accelerating upwards. The rest of the vehicle carries on accelerating away from the point of explosion and the wreckage becomes a passenger of Newton. Similarly with the Challenger: you may have noticed from the video of that event that the SRBs kept on going, intact until they splashed down. This is because they were travelling at such a speed and *still accelerating* that the exploding fuel tank and vehicle they were bolted to stopped accelerating and they quickly left the wreckage behind - physics once again provides a simple answer as to why the SRBs didn't turn into giant sticks of dynamite.
I have never broken a laptop connector in my life, and I'm fairly rough with my gear. What do you Macboys do, swing them over your heads??
I have also never broken a USB port in my life. My Motorola RAZR V3i, which I've had since 2004, still has its original connector, which it still charges through (and the battery, which is also original hence eight years old, outlasts an iPhone battery by something like a week). What do you Macboys do to warrant such necessity in design as locking wide connectors? Play the things like yo-yos?
oh, I get it. It's like buying a shell kit for a Lamborghini Aventador, combining it with a chassis for a Mazda 6, and dropping in a 3-cylinder block meant for a Daihatsu Charade.
While it looks good standing still, it's not that stable and 0.0 is about as fast as it's ever going to go.
Improper use of public electronic communications network
(1)A person is guilty of an offence if he—
(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b)causes any such message or matter to be so sent.
(2)A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b)causes such a message to be sent; or
(c)persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.
SO WHY ISN'T FACEBOOK BEING PROSECUTED UNDER SECTION 127 PARAGRAPH 2(b) FOR ENABLING??
...bore absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to computer skills I needed for work.
Thank you, Acorn, for fucking up an entire generation of what could have been a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence programming. Now we have to put up with an overpriced POS phone which only understands you if you speak into it with a faux-American accent.
The Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO, go figure) fires the world's most tightly collimated laser at the Moon, daily, to a reflective panel two feet in diameter left by the Apollo 11 astronauts for the specific purpose of determining the exact distance from the Earth to the Moon. When this laser hits the reflector, the beam is 17km in diameter. If the entire beam could be reflected back it would be 34km wide. The two foot wide reflection becomes four feet wide and hits the back end of the same instrument that fired the pulse nearly three seconds later.
The reason they don't allow cellphones between takeoff/landing is in case of a mishap on the tarmac. The less loose items to turn into missiles inside the cabin, the better. It is NOTHING to do with radio emissions - otherwise there'd be a payphone in the cockpit*!
*Flight crews have *always* been allowed to carry and use their own cellphones during flight. Passengers have been forced to use cabin payphones.
countries with stricter gun laws do not have fewer shootings.
Thomas Hamilton had licences for his revolvers and for his shotguns. Raoul Moat had shotgun tickets.
I needn't go on, those two alone killed several dozen people between them, including cops and kids. The result from both of those incidents was more restrictive gun laws, none of which did anything to stem the flow of section 1 firearms into the UK nor the number of incidents involving them. In fact, the number of incidents involving *only weapons police and military personnel have legal access to has gone up*.
You're missing the point of the penal code. It punishes for crimes that have already happened, not for crimes that have not happened. To do *that* would require some sort of witchcraft.
so when did licensing requirements prevent death by automobile?
Tell it to my uncle who was nearly decapitated by one such idiot who notwithstanding her lack of driving licence and total inebriation behind the wheel, managed to drive a motor vehicle at speed and kill someone and get away with a small fine and endorsement on a license she *wasn't even old enough to have*.
That is no incentive to not be an idiot. Don't legislate the tool, legislate against being a fucking idiot.
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We've resolved the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?? /me throws his prototype compensator in the trash.
heh... I still IRC through the Telnet client...
no but it'll come with a clickthrough EULA for the icon grid...
that was a bit of a bang... lucky the systems were in place to prevent it turning into a disaster...
Also: I've seen comments on the mechanics of dealing with the ejecta. It's simple: when an engine fairing blows, it's no longer travelling at the same speed and direction as the rest of the vehicle. It might explode outwards, but it is, from that point, no longer accelerating upwards. The rest of the vehicle carries on accelerating away from the point of explosion and the wreckage becomes a passenger of Newton. Similarly with the Challenger: you may have noticed from the video of that event that the SRBs kept on going, intact until they splashed down. This is because they were travelling at such a speed and *still accelerating* that the exploding fuel tank and vehicle they were bolted to stopped accelerating and they quickly left the wreckage behind - physics once again provides a simple answer as to why the SRBs didn't turn into giant sticks of dynamite.
I have never broken a laptop connector in my life, and I'm fairly rough with my gear. What do you Macboys do, swing them over your heads??
I have also never broken a USB port in my life. My Motorola RAZR V3i, which I've had since 2004, still has its original connector, which it still charges through (and the battery, which is also original hence eight years old, outlasts an iPhone battery by something like a week). What do you Macboys do to warrant such necessity in design as locking wide connectors? Play the things like yo-yos?
STANDARD USB PORT!
Most of the other manufacturers can manage this ONE little design feature, WHY CAN'T YOU!?
oh, I get it. It's like buying a shell kit for a Lamborghini Aventador, combining it with a chassis for a Mazda 6, and dropping in a 3-cylinder block meant for a Daihatsu Charade.
While it looks good standing still, it's not that stable and 0.0 is about as fast as it's ever going to go.
...wait, what?
you mean like Trident is?
Built by an American company (Lockheed-Martin) with guidance system and MRV designed and built in the UK with parts from... China.
Polaris/Chevaline, the immediate predecessor to Trident in the UK, is pretty much the same.
The last proposed entirely British designed system (which was cancelled in favour of US-designed V-Force/Skybolt ALBM) was Blue Streak/Ulysses.
that's why Detroit is still the bustling metropolis the architects dreamed about...
Why not just ask them?
...DoD finds backdoor in nuclear guidance systems.
You read it here first.
never happen, because we'd suddenly find ourselves short on police officers, social workers, nursery nurses and judges.
Mod parent UP. I am fucking sick of this country.
The Communications Act 2003 section 127:
Improper use of public electronic communications network
(1)A person is guilty of an offence if he—
(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b)causes any such message or matter to be so sent.
(2)A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b)causes such a message to be sent; or
(c)persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.
SO WHY ISN'T FACEBOOK BEING PROSECUTED UNDER SECTION 127 PARAGRAPH 2(b) FOR ENABLING??
...bore absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to computer skills I needed for work.
Thank you, Acorn, for fucking up an entire generation of what could have been a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence programming. Now we have to put up with an overpriced POS phone which only understands you if you speak into it with a faux-American accent.
I went outside today. Yes, the real, actual outside.
The graphics were amazing.
Storyline sucked, though.
Hit the bottle. They really are.
The Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO, go figure) fires the world's most tightly collimated laser at the Moon, daily, to a reflective panel two feet in diameter left by the Apollo 11 astronauts for the specific purpose of determining the exact distance from the Earth to the Moon. When this laser hits the reflector, the beam is 17km in diameter. If the entire beam could be reflected back it would be 34km wide. The two foot wide reflection becomes four feet wide and hits the back end of the same instrument that fired the pulse nearly three seconds later.
The reason they don't allow cellphones between takeoff/landing is in case of a mishap on the tarmac. The less loose items to turn into missiles inside the cabin, the better. It is NOTHING to do with radio emissions - otherwise there'd be a payphone in the cockpit*!
*Flight crews have *always* been allowed to carry and use their own cellphones during flight. Passengers have been forced to use cabin payphones.
countries with stricter gun laws do not have fewer shootings.
Thomas Hamilton had licences for his revolvers and for his shotguns.
Raoul Moat had shotgun tickets.
I needn't go on, those two alone killed several dozen people between them, including cops and kids. The result from both of those incidents was more restrictive gun laws, none of which did anything to stem the flow of section 1 firearms into the UK nor the number of incidents involving them. In fact, the number of incidents involving *only weapons police and military personnel have legal access to has gone up*.
You're missing the point of the penal code. It punishes for crimes that have already happened, not for crimes that have not happened. To do *that* would require some sort of witchcraft.
Wrong. Any ordinary person can press charges against any other person. Such mechanism has been enshrined in Law since the Code of Alfred.
since it is not specifically illegal?
so when did licensing requirements prevent death by automobile?
Tell it to my uncle who was nearly decapitated by one such idiot who notwithstanding her lack of driving licence and total inebriation behind the wheel, managed to drive a motor vehicle at speed and kill someone and get away with a small fine and endorsement on a license she *wasn't even old enough to have*.
That is no incentive to not be an idiot. Don't legislate the tool, legislate against being a fucking idiot.