Democrats have been Republicans since Kennedy, really, when it comes to guns, cops and wars. The Republicans? Welll... just look at what they are now. I no longer need to argue. They're just insane.
Reporting that your daddy, the police officer, just raped your friend. Reporting that a pack of cops just killed an innocent man. Reporting that a street gang member committed a crime, knowing his cousins are cops and will know who you are. Arranging to meet with a friend so you can get an abortion in a state where they will arrest you, the driver, and the doctor, if they can. Reporting a mafia hit. Shall I go on, and on...
A small magnet on a wand would find that motor instantly. It has to be located in the seat tube, linked to a ring gear by a conical gear. The magnets in that motor are rare earth, and damned strong. Iron filings could find it. A stud-finder too. It would be ridiculous to even try.
I want one! It's brilliant design. Let's get the price down.
As for the woman, it's inconceivable she thought she could get away with it - it's easy to spot, with magnets if nothing else. Possible it was a trainer that got mixed in, or someone else's bike, I think they're claiming. Possible. It certainly jammed up the crank and gave itself away (toys don't always work, self-driving-car fans). As a cheat, it doesn't give you much, with a certainty of detection added in.
I'll let them decide, but it would quite stupid if so if they brought it to race day.
It's an old idea, expanded on greatly by Robert Heinlein in "Waldo", in which the whole world was powered wireless, including spaceships. It's telling how much Edison and Westinghouse buried Tesla's work for a century. God, they hated that man.
No more analog holes for you! Surveillance and control for all. Last stop: earphone jacks. Then everything is locked down for external monitoring and permission.
Interesting. Now processors are so fast and memory so gigantic that interpreted languages make sense again. Compilation was necessary because resources were tight.
Object based programming: the Get-Off-My-Lawn of mathematicians everywhere. Why can't Jenny or Johnny code? 'Cause OO is designed to be nearly incomprehensible to humans without years of careful brain damage.
The rules are deducible if you are intelligent, have a sense of responsibility towards others, and believe that bad things can happen to *you*. Making people read those rules won't make the idiots/sociopaths behave themselves. So, next step is tracking and control.
Recall in The Original Series: -The galaxy seems to be about the size of North Dakota, and has a mysterious force field around it that prevents ships from leaving - the ENTIRE GALAXY. The galaxy is divided into four quadrants, whatever that means. We seem to have covered over a trillion star system in less than two hundred years, and have a bureaucracy and navy large enough to cover it all. -Most aliens are essentially college educated humans, sometimes British, that somehow we can have a common basis of understanding with. -All time is the same time. Relativity and frames of reference don't exist. -We can mate with aliens. Either because of parallel evolution (up to the point where a Roman civilization exists that matches and expands on our own, and a Starfleet officer can manufacture a Chicago Mob planet from a book), or because a alien Apollo seeded us, or there was a central human-like race that spread across the galaxy, becoming all those English-lit degree holding cultures. Take a pick. -Planets only have one climate. -We can speak all languages, because of a translator. How does that work? -Disintegrating a person, turning them into photons or whatever, and rebuilding a copy far away doesn't kill that person. Lampshaded when the transporter buffer created two Kirks. It could have made a million Kirks. It always can. The real one died the first time they flashed him. -The Enterprise requires engine power to maintain orbit. This was a plot point. That's not how orbits work. Generally you stay up. -Absolutely EVERYONE starfaring in the galaxy is at or just about our level of technology. -Biologically divergent microlife doesn't eat us immediately. -We somehow can't figure out the ageing process in 300+ years, and how to counter it. We can't even cure baldness. -What happened to Kirk's avowal of the Christian religion in the Roman culture planet? "The Son, not the Sun". Seems to have gotten in there somehow. Awkward. -We have inertial dampers that kill millions of gees of acceleration, yet they still fly around like dice when someone taps on the hull. No safety belts? No secondary vernier fine-tuning dampers at least on the bridge? -No money, yet there is trade using money. -What exactly are they mining out there that they can't synthesize? They keep implying they need certain rare minerals. They have 3d printers that can make anything from raw elements! What magic is dilithium crystals made from? Latinum? Why are there MINERS? -Why in the Force are they messing about with planets, with actual life on them, for colonization when they can make artificial habitats with billions of times the surface area of any planet from raw materials floating around and between the stars? Elon Musk has the same blindness about Mars, mostly 'cause he thinks Star Trek is SF. Planets are not the answer, especially since our colonists will murder anything in their way, one way or another. It's a pre-1970s SF blindness. -Why do all ships fly so damned close together, emulating the Pacific Fleet around 1943? Why are they all oriented in the same direction? -There were 12 -TWELVE- Constitution class ships in the entire galaxy. A trillion stars, a 3D object a hundred thousand light years across. Yet we rule the waves? They've time travel on demand. They don't have a time exploration corps? Really??? Holy Connie Willis, have they no need to travel to the Blitz? Who is in charge, Starfleet? What is their government? Where is all the wo(man) power coming from in only three hundred years? Even at full bore baby firing, we can't spread out that fast. Not enough people. Lots of things were silly in TOS.
Star Wars is a kid's fantasy, Star Trek is science fiction (they tried). JJ is of the "science fiction is made up, so science isn't necessary" school that we've been trying to kill for over seventy years. The SF readers of the 30s and 40s went on to make Apollo. After the 50's, the readers and watchers of SciFi instead made video games, because their science knowledge came from television and movie writers.
That's a self-imposed mandate, becoming a religion, oh, about 1975 or so. If any laws back it up, they bought those laws starting around that time.
They've switched from the stakeholder to the stockholder idea of their own purpose. Stakeholders were *everyone* in the their nation. Stockholders, not so much. They owe value to stakeholders as well as stockholders, because firstly they can only exist as fake people as a privilege granted to them by their country, and secondly because their actions impact greater society far more than the simple ka-ching into their own wallets. Pollution, corruption of laws and customs, buying governments... all these things are outside of the stockholder model, so they claim they don't owe such a duty. Horse manure.
how many of you CS types want to quit your 100k plus jobs and go work for a lot cal school for 25k? See the problem? Those who can have no desire to teach, and anyway, the whole point of this is to flood the market with state-paid-for CS trained kids at as cal se to minimum wagecas possible. The "emergency" is that CS people are paid too well.
Fundamentalist know-nothings are the alpha and the omega of our breakdown. And they came from the second great awakening of the 1820s, the result of Europe's religious loonies immigrating here, married to the slaveholding south and west. They're end-timers, anti-science, stone Calvinist anti-poor. They don't know what they like, but they know what they hate.
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Democrats have been Republicans since Kennedy, really, when it comes to guns, cops and wars.
The Republicans? Welll... just look at what they are now. I no longer need to argue. They're just insane.
Reporting that your daddy, the police officer, just raped your friend. ...
Reporting that a pack of cops just killed an innocent man.
Reporting that a street gang member committed a crime, knowing his cousins are cops and will know who you are.
Arranging to meet with a friend so you can get an abortion in a state where they will arrest you, the driver, and the doctor, if they can.
Reporting a mafia hit.
Shall I go on, and on
Just suspend the credit and debit cards. The poor bastard is ruined. Can't even get cash.
ID is required for voting in areas where there are a suspicious number of black folk who might vote Democratic. Worked a treat in tight races.
You're more likely to be killed by your own toddler with your own gun than be killed by terrorists.
A small magnet on a wand would find that motor instantly. It has to be located in the seat tube, linked to a ring gear by a conical gear. The magnets in that motor are rare earth, and damned strong. Iron filings could find it. A stud-finder too. It would be ridiculous to even try.
Why, thank you. That was refreshingly informative. She wasn't riding it in the race?
That motor has rare-earth magnets in it. Very strong ones. Easy to detect.
I want one! It's brilliant design. Let's get the price down.
As for the woman, it's inconceivable she thought she could get away with it - it's easy to spot, with magnets if nothing else. Possible it was a trainer that got mixed in, or someone else's bike, I think they're claiming. Possible. It certainly jammed up the crank and gave itself away (toys don't always work, self-driving-car fans). As a cheat, it doesn't give you much, with a certainty of detection added in.
I'll let them decide, but it would quite stupid if so if they brought it to race day.
It's an old idea, expanded on greatly by Robert Heinlein in "Waldo", in which the whole world was powered wireless, including spaceships.
It's telling how much Edison and Westinghouse buried Tesla's work for a century. God, they hated that man.
No more analog holes for you! Surveillance and control for all.
Last stop: earphone jacks. Then everything is locked down for external monitoring and permission.
Interesting. Now processors are so fast and memory so gigantic that interpreted languages make sense again. Compilation was necessary because resources were tight.
Object based programming: the Get-Off-My-Lawn of mathematicians everywhere. Why can't Jenny or Johnny code? 'Cause OO is designed to be nearly incomprehensible to humans without years of careful brain damage.
We're wrong. The younguns are always right, because. History is a tuxedo mattress mouse. Words have no meaning.
"WRITELN"?
The rules are deducible if you are intelligent, have a sense of responsibility towards others, and believe that bad things can happen to *you*.
Making people read those rules won't make the idiots/sociopaths behave themselves.
So, next step is tracking and control.
Recall in The Original Series:
-The galaxy seems to be about the size of North Dakota, and has a mysterious force field around it that prevents ships from leaving - the ENTIRE GALAXY. The galaxy is divided into four quadrants, whatever that means. We seem to have covered over a trillion star system in less than two hundred years, and have a bureaucracy and navy large enough to cover it all.
-Most aliens are essentially college educated humans, sometimes British, that somehow we can have a common basis of understanding with.
-All time is the same time. Relativity and frames of reference don't exist.
-We can mate with aliens. Either because of parallel evolution (up to the point where a Roman civilization exists that matches and expands on our own, and a Starfleet officer can manufacture a Chicago Mob planet from a book), or because a alien Apollo seeded us, or there was a central human-like race that spread across the galaxy, becoming all those English-lit degree holding cultures. Take a pick.
-Planets only have one climate.
-We can speak all languages, because of a translator. How does that work?
-Disintegrating a person, turning them into photons or whatever, and rebuilding a copy far away doesn't kill that person. Lampshaded when the transporter buffer created two Kirks. It could have made a million Kirks. It always can. The real one died the first time they flashed him.
-The Enterprise requires engine power to maintain orbit. This was a plot point. That's not how orbits work. Generally you stay up.
-Absolutely EVERYONE starfaring in the galaxy is at or just about our level of technology.
-Biologically divergent microlife doesn't eat us immediately.
-We somehow can't figure out the ageing process in 300+ years, and how to counter it. We can't even cure baldness.
-What happened to Kirk's avowal of the Christian religion in the Roman culture planet? "The Son, not the Sun". Seems to have gotten in there somehow. Awkward.
-We have inertial dampers that kill millions of gees of acceleration, yet they still fly around like dice when someone taps on the hull. No safety belts? No secondary vernier fine-tuning dampers at least on the bridge?
-No money, yet there is trade using money.
-What exactly are they mining out there that they can't synthesize? They keep implying they need certain rare minerals. They have 3d printers that can make anything from raw elements! What magic is dilithium crystals made from? Latinum? Why are there MINERS?
-Why in the Force are they messing about with planets, with actual life on them, for colonization when they can make artificial habitats with billions of times the surface area of any planet from raw materials floating around and between the stars? Elon Musk has the same blindness about Mars, mostly 'cause he thinks Star Trek is SF. Planets are not the answer, especially since our colonists will murder anything in their way, one way or another. It's a pre-1970s SF blindness.
-Why do all ships fly so damned close together, emulating the Pacific Fleet around 1943? Why are they all oriented in the same direction?
-There were 12 -TWELVE- Constitution class ships in the entire galaxy. A trillion stars, a 3D object a hundred thousand light years across. Yet we rule the waves?
They've time travel on demand. They don't have a time exploration corps? Really??? Holy Connie Willis, have they no need to travel to the Blitz?
Who is in charge, Starfleet? What is their government?
Where is all the wo(man) power coming from in only three hundred years? Even at full bore baby firing, we can't spread out that fast. Not enough people.
Lots of things were silly in TOS.
Star Wars is a kid's fantasy, Star Trek is science fiction (they tried). JJ is of the "science fiction is made up, so science isn't necessary" school that we've been trying to kill for over seventy years. The SF readers of the 30s and 40s went on to make Apollo. After the 50's, the readers and watchers of SciFi instead made video games, because their science knowledge came from television and movie writers.
Their hull can take it. 300 years or so in the future, they make pretty good hulls.
Bingo. But everyone repeats it, esp. if they want to keep their journalist jobs.
"corporations are mandated to maximize profits."
That's a self-imposed mandate, becoming a religion, oh, about 1975 or so. If any laws back it up, they bought those laws starting around that time.
They've switched from the stakeholder to the stockholder idea of their own purpose. Stakeholders were *everyone* in the their nation. Stockholders, not so much. They owe value to stakeholders as well as stockholders, because firstly they can only exist as fake people as a privilege granted to them by their country, and secondly because their actions impact greater society far more than the simple ka-ching into their own wallets. Pollution, corruption of laws and customs, buying governments... all these things are outside of the stockholder model, so they claim they don't owe such a duty. Horse manure.
DeVry, basically. Graduates of which are reviled in the business.
Damned autocorrect!!!!
how many of you CS types want to quit your 100k plus jobs and go work for a lot cal school for 25k? See the problem? Those who can have no desire to teach, and anyway, the whole point of this is to flood the market with state-paid-for CS trained kids at as cal se to minimum wagecas possible. The "emergency" is that CS people are paid too well.
Fundamentalist know-nothings are the alpha and the omega of our breakdown. And they came from the second great awakening of the 1820s, the result of Europe's religious loonies immigrating here, married to the slaveholding south and west. They're end-timers, anti-science, stone Calvinist anti-poor. They don't know what they like, but they know what they hate.