Truly I am, that foreigners would come to America to 'take our jobs'. How long has this been an issue with everyone in technical fields? It's not that employers can't find qualified citizen candidates, it's just that they don't want to pay a fair and honest wage for Americans to work for them when they can exploit desperate immigrants. You know what that's called? Indentured servitude. It's been happening in this country since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. However, in this case, it's government sanctioned indentured servitude.
If you're driving slowly to save yourself some money, you'd better get the hell out of my way because my time is worth more than a fucking gallon of gas.
"The university I attend..."
The poster is a student at his 'university', not involved in the decision-making process. The OP is probably some post-pubescent, pre-adult, who hangs around the beardos in the IT department and got the bright idea to 'Ask Slashdot' for opinions after he overheard them bitching that the uni was going to, "Take our jobs!", by outsourcing student e-mail. Ph-uh-ck!
In order for the 'mirror' to maintain its shape it would have to be continuously spinning during the 'freezing' phase. If it were to stop and 'settle' you would end up with a useless, slightly convex, mirror. Also, whether you find the materials necessary to manufacture the mirror on the Moon or not, the machinery to produce the mirror and the rest of the observatory need to be sent from Earth, first, which makes this a totally unfeasible, insanely expensive. proposal.
Smart science type guys do it again. "Hey, we can make 'X' for really cheap on the Moon. The only problem is that we have to get to the Moon to make it really cheap."
Find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your illustrated journal, newsgroup, or mailing list. Also, please find enclosed, payment for a lifetime subscription to 'Gigantic Asses' magazine. I eagerly await the arrival of next month's issue.
"NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and "disaster relief" agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by U.S. spy satellites."
First off, lets set the record straight. FEMA is not a '"disaster relief"' agency. It is a disaster. Period. I cannot believe these people have nothing better to task these satellites with than watching ordinary citizens, scurrying about on the ground, going about their daily business. How about finding UBL? Wasn't that a 'pry-or-a-ty' of that inbred hick in the 'Oval Office'? Instead of eyeballing private citizens from space, why don't they find that asshole and put a Hellfire missile up his ass? American citizens may chide the the UK all they want for their nationwide deployment of CCTV cameras, but this is so wrong that it is embarrassing on a national level.
Because one cannot know the true composition of the object in question, hence its mass, until it hits the ground -if it ever does, and the angle of incidence and the object's velocity at time of impact, it is very difficult to predict the size of the crater, if any, should the object strike the ground. However, generally, from past impact events, if the object were of a nickle-iron composition and its angle of incidence was high enough and its relative velocity was slow enough, so it would preserve as much mass as possible during its entry phase, a meteorite of this size, if it were of nickle-iron composition -could possibly- make a crater anywhere from 35 to 50 meters in diameter -given the aforementioned pre-conditions.
By recent definition this object should not be classified as an asteroid, but a meteoroid. Meteoroid is what the object is when travelling in space. Meteor is the visual phenomenon that you see as the object enters the Earth's upper atmosphere and frictional heating causes the surface of the object to melt and then form a plasma around the object. Meteorite is the remains of a meteoroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere and reached the ground.
It is entirely possible that this meteoroid -depending on its composition, stony, stony-iron, carbonaceous chondrite, or iron/nickel-iron and its velocity and angle of incidence to the Earth's atmosphere- could reach the ground and form a sizable crater. The accepted figure for crater size is roughly 25 times the diameter of the object at the time of impact with the surface. The Barringer Crater was formed by an object estimated to be approximately 50 meters across at the time of impact. If this object reaches the ground at one-half of its present estimated size, it could form a crater 35 to 50 meters across. It would be quite the show if one were within a mile or two of the impact.
What is wrong with your assumption is that few individual investors actually take possession of the shares that they 'buy'. Ninety percent -or more- of shares of stock are held in the 'street name' of the brokerage firm and never pass to the person who actually 'buys' them. Broker 'A' never deals with Broker 'B' anymore in any type of transaction. All trades and sales are done electronically between firms from brokerage inventory of shares that they hold, not the client. The 'closing' date of a transaction is always seven business days after execution, which is why you may be confused by daily trading figures and arrive at the mistaken conclusion that more shares are being traded than actually exist. A share of stock could trade hands innumerable times within the seven days after the originating 'sale', but before its original closing date, giving the 'impression' that there are more shares afloat than have actually been issued.
Another thing you overlook, is that very few individual investors have the liquidity to qualify for naked short sales of stock, even if they have a margin account with a firm. In most cases, a broker will be prohibited from executing a naked short sale until the client deposits sufficient funds into the account to cover the purchase of the shares from inventory or from the street. You can't just call up a broker and say; "I want to open an account and short sell IBM for 20,000 shares.", the 'account representative' would fall off their chair laughing at you before they hung up the phone. Additionally, few firms are willing to allow clients to become leveraged in put options on a stock without sufficient liquid assets to cover any loss. Much of the naked shorting is being done by firms, through their traders, is an attempt to acquire the stock at lower prices than they could if they were dealing with covered put options and these actions are as close to market manipulation as the law allows.
There is little 'newsworthiness' to what gets reported in the 'citizen journalism' fashion that it does on CNN -or anywhere else. 'Citizen journalism' is best relegated to cat-up-a-tree or man bites dog drivel that hardly warrants even a passing glance. What it does represent is the attempt by 'news' networks to boost their viewer ratings by getting fools to post questionable content to their website. Marketing disguised as 'journalism' should be viewed with the most jaundiced of eyes.
You know that Dark Matter everybody is talking about? It's a pint of Guiness that our 'Universe' bubble is floating around in. I just hope we bump into some of those bubbles filled with chicks. Then the party can really start.
Calculon: What? Have you got an extra 'GOTO 10" line? Look. I'm programmed to be very busy. If you can't heat water to 212 degress, I'm not interested!
We probably wouldn't know about it for weeks, possibly even months. The culture of 'face' would make any failure, no matter how slight, a terrible embarrassment to the ruling party. If there were a serious failure, loss of vehicle and crew, we might never hear about it at all. Depending on the severity, it could set their program back a decade or more as they try to recover from the 'shame'. Pre-event 'success' announcements such as these leaking out prior to a major failure could lead to possible 'termination' of those involved, also.
Slashdot Mirror
Was this.
"And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?"
This does -idle.slashdot.org.
"There are more people who use the computer as an entertainment console..."
Yes, I have to admit, pr0n does look better on a Mac...
Truly I am, that foreigners would come to America to 'take our jobs'. How long has this been an issue with everyone in technical fields? It's not that employers can't find qualified citizen candidates, it's just that they don't want to pay a fair and honest wage for Americans to work for them when they can exploit desperate immigrants. You know what that's called? Indentured servitude. It's been happening in this country since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. However, in this case, it's government sanctioned indentured servitude.
If you're driving slowly to save yourself some money, you'd better get the hell out of my way because my time is worth more than a fucking gallon of gas.
"The university I attend..."
The poster is a student at his 'university', not involved in the decision-making process. The OP is probably some post-pubescent, pre-adult, who hangs around the beardos in the IT department and got the bright idea to 'Ask Slashdot' for opinions after he overheard them bitching that the uni was going to, "Take our jobs!", by outsourcing student e-mail. Ph-uh-ck!
"...could just as easily be used to make a person less attractive.
Obviously that's not needed around here.
In order for the 'mirror' to maintain its shape it would have to be continuously spinning during the 'freezing' phase. If it were to stop and 'settle' you would end up with a useless, slightly convex, mirror. Also, whether you find the materials necessary to manufacture the mirror on the Moon or not, the machinery to produce the mirror and the rest of the observatory need to be sent from Earth, first, which makes this a totally unfeasible, insanely expensive. proposal.
Smart science type guys do it again. "Hey, we can make 'X' for really cheap on the Moon. The only problem is that we have to get to the Moon to make it really cheap."
Find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your illustrated journal, newsgroup, or mailing list. Also, please find enclosed, payment for a lifetime subscription to 'Gigantic Asses' magazine. I eagerly await the arrival of next month's issue.
"NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and "disaster relief" agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by U.S. spy satellites."
First off, lets set the record straight. FEMA is not a '"disaster relief"' agency. It is a disaster. Period. I cannot believe these people have nothing better to task these satellites with than watching ordinary citizens, scurrying about on the ground, going about their daily business. How about finding UBL? Wasn't that a 'pry-or-a-ty' of that inbred hick in the 'Oval Office'? Instead of eyeballing private citizens from space, why don't they find that asshole and put a Hellfire missile up his ass? American citizens may chide the the UK all they want for their nationwide deployment of CCTV cameras, but this is so wrong that it is embarrassing on a national level.
Another reason to never go outside. Ever.
Because one cannot know the true composition of the object in question, hence its mass, until it hits the ground -if it ever does, and the angle of incidence and the object's velocity at time of impact, it is very difficult to predict the size of the crater, if any, should the object strike the ground. However, generally, from past impact events, if the object were of a nickle-iron composition and its angle of incidence was high enough and its relative velocity was slow enough, so it would preserve as much mass as possible during its entry phase, a meteorite of this size, if it were of nickle-iron composition -could possibly- make a crater anywhere from 35 to 50 meters in diameter -given the aforementioned pre-conditions.
By recent definition this object should not be classified as an asteroid, but a meteoroid. Meteoroid is what the object is when travelling in space. Meteor is the visual phenomenon that you see as the object enters the Earth's upper atmosphere and frictional heating causes the surface of the object to melt and then form a plasma around the object. Meteorite is the remains of a meteoroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere and reached the ground.
It is entirely possible that this meteoroid -depending on its composition, stony, stony-iron, carbonaceous chondrite, or iron/nickel-iron and its velocity and angle of incidence to the Earth's atmosphere- could reach the ground and form a sizable crater. The accepted figure for crater size is roughly 25 times the diameter of the object at the time of impact with the surface. The Barringer Crater was formed by an object estimated to be approximately 50 meters across at the time of impact. If this object reaches the ground at one-half of its present estimated size, it could form a crater 35 to 50 meters across. It would be quite the show if one were within a mile or two of the impact.
What is wrong with your assumption is that few individual investors actually take possession of the shares that they 'buy'. Ninety percent -or more- of shares of stock are held in the 'street name' of the brokerage firm and never pass to the person who actually 'buys' them. Broker 'A' never deals with Broker 'B' anymore in any type of transaction. All trades and sales are done electronically between firms from brokerage inventory of shares that they hold, not the client. The 'closing' date of a transaction is always seven business days after execution, which is why you may be confused by daily trading figures and arrive at the mistaken conclusion that more shares are being traded than actually exist. A share of stock could trade hands innumerable times within the seven days after the originating 'sale', but before its original closing date, giving the 'impression' that there are more shares afloat than have actually been issued.
Another thing you overlook, is that very few individual investors have the liquidity to qualify for naked short sales of stock, even if they have a margin account with a firm. In most cases, a broker will be prohibited from executing a naked short sale until the client deposits sufficient funds into the account to cover the purchase of the shares from inventory or from the street. You can't just call up a broker and say; "I want to open an account and short sell IBM for 20,000 shares.", the 'account representative' would fall off their chair laughing at you before they hung up the phone. Additionally, few firms are willing to allow clients to become leveraged in put options on a stock without sufficient liquid assets to cover any loss. Much of the naked shorting is being done by firms, through their traders, is an attempt to acquire the stock at lower prices than they could if they were dealing with covered put options and these actions are as close to market manipulation as the law allows.
There is little 'newsworthiness' to what gets reported in the 'citizen journalism' fashion that it does on CNN -or anywhere else. 'Citizen journalism' is best relegated to cat-up-a-tree or man bites dog drivel that hardly warrants even a passing glance. What it does represent is the attempt by 'news' networks to boost their viewer ratings by getting fools to post questionable content to their website. Marketing disguised as 'journalism' should be viewed with the most jaundiced of eyes.
Damn their oily hides!
Sit in the den with Daddy and let us all bask in radar's warm glowing warming glow.
You know that Dark Matter everybody is talking about? It's a pint of Guiness that our 'Universe' bubble is floating around in. I just hope we bump into some of those bubbles filled with chicks. Then the party can really start.
Take off, eh.
Hosers!
"They also point out that no other superfluid helium handling facility has mysteriously blown itself to pieces."
True, but, no other SFH2 facility was wielding a 1Tev particle beam like it was a toy light saber, either.
Calculon: What? Have you got an extra 'GOTO 10" line? Look. I'm programmed to be very busy. If you can't heat water to 212 degress, I'm not interested!
We probably wouldn't know about it for weeks, possibly even months. The culture of 'face' would make any failure, no matter how slight, a terrible embarrassment to the ruling party. If there were a serious failure, loss of vehicle and crew, we might never hear about it at all. Depending on the severity, it could set their program back a decade or more as they try to recover from the 'shame'. Pre-event 'success' announcements such as these leaking out prior to a major failure could lead to possible 'termination' of those involved, also.
It's the giant glass of Guiness that we're floating around in inside of our little bubble.
Why don't they code LINPACK in COBOL?
'bytecode optimized polymorphic inline cache'.